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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Volume 104, Issue 99
Hospital visit for underage drinking can lead to citation Denise Schlea, a charge nurse in the Wood County Hospital emergency department, said After a night of drinking, under- there are two ways individuage students may wake up with als wind up in the emergency more than just a hangover — room for over-intoxication. they might have the paperwork Patients are either brought in to prove they partied a little by ambulance because they’ve been found unresponsive, or by too hard. Whether an individual ends a friend because they can’t stop up with legal troubles for an vomiting or stay awake, she said. Although the hospital is not underage depends on how they concerned with a patient’s legal get to the hospital. By Hannah Nusser Reporter
matters, Schlea said, they must know their age because of privacy issues; if the patient is a minor, parents must be notified. Schlea said most people who are brought to the ER for being overly intoxicated are collegeage students on the weekends. “Very few of the people that Lt. Tony Hetrick | Bowling Green Police Division come into our department for excessive drinking are over the Saturday evenings we see a underage patients any differage of 21,” she said. “Usually higher incidence of it.” ently than of-age patients, and from Thursday through Schlea said they don’t treat if the individual has not already
“If they’re a complete jerk and they’re still disorderly ... that opens up another can of worms for them, because we’re not going to allow the disorderly conduct to continue.”
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DENTS COMMUTED AND BROUGHT THEIR LUNCHES FROM HOME. STUDENTS WHOSE PARENTS DID NOT LIVE IN THE AREA STAYED IN PRIVATE HOMES; MANY DID THEIR OWN COOKING AND ATE IN LOCAL RESTAURANTS, WHICH WAS QUITE INEXPENSIVE.
1916: ALL MEN LIVED OFF CAMPUS, AND ROOM AND BOARD FOR GIRLS TOTALED $4.25 A WEEK ($3 A WEEK). MEN ACTUALLY LIVED CHEAPER THAN THE WOMEN, BECAUSE THEY BROUGHT THEIR OWN FOOD FROM HOME AND DID THEIR OWN COOKING. FOOD COST FOR MEN WAS LOW, AS MOST OF THEIR PARENTS WERE FARMERS.
1918-19: BOARD IN WILLIAMS HALL WAS RAISED TO $3.50 A WEEK, MOSTLY BECAUSE THE WOMEN LAUNCHED COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF THE DORM FOOD. “THE GIRLS SAID THEY WOULD RATHER PAY MORE AND RECEIVE BETTER MEALS. IN FACT THEY SAID THE COST WOULD BE LESS, SINCE THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO BUY SO MANY SANDWICHES AND OTHER SNACKS.” EARLY 1930: MEN CONTINUED TO LIVE OFF CAMPUS AND CHEAPER THAN MOST OF THE WOMEN BECAUSE THEY BROUGHT FOOD FROM HOME. MILK WAS USUALLY THE ONLY ITEM THEY BOUGHT ON CAMPUS, BUT EVEN IN WINTER THEY BROUGHT FOOD FROM HOME. 1942-43: A STUDENT UNION, DUBBED FALCON’S NEST, OPENED, ADDING A $1 FEE PER SEMESTER. THERE WERE NOW MEN’S DORMS; BOARD WAS STILL $3.50 A WEEK FOR WOMEN, $4 A WEEK FOR MEN.
For more than 100 years, the University has fed students and made changes to meet their needs
LATE 1940S: BUILDINGS WERE MOVED ONTO CAMPUS.
LATE 1960S: MEALS WERE SERVED DURING A TWO-
HOUR WINDOW, THREE TIMES A DAY. IF STUDENTS MISSED A MEAL THEY HAD TO PAY CASH AT ONE OF THE TWO SNACK BARS LOCATED IN COMMONS AND IN HARSHMAN. MALEY SAID PRICES WERE REASONABLE; CHEESEBURGERS WERE 35 CENTS. STUDENTS COULD NOT GO FOR SECONDS OF AN ENTREE, BUT COULD HAVE TWO SALADS OR TWO SIDES. “A TYPICAL SALAD WAS EITHER CANNED FRUIT OR … A JELL-O SQUARE ON A LETTUCE LEAF, WHICH WAS ALWAYS A JOKE,” MALEY SAID. “THAT COULD’VE BEEN A LOGO FOR DINING SERVICES: ‘JELL-O SQUARE ON LETTUCE.’” “I HAD NO COMPLAINTS BELIEVE IT OR NOT, AND BACK THEN IT WASN’T IN THE CULTURE … I NEVER WENT HUNGRY,” MALEY SAID. “THEY WERE MORE HOMESTYLE, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS MAYBE THE MYSTERY MEATLOAF IF YOU WILL, SALISBURY STEAK, BAKED SPAGHETTI, VERY BASIC,” HE SAID.
1971: DINING SERVICES SWITCHED TO AN “A LA CARTE” SYSTEM; STUDENTS USED COUPON BOOKS TO PURCHASE A WIDER VARIETY OR INDIVIDUALIZED ITEMS, LIKE SANDWICHES. LATE 1970S: TOWERS INN RESTAURANT OPENED IN
MCDONALD AND WAS ACTIVE UNTIL THE LATE 1990S. ALSO, THE STRAWBERRY PATCH, A PANCAKE HOUSE IN HARSHMAN, OPENED AND BECAME VERY POPULAR; IT LATER CHANGED TO BERRIES IN THE ‘80S.
1980S: COMMONS DINING CENTER WAS ‘THE TRUCKSTOP.’ IT WAS ESTABLISHED BECAUSE PRIMARILY MEN ATE THERE, AND THEY WANTED HEARTY, LARGER-PORTION MEALS. “THE BIG ‘CB TEN-FOUR GOOD BUDDY’ ERA [WAS] GOING ON,” JOSEPH SAID. “THAT WAS A BIG HIT.”
1947: A WOODEN MESS HALL WAS TRANSPORTED FROM
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WAS MEANT TO REPLACE THE OLD WOODEN COMMONS.
1914: DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF CLASSES, MOST STU-
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been cited by police, hospital staff cannot report them due to privacy laws. Paul Cowdrey, firefighter for the Bowling Green Fire Department, said when someone places a 911 call, it goes to the police dispatcher, who determines the type of call and who should arrive on the scene.
rom bring-your-own brownbag lunches to mystery meat and Jell-O squares to the smorgasbord available today, University dining services have evolved during the past 100 years to keep up with students’ changing tastes. In the early years, University students commuted to campus,
CAMP PERRY TO SERVE AS A TEMPORARY DINING HALL; PRESIDENT PROUT RE-CHRISTENED THE HALL COMMONS.
according to Robert Overman’s book “The History of Bowling Green State University.” Food cost was very little for most students, as they did their own cooking and brought food from home. As campus began to expand in the 1940s, wooden buildings were
1950-51: CAMPUS WAS RAPIDLY EXPANDING, AND TEM-
ALSO, TODAY’S OUTTAKES AREA WAS AN EMPTY DINING SPACE STUDENTS COULD RESERVE FOR “BEER BLASTS,” JOSEPH SAID. “THEY WOULD RENT THAT SPACE OUT AND THAT WAS A SPACE ON CAMPUS THAT FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES COULD HAVE ALCOHOL,” JOSEPH SAID. “IT WAS ALWAYS A MESS TO CLEAN UP AFTER ... IT REEKED OF BEER, BUT YES, BACK IN THE ‘80’S THAT WAS A PARTY LOCATION.”
EARLY 1960S: ROOM AND BOARD INCREASED AGAIN, DUE TO AN INCREASE IN FOOD AND SERVICES COST AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DORMITORIES.
1980S: MCDONALD DINING HALL HOUSED GARDEN TERRACE DELI AND SODA SHOPPE, WHERE STUDENTS COULD GET AN ICE CREAM SUNDAE FOR LESS THAN $2 AND A CREATEYOUR-OWN SANDWICH OR “BAGELWICH” FOR LESS THAN $2.50.
1964: THE HARSHMAN QUADRANGLE WAS COMPLETED, WITH A CENTRAL KITCHEN, DINING ROOMS AND SNACK BAR. IT
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PORARY HOUSING FOR STUDENTS WAS OVERCROWDED. BOARD WENT FROM $81 TO $126 THAT YEAR, AND WENT UP AGAIN THE FOLLOWING YEAR TO $144.
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Former coach tends to University athletic memorabilia By Matt Nye Reporter
home basketball game. Cochrane came to the A signed Orel Hershiser base- University in 1964 when the ball jersey, the first ever Freddie athletic director at the time, Falcon mascot outfit and the Sam Cooper, hired him to start first ever Falcon emblem can soccer and lacrosse programs. only be found in one place, the Before coming to the University University’s archives. For thirty Cochrane was at Johns Hopkins years, Mickey Cochrane has University for 11 years, and he stored old artifacts from every had also coached teams for the sporting season since the early Army in the 1950s. “I came here to teach and coach. 1900s, to create a room full of At that time all coaches were memorabilia. JEFF FLEISCHMANA | THE BG NEWS The archive room is located at FALCON FANATIC: Mickey Cochrane has worked at the University since 1964 and in the See ARCHIVES | Page 2 the west end of Anderson Arena archive department for 25 years. and is open an hour before every
FORUM Black History Month is global
SPORTS Women’s basketball falls at CMU
Columnist Hama Bbela argues that while Black History Month is celebrated in the United States, its effects are farreaching throughout the world | Page 4
The women’s basketball team suffered their second conference loss of the season as Central Michigan pulled off the 67-65 upset win in Mt. Pleasant. SPORTS | Page 6
Program gives experience to those in need of employment By Christie Kerner Reporter
“When hiring older people, you know they will have a strong work ethic ... ”
A national, community-based organization provides training for older adults in the Wood County area to help participants get back into the work Jan Agler | Coordinator force with Experience Works. The program serves more than 50,000 people each year, with job training that we expect has more than 300 employees to lead to employment,” state and operates in 30 states. See EXPERIENCE | Page2 “We train people who are 55 and older and provide them
PEOPLE ON THE STREET Falcons take down Huskies Scott Thomas scored a game-high 26 points, leading the Falcons to a 71-69 win over Northern Illinois last night. SPORTS | Page 6
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