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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-13-1994 The BG News October 13, 1994 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 October 13, 1994" (1994). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5747. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5747 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. C The BG News "A Commitment to Excellence" Thursday, October 13, 1994 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 80, Issue 37 Low attendance may cause MAC to lose credibility by Mike Kazimore that we would lose our vote at the The BC News 1996 NCAA Convention." If the same scenario - where Just when the Bowling Green the MAC suffers low attendance football program was beginning - plays out again next year not to bring respectability to the only would the conference lose Mid-American Conference, the its vote again, but it could actual- league may quickly lose the stat- ly be dropped from Division I-A us it has worked so hard to gain. status. NCAA regu- "I'm not really sure how that lations state process actually takes place, or if that Division it would take place, but it is defi- I-A football nitely something to be concerned teams must about," said Ron Zwierlein, Bowl- meet at- ing Green athletic director. tendance quo- In the past four-year period, tas in order to only three teams have made the remain on that attendance mark. BG accom- level. plished the feat two years ago Over the while Akron and Western Michi- most recent Zwierlein gan did it last season, four-year period, universities Parker said that it is question- AP Pholo/L*urcnt Roboun with stadium capacities of more able whether three more squads U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher meets with U.S. sol- topher arrived In Kuwait Wednesday to meet wltb Gulf leaders than 30,000 must average either could be counted on to fill out the diers of the U.S. Army's 41st Field Artillery, from Fort Stewart, and visit U.S. troops who have been rushed to the nil-rich emirate 17,000 fans for home games or equation. Ga., during a visit at the Koha Camp north of Kuwait City. Cbrls- to counter the Iraqi military buildup. See story on page 4. 20,000 for home and away games See MAC, page seven. combined once during that period. Both Ohio and Miami universi- ties hold less than 30,000 in their MAC may stadiums and must average lose credibility University recalls Desert Storm 17,000 people per home game for the entire four-year period. In NCAA regulations state by Katie Simmons of the conflict in the Gulf. both pro-war and anti-war still be significant. addition, they don't get the added that Division I-A The BG News "It was my first year at the groups. "From what I've heard from luxury of being able to use road 4 football teams must University and everyone knew "In my stance, this campus was the past, I'll be called to report to games to help thein reach the a very dangerous campus," meet attendance quotas. In light of recent events still my views on the war," said a certain unit, with only a couple quota. unfolding in the Persian Gulf, the Nancy Brendlinger, a journalism Brendlinger said. "The reaction of days to prepare and my teach- While every team in the MAC University atmosphere will be professor. "I was an active anti- to our anti-war protests resulted ers will basically determine my does not have to make the quota _/Six of the 10 MAC different than that of 1991. In war activist, and as a professor, in threats and violence, it was a stance in the class," Matthew each year, six of them must in KJ teams must meet the 1991, the University campus took we had some interesting class very scary and emotional time." Porter, a junior at the University order for the conference to keep quotas for the confer- a majority view of pro-war, discussions, but as a faculty With the recent threats by and a reserve in the Marine its Division I-A status. ence to keep its Division favoring the efforts by former member the whole issue was Hussein, against Kuwait, the U.S. Corps. "Basically, if this war "If the league doesn't meet the I-A status. President Bush to defeat the never really talked about." has been put back into the posi- happens, I have to do what I have quota then it will be place on forces of Iraq in Operation An obvious pro-war campus, tion of a possible replay of the to do. If I get called up, I go and probation by the NCAA," said 4 If the league doesn't Desert Storm. Through protests, the University became home of war in 1991. Although the ROTC do what I'm told -- there's really Tim Parker, MAC director of meet its quota, it will be demonstrations and marches, the Monday night visuals in front of units on campus will not be sent no time to think about it." compliance and championships. placed on probation. University students and profes- the Union headed by a Christian in the case of a war, the effects "Being on probation would mean sors began to express their views group and a variety of rallys by on some students on campus will See GULF, page four. New look for old building University examines gender Architect says renovation will equity in athletic programs by Kalie Simmons clude distributing pamphlets and of intercollegiate athletics. be finished in The BG News guidelines to those institutions In 1991, the NCAA conducted a involved with the NCAA, includ- survey of their members and the summer of 1995 Editor's Note: This is part one ing the University, regarding the expenditures for women's and in a three-part series on the ef- entire issue of Title IX. men's athletics programs. The fects and changes in the Univer- According to Federal law re- results were disturbing, accord- by Jay Young sity athletic program due to the garding Title IX and gender ing to the final report from the The BG News NCAA's Title IX. equity "No person in the United NCAA gender-equity task force Where there is baseball, there in 1993. The $10 million Eppler Center is Softball. Where there is men's According to the report, the project is a 1990's building in a tennis, there is women's tennis. undergraduate enrollment in the 1930's package. Where there is football, there is - institutions was roughly divided Jim McArthur, University as- Where there is men's hockey by sex, but men still constituted sistant architect, said the project there is - oops. What seems to be 69.5 percent of the participants is about 60 percent complete. The missing? in the athletic programs. Those work is expected to be finished at The issue of gender equity is programs received about 70 per- the beginning of summer of 1995. seen in the job market, on the cent of the athletic scholarship Although there is still some ex- social scale, and now, even on the funds, 77 percent of operating terior work being done to Eppler athletic field. Are females re- budgets, and 83 percent of re- South and Eppler Center, stu- ceiving equal representation in cruiting money. dents are currently using those relation to intercollegiate athlet- These findings instituted a buildings. ics? problem with the issue of gender Eppler North is also receiving "Right now, I can say that we equity, and Title IX. exterior renovations in the form are doing extensive educational States shall, on the basis of sex, "I think that gender equity is of a new main entrance. efforts regarding the issue of be excluded from participation based upon financial resources to "The main object was to put a gender equity in intercollegiate in, be denied the benefits of, or equalize all programs," said new face on the main entry side athletics," said Janet Justus, di- be subjected to discrimination Jerry Ippoliti, commisioner of of the building, while still gaining rector of education and resource under any education program or the Mid-American Conference. the space that was needed," for the National Collegiate Ath- activity receiving Federal finan- "We are the land of opportunity, McArthur said. letic Association. "Every institu- cial assistance." so to speak, and our conference Diane Euler, secretary for the tion in our organization is Title IX is a matter of a federal has been doing exceptionally school of health, physical educa- different, and we have complied law that was passed in the early well in meeting with gender tion and recreation, said the use 1970s. In 1988, the Civil Rights equity." The BC News/Beth Maltcra with the federal law so we, right of space is much better now. now, are trying to educate our Restoration Act stated that insti- The Mid-American Conference "I like it," Euler said. "The Students walk to the left of a crane next to the renovation project members to the best of our abil- tutions receiving federal funds is in the stage of financing and space has been utilized a lot bet- of the Eppler Complex.