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Read more on | Page 5 TESTABLISHEDHE 1920 | An independent BG student press serving NE the campus and WSsurrounding community VOLume 93, Issue 24 Friday, October 18, 2013 WWW.BGNEWS.COM CITY BRIEF Tuition, other $5,000 for undergrads T hree University students indicted for aggravated robbery Student and general fees earn 71 percent of Univeristy revenue in 2014 By Ethan Easterwood accounting major. “I assumed the tuition was Robertson said. Senior Reporter A grand jury indicted three University students involved for course instruction and paying salaries of Student fees are another term for tuition in the armed robbery that happened on Oct. 8. professors.” while general fees are used for non-academic Thomas James, 21; Thomas Kolleh, 19; and Timothy Most college students understand that college According to the Board of Trustees pro- services such as campus activities, athletics Sewell Jr., 21, all of Bowling Green, were indicted tuition can be expensive, but where does all posed budget for fiscal year 2014, the total and organizations. Wednesday for aggravated robbery and aggravated bur- that money go? tuition and fees charged to a full time, in-state According to the General Fees and Related glary, both first degree felonies, said Maj. Tony Hetrick, deputy chief of the Bowling Green Police Division. “When I first came to BG I knew that there undergraduate would be $5,295. Auxiliary Budget, students will pay $747 in were costs such as fees and tuition but I didn’t This total includes student fees and general general fees for the 2014 calender year. The robbery occurred at 524 N. Enterprise St., where the necessarily understand how the money was fees, and each is allocated differently. The two combined are the largest source three men allegedly held two victims at gunpoint and stole their marijuana shortly after a drug deal. allocated,” said David Neely, vice president “I think tuition goes to teachers salaries of Undergraduate Student Government and and to better the school,” sophomore Travis See TUITION | Page 2 Sewell, who lives in the apartment complex next door, was initially arrested on Oct. 9 for trafficking in drugs but was later connected to the robbery, Hetrick said. Police discovered Sewell had set up the initial transaction of drugs before the robbery took place, Hetrick said. James and Kolleh were arrested after police posted a pic- ture online of them walking in Offenhauer Towers, he said. James, an Offenhauer resident, contacted police after seeing himself in the picture and came down to the station, Hetrick said. After further questioning, he was arrested on Oct. 11. Kolleh, a Kreischer resident, was arrested Oct. 14. Police have issued a warrant for Sewell’s arrest while James and Kolleh are currently in custody, Hetrick said. James and Kolleh’s preliminary hearing is set for 9 a.m. Monday, according to municipal court dockets. Folklore Fridays return to museum ASLYS A BENES | THE BG NEWS for two weeks CATHERINE COOPER junior and assistant manager at Dave’s Cosmic Subs writes down senior Brittany Miller’s order on Wednesday. The business closes Saturday. Tours of Wood County Historical Center are this Friday and next by Seth Weber Web Editor A SUB-MERGED BUSINESS This October the Wood County Historical Closure of Dave’s Cosmic Subs bumps vacancies Center and Museum will be getting people in the mood for the Halloween season. downtown storefronts, spaces to 11 percent Folklore Fridays will be hosted by the museum and take place on October 18 By Alex Alusheff Managing Editor and 25. Ninety-minute tours will take guests through the museum as well as areas It may be hard for some to think that businesses downtown aren’t including a cemetery and a log cabin fea- always booming. turing a 19th century wake. Actors at the But in the past few years, businesses have come and gone from cabin will talk about infant mortality and downtown, including Squeaker’s Vegetarian Cafe, Little Miss life as a pioneer. Cupcakes and most recently, Dave’s Cosmic Subs, which will close The museum itself used to be an infirmary Saturday. for the mentally ill, a topic which will be “Opening a small business is a crap shoot,” said Barbara touched on during the tours, said museum Ruland, director of Downtown Bowling Green. “It’s risky, it’s hard Director Dana Nemeth. work; people put their life savings and time into it so you want to The event started as a way for local stories see it succeed.” to be told, said Kelli Kling, marketing and Dave’s Cosmic Subs will join 15 other empty storefronts or events coordinator. spaces out of 140 total in the downtown area, leaving an 11 per- cent vacancy. See FOLKLORE | Page 2 STEVEN W. ECHARD | THE BG NEWS “We just didn’t have enough business to stay open,” said DAVE’s cOSMIC Subs on East Wooster Street will close due to lack of business See DAVES | Page 2 CANDLES IN the NIGht LGBTQ community fosters support with week-long events, talks Coming Out Week encourages students to embrace gender identities By Jodi Abazoski up a Coming Out Day door- lot of different identities,” he Reporter way in the Union Oval where said. “Coming out as transgen- students of any identification der was the hardest and I’m LGBTQ resource center, Vision, could walk through and come actually still going through hosted Coming Out Week with out as whatever they wanted to. that coming out process ... the help of many other student Grabski said that one of the I have to come out to every organizations. goals of Vison is to raise aware- single person that I meet and Coming Out Day is a nation- ness about Coming Out Day it’s really difficult honestly ally-recognized day that takes and to let people in the LGBTQ because you never know what place on Oct. 11. Every year, community know that there is people are going to say.” Vision shows its support to the a place for them as a support Grabski has found that day with Coming Out Week. system. most people have been okay “Usually we have an event He said he, like most people with him being transgender, on Coming Out Day, but since who come out, had a unique though he had problems with it fell during fall break this coming out experience, or in his mother accepting it. Still, year, we had our first event on Grabski’s case, experiences. Luke and Vision want to act BRI HALLER | THE BG NEWS Monday,” said Luke Grabski, “I’ve actually had a lot of dif- as resources for people who WOMEN WHO Love Women gather in the Union Oval for the Candlelight Walk for Remembrance. president of Vision. ferent coming out experiences The event raises awareness for survivance, suicide in LGBT youth. This past Monday, Vision set because I’ve cycled through a See LGBT | Page 5 ITS FALCON HOCKEY SEASON OBAMACARE DO YOU THINK BEER IS ACTUALLY HEALTHY? WHY? The BG Hockey team hosts the Colgate Columnist Paul McKenzie talks about University Raiders in a two-game Obamacare and how it should not fuel “Yes, because it helps me forget.” home series. The Falcons defeated the other parties’ fires, but a way to improve Ohio State University Buckeyes 4-3 on American Lives and provide national Sam Rayburn Tuesday night. | PAGE 6 health care to the citizens. | PAGE 4 Senior, VCT 2 Friday, October 18, 2013 FROM THE FRONT PAGE WWW.BGNEWS.COM FRI & SAT NIGHTS FM 10 PM til 2:30 AM KISS D. J. MANNY & SAT,OCTOBER 26 CLUB KISS MEGHAN MICK l Costume Contests BG’S PREMIERE NIGHT LIFE 18 & Up H 21 & over FREE OF THE MORNING RUSH l Spring Break Giveaway/Cash Prizes 127 N. Main St. Bowling Green H clazel.net H facebook.com/clazel makes you more competi- Gremler said. town, fortunes rise and be tricky to get it approved BLOTTER DAVS E tive, but that cuts in profit “Bowling Green might fall,“ Ruland said. “Small by the government unless From Page 1 margins ... because rent not be large enough to business owners need to a business is about to col- Check out the interactive must be high, so the room support such a special- have an understanding of lapse, Clark said. blotter map at owner Tom Mather, who for competitive prices is ized store,” he said. who their customers are, In the past, the founda- declined to comment fur- very thin.” Though some special- how much they’re will- tion has been able to ser- BGNEWS.COM ther. David Lombardy, the Competition is also a fac- ized businesses don’t ing to pay. It’s going to be vice The Flower Basket, franchise owner, declined tor, as Subway and Jimmy make it downtown, oth- tough for a while before Serenity Spa and The to comment as well.