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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-7-1985 The BG News February 7, 1985 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 February 7, 1985" (1985). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4351. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4351 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. Thursday, FebruaryTHEBCLNEWS 7,1985 Vol. 67 Issue 76 Compton opening over breaks by Deborah Schmook dents having a place to live, but the Medical College of Ohio on the quarter- STUDENTS WHO stay in Compton staying over breaks. staff reporter numbers never amounted to enough system; during breaks will be charged between Students not living in Compton will for a unit," be said. $6-10 per night to cover utilities and not be able to use the residence hall •those student teachers whose as- staff salaries, Rudd said. Meals will over breaks, Rudd said. "If you're Compton Hall in Kreischer quadran- Because other groups also need a signed schools require them to work not be available. going to need space to stay, make gle will house international students place to live during breaks, he said during University breaks; Compton your number one choice for and become the only residence hall Compton will stay open to service • out-of-state students. Rudd said one reason Compton was the fall," he said. open during breaks starting fall se- these students. chosen for the new set-up was because Compton's international wings, mester, according to Robert Rudd, Compton will stay co-ed by floors of its proximity to fast food restau- where Americans are paired with for- director of Housing. Rudd said the other groups include: and have 24-hour visitation. Priority to rants and because it already was a co- eign students, will be on second floor • upperclass nursing students, medi- live in Compton will be given to stu- ed hall. Along with the present kitchen- for women and on third floor for men. "There's always been the concern cal technolgy students and physical dents living there now, Rudd said. The ette, two new kitchenettes will be built Both wings will be designated study during breaks about international stu- therapists who attend classes at the residence hall houses 340 people. this summer to help service students wings. Injection execution Policewoman: 'one of the guys' introduced by Carole Homberger staff reporter COLUMBUS (AP) - Ohio's electric chair would be dis- "The temperatures hit re- carded and the state's con- cord lows today," the radio demned prisoners put to death blared. "We'll have heavy by the "more humane" method snow amounting to seven of lethal injection under a bill to inches by tonight/' go before state lawmakers this Heaving a sigh of dread, week. Linda McCool carefully lay- Veteran Rep. John Galbraith, R- ered warm clothes underneath Maumee, said yesterday he is her blue work uniform. Adding introducing the legislation be- the finishing touch on a gun cause he is convinced that the holster, McCool began to pre- injections are "quick and pain- pare for a day of cruising the less." snow-blanketed city in a police He said his opinion was forti- car. fied as a result of a personal "The worst problems in- experience with a derivative of volved in being a Bowling sodium pentotnal - a drug that Green city police officer," Mc- can be used in lethal injections - Cool said, "is to face the during a recent surgical proce- weather. Figuring out who hit dure. whom in the freezing cold is "There is no pain or strain, tough." and unconsciousness is instanta- McCool, 34, began her police neous." Galbraith said. career as a dispatcher at the Galbraith's proposal brought University at the age of 18. a cool reaction from the Ameri- She worked the evening shift can Civil Liberties Union of and attended what is now Ohio, a traditional foe of all Owens Technical College, fin- forms of capital punishment. An ishing with a two-year asso- ACLU spokesman, Mark Levy, ciate's degree in law said his group fears the bill enforcement. "would only serve to make capi- McCool said she wanted to tal punishment seem more pal- work at the Bowling Green atable to the death penalty. police department, but a per- son has to be 21 before he or she GALBRAITH SAID THAT at can be a dispatcher. According least 12 states - the most recent to Police Chief Galen Ash, the being Arkansas - have switched department bent the rules and to lethal injections and that he hired her prior to her reaching sees this as a trend away from the age of 21. electrocutions, firing squads, or other means of execution. McCOOL WAS HIRED in Ready Photo/Liz Allen His bill would repeal an anti- 1972 and decided to enroll in Linda McCool, Bowling Green police officer, prepares to face another day of cold weather. quated law, enacted in 1886, what was the original Police which prescribes electrocution Academy in Bowling Green. McCool grew up in Pember- "I usually lust talk," she aware of dangers - even in a the men do not feel they have to as the state's only means of She became the first woman ville, not really liking most girl said, "I'm not bigger (than the small city. watch what they say (bad lan- execution. Instead, the legis- police officer in the depart- activities, although she partici- suspects) so I doivt act tough." McCool likes the small city guage) around her." lation calls for injections "of a ment. Before attending the pated in Softball, basketball McCool extends this ap- because she gets to do many As a woman, she believes she drug or combination of drugs of academy, her rank was dis- and cheerleadine. She now has proach in various talks she things in the department. In has nothing to prove but that sufficient dosage to quickly and patcher. a green belt in Karate. gives to the campus and city large cities, she could be stuck she was hired as a police offi- painlessly cause death." Despite the long hours in- communities on rape and as- doing one particular job. cer to do what that job de- Ohio's electric chair has not volved in becoming a police With all this behind her, no sualt prevention. "I like the evening 3 to 11 mands. been used in more than 20 years, officer, "I had it easier (than one is surprised that she has shift," McCool said. "That's due to a series of U.S. Supreme others would have) because I had no major problems on "DONT PUT YOURSELF in when all the action is and I The controversy of changing Court decisions that until recent had been working around the duty. a situation where you are an don't have to get up in the her title to patrolwoman is not years placed a moratorium on (police) terminolgy," she said. She said there are instances easy target," she warned. "Be morning." that important. executions. Ohio re-enacted its where she has to reprimand prepared by knowing how to McCool is satisfied with be- "No one has changed the death penalty in 1981, seeking to The Police Academy was not males, but most men were react." ing "one of the guys" on the constitution, where it says 'all adhere to Supreme Court very physically demanding; brought up to respect women, She added that she is not city force. men are created equal' " she guidelines, but the law has not her love for sports could have feeling that it does not prove giving these speeches to scare Police Chief Ash said she is said, "so why change the police Set been tested before the na- been the reason for her ease. anything if they hit a woman. anyone, but to make people viewed as "one of the guys, and department?" on's highest court. Reagan promises Art therapy allows expression; optimistic future WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- long for real jobs, safe neighbor- dent Reagan, in his fourth State hoods, and schools that truly transforms energy into artwork of the Union address, yesterday teach," Reagan said. "We are declared "a second American here to speak for the American Revolution" of hope, opportu- farmer, the entrepreneur and nity, technological progress and every worker in industries fight- result, he became mute and walked slumped the promise of a free and peace- ing to modernize and compete. Editor's note: This is the last in a three- over - resembling an ape. ful world. part series on art therapy. Of his first four years, the "And yes, we are here to stand In an art therapy session, Bill was told to president said, "We did what we - and proudly so - for all who by Tim Denhoff draw his favorite fairy tale. He chose "Jack promised, and a great industrial struggle to break free from to- staff reporter and the Beanstalk," explaining how Jack giant is reborn." talitarianism; for all who know took a cow to the fair and brought back Mandy was confined to an empty, se- In the address before a joint in their hearts that freedom is cluded room. She violently destroyed any- beans to his mother. Bill sketched a small session of Congress on his 74th the one true path to peace and thing she could get her hands on - except the figure representing himself and drew a birthday, Reagan set his agenda human happiness." chalk she drew with.