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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
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Wood county or absentee ballots needed for election By Yalona Blair Reporter
The election is approaching, and there are rules to voting students at the University should know. Like many things, there are qualifications and rules to being able to vote. People must be at least 18 years old before the election, be registered to vote 30 days prior to the election, be a resident of Ohio 30 days prior to the election and must be a citizen of the United States, according to the Wood County Board of Elections website, www.co.wood.oh.us/boe/. There are three types of ballots available to registered voters. There are regular, provisional and absentee ballots, said Debbie Hazard, deputy director for the Wood County Board of Elections. “A regular ballot is cast, and once the ballot is cast you can’t take it back or anything,” Hazard said. “Provisional ballots are paper ballots that we hold until we can prove that the voter is indeed registered to vote or confirm their information in whatever way.” Absentee ballots are cast before the election and can be requested by mail, according to the board of elections website. Students not registered to vote in Wood County but want to vote here would have to change registration to Wood County,
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GLORIA STEINEM visited the University Monday and spoke to a crowd of 300 at a celebration of the Women’s Equity Action League. She spoke about equality, feminism and the legacy of WEAL.
Activist Gloria Steinem speaks on accomplishments of women and future endeavors of feminist movement By Danae King Campus Editor
Gloria Steinem is a woman who believes in looking at the world as if everyone matters. Steinem spoke at the University on Monday about looking at the world in this way and what it could mean. Steinem came to the University to celebrate the accomplishments of the Women’s Equity Action League, founded by an alumna. The group was also celebrating Title IX legislation, which states that institutions receiving federal funding must not discriminate due to gender. Three hundred people, including community members, WEAL
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members, faculty, staff and students at the University, attended the WEAL gala dinner Monday night where Steinem spoke about how the world is being transformed through equality. “In forty years no one has been able to name one thing that wasn’t transformed by looking at the world as if everyone mattered,” Steinem said. “[It’s] that understanding that we are all unique miracles that could never have happened before and could never happen again.” Steinem, a Toledo native, is an author, journalist, activist and icon of
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Jerome Library supplies University hosts farmers’ market Tuesday Dining Services encourages adoption of ‘buy local’ attitude by supplying students more tablets to students with variety of produce from regional vendors, demonstrates community importance Stock of Kindles and iPads increased to meet demand By Eric Lagatta Reporter
For cash-strapped students for whom an iPad or Kindle might be a big purchase, they can now check the tablets out of the library just like they can any book. The free service allows students to come to the circulation desk at Jerome Library or email circdesk@bgsu.edu to get on a waiting list to check out either of the devices, said Mary Beth Zachary, head of access services at University Libraries. The purpose is to give students the opportunity to test the iPads and Kindles before making such a big purchase, Zachary said. “That’s the point is that before you sink $400 or $500, don’t you want to test it?” she said. Zachary said the library cur-
rently has five iPads that students can check out for a week and five Kindles that students can check out for three weeks. However, the library has seven more Kindles on the way. The reason for the purchase of more Kindles is that both the iPad and Kindle are currently all checked out, with at least 10 on the waiting list for each, Zachary said. “We want as many people as possible to get a hold of them,” she said. Dean of University Libraries Sara Bushong also attributed the extra order of Kindles to the high-use of the tablets by students. “From what we see already
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Students had the chance to experience some local food outside the Union during a farmers’ market on Tuesday afternoon. Dining services hosted a farmers’ market, which featured three different vendors, that offered a variety of local produce, foods and flowers, as well as an “iron chef” competition, said Sara Meyer, Marketing Director for Dining Services. This was the third year for the event, which added another vendor and moved closer to the union, Meyer said. The farmers’ market began as and still is a means for the University and Dining Services to educate students about local produce and what students can do with it, said Marissa Riffle, executive sous chef for Dining Services. One of the vendors was Sirna &
Sons, a produce company that supplies the University and its dining halls, Meyer said. Another vendor was Bella Cuisine, a cooking instruction and catering company from Fremont, Ohio. Linda Lambert and her husband, Thomas own the company and frequent many Ohio farmers’ markets, Lambert said. Thomas also works as a chef for the University and participated in the iron chef competition, she said. Linda said this was their second year at the University farmers’ market. Bella Cuisine offered a variety of home-made items including jams, oils, shrubs, and notably different types of bread, Lambert said. Both Sirna & Sons and Bella Cuisine representatives said they were anticipating on selling most of their stock. Lambert said last year all they had left was a jar of jam and some
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fruit breads. Favorites among students at Sirna’s table included apples and apple cider, along with corn, cucumbers, squash and peppers, said Chris Varue, warehouse manager. Kathy Grabowski, an order processor at Sarno & Sons, said the school has ordered more of less of certain items based on student demand in years past. Regardless, they still ran out of apple cider very early on, she said. Joseph’s, a greenhouse located outside Bowling Green that was selling flowers, was a new addition to the farmers market this year, said Gretchen Thomas, an employee. In the first year, there was originally just Sirna & Sons and the chef’s table, but a vender has been
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the women’s movement and this was her first visit to the University. Steinem spoke about the state of feminism locally, nationally and globally and her thoughts about the legacy of WEAL and where feminists go from here. “I think one of the most dangerous ideas right now is the idea that the movement is already over,” Steinem said. “We all remember the day in which we were all judged to be crazy, going against God, nature, Freud, somebody and we were told you can’t do this and then we did it anyway, then the next wave of opposition is that it used to be necessary but it’s not anymore.” Feminism is still alive and bigger than ever,
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Steinem said. “Feminism just means a belief in equality,” she said. “It’s about democracy and equality.” She said it is not for her to say what the next step is for the movement. “The need arises out of real life,” she said. “But there are obvious things that are incomplete, we don’t have equal pay yet, we still average 77 cents on the dollar [compared to men].” Steinem said the biggest positive change for women in her years as a part of the movement has been “that we know we’re not crazy.” “If you feel you’re totally alone in your desire to use your talents or your interests you come to feel crazy because human beings are communal creatures,” she said. “If you’re alone, you do come to feel like something’s wrong with you;
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what a movement does is allow women to tell the truth about their lives’ and discover that it’s happening to others.” One of the people who attended the WEAL event, Bernice Sandler, had a hand in creating the Title IX legislation. Sandler, called the “godmother of Title IX,” was excited to see Steinem speak and said she was a good person to speak at the event because of her knowledge of women’s issues. “She’s extraordinarily bright and funny, she’s a good speaker,” Sandler said. “I’m interested in her ideas about women. I haven’t seen her speak in a number of years so I’m interested to hear what she’s going to say about women, the women’s movement and the rights of women.” Steinem thinks celebrating
accomplishments like WEAL and Title IX are crucial. “We need to know our history,” she said. “When I was in college, Smith College, a good college, in my American history book there was one sentence, it said women were given the vote in 1920. If you believe that, you don’t know you have to fight for your rights.” Contrary to what the textbook might have led students to believe, women’s right to vote wasn’t just handed out, it had to be fought for, Steinem said. Women can vote but there are still aspects of life where they are not equal to men, Steinem said. She talked of the world transforming if everyone is looked at as equal. “It is transformational in every part of life to look at the world as if everyone mattered,” she said.
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VOTE From Page 1 Hazard said. “If they want to remain registered from their home county, they could always vote an absentee ballot from that county,” she said. Ju n ior Cou r t ne y Froehlich said she plans to use an absentee ballot because she is registered in her hometown. “I chose to register with my hometown because I wanted to be involved with the issues that affect myself, my family and my friends at home,” Froehlich said. However, sophomore Elizabeth Sampson said she is voting in person as she is registered to vote in Wood County. “[Voting is] a privilege,” Sampson said. Voting has the same rules throughout the state, therefore as long as a student is registered in Ohio, the same rules apply
throughout, Hazard said. On the day of the election, voters must bring a valid form of identification, according to the board of elections website. The identification can be in the form of a photo ID issued by the state, military ID, copy of current utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck or another form of a current government document that shows the name and address of the voter, according to the board of elections website. There is also a deadline for registering to vote, Hazard said. “The deadline to register to vote in Ohio is 30 days prior to the election which is Oct. 9, 2012,” she said. Students can learn more information regarding voting rules, polling locations and the different ballots at the Wood County Board of Elections website at www. co.wood.oh.us/boe/.
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Health study reexamines causes of ‘freshman 15’
Graduate students evaluate phenomenon via social media, volunteers By Abby Welsh Reporter
A new health research study taking a closer look at the “freshman 15” allowed 100 freshmen students to learn about their bodies. This was done through the use of a bod-pod, which is a machine that assesses fat mass versus muscle mass. Mary-Jon Ludy, assistant professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, was the principle investigator of the health study. Ludy proposed the research study idea that the “freshman 15” isn’t necessarily all fat gain. The bod-pod can help determine in each student whether they are gaining more fat or muscle. “Our first thoughts were that some of the students, especially males, are still growing a couple of inches during their first year of college,” Ludy said. “If you’re still growing in height and gaining weight, it doesn’t mean you made poor lifestyle choices.” This equipment will be able to piece out whether the weight gain is muscle gain or fat gain, she said. Ludy and Ryan Leone, a graduate student who conducts the research, began recruiting Aug. 17. The freshmen participants were all volunteers who either saw fliers, posters, Facebook posts or tweets about the study. “Facebook was the best
way to go,” Leone said. “W hen a poster went on Facebook, I wou ld get 30 emails the next day f rom people who were interested.” The students meet with Ludy and her research team five times throughout the course of the year in order to get accurate information on when the students gain the weight. “Our goal is to be able to figure out what is happening with these students by looking at them five times during freshman year,” Ludy said. “We want to see if freshmen are gaining weight and if there is a specific time point where there’s more weight gain. This way we can target an intervention on campus that will be most helpful for the students to prevent them from gaining weight.” The students receive BG1 bucks, T-shirts and other little things for participating. After each time Ludy meets with the student participants, she crunches numbers based on the data recorded. “After the study is over, from interpreting the data, one, we will be able to get some funding and two, we will be able to do a longitudinal study and will be able to follow these students throughout their four or five years at Bowling Green,” Ludy said. One of the key parts of the research is the frequency of the meetings between the participants
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and the researchers. “We want to keep looking at health habits and how they affect their body composition over the course of the year,” Leone said. “We try to give them stuff to keep them interested in coming back.” During the final week, the particular group of students will have access to all of their results ranging from body composition, muscle mass versus fat mass, waste circumference, blood pressure, diet, exercise and alcohol intake. “The information we have of them and some of our graduate nutrition and exercise science students are going to do some information sessions,” Ludy said. “We are hoping that we will learn from these students and develop programming that is effective for new classes that are making that transition from high school to college.” Claire Copa, a junior at the University, heard about this study and said she wished it was presented when she was a freshman. “If everything about this study remains in a positive route for these freshmen, then I think it is definitely a good thing to continue,” Copa said. “I would totally do it if I could my freshman year because watching calories does nothing for me, but if I actually saw what was in my body and hard numbers, I would actually do something about getting into better shape.”
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IPAD From Page 1 with the holds on them, it’s an impactful service,” Bushong said. “To us, it looks like students like to read.” An organization called Friends of the University Libraries supported the service and even helped to fund the second group of Kindles, she said. T he K i nd le s a re just basic a nd do not include internet access, Bushong said. “The Kindle seemed like a good product to use to promote leisure reading,” she said. Bushong said that any Kindle a student checks out from the library will already have hundreds of classic titles, including “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Frankenstein,” as well as 25 other titles of contemporar y fiction and non-fiction titles that the library itself purchased. These tit les include “A br a ha m L i nc ol n, Vampire Hunter” and “The Hunger Games.” Zachary said there are currently posters hanging up by the circulation desk that allows for students to suggest book titles for the library to purchase for the Kindles. Students who want internet access or more options for what they can do would do best to check out an iPad. Bo Butler, a library associate at University Libraries, handles the maintenance involved with the iPads.
Butler said he has worked to make the iPads as accessible as possible to students without risking their personal information. “At t his point, t he pat rons ca n use t he i Pads however t hey want,” he said. The library has its own Apple account for students’ use, but students are able to use their own Apple account if they have one, Butler said. This way, they can even purchase apps or use the apps they have already purchased. Butler only warns that students not sync the iPads to their own iTunes since the tablets are synced to the library. “We’ve put apps on the iPad that we think will be useful,” Butler said. “We’ve also tried to include some fun apps.” These apps include apps for news, Facebook, Google Earth, Angr y Birds and e-books such as Kindle. On this last app, students w it h t heir ow n Apple account can pay to dow nload any book t hey wa nt t hat might now be available on the Kindle tablets that the librar y has. Butler said one of his favorite things about iPads is that they allow users to create virtually anything they want, whether it be songs or videos. “You can use them in so many different ways and it’s not just about watching videos or being on Facebook,” But ler said. “You can actually
“I think it’s absolutely fantastic. I think it shows the commitment libraries have to student education.” Corey Keating | Graduate Student make stuff.” Once students check the iPads back in to the library, there is a process to restore the tablet, Butler said. This involves cleaning the personal data off and reinstalling all the library’s apps. Corey Keating, a graduate student, is positive about the tablets. “I think it’s absolutely fantastic. I think it shows the commitment libraries have to student education,” Keating said. Senior Hannah Bealer said this is a good way for students to test the devices before making a purchase. “I think I would eventually like to buy an iPad,” Bealer said. “If I were to buy an iPad, I would check it out here first.” Zachar y said there will be an online survey toward the end of the semester where students who have used the service can say what’s working or not working. “For students who want to experience, see what it’s like, I think they should get a hold of it as soon as they can,” she said.
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Political advertisements invade creative space, privacy LYDIA SCOTT COLUMNIST
DeviantArt is my solace, the once place I can vent my every thought and feeling. It is somewhere I can escape reality for a while and write in peace without disturbance. As you well know, it is political season. Ads are showing up everywhere: Pandora, Facebook, TV, amongst other places. One location I never worried about seeing any of these mud-slinging ads was on deviantArt; my safe haven was impenetrable against everything except the occasional art-themed or RPG-associated ad. Sadly, about a week ago, I got on my beloved website and to my utter d ismay, t here was a political ad at the top of my screen. Now, I’m not anti-political, I just feel that there is a time and a place for such things and an art-based website is not one of them. Politics are not meant for every setting. There are certain situations where it is acceptable to put campaign promotions, such as major news channels, political websites and forums or places where people seek knowledge about candidates. Putting ads all over the place is going to do nothing but annoy people and make them turn their
nose up at the elections. Let the masses seek out what they want to know and do not force-feed them information. “Informative” political commercials are not beneficial if someone is annoyed to the point of ignoring the information. Candidate advertisements would be helpful if they were used at a proper time and place, but otherwise they are pointless. I felt it was an invasion of my privacy when nominees decided that they could go willy-nilly and put their faces all over my creative space. On another note, I must point out that politics does exist outside of the two months before an election. The fact that candidates push their campaigns a few months before the election really isn’t helping their cause. If they spread out advertisements and slogans over a year or so of time, it would be much less cramming for citizens. People would actually have time to decide on the best nominee and would not have to feel rushed or pressured into making political decisions. That being said, look at all the lying and fingerpointing that goes into political ads. Everyone would be a lot less aggravated if contenders would be honest about what they plan to do. Instead, what we get as citizens is a few individuals who throw each other under the bus trying to
“If you want the truth, you should find it yourself by looking at the actions of a candidate, not by listening to the words of their opponent.” make themselves look fabulous and without wrong. This gets old rather fast. I would much rather see an ad about the candidate and what they plan to do for us, not what their opponent is doing wrong. Finger-pointing is childish. Aren’t the people running our country supposed to be adults? Shouldn’t they be acting like it, then? I’m rather ashamed to admit who our presidential candidates are because of all the lying and deceiving that goes into politics. Political ads are bad reference material. If you want the truth, you should find it yourself by looking at the actions of a candidate, not by listening to the words of their opponent. Listening to these ads religiously is not the best idea. By the way, where are all the Ron Paul ads?
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THACKER From Page 4 students go back to school without costing them so much money to repay their student loan debt that any extra money earned from a higher-paying salary is offset. I believe povert y is somet h i ng t hat concer ns you too, Mr. President, as I have seen you propose bills like the A merican Jobs Act that would help to put people back to work. I have a lso seen your opposition in the Cong ress shoot you r ideas dow n, which is why I hope my fellow citizens w ill not only reelect you, but give you a Congress that is willing to compromise and work with you. If Americans do that, then I ask you to please try again with the jobs bill, and also help to champion other congressional bills that would help to recreate the middle class in America, like the Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Act of 2011. This bill would amend the U.S. bankruptcy code to allow those forced to file bankruptcy to also file on qualified student loans taken from private lending institutions. Nobody wants to file for
GORDON From Page 4 The last president to visit the University was Rona ld Reaga n, who was in of f ice before most of us undergrads were even born. I’m not going to be looking at this event as
bankruptcy, but if you’re in a position in which you need to do it, it’s probably because of one of four things: student loan debt, credit card debt, mortgage foreclosure, or doctor bills. Not including any one of those debts as dischargeable takes the teeth out of bankruptcy and hurts poor people who need to file for it. I know there are some people who refuse to even hear your words before rejecting your ideas, and while I’m sure that we share the wish that they could see the bigger picture a little clearer, with all due respect, sir, you can no longer worry about their opinions. They are never going to give you the credit and respect you deserve, so tune them out. If regular folks can tell you are trying to help them, they will support you. Why do you think we still love Bill Clinton? This reminds me: Please return income tax rates to the Clinton-era rates. The mega-rich will not be happy for a while, but once the economy is doing well again, they will thank you for it. Right now, they’re demonizing you, anyway. Also, I am not at all in favor of mu lt imillion dollar corporations
a time where the president is fighting to keep his position. I’m going to be thinking of how many students have come, how ma ny voted i n t he last election and how ma ny w i l l be vot ing this November, and I’m going to smile, because t hey a re not wasting
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“The mega-rich will not be happy for a while, but once the economy is doing well again, they will thank you for it.” getting out of their ta x responsibilities, but if you can lure overseas businesses to A merica through ta x incentives, please do so (t hough with a system of checks and balances in place to protect consumers). In conclusion, Mr. President, I have been a supporter and fan of yours since I first saw your Democratic National Convention speech in 2004, and I support you 100 percent in November. One reason for this is because I feel like you know what it is like to do without. A lot of people are doing without right now, Mr. President, and to win this election you need to do something that your opponent cannot; to show the people that you remember what it is like to do without.
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The Myth of “Settlements” Are they indeed the “root cause” of violence in the Middle East? One of the enduring myths about the Arab-Israeli conflict is that the “settlements” in Judea/Samaria (often called the “West Bank”) are the source of the conflict between the Jews and the so-called “Palestinians.” If that problem were solved—in other words, if Israel would turn Judea/Samaria over to the “Palestinians”—peace would prevail and the century-old conflict would be ended.
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Kingdom of Jordan—as the homeland for the Jewish people. In 1922, the League of Nations ratified the Erroneous Assumptions: Various fallacies and Balfour Declaration and designated Britain as the erroneous assumptions underlie that belief, so often mandatory power. Regrettably, Britain, for its own repeated that even those who are friendly to Israel, imperial reasons and purposes, separated 76 percent of even many Jews in Israel and in the United States, have the land—that lying beyond the Jordan River—to come to accept it. Our government, generally friendly create the kingdom of Trans-Jordan (now Jordan) and to and supportive of Israel, has bought into the myth of made it inaccessible to Jews. In 1947, tired of the the “settlements;” it has regularly and insistently constant bloodletting requested that the “settlements” be abandoned Here is a thought: How about a deal by between Arabs and Jews, the British threw in the towel and, one supposes, be turned which the “settlements” were indeed and abandoned the Mandate. over lock, stock, and barrel to abandoned, all the Jews were to move to The UN took over. It devised a those who are sworn to “Israel proper” and all the Arabs living in plan by which the land west destroy Israel. The very designation of the Israel would be transferred to Judea/Samaria of the Jordan River would be split between the Jews and or to wherever else they wanted to go? Jewish inhabitants of the Arabs. The Jews, though Judea/Samaria as “settlers” is with heavy heart, accepted the plan. The Arabs inappropriate, because it connotes something foreign, virulently rejected it and invaded the nascent Jewish intrusive and temporary, something that is state with the armies of five countries, so as to destroy purposefully and maliciously imposed. But that is it at its birth. Miraculously, the Jews prevailed and the nonsense of course. Why would the more than quarterState of Israel was born. When the smoke of battle million Jews who live in Judea/Samaria be any more cleared, Jordan was in possession of the “West Bank” “intrusive” or any more “illegal” than the more than and Egypt in possession of Gaza. They were the one million Arabs who live in peace in what is called “occupiers” and they proceeded to kill as many Jews as “Israel proper” or west of the so-called “green line”? they could and to drive out the survivors. They Nobody considers their presence as intrusive; nobody systematically destroyed all Jewish holy places and all talks of them as an obstacle to peace. vestiges of Jewish presence. The area was Most of us, regrettably perhaps, are too worldly and “judenrein”—free of Jews. too “sophisticated” to put much stock in the argument In the Six-Day War of 1967, the Jews reconquered the that the territories in question, Judea and Samaria, are territories. The concept that Jewish presence in indeed the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people Judea/Samaria is illegal and that the Jews are occupiers and that they were promised by God to Abraham and is bizarre. It just has been repeated so often and with his seed in perpetuity. Jews have lived in that country such vigor that many people have come to accept it. without interruption since Biblical times. There is no Even our president seems to have bought into that. reason why they shouldn’t live there now. Why should How about the “Palestinians,” whose patrimony this Judea/Samaria be the only place in the world (except territory supposedly is and about whose olive trees and for such benighted countries as Saudi Arabia) where orange groves we hear endlessly? There is no such Jews cannot live? people. They are Arabs—the same people as in Legal Aspects: But how about the legal aspect of this Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and beyond. Most of them matter? Isn’t the “West Bank” “occupied territory” and migrated into the territories and to “Israel proper,” therefore the Jews have no right to be there? But the attracted by Jewish prosperity and industry. The historic reality is quite different. Very briefly: The concept of “Palestinians” as applied to Arabs and as a Ottoman Empire was the sovereign in the entire area. distinct nationality urgently in need of their own In 1917, while World War I was still raging, Britain twenty-third Arab state, is a fairly new one; it was not issued the Balfour Declaration. It designated invented until after 1948, when the State of Israel was “Palestine”—extending throughout what is now Israel founded. (including the “West Bank”) and what is now the But here’s a thought: How about a deal by which the “settlements” were indeed abandoned and all the Jews were to move to “Israel proper.” At the same time, all the Arabs living in Israel would be transferred to Judea/Samaria or to wherever else they wanted to go? That would indeed make Judea/Samaria “judenrein,” and what are now Arab lands in Israel would be “arabrein.” The Arabs could then live in a fully autonomous area in eastern Israel and peace, one would hope, would descend on the holy land. What is wrong with this plan is that very few if any Israeli Arabs would accept it—life is too good for them in Israel. This message has been published and paid for by
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University’s tuition prices in top tier statewide By Alissa Widman Senior Reporter
Rachel Schirra hasn’t paid the same tuition price twice since arriving at the University in fall 2010. Each year, the junior watches college costs climb, adding to the already hefty price she pays as an out-of-state student. “Getting that email this summer — ‘oh, we’re raising your tuition again’ — it’s just routine now,” Schirra said. “I’m never surprised.” But expecting the notification doesn’t lessen the blow, she said. “A pit formed in my stomach when I read it,” Schirra said. “I already didn’t even know if I’d have enough money to come back. I was scrambling to find loans.” Universities statewide continue coping with less state funding. They’re also competing to attract distinguished faculty members and incoming students. Meanwhile, students like Schirra are left feeling discouraged as they foot the bill.
At the University, that bill — $10,044 this academic year — is higher than at most institutions statewide. University tuition and mandatory fees are the third-most expensive in the state and have been for at least five years, according to data from the Ohio Board of Regents. Only Miami University and University of Cincinnati have higher tuition rates. And the costs keep rising. All 13 public universities in Ohio increased their tuition for the current academic year. Statewide, tuition increases cannot exceed 3.5 percent each year, according to the current state budget, signed by Gov. John Kasich in June 2011. The University’s tuition has increased by that limit four years in a row. Officials cite decreased state funding and increased operating costs as the cause. “[Raising tuition] is never easy,” said Geoff Tracy, the University’s director for budget and resource planning. “But when state support
goes down and you’ve exhausted all other avenues, it’s hard to avoid.” State funding made up more than 70 percent of the University’s budget about 20 years ago, Tracy said. Now, that amount has been reduced to less than 25 percent, with more cuts anticipated next year. The University has implemented some “belt tightening” measures, including staff reductions, and has also sought alternative sources of funding, such as grants and donations, he said. “We always want to try to look at other avenues to support the institution,” Tracy said. “The way the economy is right now, we understand it gets tougher each year for students, but we think tuition here is still affordable.” Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, disagrees. His center, a Washington-based research group with a goal of reforming higher education, thinks tuition nationwide is too pricey,
and more should be done to keep costs down. “Ohio’s situation isn’t unique,” said Vedder, also an economics professor at Ohio University. “And when you compare Bowling Green State University to similar institutions, its tuition is really par for the course. This is happening everywhere.” To Vedder, state funding isn’t solely to blame for inflated prices — after all, costs at private universities are also on the rise. Likewise, “productivity in higher education has remained roughly unchanged,” he said, and often doesn’t match the prices students pay. “There’s some truth to the arguments of the higher education establishment, but I think they’re also exaggerated,” Vedder said. “Simply put, colleges raise tuition fees because they can get away with it.” But for students like Schirra, that explanation isn’t good enough. Scholarships for good grades, a full-time summer job at a gas sta-
tion and a “ramen noodle and macaroni and cheese” diet still haven’t helped her evade going significantly into debt. And if she wants to attend graduate school to pursue her ideal career as a wildlife biologist, she knows even more debt awaits her. “I’ve thought about giving up,” Schirra said. “But if you’re this far, what do you do? Go work a minimum wage job forever and try to pay off your loans? You can’t.” Sophomore Kevin Storer, Schirra’s friend, said he’s sure many other students share similar frustrations. But, like Schirra, he doesn’t foresee a solution anytime soon. “You’re supposed to come to college to get a job doing what you love,” Storer said. “But a lot of students probably don’t get that opportunity, because if that job doesn’t pay a lot, they’re thinking ‘I won’t be able to afford this degree once I get it.’”
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Top six full-time undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees for Ohio students. This does not include room and board fees.
2011
2011 information obtained from the Ohio Board of Regents website.
$13,081 $10,419 $10,044 $9,936 $9,735 $9,545
2012
2012 information presented by the University’s Divisions of Finance & Administration in June 2012. Amounts may vary slightly from the offical numbers reported by the Ohio Board of Regents later this year.
$13,538 $10,784 $10,394 $10,284 $10,076 $9,880
Difference of:
+$457 +$365
+$350 +$348 +$341 +$335
Money makes significant impact Money Management Services aims to educate, offer advice “I just try to save on student life at University as much money as By Geoff Burns Reporter
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I did not come to college with a great sense of money management. Few of us did. In fact, for those of us living on campus with any kind of meal plan, things may have gotten worse. Falcon dollars, or “monopoly money” as I’ve called it, easily became the University’s version of a credit card spending problem. Want a slice of pizza? Or seven of them? Swipe your card. Want more food? Go back and swipe again. Then came the idea of “swipes,” where the entire concept of money, already detached from BG1 cards to begin with, faded entirely. But forget the downsides of swipes (lack of “roll-overs” and monetary discipline) and think of our current system. In the old days of southern Ohio, mining towns would feature their own currencies dispensed by the mining company. Workers could
use these “tokens” at the company store, which was conveniently placed right in town. The problems are obvious. When the company pays workers in their own currency, but then controls the market and prices in which tokens are spent, the workers are locked in. University students have the same problem. The campus provides meal plans and, obviously, the meals, and even more obviously, the food’s prices. But don’t worry. When you run out of money, you have an opportunity to refill your balance...with more campus money, to again use at campus stores and restaurants. Money is important and stretches to every aspect of our lives, especially on campus. Tuition, loans, meal plans, sports and more are affected and influenced by money. Read through this InFocus with an open mind. Look closely at where our university compares regarding tuition, where our stores compare regarding food prices and how students spend their money. Make your own conclusions and decide where fairness lies.
As he waits in line at Starbucks in the Union for his coffee, sophomore Michael Behr doesn’t seem to be bothered about the difficulties of saving money while attending school. “I just try to save as much money as possible and spend as little as I can,” Behr said. Every college student goes through the phase in learning how to make beneficial spending habits whether they are forced to or not. Program manager in Student Money Management Services Patricia Donnelly said there are many factors that play in part in how a student spends their money while being enrolled at a University. Some of these factors include peer pressure, previous experience in spending money, and how they were brought up in dealing with money. “Their peers are buying UGGs and North Face jackets, and all of that so they feel compelled to keep up with them,” Donnelly said. “Being part of the group is a big deal in the stages of your
possible and spend as little as I can” Michael Behr | Sophomore
development so there is that opportunity to spend.” Behr said because food is his most purchased item on a meal plan, it’s easier to save money at school. “The only time I really spend money is when all of the dining services are closed and then me and my friends go out to eat somewhere,” Behr said. “I’m always really busy with school work so I don’t have time to buy video games or anything like that.” F i n a nc i a l E duc a t ion Coordinator at SMMS Heather Wilson said age plays a major factor in how a student makes spending decisions. “Younger people such as freshmen usually have a hard time because they’re not used to being on their own and they don’t realize how much they are spending on different
things,” Wilson said. “As they get a little bit older and are here longer they realize they need to pull back their range a little bit.” Donnelly said many students tend to spend money on things that aren’t really beneficial to them, such as expensive electronics and alcohol. “If they spend a lot of money on beer and just doing things that in the long run aren’t going to be a benefit to them, it’s going to hurt them in the long run,” Donnelly said. “It’s easy to do that because there is a lot of peer pressure and you might not have any financial goals and that’s the perfect combination for someone to overspend on things.” Behr said he does spend money on alcohol, but that it’s really cheap and he only goes out on the weekends. “I only go out and drink like one night a week so I’ll split alcohol with my friends so it’s not really that much,” Behr said. “So it’ll only be like a couple of bucks a night when I do go out
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Mary Ellen Mazey
David Clawson
University President
Head Football Coach
$382,107
$375,100
Thomas Hiles
VP University Advancement
$267,073
Kenneth Borland
Rodney Rogers
$259,963
Top 20
Sherideen Stoll
Professor in Higher Education
Provost
$246,000
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Chief Financial Officer
$225,932
Alan Tunis
Professor in Accounting and Management
B. Madhu Rao Interim Dean of the College of Business
Scott Highhouse Professor and Eminent Scholar in Psychology
$182,707
Dean of the College of Technology
$183,888
Chair/ Professor in Management
$188,158
Louis Orr
Head Men’s Basketball Coach
$202,883
Simon MorganRussell
Faris Malhas
Professor in Management
$210,269 $205,091 $202,950
Sung Bae
Hong Lu
Alberto Colom
Sean FitzGerald
Vice President of Enrollment
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
$189,196
John Ellinger
Chief Information Officer
employees’ salaries Amelia Carr
Hokey Min
General Counsel
Gregory Christopher
$202,645
$199,801
Director of Athletics
$189,947 $189,885
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Eminent Scholar/ Professor in Chemistry
Chair/ Professor in Finance
$197,985 The numbers on who gets paid what at the University $196,753 Above are the top 20 highest paid administrators and employees at the University and their salaries. The numbers and titles are for the fiscal year 2012, which was the period from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. All the people listed are full-time regular employees of the University and the numbers are their total gross income.
* Information obtained via public records request to the University’s General Counsel.
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University officials justify ‘Outtakes’ store prices on campus Seth Weber Reporter
As the University expands Outtakes to further locations, so grows the concern over the campus stores’ prices. “It’s way too expensive,” said sophomore Britany Labrun. There are now six Outtakes at various dorm buildings, the Jerome Library and now in the Union. The meal plan-friendly stores feature a number of grocery store standards--a section for snacks, multiple refrigerators for dairy products and non-food items like batteries and toiletries. But Dining Services administrators are quick to distinguish Outtakes from its competition. “I’m not a grocery store, nor do I claim to be one,” said Mike Paulus, Director of Dining Services.
Paulus noted that large grocery chains like Kroger and Meijer buy their products from manufacturers in bulk. Outtakes, meanwhile, buys products in much smaller quantities, making prices more expensive, Paulus said. Outtakes operator Robin Bruning said that Outtakes prices relate to local convenience stores because of the similarities in supplier quantities. But that’s not true, said one local store owner. Bob Shnar, owner of BG Carry-Out on East Wooster St. said although it is cheaper to buy from grocers like Kroger and Wal-mart, his prices are lower than the Outtakes prices. “I would say the campus stores are more expensive,” Shnar said. Paulus added that convenience stores are able to have
lower prices because of the additional products they sell. “Traditional convenience stores are able to reduce some pricing in specific products due to their margins on gas, tobacco and alcohol, which we cannot offer,” Paulus said. Regardless of the explanation, many students on campus find the prices to be too expensive. Senior Neil Carrier said that one is paying for convenience when buying from Outtakes because they are so close to the dorms. “It’s the same thing when you go to a sporting event,” Carrier said, referring to the “inflated” prices. Other students don’t think the convenience is worth the cost. “I would rather take the bus [than go to Outtakes]. The transportation is there,” said junior Hilary Pearlman.
PRICE COMPARISON 11oz box of Fruity Pebbles:
$7.19
$2.99
$2.99
12oz box of Special K Redberries:
$8.09
$4.09
$3.33 16oz
$7.39 14oz pk
$2.95 15.5oz pk
$3.99 24oz pk
69 cents/banana
54 cents/lbs
N/A
$5.99
$5.19
$3.66
Regular Oreos: Chiquita banana: 12 pk of 12oz Coke/Sprite:
ABOVE IS a price comparison of specific products between campus ‘Outtakes’ and the chain stores Kroger and Meijer. Despite offering larger packages, such as Oreos, Kroger and Meijer feature much lower prices than Outtakes. The same goes for bananas, cereal and many other products. Dining Services director Mike Paulus says the discrepancy is due to chain stores buying their products from manufacturers in bulk, which he says reduces their eventual selling prices. Many products above are sold at more than double the cost of their competition. Fruity Pebbles, for example, is sold at Outtakes for more than 240 percent the listed price given at Kroger and Meijer.
TUITION From Page 7 Remaining full-time undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees for Ohio students, 2011:
Remaining full-time undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees for Ohio students, 2012:
Kent State University: $9,346
Kent State University: $9,673
Cleveland State University: Cleveland State University: $9,002 $9,317 University of Toledo: $8,926
University of Toledo: $9,238
Wright State University: $8,070
Wright State University: $8,352
Youngstown State University:
Youngstown State University:
$7,451
$7,771
Shawnee State University: $6,762
Shawnee State University: $6,999
Central State University: $5,672
Central State University: $5,871
SPENDING From Page 7 so it’s not bad at all.” A student should have a great connection with their family in dealing with finances because good communicat ion makes spending a lot easier, Donnelly said. “If you have a relationship with your family and
you sit and talk about it and you agree that this money is going to be used for certain things and there is a back and forth communication between your family and you, then I think it makes spending more simple,” Donnelly said. “Families just throw their money at their students and it can get pretty crazy if the student abuses that money for not benefi-
On-campus living encourages poor spending habits, decisions
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ALISSA WIDMAN SENIOR REPORTER I’m not quite sure why my friends at the University refer to their meal plan dollars as “Monopoly money.” After all, playing a game of Monopoly involves much more financial strategy than managing assets while living on a college campus. Likewise, spending in Monopoly bears some resemblance to real-world economics. On-campus living does not. For these reasons — and, admittedly, for many others I won’t discuss now — I’m always amused when I hear someone refer to college as “preparation for the real world.” Apparently, in the “real world,” your spending money is allotted in semester-long increments. If you don’t spend it in that time-frame, it disappears forever. Also, in the “real world,” food is supplied via a currency known as “swipes.” Finally, in this so-called “real world,” you can’t even purchase the supplies necessary to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without spending at least $12. Do you now understand why I’ve become so jaded in my three and a half year stint at this institution? Each year, I watch on-campus students scuffle through Outtakes convenience stores at the springtime semester’s end, wrangling up as many cases of Gatorade and ramen
cial things. As Behr is finally handed his coffee, he gives a piece of advice for other students with spending dilemmas. “I would just say not to spend money on things that aren’t a necessity,” Behr said. “Don’t go to Starbucks everyday if you don’t need to. Just buy what you need to and the rest will be saved.”
Spending Tips from SMMS: * Set a personal goal on how much of a limit you want to spend * Write down everything you buy and keep a list of purchased items * Only buy necessities and things on sale * Keep great communication between family members in dealing with finances
noodles as they can fit in the back of their car. They’ve effectively budgeted their meal plan dollars throughout the school year, and they’re punished by being forced to forfeit their remaining dollars if they don’t spend them. I know how it feels; I was an on-campus student for two years. It feels wrong. While other people on the planet are starving, it just doesn’t feel right to treat food and beverages this way. Instead of encouraging students to spend as little as possible, on-campus living encourages frivolous spending on items with severely inflated prices to use up all of your meal plan dollars before the semester’s end. It’s as simple as a swipe of your BG1 Card — quick, convenient, thoughtless. And when you’re not touching any of your $3,000 of meal plan, sometimes it doesn’t even feel like you’re spending it. This mentality, unfortunately, isn’t exclusive to college students. Our culture, nationwide and beyond, continues to turn away from physical money and toward digital accounts through systems like debit cards and direct deposit paychecks. It’s cheaper for companies and more convenient for consumers, and some would argue it encourages people to spend more money. So maybe, in a sense, college is preparing students for the “real world.” Or maybe the University’s meal plan system is just a sign of the times — after all, “most colleges do their meal plan this way” is a justification I’ve
heard often while discussing with others the University’s implementation of the “swipe system” in 2011. Either way, it doesn’t sit well with me. Unfortunately, I don’t think things will change anytime soon, unless all colleges and universities are willing to make a pact for change. As long as students keep enrolling each year, the flawed, yet profitable system will remain, even if it’s slightly altered. For example, my sister, a University freshman, belongs to the second incoming class to utilize the new swipe system. She takes me to dinner weekly at The Oaks or Carillon Place. Although I wish her act was simply out of kindness, or a desire to spend time with me, we’ve discussed her true motivation: she’s not on-pace to spend her swipes by the semester’s end. Not even close. Meanwhile, her Falcon Dollars are running considerably low. I wish I could offer her budgeting advice, but back in my on-campus days, we didn’t have swipes. In my opinion, they’re just one more way to confuse students, ultimately sending dollars back to the University when students fail to budget properly. Instead of adding new problems into the meal plan mix, Dining Services should focus on fixing its old ones. If on-campus spending doesn’t start to resemble reality sometime soon, I fear the only “real world” preparation University students will receive from their meal plan budgeting is how to eventually go bankrupt.
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SPORTS captain finish your last year the best you can according to seniors Taylor Stichter and Josh Franek. That is what these seniors are going through this year. “The past four years have meant so much to me. I have made friendships that
races that year. She set a personal record in the 4K with a time of 16:30 along with a 6K record with a time of 24:26. As a sophomore she ran in the first five races and as a junior she ran in all five of the team’s races.
not plan on continuing cross country, she does plan on running in marathons and triathlons. She does want to become a cross country coach though one day. “I absolutely love the sport and want to be a part of it for the rest of my
than most people go through changing majors, and having many different coaches train him. “This continuously changing path has not only caused me to always be ready for change and uncertainty,” said Franek.
Falcons Carpenter, Wojtala assume captain duties for 2012-13 hockey season
By Ryan Satkowiak Senior Reporter
For the first time since the 2010-11 season, the BG hockey team will have a player adorning the captain’s ‘C’ on his jersey. In fact, following the first season in school history in which no PHOTO PROVIDED official captain was named, BG will have two players carrying THE MEN’S soccer team celebrates after a goal form Danny Baraldi, No. 10, in their 3-0 victory over the St. Bonaventure Bonnies this past on Saturday. They will play MSU Wednesday at 7p.m. the distinction this season: junior Cam Wojtala and sophomore Ryan Carpenter. Wojtala, the first recruit personally singed by third-year coach Chris Bergeron, served as the on-ice intermediary between the coaching staff and officials last season — meaning whenever the head referee held a meeting to explain a call or try to calm the game down, Wojtala was the one sent out to retrieve the message. By Alex Krempasky when the Falcons held them to team and focusing on BG rather forward to future games. That is a taskReporter usually held by the captain. “We are treating each game like a 0-0 draw in East Lansing. This than MSU. Bergeron has spoken highly of the leadership qualities of both a championship game,” redshirt“We’ll introduce Michigan will be the 40th match in the players. Those qualities were verified during the offseason with the junior Brandon Silva said. State to the team tomorrow,” series between the two schools, The BGSU men’s soccer team is team voting Wojtala and Carpenter co-captains for the year. It was also announced that Nichols said. “But we are more in which Michigan State leads returning to Cochrane Stadium “It’s definitely something pretty cool and pretty special that they junior goalkeeper Michael Wiest focused on BG right now.” 17-16-6. on Wednesday after winning think that of me,” Carpenter said. “But it’s not something that is Nichols said that one of the was named Mid-American The Spartans currently hold a their matchmy 3-0attitude againstor the goingfirst to change my day-to-day routine. Guys expect team’s greatest weaknesses Conference Player of the Week record of 0-1-1 during the 2012 St. Bonaventure Bonnies. me to go out there and get the job done, but that’s something that is possession, which they have after recording seven saves regular season. Michigan State They’ll be facing off against I’ve always expected of myself.” been emphasizing and working against St. Bonaventure, tying his lost in overtime on Sunday against theWojtala Spartans of Michigan State echoed that same sentiment, calling the co-captaincy a career best mark. on during practice this week. New Hampshire after recording a in their first of three matches “responsibility that you have to take care of on a daily basis.” PHOTO | THE NEWS The FalconsFILEtake on BGthe “We need to communicate draw against Valparaiso. against teams from the Big Ten Both players spent the summer attending NHL prospect camps RYAN CARPENTER, sophomore forward, skates the puck up the ice during the CCHA semifinal Spartans at 7 p.m. at Cochrane more on the field to improve our The Falcons have been preConference. as free agent invites. Carpenter was in Chicago for Blackhawks game at Joe LouisNichols Arena. Carpenter with 30 pointson last season. Wednesday, then said. led the FalconsStadium paringD.C. for for theCapitals game since their possession,” Michigan and camp, while State Wojtala wasBowling in Washington, camp. finishes up the three-game The team has been working 3-0 win over St. Bonaventure on Green have faced off against In addition to getting a taste of what professional hockey compehomestand on Saturday with on focusing on each game indiSunday. Head coach Eric Nichols each other annually since the tition is like, Wojtala said he learned how to “live like a pro” in terms of how he approaches the game from an off-ice perspective. a match against vidually and making sure that said that there has been an 2002 season and Michigan State “You’re making sure that you are eating right, eating at the right times, doing stretches, taking care of your body,” he said.the Marshall they win the thenparticularly looking Thundering playing more as awere won each year year ofemphasis Carpenter saiduntil that last the level skill and on talent at the camps strong, butgame he was impressed Herd. by the intensity of the players at the camps. “Just how hard those guys worked and the strength and conditioning stuff they did,” he said. “They’re top fitness athletes are I’m trying to bring some of the stuff I learned there to here.” In not having a captain named last season, Bergeron was looking for the entire team to collectively take a leadership role. While he still expects other players to step up and be leaders on the team this season, he said that the team electing Carpenter and Wojtala as captains was one thing that set them apart. “Their example is outstanding,” he said. “They both believe in what is going on here as a program. They both live a certain way on a daily basis and I think that they complement each other in a way that they’re going to be able to get things done collectively.” As if his coach was speaking through him, Carpenter was quick to point out that, defined roles aside, there are other leaders on this team, singling out senior goalie Andrew Hammond and junior forward Andrew Wallace as players who have helped out thus far this preseason in captains’ practices. However, Carpenter said the benefit of having two captains will make it easier to preach accountability this season. “You can’t just have one guy leading, you have to have multiple guys leading,” he said. “If one guy’s not picking up this slack, Cam can get on a guy or I can get on a guy, but we can get on each other too, because it’s not just other teammates we have to hold accountable, we have to hold ourselves accountable too.” While neither player can firmly say how much having a structured leadership role on the team will help, they confirmed that it will make things a little bit easier to understand.
Men’s soccer to play Mich. State
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CAM WOJTALA, junior forward, races for the puck during the CCHA semifinal game last season. Wojtala finished third on the team with 10 goals and 23 points last season.
with a time of 33:24. He looks to continue that success during his last year. “My sister has definitely been the largest influence on me
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Pessimistic Despite slow thoughts start, BG can
turn it around
BG plays Florida on Saturday ETHAN EASTERWOOD ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR
“When you get shutout it’s not When outthat my head title a goodpeople day,” afind quote as the assistant sports editor, coach Dave Clawson said conthe very first they loss sarcascluding the thing Falcons to tically ask me is if I think our Virginia Tech this past Saturday, Falcons canhas beat Florida. I have is one that stuck with me. heard a lot these last couple days For starters, it really showcasabout students thoughts about es how the game was played. It the gameatand very few are optiseemed times that players had mistic. given up on the game and, as a Actually, severalUntil seemmidway upset result, themselves. that we are even playing a into the second quarter, BGgame went that they feel loselarger and toe-to-toe withwe thewill much lose bad. I am always optimistic ACC team. However, once that as a sportsbroke, fan and even more floodgate it really broke.so as It a writer, and from what I have was a huge disappointment seen with this team to date, to many but especially to me. AsI think we could. the Sports Editor here and the It’s a chance, it really is, footballsmall beat reporter, I feel espebut I saw what Toledo did to Ohio cially close to the team, almost State last fall and team even and though that they are my not they lost, they were rewarded just my school’s. I follow what like had I know Florida theythey have towon. say and optimistiiscally a big school with many watch them perform. talSo ented athletes, but they far what I’ve seen this also yearhave has everything togood lose. things athletibeen a lot of When a mid-major goes cally, however, latelyschool it appears into games like this, they have it’s the mental aspect that has nothing to lose.the They have been been plaguing roster. told relentlessly that they who will It is no secret to many never win, that they will embarknow me that I have predicted rass themselves andat that they the Falcons to be 1-3 this point in the season and I was dead-on accurate. expected See ICOLUMN | Pageto7 lose to Florida although what I saw was impressive. I expected to blow out Idaho, which, for all intents and purposes, we did. Finally, I expected to lose a tough one to Toledo, which was where the insecurities began to show. Toledo is a great team and they have a lot going their way, however, I feel that BG does as well. I wasn’t surprised that the Falcons lost, however, I was disappointed to see how they did so. Early on the team was down 17-0, and the Falcons got antsy and tried to force plays. The final score of 27-15 was an indication that they struggled. The one shining moment of improvement might have been that BG finally made a field goal on two attempts, however, freshman kicker Tyler Tate missed an extra-point attempt later in the game. Game four came and went, although not delicately, with the Hokies rout of the Falcons. The game had absolutely zero
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Following stint with Arkansas State, Hohl helps to guide BG volleyball in first season with program By Max Householder Reporter
The BG volleyball team has welcomed an extra set of eyes on the court in practice with assistant coach Jessica Hohl. Hohl has practiced with the team nearly every day and even took part in the Orange and Brown scrimmage — the intrasquad scrimmage that started the year for the Falcons. In the game, Hohl was on the winning orange team, where she tied for the team lead with 13 kills and added 17 digs. Hohl, a native of Waterville, played at Big Ten power Michigan State from 2003-2007. While at Michigan State, she was a part of two teams that reached the NCA A Tournament, with her most memorable game being the Sweet Sixteen matchup w it h defending National Champion Nebraska
in 2007. Her team lost the match in five sets, but she still remembers it to this day because it signified just how competitive her team was. “It was really competitive playing in the Big Ten because every night you don’t have a gimme game, so you really have to prepare throughout the week,” Hohl said. Not only were things competitive in the Big Ten at the time, but also in practice with her teammates. “It was competitive even on your own team because once you get to that level there are so many high level players that it’s hard to get a starting spot,” Hohl said. “Every day was some of the most intense, competitive volleyball in my life.” Now that she is a coach at BG, she has not lost that competitive spirit and the players she coaches can see that. She still acts
Jessica Hohl
BG assistant volleyball coach
like a player out there but knows that her first priority is having a coach’s eye on the court. “After a long play, she will see things that Tucker and coach [Danijela] Tomic can’t see because she’s in with us,” junior libero Libby Dachenhaus said. “Although she is winded sometimes at the end of a play, she still does her best to come talk to us about what she saw.” “I have to keep in mind that I am a coach and not a player when I’m out there,” Hohl said. “But I hope they would see me do certain things that would help them like changing their hitting repertoire. I think it helps bring us up a
level competitively.” Before coming to BG, Hohl spent a year as a graduate assistant at Arkansas State, where her team went 21-10 and won the Sun Belt Conference West Division Championship. She was referred to BG by her former coach at Arkansas State as Tomic was at the time looking for a coach that knew the area. “It wasn’t one quality that stuck out [about Hohl] but a combination of enthusiasm, passion, ambition and competitiveness that I look for in my assistants,” Tomic said. The fact that Hohl is from this area could help in recruiting as she is familiar with many of the club coaches. “I know all of the club directors and I am familiar with what high schools are specifically dominant in this area,” Hohl said. “It’s great because the state of Ohio has a lot of good volley-
ball that we definitely want to tap into.” Tomic is glad that Hohl knows the area of BG. “The fact that Jessica knows this area well won’t hurt,” Tomic said. “She has a good eye for talent and has done a good job evaluating our prospects this past club season.” The Fa lcons w ill continue to work to get better, and it only helps when they have a coach just a few years removed from the game out there giving them guidance. Also it just might be that her competitive nature has already rubbed off on the Falcon players as they opened up conference play with two convincing straight set victories. Only time will tell, but as of right now the Falcons seem to be getting better week by week, which is a compliment of experience and good coaching.
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THE BG men’s soccer team celebrates following its victory against Milwaukee on Tuesday night at Cocharane Field. Danny Baraldi scored the game winning goal on a penalty kick in overtime. Go online to BGNews.com for a full recap of the game.
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COLUMN From Page 10 positive gains as the Falcons were shutout. Again, I predicted Virginia Tech to win and win decisively, but I didn’t expect them to shame all things brown and orange in the process. Virginia Tech had a vendetta from their previous game after they shockingly lost to Pittsburgh, so they clearly saw this as a statement game. BG, however, looked
like they were content in helping Virginia Tech rebuild their credibility. So, here we are heading into homecoming weekend, and I think it is clearly important to remember that it is only week five. There are still eight games left to play, and I can honestly say that I could expect BG to win them all, even against Ohio University. It really isn’t that much of a stretch and I know the team got off to a rough start, but it did so against some really high-caliber
offenses and nationallycredible teams. Forget not that Florida was ranked No. 23 at the time and are currently ranked No. 11. Virginia Tech before their loss to Pittsburgh was ranked No. 12 nationally, and Toledo was the preseason MAC favorite. BG was predicted to finish second in the MAC East behind Ohio however and despite whoever may win that game, BG could still be bowl eligible for the first time since 2009. That is
HOCKEY From Page 10 “I think now it just solidifies things so that no one is asking questions or anything like that,” Wojtala said. “But everyone has their own role that they know and everyone can lead in their own way.” Wojtala also reiterated Carpenter’s sentiments about a new leadership role not changing the way he has prepared for the sea-
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something to be proud of. I tend to live by a small personal motto, some call it a cliché and others call it pointless. “It is what it is” is that motto, and it applies perfectly to the Falcons’ early season. It happened, it wasn’t pretty but most importantly, it is in the past now. Now BG has eight winnable games ahead and most prominently, Rhode Island. Go to the game, enjoy homecoming and roll along you BG warriors, roll along.
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son, saying that he’s taking everything day-by-day. One thing that the team wants to avoid is getting complacent. Despite last season’s strong postseason run, the last-place regular season finish is still fresh in their minds, and is something they want to avoid repeating this season. “We don’t expect to be mediocre again this year,” Carpenter said. “We know what we are capable of doing. We just have to go out and execute.”
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sampled every dish and said their favorites were the corn tomales, but that everything was “really good.” Ritchey said that the farmers’ market was enjoyable and needs to happen at least twice a year, once in the fall and spring. One student looked at the farmers market as an opportunity. “I think it’s really cool, especially because there is not a local grocery store that’s walk able in town for students who want to eat healthy,” said senior Rachel Lucas. “It’s great for it to be on campus.” Sophomore Justin Gramley said he bought some simple items but that they really reminded him of home. “It is definitely awesome to support local produce and to make your own meal out of it,” Gramley said. Gramley also said many students have a meal plan on campus so they don’t get the
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