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FRIDAY,The Sept. 25, 1998 A dailyBG independent student News press Volume 85* No. 23 Alumni begin Homecoming weekend with dance □ The Alumni Center is hosting their first ■ The Falcon football All-Alumni Dance in team faces a daunting honor of homecoming challenge against weekend. Daunte Culpepper and Central Florida Saturday at home. By ERIN BERGER The BG News Swing! Rock and Roll! Disco! All of these types of music will be performed at the All-Alumni ■ The women's tennis Dance to be held during home- team is confident as it coming weekend, organized by goes into its first road trip Photo Provided the Alumni Center. of the season this week- This dance is something new end. This it the scene at the Firelands Campus 30 years ago when it opened. The campus Is celebrating its birthday this year. to the Homecoming festivities this year, one of many endeavors to give the returning alumni just □ Firelands College is kicking off their 30th what they want, according to anniversary with campus improvements and Nancy Ellis, associate director of ■ The men's and alumni affairs women's cross country an open house. As people begin to get excited for Homecoming and all of the teams are looking for festivities of the weekend, they big wins Saturday at the AMYJO L. BROWN may not realize who is behind Miami Invitational. The BG News all of these activities. The Uni- versity Advancement Division Serving its community for 30 years, the Firelands College is (which is located in the Alumni proud of the education and opportunities it provides its stu- Center and includes Alumni dents. Affairs, Public Relations, and The doors of the University's only regional campus opened on Development Staff) makes a celebrates Sept. 25,1968, 30 years ago today. large contribution. Its existence is owed much to the enthusiasm and hard work This year for the first time in of the residents in the surrounding communities said Lesley many years, they have planned Ruszkowski, assistant director of college relations for Firelands. activities enough to last return- The residents raised more than $1,062,000 for the construction of ing alumni the entire weekend, ■ University student and the campus. and there will be a little some- professional juggler Jay "We would like to thank the community," said Ruszkowski. thing for everyone, according to Gilligan performs in This year's anniversary celebration will include an open Ellis. "Question." Wfthaay house in November and a formal kick-off for the "University Some of the big events from • See FIRELANDS, page five. • See ALUMNI, page five. ■ Reviews of new albums by Sunny Day real Estate, They Might ITS undergoes new organizational changes be Giants and the □ Recently reorganized, ITS as the Help Center, has become a priority. priate support person. The resolution will skilled technical analyst will serve as an soundtrack to "perma- It is now the primary point of contact for then be written back and relayed to the instant resource to answer questions. nent Midnight." shifts its focus to include cus- users who want to address their technical caller. Singer said that this technical analyst tomer service as well as tech- support problems and related questions. Deb Wells, Customer Relations Manag- position did not exist before. Toby Singer, the executive director of er, said that students are now only direct- Besides the technical analyst, a manag- nology and software. Information Technology Services, said ed to one source. er and three help desk consultants will be these changes can lead to an improved "Technology Support Center serves as available to help answer the calls and Opinion 2 atmosphere. an advocate to help students and faculty make sure everyone is being helped. Page Three 3 By IVY CHIN "The purposes of these changes are to for better services," Wells said. Singer said that next year will be very World & Nation 4 The BG News provide better service, faster resolution to According to Wells, TSC provides critical for TSC. Blotter 5 Information Technology Services (ITS), the users, and to eliminate problems that voice mail accounts and class accounts to "Things are not perfect right now," Sports 6 formally known as University Computer occur," Singer said. faculty and staff. Mainframe accounts will Singer said. "Everything is changing now Agate 7 Services, has gone through a variety of According to Singer, one of the changes be given to those who request them. and we want to make it better for every- that has been made at the TSC is that a Singer also said that there will be more one." TV Listings 8 organizational and management changes recently. The goal of these changes is to new call-tracking system called Remedy ongoing changes. Renovation will be Duane Whitmire, assistant director and NOW 9 provide effective and efficient services to is being used. With this new system, users done at TSC during this winter break in office services manager of ITS, said prior better serve the University community can get a quicker response. order to provide more open area for peo- to these changes, technology and soft- QUOTE members. When a call is received by the help pie. ware were the primary emphasis. How- Among these changes, the Technology desk consultant, the consultant will type A committee team has also been "Only I can change Support Center (TSC), previously known in the question and send it to the appro- formed to hire a technical analyst. This • See ITS, page five. my life. No one can do it for me." Carol Burnett Midwest Stamping plant to close actress □ Negotiations people are." legal studies professor and Ray said that the company expert on labor law, WARN was between management estimated losses of $530,000 designed to allow government, WEBSITE and workers reach an because of the strike. union and management leaders ' "They are demanding a two to work toward other solutions Visit our new website impasse. dollar an hour pay cut for one besides plant closures and lay- crossword puzzles from year, to compensate for the offs. the past week and inter- money they say they have lost Despite the company's notifi- active reporting: By MIKE WENDLFNG over the course of the strike," cation, however, sources indicat- The BG News Ray said. ed that the city is not currently WWW. Due to federal law, the compa- planning on getting involved in The Bowling Green Midwest ny has also notified Bowling negotiations. bgnews.com Stamping Plant, idled since Aug. Green city officials of the possi- "It seems to me that manage- 30 by a strike, may close down bility of closing the plant. ment is being very greedy. The for good. Under the Worker Adjust- two sides were close to settling STORY IDEA? The company notified union ment and Retraining Notifica- before this week ... it appears to officials of the possibility of per- If you have a news tip or tion Act (WARN), managers of me that management has a manently shutting down the certain medium- to large-sized warped sense of justice," he said. have an idea for a story, plant at negotiations on Tuesday. businesses are required to notify Holmes noted that the Union call anytime and ask to "I believe the plant will be both the union and the city, as may have grounds for legal BO News Photo/JASON SUGGS speak with an editor. shut down," said Jim Ray, presi- well as the State Employment action. dent of UAW Local 4444. "It's Department, if they plan to shut "The union could file a com- A sign hangs on the portable sanitation unit outside the UAW obvious that money is more a plant down. important to the company than stamping plant proclaiming it to be the home of owner Ron 372-6966 According to Bob Holmes, a • See MIDWEST, page five. Thompson. page 2 The BG News Friday, September 25, 1998 Opinion Editor Natalie Miller Opinion 372-2604 Ideals of thought nurture corruption PEOPLE ON THE I used to be a paranoid person. culture that doesn't operate in a thought as the basis for society, our STREET I was a conspiracy nut. It was capitalistic/democratic system like world is fragmented and chaotic. because I had Ancient Prophecies in our own? Is the only difference There must be another way. Do you read your horoscope? Do one ear, Oliver Stone in the other between our system and Hitler's, Society is the relationship and far too many herbs in my diet. that we kill with ideological rather you believe in it? 1 ' between human beings on a person- There are different types of than racial specificity? paranoia, but it's all based on fear. Paranoia can be a good thing if al level. From this it reaches into There are different types of fear, but Wk it makes you think. The danger the collective. If our relationship all fear is based on death.