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THE BG NEWS Vol. 71 Issue 85 Bowling Green, Ohio Friday, February 17,1989 Toledo air hub 'Femmes' concert to create jobs possible by Mitch Weiss Associated Press writer by Amy Burkett assistant city editor TOLEDO — An air-cargo company announced plans Thursday to build a $50 million hub that will create up to 850 full- and part-time The Violent Femmes, a pro- jobs in this northwest Ohio lakefront city. gressive rock band, proved to be Local politicians reveled at the announcement, saying Burlington of interest to students — and Air Express' decision to move the hub from Fort Wayne, Ind., to now they may be performing on Toledo is an economic boost to northwest Ohio. campus Monday, April 3. David Marshall, Burlington's chairman and chief executive offi- cer, said, "We needed a community at the government level that we According to Lisa Marsh, one could work with and could understand the needs of the project and of the organizers of the concert, provide some of the related support. the University Activities Organ- "On that score, we never dreamed of finding such a cooperative ization are working on finalizing structure that we found in the (Toledo-Lucas County) Port Authori- concert arrangements with the ty. The leadership that we dealt with was right," he said at a meet- group. ing of the Port Authority's board of directors. Under the agreement the board approved Thursday, the authority The concert tentatively will be will build a $25 million hub facility and then lease the building to Bur- held in the Lenhart Grand Ball- lington for 22 years. room and festival seating will be About $11 million will be used for a 40-acre concrete ramp to park available. Ticket sale dates will approximately 30 cargo aircraft during the package-sorting process. be announced on receipt of the Another $11 million will be used for related airport infrastructure contract. The price of tickets improvements, including the extension of runway and the installa- will be $6 for students and $8 for tion of more sophisticated instrument landing systems. general admission, she said. The hub would be Burlington's only U.S. air freight center for its UAO is working cooperatively fleet of approximately 20 heavy-cargo aircraft. Cargo planes fly into with the University of Toledo's the hub nightly to unload and refuel. programming board to plan the The 850 jobs would include 100 full-time and 600 part-time positions concert. and 150 employees in support operations, such as mechanics. All of the Fort Wayne employees would be offered jobs, but fewer Marsh said there were several than 100 were expected to come to Toledo, the company said. reasons UAO selected the Vio- Burlington will make $65 million in hub and airport use payments lent Femmes as a concert to the Port Authority during the term of the lease, and will pay min- choice. imum landing fees of $850,000 a year. "We conducted a student in- Details of the Port Authority's financing for the project have not terest survey and found that been finalized, said Gary Failor, Port Authority director. students were most interested in The Port Authority plans to issue up to $30 million in tax-exempt Edie Brickell and the New bonds by April 1 to provide the bulk of the funding for the hub. It ex- Bohemians, the Romantics, with pects financial commitments from the county, city and state by the most support going to the about March 15. Femmes," she said. Gov. Richard Celeste said the state would provide about $11 mil- Other reasons Marsh said lion for the project. Lucas County will add $3 million and Toledo will UAO chose to bring the Femmes contribute nearly $2 million. include available booking dates Burlington has said all of the Toledo positions would be non-union. and financial restrictions. At least one local union leader said he would try to organize Burling- Joe Matessa, UAO program- ton employees. ming director, said the cost of Burlington, which reported about $800 million in sales in 1988, is Karen Andrassy. left. Melissa Mullen, center. Laura Sanders, right, talk with Paula Thompson, creative di- the show's production is covered owned by the Pittston Co. of Greenwich, Conn. Burlington employs rector of Marketing Communications of Toledo. Thompson represented one of four companies participat- by ticket sales. 3,500 people worldwide, serving the United States and 79 foreign ing in the Communications Job Fair in Lenhart Grand Ballroom Thursday evening. The limited amount of seating countries. D See Concert, page 4. Smoke-free air supported USG candidates named for the 12 at-large representative positions. by Barbara A. Weadock others. Because the University is a by Laura Hardy The candidates met to discuss the rules pertain- copy editor Although the ASC passed the state institution, violation of the staff reporter ing to campaign strategies. Official campaigning proposal the first time it was in- policy —should it pass — would begins Feb. 20. troduced, Undergraduate Stu- constitute a misdemeanor. The presidential candidates appearing on the Explaining the reason for the meeting, USG Members of the Administra- dent Government tabled the Fitzgerald said the ASC de- 1989 Undergraduate Student Government ballot in President Tim Peterson told the candidates, "We tive Staff Council "overwhelm- proposal at its Feb. 13 meeting. cision was based on several fac- the March elections were announced Thursday want to provide for the facilitation of a smooth ingly" support people's rights to USG Vice President Kevin tors. evening at a meeting for the candidates. campaign and an error-free election." breathe smoke-free air, accord- Coughlin said he thought the One consideration of ASC ap- The presidential and vice-presidential candi- Sue Matlack, elections and opinions board chair, ing to the group's chairman. Broposal would be approved at [iroving the proposal was the dates are Jamie Slavin, USG senator at-large, and reviewed the USG and student code guidelines re- Patrick Fitzgerald said the le Feb. 20 meeting, but antici- act that no building on campus C'raig Taliaferro, USG Internal Affairs Committee lated to the campaigning process with the candi- Feb. 2 ASC decision to approve pated "a long, drawn-out de- provides any filtration system chairman; Kevin Coughlin, USG vice-president, dates. University President Paul Ols- bate." capable of removing smoke and Colleen McGinty, junior political science Matlack said the purpose of the board is to run camp's proposed non-smoking If the policy is passed by other from the air, Fitzgerald said. major; and USG senators Kraig Baker and Todd the election process ana to hear appeals and com- policy was not an issue of getting University organizations, in- Current systems recirculate air Gibson. plaints for violations of campaigning. people to quit smoking, but cluding the Board of Trustees, it Also meeting Thursday's 5 p.m. deadline for rather of defending the rights of would become state law. Li See Smoking, page 4. election consideration were 15 candidates vying D See Elections, page 3. Survivor recounts Celeste service death camp horror program queried Markowicz, who was born in by Dennis Robaugh Poland, said his family be- staff reporter came refugees two weeks after World War II began in 1939. by Beth Grace services for other state agencies Associated Press writer by proposing new programs A Toledo businessman who "When the Germans came to dealing with volunteerism, survived the Nazi death camps our village, we escaped in a training state agency supervi- recounted his experiences for wagon at night to a bigger COLUMBUS — Agencies seek- sors to avoid sexual harass- University students Thursday city," he said. ing budgetary increases to en- ment, and others. night. The Germans herded all courage volunteerism and dis- ''For me it's like talking Jews in the city into ghettos courage drug abuse took their "You're getting to remind me about another life," said Philip and each day they would take cases to two House subcommit- of the little old biddy down the Markowicz, who spent four those most able to work to the tees on Thursday. street that knows how to run years of his life in a Jewish factories, he said. everything but doesn't really fhetto and two years at "When the Russian front But Gov. Richard Celeste's know anything at all about it, uschwicz. came closer in 1944, all the plan to spend $2 million on a new and has got no business butting "More and more witnesses Jews in the ghetto were taken program to increase vol- into it," Guerre said. "You're are fading away," he said. to Auschwicz," he said. "Most unteerism among Ohio's youth going to train supervisors to "My strength comes from tell- of the survivors were between and elderly people, included in avoid sexual harassment. All ingpeople of my ordeal." the ages of 15 to 18. Those were the Department of Administra- you (have to) do is put up a big Thomas Klein, an English the ones useful to the Nazis," tive Services budget, sparked sign (reading) don't do it.