Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-7-1982 The BG News April 7, 1982 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 7, 1982" (1982). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3978. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3978 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 weather Sunny. High In the up- Ser 30s, low in the mid good 0s. 40 percent chance morning BG News of precipitation. Wednesday Bowling Green State University April 7, 1982 Faculty adopts proposals Reagan includes talks by Jeaa Dlmeo the opinions of the University com- Olscamp to establish his leadership "Boards are set up to be pro- senior staff reporter munity while making decisions. and to allow the faculty to share the tected against interference," he in Caribbean vacation It also congratulates Olscamp on responsibility for determining fu- said, adding that his second resolu- Resolutions commending In- his appointment as President, and ture University decisions. tion would be a way to avoid a terim President Dr. Michael Fer- says the faculty is looking forward Both resolutions will be pre- conflict with the Board. WASHINGTON (AP) - President can leader will host a state dinner for rari and the appointment of Dr. to working with him. sented to the Trustees, probably at "We should be determined to Reagan departs today for an extended the Reagans. Paul Olscamp, and calling for bet- Friday's meeting, Dr. Richard restore the process of shared deci- Easter weekend in the Caribbean that ter faculty-Trustee relations were THE SECOND resolution states Ward, Faculty Senate chair, said sions to the University," he said. will include talks with leaders of TOMORROW, the Reagans fly to approved at a special meeting of that the trust and respect between afterward. Addressing the estimated 400 Jamaica, Barbados and other island Barbados, where he will nave lunch the faculty yesterday. Trustees and the faculty have de- Roller said the issue being ques- faculty members in attendance. nations as well as a visit with long- with Prime Minister J.M.G. Adams The resolutions, proposed by Dr. creased in the past few years and tioned is not who was selected Dr. Larry Friedman, professor of time friend Claudette Colbert. and the leaders of St. Vincent and the David Roller, professor of history, that the Trustees have been work- president but the process which history, suggested the faculty re- The president and Mrs. Reagan's Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, were passed after debate by the ing in isolation from the Univer- was used in the selection. new its "crusade for collective trip was drawn up as a vacation at the Dominica, and St. Kitts-Nevis. faculty, while three other resolu- sity. bargaining in this campus." Barbados home of Miss Colbert, the Secretary of State Alexander Haig tions were tabled until another It also states that the Trustees HE SAID he opposes calling for But, Dr. William Kirby, profes- actress. But it also afforded an oppor- will accompany Reagan. meeting, which has not been sched- have not responded to faculty rec- the resignation or removal of Fra- sor of mathematics and statistics, tunity to show support for the mini- Reagan has no public schedule for uled. ommendations, and acts indiffer- zier Reams Jr.. Trustees presi- and Dr. Robert Guion, professor of states that are the targets of social Friday. On Saturday, he will interrupt The first resolution commends ently to appointed administrative dent, or any other Trustee - as Siysehology, questioned the need and economic aid in the administra- his vacation for a five-minute radio Ferrari for his leadership as Pro- officers. suggested in two proposals. or action by the faculty. tion's Caribbean Basin initiative. speech to the United States, the sec- vost and Interim President and his The resolution calls for the Trust- ' It has a certain appeal but I Discussion with local leaders about ond in a series of 10 weekly broadcast willingness to seek and consider ees to re-new openness to allow must disagree," he said. see Faculty, page 3. last week's military takeover of the addresses he is delivering. The topic Falkland Islands, for 149 years a will be the Caribbean Basin initiative. British territory, by Argentina, may He will return to Washington Sunday be added to the agenda, White House after attending Easter church serv- spokesman Larry Speakes said yes- ices in Barbados. terday. "I'm sure it could be raised," The Caribbean program, which has he said. been submitted to Congress for appro- Reagan heads for Jamaica today, val, would allocate $350 million to the beginning his fourth foreign trip in nations of the Caribbean and Central office, and will meet there with Prime America. Approximately one-third Minister Edward Seaga. The Jamai- will go to El Salvador. Jury to render decision in Jenkins9 murder trial CLEVELAND (AP) - A jury was not been an execution in Ohio for 19 instructed yesterday to decide years. whether to recommend death for AFTER CLOSING arguments in the Leonard Jenkins, who was crippled in two-day hearing, Cuyahoga County a police shootout and convicted of Common Pleas Judge David Matia aggravated murder in the death of instructed the jury on the require- rookie policeman Anthony Johnson ments of the new law. during a bank robbery. The judge and lawyers in the case The jury's other choice is 20 to 30 told the jury to decide if the circum- years in prison without parole. stances of the killing outweigh any If the jury opts for the death pen- mitigating circumstances, and if so, alty, a series of judicial reviews the lury was advised to recommend would follow to determine if the jury's the death penalty. decision is valid. Jenkins lawyers tried to show Jen- Four shots were fired from a .357- kins was not mentally capable of caliber Magnum in a confrontation masterminding a bank robbery and with police outside the bank. never intended to kill anyone. Johnson, 22, a patrolman for three Through the testimony of a clinical months, was shot in the face. Jenkins, psychiatrist and Jenkins' mother and 27, was wounded in the shootout and wife, the defense attempted to show now is paralyzed from the waist that Jenkins has an IQ of only 63 and down. lhat he was abused as a child by an While others now incarcerated in uncaring father. BG News photos/Dean Koepfler Ohio could soon face similar sentenc- Jenkins, in his wheelchair, sat be- Faculty members, Dr. Ron Sloner and Dr. Ralph Wolfe, and administrative staff persons, Jo ing hearings, the Jenkins case is the fore the jury and spoke for about 20 Mahoney and Nancy Wygant, look on Intently at yesterdays special faculty meeting. The meeting first under a recently enacted Ohio minutes on his own behalf, as allowed was called to discuss procedures used by tha Presidential search commutes ■ capital punishment law. There has under the new law. Increased taxes may aid University budget INSIDE by Scott Sleek An additional 1 percent trigger re- alternatives to offset the state deficit. operations and maintenance, Eakin has been cooperative during the ad- senior staff reporter duction would be imposed this fall if Eakin said no further cuts are ex- said. Cment to the budget crisis, which revenue needs are not met, Finan pected if the bill passes. A 7 or 8 percent cut in the Univer- included a moratorium on hiring, A Senate bill calling for increased said. "With that bill I am optimistic that siy's subsidization can be dealt with. a 25 percent reduction in non-instruc- Love profits taxes and added state subsidy cuts A 7 percent reduction would result we will get through this year without a THE ADDITIONAL 6 percent cut in tional budgets and a 10 percent reduc- Romance novels have become may help the University out of its in a $2.8 million decrease in state deficit,''he said. state subsidies that was expected for tion in instructional costs. popular among modern society budget crisis for the next fiscal year, subsidies at the University, Eakin Under the Amended Substitute next year, on top of a 4 percent cut He said some departments have and continue to bring profits Dr. Richard Eakin, executive vice said. The 1 percent trigger cut would House Bill 694 passed by the state over the course of this academic year, found new ways to operate, citing the for their authors. Details, provost for planning and budgeting, mean an additional $300,000 decrease, legislature last November, the Uni- would have exhausted all University Financial Aid Office as an example. page 4. said yesterday. he added. versity will receive $39.3 million in reserves and resulted in a deficit, he He said the office has reduced its In addition to the tax increases, Eakin said the state subsidy would state subsidies for the next fiscal said. open hours so employees have more Senate Bill 530 calls for a reduction of be $36.2 million - a $2.9 million in- year, Eakin said. "I think, as of today, our budget is time for paperwork. 'Superman' pays state universities' annual state subsi- crease over last year's subsidy. State funding for universities is in a good position to carry us through "I really must say that the Univer- Producers of the movie 'Super- dies by 7 percent, Sen.