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SUMMER WEDNESDAY, June 26, 2013 Volume 92, Issue 103
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TUITION RISES 2 PERCENT, SMOKING BAN IN 2014 By Amber Petkosek Social Media Editor
At Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting the board approved a raise on tuition for the 2013-2014 academic year. A 2 percent raise was approved for both the main campus and the Firelands Campus. Main campus full time in-state undergraduate students tuiton will increase $7.60 per credit hour, a
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Chief Financial Officer $91.20 increase in tuition each semester, said Sherri Stoll, the Chief Financial Officer. Firelands students tuiton will increase $3.85 per credit hour, an increase of $46.20 per semester for a
full time student. Out of state students and graduate students will not have a tuition increase, Stoll said. Students in the Community College of the Air Force and in the UT-MUO nursing program will not have an increase in tuition, she said. All students will receive a $15 increase in general fees for main campus, which is a $1.25 increase per credit hour for a full time student. Firelands students general fees
will increase $2.40, a $.20 per credit hour increase for a full time student. The board approved the infrastructure engineering renovations to take place inside Mosley Hall, South Hall, Hanna hall and University Hall. Some of the infrastructures currently in the buildings by current codes “do not exist,” Stoll said. Before approving it the board discussed if it was worth the money to attempt to save the buildings. David Levey, a member of the
board said that the buildings are truly what make the University. “This is the heart and soul of the school, ground zero, the greatest buildings we have,” he said. “I don’t know how you quantify it,” said Betty Montgomery a member of the board. “It’s like putting a price on your first born to your last born.” Seeing students smoking on cam-
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Sociology department recieves grant for research Sociology department receives $417,000 in grant money towards research By Michelle Black Reporter
A few sociology instructors and students have their head in the books as they research the effects diverse neighborhoods have on individuals Associate after receiving a grant in May. Proffesor Earning funding has one sociology instructor ready to put his expertise to the test. Raymond R. Swisher, an associate professor in the sociology department, was excited to finally receive a grant after trying to receive funding for a while. “Being persistent and pursuing the funding paid off,” Swisher said. “We had been working on getting the funding for several years.” The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (EKSNICHHD) provided the department with $417,000 to help further its research efforts. Since the department has funding currently, Swisher has been working with his co-workers Danielle C. Kuhl and Jorge Mario Chavez to continue researching a topic that intrigues them all. “It’s a topic that crossed all of our interest in sociology,” Swisher said. “My colleagues and I are also interested in criminology, studying how an individual’s crime changes over their life course.” Research being conducted will deal with the consequences families and children may endure while growing up in violent or poor disadvantaged neighborhoods. It will include following individuals from their adolescents to their adulthood to analyze if they get involved in criminal acts. “Our research project is bringing those two areas of sociology together,” Swisher said. “One [side is] studying neighborhood disadvantages and the other looking at crime over the life course.” Danielle Kuhl, assistant professor in the sociology department, agreed that the grant would help combine the two topics. “They tend to be separate lines of research and what we want to do with this grant is we want to bring them together,” Kuhl said. “There’s a lot of separate research out there that looks at neighborhood and crime or life course transitions and this will allow us to combine and integrate the two.” The instructors won’t be the only ones conducting research. Students will be engaging in the research as well by developing their own questions and topics that interest them. The grant given by the EKSNICHHD helps encourage universities to expose undergraduate students to the research process. “Traditionally we might involve our graduate students, but this helps us to involve our undergraduate students,” Swisher said. Two undergraduate sociology students will be hired to work on the project throughout the academic year. Graduate students will help as well. “The graduate and student involvement is a big thing, it was a key part of the grant,” Kuhl said. “It’s really important for undergraduates to start getting experience with research before they leave.” Kuhl said that the grant will help the University be seen as a respectable college that can conduct research and provide opportunities for its students. “It means a lot for the University,” Kuhl said.
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DANIEL GORDON in 2011 (left) before his election for City Council and in 2013 (right) giving a speech.
STRIVING By Ryan Satkowiak Senior Reporter
Back in 2011, Daniel Gordon was a senior at the University when he made a decision he felt would help bring some balance to the way Bowling Green’s city government represented the interests of students. He ran for a seat on city council. More specifically, he ran for the First Ward council seat, which encompasses the northeast area of Bowling Green, including the University campus. As he approaches the middle of his second year on council, Gordon has announced he will be seeking reelection in the fall. However, he is only able to run for reelection thanks to countless hours of door-to-door campaigning that helped get him into office in the first place.
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In 2011, Gordon was serving as an at-large senator in the Undergraduate Student Government at the University when he received an email from the Wood County Democratic Party. Danielle McConnell had resigned from her position in the party, leaving an opening to run against Republican incumbent Mark Hollenbaugh. Gordon liked that the party was looking for a student to run for the seat and decided to give it a shot. “I really appreciated that they were looking for a student to run,” Gordon said. “We make up almost half of the population of [the city], and we didn’t have single student on council. Yet, council is supposed to represent the students of the University, so I thought that hopefully I could pull it off and we could have a student on council; I felt that [having a student on council] was very important.” Heading into his camSee GORDON | Page 8
MARCHING TO THE BEAT OF THEIR OWN DRUM
DRUM CORPS International’s (DCI) corps Phantom Regiment perform their 2013 show Triumphant Journey at Doyt Perry Stadium on Saturday. They were competing against nine other corps from around the nation for the 2013 Toledo Glassmen All-Star Review where they came in second. DCI tours annually with over one hundred shows nation wide.
STAFF EDITORIAL Read FORUM to see what some of the staff think about the tuition rise | PAGE 5
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BE THE MATCH: GET IN THE GAME. SAVE A LIFE. Check out SPORTS for an update about how the Falcon football team are doing after signing up to be potential bone marrow donors in May | PAGE 7
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WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE TUITION RAISE? “Well, it sucks. It has been on the raise for the past three years..” Michelle Chamlis Senior, Early Childhood Education