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SUMMER WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2012 Volume 91, Issue 105
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Wood County Hospital to build new Health Center
The University has signed a letter of intent with Wood County Hospital regarding the building of a new student Health Center. The University will continue to discuss developing a Health Center with the Wood County Hospital, according to a press release from the University. “If an agreement is reached, BGSU will close the current student health center that it operates,” according to the press release. Stanley R. Korducki, Wood County
Lecturer remembered as dedicated By Danae King Editor-in-Chief
An elaborate train track was Kurt Hofmeister’s escape from everyday life. In Kurt’s basement sat a crisscrossing of train tracks, dotted with Kurt buildings and land- Hofmeister scaping – the place Died June 23 he went to relax. Kurt, a lecturer in the department of construction management, died June 23 of a heart attack. His wife, Dawn, and two children Karl, 17, and Henry, 12, remember their husband and father for his love of trains. Building model trains has been a hobby of Kurt’s for years, Dawn said. “It was something he started as a child and he came back to it about 10 years ago,” she said. “It was a hobby and stress-reliever.” Around the tracks sit structures such as a McDonald’s, a water tower, trees and mountains — some of the pieces Kurt had since his childhood. “He was so into this he wasn’t even aware that life was going on up[stairs],” Dawn said. Trains weren’t the only things Kurt was invested in, he also loved teaching and working at the University, Dawn said. “He changed careers so many times during his life but it was his final career at Bowling Green that was closest to his heart,” Dawn said. During his life, Kurt worked a variety of jobs in both engineering and construction. He taught for the past six years at the University. “He wasn’t afraid to put in the hours,” said Travis Chapin, chair of construction management. “He was here taking care of the needs of the students on a daily basis.” Kurt always tried to use his knowledge and explain it so the
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Hospital president, said the hospital is excited about working with the University. “We have a lot of confidence in our ability to work with students,” Korducki said. “[That’s] a lot of dialogue we’ve had with the University.” Korducki said there is more to come as the hospital and University continue to have dialogue. If talks go as planned, a new health center located on or near campus would open in 2013 or 2014, according to the press release. Korducki said he wants to keep costs low for students. “The most important [thing] is to keep costs low but keep service very high,” he said.
He also aims to have students be able to access the Health Center with ease. “We would want it to be easy for any student to come into the center, that’s why we’re going to be involved,” he said. Wood County Hospital was founded in 1951 and is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, according to the press release. “We look forward to continuing our talks with Wood County Hospital,” said University President Mary Ellen Mazey in the press release. “The goal is to enhance health care for our students while increasing efficiency. This type of common-sense, public-private partnership benefits our students, our University and our community.”
Classic cars to cruise onto Main 11th annual automobile show to be hosted July 14 By Tara Keller Forum Editor
Visitors to downtown Bowling Green this weekend may think they’ve time-traveled into another era. The 11th Annual Downtown Bowling Green Classics on Main Car Show will be hosted Saturday and
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match drunkorexia. She said she wouldn’t have classified the symptoms by the name, but that some students who come in with alcohol poisoning have said that they weren’t eating. Hoffman said the cases at the University are usually only occasional and the students aren’t behaving that way on a regular basis. “I see it more happening because they just don’t know,” Hoffman said. She said there are students who are aware and do it purposefully, but that she thinks there are very few.
When it comes to hunting, bagging and tagging it isn’t as simple as it seems. However, University senior Matt Miller came up with a product to make tagging more convenient. His solution: magnets. Miller’s product, the Magnetag, which uses the powers of magnets to protect and secure hunting tags and licenses, allows the hunter to simply magnetize the hunting tag anywhere on clothing or the prey, said Miller, a communications major. “About a year ago, everytime I went out hunting, I would think of how to improve the field and improve the licensing and tagging of game animals,” he said. By law, hunters are required to bring their licenses and tags with them, which are made of paper and can be easily forgotten in a wallet at home or ruined by the elements, Miller said. “I figured that there had to be a better way to tag animals — to attach something to them and protect the tag from the elements,” he said. One day Miller said he went to Walmart after doing research on how to connect things and found himself by the magnets. When he pulled a magnet off the shelf, it pulled other objects along with it. He then attached it to a hat and discovered his new product. “The Magnetag allows you to keep your wallet out of the woods and it will snap on anything,” he said. Miller said he also presented his product at the Sebo Series in Entreprenuership at the Union Ballroom in April and won the Dallas Hamilton Big Idea Scholarship for $3,500 towards his product. However, his product and business, Magentic Outdoors, couldn’t have come to fruition without
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Some students resort to new disorder to prepare for partying
Pairing an eating disorder with excessive drinking now has a name — drunkorexia. The term recognizes a type of behavior during which individuals restrict eating in order to get a quicker effect from alcohol, said Jane Crandall, University dietitian. “They think, if I don’t eat, I’ll get drunk quicker,” Crandall said. “It’s a two-fold diagnosis; this desire to get drunk or get drunk quicker is not an eating disorder symptom, it’s [a symptom] of an addictive.” Barbara Hoffman, director of the Student Health Center, has seen students with symptoms that
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will feature cars from decades ago and the newest cars of today. “It’s a nice blend of the old and the new,” said Barbara Ruland, director of downtown Bowling Green. “Just the sheer spectacle of the cars is the
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