Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-11-2000 The BG News January 11, 2000 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, 2000" (2000). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6583. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6583 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. ; WEATHER TUESDAY January 1 1, 2000 Rain WOKI.I. NFWS 2_ High, 46 OPINION 4 Low, 37 CAMPUS 10 SPORTS 19 www.bgnewi.com The BG New s Volume 88. Issue 1 A daily independent srudempRess U. survives first day without Union BRANOI BARHITi; i iniiin IN-CHIEF I Inion regulars didn't let the clos- ing get them down as students .in.' faculty alike adjusted to lunch IIIIK without a Union yesterday, Sharon Franklin, administrative secretary of design and construction, decided lo eat at Founders instead "The) have a nice v.inctv here," sin- said. "I'll miss the Union, but Pounders is close to mj office." Union regular Joe Gray, associate professoi ol German and Russian Studies, also decided to give Founders a chance However, he missed the Union menu and wished that the Founders menu was online so he could sec v h.u they were -civ ing before he walked over. Opal Smith, who used lo work in the Union and is now relocated lo the Founders Snack Bar. said Iherc was a steads How of people in Founders yesterday, but not an onslaught of people. "We haven "I had any problems," she said. "We expeel things to con- tinue going well " Homer Fry, a Founders scivci who winks the pizza line, said he didn'i notice any more people than usual "It is |usi like an) othet day," BEN FRENCH/ The BG News he said. Inn Holland. Commons food Steve Charter, reference archivist, looks through a box of archives at the University Center for Archival Collections. Although Charter feels fortunate to have such server, had a similai stor) Traffic in treasures, he fears that $25 million worth of historical documents are at risk because the library lacks modern fire prevention equipment. Commons was the same as usual besides ,i icw more students, he said In fact, David Crooks, the direc- MATTSTKINKR tire safety officer, John Curlis, tot "i the i Inion, said he was pleased STAFF WWTKR the library is "really in a risky situation right now." Curlis and A .soldier fighting in the his department recommend that • See UNION, page 10. Civil War writes a Idler lo a a state of the art sprinkler sys- lOVcd one describing his loneli- tem be installed to provide the ness and glory. Wall Whitman best possible protection pens poems iiu the first edition However, water could also Planning of his collection "The Leaves of destro) such precious materials Grass." A blues musician works Curlis understands this day and night, losing sleep and threat. That is why he suggests a keeps campus toiling over just the right song "pre-action system" which is lo grace the vinyl disk that will the same type used at the bear his name. National Archives in Washing- Y2K compliant Jerome Library houses many ton D.C materials that give clues to such Pre-action combines a JENNIFER LULEY events that have shaped our his- wet/dry system that is connect- Si VII WKIII R tory and culture. These trea- ed to a smoke or heal detection sures, which fill the Music device. When not in use, the Few problems lor the University library and Sound Recording sprinkler lines are full of air communit) resulting from Y2K Archives, the Popular Culture rather than water, protecting the weie icported Those that did arise Library and the Center for materials against damage from were minor, according to Universit) Archival Collections lace the leaky pipes. As soon as sensors officials threat of destruction 24 hours a delect a threat, the air is forced Planning and preparations for day. from the lines sending the nec- an) problems thai could have arisen The library, built in 1967. essary water lo the rescue. as a result ol computers misintcr was erected prior to modern fire This wet/dry system still •preting the yeai 20(X) foi the yeai codes and lacks stale of the art does not eliminate the use of 1900 p.ud oil for the Universit) tire equipment. The building is water entirely, but Curlis said offices and departments "grandl'athered" by law, mean- that pre-action is the best fire According to Toby Singer, execu ing it does not have to comply suppression system for this type tivc director ol InformationTechnol with today's codes when inspec- of application He added that. og) Services loi the University, the tion day rolls around. once detected, "most fires are new yeai arrived virtually flawless liach floor does possess a extinguished with fewer than "M wenl very well." Sinpc said "better than average amount of five sprinkler heads." keeping "So fat we've really had no Y2K- lire extinguishers." according to damage to a minimum. related problems." Paul Yon. the director of the Linda Dobb interim provost The Universit) has been working Center for Archival Collections. and Chris Miko interim dean of for more than foul ve.ns to avoid the Fire hoses protect the floors Jerome Library said plans are in potential problems. containing the special collec- progress to protect these collec- Smgci said IIS wenl as l.u as tions and the personnel working tions. Many of the periodicals changing the dale lo read 2001) on with these priceless materials and printed materials have been Universit) compute) -vsicnis over have been trained to operate put on microfilm and reside in a Thanksgiving break to assess any them in case of an emergency depository in Perrysburg. Acon- potential problems before resetting But. according to campus the clock when classes resumed Ihe • Sec ARCHIVES, page 10. follow ing MOIHI.IV "We tested and retestrd to make sine everything was ready," he said While unlikely, Singei said this does not mean Y2K related proS lems won't arise in the coming City feels relieved as New Year's scare fizzles weeks. A dale particularl) in mind rs happen. In addition, all city vehicles were Feb 29, the first leap yeai da) of the JENNIFER I.ULEV millennium. , STAFF WRIIKR fueled and ready if it became necessarv to leave the post. Representatives monitored CNN reports from around the world should For most people in Bowling Green, the Sec CAMPUS, page 10. feared Y2K computer problem will go dow n problems have been reported from oth'ci in the record books, not as the nightmarish areas of the globe that needed to be correct- event some had predicted, but just as anoth- ed in Bowling Green as well. er day. "We had been preparing for Y2K for Problems were averted in the Bowling many weeks going in." Conner said "We Green area following months and even years thought we were in good shape and as it of planning to avoid difficulties that could turned out. we were." have occurred on Jan. I. 2000. It had been Daryl Stockburgcr. director of utilities for feared that computers in Bowling Grev I and Bow ling Green, said the case V as similar lor around the world would assume the date was his department. actually Jan l, 1900. "We had no problems at the turnover." Thankfully, this wasn't the case, said city Stockburger said, adding that one piece ol officials. data collections software was later affected Lieutenant Brad Conner from the Bowl- by Y2K ing Green Police Department said Y2K As a result, the department lost the abili- problems were easily summed up. ty to immediately print certain documents, "We didn'i have any problems." Conner but the problem has since been corrected said. "It was so uneventful." Preparations lor Y2K began about six Bui that's not lo say the department was- veils ago. Stockburgcr said These included n't prepared should something have gone the purchase of a new mainframe computer wrong The BGPD established a command system as well as necessary software patch post at the police department on New Year's es. Eve. with representatives from all city "We knew about Y2K glitches in plenty departments prepared to take on any prob- ol time." he said. "And while we had fixed ■ Men's basketball lems that could have arisen. everything we thought of. we had people on goes 5-1 over winter Representatives were on hand from 1030 break. JIM BAER/ BG News Graphic p.m. to 1:30 a.m. just in case something did • SeeY2K, page 10. 1 7 page 2 The BG News Tuesday, January 11, 2000 WORLD wivw.ligiiews.com/ai> WORLD] Cuban ordered to stay in States until March SHEPHERDSTOWN. W.Va. — ASSOCIATED PRESS INS spokeswoman Maria Car- Peace talks between Israel and Syria dona said the agency had no com- recessed Monday without agreement ment until its lawyers had a chance on new borders or any other major MIAMI — A Florida judge on Monday ordered 6-year-old Elian to examine the ruling. Another INS elements of a land-for-peace treaty spokesman. Mike Gilhooly said: despite rigorous American media- Gonzalez to remain in the United States until March, a ruling that "The INS has no plans to do any tion.