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A LEARNING EXPERIENCE The Career Center hosted a job fair for education majors on Tuesday. Read more about how students and employers prepared on Page 2.
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Volume 93, Issue 85
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University fan to expand endowment during press conference in Findlay
Lifetime Bowling Green basketball fan Bill Frack will announce an increase in his endowment for the basketball program at a news conference Wednesday at 10 a.m. The press conference will be held at The Heritage, a health service building, in Findlay, Ohio. In 2011 Frack planned a $10 million endowment, which was the largest single private gift in the University’s history. It was also the largest one-time gift ever designated to a Mid-American Conference basketball program. Frack is not a University alumnus, but a long time Falcon basketball fan. His father took him to his first game where he watched the Falcons play in 1948. He has remained a fan of the Falcons ever since. 2011 was not the first time Frack decided to help the program. In 2008 he donated $2 million to start the construction of the Stroh Center. With that donation the words “Bill Frack Court” were sketched into the floor. Frack has sketched his name into Falcon basketball history without ever playing. At Wednesday’s press conference he will become an even bigger part of the program when he announces the increase on the endowment.
Campus event celebrates multiculturalism Raven Rush Reporter
Students and campus organizations filled the ballroom on Tuesday night to discuss why diversity on campus is important. Jeff Devereaux, president of the Multicultural Greek Council hosted “Colors of a Falcon,” wanting to expose the community to all ethnicities and diversity. His idea was to narrow down multiculturalism to the University, to get more students on campus Jill to understand why diversity is Carr important. Vice “Most times we fail to highPresident light diversit y here at home,” of Student Devereaux said. “We had to narAffairs row it down to BG.” Jill Carr, vice president of Student Affairs, said diversity is important because it enriches the University and gives more power to the classroom. “Who am I? I am different, like everyone else,” Carr said. “We need to engage diversity and listen with ears of our hearts.” A few greek chapters chose one word to add to a “Wall of Oppression” that shows hurtful words that occur in the lives of every person. This “wall” will be torn down afterward to show that these words will not be tolerated. Junior Luke Grabski, president of Vision, put together a video of a set of diverse students to highlight the fact that “all identities are valu-
Scott Swegan, a Sports Information Director, records statistics during the baseball game against Toledo on Tuesday afternoon.
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life around the press box Student SID manages sports teams, class work By Tara Jones Assistant Sports Editor
Scott Swegan grew up in a University press box. Now he balances being a student assistant for athletic communications and being a full-time student at the University. “I expect to meet deadlines with class work and hold myself to that standard [so] right now I’m a student first.” Swegan said. “I put high priority on work, but that’s still my secondary role right now.” Swegan has been in a press box since seventh grade, when he would pass out statistic sheets for his traveling baseball coach, a former University Sports Information Director. Now, Swegan is the primary media relations contact for both baseball and football. “I’ve never had another college kid, as a freshman, have a sport. He ran with it,” said Jason Knavel, assistant athletic director for Athletic Communications. “From there, he’s added football, which is just a total beast. Until you actually do football at the FBS level, nobody really understands the work that is involved in doing football. I don’t know how he does it.” The Bowling Green native’s father, Gary Swegan, was the director of Admissions at the University before leaving in 2013, so Swegan said he grew up a Falcon fan. However, Swegan’s choice of college came down to the University and Indiana University. He ultimately chose to be a Falcon when Knavel offered him something he could not pass up. “Jason offered me the opportunity to do baseball right from the get-go, so I’ve done that for three years now,” Swegan said. “It was going to be a hard opportunity to pass up.” When Knavel joined the department in 2008, he looked for those whom he could trust to do the job right. Swegan, a high school student at the time, emerged as one of those people. Swegan started by running stats at games, then joining the stat crew and moving up to office work, lending a hand wherever it was needed. Despite being a student among other older full-timers,
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Swegan, a junior, works with the football and baseball teams.
A SPREADING ADDICTION 1 of 2 THE BG NEWS LOOKS INTO HEROIN IN THE CITY, COUNTY Look for a more in-depth story about heroin use in the county in Friday’s BG News.
Heroin problem rises nationally, locally By Lydia Scott Reporter
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Gary Galbreath Jr., senior, accompanies Hannah Rine (not pictured) while she sings for Friendship Day in the Union on Tuesday afternoon.
one determined falcon BG men’s soccer senior midfielder Vlad Lekarev came to the U.S. from Ukraine for a chance to play soccer at the University and go pro. Read more about his journey on | PAGE 3
Accounts of rising heroin use have been prevalent in the news nationwide since the suspected use of heroin in the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Bowling Green is no exception to the trend. Heroin related crime and heroin use has risen during the past few years across the United States, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s website. University Professor Harold Rosenberg, a psychologist who
specializes in drug rehabilitation, believes this phenomenon is occurring in the city. He said he has heard support of the rise from local law enforcement, the probation department and news reports. “There has been an increase in the number of people with heroin problems in Wood County,” he said. “I don’t know about the last 10 years, but definitely in the last three to four years.” Maj. Tony Hetrick, deputy chief of the Bowling Green Police Division, has watched heroin blossom into a problem during the past five years after the government made prescrip-
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Columnist Michele Matis picks apart the culture of dating from an online article she read before class, saying that dating problems stem from the person not the society. | PAGE 4
tion medicine difficult to acquire. “Prices went up for [prescription drugs] and people then turned to the cheap substitute, another opiate, which is heroin,” he said. Rosenberg said heroin is getting cheaper and is being smuggled into the country at a faster rate than before, leading to an increase in the number of users. “Supply goes up; the price tends to go down,” he said. This would give more people in the community access to heroin. After someone is addicted to hero-
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WHAT IS YOUR Ideal WAY TO CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP DAY? “Drinking coffee and eating Chinese food.” Dylan Moeder Junior, English