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Friday, September 7, 2012
VOLUME 92, ISSUE 10
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Union to increase hours By Abby Welsh Reporter
ANGELICA MORMILE and Kayla Somoles are both living in the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house upon returning to campus after recovering from a wrong-way crash in March.
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Sorority sisters return to campus after six-month recovery from wrong-way crash in early March By Max Filby Editor-in-Chief
OPENING THE DOYT TOGETHER
Kayla Somoles and Angelica Mormile made it back together. The two students were seated one in front of the other during the accident that killed three of their sorority sisters and put them in the hospital in March. Now, with six months of recovery behind them, the two Alpha Xi Delta sisters are continuing to take steps toward their “new normal” of school and life on
campus. “It’s a complete miracle,” Mormile said. “Who would have thought that we would be back here right now and living in the house.” Alpha Xi Delta, and the sorority house Mormile is referring to, is what helped
On Saturday, the two sisters will help to kick off the football home opener by flipping the game coin to determine which team kicks first.
CITY
merchants will be doing their own specialized activities. The festival brings roughly 60,000 people into town, making a huge economic impact and it’s a great thing to be associated with a highBlack Swamp Festival quality event, she said. begins Friday The University is offering transportation to The 20th annual Black Swamp Arts Festival and from the festival every 20 to 30 minutes during the festival Saturday and Sunday, begins downtown Friday at 5 p.m., offering a wide variety of attractions from food, live music according to campus update. and artwork from students and local artists. A shuttle will drop University faculty, staff and students with a University ID off at the The festival will have three stages set up: Woodland Mall, Meijer, University Lot A and Main Stage, Family Entertainment Stage and Acoustic Stage on Main, which will host bands the corner of Wooster and Church Streets, ranging from local artists to Rock and Roll Hall according to the update. of Fame inductee Booker T. Jones, according to For more information on music performancblackswamparts.org es, art shows and food offered at the festival One of the new features of the festival this visit blackswamparts.org year is that performing bands will be playing after-hour shows at Nate and Wally’s and Howards, said Barbara Ruland, director of when you can Downtown BG. check out the On Saturday and Sunday, two fine art and craft shows will be displayed on Main Street as Black Swamp well, Ruland said. Arts Festival: “[The festival] is a combination of music, art and fun and there are lots of activities for ■■ Friday: 5 p.m. to midchildren as well,” she said. night Ruland also said a quilt made from the past ■■ Saturday: 10 a.m. to years’ festival shirts will be raffled off as well, midnight making it a good collector’s piece. It is currently ■■ Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 hanging in Ben Franklin Crafts. p.m. Aside from the festival, Ruland said local
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her and Somoles make it back to campus just months after the accident. “I felt so happy,” Somoles said. “We weren’t even supposed to be back on campus yet.” Both Mormile and Somoles had multiple injuries as a result of the crash and had to go through surgeries and therapy before returning. Mormile suffered slight brain damage
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The new Union Director, Patrick Nelson, has big plans for the Union to maximize hours for student use. Patrick Nelson’s main Nelson goal was to talk to Director of as many students as possible who the Union utilize the Union. The issue was brought up by some of the organizations that use the building late at night. Nelson went to Undergraduate Student Government President Alex Solis to talk about his thoughts on added hours. “Maximizing hours without utilizing too many resources is the idea,” Solis said. Solis talked to other organizations on the forth floor who agree. “I think the biggest thing is, the forth floor closes at midnight so student leaders can’t always do the work and sometimes that is when students become most productive,” Solis said. “David Neely and I collaborated with Patrick Nelson and really had a chance to take this floor and keep it open longer.” In combination with this, late night food services will be expanding. “We will have a late night food option through Marco’s pizza area,” Nelson said. “We wanted to essentially say, if we are inviting students to stay later hours and have these eating options, we need more seating as well.” Now students have the option to eat and relax in the Falcon’s Nest and the fourth floor for a more quiet study environment. “The Falcon’s Nest is a great scene for food services but if
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Local restaurants increase revenue, traffic with slight location change Mister Spots, Buffalo Wild Wings discovered more business after moving sites By Tara Keller Pulse Editor
For some restaurants in Bowling Green, the key to success was a move — just down the street. Mister Spots and Buffalo Wild Wings are two such local restaurants that recently changed locations and found their revenue increased. “The new location is helping us out,” said Gabrielle Crisp, Buffalo Wild Wings marketing manager. “It’s going very well.” Buffalo Wild Wings had its grand opening April 16. The new location has a bigger size, parking lot and occupancy. The restaurant increased its size from 195 to 416. Quite a few people came back after the relocation, she said.
Moving further down Wooster Street gave the restaurant more room for parking as well. The new building also provided more space for food preparation. “The kitchen is much larger,” she said. “We can pump out more food.” Pumping out more food is a goal Mister Spot’s General Manager Mark Koldan said he has for the new location. Mister Spots moved from its original location on Court Street to Main Street Aug. 6. “We were an older building and we wanted to expand,” he said. “We’re getting more exposure on Main Street.” Besides changing its 26-yearold location, Koldan said the most important part of Mister Spots is still there.
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“The food hasn’t changed,” he said. “We’ve just gotten a nicer atmosphere and a different building.” Customers have also taken notice of the nicer atomosphere. “I’d say 95 percent of them are very happy,” he said. “They like the atmosphere and the room.” Koldan said he hopes the customers who weren’t aware of the location-change will find the new Mister Spots easily. “I’m hoping the homecoming people won’t miss us,” he said. “We hope that goes well and we continue making food.” Although moving buildings does mean an opportunity to enjoy more room, it can also mean enjoying a
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WHAT TYPE OF MOVIE WOULD YOU CREATE? “Shakespeare in Space.” Raymond Szparagowsk Junior, AYA Mathematics