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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. ummm mmmmmmm The BH Sews Vol. 61, No. 107 Bowling "Green State ITniversily Tuesday, May 23, 1978 SGA wants 100 AAoseley By Cindy Leise Dayton did not have major security Stall Reporter problems, he said having COCO members "always hanging around" the The only acceptable location for the Commuter Center would be an added 10,000 mailboxes for off-campus deterrent to mail theft. students to be constructed by fall Gamelia said the advantages of the quarter is in 100 Moseley Hall, students location would "be the best way to start involved in the project announced the program-with a full hand, a full yesterday. deck" and "anything than that would However, Jim Gamelia, former be cheating the students." He said if the Student Government Association committee allocates a lesser location, (SGA) senator and project drafter, said the groups will appeal the decision to he fears the University Space "someone in McFall Center" (where Assignments Committee will propose at University President Hollis A. Moore its meeting today that the mailboxes be Jr.'s office is located). located elsewhere. According to Gamelia, the IF THE APPEAL would fail, University costume shop now stores Gamelia said options would be to wait a costumes in the room, which is across year to try for 100 Moseley again or the hall from the Commuter Center, "scrap th» whole thing." and does not want to move. However, Gamelia said "scrapping it" would be giving in to administrators "BUT YOU can help 8,000 students who have opposed the plan. or you can store costumes," Gamelia "But whether the program is worth- said. "Where's the priority?" while is not the question-that has been Gamelia, SGA President Michael C. decided already," Gamelia said. Voll and Tom Mammoser, president- Building the mailboxes will cost elect of the Commuter Off-Campus about $11,350 and will save the STUDY TIME-Dan Axt, a graduate assistant in the popular culture department, takes time to venture Newsphotoby Larry Kayser Organization (COCO) noted the ad- University about $12,500 a year in out and study on a University Hall ledge. He does not have too much longer to worry about class vantages of the Moseley Hall location. mailing costs. assignments with just about two weeks remaining in the quarter. They said the room is accessable to handicapped persons with a ramp leading into the Commuter Center and doors which open easily unlike other locations the Space Committee Portage County official named police chief allegedly is considering. In addition, COCO has promised to help provide By Jane Musgrave Bess said yesterday that his im- 1974. He started as a patrolman and departments across the country to working at KSU he was a member of security for the open mailboxes if they Staff Reporter mediate goals as police chief will be worked up to division commander and improve their operations. He studied the Inter-University Council on Police are built in that room. implementing the recommendations administrative assistant. At the height their operations, made suggestions on Procedures and attended meetings Although Gamelia said similar The search for a new chief for outlined in the Ad Hoc Police Review of campus unrest there were 160 per- areas that should be changed and here. mailbox systems at Akron University University Police ended last Friday. Panel's report and continuing those sons on KSU's police force. Bess was helped departments implement the When asked how he viewed the job of and Wright State University near William R. Bess, 32, director of per- already in effect. involved in whittling it down to a size proposals. University police chief, Bess said, "I sonnel and disaster services in Portage "fitting for a university of Kent'ssize," don't consider myself a police chief as County, Ohio, will assume the post July "THERE WILL obviously be the Bess said. He also was involved in He now works for the Portage such. The Ad Hoc Reveiw Panel's Correction 1, George Postich, vice president of need for some reorganization. I want to making the police force more service- County Commissioners in Ravenna. He recommendation that the position operations, has announced. meet and talk to as many people as oriented, he said. started as an assistant for disaster should be called director of safety and The News incorrectly reported the Bess was chosen in a screening possible and devise plans based on "At the time (of the Kent State in- services. He is director, of the depar- security is a good one. 1978-79 salaries of Robert B. Glidden, process involving 150 other applicants mutual aggreements," he said. "I can't cident) the force was strictly involved tment and the first official personnel dean of the College of Musical Arts and that began in November. Bess was be real specific yet. There's a lot of with law enforcement. Now it is much director employed by the county. "A UNIVERSITY police force should Charles L. Means, vice provost for selected because of his "unique review work I have to do." more community-oriented," Bess said. Bess said he always has wanted to be a service agency. Law enforcement academic services, in Friday's background including diverse He described the job as "extremely return to campus police work. is one aspect, but service should be the newspaper. Means' salary is $34,850 management responsibilities," Postich challenging for both me and the THE PERSONNEL and procedure primary consideration." he added. and Glidden'sis $41,500. said. University." changes involved working with area "I LIKE A University atmosphere Bess said he recognizes the dif- Bess began his career in police work police departments, Bess said. He also and especially like Bowling Green. The ference between campus and municipal as a student at Kent State University was in charge of training student and faculty, students and administrators police forces. According to Postich, this (KSU) in 1969. As an education major full-time patrolmen at KSU, handling I've met have been very friendly," he recognition was instrumental in his concentrating in music and English, his personnel complaints and serving as a said. landing the job. initial involvement with the campus liason between the University and Bess has been at the University police force was the result of money community. twice for interviews. As part of the "He has an extraodinary experience needs. Postich said the fact that Bess' interview process, he met and talked mix for such a young person. He has his "responsibilities involved people- with more than 30 members of the feet on the ground and he's not dreamy. HE TURNED it into a career related functions" was important in his University community. He understands what it takes to ad- because, he said, "I enjoy getting out appointment. Each time he visited the University minister a campus police force and and working with people. Police work is After leaving KSU in 1974, Bess he came a day early to mingle with understands local campus needs," a combination of service and com- worked for two years as senior students and talk to administrators, Postich said. munication." associate and project coordinator with Postich said. Bess is married. He and his wife Graduating from KSU in 1971, Bess Eastman, Middleton Associates in Prior to the interviews, Bess said he Bonnie have a five-year-old daughter remained on the KSU police force until Kent. Bess worked with police came to the University twice. While Angela. Art in evidence at the University By Bob Weingartner carved doors to the Ice Arena Lounge, that for considerably less than what he in Oslo, Norway, and we're very for- Staff Reporter the five free-form sculptures on the would do a piece for some private tunate to get that." Library terrace, a 750-pound aluminum concern. OTHER ART WORKS are obtained Talk about huge murals, oil pain- wall relief sculpture in the lobby of the through a student art exhibition tings, ceramic art and sculptures of Administration Building and the wood "We approached two alumni couples sponsored annually by the Alumni wood, brass, concrete, stainless steel sculpture in the lobby of the Psychology from the University that we knew were Association, I<essig said. and glass may conjure up images of the Building. interested in the arts to see if they'd be "We provide the funds that allow New York Museum of Modern Art of the Drumm's cor-ten steel structure, interested in funding it (the sculpture) that art show to be put on. As part of Louvre in Paris for many persons. titled "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and they were. Their private gifts paid that sponsorship each year, we pur- But did you know the University was erected in 1970 in memory of the for that to be done," Lessig explained. chase a certain number of pieces from owns more than 600 works of art that four students killed by Ohio National the show," he explained.