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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-19-1976 The BG News September 19, 1976 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 September 19, 1976" (1976). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3269. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3269 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 BH Slews Vol. 60, No. 1 Bowling Uraan Stats University Sunday. Sept. 19. 1976 Bowling Green is people Every new and returning student is guaranteed of finding a blur of un- people and new ideas. These are the avenues to greater involvement and familiar faces as schedules are rearranged, classes begun, old friendships perhaps, understanding. renewed and new ones discovered. And, essentially, this is the most important product of what is glibly termed Some of those unfamiliar faces are freshmen, wandering uncertainly •college life." The people and ideas encountered here will provide the through campus maps and red tape. But the first week on a new campus is a direction and eventually the measure against which we weigh our lives. shared experience and there are more friendly hands extended than may be at first apparent. Resident advisers, upperclassmen, administrators and faculty can answer questions and offer advice. Student and professional organizations, greek life This is the first Issue of the B76-77 BG News. It is intended to provide all and residence hall programs are tools to carve out a comfortable niche from University students with information about the county and city, as well as the impersonal lists of room numbers, course numbers and student numbers. administrative, academic and social life of the campus. We hope we have These are the materials we have to work with. They will introduce new succeeded. » opinion 'judgment is founded on truth...' prime responsibility information is key to survival College in< .mi ins ii eshmen will soon find out. isn't all tun .ind garnet No one pi om ised ii would be. With all the seemingly tons of Monday, and I hope you will refer to deliberately risk getting a parking But rather attending and hoping to secure an education at a material to read these first few days it regularly. ticket, for example, but your careful university ol this size involves many responsibilities towhich in college, why should the president Information is the key to making reading of the Motor Vehicle* some new students haven't been exposed before add to the pile? Well, mainly to say full use of campus resources, but Regulations when they are printed One 'it the greatest responsibilities is a responsibility to welcome-and to do it via the BG Hollis Moore misinformation often seems easier to should keep you from inadvertantly \ our sell Although it would hardly seem like it at times, News in order to emphasize the come by. On any campus, rumors getting a ticket and paying a fine. you—as ,i student paying to gel an education here—have importance from the start of being a University flourish They can make for in- Similiarly, you must be acquainted rights winch many tunes are violated badly without much daily reader. teresting conversation, but they can with other policies in areas of (inn er n Keeping well informed is an President be disasterous as the basis for academic counseling, housing, a Y ou will be stepped on pushed aside and even swindled —but essential activity for each of us. decision making and action. most important of all, the it doesn't h.ive lobe that way Being well informed about what is requirements in your courses. Y ou have the right to know where your tuition, general and happening on this campus means IT" YOU have a problem, remember facility tees room board and other miscellaneous money is reading the BG News, a publication that you need to ask the right IF YOU want to know whether or notl going .i nd Km ha\ e the r ighl to take advantage o( the services supported in part by your fees and in columnists-may or may not reflect questions, at the right times, of the you paid foi a statement you have heard is true, J part by advertising income. the views of a majority of students on right persons. No source is more or if you simply want to know who is) I Y ou have the right to make your sell heard when you think The BG News is your primary campus. But in any case, often quoted than "they said..."An in a position to help you with a,| there is something wrong and in need of correction That can communications link with other editorializing helps to sharpen the unknown source is usually worse problem, one good source of in- F be accomplished by (.ills to University administrators and members of the University com- debate on current issues and to keep than no source at all when trouble formation is the student-staffed41 ottiies It that fails, there are always the News' "Letters" munity, serving both as a source of administrators on their toes arises. ( olu in ii .ind the povs ei ..i petition to fa II back on. service known as Fact Line (phone 2* [ vital information and as a vehicle for Another important publication is It is regrettable that some rules, 2445). Y ou have the right and privilege to full |udic lal process right the expression of personal the Green Sheet. Some of you will regulations, requirements and here within the University in front ol fellow students when you viewpoints. recall that during preregistration I deadlines are neceasary, and we do Don't let your questions go* I find your sell in hoi v> atei urged you to participate in the our best to keep them as few in You even have the right to input in your regular classroom unanswered or your problems fester.* I IT IS important that you learn to cultural, recreational and social number as possible. But you are There are 2,200 administrators, J pr ogram to .i n e» lent distiguish between news (or in- activities which are an important 1 hese are only a lew ol the things you can do lo fulfill the expected to acquaint yourself with faculty and staff members on thus formation) and opinion. Opinion- part of life on this residential cam- them as they appear in the BG News campus, and we are here to help you* I responsibility to yourself, but use I hem —because if you don't, which appears frequently in pus. A calendar of such events ap- no one else n ill and elsewhere. but you will usually need to take tha f editorials and articles by guest pears in the Green Sheet each I am certain that you would not initiative in seeking that assistance. , 1- y#w. you need to be your own guide s^W^\ On behalf of the Student Govern- makes us each different, we all have' ment Association and the entire one thing in common; we are here,» student body, I welcome you to all of us, by choice. Bowling Green State University. In closing. I would just like to leave I won't waste much space or too Bill Bums you with my own personal philosophy* much time telling you what Bowling that I hope you might apply to the* Green is to me, or much less, what it Sludenl next four years of your Kfe here at should be to you. The next four years Government BG. It goes: and your personality will dictate Presidenl i. that. Bowling Green, much like life, It's great to be alive. is what you make it ' And it is greater to be alive and. | young MY ONLY advice to you as in- and know where you are going. coming college students is to accept To some, Bowling Green is just an That's the problem with so many each person you meet, no matter how- interesting place, while others find it people today. bland or unique, as a different and absolutely fascinating. Some Young and old, they don't know new variable in your life. And with students feel a need to get involved, where they are going. each new variable, the more in- while others are content just getting And as a result- teresting your life will become. by. But for whatever the reason that they never arrive. freshmen back to a new grind » i fly Joseph F.Woll.t II Editor the annual monsoon season. I I'll bet sweat blood over their classes. Even ' they didn't tell you about the mon- though every professor you have\ | blessed with monsters soons at pre-reg.). gives you huge workloads, assuming WASHINGTDN-In 1946 The New centerfold, there is the story told by Well, you made it of course that his class is the only one York Times ran a headline that Helen Westring, who several years Summer is over, high school is THE ADMINISTRATION likes to you're taking, don't get too bogged asked the question "NORMAI.CY?" ago claimed to have been raped by an over, your summer job is over. Now think the reason the University down in the books.