By Cassie SullivanAssistant Managing Editor

A nation-wide campaign start-ed by the White House that aims to raise awareness about sexual assaults on campuses has reached the University. The campaign called “It’s On Us” is a student initiative meant to edu-cate students on sexual assault and awareness.

Jackie Wells, a doctoral graduate student within the Office of Equity and Diversity, said the campaign is a new initiative on college campuses.

“At Bowling Green, it’s a pretty new initiative, so our work group has been meeting for three weeks at this point,” Wells said. “We are working to implement the national campaign on Bowling Green’s campus.”

From the White House, the “It’s On Us” campaign is from a task-force meant to protect children from sexual assault, looking at how col-

lege campuses can be made safer for students, along with possibly chang-ing how people think about sexual assault, Wells said.

“Our goal is to change the culture around [sexual assault] and ideas around consent,” Wells said. “And oftentimes, students have miscon-strued ideas around both of those topics because of experience or because of the media. This program is meant to give students new ways of thinking.”

Brian Kochhesier, the presi-dent of the Undergraduate Student Government [USG], said “I hope we can spread more awareness to the issue of sexual assault; really work to shift the culture. We want more awareness for the topic in gener-al; more to do with the impact of bystander intervention, more advo-cacy for victims.”

Junior Cyndi Hill thinks a cam-paign like “It’s On Us” is a good idea.

“I’m on Tumblr a lot and there’s

a lot of talk about [sexual assault awareness] all of the time and a lot of articles saying, ‘this is consent and this isn’t consent,’” Hill said. “It’s definitely something that needs to be widely done.”

With a campaign like “It’s On Us,” the understanding of consent can be made clearer to help end any confusion between what is and isn’t consent.

Along with consent, the campaign will help students understand what bystander intervention is and how they can participate through a pro-gram that is run by students.

“And also, the autonomy to take ownership over their actions and so thinking about what they can do as a bystander, what they can do as a community member, as an individ-ual who maybe be in the position to help keep other students safe,” Wells said. “On our campus, we’re doing

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On a Thursday evening in room 316 of the Union, approximately 56 students met to dis-cuss an issue that was going around campus about their organization.

The event held by the Black Student Union addressed the issue of their organization as a separatists organization. A student leader within the University brought this issue to them and according to Political Action Chair Christina Steward other leaders thought that as well.

“We were under the impression that, that person was the spokesperson for a lot of other student leaders on campus who all thought we were separatists,” Steward said. “We were all kind of freaking out, wondering how many people thought that.”

That is what led to this week’s “Talk to me Thursday,” question: Are the Black Student Union separatists and why is it important to have minority groups at universities?

“It’s always been a discussion on whether or not BSU is relevant. As of late it has become more of a topic of discussion on campus,” said Vice President of BSU Sydney Howell. “We fig-

ured instead of letting people draw their own conclusion, we should just address it and give people a place to discuss this openly.”

Behind the closed doors of room 316, stu-dents and faculty of different ethnicities, gen-ders and classifications discussed these issues. At times discussion became intense with stu-dents expressing their different views on the issues.

“It was a nice amount of white students and black students,” said President of BSU Greg Harrison. “We got to hear both sides of the conversation. I think it was really productive because people really took the opportunity to

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Starting a conversationStudents gather Thursday to discuss the idea of the Black Student Union being separatists

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THE BLACK Student Union invited students to discuss ideas concerning separatism and privilege in the Union Thursday night.

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With the winter season approach-ing, the demand for rock salt in Northwest Ohio is forcing cities to purchase it despite the increase in price.

The price of rock salt has gone up by almost three times of what it was last year, but cities including Bowling Green are biting the bullet and purchasing it due to how much of an important factor it is in terms of safety.

Heather Pollauf, meteorologist at BG24 News, said “salt is extremely necessary in order for roadways to be cleared easier and for drivers to drive safely.”

Each year, The Ohio Department of Transportation makes the Cooperative Purchasing Program Participation Agreement with the cities in each district. The purchas-ing agreement allows Ohio cities to go through ODOT to get their rock salt and gives them the choice to either accept the contract or opt out of it and worry about purchasing salt independently.

Upon the cities making their deci-sion, ODOT issues a quote of the price for the rock salt and the cities who agreed to join are expected to pay that price per ton for however many tons the city needs.

Director of Bowling Green Public Works Department Brian Craft said “the final bid for rock salt came in at $105.25 per ton and ODOT was able to secure 171,000 tons from Indiana for the cities of Ohio.”

While the price could be a lot more, last year’s price of $32.50 per ton was much less of a blow to city

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just that. The taskforce is mostly students and the goal is to have this be a student initiative. [The initiative is] led by students, talked about by students and implemented by students.”

Students involved in the campaign include peer edu-cators, senators, the student body president, represen-tatives from the athletics department and representa-tives from both the ROTC pro-gram and Residence Life. The campaign also hopes to reach out to the campus and involve faculty and staff.

“Our goal was to pull stu-dents who come from a wide variety of backgrounds,” Wells said. “We’ve also had interest pop up from individ-ual students who said they want to get involved. We are hoping to get students with a wide variety of experiences and voices on the table.”

With a wide range of voices to help the campaign, Wells hopes that after the educa-tion piece goes out, students will be willing to sign an online petition to get more students involved in under-standing what it means to be a bystander and what con-sent means. In order to make sure students understand what the campaign is about, the campaign is working on an educational piece so stu-dents are aware of what they are signing.

“There’s an online pledge that is part of the ‘It’s On Us’ campaign,” Wells said. “We want the students to be well informed and know what

bystander intervention is and we want to talk about con-sent. We want to change that culture before they go online and randomly sign a pledge.”

Kochheiser said the best way to explain the campaign is that it’s about changing the culture within the country in regards to sexual assault. It’s one of the topics that many people don’t want to talk about, but need to, he said.

“The best way to describe the campaign is to make a change of our culture as a country and how it views sex-ual assault,” Kochheiser said. “It really brings one of those topics that people don’t nec-essarily like to talk about out in the open and make every-one work together to find a solution.”

While the campaign strives to clear up the misunder-standings of what bystander intervention and consent are, junior Molly Chacey wants to know if it’s possible for more to be cleared up about other things involved when dis-cussing sexual assault.

Chacey thinks the cam-paign might help clear up cases that might or not be rape.

“What bugs me is that it’s only considered rape when it gets caught or when it’s reported,” Chacey said. “What bugs me is that I don’t know enough about it. When you’re drunk, did you both rape each other? Or did one rape another? If you’re both gone, what happens then? Or is it whoever reports it first? And neither of you were com-petent enough to consent. Does it get brushed under the rug then? It’s so bad and so not OK.”

budgets. Jeffrey Snyder, geology

professor at the University, said “the difference in price between last year and this year can possibly only be attrib-uted to supply and demand.”

However, ODOT is doing things a little differently this year.

In honor of the unexpect-ed increase, they are help-ing cities and allowing those who signed the purchasing plan contract back in June to rethink their decision if they do not agree with the price that was quoted to them.

Bowling Green, one of the cities included in District Two of ODOT’s twelve districts,

currently has its salt stored away in a salt shed and is pre-pared for whatever mother nature throws its way.

“The 900 tons pur-chased through the ODOT Purchasing Program for the city of Bowling Green is pro-jected to be enough to keep the streets and intersections clear throughout the chilly season,” Craft said.

TUES., NOV. 41:03 A.M.Megan Rae Lynn Shagena, 24, of Archbold, Ohio, was arrested for disorderly conduct with per-sistence within the 200 block of S. College Dr. She was lodged in the Wood County Justice Center. 2:00 P.M.Kenneth Preston Schaade Sr., 50, of Deshler, Ohio, was arrested for theft/shoplifting within the 1100 block of S. Main St. He was lodged in the Wood County Justice Center. 5:42 P.M.Complainant reported the theft of a wallet and laptop within the

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THURS., NOV. 65:35 A.M.Complainant reported that an unknown person had dam-aged 3 Ohio Department of Transportation vehicles within the 300 block of E. Poe Rd.

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While some campus build-ings bear the name of a past president, alumni or other notable contributor to the University, many aren’t named after anything at all — not because of a policy prohibiting naming of those buildings, but because people haven’t paid to do so.

In collaboration between the University Board of Trustees and the Foundation Board, the University is try-ing to name more spaces on campus after people.

Buildings can be named after anybody if a contributor pays a minimum of 20 per-cent of the total construction cost, according to a Board of Trustees policy enacted last December. Other nam-ing opportunities including classrooms, landscape fea-tures, conference rooms and offices can be purchased at a separate determined gift minimums.

“The truth of the matter is that most of the spaces on this campus, particularly inte-rior, are not named. The good news is there’s lots of oppor-tunity out there for people that want to do that,” said Shea McGrew, vice president for University Advancement. “It really helps the University by providing some money to help with the projects them-selves, academic programs or whatever it happens to be.”

The two boards are cur-rently focusing on the inte-rior spaces and buildings that are receiving renovations, such as South Hall and the new Business Administration building.

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lot more buildings and spac-es within buildings named for significant donors,” said Steven Krakoff, vice presi-dent of Capital Planning and Campus Operations.

According to Krakoff, the University is doing this through development offi-cers, who work with people who could be potential donors. They talk about the projects to get the donors to understand the significance of the spaces and try to secure a contribution.

“It’s usually through those efforts that somebody steps forward with a donation,” Krakoff said.

Dakota Elfers, an AYA his-tory sophomore, said he’s glad that something can be done to help with University costs, despite the possibil-ity of renamed buildings confusing students.

“If the campus is struggling or they don’t want to raise tuition or anything and make it work for students, that’s definitely a better choice,” Elfers said.

In addition to naming spac-es for donations, the board has approved a building or exte-rior space named after every president as a way to honor them free of charge, the most recent being Ribeau Plaza in front of the Wolfe Center.

Although its been done for every past president, McGrew said it’s not certain that all future presidents will receive a feature in their name.

“There’s no guarantee that every president is going to have a building named after them,” McGrew said. “Just because we have some of those doesn’t mean its part of the practice that will always go on here.”

SHEILA HOEGLER | THE BG NEWS

WOLFE CENTER named after patron who donated $1.5 million to University.

listen to what people had to say and gain an understand-ing of the other person’s per-spective. I feel like we tackled a lot of challenging content, but in a way that we weren’t attacking each other.”

The discussion started at 8:30 p.m. and ended at 10. It touched on topics of racial and gender privilege, why minority groups exist and how they can facilitate this message outside of that room.

The topics and questions asked in the event were researched and written out by Steward.

“This was the ‘Talk to me Thursday’ that I researched the most because I was angry about it,” Steward said. “I wanted to make sure I was informed on the topics.”

Steward wasn’t the only person within the organiza-tion that was angry about the comments that were made.

“[The comments] were very hurtful,” Harrison said. “I put a lot of my free time

into BSU, trying to create programs and initiatives that create dialogue for cross-cultural understanding. It’s hurtful and offensive and it makes me realize that these conversations need to hap-pen and more often.”

Howell doesn’t believe that it is just a University issue though but that it is a nation-wide issue.

“A lot of other universi-ties talk about this as well,” Howell said. “We are not the only ones going through these issues. I think it’s easy to box us in at BG but these issues are broader than we think they are.”

BSU will continue to hold “Talk to me Thursday’s” every other Thursday in room 316 in the Union. The issues brought to BSU haven’t changed their future plans as an organization at all, Howell said.

“In my opinion we’ve been trying to be inclusive,” Howell said. “I hope this gives people the opportunity to be open and to come and talk to us, but also to feel welcome at our events.” “The difference in

price between last year and this year

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and demand.”Jeffrey Snyder | Geology Professor

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By Kathryne RubrightPulse Editor

A play’s characters don’t usually know they’re in a play.

The characters in “Book of Days” do, and that’s one of the ways the Department of Theatre and Film’s upcoming production differs from typi-cal plays. The characters talk to the audience and disagree with each other about how events really happened.

Additionally, there’s a play within the play. The main char-acter, Ruth, is involved in com-munity theatre and finds her-self playing Joan of Arc in “Saint Joan,” a play that resembles her own life — unless it’s her life that resembles the play.

“She tends to find the world

very parallel, almost in unison. She can’t really differentiate the play versus her life,” said Mariah Burks, who plays Ruth. “So real-ity becomes very fuzzy for her.”

Ruth’s inability to recognize reality gets in the way of her rela-tionships, Burks said.

Ruth becomes more like Joan of Arc as the play progresses,

Burks said. She also finds her-self determined to investigate a murder in the play’s small-town setting of Dublin, Missouri.

“She really starts to mettle and get involved with a lot of people’s lives,” Burks said. “It

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By Kathryne RubrightPulse Editor

Grounds For Thought may be a coffee shop and used bookstore on a daily basis, but it also hosts live music on a regular basis.

Owner Kelly Wicks said he doesn’t focus on any particular genre, but instead brings in a variety of “high caliber” acts.

Grounds For Thought has hosted a range of musicians, from Eddie Shaw – who Wicks called a “living blues legend” – to Pierre Bensusan, who was voted Best World Music Guitar Player in 2008 by Guitar Player Magazine Readers’ Choice.

Wicks has been booking acts for the Black Swamp Arts Festival for its entire existence, and in that time he has gotten to know musicians and agents. That helps him book musicians he other-wise likely wouldn’t be able to.

“It is one of the most incredible things in this town,” said Dan Stutzman, who designs posters for the shows. “These are bands that you would go up to Ann Arbor and pay $15 to see.”

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Media Review: Taylor Swift’s “1989”Artist takes definitive jump from country to pop

with her fifth and latest album

Play features murder in small town investigated by community theatre actressBy Kathryne Rubright

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It’s been a while since I thought of Taylor Swift as a country artist. But if I’d had any doubt, “1989” would have erased it.

The first song, “Welcome To New York,” quickly establishes the tone of the album. There’s a synthesizer, but there are also plenty of lyrical references to the changes in Swift’s life and music: “Everybody here wanted some-thing more/Searching for a sound we hadn’t heard before.”

If you bought the album expect-ing country Taylor Swift, you’d realize within 45 seconds that you weren’t going to hear that.

The track is lyrically weak at times — “Welcome to New York/It’s been waiting for you” sounds like a rejected slogan for the city — but on my first listen that took a backseat to how different it was compared even to “Red,” Swift’s

previous album and her furthest foray into pop at that point.

“Welcome To New York” also includes what I can only assume is a quick pro-LGBT line: “You can want who you want/Boys and boys and girls and girls.” Yes, that’s an idea much more at home in pop than in country.

The album’s first single, “Shake It Off” is ridiculously catchy — that alone would be enough for me, and probably many others. I’m not ashamed of loving some catchy, substanceless pop songs.

But “Shake It Off” isn’t sub-

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Grounds For Thought hosts concerts by high caliber musicians in a variety of genres

GROUNDS FOR Thought sells a variety of coffees. The shop has been open for 25 years and will be celebrating with a concert on Nov. 15.ERIC BURGASSER | THE BG NEWS

ERIC BURGASSER | THE BG NEWSTHE FRONT of Grounds For Thought is a coffee shop, while the back is a used bookstore. The shop is located at 133 W. Wooster St.

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“Anyone who grew up in a small Midwestern town will recognize these people and these

issues. Everything from small-town gossip to the importance of industry … to the influence

that the local church has over that town.”

Patrick Konesko | “Book of Days” Director

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concerts

“But ‘Shake It Off’ isn’t substanceless.

It’s Swift directly addressing critics.”

Perhaps it was inevitable that with the re-election of President Obama in 2012, the balance of power else-where in congress and across the nation would shift rightward.

Especially after having controlled the Senate for so long [and only by a narrow margin], I’m sure the sen-ate Democrats were fully aware of how dire the situ-ation was. They made what efforts they could, but in the end, Tuesday was a rout for the Democratic Party.

Although Democratic voter turnout is historically shoddy in midterm elec-tions, I’m sure even some Republicans didn’t predict such crushing victories in some places [such as John Kasich’s landslide victory for reelection here in Ohio].

Though there had been high hopes for the nail-bit-ingly close gubernatorial races in Florida and North Carolina, the Democrats lost them both and as a result the party needs to begin taking a very close look at itself.

I’ve voted straight Democrat for as long as I’ve been eligible to vote [although I’ve followed politics since I was much younger], but I’ve never been so ashamed to say I vote blue.

It’s not the embarrass-ing defeats in the prima-ries that have embittered me, it’s not the collective rightward shift that came after the emergence of the Tea Party that’s moved

the whole political spec-trum, it’s not even the piti-ful voter turnout for the midterms that makes me wonder why I bother voting at all.

What bothers me in my heart of hearts is that I must continually choose between a lesser of two evils and the lesser of those two evils is a party that’s only grown more and more spineless as the years have gone by. With the exception of President Obama and a handful of other Democratic sena-tors and representatives, the party is bereft of strong leadership.

When the Tea Party first became a significant polit-ical force, many Democrats had hoped for a schism within the GOP that would separate the traditional Republicans from the Libertarians and other ele-ments of the right wing.

Though this is still a pos-sibility, this revealed [at least to me] that the hope for this schism wasn’t sim-ply born of political oppor-tunism, but simply of the cold hard truth that the Democrats don’t have the strength or the will to even fight a splinter group of the Republican Party, let alone the whole thing.

The Tea Party shifted

the American political spectrum right such that there no longer exists an American left worthy of the name.

Make no mistake; this rightward shift in American political phi-losophy has happened in large part because the Democrats have allowed it to. There are too few strong voices all being drowned out by the Paul Ryans and Ted Cruzes of the world. Especially in times of eco-nomic hardship, people look to strong, outspo-ken leaders who promise change and speak words of comfort, regardless of their affiliation.

With almost all of these strong leaders residing in one party, it should not surprise anyone that the GOP is winning and winning big.

There are many factors that lead to one party los-ing an election so badly, but the leadership of the Democratic Party needs to be completely overhauled or we won’t even be able to win California before too long. I am a liberal, but if this pitiful Harry Reid-led, anemic culture per-sists, I will no longer be a Democrat.

Furthermore, I’m a Cubs fan, so I’m already bound to one hopeless band of los-ers and the last thing I need is more of the same.

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With Tuesday’s midterm election behind us, the majority of the Democratic candidates were left to lick their wounds while the GOP celebrated a com-plete appropriation of the U.S Senate.

Many of the races were highly contested, yet nearly 63% of American citizens did not exercise their right to vote, accord-ing to data provided by the United States Election Project. Even more dread-ful is the fact that only 13% of voters were under the age of 30.

Granted, some of the most densely popu-lated states — such as California, Texas and New York — did not have com-petitive, statewide elec-tions and voter turnout can vary widely by state because of varying voting regulations.

However, according to data released after the 2008 presidential election, the hindrance was not due to unsavory regulations. Americans — particular-ly young adults — have proven to be apathetic.

In 2008, 51.6% of people did not even register to vote due to disinterest and of the total number of reg-istered voters, 17.6% were “too busy” to actually cast a ballot.

Some registered vot-ers gripe that the process “takes too long,” but in a day and age where indi-viduals are willing to wait 30 minutes for a table at a

restaurant during the din-ner rush or wait in line for hours on end to purchase the latest video game or smart phone, refusing to wait in line to cast your vote is egregious.

In fact, according to a survey conduct-ed by the Government Accountability Office, 78% of local jurisdictions nationwide had no poll-ing place with wait times that an election official deemed to be “too long.”

Voter apathy, another equally bogus justifica-tion, may account for the stark contrast between voters’ age.

As 13% of voters were under the age of 30, it is no stretch of the imagina-tion to assume that young adults are disillusioned by politics and the inun-dation of hissing political advertisements on TV and the radio.

Rather than taking the opportunity to research political platforms and to form educated opinions, young adults appear to be tuning out the vast major-ity of coaxing candidates, but I don’t think this is due to laziness.

Statistically, older vot-ers are more likely to own property and have young children, giving direct

incentive to pay special attention to the ways hos-pitals and schools are run and whether or not play-grounds and libraries are maintained. Therefore, a vast majority of electoral issues may not even be of interest to young adults, which is a sad point in lieu of the fact that Ukrainian citizens literally risked their lives to vote in their country’s 2014 election.

But perhaps the most depressing explanation for the shockingly low voter turnout for indi-viduals 30 and younger is that they may not feel that there is anything worth voting for.

The fact of the matter is that, although Tuesday’s election was not between presidential candidates, it did determine new members of the House and Senate.

Now that both houses of legislature are controlled by members of the GOP, the ensuing political cli-mate is bound to change for the next two years while President Obama finishes his term.

Although the midterm elections are behind us now, the following will always be true: no mat-ter the election, voting is a civic duty that gives American citizens their rightful voices — and your voice matters.

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“An organization called ‘Breaking the Stereotypes’ to inform about ethnicity and religion.”

“I just joined a new group called ‘Interfaith Queers’ because I love world religions and religious studies.”

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just really starts to spin out of control.”

Janina Bradshaw plays Sharon Bates, the wife of Ruth’s boss.

“She is very much the quintessential traditional housewife, but she still has power,” Bradshaw said. “The backbone of the town is really Sharon. It’s just that Sharon doesn’t leave her house very often.”

Though Sharon and Ruth don’t directly know each other, they know

about each other due to how small the town is.

“That’s an interest-ing thing to play with as an actor,” Bradshaw said. “What would we have heard in rumors? … And who would be the gossipers?”

Those concepts will be familiar to viewers who hail from small towns, said Patrick Konesko, the play’s director and a the-atre and film adjunct fac-ulty member.

“Anyone who grew up in a small Midwestern town will recognize these people and these issues,”

Konesko said. “Everything from small-town gossip to the importance of industry … to the influence that the local church has over that town.”

The cast consists of undergraduate students, with the exception of one graduate student. The crew is mostly undergrad-uate students as well.

“Book of Days” will be performed in the Eva Marie Saint Theatre on Nov. 14, 15, 20, 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 15, 16 and 22 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students and children and $15 for others.

stanceless. It’s Swift directly addressing critics of her personal life.

She knows what they think of her: “I go on too many dates/But I can’t make them stay/At least that’s what people say.”

And she doesn’t care what people are saying.

Swift also references her critics in “Blank Space”: “Got a long list of ex-lov-ers/They’ll tell you I’m insane.”

Swift’s dating life has been the butt of enough jokes that it’s nice to see her acknowledge the neg-ative remarks and com-pletely not care.

“Out of the Woods” strongly reminded me of The Lion King. I couldn’t put my finger on exactly why, so I took to Googling – it turns out a mash-up of “Out of the Woods” and “Circle of Life” exists. Do yourself a favor and listen to it.

When I wasn’t focus-ing on how Swift’s song resembles “Circle of Life,”

I realized it’s about that uncertain feeling of not knowing if a relationship has gotten back on track and will be okay.

So far “Welcome To New York,” “Blank Space,” “Shake It Off” and “Out of the Woods” are the stand-outs, but I tend to love an album’s popular songs first and grow to love the rest just as much. None of “1989”’s songs were disappoint-ments, and I assume with every listen I’ll enjoy them more. And I have no doubts that Swift’s move toward pop was a good one.

At Grounds For Thought, the shows are free.

Other shows have fea-tured Rahim Alhaj, a G r a m m y - n o m i n a t e d musician who plays the oud, a stringed instru-ment; Jim Suhler, a gui-tarist who has played with AC/DC; and Frank Vignola, a guitarist who has played with Madonna and Ringo Starr.

Rhythm Future Quartet played at Grounds For Thought in September. Jason Anick, the band’s violinist, said Grounds For Thought is a “world-class

venue” for music as well as a “culture center” due to the coffee and books.

Some may wonder how Grounds For Thought is physically able to host concerts. But once tables and shelves are moved, a hundred people can enjoy a concert.

“It’s surprising how many people we can fit in here,” Wicks said.

The set-up was smooth when Rhythm Future Quartet played, Anick said.

“They do a good job transitioning it into a music venue,” he said.

The next concert at Grounds For Thought will be The Infatuations on

Nov. 15. It’s a celebration of Grounds For Thought’s 25th anniversary.

The first concert, in the fall of 1989, was one per-son in the front window. The shop didn’t occupy all the space it does now.

“The scope and the size of our shows has contin-ued to evolve,” Wicks said.

Now Grounds For Thought can accommo-date groups of eight to 10 people.

In addition to concerts, Grounds For Thought has hosted events like f lea markets and author sign-ings.

“We’ve had funerals and weddings here too,” Wicks said.

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Friday, November 7, 2014 6SPORTS

Falcons look to keep season aliveMen’s soccer plays its final regular season game; looks to make MAC tournament

BG to play conference matchFalcon hockey team looks to build upon recent success

on the road against the Alaska NanooksBy Corey Krupa

Reporter

The BG hockey team will travel more than 3,000 miles to Fairbanks, Alaska to face their conference opponent, the University of Alaska Nanooks this weekend.

The Falcons are 3-0-2 in their last five games against the Nanooks.

Last weekend, BG split the week-end series against 12th ranked Minnesota State at the BG Ice Arena.

On Friday night, the Falcons lost 5-2, despite receiving two goals in the game from Tyler Spezia. BG goal-tender Tomas Sholl made 29 saves in the losing effort.

“We’re not happy with giving up five goals, that’s not necessar-ily Tomas’s fault, our defensive zone play was not good on Friday night,” said head coach Chris Bergeron.

The Falcons responded on Saturday night with a 3-1 victory

over the Mavericks. Brett D’Andrea, Tyler Spezia and Kevin Dufour each scored a goal for the Falcons.

“Our guys were able to rally and bring our level up and get the win on Saturday night. All in all, we are fine with the weekend,” Bergeron said.

This was D’Andrea’s first colle-giate goal of his career and Spezia scored three goals on the weekend for BG. Dufour now has nine goals this season and currently leads the NCAA in goals scored.

“It’s nice to see Kevin stay hot,” Bergeron said.

Goalie Tommy Burke made 26 saves in the winning effort.

With the win, the Falcons are now 5-2-1 overall and 3-1-0 in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.

BG’s penalty kill over the weekend played an important role against Minnesota State going 7-for-8 on

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By Brandon ShriderAssistant Sports Editor

Currently on a 3-game winning streak, the BG men’s soccer team will close out its regular season on Saturday with hopes of getting into the Mid-American Conference tournament.

A 12-5-1 record overall, 1-2-1 in the MAC, the Falcons are in need of a vic-tory to continue their season.

However, with three straight overtime victories, the Falcons will have recent success to build upon as they face MAC opponent, Northern Illinois, with a spot in the MAC tour-nament on the line for BG.

This spot is what the Falcons have been trying for all season.

“This is the championship game; this is the real one that matters now,” said goalkeeper Nick Landsberger.

While not actually a game for a championship, this game will deter-mine whether or not the Falcons will

get the chance to continue their year into the postseason.

Thus, with so much on the line, BG is looking to continue their recent success while focusing on the lone task ahead of them.

“Momentum doesn’t exist from game-to-game for us, but we’re going to be focused,” Landsberger said.

Being focused has the team ready for a battle, knowing that they will have to work hard, said defender Jacob Roth.

BG played a similar game at the end of last season, facing the end of their season. The Falcons ulti-mately tied West Virginia and did not earn a spot into the conference tournament.

However, the scenario this season will be a bit easier.

Northern Illinois comes into the match with a 3-8-5 record overall without a MAC win. Two of its three wins have come on their home field but the Huskies have just one win in

nearly two months.However, playing on the road has

not been an issue for the Falcons this season. BG has a 5-3 record on the road while a 6-2-1 record at Cochrane Field.

This balance will certainly help the Falcons as they face what head coach Eric Nichols described as a “do-or-die game.”

Again, understanding the idea of elimination and their season end-ing, the Falcons know they must put the rest of the season aside and get a result.

“It’s a tournament game. Win and move on, lose and we’re done,” Nichols said. “And, I like the way this team has responded to that.”

BG will look to respond in Dekalb, Illinois on Saturday, securing a win and keeping its season alive in what Jacob Roth describes as a “huge game.”

“We have to do what we have to do,” Landsberger said.

Men’s basketball team ready to put their offseason work to use Women’s basketball team prepared to replace its senior classBy Cameron Teague Robinson

Editor-in-Chief

The Bowling Green men’s basketball team will get the chance to put all of their work from the offseason on the court Friday in their exhibition game against Notre Dame College.

No matter what the game is, a team wants to win but an exhibition game is more about gauging where the team is currently, new head coach Chris Jans said.

“This is all about us; I’m not con-cerned so much about what the final score is,” Jans said. “It’s a trial run of what it is like when the popcorn is pop-ping and the lights are on.”

The Falcons have 11 returning players and have added five newcomers. All five of the newcomers will be playing their first minutes of Division-1 basketball,

as three are junior college transfers and two are freshmen.

The addition of the newcomers has lifted the roster number to 16 players. All of those players have been compet-ing for playing time and that has forced Jans to change his mind multiple times on what his starting five will be.

“There are guys who are starting tomorrow where if you would have asked me Oct. 4 it wouldn’t be the same starting line up,” Jans said. “Also in the past ten days one of those guys has put themselves in the starting lineup.”

Jans has released his starting lineup for Friday’s game. It will be: David Joseph at point guard, Anthony Henders, Zack Denny, Spencer Parker and Richaun Holmes.

Despite the release of the lineup, it

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By Tara JonesSports Editor

With half of this year’s women’s basketball team having not played a full season of col-lege basketball, this year’s team will look much different than this past year’s.

This past year’s team finished 30-5 overall and 17-1 in Mid-American Conference play, earning the second highest win total in both school and MAC history.

The team clinched the regular-season conference title for the ninth time in ten sea-sons, but fell to Ball State 73-55 in the semifi-nal round of the MAC Tournament.

The Falcons played their way into Women’s National Invitation Tournament where the team eventually fell to Rutgers 50-55 in the quarterfinal round. Rutgers went on to win the tournament.

The team graduated seniors Jillian Halfhill, Alexis Rogers, Jill Stein and Katrina

Salinas, who transferred after redshirting her senior season.

“We’ve got a lot of new faces,” said head coach Jennifer Roos. “I can’t compare this year’s team to last year’s team. This team needs to find their own identity. This team needs to be the 2014-2015 women’s basket-ball team and they need to be the best they can be.”

Replacing the senior class will be difficult, but those shoes will be filled, senior Deborah Hoekstra said.

“There’s no way to really replace what they did and who they are,” she said. “Now we’re the ones who have to portray what the cul-ture and the program is, and I think that’s been the biggest adjustment so far.”

In terms of replacing the play of those that graduated, it will have to be a team effort, Hoekstra said.

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MAC EAST CHAMPS!

BG 28, Kent 14

Kent State@ BG

BG N/A

Kent sucks.

BG 35, Kent 10

Kent is completely terrible and BG keeps getting better.

BG 41, Kent 13

Lol... As if Kent could beat the #1 MAC East team...

BG 100, Kent 0

No. 8 Notre Dame@ No. 11 Arizona St.

Everett Golson is the man.

Notre Dame 21, Arizona St. 14

I think ND is better.

Notre Dame 35, Arizona St. 27

I really just don’t like rooting for Notre Dame.

Notre Dame 24, Arizona St. 27

Everett is such a fancy name... He’ll pull through! Go Irish!

Notre Dame 24, Arizona St. 6

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Shantel VanSanten, the girl who played Quinn on ‘One Tree Hill,’ went there.

Kansas St. 35, TCU 38

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Roll Tide!

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I hate Bama less.

Alabama 45, LSU 42

I think Bama makes enough stops to get the W.

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Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ attended but did not graduate...

Alabama 27, LSU 6

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Michigan St. -3.5

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Ohio State 7, Michigan St. 100

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Ohio State 1, Michigan St. 2

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Oregon is just better.

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Mariota will put up more than enough points to help his defense out.

Oregon 38, Utah 24

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Oregon 22, Utah 11

Overall record 34-25 31-28 35-24 33-26

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Alabama -6.5

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BG gets ready for first road meetSwimming and diving team prepare for its second meet of the season the penalty kill against the

Mavericks. The Falcons are currently 26-for-29 on the penalty kill this season.

The senior members of the BG hockey team recorded six assists off the five goals last weekend. Adam Berkle had three assists over the week-

end while team captain Dan DeSalvo contributed with two assists.

The freshman members of the BG hockey team have recorded a combined total of 27 points so far this season. Seven different freshmen have also recorded their first collegiate points.

BG has played a total of five games on the road this season, compiling a

3-1-1 record while averag-ing 3.6 goals per game away from home.

The Alaska Nanooks come into this weekend’s series with an overall record of 5-3 and 0-2 in conference play. The Nanooks are currently on a three game losing streak.

BG looks to improve on its record when the puck drops at 11:07 p.m. on Friday and Saturday night in Alaska.

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doesn’t mean much to him, Jans said.

“[Starting lineups] don’t mean much to me. It prob-ably means more to the individuals than it does to me or my staff,” Jans said. “I just can’t imagine that we are going to be the type of team that starts the same lineup all season long. It’s more important to me who finishes the game than who starts the game because those are the guys you real-ly trust.”

There has not been a decision on if all 16 guys will play Friday. No mat-ter who starts or who plays, Jans has said he currently has “a rotation of 10 guys we are comfortable with. Certainly that could change after the exhibition or the first or second game.”

That depth is something that the Falcons did not have last year. Last season for the players who played at least 30 games, only seven played more than 15

minutes a game. “I hope our depth is a

strength on our team — we have enough guys who have enough skill and ath-leticism to be on the floor,” Jans said. “I hope and believe that depth will be a positive for us.”

This game for the Falcons, while they want to win, is important for them to improve, senior guard Anthony Henderson said.

“We are just trying to prepare and work hard, because that is what coach Jans expects from us,” Henderson said. “It’s really not about who we are playing, it’s about us getting better.”

That is especially true for a frontcourt that lost its

starting center to gradua-tion, and only returns two players who played more than 10 minutes a game in the post. Parker is one of the two who played in the post last year, but he spent a lot of time on the perimeter. Despite the loss of experience down low, Holmes believes that they are improving every day.

“[Friday] is important for us, so we can know what to expect coming into the year,” Holmes said. “We need to try ourselves out against live competition.”

The Jans era will begin Friday at 4:30 p.m. and peo-ple will get the chance to witness where the Falcons are right now. They are not where Jans wants them to be but they are getting there, he said.

“I don’t know if they are ever going to be where I want them to be; we are always striving for improve-ment,” Jans said. “When you turn the lights on and go against someone with a different colored jersey you can learn something about yourself.”

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By Katherine WernkeReporter

Bowling Green swimming and diving faces its first away test of the season this weekend.

The team heads to Oakland for a Saturday meet to face the Grizzlies and Mid-American Conference rival Eastern Michigan.

The Falcons are 1-0 so far this season, coming off of a win against Ball State last month. Eastern Michigan is undefeated on the season at 3-0, while Oakland sits at 7-1 overall.

Head coach Petra Martin said she has seen progress in the team since the last competition.

“I think we are doing better with racing strategies,” Martin said. “We are definitely start-ing to pick up a little bit more speed as we move through the last couple of weeks. They are doing a much better job at pay-ing attention to details.”

Martin expects the traveling to be a switch for the athletes, especially the younger swim-mers who have yet to experi-ence road meets.

“After you sit on the bus sometimes for a while it takes the body time to get into the motion and get going and everything,” Martin said. “We are going to have to make sure we do a good job with that.”

To prepare, Martin said she tries to recreate the scenario that may be felt after sitting on the bus before a big meet. The team will sometimes lift weights before hitting the pool to create fatigue.

The away meet gives the Falcons an opportunity to get used to traveling going into tougher meets. Martin said it will be a tough meet against Eastern Michigan and Oakland, especially with the added travel on top.

“Eastern has been swim-ming really well,” Martin said. “They have beat everybody in the MAC so far and they are tough in dual meets. You know, Oakland swims really well. We’ve had some pretty tight meets with them as well in the past couple of years. It’s gong to be a battle but we’re excited.”

Along with swimming, div-ing is making some progress in

terms of difficulty. Dive coach Alex Gauvin said the women have been working on flips that fans can expect to see in upcoming meets.

“I have been very, very happy with the progres-sion,” Gauvin said. “We have a couple new dives from the 3-meter and 1-meter that we’re going to be doing. Every week we’re going to be add-ing something new. I know where I want them to be by the end of the year and we’ll get there.”

Coming from Eastern Michigan’s program, Gauvin said that experience has helped him build this program from the beginning.

“Obviously we’re differ-ent and we want to be differ-ent,” Gauvin said. “I learned a lot while I was there and I’m going to take everything that I learned that works, that I’ve seen to work, and I’m going to do it here.”

Bowling Green has won 21 out of its past 24 races.

The Saturday meet starts at 1 p.m. at the Oakland Aquatic Center. The Falcons will be on the road until mid-January.

“The faces change from year to year, but what we do doesn’t,” she said.

The 2014-15 edition will return six letter winners from that team and two starters, redshirt junior Erica Donovan and junior Miriam Justinger.

With Leah Bolton and Kennedy Kirkpatrick return-ing from redshirts their freshman year and the addi-tion of four freshmen, six of this year’s roster of 12 will play their first full season in a Falcon uniform.

“When you graduate a veteran group, I mean they played together for three to four years, and now we’re try-ing to get over half the team to play at the speed we need to play,” Roos said. “We’re still learning. The learning curve does not become more shal-low overnight.”

One key aspect the team is focusing on this year is team chemistry.

“That has been a point of emphasis throughout the summer and throughout the preseason having almost 50 percent of the squad is new to the program and new to our

expectations and cultures at Bowling Green,” Roos said. “I think the team has done a really good job at developing a strong team chemistry at this point in the season.”

The size of this year’s team helps the chemistry, Hoekstra said.

“Personally, I kind of like the smaller roster because one of the big things we have this year is great team chemistry and I think that is because of our smaller roster.”

Matthews said the team’s chemistry will be one of its strongest points this season.

“We enjoy playing with each other a lot more,” she said. “We have fun in prac-tice, we have fun when we play together, and we have fun outside of basketball. So, that is going to be the biggest thing for people to see, that we enjoy being around each other and hopefully that will make basketball a lot easier.”

The team will be able to showcase its chemistry and identity this Friday in its first exhibition against Davis and Elkins in a double header with the men’s basketball team to kick off the 2014-15 season. The women will tipoff at 7:30 p.m. following the conclusion to the men’s game.

The Senators finished this past season with an overall record of 15-14 and a con-ference record of 12-4 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The team returns three of its top four scorers from this past year.

The Falcons will look to execute at both ends against the Senators and put all of its work during the summer together.

“This is just game one of us playing together,” Hoekstra said. “The biggest thing we need is to find out our identi-ty as a team, and that’s going to be on the court because practice and in the game are two different things. My expectation for tomorrow is for everyone to play really hard and have a lot of fun.”

Earlier in the season, Matthews put more mean-ing into the first game, but now it’s just another game, she said.

“I don’t think there’s nec-essarily any point in over-emphasizing it’s my last first game,” she said. “There’s nothing we really need to prove to anyone at this par-ticular point in the season. I think the first games are usually exciting and some-thing we want to view as fun learning experiences.”

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Find out why people call us home!400 Napoleon Road | 419-352-9135 | investekmanagement.com | Now Leasing for Fall 2015

                                                     

                       

                           

                                                                     Now  providing  services  to  area  within  one  mile  of  Bowling  Green!!!  

                           

                       

Greenbriar, Inc. | 419-352-0717 | greenbriarrentals.com

SEMESTER

NOW AVAILABLE FOR

SPRING 2015

LEASES

Help Wanted

Office Supervisor- Liberty TaxService--Bowling Green, OH

Responsibilities include but notlimited to: promoting excellent

client service, overseeing day today office operations, preparingdaily reports, marketing, hiring/

training staff and preparing taxes.Great earnings & bonus potentialworking through the tax season.This is a great opportunity for theright person! This is a PT positionduring the off-season. FT hoursduring tax season start in Dec.

PT bartender at Amvets Post 711,good wages, tips. Send resume to

20755 N. Dixie Hwy, BG.

For Sale

Large selection of gently usedfurn including tables, chairs, endtables, sofas, lamps and more!

Another Time Furhishings,115 W. Merry St, BG,

just behind Newmans Marathon.

For Rent

**2014-2015 s.y. now renting3-6 BR s over 3 allow, also morerooms $225, eff + 1 & 4BR apts.

See cartyrentals.com or 353-0325

3BR house, 836A Third St, newerkitchen & bath, avail Aug 15, 15.

3BR house, 836B Third St,newer house, avail May 15.

Call 419-601-3225 for more info.

4BR 4 person house, A/C, W/D,1st block of Manville.

Avail Aug, call 419-352-5239.

5 BR, 2 Bath, 617 N. Main,off st parking & laundry room incl,

avail Aug 2015. 12 mo lease,$1300/mo, call 419-722-1371

or email: aricketts@woh.rr.com

5BR 5 person house w/ A/C,on Pike St, avail Aug.Call 419-352-5239.

Furn. room w/ freedom of house,to clean & responsible male,

$250/mo w/ $100 dep, all utils inc. Call 419-354-6117.

Houses & Apartments12 month leases only

S. Smith Contracting LLC.419-352-8917 - 532 Manville Ave

Office open 11-3, M-Fwww.BGApartments.com

HOUSES close to campus!Now renting 2015-2016 leases.

Frobose Rentals - 419-352-6064.www.froboserentals.com

Very nice house, legal for 7. Avail.Aug 2015. 1/2 blk. from Founders.419-352-6992 or 419-601-2442.

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