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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-18-1970 The BG News February 18, 1970 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 February 18, 1970" (1970). BG News (Student Newspaper). 2422. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2422 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. An Bowling Green Ohio Independent February 18, 1970 Student Voice THe BG news Volume 54 Number 65 History boycott Nixon favors vote seems effective in early stages . The history department boycott was for 18-year-olds k showing signs of success yesterday in the r words of two University administrators. WASHINGTON (AP)-A Justice persons the vote and a responsible role in the House of Representatives. Dr. James G. Bond, vice president of Department spokesman told a Senate the political process may eliminate what "The voting age for participation in |\J student affairs, said history enrollment panel yesterday that President Nixon he called a sense of frustration and all remaining elections-both state and figures thus far have shown a decline in favors a constitutional amendment noninvolvement that has possibly led to local-should continue to be a question for upper level courses. permitting 18 year-olds to vote in the irresponsible behavior of a few. each state to determine," he said. Glenn I. Van Wormer. registrar, said national elections. Saying these are the reasons the seniors showed a lack nf interest in the Deputy Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst testified before the Senate President favors lowering the voting age subcommittee on constitutional amend- history classes, but the juniors began to Kleindienst testified that such an to 18. Kleindienst said however the ad- ments which has been taking testimony sign up in average numbers shortly after amendment would be the best soluilutiprj Jo ministration believes this should extend noon yesterday. lowering the voting age whili from supporters and opponents of a ile*\still only to elections for president, vice proposal to lower the voting age in all "Seniors might have already taken all allowing the states a free hand in setting president, U.S. senators and members of elections. the history courses they need for the qualifications for voters in state and graduation," Van Wormer said, "but local elections. Vietnamization in 10 years preliminary figures would indicate a In most states the legal age for voting Fourth Street decline in class sign-ups." is 21. Georgia and Kentucky have Two newly-organized groups, lowered this to 18, Alaska to 19 and "Demand Creative Teachers." headed Hawaii to 20. Colby predicts withdrawl by freshman Scott Banks, and "The Kleindienst rejected arguments that WASHINGTON (AP)-The head of the who returned Sunday night from a visit to NEW BOUNDARIES for off-campus students are shown above as University Reform Party." led by fresh- younger persons cannot be trusted to U.S. pacification program in Vietnam Vietnam. outlined by the University Parkin* Committee. The plan gees Into effect man Jon Flanery, launched their boycott exercise the responsibility of the ballot. said yesterday the South Vietnamese The President is basing his U.S. troop In September. plans against the history department He said many of the persons associated could take over complete responsibility withdrawal decisions in part on the Monday. with campus rebellions and disruptive for defending their country within 10 progress of the Vietnamization program, The boycott was designed. Flanery political activism are well past 21 and years "if nothing else arose." under which the combat role is gradually has explained, to protest both the ter- represent only a small percentage of Deputy Ambassador William L. Colby being turned over to the South Viet- New parking outline mination of two history department young Americans. gave that estimate to the Senate Foreign namese. faculty members and disagreement with "The vast majority-both in school and Relations Committee as President Nixon Nixon also said that progress on history department policies of not at work-age living responsible, con- told a group of White House visitors that nonmilitary aspects is "most en- allowing a significant student voice to be structive lives," Kleindienst said. the military part of the Vietnamization couraging" and he added that redefines commuters heard on the criteria under which a "These mature young people should not program "is on schedule." remarkable work is being done on the department dismisses a (acuity member. be penalized for the actions of a few." Nixon made his comment after pacification front. History class boycotting was designed Kleindienst said the Nixon ad- The University Parking Committee the new policy find out from their lan- as a "test case," Flanery said, to sample receiving a firsthand report from The Viet Cong are South Vietnamese has passed a tentative revamping of dlords if parking spaces near their ministration believes that giving young Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, guerrilla forces. student reaction to the issue of student student parking policies they believe will residences will be provided for them evaluation of professors and their go into effect in September. before they sign their leases. courses. With University Hall as a center point, These students may find it more If the boycott proves successful, all student residences within a half-mile desirable to leave their vehicles at their Flanery hopes other University depart- radius will be considered on campus for residences, Yacos explained, then to ments will re-evaluate their stands on the Mixed feelings exist at 'talks' parking purposes only, according to the park in distant University lots. importance and significance of a student committee's proposal. "It might also be necessary for the GENEVA (AP)-The 25-nation April. might take." evaluation policy. Chief soviet disarmament Delegate This would mean those students af- students affected by this proposed policy More than 5,000 boycott class and disarmament conference resumed Referring to the "serious and fected must park in on-campus lots- change to check with the city police to see yesterday with the United States and the businesslike spirit which characterized Alexei A. Roschin, who is not part of the professor lists have been distributed on SALT negotiations, shared Smith's op- either Lot 6 or Lot 8, during restricted if vehicles have to be off their streets campus and in the University Union Soviet Union in broad harmony over the Helsinki phase of our discussions", parking hours as posted on lot signs. during certain hours, or if round-the- nuclear issues, but deeply divided on the Smith said that "if we can continue in timism over a future treaty to ban giving the names of professors and nuclear weapons from the seabed and the Students residing outside the half- clock is permitted in individual cir- courses which these two organization question of germ and chemical warfare. this manner, it seems to me that the mile radius will be considered commuter cumstances," said Yacos. Gerald C. Smith, head of the U.S. prospect Is brighter than It has been in speedy implementation of the treaty to want to see boycotted. ban the spread of nuclear weapons drivers and must park their vehicles In The boundry lines, according to the These include 16 tenured history Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the past that we can make some progress commuter lots 1,2,3,4,5,7 or 9. plan include the center lines of the expressed optimism over the future of toward an agreement that is in our in- agreed here in 1967. faculty members and the director of the But there was a direct clash over the John Yacos, senior (BA) and a roadways along the following streets: School of Journalism. Dr. Joseph A. Del strategic arms limitation talks-SALT- terest and in the common interest." parking committee member, said the Frazee Raod, on the north; Yount with the Soviet Union which began in But Smith, who leads the U.S. SALT issue of biological and chemical warfare. Porto. Smith confirmed that the United States is revamping was a committee attempt to Road on the east; Main Street from Flanery said he hoped un- Helsinki, Finland, last November and delegation, said it is at present "too soon come up with an "equitable parking Frazee south to Lehman; Lehman east to continued in Vienna, Austria, in mid- to say what form such an agreement throwing its weight behind a British draft derclassmen, sophomores and freshmen, treaty to ban the manufacture, stock- policy." the railroad tracks and then south to would continue to boycott history Fourth Street, and Fourth east along an piling and use of biological weapons. He recommended those students who department classes when they begin The Soviet Union is insisting on a were to be considered on campus under imaginary extended line to Yount. registration later in the week. blanket treaty banning both chemical Flu epidemic seen and biological weapons. Western officials Stid.it fiids form luccirett regard this as an extreme and unrealistic stand because of the impossibility of barring chemical agents-such as tear bugging health staff and riot-control cases-which are already in tactical use with armed forces. Offers new rating plan The University Health Center is may last until mid-April." British sources claim that neither the By Jim Marino taking precautions in an attempt to The infirmary has taken a few United States nor Britain would accept a structor.