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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-6-2018 The BG News December 06, 2018 Bowing Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation State University, Bowing Green, "The BG News December 06, 2018" (2018). BG News (Student Newspaper). 9075. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/9075 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. bg LOOKING news An independent student press serving AHEAD the campus and surrounding community, ESTABLISHED 1920 President talks stategic plan, Bowling Green State University Thursday, December 6, 2018 the University mission Volume 98, Issue 30 PAGE 2 Hockey family leaves legacy PAGE 9 Meet owner of “a campus icon” PAGE 10 Tech expert shares tips PAGE 12 PHOTO BY WILL ARNDT Visit us on our Website for our MECCA 2019-2020 FULL LISTING! MANAGEMENT, INC. RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL meccabg.com 1045 N. Main St. Bowling Green, OH 43402 . 419.353.5800 BE SMART. STUDENT LEGAL SERVICES BE RESPONSIBLE. BE COVERED. REAL LAWYERS | REAL RESULTS just $9/semester [email protected] | 419-372-2951 www.bgsu.edu/sls BGNEWS December 6, 2018 | PAGE 2 President plans for future of the University Stepha Poulin PHOTO BY WILL ARNDT He also noted two club sports, men’s rugby that higher education has ever seen,” Rogers Editor-in-Chief and women’s bowling, which recently won said. “I fear higher education has lost the trust national championships. of a large percentage of the public.” President Rodney Rogers gave his first State of Rogers’ strategic plan stems from Citing the increasing cost of college and the University Address on Wednesday. Unlike projections that the University’s long- student debt, he said the public doesn’t “see past addresses, Rogers focused on the future of standing, top demographic is declining across the impact of our (the University’s) research. the University rather than its current state. the state and the Midwest. They wonder if college is even worth it.” “That is what a 21st-century university does,” According to a report from Ruffalo Noel Yet Rogers said the University can “achieve Rogers said more than five times, emphasizing Levitz, “Nationally, the total number of high new and higher levels of success” by the University’s updated strategic plan. school seniors is expected to increase by 3.0 embracing challenges and implementing its But Rogers still highlighted current success percent in five years and by 7.9 percent in 10 updated strategic plan. at the University, noting its ranking from years.” However, this expectation changes when “Now more than ever, we must not be Business Insider as Ohio’s No. 1 university applied to the state level. The number of 18-to- timid,” he said. for quality and affordability and other 24-year-old high school graduates is projected achievements such as the Lake Erie Center to decline in several states including Ohio. Read the rest online @ bgfalconmedia.com. for Freshwater Research. Rogers emphasizes the pursuit of the public good. “Today, we live in the most challenging time HOLIDAY SHOPPING FOR EVERY FALCON FAN MONDAY $5 | ANY SANDWICH TUESDAY $3 | 3 PIECE CHICKEN STRIPS WEDNESDAY WE NOW CARRY 50¢ | WINGS (MINIMUM 5) THURSDAY BG BOBCAT GEAR! $7 | BONELESS WINGS (LARGE) FRIDAY 20% | OFF EVERYTHING W/BGSU ID (EXCLUDING ALCOHOL) 2-7 P.M. | Pick-Up or Dine-In Only ELITE No maximum SELECTION limit on specials 1616 E. WOOSTER ST. SUITE 17 206 North Main Street, Across from Doyt Perry Stadium ELITE EXPERIENCE Downtown Bowling Green 419-352-7768 419-962-6000 WWW.MISTERSPOTS.COMExcludes other specials or off ers. WWW.ELITECA.COM Expires 3/15/2019. WWW.MISTERSPOTS.COM /MRSPOTS /MRSPOTSBG FORUM DECEMBER 6, 2018 | PAGE 3 PEOPLEON 6 ways to fill your time over J-term THESTREET Meredith Siegel What is your favorite place to Forum Editor study on campus? This winter break, we have way more time than usual between semesters. Most people will fill that time with work, some will take classes and some both. But, we should try to fill that extra time with something different than what we do during the semester. Use your time wisely, and do some things you actually “When I like to study I like go to want to do. Here are a few suggestions: the second floor of the union or up to the 1. Challenge yourself 3. Travel to a new, 5. Binge watch your fourth floor of to learn a skill. exciting location. University Hall.” favorite shows. HARRISON FISCHER Is there something you’ve always Winter break is also a time you While it’s important to use your time Senior | VCT wanted to learn but never actually can travel and expand your wisely, sometimes using your time took the initiative to do it? Now horizons. You don’t have to fly wisely includes watching something you can! Try to learn to play a new to Europe, but that would be for a few hours. I love getting into a “My favorite instrument, learn to sew, learn to very cool, you can just take a day new show and it’s definitely worth it place to study cook, whatever! Maybe this even trip to Ann Arbor, Columbus or to relax for a while. Ask your friends on campus is means learning how to do your Cincinnati. Make time to get away for recommendations so you can seventh floor own laundry. Whatever it is, enrich from home and see something watch them together or discuss Jerome.” yourself with a new skill. cool somewhere else. while you watch. KAMERON HAMILTON 2. Cross an item off 4. Volunteer for a 6. Sleep as much as Senior | Construction Management your bucket list. worthy cause. you want. Like learning a new skill, doing We have, like, a lot of time over the I know this is what everyone is “My favorite something you’ve always wanted break. I’m sure there are places you looking forward to doing over the place to study on to do in general can be daunting, could volunteer for the several weeks break. But don’t feel like you have campus is just because we’re so busy all the we have off. Try out your local dog to do so much stuff that you’re my dorm.” time. But I think you should take shelter, food banks or something not sleeping as much as you some of winter break to cross some closer to what you’re interested in. want. As busy people, we usually items off your list, whether they be It’s the season of giving, so give your don’t get to sleep in as much as something wild like skydiving or time to an organization that’s doing we want to. Take a few days and simple like cooking something new. good in the world. I promise this is really sleep in this break. LAUREN CALLEN much more fulfilling than the retail Freshman | Undecided job you have. “When I’m on campus I really like to study in the Correction: In Monday’s paper on page 12, an article titled “Students split on Tobacco Free Founder’s lounge.” Initiative” had an incorrect byline. The correct reporter is April Leygraaf. ROCKY MARTINEZ Sophomore | PPEL 101 Kuhlin Center Bowling Green State University STEPHA POULIN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MIKE STRAM, PRODUCTION MANAGER XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXBowling XXXX Green, XXXXX Ohio 43403 PAUL GARBARINO, MANAGING EDITOR EVAN HAYES, PULSE EDITOR Phone: (419) 389-2108 ABBY SHIFLEY, CAMPUS EDITOR MEREDITH SIEGEL, FORUM EDITOR XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXEmail: [email protected] XXXX XX Website: bgfalconmedia.com ADAM GRETSINGER, CITY EDITOR KEVIN MENSAH, PHOTO EDITOR XXXXX XXX XXXXXXXAdvertising: XXX 101PAGE Kuhlin XXCenter JACOB CLARY, SPORTS EDITOR BRIONNA SCEBBI, COPY CHIEF bgnews Phone: (419) 372-2606 FORUM DECEMBER 6, 2018 | PAGE 4 SUBMIT TO Activism is important especially today FORUM Kyle Thompson This large-scale struggle within America is are not involved or engaged; quite the Guest Columnist not new. As long as colonialism has reigned, opposite is true. However, I do see a missing LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: there has been a constant struggle of values mobilization of values of moral importance Letters should be fewer than 300 words Activism. It is that complex word that vs. belief, logic vs. reason, free speech vs. rather than an effort to protest the yearly and can be in response to current issues exists within the mouths of many folks of censorship and suppression. bigoted Bible thumpers on campus. When today. It manifests itself in the present day It is our duty as young adults within an the dust settles, so do the mobilized bodies. on campus or in the Bowling Green area. conversations of resistance as well as the wave institution of higher learning to challenge No longer are the streets and walkways of unified resistance that has existed amongst ourselves both in and out of the classroom. crowded with the bodies of young minds COMICS: Comics can be three to the tyranny of the Trump administration. We must be willing to engage in conversations irate over Kavanaugh or frustrated with the six panels, and the artist has creative I write this op-ed in solidarity with the leading to action that raises awareness, shifts latest Black body that fell at the hands freedom on what the comic is about.