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BUSINESS Local bars fare winter lull, welcome students back

By Bryan Warrick Reporter

Most nights you’ll see students heading down for a drink or a bite to eat, but over winter break, the businesses down-

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town had to adjust to the decrease in business as students left town for home.

“We had a noticeable

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Student remembered for creating Holiday encourages music, forming friendships

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Joseph Monroe had a passion for mixing, ranging from merging musical beats to bringing different groups of people together.

Monroe, a sophomore member of Pi Kappa Alpha from Wadsworth, Ill., passed away December 13, 2011, and was the son of Angela and Mike LaVista and Christopher and Maria Monroe.

Monroe’s father, Chris, said his son was able to adapt to many situations.

“He made friends very easily,” Chris said. “He was an athletic young man, and what I would term a natural leader with his friends in a number of ways.”

Frank Greco, Monroe’s big brother in Pi Kappa Alpha, said he largely represented what a “Pike” should be by helping others and working hard in class.

“He was my little, but yet I looked

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up to him,” Greco said.

Monroe played varsity soccer for three years at Carmel Catholic High School, making the all-conference team his senior year. He also played tennis, disc golf and was a member of the National Honor Society.

When it came to college, Monroe was undecided in his major, but his father said he wanted to end up in the music field, a passion Monroe discovered in high school.

Monroe did his best to live by “Peace, Love, Unity, Respect” (PLUR), Greco said. PLUR is a credo espoused by many in the rave music community, where Monroe would create and share dubstep mixes and

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goals too high to accomplish them, Yingling said.

“If students haven’t exercised in a long time then this might not be the best goal set,” said Yingling. “If you set a really lofty goal, people will tend to stop doing it and that is why about half the people within six months of creating the resolution don’t end up achieving it.”

Karyn Smith, health educator at the Student Recreation Center, said the gym has been extremely busy since the beginning of the new year.

“All of our group exercise classes this week are free and so these are definitely drawing many people in to the point of us closing the doors because of the maximum capacity,” Smith said. “We really hope that people continue with it because exercising on a consistent basis is when you’re definitely going to see

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Exercisers encouraged to set small, tangible goal

The beginning of another year marks the start of new resolutions created by students at the University, including goals to lose weight and build a strong physique.

Faith Yingling, director of wellness at the Student Recreation Center, said beginning the new year is a way for students to start out with new personal goals.

“Students don’t have exams or have a lot of things going on in the beginning of a new semester and I think that it’s a lot easier for them to get started on their goals,” said Yingling. “The new year is a fresh start for resolutions and people like that.”

Some people tend to set out on a personal goal to get in shape and ultimately give up. People stop embarking on achieving their resolutions because they set their

Students volunteer for Martin Luther King Jr. Day For more than 25 years, communities throughout the United States have taken the third Monday in January to honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. While the University has the day off of school for the federal holiday, students will participate in a variety of festivities and programs honoring his service.

Throughout Bowling Green, Perrysburg and the Toledo area, hundreds of volunteers will set out Monday to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service by working on dozens of community service projects.

“At the University we’ve done a formal service event for five years,” said Sakina Sackaloo, an assistant director of Co-Curricular Programs in the Office of Service-Learning.

The service event includes numerous projects that contribute to local communities also including Gibsonburg, Maumee and Sylvania, said Paul Valdez, also an assistant director in the Office of Service-Learning.

“Thirty-nine community partners … will host volunteers for the day of service,” he said.

Such community partners include various non-profit and government organizations such as the Wood County Historical Center, Food for Thought,

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added that he found Monroe’s performances inspiring.

“He opened my eyes,” Morin said. “I’m more open now to other things instead of being so stubborn.”

Monroe introduced a number of his fraternity brothers to dubstep and encouraged many of them to come to shows, but he opened his friends up in other ways as well.

Morin said there has been a bit of a rivalry between Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Phi Epsilon, but Monroe went ahead and befriended members from the rival fraternity.

He would often bring people over who were also into dubstep and helped establish common interests between the groups.

“He just always wanted that tension to be cut,” Morin said. “Why have all this anger … toward someone else when you don’t know them?”

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perform as the disc jockey “DJ Brain Fr33z.”

Monroe’s girlfriend, sophomore Rachael Sherry, said she could tell he loved to DJ just by watching him perform.

“He literally had the biggest passion for music,” Sherry said. “It was his everything.”

Greco and Ryan Morin, both juniors in Pi Kappa Alpha, said Monroe’s DJ ability just flowed through him.

“He made it look so easy up there,” Greco said. “He would just … transition from one song to the next, making it sound like there was no change.”

His skills attracted the attention of several nightclubs, including Bowling Green’s Cla-Zel and Toledo’s Zodiac, as well as house parties, Morin said. While Morin is not a dubstep enthusiast, he

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Denny Roehrig said there are many things that help him stay focused on exercising consistently.

“Time management and eating healthy are things that definitely motivate me in working out regularly,” Roehrig said. “If I can plan out my schedule then I can make sure that I can fit in a decent workout.”

benefits from doing so.”

While some students at the University enjoy getting involved with new personal goals not just for a new year resolution, others do so in their own interest.

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“Each site has a specific need that they have identified such as painting, collecting food items, cleaning storage spaces, constructing items, working with residents of the agency just to name a few,” Valdez said.

The registration site for the area’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service is inactive, as organizers have

diverse group of friends largely to Monroe and said he befriended the entire sophomore pledge class of “Sig-Eps.” Crossing that boundary let him establish his nearly oneyear relationship with her, whose Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority is closely associated with Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Despite the different backgrounds, Sherry said she had a lot in common with Monroe and enjoyed their lengthy conversations.

“I think by even giving him advice I gave myself advice,” Sherry said.

Monroe displayed a different side of himself around Sherry and would often cook for her, a skill Morin and Greco did not know he had and were amused to hear about.

During the summer, when the couple was separated by two states and a time zone, Monroe found a way to keep a direct connection.

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Gibson said the bar and grill still brought in a respectable amount of business due to the niche crowd that continues to come there year round, and the business practices of other establishments in town.

“It helped that certain bars weren’t open over break,” Gibson said. “Some of our competitors decided to close down to save on costs. We were open every day except Sundays and we operated with a ‘business as normal’ feel. Our New Year’s Eve was just as good as our Homecoming weekend.

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“The MLK Jr. Day of Service Challenge at BGSU is a way for us to mobilize faculty, students and staff to put their day off to good use and contribute to the com-

“We were Skyping and he muted it real quick and told me he was on the phone with his dad,” Sherry said. “He [actually] ordered me food from my favorite restaurant in Cleveland and had it sent to my house.”

Monroe also helped Sherry to realign her priorities, and the two were more than happy to just stay home and talk instead of always going out, which helped her grades.

“I met him and realized there is more to life than the drama going on in Greek, more than who you’re friends with and what your reputation is,” she said.

Monroe’s father also expressed the happiness his son brought him.

“Every moment, from the day he was born [to] watching him grow up into the young man that he became, was just pure joy,” Chris said.

“There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t miss him.”

munity,” Valdez said. “The focus of the day is to ‘make it a day on, not a day off.’”

Student involvement on the day of service is particularly significant in that it gives them a chance to learn about what is happening in neighboring communities.

The day of service helps connect the University to various community needs, Sackaloo said.

“I think [students] getting out of their beds on a holiday is just the start. Just going out and serving is the first thing to honor him,” she said.

For more information on the upcoming events and how to get involved, visit the Day of Service website at http://www.tinyurl.com/ mlk2012.

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The federal holiday was created in 1983, according to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service website.

First observed three years later in 1986.

2011 marked the 25th anniversary of the federal holiday.

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JOSEPH MONROE displays his memorable smile, as described by his father and girlfriend. He passed away Dec. 13.

Some of the other places that remained open also had to find ways to bring in people. At City Tap, a place that prides itself on trying new things, it was decided to get into the Christmas spirit for the local customers and college students that remained, said Travis Kinder, a bartender at City Tap. “Over the holiday season our drink specials were usually holiday themed,” Kinder said. “That also included our beer of the day special. We tried to change it up.”

City Tap did rather well over the quiet month, bringing in locals, remaining students and visitors to the city.

But The Attic, a club on the floor above City Tap, did not fare as well, Kinder said.

“The floor upstairs suffered a bit,” Kinder said. “But you kind of expect that with most kids in BG gone.”

Even though One 49 North had successful business over break, it still had to adjust

“We were open every day except Sundays and we operated with a ‘business as normal’ feel. Our New Year’s Eve was just as good as our Homecoming weekend. We were at capacity, if not more.”

Andy Gibson | One 49 North Manager to the lack of students. The bar and grill is most known among students for hosting its weekly Jazz Night for musicians from the school and town. But that changed over the winter vacation.

“The one thing we changed was that we didn’t offer the live jazz shows,” Gibson said. “We did it the week after finals week then waited until classes started back up to bring that back.

But we still have our niche crowds who know our specials and come to get them regardless of what we are showing.”

The Cla-Zel, on the other

hand, continued to do well with help from outside the city. The old building can be rented for weddings or other events, and the place hosts 92.5 FM KISS radio every Friday night. According to their website, the Cla-Zel’s Friday dance night brings in people from throughout the Toledo area.

Regardless of what the different bars and pubs of downtown did over winter break to make a profit, they all agree on one thing now, Gibson said. They are happy to have students back at the University to come to their bars.

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Friday the 13 could alter people’s behavior based on phobia, stigma of superstition

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If classes seem slightly empty Friday, it may not be because of flu season — perhaps it’s because of Friday the 13.

The urban legend that claims people might experience bad luck on this date is set to occur three times in 2012, with the first happening today.

Friday the 13 causes some people to change their habits for the day.

People have been known to not change their sheets, miss work, avoid eating in restaurants or even

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get married when that date rolls around. These superstitions may not be unfounded, as studies have shown that the rate of car accidents increases on Friday the 13.

These simple superstitions could lead to a phobia. Eight percent of Americans suffer from what is called Paraskevidekatriaphobia, or fear of Friday the 13, according to About.com.

“People develop phobias because

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Both Friday, number 13 are historically known to cause bad luck

Friday

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Friday, the last day of the work and school week is frequently thought of as a glorious day — the start of the weekend and endless possibilities that don’t exist during the week.

However, when the Friday approaching is Friday the 13, excitement might exchange itself for fear.

There’s no way of knowing when the fear and superstition surrounding the day began, said Esther Clinton, a visiting assistant

“Friday the 13th” films elevate fear, superstition of the day built on the popularity of the day.

“I don’t know the origin of the superstitions surrounding Friday the 13, but it certainly is something that has a lot of resonance,” said Mark Bernard, an instructor in the Department of Theatre and Film.

Just how much resonance the day has is obvious from the beginnings of

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Friday the 13 brings fear of a day full of bad luck and misfortune to some, but for millions of others around the world thoughts of Camp Crystal Lake, a boy named Jason and a hockey mask float above any superstitions.

Twelve movies have come out of the “Friday the 13th” franchise, all

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Through the years of fear

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Do you have Triskaidekaphobia? How about Paraskevidekatriaphobia?

You may and not even know it.

For those with a fear of the number 13, today marks a superstitious holiday.

An estimated 17 to 21 million Americans suffer from the fear of Friday the 13, according to the Stress

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Management Center and Phobia Institute. The day comes at least once every calendar year.

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professor in the Department of Popular Culture.

“Friday has always been an unlucky day,” Clinton said.

However, the day of the week alone isn’t what makes Friday the 13 something that attracts superstition and fear.

“Thirteen is just a weird number,” Clinton said. “And the two combined are extra bad.”

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Two contests are finished in the race to be the Republican nominee for president and many are now speculating that Mitt Romney could run away with the nomination.

Romney scored his second win in the New Hampshire Primary on Tuesday night receiving just under 40 percent of the votes cast.

This comes one week after Romney squeaked out a narrow win in the Iowa Caucus by a total of eight votes — out of the more than 122,000 votes cast for the seven candidates competing.

The former Massachusetts Governor defeated former Pennsylvania Senator, Rick Santorum, in that contest causing many to wonder if Santorum would be the one to finally give Romney a run for his — vast amounts of — money.

All eyes now turn to South Carolina, where the next primary will be held Jan. 21.

If Romney can win there — the Republican constituency in South Carolina is largely made up of Evangelical Christians who remain skeptical of Romney, in part because of his Mormon faith — the nomination may be decided before most states have even voted.

Romney, however, will have a lot tougher time winning the South Carolina Primary, where (in addition to his religion) people will be judging him based on his record of conservatism — a less than stellar record as Romney has held more liberal stances on many issues in the past.

The race in South Carolina may be determined as much by the political action committees that support the various candidates, as by what the candidates themselves are saying. Super PACs — which by law, candidates cannot directly coordinate with — have become the attack dogs for the individual candidates.

In the run up to the Iowa Caucus, it was the Super PAC called Restore Our Future — which is headed up by long-time Mitt Romney supporters and political consultants — that aired a plethora of negative attack ads against then front-runner Newt Gingrich, which led to Gingrich’s fourth place finish in the state’s caucus.

Gingrich’s abysmal finish in

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New Hampshire a week later (again a fourth place finish), has led many Republican pundits (such as talk radio vulture Rush Limbaugh) to speculate that Gingrich’s new goal in the race is to make sure Romney is not the nominee.

A new video produced by Winning Our Future (a proGingrich super PAC) titled “King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” alleges that when Romney was the CEO of the private equity firm Bain Capital, he was the cause of thousands of people losing their jobs.

So who benefits from Republican in-fighting the most this election season?

President Obama.

Gingrich’s super PAC has basically laid out a strategy for Obama in the general election, should Romney be the nominee.

This is a fact not unnoticed by other GOP pundits and supporters, many of which have turned against Newt Gingrich because of his attacks on Romney and their belief that Romney will be the eventual nominee.

Republicans are also upset because they feel that Gingrich’s attacks on Romney — which basically amount to saying that he made millions of dollars on the backs of working class Americans — amount to an attack on capitalism itself.

I do not look for Romney to win South Carolina (although he currently leads in the polls there) because of the ultraconservative, Evangelical Christian base. If Gingrich wins the state (he is currently second in the polls there) then I think the effect on the Romney campaign will be minimal (especially if Romney can pull a second place finish) and amounts to little more than a speed bump on his way to the nomination.

However, if Romney and Gingrich’s attack ads end up canceling each other out and Rick Santorum can manage a win in the state — which is highly possible given his neoconservative stances on social issues — it may give him the momentum to become Romney’s chief rival in the race.

And while I don’t see Santorum having the organization in place to actually become the Republican nominee, a longer, more contentious GOP race only benefits the president’s chances of reelection in November.

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I agree with Phil Schurrer (BG News Jan. 9-10, 2012) that the decrease in American students pursuing degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields is cause for concern, and that it presents an opportunity for those willing to take on these challenging fields.

What I do not understand is his unwarranted parting shot at the liberal arts (“there

are plenty of workers with unmarketable skills today — liberal arts graduates”).

The authority he quotes is a writer of a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal who remains anonymous.

It does not follow from the observation that STEM jobs are waiting for applicants that other kinds of jobs are not.

This is neither logically nor empirically valid.

I would be happy to introduce the author to three cohorts of graduates from our

German programs alone (to say nothing of the rest of the liberal-arts programs at this University and elsewhere) who are gainfully and happily employed in sales, management, law, teaching, translating, higher education, international business, diplomacy, tourism, publishing, manufacturing, finance, information technology, the arts, the military, international education, communication and even accounting firms.

They followed the author’s

advice to find something they loved that they could get paid to do.

To state, as he does, that such University alumni were misled by their guidance counselors and college professors does thousands of people a disservice in one fell swoop.

Geoff Howes German, Russian and East Asian Languages Professor Respond to Geoff at ghowes@bgsu.edu

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Every uncomfortable situation has a “plus side” CHRISTINA GREEN COLUMNIST

It’s the first day of class and I’m on my merry way from Harshman to Olscamp.

My scarf is secure and my high tops are laced to perfection. I’ve not a care in the world right now.

Then it happens.

My sock starts to slide ever so slowly down my heel.

And I am powerless to stop it.

With every step I am all-too aware of that sock encroaching farther and farther down my heel until I am in no way wearing a sock anymore.

The only thing occupying my mind for the remainder of my cross-campus trek is the awkward difference in the steps of my feet.

I tell myself that I can fix it as soon as I’m inside the building where it’s warm

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and I can sit down, but that never happens.

There are people everywhere inside that building. And no part of me wants to take my shoe off in front of them.

My feet don’t especially reek and they aren’t deformed, but the whole process of returning my sock to its appropriate place would just feel too strange in such an academic milieu.

So what do I do? I walk around for the rest of the day wearing one and half socks.

And I never, not for a single moment, stop thinking about it.

It’s such a trivial thing to obsess over, but I can’t help it. It’s always the little, insignificant things that irritate me the most.

Paper cuts and hang nails.

Mediocre grammar and skinny jeans.

Frames that hang crooked and chalkboards that aren’t thoroughly erased.

Things that I should be able

to ignore.

Subcutaneous hematomas don’t bother me. Nor does broken English or catastrophically disorganized rooms.

Blatant disarrays and debacles are of no concern to me.

But subtle imperfections won’t loosen their tight-hold.

What ever am I to do?

I’m sure if you’ve managed to make it this far into the article, you assume that I have some sort of advice to give or call to action on this topic.

But I don’t really have anything to offer except my own experiences, which are most likely very similar to yours.

The best way I have found to deal with these problems is to focus on the positive side and on the controllable.

An inspirational speaker by the name of Zig Ziglar asserts that controlling the controllable is an important rule to follow for success, and it’s something I have attempted to do since I first learned of this rule four years ago in high school health class.

As for thinking positively? I usually need other people for that, people who usually turn out to be my roommate.

“I made an idiot of myself today,” I’ll say.

“On the plus side,” she’ll say, “the room smells decent.”

And it works both ways, which is nice.

Sunday, my roommate rushed into the room with arm loads of her junk and exclaimed that she was parked in the fire lane.

“On the plus side,” I told her, “ you look like a rockstar today.”

What I am trying to get at is this: if you don’t have someone that points out “the plus side” for you, you need to turn someone into that person as soon as possible.

Because sometimes the most entertaining part of my day is hearing what follows the phrase “on the plus side.”

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PHOBIAS From Page 3 they encounter something bad and it gets out of hand,� said Dryw Dworsky, the director of Psychological Services at the University.

An example of how a phobia could develop is a person riding on an airplane that

MOVIES From Page 3 “Friday the 13th,� Bernard said. Sean S. Cunningham, director of the first “Friday the 13th,� had created only the title of the film before he put an ad in “Variety� magazine to see the feedback he would receive, Bernard said.

The title alone had people telling Cunningham they wanted to help finance the film. “This shows the power

HISTORY From Page 3 means it is only divisible by itself or one. “It’s just mathematically weird,� Clinton said.

The bad connotation surrounding the number may have origins in religion. “There were 13 people at the last supper before Christ was

FACTS From Page 3 Christianity, Friday the 13 is a widely feared day in the Western world, according to a MathWorld article about the number 13.

While the day comes tongue-in-cheek for many,

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receives bad turbulence.

This passenger could develop a phobia of air travel, Dworsky said. The same could apply to a bad Friday the 13 experience.

Through a process called modeling, a person could mimic a Friday the 13 phobia if his or her parents or close friends suffer from the fear, said Dworsky, who is

also an assistant professor in the psychology department at the University.

Some people don’t experience fear of the date or suffer from the phobia, but look forward to celebrating Friday the 13.

Freshma n My ria h Mehrmann said she is “really excited� for Friday and has known about it for

weeks. She said that a full moon would make the date even better. “I want something bad to happen to see if it’s really true,� Mehrmann said.

However, Mehrmann said she is careful not to react like some others she has witnessed. “People think since it’s Friday the 13, they can

pin their bad things on it,�

Mehrmann said.

Freshma n Phi l lip Simmers said that Friday the 13 doesn’t cross his mind, and people who alter their lives according to the date are “kind of a waste.� “Nothing about that day could affect my life,�

Simmers said.

Although a phobia of

Friday the 13 could negatively affect people’s lives, there are solutions available to make the fear more manageable. “We would treat with ex posu re t herapy,�

Dworsky said. “We expose clients to an environment related to the phobia and help them recognize their belief system is irrational.�

of the concept of Friday the 13 because without anything attached to it, just the name of the film, Cunningham got financing for the movie,�

Bernard said.

The name might lead people to believe the films center on the bad luck of Friday the 13, but in reality, none of the films focus on the typical superstitions of the day. “It is interesting that few of the films take place on Friday the 13,� Bernard

said. “The superstition has very little to do with the movie, but I think it fits into a larger trend of slasher films having success when associated with a holiday.�

Department of Popular Culture assistant professor Montana Miller thought the audience for horror movies like “Friday the 13th� was so limited that the movies did not add any hype to the actual day. “I think more people think of ‘Groundhog Day’ on Groundhog Day and the

surreal repetitive nature of the events of the day and how the movie represents that,� Miller said.

Miller also added that the belief in 13 as an unlucky number is not universal.

Some cultures consider it lucky instead. “I don’t think that the fear of Friday the 13 is prevalent anymore,� Miller said. “I don’t notice anyone changing behaviors on the day, so I feel like it’s a dying superstition and it’s losing its power.�

Sophomore Brad Spettel, however, thought a lot of people still believed in the superstition of the day. “I notice people’s Facebook statuses talking about the day about how they’re not looking forward to it and with all the remakes of the movies, I think people are still afraid of Friday the 13,�

Spettel said.

Even though the movies do not stress superstitions of Friday the 13, they have provided additional hype to

the worry of misfortune on the day. “The ‘Friday the 13th’ movies have added a dread to the day as in what’s going to happen, but as for movies just about the actual day Friday the 13, I do not know of any,� Bernard said.

The twelve “Friday the 13th� films provide any who do fear bad luck and misfortune on the day with an excuse to sit at home and watch the movies in honor of the day that made the movies possible.

betrayed, and it’s been considered an unlucky number since then,� Clinton said.

It is also considered unlucky for 13 people to sit down at a table together, in the U.S. and Europe, Clinton said. “If there were 13 members in an extended family, they would invite a servant to dinner so there weren’t 13 people sitting down to

dinner,� Clinton said.

This may not be the true origin of the number’s unlucky label, but Clinton said there is no way of knowing when the label began.

The history of the day can make people suspicious. “People worry about dangerous things happening that day,� Clinton said. “You hear people say they shouldn’t leave the house.�

Sophomore Tiffany Suscheck doesn’t believe the day causes bad luck. “I don’t believe days make bad things happen,�

Suscheck said. “I believe in karma; karma makes bad things happen.�

Senior Chris Tressler agreed. “Having superstitions about a number is just kind of odd to me,� Tressler said.

Despite the fact that some people don’t have superstitions about the day or the number, history leans toward them both causing bad luck. Clinton teaches a folklore class at the University and spends two days on superstition. “Superstition I think is often about trying to understand cause and effect,�

Clinton said. “Superstition

is rarely, if ever, scientifically verifiable.�

Superstition about the day may not be verifiable, but it doesn’t stop people from blaming bad luck on the day. “Once people decided it was unlucky, they started to notice when bad things happened and connect the day and the bad thing,�

Clinton said.

a study by the Department of Public Health at the Mid Downs Health Authority in the United Kingdom may serve to legitimize some peoples’ fears.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal, found there were “consistently and significantly fewer vehicles� on several Fridays on the 13

day of the month compared to the sixth. However, “admissions due to transport accidents were significantly increased on Friday the 13.�

Folklore regarding the day has a plethora of myths and anecdotes.

TIME mentions several Friday the 13 myths,

including one that if you cut your hair on the day, someone in your family will die.

Another says you will be the next to die if a funeral procession passes you on that day.

To counter this mythological barrage of mortality, a New York pastor offered couples a free mar-

riage on Friday the 13. That day was most unlucky: the year was 1913, according to TIME’s website.

The stock market is not immune to the unluckiness of the day either. In 1989, on a Friday the 13 in October the stock market suffered one of the worst days in its history to that point.

The BG News is not immune either, so don’t count the number of paragraphs in this story, especially if you have Triskaidekaphobia.

Today, take the British Medical Journal’s advice: “Staying at home is recommended.�

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Falcons fall in last second TWISTING to Akron , Layup with .5 seconds left seals Zips’ 10 win of season

By Ryan Satkowiak Sports Editor

The Akron Zips made every second count.

Trailing BG for nearly the entire game, Akron pulled off a 56-55 victory over the Falcons Wednesday night when Nick Harney made a layup with .5 seconds remaining in regulation on a controversial call.

Harney appeared to commit a charge on BG’s Cameron Black, but no call was made.

“That last play was a charge,” coach Louis Orr said. “[Black] took two or three charges the whole game doing the same thing. I gotta see it [on film] but from where I sat, [Black] was waiting on him.”

Despite his disagreement with the outcome of the last play, Orr was also adamant that the Falcons should have never been in that close of a game, saying his team was “its own worst enemy.”

BG led by as many as 10 points in the game, holding that lead with 8:05 to go in regulation. Akron proceeded to go on a 9-0 run over the next 4:08 to cut the lead to one.

The Zips didn’t take their first lead of the game until a Quincy Diggs free-throw with 32 seconds remaining in the game.

“This was a tough one,” Orr said.

“A team you haven’t beaten at home now eight straight years, we had a great opportunity and kind of let it slip through our hands.”

Black had one of his best games in a

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Gymnastics opens home slate against Chippewas

By Daniel Sierra Reporter

With a home opener fast approaching, the BG gymnastics team is hard at work preparing After struggling on two events last week at Kentucky, coach Kerrie Beach has the team practicing skills and routines in the order that they will compete.

Beach hopes the careful repetition will prepare the Falcons to host Mid-American Conference rival Central Michigan on Saturday to open the 2012 home schedule.

“We’re working on practicing our lineups during the week,” Beach said. “I think that makes a huge difference in confidence when you get all six of them together on an event and have them run through exactly what they’re going to do that weekend.”

The Falcons will face a big challenge from Central Michigan,

who opened its season with a quad meet win led by MAC Gymnast of the Week Brittany Petzold.

“Central’s a great program,” Beach said.

“They have a very experienced staff that’s been together for a long time. We always know it’s going to be a tough challenge when Central Michigan’s here.”

Beach plans to keep the same lineups against the Chippewas, noting that uneven bars will still be the hardest event for the Falcons to earn high scores.

The team is missing two strong bar workers in Amanda Lievendag and Lindsay Koch, both recovering from minor setbacks. Beach expects that both gymnasts will be cleared to compete within the month, adding valuable routines to the BG lineup.

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While balance beam also presented a problem in the first meet, Beach is confident that her team will correct its mistakes and was encouraged by the performances from young members.

“That was a bright spot to see Jamilah Ali, Megan Harrington and Megan Valentini hit their routines,” she said. “I feel very confident that our beam lineup is going to do a great job this weekend because they just won’t settle for less.”

Beach hopes the advantage gained from competing on familiar equipment and in front of a home crowd will elevate her team’s performance against a talented in-

conference opponent.

“We’re right in the middle of the MAC standings,” she said. “I think that until we strengthen our bar lineup that’s where we’re going to be. Once we get that bar lineup in place, I think you’ll see us getting better and better and challenging the top teams.

“I certainly think the fans will see a really fantastic competition this weekend. We are going to be fighting for every tenth and every landing. We know we’re going to need that against Central.”

The Falcons and Chippewas face off Saturday at 6 p.m. in Anderson Arena. Admission is free.

Young players step up for BG in loss against Akron

By Nick Marlow Reporter

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THE BG women’s basketball team comes together for the alma mater following the Falcons’ 61-49 victory against Ohio Thursday night at the Stroh.

Women’s basketball takes down Ohio, 61-49

By Michele Wysocki Assistant Sports Editor

BG closed the doors to the house that roars, but noise was pouring out of the Stroh Center Thursday night.

Sounds reverberated around the Stroh Center on every play with 1429 in attendance.

The Falcons started the game off trying to catch the Bobcats as they paced a fast game and an early two point lead.

Jessica Slagle was the first to score for BG, but the team continued to trail OU until Alexis Rogers

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hit a three-point shot to take a 7-6 lead, five minutes into the game.

BG struggled to make shots while it adjusted to the speed of the Bobcats. Overall the Falcons shot 43.1 percent from the court, which head coach Curt Miller feels is very respectable. OU capped out at 35.4 percent on the night.

When the crowd lacked in volume, Miller made up the difference. He said how important a win would be and he continued to push the team to get one.

“My demand for perfection, again, continues to push this team

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to get even better,” Miller said.

Just when the tension of the game could not get any greater, Rogers came up with a wrap-around pass to Danielle Havel for two and the crowd let loose.

Rogers had her third consecutive double-double of the season against Ohio with 15 points and 11 rebounds, her fourth overall.

Rogers is not only riding a rebounding streak, but the team as a whole has outrebounded their

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Zuccaro’s academics honored Women’s soccer senior Alyssa Zuccaro has been named to the Academic All-Ohio team by the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association.

Any one-point defeat is tough to swallow: throw in that the game was decided by a lastsecond bucket and it will surely result in a sleepless night for any head coach.

While this is exactly what happened to coach Louis Orr Wednesday night in a 56-55 loss to Akron at the Stroh, the silver lining in BG’s sixth straight letdown to the Zips is that several players unexpectedly rose to the occasion in the second half.

Sophomore Cameron Black, freshman Jehvon Clarke and sophomore Cra ig Sea ley accounted for 17 of BG’s 29 points in the second half, while BG’s top-three leading scorers, A’ustin Calhoun (12.6 ppg), Scott Thomas (11.7 ppg) and Jordan Crawford (10.2 ppg) contributed only four — all from Calhoun.

The other eight came from Dee Brown.

Trailing by a point, Black bailed the Falcons out when he pulled down a missed layup from Calhoun and put it back up for two, giving the Falcons a 55-54 lead with 12 seconds to go.

He was fouled on the play, but would miss the plus one.

Black notched six of BG’s first eight points coming out of

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“The last play was a charge ... If the charge is called it’s no basket and we win.”

Louis Orr | BG Coach intermission as it upped its lead to 34-25. The center also drew two charges — the second created a potential four point swing as Brown netted a pair of free throws on the subsequent Falcon possession.

Orr was convinced Black had drawn a third charge when he appeared to have his feet planted as Akron’s Nick Harney’s momentum carried into Black when he put up the game-winning floater as the final seconds ticked away.

“The last play was a charge,” Orr said. “I mean I gotta see it on film, but [Black] took two or three charges during the game doing the same thing. From what I saw [Black] was waiting on [Harney]. ... If the charge is called it’s no basket and we win.”

Black, who averages 4.3 ppg, had 10 points on the night, eight of which came in the second half.

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Women’s basketball head to Buffalo for Sunday matcup with Bulls

By Michele Wysocki Assistant Sports Editor

C ha mpion sh ip tea m s win on the road, women’s basketba l l coach Cur t Miller said.

The Falcons will take on Buffalo Sunday, for their first away game in the MidAmerican Conference.

BG needs to prove that they are not only comfortable playing at home, but on the road as well.

“It’s a bonus when you can find a road win,” Miller said.

The Bulls are 0-3 in the MAC with their first and most recent loss at home against Akron on Wednesday.

Before facing Akron, Brittney Hedderson led her team with an average of 19.4 points per game, but Nytor Longar stole the show with 26 points on Wednesday night. Combined with 10 rebounds, she recorded a double-double in their 89-82 loss to the Zips.

Just two games prior for Akron, BG’s Alexis Rogers posted her record-high

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double-double with 26 and 14 rebounds against them.

That time the overall outcome of the game swayed in the Falcons’ favor, rather than the Zips’.

The Bulls’ other two losses came on the road against Ohio University and Miami.

Entering play Thursday, the Falcons are undefeated in the conference and are looking to continue their streak.

Junior Chrissy Steffen is filling the expectations of her leadership role as the season progresses, Miller said. As the only returning starter from last season, she leads the team with about 15 points per game.

Close behind with 10 points apiece per game are Rogers and Jess Slagle.

Rogers also holds the top slot for rebounding for the Falcons.

Slagle was the only senior to return to the court for the 2011-12 season.

Tip-off for the Falcons LAUREN POFF | THE BG NEWS and the Bulls is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Alumni Arena JESS SLAGLE, BG guard, drives the lane for the layup during BG’s victory against Ohio Thursday night. in Buffalo.

CORRECTION The article “BG men’s basketball to play Akron on the road” incorrectly stated the basketball game’s location in its headline in the Wednesday, Jan. 11 edition of The BG News. The game was played at the Stroh Center, not on the road.

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SCOTT THOMAS, BG forward, looks to pass the ball during the Falcons’ 56-55 loss to Akron Wednesday night.

LOSS From Page 6 “The games against Akron and Kent are always very motivational for me,” Black said. “I was born in Akron and raised in Kent so coming into this (Akron) game I wanted to come in and show everybody what I can do.”

The only BG points in the 5:13 after Black’s run would come on a left-wing

triple and a 15-foot jumper from Clarke during a 10-5 surge from the Zips.

Sealey would make his mark thereafter when he scored the first four points of a 6-0 run that gave the Falcons a f leeting tenpoint lead with 8:05 left.

Black, Clarke and Sealey combined for 25 points in the game on 11-for-20 shooting.

Clarke totaled eight points, while Sealey had seven.

Ironica l ly, Black, on

t he plus one after t he aforementioned bucket, and Clarke, on the front end of a one-a nd-one attempt a f ter he was fouled by A k ron’s A lex Abreu, both missed free throws with less than a minute to go which could have potent ia lly g iven BG three points.

Had either Black or Clarke made one free throw, Harney’s gamewinner would have instead forced overtime.

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MEN’S From Page 6 BG uniform, putting up 10 points and seven rebounds.

He also converted a layup off a missed shot by A’ustin Calhoun with 11 seconds left that temporarily put BG back in front.

“Before the game, coach talked about Zeke [Marshall] being a good shot blocker, and when he goes for the block to be ready for a rebound,” Black said. “It felt good to put that shot in and give us a lead.”

Unlike his coach, Black wasn’t as committal as to whether he thought Akron’s last bucket was a foul or not.

“I’m not sure if it was a charge or a defensive breakdown, but he took me down kind of hard,” he said. “I knew if I jumped it would probably be a foul, so I tried to take the charge. Didn’t go our way this time.”

The Falcons did a superb job containing Marshall, Akron’s 7-foot center, who managed only seven points and four rebounds. However, the physicality used in defending him came at a cost, as both Black and Torian Oglesby, BG’s two main players at center, ended up in foul

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trouble throughout the game, and both finished the game with four fouls apiece.

Defensively, the Falcons held Akron, one of the top shooting and scoring teams in the MidAmerican Conference, to well below its season averages. The Zips came into the game averaging 74 points per game.

Now, after falling to 1-1 in MAC play this season, BG will have to refocus its efforts towards Kent State, who it plays in Kent Saturday night.

The Golden Flashes come into the game with an 11-4, fresh off a 71-67 victory against Miami Wednesday night.

Their leader in both points per game and rebounds per game is forward Justin Greene, who is averaging 12.4 and 6.5, respectively.

Michael Porrini is the primary distributor of the offense, averaging 4.1 assists per game to go along with 8.6 points per contest.

As a team, Kent is third in scoring defense in the MAC, while offensively, they’re sixth.

Both teams are part of the logjam of 1-1 teams in the MAC East, along with Ohio and Buffalo.

The game is scheduled to TOM NEPOMUCENO | THE BG NEWS start at 7 p.m. at Kent’s M.A.C. TORIAN OGLESBY, BG forward, hits a layup in BG’ s loss to Akron Wednesday night.

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opponents in their last 11 games, consecutively — Miller’s first team with such a stat.

After that the Falcons matched the intensity of Ohio and then some.

Chrissy Steffen led with a jumper and shots started falling in their favor —BG gapped their lead to 15-9 with 12:45 left to play in the half.

Midway through, the Falcons and the Bobcats fought for the lead, alternating baskets for 10 minutes. In the last two minutes Rogers hit a layup and took two foul shots to lead her team at the half, 28-25.

BG got out of the starting blocks strong with a 6-0 run to stretch their lead to 34-25 in the first two minutes.

Miller said they came out and set a tempo they could be successful at and it showed. The Falcons were up almost 10 points on the Bobcats, 51-42, with eight minutes left to play.

The starting five — Steffen, Rogers, Slagle, Havel and Jasmine Matthews all

played 28 minutes or more against the Bobcats; Miller said they were just dialed in in the second half.

“I really believe in that starting group’s defensive ability,” Miller said.

Matthews made a big contribution in the second half with two three-point shots which gave the Falcons some room in their lead.

She made the starting line-up about a month back, and she said it has given her the opportunity to be more aggressive.

“I’ve got to step up and guard my player,” Matthews said. “It’s real critical for me to step up and not only defensively, but offensively.”

As the minutes ticked away, the crowd became louder with each dribble. The student section cheered and BG’s lead continued to stretch.

This marked the second game in a row the Falcons held their opponent to their lowest point total of the year.

“That doesn’t just happen, I’m really proud of a young team that’s learning,” Miller said. “We weren’t perfect but we really accomplished some of the things we wanted to defensively.”

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CURT MILLER, BG coach, disputes a call with an official during BG’s win against Ohio Thursday night.

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CHRISSY STEFFEN, BG guard, shoots a jump shot during BG’s 61-49 victory against Ohio Thursday night at the Stroh Center.

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HOUSES close to campus!

2012-2013 May/August Leases now availble!

Call 419-352-6064 or www.froboserentals.com Houses for rent, 4-5 BR, 2 baths, between campus & downtown, $1500/mo, call 419-340-2500.

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424 E. Wooster,large 3BR apt, Avail Fall 2012, $950/mo, utils included. Call 419-352-5882.

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