The BG News February 18, 1987

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THE BG NEWS Vol. 69 Issue 82 Bowling Green, Ohio Wednesday, February 18,1987 Group may recommend stricter smoking policy by Judy Immel staff reporter "That (smoking) area should be independently The University Safety Com- mittee expects to make a recom- ventilated ... it will run into mendation for a more engineering problems and restrictive policy on smoking in University buildings by the end costs." of March. — Dan Parratt, manager, The present policy prohibits Environmental Services smoking in classrooms, labo- ratories, lecture halls and designated areas. The designated buildings unsuitable, according costs." areas are determined by the to Dan Parratt, manager of En- Parratt said that besides dean or other person in charge vironmental Services. smoking being harmful to envi- of the area. Generally, the buildings con- ronmental health and personal The recommendation may cerned have steam heaters and health, fire safety is involved as mean a ban on smoking in most were built before the 1960s. well. public areas on campus, al- "We hear reports about small though specific solutions and In these buildings, the same fires caused by cigarettes, but proposals will not be decided air circulates within the build- fortunately, most are contained until at least the middle of next ing, which means that smoke to wastebaskets or burned month. disperses and drifts throughout. rugs," he said. Therefore, setting aside spe- The policy of allowing every- After a subcommittee report cial smoking areas is not an one to decide for themselves on on the issue, the safety commit- effective solution to the smoking their department policy means tee will submit the recommen- situation, Parratt said. there is no coherent, consistent dation for a vote by statement by the University on administrators and, eventually, "That (smoking) area should its stance on smoking areas, the Board of Trustees, said be independently ventilated, according to Parratt. Wayne Colvin, chairman of the which would disrupt the hand- safety committee. ling balance of air circulation "In some places someone can and affect temperature regula- only smoke in the bathroom, The closed air system of many tion," he said. "Doing some- while in another, he or she would of the buildings on campus thing about it will run into C See Smoking, page 4. makes smoking in most of the engineering problems and Ohio insurance bill passed COLUMBUS (AP)-After will name a new committee to again, among them the Ohio brief debate, the House passed conduct hearings in a "timely Public Interest Campaign. yesterday a rewritten bill revis- but thorough fashion." But House Insurance Chair- ing Ohio's insurance laws, osten- Gov. Richard Celeste vetoed a man Michael Stinziano, D-Co- sibly to make liability insurance similar proposal in December, lumbus, said the bill represents more widely available at lower objecting to provisions that he "a common-sense approach" to prices. said would restrict the rights of availability and affordability However, opponents said the Ohioans to seek compensation problems that have troubled long-debated legislation carries for injuries caused by defective small businesses and gover- m News/Pe,e FeUman witn it a false promise, noting products. ments in Ohio in recent months. Heart and 'sole' that other states have adopted The rewritten bill deletes Joe Fisher, a Cleveland resident, and Dana Sniegowski, sophomore fashion merchandising major, kick up similar changes without accom- some but not all of those provi- "THESE ARE workable re- their feet even though both have been dancing for nearly 24 hours at the 13th annual MDA Superdance plishing those goals. sions, and the governor's office forms," be told the House, refer- held in the lobby of Offenhauer Towers. The dance, which began Friday at 6 p.m. and ended 24 hours The 81-12 vote sent the mea- has not said if lie would accept ring to changes in both the tort later, attracted 48 dancers who collected over $3,900 from sponsors, all of which will go to the Muscular sure to an uncertain fate in the the new version. Some groups (civil lawsuit) system and those Dystrophy Association. Senate, where President Paul that urged the veto indicated that call for tighter regulation of Gillmor, R-Port Clinton, said he yesterday they would do so G See Insurance, page 4. Activist's Restructuring questioned BG police still release University Writing Center 'digressing', says director investigating expected by Maria Kromer "What can we do for them staff reporter (students) if the MOSCOW (AP)-The Soviet • "We are digressing and not Sovemment announced yester- progressing," said Dr. Vernice specialization is eliminated?" coed's murder ay that two more dissidents Cain, director of the University — Vernice Cain, director, have been ordered released Writing Center, in reference to from prison and that Jewish the upcoming restructuring of University Writing Center by Don Lac terviewing people to activist Josef Begun is likely to the center. wlreedHor determine "any kind of con- be freed. nection with the case," he In January, Cain received no- guidance will not be turned City police are "very com- tice from the Office of Academic The Pearl Program in the fortable" with the progress of said. If they are released, it would away. UWC, funded by a special grant the investigation into the Jan. "Time is really not against be in line with Kremlin actions Affairs that the UWC would be from the Special Services Of- to free dissidents whose impris- reorganized and her contract Of all the students using the 6 murder of a University stu- us. Except for the public's fice, was originally designed dent, Police Chief Galen Ash satisfaction, the public's onment has been an obstacle to would not be renewed when it UWC now, 75 to 80 percent are specifically for high-risk stu- better Soviet relations with the expires June 30. students from English 110, HI said yesterday. ease, and the news media," and 112, Cain said. If the main dents, helping them through all The Fremont regional of- there are no time constraints. West. Soviet leader Mikhail Gor- three basic English courses, Ash said. bachev has launched a liberali- Dr. Joan Morgan, director of focus of the center will not actu- fice of the Ohio Bureau of Academic Enhancement, said ally change, Cain does not un- Cain said. The proposed change Criminal Identification and "We'd like to dear it (the zation drive and has said the last week that the changes were in the structure will not be offer- Investigation is still conduct- case) up as rapidly as possi- Soviet Union is changing its ap- derstand why organizational ing anything different from ble, but by being slow and proach to human rights. being made to put the UWC restructuring needs to be made. ing tests on evidence taken more in line with the services "All students have to be intro- what the center now has to offer, from the apartment at 818 careful we don't make any Foreign Ministry spokesman offered by the Math Lab and duced to the writing process and she said. Second St, where Karen Sue mistakes," he said. Gennady Gerasimov said the Study Skills Lab. we have to help them find their Hirschman, 22, was found Some of the tests run by the government has ordered the re- own processes. But students THE GRADUATE students stabbed to death, Ash said. BC1 lab take several days to The current coordinators of 11 and upper-level undergraduate "Two vanloads" of complete, and the lab was lease of Anatoly Koryagin and components in the UWC, offer- need us more after 112 when Alexander Ogorodnikov and will they need to write academically students whose coordinator material were taken from the working on two other homi- ing writing expertise in a num- postitions were eliminated are apartment in the first days of cide cases for other North- "most likely" free Begun. ber of academic fields, have in other subjects too," Cain said. She said she does not see the upset about the changes too, the investigation, and additio- west Ohio police agencies Gerasimov told a news brief- become peer tutors. Cain's posi- Cain said. nal "potential evidence" was when the Hirschman murder tion as director will be taken need to eliminate the specialized ing he didn't know whether Ko- components either. sent to the BO crime lab last occurred, Ash said. ryagin was free yet, but he said over by an English graduate "All my tutors were going to week, he said. BO is also running tests on a government decision was student, Cain said. "What can we do for them quit because they didn't want to "Now it's pretty much wait- material gathered at the Wal- made Friday to pardon him (students) if the specialization is work under another graduate ing on results from the lab," lace Are. noose where James from charges of anti-Soviet ac- MORGAN SAID the changes eliminated?" she said. student as their director.

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