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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 91
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CAMPUS BRIEF
Jill Carr to retire after 39 years
University President Mary Ellen Mazey announced Tuesday that Vice President for Student Affairs Jill Carr will retire after nearly 40 years at the school. Carr has been with the University since 1976, the announcement said. She received her master’s degree here in Bowling Green. “Jill has been a valuable Jill mentor to many higher Carr education administration Vice and college student perPresident of sonnel students,” Mazey’s Student announced said. “I have appreciated Jill’s thoughtAffairs ful, compassionate and calm demeanor and her institutional memory.” Sidney Childs, the current assistant vice president for student affairs for access, diversity and inclusion programs, has accepted the position of interim vice president for student affairs. Childs, according to the announcement, has been with the University since 1992. He has experience advising, budget management, grant acquisition and oversight of student programs. “I know he will bring many of the qualities we value in Jill to the job,” the announcement said. Check out The BG News on Monday for the full story on Carr’s retirement.
Nick Jonas performs at University UAO brings “Jealous” singer to Stroh Crystal Chlebina Reporter
Pop sensation Nick Jonas filled the Stroh Center Tuesday night during his performance at the University. Hours before Nick Jonas had arrived in Bowling Green, fans circled around the Stroh Center to ensure they got the best seats. After the doors opened at 6 p.m, fans made their way to the head of the stage to run to their seats. Un iversit y Ac t iv it ies Organization planned the event and chose Nick Jonas as the per-
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Eliot Chang comes to University Asian-american comic performs for Asian Heritage Month By Hannah Benson Reporter
The World Student Association sponsored a performance by comedian Eliot Chang on Tuesday night as part of AsianAmerican Heritage Month. The show announcer provided a warning to the audience before introducing Chang. “If you are easily offended, you need to leave right now.” When he took the stage in the multipurpose room of the union, Chang acknowledged his performance being held on the same night as the Nick Jonas concert. “Thank you for picking me over Nick Jonas,” he said. Much of Chang’s set played on racial stereotypes. Some of the Asian-American stereotypes he played on included height, occupation, appearance, population, food and sex. Kiara Esselman, WSA vice president, said Chang contacted the organization last year and they have been working together since to make this performance happen. “We thought he was a good fit because he has a multicultural background,” Esselman said. “It brings more diversity to the campus and it helps him get his name out there.” Kobe Huynh, WSA president, said in addition to Chang’s performance, WSA is celebrating Asian-American Heritage
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Month by partnering with other Asian organizations on campus for a potluck on Friday. Chang poked fun at himself throughout the show. “I’ll do your laundry ... Obviously,” he said. He said he does not get recognized as famous often and used racial stereotypes to emphasize it. “We recognize you because your face resembles four billion other people,” he said. “I can never stand too close to another Asian because everyone thinks we know each other.” The New York native, whose original career path was to become a doctor, dropped out of school one year before he became a medical doctor to pursue comedy. He now lives in Los Angeles and has appeared on Comedy Central and Chelsea Lately. The Bowling Green wind left an impression on Chang and made it into Chang’s act. “It’s windy outside; we lost three people on the way here. Make it worth it,” he said, impersonating the audience. He also touched on his experiences with people saying things to him that are “almost racist” in an attempt to prove they are not racist. “I have a friend who actually told me, ‘you’re the first Asian I like enough to call my friend.”
CAMPUS BRIEF
Alumnus wins Pulitzer
Anthony Doerr, an 1995 University alumnus, has received the 2015 Pulitzer prize for fiction writing.
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ELIOT CHANG has performed on Comedy Central Presents, and has appeared on Chelsea Lately.
Not only did Chang play on Asian stereotypes, but African-American stereotypes as well. He impersonated “sassy black women,” by saying they say “Hey!” and dance after everything they say. Senior Asian Studies major A.J. Gordon said she enjoyed the performance and this was her favorite joke. “It’s nice to see more Asian-Americans in comedy,” Gordon said. “I’m going to tell all my friends about the sassy black women joke.”
The winning novel, titled All the Light We Cannot See, was released last year to considerable critical acclaim. The book takes place in Nazi-occupied France, and follows a young blind French girl and a young German boy. Doerr was in Paris when he found out about his winning the prize. He told the Wall
Street Journal that getting the award was “crazy.” After majoring in history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Doerr earned an MFA in Bowling Green. All the Light We Cannot See was a finalist in the National Book Award for Fiction, but lost to Redeployment by Phil Klay.
Ohio was center of measles outbreak last year M. Ahmad Chaudhry
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PROFESSOR JOYCE Barry talks Tuesday night in the Union theater about mountain-top removal as it pertains to environmental justice and feminism.
FALCONS SWEEP MASTODONS The BG Softball team wins two games on Tuesday behind a big day from sophomore pitcher Briana Combs. The team moves to 16-23, two weeks away from the MAC tournament | PAGE 5
This past year the United States experienced the largest measles outbreak since the disease was documented to be eliminated here in 2000. Ohio was at the center of it. Among 23 separate outbreaks that spanned 27 states, Ohio accounted for over half of the U.S. measles cases in 2014. And measles wasn’t alone in Ohio. A 2014 mumps outbreak managed to emerge in Central Ohio as well. This outbreak made up about
Chair of the Public and Allied Health Department 42 percent of the nation’s total mumps cases for the year. Over 400 of the cases were residents of Franklin County and more than half of those were linked to The Ohio State University. University and college campuses are particularly vulnerable to highly contagious infectious disease. “Any public gathering space,
FINDING INSPIRATION Columnist Abbey Serena talks about different forms of inspiration. She says that inspiration can come at unexpected times. | PAGE 4
universities and colleges included in that category, poses a greater risk because people are engaged with each other in close proximity,” M. Ahmad Chaudhry said. Chaudhry is a professor and chair of the Public and Allied Health Department at the University. “This includes sitting in the classroom, in the lecture halls, taking elevators up and down, going through the stairs, touching door handles, visiting bathrooms,” he said. “These are all places where you are basically increasing your
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IF YOU COULD RECEIVE ANY RECOGNITION, WHAT WOULD IT BE? “Dundies, because I love Michael Scott.” Michael Wenig Junior, Sports Management