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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-21-1971 The BG News January 21, 1971 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 January 21, 1971" (1971). BG News (Student Newspaper). 2547. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2547 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. An independent Bowling Green Ohio Student Thursdoy, January 21, 1971 Voice THe BG news Volume 55 Number 71 Laird to allow Cambodia aid WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of Apparently anticipating new troubles President Nixon's aid request for Defense Melvin R. Laird said yesterday from antiwar senators as the scope of Cambodia. he will recommend use of U. S. alrpower U.S. air operations in Cambodia unfolds, The Cooper-Church ammendment in Cambodia, Loas and South Vietnam to Laird said the administration has bars U. S. ground-combat troops and reduce American casualties "as long as I authority from Congress to conduct air military advisers from Cambodia and am serving In this Job." and sea operations so long as it does not declares U. S. aid is not a commitment to "We will use alrpower," Laird told a commit U. S. ground-combat troops defend the Cambodian government. news conference. outside of Vietnam. Unlike his past statements, Laird did Indication that Laird's view on this LAIRD RENEWED a pledge not to not limit his description of air operations point may face challenge came send U -.. ground fighting men into in Cambodia to interdiction-the in- yesterday when Sen. Frank Church,! D- Camb- i again, saying "we will not terruption or destruction of enemy Idah)),called for a Foreign Relations corr . U.S. ground-combat forces to supply and troop movements. Committee study to determine whether Ciioodia, directly or indirectly." Although the defense secretary ap- the Nixon administration is violating peared to be trying to suggest there was congressional restrictions on U. S. in- Under questioning, the defense nothing new in this, his use of the broad volvement In Cambodia. secretary said the mandate from Church is coepomo- with Sen. John Congress would permit sending a com- NvwaphotO by Gordy Gmir term "alrpower" marked another step In official acknowledgment of widened U. S. Sherman Cooper, (R-Ky.), of the munication unit, a field hospital or some support of South Vietnamese and restrictive provision attached to other outfit not of a combat character. TO OVERWEAR an overworn cliche again, took more than hope to stop people like Cambodian troops fighting the North the Falcons were defeathered last night by Toledo's seven-foot-one Doug Hess. See the Vietnamese in Cambodia. the Toledo Rockets. These kids apparently sports page for the grim details. He pictured the use of American air thought there was hope tor a while, but it power as a supplement to growing South Vietnamese capability in the air. Huge oil tankers collide SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thousands Guard at between 500,000 and 1.9 million coordinating organizations asked other Inspection Bureau, sitting as a one-man of housewives, hard-hatted refinery gallons, spread along SO miles of Pacific helpers to hold off until more facilities board. workers and young people waded Into the Ocean coastline from Pt. Reyes to below can be set up to treat the birds. biggest oil slick in San Francisco Bay Pacifica, leaving dead birds, fish, shrimp A collision of two Standard Oil Co. of THE OIL COMPANY, which is paying history yesterday to try to save and other irarnc wildlife in its path. California tankers in dense fog early for the entire cleanup operation, thousands of oil-coated birds. On yesterda; mofhing's hlgh"fide, Monday near the Golden Gate Bridge reported It had 500 men on the beaches Spreading out over miles of grimy oil swept i.'iL the Bolinas Lagoon, a ruptured six compartments in one of the along with the volunteers. beaches, the volunteers tossed straw on primary source of food for countless ships and sent thick bunker oil oozing into the floating oil and used pitchforks to varieties of wild life, including the great the bay. There were no injuries. On the bay, the company was using 10 load the oil-soaked straw into trucks. blue heron and white egret. A Coast Guard inquiry into the mishap tugboats, 25 charter boats, several oil- They also manned numerous centers set began yesterday with Lt. Cmdr. Roy E. skimming barges, 30 vacuum trucks, 13 up to clean and care for the birds. THE VOLUNTEERS turned out in Nichols Jr., senior Investigator for the tank trucks, 20 dump trucks, four trac- The giant spill, estimated by the Coast such overwhelming numbers that Coast Guard's San Francisco Marine tors and four "scoop-mobiles." Housing group reorganizes By Terry Cochraa coordinator and three regular mem- specified conglomerate of apartment problems between tenants and landlords. Staff Reporter bers, said Dale Ruthkowski, present complexes, non-complex apartments or "The former SHA organization also SHA coordinator. "However, we didn't rooming houses. made lt hard for students to feel they In an attempt to deal more effectively feel the organization was large or Letters are being sent to every off- were really being represented," ex- with off-campus tenant-landlord variable enough to deal with all the campus resident explaining the change, plained Rutkowski. But by next year, an problems, the Student Housing problems in town." Rutkowskisald. They will also be asking additional 480 off-campus housing units Association (SHA) is in the midst of The reorganization now in process for students interested in becoming will be around, and a change In the SHA massive reorganization. calls for a coordinator and eight other representatives to call the SHA offices is definitely needed." Formerly SHA was composed of a members, each of whom will represent a and set up times for interviews. Rutkowski noted several problems the A SCREENING committee composed SHA has dealt with in the past, including of Rutkowski and Sheldon Wiseman, high rents for sub-standard housing, little University housing advisor to SHA, will or no maintenance to run down buildings choose from among the applicants on and questionable charges of damages Whip causes confusion Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next which are withheld from damage week. deposits. Rutkowski said, "Representatives will be chosen on interest in their com- FILES ON such cases and their WASHINGTON (AP) - Top level elective - and then announced several plex and the general community area decisions will be made available to the confusion over selecting a House whip hours later that he favored keeping the they are living in. We will also be in- representatives, according to Rutkowski. surfaced yesterday a* Democrats Job appointive. terested in knowing how applicants feel He also stressed that the Job of the co- moved to spread powerful chair- Asked why his position flip-flopped, ordinator will not be that of a dictator. they could improve their apartments and H«wiphoio by Gordy Can manships around to younger members. the Oklahoma Democrat replied: relations with the managers." He will merely watch to see that things "When I expressed a preference for Rutkowski hopes the new represen- flow smoothly within the organization. PARKING LOTS and sorority houses look like something Speaker-nominee Carl Albert, first going to an elected whip I was expressing tative system will allow SHA members to Once chosen, the new SHA out of a Monopoly game in this view taken from high inside told newsmen he favored making the what I thought was an agreement among get to know landlords much better, and representatives are expected to start third-ranking Democratic whip Job the leadership." It wasn't. thus promote smoother dealings with functioning sometime around Feb. 4. the McDonald Towers construction. may be reduced to one - and for In campus visits, down 2.5 per cent marketing; computer science; vacancies shrank by 25 per cent. same aspirations but there are not By Richard Blystone good students maybe more than and 3.6 per cent. Government, the metallurgical, chemical and civil enough jobs to meet those Associated Press Writer that. He will have to compromise." biggest employer of new graduates, engineering; nursing; statistics; As primary reasons for the job aspirations." After surveying 916 major em- predicted a 16 per cent dip; banking, criminal justice, and labor and pinch, placement officers cite the College seniors looking for Jobs ployers, the College Placement finance and insurance firms an- industrial relations majors will find decline in the economy, the this spring will have to be a lot more Council reported that employers are ticipated a 26 per cent decline in jobs available but with limited reduction in draft calls, the number TO COPE WITH the Job drought, energetic and a lot less fussy than making 21 per cent fewer campus visits. selection as to geographical location of returning veterans from In- placement officers are advising the class of 1970 - and even so, some recruiting visits this year than last The student employment market and specific interest areas...science, dochina and the burgeoning college students to be flexible in both choice will be unemployed for some time and are planning to hire 23 per cent peaked in 1969, declined last spring communication arts, education, population - which has more than of employer and job location.