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Guest presents different calls for action at USG meeting By Matt Liasse Reporter
Even though some major issues were tabled until next week’s meeting, the Undergraduate Student Government opened their meeting last night to a few guests in order to help in other areas. ACT plans drive for Haiti Jessica Fager and Julie McKee, both members of Active Christians Today (ACT), presented information on relief efforts for Haiti after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the country two weeks ago. Organization Liaison Sarah Shepherd said she saw Fager and Mckee being interviewed on the Toledo news, and saw an opportunity to work with them. Fager and McKee were standing on behalf of Dave Warner, ACT’s pastor, who is currently in Haiti. The two women both spent a year in the country and felt very saddened upon hearing the news of the largest quake in 200 years. They begun their presentation by presenting different facts about the country. They said Haiti is the poorest country in the hemisphere with 80 percent of its inhabitants living under the poverty line. Fager showed different pictures of some of the people she came in contact with when she lived there before the earthquake, one displaying the image of a young boy wearing clothes too big for him and no shoes on his feet. “These are hard things to see, let alone [experience],” Fager said. She also talked about Lashbrook Family Ministry, which ACT has been working with for the past 14 years. The organization founded Gace Christian School and Feeding Program in Haiti, but has been closed down due to damage from the quake. The organization’s main focus is for the children affect-
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An abundance of little-used books stack up on the shelves of the Northwest Ohio Book Depository
Story by Heather Linder| Photo by Alaina Buzas With room for approximately 400,000 more items, the Northwest Ohio Regional Book Depository’s problems are stacking up as its storage capacity rapidly shrinks. The depository, located in Perrysburg, currently holds 1.4 million items on its towering shelves. Though the exact capacity of the depository depends on the size of its specific holdings, supervisor Elisabeth Moser said the building is expected to reach its limit of 1.8 million items by summer 2010. The University uses the depository to free up space on the Jerome Library shelves for frequently accessed books and materials. However, the Northwest Ohio Depository is not the only facility running out of space. All five of the state depositories are filling up, resulting in little space for more storage and up to seven duplicate copies of some little-used journals. Last spring, the Ohio Board of Regents announced the implementation of a
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U.N. claims urgent need for tent cities for Haitian earthquake refugees By Mike Melia and Vivian Sequera The Associated Press
That leaves about 700,000 other people living on the streets around Porrt-au-Prince under PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The whatever they can salvage. In collapse of much of Haiti’s capi- the case of Jean Anthony’s famtal has a large part of the nation ily, that’s a blue plastic tarpaulin struggling just to find a place to for a ceiling and a faded pink sleep. sheet with a floral print border As many as 1 million people for two walls. — one person in nine across the “I’m not sure what you’d call entire country — need to find it, but it’s much more than ternew shelter, the United Nations rible,” said Anthony, the 60-yearestimates, and there are too few old owner of a collapsed restautents, let alone safe buildings, to rant. Thousands of people were put them in. camped around him Monday
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Mayor of Bowling Green talked at last nights USG meeting ed by the quake. McKee then talked about what students at the University can do. They plan to work with student groups on campus and to start taking donations from students. ACT is looking to set up collection boxes in residence halls. They said perfect items to donate are canned meats and vegetables, peanut butter, cooking oil, diapers, soap and shampoo. Donations are being taken to ACT Campus House, 612 E. Wooster St., Monday. through Friday 9a.m. to 6p.m. and 6p.m. to 7:30p.m. on Sunday. Mayor visits USG Mayor of Bowling Green John Quinn visited the meeting to discuss the U.S. census happening this year. After speaking about the University reaching its centennial, he mentioned the time the school was almost closed down in the ‘30s. Fortunately, he said, the University was saved from becoming a mental institution and has grown in admission from 1,000 to 30,000. Since 1950, University students were permitted to count in the census. “The census is very important to Bowling Green,” Quinn said. “We need to count everyone that we can.” He then asked if USG members could do what they can to get the word out to University students, saying that anyone living in the dorms and apartments can be counted for in the census no matter what they identify as their hometown. USG gears up for elections Chief Administrator Melinda
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across from the collapsed National Palace, amid piles of trash and the stench of human waste. “We live like dogs,” said Espiegle Amilcar, an unemployed 34-yearold who has been staying under a sheet of plastic nearby. Aid organizations say they are collecting tents, but few so far are in evidence. The International Organization for Migration, an
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FORUM Tragedies are not just trends
While the earthquake in Haiti is the current highprofile charity cause, columnist Josh Whetherholt believes the tragedy shouldn’t be forgotten after the news from the nation subsides | Page 4
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VOLUNTEER: Yesterday students made cards for the Children’s Miricle Network which takes place from 5-8 p.m. every other Monday at the Union tables. The Children’s Miracle Network helps raise funds to help children in hospitals.
SPORTS Falcons to play Broncos
Assisstant sports editor Paul Barney takes a look at the strengths of the womens basketball team with their upcoming game at home against Western Michigan | Page 6
PEOPLE ON THE STREET What do you think is the hardest major? Matt Cassidy Freshman, business
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under way. “When the de duplication process was first announced, it was more theoretical,” said interim dean of University Libraries Sara Bushong. “Now two implementation teams have been named. They have developed their timeline and are currently in the testing phase.” According to Moser, the testing teams will develop a formula for determining surplus copies. Until the depositories have the formula, they do not know exactly what the process will entail. Materials stowed away to depository shelves include books, serials, scores, sound recordings, archives, microfiche, microcards, microfilm, newspapers, government documents and multimedia belonging to the University, the University of Toledo, according to the depository guidelines for selection and transfer located on the University’s Web site. “These are low-use materials to begin with,” Bushong said. “The Northwest Ohio Book Depository is not for common textbooks.” Though worries began to arise last spring at the announcement of de-duplication that textbook rentals through the OhioLink system would be negatively affected, Bushong insists that currently only excess copies of seldom accessed journals will be eliminated. “Theoretically, this whole process will make storage and access of the depository materials more convenient,” Bushong said. According to the interim dean, the end goal has always been to provide access to electronic copies of the journals,
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and OhioLink has set aside the funds needed to begin scanning journal entries upon request. Even state budget cuts should not affect moving the system in a more electronic direction, she said. Bushong took over as interim dean of libraries this past July when former Dean Thomas Atwood retired. Since then, her involvement in the depository de-duplication process has increased, including regular meetings with other university deans to discuss and collaborate on the efforts. One topic of discussion has been what to do with journals deemed unnecessary. According to Moser, for the most part, the unneeded items from the Northwest Ohio Depository will be recycled at the Bowling Green recycling center or through other ecologically-friendly methods of disposal. “Librarians throughout the whole state are being very thoughtful and considering all the ramifications of this process,” Bushong said. The massive size and holdings of the Northwest Ohio Depository alone prove the state’s de duplication will be slow and tedious. According to Bushong, the journal sifting process is expected to take two years, though realistically it could be two to five years. Deans across the state will be working on a shared ownership agreement to ensure print resources are not lost, but stewarded more efficiently. “Technology has provided access to so much and it’s time to use that to our advantage,” Bushong said. “And there are philosophies about last copies.
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intergovernmental agency, says it could take experts weeks to search out suitable sites for enough tent cities to hold earthquake refugees. Vincent Houver, the Genevabased agency’s chief of mission in Haiti, said Sunday that the agency’s warehouse in Port-auPrince holds 10,000 family-size tents, but he estimates 100,000 are needed. The organization has appealed for $30 million to pay for tents and other aid needs and has received two-thirds of that so far, he said. Haiti’s government wants many of the homeless to leave the capital city of 2 million people to look for better shelter with relatives or others elsewhere. Officials estimate about 235,000 have taken advantage of its offer of free transport to leave the city and many others left on their own, some even walking. That may have far-reaching effects, shifting the places where aid and reconstruction must be focused, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told senior foreign officials in Canada on Monday. “The distribution of people [and] their needs have changed,” he said. “We have to reassess the whole country,” in terms of job creation and requirements for housing. An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people have returned to the region around the coastal city of Gonaives in northern Haiti, a city abandoned by many after two devastating floods in six years. “Living in Port-au-Prince is a problem. Going to Gonaives is another problem,” said Maire Delphin Alceus. “Everywhere you go is a problem. If I could, I would have left this country and been somewhere else by now. But I have no way to do that.” Her daughter, Katya, was among the thousands killed in Gonaives and the surrounding Artibonite area by the floods of 2004’s Tropical Storm Jeanne. The family moved to Port-auPrince, where the earthquake killed her 26-year-old son and
USG From Page 1 Grooms presented the rules, regulations and guidelines for the elections, with voting set for Mar. 29-31 and Apr. 1-2. Some of the rules for members running involve a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5, petitions with 50 undergraduate signatures (100 for those running for presidency and vice-presidency) and campaigning with a budget of only $150. Debates will be held for both
“Living in Port-au-Prince is a problem. ... Everywhere you go is a problem. If I could, I would have left this country and been somewhere else by now.” Maire Delphin Alceus | Earthquake survivor her half-sister, who provided for them by importing clothes and perfume from Miami for resale in Haiti. What’s left of the family is back in Gonaives, which is overlooked by mountains denuded by over-farming and rampant tree cutting for firewood that have cleared a path for destructive floods. “I’m scared, but I’m living by the will of God,” said Alceus, dressed in white after attending Sunday services at an evangelical church. At least 55 sizable aftershocks have followed the magnitude7.0 quake of Jan. 12, adding to the fear of survivors. More than 150,000 quake victims have been buried by the government, an official said Sunday, but she said that doesn’t count the bodies still in wrecked buildings, buried or burned by relatives or dead in outlying quake areas. “Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble,” Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said. Asked about the total number of victims, she said, “200,000? 300,000? Who knows the overall death toll?” Lassegue told the Associated Press the government’s figure of 150,000 buried from just the capital area was based on figures from CNE, a state company that is collecting corpses and burying them north of Portau-Prince. An estimate of 200,000 dead was reported last week by the European Commission, citing Haitian government sources. As of Monday, the United Nations was reporting at least 112,250 confirmed deaths, based on recovered bodies. The final toll will clearly place the Haiti earthquake among the deadliest natural catastrophes of recent times. That list includes the 1970 Bangladesh cyclone, believed to have killed 300,000 people; the 1974 norththe potential president and vice president, the date, time and location are soon to be announced. Candidates are allowed to campaign after attending an information session, which the first one will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 9. The approval of the rules were tabled until next week. President Sundeep Mutgi asked members of USG to continue their hard work into the end of the semester, asking them to “kick it into high gear,” and “put to bed some of the long-standing issues.”
east China earthquake, which killed at least 242,000 people, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, with 226,000 dead. Attending to the living, meanwhile, an army of international aid workers was getting more food into people’s hands, but was still falling short. Food aid has reached 500,000 people at least once, the U.N. reported Sunday, but as many as 2 million people are in need. “We wish we could do more, quicker,” said Josette Sheeran, the U.N. World Food Program chief who was visiting Port-auPrince. U.N. workers on Monday handed out bags of rice, a staple, to the impromptu camps in front of the National Palace, drawing a crowd of thousands. Much of the aid flows though the capital’s strained airport, not far from a makeshift camp in a public park where Leger Lunes has been living with his wife and one year-old daughter under a triangular shelter of blankets propped on sticks. Lunes, 39, said none of the aid has reached his family, which has survived by selling cookies along the roadside, getting enough money to buy a little rice. He said he is willing to move into a more organized tent camp if the government asks. “It’s not a problem. The only thing I need is a job,” he said. Key officials from around the world met Monday in Montreal to discuss ways to coordinate relief efforts in Haiti. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was among those attending. The world’s nations have pledged some $1 billion in emergency aid to Haiti. Organizers of Friday night’s “Hope for Haiti Now” international telethon reported the event raised $57 million, with more pledges from ordinary people still coming in. Also discussed The approval of the constitution that was planned for this week was delayed until next week’s meeting due to Justin Albright’s, Internal Affairs Committee Chair, absence. Also, regarding the shuttle fee that was approved by USG but not by GSS, Mutgi asked for anyone interested in joining the joint committee they started planning at the end of fall semester. As of right now, the two members involved in the committee are Mutgi and At-Large Senator Clayton Stewart.
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Nate Wilson-Traisman | Manchester College senior want me to be their friend, and also I don’t want to either because I feel like it’s too nosy into everything they’re doing,” Seidmon said. “I just feel like that way they don’t have to be worried about what they put on there that I might see.” Tufts junior Alyza DelPanMonley has avoided that problem by utilizing Facebook’s updated privacy settings to control what her parent has access to. “I’ve restricted [my dad] from pretty much everything except maybe my profile pictures —no wall, no status updates, no anything,” she said. Portland State University junior Beryl Bessemer had the opposite reaction to her parents’ new tech savvy. After her dad joined Facebook, she helped her mom make a page. She then added both of them as friends. “Personally I don’t really mind overall. I’m pretty open with my parents,” Bessemer said. “I guess if I were somebody else and I had 100 photos of me beer-ponging and them being able to see that, it would be a little uncomfortable. But everything I put up for the most part is OK for the world to see.” Bessemer’s father, Paul, argued that Facebook has not changed parent-child relationships so much as it has provided another arena for communication. “If your kid has a bad relationship with you, they probably won’t friend you on Facebook,” Paul Bessemer said. “Facebook is so
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Experts believe the stresses of modern college life are leading to more instances of mental illnesses like depression. It’s no secret that being a college student can be a stressful experience, with exams, social obligations, extracurriculars, work and financial worries creating the perfect storm of stressors. What is news, however, is that, according to a recent psychology study, these factors are weighing more heavily on the mental health of college students than they ever have before. The study looked at data obtained by Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Researchers from five universities analyzed 77,576 responses from college and high school students and found that in 2007, those types of students were five times as likely to fit the criteria for mental illnesses such as depression than their counterparts in 1938. The MMPI, which has been in use in a largely unchanged format since 1938, is a series of yes-or-no questions that are used to determine how participants score in several mental health categories. The study controlled for variables such as increased enrollment by women and minorities in colleges since the MMPI was first given. Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, led the study. Twenge and other researchers believe that modern society’s fast pace and increasing focus on materialism
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and financial success contribute to the results by stressing out students who feel the need to meet unreasonably high expectations. Twenge had already analyzed these trends in her two books “Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled and More Miserable Than Ever Before” and “The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement.” As to whether the study’s results mean college students themselves are more depressed now than in 1938, Julie Jampel, the director of training and the continuing education director of Tufts Mental Health Service, thinks other factors might be at play. “The numbers of students seeking counseling has increased over the last several years. This has been a national trend, and we have noticed it at Tufts, too,” Jampel said in an e-mail to the Daily. “The reasons why today’s college students report higher rates of mental health concerns, such as depression, than their Depressionera counterparts are complex and multifaceted. There is no ‘one size fits all’ formula. I do think that there is greater awareness of mental health concerns today and an increased willingness to acknowledge or endorse symptoms. This can, of course, increase the reported incidence of mental health concerns,” she added. Junior John Salvatore, a member of the Tufts chapter of Active Minds, a national mental health advocacy organization, also believes improved awareness of mental health issues might have contributed to the results.
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weird and exhibitionist anyway. It’s just another way [for parents] to get access and learn what their kids are doing. Parents love embarrassing their kids even without Facebook.” And embarrass them they do. Perhaps the most obvious generational divide is the differing ways that students and parents use — or overuse — the ubiquitous networking site. “My dad uses the status feature in a way that just kind of annoys me,” Wilson-Traisman said. “He’s always on my news feed. My friend had a status about mice in her house, and my dad commented with all these suggestions on how to catch the mice.” These types of reactions are common as children critique their parents’ Facebook etiquette. “They write on each other’s walls with full punctuation, with what should be saved for Christmas cards, and the ‘read more’ option is necessary because they [write] so much,” Haverford College junior Eve Gleichman said. Rolling their eyes at questions like, “What is a poke?” kids are still adjusting to an older generation contributing content to their news feeds. “Nothing will kill Facebook like having your parent on it,” Paul Bessemer said. Butthereisaplacefortheshamed offspring to commiserate. The Web site Myparentsjoinedfacebook. com collects awkward parent Facebook blunders and posts them for others to view.
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College students have long worried about potential employers snooping through their Facebook.com pages. But more and more, there’s another set of culprits that might be taking a peek: mom and dad. Since Facebook opened its doors (or more accurately, its online network) to non-student members, the undergraduate’s favorite procrastination tool has become popular with the over-40 set. This has created new dilemmas for families, such as whether to accept a friend request from a parent or child. Macalester College senior Nate Wilson-Traisman said he initially balked at the idea of communicating with his father on a social networking Web site. “I was just really anti-peoplenot-from-our-generation having Facebook,” he said. “The same thing happened when my sister got Facebook. I was biased towards college students, and that’s mostly who I interact with and who it was originally for.” Wilson-Traisman eventually came around and added his dad as a friend. “I felt kind of bad. Lots of my friends and my sister were friends with him. I figured he’d enjoy looking at my pictures and I kind of realized it was just harmless that he has one,” he said. The idea of opening their online profiles to the scrutiny of their parents has been met with mixed reactions by college students as well as parents. Facebook user Sheri Seidmon has a son attending the University of Colorado at Boulder and another son in high school, but said she has stayed away from viewing their profiles altogether. “It’s partly because they don’t
“I was just really anti-people-not-from-ourgeneration having Facebook... I was biased towards college students, and that’s mostly who I interacted with and who it was originally for. ”
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FALCON SCREECH Dear education major, I am so sick of hearing how hard your major is! I know teaching kids is hard, and yes, it costs a lot of money for crafts and stuff. But every conversation we have together is you complaining about your major and dissing everyone else’s because those majors seem “easy” compared to early childhood education. Why major in it, if you know are going to complain about it every day? Don’t even get me started how much Methods sucked, it probably did, but you had to do it, so stop complaining! But you taught me one thing: I learned to never room with a Methods student again! -MISS GEE Dear laundry room jerk, Why is it that you must take over six washers? You only have three articles of clothing in each. The rest of us are sick of having to wait for washers and the fact that half of them are already broken only makes it worse. You obviously feel the need to separate your pink shirts from your red. There is one laundry room in Founders, learn to share. -COLLEEN Really, BGSU? Imagine this scenario: Commuter forgets or loses their parking pass, for whatever reason. No big deal, they can go to the Parking and Traffic office and get a temporary pass. Except, wait, there’s no legal parking anywhere near the office! So, no matter where they go, they will be found and fined, even if they’re trying to avoid that situation by getting the temporary pass in the first place. I really hope BGSU planned this out to maximize the number of parking violations they can ticket, because it sure beats the harsh reality that our school just sucks at organizing and placing buildings. -COMMUTER When I was late for class the other night, I tried to park on campus only to find that lots were either shut down or completely full for the basketball game. Students’ ability to park so they can get to class is more important than people being close to the arena. Glad I paid for that parking pass. -PARKING PETE Isn’t it great to be able to walk around just about anywhere and be able to listen to music? This is the advantage of headphones. However, headphones are designed so you are able to listen to the music you want without other people hearing it. So, for those of you that decide to crank your headphones all the way up so loud tunes are leaking out of your ear piece, turn it down. Especially when you sit down next to someone in the Union who is trying to do homework! Thank you. -WILLIE EVERLEARN
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MIKE THURAU COLUMNIST While America might not have the most functional government in the world, I stand by the fact that we have the most entertaining. To your average media junkie (I count myself among them) you can count on a steady stream of political gaffes, mistakes and outrageous statements almost any day of the week. Some might decry the lack of intellectual rigor in our public discourse, but we more than compensate with wacky escapades like the Sarah Palin phenomenon or Harry Reid’s “racism.” Out of all the media spectacles of 2009, the Sarah Palin campaign was among my favorite. Whatever emotion you feel towards Palin, it’s probably a strong one. She usually avoids the specifics of her ideas or policies, but that’s OK, her politics aren’t what keep us Googling her name. Our continuing fascination with the former Alaskan governor shakes the cultural fault lines that divide two very different Americas. The controversy that seems to follow her on both the campaign trail and book tour stem not so much
from political differences, as differences of identity. In 2008, Sarah Palin demonstrated that she had a lot to learn in the game of politics. However, her true significance is what she represents, not what she has accomplished. While the occasional pundit will sometimes decry the partisanship of contemporary politics, our political establishment is pretty much secure. This doesn’t mean that Americans are uniformly content with the way they are governed. Quite the contrary, the saying “Washington is run from Wall Street,” or “You can’t fight city hall,” is often considered quaint by the people who hear it. Most of us are unsatisfied with our government or society in one way or another, but both of them are so much bigger than any one of us that we feel there isn’t much we can do about it. Instead, our political energies are channeled into battles over identity. You can call the two sides whatever you like: Latte Drinkers vs. Miller Men, NASCAR Fans vs. Book Clubs, Larry the Cable Guys vs. The Seth MacFarlanes, whatever. It’s hard to draw lines as to where one turf begins and one ends, but most people can tell you which side they’re on. Even then, membership isn’t absolute. Most of us like lattes and Miller Lite, Larry the Cable Guy
and Seth MacFarlane, NASCAR and books (well, maybe not the last one). American politics is unique among developed nations for the narrow list of political options it presents to its electorate. While there are plenty of obscure third parties to vote for out of principle, at the end of the day, we have exactly one more choice than North Korea. For the most part, both parties operate under the assumptions that globalization needs to continue, and we must maintain an overwhelmingly powerful military at any cost. Furthermore, domestic policy on abortion, immigration, affirmative action and free speech are still subject to passionate, and even radical, rhetoric, but the actual laws remain largely the same and are only occasionally subject to stipulation. These tiny battles are how we judge which side is winning. Even issues of economic importance are drafted in the ongoing culture war. Most people (including myself) have only a rudimentary understanding of the incredibly complex world of economic policy. However, knowledge of the subject is not a prerequisite to having an opinion on it. Big government vs. small government is largely relative to your stance on who you regard as your enemy.
Government is perceived as either a tool of slimy intellectuals and bureaucrats to control our lives ever more intimately, or as the most effective weapon that ordinary working people have in their fight against the tycoons and elites who seek to enrich and aggrandize themselves at the people’s expense. Are you being robbed by the rich or the poor? How you answer that question should give you an idea of whether you stand on the right or the left of the aisle. These subtle battles are what makes small issues (like the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance) seem big, and big issues (like health care) seem enormous. Perhaps the Massachusetts election (still a blue state by almost every other measure) is the result of its solidly Democratic base perceiving the health care bill as more of a handout for insurance companies than a tool against the machinations of Wall Street and the corporate boardroom. Regardless, the culture war is far from being resolved and its relevance to the world of electoral politics will be a matter of each side convincing their base that they know who is their friend, and who is their enemy. Respond to Mike at thenews@bgnews.com
Philanthropic situation in Haiti should not end once the trend has run its course JOSH WHETHERHOLT ASSISTANT FORUM EDITOR Several years ago, the story of the civil war in Darfur was on everyone’s minds. Everyone was eager to talk about the strife of the people tied up in the slaughter, everyone wanted to do what they could by sending money, aid supplies and volunteering in other ways. Well, that was then. Now, not much has changed in Darfur, or the rest of Africa for that matter, yet news about the warstricken continent goes pretty much ignored. There have been problems in the rest of Sudan, Kenya had a civil war recently, and now in Nigeria, there is a religious war between Muslims and Christians that has claimed the lives of many innocents, including some whose bodies were found stuffed into wells.
Now in Haiti, a situation calling for aid from the international community is taking place after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12. The crisis in Haiti has taken the world by storm, much as the tsunami in southeast Asia did in 2004. Celebrities are setting up donation hotlines, the Red Cross volunteers are on the ground looking for survivors and taking care of the injured and ill, millions of dollars worth of financial contributions have been made by governments all over the globe. So what’s the problem with this? Sadly, if history can tell us anything, it will probably all end up being a fad. I am aware that it is not necessarily the responsibility of the global community to indefinitely take care of a little nation like Haiti, but with the situation in Africa, it seemed as though people made their donations, volunteered their time, whatever, then once their good deed was done and karma
had shined down upon them, they put it out of their mind until the next disaster that claimed thousands of lives. Helping people in other nations seems to have become the trendy thing to do, similar to buying all those rubber ‘Livestrong’ bracelets and their bastard offspring for every other cause under the sun. People are engaging in these philanthropic acts out of the popularity of them, rather than actually, truly caring about the cause. On Jan. 13, the day after the Haiti earthquake, dozens of people were telling me about the ‘90999’ texting ring to have $10 tagged onto your cellphone bill and the money would go to relief in Haiti. Well, a week and some later, Haiti is already leaving people’s minds and conversations. The actual emotional investment that people put into the tragedy was so small that I would wager that most don’t even know that the search for survivors has offi-
cially ended. It was cool to be involved in the Haiti relief fund. People passed out their own pats on the back for their $10 donations or for ridding their pantries of canned food that they never meant to buy in the first place, and then they crawled back into their hole of ignorance as any news from Haiti fades back into anonymity. I’m not trying to give people crap because they have things going on in their lives and didn’t devote hours a day keeping up-to-date on disasters. I’m just saying that if people feel a cause is important enough to donate food or money or volunteering time to perfect strangers in an impossibly difficult situation, see it through to the end. Shade tree philanthropists have already dropped the ball on Darfur, it should not be followed up with Haiti. Respond to Josh at thenews@bgnews.com
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Attorneys general from five states want to attend a White House meeting on preventing an Asian carp invasion of the Great Lakes. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and his counterparts from Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin made the request yesterday in a letter to President Barack Obama. Obama’s top environmental adviser last week agreed to discuss the carp problem with the region’s governors next month. The attorneys general said they should be represented because they’re “on the front lines� in the fight. Several states have sued the federal government to close shipping locks near Chicago that could provide an opening for the carp into Lake Michigan. Authorities last week revealed carp DNA had been detected in the lake, where they could crowd out native species and threaten the fishing industry.
OKLAHOMA CITY — A mother’s body was found inside a camper in Oklahoma and authorities have issued an Amber alert for her missing 7-year-old daughter. Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown said yesterday that the girl, Aja (AY’-zhuh) Daniell Johnson, is believed to be with Lester William Hobbs. Brown says he is an ex-convict wanted for questioning in the woman’s death. Brown says Lester William Hobbs is the estranged husband of Tonya Hobbs, whose body was discovered inside a recreational vehicle late Sunday in Geronimo. Brown says the last time Lester Hobbs and the girl were seen was Saturday evening. Lester Hobbs was last seen driving a 1992 Toyota Paseo with the Oklahoma license plate number 577-BPW.
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago businessman accused of leading a double life as an international terrorist pleaded not guilty yesterday to playing a role in terrorist attacks that left 166 people dead in the Indian city of Mumbai. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 49, a Canadian national born in Pakistan, also pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that he helped to lay the groundwork for a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper. Rana appeared before Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys in the orange jumpsuit of a federal prisoner and wearing leg irons that rattled when they caught momentarily in the wheel of a courtroom chair. If convicted, he could get life in prison. Rana and one of his co-defendants, David Coleman Headley, 49, is charged with helping to lay the groundwork for the Mumbai attacks. Ten terrorists rampaged through the city with guns and explosives in November 2008, leaving a trail of destruction. Nine were eventually shot and killed and the 10th is in custody in India.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State officials say 113 Ohio school districts are diverting $22 million in federal stimulus money intended for specialeducation services and spending it on other programs. It’s a small portion of the $438 million that schools are getting statewide for special-Ed. But advocates for the disabled are upset. Jennifer Cohen, a policy analyst for the New America Foundation in Washington D.C., calls it sneaky. The U.S. Disabilities Education Act allows districts that get additional federal dollars to reduce their local spending by up to 50 percent of the increase. The state Education Department says the law is intended to give eligible districts flexibility and that any money spent on general education also will benefit special-needs students.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Dozens of homes were evacuated in San Antonio after the ground below began shifting, creating crevices up to 15 feet deep and nearly splitting a nearby retaining wall in half, officials said. About 80 homes were first evacuated on Sunday after residents in a northwest side subdivision reported that the ground was caving behind several houses. No one was injured. The large crack in the retaining wall sent soil tumbling out below. Fences were tossed askew and crumpled like accordions, and aerial photos showed land had given way near the foundations of several homes. Engineers at the scene yesterday were trying to determine why the ground was shifting and how much damage it could cause. Fire Department District Chief Nim Kidd said at least seven streets had to be closed since the ground started shifting on Friday. Kidd estimated the ground has been slipping at the rate of about 4 inches an hour. The homes were in a new subdivision built by Pulte Homes Inc. The homebuilder was providing lodging and meals for the evacuated residents, company spokeswoman Valerie Dolenga said yesterday.
FREMONT, Ohio (AP) — A man who tried to rescue three boys struggling to stay afloat after falling through the ice on the Sandusky River in north-central Ohio first tried to walk on the ice until it started cracking. Marcos Lopez said he and his daughter then threw a rope toward the boys, but it was too short to reach them. “We saw their hands and their little heads sticking out of the water,� Lopez said. “You feel so helpless.� The boys, ages seven, eight and 10, died Sunday. A neighbor said two of the boys were with their older brother, who watched the three fall through the ice. Neighbor Toni Singleton said she visited the 11-year-old brother who survived and said he was collecting dead fish from the icy surface when the others fell through. Singleton said the boy now blames himself for the loss of his brothers and one of his best friends. “He said, ‘They always looked up to me, and I’m the one that told them to go out there,’� Singleton said. The boys were identified 7-year-old Jay’Den Taylor-Everett; his brother, 8-year-old Da’Vontae Everett; and 10-year-old Rafel Villanueva, all of Fremont.
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Tennis picks up two wins in weekend trip to Cincinnati By Brett Wane Reporter
BASKETBALL Pontius named MAC Player of the Week Junior Tracy Pontius has been named the MAC Player of the Week after averaging 21.5 points per game in BG’s wins against Miami and Eastern Michigan last week.
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After a few tough battles over the weekend, the BG tennis team improved to 3-1 and is on a three-game winning streak. The Falcons were able to pull out wins of 5-2 over Cincinnati on Saturday and 4-3 over Xavier on Sunday. Cincinnati and BG played at Mercy Healthplex Fairfield in their non-conference dual match, before the Falcons took on Xavier at the Western Tennis Fitness Club. Junior Christine Chiricosta was able to up her record to 6-0 on the season against the Bearcats, but dropped both her singles and doubles matches against Xavier. The Falcons had to battle against the Xavier Musketeers after losing the doubles point for the first time this season. They responded well by winning four
out of six singles matches. The top-flight group of Chiricosta and freshman Maddy Eccleston and the second-flight tandem of senior Katia Babina and freshman Jade Johnson were victorious against Cincinnati, but both duos fell to Xavier. For Eccleston, it was her first loss in doubles play this season. She also had to battle out of a first set loss in singles action 16. Eccleston responded well and took the next two sets 6-4 and 6-1, respectively. While it was a rough weekend for Johnson, who dropped both of her singles matches, Babina was able to pick up two singles victories for the Falcons. In her first-ever collegiate appearance in singles in dual match play, sophomore Jessica Easdale was able to defeat Kally
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SWING: The Falcon tennis team improved their record to 3-1 this season.
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Freshman Jordan Crawford is getting valuable experience this season, having played in all 17 games so far. On Saturday he came off the bench at Miami to score eight points and dish out three assists in 12 minutes of work. Crawford is only averaging 4.1 minutes a game, but as a
Different styles. Different makeup. Different records. Despite these differences, both the BG men’s and women’s basketball teams are well-positioned in the Mid-American Conference standings after the season’s first third, turning BGSU into Basketball U for the second straight season. The women — perennially the preseason favorites to win the MAC — are undefeated in conference play through six games. The men — who were picked to finish fifth in the MAC East in the preseason poll — stand at a respectable 2-3 in conference play. Sound familiar? It should, because that’s where both teams stood at this point last season before ending the season as MAC East champions and the No. 1 seeds in the MAC Tournament. But for the defense-based men’s team, this year’s team has a much different mix of veterans and youngsters. Sophomores Scott Thomas and Dee Brown have filled most of the void left by the graduates Nate Miller, Brian Moten and Darryl Clements, while the team’s seniors have provided a lift on and off the court. Thomas’ and Brown’s sharpshooting has the men just one game out of first place in this rebuilding year, as they begin the next phase of their season – a six-game stretch against teams from the MAC West – beginning tomorrow at Eastern Michigan. A rebuilding project is not a new challenge for coach Louis Orr, as he was hired in 2007 to rebuild the struggling program — a project that came full circle last season. If Orr can get all his players to click at the same time, he might just engineer a similar comeback as last year, when his team won nine of its last 11 games to earn a share of the regular season MAC title. Better yet for fans, Orr can feel it coming. “Our whole team needs to continue to improve,” Orr said. “We haven’t arrived.” On the flip side, Curt Miller and the BG women probably won’t need a late-season run to continue their winning pedigree, as they have jumped out to a 6-0 start in MAC play by demolishing their opponent every game, winning by at least 12 points. And that trampling will likely continue tomorrow when Western Michigan (5-14, 0-6 MAC) comes to town. The Falcons went 15-1 during conference play last season, and with just one graduating player, Lindsey Goldsberry, last season, this year’s team already has the
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OUR CALL Today in Sports History 1997—The Packers defeat the Patriots 35-21 in Super Bowl XXXI. 1985—Wayne Gretzky scores his 50th goal in his 49th game of the season. 1960—Danny Heater scores 135 points in a high school basketball game.
The List At 2-3 in the MAC, the BG men’s basketball team has the same record through five MAC games this season as they did last year. That team won the MAC East at 11-5. Here are the top five players that will be crucial for BG in its attempt at another league title. 1. Thomas: Scott Thomas leads BG in scoring with 11.4 points per game. 2. Brown: Dee Brown is nearly shooting 50 percent from behind the arc this season. 3. Polk: Otis Polk will have to play big down the stretch, needing to draw fouls and grab rebounds. 4. Jakubowski: Joe Jakubowski has a knack for finding open shooters. 5. Marschall: Senior Erik Marschall is averaging 7.5 points and 5.4 rebounds per game.
Falcons in good position to defend MAC East titles
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SMILES: The women’s basketball team is on a seven-game winning streak.
BIG MAN: Otis Polk splits the defense in a game earlier this season.
Notes: BG women look Notes: Falcon men look to stay perfect at home to keep improving By Paul Barney Assistant Sports Editor
Quick, when was the last time the BG women’s basketball team lost a Mid-American Conference game at home? Still thinking? Unless you look it up on the BG athletics Web site, you may have a hard time figuring out the answer. That’s because it’s been almost two years -- that’s right, almost two years -- since the Falcons last lost a MAC game in Anderson Arena. Jan. 30, 2008, was the date and Western Michigan was the opponent. Since that 79-73 loss to the Broncos, the Falcons have strung together 16 consecutive home MAC wins. Thus far, BG is 3-0 at home in conference play this season. The Falcons will look to continue to build on their home dominance tomorrow night, when they host the same MAC team that found success in Anderson Arena nearly two years ago. The Broncos almost got the best of the Falcons two years in a row, as last year’s meeting in Kalamazoo resulted in a 79-77 overtime win for BG. “It’s really easy to grab [the Broncos’] attention,” coach Curt Miller said. “I think we get their attention right away. All you have
“She’s clearly the number one scorer I’ve coached. She’s just an unbelievably high finisher. I think she’s the [best] foul shooter in the country.” Curt Miller | BG Coach to do is say they’re the last team to beat you in Anderson Arena.” This time around will be no easy task for Western Michigan, as BG holds a 9-0 record at home this season. Both teams are headed in opposite directions, with Western Michigan at 5-14 overall and 0-6 in the MAC, while the Falcons are 164, sitting atop the MAC East with a 6-0 record in conference play.
Making bank Through 20 games this season, junior Lauren Prochaska is leading the Falcons in scoring, averaging 17.9 points per game.
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For the BG men’s basketball team, there is a lot of season left to play. With a 2-3 record in the MidAmerican Conference, BG has the exact same record it did a year ago through the first five MAC games. Last year’s team started 23 and ended up winning the MAC East with an 11-5 record. The Falcons took a step back in the MAC East standings Saturday, never being able to get their offense going in a 6452 loss at Miami. BG is in second place in the conference standings, while Akron, Kent State and Buffalo and Miami are deadlocked in a four-way tie for first place. Coach Louis Orr doesn’t dwell on wins and losses in the season. Instead, Orr’s goal is to focus on winning the next game, because “the next game is the biggest game of the year.” However, if the Falcons want to win their next game, they will have to get consistent play from their defense, which starts at defending the zone better. Miami entered Saturday’s game last in the MAC in 3-point shooting at 20 percent. Against the Falcons, the
Freshman had eight points in BG’s last game
Dee Brown Is averaging 10.9 points per game this season RedHawks connected on 50 percent from behind the arc. “You have to play the guy head-up in the lane,” Orr said. “It’s just a matter of defending those guys and moving our feet and getting out to shooters.
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She can beat defenders with a perimeter shot, as well as split a defense when driving to the lane — which causes Prochaska to draw numerous fouls. She has made 101 trips to the free-throw line this season, cashing in on 92 of them. Prochaska led the nation in freethrow shooting a year ago, and her ability to score in a variety of ways has caught Miller’s attention in his three years of coaching the native from Plain City, Ohio. “She’s clearly the number one scorer I’ve coached,” Miller said. “She’s just an unbelievably high finisher. I think she’s the [best] foul shooter in the country.”
Streaking The Falcons are no stranger when it comes to winning streaks. BG has won seven straight games, and it’s the third time this season they have won three games or more. The Falcons won five straight from Nov. 24 through Dec. 9 before losing on the road at St. Bonaventure, and won three straight after that before falling at Harford. Last season BG won 25 consecutive games before dropping a tough decision at Miami, 45-40.
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No easy task Just like all the other sub-500 teams the Falcons have played this season, Miller isn’t taking anything for granted. Despite an 0-6 MAC record, Western Michigan is another team that may be better than their record suggests. Miame Giden is averaging 15.6 points a game for the Broncos and teammate Ebony Cleary is at 12.4 points per game. “Miame’s clearly one of the most talented players in the league,” Miller said. “She has all the guard skills, she can shoot it, she can drive it. She’s a very smooth player.”
MEN From Page 6 freshman, fighting for playing time comes with the territory. “His minutes, a lot of times, have to do with how well he’s playing and also how Joe [Jakubowski] and Dee Brown are playing,” Louis said. “I tend to go with the veteran guys. If Joe and Dee are playing really well, that might limit [Jordan’s] minutes.” In 17 games, Brown is averaging 10.9 points per game, whereas Jakubowski is averaging 8.6 points per game while leading the team with 59 assists.
Big man Otis Polk has endured a quiet season thus far, averaging 9.5 points per game. However, Orr said Polk doesn’t need to score a lot of points to be effective.
AUTOMATIC: Lauren Prochaska has developed into one of the best free-throw shooters in the country.
As long as he is making easy shots near the basket, as well as grabbing rebounds, he’s doing his job. “It’s not about him scoring 20 points a game or grabbing 20 rebounds,” Orr said. “[As long as he is] playing big on both ends and being a presence.”
Charity stripe A positive note for the Falcons this season has been their ability to cash in at the free-throw line. BG made 9-of-11 freebies at Miami, and as a team is shooting 65.6 percent from the line. However, Orr would like to see his team get to the line more because they take advantage when they do so. “We need to get to the line more,” Orr said. “We have to play inside-out. That’s how you get to the free-throw line.”
COLUMN From Page 6 chemistry to become one of the finest ever to play in Anderson Arena. Reigning MAC Player of the Year Lauren Prochaska and Honorable Mention All-American Tracy Pontius have picked up where they left off, and Miller is getting strong contributions from all five starters and 10 bench players to average 81 points per game, which is almost 10 points more than second place Northern Illinois (71.8). “Overall, I’m excited where we’re at, but realize … we have a long way to go,” Miller said. BG still has to play some strong teams in the West, including division leader Toledo — the most likely
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team to upend the Falcons — and defending conference champions Ball State to get another top seed come MAC Tournament time. But if the first six games are any indication of what is to come, the Falcons will be trading last year’s bitter tears of defeat for tears of joy at the end of the MAC Tournament, especially with the work ethic they have. “You can really feel this team now wanting the information about upcoming opponents and trying to find out what can hurt us,” Miller said. “I think that’s a sign of a team that’s hungry for more.” This early in the season, who knows if the results will be the same as last year for either team, but it should be an entertaining ride no matter what the outcome.
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SERVE: The Falcons will look to serve up another win Saturday against IPFW.
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Alkire of Xavier in three sets. After a one point loss in the first set, Easdale won 6-2 and 6-4 in sets two and three for the victory.
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ODD BRIEFS Alleged car thief found playing ‘Grand Theft Auto’ ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies in central Florida found a suspected car thief playing the “Grand Theft Auto” video game, and they later charged him with just that. Polk County deputies investigating the theft of a 1998 Dodge Durango arrested 30-year-old Michael Ray Ekes on Thursday. They found the SUV outside a Haines City home. Ekes was inside in the house, playing the popular video game. Ekes was charged with grand theft auto, burglary and drug possession. At the time of his arrest, he was out of jail on bond for another grand theft auto charge. According to Polk County jail records, Ekes remained in custody Friday. Bond had not been set and no attorney was listed.
10-to-12 point buck breaks into Ill. home BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man says it didn’t take him long to decide not to mess with the uninvited, antlered guest he found in his kitchen. Belleville resident Mark Page and his wife were sleeping Saturday when the sound of breaking glass and — was that hooves? — woke them up. Page went downstairs to find a 10-to-12 point buck in the kitchen with its head in the sink. He says he looked at the animal for “not even a fraction of a second” before turning tail and heading back upstairs. He says he doesn’t mess with deer, especially big ones. The animal also was spooked and barreled through a closed window to escape. Page says the deer jumped through a different window to get into his home. He says the animal was injured, but police couldn’t find it.
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STUART, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man rescued a framed space shuttle photo from a trash bin — and found a wad of treasure in the process. Stuart Police say Warren Bendix was going to put the photo in a different frame and discovered $3,100 in cash stuffed behind the picture. He had found the picture while going through the trash near his apartment. Bendix reported his discovery to police on Saturday. Police say Bendix can claim the money if the owner doesn’t turn up.
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2BR apts, 4th St, pets welcome, $500/mo +gas/elec, water incl. Call 419-409-1110 or 419-352-4456.
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3 BR apts, recently updated! 619 High St, BG. Available May. Small pets OK, call 419-308-3525.
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3 BR house w/ 2 car garage, W/D & A/C, avail Aug. $1200/mo, 949 Scott Hamilton, 419-654-9512. 3 BR, 1 1/2 bath townhouse, 3 miles from campus, newly remodeled, $725/mo + util. Call 419-708-9981. Avail Aug. 2010, all upgraded, large houses, call 419-308-2458. 3 Bedroom houses: 114 Ridge -$1200/mo, 218 Dill St - 227 E. Reed - $1000/mo 127 Georgia Ave - $975/mo, 606 Fifth St - $900/mo, 226 E. Merry - $812/mo, 131 N. Church - $750/mo. 2 BR house: 133 Georgia -$750/mo. 3 BR apt: 443 N. Enterprise -550/mo. 1 BR apts: 112 Ridge St - 350/mo, & 443 N. Enterprise - $300/mo.
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House for Rent: 225 Palmer Ave, 3BR, 1 bath. Call 419-353-5087.
3 BR townhouses, lease for 2010s/y, Scott Hamilton St, 4th St & 5th St. Clean and well maintained. Call 419-409-1110 or 419-352-4456.
Look for more listings on the BG News website housing directory. www.bgviews.com NEW REDUCED RENT HOUSES! HOUSES! HOUSES! May Lease 2010-2011 133 1/2 S College - 3br 2 ba $950/m, 239 S. College - 4br 2 ba $885/mo, 302A S. College - 4br 2 ba $1050/m, 821A 2nd St. - 4br 2 ba $1050/mo, 2 Orchard Circle - 4br 2 ba $1050/m, 208 Troup - 4 br 2 ba $1050/mo, 826A 2nd St. - 4 br 2 ba $850/mo, 824 5th St. - 4 br 2 ba $1000/mo, 831 5th St. - 3 br 2 ba $750/mo, 835 5th St. - 4 br 2 ba $750/mo, August Lease 2010-2011 227 S. College - 3 br 1ba $990/mo, 308 S. College - 4 br 2 ba $1050/mo, 402 S. College - 3 br 1 ba $825/mo, 826B 2nd St. - 4 br 2 ba $850/mo, 239 Manville - 4 br 2 ba $850/mo, 241 Manville - 4 br 2 ba $850/mo, FROBOSE RENTALS 500 Lehman Ave. 419-352-6064 www.froboserentals.com Housing Directory www.bgviews.com
For Rent Shamrock Studios Winter Special on Studio Apt. Semester leases, $425/mo, furn. We provide all util, cable, WiFi. Call 354-0070 or ShamrockBG.com
Houses & Apartments 12 month leases only S. Smith Contracting LLC. 419-352-8917 - 532 Manville Ave. Office open 10-2, M-F. www.bgapartments.com
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