Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-28-1999 The BG News September 28, 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 September 28, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6532. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6532 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. OPINION WORLD NEWS CITY SPORTS Columnist Brian Ranzenberger Plane crash on OhioReads conference starts Men's soccer loses dislikes the University e-mail Mauna Loa today. The goal is to enhance two games to top system and encourages Volcano kills 10. the literacy of students. competition in students to use an e-mail system country. provided by the Internet. Weather Today: Tuesday showers September 28, 1999 High 78. Low 62 Volume 87 & Issue 25 BGA doily independent News student press Cedar Point Center added to Firelands By CRAIG GIFFORD kitchen and dining facilities, lands College. The BG News spaces for classrooms and com- "We are currently gathering Firelands College, a munity meetings. data to decide academic needs, branch of the main The Cedar Point University which allow us to know how to University, is in the Center will allow for the addi- design the building," Balzer final stages of determining the tion of new classes typical of said. design of its new Cedar Point the Bowling Green campus in This data will go into decid- Center, which is expected to order to accommodate new stu- ing what classes the students fully accommodate the needs of dents, Ruszkowski said. These need, in order to complete the the students, both academically additions will allow students of process of deciding what each and technologically. the Firelands College to pursue square inch of the building will associate degrees from Fire- look like. This, according to Construction of the center is lands and baccalaureate and Ruszkowski, is a process that expected to begin in July of masters degrees from the Uni- all new buildings must go 2001, with completion of the versity. through. project expected to come in Jan- "This will give students bet- In addition to changes in uary of 2003. technology and structure, Fire- According to Lesley ter ability for education in Kuszkowski, assistant director many differint areas," said lands College will also have of college relations, the main Dean Shelley, Firelands' stu- new leadership, as new dean purpose of the center is to "pro- dent government president, Bill Balzer takes over this vide additional space for class- pertaining to the addition of the upcoming school year. es, and a high-tech facility for addition of new courses. Balzer has many goals for Graphic Provided students, faculty and staff." The Center, the college's first the campus both for this year The new University Center since 1972 and fourth overall, and the future. One of his top Firelands College, located in Huron, Ohio, is the site of the $5 million Cedar Point Center. Cedar will be a high-tech multimedia was made possible by a $lmil- priorities is to increase enroll- Point donated $1 million toward the project. center, which will have class- lion donation from the Cedar ment, which has been declin- rooms with audio-visual, multi- Point Amusement Park. The ing. In order to do so he has set the main campus at BGSU. "We are hoping to lessen the versity's homecoming festivi- media and computer resources. total cost of this project will be up an enrollment team to work Shelley, who will be working gap between Firelands and the ties on getting more students to the This will accommodate for dis- $5 million. on ways to improve the college University," he said. "This is going to be an inter- No exact blueprints or campus. tance teaching and learning with student government, One way in which he hopes esting year, with having a new The facility will do this by designs for the building have Balzer also hopes to make dean and the Cedar Point Cen- providing luxuries such as a been finalized as of yet, accord- Firelands better known and to shares similar sentiments to do this is by having a float for central conference area, a ing to Bill Balzer, Dean of Fire- build stronger relations with about this issue. the college as part of the Uni- ter." Shelley said. Refugees flee Russian bombing USG election By RUSLAN MUSAYEV trapped on the Russian border Associated Press Writer were in a stale of shock. GROZNY, Russia — Terrified "Where is my Mama?" 8-year results released civilians tried to flee Chechnya old Liza Temirsultanova kept by the thousands Monday, dri- asking between sobs. ByJEFFARNETT will probably be appointed by ver, out by a Russian bombing Her grandfather, Ayup Temir- The BG News president Gault, according to blitz intended to crush Islamic sultanov, said that Liza's mother, The results for the fall elec- EOB member Ashley Elder, militants in the breakaway baby sister and two brothers had tions of Undergraduate Stu- though the precise way the seat dent Government have been republic. all been killed by Russian bombs will be filled is not certain. released, and 12 new senators "I wish I were dead," in Grozny on Monday. Firelands College was not rep- mourned Tamara Aliyeva, 70, have been elected into USG. The bombing is aimed at According to Jason Majors, resented in the election. "whose house in Grozny was weakening Islamic militants, destroyed by Russian bombs. "I chair of USG's Elections and On-campus students were who have twice invaded the Opinions Board, turnout was don't know what to do or where allowed to vote for a district neighboring Russian Republic of good this year. Only 219 stu- to go." Dagestan in recent weeks from and a college representative, dents voted in the elections, while off-campus students were Aliyeva joined tens of thou- their main bases in Chechnya. approximately 1.4 percent of sands of Chechens who headed They also are blamed for a series the University's undergraduate only allowed to vote for a col- for the neighboring Russian lege seat. As a result, the elec- of terrorist bombings in Moscow Associated Press Photo population. Majors said the republic of Ingushetia in hopes and other Russian cities that numbers are higher than in tion's 219 voters cast a total of of finding refuge — only to find have claimed 300 lives. previous years, though he was 224 votes, according to the the border closed. Plumes of smoke billow over an oil plant in the Chechen capital Defense Minister Igor of Grozny after it was hit by a Russian missile Mon., Sept. 27. unable to produce records of EOB's results. .. In Grozny, Russian airplanes Sergeyev said Monday that the past election totals. The candidate with the most wi'iv raining bombs and missiles bombing of Chechnya would the war, in which Russia often cal dialogue with Moscow. "It was pretty strong com- fbr the fifth straight day. Witness- pared to the past," Majors said. votes was Joe Dias, who won continue "until the last bandit is sent poorly trained troops into Putin said the Kremlin was es said oil refineries in Grozny "The fall elections are always the College of Arts and Sciences destroyed," according to the planning on a meeting between were ablaze, blanketing the capi- battle. going to be the smallest ones." seat with 29 votes, 27 more Interfax news agency. Russia will rely on air raids to President Boris Yeltsin and tal in choking black smoke. Majors said the improved than his closest competitors. The strikes have rekindled knock out infrastructure and Maskhadov, but it wouldn't take Russian jets also struck other turnout was partly due to the The candidate who won with fears about the possible introduc- "patiently, methodically destroy place until the Chechen leader cities and villages throughout one-week postponement of the tion of ground troops into had denounced terrorism in his the least number of votes was Chechnya, targeting suspected (the militants) from the air," elections, as well as dint Chechnya, despite a disastrous republic and Moscow was sure Jason Dean, who captured the militant bases along with oil der- Putin said. If any Russian troops Gault's State of the Student 1994-96 war in which Russian were deployed, they would be the militants couldn't use a meet- College of Technology seat with ricks and other industrial facili- Body speech, in which he troops were clobbered by a much highly trained and used only for ing to their advantage). two votes. Three of the 12 win- ties. encouraged students to vote at smaller guerrilla force. Chechnya "We're going to back away - Chechen President Asian "cleanup operations." the nearby USG election table. ners received more than 20 has run its own affairs since win- Maskhadov, who says his gov- from meetings for the sake ol "The speech helped out |the Maskhadov claimed Monday votes and a total of six received ning de facto independence, but ernment is not connected to the meetings, from meetings for the election]," Majors said. that 300 people had been killed more than 10. Moscow claims it is still part ol militants, said in a televised sake of giving militants tune to Six on-campus district seats in Grozny alone.