Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-11-1977 The BG News January 11, 1977 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 January 11, 1977" (1977). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3313. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3313 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. heS Slews Bowling "Green State University Tuesday, Jan. 11, 1977 Snow, wind rip Ohio; roads stay hazardous By Cindy Leise University classes were .canceled Staff Reporter was after Thanksgiving vacation in 1974. Radios were tuned in early Area public schools remain closed yesterday morning to hear the news: today. no school. Weather conditions of Snow remained on sidewalks and in blizzard proportions were the cause. parking lots Monday morning, a Late Sunday night and early maintenance secretary said. "We Monday morning nine inches of snow had men working around the clock," were dumped on most of nor- she said. "No one worked nor- thwestern Ohio. Bitter cold tem- mally." peratures froze car engines and 40 mile-an-hour winds created high SHE SAID SOME of the main- drifts. tenance men worked IS hours without University, city and county a break. maintenance crews were out full- City police, the Wood County time, but the weather won. Every Sheriffs Office, the State Highway school in the area closed. Patrol and the American Automobile Provost Kenneth W. Rothe made Association (AAA) all said traffic the no-school decision around seven accidents were frequent and driving in the morning, Linda L Hamilton, conditions hazardous last night. assistant to Rothe, said. She said Only one lane was clear on 1-75 the provost studies weather and last night and drifting snow was maintenance reports from local expected to continue to make driving agencies before making the decision. hazardous. Wood County Sheriff Ray Coller AT 5 YESTERDAY afternoon, no said many minor accidents have decision to cancel today's classes had been reported in the area. He said been made. Hamilton said Rothe county roads are being cleared waits as long as possible before "around the clock," but drills canceling classes. compound the problem. "We have our calendar worked out Bowling Green city police also reported several minor accidents. N^s.phoio by Mlndy Milligan to the day," she said. "We have no slack days, no days to play with." AAA garages were three hours Shovrling mow may be work for Mine, but these sidewalks, but found that building a snow fort Hamilton said if class cancellations behind schedule at S p in. yesterday children have found a way to turn work Into fun. would be much more fun. A day's vacation from exceed two a quarter, students may with many stalled motorists and Snow copers Myron Hayden, S. of IN Byall St. and Thomas Held, school and plenty of snow was a welcome surprise have to stay an extra day before minor accidents, an AAA spokesman 8. of 117 Byall SL started to shovel the drive and for area students. final exams. The last time said. Multi-purpose recreation center finally a reality Editor's note: This is the first ID a facility. The committee organized The board approved the recreation locations on campus so students Zung presented preliminary drawings increase to be paid by students when seriei about the new student petitions, visited other campuses with center's program statement in early could meet with him and discuss of the facility and the Board of the facility is completed. Faculty recreation center. Today's story recreation facilities and presented November, 1975. their ideas for the facility. Trustees approved its planning and and staff will be permitted to pur- deals with the history and planning slide shows at University dorms and Thomas T. Z. Zung and Associates Zung, at one time suggested construction. Construction costs chase quarterly membership passes. These will cost the same amount at the facility. greek houses. of Cleveland were selected as the several buildings be used instead of were estimated at $7.6 million. The At the luncheon prior to Wed- architects on November 21, 1975. The incorporating the entire facility under plans for the facility include a 50- students will pay each quarter in By Marilyn Dillon nesday's groundbreaking, University firm was one of five suggested by one roof. Another idea for the center meter pool, a smaller pool for In- additional facility fees. Staff Reporter alumnus Dennis C. Bottonari said, "I the state architect's office. The was proposed in April, 1975 by Dr. structional and recreational use, a think that this shows what can be selection was made by a nine- Samuel M. Cooper, professor of multi-purpose gym area for tennis, Many alternate items will now be The goal was a building with done by the students and ad- member committee composed of health and physical education. basketball, volleyball and badminton. included in the facility because bids something for everyone. The project, ministration when they work together faculty, students, staff and a Cooper suggested that the Heinz A running track will be suspended for the construction of the center which began in 1974, has finally and take the right steps." Bottonari representative from the Board of company donate its Bowling Green above this multi-purpose area. were more than $1 million dollars become a reality. Groundbreaking was a member of the 1974 in- Trustees. The architect visited the plant to the University, the city of Handball and squash courts as well below the original estimates. These for the $9.45 million student vestigatory committee. campus and Sterling Farm field was Bowling Green and Wood County as as areas for archery, golf and items, according to Mark E. Kerns, recreation facility took place last chosen by the Board of Trustees as a charitable gift Heinz had an- combat activities and locker rooms undergraduate student representative Wednesday and construction is THE INDOOR recreation facility the site for the new facility. The nounced that the plant would close will be located on the lower level. to the Board of Trustees, "are all scheduled to begin immediately. committee had a goal of 7,000 tentative cost of the facility was then Nov. I. 1975. The proposed recreation Sauna and exercise rooms also will things that are put in now to save Interest in the facility dates back petition signatures. Petitions were 18.4 million. facilities could then be incorporated be available as will a lounge and an costs later." Some of the Item* to 1974 when a preliminary com- circulated from approximately April Students were asked to contribute into the unused plant. outdoor area for lounging and sun- include a tennis wall, a skylight mittee began investigating student 30 to May 14, 1975 and then presented ideas for the center. Meetings were AT THE BOARD OF Trustees bathing. window over the recreational pool, opinion about an indoor recreation to the University Board of Trustees. held with the architect at various meeting on March 11, 1976, architect The facility will be financed en- ceramic tiles in the showers and tirely by student funds. The trustees wood paneling instead of painted last spring approved a $16 facility fee masonry walls. Alleged Olympic terrorist return 'doubtful' PARIS (AP»-An international the French Foreign Ministry to Abu Daoud is a prime suspect both prior international warrant for the controversy intensified yesterday protest the "unfriendly action" by asked the French to continue holding man reputed to be a founder of the around the arrest in France of an France in arresting a member of an him in a Paris jail pending formal Black September terrorist gang. alleged Palestinian terrorist on official Palestine Liberation extradition decisions. Eleven Israeli He said Bavarian authorities sent suspicion of commanding the 1972 Organization delegation. The office athletes and a German policeman an arrest warrant only after they slaying of Israeli athletes at the of the French president emphasized were killed in Munich in 1972. The were informed the French were Munich Olympic games. the arrest was a "police decision" on seizure of the Israelis allegedly was holding him. Israel said it would ask France to an international warrant supervised by Abu Daoud from a hand over the suspected terrorist, but Some French officials pointed out safe distance outside the Munich Shortly before the Bonn statement Israeli newspapers and experts ex- the possibility that acts cited against Olympic Village. French officials said Abu Daoud had pressed pessimism that France, Abu Daoud in possible extradition been arrested within hours of which depends on Arab oil for its proceedings might be considered A MUNICH COURT issued an receiving an international warrant energy requirements, would comply. political and thus exempt from ex- arrest warrant yesterday for Abu from West Germany. They could not West Germany and France both tradition. Daoud and sent it to Justice Ministry immediately clarify the discrepancy. claimed the other initiated the arrest French authorities stepped up officials in Paris. The newspaper Le Monde said it of Mohammed Daoud Audeh, or Abu security vigilance against reprisal In Bonn, a Justice Ministry had established that no senior French Daoud, whose capture appeared attacks at major French airports. spokesman said he could not explain ministers had been notified In ad- increasingly embarrassing to France. Israel and the West German state why the French counter-intelligence vance of the arrest and speculated it of Bavaria, site of the Munich service arrested Abu Daoud.