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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-22-1999 The BG News January 22, 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 January 22, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6432. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6432 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 A daily independent student press Wood County outlaws porn flicks By WENDY SUTO adult movies for rental. plaint." sion on his part. BG Police Chief Tom Votava Gary Bishop, the assistant The letter mentioned "pander- "I am getting loo old for this," said the city is obligated to fol- The BC News prosecuting attorney in Bowling ing obscenity," a fifth-degree Wilkins said. "Adult movies low Mayberry or the grand jury's Local video stores have pulled Green, said the letter was an felony that could mean up to 18 were only a small portion of my interpretation of what is consid- their adult movies off their effort made by Mayberry asking months in prison and fines up to business anyway." ered community standards. shelves in response to an adviso- owners to be careful of what $10,000 for each offense. Video Spectrum is more "If it is the law of the land, it is ry letter mailed to several area movies they offer because they Bill Wilkins, the owner of known for their foreign films, our right to enforce the law,"., video store owners by Wood could be considered obscene. Video Spectrum on East Wash- classics, documentaries and cull Votava said. "If the citizens want;" County Prosecutor Alan Mayber- "We're not going to go around ington Street, look the adult films. Wilkins said. to change the law, then it is their; i Columnist Jeffrey Gill ry. The letter said they could face to area businesses and be obscen- movies off his shelves after The main office of Video Con- right to do so." felony prosecution under the ity police," Bishop said. "We will receiving the letter from Mayber- nection was unavailable for com- believes society Ohio Revised Code for offering only pursue it if we get a com- ry. I le said it was a business deci- ment. • See VIDEO, page five.:' should be happy with supply and demand. PLA forms new goals I Money and possessions are Still By JEFF HINDENACH overrated according The BG News I to a guest columnist. With a few months left in the • first year of the President's-': Runnin' Leadership Academy (PLA), the/ d nation 4 focus for next year has already:; been determined to be commu-:! nity service. Rec Center soars into This first year, the PLA pro-- Ohio woman fakes gram focused on giving stu- ■ dents opportunities to meet credentials to be it's 20th anniversary with prominent leaders in the admitted to Yale. community. Next year though, By BRANDI BARHITE "The SRC meant a lot to they want to give and not take The BC News me," Long said. "I worked PHOTO PROVIDED as much. in the facility because I was On January 4, 1979, at 6:30 An aerial view of the SRC in 1979. Terry Parsons, former SRC direc- "In the next year of the pro- a sports management gram, there will be a communi- I Pope calls gay mar a.m. the Student Recreation major. I saw how important ,or Mld me SRC ls designed to look like a falcon with its wings out Center doors were opened to stretched. ty service effort," T. Carter riages 'incongruous.' it was in people's lives. Gilmer, PLA director, said. students for the first lime. With over 7 million patrons According to Bowers, the ini- demonstrate that the majority of Despite a pool leak, the cam- tiative began in 1975. At that students wanted a recreation The effort will focus on prob- since its opening, people's lems around the community, he pus-wide excitement was mon- excitement over the SRC has time, there was not an area on center. umental. campus where students could Parsons, who served as an said. Students will be required faded and the leaks in the pool to volunteer to help out in soup "It was an exciting time," have been fixed, but pride in the play basketball or exercise. advisor to the SRC student com- said Richard Bowers, director of Bowers said there were just two mittee, said many people kitchens, work with illiterate building is still thriving as the people and visit nursing homes. SRC recreational sports. "There University celebrates the SRC's gyms in Eppler Center, which thought the committee would were normally occupied. never pull it off. Gilmer said he is optimistic wasn't anything like this in the 20th anniversary. about this community service country. In fact, I can remember Anderson Arena was also not He said the Board of Trustees The celebration will kick off effort and hopes the students that the aerobic and sport cen- at 3:30 this afternoon with an option because of the intense voted 8-1 to build the SRC. The scheduling of athletic teams. one opposing vole was from a will be as optimistic. ters were jammed packed. refreshments and music. At 4 "We hope that they do this There was a tremendous "These were totally inade- trustee who thought it could p.m. the ceremony will continue because they want to do it, not amount of interest." quate for students," Bowers never happen. with speakers Mike Wilcox, one because they have to," he said. Thad Long, assistant director of the original SRC planners said. "Students felt a real need The students thought differ- for something better." ently. With Wilcox leading, a Holly Wendt, a freshman of intramurals and the chair- and Terry Parsons, former SRC education major in the program, man for the celebration, was a director. Thomas Zung, SRC Parsons said he also remem- group of students borrowed a bers the frustration of having motor home from a trustee and said she is excited about the student employee there in 1981. architect, will also be speaking. changes for next year. He remembers the excitement A slide show and pictorial his- nowhere to play a game of bas- left to view recreation centers BG Hockey loses for a ketball. across the nation to generate "I would love to get involved of working there two years after tory of the building will be in the community service third time this season the grand opening. shown. "I remember seeing students ideas. From this road trip they sitting with basketballs under developed a slide show to pro- effort," she said. "When I against Michigan, 5-4. Long said entered the program, I thought even today their arms hoping to get a few mole the idea to the University. shots in after the athletic teams Soon after, Zung was hired we were going to be like little the SRC is kids, led around by our hands. the place to practiced," he said. and in 1977 the groundbreaking With that in mind, a group of was held. Two years later it Instead, the program shows you be. They what you have inside and it's up offer every- students, including Wilcox, opened. approached University presi- "Many people thought it to you to bring these skills out, Opinion 2 thing from and this is a perfect example of Page Three 3 basketball dent Hollis Moore with the pro- could never happen," Parsons posal to build a student recre- said. "But by golly it got done." that." World and Nation 4 and swim- Gilmer said the program has ming to fit- ation center. They proposed that Parsons recalls being in awe Sports 8 the students would pay for it as the SRC was being built. He been a success. He said the over- ness equip- all GPA of PLA students was 2.8 Sports Agate 11 ment and with an increase in the student said he used to drive by it every fee. Wilcox stressed that the day to watch its development. last semester. He also said stu- racquetball. dents are still responsible for at? Bowers said building would not be for ath- Parsons added the SRC commit- letic training, but used for stu- tee took their job seriously even attending leadership meetings. 1200 people These meetings, known as dents who wanted a little after it was built. W"We're not going visit the SRC "Director's Forums," are meet- leisure. In the beginning days, only a day. ings which feature community to go around to At this time there were very students and faculty could Not long leaders, one being Sidney area businesses and ago though, few student recreation centers patronize the SRC. Any Bowl- in the nation solely for leisure. ing Green citizens or organiza- Ribeau, president of the Univer- be obscenity police. BG News Photo/ MATTHEW MILLER the SRC was sity and founder of PLA. Stu- just a On hearing this request, tions that wanted to utilize the We will only pursue it Senior Stacey Lapinski and junior Tania Slack dream. Moore said he would support it we get a com- workout to "Funk Aerobics" at the SRC. the students if they could • See SRC, page five.