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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-10-2015 The BG News April 10, 2015 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News April 10, 2015" (2015). BG News (Student Newspaper). 8834. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/8834 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. WIRED WEDNESDAYS Doc Holliday’s Saloon and Grill hosts local bands for free live performances every Wednesday. THE BG NEWS Read more on Page 3. ESTABLISHED 1920 | An independent student press serving the campus and surrounding community VOLUME 94, ISSUE 86 Friday, April 10, 2015 WWW.BGNEWS.COM THE HATCH 2015 PHOTOS BY TRAVIS WILLHOITE | THE BG NEWS THE HATCH ceremony welcomed more than 2,000 students to the Stroh Center to watch nine students pitch their business ideas Elsa Vogel, Devon Williams stand out as nine students pitch business ideas to investors By Michele Mathis Copy Chief 100 students applied for the program companies and businesses. and nine students were selected. “I think [The Hatch] is really growing, The floor usually occupied by the Applicants are named “Hatchlings.” [that’s] what amazes me. The marketing University’s athletic teams was covered Selected at the beginning of the aca- and how the young people have gotten by carpet, a stage surrounded by large demic year, they plan, develop and attached to the University because of it,” monitors and student entrepreneurs research their business model until The said President Mary Ellen Mazey. anxiously waiting for their turn to prove Hatch event in April. The first Hatchling to present was that they have the next big business idea. The 2015 Hatchlings were seniors Michael Cervantes. Those nine student entrepreneurs are Matthew Snider and Elsa Vogel, juniors Cervantes presented a business idea members of a program called The Hatch, Michael Cervantes, Haksun Lee, Devon called Machi Hibachi, a food truck funded by the University’s College of Williams and Meredith Keller, and first specializing in Hibachi food. While Business. years Allen Viancourt, Thomas Stevens Cervantes came in confident about his The Hatch program was founded and Mark Kohn. plan and marketing strategy, the inves- three years ago by Dean Ray Braun and While not all Hatchlings were invested tors expressed concerns about the local Dallas-Hamilton center founder Kirk in, each participant was given the oppor- nature of the truck and the stability of Kern to encourage young entrepreneurs tunity to network and receive feed- the food truck business. All five investors to develop budding business ideas. back from the investors who are CEOs, In 2015, Kern reported that more than vice presidents and owners of various See HATCH | Page 4 University library ranked among UNCOVERING THE TRUTH 50 best according to online list Learning Commons key to national recognition By Holly Shively ing centers but not like ours,” Reporter Bushong said. The difference is that the The University’s Jerome Library University Learning Commons is is ranked 11th on the “50 Most larger in square feet than most librar- Amazing College Libraries” list by ies tutoring centers. The Library also collegerank.net. offers all aspects of tutoring for all According to the website, the majors, math, and writing. Jerome Library’s construction began The library offers other study in 1965 and named in 1982 after the spots as well. The seventh floor is sixth president of the University, dedicated to group study, and the William Travers Jerome. The library eighth to quiet, individual work. is not only a study and learning area Among the collections the Jerome for students and faculty but is also Library has to offer is the music open to the public. library, which contains over one mil- “We’re really very pleased to be lion sound recordings, similar in size listed amongst such prestigious and scope to that of the Library of libraries,” said Sara Bushong, Congress. ERIC BURGASSER | THE BG NEWS library dean. SUHAYLLAH HAMZAH, left, of Delta Xi Phi, and Taylor Baumle, right, of Zeta Phi Beta, held a discussion Friday in the Business Administration building on “A lot of libraries have tutor- See LIBRARY | Page 4 uncovering the truth behind blackface. SOFTBALL COMES HOMES WOMEN’S SEXUALITY WHAT IS ONE GOAL YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN THE The BG softball team looks to get Forum Editor Autumn Kunkel talks LAST MONTH OF THE SCHOOL YEAR? back on track this weekend in its about the stigma associated with “Get through some of my pre-requisite return to Meserve Field. The Falcons female sexuality. She says women have classes to get into the College of Business” will look to improve upon their 3-3 the right to do what they want without Rachelle Maurer MAC record. | PAGE 6 the judgement of others. | PAGE 5 Freshman, Marketing 2 Friday, April 10, 2015 WWW.BGNEWS.COM FRI & SAT NIGHTS KISSFM 10 PM til 2:30 AM CLUB KISS ERIC CHASE & BG’S PREMIERE NIGHT LIFE 18 & Up H 21 & over FREE MEAGHAN MICK Country Nite of the Morning Rush Show FRI/SAT WCKY 103.7 127 N. Main St. Bowling Green H clazel.net H facebook.com/clazel The BG News reported on BLOTTER CORRECTION April 8 that Joel O’Dorisio would remain chair of Faculty Poetry event celebrates women, There is no blotter for today. POLICY Senate next year. In fact, his Check out The BG News on term will be over and current Monday, April 13 for an updated We want to correct all factual errors. If you think an error has vice chair Allen Rogel will female empowerment blotter. replace O’Dorisio as chair. The been made, call The BG News By Meg Kraft BG News regrets this error. at 419-372-6966. Reporter Krueger said the annual “We felt there event features a variety of Our Views visit us online @ The University’s Women’s attendees. needed to be Center held their fourth “The readers and audience Your Views annual Women In Poetry are very diverse. We have a space that event, “The World Split ethnicity and age diversity, and NEWS.com Open,” at Grounds for [the audience] is a mix of students could get BGSU Bowling Green Thought Wednesday college students and mem- in touch with social night in honor of National bers of the community,” Poetry Month. she said. justice values and Finger snapping and Geist read original poems hands clapping buzzed about holiday clichés and personal issues.” throughout the coffee a divorced taxi driver from shop as a variety of poets Panama. Katerina Virostko | SPEAK co-founder came together for an open Geist said she is passion- mic night. ate about performing poetry “I write because too many Guest speakers Larissa and happily accepted the women have been silenced.” Szporluk and Jean Geist, on- University’s invitation to Virostko said SPEAK campus organization SPEAK the event. was founded two years Now providing services to area within one mile of Bowling Green!!! [Spoken Performance for “I love poetry, I have spo- ago after realizing the Empowerment, Action and ken before and I go to a lot University didn’t have a slam Knowledge] and members of Women’s Center events. I poetry group. of Uppity Women’s Poetry don’t know how I fell into it, “We felt there needed to be Workshop all performed but I was delighted to speak a space that students could original pieces. for a third time,” she said. get in touch with social jus- Mary Krueger, direc- After guest poets spoke, tice values and personal tor of the Women’s Center, members of the on-campus issues,” she said. said the event was a chance organization SPEAK per- The founder of SPEAK, for female poets to express formed poems they wrote Breshea Anglen, said this themselves. from the prompt “Why do was SPEAK’s first time per- “It was a wonderful, com- I write?” forming off-campus and plex evening thanks to all Katerina Virostko, a See POETRY | Page 4 the readers,” she said. founder of SPEAK, answered, U ENROLL Earn college credits Summer from Cuyahoga Community College FALL 2015 Savings (Tri-C®) and seamlessly transfer them back to Take advantage of your university. 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