Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-12-1992 The BG News February 12, 1992 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 February 12, 1992" (1992). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5331. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5331 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. G The BG News Wednesday, February 12,1992 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 74, Issue 94 Weather Doyt Perry, honored coach, dies at age 82 Winter returns: Winning percentage was BG's best Variable cloudiness by Matt Schroder Wednesday. High in the sports editor middle 20s. Light east "There was only one Doyt Peppy. That's the host way to winds. Wednesday night, snow likely. Low 15 to 20. Doyt L. Perry, the coach with put it He was one of the most respected coaches of his The chance of snow is 60 the most wins in Bowling day. The players got a kick out ol him and his percent. Thursday, snow Green football history, died likely. High 30 to 35. The Monday night of natural mannerisms. He had a way of getting his players to chance of snow is 60 per- causes. He was 82. laugh. That was Doyt" cent. Perry had been a resident of the Bowling Green Manor Inside The News nursing home for nearly two Larry Smith, USC football coach and former BG years. player He led the Falcons to a Miller gets back in the 77-11-5 record in 10 years as race: head coach, retiring in 1964 Several of his assistant coach- put it," Smith said. "The with the highest winning per- es went on to major-college players got a kick out of him Former Mayor of Bowling centage among the nation's col- coaching jobs, including Bo and his mannerisms. He had a Green Edwin Miller has de- lege coaches. Schembechler of Michigan, way of getting his players to cided to jump back into the "He was one of the most re- Don Nehlen of West Virginia, laugh. That was Doyt." political scene - but this time spected college football coach- Larry Smith of Southern Cali- Perry's career as a football he is running for Wood es of his day," said USC foot- fornia, Bill Mallory of Indiana, coach was legendary, but his County Commissioner. ball coach Larry Smith, who Jim Young of Army, Jerr contributions off the field may played under Perry in the early Berndt of Temple and the late have been even greater. He □ Page six. 1960s. "He ran an incredible Dave McClain of Wisconsin, was a firm believer in develop- program, taught fundamentals, his son-in-law. ing the student-athlete, and and proved he could be a con- "His players and assistants caring for his players as indi- Outside campus sistent winner." believed in him so much," re- viduals. Bowling Green teams won tired equipment manager Of the 56 players on his 1959 championship team, 52 of them The Kids sing a new tune: five Mid-American Conference Glenn Sharp said. "He didn't championships during his have to have the best athletes, left Bowling Green with de- reign, including the national but he had a knack of impress- grees, according to former as- BOSTON (AP) New Kids Count.) or Public Relation! college division championship ing on them how to win. I don't sistant athletic director Don on the Block is suing a Legendary Bowling Green football coach Doyt L. Perry stands In in 1959. After coaching, Perry know how he did it." Cunningham. former producer who ac- "There was only one Doyt cused the pop group of lip- bis office In a 1988 photo. Perry, who died Monday, was the wln- served as Bowling Green's ath- nlngest head coach In Falcon history. Perry. That's the best way to See Doyt, page eight. syncing. letic director for six years. The slander lawsuit filed Monday seeks unspecified damages from Gregory McPherson. McPherson has alleged Libraries Tour sheds light on safety problem that the New Kids did only 20 percent of the singing in by Julie Tagliaterro campus the night of the survey. concerts and on their 1988 The BC News President of the Board of Trustees Rich- forced to Sears' report caused the trustees to ques- ard Newlove said the trustees want Martin album "Hangin' Tough." He tion what the administration was doing to fix to find out which lights do not work and what claimed New Kids' manager Representatives of Undergraduate Stu- the situation. it will take for them to be repaired and re- Maurice Starr and his cut back dent Government went on a lighting survey Vice President of the Board of Trustees port on the situation at the next trustees brother, Michael Johnson, walk with members of the campus police last Nick Mileti asked Bob Martin, vice presi- meeting in April. Bob Martin said yesterday were the real voices. Thursday night. dent of operations, if there was a system for that Operations, Public Safety and USG have "Everything that man said The walk occurred after USG passed a bill checking on the lights. "integrated a new effort" concerning the was untrue and defama- journals calling for improved lighting on campus. Martin said they conduct surveys and in- situation. tory," said Leonard Lewin, Members of Public Safety invited USG spect the lights frequently, "almost daily." Martin said that in addition to the once-a- the group's attorney. by Kirk Pavellch The BC News President Mike Sears, Sen. Rob Wagner and However, Martin also said there are month surveys and routine checks done Starr has said he and another student, Janece Gerber, to go on the thousands of exterior lights on campus and nightly by Public Safety, they are comparing Johnson sing only back- walk to compare USG's list of areas in need that it is a lengthy process to fix all of them. and combining the lists of improvements ground vocals. Rising journal costs coupled of improvement with a list Public Safety "We're talking about a great deal of man- made by USG and Public Safety. He said that McPherson has also with no budget increases have made. power that is involved in this as well. It's an after this happens, some sort of action will claimed that Starr and John- forced the University's libraries Sears reported on the lighting situation ongoing effort to keep [the lights] up," Mar- be taken. son owe him royalties. to review their titles to meet an Friday at the Board of Trustees meeting, tin said Friday. "I can assure you that we are anticipated 15 percent cut in the saying there were about 150 lights out on working very diligently with Public Safety." See Lighting, page six. Achievement award giv- total journal budget for the next en: fiscal year. According to Rush Miller, the Don't They Go On The Wall? BUCKHANNON, W.Va. dean of libraries and learning re- (AP) Actor and playwright sources, reductions in library Ossie Davis was honored by holdings are happening every- West Virginia Wesley an Col- where due to rising costs and a lege for his career and his stationary budget. civil rights work. "Most libraries are reviewing The Methodist college on serial titles because costs are ris- Monday presented Davis ing at no less than 10 percent per with its Wesleyan Peace A- year and budgets have not kept ward for work that included pace," he said. "There's no cut in helping to organize the 1963 the budget for journals, there's a March on Washington. reduction in our buying power. Davis, 74, also delivered We are trying to identify 15 per- the eulogy at the 1965 fu- cent of our resources that can be neral of Malcolm X. cut to stay within the same Davis' most recent film amount of money." appearance was in Spike Miller said It is difficult to es- Lee's "Jungle Fever." timate the exact number of jour- nals that will be cut due to the variation of cost among serials. Lottery "It's more of a dollar cut than a number of titles cut," he said. CLEVELAND (AP) Here "It's hard to say how many titles are Tuesday night*s Ohio will be cut because their prices Lottery selections: vary. I would guess we're going to reduce our total title count by Pick 3 Numbers a couple hundred." Barbara Ford-Foster, the di- 6-6-9 rector of collection management, said that faculty help will be en- Pick 4 Numbers listed for the process of cutting back on expendable titles. 6-3-5-2 "You've got journal costs run- ning the gamut from very expen- Cards sive to very inexpensive," she said. "We have the faculty in- 10 (ten) of Hearts volved in the [cutbacklprocess in 3 (three) of Clubs seeing what's important for them 6 (six) of Diamonds and what's not." J (Jack) of Spades Miller said University depart- ment chairpersons and library The Super Lotto jackpot is representatives are being con- $8 million. tacted by letter to assist in iden- tifying titles no longer neces- The BG Newa/Llada L»c sary. They are also being asked Compiled from staff and to assess the relative importance Sorting out posters, Dan Fallon of Musical Walls prepares bis dis- Services.