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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-11-1978 The BG News April 11, 1978 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 11, 1978" (1978). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3478. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3478 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 BTl Hews Vol. 61, No. 82 Bowling 'Green State University Tuesday, April 11, 1978 Maintenance crews clean up after winter blizzards By Jane Musgrave crews have discovered the words also dumped several tons of coal patch to Wooster and Ridge streets and Mercer plants to operate before permanent across the country, Rupright said. Staff Reporter describe their task of cleaning up after repair holes in University-owned Road. It also maintains the street repairs can be made. Although it is slightly more expensive, the winter of 1978. As the song goes streets, sidewalks and parking lots. adjacent to the Math-Sciences Building "Asphalt plants only operate when Rupright said he thinks it may prove In the 1960s, Hal David and Burt "there's always something there to Earl Rupright, assistant director of along with the street behind the it's hot. The permanent repairs won't cheaper in the long run. Bacharach composed a song describing remind you." technical services, said. Psychology Building and Health be made until summer and our crews The roofs on Founders and Rodgers the pain that follows a romantic break- Center. Although Stadium Drive is city won't do it. We'll hire contractors to lay quads were replaced last summer with up- LEAKING ROOFS, chuckholes and The division between city and owned. University crews also maintain the asphalt," Rupright explained. this type of roof. Rupright said. Both With a few revisions, the number cracks in University streets and University-owned streets is not clear it. One of the maintenance department's roofs held up "very well this past easily could serve as the theme song for sidewalks, and trash and debris that cut, he said. priorities is roof repair, Rupright said. winter, which is unusual for new roofs. University maintenance crews. was buried all winter serve as constant PATCHING THE ROADS with coal is New roofs often leak," he added. The song-writing team wrote about reminders of the severe winter. THE UNIVERSITY is considered only a temporary remedy, Rupright "ALL THE FREEZING and thawing The maintenance department's next romantic dissolutions and maintenance Since early March, crews have responsible for the roads bound by said. Crews must wait for asphalt opened a lot of the roofs. We're having a project is removal of trash that ac- lot of problems with leaks right now," cumulated over the winter. he said. Crews began patching the roofs on "THE LONGER the snow lays the the Library, Hayes Hall and the more debris gathers, so this year Psychology Building last week. there's more than usual. Each time we Wednesday's rains provided a test for plowed, we buried more of the trash," the repair's effectiveness. Bedell said. The department is working with the THE LIBRARY passed the test, but Student Government Association after returning from Hayes Hall, (SGA) to enlist student help for the Norman Bedell, director of technical project. Bedell said. services, said, "you could take a April 22 is the target date for the shower in there." project's beginning, Rupright said. Repair work continues this week. Installation of a new type of roof on "IT WILL TAKE us a little longer Memorial Hall was completed last than in past years to get the campus week. Rupright said. A new roof also is back in shape," Bedell said. being installed on the Student Services More man hours means more money Building. spent, Bedell said, adding that he cannot estimate how long the clean-up Rupright described the new roof as a will take or how much money will be "giant innertube." The rubber surface needed. is held in place by large stones, he "Last year we had a bad winter and explained. we spent somewhere between $3,000 and $4,000. This year we'll probably THE ROOF WAS developed in need between $4,000 and $5,000," Bedell Canada and it is in use in many places said. "N Inside the News ■orchers THE WINTER BUZZARDS took their toll on many areas around the University. dumping several tons of coal patch on roads to repair chuckholes. Trash clean-up also is a spring maintenance priority. The cost ut im- repairs is estimated at about This maintenance crew, (Elvta Jones, left and Tom Bechtel, right,) Is patching the NEWS...Paula Winslow updates the story on University faculty roof of the Student Services building. Other repair Jobs around campus include $4,000 to $5,000. steps toward unionization. Page 4. FEATURES...See Page 3 for a photo and story review of last Escort system begins Thursday week's Jackson Browne concert. By Cindy Leise University women walking alone any planned escort system they planned proposed that SGA allocate $192 so SPORTS...The Falcon tennis team swept last weekend's Staff Reporter more. with the help of several organizations. several students could rent a Univer- Student Government Association The system will escort its first women sity car and drive to Washington. He quadrangular match. Read Steve Sadler's story on Page 8. Rainy, dreary and very dim nights (SGA) last night put the finishing Thursday night. said they could then stay overnight with like last night do not have to scare touches on a rather elaborate and well The system, designed to help friends and buy food themselves. University women get about campus Weather without having to fear being attacked, However, several SGA senators robbed or raped, utilizes University made strong objections to several of the Cooler, cloudy Police to direct calls to registered male groups which were scheduled to have high60F(15C) escorts. Women can call the University Election woes representatives at the day, including Showers ending today Police dispatcher seven nights a week, the Palestine Liberation Organization who will call escorts who have been (PLO). One senator objected to the Steve Moyer, chairman of the dropped from the SGA ballot for screened and approved by an SGA Student Government Association violating the rules. planned march to the Israeli Embassy, panel to take the women where they which a brochure for the day said was (SGA) elections and opinions board, Candidates who heard from want to go on campus. breathed a sigh of relief last Thur- Marshall or read a News article called planned "to show our solidarity with all of the liberation movements which are sday. SGA, Moyer, or the News reporter SGA PRESIDENT Bob Wolf said 15 SGA President Bob Wolf had called covering SGA to see if they really struggling to dismantle these illegal, men have been approved as escorts racist, settler regimes." an emergency meeting earlier in the could do anything they wanted in with interviewing continuing day and the senate untangled a mass campaigns, or if they could blame throughout the week. Interested men of parliamentary problems which someone for the oversight. should call the SGA office for further threatened to upset, imperil or even It was SGA president Bob Wolf who HOWEVER, MOODY said, "just information. One volunteer has been because I hear the PLO, I won't come temporarily cancel SGA elections, put the problem in perspective best rejected as an escort. scheduled for April 27. after SGA had determined at the back a terrorist." The problem was this. emergency meeting that they would Paul X Moody, who said he SGA tabled the proposal to allocate represented the Black Student Union the money until next week and ap- SGA HAD never formally approved solve the approval problem by am- and black students who want to attend pointed an ad hoc panel to investigate the campaign procedures which mending their old constitution to the May 12 through May 14 African the day. Moyer and his committee had so include the rules and approving those Liberation Day in Washington D.C. In other action, SGA finalized plans carefully worked out and presented to rules. spoke before SGA and requested funds for a Spring clean-up day of the campus SGA. Although this slight Wolf, a normally genial type of set for April 22. Senator Jim Gamellia parliamentary oversight may seem guy, said, "I wish this meeting could for students to attend the day. said because support for the bursar's trivial, all hell broke loose when Doug have been called about something Moody said several students cannot important, like the escort system, afford the projected $25 in tran- plan to send billings to students instead Marshall, an SGA senator, noticed the of parents was strong, the system will oversight and hypothisized that instead of this type of...." sportation costs and the cost of the begin May 1. candidates could do anything they One can only guess how he ended room and food during the trip, and wanted in campaigns and not be that sentence in his head. Toledo school job action prevents education majors from finding classroom training By Tom Smith ALTHOUGH THEY are not certified contact 27 University student teachers jeopardized, he said, adding that some they still are held responsible of their and 29 MERGE (special education field students may have to work in Fifty-six University education actions, he said.