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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 54
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MARY WRIGHT rolls paint onto a wall at the Common Good Monday. Wright was one of roughly 560 student volenteers who participated in this year’s MLK Day of service.
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Volunteers reinvent Common Good By William Channell Managing Editor
The interior of The Common Good on 113 Crim Street looked significantly different on Monday from the usual vibrancy those who walk in the house see. The colorful works of art that usually hang from the walls were gathered into the center of the main room, as was the furniture. The walls were com-
FEWER STUDENTS volunteered for this year’s Day of Service, but those who did participate put in more hours than the previous year.
Less volunteers for Day of Service
pletely bare. They were waiting for a new coat of paint. “We’re moving into the new space of kind of reinventing ourselves,” said Common Good Director Megan Sutherland. “It’ll [help] legitimize so people don’t just look and think we’re a student house.”
By Kathryne Rubright Pulse Editor
Fewer students participated in this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service than last year’s, but the hours per volunteer were higher. The decrease in participation was partly intentional and partly unforeseen. This year, the Office of Service Learning signed up about 700
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volunteers. Instead of having more volunteers go to more places, a smaller number of students were scheduled to go to fewer places in bigger groups. That simplified transportation logistics, said Jeremy Doughty, assistant director for co-curricular programs and Civic Action Leaders in the Office of ServiceLearning.
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A STUDENT athlete participates in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service by working on a saddle.
Athletes pitch in for Day of Service By Cameron Teague Robinson Editor-in-Chief
Student-athletes are some of the busiest students at any university, but they still have time to give back to the community. They practice, have class and work out, all while still attempting to have a social life. With their schedule, they are not able to participate fully in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
With that in mind the civic action leaders, who put the event together, scheduled a side event for them. About 100 student-athletes sat in the Union Ballroom and made Valentine and thank you cards for the elderly and war veterans. ”We try to accommodate their training schedules, because they are unfortunately not able to participate in the full event,” said
HOCKEY NOW NO. 3 IN NATION The BG Hockey team goes 1-1 over the weekend, but moves to No. 3 in the most recent PairWise rankings. The Falcons are now 14-4-4 overall with 22 points.. | PAGE 3
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VOLUNTEERS WORK with Project Horses Opening People’s Eyes, which uses horses to help those with behavioral and emotional issues.
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Students help with equestrian therapy By Kendra Clark Campus Editor
When eight students arrived for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, they didn’t know they were going to be riding horses as part of their service day. They quickly learned they were going to be serving Project Horses Opening People’s Eyes (HOPE) Equine Assisted Theories and
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Columnist Geoff Howes talks about the socalled “education bubble” and his thoughts on the concept. He discusses how much of a burden higher education has become for those in the middle class. | PAGE 4
Renewed HOPE Day and Vocation Services. Project HOPE is a therapeutic riding service that counsels children with behavioral and emotional issues. Director Sandra Tebbe said the children ride and take care of the horses. “We also offer family sessions
IN WHAT WAYS DO YOU WANT TO HELP THE COMMUNITY? “Get them involved with volunteering opportunities, to get them healthier, and to get them better educated.” Adrienne Ansel Freshman, Exercise Science
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Destin Kelly, 20, of Bowling Green, was cited for criminal damaging within the 900 block of Klotz Road. 1:30 P.M.
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possession of alcohol within the 1000 block of North Main Street. He was lodged in the Wood County Justice Center. 6:43 P.M.
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Samantha Pozzi, 20, of Bowling Green, was arrested for theft within the 100 block of Gypsy Lane Road. 4:43 P.M.
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Kelli Clark, 22, of Bowling Green and Katelyn Raiff, 22, of Bowling Green, were cited for open containers of alcohol in Lot 2 downtown. 1:19 A.M.
Charles Gardner, 18, of Maumee, Ohio, was cited for disorderly conduct, public urination and underage consumption of alcohol within the 100 block of North Main Street. 1:28 A.M.
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Sydney Smalcer, 18, of Elyria, Ohio, and Daniel Cook, 20, of Maple Heights, Ohio, were cited for open container and underage possession of alcohol in Lot 4 downtown.
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Ribeau saw his vision come to life with the creation of the President’s Leadership Academy in 1997. A year later, the first cohort of students committed to developing Former University presi- their leadership skills were selected for the President Leadership Academy. dent comes to speak Ribeau served as president for 13 years. Former University President Sidney Ribeau In 2008, he was named president of Howard is coming back to the University today to presUniversity in Washington, D.C. He was presient at the 2015 celebration of the legacy of dent at Howard from 2008 until his retirement Martin Luther King Jr. in December 2013, according to the release. “It is always a pleasure to welcome a He surprised many by making an appearformer president back to campus,” said Senior ance at the MLK Day of Service event Monday Communications Director David Kielmeyer. morning. While he did not speak, he came to Ribeau is the ninth president and will provide see how things progressed, Ribeau said. reflections on the legacy of King at 7 p.m. in the “Seven or eight years ago I would have Union Ballroom. The event will be open and never imagined that it could have grown the free to students, faculty and residents, accordway it has grown and be embraced by the stuing to a press release about the event. dents. I think a lot of credit goes to the student While Ribeau served as president, the body, the faculty, the staff and to President University gained recognition for its residential Mazey for providing the support for this to learning communities and innovative graduate grow,” he said, after the MLK Day of Service programs, according to the release. Opening Ceremony. “We are one of the first He wanted the University to “prepare stuuniversities in the country to have a multiculturdents to lead with integrity and make meaning- al requirement for all students .... It can happen ful contributions to society during their student here, but it has to start with your head and work years,” according to the release. through your heart.”
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Presdient Mary Ellen Mazey speaks to students for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
VOLUNTEER From Page 1 That much was planned, but numbers were also lower due to some registrants not showing up. That happens to some degree every year, Doughty said. “It’s unfor tunate,” Doughty said. “But [the community partners] are still appreciative.” This year, 470 volunteers participated. Additionally, there were 47 site leaders, 19 event staff, 12 drivers, 12 Office of Service Learning staff, and 12 to 15 classified staff who made sandwiches for volunteers, Doughty said. About 100 studentathletes made cards for veterans and the elderly as well. In 2014, 820 students participated, according to last year’s BG News coverage.
The number of students who did not show up was partly offset by about 20 to 25 students who did show up but had not registered beforehand, Doughty said. There are a lot of registrations by groups, he added. That means if a group or organization cancels or does not show up, the volunteer group it was assigned to can be significantly impacted. Most groups’ actual numbers were much closer to the expected numbers. Some groups saw all registered volunteers show up, and many of others were only missing one person, Doughty said. “That Red Cross group was definitely the most dramatic,” Doughty said. The Greater Toledo Area American Red Cross chapter was supposed to have 50 student volunteers, but ended up with 19 volun-
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teers and two site leaders. “I was shocked,” said Allison Bierman, one of the group’s site leaders. She guessed that the gap between expected and actual volunteers was due to a group not coming, rather than individuals. Volunteers with the Red Cross group walked around Bowling Green distributing fire safety information to residents. The 19 students split into nine groups and passed out 213 bags containing safety checklists, said Dom Badea, the group’s other site leader. Most people were not home at the houses the students went to, but the volunteers were able to talk to residents at 63 of the houses. “I think in the long run it ended up being OK,” Bierman said of the group’s low numbers. “It allowed people to go to more houses.”
and marital sessions,” she said. “We use the horses as a type of therapy for them.” Renewed HOPE Day and Vocation Services helps developmentally disabled individuals by employing them and paying them for services like cleaning the barn and caring for the horses. Those eight students volunteering for MLK Day, plus four other volunteers who individually signed up to help, came to the barn to work alongside people in the Renewed HOPE Day and Vocation Services. Throughout the day, they helped Project HOPE by cleaning out stalls, brushing the horses, cleaning the tack [horse saddles, bridles and other horse gear] and organizing the tack room. “They are doing a great service for us,” Tebbe said. Celeste Dennis was the site leader for Project HOPE
ATHLETE From Page 1 civic action leader Andrew Art. “We wanted to make this an all inclusive event for the whole University, so we really tried to make something that involves them in the mission of the event as well.” The registration for the athletes is usually done by the athletic department, he added. There were about eight athletic teams represented at the event, including members from the third ranked Falcon hockey team and the track and field team. For hockey goalie Tomas Sholl, this is an event he has enjoyed coming to the past two years, despite his heavy workload.
and was excited to be at the barn with her group. “I wanted to volunteer and I like being a leader so I thought this was a good opportunity,” she said. “I feel like MLK Day is about branching out and serving in situations you never have been in before. Just giving back any way you can.” She said she enjoyed working alongside the workers, but her favorite part of the day was riding the horses. Alexa Woodburn, one of the individual volunteers for Project HOPE, came because she is taking one of Tebbe’s classes offered at the University, which teaches students about equine therapy. “I wanted to come out and learn what she does and how it can be used,” she said. “I wanted to get a jump start with her program and I wanted to volunteer anyway.” Her favorite part was seeing the Renewed HOPE program.
“I volunteer in schools so I learned how Wood County disability services help people, so it’s cool to see a place people with disability can come and make a living,” Woodburn said. Junior Bruce Hodell volunteered for MLK Day because his fraternity offered a sign-up and it sounded like something he would like to do. It was a surprise to Hodell when they found out they were working for Project HOPE and he said he couldn’t have asked for a better service day. “I love it,” he said. “It feels like we got a great opportunity that we are all able to contribute. It was a surprise because I have never been around horses before.” Hodell stressed how he believes it is important for people to go out and volunteer, not just for their school but for their community. “I think service is a good thing. So many have the ability to do it,” he said. “Just one hour per week can make a difference for someone.”
“We are pretty swamped with school, working out, practice and everything, but there are no classes today, so there is no real excuse why we can’t come and help out,” he said. That thought was echoed by All-American weight thrower, Brooke Pleger. “As a track team we value this event [a lot] every year,” she said. “Each year that I’ve been here we’ve participated in this event and it’s always been a fun way for our team to get together, while doing work for other people.” Pleger, as a nursing major, appreciates this event even more, “It’s huge as a nurse just thinking about some of the elderly. Spreading a Valentines Day card, get-
ting the chance to brighten their day, is huge,” she said. “It’s the same with the soldiers; a lot of them are alone out there, so it’s nice to be able to be a bright spot in their day.” Instead of working out more, or practicing more, these athletes spent their day off keeping the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. going. They may not have had the most exciting activity, but they were able to work together for the community that supports them. “Martin Luther King is a hero, everybody should know the stuff he has done,” Sholl said. “It’s just great that even so far after he was alive and active that we still get together, remember him and practice what he was preaching.”
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SPORTS Falcons win two of three, start season 3-1
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Gymnastics team not satisfied despite victories
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BG beats Marshall, Michigan State and UT; now 7-0 By Katherine Wernke Reporter
By Terrance Davis Reporter
The BG gymnastics team started the season 3-1 for first time since 2008 after recording victories over Alaska Anchorage and Wisconsin-Whitewater at the Ozone Collegiate Classic in Knoxville, Tennessee Jan. 17. Brigham Young finished the competition in first place with a team score of 193.075. The Falcons posted a score of 191.175 to finish second, followed by WisconsinWhitewater’s 189.975 and Alaska Anchorage’s 188.850. The Falcons improved to 2-0 all-time against both A laska A nchorage a nd Wisconsin-W hitewater. The Falcons last defeated UA A in 1997 and UW-W in 1978. As a team, Bowling Green finished in a tie for first and second with BYU on bars [47.675] and beam [47.200], respectively. The Falcons also recorded secondplace finishes behind Brigham Young on floor [48.325] and vault [47.975]. Head coach Kerrie Turner was not satisfied with her team’s performance, despite the two wins. “Tonight just wasn’t our night. The team started well on floor, but we stumbled a bit on vault and didn’t recover well,” coach Turner said. “The team did stay strong and continued to try to pick up momentum. I appreciate the character they showed.” Individually, the Falcons performed well. Freshman Jordan Rae set a new career-high on bars with a 9.775, which placed her tied for third on the apparatus. Senior Jamilah Ali tied for first on beam with a score of 9.65. Sophomore Lauren Feely recorded a score of 9.825 on the vault to place second. Feely’s score was the second highest individual score across the entire meet. Junior Caroline Ellingboe finished fourth on the beam with a 9.600 and fifth on bars with a 9.750 Although the Falcons did not bring their A-game, Turner stated that several of her players had great individual performances. “We did see some great performances,” Turner said. “Jordan Rae stepped up with a great bar routine and Jamilah Ali was able to put together a strong finish on beam. Caroline Ellingboe had a solid night.”
Swim and dive team wins, remain undefeated
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Hockey team splits weekend series, moves to No. 3 in PairWise rankings By Corey Krupa Reporter
Coming off a 4-3 loss on Friday night in which the Falcons gave up 2-0 and 3-2 leads, BG responded by defeating Michigan Tech 3-2 Saturday night. With the win, the Falcons are 14-4-4 overall and 10-2-2 in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. BG jumps to No. 3 in the division I PairWise rankings behind Minnesota State and Nebraska-Omaha. “I thought we responded well. We just needed to compete at a higher level and we felt last night we didn’t compete to a level we want,” BG head coach Chris Bergeron said. “There’s accountability when you do that and I thought our guys responded pretty well.” In Saturday’s match, BG scored three unanswered goals in the second period to take an early 3-0 lead. Defenseman Connor Kucera recorded his first goal of the season on an assist from Adam Berkle to begin BG’s scoring. Less than two minutes later, freshman Brandon Hawkins added to BG’s lead with a goal of his own. Kucera and Ben Murphy recorded assists on the goal. 20 seconds later, Pierre-Luc Mercier scored a goal to give the Falcons a 3-0 advantage. Mark Friedman and Matt Pohlkamp recorded assists on Mercier’s goal. Michigan Tech scored two goals in the second period; however, the Huskies could not score anymore in the third period as the Falcons held on for a 3-2 win. BG goalie Tommy Burke recorded 38 saves in the win to improve his record to 5-2-3. “It shows the resiliency our team has to battle
through the final three minutes,” Burke said. “Our team has a lot of fight in them and we answered the challenge tonight.” In Friday’s game, BG captain Dan DeSalvo scored the game’s first goal in the second period with an assist by Friedman. Later in the period, Hawkins added a goal to stretch the lead to 2-0. Murphy and Kucera recorded assists on the play. However, the Huskies rallied back to tie the game at 2-2 before the end of the second period. Freshman Mitch McLain scored on the power play to give the Falcons a 3-2 advantage in the third period. Dajon Mingo and Brandon Hawkins had assists on his goal. The Huskies scored twice later in the period and won the game 4-3. BG goalie Chris Nell made 19 saves, but recorded the first loss of his collegiate career. Nell’s record is now 6-1-1. “We only played twice in this building last year, it’s a very difficult place to play,” Bergeron said. “I did not look at their home record this season, but we knew coming into the weekend it would be a difficult series.” BG entered the series with the top penalty killing unit in the nation. The Falcons were 9-for-10 on the penalty kill for the weekend. With Saturday night’s victory, the Falcons now have 22 points on the season and trail Minnesota State, the number one team in the nation by seven points. The Falcons will return home this weekend to host another WCHA opponent, the Lake Superior State Lakers. The puck is scheduled to drop at 7:07 p.m. on Friday and Saturday night at the BGSU Ice Arena.
The Bowling Green Swim and Dive team continued to make a statement in the pool over a twoday weekend meet. Going up against Michigan State, Marshall and Toledo, the Falcons remained undefeated in dual meets for the year, moving to 7-0 overall. Friday night, the women went up against the Spartans and the Thundering Herd. Taking 10 out of 16 events, Bowling Green went on to defeat Michigan State 175125 and Marshall 181-119. Sophomore Victoria Griffin grabbed wins in three events, the 50, 100 and 200 freestyle. Daniela Carrillo and newcomer Franziska Wohlert each won two events. “This weekend was good practice for conference week and we definitely saw a couple of different things from different people and a lot of good stuff,” head coach Petra Martin said. “But also some of our women have to step it up a bit on the second day.” The racing went late Friday night and started early Saturday morning, something head coach Petra Martin planned in preparation for Mid-American Conference Championships in a few weeks. The women continued swimming against Marshall, but added Toledo to the mix. Despite the exhaustion some athletes felt, Saturday was no different than Friday, where the Falcons beat the Rockets by a score of 185-115 and took down Marshall 171-129. Estela Davis lead the team with three individual wins, while Kristin Filby, Carrillo and Wohlert each recorded one win apiece. Filby had a close finish for first in the 100 breaststroke, touching the wall just .02 seconds before Toledo swimmer Sammy Richart. “I knew it was just going to be the finish, we were stroke for stroke. From practices Petra [Martin] is always yelling at us to go through the wall, so that’s what I thought,” Filby said. “This is it, this is the time, so that’s what I did and it worked.” Griffin added to the victories with two in the 50 and 100 freestyle. Unlike the previous day, the 200 free did not go as Griffin hoped, as she hit the wall for a ninth place finish. “I felt good before my race just
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Falcons use intensity and effort to defeat Cardinals BG holds Ball State to 46 points in conference win, Denny notches first double-double By Cameron Teague Robinson Editor-in-Chief
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RICHAUN HOLMES looks to make a move to the basket in game earlier this season.
Ball State [7-8, 2-2] came into Saturday’s game averaging 78 points per game and holding a nine rebound advantage on their Mid-American Conference opponents. The Falcons talked about how important rebounding was going to be, yet at the end of the first half they were winning the rebounding battle, 28-27, but were trailing by four. In the second half it came down to more effort on the defensive end, forcing turnovers, winning 50/50 balls and rebounding. That all came together for the Falcons as they defeated the Cardinals 58-46, holding them 32 points below their MAC scoring average. “We knew that we didn’t play with the intensity we needed
to play with in the first half,” said sophomore Zack Denny, who recorded his first career double-double. “We knew that in the second half we had to play with intensity to get the momentum back.” That difference in intensity and effort was obvious after the first defensive possession for the Falcons, it set the tone. At first glance it looked like a simple Ball State turnover, but for the Falcons it was a spark that led to a 6-0 run. “I thought we set the tone in the first possession defensively,” Jans said. “We had three guys on the floor and to me they just had a little more edge to them. I was glad they responded to the four point deficit the way they did.” During that run, the Cardinals, who turned the ball over just four times in the first half, turned the ball over three
times in two minutes. They finished the half with 10 turnovers and 14 total. “There was a change in intensity, energy and effort in their bodies,” Jans said. “I thought it was set in the first three or four possessions; they were good for us defensively.” The game went back and forth for the next three minutes and the Falcons went on another run, the type of run that evaded them in Wednesday’s loss at Akron. “We talked as a staff that we needed to get on one of those runs,” Jans said. “We needed to get a stop and a run out, a three or a dunk and get the crowd into it. I thought that’s what happened.” Once again the Falcons used their MAC-leading defense to
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You may have heard of something called the “education bubble.” It’s a term often used in the conservative press, notably Forbes and The Washington Monthly, predicting the failure of brick-and-mortar institutions because of overpricing and lack of demand and their replacement by cheaper, competitive private online universities and community colleges. The manifesto of the bubble hypothesis is a pamphlet by Glenn Harlan Reynolds titled, “The Higher Education Bubble,” published in 2012. It draws a parallel with the housing bubble, saying that bubbles form because lots of people expect values to keep climbing. But bubbles burst “when there are no longer enough excessively optimistic and ignorant folks to fuel them.” The value these ignorant optimists expect is a guarantee of prosperity that will make the
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My sixteen-year-old cousin works at Bob Evan’s and frequently reports, with disgust, the number of couples and families she sees eating together in silence, lost in their individual digital worlds. The front-page photo of the December 26, 2014, issue of my sleepy hometown’s newspaper featured three teenagers at the mall sitting on a bench, two of them on their phones. Here’s what my friends and I did at the mall back in our day: we took goofy pictures in the photo booth, spent too much money playing Skee-Ball in the arcade and drooled over earrings at Claire’s, dreaming of the day our parents would let us get our ears pierced.
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debt pay off. Reynolds says that today’s universities are in the business of selling a weeding-out tool [the diploma], social networks and the “college experience,” which he sums up as four or more years of partying. What universities don’t provide, he says, are useful work skills like computer programming, nursing or engineering. A less conservative perspective on the bubble comes from Robert Kutter, writing for the Huffington Post in 2013. In “Higher Education: The Coming Shakeout,” he agrees that the housing and education bubbles are similar and notes increases in tuition and administrative salaries and staffing.
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Am I saying social media is evil? Of course not. I’m thankful for Facebook, because it truly is a way to connect, at least a bit, with people I graduated high school with and relatives and friends who live far away. Skype was a lifesaver during break when I missed my friends from school. As a soon-to-be English teacher, I don’t find a thing wrong with e-readers. Reading is reading. Though I enjoy holding and, yes, smelling physical books, I also enjoy the convenience, lightness and cheapness of my Kindle. My goal is simply to remind people to let the online world have its place in your life rather than becoming your life. As much as it serves to connect, I’ve found that it can also divide. It can make us jealous of others’ accomplishments and happy times, because we think we have missed some boat and we become unhappy.
But he does not see commercial and online institutions as a solution; he sees them as part of the problem, with high dropout rates and heavy dependence on federal grants and loans. He is skeptical of the “marketizing” of universities that try to recruit high-paying foreign students and make it easier to get a diploma in a shorter time. He also notes that much of the rising tuition cost comes from reductions in public support. What Kutter also sees that Reynolds does not mention is the deepening cleft between economic and cultural elites and the stagnating middle class. Reynolds claims that the coming austerity will be good for the middle class because it will give them no-frills access to vocational training. But Kutter is more skeptical, pointing out that there is every reason to believe that the elites will continue to have a traditional higher education, while the mid-
A friend of mine mentioned, after seeing the tenth or so engagement announcement of the holiday season, that they were so annoyed that it was hard for them to even be happy for the brides-to-be. That’s pretty sad. Pretty, pretty please, disconnect once in a while. I love seeing signs outside restaurants and such proclaiming, “No, we don’t have WiFi. Talk to each other!” That is a huge step in the right direction. Or maybe I should say a step back in the right direction. “This media we call social,” the poem says, “is anything but.” There is nothing wrong with wanting to document good times, on-fleek outfits and maybe even a particularly scrumptious Starbucks order. Just don’t make it a priority.
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dle class will be either priced out of it or be forever burdened with debt in trying to attain it. I believe that the bubble is a real problem, but I think its main ill effect is how it deprives college graduates of economic freedom by tying them to debt payments and making it harder for them to contribute productively to the economy by investing, for instance, in housing and new cars. I do not see it as primarily a scam on the part of the universities in order to prolong the existence of their outdated business model. Rather, I see it as a political choice to reduce public subsidy for the public good of education and to abandon the middle class by depriving it of opportunities for advancement or else making these opportunities into burdens.
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Despite a good shooting night, the Bowling Green women’s basketball team has now lost six of its last seven games after losing to Eastern Michigan. The Falcons hit a seasonhigh 11 three pointers and went 9-10 from the free throw line. Senior Deborah Hoekstra hit three from long range and had the third double-double of her career with 14 points and 10 rebounds. “Our percentage was good from the foul line and the arc as well,” head coach Jennifer Roos said. “I thought if we made 10 threes, this game would be close, and it was.
MEN’S From Page 3 spark a 10-0 run, pushing the lead to 43-33 with 11:14 to play. “I thought offensively was the result of good defense. Most teams are good in transition and we are no different,” Jans said. “It just feeds you, it provides energy. That made us more comfortable in the half court.” The Falcons were able to survive a nine-minute
SWIM From Page 3 sitting up there and I got in and felt okay for the first 25 [yards] and kind of freaked myself out, which is something I’ve been trying to work on with Petra [Martin] all season,” Griffin said. But one race did not keep Griffin down as she lead the team with five individual weekend wins. With the effort, she was named MAC Co-Swimmer of the Week. There were a few close races Saturday, but the women held a lead over Marshall and Toledo for the majority of the meet. With MACs right around the corner, Martin said
But, when Eastern Michigan has 23 more shot attempts than we do, it turns into a math problem, and we wound up on the short end of that equation.” With redshirt junior Erica Donovan out for the season, the team struggled on the glass for most of the game. EMU grabbed 19 offensive rebounds and scored 16 second chance points. Bowling Green only scored three. The Falcons also lost the fight in turnovers, giving the ball up 21 times to the Eagles. EMU scored 20 points off turnovers while Bowling Green only scored 10. “We cleared up the turnover problem in the second
half, but we weren’t able to get consecutive stops, or if we did get a stop, we weren’t always able to get the defensive rebound,” Roos said. The shorthanded Falcons are now forced to play a guard-heavy line up due to injuries. Junior Miriam Justinger played all 40 minutes for the first time in her career and scored 12 while freshman Rachel Myers scored 10. For the second consecutive game, six different players for Bowling Green hit a three. “We’re obviously more diminutive in size when we’re going with a predominately five-guard line up for us to shoot the three
stretch without a field goal in the first half, relying on their free throws and defense to keep them in the game. “Coach always prides defense and rebounding,” Denny said. “He believes that if you play great defense and rebound the ball, no matter how you shoot you can still win.” Denny led the Falcons, with 17 points, 10 rebounds and added two steals. “He is an effort guy, he played 39 minutes and it’s a product of his elite
shape that he has gotten himself into,” Jans said. “He is a ball getter and hopefully we can get some other guys to do that as well and join the party so to speak.” The Falcons, now 11-4, will be back in action on Wednesday, as they host Eastern Michigan. “The old cliché is ‘win your home games and try to steal as many or split your road games in the league and down the wire you will have a chance,’” Jans said.
there is always something to work on. “You can be looking like a million bucks three weeks before the meet and then you get to the meet and something happens,” Martin said. “We’re taking things one day at a time, learning from opportunities like this where we can do better and that’s how we’re going to keep it.” Even though some were close, Kristin Filby said she was happy to be back in the water racing after more than a one-month break from meets. “It feels good. It’s kind of nerve-racking getting back into race mode and thinking about strategies and whatnot, but after it’s
all over with it went really well, and that’s exciting,” Filby said. Griffin also said the home crowd helps the team in those tough races where exhaustion is present and finishes are close. “I love racing here, it’s just a good atmosphere and everyone is always so positive,” Griffin said. “It just makes all of us feel good to know we have all of those people up there watching and ready to see us do something special in the water.” Next weekend the Falcons wrap up the home action taking on defending MAC champion Akron. The meet will start at 5 p.m. at Cooper Pool.
ball well,” coach Roos said. “They’re trying as hard as they can and I know that. We just have to continue to try to be a rebound-oriented team throughout the rest of the season. But, we have got to get consecutive stops. That is going to be a big point of emphasis in the upcoming games.” After a close game for the most part, EMU lead a late second-half rally to win the game 64-52. Deborah Hoekstra was the high point for the Falcons with 14 while Cha Sweeney lead the Eagles with 15. The team will now prepare for their next game at Western Michigan on Jan. 21 in Kalamazoo.
GYM From Page 3 The Falcons also got strong performances from freshman Krista Walberer, who finished tied for sixth on floor exercise with a 9.700, and senior Amanda Lievendag, who finished sixth in vault with a 9.725. Coach Turner expects to see a significantly better Falcons squad next week when they take on Eastern Michigan. “This is a meet that we will need to learn from and move on from,” coach Turner said. “I have no doubt we will see a different team next weekend as we begin MAC competition at Eastern Michigan.” Bowling Green will head to Ypsilanti, Michigan on Jan. 24 to open MidAmerican Conference competition at Eastern Michigan. The meet is schedule to begin at 4 p.m.
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This was to be the day’s task for a small group out of the roughly 560 volunteers participating in this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service: painting much of the downstairs and the stairwell at The Common Good. This was their day’s work, as opposed to their job, a differentiation that was repeated by Dr. Mary Krueger, keynote speaker at the day’s opening ceremony, throughout her speech. Krueger said a person’s job is something he or she does for a paycheck. A person’s work is their calling, what they are meant to do. “Everybody has work,” Krueger said. “It’s what you’re called to do ... even if you have to do just a job, go do your work.” Volunteers at The Common Good took this philosophy to heart. Within minutes of their arrival, paint fumes and the sound of paint rollers were overwhelming. Volu nt e er K at ie Toporowsky, junior, said this was her second year as a participant. While meeting new people among her fellow volunteers is fun, she said forging stronger bonds with her current friends was the main factor in her decision to volunteer. “I thought we could make a good sisterhood out of it,” she said. For some, like volunteer Ryan Arnold, the day is a tradition; something that simply makes sense. “It’s an obligation as a citizen of the planet,” Arnold said. For Arnold, the day’s obligation is fun, and she said she was happy
“Usually, as a nonprofit that’s looking at other people, you don’t take a step back and take care of yourself ... When they were like ‘we really want to help you,’ it was very exciting.” Megan Sutherland | Director of The Common Good to serve at The Common Good, which she said is a place that’s connected to Bowling Green. The Common Good, which has been a part of the Bowling Green community since 1955, is a house that welcomes people of any religion, philosophy or creed. Initially known as the United Christian Fellowship, the organization moved to its current location at 113 Crim Street and renamed itself “The Common Good.” Lately, The Common Good has struggled to secure f unding. Initially funded largely by Christian churches when it was still known as the United Christian Fellowship, those churches have since become more individually isolated and, as Sutherland said, “become their own thing.” “Over the years, the churches began to see that they didn’t see young people coming back,” Sutherland said. “A lot of them pulled their funding back.” This is where The Common Good’s reinvention comes into play, Sutherland said, both socially and economically. The paint will help make a good first impression for prospective donors. “If they see that you respect yourself as an organization ... it’ll be
helpful,” she said. Sutherland said first the plan was to host a food drive, though the University had already had one planned. After that, she was initially hesitant about having the volunteers pe rform maintenance. “Usually, as a nonprofit that’s looking at other people, you don’t take a step back and take care of yourself,” Sutherland said. “We have a lot of stuff around here at the house that needs done, but for some reason I kind of felt selfish about that. When they were like, ‘we really want to help you,’ it was very exciting.” The work moved fast. The volunteers arrived at approximately 10 in the morning. By noon, they were nearly finished. As director of The Common Good, Megan Sutherland can be counted among the few people whose job is also their life’s purpose, or their work. Getting caught up in their purpose, organizations can often lose sight of their own wellbeing. While some might not consider a coat of paint to be much, for a house like The Common Good, it means a lot. “We give a lot to the communit y, but we always put ourselves on the backburner,” Sutherland said. “It’s like sending your mom to the spa or something.”
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