Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-1-1993 The BG News December 1, 1993 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News December 1, 1993" (1993). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5619. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5619 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. <? The BG News Wednesday, December 1, 1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 66 Briefs City police search for robbers by Joe Peltier The Sterling thief came into the store and said he police reporter needed change for the phone, police said. The man Weather then left the store and returned a short while later Partly sunny: and asked to use the phone book. The suspect re- Today, partly sunny with a Bowling Green police are still searching for two portedly went back outside to the phone and re- high between 40 and 45. men who robbed two local stores in similar, but turned when all the customers had left the store. Southeast winds around 10 unrelated, incidents last weekend. The phone book was taken into evidence by offi- mph. Tonight, mostly cloudy The Sterling Store, 115 Railroad St., was robbed cers at the scene. with a low in the mid 30s. Friday at 6:43 p.m. The other store, Dairy Mart, In the Dairy Mart heist, the thief reportedly Chance of rain 20 percent. 106 Napoleon Road, was robbed Saturday at 7:46 bought a 15-cent piece of candy 20 minutes before p.m. he robbed the store. Police said the man then re- Inside the News Although each suspect had an object underneath turned and asked the clerk if the shop carried any his clothing that he claimed was a gun, neither 10-cent candy. The man then reportedly paid for suspect openly displayed a weapon during either the candy and gave the clerk a note. The note re- robbery. portedly read, "Give me all your money; I have a The paper chase: Although the clerks gave different decriptions gun." The University is expand- of the robbers, there are several similarities be- According to the police report, immediately be- ing its recycling program to tween the cases, police said. fore the man left he told the woman, "Don't hold encourage office workers to Bowling Green police l.i. Thomas Brokamp said this against me. I wouldn't do it if I wasn't hu- Bowling Green police have created composites of two men responsi- recycle more paper prod- in each case the male suspect entered the store in ngry." ucts. ble for two separate armed robberies in the city last weekend. The the early evening, left and then returned to later The woman told police the man walked away composite on the left is of the man who robbed Sterling, 115 Railroad hand the clerk a note demanding money. from the crime scene. □ See page four. St., on Friday. On the right Is the composite of the suspect responsible "Both had notes that said they had guns, but no The Sterling robber was described as a 5-feet-4- for a Saturday robbery at Dairy Mart, 106 Napoleon Road. Although guns were shown during the robberies," Brokamp there are similarities between the two Incidents, police said they be- Outside campus said. See Robberies, page tin. lieve the robberies were committed by two different men. The BC Nc»«A«!h»n Walker Montgomery to announce campaign for state attor- Clinton ney general: COLUMBUS -- State Sen. Betty Montgomery, R-Per- signs rysburg, plans stops in six cities to announce her cam- paign for the Republican nomination for Ohio attor- Brady ney general, beginning Thursday in Columbus. 7 She said Tuesday that the Bill one-day tour will begin at noon in Columbus, at the site by Terence Hunt of a drive-by shooting this The Associated Press year, followed by visits later to Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and WASHINGTON ~ As James Dayton. Brady turned in his wheelchair to Montgomery has said she watch. President Clinton signed would run for the office cur- into law the most sweeping rently held by Attorney handgun control bill in a quarter General Lee Fisher, a De- century Tuesday. "Americans mocrat, with the war against are finally fed up with violence," crime being the centerpiece the president declared. of her campaign. Cheers and applause erupted in Fisher plans to run for a the East Room as Clinton signed second-year term, and is not the long-fought bill before an au- expected to face serious op- dience of law enforcement offi- position in his party's pri- cials, mayors, governors, mem- mary. bers of Congress and families So far, Montgomery is the who have lost relatives to gun only Republican seeking the violence. office. The new law will require a five-day waiting period and background check on handgun City waste ban in effect: buyers when it takes effect in 90 The city's yard waste ban Camping For A Cause days. It was named for Brady, the White House press secretary goes into effect today. As a Phi Delta Theta fratenlty members Todd Cipollo, Jerry Milano and i occupy the tent through Thursday, accepting money and canned who was gravely wounded and result, people can no longer Gene Hughes (left to right) camp out on the Union Oval to remind goods to donate to the Cherry Street Mission in Toledo. mix yard waste such as passersby of the plight of the homeless. Fraternity members will | left disabled in the 1981 assas- leaves, grass clippings and sination attempt against then- brush in with regular trash. President Reagan. There will be separate col- Reading slowly from notes as lections for yard waste, in- his wife, Sarah, held a micro- cluding Christmas trees. phone for him, Brady called the The ban is an effort to save Groups to march for AIDS Day ceremony "the end of unchecked landfill space. madness and the commencement dles will be passed out and Barr "We're opening it up to the en- more and more." of a heartfelt crusade for a safer by Glnner Phillips and saner country." will speak about the disease. The tire community," said Peter human diversity reporter It was the first major gun bill Kent State student was participants will travel down Herman, LAGA vice president. Herman said the day is also a Ridge Street, cut across campus "I think that the more people we time to reflect what life would be since 1968 when Congress ban- shot over drug deal argu- ned mail-order purchases of ri- Today is World AIDS Day - a behind the Jerome Library, con- have, the more support we can without any art because so many ment: fles, shotguns, handguns and day to show support and under- tinue down East Wooster Street, show to everyone that AIDS is artists, including singers and ammunition and curbed out-of- standing for the thousands of turn down Thurstin Avenue and very important. If we continue to dancers, have been lost to the KENT, Ohio-An argu- people who have been lost or af- ignore it it's going to spread disease. st an- buying of those firearms. ment over a drug deal ap- end up back at the Union. fected by the disease. Although Clinton said the Brady Bill fi- parently resulted in the nally passed "because grassroots shooting last week of a Kent the city of Toledo will be hosting events to commemorate the oc- America changed its mind and State University student in a demanded that this Congress not campus dormitory room. casion, two University groups will be bringing the worldwide University task force sponsors leave here without doing some- event closer to home with a spe- thing about this. And all the rest A dormitory resident told of us, even Jim and Sarah, did police he was present for a cial candlelight vigil taking place on campus. caravan to candlelight march was to somehow light that spark marijuana sale to two men that swept across the people of known only by first names, The Lesbian and Gay Alliance and The Out Action Group will freshments will all be events in the observance this country and proved once according to the search by Melissa Llpowskl again that democracy can work." warrant filed Monday in commemorate World AIDS Day health reporter of World AIDS Day in Toledo. with a march to show their sup- Individuals who want to take part in the event "America won this battle," the Portage County Municipal president said. "Americans are Court. port. are encouraged to meet at St. Paul's Church in Mark Barr, founder of the Out In observance of World AIDS Day, the Gradu- downtown Toledo at 6 p.m., Nathan said. finally fed up with violence that Action Group and organizer of ate Student Persons for Higher Education, a "The march will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will cuts down another citizen with The witness told police the gunfire every 20 minutes." victim, David Kremling, got the march, said it is important University task force that focuses on diversity, last for approximately 45 minutes," she said. for people to recognize World will be sponsoring a car caravan to a candlelight "After the march, which leads back to the A major anti-crime bill is ex- into an argument with the pected to be high on the agenda two men, and that the two AIDS Day.