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CftegSiktog £95 The BG News "Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence" Rainy High of 40 Monday, April 10,1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 131 Akron's student union summons Monday Feature pride in campus by Pat Murphy Jim Barker The BC News University: •Akron University;! Editor's note: This is the second in a series of four stories explor- Student Union: ing the different student unions offered at Mid-American Confer- dardnerCenter ence Schools. Date of Construction: University of Akron's modest decor seems to blend In with its ks 1930'$ i urban surroundings, making the Renovated: campus a bit difficult to find coming off of the freeway. 1982 The same cannot be said of Gardner Center, University of "We get a lot of usage here Akron's student union. Gardner within the community as well as Center has twice undergone within the student population," major renovations, transforming Fritz said. "That's why we had it into a massive concrete struc- facilities, such as the theater put ture rivaling the city of Akron's in during the last renovation. downtown buildings. "This week Is break week and Much like the Shriver Center we still have five or six major of Miami University, Akron's conferences going on here," he Gardner Center has three dis- added. tinct levels. The lower level con- Tony Brown, assistant game sists of a billiards room, a small The BC Ncwi/Kclly Rl|* room manager of Gardner University Supervisor of Athletic Fields Greg "Cooncr" Kuhn lays field than any other field we have," said Ken Schoeni, Administra- bowling alley, a sizable video Center, said the video game gameroom and a number of Uni- chalk on the baselines of Warren E. Steller Field before a baseball tive Assistant to the Athletic Director. machines in the recreation area game last weekend. "We spend more time preparing the baseball versity of Akron's student organ- draw constant attention from ization offices. students. The first floor contains a "It's usually packed," Brown cafeteria with fast food options - said. "People are always standing including a McDonald's and Al- in line to use these machines and Maintenance draws the line tieri's Pizza; Summit County's we make sure we take good care largest bookstore; student affairs of them." offices and a maze of conference Brown said the video game rooms. room was not built to Its current Sports hinge on work of University grounds crew The second level consists of a size. dining hall seating 900 to 1000 "We used to have only a couple Pat Murphy down Stadium Drive. A puff of smoke leaks out of "We used a nail drag on Fri- people, meeting rooms and stu- of pinball machines In here, and The BG News They turn left Into Steller a pipe as Kuhn drives toward day because [the Infield] was a dent lounges and a state-of-the- there was always a line to use Field and disperse' around it. second base. The tractor pulls little firm. We needed to loosen art theater added during the 1982 them. But whenever student or- Friday morning, 10 am. A The John Deere tractor stops a nail drag, one of several It a little bit on top. You want it renovations. ganizations would rent out the convoy of field equipment between first and second base. types of drags the Field Main- a little loose on top so there is a Bob Fritz, assistant director of place, there was nothing left for leaves the Maintenance Room Greg Kuhn, Supervisor of Ath- tenance staff uses. smooth surface," said Ken Gardner Center, said the center's students to play on," Brown said. in Perry Stadium. Two golf letic Fields, jumps Into the Kuhn was dragging the in- Schoeni, Administrative Assis- point of pride Is its consistently Brown also said that, if the carts, a riding lawnmower and driver's seat and spins the field In preparation for Satur- heavy use by students and com- a tractor putter single file green tractor around. day's games. See BASEBALL, page three. munity members. See UNION, page four. Black leader to mobilize march S^SS* Chavis, Farrakhan join forces to mobilize 1 million men for unity The Associated Press "We are not going to DAYTON - The Rev. Benjamin Chavis, the former leader of the Washington to make NAACP, said Sunday he will help demands on the organize a march on Washington this fall. federal government, Chavis said he would join Na- in terms of specifics tion of Islam leader Louis Far- or programs. We Police are looking for any in- rakhan to mobilize at least 1 mil- formation on the alleged attacker lion black men for the Oct. 16 believe there needs to in n rape that occurred on April 2 march. be greater unity in on the 100 block of East Merry "The purpose of the march is Street more self-affirmation, where we our community." The alleged rapist was de- are encouraging black men to scribed by the victim as a six- stand up to straighten up their foot, 200-pound, 30 to 35-year-old backs and say we are going to Benjamin Chavis white male with dark hair, a full take greater responsib'llty for former leader of the NAACP face and a stocky build. improving the quality of life of At the time of the rape, the our community," he said. man was reportedly unshaven Chavis, who is from Cleveland, said. and had his hair pulled straight spoke Sunday at two Dayton Chavis was fired in August as back Into a pony tall. He was re- churches. He announced the the executive director of the portedly wearing dark jeans and march at an afternoon news con- National Association for the Ad- ablackt-shirt. AP FhMWIUMk ClritgU ference. vancement of Colored People. The alleged attacker has dark Chavis had failed to disclose that eyes, a deep voice- The Rev. Benjamin Chavis, former chairman of NAACP, speaks at the Rlverdale Congregational "We are not going to Washing- he used $322,400 in organization Police encourage anyone with Church in Dayton on April 9. Chavis spoke In two Dayton Churches and had a news conference an- ton to make demands on the fed- mouey to settle a sexual- Information about the rape to nouncing that he will Join the Nation of Islam leader Lotus Farrakhan to organize a march on Washing- eral government, In terms of discrimination complaint filed by contact Crime Stoppers at ton In October. specifics or programs," Chavis a former assistant. 352-0077. AN < illH Findlay police char, The family of a USAir The Fatal baseball team man with menacing I plane crash victim improves its MAC record INSIDE stalking. questions the official to 6-0 this past weekend by Page 4. accounts of the handling defeating Akron with a pair of the remains of the of 3-0 victories.. * bodies. Page 7. LOOK m Page 5. C hwaMMMitfaaM nfmtmW ■-" - - - C" Editorial The BG News page two Monday, April 10,1995 Reagan nostalgia has come The BG News Hardly a day goes by anymore ■ The top 1 percent of Income eral regulations designed to without the announcement of an- earners saw their taxes reduced safeguard workers, consumers "Celebrating 75 years of Excellence" other proposal to slash the from 31 to 24 percent while taxes and the environment You don't meager social security safety net John for 80 percent of the nation in- have to be a star accountant to that cushions the fall of those at creased or remained the same. Understand that if businesses are the bottom of the U.S economic ■ The number of workers earn- freed from complying with Julie Tagliaferro Michael Zawacki ladder. But the Republican ing less than $6.10 per hour in- workplace, consumer and envi- editor-in-chief managing editor blitzkrieg entails far more than creased from 12 to 18 percent. ronmental laws their profits will pummeling poor people who lack While the Republican Contract increase at the consumers ex- the political power to fight back. With America has been promoted pense. Conservatives are also anxious .Bernard as the solution to our country's Not surprisingly, the Republi- Leah Bamum Dawn Keller to dismantle the laws protecting problems, nothing could be fur- can Contract demands another news editor assistant managing editor workers and consumers as well And while a fraction of the ther from the truth Even a casu- peacetime military buildup, even as the regulations that prevent money spent by Reagan and Con- al examination reveals that the though the U.S. is the undisputed big business from completely gress did trickle down to ordin- Contract could only have been global military superpower. ruining our environment. ary wage earners, the primary designed to continue or extend Plans for this buildup include Joe Peiffer Larry Hannan Sharon Turco Why the sudden zeal to curb beneficiaries were investors who the Reagan policies of the 1980's dumping about $2 billion per city editor editorial editor feature editor government spending? Accord- owned interest in the public debt, - policies from which our nation year into the completely discre- ing to Republicans, these pro- stockholders of defense corpora- is still struggling to recover.