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Volume 103, Issue 125 Friday, March 27,2009 www.bgviews.com DOWN TO FEB23.2009 BUSINESS: VOTE: USG votes in favor of the Stroh Center, including assessing a $60 general fee all students will have STROH CENTER to pay to help fund $23.1 of the $36 million total cost of the arena and TIME LINE parking improvements The Stroh Center isn't slated to open until the fall of 2011. but plans have been in motion since 2003. MARCH 2,2009 VOTE: The University's Board of STROH Trustees approve Stroh Center 2003 IN MOTION: State capital approves future funding for the pro- posed convoction center/new arena MARCH 5,2009 VOTE: Coalition rallies for a refer- endum; the group, which is neither DECEMBER 2007 for nor against the Stroh Center, collected 1.262 signatures, or 9.2 percent of undergraduates through VOTE: Convocation center part a petition in one day of the $150 million capital-improve- ment effort throughout campus For today only, it's showtime for the referendum on USG's Stroh Center resolution MARCH 6,2009 FEB29.2008 Undergrads have Stroh Center to be Graduate students too VOTE: USG verified the peti- a chance to make constructed as green- busy for concerns over tion and started working on a new NAMESAKE: Board of Trustees resolution for an undergraduate University history friendly building Stroh Center names the arena the "Stroh Center" referendum after Kerm Stroh By Andy Ouricl By Michell* BosMM By Hannah Spading MARCH 20,2009 Reporter Reporter Reporter Today, students have the While many University stu- Today, students have an MARCH 1,2008 VOTE: The new resolution is chance to make history by dents are focused on the pos- opportunity to make their finalized and a referendum date is voting to either keep or repeal sible implementation of a $60 voice heard through the Stroh finalized the Undergraduate Student studentfeeforthe construction Center referendum. But the VOTE: Official announcement of Government's original resolu- of the Stroh Center, University referendum voice does not the Stroh Family's $8 million gift. tion on the Stroh Center. project manager Michael represent all students; gradu- $7.7 million going toward the Stroh According to University Schuessler is focused on mak- ate students don't get a vote. Center. $200,000 for intercollegiate athletics and $100,000 for the Stroh MARCH 25,2009 historian Gary Hess, who ing sure the Stroh Center will The Stroh Center refer- Family Endowed Scholarship has chronicled important be energy efficient. endum is for undergradu- University moments in his- "We need to save money ate students only. But while VOTE: Administration and USG tory, said there has never been and have it be energy efficient grad students do not get to President John Waynick answer a student vote on an issue as at the same time," Schuessler vote, they will still have to pay questions posed by students at a important as this one. said. "The budget has been the the same fee that applies to OCTOBER 2008 coaltion sponsored town-hall While the vote is strictly real driver." undergrads. meeting about USG's original decision The Stroh Center design Graduate Student Senate to approve the Stroh Center, team is the architectural President Emmanual Guillory VOTE: An additional $4.8 million most students are concerned firm Rossetti Associates Inc. said grad students don't get a was donated; plans to build the larg- est Falcon statue in the world were announced; administrators started MARCH 27,2009 See VOTE | Page 2 See ENERGY | Page 2 SeeGRADS|Page2 promoting the Stroh Center to stu- dent organizations VOTE: The referendum takes place within a 24-hour period deciding on whether or not to keep USG's origi- nal resolution; as long as 10 percent of undergraduates log in and vote DEC 3,2008 through their MyBGSU accounts, whichever choice gets more votes will stand i VOTE: University unveils design of the Stroh Center FALL 2011 FEB19,2009 VOTE: The opening of the Stroh < > Center, which will host up to 250 VOTE: The Coalition for events Undergraduate Student Government Reform forms due to the group's discontent toward USG - COMPILED BY ANDY 0URIEI FROM THE BG actions HEWS ARCHIVES BUILDING BLOCKS: THE STROH CENTER BY THE NUMBERS N VISIT BGVIEWS.COM: NEWS. Sf QRTS, UPDATES, MULTIMEDIA AND JORUMS FOR YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE 2 Friday March 27.2009 WWWBGVIEWS.COM BLOTTER Stimulus money WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 12:53 P.M. will have no hand Complainant reported unknown subjects stole $S0 to $80 in change from a bowl in her apartment bed- room on Klotz Road. in the Stroh Center 1:38 P.M. Complainant reported an iPod was Money from stimulus package will be used to stolen from Bowling Green Senior High School. repair aging educational buildings 10:56 P.M. Robert Drayna. 27, of Bowling By Jcspcr Bikkers Green, was cited for improper "Good facilities are discharging of a firearm. Joseph Reporter BENIOHMAN I M8GNEWS Coleman. 23. of Bowling Green, DISCUSSION: Ai [he town-hall forum on Wednesday night quests debated the Stroh Center and topics for the vole. Guests included needed so students was cited for pointing and discharg- President Carol Cartwright John Waynick. Dave Kielmeyer and Greg Christopher. ing firearms Daniel Richter, 24. said the money t he University have better tools for of Bowling Green, was cited for could receive from Barack dents. "It will be a terrific addi- forcing USG to rewrite their education. I think that discharging firearms after all three Obama's economic stimulus VOTE tion to campus and benefit original resolution and pro- residents admitted to discharging students for decades to come. I pose the new referendum. bill will not be used lor the the math and science From Page 1 a pistol behind their residence on Stroll Center. believe this project is absolutely While the coalition is Mourning Dove Lane. The money can only be buildings really about a $60 fee that will be essential to the long-term suc- neither for nor against the used for educational facili- tacked onto students' tuition cess and prosperity of Bowling Stroh Center, they are in 11:03 P.M. ties," she said. "It is not sure need a face lift." once the basketball arena Green State University." favor of informing people Eric Duncan, 19. of Grand Rapids. how much money we will opens in the 2011/2012 school Residence halls, fraternities, to the best of their abili- Ohio, was arrested for abusing harmful intoxicants after he was receive from the bill. Henry Bergman | Sophomore year. An estimated $50 of the sororities and other campus ties while properly educat- "The idea of the stimulus is fee will go towards funding the communities are also encour- ing students, founder of the observed by a bouncer filling up a to give people a job," she said. Stroh Center, $10 for parking aging students to vote in favor coalition Steve Currie said. balloon with C02 cartridges and "If our Universitj gets money people get a degree. improvements. of the resolution. Residence "It is imperative that peo- inhaling. from the bill we can renovate "You need to have a uni- "It's a significant expres- halls will be in competition for ple come out and make an our facilities and buildings." versity degree today to get a sion of student activism, and $1,000 in programming based informed decision," Currie ONLINE: Goto bgviewscom for the Sophomore Henry Bergman job," he said. "Hopefully the I think it deserves attention," on which living quarters have said. k complete blotter list. thinks it is necessary to reno- University will use the Istim- Hess said. the highest voter turnout. Currie, who said he does vate educational buildings ulus money] "> keep instruc- All this week, the administra- "We're trying to encourage not want students to be with the stimulus money. tors, because that will affect tion has spent more than $4,000 students to vote and educate influenced by catchy slo- "Good facilities are needed students at first. With good on advertisements. The BGSU students to be informed on gans, fancy buttons and CORRECTION so students have better tools professors the faculties can Foundation has also spent the issues of the Stroh Center." propaganda, said getting for education," he said. "I give students proper educa- roughly $3,500 dollars promot- Senior Associate Director of the information out in a POLICY think that the math and sci- tion." ing the Stroh Center and urging Residence Life Sarah Waters non-biased way is how all We want to correct all factual errors. ence buildings really need a Cartwright said the fed- students to vote "no," support- said. of the Stroh Center proce- If you think an error has been made, face lift." eral money will not be used ing USG's resolution. Waters said by offering an dures should have been call The BG News at 419-372-6966. The University needs to for tuition, but it will affect There have also been two e- incentive, more students would dealt with in the first place.