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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Volume 93, Issue 23

SETTING AN EXAMPLE

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Evaluations ready students to teach Assessment required to graduate in education, could be required for license

By Eric Lagatta Campus Editor

Since Kye Allums can remember, he thought of himself as a male.

“Gender is a feeling, not a choice,” Allums said. “Just like I can’t choose to like a song; I feel like a man.”

He decided to let the world know on Nov. 2, 2011, coming out as transgender, the first NCAA division 1 athlete to do so.

“Transgender means the person may not have had gender reassignment surgery, but they still may have had the surgery,” said Luke Grabski, president of Vision.

Vision “is an LGBTQ organization looking to serve as both friend and partner to those interested in learning about and making the progress for the queer community,” according to its web page.

Allums came to speak about his experience at the University on Tuesday night as part of coming out week.

“Coming out week is a weeklong series of events surrounding national coming out day,” said Tobias Spears, assistant director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. “[The sole purpose] is to be visible for the LGBT community.”

Allums said he struggled early in life with who he was because people would call him ma’am and use female pronouns such as ‘she’ and ‘her.’

As a freshman in high school, Allums was labelled as gay, because a classmate perceived him as a woman who dressed like a man and liked women.

“When that happened, I owned that label,” he said. “I had so many girlfriends.”

He made the women’s varsity basketball team after never playing organized sports, and he said everything was going great.

His life took a nose dive when one girl at his school got jealous

Makenzie Nelson is set to graduate in May, but before she can do so, there is one final hurdle she must complete in the spring.

This hurdle is specific to her major, early childhood education.

It’s called the edTPA, or Educative Teacher Performance Assessment, an electronic portfolio required for all education majors at the University.

“I’ve heard that it’s a lot of work,” said Nelson, a senior. “I’m kind of nervous and stressed out.”

Stanford University and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education partnered to develop the edTPA to evaluate students’ readiness for teaching. It is endorsed by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the Western Governors’ Association and nearly all professional subject-matter organizations.

The idea is to provide a three-pronged assessment system aligned with state and national standards.

The test examines the following: planning for instruction and assessment, instructing and engaging students and assessing students’ learning. The tasks require students to answer questions about their experiences with student teaching and to provide data they compiled.

For the last two years, education majors at the University have been required to complete all three tasks to graduate, said Nancy Fordham, associate professor in the School of Teaching and Learning.

“If you’re not willing to do this kind of thinking, then you probably shouldn’t be a teacher,” Fordham said. “As much as they hate it, it’s going to make them think about what they’re doing.”

Another source of the edTPA’s controversy among students is while it’s required to graduate, it’s not required for teaching licensure in Ohio, Fordham said. At least not yet, but that could change as early as next fall, she said.

Ohio adopted the edTPA and recommended it for all universities in the state, all of which are at a different stage of implementation, said Dawn Shinew, director of the School of Teaching and Learning. “[The University] is kind of in the middle of it,” Shinew said, naming University of Cincinnati and Wright State University as two that are ahead in implementation.

And several states already require it for licensure, including California, Shinew said. There are 29 states, including Ohio, that are considering making the edTPA a license requirement, she said.

A total of 160 teacher preparation programs participate in the edTPA. “It will help them be more successful not only in their classroom, but in maintaining their

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kye allums spoke at the University on Tuesday night about his experience coming out as transgender. He was the first NCAA division 1 athlete to do so.

Kye Allums speaks at University regarding coming out as transgender as NCAA athlete

By Noah Jones Reporter

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kye allums made the decision to come out to set an example.

Withdraw fail no longer option for classes

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Students can either drop or receive failing grade

By William Channell Reporter

The University has changed its policy regarding withdraw failing from a class, making it either a withdraw or a fail.

This past semester, if a student withdrew from a class with a failing grade, the instructor or professor could issue them a withdraw fail.

This semester, they no longer have that option.

Currently, if a student chooses to withdraw from a class before the 12th week, then it won’t harm their GPA. If they withdraw after, they will receive a fail, not a withdraw fail.

“That allows the students to get

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out of a course if they don’t feel like they’re going to be successful with just a W on their transcript.” said Sue Houston, vice provost at the University. “There was not a lot of consistency across campus as to what constituted a W or WF. In general, there were feelings that students were suffering under that policy.”

Peter Vanderhart, a professor of economics at the University, also noticed the lack of consistency in the old policy and said some found disparity between instructors who would give withdraw fails and those

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Adam Novy, freshman, a member of Alpha Tau Omega, holds a sign asking for donations for the St. Thomas More church food pantry. The fraternity members will be living in the Union Oval all week to experience homelessness.

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Complainant reported that an unknown person stole his debit card within the 300 block of Colony Lane Road.

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Home Aid event to help those in need Home Aid of Wood County will host Project Homeless Connect on Wednesday, an initiative started to provide immediate goods and services to those who need them.

The event is open to anyone who is in need of goods and services, not just homeless.

“It can be anyone,” said Tricia Peters, publicity chair for Home Aid of Wood County. “No one will be turned away. It’s free.”

Peters said those who come will be able to receive necessities such as hot meals, haircuts and hygiene products. They will be able to leave with various goods as well.

The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Mark’s Church on 315 S. College Drive.

For more information about the event, homeaidofwoodcounty.org/p/ ho.html.

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Complainant reported that sometime during the night, an unknown person smashed the window of a residence with a piece of firewood within the 100 block of N. Enterprise St.

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FAIL From Page 1 who would sign withdraw forms without taking student performance into account.

“That seems unfair from some perspectives,” Vanderhart said. “Some people thought that was a little lax, letting [students] screw around and you let them bail.”

Junior Sarah Murilla thinks the change is a good idea.

“I think having the option of withdrawing and not having an F added to your GPA is good,” Murilla said.

“It’ll add to the status of our school because then people aren’t being punished for withdrawing when they know they’re doing poorly.”

Vanderhart said he was initially wary of the new policy but accepted it after thinking of classes as being like hurdles.

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Oak Grove Cemetery reaching capacity City plans for new cemetery to be located on corner of Green, Poe roads

By Seth Weber Web Editor

Within the next decade, city residents will no longer be able to rest their loved ones at Oak Grove Cemetery.

Municipal Administrator John Fawcett said there are currently 565 full-sized burial plots left in the cemetery. It will take approximately eight to 10 years to fill those plots.

“You can kind of view classes as hurdles,” Vanderhart said. “Hurdles that students have to prove they can jump over. And maybe they aren’t able to jump over them quite yet.”

Vanderhart said as long as the hurdles aren’t lowered, the standard isn’t lowered.

Houston said keeping academic policy up to date and changing is good, and mentioned some revisions she would like to see.

“It’s always a good thing that you look at and revisit your policies on a periodic basis,” Houston said.

“Circumstances do change over time. I think that there are some policies that we need to look at in terms of students changing from one college to another. For university policy, it shouldn’t matter what college you’re in, there should be a fairly consistent way in which students experience those [policies].”

SPEAK From Page 1 and told Allums’ mother he was gay.

His mother had him move schools and told him he was to never speak to the “black girls who turned me gay.”

“My mother was my best friend,” Allums said. “We did everything together.

We painted each other’s nails, and used the easy bake oven together. But the day my mom found out was the last day we really communicated.”

After a few weeks at his new school, Allums made the adjustment to the new academic and athletic policies.

“The move, although I hate to admit it, was the best thing for me.”

He had to take time to do homework and study or his grades would suffer, and the women’s basketball team he now played for turned him into the best shooter in the Minnesota area and the defensive player of the year his senior year.

Shortly after, Allums received a basketball scholarship to George Washington University in Washington D.C. “because it was furthest away from my mother,” he said.

The move to GWU was a happy transition because,

“That all of course depends on the deaths per year,” Fawcett said.

Oak Grove Sexton, Tim Hammer, said the average number of burials per year is between 50 and 70. If the city experiences years with high death rates, the cemetery may fill up more quickly than anticipated.

Once the cemetery is filled, the city may have to find a new area to use.

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edTPA From Page 1 licensure down the line,” Shinew said.

But the evaluation is more than just a lot of work; it also comes with a $300 price tag per student.

That money is used to send the portfolios to Pearson, Stanford’s operational partner, for evaluation.

This past spring, University faculty members reviewed the portfolios, but with 500 education students and five hours to review each one, it wasn’t feasible, Fordham said.

Since the University began participating in the edTPA, this is the first year it hasn’t been funded by the state. That $300 is now attached to students’ course fees so students are eligible for financial aid and student loans,

he said, being straight at GWU was a minority.

In his sophomore year at the university, Allums decided to tell his teammates, assistant coaches and head coaches he preferred to be recognized with male pronouns.

“My teammates and assistant coaches had no issues with it,” he said.

“They would always say, ‘that win’s on him or give it to him’.”

With the support of the team and his other close friends, life for him was good.

Then, Nov. 2, 2011 came.

A journalist called his phone and asked if he could share his coming out as a D1 athlete story with the world.

At first, Allums said no, but later reconsidered his decision.

“I had three closeted lesbians on the team who pretended to have boyfriends just to trick people into thinking they are straight,” he said. “I had to set an example.”

Allums called the journalist back and told him the story.

The world took off with his story and at the next Colonials basketball game, Allums said he was so nervous he did not score a single point. The media vanished.

“No one wanted to write a story about a transgender athlete who didn’t play

Public Works, said the city is still “trying to get the facts and figures” for building a new cemetery but nothing has been decided.

“Right now nothing’s been decided on whether we’re going to continue to develop a second cemetery,” Hammer said.

Although a new cemetery is in the early planning stages, Fawcett said there is a plot of land the city might use.

An empty field located on the corner of Green and Poe roads could be used, Fawcett said.

“The city of Bowling Green does own 40 acres of land outside town,” Fawcett said. “It’s roughly two to three miles west of here. It was purchased way back in the 60s, interestingly, for the

Fordham said.

Nelson, though, said she is worried about the financial burden that could be placed on some students.

“I’m lucky to have my parents support me while I’m at college, but I know for a lot of people, that’s extra money ... that some people might not have,” she said.

Still, though, Nelson sees the benefit.

“It’s a good way to test to see if you are teacher material,” Nelson said.

“It’ll help me to be able to reflect on myself as a teacher.”

Fordham supports the assessment because it “professionalizes” teaching, she said. She encourages students to see the benefits a portfolio like the edTPA could have on resumes. Further, it prepares students for the Ohio Teachers Evaluation System, a similar evalua-

tion that Ohio’s practicing teachers must undergo, she said.

“I think it’s good that there’s some kind of national standard,” she said. “We want to know that they’re capable teachers.”

Shinew echoed that sentiment, adding that school principals are already looking for completion of the edTPA in job interviews. “[They] are seeing this as a pretty legitimate way to get a read on how effective teachers will be in the classroom,” Shinew said.

The core philosophy, Shinew said, is that just as lawyers are required to complete the state BAR exam and doctors the medical licensing exam, so too must teachers complete the edTPA. “If you’re a teacher, you also have to demonstrate your professional knowledge,” she said.

well,” he said.

The next game he played, he stood out as the best player.

His collegiate basketball career ended with a ninth concussion.

“There were t imes when I didn’t know who I was and where I was. I knew if I kept playing, the worse my memory would be,” he said.

After being inspired to share his thoughts about transgender people from a lecture he attended at GWU and seeing his Facebook inbox filled w it h help requests, Allums wanted to speak to students about being transgender. Many high schools turned him down, so he went to speak at universities.

Junior Tiffany Suscheck said she attended Allums speech because she has a friend who recently came out as transgender and wanted to understand what he was going through.

“I feel like I better understand their struggles and know the reasons why we need to be sensitive [towards the trans community],” Suscheck said.

Spea rs sa id having Allums speak at the University was helpful for the community.

“When Kye talked about coming out to disclose a gender identification,

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“Knowing more about the trans community and hearing personal stories, seeing their faces, helps people become a better ally.”

Luke Grabski | President of Vision it was powerful because typically when people come out, it is about their sexuality,” Spears said.

Grabsk i appreciated Allums speaking at the University as well.

“Knowing more about the trans community and hearing personal stories, seeing their faces, helps people become a better ally,” he said.

Allums is creating a website called “I am enough.”

The site will tell stories of anyone and everyone who wants to tell their story, he said.

He said he wants people to be comfortable with the bodies they have and transgender people deserve the respect and love any other human being gets.

“I am happy and comfortable now that I am who I am,” Allums said.

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CALL IT A COMEBACK Falcons take down Ohio State 4 to 3 Tuesday night.

By Alex Krempasky Sports Editor

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The BG hockey team took the ice against the Ohio State University Buckeyes for its regular season home opener and came back to win 4-3 after starting the game losing 3-0.

The Falcons started off the first period well, but goaltender Tommy Burke gave up the first goal of the night on a power play to Ohio State right winger Nick Schilkey, 17:19 into the first period. Schilkey’s goal was assisted by right winger Anthony Greco.

“We were on a penalty kill,” Burke said.

“So I was trying to do less I could to kill the penalty and move the puck up the ice. It was a really unfortunate goal and our guys were playing really well. It was real unfortunate especially mentally on my part.”

After starting the second period on the losing end, BG came out looking for a morale boost to the game. However, Burke would give up two more goals to the Buckeyes, putting the Falcons down 3-0.

“We felt like we were playing better than the score indicated,” head coach Chris Bergeron said. “Then we come out and give up two goals in the second period to now be down 3-0 and we still think we’re playing better than the score indicates.”

Just as the game seemed to have been getting away from the Falcons, the tide turned thanks to an unassisted goal by right winger Bryce Williamson with less than 12 minutes into the second period.

Williamson’s goal began the Falcons shift in momentum that would carry through the

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BG Hockey celebrates their second goal of the game against Ohio State University Tuesday night. The Falcons won the game 4-3.

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Ryan Snashell dribbles the ball away from a Northern Illinois University defender Saturday night.

Falcons to focus on defense Tiffany Williams Reporter

The Falcons are preparing to host Cleveland State this Wednesday Oct. 16 at 7p.m.

The Falcons won this past Saturday at home against Northern Illinois 1-0.

“We work really hard,” said cocaptain Brandon Silva. “To see it pay off in the last game was a great feeling, and we look forward to continuing that feeling.”

BG outshot and defended well against Northern Illinois. BG has been able to improve its record with the home win to 3-5-4 overall. The Falcons were able to get their first overtime win of the season in front of a home crowd.

“We have been playing really well this season,” said head coach Eric Nichols. “We have been defending very well and we have been creating chances. There isn’t more I can ask for out of the team.”

BG’s home record is now 2-1-2 and they are 2-1-0 in the Mid-American Conference.

BG is preparing to wind down their regular season schedule with only seven games left, three of which are against teams from the Mid-American Conference, and

three of which will be played at Cochrane Field.

“We have been defending very well and we have been able to create many chances, so we plan on going into this next game the same way we go into every other game,” Nichols said.

BG will play its third straight home game Wednesday, then go on the road for two games. First, they will head to Davidson, NC, to face Davidson, then to Dayton to face Wright State.

According to Silva, the Falcons have learned how to prepare for both home and road games equally and having a home crowd cheer for them helps but they don’t prepare any differently, he said.

“We want to continue to defensively lock our opponents down, we are in really good shape defensively,” Nichols said. “We know we can be successful if we concede less than a goal a game.”

The Falcons will look to gain another non conference win in front of their home crowd at Cochrane Field Wednesday night at 7 p.m.

“We have to stay in the right mentality,” Silva said. “We have to focus on what we need to do to get the win.”

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Michael Wiest prepares to deliver the ball to a teammate in their game earlier this season against Big Ten foe Ohio State University.

Confidence drives Wiest as his BG career begins to come to a close

By Cameron Teague Robinson Assistant Sports Editor

“Confident” is the word many coaches and players use when describing senior goalkeeper Michael Wiest.

Wiest, a native of Naperville, Ill., is in his third year starting as a Falcon and has been a key piece to the improvement of the soccer program.

“It starts with culture,” said head soccer coach Eric Nichols. “He is the prototype of a student athlete that we look for, It starts with being a real character-driven person, but also being a real motivated and driven person on the field as well. He has been someone who will do whatever it takes for their team and themselves to be successful.”

Wiest was given his first collegiate start against the then number nine ranked Michigan Wolverines at Cochrane Field. He posted five saves, none any bigger than the two saves in the second half when the Falcons were leading 1-0. This game posted

many firsts for Wiest as it was his first start, win and shutout. However, this was not just another win for Wiest; he says it is favorite memory from his four years on the team.

“That was the best game I had ever been apart of,” Wiest said. “The atmosphere was unbelievable and against a ranked opponent like Michigan beating them 2-0 the feeling was just unbelievable.”

Wiest built off of that first start throughout the rest of his BG career as he had nearly 274 shutout minutes his sophomore year and topped that number junior year as he had a career-long shutout streak of 327 minutes. His junior year he had 100 saves, the most saves by a Falcon goalkeeper since 2003, and his seven shut outs were the most by a Falcon goalkeeper since 2001.

“It has been a steady progression,” said assistant coach Charlie Edwards. “He was extremely raw when he first got here and he has now turned into a player we think

can play at the next level. Credit him because it is his work ethic it’s his ability to be coachable and change his mentality to make himself better, he has come a long way.”

So far this season, Wiest has accumulated 45 saves with a .804 save percentage allowing 11 goals and playing every minute of all 12 games.

Through the 12 games this season he has accumulated five shutouts including one at home against Big Ten opponent Ohio State University.

“In some games I have to make a couple saves, but the guys in front of me save me a lot,” Wiest said.

“I have just been doing my job.

The guys in front of me have made everything possible.”

Wiest’s performances this year have been noticed by more than just his teammates and coaches as there has been a new twitter hashtag that has come alive this

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Harry Potter hero provides Republicans fight Obamacare, but have similar idea examples of leadership greg burleson Columnist “Those who don’t know history are condemned to repeat it.”

This is quite possibly the most circulated quote among historians.

I, however, prefer to think of my field in different terms.

Cassandra was a Trojan princess who was given the gift of foresight ­— she could see the future.

When the Greeks left the Trojan horse outside her city’s walls and her countrymen wanted to bring it inside, Cassandra was among the lone voices crying to destroy the horse. Cassandra, however, had previously not allowed herself to be violated

by Apollo and she was forever cursed for no one to believe her prophecies.

The horror she must have felt as she could see what her peers’ actions would cause, while none of them listened to her, must have been a tragic feeling I hope to never experience.

The inability of society to grapple with uncomfortable issues leads directly to its struggles or demise. JK Rowling’s novels surrounding Harry Potter’s adventures offer tremendous insight to this issue while parading history.

Consider this for a moment — Voldemort’s Death Eaters appear to be inspired by Germany’s Third Reich. A telling example is the Death Eaters’ wishes to incite genocide upon those they believed to be genetic crossbreeds.

Through the series, words like mudbloods, pure-bloods and half-bloods are thrown around regularly. An obvious comparison can be drawn to the Third Reich’s view of the Arian and Jewish races in the middle of the 20th century.

In the larger context of the series, Voldemort is genuinely feared for countless reasons. Years after his death, Voldemort’s name remained tremendously taboo. Most of society could not even handle hearing his name and the pure and raw emotions society felt required Voldemort to simply be referred to as “He Who Must Not Be Named.”

In a sense, those in the Harry Potter universe were acting out the fears of Ancient Greeks who feared saying Hades’ name because, if they said it too

often, he might appear.

This is also seen in popular culture. If I were to say “Beetlejuice” three times, he might just show up.

Perhaps more will be familiar with the example of standing in front of a bathroom mirror on Halloween and saying “Biggie Smalls” three times.

Rowling’s treatment of “He Who Must Not Be Named” is a clear representation of human nature’s fear of some boogeyman coming from the grave to harm and punish us for speaking their name.

Harry and Cassandra can both see the future and must attempt to fight the well-meaning, but ignorant, forces that wish to subdue their voices. Harry knew the circumstances which allowed “He Who Must Not Be Named” to rise to power were still a clear and present danger. To prevent “He Who Must Not Be Named” — or another like him — from rising, Harry knew society must acknowledge the powers and attitudes which allowed it to happen.

Opening this view a bit, JK Rowling becomes a subtle leader. She used a common practice in writing — using a mouthpiece to make her argument — to confront the evils of the Third Reich.

While her argument was made subconsciously, it was done effectively as it made her real argument without ever directly indicating the real objective.

Harry and Rowling are leaders in the sense that each exposed the harm in ignoring “He Who Must Not Be Named.” Neither Harry nor Rowling could hope to undo the evils unleashed by “He Who Must Not Be Named.” However, it became apparent that being unwilling to have open dialogue about “He Who Must Not Be Named” was counterproductive. Harry’s willingness to confront the Death Eaters was not done in lieu of sensitivity but was instead to prevent their kind from surfacing again. Seemingly, Harry is arguing that it was “He Who Must Not Be Named’s” vilified and taboo status which made it all the more important to discuss him and the reasons he was able to accomplish what he did.

After all, those who don’t know history, are condemned to repeat it.

Kyle SHUPE Guest COLUMNIST

We hear a lot of talk about the negative impact ‘Obamacare’ will have on the American people, but we don’t often hear about the lesser-known Republican alternative.

Proposed by conservative think-tank, The Heritage Foundation in the early 1990s, The Heritage Consumer Choice Health Plan was meant to provide health insurance to all American households by requiring all citizens to be insured through free-market insurance company plans, not a socialized takeover of health care.

This plan sought to make individuals responsible for their own health care by making health insurance necessary for all individuals rather than the use of big government programs and American tax dollars fueling the welfare state.

Former Speaker of the House and a 2012 Republican candidate for president, Newt Gingrich, said this plan was “exactly like automobile insurance,” which requires anyone with a car to be insured in case of things like accidents, but for health care.

The HCCHP was meant to protect Americans’ health

and well-being and promote self-determination, free-market health insurance solutions and competition among insurance companies.

2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney successfully used this plan as governor of Massachusetts. Seeking to provide greater “access to affordable health insurance and to eliminate the ‘free riders’ who expected the government or taxpayers to pay for their health care,” Romney’s plan covered nearly a half a million people who were previously uninsured and it was done without raising taxes, according to his website.

After five years of being in effect, nearly 100 percent of adults and children in the state had medical insurance (the highest in the nation).

Many more businesses offered medical insurance to their employees, and the cost of health care premiums dropped dramatically.

On the state level we can clearly see this conservative, free-market alternative to ‘Obamacare’ has been wildly successful, so why is nothing being done on the national level?

Legislation has been proposed with these ideals in mind since 1993 with the backing of prominent Republicans like Orrin Hatch, Charles Grassley,

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failed. In fact, the GOP is so opposed to this law they’ve shut down the federal government, furloughing government workers like FDA food inspectors; denying WIC benefits to low-income mothers and children; and ceasing funding for the NIH cancer research trails in an attempt to defund the law.

So, what’s the GOP’s problem with the Affordable Care Act that they’ve resorted to potentially seditious means to stop the law? It has the individual requirement, it keeps government out of health insurance, it offers free-market solutions and self-selection of a health insurance plan, so maybe the problem isn’t content but who proposed it.

Perhaps the Republicans’ opposition to ‘Obamacare’ is because their goals are not in the interests of the American people but are to see the president fail.

After all, Republican and Tea Party candidates ran and were elected opposing President Obama at every turn; they’re just delivering on their campaign promises even if that means opposing their own plans, even if that means shutting down the federal government, even if that means hurting the American people.

Robert Bennett and Christopher Bond, but no headway is made with the conservative health insurance plan on a national scale until 2010 with the proposal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The PPACA includes in it the requirement of individuals to purchase health insurance from private insurance companies, providing coverage to 33 million Americans by 2022, rather than the use of government programs and tax dollars to provide for them.

Naturally, the conservative plan which sought to fix a problem in health care coverage using free-market solutions proposed with a Democratically controlled House of Representatives, Senate and Presidency was passed and signed into law exclusively by Democrats.

The PPACA, also known as ‘Obamacare,’ became law without a single Republican vote and conservative proponents of similar plans such as Hatch, Grassley, Bennett, Bond, Gingrich and even Romney all vehemently opposed the law while distancing themselves from the fact they supported the individual mandate.

Rather than acknowledging they’ve gotten what they want, the Republican Party has tried more than 40 times to repeal the PPACA and

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This week we take a look at some of the week seven fantasy football stars, sleepers and busts.

W h i le some players exceeded ex pectat ions, others seemed to dwindle when thrown in the spotlight.

Start off with standout tight end Vernon Davis, who has now caught a touchdown in four of five games this season. Davis has already increased the number of touchdowns he had all of last season with six this year. This past Sunday in a 32-20 victory over the Arizona Cardinals, Davis had eight catches on 11 targets for a season high 180 yards and two touchdowns.

Cincinnat i Benga ls Andy Dalton threw for a season high 337 yards and three touchdowns after failing to throw a touchdown the past two games. Dalton was starting to hear the critics but silenced them in a thrilling 27-24 overtime victory

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Nearly six minutes later, right winger Ben Murphy scored the second goal for the Falcons by means of Williamson and defender Ralfs Freibergs.

The Falcons went to the locker room after the second period down 3-2 but they had a snowball effect going as they took the ice in the third period.

BG tied the game up in the first three minutes of the third period. This time it was by the stick of defender Connor Kucera, who

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over the Buffalo Bills.

Denver Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno is next on our list. Moreno, who only had 42 rushing yards this week, had his fewest rushing yards since week 2 vs. the Oakland Raiders where he had 39.

However, Moreno had three touchdowns vs. the Jacksonville Jaguars this week, which puts him at seven on the season, leading all running backs.

The last standout on our list is Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide out Vincent Jackson.

Struggling would be an understatement for Jackson and the winless Bucs before facing of vs.

Philadelphia Eagles this past weekend. Jackson had nine catches for 114 yards and his first two scores of the 2013 season.

One sleeper who caught owners’ eyes this past weekend was Eag les quarterback Nick Foles, who threw for 296 yards and three scores in his first start of the season. Foles, filling in for injured Michael Vick,

also had a rushing touchdown as well. Foles now has six touchdowns and zero interceptions on the year, which matches the entire amount of scores he threw for last season.

The St. Louis Rams had two interceptions, two fumble recovers and two touchdowns en route to a 38-13 victory over the Houston Texans.

The second defense on the list is the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs, who held the Oakland Raiders to seven points. The Chiefs have held three of six opponents to under ten points this season.

After three more interceptions this past week, the Chiefs now have ten on the season. Not only are the Chiefs getting turnovers this season, but they are scoring on them as well.

Their defense has scored a touchdown in five of six games this season.

Next on the list is Detroit Lions rookie tight end Joseph Fauria out of UCLA. The 6’7” end now has seven receptions for five touchdowns on the

was assisted by center Dan DeSalvo.

Before the Buckeyes could regroup following the Falcons’ third straight goal, Ohio State defender Al McLean was booked for tripping 14 seconds later and Murphy scored his second power play goal of the game and Freibergs recorded his second assist of the game.

Following the Falcons’ fourth goal, BG held Ohio State scoreless and left with its first regular season win of the season.

“Our leadership did a great job,” Bergeron said.

“They were challenged a little bit after Saturday [against Union College] and they stepped up and played

well today.”

The Falcons won their first game in front of a crowd of 2,752 and Bergeron thanked the student section for its support.

“I really appreciated the student section for its support,” Bergeron said.

“The student section, the Bleacher Creatures, the Falcon Fanatics are doing a real good job at getting the atmosphere in this building.

Thank you on behalf of the whole program.”

The Falcons take the ice at the BGSU Ice Arena again this weekend when they host the Colgate University Raiders on Friday and Saturday. Both games begin at 7:07 p.m.

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season, including three this past weekend. Fauria now has more touchdowns than Calvin Johnson, Arian Foster and Ray Rice.

Bears Alshon Jeffery had just one catch for 27 yards vs. the Giants. The week before, Jeffery had 10 catches for a Bears franchise record 218 yards.

Buc c a neer s Doug Martin and Tennessee Titans Chris Johnson are the next two players on our list. They have combined for one touchdown this season. Martin is averaging just 3.5 yards per carry this season. Johnson, who left this past week with an apparent leg injury is averaging 3.1 yards per carry and has yet to rush for over 100 yards in a game this season.

Baltimore Ravens Torrey Smith finishes off the list for busts in week six in the NFL. Smith was limited to just one catch for 12 yards in a loss to the Green Bay Packers this past weekend.

Smith has yet to get going this season and remains with just one touchdown this season.

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“We make fun of him a lot for it.” said junior midfielder Danny Baraldi. “It’s a good laugh during practice. It’s a good nickname to have though I guess.”

Off the field, Wiest is a Physical and Health Education major, has been named captain this year and was named Academic All-Mac sophomore year and honorable mention his junior year.

“He has been an excellent mentor,” said redshirt freshman Nick Landsberger. “He has always set the standard and energy high in practice.

His competitiveness and his leadership in the back is what I want to take away from his mentorship when it is eventually my team in the back.”

A leader is not only an onfield leader but he is an off the field leader as well, some-

body who the other players can have a good time and get along with. According to the players, Wiest does just that.

“He has a great personality and keeps the team together,” said co-captain Brandon Silva.

“We all have fun with him,” Wiest is also known for his dances to songs in the locker rooms before practices, Baraldi said.

“Mike does this little rendition of ‘Dirty Pop’

by Nsync,” Silva said.

“It has been on multiple occasions too, not just one specific time.”

Wiest plans to be a psychical education teacher after he graduates from BG in the spring and eventually enter into coaching.

“I will use a lot of the stuff we do here and at practice that has helped me when I coach,” Wiest said.

Wiest has another seven regular season games and then the MAC conference tournament begins before his BG career will comes to an end.

“These have been the best four years of my life and I will never forget them,” Wiest said.

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Since the city has about a decade to plan the new cemetery, Fawcett said the city is taking its time determining where and how it will be built.

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