The BG News 12.09.13

An art experience

faculty protest

extended studying

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Starting Sunday night, the library will be open for 24 hours five days a week so you can get your study on. Check out when and why on Page 2.

Choosing a place to get some food this week? Check out a chart on local restaurants’ health code violations and clean bills of health on Page 2.

The faculty association hosted a silent protest during the Board of Trustees meeting Friday. See what happened during the meeting on Page 2.

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21 YEARS IN THE MAKING BG wins the MAC Championship for the first time in 21 years against undefeated Northern Illinois University Story by Alex Krempasky | Photo by Alyssa Benes

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he BG football team went against the odds and won the Mid-American Conference football championship 47-27 against the Northern Illinois University Huskies Friday night at Ford Field in Detroit.

This is the first time the Falcons have won the MAC football title since 1992.

“It’s a great night to be a Falcon and a great night for [BG] football,” head coach Dave Clawson said. “I’m so proud of our football team. This is a group that just kept working and getting better, and I still think we probably played our best football of the year tonight. It’s a great night for [the University], our athletic program, all of our players. I’m just so happy and so proud.”

The BG defense held NIU’s Heisman hopeful quarterback, Jordan Lynch, to 126 rushing yards and 219 passing yards on 21 completed passes. He attempted 40 passes and threw two interceptions against the BG defense.

“We have great players and great coaches,” Clawson said. “Our defensive staff has done a great job all year. A lot of the same players, three years ago, were 2-10 and they were calling them the ‘Swiss Cheese 11.’ They just worked hard.

Sometimes it just takes time to build a program. It takes getting the right people on board and getting the right coaches.”

BG quarterback Matt Johnson stole the national stage from Lynch after throwing for 393 yards and five touchdowns, a new MAC Championship game record previously held by former-Miami University RedHawks quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in 2003.

Johnson was named the game’s Most Valuable Player. “[Northern Illinois has] a great quarterback that deserves all the accolades that

See MAC | Page 5

ryland ward, (from left), Paul Swan, Jerry ‘BooBoo’ Gates and Aaron Foster pose for photos with the MAC Championship trophy during the trophy presentation following the Falcons’ 47-27 win against Northern Illinois University on Friday Night in Detroit.

VICTORY IN THE STROH

The BG women’s basketball team defeated the UW-Milwakee Panthers 87-64 in a non-conference battle. The Falcons move to 8-1 on the season including two straight home victories. | PAGE 3

DOG DAYS ARE OVER

Editor in Chief Danae King says goodbye to her dog of 14 years in Forum. Danae also talks about what kind of impacts pets have on a family’s life. | PAGE 4

How did you celebrate BG winning the MAC Championship for the first time in 21 years?

“I was in the stands playing the fight song with the band.”

Jacob Short Sophomore, Music Education

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Editor’s Note: Know Before You Go is a monthly series where The BG News publishes data from health inspection reports for city restaurants and food providers in town. The chart below lists the five restaurants with the most violations during health inspection. It lists the name, address, inspection type, number of violations and the inspectors comments in the report.

The inspection type varies from standard to follow-up to complaint. A restaurant receives a standard inspection roughly two times a year.

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After an inspector finds violations, they are usually corrected on the spot or a follow-up will be conducted a few days or weeks later depending on the violation.

If a business repeats critical violations, it meets with the health district to correct the problem.

If it still repeats the violation, it could eventually lose its food license.

At the beginning of each month, look for graphs which list the five restaurants with no violations and the five with the most violations for the previous month. *The information in today’s graph is for the month of November and provided by the Wood County Health District. *Explanation taken from past interviews with the Wood County Health District.

5 restaurants and food providers with no violations in November Frisch’s Big Boy, 1540 E. Wooster St. Falcon’s Nest Outtakes Falcon’s Groceries, 309 S. Main St. Al-mar Lanes, 1010 N. Main St. CVS Pharmacy, 212 E. Wooster St.

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1096 N. Main St.

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Critical: 5 -The person in charge was unable to demonstrate proper knowledge of food safety and prevention. He or she handled lemons with bare hands for drinks and was unable to demonstrate calibration of a thermometer.

- Observed food employee touching ready-to-eat food with bare hands.

- Raw in-shell eggs were found in walk-in cooler above salsa and other sauces.

- Foods not being held at proper temperature. This was fixed during inspection.

- The prep table in kitchen has build-up of food on the inside of lid and around food containers. The microwave had a food particle build-up on the inside.

Non Critical: 2 - Floor tiles under the dishwasher are loose or cracked.

- Floors were found with build-up of food and debris.

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Critical: 1 -The red hose for the sanitizer and water refill was leaking into the sanitizer compartment of the three bin sink, diluting the concentration of the sanitizer.

Non Critical: 4 -Improper storage of food items.

- The cappuccino machines and doughnut case were found with build-up of food particles.

- Floor in the pop dispenser room has pop syrup on it.

- Wet mops were found lying in the utility sink and the mop bucket with dirty water.

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Critical: 1 - Observed food employee touching ready to eat foods with bare hands.

Non critical: 1 -Wall under the license is no longer smooth and easily cleanable.

Little Caesars Pizza Meijer

1068 N. Main St.

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Non Critical: 2 -Inside bottom of prep cooler has a build-up of cheese and other food particles.

- Floor under three bin sink is in need of cleaning.

2111 E. Wooster St.

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Non Critical: 2 -Doughnut display case doors are broken.

-Shredded cheese display case has cheese particles on the dividers between shelves.

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Faculty, students protest recent Library extends hours so cuts at Board of Trustees meeting students can study longer Faculty Association believes reduction in staff is detrimental to education

By Eric Lagatta Campus Editor

The Board of Trustees meeting had a higher turnout than normal, as roughly 100 faculty and students gathered to protest recent faculty cuts.

The protesters gathered before the meeting holding signs, some of which had facts about actual faculty whose contracts were eliminated.

“Each one of these signs will tell you something about a faculty member,” said David Jackson, president of the Faculty Association.

The protest was in response to the administration’s decision not to renew the contracts of 30 non-tenure faculty. There are also 12 additional faculty not returning who were on one-year, nonrenewable contracts. The initial 30 reductions will

save the University $1.4 million.

“We think it’s detrimental to the quality of a BGSU education,” Jackson said, noting the objective is to convince the administration to rescind the cuts. “This is serious.

People have the right to know the facts.”

The protest also had the support of Rudy Fichtenbaum, the president of the American Association of University Professors.

“I’m here today to support them and their struggle to maintain high quality education for students at BGSU,” Fichtenbaum said. “When it comes to keeping faculty in order to serve students, it seems [t he administration] thinks the faculty is somehow expendable.”

Once the meeting began, the protesters sat in the audience holding the signs

above their heads.

Some of the board members acknowledged the protesters before adjournment. The overall message they sent was that the cuts were done after much deliberation as a way to keep up with enrollment trends.

“For those unhappy with the decision to rightsize,” said trustee Betty Montgomery, “it wasn’t done without thought.”

University President Mary Ellen Mazey stressed the decision was to keep cost of tuition down for students.

“We have made some very difficulty decisions at BGSU and we’ll continue to do that,” Mazey said.

But when Sheri WellsJensen, faculty senate chair, addressed the board, she called for looking for other ways to be

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Lengthened hours started Sunday, go til finals

By Kendra Clark In Focus Editor

Students who need a quiet place to go to study for finals will have a new option open for them in the late hours of the night or the early hours of the morning.

The library will be open to all students this week and next for 24 hours.

The days the library will be open 24 hours will be Sunday, Dec. 8 through Thursday, Dec. 12 and then again from Sunday, Dec. 15 through Thursday, Dec. 19.

The library changed its hours for exam time because of requests that came from students, said Dean of the Library Sara Bushong.

“Students have commitments until late at night,” she said. “So they don’t usually start studying until around 10 [p.m.]”

Bushong was

approached by t he Undergraduate Student Government to extend the times the library would be open the week before and week of finals week.

“It is an extra cost to us, but we’re confident students will be here,” Bushong said. “We will have to test it to see if we can do this in the future.”

The staff, which is primarily graduate students, will be there until 2 a.m., and from then on the library will be manned by the campus police, who will be there from midnight to 7 a.m.

Bushong said the services offered, such as checkouts of books and access to the upper levels of the library, will be closed off after 2 a.m.

President of USG, Alex Solis, came up with the idea with USG to extend library hours after touring

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Jasmine matthews dribbles past a Milwaukee defender. She had 12 points against the Panthers on Sunday.

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Alexis rogers rusn through two Milwaukee defenders. Rogers scored 16 points against the Panthers.

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Falcons trump Milwaukee by 23 during weekend

By Tara Jones Reporter

The BG women’s basketball team defeated UW-Milwaukee on Sunday afternoon by a score of 87-64, thanks in part to multiple contributors for the Falcons.

At the start of the game, both teams traded baskets, which led to four early lead changes and two instances in which the score was tied.

However, Deborah Hoekstra’s three-pointer at the 11:38 mark elevated the Falcons to

a 14-10 lead that held for the remainder of the half. Since the bucket, the Falcons never trailed the rest of the half and built up to a 20 point lead.

Both teams came out strong again at the start of the second half, but the lead BG built in the first half was too much for Milwaukee to overcome. The Falcons held around a 20 point lead for the remainder of the game and cruised to the win.

Hoekstra led the Falcons with a career-high 19 points.

Alexis Rogers also came up

big for the Falcons with a double-double consisting of 16 points and 12 rebounds.

Jill Stein had a near doubledouble herself, finishing with 10 points and nine rebounds.

Jasmine Matthews added 12 points, and Erica Donovan finished with 11 points, rounding out to double-digit scorers for BG. Hoekstra said that one of her team’s biggest strength is their versatility and unselfishness. She added that with how well her team moves the ball, anyone could be their

leading scorer, but recently she has been the one to reap the benefits.

“I mean, it could really be anyone on the team,” Hoekstra said. “We always say one more pass, and it’s been me recently, but it could be anybody. I think that that’s one of our strengths. We’re all so versatile and really it could be anyone coming out.”

Along with the offensive contributions for BG, Miriam Justinger helped secure the win for the Falcons on the defensive end as well.

Justinger was assigned to guard Milwaukee’s Angela Rodriguez, who leads the team win scoring with 20.0 points per game and also in assists at 5.1 per game.

Rodriguez was contained to seven points and nine assists on the night.

BG head coach Jennifer Roos said containing Rodriguez was a huge factor in the team’s win. She said Justinger proved to be a “tenacious” and “smart” defender on Rodriguez.

“I think everybody saw

today how good of a player Angela Rodriguez is,” Roos said. “Even though we held her to seven points, she had nine assists and played the majority of the game. That’s a top-40 scorer in the nation.

I thought Miriam Justinger drew that assignment early on and really did a good job of disrupting her.”

The Falcons will return to the Stroh Center next Sunday, Dec. 15. They will face the University of Massachusetts with tipoff set for 2 p.m.

Swimming team travels for AT&T Winter Nationals Five BG swimmers competed on national stage

By Katherine Wernke Reporter

mark cooper skates down the ice during the weekend series against the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers.

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Hockey wins one, loses one to Alabama-Huntsville Falcons win Friday, lose on Satuday in overtime, Chargers victorous for first time this season

By Corey Krupa Reporter

The BG hockey team won 3-0 Friday night and lost 3-4 in overtime against WCHA opponent University of AlabamaHuntsville Chargers at the Ice Arena.

The Falcons saw three different skaters score goa ls on Friday and sophomore goa ltender Tommy Burke saved all 18 shots he faced to earn his first collegiate shutout victory.

BG received goals from sophomore forward Ben Murphy, freshman forward Pierre-Luc Mercier and junior forward Ted Pletsch. The Falcons earned two power-play goals on the night and were a perfect 4 for 4

on the penalty kill. The Falcons scored one goal in each period throughout the night and ended their three-game losing streak.

“It was good to get a win,” BG for ward Ben Murphy said. “We needed a win tonight. We needed to get back on track. It was good to be back at home.”

The hockey team has been looking to improve their performance on the ice, head coach Chris Bergeron said.

“The more depth you have at every position, the more it brings internal competition and the more it brings out the best in each person,” Bergeron said.

In the weekend series finale on Saturday night,

BG received goals from sophomore for w a rd Ma rk Cooper, Brent Tate and freshman Sean Walker. Freshman goaltender Tomas Sholl made 22 saves. The Falcons scored one goal on the power play and were 4 for 5 on the penalty kill.

BG outshot A labamaHuntsville 44-26 in the overtime loss.

BG entered the third period with a 3-2 lead.

The Chargers scored the final two goals in the game, including the game winning goal with 3.4 seconds remaining in overtime for their first win of the season.

“We failed again,” BG forward Brent Tate said. “It has to stop. We’re looking at each other. Our leaders stood up today and said

look in the mirror; be a difference maker. We’re getting sick of it. We’ve had the same talk the last four weekends in a row. It’s got to stop and it takes everybody, including myself.”

The loss drops the Falcons record to 7-8-3 overall and 5-6-1 in conference play. With the overtime victory, the Chargers earned their first points of the year and improved to 1-15-0 overall with a 1-9-0 record in conference play. BG now has a record of 1-2-3 in overtime this season.

BG will be on the road this weekend (Dec. 13-14), when they face Michigan Tech Huskies. This will be the seventh consecutive week that the Falcons will play a WCHA conference opponent.

The BG swimming team hit the road for the AT&T Winter Nationals Championships late this past week and are hitting the heart of the season this week.

Traveling to Knoxville, Tenn., the team sent five swimmers into the events, which started Thursday and continued through Sat u rday.

Fresh ma n Maya Skorupski, sophomores Jordan Bullock and Daniela Carrillo, junior Stephanie Boyle and senior Joëlle Scheps competed for the team.

For some of the student athletes, qualifying was trumped by academics.

Head coach Petra Martin was pleased with the efforts, though, gone into the events with BG’s fall semester coming to a close.

“We were not really rested for this meet we were just kind of swimming through it just to get t he ex per ience,” Martin said. “I think it went pretty well.”

Facing strong competition from around the count r y, t he Fa lcons were not able to swim into the finals, but relays were a different stor y.

Skor up s k i, Bu l lo c k , Scheps and Carrillo made up the relay team and swam in for 14th and 15th in both the 400 and 200 relay medley prelims and finals, respectively.

Now the team will have a few weeks to regroup until another meet in January.

During t he brea k, Martin said the team will continue training over the break at home and back with the team. There will be a training camp during the break for the team to continue practice.

“There are no breaks,” she said. “They keep on training and getting ready because championship season is coming up.”

When at home the athletes can practice with their club teams to work on training until returning to BG. The MAC Championships are right around the corner at the end of February and BG still has a few things to work on. Looking to finish stronger in meets, Martin said there are a few things that can be worked on.

“I think there are still things, especially with the younger ones, mentally,” she said. “You know, I think they need to get tougher. They need to polish off on the details of what they are doing; really focus on being focused.”

There is still time to improve, as there always is.

“It’s just about doing the right things every day,” Martin said.

The team will not be competing in the pool again until Jan. 4 at the Tampa Relays in Florida.

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET “I kicked it with my friends and we celebrated together.”

Matthew key Freshman, Business

How did you celebrate BG winning the MAC championship for the first time in 21 years?

“Me and my brother-in-law rubbed it in the face of my father and sister who are Toledo graduates.”

AUDREY LEE Sophomore, Film Production

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“I just watched the game, but I did nothing to celebrate.”

ZUFENG ZHANG Junior, Sport Management

“I was at the game screaming and cheering the team on.”

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I got the call Friday.

My mom said someone I loved had a tumor. She was in pain. She was going to die. Come home and say goodbye.

The call was about my dog, Abby.

Abby has been in my family for 14 years.

Many people have dogs that become part of their family, so to them, I say treasure the time you have.

Pets can be supportive, loyal and loving.

I can’t count the times Abby came up to me when I was crying or ran to greet me when I came home from

college. I’m so thankful and happy for the time I got with her.

At the same time, I can’t help but have regrets. She was a great, loving dog and I have regrets about not spending enough time with her, not loving her enough.

So hug your pets, love them, chase them around the kitchen table and play tug-of-war.

This weekend, I went home to say goodbye. The vet found a tumor in her throat Friday and let us take her home to say goodbye.

Monday, she’ll be put down.

I’m happy Abby will be out of pain, but I can’t get over her being gone.

I remember the first time I saw Abby. It was in the pound and she was a 25-pound jumping ball of energy.

Mandela’s life, past impacts worldwide view CASSIE SULLIVAN FORUM EDITOR

From Nelson Mandela’s death last week, many things can be taken away.

One person with enough drive should inspire us all to change the world.

With many brushes with trials and jail sentences, Mandela continued to fight to end the apartheid rule, finally winding up in jail for 27 years after being charged with sabotage in 1964 and released in 1990.

Mandela’s higher education, which tied directly to his achievements in ending the apartheid laws, were spent at different universities where he was involved in activism and protesting. No matter what happened to Mandela, he kept fighting to change the lives of not just the people in South Africa, but all around the world.

Even though nothing in my life amounts to what Mandela did in his life, what he did made me think about what I could do to change not only my own life, but others.

There are a couple of things I want to be involved in, but I haven’t taken the time to do so and there is so much out there I would like to do.

From saving the enivron-

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ment to ensuring that there is a fighting chance for the future and the people who will inherit the Earth.

Could I do what Mandela did? I have no idea. But I do know I’m on the right path — my job as a journalist gives me the chance to make a difference in the world by sharing what people are doing and sharing what is important. My goal is to write about the various topics I care about and want other people to know about, even if they don’t care about it.

For most of his life, Mandela touched many lives by changing many different aspects of people’s lives through various means, from being a protestor to being the president— his touch was wide.

W hile the situation between our lives here and the life Mandela lived were so different, think about the ways he reached out and touched other lives. Can you do the same? Education is at the tip of your fingers; grasp it and don’t let go.

That’s a place to start.

Strive to make a difference, even if it isn’t as radical or as widespread as Mandela’s was. Make it about what you believe in.

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We got her for $75, the best money we’ve ever spent, in my opinion. And she rode home between me and my sister in the backseat.

At first, I got jealous of my sister and I was afraid Abby didn’t like me. As we were riding home, she curled up with her butt toward me.

To a 7-year-old, that can be upsetting.

“She trusts you,” my mom said. “If a dog puts her butt toward you, she likes you.”

I was in love.

From then on, Abby was a part of our family. She had a stocking at Christmas, we gave her a toy on her birthday and scraps from the dinner table.

She came on road trips with us, was there for us when my dad went into the hospital a few years ago and was the best dog ever.

She had personality; she didn’t like other dogs, she barked her head off every time the doorbell rang and she was too dainty to go to the bathroom in the snow or rain.

Sunday, I left, and saying goodbye to a pet I’ve had for 14 years, who I love as much as many of the people in my life, was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do.

I cried. I hugged her. I petted her. But it’s not enough. There’s a hole in my heart and there will be tears in my eyes when I go home for Christmas and her little black furry paws aren’t all over me when I walk in the door.

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Overcoming party divide pushes toward solidarity DEREK SUTTER COLUMNIST

A pervasive mistrust between conservatives and liberals darkens every corner of American political discourse.

There is an enduring belief in both groups that the “other side” is either disgustingly ignorant.

If Americans granted a little more thought to the nature of their ideological differences, conservatives would no longer fear liberals and liberals would no longer fear conservatives.

Let us take one issue and examine the different positions pertaining to it in the light of thoughtfulness and reason.

The regulation of businesses is a simple yet controversial issue.

Liberals tend to favor an increase in government regulations of the market because of their concern for the consumer. They want the public to have more information on various products so they can more readily make the choices that are best for them.

Conservatives, on the other hand, voice concern about the costs of government regulations on businesses. They worry about inefficiencies and warn that too much burden on businesses will ultimately cause a decrease in the entire nation’s standard of living.

Is it so difficult to discover the common objective among

liberals and conservatives?

Both groups are struggling for the happiness of their fellow Americans. They merely have different views on the means that will best achieve that sacred end.

This rule holds true on every issue from health care to foreign policy, from abortion to monetary policy. The principle of American happiness remains the aim of both ideologies in all cases.

While this realization may not bring conservatives and liberals together on policy issues, it should create an environment for the rationale and considerate conversations America so desperately needs.

Compromise should also become easier. Cooperating with someone seen as fighting for the same cause occurs more naturally than conceding to someone seen as hostile to unassailable values.

In closing, I paraphrase Jefferson, who aimed prudent words toward harmony in a situation that appeared even more divided than America today.

A difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

We have called persons of the same principle by different ideological names: liberal and conservative.

Yet, in a sense, we are all liberals and we are all conservatives. We are all committed to America’s happiness and well-being.

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Lucas Pointon, a senior jewlery and metal major, works with metal at the ArtX exhibit on Friday.

ArtsX spreads student artists’ messages to community

By Dominic Binkley Reporter

More than 100 art displays filled the University arts buildings Friday evening in a “Wonderland of Talent” for the School of Art’s ninth annual ArtsX event.

The free event gave students and faculty a chance to showcase their music, theater, dance, film and other art skills to the community in a single package at the Fine Arts Center, Wolfe Center for the Performing Arts and Kobacker Hall in the Moore Musical Arts building.

Junior Desiree Holton, a film production major whose award-winning film, “Polaroid,” was showcased at the event, said ArtsX plays an important role by allowing students and faculty to share their artistic message to the largest amount of people as possible.

“The more publicity that

you get as an artist and the more that your art is seen, whether it’s a film, a piece of art or a performance, that just boosts your name in the community and also lets more people hear your message, whatever that message is that you’re trying to get across,” Holton said.

Community members were treated to everything from gibberish songs created on the spot to an aerial dance performance from a University instructor in the Eva Marie Saint Theatre.

Erin Garber-Pearson, an instructor in the School of Art, participated in ArtsX for the second year by performing the aerial silk act called “Anastomic Path” with two of her friends. She said she enjoys the opportunity to perform in front of the community.

“We come out here just because it is a free event and it brings all aspects of the art community

together, so we love doing it,” Garber-Pearson said. “I think we need more [art events].”

Senior Ilyssa Pelts, a film production major who helped with film presentations, said ArtsX lets all the art departments come together and gain support for their talent.

“It’s a great opportunity and it’s a great way for all the different art departments to mesh a little bit and it’s a great way to support all the arts at Bowling Green,” she said.

One of the event’s highlights was “Cinema Optique!,” a continuous presentation of live action and 3D animated films projected on the south side of the Wolfe Center for the Performing Arts, making it the largest architectural screen in Ohio at 250 feet, according to the School of Art’s website.

The evening also featured

a festival series of musical performances from artists like the New York-based a cappella group the New York Polyphone, who sang songs from their album like “I Sing the Birth” in Kobacker Hall. The festival series also included artists like soprano Kisma Jordan, a University alumna and the BG Philharmonia, an orchestral ensemble at the University.

Junior Elsa Vogel, a graphic design major and member of the event’s marketing team, said events like ArtsX let the community see what the University’s art program has to offer.

“The arts are essential to any education program and I think it’s great that we’re able to present an event to show the rest of the public and everyone those things because most people don’t know the great art program we have here,” she said.

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he’s gotten,” Clawson said.

“We have a really good quarterback too.”

BG running back Travis Greene ran for 133 yards against Northern Illinois, capturing the BG record for single-season rushing yards with 1,555 yards. The 62-yearold record was set by Fred Durig in 1951.

BG started the game off with a touchdown on its first drive via a 28-yard pass from Johnson to tight end Tyler Beck.

Northern Illinois answered BG with a touchdown of its own off a 14-yard pass from Lynch to wide receiver Juwa Brescacin, tying the game at

Heath Jackson, wide reciever, catches a touchdown pass during the game Friday night. Jackson had 58 yards recieving during the night and one touchdown.

seven with more than nine minutes remaining in the first quarter.

Following the Huskies’ score, BG started its drive with a 61-yard pass from Johnson to wide receiver Ronnie Moore, but the drive was derailed and the Falcons were forced to kick a 26-yard field goal. Kicker Tyler Tate’s field goal made the score 10-7 with less than seven minutes left in the first quarter.

Following a failed drive by Northern Illinois, BG capitalized on the defense’s success. Following three rushing plays, Johnson threw a 25-yard pass to Moore. On the next play, Johnson connected with Moore again with a 36-yard touchdown pass.

Following the extra point, BG led the Northern Illinois

Huskies 17-7. NIU drove down the field and following the quarter break, the Huskies drive stalled and were forced to kick a 51-yard field goal, making the score 17-10.

On BG’s next drive, NIU held BG to a three-and-out and kicked a second-consecutive field goal. The Huskies’ second field goal came from 45 yards out and cut BG’s lead to four points with 13:07 left in the first half.

After NIU’s third field goal of the game, the Huskies attempted an onside kick.

However, they were forced to re-kick following two penalties were called on NIU. BG took advantage of the Huskies’ desparate play call on the kick off and scored a touchdown on a 22-yard pass from Johnson to wide receiver Heath Jackson, n

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making the score 24-13.

The Falcons would score another touchdown before the end of the half after defensive lineman Ted Ouelett intercepted a pass from Lynch with 1:05 remaining in the half.

On that sequential drive, Johnson threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Bayer with 13 seconds remaining in the half, making the score 31-13 at the end of the second quarter.

BG dominated the second half of the MAC Championship game against Northern Illinois.

The Huskies began the second half with a drive that resulted in a eight-yard touchdown run by Lynch, but Northern Illinois would only score one time after that.

The next two drives by BG and NIU resulted in missed n

field goals. Tate attempted a 26-yard field goal on BG’s next drive and NIU kicker Mathew Sims missed a 44-yard field goal on the following possession.

The Falcons scored quickly following the start of the fourth quarter, Tate kicked a career-long 52-yard field goal 10 seconds into the final quarter, putting the Falcons ahead 34-20.

Greene was responsible for two touchdowns in the fourth quarter including a six-yard receiving touchdown on a shuffle pass from Johnson and a 16-yard rushing touchdown with less than three minutes remaining in the game.

Lynch scored one last touchdown against the Falcons with 14 seconds remaining in the game, which put the final

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score at 47-27 in BG’s favor.

“The support we had at the championship game was unbelievable,” Bayer said. “It was maybe the best crowd I’ve seen at a [BG] game.”

The following day, it was announced that BG accepted an invite to the Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl on Dec. 26, which is also at Ford Field in Detroit.

The MAC Champion Falcons will face the University of Pittsburgh Panthers in the second bowl game in two years for BG. “We have great fan support and we have a great alumni base, where we’ll be able to get a good crowd again,” Bayer said.

Stay tuned to The BG News for more information regarding the Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl game.

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AlertBG opt-out program to change

Coming back from winter break, students with a phone registered with the University will now automatically receive messages from AlertBG. “AlertBG messages are sent to warn of such situations as crimes in progress, building closures, severe weather and canceled classes,” according to a message sent from the University.

Students previously had the option to receive the messages from AlertBG, but now it’s been changed to where students will get the messages and have to opt out in order to not receive them.

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PROTEST From Page 2 fiscally responsible.

“These are not in any sense extras, not people we can trim away and remain who we are as a University,” Wells-Jensen said. “W hat we cannot manage are cuts to who we are.”

LIBRARY From Page 2 other campuses.

“When we looked at a couple of schools in Ohio … they have 24-hour libraries running,” Solis said. “We saw an affect on grades through this, so we looked at this model and how we can start it.”

However, the librar y needed to approach becoming a 24-hour service all year slowly, so USG chose the week before and week of for students that need to work on endof-the-year projects and study for exams as a starting point, Solis said.

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the University along with Forward Falcon and approved amendments to parts A, B-I and B-II of the Academic Charter.

Board of Trustees The amendments eliminate any approves fight song, redundancies and conflicts that are also found in the Collective dean, renovations Bargaining Agreement passed in While the protest to the faculty May. The CBA will prevail in these cuts overshadowed much of the instances, according to the resoluBoard of Trustees meeting, it was tion. able to pass several items on Friday.

The board also green-lighted Among these included the South Hall renovations, the future appointment of a dean to the home of the School of Media and College of Health and Human Communication.

Services, the approval of an official William Bachelder, fight song and the approval of old speaker of the Ohio House of campus renovations.

Representatives, was in special The board appointed Marie Huff attendance at the meeting and as the dean of the College of Health addressed the board. and Human Services. Huff is a pro“The legislature, as you know, fessor at West Carolina University. and the governor [John Kasisch] Huff will also have tenure in the have been extremely pleased with Department of Human Services. the steps you have taken on this The board approved Ay Ziggy campus,” Bachelder said. “Thank Zoomba as an official fight song of you for all your sacrifices.”

Wells-Jensen’s report was followed by applause and cheers from the faculty supporters that delayed the board from continuing the meeting.

The administration also reduced faculty this fall by 73.

“We thought the 73 last year would be the end of it,” said senior Michael Hart, president of the

College Democrats. “We’ve got to fight again.”

Hart came to the event both to show the administration that good faculty is important to students, and that these cuts negatively affect faculty lives.

“They mentor us; they show us where we want to go in life,” Hart said.

“These are rea l lives; families.”

“We will see how it runs,” he said. “I hope students use it. We aren’t administrators or faculty that have an 8-5 normal job hours; we are up late.

Now we can see if the library could help.”

Student Affairs Chair Nicolas Puccio was approached by Solis and Vice President Dav id Neely and asked to set up a way to see if extending library hour times was something students wanted.

Puccio said he hosted Union tables and sent questions through email to more than 1000 students.

“We got in total about 920 responses from both,”

Puccio said. “We had hardly any [opposing] opinions against the longer library times.”

The surveys also asked about extending t he Outtakes and Learning Commons hours as well.

“Almost all were in favor for longer hours,” he said.

“However, Outtakes got a little more support than the Learning Commons.”

Busong said t he longer hours will be more cost to them, but will be worth it.

“We need to respond to student needs,” she said.

“They need a place to go, and there aren’t many other options, especially if they need a book.”

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