Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 8-25-1985 The BG News August 25, 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 August 25, 1985" (1985). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4407. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4407 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 Environment for Excellence Your freshmen year is one Bowling Green State University will celebrate as it embarks on its 75th year of existence. Activities planned throughout the year will enable you not only to see what your school is today, but where it has been and where it plans to go in the future. As you begin a new time in your life, growing and changing with new and different experineces, the University environment also continues to grow and change. Additional stories in this special Issue of the BG Hews will give you a taste of Bowling Green's heritage. Besides emphasizing the University's roots, the 75th anniversary is a send-off Into the future, proving Bowling Green's committment to be an "Environment for Excellence." The campus has seen eras of generations — the war-winning 40s, the bee-bopping 50s, the radical 60s, the settling 70s and the yuppies of the 80s. It never falls. The professors who have been at the University for at least 10 years always bring up their astonishment at how calm the campus community has become since the Vietnam War and the days of civil rights rioting. In ten short years, the bellbottoms, long hair and peace signs have been replaced by polo shirts, punk haircuts and Walkmans. When those affiliated with the University look back at the dramatic changes — the attitudes of the people, the political picture, the fads, the styles, the architecture, as well as the Institution — It is truly a blessing that the people In this country are free to come together and shape the era how they please. It is this freedom that the University salutes, along with 75 years of existence. It also salutes 75 years of change and ability to adjust to change. It has been a time frame of restlessness, yet progress. And through It all, the University keeps up with the times unrelentingly. Sharing BGSU's past are celebrities such as Lillian Glsh, Tim Conway and Eva Marie Saint. Putting the city on the Olympic map were Dave Wottle and his famous white cap in the 1972 800-meter run and Bowling Green's Scott Hamilton In the 1980 and 1984 figure skating competitions. The spotlight shines on the "Environment for Excellence" once again as the people of the present and the past welcome the future. Photos courtesy of the Center For Archival Collections Editorial BG News/Aagtut 25,1985 2 Get involved A confusing time for freshmen Accompanied by your tuition bill from the Bursar by Mike Mclntyre utterly false. ward to. 1 or Just to wade in the you received a computer printout of your sched- • Freshmen can look forward Sure, adjusting to this new jchlng Brian McClure ule. This paper tells you where you have to be and So you're finally on your own. to trying to cram every bit of lifestyle may be a little tough, _J the all-time NCAA pass- what you'll be doing tor 15 hours a week during the And you've probably longed college ufe into the first month but there are many good things ing record, or just getting crazy next four months. for this moment since your se- of school. They will stay up late, in store, too. on the weekends because they nior year of high school began eat pizza, drink, and do just • Freshmen can look forward worked hard all week. If you follow your schedules and do a satisfactory about anything responsible par- to meeting new friends, friends • And freshmen can look for- winding down. ents wouldn't permit, while try- job with all your required work for the next four There will be no more pleas to that often last a lifetime. ward to learning more than a years, you'll receive a diploma. ing to keep up good grades. •They can look forward to mere book or professor can clean your room, you can let it (Just one little hint: it doesn't During those four years some of you will drop get as messy as you want. Stay growing up. Being on your own teach. out, some of you will do what is required and some out as late as you like, there 11 be work.) helps you do that Just a bit. So welcome freshmen, and a Freshmen can look forward • Freshmen can look forward felicitations to returning stu- of you will go beyond the required work to become no questions asked. to losing much of their privacy Now that you're a college to taking on the challenge in the dents as well. involved. by living in the dorms. Where classroom, and winning. Just remember the most im- freshman, you may finally say public restrooms are the norm, People who become involved learn college life "I'm free/ knowing that only •They can look forward to portant thing to look forward to privacy is nearly impossible. discovering what they want out is the college experience. And isn't just sticking your nose in a book for hours on you, and maybe a few strict • And they can look forward to end - though at tunes it may seem your classes are dorm policies, govern your be- of life. Will they choose to be a however we try, it cannot be havior for the entire schoolyear. feeling incredibly stupid when doctor or a lawyer, school- accurately described. only thing you have time for. College life is learning they try to borrow a book from teacher or bio-chemist? This is It must be lived. the Jerome library, forgetting how to interact with people, finding out about new Envisioning the year ahead, when they find out lifestyles and making new friends. to check it out at the desk, and •They can look forward to Mclntyre, a junior journalism you think of good times and non- accidentally setting off the li- There are hundreds of opportunities to become stop fun. You imagine getting participating in some of the major from Lakewood, is edito- brary's alarm system. many activities on campus - rial editor of the News. involved in campus events. You can become in- great grades, going to parties, But there is more to look for- volved in student government, try out for a musical and possibly pledging a frater- going to the rec for a game of nity or sorority. group or audition for a play, work for a campus But in the back of your mind, publication, work as a disc jockey, join a social the horror stories you've beard fraternity or become involved in one of several about freshman year keep com- religious groups on campus. The opportunities are ing back. You're worried about , limitless, Dut becoming involved is up to you. being picked on as a first year Nobody is going to miss you if you don't make an student iust as you were when attempt to get involved. you started high school. \. Once you decide for yourself that getting in- Just remember there is no volved is the thing to do, don't limit yourself. Open turning back, tuition was due Eour mind. Learn about everyone, everything and last week. So you might as well ready ave fun doing it. If you're interested in something yourself for what is to come. you don't have experience in, don't hesitate to ask Freshmen can expect a myriad questions and meet the challenge. The University is of first year mainstays: a haven for variety. • Freshmen can loo* forward Those 15 hours for 15 weeks will go quickly, those to getting lost no fewer than 50 four years will go even quicker. Use the tune you times in the first couple of days have to become involved and make it a point to of school. On the other hand, leave the University with more than a diploma, upper classmen, those who earned their stripes by moping leave with an education. in the dark their first few days too, will look forward to giving false directions. • Freshmen can look forward We hope you enjoyed to trying to get into the bar, only to be tossed out on their respec- tive ears because their fake I.D. Mom and Dad's Hotel just didn't cut it. • And freshmen males are so turbed by anyone coining into eager to enter those bars be- by Art Buchwald your room asking when you cause they look forward to were getting up? was your room checking out the incredible 5-to- The problem after a summer cleaned up satisfactorily while 1 women to men ratio they heard vacation is that parents of col- you were in the kitchen having about, which is, by the way, lege students can never be quite breakfast.? aare if their children had a good 5. How did you find the laun- ;2imeornot dry service? Were there always g I've taken a leaf from Holiday fresh clothes in your drawers Inns, Howard Johnson motels and did our staff pick up the Parents' pre-reg was a little misleading rand Hilton to solve this problem.