Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 6-10-1998 The BG News June 10, 1998 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 June 10, 1998" (1998). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6341. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6341 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. Story Idea? Entertainment • 5 CAMPUS•3 TODAY If you have a news tip or have an idea for a story, call us between noon and 7 pm. Folk star Richard Shindell comes to The University's co-op program cel- High: 73 372-6966 Q Bowling Green ebrates 20 years. Low: 61 • • * * * WEDNESDAY June 10,1998 • * • Volume 84, Issue 4 Bowling Green, Ohio News * • • * * "An independent student voice serving Bowling Green since 1920' Campus New shop owners see 'green' in BG Hans, City sirens □ The area is facing warn city an economic boom with the construction of storms of Staples and □ The University has a Meijer. three-step program to help the students and By JENNY GERKEN TTie BG News city deal with torna- Bowling Green may have a does. small-town atmosphere, but it has a big-city attitude toward By JENNY GERKEN economic growth. The BG News Less than two weeks ago. a The sky is dark and the air is Staples store opened in the still. Suddenly you hear the sirens. Food Town plaza. The store is Do you know what to do in case of one of over 700 in the chain and a tornado? boasts over 6,000 office-supply "We have a program, not a poli- items. cy." said John Curlls. University "Markets the size of Bowling fire safety inspector. Green have been very success- Curlis said the program has ful for us." said Mike Chiarelli. three parts. First, tornado infor- mation posters are placed • See CITY, page three. throughout campus buildings. These fiyers not only explain the difference between a tornado University confronted, encouraged by city's economic surge watch and a warning but also show the safest place to go in each □ With the recent additions, affect the convenience stores on campus by In addition, the city's developing econo- building. Campus sometimes offering more selection at lower my may result in an increase in student Second, the fire safety officer many are wondering what prices. employment, and for the University, this offers presentations about tornado impact the growth of the city There is a level of competition Inherent may cause a problem. safety to any interested depart- new competition, something the University in having such stores nearby, but the Uni- However. O'Donnell noted that Universi- ments. As part of the training. will have on the University. may have to find new ways to deal with. versity's outlets are not without their own ty Dining Services is currently the largest Curlis uses the floor plans of the The issue of competition Is especially evi- advantages. O'Donnell maintains. On the student employer. Even with the increased building to show the safest places By MARY BETH MURTHA dent in the area of dining services. plus side, dining services are located on employment opportunities off campus, he to go and to get his audience The BG News Ed O'Donnell. director of dining ser- campus, and purchases of convenience said the trend appears to be that, in a good thinking about their options. vices, said the development of Bowling food items may be made with a meal card, economy, fewer students seem inclined to Finally, the University is The city of Bowling Green has been Green at its current pace provides business unlike systems most other schools use. seek employment. Such students may be equipped with an exterior siren on flourishing lately. New businesses, apart- for everyone in the community. Another level of impact is customer ser- supported by increased financial aid from the Education Building. Curlis ment buildings, supermarkets and restau- According to O'Donnell. any new busi- vice. As a result of Increased competition, their parents or may simply have enough said more sirens may soon be rants have popped up from North Main to ness in the community will always have the University may have to examine its cus- money saved and do not need to work. added, since the siren may be dif- South Main and everywhere in between. some impact on the University. tomer service plan in order to encourage ficult to hear in interior offices or The growth of the city strikes many as Superstores like Wal-Mart and Meijer students to buy certain items on campus. • See IMPROVE, page three. the outlying areas of campus. Interior sirens presently exist in six buildings and more are expect- ed to be added. According to BG art gallery exhibition Curlis. recent Improvements in Vroom... Wood County's tornado warning system have caused problems with the University's interior warning features death-dying series system, but county and University photographs representing the trin- personnel are working together on □ A local gallery is making the system fully opera- ity and loss by Spencer Cunning- City tional. featuring a month-long ham, a University visiting assis- Curlis said there are things peo- art exhibit about the tant professor of photography. ple can do to prepare themselves. and Hospice Center. McCune said. "It's recognition of what is out For instance, he said they should end of life. "When we really understand there, and death is one of those know where the safest place In By RICHARD EDWARDS that when we die we pass out of things." Cunningham said. their home, office or building is. The BG News existence, we become aware," Messer's book of poetry deals "A weather radio is a good McCune said. with the murder of his wife and investment." he said. Death and dying hung on the Friday's reading featured prose coping with that loss. According to Curlis, people walls as the lights went dim and and poetry by Mary Blddinger. Bill "It's taking what shatters us or should look for radios that come displays of struggles to convey the Jablonsky. drew Wright and elates us and giving it form." said on automatically during severe end of life was unveiled. Richard Messer as well as a musi- weather, run on batteries and can That was how a poetry and fic- Messer. professor of creative cal performance by Brian Mascioli. writing. be carried to a shelter. This way. tion reading began at the Renais- The artists focused on different The exhibition featuresmany they can alert people not only to a sance Art Gallery in Bowling Green areas of loss and grief. artists and photographers such as dangerous situation but also let Friday, starting a month-long art "While medical doctors look for Jane Vanden Eynden. whose pho- them know when it is safe to leave exhibition considering death, grief, the "whys", "hows' and "whenV, their shelters. loss and recompense. artists have to look for the unimag- tographs captured the last two years of her mother's life. The radios are inexpensive, The gallery will host an event inable." said Wendell Mayo, pro- costing between $30 and $40. If each Friday through the month of fessor of creative writing. "The one "Living a considerable distance kept in an area where reception is June to combine visual arts with thing artists have to struggle with from my mother. 1 found that if 1 good, the radios can alert people performance and philosophy as a is how to express something that photographed her during my visits. early enough to allow them to way to open a dialogue between the can't be known." It provided me with a way to cope reach a safe location. public and artists, said Carrol The artists' expressions of these with her slow physical deteriora- The city of Bowling Green is McCune, gallery director. subjects ranged from poems tion and inevitable death." Eynden served by the Wood County system These events will also help raise excerpted from Richard Messer's explained In a statement about her known as the Emergency Manage- money for the Bridge Home Health book "A Murder in the Family" to work. ment Agency (EMA). The EMA is directed by Eric Larson and works In conjunction with the Wood Ribeau's academy accepts leaders County Sheriff and the Bowling Green Fire Department. □ The president's inau- from President Sidney Ribeau. "When there is a watch, we will Initially awarded SI5,000 in the send out firefighters to various sec- gural leadership acade- form of a salary bonus. Ribeau Photo by AMOcUted Preu Diversity tors of the city to visually monitor my class is set to kick returned it to the University. The the sky." said John Fawcett. city I endowment became seed money municipal administrator. off in the fall with two This fall, nearly two dozen for the PLA. which also receives Approximately 4.0OO' HarleyDavidson motorcycle enthusiasts roll incoming freshmen will experience Those firefighters then call in Into La Crosse, Wla. Monday. The ridera were on their way to the corporate and private donations and report tornadoes. Fawcett dozen students. strong leadership firsthand when and will grant its first scholarships 95th Anniversary of Harley Davidson in Milwaukee.