The BG News 04.29.13

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Monday, April 29, 2013

VOLUME 92, ISSUE 95

RUGBY KNOCKED OUT OF NATIONALS

The BG Rugby team lost 55-24 during the weekend, knocking the team out of the national tournament. Read more about it in SPORTS on Page 5. WWW.BGNEWS.COM

Residents react to yard signs Greenbriar places anti-levy signs on its properties By Bridjet Mendyuk Multimedia Editor

STEVEN ECHARD | THE BG NEWS

ANNAMARIE FUNK, a freshman marketing major, and Tyler Albert, a sophomore business management major, study business calculus in the library at the S.O.S study session.

STUDY

SUNDAY

Learning Commons hosts finals study session at library on Sunday

See SIGNS | Page 3

By Erin Cox Social Media Editor

STEVEN ECHARD | THE BG NEWS

KOBE HUYNH, a sophomore accounting and finance major, folds an origami lion. He said it helps relax his brain.

Women’s Center plans services to help students with children By Danae King Campus Editor

On an average day, junior Nicole Kelbley balances being a mother to her 3-year-old son, being a full time student and working at McDonald’s. Kelbley, 22, is a construction management major at the University and has a son named Colten. One of her daily struggles is not being able to be with Colten like a “normal mom.” “That time that I’m missing out with him is really hard,” she said. Kelbley is one of an estimated 25 percent of all students on a college or university campus who have children, said Ellen Lassiter Collier, a doctoral student in Higher Education and Student Affairs who is studying students with children. Though research shows 25 percent of all students on a college or university campus have children, there is no way of knowing for sure how many attend the University, Collier said.

Students had the chance to do more than just study at the University Library with Finals Study On Sunday, hosted by the Learning Commons. From noon to 10 p.m. Sunday, The Learning Commons and the library offered food, extra tutoring sessions, therapy dogs and other activities to help create a comfortable study space for students the day before finals week. “It gives students the ability to get one or two last study sessions in before finals,” said Caitlin Gorman, graduate assistant for The Learning Commons. “Although we don’t promote cramming, we figure by providing an event like this, it gives a less stressful environment to study in.” Typical Sundays at the library are pretty dead, said Ethan Norden, information desk assistant at the library, but the Sunday before finals usually has a more steady flow of people. This semester’s Finals S.O.S had more students getting involved than this past year’s, Norden said. Gorman has worked during the event each of the four times it has been offered in the past two years and said each has offered some of the same and some different activities. This time around the event offered new things such as hot dogs and an origami session,

See S.O.S | Page 6

See BROWN | Page 2

Chris Jones may be done playing Football for BG but the defensive star was drafted by the Houston Texans. Teammate Jordan Roussons also signed a contact as a Free Agent with the Seattle Seahawks. | PAGE 5.

By Max Filby Editor-in-Chief

When students return next fall, the textbooks they could be flipping through might be in the form of a PDF or another file on their tablet or computer. Students will be able to access their books via Canvas, through an online textbook service called CourseSmart. Although the University Bookstore is already offering students the ability to rent e-textbooks, CourseSmart’s integration with Canvas will allow students to look at their textbooks just by clicking a link at the top of their Canvas portals. “What was important to me was to put this in one location for both the faculty member and student to see and access,” said John Ellinger, chief information officer for the University. ”On every page, the faculty member has access to it and the student does too.” Besides the student-faculty accessibility, Ellinger, who

See E-BOOK | Page 6

Reporter

See CHILDREN | Page 6

FROM FALCON TO TEXAN

CourseSmart to offer e-textbooks via Canvas

By Patrick Pfanner

Collier is working with the Women’s Center to develop programming and services for students with children, and the first step is a survey that will be released this semester and open all summer, Collier said. The survey will hopefully help Collier and the Women’s Center get a sense of how many students with children are at the University and what their needs are, Collier said. The Women’s Center staff started thinking about services for students with children a few years ago when its Director, Mary Krueger, was

Doctoral Student in Higher Education and Student Affairs

A LOOK AHEAD | PART 1 OF 3

Student remembered for his outlook on life As Ali Paulsen stepped back to think about her future, she realized Thursday nights would never be the same again. Thursdays were movie nights for her and her boyfriend of three years, Brandon Brown, who watched movies together as a fun way to bond while attending the University. Now Thursdays will have a different meaning for Paulsen. They remind her of Brandon’s unexpected death due to an accidental drug overdose on March 30, said his mother, Emily Brown. “The movies were a very special place for us,” Paulsen said. “But now I can’t go to see them.” Brandon and Paulsen would secretly motion numbers to each other by holding up a few fingers

Ellen Lassiter Collier

The Bowling Green school levy signs in the front yards of Greenbriar’s tenants have been causing a stir among students renting from the company. President of Greenbriar Inc., Robert Mauer, said the company is trying to inform tenants about the levy. The signs in the yards of Greenbriar properties are not in favor of the school levy. “We’re asking people to take a good look at the levy on the ballot,” Mauer said. The president of the Board of Education for Bowling Green city schools, Ellen Scholl, said the levy is going to be a property tax levy and will come out to be around four million dollars a year. Scholl said the money would go to programming and paying salaries. The levy will be on the May 7 ballot. “We’ve cut 49 positions over the past five years,” Scholl said. “When your state cuts your budget and gives local money to charter school students, that total comes from our local budget and is really hard to keep up.” Senior Courtney Tomlinson is an education major, and said the sign has been up in her yard for about two weeks. “I don’t know much about Bowling Green’s school levy,

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BRANDON BROWN passed away March 30 from an accidental drug overdose. His girlfriend, Ali Paulsen, remembers movie nights with Brown every Thursday.

COLUMNIST GIVES SHOUT OUTS

As the end of the school year comes to a close, faculty columnist Phil Schurrer sends out some love and acknowledgement, to those who he feels made the University a better place to live and work during the past year. | PAGE 4

HOW DO YOU GET YOUR TEXTBOOKS FOR CLASS? WHY? “I don’t get my textbooks.” Jason Bauck Sophomore, 3D Studio Art


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