Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-4-1982 The BG News February 4, 1982 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 4, 1982" (1982). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3951. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3951 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 B G News Thursday Bowling Green State University February 4, 1982 Latest winter storm sweeps over nation dumping more snow by the Associated Press ward, spreading more snow from eastern Kansas to the Great Lakes states. Northwest Ohio has been hit by yet another snowstorm, burying THE STORM out of the southern the region under 11 inches of snow, plains dumped 7 inches of snow as reported by the National across northern Arkansas and 9 Weather Service in Toledo. This inches in eastern Missouri, which latest storm has swept across the was still digging out from thigh- nation, wreaking havoc along the hi»h drifts, the legacy of a snowfall way. ■ -'most 2 feet over the weekend. The tempestuous winter of '82 In Georgia, flash floods blocked sent floodwaters into the second roads in half a dozen counties and floors of homes in Atlanta's sub- forced the evacuation of some urbs Wednesday and punished New homes. Many schools were closed. England with ice storms that In Cobb County, northeast of blacked out many communities. Atlanta, residents were evacuated A chemical tank truck wrecked from about 15 homes in the Fox on an icy highway near Strouds- Hills subdivision when Sope Creek burg, Pa. One thousand people overflowed. Other evacuations were evacuated. A school bus were ordered along the Chattahoo- skidded into an overturned city bus chee River near Vinings and along in Lowell, Mass., slightly injuring Sweetwater Creek near Austell. IS children. JAMES RAY, director of the Cobb County Emergency Manage- A SNOWSTORM in Utah trig- ment Agency, said water was up to gered avalanches east of Salt Lake the second floor of some of the $75,- City that trapped a transit system 000 homes in the Fox Hills area. bus. The passengers took another In Atlanta, Alan Brown paddled bus. a canoe on the Atlanta Country Rivers and streams bloated by Club golf course, submerged in heavy rains washed across high- Chattahoochee floodwaters. In the ways and down city streets in seve- nearby garages of the $200,000 ral states along the Eastern River Place condominiums, water Seaboard. Ice jams contributed to covered the wheels of Cadillacs the flooding in some areas. and other luxury cars. As farm tractors tugged at aban- "My basement is a natural swim- Battling to kMp ahead of another major storm, Rota Donald, a member of the University's grounds craw, shovels snow off tha ataps photo by Dean Koeptler doned cars mired in 18 inches of ming pool and there is 2^4 to 3 feet of tha administration building. Donald and other grounda craw members were expected to work until 10:00 p.m. laat night, claaring snow left in parts of Oklahoma on of water in the first floor," said anow. Tuesday, that storm pushed north- Tom Nelson of Fox Hills. Unique Gift shop offers hard-to-find items by Linda Perez sian cockroach traps. Prices are BUT THIS DAY Hohler can be News staff reporter tailored to fit a college student's found offering tea to both custom- budget, Hohler said, running from ers and browsers, smiling gra- 10 cents to $30. ciously. ■ The scent of the tea As weary travelers make their mingles with clove incense, while way through Bowling Green's YET HOHLER prefers to call the plaintive strains of Willie Nel- snowy trenches, a two-story struc- Simple Pleasures a curiosity shop son singing "Stardust" can be ture at 325 E. Wooster Street, instead of a gift store. heard in the background. Music amidst similar-looking houses, of- "It would be nice if people bought and pleasant scents contribute to fers an escape from the dreariness things, but it doesn't really mat- the atmosphere of Simple Plea- of winter. ter, he said, describing Simple sures, Hohler maintained. Stained glass ornaments peek Pleasures as an expensive hobby An MBA graduate of the Univer- from its wide bay windows, and the rather than a main source of in- sity, he called Simple Pleasures faint tinkle of chimes from a bal- come. the "realization" of his college cony drifts through the frigid air. A fantasy to own a small retail shop. sign reads "Simple Pleasures," "I'd like people to enjoy the After working for Gould Inc., in emblazoned with the logo of a rain- ambience of the place. Its atmo- such cities as Milan, Chicago and bow, on a lamppost. sphere differentiates it from any Angola, Ind., Hohler returned to "Enjoy all ye who enter here- other place in town," he said. Bowling Green to start his own browsers welcome." reads another It's rare to find Hohler at the business. sign, in paper, on the front window. sales counter, brewing cinnamon- He and his mother ref inished and Dale Hohler is the owner of Sim- orange tea in a percolator. His job wallpapered the entire shop, which ple Pleasures, a shop that opened as a manufacturers' representa- formerly housed American Hand- last spring. The- merchandise of- tive for six companies takes him icrafts and Davy Jones' Locker, fered at the store ranges from away from Bowling Green three to last February. relatively ordinary watering cans, four days each week. He hired An inevitable question asked of Dala Hohler, owner of gift shop Simple Pleasures, aaya his store is more for enjoyment than a staff photo by Ron Haglar sea shell magnets and Chinese three University students to run him is why he chose Bowling real moneymaker. Hohler started tha ahop in Bowling Green because he likes the'simple yoyos to the bizarre, including Simple Pleasures during his ab- plaasuraa of Ufa, Ilka gardening, antiques, and fireplaces." Chinese cricket boxes and Polyne- sences. Green. continued on page 7 Academic Council discusses possibility Polish government blames student activists for riots of school status for home ec department WARSAW, Poland (AP) - About 760 culated a clandestine "appeal to stu- by David Sigworth free up instructional time for fac- with department designation," officials - six of them provincial gov- dents of the world" to show support Inside News staff reporter ulty," Packard said. Russell said. School status elicits a ernors - have been fired since the for Polish students. The association Having school status also will "different status image going into Dec. 13 martial law crackdown, the was declared subversive after the 3 Student government A proposal to give the Depart- positively influence the recruit- recruitment." official Polish news agency PAP said Communist government announced ment of Home Economics semi- ment of faculty and students, Wil- yesterday. martial law. president Bruce John- autonomous school status received liams said. AND, ACCORDING TO the pro- At the same time, the government Government spokesman Jerzy Ur- son says that fighting several endorsements yesterday in The department has been com- posal. "Potential faculty members newspaper Republic blamed student ban told a news conference for foreign state budget cuts to higher its first discussion before Aca- peting in student recruitment with are always attracted to an institu- activists for last Saturday's riots in reporters that 3,000 young Gdansk education will be the first demic Council. home economic schools from Kent tion where in the discipline is Gdansk and said they wanted "a rioters were shouting anti-police slo- priority of the new govern- Dr. Doris Williams, acting chair State University, Ohio University highly regarded. A school with change in the political system in Po- gans and trying to storm government ment. of the department, presented Coun- and Ohio State University, Dr. appropriate direction and divisions land/' buildings before they were dispersed. cil with a 17-page package of infor- Ronald Russell, the department has higher regard than the status A Radio Warsaw broadcast mon- He said police used water hoses and mation to supplement the 97-page chair when work began on the as a department with areas." itored in Vienna said an army general tear gas. committee-drafted proposal. proposal, said. The proposal does not request had been named governor of Gdansk 7 A government agency Gaining school status would ben- any "supplemental monetary or province following the riots, the most IT WAS the first time the govern- says that many finan- efit students and faculty members, BUT IN ENROLLMENT figures, personnel resources now or in the serious violent challenge to the Com- ment elaborated on the riot since cial aid recipients are Williams said. the University's department (878) future." munist government in more than a Sunday, when it said 205 people were not meeting academic stan- "Credentials (of graduates) are is far ahead of schools at O.S.U. "The primary cost-savings cen- month. arrested and 14 people injured. dards. more marketable if they are com- (773), K.S.U. (512) and O.U. (382). ter around the decrease in the The government also said U.S. eco- Urban said the riot started when a ing from a school instead of a According to one package attach- number of administrative hours nomic sanctions against Poland crowd gathered to put flowers at a department," she said.