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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-2-1999 The BG News September 2, 1999 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 September 2, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6515. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6515 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. WORLD NEWS CITY ■4-SPORTS. e JMOW Cleveland suburb Corvette caravan stops in BG The Bowling The Black Swamp Festival is passes law that for gas while on its way to the Green men's back to Bowling Green and makes driving and Corvette Museum in Bowling soccer team offers music, art and youth arts. talking on a cellular Green, Ky. defeats Dayton phone illegal. 3-1 on home turf. Weather Today: Thursday sunny September 2. 1999 High 88. Low 52 Volume 87. Issue 8 AGNews doily independent student press Library sponsors art competition By ERIN BERGER assistant professor and bibliog- majors," she said. "Students get Nov. 1. Library. As an added incentive, there The BG News rapher with the library, one of to see the art their colleagues This year's contest will be The entries themselves must will also be cash prizes (or the purposes of this contest is and peers produce and they can judged by artist and poet Mari- be submitted on Oct. 6 to the BGSU Bookstore Certificates) Students have an opportuni- to get people to "explore and relate better." ty to show off their talents lene Phipps, whose paintings Library's Circulation Desk awarded to the first, second, expand their cultural identi- The contest was originally will be on display at Wankel- between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. while also expressing their ties." and third place finishes. Win- views on ethnic and cultural an essay contest, Forsyth said, man Gallery from Oct. 16 This is a contest for under- ners will receive $300, $200, There's a lot more to life but they decided to change it to through Nov. 7. identities in the Fourth Annual graduate students only, and $100, respectively. Undergraduate Art Contest. than what students normally an art contest because they Judging for the contest will Forsyth said, and each student The contest, sponsored by live with," Forsyth said. "This thought they would get more take place on Oct. 14. A presen- may submit only one piece of Anyone interested in more BGSU Friends of the Library, helps them reach beyond their response. tation by Phipps about her work. Work in all two-dimen- information about the specifics Libraries and Learning horizons." Zachary said that it was an poetry and a reception honor- sional and three-dimensional of the contest can contact Mary Resources and the BGSU Mary Beth Zachary, head of essay contest for six years and ing the art contest winners will media will also be accepted. Beth Zachary by calling African,i Heritage Committee, access services at the library, for the past three it has been an be held later that same day. Due to facility limitations, 372-2051 or writing is being put on through the said that a contest like this also art contest. Students interested in this video will not be accepted. [email protected]. work of the BGSU Multicultur- gives students the opportunity Different from the previous contest must register their All work must be accompa- "A contest like this gives us a al Affairs Committee. The to show their values, as far as three years though, this year intent to submit no later than nied by a typed statement of context base for our lives and a theme of this year's contest is diversity is concerned. the contest is being held in the Sept. 29. They can do so by approximately 100 words relat- "Expressing Ethnic and Cultur- "Student art is a place for fall instead of in the spring. obtaining an entry form and ing the work to the theme, better understanding of the al Identity Through the Arts." expression and the contest is The work will be on exhibit at then returning it to Mary Beth "Expressing ethnic and cultural world around us," Forsyth said. According to John Forsyth, for everyone, not just art Jerome Library Oct. 12 through Zachary, in care of Jerome identity through the arts." "It's all about growth." Chily's Express Credit cards pose risk to changes venue students By BRANDI BARHITE walk-in freezer with a three- By CORY J. MCCARTNEY The BG News door freeer, which limited the The BG News variety of frozen foods and ice C. hily's Express, the cream. With the start of a new ' University conve- Lori Stewart, a Chily's clerk, school year, students are sure J nience store, has been said business has been slower to be confronted from all sides relocated and forced to limit its because of the relocation, yet with promises of "buy now pay product selection, while the old said it started to pick up this later." location undergoes renovation. week as more students realized Credit card companies offer Until November, Chily's its new location. students everything from free Express, now deemed a mini- Maley expressed a similar T-shirts to phone cards in order mart, will be located in the concern that students are not entice them. Yet one web site is concerned that students do not Commons lobby, a location one- aware that Chily's has moved. "Many people don't know understand the responsibilities fourth the size of the original that Chily's is open now," Maley of having a credit card. Chily's, on the southeast side of said. "People think it is closed the building. BG News Photo/MIKE LEHMKUHLE "We recognize that students because they walk by the old Ryan Pavlcic looks among the aisles of food at Chily's Express located in the Commons. Chily's still buys from the need all relevant information location and see that it is same number of venders, but when signing up for credit empty." said the location is being com- cards," said Oren Milgram, has had to order smaller quan- Stewart said she was sur- pletely redone to look more pro- StudentMarket.com director of tities because of the space lim- prised the area was so small, fessional. The red door will be student affairs. "StudentMar- its, according to David Maley, but said that Chily's took into replaced with a glass door and ket.com gives students the food service manager. consideration what students the Commons lobby will be information they need to make Chily's still sells milk, bread, bought the most and tried to reverted to a dining area. a responsible decision about snack-food items, candy and stock the store accordingly. One added feature will be getting a credit card." canned goods. Additionally, the Neighborhood Deli, which "We still have everything, StudentMarket.com offers Maley said the store has made yet instead of having many dif- will serve made-to-order sand- wiches, wrapped sandwiches, advice for students on estab- it a priority to keep items, such ferent kinds of juice, we may lishing a positive credit history as hot pockets, burritos and soups, salads and bagels. only have two or three different Donuts and coffee will also be and tells them how to build and other frozen foods, in stock for maintain good credit. kinds," Stewart said. available for purchase. students. Jill Olthouse, a senior Eng- The renovated Chily's was Also found on the web site "We are trying to provide as lish education major, who has supposed to open Aug. 21, but are a number of criteria for much as we can," Maley said. shopped at Chily's for three because of. delays in getting finding the credit card that's "We made guesses as to what years said she is disappointed bids, the renovation was right for you. were the most popular items, in Chily's ice cream selection, delayed. but we do take requests if but otherwise is finding every- "We were disappointed that The online student credit someone wants an item we thing she needs. it didn't open in August, but we center provides tips, ranging eliminated." The new Chily's is expected are excited about its opening," BG News Photo/MIKE LEHMKUHLE from paying on time to estab- Because of the move and lim- to open Nov. 7 and will be locat- Maley said. "It will look very lishing a phone bill in one's name. Students can also find ited available electricity, ed in the old location, near the nice and much more profession- Damon Lee looks for a tasty addition to potato chips at Chily's al." Express. out what a credit report is and Chily's also had to replace its Commons loading dock. Maley how to obtain a copy. "At campus credit card tables, students are told 'sign Facility shortages prompt changes in hiring here,"" Milgram said. "At Stu- dentMarket.com, we say 'Read this first and make an MoreJiM-tirne contracts, benefits, offered to attract teachers informed decision.™ By SARAH DELANEY versities, including the Univer- the credentials of possible A Visa representative, who The BG News sity of Toledo, Owens Commu- "Ninety-eight percent of all faculty positions teachers very closely.