The BG News 02.04.13

By Bridjet MendyukReporter

The Army and Air Force ROTC programs on campus use video games to train their cadets, but not the kind you can play on Xbox.

Hollywood has made lucra-tive prof its from Army-inf luenced shooting games such as Call of Duty, Halo and Battlefield, but these game sce-narios aren’t exactly what real-life military is like, said Nathan

Anderson, military science instructor for the University Army ROTC program. Some ROTC programs, including the University’s, don’t use the com-mercial games themselves as a form of training.

Anderson said the Army ROTC visits Camp Perry in Sandusky, Ohio, to practice shooting using advanced simulators.

“It’s basically a video game, but it’s not something you can just go and buy off the shelf,”

Anderson said. “It’s almost like the real thing.”

Anderson said the camp has a

By Seth WeberReporter

If students don’t have enough cash to get counseling, the School of Intervention Services is offering it for free.

Courtney Holmes, assistant pro-fessor in the School of Intervention Services, said free counseling ser-vices are offered every spring and fall semester. If enough students

come, free counseling will some-times be offered in the summer, Holmes said.

The free counseling is conduct-ed by students in the school, and Holmes helps give supervision to the students giving counseling.

Jaimee Prieur, graduate assis-tant in the School of Intervention

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MILESTONE ON ICE THE FEW, THE PROUDHockey swept Lake Superior State at home this weekend, marking the first time it has done so against a conference opponent since November 2008. | PAGE 5

This week’s columnist Ian Zulick tells us why our military veterans deserve our respect and gratitude, but explains that worshiping the military is un-American and promotes violence. | PAGE 4

HOW DIVERSE DO YOU THINK CAMPUS IS?Take a closer look at diversity on campus. Find out how the University promotes diversity, celebrates Black History Month and recruits minority students. Read about it in IN FOCUS PAGE 3.

Elizabeth LachatFreshman, Medical Labratory Science

WHAT TEAM WERE YOU ROOTING FOR IN THE SUPER BOWL? WHY?

“49ers because I hate birds.”

Adderall may be

abused for studying

The identities of Freddie and Frieda Falcon were revealed Saturday. Ryan Evarts and Kelsey Morgan (right) embrace after they were

beheaded at the hockey game Saturday night. April McCoy (bottom left)and Michael Majoros (middle right) were beheaded at the Men’s Basketball game Saturday afternoon during halftime. Ryan Evarts (bottom right) was beheaded at the hockey game against Lake Superior State between the second and third period. Kelsey Morgan (middle leftt) was beheaded by senior Tabitha Timbrook at the hockey game.

GUESS WHO?

Falcon mascots beheaded at games Saturday

Military utilizes unconventional video gamesVirtual reality, artificial weapons simulate battle, real life better than commercial software

Intervention Services provides free counseling for students

Program offers support, advice for undergraduates

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By Katie LogsdonReporter

With classes, homework, extracur-ricular activities and jobs, some college students may be trying to

balance their time for each activity.

Some students need help focusing on tasks through-out the day and may be prescribed a drug called Adderall by their doctor.

Adderall is a psychostimulant medication that

contains amphetamine, used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and narcolepsy.

However, some students may be getting the prescription drug ille-gally from friends and using it to focus on studying or completing other tasks.

“Students typically use Adderall because they believe that it will help them study, stay focused and stay awake,” Alcohol and Drug Prevention Specialist, Alicia Komives said. “This may or may not be the case depending on the person and they should consult with a physician first.”

Senior Alex Kocab, who does not have a prescription, said he uses the drug to help him focus on his schoolwork.

“It just makes you feel more alert and awake,” Kocab said. “It makes you energized to get an edge on exams and studying.”

Among persons age 18 to 22, full-time college students were twice as likely to use Adderall non-medically in the past year as those who had not been in college at all or who were only part time students, according to a federal government statistic.

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“It’s not something you can buy

off the shelf.”Nathan Anderson | ROTC Instructor

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Services, said the free coun-seling program has had about 100 clients so far, some of whom must go as part of class assignments.

Holmes said the number of students that come to free counseling changes every year.

While some students have heard of the free counseling service, they haven’t utilized it.

Junior Lacy Hoening said she plans on using the ser-vice, but hasn’t had a chance to yet. She said she thinks it is a “great resource” and likes that it’s free.

Sophomore Courtney Spears, while never hav-ing gone to free counseling, thinks that it’s a good idea for students who want someone to talk to.

Holmes said people come

in for things such as relation-ship and family trouble, as well as suffering from things like anxiety and depression.

Holmes said the free coun-seling program is part of the graduate students’ training in counseling.

Prieur is one of the student counselors, and also helps to schedule students for coun-seling sessions.

Working as a coun-selor through the School of Intervention Services is a part of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs, which is an accreditation program that helps students become licensed counselors.

Prieur said she likes being a counselor because she gets to apply what she’s learning.

“It’s really great that we get the opportunity to work with real clients so early,” she said.

Prieur said this is her first

year counseling and she has four appointments each week.

Aside from counseling, the student counselors can also observe each other. The clients and counselors are observed through a two-way mirror, all with the clients’ knowledge.

Prieur said observing other counselors helps her become a better counselor.

“When you’re outside of [sessions], you can pick up on things that you wouldn’t if you were trying to con-centrate in the session,” she said.

Holmes said she likes the service because it gives stu-dents another place to go.

“We supplement the great services that are already offered,” Holmes said.

To schedule a counseling appointment with the School of Intervention Services, call 419-372-2081.

Students might be turning to the drug because of their lifestyle, said Faith Yingling, director of Wellness.

“It may be a time man-agement issue, not getting enough sleep or they are feel-ing stressed out,” Yingling said. “There might be other things that we might be able to focus on to help with those things versus having to resort to the

use of a drug to help do that.”Although the drug

may help some students focus, there are effects and health concerns that students are not aware of, Yingling said.

“The problem with using any sort of drug that isn’t prescribed to you is that you don’t know what the effect is going to be on you,” Yingling said. “You don’t know how your body is going to react.”

Students may also become addicted to Adderall or begin

to use other drugs, Yingling said.

“One of the biggest dan-gers is that it lies in the pos-sibility of dependence on the drug,” Yingling said. “This particular drug has a high risk of abuse and dependence.”

Kocab is not concerned about the effects it could cause to his body and health.

“I have done some research on it, but it doesn’t really seem like it’s that bad using it,” Kocab said.

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weapon simulator with recoiling effects and load-ing effects that create an almost real life load-ing experience. The camp also has a Virtual Convoy Operations Trainer where cadets sit in a vehicle with screens on all sides. Some of the more elabo-rate training camp vehi-cles have 3D screens. The United States Army and government design these simulators.

“It’s kind of like a little taste of what we use in the military,” Anderson said. “It’s pretty cool.”

Capt. Emerson Goncus, the recruiting flight com-mander for the University’s Air Force program, said the department has a com-puter based shooting range for students. The game, Air Force Exercise, is computer simulated to train users as close to real life situations as possible and can take up to a couple of days to finish. Air Force Exercise requires users to complete offline objectives before the actual computer game missions can start.

“It’s as long as a mission would take in real life,” Goncus said. “It’s a really complex game but it’s good training if you put the time into it.”

Mike Zickar, chair of the

department of psychology, said the military has used virtual reality simulators for a long time. While these video games are realistic, they’re not as stressful as real combat, he said.

“It makes sense from a safety perspective and from a cost perspective that this could be used for entry level training,” Zickar said. “You can get people to learn lots of issues related to equipment without hav-ing to jeopardize people’s lives.”

While these simulators and video games prepare cadets for real life situa-tions, they by no means reflect what the military is like.

“A video game can simu-late that experience cheap-er and more effectively, but nothing beats the real thing,” Anderson said. “Nothing beats the actual experience.”

Goncus said with ROTC training they use these games and simulators as a replacement when they don’t have room for a full shooting range or can’t fire weapons, such as on a col-lege campus.

“There is some worry about the disconnect with reality especially with [the Unmanned Attack Drones] that are out there,” Goncus said.

Zickar agreed and said it’s hard to prepare someone for war and in some ways there isn’t any preparation to have someone psychologically ready for combat.

“That’s an inherent-ly stressful situation in itself,” Zickar said. “There is not going to be any sin-gle solution.”

While the cadets love the simulators, there are some who try these simulators at the training camps once and there are some cadets who want to commission to become officers that attend all of the events, Anderson said.

One thing is for sure; play-ing Xbox games is not a part of the curriculum in ROTC programs at the University.

“It’s not like we use those games for practice,” Anderson said. “In video games, you kind of get lost in the moment and have to deal with controls, but in real life, we simulate it as best as we can.”

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AMANDA FLOWERS, a junior photography major, works on her ceramics project Sunday night. The project will symbolize a stranger when completed, she said.

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BRANDON RODRIGUES, a freshman excercise science major, excercises by doing cleans.

WORK IT BLOTTERTHURS., JAN. 3112:18 P.M.Complainant reported an unknown person stole an Android tablet within the 1000 block of Fairview Ave.

6:31 P.M.Anna M. Flores, 35, of Bowling Green, was arrested on two counts of theft within the 1000 block of N. Main St. She was transported to the Wood County Justice Center.

FRI., FEB. 111:44 A.M.A juvenile was arrested for assault within the 1000 block of Klotz Road. He was transported to the Juvenile Detention Center.

2:27 P.M.Carlos Orlando Rohena, 23, of Bowling Green, was cited for theft/shoplifting within the 1000 block of N. Main St.

11:52 P.M.Aaron J. Moritz, 30; and

Donny Cliff Aiken, 41, both of Toledo, were cited for open container within the 200 block of N. Main St. Moritz was arrested on a warrant from Rossford and lodged in the Wood County Justice Center.

CORRECTIONPOLICY We want to correct all factual errors. If you think an error has been made, call The BG News at 419-372-6966.

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“In video games, you kind of get lost in the moment and have to deal with controls, but in real life, we

simulate it the best we can.”Nathan Anderson | ROTC Instructor

“Hey, uh, kid ... you help? You help me?”This came from a tall, confused-

looking Saudi Arabian student, awk-wardly lumbering away on an assign-ment for an English as a second lan-guage class in Tim Hortons.

He was supposed to review an online article, but his English speaking skills were limited and his writing ability was

almost non-existent. For the next few weeks, I would find

this student at Tim Hortons, who iden-tified only as “Zaki,” and we would work together on his assignments.

I’d also engage in basic conversation with him to improve his English, which slowly but surely improved by the end of the school year.

To me, this is what diversity should be about. A melting pot of love, shared understandings and helping your fel-low man no matter who he is.

To me, diversity isn’t about the

ETHNICITY OF THE 2012 FRESHMEN CLASSTOTAL FRESHMEN | 3,634 STUDENTS

White students: 2,846 (78.32%)

African American students: 565 (15.5%)

Hispanic students: 150 (4.1%)

American Indian students: 38 (1%)

Asian/Pacific Islander students: 29 (.7%)

TOTAL NON-WHITE FRESHMEN | 788 STUDENTS

IN FOCUSMonday, February 4, 2013 3THE BG NEWS INVESTIGATES CAMPUS DIVERSITY

University reaches out

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FRESHMEN COMPARED TO OHIO?COMPILED BY ERIC LAGATTA | ASSISTANT CAMPUS EDITOR

ETHNICITY OF THE 2011 FRESHMEN CLASSTOTAL FRESHMEN | 3,899 STUDENTS

White students: 3,056 (78.4%)

African American students: 606 (15.4%)

Hispanic students: 154 (3.9%)

American Indian students: 33 (.81%)

Asian/Pacific Islander students: 50 (1.3%)

TOTAL NON-WHITE FRESHMEN | 843 STUDENTS

Global Village hosts students of all countries

ETHNICITY OF OHIO VIA 2011 US CENSUS DATAOHIO POPULATION | 11,544,951 PEOPLE

White Ohioans: 81%

African American Ohioans: 12.4%

Hispanic Ohioans: 3.2%

American Indian Ohioans: .3%

Asian/Pacific Islander Ohioans: 1.7%

TOTAL NON-WHITE PEOPLE | NOT AVAILABLE

By Emily Gordon Reporter

The University has a population of students with a diversity similar to the population of Ohio.

Promoting diversity has been an ongo-ing project in the Office of Admissions for more than 20 years, said Gary Swegan, assis-tant vice president and director of Admissions at the University.

For the past three years, between 20.7 and 22 percent of the freshman classes were non-white students, about twice as much as a decade before, Swegan said. As recently as 11 years ago, 10.3 percent of fresh-man were non-white, with 8.9 percent the year before, he said.

“We’ve been able to do that with fewer scholarship dollars

than six years ago,” he said. “It’s a success story, really.”

An admissions team specifically devoted to recruiting multicultural students visits high school and college fairs all year, he said.

“The reality is, recruiting a multicultural student is not much different than recruiting a non-multicultural student. They all want outstanding academic quality, great opportu-nities and tremendous community,” he said. “What’s different is we include representa-tives from the Office of Multicultural Affairs, financial aid and the honors program, which tend to have a high percentage of multicultural students participating.”

The use of social media websites, like Twitter and Facebook, has allowed the University’s advertisements to be seen by prospective stu-dents of many races and demographics for a cheaper price than traditional mediums, said Fred Connor, senior director of marketing at the University. However, the University still utilizes radio, television, print and Internet ads, he said.

“The advertisements themselves are very even-handed,” Connor said. “They certainly involve students of color.”

Connor said advertisements are placed to specifically catch the eye of multicultural students in publications such as La Prensa, a Latino newspaper serving the Ohio and Michigan area, the Columbus Dispatch, the Toledo Blade and the cable television channel Black Entertainment Television.

“It’s all about the mix of messages,” Connor said. “We like to make sure our advertisements are always cognizant of race and gender.”

Senior Teddie Livingston, who identifies as biracial, said she does not believe multicul-tural students are well-represented in the ads.

“It seems to me that the only time I see a minority on a poster or billboard is when it’s related to athletics,” Livingston said.

Senior Kelles Prunty, who identifies as black, said minorities are represented in advertise-ments, but not as much in the student body.

While some students say they are made aware of diverse groups and clubs on campus during orientation, Prunty and Livingston said it is the groups and clubs who reach out to students instead of the University promoting them.

The Office of Admissions seeks and values input from students to better promote diver-

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Diversity is about love, understanding for all By Danae King

Campus Editor

For Charles Polinko, living in the Global Village his freshman year changed his whole educational experience at the University.

“I’ve met people from all over the world,” Polinko, a senior, said. “I gained an understanding of dif-ferent cultures and how to com-municate through cross-cultural barriers.”

Polinko lived in the learning community on campus his fresh-man and junior years. This year he is the resident adviser for the com-munity.

He heard about the community

through a pamphlet in the mail when applying to the University, he said.

“I really felt like it would be a great way to meet people and learn about other cultures,” Polinko said.

The community, located on the third floor of Kreischer Darrow, pairs international students with American students so they can learn about each other’s culture, said Kefa Otiso, director of the Global Village.

“It encourages international communication and understand-ing,” Otiso said.

The Global Village may move from Kreischer to Kohl Hall for fall 2013, said director of Residence Life Sarah Waters. The community will

move because of an initiative by the College of Arts and Sciences to move another learning communi-ty, La Comunidad, and the Global Village together, she said.

The Global Village is meant to be a microcosm that represents the global community, Otiso said.

“It’s a way for [American stu-dents] to experience other cultures without leaving the United States,” he said. “The Global Village creates an environment where we mutually work through these differences and hopefully come out better than we all came in.”

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Learning community in Kreischer Darrow features American, international students

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET What team were you rooting for in the Super Bowl? Why?“49ers because my best friend, Victoria, hates the Ravens.”

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Many people celebrate their relationships with their Valentine in February.

Unfortunately, like many single people, I don’t have that luxury. Many single people may not know what they want in a romantic partner because they struggle with their own character flaws.

I feel these character flaws are most likely why relation-ships elude us. I feel this way after finding a Bible study activity difficult a few weeks ago.

We were all encouraged to write down attractive traits we seek in a future spouse. Sitting at my table, I stared at my blank piece of paper. I started to real-ize that I probably don’t know what I want in my future wife.

Later, we separated into smaller groups after the activ-ity. We were encouraged to dis-cuss each other’s attractive and unattractive personality traits.

I found it difficult to share

my attractive traits when it was my turn to speak. I usu-ally go off praises people give me, seldom do I have enough confidence to make a case for myself.

However, I often dwell on my unattractive qualities. I infer some negatives from myself and from what I proj-ect from other people. Other times, people tell me directly, and they are accurate.

For example, I feel certain people may say I clearly lack emotional and social stabil-ity. They are right. I have been volatile due to being hurt in the past. It’s hard for me to imagine ever fully correcting this character flaw.

My instability occurs some-what in a vicious cycle:

Event happens. Phil feels a familiar hurt. Phil projects the hurt on people disconnected from his past. Phil gets upset. People feel offended. Phil says sorry. People don’t know how to respond, and they take a step back.

Another event occurs. Phil feels hurt. Phil lashes out. People freak out again. Phil apologizes. People take anoth-er step back…

As the cycle continues, I inadvertently push people away. But I want friends! So, I fight for people, forcing them into my inner circle. Then, people get turned off and flee. Eventually, people drift fur-ther out of my life, and I’m left feeling more embarrassed, lonelier and worse about myself.

Another way you can visu-alize my instability is by com-paring a grizzly bear to a cub. While I can be like an inno-cent cub, a friend described me as being a nasty grizzly at times.

Another flaw I feel I have is that I treat women more like objects than people. Initially, I wasn’t sure what someone meant when they said I was treating them “sub-human.” Now, I think I may understand a little better.

Instead of waiting to get to know young women for their character, I’ve historically had a crush on them based on physical appearance. I might feel they are important to me, but I tend to neglect treating them as a person – an autonomous living thing – like myself. As I get so fixated on

my child-like crush for them, I become obsessive.

Finally, I have other impor-tant flaws:

I dwell too much on what people think of me. I read into things too seriously. I also come off as odd unintention-ally from the way I speak, think or behave.

After looking inside myself, I don’t realistically see myself ever getting into a serious rela-tionship. I’m upset at myself for having these unflattering flaws.

Although I want to share my life with someone really special someday, I feel incapa-ble of giving them true love. I don’t feel that I am considered a friendly person. I wish I were a better man. I have little hope for myself.

As I conclude, I leave you with a challenge from Psalm 139. Examine yourself. Allow God to search your heart and know your thoughts. See if there is any grievous way in you – and if so, ask him to help you fight it.

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It was in the midst of our country’s most bloody and devastating war that con-federate General Robert E. Lee uttered the famous words: “It is well that war is so terrible, that we should grow too fond of it.”

It was the last true war fought on American soil. More than 150 years ago, brothers, fathers, cousins, sons and nephews stood in their battle lines and fought long, horrible battles dawn to dusk. The cost was more than human life. Whole towns suffered artillery bombardments, fields and railroads were razed and destroyed, whole cities were burned to the ground.

For generations, people never forgot the brutality of combat, the pain from losing their loved ones and the despair of seeing their homes in ashes. The whole war was waged on prin-ciples. Should the Union remain a whole entity? Do men have the right to own other men? Where does the power of the federal govern-

ment end and that of state governments begin?

All of these were asked in search of the truth. And though we settled most of those issues long ago, we still seek truths. One of those truths is that we as a nation have forgotten what it’s like to have a war waged on our own soil. Indeed, only the soldiers return-ing from our wars overseas know what it’s like.

Ever since the end of WWII, America has pro-gressively fought wars with less and less moral and political justification.

In his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned America about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, but his wisdom, it seems, has fallen on deaf ears. As a result of this, the military has ceased to be a force for defense and security and has instead become a political tool for conquest and suppression.

I must draw a distinction. Whatever the cause for a war, the sacrifices of indi-vidual soldiers and their families are immeasur-able, and they are worthy of our respect and support. However, our society’s rela-tionship with the military has moved from respect to

worship. In movie theaters, we see ads glorifying com-bat and imploring young people to join the armed forces. Ultra-realistic military simulators can be found in malls across America. But the problems extend beyond these forms of veiled propaganda.

The biggest problems I feel with our society’s wor-ship of the military are threefold.

First, by glorifying the military, we glorify war, and by doing so, we glorify violence.

Second, even the thought that our military involve-ment abroad may be unjus-tified or that the military itself is put on too high a pedestal is considered an un-American sentiment. When did informed dis-sent become un-American? Was it not informed dis-sent that caused the found-ing fathers to see the need to draft the Declaration of Independence that founded this nation of ours?

Third, once our brave men and women have put down their rifles and attempt to return to civil-ian life, they are shafted by an underfunded Veterans Administration and an apa-thetic populace.

My point is simple: we do not have to worship the military, glorify violence or accuse each other of sedi-tion to respect our service-men. If we are going to send our troops anywhere to fight for any reason, we as a nation must live up to the true meaning of patrio-tism, which not only means being proud of our country, but caring for our own who have endured the physi-cal and emotional ordeals of war. Our support of the troops must extend beyond bumper stickers, benefit concerts and having the biggest American flag on the block.

In our desire to appear patriotic, we have traded reason for bluster, truth for fear and support for failure. If we really want to look to our troops as model citi-zens and leaders, we must glorify their character, not their uniform, and we must take care of them once they return home if we really do support them as we say we do. We owe them respect, support and a good living. It’s time to put aside politics and repay that debt.

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So, my friend got me sick. I’m going to the doctor and then I’m stocking up on over-the-counter Tylenol, tissues and hand sanitizer. Damn germs won’t get to me again if I have anything to do with it!-SO SICK

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To the guy who hit my car and didn’t leave a note or any-thing, I hate you. Who is so spineless that he or she could do that and not have a guilty conscience? It’s ridiculous how uncaring people are these days. Thanks for hitting and run-ning.-DISSED DRIVER

When will this snow end? I’m so over the fluffy white stuff and low temperatures everyday. It seriously needs to end. Why can’t global warming just take over our winter. That needs to happen ASAP.-FLURRY

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Bench lifts Falcons past Ball StateCrawford misses first start in 45 games, scores 19 after sitting first 15 minutes

Gymnastics looks for second win, but falls to Kent

Mistakes on uneven bars bring down team score By Ethan EasterwoodSports Editor

For the first time in 45 games, senior Jordon Crawford did not start.

“I know my team,” Crawford said. “And I know my role.”

The 5’6” senior, who is known for his showmanship and risky game play, took a seat for Luke Kraus.

“It was a coach’s decision basically, I talked to him and we got on the same page and we went from there,” Head Coach Louis Orr said. “He responded the right way.”

Crawford came off the bench around the 15 minute mark in the first half, and was a huge factor in the Falcons’ vic-tory 70-59 against Ball State. Crawford would lead the team in scoring with 19 and assists with eight. BG outscored Ball State off the bench 38-15.

“We jumped on them early and all fed off that,” Crawford said. “Once we got going it was hard to stop us.”

Kraus opened up scoring for the Falcons on a shot from behind the arc, which started a BG 7-0 run.

Points from turnovers and steals were a huge margin in the first half. The Falcons set

a season-high 13 steals at the end of the game. Near mid-way through the first half, the Falcon defense aggressively stripped the ball and began going the other direction. Craig Sealey took the reigns as he drove down the court, faking a pass to a wide open Crawford before deciding to take on two Ball State defenders for a force-ful dunk.

Plays like Sealey’s weren’t uncommon, and seemed to impress the second-largest crowd this season.

With 6:50 to play in the first half, Crawford made an acro-batic lay-up. He brought the ball from behind his back to under his knee before releasing it for an easy-looking field-goal.

“Being as small as he is, he is tough to cover,” Ball State guard Jauwan Scaife said. “He is quick and likes to take chanc-es which is either a good or bad thing, and today, it was good.”

Crawford would organize at least two alley-oops that made sure Scaife knew his presence. One was to Richaun Holmes, who went over a Ball State defender for it, and the other was to A’uston Calhoun, who had to use his large reach for a lay-up.

“Anytime you see a player

like that on the bench, it makes you nervous,” Ball State Head Coach Billy Taylor said. “It makes you nervous because he will have a sense of urgency and something to prove.”

Crawford wasn’t the only player that came off the bench to make a difference. James Erger had a career-high day with nine points.

“I thought this was a great team win for us,” Orr said. “Our bench gave us a huge lift.”

Ball State never led the game. The closest the gap came was by four points early in the first half. A large credit goes to the Falcon defense in keeping the Cardinals’ three best scorers quiet.

Scaife, Jesse Berry and Majok Majok all averaged just less than 13 points a game for Ball State. Scaife had 17, Berry had 13 and Majok had 9.

Majok, who has played bas-ketball on three continents, would fancy himself a world traveler. That experience was not with him in the Stroh Center as the Sundanese-Australian went 0-4 in the first half from the charity stripe and score-less until two minutes into the

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The gymnastics team flipped for the cure in the annual ‘Pink Meet’ to raise support for breast cancer research Saturday.

The team showed its support by wearing special leotards with a pink ribbon across the chest, but the meet did not go as well as the Falcons hoped when it lost 193.825 to 195.800 to Kent State on Saturday.

“I thought the team did a good job tonight, we knew that Kent was going to be a big challenge for us,” Head Coach Kerrie Beach said.

Although sophomore Amanda Lievendag fell during her attempt in the first rotation of vault, the Falcons and Flashes were tied with an overall score of 48.700. Danielle Wishart had the best vault score for the Falcons with 9.825. Jamilah Ali registered her lowest vault score of the season with a 9.750.

The next rotation proved costly for the Falcons.

“Unfortunately, [on uneven] bars we had a couple falls there and that pulled our team score down a little bit, but the team rebounded so well,” Beach said.

Junior Lindsay Koch and Lievendag fell during their routines and earned an 8.325 and 9.175 respectively.

“Amanda Lievendag had a rough day today, we really rely on her on vault and bars,” Beach said. “I know that she will rebound and get back to it next week.”

There were several deductions dur-ing the floor exercise. Junior Megan Harrington and senior Danielle Wishart stepped out of bounds, result-ing in a tenth of a deduction each.

“Obviously we knew that we weren’t going to count any mistakes in order to win. Once that mistake happened on bars. I was really glad they didn’t men-tally give up on it,” Beach said. “They did great coming back, but we needed to hit every single routine tonight.”

Megan Harrington said the team does not quit easily.

“We worked really hard to come together and not let it affect the rest of our meet,” said Harrington. “The meet is not over until the last person finishes their routine. We wanted to finish out strong no matter what happened on the vault or the bars.”

During her floor exercise, Jamilah Ali did a double layout — two flips in the air while the body is completely straight. This was the first time all year for Ali and for the team to do this kind of flip in a routine.

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The BG hockey team swept a Central Collegiate Hockey Association opponent, a feat that hasn’t occurred since November 2008.

The Falcons got the best of Lake Superior State University both nights, notching 4-1 and 7-3 victories. The sweep brought BG within one point of the Lakers for seventh place in the CCHA standings.

The wins also extended the Falcons’ win streak at home to five games.

The Falcons had opportunities to put Lake Superior away early Friday night, but could not capitalize on their chances, these were primarily three first period power plays, one of which was a five-minute major.

“I thought we could put the game away early,” said BG Coach Chris Bergeron. “On a night where we had the inten-sity and the offensive zone time, we need to get the results. I thought early our power play could’ve given us a little bit of a cushion.”

BG controlled play for much of the first period and outshot the Lakers 13-8. The Falcons got on the board first. Brett Mohler tipped Bobby Shea’s shot past Lake Superior goalie Kevin Kapalka seven and a half minutes into the period.

Domenic Monardo tied the game eight minutes later after a scramble in front of the BG net.

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Team looks to improve times before MAC Indoor ChampionshipsBy Cameron Teague

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The BG indoor track and field team completed the opening day of the Akron Invitational Friday night.

The Falcons competed with limited members of the team on the first evening of the invi-tational. The events are split into gold and blue divisions with gold divisions, being the top-ranked athletes entered into each event.

Dana Gates finished sixth out of 10 in the blue division of the long jump with a distance of 17-feet-2.75, exactly two inches shy of her season best. Freshman Jasmine Redman, who competed in the gold divi-sion of the 5000, competed in the event for the first time in her career. She finished 11 out of 24 with a time of 18:24.69.

Kayla Velasquez competed

in the blue division of the dis-cus and finished third of four females with a distance of 125.

The Falcons made more improvements Saturday as they begin to look forward to the Mid-American Conference Championships.

The most impressive perfor-mance came in the 1600 meter relay as Brittany Sinclair, Felicia Jefferson, Demetra Taylor and Allison Weimer finished sec-ond with a time of 3:49.24, which was four seconds faster than their previous time as a group.

Tiera Parker ran the 60 for the first time in her career and posted Bowling Green’s best finish (16th) in the event with a time of 7.89 seconds. Berrion Berry finished next for the Falcons in 18th place with a time of 7.95.

In the 200, senior Allison Weimer and freshmen Taylor Rambo set new personal bests

as well as finishing in third and fourth place. Weimer ran a time of 25.25 and Rambo was right behind her with a time of 25.27.

Rambo also set a personal best in the 400 with a time of 57.96. Brittany Sinclair finished in front of her in third place with a time of 57.56.

In the weight throw, Brooke Pleger’s unbeaten streak was snapped as she finished fifth with a distance of 60-8.50. But Kayla Velasquez set a personal best behind her with a distance of 53-1.50

“We took positive steps this weekend, particularly in the 4x400 with us only being a sec-ond off of the school record,” Head Coach Lou Snelling said. “It was also nice to see progress in the 60, 200, 400 and weight throw. But we have a lot of work to do next weekend if we are to qualify and send an ade-quate team to the MAC Indoor Championships.”

Late in the first period, Lakers forward Kellan Lain was given a major penalty and a game disqualification for hitting from behind. Five seconds into the ensuing power play, Ryan Carpenter appeared to give BG the lead with a deflection.

However, the goal was waved off after review for a high stick. BG would not score on the remaining power play time.

Lake Superior matched BG’s intensity for much of the game, but was rebuffed by BG goalie Andrew Hammond. He stopped 25 of 26 shots in the game.

“He was on top of it,” Bergeron said. “When he’s on top of his game, he steers things away, and he put a couple of pucks up in the net-ting when we needed him to. I thought he was solid tonight.”

BG scored twice more on deflections in front of the net; one came from Dajon Mingo in the second period and the other from Dan DeSalvo in the third.

Mingo’s goal was the flash-ier of the two. Shea hit him with a perfect pass in the slot, right between the faceoff circles, and Mingo redirected

the puck into an open net.“Guys were open and

lanes were there,” Shea said. “Mingo was wide open and I could see him calling for the pass, and I just hit his stick.”

Ben Murphy scored the fourth goal for BG, a power play tally.

The Falcons were three-for-three on the penalty kill, a perfect trend that they carried into Saturday night, as well.

BG killed all four penalties in game two, and added two power play goals in a 7-3 win.

The Lakers scored first in each period. But in the first and third periods, BG answered with a goal of its own within a minute to pre-vent any buildup of momen-tum for the Lakers.

“[You have to] stay even keeled, not getting too high or too low,” said BG forward Mark Cooper, who had two goals and two assists in the game. “They obviously score, it’s not good, but you have to get right back out there and stay with your game.”

Cooper scored the goal, 33 seconds after Chris Ciotti tied the game for Lake Superior in the third period, which gave BG momentum for the rest of the period.

Instead of clinging to the one-goal lead for the remainder of the game, the

Falcons broke though for three additional third-period goals, which included an empty-netter from Bryce Willliamson.

“It’s all the things that we’ve been though just paying off a little bit,” Bergeron said. “This is by no means finished; we give up a goal and we’re able to just let it go and go back to work. And then we just kept chipping away as the period went on.”

Carpenter and Mingo scored the other goals for BG in the third period; Mingo’s came 21 seconds after Williamson’s empty-netter. Carpenter also had an assist to run his point streak to 12 games.

Mike Sullivan and Brent Tate also scored for BG, while Shea had his second straight two-assist game.

With the dominating nature of the win, as well as getting a sweep against a team they are close to in the standings, the Falcons hope the positive results generated from this weekend is some-thing that can be maintained going forward.

“We’ve been really good at home the past five our six games,” Cooper said. “Our fans have been great and we feed off their momentum; we just have to keep this momentum going.”

second half. Majok was born in Sudan but calls Perth, Australia home and played junior college bas-ketball in Texas. Majok finished the game 5-12 from the free-throw line.

Ball State managed not to lose control of the game with its three-point shoot-ing. The Cardinals shot 55.6 percent in the first half and 43.8 percent for the game.

For t he Fa lcons, Calhoun would f inish the game with 17 points,

Chauncey Orr had 10 and Holmes had six points and no blocks for the second straight game.

“We have been trying to get [Holmes] to take charge and not try to block everything,” Coach Orr said. Holmes is still six blocks away from tying the school single season record.

With the win, the Falcons move to 9-13 (4-5 MAC) and snap a two game losing streak that included four losses in five games. Ball State falls to 8-13 (2-8 MAC) and now just has one win in its past seven games.

This meet drew an atten-dance of 700 as a result of the many promotions put on by the gymnastics and the athletic

department. “We worked really hard all

week to get people here, and just seeing so many faces in the crowd gives you the motiva-tion to go out there and do your best for all the extra people that came,” said Harrington.

Freshman Alyssa Nocella agreed that the crowd was good motivation.

“Big crowds are a lot of fun, it gets you more pumped up, gives you adrenaline and makes it a lot more fun to compete,” Nocella said.


ADAM BERKLE dumps a pass past a Lake Superior State defender this past weekend.

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JORDAN CRAWFORD dribbles the ball down the court.

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Black Issues Conference promotes unity, educationBy Noah Jones

Reporter

The 14th Annual Black Issues Conference promoted power and unity for the black com-munity, encouraging atten-dants to pursue further edu-cation and business goals and educating them on issues facing the black com-munity.

The conference was host-ed by the Black Graduate Student Organization and the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the Union Ballroom this past Saturday.

The conference’s theme this year was “The Power of One: Building a Commitment to Constructure Cooperation.” There were six speeches stu-dents could listen to, includ-ing sessions on LGBT rights and dating.

Alexandria Harris, who spoke of starting a business and marketing, said that she was happy for the opportu-nity to speak to the students.

“I’m glad to give back to them things I know and wish I knew at their age,” Harris said. “These students have the opportunity here in col-lege to take advantage of this now instead of looking back at the age of 40 and asking ‘what if?’”

The keynote speaker, Kathryn Williams, spoke during the conference’s lun-cheon about the changing roles of blacks in Universities.

“When I went to the University of Pennsylvania, there were only 400 [black] students. Today there are 1,000,” Williams said. “When my mother went there, there

were only four black stu-dents.”

In her speech, Williams said each person was held responsible in establishing black culture and that the audience needed to “re-eval-uate how we think of our-selves as a black nation.”

“We are all powerful in our own way,” Williams said.

Tobias Spears gave a speech on LGBT issues spe-cific to the black community.

“It’s important for students to understand that LGBT issues are not insulated from black issues,” Spears said. “Black students here have

multiple identities, and we have to nurture them holisti-cally.”

Sakina Trevathan, head of the Black Graduate Student Organization, considered the conference to be a success.

“We had a great turnout. Despite the weather, every-thing worked out great,” Trevathan said. “We as a people matter ... we need to celebrate our culture, not reinforce it.”

Vitto Brown, member of the Black Culture Club at Bowling Green High School, said the conference was important for people of all races.

“It is important to see what black culture is all about and to gain insight on things not learned in school,” Brown said.

Black alumni featured in presentationsBy Kendra Clark

Web Editor

The “Taste of February: Out of Many, One” event Friday night kicked off Black History Month on campus, featur-ing student presentations of notable black alumni of the University.

Organized by the Office of Residence Life, Black Graduate Student Organization and SMART, a residence life peer mentoring program, the event served to educate students, faculty and the community on the efforts and contributions of former black University students.

The event was hosted in the Union ballroom.

Mae Evans, a junior, came to the event to learn about local history.

“I thought it would be an opportunity to learn more

about the black community here on campus,” Evans said. “The event helped me jump-start into the spirit of Black History Month.”

The various presentations, given by students involved in SMART, featured both for-mer students’ accomplish-ments on campus and in their careers after coming to the University. This included black students in leadership positions on campus, aca-demic achievements, Greek Life involvement and athletic success.

Freshman A.J. Napper said he was surprised to hear the presentations.

“I didn’t even know we had events for Black History Month besides Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service,” Napper said. “It was cool to learn about the different achievements blacks had in

sports that went here.”Ana Brown, Coordinator

of Diversity and Retention Initiatives at the University, helped organize the event to celebrate African American alumni and educate students.

“The goal of this program is to raise awareness about alumni who scarified,” Brown said. “It is to help stu-dents learn about people who came to BGSU and were suc-cessful.”

Brown felt that many of the students don’t know about the many achievements blacks have made in the University.

“The speeches gave a lot of rich history,” Brown said. “For example, the first person to receive a Ph.D in BG was an African American male.”

Taylor Hawes, a sopho-more, was excited to learn about and celebrate black history.

“I came from a high school that was predomi-nately white, so I didn’t get much diversity,” Hawes said. “Being here in BG and going to events like this help me learn more about my own history.”

Hawes said it was surpris-ing how many people were mentioned during the pro-gram.

“I didn’t know that so many famous people came from BG, especially blacks,” Hawes said. “There were so many people mentioned that I never have heard of before.”

In the end, Hawes was impressed with the program.

“I think that [SMART] did a great job,” Hawes said. “The talking atmosphere and fun entertainment speaks to the masses on a better level, and makes learning about African Americans more fun.”

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number of people of each race or the forced, deliberate equality for the sake thereof.

Rather, it’s about the intan-gibles: love, respect and brotherhood toward all.

Diversity is University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, which helps arrange countless events to celebrate the different cultures on cam-pus.

It’s the Black Student Union, hosting a variety of events this month as a time to celebrate and educate on the joy and melancholy of black history.

It’s therefore a warm trib-ute that Tiffany Smith, presi-dent of the BSU, told The BG News last week that students

of all races and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate in the Black History Month events.

After all, she said, “It’s not black history, it’s American history. It’s everyone’s history.”

This In Focus takes a look at diversity on campus, from the ways in which the University reaches out to minority stu-dents to the Global Village.

Take the time to learn about how this University is celebrating and promoting diversity through its pro-grams and concerted efforts.

Take the time to reflect on your own feelings of diver-sity and think of your own understanding of those in your community, your hall-way and your world. It’s well worth the time to love and appreciate your fellow man.

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The village also offers classes for residents. The classes, usually general stud-ies or international stud-ies classes, are taught in a classroom in Kreischer and are reserved only for the stu-dents in the learning com-munity, Otiso said.

While some of the classes are international studies, the

Global Village includes stu-dents from all different majors, Otiso said.

“We believe no matter what major, everybody can benefit from a global understanding,” Otiso said.

The community also hosts programs for the residents, which center around a world focus and include internation-al dinners, movies and music, he said.

The experience of living in the Global Village can benefit all students, Polinko said.

“They’re going to be coming in contact with people from all over the world,” he said. “It can only help you in broadening your understanding and your creativity.”

Polinko has seen students change in their time living in the learning community, he said.

“I see them take a lot more risks and really open up to different ways of thinking,” Polinko said. “They become comfortable with each other and able to learn from each

other.”The community aspires

to have a resident from every country, Otiso said.

“You have to be able to work well with people from other cultures,” Otiso said. “People leave having developed skills that will allow them to oper-ate in a global, multicultural environment.”

Living in the Global Village will broaden students’ per-spective on the world as a whole, Polinko said. It helps them build their self confi-

dence, abilities and relation-ships, he said.

Polinko said one of his favorite memories was from his freshman year, when he was given a letter from a fellow Global Village member from Japan. He said it was a great letter and it made him feel like the people he lived with were his best friends.

“I have made friends that I know will be my friends for the rest of my life even though they live halfway across the world,” Polinko said.

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*Countries represented vary widely. Information accord-ing to Kefa Otiso, director of the Global Village.

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Peer mentoring program helps to boost retention

By Erin CoxSocial Media Editor

Renee Clark credits SMART as one of the reasons she stayed at the University.

Clark, a senior, said SMART has stood as a lifeline for her since she joined the program as a mentee her freshman year.

SMART, which stands for Students of Color Mentoring, Aiding, Retaining and Teaching, is a peer-mentoring program. It gives multicultural students living at the University a chance to make connections, said Tim Shaal, senior associ-ate director of Residence Life.

“If I ever had anything I needed or any questions, I knew they would help me,” Clark said.

The program, sponsored by the Office of Residence Life, has been around for about 15 years and mainly focuses on one-on-one meetings between the mentor and the mentees, Shaal said. The group also hosts a number of events and other programs throughout the year.

“The four main goals of SMART consist of social engagement, cultural explo-ration, academic support and encouragement and leader-ship enhancement,” he said.

Clark now works for SMART as a mentor to five first-year students, and also helps plan program events.

“For a mentee, the benefits of SMART are definitely having those connections,” Clark said. “Coming on campus where you don’t know anybody, it’s nice to have SMART as a place to make those connections.”

The program was created to better acclimate multicul-tural students on campus, and the numbers show its positive affect.

Students who participate in SMART are more likely to stay at the University than those who don’t, Shaal said. From fall 2011 to fall 2012, 69 percent of those in SMART stayed at the University compared to just 57 percent of all other multicul-tural students.

Due to its success, Shaal added there is consideration to start an upperclassmen pro-gram to offer to students living on campus after their fresh-man year.

Greg Gantt, a junior, said SMART remains a great resource program for him and he wants to show it can be a resource for all who join as well.

This year, Gantt is a SMART team leader, working to bet-

ter connect mentors with the younger students.

“SMART is all about making bonds and relationships and I want to show that the whole SMART program is there for them,” Gantt said.

The program has the capa-bility to host 125 to 150 first-year students, Shaal said. This year the program has 135 men-tees, 25 mentors and five team leaders.

Gantt said helping first-year students also motivates him-self to work harder.

“I strive for excellence,” Gantt said. “I want to act more mature and work for higher GPA’s because I know I have first year students looking up to me.”

Dominique Hicks, a junior and also a team leader with SMART, was mentored herself as a freshman.

“The opportunity to help nurture these freshmen and help them grow and blossom into great leaders is one of the benefits for me,” she said. “It’s a great program, I really enjoy it and I want to give back because I had someone who helped me.”

“You get out of it what you put in,” Hicks said. “We are all about helping each other grow and shine on campus.”

SMART assists first-year minority students through student mentors

sity, Connor said.“Some students commented

that the banners in the student Union did not represent stu-dents of color enough. We made an adjustment to that,” he said.

Swegan said he’s proud of the progress the University has made in diversifying its cam-pus.

“We look like the world our students will be making their way in,” Swegan said. “That’s the way we should be as a pub-lic university serving the pub-lic.”

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