11-9-98


                         NEWS ADVISORY:
  STUDENTS PLAN RELIEF EFFORT FOR NICARAGUAN HURRICANE VICTIMS

	Members of Ohio State University’s Undergraduate Student 
Government are organizing a campus and community fund-raising 
effort to provide relief to Nicaragua, which has been devastated 
by Hurricane Mitch.  Led by Alberto Bolanos, a junior at Ohio 
State and grandson of Nicaraguan Vice President Enrique Bolanos 
Geyer, the students are encouraging all students, faculty and 
staff of the university to contribute to the Nicaraguan Relief 
Fund.

	Bolanos will be available to talk with reporters about the 
fund-raising drive every afternoon this week in the Undergraduate 
Student Government offices, 201 Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.  He 
has heard first-hand reports of the disaster in his home country 
from his grandfather, who is heading Nicaragua’s relief effort, 
and he is also in touch with other Nicaraguan students who are 
launching similar campaigns at Northwestern, Purdue and other 
U.S. universities.

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Contact: Alberto Bolanos or Marty Lanning, Undergraduate Student 
Government, 292-2101.