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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 5-9-1979 The BG News May 9, 1979 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 May 9, 1979" (1979). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3620. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3620 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 215 Slews Bowling TSrcen Stole University wednes- School buses will get day 5-9-79 new transceivers by Rick Rlmelspach wanted to take two days off the Senior pledges staff reporter proposed December 24 to January 4 Christmas break and add them to the break record The Bowling Green City Board of one-day long Easter vacation. "We Education voted at last night's meeting seriously doubt the education value of A record setting $20,700 was to put out bids to buy radio equipment such a long winter vacation," Nagy pledged by 180 University seniors for a county-wide communications said. last week at the 1979 Senior system for school buses and other The board will reconsider next year's Challenge kick-off banquet. school vehicles. calendar at its May 22 meeting. Surpassing their goal by $3,700, Superintendent Richard P. Cum- This year's calendar was also a the seniors have reached over mings said a system of com- source of discussion as Nagy said the one-third of their $55,000 total munications is needed for emergencies. BGEA would accept Friday, June 8, as goal they hope to raise in pledges Cummings added that the proposed the last make-up day of school because from the 3,075 seniors, according county-wide radio network, which of the strike last fall only if teachers to Larry J. Weiss, director of would be staffed by county employees, could use Saturday, June 9, as their Alumni Activities. would be in operation 24 hours a day. final work day instead of Monday, June During the next two weeks, Cummings estimated the cost to the 11, as is now scheduled. volunteers will be soliciting board of the equipment would be Richard Curry, secretnrv of the local pledges from their classmates, $6,000-8,000. He added that the Lions chapter of the OhioAssociationof Public through both personal contacts Club has offered to donate $1,500 toward School Employees IOAPSEI. said his and information mailings. the purchase of the equipment. group would not want to have to work Seniors who graduated last Business manager Ernest P. Sposato, on Saturday to accomodate the March, as well as those who will Jr., noted that this would be the first teachers' wishes. graduate in August and such communication system in Ohio. December, also will be solicited, JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL principal Weiss said, explaining that it will BOARD MEMBER John K. Hartman Donald Morrison said school ad- not be known if the 79 class goal commended the joint efforts. Hying, ministrators would not want to work on has been reached until early 1980. "This is an excellent example of civic Saturday either, and added that ad- The Senior Challenge 1978 goal organizations spurring us on." ministrators have had no voice in of $48,000 has almost been at- Board member Robert Herringshaw BGEA's demands. tained, except for about $100, said he was not opposed to the radio Cummings said the cost to the public which Weiss said he expects to be network, but questioned the cost of for having personnel come in to work raised from a final mailing to purchasing the equipment. "I would Saturday would be about $2,000. seniors. rather see the money spent on the buses Hartman suggested that BGEA and themselves so they don't break down in OAPSE meet and try to work out a elsewhere the first place," he said. solution to the disagreement. The board The board accepted low bids for two took no action to change the calendar. W ASHINGTON-The Senate new buses. The best bid for bus chasises Sposato said a check for $913.64 has Energy Committee refuses to went to Metropolitan Toledo been received as the district's portion approve the Carter ad- Educational Purchasing Association of the Master Key antitrust litigation ministration's standby gasoline and Dishop Motors for $24,384.82 and suit recently settled. rationing program, despite the low bus body bid was from Sharrock Carter's willingness to modify Superior for $8,292.88, totalling THE BOARD ALSO received con- the plan substantially and in- $32,677.70. firmation that Bowling Green High dications of likely fuel shortages No action was taken on the 1979-80 School has been placed on the list of this summer. Page 8. school year calendar by the board after approved schools by the North Central staff photo by Frank Breithaupt the president-elect of the Bowling Association of Colleges and Schools. CINCINNATI-Police Yesterday's sunshine brought students major, sat on the steps ol University Hall and Green Education Association IBGEA) The board approved 330 high school protection was limited to outside to sun, throw frlsbees and even blow created unique bubble figures. suggested a shorter Christmas vacation seniors for graduation, the largest supervisory personnel yesterday bubbles. Mary Beth Beazley. a senior English and a longer Easter break. graduating class in Bowling Green when policemen, angry and hurt history, according to Charles D. after four deaths within their GEORGE NAGY said the BGEA Mayers, assistant superintendent. ranks in 10 months, walked off the job for a day. Page (. CLEVELAND-The brother of Cyclist violations cause city safety woes slain grocery store executive Julius Kravitz described to reporters yesterday the impact of by Jim Flick ASH EXPLAINED that cyclists "No Bicycle Riding on Sidewalk" signs "We do issue traffic tickets to "If they don't want to be caught, they the kidnapping-murder on the cause many near-collisions by running bolted to lightposts and painted on the cyclists, but not as often as we'd like can cut through backyards and get family. Page I. Editor's note: This is the first of a two- stop signs and neglecting to signal sidewalks. to." he said. "It's so large a problem it away before the officer can turn the car part series on bicycling in Bowling before turning. "We've had some people knocked can't be adequately enforced. around." Green. inside "We haven't had any accidents in- Ash said he believes the only way to When temperatures blaze into the 70s volving bicycles this year," he said. fight the problem is by teaching bicycle NEWS- Religious cults use and gasoline prices skyrocket, many "We've been doggone lucky. We've had "We haven't had any accidents safety to children when they first learn manipulating psychological students and townspeople abandon some close ones, though. to ride a bike. techniques to control minds, their cars for bicycles. involving bicycles this year...We've according to the authors of a new But don't think cycling is less a "Last year, a girl was killed at the WHILE ASH added that this is book on cults. Page i. problem for the Bowling Green City corner of Napoleon and Manville roads had some close ones, though." largely a job for parents, his depart- Police than motoring. when she made a sudden left turn in ment and several civic groups sponsor SPORTS- Bowling Green's front of an oncoming van." bicycle safety programs. men's tennis team won its "Every spring we get a lot of com- down there." Ash said. "One lady spent "AN OFFICER will stop to issue a seventh straight match. Page 10. plaints about bicycles committing The police chief said that while there time in the hospital last year. She was ticket to a cyclist for, say, running a The police, for instance, have pur- traffic violations," Bowling Green are more bicycles in the campus area, coming out of LaSalle's when a bicycle stop sign. While he's sitting there chased an "Ike the Talking Bike" Police Chief Galen Ash said. his department receives the most ran her down." The person responsible writing it out, three or four more which is used in Bowling Green City weather "Somebody will have to slam on the complaints from the side-street areas. received a traffic ticket. bicycles will come by and run the same Schools to promote bicycle safety. SUNNY, WARM,-High 86F brakes to avoid hitting a kid who stop sign." Ash, however, is pessimistic about (30C), low 65F (18C), 10 percent crashes a stop sign and almost have a ANOTHER PROBLEM area, "Some of our biggest violators in the Another problem with ticketing the chances of eliminating the problem. chance of precipitation. heart attack," he added. "Then they'll however, is downtown. Cyclists downtown area are college-age cyclists, according to Ash, is that "a "It is a problem now and probably give us a call." routinely ride on the sidewalk, defying people," Ash said. bicycle is sodoggont n.aneuverable. always will be a problem." he said. Teacher shortages encountered in certain fields Editor's Note: This article is the second graduates and only two job openings. RICHARDSON POINTED out that The report showed that of 254 graduates WOMEN DID NOT have the career school and got their teaching cer- of a two-part series explaining the However, there were no job vacanies although there were 221 elementary in the five specific areas, 233 were opportunities they have today and tificates have been in the field for about effects of a teacher shortage on reported last year for the six secondary education graduates, only 30 of them women and 21 were men and of the 29 "schools cannot be confident that there 30 years and "their time is just about up enrollments in colleges ol education at education American studies graduates were male.