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The BG News February 8, 1985 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-8-1985 The BG News February 8, 1985 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 February 8, 1985" (1985). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4352. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4352 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. Marine Corps offers Mail order records and many flexible programs. more ways to shop in Friday Page 7 mmMMMMmmmmMMMsm- mmmmmmm i.TTJTHJJ-IJJ-HTrHTP.. Friday, February 8,1985THEBCLNEWS Vol. 67 Issue 77 New look for Union Renovation proposed by Janet Pavasko "If the proposal is approved, reporter remodeling will hopefully start during spring break. Video Major reconstruction of the games will be moved into the University Union including a bowling and billiards room," pizza shop, mini mall, and a two- she said. and-a-half story extension are EVEN IF THE proposed pizza among the topics to be discussed parlor is not approved, the at the March Board of Trustees Union will be serving pizza be- meeting. ginning Feb. 12. "We are striving for a whole "We will be using a dumb new look and atmosphere at the waiter system, with the pizza Union," Ruth Friend, coordina- being cooked in the Prout ovens, tor of Grand Development and shipped down to the Union," Training and Special Projects, Friend said. "Students can call said. in an order and in about a half- Friend said remodeling began hour, pick up their pizza -possi- last year to pull the Union out of bly a delivery service will be debt added." "Right now, we are in the Friend said the Union began black and working with a bal- testing pizza recipes last sum- anced budget," Friend said. mer. "The bakery and ice cream par- "The students tested said it's lor have increased sales tremen- the best pizza they have had, dously." although I don't think we will be Friend said among the March a threat to the local pizza par- proposals is the addition of a lors," she said. Making waves BG News/Susan Cross pizza parlor in place of the cur- • See UNION page 6. Julia Sturgeon, graduate student studying French, gets some water In yesterday morning in the Club Pool of the Student Recreation Center. rent game room. her face as she kicks her way through the water aerobics program See related story inside, page 3. Pop culture books aren't re-saleable by Benjamin Marrtson department does not inform back that is printed by the Popu- Christoper Geist, associate And the Popular Press will not Brown said. "It's just as easy news editor them which books are going to lar Press is the Popular Culture professor of popular culture, buy back the books either. for the students to walk over be used the following semester. Reader," he said. said many of the department's Pat Brown, the business man- here (to the Popular Press) and At the end of last semester, "The only book we buy back The University Bookstore has courses are not taught every ager for the Popular Press, said get their books as it is for them many students could be seen with consistency is the Popular to see the book before a decision semester. "Normally, the they do not buy back used books to go to the bookstore." The coming out of local bookstores, Culture Reader," Steve said. is made to buy a book back from classes are taught every other Popular Press office is located shaking their heads. Some iust He said SBX, located at 530 E. a student. semester," Geist said. SAID SOME of the books across from South Hall on East looked upset, others sounded it. Wooster St., does buy back "a "WE CANT BUY back any- He recalled an instance when are sold through the University Wooster. The students were upset that few" of the other books, but not thing else because they (Popu- a course he taught in the fall but Bookstore, but not through SBX "They have a monopoly on the many of their Popular Culture very many. "If I have a used one lar Culture department) don't was not going to be taught again or the BeeGee Bookstore. "I students," Steve said. "They books were not being bought to sell, that's one (book) the tell us what they are going to until that summer. "The have an arrangement with the (Popular Press) won't let us sell back - to be resold as used students don't have to buy there use," the spokesperson said. bookstores wouldn't buy back (University) bookstore," she their books." books. The question being asked (at the Popular Press)." Some may wonder why the the books - and they were kind of said. The arrangement permits Brown said she is not sure was "why?'1 A spokesperson for the Bee- Popular Culture department expensive. That really made me the University bookstore to sell what happened with SBX "I Steve, a spokesperson for the Gee Bookstore, located at 1424 does not inform the local mad," Geist said. "It seems the some of the Popular Press' really don't know about that," Student Book Exchange (SBX) E. Wooster St., who asked his bookstores of which books are bookstores only buy back the books. she said. "But we figure we'd who would not reveal his last name not be used, agreed with going to be used the following books that are going to be used "We make more money by make more money by selling the name, said the Popular Culture Steve. "The only book we buy semester. the following semester." selling the books on our own. books ourselves.'' Miss Ohio to emcee pageant Senate by Teresa Tarantino will use once she gives up her parading up and down a run- confirms staff reporter crown to pursue a career in way in their swimsuits," she the field of television broad- said. "These are talented and The reigning Miss Ohio and cast. intelligent girls who are just first runner-up to Miss Amer- Bradley graduated Magna trying to improve their ca- choice ica, Melissa Anne Bradley en- Cum Laude from Ashland Col- reers and give themselves bet- tered Kobacker Hall lege in 1984 with a degree in ter opportunities." WASHINGTON (AP) - The yesterday afternoon with her TV broadcast/political sci- "I am the first one to say I Senate confirmed William Ben- mother, whom she jokingly ence. wish they would take the nett as the secretary of educa- referred to as her chaperon She said her participation in swimsuit (competition) out tion Wednesday. 93-0, although for the weekend. these pageants has forced her because it does give us the some Democrats questioned Bradley is in Bowling Green to meet challenges and work wrong connotations," she whether be would have "the this weekend to emcee the 25th toward goals. said. backbone" to oppose President annual Miss BGSU Pageant. "I had to lose weight, I had However, the Miss America Reagan's proposed 25 percent Bradley praised the Univer- to get in shape," she said. Pageant believes that if a con- cut in aid for college students. sity for its pageant, stating it She also noted many of the testant can stand in front of a The Senate spent only 20 min- is unusual for a university girls who compete in these television audience of more utes debaUiig the nomination of pageant to continue for 25 competitions - win or lose - than 85 million people in a the former philosophy profes- years. She said Ohio State gain self-confidence and poise bathing suit it indicates they sor, who has been chairman of University and Miami Univer- because of their desire to com- have poise, Bradley said. the National Endowment for the sity are two Ohio universities pete; they are forced to work The beauty aspect of the Humanities for the past three that have discontinued their toward a goal. competition is overshadowed years. pageants. "People sometimes over- by talent. Talent accounts for Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, play the importance of the 50 percent of the decision, called Bennett "an eminent edu- Bradley admitted she was swimsuit competition, I hated while interviews and intelli- cator and administrator" with reluctant to enter a pageant. every minute of it, but it gence are highly rated also, "a broad and profound grasp of She decided to enter the Teen- forced me to work. I think Bradley said. education issues." age Pageant as a senior in those things make you a better "I don't know bow they (pro- high school to finance her col- person, just working for a testors) can say it's simply a BUT ALL THREE Demo- lege education. goal," she said. beauty pageant," she said. cratic senators who spoke in the These pageants give women Bradley disagrees with the Bradley is uncertain if the debate expressed concern about an opportunity to advance protest of the pageant by the kind of publicity Vanessa Wil- the Reagan's fiscal 1916 budget, themselves and to improve University Chapter of Women liams brought to the pageant which seeks to cut student aid by their careers, she said. But for Women. The organization will have a lasting detrimental $U billion.
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