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Volume 93, Issue 62
Cancellation causes concern for students
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While students may celebrate the cancellation of classes, suspending learning is exactly what the University does not want to do. “The biggest concern [when classes are cancelled] is the loss of class time,” said University Spokesperson Dave Kielmeyer. Students are here to learn, he said, so the University wants classes to be held whenever possible. Unlike elementary, middle and high schools, universities do not have to make up class time if a certain number of days are cancelled. But Kielmeyer said The Ohio State University is offering a few Saturdays and a day before finals week as makeup time. “We certainly haven’t reached that point yet where we’ve begun to talk about that,” Kielmeyer said. The University has cancelled classes two days so far this semester. Kielmeyer said the University does not keep statistics on how many class cancellations or campus closings occur each year. Sophomore Cheyenne Hawk said her feelings on makeup days would depend on when they were and how they affected the exam schedule. Freshman Emily Wilhelm said she would not want makeup days at all. “It’s sucky, though, because we’re paying for [school], but I don’t really care,” she said. Some students are worried about work piling up after the day off. “I’m more worried about professors putting on more work… in a shorter amount of time,” Hawk said. Freshman Ross Johnson is only worried about some classes. “For certain classes I do [worry], whereas others I know they’re more flexible,” he said. Kielmeyer said the University is a primarily residential community in that most students live on campus or within a few blocks. “That’s one of the reasons we seldom close,” he said. The cancellation of classes Wednesday was two-part. Classes starting before noon were can-
As May approaches, graduating seniors might be feeling anxious and left wondering, “what’s next?” Story by Paige Crawford | Reporter
The Career Center staff helps students discover career and major possibilities, locate internships and search for job and graduate school openings. Andrea Gutierrez, assistant director of the Co-op Program in the University’s Career Center has five tips from the Career Center for graduating students to help ease the fear of being on their own:
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Apply, apply, apply. “Students should apply to jobs in abundance, the more applications and resumes sent, the better your odds are for interviewing,” she said.
Network with professionals in the field. “Networking is a powerful tool,” Gutierrez said. “Attending job fair events, programs, workshops and meetings with others are the best venues for possible employment.”
Tailor resume and cover letter to the job. “Highlight your skill-sets in a cover letter or resume as they pertain to the job description,” she said.
Look for jobs outside of your major. “Be willing to cast the net beyond searching for just jobs from your field of study,” Gutierrez said. “If you have a minor or specialization in another field, apply for jobs in that area as well.”
Start the job search now. “Do not wait until the week before graduation,” she said. “Searching months ahead of time is your best bet.”
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The University hosted its second round of Accenture forums Thursday, discussing staff supervisors and student retention. This week’s forums are for University officials to inform about how they have implemented cost-saving and revenue-raising measures since December. Two separate forums addressed employees and benefits, and student services, respectively. The first forum took place in the Union at 11:30, presented by Chief Financial Officer Sherri Stoll, who is the Accenture Report Out Committee chair. One of the goals for the University is to “increase the span of control,” which means attaining more supervisors for University staff. Stoll said the University has lost $30 million in state support since 2009 and expects a loss of as much as $10 million in coming years. This is one of the reasons Accenture, a management consulting firm, was hired in fall at a cost of $500,000 to recommend ways the University can save money and earn more revenue. “Accenture’s report provides us with a number of opportunities to pursue,” Stoll said. The University is in the early stages of putting Accenture’s plans into motion, attempting to “dramatically improve” their financial situation through revenue. Stoll said increasing the span of control could earn the University $2.52-3.24 million in five years. Another forum started at 1 p.m., hosted by Joe Frizado, vice provost for academic operations, where he discussed student services. Frizado said the University needs to reform its student services in order to get higher admission rates and higher retention. The goal emphasized by Frizado was that of co-locating student services, which include admissions, financial aid and the bursar. The plan is to consolidate these services into one area in order to
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A cappella group to host national championship
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Ten40 to compete at local high school this weekend in the group’s first competition By William Channell Assistant Pulse Editor
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Daniel Johnston, one of the speakers at the Ceramics Symposium, adds material to a clay pot he is working on in the ceramics studio in the Fine Arts Building. Demonstrations and talks continue Friday.
Falcons must toughen up The Falcons announced their 2014 recruiting class Wednesday, Feb., 5. Eighteen players signed to become Falcons for the 2014 season. Read more about the class on PAGE 5.
For senior Clay Thomson, singing isn’t just something to do when you’re bored in the shower or car, it’s a way to connect to others. “Music is just one of those things that really moves people,” he said. “I think music can reach a level that nothing else can.” Thomson is a member of University men’s a cappella group Ten40, and this Saturday he and his fellow members will express this deep appreciation for music by hosting and competing in the semifinals of the International Championship of Collegiate a Cappella (ICCA) at Bowling Green High School. They will be one of 10 ensembles taking the stage.
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The ICCA great lakes semifinals are Saturday at Bowling Green High School at 7 p.m. Junior Will Baughman, director of Ten40, said typically vocal groups are focused either on exhibition or competition, the latter of which Ten40 is looking to break into. “We said, ‘well, [competition]’s not our thing, but it’ll be fun,’” Baughman said. “We kind of molded ourselves and now finding it’s more of our thing than we realized.” Another very immediate benefit of competing, Thomson said, is the opportunity for networking and making new friends. “There’s a lot of connections to be made, and it’s just a lot of people who like the same thing as you,” Thomson said. Baughman said part of what
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spurred this recent interest in competing is the increased relevance of a cappella in the public eye. This exposure, he said, is capturing new fans. “It’s a big, national competition, and the movie ‘Pitch Perfect’ just came out,” Baughman said. “That’s the competition in that movie, so it’s gotten a lot of hype back out there, including people who are already interested.” With the renewed interest in the genre, Baughman said the main goal is to have fun, which he said can be hard to remember. “It’s tough finding the balance,” Baughman said. “When you do a competition, you put everything into it. Since the [semester] started, we’ve done nothing but the three songs
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we’re doing for competition, we haven’t talked about gigs really much. We’ve put everything off until competition.” Not that competition isn’t fun, Baughman noted, but “it can bog you down if you’re not careful.” Pat Pauken, secretary to the University board of trustees, became Ten40’s faculty advisor this year, and was a member of the glee club as a student at Ohio State University. He said for him, singing in these sorts of groups was, and still is, about camaraderie. “It’s really more about making music [and friendships],” Pauken said. “It’s great fun for me.” It’s also fun for the audience to match the energy put out by the group, Thomson said. “The people see the fun we’re having on stage, and whether they realize it or not, that naturally makes them enjoy themselves a little more,” he said. It would likely be an understatement to say Baughman enjoys performing, though he said he’s happy simply to be recognized. “It takes a certain person to perform,” he said. “It’s such a thing to be noticed and be appreciated for what you’re doing without being egotistical about it, just letting happen. I do it to enjoy it, and other people happen to enjoy it.”
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Luke Grabski poses in front of his car. Grabski, president of VISION, drives students home from downtown every Tuesday night as part of Big Gay Ride.
Service provides safe transportation to students leaving bars
celled by 7 a.m., and the rest of the day’s classes were cancelled around 10:15 a.m. Kielmeyer said the twopart cancellation was in the interest of protecting class time. It allowed for time to check on the weather and road conditions, potentially preventing later classes from being cancelled unnecessarily. Cancellation proved necessary, however, partly due to the continuing snowfall. “Our crews were struggling to keep up,” Kielmeyer said. Wilhelm is a commuter student who drove to campus Wednesday to get some work done without distractions. She said she was concerned about the amount of snow in the parking lots. “I don’t know if I’m going to be able to leave tonight,” she said on Wednesday. “But the sidewalks were pretty clean.”
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Going to the bars in downtown Bowling Green can be a relatively fun and safe experience for most students, but for some it may be a source of anxiety and worry. For members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, a trip to a bar may be accompanied by the fear of being physically or verbally harassed. The University’s LGBT Resource Center sponsors a program, called “Big Gay Ride,” to combat this threat. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, which are “Gay Nights” at Uptown Bar, the program offers rides to members of the LGBT community so they may arrive and return home
safely. Luke Grabski, president of VISION, an LGBT club on campus, said in an email that the “Big Gay Ride” program began a few years ago after a man was “terribly harassed” while walking home from “Gay Night” at Uptown. Grabski believes this program is a way to actively work against this violent discrimination “instead of just dealing with the fact that harassment exists.” Although the program is sponsored by the Resource Center, it is completely student-run and volunteerbased. The student drivers use their own vehicles. Tobias Spears, assistant director for LGBT programs at the University, said that
“peace of mind is important” and just as the Resource Center provides a safe space for LGBT members at the University, the “Big Gay Ride” program works to extend that safety off campus. Spears said the program “represents the altruism within LGBT.” Dakota Patton, a volunteer driver, said he first heard about the program after attending a Vision meeting last semester. He was “looking for more ways to get involved” and thought this was a great way to do so. This semester, Patton drives on Fridays while Grabski drives on Tuesdays. On average, Patton said he gives rides to eight to 10 people per night, between two trips.
Patton said these trips may even include stops at Taco Bell if anyone is hungry and he will accompany them inside if they so wish. When asked if this program is an important one to keep active in BG, Patton said it is and that the need for the program “shouldn’t have to be proved by an incident.” The “Big Gay Ride” program is looking for more volunteers to drive. He said volunteers are under no long-term commitment and may choose to drive as many or as few times as they like. There are VISION meetings each Tuesday at 9 p.m. and those who wish to volunteer may attend those meetings or come afterwards, around 10 p.m., to sign up.
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rookside Church was formed in 2001, and was moved to campus in the fall of 2002. Craig Flack Brookside’s Assistant Pastor, has been with the church since August of 2010. “We are not per say a college church,” he said. “Brookside is a community church that rents on campus, but we have a ton of students who regularly attend.” Sunday services are held at 10 a.m. in Olscamp 101 each weekend, as well as offering Sunday mass, Brookside also has a college ministry known as Cru that meets on Thursdays at 9 p.m. in Olscamp 101. “Cru is all college students, while Sunday service is everyone,” Flack said. For any students that are hesitant to join a new church, Flack offered words of encouragement. “I understand, we are aware church can bring up many emotions,” he said. “We are committed to helping people through whatever part of their spiritual journey they are in, and we hope that we can make them comfortable.” Brookside also offers smaller worship groups outside of the Sunday service known as Life Groups. A Life Group is a small group of people from the congregation getting together to talk, Cru
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also holds these meetings throughout the week. “Our motto is we want to grow bigger as we grow smaller,’ Flack said. “It is hard to get to know 300 people, so we have smaller groups that sit and have coffee and talk.” Attending Life Groups is something that Flack recommends students look into. “College is a time where we ask a lot of big questions about life,” he said. “Doing it alone is daunting and scary.” Flack said he hopes that if students choose to attend Brookside they feel at home. “No matter where they are on their spiritual journey we hope Brookside can provide a place where they feel like they belong,” Flack said. The Brookside Church Office is located at 126 N Main Street, and they can be contacted at 419-354-2211, or for more information about Brookside Church or to view past sermons go to www.brooksidechurch.net.
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Conspiracy theories thrive where knowledge of science, critical thinking lacks greg burleson Columnist
You know you have had a painful day when Bill Nye’s destruction of Ken Ham isn’t the biggest head-shaker. On Tuesday, it was my tragic privilege to learn that, just as Bill Nye suggested, we really are lacking in science and critical thinking. For those who do not know already, Atlanta was recently hit by an abnormal snow storm that left the city and region shut down. Considering that this does not happen on a regular basis, the most cognitive stagnant members of society were quick
to think outside the box. A shockingly significant portion of the snowed-in population began to develop a unified conscious that suspected the irregular snow fall was, in fact, a government conspiracy to either poison everyone or use some form of mind control to shape the way people vote in the next election. No, I am not joking. I am not exaggerating. I am not being facetious— yet. Making this issue worse, these people go one step farther to suggest that this snow is, in fact, not actually snow but instead is either plastic or a bio-engineered organic material. There are plenty of videos online of people making these outrageous claims. In these videos, you will find people attempting to
burn snowballs with lighters or torches. Their argument comes from the facts that the snowballs therein do not drip water and a scorch mark of sorts appears on the snowballs. Snow is, of course, a form of precipitation that, among other attributes, has the ability to absorb liquids. As the snowballs in these videos melt, the water is simply absorbed in to the snowball until it reaches its saturation point and begins to drip. These videos, however, conveniently ended before the saturation point was reached—I know because there is a very visible cue. Also, the “scorch mark” was merely the result of the chemical reactions that always occur within the flame. This soot of
sorts appears with any flame but is easily recognizable amid distinctly white snow. It is clear these people never tried letting the snow melt in a pan or even noticed that their hands were wet after holding it. This issue, however, is not what I am most disturbed with. If these people didn’t think the snow would melt, where did they think it would go when the temperature warmed up? I like to believe that even the most inept conspirator would be capable of devising a plan devoid of such an astounding shortcoming. This, of course, is not the first time someone believed something to be a crazy government conspiracy. Many consider Pearl Harbor, the assassination
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literally shut down just last year. Also, using actual science, every single claim in the first “Loose Change” video has been viciously and irrefutably destroyed. The subsequent revisions of the video have been released in response to the absolute destruction of these people’s argument; yet they refuse to acknowledge the overwhelming amount of evidence in front of them that suggests that the people who confessed to these crimes, Al-Qaeda, actually committed them. This attitude of ignoring evidence is precisely what Bill Nye was referencing on Tuesday.
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of President Kennedy, as well as, the attacks on September 11 to all have been planned by the government. W hen senior citizen Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon and America’s resident manly-man, was accused of taking part in the government conspiracy that we never landed on the moon, Buzz literally punched the wacko in the face. T h is v ideo is a lso available online. Videos like the “Loose Change” nonsense wish to illustrate that the government planned the most perfectly conceived and f lawlessly executed conspiracy of all time. However, our government is not even competent enough to run itself and
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Campus Pride, a national non-profit organization, publishes a campus climate index to help prospective college students find LGBTfriendly campuses. The University does well in the rating system, earning a 4.5 out of five in the “LGBT-Friendly Campus Report Card.” In particular, the University receives the highest marks in a number of key areas including “Academic Life” and “Student Life.” The University offers a number of courses focused on LGBT issues/concerns and a minor in LGBT Studies is an option for students. Within Student Life, the University has a number of student organizations and also staff support specifically for LGBT and Ally programs and opportunities. The University should be proud that it has made a commitment to campus equity issues for LGBT students, staff and faculty. At the same time, the University community should strive for a perfect 5.0 rating from Campus Pride. In the areas of “Policies
and Practices” and “Counseling and Health Services,” the University falters. Specifically, the University does not have, according to the report card, “Accessible, simple process for students to change their name and gender identity on university records and documents” nor does the university offer “Insurance coverage for students transitioning from M to F and F to M to cover hormone replacement therapy.” Of the Ohio schools graded by Campus Pride, only three have a simple, accessible procedure for name and gender identity changes on records/documents: Case Western Reserve, Oberlin and Wright State. For students who cannot easily and readily change these documents, the consequences range from frustration to indignity. If a student wishes to be called by his/her preferred name and referred to by his/her preferred gender identification, the student has to contact each professor, explain the circumstances and politely request that the faculty respect the student’s wishes. That’s the frustrating part. Now, here’s the indignity: I have heard from more than one student that even though the student
has spoken with a faculty member alerting the professor to the name change, some professors simply refuse to call the student by his/her chosen name. Thus, the student’s identity is hijacked by the insensitivities of the teacher. I hope this indignity is a rare experience, but the problem could be easily solved if the University simply offered students an expedient way to change their name and gender on university records and documents. In terms of hormonereplacement insurance coverage for students transitioning from male to female and female to male, only two Ohio schools graded provide such coverage: Case Western Reserve and Ohio State University. Since student success is tied to health and well being, it seems like a worthy commitment to offer this coverage through student health insurance options. Again, while the University has reason to be proud of its score, it also has every reason to strengthen that pride by meeting students’ needs for respect, dignity and well-being in all areas of the report card.
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BG Falcon football team announces their 2014 recruiting class, first recruiting class for coach Dino Babers and his staff
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The First Wednesday of February is Christmas part two for football coaching staffs across the country, because it is the first day that recruits can sign their National Letter of Intent. This day is called National Signing Day and universities across the country are welcoming new student-athletes, and BG is no different. Today, 17 players signed up to be a Falcon for the year 2014. Twelve members of the class signed to help bolster an already-talented defense and six signed to an already-explosive offense. Babers in his press conference made sure to give credit to the people who had the biggest influence in recruiting these players. Dave Clawson recruited most of the class, as Athletic Director Chris Kingston also had a big hand in keeping in contact with them all as they were going through the coaching change. “Chris Kingston came to me in the interview process and made
sure that we honored every commit that coach Clawson handed to him and we did that 100 percent,” Babers said. “They are all part of our family now and we can’t wait to get started with them.” The recruits created their own bond together as they were waiting for the new football coach to be announced. Other schools after the departure of Clawson may have started looking to steer them to their school but, they stayed together and bonded with each other by the use social media. “They were interested in being Falcons,” Babers said. “They were more concerned with being Bowling Green State University graduates and staying and keeping this class together.” When you look at the list of signees, there are a few things that stand out. One thing is that 13 of the 18 total recruits are from the state of Ohio. Three from Michigan, one from Florida and Clayton Nicholas who is a transfer quarterback from Texas Tech University. “This is our country, our land and this is the state we want to
recruit in,” Babers said. “We need to live on the state of Ohio and we are absolutely committed to doing that.” There are also four recruits who are classified as mid-year enrollees, which allows those athletes to start class in the spring and begin practicing earlier than the other recruits in the class. “This is a huge advantage for them,” Babers said. “It gives them a strong opportunity to step in and be a leader and contributor to this football team.” The one thing that the football program will do is force themselves to play the young people during two-a-days because of how simple their system is. All of the positions are open to the young recruits accoriding to Babers. “If they are physically gifted enough to help us then we will incorporate them into the fold,” Babers said. “A lot of programs will keep those players buried in the depth chart so they don’t have an opportunity to play and they can automatically redshirt them, that is not the case in this
program.” The next thing for this class if not the biggest part of the class was the signing of seven defensive backs. The graduating class forced the program to focus on defensive back for the future, this may be the biggest win for the staff as they signed seven players to fill a need. “Defensive back was a big thing for us we really had to concentrate on the secondary this year with the graduation’s we had on defense.” Babers said. This program has focused on character, leadership and academics very much in the past years and this class is no different. Most of these recruits were captains or co-captain of their high school football programs. “Captains are a big deal, having the ability to lead others is rare today,” Babers said. “It is also important to find young men from winning programs because winners find ways to do things and don’t find excuses on what went wrong.” This is the first recruiting class in the Babers era for the Falcons,
2014 BG Falcon official Recruit Signees Nilijah Ballew, DB, Cincinnati, Ohio. Trevahn Beery, DB, Creston, Ohio. Cody Callaway, QB, Grafton, Ohio. Jalen Dingle, LB, Detroit, Mich. Ben Hale, DB, Columbus, Ohio. Nick Johnson, DB, Canton, Ohio. Tyler King, DT, Lakewood, Ohio. Austin Labus, OL, Portage, Mich. Roger Lewis, WR, Pickerington, Ohio. Marcus Milton, DB, Pickerington, Ohio. Isiah Moore, OL, Tiffin, Ohio. Clayton Nicholas, QB, Abilene, Texas. Brian Sanders, DL, Detroit, Mich. Griff Saunders, LB, Columbus, Ohio. Clint Stephens, WR, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Jack Walz III, DB, Lakewood, Ohio. DeAngelo Ware, OL, Cleveland, Ohio. Chance Weitz, DT, Elida, Ohio.
now comes spring practice and two-a-days as they prepare for the 2014 season. “The key thing is to make sure we are getting high quality people, people who understand that academics are important along with great character, a winning tradition and someone that can play and help us win.” Babers said.
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Classes include TV comedy in Popular Culture, life in the universe in Physics and Astronomy By Kathryne Rubright Reporter
Unlike many complex academic questions, the most important question Glenn Tiede asks one of his classes has a yes or no answer. That question has a correct answer, but people don’t know what it is yet, said Tiede, a lecturer in the Physics and Astronomy Department. Tiede’s question is, “Is there extraterrestrial life in the universe?” This question is explored with students in a class called Life in the Universe. The interdisciplinary class includes aspects of astronomy, biology and biochemistry. While this class focuses on the universe, other classes focus on topics closer to home. Students may be surprised to find that they can take a class called TV Comedy. Popular culture students usually are not surprised to hear of the class, but students in other areas
can be, said Becca Cragin, associate professor in the Department of Popular Culture, in an email. “[Students] expect the class to be about comedy, but usually aren’t expecting it to focus so heavily on cultural politics and inequality,” Cragin said. But topics being debated in society come up in TV shows and are commented on by them, Cragin said. “Comedy is also a great place to look to see cultural values that are often unexpressed elsewhere — because comedy involves violating cultural norms, what a culture finds funny, or over the line, is highly significant,” Cragin said. Junior Patrick McAdoo took Cragin’s Gender and Sexuality in the Media class last semester. McAdoo said the biggest thing he learned was that “Almost everything that is produced in popular culture makes some sort of comment on gender and sexuality representation.” This representation could
even come in the form of not representing a particular group, McAdoo said. In Life in the Universe, Tiede and his students explore the history of life on Earth, what makes earth special and whether the conditions that allow for life here could be found elsewhere. “It’s looking now like Earth is probably not that rare,” Tiede said. There are probably 10 to 100 billion earths, Tiede said. But Tiede’s goal is not to convince students that life exists or doesn’t exist elsewhere. “It’s exactly what college should be. I’m not telling students what to think or how to think,” Tiede said. Instead, he gives them the knowledge they need to make their own decision. Students enjoy the way Tiede teaches his class. “The professor’s really good,” sophomore Jenna Fryer said. She said she enjoys that the class is not just lecture-
Dance Marathon prepares for main event Prior to Ziggython, upcoming events include Extra Life carnival, Mini Marathon By Raven Rush Reporter
Dance Marathon’s main event may not start until April 5, but events leading up to “Ziggython” start this week. On Feb. 15, BGDM is hosting an Extra Life carnival for students that lasts 12 hours. Paying $15 gets students a shirt, meal and maybe a good piece of mind. They also have a MiniMarathon on March 1, which is a seven hour carnival. One of the major projects in the works for BGDM involves grabbing the attention of Ellen DeGeneres. Corinne Vincent, Multimedia chair of BGDM said there is a video and tweets that are being used to contact Ellen. You’ve got to keep moving. Whether it’s to the Cupid shuffle or the electric slide. ‘For The Kids’ gives students the opportunity to boogie down all night and day, for 32 hours to be exact. BG students get that chance to dance for those that can’t at Bowling Green’s Dance Marathon, or “Ziggython.” Ziggython is a fundraiser to help children with cancer, whom Dance Marathon founders call “miracle kids.”
BGDM has different events to help generate more money to the miracle kids. Sarah Haucks, event coordinator said she regretted not dancing last year. Instead, she got on to the event management core committee so she could help out in some way. She said she loves everything the organization stands for. “It’s inspiring to be in a room full of hundreds of young people who are passionate about one main cause,” Haucks said. While other members planned pre BGDM events, Haucks’ job required a few problems that needed solutions. Haucks said the change of venue has been the biggest challenge. In past years, the event took place in the Rec Center, but because of recent renovations Dance Marathon has moved to the Perry Field House. “We were worried about the field house not being big enough,” Haucks said. “There has to be enough rooms for the amount of people we hold.” The miracle families, whom the event raises money for, need an extra room to cool down after all the excitement. The workers of the event also need a room to put all of their
belongings such as clothes and extra food. Another issue Haucks came across is maximum capacity in the field house. She said there will probably need to be a contract written with the field house on what the event workers can and can’t do. Along with that, security contracts have to be written up and enforced, which she plans to have done by the end of March. The roles involved are morales and dancers. Baylee Lendhart is a morale captain, and she says that all morales have to raise $100 to attend the event. “It’s like an incentive for them to attend and have fun,” Lendhart said. Dancers in the event have to pay a $25 application fee by March 22. The event takes place on April 5 and 6. The dancers will dance for 32 hours and the morales work two 8 hour shifts. Last year, BGDM raised more than $314,000, but their goal was and still is, $500,000. The planning for Dance Marathon started back in August of last year. Collectively, BGDM has raised over $3 million over the past 19 years.
based. “He was just phenomenal, so I had to take him again,” said freshman Odero Ajamu. “He mentioned [Life in the Universe] in Intro to Astronomy, and right away I knew I would be taking it.” Ajamu said he thinks there is life in the universe. “I believe there should be because we’re here,” Ajamu said. “If something happened once it could happen again.” While Ajamu thinks anything can happen twice, Fryer has a different outlook. “I do [think there is life], but I don’t think we’ll actually find it,” Fryer said. Although Tiede has students who believe there is life in the universe, no one has claimed to have contact with life from elsewhere. “I never had anyone who was really out there,” Tiede said. Some students have talked about UFOs they have seen, Tiede said, but no one has shared abduction stories.
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University to send 40 students to LGBT conference this weekend. A group of University students is heading to Kansas City, Missouri this weekend for the 21st annual Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference. This conference is the largest LGBT Ally conference in the nation with over 1,700 students in attendance each year, according to the
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conference’s website. The conference, which is Feb. 7-9, is being hosted by the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a Jazz theme. Tobias Spears, assistant director for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Programs at the University helped to organize the trip to Kansas City for the conference. “It’s about building allyship, building networks, getting to know people across the Midwest who do work around LGBT issues on college campuses specifically from a student perspective,” he said. This year the University has chosen
40 students to attend. “What’s exciting about it is that since I’ve been in this role we’ve doubled the number of students that go,” he said. The trip is sponsored by many different organizations on campus including the Dean of Students office, the Office of Campus Activities and the Office of Multicultural Affairs. “Students at BGSU are really excited about this conference,” Spears said. “We have students who identify as LGBT, we also have students who identify as allies so the conference is really attractive to our students,” he said.
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The University will host two forums on Friday on the third floor of the Union. The first at 11:30 a.m. addresses core administration and the second at 1 p.m. addresses auxiliary operations and facilities. There was originally a forum scheduled for Wednesday to address the educational platform, but it was cancelled due to weather. This forum will be rescheduled, but a date has not yet be set, said University Spokesperson David Kielmeyer.
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Falcons confident going to Chicago Gymnastics will compete in multi-team invitational By Grant Crawford Reporter
Jehvon Clarke dribbles the ball past a University of Buffalo defender in their match Feb., 2. The Falcons will host Akron Feb. 9 at 6 p.m.
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Comeback bid falls short in Toledo By Cameron Teague Robinson Sports Editor
The Bowling Green State University Falcons were called for 24 fouls in their 83-76 loss to the University of Toledo Rockets. The Rockets capitalized from the Falcons foul trouble by going 29-35 from the free throw line while only allowing the Falcons to shoot eight of their own. “The difference were the free throws,” Head basketball coach Louis Orr said. “We did a lot of good things on the offensive end once we got things going.” Falcon guards Jehvon Clarke and Anthony Henderson led the team in scoring with 23 points and seven rebounds each. The Falcons started slow in the first half as the Rockets got an 11-0 lead just five minutes into the game. Soon after that, Clarke made a jumper to put the Falcons on the board, and
senior Cameron Black followed with a hook shot to cut the score to 11-4. Not only were the Rockets dominating the game early on, but junior Richaun Holmes picked up two quick fouls and had to take an early seat for the Falcons. “[Holmes] is our shot blocker,” Clarke said. “Once he got out, it put us in a hole defensively.” Things got worse before they got better for the Falcons though, as they soon found themselves down 26-10 just 10 minutes into the game. Things slowly improved for the Falcons, and by the seven minute mark, they cut the lead to 12 points. Although the Rockets led at halftime, 41-32 the Falcons battled their way back from a 16 point deficit. “We have to have that self will to fight through perseverance,” Clarke said. “I think our self-will and perseverance is what got us back in this game.” The Falcons battled their way back into the game as they
cut the lead to two points with 15:21 left. They brought the Rockets’ lead to three points or less six times in the second half, and every time the Rockets answered with a score on their end. “Anytime you start off sluggish first few minutes of the game you exert a lot of energy,” Clarke said. “Down the stretch of the game it is kind of tough to make the plays you want to make due to the exerting so much energy.” The turning point in the game came when the Falcons were down 60-58 with 9:18 left. The Falcons forced a missed jumper by the Rockets guard Jonathan Williams, but allowed the Rockets to get the rebound. Center Nathan Boothe was fouled on the put back. They allowed two more offensive rebounds and that eventually to a three point shot by Justin Drummond to take their lead to six points “We were in pretty good shape when we cut it to one,” Clarke said. “It came down to a
stop or a rebound that we need but somehow we didn’t get it.” What could have been a crucial stop for the Falcons with a two point deficit turned into three offensive rebounds for the Rockets and a six point lead. After that possession, the Falcons could not make the big play to get the lead. The Rockets were in the bonus for the rest of the second half and were able to knock down their free throws to hold on to the lead and win 83-76. “When you play Toledo you can’t play tag with them,” Orr said. “I was pleased and happy with our guys’ effort and the way they came back to cut it to one.” The Rockets will come to the Stroh on Feb. 20 to finish their season series. “I’ve said this before it’s not another game to you, it’s not another game to our institutions it’s not another game our community,” said Toledo head basketball coach Tod Kowalczyk. “People look at this game as special and so do we.”
The Falcons gymnastics team will head to the Windy City this weekend to compete in the Chicago Style invite against Boise State University, The University of North Carolina and the University of Illinois-Chicago. This will be BG’s first multiple-team meet since opening the season against Oregon State and Ohio State in Columbus, were they finished last with a season-low score of 191.950. “The Chicago Style collegiate session is a great opportunity to see some teams we may not see on a yearly basis,” Coach Kerrie Turner said. “My team has had a great week of training and they are confident going into Friday’s competition.” The Falcons, going into this multiple-team meet, will face two familiar nonconference opponents in UNC and UIC, whom they have faced in the recent past. BG competed against UNC last year, losing 193.300 to 195.550 in addition to 2004, when they won 195.125 to 194.425. They also faced UIC in 2010-2011, winning 190.225 to 185.525, and twice the year prior, going one and one against the school. “While we enjoy seeing a variety of opponents across the country, the sport of gymnastics challenges each team
to try to out-score their own personal bests, and that is exactly what we will plan to do,” Turner said. Going into this meet, each team looks for a crucial road win. The Falcons have two road wins this season while UNC and UIC have a combined 0-4 in away meets. “It is definitely exciting knowing that we are the only ones with a road win going into this meet,” junior Gina Locigno said. “There are always jitters at the first away meet when adjusting to the equipment and different surroundings. We are strong competitors on the road and I’m excited to get out there again with other teams who have not yet traveled.” The Falcons look to improve their winning streak to four, a feat BG hasn’t achieved since the 2009-2010 season with wins against Northern Illinois, Western Michigan, UIC and Ball State. “Some of these teams are big schools and it would say a lot about our team and show everyone how hard we have been working,” Locigno said. “It would definitely help once it came to bigger competitions, considering we would have a few more wins under our belt, especially from teams that are not in the MAC.” The meet will commence 8:30 p.m. Friday at Navy Pier in Chicago Illinois.
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Women’s basketball starts slow but still defeats Western Michigan By Tara Jones Assistant Sports Editor
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Defending MAC champs Central Michigan were selected to finish first in the West Division. They were followed by Ball State and Northern Illinois to Softball team picked round out the top three. The Falcons return nine letterwinners to finish fourth in from a team that finished with an overall MAC record of 27-24 and 9-13 in the MAC. The Bowling Green State University Along with the nine returning lettersoftball team is projected to finish fourth winners they bring in nine freshman and in the Mid-American Conference East one transfer. Their captains for the seaDivision this season. son are junior Emily McClelland, seniors The polls are created by voting from Katie Toho and Erika Stratton. coaches around the conference. Kent The Falcons will begin their season at State is picked to finish first in the East the Viking Indoor Tournament which will Division. Ohio and Miami were picked to take place at Cleveland State University finish second and third. Feb., 8-9.
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The BG women’s basketball team conquered Western Michigan 72-50 Wednesday night at the Stroh Center in their pink and white specialty uniforms. Wednesday’s game was a Play4Kay game in memory of former North Carolina State University head coach Kay Yow. In these matches, fans and players wear pink to support the awareness of breast cancer and the fight to find a cure. Both the Falcons and the Broncos got off to an ice-cold start from the field in the first half, as the Falcons only went 11-of-27. The Broncos were not shooting any better at 12-of-32. Senior Jillian Halfhill led her team to a 6-of-11 attempt from three-point range, going 4-of-6 herself in the half to keep the Falcons in the game. Despite their success from behind the three, BG went into halftime with just a two point lead
because of WMU’s success in the paint because of their offensive rebounding. BG came out in the second half playing more efficiently on both ends of the court. The Falcons went on a 25-4 run in the second half alone to put Western Michigan at a 26-point deficit at one point in the game. The commanding lead proved to be too much for the Broncos to overcome, and the Falcons came out with the win. Halfhill led all scorers with 22 points on the night. Redshirt senior Alexis Rogers finished with 16 and redshirt sophomore added 12 points to round out BG’s double digit scorers. Halfhill said that something the team focused on at halftime was getting second chance points and limiting Western Michigan’s second chance opportunities. “Our biggest key was to eliminate their second chance points,” Halfhill said. “When they got second chance points
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is when they scored in the paint...we had to eliminate those so that we could get our offense going.” Head coach Jennifer Roos said that her team was lucky Halfhill had success from behind the arc in the first half. Had she not, they could have gone into halftime being down with how the Broncos were outplaying them in the paint, she said. She added that their second half success came mostly from their defensive effort, especially on the boards. “Western Michigan has been our kryptonite, and they showed up and played extremely hard,” Roos said. “We finished the game outrebounding them and also finished the game with more threes than they did, and that was a big turning point, as well.” The Falcons will return to the Stroh Center on Sunday, Feb. 9 as they take on Miami at 2 p.m. in another conference match-up.
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Bowling Green “Fireball type object moving north west 7/4/2009 witnessed by a group of people.” Perrysburg “Illuminating and gliding across the sky 3/15/2010 about 1200 feet up and 1000 feet away.” Bowling Green “4 to 5 extreme sparkling lights changing configuration hovering for 10 to 15 minutes then abrupt movement as moved over treeline.” Bowling Green “It was freaky.” Rudolph “Large ball within a translucent square.”
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Toledo “Triangular shaped aircraft cruising above with white lights around it, changing to red, then white.”
Bowling Green white/reflective light in the shape of a crescent 11/6/2012 “Pulsating moon kind of like a smiley face bursted into a neon orange/red back and forth and disappeared.” Bowling Green then shot sideways, then straight 1/19/2013 “Materialized, down. Wasn’t anything I have seen before.”
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For people like Thomas Wertman, UFOs are a very real occurrence, and can even be seen in the skies of Bowling Green. “People are definitely seeing something unusual out there,” Wertman said. He investigates UFOs throughout Ohio with the Mutual UFO Network, a national UFO investigation organization. Wertman said when people think of UFOs, they think of aliens, but he tries his best to find natural explanations for what’s happening.
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Green Day album ‘Dookie’ hits 20th anniversary, major influence geoff Burns pulse editor
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Senior Ryan Sowers plays guitar in his apartment. The notebook is filled with many of his ideas.
Musician holds song writing close By Geoff Burns Pulse Editor
Ryan Sowers performed at Howard’s Club H in 2011. He had a blue notebook filled with endless notes of ideas written on scraps of paper, the white space of old newspapers and anything he could get his hands on. Now, three years and two turneddown contracts later, he is still using that same notebook. During the singer/songwrit-
If you were never a Green Day fan, you have at least heard of the band’s third album “Dookie” and if not, there is something terribly wrong with your music vocabulary. The punk rock band’s album turned 20 years old on February 1 and has sold more than 16 million copies since 1994, ultimately serving as the main ingredient for the highly successful and worldwide phenomenon we know as Green Day.
There are hundreds of newer musicians and bands today who accredit “Dookie” as being one of the major inf luences for wanting to play music. It is an album that still is not old enough to listen to no matter how many times you press “play.” There isn’t anything that screams nostalgia every time “Basket Case” gets played. You can just hear millions of people sing “Am I just paranoid, or am I just stoned” right before vocalist and guitarist Billy Joe Armstrong plays that legendary power chord riff. If “Basket Case” wasn’t for you, “When I Come Around” certainly was.
It’s “Dookie’s” power chords, fun drum and bass lines and catchy choruses that made this album so successful, straying away from the grunge sound the early 90s had so much of. Green Day’s third album is what sparks those memories from our generation’s childhood and reminds us why we fell in love with that kind of music from the very beginning. It’s when we first realized what real music was, or is, and we liked it even more because we thought it was what other people weren’t listening to, making it 10 times
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er’s freshman year, he pursued the opportunity and headed to Nashville to record an album called “Contradictions.” After performing throughout Bowling Green once the record was finished, Sowers started to carry around a box filled with copies of his albums throughout his residence hall and to people in his hometown. “We probably sold around 200
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UFO From Page 8 However, there have been cases when Wertman could not find an explanation for the object. One such case involved a UFO hovering above the road, which was reported by multiple people. Since 2005, there have been 17 UFOs reported in Wood County, seven of which occurred in Bowling Green. However, Wertman said this number is not accurate because many people don’t know of MUFON, and therefore will not report sightings. Glenn Tiede, a lecturer of physics and astronomy, said he had an experience with a UFO while in the Andes. “Just after sunset, I saw this really bright light in the sky and it was moving west to east,” Tiede said. “It was pulsing ... so I watched it do that for 30 or 40 seconds, something like that, and then it just vanished. It was just gone.” However, because of his knowledge of astronomy, Tiede knew the true nature of the object; it was a satellite, reflecting sunlight. Tiede said the pulsating was caused by the rotating of the satellite and it disappeared because it went into the Earth’s shadow. He said most UFO sightings can be explained “Most UFO reports do have very simple explanations,” he said. “They’re a
bright planet, or they’re a certain type of aircraft or the classic weather balloon.” Many experiences with UFOs or alleged alien life can be attributed to the human mind, said associate professor of psychology Richard Anderson. He said people have experiences that are not real, such as dreams or hallucinations, but some have a harder time distinguishing between the mind and reality. Some people tend to have too much faith in the human mind, he said. “Some people have so much respect for the power of the human mind that they don’t have enough respect for the ways the human mind can fail,” Anderson said. Although Tiede is skeptical of flying saucers, he does believe life is common throughout the universe. “My opinion is that I think life is common in the universe, but multicellular life is probably really rare,” he said. Tiede said the materials and conditions for life are everywhere, but complex life is very fragile. He added that if there were other intelligent civilizations, it would be nearly impossible for them to get to Earth. “If you took a spacecraft more or less the size of the space shuttle, and you wanted to get it going something like 95 percent of the speed of light, you’d need more energy to do that than humans have generated for all of history,” Tiede said.
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COLUMN From Page 8 cooler. It brought out that adolescent early stage of angst and started a small passion for many music lovers who are now adults. T he a lbu m w i l l be i n
t he h i s tor y b o ok s for m a n y y e a r s t o c ome a nd w i l l st i l l ser ve a s a n i n f luenc e for mu sicia ns sta r t i ng t hei r ca reer ma ny yea rs f r om now. You r c h i ld r en w i l l b e s c r e a mi ng “I a m one of t hose, melod r a mat ic fool s” i n t hei r be d room s.
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Ryan Sowers turned down two contracts to keep his music closer for himself.
SOWERS From Page 8 CD’s when I was just selling them [at the University],” Sowers said. “After I sold a few hundred CD’s my mom called me a couple of times and said ‘hey we keep getting letters from this company who want to sign you.’” Bob Bender productions offered twice for Sowers to sign a contract, leading for Sowers and his music to be featured in commercials and movies. The artist remembers having a long talk with his mom before signing and thinking “it was all great, but then I had to stop myself and say ‘this is nuts.’” “[Playing music] is an outlet and a way to tell my stories and my life and about my experiences,” Sowers said. “The music meant more to me than the money or the contract or anything. I wasn’t going to give up my memories, my story, my life for someone else.” Sowers started playing shows for the spirituality group called Cru at the University as a freshman and met guitarist and Cru staff member Steve Rieske. The musician has seen Sowers perform throughout town many times.
“He’s more willing to write the song he wants to write and he knows how to write a song that people will enjoy,” Rieske said. “He writes creative songs and is a good performer.” Aside from turning down fame, one of the greatest moments in his musical career was when he played “Hallelujah” at a memorial for the two Alpha Xi Delta students who died in a car accident in 2012. “We played the song and it was really emotional for me,” Sowers said. “They knew my music was doing something bigger than me. It was providing closure, something that could help people.” Singer/songwriter Cory Breth performed at a few of the same places Sowers did in Bowling Green and remembers the talent in Sowers. Breth said turning down contracts isn’t something that is easy. “I think you just have to draw a line somewhere and that’s where his line was,” Breth said. “He just wanted to play to tell his story.” Sowers is expecting to perform for Dance Marathon this year and for questions on purchasing his album “Contradictions,” students can email him at rsowers@ bgsu.edu.
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