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Wednesday, November 14, 2012 VOLUME 92, ISSUE 38 WWW.BGNEWS.COM
ESTABLISHED 1920 | An independent student press serving the campus and surrounding communityTHE BG NEWS
MEN’S BASKETBALL GOES 1-1 ALL ABOUT PROGRESSIONThe BG men’s basketball team started its season this past weekend. The Falcons defeated the Lake Erie Storm, 63-53, and lost to the Cleveland State Vikings, 79-73. | PAGE 6
Assistant Forum Editor Matthew Thacker evaluates the election outcomes and explains why we may not see a lot of political progression in the near future. | PAGE 4
Josh NickelsFreshman, Visual Communication Technology
WHAT’S THE BEST WAY TO GET SOMEONE ELSE’S MONEY?
“Get them drunk.”
The Jazz Lab Band II played at Kobacker Hall on Tuesday night. View photos of their performance on PAGE 3
JAZZING IT UP
By Brittany FreemanReporter
The “Live Wire” Radio-TV show is sponsoring a free all-ages show Thursday evening at Cla-Zel.
Live Wire is a series that cel-ebrates and spotlights Bowling Green’s music scene. It airs on WBGU 88.1 FM radio station and PBS-affiliated television stations.
The show was modeled after pop radio television programs from the past, such as “Austin City Limits” and PBS’ “Old Time Radio Hour,” said Steve Merrill, a University telecommunications instructor who is involved with WBGU and the Live Wire radio show.
“The Livewire Radio Show fea-tures different types of music and we weigh them in on their merits,” Merrill said. “We’ll have anything from metal to hip-hop. The bands just need enough quality material.”
Thursday’s event will be a part of the show series and will feature four bands.
“The musical acts we pick have to work well for television and must be polished musicians,” Merrill said.
One of these polished musicians is Matt Donahue, a University instructor of popular culture who has been playing with various bands for 30 years.
Donahue’s band, “Matt Donahue’s Mad 45,” specializes in rock ‘n’ roll covers as well as original pieces.
“The covers we do are done with our own interpretation on it,” Donahue said. “We make each one our own.”
Donahue said he has been influ-enced by instrumental musicians, including Link Ray and Dick Dale.
“More recently, I have wanted to get back into playing my own
Cla-Zel spotlights local music
Area bands perform in radio show ‘Live Wire”
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See MOTHERS | Page 2MOLLY MCFADDIN | THE BG NEWS
JOURNALIST BRIAN Bull speaks about issues concerning Native Americans in today’s media. Bull shared his favorite pieces for NPR on Tuesday night.
A NATIVE PERSPECTIVE University provides support group for working parents
Employee Mothers’ Circle creates connections, offers adviceBy Zach Knapp
Reporter
Balancing a job and taking care of a child does not go without its challenges.
The Employee Mot her’s Circle at the University helps to ensure these challenges are not faced alone.
The support group offers women the opportunity to share concerns and receive guidance from other mothers who are in the same situation, said Amanda Vrooman, project coordinator for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs.
Vrooman helped organize the support group as a way for the University’s working women to learn how to make the most of their situation.
Mindy Flegle was one of the first women to get involved in the group.
Her work at the University as
a student service counselor does not end at the end of her shift; she has a young child waiting for her when she gets home.
However, she finds time dur-ing her lunch break to attend the support group.
“I consider it to be my real life chat room,” Flegle said. “It is real people with real situa-tions that are similar to yours. It’s nice to hear the challenges that other mothers are going through.”
Helping fellow mothers with their challenges is a central aspect of the support group, Flegle said.
“Once you get introduced to everyone and get to talking, you realize ‘my child went through the same thing’ and other moth-ers are able to share their experi-ences,” she said.
By Molly McNamaraReporter
When even a few cents per month can make all the differ-ence to college students on a budget, many marketers have been going door-to-door offering lower gas prices for stu-dents living off campus.
Though the appeal of a lower gas bill can be tempting, some students have been skeptical when a stranger at their doorstep begins asking for personal information.
Jordan Barhorst, a senior living at Campbell Hill, recently had someone claiming to work for Columbia Gas come to his doorstep offering to save him money on his gas bill. Barhorst became cautious when asked for his social security number.
“I had never really dealt with anyone like that since this is my first time buying gas, so I let them in my house,” Barhorst said. “When he asked for my social security number I knew something was up and asked him to leave.”
Before asking him to leave, Barhorst said the man was on the phone with someone reading off details of his account, including some personal information to the person on the other end. The man got visibly frustrated and upset with the person on the other end of the phone and, Barhorst said, was very unprofessional.
Claire Hoover, a graduate student who also lives at Campbell Hill, experienced a similar situation at her apart-ment earlier this year.
“People were coming around asking to see our last gas bill,” Hoover said. “I didn’t feel comfortable doing that so I told them my roommate in charge of that bill wasn’t home.”
Hoover said she then called Columbia Gas, whose rep-
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BLOTTERMON., NOV. 122:08 P.M.Noah Preston Swope, 32, of Bowling Green, was arrested for theft/shoplifting within the 2100 block of E. Wooster St. He was lodged in the Wood County Justice Center.
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Complainant reported some-time within the last week, an unknown subject dented the roof of a vehicle and cracked the windshield within the 700 block of E. Napoleon Road. The estimated damage is $600.
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RADIO From Page 1music, more guitar and rock ‘n’ roll based,” Donahue said of his current band’s musical style.
Each of the four fea-tured bands will play a 30-minute performance that highlights their style, Donahue said.
“All of the bands fit in the genre of punk rock, alternative and rock ‘n’ roll,” he said.
Most of the featured bands have a track record of playing in Bowling Green and Toledo area clubs,
Merrill said. “Live Wire is a great way
to find new local bands that you might not have heard of otherwise,” said junior Rebecca Priebe, gen-eral manager of WBGU.
Doors open at 8 p.m. and the first band will start playing at 9 p.m.
The show was orga-nized by WBGU students. Although it is free, dona-
tions will be accepted.“It is a free show for the
love of music,” Merrill said. “I really give credit to the students for produc-ing this, booking bands and securing interview
material.”Donahue said he is per-
forming as a form of sup-port.
“I’m playing this show as a way to offer support to the University through WBGU,” Donahue said. “The bands are donating their time and energ y for free. It’s an opportu-nity for folks to see free music.”
Support groups like this should be a staple at every university, said senior Brittany Daniels, who finds her workload hard enough on its own.
“I don’t have a kid, but I already have a hard time managing my time between school and work, so I can imagine these mothers’ strug-gles,” Daniels said. “It
is important to have a place that they can talk and realize that they can deal with the chal-
lenges of starting a fam-ily while working at the same time.”
Any advice that could make a woman’s days easier is welcome at the meetings, Vrooman said.
“Women like Mindy offered advice on crock-pot meals since a lot of women are short on time to prepare meals,” she said. “Anything to take
away from the feeling of being overwhelmed is helpful.”
The more women show up, the more potential the group has to help, Flegle said.
“I would encourage women with children to come and understand what other women have gone through,” Flegle said.
The group meets the second Thursday of each month from noon to 1 p.m. in 201 Union.
Matt DonahuePopular Culture Instrutctor, Musician
resentative said the com-pany never sends people door-to-door and would already have the infor-mation these people were requesting.
Students should be cau-tioned to know the differ-ence between an authen-tic marketer and someone seeking information for improper reasons, said Chris Kozak, commu-nications and commu-nity relations director for Columbia Gas.
“Sometimes people are posing as a Columbia Gas employee and are using that as a way to gain funds from that person or entry into their house,” Kozak said. “Other times it’s someone from one of our choice marketers trying to get them to sign up to buy their gas from a third party marketer, which is a real program.”
Columbia Gas has a program called Customer CHOICE that provides customers with the option to buy gas through a third party supplier, Kozak said. The program allows cus-tomers to pick from a list of different qualified sup-pliers while still receiv-ing their bill through Columbia Gas.
Senior Megan Behnfeldt, who lives at Columbia Court apartments, said someone came to her
apartment this year work-ing with the Customer CHOICE program.
“I had someone with a company by the name of Just Energy come to my apartment this year and I definitely didn’t think it was a scam,” Behnfeldt said. “I signed for them to be the primary pro-vider of my gas and now on my bill each month, which Columbia Gas sends me, the amount of gas and price is given by Just Energy.”
Columbia Gas has a list of their qualified suppli-ers on its website, which ca n help customers determine the validity of a marketer.
Though some of these door-to-door marketers are authentic, Lt. Brad Biller of the Bowling Green Police Division suggests taking necessary pre-cautions before provid-ing anyone with personal information.
“There are some valid folks out there trying to sell utility services, pri-marily gas services, which the city of Bowling Green does not provide,” Biller said. “I would strongly caution anybody about allowing someone entry into their residence as well as providing any information that could lead to identity theft, such as full account or social security numbers.”
Koz a k con f i r med Hoover’s phone call with
Columbia Gas and said Columbia Gas employ-ees would never ask for an account or social secu-rity number because they already have access to this information.
Also, the only time a Columbia Gas employee would come to someone’s home is for a scheduled visit or in response to an emergency, Kozak said.
Both Biller and Kozak said the best thing to do is to either ask for identi-fication or call Columbia Gas or Bowling Green utilities if anyone comes door-to-door claiming to work for either.
“If you’re ever uncom-fortable in any way, we have someone on the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Kozak said. “We’re more than happy to let you know if someone works with us.”
“Sometimes people are posing as a Columbia Gas
employee and are using that as a
way to gain funds from that person or entry into their
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By Sara RootReporter
A new website, IfMine.com, was recently launched in Bowling Green.
The website is designed for users to exchange criti-cal feedback, collaborate and seek mentorship on a variety of projects.
“The site was built for people in all fields,” said Danielle Hunter, social media director of ^IfMine. “Basically, if you have a project in need of feed-back, ^IfMine is for you.”
Dr. Joel Shiffler, creator of ^IfMine, came up with the idea for his website in 1996 when he was writing a true story about an aspir-ing genius from a disad-vantaged family.
“My problem for the main character was ‘How is he going to suc-ceed with surmounting huge odds working, like an army, against him?’” Shiff ler said. “I knew he needed tools of organiz-ing others together for the cause. These tools would have ideas managed into time — well-searched-out information, easy access, available at any time and as quickly as possible.”
He used the thought pro-cess behind this story to build an idea for what is now IfMine.com.
Users can post any type of project and invite oth-ers to view, critique and even edit or revise it. Multiple people can also join together and collabo-rate on a single project or document, whether it’s an
essay or a business plan.“When you think about
what’s out there on the web, there’s a lot of places where you can put some-thing up, but it doesn’t necessarily connect you with the right people,” said Anthony Fontana, IfMine.com designer and University instructor in the School of Art.
To connect with people who would be most help-ful on a certain project, ^IfMine uses a tag system similar to the hashtag on Twitter, Fontana said. The project tags determine which users will see it, such as users who share a knowledge or interest in the project subject.
“As the system evolves, people who are also busi-ness professionals would see those projects come up and be able to offer feedback because that’s their area of expertise,” Fontana said.
Because the website is still in the very early stages, it doesn’t have many users, but the goal of ^IfMine is to attract a large popula-tion with varied interests, including experts in differ-ent subjects.
To accommodate the many interests of ^IfMine users, the website can also be used as a tool for people of shared hobbies to col-laborate.
“I’m currently using the site to start a collaborative eBook about scrapbook-ing,” Hunter said. “I’ve also
Website debuts in local area
IfMine.com allows feedback, collaboration
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SWINGIN’ SOLOSTOP LEFT: Marcelleus Short plays a trombone solo during Tuesday night’s performance.
BOTTOM LEFT: A saxophonist performs with the Jazz Lab Band II. The band emphasizes student learning and is open to all students. RIGHT: A trombone player performs a solo. Every musician had a solo opportunity during the show. The lab bands, founded in the 1960s, are large ensambles of the jazz studies program.
BOTTOM RIGHT:Travis Valdez performs his solo with the Jazz Lab Band II.
The Jazz Lab Band II showcases soulful tunes at Kobacker Hall
PHOTOS BY MOLLY MCFADDIN
FORUMWednesday, November 14, 2012 4
“By deciding to stop using these
words in such offensive ways, we can really make a lasting difference
for years to come.”
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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
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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ALISSA WIDMANCOLUMNIST
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Service jobs teach lifelong lessons
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Candidates look to win over Ohio
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EMILY GORDON COLUMNIST
Romney is a step in the wrong direction
PEOPLE ON THE STREET What organization do we need on campus?“Snowboarding and ski clubs.”
“Shopping Club.”
“Herpetology Club.”
“A club for potheads.”
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While skimming my Facebook feed this week, a colorful graphic design shared by a friend caught my eye.
It was a poster that read, “That’s so ...” with the words “stupid,” “foolish,” “hap-less” and other synonyms layered on top of each other.
The end read, “And you choose gay? Buy a dictionary.”
I instantly loved this short, straightforward response to harmful word choice and shared it on my page.
But what especially struck me as powerful about the design was the fact that it was created by a 19-year-old student designer named Alison Rowan.
Not only is it wonderful to have taken a stand against the usage of harmful words in such a creative way, and have the design garner so much support online (so far it has more than 2,000 Facebook shares) but to have done so while still a teenager in college is really commendable.
I found the poster design a testament to the creative potential college students possess.
If you have the motiva-tion, the time and an outlet you can use to apply your talent, you can really make a difference in the world for whatever causes you support.
On her website in the description for her prod-uct’s posters and T-shirts, Rowan writes, “‘That’s so gay’ is something I hear far too often, especially among people my own age. Not only is it offen-sive, but frankly, it doesn’t make the speaker sound like the sharpest tool in the shed, either.
The goal is to make the viewer think about what they’re really trying to express, and how much more effectively they could do it if they’d simply rethink their derogatory word choice a little.”
Rowan has since made a similar poster for the mis-use of the term ‘retarded.’
I wholeheartedly agree with Rowan’s message.
Using words like gay and retarded for things we don’t like is wrong.
It suggests that those with intellectual disabilities are stupid and that being gay is shameful — two false ideas that have unfortunately had incredible staying power in our society.
By deciding to stop using these words in such offen-sive ways, we can really make a lasting difference in the years to come.
Our children won’t grow up casually using the words like we did because we will teach them that it is unac-ceptable to do so.
This isn’t the only thing Rowan is teaching people, however.
She’s also a real life exam-ple of what can be accom-plished at a young age.
As college students, we are awaiting our future.
We are waiting for the day we graduate as “grown ups” and start our “real world” jobs.
But we don’t have to wait for graduation to make things happen.
We can use what we’ve learned in class and apply it now in a way that will reach others, just like Rowan did with her graphic design.
Every week, I write a col-umn about something I believe in.
Other students can do the same by creating a Youtube video, starting a club on campus or creating a prod-uct like Rowan did.
There are many ways to make your mark in the world. Don’t wait to start changing things around you.
Learn from people who have achieved success like Rowan.
Start now.
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LETTERSTO THE EDITORBe familiar with first amendment rightsIn a country that affords so many rights to its citizens, it is surprising to find out how many people do not know what their rights are.
As University students, we surveyed 280 people, only 48 of which (17 percent) could name the five rights guaran-teed in the first amendment.
Because we believe
that one must know their rights in order to exercise them, we are hoping to communicate the impor-tance of civic knowledge.
By alerting Bowling Green residents of how easy it is to forget our rights, we hope to inspire citizens to know how they can make their voices heard.
To put our survey in per-spective, many individuals not only failed to identify
their first amendment rights, but incorrectly assumed other rights were in the first amendment (such as nam-ing the right to bear arms).
The first amendment actually protects the free-dom of the press, speech, religion, as well as the freedom to assemble and petition the government.
These rights are essen-tial to open dialogue and facilitate free communi-
cation amongst the peo-ple. We believe it is vital for people to know exact-ly what these rights are.
To learn more about these rights, concerned read-ers can visit http://www.ushistory.org/gov/10b.asp.
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Protect environment for yourself, everyoneThe public is becoming more aware of the risks asso-ciated with not taking suf-ficient action to acclimate to climate change and the destruction that it entails.
A countless number of lives have been lost as a result of our inaction. The increasing frequency and severity of large weather
storms such as Hurricane Sandy are a direct result of increased CO2 lev-els and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Humans affect these levels through transpor-tation, energy and indus-try, among other things.
As a senior environmen-tal science major, I have learned first-hand the effects of not taking action.
As a huge part of the
community, as an aca-demic community, we should be setting an exam-ple for other universities.
The first step to doing so would be to transition the University from using natural gas to using 100 percent renewable energy.
As well, students and community mem-bers should be taking action in their own lives.
Please do your part to
keep this planet healthy and beautiful, if not for yourself, for others around you and for future generations to come.
Join us, the Environmental Action Group, every Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in Olscamp room 203, to learn about our campaign and find out ways you can help out.
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Although the presidential selection is the main talking point as the election season concludes, important bal-lots were contested all over the nation.
Some of these measures included the legality of recre-ational and medicinal mari-juana, which were victorious
in the states of Colorado and Washington.
Interestingly enough, how-ever, the voters’ decision may not be recognized by President Obama and the rest of the federal government as they continue to perpetuate a failed, counter-productive war on drugs.
Alongside President Nixon’s passage of the Controlled Substances Act in 1970, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was cre-ated to curtail a growing avail-ability of drugs. Despite these
continuing attempts to pro-hibit drug use, a survey con-ducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that every month, 15 million Americans use marijuana.
In fact, several states have broken from the federal gov-ernment’s policies to accom-modate the statistic, reflecting growing concern regarding disconnect between the fed-eral government’s representa-tion. Before these states light up, however, the DEA would like to remind everyone that
their “enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged” — at least, that’s what a department spokesperson told Reason.com after the state initiatives passed last week.
The response provided by the DEA is evidence of a con-tinuation of instances where states’ rights and federal regu-lations have conflicted. In defi-ance of the wishes of millions of voters in states that support
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Election 2012 is finally over and the results are in: four more years of total gridlock in Washington.
Anyone who reads my col-umn regularly will not be sur-prised that I am very happy that President Obama was re-elected for another term as our president, and relieved that the Democrats will con-tinue to be the majority party in the U.S. Senate.
I am saddened, however, that Republicans will contin-ue to control the U.S. House of Representatives.
All of this adds up to pre-cisely the same split in our government that we have had for the last two years, and for the last two years the extremely conserva-tive, tea party wing of the Republican Party in the House, has held up legis-lation from being enacted and in many cases from even being voted on.
I have chalked this up to the fact that House Republicans were afraid that if the President’s poli-cies were implemented, they would turn around the econ-omy, essentially guaranteeing Obama another term.
My hope is now that is not an issue. The House
Republicans will be more willing to compromise with House Democrats on impor-tant national issues, but somehow I have a feeling that will still not be the case.
The willingness (or lack thereof) to compromise is what most of the issues in our government seem to boil down to.
That is one of the main reasons that I identify myself as a Democrat. I feel like Democrats are more will-ing to compromise than are Republicans.
Many Republicans will look at the first part of my column and point out that the Democrats had control of both house of Congress and the presidency during the first two years of President Obama’s administration and ask why Democrats did not accomplish more during those two years.
The answer is compromise.President Obama ran in
2008 partially on his abil-ity to compromise with Republicans in Congress and when he was elected and his party held control of the Congress, he tried to fulfill his promise of bipartisanship.
He didn’t want to just ram legislation through like his predecessor had when his party held the presidency and control of both houses of Congress.
Because of Obama’s attempts at compromise, not as much was accomplished
as everyone had hoped would be, and Republicans basically laughed at the offer to work together that Obama was try-ing to extend.
This was evidenced again later in President Obama’s term when the debate about raising the nation’s debt ceil-ing was going on.
Democrats wanted to primarily raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans while Republicans primarily wanted to cut federal spend-ing on social programs like Medicaid and food stamps. Obama said he would meet in the middle; raise taxes on the rich a little and cut spending a little, but Republicans would not compromise.
The result is nothing was settled and our government is getting ready to essential-ly have the same debate all over again.
We here in northwest Ohio had the chance to have a congressperson who believes fully in compromise for the betterment of all, but unfortu-nately she lost to incumbent Bob Latta who is one of the most uncompromising (and most conservative) members of Congress.
The ideological divide in our country is wide and deep and I am reminded of Bill Maher saying something to the effect of: How can Republicans and Democrats agree on legislation when they can’t even agree on what is reality?
I think that it is an excellent point.
For example, when two par-ties debate climate change, the debate is not about dif-ferent approaches that can be taken to curb climate change.
The debate is about whether climate change is happening — it is happen-ing according to 97 percent of scientists according to National Public Radio.
The fact that a significant number of scientists believe that according to quantitative data global climate change is occurring should pretty much end the “Is it real?” por-tion of the debate.
After all, how can they ever agree on the answers if they can’t even agree on what the questions are?
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University lackscritical thinking skills, empathy
By Meagan VanceGuest Columnist
I must admit that I’ve felt like an outsider my entire life, not only because I am albino but because I did not grow up liking popu-lar culture, and chose to value virtue rather than my appearance, or even the veneer of virtue that many portray.
Most importantly I decid-ed that it was impossible to have a career or family in Bowling Green, so I moved to rainy Portland, Oregon and got married this past December.
Somehow we have lost sight of values, and not of the religious variety, which many use as cam-ouf lage, but universal human values.
I should say that we get the government that we deserve, and it’s unfor-tunate that the local and state government has done a poor job, and this is exem-plified in education, a field I attended school for.
When I look at the University, I see deeply sys-temic problems; a school more focused on sports and greek life than empower-ing students and incubating small business.
Who had President Cartwright siphon state funds meant for STEM and job re-training, and buy unnecessary mandatory student dorms, dining halls and a basketball stadium, then transfer ownership to
her nonprofit that pays her in perpetuity after she quit?
A high school that I not only attended but also had to teach in, which is not only underfunded, but has children who are under parented.
Teachers are required to not only teach children who are violent offenders, but are expected to perform miracles in groups of 50 at a time, and not deviate from a curriculum of test-based memorization.
Ultimately the virtue most missing from Bowling Green is the virtue of criti-cal thinking, lost at the expense of selfishness.
For it has not only removed the ability to empathize with others who are different, but to realize that everyone is in this world together because “no man is an island entire of itself,” and that investing in the future requires significant sacrifices from everyone.
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“Somehow we have lost sight of values, not of the religious variety, which many use
as camoufage, but universal values.”
medicinal and/or recreational marijuana use, the federal gov-ernment remains steadfast and adamant in its own enforce-ment of federal laws.
Unfortunately, that means a continuation of the failed war on drugs, which costs the feder-al, state, and local governments a combined $41.3 billion every year, according to the Cato Institute.
Things look even more grim when you combine that data with a report from the International Center for Prison Studies at King’s College London, which reveals that the United States’ prison popula-tion accounts for nearly one quarter of the entire world’s incarcerations.
The same report also esti-mates 500,000 of these indi-viduals are imprisoned for drug related offenses.
Perhaps we could have a discussion on the merits of the drug war, but the inefficiency isn’t in question, either.
About 40 percent of high school seniors admit to hav-ing taken some illegal drug in the past year — a 10 percent increase from two decades ago, according to a survey financed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Put simply, it isn’t working.
The logic behind the war on
drugs makes just as much sense as the prohibition of alcohol did in the 1920s; in short, it doesn’t. When you factor in the financial cost of incarceration, enforcement, and other facets of the ordeal, it becomes evident that this is not merely a war on drug abusers, but a war on all United States citizens.
What does this say about our country? Can we still be deemed the “land of the free?”
Prisons are not what we think about when we think of America, and they shouldn’t have to be. A free country should not have 1.6 million people in prison, and a fiscally responsible country cannot afford to.
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Democrats on important national issues, but somehow I have a feeling
that will still not be the case.”
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The BGSU men’s basketball team won its season opener 63-53 against Lake Erie College on Friday, but fell to Cleveland State 79-73 in overtime on Tuesday.
The win against Lake Erie College marks the 21st straight home open-er that the Falcons came out on top.
Senior point guard Jordan Crawford led the Falcons with 22 points, 16 of which were scored in the first half.
BG beat the Storm on the boards 44-35, which helped the team dom-inate Lake Erie the entire game. The Falcons recorded 20 offen-sive rebounds and 24 defensive rebounds. The Storm only had nine offensive rebounds, but beat BG in defensive rebounds with 26.
The Falcons first game against a Division I opponent was against the Cleveland State Vikings on Monday in the Preseason NIT in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The Falcons and Vikings went back and forth the whole game, and the score was tied at the end of the first half (33-33) and the second half (66-66).
The Falcons stayed strong throughout regulation but the Vikings put a stop to senior Auston Calhoun’s offensive game. In regulation, Calhoun put up 30 of the Falcons’ 66 points, but in overtime he did not score a single point.
Turnovers plagued Crawford and the Falcons the whole game. BG recorded 16 turnovers during the game, eight of which were during the second half alone. Crawford recorded nine turnovers during the game against Cleveland State, which ties his career high that was set last season against Akron.
With the loss against Cleveland State, the Falcons will not qualify for the second round of the tourna-ment in New York City, and will face the loser of the Michigan-IUPUI game on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in Ann Arbor, Mich.
BG will return to the Stroh Center on Nov. 27 when they take on the Detroit Mercy Titans of the Horizon League at 7 p.m.
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JORDON CRAWFORD, BG guard, directs traffic as he is guarded by Lake Erie’s Andy Bosley during the Falcons’ 63-53 victory against the Storm earlier this season at the Stroh Center.
BEN MURPHY, BG forward, chips the puck around Western Michigan forward Trevor Elias during the Falcons 2-2 tie with the Broncos earlier this season.
Falcons beat Lake Erie, lose to Cleveland State
Notes: BG hockey struggling to get out to early leads By Ryan Satkowiak
Senior Reporter
The BG hockey team has strug-gled to get ahead early this season.
Through 11 games, the team has only had a lead after one period only three times. However, when the Falcons do get out to the early lead, they have had good success.
In those three occurrences, BG is 2-0-1. That tie came on Oct. 27 against Ohio State, a game BG eventually won in a shootout.
Conversely, in the eight occur-rences BG has trailed or been tied after one period, it is 0-6-2.
One of those ties came this past Saturday against Western Michigan. Even though BG trailed after a period, it outshot the Broncos 11-5 in the first period and played with great intensity.
The challenge is getting the team to consistently repeat that energy; something that coach Chris Bergeron said he doesn’t have a cut-and-dry answer to.
“I don’t know how much control I have over that,” he said. “You give them the, ‘let’s go get them’ type thing in the pregame, but it comes down to the 20 guys who are in the lineup that night decid-ing how they’re going to start. For that I look at the older guys.
”I have some control of the attitude of the team throughout the day, but when it comes down to 7 o’clock and that first shift,” Bergeron said. “I think it’s up to the guys that are out there to make sure we come out and play the game we want to.”
BG has often been able to match the intensity of it opponents in opening period. Through 11 games, BG has put up 93 first period shots, while giving up 94.
The issue comes with convert-ing those chances. The Falcons have been outscored 12-5 in the first period so far this season.
Bergeron said he believes the team is getting to where it needs to be on the physical side of things, but is still developing on the mental side.
“From the mental standpoint, we’re still trying to figure out … what buttons to push and when to push them,” he said. “So those adverse situations in games throw us in a loop for six minutes where all of the sudden they’ve tied the game, or taken us out of the game. It’s something we’ve struggled with.”
Increased confidenceSophomore defenseman
Rusty Hafner has shown steady improvement so far this season.
After playing only 19 games as a freshman, the Toledo native has suited up for eight of BG’s 11 con-tests this season, already equal-ing his point total from 2011-12.
He scored his first collegiate goal on Oct. 27 against Ohio State when he jumped up to join an offensive rush, something he didn’t do a lot last season.
“Last year I maybe just tip-toed around being a freshman, just tying to feel my way though,” Hafner said. “At the end of the
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Hunter said her mother-in-law also uses ^IfMine and she plans on using it to collaborate with Hunter on building her cupcake business.
The site is currently in a private beta testing peri-od, which means users have to sign up for the site and wait for an invita-tion before they can begin using it.
Its developers really
want to work on get-ting University students involved, Hunter said.
“We would like to offer that [registration] to any-one with a BGSU email,” she said. “You would pretty much be automati-cally given an invitation to sign up.”
Even though the site is geared towards users of all statuses and professions, Fontana said it could serve as a useful resource for students in particular.
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cle of friends,” he said. ^IfMine offers an out-
let outside of a classroom where people can come together and share their own knowledge with each other to not only improve the skills of others, but of themselves as well.
“The student wins if they see how talented they are, simply by others putting it out to them,” he said. “That’s where mentoring, collaboration and follow-ers are true friends — when they give to each other something that counts.”
The website is scheduled to have an official launch to the public in early March at South by Southwest, a
conference and festival in Austin, Texas. Twitter was officially launched at the festival in 2007.
While in these early stag-es, ^IfMine is coming out with new features every couple of weeks or every month, Fontana said.
The social function should be integrated some-time in January, which will allow ^IfMine users to link their projects to other social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, Hunter said.
“I look forward to the future of ^IfMine,” she said. “It has the potential of becoming a big-time website.”
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While students are required to have a meal plan while living on campus during their first two years at the University, off-campus students can choose whether they want to buy one.
Commuters can purchase a variety of meal plans. These include purchasing a dining plan consisting of increments of 25, 50 or 75 BG1 Card swipes or $212.50, $400 and $562.50 per semester.
Off-campus students can purchase a full meal plan as well, with choices between a bronze, silver or gold plan.
Michael Paulus, director of Dining Services, said it’s cheaper for an off-campus stu-dent to purchase a block plan instead of purchasing their own groceries. Instead of get-
ting food right away, students eating off campus need to buy the food, as well as ingredients and condiments to go with their meal.
“Eating is more expensive when you’re living at home,” Paulus said. “These blocks are good for the entire academic year and you get a full meal out of it. We have desserts and beverages too without having to wash dishes and you get a good value for that price.”
Students living off-campus are busy every day with work and school, making it difficult for them to find time to make and buy their own meals off campus, let alone to actually know how to cook the food, said Patricia Donnelly, pro-gram manager at Student Money Management Services.
“If you’re very busy and don’t
mind paying for a little extra convenience, then it might be cheaper for you to buy your meals in a convenient way such as on campus,” Donnelly said. “Students are so busy that it’s worth it to buy food on cam-pus and they aren’t going to be wasting any of it.”
About 800 students have voluntarily chosen to buy a meal plan even though they aren’t required to, Paulus said.
“I try to find value in price points because not everybody is the same,” Paulus said. “I want to make sure to find price points that are available for people to eat.”
Junior Cody Manon has lived off campus for two years and he is using the 50-block dining plan this year. This past year he purchased his own food off campus.
Manon uses the plan three days each week, one swipe each day, he said.
“Last year, I spent about $50 every two weeks on groceries and this year I’m only spending $30 every two weeks,” Manon said. “I’m definitely saving money from last year, but I wish I could eat at the Union, too, instead of only at the Oaks and the Carillon Place.”
Individuals living off cam-pus must choose how they want to go about buying and consuming food based on their schedule and needs, Donnelly said.
“Sometimes it helps to just really think about how you want to purchase your own food, instead of jumping into something that may not be as helpful that you thought it would be,” she said.
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year, we had our meetings and coach told me [offense] was probably the worst part of my game. Kind of took that to heart and worked on that over the summer.
“I try to be simple and just get the puck to the forwards,” Hafner said. “If I have an opportunity to jump into the play I do it.”
Hafner said a big reason for his improved play has been because he is more confident out on the ice.
“I got a couple good games under my belt,” he said. “Kept working hard and just kept building off that.”
Home not sweetThe Falcons have strug-
gled playing at home, not just this season but during Bergeron’s two-plus seasons at the helm of the program.
Since the 2010-11 sea-son, BG is 9-24-7 at home, including an 0-4-2 mark this season. It is a stat that has the coach miffed.
“I wish I knew,” Bergeron said. “Because the crowd
deserves better. We’ve had good crowds, had people hang with us and come to our games. It’s not about effort; I know our guys are trying the best they can at home. If I knew I’d have fixed it by now.”
In that same timeframe, BG is 17-34-5 in games played away from the BGSU Ice Arena.
“It’s frustrating,” Hafner said. “Obviously you want to get some wins at home and make the fans happy. It’s just one of those things that we’ll get together soon enough.”
RematchThis weekend will be the
first time BG and Ferris State have met since this past March, when the Falcons eliminated the top-seeded Bulldogs from the second round of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs.
Despite that postseason success, the Falcons fared poorly against the Bulldogs this past season, losing five of the seven games the two teams played.
“They’re a team we know very well,” Bergeron said. “They make it extremely
difficult to score five-on-five. We had a couple guys get hot in the playoffs last year and that helped us score goals against them. They had some turnover on the back end and in goal, but they’re still defending extremely well because that’s their brand.”
Part of the turnover was the graduation of first team All American goalie Taylor Nelson.
He finished the season with a 2.10 goals-against average and a .924 save percent, g uiding t he Bulldogs to the National Cha mpionsh ip ga me, where they lost to Boston College.
Picking up where Nelson left off has been C.J. Motte. As a freshman this past sea-son, he played in 12 games, going 5-5-2 with a 1.98 GAA and a .925 save percent.
In 10 games this season, he has a 2.24 GAA and a .926 save percent.
Leading the team in points this season is for-ward Corey Kane, who has three goals and five assists in 10 games. He tallied only 11 points in 38 games this past season.
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