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CAMPUS CITY 1SL NOW 3SL SPORTS ■ BGSU Falcon marching band ■ Students could ■ A brief guide to the Bowling ■ BGSU Fall athlet- is an organization created by save money by shop- Green city bar scene, including ics getting prepared dedicated students and faculty ping on a budget and Junction Bar and Grill. for upcoming members. using coupons. season. Weather WEDNESDAY Ti«day: August 25. 1999 showers Volume 87, Issue2 High 76. Low 66 Tomorrow: t-storms High 80. Low 64 A daily independentws student press President Ribeau stresses cooperation, values in speech By SARA EATON for each core value in a power- The BG News point presentation. Cover Rather than focus on First, Ribeau explained that the priorities of the nothing gets done individually story 1999/2000 school at the University, but it is all team can't do it, the French year, President Sidney Ribeau done through cooperation. club can't do it,. all of those took a new approach to his "With over 18,000 students, things help." Opening Day speech. over 3,000 faculty and staff He added that values play a members, what holds this all large role in how things get Two examples on the Bowl- together?" he asked. "It's not done. However, they are so far ing Green campus were given the president. The football removed from day-to-day activities that they need to be refocused on. While there are so many things going on around the world and campus, people often forget the important things in life, Ribeau said. He BG News Photo/ MIKE LEHMKUHLE cited the earthquakes in Turkey as one example. President Ribeau talks to faculty and students about campus values and activities. "Forty thousand people wiped out like that," he said, Ribeau said, laughing. top or not. Rec center, the organizations, snapping his fingers. "We need The idea is for the students "You don't always have to the Information Technology a value perspective that carves to receive help in determining agree, what's important is that Services," she said. a trail which says in spite of who they are as a person, not you're able to talk about it," Ribeau said five years ago that." just a student, he said, adding Ribeau said. "What's impor- not many would have thought After pointing to the five that it also helps academically tant is that you're able to find that Bowling Green students colorful, banner-like signs across the board. ways to work through it and could raise $200,000 for a local with each core value, connec- "Springboard has helped me make it work after." charity. However, the students tions on campus were made a lot. It helped my raise my • Cooperation believed in it and cooperated with each value. GPA," said Maurice Allen, President's Day coordinator to make it happen. • Creative Imaginings Springboard student. "Without Montique Cotton emphasized • Intellectual and Spiri- First, Ribeau urged every- this program I would not be how much cooperation is need- tual Growth one to think creatively and try where I am today." ed for the recruitment day. Each year a class goes to the doing things differently from • Respect for One Anoth- "I get cooperation for all of South Bronx, the poorest con- usual. er the offices all over campus, gressional district in the coun- "Don't be afraid to think of BGSU offers a class on civil- even the organizations," she try, to help and experience something a little different or ity, which teaches students said. those less fortunate. unique," he said, explaining how to be, civil. While it takes organization "Even after all that, they that enhancement and "Civility is really a climate for the day to run smoothly, still have a high spirit," said improvement should be the in which respect is a priority," Cotton said, without the coop- multicultural studies intern ultimate goal. said Craig Vickio, associate eration from everyone the pro- Jamie Marino, explaining the BG Kewi Photo/ MIKE LEHMKUHLE Springboard is one example director of the counseling cen- gram would not work so well. hardships of being poor or of a creative imagining, he ter. Dance Marathon coordina- homeless. tor Natalie Crown agreed. President Ribeau spoke about the importance of the Univer- said. Ribeau explained that respect is what makes the dif- "We have to have coopera- sity's core values during his Opening Day speech. "Springboard was thought • See RIBEAU, page six. of on a racquetball court," ference between being at the tion from all over campus, the BGSU contends with overcrowding University plans for Union ByJEFTARNETT think its as critical as many who continued by explaining ing to Whipple. closing in middle December The BG News students do, that its more of an the advantages of full enroll- Overall, the University's BY BRANDI BARHITE the Pheasant Room and will The number of students on inconvenience than a serious ment. "The more students you population increased by The BG News offer a fresh salad bar, soup and campus has increased consider- problem. have, the greater the diversity, approximately 3 percent, and The University Union will be a buffet. ably in the last several years, "Parking |at the University! plus the more money you should continue to do so for sev- operating at full capacity dur- For students who like a late- but some students don't think is a lot better than at the other receive from the state." eral years in the future, said ing this semester, but plans are night pizza snack, the Shadows that's a good change. schools I have seen," Zentmeyer Whipple also claimed that Whipple. Admissions was so already being made for when it Snack Bar in Kreischer Quad- Darin Fisher, residential said. "The problem is just that energy and excitement are gen- successful, in fact, that the new closes its doors Dec. 19. rangle will serve pizza Sunday- adviser in Darrow Hall in it's remote, whereas on other erated when a school is grow- student admissions closed May According to Ed O'Donnell, Thursday 7 p.m.- 3 a.m. and Kreischer, said that overcrowd- campuses, there are not the ing. 14, the first time it has closed director of dining services, Saturday 7 p.m.- 1 a.m., O'Don- ing has been detrimental to res- spaces." According to Zentmeyer, early in a number of years. there will be a variety of alter- nel said. idents. Ed Whipple, vice president of Whipple and Mike Walsh, the "Key factors in our success native eating areas established Other exploratory plans call "When I look at the past cou- student affairs, agreed. director of admissions, the has been the overwhelming and many dining halls will offer for an information and food ple of yi'urs, it was less crowd- "There is parking, but it may increase in University popula- involvement from faculty, and extended hours come spring area in Olscamp Hall and limit- ed," Fisher said. "Almost all not be where students want it tion has come about due to also students," Walsh said. semester. ed food in the library, O'Donnell singles have been eliminated, to be," Whipple said. He did more aggressive recruitment Whipple and Zentmeyer "It is going to be a little bit of said. except for the freak [cases]. mention the University often and a generally more favorable added that a general improve- a challenge, but our goal is to "We have done a good deal of They have even put doubles in kicks around the idea of a park- public opinion of the Universi- ment in the University's repu- provide the same levels of ser- planning and I think that we the conduit rooms." ing deck, but it is considered to ty. tation is also a major factor in vice," he said. can meet everyone's needs," he According to Jim Zentmeyer, be a long-term project. Walsh said the new target the surge of new students. As of today the design for the said. associate director of residence Whipple said the recent for new student admissions was "Bowling Green is becoming new union is completed and As for this semester though, life, approximately 7,000 stu- increase in student population set for the fall of 1998. That a lot more popular," Whipple architects began the blueprints the union will be operating dents will be living on campus is a result of the University year's class of new students said, claiming that prospective in June. The new Union, fea- "business as usual," said Ed this year, cons.derably more attempting to meet enrollment represented a significant students are becoming aware of turing a food court, bookstore, Whipple, vice president of stu- than the 6,500 who lived on caps that are set by the state. increase over recent years, and the academic and physical bar, fine dining, movie theater dent affairs. Whipple added campus two years ago.