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Sports • Annual Falcon baseball preview 11 Page 2 Thursday, March 7, 1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 96 The News' Briefs Professors debate validity of Christianity Vines Guerrieri The BG News NBA Scores About 7SO people came to see New York 89 two professors debate the va- Toronto 82 lidity of Christianity Wednes- day night in Olscamp Hall. Loren Lomasky, a University Boston 110 philosophy professor, exam- Los Angeles 97 ined the reasonability of Chris- tianity. Religious commit- ments, Lomasky said, run deep, Minnesota 103 and they involve feelings that Philadelphia 90 are not rational. Lomasky said beliefs are established for Washington reasons that are not rational. 97 "I don't think it's important Seattle 88 what beliefs I hold," Lomasky said. "I'm more concerned with San Antonio 100 the reasons." James Sire, a circuit lec- Denver 90 turer, said he could not "create one case for the Christian Utah 101 faith" Sire said it cannot be done Indiana 94 because Christianity is com- prehensive. He added many Business conference things are best explained by Christianity, including the ex- to take place istence and character of Jesus, JayY«uMm>*BCNttra Students will have the op- portunity to learn about the existence of a Creator and David Geyer, John Laird, James Sire (front to back) listen to a night In Olscamp Hall. About 750 people attended the dlscu»iloo, change in business at the a sense of pain and evil. presentation given by University professor Loren Lomasky dur- which was sponsored by various campus groups and local chur- second annual Best Prac- Lomasky presented the ques- ing a debate questioning the validity of Christianity Wednesday ches. tices in Organization and tion of how any God could al- Change Conference at the low pain and suffering in the should be suspicious of Bob nothing to lose by believing in Christian Graduate Students this. University today and March world. He also said God has Dole's campaign literature, God. Sire said this raises the and Trinity United Methodist 8. been used as an explanation for you should be suspicious of Je- stakes in the argument about Church. Some of the sponsors Rev. Dan Zak, pastor of St. Representatives of busi- mysteries which cannot be ex- sus's campaign literature," God. of the event said they Were Thomas More University Par- nesses and organizations, plained. ish, said he thought some in- human relations and train- Lomasky said. The event was sponsored by very surprised at the turnout. ing development consul- Lomasky said the Gospels Sire said the Gospels offer InterVarsity Christian Fellow- According to David Guyor, a teresting questions were tants and Bowling Green were written by biased writers, evidence of Jesus's existence ship, the Philosophy Club, BG staff worker for InterVarsity raised, but asked, "Could all and area students will meet and Jesus's words were "fil- as the Messiah. He also Christian Students, Campus Christians, only 200 people the great minds that have re- to hear discussions on ways tered by translation." brought up Pascal's wager, Crusade for Christ, BG Coven- were expected, and he would flected on these questions be and means to best initiate "For the same reason you which states that people have ant Church, Fellowship of like to see more events like wrong?" new organization practices. The conference will begin at 9 a.m. in 101 Olscamp Hall. For more information, contact the MOD office at 9 in alien-smuggling ring arrested 372-8139. Solid Waste Career Pauline Artlllaga "This is organized crime in line to Moscow, where they Once in the United States, two Last week, they issued 15 Workshop will take The Associated Press every sense of the word," said stayed while additional transpor- smugglers would arrange for the arrest warrants and began ap- place Joe Garza, chief of the Border tation and visas were arranged. aliens' delivery to points across prehending people on Friday, In- Carolyn Watkins, director McALLEN, Texas - Nine Patrol's McAllen sector. "It's From there, the aliens were the country, including Houston, cluding two caught wading of the hazardous material members of a complex alien very significant because it in- flown to Cuba or Nicaragua and California and New York. across the Rio Grande and solid waste division of smuggling organization that volves almost exclusively people moved by land to a staging house "It's basically along the lines of The alleged ringleader, Gladys the Ohio Environmental charged up to $28,000 to illegally other than Mexican aliens." in Guatemala. Then larger any organized smuggling activi- Perdomo Board, was arrested In Protection Agency, will be transport Chinese, Pakistanis The organization smuggled groups were formed and taken to ty, Including how narcotics or- McAllen, where authorities be- the keynote speaker at the and Indians into the United about 150 people a day into the Mexico City In buses, trucks and, ganizations operate," Bailey said. lieve she was planning to meet third annual Solid Waste States have been arrested, the country across the Texas-Mexico in one case, a tractor-trailer "The smuggling of aliens is basi- with other members of the organ- Career Workshop. U.S. Border Patrol announced border, said Albert Bailey Jr., a equipped to carry up to 100 peo- cally the same thing." ization. Other speakers will dis- Wednesday. ple at a time. Federal authorities began in- cuss finding jobs in waste special agent with the Border Pa- Those three were In the cus- management, commercial Among those in custody was trol's anti-smuggling unit. It has From a staging area in Mexico vestigating the organization tody of U.S. marshals and being opportunities in the field the organization's accused been in operation for seven City, the aliens were transported about three months ago after re- held at the Starr County Jail, and how to make a finished mastermind, a 51-year-old natu- years, he said. in commercial buses to Monter- ceiving information at the Immi- Bailey said. Six others were tak- product out of recycled ma- ralized U.S. citizen who allegedly According to Bailey, the aliens rey and then finally to Reynosa, gration and Naturalization Ser- en into custody in Houston, Cin- terial. ran the operation from Guate- were flown from their native where they snuck across the bor- vice office in Mexico City, Bailey The event will take place mala. countries via a commercial air- der into Texas, Bailey said. said. See ALIENS, page three. in 095 Overman Hall from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 9. Indian minister will NOW president speak about eco- Pearson indicted for nomic reforms Shiv S. Mukherjee, minis- ter of press information and urges involvement culture for the Embassy of India, will speak about "In- Kristin Sladum Great strides in women's histo- September abduction dla-U.S. Relations: Cultural The BG News ry have been taken within her Dimensions of Economic own lifetime, according to Ire- Reforms" at 2 p.m. Friday Several members of the Uni- land. She said that when she first Joe Boyle near the corner of Manville about three weeks ago, and she in the McFall Center As- versity community took advan- attended college, women were The BG News Avenue and Scott Hamilton positively identified [Pearson]. sembly Room. tage of the opportunity to hear assumed to be working for extra Street, as well as a rape Aug. We feel we have a very strong the president of the National Or- money, not to raise families. An Arlington, Ohio man in- 27, 1993 near the corner of case," Mayberry said. ganization for Women Wednes- "We're looking at women's his- dicted last year on rape char- Pearl Street and Ordway Mayberry is also seeking to day night in the Union's Lenhart tory just in my lifetime," she ges in Bowling Green was in- Avenue. have the assault case tried at Grand Ballroom. said. "I can look back and see dicted Wednesday on a sepa- Wood County Prosecutor the same time as Pearson's Quote of Patricia Ireland expounded on how far we've come." rate charge of abduction- Alan Mayberry said he be- rape case, which was recently the day the history of women's rights, Crisis centers, battered wom- Eric B. Pearson, 43, is ac- lieves he has a "very strong delayed due to the unavailabl- discussed women in relation to en's shelters, sexual harassment cused of abducting a Bowling case" in the latest indictment. See PEARSON, page five. "For the same current politics and urged the Green woman Sept. 23, 1993 "We brought the victim in reasons you should audience to get Involved. See IRELAND, page six. be suspicious of bob Dole's campaign literature, you should be suspi- ' Group calls Kaptur 'top congressional oinker' cious oi jesus s campaign litera- The Associated Press ket" award as part of its "Co- ture's budget to a farmer's mar- Downtown Toledo does not tracted other development to the ngressional Pig Book." ket in her hometown of Toledo, have a supermarket, and the area, as well, she said.