Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-28-2000 The BG News April 28, 2000 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 28, 2000" (2000). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6653. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6653 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. WEATHER FRIDAY April 28, 2000 '\. Sunny WORLD NEWS 2_ J ^High, 68 OPINION 4 V I Low, 40 CAMPUS 6 The BG News SPORTS 7 www.bgnews.com Volume 88. Issue 70 A daily mdependem siudem pness Pepsi, ABC might be sole suppliers for U AMYJO L. BROWN the University enter into a shared tains, dining halls and vending tions with Pepsi or ABC fail to reach ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR market agreement between two bev- machines. ABC products, such as an agreement. Coca-Cola would be erage companies. The proposal and 7up and Snapple. would be available the next to be considered. the companies had to be approved by Although (he Pouring Rights in coolers and vending machines. Through the agreement, the Uni- President Sidney Ribcau and his cab- 'The feedback from students was issue has caused months of contro- versity hopes to generate S3 to $4 versy, the University president and inet before the University could that a shared market would provide agree to negotiate terms of the shared more choice and variety (than a sin- million over the next 10 years for the his cabinet recently decided to go market. gle supplier would)." said Wanda Student Union renovation, student forth with negotiations between two "It doesn't say for sure we have Overland, member of the Pouring leadership programs, scholarships beverage suppliers (his summer. an agreement." said Jane Schimpf, Rights Committee and dean of stu- and women's sports. That's $40,000 Both Pepsi-Cola and the Ameri- head of the Pouring Rights commit- dents. can Bottling Company (ABC) will a year to be divided among the four tee. Negotiations are expected to priorities by the president. have first chance at gaining exclu- It docs mean, however, that if the begin this summer, although com- sive selling rights for their products University does come to an agree- mittee members are doubtful an "At this point, we really don't on campus. ment with Pepsi and ABC. Pepsi agreement will be reached by fall know if there will be enough money The decision came after the Pour- would be the primary supplier on semester. or not." Overland said. "The jury is ing Rights committee proposed that campus, available in all soda foun- According to Schimpf. if negotia- still out." Migrant workers challenged by living conditions Students This is the second part of a "No one wants to recognize advantage of this." Boehm said. respond slowly three-part series on migrant farm migrant farm workers because of Alma Salinas, a Spanish teacher Photo Provided workers in Wood County. Todays the small time they spend here. The at Bowling Green High School, MIGRANT — A story focuses on the issues affect' migrant camps and fields are out in used to do farm work for nine Bowling Green to census ing migrant farm workers. the boondock and those who find years. Her family would migrate migrant worker out about them, ignore the issues." from Florida to farms in Bowling ..ft ^ BETH SHOEMAKER IRENE SHARON SCOTT Conditions of Migrant Camps Green and Findlay every summer. picks pickles STAH WRITER CHIEF REPORTER In 1990 the government offered She used to work at Bloomdale in the field last to pay 50 percent of housing reno- Camp, which is 15 minutes south of year.- Soon the Many students worry thai what The sun is high and hot. The vations on migrant camps, accord- Bowling Green. Safe seasonal they have to say doesn't matter. sweat is pouring down from their ing to Pamela Boehm. ethnic stud- Salinas said the camps had migrant work- Right now. though, students have a faces. Their shirts are drenched with ies instructor, who has worked with small, one-room houses with two ers will be perfect opportunity to have an migrant families for several years. beds. The houses had room for a m '•&& 4t'' ^W? impact on the campus and commu- sweat and plastered with dirt. Their arriving Bowl- However. several farmers table, stove and fridge. The houses nity by filling out their Census hands pick the vegetables with a ing Green. quick, rhythmic pace. refused to take advantage of this had no running water and heat. "From a student's standpoint, a They work in the fields from offer because they wanted to avoid "I do not recall ever having a lot of the public services you have dusk until dawn with determination the hassle. Most houses do not have phone in the house." she said. : are based on the count we get at the in their eyes rather than shame. running water or heat, she said. Lee Torres, freshman integrated ^v-<" !^>^ University." said Peter Williams, Migrant workers are used for According to the 1997 Ohio mathematics major from Santa manager lor the Census' Bowling agricultural labor. Ohio's No. I Migrant Census, there are 12 camps Rosa. Texas, said the houses he'd Green district. "We need everyone industry. Recent statistics stated in Wood County. The camps vary in seen at migrant camps were shacks 3r?&%$ to be counted." that Ohio made $67. 8 million last conditions and quality. Specific He said the paint would be old. According to Williams, any full- year from fresh market vegetables. names and locations of camps were and the windows would be cracked time students who live either on or Among the crops picked by withheld. Most camps are 10 to 20 or taped. The restrooms were rusty, h off campus are counted here, instead migrant laborers, cither by hand or minutes from BG. Boehm said. filthy and dirty. The wood would be of at home with their parents. Many by machine, are bell peppers, toma- "The typical house at camps in rotten. There would also be rats and t students don't realize this, and the toes, strawberries and cucumbers. BG are small, one-room units and cockroaches living there, according * —* Census is suffering as a result. 'They work hard to give their made out of wood." Boehm said. to Torres. "We haven't had good response children a better life than theirs." 'They don't have neither running "Most owners never renovated rates in off-campus housing, particu- said Ismael Morales, retiree from water nor electricity." the camp houses because the people larly in the apartments on Thurstin the ROTC Department. Morales She said the houses at other are just living there temporarily," he Avenue." Williams said. "The was raised in a family of migrant camps might be nicer because the said. 'There would be some who cent go on to college. 10 percent unit of economics and a half of a dorms have been a real challenge, workers. grower had used government funds renovated the area and left it up to graduate from college and one per- unit of government. If a student too." David Flores. organizer of the for housing. the inhabitant to keep it clean." cent go on to get a doctorate. from Texas goes to a school in Sophomore VCT major. Rick Through the Agricultural Labor Education "With migrant families, the fig- Ohio, he would be behind one Dennis, lives in Field Manor on local Farm Labor Organization Camp Improvement Program. According to Jose P. Salinas, Committee, said some of the issues ures are much lower." he said. semester." Thurstin Avenue and said that he "owners and operators of existing mentor for minority students at the Mr. Salinas said factors affecting Cultural differences can also hasn't filled out a Census, and he faced by migrant farm workers or new agricultural labor camps" in University of Findiay. the majority include conditions of camps and migrant children education depends play a factor in whether a child con- isn't even sure if he's seen one Ohio may receive a grant of up to of the migrant workers in Ohio, on the family and the area they are tinues with his/her education. around his apartment. difficulty obtaining funds from the $25,000 for housing, according to Indiana, and Michigan arc Hispan- "Hell if I know what's going on," government. in. One of the common factors that "Teachers might not be as under- ALCIP webpage. ic. standing of the culture and children he said. "A problem I noticed recently is The Ohio Department of Devel- "In Florida and Georgia there are affect migrant youth education is the requirements for a high school feel as though they are not accepted The response rate for the Thurstin that it is harder for migrant farm opment's Office of Housing and more African- American farm at school." he said. Avenue apartments is 42 percent. workers to get food stamps," he Community Partnership makes workers and as you go deeper south diploma that vary state from state. An example he cited was how a By comparison, other off-campus said. "Also, there is a lack of com- funding available from the Ohio you see people of all ethnicity," he "For example, in Ohio you need Hispanic child would respond when housing is between 56 and 59 per- munity support." Housing Trust Fund for housing said.