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The BG News February 18, 2019 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-18-2019 The BG News February 18, 2019 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation State University, Bowling Green, "The BG News February 18, 2019" (2019). BG News (Student Newspaper). 9082. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/9082 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 FROZEN news An independent student press serving the campus and surrounding community, ESTABLISHED 1920 Bowling Green State University Monday, February 18, 2019 Volume 98, Issue 38 IN TIME City clock breaks due to low temps PAGE 2 Will A.I. be used in classrooms? PAGE 5 Students react to viable bike routes PAGE 12 PHOTO BY KEVIN MENSAH 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 February 18, 2019 | PAGE 2 Time stands still for broken city clock tower The last time the clock stopped due to cold weather was the blizzard of 1978 runs from the top of the clock house to the PHOTO BY ABBY SHIFLEY Abby Shifley Campus Editor table way at the top,” Blausey said. “This is where all the hands are connected.” The bell and The city of Bowling Green has lost its sense of The court house maintenance workers sledgehammer, were not able to immediately work on repairs which make the time, at least for now. On Jan. 30, during sub-zero temperatures, because of freezing rain. clock tower’s iconic “We got to maintain the grounds for safety sound, are located in the city’s clock tower stopped working. purposes,” Blausey said. “Once that frees up, the clock house on The cause for the clock stopping is still we’ll be getting up there.” the third floor. After undetermined but is most likely a break in the Maintenance will likely start repairs next over 100 years of metal mechanism that runs the clock. week, but Blausey is not sure how long it will hitting the bell, the Wood County Facilities Director Steve take to fix the clock, as they have to determine sledgehammer has Blausey said the clock is most likely broken how bad the break is first. Also, the clock is left its mark. in the sleeve covering the shaft, or the mechanism that drives the hands of the clock. made of “original equipment,” so if a part is He added that in sub-zero temperatures, broken, the courthouse maintenance crew will metal tends to crack. have to remake it themselves, Blausey said. Quiet, Cozy, Convenient! “The shaft is protected by a sleeve, which Clock tower Continued on page 5 University Village & University Courts The corner of Clough and Mercer, one block from campus One & TwoOne &Bedroom Two Bedroom Apartments Apartments Generous Utility Package Included • Generous Utility Package (gas, water, sewer, trash and 77 (gas, water, sewer, and trash) channel cablevision) • Flexible Leases Flexible Leases • Furnished Available Furnished Available • Walk to Campus Walk to Campus • 24 hour emergency 24 hour maintenanceemergency maintenance n artm .u www.universityapartments.uswww.u iversityap ents s Visit our model 419-352-0164 PHOTO BY KEVIN MENSAH The Bowling Green clock tower stopped running during the sub-zero temperatures on Jan. 30 and 31. FORUM FEBRUARY 18, 2019 | PAGE 3 PEOPLEON 9 reasons to convince you to THESTREET If you were stuck on a deserted stop using your car so much island, what’s one item you would bring and why? Meredith Siegel 5. A car might be slower. 8. Cars are super expensive. Forum Editor BGSU gets busy during the days and rush Speaking of the cost of cars, maintaining your “I would bring a hour, and you have to sit in a lot of traffic car, paying insurance and buying gas all add book on how to I’ve been having a lot of car trouble lately, at stop signs and lights. You won’t get stuck up very, very quickly. None of those costs build a raft.” and it’s reminded me of how much I loved walking or riding a bike. would be an issue if you did not drive. accessible public transport. Even though Bowling Green is place where you pretty much 6. Parking on campus is a nightmare. 9. Not using cars will convince to do so. need to have a car, here are nine reasons you Everyone loves to complain about parking on When you stop using your car so much and campus: how there are not spots and all the base your life successfully around other should try to get around without one. GERRY KYNETT spots are far away. If you didn’t drive a car, modes of transport, it can encourage others Local resident 1. Cars are horrible for the environment. parking wouldn’t be an issue. to do the same. Then, there could be more According to the Environmental Protection bike lanes, regulations making biking safer 7. Downtown parking prices are going up. Agency the average car releases 404 grams and shuttles with more stops. That way, we “If I could take City council is raising parking prices from 25 of CO2 for every mile you drive. Not driving can all use better, safer and greener modes of one thing to a cents an hour to 50 cents an hour, and while would drive your carbon footprint way down. transport. deserted island, that may not seem like a lot, walking or biking it would be my is free. 2. Biking is good exercise. saxophone, Riding a bike is objectively better for you than because I love my sitting while driving a car. Getting 30 minutes saxophone, and it of exercise every day would be easy if you ride ELI BUNDERS keeps me sane.” your bike instead of drive. Freshman | American Culture Studies 3. Walking is good exercise. Like biking, walking around will be better for you than driving around. If you make exercise “If I could take part of your daily routine, it’ll be easy. anything to a deserted island, 4. The shuttles are pretty nice now. I would take a BGSU bought new shuttles this year after helicopter with a the outsourcing the seats are nice, and the full tank of gas.” shuttles are already warm inside when you walk in. They’re also free, unlike your car. MATT GEIGER Freshman | Film Studies The BGSU “If I was stuck on shuttles offer a deserted island, both on- and off- I would bring campus routes. Bear Grylls.” Schedules can be found online. PHOTO BY REGHAN WINKLER DEON KERR Senior | Marine biology 101 Kuhlin Center Bowling Green State University STEPHA POULIN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXBowling XXXX Green, XXXXX Ohio 43403 PAUL GARBARINO, MANAGING EDITOR MIKE STRAM, PRODUCTION MANAGER Phone: (419) 389-2108 BRIONNA SCEBBI, COPY CHIEF EVAN HAYES, PULSE EDITOR XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXEmail: [email protected] XXXX XX ABBY SHIFLEY, CAMPUS EDITOR MEREDITH SIEGEL, FORUM EDITOR Website: bgfalconmedia.com ADAM GRETSINGER, CITY EDITOR KEVIN MENSAH, PHOTO EDITOR XXXXX XXX XXXXXXXAdvertising: XXX 101PAGE Kuhlin XXCenter JACOB CLARY, SPORTS EDITOR VAUGHN COCKAYNE, WEB EDITOR bgnews Phone: (419) 372-2606 FORUM FEBRUARY 18, 2019 | PAGE 4 SUBMIT TO Letter to the Editor: A.J. Appleman FORUM Communist Red China is conquering America without firing a shot LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Drugs from Communist Red China that enter person born in the U.S., regardless of whether The Mexican drug cartel then trafficks heroin the U.S. over our southern border with Mexico his or her parents are American citizens, is and fentanyl into the U.S. Currently, drugs are Letters should be fewer than 300 words are killing thousands of young Americans. granted American citizenship. Currently, one killing 300 people a week in the U.S., and it’s and can be in response to current issues This sort of makes you scratch your head in out of 12 babies born in the U.S. is born to only getting worse. on campus or in the Bowling Green area. disbelief because why would drug dealers kill non-citizen parents and a large number of The drug epidemic is destroying the U.S. off their best customers. these children are Chinese. from within thanks to drugs that are as cheap COMICS: Comics can be three to More Americans died from using fentanyl Communist Red China is, so to say, turning as candy from Communist Red China and the six panels, and the artist has creative and heroin imported from China and lemons into lemonade. Red China, decades Mexican drug cartel. delivered by the Mexican drug cartels over our ago, was shooting drug dealers in the head to This makes it extremely important to freedom on what the comic is about. southern border with Mexico than the number rid their country of mind-altering drugs that complete the wall on our southern border to of Americans who died in the Vietnam War. destroyed its people. keep the U.S. safe from illegal drugs. GUEST COLUMNS: Guest columns The 14th Amendment provides the rest of Currently, Chinese drug dealers are are generally between 400-600 words the story. This amendment states that any trafficking drugs to the Mexican drug cartels. and can be submitted by Wednesdays and Sundays before 5 p.m.
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