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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-23-1999 The BG News November 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 November 23, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6571. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6571 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. OPINION 2 WORLD NEWS CITY 5 SPORTS 9 Columnist Jena Lohrbach claims Show dog Cuna ■ BG City School District offered Women's volleyball Harry Potter is her hero. relieves himself on a $2 million grant for the year team opens MAC a sign indicating 2000 and $2.1 million for 2001. tournament play. the spectators' entrance. Weather Today: Tuesday cloudy November 23. 1999 High 66. Low 62 Volume 87 & Issue 64 The BGA daily independent News student press Students *Tis the Season New need to grading pick calling plans policy By AMY JO L. BROWN The BG News adopted With all the one rate plans. 10-10 calls, and dime a minute ByJEFFARNETT plans circulating around the The BG News long distance companies, A new policy regarding choosing the right long-dis- grades will go into effect with tance plan can be confusing fall classes. and unnerving. According to Registrar Becky In order to avoid the frustra- McOmber, the new policy will tion, many turn an NOR mark on a grade students will report, which means that no blindly r- ' -.- ■■'■'■ grade was reported by an choose a r <= Zm instructor, into a WF, or with- long-dis- draw-fail. if the grade is not tance compa- updated by the time incom- ny when pletes are calculated into they sign up grades. for telephone Marjorie Hufford, director of service. Then records at Registration and the bills Records, said that for grades start to from fall classes.that date is Ann Marie Lancaster arrive. March 1. "When Hufford said the ne.w policy students sign up for long-dis- will only affect grades from tance service, they automati- undergraduate classes, which cally get the highest rate," said means that both graduate and a GTE Retail Sales Consultant undergraduate students in who wished not to be named. those classes will be subject to "Students need to remember to it, while those in graduate follow up with the long-dis- classes will not. tance company after signing up McOmber noted that the with GTE." policy will not be retroactive, so NGRs existing before this When consulting a long-dis- BG News Photo/ HIKE LEHMKUHLE tance company, students semester will not be affected. should keep in mind that many The reason for the change in plans which sound cheap often Christmas trees were shipped to Bowling Green's Wal-Mart on Thursday, Nov. 18 from Michigan. They will be on sale until policy has to do with the have hidden charges. they are gone and run anywhere from $24.97 to $39.97. reporting grades and course "Look at the rates," said loads to the government, said Anne Marie Lancaster, vice Nancy Merritt, an associate provost of technology. "What dean in the College of Business are all the charges?" Athletes spend holiday with teams Administration who helped Many long-distance plans guide the policy. By STEFANIE SIZEMORE Wednesday morning and will "The change was made have fixed monthly charges in The BG News not be returning back to Bowl- order to get their low per "When you decide to play a because many things are While most students ing Green until Sunday. dependent upon how many minute rate. The monthly are preparing to Kim Griech, freshman unde- college sport, making charge will still appear on your credit hours a student is return home for a cided major, plays basketball sacrifices is part of the. enrolled for," Merritt said. bill even if you don't make any few days of relaxing and spend- for the women's team and said long-distance calls that month. commitment." NGRs are, Merritt said, non- ing time with family and she is somewhat disappointed grades, and in many cases, Other plans that offer a low friends over Thanksgiving about not being able to go home Kim Griech average rate depend on your such as when a student has a break, others are preparing for for the break but that it is all FmbllUM, Women's lUisk'dlMill Team \hnnber loan or financial aid that average calls a month being a break that does not include part of playing a sport. over a certain amount. depend on grades or full-time going home. "I am disappointed about not enrollment, more than an N(!R Also, low per minute rates Tyler Knight, freshman being able to spend time with decide to is needed. may change according to the Many athletic teams have undecided major is a member of my friends and family but I am play a college sport, making "We're supposed to have a length of the call. events scheduled over Thanks- sacrifices is part of the commit- the hockey team and feels a lit- also really excited about going grade for every student in a Beware of the 10-10 calls. giving forcing student athletes ment." tle disappointed about missing to Montana," she said. course and NGR is not a According to Lancaster, these to stay in Bowing Green over The men's hockey team will the break because he would Griech said the basketball grade," Merritt said. calls work well if you tend to break. team is planning on having a also be missing Thanksgiving like to spend time with his make long calls. They aren't as The women's basketball break. Instead of returning friends from home. NGRs are recorded when a team dinner to celebrate professor does not put a grade effective, though, if your calls team is not staying in Bowling home, the men will be staying "Everyone is so excited about Thanksgiving. on a final grade roster, Hufford are short. Green over break but they will in Bowling Green to practice all going home to sec friends and "I would like to be home with said. NGRs happen for a vari- Phone cards, while conve- not be going home either. week and then travel to Lake family and I am a little jeal- my family but I think the trip ety of reasons, from a professor The team is leaving for a and Thanksgiving dinner will Superior to play games over the tournament in Montana be great," she said. "When you weekend. l See PHONE, page six. • See ATHLETES, page six. • See GRADES, page six. Union dining areas will be missed by many Many memories will be 1960s, respectively. I had with the customers, locked away when the Union Over the years, students which is something I will miss." closes its doors December 19. have gone to these places to "I will never forget the The BG News wanting to eat, have a good time or to friends I have made while recreate the excitement the study and most of them came working here or my manager," Union generated when it first away with fond memories of the said Nicki Rucci, an employee opened and the joy it gave to so Union eateries. of Bowl-N-Greenery. many people will be dedicating "I will always remember sit- "It will be an emotional expe- several of its final issues to ting around eating, doing rience since I was here as a stu- Union-related stories. This homework and talking to dent, in the early 60s when it series, "Remembering the friends, in between classes," was brand new," Crooks said. Union," will run every Friday said Gretchen LeGrande, Most of the students agreed junior childhood education for the rest of the semester that while the closing of the major. By CRAJG GIFFORD Union will cause a shortage of The BG News Mike Dunston, a junior sec- food places, it will be a good As December approaches, so ondary education major, shared thing in the long run. does the end of the semester, similar thoughts. "This has been a place "So many people eat here and the end of an era. Once the and it won't be here anymore, semester closes, so will the where I could come with all of my friends after a hard day of but the new one will be better," Union and all of the food places said Staci Lee, a junior elemen- within it, but the memories of classes and talk and eat." Even the employees of the tary education major. these places will remain. "It's going to cause a lot of The Union is known for various dining services within the Union have their own mem- problems with food services, being home to such dining ser- but a new union is needed," vices as The Bowl-N-Greenery, ories. BG News Photo/MIKE LEHMKUHLE Doty said. the Pheasant Room and the "During Halloween, we had Pizza Outlet, which according costume contests and passed The closing of the Union may Clockwise from bottom left, Susie Kauffman, Dan Hunt, Xavier Lopez, Mike French, Kristan Gos- to Dave Crooks, Union director, out candy, it was a fun atmos- help the other food places gain tel, Erin Rowe enjoy a dinner a» The Bowl-N-Greenery.