SPRING | 2010 m a g a z i n e Michelle Branch headlined Centennial concert The UniversityWomen’s started its Centennial basketball celebration headed to NCAA tourney Clawson named head football coach Cartwright said, ‘Goodbye!’ to BGSU The University raised money for Falcon Hockey Stroh and Wolfe Centers’ construction began Borland stepped into Provost shoes Administration debated faculty union Chartwells took over student dining Students, faculty helped out Haiti Fraternities had to find new homes Tanning Barnes named Biletnikoff finalist Kiss of Sun | 21 Centennial Celebration 100 Years of History | 16 Falcon Hockey Here to Stay | 28 Senior Portraits Class of 2010 | 34 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 1 BGSU® • FOR ALL YOUR GRADUAT I O N NEE D S • • CA SH F OR YOUR BOOK S • • L ARG EST S E L ECT I O N O F BG S U C L O TH I N G • • 2 0 - 4 0 % O FF S AL E O N SE L ECT ST O R E ME R CH ANDI SE • • TAK E A L I TT L E FAL C O N S PIRI T H O ME W I TH Y O U • Student Book Exchange 530 E. 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From reacting to the earthquakes in Haiti to rallying around a hockey program in need to celebrating the Centennial through community service, we are living proof that selflessness is not dead. Enjoy this spring issue of your award-winning student magazine and continue looking for ways to do more for those around you. Sincerely, EDITOR Heather Linder Heather Linder, Editor-in-Chief, ASSISTANT EDITOR and the Key Magazine staff Allison Borgelt WRITERS Sarah Bailey KEY MAGAZINE Allison Borgelt Christopher Gross Key Magazine is published by the Office of Student Heather Linder Publications at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Kate Noftsinger Green, Ohio 43403. It is distributed at locations Hannah Nusser throughout campus and at select locations in the Alissa O’Neill surrounding community of Bowling Green. Becky Tener Nikia Washington Student editorial offices are located in 28 West Hall, and Michele Wysocki any questions related to content may be directed to student editor Heather Linder at [email protected] or by calling 419-372-8086. PHOTOGRAPHER Questions related to advertising in Key Magazine may be Ben Hull directed to Assistant Director of Student Publications Tonya Whitmanat [email protected] or by calling 419-372-0430. DESIGNERS Key magazine is published two times per academic year Casey Anderson at Bowling Green State University with a fall edition Julia Kershaw and a spring issue. Erin Koiser Alisha Kurtz Student Publications, Division of Student Affairs Taylor Richter Amy Thomas Amanda Yarnell Table of CONTENTS 5 21 A LEGEND’S LAST WORD KISS OF SUN by Christopher Gross by Sarah Bailey 10 24 BATTLE TO BE THE BEST SETTING UP FOR SUCCESS by Hannah Nusser by Alissa O’Neill 14 26 JUMBA JUICE JUNKIES M E E T A M I R A C L E : by Kate Noftsinger BRYTON CHARLES by Nikia Washington 16 28 100 YEARS OF HISTORY HERE TO STAY by Becky Tener by Michele Wysocki 18 30 HOPE FOR HAITI YEAR IN REVIEW by Allison Borgelt by Heather Linder 34 SENIOR PHOTOS 4 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 A LEGEND’S LAST WORDS By Christopher Gross Bowling Green’s Anderson Arena will close its doors after the 2010-11 basketball season; then ‘The House that Roars’ will fade to silence forever. But before it does, this hoops cathedral has a final chapter to write and a few secrets to tell. he looming orange-brick Judd Heathcote have all prowled its brown building with the gray paneled and orange sidelines. Heathcote, the man windows, which has sat on who led Magic Johnson and Michigan Bowling Green State University’s State to the 1979 NCAA championship, Tcampus for nearly 50 years as the school’s was involved in one of the building’s more Chilled by the home for basketball, has not much time memorable games when he brought the “ left. Anderson Arena is dying. Spartans to town in December 1990. boom of a crowd But you need not feel sorry for the Michigan State, behind the All- old building, for it has lived a good life. It American exploits of future NBA All-Star was born as Memorial Hall in 1960, the Steve Smith, was ranked fifth in the so loud it caused same year John F. Kennedy was elected country and an early-season favorite to president and Cassius Clay won his first cut down the nets at that season’s Final their wooden prizefight. The venue was given a second Four in Denver. But Bowling Green, who name in 1963, in honor of the Falcons’ had beaten Michigan State the season all-time winningest basketball coach, before in East Lansing in the Spartans’ seats to tremble. Harold “Andy” Anderson. Anderson won first-ever game at the Breslin Center, as ” 66 percent of his games as Bowling Green’s well as Kentucky in Rupp Arena in ‘88, general, winning 367 in all before retiring had other ideas. Earning the reputation of after the ’63 season. giant killers under then-head coach Jim Anderson Arena was once home to Larranaga, the Falcons backed down to the dazzling tandem of Howard “Butch” no one, especially not inside the hallowed Komives and Nate “The Great” Thurmond, walls of Anderson Arena, where the men’s one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players. basketball program has a lifetime winning Coaching giants Bill Fitch, Guy Lewis and percentage of nearly .750. KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 5 Anderson Arena screamed so loud it seemed to sway. “ Bowling Green wasted no time “It’s over!” Wright remembers howling Wright is among the scores of fans over ” introducing Heathcote and his Spartans to from his Anderson seat after Venable the decades who have come to Anderson the Falcons’ sweltering and thunderous gym, punctuated the play. Arena to see their first basketball game, and burying triple after triple and dunk after Wright believes that night to be the with it they consumed a wholesome taste of dunk in a hammering of one of the nation’s loudest and wildest Anderson’s raucous sporting Americana and gymnasium grandeur. elite teams. Before a sold-out crowd of confines has ever been, and added that, Wright was there for the building’s opening 4,898, Anderson’s largest showing since the as Venable was carried away above a sea night, on December 1, 1960, when the Falcons arena’s capacity was reduced due to bleacher of brown and orange, the building was took on Hillsdale College before a sold-out renovations in 1983, the Clinton Venable-led so electric it felt like it was shaking on its crowd. At about five years of age, Wright saw Falcons blitzed Michigan State with a stifling foundation. Bowing Green win that night, 79-45, and lay man-to-man defense till the end, winning “The craziest ending to a game I’ve ever the foundation for what would become one of 98-85. seen,” he said. “There were hundreds rushing the most feared places to play in all of college “We blew ‘em out of the gym,” said the court and jumping around. It stayed like basketball over the next 50 years. Van Wright, assistant to the vice president that well after the teams had left for their His story is one that has been retold a of University advancement and unofficial locker rooms.” hundred times over. People like Wright, who Anderson historian. “Right from the tip-off, After the game, Michigan State’s coach in the 1950s and ‘60s were forced to listen we had them beat. It was unbelievable.” was visibly shaken and red as a bloomed to word pictures of their heroes through the The game’s curtain call came early rose, but not at a loss for words. Inside the grainy voices of radio, were awed by their first in the second half, when Michigan State’s cramped and musty classroom in Anderson’s trip inside Anderson’s wondrous gym. Chilled Matt Steigenga, a hefty 250-pound-plus upper level corridor that has served as the by the boom of a crowd so loud it caused power forward, got loose on his team’s arena’s makeshift media center since the their wooden seats to tremble. Enamored by own baseline and rose for a crushing days Harold Anderson roamed its halls, mezzanine handrails so bright with orange slam.