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The BG News April 9, 1969 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-9-1969 The BG News April 9, 1969 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 April 9, 1969" (1969). BG News (Student Newspaper). 2315. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2315 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 Serving a growing university since 1920 Wednesday, April 9, 1969 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green Ohi. Vol. 53, No. 82 Faculty Senate adopts revised, Council reapportions self clarified charter skin of Its teeth when only By LEE STEPHENSON By BRUCE I.AKRICK tee headed by Frank Plttman, for approval. The court declared Editorial Editor sophomore class president, pro- Council unrepresentative last 40 out of 46 votes (either Coun- Issue Editor Student Council finally passed a vides for a president, three vice- quarter and ordered It to come up cil members or proxies) showed The Faculty Senate In a special up, with 36 "yes" votes required meeting yesterday afternoon, made reapportlonment plan last night by presidents, and 16 Student Council with a reapportlonment plan that Is one vote In two consecutive meet- members to be elected at-large In line with the Supreme Court's to pass the amendment under the some 27 revisions In the Faculty ings. three-fourths majority rule for Charter and then unanimously ad- by the student body as a whole "one man, one vote" decision. The plan, drawn up by a commit- It will now go to Student Court The amendment passed by the passing constitutional amend- opted the amended document. ments. The charges were the result Two meetings were held to faci- of a motion last November by the litate passage of the amendment, Executive Committee which which Council had l«en consider- charged the Amendments and By- ing for two meetings prior to last laws Committee to prepare (he night. changes In order to clarify the On the first vote, the amend- charter. ment carried 3G-4 with Dave Wag- The measure In effect removed goner, commuter representative, those sections from the charter John Ulrlch, freshman represen- which are procedural in nature, tative, Paula Massouh, freshman leaving only the grant and defi- representative, and Mary Blitz, nition of powers that the charter Ashley representative voting a- Is Intended to be, according t Dr. galnst it. F. Lee Mlesle, chairman of the Senate. A minor crisis occurred be- Those sections removed were tween meetings, when Barbara placed In the senate's bylaws with Sayers, a proxy voter for Marti the other legislation of an opera- Daum, Mooney representative, tive nature. walked out. Without her "yes" vote The switch also makes It much on the second ballot, the amend- simpler for the senate to amend ment would have failed by one vote. the new bylaw material. Bylaws may be lnacted the meeting follow- Miss Daum also had left a writ- ing their Introduction, whereas ten proxy, and debate ensued about amendments to the charter must whether the proxy was good for receive several readings prior to the second meeting as well as the a vote. first. Council President Nick Li- The senate functioned as a com- cate ruled that the proxy would mittee of the whole during this be allowed for the second meeting, time In order to facilitate dis- because the date of the proxy was cussion. the same as that of the meeting. The revisions were uncontested Earlier in the meeting, Waggon- except for reasons of a definitive SKIBBIE ADDRESSESSTUDENTS-Bowling Green tions during yesterday's open forum on the steps er and Miss Blitz had presented or procedural nature. a proposed amendment to the (Continued on page 5) Mayor F. Gus Skibbie answered students' ques- of Williams Hall. (Photo by Paul Collins) amendment which would have based representation on geographical areas, much the same as Coun- City temperance crusade 'great mistake/ cil is now. The amendment was defeated with only four members voting for It. Skibbie tells sparse open forum crowd If Student Court approves the re- cerns. He continued, "The peo- they'll go to the next community," approtlonment plan, those seats By STEVEN BRASH F. Gus Skibbie said that he could which will be eliminated from Staff Writer see no reason why anyone should ple here tend to remain with the he said. He added that he strongly status quo. Their attitude Is 'If opposed this movement. Council will be Inter-Fraternity The mayor of Bowling Green become concerned and make It a big Council, Panhellenlc Council, As- said at an open forum yesterday issue between the town and the It's working all right now, why The mayor explained that out of change It?" 17 voting precincts only four are sociation of Women Students, that he had no objections to beer University. "I can see no harm Men's Inter-Residence Hall Coun- on the Bowling Green University from It," he said. Mayor Skibbie called the move- dry at the present time. In order ment to vote the Bowling Green to vote a precinct dry, an adjoin- cil, class presidents, class rep- campus as Is proposed for next Classifying the Bowling Green resentatives, dormitory represen- fall. community as ultra-conservative, community dry "a great mistake." ing precinct must also vote Itself "You can't legislate people to stop dry on a local option vote. Sklb- tatives, and commuter represen- Speaking before 50 to 75 students Skibbie said that change does not tatives. In front of Williams Hall. Mayor come easy, no matter what It con- drinking. If they can't get It here, (Contlnued on page 5; Rotary Connection, Blues Band to appear The Rotary Connection, a popular rock group to be one of the top songwriters in his field. He at 9 p.m. Tickets will go on sale tomorrow In the : from Chicago, and The Mr. Stress Blues Band will has written songs for such recording stars as the Union lobby. All seats are 91.00. replace Huffy St. Marie for a concert Saturday In Supremes and the Shangrilas. Memorial Hall. Miss St. Marie was forced to cancel her appear- Sharing the bill with the Rotary Connection wlU ance last week because of Illness. be The Mr. Stress Blues Band. The Rotary Connection has cut three underground Hailing from Cleveland, the band performs the long playing albums, and at the present time Is type of musical members that Its title Infers--the working on its fourth. rhythm and blues reminiscent of such artists as The group consists of two singers and five musi- Junior Wells, Otis Rush and Paul Butterfleld. cians. Minnie Riper ton, one of the singers and the "Mr. Stress" of the band is twenty-four year only female member of the combo, has a voice old Bill Miller, the organizer and coordinator of range of five octaves and Is able to mimic the sound the combo. of a wide variety of instruments. The son of a professional musician. Miller started Sidney Barnes, the other vocalist, la considered as a clarinet player at age ten. He later switched to the saxaphone, but always nursed a secret prefer- ence for the harmonica, which he has been playing for five years. Miller explained that the name of the quintet was arrived at "because we put so much of our heart and soul Into the music." The Stressers decided to specialize in the blues because If provided the group with more of a chal- lenge. "It cuts across all age areas," Miller contended. "More and more young people are turning back to It." Aside from Miller and his harmonica, the group consists of Donnle Baker and Chuck Drazdlk, Duane Verh on the bass, and Kenny Ruscltto, the drummer. ROTARY CONNECTION-IS the featured at. According to Miller, neither of his guitarists MR. STRESS BLUES BAND-Will share the spot- traction of Saturday night's concert. The Chic- plays lead. They share lead patterns and "comple- light at the Arts Week concert Saturday evening. ago rock group has already cut three long play- ment, rather than compete with each other." As its name implies, the Cleveland quintet The Concert, which Is sponsored by the Student, specializes in the rhythm and blues style of ing "underground" albums and is now working Activities Office as part of Arts Week, will begin on its fourth. music. mmrnrnm Pag* 2/Th. BG News, Wednesday, April 9, 1969 The new black woman By DENNIS McMICKENS Student Columnist trine of the fact that they were Included in the pro- gram of struggle. The doctrine of the Black move- The way women clothe themselves, together with ment, the strategy of combat, never postulated the No more of the same the traditions of dress and finery that custom Im- necessity for a revision of forms of behavior with Richard Nixon has been President for almost three months now, plies, constitutes the most distinctive form of a respect to the Afro-dress of Black women. society's uniqueness, that Is to say the one that and on the all-important issue of the Vietnam war, he has been Is the most perceptible. They are able to realize even now that when Black giving the American people something he said he wouldn't do dur- people are liberated from American racism such It Is by their apparel that types of society first questions will not be raised about their Afro-fashions, ing the campaign—more of the same.
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