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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-11-1977 The BG News November 11, 1977 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 November 11, 1977" (1977). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3428. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3428 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 315 Slews Vol. 61, No. 32 Bowling T5r een State University Friday. November 11, 1977 y > ice not so e fc a ^3ft ' °' ' *°p ' of trustees meeting By BUI I junmers adviser to be selected from University Associate Copy Editor faculty. The trustees unanimously tabled the Although many persons were waiting motion. for the ad hoc police review panel committee report at yesterday's Board IN OTHER activity, the trustees of Trustees meeting, the trustees created a new facilities committee with discussed more than just police three members appointed by board business. Chairman John F. UpaJ Dr. Kenneth W. Rothe, University The committee will review all provost, presented a proposal for a proposed capital improvement policy change on faculty appointment projects, including major renovations and tenure. and maintenance! which are to be The trustees tabled the motion, but considered by the finance committee of only after Dr. David Newman, faculty the trustees representative to the board, wondered A revision to the bylaws of Kirelands whether tin' proposal has. in tact, been Campus Board ir'l'Hi wax approved. approved by Faculty Senate. The plan alters the makeup of the FCB to include 2.1 voting members: the NEWMAN, who said he was late to University president. University the meeting because of a class and did provost, dean of the Kirelands Campus, not have time to check the minutes chairman of the Kirelands Campus asked Rothe if the revisions had been Faculty Association, president of the approved by Faculty Senate. Firelands Campus Student Advisory- In his cover letter to University Board and eighteen county represen- N«w»photo» bv lorry Kaywr President Hollis A. Moore Jr., Rothe tatives. said the revisions were proposed by Nine of the county representatives Faculty Senate "actions of June 1,1976, THE HOARD OF Trustees yesterday accepted the report of the ad gallery i" Mii'all (enter. The report culminated a seven-month will be from Eric County, sis from and May 31,1977." Huron County and three from Ottawa inn- panel investigating the University Poliee before a parked study by the panel. The major stumbling block in the County. The county representatives matter is what type of counsel can be will serve a term of four years. used in hearings for termination of DURING HIS report to the trustees. appointments. The present policy calls Moore announced tliat a final total of Primary goal is service for an "adviser of his-her choosing," while the revision would call for that hi panel Police program revision accepted By Julie RoUo to select a leader for that department is The panel recommended establish- instances in which city officials request Staff Reporter "the most important matter that ment of a campus safety review panel assistance. confronts the University." to oversee operations. The review Another recommendation is that The Board of Trustees yesterday panel, composed of students, faculty, parking services be administered accepted the ad hoc police review THE PANEL report states several staff and administrators,wotdd have the through a traffic bureau within the panel's 12 recommendations and requirements for the new safety power to investigate problems and department. moved that the administration department including the replacement recommend solutions, in the event of Finally, the panel proposed that determine a process for their im- of traditional uniforms with distinctive complaints. University Police officers be eligible plementation and initiate a search for jackets and trousers and a mode of The head of the department should for positions in the new department an administrator for the proposed travel primarily by foot, bicycle or directly be responsible to a designated Those in supervisory positions in the "Department of Campus Safety." moped. administrator, who, in turn, should be Department of Campus Safety would be The new name is part of a recom- Other requirements are that officers responsible to the University president, contract employees; others, classified. mendation to establish a new be armed when authorized, but with the report says. Kenneth W. Simonson, Black Student University police program- with a weapons carried inconspicuously; Union IBSU) legal adviser, thanked the primary goal of service rather than law adoption of civilian (supervisor! rather "APPROPRIATE procedures should panel for its work and the University enforcement. than military-type (lieutenant) titles; be developed to ensure the subor- community for its support. Trustee and panel chairman M. Shad codes of ethics, conduct and dination of the new department to the SIMONSON told the board BSU's llanna told the trustees that an im- procedures; rotation of duties; and University's administration and next concern Is the implementation of mediate search and screening process student employment in the department trustees," it states. the recommendations. He also The panel also proposed that officers requested that BSU as well as other receive humanistic education and that University organizations be a university baccalaureate degree be represented on the screening com- required for employment. For present mittee to select the safety department Inside the News employees, otherwise fully qualified, director. the degree would not be required. BSU members said they are satisfied The number of minority and female with the panel recommendations, personnel should reflect the com- "which basically were our proposals," position of the University community, but added they will conduct an in-depth FEATliRES...News critic Jim Flick reviews "Broadway Block- the report says. study to evaluate each. busters." a cavalcade of music, currently running at the Holiday Recommendations stress in-service University Police Lt. Dean H. Iml pageS. training, an extensive community Gerkens, who represented the police relations program and more reliance department at yesterday's meeting, on counseling through the Office of refused to comment on the panel's r Standards and Procedures as an proposals because "they are only alternative, when warranted, to arrest. recommendations." Weather However, he said he agreed that the Windy and colder THE PANEL suggested that an at- hiring of a director should be given High 55 F |13 ( I torney serve as adviser to the depar- immediate attention, saying the new Low32F(0C) tment and that the mutual aid leader would be responsible for the KENNETH SIMONSON, LEGAL adviser In the Black Student SO percent chance of precipitation agreement between the University and enforcement of the recommendations liiion. thanks the panel for their investigation. city restrict off-campus operations to adopted. Bell resigns as beer soles rep; Conflict? trustees study alcohol policies By BUI Lammers reported in the News yesterday. to take some steps to prevent this I have not sold any beer." "Very seldom do I have people Shanklin said rulings on which Associate Copy Editor Bell said he called Stroh's after from happening again," Wolf said. Bell said he had made careful complain that we are too restrictive beverages are served should not be the BGRNO report suggested the WOLF SAD) he will telephone studies into student reactions to the in our policies," Eakin said. "More an administrative function. Ron Bell, undergraduate student possibility of a conflict, and that he Stroh's to insure that Bell has issue, which he reported to the often, I hear that we are too lax." . "If someone in the dormitory representative to the Board of informed the company that his resigned. He said he will toll the trustees at the informational Trustee Charles E. Shanklin violates a state law, then he has to Trustees, has resigned his position position of repesentative was more company not to hire a SGA member session. questioned the role of the University deal with the prosecutor," he said. as a sales representative for the important. as the new representative. , . AT THAT informal meeting, in legislating student behavior. "IF YOU don't police visitation Stroh's Brewing Co., following an "I would have liked to have kept At the next SGA meeting, Wolf devoted to briefing the trustees of "This says we're going to be between dormitories of opposite investigation of conflict of interest the job," Bell told the News, said he will make sure no other SGA issues, Bell said that "an awful lot of parents away from home," Shanklin sexes, how can you police beer by the Bowling Green Radio News "because it was a good-paying job. members have any conflicts of in- research" went intohis report. said. "I have no desire to be that" parties?" Organization (BGRNO), and But I couldn't. terest. "The students feel that frater- SHANKLIN SUGGESTED that by After it was suggested that the I'M REALLY glad they (BGRNO) Wolf said he will remind BeU that nities have more parties 'than restricting the availability of University provide more leisure called me. I wouldn't have wanted to SGA is polling student opinion on the residence halls," BeU said, adding alcoholic beverages in dormitories activities which do not include be in violation of the law." policy. That survey, being con- that the student population indicated and greek living units, the drinking, Narbeth R. Emmanuel, Student Government Association ducted by SGA Senator Robert E.