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Views on vows How society is changing the way people look bg at marriage. | PAGE 2 news An independent student press serving the campus and surrounding community, ESTABLISHED 1920 Bowling Green State University Monday October 30, 2017 Volume 97, Issue 23 Photo By Nick Biere Millenials Free Speech, Football faces are making radicalized Kent State, headlines beliefs Tuesday PAGE 3 PAGE 5 PAGE 12 t we get it. [email protected] COLLEGE www.bgsu.edu/sls 419-372-2951 STUDENT LEGAL SERVICES HAPPENS REAL LAWYERS | REAL RESULTS BG NEWS October 30, 2017 | PAGE 2 Loss of Christian values alters marriage norms By Holly Shively Like many couples, the 22-year-olds envi- absolute certainty.” Millennials, which the wife and a good mother. Bauer and Moretto Student Director sion their marriage very traditionally with a study breaks up into older (born 1981-1989) have this image of marriage, hoping to help strong focus on their religious beliefs. and younger (born 1990-1996), believe in each other grow to be the best individual, Joey Bauer spent a long four days driving At one time, this was the norm, but as God “with absolute certainty” at much low- partner, parent and child of God each can be across the country, contemplating his re- millennials become less religious, Bauer and er rates — 54 and 50 percent, respectively. in their lifetime together. lationship. He dreaded returning from a Moretto fall into the minority. About 67 percent of those identifying with “I’ve found the person that I want to retreat in California to tell his girlfriend he According to a 2014 Pew Research Cen- the silent generation said that religion was make stronger, and just bring out the best wanted to end the relationship so he could ter study of more than 35,000 U.S. adults, the very important to them, compared to 44 and in,” Moretto said. discern the priesthood. number of millennials with strong religious 38 percent for older and younger millenni- On the other hand, Brown refers to con- That was the plan until he came face- beliefs is far smaller than the number of als, respectively. temporary marriage in the United States as to-face with his then girlfriend, now fiancé, people maturing in the 1950s, which Susan Brown said the traditional marriages of “individualized marriage,” in which partners Sophia Moretto. Brown of the National Center for Family and those from the silent generation during the focus on individual happiness. “I was like, ‘She’s beautiful, and I don’t Marriage Research calls the “Golden Age of “Golden Age” in the ‘50s were “more com- “Our understanding or expectations for want to do that. This is the girl, if I want to get the American Family.” panionate because it was about the goal. The marriage today are more self-focused,” she married,’” Bauer said. The study shows that 71 percent of measure of success was that you performed said. “So it’s about: ‘What is this relationship Bauer and Moretto, who Bauer lovingly those surveyed from the silent generation your role well.” doing for me? In what way is it fulfilling me calls “Soap,” will be married June 16, 2018. (born 1928-1945) believed in God “with That role could include being a good Continued on page 13 Clarence Page at BGSU By April Leygraaf feating values, badly-funded schools, drug Reporter addiction and learned helplessness, among other reasons. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Clarence “Your tribe determines your belief,” Page capped off his Common Reading Page said, adding that this reality is one of Scholar-In-Residence at the University this the reasons why a dispiriting culture can be week with a speech given Thursday, Oct. so detrimental to success. Page cited a sta- 26. The topic of his speech was J.D. Vance’s tistic that stated only 44 percent of working memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.” class white Americans expected their chil- Page grew up in the same town as dren to be more well-off than them. He said Vance, Middletown, Ohio, and was able to neither him nor Vance were sure of whether offer a unique insight in to what it really success is circumstantial or something that takes to attain upward mobility in the work- comes about due to natural ability. ing class. Page credited his high school news- Despite growing up at a different time paper advisor, Mary Kindle, as the woman and being a different race than Vance, Page who inspired him to turn journalism into said his life was similar to the author’s. Like his career. Vance, Page also witnessed the deteriora- “The important thing to me was that tion of industrial economies and the effects somebody had some faith in me,” Page said. that upward mobility can have on a person From high school, he went on to college at and their loved ones, which the author cov- Ohio University. After college, he enjoyed a ered in his book. prolific career in journalism, becoming a Page discussed the many reasons why member of the editorial board at the Chi- poverty is so rampant in the working class cago Tribune, winning two Pulitzer Priz- of America, including job flight, self-de- Continued on page 3 BG NEWS October 30, 2017 | PAGE 3 Continued from page 2 “This was the third time I heard him es and receiving the 2017 W.M. Kiplinger in his visit, and I’m always so impressed by Distinguished Contributions to Journalism his depth of knowledge and how he always Creating the next Award. relates something to something that’s very Page also offered advice to budding current,” journalism professor Kelly Taylor journalists. He told the audience the most said. “He has an excellent dry sense of hu- valuable lesson he learned as a starting mor that, if you listen carefully, is kind of “ME” generation journalist was to get names right, especially entertaining.” in obituaries. He also encouraged aspiring “I liked his sense of humor and how he reporters to not feel dejected by setbacks, was not afraid to talk about politics to ev- By Stepha Poulin TIME magazine columnist, Joel Stein, but rather see them as opportunities to erybody,” freshman Victoria Calabrese said about Page. Forum Editor described millennials as the “ME ME ME grow and become smarter. GENERATION” on a 2013 magazine cover. The journalist also mentioned he J.D. Vance will be visiting the University Each generation adds a new set of char- Other generations share the same values, thought so many working class individuals in November, and Page said the one ques- acteristics to our American culture. “The especially when it comes to outward ap- were drawn to Donald Trump as a presiden- tion to ask Vance is, “What do you want to Greatest Generation” was known for sac- pearances. tial candidate because they felt Trump was do next?” rifice, growing up in the Great Depression Takacs says her Gen X mother stressed someone who appeared to be “on their side.” and fighting and winning World War II. the importance of appearance and contin- “Gen X” was described by author Tom Wolf ues to do so. as the “me generation.” “When I was a little girl, she’d always The “Millennial” generation, those comment on the way I dressed, and it only born between 1980 and got worse the older I got,” 1996, are harder to figure Takacs said. “Now that O P LACIT out. 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