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Festival will hit Bowling employees go on consecutive game «n this weekend. strike. streak. e5 Page 6 Page 9 ffrje»gj2etoa •^ 1995 The BG News "Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence" Thursday, September 7, 1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 7 Groups Clash of Wills Violators face needed new discipline "We're clunking, for the most inUSG Residence hall part, with the residence person is where most of the cases will end Organizations up," she said. staff to decide Jill Carr, associate dean of stu- fail to register dents, said the new system punishments should save time and make the Larry Hannan process easier to go through. The BC News Jay Young "There will be a much shorter The BC News turn around time from when the incident occurs to when it goes Although the semester is only a through the process," Carr said. week old, tensions have already Those who test the system by Students not satisfied with the risen between Undergraduate choice or against their will this results of their residence hall Student Government and various year will face a new University meeting can request a hearing. organizations on campus. judicial system. The case is heard by five stu- The cause of In the past all violations of the dents who also live on campus. In the conflict is student code order to avoid any conflicts per- the failure of were handled sons from the same residence almost all on- GfitP by the office of hall as the student involved do campus organ- Standards and not hear the case. Panel members Utt AP Photo Procedures. are expected to acknowledge any izations to reg- cxmmutMiOTt ister with USG OTMlVNB A young Tahitlan protester jumps near the fire at the Tahiti International Airport building in Papeete Changes made other conflicts. for the fall se- Wednesday. A group of Tahitlans, protesting against a French nuclear test blast airport, set part of in Student Af- "Anytime there would be a mester. USG the airport building afire and clashed with French riot police. fairs elim- conflict of interest, which would needed organi- IJSG inated Stan- be either for or against, one of zations to apply dards and the expectations is that they ex- for the seven Procedures. cuse themselves from the hear- vacant organizational senate In an effort ing," Ellis said. "The ethics of seats within USG. to improve the process, viola- our organization tell the panel Women's rights all wet tions will be handled in the cor- USG has 12 organizational members to excuse themselves, seats. Six are vacated each year. responding residence hall. and hopefully they would do This year, however, there were Downpour forces conference, Clinton indoors Kim Ellis, coordinator of resi- that." seven seats open as the Lesbian dential judicial programs, will After hearing the case the and Gay Alliance had to reapply Terence Hunt Shalala and Lord, riding to act as a judicial consultant to the panel would make a recom- because of low membership. The Associated Press Huairou on a press bus in Clin- staffs of residence halls and mendation to Ellis. It is up to her There are about 70 registered ton's motorcade, were deposited small housing units. to make the decision final. She organizations at the University. HUAIROU, China - American at the outside edge of the crowd Ellis said if a student is accus- said there would only be a few According to USG president Jeff officials stranded in a rain- and had to push their way for- sed of breaking the code the vio- times where she might not ap- Stefancic, only eight organiza- soaked crowd were shoved ward. When they reached the lation would be documented by prove a panel's decision. , tions had applied for USG seats around by Chinese security front, Chinese security forces the staff member who witnessed "I don't want to say I'm a rub- as of Tuesday afternoon. forces Wednesday, marring Hil- shoved them away. or responded to the incident. The ber stamp for the panel, but I "The lack of interest and sup- lary Rodham Clinton's trip to After repeated attempts, Sha- complaint would be passed on to think they have gone through port from the organizations on show solidarity with women acti- lala and Lord were finally admit- the hall supervisor. some training and are quite ca- this campus has been very frus- vists in this village outside Beij- ted through a side door, their Hall supervisors would review pable of being effective," Ellis trating," Stefancic said. ing. clothes soaked and their hair complaints and contact the stu- said. "There might be an incident Stefancic said he sent letters to The first lady got VIP treat- plastered on their heads. Clin- dent in question. The supervisor or two where I might make a contacts for all registered cam- ment on her arrival for a speech ton's press secretary, Lisa Ca- and student will decide if char- change." pus organizations in July remind- at a theater-turned-conference puto, was kept out until after the ges are unwarranted, agree on Off-campus students who vio- ing them of the need to apply for center. But other members of her first lady spoke. charges and sanctions or the stu- late the code while on campus their organization seats with party - including Donna Shalala, "The women's movement has dent will request a hearing. Ellis will go through the same basic said she expects most of the process. Ellis used Founders as USG when they came back in the the secretary of health and hu- been through tougher things than AP Photo fall. man services, and Winston Lord, this," Shalala said good- problems to be solved without a Donna Shalala, center, head of Of the 12 organizations that the assistant secretary of state naturedly. hearing. See JUDICIAL, page five. And in Washington, the State the U.S. Department of Health held seats last year, five are not for the Far East - were left wait- and Human Services, makes her Department brushed the incident up for renewal and don't have to ing outside in a chilly rain for a way through a crowd at the NGO reapply. The organizations who half hour. aside. Women's Forum in Huairou. didn't have to reapply are the The scene spotlighted some of "There's no reason to make a It's a sign! Residential Student Association, the logistical problems and har- big deal about it," said spokes- en's conference in Beijing, and the Environmental Action Group, assment that have affected man Nicholas Burns. It's hard to Clinton assured them that their the Ohio Student Education As- thousands of women, meeting move 15,000 people into 1,500 voices are being heard. sociation and the Non-Traditional separately from the Fourth seats, and that is, I think, the "You will be the key players in Student Association. World Conference of Women 30 magnitude of the challenge this determining whether or not this The organizations that he'd the miles away in Beijing. Clinton, in morning." conference goes beyond rhetoric seven vacant seats are Delta a speech a day earlier, had said Outside the building, Chinese and actually does something to Sigma Pi, Campus Escort Ser- China's treatment of the women security officials broadcast an- improve the lives of women and vice, the University Activities was "indefensible." nouncements blaming the United families," declared Clinton, a Organization, the World Student Clinton thanked them Wednes- States for causing the crowd- crusader for women's rights for Association, the Lesbian and Gay day for their perseverance. "You control problems by moving the 25 years. Alliance, the Black Student did not give up. You did not stay speech indoors. "It will be [the activistsl that Union and the Honor Student As- away. You are playing an impor- Inside, the theater was packed will hold governments to the sociation. tant role in this conference," she with more than 3,000 women, commitments they make," she As of Tuesday, only Campus said. twice the building's capacity. said. Escort Service, UAO and HSA The rain resulted in Clinton's "We're going to keep on mov- had reapplied, while LAGA had appearance being moved inside ing forward, never turning The government maintained a picked up an application but had from a field that could have ac- back," the women sang, holding stony silence about Clinton's not yet turned It in. commodated a large crowd. hands and swaying side to side in speech Tuesday, in which she Keary Henkener, director of their seats. "We're going to work chastised Beijing for its treat- Hundreds of women, clad in pon- The BG Newi/Kelly Rlgo Campus Escort Service, said his chos or clutching umbrellas, for women's freedom, never ment of women in Huairou and organization had turned in its struggled to get in the theater turning back." said it was time to stop the A Sic Sic sign Is displayed on the front of McFall Center gates and through a crush of The activists here are trying to silence about human rights Wednesday.