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Friday, September 12, 2014
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 10
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Collaborative efforts push packages to Union
BRIEF
Health inspectors find 11 critical violations at football game
The company in charge of the concessions for the athletic events is called Sodexo. Sodexo is not affiliated with the dining halls throughout the University campus. The University will look to improve on those violations and work with the Wood County Health Department to serve high quality food Kielmeyer said. “High quality food service is an important part of the excellent fan experience BGSU is committed to providing to those who come to our games. Fans can be confident that BGSU will hold its food service vendors to the highest standards,” Kielmeyer said. “We very much appreciate the Wood County Health Department bringing this to our attention.”
Health inspectors found 11 critical violations at the concession stands at Doyt L. Perry Stadium in last weeks football game. “Bowling Green State University is aware of the citations the Wood County Health Department issued for food services provided by Sodexo, the food service vendor for BGSU Athletics,” University spokesman Dave Kielmeyer said in an email. Inspectors checked nine stands and found 11 critical violations total. One stand did have zero critical violations, that was stand number five.
Residence Life and Campus Postal Services change to meet staff, distribution needs By Cassie Sullivan Assistant Managing Editor
One of the changes in residence halls this semester is the place students have to pick up their packages. Rather than the front desks of residence halls, students now have to pick up their packages at the front desk of the Union. Part of a collaborative effort between the Office of Residence Life and Campus Postal Services, the
change is to meet staffing and distribution needs within residence halls. “The efficiencies of staffing needs and labor made the determination that moving to a centralized package pick up would make distribution easier for students to get their packages more quickly,” said Sarah Waters, the Director of Residence Life. “We also will be better able to track packages when they get to campus.” Becca Simpson, a sophomore,
thinks the move is really inconvenient for the students and doesn’t like it. “I think it might make things easier for [the Union] to keep the packages organized and in the same area, but I live in Kreischer,” Simpson said. “Having to go to the Union to pick up a package is not very convenient for me. Instead of going downstairs to pick it up, I have to find time to go to
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Two campuses, one school University architecture appears to be problematic, differentiates from other universities
By Brandon Shrider Assistant Sports Editor
As an academic institution, the University has quite the focus on campus athletics. As you enter Bowling Green from Interstate-75, you are immediately introduced to sports. Whether it be Doyt Perry
Stadium, the new Stroh Center, or the Anderson Ice Arena, sports are at the forefront of BGSU. “When I came here last year, as I pulled off I-75, I could see the stadium lights,” BGSU Athletic Director Chris Kingston said. “I instantly thought about the fabulous landmarks that BG had to offer. I knew I arrived at a great school.”
The nature of the football stadium is one that many students and fans identify with. The Doyt features a unique style of architecture being combined with the Sebo Center, thus, becoming an eyecatching piece of Architecture that Bowling Green identifies with. “It’s the first thing that you see,” senior Architecture and
Environmental Design student Sadie Webb said. “When you first drive into campus you see the Stroh and the Doyt and it gets you really excited to interact with that as a student.” While the appreciation for the cutting-edge athletic complexes is well-noted, the abnormally strong emphasis that BGSU has placed
on athletics has consequentially resulted in a problematic campus. “Off of the expressway you seen an iconic stadium and I think there is a certain amount of metaphor with that,” senior lecturer of the Department of Architecture and Environmental Design Scot
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Ferguson event start new discussion series
SIGN O’ THE TIMES
University’s Ethnic Student Center, consisting of students and faculty, talk about national issues every Wednesday at 5 p.m. By Audrey Quinn Reporter
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CROWD GATHERS in the Union Oval to hear a man speak on his religious views, sparking some negative reactions from students.
BIG REMATCH
The Falcons will host a rematch against Indiana University. Last season the Hoosiers won 42-10. The game will begin at noon | PAGE 7
In part one of a discussion series put on by the University’s Ethnic Student Center, students and faculty met Wednesday, Sept. 10 to discuss the events that took place in Ferguson, Missouri this past month. Derron Borders, graduate coordinator for multicultural education in the office of Multicultural Affairs, hopes students were able to come with an open mind. “What we try to do in these discussions is promote awareness and understanding of multiple
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issues that are pretty current,” he said. Wednesday night’s discussion, led by Tobias Spears, assistant director for LGBTQA+ Programs, centered on the death of Mike Brown on Aug. 9 and the subsequent month of widespread protests and calls to action against police brutality. Discussions included the role social media had in the coverage of Mike Brown’s death, such as the Twitter hashtag, “#IfTheyGunnedMeDown,” in which black people juxtaposed pictures of themselves doing something deemed by society as
RACISM STILL ALIVE Columnist Ian discusses racism within every race and how white privilege is still apparent today. Progress is being made but more must come.| PAGE 5
good next to something that is bad, Spears said. The role of due process was also brought up, with some members of the discussion wondering why the police officer involved in the shooting is “innocent until proven guilty” but Mike Brown was not. The fact that we need to wait for justice for so long in this case is a problem, Spears said. “Quite often, it is minority bodies when we ‘wait for the facts’”, he said. The politics of respectability were also brought up, where
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