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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. m M 1 Bowling Green State University FRIDAY October 20, 2000 Brian Engelman talks ^^ « ■/ 1/ i 1 SUNNY one on one with gui- ■■ 1 A W ■ k HIGH: 74 | LOW: 48 tarist Dan Donegan; I \ -^ ■ J—^ -K_y www.bgnews.com VOLUME 90 ISSUE 37 Union renovation on schedule By Craig Grtfofd "They (the constniction crew) pletion. We are hopeful that it will tion," Crooks said. "We are eager CAMPUS toiioa are very eager to hustle on the I*' completed around Dec. 12." to be back in business and look- The building of Che new project," Crooks said. "Things Gale Swanka, associate direc- ing forward to the pleasure of m^Li^LW Student Union is on schedule have gone as well as we could tor of the Student Union, agrees operating the new facility." and is expected to be completed have hoped." that the Union is on schedule, but Swanka sees more of a sense of 0 m ■ by December 2001, said Dave With all of the destruction tak- anything could still happen. urgency to get the Union finished Crooks, director of the Student ing place, a little over half of the "At this point it is," she said. "A as soon as possible. *»o E* Union. old Union will remain when all is lot will depend on how the winter "It is a burden on the campus The project of building a new said and done, Crooks said. The goes as far its if we stay on sched- not to have a union. It is a place to Union, which began in last year's north and south walls and the ule or not." hang out, a place to eat and a spring semester, is currently in floor of the ballroom will stay More of an exact time frame place for groups to have their the demolition/preconstruction intact, with renovations being will be known after a meeting meetings," she said. stage. The demolition of the done. next Wednesday, to determine While the Union is missed, north end of the Union was "Everything will be redone whether or not the schedule is Swanka said that a new one was expected to be finished yesterday, inside' Crooks said. being met, Crooks said. necessary and the old one had to Crooks said. Even though much work still The opening of the new Union be closed while the new one was Though (otal demolition is not lies ahead, completion of the pro- in 13 months is being eagerly being built. yet complete, concrete work on ject is still running on schedule. awaited for by those involved in "We talked to other universities Sara taym BG News the bases of the north side of the "December 2001 is when our the building of it. Union is already taking place. original schedule called for com- "There is a sense of anticipa- RUBBLE AND DUST: Union renovation is on schedule, with the UNION, PAGE 2 demolition phase near an end. Literacy program serves schools ByBenScturf STAFF WRITER Ikir the third year, University sludents and staff are demon- strating their commitment to the community by participating in Literacy Serve and Lean. The program buses University stu- dents to seven different elemen- tary schools in Toledo to work with children on their reading skills. Increasing failures by elemen- tary children on the 1998 Ohio State Proficiency Examinations reflected the need for a supple- mental educational program, and Toledo Public Schools Superintendent Merrill Grant asked several universities for help. BCiSU responded and set up the program which is, according to Project Coordinator Sandra Strothers, "very well developed." The program "pushes the University to a point that more Stelanie Soemore BG News fervently embraces its sur- rounding community," said ROLLING ON A RIVER: White water rafters, on a University Outdoors Program trip last weekend, climb out of their raft for a lunch break. Strothers. She said a program like LSL enriches both the University and the community. Each elementary school improves the value of its educa- tion, and University students begin to learn in ways where they make connections with the Rafting trip invigorated real world. Learning by doing, also called By Stelanie Sizemore Saturday night at 11:30 p.m. to never done anything like this the trip memorable." tougher and the group did not service learning, helps students MANAGING EDITOR begin a day of rafting in West before and I am scared but can't Most of the group had never back down. I«r the next three learn better because "you actu- Fall break was a relaxing rime Virginia. wait." white water rafted before so hours they handled class IV and ally experience what it is you away from the University for The group rode a bus for The group arrived in West they were taught different pad- V rapids with names like Upper want to do. If you want to learn most students, but not for all. seven hours to arrive in their Virginia early Saturday morning dle strokes, given swimming Mash and Pure Screaming I lell. how to teach, you start teach- The University Outdoors destination of Hico, W. Va. and hit the water geared in west tips, and taught rescue meth- Rapids arc classified on a I-VI ing," Strothers said. Program gave students the where they would raft the suits, life jackets, and helmets ods before putting dieir boats in scale, I being the easiest and VI Dawn Rodgers. senior ele- opportunity to do something a Lower Gauley River, one of the by 11 a.m. the water. being the hardest. A class I rapid mentary education major, little less relaxing by offering a most popular rivers in America. Six students were in each They started the day off by has slow moving water with few learned a lot from taking part in white water rafting trip over the "I am 90 percent scared and boat and were guided by very rafting for a little over an hour or no obstacles. A class IV has the program last year. long weekend. 10 percent excited," lessica experienced rafting guides. and then took a lunch break difficult moving water with Twenty-six students and Smallwood, senior sports man- "Our guide added so much to where they were served lortelli- large holes and waves. These three student trip coordinators agement major, said on the bus our trip," Smallwood said. "He ni and salad. LEARNING. PAGE 2 met at Perry Fieldhouse ride to West Virginia "I have kept our spirits high and made After lunch the rapids got RAFTING. PAGE 2 Writers Lab Strokes linked to drugs for diets, colds By Lauren Neergaaurd from Dexatrim to Triaminic — is helps students AP MEDICAL WRITER overblown. They argue there is By Chuck Soder ship between rotor and tutee. GATTHERSBURG, Md. — An no proof the drug causes hem- STAFF WRITER Employees at the writers lab ingredient in dozens of popular orrhagic strokes, or bleeding in "Writers helping writers. try to avoid creating an instruc- over-the-counter diet and cold the brain. That's is what we do," said Barb tor-student relationship. Such a medicines may be the cause of But the Food and Drug Toth, director of the University relationship implies the superi- several hundred hemorrhagic Administration's scientific advis- Writers Lab. ority of the instructor, which strokes suffered annually by ers voted Thursday that phenyi- An estimated 2,000 people makes tutees uncomfortable, people under 50, government propanolamine cannot be clas- use the University writers lab at according to Toth. scientists said Thursday. sified as safe, a classification crit- Mary Bttti Murtha BG News 303 Moseley Hall each semester, Also, lab employees do more Manufacturers insist concern ical to drugs' ability to sell with- said Toth, and part of that popu- over the decades-old ingredient out a prescription. THE WRITE STUFF: Sophomore Jessica Percival, right, offers some larity stems from the relation- — called phenyipropanolamine tips to freshman education major Jessica Seme. LAB. PAGE 2 and found in products ranging MEDICINE, PAGE 2 ' «MS^^^^^^^S^a^^mS^Sa^l^^^^A 2 Friday, October 20, 2000 BG NEWS Union renovation FDA probes link between drug, strokes MEDICINE. FROM PAGE 1 very small, said the FDA and Yale survivors disabled. They are very had strokes within days of taking University researchers who stud - rare in young people: The FDA appetite suppressants. on schedule so far The FDA already was consid- ied the issue. Six billion PPA estimates that of the 130 million The FDAs own records show ering banning nonprescription doses are sold in this country Americans ages 18-49, 10,400 44 cases of hemorrhagic stroke UNION, FROM PAGF1 [University Activities Organiza- phenylpropanolamine, or PPA. annually ye! hemorrhagic suffer a hemorrhagic stroke each imong PPA users in the past 30 tion! and I were talking about it The advisory panel's 13-0 vote, strokes in your;, people are rare. year. The risk rises with age; years.