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By Alex AlusheffManaging Editor
Though most students’ sports careers end in high school unless they receive a scholarship, some stay in shape through intra-mural sports.
More students are f locking to more uncommon sports they may have played in gym class, like badminton, handball and Ultimate Frisbee.
“It’s fun and really chill,” said senior Cory Russell of some of the sports he plays. “No one really knows the rules so we make it up as we go along.”
Russell started intramural sports his freshman year after a back injury on the club Ultimate Frisbee team. After playing a few games, he stuck with it.
“It’s pretty competitive, but not as demanding,” Russell said.During the course of his college career, Russell has played
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FALCONS STEP UP LATE sCReW CHRIsTmAs TImeBG Women’s basketball defeated Butler University 61-57 Monday night to push their record to 4-0. They will resume play Friday night against Marist College for the Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge. | PAGE 3
Photographer and columnist Alyssa Benes talks about Christmas not being about family but being about money. She also talks about the shift from the best time of the year to a consumer holiday. | PAGE 4
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WENdy FULLER, a sophomore psychology student, decorated shoes Tuesday night to supports TOMS in the Union Ballroom.
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Stolen falcon returned to display case
University will not press charges
Falcon Forensics wins first in tournament, beats HarvardTeam ranked in top 10, has more than 70 titles
AlYssA BeNes | THE BG NEWS
dREW ENGLISH, senior, hits a shuttlecock during in a match of badminton against Tim Emmerich, senior, and Molly Closson, freshman, on Monday night. His partner was Megan Miehls.
less stress,
VICToRIA CellA | THE BG NEWS
TWO STUdENTS prepare to throw dodgeballs during a game at the Perry Field House.
Intramural sports offer variety, boosts social skills
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A STUdENT gets ready to hit a ball while playing wiffleball on Wednesday night.
MEGAN MARBLE, freshman, tries to score a goal against Clay Brahier during a game of handball.By Eric LagattaCampus Editor
The recent disappearance of a taxi-dermied falcon perplexed and per-haps ruffled the feathers of those in the Life Sciences Building where it was on display.
Part of the Department of Biological Sciences Ornithology Collection, the peregrine falcon went missing from its display case on the second floor of the building sometime between Nov. 8 and Nov. 13. The falcon found its way back sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, accord-ing to a campus police report.
“It was pretty quickly conclud-ed,” said Capt. Mike Campbell of the University police. “Apparently it was found in the hallway at the
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By William ChannellReporter
The Fa lcon Forensics and Debate team recent ly took f irst place in a tournament at Suffolk University, beating out schools like Harvard and Penn State.
The team has historical-ly been successful, with 70 national titles to their name, and since 2002 they have been consistently ranked in the top 10 teams nationally.
Paul Alday, director of the team, said the tournament at
Suffolk was going to be difficult.“I knew it would be a tough
competition, so we tried to gauge ourselves to that level,” Alday said.
The team also took part in a tournament at Ball State Universit y recent ly that, according to Alday, had “six of the top 10 teams in the nation.”
Like other college students, Lindsay Bolding, a member of the team, said the Forensics and Debate team appealed to
See dEBATE | Page 2
By Eric LagattaCampus Editor
University and community mem-bers gathered off campus to offi-cially kick off Not In Our Town in the city as part of Not In Our Town Week on Tuesday night.
Not In Our Town, a national cam-paign to promote diversity and fight intolerance, came to the University this past April. It has continued to grow this semester with increased vis-ibility and incorporation into classes and campus events.
Roughly 100 community and University members gathered in the performing arts center of the Bowling Green Junior High School to listen to speakers and watch a movie.
Speakers included University President Mary Ellen Mazey, Mayor Richard Edwards, BG City School Superintendent Ann McVey and
See NIOT | Page 2
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University professor wins prize for flash fictionBy Kathryne Rubright
Reporter
Creative writing professor Lawrence Coates recently won the $1,000 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose for his short story “Bats.”
Coates usually doesn’t enter contests.
“It’s always a crapshoot,” he said.
However, Coates’ respect for Donald Barthelme, the prize’s namesake, caused him to enter this contest.
“Barthelme is an acknowl-edged master of flash fic-tion,” Coates said.
Flash fiction is quite short. The limit for this contest was 500 words.
“There’s a certain way [Barthelme] is playful with ideas without coming to a definite conclusion. There’s a speculative nature to his work ... There’s a surrealist aspect,” Coates said.
The contest’s judge, Robert Coover, said in the official announcement of the contest winners that Coates’ story and two hon-orable mentions all “echo Donald Barthelme’s brevity, concision, and wry intelli-
gence, his gift for memorable one-liners.”
The contest was run by Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.
A surrealist prompt led Coates to write “Bats.” The prompt was for one of his classes, and he always responds to prompts along with his students. One prompt he uses is inspired by “The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road,” a collec-tion of short stories which all contain a wedding cake in a road at some point.
“As a group we come up with two disparate objects,” Coates said, and everyone puts them together in their response.
This time, the combina-tion was “bats in purses.”
Coates’ story is “about how people put things away in November, but those things are still really there.”
The women in “Bats” have bats in their purses
whether they admit it or not, just as people can never fully forget or repress memories, Coates said.
Coates writes novels more frequently than short stories.
“He’s got a range,” Wendell Mayo, another creative writ-ing professor, said of Coates.
It’s impressive to be able to switch from novels to “short short stories” as flash fiction is also known, Mayo said.
Short stories are demand-ing in that every word must be exactly right, Coates said.
“You really have to work sentence by sentence,” Coates said.
Finding the right words is important in any work, he said, but especially so with a limited word count.
“Having some kind of clo-sure that seemed satisfying and right was a challenge,” Coates said.
Writing a novel is slow, steady work that requires consistently putting time in, Coates said.
“In a novel, you’re taking some character’s life and carving out a season of that life,” Coates said.
His advice to aspiring nov-elists is to include events dur-
ing that season are “unique, unrepeatable and irrevers-ible” events that permanent-ly change the character.
“Then it’s big enough to write a novel about,” Coates said.
Coates called those cri-teria his “test” for a good novel, but said “there’s so much variation in the short story” that he doesn’t have a similar test.
Coates has no specific plans for the $1,000 prize.
“I do travel for research,” he said. “I can always use money for travel.”
Coates said he is part of a very accomplished faculty, listing all the books other creative writing professors have recently published or will be publishing.
“We’ve got a pretty good program here,” he said.
Mayo said the department as a whole benefits when a faculty member wins a prize.
“It shows that you can be successful in the humani-ties,” which is important in a culture that does not recog-nize the humanities as much as it could, Mayo said. “To win that prize, you have to be remarkably talented.”
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NOT IN Our Town hosted a discussion in the city on Tuesday night.
LINDSAY RODIER | THE BG NEWS
JAMIE SALAZER, junior, has placed in the final round of each tournament this year.
LawrenceCoatesCreative writing professor
her because she found people who shared her interests.
“I’ve a lways loved speaking in general,” Bolding said. “So com-ing here and being able to do something I’ve always loved is really cool, and getting to meet people who also love the same thing [is great]. And we all have shared likes. It’s a really cool community here.”
Evan Kelly, another member of the team, said he enjoys the communica-tion aspect of the tourna-ments, as well as being able to bring topics he feels are important to a public forum.
“We are able to spread messages, in hopefully effective ways, and bring attention to issues that might otherwise not have that attention,” Kelly said. “Through our per-formances, we are able to bring attention to issues that we like.”
Alday said the appeal of Forensics and Debate comes down to the fact that speech and com-munication is something that is applicable in everyday life.
“It comes down to the fact that it’s a life skill,” Alday said. “There’s also a certain amount of exhil-aration that comes with [delivering a speech].”
The team also hosted the 70th annual Falcon Classic this past Saturday. The Falcon Classic is one of the oldest continuing forensics, speech and debate tournaments in the country.
The team will attend t he W isconsi n-Stout Invitational Individual Events Tournament on Dec. 6 and 7.
DEBATE From Page 1
“Through our performances, we are able to bring
attention to issues that we like.”
Evan Kelly | Team Member
NIOT From Page 1
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PRESIDENT MAZEY speaks at the Not In Our Town event at Bowling GreenJunior High.
University Equity Officer Vicky Kulicke.
“We need to all come together and celebrate each other and what we can do to change our community,” Mazey said.
She further praised the Not In Our Town campaign as just one of the many ways the city and University work together.
“I think we have a great town relationship,” Mazey said. “There’s always this give-and-take between the University and the community.”
Mayor Edwards took time to acknowledge audi-ence members who came to the event, particularly three city council mem-
bers, Daniel Gordon, Bruce Jeffers and Bob McOmber. Edwards also praised the work of the Human Relations Commission, which he said Not In Our Town is an extension of.
“We’re really fortunate in Bowling Green to have a very strong, very active human relations commission,” Edwards said.
McVey also expressed her enthusiasm for the collabora-tion between the city and the University.
“We are one community and one community that celebrates diversity,” McVey said. “This country will be strengthened by events such as this.”
Speakers also encouraged audience members to tweet using the campaign’s estab-
lished hashtags and to sign a pledge card and banner.
The short documentary, Not In Our Town Class Action, highlighted three instances of communities coming togeth-er to overcome a hate inci-dent. One story documented the efforts of University of Mississippi students to eradi-cate ties to the university’s confederate past.
“The film, I find, is very pro-voking in a very positive way. It really helps to open your eyes up to things that could happen,” Edwards said.
The goal for the night, said Edwards, is both to establish further collabora-tion between the city and University, and also heighten awareness of discrimination.
“It sharpens all of our senses and heightens our
awareness to the poten-tial for problems like this,” Edwards said. “I’m just hop-ing this is another step in the process of developing a broader perspective of how we can work together.”
Audience members could also submit ideas via index cards for how Not In Our Town can progress.
“The hope is from their suggestions we can build upon that,” said Ray Plaza, associate director of Office of Multicultural Affairs, adding that these suggestions will be considered at the Friday meeting for Not In Our Town. “This is an opportunity to raise the exposure of Not In Our Town, that it wasn’t just an April thing but it’s a broader commitment for the community.”
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Week 11 of the National Football League was the week of the quarterback. In Week 11 there were six quarterbacks who threw for more than 300 yards and 12 receivers who had more than receiving 100 yards.
Leading the quarterbacks in pass-ing yards was Arizona Cardinal Carson Palmer. Palmer has strug-gled this year, but as of late has the Cardinals rolling. The Cardinals are in sync and have won three straight games, and look to make it four in a row this week against the Indianapolis Colts. During that three- game winning streak Palmer has thrown two touchdowns in each contest. This past weekend vs. the Jaguars he threw for 419 yards and two touchdowns. This week was the first week of the season Palmer hasn’t
thrown an interception. Palmer connected with Michael Floyd for a 91-yard touchdown, which helped give Floyd the most receiving yards for a receiver this week with 193 yards.
Detroit Lions wide out Calvin Johnson continues to put on a show for fantasy owners with 179 receiv-ing yards and two touchdowns this past weekend over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Johnson leads the NFL in touchdown receptions, receiving yards and receiving yards per game. In three out of Johnson’s past four games he has had at least two touch-downs. The week where he didn’t have two touchdowns, Johnson had 14 catches for 329 yards. Megatron has lived up nothing short to his nickname, and looks to keep his sen-sational season going this weekend against the Buccaneers.
While we take a step back from the passing game, there were still
some significant running backs this past week. There were four running backs that clipped the 100-yard mark. One back that I thought had an exceptional week was Tampa Bay Buccaneers Bobby Rainey. After Mike James went out with a season ending broken ankle, Rainey has ended all doubt in the running back position. Rainey came into Week 11 with only 21 carries on the season. This past weekend vs. the Falcons, Rainey had 30 carries for 163 yards, and two touchdowns. If that wasn’t enough, Rainey also caught a receiving touchdown as well to help the Bucs get their second touchdown of the season. Rainey, who was previously on the Browns, only had 13 carries in six games for the Browns. With three games for the Bucs, Rainey has 208 yards and four total touchdowns.
Passing game dominates for owners in Week 11
By Cameron Teague Robinson Assistant Sports Editor
The BG men’s basketball team will have the chance to be tested by two top basketball programs this weekend in the University of Wisconsin and Saint Louis University.
This past Friday, the University of South Florida left the Stroh Center with a 75-61 win over the Falcons. The Falcons will need to put that loss behind them as they travel to very hostile ter-ritory Thursday night against Wisconsin.
As if playing against one of the best, if not the best, defen-sive team in the country in the Badgers wasn’t enough, after that game they will travel to St.
Louis for a game against anoth-er solid defensive team in the Billikens. The Badgers ranked seventh in points allowed last year with 55.9 while the Billikens ranked 14th in the same category with 58.2 points allowed.
“This is a great opportunity for being a mid major school to play against the best in the country,” said center Cameron Black. “It gives us a chance to prove ourselves against people who on paper are supposed to be better than you.”
Injured Falcons Chauncey Orr and Craig Sealey’s return to the court are still uncertain. Sealey has yet to see game time this
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Falcons face off against two dominating defenses
By Tara Jones
Reporter
The BG women’s basketball team made a sec-ond half comeback in Indianapolis on Monday, Nov. 18
to come away with a 61-57 victory over Butler. The Bulldogs made a last-minute run at the Falcons, but BG was able to hold
them off for the win.The Falcons advance to 4-0 on the early season with the win over
Butler, giving them their best start to a season since they started 6-0 in the 2007-08 season.
BG Head Coach Jennifer Roos said Butler made the Falcons “look silly” on the glass in the first half. The Bulldogs out-rebounded BG 25-14 in the first half. Butler especially dominated in the offensive rebound category, totaling 12 to BG’s 5 in the half. Roos said that her team was much slower than Butler in the first half.
“We haven’t had a team be outhustled honestly, in my opinion, in a really really long time and we were in the first half, and we just looked slower,” Roos said.
The focus at halftime for her team was on rebounding and playing with more of a sense of urgency to provide the Falcons with the burst of energy
they needed to battle back in the second half. “It was a big point of emphasis to talk about rebounding at half-time, but it was night and day difference between first half and
second half,” Roos said.The Falcons came out strong in the second half, tak-
ing a 32-31 lead over Butler with just under 16 minutes left to play. BG increased
the lead to 10 less
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Jaevon clarKe makes a pass to a Falcon player in their 75-61 loss to USF this past Friday.
rachel KonieczKi fights to get the ball away from a Niagara defender in their 90-58 win this past Friday.
alexis rogers dribbles past a Niagara defender on her way to the basket.
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Christmas now about spending money, not about family
Modern day issues tie back to ancient times
Working while going to school builds character
greg burlesonColumnist
AlyssA benesColumnist
Autumn KunKelColumnist
Working and going to school at the same time can be a bit overwhelm-ing sometimes.
It can become especial-ly suffocating when one is receiving little to no help from family members, as well, often due to their own lack of funds. When this happens, it becomes a requirement to pick up more hours, with work sometimes getting in the way of school, just to make ends meet.
When school and work become smothering, it’s easy – and human – to simply wish for a better life. But what most peo-ple don’t realize is that great character can be built from having to do the two simultaneously, if only one were to look at this tough time as a growing experience.
This past week, I received some troubling news in regards to the financial state of affairs back home. I won’t go into detail about that here, as it’s not the situ-ation that’s relevant, but how I reacted to it.
When I first heard the news, I didn’t just break down and think about all the ways my life was falling apart. Instead, I accepted that I had no control over the situation back home, and thought about all the ways I could work with things here.
I’d have to pick up a few extra shifts every month and cut back on my spending a little, but I figured I could get by just fine.
This unusual reaction struck me, as I have a ten-dency to freak out when things like this happen.
But then it dawned on me: I might have actual-ly grown up a little. This might seem silly, but keep in mind that, when I first entered college, I wasn’t prepared for life at all.
I grew up sheltered, babied, never taught how to be independent or to accept that there are just some things in life that can’t be controlled.
My sophomore year, I went through a spiraling depression because I was breaking down over the many things going on in my life that I had abso-lutely no control over. But after I endured all of that, I somehow managed to pick myself up, get a job to help out the situation and put the pieces back together. And the effect on my overall character has really begun to show.
Especially recently, as my parents, due to their own financial plight, have had to take a step back from helping me out with school altogether.
Ever since then, I’ve begun to feel the sting of fiscal hardship even more so than before; I’ve had to basically cut my spending to food and other neces-sities, with maybe a little extra money for fun. But I’m okay with it.
Sure, things would be so much easier if my fam-ily was a little richer and I didn’t have to work as much or at all, but what I’ve come to realize is that I’ve really grown by being in a situation that requires me to work a little harder.
The beauty of this whole experience, the suffering, the depression, the eventual force into labor, is that I’ve grown into something so much better than I could have ever imagined. I don’t take school for granted, I take advantage of the extra educational oppor-tunities the school has to offer and I appreciate the experience a little more.
I’ve come to realize that there are finer things in life, and if one takes hard-ship as simply a growing experience, then it’s easy to overcome life’s obsta-cles and come out a better person in the end.
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Recently, I sat in class, not particularly engaged, when something memo-rable happened.
While we students do not appear to be a creative bunch when it comes to in-class presentations, this particular student sparked my interest in a way she could have never imagined.
To begin, it seems note-worthy to give the his-torical back story.
Seneca the elder, a Roman author and par-ent of the more famous man of the same name, wrote a series of works on legal cases which pro-vide valuable tools to understanding the social climate of the period. In one of these works, Seneca writes about a vile man who engages in human trafficking of a particularly horrifying nature - as if it all were not horrifying.
Seneca’s words tell the story better than mine ever could. “Here roam the blind, leaning on
sticks, here others carry round stumps of arms. This child has had the joints of his feet torn, his ankles wrenched; this has had his legs crushed. Another’s thighs he has smashed, though leaving feet and legs unharmed. Finding a different sav-agery for each, this bone-breaker cuts off the arms of one, slices the sinews of another’s; one he twists, another he castrates. In yet another he stunts the shoulder-blades, beating them into an ugly hump, looking for a laugh from his cruelty.”
This vile man, after abducting and mutilat-ing children, would then send them out to beg for money. His business endeavor was contingent upon deliberately maim-ing children to make them look more pathet-ic. These children, often missing eyes, tongues, arms, legs or other vitally important body parts, were therefore con-demned to a life of beg-gary with little possibility to escape.
So, the question could be presented, “what does this matter when it hap-pened so distantly in the past? As horrifying as it
is, this situation does not play out today.” I sym-pathize with you. While I would have normally been content to continue to focus on other things, this student’s presenta-tion was on human traf-ficking and largely dealt with essential ly the same situation described by Seneca.
Today, around the world, human trafficking is not a thing of the past. Sex slaves have recently been in the news in a very disturbing fashion but agricultural and domes-tic slaves can be found just about any where. Two thousand years after Seneca, people are still found working in envi-ronments which perpetu-ate a mental and physical dependency for survival.
Worse over, the gro-tesque nature of these actions has not ceased to exist. We are fortu-nate to live in a society in which children are not kidnapped and mutilated but this, however, is not an exclusive experience. Many of our contempo-raries around much of the world live their daily lives as witnesses to human nature’s bound-less depravity.
While I have never seen it, I have been made familiar with a recent film, “Slumdog Millionaire,” which con-fronts the issue of child abduction and mutila-tion in modern India. Similarly, in other regions of the planet, women are abducted and sold to the highest bidder while still other areas continue to use child soldiers.
Human nature can be a sick, perverted enchant-ress which perpetuates the most disgusting qual-ities associated with free will. With this, the ques-tion of how to stop this practice is a very real issue with few viable or prac-tical short-term answers which we can pursue on a personal basis. Not to be discouraged, we must begin significant mea-sures to educate the public as a whole. Our humanity must be judged by how we treat the lowest members of society and we have identified those who are most in need.
This is a real issue and a real challenge; rise to it.
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Every year around this time, I feel like I’m being attacked by Christmas.
And it’s not a good feeling.Ever since October, dif-
ferent stores and com-panies have turned into C h r i s t m a s - p r o m o t i n g machines. [And I’m talking strictly Christmas because it seems like every other holiday this time of year is ignored or barely men-tioned unless you or some-one close to you celebrates one of those holidays.]
Every year, it seems like this happens sooner and sooner. I remember as a kid, all of the Christmas stuff started coming out after Thanksgiving. Then it became earlier in November. Now, it’s become October. Thanksgiving is seemingly nonexistent. Is Halloween going to be next?
Enough is enough.Nobody seems to care
about what Christmas is about anymore. Now, this season is about sav-ing money while spending money, bragging about the money saved and making money.
Money.What happened to
Christmas being about spending time with family and friends, giving and the birth of Christ?
All religious aspects aside, the seemingly simple con-cepts of spending time with loved ones and giving are completely overlooked.
For example, Black Friday: It’s a ridiculous concept that’s entirely about money. People could argue that this fulfills part of the giving aspect of Christmas. I dis-agree. Why wake up early, shove your way through crowded stores and wait in ridiculously long lines just to save a little bit of money? Doesn’t trying to save money defeat the whole purpose of giving? Don’t get me wrong, saving money is great, but I don’t think that we should be so driven to and set on saving money when it comes to giving. I thought that giving was sup-posed to be selfless.
Maybe I’m wrong.When I was younger, I
remember driving to my grandparents’ house on Christmas Day and seeing
literally nothing open. No fast food restaurants, no grocery stores, etc. Literally nothing except maybe the occasional gas station. I would ask my parents why nothing was open, and their replies were simply that it was Christmas, and noth-ing was open on Christmas so that people could spend time with their families.
Things have drastically changed.
My family still goes to my grandparents’ house on Christmas, but instead of seeing every store or res-taurant closed, I see quite a few open.
This could be an attempt to not impose Christmas on those who don’t celebrate it, but why is that the only step we’re taking? And why are people who do choose to celebrate Christmas work-ing and not with their fami-lies all day?
Since the beginning of November, radio sta-tions have started play-ing Christmas music. Even before Halloween, I was seeing Christmas-themed commercials. If, as a soci-ety, we’re trying so hard not to force Christmas on people, why is keeping a grocery store on Christmas open the only thing we’re doing? Earlier and earlier every year, we’re shoving Christmas down the throats of even those who do cel-ebrate it through marketing and advertising.
The marketing and adver-tising is how companies spend their money to get us to spend our money and therefore, how they make their money. By adver-tising earlier and earlier every year, they’re getting consumers to think about spending money.
It all comes back to money.Companies want money,
so they spend a ton of it on advertising only to make it all back and then some. It’s a genius plan, but I don’t like it.
I love Christmas just as much as anyone else, but I like to enjoy Thanksgiving and Halloween as well.
Sadly, I don’t see this trend changing anytime soon. Someday soon, I expect Halloween to disappear just like Thanksgiving has.
That’s a really sad thought, but since all anyone cares about is money these days, it really wouldn’t surprise me.
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PEOPLE ON THE STREET Where do you think the falcon went during its absence?“It went to the Not In Our Town event to show support.”
“It went home to its family.”
“It was stolen because someone misses their own falcon back at home.”
“It went to Marco’s because that’s where I would go.”
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TOP RIGHT: Dylan McFarland, a member of Pi Kappa Phi, sits in a cage during Tuesday night in the Union Oval.
TOP LEFT: McFarland, a junior theater major, and other members of PKP par-ticipate in the Cage Sit to raise money for Push America.
BOTTOM: Students gather around the cage to learn more about the charity. The Cage Sit lasts until Thursday night at 9 p.m.
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THE PEREGRINE Falcon is back in the display case in the Life Science Building after being missing for an unknown number of days.
same location it was taken from.”
At the request of the Department of Biological Sciences, the campus police will not pursue charges, Campbell said, referring to the return of the falcon as a “no ques-tions asked scenario.”
University Spokesperson Dave Kielmeyer echoed that sentiment.
“We got the bird back. We’re happy,” Kielmeyer said.
It is once again on display in the Life Sciences Building.
The story quickly spread beyond Bowling Green. News outlets including the Toledo Blade and 10TV also picked it up.
The reason, said Kielmeyer, is the coinciden-
tal nature of the taxider-mied avian, as it also hap-pens to be the University’s official mascot, and has been since 1927.
“For the University, it’s also symbolic for us,” Kielmeyer said. “It also hap-pens to be our mascot and that’s why everyone had to be up in arms.”
But while the prodigal fal-con found its way home, its adventures remain a mystery.
Campus police have no leads on who took it or what their motive was, Campbell said.
But Jeffrey Miner, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, suspects it was taken out of curiosity.
What makes the case so perplexing is how it was removed, Miner said, noting the difficulty of getting into case in which it’s displayed.
“I’m not really sure how
it escaped or how someone got into the cabinet,” he said. “This is something we’ll con-tinue looking into.”
The department will also have to protect the other 1,100 taxidermy specimens they have on display, ensur-ing there are no future thefts, he said.
“We have other organisms that are out and accessible to the public,” he said. “We need to preserve these well.”
The peregrine is part of the biological sciences department’s collection of more than 2,400 taxi-dermied animals, which are used for teaching and research. About 1,100 speci-mens are on display on the third and fourth floors of the Life Sciences Building.
In addition to the falcon, other specimens include other birds, reptiles, plants and fish. And it is not the
only falcon in the collection, Miner said. Another one has not been stuffed and is not on display, but is used more for research, he said.
Some of the specimens date as far back as to the late 1800s, making them tough to replace considering many, including the peregrine, are endangered, Miner said.
Miner estimated the fal-con’s age to be 100 years, making it one of the older pieces of the collection.
“There was a time when going down and shooting birds was something people did,” Miner said. “We can’t do that now.”
While photography has replaced taxidermy, “there’s nothing like having the actu-al body of the organism to teach from,” he said.
“Having these collections is more and more impor-tant,” he said.
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Ultimate Frisbee, f lag football, basketball, bad-minton, handball and cornhole through intra-mural sports.
The University usu-ally offers 28 intramu-ral sports to participate in, said Scott Sehmann, assistant director of Recreation and Wellness. This year it offers 21 due to the Student Recreation Center renovations.
Sports range from the traditional ones like soc-cer and basketball to the recreational handball and futsal. Intramurals cost $25 per semester or $40 a year to play.
Handball, an Olympic sport, is a mix of basket-ball and soccer played in an indoor arena. Futsal is like a faster paced, indoor version of soccer.
“It’s not a household name, but it might be played in gym in high school,” Sehmann said. “One of the draws is that it’s different.”
W hi le t he ga mes retain a sense of com-petition, Sehmann said it’s not about winning or losing.
“It’s more about hav-ing fun and getting away
from class,” he said.Ta k ing her mind
off class has been one of the draws for junior Madison Shuret.
“It’s definitely a stress reliever,” Shuret said. “It takes you away from homework, exams and studying.”
Shuret, who played volleyball and softball in high school, plays the two in intramurals, as well as wiff le ball, hand-ball and cornhole.
“In high school, you don’t get the opportunity to try something new,” she said.
Besides the variety of sports, Sehmann said participating in intra-murals also helps build social skills.
Both Russel l and Shuret have been able to take advantage of this aspect.
“You get to pick who you want on your team and have a good rela-tionship with them,” Shuret said.
Since playing intramu-rals, Shuret said she has made roughly 20 friends.
Russell said he has made more than 10 new friends.
“You meet a lot of people and make a lot of good relationships,” he said.
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season due to an injury in the offseason. According to head coach Louis Orr, Sealey has been practic-ing and is close to return-ing. Chauncey Orr has not seen game time since the first half of the Falcons season opener against Earlham College.
“It is game to game to see how each one feels.” Orr said. “Craig is getting close and hopefully Chauncey doesn’t miss much time.”
Wisconsin is a team known for their defense and their perimeter play-ers and shooters. This Wisconsin team’s rotation one through five can play on the perimeter that they will need to defend at all times, Black said.
“I think our one through four can play on the perimeter as well,” Black said. “I think we match-up pretty good as long as we play defense and play together.”
Badger forward Sam Dekker poses the biggest threat to the Falcons in multiple phases. He can shoot from the perim-eter as he is shooting 44 percent from behind the three-point ark, but his height at six feet seven inches gives him an abil-ity to score inside as well.
“He plays on the perim-eter, in the post and is their leading rebounder as well,” Black said.
The Falcons aren’t look-ing to do anything special against their opponents this weekend, Orr said. They just want to execute what they do best and gen-erate their offense in dif-
ferent ways he said. “We need to try and be
as efficient as we can,” he said. “On offense we need to take advantage of every chance to get to score, because Wisconsin doesn’t just control you defensively they control their defense with their offense.”
They are not looking at this as any special oppor-tunity, Orr said.
“Every game is a great opportunity we take them one at a time,” Orr said. “Any time you get the chance to play two quality teams at their place we have to be ready for the moment.”
These two games this weekend will be good tests for the Falcons so early in the season.
“We have to leave it all on the f loor for 40 minutes or more,” Orr said.
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WoMEN’S From Page 3than three minutes later, but Butler continued to challenge the Falcons’ lead through the end of half. The Bulldogs battled back to tie the game in the final minutes with a single free throw. Butler then missed its second free throw attempt that could have given them the lead, and Falcon Jill Stein grabbed the rebound. BG’s possession ended in an Erica Donovan layup to give the Falcons the lead with 27.8 seconds left.
Coach Roos said the next 25 seconds “felt like an eter-
nity.” Butler had three dif-ferent out-of-bounds pos-sessions after consecu-tive Falcon attempts at the ball that knocked it out of bounds. The Bulldogs got the ball in bounds and put up a shot from behind the arc that BG’s Donovan blocked. Miriam Justinger grabbed the ball for the Falcons and immediately got fouled with just 0.6 seconds left. Justinger converted on two free throws to secure the 61-57 win for the Falcons. Roos said this game was a “huge gut check” for the Falcons to play so well in the second half after they were so tired.
“I’m happy to get out of
here with a win because this is a game that the way Butler played in the first half, got me really nervous,” Roos said. “If we didn’t make some changes after half-time, we were going to be in trouble. The team stepped up and made those changes and played with that sense of urgency like I talked about, for us to secure the victory.”
The Falcons will travel to Columbus for the Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge at Value City Arena this weekend. BG will face Marist College on Friday, Old Dominion University on Saturday, and the host team The Ohio State University on Sunday.
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