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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-27-1990 The BG News September 27, 1990 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 September 27, 1990" (1990). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5115. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5115 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. Campus Human Diversity Sports Debate and discussion about Speaker stresses lack of unity BG cross country runner Cheri East Merry incident continues. between different races Trainer benefits from summer camp S " —— Thursday Vol.73 Issue 18 September 27, 1990 Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News ossffAn Independent Student Voice for 70 Years«-« BRIEFLY Donations CAMPUS by faculty Mitchum film shown: The Lenhart Classic Film aid award Series presents "The Enemy Below," starring Robert Mitchum, tonight at 8:45 in 210 Mathematical for service Sciences Building. Admis- by Jennifer Taday sion is free. staff writer Faculty forum today: University President Paul Faculty donations toward the Olscamp will conduct the establishment of the Distin- first of three faculty open guished Faculty Service Award forums today in the Com- are being matched, dollar-for- munity Suite of the Univer- dollar, by the University Founda- sity Union 2:30 to 4 p.m. tion Board. The purpose of the meet- Marcia Latta, coordinator for ing is to raise topics of fac- the development office, said a ulty interest ana discuss ceiling of $5,000 has been set by improving working condi- the board to establish the award. tions at the University. Six years ago, Faculty Senate Other open forum dates voted to implement this $1,000 a- have not yet been an- ward and plaque yearly for an nounced. outstanding faculty member, said Faculty Senate Chair Harold Lunde. City "The purpose was to focus on the importance of faculty service Local artists featured: and to recognize faculty mem- Artists from the Wood bers who have given outstanding County area will be featured continuous service to the Univer- Saturday, Sept. 29, at the sity," he said. Shedding Light ■O Newt/Greg Horvath ninth annual Wood County One fund-raising goal is to es- Adrian Tlo left, head of the 2-D division of the School of Art. gives make sure he keeps on schedule. Godfrey's painting Is one of six Fine Art Show. The show tablish an endowment with an senior fine arts major Vann Godfrey advice on one of his paint- planned as part of his senior porttollo which will go on display will take place at the Wood annual return of about $1,000, ings. Tlo, who Is Godfrey's studio advisor, met with him recently on during the BFA Senior Exhibit next spring In McFall Center. County Courthouse 10 a.m. which will fund the award, Latta the second floor ol the Fine Arts Building to offer guidance and to to 4 p.m., and is open to the said. public. "For an endowment to be Participating artists will created, a minimum of $5,000 has be eligible to receive to be given," she said. "This awards sponsored by Strick- amount is for research, schol- land Frame Shop and Gal- arships and other projects." Taliaferro found guilty by jury lery, Ben Franklin Variety However, in order to create an Store, Blue Ribbon Photo, endowment for the award, $12,500 by John Kohlstrand 1989 on the annual trip that his said they saw Craig bring a P.A. from gas stations on East Woos- and the Park District. has to be raised to generate $1,000 city editor company, Your Tours Inc., spon- system and baby carriage on the ter St. and in Shaker Heights, O., Works of art will be judged in interest earnings for this Dis- sors. 1990 Your Tours trip. Hanna also which he said called into question by Trudy Kahn of Toledo, tinguished Faculty Service A- Longtime University student Taliaferro's attorney Harold produced three $25 cancelled Taliaferro's location during the president of the North- ward, she said. Craig Taliaf erro was found guilty Hanna produced a contract his checks which he argued were weekend of the alleged robbery. western Ohio Watercolor Lunde said the interest or divi- of grand theft Wednesday even- client said was drawn up in their payment for the video camera. Society, an associate mem- dends on the endowment will pro- ing by a 12-member jury after Jamaica hotel in 1989. In it, Ta- Wood County Assistant Pros- Taliaferro replied in cross- ber of the Ohio Watercolor vide funds for the service award two days of testimony. liaferro agrees to give Black $250, ecutor Scott Coon pointed out that examination he was not sure on Society, and a life member annually. Bowling Green Police accused a "boom box," a simple public Your Tours records recorded the which dates he left Bowling of the Toledo Artist Club. "The principle should never be Taliaferro of deceiving Allstate address system, a baby carriage, checks as advance payment for Green, or if the signatures on the For further information, touched," he said. "When contri- Insurance after a search of his bicycle, automobile battery campground space for the 1990 receipts were his. contact the Wood County buting to an endowment, one is home turned up a video camera charger and several $25 to $50 Jamaica trip. Black owned the In closing arguments, Coon Park District at 18729 Mer- giving a gift that keeps on giving and battery charger police said checks to be sent from his home campground used by many Your said the contract for the alleged cer Road or call 353-1897. Forever. he reported stolen to Allstate In- in return for the recorder. Tours guests in March, 1990. second video recorder did not The initial $5,000 will be do- surance last June. Allstate paid Taliaferro's former common Taliaferro said the notes were a exist at the time of Taliaferro's nated by current and retired fac- Taliaferro $1,500 for the video law wife Christine testified as a mistake and attributed it to mix- arrest, and was faked. NATION ulty members, he said. camera and other losses. witness to the contract and later ups between several people work- Latta said to date, $3,300 has But in testimony Wednesday, said she saw two video recorders ing together at Your Tours. He admitted much of the state's been raised to create the endow- Taliaferro said the confiscated in his home before the alleged I'm not a professional at run- evidence was circumstantial and "Collegs costs more: ment. video camera was purchased robbery. ning a business — I did my best," emphasized the defendant's prior A year at college will cost from Jamaican Winston Black Other witnesses — including the defendant said. two robbery convictions in asking an average of 5 percent to 8 D See Award, page 5. while vacationing there in March, Jane Taliaferro, his mother — Coon also produced receipts the jury to reach a guilty verdict. percent more this fall, a slight lessening in the de- cade-long spellof higher education inflation, accord- ing to an annual survey released Wednesday. South African professor But some officials fear the encouraging trend may end soon, especially at colleges in oil-sensitive northern visits to help own school states, if the overall infla- tion rate worsens and a fund her two-month trip to the Nyikana said she is looking by Tara A. Rainson forward to applying the infor- recession occurs. staff writer United States. The survey by the College Nyikana also is visiting mation she has gathered here, Board found that Massa- other schools in this region, in- and believes her university chusetts Institute of Tech- A South African professor cluding Ohio State University will give her a free hand in nology is the nation's most visiting the University this and Michigan State Universi- making changes, she said. costly college this fall: an week called her experiences so ty- The University of Zululand, estimated $22,945, counting far in the United States "won- Nyikana's job involves where Nyikana teaches, is a tuition, fees, room and derful" but "exhausting." teaching prospective teachers black university which allows board, books and supplies, Nqabomzi Nyikana, a profes- how to teach their future stu- flexibility and the creation of transportation, and other sor in the University of Zulu- dents, she explained. new programs, she said. expenses. land's Department of Didac- She focuses primarily on "Nobody's going to interfere At four-year public uni- tics in South Africa, is visiting methods of teaching geog- with you as long as you know versities, fixed costs aver- the University until Friday to raphy, and thinks the geog- where you're going," she said. age $4,970, up 7 percent observe U.S. teaching meth- raphy education program at Nyikana hopes to begin by from $4,715 the previous ods. her home university needs im- training geography teachers in year. Nyikana will observe Uni- provement. her homeland, who often begin versity geography and educa- South African university their careers in the field of his- tion classes, as well as classes students who lack the aptitude tory, to be more informed and WEATHER at the Bowling Green junior to study math and science are enthusiastic about the subject high school andhigh school.

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