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SWIMMERS SINK IN MAC Campus organization follows Falcon men finish fifth of six science fiction show Friday Mag It in first day competition Sports A # The Nation *s Best College Newspaper Weather Friday Vol.72 Issue 92 March 2,1990 Bowling Green, Ohio High 45 The BG News Low20e BRIEFLY Protesters march against rape CAMPUS Women for Women Art exhibit opens: The undergraduate student design exhibition opens with a reception takes back the night tonight in the Fine Arts Gallery from 7-9. The show will last through March 15. during campus rally STATE by Jill Novak staff writer Reforms addressed: Republican candidate for governor A group of about 60 University students and faculty George Voinovich said Thursday the members marched through campus and downtown state education bureaucracy has Bowling Green Thursday night, forcefully yelling: dragged its feet on school reforms. "No More Violence," and "What Do We Want?" " In a speech at the Press Club of STOP RAPE!" And "When Do We Want it?" "NOW!" Ohio, the former Cleveland mayor Onlookers should not have been alarmed because said he may propose a constitutional these people were participants in Women for Women's amendment making the Department "Take Back the Night" march organized to promote of Education directly responsible to rape awareness and give participants the opportunity the governor. to show support for the cause. "Iwant to be Ohio's education Jeni Scnoub, executive director of the Northwest governor. I want Ohio to be the Ohio Crisis Line, which services survivors of domestic education state." he said. violence and their children, spoke to the group outside the Student Services Building in a rally before the march. NATION As a survivor of rape and psychological and emo- tional battery, she described her experiences and ad- Aftershocks continue: vised all women who have not been affected by sexual Small cities counted the cost of assault to remember how lucky they are. broken windows and fallen bricks as "Remember, that if you ana I are untouched by vio- dozens of aftershocks continued to lence, we are just lucky," she said. "It benefits the rattle Southern California Thursday, patriarchy if we forget." the day after a strong earthquake In addition, forgetting about this luck causes women jolted much of the region. to blame other women when they are assaulted, and Injuries from the quake appeared to phrases like " 'Oh, if she had iust done this, nothing be minor. Cuts, bruises and a few would have happened' creep into our lanuguage," she broken bones were the chief said. complaints, officials said. Fighting back against rape will increase the chan- State Office of Emergency Services ces of not being raped, she said, but "the reality is officials said it appeared that the even if we follow the rules and are careful we can be cities of Upland, La Verne, Pomona, violated." Ontario and Claremont were most Even if women are fighting back and making victor- affected, with Pomona. Claremont ies for their gender, Scnoub said "these victories pale and La Verne each declaring in comparison to invidual victories won by individual emergencies. women." This "Take Back the Night" march is a great start, Schoub said, but she would like to take back "the day, Rooney returns: Humorist afternoon, morning, dusk and sunrise." Andy Rooney was reinstated today on "Let's ioin together in taking back our lives," she CBS' "60 Minutes." He said he'll be on concluded. Sunday's show with a commentary on Despite the bitter cold, participants at the rally be- the issues involved in his suspension fore the march gave Schoub a generous reception, and on Feb. 8. BG News/Brock Visnich many offered their own reasons for supporting the ral- "I'm very pleased," said Rooney, ly and march. whom CBS News president David Junior Amv Bahl carries a poster while listening to a speaker at the "Take Back The Night" Rally Thursday Burke had suspended without pay evening at the Student Services Building. See March, page 4. after a gay magazine quoted him as saying blacks had "watered down their genes," a comment Rooney denies making. Originally, the suspension was to be for three months, but the lifting of the Acid rain Florida preparing for Break suspension had been widely expected in recent days. Resorts officials clamping down on students' spring revelry debated by Jeanne DeQulne then, Daytona Beach has been the top draw for stu- dents looking for surf and fun. Abortion bill fails: A bill WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate leaders and the USA Today-CIN Spring Break peaks March 3 through 24, but resort that would ban most abortions in Bush administration reached an accord Wednesday officials say large numbers of students arrive begin- Minnesota failed to get past a state on pollution controls for automobiles, removing a Beachside resorts are bracing for the spring inva- ning this Sunday and remain as late as April 21. Senate committee Wednesday. major obstacle to agreement on a compromise clean sion of college students looking tor a brealc from the Other 1990 hot spots: South Padre Island, Texas, The bill, which would prohibit air bill, Senate sources said. cold, relief from exams and parties to attend. Key West, Fla.. Jamaica and Mexico. abortions for •'birth-control reasons,' Closed-door negotiations continued into the even- Millions of students heading for Florida, Texas and was drafted as model legislation by ing over details about new acid rain controls, but elsewhere will find plenty of warm weather — and Wealthier students are going international, ac- the National Right-To-Life sources close to the talks said those issues were un- some new rules. cording to Stuart Hochwert of American Passage Committee in the wake of last likely to scuttle the rest of the pollution control pack- "We are looking forward to having the students Media Corp., which does advertising for Spring summer's U.S. Supreme Court age which has been worked out in three weeks of here," said James Catalyn of the Bahamas Tourism Break locations. decision that gave states more leeway bargaining. Board, but "we're promoting limited alcohol use." Resort officials say many students will pay as to restrict abortions. Disagreements over acid rain might be set aside In Daytona Beach, Fla. — the Spring Break capital much as $300 each for the chance to jam into a single Proponents say the legislation and be thrashed out on the Senate floor if the differ- of the United States —poolside drinking will be lim- hotel room with three other students for a week. would be the toughest enforceable ences, involving largely disagreements among sena- ited from 2 to 11 p.m. Hotels can be fined if there are Cable television's rock music channel, MTV, plans anti-abortion measure in the nation, tors, are not resolved, said an aide to one senator complaints. live and taped reports on Spring Break activities in prohibiting an estimated 93 percent of who has been close to the private talks. "We are planning and managing the event," said Florida, Texas, Colorado, Mexico and from aboard a the abortions performed in the state. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, Suzanne Smith, director of Daytona's Spring Break Bahamas cruise ship. D-Maine, said he planned to bring the clean air bill to task force. "We're preparing to be ready." At least one Florida city, Key West, is worried the Senate floor on Thursday and had no desire to ex- Rowdy college students prompted Fort Lauderdale about the Spring Break onslaught. About 40,000 stu- WORLD tend the private bargaining with the administration police to clamp down several years ago and since dents are expected to invade the 2-by-5-mile island. for another day. Fire kills 16: Fire broke out in a luxury hotel's tent restaurant early Thursday near Cairo, Egypt, and wind-whipped flames leaped to the USG candidates address meeting main building, killing 16 people and injuring about 70. At least one American was among the dead. The by Matt Mlghell give 10-minute presentations of hotel had no fire alarms or sprinklers, staff writer their platforms, the Campus and many guests heard of the fire Democrats endorsed John Cor- from other guests. rigan and Brown for the March A vocal version of "can you 14 and IS elections. top this?" arose between two Brown, a member of the Cam- presidential candidates for Ui. pus Democrats, re-stated how HISTORY dergraduate Student Govern- campus lighting could be in- ment Thursday as they addres- creased by the use of halogen On this date: In 1977, local sed a meeting of the Campus bulbs "which are much brighter officials said the city's water supply Democrats. and more economical than the was safe, despite ammonia and ; Kevin Coughlin, USG presi- existing bulbs," she said. chlorine odors. Chlorine was added to m W' 1 dent, and Craig Taliaferro, USG the water to neutralize ammonia senator, tossed smile-wrapped During the nearly 90-minute odors, which occured as a result of comments back and forth while meeting, Taliaferro took the runoff from decayed plants and the 14 other attendees listened offensive against the current fertilizers.