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SUMMER EVENTS PLANNED FALCONS DRILL OILERS Activities abound in area Baseball team takes advantage * for summer students Friday Mag 4 of Oilers sloppy defense Sports * The Nation's Best College Newspaper Weather Friday Vol.72 Issue 120 April 27,1990 Bowling Green, Ohio High 85s The BG News Low 60° BRIEFLY New safety director hired Faculty 26-year veteran of Clevelend police force to fill position debates CAMPUS cide victims and barricaded suspects, unique challenge and it seemed like a by Wynne Everett but said he does not think work in Bowl- natural progression." dty writer ing Green will be boring. Dennerll said he plans to spend his Professor honored: It seems crime is crime no matter first several weeks in town meeting campus Firelands College presented its A 26-year veteran of Cleveland's where you are," Dennerll said. "You with administrators, student organiza- Distinguished Teacher Award to police force was hired Thursday to fill may think it's tame or whatever in tions and other city groups to get an Christopher Mrak, an associate the University's vacant director of pub- Bowling Green, but I don't look at it idea of their major safety concerns. professor of psychology. lic safety position. that way." "Just talking to a student when I was racism The award is presented annually to Roger Dennerll, who retired this Dennerll received his bachelor's de- in town earlier, I was told that her a full-time faculty member who week as officer in charge of Cleveland gree in public administration from biggest concern was walking across demonstrates commitment to and Police Strike Force and the depart- Dyke College in Cleveland and current- campus safely," Dennerll said. "That Editor's note: This is the last in a four- exemplifies excellence in the art of ment's Crisis Intervention Team, will ly is a juris doctorate candidate at really surprised me." part series on racism on campus. teaching. come to Bowling Green next week to Cleveland State College of Law. head the University's police depart- He decided to come to apply for the Although he had no specific plans for ment. director's job, Dennerll said, because it improving safety yet, Dennerll said he As a member of the crisis interven- will be a new and different challenge. would consider many options — includ- by Jill Novak CITY tion team in Cleveland, Dennerll nego- "I really am looking forward to com- ing foot patrols. staff writer tiated with possible hostage takers sui- ing out there," he said. "It'll be a D See Dennerll, page 4. The coming of a new decade usually Garbage pick-up: Heavy indicates the coming of change and in- trash pick-up for the city is scheduled strumental changes are necessary on for the week of May 7-11. this campus to dismantle University- Public Works Director Bill Blair wide racism. said the city will collect heavy refuse University faculty and administrators such as couches, refrigerators and have different opinions on what changes televisions left on the curb with other would work the best to help the students, garbage that week. the faculty and the staff become more "Anything they can get to the curb, sensitive to the problem, but they all we'll pick up," Blair said. agree something needs to be done. Blair saia the annual spring pick-up To really get at the problem, the whole was rescheduled this year to coincide society has to change, according to with the end of spring semester when Lawrence Friedman, history professor. students will be moving out. "We are currently in a hellish situa- Census takers: Workers from tion," Friedman said, and "we have to the U.S. Census Bureau will be going elect different kind of presidents" to see door-to-door until Graduation Day to it change. speak with off-campus college students. The workers can be identified by their briefcases and badges and will take seven minutes to record the information at each house or apartment. All information will be kept confidential. State In terms of campus improvements, Friedman said more money should be Plaque planned: Kent State contributed to the Affirmative Action University on Thursday agreed to program at the University. place names of four students killed In addition, more financial help should and nine who were wounded in a 1970 be made available for minorities as well anti-war protest to be dedicated next as more help for the lower white middle week at the site of the incident. class to destroy the animosity between Tb^ university president, Michael the groups, he said. Schwartz, decided to place the Friedman said University officials victims' names on a plaque near the have been doing an excellent job in the hillside memorial after discussing the recruitment of minority faculty and stu- issue with the parents of one of the dents. slain students, Sandra Scheuer of "I am hoping if we can build a critical Boardman. mass of minority students and faculty," whites and blacks will be more accus- Census falls short: tomed to seeing each other and interact- Head-counters at the Chillicothe ing, he said. district office of the U.S. Census "(But) I am sort of reticent to say the Bureau are up to their necks in University can solve something when ... completed census forms. a lot of battles have to take place else- They wish they were up to their where," he said. eyeballs. According to Conrad Pritscher, co- "We fell short of our 70 percent goal chairman of the People for Racial Jus- by 3 percent," said district office tice Committee, the University needs director James Campbell. "This "more whites talking to each other about means a lot more field work and a lot the trememdous and pressing problem higher cost for the census bureau." of racism." The avalanche of census forms Director of Multi-Cultural Affairs flooding the office here a few weeks Jack Taylor agreed, explaining students ago has slowed to a trickle, Campbell must break down barriers between each said. Local workers have fallen short other because many students now "ig- of their quota of completed and nore each other" and come to college returned forms. "just wanting to make the grade." More panel discussions and interac- tion in general will help to solve the prob- lem, Taylor said, adding faculty also NATION need to become more sensitive and in- BG News/Mark Deckard clusive to "present their material in a Swinging non-offensive fashion." Motorists cheated: Some The problem also needs to be brought service stations pass off regular Ted Geraghly lak es a swing at a whiffle ball while catcher Sid Roy reaches for the ball. The two were part of a group of night more to the surface, because "we Ha- gasoline as higher-priced super ven't been sensitive enough and we need who were playing whiffle ball on the courts outside Conklin Hall Thursday morning. premium, according to a D See Racism, page A congressional study Thursday that said "octane cheating" may be costing motorists $150 million a year. The report by the General Accounting office estimated that 9 Locally Jeep percent of gasoline sold nationwide is Telescope parts made mislabeled by half an octane number or more. And in several states where may gain line launch — February 10th, 1996, if you want to believe pump testing has actually proven by Arhtur H. Kotstein a shuttle manifest that goes out that far," said mislabeling, the federal government TOLEDO — Chrysler Corp. will build a new sport Associated Press writer has done little to stop the deception, Thompson, who heads the project's 20-astronomer utility vehicle in Toledo if It can resolve with city, team. the report said. state and union officials a number of issues that could TUCSON, Ariz. — Astronomers may be rejoicing NICMOS, with three cameras and three spec- cut production costs, a company official said Thurs- that the Hubble Space Telescope is finally circling trometers, will concentrate on different day. Earth, but some already are busy making re- wavelengths in the near-infrared portion of the light HISTORY The company is looking for an incentives package placement parts for installation one day by astro- spectrum, which none of the five instruments now from the city and state. It also wants to renegotiate a nauts. aboard the $1.5 billion Hubble can view. Infrared new contract with United Auto Workers Local 12. Three Orbital Replacement Instruments under also is invisible to the human eye. On this date: In 1971, Campus Chrysler's current contract with Local 12 expires in development are scheduled to be swapped for in- Fact Line went into service, prepared struments that astronomers hope will make the Astronomer Richard Green, of the Tucson- to answer questions about food "Frankly, this is the home of the Jeep. Nothing world's best observatory even better. headquartered National Optical Astronomy Obser- service, housing, financial aid, would be more appropriate than to have a new Jeep Rodger Thompson of the University of Arizona's vatories, is a co-investigator on another second- registration, dally locations and times vehicle located in Toledo," said Michael Glusac, Steward Observatory is principal investigator in feneration instrument being developed, the Space of meetings, campus events and Chrysler's executive director of governmental affairs.