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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-24-1994 The BG News January 24, 1994 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 January 24, 1994" (1994). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5636. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5636 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. <? The BG News "A Commitment to Excellence' Monday, January 24,1994 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 83 Olscamp denounces union plan by Leah Barnum "net loss for the faculty." News staff writer Olscamp said if collective bar- "[Collective bargaining] discourages gaining is chosen for the Univer- "Olscamp has a rather jaded idea of what it About two and a half weeks be- sity faculty and staff through the motivation to personal excellence. We like to is that motivates people. Faculty members fore employees elections Feb. 9-10, employees be rewarded for being better, but collective go into this job mostly for altruistic reasons. will vote on col- will be less productive and have lective bar- less power through the Faculty bargaining discourages attempts to be They care about the subject matter and gaining. Uni- Senate. outstanding." they'll strive for excellence whether there's versity Presi- "What do they have to gain? dent Paul Ols- Nothing," Olscamp said. "My collective bargaining or not." c a m p de- personal feeling is that collective Paul Olscamp, University president Ron Stoner, University Faculty Association president nounced the bargaining would be a net loss unionization for the faculty, all things con- tions sent by Faculty Senate to camp said. Nineteen motions upon, he said. solutions," he said. plan, claiming sidered." the Board of Trustees were ap- were approved with minor "That proves positively that '• would be a Since 1982, 121 of the 156 mo- proved without changes, Ols- changes and 16 were not acted the board responds to senate re- See Ol SCAMP, page four. Monday Feature Clintons paid by Robin Coe loan interest in Whitewater Employee enjoys work at rink by Bill Simmons Clintons lost in Whitewater has The Associated Press been around since 1992, when his presidential campaign hired LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Most of Lyons to review their business the $68,900 that President and dealings. Mrs. Clinton say they put into the The campaign report found Whitewater real estate venture that the Clintons had invested, involved inter- loaned or otherwise advanced est on loans $68,900 to the Whitewater ven- they took out ture for which they have not for the com- received any return. In comput- pany and were ing the figure, officials said the subsequently report counted only payments able to deduct that came directly from the Clin- from their per- tons. It included the $40.000-plus sonal income in interest plus loan principal taxes. payments and other costs, Lind- According to sey said. tax records and Mrs. Clinton took out a $30,000 interviews with Clinton advisers, loan from the McDougal-owned the Clintons deducted at least Bank of Kingston in her name in $41,000 on tax returns from 1978 1980, secured by a lot from the to 1988 for interest on loans for Whitewater development. She Whitewater Development Co. put the money in the company so Inc. that it could put a model home on The Clintons' prime financial the lot, McDougal and Lindsey role at Whitewater appears to said. have been paying this interest for a money-losing company they co-owned. And like most Ameri- Clinton's cans who make loan or mortgage Tax Deductions payments, they took the interest deductions. This may explain why the Clin- / On the Clinton's 1980-91 tax tons never declared a $68,900 returns, deductions of S 19,021 capital loss on their income were made taxes, as some critics have ques- • in 1978 about SI0,000in Tht BC NCWI/ROII Wrlllntr tioned. The deductions included Whiicwatcr-rclaicd interest was Zambonl machine operator Edward Kay lor works at preparing the ice arena and being around all the different people Is probably one $19,021 in interest payments deducted. surface of the Ice Arena for afternoon skaters last week. Faylor, of the highlights of my life." who has worked at the arena for 13 years, said "being here at the itemized on the Clintons' 1980-91 • In 1979 another $12,000 of tax returns that they had made Whitewater-related interest was public in 1992. They also deduc- ted about $10,000 in Whitewater- deducted. related interest in 1978 and about Visitors liken Zamboni operator to family $12,000 in 1979, according to A loan from the Security Bank White House senior adviser of Paragould was obtained in talking to the other workers, sorely missing in modern soci- students contact him from all Bruce Llndsey and Denver law- 1983 by the Clintons. It, too, was put in Whitewater and paid off ri . Everyone who goes to the skaters and the fans. Every ety. over Ohio and Michigan after yer James Lyons, who reviewed the remainder of the $30,000 loan M m the ice arena to watch time he sees someone he tries Faylor's favorite time to they graduate. Whitewater for the Clinton Mrs. Clinton had obtained in a Falcon hockey game, or per- to put the name and face work is during the weekend, Many times people approach presidential campaign in 1992. 1980. haps to skate, has seen the big together and remember some- when younger children from Faylor after he is done working The Clintons have not released powerful maci ine that shaves thing special about them. He area schools come to play the Zamboni and ask why he their 1978 and 1979 tax returns, One result of getting loans as the ice, cleans it and then lays wants people to feel the arena hockey. He said he is especial- did not wave back when they but Lindsey and Lyons confirmed individuals and putting them in down a new sheet - all in one is as special a place for them as ly looking forward to the an- were waving, he said. But the the figures in interviews with operation. But hardly anyone it is for him. conditions of the machine do The Associated Press last week. the company was that payments nual Youth Hockey Night, to on the loan sometimes were knows who the person is be- "They all seem to hold a spe- take place soon. not let him see anything but the The Clintons began White- made by Whitewater, sometimes hind the machine. cial interest," he said. "Each of "That's when I get to see all ice. water in 1978 with James and Su- by the Clintons, Lindsey said. Edward Faylor believes that them has got a story to tell." the family," he said. When hj's not on the ice, san McDougal to develop a re- This was the case with the Para- working at the arena is much Although he does not have Parents involved in hockey Faylor has many other inter- tirement and vacation communi- more than a job - it's a service much faith in society today, usually bring Faylor cookies ests that keep him busy, like ty in the Ozark Mountains. gould loan. he's doing for the people he Faylor said meeting students and other gifts throughout the metal detecting. Now federal authorities are in- considers family. He has been reminds him that there are still year. Sometimes students When Faylor was a child, he vestigating whether funds of the Lindsey said such practices running the Zamboni for seven plenty of kind, friendly people bring pizza. buried a can with coins in his Madison Guaranty Savings and sometimes took place as normal years during halftimes and in the world. "I don't have any family of back yard. He hid it so well Loan that James McDougal own- events in real estate companies, practices since he started "Working for students, I've my own, so I allow them to be that he was never able to find ed in Arkansas were improperly especially small ones, at that working at the arena in 1981. probably had more faith in so- my family. That's why I think I the can again. As he got older, diverted to other entities, or used time. "I don't have a family," Fay- ciety and survival than I've enjoy my job so much," he he began to wonder how many to pay political or personal debts lor said. "I consider all the ever had," Faylor said. He said said. other people buried things and of prominent Arkansans, includ- "Whoever made the payment people who come out to this he admires students' hopes and Faylor said he has kept in could not find them. This cur- ing then-Gov. Clinton. got the deduction," Lindsey said. rinkas my family." goals, and believes students contact with many students as The Clintons and McDougal "If Whitewater paid, it got the Faylor said he also enjoys have priorities and standards they grow older. He has college See ZAMBONI, page five. have denied wrongdoing. deduction. If the Clintons paid, The question of how much the they got it." The University is accu- In the aftermath of the More than 4,000 fans mulating about $21 million watched the men's basket- a year, but might not be al- earthquake, Los Angeles Mostly cloudy with a residents try to salvage ball team retain its first- locating those funds where place MAC standing with a chance of drizzle.