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Monday, May 2, 2011
Volume 90, Issue 143
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A LOOK AHEAD PART 1 OF 3 With the semester ending, The BG News takes a closer look at how the University will change when you come back in the fall.
New residence halls attract upperclassmen By Alex Aspacher Reporter
More students will live on campus in the fall compared to last year as new residence halls open, which intend to draw new students and increase the quality and attractiveness of life on campus for upperclassmen. Residence Life expects about 7,000 on-campus students this fall, up from about 6,200 last year, said Jennifer Kilian, senior coordinator of housing assignments. Falcon Heights and Centennial Hall will provide new housing and dining options that are already popular, said Tim Shaal, associate director of Residence Life. “We hope they will provide some different room types and living opportunities that will draw students who would look for apartments or other off-campus housing,” Shaal said. “The opportunity (for students) to live with friends but still be close to campus and have the convenience of being near
CHISEL: Senior Michael Romanin carves a hand out of stone for Art Walk. Romanin spents seven hours carving the hand at Saturday’s Art Walk. during which downtown businesses hosted local artists, exhibits and performances from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
BRIEF
President announces death of bin Laden WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States. A small team of Americans carried out the attack and took custody of bin Laden’s remains, the president said Sunday in a dramatic late-night statement at the White House. A jubilant crowd gathered outside the White House as word spread of bin Laden’s death after a global manhunt that lasted nearly a decade. “Justice has been done,” the president said. — Julie Pace and Matt Apuzzo (AP)
CAMPUS BG hosts soccer challenge
The University hosted a soccer challenge at the Intramural Fields over the weekend Hundreds of teams gathered to participate | Page 10
See HOUSING | Page 2
CITY BRIEF
BYRON MACK | THE BG NEWS
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dining halls and their classes is part of why we built these halls.” The University’s website states that Falcon Heights can hold up to 646 residents in four-bedroom suites with two bathrooms and a common living room. Centennial Hall has traditional two-person rooms and capacity for 664. Both residence halls will have air conditioning, wireless Internet and other amenities. Kilian said Falcon Heights is already completely booked by upperclassmen, and Centennial Hall by freshmen. A waiting list will be available for students who want to be considered for potential openings in the new residence halls, Shaal said. Suites in Offenhauer and Founders are also full, and more than 2,000 incoming students have yet to be placed in vacancies in Harshman, Kreischer, Conklin, Kohl and part of McDonald, Kilian said. McDonald East will be closed
Child slept through family’s homicide By Dan Sewell and Kantele Franko The Associated Press
WEST UNION, Ohio (AP) — An 8-year-old girl apparently slept through the fatal shootings of four family members, then awoke and alerted a neighbor that something horrible had happened overnight, pointing investigators to the rural home, where they found a television in her bedroom still playing cartoons. A short time later, nearly 100 miles away, one of the girl’s relatives was killed in a shootout with police, who didn’t know then that he was suspected in the quadruple homicide. Randle Lee Roberts II died in the
FORUM Own up to Oaks flier
shootout in Columbus on Saturday about an hour after the girl went out the back door of her pale blue, one-floor modular house and ran to a neighbor’s home. The neighbor called authorities, who were stunned by what they found at the girl’s home, situated along a twolane highway amid rolling green hills just outside West Union, about 90 miles southeast of Columbus. When authorities arrived, Adams County Sheriff Kim Rogers said, cartoons were playing on a TV in the girl’s room — where Roberts had been staying for several
See HOMICIDE | Page 2
Faculty columnist Phil Schurrer thinks those who authored fliers about those responsible for the construction of the Oaks dining hall should make themselves known | Page 4
ASIA RAPAI | THE BG NEWS
First floor of room in North Prospect Street home collapses The first floor collapsed in a room at the front of a house at 304 N. Prospect St. near Pike Street at 12:11 a.m. Saturday. There were 60 people inside the house, according to a report from the Bowling Green Police Division. A 22-year-old man was transported to the Wood County Hospital for non-life threatening
SPORTS Tennis team ends season
injuries after falling into the hole left by the collapsed floor. No other injuries were reported. The house is being rented through Greenbriar Inc. and a representative from the company went to the scene that night. The Bowling Green Fire Division and a worker with the Bowling Green Electric Division were also on the scene. The investigation is ongoing.
PEOPLE ON THE STREET What would you do to get out of exams?
The tennis team defeated Toledo on Friday in the quarter finals of the MAC Championships but lost to top-seated Miami in the semifinals. The Falcons finished with an overall record of 15-8 | Page 6
NICK BUTINA Sophomore, Psychology
“Clean every toilet on BG’s campus.” | Page 4
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