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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Volume 93, Issue 73
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Call To Action sharpens focus during Q&A Members explained updated action plan during Tuesday night’s meeting By Abby Welsh News Editor
ANTHONY KAPPLER | THE BG NEWS
Fidelia Darmahkasih practices her voice on Tuesday afternoon.
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Collin Griebling plays the trombone during a performance.
Music performance majors devote long hours of practicing to perfect their craft By Blake Howell Reporter
Constantly trying to hone their skills, the life of a music major is a tedious one. But seniors Collin Griebling and Fidelia Darmahkasih said the long hours of practice and dedication are worth the chance to live out their passions. Griebling and Darmahkasih are just two of roughly 400 undergraduate students studying music performance at the University. Like most, these students will undergo a four-year program to graduate, a program which entails extensive studying and hard work. However, these students also have another component to worry about; long hours practicing and perfecting their craft. “You put in the amount of time you want and you get that much back from it,” Griebling said. “There’s no room for a mediocre player, a mediocre composer or a mediocre educator.” William Mathis, chair of Music Performance Studies, said a music performance major typically signs up for four credit hours. A rule of thumb for these students is to practice an hour for every credit hour they sign up for, making for a recommended four hours of practice a day. Additionally, students must also take their “music core,” which
Call To Action hosted a Q-and-A session for students, faculty and staff to see where the group is headed in the future. Updates for each demand in the group’s action plan were made since its last meeting in December. The group met in the Math Sciences Building on Tuesday night. “I think people didn’t think we were doing anything and we wanted to tell [the student body] what we’ve done since we last met,” said Kevin Lewis, president of the Black Student Union and Call To Action member. Call To Action sent the administration an action plan in December of what they wanted implemented quickly when certain racial situations occur at the University. The demands included creating a multicultural and ethnic student center, establishing divisions of culture curriculum, increasing student organization funds and implementing the action plan, Lewis said. “We have met with multiple [members of] administration, such as Barbara Waddell, Steven Krakoff and Jill Carr to discuss each demand to see where we are with each one,” Lewis said. Some issues that were brought up during the meeting included determining whether the issues brought up during the last meeting were still relevant, planning where the location of the multicultural and ethnic student center would be, judging whether graduation would be delayed and discussing why crime on campus isn’t highlighted as much. “These solutions and [plans] are broad, but we want them to be broad because we don’t know yet where it could be in the future,” Lewis said during the meeting. Because there is no set timeline for each demand to be met, audience members were concerned if there isn’t a timeline set soon, it may be overlooked. This is something Call To Action is concerned about as well, and brought up to each administra-
See MUSIC | Page 5
Tornado siren sounds for Severe Weather Awareness week
See ACTION | Page 2
GIVE ME THOSE BEADS
Alarm will go off at 9:50 a.m. on Wednesday By Janel Hlebak Reporter
W it h t he weat her slowly changing from w inter to spring, the wind patterns are changing as well. On Wednesday at 9:50 a.m., 13 sirens will be going off around Bowling Green and more throughout Wood County, alerting residents of what a tornado drill sounds like and encouraging them to take part in a drill. Bowling Green Municipal Administrator John Fawcett said spring is the perfect time
for the State of Ohio’s Severe Weather Awareness Week. “It’s going to start getting warm out, meaning that the wind stream will begin to change and cause potential for severe weather,” he said. “People need to be aware of what to do in these situations.” Fawcett also had some insight about what students and residents should do to practice the drill Wednesday as well as stay safe during severe weather in
See TORNADO | Page 2
Falcons TO attempt an UPSET The BG gymnastics team will travel to Kent State and try to upset the Golden Flashes to claim a share of the regular season MAC title. Read more in SPORTS | PAGE 3
RUBEN KAPPLER | THE BG NEWS
Students receive beads from a mime at the University Activities Organization sponsored Mardi Gras Mixer in the Union Ballroom.
CULTURE SHOCK
WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP FOR LENT? WHY?
Columnist Arpan Yagnik talks about the culture shock of moving to America, then the culture shock of moving back to India. He also talks about the experience of being in another culture. | PAGE 4
“The N-word. I use it a lot even though it’s derogatory, and no one should use it.” Amber Jones Sophomore, Print Journalism
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