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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-10-1983 The BG News February 10, 1983 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 10, 1983" (1983). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4096. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4096 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. THURSDAY THEBGIVFWSBOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY ^ 1 ^M ^m L FEBRUARY 10, 1W3 Deals with controversy Group fosters bad image Editor'! Note: This Is the second In a Frances Perry, former faculty ad- ACCORDING TO Weinberger the three-part aeries concerning contro- visor to Women for Women, agreed. planning collective adds more cobe- versial organizations on campus. "Anytime you deal with issues that siveness to the organization that was people don't agree with it's going to be not provided by the steering commit- by Mary Gibson controversial, she said. tee. reporter Weinberger said if gaining a better "Different people get ideas (at the image means giving up what the planning collective) and are able to Women for Women is an organiza- organization does now, they will not <ake the initiative to put those ideas tion often thought and spoken of in doit. into action," Buck said. She added less than attractive terms, according "If you're just trying to please that it is easier to get input from to Margaret Weinberger, coordinator someone you're not going to get very others at this type of session. of the University Women's Center. far," she said. Support groups branch off from the Weinberger said she is not very main planning collective. People dis- hopeful about changing the organiza- « _J_ » cover they have a «imii«r interest or tion's image to something more posi- 0 ^-L^ o problem and continue to meet as a tive in the near future. M f ^ group to discuss it. When asked about the image prob- M Dan Elsbrock, a senior liberal stud- lem Women for Women encounters, K ( KoK ) K ies major, said he felt he should take a Weinberger and Risa Buck, a mem- \ N harder look at feminism as a growing ber of the ad hoc committee, both said V^ movement, and with Weinberger's they think people feel threatened by Women for Women has no hierar- help he started a men's conscious- the organization and issues it deals chical stucture, Weinberger said. It ness-raising group. with. has no president, vice president or Although the men's group is not "Some people just don't agree with officers. The organization used to officially a part of Women for Women, us," Weinberger said. "We acknowl- consist of a steering committee and he said "we have a relationship of edge lesbianism as a valid life style, individual task forces on particular recognition." and some people don't agree." issues. According to Weinberger, this Buck said men go to the Women for Buck added that too many people made it hard for new women to get Women meetings, too. consider violence against women a involved in the organization. "They support us but they don't do joke rather than something to be Because of this, she said the steer- a lot of things with us," she said. taken seriously. ing committee has been eliminated Services offered by Women for Janice Knight, graduate student in and the present arrangement consists Women include a resource library, philosophy and a new member of the of an ad hoc committee and a plan- which houses an assortment of wom- organization, said another part of the ning collective. Four women com- en's journals and periodicals, infor- BG News Photo/Patrick Sandor image problem comes from the prise the ad hoc committee, whose mation files on different issues and Foreign Sounds group's dealings with controversial membership changes monthly. The past programs, referrals to commu- Mark Knapp, a freshman R-TV-F major, listens intently to a tape explaining the fundamentals of speaking issues. planning collective meets once a nity resources and a monthly newslet- Spanish. Knapp Is using the newly renovated language lab center located in University Hall. This facility allows "WE TAKE off the kid gloves about month and is responsible for planning ter, which can be obtained through 30 more students access to the already existing 55 language listening booths. The service Is free and open to topics people don't want to deal with," programs and new activities for the the Women's Center in the Student any registered student at the University. she said. next month. Service's building. Proposed code changes will not affect city much Editors note: This is the third in a relevant to the city is Section III., Schauweker said the changes would substantially should the code be most cases will probably end up going for minor violations of the law, will four-part series w the proposed regarding students' off-campus activ- have little, if any effect on the court's changed. through the courts anyway." not be strapped with a criminal re- changes of the student legal code. ity. Section m.B.l of the proposed revenue. "Impact on the court costs are cord. student code now states that referral "Our jurisdiction is not just over negligible," Crowley said. He added Schauweker, who keeps track of the by Carolyn Van Schalk of cases involving city violatons will Bowling Green; the city alone is not that of the 11,000 criminal cases filed court docket and records all cases, "In the long run, I feel that the staff reporter be handled as follows: our main source of revenue," be said. with the courts, most are traffic viola- explained thst the municipal court changes will benefit the students," be tions such as speeding and DWI (driv- has county-wide jurisdiction over 17 said, adding that he receives a num- As discussion regarding the future "Students who violate the law in the ing while intoxicated), and the townships. ber of calls from businesses inquiring of the proposed revised student code course of their off-campus activities ( Student P revenue from these is not a substan- about past criminal habits of prospec- continues, city officals said if the code will incur penalises prescribed by tial amount. BOWLING GREEN Police Chief tive employees. is changed it will have little, if any, civil authorities - but university au- Galen Ash said he does not forsee effect on the city, according to Ken thority will never be used to merely J Code ) "I really don't like to comment until problems should the new code be "I don't see any big significant Schauweker, Clerk of Courts for the duplicate the functions of general I have looked at all the proposals and adopted and said the new code could change," Ash added. "I see it (the Bowling Green Municipal Court. law." City Attorney Patrick Crowley also papers," he said, "yet I really think help students. Should it be revised, he proposed code change) as a tool to The section of the student code AS FAR as the city is concerned, said revenues would not be harmed there will be very little effect since said, students picked up by city police help the community, he said. Israelis say U.S. bears 'indirect' blame NEWS IN BRIEF JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli re- the massacre and it would not deal peace force from Beirut after the comment on the commission's dis- Draper was in Beirut to arrange Signs jumbled port on the Beirut massacre con- with actions of others. But it said the withdrawal of the Palestine Liber- cussion of the U.S. role. negotiations for the withdrawal of BATESVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Folks cluded the United States could bear ertial responsibility of others "per- ation Organization from its strong- At one point the report quoted Maj. Israeli, Syrian and PLO forces from who live on Meadowlark Street in part of the blame for the slaughter ps should be clarified in another holds in the Lebanese capital. The Gen. Armr Drory, overall commander Lebanon. this north-central Arkansas com- because the Americans refused to framework." U.S. Marines were one of the three of Israeli forces in Lebanon, as imply- munity also live on Cardinal Street. persuade the Lebanese army to mop In a section entitled "Indirect Re- contingents in the peace force. ing the Lebanese army needed per- The commission's report quoted And in a way, they live on Glynn up Palestinian resistance in the refu- sponsibility," the commission said mission from special U.S. envoy Drory as appealing one last time to Street as well. gee camps. Israel repeatedly appealed to the THE PEACE-KEEPING forces Morris Draper to deploy their forces the commander of the Lebanese army The confusion began in 1976 when References to the U.S. role in events United States "to use its influence to were withdrawn, but were sent back in the refugee camps. to intervene Friday morning, Sept. 17. the City Council decided to clear up leading to the massacre are scattered get the Lebanese army to fulfill the to Beirut after the massacre that was The Christian militiamen - Israeli That was the day after the Christian a problem over Glynn Street and . i the 108-page report released function of maintaining peace and blamed on Lebanese Christian mili- allies - are accused of killing hun- militiamen moved into the camps on Lynn Street, which were only a ay by the inquiry commission, order in west Beirut," but the Ameri- tiamen who the Israelis allowed into dreds of Palestinian civilians in the Israel's orders to carry out a clean-up block apart.