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ROOMMATE RUMBLE People share stories from living together, conflicts arise from new strangers
By Spencer Good Reporter
There are many roommate stories that can be heard throughout the hallways of the dorms. One story is from sophomore Pac Wood IV. “People that know me know that I wear abstract outfits a lot of times,” he said. “While one day I was wearing a long flowing blue dress, because I am gender fluid, my roommate and I went to the gas station. While in the gas station the guy cashiers started to flirt with me thinking that I was a girl and I decided to have a little fun and went along with it.” Wood said then my straight friend saw this, wrapped his arm around my waist and started to play along. The friend said, “What you talking to my girl for?” This lasted for a good twenty minutes until they realized that I was not a girl then they both became awkward around me, Wood said. Some other stories can be pretty horrible compared to this story. “Last year I had a roommate that was gay and he was a furry,” said sophomore Bryce Dotson. A furry is a person who dresses up as an animal and has an alternate persona of that animal. “His boyfriend ... would never shower or brush his teeth.
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EXERCISING THROUGH ZUMBA
Enrollment numbers for University, Firelands down
Reasons for decline due to rise in economy, University more selective of students By Kendra Clark Campus Editor
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WISCONSIN DROPS FALCONS The BG Football team was defeated by Wisconsin 68-17 Saturday afternoon in Madison. Wisconsin rushed for a modern-era Big Ten record of 644 yards. The Falcons begin conference play next week. | PAGE 3
Both the University’s main campus and Firelands have gone down in enrollment this academic year. While the University went down in body count by 2.4 percent, the Firelands campus went down in student body count by 6.3 percent. However, Joseph Frizado, vice provost for Academic Operations and Assessments for the University, said the two numbers are probably not connected. There are a number of different influences of the enrollment numbers at both Firelands and the University. Director of Marketing and Community Relations for Firelands
Dean Schnurr said one of the reasons the numbers might be down for Firelands is because of the economy. “Regional campuses are countercyclical to the economy,” he said. “As the economy improves, there is a drop in enrollment because students take classes because they didn’t have jobs and will go back and drop out of education if they get one.” However, as compared to other regional campuses, Firelands has experienced the least drop in the area. Frizado said this is because even though many students go to Firelands to pursue an associate’s degree, there are certain degrees
INSPIRATIONAL TEACHERS Columnist Abigail Kruse talks about the influence that many professors have had on her as a student. These teachers encourage her to be the best she can be and is grateful for their efforts. | PAGE 4
where students can get a four year degree. “They can be pursued online or having professors from main campus go to Firelands,” he said. This may have caused a less decrease than the other surrounding colleges like Owens and Terra, who have decreased into double digits, Frizado said. Because of the decrease in students, Schnurr said the Firelands is taking their budget into consideration. “We are taking a close look to our budget to reduce operation budgets,” he said. “But we may have to use some of our reserves to offset
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WHAT WAS THE CAUSE OF A FIGHT YOU HAD WITH YOUR ROOMMATE? “Eating his food.” Jim Knippen Junior, Finance
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Res Life brings changes
Requirements changed this year for students to live off campus By Cassie Sullivan Assistant Managing Editor
Last spring, Residence Life changed the requirements for students to qualify living off-campus. The basic requirements, which include students having to fulfill their first two years on campus, also now require students to be at least 20 years old before the beginning of the current fall semester, have been out of high school for at least two years and have completed at least 12 credit hours. The changes also mean those who have served 12 months with the military are excluded from living on campus. Josh Lawrie, the assistant director of Residence Life, said the changes were to align the University with other schools. “These changes came to align us better with our sister institutions. Our policies align with other institutions within the state,” Lawrie
said. For sophomore Christa Federico, the changes do not affect her, but she thinks the changes make sense. “It makes sense. If you’re transferring to BG, you can live on your own,” Federico said. While the changes have been in effect for the fall semester, Residence Life hasn’t noticed any changes in the number of students living on campus. “[The number of students] have been steady with the retention rate, has been high. Our capacity of amount filled is really high,” Lawrie said. “Students have a really good experience with our residential communities. We have students who are not even required to live with us who live with us because our programming and experience. We have not seen a major impact due to the change.” While students live on
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NEW PROGRAM is being offered through the Career Center to assist freshmen in preparation for the professional world and to help them find internships.
Career Center offers internship program for freshmen Falcon Internship Guarantee promises students help in professional world, experience By Kathryne Rubright Pulse Editor
Freshmen interested in completing internships can now participate in the new Career Center’s Falcon Internship Guarantee program to prepare for finding internships. The Falcon Internship Guarantee is a four-year program, so only freshmen can sign up. They can do so until the end of the fall semester. It’s good for students to start thinking about internships early, said Jessica Turos, associate director of the Career Center. The program “[gets] students to be intention-
FIRELANDS From Page 1 the reduction in enrollment.” Frizado said the climate of the economy doesn’t usually have as big of an impact on four-year degree universities. One of the reasons why they went down in numbers this year is because the University was looking to bring in a more academically prepared freshman class. “If you look back three or four years, there were larger freshman classes then but they were not as academically prepared, meaning their high school GPA and SAT scores were lower,” he said. “We retained a smaller amount of them.” That’s why last year they let in a more academically prepared freshman class and they noticed a higher retention rate, 75.8 percent of students from last year came back this year. That is one reason, Frizado said, why the number of students at the University is smaller this year than last year. They continued to only accept students that are more academically prepared. One system the University and Firelands are using for the first time this year to help increase enrollment is called Firelands Pathway Program. This is where a select few students that try to apply to the University who show positive signs but didn’t quite make the qualifications have another option available to them. They can become a Firelands student but take classes at the University. n
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“What’s neat with that is we’re also incorporating the technology that’s often used.” Jessica Turos Associate Director al about their internship search,” Turos said. More opportunities to meet employers are available to students who start earlier, said Jeffery Jackson, Career Center director. Over the course of the program, students complete a variety of tasks
There were 20 students enrolled this first year in the program. “If they are successful for that year, they can become a BGSU student,” Frizado said. Sophomore Sarah McClure thinks the program is a great idea and the University should offer it further next year. “It is good that the University is trying to up their game,” she said. “I think it’s really cool for them to offer that option. It’s better than not getting accepted into the school.” She also thinks this is a good idea because of the struggle some students have with standardized tests. “It is true that a lot of students aren’t good at standardized tests so it’s good that the school is looking beyond that score to the actual student, especially if they did a good job with GPA and not the SAT or ACT,” she said. Schurr said Firelands is also working really closely with high schools around the area like Sandusky High School. “We created something called Blue Streak University to assist them to get college credit while still in high school,” he said.
designed to help them prepare for and successfully gain an internship. They complete informational interviews with people in the field(s) they are interested in to find out more and get a better idea of whether that field is right for them. Students go to resume workshops and consultations, familiarize themselves with WorkNet and complete mock interviews in person or via Skype. “What’s neat with that is we’re also incorporating the technology that’s often used,” Turos said. Students also attend career fairs. Preparations for that include more
DRAMA From Page 1 I tried to talk about this with him and he would listen but he would never do anything about it,” he said. To get revenge, one time when he was asleep they put whipped cream on the boyfriend’s hand and then they waited to see if he would smear it all over his face. “It took him a few minutes and finally he wiped his forehead with that hand and he woke up and saw this and said,
BY THE NUMBERS Enrollment numbers for 2014 fall semester in different universities/colleges compared to last year. ■■ BGSU Main Campus -
Down 2.4% ■■ Firelands - Down 6.3% ■■ Owens - Down 14.3% ■■Terra - Down 12.2%
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‘What the heck happened. Someone is going to pay,’” Dotson said. “Then my friend and I busted out laughing.” Wood also shared he never saw his roommate. “Usually, last year I didn’t see my roommate at all but three times,” he said. “One time I came in to the room thinking that he was not there like usual but instead he was there and he had the look of a deer in front of car headlights because we very rarely ran into each other in the room.”
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Falcons give up 644 rushing yards allowing Wisconsin to set modern-era Big Ten record By Cameron Teague Robinson Editor-in-Chief
When a defense surrenders a modern-era Big Ten record in rushing yards, it is safe to say that something went wrong on the field. The Bowling Green defense gave up 644 yards on the ground and a Wisconsin school record of 756 yards of total offense, in their 68-17 loss at Camp Randall Saturday afternoon. According to linebacker Gabe Martin it wasn’t a flaw of positioning. “If you were really watching that game, even when we go back and look at the film, you will see that there was never a time where we didn’t have somebody in place to make a play,” Martin said. “As a defense we pride ourselves on making plays and that’s what we have to do in those situations. We didn’t make the plays we were supposed to make in this situations and that’s what it boils down to.” It wasn’t all bad for the Falcon defense, who recovered two fumbles in the first quarter to keep the game close. The first fumble was forced by Kendall Montgomery and recovered by Nick Locke. That fumble led to a 35-yard touchdown run by Fred Coppet, which tied the game 7-7. The second fumble came at the end of the first quarter when the Badgers fumbled the snap and Taylor Royster jumped on the ball. In a 14-10 game that gave the Falcons a chance to take the lead but their drive stalled. The Joe Davidson punt was returned 40-yards by Badger receiver Kenzel Doe. That return set up a 34-yard touchdown pass from McEvoy to Sam Arneson on the next play, giving them a 21-10 lead. The Falcons had a chance to cut the lead, as they drove to the Wisconsin 8-yard line but an interception thrown by James Knapke would end that drive. “When somebody beats you by 51 points you can’t pick out one play and say that was the difference in the game. You lost by 51 points,” head coach Dino Babers said. “You can hit a wall once or twice and it might dent a little bit but over the long haul that thing is going to stand up. It was obvious they were a lot more physical and a lot stronger than us.” From there the game seemed to tailspin out of control for the Falcons.
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BG leaves Oakland Invitational 1-2 BG volleyball team defeats Robert Morris in 5 sets, loses to UC Irvine, Oakland in 3 sets By Hampton Crawford Reporter
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VLAD LEKAREV takes the ball down the sidelines Friday night in the team’s match against Eastern Illinois at Cochrane Field.
Men’s soccer team uses two late goals to elevate against Eastern Illinois Falcons improve to 6-1 overall with 3-1 victory at Cochrane Field Friday night By Brandon Shrider Assistant Sports Editor
The BG men’s soccer team scored two late goals to come away with their sixth victory of the season, defeating Eastern Illinois 3-1 Friday night at Cochrane Field . Despite controlling the match for the majority of the first half, limiting Eastern Illinois to just one shot, the Falcons were only able to put one of their eight shots on goal. That shot late, which came late in the first half, was the only goal through the first 45 minutes. The Falcons had plenty of first-half shots, but none of them were dangerous, head coach Eric Nichols said. The lack of urgency was a primary concern for the Falcons as they came out for the second 45 minutes. “Our coach talked about being patient, but still having that urgency. We got a little quiet in the first half,” senior Vlad Lekarev said.
While the Falcons looked to respond well in the second half, they conceded a goal in the first three minutes putting the game even at 1-1. This was just the third time the Falcons failed to grab a shutout on the season. “I think one of the dangers now that we’ve won some games is to think that any of them are going to be easy,” Nichols said. “I think we were prepared for a tight game and then not to respond with a little more energy and a little bit more emotion was disappointing. You can’t just flip the switch.” However, the Falcons were able to flip the switch against the Panthers. With just over 11 minutes left in the game, Pat Flynn headed in the tiebreaking goal for his nationleading eleventh of the season. To put the game away, Flynn pushed in his second goal of the game with just 13 seconds left on the clock to give the Falcons the 3-1 victory. “We have Pat Flynn putting things on frame and when that
happens, good things happen,” Lekarev said. “We came back and we showed some good attributes, but it definitely wasn’t our strongest performance on either side of the ball,” Nichols said. “But I think our quality shined through and that’s why we won the game.” Despite notching the victory, the Falcons showed that more work still needs to be done. Twenty-two shots were taken, but just seven of them were on frame. However, three of the seven shots on frame were scores for the Falcons. Thus, the Falcons realized they must clean up their play on both sides of the ball in order to beat Michigan State in their next match at Cochrane Field on Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. “We’ll have to clean up a lot in order to beat Michigan State next week,” Flynn said. “We can’t take a half off. We have to come out like we did against Michigan and play a full ninety minutes, and put shots on frame.”
The BG volleyball team came away from the Oakland Invitational this past weekend with a 1-2 record beating Robert Morris but falling to both UC Irvine and Oakland in three sets. This drops the Falcons to 0-3 at home, 1-2 away and 2-4 at neutral sites for a combined record of 3-9 overall of the season. The Falcons struggled against Oakland, tallying 25 kills to Oakland’s 48. BG’s hitting percentage The Falcons had some opportunities, but Oakland was too big of a powerhouse and swept the Falcons in three straight sets winning those 25-22, 25-20, 25-21. Freshman Paige O’Connor led the team with nine kills, followed by freshman Nicole Slimko with six and senior Kelsey Bates with three. Senior Erica Fullenkamp led the team with 20 assists, while sophomore Madeline Garda led the team with eight digs. The team continues to struggle but looks to build more consistent play as it heads into the conference play next weekend. “I would say that we play really well as a team but our consistency is what is lacking right now,” said senior Kelsey Bates. “That is what we need to work on we need to come out confident each and every game … we just need to pull it together and become more consistent with our play.” The Falcons then followed with two games on Saturday. The Falcons lost their first match to UC Irvine 25-15, 25-21, 25-22. The Falcons showed some resiliency and toughness as they ended the tournament with a win against Robert Morris 25-21, 15-25, 27-29, 25-20, 15-8. This is their third win which went to five sets. Head coach Danijela Tomic said
“Sometimes I think you learn more valuable lessons from a tough loss than an easy win...” Danijela Tomic | Head Coach
these five-set victories are key to getting valuable experience. “I do think that to develop that resiliency, to develop that mentality of never giving up, you have to be pushed to the edge. There is no other way to learn,” said Tomic. “Sometimes I think you learn more valuable lessons from a tough loss than an easy win, and I think we will get some payback for all the struggles that we have gone through.” Both Slimko and O’Connor finished with 20 kills each in the win, followed by Bates with 16. Fullenkamp had 49 assists and Garda mustered up 21 digs. The team also posted their second highest attack percentage, finishing .213 percent in the game. Now with the non-conference play officially over, Tomic is looking forward to playing the MidAmerican Conference schedule. She said the team is much more prepared after playing in four tournaments. “I feel good about what this preseason has done for us,” Tomic said. “When you have a young team, it is about gaining that experience and we have been pushed to the limit. I do think after four weeks of preseason we will be as ready as we could be.” The Falcons will open up MAC play on the road this Friday, Sept. 26, facing off against the Buffalo Bulls at 7 p.m. in Alumni Arena. Afterwards, the Falcons will make a trip to play Akron Sept. 27 at 5 p.m.
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Monday, September 22, 2014
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“Cleaning the room.”
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MICHELE MATHIS COLUMNIST
When professors comically mention that they saw a student hammered at the bar the weekend before and ask their lecture hall how they get satisfaction from drinking heavily, usually the response is, “It’s just a part of the college experience.” When opening weekend crawls around and the houses across the street are lined with, “Daddy dropoff” and “Will trade beer for your daughter,” most people shrug it off and say, “Well, that’s a college campus for you.” So, when a fraternity party goes a little wild and targets specific girls to drug and date rape, it must just be an experience of college. It isn’t fair to suspend the fraternity chapter because every girl goes through it at some point in their college
career, right? HuffPost Women wrote an article reporting that the fraternity chapter Tau Kappa Epslion [TKE] at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hosted a party Sept. 12 where girls were sold “tickets” to gain access to the party and open bar. A girl interviewed during the investigation said, “You had to be hot” to be sold these tickets. A few girls remembered being marked with a red X. The marked girls turned out to be victims of date rape drugs, as later that night they were found violently sick near a dorm hall on campus. This chapter is currently under investigation and has been suspended from their campus. I love the Greek communities because I know many good, genuine people who are a part of them. They have high standards and they give back to the community that built them. W henever someone bashes on Greek life, I will defend the wonder-
ful community that I have come to know and love at the University. When I shared this article on Facebook, a Greek friend of mine commented, “As a TKE here at BGSU I am completely disgusted hearing about this. Absolutely disregarding all major values of the fraternity.” However, while reading this article, I was completely horrified. Not only was the article upsetting, but the responses that followed were equally as vile. Someone put up a story on Huffington Post shortly after called, “Frats Behaving Badly,” which was a compilation of stories of frats all over the country committing horrible acts such as torturing chickens at their tailgates, selling date rape drugs on Facebook and letting brothers take a survey called, “If You Had the Chance ... Who Would You Rape?” A couple weeks ago, I
discussed the invention of a nail polish that is supposedly made for detecting date rape drugs and for a small period of time, I thought that women were a little ahead of the game. As it turns out, the war is far from over. I believe that this TKE story is lucky to have made headlines. I know there are thousands of cases where women fall victim to date rape drugs and sexual assault on college campuses that go unreported and unnoticed because “boys will be boys” and “that’s just how college is.” The humongous weight that is put on young girls to keep quiet and behave is becoming more than we can bear. If the call for responsibility doesn’t come soon, the war on women is not going to be clean fight.
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Professors inspire students, have positive impact ABIGAIL KRUSE COLUMNIST
At my age, I’m well on my way to being what is affectionately called a “professional student,” when it seems very possible that the world will indeed end before I walk across the stage at the Stroh Center. As such, I have had a few professors in my time that I did not get along with, for one reason or another. Sometimes students and professors don’t gel, and that’s okay. More often I’ve had professors whose classes I wished would go on for longer than only a semester.
Freshmen, please take note: you’ve heard, I’m sure, about how important it is to get to know your professors. It sounds corny and maybe even pointless, but it’s true. Quality time with those professors might just be the key to finding out what you’re truly passionate about if you’re unsure, or to going from a B to an A, or even to landing that first job. Sometimes you are lucky enough to have professors who are so profoundly inspiring that you want to be them. As a future teacher, I’m lucky to have some marvelous examples. They make me want to jump into a classroom tomorrow because they care so much about what
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they do that they make me care even more already. They are tough but fair graders, and they make me want to do better because I know that they believe I can. They teach work ethic and accountability, two paramount, visible traits for anybody who plans to be gainfully employed, but especially for someone soon to be responsible for other people’s children. Anything less than my best, and I feel like I have let them down, not to mention myself. I won’t lie: conviction like that was pretty hard to summon back in the day when was I was running late on the regular to my 8 a.m. Communications class. It was just a Gen Ed
course, but now I know dependability counts no matter what it’s for. That’s one of the things I’ve learned in my Education courses through the people who teach them. They take their work so seriously because they are training the educators who will go on to inspire a whole new generation of citizens. In short, they teach us how to care. If that’s not important, I don’t know what is. So, in the words of the immortal Kid President, “Is there a teacher that inspires you? Let ‘em know.”
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Her work focuses on African Americans living in the city and their lives as performance By Natasha Ivery Reporter
Michelle Cowin-Mensah has chosen to combine t heatre performance and research for her dissertation. The fourth year doctoral student majoring in theatre and film at the University chose to combine theatre performance and urban ethnography in an effort to understand the behavior of natives in her hometown of Detroit. “At first I thought I was going to do Zora Neale Hurston, but I got bored with her because I didn’t find enough of myself in her,” Cowin-Mensah said. “I can codify my blackness; I wanted to do a project that had my own context in identity.” That is when the light bulb went off and CowinMensah got the idea to use her hometown of Detroit as the basis for her project. “I love Black people. I’m deeply fascinated with stories that have to do with black and brown bodies,” Cowin-Mensah said. “There’s a certain blackness ingrained in Detroit culture; it’s a highly racialized area with a rich history. So the project is looking at how black Detroiters perform and live identities of self.” Cowin-Mensah received her Bachelor of Arts from The University of Michigan and earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Acting at the University of California Irvine. Now she is working on her Ph.D. “To earn a Ph.D, there are certain benchmarks
“There’s a certain blackness ingrained in Detroit culture; it’s a highly racialized area with a rich history.” Michelle Cowin-Mensah Doctoral Student that a graduate student must pass. First there’s a set of comprehensive exams, then there is the perspectus and the part I’m working on is my dissertation,” Cowin-Mensah said. The process of doing field work for the project was rigorous as described by Cowin-Mensah. She began interviewing people she knew and those people introduced her to other interview prospects. Phone calls and surveys are included, although she usually meets the subjects at their home and asks them a series of questions. “Some of these people I’ve never met before,” Cowin-Mensah said. “I do have one BGSU student participating in the project and she lives in the suburbs. So a mix of phone conversations, in-person interviews and surveys helped create the project.” Cow in-Mensa h has traveled to different venues and areas in Detroit to complete her field work. “I’m giving myself until October first to finish all of my ethnography work,”
Cowin-Mensah said. “My brother is a hypeman at a club in Detroit where I spent a lot of time at. I look at how blacks use Detroit behavior and culture as spaces of performance and also as product/commodity. I chose Detroit because of the racial, class and gender inequalities there.” Also, she said that the ethnography she has been engaging in has been nothing short of interesting. “Amid the standard questions I ask, I always ask if Detroit were a body, what race and gender would it be and how would it move?” she said. “I always get the most interesting answers, Detroit is a beautiful woman with lots of jewels but she was raped and left desolate. Just goes to show how much pride people still have in their city.” Cowin-Mensah is hoping her work inspires others to dig deeper. “As far as my project, what I find is what I find,” sa id Cow in-Mensa h. “They’re human beings. I hope to find Detroiters who are surviving and thriving. I hope to incorporate a lot of black radical thought/black nationalism into my project. It takes a lot of time, not only to absorb yourself in the culture/fieldwork but to go back and reflect on what you’ve done. If all goes as planned I should be finished by Spring 2015.” Cowin-Mensah believes in the power of performance as a way to show
social inequality and expression. “I wrote and directed “Detroit 67” and have acted in numerous performances, such as a piece I wrote and starred in a while back called “Blunt Force Trauma,” where a boy throws a Wii remote at a flat screen television and his mother, a single 19-year-old girl, beats him to death and kills him,” CowinMensah said. “Lynchings were performative, the Trayvon Martin tragedy was performative. The people freedom fighting in Ferguson are performing. We oppress ourselves in specific ways and can lose our black identity. Performance used to be expressive and sometimes silence; that’s why it’s so powerful and important for me to do the work that I do.” She hopes to eventually become a theatre teacher. “Here at the University, I teach acting courses. I teach THM 2410 which is Acting Principles and THM 2020. I want to eventually teach, but be more of a jack of all trades. I want to build a black theatre program focused on Pan-Africanism and traditional theatre, the oldies but goodies, like old time Negro theatre performance.” Above all, CowinMensah knows the power of expression and encourages people to not only combine it with academia but use it to their advantage. “Performance is the key,” she said.
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CAREER From Page 2 already required for your program, there’s no reason you shouldn’t sign up for this,” Turos said. As a student in the College of Technology, junior Wes Mathias is required to have three internships. “Any way they can help us find internships... is nothing but a plus,” Mathias said.
Though only freshmen can sign up for the whole program, other students can attend individual workshops. Many elements of the program have existed for a while, but now they’re packaged together, Turos said. Additionally, the program has coordinators who can help students find internships. Sometimes students don’t know where to look for internships, or they don’t
think to reach out to companies that don’t have internships posted. Some students have found success reaching out to companies and explaining what skills they can offer, Turos said. In addition to helping students land internships, another goal of the program is to help students find a field they will enjoy. “We don’t want you to work. We want you to enjoy what you do,” Jackson said.
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BG drops match at Butler after Bulldogs score 5 second-half goals By Tobias Flemming Reporter
Taking the next step in its rebuilding process may be a little more difficult than anticipated for the young BG women’s soccer team. On Friday evening, the Falcons were defeated 5-0 on the road by the Butler Bulldogs in Indianapolis in their last non-conference game this year. Head coach Lindsay Basalyga credited the loss partly to her team’s youth and inexperience. “We are very young, having eight or nine freshmen and sophomores on the field at a time, and we are seeing the effects of this youth as it pertains to the mental side of the game,” she said. “But every game gives us something to learn from and back pocket for the future.” Although the game went scoreless into half time, the Bulldogs outshot the Falcons 17-0 in the first 45 minutes. Goalkeeper Lauren Cadel’s nine saves in the first half helped the Falcons stay in the game. The second half started
FOOTBALL From Page 3 For the most part, the tailspin resulted in touchdown after touchdown for Melvin Gordon. In the second quarter Gordon tallied touchdowns of 50, 3 and 29 yards. The second play of the second half Gordon added a 69-yard touchdown run to his stat sheet. He finished the day with 254 yards on 13 carries and five touchdowns. “That’s the best running back I’ve seen in a long time,” Babers said. “He is very shifty, has great speed and great strength.”
We are very young ... and we are seeing the effects of this youth...” Lindsay Basalyga | Head Coach
off with a shot by Falcon junior Haley Parkinson in the 46th minute, which was saved by Bulldogs goalkeeper Jayne Heinrich. In the 50th minute however, Butler player Hannah Farley was able to score the 1-0 for the Bulldogs on a breakaway. Two minutes later the Bulldogs scored their second goal as Butler’s Serina Kashimoto’s shot from the right side of the box went past Lauren Cadel. Only 18 seconds later, Bulldogs player Elise Kotsakis made it 3-0 for Butler marking her seventh goal of the season. “The first goal came from poor possession which resulted in a breakaway and unfortunately we didn’t respond well in the following minutes,” Basalyga said. After going scoreless for
“[Gordon] is the best running back I’ve seen in a long time.” Dino Babers | Head Coach The Badgers had two other players who ran for 100 yards. Badger quarterback Tanner McEvoy had 160 yards rushing and running back Corey Clement had 111. Third string running back Dar Ogunbowale almost reached the 100-yard mark with 94 yards rushing. The Falcon offense was left scoreless in the second half until Andre Givens ran in a 60-yard touchdown in
10 more minutes, BG conceded two more goals in the 64th and 65th minute, both scored by Butler’s Kathryn Voelker. Over the 90 minutes of soccer, the Bulldogs not only outshot the Falcons 27-3 but also shutout the Falcons on corner kicks 4-0. Butler is now on a fivegame winning streak and improved its record to 6-40, while BG dropped to 1-6-0. The Falcons were outscored 8-0 by opponents over the last two games and will start their MidAmerican Conference play next week at Ball State, which has only lost one game so far this season. “We’ve seen everything we can see over the last nine games to prepare us for the MAC mentally, physically and tactically, and I’m confident that this group will continue to press forward and embrace our process,” Basalyga said. BG will travel to Muncie, Indiana, to take on Ball State on Friday, Sept. 26 at 5 p.m.
the fourth quarter. That run accounted for 60 of their 93 rushing yards on the day. “We were prepared everything they did we saw on film,” offensive lineman Alex Huettel said. “It just didn’t go our way.” The Falcons will now prepare to go back on the road when they face The University of Massachusetts on Sept. 27 at 3 p.m. “When that clock hit zero it’s behind us,” Huettel said. “We look at that as the preseason. If we were sitting here at 4-0 we aren’t guaranteed a MAC [MidAmerican Conference] title. We want our respect in the MAC and we are going to get that.”
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