Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-12-1996 The BG News December 12, 1996 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 December 12, 1996" (1996). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6103. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6103 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 H E Sports It's the end of Matt's semester, year Men's basketball defeats Wright and column. State. Page 2 Page 7 State Lady Falcons claim first victory Vandalism taking toll on Central of season by defeating Duquesne. State housing. Page 7 Page 5 NEWS Thursday. December 12.1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 83, Issue 2)4 The News' Problems split Briefs J% Get your grades on Faculty Senate ( \ 1 N the WWW Darti Wimock tions. He also said the quality of The BC News the debates is diminished when It Students will be able to is dominated by the same people 1 , obtain their grades on the world wide web at the end Disorganization in the Faculty and argument. of this semester. Registrar Senate is affecting the amount of Vice-President Bob Holmes Jj/*1' Becky McOmber said stu- work getting done this year, ac- said the comments made by some M* jj |! r- dents will have to go to the cording to some Senate mem- of the Senators were not neces- University home page and bers. However, Senate officers sarily true. He said more busi- can access their grades disagree. ness has been done so far this through the registration Several members of the Senate year than has been done in the and records option. She said discussed their concerns about past. The problem Senators are people will need their stu- the methods of business prac- seeing, according to Holmes, is dent identification number ticed at the previous Faculty and their Star 90 access the complexity of democracy. 1- - — i ^—1 code. She said grades will Senate meeting. "The wheels of democracy do Skip PrttrMafTbe Associated PreM be available Dec. 28, about a Most problems discussed In- not spin freely," Holmes said. Beavercreek firefighters pour absorbent material around a semitrailer that was leaking fluid along week earlier than students volved the time it took for the "Restricting people in their right Interstate 67S near the Route 35 interchange near Beavercreek, Ohio Tuesday. would receive them in the Senate to get work done and the to speak would be wrong. We mall. "We're trying this out amount of time wasted at meet- have to tolerate our differences." to see how students like it ings. Holmes said within the last and see how it works," Joe Jacoby, assistant professor year, the new administration has McOmber said. "We are ex- Sludge leaks on 1-675 of sociology and Faculty Senate taken an interest in the work cited about It." member, said he believes the done by the Faculty Senate. He The Associated Press owned by the company but had Three lanes of the highway discussion and debate of the re- explained It has increased the picked up a load of sludge at in this Dayton suburb were solutions could be done better. amount of work getting through BEAVERCREEK, Ohio - Au- the plant for treatment. He closed about 11:30 am. while Juveniles sentenced "My concern was the ineffi- and passed through the upper thorities closed a four-mile said the sludge is used in the the leak was investigated. Two ciency of the discussion," Jacoby administration. section of northbound Inter- process of galvanizing steel. of the lanes were reopened TOLEDO - Six juveniles said. "I am concerned about the Veronica Gold, special educa- who pleaded guilty to tor- state 675 after a truck carrying Preliminary reports indi- about 3:45 p.m., police dispat- general disrespect many of my tion associate professor and Fac- material used in steelmaking cated that the fluid could be- cher Matt Mildren said. turing a mentally disabled colleagues feel about the Faculty ulty Senate secretary, expressed Vietnam veteran in his began leaking fluid. come an Irritant if inhaled, said home have been sentenced. Senate." her concern for the image the The truck had left AK Steel police Sgt. George Moody. He The final lane was reopened Police said they broke Jacoby explained that much of Faculty Senate currently holds. Corp. in Middletown when the said the driver of the semi- at 10:48 p.m. Moody said trans- into the home on Oct. 10 and the time spent on Faculty Senate She said the Senate is working to accident occurred Tuesday. trailer reported having a head- ferring the sludge from the asked the man for ciga- business Is not put to good use Improve the University for both AK Steel spokesman Alan ache but did not require hospi- trailer to another vehicle was rettes. When he refused, because much of the time is McCoy said the truck was not tal treatment. time-consuming. they began beating him. spent copy editing the resolu- See SENATE, page five. The boys also allegedly urinated on him and tried to set him on fire. Four of the six were sen- Toy soldier tenced Tuesday to six years Safety each in a juvenile jail. Lucas County Juvenile Court Judge James Ray said that he would have jurisdic- tion over them until they alarms are 21 and that he would re- commit them if they are in- volved in criminal behavior after their release. offered Two of the youths were 11 or younger when the crime occurred and could not be Dawn Keller given a jail sentence. The BC News Ray ordered them held until they can be placed in Personal alarms are available an appropriate institution. for students to use on a 24-hour A seventh boy remains in basis If they have to walk alone. custody until it is de- The Safety Task Force wants termined whether he should students to use them "to assist be tried as an adult in Lucas students in making personal County Common Pleas safety a priority," according to Court. Barb Waddell, task force mem- The youths pleaded guilty ber. last month to several char- Leanne Cannon, task force ges, including assault. member, said she wants the alarms to be used as an extra safety measure. Publishing company "I didn't feel people have been checked for air aware that the service is availa- ble. I want to increase safety," quality Cannon said "I don't want them to choose to walk alone and use It MARION, Ohio - Envi- ronmental specialists were as safety measure. I want It to be doing tests to determine something extra." what caused 26 people at a Waddell said because the task Hidekl KobayuktfThc BG New. publishing company to get force is promoting the personal A picture of a toy soldier hangs between the doors at the Bowling firefighters have at the station this year. sick Wednesday. alarms does not mean they are Green Fire Department. The soldier Is one of many decorations Employees of Kable suggesting people walk alone. Fulfillment Services were "We don't want them to walk treated and released from alone, but we realize people are hospitals after complaining busy, especially late at night," of nausea, vomiting, short- she said. Schools consider parking options ness of breath, runny eyes, According to a press release scratchy throat and dizzi- from the Safety Task Force, effective at commuter schools "In the next few years, we will try to get students who live right ness. there are four steps students Dawn Keller People in different parts The BG News like UA, but not at schools with have all exterior parking," next to campus to walk. should take when using the per- larger acreage like the Universi- Henry said "We will increase the "We try to tell students who of the building had been sonal alarms. feeling sick since Friday, University administrations at ty. shuttle services as the parking live close that they should walk said Sharon Jerome, direc- ■ Familiarize yourself with the Ohio higher education Institu- "Akron is a densely populated becomes more exterior." because we have commuters tor of finance. The company alarm and how it works. tions continually work to find school In a small area," Stafford University President Sidney from Akron, Canton and Cleve- employs 400 to 450 people. ■ Personal alarms are to be different solutions to deal with said. "We need it for com- Ribeau said he had staff study land," Ristow said. "We literally checked out for 24 hours by parking and traffic issues. muters." the possibilities of a city/campus have students who live right Ms. Jerome said envi- showing a current University ID. Several Ideas parking and traf- ronmentalists have been Scot Henry, Wright State Uni- shuttle, but it was too expensive. across the street from campus testing the air and checking ■ Users should return to the fic services have considered in- versity superintendent of Park- Randy Ristow, Kent State Uni- who drive." air quality. It doesn't seem alarm to the same location which clude: not allowing freshmen to ing and Transportation, said versity manager of Parking Ser- Roger Dennerll. Public Safety to be isolated to any part of they checked it out. Failure to re- have parking permits, not allow- there will never be a parking ga- vices, said KSU has considered director, said the University will the building.