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Green Space Task Force announced
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Mayor asked that plan designs require minimal costs
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By Kathryne Rubright City Editor
Mayor Richard Edwards announced at Monday night’s City Council meeting the membership of the city’s Green Space Task Force, which will recommend a plan for the city’s green space. The task force will be chaired by Eric Myers, who has previously served on the city’s Planning Commission and on the Bowling Green Board of Education. He also attends the First Presbyterian Church located next to the green space, which occupies the corner of West Wooster and South Church Streets. Also on the task force are John Calderonello and Diane Vogtsberger of Green Space Matters, a citizenled group; Brian Bushong, the city’s director of finance; Brian Craft, public works director; Dawn Shinew, associate professor in the School of Teaching and Learning; Gene Klotz of Klotz Floral Design and Garden; Dick Newlove of Newlove Realty; Lloyd Triggs, Bowling Green High School art teacher; David Montague, retired executive with World Vision; Michael Penrod, director of the Wood County District Public Library and a First Presbyterian Church member; Wendy Chambers, director of the Bowling Green Convention and Visitors Bureau; Amy Craft-Ahrens, owner of For Keeps; Lori Young, associate professor in the School of Art; and Larry Nader, owner of adjoining property. These fifteen people will recommend a plan and a timeline for implementation to the City Council’s Public Lands and Buildings Committee, Edwards said. Theresa Charters Gavarone chairs the committee, and Bruce Jeffers and John Zanfardino
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Senior rewarded for service work in time at the University By Lindsey Meyer Reporter
Maddi Georgoff was one of 201 students across the country to win of the 2015 Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellows Award. This award recognizes student’s involvement within their university and civic engagement that will create a lasting effect for both the university and community. Those considered for the award have committed their time to campus events, community service, leadership roles at their university and engaging students and the community together. “I have been a Civic Action Leader with the Office of Service Learning for three years now. With this, I plan and implement service
events on campus ... I connect the community to the University,” said Georgoff. Georgoff is also the founder and president of the BG Alternative Breaks Program. BGAB is a program with the Office of Service Learning that gives students the opportunity to travel and work with other communities and provide service to them. “The program sends students on service trips during fall and spring breaks. It is a great learning experience and you get to see other communities around the country,” said Georgoff. Georgoff said she has been on five alternative breaks throughout her time at the University and that through this program she was able to meet people from all around the US. According to the BGAB reporting document there has been a total of seven trips since the program has been created. During the years of 2014 and 2015, students participating in BGAB have served a total of 2,510 hours to the other communities they have visited. “Maddi finds it upon herself to take that
“I have been a Civic Action Leader with the Office of Service Learning for three years now. ” - Maddi Georgoff
MADDI GEORGOFF is a senior at the University and after three years as a Civic Action Leader has been honored nationally.
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FLIGHT CENTER HELPS FALCONS SOAR
Graduate student affected by ISIS Islamic terror group prevents Paris student from going home By Michaela Schrum Reporter
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FLIGHT CENTER officially opened on April 17, and was funded by the Bowling Green Flight Center. The center includes additional classroom space includes full-motion flight simulator, all designed to expand the opportunities for the aviation students.
CATCHING LEADERSHIP
Catcher and redshirt sophomore Trey Keegan talks about his journey from recruit to team leader. Keegan leads his team this season in batting average, runs batted in and doubles. | PAGE 3
Lamis Aljasem can’t go home this summer. Currently a graduate student at American University in Paris, Aljasem talked to University students in the journalism, communications, public relations and international studies departments about her family’s experiences with ISIS at a series of conferences held at the Paris-based university this spring. Aljasem was born and raised in Raqqa, Syria, which is the current headquarters of ISIS, a violent Islamist group that invaded parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014. Aljasem recounted how ISIS’s invasion of her city had changed her family’s lives
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from peaceful to terrifying, when a family member returned to their third floor apartment to find the lock changed. The house had been confiscated by ISIS and was inhabited by a young jihadist and his wife. Since then, some of the Aljasems have moved to Turkey but many remain in Raqqa. For those still in Raqqa, life has drastically changed under ISIS. “If [my family] goes out, they go to specific places ... it is hard for them to go out,” Aljasem said. She explained women now need a thick black niqab, a conservative Islamic face dress worn by women, to venture out of the house. If the niqab is not black or is even a little
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WHAT ORGANIZATIONS ARE YOU INVOLVED IN? AND WHY? “Quidditch club, because I wanted to get involved with a sport and it’s really fun.” Emily Gamache Sophomore, Poly Sci. / History
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GEORGOFF From Page 1 extra step and involve as many people on campus as she can,” said Assistant Director of Co-Curricular Programs, Maggie Nowicki. Nowicki said how Georgoff has taken on a lot of leadership roles to help others realize the impact one person can have on a single community. “The Office of Service Learning also received the
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Winner of the Campus Connect Newman Civic Fellows Award Carnegie Community Engagement Classification this year,” said Georgoff. “The classification says that the University is physically engaged and involved with service learning.” Through all of Georgoff’s accomplishments and
service she has done here at the University she is now connected to all of the other students who won the 2015 Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellows Award. “It is a networking opportunity with other reward fellows ... we are all connecting now through a Facebook group and other networks,” said Georgoff. “Winning this award was a big accomplishment and I’m very thankful for it,” she added.
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Falcons have f locked to the library in preparation of finals week. Students are utilizing the quiet space, tutoring and stress relief programs offered by the Jerome Library. Drop-in tutoring, therapy dogs, coffee and snacks are provided to help students ace their exams. Sarah Bushong, Dean of University Libraries, said that on average about 825 students use the library on any given Sunday. This past Sunday before finals week began, the library hosted 2,411 students between noon and 2 a.m. “This to me says that students are serious about doing their best in order to end the semester with a strong academic focus,”
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Bushong said. The library is assisting students with finals week prep by extending their regular availability to 24 hours a day, five days a week, the week before and the week of finals week. The library’s extended hours were implemented after Undergraduate Student Gover nment members did some research in the fall of 2013. Bushong said that USG president Alex Solis and vice president David Neely visited a peer MidA merican Conference school, Eastern Michigan University. “EMU was doing something like this the week before finals week, having the library open 24 hours for five days a week,” she said. “They were asking if we’d be willing to try that.” Bushong said that after
CITY From Page 1 also sit on it. Edwards asked the task force to ensure its plan’s design “requires minimal operating and maintenance costs by the city,” includes elements of Bowling Green’s history and considers the First Presbyterian Church and other neighbors. He also wants the plan to be “dependent upon a community-wide fundraising campaign” similar to previous park projects. Edwards named Kristin Otley as the city’s next director of Parks and Recreation, effective July 1. Otley is currently the recreation coordinator. “All the very best to you, and congratulations,” Edwards said. “We’re very happy for you.” Council unanimously adopted an ordinance aut horizing Utilities Director Brian O’Connell to enter into a wholesale water supply contract with Waterville. The contract is similar to existing wholesale contracts the city has with other munici-
implementing the extended hours, she was concerned that the library staff, made up of many graduate student advisors, might get overwhelmed and not be able to study. A security guard was provided between 2:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. so staff didn’t have to work. The extended hours have allowed many students to catch up on their studying, but some wonder why the library isn’t open 24 hours year round. “We have to be careful with the budget,” Bushong said. “They didn’t want to do 24 hours the whole semester because that would be a financial burden,” Bushong said the beneficial extended hours are crucial for students
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“One cautionary note: I would say this, to me, raises the need to continually monitor our plant capacity.” Michael Aspacher | Council President palities, O’Connell said. Outside customers pay a higher rate for water than Bowling Green residents do, because some of what residents pay in income tax goes into the city’s sewer and water capital fund. “I think that everything has been carefully considered,” said Council President Michael Aspacher. “One cautionary note: I would say this, to me, raises the need to continually monitor our plant capacity. I know that that’s done very carefully by [O’Connell] and the board and the staff, but I just think as [O’Connell] mentioned in his remarks we do currently supply water to other small municipalities.... As we continue to potentially expand our customer base it’ll be really necessary to monitor very closely the plant capacity.”
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TREY KEEGAN gets a hit in a game against Akron. Keegan is leading his team in batting avaerage, RBIs and doubles.
Redshirt Sophomore Trey Keegan develops his skills under Danny Schmitz, moves to the top of baseball teams depth chart By Brandon Shrider Sports Editor
From the little boy who just enjoyed hitting the ball and running around with his dad to a leader of a division-I baseball program, Trey Keegan is a bit different than most. Repeatedly referred to as a “goofy” and outgoing individual, Keegan’s personality is not just seen but heard. As his teammates walk up to bat to various songs, whether it’s country, rap, rock, among others, Keegan mixes it up and walks up to Shake It Off by Taylor Swift and All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor. Exotic choices for personal music to get him ready, but Keegan hasn’t chosen them without good reason. Some may argue it’s to be different, others to be funny, but Keegan just wants to relax. “I’ve always been more of an upbeat, fun kind of guy. If I take [baseball] too serious then I’m not having fun,” Keegan said of his choices for walk-up music. “[The songs] relax me, I sing them when I walk up. It’s really just a mental thing.” Playing the sport he has loved for as long as he can remember, he doesn’t want to stop enjoying the game. But all jokes aside — as tough as that may be for Keegan — he has relentlessly worked to improve his craft on the baseball dia-
mond and continues to do so in hopes of continuing his dream. “If I had the opportunity to go to the draft and to get drafted to a pro team, that’s something that every little kid dreams of,” said Keegan. “That’s what we all are here for. That’s why we are here — to play pro baseball.” The road hasn’t been as easy as Keegan might make it seem. Coming out of high school, the tools — his elite arm strength and overall athleticism — he has displayed during the current baseball season are the tools that head coach Danny Schmitz envisioned when he scouted Keegan. “What you’re seeing now is exactly what we saw and what we were hoping to see once [Keegan] stepped foot on campus,” Schmitz said. But it took a couple years to see the tools translate on the field. Going to Ohio Dominican University directly after high school, Schmitz eventually recruited Keegan to the University. He attended BGSU’s Firelands campus for a year before transferring into the main campus. At this time Keegan was allowed the opportunity to get back on the field and compete at the sport he loved. But the helmet could hardly fit his head. Thinking he was the star of the team, Keegan struggled to fit in. “My first year I was trying to prove myself, but I thought I was
the stuff,” he said. “I thought I was the next big thing.” Reality hit when he was asked to try a new position. Attempting to give third base a go, errors eventually led to his transition back to strictly catching and pitching. But turmoil struck again. Keegan tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow just a few weeks into his second season, requiring him to have Tommy John surgery and miss the entire year. “I was to the point where I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to throw again,” Keegan said. “When you start your throwing program, you’re like ‘wow this feels weird, it kind of hurts,’ and there comes points where you’re like, ‘I don’t know if I can do this anymore,’ but it’s so rewarding at the end.” As Keegan made it back for the first game of the 2014 season, again, his chances to play were limited. Catchers Jeremy Shay and Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Year TJ Losby were ahead of him on the depth chart. “As soon as [Keegan] came in you saw the potential,” said Losby. “It was nice to see him learn from [Jeremy Shay and I] and try to take some of that. Now this year you’re seeing what he’s been able to do.” Keegan never stopped working though. Always asking ques-
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Softball team closes out season, finishes eighth in MAC Four Falcons end their collegiate career
By Aaron Parker Assistant Sports Editor
FALCON SENIOR Jamie Kertes throws a pitch against Miami. Kertes ended her final season with a 10-14 record.
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The Bowling Green softball team ended its season on Sunday, going out with a 3-2 win over Central Michigan. The team ended with an overall record of 20-28 and a MidAmerican Conference record of 8-14. They were two wins out from the MAC tournament, which only takes the top eight teams in the conference for participation. The Falcons ended in the ninth spot. The team had an opportunity to take that eighth spot this past weekend with two games each against Central and Eastern Michigan. The team split both series, giving that last spot to Ohio University. “I am proud of our finish,” Head Coach Shannon Salsburg said. “We had a chance to win three games this weekend. It didn’t happen but the team played hard. It was fun to see different people contribute to our success.” Some game highs for the team came early in the season in the third game of the year against Canisius College. The team scored 16 runs in the game and 10 in the first inning alone. The Falcons only scored in double digits once more after that game
when they sent in 12 runs against Ind ia na Un iversit y-Pu rdue Fort Wayne. The season also ended the collegiate careers for seniors Jamie Kertes, Emily McClelland, Chloe Giordano and Shelby Fink. Kertes was a team captain and leading pitcher for the Falcons this season, ending her final year with a record of 10-14. Kertes had a season high 10 strikeouts against Valparaiso and a shutout in her innings pitched against Penn State. Kertes was the first Falcon since 2009 to be named All-MAC First Team in consecutive years during her sophomore season. Giordano was also a captain and started every game this season, ending seventh on the team in batting average at .236. She had 140 at-bats with 12 runs and 17 RBIs off 33 hits. McClelland started 23 games for the Falcons and played in 36. Out of 42 at-bats, she had eight runs and six RBIs off 10 hits. She also had a fielding percentage of .952. Fink only played in three games this season with two starts. She had a career high .259
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PEOPLE ON THE STREET “I’m involved in 858/campus outreach, it encourages me to actively pursue my faith.”
JADA THOMPSON Freshman, Middle Childhood Education
What organizations are you involved in? And why?
“None, because I’m graduating soon.”
KYLE BYNANE Junior, Political Science
“Student Wellness network, it allows me to learn more about health and share that knowledge with my peers.”
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“Marine Biology Association, a lot of my friends and classmates are in there and we do cool field trips.”
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NOT THE END
ZACH FERGUSON
Summer is an opportunity to relax, be worry-free Different degrees lead to varying jobs, financial outcomes It’s finally the end of a long semester and it’s almost time to let out a long sigh of relief. You did it! You got through! Hopefully you’ve passed all your classes [that’s all that matters, right?] and you can walk away from campus with the notion that you’ve done your best. It’s summer time and it’s time to let go and enjoy life. Granted, you should be doing that every day, but summer is just the perfect time for laying back, cracking your knuckles and enjoying the sunshine. You’ve worked hard all winter long. Go enjoy the warm weather. Unfortunately, it is also the season of regret and worry. Looking back on the semester, you may have not done as well as you could on that last exam. Or the paper you submitted may not have been your best work. You and the instructor didn’t see eye-to-eye and he gave you a grade you don’t think you deserved. And the next semester, the next gauntlet of anxiety and stress, is only four months away or so. How horrible are you going to do next semester? What insane teachers are you going to have? What ridiculous work are they going to make you do?
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Stuff it. This is not time for those thoughts. What’s the use in looking back? You’re done. The past is past and there’s nothing that can be done about it. Just know that regardless of what you’ve done, it was to your utmost ability because it was what you ultimately did. Good or bad. Live and learn and move on. And what’s the use of looking forward? Four months is a huge swath of time. If you’re truly worried about what may happen in the future, why waste time in the present thinking about it? That’ll only bring it around faster. Cross that bridge when you come to it. When the next semester begins, tackle it head on and succeed. But right now? Now is that time to put your hands behind your head and enjoy the summer breeze. Well, when they eventually come. I’m 98% sure the winter is finally over. Would you like to know what I’m doing this summer? Well, eventually, I’m going to find myself on a beach back east, along the ocean and I’m going to sit
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“What’s the use in looking back? You’re done. The past is past and there’s nothing that can be done about it.” in sand with a beer in my hand. And while I watch the waves cascade along the coast, I’m going to take out some of the readings I skipped in my classes and I’m going to read them. And then I’m going to go swimming while muttering Latin declensions and conjugations and point out interesting geologic formations to anybody who happens to be looking in the same direction. And I’m going to revel in the fact that the last bunch of semesters were not wasted on me. I walked away with knowledge and I have grown as a cognitive person. And I have another chance of learning more coming up. And that excites me. But this is break time and more than anything, I’m going to take a break. I’ll see you around. If you run into me and say hi, I’ll buy you a beer. Happy Summer!
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Despite the fact that just last year I was a senior in high school, I have started to fret about what is going to happen three years from now, when I accept my diploma. I am certain that I’m just like every other person who has ever pursued a career, instead of going straight into the workforce. Just this morning, one of my teachers gave the class a jarring explanation about how risky it is to further pursue a degree because, even after you become as advanced as you want to be, a career still isn’t guaranteed. This made me question the worth of returning to college after being handed one diploma. Would taking the next step up be more beneficial? And if not at first, over time? Because I do not know much about anything outside of the Master’s of Fine Arts. I’m going narrow down my focus to this one specific degree and talk about the facts and opinions that I have picked up on throughout my college career. With any higher degree, there is the obvious statement that the skills in that certain area are going to be improved upon. Through the extra time spent developing these abilities, the individual will be around many different kinds of people who might be able to help him or her net-
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work or even connect him or her with an agent, if this is applicable. This last fact comes as a very rare instance and typically only happens at major universities and maybe not even then. Another thing that any advanced degree has in common with the rest is that each of them is as unpredictable as the next. Whether with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, a Master’s of Science or a Bachelor’s of Business Administration, no career is guaranteed. To get a position, you have to put in the work to the individual company’s standards and prove yourself to them, instead of waving around a piece of paper as if that is going to win the company over. The only thing that a diploma is going to do is make them consider you long enough so that you can make yourself stand out to a company which has likely seen hundreds of applicants through its doors since its opening. An MFA can either be something that impresses every employer you go to — depending on whether or not your talents back up
what your diploma states — or it can be a waste of your time and money. Although most MFA degrees will pay you if you choose to teach, the amount of money doesn’t add up to a penny more than what you will need to live on. And after you finish teaching, you will have a heaping pile of debt. Often times, an MFA also doesn’t count for much of anything if you are dealing with aesthetics instead of what you’d find in careers like business or science — how much experience you have in the field. If you have an MFA and are trying to sell your writing to a publisher, you can still lose out to someone with only a BFA or not even that, if the publisher simply finds their writing to be more intriguing. On the other hand, if you are choosing a job that does deal with how much experience you have — such as a publishing or editing job — that MFA is going to be your greatest ally, as a person with an MFA will likely have spent more time in internships and fieldwork, compared to a person with a BFA. As I’ve heard time and again, where you want your degree to end depends on where you want your career to start.
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Before you press the “Play Next Episode” button on your computer, you may want to think before you click. A study conducted by the University of Texas at Austin discovered that viewers who binge on multiple TV episodes in one sitting may be doing so to cope with feelings of depression. And who is the main demographic of online video/TV streaming? College students. People within the ages of 18-29 are more likely to binge watch sites like Netflix and Hulu. Senior and popular culture major Patrick McAdoo sees the impact that Netf lix has on encouraging over-watching. “Netflix basically invented bingewatching of shows, so the old standards of TV shows are changing because of that,” McAddo said. “Cliffhangers at the end of episodes aren’t as effective anymore when you can just watch the next episode 12 seconds later. Also, shows are starting to be written for Netflix and not even network television, and these shows, like Orange is the New Black, are becoming increasingly popular.” This binge-watching, on average, consumes almost 15 hours per week. Department Chair and professor
ISIS From Page 1 bit shear, women risk being verbally threatened and in many cases physically punished by militants in the streets. Because of this reaction, her family prefers to remain in the house, where for now it is safe. Communicating with her family in Raqqa has proved to be especially challenging due to limited Internet access. However, the family was able to set up a group message with the app called Whatsapp for the entire family despite their distance. “It’s amazing,” she said. The connection seems to be quite a relief for everyone. She said their small talk is hopeful, with little to no worry of interception from ISIS. When it comes to the situation becoming worse, she said the occupation happened gradually. At first, no one supported social change movements in the city, next, Islamic extremism creeped in and ISIS had created their state. Aljasem recommended people become involved in current events and try to help others in need. “There is a problem with humanity in general ... what is happening in Syria is unbelievable,” she said. “I experienced a normal life, I grew up in an open minded environment, where we used to accept and think about people in need.” Nancy Brendlinger, an associate professor of in the school of Journalism and
“Netflix basically invented binge-watching of shows, so the old standards of TV shows are changing because of that.” Patrick McAdoo | Senior popular culture major of Psychology Mike Zickar believes that Netflix has become a part of “social isolation.” “Watching too much, or even doing too much of any particular activity is really bad for you,” Zickar said. “You get sort of addicted where it’s hard to stop.” This “social isolation” encourages procrastination and unhealthy lifestyles that students may not even realize they are a part of. “Watching television by itself in moderation isn’t bad for you,” Zickar said. “But watching too much television keeps you from exercising, socializing and studying. It keeps you from living a healthy lifestyle.” Since Netflix releases seasons at a time, it makes it especially easy for people to engage in this “bingewatching lifestyle.” Sophomore Joe Sullivan is a student who used to be caught up in watching too much Netflix. “I don’t watch Netflix that much anymore since the semester has been picking up,” Sullivan said. “At the beginning of the semester I watched the entire Parks
Public Relations, accompanied students to the conference in Paris. “As global citizens we need to know what is going on,” Bredlinger said. “What happens in the Middle East resonates with the rest of the world economically, politically, culturally and in terms of security everywhere else.” Aljasem argued that the situation in Raqqa was not just about ISIS, it was about the Syrian regime as well. Syria has been fighting a civil war since 2011 and the people just can’t seem to catch their breath. “The people just want their rights but it seems like there are a lot of international conditions and factors that prevent this from happening,” she said. Catherine Cassara, associate professor in the school of Journalism and Public Relations said, “Hearing Raqqa’s story from Lamis made a whole lot of difference. What is happening over there is an actual tragedy, her heart bleeds for her home.” “These things have a bad habit of starting out as something that is seemingly unimportant and then they become something that matters to us only when terror acts occur in western areas,” she said Alijasem said she sees hope at the end of the tunnel for the people she knows and loves. “I think what gives me the hope is the people that are there, who are suffering and have no way to leave but still able to live, dream and think of the better life that they deserve,” she said.
and Recreation TV series in like three weeks.” Sullivan went on to say that the over-watching caused him to be fatigued, have less motivation and not study as much as he should have. “I honestly believe that people spend too much time watching Netflix. Since it’s so easily accessible I think a lot of college students abuse it.” Netf lix has revolutionized the delivery of movies, and can be good for you, in moderation. “You have to look at [it] like a treat,” Zickar said. “Look at dessert, for instance. Dessert is a wonderful thing, but too much of it leaves you feeling awful.” Zickar suggested finding ways to “treat yourself.” Study for an hour or two, then watch one episode of your favorite show. “Sometimes distractions are good,” Zickar said. “Just like studying for 10 hours is bad, you need to find that balance and take a break here and there.
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“Many students start studying at 10 p.m. and midnight is too soon to stop. We tried to create areas that are conclusive to different kinds of studying.”
and their preferred studying environments. “Many students start studying at 10 p.m. and midnight is too soon to stop. We tried to create areas that are conclusive to different kinds of studying,” she said. “The eighth floor is quiet and the seventh floor is open to group studying.” Bushong said the library also offers reserved rooms on the first floor for students who need a quiet space. Students can reserve these rooms by using the website Jerome.youcanbook.me. Meredith Tesone, business finance major, studies in the reserved study rooms before her exams. “I always come to the Learning Commons. I’ve been going the past month or two,” she said. Tesone said she has come the library more often than she did her freshman year. “This year I understood I needed to come here more and prepare,” she said.
Meredith Tesone Business Finance major Freshman Andrew Lucke said he has used the library services a lot more than he thought he would. “Students should use everything the library has to offer and as much as they can because it is really beneficial,” Lucke said. Whether it’s for a drop-in study session at the Learning Commons, a quick course review and some free snacks, or a quiet place to focus, many students utilize the library and the numerous services it offers in hopes of acing final exams.
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KEEGAN From Page 3 tions, looking for ways to improve, Keegan never failed to impress his peers. “Every once in a while he’d pull Jeremy Shay or I aside and just ask about a previous game that he had or a previous play that he saw and I thought that was very mature, especially of an underclassmen, to pull a senior aside and ask questions,” Losby said. “He was always willing to learn and wanting to learn.” Forced into that learning role, Keegan eventually ensured that he came out a better player for it. “It all goes back to the coaching and them installing it into my hard head,” Keegan joked. “We knew with the departure of those two guys that Trey really needed to step up big this year and he’s done that and more. He’s a heck of a gentleman, but he’s a heck of a competitor too,” Schmitz said. “They really worked me; they made me want to be better than them,” Keegan said of Shay and Losby. “I had to sit and wait my turn. I learned a lot from them and now we are where we are.” Where he is now is atop the roster for the BGSU baseball team. Keegan is the only player on the team to start all 43 games this season. He is leading the team with a .327 batting average and 30 RBIs, while striking out just 11 times. Keegan also leads the team in doubles with 11 and is second on the team with four homeruns. “To be able to come back from that type of injury and be able to produce at the level he is, says a lot about him growing up as a baseball player and it says a lot about his work ethic,” said senior pitcher Jason Link, his current teammate and former roommate on campus. But offense isn’t even what he prides himself on the most, or where his significant value lies. “I do pride myself as a defensive catcher, that’s where my, I guess my worth, really lies,” Keegan said. From behind the plate, Keegan has committed just two errors while throwing out nearly 53 percent of would-be base stealers. “You have a kid from a defensive standpoint, who is
outstanding,” Schmitz said. “Whether it’s receiving, blocking and obviously the arm. He can control the running game by his arm.” Technically in his fourth year at BG despite being listed as a redshirt-sophomore, Keegan has embraced his role as a leader. “TJ [Losby] and Jeremy [Shay] took Trey under their wing and Trey’s returning the favor by doing that with Tyler [Greiner] and Justin Mott,” Schmitz said. “Catching is a leadership position and I think Trey has done an outstanding job.” He hasn’t embraced this role without change however. Formerly an in-your-face type of leader who would get mad, irritated and frustrated, Keegan now understands how to keep the game light. “Being a leader is not all about jumping someone for doing something wrong, it’s also about being up on people who are doing good,” Keegan said. “I talk a lot as a person and I’m not shy at all. But as a leader I try to lead more by example. By playing hard by getting hype on big moments.” This has been an integral part of not only his success, but the team’s success too. “You always need those types of players on teams to keep it light,” Link said. “Baseball is a game full of failures and you just have to be able to keep it light-hearted. If you’re too serious it can drive you crazy. He keeps things cool and calm, so you don’t stress out too much.” But through all of the ups and downs, the unusual journey he has been through, Keegan really has just one mission: To win. “Winner,” Link said of Keegan in one word. “[Keegan’s] a goofy, all-around great player, but the guy likes to win. He’s out there everyday competing because he wants to win.” “Hitting out of the threehole it does kind of get tense when you’re in the big at bat, but when you deliver it’s fun,” Keegan said. “Getting that big moment. There is so much adrenaline and it’s so much fun. That’s all baseball is — it’s just going out there and having fun.” Sticking to baseball entirely as he grew up, Keegan enjoys the game as much now as he ever did, he said.
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batting average during her freshman stint. “I want to thank the seniors for their hard work and dedication,” Salsburg said. “All four contributed throughout their careers, both on and off the field. They will graduate and go out and make a difference in this world.” Nine Falcons started in at least 31 games this season, and seven of those players will return next season with eligibility. As a team the Falcons had 143 RBIs, 27 home runs, 310 hits and 163 runs in 48 games. All of those categories were lower that the opponent total besides homeruns. With three pitchers on staff this season, they had an earned run average of 3.33. Sophomore Briana Combs had a team low in the category, pitching a 2.95. In total they gave up 208 runs, 381 hits and 23 homers. “Our season was a typical season, filled with challenges. At times we handled the adversity well, at times we did not handle it as well as I would have hoped, but we now have an opportunity to learn from all of those moments and grow as a program,” Salsburg said.
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