Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-14-1978 The BG News November 14, 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 November 14, 1978" (1978). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3549. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3549 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. WORKMEN FROM THE Trlsco Systems got a "Penthouse" view of the West. The letters, which illuminate at night, are displayed from a set of windows N'w* Pho*° Bv Fr,nk Br*""»"P« University yesterday as they were weatherproofing the south side ol Offenhauer on the 10th floor. The B Slews Vol. 61, No. 202 Bowling 'Green State University Tuesday, November 14, 1978 Federal mediator to supervise strike meeting By Tom Smith Today's meeting is the second in The strike by members of the rather than Nov. I. the date the board of He also canceled last night's scheduled resolve the retroactivity issue, ac- Staff Reporter three days under the direction of Bowling Green Education Association education is willing to grant the raise. board meeting. cording to BGEA president-elect Donald F. Power, Toledo commissioner IBGEA) is in its fifth day and the Powers described the mediation as George Nagy. He said they consented to The two sides of the Bowling Green of Federal Mediation and Conciliation schools still are open. BGEA members DETAILS ON CLASS attendance, the "proceedings of persuasion" which try ask a federal mediator to help solve the teachers' strike will meet at 9:30 a.m. Service. His service was requested make up most of the system's 178 number of substitutes employed and to get the two parties together to find a strike problem. today in Toledo under the supervision of Friday night after the two negotiating teachers and they desire their granted any problems encountered are included solution. The service is voluntary and Power said he contacted the parties a federal mediator. teams met Friday morning. pay raise to be retroactive to July 1 in a news blackout imposed by Power. is offered by the federal government, before an impasse was declared in July he said. and has increased contact since the The bargaining teams met Friday in strike began Wednesday. the Bowling Green Chamber of Com- Power mediated the first meeting merce after being invited by a group of with the two sides Sunday when they downtown businesses Robert H. agreed to the requested news blackout. WLING GREEN JUNIOR HIGH Carlile, president of Huntington Bank Bill Constantine. temporary of Wood County, said the group wanted spokesman for the Bowling Green to bring the two sides together but was Concerned Citizens Committee, said III not trying to force or mediate a set- the group will request the board to tlement. publicly respond, after the blackout, to written questions submitted to board THE TWO SIDES agreed to try to President Raymond Tucker Bakke effect slight on 0CT3I POB LUNCHED* 12 00 University policy By Cynthia Lelse under special admissions policy which MOV 10 END OF » ~ * Staff Reporter reserved 16 places for minorities. The court struck down that program The U.S. Supreme Courts Bakke in a June 28. 5-4 decision and held that decision has had little effect on Bakke unfairly had been denied ad- University minority admissions mission at the school. policies, according to several Although Bakke now is firmly en- University officials. trenched in his medical school text- University legal counsel Myron M. books at Davis, admissions guidelines Chenault and Student Development for other colleges and universities laid Director Dr. Raymond A. Downs said out in the case are not clear. the University never has used strict Most college officials are relying on admission quotas based on race, so the admissions guidelines from an in- striking of such quotas in the Bakke dividual opinion written by Associate case meant little to students. Justice Lewis F. Powell, who was part However, both Chenault and Downs of the majority. It said that although said the decision may have brought an the Davis special-admissions program "attitudinal change," pitting more was unconstitutional, race might be persons against special programs and considered among other factors to considerations for minorities. Chenault maintain diversity in admissions. said there could be a backlash in an HOWEVER. MANY university increasing number of court cases by personnel note that the Powell opinion other persons who claim to be victims was only one of six written by members of reverse discrimination, defined as of the court and the true impact of the the special treatment of minorities to decision is unknown. the detriment of others. In addition, a joint committee of the THAT WAS THE question before the American Council on Education and the court in the case of Allan P. Bakke vs. Association of American Law Schools the University of California in Davis. concluded that the court could make a Bakke, who is white and was an completely different decision if a unsuccessful candidate to the school, slightly different admissions plan claimed to be the victim of illegal comes before it. IN ITS FIFTH DAY. the city teacher strike has catered the This unidentified teacher and other discrimination. He said he was Chenault said University admissions negotiation stage. teachers are still picketing city school buildings. rejected even though several minorities are consistent with the Bakke decision with lower test scores were admitted and probably will stay the same. Failure rate for English 111 drops since 110 By Terry Potosnak the program is effective. Hart said. And its counterpart, English Although the English 110 concept IN ADDITION to writing an essay, exam twice, "they know they can't go Staff Reporter The course was established last year 111B, which deals with problems in appears to be successful. Hart noted the 110 proficiency includes a written on." after instructors noticed that a large organization and development, showed that there still are some students who usage exercise. Part of the program's success story English 110, the University's newest percentage of students were not a 10-15 percent failure rate. have trouble passing that course. If a student fails the exam the first may be told by the teachers They like addition to the "freshman English" passing English 111, Hart said. BUT FIGURES cited at the end of "The students in 110 are by no means time, he has a chance to retake it. Hart working with the problems students sequence, was designed to better English 111A. a course designed to spring quarter reveal that the total slow-as a generalization they are not said. That procedure replaces the old encounter in the course, she said. prepare students for English 111, and deal specifically with problems in failure rate for both English 111 courses slow. They just haven't learned to do appeal system in which students had to Dennis F Shramek. an English 110 according to Kathleen A. Hart, coor- sentence structure and mechanics, has dropped to 18.3 percent since something," she said. go before a board of English instructors teacher, said the course is successful dinator of general studies in writing, showed a 40-50 percent failure rate. English 110 was established. Frequently, the 110 student's writing to appeal a failing proficiency grade. "if people put work into it." Hart said she believed the key to "lacks discipline or control" Hart said. The appeal system "got to the point English 110's success lies in the course ANOTHER MAJOR problem is where they weren't fair. It became this SHRAMEK A i .so noted that students structure. motivation. bizarre beat-the-system kind of thing," who advance to English HI from 110 "It's not a grammar course." Hart "If someone could get students to she said. "The impression was that the have greater success. Inside the News said, adding that students learn to care about what they're saying (when students didn't really understand it Donald A Heneghan, director of the develop proper sentences and they write) and who they're writing to, (appeals) either." writing lab. said the course is suc- FEATURES: See photos and read a review of last weekend's paragraphs until they are able to write it would be the miracle of the century," Hart said she thinks the new ap- cessful because it builds up student successful Chicago concert on Page 3. an essay at the end of the quarter. Hart said. proach to retaking proficiency exams is skills and better prepares them for Rather than memorizing grammar English 110 attempts to do that while "working better than I ever thought it essay writing. SPORTS: Read stories about last weekend's football and hockey rules and punctuating prewritten developing writing skills that students would." "The student who hasn't much SHE NOTED that retakes usually are games on Page (. sentences, Hart explained that 110 may have not exercised in high school, background-it helps them get used to students "learn the rule and produce she added. "way better" than first attempts the idea of developing paragraphs and their own sentences " An end-of-the quarter proficiency because students may not take the first sentences." he said. HighUF (ISC) "THIS IS A different theory from th. exam is required of all English 110 exam seriously or they may be having a Heneghan said he believes that most Low4»F(SC) way it (grammar) used to be taught," students although it is different from bad night for writing.