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“INCEPTIONAL” Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film, “Inception,” delivers eye-catching special effects and captivates the viewer with engaging performances. See a review in PULSE on page 4.

THE BG NEWS

SUMMER WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2010

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Volume 104, Issue 161

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Website allows users to showcase talents, make extra cash By Bobby Waddle Reporter

Fiverr.com offers the opportunity to buy and sell any service imaginable for the price of five dollars. Sellers can keep $4 while the website keeps $1. Services, called “gigs” on the site, range from painting watercolor pictures from supplied photographs to people singing “Happy Birthday” to someone over the phone in Marilyn Monroe’s voice.

Fiverr is just one site that offers low priced opportunities for services. Others include TenBux. com, virtually the same with $10 gigs added to the mix, and ClickFive.net, which focuses on $5 Internet marketing through Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Based on her first impression, Popular Culture professor Montana Miller said that the site’s diverse advertisements could create new consumer needs overnight just by giving people ideas they had never thought of.

Miller said the low price creates possibilities for people to come up with small ideas that can eventually turn into “big moneymakers” if they catch on. “[The site] gives an individual the tools to come up with an idea and implement it instantly,” Miller said. University senior Nick Rush is implementing two of his ideas on Fiverr, allowing opportunities for people to get their names out around campus. Rush, who works for the

University’s recording services at the College of Musical Arts with hopes to become a recording engineer, currently offers two gigs that aid in giving people business exposure. Rush’s first gig ties directly into his line of work, He will review people’s music on “multiple sound systems” in order to give a “detailed, honest opinion” of aspiring musical artists. COURTNEY STELLAR | THE BG NEWS

See FIVERR | Page 2

FIVERR: University senior Nick Rush checks out profiles and services of other users on Fiverr.com. Rush offers two services through the website: posting fliers around campus and critiquing music.

USG votes down disapproval of tuition increase for fall By Max Filby Reporter

COURTNEY STELLAR | THE BG NEWS

KEEPING BUSY: Amy Craft Ahrens, the owner of For Keeps, works throughout the morning at her shop. Ahrens has worked there ever since its opening in 1997. Yesterday she worked on redesigning the store’s card section.

The Undergraduate Student Government voted down a resolution to this fall’s tuition increase on Monday. Senator Daniel Gordon proposed a revised resolution for the maximum 3.5 percent increase at the July 19 meeting. A resolution to the tuition increase was first proposed five days prior to the board of trustees vote to raise tuition next semester. The failed resolution identified tuition increases as preventing the University from being competitive and causing lower enrollment. However, this fall’s enrollment has been reported as the second highest

A WOMAN’S WORK The beginning of this year marked significant progress for a slow but gaining economic and cultural shift in the United States. For the first time in American history, the balance of the workforce tipped toward women, who now hold a majority of the nation’s jobs, The Atlantic reported. The article “The End of Men” stated that women also dominate colleges and professional schools, with three women receiving a Bachelor of Arts this year for every two men. Radhika Gajjala, director of American Culture Studies and former director of Women’s Studies at the University, said that one possible reason for this gender switch has to do with availability in the job market, as women are trained for much of the work currently available. Women occupy a majority of all but two of the 15 job categories projected to grow the most in the next decade, according to The Atlantic. Of the job categories women dominate, many entail service positions such as nursing, home health assistance, child care and food preparation, said The Atlantic. The

article attributed the success of women in these “nurturing professions” to “old stereotypes and habits,” leaving men less able to adapt. Gajjala also said studies show that men, on average, are not doing as well academically as women for social reasons at the university level. According to the University website, female students have outnumbered male students for several years as both undergraduate and graduate students at the main campus and Firelands campus. As of fall 2009, women comprised 56.1 percent of the total student population at Bowling Green. “It doesn’t mean anything negative for [male students],” Gajjala said. “I think it just means male students have to compete harder, work harder. The workplace environment is better for having men and women in it, so it doesn’t take opportunities away from men.” Junior Jordan Delp said he is concerned about the added competitiveness, as he hopes to get into the exclusive field of criminal profiling, but ultimately doesn’t worry that gender will come into effect either way.

See WORK | Page 2

USG Chairman of Internal Affairs

in University history. “I just think the tuition increase resolution was a day late and a dollar short,” said USG president Kevin Basch. “It didn’t really do anything and had a few inaccuracies, too, I think.” The proposed resolution also called for administrative cuts in order to reduce financial burdens at the University, according to a

See USG | Page 2

Freshman joins President’s Leadership Academy

More women are now in the workforce than men, also more prevalent at the college level By Jessica Hanna News Editor

Joe Edens

By Zach Gase Reporter

Holly Lovey is less than a month into her college career and has already begun to make a name for herself. As a member of the Sidney A. Ribeau President’s Leadership Academy she has been awarded a scholarship, as well as other opportunities, for her work in community service and as a leader. “She has a lot of leadership background,” Julie Ann Snyder, director of the President’s Leadership Academy, said. Since 1998, the Sidney A. Ribeau President’s Leadership Academy has been a program that focuses on servant-leadership. The program offers students a four-year scholarship that

SPORTS

NATION Creativity comes from spill

PULSE Lindsay Lohan gets locked up

Men’s soccer looks to improve stats

As the BP oil spill continues to affect the Gulf Coast region, artists are using their creativity to express their feelings about the effects of the spill | Page 3

Actress Lindsay Lohan began her jail sentence yesterday, continuing the trend of actors developing tarnished images and troubled personal lives after finding success at a young age | Page 4

After a rough season last year, the men’s soccer team, lead by coach Eric Nichols in his second year at the University, is looking to improve this season, thanks to intense training and new players | Page 6

Holly Lovey Freshman, PLA member

covers the cost of instructional tuition and general fees for 15-30 students annually, Snyder said. Lovey felt she was a good fit in the program because she had been in several leadership roles during high school. The Cleveland native attended St. Joseph Academy, an allgirls Catholic high school, where she participated in numerous clubs including the chess

See LOVEY | Page 2

PEOPLE ON THE STREET What service would you provide for five dollars? AMANDA HAY Senior, Medical Technology

“I’d give someone a haircut for $5.” | Page 2

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