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Green State University WEDNESDAY September 10, 2003 RUGGERS ROLLING: MOSTLY SUNNY After two big wins the 1 IK.II 82 i LOW 56 Falcons will face Marshall www.hgnews.com on Saturday at home; independent student press VOLUME 98 ISSUE 13 PAGE 7 Pauper's closes a 28-year chapter By Stacy Kess I le said many book stores are University faculty couples under adding when Schifferli pur- In 1997, he purchased the store shelves in the from room of REPORTER struggling, whether indepen- the name Pauper's Paperbacks — chased the slore, there were less from Schifferli. I le liegan earning Squeakers < ale and I lealth Food Another chapter in BowUng dent, chain or niche. the sign thai still hangs above the than 10 hardback books. more new htxik, as well as alter- Store, I75N. Main St, with books Green history came to a close "There's competition from the door. Two years later, the store He became Involved with the native and political materials. on ecology and holistic issues. Sunday. Internet and there's conipelilion moved to its present location Store while doing research on (he Over its 28 yean as a Howling "lies a friend of ours and lie Pauper's Books, 206 N. Main for the hig-huck book stores," he next to the Comer Grill when \eo history of paperback publishing. Green hook slore, Pauper's brought Over things lie thought St., a downtown Howling Green said. "Book stores are dropping Schifferli bought the store. Tvv clvc Wilbur eventually took on the became known for Its packed our customers would be interest- icon for28 years, closed ilsdoors like flies." shelves and slacks of books, ed in," Squeakers manager lolin to business. Wilbur said the decline in busi- "Pauper's is less in tune with the new char- "We've always had loo much U'asinski said. "Il'sa good lii." Owner Shawn Wilbur said the ness was combined with a acter (of Bowling Green) than the old" siock," Wilbur said. "It you were Wilbur said, with these projects store closed mainly because of change in the downtown atmos- interested in hard—to—find fic- in tile works as well as several the changing market — one less phere over the last year and a half. SHAWN WILBUR, FORMER OWNER OF PAUPERS BOOKS tion or even general [literature), pel si ii ul projects, he is lot iking li i conducive to independent book "Pauper's is less in tune with on any given day there was a the future, stores. the new character (of Bowling years ago, Wilbur began working responsibility of manager. good chance of it being there." "I'm actually prett] excited "Pauper's has been sort of a Green) than the old," Wilbur said. summers at the slore, when he "People would talk of coming t )v er the lasi y ear, Wilbur made about the next phase." he said. "If book-person's book store," Pauper's occupied a place in moved to Bowling Green for Into this overstuffed store and a transition to Internet business Pauper's has lo go. Ill move on to Wilbur said. "The bottom line local mythology, really." graduate studies. Ico and I would be able to put ai wwwJibertada-labs.org, as well the next thing." here is the culture has changed. In 1975, the store opened "It was initially really a paper- our hands in it |to find a book as as began to sell oft his inventory There aren't as many readers." under the ownership of two back exchange," Wilbur said. if sort of miraculous." Wilbur said. I le also now occupies two book- MasterPlan UN. yet to find proof presented to of Iraqi weapons By Charles J.Hanley faculty senate THE «SS0O»!E0 PRESS No weapons of mass destruc- space we presently have. tion have turned up In Iraq, nor The pedestrian walkway has any solid new evidence lor ♦ By Nathan Roehl througli campus, which would RtPORUR them turned up in Washington run from the stadium area or London. But what about The Faculty Senate had their through campus to Tluirstin Baghdad's patchy bookkeeping first meeting of the year yesterday Avenue, would be a highlight of — the gaps that led U.N. inspec- featuring a presentation on the the plan's focus on fostering a tors to list Iraqi nerve agents and Master Plan die administration more united campus. The current bioweapons material as unac- has laid out for physical improve- setup of streets and walkways counted for? ments to campus. effectively divides the community Hx-inspectors now say, five ™f ifa r The plan includes an inter- between the residential areas and months after the U.S. invasion, change for 1-75 north of campus campus The walkway would help that the "unaccouiitables" may and a "pedestrian main street" lo give the community more have been no more than paper- running through the heart of open access to campus. ill -wr* ii-^n work glitches left behind when campus. Also included in the plan Subsequently, the walkway would Iraq destroyed banned chemical were renovations to the library, a also give students a safe way to and biological weapons years new Arts Quadrangle, a Science walking from campus to down- ago. ... Quadrangle and three parking town without the safety risk of Some may represent mis- ' f garages. crossing main streets. By provid- counts, they say. and some may The 30-year-plan, which took ing a single walkway — the risk of stem from Iraqi underlings' one and a half years to develop, pedestrian injury would be less- efforts to satisfy the boss by exag- emphasizes bringing a distinctive ened significanUy. gerating reports on amis output flair to campus that invites and The Senate had a variety of in the 1980s. engages current and prospective questions about the plan, ranging "Under that sort of regime, you students, lust as fundamental lo from concerns about how strictly don't admit you got it wrong," the plan, however, is maintaining the plan would stick to its defini- said lion G. Manley of Britain, a the "Green" within Bowling Green tion of environmental sustain- former chief U.N. adviser on by keeping undeveloped areas ability, to student's concerns chemical weapons. used as natural gathering places about parking. While there was I lis encounters with Iraqi sci- while moving and adding build- no final approval or rejection of entists in the 1990s convinced THt ASSOCIATED PRESS ings to reduce the "Chinese Wall" die plan, one could not help but him that at times, when told to SEARCHING CONTINUES: U.S. Forces examine a mobile biological weapons facility in their search for effect present buildings cause be impressed with its breadth. produce "X amount" of a weapons of mass destruction. along Wooster Street. The Senate also addressed weapons agent, "they wrote Also essential to the "Green" other matters, such as the official down what their superiors waul- aspect of the plan is environmen- Admissions count for diis semes- ed to hear instead of the reality," were at times overstated. interrogated Iraqi specialists, 1990s, stirred controversy the tal sustainability. The plan ter—20,361 students; just slight- said Manley, who noted that pro- "There was so much pressure "you suddenly realized they pasl two years by accusing U.S. accounts for more than just pro- ly lower than the 20,480 we had ducing VX nerve agent for exam- put on scientists to produce weren't as good as they said they officials of having failed lo make jecting an image, but also by last year. ple, is a difficult process. world-class systems, they would were." a case for war on Iraq, planning for the future of the American ex-inspector Scott exaggerate their reports back to Ex-Marine officer Hitter, who chief U.N. Inspector Hans areas being improved allowing Ritter said he, too, was sure authorities," he said. As inspec- sounded alarms about possible improvements to provide bene- Baghdad's "WMD" accounts tors scrutinized factories and hidden Iraqi weapons In the WEAPONS, PAGE 2 fits well into the future. The plan also emphasizes creative use of U. 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