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Volume 93, Issue 82
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Conference to explore diversity Faculty Senate denounces Latino Issues Conference to offer insight for people of any color on Wednesday By Amirah Adams Reporter
The 20th Annual Latino Issues Conference will be taking place Wednesday in the Union. Ray Plaza, associate director of Multicultural Affairs is this year’s conference chair. “The conference is designed to bring faculty, students, staff and
community members together to discuss issues impacting the Latino community,” Plaza said. “It’s a combination of education, awareness and interaction.” The goal of the conference is to cover issues all across the spectrum of diversity. “The Latino Student Union’s slogan is ‘Not Latino, Not a Problem,’” Plaza said. “This conference is not only for Latinos, it’s
open to everyone.” The conference will be addressing issues that impact not only Latino communities, but other communities as well. An estimated 300 people attended the conference last year. Plaza hopes to have the same amount or more attend this year. “We hope to have numbers
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Accenture’s recommendations Jeff Nelson
By Eric Lagatta Campus Editor
Bookstore Director
During a Tuesday meeting, members of the Faculty Senate ex pressed concerns over Accenture’s recommendations about the Union Bookstore, urging University officials to reject them. Speaking on the Bookstore Advisory Committee’s behalf,
committee member Ann Darke announced to the senate their opposition to Accenture’s pro-
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BOWLING GREEN 1 OF 7 OHIO CITIES TO HAVE POLICE, FIRE DIVISIONS ACCREDITED
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Police officers go about their daily duties after role call. The police division has been accredited for more than 20 years.
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Firefighter Terry Busch inspects equipment on a fire truck in the garage of the division’s main station.
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elite in state By Eric Lagatta Campus Editor
By Alex Alusheff Managing Editor
hen the Bowling Green Police Division became the first agency to be accredited in northwest Ohio, it strived to maintain its standards of excellence for more than 20 years after. The division was most recently reaccredited in August by CALEA, the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, and is one of 53 law enforcement agencies in Ohio that is accredited. “It means we’re meeting the most up-to-date professional standards in law enforcement,” said Chief Brad Conner. “It’s something I believe sets us apart from other agencies, shows a level of excellence.” To be accredited by CALEA, law enforcement agencies must have policies addressing
fter roughly 10 years of reform, the Bowling Green Fire Division achieved accreditation despite being short staffed for major emergencies. On March 10, the division became the 10th fire agency in Ohio to gain that status from Commission on Fire Accreditation International. But it was a process the division had to fight for, said Capt. Doug Isaacson, accreditation manager for the division. One snag the division encountered was the requirement of having 15 responders to a major emergency such as a fire. It can only provide 11 due to budget constraints. “A creative solution is to use the surrounding departments for mutual aid, which offsets that [requirement],” he said. “We don’t have many big emergencies, but it was an uphill battle and we fought the commission [to meet the requirement].”
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The bush, The bush, the bush is on Fire STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Elections for new Undergraduate Student Government members are next week from April 7 to April 11. Read The BG News and www.bgnews. com for a question and answer series this week so you know what the candidates are about.
HOW DO YOU PLAN TO INCREASE SCHOOL PRIDE AND SPIRIT ON CAMPUS? HOW WILL YOU GET STUDENTS ON BOARD WITH YOUR IDEAS? Nicole Neely
Brian Kochheiser
Vice Presidential Candidate
Presidential Candidate
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Firefighters extinguish a small bush fire outside of West Hall on Tuesday. The fire was likely caused by a cigarette being blown into the bush because of the high winds, according to firefighters at the scene.
RECORD-SETTING SEASON The women’s basketball team lost to Rutgers on Monday in the quarterfinals of the WNIT. The loss brings their season to an end and record to 30 - 5 overall read more on | PAGE 6
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“School pride is something that should always be increased. One of our initiatives is to make a creed for the University. Miami already has something like it so we decided to steal the idea for our campus. Every student has the idea of a creed in them and having it written out can increase student pride.”
GROUP PROJECTS
Forum Editor Cassie Sullivan talks about group projects and how in college they’re hard to do with people who have busy schedules. Better experience with groups happens outside of class. | PAGE 4
“I think creating tradition is the best way. We are working to expand the Ziggy Point initiative to get more students involved and see what they have to offer. We are also creating a [creed] for the Falcon family. It will say why we are all here and reflect what Bowling Green can give us.”
WHAT IS THE BEST APRIL FOOL’S PRANK THAT YOU HAVE PULLED OR HAS BEEN PULLED ON YOU? “I told my mom that the dog died once.” Donovan Havens Freshman, Athletic Training
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