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THE BG NEWS

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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Incoming students attend orientation

By Asia RapaiManaging Editor

The campus is on display dur-ing the summer as approxi-mately 4,000 new students and their 5,000 parents and family members will come and go during new student orientation dates.

This is an important time for incoming students as it “seals the deal on attending BGSU,” said Jodi Webb, senior associ-ate dean of students. “It con-firms for them they made a good choice.”

This year, orientation will have similar components as last year but with more sessions for parents and family

members, more break out sessions for students to interact with other incom-ing students and orientation leaders, and smaller group sessions, Webb said.

It’s important that cur-rent students interact with incoming students while on campus during orientation as it shows the incoming stu-dents and their families real college life, she said.

“It’s beneficial to current stu-dents because it feels good to tell your stories and share what you learned and the challenges you faced,” she said.

While Webb oversees the

Faculty Association names negotiating team

By Katelynn BrewsterReporter

School may be out for the summer, but the Faculty Association is st i l l hard at work.

The Faculty Association has picked their chief negotiator, negotiating team, and bar-gaining council, and are pre-paring for negotiations with the administration in the near

Bookstore offers cheaper tickets to Cedar PointBy Jane Burichin

Reporter

Summer is finally here and the students at the University are making plans that could include a trip to Ohio’s amuse-ment park, Cedar Point.

The University Bookstore is helping students plan ahead by offering deals on discounted tickets to Cedar Point and the water park attached, Soak City.

Cedar Point is located in Sandusky, Ohio, right on Lake Erie. Tickets at the gate to spend a day in the park would cost $46.99 per per-son and Soak City gate tickets would cost $31.99 per per-son. However, the Bookstore

offers discount tickets at the price of $37 per person for Cedar Point and for Soak City at $24.99 per person.

“We have been selling a lot [of tickets] so far,” said Janelle Jacob, who works at the Bookstore. “It has just been students I’ve noticed buying them.”

The Bookstore is offering discounted tickets for the remainder of the summer.

This is not the first time the Bookstore has been selling the discounted tickets. Other places around the city of Bowling Green also provide discounted tickets, but the

CHILL OUT

By Bobby WaddleIn-Focus Editor

People looking for extra guidance to get into shape this summer can find it at the Student Recreation Center where they can partici-pate in group exercise classes to experience a comprehensive body workout.

“There’s a wide variety and there’s some-thing for everyone,” said Karyn Smith, Heath Educator and supervisor of the group exercise and personal training programs. “It provides a lot of fun.”

Classes run during each of the summer sessions, and people can purchase a single six-week period or sign up for the full 12 weeks. Students can attend any class they want for the entire session, and the first

week of classes is free of charge for potential students to see if they want to stick with the program. Programs are open to students, faculty and community members alike with varying prices.

The classes cover different aspects of bodybuilding, yoga, kickboxing, cycle spinning and Zumba dancing. The majority of classes last an hour and 15 minutes, but some last half an hour and others are an hour.

Smith said the classes are a good way to get a balanced workout because classes such as yoga focus on balance and relaxation tech-

Author presents at local library

Author and master gardener Rosemary Harris will host a presentation at the Wood County District Public Library at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Harris has written four books including the titles Pushing Up Daisies, Dead Head, The Big Dirt Nap and Slugfest.

“She’s a nationally known mystery author and mysteries are very popular in Bowling Green,” said Michael Penrod, Acting Library Director.

The BG News incorrectly reported in the May 18, 2011 issue that James Weinandy was cited for operating a vehicle impaired and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia May

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Harris will give a general author talk with an opportunity for book signings. Roberta Vermaaten, library cataloging and outreach services, is leading the event.

Harris can also be found as a contributing writer to the blog “Jungle Red.” Along with seven other female writers, Harris participates in discussions on the world of reading, writing and publishing.

Harris, a Brooklyn native, previously worked in book retailing, direct marketing and televi-sion before pursuing a writing career.

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Falcons continue to MAC tourneyStudents compete for gradesColumnist Adrienne Snyder explores the competition among fellow college students for the top grades due to bell curves or cutoff numbers for each grade | Page 4

The Falcon baseball team defended Buffalo 11-3 in the team’s season finale to clinch the eight seed in the MAC baseball tournament. The Falcons will play Kent State tonight at 7:30 p.m. | Page 5

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14 by Bowling Green City Police. In fact, it was Joseph Weinandy who was cited by police. James Weinandy was mentioned in the police report as being at the scene but was not involved in any way with the original citations. The BG News regrets the error.

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ORIENTATION: Ryan Evarts and Alissa O’Neill (left in orange) talk with incoming freshman about what it is like to attend college.

Rosemary HarrisAuthor and master gardener

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DavidJacksonPresident of the Faculty Association

future. David Jackson, president

of the Faculty Association, is excited for the process to begin and the negotiations

ARMS UP: Erica Yang warms up with the rest of the class before getting into harder yoga positions.

YOGA: Chralin Forsthoefel instructs the yoga class at the Rec on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

STRENGTH: Laura Sheets does the downward facing dog, which builds strength in the shoulders, legs, spine and whole body.

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Ready to work it out

Student Rec Center offers several options for exercise classes this summer

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SUN., MAY 222:41 A.M.William H. Crown, 18, of Sylvania, Ohio, was cited for disorderly conduct/public urination and underage under the influence within the 100 block of E. Court St.

2:55 A.M.Brione Q. Smith, 19, of Toledo, was cited for drug abuse/possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia at Taco Bell.

3:06 A.M.Matthew E. Smith was cited for littering on private property within the 900 block of E. Napoleon Road.

10:33 A.M.A complainant reported her purse with $40 in it was stolen from the backroom of the Waffle House where she works.

1 P.M.A complainant reported sometime overnight

an unknown person stole her two hanging flower baskets off of her front porch within the 200 block of State Ave.

3:07 P.M.A complainant reported a man standing in the street preaching near West Wooster and South Main streets. He was told by an officer not to be in the roadway and advised of the procedure if he wants to stand on the corner and preach.

3:43 P.M.A complainant reported an “orange classic looking vehicle,” possibly with historic plates, left without paying for $60.60 in gas within the 1000 block of S. Main St.

7:08 P.M.Collin M. Turner, 23, of Bowling Green, was arrested for inducing panic and on an active warrant for failure to appear/abusing harmful intoxicants within the 800 block of 4th St.

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planning from a broad University standpoint, Assistant Dean of Students Andy Alt focuses more on the day-to-day planning.

The summer orientation began Friday, bringing about 120 incom-ing students to campus, Alt said.

“It was a beautiful day on campus to experience BGSU,” he said.

In June and July, orientation will bring more than 200 students. The University is expecting its largest freshman class ever, he said.

“Every date that we have avail-able is quite full,” Alt said.

Students began signing up for orientation dates in January.

Webb said the number of stu-dents who register for and attend orientation closely resembles the number of new students for the fall,

University Bookstore is the only bookstore in town that sells the discounted Cedar Point tickets.

Meijer offers discounted tick-ets at $41.99 per person and it offers a ticket for Soak City, but at the same price it would be at

niques, while classes such as spin-ning focus on cardiovascular exer-cise. Strength training classes focus on certain areas of the body with a class called “Upper Cut” focusing on upper body strength and “Chisel” focusing on the entire body.

Smith said the classes are espe-cially good for people who are new to working out, citing research that people who exercise in a group are more likely to stick with exercise due to accountability and encourage-ment from peers.

Yoga instructor Jordan Snyder said the group atmosphere also provides guidance and an exercise routine for people to follow.

“It’s just a lot more fun,” Snyder said. “You know exactly what you’re going there to do.

“There’s kind of this level of com-petitiveness there and it encourages you to go to class because you know that there’s going to be other people there that are looking for you.”

Snyder started teaching yoga because she took a yoga class herself.

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As someone who enjoys teaching and hopes to be a teacher, Snyder “fell in love” with the class and decided to teach it herself.

She also found that yoga helped reduce her stress in addition to its ben-efits of increased strength, flexibility and balance.

“I found that [yoga] had a lot of bene-fits for me,” she said. “I really like being able to pass that on to other people.”

She also views the class as a change of pace from running and working out.

“It’s really a slow-paced type of exercise and it really focuses on your mind and your body,” she said.

“It’s something that you can do for your entire life.”

Sam Gardner, who teaches yoga, “Chisel” and several spinning classes, said one of the most important things people can take away from the classes is learning proper exercise form, which she said she sees some people doing improperly when they work indepen-dently at the Rec Center.

“That’s probably the biggest thing we stress just to avoid and prevent injuries, [while] also having fun and motivating yourself to stay healthy,” Gardner said.

which helps the University look at the best way to carry out its services, including the need for certain classes and residence life accommodations.

“We are more prepared for incom-ing classes this way,” she said.

New student orientation will be a daily occurrence in June and July, mainly Tuesday through Saturday starting June 14.

Alt said current students should be patient as incom-ing students attend orientation because parking lots could get congested and the Union might be busier than normal.

“ Welc ome t hem ; t he y ’re t he new generat ion of BGSU st udents,” he sa id.

Orientation team leader and junior Meredith Hassenrik said we have a very welcoming and inclu-sive campus.

“It’s important to give everyone a smile because that’s what kind of

campus we are,” she said.Hassenrik is back as an orienta-

tion leader for her second year. She went through a selection process and semester-long training to become an orientation leader last year. With 20 students on the orientation staff, she said it is an incredible privilege to be on the staff.

“We get to represent the University on a high level and share our love and passion for the University,” she said.

Hassenrik said on any given ori-entation day, there are 15 of the 20 staff members working. She bal-ances this job with summer class-es, another job and involvement in other University organizations.

She said she learned about herself as well as how to help other students get acclimated to college life.

“It’s one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done,” she said.

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to start.“We’ve put together our negotiating

team and bargaining council and are in the process of writing bargaining proposals to present to the admin-istration when negotiations begin,” Jackson said.

The Faculty Association has been working to put together both the bar-gaining council and negotiating team.

Professor Andy Schocket, the direc-tor of communications detailed exact-ly what the bargaining council does.

“The bargaining council is respon-sible for generating proposals and positions. However, not just them, we’ve had a group of committees doing research on particular topics to see what other campuses in Ohio are doing and seeing what works,” Schocket said.

The Faculty Association not only put together its teams to start negotia-tions, it has also suggested a start date to the administration.

“We have suggested a start date for negotiations of June 15, and we await the administration’s response. But to be fair, the request is so recent that it’s not surprising that they haven’t had a chance to respond yet,” Jackson said.

“The University is ready to begin bargaining. Once the Union has named their team, the process can begin,” said Dave Kielmeyer, senior director of communications for the University.

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Kielmeyer was unable to provide any other information for the admin-istration.

Other members of the admin-istration were also unavailable for comment.

The Faculty Association is looking forward not only to negotiations but to working with the new administration at the University.

“We’re excited to meet the new president and believe that with the new leadership at BGSU a ‘reset’ of relations between faculty and administration is quite possi-ble. We are cautiously optimistic,” Jackson said.

The Faculty has been putting long, hard hours into getting ready for negotiations despite the passage of Senate Bill 5.

“As of now, we are acting under current law,” Schoklet said. “We have had a lot of people work lots of hours, especially during the spring.”

T he ba rga i n i ng cou nci l began making preparations for the upcoming negotiations not only by doing research but also participating in training.

“The council has undergone one-day training with professional negotiators from other campuses,” Schocket said.

The council does not want to wait much longer; they are ready to begin this process and are looking to the future.

“We have putting in a lot of time and work and we are ready to get to work and negotiate,” Schocket said.

the gate, $31.99 per person.AAA offers the tickets at the dis-

counted price of $38.50 per person for members only, but no discount for Soak City tickets.

“I think it is a great idea to offer tickets at a discounted price on campus, and I would definitely go buy them from the Bookstore if I plan to go to Cedar Point or Soak City this summer,” said senior

Jordan Kenney. “It provides a great discount for college students on a budget looking for a fun trip.”

Cedar Point opened their gates for the season May 14th. It is open daily with adjusted hours for the month of May. The hours of opera-tion are Sunday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., according to cedarpoint.com.

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SAT., MAY 212:32 A.M.Brianna E. Lee, 18, of Findlay, was cited for possession of drug para-phernalia near West Court Street and North Church Street.

2:54 A.M.Tyler A. Snow, 21, was cited for obstructing official business and criminal trespassing within the 400 block of N. Enterprise St.

4:24 P.M.A complainant reported getting struck in the back of the head by an unknown subject. It was reported that the unknown subject fled the scene after also causing approximately $200 worth of damage to a nearby vehicle near Manville Avenue and East Napoleon Road.

Tyler is an extremely captivating and entertaining wordsmith, but the album also has a few missteps.

Tracks like “Window,” “Radicals” and the aforementioned intro track would be some of the best tracks

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on the album if they were a couple of minutes shorter. These excessively long tracks are hard to listen to more than once and make the repetitive beats tiresome to listen to.

And the over the top “BSD” is obvi-ously a track that shouldn’t be taken seriously, but it still doesn’t make it any easier to listen to.

Tyler has made it clear that he fully

intends to be more than another underground rapper and has said many times that he wants to win a Grammy someday. He and his group have recently inked a deal with Sony RED to distribute all future Odd Future projects.

“Goblin” debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard charts, and only time will tell if that’s the peak.

Summer is now in full swing, so I imagine most students have re-adjusted to their rou-tine back at home, away from Bowling Green.

Not me. I have lived in this town for 21 years, and I am used to almost everything it has to offer.

Whenever I got hungry, I would usually grab pizza from Pisanello’s Pizza or breadsticks from Campus Pollyeyes, and I would often top it all off with an Oreo-laced Blizzard from Myles Dairy Queen.

One thing that I didn’t pay much attention to while growing up is how unique each of these places are; many of them are solely located in the Bowling Green area. Whenever I would visit another town’s Dairy Queen, they definitely lacked the

same vibe Chip Myles brought to it with the extra large servings of ice cream.

When I decided to move into the dorms my freshman year of college, a common topic of conversation would be how neat each of these places were. It was especially fun being the go-to guy for any new activity.

When the time came for me to think about my first topic for In Focus, I had a bit of a problem. First, I simply wanted to do a section about cool things students could do here during the summer until I realized our summer editions spend many pages doing just that.

Then I thought about many of my friends who were leaving town for the summer, and realized that many of them would fre-quent these places if they stuck around.

Growing up in Bowling Green has taught me the students provide more than extra traffic for the school

year. They also provide an entire demographic of con-sumers, workers and con-gregation members, among many other roles.

A lot of this has to do with the proximity many of these places have with campus. As a townie, I was still lucky enough to live in the dorms, and it was extremely easy to reach Dairy Queen, Subway and St. Aloysius Church.

In fact, Campus Pollyeyes got its name because of its proximity to the University, not because of any formal affiliation. As I would learn from doing my first article for In Focus, an affiliation was built between the res-taurant and the students who frequented it.

It’s important for estab-lishments around town to establish a rapport with

students and community members alike. In many ways, it’s like a crossroads of cultures, with students in their early twenties meet-ing up with families, where members range from small children to wiser elders.

But more important than age is experience. Our University has people from all over the country (as well as other countries) with different backgrounds and experiences, and these plac-es are a great gateway for the community and students alike to expand on these.

I have been fortunate enough to call myself a member of both camps, and with a fair number of students staying in town for the summer, the meet-ing of minds continues on a smaller scale.

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By Jane BurichinReporter

The 2010-2011 school year has ended and most of the University students have gone home for the summer, which begins quiet summer around the town of Bowling Green— but not on Main Street. The bars around town are still open and thriving all summer long as well as try-ing to keep up business by offering many summer spe-cials to draw in a crowd.

Senior Cyrus Sharif still finds the bars to be busy.

“Obviously there aren’t nearly as many students in BG this summer, but the bars are still packed at night on the weekends,” Sharif said.

“The drink specials are defi-nitely something that make me want to go out, like on Wednesday I will just go out to have dollar [margaritas] at Becketts.”

Mackenzy McNeil is a bar-tender at Tubby’s Tavern and noticed the absence of stu-dents during the summer.

“We lost a lot of regulars, but we still have quite a few that stuck around. Sometimes it feels the same as the school year,” McNeil said. “I have worked there since May 2009 and this is definitely the busi-

est summer I have seen yet.” Some bars still rely on

summer drink specials to bring in business.

City Tap is a bar located on Main Street offering sum-mer specials that are dif-ferent each day of the week. On Mondays it has $2 Miller Light bottles and $2.50 Mix and Match Monster Bombs, in which customers can choose any liquor and any flavor of Monster. City Tap also hosts Country Night on Wednesdays, which always draws in a big crowd, said Jess Mason, City Tap bartender.

“When the students leave, townies come out of the woodwork, which really helps with our business,” Mason said.

City Tap is trying to draw in a lunch crowd by open-ing Tuesday through Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m., and on Monday from 3 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.

“I think it is more the crappy weather and the combination of the students leaving that has made us dead during the day but from 10 p.m. on, it’s still happening,” said Mason.

Reverend’s Bar and Grill

By Courtney KeenanReporter

The hot summer weather made it an easy decision for Josh Phillips, Mitch Blakkolb and Derek Kaser to go in search of a cold tasty treat.

All three opted to go to Myles Dairy Queen for the popular Blizzard that Blakkolb said “hits the spot on a nice beautiful day.”

Rosie Losoya, a Myles Dairy Queen employee for 11 years, said the Blizzard is definitely the most popular menu item. She said one of the reasons for this is that Blizzards are double-sized.

“You get your money’s worth here,” Derek Kaser said. “Can’t beat a Blizzard.”

Myles Dairy Queen opened in the 1960s and is currently

owned by Chip Myles. This establishment is not the aver-age DQ and is considered to be a branch of the com-pany. Being a branch allows the business to choose what products it want to sell from what DQ offers.

Myles Dairy Queen is fam-ily owned and open year round. It makes many of its food items from scratch. Losoya said the boss, Chip Myles, makes the shredded chicken fresh from scratch, and this makes it a popular food choice for customers.

Two menu items that Losoya said makes Myles’ unique from summer competitors are the Dilly Bar and the Ice Cream Cake Blizzard. She

By Bobby WaddleIn-Focus Editor

When Lauren Harrison comes to Campus Pollyeyes, she always makes sure to get plenty of stuffed breadsticks.

“It’s all I’ve ever gotten,” Harrison said. “This is where all the people come for the breadsticks.”

Harrison, a Toledo resident, has received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University, and Campus Pollyeyes was a major part of her college career.

“Every time I graduated, I came here to celebrate,” she said.

Harrison is not the only former student drawn back to the breadsticks from another city because many students further away from Toledo order breadsticks.

This is because the restaurant delivers its stuffed bread-

sticks (complete with dressing and baking instructions) in the mail at no extra charge. As long as it can be mailed overnight, the restaurant will ship anywhere in the coun-try, according to Campus Pollyeyes owner Bob Nicholson.

“We send an enormous amount to Cleveland, Columbus [and] a lot of the graduates here that are still semi-in-Ohio,” Nicholson said.

He said the service started six to seven years ago and increased in popularity during the last couple years. When graduates from the University left town to find new jobs, they still wanted the breadsticks.

“We tried [the mailing service], and it actually picked up pretty well,” Nicholson said. “Basically [it’s] just because


YUMMY: Myles Dairy Queen employee Justin Brit whips up a tasty blizzard Thursday afternoon.

Ice cream shops add local flavor to meals

Bars are ready for summer business

Community locals affect campus experience“Growing up in Bowling Green has

taught me the students provide more than extra traffic for the school year.”

By Suzanna AndersonCopy Chief

The need for spiritual sup-port does not end when summer arrives.

Local churches support students throughout the school year and most con-tinue to do so in the summer. St. Thomas More University Parish is one of them.

According to Kevin Stetter, the campus mis-sionary, the attendance during the school year at Sunday services is about 200, but not all are University students. Throughout the week about 50 to 60 are more active in programs.

“In the summer it’s definitely a lot less,” Stetter said. “Students go home. I would guess it’s probably 50 to 60 that come on

the weekends for Mass ... . And for more in depth throughout the week it’s probably a smaller group of ten or so.”

In the summer there is a book study that started May 24 at St. Thomas.

Rob Hohler, director of development at St. Thomas, said students read books and communicate through email to discuss questions.

St. Thomas works with St. Aloysius to have Mass at St. Thomas June 25 at 5 p.m., before walking to St. Aloysius for a potluck. Also, St. Thomas has a reunion picnic July 16 at 5 p.m. The picnic is for stu-dents who have attended St. Thomas and has been a part of Veritas, one of the Catholic student organiza-tions on campus. However, the picnic is open to all

who wish to participate.First United Methodist

Church also keeps its doors open to students.

Senior Jessica Weiss attends FUMC. She said about 25 students attend during the school year and some participate in the church’s voice choir and the bell choir. There is a Bible study during the summer for students at FUMC, run by the United Methodist Student Organization.

“We don’t have a lot of students on campus,” Karin Mowery said, a grad-uate student in the busi-ness college, about UMSO in the summer.

The date and time for the UMSO Bible study has not been set yet but will be updated on UMSO’s website. UMSO will also have other

events during the summer.There are other churches

in the area open to students

Get involved with church eventsStudents can check out what local churches have to offer by participating in these events.

June 25, 5 p.m.-Mass at St. Thomas, walk to St. Aloysius for potluck.July 16, 5 p.m.-Reunion picnic at St. Thomas More University ParishTo get involved with the book study at St. Thomas, contact Jasmine Herak at [email protected] get involved with UMSO, check out www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/umso.

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Churches keep doors open for students Staff works with students, citizens with activities and welcoming atmosphere

Summer specials try to draw customers

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Pizza postage

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Well, the “rapture” is over and we’re all still here, but I couldn’t help but notice people preparing for the apocalypse.

I have noticed two types of lifestyles which come about during doomsday events: the people who prepare and the people who party.

I find it comical that these types of lifestyles surface because they are slightly opposite of each other.

I have heard stories about priests who have clergy members rushing to them, attempting to repent their sins before they die. I’m sure God will appreciate this last second attempt for redemption.

The religious fanatics are matched only by those who hoard all the resources they can get their hands on. Supermarkets and depart-ment stores must love these conspiracy theorists. I wouldn’t be surprised if the creator of half fallacies was a retail store owner just trying to create a middle-of-the-year Black Friday. If I were Obama, I would create a few more of these crackpot theories to help stimulate the economy.

But I digress, there’s no real way to prepare for the rapture. If the world is going to end, your 10-year supply of rations, water and Chef Boyardee cans are not going to help you.

There are also those who want their last day on earth to be one they can-not remember. I can’t help but to think of the movie

“Evolution” when the pro-tagonists seek to defeat the creatures who are taking over the world and people are waving signs which read: “The world is ending; I don’t want to die a virgin.”

Instead of stockpiling food

or weapons to fight off the rumored zombie attack, they stockpile alcohol for a good time before the world implodes. Drink yourself into oblivion and wake up in the morning with a headache

which makes you wish the world was over, that sounds like a good plan of attack.

To the people who partied, I say have fun working off the hangover. To the people who prepared, I say have fun eat-ing Ramen and canned food for years to come.

When you stop and think about the concept of the rapture, the date and time prediction of the end of the world, it’s kind of asinine. The calendar is completely arbitrary. Who’s to say a real day isn’t actually when the moon goes through all of its phases? We could be count-ing our days wrong.

If the worldwide scare stim-ulates our economy or gives people a reason to party, then I am fine with it. I have prob-lems when people start wear-ing tin foil hats and drinking special punch so they can hitch a ride on comet.

The fear of dying is not irrational; at least it is not in my opinion. What these Armageddon prophets do is play on the fear of the unknown of the common person and hope for it to catch on.

There have been so many end-of-the-world predic-tions in our lifetime that I am convinced doomsday proph-ets will keep predicting the end of the world until one of them is right. Prophets would kick themselves if the world would end and they didn’t get to predict it!

If anyone is looking for more conspiracies, we still have 2012 to look forward to and apparently on May 19, 2013 we’re supposed to “expect someone,” according to the writing on multiple bathroom stalls.

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lifestylesSitting in Olscamp, I caught myself staring at a recasting of Rodin’s The Thinker.

I am aware that in the orig-inal composition he sits in contemplation of hell. As I gazed at it, I could not help but recall someone I knew who thought deeply about that subject as well.

I remember she was perched on a countertop in a pose similar to The Thinker; a noticeable dif-ference between the two would be that the statue’s arms were not covered in self-inflicted wounds.

That friend of mine said a lot in her defense of attempt-ed suicide, but what sticks out most in my memory was her declaration, “Hell is other people.”

As it turns out, it is a line from my favorite play, Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit.”

In it, three deceased per-sons are locked in a room. Believing themselves to be in hell, they ponder where all the fires and torture instru-

ments are.As the play continues, one

of the characters determines there is no need for such extravagant means of torture. The devil need not trouble himself with torturing him, the others in the room were more than capable.

With this knowledge he declared, as my friend had, that “Hell is other people,” and began to bang on the exit with his fist as she did with a razor.

This is a path taken by oth-ers I have known as well, if not with razors, then with pills or with the symbolic suicide of simply giving up on life.

I understand and can sym-pathize with their reason-ing behind knocking on that door to oblivion.

I share their sentiment that people can make life unbearable.

People are capable of things that would make Kafka and Poe shudder.

I can recall in particu-lar an incident I heard of in China where Japanese sol-diers rounded up women with infants, made a game of throwing the babies into the air to see who could catch them at the end of their bayo-nets, and then hold down the

childless mothers to be raped again and again and again. The women were then dis-emboweled.

To call such an act ani-malistic, as many would, is a gross act of mislabeling. Animals kill and rape, yes. But such acts are done for their own survival or the sur-vival of their genes.

Humanity is different. For us, cruelty has become an art and that art is often practiced for its own sake. In fact, our sadistic cruelty for one another has been called our defining charac-teristic as a species by think-ers from Fyodor Dostoevsky to George Carlin.

And of course, we do not need to turn to history books and newspapers to witness the sadism of people, one need only to live to witness it through their own experi-ences and through the expe-riences of others we know.

I would say what my friend said is true: hell is other people.

Then, of course, lies the question she posed to me, “Why not commit suicide?”

To answer this I would like to refer back to Sartre’s play. As the character banged at the door, the door opened.

He was presented with the chance to step out into obliv-ion, to exit.

He shut the door. He said, “No,” to the exit.

He did this in recogni-tion that as much as other people may damn us to the worst throes of despair; it is only through them we may seek salvation.

I believe Sartre drew a lot from his own experience to write. As a Frenchman in Nazi occupied France, he has authority to comment on the hellish nature of other people. But through his experience with the French Résistance, I believe he also has authority to comment on how other people can pose as saviors as well as devils.

If we are to hope for a bet-ter life and a better world, it lies to us to emulate those resisters and resist not only the demonic nature of others but our own innate cruelties as well through cultivating our better angles.

People may create hell on earth, but I believe they have the ability to construct a heaven here as well.

People create their own hell on earth

This past school year at the University has been one of the toughest for me. In addi-tion to keeping up with my job, extracurricular activities and being social, I had the first truly competitive course of my life—organic chemis-try.

Not only did I have to do my best in this class, I had to do better than my fellow classmates in order to get the grade that I wanted. Many classes that students take in college utilize a curve, or have a cutoff for the number of students that can be in a certain grade range.

Competing with other people in classes isn’t a new technique in higher educa-tion. It can be a challenge just to get into the college you want. Many standard-

ized tests use the percentile method, where the score refers to the percent of peo-ple who did not get a higher score than you. Getting a job can be even more strenuous and competitive.

In college-level courses, though, is it really necessary to utilize a system where students compete for better grades?

The fact is that competition can be rigorous on students. When only a select number of students can get an “A” in a course, there’s bound to be ruthless antagonism between classmates. Being on the bottom rung of the ladder is discouraging, even depressing.

Cliques can form and ani-mosity can even develop toward the top students. I’ve observed situations where people talk about the apti-tude or inability of others, often adding unnecessary comments about another’s intelligence.

Study groups can become

exclusive to a select few peo-ple and in doing so, students may fail to work together to really understand material comprehensively. People can be left behind, with no one willing to work with them to catch up. Competition can truly be cutthroat, even cor-rosive to one’s mental state.

However, there really is such a thing as healthy com-petition. Having been in a competitive class has pushed me past the limits I thought I had academically. Having the knowledge that my class-mates were working toward the same goal also motivated me to keep good study hab-its.

We also can’t forget that this same instinctive compe-tition waits for us in the job market or in graduate school admissions. As adults, it is our responsibility to realize that competition is, unfortu-nately, a fact of life.

Furthermore, if compe-tition in classes was not at least partially present, our

education would fail to have worth or value. GPA is a direct measurement of how proficient one can be in an educational setting, and not everyone can have a 4.0. If this happened, hard-work-ing and talented individuals would be unable to become promoted or find good job positions, and our workforce could crumble as a result.

This year has absolute-ly been one of the most demanding endeavors I have ever had to take on. I’ve made some good friends from my more challenging classes and on the whole, I like to think that the competition I’ve encountered has driven me and others to become better students and people. Although class competition can be difficult and tough, it may be one of the best defining aspects of a college student.

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“When I go, I use the pool.”

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The next time members of the com-munity walk into the BGSU Ice Arena, they will be greeted by several new structural changes to the building.

The ice arena will be closed until July 18 in order for the second phase of the first round of renovations to be completed. The renovations began last summer when new boilers and lights were added to the main sheet of ice, in addition to the four new locker rooms and the conversion of the curling ice to multi-purpose ice.

With this next phase of renova-tions, the ice arena staff expects to get a complete concession stand at the front of the lobby — which would be open during public skates in addi-tion to hockey games — new skate rental, four new offices and a new merchandise retail space, according to ice arena director Jamie Baringer.

“It’s going to change the look and flow of the building from when you walk in to the entire customer expe-rience while they’re in the building,” Baringer said.

Falcon hockey coach Chris Bergeron said that the new changes will give fans a good first impres-sion when walking into the arena, whether it is for hockey games or for public skates.

“The skate shop and pro shop will have a brand new, modern look to it,”

Bergeron said. “It’ll be a little more open to the public, to people rent-ing skates, so I think that will be a very good first point of reference [to people entering the arena].”

In addition to the physical chang-es to the building, the staff expects to get new rental skates to replace the current skates.

“They’ll help out a lot because the ones we have right now are really old and a lot of people complained about them,” said Donald Bonesteel, a junior sport management major who is employed at the ice arena.

When the arena reopens in July, people can look forward to public skates, learn-to-skate lessons and figure skating and hockey camps.

Additionally there will be two hockey leagues played: a 35-and-up senior league and a 16-and-up open league, according to Baringer.

Since the ice arena has not had a full schedule of events the last two summers, the staff is looking forward to providing events for the public this summer.

“Obviously we were closed last summer for construction, and the summer before that we were kind of touch-and-go with pro-gramming and whether we would be open or not,” said Laura Dunn, assistant director of the ice arena.

“So we’re looking forward to the first big summer that we’ve had [the last two years].”

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RENOVATE: The skate shop pictured above will undergo renovations this summer. When the renova-tions are complete, students will be able to rent brand-new skates.

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The Falcons secured the eighth and final seed in the Mid-American Conference tournament Saturday after splitting games with the University of Buffalo.

The Falcons’ win shut the door on an ambitious Ohio University: After the Bobcats took two of three games against Miami, the Falcons needed one win or they would not be going to Chillicothe.

The Falcons clinched the birth in game two rolling the Bulls 11-3: 18 Falcons hits and an 11-strikeout performance from Charles Wooten, along with six Bulls errors, resulted in a landslide victory for the Falcons.

“[Before] the second game the captains and

coaches brought everybody up and said ‘hey, we have to win this game or our season is over,”’ said team co-captain Clay Duncan.

Wooten had an answer for the plea.Wooten, a senior, went out and earned the

win fashionably. His 11 punch-outs (all swinging) were a career high.

“I basically pounded the outside corner, and they couldn’t really do much with it … I was able to get strikeouts (on high fastballs) which helped me in big situations,” Wooten said.

Wooten went 6 1/3 giv ing up two runs on six hits.

The Bulls’ Cameron Copping was finding

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people want it so much. They’re addicted to it, so actua l ly it ’s helped out tremendously.”

According to Nicholson, the breadsticks are cooked, frozen for 24 hours and wrapped in foil. The dress-ings are also frozen and packaged separately before the trip to the post office, where the contents of the package need to be shown to the postal worker before they can be sealed and shipped in a guaranteed overnight trip.

Nicholson acknowledges the lack of control the restau-rant has once the breadsticks are shipped, and he has had packages arrive to their des-tinations smashed, leaving the restaurant to refund the customer’s money.

“Here, when I deliver and it’s going from A to B a mile

or two down the road, I have control over that,” he said.

“It took us a while to perfect our shipping, but granted, if somebody steps on the box or throws it across the room, [there is] nothing I can do about it … that’s the only downfall of mailing them.”

While mailing the bread-sticks can be a bit of a hassle (Nicholson said the service is not really advertised), the restaurant continues the service because it is what the customers want and it helps establish a good bond with them.

He speculates the reason so many people want the mailed breadsticks is because many students don’t discover the restaurant until late into their college career, citing someone who researched the restaurant years ago.

“Usually they’re on the meal plans; they don’t like to come off campus,” he said.

“By the time you’re a junior

and senior, you know about us and then you’re gone.”

Because of this, much of the restaurant’s advertising is focused on dorms such as McDonald to get the under-classmen’s attention.

Nicholson attributes roughly 55 percent of busi-ness to University students, establishing a good rapport with in-store patrons and delivery customers alike, with frequent orders from the Enclave and Copper Beech.

Roughly half of the staff is students as well, and Nicholson attributes boosts in business and employees to students bringing their friends and introducing them to the restaurant.

“Word of mouth is, I think, the biggest part of adver-tising,” he said. “If you get good customer service and take care of your customers, they’ll come back.”

When summer rolls around, the restaurant

cuts its hours for June and July because of the staff and business decrease. Come August, applications for jobs increase.

With roughly half its busi-ness out of town during the summer, Campus Pollyeyes engages in advertising around the various sum-mer camps, including swim meets and soccer tourna-ments hosted on the campus.

It is also helpful when grad-uates like Harrison bring in coworkers to try out the food.

Harrison considers the restaurant to be “extremely” valuable to the campus expe-rience and the students to be just as valuable to con-tributing to the atmosphere of the business.

“I’ve had a lot of late nights here,” she said.

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located on Wooster offers “Heavenly Food” and “Devilish Drinks,” which brothers Garrett and Griffin Jones take a lot of pride in.

Although Reverend’s does have a fully stocked bar that offers drink spe-cials, a lot of its business comes from the food.

Reverend’s has weekend dinner feature items like Grandma Jim’s Rhubarb Pie with balsamic syrup and French vanilla ice cream. Reverend’s also offers daily food specials like a $5.95 Southern Fried Chicken Dinner that includes six southern fried chicken wings and mashed pota-toes and gravy on Tuesdays from 3 to 10 p.m.

“There are a lot of other people in BG than just the students,” said Garrett Jones. “We draw a large crowd from the town of Bowling Green and the sur-rounding areas like Findlay and Perrysburg.”

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said the employees make the Dilly Bars themselves, which consist of dipped ice cream on a stick. The Ice Cream Cake Blizzard uses cake that has been made in the bakery next door and Myles’ employ-ees hand-cut the pieces to add to the Blizzard.

Myles isn’t the only ice cream shop competing for customers on hot sum-mer days. The Ice Cream Machine is a seasonal ice cream shop located about two miles away. Judy Keiser opened the place five years ago.

“I love my business, and I love serving ice cream,” Keiser said. She said she has been an ice cream lover since she was a child who ser ved ice cream in a cafeteria.

Keiser said the most popu-

lar ice cream menu items are the turtle and buckeye sundaes, and she also sells many Coney dogs. Her most unique ice cream choices are the banana cream pie and coconut cream pie spe-cialty flurries.

“We each have our own unique flavor,” Keiser said about the competition. “I think your customers find that out and go to the one they like the best.”

Both ice cream places have loyal employees who tend to stick around. Myles employs about 13 people who are 18 years old and over and many, like Losoya, have been employed there for close-if-not-over-a decade.

Keiser currently has 15 employees at the Ice Cream Machine who are mostly high school and college students. She said she only has to hire about three new employees each year because the oth-ers stay until they leave for school or careers.

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in the summer. Katelyn Weiss, senior at the

University and Jessica Weiss’ cousin, started attending St. Aloysius last semester.

“It’s more of a family church, which I like,” she said.

Katelyn and her father visited local churches while visiting the University for O’Reg. Katelyn said that the pastor at St. Aloysius said he really appreciates the children. What caught her attention was when he said people should never get annoyed by the children crying in church. They are the future of the church.

When Katelyn first attend-ed by herself, she sat next to

a woman she’d never met before and hasn’t seen since. At the point in the service where neighbors hold hands as they pray, the woman took Katelyn’s hands, and Katelyn said she felt welcomed.

St. Aloysius has a welcom-ing atmosphere that Katelyn said she’s never found any-where else.

“When I went to St. Al’s I was immediately a part of that family,” she said.

Most students may be home for the summer, but Katelyn has found in St. Aloysius what she said was “a good home away from home.”

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Quite frankly I’m not all that much a fan of live music. Waiting in line annoys me. Crowds of people make me anxious, especially if most of them are intoxicated. I despise chit chat (making it or lis-tening to it) during performances. But what raises my hackles the most is concert food. It’s always the same thing: Styrofoam-like nachos with cheese, so thick and greasy it could be the Blob’s embryo; sweaty hot dogs in life-less buns; stale popcorn; and, if you’re lucky, ice cream sandwich-es that taste like paper.

In other words, I avoid arena food like the plague. Or I break venue rules and bring in my own food.

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WHAT JONATHAN KEILHOLZ THINKS: Hey monsters, before you flood my inbox with hate mail for this less than stellar grade, hear me out.There is no getting around it—Lady Gaga is tremendously talented. The diva stole the show on Saturday Night Live this weekend; her raw talent astonished 30 Rockefeller Plaza with performances of “Edge of Glory,” “Judas” and

“Born This Way.” The starlet even utilized her acting chops in various skits with host Justin Timberlake. Unlike most guest stars, Gaga appeared comfortable and poised.Bottom line: Gaga is a multi-skilled entertainer.One of her greatest fortes has always been her writing. On her debut album “The Fame” and its revamp “The Fame Monster,” Gaga sported a writing credit on every track. Her discography was both compelling and beautifully crafted. Songs like “Beautiful Dirty Rich” and “Monster” showcase Gaga’s creativity and originality. In “Monster,” Gaga sang,

“We French kissed on a subway train. / He tore my clothes right off. / He ate my heart and then he ate my brain.”These lyrics are crazy and innovative. We hadn’t heard anything like it before.But this is where “Born This Way” misses the mark—where’s the originality? Ever since ‘80s fans called out similarities between Gaga’s “Born This Way” track and Madonna’s “Express Yourself” track, critics have noted Gaga’s staleness.Preoccupied with politics and LGBT advocacy, the queen monster has lost touch with the fundamentals of what made her music great. “Marry the Night” is the first track on “Born This Way,” and the lyrics are musty and trite. “I’m gonna marry the night. / I won’t give up on my life. / I’m a warrior queen. / Live passionately. / Tonight.”Really, Gaga? We’ve heard this before.Other tracks like “Americano” are overtly political. Though her gay rights stance is admirable, Gaga should remember to loosen up and have some fun. Music is about escapism. Her fans don’t want to sing about gay advocacy 24/7.And where she’s not political, “Born This Way” is often bor-ing. Yes, her gorgeous range is firmly established in “Edge of Glory,” but an ‘80s saxophone instrumental break seems like a good idea yet winds up bland.Despite these drawbacks, in terms of mainstream music,

“Born This Way” is an enjoyably unique piece of music. “Fashion of His Love” is a solid mix of old-fashioned pop and that fierce fun Gaga attitude.In her HBO concert special, Gaga tells viewers she has been awake for 72 hours working on her new album. Maybe Gaga needs to go to her monster-pad and get some sleep before she gets to work on her third album. Like her work ethic, her tracks are almost too intense. Some light and fun songs like Gaga’s first single “Just Dance” would serve her well.Still, Gaga is a fascinatingly talented performer. As she continues to find her voice and balance her politics and music, she will undoubtedly overcome this sophomore slump.

WHAT ZACH GASE THINKS: Up until their much-talked about performance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, I had never heard of Tyler, the Creator and Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All.Their performance, backed by The Roots (Fallon’s house band) was unlike anything I had seen before – two ski masked teenagers (Tyler and OF member, Hodgy Beats) running around stage screaming “wolf gang.”By the end of the performance, and after Tyler had jumped on Jimmy Fallon’s back while he was concluding the show, I already had Wikipedia open.Odd Future is a group of skateboarders, rappers, DJs, producers and friends from Los Angeles. All of the mem-bers of the group are younger than the age of 24, and they have garnered comparisons to early Wu Tang Clan with their minimalistic production and grotesque lyricism.The group has released well over a dozen albums and mixtapes for free on their Tumblr page, but Tyler, the Creator’s second album, “Goblin” is the group’s first official retail release.Any questions whether or not Tyler would tune down the rape, murder, misogyny, homophobia and grotesque sub-ject matter for his worldwide debut is quickly answered on the 6-plus minute title-track intro.On this intro, he addresses many of his naysayers, his rise to fame and whether or not he can top his last album

“Bastard” which helped spark his group’s hype.Lead single, “Yonkers” is not only his most popular song to date, but also can serve as a mission statement for Tyler and his crew.Over sparse synth and hard drums, Tyler throws darts at pop darlings B.o.B, Bruno Mars and others, while constantly contradicting himself: “I’m a f****** walking paradox, no I’m not.”Like his previous album, Tyler pulls together the songs by using brief skits of him talking with his therapist.

“Goblin’s” subject matter is extremely dark (but any labeling of horrorcore would be angrily dismissed from the 20-year-old emcee), which is comparable to early Eminem works.Tyler cites Eminem as a huge influence on his work as a rapper, and it is extremely evident in his flow on many songs.Tyler also pulls a lot of influence from the Neptunes, with his stripped down production and phenomenal synth work and hard-hitting drums.For the most part, “Goblin” is a pretty excellent listen as

WHAT MATT LIASSE THINKS: With the myriad of singing, dancing and talent competitions televised, it is easy to brush off NBC’s “The Voice.”But anyone who says it’s a little sister to “American Idol” is sadly mistaken. It’s more of the rebellious cousin.

“The Voice” finds big-name musicians (Cee-Lo Green, Christina Aguilera, Blake Sleldon and Adam Levine of Maroon 5) fighting against each other, assembling teams of no-name singers to find the next big star … or the next person deserving 15 minutes of fame.The point of the show is to find talent. The heart of the show comes from breaking down stereotypes. For the first two weeks, contestants had to audition with the celebrities (named above) turned away from them. No one can see what they look like; they can only hear the voice. The professionals are there to help, instead of to judge, which makes it a kinder show to watch.The show comes with twists.The judges, or “mentors,” assemble a team of eight during what is called “blind auditions,” then move onto the “Battle Rounds,” where two members from the same team take the stage at the same time, singing the same song.The best thing of the show is by far the talent.Rebecca Loebe’s very original version of “Come As You Are” was enticing, Javier Colon’s acoustic rendition of “Time After Time” was precious and Tje Austin may have sung “Just The Way You Are”better than Bruno Mars.After the battle rounds, the show is then moved to a live show, where it will dwindle down to a final winner. Already in the running is Frenchie Davis (who appeared on “Idol,” actually) and Vicci Martinez, who won the hearts of the audience by singing Adele’s

“Rolling In The Deep.”Will it outlive “Idol?” No way. Will it last for another season? Probably not. But is it worth checking out? Most definitely. Unlike “Idol,” a drawn out, some-times two-hour affair, “The Voice” is short, sweet and stays interesting.The only drawback is the host, Carson Daly. This is not the year 1999, and this is not “TRL,” therefore, there is no need for Daly.

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Live shows coming to the area:June 3 – Phish – DTE Energy Music TheatreJune 23 – Hall and Oates – Sound Board at MotorCity Casino HotelJuly 9 – R. Kelly – Fox Theatre DetroitJuly 16 – Josh Groban – The Palace of Auburn HillsJuly 23 – Keith Urban – The Palace of Auburn HillsJuly 28 – Britney Spears – The Palace of Auburn HillsAugust 20 – Kenny Chesney – Ford Field

dinner for two—and fit it all into a large purse. At checkpoints all secu-rity really look for are cameras and weapons. My insulated lunch bags got through without detection.

Once comfortably seated outside attendant observation, I unsheathed our fare: boneless skinless chicken tenders grilled in a fresh lemon juice and olive oil marinade, then chilled overnight; an assortment of veggies (grape tomatoes, sliced cucumber, blanched purple cauliflower, carrot sticks and steamed asparagus) with a homemade green goddess dip; slices of extra-sharp cheddar cheese with Nut Thin crackers; and puppy chow from Revolver Restaurant.

Before the opening act took the stage, we snacked while enjoying the regal beauty of the Fox Theater. I figured if a guard wanted to bust our chops for sneaking in food, I would mention our food allergies and draw attention to the number of cameras which somehow made it through security. But not a soul noticed our contraband dinner.

Neil Young was fantastic. It was almost as if each instrument he played was a part of his body. He didn’t talk between songs; he came alive during each song. Totally rad.

But being as food obsessed as I am, dinner was my favorite part of the show.

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The Falcons’ 2-4 hitters were a combined 10-for-16 at the dish, producing four of the team’s seven RBIs.

Buffalo took the first game in stylistic fashion when des-ignated hitter Eric Bryce hit a walk-off dinger in the bottom of the 12th inning trumping the Falcons 3-2.

“When someone hits a home-run like that, sometimes you got to tip your cap and say it’s just meant to be,” said second baseman Matt Pitzulo.

The teams played follow-the-leader through three, each registering no runs in the first, one in the second

and another in the third.Falcons righty Cody

Apthorpe escaped a jam in the third, getting Buffalo’s Daniel Scahill to flyout with two outs and the bases full.

The third was proceeded by 8 1/2 innings of scoreless ball highlighted by productive pitching from each starter and their relief.

Apthorpe went 5 1/3 allow-ing two runs on eight hits while recording seven strikeouts.

He was pulled in the sixth after walking Buffalo’s Jason Kanzler, leaving a mess for reliever Ross Gerdeman with one out and runners on first and third. Gerdeman cleaned it up by fanning the next two Bulls.

Gerdeman went four innings giving up no runs on three hits and striking out four. Gerdeman has not sur-rendered a run in his last 9 1/3 innings of relief.

Nick Bruns replaced Gerdeman in the 10th and struck out three Bulls before serving the homerun ball to

Bryce in the 12th. Both teams had chances

to end the game in regula-tion leaving a combined 14 runners on base in the 8 1/2 scoreless innings.

Falcons’ Andrew Kubuski, Jon Berti and Clay Duncan each had multiple hits going a combined 7-for-14 at the plate.

The Falcons are set to play Kent State Wednesday at VA Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe.

The Falcons struggled against Kent last weekend, but Berti feels the team can do it:

“They have the best [MAC] pitching staff and we scored 10 runs against them the first game,” said the short-stop. “We’ve done it once before, so we can do it again. That’s our mindset.”

Matt Malewitz will start for the Falcons. He has been effective in his last three starts giving up five runs in 16 innings while collecting two wins (Wright State, OSU) and a no decision.

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SWING: Jeremy Shaw swings at a pitch against Kent State earlier this season.

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