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The BG News July 06, 2016 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 7-6-2016 The BG News July 06, 2016 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation State University, Bowling Green, "The BG News July 06, 2016" (2016). BG News (Student Newspaper). 8922. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/8922 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. An independent student press serving the campus and surrounding community, ESTABLISHED 1920 Bowling Green State University Wednesday, July 6, 2016 | Volume 95, Issue 70 CAN’T SPELL BIGGBY WITHOUT BG Biggby’s owner looks at the store’s anniversary as a way to give back to the customers who have given to him and expand. | Page 7 Rio Best phone Columnist Olympics apps to says the pose many download 90s are concerns this summer back PAGE 10 PAGE 6 PAGE 4 ORIENTATION MAP July 6, 2016 | PAGE 2 see what These Bowling Green businesses welcome all new students and BOWLING GREEN their parents! has to offer... N FAIRVIEW AVE. FAIRVIEW THURSTIN RD. W E S POE RD. BOWLING MERRY ST. GREEN RIDGE STREET STATE RIDGEWOOD DR. COURT ST. UNIVERSITY 2 5 WOOSTER STREET INTERSTATE 75 INTERSTATE WINTERGARDEN RD. WINTERGARDEN 1 7 CLOUGH SOUTH MAPLE ST. SOUTH MAPLE 6 SOUTH COLLEGE DR. SOUTH COLLEGE CAMPBELL HILL RD. HILL CAMPBELL SOUTH SUMMIT MANVILLE RD. MANVILLE MAIN STREETMAIN 9 75 NAPOLEON RD KLOTZ RD. 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Gypsy Lane Road FREE BG’s ONLY Non-Smoking Community Your Campus Connection 9 that Caters to Students! Gas (heat & cooking) 473 S. Summit St 2 TO ADVERTISE CALL Water (hot & cold) 419-372-2606 Shuttle Service to campus 419-806-4855 High Speed Internet summitterracebg.com Basic & Standard Cable FORUM July 6, 2016 | PAGE 4 PEOPLEON THESTREET What’s your favorite social media app? “Tumblr. It passes the time and you Adventures of Being a College Student: Online Assignments and Deadlines BY: CHANLER BROWN can custom-make it .” HALLE NEWSON Embrace incoming nostalgias Senior, Psych “Instagram, I feel Remember the obnoxiously colorful Lisa Frank Hill grew up in the 1990s, thus making him a “90s like I get the most rainbow unicorns and fairies in coloring books, kid”. likes.” t-shirts and pencil pouches we all seemed to Yet another occurance of this 1990s comeback sport over a decade ago? Well grab your jelly trend is the I Love the 90s! music tour that is shoes, chokers and colored pencils because the Sarah Smith currently making waves across the country. Salt- 90s have officially made a comeback, including Columnist N-Pepa, Coolio and Vanilla Ice will be joined PAXTON MCCARTNEY the oh-so popular Lisa Frank brand claiming to by other 1990s favorites All-4-One, Biz Markie, Senior, HDFS be releasing an adult coloring book within the Color Me Badd, Kool Moe Dee, Kid ‘n Play, Rob next month. Base, Tone Loc and Young MC. The Tour started Everywhere we look online, from Buzzfeed natural that the 1990s grunge punk subculture is April 15 and will be coming to the DTE Energy “Instagram, Its’ articles to smaller scale blogs, lists of “You Know making way into the fashion industry. Walking Music Theatre in Detroit on August 19, as well as like Facebook but You’re a 90s Kid If...” feature television shows and through the mall, every young adult clothing Cincinnati’s U.S. Bank Arena in November. Also without the drama.” popular trends store display case features high waisted or acid in the music circuit, it has been rumored that from the 1990s wash jeans, crop the Spice Girls may be creating a reunion tour that one would “So now that we have the tops and even fanny as well. The Dixie Chicks have also been touring, packs. Stores such as think would be coming to Toledo’s Huntington Center on Sept. BILL KENNEDY H&M are even selling long forgotten Backstreet Boys, Beavis 23, rounding up the clear desire for music from Senior, Philosophy about by now. So scrunchies. the 1990s to make a comeback. why are we all so an Butthead and, I repeat, It has also been So now that we have The Backstreet Boys, obsessed with reported that two- Beavis and Butthead and, I repeat, scrunchies, “Snapchat, like I can stay bringing the 1990s scrunchies, right at our ingertips time Oscar nominee right at our fingertips again, why not embrace updated in people’s lives back? Jonah Hill has it? Maybe we all won’t feel the same as we did in in snippets.” It’s obvious again, why not embrace it. written a script for the actual 1990s, but that nostaligic feeling we all that when it a film called “Mid get when jamming out to our favorite oldschool comes to fashion, - Sarah Smith ‘90s”, a story about a band or watching that old movie we watched as nostalic looks Columnist young man and his kids still feels pretty great. from cultures and skateboarding crew NADIA OEHLER subcultures will always be popular. We’ve seen growing up in Los Comm/Sociology Reply to Sarah at this with fashions trends inspired by the 1920s Angeles in the 1990s. Hill will also direct this film, [email protected] flappers and the 1970-1980 hippie era, so it’s only but not act in it. Being 32 years old, born in 1983, 210 West Hall Bowling Green State University HOLLY SHIVELY, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Phone: (419) 372-6966 AIDAN MARKEY, MANAGING EDITOR ERIKA HECK, FORUM EDITOR Email: [email protected] TOM RODGERS, CITY EDITOR TAYLOR LODY, DESIGN EDITOR Website: http://www.bgnews.com Advertising: 204 West Hall AIDAN MARKEY, SPORTS EDITOR HOLLY SHIVELY, SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Phone: (419) 372-2606 bg SAM SHARP, PULSE EDITOR SAHIRAH BRUCE/SARAH NORTH, PHOTO EDITOR FORUM July 6, 2016 | PAGE 5 SUBMISSION Read more, Internet less POLICY They say that “reading is to the mind, media outlets I could be checking. Why is what exercise is to the body”, so why do this? Why do we need to have our phone LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: we find ourselves constantly trying to read “no service” in order to get non- make more time for the gym, while our technology based goals accomplished? Letters are to be fewer than books are off in a corner of some shelves Something that I’ve found helpful is the 300 words. They should be getting dusty? Sarah Smith “airplane mode” feature on my phone, As technology fills our world more Columnist or simply just making myself leave the in response to current issues and more each day, with a never-ending house and go somewhere with a book, amount of apps that can solve all of our leaving my phone behind. I’ve also found on campus or in the Bowling problems and social media replacing I recently scrolled past an article with it helpful on certain nights to plan ahead Green area. actual in-person conversation, it’s no the title of something along the lines of, and tell myself that I don’t want to be on wonder that a lot of people have slowly “10 Easy Tricks to Help You Never Struggle technology after a specific time in the stopped making time for reading. with 140 Character Tweets” and starting evening. GUEST COLUMNS: Guest After staring at a phone or a laptop thinking about how fast-paced our minds So let’s challenge ourselves and start constantly throughout every day, I find it are becoming, along with our attention reading more. From the campus library, Columns are generally longer so rewarding to finish a book. I also find it spans getting shorter and shorter. We’re to the Wood County library, to Grounds satisfying, even when I can just get a few becoming programmed to look at a book for Thought’s wide range of used books, pieces between 400 and 700 chapters in. Each page turned feels like and think, “wow that’s a lot of words, I we have multiple resources for free to words. Two submissions per a mini accomplishment, like knowledge don’t think I have time for that”. very cheap books right at our fingertips. was obtained and then you’re on to the I sometimes find myself hoping that my month maximum.
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