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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. bg DINE-IN news An independent student press serving the campus and surrounding community, ESTABLISHED 1920 ATTACK Bowling Green State University Monday, April 8, 2019 Volume 98, Issue 47 Police investigate multiple vehicle break-ins PAGE 2 Speakers discuss marijuana, Two arrested after alleged public health racially driven assault at PAGE 11 Waffle House | PAGE 8 PHOTO BY STEPHA POULIN CLOSE TO CAMPUS! Greenbriar Best Selection of Inc. Houses & Apartments 445 E Wooster St. | 419-352-0717 | www.greenbriarrentals.com BE SMART. STUDENT LEGAL SERVICES BE AWARE. BE COVERED. REAL LAWYERS | REAL RESULTS just $9/semester [email protected] | 419-372-2951 www.bgsu.edu/sls BG NEWS April 8, 2019 | PAGE 2 Police investigate stretch of car break-ins Paul Garbarino south of the Ohio State University campus in For the incidents in all three cities, Hetrick Hetrick said they could not identify a plate Managing Editor Columbus over 40 cars were broken into. said the method was the same: shattered and these cases are difficult to solve without a Despite the lapse of time, police have made window, rifled vehicle, stolen change but witness or an officer catching them in the act. Stretching from Bowling Green to Columbus, little progress finding who these vandals were. usually nothing of value. “We made over 55 police reports of our a string of vehicle break-ins plagues local “It’s definitely similar, but there’s really Following the March 19 break-ins, own,” Hetrick said. “We reached out to each residents and stirs frustration as police are no no way for us to know unless we are able to BGPD increased manpower for patrol and victim. As soon as we would locate a vehicle, closer to finding assailants. compare evidence with them,” said Police surveillance for the next evening and the rest we would check the plate, find out who it Over 60 vehicles in Bowling Green were Chief Tony Hetrick, referring to other police of the week. Two nights later an officer was ransacked March 19 and 21 after windows divisions involved in the investigation. “They 10 minutes behind the suspects who entered Read the rest online @ bgfalconmedia.com. were broken to gain access inside. According might have a few leads; we have a few pieces an apartment complex and hit more cars, but to a release from the Bowling Green Police of evidence but nothing to compare it to. Department, they received reports of break- We have a video of a silver, four-door vehicle ins around the 1400 block of Clough St. and and two people, but they’re so difficult to tell. the 100 block of State St. Following these We’ve been trying to figure out what type of incidents, nearby Rossford residents endured vehicle it is, but it’s not really good enough to over 30 similar vehicle break-ins, and just show what make or model the vehicle is.” Quiet, Cozy, Convenient! 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The seasonal depression is gradually fading, and the happiness summer brings is “My favorite class among us. has to be Intro Over the past two weeks, I’ve been quite to Film. … It was busy to the point where I rarely saw my fun to learn about friends during the day, and I would leave something I was home around 9 a.m. and not be home until really interested roughly 11 p.m. in.” Alongside being away from home, I’ve had LUKE CHENEVEY assignments galore due in the past two weeks Freshman | Software Engineering without any time to take a breather. It’s hard as a student to have a life outside of school with work, a social life or, in my case, having “My favorite to read a novel or write for the paper. class was British As the warm weather approaches, though, Literature. … It so does the end of the semester. It’s crazy the was interesting end of the semester is six weeks out, and it’ll to see how the be summer. narratives were Summer means being away from the VIA PXHERE back in the day.” hecticness of school, maybe going on a road trip with friends or a spectacular vacation at following spring break isn’t easy, even for me still left around you and be happy.” ANDREW LARSON Freshman | AYA Education the beach. But summer is also a time where since I was spending time with friends in It’s a very earnest and lovely quote that there is work and the annoyance of adulthood North Carolina. But, something I realized over makes you think about how precious yet knocking at our doors. Whatever summer the past weeks is how I need to live my life, temporary life is and how significant it is to “It was the senior means for you, there’s one thing I’d like to say: despite all the stressors. I was at the beach; I appreciate the beauty in it. PR class where go outside and enjoy the sunshine. was able to feel the coldness of the Atlantic With six weeks left in the semester and we had to be in Since I was little, the one thing I was and enjoy the small, joyful moments of beauty completing my first year of college, I want to account teams. consistently taught was to appreciate the in this life. continue to find the small slivers of the beauty You had a real life I was given and always enjoy the world Or going to Grounds for Thought and in life. client, and you around me for it could be swiftly taken away. Lola’s with some of my best friends. Then Though I know the busyness and the had to compete Personally, I try to keep this in mind as I go sitting outside in the sun and taking time consistency of life won’t hold up with the against others.” through the days. This is a piece of advice to read, journal and also write — it’s the 100 million things in life, take one day to go HEATHER PHILLIPS I can offer for anyone. To say it again, go beautiful moments like these that get me out and enjoy the sunshine. Seek the beauty 1992 Graduate | Public Relations outside and enjoy the spring sunshine. through the days. around you and remember — it’s the little, No, jumping right back into the game Anne Frank said, “Think of all the beauty delightful moments that make life so worthy. “My favorite class, probably Honors 2020. It’s very discussion- Black Student Union opposes Gish name in Union theatre based, and you Black Student Union Executive Board silent film, “The Birth of a Nation.” problematic. Opening up the conversation get to share your Originally called The Clansmen, this to the connection of Gish to “The Birth of a opinions.” The Black Student Union at BGSU is an 1915 film was responsible for a national Nation” is not an attempt to slander her name CARTER PAIR organization meant to represent the interests revival of the Ku Klux Klan, a white terrorist but telling truth to her involvement in the Freshman | Media Production of Black students and other underrepresented organization. The commemorative display revival of 20th century racism. communities to which Blackness is that was installed in front of the newly The disposition of the Black student body is intersectionally affiliated. To that end, we are located Gish Film Theater in the BTSU did one of discontent. The new theater display is obligated to bring attention to issues that our not mention, to any extensive detail, this more visible, open and noticed. This display POSITION regarding the Gish Film Theater student body finds problematic. Recently, information. is offensive to Black students whose families name is OPPOSED. the relocation of the Gish Film Theater to the The Black Student Union does not in ANY were affected by racism instilled in this nation. WE, the executive members of the Black Bowen-Thompson Student Union has brought WAY bear ill will toward the Gish Sisters OR “The Birth of a Nation” is infamous because Student Union, wish to have the name of the attention to the history of the Gish sisters, their legacy in American cinema/film history.