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OPINION WORLD NEWS 41 CITY 61 SPORTS According to columnist Sarah Competitors race Mayoral race gets into gear as Women's tennis Delaney. your gender may 60 yards through a Joyce Kepke and John Quinn attempts to move to influence your shopping habits. peat bog trench. battle for the position to be MAC'S elite. vacated by Wes Hoffman. Weather Today: Tuesday partly cloudy August 31. 1999 High 76. Low 47 Volume 87 & Issue 6 BGA doily independent News student press Voice mail Job opportunities baffles available to students students By KATIE WOODS WalkUp Web WalkUp is an The BG News internet service that students By MELISSA HARTMAN can register for at the open house. Once registered, stu- The BG News For those who find them- selves in the all too familiar dents have access to on-campus Due to student complaints scenario of having no cash, the job opportunities throughout and confusion, a Voice Mail student employment office may the year. Lab has been established to be able to offer assistance. Juniors and seniors who reg- help students create voice mail The student employment ister for Web WalkUp must accounts for their dorm rooms. office, in conjunction with also submit a resume. Career However, for some students career services, is hosting an services offers books and semi- who have been trying to install open house this week from 10 nars on resume writing for those interested voice mail since they arrived on a.m. - 4 p.m. every day in 330 campus, the Voice Mail Lab Saddlemire. Employers and companies comes too late. Over 200 on-campus job list- from all over the world have One major complaint was ings are available, as well as access to Web WalkUp. Accord- that the instructions to install job opportunities at UPS, Mei- ing to Simmons, employers can the voice mail were not clear. jer, RPS and Enterprise Rent- look up resumes on the pro- gram and find stu- "It needs to be written for A-Car for those looking for a job off-campus. dents who meet there the intellectually impaired," qualifications. said Joe Tennyson, a freshman Many of the on-campus Michael O'Shea, photojournalism major. positions are with din- ing services, but sophomore He was not the only one who physics major, was frustrated with the setup. there still are registered for Matt Pizzino, a freshman in Web WalkUp mechanical design, believes ast spring. the instructions for the voice "I haven't mail need to be written in a \seen the clearer, simpler language. benefits "The instructions are not * I. written in simple English," he said. "More steps and more explanations are necessary for plen- non-residents of the U.S." ty of Ann-Marie Lancaster, vice clerical provost of technology and chief and information officer, said that office for some students the direc- positions tions may not be clear. available. "Different things work for BG News Photo/ MIKE LEHMKUHLE In order different people," she said. fill the open Even with voice mail avail- An unknown person is shown here dangerously walking down the railroad tracks. positions, din- able, one student said she is ing services opting to use an answering have increased joint machine because she finds it their starting here they are more convenient. wages by 50 cents king for jobs after "If I have a few minutes in Tracks proven fatal Those interested in college I can definitely see between classes to run back to who sees how close they can get working for dining how it can be good," O'Shea my room, I can't just glance at By BRENT RYMAN "Trespassing in Bowling to the train," said the Bowling services can start said. "Thev can it [voice mail] like with an The BG News Green has always been a big BG New. Graphic/ JIM BAER submit thejr Green Police Division's Lt. at $5.70 an hour. answering machine," said Eric problem for us," Gilsdorf said. resume and it is "In Bowling Green there is a lot Gary Spencer. In past years, Rader, a sophomore biochem- ome University stu- like submitting it to literally dents begin their day of walking and there are tracks "What they don't realize is job opportunities have been istry pre-med major. that a lot of those cars have made available in the fall hundreds of employers online." If students choose to use by breaking the law. in close proximity to the cam- s pus." In the past, that has been scmething sticking out of through a job fair at the Union. According to Simmons the answering machines, Lancast- Many students who live off a deadly combination. them." According to Michelle Sim- office wants students to utilize er advises them to set the campus walk across railroad The last student fatality on Spencer said that students mons, assistant director of stu- the service. machines to answer on six tracks everyday. messing with trains is bad for dent employment, they are "Not only is it easy," she rings as a courtesy to long dis- the tracks was the tragic death "It is illegal to be on the of 22- year-old Jessica Mawson business. If the average 12 mil- hosting the open house at Sad- said, "but if they register with tance and pay phone callers. tracks any place other than a after a Halloween party in lion-pound train can crush a dlemire instead in order to us they will also be in the loop Lancaster said next year specified walkway or a crossing 1995. Like many deadly tres- car like a full can of Pepsi, just encourage students to go see for all of the things offered the technology department will where the street and tracks passing accidents (eight of the imagine what it can do to an what the student employment through career services." probably put out a video on meet," said Public Safety Coor- 17 that occurred last year in unlucky drunk college kid who office and career services has to voice mail. offer. Students often visit the "The great thing about it is dinator for CSX Railroad and the state), that one involved slips and falls on the iron road. you can access it anywhere you "If you see a video and watch Operation Lifesaver Ken Gils- student employment office in alcohol. "Let's face it, the train hard- have the Internet, " Simmons someone else use it, that might dorf. Gilsdorf's job includes That is a fact which worries ly ever loses," Spencer said. the fall in order to find a job, make it easier," Lancaster said. spreading the word about rail- but they never utilize all the said. "At 2 in the morning if Gilsdorf and others, since the "But if people were just smart you want you can sit around in The hours for the lab are road safety — and Bowling tracks often lie directly on the and obeyed the law, we would- services available. Monday through Thursday Green is a hot spot on his list of One of the services the office your pajamas or underwear long trek home from the bars. and job search on the comput- noon-8 p.m. and Friday noon-5 places to visit. "We always have somebody • See SAFETY, page five. is trying to push is Web p.m. er." BGSU landscaping earns award By NICK HURM Ohio college campuses, the "Anything you see that is The BG News University of Dayton and the attractive on the grounds was University of Toledo, also put there through the hard Bowling Green State Univer- picked up ASLA Medallions for labor of somebody." sity can now be called "a land- their work. Benner also said part of the scape that improves the quality The University owns a little credit needs to go to the stu- of life" after winning the Amer- over 1200 acres, 350 of which dents who work on the grounds. ican Society of Landscape are maintained by 11 The grounds team has man- Architects (ASLA) Medallion groundskeepers. There are over aged to maintain the same level Award. 105 buildings on campus that of work without an operating The University was honored the grounds crew has to work increase in eight years. for its separate vehicular and around. "The positive side about that pedestrian traffic. It has also "It's special being recognized is we have maintained the praised the work of the grounds by ASLA because those are pro- standards," Benner said. "We're crew for making the campus a fessional people that spend all going to make it work. I think if nicer place to live. their time designing and redo- you look at everything we do "We're all quite proud of the ing various institutions," Asso- with the money that we have . fact that we have made quite a ciate Vice President Adminis- that it is pretty impressive." bit of change in the last year trator Bryan Benner said.