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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. .The BG News mostly cloudy New program to assist disabled students Office of Disability Services offers computer program that writes what people say However, he said, "They work together," Cunningham transcripts of students' and ities, so they have an equal By IRENE SHARON (computer programs] are far less said. teachers' responses. This will chance of being successful. high: 69 SCOTT than perfect." Additionally, the Office of help deaf students to participate "We try to minimize the nega- The BG News Also, in the fall they will have Disability Services hopes to start in class actively, he said. tives and focus on similarities low: 50 The Office of Disability Ser- handbooks available for teachers an organization for disabled stu- Several disabled students rather than differences," he said. vices for Students is offering and faculty members, so they dents. expressed contentment over the When Petrisko, who has pro- additional services for the dis- can better accommodate dis- "We are willing to provide the services that the office of disabil- found to severe hearing loss, was abled community at the Univer- abled students. The handbook support," he said. "But we need ity services offer them. deciding whether to attend sity. will have descriptions of differ- students to show interest." "They make sure our needs BGSU or Kent State University, i Columnist Jeff Gill tells According to Robert Cunning- ent types of disabilities. It will In addition, this semester for are met," said Nikki Petrisko, a she chose the University because ham, director of the Office of Dis- also include what are the best deaf students who don't know freshman communication disor- she could live anywhere and the ' students to be satisfied accommodations for a student sign language, they started to der major. accommodations she needed with BGSU or leave. ability Services for Students, next fall they will provide software with a particular disability and provide a "real time captionist," Cunningham said their mis- could be installed in any room with speech input capability. how the Office of Disability Ser- who is a trained transcriptionist sion is to keep with the Universi- she wanted. At Kent, she would This software program allows vices can help teachers. who attends class with the stu- ty and make sure students feel have to live in a special residence Guest columnist slams the students to speak into a com- "This is offered as positive dent/staff and types lectures welcome and accepted. They hall. In addition, unlike Kent, the puter and the computer writes information for both the [disabil- and/or class discussion as it hap- help the University to extend its Lotus Notes again. out what is said. ity! office and faculty, so we can pens. They will also provide services to students with disabil- • See DISABILITY, page six. nation 4 New limo i Three American E-mail service soldiers captured in routine mission in Kosovo. aids U.S., University students I Dolly, the cloned By KIM WILFONG sheep, gives birth to become more reliant The BG News three. An area entrepreneur is com- on e-mail ing up with an alternative to tinmen! 7 staggering home from the bars. puter science major, is one stu- Denny Emahisen, an employ- By BRANDI BARHITE dent who admits she is The BG News ee at Campus World Travel in "EdTV" is not a replica obsessed with checking her e- Bowling Green, is starting a lim- When the University's newly mail. She has her e-mail set on of "The Truman Show." BG Newt Photo/ KEVIN VORHEES ousine service that will offer free installed e-mail system, Lotus autocheck and every time she drop-off and pick-up for stu- has a new message she checks Notes, encountered a few bugs dents from local bars. in mid-March, students and fac- it. Dustin Lampe. a freshman business and pre-law major, checks his e-mail using Lotus Notes. "I'm offering free rides to the ulty were frustrated. "Since I came to college my bars," Emahisen said. "If you "When the system goes reliance on e-mail has intensi- now essential— which becomes said in 1994, registering for an e- want to give me money, I will fied," she said. "Last semester down, people think their lives evident whenever the system mail account was made more donate it to a charity." my computer crashed. I went end," said Matt Mikulicz, an goes down." accessible. Emahisen said that he is Information Technology Ser- about crazy when I couldn't Toby Singer, interim execu- "It has become a way of life," doing this to let kids have fun check my e-mail." vices system supporter. tive director of ITS, said he she said. "Originally it was just and stay safe. He is not exaggerating. The rest of America is also understands why people felt so used among professors and col- "1 just want everybody to According to Ann-Marie Lan- experiencing this craze. "lost" when Lotus Notes could leagues, but.now everyone is on have fun and get home safe," he caster, vice provost of technolo- According to a recent article not provide a consistent and a listproc." said. "I would rather have this gy, the University is reliant on e- in U.S. News and World Report, at reliable e-mail service. She said that even when than run into someone intoxicat- mail and would not be able to least a third of the nation is now "It doesn't surprise me e- school is out for break, thou- ed on the road." function without it. She said sending messages over the mail is so popular," Singer said. sands of e-mail messages are Emahisen has received posi- between five and seven thou- internet. It further reported that "It is fast and a simple way of processed. tive feedback for his idea. i Women's track team sand e-mail messages are 2.2 billion e-mail messages are communicating and at a very Jeff Hawley, junior English "This is an experiment to see processed per hour. Over 20,000 sent a day compared to the 293 low cost." and computer science major hosts Northwest Ohio if it would work and I've got students and faculty have e- million pieces of first- class mail Despite BGSU's reliance on e- who uses Eudora, said he is not tremendous response," he said. Track Invitational. mail accounts. sent. mail, it has not always been so obsessed with e-mail, but he "I've talked to all the bar owners She described this phenome- "E-mail has become second popular. In fact, only 3,000 Uni- does check it regularly. He has it and everybody loved the idea." non as "e-mail madness." nature to techsavvy net-setters versity students and faculty had set on autocheck. The service will pick up and "It provides you nearly and groovy grandmas alike," e-mail accounts in Spring 1994. "Whenever 1 enter my room, drop off 24 hours a day, every instantaneous communication the article said. "It is de rigor for Yet by December 1994. 13,000 I see if the little letter icon has Opinion 2 day of the week. where other forms of communi- college kids, and an important people had e-mail accounts. appeared, and I check it," he "There is a 24-hour call, seven Page Three 3 cation might be hard," she said. tool for children and teenagers, Lancaster said the growth of said. days of the week, anytime," who use it to test the limits of World and Nation 4 "We are reliant on the speed of e-mail can be traced to the facul- He said e-mail makes his life Emahisen said. "If I can drive Entertainment 7 the communication." social behavior and good taste. ty's desire to interact with their you, I will drive you." In many workplaces, it is by students via the service. She Sports 9 Sandy Shadburn, junior com- i See E-MAIL, page five. University students think that Sports Agate 10 . this is a good idea. "People are going to drink whether they have a ride home E-mail problems being ironed out or not," said Tanya Jacimovic, ing to Ann-Marie Lancaster, with e-mail attachments and "The transition has been senior interpersonal communi- By BRANDI BARHITE vice provost of technology. replies. painful, but we had to do it." cation major. "It's better that The BG News "A year from now all those Yet three weeks after the Toby Singer, interim execu- they do than drive home "It has become a way who want to be converted will University changed its e-mail tive director of ITS, said the drunk." One year from now, the new Amy Nesbit, senior interper- of life. Originally it was e-mail system Lotus Notes is be converted," Lancaster said. system from Pine to Lotus change was for the better.