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STUDENT SHOT bg Accidental gun discharge leaves student news in hospital | PAGE 8 An independent student press serving the campus and surrounding community, ESTABLISHED 1920 Bowling Green State University Thursday, April 25, 2019 Volume 98, Issue 52 Preaching climate change action PAGE 11 CCP programs leads to younger students PAGE 5 PHOTO BY ABBY SHIFLEY CLOSE TO CAMPUS! Greenbriar Best Selection of Inc. Houses & Apartments 445 E Wooster St. | 419-352-0717 | www.greenbriarrentals.com 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 BG NEWS April 25, 2019 | PAGE 2 Stores shift from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce models “How people shop is changing,” Su Yun Bae, Consumers, however, are not ready just yet weekly basis depending on what has become Jess Wagner professor of retail merchandising, said. “It’s to abandon physical stores. more or less popular online. Reporter more convenient to shop online because of “We can’t ignore brick and mortar stores,” Bae said in order to be successful, the variability and the range of products. They Bae said. “(People) want to see what (the companies need to invest in “omniscient Elder-Beerman. JCPenney. Sears. Macy’s. Most have the size, price and color you want.” product) looks like, they want to feel and retailing,” or the approach of multiple people have witnessed first-hand the closing Kate Proctor, a BGSU junior, shops online touch it and experience the product and merchandising mediums. of at least one of these stores. These major because of the convenience. store environment.” In other words, Bae said companies businesses, among others, are facing the “I like not having to drive all the way to the In an attempt to appeal to all customers, should have multiple channels, such as reality of today’s shopping climate — the shift mall,” she said. “From my house, it’s a good 25 companies are experimenting with a hybrid. mobile, e-commerce and traditional stores, toward e-commerce. minutes to the nearest one, so it’s just easier to Amazon opened a New York storefront “seamlessly integrated so that customers feel Because of the steady rise in the do everything online.” in September last year that sells its most like it is one store.” percentage of retail sales attributed to Proctor is not alone. Of those polled by popular items. e-commerce, Credit Suisse, an international eMarketer in 2018, 43% cited convenience According to an article by CNBC, Cameron bank, predicts that 20%-25% of all U.S. malls as their primary reason for shopping online James, the vice president of Amazon’s physical Read the rest online @ bgfalconmedia.com. will close by 2022. instead of physically going to the store. retail team, the store rotates its inventory on a RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL MECCA SUMMER @ SINCLAIR MANAGEMENT, INC. 1045 N. Main St. Bowling Green [email protected] www.meccabg.com GET AHEAD. • TAKE YOUR GEN ED CLASSES IN THE SUMMER! 419.353.5800 Make the most of your summer: take classes at Sinclair Community College. Check out available courses SECURE YOUR APARTMENT BEFORE and ask your advisor how Sinclair courses can transfer back GOING HOME FOR THE SUMMER to Bowling Green State University. Take 12-week, 8-week or Flex classes at one of our convenient locations or online. 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A kid “It seems like I usually don’t speak out about racism. the way it will always be.” I went to the teacher told me, while sitting in class, “You should some kind of For several reasons, I never want to offend telling on her, and my mom called the school. shut up because you’re lucky you even have sidewalk but not someone and I never want to seem like a They said, “Ms. Tusing, the teacher did not rights and that you shouldn’t even have them.” a well-placed victim. But experiences help people; maybe hear that statement therefore we cannot take I went directly to the principal who looked one.” that person is yourself or maybe it is someone your daughters word as an accurate account.” at me and said, “Well it is unfortunate, but else. I transferred schools a year later because the what would you like me to do?” I was baffled. I grew up in a suburban area that lacked bullying started affecting my ability to learn; The principal made my teacher aware of the diversity in race, religion and culture. Every those girls went without punishment. I was situation. He was more outraged than our GABRIELLA AMISANO school break we traveled, and it was in these five. principal, and when he spoke to me after Sophomore | Exercise Science fleeting moments I never felt out of place. class it was the first time I thought one of my I got to experience different cultures while Eighth grade teachers was on my side. When the student growing up but nothing compared to coming I was now a straight-A student who was in was moved to the other side of the class, “Maybe a nice to college. advanced classes and a couple organizations isolated from the rest of us, he was upset, garden. We Looking back, I think it was because when I through the school. But my apartment which resulted to him calling me the n-word don’t have that shared stories people questioned the actions complex had students with behavioral issues, in the hallway. I reported it to the principal many flowers. chosen. They questioned the integrity, asked causing our bus to be known as the “bad again, so sure that this time it would be taken It should be a me how I felt. I never did that; I never asked students bus.” I missed the morning bus to go serious. The principal looked at me and said, green space.” but always accepted. There is true power in to the dentist, which was always great because “I don’t know what you expect here, Kylie. the other kids’ behavior was truly awful. Later Because see, all you black folk say that word education. SYDNEY GREEN The school district I attended had a in the day, I came back during lunch, and I to each other, so how is it wrong if he says it to Senior | Human Development and Family Studies talent for making issues like bullying and found out an incident happened on the bus you?” The student continued calling me the harassment as a result of racism problems that morning. Each student was going to n-word every day. that should be swept under the rug. They were be called into the office, although mine and Administrators were supposed to protect “I think it’s going made to seem meaningless, like the kids who other black students’ names were at the top me from an unsafe school environment; yet, to be a statuette got faced with oppression somehow asked of the list. The administration asked me why they contributed to it. Racism is not dead, it is of Rodney for it. There are several experiences I had that I was choosing to misbehave this morning alive and can be found in the hands of people Rodgers.” were rooted in racism but instead of writing by throwing food and jumping over seats. who hold power. I think for all the encounters, them all, I wrote my most memorable three. I responded that I was not on the bus that I should have stood up for myself, and I cringe morning, and if they looked they could see my out of regret. Kindergarten excused absence. They responded, “Lying isn’t How many kids have to go through exactly I was terrified of going to school, crying and appropriate, Ms. Tusing.” My mother taught what I did because I refused to stand up and RACHAEL WARNER kicking to my mom each day getting on the me that year to not say another word to the say it was wrong? We have come to a moment Senior | Human Development and Family Studies bus and getting off of it.