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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
VOLUME 92, ISSUE 18
Voters must be registered
the world through her eyes
Wood county or absentee ballots needed for election By Yalona Blair Reporter
The election is approaching, and there are rules to voting students at the University should know. Like many things, there are qualifications and rules to being able to vote. People must be at least 18 years old before the election, be registered to vote 30 days prior to the election, be a resident of Ohio 30 days prior to the election and must be a citizen of the United States, according to the Wood County Board of Elections website, www.co.wood.oh.us/boe/. There are three types of ballots available to registered voters. There are regular, provisional and absentee ballots, said Debbie Hazard, deputy director for the Wood County Board of Elections. “A regular ballot is cast, and once the ballot is cast you can’t take it back or anything,” Hazard said. “Provisional ballots are paper ballots that we hold until we can prove that the voter is indeed registered to vote or confirm their information in whatever way.” Absentee ballots are cast before the election and can be requested by mail, according to the board of elections website. Students not registered to vote in Wood County but want to vote here would have to change registration to Wood County,
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GLORIA STEINEM visited the University Monday and spoke to a crowd of 300 at a celebration of the Women’s Equity Action League. She spoke about equality, feminism and the legacy of WEAL.
Activist Gloria Steinem speaks on accomplishments of women and future endeavors of feminist movement By Danae King Campus Editor
Gloria Steinem is a woman who believes in looking at the world as if everyone matters. Steinem spoke at the University on Monday about looking at the world in this way and what it could mean. Steinem came to the University to celebrate the accomplishments of the Women’s Equity Action League, founded by an alumna. The group was also celebrating Title IX legislation, which states that institutions receiving federal funding must not discriminate due to gender. Three hundred people, including community members, WEAL
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members, faculty, staff and students at the University, attended the WEAL gala dinner Monday night where Steinem spoke about how the world is being transformed through equality. “In forty years no one has been able to name one thing that wasn’t transformed by looking at the world as if everyone mattered,” Steinem said. “[It’s] that understanding that we are all unique miracles that could never have happened before and could never happen again.” Steinem, a Toledo native, is an author, journalist, activist and icon of
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Jerome Library supplies University hosts farmers’ market Tuesday Dining Services encourages adoption of ‘buy local’ attitude by supplying students more tablets to students with variety of produce from regional vendors, demonstrates community importance Stock of Kindles and iPads increased to meet demand By Eric Lagatta Reporter
For cash-strapped students for whom an iPad or Kindle might be a big purchase, they can now check the tablets out of the library just like they can any book. The free service allows students to come to the circulation desk at Jerome Library or email circdesk@bgsu.edu to get on a waiting list to check out either of the devices, said Mary Beth Zachary, head of access services at University Libraries. The purpose is to give students the opportunity to test the iPads and Kindles before making such a big purchase, Zachary said. “That’s the point is that before you sink $400 or $500, don’t you want to test it?” she said. Zachary said the library cur-
rently has five iPads that students can check out for a week and five Kindles that students can check out for three weeks. However, the library has seven more Kindles on the way. The reason for the purchase of more Kindles is that both the iPad and Kindle are currently all checked out, with at least 10 on the waiting list for each, Zachary said. “We want as many people as possible to get a hold of them,” she said. Dean of University Libraries Sara Bushong also attributed the extra order of Kindles to the high-use of the tablets by students. “From what we see already
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CARPENTER, WOJTALA LEAD FALCONS One year after not having a captain, the BG hockey team will have co-captains this season in Ryan Carpenter and Cam Wojtala | PAGE 10
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By Christopher Brown Reporter
Students had the chance to experience some local food outside the Union during a farmers’ market on Tuesday afternoon. Dining services hosted a farmers’ market, which featured three different vendors, that offered a variety of local produce, foods and flowers, as well as an “iron chef” competition, said Sara Meyer, Marketing Director for Dining Services. This was the third year for the event, which added another vendor and moved closer to the union, Meyer said. The farmers’ market began as and still is a means for the University and Dining Services to educate students about local produce and what students can do with it, said Marissa Riffle, executive sous chef for Dining Services. One of the vendors was Sirna &
Sons, a produce company that supplies the University and its dining halls, Meyer said. Another vendor was Bella Cuisine, a cooking instruction and catering company from Fremont, Ohio. Linda Lambert and her husband, Thomas own the company and frequent many Ohio farmers’ markets, Lambert said. Thomas also works as a chef for the University and participated in the iron chef competition, she said. Linda said this was their second year at the University farmers’ market. Bella Cuisine offered a variety of home-made items including jams, oils, shrubs, and notably different types of bread, Lambert said. Both Sirna & Sons and Bella Cuisine representatives said they were anticipating on selling most of their stock. Lambert said last year all they had left was a jar of jam and some
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fruit breads. Favorites among students at Sirna’s table included apples and apple cider, along with corn, cucumbers, squash and peppers, said Chris Varue, warehouse manager. Kathy Grabowski, an order processor at Sarno & Sons, said the school has ordered more of less of certain items based on student demand in years past. Regardless, they still ran out of apple cider very early on, she said. Joseph’s, a greenhouse located outside Bowling Green that was selling flowers, was a new addition to the farmers market this year, said Gretchen Thomas, an employee. In the first year, there was originally just Sirna & Sons and the chef’s table, but a vender has been
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WHAT WOULD YOU ASK PRESIDENT OBAMA?
Columnists Lydia Scott, Matthew Thacker, Emily Gordon and Kyle Shupe weigh in on different aspects of the electoral season. | PAGE 4
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