Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-24-2001 The BG News April 24, 2001 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 April 24, 2001" (2001). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6804. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6804 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. State University TUESDAY April 24, 2001 PUTT-PUTT: CLOUDY Falcon golfers hit the HIGH: 59 I LOW 50 rough at invitationals; www.bgnews.com PAGE 8 independent student press VOLUME 90 ISSUE145 Body identified Student sues Marshall U. ByJoann C.Elmer With help of ACLU, he's taking action If the ACLU Board of Directors The recommendation reads, U-VtlRE agrees, the ACLU could file as a "Publication of evaluations and HUNTINGTON, W.Va—After to get teacher evaluations published co-plaintiff with Hughes, Huber grade distributions may have a as Rizzi's months of requests, appeals and said. negative impact on teaching denials to publish teacher evalu- University President Dan Angel The evaluations are an agree- The evaluations, which stu- effectiveness and grading meth- IHE BG NEWS ations, Joseph I lughes, a junior, and Director of Institutional ment between the administra- dents fill out at the end of each ods for faculty members According to County plans to file a legal suit against Research Michael McGuffey. tion and the faculty and are semester to provide feedback on attempting to gain more favor- Prosecutor Alan Mayberry, the Marshall University as early as "The students have a right to meant to be a way of enhancing professors, were first officially able evaluations." body found Friday on the north next week. know how teachers rate, the faculty teaching, Dr. H. Keith implemented in 1997, under the Huber said, "A president of a side of campus was that of Hughes, with American Civil records are subject to disclosure Spears, assistant to the presi- recommendation of former university does not have the Michelle Rizzi Salerno, who has Liberties Union (ACLU) attorney and the FOIA does apply to all dent, said. President J. Wade Gilley authority to override the been missing from East Lansing, lason Huber, will file a formal state universities," Huber said. "If there's an agreement The Faculty Personnel Freedom of Information Act" Mich., since last lune. injunction in the Cabell County "We'll file our case against the between the administration and Committee passed the recom- Hughes said since students custodian of the records, which She was positively identified by Courts for violation of the the faculty, then it needs to be mendation (SR-97-98-2 FPC) are involved in the evaluation would be Mr. McGuffey, and to respected," Spears said. "In the Lucas County coroner's office. Freedom of Information Act SepL 25. 1997, with the clause process, they should be allowed (FOIA). Possible defendants in cover our bases, probably Dan terms of legal communications, According to a statement that the evaluations would not the case could include Angel and the university." I am unaware of any." be released to the public. released by the prosecutor's office. EVALUATIONS, PAGE 5 Dennis Michael Salerno, her estranged husband, is awaiting arraignment on escape charges in the Wood County Jail. The arraign- ment will be held April 26 at 2:30 p.m. His trial for charges of aggravat- ed murder of Larry HOT McClannahan, a trucker found dead in Lake Township, is set for My ft Dennis Michael Salerno is rep- WHEELS resented by attorneys Adrian Cimerman and lohn Duffin. JALOPY STYLE: This diminutive set of wheels was found in Lot G, near the campus police station, on Sunday. Though it did not sport a faculty/staff parking pass, it was not towed. Sibs and BG NEWS Kids weekend brought cars — BRIEFING and kids — of all sizes to the University. Sewer Division closes East Evers Street East Evers Street, between North Main and North Prospect streets, will be closed to traffic as of yesterday. The Bowling Green Sewer Division will be repairing a sewer, and expect the work to be finished by Friday. Nick Hum BG Nwn Job Fair slated for May at Southwyck A job fair will be open to job >ll DKXTSSI'KAK (1 IX IT.niKST seekers in early May at Blood Drive Southwyck Mall in Toledo. Employers at the job fair, scheduled for May 3, 1:30-6:30 closes with p.m., will be interviewing for Americas summit heats up positions in management, sales, retail, manufacturing, By Brandt Gassman almost all of clerical technical, professional, U Mr ■ R E warehouse and other areas. NEW YORK — Police in riot gear bombarded a group of goal reached about 45 New York University By Jordan Fonts Firelands rewards students and thousands of CIIY RtPORIER other activists with clouds of Welcomed problems replaced community service tear gas and high-pressure William B: Lally and the Erie- discouraging ones on the BGSU water hoses at protests against Bloodmobile's final day: Low Huron-Ottawa Counties the Summit of the Americas in Educational Services center turnout became long lines and a received a service award from Quebec last weekend. need for more volunteers. the Firelands Advisory board The students, many of The American Red Cross sur- Friday. Jennifer R. Washington whom are part of the NYU passed Thursday's goal by 18 pints also received the Community Coalition to Stop the Free Trade of blood, receiving 158 total. This Services Award, at the 32nd Area of the Americas (FTAA), contrasted with Monday, the first annual Recognition Program. drove 12 hours to Quebec in a day of their annual blood drive, rented bus through Thursday when donor attendance fell short night into Friday morning to by nearly half the expected num- Columbus rally to participate in the protests. ber. protest budget cuts Each student paid $45 to pay The following two days were for the bus ride, and stayed in Associated Press similar, causing many staff and A rally is planned for for the gymnasium of a communi- Wednesday at noon at the volunteers to fear missing the ty center in Quebec. One of the SAY SO: Students from New York University protest at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec. overall eoal of 460 Dints of blood. Ohio Statehouse in Columbus protesters had arranged lor the to protest Gov. Taft's higher for American corporations to poorer countries, as well as the sue an entire government.' But on Thursday, so many education tax cuts. For more lodgings. use labor and resources in loss of jobs in the United States. "Free trade is used for corpo- donors came that the drive was information or to attend the The students went to countries outside the United "Free trade as defined by the rations and against the people. forced to call in staff from other rally, contact Andrew Mizsak, a Quebec to protest the FTAA, a Stales. However, many of the people in power now... isn't fair None of the profits go back to areas. In the end, the four days' member of the Special proposed agreement among protesters fear that the FTAA trade," said David Heron, a the people," he said. total was 445 units, just 15 short of Committee on Higher the countries of North and will lead to exploitation Of junior in the College of Arts and The protesters arrived at the the drive's goal. Education. He can be reached South America that will elimi- workers, the underclass, the Science (CAS). "It gives individ- They would have reached die at 372-6579. nate tariffs and make it easier environment and the natives of ual corporations the right to PROTEST. PAGE 5 goal if long lines hadn't forced many donors to leave, said senior Jennifer Whalen, ARC intern. Also thinning the ranks were health reasons, mosdy low blood-iron levels from poor nutrition. Without deferrals, the donor OSU's Party Patrol useless on city's 4th riot count would have been 211. Rejections for health reasons By Brian Clark Columbus Division of Police with my girlfriend, and it was the Columbus Division of Police, U-WIRE "My opinion is eliminates about seven percent of estimated the event escalated starting up. I think it really start- about the man who was accused donors locally, said senior COLUMBUS, Ohio — The around 1:30 am. when the par- ed up after midnight," Brown of driving into the police. That they don't take Amanda See, also an intern. four-week-old extension of Ohio ties changed from an almost said. man and one other person were enough "It was such a wonderful team State University's Code of Man 11 (It .is feel to the fourth riot The riot also took a more vio- the only two arrests reported . effort...We're very pleased with the Conduct off campus and OSU's in just over a year in the off-cam- lent trend than the previous dis- during the weekend. preventative end result." she said. "With a good two-week-old Party Patrol did pus area turbances with a motorist being Around 2:15 a.m. between cause, everyone pulls together." not prevent a riot from occurring lames Brown, a local beaten outside his vehicle and Indianola Avenue and High measures to keep According to Whalen, this early Saturday morning when a Columbus resident, said he saw reports of a person driving a car Street, the area just east of cam- month came closer to its goal group of between 1,500 and stuff like this from the beginning of the disturbance into a line of police.