Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 5-25-1978 The BG News May 25, 1978 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 May 25, 1978" (1978). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3504. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3504 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 G wews Vol. 61, No. 109 Bowling 'Green Stole University Thursday, May 25, 1978 Resolution support to* **& -3i>J delayed by SGA By Cindy Leise perpetrating the exploitation and Staff Reporter racism." Simonson said the group protesting Student Government Association the investments is pressing dozens of (SGA) last night delayed supporting a student, faculty and community groups resolution drawn up by -students to support the divestment resolution demanding that a University-related because they wish to present it at the M- investment firm divest itself of holdings yearly meeting of the foundation, in companies with ties to South Africa. scheduled for early June. He said the SGA first heard of the support group wants to show "a united front" in request at their meeting last week, asking for the divestment, and said a when African student Dogba R. Bass number of groups have already requested that SGA study the holdings promised support of the resolution. in the Bowling Green State University Colleges around the country, in- Foundation Inc., the investment firm. cluding Harvard College, Miami However, last night when students Univc-sity in Oxford and Antioch supporting the divestment resolution College, have recently divested of their asked SGA to vote on the matter, many South African holdings at the request of senators said they still did not know student and community groups. FIREFIGHTERS ARE PREPARED for the worst as they tend to a Newspt*oto bi Da.e Ryan enough about University investments Simonson stressed the importance of ruptured tank truck which collided with another vehicle near the comer of Bishop Road and SR 25, on the south side of Bowling Green. or about the apartheid system of white SGA supporting the local request. supremacy in South Africa. However, some SGA senators said The delay angered students sup- they needed more time to ask students porting the divestment resolution, and in their districts if they should support Kenneth Simonson, a co-author of the the resolution. School tax problems continue resolution, asked, "How much time are you going to spend talking about this? SIMONSON THEN referred to a Ashland. Bellevue. East Holmes. THE HEART of the inflation problem Frank Dick, former superintendent We have done all the work. All we're Editor's note: This is the first article meeting the three off-campus senators in a series concerning public education Buckeye Local. is the restrictions in the tax structure, of Toledo schools who now is a part asking is that you look at the resolution held Monday for their 8,000 con- These are a a few of the cities that many officials said. time lecturer at the University, said. and support it or don't support it." in Ohio. Part two will deal with two stituents, which no one attended. proposals by State Rep. Arthur have closed last year or may close this Ohio's public schools basically are "The main problem is the dependency "You just had a meeting with 8,000 year, according to State Auditor supported by property tax assessed on on property tax base which does not THE TWO-PAGE resolution lists 14 WilkowsM (D-Toledo) about schools' students and no one came, how are you money problems. Thomas E. Ferguson. homeowners and corporations. The have the elasticity to meet inflation like corporations the University-related going to get their opinion on this," he Fifteen school systems closed in 1977. state contributed about 43 percent to we have been living with. Most school investment firm has holdings in, ex- asked. By Tom Smith Twelve schools have requested audits elementary and secondary education finances are stable and do not reflect pands on the apartheid system's racist However, SGA President Michael C. by Ferguson's office as the first step in costs this year, Walter said. the spiraling cost of living." employment and social policies and Voll ended the debate by promising a the closing procedure. The auditor's list "The governor and legislature 15 to page four states that indirect University in- Toledo. Cleveland. Garfield. Cin- vote on the resolution at their last cinnati. Medina. Scioto Valley. does not include the Cleveland system, years ago reduced the value of personal vestments in South Africa "assist in meeting of the year next week. which ran out of funds but Federal property tax so the district is not able to Judge Frank J. Battisti ordered it to be collect on inflated goods more money kept open for desegregation reasons. than the voters originally approved in a Inside First professor Overman dies There is talk that as many as 138 levy. So no growth in revenues result The University first professor, Dr. He wrote more than a dozen Funeral services will be 1 p.m. districts may close by fall because the and that is a considerable amount lost," James R. Overman, died yesterday in mathematics textbooks. In 1967, he tomorrow at Deck-Hanneman Funeral Ohio constitution does not permit any John H. HaU, lobbyist for the Ohio the News his home at 211 Clay Street of an ap- published "The History of Bowling Home, 408 W. Wooster St. Visiting hours governmental body to end the fiscal Education Association (OEA), said. parent heart attack. He was 90. Green State University," a 234-page are today from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. He year with a deficit, Dale A. Thompson, FOCUS...There's more than one Dr. Overman was the first of the book dealing with the first 53 years of will be buried in Oak Grove Cemetery the auditor's legal advisor, said. WHEN LAND VALUES were soaring way to pass that group original 11-member faculty for the the University. following tomorrow's service. THE EDUCATORS and legislators in 1972, the state required rollbacks and requirement. Karen Borchers newly-created Bowling Green State He was a fellow of the American said they believe the schools' financial reductions because taxing inflated visited Brookdale Stables, near Normal College in 1914. This ap- Association of the Advancement of crisis boils down to three basic causes: lands at the same millage was not Cygnet, where students "saddle pointment was the beginning of the Science, a member of the American inflation, the tax structure and state- allowed. It would result in more up for learning." Page 3. numerous "firsts" Dr. Overman Mathematical Society, the mandated programs. revenues and higher taxes, he said. recorded in the 42 years he served the Mathematical Association of America, "There is no pattern. It is different One clause in the legislation setting NEWS...Academic Council University. the National Council of Teachers of for every district," State Represen- up state income tax calls for a rollback reactivated the honors program He was the University's first Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa and tative Casey C. Jones (D-Toledo) said in property taxes. When the taxpayer's at its meeting yesterday after librarian, he was first chairman of the Kappa Sigma. after serving on a House subcommittee tax bill is calculated, 10 percent is criticizing a News editorial which department of mathematics, first dean When Dr. Overman retired from the that explored the causes of the school subtracted from the amount due. opposed the recreation of the of the College of Liberal Arts, first dean University in 1952 he received an closings. The tax reduction lessens voted program. Page 4. of men, first registrar, first adviser of honoray doctor of science degree for Dr. Franklin B. Walter, state millage so the taxpayer pays more in The Key and first dean of faculties. being "a good citizen; a sympathetic superintendent of public instruction, voted taxes after a property re- A native of Bedford, Indiana, he and understanding teacher; a wise and said the problem's main cause is the evaluation than he did before. graduated from Indiana University in prudent administrator; a scholar and a inflation rate. "PEOPLE DON'T realize that when Weather they are being asked to vote for new 1909. He received a master's degree genuine friend of education." "Inflation is being experienced in Sunny and warm millage that it is the same mills being from Columbia University in 1914 and a Also that year, the University's society which is so much higher than High80F(27C) voted on time after time-it is just rolled doctorate from the University of Board of Trustees named the then-new the increase in income. Rising utilities Low55F(13C) back," Dr. John R. Toscano, University Michigan in 1930. He and Gretchen Fast science building. Overman Hall in his and employees' insurance con- 10 percent chance of precipitation professor of educational administration were married in 1917. She preceded him honor. tributions are just a few of the exam- in 1974. He has no survivors. Dr. Overman ples," he said. and supervision, said. Cypriot views normalcy as abnormal By Mary Damemiller "THE WAR started that morning "The only thing I knew was that of their kids," he said, and American Staff Reporter and we were sent home because we there was snow all over and I was sick children want to be liberated and get didn't know how to handle weapons," of hamburgers," he added.