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By Hannah NusserReporter

Whether it’s a taste for fresh sea-food or the adventure of catching a bite, fish farming in Northwest Ohio is an emerging industry with economic and local area benefits.

Aquaculture, commonly known as fish farming, is the process and business of raising aquatic species of interest, such as fish, for food or other pur-poses. The industry ranges from companies that raise bait fish for fisherman, to a plethora of spe-cies for commercial consump-tion, like perch, trout and catfish. A variety of these species are sold to restaurants and grocery stores.

David Smith, founder of Freshwater Farms of Ohio, said there’s been a growth of fish farming in the past five years, and there are now about 220 fish

farms in Ohio. There are many opportunities for fish farming businesses, he said, and oppor-tunities will grow as the industry expands.

Shawn McWhorter, a research associate aquaculture spe-cialist for the Ohio Center of Aquaculture Development, is working on developing a more efficient means of raising fish, in hopes that the aquaculture busi-ness will pick up in Ohio. If more farmers farm fish, he said, their

By Christine TalbertReporter

Since September 1975, the Wood County Committee on Aging (WCCOA) has served elderly residents of Bowling Green and provided college students with volunteer opportunities.

Since its establishment, sever-al other Wood County commu-nities have opened their doors to provide seniors with loans for medical equipment, handi-capped parking applications, blood pressure and cholesterol screenings, referrals for care options and support groups.

Programs Specialist Jessi Trigg,

a 2007 graduate in gerontology from the University, said there are several student volunteers from all over the area.

“[Two of my students] Ashley and Aaron have been teach-ing a class called ‘Get Fit’ every Monday, Wednesday, [and] Friday since August,” Trigg said. “They are both kinesiol-ogy majors, and have created this class so seniors can work on their balance and strength training.”

The Bowling Green Senior Center provides volunteer

Christine TalbertReporter

Creating an additional option for a yard waste solution was up for debate at last night’s city council meeting.

Member-At-Large Terry Dunn proposed to John Fawcett, from the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, that an addi-tional bin be added to the gar-bage and recycling bin, strictly for the use of yard waste and brush pickup. The issue arose after city council removed yard wast and brush pick up early this year, but received a slew of phone calls from upset residents over the issue.

Council President John

Zanfardino said yard waste being placed in plastic bags and thrown into the trash is not a good thing to be happening in the city.

“My belief is that 90 percent of the yard waste produced by the people in this city is in a landfill, and if it isn’t, then it eventually will be,” he said.

Zanfardino said it is easier for residents to throw their yard waste and brush pick up into the trash instead of using it as com-post.

Terry Dunn talked to John Fawcett earlier in the week about providng council with an esti-mate on what it would cost to offer an additional bin and the service of yard waste drop-off to

the people of Bowling Green.“I told Mr. Fawcett to factor in

that the waste would be picked up every Friday for the seven month period between April and October where the most yard work is completed,” Dunn said.

“I wanted this done so we could factor how much each person would have to pay for this service, if they wanted it.”

The cost estimation sheet passed around to all council members included the cost of 5,500 bins to be passed out to citizens, personnel costs, equip-ment replacement and the cost of fuel for the trucks picking up the waste.

Councilman Dunn ques-tioned Fawcett’s estimate, saying

the numbers were higher than he expected them to be, and Fawcett cleared up any misun-derstandings.

“Again, these numbers are just a rough estimate. The cost of per-sonnel is to compensate them to complete this job that would

Area farmers get hooked on

fish farming for benefits, food

Students become the teachers of the

previous generationsCity Council seeks to expand on yard waste solution

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FRIENDS: Senior Pre-Vet major Mary Lines wrangling a snake in the Herpetology Lab. See more photos Herpetology Lab page 8.

WRAPPED AROUND HER WRIST

See FARM | Page 9

See SENIORS | Page 10

Volunteer options at local Wood County Senior Centers allow students to educate, help

“We’re in the log cabin phase of aquaculture in Ohio...technology [is] being adopted.”

Shawn McWhorter | Research associate

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With the closing of three parking lots, commuters question University’s decision

RYAN PIROG | THE BG NEWS

By Shaina SmithReporter

The University is closing three commuter park-ing lots.

This leaves commuters like sophomore com-muter Amanda Agan asking themselves “Where the heck am I going to park?” The University plans to close commuter Lot J3 by McDonald residence hall, and Lots J7 and J8 behind Offenhauer will be removed to make room for the new McDonald dining center and the new residence hall.

In an effort to compensate for lost parking, the University will be expanding Lots 5 and 12 by 500 spaces to the north, said Project Architect Marc Brunner. The removal of Lots J3, J7 and J8 is expected to begin in the coming months along

with the construction in Lots 5 and 12. “Well I just heard about it today and I gasped,”

said sophomore Lizette Cooper. “I park in those two lots [J3, J7] because they’re the closest to my student life … all my classes are in Life Science or the Math Science building.”

For some students, the new parking lots mean they will have to walk further to get to their class-es.

“This makes me very angry because most of my classes are in Eppler or the music building and that would be a long walk from there,” Agan said. “Even the lot across from the rec and the graveyard fill up before 10 a.m. so you would have to park at the

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12:10 A.M.Complainant came to the police sta-tion to report an altercation he had with his girlfriend.

12:25 A.M.Complainant reported there was loud banging in the building within the 300 block of E. Merry St. residents were wrestling and warned of the complainant.

1:50 A.M.Four residents within the 100 block of North Main St. were warned for disor-derly conduct fighting.

1:02 A.M.Holley Hesler, of Worthington, Ohio, was cited for underage under the influence and littering in public at McDonald West Hall.

2:36 A.M.Terry Miller, 20, of Bowling Green, was arrested for aggravated vehicular assault and underage under the influ-ence on the corners of North Prospect

BLOTTER and East Wooster streets.

5:30 A.M.Complainant reported she was assault-ed at the Hampton Inn.

2:59 P.M.Complainant reported a juvenile assaulted her within the 1000 block of Pearl St.

3:11 P.M.Complainant reported known subject came into Wendy’s on east Wooster St. and harassed her.

8:43 P.M.Complainant reported in the past 48 hours unknown subject broke a base-ment window causing approximately $50 in damage, within the 200 block of Sandridge Road.

11:11 P.M.Brian Weilacher, 20, of Bowling Green, was cited for a nuisance party and obstruction of official business within the 200 block of Manville Ave.

11:32 P.M.Complainant reported loud music within 200 block of South College Drive.

11:41 P.M.Resident within the 400 block of E. Court St. was warned for disorderly conduct loud music.

FRI., APRIL 2

12:02 A.M.Joseph Cross, 21, of Marion, Ohio, was arrested on active warrant within 100 block of Crim St.

12:13 A.M.Resident within the 800 block of Clough St. was warned for open con-tainer of alcohol.

1:57 A.M.Darla Sonnenberg, 21, of Holgate, Ohio, was cited for disorderly conduct public urination in Lot 2.

2:20 A.M.Samantha Giatron, 21, of Solon, Ohio, and Joellon Hall, 20, of Bowling Green, were cited for disorderly con-duct fighting within the 100 block of E. Wooster St.

2:53 P.M.Complainant reported he was struck in the head by an unknown subject within the 100 block of N. Main St.

3:07 P.M.Resident reported loud music within the 800 block of Seventh St.

3:47 A.M. Residents reported a loud party complainant within the 100 block of Ridge St.

3:49 A.M.Complainant reported loud music within the 100 block of Troup Ave.

6:12 A.M.Timothy Reindel, 21, of Bowling Green, was arrested for burglary within the 900 block of N. Main St.

2:58 P.M.Complainant reported unknown person stole a white purse from an unlocked vehicle within the 100 block of W. Gypsy Lane Road.

10:25 P.M.Subjects within the 200 block of E. Napoleon Road were warned for dis-orderly conduct loud music.

10:28 P.M.Complainant came to the police sta-tion to report she has been receiving threatening phone calls from a known subject.

11:08 P.M.Resident within the 200 block of S. Prospect St. was warned for disorderly conduct.

11:20 P.M.Residents within the 900 block of E. Wooster St. were warned for disor-derly conduct loud noise.

11:41 P.M.Residents within the 900 block of Thurstin Ave. were warned for loud music.

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12:08 A.M. Allan Silva, 20, of Waterville, Ohio, was cited for open container of alco-hol and underage possession of alco-hol within the 200 block of N. Main St.

12:20 A.M.Residents within the 300 block of N. Prospect St. were warned for disor-derly conduct loud music.

12:36 A.M.Deanne Patterson, 40, of Bowling Green, was cited for domestic violence within the 100 block of N. Prospect St.

12:37 A.M.Carly Capelle, 20, of Bowling Green, was cited for open container of alco-hol and underage possession of alco-hol and Daniel Malone, 25, of Enon, Ohio, was cited for open container of alcohol.

1:11 A.M.Garrett Knerr, 20, of Forest, Ohio, was cited for open container of alcohol and underage possession of alcohol within Lot 2.

1:29 A.M.Resident within the 500 block of Pike St. was warned for disorderly conduct loud music.

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1:53 A.M.Complainant reported a purse, valued at $250, was stolen from an unlocked vehicle within the 100 block of E. Wooster St.

2:00 A.M.Cory Stanevich, 22, of Bowling Green, and Wallace Scott, 24, of Ridgeville, Ohio, were cited for disorderly con-duct fighting within the 100 block of N. Main St.

4:21 A.M.Complainant reported a fight broke out within the 800 block of Seventh St.

12: 38 P.M.Individual reported unknown subject pumped $46.51 and left without pay-ing for the gas at Newman’s Marathon.

11:52 P.M.Eric Kniffen, 27, of Bowling Green, was arrested for disorderly conduct unable to care for self and drug paraphernalia within the 100 block of N. Main St.

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ice arena, and that’s a long walk as well.”

Junior Lucas Kopec thinks it’s funny that on-campus parking is the same distance as off-cam-pus parking when on-campus students don’t have to walk to their car daily.

Sophomore Emily Byrn raised the question of security while walking to these distant park-ing lots.

“I have classes up to 9 at night. Walking to [Lot 5] at night wor-ries me, and I don’t know any-one on campus,” she said.

Cooper agreed with Byrne and said it’s scary to walk to those far off lots after evening classes.

Some of the students sug-gested the University should make sure there is more light-ing added to the lots if they are going to have to park further away.

Kopec is confused as to why two frequently used commuter lots are being removed. He sug-gested the University look at the statistics and see which popula-tion is bigger: off-campus stu-dents or on-campus students.

“If there are more commuters, then they should think about adding more and closer com-muter lots,” he said.

Junior Jeff Stevenson also had a suggestion that the University should think of.

“BGSU should just invest more money in hover car research and there wouldn’t be any more problems,” he said.

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By Brittany WashingtonReporter

Culture took center stage on Saturday at this year’s annual African dinner.

Hosted by the African Peoples Association, the African dinner’s theme was “Listen to Africa: The Sound Of...” and the event took place 6 p.m. Saturday in Olscamp 101. Approximately 300 students were in attendance for the event.

The dinner was held to wrap up everything APA has show-cased during the school year, Vice President Curtis McKinnon said.

Students who attended the event were able to experience African dance, drumming, food and fashion in the two hour event. The dinner included fried plan-tains, catfish, curried chicken and jalouf rice.

The evening started with a flag precession, which represented dif-ferent African nations, followed by the South African Anthem sung by graduate student Anither Karugila.

Hosting the show along with McKinnon was public relations chair for APA, Immanuel Gyebi.

“We want to exhibit African culture and show people that we don’t live in darkness,” Gyebi said. “African culture is more than what’s shown in the media.”

Born in Ghana, Gyebi joined APA three years ago with a strong interest in meeting the African community on campus.

The evening moved along with special dance performanc-es from the Afro-Caribbean Dance Ensemble and Ladies African Dance who traveled from Columbus, Ohio to be in atten-dance.

Future vice president of APA Robert Lino and future public relations chair John Travers engaged the crowd with poetry that shed light on African cul-ture.

The general members contin-ued the evening with a fashion show, which represented African clothing and apparel.

The evening wrapped up

with a headlining performance from Bi-Okoto a Drum and Dance Theater school of African Cultures based out of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Becoming an instant crowd-pleaser, the dance troupe involved the audience by bringing several audience members to the stage to learn African dance.

Invited to the stage was stu-dent Karina Higginbotham, who attends the dinner every year.

“I love African people and the culture, so I make sure I sup-port everything APA does,” Higginbotham said.

APA has just a couple meetings left in the school year for anyone interested in attending, Gyebi said. The group was created for all people of African decent and those interested in African cul-ture to come together and help others learn about African cul-ture, said APA President Emeka Anyanwu.

For more information about APA and announcements on upcom-ing events, visit www.bgapa.org.

USG finalizes new shuttle fee Dinner, musical performances provide a taste of African culture

RYAN PIROG | THE BG NEWS

CAREER FAIR: Volunteer coordinator Whitney Hubbard speaks with students at the career, networks and internships fair Monday.

GETTING THE WORD OUT

African Peoples Association event offers fashion show, music, dance

By Rose SchneiderReporter

The University will see a new shuttle come September, which will be provided by the recently passed shuttle fee.

At the Undergraduate Student Government’s final general meeting of the semester yester-day, President Sundeep Mutgi announced that come next fall, the University will get a new shuttle.

“We finished the shuttle fee,” Mutgi said. “It’s done, we’re going to get a shuttle.”

In terms of providing down-town transportation and getting new shuttles, Mutgi said USG will continue to look for ways to fund the plan because there is still more money needed.

“This is a really big win for us because we’ve just basically solved an issue that has been going on for four or five years,”

he said. “On top of that, we did it without charging the stu-dents.”

The Green Initiatives Fund was also an important issue of the night, brought to USG by guest speaker Nicholas Henessy, a representative for the fund.

The fund allows students to come up with projects that would make the University more green, and apply for money to fund the project.

“I urge all of you and then to urge your constituents as well, to look into possibly filing some sort of project for money for the green fund,” Henessy said.

“The money is gear-marketed for

green projects, environmental-ly friendly projects and energy saving projects.”

He said the fund, which is an optional $5 student fee, has amounted to almost $70,000 so far to be used for current and future green projects.

Henessy said the fund is sup-posed to grant money to green projects “by the students, for the students.”

“We’re one of the first schools in Ohio to have such a fund,” said Henessy. He said the green fund is still accepting projects for this semester, and encour-ages students to file for projects for next year.

“I urge all of you and then your constituents as well, to look into possibly filing some sort

of project for money for the green fund.”Nicholas Henessy | Green Initiative Fund

CITY From Page 1would take place on Fridays, in addition to the four days that-they pick up recycling and gar-bage,” Fawcett said. “The equip-ment replacement costs is to factor in that our trucks will be used more frequently and I am preparing for them to be worn and torn down a little bit after seven months of yard waste and brush pickup.”

Fawcett said the most signifi-cant purchase would be provid-ing citizens with a third bin.

“The bins alone would cost somewhere around $250,000 if

we are providing them for 5,500 people,” he said. “Operational costs would be about $84,000, so divide that by 5,500 people and the annual cost for having some-one pick up your yard waste on Fridays would be about $152.65, or roughly $12 a month for the students and other residents of the city.”

Mike Frost said he was hesitant to agree with Dunn’s proposal because of previous decisions made by the council this past fall regarding the drop off service of yard waste.

“Last year, we said that we needed to cut out this drop off service from our budget because it was becoming too expensive

and we needed to make cuts ” he said. “but now we say ‘Oh, we need it again.’ I think we need to educate our community on this and other options that we can provide them with and make a better decision this time. I’m just a little hesitant to re-establish this whole issue over again.”

Dunn said he would beg to dif-fer from Frost’s opinion.

“We knew that this was coming, and we all knew what was in this proposal, and that we needed to have some alternatives ready,” Dunn said. “ We are a team try-ing to solve this thing. It is more convenient for us to pick up people’s yard waste than it is for them to drive to the landfill.”

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET How did you celebrate the end of Lent?

ZACH CUNDIFF, Freshman, Special Education

“I gave up alcohol so I had a drink.”

MOLLY POTTKOTTER, Freshman, Pre-Physical Therapy

“I gave up sweets so I went to Coldstone and had a ‘Gotta Have It.’”

JAMES DINGESS, Freshman, Communications

“I didn’t give up anything for Lent.”

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Violence never helps in arguments

He stood there frothing at the mouth, shouting crazed exple-tives at me, his veins bulging all over his neck looking like they might explode. Within a few minutes, what began as a discussion turned into a bar-room brawl involving many people, police cars, citations and court dates.

That may seem like the result of some brawl over a girl at any of the frequented downtown Bowling Green night spots. The argument was actually about abortion — why they were talk-ing politics in a bar still baffles me to this day — but it’s one of those conversations in which people feel they have so much of a stake, it can often lead to violence. This is evident in the many passions a debate on health care tends to bring out of people in Obama’s era as president. The health care bill is also a great way of watching democracy work.

Democracy in the modern world also offers some of the most thrilling moments on tele-vision. Watching Republican Party members in the health care debates was more thrill-ing than Jack Bauer has been since “24” has been on the air. They seemed so passionate and enraged by Obama’s health care bill that you would think Obama

had appointed Kim Jong Ill as vice-president. The Democrats were equally entertaining as they stood by their president and put on the fight of their lives.

Then, we have the advent of this new, uncontrolled fringe group of right-wingers, the Tea Party. All of a sudden, Obama’s era became a thrilling television show with twists and turns that would make the writers of the “Sopranos” envious.

People’s politics are ulti-mately about agendas, egos, personality clashes and pas-sions. How we conduct our politics in this world is a reflection of arguments that happen daily. Arguments are defined as “a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince peo-ple that your opinion about something is correct.”

Arguing is one of the first things we learn to do. Even a baby that can’t speak argues. Political arguments stem from the realization that, because one has a stake in this thing, they too must be allowed to contrib-ute to how this thing runs. This thing could be anything from a company to a bunch of kids making the rules for a game of hide-and-seek. When people have a stake in something, they will make sure they argue and argue until an outcome that satisfies all is reached.

There is nothing more human than arguing. Few of our friends

HAMA BBELA COLUMNIST

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Youth culture needs to not focus on the ‘cool’

My generation, Generation Y, is a subject which occupies my thoughts pretty frequently. For this reason, I pay attention to what I hear people say about young people as far as what we want, how we see the world and how we see ourselves.

America, nay, the world, is very different than it was 20 years ago. The proliferation of social media, unprecedented globalization and many other things unique to our generation are coloring our pri-orities and opinions in ways that are not yet understood. And while people have talked about “kids these days” since the beginning of time, the same old laundry list of lamentations is a little different from yesteryear.

Fundamentally, the laundry list is still the same. All those fun things that come with being free of major responsibilities are as fun as they’ve ever been, but how Gen Y responds to that is something that is yet to be determined.

America is at a crossroads. I’m not saying we are living in spe-cial times, because America has

always been at a crossroads. But I’m not just talking about politics. Culturally, we have more freedom than at any other time in his-tory, but we are severely under-equipped to use it.

There really aren’t any more lines to cross in terms of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Indeed, all three of these are more accept-able than they’ve ever been, and in my opinion, that’s great.However, with freedom comes responsibility, and that is where I feel youth culture today can use some improvement.

What American culture is like is a slippery subject and I’ll spare you my fumbling attempts at an explanation. In Bowling Green, Christianity, “traditional values” and all the other trappings of the ossified and stifling culture young people have been responding to since the days of Allen Ginsberg are still relatively safe. But let’s face it, we are still a small town in a corn field, and the majority of BG’s citizenry is much closer to America’s past than its future.

My gripe is that the people who choose to live outside such con-fines frequently do so in the most shallow and intellectually bankrupt ways possible. I’m talking about

MIKE THURAU COLUMNIST

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORFaculty column shows unfair bias against AmericaWhile there are many sound arguments for reducing the military footprint of the United States around the world, facul-ty columnist Patrick Saunders failed to present any of them.

Instead, he starts with a slur, referring to our efforts in Afghanistan as a “war of American Empire.” Good job Prof. Would your English Composition T.A. approve of that form?

Then, Saunders shrinks from his next assertion with the cop out, “Many writers have point-ed out.” Come on. Does he assert the following compari-son. What would he point out?

For me, the low point of his analysis is where he claims, “The easiest way to bring peace is for us to leave that part of the world.” Does he for-get that 9/11 happened before we went to Afghanistan? Ever since St. Augustine, the just war doctrine embodied in the U.N. charter has permitted the use of military force in response to a direct attack.

President Obama, surely no

imperialist, campaigned in support of this war. He won. None of us like war, espe-cially the military leadership of this country. One need only read the extensive writings of Dwight Eisenhower to see this clearly. “Patton” may have been a good movie, but it didn’t represent the American soldier then or now.

If Saunders thinks the States has a poverty draft, I suggest that he take the time to talk to the University students in ROTC. They are among the best and brightest of the stu-dent body and they are not volunteers because of poverty. Their clear-headed patriotism stands in stark contrast to the warmed-over pablum from the ‘60s that is Saunders’ offering.

I didn’t serve in Vietnam, even though I could have. The blood of the millions of South Vietnamese who died after the doves got their way is on my hands, and the hands of those of my generation who bought the line Saunders is still ped-dling. Most of the real civil-ian casualties in Afghanistan

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If you are going to come to class please pay attention! Nothing is more distract-ing than you signing up for tanning or updating your Facebook restaurant while I am trying to pay attention. And to the girl who insists on packing up ten minutes before class is over and then standing up before she has dismissed us (it’s only 11:15) and then sighing because she tells you to sit back down we have five more minutes. Stop It! You don’t run that class and if it is such an inconvenience to your life then you should have dropped it. No one is making you stay. —CHECKING THE CLOCK

Dear girls who decide to take 15 minutes to get through the check out line please put down your Blackberrys and pay attention. I am on a tight schedule and don’t have time for you to discuss how much you hooched it up at last night’s party. Please keep it to yourself and close personal friends about how you smoked a bunch of weed for the first time and almost participated in a threesome. I’m sorry, but no one wants to hear about it. —TMI

Dear Butterfingers,While I was walking by Founders on a lovely afternoon, I was struck in the head and neck with a football by some half-assed athletes who can’t catch. Not only did they laugh after it happened, they didn’t even say they were sorry for hitting me. I don’t know who these jerks are, but they really need a lesson in manners and maybe some football training while they’re at it.—MY HEAD HURTS

Okay, so I am about to graduate and I was wondering something. Why, after the thousands of dollars I have spent at this university, am I now required to pay a $35 “graduation fee?” This fee doesn’t pay for my cap and gown; that’s a separate expense. Are the piece of paper and ink that will make up my diploma going to cost that much? I doubt it. Basically it’s one last gouge before I and my fellow graduates leave and then get bothered to donate as alums. This is some bull.—LEAVE MY MONEY ALONE

Good news eveyone, the weather is getting better. Time to roll out the blankets and sit outside, enjoying the warm air. Now if you’re thinking about doing this, great, but you might be asking yourself, where should I sit? Well, typically, people will choose to sit on the soft grass soaking up the sun. No problem there. Of course, if you plan on being a rebel, and decide to sit on the sidewalk, please reconsider. Walking paths are made for walking; not parking your commune in the middle of the sidewalk while people are trying to walk by. You might as well sit in the middle of the street. So, in the future please try to be a little more considerate, and keep on the grass. Thank you kindly.—WILLIE EVERLEARN

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BBELA From Page 4in the animal kingdom argue. Animals clash over matters of sur-vival, like food, territory and the right to mate. In this health care bill, many passions have come to surface and people are fighting and debating. Some are mature about it and work within the social framework of decency and courte-sy; others quickly turn to violence.

This isn’t new to democracy; violence is as human as speech. Violence speaks to an ancient animal like fury that’s rag-

ing within every one of us. The important thing is to keep those tendencies in check.

Democracy is an art form. At its best, it can achieve so much for a society, but at its worst, it can greatly polarize a people. Learning to be accepting of opposing opinions while being patient enough to analyze the opposition’s debate is at the heart of what makes a good participant in the democratic dance.

Extremists exist in every system; the only good thing is they are always the minority. The extremist reacts in the most violent way pos-sible. He attempts to affect change

either by threatening violence or being violent. His calls should never be listened to, for the day people heed the call of extremists is the day democracy loses. People should continue to debate, but do so in a healthy manner.

Ultimately, French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville summed it up nicely when he said, “The genius of democra-cies is seen not only in the great number of new words intro-duced, but even more in the new ideas they express.”

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THURAU From Page 4the hipster in your art class or the jerk in your sociology class who has an answer for everything.

Today, we use the word “cul-ture” to describe lifestyle as opposed to a way of life. However, our culture is far more than our aesthetic preferences or “style.” Not only does this definition of culture degenerate our identity into a series of consumer choices, it also prevents us from adapting to our environment.

Young people more than any-one else view themselves as “individuals,” but nothing could be further from the truth. We certainly have all the superficial trappings of individuality: pierc-ings, tattoos, cool threads and a Facebook profile page that reads

like an autobiography. However, at the end of the day, we all end up looking, acting and thinking in remarkably similar ways.

I’m not saying you should forego your next tattoo or delete your Facebook page. But I am saying your septum pierc-ing and Chuck Martens don’t matter at all. I promise you, the gothed-out raver punks you see at the club this weekend aren’t nearly as interesting as they look if you actually take the time to talk to them.

Most of us aren’t looking for some kind of absolute truth or ideal. Indeed, most of us don’t even believe it exists. In a con-sumer culture, the customer is always right. Your choices and preferences are unique to you, and no one is a better judge of what is best for you than you. If someone else likes vanilla,

that’s good for them; if you like chocolate, that’s good for you. This kind of thinking is fine for the shopping mall, but it seems to have bled into our assump-tions about life, morality and purpose as well.

Some people can hook up and not deal with any emotional consequences whatsoever, but I believe most people are not so shallow as that. Some people can smoke pot every single day and still maintain a 4.0 GPA, but most of us cannot. As members of the second great baby boom, we have inherited the cultural victories of our hippie predecessors. It is our job to win the peace, and some-times that ends up looking a little bit s-q-u-a-r-e.

Respond to Mike at thenews@bgnews.com

LETTERS From Page 4are directly the result of their use by the Taliban as human shields in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

C’mon. Admit it. You just don’t like your country very much. There is nothing we could do to satisfy you except quit being America. Maybe you’d like life in Iran better. Lots of faculty posi-tions are open there, now that the universities have been purged by the mullahs.

By Nick Batt. This letter is in response to Pat Saunders’ March

30 column, “Current administra-tion merely continues the age-old practice of imperialism.” Respond

at thenews@bgnews.com

Government-run business can not workFor the last hundred years, the Brooklyn Bridge has been the icon that trumps

outrageous business scams.For the last 200-plus years, our

government has been involved in four major business enter-prises: mail delivery (post office, 235 years); education (“free” public schools, 150 years); insur-ance annuities (Social Security, 75 years) and health insurance (Medicare/Medicaid, 50 years).

In addition, the government regulates virtually every indus-try in the country and further directs their behavior and that of its citizens through the tax codes. One would think that after all this time, talent, treasure and man-agement, they would get it right. But, yet, we have all of those enterprises consistently deliver-ing poor and declining services at higher and higher costs with larger losses every year.

When our regulators fail to reg-ulate (banks/insurance compa-nies) or over regulate (autos), they don’t admit error. They blame the businesses, and then raid our treasury to bail them out.

The post office charges more and delivers less. Public schools

cost more every year and test results continue to decline; some graduates can’t even write a com-prehensive paragraph. E. coli and salmonella outbreaks increase and a lot of drugs cause more harm than good. Social Security is a bankrupt Ponzi scheme and Medicare/Medicaid cannot pay its bills; their unfunded future liabilities will cost our children their future.

Now we are told that our feder-al government must take over the entire medical and health insur-ance business (which is a full 20 percent of GDP; a $3 trillion dol-lar industry) in order to deliver better products and services at reduced costs. This, in the face of several centuries of evidence that proves government at any level is incapable of managing any busi-ness enterprise at all.

I’d rather take title to that bridge in Brooklyn.

Kendrick is a senior majoring in parks and recreation. Respond to this letter at thenews@bgnews.

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TENNISFalcons fall to Western MichiganThe Falcon tennis team fell to Western Michigan 5-2 Friday afternoon at BG’s Keefe Courts. Christine Chiricosta (pictured) won in both singles and doubles play. Her doubles win was her 60th as a Falcon, moving her into a tie for 13th place on BG’s all-time list. Friday’s loss drops BG to 11-5 overall and 1-2 in the Mid-American Conference.

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Today inSports History1992—Duke defeats Michigan 71-51 for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. 1958—Arnold Palmer wins the Masters for his first win in a major golf tournament.

The ListAfter another busy weekend for BG athletics, we take a look at the top five performances.1. Chiricosta: Tennis player Christine Chiricosta won in singles and doubles play Friday against Western Michigan, giving her 122 overall wins in her career.2. Blanton: T.J. Blanton extended his hitting streak to 17 games last weekend and leads the team in home runs (7) and RBI (23).3. Berger: Freshman Paige Berger hit her team-high seventh home run last weekend and also leads the softball team in hits (15) and slugging percentage (.796).4. Pitzulo: In BG’s 4-3 win against Eastern Michigan on Sunday, freshman Matthew Pitzulo went 2-for-4 at the plate with two RBI.5. Smith: In Friday’s loss pitcher Brennan Smith tossed 7.2 innings with six strikeouts.

SIDELINES

OUR CALL

Falcons hang on to avoid weekend sweep

By Justin OnslowReporter

This weekend was not quite what the Falcons had hoped for, but they made some real progress toward turning their season around.

The Falcons (8-14-1) dropped two of three games to Eastern Michigan University over the weekend, but got some strong pitching and defense from several players.

Errors have plagued BG so far this season, but the team only committed four errors in three games over the weekend.

The Falcons also had a 5.91 ERA during the series. In the first

and third games against EMU, BG’s combined ERA was a much-improved 3.94.

However, the Falcons failed to match their defensive improve-ment with consistent hitting,

BG hit .257 in the series — 55 points less than it has batted during the rest of the season. The Falcons are now hitting .304 as a team, while opponents are batting .312 against them.

Senior center fielder T.J. Blanton continued his outstand-ing performance this season by extending his hitting streak to 17 games.

He has overtaken freshman

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BG NEWS FILE PHOTO

EYE ON THE BALL: T.J. Blanton prepares to swing in a game last season. Blanton extended his hitting streak to 17 games last weekend.

By Brett WaneReporter

The BG softball team split their home-opening weekend, pick-ing up two wins against Central Michigan while dropping both games with Eastern Michigan.

The long ball was the key to success against Central Michigan, and freshman Paige Berger stepped up when the Falcons needed her the most.

Trailing 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh, Berger hit her team-lead-ing sixth homerun of the season to earn the Falcons’ first home and Mid-American Conference win of the 2010 season.

Berger’s two-run homerun was part of a three-run sev-enth inning which defeated the Chippewas 6-4 in the first of a doubleheader.

Freshman Adrienne Dick was

the hero of the second game, notching her first career home run in the bottom of the sixth to give the Falcons the lead for good in a 3-2 victory.

Junior Zada Lines started for the Falcons and allowed six hits during her 5.1 innings in the circle.

Junior Melissa Bott pitched all seven innings during the first game, and relieved Lines in the second.

Bott held CMU to zero earned runs, as all four runs to cross the plate were unearned, and six hits in the two games and improved her record on the mound to 4-5.

The Falcons had problems against Eastern Michigan on Saturday, falling 9-2 as both teams had to battle 35 mile per hour winds and rainfall.

Freshman Hannah Fulk was able to score the first run of the

game until EMU took the lead 2-1 in the third inning.

In the bottom half of the inning senior Karmen Coffey tied the game at 2-2 but the Falcons couldn’t get back on track after the third.

On Sunday, the Falcons were able to out-hit the Eagles 6-3 in a game where Berger hit her sev-enth homerun of the season, but still suffered a 5-2 loss .

Berger recorded two of BG’s three hits in the game and scored both runs for the Falcons.

Lines pitched all seven innings for the Falcons and held EMU scoreless in five out of the seven innings.

Her pitching record dropped to 2-6 on the season.

The Falcons fall to 6-12 on the

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Track takes third place at Jack Shaw Invitational

By Brad FrankReporter

The weather conditions in Kalamazoo, Mich., were less than ideal on Saturday, but the field of four teams all competed on an equal playing field.

The BG track and field team fought through cold rain and windy conditions, and earned a third-place finish at the Jack Shaw Invite on Saturday.

“The weather played a major factor in the times and marks that were possible, but the team did a great job of getting out and competing hard despite the dif-ficult conditions,” coach Cami Wells said.

Two Falcons earned first-place finishes, while the team recorded 10 top-three finishes in 18 events.

Western Michigan dominated

the meet with 225.5 points. With a team total of 140 points,

BG finished 14.5 points behind Eastern Michigan.

Tatijana Jacobson won the high jump for the second straight week with a mark of 1.67 meters.

Sabrina Forstein (3.05 meters) was the only pole vaulter able to manage a height greater than three meters in the poor weather conditions.

“Tatijana Jacobson and Sabrina Forstein showed a lot of compo-sure and toughness to jump and vault in very difficult circum-stances,” Wells said.

Heather Conger recorded a personal outdoor best for the 800 meter run with a time of 2:14.6.

“I was especially pleased with Heather Conger running

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Baseball to play at Michigan State today

By Ryan SatkowiakReporter

After another disappoint-ing series in Mid-American Conference play, the Falcons take a one game break from conference play and head to East Lansing to take on the Michigan State Spartans this afternoon.

The pitching for the Falcons has gotten progressively better as the season has gone along, with Brennan Smith, Michael Frank and Kevin Leady all having strong starts over the weekend.

However, with the weekday game, the Falcons will once again turn to a young pitcher not in the weekend rotation to start for them.

Nick Bruns will get the start, his first since last Tuesday against Dayton.

Bruns pitched well against Dayton and he went five innings, only allowing three earned runs.

The Falcons will look for their offense to get back on track as they get deeper into

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Women’s golf takes to the greens in Nashport

By Christopher RamboReporter

After over a month off, the BG women’s golf team will resume their spring schedule today in Nashport, Ohio. The Falcons and the Ohio Bobcats will go head-to-head at the Longaberger Golf Club, where they will battle each other for the Longaberger Spring Challenge Cup.

The event will feature a match-play format, which pits individu-al golfers against each other on a nine-hole basis. In the morning three teams from each school going against each other for nine holes of alternate shot play and nine more of best ball.

Points will be awarded after

each set of nine holes. The teams will then reconvene in the after-noon for six individual singles matches, with each match being worth one point.

In all, there are 12.5 points available. The first team to 6.5 points walks away with the Cup.

Golf enthusiasts know full well how much excitement can be generated via this style of play, which was a big reason why BG coach Stephanie Young and Ohio coach Kelly Ovington selected it when they set out to jointly host this event.

“Coach Ovington and I were looking to create something that would be a unique and special

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BG softball sweeps Central Michigan, drop both to EMU

Boys of spring in full swing

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SWING: Karmen Coffey takes a swing in a game last spring. Coffey had an RBI on Saturday and is batting .238 this season.

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a personal best for the outdoor season in the 800 meter, and Brooke McCombs and Ashley Harris both throwing PRs in the hammer throw for the second consecutive week,” Wells said.

With two meets underway in the outdoor season, the Falcons are looking to get into full stride over the next month to prepare

best for the Mid-American Conference Championships May 13-15.

The Falcons are sched-uled to compete every weekend until the confer-ence championship.

The next two weekends, the Falcons will compete in Athens, Ohio, in the Ohio University Women’s Team Challenge this Saturday, and in the two-day All-Ohio Championships start-ing the following Friday.

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UP AND OVER: Sabrina Forstein competes in the pole vault earlier this season.ANDREA FEHL | THE BG NEWS

the season. After having several hitters

hitting over .400 several weeks ago, only T.J. Blanton remains at that mark, hitting .425 on the season.

After spending much of the year hitting ninth, Blanton, who also leads the team with seven homers, 23 RBIs, 22 runs, and 62 total bases, hit fourth, second and fifth over the weekend against the Eagles.

He is also riding a career-high

17 game hit streak.The Spartans, 19-5 on the

season, are led offensively by Jeff Holm, who sports a .425 batting average, with 25 RBIs, 30 runs and nine extra-base hits.

As a team, they hit .342 with 15 homers, and they get on base 42.5 percent of the time.

They also have an impres-sive 4.65 team earned-run average.

First pitch today is set for 3:05 p.m., moved up two hours from the previously scheduled start time.

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experience for these girls,” Young said. “This is a format can be a lot of fun to play, plus both teams have played in a lot of the same tournaments together and know each other pretty well, which should add an interesting dynamic.”

The format is similar to that of the Ryder Cup, an international competition that pits the best American professional golfers against those from Europe.

In addition to each other, the teams should also be quite familiar with the venue.

Longaberger hosts the Mid-American Conference Championships every other year, and there are plenty of players on either side with prior experience on the scenic par-72 that was rated by Golfweek as the Top-rated public course in Ohio in 2008.

“We are certainly looking for-ward to playing on a golf course like Longaberger,” Young said.

“It’s nice that we have a bunch of experience here, and this will give us another opportunity to play the course before next year’s MAC Championships.”

Although the prospect of rust will almost certainly come to mind after a month off, Young is pleased with the amount of work her team was able to put in during the down time.

“We were very fortunate to be able to get outside nearly every day and get a lot of holes under our belt,” Young said. “We are also in tremendous physical shape compared to previous years. This was the best overall winter for lifting and condition-ing that we have had, and the difference has been noticeable. I’m confident that we are ready to go heading into the busy part of our schedule.”

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SusyGrundenLeads BG with an average of 79.06 strokes per round

Matthew Pitzulo again for the team lead in batting average.

On the year, Blanton is hit-ting .425 with seven home runs, 23 RBI and an outstanding .775 slugging percentage.

Pitzulo continues to establish himself as a solid contributor on a team in need of more than one spark.

Pitzulo came through in the clutch during Sunday’s game when he singled up the mid-dle, driving in two Falcons and sealing their 4-3 win.

Senior Kevin Leady put together another strong perfor-mance on the mound during game three.

He went seven and a third innings, allowing three earned runs while striking out 10 and walking only two.

Leady notched his third win Sunday, and has a 3.68 ERA in his last two starts.

Sophomore Ross Gerdeman notched his second save of the year in the win. He pitched a scoreless inning and two-thirds to cap off the win.

Game 1: EMU 4, BG 1The Falcons and Eagles took

the first game of the series scoreless into the sixth inning.

In the top of the sixth. Blanton reached on a walk. With two outs, Blanton stole second and advanced to third on a wild pitch.

Third baseman Derek Spencer singled down the right field line to plate BG’s first run and give the Falcons the lead.

Eastern Michigan answered back in the bottom of the sixth with a run of its own on two hits and a walk.

Junior pitcher Brennan Smith managed to get out of the inning with only one run allowed as the Eagles stranded runners at first and third.

The game remained tied until the bottom of the eighth when Eastern Michigan rallied for three runs, ultimately seal-ing the victory for the Eagles.

All three of the Eagles’ runs in the eighth came with two outs.

The Falcons left a total of 10 runners on base in the game.

Smith took the tough loss for the Falcons after pitch-ing seven and two-thirds innings, allowing two runs and striking out six.

Spencer led the Falcons in hitting, going 2-for-3 with the team’s only RBI.

Game 2: EMU 9, BG 8BG got on the board first,

scoring two runs with two outs in the second inning.

The Falcons added two more runs in the third on a Mark Galvin home run, jumping out to a four-run lead.

After the Eagles stranded two runners in the fourth, the Falcons added one more run in the fifth inning and were cruising ahead with a

five-run lead until the bot-tom of the sixth.

In the Eagles’ half of the sixth, freshman Michael Frank start-ed to show signs of fatigue.

He allowed the first three EMU batters to reach base and was credited with allowing all three of those runs.

Charles Wooten relieved Frank and allowed two runs of his own in the sixth.

With the game tied at five, BG took to the plate in the sev-enth and once again took the lead on a Blanton solo home run. That lead would not last long, however, as the Eagles tied the game again in the bottom of the eighth on a Bo Kinder solo shot.

In the top of the ninth, soph-omore Patrick Martin led off with his first career home run. The Falcons manufactured a second run in the inning to take an 8-6 lead into the bottom of the ninth.

The Falcons’ late-inning hitting heroics would be for naught, however. Wooten gave up the final three of his six runs allowed on four Eagle hits, including a leadoff solo shot to designated hitter Andrew Marshall.

Martin went 2-for-4 for the Falcons with three RBI while Galvin also added three RBI. Spencer and Blanton each drove a run in as well.

Game 3: BG 4, EMU 3The Falcons went into the

final game of the weekend series looking to avoid a sweep.

Eastern Michigan took the first lead of the game in the fourth inning and carried that lead into the top of the sixth.

In the sixth, Logan Meisler reached on a walk and scored on a Spencer double.

Blanton was hit by a pitch, placing runners on first and second with no outs.

Galvin executed a success-ful sacrifice bunt to move both runners into scoring position.

Pitzulo took advantage of the opportunity and singled up the middle to plate two more runs for the Falcons.

BG added one more insur-ance run in the seventh inning on a couple hits and some solid base running.

It would prove to be a big run as EMU’s Ben Magsig hit a one-out solo home run in the bottom half of the seventh.

The Falcons managed to shut EMU down in the eighth and ninth, however, avoiding the sweep with a 4-3 win.

Pitzulo was the leading hitter for the Falcons, going 2-for-4 with two RBI.

Leady improved to 3-1 on the year with the win and Gerdeman pitched well for his second save of the year.

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BrennanSmithPitched 7.2 innings on Friday, striking out six batters

season and look to get back in the win column Wednesday, when they travel to South Bend, Ind., to take on No. 24 Notre Dame for a doubleheader beginning at 4 p.m.

The Fighting Irish are 26-6 overall and 5-0 in the Big East and are currently riding a two-game winning streak

— sweeping Rutgers in a two-game series over the weekend.

The last time BG and Notre Dame took the field against each other was in 2006, when the Falcons lost 1-0.

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The Herbetology Lab located in 111 Life Sciences Building holds over 200 reptiles and amphibians. There are over 55 species of animals in the lab including 23 species of snakes, four species of turtles/tortoises, nine species of frogs and 18 species of lizards. The lab is run completely by student volunteers who have various duties including feeding, cleaning and handling animals.

TOP LEFT: Green Tree Python, ranging from 4-6ft and can live up to 12+ years.

LEFT: Blue Poison Frog native to Surinam & Brazil, especially the Sipaliwini savanna in rainforests near & on the ground.

RIGHT: Yellow-Banded Poison Frog, contrary to the name captive bred poison frogs are not poisonous.

TOP BOTTOM RIGHT: Chameleon, approximately 160 species are found in warm habitats that vary from rain forest to desert conditions.

BELOW LEFT: Biology / Pre-Pharm major Adam Gabriel holding a lizard in the Herpetology Lab.

BOTTOM RIGHT: New Caledonian Crested Gecko, nocturnal and also known to be quite tame.

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whole business could be more successful, and the local econo-my would benefit as well.

McWhorter said farmers can diversify their businesses by adding fish farming to their agenda of raising livestock and crops.

“What we’re trying to do is develop this into a production strategy that existing livestock farmers can do,” he said. “So [they are] not putting all their eggs in one basket to make money.”

Jeff Miner, associate professor of biology at the University, said farmers can utilize the ponds they already have to farm fish and earn extra income.

“A farmer has a pond that he uses for a purpose; why doesn’t he use it for an additional pur-pose,” Miner said. “[Aquaculture specialists] might say [to farm-ers] ‘Why don’t you stock yellow perch in there?’ If they grow fast enough, for a little added dollars maybe we can figure out how to even harvest them, sell them to the local economy and you can make some money out of it.’”

McWhorter said the idea behind farming perch and other fish is pretty simple.

“People like to eat them, so, let’s grow them,” he said.

Smith said the health benefits of consuming fish have helped the aquaculture industry, as

well.“In the overall scheme of

things, I think providing con-sumers with uncontaminated healthy seafood [is] huge,” he said. “There’s just no question about the health benefits of fish.”

The bait industry uses aqua-culture technology to produce mass quantities of shiner min-nows, small silver fish common-ly used by fisherman as bait.

McWhorter conducts research at the Bowling Green Aquaculture Satellite Center, a research facil-ity located a few miles outside of Bowling Green on Middleton Pike Road. The facility holds tanks filled with algae, which produce rotifers that the fish eat. There are even larger tanks full of minnows which McWhorter raises through his research and development process. He said he plans to use the minnows as a promotional instrument to spread the word about the ben-efits of aquaculture.

McWhorter said promoting aquaculture in Ohio is impor-tant for the local economy because baitfish is a huge indus-try in the area, due in part to the adamant tourist fishing in the Great Lakes.

“We figured why shouldn’t Ohio farmers be farming it instead of buying it from out of state,” he said.

Developing more efficient fish farming strategies also can help stop the spread of diseased fish from state to state, McWhorter said. In 2006 the Great Lakes saw

a rapid spread of VHS, viral hem-orrhagic septicemia, on several species of fish, according to an Oct. 24, 2006 press release from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

Although humans are not sus-ceptible to the disease, it affected species of baitfish, Coho salmon and catfish. APHIS prohibited the importing of some species of live fish from Canada and throughout the eight states bor-dering the Great Lakes to help stop the spread.

Although the idea of aqua-culture is pleasing to some, the capital investment required of farmers to branch out on an aquaculture endeavor can prove to be a difficult hurdle, McWhorter said.

“It’s a very capital intensive business,” he said. “For some-body who wants to get into aquaculture, they’re going to need a large chunk of money to start.”

Smith said while there’s a large investment involved, both indoor and outdoor ponds have great potential for success. If one can get a fish farm operation going, he said, it can be more efficient than raising cattle or chicken.

He said this part of the coun-try also offers benefits for poten-tial fish harvesters.

“We have a lot going for us in this country, especially in the Midwest where we have abun-dant water resources and our

part of Ohio [Urbana] has always had great potential,” he said.

Northwest Ohio is an ideal location for fish farming, McWhorter said, because of the clay soil, abundance of ponds and proximity to Lake Erie.

McWhorter said there is a huge potential for farm fishing to take off as an industry, because it serves entertainment purposes, for people who like to catch the fish, or just eat them.

“It’s kind of funny [that] peo-ple tend to spend more money on entertainment than they do on food, you know [they’ll say], ‘Well, we’ll go have fun and we’ll eat a little something on the way.’”

McWhorter said trout farm-ing was popular in the 1800s, but it’s been around since the Egyptians raised fish for food in their ponds. While fish farm-ing is not a new development in Ohio, McWhorter said, it’s in the emerging stages and still has a way to go.

“I’d say we’re in the log cabin phase of aquaculture in Ohio,” he said. “We’re coming on rap-idly, the technology [is] being adopted.”

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opportunities such as noon meal deliveries Monday through Friday, meal volunteers Tuesday through Thursday, newsletter collators, special events volun-teers, clerical support and com-puter instructors.

Every volunteer job takes only a couple hours per week, and helps all homebound and mobile seniors who spend time at the senior center.

Executive Director Denise Niese said the WCCOA provides several opportunities for students to get involved. Students can log on to wccoa.org and see what interests them, and then they can contact the WCCOA Volunteer Director Marlene Uhler, she said.

“There are a multitude of vol-unteer opportunities, so students can have a lot of options to choose from that best fit how much time they wish to donate to the center,” Niese said.

Niese said students can com-

mit either an hour or two a week with serving meals, or they can become really involved and start a book club or teach classes at the senior center. She said the center is a fun and friendly atmosphere for both seniors and students at the University.

“I think it is important for stu-dents to know that this is not a residential community or a nurs-ing home type of place,” she said.

“This is a place where seniors come to be active, maintain cog-nitive skills and for socialization purposes.”

Every Wood County Senior Center, including those in the Rossford area, Northeast area, North Baltimore, Perrysburg, Wayne area and Pemberville, provide services for homebound seniors. These services include home delivered meals and medi-cal transportation on weekdays, according to the WCCOA Web site.

The site also states the WCCOA is funded by a Wood County tax levy and also in part by a grant under the Older Americans Act administered through the Ohio

Department of Aging and Office on Aging of Northwestern Ohio. Additional funds are raised through Wood County senior citizens and some contributions have been made to the commit-tee from memorials or bequests from senior citizens or their fami-lies.

This month, the WCCOA is providing trips and tours from Mackinac Island, Mich. and Cape Cod, Mass. to Chicago and Savannah, Ga. They also provid-ed activities such as the Easter Sunday dinner and a senior spell-ing bee. They are also offering classes to seniors, such as a class on the Russian language, taught by University Ph.D. student Olga Kutovaya.

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