"Moving ahead"

moving ahead

Last week may well prove to be the high water mark in the history of Bowing Green State University. And the credit must be shared jointly ...by students, faculty and administrators.

A potentially explosive situation was defused by a concerned student body, a progressive-minded faculty, and a responsive administration. For the first time in memory, all three facets of the University community worked in unison, spurred on not by threat or duress, but by a common feeling of urgency.

The University community can take pride inthe fact that its differences were not resolved under national guard bayonets and flying tear-gas canisters.

But it can take even greater pride in the concrete, significant steps that have been taken in areas of concern to all students--minority rights, the grading system, and a relevant curriculum.

While other state universities were shutting their doors in the wake of violence, Bowling Green remained open and moved ahead.