Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-23-1999 The BG News April 23, 1999 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 April 23, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6490. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6490 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. 1 1 t gj }1 f <£ • i GNews Recycling in city is matter of choice fills. trash is far in the future, Reiman recycling in the hands of busi- By TONY CAVALLARIO "I recycle because I can't sleep said. nesses. The BG News at night if all those bottles are "In the long term, people need If the city provided recycling I to pay for what they throw service to businesses, it would For Bowling Green business- being thrown in a landfill," said away," Reiman said. have to be every business. So es, recycling is still a matter of Vic Pirooz, owner of Easy Street Cafe. Easy Street has been recy- Mr. Spot's drives a delivery providing recycling to down- choice. EARTH cling for eight years, Pirooz said. truck with a load of cardboard town bars, for example, would While the city picks up recy- His bar goes through 10,000 bot- and bottles to Bowling Green's mean, it would have to help out cling bins from single and two tles a month. WEEK recycling bam. large manufacturer's like Cooper - family homes in town, apart- But recycling is not cost-effec- weight of trash, but volume. As "It saves dumpster space," Tire as well. ments and businesses are on tive, Pirooz said. He could save long as this is the case, the temp- said Mark Colden, general man- "Government doesn't exist to i Guest columnist, UAO their own. money by throwing everything tation to throw away recyclable ager at Mr. Spot's, a restaurant take away jobs," said BGSU recy- They are left with two choices: President Jacki Kenny, in the trash. The restaurant pays materials will be around, Reiman that has been recycling for four cling coordinator Craig Wittig. pay a private collector or take full price for its dumpster ser- said. years. Colden said there's also an "If the service exists, the gov- tells students not to their recyclable goods to the vice, even though 60 percent of For example, if trash could be element of peer pressure from ernment isn't going to duplicate g criticize UAO, but offer recycling drop off barn them- its trash is being diverted to recy- weighed, because glass bottles other businesses who recycle it," Wittig said. solutions. selves, according to Ken Reiman, cling bins, he said. In addition to are so heavy, it would be costly their materials. Reiman wonders if businesses Wood County Solid Waste Coor- his trash collection fee, Pirooz to throw them away and thus "You have to pay them, but its can't afford to recycle or if they dinator. has to pay Eco-trash, a local recy- more cost-effective to recycle nice to recycle," said Pisanello's just don't want to. Several local bars and restau- cling collector, to pick up bottles them, Reiman said. Technology Pizza manager Sylvia De Bois, an "We all pay for what we feel is nation 4 rants do recycle, Reiman said. and cardboard. to put trash-weighing scales on Eco-trash client. important," Reiman said. g But a lot of bottles from bars and Trash collection in Bowling trucks is two to three years away, Because private services exist, apartments still end up in land Green is not determined by but the capability to weigh city the city of Bowling Green leaves • See EARTH, page eleven. I NATO bombs one of Yugoslav President Slo- Maumee bodan Milosevic's Student takes on preservation houses. in things like historic preserva- RAP By MIKE WENDLING tion tax credits," Trsek said. The BG News Trsek's plan for the building If the Millikin Hotel is includes businesses on the first receives i The United States is restored to its former glory, it floor, apartments on the second preparing for foreign will be due largely to the efforts and hotel "executive suites" on oil shortage in 2000. of one University student. the third. charity Sharon Trsek, a senior archi- "I think there's a very good ByLINEANETTE chance that my suggestions will tecture student, undertook a DJUVE detailed study of the hotel for be implemented," she said. The BG News her senior project. Her research "There's not a whole lot o'f has turned into a plan lo revital- demand for hotel space in Bow- Environmental concerns are ize Bowling Green's most recog- ing Green, but executive suites the focus of several local envi- nizable historic landmark. on the third floor will work. My ronmental groups this weekend "I love historic preservation," plan gives both the stable as they gather to "Walk for the Trsek said. "Out of my class, I'm income of apartment rent as World." the only one working on a pre- well as the hotel feature of the This program has been an existing building." original building." annual Earth Day celebration Trsek has done so much In addition to compiling a Photo Provided since 1994, benefiting local detailed history of the Hotel research on the hotel thai the environmental groups in and creating the only accurate family of Ihe former owners Northwest Ohio. refer queslions to her. Using Here are some of the blocks of marble the University reserved drawings of the floor plans, the rights to when selling the old Millikin Hotel. The walk, taking place on Trsek has formulated a plan for oral and written sources, she Sunday, is a pledge walk aimed repay the community, first con- Despite all the media atten- the future of the Millikin, a plan recounted nearly every detail of at making people aware of dif- ceived of the hotel. Bowling tion, Ihe hotel opened rather which is being taken seriously the hotel's half-century as a ferent environmental problems Green's local press jumped all quietly on Jan. 4, 1897. Due to by the hotel's new owner, devel- showpiece of Bowling Green, as and raising money to help envi- over the news. Local newspa- plans made by the matriarch of oper Roberl Maurer. well as an almost equal period ronmental groups eliminate pers fried to one-up each olher the Millikin family, Alice Del- "It's encouraging because in decline after the hotel portion those problems, said Lauris i Baseball team hosts with promises of fhings like a phine Davie Millikin, all of the Maurer has been approached to of the building closed in 1953. Haas, member of the "Walk for Ohio for a crucial four - grand rotunda and fountains, rooms have a different look. demolish fhe building, but he's When W.H. Millikin, a Bowl- the World" committee. game series at home ing Green resident who made neither of which were ever This year the money raised refused. I'm working with him • See HOTEL, page ten. this weekend. his fortune in oil, and wanted to built. will be donated to the Maumee River remedial action plan (RAP). Hotel's future "The Maumee RAP is an environmental group that helps clean up the waters in the area," Opinion 2 uncertain after sale Haas said. "They do water test- Page Three 3 ing and oversee the water qual- World and Nation 4 By MIKE WENDLING ity." 13 The BG News Haas added that the main Sports areas of concern are the lower Sports Agate lb In January, BGSU sold the former Millikin Hotel Maumee river, the Maumee Bay on the corner of Main and Wooster streets to local area and the Great Lakes area. developer Robert Maurer for $351,000. Although the walk is not The University had owned the property for over until Sunday, the "Walk for the four years, according to Bob Waddle, University World" committee has spent the director of capital planning. last couple of weeks making the "It was getting to the point where maintenance community aware of their "We are trying to on the building was becoming an issue," he said. cause. raise money to raise Because of upcoming campus projects such as Wednesday they were invit- the new Union, the University wasn't able to pay ed by The Environmental awareness of the adequate attention to the Hotel. Receiving enough Action Group on-campus to set problem of poverty Photo Provided money from the property to make it worthwhile to up a booth at the University to housing." keep was also a problem. draw the attention of the stu- Above is the old Millikin Hotel at the corner of Wooster and Main In downtown "We got some Bowling Green. This is a historical building which opened in 1897. rent, but it wasn't • See STUDENT, page eleven. • See WALK, page eleven. Jeff Schroeder president of Habitat for Humanity Box City houses students for night to learn about homelessness By ROBERT RECKER places, 'poverty housing' is not formances by two bands and vol- City, HHCC will be looking to few years we'll go for the big Check out: as bad here in Bowling Green, leyball nets set up.