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Spring is here, which means we are all surrounded by the inevitable end- of-school-year nostalgia. As you prepare for summer jobs and internships, as you say goodbye to seniors and welcome a break from spring classes, celebrate making it through one more year of being a college student. In an attempt to embody on paper the year we all lived, Key Magazine’s pages are filled with events and issues from the months prior. The recap is not complete by any means, though, because it cannot contain all of the stories, memories and experiences that truly made the year live for each of us. The stories you are about to read are from your fellow students. Each covers a different subject but follows a common trend — service. Time and time again, University students went outside of themselves and helped others. 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.
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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. Before he could put the ball through Heathcote stammered and sulked. paint they weren’t touched for fear they were the cylinder, however, Steigenga saw the “I’ll tell you this,” the coach famously still wet. Drawn to the fizzle of soft drinks outstretched left hand of Falcon center Tom snarled, “I will never bring my team back and the smell of pizza and popcorn that filled Hall wrap from out of nowhere and punch in here.” the building’s halls. Captivated by the bellow the ball off the backboard. After caroming That was nearly 20 years ago, and of PA announcer Jim Hoff during soaring out to mid-court, the ball fell into the Michigan State, a decade and a half after player introductions so dramatic they took hands of the snake-quick Venable for a Heathcote’s retirement, has yet to return to on a holy tenor. breakaway score. the “House that Roars.” In those days, before the start of each
6 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 game, the arena would fade to complete Patrick’s Cathedrals and the Fenway Parks shadowed Daniels the entire game, pestering darkness, and an imposing spotlight would and the Cameron Indoor Stadiums are all him with limbs as nimble as a rabbit’s. line up with the hallway entrance leading living proof that places have emotions too, As Daniels made his final plunge toward back to the teams’ dressing rooms. When the that blood does run through their beams the basket, the poltergeists awoke from Falcons starters ran onto the floor, especially and moments of wonder do summon their their slumber. Boykins tripped over his own the greats, the Komives and the Thurmonds spirits. Anderson Arena is one of those sacred feet. Perhaps the quickest and best on-ball and the Walt Piatkowskis, Anderson venues. Five decades of basketball have defender to ever lace his sneakers in the Mid screamed so loud it seemed to sway. passed through its concrete partitions, and American Conference had fallen flat on the “Every game was like that back then,” inside them have come some of the most floor, on his team’s most important defensive Wright said. “Each game more exciting and revered names the game has ever known. possession of the game. Daniels strolled to the louder than the last. It was an amazing time.” Some have never left. easiest bucket of his career. A walk-off layup Resting in the towering shadow of Jerome as the horn wailed. The ghosts had done it Library for almost half a century on the When you walk in again. Harold Anderson or Butch Komives University’s east campus, Anderson has seen “ had floated down from the banners above and its fair share of amazing performances and mischievously stuck out a leg, clearing room you-had-to-be-there-to-believe-it endings. there the history just for one of their own. On February 16, 1963, in one of the last surrounds you. “The place has an aura,” Wright said games Harold Anderson ever coached inside ” of Anderson. “When you walk in there, the this arena, Bowling Green hosted the Loyola - Van Wright history just surrounds you.” Ramblers. Loyola was the number one team There is a mystique to Anderson Arena in the country, and would later be crowned “You can just feel it,” said Joe Sharpe, that is felt in few sporting venues across national champion under the guidance of who has known the building better than the nation. There’s a reason college hoops their legendary coach, George Ireland. But anyone since 1979, the year he became Falcon broadcasting legend Dick Vitale once on that night, the ghosts that would later basketball equipment manager. “Walking into called the building “the top arena in college wander Anderson Arena were born. Anderson is like walking into the gym down at basketball.” Its luster might be long gone “I knew we were in trouble when we Duke. That feeling of all the great players and and its air now a little fusty, but Anderson walked into the arena at 5 o’clock and the all the great games is there.” has never lost its character. The building place was already packed,” Ireland said years The ghosts that watch over Anderson has remained the quirky and boiling hot later. “It was three hours before the game and Arena’s ancient floor might best explain what basketball barn it’s been since it opened half they were cheering.” happened there on Valentine’s Day 1996. The a century ago, nobody ever caring enough to Behind the dynamic All-American duo game, known affectionately to Falcon fans as refurbish it, but also nobody willing to let it go. of Thurmond and Komives – Thurmond with the “Trip from Above,” is widely regarded as The best seats are the best in basketball, his penchant for intimidating defense and the best the arena has ever held. seats so close to the court that, as former Howard with his flair for vicious crossovers It was Antonio Daniels’ junior season, Marshall standout J.R. VanHoose once put and 25-footers – BG delivered the first and the game was against nationally ranked it, “the fans can pick the hair off your legs.” of what would become many slayings of Eastern Michigan. Daniels, who would later The worst are up in the balcony’s far corners, national powers inside Anderson over the graduate from Bowling Green as a top-five where the rafters graze visitors’ heads and years, whipping Loyola 92-75. Since then, pick in the 1997 NBA draft, was mourning banners obstruct sight lines. It has remained one could write a fairly sufficient chapter one of the greatest losses he would ever without air conditioning for as long as it has of college basketball history based entirely face. Earlier that week, his brother Chris had lived, leaving for a vulgar stench of hot dogs on events that Anderson has seen, events suddenly collapsed and died after suffering and sweat in the air on game nights. Because so cherished they are told like scripture in a rare form of heart failure. Daniels was of this, the arena’s upstairs windows remain northwest Ohio. playing in memory of his fallen brother open all year long, resulting in an echoing The 50 points Komives dropped and friend. chorus of cheers that blows across campus on on Niagara in ’64, and the 49 he handed But Daniels had more than just the game nights. The once bright orange shine on Western Michigan as an encore six nights memory of his brother on his side that night handrails has flaked away and green spots of later. Kirk Whiteman’s 35-foot prayer to against Eastern Michigan. The poltergeists mold can be found growing on walls. There take down Toledo. The nine threes Jay that inhibit Anderson’s spooky recesses, Larranaga dropped on Akron. The Derek protecting the home team in moments such Places have emotions, Kizer tomahawk dunk from the free throw as these, were there, too. line with a defender draped on his back. The With just seconds to play and a tied “ track meet with Otis Birdsong and the top game hanging in the balance, Daniels too...blood does run ten-ranked Houston Cougars in the ‘70s, in held the ball between the circles out top, which Bowling Green ran to a 121-101 win. watching the clock, waiting to make his through their beams Matt Otto’s rainbow three as time expired move. Defending him was Earl Boykins, a to tie Ball State in ’94, completing a furious future All-American, and already one of and moments of seven-point Falcon comeback in the final 45 the best defenders in college basketball. As seconds; then Shane Komives’ jumper at the the clock read five seconds to play, Daniels buzzer to end the game in overtime. pounded the ball on the floor, driving right. wonder do summon It is said the truly great buildings on Boykins was eyeing him like a seasoned thief. earth do live, that their walls do talk. The St. Boykins, a 5-foot-5-inch burst of energy, had their spirits.” KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 7 Falcon basketball “was like attending church. Games at this cathedral were not missed.”
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are dead spots on the floorboards where droves of townspeople, overall-clad farmers doors. Back before Anderson was built, in bouncing balls go to die. The restrooms and all sorts of unique characters stuffed the first half of last century, one could have are lined with olive linoleum floors, and the upper deck to its peak. Falcon basketball found football greats Woody Hayes and Ara coaches’ offices are adorned with chipping was like attending church. Games at this Parseghian roaming the same soil on which wooden doors. basketball cathedral were not missed. the arena now sits. After it was constructed, The bleachers on the arena’s east side “In the winter, Anderson was the place Anderson became a place for winter training are the same lumber risers that Bowling to be,” said Bill Blair, who spent 18 years of and indoor refuge for the gridiron boys when Green students used to shake in the good ol’ his life as the voice of Falcon basketball in the spring rains came. days, when Komives was lofting another ball the 1960s and ‘70s on WAWR Radio. “Game The home locker room area in for Thurmond to crush through the iron. The nights were events in those days. During the Anderson Arena, apart from a facelift here Anderson Animals, as the arena’s student game the crowds were loud and rowdy. Then or there over the past several decades, has section later came to be known, are the afterward, they would hit parties all up and as much history to it as any spot in the Midwest’s answer to the Cameron Crazies down [Wooster Street].” building. It is within this consecrated space at Duke, a chaotic bunch that has crammed Anderson Arena has never been that legendary Falcon head football coach Anderson’s floor-level student section to the just about Falcon basketball. It’s not just Doyt Perry delivered his powerful pregame edge since the gym was taking its first steps. Thurmond and Komives and Daniels who speeches and chalked passing routes On the nights of big games, this section of played in front of the building’s deafening on blackboards when the team used the Anderson becomes a fire marshal’s worst masses. It is the world famous Harlem arena as a locker room from 1960 to 1964. nightmare, with way too many crazy kids in Globetrotters and Aerosmith, Jefferson Meadowlark Lemon and Marques Haynes of face paint, wigs and orange tie-dye packed Starship and Bob Seger, Gerald Ford and the Original Harlem Globetrotters dressed into the wobbly old set of bleachers. But Ronald Reagan. British rock-and-roll royalty inside these walls. During a visit to Bowling Bowling Green’s marshal won’t say a word, Foreigner delivered its first concert on North Green in 1976, Gerald Ford was rushed here not when MAC titles are on the line – and American soil inside this building’s walls. after one of the great scares in American never when Toledo is in town. A part of Anderson’s history with which history involving one of our presidents. In the arena’s heyday, games at many aren’t familiar is that the building was While Ford was in the middle of a Anderson Arena were more than just two- once the practice home of Bowling Green speech, a sudden series of small explosions hour blocks of basketball. They were social football, back before the days of Doyt Perry not unlike the rapid discharge of gunshots events. Not only did loads of students fill Stadium, when University Field still sat on erupted throughout Anderson. Fearing for the courtside bleachers each night, but also central campus outside Anderson’s front the president’s life, Secret Service agents
8 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 Top performing artists have hit the stage in our very own Anderson Arena. Top Left: Young Joc Oct. 2, 2008. Right: Aerosmith Oct. 15,1974. hurried Ford into the same hallway entrance tagging along to work with his father, the afterlife, wishes it still could. Nate “The Great” once passed through on building’s original equipment manager. When the Stroh Center, which, with its game nights and into the Falcons’ locker “I’ve been in the building since I was six fancy air conditioning, marbled floors and room. As it would turn out, the gunshots years old.” lavish team store, will certainly be no blood were actually the result of an instamatic relative of Anderson’s, is finally complete, camera bulb that had burst. Anderson Arena is more Falcon basketball will have to find a new When the final game is played there home court advantage. Because the building sometime in the spring of 2011, and the than“ just an aging building it is leaving behind on East Ridge Street, the doors are officially closed for good, Anderson one that rests on the footsteps of some of Arena’s walls are surely going to scream. Not that has passed its prime. the most legendary figures the world has screams of bitterness toward the state-of- ” ever known, is irreplaceable. The “House the-art Stroh Center across campus that will Anderson Arena is more than just an that Roars” is one of the last great basketball take its place, but screams of memory. For it aging building that has passed its prime. monuments left, and, when it passes, so is the memories – the legendary performers, To appreciate the building’s finer majesty, will have an important piece of the city of speeches from world leaders, great games, one must look past its decaying foundation Bowling Green. KEY howls of the crowd, scents of popcorn and and disregard for modern amenity. It is must, spilled soda on sticky floors, oddities a throwback to a different era, to a time of random coloring schemes and structural when lightless ballparks still filled the major flaws – the arena will be remembered by. leagues and field houses with timber seats Over 1.6 million have passed through still dominated basketball. The intimacy Anderson’s turnstiles. There is an entire and old-world feel that overcomes visitors generation of people who have grown up when walking through Anderson’s archaic with the building since its very beginning, halls and sitting in its upper reaches is who have matured with it and shared in its unmatched by newer, commercial arenas. most significant achievements. When the crowd is at its height, after a late- “I’ll be sad when it’s gone,” said Joe game triple has caught nylon or an elevating Sharpe, who remembers shooting buckets slam has dizzied the backboard’s support, on Anderson’s court as a kid with Nate Anderson roars like the old Boston Garden, Thurmond and Howard Komives while which somewhere from the basketball
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 9 BATTLE TO BE THE BEST Armed with financial aid and determination, ROTC cadets fight to find balance between military and student life By Hannah Nusser
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or as long as he can remember, Mike American flags garnish the rooms and cadets’ Perozeni wanted to be in the Army. achievements are recognized with plaques By joining the Army ROTC, he is one and framed photographs running the entire If money step closer to making his dream of length of the hallway. “ Fbeing a soldier a reality. In the home stretch Here, an elite group of students can is your sole of his four years in the program, Perozeni has be found studying up on Middle Eastern no regrets about joining, as it turned out to be culture, learning a new battle tactic or everything he thought it would be. maybe gearing up for a mission. They’re the purpose, you’re The senior cadet said he’s just like any cadets of the Fighting Falcon Battalion – a other college student; he just wakes up at relatively small group of University students 5:30 a.m. and takes a few extra classes. While who join Army ROTC to take advantage of not going to the camouflage uniform, short, regulation scholarship opportunities, enhance their haircut and mature military manners may leadership skills, serve the country and gain make it. suggest otherwise, a uniform is not the a unique experience that will help them as only characteristic that separates Army soldiers and civilians. Fueled by patriotism, ” ROTC students like Perozeni from typical tough economic times and innate drive, the - Lt. Colonel Letzring undergraduates. cadets juggle a college lifestyle with military Down the quiet halls of Memorial Hall, influence, hard work and dedication to the uniform-clad cadre (the ROTC instructors) program and to the country. are friendly and helpful, and “yes sir’s” echo With the country’s current economic from classrooms and offices. The main status, scholarship opportunities draw in hallway, adorned with Fighting Falcons many cadets, said Lt. Colonel Steve Letzring, flags, Army posters and pictures of cadets in professor of military science and leadership training, has a deep sense of honor and pride. and coordinator of the University’s ROTC
10 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 chapter. Distinguished cadets are offered like a good plan.” recommended the program, so he looked scholarships from two to four years The scholarship was an enticement to into it. fully paid, including tuition, books and enroll, he said, but not the deciding factor. “It felt pretty good, honestly … once I a monthly stipend. Beginning last fall, “People you find in the program … they made my decision. It was kind of a no-brainer room and board is covered for cadets that like what they do and they want to do it, it’s because it was really hard for me to think of maintain a 2.75 grade point average. not like they’re just here for a free, full ride any negatives and all I could think of were a “Having the ability to have your just to get a job. They really want to be where bunch of positives,” he said. college funded by the Army is a substantial they are,” Gagnon said. Forney said being in Army ROTC has enticement for a lot of people … [but] Greg Joyce, a junior finance major, said motivated him to get better grades and focus money’s not enough,” Letzring said. “If he always knew he wanted to join the Army more on his education. money is your sole purpose, you’re not going because of his family’s military background. ROTC is also a career option for those to make it.” “I was just brought up that’s the way to who previously served in the armed forces Letzring said some cadets just have a do things … you serve your country,” and aim to make their military lifestyle a way about them which tells him they won’t Joyce said. lifelong goal. Junior AYA education major shirk from responsibility and will make the He said he chose ROTC over enlisting Adam Lawson served in the Army for six extra effort to succeed. after high school because it was the best years, including two tours in Iraq, before “I can usually tell in about 30 seconds career move. By successfully completing coming to the University to attain a degree when I meet somebody if they’ve got that the program cadets earn the rank of second and a higher military rank. thing that you look for, you know that lieutenant – a difficult rank to achieve by “After my second tour in Iraq, I figured spark that they’re willing to step up to the enlisted privates, who must work their way up if I was going to do this the rest of my life I’d challenge,” he said. through the ranks. rather be an officer so I got out and came Sophomore criminal justice major “It killed two birds with one stone – join here,” Lawson said. Adam Gagnon said he knew since he was the Army and be an officer … [I’ll] get a He described his deployment as young he wanted to join the Armed Forces, college degree, and I get to serve my country, long, difficult and physically and mentally in part because of his family’s past military too,” Joyce said. “Once you get out of the demanding; nevertheless, he values his tradition. Lessons learned in ROTC will give Army as an officer, you’re in a pretty good experience and said it was a combination of him an edge when it comes time to get a spot. You’ve got years of experience at a good and bad days. police job in the civilian world, he said. young age. Not a lot of other finance majors “It actually was [a] good experience “Me and a few friends, all through would have the experience of leading 150 because you meet new people. You’re with grade school, we would always play war people under their command at the age of 22 this group of men for a year of your life and games, but as they grew out of it, I still or 23.” you depend on each other, and that’s all you wanted to have that career,” Gagnon said. Sophomore Robert Forney said he never have is each other,” Lawson said. “No offense “Naturally if I can get a scholarship and I even considered making the military lifestyle against the Iraqi people … but you can’t trust can go to college at the same time, sounded a part of his college career, but a friend them, you can only trust people that have the
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Last week for “an hour we were lying and crawling around in the eight inches of snow. That’s the norm.” - Robert Forney
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 11 American flag on them.” Lawson said he’s glad he enlisted in the Army before enrolling for college because he now has his priorities straight and is truly enjoying his college experience. “I do enjoy it. I like the college life. No People you find in the “program …they like what they do and they want to do it. - Adam” Gagnon one’s shooting at you, so that’s always a plus,” Lawson said. “[My] priorities right now are working on [my] GPA and looking forward to getting back into the Army and picking up where I left off.” Exemplary grades are appropriately at the top of Lawson’s to-do list; one element the Army emphasizes to cadets is a high grade point average. Letzring said cadets are chosen based on three pillars – scholar, athlete and leader. Although rough-and- tumble fitness training is part of the ROTC regimen, cadets are trained to be the complete package. Each cadet is measured by his or her greatest weakness. “If you’re really smart but you can’t carry your backpack or you can’t meet the physical demands you’re really not worth anything to Gagnon said although the military LDAC camp this summer. us – you can’t lead soldiers out there in the science student ranks only apply to ROTC “I’m not nervous, I just want to get it field,” Letzring said. “From the same sense if classes, they teach cadets to respect the over with,” Lawson said. you’re this incredible physical specimen but responsibility that comes with each “real” In preparation to be successful in you’re dumb as a rock, again, you’re not going military rank. any task thrown their way, the cadets to be able to go out there and make these The third year is infamous for being the most attend ROTC classes and labs through the tough decisions.” trying year, as pressure builds to do well on 4000-level. Every Thursday cadets report Perozeni said battle tactics are a focus the Leadership Development and Assessment to lab in uniform and get into formation. point because they bring out the leader in Course, a month-long training camp designed The MS4s command the lower cadets as the cadets. to test cadets’ leadership skills. The summer to what missions and battle tactics they’ll “When I was a kid I always thought before their senior year, MS3s fly to a military be practicing that day; they also grade the Army was all about shooting things and base in Fort Lewis, Wash., where their the juniors, who act as the leaders of the blowing things up, [but] the Army is a lot of physical, mental and emotional aptitude battalion. Sophomore Robert Forney said lab things like finance [and] lawyers,” he said. are put to the ultimate test through various is held outside, even in the most unpleasant Cadets are encouraged to receive top- infantry training exercises. weather conditions. notch grades in all major requirements in While the LDAC is just one in an ongoing “It may sound weird, but it’s a lot of fun addition to stellar performance in the ROTC series of ROTC tests and evaluations, Joyce stuff … Last week for an hour we were lying classes and labs, which are no extra cost. said the training exercises at the camp show and crawling around in the eight inches of Freshmen and sophomore ROTC a potential soldier’s true colors. Cadets must snow. That’s the norm,” he said. classes teach the fundamentals of the Army plan and successfully execute missions to A vital element of the Army lifestyle system, familiarizing the cadets with the earn an “excellent” or “standard” rating; is being in top shape, and ROTC is no rank system and military customs. The earning the lowest rating, or “N,” for “no- exception. Cadets work out together ROTC side of the military uses a ranking go” on the LDAC can have a potentially three times per week in a series of intense system similar to the Army to instill respect devastating effect on a cadets’ overall ranking workouts that hammer their minds and and understanding for each respective in the national ROTC program. bodies with variations on push-ups, sit-ups rank. Military science students are referred Even with six years military experience and cardio, among other trying physical to as MS1s, MS2s, threes and fours for each behind him, Lawson said he feels the same tasks. The workouts are designed to enhance year, freshman through senior. pressure as his fellow MS3s in preparing for speed, endurance, flexibility and strength,
12 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 said Lt. Colonel Letzring. Joyce said the discipline that comes with waking up at 5:30 a.m. is just part of the lifestyle. “It kind of puts a drain on you; you’re chugging down energy drinks trying to stay awake in class, but it’s just like any other activity. You put your time in, you get results,” he said. Joyce said Army-type individuals strive to set themselves apart, driven by simple self- motivation. “Everybody has their individual level of drive, I guess, and drive is being unhappy with the status quo,” Joyce said. “I have goals in my life and I want to get there so … something’s got to give … I can’t sleep all day or party all night. [I] have to study, have to work out.” MS1s and two’s crunch through ROTC workouts three hours per week; contracted MS three’s and four’s are required to barrel through an additional hour of each workout, making for six hours of physical training per week. Cadets can contract to be commissioned into the Army as early as high school or until they have two years left in completing their bachelor degrees. Matt Molinski, personnel officer and academic advisor of ROTC, said the cadets start out at the bottom of the totem pole, under the enlisted privates, non- commissioned officers, and commissioned officers; but after graduation, contracted cadets will become commissioned officers, earning the rank of second lieutenant in the United States Army. The future soldiers sign on for either four years of active duty in the of cultural awareness, curriculum added to prepare the cadets for whatever their Army or six years in the Army Reserves or by Letzring to teach them to be mindful of future may have in store, be it deployment or National Guard. different cultures on their future travels. civilian life. After President Obama’s authorization Arabic and Middle Eastern culture has been “The stuff that they will have learned to deploy thousands more soldiers to worked into the cultural awareness portion of while they’ve been here, all the things we’ve Afghanistan in the coming months, many the curriculum. put them through are going to provide them cadets who choose active duty are likely to be “We focus primarily on our culture first, the tools to be successful,” Letzring said. deployed, Letzring said. what are the things that you do without even “They’re all going to have that moment of The likelihood of being sent overseas realizing you do it,” Letzring said. “As you travel ‘Dear God what have I gotten myself into? has not deterred potential cadets, like around the world, you get the ‘ugly American Who thought that I was capable of doing this?’ Gagnon, from signing up; patriotism and the syndrome’ where we don’t realize we do what And you know what? They’re going to get past willingness to fight for a greater good is not we do [to offend people]. And then [gain] that. They’re going to go out there and do it, easily derailed in these men and women. In understanding in what other peoples’ culture and they’re going to do it well.” fact, enrollment in ROTC has almost doubled is so we can do the best job we can when we go KEY since Lt. Colonel Letzring headed up the out there,” Letzring said. program in Fall 2006, from 72 enrolled cadets Soon to graduate, Perozeni said he feels to 125 in the past year. So far 73 cadets are the pressure of the real Army creeping up. They’re going to go contracted and will be serving in the Army “Now that I’m about to graduate there’s after graduation. more pressure because something bigger – the “out there and do it, “We have the best military in the world, active Army – is coming up, so it’s a different and it’s an all voluntary military, which is very kind of pressure,” Perozeni said. “It’s been and they’re going to impressive, and when you sign up, you know generally a good time … I’m just excited to get what you’re signing up for,” Gagnon said. into [the active Army]. We did a lot of fun stuff.” do it well. Toward the end of their final year, Letzring has complete faith that the senior cadets are submerged in three weeks curriculum of the ROTC program is enough - Lt. ”Colonel Letzring
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 13 JAMBA JUICE JUNKIES The newest edition to the Falcon’s Nest has students dishing out dollars for a fruity fix By Kate Noftsinger
am a Jamba junkie. I got hooked on Not only was it something that the stuff back in 2004 when I was living satisfied the students’ needs, but it was in Fort Lauderdale. I was using a few something new to the area. While their Nourish the times a week, mostly Strawberries smoothies are present at 30 college “ IWild. But every now and then I’d change it campuses nationwide, the University’s body while up with a Banana Berry or a Mango-A-Go- Jamba Juice is the only one in the state Go. Then I moved to Ohio and all I knew of Ohio. was that no smoothie could ever compare to Janice Duis, the senior director of stimulating the all-natural deliciousness I’d experienced Corporate Communications and Investor down south. Even in winter, I’d long for my Relations for Jamba Juice, explains that favorite, frosty beverage. And then, suddenly, they take their smoothies very seriously. the mind and there it was; a Jamba Juice in the Union. “Our fresh fruit is picked at their peak Susan Sadoff, general manager of ripe period, flash-frozen to ensure they enhancing the University Dining Services, knows that it maintain their highest nutrient value and all began with Chartwells, a management quality,” Duis said. “All of the ingredients company with their own philosophy in our products are all natural with no quality of life. on eating: “Nourish the body while artificial flavors, no preservatives, 0 grams ” stimulating the mind and enhancing the trans fats and no high fructose corn syrup.” - Susan Sadoff quality of life.” When fruit and juice just aren’t “They came in and wanted to enough, consumers can kick their innovate, add some excitement, bring smoothies into high gear with a boost. in some new options and one of those Jamba describes these as “high quality, happened to be a franchise called Jamba effective, nutritional supplements Juice,” Sadoff said. formulated to boost the body and mind.”
14 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 Jamba Juice explains that their name “Whenever there’s something new, blending roughly 400 smoothies on their originated in West Africa. The word “jama” people are gonna try it,” Martin said. slowest days. means celebrate, and that’s exactly what the And many are getting hooked. The corporations are pleased. newest tribe of employees at the Nest is doing. The numbers would suggest that Bowling “Our growth in the college and university Strange as it seems, they like their jobs and Green is breeding a considerable amount segment in the short time we have marketed the suppliers admit to being frequent users. of Jamba junkies. “People on the Street,” to them speaks volumes to our mutual Keli Syrowski, senior, enjoys the fast a popular feature of The BG News, asked success and how much students love our pace. She digs the smoothies, too. students after a particularly blizzard-y week, products,” Duis said. “I’ve actually never had anything from “Instead of snow, what do you wish the However, while Jamba expands its Jamba Juice that I didn’t like,” she said. “I don’t ground was covered with?” Tara Middlestead, markets, some Jamba junkies could be say that just ‘cause I’m an employee.” junior, answered “Jamba Juice.” She’s on her inadvertently expanding their waistlines. Jane Syrowski is headed to Las Vegas for way, walking a fine line between appreciation Crandall, a dietician and nutrition counselor spring break and has already confirmed and addiction. for the Student Health Services said fruits and that there is a Jamba Juice near her Jamba Juice earned $342.9 million juices are naturally high in sugar and sugar accommodations. She plans to sample a in 2008. Bowling Green will be a heavy calories are burned faster, so you feel hungry smoothie her store doesn’t offer, like the contributor to their future success when again sooner. Hawaiian-inspired Aloha Pineapple. Jamba junkies are paying about four dollars “Sugar is what sugar is, whether it’s Jessica Martin, freshman and employee, per day to get their fixes. natural or artificial,” she said. was in New York on a class trip when she “When Jamba first started, there were According to Crandall, the recommended had her first Jamba experience. But most of one or two days where they actually eclipsed amount of fruit is two to four servings a day. Bowling Green is unfamiliar with the company. Steak Escape,” Sadoff said. “They’re one of With 22 ounces of Jamba, consumers get all “If people have heard of it, it’s because the most popular venues.” those servings through a straw. So after your they travel,” she said. Michelle Tuel, food service coordinator smoothie, Crandall says to remember your Martin thinks the popularity is spreading for University Dining Services and manager whole grains, lean proteins, and of course, by word of mouth. of Jamba Juice, confirmed that they’re still your vegetables. The best bet for good health is “variety in foods and moderation in portions,” she said. Jamba Juice is accurately labeled, the Instead of snow, what do you wish ingredients are listed and the nutritional information is available on their Web site. Their smoothies are even categorized to the ground was covered with? give customers an idea of what they’re really getting. The “Jamba Light” options offer Jamba Juice. fewer calories and sugars than the “Jamba “ ” Classics” or “Creamy Treats.” However, an - Tara Middlestead original Mango Mantra still has 56 grams of carbohydrates. Crandall compared this to four pieces of bread. Venturing into sinful is the dessert smoothie, Peanut Butter Moo’d. Twenty- two ounces of this creamy treat provides 770 calories, 20 grams of fat and only half a serving of fruit. Yet there are 20 grams of protein and 4 grams of fiber. Tommy Duvall, junior and employee, is a fan, but recognizes that his favorite is “kinda, super unhealthy.” When considering the convenience, Jamba Juice could be the best option when students only have enough time to fly through the Nest. There’s no denying their popularity; the cups are everywhere. Sadoff and Tuel suspect that Strawberries Wild is the campus favorite. Mmm, I remember getting wild with strawberries for the first time. That’s the gateway smoothie. That’s how it starts. But like I said; I’m a Jamba junkie. KEY
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 15 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY This year the University celebrates its Centennial through service By Becky Tener
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n 1910, the city park was transformed by completing 1 million hours of service into the site for a teaching school, this year. Bowling Green Normal College. Weiss said 1 million hours of service is This is not just Over the last 100 years, that same a way for everyone tied to the University to “ Iinstitute has expanded its reach from the get involved in the celebration. campus buildings to the students they’re “There are lots of things we could have Bowling Green filled with, creating a University and, as the done. We could have had a big extravaganza current slogan says, “an education worth and there are still things like that coming State University celebrating.” up,” he said, “but we wanted to leave Larry Weiss, co-chair of the Centennial something more meaningful ... something Celebration committee, has been planning, that left a mark on the University for years today; it’s 100 with the help of his seven subcommittees, to come.” many events to celebrate throughout 2010. Weiss said because more than just years in the “This is not just Bowling Green State students are asked to get involved, many University today; it’s 100 years in the hours of service will be done by alumni. making,” he said. “We hope students “It’s Bowling Green nationwide ... people making. understand that their four years here is part all over the country doing service in the name ” of the next 100 years. They’re going to be of Bowling Green State University,” Weiss said. - Larry Weiss contributing and making Bowling Green The Director of the Office of Service what it is.” Learning Jane Rosser said students will be As part of the University Centennial able to log their hours on the Centennial Web Celebration, students, faculty, staff site, so the Centennial committee can keep and alumni have been challenged to track of their progress toward the 1 million commemorate the University’s anniversary hour goal.
16 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 She said the Web site will be a “one- put together an exciting list of events that through next fall and also show their Falcon stop-shop” for all the resources students, will involve the “full participation of the pride with Centennial Celebration T-shirts faculty, staff and alumni will need to BGSU community.” and other Centennial apparel. find information about other service “This is a wonderful time for the April 24, 100 of the University’s most opportunities. University to celebrate ... and tell the world prominent alumni will be honored at the Rosser said that if everyone associated with about how great BGSU is,” she said. Alumni Centennial Awards. May 19, the the University puts in 50 hours of service Carr said the best way for students to University will celebrate with its sister this year, then the 1 million hours goal will enjoy the Centennial is by getting involved university Kent State at the state capitol to be reached. and exploring the University’s past. commemorate the signing of legislation that Weiss said the earlier students start to “We are asking all student organizations created the two schools in 1910. get involved the easier it will be to meet the 1 take a look at their organizations past, when Students can look forward to are million hours. and where they started, how they’ve change Homecoming of next year, and November 9 “I really want students to get going on and what has stayed the same,” she said. “It will be the Anniversary Convocation where this,” Weiss said. “Without the students, the is so important for our current students to a big name speaker, former presidents, other groups [such as alumni, faculty and have the sense of tradition that come with a alumni, students, faculty and staff will be staff] will not be able to meet those 1 million centennial and what a better time to display it.” invited to celebrate. KEY hours,” he said. According to the Centennial Celebration Jill Carr, University dean of students, said Web site, the University will offer many the Centennial Celebration committee has events for students to take part in this month
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KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 17 HOPE FOR HAITI CAMPUS GROUPS FORM CONNECTIONS, REACH OUT By Allison Borgelt, Assistant editor
ACT Pastor Dave Warner (far right) helps tear down the Lashbrook Family Ministry International school after Haiti’s earthquake in January. The school was torn down with the hope that the church below it could be saved. However, Warner said the church can no longer be used due to Photos provided by Dave Warner structural damage.
hile the world mourned for The trips were initiated by ACT Pastor Haiti after a magnitude 7.0 Dave Warner, who lived in Haiti as a earthquake struck its capital missionary for five years. He became ACT’s Everyone on Jan. 12 and killed tens of minister in 1995 and began taking students to “ Wthousands of people, some in the University Haiti soon after. community shed tears for their Haitian friends. “Everyone who’s ever gone in has said who’s ever gone “This is really personal for us. It breaks it’s one of the most life-changing experiences our heart,” said Julia McKee, a 2009 University they have ever had,” he said, “and the lessons in has said it’s graduate leading Active Christians Today’s that you learn are lessons for life.” Haiti relief efforts. Terri Cline, a senior majoring in physical Members of ACT, a campus church, have education, traveled with ACT last summer to one of the most been going on 10-day mission trips to Haiti the LFM mission. She said the trip made her twice each summer for almost 12 years. They realize all she took for granted at home: cars, life-changing serve Haitian children and other missionaries Internet access, phones and showers, among at Lashbrook Family Ministry International, other American amenities. a mission containing an orphanage, school, “It really gets you out of your comfort experiences they boys’ and girls’ homes and church, located zone,” Cline said. about 150 miles north of the capital city, Port- She and the other students slept on the au-Prince, in a town called Port-de-Paix. flat roof of the LFM orphanage each night, have ever had. The trips have forged a bond between and although they had tents, most chose to ” ACT and the Haitians, leading the sleep on air mattresses under the stars. - Dave Warner organization to continue traveling to the “You hear the waves rolling in and hitting poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and the sides of the walls,” said Megan O’Connor, raising awareness and money for its people. an ACT staff member who has been to
18 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 We take in boys off the street and we teach them “how to play basketball, and we also have devotionals, like prayer time, with them,” – Megan O’Conner
The gold medal-winning teams in ACT’s July 2009 basketball camp show their team pride. The boys in the front row won the younger division, and the boys in the back row won the older division.
Haiti five times. “It’s really kind of relaxing, when they were younger, but as they got older Although she loves them all, a boy she met on especially at night, just that whole sound of and not as cute, a lot of the sponsors would her first trip, Rodney, has a special place in the water, and the moon and the stars. It’s drop them,” he said, explaining the boys’ her heart. really quite, quite beautiful.” tendency to cause trouble. Without sponsors, “He kind of attached himself to me,” she Both Cline and O’Connor were in Haiti many of them couldn’t finish school, and said, “and throughout the whole time I was in July for ACT’s annual basketball camp at they couldn’t find jobs because of high there, whenever it wasn’t sleeping time, he was the mission. The students run the camp for unemployment. at my side, hanging on my skirt, you know, Haitian boys, in addition to helping with So Warner, with the help of his youngest sitting on my lap, always with me.” construction-related service projects and son and some boys and dads from his son’s O’Connor sponsors Rodney, who is 14. taking care packages to homes in Port-de-Paix. traveling basketball team, started the first “I call him my son,” she said, and Rodney “We take in boys off the street and we annual basketball camp at LFM. is the first kid she sees and hugs on each trip. teach them how to play basketball, and we also A highlight of the camp is a huge “Every time I go, I can’t wait to see his smiling have devotionals, like prayer time, with them,” birthday party that ACT throws for the boys face. I just, I love that kid to death.” O’Connor said. She explained that ACT takes every year on the last day. Kirby Shuey, a junior majoring in early suitcases full of shoes for the boys so they don’t “Oh man, that almost brings me to childhood education, also connected well with have to play in bare feet or flip-flops. tears sometimes,” Todd Schlereth said, Haitian boys on her May 2009 trip to Haiti. The basketball camp started as a father- remembering the parties. “A lot of them don’t “I remember most just hanging out son project, as Warner had shipped in a rim even know when their birthdays are, so it’s with the boys in the orphanage,” Shuey said. and backboard to set up for his sons. He really cool to have that big party together.” “They were the older boys who can’t really be said the local Haitian boys, most of whom Schlereth is a staff member of h2o Church at adopted because they’re too old, so it was cool had given him a rough time as a missionary, the University who has helped with two of just to hang out with them every night. They started being nicer when they saw the ACT’s basketball mission trips. would give us lessons on how to speak Creole.” basketball equipment. O’Connor has worked with kids who ACT’s May trips, including Shuey’s, “Many of them had been sponsored are too young to be involved with the camps. mainly involve education majors teaching
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 19 Former ACT member Kelly Lilak poses with a Some Haitian boys roast hot dogs at the children’s Todd Schlereth spends time with some of the boys Haitian boy during ACT’s basketball camp in home in July 2009. The roast was part of the from the Lashbrook Family mission at the annual July 2009. annual birthday party ACT throws for the kids. birthday party thrown by ACT.
at the LFM mission and a nearby school “We loaded them up on a bus about 3:30 Contributions from student organizations, and church. Warner said the group usually in the morning, and they took off for the U.S. individuals on campus, Bowling Green completes a work project in May, which embassy in what’s left of Port-au-Prince,” community members and Parkview Christian “may be anything from painting to helping Warner said. “It kind of made all the gloom Church in Findlay have filled the vehicles. In build the walls on the school,” and takes care and doom that was around you, kind of addition, Warner said about $10,000 has been packages from hut to hut in the mountains softened it a little bit.” donated, and all of it is being sent to help around Port-de-Paix, “just letting people up Warner and Schlereth, who traveled refugees in Port-au-Prince. there know that there’s someone who cares together, remember the faces of the tragedy- “There has just been an overwhelming about them.” struck Haitians they saw while organizing response from the students here and in Serving and loving the Haitian children food giveaways, assisting work teams and the community for supplies, and even for at the LFM mission is Jessica Fager’s most visiting a local hospital full of refugees from financial aid for me to take in,” Warner said. prevalent memory. Fager, a 2006 University Port-au-Prince. They witnessed desperate He said he put some of the funds toward food, graduate, went on an ACT trip in July 2007 mothers, children who had lost their parents, water and temporary housing for homeless before interning with LFM in Haiti from severely injured hospital patients and a man Haitians while he was helping at the mission. May 2008 to May 2009. She taught English to who was carried from Port-au-Prince to Port- While there has been an influx of children in the school and orphanage during de-Paix by hand on a stretcher. supplies donated by the campus and her internship. “It’s just the feeling of being displaced, Bowling Green community so far, Warner “What I remember most is just the the feeling of desperateness, the feeling of, says there’s a chance the number of happiness and fulfilled feeling I had knowing ‘What’s going to happen next?’” Warner said. donations may decrease. that I was serving the children,” Fager said. “I While Warner was engulfed in the “There’s always a danger that when got to be a part of showing them the kind of chaos of Haiti, the students and staff of ACT something like this is dropped from the news love that they deserve because, you know, a stepped in to organize the Haiti relief effort that the interest drops,” he said. “The needs lot of them didn’t come from situations that on campus. in Haiti are going to go on for a long time, so were very loving.” McKee organized a table display to if we can keep the interest up and keep the As a result of the earthquake, 41 of the promote giving to Haiti in the Union, supplies going, that’s going to be a real help.” children Fager and other ACT members came complete with a box for items such as canned ACT already has plans to head back to to know at the orphanage had their adoption food, bar soap and baby wipes to be sent to Haiti in May and July, and Warner said he processes finalized and were sent to the LFM. The Caribbean Association, Impact has no reason to think the trips will stop United States. Ministries and h2o Church on campus anytime soon. “Some of them had been in the adoption also collected supplies for LFM, and the “I’d say that Haiti is very much a part of process for two years or even more than Undergraduate Student Government and the heart and soul of ACT because there are so that, and so it was just so exciting to know Graduate Student Senate initiated a “coin many connections there,” Warner said. “When that they’re finally getting to be with their war” competition among the residence halls, the students go down, it’s just a tremendous families,” Fager said. with all proceeds benefitting ACT’s cause. encouragement to the people there. It gives As the Haitian children were preparing to Warner said one semi truckload and them hope.” KEY leave for their new homes, Warner was asked two cargo vanloads of supplies have been to leave his and help run the LFM mission for collected and sent to Haiti thus far, and a couple of weeks. another vanload will be shipped out soon.
20 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 KISS OF SUN OR KISS OF DEATH? Students fall prey to the tanning phenomenon By Sarah Bailey
need to go tanning,” University Green salon and baking their bodies for the freshman Allie Fennell announced maximum time allowed. to her friends at the kitchen table as The controversy surrounding tanning I don’t think they were eating, a longing look on has students wondering if there is a “ Iher face. The others looked down at their minimum amount one can tan without arms, feeling as if for an instant Fennell’s being put at risk, or if monthly unlimited you need to have sun-kissed glow may be surpassing their deals at tanning salons are just too much. own. She glanced outside and thought of While the Food and Drug a dark skin tone digging her car out of the large amount of Administration recommends to work your snow in Lot 12 to go to the salon. way up and use a tanning bed no more Fennell isn’t the only one who has joined than once a week, many students clearly go all year round, the tanning craze. Many people have done beyond this limit. Tanning organizations it; gone out of their way to alter their looks to claim that the effects on a person are largely accommodate trends. Tanning is in the same due to the person’s skin type as well as and I’m fine with vein as tattoos, hairstyles, nails and make- previous exposure to rays before using a up when it comes to body modifications. tanning bed. Because tanning beds supply my pale self. Tanning has become a phenomenon that is increased Vitamin D synthesis, many raging in college campuses and high schools students agree that it is OK to tan a few ” among young Americans. times to acquire a “base tan” before going on - Michelle Morrison Despite the lingering statistics, tanning vacation, while very light-toned people may is more popular than ever. Threats of even say they need it. melanoma and other forms of skin cancer “I find nothing wrong with tanning,” don’t seem to stop students from getting Fennell said. “It boosts self-esteem, is in their cars, driving to a local Bowling relaxing and I just don’t like feeling pale.”
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 21 “The Food and Drug Administration recommends using a tanning bed no more than once a week.”
Fennell started tanning for dances for high school and college students. Tanning University sophomore Michelle Morrison and special events when she was in junior has become a part of one’s day just as much thinks taking the risk to tan during the winter high, and she began to tan regularly her as getting homework done or cleaning one’s months is too great. junior year of high school. Like other room. While many have come to support “In all honesty, I believe it’s dumb,” students, she feels that it is her body and having a year-long tan, others have come to Morrison said. “I don’t think you need to her decision to tan. question the obsession. have a dark skin tone all year round, and I’m Shows such as MTV’s “Jersey Shore” Many doctors and scientists have fine with my pale self.” project to young teenagers tanning is a day- labeled the use of tanning beds as unhealthy Morrison represents many people who to-day lifestyle. The “Gym, tan, laundry” or and even deadly. Researchers show that are content with their appearances, and she theme expressed by show characters Pauly using a tanning bed for only a short amount has seen the effects of skin cancer without D and Mike has somewhat become a reality of time can lead to genetic damage, faster stepping foot in a salon. aging, wrinkles, skin cancer and tissue “My mom had skin cancer,” she said, damage. Other serious effects can include “I don’t have the need to go tanning or get corneal and retinal eye damage. spray tanned weekly, and I don’t want to According the World Health waste my money.” I find nothing Organization, melanoma is becoming Tanning is also expensive. According “ more and more common in the United to Business Wire, in 2003, 10 percent of States and other countries around the Americans spent about $300 per year on wrong with world each year, with tanning beds being tanning indoors. In a recession, many believe one of the primary factors. Curable skin this money could go towards a variety of tanning. cancers such as basal and squamous cell other things. kill around 2,000 people in the United In a study published by the American ” States per year. Melanoma, however, the Academy of Dermatology in 2004, tanning - Allie Fennell deadlier cancer, affects 59,000 Americans, beds were found to be addictive, due to the and kills more than 7,000 each year. relaxed feeling users wanted to experience
22 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 WISE UP: KEEP YOUR COLOR HEALTHY WITH THESE TANNING TECHNIQUES
Spray tans are a good alternative to the tanning bed. Where the results may have been looking like a carrot a few years ago, spray tans have advanced to deliver an even, bronzed look. again. Even if tanning does not seem “Beauty now is going to have a price Bronzer- Make-up is a great way addicting at the time, a mental addiction later on,” Hanlon said. “It’s not worth risking to get that bronze glow you are can develop later when the user’s their tan is your life.” looking for. When applied right on fading and he or she needs to return to the Whatever the case, national and the cheek bones, face, and dusted tanning bed or get a spray tan again. Many international organizations feel obligated on the upper body, you can get a doctors agree this constant worrying over to present warnings about tanning. A list sun-kissed glow for any occasion, being tan is not healthy for young teens. of categories made by the International without the harmful rays. Terri Hanlon, director of operations Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation at Tri Health in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Protection shows what groups of people are Sunless Tanning Lotions and former director of practice operations of highly discouraged from using tanning beds, Sprays- With different shades dermatology at the University of Cincinnati, including people who have sensitive skin for different skin types, you can knows what she’s talking about when it types, children younger than 18 years old, naturally build your tan with comes to skin care. people who have many of moles or freckles, specific tanning lotions and sprays. “I’ve seen people with skin cancer from a history of child sunburn, sun-damaged 12 to 80 years old,” Hanlon said. “It might skin or skin lesions, people on certain seem great now, but by the time you are 30, medications or who are wearing cosmetics. Natural Sun- Although the sun you will see the cosmetic effects of leathery Is tanning worth it? The response may holds dangerous rays and too skin and many wrinkles.” be personal, but the facts aren’t. Tanning much of it can be harmful to you, Tri Health and the American Academy should not be taken lightly. In the long natural sunlight is one way to of Dermatology are both against the usage of run, a sun-kissed glow may become the obtain Vitamin D. Overall you are tanning beds, according to Hanlon. Instead kiss of death. KEY better to wait until Summer to they recommend the use of spray tans and build your tan! wearing sun protection, such as sun block, hats and sunglasses, year-round to protect against UV and UVB rays.
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 23 SETTING UP FOR SUCCESS
Students seek summer internships to strengthen job skill sets By Alissa O’Neill
rom physics to English literature, it’s a requirement for students in the the programs offered at the environmental program. University can be as different as “We want them to apply the knowledge You develop apples and oranges. While the and skills they learned in school to a real-life “ Fdifferences can be many, there is a common setting,” Silverman explained. “It helps them some necessary link among the students of those programs in terms of their knowledge and abilities and — they can all benefit from a summer it also helps them after they graduate to get a internship in their field. job because they have the experience.” skill sets that Summer internships have become Summer internships can help students an instrumental part of many academic land post-graduation jobs in more ways programs at the University and largely for than simply looking good on a resume. you strengthen one simple reason — to give students an Internships can also give students the extra edge when they graduate. Andrea opportunity to build a network of contacts and that they Gutierrez, an assistant director of the Career within their field. According to Susan Young, Center at the University, said internship another assistant director of the Career experience is often the one item on a Center, those contacts can come in handy look for. student’s resume that employers look for once the job search begins. above all else. “I have students that come home from ” “You develop some necessary skill sets great internships and they are pumped, it’s - Andrea Gutierrez that you strengthen and that they look for,” what they want to do. And then school sets Gutierrez said. back in, business sets in and before you Gary Silverman, director of know it, it’s been six months since they’ve environmental programs at the University, had any contact with their bosses,” Young said that’s one of the reasons why said. “And then they come back in and they
24 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 finish it, but it’s all learning.” fall, spring or summer session, and Disney Why go home While a summer internship can provides the students with housing and “ motivate students to achieve their career transportation. and flip burgers if goals after graduation, it can also motivate Junior telecommunications major them to keep working for graduation. Brittanie Prinz is in her fourth semester as “If you have a good summer internship, the University’s campus representative for you can go home you come back to school and it’s like ‘OK, the Disney College Program and says the I see where this is all headed,’” Young said. program has helped change her life. “‘It’s worth it, even that yadda-yadda general “It’s truly an opportunity of a lifetime,” and do something education class that I have to take in the fall Prinz said enthusiastically. “It’s amazing.” that I don’t wanna take.’” Prinz spent January through August as of substance? For those looking to gain a fresh a Disney College Program intern in 2008 and perspective on their education and get then went back for another four months last ” ahead in their careers, two internship summer. She said there are a wide variety - Susan Young programs available on campus help students of roles interns can fill at Disney World, and of any major achieve those pre- and post- every single one provides the students with say, ‘OK I’m doing my job search now.’ And graduation benefits. experience in many different fields. they’re starting from scratch. When they The Washington Center Program places “You’re not just focusing on one area,” have in their hand all of the nuggets, all of students in internships in Washington, Prinz explained. “You’re constantly learning the seeds. So we start with, ‘OK let’s get those D.C., with organizations such as the transferable skills that you can take anywhere.” business cards back out, let’s dust those Environmental Protection Agency, CNN Disney College Program interns fill babies back off.’” and the JFK Center for the Performing Arts. front-line positions at the theme park, Keeping in touch with those contacts Housing is available and students can enroll including custodial, hospitality, food service can help open avenues for finding potential for a spring, fall or summer semester. and attraction-operating roles. Students can employers and can be as simple as sending In addition to allowing students also audition to be the Disney characters that a holiday card. Not only can students to explore a possible career path, the roam the park or, if the costumes don’t suit communicate with their bosses about job Washington Center Program also serves as them, they can also apply to be characters’ openings in the company they interned with, a networking venue. Washington Center attendants. but they can also ask for recommendations students attend a congressional breakfast Students who want to explore different about other companies that might be hiring series and talk with members of Congress, fields of interest also have the power to do and what they can be doing at school to and they also participate in civics projects so through the Disney College Program, become more marketable. and attend a lecture series. Prinz said. When she spent time at Disney, Students don’t have to wait until they “At the very least they develop a network she wanted to put her love of sports to work graduate or begin a career search to benefit of professionals who know them,” said and had the chance to work with ESPN, go from internship experience. One important Young, the University’s campus liaison for behind the scenes of a broadcast and meet benefit of an internship, Young said, is the the Washington Center Program. “It’s one some of the broadcasters. ability to “test-drive a career” to find out thing to know the professionals. It’s another “The door is wide open,” Prinz said. “All what fits. thing to have them know you.” they have to do is ask and they can do that.” “When the alarm goes off at 6 a.m. it Not only are the students at the A summer internship like the Disney College really helps if you’re excited about what Washington Center making professional Program has the ability to shape a student’s you’re going to be doing that day,” Young said. contacts in the business world, but they are future, as it did for Prinz. It can mold a With a summer internship, students also networking with other students. This student’s expectations of post-graduation can discover what kind of work environment is a shared benefit of another internship life and it can also be a tool with which the they prefer, if they’d rather work with a team opportunity available to University students student succeeds in that life. or by themselves and what they’re looking for — the Disney College Program. With the numerous benefits students in a boss. The Disney College Program internship gain from a summer internship, Young “Do your best to find a setting, a is a paid opportunity for students of any doesn’t see much of a choice when it comes product, an atmosphere, a mission, a major to earn real-world experience at a to how to spend a summer vacation. demographic, a population that you want to Fortune-500 company that is globally known “Why go home and flip burgers if serve,” Young recommended. “Sometimes an for its customer service. “The happiest place you can go home and do something of internship is going to be a challenge to even on Earth” becomes the students’ home for a substance?” Young asked. KEY
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 25 MEET A MIRACLE: BRYTON CHARLES By Nikia Washington she stayed stuck to her dream of someday being a mother. Soon after meeting husband Daniel Charles, she started therapy to help them to start a family. “We tried, but it didn’t work,” Charles said. A year and a half after beginning treatment, pregnancy still did not seem to be an option. Charles remembers her aunt Beatrice Osborne, known as Aunt Bea, asking when she would have kids when she was as young as 17 years old. “She would always ask, ‘Are you pregnant yet,’” Charles remembered. Unfortunately, Charles was not. In 2008, before her death, Aunt Bea continued to hope for her niece’s pregnancy. Some of the last words from Aunt Bea to Charles were, “It’s okay. Keep praying, it’ll be alright.” Aunt Bea died in April 2008. Charles found out she was pregnant the following month. The day after Christmas, Charles was given the gift of a lifetime. Dec. 26, 2007, six weeks early, Bryton Phillip Charles was born. Ironically, this was also Aunt Bea’s birthday. “He has great big eyes like Aunt Bea and her brown hair,” Bryton’s grandmother, Shirley Bechstein said. The family feels as if Bryton was Aunt Bea’s special gift, and his birth was nothing Photos provided by The BG News short of a dream come true. This dream was cut short of a fairy tale, however, as it became lumsily running around the clear Bryton was not completely healthy. lounge of Offenhauer residence Bryton was put into the Neonatal hall with a huge smile and large Intensive Care Unit (NICU) after delivery, You have to blue eyes, 13-month-old Bryton due to respiratory distress syndrome and “ CCharles is obviously used to being the center underdevelopment of his lungs. While in the of attention. As he skips energetically, there NICU, the nurses realized Bryton was not make sure other are no signs he has not been eating this able to ingest the formula. He was required week. But he has had to get used to an empty to stay in the NICU for eight days and went kids don’t give stomach since he was diagnosed with home on Jan. 1, though he was still sick. Celiac disease. “He never stopped vomiting up the Bryton is one of millions of children formula,” Charles said. His weight was him food or that living with an illness – these are the children unstable, because he was rarely eating, but that the University’s Dance Marathon is there was no diagnosis. he won’t trade dedicated to helping. Today, Bryton and “We had to change his clothes eight to 10 his parents have joined one of 10 miracle times a day,” Bechstein said. families for Dance Marathon to share The Charleses took Bryton to numerous snacks. their stories of overcoming obstacles and pediatricians to find the cause of this behavior, ” encourage others to join this year’s theme but for months, they had no success. - Susan Charles “Celebrations.” In June 2008, St. Vincent’s Children’s At the 13 years old, Susan Charles Hospital referred the family to Dr. Mark was told she would never be able to have Naddaf in Maumee, OH. As the result of children. As a teen, she was diagnosed with numerous tests and examinations, there endometriosis, a medical condition which was finally a diagnosis for Bryton — inflates the ovaries. Despite her diagnosis, Celiac disease.
26 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 It is the “innocence of children such as Bryton which makes Bowling Green students’ dance ‘ For the Kids.’”
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease as worrying about other people Bryton hour event, the actual marathon. that disables a person from being able to will come into contact with who are not As Bryton prepares to leave, he waves consume any gluten products, or in Bryton’s educated about his disease. goodbye with what his mother calls his case, come into contact with them. Gluten, There is hope for Bryton’s future, though. “princess wave.” Bryton is completely the protein in wheat, is found in many foods As an infant, his skin is thin, which makes it unaware of the disease he will carry for products and in other common items such easier for gluten to slip into his bloodstream. the rest of his life. But the money raised as crayons and glue. Those with the disease As he gets older and his skin thickens, he will from Dance Marathon will help him in his must have carefully structured diets and become more tolerant of gluten. Still, it will struggle. KEY adhere to a long list of restrictions. never be apart of his diet. “People don’t understand,” Charles said. “So Charles admits one of her concerns is people give him any type of food.” when she has to send Bryton off to school. Charles explains, more than anything, “I’m scared,” she said. “You have to make most people also fail to understand the sure other kids don’t give him food or that he expense of the disease. Bryton can only eat won’t trade snacks.” She even thinks into the gluten-free food, which is cost twice as much far future, when Bryton enters his teen years. as regular grocery items. “He can’t go out with friends for pizza,” “At Toys’R’Us there was an aisle full of she says, wearing a face of remorse. Then her gluten-free foods,” Charles said, eyes big expression brightens, and she jokes, “But he’ll with joy. “I was so excited, I was throwing never be an alcoholic.” everything in the basket!” Though the Charles family nervously However, as the Charleses continue to anticipates their future with Bryton and spend money on food, it is not a guarantee his illness, they continue to celebrate each Bryton will be able to keep any of it down. new day. “He’s not eating this week,” his mother said, At an NICU reunion at St. Vincent’s in as she watched his play with his food cubes. October, the Charleses signed up for the Bryton’s scarce appetite causes his body to University’s Dance Marathon program. have iron, vitamin and calcium deficiencies, Charles did not know much about the resulting in weak bones. event and at first thought it was a play event While Bryton’s parents work on for the kids rather than a fundraiser. Her educating themselves, doctors are still mother later told her what Dance Marathon working to understand this new disease as was, and now she looks forward to the event. well. When Bryton fell recently and had to April 10-11, in the Student Recreation have medical treatment for a cut, a doctor Center, the Charleses and many other miracle tried to give him stitches. families will be celebrating Dance Marathon’s “I had to tell him he couldn’t because 15th anniversary. The University’s Dance [stitches have] gluten,” Charles said. Marathon is the biggest philanthropy event in Charles admits her biggest struggle the state of Ohio. Dance Marathon includes is not worrying about Bryton as much a yearlong fundraiser that culminates in a 32
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 27 HERE TO STAY After a close shave with cancellation, the University hockey program will live to skate another season By Michele Wysocki
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he University’s efforts to rebuild students pay, aside from room, board and the hockey program have been tuition, goes strictly to athletics, Christopher proven successful. said. A fraction of those student fees pay for I never want Over the past eight months, the the scholarships, room and board and tuition TUniversity has gone through a process to for student athletes. “ decide whether or not to keep the hockey Christopher described it as a circular to compare us program. During that time, President Carol pattern: “You pay a student fee, it then Cartwright, the Board of Trustees and Athletic comes to athletics, and we turn around and Director Gregory Christopher were put in the pay it right back to the University for the to anybody, we position financially to discuss whether there tuition and scholarships of your peers, the were enough funds to keep all 18 varsity sports, student athletes.” are who we are, and the hockey program was given serious The history of the hockey program was consideration. discussed when deciding if the University “Due to the decline in enrollment in the sport should stay or go. The program started we are Bowling past two years, nearly $2 million had to be cut as a club sport in the late 1960s. Hockey then out of the athletic budget,” Christopher said. moved from a club sport to a varsity sport. Green, and we “We know where the hockey program has been “For a 10-15 year period, the University’s the last 5 or 10 years, it is going to take some hockey program was very strong nationally, time to build it back up, ultimately we decided including the 1984 national championship,” are proud. to keep all 18 sports, which led us down the Christopher said. “As for our team now, getting ” decision path that we are on today.” them in a more competitive position will take – Dennis Williams The funding for athletics is tied directly time, but it can be done.” to enrollment, so when enrollment declines, Once it was decided the hockey program so does athletic funding. A portion of the fee was here to stay, financial issues such as the
28 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 2009-2010 BGSU hockey team after winning against Western Michigan. 1985 BGSU hockey team wins an exhibition game against Photo provided by Courtney Stellar. the Russian Spartac hockey team at the Richfield Coliseum. scholarship endowment for the hockey players In Williams’ spare time, his focus shifts needed to be addressed. The University figured from the players to funding the program. out how it was going to approach the financial While a big portion was collected through I feel like the University situation, then the “Bring Back the Glory” fundraising, Williams has made some “ fundraising campaign began. There were many appearances and recently talked to a group of is behind the team now donations provided by alumni and a $500,000 alumni in Columbus. donation was made by Scott Hamilton, a “When possible I try to reach out to and it can only go up former Olympic figure skater who grew up in alumni as much as I can. Whether it is through Bowling Green. e-mail or a phone call, I let them know how from here. “Since we have started fundraising, we proud they should be of this group, and I try have raised about $1.2 million to date for to let them know what is going on here in – Ian Ruel ” hockey scholarships. Nearly half of the $1.2 Bowling Green,” Williams said. million comes from Scott,” Christopher said. If it was not for the players, there would Another burden that dangled over the not be a team at all. This season has been beginning of my senior year in high school. heads of program officials was the condition different from seasons past, but the players still When I came to visit the school, I met the of the ice arena. Due to the commitment play the same on the ice. Junior defenseman coaches, and the coaches were great, the to fix the facility, according to Christopher, and assistant captain David Solway said there campus was great and Bowling Green just the program will be spending $4 million to have been some positives and definitely seemed like the right fit for me,” Ruel said. “I renovate the ice arena after the season ends in some negatives, and there is always room for feel like the University is behind the team now the spring. the team to improve. They have lost a lot of and it can only go up from here. I just want to Because of uncertainty surrounding the extremely close games, and their record is take pride in being a Bowling Green Falcon and hockey program at the time, the University not showing how the team works as a whole, I just want to truly see this program succeed.” hired an interim head coach, Dennis Williams. according to Solway. Solway and Ruel both said there is still Williams received the coaching position late in “It is not fun losing those one-goal games time left in the season to do well. the summer of 2009 and coached during the when you know you are in the game the whole “We still have play-offs, so it is definitely 2009-10 season. time, and you might be a little bit short or not over,” Ruel said. “Dennis has done a great job; the best you are lacking that one little thing,” Solway Solway said rebuilding takes time and thing about Dennis is his positive attitude,” said. “We’re definitely in every game, guys are it is a day-to-day process to keep building Christopher said. “This has been a challenging having fun, it is a good atmosphere, it is just and getting better. He also said the guys work season, he keeps the team positive and has our record isn’t showing the W’s that we work hard over the summer, and there will be more them working hard.” hard for, and that we try to get night in and recruits coming in to play next season. After the season ends, the University will night out.” “There are the things a player cannot search for a permanent head coach. This season is also different, according control like stuff with the rink and “When the season ends, I will be to Solway, because there are three new recruiting and all that, but if that continues submitting my resume and hope that I am the coaches and there have been many changes. to improve instead of a stalemate or going right fit for the job,” Williams said. Additionally, there are ten new freshmen, so down, then there will be some positives For the time being, Williams is focusing the team is young. that we hope to see next year and years to much of his time on his 25 players. The “There are going to be some growing come,” Solway said. coaching staff as a whole has been happy with pains, but that should be leveled out and Losing is not from a lack of trying, as the transition taking place and is proud of the next year we’re hoping to build on our young Solway and Ruel said, and the fans that players’ output and their ability to compete crew here and then the guys coming in,” attend the hockey games notice. Freshman and not question systems, Williams said. Solway said. Sarah Keehnen said the games are nothing “I never want to compare us to anybody, One of the freshmen, forward Ian Ruel, short of intense. we are who we are, we are Bowling Green, and said the season started off rough, but the “They slam each other into the boards we are proud,” Williams said. “The players program is headed in the right direction. and sometimes there are fights,” Keehnen said. have done a nice job accepting the challenge.” “I committed to Bowling Green the “You can tell the players work hard.” KEY
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 29 YEARBy Heather Linder, Editor IN REVIEW Graduation is marked by the purchasing of caps and gowns, the final visits to favorite places in the city, the stress of senior classes and projects and, inevitably, the nostalgia. The 2009-2010 school year brought progression for the University, well documented through newspaper pages, e-mails, signs and more. It also brought change and development for each student. Those stories, though less advertised, are just as vital. As Key Magazine attempts to recapture the school year, those individual stories, memories and experiences will not be found in the pictures to follow. However, the changes to the University, the events on campus would be meaningless without the students behind them. Proceed to a University year in review through our eyes, but feel free to fill in your RESIDENCE HALL WALLS own blanks. TUMBLED DOWN In order to make room for one of the two new Residence Halls, Rodgers Quadrangle was demolished Feb. 20, along with Phi Kappa Tau and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity houses. Brothers from both houses were displaced to halls on campus where they took up temporary residence. In the area where Rodgers formerly stood will be filled by a new Residence Hall in 2011.
30 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 YEAR IN REVIEW OFFICIALS BROKE GROUND ON THE UNIVERSITY’S FUTURE Historic ground was broken Sept. 3, 2009 for the Stroh Center, the University’s future convocation center. The new facility was funded in large part by, and will be named after, former University trustee Kerm Stroh and his family. The Stroh’s $7.7 million dollar contribution is the largest single private gift in the school’s history. The Stroh Center, along with the Wolfe Center for the Performing Arts, are projected to be completed by 2011.
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KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 31 NEW PROVOST TOOK OVER Effective Aug. 15, 2009, Dr. Kenneth Borland Jr. took over as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. Borland came from East Stroudsburg University and inherited responsibility for all academic programs at the University, including enrollment and research. STUDENTS SOUGHT TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR FAR-OFF DISASTER Tragedy struck Port au Prince, Haiti Jan. 12 when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake wreaked havoc, and University students refused to sit by and watch. Numerous student groups reacted to the natural disaster by NEW COACH PRODUCED NATIONAL FINALIST organizing relief efforts. From collecting Under the direction of newly instated football coach Dave Clawson, receiver Freddie money to gathering needed supplies, SAAC, Barnes drew that national spotlight. Barnes was nominated for the Biletnikoff Award, Undergraduate Student Government and the annual, prestigious recognition for an outstanding college football receiver. Barnes Alpha Sigma Phi held events to inform statistics included being the nation’s leading receiver in catches, yards, touchdowns, yards students about the disaster and seek any per game and receptions per game. Though gaining national attention, Barnes was not help they could provide. chosen for the award.
32 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CONQUERED THE COURT ONCE MORE The women’s basketball team proved their athletic dominance this past season by bringing home the MAC regular-season title for the 6th consecutive season. The women also won the MAC Tournament for the 4th time in those six seasons and returned to the NCAA Tournament for the 10th time in school history. This marks the sixth- straight season the team has qualified for national postseason play. Though they lost to Michigan State, the team, headed up by coach Curt Miller, finished their season at 27-7.
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NATIONAL MUSICAL ACTS KICKED-OFF UNIVERSITY’S 100TH BIRTHDAY PARTY This year, the University turned 100. The centennial celebration was kicked off Jan. 10 in Anderson Arena with a concert event, which featured musicians Gavin DeGraw, Michelle Branch and Red Wanting Blue. The festivities will continue for one year and include an attempt at 1 million service hours, a special Homecoming this fall and more.
FACULTY FOUGHT DINING SERVICES CARTWRIGHT FOR UNIONIZATION GOT AN UPGRADE ADMINISTRATION The BGSU-Faculty Association As 2009’s summer heated TO END ON TIME delivered a letter Feb. 4 to up, campus dining halls After taking the President Cartwright declaring closed down as each facility University’s reigns in their intent to form a faculty received a facelift. University January 2009, President labor union. Although University Dining Services contracted Carol Cartwright administrators, including national food service supplier reaffirmed she will be Cartwright, unofficially do not Chartwells in attempts to retiring June 30, 2011 and support the organizing efforts, better meet students’ dietary ending her tenure as 11th almost 58 percent of University needs. The menus boast fresher president. Cartwright is faculty signed the petition cards ingredients and more meals the only female president in favor of a vote for a union. made from scratch. Several new in the University’s history. The FA is currently waiting for a chefs were also brought on to The search for her secret ballot on-campus faculty give on-campus diners more, replacement will begin election. better-tasting options. this fall.
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 33 CLASS OF 2010 SeniorS BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY “The direction in which education starts, will determine one’s future”
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Michael R. Elmerick Christie M. Emly Whitney C. Espinoza Carlos A. Evans Todd M. Farrell Lauren Amy Fatica B’nai L. Ferguson Management Musical Arts Apparel Merchandising Social Work Accounting Exercise Science Broadcast Journalism Information Systems & Product Development
Amanda Feuerstein Brittany Elizabeth Giovanni S. Fillari Julia M. Findling Rebecca M. Flynn Alaxandria D. Forror Brooke Ann Fortman Spanish Fiffick Telecommunication Theatre Telecommunication Dietetics Apparel Merchandising Spanish & Political & Product Development Science
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 37 Brandi D. Freeman J. Katelyn Freeman Andrew Michael Veronica K. Gale Mark J. Gallagher Queenita S. Gamble Emily C. Garr Biology French & Accounting Freyman Psychology Psychology Sport Management Sport Management Computer Science
Tyler R. Getz Nicole C. Gibbons Daniel J. Gierhart Deshawnda R. Amanda M. Gilles Beth O. Gonzalez Jessica L. Gonzalez Construction Mgmt Human Development Film Gilbert Middle Childhood Liberal Studies Psychology & Technology & Family Studies Community Health Education
Demetria B. Gordon Tarrah Layne Tianna Monique Brian A. Greer Lindsey E. Grilliot Loren Q. Gross Nicolle Guinan Telecommunications Graham Grayer Pre-Med Middle Childhood Telecommunication Tourism/Event Planning Physics Business Pre-Law Education
Immanuel Gyebi Chrishana L. Hadley Kristin Dorothy Suzanne M. Haley Pukar Hamal Rebecca R. Hammer Ashley Rene Hanna Sociology Mild-Moderate Hafer Management Computer Science Telecommunication Visual Communication Invervention Specialist Architecture/ Information Systems Technology Environmental Design Studies
Ashley M. Katherine Lynn Dominique A. Tiffany R. Harrison Whitney B. Michael Keith Meghan Hayward Hannah Hansler Harris Psychology Hashbarger Hausfeld Tourism/Event Planning Biology Biology Human Development Interpersonal Supply Chain & Family Studies Communication Management
38 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 Sely-Ann Headley Eric Matthew Sara L. Heil Aaron Michael Alissa Marie Carl M. Henderson Rhonda L. Henley Chemistry Hegman Mild-Moderate Helfferich Hellstrom Supply Chain Apparel Merchandising Supply Chain Intervention Specialist Visual Communication Management Management & Product Development Management Technology Information Systems
Andrew Paul Jessica R. Herr Shayla L. Herron Nicolette A. Hicks Ronald Eugene Kallie J. Hitchings Traci A. Holland Herman Deaf/Hard of Hearing Human Development Interior Design Hines Exercise Science BS in Gerontology Aviation Studies Intervention Specialist & Family Studies Interpersonal Communication
Tim Wade Hollon Stacie A. Honaker Ashleigh Nicole Hotz Cornelius Howard Dominique Chyna Luci K. Howard Muriel Jean Howard Adolescent/Young Adult Mild-Moderate Graphic Design Interpersonal Howard Adolescent/Young Adult Marketing /Secondary Education Intervention Specialist Communication Criminal Justice /Secondary Education
Audrey Katherine Nathanael R. Inniger Shanea L. Jackson Brittney D. Jarvie Brittaney N. Johnson Monique La’Juana Sarah Nicole Hyder Sport Management Human Development Sport Management Developmental Johnson Johnson Middle Childhood & Family Studies Disabilities Marketing Tourism/Event Planning Education & Habilitation
Peter James Adrienne G. Jones Brittani M. Jones Lester Jones Paunita J. Jones Mary Joseph Caryn D. Junius Johnston Accounting Human Development General Business Exercise Science Biochemistry Interpersonal Interpersonal & Family Studies Communication Communication
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 39 Angela M. Juricak Carolyn F. Kassouf Caitlin A. Keelor Stephanie C. Keller Scott Daniel Kelley Brittany Nicole Talmarita Shari Dietetics & Middle Childhood Communication Apparel Merchandising Computer Science Kendricks Kenner Exercise Science Education Disorders & Product Development Finance Telecommunications
Ryan Alexander Julia M. Kershaw Jeffrey R. Kidd Ryan A. Kiefer Kennedy Kilale Kristin R. Kill Leigha M. King Kenney Graphic Design Computer Science Spanish & Psychology Mathematics Accounting Geology Supply Chain Management
Raymund W. King Cheri Lynn Kinkead Andrew M. Kithinji Aimee D. Daniel J. Klohn Mathew James Andrew A. Kocsis Interpersonal Apparel Merchandising Medical Technology Klingelsmith Music Education Knauss Geography Communication & Product Development Interpersonal Geology Communication
Matthew R. Koehler Francis M. Kohler Adam A. Kowalski Julia Elaine Joanna Colleen Marc R. Larson Katelyn A. Laubis Music Education Advanced Technological Human Development Langman Larkin Engineering Technology Early Childhood Education & Family Studies English Interpersonal Education Communication
Elizabeth S. Lawler Jacob M. Lawrence Caitlyn B. Lay Lovey A. Leavell Josephine Lee Melissa A. Lemr Catherine L. Lewis Music Education Interpersonal Music Education Liberal Studies Psychology Planned Program Tourism/Event Planning Communication
40 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 Shauntina D. Lilly Travis J. Limbert Cassandra B. Lissey Lisa M. Lloyd Candice T. Loehrke Scott M. Leohrke Rachael E. Lohrum Interpersonal Popular Culture Accounting Social Work Mathematics Public Relations Exercise Science Communication
Elaine L. Long Jacquelyn A. Charles D. Lowe Jiabin Lu Jason M. Lyle Dawnn Mahulawde Jessica Rae Maio Scientific & Techonolgy Lovelady Finance Statistics Computer Science Psychology Planned Program Communication Visual Communication Technology
Rachael M. Mann Anthony Wayne Kristen M. Marshall Caitlin E. Martin Colin C. Martin Kelli N. Marvel Maureen Doriane Psychology Marsh Journalism Human Development Supply Chain Tourism/Event Planning Mason Interpersonal & Family Studies Management History Communication
Rebecca A. Mathias Jessica A. May Alex L. McClintock Shannon Noel Justin McGraw Spencer D. McGuire Curtis Lumar Biology Psychology Psychology McCurdy Psychology Interpersonal McKinnon Tourism/Event Planning Communications Adolescent/Young Adult /Secondary Education
Jimmy McLeod Heather Phoebe Sarah Jessica Brian P. Metzger Phoxay Michaleun Kelsi D. Milam Eric T. Miller Exercise Science Marie Merritt Messham Creative Writing International Studies Music Performance Film Biochemistry Music Education & Psychology
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 41 Gregory Edward Jenifer M. Mitchell Katrina Renee Jonathan Stephen Paula E. Monaco Bacari G. Nicholas Jonathon Miller Athletic Training/ Mitchell Moczadlo Dietetics Montgomery Moody Accounting Clinic Mgmt Apparel Merchandising International Studies Sport Management Accounting & Product Development & Spanish
Brian T. Moore Daniel J. Moore Taisia D. Moorman Erin A. Morley Katherine A. Morris Rebecca Marie Rebecca M. Moses Business Pre-Law Construction International Business Middle Childhood Music Arts Morrow Biology Management & Supply Chain Education Communication & Technology Management Disorders
Karin E. Mowery Elizabeth A. John R. Murar Kevin S. Musgrave Amanda B. Myers Emily K. Myers Rachel L. Nahrstedt Supply Chain Mungwe Interpersonal Environmental Health Sociology Communication Apparel Merchandising Management Marketing Communication Disorders & Product Development
Lee M. Nickol Magdaline W. Samantha N. Nye Kyle A. Ogden Michelle S. Jessica Megan Kathryn F. Osborne Computer Science Nyambura Interpersonal Supply Chain Olmstead Orchard Middle Childhood Health Science Communication Management Print Journalism Criminal Justice Education
Lindsey M. Andrew B. Ouriel Kimberly A. Panozzo Sausha R. Parham Sandria K. Parks Katheryn N. Pepple Sara L. Perez Osselborn Print Journalism Geography Philosophy Accounting Two-Dimensional Technology Education Apparel Merchandising Studies & Photography & Product Development
42 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 Matthew N. Perry Anthony P. Phillips Travis K. Philo Melissa A. Pikul Kristyn R. Pitchford Briaunna Z. Ponder Gina L. Potthoff Supply Chain Print Journalism Adolescent/Young Adult International Business Biology Psychology Print Journalism Management /Secondary Education
Megan K. Potts Amanda J. Powell Jessica Lynn Prince A. Marie Pruitt Britni Noelle Rachel Marie Ashley M. Ragan Adolescent/Young Adult Chemistry Middle Childhood Interior Design Puryear Radwanski Tourism/Event Planning /Secondary Education Education Foreign Language Visual Communication Education Technology
Saxon D. Rebosky William G. Reed Jennifer L. Gabrielle E. Repko Carli R. Rhodes Khalfani A. Rice William R. Rickels Liberal Studies Finance Reichenbach Psychology Nursing Recreation Biology Criminal Justice
Amber Leann Diane M. Roberts Nichole Robertson Katia D. Robinson Yolanda Cordalia Marcia Marie Ebony M. Ross Ridenour Health Science International Studies Exercise Science Robles Rosebrock Broadcast Popular Culture Telecommunication Communication Communication Disorders
Allyson M. Joni A. Rupke Brian D. Rutter Dustin Michael Sabo Amy E. Sager Rachael E. Sample Monica Renee Ruebusch Interpersonal Biology Middle Childhood Sociology & Creative Writing Sanden Nursing Communication Education Psychology Creative Writing
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 43 Lauren Nicole Mallory Sanders Aaron D. Sanford Margaret E. Schimer Brianne N. Schmitz Catherine A. Laura A. Selvaggio Sandercook Interpersonal Interpersonal Deaf/Hard of Hearing Middle Childhood Schubert Apparel Merchandising Early Childhood Communication Communication Intervention Specialist Education Art & Product Development Education
Ashley M. Sewell Amanda Jean Brandon R. Sarah A. Shepherd Anne Marie Sibert Marley A. Silvestri Michael Brian Public Relations Shedron Shefveland Political Science Interpersonal Adolescent/Young Adult Simecek Middle Childhood Pre-Health Professional Communication /Secondary Education Mechanical Design Education
Maria Bituin C. Dominique Ross P. Slaneff Natalie M. Sliwa Aaron Richard Cherie D. Smith Kiara L. Smith Simmons Marshaun Simms Finance Adolescent/Young Adult Smeltzer Psychology Health Science Computer Science Integrated Social Studies /Secondary Education Two-Dimensional Studies
Shaina L. Smith Theresa A. Smith Andrew Paul Gina Sollazzo Tiffany L. Sotet William Alexander Yuan Southworth Journalism Early Childhood Snowden Scientific & Technology Sport Management Souders Finance Education Visual Communication Communication Visual Communication Technology Technology
Rebecca L. Spencer Michael A. Spiegel Tyler Michael Tiffany D. Steele Lauren C. Stefanov Angela Stennett Elise Marie Stevens Communication Criminal Justice Stabile Individualized Planned Graphic Design Three-Dimensional Musical Arts Disorders History Progam Studies
44 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 Heidi Renee Stewart Patrick M. Strahm Matthew M. Theaneasha Marie Mark A. Swinerton Zachary H. Tarvin Shannon Creative Writing Geography Summerall Summers Theatre Creative Writing Dominique Tate Telecommunications Electronics & Computer Interpersonal Technology Communication
Angelica R. Taylor Stephanie A. Taylor Julius B. Thomas Stephanie H. Angela P. Tirabassi Brittany L. Tokar Jordan S. Mild-Moderate Interpersonal Geography Thomas Psychology Psychology Underwood Intervention Specialist Communication Supply Chain Marketing Management
Hunter C. Matthew A. Nicole Ann Neda Vatanpour Jessica Edith Sha-Da A. Wafer Heather M. Walker Van Houten Van Norton Vanduzen Neurscience Vazquez Exercise Science Broadcast Journalism Health Science Sport Management Computer Science Psychology
Amanda M. Travis M. Wallace Arielle R. Warshay Sara Marie Warstler Brittany D. Kelsey R. Weinmann Shawn Michael Walkowiak Pre-Med Biology Music Education Social Work Washington Apparel Merchandising Wendell General Business Print Journalism & Product Development Construction Management & Technology
Joseph D. Markella P. Whetzel Joshua R. Wilborn Tiara N. Wiley Nicholas S. Wilhelm Jessica Margaret Brandon G. Westendorf Psychology Telecommunication Interpersonal Computer Science Wilkins Williams Marketing Communication Marketing Interpersonal Communication
KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 45 Crystal Gail Dominique Senaria Jessica Taylor Kareema Yvette Roger Williams Daniel E. Wise Adam J. Wolf Williams Williams Williams Williams Sport Management Telecommunication Digital Arts Middle Childhood Africana Studies Psychology Interpersonal Education Communication
R Arie H. Wolfert Megan A. Woltmann Laura M. Woodall Holly Kay Wright Joshua Andrew Yilan Xia Amanda Marie Telecommunication Adolescent/Young Adult Art History Middle Childhood Wynn Statistics Yarnell /Secondary Education Education Adolescent/Young Adult Graphic Design /Secondary Education
to all the seniors of the graduating class of 2010
46 KEY MAGAZINE | VOL 2 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2010 Congratulations FACILITIES & SERVICES • 184 guest rooms including 10 suites • 18,000 sq. ft. flexible meeting space including a 10,000 sq. ft. ballroom • Non-smoking rooms and accessible rooms available • Indoor pool and whirlpool • Workout facility • Evening room service • Pavilion Lounge • 24-hour Pavilion Pantry® convenience mart • Complimentary 24-hour business center • Complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access throughout hotel
ROOM AMENITIES • Complimentary wired & wireless high-speed Internet and secure, re- mote printing to the business center • Refrigerator, microwave oven and coffee maker ® • Self-adjusting Garden Sleep System • Large work desk with convenient desk-level outlets, adjustable light- ing and ergonomic Mirra® chair by Herman Miller • Two telephones featuring voicemail, Big Day with your Family? speaker capability and data port • 32” high-definition flat tube TV with on-demand movies, video games & Let us make them feel at home. complimentary HBO® to all the seniors The Hilton Garden Inn Toledo/Perrysburg is ideal for THE HILTON FAMILY PLAN visiting family & friends. There is no charge for children, 18 and under, when they occupy the of the graduating class of 2010 Just 10 minutes north of the BGSU campus located at Levis Commons. same room as their parents or Easily accessible to I-75, I-475 and the Ohio Turnpike, the Hilton Garden Inn grandparents. offers the finest in accommodations and amenities. Levis Commons offers great shopping, dining and entertainment. So, let us be their home away from home. You’ll sleep better! Everything. Right where you need it®.
When tomorrow’s a big day, stay HGI tonight.
6165 Levis Commons Blvd., Perrysburg, OH 43551 419-873-0700 | 1-877-STAY-HGI Commodore Ballroom and Event Center Reservations: toledoperrysburg.hgi.com
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