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Website allows users to showcase talents, make extra cash By Bobby Waddle Reporter
Fiverr.com offers the opportunity to buy and sell any service imaginable for the price of five dollars. Sellers can keep $4 while the website keeps $1. Services, called “gigs” on the site, range from painting watercolor pictures from supplied photographs to people singing “Happy Birthday” to someone over the phone in Marilyn Monroe’s voice.
Fiverr is just one site that offers low priced opportunities for services. Others include TenBux. com, virtually the same with $10 gigs added to the mix, and ClickFive.net, which focuses on $5 Internet marketing through Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Based on her first impression, Popular Culture professor Montana Miller said that the site’s diverse advertisements could create new consumer needs overnight just by giving people ideas they had never thought of.
Miller said the low price creates possibilities for people to come up with small ideas that can eventually turn into “big moneymakers” if they catch on. “[The site] gives an individual the tools to come up with an idea and implement it instantly,” Miller said. University senior Nick Rush is implementing two of his ideas on Fiverr, allowing opportunities for people to get their names out around campus. Rush, who works for the
University’s recording services at the College of Musical Arts with hopes to become a recording engineer, currently offers two gigs that aid in giving people business exposure. Rush’s first gig ties directly into his line of work, He will review people’s music on “multiple sound systems” in order to give a “detailed, honest opinion” of aspiring musical artists. COURTNEY STELLAR | THE BG NEWS
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FIVERR: University senior Nick Rush checks out profiles and services of other users on Fiverr.com. Rush offers two services through the website: posting fliers around campus and critiquing music.
USG votes down disapproval of tuition increase for fall By Max Filby Reporter
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KEEPING BUSY: Amy Craft Ahrens, the owner of For Keeps, works throughout the morning at her shop. Ahrens has worked there ever since its opening in 1997. Yesterday she worked on redesigning the store’s card section.
The Undergraduate Student Government voted down a resolution to this fall’s tuition increase on Monday. Senator Daniel Gordon proposed a revised resolution for the maximum 3.5 percent increase at the July 19 meeting. A resolution to the tuition increase was first proposed five days prior to the board of trustees vote to raise tuition next semester. The failed resolution identified tuition increases as preventing the University from being competitive and causing lower enrollment. However, this fall’s enrollment has been reported as the second highest
A WOMAN’S WORK The beginning of this year marked significant progress for a slow but gaining economic and cultural shift in the United States. For the first time in American history, the balance of the workforce tipped toward women, who now hold a majority of the nation’s jobs, The Atlantic reported. The article “The End of Men” stated that women also dominate colleges and professional schools, with three women receiving a Bachelor of Arts this year for every two men. Radhika Gajjala, director of American Culture Studies and former director of Women’s Studies at the University, said that one possible reason for this gender switch has to do with availability in the job market, as women are trained for much of the work currently available. Women occupy a majority of all but two of the 15 job categories projected to grow the most in the next decade, according to The Atlantic. Of the job categories women dominate, many entail service positions such as nursing, home health assistance, child care and food preparation, said The Atlantic. The
article attributed the success of women in these “nurturing professions” to “old stereotypes and habits,” leaving men less able to adapt. Gajjala also said studies show that men, on average, are not doing as well academically as women for social reasons at the university level. According to the University website, female students have outnumbered male students for several years as both undergraduate and graduate students at the main campus and Firelands campus. As of fall 2009, women comprised 56.1 percent of the total student population at Bowling Green. “It doesn’t mean anything negative for [male students],” Gajjala said. “I think it just means male students have to compete harder, work harder. The workplace environment is better for having men and women in it, so it doesn’t take opportunities away from men.” Junior Jordan Delp said he is concerned about the added competitiveness, as he hopes to get into the exclusive field of criminal profiling, but ultimately doesn’t worry that gender will come into effect either way.
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in University history. “I just think the tuition increase resolution was a day late and a dollar short,” said USG president Kevin Basch. “It didn’t really do anything and had a few inaccuracies, too, I think.” The proposed resolution also called for administrative cuts in order to reduce financial burdens at the University, according to a
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Freshman joins President’s Leadership Academy
More women are now in the workforce than men, also more prevalent at the college level By Jessica Hanna News Editor
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Holly Lovey is less than a month into her college career and has already begun to make a name for herself. As a member of the Sidney A. Ribeau President’s Leadership Academy she has been awarded a scholarship, as well as other opportunities, for her work in community service and as a leader. “She has a lot of leadership background,” Julie Ann Snyder, director of the President’s Leadership Academy, said. Since 1998, the Sidney A. Ribeau President’s Leadership Academy has been a program that focuses on servant-leadership. The program offers students a four-year scholarship that
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Holly Lovey Freshman, PLA member
covers the cost of instructional tuition and general fees for 15-30 students annually, Snyder said. Lovey felt she was a good fit in the program because she had been in several leadership roles during high school. The Cleveland native attended St. Joseph Academy, an allgirls Catholic high school, where she participated in numerous clubs including the chess
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pus to see [the fliers].” Aside from business, Rush said that he simply enjoys looking at the gigs listed on the site. “There’s a lot of weird stuff on [Fiverr],” Rush said. “It’s just fun to go on and see what people do for five bucks and how you can benefit from that.” Rush does not believe the site to be currently popular with University students, but said he would not be surprised to see a spike in its appeal. “It’s still an underground site, really,” Rush said. “I remember Twitter when it wasn’t anything at all ... so I’m sure with the right exposure Fiverr and even TenBux will really explode because of the unique stuff you can get off of there.” Miller also expressed optimism for the site’s future and said the site will appeal to people who enjoy self-employment. “What’s beautiful about it is you are your own boss,” Miller said. “You may still be making minimum wage, but you are in charge.” This idea of freedom certainly appeals to Rush. “If you like drawing, offer to draw for someone,” Rush said. “There’s nothing better than getting paid for doing something you want to do anyway.”
“I thought [about] where I was a lot of the time and what I like to do,” Rush said. “I enjoy recording music and I have access to the studio.” Rush mentioned he first heard about the website from his boss, who in turn has performed professional voice-overs as a gig. Rush’s second gig allows customers to e-mail him fliers, and he will print three of them out and post them in different locations around the campus. Rush believes the gig is convenient for his own work and school schedule. “I’m always on the BGSU campus, so it would be easy to print up the fliers and post them up while I’m walking to work,” Rush said. “It’s really just things that I do that are not going to take a whole lot of time.” Both Rush and his boss have received offers from sellers, though Rush decided to delay his service until the fall semester begins. “Being the nice person that I am, I tell [buyers] that college is out right now,” Rush said. “There’s not nearly as many people on cam-
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something to be encouraged by,” Gajjala said. “It’s just that we can’t sit back and say we’ve won the battle, we’re doing great, Gajjala said that although because getting a job alone women are working harder and doesn’t mean you rise up in the making progress in education structure. We still have the glass and the workplace, they still ceiling, so I think young women have disadvantages in salary getting out of college should be and advancement when com- encouraged, but they should be pared with men. According to very cautious. They can’t stop the Bureau of Labor Statistics, working harder.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics women who were full-time wage and salary workers in 2009 also found women now hold had median weekly earnings of 51.4 percent of managerial and about 80 percent of the median professional jobs, up from 26.1 percent in 1980. And yet only 3 for their male counterparts. “The fact that more women percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are are finding jobs, that’s definitely women, The Atlantic reported.
Gajjala said men still dominate the higher positions, setting rules. The influx of women in the job market, however, means that men need to learn how to work well with women as both colleagues and bosses, she said. Gajjala added that she felt the increase in women improves the work environment, promoting respect and encouraging cooperation. Many positive changes have already taken effect, she said, such as the creation of sexual harassment laws. “It’s good to see that women are able to expand from their previous restrictions,” Delp said. In 2006, researchers at
Columbia Business School and the University of Maryland analyzed data on the top 1,500 U.S. companies from 1992 to 2006 to determine the relationship between firm performance and female participation in senior management, The Atlantic reported. Firms that had women in top positions performed better. Sophomore Ashley Bokar said it is almost a reversal of rolls. A business major, she said she isn’t worried about her gender playing a factor when she graduates. “As long as I prepare myself and work hard, I think I have a pretty good chance as a woman,” Bokar said.
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with Lovey while studying for their classes. “She doesn’t hide who she is,” Lemle said. “She is very outgoing and fun to be around.” In the first two weeks of her college career, Lovey has found her experience to be interesting, challenging and exciting, she said. “It’s exciting because I get to meet new people,” she said. “It’s been challenging because classes are challenging and we have a tight schedule.” Taking summer courses has not only been an educational experience, but she has also learned how to be good at time management and how to get around campus, she said. While she is facing the fears most freshmen face, the biggest of which she said is adjusting to being away from home, the President’s Leadership Academy has high expectations for her. “The thing that has always impressed me is her genuine desire to help others,” Snyder said. “She’s a phenomenal individual.”
union and the student recreation center, instead of athletics,” Edens said. USG also took time to address 2010 USG document. The tuition the needs and ideas of incomincrease came as a result of an ing freshmen at orientation. $8.2 million cut in state funding Although the shortened orientation excluded usual activifor the University. “Passing resolutions like this ties, such as a USG presidential are not the most effective,” said speech, Basch and Caldwell still Joe Edens, USG chairman of had time to meet with students internal affairs. “It made a lot of during lunch. “Kevin and I had the opportunigood points, but not enough to ty to see and meet with some stuaxe an entire tuition increase.” No more revisions will be dents,” Caldwell said. “The shorter made to the proposed resolution orientation made it more difficult as USG has identified the tuition to meet everybody, but it was just increase as necessary to keep a nice quick introduction.” USG members will continue providing current services and to help incoming students get opportunities at the University. “The increase will allow a acclimated by helping out on lot of students to have a bet- move in days, Aug. 20 through ter experience while they are Aug. 22. USG members includhere,” said USG vice president ing Basch and Caldwell will be helping students move in and Dan Caldwell. Unlike last year, USG hopes meeting more campus residents. “Basically USG will be there to to be able to direct some of the incoming money from the try to be a smiling, friendly face,” tuition increase toward gener- Basch said. “We’ll be there as al fees, which help to finance someone to help out.” USG will finalize plans for move University operations. “I think we are going to try in weekend as well as address to direct some of the incom- recent parking appeals at its final ing money toward the student summer meeting on Aug. 16.
club, SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), ECOS (Environmental Concerns of Students) and math club. She was also captain of the school’s rugby team. The Environmental Science and English double-major said she was impressed with the University’s strong academic programs and how environmentally friendly it is. She heard about the PLA when she was visiting colleges, and it was one of the reasons she chose to go to Bowling Green, she said. “I figured I should apply [to the PLA],” Lovey said. “Helping others has always been something that’s important to me.” Since coming to Bowling Green on July 5, the freshmen class of the PLA has been attending summer courses. Dan Lemle, who attended Anthony Wayne High School in Whitehouse, Ohio, said that he has become good friends
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)— A court date has been set for the debate over whether raids on homeless camps in Anchorage, Alaska, are legal. The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska has filed a lawsuit contending the raids are unconstitutional because they violate property rights of the homeless. A court last week issued a temporary restraining order halting the city from conducting more raids. ACLU-Alaska Executive Director Jeffrey Mittmann says a court hearing was held Monday and a Nov. 3 date was set for oral arguments in the case. He says a preliminary injunction is in place that prevents the municipality from doing raids until the legal issues are resolved. The city passed an ordinance in June giving the homeless five days’ notice to leave the illegal camps. Mittmann says property then is seized and destroyed.
SEATTLE — The tale of the Barefoot Bandit is Hollywoodready, with its barely schooled, shoeless scamp dodging police as he allegedly stole planes and cars in a cross-country dash before he was nabbed in a high-speed boat chase in the Bahamas. A well-known entertainment lawyer hired by Colton HarrisMoore’s mother says he is being swamped by unsolicited offers for book and movie deals, and no law would prohibit the 19-year-old or his mom from getting rich off his tale. But hardball-playing prosecutors could seek to have them agree to turn over any profits from such deals in exchange for Harris-Moore avoiding a long prison sentence. The government could use the money to repay his alleged victims. —Gene Johnson (AP)
JACKSON, Miss.— A teenage lesbian who sued her school district over its ban of same-sex prom dates has accepted an offer to settle the case. American Civil Liberties Union attorneys representing Constance McMillen filed notice Monday in U.S. District Court to accept a judgment offer from the Itawamba County School District to pay $35,000, plus attorney’s fees. As part of the agreement, the school district also said it would follow a policy not to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity in any educational or extracurricular activities. The ACLU said the case is precedentsetting because the district is the first in Mississippi to implement a policy banning discrimination and harassment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. “I’m so glad this is all over,” McMillen said in a statement Tuesday. “I won’t ever get my prom back, but it’s worth if it changes things at my school.” —Shelia Byrd (AP)
PHOENIX (AP) — Seven other Latin American countries want to join Mexico in supporting a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru filed separate, nearly identical motions to join Mexico’s legal brief supporting the lawsuit filed by U.S. civil rights and other advocacy groups. A federal judge formally accepted Mexico’s filing July 1 but did not immediately rule on the latest motions filed late last week. Mexico says the law would lead to racial profiling and hinder trade, tourism and the fight against drug trafficking. The law is to take effect July 29. It requires that police conducting traffic stops or questioning people about possible legal violations ask them about their immigration status if there is “reasonable suspicion” that they’re in the country illegally.
AKRON, Ohio — The mailman finished his afternoon deliveries in an unassuming way, betraying no sign that anything out of the ordinary had occurred save for the blood on his uniform and the cut on his lip. Back at the post office, he was greeted with cries of disbelief: “Did you hear? Keith saved another life today.” Such is a day in the life of Keith McVey, the postal worker with the bronzed skin and the alert blue eyes who can’t walk down the street without being honked at by passing cars filled with his admirers — or, apparently, without saving a life. Over the years, McVey, 53, has helped saved three people while on his mail route, earning a reputation as the plainclothes superhero of this small neighborhood near a lake. Last week, he threw aside his bundle of mail to perform CPR on an unconscious man on the side of the road. Two years ago, he pulled a drowning girl from the lake. —Meghan Barr (AP)
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — A jury trial is scheduled for a New Mexico mayor accused of misdemeanor assault and battery in a case that stems from a fistfight between the mayor and the publisher of the city’s newspaper. Gallup Mayor Harry Mendoza’s trial on Tuesday had been scheduled for June, but was delayed when three western New Mexico magistrates recused themselves. Mendoza and Gallup Independent publisher Bob Zollinger both claim the other man started the Jan. 6 fight outside a Gallup bank. The dispute between the men centers on newspaper articles linking Mendoza to the gang rape of a teenage girl in 1948 when Mendoza was 16 years old. The mayor denies the allegations and has filed a defamation lawsuit against Zollinger, who maintains his innocence.
Artists find ways to protest Gulf spill By Allen G. Breed The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Musician Shamarr Allen was flying back into Louis Armstrong International Airport when he got his first real glimpse of the BP oil spill. The words of CEO Tony Hayward’s TV spot — “To those affected and your families, I’m deeply sorry” — were ringing in his ears. Allen was exhausted after playing a private party, but he couldn’t sleep until he and some friends had laid down their response. Like the oil from the Deepwater Horizon drill rig, “Sorry Ain’t Enough No More” came gushing out. “To whom it may concern, come here, first things first. “Tell me, how much is this dead pelican worth? “How does it feel to have a man’s blood on your shirt? “To single-handedly put a whole industry out of work?” The song — a blend of rap, blues and brass-band jazz — begins with Hayward himself speaking about the “tragedy that never should have happened,” and ends with Allen’s simple plea: “Think, people.”
“I wanted to channel that outrage in a unique way.” Steve Breen | SD Union Tribune For the 29-year-old trumpet player, whose home in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward was wiped away when the levees failed during Hurricane Katrina, the song was an exercise in catharsis, his “way of getting it off my chest.” For others, far beyond the Gulf Coast, art has become a means of raising awareness and money, of showing solidarity and venting anger at a system that has failed on so many levels. Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen of The San Diego UnionTribune had done several spill-related panels since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20. But simple black India ink didn’t seem sufficient to convey his anger at BP and federal regulators. “I wanted to channel that outrage in a unique way,” he wrote in an e-mail to the AP, “and since I’m in the powerful image business, I came up
with the oil idea.” Breen flew across the continent on his own dime to spend the Fourth of July weekend collecting tar balls on Florida’s Santa Rosa Island. He took the globs home to California, thinned them with gasoline and created four cartoons. One panel shows a BP logo made up of oiled birds and sea creatures, another the Statue of Liberty holding a dripping oil drum aloft instead of a torch. The brownish-orange oil — darker or lighter, depending on the amount of gasoline Breen used — seems almost to bleed from the page. “Some people I bounced it off said I was crazy,” he wrote. “Luckily my wife, Cathy, supported it and told me I should book a ticket ...” As an ornithologist’s son, watercolor artist Paul Jackson grew up spending Christmases in the park ranger’s cabin on Horn Island, Miss. Over several weeks, he turned his outrage into “Fowl Language,” in which a least tern, stilt, egret, cormorant and other Gulf birds sit atop a dropping-streaked BP sign as an oil rig smokes in the background.
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CHICAGO — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected to finally step into the witness box at his corruption trial on Tuesday, though exactly when will depend partly on how quickly prosecutors finish crossexamining his brother. For most of the trial, co-defendant Robert Blagojevich faded into the background. But in a full day of testimony Monday, the sometimes emotional older brother told jurors he had no part in alleged plans to trade Barack Obama’s former Senate seat for campaign funds or a Cabinet
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ness, he was law and politics,” Robert told jurors in a clear, firm voice, sitting straight in the witness chair. Prosecutors say they expect to question Robert Blagojevich Robert Blagojevich | Brother for several hours Tuesday, after which his attorneys are expected post for his sibling, and that he to rest their case. Their only other never put illegal pressure on witness was his wife, Julie, who testified briefly Monday morning. potential political donors. Attorneys for Rod Blagojevich, The former Army officer turned businessman, now a who is a year younger than his real estate entrepreneur from brother, say they will start their Nashville, tried to convey an case by calling an FBI agent and image as a decent and straight- a former Blagojevich adminislaced gentleman — a contrast to tration budget official to testify the sometimes goofy image of briefly. It would then be the turn his brother, long the butt of jokes of the impeached governor, who has proclaimed his desire to take on late-night TV. “I was military and busi- the stand loudly and often.
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LOCKED-UP LOHAN Stuck in the “The Apparent Trap” of child stardom, Lohan pays the consequences By Matt Liasse Pulse Editor
The past two weeks have been a huge downfall for Lindsay Lohan, and even though she is attached to Hollywood’s fame and fortune, she is someone close in age with today’s college students. It’s evident that the taste of fame destroyed the once cute little redhead that starred in “The Parent Trap.” On July 6, Lohan was found in the courtroom (seemingly her second home these days), with TMZ.com filming the star’s every move for the enjoyment of everyone else. During the showdown, Lohan was sentenced to spend 90 days behind bars for violating her probation after being arrested two years ago for drunk driving, cocaine possession and endangering the lives of others. Like so many other child stars before her, Lohan has fallen into the same boat, a life of misfortune after hitting the height of success before the age of 15. When success is given to someone that young, too
much power comes with it. What bouncer is to deny a child access to a drug-reddened night club when their paychecks are bigger than they’ll ever see in their lifetime? Lohan’s fate should be a surprise to no one. The sentence is a packaged deal with an enabler mother, a father who’s already spent time in the slammer and a less than squeaky clean friend-list, including party-girl Paris Hilton. Lohan is following in the footsteps of other very popular child stars that lost control of their lives at a very young age. After starring in “E.T.,” Drew Barrymore landed in rehab at the young age of 13. Macaulay Culkin was part of some of the biggest movies (“Home Alone,” “My Girl,”) but also made headlines for substance abuse and a relationship with Michael Jackson that raised eyebrows. And “Growing Pains” star Tracey Gold battled anorexia publicly while being one of America’s cherished children. Although it may be entertaining for us viewers to watch, these
are actual lives being spun out of control. It may be because of bad decisions made by the star, but it could also be said that fame ruins the road these children walk on. Which is one of the reasons that it makes me sick when I see celebrities exploiting their children on the cover of US Weekly. So, should we feel badly for Lohan? Not one bit. If you step out of line, consequences are inevitable. And Lohan has stepped out of line plenty of times with just a slap on the wrist. And although I think it was totally rock’n’roll to paint “F*** U” on her middle fingernail while in court, it’s evident that the law slapped her right back in her place. But ruling Lohan out shouldn’t be done just yet. Her troubles only leave room for a comeback. Just take a look at Robert Downey Jr. He’s on top of the world right now when just a few years ago, he was on the other end of the game of fame because of illegal substances. There may just be a Mean Girls 2, after all.
Semi Precious Weapons debut with glam rock sound Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball opening band release record full of filth and glamour
There is little rock’n’roll attitude left in the music industry today. In a world of commercial pop music filling up the Top 40s, it’s hard to find a feel for the catchy choruses, lyrics requiring a second listen and the root being all about a glamorous life filled with partying. Rock’n’Roll seems to have died with the likes of leading men like Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger and David Bowie being less than pertinent these days. Until now. Still on the road with one of the highest grossing tours of the summer, Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball, Semi Precious Weapons has released their debut album, “You Love You.” The 10-song, 36 minute debut combines flashy lifestyles with erotic themes. From the album’s first lyrics, “I can’t pay my rent, but I’m f****** gorgeous,” the listener is hooked on this ode to filthy glamour. SPW is led by charismatic frontman and songwriter, Justin Tranter, who often wears heals and fishnets on stage, much like a lot of his rock star male frontmen that proceed him. His homosexual themed lyrics rise everywhere when he cheerily sings “It’s not my fault I look better in her party dress.” The lyrics from the New York
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band are the band’s strongest trait, which will make you laugh (“sticky with champagne, it’s okay it’s a birthday”), scratch your head (“dance me face to face while I finger your ribcage”), tear up (“the only thing that ever came easy to her was me”) or fist pump at the party theme (“dance around my body. Just ‘cause I’m dead don’t kill the party”). What “You Love You” does is take the listener on a journey filled with guitar riffs, hard drums and effects no one knew a voice could do. SPW lines every track on their
album with glitz and glam, but still have a raw rock’n’roll sound hard to find these days. The band seems to be channeling the grungy Hollywood theme of Hole’s 1998 album “Celebrity Skin.” The album’s rock roots leave many pumped up, but the album’s ballad closer, “Look At Me,” shows the strength of the band’s songwriting and vocals. It shows that beyond all the filth, there’s some beauty within. And like the eighth track states, “rock’n’roll never looked so beautiful.”
Cleveland may have lost LeBron James but its reputation as a culinary destination is only gaining momentum. Voted as one of “Food and Wine” magazine’s 2010 Best New Chefs, Chef Jonathon Swayer’s the Greenhouse Tavern, located on East Fourth Street in downtown Cleveland, offers delectable dishes in a certified sustainable setting. From the antique cedar barn wood flooring to the chic light fixtures made from recycled bicycle rims, the “green” atmosphere perfectly accentuates the innovative seasonal and local menu. Of all the menu choices, the best deal is the Four Course Chef’s Tasting Menu for a reasonable $39, which allows diners to choose one first course, one second course, one entrée and either a hearty side or a dessert from the menu. Consider sharing. The tasting menu could easily feed two. The “firsts” menu ($3-$7) offers smaller sized appetizers, which could be interpreted as amuse bouches, such as house-made cheeses, breads and pork pate. “Seconds” showcases the popular Crispy Chicken Wing Confit ($11) and the highly recommended Hand Ground Beef Tartare Frites ($12), served with a two-minute egg, house made mustard, mayo, and fries. Chef Swayer is known for his Dry Aged Ohio Beef Burger on the “thirds” menu, but the print menu brags the Half Roasted Chicken in Brioche Bread is the “best chicken in Cleveland,” and I must concur. Juicy, tender, and savory, this dish is a “must order.” Without a doubt, though, the star of the Greenhouse Tavern isn’t the water-saving technologies; it’s the Gravy Frites. These glorious fries fried in duck fat are topped with rich brown gravy and salty mozzarella cheese curd. Food Network’s Iron Chef Michael Symon names these fries his guilty pleasure on the television show “The Best Thing I Ever Ate.” Decadent and divine, the Gravy Frites left me in a food coma and unsure I’d be able to eat anything the next day. But I’m always hungry. The next day I headed to another locally-minded restaurant, Lucky’s Café in the Tremont neighborhood in Cleveland. With intimate seating and art-covered walls that were highlighted on Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” Lucky’s Café is known for its fresh, seasonal breakfasts, lunches and brunches. Chef Heather Haviland uses all local ingredients—some of which even come from the Café’s garden—to create fruit breads, omelettes and waffles. But Food Network’s Guy Fieri had it right when he proclaimed his love for the Lucky Rueben ($11). All the ingredients—from the corned beef to the rye bread to the sauerkraut to the Thousand Island dressing—are house made. As someone who finds sauerkraut too overwhelming and overpowering, Chef Haviland’s sweetly compliments the tang in the corned beef. Diner Jeannie Kidera called it “magical.” This is a sandwich I will crave, one that I will drive to Cleveland and back in one day to be able to devour it again. If a culinary adventure is on your horizon, check out all that Cleveland has to offer. It’s an emerging food lover’s Mecca.
of action movie conventions. There are car chases, explosions, shoot-outs and the mandatory fist-fight over a gun that nobody can get a grip on. But it also questions how a person percieves reality, and whether or not a dream is preferable to reality. This may draw comparisons to “The Matrix,” but “Inception” handles it much more subtly
and leaves a lasting emotional impression. “Inception” could be compared to an existential novel, whereas “The Matrix” is closer to comic book style (not to cheapen comics). The film is captivating from start to finish, generating suspense and curiosity at every turn.
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BETTY WHITE BECOMES PINUP GIRL: The eighty-eight-year-old actress Betty White will be releasing her own 2011 calender, following in the footsteps of other sex symbols such as Kim Kardashian. The calendar will be on sale in September for $12.99, and will feature pictures of White with animals one month and shirtless men in another.
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UNCLE JESSE EXTORTED: Former “Full House� star John Stamos is “shocked and amazed� after a couple in Michigan tried to extort him out of $680,000, threatening to sell old photos of the star with strippers and cocaine. The photos do not exist, according to Stamos, and the couple was found guilty. LADY GAGA PROTESTED: A Kansas-based protest group from the Westboro Baptist Church stood outside the doors of Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball show in St. Louis, with an anti-gay agenda. The picketers called Lady Gaga a “false prophetess� and warned that she and her “gender-confused, self-loathing, tone deaf� fans are going to hell. Gaga took to her Twitter to say the protesters’ message was of “hatred and divisiveness� and her tour preaches “love and unity.� She urged the concert-goers to ignore the protesters, saying “Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.� After the show, Gaga Tweeted how “love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. Together, we sang.� After the concert, gaga gained her five millionth follower on her Twitter account. P!NK ENDS UP BLACK AND BLUE: During her Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour, musician P!nk tumbled off stage when her harness malfunctioned while performing her last song in Nuremberg, Germany. The fall landed the star in the hospital, where she immediately Tweeted that she was okay, saying “nothings broken, no fluid in lungs, just seriously sore.�
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PLAYLISTS “Collaborations�
1. Walk This Way by Run D.M.C. f/ Aerosmith
2. Another Way To Die by Alicia Keys and Jack White
3. Broken by Seether f/ Amy Lee
4. Crazy In Love by Beyonce f/ Jay Z
5. Stuntin’ Like My Daddy by Birdman and Lil Wayne
6. Hero by Chad Kroeger & Josey Scott
7. Oops! (Oh My) 8. Live Your Life by T.I. f/ Rihanna
9. Rich Girl by Gwen Stefani f/ Eve
10. Lady Marmalade by Lil Kim, P!nk, Christina Aguilera and Mya
‘ENTOURAGE’ STARS BACK NY RESTAURANT: Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon, both stars of the HBO drama series “Entourage,� are helping to fund the mortgage of Siro’s restaraunt in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Both of the actors are from New York and have personal ties with the owners.
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SUDOKU To play: Complete the grid so that every row, column and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. There is no guessing or math involved. Just use logic to solve.
The most impressive aspect of “Inception� is the depth and consistency of the rules of the universe Nolan creates. The film takes place primarily in dreams, which operate with different rules than the real world. Within these dreams, more dreams can be entered, changing the flow of time and creating another layer of action happening simultaneously but faster. These complex layers are all managed expertly, providing one of the most intense action sequences in recent years. At the same time, the music is continually ramping up and there are no breaks in action or story development, making a sequence that might have lasted a half hour or more seem much shorter. The actors all perform well in advancing the story, seeming more as extensions of the plot than actors. The only problem is that some are stiff for almost the entire film, but it still seems natural and believable. Playing Cobb, Leonardo DiCaprio’s interactions with Ellen Page (as Ariadne) and Marion Cotillard (as Mal) are the best interactions in the film, as they make a bizarre background believable. If there is anything to complain about in “Inception,� it may be that Nolan’s vision of dreams is too rigid. While fantastic things can occur, they’re all in an ordered urban environment. The only natural imagery in the film is a snow covered mountain, so almost all scenes seem washed in gray or white. Nolan had the freedom and budget to interpret anything that can exist in a dream, but he restricted himself
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Hockey Page signs new deal with Walleye Former Falcon hockey captain Kyle Page re-signed with the Toledo Walleye last week. Page played with the Walleye during the team’s final 12 games last season, and recorded three points. Page was a defensive standout during his time with the Falcons, winning the Jim Reuhl Award three times for defense.
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OUR CALL Today in Sports History 1957—Althea Gibson becomes the first black athlete to win a major U.S. tennis tournament. 1996—Wayne Gretzky signs a contract with the New York Rangers.
The List With football season right around the corner, we take a look at the NFL’s top statistical leaders from last season. 1. Drew Brees: Along with leading his team to a Super Bowl title, Brees led the league in TD passes (34) and passer rating (109.6).
2. Chris Johnson: Johnson amassed 2,006 rushing yards last season, and led the league in total yards from scrimmage with 2,509.
3. Andre Johnson: Houston’s big-time playmaker caught 101 passes for a league best 1,569 yards. He was tied for 10th in the NFL with nine receiving TDs.
4. Elvis Dumervil: Dumervil recorded 17 sacks for the Broncos last season and finished 2.5 sacks ahead of Jared Allen. 5. Patrick Willis: Willis continued to strike fear into opposing offenses, stacking up 152 total tackles. He also had 4 sacks and 3 interceptions.
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BACK OF THE NET: The BG men’s soccer team practices last season. The team is adding 12 new faces this year, and expects to see a greater amount of effort put forth by the players. The team went 3-12-3 last season, but has done well in exhibition games this summer. Several key players, including junior captain Tanner Fink, remained in Bowling Green this summer to work on getting better in anticipation for next season.
Men’s soccer emphasizes speed, agility By Bobby Waddle Reporter
The men’s soccer team is increasing its work ethic to bounce back from a rough fall season by incorporating new methods and faces into its game plan. With an overall record of 3-123 in the fall 2009 season, coach Eric Nichols enters his second season with determination to improve the team’s record through more intensive training, emphasizing soccer specific work out routines. Nichols said the coaching staff worked together with the strength and conditioning program to create a summer routine to “build optimal soccer players.”
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“Some guys have a harder time of connecting the glory of winning a game back to what gets them there, which is the work,” Nichols said. “The successful athletes are really able to connect the actual work they are doing … by themselves, in the middle of the dog days of summer, with actually winning a game in the fall.” Both Nichols and junior captain Tanner Fink stress the importance of leg exercises, as soccer is not a sport that requires tremendous upper body strength. “These guys are not massive muscle-bound guys,” Nichols said. “They’re very quick, and they’re agile, so everything we do in that program is geared toward that.”
Brett Favre discussion aside, this is the best time of the year in the sporting world. Football is upon us. NFL training camps start this weekend, college football’s preseason is unofficially beginning and football fanatics everywhere are beginning their yearly routine of salivating over the swirling rumors and speculation about their favorite teams and players. Count me in. I live for this. The offseason brought some substantial changes in both professional and college football. Conference realignments and the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement grabbed the headlines during the last couple months. It’s time to put the politics of the game in the past and think about the real reasons to watch football this fall. Every fan has different reasons to tune in to a Monday night game, or to travel across the country to see his or her favorite teams take the field. Some people like the strategy of zone blitzes and playaction fakes. Some just want to see hard hits and big plays. Pick your poison. It all makes football worth watching. Some football fans just have it in their blood. Loyalty is intertwined in the fabric of sports. Without loyalty, the multi-billion dollar sporting industry is nothing. IhavealwaysadmiredCleveland
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us four,” Fink said. “Hopefully [those at home] have been keeping up their workouts.” Nichols has noticed the work Fink and his teammates have been doing over the summer. He attributed this to the coaching staff raising its expectations in January after the main fall season, but before the spring season which consists of exhibition games. “I feel like the team has invested more in the off-season than they have since any of these guys have been here,” Nichols said. “Our feedback is that our guys are staying committed to the program … but we will know for sure when they get back.” The team has already experienced success with its spring
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According to Fink, sprints are heavily featured exercises, with several breaks being taken in an effort to improve recovery times. Fink said that one of the team’s weaknesses last year was a tendency to run out of energy around the 70 minute mark. “Fitness is something coach really emphasizes,” Fink said. “I know I’ve bought into it and the guys here for the summer have … we’re going to have to lead on the other guys that are at home.” Fink is one of four players who have been training on campus during the summer, and he feels the experience helps keep his game sharp. “I think [on-campus training] is going to pay off when the fall season comes around for
Katie Borgelt
“Being redshirted my freshman year was disappointing at first because I was so excited to run for the team,” she said. “But when For a lot of freshman cross counRedshirt freshman I think about my heat stroke, I just try runners, the first practice of back for first full fall count my blessings and rememthe year is the beginning of a with the team ber how lucky I am to be alive and promising college career. But for able to run every day, and to be a Katie Borgelt, it could have been Borgelt had suffered a heat part of this team.” the end. Borgelt was able to participate The first workout for the stroke and passed out due to Falcon women’s cross country the high temperature, humidity in indoor track during the winter and outdoor track during the team was a six-mile tempo run and dehydration. “I was very lucky because my spring. In outdoor track, she ran through the city of Bowling Green, ending on campus. The teammate, Carly Wells, was right in the 1500-meter race, where she temperature was already very behind me and caught me as I posted her best time of 4:50. She has enjoyed her time so collapsed,” Borgelt said. “Some hot for the 9 a.m. practice. “When I was running near guys from the BGSU grounds far running at the collegiate Offenhauer, with less than a mile crew were nearby with a cell level, and is excited for her first to go, I remember just wanting to phone to call 911, and an ambu- taste of cross country competifind the finish line because I knew lance came for me and took me to tion. Borgelt said she has been I was close,” Borgelt said. “The last the Wood County Hospital where improving by training with fellow Falcon runners. thing I remember was running they got me cooled down.” Borgelt was redshirted for her down that sidewalk, and the next See BORGELT | Page 7 thing I was waking up in a hospital freshman year because of the heat stroke. bed surrounded by nurses.”
exhibition season, with a 5-12 record. Nichols noted that the fall season boasts stronger teams, so continued training is important. “We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves,” Nichols said. “We still have a long way to go but we definitely took some good strides forward.” Fink credits Nichols with creating a good team atmosphere, making it comfortable to come into his office and discuss things on the team. He also said that the fall 2009 season consisted largely of Nichols getting to know the players, both as people as well as their playing styles.
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GOLF BRIEF
Women’s golfers earn academic accolade BG golfer Hannah Lambert finished her Falcon golf career with an 86.4 per-round average and a 3.65 GPA. She was named to the National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team, along with former teammate and current senior golfer Lauren Glew. Glew averaged a score of 82.75 last season as a junior, and shot a 76 at the Zippy Invitational. She also finished 35th at the MAC Championships. Glew is majoring in finance and is currently carrying a 3.60 GPA at the University. Glew and Lambert were two of 494 women’s collegiate golfers to be distinguished with the honor. To be eligible, athletes must have at least a 3.5 GPA and must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s contests.
LeBron’s decision will have major economic effects ANDREW DEHNHOFF COLUMNIST
Since his announcement in early July, LeBron James has suffered countless personal attacks stemming from his choice to play for the NBA’s Miami Heat, both for leaving his home state and the way he went about telling the nation on “The Decision” television special. Cleveland Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert called him “narcissistic.” Even actor Steve Carell (known as Michael Scott on “the Office”) parodied LeBron’s one
hour show in a skit on the ESPY Awards presented on ESPN. “I’ve decided I’m going to take my appetite to the Outback Steakhouse,” Carell said. “In a perfect world I would be eating at Chili’s constantly.” The effect on the sports fans not withstanding, Cleveland probably could’ve benefited from the exclusive economic stimulus it was accustomed to over the past seven years. For a time, Clevelanders were the privileged. There was a reason they called him the “King.” According to Michael Ozanian of Forbes, the Cavaliers will tumble over $80 million in valuation from a year previous, while conversely the Heat’s value will skyrocket to $410 million, up from $364 million.
Forbes cont r ibutor Patrick Rishe, Director of Sportsimpacts and Professor of Economics at Webster University, wrote that “If the Heat win the NBA Championship within the next 3 years, expect the team’s franchise value to exceed $500 million by 2013 which would put them among the top five valued franchises in the NBA.” He later continues, “According to FanSnap’s Christian Anderson, Miami Heat season tickets on the secondary market (individual sellers other than the Heat franchise) increased from $3,200 to $8,200 over night.” CNBC’s Darren Rovell did some research on the taxation
impact of LeBron’s choice of location in which to play. He states, “If you match up the five years in Cleveland to five years in Miami, and include Florida’s tax advantage (Florida has no income tax), LeBron would actually make $1,014,188 over five years with the Heat than he would with the Cavaliers.” Looking at the numbers, one can’t blame LeBron for jumping ship. On the other hand, there may be something to say for loyalty. Just how bad is it now that LeBron is leaving Cleveland? Kurt Badenhausen, also of Forbes, noted that, “Season tickets are averaging $935 which is
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By the time January rolled around, Fink said the team had a better idea of where its pieces fit together, and practices intensified. “He thrives on making the team better,” Fink said. A major ingredient to a successful team is chemistry, so the entire team is coming to the campus on July 25 when the freshmen will be living with the upperclassmen in an effort to be integrated with the team, according to Fink. Nichols believes that field performance is affected by how comfortable players are socially, and said that the upperclassmen are going to work with strength and conditioning to host the freshmen. Other team-building activities may include paintball and bowling. Nichols said last year’s seniors were “great players” and “team members,” but he is also looking forward to working with the 12 new players coming into the program, including transfers Miguel Rosales from the University of Cincinnati and Brandon Silva from the University of Akron. “We’re really excited about what they bring to the field and even to the team chemistry,” Nichols said. “We think these are great students, great athletes and great people.” The players are able to practice with the coaching staff on August 16 onward, when the preseason begins. Nichols said he is looking forward to the next season. “Everyone left in the program and everyone we’re bringing in are very committed to being successful and doing the work it takes,” Nichols said. Fink said he is confident in his team’s ability to have a good season. “Hard work and commitment are the two things on the field and off the field that are going to lead us to success,” Fink said. “I really believe the guys on the team can do that and I know they know that, too.”
light with no other sport in this country. Like it or not, the game of football is our grandest stage. This time of year is full of Browns and Detroit Lions fans drama. Players are preparing to for their loyalty to their teams fight for roster spots. Whether a through both good and bad player is a walk-on hopeful at a times. And let’s face it, it’s been small-conference college school mostly bad for those franchises or a long-time NFL veteran, for decades. But that is one of nothing is guaranteed. The footthe things that make football so ball landscape is always changpolarizing. Win or lose, there’s ing - and always exciting. It is the constant excitement always next season. Next season is almost here. that so many football fans love, This is a time for renewed enthu- and the sport is a beautiful consiasm. The anguish of failure tradiction. It is a cerebral game and the ecstasy of victory are in that even the most intellectual the past. Every team begins with fan can take years to fully undera clean slate, new faces and a stand, but it’s also a game fundamentally based on running chance at eternal football glory. Perfect seasons are not made faster and hitting harder than in the first week of action, but everyone else. Football offers something for big hits are. And heroes are, too. Every game is an opportunity to every fan. From hours of presee something special, or to see game tailgating to the nuances the ordinary things so many of of game play strategy, everyus have loved about the game one can find something about for years. football to enjoy. If nothing else, Football has become football offers an opportunity America’s favorite sport. From to socialize, and gives us somelast-second comebacks to fading thing to celebrate. star players, costly penalties and The best six months of the the occasional crazy fan on the year have arrived. Find a reason field, football shares the spot- to enjoy them.
BORGELT From Page 6
said. Five times a week she will go on distance runs that will span from three to six miles, and once a week she will go on an “I believe in the saying that extended run that will go about ‘to be the best, you have to run 12 miles. She has high expectations against the best,’ and that’s what I feel I get at practice every for herself for the upcoming day,” Borgelt said. “These girls, cross country season. And just especially the upperclassmen, because it will be her first seawork so hard and I’m so glad to son on the cross country team have the opportunity to train doesn’t mean coach Cami Wells with them and be a part of this isn’t expecting her to succeed. Wells said she expects Borgelt team.” Borgelt has been training to be one of the team’s top seven hard during the summer, she runners this season.
LEBRON From Page 6 about one-third of where they were when LeBron was the star attraction.” Greg Cote of the Miami Herald said of LeBron James going to play with All-Stars Dwyane Wade and Chris
Bosh on the Miami Heat that “it’s like Coke and Pepsi have joined forces and the rest of the league is RC Cola.” Will this experiment in Miami turn out like the disastrous “New Coke” idea of the eighties? Clevelanders can only hope. Goodbye, LeBron. You’ll be missed.
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