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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 VOLUME 94, ISSUE 82 WWW.BGNEWS.COM
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TENNIS CAPTAIN LOOKS AHEAD POWER OF FAITHJunior Drew Fillis talks about season ending shoulder surgery following a program record year. Fillis hopes to return next season, push for MAC Championships. | PAGE 3
Columnist Phil Schurrer bids farewell to a beloved nephew. He talks about how faith and trust in God have pro-vided hope during his family’s time of grief. | PAGE 4
Greg SouthardSenior, Human Development and Family Studies
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN PRANKED ON APRIL FOOLS’ DAY? WHAT HAPPENED?
“My friend put hair bleach in my shampoo.”
NATIONAL CHAMPSThe Forensics and Debate team are heading to the national tournament soon. Read about their road to suc-cess on Page 2.
National incidences do not reflect University’s sororities, fraternitiesSWING DANCINGGreek life uses values to create inclusive culture
SAMANTHA KUZMIC and Matthew Brown dance during the Falcon Swing Society’s meeting. STEVEN W. ECHARD | THE BG NEWS
By Annie FuriaPulse Editor
After incidents involving racist and inappropriate behavior from fra-ternities at University of Oklahoma and Penn State have made national news, the spotlight is on Greek com-munities to see how they respond. At the University, it’s to prevent this behavior from happening at all.
Associate Dean of Students in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Chris Bullins said the University takes proactive measures against any harmful behavior.
He said the Fraternity and Sorority Life helps the individual fraternities and sororities, called chapters, stay focused on “the values on which they were founded, what those val-ues are [and] what it means to live according to those values.”
Whether or not fraternities and sororities are succeeding in promot-ing the right values has been a sub-
ject of debate after members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at University of Oklahoma were filmed chanting a song filled with racial slurs and a private Facebook page for the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity at Penn State was found to contain pictures of naked and unconscious women in the fraternity house.
Bullins said that these situa-tions are not the norm for Greek communities.
“Do I think there are situations across the country where a bad cul-ture can infiltrate ... an entire orga-nization? Yes,” Bullins said. “Do I think that the situation that we’ve seen most recently in Oklahoma represents fraternity and soror-ity men [and women] across this country? No.”
In order for this to remain the case, members of the Greek com-munity at the University are required to go through a risk reduc-
tion program once a semester tack-ling issues of diversity and inclu-sion, sexual assault, alcohol and drugs and mental health.
Along with this, Bullins said Fraternity and Sorority Life has pushed to get the Greek commu-nity involved with initiatives such as It’s on Us campaign and Not In Our Town.
President of Interfraternity Council Victor Senn said within the past two semesters the council has created its own delegate workshop series to educate members. So far the series has covered preventing sexual assault and exploring diver-sity and identity.
“There’s obviously much more to be done,” Senn said, but members are “excited” about becoming more inclusive.
Sydney Howell, treasurer of
Candidates speak about issues with representation, inclusion
By William ChannellManaging Editor
The underrepresentation of certain student groups was the most con-tentious topic at Tuesday night’s debate for Undergraduate Student Government president and vice president elections.
The issue that USG represents a disproportionate number of Greek life students was highlighted. A change in the “status quo” was emphasized by several candidates.
“You’re not going to go to a party that you’re not invited to,” said presidential candidate Nadia Alzamami.
This was in response to a ques-tion posed by an audience mem-ber regarding student outreach by USG. According to the audience member, who said he was previ-ously in USG, the organization had repeatedly reached out to campus groups representing students of varying gender identities, ethnici-ties and sexualities.
Vice Presidential candidate Ashley Robinson, who is on a tick-et with Alzamami, said after the debate that from their perspective, the only time USG historically has reached out to these groups has been during election season.
Additional concerns voiced by the audience dealt with a focus on the wrong groups. One attendee cited the Trenton Grohe/Kaylee Meade ticket visiting Gaming Society as an example of focusing on the wrong area.
Grohe and Meade said they had reached out to Latino Student Union, but heard no response.
While Grohe said they are “not experts” when it comes to the expe-riences of underrepresented stu-dents, they are planning to meet with Black Student Union later this week.
The final formal question during the debate was regarding outreach to campus organizations by USG. Accountability was emphasized by Alzamami.
“We know that student organiza-tions represent communities here on campus,” she said. “That’s defi-nitely something we would like to move forward with.”
Alzamami expressed an inter-
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“We need a USG that speaks for the voice of every student on this campus.”
“Representation is a necessity, not an option.”
“People have seen members of USG reach out but that time has only been during elections.”
“Our plans are important but building relationships is about listening to you and making
sure your needs are met.”
TRENTEN GROHE - Presidential Candidate
“We specifically bring about a course that will prepare students when they’re going out in their desired field.”
“I’ve spoken to so many student organizations ... They don’t know who we [USG] are.”
KAYLEE MEADE - Vice Presidential Candidate
NADIA ALZAMAMI - Presidential Candidate ASHLEY ROBINSON - Vice Presidential Candidate
DANIELLE PARKER -Vice Presidential CandidateVICTOR SENN - Presidential Candidate
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By Carlye PollackReporter
The University Falcon Forensics and Debate team is on its way to the National Forensics Association National Tournament.
Two weeks ago, the team took on the Pi Kappa Delta National Championships, where they placed first in the nation.
Each member of the team that competed came home with some type of award, ranging from “good” to the “superior” top ten percent.
University members that received awards include: Linda Li [National Championship in student congress], Jamie Salazar [National Championship in persuasion speaking], Dylan House [National Championship in rhetori-
cal criticism] and Gilbert Bauman-Flores [second place Nation Championship in informative speaking].
Junior Dylan House is a third year member of the team and came home with the National Championship award in rhetorical criticism.
Competing against 100 plus students in his category, he experienced a roller-coaster of emotions throughout the tournament.
“I took four events to the National Tournament,” House said. “They were announc-ing the last one and they still hadn’t called my name. Imagine feeling like you were on the verge of crying and then being told ‘you’re the best’. My emotions were insane in that moment.”
House said his interest in speaking stemmed from his involvements in high school.
His high school team competed at the state level, where he ran into University Forensics and Debate director, Paul Wesley Alday, and was offered a scholarship for being on the team.
Alday has been the Falcon Forensics and Debate director for 15 years, where he serves as the team’s “coach.”
His passion for the pro-gram and the students is what makes him such an impactful director and leader of this suc-cessful program.
The team has won multi-ple tournaments at the state, national and regional levels.
“It’s been a great year,” Alday said. “This has been our most successful year in 10-15 years.”
Alday describes his team as, “A group that knows how to work really hard, and then play hard afterwards.”
Each team member has similar roles- working towards something with a common goal and achieving greatness.
Senior Becca Barth is a four year member and treasurer of the Pi Kappa Delta commu-nication fraternity that coex-ists with the forensics and debate team.
“We all have an obligation to get our events to the best they can be and to be competitively successful at tournaments,” Barth said. “We also focus a lot on the educational aspect of forensics and getting our mes-sage across to our audience.”
The team also abides by their mission statement of embrac-ing the “Interdependence of teaching, learning, scholar-ship and service through an academic environment grounded in intellectual dis-covery and guided by rational discourse and civility.”
Delta Sigma Theta soror-ity and vice-president of the Black Student Union, said the events at Oklahoma and Penn State don’t reflect the University’s Greek community.
Howell said one inclusiv-ity has been promoted at the University through a strong connection between the different Greek councils on campus.
The four councils on cam-pus are the Interfraternity Council, the National
Pan-Hellenic Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Council.
Howell said these councils were evaluated by an outside group in several categories, one being council relations. This allowed for discussion of any issues among the councils.
“That’s how you prevent problems, by communicat-ing and being open-minded and willing to understand,” she said.
Howell said communica-tion, specifically conver-sations with other campus groups, should have been part of the way Oklahoma
and Penn State handled their incidents.
The response from University of Oklahoma was to shut down the branch of Sigma Alpha Epsilon on their campus, and Kappa Delta Rho has since been suspend-ed for a year by its national chapter and is under investi-gation by Penn State.
Howell was glad they took action, but expressed con-cern that the attitudes lead-ing to these incidents may not have been dealt with.
“What if there are orga-nizations that feel the same way, [but] they’re just quiet about it?” she said.
Bullin said he felt the uni-versities responded in an appropriate way.
“When a situation that severe occurs, it is absolutely important to send a message that the behavior will not be tolerated,” Bullins said. “With the University com-munity is so important to not only balance the rights of those involved, but also the rights of the community, and there can be acts that are certainly so egregious that, in order to balance the rights of the broader community, for a period of time the orga-nization may not need to be on campus.”
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FILE PHOTO | THE BG NEWSDREW FILLIS prepares for a return in a match before her injury last year.
ROAD TO RECOVERY
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By Kaleb PageReporter
An injury is tough for an athlete to go through, and even more so is the road to recovery.
Drew Fillis, a junior on the Bowling Green State University women’s tennis team, has dealt with just that this season.
“I had shoulder surgery so it’s taken me out all of this year,” said Fillis. “I’m coming back slowly but surely and I’m ready to get back.”
The return of Fillis will be a big boost for the team, espe-cially in the experience department as the team is primar-ily built around first year players this season.
“It will be good to have someone back that can show
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Tennis captain Drew Fillis looks ahead to return after season ending shouler surgery
By Brandon ShriderSports Editor
Capitalizing on others’ mistakes saved the day and maybe the season for the Bowling Green baseball team.
After snapping a 10-game losing streak in the game prior, the Falcons came out firing on all cylinders in a 10-0 rout against the University of Findlay.
After a three-up-three-down first inning from starter Brett Fitzwater, Kory Brown got the offense rolling with a single to right center, which he stretched to second base on a right fielder error.
This was just the beginning of what was to come for each team, as BG notched its first shutout of the season.
Brandon Howard followed up the single with an RBI single of his own, again to right center, giving the Falcons a lead they never lost.
“I thought the big key was the first inning,” head coach Danny Schmitz said. “Kory Brown and Brandon Howard got things started for us, [Findlay] made a couple of mistakes and we took advantage of that.”
Oiler starter Cory Carl made it blatantly clear that he was looking to work away from the BG hitters, attempting to paint the outside part of the plate for most of his 3.2 innings. The Falcons maintained their approach, consistently drove the ball to opposite field and piled the runs on early.
“When our approach is good it’s some-thing that [allows us to] put runs up on the board,” Brown said. “If we keep our approach, it can carry us a long way.”
After Trey Keegan pulled a shot between the third base and shortstop gap, BG used a double steal as Howard stole third and Keegan snagged second. But a throwing error by Christion Smith down to third allowed Howard to scamper home as Keegan slid safely into third.
BG kept it going with some situational ball as Matt Smith brought Keegan in to score on a 6-3 groundout.
To top off the inning with an excla-mation mark, Greg Basalyga launched a towering shot — his first homerun of the season — over the left field wall to give the Falcons a 4-0 lead after one frame.
As well as the offense played, making Findlay pay for its repeated mistakes in the field, the Falcons garnered a gem from Fitzwater on the mound, too.
“Work down, attack the zone and just get outs … let my defense do the work,” Fitzwater said.
The “out pitch” for Fitzwater was just locating the fastball. He didn’t throw more than one or two curveballs until the fifth inning, he said.
The Oilers didn’t register a hit until two outs in the top of the seventh when Peter
Baseball team capitilizes on Findlay mistakes
FILE PHOTO | THE BG NEWSFALCONS TRACK team will compete against Toledo in only dual meet of the season.
FALCON’S COMPETE IN FIRST SEASON DUAL MEETFalcon’s get second straight win with a 10-0 shutout
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Last week, our family received the awful, gut-wrenching news: a neph-ew, a wonderful father and a successful self-employed business person, died sud-denly and unexpectedly.
He was 47 years old, decent, honorable and hard-working. He leaves behind a young daughter, a thriving business and a family – both immedi-ate and extended – in pro-found shock.
His parents, his sisters and indeed the entire extended family are searching for answers. Our family is religious and we’ll rely on our faith to sus-tain us. Nonetheless, in the days and years to come, the questions “why?” and “what if?” will remain.
This is the third niece or nephew we have lost. Hopefully, there will be no more. Parents aren’t supposed to bury their children. And children of such a young age shouldn’t have to witness a parent’s funeral.
There’s no easy answer.There are those who
become angry with God at a time like this. If God were so good, they ask, why would he allow this to hap-pen? The Problem of Evil.
Again, there’s no easy answer.
There are those who regard religion as a cruel hoax, foisted upon the ignorant or the gullible by priests, ministers and those who are equally ignorant and gullible. In
rejecting religion, they seek solace in alcohol, money, fame, sex – any-thing that promises relief from the pain.
Still, there’s no easy answer.
In truth, there is no com-plete answer in the here-and-now, no comprehen-sive explanation that will satisfy our search, comfort those left behind or pro-vide guideposts for facing the future.
We’re left with those nagging unanswered ques-tions, loose ends to be attended to and a continu-ing sense of bewilderment and numbness. It’s surreal.
This week, Christians observe Holy Week, a time for remembering the arrest, trial and execution of Jesus Christ. For those disciples who followed him, his death was seem-ingly the end of every-thing. The three years of good times, the miracles, the teachings – it all ended, suddenly and shockingly.
But Christians are instructed to look to the future, past Holy Week, with its sorrows and pain, toward the promise of Easter Sunday. In the lan-guage of business, we need to focus past the “cur-rent quarter.” Our think-ing and outlook must
be long-range.We know that death is
not the end, regardless of how it comes to us. Our underlying faith gives us a quality, a characteristic, an attribute that’s in short supply these days: hope.
Will this answer our questions and soothe the pain that grinds down the spirit and hollows out the soul? No. But it helps us realign our focus from the here-and-now to the future.
It enables us to plod along, taking small, hes-itant baby steps into the future that’s unknown, but also filled with ultimate hope and promise.
Whatever the days, weeks and years may bring, we’ll press on, sometimes hang-ing on by the skin of our teeth, secure in the convic-tion that God loves us so very, very much. We won’t be left alone and aban-doned in the long-run.
It’s neither easy nor com-pletely satisfying in the here-and-now, but maybe, just maybe, it’s the answer.
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“Our underlying faith gives us a quality, a characteristic, an
attribute that’s in short supply these days:
hope.”
Difficult to deal with death of loved ones, comfort can be found through faith in God
Greek Life needs more support on campus, non-Greek students should not believe stereotypes
PHIL SCHURRCOLUMNIST
The questions normal-ly asked around cam-pus by hundreds of peo-ple: “Are you Greek?”, “Are you thinking about going Greek?”
Well here’s a question: “Do you support Greek Life?” No matter if a per-son is Greek or non-Greek, they should support Greek Life on their local campus.
I spoke with one of my friends from the Sigma Nu chapter here at the University. What he shared with me, I found interesting.
He stated that Greek Life here doesn’t receive enough support from its non-Greek classmates.
Greek Sing this past Sunday was a wonderful and fun experience. But the majority of the people there were only Greeks. The number of non-Greeks at Greek Sing was pretty low. That’s not being very supportive of the Greek community.
This would explain why there is hostility between Greeks and non-Greeks.
However, non-Greeks could argue that a lot of the Greeks have Greek-exclusive events, which they do. So, an uninformed non-Greek would assume that Greek Sing was prob-ably only for Greeks.
I’ve spoken to a few non-Greeks and they have admitted to me that they thought Greek Sing was Greek-exclusive. As I stated in a previous col-umn, the main part of this
problem is marketing. The marketing for a lot
of University events needs improvement. Greek Life is no stranger to this and falls victim to ineffective marketing.
There is clearly a divide between the Greeks and non-Greeks. Greeks think non-Greeks hate them, but really they feel singled out because Greek Life is so socially selective.
In the same token, non-Greeks think Greeks are all about partying and paying expensive dues just to have friends, but actually Greeks do philan-thropy service which helps develop leadership and character.
I feel there is a place for everyone in Greek Life. That’s because there isn’t just one typical fra-ternity or sorority; there are several different kinds of chapters.
These chapters feature all different types of peo-ple, so no matter if you’re a jock, fashion fanatic, nerd, geek or that random per-son in the middle who may have a little bit of all those combined, if you look effectively and adamantly, you will find the chapter for you.
It’s just a matter of time. Keep your options open
when you rush. Check out every chapter, even if it’s one you don’t think you would fit in with. You may actually connect with that chapter. It doesn’t hurt to try.
I know plenty of Greeks that said when they first came to the University, they didn’t want anything to do with Greek life. They never planned on going Greek, but now that they are, they say they love it and that they wouldn’t change it for anything.
I love talking to Greek Alumni and listening to them tell me stories about when they were active-ly in Greek life. I’ve met Alumni from several chap-ters and talking to them about their experiences is very beneficial.
So if possible, try to talk to as many Alumni as you can during rush. Try going Greek. If you don’t like it, fine; you can still hang out with chapters.
If you don’t want to be Greek, then just simply support it. The Greeks will appreciate and show their thanks.
Go to events. Even get some phone numbers from Greeks that you like hang-ing around so you’ll be able to hit them up for food or social events.
Nothing can go wrong with supporting the affairs of Greek life.
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the new girls the ropes a bit,” head coach Olga Elkin said. “It has been awesome to see in her absence other girls step up, and it will be great for next season when she does return.”
While Fillis has missed out on the competitiveness of the court, it has shown through around campus and in the classroom.
In each of her first two seasons as a Falcon, Fillis became an International Tennis Association Scholar Athlete. This has built into a leadership role on the Student-Athlete Advisory
Committee (SAAC) and induction this year into Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Athlete Honor Society.
“She likes to study hard,” Elkin said. “She is focused and very organized when it comes to her studies.”
The hard work in the classroom could be credited to the hardworking mental-ity Fillis brings to the court.
“I just try to work as hard as I can whenever I can,” Fillis said. “I’ve been playing tennis since I was seven years old, so it’s been a lot of years and a lot of hours put in working just to get to my goal of playing college tennis.”
The goal was accom-
plished in 2012 when Fillis committed to BGSU, and in her first season she finished with a personal record of 25-11. The team had a record of 17-5 and it was the best conference regular-season record and tournament fin-ish in program history.
It was quite the open-ing year for Fillis and her tennis dream.
“My freshman year we were a hardworking team because we all were experi-enced,” Fillis said. “When I came in it was four seniors, two juniors and two fresh-men so we were basically an all returning team.”
While this season is a stark contrast to that 2012-13 sea-son, Fillis boiled it down to a
few simple keys.“I think continuing to
work hard on our strokes and still keeping our heads up in this down year is impor-tant,” Fillis said. “I think our inexperience has hurt us, so maybe once the girls have another year under their belts that will help them.”
As the season comes down to its final weeks and Fillis anticipates her return to the court, the sights are set high for when this Falcon returns next year.
“I would love to have a winning record and hope-fully make it to MACs,” Fillis said. “I don’t know if it’s going to be my last year or not so I have to go out with a bang.”
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Yorgen singled to right center. This was their first and last hit of the game as Fitzwater got Troy Merriman swinging to end the inning, ending his day on the mound, tying a career-high seven strikeouts.
Fitzwater consistently worked with quick innings, never facing more than four batters in an inning, includ-ing a sixth inning when he caught all three batters look-ing to retire the side.
Relievers Trevor Farrell and Tyler Anderson each threw an inning to end the game, each facing just four batters.
At the dish, to keep the onslaught going, the Falcons scored yet another unearned
run as Nick Glanzman came around to score on a Howard sacrifice fly, after reach-ing on an error by shortstop Kevin Schrock.
Again in the fourth, BG was the beneficiary of sloppy play from the Oilers, scoring three additional unearned runs after another Schrock error, stretching its lead to 8-0.
In the sixth inning, BG manufactured a couple more earned runs to cap off the games’ scoring.
Howard singled up the middle followed by a Keegan walk. Then, with two on and nobody out, Matt Smith hit behind the runners, ground-ing out to second base, but advancing both Howard and Keegan.
Again hitting behind the runners, Basalyga ground-
ed out to second, moving Keegan to third and scoring Howard. Randy Righter then roped one into left field to score Keegan and closing the book on the Oilers for the day.
“Playing the little ball, tak-ing advantage of mistakes, being aggressive on the base-paths — that’s exactly what we need to do,” Schmitz said.
The Falcons will look to carry this momentum back into Mid-American Conference play — still searching for their first MAC win of the season — with a three-game homestand against Miami.
“[This game] gives us a lot of confidence,” Fitzwater said. “When they make mis-takes, make it hurt and hope-fully this game will help us out and give us some confi-dence for this weekend.”
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est in forming a position with the cabinet for grant writing, fundraising and collaboration.
“That’s something we can’t change because BGSU’s finances are what they are,” Alzamami said. “What we can do is cre-ate something a little more creative in order to address it and that’s what that position is.”
Grohe emphasized his ticket’s desired increase in visibility and engage-ment overall, citing his visit to Gaming Society as an example of connecting with on campus groups.
“These are our constitu-ents,” Grohe said. “There’s no reason that we as lead-ers in the Undergraduate Student Government couldn’t go to organiza-tions just like the Gaming Society and try to net-work them with other organizations.”
Meade said senators would be expected to speak
to 10 to 15 organizations if they were to be elected.
“Obviously not everyone is going to have a concern,” Meade said. “That’s a lot of commitment for the senate to make, but that’s what’s expected.”
“Strengthening leader-ship roles” for senators is a priority, said Danielle Parker, vice presiden-tial candidate on the Victor Senn/Danielle Parker ticket.
Parker cited the resolu-tion that passed Monday restructuring the sen-ate committee system. The changes allow the speaker to form subcom-mittees under the newly formed Undergraduate Student Affairs commit-tee to respond to problems semester to semester.
Recruiting new mem-bers, Parker said, is helped by senators being pas-sionate about what they’re working on.
Candidates had vary-ing plans when it came to improving student engagement.
Grohe said an improve-
ment in USG public rela-tions across the board is necessary.
“In order for USG to suc-ceed we have to put a face to a name,” Grohe said.
Much of Alzamami and Robinson’s platform has been based on what they feel is a lack of engage-ment between USG and the student body. This, they believe, results in a lack of accurate represen-tation within the USG sen-ate. Much of the blame, Alzamami said, has fallen on USG.
“There seems to be a barrier between the student body and t he Underg raduate Student Government,” Alzamami said.
Increased accountabili-ty among USG representa-tives was emphasized by Alzamami.
An emphasis on com-munity engagement was expressed by Senn.
Parker said student engagement is part ly “just being an advocate not just of students, but student organizations.”
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Local company looking to fillpart-time clerical position, M-F
7am-11am. Experience inQuickbooks and Excel required.Apply in person 8am-5pm to:
513 Napolen rd.BG
PT kitchen help, bartenders andservers wanted. BG Country
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Purchasing Mgr position availablein BG. Responsible for the pro-
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tion of commodity strategies plansand the management of supplierrelationship. Other areas of re-
sponsibility include price negotia-tion, planning, production, inven-tory control and factory control.
Email responses to: [email protected]
SUMMER Work For STUDENTS!Want people willing to learn towork on wood floors including
gym floors. Starts end of May tomiddle of Aug. Work consists ofoperating equipment, includingfloor buffers and floor sanding
machines. Also measuring, layingout & painting game lines, art
work & applying gym floor finish.We train you in all areas of work,
$10/hr w/ approx 40-50hrs/wk,flex. hours. Must be punctual,reliable and willing to accept
responsibility Contact Joe Koch
For Rent
**over 3 allowed on lease (3-8stu)930 Wooster 6 bdrm/315 E.Merry.See cartyrentals.com or 353-0325Also 2 BR apts 300 block Merry
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1 BDRM APT, near BGSU.Avail Fall $475/mo. Util s inc.
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