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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-19-1999 The BG News February 19, 1999 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 19, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6452. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6452 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 BG News |nostly Speaker focuses on Coolidge's presidency loudy political science honorary, Coolidge going on in the histori- ket crashed in October 1929. By VINCE GUERRIERI received his doctorate from Yale cal and political community," "Coolidge was clever to get The BG News University. Swanson said. out when he did," said political He has written books on pres- Coolidge was the president science professor Dennis Ander- |iigh: 34 Presidential scholar Roberl idents Woodrow Wilson, number 30, serving from 1923 to son. Ferrell will speak at the Universi- >w: 23 Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight D. 1929. He became president upon Anderson, who plans to ty today about the topic of his Eisenhower and Warren Hard- the death of Warren Harding, attend the lecture, said Coolidge latest book. ing. Ferrell has also written eight and was elected in 1924. was also noted for his dry wit Ferrell, a 1946 graduate of the books on Harry Truman. A Republican, Coolidge is and odd habits. University and a professor emer- Kory Swanson, director of the noted for a conservative admin- "He's the source of good anec- itus at Indiana University, will Social Philosophy and Policy istration with little government dotes," Anderson said. [Columnist Jeff Gill lecture on "The Presidency of Center, which sponsored the intervention. He once said, "the Anderson cited the story ■knows suffering too. Calvin Coolidge" in 301 Sh.\tzel event, said Coolidge got an business of America is business." where a woman told Coolidge Hall at 3 p.m. undeserved bad reputation Coolidge didn't seek re-elec- she made a bet with friends that Ferrell, who was a charter which is only now starting to tion in 1928. His successor, Her- she could get him to say more member of the University's change. than two words. bert Hoover, was in office just a Speaker Robert Ferrell I Cultural diversity is not chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the "There is a reassessment of short time before the stock mar- "You lose," Coolidge replied. an easily defined I problem. Meijer scheduled to open in Spring Professor id and nation 4 examines Icalvin Klein children's Problems with council hamper original plans Beth Isaacs, property manag- Mayor Wes Hoffman. "All we Joan Gorden, executive direc- [ads create mixed By MIKE WENDLING changing | feelings. er for the Woodland Mall, noted can do is speculate. Some have tor of the Bowling Green Cham- The BG News that mall stores may be affected said that the store will begin to ber of Commerce, said that eco- With the Bowling Green Mei- by that crunch. draw business away from major nomic competition brought by childhood ertainment 7 jer outlet built and set to open "We have low unemploy- stores and grocery stores, but Meijer would be good for the soon, local business and civic ment in the area," she said. the extent to which this occurs entire citv. By KIM WILFONG "Our merchants have difficulty can't be predicted." "I don't want Meijer to hurl Well-established writer leaders are speculating on how The BG News the store will impact the local in finding employees already — Eurlene Kilpatrick, chair- local businesses," said Gordon Stephen Dunn visits economy. there's already a labor short- woman of the Downtown Busi- "I want all businesses to be suc- In the past century, govern- Olscamp Hall. The store will open sometime age." ness Administration, is confi- cessful. There is going to be a ment has taken a major role in in the spring, although a date Wood County is one of only dent that smaller downtown change, more competition. the regulation of children. The has not been set yet, according 10 counties in Ohio to have businesses will survive the Businesses will have to take government determines how to John Zimmerman, Meijer's unemployment levels below 2.9 opening of the store. extra precautions to survive, much milk children should 'Blast from the Past' corporate liaison for Bowling percent. The statewide unem- "Everyone's going to check such as providing the right drink, what educational require- ployment rate is 3.9 percent. Meijer's out," she said. "Our hours, good service, and finding ments children should have, proves to be an Green. The 180,000 square foot store Outside of the labor market, goal is to keep downtown cus- their niche." which vaccines children should engaging romance. (the size of four football fields) leaders largely agreed that the tomers happy." Indeed, at least one of the get and at what age children can successful business owners Gor- will employ about 650 people, effect of the Meijer store on the Kilpatrick noted the advan- start working. den cited is not at all concerned 40 percent of whom will be full- local economy and local busi- tages that downtown businesses In her speech yesterday, Dr. about the impending opening of time workers. With unemploy- nesses is difficult to predict. have over the new mega-store. Judith Sealander, professor of "Downtown, we have art, the Meijer store. ment in Wood County at only "I don't think any of us really history and scholar-in-residence know what kind of economic r*»Maiirants and product unique- "1 don't think that this is 2.8 percent, the store may cause at the University's Institute for going to affect us," said Floyd a crunch on an already tight impact this will have on the ness. You can't find that at Mei- the Study of Culture and Society, Craft, owner of Ben Franklin labor market. city," said Bowling Green jer." presented "Re-inventing Ameri- department store. "We've been can Childhood: How did the here a long time, and we'll be 19th Century Heart of the Home Meijer's Construction Timeline here a lot longer." Become the 20th Century Child Gordon said that the opening of the State?" of the store could even help , 5 Aug- 17, 1992 „ , In her presentation, Sealander ">ftHM*""' " Hl'W* -Bowling Green City Council rejects a petition for the rezoning local businesses. discussed both 19th and 20th i BG men's basketball needed to build the new store. "Everyone thought the mall century childhood regulation. plays Miami at home would hurt in 1985, but the She looked at governmental downtown survived. When Saturday afternoon. July 7. 1994 efforts to regulate children's -Court overturns the City Council ruling and allows the project to Wal-Mart came in, we had the work, education, health and wel- go forward. same debate again. It hurl fare. downtown for a little while, but She said that in the 19th centu- the opening of these places Opinion 2 Jvne 1998 ry, childhood decisions were -Construction begins on new Meijer facility. brought more people into town. made privately in the home. Page Three 3 I would rather have people Moving into the 20th century, [World and Nation 4 shopping in Bowling Green Spring 191999 decision making about children [Entertainment 7 became public and the govern- e store is scheduled to open. • See MEIJER, page five. I Sports 9 ment got involved. | Sports Agate 11 "In the 20th century, state reg- ulations altered rules and grow- Colloquium Series discusses 'Flyin' West' ing older in America became a say what? to students, faculty and the gen- broad variety of issues relating to cussion of the economics and his- By JEFF ARNETT public affair," she said. eral public. economics, offers an opportunity tory behind the play. Sealander focused her speech "I don't want The BG News Ziliak, who runs an interdisci- to do that. "Whatley in particular is on why the change to public plinary seminar in economics The other goal of the colloqui- Meijer to hurt local For those who wish to enrich someone who can help us think decision making occurred. and has been in charge of the um is, in Ziliak's words, "to pro- their knowledge of economics, about these issues," Ziliak said. "We have to focus on ways businesses, I want Colloquium Series for the past mote and sustain a vibrant intel- today should be very exciting. There will also be two more private problems became public two years, said that the colloquia lectual life for BGSU's economics all businesses to be The event that will likely colloquia this spring. The first, issues," she said. are intended to serve two main faculty." set to be held on April 16, will Some of these ways include successful. There is excite the University's economics purposes. One is to have eco- Both of the talks today will aficionados is the continuation of feature assistant professor of his- government intervention, crisis going to be a nomics discussed in conjunction feature Warren C. Whatley, pro- tory Liette Gidlow in a discus- and political manipulation. the economics department's Col- fessor of economics at the Uni- change, more with other disciplines — to sion entitled "Retail Politics: "What I'm trying to do with loquium Series.