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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-19-2000 The BG News October 19, 2000 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 October 19, 2000" (2000). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6703. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6703 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. State University THURSDAY October 19, 2000 SUNNY HIGH: 64 I LOW 44 www.b2news.com independent student press VOLUME 90 ISSUE 36 Tom Reed BG News LOSING GROUND: This portion of West Wooster is closed due to construction problems. Faulty foundation may cause building to collapse Gas crew discovers crack in foundation Associated Press Photo ENVIRONMENT: A caribou's horns rest on the tundra ot the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The area shown is located just south of a 100-mile long strip of land that will keep part of which has emerged as a hotly debated issue in the presidential campaign. Wooster closed Byieff Hindenach ISSUES 2000 ESITOR-IH-CHICF The stretch of West Wooster between Main Street and Church Street will remain closed due to the discovery of an unsteady foundation in one of the build- CANDIDATES DEBATE ings facing the street. Columbia Gas work crews dis- covered Sunday that the building housing Monty's Hair Fashions had a cracked foundation when the building began to shift. They ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES were attempting to shut off the gas to the building so they could By Patrick Johnston gallon," said lustine Magsig, assistant surr WRITER DEMOCRATIC PARTY install a new gas service line. director of Environmental Programs at According to Bill Blair. director With the presidential election only a the University. Al Gore: nance. of public works, the gas service month away, University students are A United Nations report in 1995 by -Create Energy Security and -Stop commercial exploitation line to the building was old and beginning to consider national issues 2,000of the world's leading scientists con- Environmental Trust Fund. of environmentally sensitive needed to be replaced as part of more seriously. One that seems to draw cluded that global warming is real and Used to find long-term energy land, including Arctic Refuge the Heritage 2000 project. particular consideration by young voters accelerating The report stated that the solution to reduce reliance on and oil and gas drilling off Several of the businesses down- is the envir inmeni. burning of coal, oil and gasoline caused imported )il, promote energy- coasts of Florida and California. town were also receiving new gas The views on this issue differ as much the problem. efficient transportation tech- -Enforce Endangered Species lines, as well as new water and as any other in the election. "I think our In response to this report, 142 nations nologies. Act. environmental policy is line," said developed what is called the Kyoto proto- sewer lines, as part of the $6.25 -Ratify Kyoto Protocol. -Make "brownfields" tax million Heritage 2000 project. University student Eric Holmes. Others col. The protocol calls for developed -Continue to phase out ozone incentive permanent. think action is necessary. Issues such as When the crews were trying to countries to reduce greenhouse gas emis- depleting chemicals. -Support Superfund cleanup global warming concern many voters. "It shut off the gas to they building sions to 1990 levels by 2012. The agree- -Maintain National Parks of the worst environmental is definitely a threat, and I think some- they ran into a problem. ment also calls for reforestation to replen- through repair and mainte- problems in the country. thing should be done about it." said ish those that ha-,e been lost to farming "They found a problem with University student Candace Fenton. and industry. the foundation; it was cracked," Despite the importance of the issue, For the protocol to become legally REFORM PARTY Blairsaid. "The front of the build- some wonder how it will affect the elec- binding 55 countries must ratify it. In ing settled and the fear was that tion. "The only facto-the environmental 1999, the Clinton administration signed Pat Buchanan: -Require Congress to vote on the budding would collapse into issue will have on the upcoming election the protocol, but the Republican-con- -Abolish Bureau of Land every endangered species and the street |Wooster|." is voter turn-out. If the under emphasis Several cracks were found in trolled Senate has refused to consider it. Management and give 500 compensate property owners. continues, many voters may stay home "The Kyoto protocol is extremely the foundation on the east side million acres of land back to -Hold polluters to high stan- because they feel they are not represent- important to the world's environment," the states. of the building. After the prob- dards of accountability and ed," said Rick Hind, a media spokesman said Magsig She went on to cite reports -Offer incentives to industry lem was discovered, the two- for Green Peace. that the hole in the ozone over Antarctica to develop resource-efficient establish incentives for indi- story building, which houses The clangers of carbon dioxide and is growing larger. technologies. viduals and businesses to Monty's Hair Fashions and an other greenhouse gases being released Although some industrialized nations, -Oppose Kyoto Protocol. clean up pollution they create. apartment upstairs, was evacu- into the atmosphere ire extreme. The mostly European, strongly support the ated. United Nations Intergovernmental Panel protocol, others fear it would destroy Blair also said that they found on Climate Change predicts that green- economies worldwide. REPUBLICAN PARTY a gas line exposed. It took house gases In the atmosphere will dou- One group that opposes the Kyoto pro- Columbia Gas until midnight to ble by 2100 if emissions continue at the tocol is American farmers. Farmers fear George W. Bush: -Provide more flexibility to shut off the gas to the building. -Support continued research present rate. The results could include that the means of agricultural production Superfund standards. Currently, a contractor is sur- into causes and impacts of higher sea levels, damage to ecosystems will be controlled by the international -Make brownfield tax incen- veying the building to determine global warming. and extreme weather changes. treaty. Also, to reduce fuel consumption tive permanent. exactly what need to be done. -Oppose Kyoto Protocol. According to the National Research and meet emissions regulations, they say -Establish $50 million Monty's Hair Fashions, which is -Vfork with leaders and Council, statistics show that over the past new taxes will have to be placed on fuel, Landowner Incentive Program located in the building is tem- 20 years, average temperatures have been affected citizens in California electricity, fertilize! and farm chemicals. to help private landowners pro- porarily being relocated. rising at a substantially higher rate. In and Florida to determine Finally, the protocol only applies to devel- Four students were also fact, 1997,1998 and 1999 were the hottest whether drilling should contin- tect rare species. oped nations and therefore the extra bur- housed in the apartment above years on record in the U.S. den would put U.S. farmers at a disad- ue. -Establish $10 million Private the salon. Those students are "The U.S. contributes the most to the vantage in international trade. -Direct EPA to establish high Stewardship Grant Program for problem with the poor public transporta- Organizations that are opposed to the standards for brownfield private conservation initiatives. finding alternate places to live until public works decides what tion system and large amounts of cars," Kyoto protocol said the results of global cleanups. -Eliminate the estate tax. said Rebecca Smith. Smith is a junior warming are still inconclusive. needs to be done to the building. environmental policy major and an They say that radical changes should According to Blair, the stretch Environmental Action Group council not be made because it is unsure if they GREEN PARTY of Wsoster will remained dosed until they can determine what |> member at BGSU. are necessary. At least one organization Ralph Nader: greatest environmental hazard. going ttfbe done to the building Because the U.S. docs contribute so disagrees. -Use renewable energy as -Need bold investments for much to the worldwide environmental Friends of Earth International brought' "We don't know how long uv, solution for global warming. public transportation. problem, many citizens think the govern- representatives from El Salvador and -End all commercial logging going to take to repair the bulkl- -Provide more funds to main- ment should take action. Nigeria to speak in Washington In in National Forests. ing," Blair said. "We are planning "We need mandatory control of the -Lead corporate collectivism tain National Park System. on opening the south side of the automobile industry and we need to toward ecological hazard. -Promote energy indepen- road to pedestrians at lain w require that all cars get 50 to 60 miles per ENVIRONMENT, PAGE 2 -Feels motor vehicles are the dence to avoid foreign wars. they can get to those biulrwMe* downtown." 2 Thursday, October 19.2000 BG NEWS Kyoto could cause farm problems Paleozoic bacteria awakened ENVIRONMENT, FROM PAGE 1 By Matthew Fordahl «P SCIENCE WRITER September. These representa- In what sounds like something tives blamea global warming for out of "lurassic Park," bacteria the increase of floods and mud- that lived before the dinosaurs slides in their countries over the and survived Earths biggest mass past two years.