Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-18-1991 The BG News April 18, 1991 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 April 18, 1991" (1991). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5214. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5214 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. April 18. 1991 Thursday Vol. 73 Issue 111 Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News BRIEFLY Strikers Inside cite job Eating healthy: The vegetarian lifestyle is concerns becoming quite popular. Food Operations is con- by Thomas J. Sheeran sidering ideas to compen- Associated Press writer sate the different eating habit. The benefits from be- Railroad workers across the ing a vegetarian are ex- state stepped onto picket lines plored. Wednesday, demanding pay ► See page 4. raises and a chance to live their lives without constant pressure New look bio: from the job. The Biology Department "I don't know of any craft has a new electron micros- where there are more divorces cope which can magnify up than on the railroad," said Bob to 200,000 times. Damsel, a Conrail rail employee ►See page 5. walking a picket line outside the (.'ollinwood Yard on Cleveland's east side. He was with 20 pick- eters, all members of the Broth- Campus erhood of Locomotive Engineer, Div. 3. Earth Day fair: "The railroad destroys your The University Bookstore life. It destroys your body. It des- is sponsoring a Book Fair troys everything about you. It's a today and tomorrow 8 a.m. killer." to 5 p.m. Workers at major freight car- Featured will be Earth riers went on strike as morning Day T-shirts, cards, recy- broke across the country cled spirals and books on Wednesday. Passenger service in enviornmental issues. many areas was also disrupted. Unions and management have wrangled over a contract for State three years. Union members said Wednesday they'd had enough. Perk* to be determined: "What it is, in my opinion, is Gov. George Voinovich on we're going backward,' said Bob Wednesday signed into law Nadel, 55, of Cleveland, a Conrail a bill assuring state em- engineer. "The times are going ployees called to duty in the ahead, but we're going back- Persian Gulf War of no loss ward. in pay or fringe benefits. The Krusher! SO N»wi/Slephanie Lewis "Inflation has already wiped us the bill takes effect im- out," added Nadel, a 39-year rail- mediately. Gayl Pearson, coordinator of Lei's Be Lifter Free In BG. shows Sara, cans tor recycling Wednesday afternoon in the Union Oval as road veteran. 8. o second-grader from Bowling Green, how to crush aluminum part of Earth Week activities. See STRIKE, page 6. Nation Blood pressure news: Boston doctors can accu- Panel describes Earth's woes continue rately determine which people with mild high blood pressure face serious risk of Deforestation, population threaten environment heart attacks by measuring party problems a key blood protein, re- be more than likely to do it," searchers said. by Greg Watson The researchers recom- staff writer Wicks added. mended measuring the sub- by Robert Davidson H Lowe said many Third World stance should become part stall writer ** **■ countries are unhappy with the of routine care for everyone Earth Day has passed, but the United States because the U.S. is with high blood pressure Students, residents and police all have responsibilities to control planet is still here and problems telling weaker countries — some because those at risk could Bowling Green's traditional spring parties, panelists said Wednesday caused by humanity should not be which almost need to cut down be truly targeted for treat- night. forgotten. forests to produce agriculture — ment. Bowling Green Police Chief Galen Ash, Bowling Green Municipal Two serious problems facing to stop deforestation. The researchers found Court Judge James Bachman, University Director of Public Safety the planet are mass deforestation Because of large cities and those with high levels of Roger Dennerll and University President Paul Olscamp offered their and problems caused by popula- other areas without people, the renin are five times more views during WBGU-TV's production, "The Responsible Party." tion growth and movement. Brazilian government is persuad- likely than people with low With Olscamp serving as moderator, Ash opened by stressing city One major problem with de- ing people to turn forest areas levels to suffer heart at- police avoid giving students a hassle from the outset of any party. forestation, said Berry Cobb, into farmland, Cobb said. tacks. He said officers generally respond to complaints from neighbors of University environmental pro- People cut down trees to clear noise and vandalism associated with parties. If they find people are grams director, is "by destroying land tor farmland, but because too drunk to reason, they are forced to Break up the party. the trees, we are also destroying the soil is weak, the farm land is People Bachman added however, police also have a responsibility not to the oxygen they produce." usually good for only two years, use excessive force. He believes the city police have acted appro- Burning large amounts of trees Cobb added. Naughty Nicholas: priately in the past — with a few exceptions. can act as a "double-edged Another problem with defores- Actor Adam Rich was ar- "When police respond to a 2,500 person party, they have to usemore sword" because burning sends tation is the loss of forest species rested in Los Angeles for in- reasonable force," he said. "Last fall there were only two cases where more carbon dioxide into the air J99* diversity, Cobb said. vestigation of shoplifting officers overstepped the bounds of the Constitution." and the fewer the trees, the less Cobb said the area with the one day after he was As panel discussion turned to student responsibilities and tips for vehicles there are to pho- has and want to catch up to make largest amount of deforestation is charged with breaking into partying, Bachman stressed students must be considerate to their tosyntnesize, said Rex Lowe, bio- more money," he added. also the area with the largest a pharmacy, police said. neighbors. logical sciences professor. Jerry Wicks, sociology profes- species diversity — thousands of Rich, 22, who as a child He said when people are cited for noise violations, they often come Third World countries — espe- sor, said the easiest way for the different species and thousands played Nicholas, the to his court and ask, "Why didn't the neighbor come over and ask me cially those containing rain countries to grow economically is yet to be discovered. youngest child on "Eight is to turn it down before calling the police?" forests — are responsible for the to cut down the rain forests for "In my view, the largest prob- Enough," was arrested However, it is not the responsibility of the neighbor to tell the stu- most deforestation in order to agriculture and timber. lem with destroying forests is the Tuesday at a Bullock's store dent to lower the volume, but the responsibility of the student to follow Exluce more agriculture, said "It would be nice to [stop de- loss of biological diversity," add- in suburban Northridge, 25 the law. he said. we. forestation] in the Amazon Basin, ed Lowe. miles northwest of down- "Those countries are more but if any of us were responsible town Los Angeles. □ See RESPONSIBILITY, page 4. aware of what [ the United States ] for economic growth, we would D See PROBLEMS, page 5. Security guards said they found $29.75 worth of socks and sunglasses on Rich and he had no receipt, said Los Angeles police Sgt. Paul Haberman. Faculty Senate's labor often mute Rich, who is on probation for drunken driving, was by Jeremy Stone Weber trustees is to try and get the charged Monday with staff writer senate to take itself seriously," breaking into a suburban he said. "The senate can be ex- pharmacy April 6 to obtain Imagine spending a great tremely influential and make drugs, said Deputy District deal of time and effort on a itself go if it wants to." Attorney Andrew Diamond. homework assignment or The senate passed a resolu- research project, giving it your tion last year requiring the best effort, and then having it Board of Trustees to vote on all not graded or looked at. senate resolutions sent to them, Weather Faculty Senate faces this but the trustees dismissed it same problem with its adopted without a vote. Mostly sunny: resolutions once they leave the In September, the senate Today, mostly sunny with senate floor, and it is a major The Story Behind passed a compromise resolu- the high around 60. Tonight, source of frustration in the sen- tion merely spelling out the l increasing ate. Faculty Senate's Actions current means for transmitting cloudiness Part III of "Faculty Frustra- resolutions to the trustees. with the tions" looks at this issue. Many resolutions — perhaps Blinn -•Md the senate must try low 40 to Faculty Senate puts a lot of as many as 50 percent — never harder to get the trustees to 45. Chance effort into developing its resolu- turn into University policy for vote on senate resolutions. of rain 20 tions. one reason or another.