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AWARDS SEASON Check out Pulse to see what won at the Golden Globes and what could win at the Oscars. “Birdman” led the way in nominations for both. | PAGE 3
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Friday, January 16, 2015
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Seniors in last year as Civic Action Leaders continue to contribute in community By Kathryne Rubright Pulse Editor
Emma Sales first heard about the Civic Action Leader [CAL] program at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service her freshman year. Now she’s in her third and final year of the program, and helps to plan the day. She researched the program after hearing about it and found that “the mission and the goals of the program really aligned with my personal goals and values, and so it was a way to continue a lot of that community service that I did in high school, but in a bigger
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700 volunteer on day of service WHO IS JESUS? 45 community partners give students unique experience By Cameron Teague Robinson Editor-in-Chief
While Martin Luther King Jr. Day is day a off for students, more than 700 volunteers will be having a “day on.” Those volunteers will be enjoying their day spread throughout 45 community partners in Northwest Ohio during this year’s MLK Day of Service, put on by the Office of Service Learning. “It’s the whole notion of, we are going to make this a day on and not a day off, because MLK never wanted a day off of school in his honor,” said senior civic action leader Emma Sales. “I think he would have liked to see people coming together for the greater good in his honor.” These volunteers will be coming together to help the 45 partners. While that is less
than last year’s amount, it was intentional, said assistant director of co-curricular activities at the Office of Service Learning Jeremy Doughty. “What we wanted to focus on this year was having sites that can host a larger number of volunteers,” he said. “If we have sites that can host five volunteers the transportation logistics get quite messy.” Not only does it allow larger events, but it allows organizations to stick together for their service Sales said. “It’s the one opportunity for students to have a service project created for them and they get to serve with whatever organization they signed up with,” she said. The day will start with the opening ceremony where
FULL TEAM EFFORT BG women’s basketball team snaps 5-game losing skid with a home win over NIU. The win was its first MAC win of the season. BG looks to carry over success against Eastern Michigan. | PAGE 7
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AUSTIN LESAK, a sophomore majoring in telecommunications, raises his hand enthusiastically in a game of Biblical Jeopardy Thursday at Veritas.
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Columnist Deanna Huffman talks about how Millennials are perceived to be entitled. She talks about the falsehood of this notion, and explains why this idea has occurred. | PAGE 5
“...[that] we shouldn’t be discriminated against because of our race.” Madison Renollet Junior, Athletic Training
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