Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-24-1979 The BG News April 24, 1979 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 April 24, 1979" (1979). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3611. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3611 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. >, v »«■»*« x.-* PRESIDENT Michael D. Zinicola VICE-PRESIDENT Jacqueline M. Osier STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO Winners THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Thomas Washbush ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COORDINATOR Raymond William Braun STATE AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COORDINATOR .... Mark E. Krach Zinicola SGA president; SST candidates dominate U.A.O. DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE Scott Stevenson DISTRICT ONE-OFFENHAUER Lyndsey Phillips DISTRICT TWO-MACDONALD,PROUT, FRENCH HOUSE (two elected) Mary Kay Za|ac by Rick Rimelspach ZINICOLA SAID his first objective as SGA president would be to get everyone Jane Mosconi •taf I reporter to know each other and set a direction for SGA. "We'll work to get everyone organized, get the transition over with and get DISTRICT THREE-FOUNDERS Dana Kortokrax Michael D. Zinicola was elected Student Government Association (SGA) our goals set," Zinicola said. DISTRICT FOUR-RODGERS, KOHL, president and his Student Services Ticket won IS of 21 offices in last week's SGA Two areas SGA will immediately begin working on are the teacher evaluation CONKLIN (twoelected) James M. McGuIre election. booklet and the English 111-112 surverys, Zinicola said. If enough information is Kenneth C. Kuhl Zinicola defeated James L. Blake of the Students Committed to Action Ticket gathered on those two projects this quarter, they can be worked on over the DISTRICT FIVE-ASHLEY, BATCHELDER Bon'ta Hogg (SCAT) by a vote of 713 to 465. summer, Zinicola said. DISTRICT SIX-COMPTON, DARROW No Candidates The only SCAT candidate to win an executive office was Jacqueline M. Oster, DISTRICT SEVEN-ANDERSON, BROMFIELD Will Stroup who defeated Nadine Burich for vice-president by a count of 735-596. AS VICE-PRESIDENT. Oster said her first goal will be to select the per- DISTRICT EIGHT-CHAPMAN, DUNBAR Karen Twitched sonnel board. This board will be made up of former SGA members, and will DISTRICT NINE-FRATERNITY Stephan J. Evanko Jr. The other executive officers elected, all members of the SST party, were interview candidates for the many SGA boards Oster will be in charge of. DISTRICT TEN-SORORITY Lori Herbert Thomas C, Washbush, student representative to the University Board of Even though Oster was the only SCAT candidate elected to an executive of- DISTRICT ELEVEN-OFF-CAMPUS Trustees, Raymond W. Braun, academic affairs coordinator and Mark E. fice, she said she knows the other officers well and is sure they will all work well (three elected) Mark. H. Henderson, Leslie Skaft Krach, state and community affairs coordinator. together. William R. Ciehanski The G Slews Bowling 'Green State University tues- Spring means more parties, more noise day4-24-79 by Jim Flick and dies down after University students "Complainant requested that an When alcohol is served at these (the party goers) went their way, they staff reporter leave for the summer. officer..) investigate) loud music," outdoor parties, they are more likely to did about as much (damage) as they His department typically receives 8- another April 12 report read. "...She get out of hand, Ash added. "There's no could." African Week It's springtime in Bowling Green, 10 complaints every weekend during advised that the stereo would be turned malice, usually," he said. "You just time to let the warm breezes spill in the spring, Ash said, adding that most down." lose track of common sense (while SEVERAL DOORS, windows, fences features speakers through open windows, time to sip a complaints concern off-campus drunk), or it Just doesn't seem im- and some shrubbery wereilamaged by cool beer or two on the front lawn-if University students. "COMPLAINANT ADVISED that she portant. And I'm not too old that I don't University students in that instance, A lecture by Dennis Brutus, a you live off campus-and maybe host a heard loud music outside of her win- remember how it happens. Ash said. "But this is the exception South African author and poet party with a few friends. dow..." a third report from the same rather than the rule." exiled from South Africa, will Unfortunately, these innocent ac- "You can get day said. This time, the responding While University students usually are highlight this week's activities tivities sometimes get out of hand. officer couldn't find the source of the blamed for all disturbances in Bowling for African Week, according to "We're getting a lot of complaints awfully brave loud music. "You just lose Green, Ash said "college students take Dr. Ernest Champion, assistant from the community about noise," after four or five "Most of the time we ask them to turn track of common credit for (vandalism) they don't do. director and assistant professor Bowling Green Police Chief Galen Ash it down and they do," Ash said. of ethnic studies and adviser to said. "The number of complaints picks beers. You "Sometimes they didn't realize it (the sense...And I'm "Juvenile vandalism is one of the big the African People's Association up in the spring." noise) was bothering anyone. problems (in Bowling Green)" he (APA). According to statistics compiled by apologize af- "But often, they'll turn (the music) not too old that I explained, citing the recent vandalism African Week is an annual the Bowling Green Police Department, terward, but the back up when we leave. done to the city's Wintergarden event sponsored by the APA, in the number of noise and disturbing the "Almost never do they give us any don't remember lounge. When that case was solved, cooperation with ethnic studies. peace complaints begins to rise around damage is done. hassle They just wait till we leave." how that happens. police found that the culprits were Champion said Brutus, who the first of April. Outdoor parties are the worst, ac- Bowling Green High School students. will speak about his homeland at "IT'S THE stereos," Ash continued. cording to Ash. "Those parties can 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Amani THE POLICE department received "The warmer the weather is, the more really get obnoxious," he said, shaking POLICE RESPOND to every com- Commons, organized the boycott 79 complaints between January 1 and chance there is of windows and doors his head. "YOU CAN GET awfully brave after plaint they receive, Ash said. "It's a against South Africans at the 1976 March 21 of this year-an average of 13 being open and the noise disturbing the four or five beers. You apologize af- pain for us because (responding to Summer Olympics in Montreal, complaints every 15 days-while it neighbors." "THERE'S OFTEN just too many terwards but the damage is done." noise complaints) is time-consuming. Canada. received 15 complaints in the first 15 The police blotter provides a few people and they spill onto neighbors' While we're doing that, we can't be out Champion said Brutus staged a days of April alone. examples. lawns after starting very innocently. Usually damage is done when parties enforcing other laws," he added. sit-down protest on a tennis court The Jump in complaints was more According to an April 12th, 1979, spill over into neighbors' lawns, he "Sometimes, we have to make two or at Wimbledon a few years ago dramatic last year, when it rose from 33 entry, one student whose stereo had "We broke up a part of Prospect explained. Lawns, bushes and fences three calls at the same place.'' because of South African in- in the January 1 to March 31 period to 20 disturbed a neighbor reportedly told the Street last year, for instance. Fifteen or are torn up and knocked down. When police respond to a noise volvment at the tournament. between April 1st and 15th. Ash ex- responding officer "he had been taking 20 people got together, but it ended up complaint, their first two official visits Brutus is a professor of English at plained that the number of tomplaints a shower and must have had die stereo with about 100people. Rarely, the damage is malicious. "A are usually warnings, though Ash Northwestern University. rises steadily until after the Univer- up too loud. He advised that the stereo "If kids find out there's a party, they month ago we broke up a party that got At 7 p.m. today in the Amani, sity's spring commencement activities, would be turned down." go whether they're invited or not." out of hand," the police chief said. "As see page S an African arts and crafts exhibit will be opened by Robert Bright, art expert and historian. THURSDAY' ACTrvnTESwUl revolve around "Festac,"a movie about traditional African Injuries, stolen property may be avoided dance being shown at 7 p.m. in US Education Bldg. A disco will by Keith Jameson be held later in the evening. staff reporter Concluding the week's programs will be a dinner Because spring generally means an increase in bicycle usage by University featuring traditional African students, there should also be an increase in student awareness of bicycle safety dishes, at 6 p.m.