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ESTABLISHED 1920 | A daily independent student press serving the campus and surrounding community Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Volume 90, Issue 96
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Lot 12 parking to be relocated for Presidents Day Mandatory move will begin Feb. 17 for visitor parking
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plan, but it is the plan that was created and communicated.” Students can start moving their cars to assigned lots at 5 p.m. Students parked in Lot 12 will have to move their cars to other lots by Thursday, Feb. 17 and will have until Saturday, Feb. 19 to accommodate Wednesday, Feb. 23 to move their cars back to Lot 12. Presidents Day visitors. Parking services will call students Parking services plans to relocate the 2,255 cars in Lot 12, located at who have not moved their cars by East Merry Avenue and Mercer Road, Saturday to remind them to move to five different lots, including ones their vehicles. Students who do at the Stroh Center, ice arena, field not move their cars from Lot 12 to house, visitor parking and an off another lot may be towed. “We’re not here to run around campus lot on Poe Road. The lot on Poe Road is fenced in and tow cars,” Kane said. “We’re just trying to create parking for and will hold 750 cars from Lot 12. The ice arena parking lot is a com- Presidents Day.” While cars left in Lot 12 may be muter lot, but as of now no faculty and staff spots will be used to towed, the parking appeals board will consider confusion related to accommodate for visitors. The Undergraduate Student the move when looking at ticket Government met with University appeals from Feb. 19 to Feb. 23, Parking and Shuttle Manager Aaron when students will be moving their Kane Monday night to discuss cars from and back to Lot 12. potential parking problems. See USG | Page 2 “It’s just going to be a one year thing,” Kane said. “This isn’t the best
SPOTLIGHT: Junior Annie Hernandez strikes a pose during the “Hollywood Glitz and Glamour” Win-A-Date Auction Monday night. Hernandez was auctioned off for $65 to junior Jose Duran.
Dollars for dates Women, men auctioned off as prom companions By Danae King Reporter
tions chair of the NCNW. “The whole auction theme in itself is just more fun.” There was a $2 fee to get into the auction and 17 University students were oth women and men were auctioned off Monday night at the Win-a-Date auctioned off. Those being auctioned Auction in the Union Multipurpose room. were both members of the NCNW and The National Council of Negro Women outside volunteers, and the bidding was hosted the auction, titled “Hollywood open to everyone. This was the first year that both women Glitz and Glamour,” to accompany Saturday’s third annual prom. This was and men were auctioned off. As the the second year for the auction, and bid- prom is lady’s choice, the auction previously only featured men. ders won a date to take to the prom. “[The auction] is a nice fundraising opportunity and it also makes prom more See AUCTION | Page 8 fun,” said LaShonda Bond, public rela-
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University seeks input for project names By Alex Aspacher Reporter
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LIFT IT: Instructor Jerome Gabriel assists senior Greg Kuntz with a canoe during PEG 2000. The course began in 2010 through the Ohio Department of Natural Resources division of watercraft.
Students canoe on dry land By Janae Avery Reporter
Students can gain college credit through enjoying the outdoors and learning how to take a river canoeing trip. The canoeing course, PEG 2000, is a one credit hour class taught by Jerome Gabriel. Open to all students, the course teaches participants the fundamentals of safely operating a canoe in and out of the water. The program began in 2010 when the school received an $11,451 grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources division of watercraft, according to the Ohio Department of Natural resources website. The grant funded the training and certification under the
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American Canoeing Association. The course curriculum consists of a day or weeks’ worth of instruction stretched out over the course of a semester. Students prepare for a real canoeing trip by taking the canoes out on the Perry Field House football turf. Though students receive instruction outside of the water, the skills are broken down and taught in steps so once in the water, they are well prepared. Students in the course gradually accelerate by first learning the parts of the boat and portaging, a term for canoe carrying. They then learn techniques on turf and by paddling
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“We want students to walk in and say, ‘That’s ours.’”
Students can become part of Bowling Green history by participating in the process of naming new University locations. Chris Marcum | Athletics “Lots of buildings on campus are obviously named after people,” said Undergraduate Student ed both history and school spirit.” Government Vice President Dan Caldwell came up with Falcon Caldwell. “We wanted something Heights, the name chosen from different, something that promot- student submissions for one of the
two new residence halls, when he was reading about University history. He discussed the name with USG President Kevin Basch, and the pair ran with it, Caldwell said. Falcon Heights was the name of a trailer housing community that was added for the “influx” of World War II veterans attending the University under the GI Bill,
See NAMING | Page 2
Construction project approved for North Main Ohio Department of Transportation plans to widen, resurface road, add turn lane Brian Craft
By Asia Rapai Assistant City Editor
City Council approved at their Monday night meeting that the city will cooperate with the Ohio Department of Transportation for a construction project on North Main Street. The construction, expected to begin in the spring, will involve widening and resurfacing 1.03 miles of North Main Street from south of Poe Road to north of Van Camp Road. The project includes making North
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Rutgers University student Bilal Ahmed argues that the revolution in Egypt will not result in a theocracy like Iran after the Islamic Revolution | Page 4
Robert McOmber
Public Works Director
City Council Member
Main Street into five lanes instead of four by adding a left turn lane, said city council member Robert McOmber. This will help to decrease the number of rear-end collisions in this area, he said. City Council suspended the rules to push the construction resolution
SPORTS Viselli excels on hockey team
Freshman Ryan Viselli has come on strong for the BG hockey team this season, including his first goal of the year at Western Michigan last Friday, which resulted in a shootout win | Page 6
into immediate adoption rather than waiting for it to pass through second and third readings at subsequent meetings, which is the normal requirement for resolutions.
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PEOPLE ON THE STREET What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? ANDY GATES Freshman, Business
“Turn on my music.” | Page 4
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