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BG PLAYS TIE-BREAKING SERIES CRITICIZING RELIGIONThe Bowling Green baseball team looks to break a third place tie in a home series against Akron. Falcons look to continue recent success. | PAGE 6

Forum Editor Autumn Kunkel talks about Pope Francis’ recent remarks about the pay gap. She says that church leaders need to change their own sexist rules before ral-lying for gender and equality. | PAGE 5

Leslie PottsJunior, Political Science

WHAT IS YOUR SECRET TO SUCCESS DURING FINALS WEEK?

“Using your planner, supportive friends and strong coffee.”

A FULLER HOUSEColumnist Hannah Benson gives her thoughts on the “Full House” reboot, “Fuller House.” She says the similarity between the two shows is comforting to fans. Check out the column on Page 3.

SOPHOMORE PAC Wood IV, left, and freshman April Bryant, right, held a bake sale at the Union on Thursday to raise money for an Arts Village trip to a Navajo reservation in New Mexico.

Poe Ditch Music Festival:The Greatest Rock Concert You Never Heard Of PART 2 OF 3: The Concert

EDITOR’S NOTE This is the second part of a three-part series examining the Poe Ditch Music

Festival which will mark its 40th anniversary June 1. The largest outdoor concert held in Ohio of its time, the event rocked the campus and community like few other events in local history.

By Annie FuriaPulse Editor

The morning of June 1, 1975 dawned hot and humid in Bowling Green. It was a sunny morning as traffic began to back up on Interstate 75 and crowds of people flocked to the Doyt L. Perry Stadium.

The Poe Ditch Music Festival, a culmination of 18 months of work by the student group Cultural Boost to bring together the largest music festi-val the University had ever seen, was about to begin.

Kim Jakeway, then president of Cultural Boost and now a retired school principal, remembers seeing the traffic on the highway from the top of the stadium.

“I can remember looking out from the stadium ... and I could see noth-ing but miles and miles and miles of stopped vehicles on I-75,” he said

The highway was so packed with traffic that when the bands per-

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COOKIES FOR TRIPStudent runs for mayor, looks to build relations with community

Dan Phillips demonstrates leadership through involvmentBy Michele Mathis

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Dan Phillips, a fourth year con-struction management major, began his candidacy for Mayor of Bowling Green on April 26.

Phillips said he possessed the types of leadership qualities from the very beginning as he developed from an Eagle Scout to serving in a student leader-ship position on Interfraternity Council.

Phillips serves as an active member in the fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon.

“[Greek life] has positioned me very well to do the things I want to do,” he said.

Devin Aller, a former Interfraternity colleague and personal friend of Phillips, said to his character, “Dan’s a go-getter kind of guy.”

Aller will be looking into participating in-depth with Phillips’ campaign as a possible campaign manager.

“I’m ready to see how the community reacts to seeing a college student being involved

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By Meg KraftReporter

Supervisors and manag-ers at the University may look forward to a new user-friendly experience when working with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Human Capital Management [HCM] 9.2 application upgrade.

The upgrade will go live May 26 at 6 a.m.

Dave Weimer, appli-cations developer, and Margo Kammeyer, project manager of Information Technology Services, explained the upgrade through a demonstration in Olscamp on Wednesday.

“The HCM system effects everyone at the university,” Kammeyer said. The pur-pose of the application is to allow faculty to see time and labor functions and timesheets.

The new, cleaner and user-friendly upgrade stores information for faculty members and includes common labor and payroll testing.

The major change of the application includes the ability to manage delega-tion. Managers can approve or report time for their employees as well as create delegation requests.

Employees can request

vacation times or leaves of absence and supervi-sors or managers can approve or reject the trans-actions all through the HCM application.

New features also include timesheet tabs that report time status and a leave and compensatory pay plan.

According to Weimer, the updated features are “really good for supervi-sors,” but the reason for upgrading is because of the software provider.

“The HCM upgrade is necessary because it is an Oracle product and will end the support of the cur-rent version in June, so we want to make sure we stay supported by Oracle,” he said.

Weimer said the applica-tion upgrade will change for managers and supervi-sors, but student employees will see very few changes to the BCOMM time clock system.

Kammeyer said fea-tures from the old version of HCM will still work, but managers should take advantage of the upgrade.

“It gives them expanded capabilities, quicker access to employee information and we’ve consolidated a lot of information so they don’t have to go to multiple

places to find it,” she said.Weimer noted the impor-

tance of staying up-to-date on the latest HCM upgrades.

“It’s so [managers] are aware of the new function-ality,” he said. “If you’re not paying attention to the communications, you might not realize you have a lot of new features and more information at your fingertips.”

Lydia Rosales, clerical specialist, attended the event because she deals with payroll services on a daily basis. She was sat-isfied with the preview of new features of the HCM upgrade.

“It’s easier to navigate,” she said. “It seems like it will make things quicker for us.”

Kammeyer suggests managers who are not familiar with the software should take training classes to learn about the applica-tions.

“It’s going to increase effi-ciency across the board,” she said.

Managers and supervi-sors who are interested in becoming more familiar with the applications can attend Manager Self Service classes, offered April 6 through May 14. Register at infopro.bgsu.edu.

App upgrade can affect employeesVacation requests, payroll could change for University workers

City does not move forward in competi-tion, continues land use plan

Bowling Green did not advance into the next round of the America’s Best Communities com-petition.

The 50 quarter-finalist com-munities were announced April 29. Ohio communities moving ahead are Celina, Circleville, Medina, Portsmouth, Troy and Wilmington. Bowling Green was one of more than 400 communities to enter.

Downtown Bowling Green Director Barbara Ruland, who worked on the city’s application, said while it was disappointing not to be chosen to move ahead in the competition, the city will still be moving ahead with its land use plan.

The America’s Best Communities competition was “just an oppor-tunity that was too good for us to pass up,” Ruland said.

The city’s application focused on fostering the connection between the University and downtown. This includes improving the East Wooster Street corridor, which is one of City Council’s priorities for the year, Council President Michael Aspacher said at the State of the City address last week.

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Task force to suggest usage for green space

University architecture students design potential plans for grassy area downtownBy Kathryne Rubright

City Editor

Mayor Richard Edwards will announce on Monday the members of a task force that will recom-mend a plan for the city’s green space.

The open green space, located on the corner of South Church and West Wooster Streets, is the result of the demolition of Bowling Green Junior High School.

The city purchased the space from Bowling Green City Schools for $1, agreeing to relieve the district of the demo-lition costs, said Brian Bushong, finance direc-tor. Demolition cost the city $485,000.

The task force will be responsible for recom-mending a plan for the space and a timeline for implementing the plan, Edwards said.

In 2008 — before the 2012 demolition of the school — the space was studied as a potential site for a new municipal building, Edwards said.

While no plans are set in stone, it’s not likely that a municipal building will be the task force’s recom-mendation. The city can’t afford a new building, Edwards said.

“It would take a lot of money to do that and we’re not in a position to do that given other pri-orities for the city right now,” Edwards said.

Given that, the task force must consider the operating and mainte-nance costs of whatever option it recommends for the space. Additionally, the project will require citizen funding.

“In order to build com-munity pride, I want to see a public fundrais-ing campaign,” Edwards said. “We’ve had a lot of success in Bowling Green doing that very kind of thing.”

He mentioned over $800,000 for the Simpson Garden Park and over $400,000 for the Tucker Woods as previous exam-ples of this kind of fund-

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Meg KraftFashion Columnist

Finals week fashion consists of oversized hoodies, comfortable yoga pants and under-eye bags.

With just one week standing between students and sum-mer break, Falcons are looking forward to shedding the baggy clothes and showing off their summer styles.

Chelsea Riegsecker, inclusive early childhood major, can’t wait to wear sundresses.

“I’m going to Italy this sum-mer, so I’m probably going to be wearing a lot of long, f lowing dresses,” she said.

Riegsecker wears a pink and teal Mudd f loral dress with black tights and a magenta blazer.

Finding light, trendy and cheap summer footwear was easy for her as she wears black canvas slip-on shoes from the dollar store.

According to Glamour Magazine, comfortable f lats and slides are back in style.

Birkenstock crew-cut sandals, Rainbow leather f lip-f lops and an assortment of TOMS have been seen on campus in the final weeks of spring semester.

Riegsecker loves summer styles but thinks some trends have reached their peak.

“I hate when people wear tights underneath their shorts and overly ripped jeans,” she said.

DaiJane’ Littlejohn, crimi-nal justice and psychology

major, says denim shorts are one of her many favorite warm weather trends.

She expresses her summer style by dressing in comfortable but chic ensembles.

“Maxi dresses, crop tops, shorts and skirts, anything that’s easy to throw on,” she said.

Old Nav y’s Early Summer Extravaganza sale currently features maxi dresses as low as $22.00.

Littlejohn dines in style, wearing an oversized thrift store f lannel, Forever21 denim and black combat boots in the Union.

Dresses, light V-necks, demin shorts in for upcoming season’s warmer weather

Students prepare for summer, on-campus fashion trends

See FASHION | Page 4 MEG KRAFT | THE BG NEWSDAIJANE’ LITTLEJOHN pairs flannel and denim as she eats in the Union.

By Hannah BensonReporter

What ever happened to predictability?I’ll answer that; it hasn’t gone anywhere.Following in the footsteps of the “Boy Meets World”’s sequel

series “Girl Meets World,” a sequel series to “Full House,” titled “Fuller House,” will release on Netflix in 2016.

John Stamos, otherwise known as the beloved Uncle Jesse, made the announcement April 21 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

In addition to Uncle Jesse, characters to return to the show include Michele, D.J., Stephanie, Joey, Kimmy, Aunt Becky and Danny.

Let me tell you, the fourth grade me is pumped.The original show aired 192 episodes within the span of

1987-1995 on ABC.However, reruns have aired for the past two decades, creat-

ing a following amongst another generation.Like the “Boy Meets World” spin-off, it’s not surprising that

“Fuller House” will have a very similar plotline to “Full House.”The series will follow D.J. Tanner, who is pregnant and

recently widowed, and her two sons. She will receive help from her sister Stephanie, an aspiring musician, and best friend Kimmy.

When the original show first aired, it followed Danny Tanner, recently widowed, receiving the help of his brother-in-law and best friend to raise his three daughters.

Sound familiar?Honestly though, I think its smart to create an almost identi-

cal plotline.The audience (and by audience, I mean me) is looking for

familiar.They know why they liked the show and they want to come

back to that.It will be interesting to see the show take place in today’s

technology-driven world.One thing I am concerned with is believability.

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She said she plans to obtain a “chill” summer wardrobe and shop at Bakers Shoes for colorful sandals and sneakers.

Pops of color and pat-terns will also be seen in menswear this summer, according to GQ Magazine.

Gehrig Dieter, sport management major, wears a blue and white pinstripe Banana Republic but-ton down shirt, Zanerobe khaki joggers and lim-ited edition J.Crew Nike sneakers.

He plans to wear casu-al, low top Nike running shoes and football cleats this summer.

“My favorite summer menswear trends are light V-neck shirts, ath-letic shorts and athlet-ic shoes,” he said. “This will be a good summer for Henley [shirts].”

Dieter suggests students shop at J.Crew’s factory store and H&M to get the most stylish yet affordable summer styles.

“I think Crocs and cargo shorts gotta go,” he said, referring to unfashionable summer trends.

Students wil l soon exchange their finals week stress and sweats for light-er layers and stylish sum-mer threads.

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MEG KRAFT | THE BG NEWS MEG KRAFT | THE BG NEWSCHELSEA RIEGSECKER models a floral dress, which are a trend for summer fashion. GEHRIG DIETER models one of his summer outfits. He advises to shop at J.Crew and H&M.

By Zachary FergusonPulse Reporter

Death Cab for Cutie released their eighth album, “Kintsugi,” on March 31, 2015. It has been a long wait since their last album, “Codes and Keys,” which came out in 2011.

“Kintsugi” rings of all the same motifs a Death Cab for Cutie album has. This is not to say that “Kintsugi” is not unique from the other Death Cab albums, but that it is a continuation of the unique sound that only Death Cab for Cutie can provide.

The specialty of Death Cab can be traced back to their lead vocalist, Ben Gibbard. Gibbard has a special voice that can not only be associated to the alternative genre but to Death Cab for Cutie itself.

More recently Gibbard’s voice can be related with his other band, Postal Service, but the true cham-pion is Death Cab for Cutie.

“Kintsugi” feels like a sequel to “Codes and Keys.” The songs ring of similarity, but the differ-ence is in their pace and tone. “Codes and Keys” was a slower and more somber album, reflecting more on emotions of nostalgia and inner torment. “Kintsugi” is faster and has more songs that have the rock n roll element. “Kintsugi” is a extension of the band’s character development. In “Codes and Keys,” the band was more reserved and depressed, hiding behind a slight smile.

In “Kintsugi,” the band has grown in maturity

with the understanding that life is beautiful, even through the hard times. The band still sings of trou-bles, but they sound more comfortable with dealing with them.

The first single that they released for “Kintsugi” was “Black Sun.” This was a nice taste of what was to come. “Black Sun” gave Death Cab fans an exciting teaser from a band that had been away for some time.

The album opens up with “No Room In Frame,” which starts off a lit-tle slow but picks up as Gibbard sings to us about his place in world. By this point the album has you hooked, which is perfect because the next song is “Black Sun,” which gives fans familiarity. Like most singles, “Black Sun” is defi-nitely not the most impres-sive song on the album.

The song that makes the album rememberable against their other albums would have to be their song “Good Help (Is So Hard To Find).” The song still has that distinct Death Cab sound, but it has a strange feeling of joyful hope mixed with repressed sadness. This mixture of emotions make the song an anthem of confidence and opti-mism that the band seems to have gained since “Codes and Keys.” The album is one of the best the band has ever made, and could probably only be rivaled by “Codes and Keys.”

It is a perfect album for graduating college students and a must-listen for all that enjoy alternative music.

Media Review:“Kintsugi”

Band’s newest album has familiar sound in comparison to previous album

PHOTO PROVIDEDREVIEWER ZACHARY Ferguson writes that “Kintsugi,” pictured here, maintains the unique sound of Death Cab for Cutie.

HOUSE From Page 3

I can forgive the acting skills of a three- or ten-year-old, but I don’t know how well the now middle-aged actors are going to fare.

I have to remind myself though, it’s not quality I’m after.

It is indeed this famil-iarity; the desire to remi-nisce about my childhood in a way.

Do I think there will be horrible puns, well-timed sentimental music, witty catch phrases and a moral at the end of episode?

YES. In fact, I demand it.The show would not be

complete without these.Not only am I excited

because I am revisiting a show from my childhood, but because I now have something new to fuel my Netflix addiction.

When the show airs, you can expect to find me in my room until I finish the last episode.

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Questions can lead to answers about where to go in life

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WHEN FINALS HIT YOU

JASON MCINTYRECOLUMNIST

The semester is coming to a close, the end of a short yet seemingly long journey, as many students are graduating.

Where to go is a big question for many people, including myself. I have learned that in life there are many questions we ask ourselves and that for every question there is an answer.

A lot of the time, we can get paranoid and upset when trying to figure things out in our lives, but we must use caution when choosing the tools we will use to discover the answer to a question. If you bring anger, frustration and hate along with you on your journey, you may not be able to handle the answer. If you bring love, patience and humility with you, then you can take apart the question and under-stand its entirety.

Finding a career path, a friend, a lover and a solution to a problem is no easy task and can take a lot of time. The key is to remember that life is an adventure and there are going to be many twists and turns that will affect you in all kinds of crazy ways.

Sometimes we jump to questions that are root-ed in worries and short-comings and we have to recognize that there are some questions in

this world we will never know the answers to. And sometimes that is a very good thing.

Our fears have a funny way of making us ques-tion ourselves from time to time. These are doubts and they have ruined the dreams of many.

We, as college students, are at many forks in the road in terms of knowing where we want to end up. Some of us are sure and some of us are not. And there is nothing wrong with not knowing where you want to go! As long as we use the tools we have built for ourselves, we can find many answers along the way.

When we approach questions in a calm and positive way, we can root the question in a goal. In order to get somewhere, you have to set a destina-tion. Passions, desires and interests are the best ways to reach a goal, so we must be sure to include these in our questions.

Uncertainty is natural and it happens for a very good reason. It reveals to us that there is a hidden treasure inside of us that has yet to be discovered.

College is but one step toward success and some-times we’ll have to trip on a step before we land in our next journey.

There is really no telling where we will end up in this world. You can prepare all you want for something and end up changing per-spectives right at the end because of a discovery of something that can lead to greater things.

The key is to remain open to such discoveries and the only way to do that is to always ask ques-tions. You should have more questions in your lifetime, then answers. An answer for everything does not make it right, because sometimes ques-tions have more than one answer.

You may or may not have a clear direction when you walk across the stage, but you will walk away with many questions that will lead to an educated future. The funny thing I have learned about college is you come with questions and you leave with more questions.

So when you have your degree in your hand remember: answers come in their own good time and rushing only makes you miss the beauty of success.

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AUTUMN KUNKEL FORUM EDITOR

On Wednesday, Pope Francis declared his sup-port for equal pay among men and women for doing the same job, citing the gender pay gap that plagues working women.

He went on to express his disgust with the fact that such an injustice exists, saying “Why should it be taken for granted that women must earn less than men? The disparity is pure scandal.”

According to the Washington Post, the Pope’s comments were part of a speech regard-ing the importance of mar-riage in society, especially in lieu of declining mar-riage rates.

In the speech, the reli-gious head addressed the importance of equality between men and women, stating that Christians should embrace “radical equality” by supporting equal pay for equal work. He went on to say that it was wrong to blame the decline in marriage on the women’s rights movement and that doing so “...is a form of chauvinism that always wants to control the woman.”

This isn’t the only time a Catholic leader has addressed the status of women. According to the Post, in 1995, Pope John Paul II addressed the issue of pay inequality in his “letter to women,” in

which he stated that there is a need to “achieve real equality” for women in all aspects of life, including the workforce and within the family.

Pope Francis’ comments have, of course, been large-ly applauded. But I’ve been left sorely unimpressed.

Church leaders may talk about the importance of equality between men and women, but what about the discrimination that takes place in the very religion they represent?

Still, in 2015, women are not allowed to be priests, bishops or popes. And in some Catholic churches, girls aren’t even allowed to be servers.

Even the Catholic Church’s condemnation of unnatural birth control hurts women more so than men. Sure, the Church is against birth control for both men and women, but the inability to use it has always, historically speak-ing, burdened women con-siderably more.

After all, we’re the ones who must physically carry the pregnancy in our bod-ies, bear through the pain of labor and are expected to be the main caregivers

of our children, all very limiting roles for women who may wish to pur-sue other avenues, such as a career.

And what about the reasons for not allow-ing women to be priests? According to the Catholic Education Resource Center [CERC], even though “...it can’t be denied that there are women who could be more moving orators than some priests and provide more consolation within the confessional...”, they are not allowed to be priests because Jesus chose only men to be his apostles.

The CERC further states that Jesus had other roles for women, “...but they were not to assume the function of teaching in the Christian assembly...which was restricted to the clergy.”

Despite the educa-tion center’s efforts, all I hear are excuses to keep women in their place. And although Church leaders continue to rally for jus-tice, I can’t get past the bla-tant hypocrisy.

They can talk about the need for gender equality all they want, but until sex-ist, oppressive regulations regarding women’s places in the Catholic Church are abolished, “talk” is all they’ll ever be.

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET What is your secret to success during finals week?“Not having finals.”

“Having fun with it because stress leads to overthinking. Swing dancing helps.”

“Avoiding electronics because that’s my biggest distraction.”

“Studying in little tidbits.”

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Friday, May 1, 2015 6SPORTS

BG attempts to make tourney, build on Kertes’ career game

By Aaron ParkerAssistant Sports Editor

Following a career night for senior Jamie Kertes in a win over Valparaiso, the Bowling Green softball team will finish its regular season on the road against Eastern Michigan and Central Michigan.

Kertes threw a complete game shutout against the Crusaders on Wednesday to lead her team to a 2-0 victory. Kertes struck out a career-high 10 batters in the game, the last she will play on Meserve Field as a Falcon.

“It was definitely a bittersweet day,” Kertes said. “It was very exciting, and I just tried to enjoy being out on this field and not take it for granted. It’s been an honor to play on this field.”

The Falcons will look to keep that momentum as they head into the weekend for two games

apiece against Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan.

“We need to take the way we played today into this weekend,” Kertes said. “We have to keep pushing, one pitch, one hit and one inning at a time.”

To have a chance at making the Mid-American Conference tour-nament, the team will have to win three out of the four games, something it has not been able to do since its opening weekend in February.

In addition, the team will need the seventh and eighth placed Ohio University and Akron to split their doubleheader this weekend. In the event that either Akron or Ohio sweeps in their series, the Falcons could still take the last tournament spot if they win all four games. That is something they have not done this season.

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Falcons look to move into sole possession of third placeBy Brandon Shrider

Sports Editor

The tie between Bowling Green and Akron baseball will be broken this weekend.

The tale of the tape has been a bit different for either side over its past few weeks.

BG has won each of its last four

Mid-American Conference series while Akron has lost its last two, with a 1-5 MAC record in that span.

But the teams are locked in a third place tie within the MAC East, each with a 9-9 conference record.

“We are tied with them in the MAC standings, so this weekend is very important,” said head coach

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Danny Schmitz. “The MAC is a really tight race right now so we must execute all weekend long.”

Starting the year 5-16, 0-5 in the MAC, the Falcons understand that the hole they put themselves in requires them to continue their recent string of success.

Looking for a berth into the MAC tournament, this will be a pivotal conference series in which the Falcons can seize the opportunity and separate themselves firmly into third place in the East.

The recipe for success is simple for BG: do what it has been doing.

All three phases have been clicking for the Falcons over

its recent games.As a team over its past

19 games, BG has hit .295, averaged more than six runs per game while the pitching staff has a combined ERA of 3.50 and let opponents hit just .231 against them.

The team has scored at least 10 runs in four of those games while holding oppo-nents to three runs or less in 11 of those games.

BG will have to quick-ly right the ship from Wednesday’s game though.

After beating rival Toledo at home on Tuesday, 5-1, the Falcons traveled to Toledo a day later, ultimately losing 13-6 and surrendering the second most runs they have all season — and most they have surrendered in a loss.

Akron had more midweek success this time around.

The Rockets won a home

game against Malone on Tuesday, 9-7, before defeat-ing Youngstown State on the road, 4-2.

Either way, despite the recent success for the Falcons, they will urgently be looking to maintain their level of play at each of the three phases that coach Danny Schmitz preaches.

BG expects to continue rolling with its usual three-man rotation of Jason Link on Friday, Andrew Lacinak on Saturday and Zac Carey wrapping up the series on Sunday.

The pitching has been a drastic improvement from the beginning of the year, and now-closer Trevor Blaylock’s midweek start has been a welcomed sur-prise that bodes well for the Falcons to win their fifth consecutive MAC series win.

Track and field team prepares for Jesse Owens ClassicBy Aaron Parker

Assistant Sports Editor

With only two weekends remaining until the Mid-American Conference Cha mpionships, t he Bowling Green track and field team will compete in the Jesse Owens Classic at Ohio State this weekend.

Athletes from over 35 teams are expected to compete in the meet.

“This is our last big weekend to move up all of the lists and finish preparations for the MAC Championships,” head coach Lou Snelling said. “We need to take advan-tage of our opportunities.”

Going into the meet, the Falcons are ranked No. 14 in the Great Lakes Region by the United States

Track and Field Coaches Association. Out of the MAC schools ranked in the region, Bowling Green is ranked fifth. Nationally, the team has moved five spots since last week to take 53.

Well into the season there have been stand-out performances that the team will look to build on against tough competition.

Redshirt senior Brittany Sinclair has dominated the 400 hurdles this year in the conference, break-ing the school record with a time of 58.97 seconds. She ranks first in the con-ference in the event and is more than a full second ahead of her closest com-petition. She is the only athlete in the MAC to run

the event in under a min-ute and has done so twice already this year.

Sinclair is also ranked fourth in the MAC in the 400.

Junior Alicia Arnold has also put herself in scor-ing position come tour-nament time, qualifying for three separate events. She is ranked fourth in the MAC in the long jump and is less than five inch-es behind the number one spot.

Arnold is currently third in the 100 and sixth in the 200.

Senior Brooke Pleger has also dominated this year, but she has been doing so on a national scale. She is ranked first in the nation in the ham-mer throw and broke the

school and MAC record this past Friday at the Ashland Alumni Open.

Her throw of 225 feet 11 inches broke a MAC record that has been standing since 2009. She is five feet ahead of any athlete in the country so far this year. In addition, the throw moved her up to seventh all time in collegiate event history.

Overall, the team has 18 marks that are ranked among the top 10 in the conference and have another 15 marks in the top 20. Four of those marks currently qualify for the NCAA East Region Preliminary Round in Florida.

The Classic will start on Friday with the first Falcon scheduled to compete at 2 p.m.

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The first opponent for the Falcons will be Eastern, who currently sits at the second lowest spot in the conference with an overall record of 16-30 and a conference record of 4-11. They are also on a four game losing streak, the last loss coming in an 8-0 shutout.

Central, on the other hand, has won four out of its last five and are sitting

in a three way tie for the fourth spot in the MAC. The Chippewas are 22-19 overall and have a 10-6 record in the conference. They have also been scor-ing the ball in high num-bers as of late, sending home a total of 23 runs in their last three wins. The Falcons have not scored that total in their last 10 games.

Despite the odds being stacked heavily against their favor, head coach Shannon Salsburg believes that there is still a chance

for post season play.“We now have to take

care of one pitch at a time, but if we play like we did [Wednesday], and we play within ourselves, I know we are capable of having a big weekend and mak-ing a heck of a run at it,” she said. “And obviously getting a pitching perfor-mance like [Wednesday] never hurts, either.”

The Falcons will begin with Eastern on Friday at 1 p.m. while Akron and Ohio start their doubleheader on Saturday.

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Falcon basketball duo leaves program

What has been rumored on Twitter for the last few weeks has become official.

The University’s athletic department has officially announced that men’s basketball players Delvin Dickerson and Jovan Austin have asked for and been

granted their release from the program. Austin and Dickerson were team-

mates at Paris Junior College before joining the program for the 2014-2015 season.

Dickerson averaged 5.7 points per game and 2.4 rebounds, playing in 31 games for the Falcons.

Austin averaged 3.5 points per game, 1.4 rebounds and 2.6 assists, playing in all 33 games for the Falcons.

The athletic department said it will have no further comment.

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forming at PDMF tried to make it to Bowling Green from the Toledo airport, they had to be flown in by helicopter, Jakeway said.

The stadium opened the gates at 9:30 a.m. and the crowd began entering. With more than 10,000 people having camped out the night before, on every open green space imaginable near the stadi-um, Jakeway said it was a “flood” of people that surged through the open gates.

When it was all over, final esti-mates ranged from 40,000 to 44,000 for the total number of attendees that assembled in tiny so-called “Boring Green” for its first, and pos-sibly last, major outdoor concert.

As the crowd filled the stadium in the hours before the 11:30 a.m. start time, no one had a hint of how the day might end.

“I was very happy with the set-up,” Jakeway said. “I was very happy with the way things pro-gressed and I felt very confident that the show itself would go with-out a hitch.”

Jakeway, and everyone else in Bowling Green, would eventually

see their hopes for the day dashed.For those who attended the Poe

Ditch Music Festival, some of the most prevalent memories are not of the music, but the massive crowd and the widespread drug use at the festival.

Ken Schoeni, who handled the maintenance of the Doyt at the time, vividly recalls the num-ber of attendees who were affected by drugs and alcohol.

“They were all juiced up, my God Almighty,” Schoeni said. “And they were on drugs more than they were alcohol.”

In an article published in the July 3, 1975, edition of The BG News, the acting director of drug and crisis intervention group Karma, Dr. Marvin Kumler, estimated between 300 and 350 people were treated at the first aid station.

The article states of those treated, “half of them [were] for drug-related illnesses. Other afflic-tions were sunburns, cut feet, headaches and one broken ankle, Dr. Kumler said.”

Dan Feicht, who photographed the event for The BG News, remem-bers the wide use of a variety of hard drugs, specifically because it was out of character for Bowling Green.

Jakeway said out of the roughly 40,000 attendees, 30,000 left and “10,000 of your probably more hardcore rock fans that stayed around … they just dug in.”

Through the promoter’s connec-tions at Kansas City, Cultural Boost was able to borrow a tarp from the Kansas City Chiefs to protect the field, Jakeway said.

However, as the rain began to pour, concertgoers started cutting off pieces of it to shield themselves from the elements.

“[The tarp] almost disintegrat-ed,” Jakeway said.

Though the downpour lasted less than 30 minutes, the wires to the sound system were quickly underwater. Fandray wrote that the crowd was told Johnny Winter would play if the stage could be declared safe. Ultimately, Golden Earring and Johnny Winter can-celed, citing fears of electrocution.

At that point, the power to the sound system had been shut down because of the rain, Jakeway said.

“There was no way to turn it back on to say ‘Hey, we’re sorry,’” he said.

The remaining crowd was upset, to put it lightly. They had endured soaking rain, and when they real-ized the show would not go on, a

cascade of empty bottles began hit-ting the stage.

In an opinion column in the June 4, 1975, edition of The BG News, a G.M. DeWood called the cancel-lations a “culmination of abuse” from PDMF.

DeWood wrote, “A concert billed as ‘rain or shine’ is called because of a one hour rain. Does that say something about the preparations and the fine equipment.”

The crowd escalated into more violence when the windows to the track press box were broken and, according to The BG News, a molo-tov cocktail was thrown in and the press box went up in flames.

Later that night, a Wooster Street bar, the Gigolo, was also set on fire, though the culprits were never caught.

Jakeway said he recalled sitting on the stage in the stadium, staring at the destruction in “unbelief.”

“I could not fathom that reac-tion,” he said.

By midnight, the fires were extin-guished and most of the crowd had made its way out of Bowling Green. What remained was a mess, both physical and political, and the University administration had to quickly rise into action to clean it up.

“You didn’t see that sort of thing at Bowling Green. I mean, there was a lot of pot, but that was it,” Feicht said.

He added that the attendees of the concert were “over-whelmingly outsiders.”Jakeway said only 3,000

to 4,000 tickets were sold to students before the concert, but many students probably decid-ed to attend the day of, making it difficult to have an accurate count on how much of the crowd consisted of University students. Jakeway did estimate that the actual number of student attend-ees could be as much as double the presale numbers.

As for the crowd, Feicht said, “It was solid people all the way past the north end zone.”

“It was nothing that we had ever seen before in our little town. I mean, it was a mob,” he said.

The first indication that there might be real trouble at the fes-tival, as Jakeway remembers it, was the failure of the contracted security company to deliver the promised amount of personnel the night before.

“Things started going south when the security company decided they weren’t going to show,” Jakeway said.

Of the 150 security person-nel hired from Eagle Detective Agency of Toledo, “only about a handful of them showed up” the night before the festival, Jakeway

said.With the festival looming the

next day, Jakeway enlisted the help of 30 of his fraternity broth-ers to help keep order and screen people at the front gates.

“Some of my fraternity brothers were serious and some of my fra-ternity brothers were there to see the show and kind of got caught up with what was going on,” Jakeway said, but added that they did the best they could. Aid could not be expected from the Bowling Green Police Department, which was focused outside the stadium.

Feicht describe the atmosphere of PDMF as “surreal,” as nothing of that scale had ever happened at the University before.

“It had kind of a Woodstock feel on a very small scale,” he said.

Concert attendee Deb Weiser, who was then entering her senior year at the University, said her overall impression of PDMF was of it being disorganized, citing long pauses between the acts as bands set up and the sound sys-tem being impossible to hear in certain parts of the stadium.

Jakeway said the bands who performed raved about the ener-gy of the crowd, who he said were reveling in the music.

“You could tell [by] that vibe, that energy, that they were enjoy-ing themselves,” he said.

A reviewer for The BG News, David Fandray, wrote in his June 3, 1975, review of the concert that

each of the stylisti-cally diverse acts per-

formed well and appealed to their particular audience. Fandray had praise for Richie Havens, who he said, “as expected, created some-thing of a Woodstock atmosphere in the stadium.”

Havens was followed by heavy-metal band Montrose, which Fandray described as “simple, hard-punching rock.” He said excitement was building for the headlining acts, Golden Earring and Johnny Winter.

Those who were at the concert agreed that it was fairly tame, and if nothing else happened, the concert would have been remem-bered merely for the crowd of people and the prevalence of drugs.

But the weather proved unco-operative. What had started as a sunny, hot, humid day by mid-afternoon turned into a cloudy day that promised rain.

Weiser remembers seeing the impending storm on the horizon.

“It was those big, deep thun-derclouds that are really dark gray along the bottom,” she said. She describe the clouds as “the bil-lowing white … prow of [a] ship coming toward you.”

Jakeway remembers catch-ing a glimpse of the storm in the distance at about 5:30 p.m. The storm hit Toledo first, giving the organizers time to warn the con-certgoers of the impending storm.

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The beginning conver-sation about running for mayor came from a group of students, Phillips said.

“There was a group of students…there was a conversation about stu-dent involvement in the city. Over time, the conver-sation started to develop to, ‘Well, maybe we could do something about this, maybe we can get a little more involved,’” he said.

Phillips is excited to be focusing on merging the city and campus together.

“We don’t represent our-selves the way we should be,” he said. “Students should see that there is a need to represent themselves.”

Phillips explained that the community does a lot for the students, but the students don’t necessarily appreciate it.

“We need to show that we do care and it is important to us…. Students are only here for 9 months out of the year and that’s [only] for 4 years. One could argue that they’re not affected by what goes on in the cit-ies, but the fact of the mat-ter is, that’s entirely false,” he said.

The campaign will begin with Phillips looking into

how he can “build the bridge” between the com-munity and the University.

“[This] campaign is a call to action,” he said.

Phillips urges that his candidacy is com-ing from a “friendly and loving” place.

“We intend to be better,” Phillips said.

He is running against two other canidates, Kelly Wicks and current mayor Richard Edwards.

Wicks said a student-launched campaign is speaking to the idea that there are voices that feel like they are not being heard, and the Wicks cam-paign will stay positive.

“Our campaign encour-ages those to stand on their own merit,” Wicks said.

Wicks will taking advan-tage of the warm weather to outreach to the commu-nity and to look heavily on campus as well.

“When I say this commu-nity, I mean everybody,” he said. “I am counting on voters to look at the three candidates and make the best decision for Bowling Green.”

While the Wicks cam-paign continues, Phillips’ is just getting started.

“He’s going to be that guy that stays up late,” Aller said.

Phillips will be offi-cially signing into ballet tomorrow morning at the courthouse.

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raising.A building is financially

impractical and also not what the community pre-fers, Edwards said.

“The over whelming body of opinion is all in the direction of a green space,” said Edwards, whose own opinion aligns with that. “I think these kinds of public spaces have great value…. I’m very pro-green space.”

Edwards said he is “very grateful” to Salim Elwazani, professor of architecture and environ-mental design, and his graduate students, who designed concepts for the green space in class.

One of those concepts incorporated the history of the city, an aspect that Edwards hopes the task force’s recommendation includes.

Two of the graduate stu-dents “did some pretty clever research going back to the original founding families of 1833. And they had proposed an element within their design that would list the names of the founding families,” Edwards said. “I think that’s kind of cool.”

Students visited the

site several times over the course of completing their projects, Elwazani said. In January, the proj-ects were exhibited in the Wood County District Public Library.

Edwards would like the task force to complete its work in 2015, he said.

Eric Myers, who will be involved in the task force, said he hopes to have a plan to present by late fall. As a former Bowling Green teacher and board of education member, for-mer planning commission chair and a member of the Presbyterian church next to the space, Myers has several ties to the space.

The task force, which Edwards expects to have 12 to 15 members, will present its plan and timeline to City Council’s Public Lands and Buildings Committee, chaired by Theresa Charters Gavarone.

“It’ll be a broad commu-nity committee,” Myers said, including business people, community mem-bers, members of the First Presby terian Church, gover nment of f icia ls and likely someone from the University.

“There’s intense inter-est… in this space over here, which pleases me,” Edwards said.

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