The BG News August 26, 2005

Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 8-26-2005 The BG News August 26, 2005 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 August 26, 2005" (2005). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7464. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7464 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 FRIDAY August 26, 2005 OPENUP:Plastinates reveal a new world of CLOUDY anatomy and new face of HIGH: 66 LOW: 82 science; PAGE 7 www.bgnews.com independent student press VOLUME 100 ISSUE 6 Arties and Apartment hog complaints continue smarties do Smell, noise cited by those who did not get a discount for views of slaughterhouse a flip-flop By Laren Weber CUT NEWS EDITOR across mall 3 After attention was brought to students' living condi- Honors Program tions at The Enclave apartments — which neighbors a NAP0LEANRD LAYOUT OF THE ENCLAVE slaughterhouse — rent was cut by $10 for those in the moves into the former two buildings closest In blue are the management's office and home of Arts Village building 1, where prospective tenants are By Johnny Payne But many students are com- week, Brigadoi and his room- taken on tour to see a model apartment. REPORTER plaining they haven't received mates have become accustom to In red are buildings 7, 8 and 9, which have It's difficult to imagine a room the deduction, just because the stench. a view of the slaughterhouse, and are s stacked wall-to-wall with chairs they live on the opposite side of "We shouldn't be used to smell- divided by a 7-foot tall wooden fence (dot- ™ « and tables as a living room. the hallway. ing that kind of stuff," he said. ted line). Out of 32 residents living on Also a tenant in building 8, Tim But that's exactly the image the opposite side of buildings 8 Volk is frustrated that neighbors that comes to mind when Jodi and 9 who were polled by The just a few feet away got a price Devine, associated director of BG News, 20 said they think it's cut — but he didn't. the honors program, walks into unfair that a $10 discount isn't Enduring the same sounds the abandoned Arts Village — a applied to their rent as well. and smells, Volk said he's being learning community exclusively Tenants in buildings 8 and 9 of treated unfairly. for art students. The Enclave on Napoleon Road "I think it's shady iili.it just The room, which previous- that have a balcony view of the because they live two feet away, ly served as the workspace for Pioneer Packing Company were they get to pay less," Volk said. the Arts Village students, now belongs to Devine and the notified about their discount by "That's $10 I could have in my PARKING letter this summer. own pocket." Honors Program, who have big While Dan Brigadoi in build- A majority of the residents in plans for it. ing 8 can't see the pork pack- buildings 8 and 9 that pay the full SLAUGHTER HOUSE The Honors Program wants to renovate the large room, which ing facility from his porch, he's cost per month said although *'*'<■ MlWrtKUM still affected. they don't have a direct view of will include all of the program's administrative offices, as well "It's not like the sound stops the slaughterhouse, it's still a nui- "We're living with some- Pa., in March 2005. Grim explained the price cut as space for students to study in the middle of the hallway," sance thing that other people aren't," Since the purchase, Kathleen by saying that tenants facing the Brigadoi said. "The noise can be Living in building 9, Jessica Rahm said. Grim.vicepresidentofMarketing slaughterhouse have a "restricted or socialize. In addition, there will be a heard all over the building." Rahm pointed out the pigs are The property was purchased and Communications for CPC, view" from their balcony. fully equipped classroom and a Since the smell of slaughtered something tenants in the other from Sterling University Housing said they've been working to The $10 is intended to com- conference room located just a pigs permeates throughout his eight buildings at the complex by College Park Communities, correct the problems. apartment at least three days a aren't dealing with. based out of Newtown Square, PIGS. PAGE 2 SWAP, PAGE 2 AZ Prof returns to dorm life ALUCKYWOMAN By Michelle Roberts and work schedules. doing if they asked, but found THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "I'm trying to get really into that most of them didn't, per- PHOENIX — As a professor at what student culture is doing haps assuming she was just one Northern Arizona University, and tailor my teaching," said of those who return to school at Cathy Small was baffled by Small, who wrote a book on her an older age. undergraduates. They seemed research under the pseudonym Small spent the first semester less engaged, less likely to do Rebekah Nathan called "My taking classes outside her field of assigned reading and more likely Freshman Year What a Professor expertise, trying to immerse her- to ask questions like "Do you Learned by Becoming a Student" self in student life. She didn't go want it double-spaced?" Small took a sabbatical and to her Flagstaff home and didn't So she decided to study them spent the 2002-2003 school year contact regular friends, trying to as anthropologists research conducting her research. With experience the loneliness and any foreign culture — she lived approval from the university's other travails of freshman life. among them. research board, she used her During her second semester, After moving into a dorm, eat- high school transcript to get she did more formal interviews ing cafeteria food and struggling admitted and moved into a and focused on the research, with a five-course schedule, the dorm — though she did forgo which she published without 50-something Small said she the roommate experience by identifying students or the uni- empathized with students who getting a single room. struggle to balance chaotic class She told students what she was DORM LIFE, PAGE 2 Florida hit by another storm structures is usually minimal. possible, forecasters said. Rain Hurricane Katrina Wary Floridians put up shut- fell steadily in much of Miami- is met by prepared ters, stacked sandbags and Dade and Broward counties stocked up on water and gaso- ahead of the storm's arrival, Florida residents line ahead of the slow-moving and tropical storm force winds storm, whose biggest threat of about 35 mph were being By Ml Barton appeared to be torrential rain. felt along the coast. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It is expected to make landfall "Ever since Hurricane Andrew, FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. earty today. I always pre- — Katrina became a hurricane Katrina's path appeared pare for hni- DM God create yesterday, dumping steady rains, centered on the Miami-Fort ricanes," Icel natural acts of kicking up the surf and blowing Lauderdale area, but forecast- Diaz, 29, destruction? gusty winds ashore as it crept ers warned that the storm who lives PAGE 3 toward an overnight landfall could swing north or south in the flood- = on Florida's densely populated before landfall. If the forecast prone city of southeast coast. holds, Katrina would be the Sweetwater, said as she gath- Katrina's maximum sus- second hurricane to hit the ered sandbags for her home. tained wind speeds increased state this year — Dennis hit the "Sometimes I overprepare, buy- from 50 to 75 mph yesterday, Panhandle last month — and ing too many supplies." making it a weak Category 1 the sixth since Aug. 13,2004. At a supermarket in storm, said hurricane special- Katrina could drop a foot or Hollywood, Cassandra Buder ist Lixion Avila of the National more of rain in spots as it lum- hefted two 5-gallon bottles of Hurricane Center in Miami. bers across the state. Battering water as well as a 24-pack of Category 1 storms have top sus- waves and storm surge flood- individual size botties into her tained winds of 74 to 95 mph, ing of 2 to 4 feet were also likely, and wind damage to secured and isolated tornadoes were BLOWER, PAGE 2 Eric SUM BGNnn HOW SWEET IT IS: Allison Opelt gets some much-needed attention from Lucky, the Lucky Charms WEB EXCLUSIVE: How Cru is managing to bring religion into a mascot. Chily's, where the hug took place, was celebrating a revamp of it cereal selection. Opelt caffeinated, traditionally bohemian enclave; WWW.BGNEWS.COM is majoring in early childhood education, and is a junior. Lucky is an elf. FOUR-DAY FORECAST ""»"» SUNDAY TUESDAY The four-day forecast is taken Isolated High: 79' tffiflL P"^ High: 85* Party High: 85- from weather.com T-Storms Low: 62" ^* cloudy Low: 62* Cloudy Low: 59' FOR ALL THE NEWS VISIT WWW BGNEWS.COM 2 Friday, August 26,2005 WWW.BGNEWS.COM Apt owners: Prof: college more trees IN THE PUBLIC EYE kids actually scheduled for show interest planting soon DORM LIFE, FROM PAGE 1 PIGS, FROM PAGE 1 versity, although it eventually was outed by the media pensalc those residents for Small said she found that their close proximity to the students downplayed pub- packing facility.

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