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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-7-1984 The BG News December 7, 1984 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 December 7, 1984" (1984). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4333. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4333 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. 'T " ■■ Jacks of 18 more all trades days page 6 in Friday Friday, December THEBGLNEWS7,1984 Vol. 67 Issue 56 Bulimia, DUI law ruled prompted constitutional by media COLUMBUS (AP) - Ohio's General Assembly. He said ac- Supreme Court ruled unani- tions of the General Assembly by Nancy Boctwick mously yesterday that Ohio's "are recorded a presumption of staff reporter tough new drunk driving law is validity" and that similar stat- constitutionally valid as a utes in numerous other states Along with anorexia nervosa, means of dealing with "a prob- have withstood constitutional at- bulimia has been given consid- lem of epidemic proportions." tack. erable media coverage recently, The decision came in a Sum- including personal accounts of mit County case in which Tanner was convicted after television stars who have Charles Tanner, arrested when pleading no contest to driving struggled with the eating disor- an intoxilyzer test showed he while intoxicated. The convic- der. was driving with a blood alcohol tion was upheld by the 9th Dis- Media attention to bulimia content of .18 percent, chal- trict Ohio Court of Appeals. may have increased the number lenged the law on the sole of people with bulimic behavior, grounds that it is unconstitu- His appeal to the high court according to Patricia deHaas, tional. had contended in part that the assistant professor of psychol- The court's opinion, written by statute fails to give "a person of ogy. Associate Justice Ralph Locher, ordinary intelligence fair notice The publicity surrounding dismissed Tanner's claim that that his contemplated conduct is the disorder gives people of all the statute - mandating jail forbidden by statute." ages the idea to seek a biological terms and stiff fines along with Ohio's law became effective solution to a psychological prob- requiring license suspensions March 16, 1983, but the Tanner lem," deHaas said. and revocations in some in- case was the first to challenge it Bulimia, or hinging and purg- stances - is overly broad. in the Supreme Court. ing, is frequently confused with The opinion said, in addition, anorexia nervosa, she said. that the statute is not vague, as BESIDES SETTING .10 per- While the two are eating disor- Tanner claimed, in terms of cent blood alcohol as evidence of ders, they differ in symptoms establishing a test to determine guilt in a drunken-driving test, and diagnosis. when a driver is intoxicated (.10 the law also: Anorexic individuals starve Grcent of blood alcohol), "fo- • Requires a six-month license themselves, refusing to main- rmation to the public is readily suspension for persons tested tain a body weight over a mini- available indicating the correla- ana found to show .10 percent. mal amount, she said. tion between alcohol consump- • Prohibits shock probation or Characteristics of the disorder tion, time and body weight if one parole for persons convicted of include fear of becoming obese, desires to drink and hazard the aggravated vehicular homicide abnormal eating patterns, dis- consequences of drunk driving," while driving drunk. torted body image, perfectio- the court said. • Requires a six-month license nism and depression. suspension for persons con- BULIMIC INDIVIDUALS LOOKER'S OPINION said victed of a first offense, a two- may maintain normal body further there is no constitutional year suspension for a second weight, but they make them- right for a person to drive while offense and permanent revo- selves sick after eating. Epi- intoxicated. "The reduction or cation of a license for any subse- sodes of eating large quantities elimination of drunk drivers quent offense. of food and then purging them- clearly promotes the health, • Makes driving while under selves by vomiting or using lax- safety and welfare of the citi- suspension punishable by one atives or diuretics are common. zenry of Ohio," the opinion said. year of actual incarceration. If the individual's body weight Locher wrote that the statute • Increases from six months drops more than 15 to 25 percent is entitled to a presumption of to one year the suspension which of the normal body weight, he or reasonableness because it was may be given for refusing to she may be considered anorexic, written after exhaustive studies take a breath, blood or urine deHaas said. and lengthy deliberations in the test. More females than males are affected by both disorders, she said. BG News/Joe Phelan Until 1960, bulimia was classi- Crane work fied as anorexia nervosa by the Randy Ferguson, foreman for O'Gray Mechanical Inc. of Toledo, and Bob Bordbeck. pipefitter, secure a Contract signed American Psychiatric Associa- pipe to one of the two new cooling towers atop the University Union yesterday. The $30,000 project should be Uon- • See Bulimia, page 7. finished next week. for phone system The new telephone system been people from AT&T on at the University is one step campus deciding who needs FBI investigates fake diploma merchant closer to being a reality after what kind of phone to serve (AP)-FBI investigation of an court in Eugene, Ore., Dec. 19, is Michigan, Michigan State Uni- Press that "it's possible" the a contract with American each area best. AT&T has Oregon man accused of issuing the first accused of selling bogus versity and the University of names of purchasers of phony Telephone 4 Telegraph was been working under a "tenta- counterfeit diplomas from some degrees from actual universities Colorado. diplomas might be entered into signed yesterday. tive contract," but now it is 300 universities could lead to the and colleges. The five earlier THE INDICTMENT alleged evidence in the coming weeks, James Corbitt, associate official. exposure of about 2,500 people cases involved fictitious schools that between December 1982 and perhaps in a sentencing mem- director of Auxiliary Support who may be practicing law or issuing phony degrees and col- June 1964, Gunter sold certifi- orandum. The names would thus Services, said there are only "Some of the rewiring medicine or holding other jobs lege transcripts. cates and degrees to approxi- become part of the public court two things left to be done - the (needed for the new system) under false pretenses. According to a seven-page in- mately 2,500 people. record. signing of the loan to fund the will begin over Christmas The case against Dennis Ever- dictment handed up last August, Gunter also is accused of fur- "If that occurs, it would be, the protect and construction. break," Corbitt said. The ett Gunter, 38, of Grants Pass, Gunter charged customers from nishing phony certificates from first time any purchaser's name "The papers will be signed "cutover" date for the sys- Ore., is the sixth resulting from $39.95 to $64.95 for counterfeit the American Society of Clinical would be on the public record." Monday at 11 a.m. with Hunt- tem is Aug. 19. The company tile FBI's 4-year-old nationwide diplomas and degrees from Pathologists and counterfeit said Robert Pence, special ington Bank (to make the has pledged to work around "Dipscam" investigation into schools including Harvard, Bronze Star medals from the S;ent in charge of the FBI's funding official)," Corbitt University schedules, "even phony diploma mills. Penn State. University of North U.S. Marine Corps. orth Carolina office, which has said. if they have to work nights But Gunter. scheduled for ar- Carolina in Chapel Hill, North U.S. Attorney Tom Coffin of run the Dipscam investigation He said there are and have and weekends," Corbitt said. raignment in federal district Carolina State, the University of Eugene told The Associated since it began in 1980. Languages: BGSCI students teach grade schoolers lor's degree from the University, teaches Spanish by Teresa PerretU to Kenwood second graders. staff reporter "It was frightening at first," she said. "The first few times you had to feel your way through it. I Teaching young children about the culture of thought I would have to drag it out of them, but another country and how to speak that country's they are very enthusiastic and love to learn. language is something language majors are douig Martin-Reynolds believes the variety of things at an area elementary school. used to illustrate the culture and language is very The "Adventures in Language" project was set important and helps get students excited about up under JoAnne Martin-Reynolds, associate pro- learning. fessor curriculum/instruction in the College of "The response from the students and parents Education. The program, which recently started has been very enthusiastic," Martin-Reynolds at Kenwood Elementary, offers many advantages said. to the University ana to elementary students Jon Federman, senior French major, and Lau- involved. rie Avery, junior French and English major, think According to Martin-Reynolds, the main pur- their fifth graders are very enthusiastic, espe- poses of the language classes are to acquaint cially when they are rewarded for correct an- students at an early age with the basics of learn- swers.

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