The BG News August 4, 1993

Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 8-4-1993 The BG News August 4, 1993 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 August 4, 1993" (1993). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5552. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5552 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. /? The BG News 4 Wednesday, August ,1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 75, Issue 140 Founders Takin' A Little Dip renovations ready for fall by Ginger Phillips staff writer windows unlike in Offenhauer," Webb said. "In Founders you can control After more than a year of ex- the air conditioning and heat at tensive renovation totaling $15.4 suite level," Strom said, explain- million. Founders will finally be ing that unlike in other residence ready for students to move in for halls, a room doesn't have to be at the fall semester. the same temperature as the rest According to Erik Strom, resi- of the rooms in the building. dential services complex coor- Not only will Founders have a dinator, there were a few reasons computer lab, but also a building for the remodeling. He said one wide network, Strom said. A stu- reason was the building had been dent will be able to print some- in need of infrastructure repairs thing out from his or her own such as a new fire alarm system, room to the computer lab, and plumbing replacement and pos- will also be able to use a comput- sibly the electrical system, all of er catalog to search for periodi- which would total well over $4 cals from the library. million and could possibly reach Strom said a weight room, $7 million and would not even in- which is not quite finished, will clude the costs of new carpet or also be located in Founders. paint. Safety is another feature of the building that has been greatly An electronic door improved. Webb said an electronic door access system will allow access system will allow only only students with an students with an electronic key- reader to open certain doors of electronic key-reader to the building that will be locked 24 open certain doors of hours a day. However, non- the building that will be residents will have access to the public areas of the building, such locked 24 hours a day. as the main entrances and the dining area. "The front and the back door of Founders will be open during the Strom said because the Uni- day, in the evening they'll be versity had to spend the money locked," Strom said. "In order to on fixing the building they would get into the student area, [guests] also renovate it to meet the needs would have to be escorted by a of students. resident.' "[Founders] was not very pop- Strom said escorting guests ular," Jodi Webb, interim assis- has always been a campus policy tant director of housing, said. "A but this new system will ensure it lot of students didn't like living is in effect. He said phones will there." be available in the main entrance Both Webb and Strom said stu- so that guests can phone residents did not like the 5-person dents if they want to be escorted rooms and wanted to get away into the student living area. from the group bathrooms into Outside of the building, Strom more private, apartment-like said extensive landscaping is be- housing. ing done, and in the back there According to Webb, the reno- will be a sand volleyball court for vated Founders will provide 672 student use. In the front of the people with this type of housing. building on East Wooster Street, She said there are about 234 two- a turn-around driveway will be a 1 hi' BC Newi/TIm Norman person suites and about 70 six- convenience. person suites. The two-person "It will be easier for delivery After being dunked in the City Park swimming pool Sunday after- nephew, Aaron Creps of Rudolph. Cartledge said the pool li the suites will provide each resident of packages, pizza," Strom said, noon, Debbie Cartledge of Portage is pulled up for air by ber closest place for Creps and her to go swimming. with their own room with a bath- adding that the University shut- room to share, while residents of tle service will pull up to the the six-person suite will have driveway so students can wait in three rooms, a bathroom and a the building, away from the ele- common living area to share. ments. Strom said the single rooms Faculty irate at workload increase are 8 feet 7 inches by 10 feet 7 in- Webb said students who are ches and the double rooms are 11 staying in Founders this fall by Robin Coe staff writer The law states that the Ohio lor Elaine Hairston, the purpose the quantity of work put into ed- feet 7 inches by 14 feet 10 inches. signed up on a first-come, first- Board of Regents must work with of the law is to recover a 10 per- ucation, but as a result may de- Besides the improved living serve basis. state universities to ensure a cent decrease in workload lost in crease the quality of the work. area, there are many other fea- Faculty members are unhappy minimum of a 10 percent in- previous years. According to Harold Lunde, tures students will enjoy. "That was really for the first with an Ohio law that will increase in statewide undergradu- Members of the BGSU Faculty professor of management and year. I think in the future, sign crease their workload 10 percent ate teaching activity be acheived Association argued last week treasurer for BGSU-FA, legisla- "The building is all air condi- up for Founders will be handled by next fall, claiming the law is by fall 1994. According to How- that legislature does not know tion did not take in account the tioned. The windows are all oper- the same way as our other halls," unfair and based on incorrect ard Gaudthier, executive associ- what it means to increase faculty number of hours a professor able so they can open the she said. data. ate to Board of Regents Chancel- productivity and it was "bad law' spends in the classroom, the that leaves the Board of Trustees number of students in each class and Board of Regents to decide which effects amount of time what parts of the faculty's work- spent on grading tests, home- load needs increasing. work and term papers, time Briefly Jerone Stephens, professor of spent on research, helping stu- political science, said the faculty dents out of the classroom and could not be sure exactly how the lecture presentations. The University alumnus will address the throw out the first pitch. new law would be translated. He He also said some departments Inside the News graduates during the 9:30 a.m. ceremony Tickets are $5 for box seats and $4 for said the college of arts and sci- require lab hours which have to on the lawn west of University Hall. reserved seats and can be purchased at the ences has already increased fac- be set up. Fair game: Walton has been editor of The Blade Mileti Alumni Center or the Bowling Green ulty workload in the last couple "The teaching load Is so com- The Wood County Fair kick* off since 1988. In 1991, the University's De- Chamber of Commerce. years. plicated," Lunde said. tomorrow, offering activities for everyone partment of Journalism presented him Roadside divinity: "That's almost double what we He said there is a list of about to enjoy. with the Journalism Hall of Fame Kappa did five years ago," Stephens 28 different variables that effect Q See page three. Tau Alpha Award, the highest award given HURRICANE, W.Va. -- A preacher offers the workload of a professor. help to truck drivers through services at a said. Reaping the benefits of a college educa- to an alumnus by that department. BGSU-FA president Ron According to Gaudthier, there tion: He is also the former president of the roadside stop in Putnam County. Stoner said he believes the Board are many misconceptions about Admissions counselor and former mi- Bowling Green Alumni Association's board "We felt it was our obligation to bring the of Trustees is the wrong group to what a 10 percent increase In grant worker Dave Garcia works to help of trustees and is still active in alumni ac- church to them since they can't go to the decide what increases need to be workload means. migrants find a future they may not have tivities. church," said the Rev. Paul DeBord, pastor made. "We aren't talking about a 10 at Charleston's Cathedral of Prayer Baptist considered possible. According to Stoner, Voino- percent Increase In the class- a See page three. BGSU night with the Mud Hens next Church. vlch's organized task force which room," he said. week: "If it wasn't for the truck stop ministries. created the law for better educa- Gaudthier said the 10 percent The Toledo Mud Hens baseball club has I don't think I'd ever get to church," said tion does not know enough about increase comes In the number of OutsWe campus designated Monday, Aug.

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