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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-29-1999 The BG News January 29, 1999 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 January 29, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6437. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6437 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 BG News |y independent studei Local stores prepare for Superbowl By ROBERT RECKER "With the Superbowl, we utes for dine-in and carry-out. The BG News have to be prepared for big "People should start calling orders . four, six, eight pizzas today [to place their orders)," The Superbowl. at a time," Stringer said. "Instead Rau said Wednesday. "It'll be For millions of people world- of making one pie, we're making that busy." wide, it is an enthralling annual 10 pies." Rau expects to rack up profits spectacle. Stringer said it is easy to pre- between $4,000 and $5,000 more For college students across the dict when the orders will start. than an average Sunday. country, it is an excuse to party "Phone calls come in three Increased profits are putting on a Sunday. , segments: pregame, kickoff and some companies into extra fes- i Guest columnist Bob And for some local merchants, half-time," he said. "We get 75 to tive moods this Superbowl Recker explains it is an appreciated economic 150 calls at each interval. It's weekend. parking protocols. boom. pretty intense." Bill Smith, a manager at Frick- Bowling Green pizza pubs, According to Stringer, 22 er's, wants his sports bar to have sports bars and convenience Domino's delivery cars will be a party atmosphere during the marts, who thrive off the party scattered throughout the city, game. industry, are expecting huge instead of the normal seven. Smith said they will prepare a I Jeffrey Gill tells sales this weekend when the Like their name implies, "shloog more wings" than usual, students to take a NFL's season-ending battle kicks BW3's main Superbowl concern and will hold a fastest wing-eat- BG News Photo/JASON SUGGS stand against off. will be cranking out their Buffalo ing contest at half-time. He said Rod Stringer, owner of Domi- Wings. there will be a ton of giveaways, Rod Stringer of Dominos holds on extra large pizza bag. Domi- rulebreakers. no's Pizza on E. Wooster, expects Assistant general manager nos hopes the bags will accomodate the extra business gener- to triple the sales of a normal Cary Rau said BW3 will be cook- ated by the superbowl. nation 4 Sunday. ing up 100 wings every five min- i See SUPERBOWL, page five. i A Colorado class of she said. "At the end of the Tuttle said, "The way we do it is show, they get rid of the chess we write about our life and our fifth-graders raises TaiChi game and bring out the game lives are really cool." $50,000 to free slaves 10 'Sorry'.'; The first show that the group in the Sudan. minutes Since this script was based on performed, "Cause of Life," was an actual rape experience, the performed last semester. Tuttle relaxes Women's Center decided to said that a lot of people sponsor the program. involved in the show were ner- By LINE ANETTE of life °l "The script seems solid and vous and unsure of the audi- IA New Jersey man will promote discussions on the ence's reaction. DJUVE stabs his wife after By AMYJO L. BROWN used; however, the focus of each issue," said Mary Krueger, "One member kept saying, The BG News show is on the acting and the director of the Women's Center. 'they hate, they hate it,' but by sediments in a bottle The BG News Life can be stressful and mind storyline. "I liked that it was students the end of the show the audi- consuming for a student. The of iced tea impared Secrets, coffee and cigarettes, One story, which the author, who wrote it and student ener- ence was standing," Tuttle said. Continuing Education Options his judgement. Christmas cards, crosswords, Melissa Bennett, describes as gy that was being put into it." "We had a big group hug at the Programs offers classes for peo- and struggles—life experiences experimental, is a look at a girl Other shows include a guy end of the performance." ple who want to expand their are being turned into extraordi- who was raped. It is not, how- who writes Hallmark cards, A non-funded University knowledge beyond academics. nary displays of talent by the ever, the typical rape story, Ben- someone leaving for college, organization, the I.F.T.C. was Independent Film and Theatre nett said. Cindy Smith, Options Pro- caffeine and cigarette addicts formed by Tuttle and several grams director, said that her job Corps (I.F.T.C.). "The story is told by the and a traveling man. friends over pizza at Myles Tonight and Saturday in the female who was raped, but the is to meet the community's "We've got something of Pizza Pub. needs. She stressed that the Amani Room, the I.F.T.C. will be focus is on the two people play- everything . shows for the classes offered in the program performing "Ten Minutes to ing chess in the background," family, comedies, quirky stuff," • See SHOWS, page five. Talk," a diverse collection of aim at personal enrichment and short works created by its mem- life-long learning. bers. Smith said that there is really Described as similar to a no limit as to what kind of class- radio show, the program is es she can offer through the pro- made up of 10 seperate stories gram. that are related to events in each "I absolutely love the creativ- of the authors' lives. Titles of the ity and the fact that anything I works, such as "Coffee and Cig- can conjure up I can offer as a class," she said. ■ Mens' basketball loses arettes," "Dying for Life," "Christmas Cards, Crosswords One of the classes being to Miami, 83-72. and Struggles," all reflect the offered this semester is Tai Chi, a trials and humor of everyday class that in particular focuses life. on relaxation and stress relief. Through their work, authors Marti Biker, instructor of Tai attempt to reach the audience's Chi with 25 years of training in emotions by writing about their the discipline, said that Tai Chi is own experiences. a kind of exercise that stresses Opinion 2 the internal martial art. Page Three 3 "You can hate it, but it's life," said Brian Tuttle, president of She said that the exercise World and Nation 4 I.F.T.C. BG News Photo/ JASON SUGGS which consists of 24 basic move- Sports 7 A few props such as black ments prompts breathing and Sports Agate 11 boxes, tables and chairs will be Members of the I.F.T.C. rehearse for their upcoming preformance. proper energy flow through the body. "I call it meditation in motion," she said. "You get very focused on what you're doing in be Freshman survey computerized and you get into a very peaceful place," she added. the Internet at the University likely to come back and gradu- share the individual names or lonely work. A lot of By JEFF HINDENACH Oz Koren, a 1998 graduate that information with anyone," writers have a fear of The BG News website. ate." from the University and a con- he said. According to William Knight, An incentive to complete the ductor/saxophonist, took a Tai a blank page." The first-year student survey director of Institutional survey is the opportunity for But with the incentive, Knight Chi class and found it very ful- has been upgraded; it is now Research, having the survey on three students to win a $100 gift said there could be problems. He Alica Conroy filling. He said that the class computerized. certificate in a random drawing. said some students, who just member of the web makes it more accessible made him more energetic, more Women Writer's Group The survey is used to get stu- to students. He believes more Knight sees this as a way to get want the gift certificate, might dents' opinions on various pro- relaxed and that it opened up his students will have time to fill it more students involved in the fill out the survey hastily. mind. grams and academics offered by out now. survey, but in the end he said the "We can tell if a survey is not the University. It helps the Uni- "For a musician, especially "These surveys are important information gained on how stu- done right," he said. "If the stu- in conducting, it is important to ca versity determine what students because it's important to get stu- dents evaluate the campus is the dent only filled in one row, for are enjoying and what they have complete control of the dent feedback," he said. "The best incentive. He stressed that example, we can see they didn't body and to have the connection Check out: would like to see changed. feedback helps to predict student the survey is confidential.

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