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Volume 93, Issue 61
Snowfall to continue through Wednesday
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
FACES OF THE FACULTY 1 OF 3
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The BG News features a few faculty members and their contributions to the University in a three-part series that will come out each Wednesday.
City calls for more salt; has 400 tons left By Danae King Editor-in-Chief
The National Weather Service said on Tuesday there would be six to eight inches in Bowling Green by Wednesday morning. While the forecast is being watched, the University won’t make the call to close until around 5 a.m. on Wednesday, said Dave Kielmeyer, University spokesperson. The University will not usually close for winter conditions unless the Wood County Sheriff’s Office declares a Level 3 Snow Emergency, Kielmeyer said. If a level 3 is declared, the University will close. John Mayers, a meteorologist for the NWS in Cleveland, said the snow was projected to begin around 8 p.m. on Tuesday night and fall lightly until around midnight. On Tuesday, Bowling Green was projected to be part of what Mayers described as the “axis of the heaviest snow,” he said. At midnight, the snow was projected to become heavier until 3 a.m., when it was predicted to change to a “wintry mix” of freezing rain and sleet, Mayers said. Mayers said there may also be one to two more inches that fall during the day Wednesday. On Tuesday, the city was waiting for the snow and getting the trucks ready to go, said Brian Craft, Public Works director. At the city council meeting Monday, the city discussed how to get more salt, as it has 400 tons left from the 1,400 tons it had at the start of the season. Craft said the city probably won’t use all of the 400 tons of salt it has left on this storm, but that it is calling its provider, Morton Salt, to get more within the next few weeks. “We tell drivers to knock down on the salt consumption,” Craft said. By 2 p.m. on Tuesday, the city hadn’t declared a snow emergency, but Craft said it would have more information by the end of Tuesday. The Ohio Department of Transportation, which maintains state and federal roads, prepared for the snow fall on Tuesday by calling in all crews of mechanics, drivers and managers, said Theresa Pollick, public information officer for ODOT District 2. ODOT also gets all of the material like salt, brine and calcium chloride for higher temperatures ready to go. Pollick said the “salt supply across the entire midwest is having issues.” It’s not that the Midwest is running out of salt, but that there are issues getting the salt to the locations where it is needed, Pollick said. “There are multiple issues every municipality is having that are different,” she said. She said each municipality and ODOT need to help each other out. Craft said the city was going to talk to ODOT later Tuesday afternoon. Sometimes, ODOT can help municipalities get salt at a lower price. “Ultimately, we want to look at the safety of everyone across the state, but we also have to maintain safety of our
See SNOW | Page 5
ANTHONY MALINAK | THE BG NEWS
Professor Marcy Beaverson instructs students during her math class. Beaverson was one of 30 faculty to be cut from the University last fall semester. She will not return in the fall.
A TEACHER WITH
TECHNIQUE
Professor Marcy Beaverson is favorite teacher to many students; part of faculty cuts By Cameron Teague Robinson Sports Editor
University Professor Marcy Beaverson is a wife to one, a mother to two young boys, a professor to some and a friend to many more. “She has been a very good friend not only to myself but to the other instructors as well,” said Mary Busdeker, secretary at the Mathematics and Statistics department. Beaverson has been in Bowling Green in one way or another since the day she left home to study Math and Physics at the University. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University, married her husband here, had her first child here and taught here for four years. Now as her fourth year comes to an end, Beaverson, who is one of the 30 faculty to be laid off this semester, will begin to pack her things and look for a new home to teach. “I am going to miss just walking around on campus
and seeing students that I have had,” Beaverson said. “I have been here four years and it’s hard to not run into a student that I have had, which amazes me.” During her time at the University as a graduate student, Beaverson was forced to teach a class and that is when she found her love for teaching, she said. “Part of our stipend was to teach a class as grad students, but I tutored on campus as well,” Beaverson said. “I enjoyed [talking] with a student who didn’t understand something and then getting them to have that lightbulb moment.” She has taught many different classes for the Math and Statistics Department including Calculus, Algebra Two, Intro to Statistics and a Math education class. She did not even know what it took to teach a class until she became a teacher at the University. “She is highly respected, and knowledgeable in different levels of math,” Busdeker said. Her students and co-workers refer to her as a professor
See PROFILE | Page 5
University research to benefit small airports; Wood County
TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM
By Abby Welsh News Editor
ALYSSA BENES | THE BG NEWS
Gina Costanzo and Elizabeth Danko, members of Alpha Phi pie Zach Vessels and Bruce Hodell, members of Sigma Nu on Tuesday in the Union Oval. Money raised goes to the Alpha Phi Foundation, which supports women’s heart health. It costs $1 to pie a friend in the face.
FROM ACC TO MAC
Turn to PAGE 3 for a profile story on ACC transfers Alexis Rogers and Erica Donovan. The women’s basketball team will be back in action on Wednesday at the Stroh Center.
The University has recently been selected to partner with GRA Inc. and Strategic Partners and Associates on an ongoing project to study the effects of airline industry changes on small airports. GRA Inc. is an air transportation-industry economic and policy-consulting firm, and Strategic Partners and Associates works as an air service development consultant.
COMING UNHOOKED
Editor-in-Chief Danae King talks about a company in Japan that has made a bra that unhooks itself when a woman’s heart-beat increases, or when she’s “in love.” | PAGE 4
Russell Mills
Assistant Professor in Political Science
Because larger, more successful airlines are starting to merge, there are fewer available flights. The airlines are focusing these fewer flights on larger airports, while reducing service at smaller airports.
See AIRLINE | Page 2
What would you do if you favorite professor was cut? “I would feel bad for them and hope they could find a new job.” Lauren Deverse Freshman, Marine Biology