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The BG News April 23, 2008 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-23-2008 The BG News April 23, 2008 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 April 23, 2008" (2008). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7923. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7923 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. ESTABLISHED 1920 A daily independent student press serving THE BG NEWS the campus and surrounding community Wednesday April 23,2008 Volume 101. Issue 145 WWWBGNEWS.COM S Campus groups # IT MATTER offer stress-free zone in Union Students overwhelmed with the pressures of finals can sign up this week for a massage or another one of the IF YOU'RE MM IOHMAN activities that are THE SPIRIT OF NEW ORLEANS: A pn quartet brings New Orleans to Bowling Green during a benefit for Hurricane Katrina. part of a program co- sponsoted by Bacchus Gamma and UAO. Arts Enterprise brings This is the first year the groups have shared the BLACK event | Page 3 or New Orleans to forefront Children from By Kri-.lrn Vasas Forgotten," was created in an Chelsea Schumann said. Seven Reporter effort to benefit the school sys- members from the University FLDS sect taken tems of New Orleans. of Michigan will also be going into state care The image of crashing waves "Fundraising our organiza- on the trip. and distraught families filled tion's trip to New Orleans in "We will be working with a Officials made the the minds of students present two weeks is one of the goals program called New Orleans decision to put more at last night's New Orleans of the event," AE member Outreach and completing than 400 children in benefit sponsored by the new Sarah Griffith said, "but we research in order to reach the foster homes after it campus organization Arts also want to increase aware- end product,' Schumann said. Enterprise. ness about the recovery of "We will be combining people was determined that As the destruction and the city because people have from educational and business they were in imminent devastation brought about become so apathetic." aspects to help form a plan to danger of sexual abuse. by Hurricane Katrina filled a The six members from BGSU fix the schools and the econ- movie screen behind a raised that make up the 15 students omy to further the restoration Investigators are now stage, a jazz band played har- involved in Arts Enterprise for programs in New Orleans." trying to untangle the monious tunes for the nearly New Orleans will be traveling In an effort to remind the complicated family ties 20 students in attendance at to Louisiana on May 1 in order audience of the damage still the event. to research the educational that intertwine the sect The event. "Remembering programs implemented in New See KATRINA | Page 2 | Pag*10 What Should Have Never Been Orleans schools, AE member Falcons crush Albion 21-1 DiCaprio film raises No major BG got an early start, earning 10 runs in the crime trends, first three innings, to environmental issues wipe out the Britons By Hannah Sparling 11th Hour" because that is police say yesterday | Page 11 Students on campus Reporter where the earth is right now. ltsmessageisthattimeisrun- By Ryan Sullivan The voice of Leonardo ning out. The day is almost Reporter challenge race stereotypes DiCaprio rang throughout over, and if society does not the Union theater last night change the way it lives, it will Crime in any University com- Raportad by Andrea Sllvka and Lisa Halvarstadt during a showing of the film eventually cease to exist. munity is always a concern, and Written by Candle* Jonas "The 11th Hour." Speakers in the film said Bowling Green is no different. Last year, leanova Hill invited her floormates to go with her The screening, which the earth has a delicate bal- With the advances in tech- to a hip-hop aerobic dance class sponsored by Alpha Kappa was followed by a panel ance which allows humans nology and the speed at which Alpha, a historically black sorority. disccussion, was organized toliveinitsenvironment.and news travels, there is a question She convinced two white residents to attend once. by Senior Moe Mourad societyiscurrentlydisrupting sometimes about a perceived "They didn't want to go back because there were a whole and the Environmental that balance. Unfortunately, increase in crime. bunch of black people,'' said Hill, who is now treasurer of the Action Group. they said, if the balance is But University officials don't Black Student Union. DiCaprio directed and nar- disrupted much more, it believe there are any serious She found that if she invited her floormates to any event that rated the film, which outlines is the human race, not the increases. was "stereotypedasablackthing/'whitestudents would never the complications between earth, that will lose out. "It's very seldom that we see a There's no need go with her, even though they would go to the rec or the dining human society and nature "The environment is going major change," University Police for this instant hall with her if she asked. and forecasts a dismal future to survive. As we destroy Chief lames Wiegand said. "If "What really got to me was the fact that you're not comfort- for humanity if change does you go back the last four or gratification able doing something, so you're going to dodge it at all costs." not occur. See FILM | Page 2 five years, there are no major People in modern she said of her floormates. The film was called "The trends. The only thing you see Facing stereotypes. Confronting assumptions. Attending an increase in is burglaries." society have become the University as a minority, Hill, a sophomore, has seen it all The reason there is such an preoccupied with first hand. increase in burglaries is because portable entertainment She said white stu- campus police have started to dents would go to BSU look at thefts from rooms as bur- like iPods and PSPs. glaries, not thefts, he said. or multicultural events RACE ON CAMPUS says columnist Levi for credit, but if there "A theft is when you invite DAY ONE OF THREE Wonder. Whatever were no incentive, they people or a group of people wouldn't go. lniii a n and something happened to just Three part series of race issues "I understand that comes up missing," Wiegand and an opening to a discussion enjoying each moment you want to be com- said. "A burglary is when some- as it is71 Page 4 fortable, that you don't of diversity at the University body comes in, by trespass by want to feel awkward force or with stealth, and takes — nobody does — but ONE Minority opinions something." at the same time, when about BGSU The small nature of most Is there enough racial is there a more perfect TWO Racial tone high-end electronics like iPods, tolerance on campus? time to meet new peo- on campus digital cameras and notebook I ple and experience new CAROLYN KASTER tf »H0I0 computers makes them prime THREE Cultural Diversity things? "she said. CLINTON 2008: Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton stands next to targets to be taken because As Americans discuss course requirement husband Bill Ointon and Pa. Gov. Ed Rendell as she celebrates her Pa primary win. they are easy to conceal, the race in the context of chief said. presidential candidate Wiegand did caution that just li.ii.uk Obama's candidacy and the Democrat's speech on Clinton continues her race because an item is large does racial issues on March 18, our Bowling Green campus is a not mean it is safe. He said most ARIEL MASON- microcosm of issues being played out across the nation. people who steal things already WILLIAMS. Senior. Although views on the topic vary based on the source, sur- as she wins Pa. primary have the intent to take some- Vocal Performance veys show that racial boundaries exist. thing anyway. Only 49 percent of University freshmen who took the 2007 By Nadra Pkkl.r the campaign comes to the Due to federal law. it is now The Associated Press "I think there's tolerance, National Survey of Student Engagement — an annual survey end of the primary season. required that universities send but I don't think there's of 400 colleges and universities on issues of student involve- "He's content to essentially yearly crime statistics to the FBI ment — described having "serious conversations" with a WASHINGTON — Hillary run out the clock with his as well as post them somewhere enough diversity." person of a different race or ethnicity than their own. The Rodham Clinton survived yet narrow lead, while she needs on their Web site where the pub- | Page 4 percentage for seniors was also 49 percent. another day. something dramatic to hap- lic can find it. i This separation is obvious to lames lackson, a multicultural There will be little time for pen," Newman said. "A one- Students also like to feel safe adviser and coordinator of diversity education programs in celebration, though. Time run advantage in the first when they go off campus. the Center for Multicultural and Academic Initiatives.
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