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VOLUME 92, ISSUE 84
THE BUCKET LIST ‘Bucket List’ used as University retention tool By Amber Petkosek Reporter
Running through the fountain in front of the administration building and ordering a pumpkin pie blizzard from Myles’ Dairy Queen are just two of the things students are challenged to do during their time at the University. The on campus organization your Fellow Falcon is bringing awareness to the University Bucket List, a list of 67 things to do in Bowling Green and the surrounding area before graduation. yFF did not create the bucket list, and no one is certain who created it, said Brandi Barhite, adviser of your Fellow Falcon and the assistant director of the Student Enrollment Communication Center. “We are trying to implement it to make BG a more neighborly and welcoming place,” Barhite said. The main goal for yFF is to make Bowling Green a place students want to come back to with events and the creation of community. yFF is a part of the University’s retention initiative, which focuses on getting students to return to the University each year, Barhite said. “We make your time at BG the best you can have, not party-wise, but friend and connection-wise,” she said. The bucket list began to spread around campus, and yFF gained an interest in it. “[Residence] Life passed it out during freshman move in, and we got a copy from marketing and communications,” she said. There has been one event so far to help students get started on their bucket lists. “One thing on the bucket list was to eat stuffed breadsticks from Pollyeyes and also watch a movie at the Gish,” Barhite said. “So we knocked out two with one stone.” Amber Dudley, student manager of yFF, was at the most recent event hosted, which drew in between 15 and 20 students. “It was our first one. I think it will get better as we progress,”
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Softball opened up with three losses in its first two home series. BG lost both games to Ball State and split the series with Miami. The losses put the Falcons in the bottom of the MAC. | PAGE 5
Monday, April 1, 2013
The victim was transported to Wood County Hospital with fractured nasal bones, he said. As of Sunday, there was no record of the Lead singer of Of Mice & Men victim being in the hospital, said Stephanie switchboard operator for Wood County arrested Saturday morning Rath, Hospital. After playing its first show in Bowling Carlile and Robinson were lodged in the Green at the Cla-Zel, Of Mice & Men’s lead Wood County Justice Center with no bond singer was arrested and jailed early Saturday and are scheduled for a video arraignment morning. with the municipal court at 8:30 a.m. on Austin Carlile, 25, of Huntington Beach, Monday, according to Wood County Sheriff Calif., was arrested for felonious assault officials. outside of 149 North at 2:50 a.m. along with Of Mice & Men headlined at the Cla-Zel the band’s drum technician, Lionel Robinson on Friday, after which it was going to play II, 27, of Escondid, Calif., according to police with A Day To Remember in Detroit on reports. Saturday. Police responded to a fight between two The band was unable to play the show groups of people in the street and one person as well as its Sunday show in Grand Rapids, lying on the ground unconscious, leading to Mich., according to the band’s Facebook. the arrest of Carlile and Robinson, said Sgt. The BG News was unable to reach the Jason Stanley of the Bowling Green Police band’ s agent for comment. Division. Of Mice & Men is due to perform Monday What constitutes as felonious assault at Peabody’s in Cleveland with Chunk! No, instead of disorderly conduct is the amount Captain Chunk!, Fallen Captive and This Is A of physical harm, Stanley said. Lifetime, according to Peabodys.com.
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Student found dead in off-campus apartment A student was found dead early Saturday morning in his off-campus apartment in the 100 block of University Lane. Brandon Brown, 21, of Bryan, Ohio, was discovered unresponsive at 1:15 a.m. by his father, who then called police, said Sgt. Jason Stanley of the Bowling Green Police Division. Brown was pronounced dead at the scene, Stanley said. As of now, the cause of death is unknown and the case is under investigation by the police and Wood County Coroner’s Office, he said. Brown was a junior in the College of Technology, according to an email from President Mary Ellen Mazey. Counseling is available from the Counseling Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Monday through Friday, Mazey said in the email. The Counseling Center can be reached at 419-372-2081.
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Women surpass men in college enrollment, graduation By Danae King Campus Editor
Brittany Kobylak decided to attend college because of pressure from her family and her career aspirations. “It’s pretty much been a standard in my family,” said Kobylak, a freshman interior design major. “You go to school, graduate and get a job.” Kobylak isn’t the only young woman making the decision to attend college; in fact, collegeenrolled women are no longer a minority. In fall 2012, there were 3,591 individuals enrolled as first time, first year, full time freshmen at the University, according to the University Office of Institutional Research’s website. Of those, about 60 percent were female and roughly 40 percent were male. More women than men gradu-
“Females tend to display higher levels of engagement than males.”
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ated at every degree level for the 2011 to 2012 academic year at the University, according to data from Institutional Research. Roughly 300 more women than men are graduating each year with a bachelor’s degree at the University, according to the data. Ellen Broido, associate professor of higher education and student affairs, teaches a graduate-level class on gender in higher education,
The University Recyclemania project helped some students remember to recycle during the past eight weeks, but students do a good job of recycling throughout the school year, said Nick Hennessy, sustainability coordinator and head of the Recyclemania project on campus. While other schools participating in the program recycle higher amounts of waste in the six weeks, Hennessy said that the results of the program did not upset him.
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This week, columnist Paul McKenzie discusses the difference in tolerance and acceptance. Regardless of court rulings, will society’s acceptance of same sex equality continue to increase? | PAGE 4
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