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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. ■ Thursday, October 18,1984THE J3G_ NEWS Vol. 67 Issue 29 Train hits car on dough St. RORAPAUGH WAS trapped by Geoffrey Barnard in the early 1970's model station and Marcella Grande wagon for close to 20 minutes before he was freed by members A 69-year-old Bowling Green of the city police and fire depart- man is in critical condition at St. ments. Police responded almost Vincent Hospital in Toledo today immediately to the accident, after his car was ripped in half witnesses said. by a southbound Conrail train Kris Seibert, sophomore busi- yesterday morning, according ness administration major, said to hospital and police reports. the train attempted to stop as Police said the car, driven by soon as Rorapaugh's car Albert Rorapaugh, of 233 South crossed the tracks. College St., was struck about "The front part of the car 9:15 a.m. at the Conrail tracks rolled over on the side next to on Clough Street when he failed the tracks," Seibert said. Rora- to heed the train's warning whis- paugh had been wearing his tles and bells. The westbound safety belt, she added. car landed in several pieces 66 "When they took him out, he feet from the point of impact. was alive. His head was bleed- Rorapaugh was taken to Wood ing and they put a neckbrace on County Hospital with head and him," another witness, Peggy leg injuries and was transferred Gallito, junior business adminis- by helicopter to St. Vincent tration major, said. about noon yesterday, police According to police reports, said. the 68-car train was traveling A hospital spokeswoman said about 34 mph when it struck the Rorapaugh was in surgery for car, which was travelling an BG News/Phil Masturzo several hours yesterday af- estimated 25 mph. The speed Train/car crash ternoon, but would not disclose limit for the trains in that area is Albert Rorapaugh's station wagon was split in two as he drove in front of a southbound Conrail train at the Clough Street the extent of his injuries. 35 mph. railroad crossing yesterday morning. American receives Nobel Prize for chemistry STOCKHOLM (AP) - An three annual Nobel science discovering the W and Z sub- Erize-winning work as "an idea I "Some years ago, I knew that American biochemist yesterday prizes since World War II. had won the Nobel Prize while atomic particles which are be- ad 25 years ago on how we can somebody had nominated me. he was trying to catch a plane to won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Merrifield was honored for lieved to carry one of nature's do chemical synthesis of com- But that was years ago and I had Trieste, Italy. "I was riding a chemistry for research that led work he did in the 1950s and four basic forces - the "weak Eounds. particularly peptides, assumed that nothing had hap- cab from Malpensa to Linate to safer medication, and the 1960s, developing a new method interaction force" - in much the y anchoring them to some in- pened," Merrifield said, his (airports) in Milan when the prize in physics was awarded to of synthesizing amino-acid com- same way that photons carry soluble support. voice still shaking. radio announced the Nobel deci- an Italian-Dutch team of nu- pounds called peptides, which light. "It had advantages of in- AT A NEWS conference later, sion," Rubbia told reporters. clear physicists who found parti- has revolutionized the manufac- UNUKE THE Rubbia-van creased yield and purification," he said he didn't know what he The existence of W and Z cles scientists had sought tor 50 ture of drugs such as high blood der Meer discovery, which has he said. With their growing im- would do with the $193,000 prize years. particles had been predicted be- pressure medicine, insulin and no immediate practical applica- portance in medicine, he said, money. "I could use a new car, fore, by 1979 Nobelists Sheldon other hormone medications, and tion, Merrifietd's development we can do them much faster, but I really haven't given any Glashow and Steven Weinberg The chemistry prize, to R. has been used in gene technol- of a simple peptide-synthesis we can make more of them and thought to that," he said, adding of the United States and Abdus Bruce Merrifield, 63. of New process has ''become a basic therefore they're available for that the prize might mean, Salam of Pakistan. York's Rockefeller University, The Royal Swedish Academy tool that all laboratories use," medical use. "maybe I can get a few more They never had been found, gave Americans a 26-year re- of Sciences gave the Nobel Prize said the Swedish Academy's He didn't know he'd won until rooms" in the lab. however, until Rubbia and van cord of at least one Nobel Prize a in Physics to Carlo Rubbia, 50, Professor Bengt Lindberg. he arrived five minutes late to Rubbia, caught up in an air der Meer discovered them last year. The United States has won of Italy, and Simon van der Merrifield, a native of Fort his laboratory and got the news traffic controllers strike, year in a particle accelerator or shared more than half the Meer, 59, of the Netherlands, for Worth, Texas, described his from the cleaning woman. learned he and van der Meer they built. 7 wanted to scream' NSE experience offered student can obtain special per- The student's GPA from the Date rape victim talks by Danielle Fischer mission from his college to ex- host college does not transfer reporter Editor's note: This is the change as a senior, Reed said. back to the University unless the second of a three-part series Students can attend a partici- student is an honors candidate Out-of-state schools don't nec- pating college for 15 weeks to an his senior year, she said. on date rape. The names have essarily mean out-of-sight been changed to protect the entire academic year. If the host prices. college is on a quarter system, There are two payment op- privacy of the individuals in- Through the National Student volved. Tomorrow's story fo- students should exchange for a tions for the NSE program. With Exchange program, University minimum of two quarters to Plan A, the student pays in-state cuses on a man who was the students can attend college in a attacker in a date rape. prevent them from ''getting be- fees to the host school. Plan B different state or the Virgin Is- hind," said Diane Hagemeyer, allows the student to pay fees to lands and pay in-state fees. assistant coordinator for the Bowling Green while attending by Benjamin Marrison "The program allows you to program. the participating college. staff reporter go to a part of the country you've never seen or to revisit a place OVER 70 colleges in 40 states Some colleges use only one Karen and Bill had dated you have been before," said Joni and the Virgin Islands partici- plan while other colleges use for almost six months before Photo ll!usfration/BG News Reed, director of special pro- pate in the exhange, Hagemeyer both, said Reed. he raped her. She did not grams and independent study. said. Students receiving financial consider it rape, but she to avoid losing her virginity. "The men think she asked She added it is possible for stu- Credit hours are automat- aid may have to apply to their knows now. Mary Koss, psychology for it - that the women se- dents to obtain a minor in a field ically transferred if the student host school for aid if they are on They were at a party and professor at Kent State Uni- cretly enjoy being forced to or take classes not offered at the receives a "C" or better in his Plan A, Reed said. Students on had been drinking, Karen versity said this is common. have sex,' Woroniecki said. University. exchange classes, because Plan B would "be OK because said. "Nobody wants to lose some- Karen felt ruined. Koss To be eligible for an ex- classes to be taken at the host they'd still be paying to BG," one - especially if they are said she felt this way because change, a student must have at school are approved prior to she added. "Bill leaned over and whis- important to them," she said. she lost her faith in another least a 2.5 accumulated grade exchange. This list must be ap- pered in my ear, 'Let's go "A decision with these kinds human being and in her point average and be a full-time 8roved Dy the student's adviser, Applications for the exchange upstairs,' " Karen recalls. I of consequences makes it all relationship. student at the University. The le dean of his college and the program are available in 231 asked him, 'Why? There's the more difficult." About a week later, Bill program is limited to sopho- office of registration and re- Administration Building.