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A LOOK BACK University and city officials joined the community on reflecting on NIOT’s accomplishments in the past year. read more on BGNews.com.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Volume 93, Issue 88
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LGBT Funding formula not in University’s favor members Lower graduation rate leads to reduced government-provided money compared to other state institutions to celebrate graduates
LESS STUDENTS, LESS FUNDS SERIES | 2 of 3 THE BG NEWS LOOKS INTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATION, RETENTION, STATE FUNDING
By Eric Lagatta Campus Editor
Ever since the state funding model changed for higher education, University officials have shown concern for how it will affect the budget in future years. The new funding distribution model hasn’t worked in the
University’s favor, said Rodney Rogers, provost and associate vice president of Academic Affairs. “The formula is weighted toward more of those schools that are producing a lot of degrees more quickly,” Rogers said. “We don’t have as broad an array of graduate programs that are being made available for working professions.”
By that, Rogers means that universities with one-year graduate programs focusing on a working profession will benefit more from the formula. The University, on the other hand, has primarily research-based graduate programs that take two years. The model previously allocated money to public universities based on number of students enrolled in cours-
es, but as of July 2013, it has changed to award institutions for students graduated and courses completed. Fifty percent of funding is now distributed based on degrees completed, a bump from 20 percent. The other 50 percent is based on courses completed.
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HOPING TO END HATE
By Paige Crawford Reporter
On Wednesday, the LGBT Resource Center will be hosting its annual Lavender Graduation. From 5-6 p.m. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender students, faculty and community members will gather in the Union to Tobias acknowledge the Spears LGBT students sucAssistant Director for cess through the year. LGBT Tobias Spears, programs assistant director for LGBT programs has been in the program for three years.
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CAMPUS brief
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Eric Juzkiw sings and plays guitar during a student talent showcase.
University hosts showcase for NIOT’s anniversary By Kristen Tomins Reporter
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Luke Grabski adds a word to the wall of hate during events celebrating NIOT’s one year anniversary. The wall was later torn down to symbolize triumph over discrimination.
In honor of the “Not In Our Town” movement’s one-year anniversary on Tuesday, Undergraduate Student Government and Graduate Student Senate hosted this year’s first Diversity Showcase. The Diversity Showcase featured performances by both students and faculty members and was open to the entire community. Performances ranged from musical acts to spoken word poetry and skits from University organizations. Both USG and GSS wanted to create an all inclusive event for students to celebrate diversity, rather than focus on any negative stigma associated with it. “So often we condemn the bad behavior, which is good, but we also need to reward the good behavior,” said Erin Baker, a GSS Student Affairs Representative. “Eventually, the more we applaud and celebrate diversity and all the good that comes with it, the negativity will stop.”
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FitzGerald’s running mate visits city
ITS warns campus of software virus, some systems still down
Information Technology Systems announced on Monday through a Canvas message that a virus had impacted University software. Called the Heartbleed Bug, the virus exposed information normally protected by encryption, according to the security message. While the University’s systems have been patched to protect from further attacks, ITS advises users to change their passwords for their university and non-university accounts including email and bank passwords to be safe from any future attacks. Some systems were still offline on Tuesday including some time keeping systems for Student Employment Services, said Assistant Director Michele Schmitz. Schmitz advised in an email to staff that until the systems were online, students and managers were to clock their hours manually. As of Tuesday afternoon, the following time keeping systems were still not online: Huntington Center, MacDonald, Institutional Research, Tucker Center, Centrex, Levis Commons, the Doyt Perry Stadium and the Student Recreation Center.
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BREAKING STEReOTYPES
Sharen Neuhardt says democratic candidate will put more emphasis on high education By Eric Lagatta Campus Editor
With the election for Ohio’s next governor six months away, Sharen Neuhardt, candidate for lieutenant governor, stopped at a small coffee shop in Bowling Green to address a crowd of mostly local Democrats. Neuhardt, the running mate to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald, spoke at Grounds for Thought on Tuesday night about why the
ticket would be a better option than Republican incumbent John Kasich. Neuhardt, a lawyer who ran and lost twice for U.S. Congress in southwestern Ohio, is FitzGerald’s second choice for a running mate. FitzGerald first tapped state Sen. Eric H. Kearney, who left the ticket after being linked massive tax debts. A Dayton native, Neuhardt, 62, graduated from Northwestern University before getting her law degree at Georgetown
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University. She did business law with the firm Smith & Schnacke, now Thompson Hine. She has also served as head of the firm’s corporate group. “[Colleagues] see my resume and they say ‘Oh, she’s a successful corporate lawyer; she must be a Republican,’” Neuhardt said, adding she’s a product of a successful American Dream. “At the end of the American Dream,
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FICTIONAL LIVES
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Christopher Valentino talks about Asian American stereotypes on Tuesday night in Kohl Hall. For full BG News coverage of the event read the article online at BGNews.com.
Columnist Kayla Brandts talks about how our society is too caught up in things like television shows and books to live their own lives and be like the characters in TV shows or novels. | PAGE 4
DO YOU THINK TOLERANCE HAS IMPROVED SINCE NOT IN OUR TOWN STARTED LAST YEAR? “Yes, because I’ve seen a lot of events and I think it has increased awareness.” Purvi Agrawal Graduate Student, Computer Science
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