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City council issues weather-related instructions
Municipal Administrator John Fawcett warned city residents about snow emergencies on streets at Tuesday’s city council meeting.
If a snow emergency is issued between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., residents or tenants with cars parked on streets have two hours to remove their car, he said.
If a snow emergency is issued after 9 p.m., citizens then have until 9 a.m. to remove their car.
Cars still parked on the street after the allot-ted time will be issued a citation for the first offense, Fawcett said. The second offense will result in a citation and towing at the owner’s expense, Fawcett said.
Fawcett issued the reminder for students living off campus who may be unaware of the ordinance, he said.
Sidewalks also must be shoveled during the winter, Fawcett said — especially near schools, since those areas are the most cause for con-cern and closely monitored by the city.
If an owner fails to shovel the snow from his or her sidewalk, a city-hired contractor will remove the snow for a fee of $50 an hour, he said.
Visit BGNews.com for a web-exclusive document on snow removal guidelines.
By Suzanna AndersonCopy Chief
Buildings on campus start to feel like home for some students because of the amount of time spent there for classes and student organizations.
The Wolfe Center opened in December, and classes started this semester. More than 40 are currently being offered in the new building.
On the first day of classes, junior JD Caudill, musical theatre and psychology major, accidentally went to his old home, University Hall, instead of his new home, the Wolfe Center.
“This isn’t my home anymore,” Caudill said about University Hall.
Caudill has three classes in the Wolfe Center, all in the same classroom — the dance studio.
“The classroom itself is beauti-ful,” he said. “But all of the mirrors freak me out.”
One of his classes is Advanced
By Tyler Strittmatter Reporter
The University’s 272nd gradua-tion ceremony took place Dec. 16 and 17, hosting the second class to graduate in the newly finished Stroh Center.
The Stroh graduated 994 stu-dents, compared to 1,958 gradu-ates this past May, according to a press release sent Dec. 16 by Jen Sobolewski, communications specialist at the University.
The move from Anderson Arena to the Stroh Center made the ceremony run more effi-ciently, said Deanna Vatan Woodhouse, executive assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs. Part of Woodhouse’s job is to plan, manage and execute all the commencement ceremonies.
Anderson Arena posed prob-lems for graduation ceremo-nies because of the building’s size l imitat ions, she sa id. Before the Stroh Center, mul-t iple buildings were needed — including Olscamp and the Business Administration Building — to house students before the ceremony.
“Now everyone is in one place,” Woodhouse said. “It makes things easier from a planning standpoint. The Stroh Center is also larger and has concession stands and more restrooms to accommodate everyone.”
For winter graduates, being in one building for the whole ceremony also means not hav-ing to walk between buildings in inclement weather.
The graduation ceremony
drew mixed reviews from those involved.
Graduation can be consid-ered a time of joy, ref lection and relief; but graduate Austin Brown felt relief for a different reason.
“I was glad when the cere-mony was over,” Brown said. “I spaced out for most of it because it was a real snooze-fest. They really need to get better speak-ers next time.”
Woodhouse, however, said she thought the ceremony went very well.
“We can always make improvements, but I was very happy with how it went,” she said. “The response we have received from family members has been very positive.”
While Brown said the Stroh Center was “a nice place,” he said he was perturbed by the University’s attempts to sell merchandise at the ceremony.
Brown said he thought the gift shop was strategically placed as the graduates left so “they could shake you down one last time before you left.”
The ceremony in December had a different vibe than a tra-ditional May graduation cere-mony, Brown said.
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Stroh graduates its second class
New location, winter graduation come with pros, cons
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Wolfe Center debuts new classrooms, technology
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MEGAN CANNON, junior, touches up a past semester project in the Wolfe Center’s computer lab to enter an art show in Columbus, Ohio.
Faculty Senate elects new secretary
The Faculty Senate elected a new sec-retary at its meeting Tuesday.
Elizabeth Wood, a University refer-ence and instruction librarian, will serve as secretary for the remainder of spring semester.
“I think it’s fitting for where I’m at in my career because I have a more flexible schedule, and I’m able to give back to the University now,” she said. “I’m excited and I think it’ll be fun and enjoyable. I already enjoy coming to work, and this will just add to it.”
Wood will replace former secretary Terry Herman, who resigned at the begin-ning of this semester for personal reasons, said John Folkins, senate chair.
“We’re very pleased, and we think [Wood] will do a great job,” Folkins said. “She’s been at BGSU since 1979, so she has a lot of experience that will really help Faculty Senate.”
Wood ran unopposed for the position in the election.
Also at Tuesday’s meeting, the sen-ate listened to presentations concerning the University’s retention initiatives and how Ohio’s open records laws pertain to academics.
Twitter account ‘Tweets By Anon’ sparks cyberbullying debates across college campuses
The new Twitter account ‘Tweets By Anon’ intrigued pop culture teaching assistant Cory Barker when a friend shared a link on his Twitter.
Anyone can send in tweets to tweetsbyanon.com. The messages are then posted to @TweetsByAnon, with no attachment of the Twitter account or name of the person who submitted them.
“Honestly, when I first saw the site, it surprised me it hadn’t already existed with other websites out there, such as ‘Texts From Last Night,’” Barker said.
“We can always make improvements, but I was very happy with
how it went.”Deanna Vatan Woodhouse | Assistant By Tia Woodel
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ILLUSTRATION BY BECCA ROSSMAN | THE BG NEWS
Directing, and sometimes the angles caught on cam-era are confusing, Caudill said.
Jeff Larocque, sec-ond year Ph.D. student in theatre and film, teach-es Theatre History and Literature: 1700-present.
“First of all, we’re com-ing from South Hall,” he said about moving to the Wolfe Center. “A lot of us are in the honeymoon phase with the basics, like temperature.”
The classroom where Larocque teaches, 211 Wolfe Center, has a tech-nology tower with touch screen operation.
“There’s a learning curve with learning the towers,” Larocque said. “We went from low tech to the space age.”
Sean Cooper, assistant professor in music per-formance studies, teach-es Introduction to Opera Theater.
“The acoustics are nice, a major upgrade,” Cooper said. “It has a kind of ener-gy that’s good for creating things.”
The choral room is unfinished, Cooper said, because a riser system will be installed soon.
Eileen Cherry Chandler, associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Film, teaches two classes in the Wolfe Center: Exploring Cu ltura l Diversit y Through Performance and Performance Studies II.
Both of her classes are in the same room, 211 Wolfe Center. It is a long room with tables that sit two and are easy to move.
“I think it is a much nicer atmosphere,” Chandler said. “I enjoy just walking through it. I have enjoyed being here.”
The Department of Theatre and Film’s offices are now on the same floor as most of the department’s classrooms. In South Hall, the classrooms were on the first two floors, with a majority of offices on the
third floor.From the Department of
Theatre and Film and the second floor, there are win-dows looking down into the scene shop.
“I call it our aquarium,” Chandler said. “Look and see people working.”
Junior Kayla Krieger, communications major, is taking Performance Studies I this semester.
Before class, she spends time in one of the second floor lounges by the model of the Wolfe Center. From the side, the blue chairs look tilted.
“I like this lounge,” Krieger said. “You can see outside and see down-stairs.”
Senior Natasha Burton, creative writing major and film minor, is taking Script Analysis this semester.
She said her favorite part of the Wolfe Center is the Eva Marie Saint Theater.
“The stage looks nice,” Burton said. “The color of it is dark, and I like that. The seats are really com-fortable.”
Co-creator Leonard Mack and a team of entrepreneurs at Digital Xtreme Media came up with the idea of tweeting anonymously while brain-storming ideas for another business, Mack said. The group created the service this past year; it’s currently based in Phoenix, Chicago and Columbus, Ohio.
“Tweets By Anon is giving people a place to ‘vent’ and say things they might not normally say,” Mack said. “It also provides a place for people to read about issues and problems other people might have and realize they aren’t alone and other peo-ple share in their problems. Tweets By Anon can be very positive, and I believe it has had much more positive than negative effects.”
While the Twitter account was created for people to use as a positive outlet, some peo-ple have used the site to bash fellow students across college campuses, which sparked a cyber bullying debate.
The creators of Tweets By Anon do not promote any cyber bullying, but said they are also conscious of freedom of speech and have chosen not to moder-ate messages other than to eliminate spammers.
Several students who
attend Capital University in Bexley, Ohio, have spoken up about the service. Some of the students who have been targeted by “unsavory comments,” however, have tried to keep a level head and ignore the negative tweets.
Capital student Richie Myers, president of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and trea-surer of the InterFraternity Council, represents some of the organizations that have been directly mentioned by Tweets By Anon.
“People can and will take their shots, but at the end of the day, we are confident in what we are doing as an orga-nization,” Myers said. “We as an organization have chosen not to respond to anything posted about us on Tweets By Anon. It only fuels the fire and makes the person that posted it think they have success-fully gotten to us.”
Capital student Amy Ferfolia said she and her friend Mackenzie Kyes were also mentioned on the site.
They were “slammed” on the website for a week straight, being called “every name in the book,” because of their close relationships with a fraternity, Ferfolia said.
“Ever since that one week, I have not been tweeted by that website, and I hope to keep it that way,” Ferfolia said. “Although all of those things were nasty, I have come to realize to not take any of it
to heart. I’m not here to bash Tweets by Anon, because a lot of the things on the web-site are quite humorous, but it still has the potential to be a source of cyber bullying, which needs to stop.”
A contact link is available on tweetsbyanon.com and anyone can communicate any concerns, Mack said.
“We would rather focus on all the positive that has come from the site, including many comical tweets ... to people just letting out emotions and pent up stress by tweeting stuff a little too private to put on their own twitter account, but feel it is something they need to say,” he said.
One shy student even asked a girl out to a homecoming dance via the site, Mack said.
Connor Thompson, a Capital student who has been regularly tweeted by Tweets By Anon, said the original concept was not for the site to be used as a burn book. Although Thompson has “gotten bashed,” he said he simply rolls with the punches and appreciates the comedy of the site.
“Cyber bullying is some-thing to consider, but I would guess the site sticks around,” Barker said.
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TOP RIGHT: Members of the BGSU Men’s Club Hockey team, practice their skills at the Ice Arena on Tuesday night. The team consists of 30 players who play throughout the Midwest.
BOTTOM LEFT: Chris Dyer takes time out of the club’s intense practice session to play on his air guitar instead.
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RIGHT: AJ Mitchell goes to shoot at the goal during practice. The team is preparing for its next game against Wright State this weekend.
Men’s Club Hockey team hones its skills on ice Tuesday night
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Take a stand by speaking humbly
MATTHEW THACKER COLUMNIST
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CHRISTINA GREENCOLUMNIST
As we remember Martin Luther King Jr. this week and his courageous stand for human rights, I would like to take an editorial to consider the fear of speaking and offer a challenge to everyone (myself included) to fight these fears in ourselves and encourage others in this battle.
There are common speak-ing fears, such as the nerves before a performance or pre-sentation, as well as the fear of confrontation.
These fears are not new, and it is not the fears them-selves that are the essential problem. In fact, if you are nervous about an inter-view, for example, it may be because you are recognizing its importance and genuinely care how it will go.
However, these fears can be conquered in the inter-view as the ice is broken in conversation.
The fears cannot be con-quered by turning around at the door and going home, rather than meeting your interviewer.
This is something we all know about our fears and about the struggles we have with them (while there are also some who have greater obstacles to overcome in these instances, such as physical responses to these fears that they are unable to control).
While we can easily see how fears need to be conquered in special events, like interviews and presentations, we may find ourselves allowing them to prevail in everyday events of life.
For example, as a student, I know that it can be tempting to hide in the classroom. It can be tempting to avoid all confrontation and commit-ment. If you reveal what you believe and who you are, then you are taking on responsibil-ity and that, quite frankly, can be scary.
If you do this, you become accountable, and you may also be judged by your peers, as well as your professors.
I know the rationalizations not to speak can be exten-sive (I have given myself a fair amount of them, I can assure you). Perhaps two of the greatest ones are lack of preparation or skill, and the doubt that speaking will be effective or relevant in the given situation.
It is fair to note that it is not always appropriate to speak out, but it is not fair to allow this to be an excuse not to speak when needed.
According to St. Francis, we should preach at all times and, when necessary, use words.
How we live is more signifi-cant than what we say.
Even so, there are times when it is appropriate and beneficial to use words. The fear that we are not prepared to speak may be taken into account critically. If we are truly not prepared in a given moment, then it is in our best interest to become prepared for the future.
It is also relevant to recog-nize that we do not need to know everything in order to know something, and that we can acknowledge what we do not know as well as what we know when we contrib-ute. Quite simply, we need to fight our pride and be humble when we speak.
The fear that our attempt will be ineffective may also be critically taken into account. During this accounting (which is taking place in a short amount of time), we may ask if what we are determining to say is worth the risk.
If what we say is ineffective or produces a misunderstand-ing, is it possible that this can be better ironed out as we go? If what we say is effective and helps understanding, then it is beneficial.
It is also likely that the effect will be mixed, just as the audience is mixed and its members are not likely to all respond in the same way. Are we willing to accept the challenge?
I can recall times when classmates have taken a stand and how I have appreciated it. Two such cases immediately come to mind. In the first, a Jewish classmate spoke up during a discussion about Jewish belief and the Palestine-Israeli conflict. In the sec-ond, a Pentecostal classmate spoke up about speaking in tongues and explained how this occurs in her church, when the topic came up in class. In both cases, these individuals offered valuable information and perspec-tives for the discussions.
Recognizing others’ valu-able contributions can be encouraging when we are nervous to offer our own.
ALICIA RIEDEL COLUMNIST
There I was, the night before the semester began, search-ing through my clothes to decide how I wanted the other students in my class to remember me.
Should I put in my fangs and be the weird, dark kid? Should I wear my business-casual clothes and look like the kid who’s going to get an “A?” Or should I wear a tux, just to freak everyone out?
The possibilities were end-
less! So many perceptions of me could be made based solely on what I wore the first day of class.
Unfortunetly for us, our personalities are quickly based on superficial, first glance experiences.
Some people desire to stand out on the first day of classes. They can be seen sporting things like no shoes, large hats, skateboards and headphones blaring their favorite tunes.
This approach isn’t all that bad. In fact, I applaud those who wear their per-sonalities on their sleeves and aren’t afraid to adver-tise personal interests.
Then there are the peo-ple who wear their average clothes, but slowly incorpo-rate their personal style with their everyday attire. This approach isn’t all that bad either. It’s a little reserved, but understood. Nobody wants to scare potential friends and group members on the first day.
Personally, I started my freshman year too conser-vative and then one day I wanted to express myself.
Coming to class dressed as a vampire after dressing nor-mally for the first 10 weeks shocks people.
I don’t recommend stirring up the waters this way. It got me a lot of weird looks and made me feel like an outcast. The “normal” kids saw me as a freak and the “counter-culture” kids saw me as some sort of wannabe/poser.
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I’ve done a lot of community service, but I’ve never expe-rienced anything quite like the Martin Luther King Day of Service.
I’m used to little projects like food drives, fundraising and tutoring.
I was not prepared for the grandeur and scale of the service challenge.
Before the service projects started, guest speakers dis-cussed with volunteers the legacy of Dr. King and his dedication to service. The opening ceremony speeches made it clear why we were
there, and it wasn’t because we needed something to put on our resumes.
Dr. King stood up against injustice of all kinds, and we owe it to ourselves, our com-munity and our country to do the same. The injustice of not being able to provide food for one’s family and the injustice of not having shelter or heat are problems we need to not only stand up against, but act against.
Some of the volunteer sites Monday were dedicated to acting against these injus-tices, but others were geared toward different goals.
I must admit that when I found out my task for the day was assisting with the
“In fact, I applaud those who wear their personalities on their sleeves and aren’t afraid to advertise personal interests.”
Every 10 years after new cen-sus data is released, United States congressional districts are redrawn by whichever political party is in power (at the state level) at that time.
The controlling party attempts to redraw the dis-tricts in a way that gives their party an upper hand in as many districts as possible.
This is a process known as gerrymandering, and no one does it better than Republicans.
The task of redrawing Ohio’s U.S. congressio-nal districts — as well as
its state congressional dis-tricts — went to the Ohio Apportionment Board, which according to The Columbus Dispatch, “con-sists of the governor, secre-tary of state, state auditor and two legislative mem-berssand was controlled 4-1 by Republicans.”
The Apportionment Board reshaped Ohio’s 18 U.S. congressional districts into 16 districts, 12 of which were redrawn to give the Republicans a statistical advantage.
One of four new Democrat- leaning districts is a com-bination of districts of two long-serving Democratic Congressional colleagues,
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stoodbefore the United Nations General Assembly inSeptember, 2011 and said, “I come before you fromthe Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land ofdivine messages, ascension of the ProphetMohammed (peace be upon him) and the birthplaceof Jesus Christ (peace be upon him).” What’s missingin Abbas’s description of the Holy Land is anymention of its Biblical founders, the Jewish people, orthe fact that Jesus was a Jew.So brazen is the Palestinianeffort to turn history on itshead that Abbas’spredecessor, Yassir Arafat,often claimed that “Jesus wasthe first Palestinian martyr.”
Indeed, rewriting the history of the land of Israel inorder to deny Israel’s right to exist is central to thePalestinian Authority’s PR strategy. This rewritinghas two dimensions: First to erase the 3,000-yearhistory of the Jewish nation in the Holy Land; andsecond to invent ancient Palestinian, Muslim andArab histories in the region.
The Palestinians deny virtually every fact ofJewish life in Palestine before and after Biblicaltimes. Dr. Jamal Amar, a lecturer at Bir-ZeitUniversity states that in the Holy Land after “60 yearsof digging . . . they’ve found nothing at all, not awater jug, not a coin, not an earthen vessel . . .absolutely nothing of this [Jewish] myth, because it isa myth and a lie”—this despite the discovery of tensof thousands of Hebrew coins, texts, pots, buildingsand seals carrying Biblical references. Likewise,despite definitive archeological findings from theTemple Mount in Jerusalem and exhaustive scholarlyconfirmation of two Jewish Temples, the PalestinianAuthority (P.A.) categorically denies the existence ofany Temple.
What’s more, the P.A. claims that since the Jewshad no history in the Land of Israel, Zionism was acolonialist movement fabricated by Europeans to getrid of Jews. Another professor at Bir Zeit University,Samih Hamouda, asserts that President Abbas’sstudent research proves “the Zionist movement is notJewish . . . Rather it is an imperialist colonialistmovement which sought to use the Jews . . . tofurther western colonialist plans.”
To prop up claims that only Arabs have validrights to the Holy Land, the P.A. and its academicshave fabricated histories of Palestinians, Arabs andMuslims before Biblical times. Of course this isimpossible, since the term Palestine was coined byRome in 136 C.E.—after the time of Jesus. Islam wasestablished much later in 610 C.E., and Arabs firstarrived in Israel with the Muslim invasion of 637 C.E.
We witness more such distortions and outright liesin a 2005 Palestinian Authority video documentary
that claims the ancient,vanished Canaanites wereArab, as were the BiblicalHebrews, and that thereligion preached by Moseswas Islam.
In the face of thesefabrications, it’s fair to ask: Are the Palestinians aninvented people? The Associated Press headlineresponding to the question announced, “Palestinians‘invented people’ is truth.” But this is nothing new.The fact that the Palestinians are a made-up peoplehas been established by all manner of historicalresearch and acclamation, even by Arabs themselves.
We know that never in history was there aPalestinian state. We also know that nearly all thecities in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza have Hebrewnames—like Bethlehem, Nazareth and Hebron—andtheir current Arabic names are translations of thesenames.
More importantly, back in 1937, the Arab leaderAuni Bey Abdul-Hadi proclaimed to the PeelCommission, “There is no such country [asPalestine]. Palestine is a term the Zionists invented.”Then in 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a member of the PLOExecutive Committee said in an interview that “ThePalestinian people does not exist. The creation of aPalestinian state is only a means for continuing ourstruggle against the state of Israel . . . Only forpolitical and tactical reasons do we speak about theexistence of the Palestinian people.”
To say that the Palestinians are a fabricatedpeople, however, is not to say that they don’t deservetheir own state. Rather, the problem arises when theP.A. invents not only their peoplehood but also a falsehistory that justifies permanent jihad against theJewish people and denies their rights to self-determination and a Jewish state in their homeland.
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So this year, I was just myself on the first day of class, complete with black tie, bright shoelaces, button down shirt and Lil Wayne bumping from my headphones.
Now, I would like to address the people who choose to dress normally. Dressing nor-mal is not bad!
I cannot tell you how many times I hear the phrase “be yourself,” but people are stigmatized for dress-ing slightly conservatively, not having outlandish hair-cuts and sleeves of tattoos. Just because you choose to dress nicely doesn’t make you
bland or un-unique.And just because you’re
doing something different doesn’t necessarily make you cool. It would be different if I brought a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey into my first class, but it’s not very logical, unless I’m trying to get people to really notice me.
I have mentioned my “Vampire Thursdays” in pre-vious columns (I still follow through with this), but I have modified my outfits to be more stranger-friendly. I’ve exchanged my bloody Oxford shirt for a respectable black and white button down and my belt made of handcuffs for a real belt. (As I reflect on these changes, I’m realizing how weird I looked.)
I have no shame in how I dressed because I felt as if I was being myself; how-ever, I do regret scaring a few people away.
Advertising your personal style can be effective. It can lead to future friendships and even the occassional romantic interest, but it can also become disasterous when you outcast yourself too much.
I leave with this advice: Be yourself, whether that means dressing in an unorthodox fashion or just being normal.
There’s no shame in being who you are.
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CHRISTINAFrom Page 4
removal of holiday lights from trees downtown, I was disappointed.
When we arrived at our vol-unteer site, there were already men removing the lights with a scissor lift and extension hooks. It didn’t seem like they needed our help.
But our help was needed. The process took less time and was more efficient with us there.
But I still didn’t understand why making the process more efficient mattered to anyone.
With some volunteer ser-vices, it’s easy to understand why you are doing what you are doing. When serving at soup kitchens, nursing homes, or with youth organi-zations, the instant gratitude
of the people you are helping is assurance that what you are doing matters.
The results are instant. The satisfaction imme-
diate.This isn’t the case when
the help you are providing is indirect.
I struggled to see the imme-diate impact of my service, but because of the wonderful people who volunteered with me, I soon figured it out.
One goal of the Martin Luther King Service Day is to reflect upon our volunteer experiences and the impor-tance of them, which is some-thing my group’s site leader, Adam, really stressed with us.
Adam helped us under-stand that if volunteers didn’t help put up and take down the holiday lights, the city would have to pay someone to do it.
And if money was tight, then the community could say goodbye to the lights for good.
Furthermore, the men we were assisting were able to use the time we saved to do other beneficial and impor-tant work that day. Service is a cycle that keeps giving.
So I encourage you to volunteer.
The task may sound monotonous (and it very well may be monotonous), but that doesn’t mean you and lots of other people won’t ben-efit from it.
The opportunity exists for a reason, and you might even learn a thing or two about yourself and about what vol-unteer service really means.
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ALICIAFrom Page 4
It is also encouraging when everyone involved makes an effort to be respectful, even
when disagreements and misunderstandings occur.
In the classroom and other everyday life situations, we are not expected to reach the level of communication profi-ciency of Martin Luther King
Jr.; even so, we should not allow fears to keep us from taking a stand.
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Dennis Kucinich and Mary Kaptur.
Because of this, Kaptur and Kucinich will face each other in the Democratic Primary contest in March to see who will be the Democratic can-didate to continue represent-ing the newly redrawn, 9th district in the U.S. Congress.
However, northern Ohio’s The Morning Journal report-ed that Kucinich and Kaptur are not interested in smear-ing each other’s reputations in order to hold onto their congressional seats.
“I’m not running against anybody, I’m running for the people of the 9th District,” Kaptur said, according to The Morning Journal arti-cle, which goes on to say Kucinich agrees Kaptur.
“We’re friends,” Kucinich said. “I think it’s possible to preserve a friendship … It’s not about another candidate, it’s about what I can do to be a help to the people.”
This is great news, because neither of these dis-tinguished public servants deserves to have their repu-
tation sullied by a soon-to-be former colleague.
The fact that Kaptur and Kucinich are being pitted against each other, in my view, is a travesty.
Both Kucinich and Kaptur have been great congressio-nal representatives.
The two have not always agreed on every issue, but both have stood up for Ohio’s struggling middle class.
Whoever gets the nod to run on the Democratic ticket in that race may end up com-peting against someone else who has spent some time in the spotlight.
Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher, who had 15 minutes of fame during the 2008 presidential election, is seeking the Republican nomination in that contest.
Wurzelbacher became known after questioning then Sen. Barack Obama at a campaign stop in Holland, Ohio, in 2008.
After that, he was taken along to campaign stops to stump for the McCain/Palin ticket.
Whether the candidate for the Democrats in that dis-trict next year is Kaptur or Kucinich, they will certainly
be more qualified to serve the public than Wurzelbacher.
Kaptur is the longest serv-ing female in the U.S. House of Representatives, having been elected to that post for the first time in 1982.
Kucinich is in his sev-enth term in office, having been elected to the House of Representatives in 1997. Before that, he previously held several other govern-mental posts, including Ohio State Senator and Mayor of Cleveland.
Both are excellent U.S. representatives and regard-less of who wins, Ohio — and America as a whole — loses, because we are being deprived of a great public servant that has been tried and true to their districts.
The Republicans in Ohio’s Statehouse have never been accused of being fair and lev-elheaded, but to deny Ohio a qualified representative — that the citizens have voted to return to their post many times over — seems anti-democratic (and thus anti-American) to me.
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They are the only two teams undefeated in the Mid-American Conference.
Both BG and Miami hold 14-3 overall records, and they will pair up for a conference-changing matchup Thursday.
Statistically they even out, but Miami has the home court advantage.
Head coach Curt Miller said he hopes there is a big crowd, and both teams are intense and focused from the beginning.
“Both teams deserve a great crowd,” Miller said.
This will be the close of the Falcons’ two-game road trip.
The RedHawks are too good of an offensive team and are going to make shots, and the last thing the Falcons want to do is send them to the foul line, Miller said.
“They’re big, they can rebound, they get great scores across the board,” Miller said. “We’re not going to be able to hold them down like some of the teams we have.”
An advantage that Miami doesn’t have, however, is Alexis Rogers.
The powerhouse transfer from Duke was named MAC East Player of the Week for the
second time this season after her efforts in BG’s last two wins — Ohio and Buffalo.
Against Ohio, Rogers earned her third consecutive double-double, the longest streak of a BG player since 1998.
In the team’s most recent win in Buffalo, Rogers added 19 points and seven rebounds in 21 minutes; she leads the team in rebounds and is ranked second in rebounding in the MAC.
Overall in the two games she shot 50 percent from the field; she is currently averaging a dou-ble-double per MAC game with 19 points and 10.8 rebounds.
Miami averages 70 points per game, with their lead scorer, Courtney Osborne, putting up 18.4 each game.
Osborne recently broke the MAC scoring single game record with 48 points.
Miller said he wants to try to keep her off balance, give her a lot of looks and make her work for her points.
“They’ve got great balance but are led by arguably one of the best players in the league, Courtney Osborne,” Miller said.
Both teams have three play-ers averaging double digits.
By Ryan SatkowiakSports Editor
Coming off back-to-back tough losses in Mid-American Conference play, the BG men’s basketball team will try to rebound Wednesday night against Miami in Oxford, Ohio.
After a strong victory in their conference-opening game against Ohio, the Falcons dropped games to Akron and Kent State to fall to 1-2 in the MAC.
While the RedHawks are also 1-2 in conference play, they have strug-gled overall this season, sitting on a 5-10 record.
Despite that, Miami has one of the top players in the conference in forward Julian Mavunga, who enters the game averaging 18.5 points and 9.9 rebounds per game.
“He’s probably one of the tough-est, if not the toughest guy in the league to defend because of his ver-satility,” coach Louis Orr said. “He plays out on the perimeter, he’s a very good, willing passer, and in the post, he’s a tough cover down there. He’s constantly in attack mode, constantly involved in the game.”
One of the key players who could be potentially used to cover Mavunga, center Cam Black, will be a game-time decision after leaving the Kent State game with a lower leg injury.
Regardless if Black plays or not,
Orr said multiple players could be used to cover Mavunga.
“We have to crowd him, make him try to be uncomfortable as best you can,” he said. “It’s not easy because he’s a guy who will pass the ball and make other guys better, but in a man-to-man we have two or three guys who will guard him.”
Even though the team fell to Kent State this past weekend, the Falcons played a strong offensive game, scoring a season-high tying 87 points. Several Falcons posted strong numbers, particularly in the second half, which could help the Falcons get into a groove as they head into the meat of their confer-ence schedule.
Scott Thomas had 23 points, bringing his season average up to a team-high 12.4 points per game. He has also proven to be efficient on the glass and as a distributor, aver-aging 6.4 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game.
Last season against the RedHawks, Thomas averaged 12 points per game in two contests.
Another player who had strong performances against Miami last season was guard Jordon Crawford, who is coming off one of his stron-gest performances of the season — a 10-point, 13-assist effort against
WOMEN’SBASKETBALL
Alexis Rogers was named MAC East Player of the Week for the second time this season on Monday. She had her third straight double-double againt Ohio University and is leading the team in rebounds.
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The athletic department announced Tuesday that the Doyt Perry Stadium’s scoreboard will be replaced. The scoreboard will be ready to use by the team’s spring game.
The Stroh Center is advertising “Dollar Days” for the women’s basketball game on Sunday against Eastern Michigan. Tickets in sections 106-112 will be available for a dollar, along with hot dogs, pop and popcorn.
Player of the Week
Dollar Days
A’USTON CALHOUN dodges Akron’s Nick Harney for a basket. BG lost, 55-56.
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ALEXIS ROGERS goes up for a layup against Ohio’s Tenishia Benson. BG won, 61-49.GILLIAN HANSON | THE BG NEWSBYRON MACK | THE BG NEWS
MIAMI MATCHUPSMen’s, women’s basketball head to Oxford, Ohio, for back-to-back road games against RedHawks New scoreboard
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Think back a couple of years; you are a high school senior, preparing for what will likely be the biggest decision of your life.
College: where you will spend the next four (or five, or six, who really knows anymore) years of your life preparing for the rest of your life.
Now, imagine you are an elite high school athlete, being recruited by doz-ens of schools across the country. What should be a private decision between you and your family all of a sudden becomes fodder for every recruiting guru on the Internet to spread around. Not only do you have to make the biggest decision of your life, but you have to do so with hundreds of thousands of people, supporting many different schools, keeping tabs on what you do.
No, I can’t tell you what that situation is like. The only people who could tell you that are the student-athletes walking among us who have gone through that process.
The reason I write to you about this is because big-
time recruiting has become remarkably asinine. The circus-like events regard-ing a regarding a recent recruit’s switch illustrate this fact very well.
For those who do not fol-low college football recruit-ing, or are not in any way fans of either Notre Dame or LSU, 5-star high school quarterback Gunner Kiel, the top-rated prep quarter-back by most scouting ser-vices, pulled an 11th hour switch. He de-commited from LSU just a day before he was set to enroll in class, switching his commitment to play at Notre Dame.
What is so remarkable about this situation is the people online — for all intents and purposes, average people like you and I — taking to message boards to blast Kiel for his “waffling.”
This is the second time in the last few months that he changed his mind; he de-committed from Indiana back in the fall, before set-tling on LSU in December.
What is even more remarkable is the reason he ultimately decided to go with the Irish was because his mother (reportedly) broke down before he was about to leave for Louisiana and begged him to stay closer to home. Kiel is from Columbus, Ind., just under two hours from Notre Dame’s campus.
If you can’t already infer why attacking this young man — or for that mat-ter, any high school senior about to commit the next four years of their life to a university — for decision making is incomprehensi-bly wrong, I will tell you. When you were an 18-year-old, were you good at mak-ing life-altering decisions the first time around?
Maybe some of you couldn’t wait to get out of your house, but I know that there are some people at this school who just weren’t ready to leave mom and dad just yet. What makes someone a bad person for wanting to stay in-state?
I apply this argument to Kiel because it is incred-ibly timely and fresh in my mind, but everything I just said can be applied to any high school player who has earned athletic scholarship offers from an institution.
If you thought your col-lege decision was hard, just imagine throwing this extra caveat in there.
For elite high school football players, choos-ing a college is a poten-tial multi-million dol-lar investment. Say what you want about that, but if coached properly, there is no reason Kiel should not be playing in the NFL within the next four years. So yes, picking the right school is a potential multi-
million dollar investment.When you were choosing
to come to BG, it’s highly unlikely that you devel-oped a personal relation-ship with too many people (think the president, pro-fessors, staff members). When these athletes are recruited, they develop relationships with the coaches recruiting them.
Adding to the madness, when coaching changes happen, just about every-one you formed a connec-tion with is suddenly gone. Just look at Cal. defensive line coach and recruiting ace Tosh Lupoi. Lupoi left his position at the school yesterday, and all of a sud-den, half of California’s commitments are looking to go elsewhere.
The moral of the story is there is a very real chance you don’t know what these kids are going through — unless you are a varsity athlete here. In that case, you know exactly what they’re going through and understand what a difficult process this is.
And for the love of what-ever heavenly deity you believe in, don’t rag on one of these kids because they didn’t choose your favor-ite school, or because they changed their mind on where they want to spend the most important years of their life. It makes you look like a bitter fool.
By Matt NyeReporter
The BG hockey team is starting to show signs of changing its culture and expectations.
With just one win in Central Collegiate Hockey Association play last sea-son and with only one so far this season, it doesn’t look like large strides are being made, but the team is hoping to gain momen-tum and confidence.
Coach Bergeron’s messageChris Bergeron is in his
second year as the BG hockey team’s head coach, and with that responsibil-ity has came some hard-ships.
The team’s record isn’t where Bergeron wants it to be, but the overall team momentum is starting to develop.
After the holiday break, the team went to Bemidji State for a two-game series. The Falcons lost both games, but Bergeron said they played good hockey
four out of six periods in the series.
Then there was the past series against the No. 2-ranked Buckeyes, in which the Falcons pro-duced two shootout vic-tories.
With such a young group of players, the team is going through a transi-tion, but the team’s future is looking bright, Bergeron said.
“I truly believe in what I say and what I am doing for this program,” he said. “Just starting this process out, I want to hand these kids more and give them more wins. It will pay off. I want the kids to have the feeling of putting on that BG hockey jersey is a big deal.”
Players like Cam Wojtala agree.
They starting to believe in the process and not making too much out of their record this season.
“We are really starting to make strides,” Wojtala said. “This was a real step forward.”
Including Osborne, Miami also has Kirsten Olowinski, 11.8, and Maggie Boyer, 10.9, above 10 points per game.
“[Olowinski] proves that she is just as good as any post player in the league and is just a double-double machine,” Miller said.
BG point leaders are Chrissy Steffen, Rogers, and Jessica Slagle — 14.9, 11.3, and 10.5, respectively.
Miller said he picked Miami to win it all for the second year in a row.
“I think coming in they were clearly the most experienced and veteran and deep and talented team in the east,” Miller said. “I clearly believe that their chemistry has really really improved.”
He said it was not a sur-prise to their staff or play-ers that they got off to such an explosive start. When everyone was graduating seniors, Miami was young, and Miller said that youth has turned into experience.
“It’s something that you just can’t always measure with a naked eye,” Miller said.
Even though it is early in conference play, Miller said he has looked ahead to the championships. He said everyone fights to be seeds 1-4 because once you become the number five seed, it’s a tough road.
You need five straight wins, and while it has been done before, he said it’s not likely.
Currently BG sits among the top four seeds.
“It’s going to be a dog fight and a scramble to stay in that top four,” Miller said.
WOMEN’S From Page 6
RYAN SATKOWIAK SPORTS EDITOR
Recruiting coverage gets out of control SPORTS BRIEFCheerleaders place fifth at nationals
The BG cheerleading team attended the Universal Cheerleaders Association College National Championship on Saturday.
The event was held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, Fla., according to a press release from the University’s website.
For the second year in the row, the BG cheerleaders have ranked among the top five teams.
They were one of 15 Division 1-A schools that received a paid or a par-tially paid bid to the competition.
CONNOR KUCERA, BG defenseman, fights off Ohio State competitor Darik Angeli as he tries to steal the puck away. The Falcons defeated the Buckeyes in back-to-back shootout wins.
GILLIAN HANSON | THE BG NEWS
Kent State. In two games against
the RedHawks last sea-son, Crawford averaged 9.5 points and 8.5 assists per game.
The game will begin at 7 p.m. at Miami’s Millett Hall.
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Hockey looks to improve
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Call 419-601-3225 for more info!
2BR apt, furnished,all utilities incl.1740 E. Wooster St, BG.
Contact Kelly at 419-352-1520.
3 BR house for rent, includesW/D, very close to campus,
avail now! Call 419-731-3800.
311 Ridge - Nice 3 BR home,available Fall 2012.Call 419-352-5882.
311 Ridge - Nice 3 BR home,available Fall 2012.Call 419-352-5882.
424 E. Wooster,large 3BR apt,Avail Fall 2012, $950/mo,
utils included. Call 419-352-5882.
4BR houses, 3 people each, 2 car garage, W/D, AC,avail May-Aug.$1200/mo.
949 Scott Hamilton,138 WilliamsCall 419-654-9512.
5 BR, 2 Bath, requires 5 renters.2000 sq ft, kitchen w/ appl,
w/d hookup. Avail Aug. 2012,12mo Lease, $1250/mo.
Call Anne at 419-722-1371or e-mail: [email protected]
5BR, 2 bth home, 116 N Summit,off street parking, large yard,avail May, call 419-353-6359.
DON!T RENT THIS HOUSE!811 Second St, BG.
Why waste your money?Buy this A1 condition house andlet renters pay your mortgage!
Immaculate, 3BR!s, good workingappl. incl W/D, 3 car parking.
Call Sandy Rowland w/ DanburyRealty at 419-308-2339.
Houses & Apartments12 month leases only
S. Smith Contracting LLC.419-352-8917 - 532 Manville Ave
Office open 11-3, M-F.www.BGApartments.com
Help Wanted
*Yoko Japanese Restaurant nowhiring servers. Flex. hrs, only
15-20 minutes from BG. 90% ofpast servers are from BGSU!
Apply in person at:465 W. Dussel Dr., Maumee, OH.
(419) 893-2290
Days Inn now hiring forFT maintenance, exp req.
No calls, apply in person at1740 E. Wooster St, ask for Kelly.
Deliver Phone Books
Work your own hours,have insured vehicle, must be at
least 18 yrs old, valid DL.No experience necessary!
1-800-518-1333 x 224www.deliverthephonebook.com
For Rent
** Almost full 12-13 S.Y.Houses, apts, rooms /free internet
Cartyrental.com /419-353-0325
**houses & apts almost full 12-13,1030 E. Wooster, allowed 7 stud.
321 E. Merry, allowed 8 stud.Also very close apts, rms & effic.cartyrentals.com / 419-353-0325
1 & 2 Bedroom ApartmentsFree Heat & Water!
Large Patio! Pet Friendly!(419) 353-7715
www.varsitysquareapts. com
1 & 2BR apts, close to campus,ideal for grad students.
Call Gary at 419-352-5414.
1, 2, 3 & 4 BR houses,near downtown, $499-$999/mo.
Call 419-356-5437.
1BR lower duplex, parking incl.,avail NOW! $400/mo + elec.
Immaculate! Call 419-654-5716.
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