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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Volume 104, Issue 116
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Centennial marks founding, not start of classes Jill Carr
By Becky Tener Campus Editor
The University is celebrating its centennial this year when classes began 96 years ago. “We celebrate now because 1910 is when Bowling Green State University came into being,” the Centennial Celebration Co-chair Larry Weiss said. “May 19, 1910, is when the state passed legislation to create two new normal schools, one in northeast Ohio [Kent State University] and one in northwest Ohio.” Weiss said Bowling Green was selected to be the northwestern Ohio site Nov. 10, 1910. After the location was chosen, he said, the state had to find faculty staff and students for the school, and even after classes began in 1914, there still weren’t any buildings on campus until a year later. Celebrating on the dates universities were founded or chartered is a usual practice. Like BGSU, universities all over Ohio have celebrated their anniversaries in conjunction with the dates the state passed legislation for their creation. According to the Ohio State University Web site, their legislation was passed in 1870 and they celebrated their centennial in 1970. Ohio University was established in 1804, and according to their Web site, the first students came in 1808, and OU celebrated its bicentennial in 2004. Miami University was chartered in 1809, but classes didn’t officially start until 1824 and they just finished their bicentennial celebration in 2009, according to their Web site. Tom Neumann, associate vice president for University
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Communications and Marketing at Kent State University, said KSU is also celebrating the date legislation passed in 2010, like BGSU. “Just like Bowling Green, we’ve been celebrating with all sorts of events throughout 2010 … but we have decided to celebrate for the academic year, so we began in the fall [of 2009] with our Homecoming celebration,” Neumann said. Like BGSU, KSU did not begin classes in 1910. Classes began in 1912 and they are celebrating the passing of legislation. “Kent has always celebrated aligning with the 1910 founding,” he said. “We did it 50 years ago and we’re doing it now.” Dean of Students Jill Carr said the University is celebrating the centennial now and will not celebrate at this magnitude again in four years. “Perhaps in four years, we will have a media push to recognize the 100 years since the start of classes, but not a full blown celebration,” she said. Carr said the commitment to celebrate this year was carefully thought out and one Centennial Celebration will be enough. “This time is very important and I think we’ve dealt with it wisely. We’ve been very mindful and good stewards of the state’s dollars and respectful of tight
Cash Cart delivers rides; Students pocket prizes
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By Jess James Reporter
With the University’s new and improved Cash Cart, students will not only be able to hitch a ride to class, but they will learn ways to improve their budgeting and collect prizes. Sponsored by Student Money Management
Services, Cash Cart is a modified version of the Discovery Channel game show “Cash Cab.” Contestants are given a ride to their destination and are asked a series of financial trivia questions based on ways to improve spending.
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Dramatic readings encourage women to act bold, courageous Christine Talbert Reporter
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SPEAK OUT: Author of “That Takes Ovaries” Bobbie Ausubel address the crowd at the even held in her honor. Audience members shared personal stories as well as hearing excerpts from the book.
CAMPUS Monday Trivia Night in the pub Check out pictures from Trivia Night in the Black Swamp Pub. Students formed various questions about the University | Page 3
FORUM Issues with health care still exist
Forum editor Kyle Schmidlin says that both liberals and conservatives have reasonable concerns about the health care bill Congress passed, and that many people are still uninformed about the bill | Page 4
At an Ovaries open mic, women share stories of when they have acted boldly, and Courage was the theme of the where men can brag about the “That Takes Ovaries” event held ovaries in their lives; their mothMonday night in the Honors Loft ers, sisters, daughters and friends. in Harshman Quadrangle. Women adapt the phrase “That “That Takes Ovaries” is a Takes Balls” to inspire courage. unique initiative and nonprofOrganization founder and it organization that mixes the author of the novel “That Takes arts with activism for women Ovaries,” Bobbie Ausubel, was and girls’ empowerment. Since the core speaker at Monday’s 2002 hundreds of “That Takes See OVARIES | Page 2 Ovaries” open mics have been held around the globe.
SPORTS Falcons’ look for weekend wins
The Falcons’ baseball team hopes to continue their five game winning streak this weekend when they face off against Western Virginia University | Page 6
PEOPLE ON THE STREET If you could be on any game show, what would it be and why? TREY DUCKER Sophomore, Film Production
“Is ‘Jerry Springer’ a game show?” | Page 4
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