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I Showers likely High 80 low 55 Clear and cool tonight UX'O'C Top oHheline Tippecanoe Jail proves profitable for county Thursday Sept 3 1992 Jam Annual Purdue tradition set for riday night Lafayette West Lafayette Indiana Journal and Courier 35 cents ii I "iii i ill i MBiiiiiiimjEHMlfa Anything for a sister Lafayette chips in to help storm ravaged Louisiana city By JOHN NORBERG Journal and Courier Marc Mouton talked on a cellular telephone as he drove down a street in Lafayette La describ ing the hurricane destruction around him homes leveled fallen trees broken glass imagine the strain this has been on the people Mouton said Lafayette Ind Mayor Jim Riehle and West Lafayette Mayor Sonya Margerum announced a campaign Wednesday to help relieve that strain in the sis ter city The mayors said money is being collected here through the Tippecanoe County Red Cross Office to be funneled to Red Cross efforts in Lafayette La thought it would be appropriate if We started a local effort to help Lafayette Riehle said destruction there is considerable more severe than we realized want to encourage people to make generous donations to the Red Cross to meet the needs of people in the city named after the Marquis de Even before the fund drive was announced the Tippecanoe County Red Cross had collected $10000 from this area for general disaster relief Only money is being collected not items such as clothing and food Because of great needs this year the Red Cross disaster relief program was running $30 million in the red before Hurricane Andrew hit according to Debra Neifered director of the Lafayette chapter Greg Wyatt chairman of the Lafayette chapter said the American Red Cross has committed $1 million to the Lafayette La area Arkansas Louisiana Alexandria Alabama By John Metzinger Journal and Courier Scale of miles Baton Rouge New Orlean Area enlarged Gulfof Mexico 0 100 Lafayette Louisiana An overview of Lafayette LaA12 What you can do to help hurricane victimsA12 Campus protest i 1 fTn i i A i By Darcy ChangJoumal arid Courier Kamil Kayabali a Purdue University graduate student from Turkey chants with about 50 other demonstrators Wednes day at the Memorial Mall during a protest over aggression in Bosnia Herzegovina Speakers with the group claimed that the Yugoslav army is destroying a defenseless sovereign republic and called for United States and United Nations aid Inflation outpaced income growth in By DAVE SKIDMORE Associated Press WASHINGTON Growth in Amer income lagged behind rising prices in 1991 for the first time in nine years the government said Wednesday think this very nicely reflects the mood of the said economist Paul Getman of Regional inancial Associates in West Chester Pa being squeezed very hard by rising taxes and rising health costs on the one hand and by negligible in creases in wages and salaries on the The Commerce Department said per capita income grew just 24 percent to last year only slightly more than half the 44 percent inflation rate registered by the index for personal spending It was the smallest increase since 1961 during the Kennedy administra tion and the first time since 1982 during the last recession that income growth fell behind inflation Adjusted for inflation incomes de clined 19 percent last year the worst on record going back through 1970 the latest year for which comparable in flation adjusted numbers are available Differences among rich and poor states harrowed last year although Connecticut retained its 1990 ranking as the richest state with per person average income of $26022 Mississippi remained the poorest with average in come of $13328 Indiana's growth stagnant INDIANAPOLIS per capita income of $17179 for 1991 was the lowest in the five state Great Lakes Region and 32nd in the nation The figure represented a 23 percent increase over the per capita income in 1990 rate of growth was slightly above the 21 percent rate for its region which also includes Illinois Michigan Ohio and Wis consin The per capita income for the region was $18713 in 1991 The Associated Press Law would ban discrimination against gays By PAULA JARRETT Journal and Courier A Lafavette citv councilman will nob the council Monday to make it illegal Some portions of the human rela te discriminate against residents be tions commission ordinance have been cause of their sexual preference rewritten and were passed on first Councilman Jerry Ledbetter said reading by the council Aug 3 Wednesday that Lafayette probably The amended ordinance will' be up will become the first community in the for a vote on second and final reading state to successfully pass a law pro Monday discrimination of gays( The definition of dis Ledbetter will request that sexual crimination has been rewritten to pre ference included as a category in difference in the treatment of a person the city human relations commission including exclusion or segregation be aunlT cause of race sex religion color Ledbetter said he aware of handicap familial status or national any discrimination against gays in amendment would Lafayette but said he expected the add sexual preference to that list 4 state to soon pass similar laws and Torn Lucas chairman of the human Wt i relations commission said most of the 8 necessary I think an complaints in the past individual should be discriminated year concerned sexual harassment He agjnnst because of sexual said he knew of few complaints to the he said Now is the time to try commission about discrimination based A member of Dignity a local support on sexual preference group for gays and lesbians called the Ledbetter said Bloomington officials announcement a mce surprise passed an ordinance prohibiting dis I think its great that they even crimination of gays in 1978 but it was discuss it said Shayla Barrett 36 of declared illegal by the Indiana Su Lafayette just asking for the preme Court The court said then that same rights that everyone else municipalities could not pass laws that Barrett a chemical engineer who were stricter than state or federal laws owns his own home said he had never governing the same issue been discriminated against in Lafay City Attorney Tom Heide said that ette because of his homosexuality but legal issue has changed He said that that he knows people who have been home rule laws now allow municipal fired from their jobs because they are ities to pass ordinances that Say forbiddeh by state or federal law ranks Purdue 56th on list of best college values By JENNIER SMITH Journal and Courier Students seem to be surprised Wednesday that Purdue is ranked among the top 100 best values in col leges in a Money magazine poll Most agreed that Purdue deserves its No 56 ranking Nabeel Ibrahim a sophomore elec trical engineering major said he chose Purdue because its reputation is sec ond to none among schools that offer undergraduate engineering Even though tuition went up this year he said he get a better deal for his money elsewhere Diana Hanken agreed Hanken a senior majoring in nutrition sciences and dietetics said she is not surprised Purdue ranks so high Hanken from Georgia said she chose Purdue be cause the university offers one of the best nutrition and dietetics programs Hanken said she considered attend ing only one other university A few other students were surprised that Purdue ranked so high Because Purdue is such a large school there are plenty of areas that could drag down its score according to David See COLLEGES Page A12 ftCollege The top ten colleges rated buys" In Money third annual college guide: 1 Rice University 2 New College University of South lorida 3 University of Washington 4 Hanover College 5 California Institute of Technology 6 Trenton State College 7 Georgia Institute of Technology 8 Rutgers College 9 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 10 New Mexico Tech How other schools of interest placed: :1 1 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 32 Wabash College 43 University of Iowa 56 Purdue University 83 Ohio State University 89 Indiana University Bloomington 96 PennState Bv John Metzinoer Journal and Cnurinr i VW 'cli 4 lUDdEfee Til "vVry Advice D2 Classified "C6 12 Comics D4 Couples D2 Crossword Deaths B2" "Lotteries A1 2 Mbvfes 7 wr Opinions A8 Purdue Scores C2 Stocks A1 1 7: Television D3 Wdathsr A Gannett Newspaper Vol 73 No 248 1992 ederated Publications Inc Listeners upset but WBAA stands behind decision By JENNIER SMITH Journal and Courier WBAA managers stood Wednesday by their decision to drop National Public Radio programs because they have signed a three month contract for similar hews and en tertainment from another net work Their decision is an unpopular one with Journal and Courier readers Of the 126 people who called the Express Yourself opi nion line 124 said the campus radio station managers should reconsider their decision Dick orsythe director of the Purdue Center for Instructional Services said NPR iw Stewart rescas a tech nician in the Purdue School of Pharmacy said he is trying to organize a group to resist plan to drop National Public Radio He wants the group to encourage student and staff involvement in the station If interested call rescas at at 423 1 109 shares some of the blame be cause its management has been in disarray for several years is not the only market Express Yourself resultsA9 that this has occurred he said happening in small markets across the orsythe said the station has fielded about 35 calls this week from people who want WBAA to reconsider Alan Alexander Manifold is troubled that WBAA ask for listener support or input on the decision to nix NPR a plea had gone out be cause WBAA needs number of dollars to do this I would have increased my contribution And I would have encouraged friends to do the ive vears ago Alexander Manifold and his wife Jane joined the WBAA Listeners Group which has about 40 group members They had urged WBAA to start an station I feel like all a joke because now actually go ing to get the station and not going to want to listen to it any he said orsythe said broadcasters typically do not seek listener input on program changes He urged listeners not to despair The board still is open to the possibility' of picking up NPR later if some of the management problems are ir oned out and costs are brought under control orsythe said By Tom CampbelJoumal and Courier It was business as usual Wednesday for WBAA an nouncer Roger Priest Lx'o A 4 IM? Him.