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Monday, April 13, 2015
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 87
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Senn/Parker wins USG election, six percent increase in voting from past years By William Channell Managing Editor
Victor Senn and Danielle Parker have won the first contested election for president and vice president for the Undergraduate Student Government since the 2012-2013 academic year. “I never would have seen myself in this position when I came to Bowling Green,” Senn said. Out of 13,059 total emails that were sent out, there were 2,234 respondents for this election. This is a 17.11 percent response rate, which roughly is a six percent increase from last year’s election. The Senn/Parker ticket received 904 votes. “This is the most incredible experience,” Parker said. “It’s such a rewarding feeling.” Trenton Grohe and Kaylee Meade, who ran on a platform advocating a radical revamping of USG, came in second with 731 votes. “It was a fantastic race,” Grohe said. “Victor and Danielle gave it their all.” The experience of running, Grohe said, was “phenomenal,” and he said the connections he and Meade made are valuable. “We got that message out there and hopefully president elect Senn and vice president elect Parker know the issues before [students] so they can fix them,”
Diversity Affairs
Below are the numbers for Senators each candidate. Other than • Keith Johnson - 1,175 • Avery Dowell (Write-in) - 8 the presidential/vice presi• Berrion Berry - 1,145 dential election, all who are • Luke Grabski (Write-in) - 10 named below did win a seat Off-Campus Senators in their respective areas. • Aaron Hinkle - 20 • Jason Barker - 19 Out of 13,059 emails sent • Marc Garcia- 18 out, 2,234 responded. This is a 17.11 percent response rate. Other Senatorial
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Seth Bumbaugh - 819 Alexa Woodburn - 744 Ebonee Johnson - 720 Amanda Dortch - 637 Aaron Menapace - 509 Melissa Dureiko (Write-in) - 30 Julian Gillilan (Write-in) - 13
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College of Arts and Sciences Senator Richard Racette - 643, College of Education and Human Development, Senator - 620, College of Business Senator - 269, College of Technology - 84
All information and figures provided by Dean of Students and USG Advisor Jodi Webb.
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University promotes literacy with event
ATHLETE TALENT SHOW
“If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” author Laura Numeroff speaks to children, parents about importance of reading, creativity By Natasha Ivery Reporter
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When people have children, they often encourage them to read to jumpstart their literacy skills and look for other ways to help their child with reading. Literacy in the Park, an event sponsored by the University, helps children to do just that. Literacy in the Park, sponsored by the Conda family and the College of Education and Human Development, was held Saturday, April 11 at the Stroh. The event featured booths like the University’s Martha Gesling Weber Reading Center, PNC Bank, the Wood County Book Mobile, Toledo Opera and ODNR Scenic Rivers among many others. At the event, there were 40 volunteers, 100 volunteers for booths and it cost $30,000 to host. Alyssa Puckrin, early childhood education major and graduate assistant coordinator, said that the event is one of the University’s signature events that’s been going on for a while. “This is the 11th or 12th year for the event,” Puckrin said. “This is the second time we’ve had it in the Stroh due to the capacity.” Puckrin says that a lot of the vendors they have represent different types of literacies. “We have ECCO here, Toledo Zoo, BGSU Dining, Ohio Virtual Academy and a lot more,” Puckrin said. “We wanted to showcase a bunch of literacies besides reading,
like financial, science, math, nutrition, art, emotional and more.” Entertainment for the event included the University’s acapella groups Ten40 and Not Yet Perfect. Toledo School for the Arts’ steel drum band, Glass City Steel, was also in attendance with a performance. Each year the event is held, there is always a notable children’s author invited to be a keynote speaker. Past authors include Mark Brown, creator of “Arthur”; writer of the “Llama, Llama” series Anna Dewdney and Eric Litwin, who wrote “Pete the Cat,” to name a few. This year’s keynote speaker was Laura Numeroff, author of the “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,” “If You Give a Moose a Muffin” and “If You Give a Pig a Pancake” series. Laura’s books have been translated in more than a dozen languages and has been featured on Oprah. Numeroff spoke to the crowd of parents and young children about the importance of books, reading passages from her books to the crowd and encouraging kids to do philanthropy with literacy, highlighting some of her projects with reading. Numeroff said that she was honored to speak at this year’s event. “Anytime I can share my love of books or do an activity with reading is a joy and honor,” she said. “I didn’t expect that many people in one room though. It is an amazing event.”
STUDENTS ATHLETES compete in talent show in the Stroh. See more pictures of the show on page 3.
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Guest Columnist Torrance Vauhan talks about what students with disabilities have to go through. He says teachers should make more accommodations than what they do already. | PAGE 4
The BG Football team held their annual Spring game Saturday afternoon. The defense held it’s own against the offense for most of the game. | PAGE 5
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