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The BG News Workshop features Irish dance Long will be working along with Deb- By ANNE MOSS orah Tell, coordinator of the University's The BG News dance program, and Lynne Hamer, a fac- St. Patrick's Day is about three weeks ulty member at the University of Toledo. away and already the University is "Irish dance is a great topic to buzzing with Irish spirit. explore," Tell said. "Especially since it has This Saturday, Feb. 27, there will be a been highlighted within the past years." day devoted to Irish dance in the Lenhart There will be a session beginning at Grand Ballroom. The day will include a 9:30 a.m. and ending at noon. According variety of workshops and presentations to Long, the morning workshop is gener- i Jud Laipply advocates on traditional Irish dance and music. ally for teachers of elementary to high spontaneous open University instructor Lucy Long will school students, and will focus on how to discussion. be one of the presenters. Long has incorporate the traditions of Irish dance received several grants from the Ohio into the teachings of social studies, music Humanities Council and from the Univer- and other subjects. There will also be a sity's Partnership in Community Action brief dance demonstration. to create a documentary on Irish dance. Later in the day, there will be a dance Guest columnist fears The presentation in the Union is among workshop from 4-6 p.m. Presenting at the there's no intelligent one of the projects Long is able to do with workshop will be Kitty Heinzman, who life at BGSU. the grants. She also used the grant money has been teaching Irish dance for nearly 30 years, and Frank Hall, who has studied to create a video documentation on Irish Photo Provided dance in the local community, which will Dancers from the Heinzman School of Irish Dance will be performing at the Uni- be the main event, of the day. world and nation 4 • See DANCERS, page seven. versity Saturday. i Convicted killer to be Film sentenced in Byrd Students become safety experts case. Aviation class travels to nations capital to attend safety seminar students XL NOW N-l By LINE ANETTE DJUVE network The BG News By ALEXANDRIA DIETZ i Sandy Skoglund puts "In Pursuit of Safety" was the The BG News big topic for ten aviation stu- "reality under siege" in When Spike Lee cancelled his . dents when they spent a week speech twice, upset University Toledo. interacting with aviation policy film students decided to take makers in Washington D.C. in action. They decided to create a the beginning of January. Film Students Committee. Royce Ann Martin, assistant Monique Wrighten, junior film Mike Judge's live professor in the department of technology systems and instruc- studies major and treasurer of the action premier is a tor for the aviation course, said committee, said they wanted to start this group to help rebuild must-see. that the purpose of the trip was the film department. to help students see how avia- tion policy is made and how it "It started out of the Spike Lee sports 8 can be influenced. visit," she said. "We were all dis- She stressed that one of the appointed and thought it would- key aspects of the seminar was n't happen if we had a tighter to make the students aware that group of people." Photo Provided Wrighten said that most stu- they can make a difference and Top Row: (left to right) Senator De Wine, Dustin Freeman, Mark Weithofer, Dr. Royce Ann Martin that different players have dif- dents are not aware of what is and Steve Chapa. involved with film studies and ferent views on different topics. Front Row: (left to right) Curtis Voltz, Mike Ferguson, Amy Burdette, Derek Vargo and Pam "When you're younger, you there is no real network for them. think everything is black and Hague. "Not a lot of students know white, and when you get older tions major, preparing for the Council International (ACI) and was that the students were able what film studies is about," she you realize that things aren't trip was equally important. General Aircraft Manufacturers to meet other people who are said. "Not all of the film studies necessarily black and white," "We researched all of the top- Association (GAMA). and will be in the aviation majors know each other either." industry and create a network i BG men's basketball Martin said. "There are a lot of ics to make sure we knew the Martin added that the stu- Wrighten said the group will with them. grays out there." issues that would be talked dents also got to meet with Sen- start to meet regularly on wins against Marshall. For Weithofer, meeting the She added that having the about," Weithofer said. "We ator DeWine and talk to person- Wednesdays in 114 Business 78-72. students meet with different key wrote papers and we gave pre- nel in the offices of Senator various people was a benefit in Administration building at 9:15 itself. aviation industry agencies sentations for each other so that Voinovich and Representative p.m. when we got to D.C. we could Gilmore. "I met and was able to talk to forced them to see all the vari- "We will probably sit around ask intelligent questions." According to Weithofer, the a lot of high-ranked aviation ous sides of an issue. and talk," she said. "It may just The research continued dur- week-long research was con- officials that a college student According to Martin, the stu- be 'have you seen this and what ing the week in Washington cluded with group presenta- would not be able to meet," he dents started preparing for the did you think of it?'" Opinion 2 DC, where the students joined tions on the various topics said. seminar well in advance. They Wrighten also said that they Page Three 3 were divided into smaller forces with students from seven explored. He explained that Weithofer also said that the World and Nation 4 other universities from around some of the sub-topics the stu- seminar had given him a good are planning on doing some groups and had to research sev- fundraisers such as a car wash or NOW N-l eral sub-topics. Martin said she the country. dents researched in-depth were impression of aviation policy a raffle. Sports 8 wanted to make sure that the Martin said that the students the Y2K pnblem, one-way colli- making in the United States, students knew some of the hot were placed in small groups in sion and cost-benefit analysis, and that he believes it serves as "We want to try and raise topics concerning air trans- order to interview the various and how much money to spend a good role model for the rest of money to bring in film makers, portation. agencies present. Some of the on a human life. the world. actors, and have seminars," she say what? "We met six times before we agencies interviewed by the stu- Both Martin and Weithofer "The US has always been the said. left," she said. "The students dents include the Federal Avia- thought that the outcome of the leading country in establishing Erin Waters, a senior film stud- "When you're had to become experts on a tion Administration (FAA), the seminar was that it was good aviation policy," he said. "We ies major and secretary of the younger, you think topic." National Transportation Safety and successful. have the safest policy in the committee, believes that ihe com- For Mark Weithofer, a senior Board (NTSB), Airline Pilot According to Martin, one of mittee will help the with recon- everything is black aviation management opera- Association (ALPA), Airports the better results from the trip • See AVIATION, page seven. struction of the new film studies and white." department. Royce Anne Martin, "It will help form a bond technology professor History enthusiasts form new organization between students," she said. Waters also said that the com- Danziger to talk about being a professor as part of society's speaker series mittee will serve is their own career services. They will have involved in the town they are since it is so small." mica connections and contact lists for By JEFF HINDENACH teaching in." The size of the society is due <the V3QSU film students. The BG News Danziger sees this as a good to the fact that it was just formed Check out: Waters believes that a commit- When most people think of opportunity for students who last fall. According to Jim Buss, a History Society tee like this would have been www.bgnews. historians, they usually don't are aspiring teachers to see senior history major and presi- ■ helpful when she entered college. Presents associate them with a very excit- exactly what a professor's life is dent of the society, the society com ing or interesting job.