Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 8-23-1979 The Summer BG News August 23, 1979 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The Summer BG News August 23, 1979" (1979). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3643. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3643 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 summer (Bowling 'Green State University, 8-23-79 Chiang to get Summer News honor degree signs off As summer quarter at graduation draws to a close, The Summer BG News signs off Internationally-known scientist, researcher and author until next June. H.C. Chiang will be awarded an honorary doctor of The academic year BG science degree during summer commencement exercises News will return Sept. 23 at the University. with a special orientation edition. On Sept. 26, Chiang, a professor in the department of entomology, the News will resume fisheries and wildlife at the University of Minnesota, will regular f our-day-a-week be honored at ceremonies at 10 a m. Saturday on the lawn publication. west of University Hall. The Summer News staff A pioneer in the area of biological control of insect wishes all students, faculty pests, Chiang is a leader in the development of pest and staff members who management methods for agriculture. religiously read our newspaper good luck CHIANG IS also one of the leading researchers in the during the summer break. area of plant genetics, and findings from his work have The Summer News staff been used to increase per-acre yields of corn and other recalls their experiences of grains in this country and throughout the world. the past three months on In presenting the honorary degree, the University will page three. recognize Chiang as a "great humanitarian whose collaborative efforts with other scientists in the fields of entomology, plant pathology, plant genetics, soils science photo by Kyle Daaaceai inside and plant physiology have been instrumental in enabling Aenee Tena (left) and Ronny Dilsaver (right) play house, using flowers as food. Renee, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Tena, 819 N. Enterprise, Apt. A, was the Campus news and a look at American agriculture to double its production every 25 the Summer News years." baby and Ronny, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Dilsaver, of Weston, 0., was staff Page) Chiang's work in these areas have resulted in his ser- the mommy. ving as a consultant to several nations which are struggling to increase their agricultural production. He Features: University has also chaired and served on a number of United Council OK's five ordinances historian, Dr. Richard Nations' committees which have been devoted to solving Wright is playing an im- the problem of world hunger. City council passed five authorized to enter into a municipal administrator to portant role in the purchase salt for de-icing salvaging of the steamship articles of legislation contract for the installation IN 1975, CHIANG was also a member of the U.S. Monday, including one or- of a traffic signal at Cam- during the coming winter. Indiana, which sank in 1858, National Academy of Sciences Insect Control Delegation from Lake Superior. Page 4 dinance providing more than pbell Hill Road and East An ordinance amending which traveled to the People's Republic of China. $37,000 in supplemental Wooster St. The municipal the zoning map, which A native of China, Chiang received his bachelor's Outgoing Sports Infor- appropriations to the current administrator's spokesman received its first reading, mation Director at the degree in 1938 from Tsing Hua University. He came to the city budget. told council that the signal met with disapproval from University Dave Senko United States as a refugee during World War II, and The largest single ap- would cost approximately several citizens. The comments on the situation received his master's and doctoral degrees from the propriation within that or- $70,000, and that the rezoning, which would surrounding his departure University of Minnesota in 1946 and 1948. dinance was awarded to the University would donate change seven lots at Man- and his plans for the The author of more than 150 articles and book chapters, Sewerage System Revenue $5,000 toward the light. ville and Lehman Avenues future Page4 Chiang has been a member of the University of Minnesota Fund. A total of $24,743.00 COUNCIL ALSO approved from light industrial to faculty since 1953. Reporter Mike Gueulette was granted to the fund for ordinances authorizing the multiple family In July of this year, Chiang was presented with the maintenance and supplies at director of utilities to bid for classification, was opposed got lost last week and when prestigious Distinguished Service Award from the he finally showed up, he the sewage treatment plant replacement filter media at because of potential flooding said he had been out American Institute of Biological Sciences. He is also a Municipal Administrator the water treatment plant, problems in an area which shopping at garage sales. Honorary Faculty Fellow at International University in Wesley K. Hoffman was and authorizing the already has a drainage Well Mike really was, and Geneva, Switzerland. problem. Three women from his story about this strange the area told council that it phenomena is on Page S. should "go slowly and Mailbox system receives award seriously consider" the proposed rezoning. Classifieds and The installation of 7,040 on-campus thus saving postage costs, he said. the Registrar's Office of their new Two other ordinances doonesbury Page! mailboxes for commuter students Duane Whitmire, assistant to the addresses," Brewer said. received their first readings. received honorable mention in the 1979 registrar and supervisor of the system, Before installation of the mail box One of those proposes the 'weekend' concludes with a issuance of $910,000 in in- look at the new Led Zepplin National Association of College and said mat in the first quarter of system, hundreds of items mailed by album Page 7 University Business Officers-United operation the boxes saved the his office to students off campus were dustrial development States Steel Foundation Cost Reduction University and student groups nearly returned by the U.S. Postal Service revenue bonds by the city. Incentive Awards program. The award- $9,300. That figure, he said, is based on marked "address unknown." The bonds would assist Sports: With autumn winning system, which was introduced an estimated mailing cost of 15 cents Marathon Special Products rapidly approaching, the last year, was proposed by the students per item for 61,930 items distributed Although the system is only a year corporation in financing 9 aura of football is in the air. themselves, according to University through campus mail boxes to students old, it has already received attention proposed facility. Falcon coaches are already Registrar Cary Brewer. living off campus during the fall from other institutions. Miami The second ordinance preparing for the new Having the mail boxes enables quarter in 1978. University and Ohio University ad- would amend the city code season and reporter Mary University offices and student groups to ministrators have expressed interest in concerning motorized McCarthy asked them to distribute class registration materials, "IN ADDmON TO saving postal adopting a similar system, and one bicycles so that it will assess the team's chance validation cards, meeting notices and costs, the system also saves staff and national profession journal has comply with the state for a successful other information to students without student time, since commuter students requested information for publication, regulations for safety and season Page I utilizing the U.S. Postal Service and frequently move and neglect to notify Brewer noted. licensing of mopeds. opinion, Here's to a job well-done Editor's goals, results examined I also feel that we mixed the news that we did discover As the summer and my tenure as editor of the Summer however. Summer News' staff discovered that Tom with features, entertainment and other information that BG News draws to a close, I can't help but reflect back on Misuraca officially had been named director of appealed to the Summer News' audience. the past three months. programming for the Union Activities Organization (UAO). Soon the news began to flow in. Upon assuming the editorship, I drafted a list of goals A FIVE-PART SERIES on some of the city's more that I wished to meet during the summer. These goals prosperous businesses ran periodically throughout the included publishing ten issues of the Summer BG News, WHEN THE UNIVERSITY called off exploratory merger discussions between representatives of WBGU- summer. The "weekend" column, provided tips on what I uncovering news at the University; blending this news hope readers found to be interesting leisure-time ac- with feature articles in order to provide a balanced TV and Toledo's WGTE-TV,the Summer News was there. When the monsoon rains of July 9, 1979, hit Bowling tivities. newspaper that would reflect the casual atmosphere of There were feature articles on some interesting people these lazy days of summer, and giving anyone who ap- such as a Bowling Green native and contender for in- plied an opportunity to do some reporting or photography. ternational honors, figure skater Scott Hamilton; I have assessed the Summer News' performance by Paul Cleveland broadcaster Wilma Smith, a University comparing the final results-the ten issues of the graduate; the many nuns enrolled in the University's newspaper-with my initial goals.