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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. 3 'The Exchange' in Toledo...see Friday Magazine THE BG NEWS Bowling Green, Ohio Friday, October 28,1988 Vol. 71 Issue 40 Court agrees to employee suit sent that the Wood County Court of claims in her lawsuit this was the same to the position of telecommunications The $96,000 asked in back pay has in- by Elizabeth Kimes Common Pleas has jurisdiction in the job she had been performing. manager is ... an unlawful taking of creased since Allen continued in her staff reporter case. "The University put a bid out on a job plaintiff's job and a denial of her prop- position as coordinator of telecommun- Allen filed a case in April 1985, stating that was, in essence, hers," said James erty without due process of law." ications, Melle said. her rights had been violated by the Uni- Melle, attorney for Allen. The suit sought her appointment as On June 26,1985, Judge Gale William- Maxine Allen is going to have her day After applying for the job, Allen was telecommunications manager and a son ruled the position held by Allen and in court. versity because the school had created the one of telecommunications man- The University classified employee the position of telecommunications recommended along with two other ap- monetary judgment of $150,000 with plicants for further interviews. $96,000 in back pay and $54,000 in per- ager "are essentially the same" and has been waiting over three years for manager and did not give her the job. sonal damages. filed a preliminary injunction against her case against the University to come An employee of the University for "We are alleging they made certain over 27 years, Allen has served as coor- representations that she would get the The back pay complaint was filed be- the University so the telecommunica- to trial, but last Wednesday, the Su- cause the position was advertised with tions manager job could not be filled un- preme Court of Ohio ruled in agreement dinator of telecommunications since job, which she did not," Melle said. 1973. In December 1984, the University According to the original petition, a minimum salary of $28,000. As of til the suit was settled. Sat Allen has a right to trial in Wood filed April 16, 1985: "The appointment April 16,1985, Allen was making $19,032, The defendants in the case filed suit County. began advertising for the position of □ See Allen, page 6. The Supreme Court ruled without dis- telecommunications manager. Allen of a new employee other than plaintiff annually. Congress seeks nuclear facilities safety measures WASHINGTON (AP) — Demands for improved safety procedures at U.S. nuclear weapons-making plants mounted Thursday as 31 members of the House Armed Services Committee appealed direc- tly to President Reagan. "This crisis has not arisen suddenly but over a long period, and it stems from inadequate attention to maintenance, safety and operat- ing conditions," the lawmakers said in a companion letter to Energy Secretary John S. Herrington. The letters, drafted by Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C, and signed by committee chairman Les Aspin, D-Wis., urged Reagan to appoint quickly the five-member Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, which Congress ordered created this fall to oversee the troubled weapons complex. The lawmakers expressed particular concern over the Savannah River Plant at Aiken, S.C., where the Energy Department's last three operational weapons production reactors have been shut down for safety reasons. The first will not resume producing nuclear weapons material until January, Energy Department officials have said. "We will expect the department not to restart a reactor before as- suring our committee that the applicable operating procedures as- sure an adequate margin of safety," they said in the letter to Her- Four of DOE'S 16 major plants have been partially or wholly shut down this year over safety concerns, prompting hearings before House and Senate panels. On Wednesday, a nationwide anti-nuclear group, Physicians for Social Responsibility, said the problems "con- fcftB stitute a public health emergency," and urged medical studies on BG News/ John Grieshop cancer rates among workers and neighbors of the plants. Searching For Friends In other developments, government documents obtained by The Richard Dorsey searches among the thousands of names listed on The the Vietnam Veterans of America bringing the wall to Toledo because Associated Press show that the Energy Department gave a manager Moving Wall for two of his close friends who were killed in Vietnam. he has been too busy to go to Washington to see the original. The wall of the Savannah River Plant $59,750 in awards for excellence despite Dorsey, a veteran of Vietnam now living in Toledo, said he appreciated will be on display at International Park in Toledo until Nov. 1. continuing problems there. Holiday murder Stances debated Plant shutdown rumors disputed Campus groups present positions new possibility "He will have to decide how by Christian L. Thompson CINCINNATI (AP) - Pro- by Beth Church many men will be needed to get health threat. copy editor staff reporter duction could be halted at the The memo quotes Pat Hop- through the night," Votova said. federal problem-plagued per, a mid-level manager Weather is always a big fac- Femald uranium processing Despite rumors of a predicted tor, Votova said, "because if it's With Election Day just two weeks away, representatives of two raining there will be fewer kids campus political organizations presented the candidates' stances on plant and work there could with the plant's operator, mass murder at the University, shift entirely to cleaning up Westinghouse Materials Co. Halloween in Bowling Green this out; but if it's ley we'll need foreign policy in an attempt to gain the vote of still undecided stu- radioactive waste, a news- year is expected to De quiet as more people because of the of Ohio, as saying "it has danger ana then if it's beautiful On Wednesday evening, Kevin Coughlin, member of the College paper reported Thursday. been decided to change (the usual, according to the city plant) from a 'production' to police. out, everyone will be out." Republicans, said the purpose of a debate between himself and Jim The Cincinnati Post based "We're expecting it to be fun Votova said he also does not Vanzant, president of the Campus Democrats, was to clarify the its copyrighted story on a a "remediation mode." That expect University students to presidential candidates' stances on issues for student voters who are means the plant would stop time for the kids, said Capt. memorandum summarizing processing uranium and Thomas Votova of the trick-or- cause problems. still undecided. „ t, , ^ a meeting between a consul- treating night which has been "They know how to conduct Coughlin described Vice President George Bush s platform on for- tant ana operators of the focus on cleaning up radioac- set for Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. themselves and have good eign policy as one that has "a lot of experience," adding that Bush plant, the Feed Materials tive waste, the Past reported. Although they usually do not common sense. We're going to would use the present U.S. policy concerning the use of military Production Center, 18 miles The production halt was encounter a great deal of prob- respond to calls as we do force if elected. ... northwest of Cincinnati. discussed at a meeting Sept. lems on Halloween, Votova said throughout the year," he said. "It is U.S. policy to go through three steps when American inter- 22 between Westinghouse there may be more officers on Votova said the department is ests are threatened: economic sanctions, military force and — when It processes uranium for mid-level managers and offi- patrol this weekend. not taking seriously rumors of dealing with the Communists — aid to freedom fighters." Amidst cheers from a group bearing Bush/Quayle signs and air the government's production cials of A.M. Kinney Inc., "Bowling Green is usually rpredictions supposedly made on elsewhere of nuclear consulting engineers on envi- very safe — not a lot of vandal- 'The Phil Donahue Show" of a horns, Coughlin said the Republican nominee would base relations weapons. Politicians and the ronmental health and safety ism or crime. Our biggest con- character dressed as "Little Bo- with the United Nations on past experience. plant's neighbors have improvements at the facility. cern is traffic and kids crossing Peep" who will be responsible "George Bush has become disheartened with the actions of the criticized the plant for what The memo, obtained by the the streets," he said. for a mass murder at a state un- U.N. He said it is not as effective as the White House and administra- they have said is pollution of Post, was written by A.M. Votova said the shift sergeant iversity in Ohio. tion m foreign affaire," Coughlin said. the environment with Kinney and sent to Westingh- for Halloween night is currently "We're not planning to arrest Vanzant answered Coughlin's claims by describing the Republi- radioactive materials and a ouse.