The BG News December 7, 2012

Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-7-2012 The BG News December 7, 2012 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News December 7, 2012" (2012). BG News (Student Newspaper). 8584. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/8584 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article 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. GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL The 90s game Pokemon is mak- ing a comeback with students. Check out the Pulse to read how THE BG NEWSC these fans are still catching them ESTABLISHED 1920 | An independent student press serving the campus and surrounding community \. S all. | PAGE 3 VOLUME 92. ISSUE 47 Friday, December 7, 2012 WWW.BGNEWS.COM Outside grants key for research a fix with a kick By Erk U|att. Michael Some students struggle with caffeine addiction, attempt to reduce daily intake Reporter Ogawa Vice President, ByGMffBume When Ron Scherer, professor in the Reporter , communication sciences and disor- Research and ders department, is not teaching, he Economic Development If freshman Kelly Kerstetter doesn't have her daily two cups of coffee, she starts to get headaches. is likely conducting research. "I tried to reduce my caffeine intake over Thanksgiving break and I feel like the first couple of days it was Scherer's current research 1because it goes beyond reading a really difficult and I started getting headaches," Kerstetter said. involves using computers to simu- textbook into actually experienc- Caffeine acts as a stimulant drug and can make a person more alert and energized, but consumed in heavy late human speech. ing the subject firsthand, which amounts over time can lead to withdrawal symptoms such as headache, fatigue, drowsiness, flu-like symptoms, "If you can match how a human leads to a deeper understanding, irritability and depression, Faith Yingling, director of wellness said. produces sounds, you can help pre- said Michael Ogawa, vice presi- "It's so easy to forget that caffeine is a drug," Yingling said. "Some people are caffeine sensitive and some dict outcomes of behavioral inter- dent for research and economic people don't have a problem with it." vention when you have to change development. Yingling said college students typically consume most of their caffeine from coffee, energy drinks and from how a person speaks," he said. Ogawa and his office are in soda — and as a result, sleep deprivation occurs. His findings could be applied to charge of much of the coordina- "If people have caffeine within six hours of going to sleep, it can affect them," Yingling said. "It increases your any field where someone may want tion and planning to reach the $30 awareness and it makes you energized. It's the most commonly used mood-altering drug in the world." to understand how the voice works. million goal. Kerstetter said she feels dependent on coffee and has a routine of drinks she consumes in a day, such as Scherer could not do this "The two missions of a univer- drinking coffee after her morning classes, a soda with dinner and a second coffee later in the day. research, however, without external sity are to teach students and also funding from the National Institute to create knowledge... what we call See CAFFEINE | Page 10 of Health. research," Ogawa said. "When pro- Some professors on campus, fessors are engaged in the creation like Scherer, require external fund- of knowledge, it makes them better ing — meaning funding from orga- teachers." nizations outside the University, Scherer said his research has which professors apply for through indeed influenced the way he teach- grants — for their research. This es his classes. The courses he teach- SYMPTOMS is why University President Mary es always include aspects of his past Ellen Mazey, along with a cabinet and present research, he said. OF CAFFEINE of administrators, decided to set the "My research always is on my goal of almost doubling external mind when I am teaching my cours- funding for research to $30 million es," he said. CONSUMPTION every year at a strategic planning Scherer emphasized the impor- session this past summer. tance of research to any university in Mazey emphasized the intrinsic advancing knowledge. When consumed in heavy quality of research at a university as "It's important for the general the main reason for this goal. vitality of the research world," he amounts over time, caffeine can "Certainly universities are looked said. "A university is a place where on today as not only a place to edu- research ideas Sourish." cate students, but a place to discover cause the following symptoms: knowledge," Mazey said. See RESEARCH | Page 10 Research defines a university -headache ter ending, make sure you take advantage of everything being offered to you. The Learning Commons on the first floor of the Jerome fatigue Library offers students the chance to work with other students and tutors. XAM TIPS This Sunday from 12 pm to 10 pm. the ^drowsiness Take advantage of Learning Commons is offering an SOS event, aka "Study on Sunday." The Learning Commons everything being offered will offer students the chance to get math -flu-like symptoms Witfi this week being the last week of dasses and statistics help, tutoring based on afferent for the semester, The BG News is offering up subjects, writing help and ways to unwind Take a daily exam tip for students to get prepared advantage of this opportunity and other ones irritability before their first big final This issue's tip is to to make sure you're studying the right ways take advantage of office hours. and releasing the stress that comes with every With the last week of dasses and the semes- semester's end. -depression Paranormal activity served up above SamB's Some employees believe third floor of restaurant is haunted ByT.r.K.ll.r Although Daum has never seen a Pulse Editor ghost hersetf she did have an experi- ence she thinks may have been para- Sandy Daum has worked at SamB's normal Restaurant for more than 20 years and One night Daum was standing in when she works late nights alone, she the kitchen alone and all of a sudden, sometimes catches herself looking over all the pans fell down. her shoulder. I still don't know what it was, but I'd The third floor of the restaurant is love to debunk it myself," she said rumored to be haunted and Daum Daum wasn't the only person believes the rumors. interested in debunking the SamB's KATIE LOGSOON I THE BG NEWS "It's rumored there was a murder haunting. STUDENTS CIERRA HENDERSON and G Walton light the candle for U|amaa, which means cooperative economics in the seven principles of on the third floor," Daum, a manager The paranormal research team. Kwanzaa. at the 16th Annual Kwanzaa dinner Thursday. The dinner was hosted by the Black Student Union. at SamB's, said. "IVe heard people Toledo Haunted Occurrences who've said they've seen ghosts and I Research went to the restaurant in National Anthem, dances, a poem, the Greek part of the evening. believe them." 2009 to investigate the claims. CAMPUS Unity Step, a song, the seven Principles of The Greek Unity Step is where different The alleged paranormal activity has Director Bryan Sayre said he and his BRIEF Kwanzaa, the lighting of the candles and the Greek organizations come together to step even caused past employees to quit team set up cameras and sound equip- calling out of ancestors. together, which they only do that here at Students celebrate One employee was vacuuming late ment in the restaurant once it got dark. Senior Tiffany Smith, president of the Kwanzaa," Smith said. one night, when he looked up and saw "After a naif-hour, we could hear Kwanzaa Black Student Union, coordinated and Before coming to the University, Smith had the ghost of an old woman. something moving," Sayre said "Wfe planned the event. Students and faculty gathered to cele- never celebrated the holiday. "He ran out and didn't come back," heard plain as day something being brate Kwanzaa at the 16th Annual Kwanzaa "We had the dinner to celebrate the only 1 didn't know about Kwanzaa until I started she said. "lie always felt like he was drug across the floor." Dinner, hosted by the Black Student Union recognized holiday that recognizes African college." she said. "My family still celebrates being watched" The teams sound equipment also American/African culture.' Smith said, "h has in the Union Ballroom Thursday night Thanksgiving and Christmas, but with my family The sensation of being watched is a The event included dinner and perfor- become a tradition for us to have it every year" when I become an adult I would like to celebrate common occurrence at the restaurant See SAMB'S | Page 2 mances, such as the singing of the Black The dinner wasn't the only traditional it with my family." Daum said. ALASKA BOUND ADVENTURES IN ENGLAND IF YOU WERE A GHOST. WHERE IN BOWLING I GREEN WOULD YOU HAUNT? The Falcons will make their farthest trip Guest columnist Hannah Bealer recalls her of the season as they travel across the experiences while studying abroad in Europe "The bathrooms of Uptown, ltd be hilarious to scare drunk people." country to Fairbanks, AK.

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