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By Yalona BlairReporter

The election is approaching, and there are rules to voting students at the University should know.

Like many things, there are qualifications and rules to being able to vote. People must be at least 18 years old before the election, be registered to vote 30 days prior to the election, be a resident of Ohio 30 days prior to the election and must be a citizen of the United States, according to the Wood County Board of Elections website, www.co.wood.oh.us/boe/.

There are three types of bal-lots available to registered vot-ers. There are regular, provisional and absentee ballots, said Debbie Hazard, deputy director for the Wood County Board of Elections.

“A regular ballot is cast, and once the ballot is cast you can’t take it back or anything,” Hazard said. “Provisional ballots are paper ballots that we hold until we can prove that the voter is indeed registered to vote or confirm their information in whatever way.”

Absentee ballots are cast before the election and can be requested by mail, according to the board of elections website.

Students not registered to vote in Wood County but want to vote here would have to change registration to Wood County,

Voters must be

registeredWood county or absentee ballots needed for election

By Eric LagattaReporter

For cash-strapped students for whom an iPad or Kindle might be a big purchase, they can now check the tablets out of the library just like they can any book.

The free service allows stu-dents to come to the circulation desk at Jerome Library or email circdesk@bgsu.edu to get on a waiting list to check out either of the devices, said Mary Beth Zachary, head of access services at University Libraries.

The purpose is to give students the opportunity to test the iPads and Kindles before making such a big purchase, Zachary said.

“That’s the point is that before you sink $400 or $500, don’t you want to test it?” she said.

Zachary said the library cur-

rently has five iPads that stu-dents can check out for a week and five Kindles that students can check out for three weeks. However, the library has seven more Kindles on the way.

The reason for the purchase of more Kindles is that both the iPad and Kindle are currently all checked out, with at least 10 on the waiting list for each, Zachary said.

“We want as many people as possible to get a hold of them,” she said.

Dean of University Libraries Sara Bushong also attributed the extra order of Kindles to the high-use of the tablets by students.

“From what we see already

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Dining Services encourages adoption of ‘buy local’ attitude by supplying students with variety of produce from regional vendors, demonstrates community importance

University hosts farmers’ market Tuesday

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Students had the chance to experi-ence some local food outside the Union during a farmers’ market on Tuesday afternoon.

Dining services hosted a farm-ers’ market, which featured three different vendors, that offered a variety of local produce, foods and flowers, as well as an “iron chef” competition, said Sara Meyer, Marketing Director for Dining Services.

This was the third year for the event, which added another ven-dor and moved closer to the union, Meyer said.

The farmers’ market began as and still is a means for the University and Dining Services to educate students about local pro-duce and what students can do with it, said Marissa Riffle, execu-tive sous chef for Dining Services.

One of the vendors was Sirna &

Sons, a produce company that sup-plies the University and its dining halls, Meyer said.

Another vendor was Bella Cuisine, a cooking instruction and catering company from Fremont, Ohio. Linda Lambert and her husband, Thomas own the com-pany and frequent many Ohio farmers’ markets, Lambert said. Thomas also works as a chef for the University and participated in the iron chef competition, she said.

Linda said this was their sec-ond year at the University farmers’ market.

Bella Cuisine offered a variety of home-made items including jams, oils, shrubs, and notably different types of bread, Lambert said.

Both Sirna & Sons and Bella Cuisine representatives said they were anticipating on selling most of their stock.

Lambert said last year all they had left was a jar of jam and some

fruit breads.Favorites among students

at Sirna’s table included apples and apple cider, along with corn, cucumbers, squash and peppers, said Chris Varue, warehouse manager.

Kathy Grabowski, an order pro-cessor at Sarno & Sons, said the school has ordered more of less of certain items based on student demand in years past.

Regardless, they still ran out of apple cider very early on, she said.

Joseph’s, a greenhouse located outside Bowling Green that was selling flowers, was a new addi-tion to the farmers market this year, said Gretchen Thomas, an employee.

In the first year, there was orig-inally just Sirna & Sons and the chef’s table, but a vender has been

By Danae KingCampus Editor

Gloria Steinem is a woman who believes in looking at the world as if everyone matters.

Steinem spoke at the University on Monday about looking at the world in this way and what it could mean. Steinem came to the University to celebrate the accomplishments of the Women’s Equity Action League, founded by an alumna. The group was also celebrat-ing Title IX legislation, which states that institutions receiving federal funding must not discriminate due to gender.

Three hundred people, including community members, WEAL

members, faculty, staff and students at the University, attended the WEAL gala dinner Monday night where Steinem spoke about how the world is being transformed through equality.

“In forty years no one has been able to name one thing that wasn’t transformed by looking at the world as if everyone mattered,” Steinem said. “[It’s] that understanding that we are all unique miracles that could never have happened before and could never happen again.”

Steinem, a Toledo native, is an author, journalist, activist and icon of

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GLORIA STEINEM visited the University Monday and spoke to a crowd of 300 at a celebration of the Women’s Equity Action League. She spoke about equality, feminism and the legacy of WEAL.

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the women’s movement and this was her first visit to the University.

Steinem spoke about the state of feminism locally, nationally and globally and her thoughts about the lega-cy of WEAL and where femi-nists go from here.

“I think one of the most dangerous ideas right now is the idea that the movement is already over,” Steinem said. “We all remember the day in which we were all judged to be crazy, going against God, nature, Freud, somebody and we were told you can’t do this and then we did it anyway, then the next wave of opposition is that it used to be necessary but it’s not anymore.”

Feminism is still alive and bigger than ever,

Steinem said.“Feminism just means a

belief in equality,” she said. “It’s about democracy and equality.”

She said it is not for her to say what the next step is for the movement.

“The need arises out of real life,” she said. “But there are obvious things that are incomplete, we don’t have equal pay yet, we still aver-age 77 cents on the dollar [compared to men].”

Steinem said the biggest positive change for women in her years as a part of the movement has been “that we know we’re not crazy.”

“If you feel you’re totally alone in your desire to use your talents or your inter-ests you come to feel crazy because human beings are communal creatures,” she said. “If you’re alone, you do come to feel like some-thing’s wrong with you;

what a movement does is allow women to tell the truth about their lives’ and discover that it’s happening to others.”

One of the people who attended the WEAL event, Bernice Sandler, had a hand in creating the Title IX legislation.

Sandler, called the “god-mother of Title IX,” was excit-ed to see Steinem speak and said she was a good person to speak at the event because of her knowledge of women’s issues.

“She’s extraordinarily bright and funny, she’s a good speaker,” Sandler said. “I’m interested in her ideas about women. I haven’t seen her speak in a number of years so I’m interested to hear what she’s going to say about women, the women’s movement and the rights of women.”

Steinem thinks celebrating

accomplishments like WEAL and Title IX are crucial.

“We need to know our history,” she said. “When I was in college, Smith College, a good college, in my American history book there was one sentence, it said women were given the vote in 1920. If you believe that, you don’t know you have to fight for your rights.”

Contrary to what the text-book might have led students to believe, women’s right to vote wasn’t just handed out, it had to be fought for, Steinem said.

Women can vote but there are still aspects of life where they are not equal to men, Steinem said. She talked of the world trans-forming if everyone is looked at as equal.

“It is transformational in every part of life to look at the world as if everyone mat-tered,” she said.

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Hazard said.“If they want to remain

registered from their home county, they could always vote an absentee ballot from that county,” she said.

Ju n ior Cou r t ney Froehlich said she plans to use an absentee ballot because she is registered in her hometown.

“I chose to register with my hometown because I wanted to be involved with the issues that affect myself, my family and my friends at home,” Froehlich said.

However, sophomore Elizabeth Sampson said she is voting in person as she is reg-istered to vote in Wood County.

“[Voting is] a privilege,” Sampson said.

Voting has the same rules throughout the state, therefore as long as a student is registered in Ohio, the same rules apply

throughout, Hazard said.On the day of the elec-

tion, voters must bring a valid form of identification, according to the board of elections website.

The identification can be in the form of a photo ID issued by the state, mili-tary ID, copy of current utility bill, bank statement, government check or pay-check or another form of a current government docu-ment that shows the name and address of the voter, according to the board of elections website.

There is also a dead-line for registering to vote, Hazard said.

“The deadline to register to vote in Ohio is 30 days prior to the election which is Oct. 9, 2012,” she said.

Students can learn more information regarding vot-ing rules, polling locations and the different ballots at the Wood County Board of Elections website at www.co.wood.oh.us/boe/.

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The upcoming elections in November are an exciting time for those of us interested in politics and government but with things like voter reg-istration, differing districts and candidates who we have never heard of, it can also be a confusing time.

As citizens in a pluralistic democracy under a Republican system, it is not only our right to vote but a civic duty and, while the turnout of the voting-age population in the 2008 elec-tions was at 56.8 percent, given Ohio’s importance as a key bat-tleground state the need to vote should be stressed.

Ohio’s 18 electoral votes, a Senate seat and 16 House seats are up for grabs this election cycle and without willing and informed voters to determine the outcome the results could be less than desirable based on your own political leanings.

Whether you are deeply involved in politics or entirely apolitical, you must realize that during elections, a vote cast is aiding in the determination of this nation’s future and, by extension, your own. If any-thing about the current govern-ment of the United States both-ers you, now is the time you can do something to change it. The slogan “your vote, your voice” is not just a clever phrase, but a reflection of an individual’s place in our democracy.

As university students, many of us are just eligible to vote this year. Understanding guidelines on how to register and where to vote is crucial. Organization for America is a group which is seeking to “bolster student representa-tion at the polls” and making “it easy for students to register to vote” regardless of political affiliation according to student volunteer Joe Lautzenhiser. Registration forms can be found at the Jerome Library on campus and submitted to the Wood County Board of Elections at 1 Courthouse Square in Bowling Green or to the Office of Disability Services on the fourth floor of South Hall thirty days prior to the election (Oct. 9). Early voting will also be available starting Oct. 2 at the Wood County Board of Elections.

Another factor facing new and seasoned voters alike is the districts in which they fall. Often times districts can be

confusing because the num-bers do not remain the same based on the location but differ depending on governmental body being examined.

Bowling Green, Ohio’s Congressional district is the 5th, where Republican incum-bent, Bob Latta, is facing off against Democrat Angela Zimmann and Libertarian Eric Eberly. The Ohio Senate District Bowling Green falls under is the 2nd, where Republican Randy Gardner and Democrat Jeff Bretz are seeking election.

Bowling Green also resides in Ohio House District 3 where Republican Tim W. Brown, Democrat Kelly Wicks and Libertarian Nathan Eberly are running for election.

Along with election cam-paigns limited to districts, the seat for Ohio’s senator will be on Ohio’s ballot. Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown is running against Republican Josh Mandel, Libertarian John Fockler Jr. and Green Party member Joseph DeMare for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Two measures will also appear on Ohio’s ballot this November: Issue 1 and Issue 2.

A “Yes” vote on Issue 1 would “create a convention to revise, alter or amend the state con-stitution.” A “Yes” vote on Issue 2 would “create a citizen com-mission to draw legislative and congressional district maps.”

While I will not seek to propa-gate my own political leanings (at least in this article), I would greatly urge all of you who plan on voting in Bowling Green to examine the measures above and research the voting history, proposed policy and social and economic views of the issues listed and educate yourselves on who you believe would best represent you and your interests.

If you intend to vote else-where in Ohio or in another state, I recommend check-ing out Ballotpedia.org which explains what and whom will be on the upcom-ing ballot for your state and YourVoiceYourVote.org to go over voter registration dead-lines and laws.

As American citizens, voting is one of the most important responsibilities we are entrust-ed. Pivotal to civil rights, voting is our means of determining the United States’ future and maintaining a free society.

So, take the time now to fill out some quick paperwork and when November rolls around, get out and vote.

Respond to Kyle atthenews@bgnews.com

President Obama is sched-uled to be at the University today, and I figure he will pick up a copy of The BG News while he’s here — seeing as how we are the most awesome college newspaper in the country.

As a normal citizen, I don’t get the chance to grab the attention of the President of the United States every day, and I have a few things I would like to say to him, so I am using this opportunity to write him a letter.

Mr. President, thank you for visiting our university. I hope you get the oppor-tunity to take in some of the great things about our campus and the City of Bowling Green while you’re here (try some stuffed bread sticks from Campus Pollyeyes.)

I am 35 years old, so I am not the typical student on campus, but I think I am indicative of some-thing that’s going on in America right now.

Like myself (and my wife, who is currently a law school student), many Americans my age are returning to college to get

a degree to (hopefully) be able to provide a better future for their families.

We are doing this because all our lives we have been told that get-ting an education and working hard will lead to a life in the middle class, where we might not be rich, but we will not have to live with a constant fear of going under either.

I am thankful for Pell Grants and scholarships that are available to me, but I am incurring a mountain of student loan debt to attend school here with only a hope that there will be a job waiting for me when I am through.

If I cannot find a job with my degree when col-lege is over, then instead of lifting me from pover-ty, college will have effec-tively sunk me deeper into it.

Something about that seems fundamentally wrong.

Lifting our brothers and sisters out of poverty is the greatest challenge we face as a country, and allow-ing people to become indentured servants in exchange for an education is not the way to do it.

There should be programs (not one, but many) that help older, nontraditional

I’ll admit it: I’m totally psyched to see President Obama speak at the Stroh Center.

When I heard that the man in charge of run-ning our country will be spending some time in our little town, I may or may not have done a happy dance.

Even though he’s visit-ed northwest Ohio more than once already dur-ing his campaign for re-election, I’ve missed the opportunities to see him speak, and it’s bothered me ever since.

It’s not like I’m a super-fan of the presi-dent. I just can’t wait to see President Obama because doing so makes me, and all the students who are attending his speech, a part of history.

We will always remem-ber this as the day the town turned into a giant traffic jam.

When all the attend-ees in the room could be traced in a six degrees of sepa rat ion t y pe chart because ever y-one knows everyone in Bowling Green.

We will be able to tell our children, “This is the place where I saw the president speak, and then I graduated from the University in the same room a couple of years later.”

No matter what your political ideologies are, you have to admit that having the president visit your college campus is just plain cool.

On Monday, masses of people lined up to get their tickets to be apart of the excitement.

I think even if the president is someone who belongs to a differ-ent political party than you do, or has policies you do not agree with, you should still consider taking the opportunity to see what he has to say, for free, on your own campus.

I’ve seen quite a few celebrities, famous fig-ures and politicians run-ning for office speak, but never have I gotten the chance to see one of our presidents.

Having the president visit Bowling Green, especially while he’s still in office, is just too unique of a chance to pass up.

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Obama’s campus visit creates history

On Thursday night, Mitt Romney became the official presidential nominee of the Republican Party, finally reaching a goal he has been working toward since about 2006.

I support President Obama in his re-election bid, and plan to write about why you should vote for President Obama in November, but today I want to go the other way with it. I want to tell you why you should not vote for Mitt Romney.

First off, and I know that many of you will not like this one, you should not vote for Romney because he is a Mormon.

I know what you’re think-ing: Religious freedom means that there should be no test of one’s religion before they are able to hold the presidency, or any other job for that matter.

Normally I would agree, and let me be clear that I am in no way suggesting that a person’s Mormon faith should lead to their being discriminated against. I know Mormons and ex-Mor-mons who are wonderful people whom I love dearly.

However, the thing that has been rarely discussed in the media is the fact that Mormons, during one of

the temple ceremonies (the ceremonies that Mormons go through to become endowed, meaning that they are eligible to one day enter what their faith consid-ers to be the highest level of heaven), pledge themselves to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints above all other people and things. I have been told by an ex-member of the LDS church for approximately 15 years that those making this cov-enant take an oath to devote all of their time, talent and resources to the LDS church if ever the church requests that they do so.

Of course this all depends on just how devout to his faith Mitt Romney is. When Mormons take this cove-nant, it is considered sacred to the highest degree — to the point that the pun-ishment for going against it was at one time, many years ago, death.

For the record, Romney held leadership positions in the LDS church includ-ing bishop of his ward in Massachusetts from 1981 to 1986, and mentioned his faith repeatedly in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last week.

Again, I am not intolerant of anyone’s religious beliefs and feel like all religions are valid to those who believe in them, but what would happen if the LDS church requested that a President Romney turn over all of his

time, talent and resources to them? It’s at least something to consider.

Next, I think you should not vote for Romney because a lot of his foreign policy advisors are the same peo-ple that advised the Bush administration. That means a return to a foreign policy of preemptive strikes against other nations, and an impe-rialistic, macho-bravado attitude toward other coun-tries that loses us respect as a nation around the world.

As president, George W. Bush sent our troops into two wars that he never planned funding for, which is a big part of the debt prob-lem that we now face. In my opinion, a President Romney would replay the Iraq War, only this time the country would be Iran and the global stakes would be even higher.

Another reason to not vote for Romney in November is that he will try to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and the working class. What that means for you as young adults is huge. It means eliminating (or at least greatly reducing) Pell Grants for people with low incomes to go to college.

I know that I myself receive Pell Grants and with-out them I could probably not afford to go to school here. If I were able to con-tinue without them, it would mean taking out even more student loans that I will have to pay back after my college years are behind me.

Romney has often said that he will repeal President Obama’s Affordable Care Act on the first day of his presi-dency. What that means for you is that you will no lon-ger be eligible to stay on you parents’ health insurance until the age of 26, like you can now. So you will have a greater likelihood of being uninsured, which means if you get sick or injured, you’re probably going to rack up a bunch of outrageously high bills that you cannot pay.

If you get enough of those bills it will also wreck your credit rating, preventing you from doing things like buy-ing a car or leasing an apart-ment. And those doctor bills will haunt you like that until you can finally make enough money to afford to pay them off, or file for bankruptcy, further displacing you credit score and your good name.

If you look back on America’s policies from 2000 to 2008, and you think we did a lot of things right and the country was where it needed to be, then by all means vote for Mitt Romney.

But if you want a new direction — one toward pragmatism instead of ide-ology — vote to re-elect President Obama and vote for a Democratic House and Senate that will work with him to take our country in a new, better direction.

Respond to Matthew atthenews@bgnews.com

Living in a swing state during an election year is exciting.

No matter what your politics are, it’s always cool to see big crowds gather just to get a glimpse of the powerful men and women visiting our humble towns.

Ohio sees frequent vis-its from the president, vice president and those run-ning against them, espe-cially in and around big cities like our neighbor to the north, Toledo.

On Monday, President Obama visited Scott High School in Toledo and spoke to over 3,000 audi-ence members.

Obama has visited our

state more than 20 times since being elected.

In fact, his first stop on his re-election campaign this year was in Cleveland.

On the other side of the ballot, Gov. Romney vis-ited Bowling Green over the summer and spoke in Cincinnati this week.

Both Republicans and Democrats know how important it is to clinch Ohio, and that’s why we see them in our home-towns every election year.

However, the point of these visits is not for us to be starstruck by the politi-cian or grumble at the traf-fic jams he or she caused in town. The point of these visits is not to remind us how powerful the politi-cians are, either.

What we can get from these rallies and speeches in our hometowns is our own sense of power.

These visitors to our home state are here for one thing and one thing only: our vote this November.

And we have the power to elect, or not elect, them to office.

While sometimes it may feel like you are only one person with one voice in a country of over 314 million citizens, your vote truly does matter.

And, being a swing state voter, you can bet your vote will make a loud statement.

Ohio has been a decisive state in many presiden-tial elections going as far back in history to the race of 1888 between Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison.

No Republican runner has won the presidency without winning Ohio since President Lincoln. And, Ohio has gone to the

winner of the presidential election in every election but two since 1892.

Ohio is a very important battleground state, and Ohio residents wield great influence every time they host events, raise funds and canvass for the candi-date they support.

But even if all you do is decide to go to the polls in November, you’re making a huge difference in our nation’s history.

No matter which can-didate you favor for the presidency, I urge you to register to vote if you have not already and make your choice.

You have the power to pick our nation’s leader.

Don’t let that power go to waste.

Respond to Emily atthenews@bgnews.com

University students, rejoice — a national holiday landed us a free Monday this week!

I’m sure most of you cel-ebrated your coveted long weekend accordingly. But did any of you consider its origin or importance before kicking back with a cold one or high-tailing it home?

When half of my popular culture class couldn’t pin-point, last Friday, what holiday we were celebrating Monday, I decided our student body could use a brief history lesson.

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers, accord-ing to the U.S. Department of Labor website. It’s a tribute to the “average Joe” (or Joann) — the diligent, dependable American worker.

As a six-year employee of a local business called Klein’s Dairy Frost in my hometown, I appreciate our nation’s ges-ture. More than half a decade of serving soft serve ice cream to the populace of Sandusky, Ohio, has instilled within me a vast appreciation for America’s working class. In fact, I think every age-eligible person should work in food service for at least one year. Nationwide, that age is 14, as determined by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Although some may think this age is too young to enter the labor force, I wholeheart-edly disagree.

A service job teaches people, especially teenagers, responsi-bility, people skills and the old-fashioned “value of a dollar.” It shows life is about balance; it isn’t all work and it isn’t all play, but instead, a delicate inter-twining of both.

I remember carefully bud-geting my time throughout high school, skillfully utilizing my planner to organize sports, work and social activities like a seasoned secretary.

I’d drudge through school, volleyball practice and a few hours at Dairy Frost on a Friday night and still make it to the high school football game before halftime, with the pun-gent smell of fryer foods waft-ing through the air behind me.

I didn’t mind. While most of my classmates pestered their parents for spare change to purchase a snack, I could reach into my pocket and

find enough cash to nab a Mountain Dew and cheesy fries with plenty to spare.

Before I even entered the “real world,” I began to grasp how its economy operated.

During summer vacation, working taught me valuable skills denied to my peers who spent their summers gallivant-ing around town, becoming immersed in MTV or sleeping for hours upon end.

My confidence and com-munication skills improved as I interacted with customers, preparing me for my full-time career as a journalist.

I learned the importance of teamwork, problem solving, networking and job references.

Plus, I can now make mul-tiple soft serve ice cream cones at once! (So if you’re ever in need of an aesthetically pleas-ing dessert, come find me in a dining hall.)

But, as one can expect, hav-ing a job is by no means all fun and games. I’ve dealt with a lot of crap at work — both figura-tively and literally.

Angry customers sometimes discover the food I serve makes an excellent projectile, which once resulted in my wearing a shredded chicken sandwich.

I’ve dropped typhoons of strawberry topping and chocolate syrup on the floor and spent several subsequent hours cleaning up the sticky messes.

And a few years ago, a cus-tomer thought it would be funny to literally crap in a sundae cup and leave it sitting on the counter for me when I returned — not kidding.

Do you now understand why I think everyone should enter this work environment for at least a year?

The people behind the counter at the next restaurant you visit are working hard to prepare your meal. If you’ve never worked in food service, you can’t quite relate to the pressure of trying to please every customer you encounter on your shift and realizing you probably won’t succeed.

So tip generously. Say “please” and “thank you.” Pay attention when the waiter or waitress tells you to “have a nice day.”

And if your meal isn’t exact-ly what you ordered, politely point out the mistake — don’t swear, shout or, God forbid, defecate in a cup to get your point across.

Trust me, us food service people appreciate it.

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A new health research study taking a closer look at the “freshman 15” allowed 100 freshmen students to learn about their bodies.

This was done through the use of a bod-pod, which is a machine that assesses fat mass versus muscle mass.

Mary-Jon Ludy, assis-tant professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, was the principle investigator of the health study. Ludy proposed the research study idea that the “fresh-man 15” isn’t necessarily all fat gain. The bod-pod can help determine in each student whether they are gaining more fat or muscle.

“Our first thoughts were that some of the students, especially males, are still growing a couple of inch-es during their first year of college,” Ludy said. “If you’re still growing in height and gaining weight, it doesn’t mean you made poor lifestyle choices.”

This equipment will be able to piece out whether the weight gain is muscle gain or fat gain, she said.

Ludy and Ryan Leone, a graduate student who con-ducts the research, began recruiting Aug. 17.

The freshmen partici-pants were all volunteers who either saw fliers, post-ers, Facebook posts or tweets about the study.

“Facebook was the best

way to go,” Leone said. “W hen a poster went on Facebook, I would get 30 emails the next day f rom people who were interested.”

The students meet with Ludy and her research team five times through-out the course of the year in order to get accurate information on when the students gain the weight.

“Our goal is to be able to figure out what is happen-ing with these students by looking at them five times during freshman year,” Ludy said. “We want to see if freshmen are gain-ing weight and if there is a specific time point where there’s more weight gain. This way we can target an intervention on campus that will be most helpful for the students to pre-vent them from gaining weight.”

The students receive BG1 bucks, T-shirts and other l itt le things for participating.

After each time Ludy meets with the student participants, she crunches numbers based on the data recorded.

“After the study is over, from interpreting the data, one, we will be able to get some funding and two, we will be able to do a longitudinal study and will be able to follow these students throughout their four or five years at Bowling Green,” Ludy said.

One of the key parts of the research is the fre-quency of the meetings between the participants

and the researchers.“We want to keep look-

ing at health habits and how they affect their body composition over the course of the year,” Leone said. “We try to give them stuff to keep them inter-ested in coming back.”

During the final week, the particular group of students will have access to all of their results rang-ing from body composi-tion, muscle mass versus fat mass, waste circum-ference, blood pressure, diet, exercise and alcohol intake.

“The information we have of them and some of our graduate nutrition and exercise science students are going to do some infor-mation sessions,” Ludy said. “We are hoping that we will learn from these students and develop programming that is effective for new classes that are making that transition from high school to college.”

Claire Copa, a junior at the University, heard about this study and said she wished it was pre-sented when she was a freshman.

“If everything about this study remains in a positive route for these freshmen, then I think it is definitely a good thing to continue,” Copa said. “I would totally do it if I could my freshman year because watching cal-ories does nothing for me, but if I actually saw what was in my body and hard numbers, I would actually do something about get-ting into better shape.”

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with the holds on them, it’s an impactful ser-vice,” Bushong said. “To us, it looks like students like to read.”

An organization called Friends of the University Libraries supported the service and even helped to fund the second group of Kindles, she said.

T he K i nd le s a re just basic a nd do not include internet access, Bushong said.

“The Kindle seemed like a good product to use to promote leisure read-ing,” she said.

Bushong said that any Kindle a student checks out from the library will already have hundreds of classic titles, including “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Frankenstein,” as well as 25 other titles of con-temporary f iction and non-fiction titles that the library itself purchased. These t it les include “A bra ha m L i ncol n, Vampire Hunter” and “The Hunger Games.”

Zachary said there are currently posters hanging up by the circulation desk that allows for students to suggest book titles for the library to purchase for the Kindles.

Students who want internet access or more options for what they can do would do best to check out an iPad.

Bo Butler, a library associate at University Libraries, handles the maintenance involved with the iPads.

Butler said he has worked to make the iPads as accessible as possible to students without risk-ing their personal infor-mation.

“At t his point, t he patrons can use t he iPads however t hey want,” he said.

The library has its own Apple account for stu-dents’ use, but students are able to use their own Apple account if they have one, Butler said. This way, they can even purchase apps or use the apps they have already purchased.

Butler only warns that students not sync the iPads to their own iTunes since the tablets are synced to the library.

“We’ve put apps on the iPad that we think will be useful,” Butler said. “We’ve also tried to include some fun apps.”

These apps include apps for news, Facebook, Google Earth, Angry Birds and e-books such as Kindle.

On this last app, stu-dents w ith their ow n Apple account can pay to download any book they want that might now be available on the Kindle tablets that the library has.

Butler said one of his favorite things about iPads is that they allow users to create virtual-ly anything they want, whether it be songs or videos.

“You can use them in so many different ways and it’s not just about watching videos or being on Facebook,” But ler said. “You can actually

make stuff.”Once students check

the iPads back in to the library, there is a pro-cess to restore the tablet, Butler said. This involves cleaning the personal data off and reinstalling all the library’s apps.

Corey Keating, a grad-uate student, is positive about the tablets.

“I think it’s absolutely fantastic. I think it shows the commitment libraries have to student educa-tion,” Keating said.

Senior Hannah Bealer said this is a good way for students to test the devices before making a purchase.

“I think I would eventu-ally like to buy an iPad,” Bealer said. “If I were to buy an iPad, I would check it out here first.”

Zachary said there will be an online survey toward the end of the semester where students who have used the service can say what’s working or not working.

“For students who want to experience, see what it’s like, I think they should get a hold of it as soon as they can,” she said.

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students go back to school without costing them so much money to repay their student loan debt that any extra money earned from a higher-paying salary is offset.

I believe povert y is somet hing t hat con-cer ns you too, Mr. President, as I have seen you propose bi l ls l ike the American Jobs Act that would help to put people back to work.

I have a lso seen your opposition in the Cong ress shoot your ideas dow n, which is why I hope my fel low cit izens w il l not only reelect you, but give you a Congress that is will-ing to compromise and work with you.

If Americans do that, then I ask you to please try again with the jobs bil l, and also help to champion other congres-sional bills that would help to recreate the mid-dle class in America, like the Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Act of 2011. This bill would amend the U.S. bankruptcy code to allow those forced to file bankruptcy to also file on qualified student loans taken from private lending institutions.

Nobody wants to file for

bankruptcy, but if you’re in a position in which you need to do it, it’s prob-ably because of one of four things: student loan debt, credit card debt, mortgage foreclosure, or doctor bills.

Not including any one of those debts as discharge-able takes the teeth out of bankruptcy and hurts poor people who need to file for it.

I know there are some people who refuse to even hear your words before rejecting your ideas, and while I’m sure that we share the wish that they could see the big-ger picture a little clearer, with all due respect, sir, you can no longer worry about their opinions.

They are never going to give you the credit and respect you deserve, so tune them out. If regular folks can tell you are try-ing to help them, they will support you. Why do you think we still love Bill Clinton?

This reminds me: Please return income tax rates to the Clinton-era rates.

The mega-rich will not be happy for a while, but once the economy is doing well again, they will thank you for it.

Right now, they’re demonizing you, anyway.

Also, I am not at all in favor of mult imil-lion dollar corporations

getting out of their tax responsibi l it ies, but i f you can lure overseas businesses to America through tax incentives, please do so (though with a system of checks and balances in place to protect consumers).

In conclusion, Mr. President, I have been a supporter and fan of yours since I first saw your Democratic National Convention speech in 2004, and I support you 100 percent in November.

One reason for this is because I feel like you know what it is like to do without.

A lot of people are doing without right now, Mr. President, and to win this election you need to do something that your opponent cannot; to show the people that you remember what it is like to do without.

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The last president to visit the University was Rona ld Reaga n, who was in of f ice before most of us undergrads were even born.

I’m not going to be looking at this event as

a time where the presi-dent is fighting to keep his position.

I’m going to be think-ing of how many stu-dents have come, how ma ny voted in t he last election and how many w il l be vot ing this November, and I’m going to smile, because they are not wasting

their abil it y to make, and be a part of, history.

I’m looking forward to feeling the excited ener-gy of my peers when we all pack into the Stroh Center hoping for a close seat.

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DeviantArt is my solace, the once place I can vent my every thought and feeling. It is somewhere I can escape reality for a while and write in peace without disturbance.

As you well know, it is political season. Ads are showing up everywhere: Pandora, Facebook, TV, amongst other places. One location I never worried about seeing any of these mud-slinging ads was on deviantArt; my safe haven was impenetrable against everything except the occasional art-themed or RPG-associated ad.

Sadly, about a week ago, I got on my beloved website and to my utter dismay, t here was a political ad at the top of my screen.

Now, I’m not anti-politi-cal, I just feel that there is a time and a place for such things and an art-based website is not one of them.

Politics are not meant for every setting. There are certain situations where it is acceptable to put cam-paign promotions, such as major news channels, political websites and forums or places where people seek knowledge about candidates.

Putting ads all over the place is going to do noth-ing but annoy people and make them turn their

nose up at the elections. Let the masses seek out what they want to know and do not force-feed them information.

“Informative” politi-cal commercials are not beneficial if someone is annoyed to the point of ignoring the information. Candidate advertisements would be helpful if they were used at a proper time and place, but otherwise they are pointless.

I felt it was an invasion of my privacy when nomi-nees decided that they could go willy-nilly and put their faces all over my creative space.

On another note, I must point out that politics does exist outside of the two months before an election.

The fact that candidates push their campaigns a few months before the election really isn’t helping their cause.

If they spread out adver-tisements and slogans over a year or so of time, it would be much less cramming for citizens.

People would actually have time to decide on the best nominee and would not have to feel rushed or pressured into making political decisions.

That being said, look at all the lying and finger-pointing that goes into political ads.

Everyone would be a lot less aggravated if contend-ers would be honest about what they plan to do.

Instead, what we get as citizens is a few individu-als who throw each other under the bus trying to

make themselves look fab-ulous and without wrong.

This gets old rather fast. I would much rather see an ad about the candi-date and what they plan to do for us, not what their opponent is doing wrong.

Finger-pointing is childish. Aren’t the people run-

ning our country sup-posed to be adults?

Shouldn’t they be acting like it, then? I’m rather ashamed to admit who our presidential candi-dates are because of all the lying and deceiving that goes into politics. Political ads are bad ref-erence material.

If you want the truth, you should find it yourself by looking at the actions of a candidate, not by listen-ing to the words of their opponent.

Listening to these ads religiously is not the best idea.

By the way, where are all the Ron Paul ads?

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erroneous assumptions underlie that belief, so oftenrepeated that even those who are friendly to Israel,even many Jews in Israel and in the United States, havecome to accept it. Our government, generally friendlyto and supportive of Israel, has bought into the myth ofthe “settlements;” it has regularly and insistentlyrequested that the“settlements” be abandonedand, one supposes, be turnedover lock, stock, and barrel tothose who are sworn todestroy Israel.

The very designation of theJewish inhabitants ofJudea/Samaria as “settlers” isinappropriate, because it connotes something foreign,intrusive and temporary, something that ispurposefully and maliciously imposed. But that isnonsense of course. Why would the more than quarter-million Jews who live in Judea/Samaria be any more“intrusive” or any more “illegal” than the more thanone million Arabs who live in peace in what is called“Israel proper” or west of the so-called “green line”?Nobody considers their presence as intrusive; nobodytalks of them as an obstacle to peace.

Most of us, regrettably perhaps, are too worldly andtoo “sophisticated” to put much stock in the argumentthat the territories in question, Judea and Samaria, areindeed the ancestral homeland of the Jewish peopleand that they were promised by God to Abraham andhis seed in perpetuity. Jews have lived in that countrywithout interruption since Biblical times. There is noreason why they shouldn’t live there now. Why shouldJudea/Samaria be the only place in the world (exceptfor such benighted countries as Saudi Arabia) whereJews cannot live?

Legal Aspects: But how about the legal aspect of thismatter? Isn’t the “West Bank” “occupied territory” andtherefore the Jews have no right to be there? But thehistoric reality is quite different. Very briefly: TheOttoman Empire was the sovereign in the entire area.In 1917, while World War I was still raging, Britainissued the Balfour Declaration. It designated“Palestine”—extending throughout what is now Israel(including the “West Bank”) and what is now the

Kingdom of Jordan—as the homeland for the Jewishpeople. In 1922, the League of Nations ratified theBalfour Declaration and designated Britain as themandatory power. Regrettably, Britain, for its ownimperial reasons and purposes, separated 76 percent ofthe land—that lying beyond the Jordan River—tocreate the kingdom of Trans-Jordan (now Jordan) andmade it inaccessible to Jews. In 1947, tired of the

constant bloodlettingbetween Arabs and Jews, theBritish threw in the toweland abandoned the Mandate.The UN took over. It devised aplan by which the land westof the Jordan River would besplit between the Jews andthe Arabs. The Jews, though

with heavy heart, accepted the plan. The Arabsvirulently rejected it and invaded the nascent Jewishstate with the armies of five countries, so as to destroyit at its birth. Miraculously, the Jews prevailed and theState of Israel was born. When the smoke of battlecleared, Jordan was in possession of the “West Bank”and Egypt in possession of Gaza. They were the“occupiers” and they proceeded to kill as many Jews asthey could and to drive out the survivors. Theysystematically destroyed all Jewish holy places and allvestiges of Jewish presence. The area was“judenrein”—free of Jews.

In the Six-Day War of 1967, the Jews reconquered theterritories. The concept that Jewish presence inJudea/Samaria is illegal and that the Jews are occupiersis bizarre. It just has been repeated so often and withsuch vigor that many people have come to accept it.Even our president seems to have bought into that.

How about the “Palestinians,” whose patrimony thisterritory supposedly is and about whose olive trees andorange groves we hear endlessly? There is no suchpeople. They are Arabs—the same people as inLebanon, Syria, Jordan, and beyond. Most of themmigrated into the territories and to “Israel proper,”attracted by Jewish prosperity and industry. Theconcept of “Palestinians” as applied to Arabs and as adistinct nationality urgently in need of their owntwenty-third Arab state, is a fairly new one; it was notinvented until after 1948, when the State of Israel wasfounded.

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But here’s a thought: How about a deal by which the “settlements” were indeed abandoned and all the Jews wereto move to “Israel proper.” At the same time, all the Arabs living in Israel would be transferred to Judea/Samariaor to wherever else they wanted to go? That would indeed make Judea/Samaria “judenrein,” and what are now Arablands in Israel would be “arabrein.” The Arabs could then live in a fully autonomous area in eastern Israel andpeace, one would hope, would descend on the holy land. What is wrong with this plan is that very few if any IsraeliArabs would accept it—life is too good for them in Israel.

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As he waits in line at Starbucks in the Union for his cof-fee, sophomore Michael Behr doesn’t seem to be bothered about the difficulties of saving money while attending school.

“I just try to save as much money as possible and spend as little as I can,” Behr said.

Every college student goes through the phase in learning how to make beneficial spend-ing habits whether they are forced to or not.

Program manager in Student Money Management Services Patricia Donnelly said there are many factors that play in part in how a student spends their money while being enrolled at a University. Some of these factors include peer pressure, previous experience in spend-ing money, and how they were brought up in dealing with money.

“Their peers are buying UGGs and North Face jackets, and all of that so they feel compelled to keep up with them,” Donnelly said. “Being part of the group is a big deal in the stages of your

development so there is that opportunity to spend.”

Behr said because food is his most purchased item on a meal plan, it’s easier to save money at school.

“The only time I really spend money is when all of the din-ing services are closed and then me and my friends go out to eat somewhere,” Behr said. “I’m always really busy with school work so I don’t have time to buy video games or anything like that.”

Fi n a nc i a l E duc at ion Coordinator at SMMS Heather Wilson said age plays a major factor in how a student makes spending decisions.

“Younger people such as freshmen usually have a hard time because they’re not used to being on their own and they don’t realize how much they are spending on different

things,” Wilson said. “As they get a little bit older and are here longer they realize they need to pull back their range a little bit.”

Donnelly said many students tend to spend money on things that aren’t really beneficial to them, such as expensive elec-tronics and alcohol.

“If they spend a lot of money on beer and just doing things that in the long run aren’t going to be a benefit to them, it’s going to hurt them in the long run,” Donnelly said. “It’s easy to do that because there is a lot of peer pressure and you might not have any financial goals and that’s the perfect combina-tion for someone to overspend on things.”

Behr said he does spend money on alcohol, but that it’s really cheap and he only goes out on the weekends.

“I only go out and drink like one night a week so I’ll split alcohol with my friends so it’s not really that much,” Behr said. “So it’ll only be like a couple of bucks a night when I do go out

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7IN FOCU$By Alissa Widman

Senior Reporter

Rachel Schirra hasn’t paid the same tuition price twice since arriving at the University in fall 2010.

Each year, the junior watches college costs climb, adding to the already hefty price she pays as an out-of-state student.

“Getting that email this summer — ‘oh, we’re raising your tuition again’ — it’s just routine now,” Schirra said. “I’m never surprised.”

But expecting the notification doesn’t lessen the blow, she said.

“A pit formed in my stomach when I read it,” Schirra said. “I already didn’t even know if I’d have enough money to come back. I was scrambling to find loans.”

Universities statewide continue coping with less state funding. They’re also competing to attract distinguished faculty members and incoming students.

Meanwhile, students like Schirra are left feeling discouraged as they foot the bill.

At the University, that bill — $10,044 this academic year — is higher than at most institutions statewide.

University tuition and manda-tory fees are the third-most expen-sive in the state and have been for at least five years, according to data from the Ohio Board of Regents. Only Miami University and University of Cincinnati have higher tuition rates.

And the costs keep rising.All 13 public universities in Ohio

increased their tuition for the cur-rent academic year. Statewide, tuition increases cannot exceed 3.5 percent each year, according to the current state budget, signed by Gov. John Kasich in June 2011.

The University’s tuition has increased by that limit four years in a row. Officials cite decreased state funding and increased operating costs as the cause.

“[Raising tuition] is never easy,” said Geoff Tracy, the University’s director for budget and resource planning. “But when state support

goes down and you’ve exhausted all other avenues, it’s hard to avoid.”

State funding made up more than 70 percent of the University’s budget about 20 years ago, Tracy said. Now, that amount has been reduced to less than 25 percent, with more cuts anticipated next year.

The University has implemented some “belt tightening” measures, including staff reductions, and has also sought alternative sources of funding, such as grants and dona-tions, he said.

“We always want to try to look at other avenues to support the insti-tution,” Tracy said. “The way the economy is right now, we under-stand it gets tougher each year for students, but we think tuition here is still affordable.”

Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, disagrees.

His center, a Washington-based research group with a goal of reforming higher education, thinks tuition nationwide is too pricey,

and more should be done to keep costs down.

“Ohio’s situation isn’t unique,” said Vedder, also an economics professor at Ohio University. “And when you compare Bowling Green State University to similar insti-tutions, its tuition is really par for the course. This is happening everywhere.”

To Vedder, state funding isn’t solely to blame for inflated prices — after all, costs at private universi-ties are also on the rise. Likewise, “productivity in higher education has remained roughly unchanged,” he said, and often doesn’t match the prices students pay.

“There’s some truth to the argu-ments of the higher education establishment, but I think they’re also exaggerated,” Vedder said. “Simply put, colleges raise tuition fees because they can get away with it.”

But for students like Schirra, that explanation isn’t good enough.

Scholarships for good grades, a full-time summer job at a gas sta-

tion and a “ramen noodle and mac-aroni and cheese” diet still haven’t helped her evade going significant-ly into debt.

And if she wants to attend gradu-ate school to pursue her ideal career as a wildlife biologist, she knows even more debt awaits her.

“I’ve thought about giving up,” Schirra said. “But if you’re this far, what do you do? Go work a mini-mum wage job forever and try to pay off your loans? You can’t.”

Sophomore Kevin Storer, Schirra’s friend, said he’s sure many other students share similar frustrations.

But, like Schirra, he doesn’t fore-see a solution anytime soon.

“You’re supposed to come to col-lege to get a job doing what you love,” Storer said. “But a lot of stu-dents probably don’t get that oppor-tunity, because if that job doesn’t pay a lot, they’re thinking ‘I won’t be able to afford this degree once I get it.’”

I did not come to college with a great sense of money management. Few of us did.

In fact, for those of us living on campus with any kind of meal plan, things may have gotten worse.

Falcon dollars, or “monopo-ly money” as I’ve called it, easily became the University’s version of a credit card spending problem.

Want a slice of pizza? Or seven of them? Swipe your card. Want more food? Go back and swipe again.

Then came the idea of “swipes,” where the entire concept of money, already detached from BG1 cards to begin with, faded entirely.

But forget the downsides of swipes (lack of “roll-overs” and monetary discipline) and think of our current system.

In the old days of southern Ohio, mining towns would feature their own currencies dispensed by the mining company. Workers could

use these “tokens” at the compa-ny store, which was conveniently placed right in town.

The problems are obvious. When the company pays workers in their own currency, but then controls the market and prices in which tokens are spent, the workers are locked in.

University students have the same problem. The campus pro-vides meal plans and, obviously, the meals, and even more obvi-ously, the food’s prices.

But don’t worry. When you run out of money, you have an oppor-tunity to refill your balance...with more campus money, to again use at campus stores and restaurants.

Money is important and stretch-es to every aspect of our lives, espe-cially on campus. Tuition, loans, meal plans, sports and more are affected and influenced by money.

Read through this InFocus with an open mind. Look closely at where our university compares regarding tuition, where our stores compare regarding food prices and how students spend their money. Make your own conclusions and decide where fairness lies.

University’s tuition prices in top tier statewidePUTTING MONEY IN PERSPECTIVE

Money makes significant impact on student life at University “I just try to save

as much money as possible and spend as

little as I can”Michael Behr | Sophomore

Top six full-time undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees for Ohio students. This does not include room and board fees.

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Money Management Services aims to educate, offer advice

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2011 2012$13,081 $13,538 +$457

+$365+$350+$348+$341+$335

$10,419 $10,784$10,044 $10,394

$9,936 $10,284$9,735 $10,076$9,545 $9,880

2012 information presented by the University’s Divisions of Finance & Administration in June 2012. Amounts may vary slightly from the offical numbers reported by the Ohio Board of Regents later this year.2011 information obtained from the Ohio Board of Regents website.

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As the University expands Outtakes to further loca-tions, so grows the concern over the campus stores’ prices.

“It’s way too expensive,” said sophomore Britany Labrun.

There are now six Outtakes at various dorm buildings, the Jerome Library and now in the Union.

The meal plan-friendly stores feature a number of grocery store standards--a section for snacks, multiple refrigerators for dairy prod-ucts and non-food items like batteries and toiletries.

But Dining Services administrators are quick to distinguish Outtakes from its competition.

“I’m not a grocery store, nor do I claim to be one,” said Mike Paulus, Director of Dining Services.

Paulus noted that large grocery chains like Kroger and Meijer buy their prod-ucts from manufacturers in bulk. Outtakes, meanwhile, buys products in much smaller quantities, mak-ing prices more expensive, Paulus said.

Outtakes operator Robin Bruning said that Outtakes prices relate to local con-venience stores because of the similarities in supplier quantities.

But that’s not true, said one local store owner.

Bob Shnar, owner of BG Carry-Out on East Wooster St. said although it is cheap-er to buy from grocers like Kroger and Wal-mart, his prices are lower than the Outtakes prices.

“I would say the campus stores are more expensive,” Shnar said.

Paulus added that conve-nience stores are able to have

lower prices because of the additional products they sell.

“Traditional convenience stores are able to reduce some pricing in specific products due to their margins on gas, tobacco and alcohol, which we cannot offer,” Paulus said.

Regardless of the explana-tion, many students on cam-pus find the prices to be too expensive.

Senior Neil Carrier said that one is paying for con-venience when buying from Outtakes because they are so close to the dorms.

“It’s the same thing when you go to a sporting event,” Carrier said, referring to the “inflated” prices.

Other students don’t think the convenience is worth the cost.

“I would rather take the bus [than go to Outtakes]. The transportation is there,” said junior Hilary Pearlman.

University officials justify ‘Outtakes’ store prices on campus

ABOVE IS a price comparison of specific products between campus ‘Outtakes’ and the chain stores Kroger and Meijer. Despite offering larger packages, such as Oreos, Kroger and Meijer feature much lower prices than Outtakes. The same goes for bananas, cereal and many other products. Dining Services director Mike Paulus says the discrepancy is due to chain stores buying their products from manufacturers in bulk, which he says reduces their eventual selling prices. Many products above are sold at more than double the cost of their competition. Fruity Pebbles, for example, is sold at Outtakes for more than 240 percent the listed price given at Kroger and Meijer.

TUITION From Page 7

I’m not quite sure why my friends at the University refer to their meal plan dollars as “Monopoly money.”

After all, playing a game of Monopoly involves much more financial strategy than managing assets while living on a college campus.

Likewise, spending in Monopoly bears some resemblance to real-world economics. On-campus living does not.

For these reasons — and, admittedly, for many oth-ers I won’t discuss now — I’m always amused when I hear someone refer to college as “preparation for the real world.”

Apparently, in the “real world,” your spending money is allotted in semester-long increments. If you don’t spend it in that time-frame, it disap-pears forever.

Also, in the “real world,” food is supplied via a currency known as “swipes.”

Finally, in this so-called “real world,” you can’t even purchase the supplies neces-sary to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without spending at least $12.

Do you now understand why I’ve become so jaded in my three and a half year stint at this institution?

Each year, I watch on-cam-pus students scuffle through Outtakes convenience stores at the springtime semester’s end, wrangling up as many cases of Gatorade and ramen

noodles as they can fit in the back of their car.

They’ve effectively budgeted their meal plan dollars through-out the school year, and they’re punished by being forced to forfeit their remaining dollars if they don’t spend them.

I know how it feels; I was an on-campus student for two years. It feels wrong.

While other people on the planet are starving, it just doesn’t feel right to treat food and beverages this way.

Instead of encouraging students to spend as little as possible, on-campus living encourages frivolous spend-ing on items with severely inflated prices to use up all of your meal plan dollars before the semester’s end.

It’s as simple as a swipe of your BG1 Card — quick, con-venient, thoughtless. And when you’re not touching any of your $3,000 of meal plan, sometimes it doesn’t even feel like you’re spending it.

This mentality, unfortu-nately, isn’t exclusive to college students.

Our culture, nationwide and beyond, continues to turn away from physical money and toward digital accounts through systems like debit cards and direct deposit pay-checks. It’s cheaper for compa-nies and more convenient for consumers, and some would argue it encourages people to spend more money.

So maybe, in a sense, college is preparing students for the “real world.”

Or maybe the University’s meal plan system is just a sign of the times — after all, “most colleges do their meal plan this way” is a justification I’ve

heard often while discussing with others the University’s implementation of the “swipe system” in 2011.

Either way, it doesn’t sit well with me.

Unfortunately, I don’t think things will change anytime soon, unless all colleges and universities are willing to make a pact for change. As long as students keep enroll-ing each year, the flawed, yet profitable system will remain, even if it’s slightly altered.

For example, my sister, a University freshman, belongs to the second incoming class to utilize the new swipe system. She takes me to dinner weekly at The Oaks or Carillon Place.

Although I wish her act was simply out of kindness, or a desire to spend time with me, we’ve discussed her true motivation: she’s not on-pace to spend her swipes by the semester’s end. Not even close. Meanwhile, her Falcon Dollars are running considerably low.

I wish I could offer her bud-geting advice, but back in my on-campus days, we didn’t have swipes.

In my opinion, they’re just one more way to confuse students, ultimately sending dollars back to the University when students fail to budget properly.

Instead of adding new prob-lems into the meal plan mix, Dining Services should focus on fixing its old ones.

If on-campus spending doesn’t start to resemble real-ity sometime soon, I fear the only “real world” prepara-tion University students will receive from their meal plan budgeting is how to eventually go bankrupt.

On-campus living encourages poor spending habits, decisions

ALISSA WIDMAN

SENIORREPORTER

so it’s not bad at all.”A student should have

a great connection with their family in dealing with finances because good communication makes spending a lot eas-ier, Donnelly said.

“If you have a relation-ship with your family and

you sit and talk about it and you agree that this money is going to be used for certain things and there is a back and forth communication between your family and you, then I think it makes spending more simple,” Donnelly said. “Families just throw their money at their stu-dents and it can get pretty crazy if the student abuses that money for not benefi-

cial things.As Behr is finally hand-

ed his coffee, he gives a piece of advice for other students with spending dilemmas.

“I would just say not to spend money on things that aren’t a necessity,” Behr said. “Don’t go to Starbucks everyday if you don’t need to. Just buy what you need to and the rest will be saved.”

SPENDING From Page 7

Spending Tips from SMMS:

* Set a personal goal on how much of a limit you want to spend

* Write down everything you buy and keep a list of purchased items

* Only buy necessities and things on sale

* Keep great communication between family members in dealing

with finances

* Attend SMMS meetings

11oz box of Fruity Pebbles:

12oz box of Special K Redberries:

Regular Oreos:

Chiquita banana:

12 pk of 12oz Coke/Sprite:

$7.19 $2.99 $2.99

$8.09 $4.09 $3.33 16oz

$7.39 14oz pk $2.95 15.5oz pk $3.99 24oz pk

69 cents/banana 54 cents/lbs N/A

$5.99 $5.19 $3.66

Remaining full-time undergraduate tuition and manda-tory fees for Ohio students, 2011:Kent State University: $9,346

Cleveland State University: $9,002

University of Toledo: $8,926

Wright State University: $8,070

Youngstown State University:$7,451

Shawnee State University: $6,762

Central State University: $5,672

PRICE COMPARISON

Remaining full-time undergraduate tuition and manda-tory fees for Ohio students, 2012:Kent State University: $9,673

Cleveland State University: $9,317

University of Toledo: $9,238

Wright State University: $8,352

Youngstown State University:$7,771

Shawnee State University: $6,999

Central State University: $5,871

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012 10SPORTS

“When you get shutout it’s not a good day,” a quote that head coach Dave Clawson said con-cluding the Falcons loss to Virginia Tech this past Saturday, is one that has stuck with me.

For starters, it really showcas-es how the game was played. It seemed at times that players had given up on the game and, as a result, themselves. Until midway into the second quarter, BG went toe-to-toe with the much larger ACC team. However, once that floodgate broke, it really broke.

It was a huge disappointment to many but especially to me. As the Sports Editor here and the football beat reporter, I feel espe-cially close to the team, almost that they are my team and not just my school’s. I follow what they have to say and optimisti-cally watch them perform. So far what I’ve seen this year has been a lot of good things athleti-cally, however, lately it appears it’s the mental aspect that has been plaguing the roster.

It is no secret to many who know me that I have predicted the Falcons to be 1-3 at this point in the season and I was dead-on accurate. I expected to lose to Florida although what I saw was impressive.

I expected to blow out Idaho, which, for all intents and pur-poses, we did. Finally, I expected to lose a tough one to Toledo, which was where the insecuri-ties began to show.

Toledo is a great team and they have a lot going their way, how-ever, I feel that BG does as well. I wasn’t surprised that the Falcons lost, however, I was disappointed to see how they did so. Early on the team was down 17-0, and the Falcons got antsy and tried to force plays. The final score of 27-15 was an indication that they struggled. The one shining moment of improvement might have been that BG finally made a field goal on two attempts, how-ever, freshman kicker Tyler Tate missed an extra-point attempt later in the game.

Game four came and went, although not delicately, with the Hokies rout of the Falcons. The game had absolutely zero

By Ryan SatkowiakSenior Reporter

For the first time since the 2010-11 season, the BG hockey team will have a player adorning the captain’s ‘C’ on his jersey.

In fact, following the first season in school history in which no official captain was named, BG will have two players carrying the distinction this season: junior Cam Wojtala and sophomore Ryan Carpenter.

Wojtala, the first recruit personally singed by third-year coach Chris Bergeron, served as the on-ice intermediary between the coaching staff and officials last season — meaning whenever the head referee held a meeting to explain a call or try to calm the game down, Wojtala was the one sent out to retrieve the message. That is a task usually held by the captain.

Bergeron has spoken highly of the leadership qualities of both players. Those qualities were verified during the offseason with the team voting Wojtala and Carpenter co-captains for the year.

“It’s definitely something pretty cool and pretty special that they think that of me,” Carpenter said. “But it’s not something that is going to change my attitude or my day-to-day routine. Guys expect me to go out there and get the job done, but that’s something that I’ve always expected of myself.”

Wojtala echoed that same sentiment, calling the co-captaincy a “responsibility that you have to take care of on a daily basis.”

Both players spent the summer attending NHL prospect camps as free agent invites. Carpenter was in Chicago for Blackhawks camp, while Wojtala was in Washington, D.C. for Capitals camp.

In addition to getting a taste of what professional hockey compe-

By Max HouseholderReporter

The BG volleyball team has wel-comed an extra set of eyes on the court in practice with assis-tant coach Jessica Hohl.

Hohl has practiced with the team nearly every day and even took part in the Orange and Brown scrimmage — the intra-squad scrimmage that started the year for the Falcons.

In the game, Hohl was on the winning orange team, where she tied for the team lead with 13 kills and added 17 digs. Hohl, a native of Waterville, played at Big Ten power Michigan State from 2003-2007.

While at Michigan State, she was a part of two teams that reached the NCAA Tournament, with her most memorable game being the Sweet Sixteen matchup w it h defending National Champion Nebraska

in 2007. Her team lost the match in five sets, but she still remem-bers it to this day because it signified just how competitive her team was.

“It was really competitive playing in the Big Ten because every night you don’t have a gimme game, so you really have to prepare throughout the week,” Hohl said.

Not only were things competi-tive in the Big Ten at the time, but also in practice with her teammates.

“It was competitive even on your own team because once you get to that level there are so many high level players that it’s hard to get a starting spot,” Hohl said. “Every day was some of the most intense, competitive volleyball in my life.”

Now that she is a coach at BG, she has not lost that competitive spirit and the players she coach-es can see that. She still acts

like a player out there but knows that her first priority is having a coach’s eye on the court.

“After a long play, she will see things that Tucker and coach [Danijela] Tomic can’t see because she’s in with us,” junior libero Libby Dachenhaus said. “Although she is winded some-times at the end of a play, she still does her best to come talk to us about what she saw.”

“I have to keep in mind that I am a coach and not a play-er when I’m out there,” Hohl said. “But I hope they would see me do certain things that would help them like chang-ing their hitting repertoire. I think it helps bring us up a

level competitively.” Before coming to BG, Hohl

spent a year as a graduate assis-tant at Arkansas State, where her team went 21-10 and won the Sun Belt Conference West Division Championship. She was referred to BG by her for-mer coach at Arkansas State as Tomic was at the time looking for a coach that knew the area.

“It wasn’t one quality that stuck out [about Hohl] but a combination of enthusiasm, passion, ambition and competi-tiveness that I look for in my assistants,” Tomic said.

The fact that Hohl is from this area could help in recruiting as she is familiar with many of the club coaches.

“I know all of the club direc-tors and I am familiar with what high schools are specifically dominant in this area,” Hohl said. “It’s great because the state of Ohio has a lot of good volley-

ball that we definitely want to tap into.”

Tomic is glad that Hohl knows the area of BG.

“The fact that Jessica knows this area well won’t hurt,” Tomic said. “She has a good eye for talent and has done a good job evaluating our prospects this past club season.”

The Falcons wil l continue to work to get better, and it only helps when they have a coach just a few years removed from the game out there giv-ing them guidance. Also it just might be that her competitive nature has already rubbed off on the Falcon players as they opened up conference play with two convincing straight set victories.

Only time will tell, but as of right now the Falcons seem to be getting better week by week, which is a compliment of expe-rience and good coaching.

captain

Following stint with Arkansas State, Hohl helps to guide BG volleyball in first season with program

Despite slow start, BG can

turn it around

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Falcons

tition is like, Wojtala said he learned how to “live like a pro” in terms of how he approaches the game from an off-ice perspective.“You’re making sure that you are eating right, eating at the right times, doing stretches, taking care of your body,” he said.Carpenter said that the level of skill and talent at the camps were strong, but he was particularly impressed by the intensity of

the players at the camps.“Just how hard those guys worked and the strength and condi-

tioning stuff they did,” he said. “They’re top fitness athletes are I’m trying to bring some of the stuff I learned there to here.”

In not having a captain named last season, Bergeron was looking for the entire team to collectively take a leadership role. While he still expects other players to step up and be leaders on the team this season, he said that the team electing Carpenter and Wojtala as captains was one thing that set them apart.

“Their example is outstanding,” he said. “They both believe in what is going on here as a program. They both live a certain way on a daily basis and I think that they complement each other in a way that they’re going to be able to get things done collectively.”

As if his coach was speaking through him, Carpenter was quick to point out that, defined roles aside, there are other lead-ers on this team, singling out senior goalie Andrew Hammond and junior forward Andrew Wallace as players who have helped out thus far this preseason in captains’ practices.

However, Carpenter said the benefit of having two captains will make it easier to preach accountability this season.

“You can’t just have one guy leading, you have to have multiple guys leading,” he said. “If one guy’s not picking up this slack, Cam can get on a guy or I can get on a guy, but we can get on each other too, because it’s not just other teammates we have to hold accountable, we have to hold ourselves accountable too.”

While neither player can firmly say how much having a struc-tured leadership role on the team will help, they confirmed that it will make things a little bit easier to understand.

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Carpenter, Wojtala assume captain duties for 2012-13 hockey season

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6SPORTS

By Cameron Teague RobinsonReporter

Sports can be the best time of an athlete’s life. When your senior year comes around and you see it all coming to an end it brings back all the great memories and times you had with your teammates who became like family to you. But it’s not all sad memories; there is also the motivation that you get to finish your last year the best you can according to seniors Taylor Stichter and Josh Franek.

That is what these seniors are going through this year. “The past four years have meant so much to me. I have made friendships that

I know will last a lifetime,” said Stichter. “I have made so many connections through the athletic and academic community and I know I will always have these peo-ple supporting me and trying to help me in any way possible.”

Stichter is an early childhood major from Southview High School in Toledo, Ohio. As a freshman, she immediately helped the team by competing in four of the seven races that year. She set a personal record in the 4K with a time of 16:30 along with a 6K record with a time of 24:26.

As a sophomore she ran in the first five races and as a junior she ran in all five of the team’s races.

She has grown from a freshman to one of the leaders of the team this year. “Over the last four years, I have improved a lot from high school. My coaches and team-mates have helped me try to be the best runner I can be,” Stichter said. “Although I think there still can be improvement.”

Stichter plans on going out to find a job in her major after she graduates. Even though she does not plan on continuing cross country, she does plan on run-ning in marathons and triathlons. She does want to become a cross country coach though one day. “I absolutely love the sport and want to be a part of it for the rest of my

life,” Stichter said.Franek, a business market-

ing major from Crestwood High School in Hiram, Ohio, followed in his mom and dad’s footsteps by deciding to run cross coun-try for Bowling Green as they did. But he did not originally attend the University. He transferred here after one year at Bucknell University.

He has gone through a lot more than most people go through changing majors, and having many different coaches train him. “This continuously chang-ing path has not only caused me to always be ready for change and uncertainty,” said Franek.

“It has also made my personal viewpoints, morals and values all change as well.”

In Franek’s debut season in 2010, he raced in all seven of the Falcons’ races as well as setting a season best 8K record with a time of 27:08.2. He broke his that per-sonal best next season in 2011 with a time of 26:05, he also performed a personal best in the 10K at the big stage of the NCAA regionals with a time of 33:24. He looks to continue that success during his last year. “My sister has definitely been the largest influence on me

By Alex KrempaskyReporter

The BGSU men’s soccer team is returning to Cochrane Stadium on Wednesday after winning their first match 3-0 against the St. Bonaventure Bonnies.

They’ll be facing off against the Spartans of Michigan State in their first of three matches against teams from the Big Ten Conference.

Michigan State and Bowling Green have faced off against each other annually since the 2002 season and Michigan State won each year until last year

when the Falcons held them to a 0-0 draw in East Lansing. This will be the 40th match in the series between the two schools, in which Michigan State leads 17-16-6.

The Spartans currently hold a record of 0-1-1 during the 2012 regular season. Michigan State lost in overtime on Sunday against New Hampshire after recording a draw against Valparaiso.

The Falcons have been pre-paring for the game since their 3-0 win over St. Bonaventure on Sunday. Head coach Eric Nichols said that there has been an emphasis on playing more as a

team and focusing on BG rather than MSU.

“We’ll introduce Michigan State to the team tomorrow,” Nichols said. “But we are more focused on BG right now.”

Nichols said that one of the team’s greatest weaknesses is possession, which they have been emphasizing and working on during practice this week.

“We need to communicate more on the field to improve our possession,” Nichols said.

The team has been working on focusing on each game indi-vidually and making sure that they win the game then looking

forward to future games.“We are treating each game like

a championship game,” redshirt-junior Brandon Silva said.

It was also announced that junior goalkeeper Michael Wiest was named Mid-American Conference Player of the Week after recording seven saves against St. Bonaventure, tying his career best mark.

The Falcons take on the Spartans at 7 p.m. at Cochrane Stadium on Wednesday, then finishes up the three-game homestand on Saturday with a match against the Marshall Thundering Herd.

Men’s soccer to play Mich. State

Pessimistic thoughts

BG plays Florida on Saturday

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ASSISTANTSPORTS EDITOR

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going thedistance

Seniors Taylor Stichter and Josh Franek compete for their last season

When people find out my title as the assistant sports editor, the very first thing they sarcas-tically ask me is if I think our Falcons can beat Florida. I have heard a lot these last couple days about students thoughts about the game and very few are opti-mistic.

Actually, several seem upset that we are even playing a game that they feel we will lose and lose bad. I am always optimistic as a sports fan and even more so as a writer, and from what I have seen with this team to date, I think we could.

It’s a small chance, it really is, but I saw what Toledo did to Ohio State last fall and even though they lost, they were rewarded like they had won. I know Florida is a big school with many tal-ented athletes, but they also have everything to lose.

When a mid-major school goes into games like this, they have nothing to lose. They have been told relentlessly that they will never win, that they will embar-rass themselves and that they

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THE MEN’S soccer team celebrates after a goal form Danny Baraldi, No. 10, in their 3-0 victory over the St. Bonaventure Bonnies this past on Saturday. They will play MSU Wednesday at 7p.m.PHOTO PROVIDED

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Jessica HohlBG assistant volleyball coach

RYAN CARPENTER, sophomore forward, skates the puck up the ice during the CCHA semifinal game at Joe Louis Arena. Carpenter led the Falcons with 30 points last season.

CAM WOJTALA, junior forward, races for the puck during the CCHA semifinal game last season. Wojtala finished third on the team with 10 goals and 23 points last season.

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positive gains as the Falcons were shutout.

Again, I predicted Virginia Tech to win and win decisively, but I didn’t expect them to shame all things brown and orange in the process. Virginia Tech had a vendetta from their previous game after they shockingly lost to Pittsburgh, so they clear-ly saw this as a statement game. BG, however, looked

like they were content in helping Virginia Tech rebuild their credibility.

So, here we are heading into homecoming week-end, and I think it is clearly important to remember that it is only week five. There are still eight games left to play, and I can hon-estly say that I could expect BG to win them all, even against Ohio University.

It really isn’t that much of a stretch and I know the team got off to a rough start, but it did so against some really high-caliber

offenses and nationally-credible teams.

Forget not that Florida was ranked No. 23 at the time and are currently ranked No. 11. Virginia Tech before their loss to Pittsburgh was ranked No. 12 nationally, and Toledo was the preseason MAC favorite.

BG was predicted to fin-ish second in the MAC East behind Ohio however and despite whoever may win that game, BG could still be bowl eligible for the first time since 2009. That is

something to be proud of.I tend to live by a small

personal motto, some call it a cliché and others call it pointless. “It is what it is” is that motto, and it applies perfectly to the Falcons’ early season. It happened, it wasn’t pretty but most importantly, it is in the past now.

Now BG has eight win-nable games ahead and most prominently, Rhode Island. Go to the game, enjoy homecoming and roll along you BG warriors, roll along.

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“I think now it just solidi-fies things so that no one is asking questions or any-thing like that,” Wojtala said. “But everyone has their own role that they know and everyone can lead in their own way.”

Wojtala also reiterated Carpenter’s sentiments about a new leadership role not changing the way he has prepared for the sea-

son, saying that he’s taking everything day-by-day.

One thing that the team wants to avoid is getting complacent. Despite last season’s strong postseason run, the last-place regular season finish is still fresh in their minds, and is some-thing they want to avoid repeating this season.

“We don’t expect to be mediocre again this year,” Carpenter said. “We know what we are capable of doing. We just have to go out and execute.”

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KATIE LOGSDON | THE BG NEWSKRISTIN HELMS, grad student, purchased various items from vendors at the farmers’ market.

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TASHA ADAMSKI, senior, bought produce at the farmers’ market that was located outside of the Union in the oval.

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added each year, Meyer said.This year, there was an “iron

chef” competition that fea-tured four of the University’s chefs and who participated in a timed cook-off. They were allowed to choose ingredients from Sirno & Sons’ tables and were also provided with a few herbs and spices, Meyer said.

After time expired, stu-dents and attendees were invited to sample the different dishes and choose the win-ner through crowd applause, Thomas Lambert, or “Chef Tom” said.

The chefs were not told that they were going to have a cook-off, but told simply to show up at 12, Meyer said.

“They told us to come here at 12 with a knife and an assis-tant,” Thomas said.

Sophomores Nicole Ritchey and Serena Foor

sampled every dish and said their favorites were the corn tomales, but that everything was “really good.”

Ritchey said that the farm-ers’ market was enjoyable and needs to happen at least twice a year, once in the fall and spring.

One student looked at the farmers market as an opportunity.

“I think it’s really cool, espe-cially because there is not a local grocery store that’s walk able in town for students who want to eat healthy,” said senior Rachel Lucas. “It’s great for it to be on campus.”

Sophomore Justin Gramley said he bought some simple items but that they really reminded him of home.

“It is definitely awesome to support local produce and to make your own meal out of it,” Gramley said.

Gramley also said many students have a meal plan on campus so they don’t get the

opportunity to make their own food.

Riffle, who was also one of the event’s organizers, said she was very pleased with the turnout and the weather.

Riffle also said she enjoyed hearing students’ comments.

“I heard a couple groups saying what they wanted to plan for dinner tonight,” she said.

Thomas sees the event as a way to educate incoming freshman that “there is some-thing other than Walmart and McDonald’s.”

Thomas said he and his wife visit about two farmers’ markets a month and said it is a great way to meet people and build community.

Gretchen Thomas of Joseph’s said she feels the farmers’ market needs to get bigger and hopefully it will grow in the next few the years.

“We need to expose the kids to real food and buying local,” she said.