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Bowling Green State University Thursday, November 3, 2016 | Volume 96, Issue 23
ORANGE IS THE NEW BROWN
Orange is the New Black author Piper Kerman speaks to University students about her prison experiences. | Page 3
Columnist discusses why it’s okay to be single
Football loses on the road to Northern Illinois
University to fill housing gap with Greenbriar apartments
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On campus housing stretches over tracks By Keefe Watson Campus Editor Next fall, some “on-campus” students will be living in apartments on the west side of the train tracks after Harshman Hall closes permanently this spring. “Harshman will close at the end of this academic year, in part because we have been planning for this for about the last five to six years,” Director of Residence Life Sarah Waters said. The residence hall currently houses about 550 students and has had capacity of 600 beds for the last three years since two of its wings closed to students. With admission numbers trending up for the past few years, the University is now facing a shortage of beds. To help combat this shortage, the University has come to an agreement with Greenbriar, a local rental company, and will be leasing four apartment buildings on North Enterprise for the next three to five years. The University will then lease the spaces directly to the students, like the current process for the residence halls. The buildings have one, two, three and four bed apartments; some three bedroom apartments have a room with two beds. “So we picked up about 190 spaces there that we’ll be targeting not to first year students, so it’ll be for returning (students),” Waters said. “We will have some students that won’t be able to live on-campus as they have historically been able to.” About 600 students who do not need to live
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on-campus do so anyways. Of those 600, about 200 are staff members or live in the Greek Village. Of the remaining 400 students living on-campus who do not need to, about 200 of them will be denied University housing. Those 200 students will have to seek offcampus housing for next school year. Housing will be guaranteed for all first and second-year students, and upperclassman living in Greek Housing to fulfill chapter requirements. Students with scholarship-paid housing will be given priority. “We are planning to reserve some spaces for third, fourth and fifth year full scholarship students. There will be an application process for those students to request housing based on their specific need,” Waters said. Harshman Hall was originally scheduled to close to students in spring 2016, but it remained open to meet demand. This year, however, that is not an option. Summer of 2017 there will be an electrical load upgrade project, but Harshman is not planned to receive the upgrade. “It would be incredibly expensive to invest in re-setting up Harshman,” Bob Waddle, assistant vice president of capital planning, said. All other buildings on campus will get an upgrade to electrical load this summer. Harshman Hall has been scheduled to close since 2010 after the completion of a master housing plan. At that time, many of Harshman’s systems had an expected longevity of about ten years.
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Author speaks on prison experience By Jennifer Verzuh Digital Managing Editor When Piper Kerman was sentenced to federal prison on money laundering charges in 2004, she entered the world’s biggest prison population. “The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population but holds 25 percent of the world’s prisoners,” Kerman said. “And actually when it comes to females, one-third of all prisoners who are women or girls in the world are here in the United States.” Kerman visited the University on Tuesday to speak to students, faculty and community members about her experience serving 13 months in minimum security prison, her memoir “Orange is the New Black” and criminal justice reform. Kerman was brought to campus by the University Libraries for their annual “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories” event. This is the fifth year the event has been put on, and speakers in the past include kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart.
Dean of University Libraries Sara Bushong said two staff members aimed to “present a really inspiring story that people can relate to.” Kerman was selected after they saw her speak at a different event and recommended her. “We thought her story would resonate with our students,” Bushong said. In addition to a Q and A and panel where Kerman and University professors from the criminal justice and social work program spoke about criminal justice reform and answered questions from students, Kerman spoke at length later in the evening about her life and book at a ticketed dinner that aimed to bring members of the community to campus. “It really builds goodwill to be able to connect the BGSU community with the greater regional community.” Kendra Kerner, a masters student at the University who’s studying mental health counseling, attended the Q and A and panel for students and found it very interesting. “Being in the mental health counseling field I’m really intrigued by the prison system and the ways that we can make
prison systems better for inmates,” Kerner said. She said she thinks events and speeches like this are important for the campus to put on as they bring up major and relevant topics that don’t always get the attention they deserve. “It brings awareness to issues that may not be talked about daily,” Kerner said. “I thought it was interesting that we label inmates and felons and not really treat them as humans,” she said. Much of Kerman’s panel and her speech later that night centered on the women she served with and the “huge impact” they made on her, “The truth of the matter is that I left prison in 2005 [...] a very different woman, largely become of the women that I did time with,” Kerman said. “Many of those women were very different than me in some ways but what was always important on a day-to-day basis was to find some sense of common ground, and that was a lot easier than many people might assume. The things that we had in common were much, much more important than the things that made us different from one
another.” Kerman said her goal with writing the novel was to invite people to put themselves in the shoes of a woman in prison and reconsider if that’s the system they’d want for themselves or someone they care about. “I hope simply that people might come away from the book thinking a little differently about who’s in prison in this country, why are they there, what really happens to people behind the bars,” she said. “Because my own experience was very different than what I thought it would be and what I anticipated.”
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PEOPLEON THESTREET How much are you willing to pay for an off campus apartment?
“For myself, about $300 a month.” Adventures of a College Student: Winter is Coming BY: CHANLER BROWN
Grow on your own, whether you’re in a relationship or not I’m sure at some point in their lives, each person has been single. Relationshipless, so to speak. With the commencement of “cuffing season,” I wanted to address a topic pretty near to my heart: relationships. Today, societal standards dominate every aspect of love and relationships. Society expects us to find a partner as quickly as possible, so much so that new dating apps have been invented for the sole purpose of meeting potential partners. Single people are often portrayed as lonely and sad, while couples are projected as happy and complete. With all the pressure that these standards put on our love lives, it can be easy to become desperate for love and settle for an unhealthy or unsatisfying relationship. What society refuses to point out though is it’s perfectly okay to NOT be in a relationship. On top of that, no person needs another human being to “complete” them. And the idea that you must be in a relationship to achieve happiness? Lies. There is a wonderful world waiting for
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“Waiting to begin a relationship allows for time to discover yourself, your likes, dislikes and your passions....it also helps you grow physically.” Bailey Plummer Columnist 101 Kuhlin Center Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Phone: (419) 372-6966 Email: thenews@bgnews.com Website: http://www.bgnews.com Advertising: 204 West Hall Phone: (419)-372-2605
everyone, and you do not need to depend on anyone else to have a great life, despite what we are told in the media and in the expectations of others. In fact, there are several benefits to being single. Being single allows for lots of personal growth. Going through each day alone, there is no necessity to check in or be in constant communication with another person. Also, it frees up your schedule significantly! Waiting to begin a relationship allows for time to discover yourself, your likes, dislikes and your passions. Frankly, it can be difficult to experiment and find yourself when there is a constant attachment to another person. It also helps you grow physically. Less time spent going out or eating with a significant other could translate into eating a healthier diet and working out more. It is easy to live an easier and healthier lifestyle when you can live it however you want, instead of being
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“I’ll go with something around $300.” INDIA WORTHY Freshman, Accounting
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The logic behind scary movies Halloween recently came to an end, but fall is still here to stay for the next few weeks, which calls for cozy nights at home watching scary movies, corn mazes and other great autumn activities. The concept of our desire to watch scary movies has always intrigued me. We purposefully sit down, stare at a screen and wait for a movie to make us jump and scream. Why? I ask this not in a judgmental way, because I myself am a huge fan of scary movies, but just as a mere question of, I don’t know, our sanity? Then again look at our presidential candidates, I’m not sure if it’s even fair to claim that we’re sane decision-making Americans. John Carpenter, director of Halloween and The Thing, once explained that the reason that we enjoy being scared is because “there’s a little bit of magic involved, and that’s what makes it so interesting. We’re all scared of the same things. Death. Pain. Loss of a loved one. You can make a list, and in every society it’s the same. These are fears that we all have. I have ’em. You have ’em. We’re all scared of this stuff.” But why do we love that “magic” so much? Why do we put ourselves through movies that feature this death and pain, when we have enough of it in real life to deal with? Perhaps it’s the escape from our real life issues, that maybe seeing someone else go through scary experiences or drama gives us a break from our own. I’m not sure what the answer is, but it’s interesting to think about. One of my very quotes about this topic comes from Alfred Hitchcock. He said that “fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children?
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“The curiosity, the fascination... scary movies force us to face the unknown, something that we all experience in our everyday lives.” Sarah Smith Forum Editor Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It’s just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.” With that perspective, it starts to make sense. Although some of us may have a bigger fright complex than others, we always face the same fears, they’re just found in different forms. I feel that our fascination with fear seems to be triggered due to a natural evolution from years of needing to depend on survival instincts when involved in
scary situations. The right amygdala, the portion of the brain associated with fear learning, would logically be what we would look at to figure out why we enjoy being scared, right? 2010 research at Friedrich Schiller University scary movies says don’t actually activate fear responses in the amygdala, though. Which calls for some further explanation. Actually, it’s other parts of the brain that fire during scary movies. Here we go anatomy nerds this one’s for you - the visual cortex, the part of the brain responsible for processing visual information; the insular cortex which controls self awareness; the thalamus, the relay switch between brain hemispheres and the dorsal-medial prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain associated with planning, attention and problem solving are all firing off while you’re watching a scary movie. Got all that? We’ll have a test next week. The curiosity, the fascination, perhaps even the high from seeing the hero triumph at the end could all explain what’s going on in those big brains of ours. Scary movies force us to face the unknown, something that we all experience in our everyday lives. So keep watching those scary movies this fall, weirdos. Let me know if you come up with any theories as to why you like being so scared. Reply to Sarah at thenews@bgnews.com
Continued from Page 4 dependent on another person. Additionally, waiting for a relationship can allow you to form opinions and ideas about who you might fall for next. While being single, it is easy to picture yourself with someone, or entering a relationship. But instead of being lonely, that time can be useful and hopeful because it allows you to think about qualities you may look for in your next relationship. Also, by ensuring that you genuinely like and care for your next significant other, it reduces the risk of a relationship gone wrong. By taking it slowly and not
rushing into anything it establishes a solid foundation for a good relationship in the future. Now, I’m certainly not saying that it’s wrong to be in a relationship, or you shouldn’t enter one given the chance. I’m merely trying to provide comfort and support for the single people here at BG, because being single can be awesome! Too often society portrays being single in a negative light, but there are so many fun things to do while single! Life is what you make it, in a relationship or not. Society or anyone else should not
play a role in your decision to enter a relationship. Love should come naturally and not be forced simply due to society’s expectations or other people’s judgements. Being single is a unique and awesome experience, and it’s not something that should be wished away, but something that should be celebrated. Reply to Bailey at thenews@bgnews.com
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Housing continued from Page 2 Even though Kreischer and Harshman were built at the same time, Kreischer has no plans to close. “We’ve invested funds differently in Kreischer,” Waters said. Kreischer is closer to the core of campus, located right across from the Recreation Center and next to the Wolfe Center. It has had more capital improvement investments in last few years, including the new fire system. The brick has been sealed recently. The Office of Residence Life intends to have a staff presence at the apartments, likely in the form of an RA. “To have a point of contact…in your home community is something we’re committed to,” Waters said.
This is not the first time the University has leased apartment buildings from Greenbriar. About ten years ago, the University leased the same buildings, as well as the Columbia Court apartments, Beth Maurer, an owner of Greenbriar, said. According to BG News articles in 2004 and 2006, previous leasing agreements weren’t as smoothly handled as expected. Greenbriar tenants then were displaced from their apartments after the lease was signed, or forced to live amongst underclassmen. Those troubles were partly due to the University, who didn’t realize the lack of housing until December. This year, however, the University contacted rental companies approximately a month ago, Maurer said. “(It is a) different scenario this time around.”
Students living in the apartments will be able to park in the lots provided by Greenbriar. The University has yet to decide what kind of parking passes will be issued to the students living on North Enterprise. Maintenance at the apartment buildings will be handled by Greenbriar. Harshman’s replacement will not come around until 2020 or 2022, Waters said. The location of a potential new residence hall is also unknown. “We’ve talked about a number of locations, and a lot of it gets driven by what’s going to be the right size,” Waddle said. “As we’re looking at enrollment projections…that’s then going to drive what’s our required bed count.” Waters and Waddle both mentioned the green space next to Anderson Arena as a viable potential location for a new residence hall.
“We’re really looking to condense campus,” Waddle said. Although the housing prices for next year will not be approved by the Board of Trustees until February, the apartments will likely be placed at the same cost tier as Centennial and Falcon Heights. As details are finalized, the Office of Residence Life will communicate the changes and processes students will have to be aware of to live in the apartments or seek off-campus housing. The agreement made is a one-year lease extendable by up to four individual years; the University expects to lease the buildings for the next three to five years. “We look forward to working with BGSU and providing students with housing,” Maurer said.
City moving forward on official green space
By Tom Rodgers Reporter After several years of debate, city council voted unanimously to designate the 1.7 acre property on the corner of Wooster and South Church street as an official green space. The green space, as dedicated by the Bowling Green City Council, is in the property of the former Bowling Green Junior High School. The green space will have walkways, benches and a medium size gazebo. The green space will feature live music, and will serve as place for citizens to relax downtown. The space is located in the historic section of downtown surrounded by the police department building, historic Presbyterian Church and the historic house on Wooster street. The area is being developed by what has come to be known as the Green Space Task Force, which was formed in the Spring of 2015. The city spent just under $500,000 when they tore down the former junior high. An additional $250,000 will be spent building walkways, lighting fixtures, landscaping, and a gazebo. The task force was led by Eric Myers, who has been an active BGSU and community citizen. Myers served on the Bowling Green City
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Schools Board of Education, and was president of the School Board in 2009. He earned his Master of Science degree in special education from the University in 1973. “It will be a beautiful spot downtown and a beautiful place for people to come and relax in an informal setting,” Myers said. “It will also be a good place to have public meeting and vigils and music. It will be a gathering spot for the whole community. There are BGSU students very close to that area and it will be a very good place for them to sit and study.” The green space development came at a time when the city was looking for a new area to build or renovate a city government building. “I am pleased city council gave the approval so that we can go ahead and get going with the real project,” said Myers. “It took a little longer to get that approval than most of us thought it would, but it was a very thorough process and we are happy to get going.” Although the planning process took longer than excepted, the city is proud to have a green space downtown. “Cities the size of Bowling Green often don’t have an opportunity after everything has been developed to have a green space downtown,” Myers said. “Everybody just naturally came to
the conclusion that it would be a great spot for think it gives people a nice place to hang out or a green space.” have outdoor festivals, music.” Council member Sandy Rowland understands The green space will likely host entertainment the value of a green space downtown. during the Black Swamps Arts Festival, and other “I am a realtor and I know that green space holidays and celebrations. does increase the value of the area,” Rowland The city will be planting shade trees and will said. “The green space will become a gathering provide quality landscaping to maintain the place where people can get together as a aesthetic value of the space. community and do what they please. The green space adds to our downtown historic character.” Council member Bruce Jeffers initially opposed designating the area as a green space. He believed the area would be a great spot to construct a new city building. “The fact that a majority of the people looking into the issue felt that it was best to leave it as a green space I PHOTOS BY NICK BIERE felt that we made the right decision. I City council recently voted to make the location of the old Bowling Green Junior High an official green space.
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British Youtubers host Spooky Week By Sam Sharp Pulse Editor
The last week of October may mean pumpkin spice lattes and sweater weather for some, but for some YouTube fans it’s a week filled with Halloween oriented content. Britain based YouTubers, Dan Howell (@danisnotonfire) and Phil Lester (@amazingphil) have a conjoined gaming channel called “Danandphilgames.” They post a variety of videos from Pokemon demos to “Undertale,” and they have a series of competitive games against each other. Last year they put together a weeklong series of horror and Halloween themed games, called “Spooky Week.” They continued the tradition this year and posted a video to their combined channel every day leading up to Halloween. This year they chose to play Five Nights at Freddy’s Sister Location, Sonic 2.exe, Outlast 2 (demo), Timore Inferno and Spongebob Slenderpants. Fans of their videos can watch the Spooky Week videos even if they do not like horror themed games, because they list all jump scares and gory content in the video description. This addition to their normal video description warns viewers when they should look away or skip portions of the video. They played the original versions of Five Nights at Freddy’s, Sonic .exe, Outlast and Slenderman last October. Timore Inferno was a new edition and according to Lester in
the video, it was a recommendation from several fans who commented on their spooky videos from last year because it contains an unusually high amount of jump scares. Most of the games are relatively docile and unfrightening, except for Outlast 2. Despite only playing the demo version, Lester and Howell were subjected to an alarming
array of mutilated body parts, unexplained paranormal activity and excessive violence. The only redeeming thing to come away from their foray into the game is their humorous reactions. At one point Howell’s fear spawned a ridiculous amount of cussing that doesn’t appear often in their videos. Both of the YouTubers were noticeably more vocal and less
composed than they usually appear. This is especially noticeable when they both curse and scream throughout all of the videos. Their video game room is also adorned with neon orange cobwebs and hanging bats to give their usual white walls a bit of festive flair. Even their outfits are horror themed, for example on the first day Lester wears a ghost shirt and Howell wears a moth shirt (which is one of his biggest fears). The duo left many fans upset when they ended spooky week a day early without posting a holiday themed baking video. They ended the week with Spongebob Photos Provided Slenderpants and announced that the 2016 Spooky Week was complete. However, they did not disappoint fans because they posted a monster cake pop tutorial on Howell’s personal account on the day of Halloween. Spooky Week has given them a boost in popularity and has satisfied fans who have been anticipating there uploads to come on a more frequent basis. The videos are a great way to see a different perspective on a popular personality Youtuber.
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Tove Lo falls flat on Lady Wood Album By Teegan Matthews Pulse Reporter After the wait, Tove Lo has released the follow-up to her groundbreaking debut “Queen of the Clouds,” which had multiple top 10 hits and pop anthems that everyone loved. But her new album, “Lady Wood,” actually falls a bit short of what the previous album did. When people talk about Tove Lo’s first album, they talk about its banging pop songs with thunderous beats, and that’s what people came to love about her. She is this in-yourface kind of artist who fuses drug innuendos with love stories, which makes really cleverly done songs. The second album is a bit of a cooldown from her fiery sound. The album starts out with an interlude titled “Fairy Dust – Chapter 1” and from the melody in the minute long interlude you can already tell how the tone of the album is going to be. Then it goes in to the song titled “Influence,” featuring a rap verse by Wiz Khalifa, which is one of the only two features on the entire album. It’s a song about telling a guy how she feels, but warning him not to trust how bad her mouth and attitude is because she’s under the influence of drugs. The song is an “OK” start for the album but it sounds a little too chilled for her style. The entire album is much
different than what you would expect from an artist like Tove Lo. She still carries that “I don’t care if you like me” and “trashy” attitude, but it just doesn’t correspond with the music on the album. It just
seems like she lost her touch on this album. The production is not there fully, and it’s like when you start a huge bonfire and you all of a sudden let the fire dim until it goes out. The album
was really just a slow burning mess, and I do hope the next album she drops will rekindle the fire in her music creatively. The album was not really that creative in terms of the lyrics and production of the beats. For me, there were only two great songs on the album and one was the first single, titled “Cool Girl.” It’s a very sassy track and has a good beat to it. It also had good potential and would have done better on a different sounding album. The other track was the title track “Lady Wood.” Those two songs really embodied everything that is Tove Lo, and I would have really wished she conveyed it through all of the songs on the album to make it a cohesive piece. I am a fan of Tove Lo’s music. Like I said, the first album was amazing and had Photos Provided multiple high points, but the second album just missed the mark this time around. Hopefully she can redeem herself with later releases, but I’m not here for it this time.
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Native American Heritage Month kicks off By Erika Heck Reporter The Office of Multicultural Affairs started their Native American Heritage Month event series by hosting a kickoff dinner on Tuesday at the Mileti Alumni Center. The event was free and open to the public and featured guest speaker Lynda Dixon, a professor in the Department of Communication. Her family is from the Cherokee tribe and survived the Trail of Tears in 1836. She thanked her audience for coming and thanked them for “not forgetting the vanishing Indian.” “There were some authors who were saying that by the late 60s that we would all be gone,” she said. “We proved them wrong and we will continue to prove them wrong.”
She spoke to the audience about the colonization of North America and how the history of the colonizing of the Americas is lost. “It’s an old history. So when we’re talking about what colonization is, it is when a group, a family, a nation decide that they need and want whatever they see. And because the people looked different and speak differently and worship differently, then the assumption is that they’re not worthwhile.” When the European settlers and the indigenous people of North, South and Central Americas made contact, the settlers gave the indigenous people venereal diseases, smallpox and changes to their diet with the introduction of new domestic animals. Dixon also shared with the audience the story of her family. “We represent a portion of Indian Nation,” she said. “And we are from the Cherokee Nation that started in the southeast.” The Cherokee Nation has a history of interracial marriage, her grandfather being Irish and Scottish and her grandmother a Cherokee woman. “Cherokees, when they were still in the southeast, became Christian very quickly.
They became landowners … really good farmers,” Dixon said. “And then the worst thing that could happen to Indian land happened: they found gold.” The quick adaptation of the Cherokees frustrated Americans as they succeeded on their farms, found gold deposits on their farmland, their sons were sent overseas for education, and formed their own government. “They voted,” she said. “They had a constitution. They had a newspaper. They had their own language.” In the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, allowing him to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. The Indian Removal Act forced the Cherokee Nation to migrate from east of the Mississippi River to land that is present-day Oklahoma. “For the Cherokees, they quite literally pull them out of their houses, burned the houses, killed the cattle … and death marched people up to the Arkansas River (through) the hottest summer in history and then the coldest winter. Over 4,000 people died.” In Oklahoma, where her grandparents and
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Lynda Dixon spoke at the NAHM kick off. parents lived, it was dangerous to speak or learn Native American languages. It had gotten so dangerous that her grandparents “had a sit down with the children and said, ‘This is a dangerous time to be Indian…. Don’t speak Cherokee,’” she said. She expressed love and adoration for her grandparents who worked hard to pay off their house in Oklahoma in order to provide their family with a place to always stay.
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SPORTS
Sophomore wide receiver Scott Miller celebrates in a game earlier this season.
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Football falls on the road to NIU By Zane Miller Sports Reporter The Falcons football team fell to the Northern Illinois Huskies 45-20 on the road Tuesday night as the team is still looking for their first conference victory of the season. “We got better in some areas tonight and there are some areas that we need to work on,” Falcons head coach Mike Jinks said. “We’ve got 180 minutes left and that’s what we talked to the team about prior to the game and that’ll be our focus.” The scoring began in the first quarter with Northern Illinois striking first on an early touchdown, as the Falcons responded later in the quarter with a touchdown pass from freshman quarterback James Morgan to sophomore wide receiver Scott Miller to tie the game 7-7. Northern Illinois took the lead on their
next possession with a touchdown late in the quarter. “The mindset was not to give up the explosive play,” Jinks said. “The drives that they put together over the last few weeks, I think the longest was two minutes and 13 seconds, so we didn’t want to give up the big play. They did a great job of doing that.” Northern Illinois made it a two possession game in the second quarter with a field goal to give themselves a 17-7 advantage, but the Falcons came back shortly after with a touchdown pass from Morgan to senior wide receiver Ronnie Moore. However, the extra point attempt was blocked as Northern Illinois held a 1713 lead. Northern Illinois then added another touchdown to take a 24-13 lead into halftime. “The biggest thing is consistency,” Jinks said. “We’ve got to be more consistent as an offensive football team…. Until we do that, we’ll be in that 20 point range, but
when we start putting things together, we’ll be the offense that we want to be.” Northern Illinois increased their lead with a touchdown to start the third quarter. The Falcons countered with a touchdown pass from Morgan to junior wide receiver Teo Redding to cut the lead to 31-20. However, that would be all the offense for the Falcons, as Northern Illinois added another touchdown late in the third and a touchdown late in the fourth quarter to take the 45-20 victory. “Early on, the quarterback running game kind of hurt us a little bit,” Jinks said. “In the second half, we made a couple adjustments…. I’m proud of the adjustments we were able to make and the kids coming out and being able to execute on those adjustments. That’s one of those things that will go a long way for us.” The team will next play on the road on Wednesday night against the Akron Zips.
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BGSU vs Akron
I’ve lost faith honestly.
N/A BGSU 14, AK 36
Alabama vs LSU
Alabama hasn’t steered me wrong yet
Alabama -7.5 BAMA 42, LSU 14
Nebraska vs Ohio State
Ohio State hasn’t really steered me wrong either.
OSU -17 NEB 17, OSU 36
Aaron Parker Sports Editor 34-11
Michele Mathis Copy Chief 22-23
Jessica Speweike Managing Editor 28-17
Isaiah Vazquez Photo Editor 26-19
Akron is having a decent year I guess.
Akron sounds like Acorn.
I’m a negative nancy when it comes to BG football.
I’ve officially given up
BGSU 21, AK 35
BGSU 40, AK 3
BGSU 30, AK 40
BGSU 0, AK 36
This will be closer than people think.
Yeah, I have no idea.
Roll tide baby, roll tide.
Alabama has one of our former players so I mean...
BAMA 28, LSU 24
BAMA 5, LSU 4
BAMA 42, LSU 38
BAMA 55, LSU 0
Who did OSU lose to this year? I forget.
I hate OSU.
I’ll choose the Bucks no matter what.
O-H (barely)
NEB 10, OSU 42
NEB 49, OSU 0
NEB 30, OSU 36
NEB 21, OSU 27
Oak. State vs Kansas State
Who is Oak. State?
Who picks these spreads?
Oak State? What kind of name is that?
Only picking them because I’ve never heard of them.
!?!Upset alert?!?
Kansas State -2.5
OAK ST. 7, KAN 27
OAK ST. 24, KAN 17
OAK ST. 4, KAN 30
OAK ST. 29, KAN 26
OAK ST. 21, KAN 24
Can we just appreciate how close I am to Aaron...
Eh, I don’t like either team.
Insert video of woman confused why Arkansas not Ar-Kansas
Shot in the dark, not really sure.
I guess I’ll pick Florida
FLO 14, ARK 27
FLO 24, ARK 17
FLO 14, ARK 27
FLO 39, ARK 33
FLO 30, ARK 14
Florida vs Arkansas Florida -5.5
Hockey at home against Ferris State By Zane Miller Sports Reporter The Falcons hockey team will play at home on Friday and Saturday nights against the Ferris State Bulldogs, in their first home conference series of the season. “We know this team really well and they know us,” Falcons head coach Chris Bergeron said. “They’re going to compete really hard. They’re going to defend hard. It’s going to be difficult to create offense.” The team is also looking to take advantage of a win in their most recent game against the Miami RedHawks to get some momentum after going winless
through most of their non-conference schedule. “We should be able to take some momentum,” Bergeron said. “But we’re going to have to see I liked the vibe today (at practice). I liked the vibe yesterday. Ferris State’s got a bunch of momentum too, going into Minnesota State and winning, there’s momentum there and they’ve been looking for a win and struggling, so I think it’s going to be two teams that feel good about the last game they played.” The team will also be preparing for a hungry opponent in Ferris State, who also had a tough start to the season despite winning the Western Collegiate Hockey Association championship last
season. “I’m looking for a team that hasn’t started the way they’ve wanted to start and they’re going to do a bunch to make it better,” Bergeron said. “They’re going to work and they’re going to keep working and they’re going to defend hard.” The team also feels that a rivalry has been built between the two teams due to how familiar they are with each other. “I think it’s a good rivalry,” Bergeron said. “They’re a group that are going to make you earn it, they’re a real honest group, they play the game the right way.” The team is also looking to play more consistently on offense in order to create more opportunities in the offensive zone. “I’d like to see us be a little more
consistent with our second and third effort,” Bergeron said. “We are a second and third effort team. We’re creating second and third opportunities in the offensive zone, then it’s a 20-25 second O-zone shift and not a five second shift and then we’re back checking.” However, the team feels that it will be key to execute plays well while making the least mistakes in order to get a good start to the rest of the conference schedule. “It’ll come down to what team executes the best and what team is more disciplined with their actions,” Bergeron said. “It’s not going to be that they’ve got these special plays or X’s and O’s that we don’t know, we’ve grown to know this team.”
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Stall talk helps spread wellness messages By Kevin Bean Reporter Bathroom stalls seem to be the best place to hang posters at the University. Faith DeNardo, Director of the Wellness Connection at the University has gotten a large number of people joining classes like PHHS 4400, which is a requirement to become a peer educator through the Wellness Connection, via Stall Talk. Stall Talk is a single sheet newsletter, dedicated in whole to health and wellness, taped to stalls around the University. DeNardo said the newsletter ranks favorably in responses to questions of how students found out about events happening on campus. “That is why we carry on the practice; it has been so successful,” she said. The publication, in its eighteenth volume, is posted in the bathroom stalls of campus housing. The newsletter is a source of information gathered by the Wellness Connection. “It’s a way to communicate tidbits of important information in a way that – you have little else to do, so you just read (the newsletter),” she said. Content for each edition of Stall Talk varies depending on submissions made to the Wellness Connection. Editions might talk about awareness, such as alcohol awareness. Other editions might use a more free-form topic like Spring Break Safety. Not all content is created by the Wellness Connection. A large portion of the publication is used for events and organizations looking to attract attention. The newest edition - October’s second printing - contains information about intramural leagues, a Zumba dance party, lifeguard training and the flu shot clinic. Details about submissions, as well as the submission form, can be found at www.bgsu.
Cherokee continued from Page 9 “And when (my grandmother) passed away … she had arranged that the children took title of the house. And that became the safe place of all our lives.” Dixon also read excerpts from chapter in a book called “Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity and Communication” written by University professor Albert Gonzalez and other authors, which brings different accounts of personal and cultural perspectives in first
edu/recwell/wellness-connection/stalltalk. html. Content created by the Wellness Connection focuses more on health tidbits. The same October issue, for example, lists the components of consent. On average StallTalk has three people working on content and one or two people delivering the final product. All of the work is done in house. Staff members work on content while student interns at the Wellness Connection work on the design of the final piece, though DeNardo said it is not uncommon for students to have a hand in content production. From beginning to end, DeNardo estimates a week of work is put into each issue. The newsletter pre-dates DeNardo’s nine years of service at the University.The publication started as a joint effort between the Wellness Connection and the Student Health Service. In January 2009, the Wellness Connection split from Student Health Services and became part of the Department of Recreation and Wellness. The Wellness Connection retained the publication. The idea is not unique to the University. Several other campuses use the idea, in the same way, to get information to the students. Stall Talk is one of the several ways the University uses to communicate ideas. DeNardo credits it as a source that holds more attention. Other mediums like the campus TVs, and even other places to post fliers, contain too many other sources of information. “Even though most of our lives are digital, (Stall Talk) is a great way to get information out to students,” she said. The content of the newsletter varies from month to month, as does the number of times it is published. Months that bookend the school year usually gets just one publishing due to time constraints. Middle of the year months might end up with two.
person. Her son also wrote a passage for her chapter. “When I mention home,” her son wrote, “I do not refer to the wood or nails, but rather to the concept of family which roots itself in such structures….The family continues to change … but we have one major thing in common: we’re not just family, we’re a Cherokee family.” The next Native American Heritage Month event is an Ethnic Student Center Dialogue on Monday.
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College Radio Day comes to BG By Holly Shively Editor-in-Chief University radio station WBGU-FM will be participating in World College Radio Day on Friday for the first time. While this is WBGU’s first time participating in the day, this is the sixth year it has occurred according to WCRD’s website. WBGU-FM social media manager Amanda DeLong has played a huge role in planning Bowling Green’s part in the day. “It’s a good year to start it because of the new studios,” she said. Falcon Radio will be helping WBGU, giving away items from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., while WBGU will be doing giveaways every 15 minutes from 12 to 6 p.m. “It’s an opportunity for us here at college radio to kind of have fun and separate ourselves from commercial radio stations,” WBGU general manager
Alison McDonald said. “It’s our day to say … we’re a community driven organization and here are the people that help us.” Christy Bacurin, WBGU’s operations manager, said for most giveaways there is only one sponsor, but for WCRD around 10 community sponsors have donated more than $500 in prizes, including a $100 Loonar Station gift card, a $50 gift certificate to Gallery Salon and Spa and other gifts from Cloud Five Vapor, Cookie Jar, Pisanellos, Biggby Coffee, Grounds for Thought, the Golden Vanity and Lola’s Yogurt. “Friday is going to really bring us closer to the community, so we’ll have more local people listening than we usually do,” Bacurin said. Various guests will also be on air including the Plastic Shatners, UAO, Women who Like Women and the MIC Club. Over 50 percent of the giveaways will be done over social media, requiring
winners like and follow the stations social media pages. Aside from listening Friday and keeping track of social media, students will also see members of WBGU around campus, playing minute to win it and truth or dare games for prizes at the 15-minute mark of every hour from 12 to 6 p.m. The games will be streamed on Facebook Live, and the winner of each game will receive a free hot pack from Cookie Jar. There will also be tables in the Bowen Thompson Student Union from 2 to 4 p.m. and free coffee donated by Biggby in the radio lobby in the Kuhlin Center. “There’s some people on campus who don’t even know there’s a radio station, so it’s kind of bringing awareness to freshman and those students that didn’t know that we existed,” DeLong said. Tune in to 88.1 from 12 to 6 p.m. and like facebook.com/wbgufm to win social media prizes. The phone number for giveaways is 419-372-8810.
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Students provide safety for refugees By Amber Jones Reporter Amidst the current political climate, the arrival of refugees in Ohio and the rise of islamophobia, a graduate student at the University, Felix Reyes, is helping refugee families in the Ohio area. “As a musician, I was taught that sometimes you must take a step back and realize that sometimes it can be much easier to help people by not limiting yourself to doing one thing, but expand your work and go out into the community to help those in need,” Reyes said. As a librarian and archivist for the non-profit organization So Percussion, Reyes has worked to build and better community interaction with musicians and community members. Based in Brooklyn, So Percussion puts together a food packaging event to help the community and bring music and inspiration to the people. “This is something that I have been doing for the past two years and it was important to me that I bring this event to BG,” Reyes said. The community is helping the increasing community in Ohio by providing reassurance and safety.
“Now that refugee families are coming to try and make a home in Ohio, I think it is important that we try to help them feel safe and provide help,” community member Khannah Stanback said. In collaboration with the Student Percussion Organization and The Outreach Program, Reyes is committed to seeing that vision come true. The Outreach Program is a platform that organizes food packaging events around the country. With more than 300 million meals packaged to date, the organization’s mission is to provide food, safe water, education and medical care to those in need at home and abroad. In order to have the packaging event, Reyes must raise a certain amount of money. “The goal is to donate 25,000 meals, so that means we need to raise $6,250 to make this a success. We have raised a little over half of our goal already,” Reyes said. With the help of the Student Percussion Organization (SPA), Reyes began putting the food packaging event together. “SPA has been inactive as a student organization for the past two years and now we have reactivated the organization and wanted to come up with ideas to get involve with
community service,” Reyes said. “I pitched the idea to the org and they were on board with making this event happen.” Reyes knew that he wanted to donate the package meals to refugee communities, so he contacted Us Together in Toledo, a Refugee Resettlement Agency and an affiliate of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Us Together has two more locations in Ohio: Cleveland and Columbus. Reyes began discussing the layout of the event with Charles Baker, the community outreach chair and case worker at Us Together Toledo. “It has been great working with someone as enthusiastic and dedicated as Felix. From day one he had a plan for coordinating this project and maximizing its impact. His prior experience with food drives through The Outreach Program has been very valuable as well,” Baker said. The packaged food will be donated to all three of the Us Together agencies and the Islamic Center of Toledo. “We will be dividing the food between all three of the US Together offices in Ohio: Toledo, Cleveland and Columbus, reaching around 150 families. The food will be enough to feed each
family for a couple weeks,” Baker said. There are two ways to donate to the packaging event. To donate online, go to the Outreach program website and click donate now. The event number is 92. Mail checks are also accepted. Reyes and SPA will also be accepting donations and packaging food on Nov. 20 in the College of Musical Arts.
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VCT class offers real client experience By Kari Toncre Reporter A class at BGSU gives freshmen visual communication technology students the opportunity to learn while also gaining experience in the real world. The Via Media class allows students to work together and collaborate with each other to create a project for clients. “Students learn how to work with a live client and how to work with some of the challenges that comes with it, like deadline changes. Students learn people skills, something that cannot be taught in a lecture,” professor Jodi Hagg said. There are two teams, consisting of three to four students and a team leader. Each team has a larger project to work on throughout the semester for different clients. One team is making a recruitment video for high school students who are looking to major in VCT. The other team is making a promotion
video for Grace Imaging. Grace Imaging is a label company in Toledo. Students traveled to Grace Imaging, Toledo Spirits and Rachel Michael’s Gourmet Popcorn to film for the video. “Students are responsible for setting up camera equipment, using the cameras, packing them up, shooting footage and so many other important things that are needed to make the video,” junior and team leader Rebekah Zellers said. Students spend their class time, and some time outside of class, editing their video. Working together, they create a timeline of video clips, and they are in charge of putting it together. “Students can use these skills they are learning hands-on in the future and are able to put the skills on a future resume for jobs and internships,” Zellers said. Besides the larger projects, every student works on smaller projects like making a logo, a resume, and letterheads.
“These smaller projects are fillers, but also he oversees everyone and makes sure everything important for a VCT major,” Hagg said. is going smoothly. The class, which has been around for 20 years, The skills Steinbauer gained from being in has other benefits then just experience. Students Via Media are now being used to help keep the are able to talk with older students about their projects on track. experience with the VCT program. They automatically have guidance and someone they can ask questions to. The class is also an easy way to make friends with the people on the teams. “I enjoy the class because I’ve gotten very close to the people on my team. I never dread going to class, and I always look forward to working on the project with my friends,” freshman Sophie Bodo said. Freshmen are not the only ones benefiting from this class. Kenny Steinbauer is a senior team leader and a mentor to everyone in the class. BG News PHOTOS PROVIDED BY JODI HAGG He is the team leader for the team 1 column (2.4375”) by 6” working on the recruitment video, but VCT students work with real clients for VIA Media.
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