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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 7-19-1995 The BG News July 19, 1995 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 July 19, 1995" (1995). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5866. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5866 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. W . '■ ■ INDEX City 3,4 Six Feet Under Entertainment 5 Opinion 2 BG man talks about responsibilites of city gravediggers. Page 4. Sports 6 The BG News «'A Commitment to Excellence » Wednesday, July 19,1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 152 News in Brief' Registration Days Train safety plan Grades & bills are targets risk-takers on their way Aaron Gray 20 violations, and they cited 17 The BC News people during the eight-hour trip. Students waiting to see Rick Mclntyre, supervisor of their first session grades will In a sweltering, tiny compart- highway safety for Conrail, said ment of a freight train's engine, he hopes the trip will get the have to continue waiting or two engineers watch helplessly message to motorists not to take make a trip to the Adminis- as a blue pickup truck crawls chances. tration Building. Grades for over a railroad crossing in front "People don't seem to realize all of the summer classes of them. the danger involved," Mclntyre will be mailed out In August "Move you stupid son of a said. "You're 30 times more following the completion of bitch," one shouts over the dea- likely to be killed in a car-train all summer courses. In the fening roar of the engine as the accident than you are in an auto- meantime, grades can be train cuts through a wheat field mobile accident because of the obtained with a picture l.d. at 50mph. weight ratio involved." "The ratio of a train to a car is at 110 Administration "Get the hell off of there," the other shouts with fear and anger the same as a car to a full can of Building or by sending a in his voice as he blasts the horn. soda," he said. "Run over a pop self-addressed stamped en- The truck finally completes its can and see how it looks when velope. Fall schedules will be slow journey over the tracks with you're done." mailed out with bursar the train only 20 feet away. The In 1994 216 crashes occurred in statements on July 26. two engineers slam their fists Ohio, and 37 people were killed.' Tke BG NewiAUry Creep against the walls and shout obs- Six of the crashes occurred in cenities at the driver of the truck Wood County, the fifth highest Psych program Linda Tracy (above) from as the train barrels on. number of all counties in the honored r r jm the Student Service Build- state. Two people died in these, ing organizes the evaluation This was the scene last both in Bowling Green. T-' papers for pre-reglstration Wednesday during a sting opera- Ohio ranks fourth nationally in The University's gradu- Friday morning. A mother tion organized by Operation Life- terms of car-train crashes. About ate program in industrial and her son (right) confer saver, a railroad crossing safety 4,900 crashes occur in the United and organizational psychol- with an admissions coun- campaign aimed at nabbing risk- States every year. ogy has been ranked as one selor over his fall schedule takers. CSX engineer Terry Ludban of the top programs of Its An eight-car passenger train said many people don't under- kind In the nation. The July traveled from Bowling Green to stand a train's engineer is power- Issue of "The Industrial Or- Columbus and back carrying city less to stop a crash officials, law enforcement offi- ganizational Psychologist" "Your reaction time is usually cers and media people from ranked the University as only one or two seconds before a lion Western Ohio. crash occurs," he said. "And it having the fourth best pro- A State Highway Patrol plane gram in the country. It takes a train moving SO miles per watched overhead for violators hour about a mile and a half to based its results on the re- TlK BC NewpMary Creep and contacted patrol cars to pull search productivity of fac- over the offenders. Officials saw See TRAINS, page four. ulty members during the past four years. The final tally Indicated the top three programs to be Michigan Heat wave increases sales State and Penn State uni- versities, and the University Near-record highs drive consumers to cooler climes of Illinois, respectively. Colo- rado State University was Jay Young fans and at the present time we Amos said a normal day ends at ranked fifth. The BG News are trying to get more air condi- S p.m. for most of the workers. tioners." She said the customers she talks The air was conditioned at such Schweiss said the store has to are really heated up, but Len- University races an uncomfortable temperature ordered more air conditioners, nox is usually able to fix the using electricity this past week that even the fans but the process is slow because problem if they can get to it. of hot weather were no longer in suppliers are also feeling the "I know the guys have been stock heat. Penny Amos, secretary at running ragid and the customers The University and 10 Toledo reported the highest Lennox Air Conditioning, said the are very demandent when they other schools will partici- temperature in the state, accord- warm temperatures resulted in a don't nave air conditioning," pate In the second annual ing to the National Weather Ser- lot of people discovering their Amos said. "We pretty much Cleveland Electric Formula vice in Cleveland, when the city broken air conditioners at the have a lot on stock and if we don't Classic on July 21-23. Held hit 104 degrees on July 14. last moment. we can have it for the customer as part of the festivities The Bowling Green Waste- in a day or two." surrounding the Grand water Treatment Plant on Dun- A spokesperson at the Wood Prix of Cleveland, the SO bridge Road, a National Weather "Sales on fans, on air County hospital there was no real kilometer race will begin at Service station, recorded tem- conditioners and increase in emergencies or ill- 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The peratures in the 90's throughout nesses caused by the heat. the week and hit the century dehumidifiers has University's Electric Falcon Kosarik said it will probably mark on July IS. Is one of the favorites to win just beenfantastic." get warm again, but don't expect the race. In last year's The hot temperatures meant an Arnie Schweiss to fry any eggs on the sidewalk Increase in sales and services for anytime soon. event, the car finished fifth, K-mart manager "It is going to get wanner The BC NewpUpjr Y«UP| but rebounded to finish local businesses. Anile Schweiss, again during the weekend. We third in the second and last Kmart store manager, said the The incredible beat last week featured several storms Including hot weather has increased de- "The phone has been ringing could be up near 90," Kosarik race of the Inaugural sea- one on July 12 that produced lightening that could be seen behind mand on all summer products. off the wall," Amos said. "We've said. "The weather pattern for the Wood County Court House. Temperatures peaked over the son. The car Is sponsored "Sales on fans, on air condi- been swamped. Some of the guys the next week looks warm, but weekend when It hit 104 degrees in Toledo. The combination of by the College of Technol- tioners and dehumldifiers has have worked past seven and not as extreme as we had In the the storms and heat resulted In peak electricity demands. ogy and was built by fac- Just been fantastic," Schweiss some have even worked until past few days. It will be more ulty and students through- said. "We're keeping up OK with nine." like we are used to for July." out the University. BG honors former employees Conference commemorates first A-bomb Three former Univer- The highlight of "The Atomic ended the war without the dev- Teller was born in 1908 in sity employees have been Kristin Cijka astating loss of life, he said. Hungary. He came to the The BC News Age Opens: American Culture recognized for their signifi- Confronts the Atomic Bomb" "We could have United States In 193S to escape cant contributions to the SO years ago the first suc- was an address by Dr. Edward done it [tested the However, President Truman the Nazism running rampant Institution by having cam- cessful atomic bomb detonated Teller, Inventor of the hydro- never received die proposal to throughout Europe. pus facilities named in near Los Alamos, N.M Still, the gen bomb. atomic bomb]. Had demonstrate the bomb. Robert their honor. Room 111 controversy concerning the During his speech Friday, it worked, it would Oppenhelmer, who oversaw In addition to Teller's talk, Hayes Hall was named af- use of nuclear power remains Teller told an audience he still the project at Los Alamos, there were presentations by ter former University archi- at the forefront of American believes the United States not have killed a wanted his scientists to remain Jane Canute, author of Gossips, uninvolved In what was tect Jack Raney, the first- culture.