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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. bg news An independent student press serving the campus and surrounding community, ESTABLISHED 1920 Bowling Green State University Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Volume 99, Issue 21 BACKBACK ININ BGBG How businesses prepared for winter session | Page 2 PHOTO BY IAN CAMPBELL BE SMART. STUDENT LEGAL SERVICES BE SAFE. BE COVERED. REAL LAWYERS | REAL RESULTS just $9/semester [email protected] | 419-372-2951 www.bgsu.edu/sls BG NEWS January 29, 2020 | PAGE 2 Winter session affects businesses Donovan Mann Green until the start of the spring semester. from 12% drop in sales (compared to the Reporter With BGSU’s extended winter break, local past),” he said. coffee shops, restaurants and stores prepared Dible explained when students were away The 2019-2020 school year marks the second for the potential drop in business. in past years, the average drop in sales was year for winter session and a six-week break, John Miniear, owner of local video game around 22%. Community engagement has and while students spent time to study store Rock’em Sock’em Retro, said it was been the key to raising sales during breaks, abroad, take classes, head home to work or easier to prepare for students being gone and Dibble said he was expecting about a 10- spend time with family, the local businesses in for a few weeks in previous years but six is a 12% drop in sales during the winter session. downtown Bowling Green were left behind. bigger challenge. Other coffee shops in Bowling Green All BGSU students had a three-week PHOTO BY GARRET VAN DYKE expected a decrease in staff rather than a drop winter break following the conclusion of the in sales. Co-owner of Grounds for Thought, fall semester and classes during the winter Kelly Wicks, said the coffee shop’s winter session, which began Jan. 2. challenges have more to do with staffing, as Fifty-nine online courses, 42 face-to-face employees request time off or head home for courses and 12 study abroad classes were the holidays. offered with 1,409 students enrolled this year as reported by BG Independent News. Some PHOTO BY NICK BIERE students returned for face-to-face courses ENJOY while a large portion of the student body “Still get your regulars or students who remained away from campus and Bowling come back (early) but still hurts when your primary business is gone for six weeks,” YOUR STAY Miniear said. 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Brian Geyer which is how I am seeing my New Year’s what I’m grateful for — daily for a week and “Hanging with Social Media Editor resolutions this year. carrying that goal onto the next week. By the my mom and For the past few years, I have begun end of the year, I hope to have added nearly 52 sister.” As the first month of 2020 comes to a close to intentionally develop a more positive habits, for each week of the year. and 2019 goes further into the past, I still am outlook on life. I did this in small ways such Most of all though, I want to be better about reminded of all the memories I made in 2019. as changing my lock screen on my phone to forgiving myself this next year. I am sure to I consider myself a self-reflective person, so something motivational each week. By doing mess up with this resolution, but I’m hoping looking back at my past year is something I this, I started to rewire my brain into thinking my weekly check-ins will help me in achieving love to do. I am reminded of all the happy, sad CALI MCQUEEN each day and each week is a new opportunity my goals and staying positive. and frustrating moments and how I made it Sophomore | Film Production for happiness. This is not to say I was never through all of them — I find comfort in that. sad, but it taught me to recognize the power in new days and new opportunities. “I worked.” “I see each year as a If you were to ask me previous years what my New Year’s resolution was, I’d probably say year of growth and I wanted to read a book a week or commit to a progress, which is how regular running schedule — all of which I have failed to do. I’m seeing my New Year’s This year, however, I plan to not focus on an annual resolution but rather a weekly or GRAPHIC BY AUBREY KREMER FELICIA TAYLOR resolutions this year.” even daily resolution. Sophomore | Digital Art My goal is to pick up a habit each week — Brian Geyer — Twitter: @brian_geyer to increase the self-care in my life. My goals Email: [email protected] Social Media Editor include making my bed, flossing or writing “I played video As always, a new year brings with it new games.” New Year’s resolutions. Twitter and Facebook seem to automatically populate themselves with posts about leaving toxicity and bad memories behind in 2019. People like to comment on how 2020 will be the year where they will lose weight or be more positive. ELIZABETH SWARTZ Although these posts are meant to be Freshman | VCT hopeful and optimistic for the new year, I find them to be annoying and cynical about the previous year. This is not to say that the “Skiing in New previous year could have had bad moments — York.” it definitely could have. However, I think to label a whole year as bad or good is too simple, especially when we often only have the power to control our attitudes and not the situations we face. I see each year as a year of growth and progress, PHOTO BY BRIONNA SCEBBI AMANDA KUKUNIS Freshman | Graphic Design 101 Kuhlin Center BRIONNA SCEBBI, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MARY ROSS, FORUM EDITOR Bowling Green State University ABBY SHIFLEY, MANAGING EDITOR REGHAN WINKLER, PHOTO EDITOR Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 ROSILAND FLETCHER, COPY CHIEF VAUGHN COCKAYNE, WEB EDITOR Email: [email protected] HUNTER HUFFMAN, CAMPUS EDITOR BRIAN GEYER, SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Website: bgfalconmedia.com Advertising: 101 Kuhlin Center SHAELEE HAAF, CITY EDITOR ANDREA KREMER, PRODUCTION MANAGER Phone: (419) 372-2606 MAX MARCO, FALCON MEDIA SPORTS DIRECTOR AUBREY KREMER, PRODUCTION MANAGER bgnews ANDREW BAILEY, PULSE EDITOR ASHLEY SNIPES, PRODUCTION MANAGER FORUM January 29, 2020 | PAGE 5 SUBMIT TO We need the Electoral College FORUM Nicholas Bowers to allow for a popular vote. Columnist “The electoral college The adoption of a national popular vote LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: would empower a small, heavily concentrated Letters should be fewer than 300 words In 2016 President Donald Trump beat Hillary gives a proportional area of the country but disenfranchise huge Clinton with 304 electoral delegates to her voice to all people in the swaths of the country in the process. and can be in response to current issues 227, despite the fact he received about 63 Relating back to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s on campus or in the Bowling Green area. million votes compared to her approximate 66 United States.” argument regarding slavery and racial million. This discrepancy has led to demands inequality being founding components of the COMICS: for electoral reform in this country, mostly — Nicholas Bowers — electoral college, it is simply untrue.