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Jim Gaffigan to perform at Stroh Center Saturday evening Veteran comedian Jim Gaffigan is coming to the Stroh Center Saturday.

Gaffigan is one of the most successful touring comedians in the country, with numerous platinum CD’s and DVD’s, according to a press release from the University. He has also appeared on David Letterman and Conan O’Brien’s late night talk shows countless times, according to the release.

Gaffigan also has a new comedy DVD, “Mr. Universe,” that those who are interested can buy and stream through Kindle, iPad or other devices for $5 on his website, www.jimgaffigan.com.

Tickets for the event went on sale in June, but they are still available for purchase. They can be purchased at TicketMaster.com or by calling TicketMaster at (800) 745-3000.

Tickets are $44.50. The show starts at 7 p.m.

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Learning community explores how to use video game design in classrooms to entice students

By Eric Lagatta Reporter

Video games might usually be considered a mindless distraction from schoolwork, but one learning community at the University believes the exact opposite.

The one-year-old learning community, called “applying principles of video game design to improve student learning,” aims to do just that: use the philosophies of video games to better the classroom experience.

The learning community, which has 10 members, features faculty members, as well as undergraduate and graduate students.

Tim Brackenbury, associate professor in communication sciences and disorders, started the learning community with his co-facilitator, John Folkins, professor in communication sciences and disorders.

“I’ve been involved with efforts to innovate teaching for years and years and this has a huge amount of potential,” Folkins said.

Folkins said that since so many people play video games, many people will identify with the learning community.

The community spent the first year looking at video games

and their design and how those are related to student learning, Brackenbury said.

During its biweekly meetings, the community looks at books, articles and videos about video games and applies these sources to the issues that members bring up, he said. Members can discuss things that aren’t working in their classes that they want to change.

Brackenbury said that there is a fundamental question the community is addressing.

“What is it about video games that is so enticing and can we learn things from them that make our classrooms more enticing?” he said.

Members of the learning community believe games have real values that can be applied to the classroom to enhance students’ education, Brackenbury said.

The design of video games can influence the way an instructor designs a course.

Like classes, video games aren’t easy, Brackenbury said.

“They’re really frustrating at times, but you keep trying,” he

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Students looking forward to renting DVDs from the Union’s new DVD rental kiosk will have to stay tuned for its installation.

The DVD rental kiosk from company ROC-U was set to be installed in the Union Sept. 5, but has yet to arrive.

“They [ROC-U] have run into trouble with their supplier,” said Gale Swanka, senior associate director of the Union.

Swanka declined to give a new projected installation date due to uncertainty of when it will arrive.

The kiosk’s location is still expected to be near to the information desk in the Union, said Katie Post, auxiliary affairs chair for Undergraduate Student Government.

As reported in an article printed in The BG News article Aug. 31, the Ohio-based company’s name, ROC-U, stands for Rent on Colleges and Universities.

ROC-U has DVD kiosks installed on area campuses such as John Carroll University, University of Akron, Case Western University, Baldwin-Wallace College and Wayne State University.

Twice as many students CULTURAL DANCE visit Learning Commons Tutoring center increases exposure on campus, success

By Dominic Binkley Reporter

The Learning Commons tutored twice as many students so far this semester than it did last fall.

In its second year at the Jerome Library, the Learning Commons has tutored 820 students in the first three weeks of the semester compared to 403 students at the beginning of this past school year, said Mark Nelson, director of the Learning Commons.

Nelson attributes the increase to the promotion done throughout the past few semesters.

“I think it’s all the exposure and the marketing we’ve done on campus,” he said.

Staff and graduate assistants from the Learning Commons visited classes during the first few weeks of the semester to spread the word about the Learning Commons, he said.

Andrea Dinderman, a freshman

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who uses the Learning Commons for statistics tutoring, said she first heard about the Learning Commons from a graduate assistant visiting her class.

She now goes once a week.

During the summer, presentations were given to new students and their parents to promote the Learning Commons. The Student Orientation, Advising and Registration program also held its advising sessions for new students in the Learning Commons, Nelson said.

“The advising was conducted in the Learning Commons this summer so a lot of the students got familiar with where it was and what it looked like,” said Sally Dreier, study skills coordinator for the Learning Commons.

Dreier said she has seen a definite increase in the use of the Learning Commons so far this

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STUDENTS PARTICIPATE in an Indian dance group, instructed by senior Harini Padmanaban. The dance class is part of the India Students Association and meets every Thursday night in 308 Union. Check out bgnews.com for more photos of the group.

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WHAT VIDEO GAME WOULD YOU USE TO TEACH A CLASS? “The Sims; it teaches you how to run your own life.”

Katie Bighinatti Sophomore, Architecture

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New organization signed charter with sponsor, Zonta International Thursday night downtown Rachelle Muckensturm

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Students can now join a new service organization at the University, the Golden Z Club.

The Golden Z Club is sponsored by The Zonta Inter nat iona l Organization of Bowling Green and it signed its charter at SamB’s Restaurant Thursday night.

Zonta International is a global service organization of professionals working to better the lives of women throughout the world by promoting special services. There are about 32,000 people involved with this organization throughout the world in more than 69 countries.

Chair of Bowling Green Zonta Golden Z committee Kathy East said one of the major goals of Zonta International is to estab-

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lish Golden Z clubs in high schools and colleges.

“Our club here in BG was founded in 1999, and we are very proud we are going to charter a Golden Z club, which means the start of a club at the University,” East said. “The people in the club will work to get more people involved on campus and it can be both men and women who want to join.”

There are currently nine people that are part of the club.

President of the club, Rachelle Muckensturm said she hopes the group can do a lot of service projects together, not just individually.

Muckenstrum has had experience with this orga-

nization before as she was the treasurer of the Zonta Club at her high school in Liberty Benton.

One service project involves making birth kits for women in Africa.

“This service project includes us getting zip lock bags and putting tarp in it so the women will be able to lay down on them, along with scissors, razor blades and a string,” Muckensturm said. “We’re trying to do like 5,000 more and box them up to ship there because last year they showed a lot of interest for what we did and we needed more.”

East said the main goal with this club is to be a service organization on campus.

“They will be looking for ways to serve both the University and the community of BG and to improve the status of women,” East said. “We’ll be continuing that project

too. Sometime this fall we will have a work shop in which we will put together those kits and send them to Africa.”

Junior Sarah Lieberum is a member of the club and said she joined the group because it is still at it’s very early stages of development.

“They were just starting it up and I thought it would be great to get involved and just starting it because you have more involvement in controlling what it is and what it stands for,” Lieberum said. “I just want to be more involved and to help other women in the group do what they want to do with the group.”

The club is open to anyone who wants to join and is free of charge. For more information on becoming a part of the Golden Z Club, contact the organization’s president at rmucken@bgsu.edu.

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said. “We want our classes to be challenging too but we want our students to be into it like they’re into video games.”

Brackenbury said the community focuses their discussion on modern video games because, unlike older games, they are about more than getting points; these games have real moral issues.

“You’ve got to make some really interesting decisions,” Brackenbury said. “It’s more than just shooting things.”

These moral themes that the games address can also be put to use in the classroom, he said.

“Instead of just reading books because your instructor said to read books, you’re reading for this greater purpose,” he said.

Another feature of video games is that as the players progress, they get new information right before they need it so the players are using that knowledge instantly, Brackenbury said.

Similarly, instructor’s could design courses in such a way that students will use their skills right away, rather than just waiting until they graduate,

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SENIOR ANDREW Durkee tutors sophomore Megan Mockaitis for her biology class in the Learning Commons at the Jerome Library.

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year. She attributes it in part to the support of the University faculty.

“I believe that the faculty and staff are also very supportive of the Learning Commons so that always helps,” she said.

A survey given to some students this past spring asked how they heard about the Learning Commons. Sixty percent responded that they heard about it from their instructors, Nelson said.

Dreier said students are attracted to the tutoring in the Learning Commons because the tutors know the skills to succeed in class.

“The tutors are students who have taken the class and gotten an A in it,” Dreier said. “So the tutors and the writing consultants and the math and stats tutors are all students who are successful students and what they do is share how to be successful in class,” she said.

In another survey of students this past spring, 65 percent of students said their grade improved from the tutoring at the Learning Commons, Nelson said.

“The tutors help me understand [the material] better but I still don’t get a ton of points for the homework,” Dinderman said.

Nelson said he thinks there is a stigma that students only go to the Learning Commons when they have a problem or are failing, but many of the students tutored are doing very well, he said.

“Forty percent of the students that came here last year had over a 3.0 GPA,” Nelson said.

Nelson thinks the tutors at the Learning Commons will continue to help a greater number of students this semester than last fall.

“I think we’ll have a positive impact in helping [students] not just survive, but get better academically and improve their grades,” Nelson said. “We’re going to have a huge fall.”

he said. The instructor could accomplish this by getting the students to engage in the classroom rather than just giving lectures.

Video games also encourage risk-taking, Brackenbury said. Because players have an inexhaustible amount of lives, or chances to complete a task, they are encouraged to take risks, he said.

To apply this principle to the classroom, students could turn in a final draft of a paper but get feedback and be to able revise it if something doesn’t work, he said.

“Usable feedback that allows you to still do something about it makes people more successful in the future,” he said.

When players start a video game, they will take on a unique identity and develop it throughout the game, Brackenbury said. Similarly in a classroom, the instructor could encourage students to take on the role of whatever the class is about.

“In a classroom, maybe we can help people change their perception of their self-identity,” he said.

Even if a student is not an architecture major but takes a course on architecture, this person could still assume that

identity, he said.

Junior Brian Collins said his favorite games are Final Fantasy VII, Pokemon and Rock Band.

Collins said he likes that video games allow him to take a break from the stresses of everyday life.

“It’s just the fact that I can escape into a different world and forget about problems like school,” he said.

Collins said he thinks that because players are always working towards a solution in video games, they can teach people how to work their way out of problems in real life.

Folkins said that the application of video game principles can vary from class to class. The content or the size of the class could affect how it is designed, he said.

“It’s a matter of looking at what your outcomes are,” he said. “It’s working for a different direction that might work for different circumstances.”

Folkins said that the way in which the learning community grows will be based on what the members want.

“We really want to be participant-centered and go in the direction that is most interesting to the people involved,” he said.

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Search for healthy on-campus options AMANDA McGUIRE RZICZNEK FOOD COLUMNIST

Looking for something healthy to eat on campus? Dining Services offers many options for those watching their diets or those with dietary restrictions.

Those watching their weight want to avoid the fast food temptations of pizza, subs and takeout Chinese at the Union’s Falcon Nest. But if something quick is what you need, grab-and-go sushi, veggie and fruit cups and salads are available.

If you have time to spare, the Black Swamp Pub & Bistro touts a sesame roasted chicken salad and a Mediterranean fish stew, which could be perfect for weight watchers, if they ask for the dressing on the side and skip the piece of grilled sourdough.

After strolling through all of campus’ eateries, hands-down the best places to find healthy choices that can appeal to vegetarians, vegans and those living without gluten are the dining halls, such as the Kreischer Sundial or The Oaks.

To see a daily menu for each dining hall, visit the BGSU Dining website (http://www.dineoncampus.com/bgsu), and check out the new legend denoting vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes.

(There are nutrition charts and a nutrition journal on the website, too, for those keeping close tabs on their diets.)

Meatless Mondays at the Kreischer Sundial are quite a field day for all veggie lovers. The Asian vegetable wrap during Monday’s lunch as well as the tofu Jambalaya at dinner are creative culinary alternatives to vegetarian salads.

Also, compound salads, such as lentils and rice, are a great way to get the protein and fiber the body needs. Daily at Kreischer, too, there is a vegetarian salad bar with some vegan options.

Kathrin Weishuhn, a freshman, really enjoys the vegetarian dishes Dining Services offers.

“I never have a hard time finding something good to eat at Kreishcher as a vegetarian,” Weishuhn said. “If anything, it’s hard to choose.”

Even more choices can be found at The Oaks, particularly glutenfree ones, such as jamaican jerk chicken rotisserie style and mapleglazed ham. The plethora of sides, such as roasted squash, steamed or sautéed vegetables, rice and lentils, are mostly gluten-free, and great selections for anyone trying to eat a more balanced diet.

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Clothing store T.J. Maxx opens in Bowling Green

By Brittany Freeman Pulse Reporter

For students wanting to purchase new clothing at a discounted price, traveling out of town is no longer necessary.

TJ Maxx opened this past Sunday and is within two miles of campus.

The store is located on South Main Street, adjacent to Dollar General and Shoe Sensation.

There is a TJ Maxx located in Findlay, about 25 miles away, but this is the first time Bowling Green has had its own location.

Sophomore Kate Bero said she was excited to shop at the new store because it is inexpensive.

TJ Maxx’s merchandise has a variety of different brands, most of the time at a discounted price, making them more affordable, said employee Madeline White, who is also a junior at the University.

Hall directors, RAs host social programs for residents Programs give students chance to socialize, overcome homesickness, get to know fellow hallmates

By Alex Alusheff City Editor

Making friends can be a challenge for some students their first year in college.

However, students in the residence halls only need to walk as far as the lobby to get more involved.

Through hall programs, resident advisers and students can help build a sense of community, said Tim Shaal, senior associate director for the Office of Residence Life.

“Students come to campus not knowing anyone,” Shaal said. “If we can get them more involved and make new friends, they are more likely to stay in college.”

Hall programs range from

Event challenges filmmakers to work under pressure Students have 48 hours to film movie for contest

By Eric Lagatta Pulse Reporter

Filmmakers at the University will gather this weekend to see who can produce the best short film in two days.

The event, called the 48 Hour Film Festival, is the first of two that will take place this semester, said senior Ryan Featherston, president of the University Film Organization.

Anyone, regardless of major, wanting to participate can come to 105 South Hall, Sept. 14 at 5 p.m. and gather into teams

The store offers a variety of clothing, shoes, interior decorations and jewelry.

“We are very excited that TJ Maxx is in Bowling Green now,” junior Marissa Pallini said. “It’s a great place for college students to shop, because it is inexpensive and has a lot of great stuff.”

This new store opening has given college students more than just a new place to shop— it has also provided job opportunities for students.

White, who works at the jewelry counter, said she was very excited to be working at the new store.

“It’s really the only clothing store around here. There is a mall in Perrysburg, but that’s really the closest one,” White said. “It has variety and it’s perfect for a college town.”

The store is open Monday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

of 4-6, Featherston said.

If a pa r t icipa nt a r r ives alone, Featherston said they will find a group for the participant to join.

Once there, all teams will randomly draw a genre for their film, such as western or horror, a line of dialogue that must be used in the film, a prop that must appear in the film and something called a filmmaker’s challenge, Featherston said.

“Filmmaker’s challenge is usu-

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“If we can get them more involved and make new friends, they are more likely to stay in college.”

Tim Shaal | Residence Life Associate Director social events like ice breakers to the other five pillars such as academic, diversity, spirit and tradition, leadership, wellness and service.

This past year alone, there was a total of 2,389 programs set up between the residence halls,

1,688 being social.

Shaal said Residence Life has a six-week challenge where the most programming occurs because it is within the first six weeks that students decide whether or not to leave college.

Elise Draper, McDonald hall director, said this year the hall is focusing on building up large-scale social programs to increase student involvement.

Events like the Mactastic Olympics, which was composed of games to get residents to compete and interact with each other, have received popular feedback, Draper said.

The staff tries to build a rapport with the students and create an outside-of-class learning experience to make it feel

more like a residence hall than a dorm, she said.

“It’s more than just a place to stay,” Draper said.

For Administrative Resident Adv iser Nick Doeh r in Harshman, some programs are all about connecting and making friends.

Programs like setting up floor agreements give residents a sense of ownership of the place they live in and give them a chance to get to know one another, Doehr said.

For Sidney Scroggy and Allison Rybinski of third floor Bromfield, a hall program on opening weekend was the reason they became friends.

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Performance ticket prices to be cheaper

Students can see performances for as low as $1.75 per ticket if bought online

By Hannah Benson Pulse Reporter

Students who want to attend plays this year may only have to spend $1.75 per ticket if they purchase online.

In past years, ticket prices were around $8 and up. Prop master and scenic designer Kelly Mangan said she believes the discounted ticket will draw a larger audience than previous years’ productions.

“Last year we sold out of every show of “Chicago;” people couldn’t get tickets and that was when they were paying for them,” Mangan said.

“So now if they are going to be free, you could potentially not get to see a show because everybody and their brother is going to want to come because its free.”

“A Christmas Carol” director Geoff Stephenson said he does not think

the new price will make a difference in ticket sales.

“I don’t really expect more students to come than who came before, because if they’re not required to go see it, they probably won’t anyway,” Stephenson said. “Theatre is an art form that either you were brought up to go to theatre or you can afford to go to theatre.”

Students will have the opportunity to get discounted prices for two productions this semester; “The Seagull” and “A Christmas Carol.”

“The Seagull” by Anton Chekhov will be directed by associate professor of Theatre and Film Jonathan Chambers and be performed in the Eva Marie Saint Theatre in mid-October. Since the Eva Marie Saint Theatre is a black box, it can be configured in many

different ways, Chambers said.

This past year, “Arabian Nights” was performed in the Eva Marie and it had round or arena style seating, with the audience on all four sides of the stage; this year, “The Seagull” will have thrust seating, with the audience only surrounding three of the four sides.

Chambers, who also directed “Arabian Nights” this past spring, said in addition to the variety of ways the Eva Marie can be configured, it is also an intimate setting for both the audience and performers.

“The stage configuration we use is an incredibly intimate space and so the actors are doing their work even from the back row,” Chambers said.

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Friday, September 14, 2012

PEOPLE ON THE STREET “Pikmin; teaches teamwork and resource management.”

JACOB HENRY Sophomore, Music Education

What video game would you use to teach a class?

“Starcraft for lessons in economics.”

IAN ROBINSON Sophomore, Journalism

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“Spore for biology.”

RACHEL SCHIRRA Junior, Biology

“Madden to emulate sports injury.”

CHRIS MCCLAIN Freshman, Athletic Training

Administration LETTERS TO THE EDITOR should stand behind PEOPLE ON THE STREET What’s your favorite thing about St. Patrick’s Day? University faculty Falcon fandom should continue

This Saturday, our Falcons did a great job of defeating the Idaho Vandals at “Gettingthe up Doyt.

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KAYHLENE POTI,Yet, for the past several years, Too often, it is easy to forget the University’s administraSophomore,I hear you asking, “But what Freshman, that the men and women tion has made it harder for our does this mean for me? Why Pre-Socailwork Business/Accounting teaching us for three hours a teachers to receive the benefits should I care?” week do more than we give they deserve: first through the The answer is simple: if you them credit for. administration’s opposition like having good faculty, if you In addition to their class to the Bowling Green State don’t want your favorite proloads, professors publish, University Faculty Association fessor leaving for a more stable bookpaying “Watership up as animals” thing.

‘Furries’ notclubs, what you dress start and run volun(the faculty union) and now its Adams’ and better job, if you Down” too; and lose the I’m a furry, and I stumbled might think teer, advise and become our continued slowness in agreethink professorsyou deserve better, nice assonance.

So, we go upon this article.

You guys friends and mentors all while ing to a contract (which was then this issue should matter the $10 word. just ended July up being Okay, this is going be generally making lessto money promised 1). the ones with to you.

The whole fursuiting thing who get the letter because the weirdest letter to the can best be described as the this is a common fallacy. I editor you’ll ever get, I guarfurry fandom’s equivalent just feel the need to straightantee it. of an anime fan cosplayen this up.

The article ‘Furries, The whole “fursuiting” thing ing (costume playing) or people who dress up as ania Trekkie dressing up in a is a subset of furry fandom. mals, wish to garner smiles, Starfleet uniform.

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However, though the costumers stand out like a sore thumb, the average Jacob Redfern furry would rather just watch jacobr@bgsu.edu “Rango” or “Kung Fu Panda 2” than actually put forth the effort to wear a costume, this average furry included.

So, anyway, thanks for letting me straighten that up!

P.S. It really was otherwise a nice article.

— Brendan Kachel b_kachel@yahoo.com

Sunny days promote bright attitudes TARA KELLER COLUMNIST

This week Bowling Green proved that nice weather brings out the nice in all of us.

The 70 degree weather transformed the hibernating campus into a wonderland of life and students enjoying their first

real dose of vitamin D. Everybody was literally in a sunny mood.

My friends and I took full advantage of mother nature’s leniency and trekked up onto the Wolfe Center, blanket and homework in tow. We weren’t the only ones.

The basketball courts were filled with friendly competitors, people played ultimate Frisbee like they were at the Olympics and

the benches were occupied with old friends using the day to catch up.

Why was it people’s attitudes exponentially increased for the better as the temperature climbed in the same direction?

Sitting on the Wolfe Center and hoping in vain the sun would tan my exposed legs, I contemplated several theories.

Vitamin D intake, perhaps. Science tells us that

the neurons in our brains react positively when the sun is out and ready to greet us. Psychologists actually advise individuals suffering from depression to use the sun as a temporary picker-upper.

Maybe it’s the way the sunlight highlights the campus.

Now we can clearly see

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FILMS From Page 3 ally related to cinematic techniques,” he said.

T he tea m may be asked to use slow motion or split screen in part of the film or to make an homage to a certain filmmaker, he said.

“Once you have a genre, line, prop and challenge, you get out and make a movie in 48 hours,” Featherston said.

The filmmaking takes place Sept. 14 to 16, he said.

Ever yone in the group is involved in the filmma k i ng process a nd not just one person is t he creat ive force, Featherston said.

“It’s ver y collaborative,” he said. “Unlike a lot of films you might make, it won’t be necessarily one person who takes charge.”

Featherston himself will be competing in his 11th consecutive 48 Hour Film Festival.

“In my experience, it’s one of the most fun filmmaking events on campus,” he said. “If it wasn’t fun, I wouldn’t do it every single time.”

BG Reel, another film organization on campus, will be renting out equipment to any participants who need it, said sophomore Desiree Holton, president of BG Reel.

The available equipment, which is free, ranges from anything a filmmaker would need, such as a camera or a light, Holton said.

BG Reel has improved its rental system from this past year’s so that they can better track who has the equipment and when that person checked it out, she said.

“We’re trying to make it more a professional way so it’s not so looseygoosey who gets what and when,” she said.

Students who participate in the 48 Hour Film Festival must fill out a form to request the equipment they need. BG Reel will keep track of the times when they checked the equipment in and out, Holton said.

BG Reel’s website, http://bgreelproductions. weebly.com/, even tracks the checked-out equipment so students can see what’s available.

“There’s probably going to be a lot of people that will want to rent because there will be a lot of new people,” Holton said.

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“In my experience, it’s one of the most fun filmmaking events on campus.”

Ryan Featherston | UFO president Holton said she participated in all four 48 Hour Film Festivals her freshman year and even won last spring’s festival.

She said she likes making these projects with a strict deadline.

“My favorite t hing about it is it’s really a time constraint,” she said. “Plus you really get to know the people you’re working with.”

Holton also said it’s interesting to see the creative ways in which participants use their picks.

“Yes, you’re all competing, but in a way, it’s just the experience of making something,” she said.

UFO will host the screening of the films Sept. 19 at 9 p.m. in the Gish Theatre, Featherston said.

Holton said faculty and graduate students judge the films and choose a winner based on five categories: entertainment value, use of the criteria, acting, cinematography and editing.

Whichever team has the overall best score wins.

The top three winners receive a prize, such as a DVD, she said.

There is also an audience award, Holton said.

“Everyone in attendance gets to award a film based on whatever criteria you want,” she said.

The winner of this award receives a professional, glossy photo of the previous winner of the audience award as a joke, she said.

Senior Ben Measor, a film major, has won the audience award in the past, along with a glossy photo.

“We gave it to one member of our team so it was something to remember everyone by by giving him this picture of someone he doesn’t even know,” Measor said.

Measor said the appeal of the 48 Hour Film Festival is that sometimes, filmmakers just want to make something for fun.

“It’s not like you want to make something big and grand,” he said. “This is just something to get a team together who want to make something.”

Coming up next week: Pulse columnist Eric Lagatta predicts which upcoming movies will receive

Oscar buzz.

CAST MEMBERS for the musical “Chicago” practice before their performance this past spring. Ticket prices for this year will be $1.75 if students order online.

PLAYS From Page 3 Mangan said she is interested to see how the audience copes with the space, since it is only the second show to be performed in the Eva Marie.

“I think it will really be interesting to see how the audience reacts to such a small space, where the actors are so close,” Mangan said. “I’m not sure that today’s audiences are used to that.”

Chambers said he believes the audience will connect with the play, despite it being more than 100 years old.

“I think sometimes a playwright like Chekhov has the

FOOD From Page 3 “There’s no doubt Dining Services offers healthy options,” said freshman Brooke Blankenship. “But they could offer more vegetables, we know. I don’t really like squash or vegetables I don’t recognize.

HALLS From Page 3 “They make you feel a part of the group and you don’t have the chance to be anti-social because they won’t let you,” Scroggy said.

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reputation of being boring and I can almost guarantee that my production will not be boring,” Chambers said.

“I think that even though the characters are 100-years-old, that people can see the characters dealing with struggles that are very familiar.”

While “The Seagull” will start from scratch in terms of costumes and scenery, “A Christmas Carol” will be able to reuse some costumes and scenery.

“It’s the way we did it last time, but the way we did it last time was for a completely different theatre,” Mangan said. “So we have to make some modifications, because it won’t necessarily fit in the new theatre the way it did.”

“A Christmas Carol” adapted for stage by Margaret McCubbin will be directed

by Geoff Stephenson and be performed in the Donnell Theatre in November and early December.

Despite not starting rehearsals until Sept. 24, Stephenson said he is looking forward to working with his terrific cast and directing his first show in the Donnell theatre.

“It’s going to be nice to work in a theatre where the lighting system isn’t going to collapse, catch on fire and that annoying fan isn’t going to clack in the background,” Stephenson said.

While both Stephenson and Chambers are excited to direct in the new facility,

Mangan and “Chicago” director Michael Ellison said everyone is constantly learning about the new space.

“Even the faculty who are professionally trained still take quite awhile to read the 400-page manual of how to work specifically this sound board,” Mangan said.

Ellison directed the first large-scale musical production performed in the Donnell Theatre this past spring.

“It had its challenges, but oh what great challenges,” Ellison said. “One of the things I love about the Donnell Theatre is it feels so intimate. You’re not that far from the audience. Any audience member was no further than 14 rows from the stage.”

But at least The Oaks has variety. The Carillon Place has the same things everyday, which is really boring.”

Even though some of the choices available in the dining halls might be intimidating or seem a little too culinary for some, it’s fair to say that Dining Services is making an effort to accommodate specific

dietary needs.

“We have always consistently invited dietary-need students to work directly with our chefs and Daria Blachowski Dreyer, our dietician, to help steer these needs to applicable dining venues and work directly with our chefs to help them with menus,” said senior executive chef Pat Hannan.

Those with lactose, egg and other allergies should definitely contact the Dining Service chefs for accommodations.

Maybe squash isn’t your thing, but there’s no shortage of healthy food choices on campus. Look beyond the burgers and pizza, and you’ll find something good to eat—no matter your diet.

support systems as well.

“If you get homesick, you know you have someone to go talk to,” Rybinski said.

For more isolated and upperclassmen dorms like Falcon Heights, the staff has to take a different approach.

“Residents can go in their suites and never

come out, so the RAs have to work to get them out through visiting different programs outside like Campus Fest,” said Jennifer PoggialiBuening, Falcon Heights hall director.

The students have already had a year experience and want to get more involved, Poggiali-

Buening said.

Hall programs can also serve as an alternative for going out to the bars.

“We prov ide a sa fe env ironment and alternative so students don’t feel the pressure to go out and can meet other students who feel t he sa me way,” Pogg ia l iBuening said.

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Volleyball to face national contender Purdue Men’s soccer Falcon Volleyball will travel to play in Purdue Active Ankle Challenge against UAB and Jacksonville State to play at home By: Max Householder Reporter

The volleyball team got another win under its belt last weekend and will look to improve upon that as they make its fourth road trip in as many weeks. This week the Falcons will head to Purdue to compete in the Purdue Active Ankle Challenge to face the likes of UAB, Jacksonville State plus the host of the tournament and national title contender in Purdue.

Other than Purdue, none of the other three teams rank in the AVCA top 25 which compared to last week should be a much more feasible challenge. Both UAB (5-6) and Jacksonville State (6-5) have records around .500 but have not faced the type of competition that BG has.

Although UAB is not as much of a

threat on the offensive side with no players averaging three kills per set, they do have an excellent defensive game. Its best player by far is senior middle blocker Sam Serley who posts 1.32 blocks per set while also leading the team in kills and attack percentage (.376).

With Jacksonville State, the Falcons are getting a team that started out the year 4-0 but has since gone 2-5. It does have a winning record, but the most highly regarded team on its schedule is Auburn and they lost to them in three sets. A player to watch for the Gamecocks is their outside hitter Jen Meyer who has 104 kills on the year.

The team beleives that the toughest team the they will play this weekend and possibly this season will be the final match of the

weekend against Purdue. Purdue ranks 14th in the AVCA top 25, just one spot ahead of BYU, a team BG played just this past weekend.

The Falcons were a lot more consistent this past weekend as they swept Portland State in three sets, took Utah to five and out hit BYU. That is why this week in practice the team’s confidence is up and the emphasis is less on their opponent and more on themselves.

“When coach talks to us at practice she says how it is our practice and the focus should be on what we need to get better,” outside hitter Paige Penrod said. “Whoever is playing across the net we still want to play our same offense, same defense.”

According to coach Tomic, the team needs to have at least three and hopefully four hitters with

taking TOLEDO

double-digit kills.

“We are getting better, the week before BYU our issue was that we couldn’t create kills, I think we only had one player who had doubledigit kills,” Coach Tomic said.

She also mentioned that lately the positives have outweighed the negatives and that the team will have a winning record sooner rather than later.

“Right now some of these lessons we are learning in our losses are more important to us then ‘W’s,” Tomic said. “I would always rather have an opponent who is going to push you to be the best that you can be and lose to that team possibly, than against an easy team where you are not going to learn and get better.”

The Purdue Active Ankle Challenge begins Friday at noon.

Falcons will play Cleveland State Friday night

By Alex Krempasky Reporter

The Bowling Green men’s soccer team is taking the field once again on Friday night in Cleveland against the Cleveland State Vikings. This will be the first game since their draw against Coastal Carolina on Sept. 9 and is the last match until the Falcons return to Bowling Green on Sept. 18 to take

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Turnover Margin

-1 17.5 350 39

+5 25.5 431.5 4 33 ties

Points Per Game

Yards Per Game

Total Wins In Series

Bowling Green will head to its arch-rival Toledo, 25 miles away, to face them in the annual Battle for I-75

By Michele Wysocki Sports Editor

Rivalry is in the blood of every football player and the Falcons are educated from day one on what this game against Toledo means.

Head coach Dave Clawson said there is no denying the importance of the Battle of I-75 and because both Bowling Green and the University of Toledo are so close geographically, there is little that they don’t share.

“We fight over everything,” Clawson said. “We’re in the same media market, we recruit the same areas, there is very little that we do as a program that doesn’t have a cross over with them competitively.”

Competition is something a football player thrives on and wide receiver Shaun Jopin said this rivalry is important to everyone on the team, especially for him.

“This rivalry is big to me, I’ve been around it since I’ve been a little kid,” Joplin said. “We don’t like Toledo — we plan on beating them and keep on going with the season.”

With Joplin’s family history with Toledo, he said that the blue and gold could have been part of his future when deciding on a college, but BG had the greater interest in him, and now he wears the orange proudly.

He’s grown and bought into the Falcons’ football tradition and has first hand accounts of the rivalry that

stands undecided until Saturday.

“What makes me not like Toledo is because it’s a rivalry,” Joplin said.

“I’m Bowling Green’s player now and we don’t like Toledo here and that’s just how it has to be.”

This game is not only the game of the season, and for every season for the Falcons, but it also has an added bonus this year since it is the Mid-American Conference opener for both teams.

“There is certainly a lot at stake,” Clawson said.

Neither of these teams have played each other under these circumstances before, but Clawson said it doesn’t matter when you play the game, it’s pivotal.

“If they wanted to play in July, then

we would play in July,” Clawson said.

Ideally, Clawson said he would like to see this game played in mid-October, but he said it’s all about getting students to the game.

“It’s not a rivalry game unless you can involve the students,” Clawson said.

“That is the key to rivals and our student turnout this past week was great.”

This will be defensive tackle Chris Jones’ fourth year competing in the rivalry against Toledo.

“I know the emotion that goes into this game and how it is compared to others,” Jones said. “Emotionally it’s just raised to another level.”

Jones and the entire team have been focusing on one goal this week and it is to beat Toledo.

Rugby will play momentum-driven Northern Illinois, first time in 12 years

By Nicholas Vanderpool Reporter

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MITCH SORA fights off one defender while running and avoiding another in a match this season.

The BG rugby team is off to another fast start this season, but the team will have a true test this weekend when they travel to Northern Illinois.

The Huskies are coming off a huge upset victory against Ohio University, so the Falcons are aware that no game is guaranteed.

Nobody knows what to expect from this game. The last time the Falcons and the Huskies played was back in 2000, and BG won in a blowout with a score of 107-0.

“I don’t really know much about them, but I know we need to step up our play if we expect to have a good game,” said Falcons flanker Frank Viancourt.

Northern Illinois has never beat BG in the history of the rugby program, which dates back 44 years.

One player that BG will miss this weekend is Matt Marquette.

Marquette was controversially elbowed in the face during a game, and the team does not know when to expect him back in the lineup.

Marquette is a shifty runner for the Falcons, and he already has six tries this year. Mitch Sora will most likely be his replacement this weekend.

Coach Mazzarella has expressed to the team that the Huskies will be ready to play on Saturday.

“They are going to be playing at home, and they will be excited to be at home following their big win against the Bobcats,” Mazzarella said. “It’s important for us to get off to a quick start.”

BG will have to control the forwards to be successful. The Huskies are physical up front, so it is key for the Falcons to stop their momentum.

BG always has a target on its back every season, but the entire college rugby universe will be keeping an eye on this game.

There is one team that is predicted to win a conference title and contend for a national title. The other team wasn’t in the picture before the season started, but now has already shown teams that they could be the sleeper this year in the Mid-American Conference.

The game will start at 3 p.m. at Northern Illinois.

It’s the end of every sentence and the momentum on every play and then finally they will get the chance to go head-to-head with UT, he said.

“The best thing is each team is going to give their best effort so each play you’re just going harder and harder, trying to win the game,” Jones said.

The Falcons haven’t seen a win against UT since Jones’ freshman year and he said that there is nothing that compares to that feeling of beating a rival.

“I remember that game, going up real fast 21-0 in the first quarter,” Jones said. “You just knew what it meant to the seniors who won that game and I know how that’s going to feel to me this Saturday.”

SPORTS BRIEF

Women’s Soccer starts off four game home stand

The 2-5 Woman’s Soccer team will be at home for a season-long four straight home matches.

The Falcon’s have lost a few games early, including their current 3-game losing streak, but look to turn it around this weekend when they welcome Illinois State on Friday and Loyola on Sunday.

The matches this weekend will wrap up the non-conference portion of the team’s schedule.

Illinois State Redbirds will bring their 3-2-2 record to Cochrane Field Friday at 7 p.m. The Redbirds are on a losing streak of their own, but for only two matches.

Illinois State went their first five matches of the season without a loss before losing a close match to Western Michigan and a match to then 15th-ranked Wisconsin in double-overtime.

The Falcon’s are 0-1-0 all time against the Redbirds as they lost their only ever meeting last season. A trait shared with Loyola.

Loyola will come on Sunday and are 3-4-0 this season. The Ramblers have played six of their first seven matches on the road so far as they again travel to

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College football is in full swing now, this week highlighted by the Battle for I-75, will be a tough one to call.

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Sports Editor

BG UPSET CITY! I have faith. vs. Toledo Toledo -3.5 BG 28, Toledo 14

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ALEX ALUSHEFF

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City Editor

The brown and orange baby, without Judging by our performance this Who’s UT? a doubt. past week, I don’t think we have it in us BG 24, Toledo 20

Toledo 28, BG 17

Ohio State.

California is coming a long way to Unfortunately, the Luckeyes will get its butt kicked! luck their way to another win.

Ohio State -17 California 97, OSU 0

Ohio St. 35, California 14

Ohio St. 42, California 17

Ohio St. 38, California 17

No.19 Michigan Michigan, in the big house, another MAC school, vs. Massachusetts against sounds so familiar.

Michigan -46 Mich. 42, UMass 24

Michigan is a no-brainer. Derp.

I couldn’t care less about this game

Should be an easy game for the Wolverines, but I think they’ll give a few points away early.

No. 14 Ohio St. I prerfer grapes over nuts. vs. California

Mich. 35, UMass 10

Mich. 34, UMass 14

BG 21, Toledo 17

SUDOKU To play: Complete the grid so that every row, column and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. There is no guessing or math involved.

Just use logic to solve.

Mich. 32, UMass 10

No. 22 Notre Dame Notre Dame, just because the only Sparty should take this one with If it were Michigan, then I think The Irish will barely take the win, but I school in Michigan worth existing is Notre Dame’ s performance this past Notre Dame could take them. think they’ll do it. vs. No. 10 Mich. St. maize and blue, not Sparty.

Michigan State -6

week.

Notre Dame 225, Mich St. 14 Mich. St. 24, Notre Dame 14

Mich. St. 28, Notre Dame 24

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Golf split up for two tournaments SOCCER From Page 6 The woman’s golf team will split up half of the team to play in the Ursuline College Fall Tournament, Mary Fossum Invitational

By Clay Leser Reporter

The BG women’s golf team will look to build on this past weekend’s second-place finish at the Redbird Invitational with split squad action this weekend. Half of the team will travel to Pepper Pike, Ohio, to play in the Ursuline College Fall Tournament, while the other half will play in the Mary Fossum Invitational in East Lansing, Mich.

“I am very proud of what our team accomplished in Illinois this past weekend,” Coach Stephanie Young said.

“A runner-up finish is a solid start against a tough competitive field and it really sets a higher expectation for our program this season.”

Patricia Holt, Kelsey

Benson, Lauren Diehl, Jen Blanchard and Julia Hoffman will compete for the Falcons at Ursuline College on Friday.

Holt shot a 241 (80-76-85) at Redbird to finish 37th overall.

The tournament on Friday will consist of 18 holes. The Falcons will be competing against Notre Dame, Hiram, Walsh, Urbana, Point Park, Grove City and Ursuline.

At the Mary Fossum Invitational, teams will play 36 holes on Saturday and 18 holes on Sunday. Bailey Arnold, Shelby Wilson, Lily Bartell, Hannah Lewis and Amy Ruthenberg will make the trip to Michigan.

Arnold shot a 229 (76-7677) to finish sixth overall at Redbird. She won the tournament last year. Wilson card-

ed a 232 (79-75-78) to tie for 15th. Bartell finished one shot behind at 233 (79-74-80) to tie for 22nd, while Lewis finished 28th with a 236 (78-78-80).

“We will be looking to Bailey again this week for more scoring leadership,” Young said.

“Her sixth-place finish at Redbird was impressive. Our freshmen, Hannah Lewis and Lily Bartell, had strong performances in their first tournament and I look forward to seeing their success throughout the fall.”

BG will be one of 16 teams competing at the Mary Fossum Invitational.

“Our focus will continue to be competing tough, executing under pressure and maximizing every opportunity with each shot,” Young said.

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on the Titans of Detroit.

The Vikings are currently 3-2 on the season with some impressive wins under their belt.

They have played in two tournaments in the past two weekends in the season. The first was the University of Michigan/ Oak land Tournament in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Falcons lost to the Golden Grizzlies of Oakland, 1-0, but defeated the Michigan Wolverines, 3-0. Their its next tournament was this past weekend in Providence, R.I. and it lost

to Brown University and won in double overtime against Siena College, 3-2.

The BGSU men’s soccer team and Head Coach Eric Nichols have been working hard since they returned to town at the beginning of the week.

“It was a good weekend and we learned a lot about ourselves,” Nichols said.

“We’re playing for results but we are really focusing on how we play, prepare and compete. We really need to take care of the critical moments like the last 20 seconds of regulation against Coastal Carolina.”

Senior Zach Lemke is accustomed to the Cleveland State Vikings

after playing them the past couple years.

“We kind of know what they are all about and we know they play a good brand of soccer.” Lemke said. “We definitely have to bring it, play a good game and make sure we do not have a slow start.”

The Falcons will be back at Cochrane Field on Sept.

18 to take on the Detroit Titans at 7 p.m. This match will be the first of three straight home matches against Detroit, MAC foe Akron, and Milwaukee.

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Students should keep Bowling Green classy, not trashy CHANCE STOODT COLUMNIST

Professionalism, responsibility, esteem; these are all staples of a model university student preparing for their future.

Whether it’s an interview with a future employer or creating solid first impressions of yourself to your girlfriend’s parents, presentation is important.

Knowing how to prepare like a professional and handle yourself responsibly is a large part of success and “climbing the ladder,” so to speak. There’s a great chance that, in the future, you’re going to go out with coworkers and bosses, or maybe you even need to lay some raw, heavy charm at a networking or business card social.

These excursions are often downplayed, but don’t ignore the fact that they remain an essential part of any career. It can, however, be difficult to learn the techniques in a comfortable setting.

Fortunately, two gentlemen named Sam Schmitt and Jonathan Zachrich have established a new tradition that does just that. Aptly named “Suit Up Bowling Green,” this affair gives everyone not only a chance to enjoy a night on the town with

MCKENZIE From Page 4 opportunity is the chance to make good. This is also the opportunity for others to see beyond the words and into a person’s heart.

This electoral cycle has been one that has been very negative. No one is being redeemed by this way of campaigning. Yes, politics is a combat sport. If your opponent drags you into the mud verbally, one must go

great company, but also an opportunity to prepare for other instances in life that require a certain level of professionalism.

Besides, who doesn’t enjoy looking suave and refined?

Many young men do not know how to wear a suit, or what is important when buying a suit. Hopefully this event will show a $100 suit that fits wins over a poorly fitting $1000 suit every time.

All of that aside, this event will bring together some of the coolest people I’ve had the privilege of meeting throughout my time here at the University.

Professional relationships are important, yes, but friends are among the greatest pleasures in our lives. I’ve heard several students talk about spending the night in by themselves because they feel that their only other choice is to hit the bars and clubs like hooligans.

This can’t be further from the truth; good times can be had in an alternative setting such as this.

With more than 200 people pledging to attend on the Facebook event, there will certainly not be a shortage of stellar people and fascinating conversations. Moreover, two University student photographers, Marley Cumblee and Tiffany Smith, as well as marketing aficionado Chris Guyot from

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Suit Up is, by no means, designed only for men to participate. The event is most definitely suited (no pun intended) for both men and women; in fact, more women are planning to attend the event than men. Suit Up intends to attract attention for the right reasons; quality, sophistication, style, respect for one another, and common purpose rather than being remembered for something negative.

Suit Up really has people excited, too. University student Gabriel Morgan even suggested that a non-profit organization be formed around the group.

The Suit Up non-profit would help connect people with suits to spare for individuals in need of something nice to wear to an important event or job interview. That, of course, is still in the works.

The next Suit Up event will take place this evening (Friday, Sept. 14) at 9 p.m. and will begin at Reverend’s Bar and Grill, which is located downtown.

More information on Suit Up can be found on the Facebook event. (https:// w w w.f ac eb o ok .c om / events/479314668759191/)

there and fight also. What is important though, is to look beyond the words and see whose action have been right and just.

We must judge politicians like we judge our friends and loved ones: by their actions, not just their words. We must look past rhetoric and bluster. We must delve deep to find the truth. If we look for it, we usually can find some good in anybody, even if their words are venomous.

I urge my fellow citizens

of the University to find that inner good in not just our politicians, but in everyone around us. Most importantly, let us find it in ourselves.

If we look for righteousness and justice in someone, maybe we can overlook the harmful speech and see a greater good.

The greater good is out there: we just need to hunt for it sometimes.

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