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WORKING HARDER THAN BEFORE AMERICAN SNIPERForward Richaun Holmes has worked harder than he ever has in his life this season. His mindset has the Falcons in a position to win the MAC Championship. | PAGE 3

Guest Columnist Seth Weber talks about how Chris Kyle’s actions during war were morally wrong. He says that killing shouldn’t be applauded even if it occurred during war. | PAGE 4

Amir Huggins

Sophomore, Business

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH ONE YEAR’S TUITION?

“I would donate the money evenly to campus ministries.”

Fifty Shades of Reality

By Carlye Pollack

Reporter

Rebecca Solnit, spoke of her writing career and the inspira-tion behind her works to stu-dents, faculty and guests on Monday evening.

As an award winning inde-pendent writer, cultural histori-an, art critic, public intellectual and political activist, she also read passages from her books and gave audience members the opportunity to ask questions at the end.

Solnit knew at a young age

that she wanted to become enriched in literature.

Starting out as a journalist, Solnit soon realized she was set out to be an essayist.

She had a thirst for “voice,” f lexibility and a meandering style, she said.

At the age of 20 she sold her first book about six artists who

were a part of beat culture in the 1950’s on the West Coast.

From there, her career in writing took off, releasing over 16 books.

The London Guardian, a newspaper in London, described Solnit as “One of the most mag-nificent writers of our time.”

During the anti-nuclear movement, Solnit visited the Nevada nuclear test site.

She said that visit is what taught her how to write.

This sparked the political EVAN FRY | THE BG NEWS

50 SHADES of Gray is a blockbuster hit, but for those who don’t know about the phenomenon and culture of BDSM sexualities, the Student Wellness Network hosted a panel Tuesday night called 50 Shades of Reality to talk about the book and healthy sex lives with BDSM.

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New ways to engage students presented

ClassroomOlympics innovates

By Kelly Savela

Reporter

The first ever Active Learning Classroom Olympics proved to be both beneficial and success-ful for the Center for Faculty Excellence.

The Center for Faculty Excellence hosted their first classroom Olympics this past Friday where half a dozen instructors were able to pres-ent. Instructors were given ten minutes to demonstrate their classroom initiatives to a panel of judges and fellow col-leagues. A professor initially developed the idea of White Board Olympics and the idea expanded from there.

“Because of the new active learning classrooms, we really want to place an emphasis in how faculty can engage the students,” said Karen Harris, assistant director of the Center for Faculty Excellence.

The Center for Faculty Excellence invited faculty members to partake in this event where their creative ideas could be shown to other faculty members. The panel of judges, consisting of Paul Cesarini, Susan Kleine and Jodi Haney, gave special rec-ognition to the three presen-tations that they deemed the most engaging for the benefit of the student.

There were faculty members ranging from General Studies Writing courses to American Cultural Studies who par-took in this event. A Food and Nutrition instructor showed in one of their courses stu-dents didn’t use textbooks but read and reviewed scholarly articles in small groups during class time. Another present-ed an activity in which stu-dents wrote down five things on notecards they would put

Author gives talk about finding inspiration in everday life

CAMPUSBRIEFSUSG passes resolutionopposing Ohio Bill 4

A resolution was proposed at Monday’s Undergraduate Student Government meeting opposing Ohio Senate Bill 4, which would require Ohio public universities to cut tuition by five percent.

If passed in its current draft, the bill would require universities to lower their tuition by the 2016-2017 school year.

The decrease in tuition would severely lower the University’s budget which could result in cuts to cer-tain programs and services on campus, said Internal Affairs Chair Jeff Devereaux.

There would be no financial assistance at the federal or state level, said President Brian Kochheiser.

“The real issue here is the lack of investment from the state,” Kochheiser said.

TOMS Campus Club President Rodrigo Patterson presented his organization’s plans to host a live Trivia Crack event to take place March 5 in Olscamp Hall room 117 at 7:30 p.m.

Entering a team costs $8 per team. The money raised from the event will go to the charity or phi-lanthropy of the winner’s choice.

“It’s all about giving back to our community and bettering our students as a whole,” Patterson said.

USG Speaker Kasie Durkit addressed the opin-ion piece that ran in The BG News on Feb. 12.

The author of the column said USG is largely ineffectual and needs drastic reform in order to be able to affect meaningful change on campus.

Durkit cited the perceived harsh language in the column and urged USG members to ignore it.

“That’s the best response you can have,” she said.

RebeccaSolnitWriter,art critic andhistorian

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Firelandscelebrates

anniversaryHuron campus ushers

in 50th birthdayBy Lindsey Meyer

Reporter

BGSU Firelands campus is cel-ebrating its 50th anniversary this upcoming August. A lot has been done to plan for honoring this anniversary and the school is highlighting its accom-plishments through the past five decades.

The Firelands campus is located in Huron, Ohio, next to the shores of Lake Erie. Dean Schnurr, director of Marketing & Community Relations at the Firelands Campus, said the anniversary date for Firelands is based on the day the University’s Board of Trustees approved the request for a full time branch campus in Sandusky; this date is Nov. 19, 1965.

In June of 1968, students began attending classes; the first class held about 600 indi-viduals, Schnurr said. Over the years the campus has received students from all around the Sandusky area and it now has about 24,000 students.

According to the Firelands website, the campus will be hosting many events, activities and promotional opportunities to recognize everything the campus has done in the past 50 years.

Schnurr said the three main events that will occur are an awards celebration to honor those who are important to the Firelands campus and history, a ribbon cutting and grand opening of the new Allied Health and Sciences’ Project Expansion and a community celebration which will occur in April of 2016.

The awards celebration for the 50th anniversary is being hosted by the Anniversary Award Committee. As said on the Firelands calendar web-site, the committee is currently

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ChrisValentinoGrad Assistant, Office of Residence Life

Martha NyceGrad Assistant, Department of Arts Village

Keenan ColquittGrad Assistant, School of Intervention Services

Tobias SpearsAssistant Director, LGBT Resource Center

MaryamKamranGrad Assistant, Department of Biological Science

By Natasha Ivery

Reporter

We often look at people and determine specific details about them, like their sexuality or favorite drink or how smart they are without ever saying a word, judging them on how they look.

Graduate Student Senate, in conjuction with the Office of Multicultural Affairs and International Student Services, hosted a panel Tuesday after-noon to get to the root of these misconceptions.

“Breaking Stereotypes: Who I Am and Who You Think I Am” was facilitated by Dinah Tetteh, a Graduate Assistant in the School of Media and Communications. The panel featured graduate assistant students and faculty members.

The panel shared personal stories and experi-ences of discrimination and stereotyping, fol-lowed by a slideshow addressing the misconcep-tions of certain minority groups and personalities

Breaking Stereotypes

Panelists

Panel discusses minority discrimination

ERIC BURGASSER | THE BG NEWSSee STEREOTYPES | Page 5

Graduate Assistant in the School of Media and Communication Dinah Tetteh, pictured above, facilitated the “Breaking Stereotypes” discussion.

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and intellectual activ-ism which is prevalent throughout her works.

Solnit keeps her pas-sion through one simple action: walking.

Simply going on walks sparks her imagination, having the freedom to let the mind wander instead of being inf luenced by outside sources.

“Sometimes a place is your best teacher,” Solnit said.

Abigai l Cloud, a University instructor who teaches literary editing and publishing, came to

listen to Solnit speak on behalf of her book process.

“Some of her subjects of her books are really close to my own interests as a writer,” Cloud said.

Cloud is also a writer and poet who finds inspi-ration in humans’ need to find meaning in things.

Throughout her speech, Solnit talked about human needs and how a “new pic-ture” has emerged since the attack of the World Trade Center.

Solnit has spent time researching the reactions of people in disastrous situations when authority ceases to exist.

“We need to have mem-bership in something big-

ger than us,” Solnit said. “We need our lives to have meaning and purpose.”

She also spoke about col-lege students trying to find their purpose in life and the importance of “writing their own stories.”

The price of stories, the necessity of becoming a teller of your own story, is what you come to do at college, Solnit said.

Kelly Kiehl, a fine arts graduate student at the University attended the speech to find out more on Solnit.

“I think that she’s a really interesting person,” Kiehl said. “I think she’s an uncommonly optimis-tic person.”

BLOTTERFRI. FEB. 20

1:38 A.M.

Rachael Olmstead, 19, of Bowling Green was cited for underage under the influ-ence on the 100 block of East Wooster.

1:51 A.M.

Jada Calhoun, 20, of Bowling Green was cited for underage under the influence on the 300 block of Campbell Hill Road.

SAT. FEB. 21

2:18 A.M.Alexander Gerard Trauth, 25, of Maumee was cited for public urination in Lot 1 of campus.

2:18 A.M.

Dominik J Biddle, 21, of Holland, Ohio was cited for open container on the intersec-tion of North Main and Poe Road.

2:26 A.M.

Kara L Hanneman, 30, of Bowling Green was arrested for disorderly conduct while intoxi-cated at Howard’s Club.

2:24 A.M.

Thomas Allen Sheridan, 19, and Edwin James Prime-Orr, 19, both of Bowling Green and Bryan Beauch, 22, of Holland, Ohio were all cited for disorder-ly conduct in Lot 1 on campus.

SUN. FEB. 22

1:12 A.M.

Kyle Robert Burgess, 19, of Bowling Green was cited for disorderly conduct and under-age under the influence on the 200 bloack of Clough Street.

3:19 A.M.

Tori Lynn Campbell, 21, of Graytown, Ohio reported being jumped by a group of people on the 1000 of East Wooster who stole money from and before bashing her head against a wall. She then stole one of the group’s phone as retribution. Witnesses say Campbell was in an altercation with two males.

1:47 P.M.

Jermesha P Hicks, 20, of Bowling Green was arrested for shoplifting at the Bowling Green Wal-Mart.

3:28 P.M.

Andrew D Counts, 27, of Erie, Michigan was cited for expired registration; Kayla C Bolton, 26, of Toledo and Counts were arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of drug abuse instruments on the 200 block of South College Drive.

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Alumnus has hand in creation of new social media appAmber Hage-Ali

Reporter

Un iversit y a lu m n i Jennifer Irving, is one person involved in the creation of a new social network dedicated to cre-ating a safe space for mil-lennials to discuss impor-tant issues.

Unlike other social net-works, RIZZARR is not concerned with daily self-ies, the same meme used one to many times and whether or not you had a healthy smoothie for

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lennials with a space to engage in inspiring dis-course about personal insights, dreams, fears and successes — a space to create change.

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Senior Forward Richaun Holmes turns himself into a Falcon standout

PushingPast Limits

BG Swim team prepares for MAC

ChampionshipsFalcons go into meet 9-1, look to

improve on third place finishKatherine Wernke

Reporter

After finishing with a near perfect season, the Bowling Green swim and dive team has their sights set on MAC Championships.

The Falcons finished the regular season at 9-1 with one loss coming from conference rival Buffalo.

The loss ended the chances of a perfect season, but Martin said it might have come at just the right time.

“I think it was a little extra motivation, a little wakeup call to show that we can not be comfortable no matter what,” Martin said. “If you’re 30 points ahead or if you’re one point ahead, you’ve got to be on your tip toes always.”

Those tip toes will be heading to Ypsilanti for the championship which starts Wednesday night.

“The top four or five programs are going to be dancing back and forth the whole time,” head coach Petra Martin said. “So we just have to be on it, deliver on every swim and we’ll see what happens.”

Martin said the regular season is all about preparing for MAC meets, including the invi-tational’s scheduled during the year.

The Falcons swam in the Eastern Michigan Invite, giving the team a chance to get used to the environment.

Junior Hannah Newman said the oppor-tunity to swim in Ypsilanti gave the team the ability to get the logistics of the meet down before the actual championship.

“Definitely swimming in the pool, it kind of gives you an advantage. You know what the blocks are like, what the walls are like, if it’s kind of dark in there,” Newman said.

In the preseason coaches’ poll, the Falcons were picked to finish third behind Miami and defending MAC champion, Akron.

The Redhawks were picked to finish first in the poll, and they are one team the Falcons have yet to face.

“We haven’t swam against Miami this year, so that should be interesting to be able to get in the water with them and see how they’re doing,” sophomore Victoria Griffin said.

The four-day championship meet will require long race days with preliminaries starting in the morning and consolations and championships beginning in the evening.

It will be tough racing, but Griffin said she is excited to get in the pool and see the results.

“We have so many great pieces to a puzzle,” Griffin said, “and I think it’s just going to get put together really well at the championships.”

The Falcons finished third in the MAC last season. The championship meet goes through Saturday.

MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred looks to speed up game

See BASEBALL | Page 7

By Brandon Shrider

Sports Editor

Recently becoming the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Robert Manfred has quickly begun to discuss changes throughout the sport. Among these chang-es are implementing a pitch clock, forc-ing batters to remain in the box, limiting visits to the pitching mound and banning defensive shifting.

While none of these changes are immi-nent for the Bowling Green baseball team, the sport could begin to experience various changes throughout each level.

Members of the university’s baseball team had a myriad of opinions on the changes and how it might affect its team, college baseball as a whole and what it means for the sport of baseball.

The idea behind these modifications is to both speed up the game and increase offen-sive production.

“I don’t believe so,” said BG shortstop Brian Bien regarding the notion that banning defensive shifts will increase offensive pro-duction. “Even with those shifts, it doesn’t work every time and they still hit the ball hard through holes. So I think a miniscule amount, if any, that it might help improve offensive production.”

“I think being able to get a scouting report on a guy and align your defense to where you think they’re going to hit the ball, I think that definitely helps,” said BG pitcher Jason Link. “Baseball is already kind of a chess match from pitch to pitch, so if you take away the ability of a coach or team to plan for a guy and plan for a team, that kind of takes

away from the whole chess match aspect and takes away from the game.”

Suggestions to speed up the game aren’t being welcomed with open arms either.

Despite not being opposed to the possible pitch clock, Link doesn’t see it being translat-able from collegiate to professional baseball.

“College is just a completely different game than the pros anyways, so I don’t really know how well it would even translate,” Link said. “If it worked in college, I don’t even know if that proves that it would work in the majors.”

However, the hope for Manfred is by altering these two aspects of the game, the upcoming players will develop a greater interest in the sport.

“The one that I’m most excited about, and I think may be most important for the game over the long haul, is a focus on kids,” Manfred said in a New York Times article regarding the discussed changes. “We have to have more kids, period, playing the game. We have to have more of the best athletes playing the game in order to keep our prod-uct compelling on the field.”

A compelling product however, doesn’t necessarily translate to endorsement from current baseball players at the collegiate level.

Despite this, there remains a chance that college baseball, along with Minor League Baseball, will be used as ‘guinea pigs’ to test the potential changes.

“Personally, since this is my last season, I would be against [using NCAA baseball as the guinea pig to test run these changes] because it’s how I’ve grown up playing

By Cameron Teague Robinson

Editor-in-Chief

In sports, a person’s work ethic can rub off on the entire team.

Senior guard Anthony Henderson said that is the case this year with Richaun Holmes.

“His work ethic is contagious,” Henderson said. “Just seeing what he does every day helps me and I’m sure it helps everyone else too.”

Working hard was always something Holmes did, but it wasn’t until this season that the 6-foot-8, senior forward from Lockport, Illinois realized he needed to push it to a different level.

“When coach Jans first came here he told me I’m going to have to be a guy that works hard,” Holmes said. “At the time I didn’t know what he meant, I thought ‘I am working hard.’ [Jans] said ‘you are going to have to work much harder than this.’”

“I was trying to get him out of his comfort zone,” Jans said. “When I talk about comfort zone I mean giving more effort and playing harder.”

That is something that Holmes bought into around October and the results speak for itself. Holmes has become one of the players talked about when the phrase “Mid-American Conference Player of the Year,” comes up.

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A lthough the f i lm “American Sniper” was released some time ago, it’s enjoyed more time in the spotlight with its presence at the Academy Awards, which has caused more discussion of it to bubble up on the Internet.

Because of this, I think it’s an appropriate time to put my two cents in.

While talk of Chris Kyle’s character and treatment of other people has been beaten into the ground, I would like to touch upon something broader that I haven’t seen too much of when the subject of Kyle arises.

That is, the moral obli-gations of soldiers in times of war.

There are those who concede that Kyle may have done some morally questionable things dur-ing his service, but defend him because he was “just doing his job” or was “just following orders.”

Not only does this rea-soning not justify a sol-dier’s actions, it is a dan-gerous way of thinking.

At the risk of falling into reductio ad Hitlerum, this is exactly the type of defense used at the Nuremburg Trials. This defense assumes a soldier has no moral agency and is at the mercy of their supe-riors in all matters.

It is not enough to defend heinous acts. Every

soldier has a moral duty to consider their actions and their orders and how they may be immoral.

It seems to me that a soldier’s duty is to defeat their enemy and protect their fellow soldiers. This does not include killing innocent people.

I understand there are those that say collateral damage is unavoidable, but that does not protect those who kill innocents, even by accident, from a moral pitfall.

The act of killing an innocent person is what matters, not the intent or causes for doing so.

Even killing those who can be considered enemy combatants is not morally right. Killing is not always wrong, but it can never be the right thing to do.

It can certainly be mor-ally permissible, but it’s never something some-one is obligated to do. I certainly will not fault someone for killing in self-defense or because it may help someone else.

At the same time, it is not wrong to abstain from killing for those reasons.

It’s odd that some treat war as if it exists outside

the realm of moral duty, because it does not. Being at war with another group of people, however justi-fied, does not exempt one from moral obligations.

Chris Kyle was not a hero, because killing is never a heroic act. One who kills may do it out of necessity for self-defense or for the protection of others, but that does not make the act itself right.

Kyle’s self-proclaimed hatred for Iraqis and admittance that he wished had killed more means his killing was not only for what he thought was a necessity, but for the pure act of end-ing another being’s life, which is certainly morally indefensible.

He enjoyed killing and nobody should enjoy such an awful act.

This is not an attack on soldiers, but on those who use war as an excuse to kill as they please and use nationalism to make themselves seem honorable.

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Chris Kyle of “American Sniper” not a hero, murder of innocent life still morally wrong regardless of war

“Dysfunctional Veterans” slogan counterproductive, promotes negative stereotypes regarding veterans

BRYAN EBERLY

COLUMNIST

“The act of killing an

innocent person is

what matters, not the

intent...”

I want to spend this week’s column talking about Dysfunctional Veterans.

I don’t mean “dysfunc-tional veterans” in gener-al. Notice the capital let-ters. I want to talk about the new company market-ed toward angry veterans of the most recent military campaigns.

Look, I get it. I enjoy some of the things this company provides. Their mission of providing sar-castic comedy and witti-cisms for use by veterans, targeted toward non-vet-erans, is great.

It’s funny. It’s cathartic. As a veteran myself,

there is nothing better than sharing a joke or story with another veter-an and watching a look of disgust or shock take over a non-veteran’s face who overhears the conversa-tion. It’s an amazing piece of camaraderie.

However, I have to ques-tion a slogan used by the company, printed on most of their t-shirts, hoodies and bumper stickers.

“Leave me alone.”Really? That’s what

you’re going for? “Leave me alone”?

I am bringing this up, because I saw a student veteran [at least, I’m hop-ing he’s a veteran] in the Union the other day with a black DV hoodie and the words “LEAVE ME ALONE” written in white across the

back of it. He was wearing Army-

style camo pants, an Army-style camo bookbag and combat boots.

Talk about a mixed mes-sage. Draw all sorts of attention to your obvious military connection, but then sport the “leave me alone” slogan.

Maybe I’m confused. Maybe it’s the Marine in me still holding a grudge against soldiers parading their uniforms around town, begging for applause. But when I see that style of camo, I see someone screaming for attention.

They want to be recognized.

And when I hear or see the words “leave me alone,” it’s an obvious message there, too.

They don’t want to be recognized.

So which is it? I don’t like to draw too

much attention to my mili-tary career. I did my eight years. I did my deploy-ments. I did my job. Now it’s time for a new game.

I don’t like to bring up my old job unless it’s relevant to the conversation. There are many, many things

about my devil dog days which I’ll probably keep buried, though. There are things I just don’t want people to know.

So, I don’t bring those up. And people rarely ask for those details. But when they do, I simply tell them. I educate.

Because here’s the prob-lem: veterans are a mys-tery. A dark mystery. A scary mystery.

The wars, the crimes, the PTSD, etc., have all created a cloud of sus-picion and fear around veterans.

And that fear is stoked by ignorance. And do you know what breeds ignorance better than anything?

“Leave me alone.”I truly cannot think of

a better way to spread the stereotype that we are dangerous.

So, D ysf u nct iona l Veterans - and dysfunc-tional veterans - help me clear up my confusion. What’s the point of “leave me alone”?

What’s the point of drawing attention to your-self, inspiring fear in peo-ple and then turning your back on it?

Let’s talk about it. And then let’s talk about boot camp.

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of different people. “Not all Latinos like

spicy foods, some Latinos/Latinas don’t speak Spanish because their parents don’t want them to from fear of ridicule,” said panelist Martha Nyce, grad assistant in the Arts Village. “Every single person is unique, and sitting down and ask-ing how someone identi-fies is much better than assuming.”

The next phase of the program was the presenta-tion on NCBI, the National Coa l it ion Bu i ld i ng Institute, presented by Emily Monago, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. The NCBI presen-tation focused on five spe-cific skills the workshop aims to achieve, including

identifying and express-ing pride in groups and learning personal impor-tance of discrimination.

“There’s a piece called It’s Great to Be,” said Dr. Monago. “You really see how stereotypes can injure and wound people. It’s powerful.”

Dr. Lisa Hanasono, professor in t he School of Media and Communication studies, presented a special proj-ect her and her students have been working on to combat discrimination.

“Stereotypes can be really injurious, so my students and I asked how can we combat the sea of negativity on social media like Twitter and Facebook,” Hanasono said. “The students want-ed to do a social media project, so we created BG4Unity.”

BG4Unity is a social

media project designed to encourage people to use social media more responsibly to fight hate and help those who have experienced discrimina-tion. Hanasono encour-aged participants to like the BG4Unity page on Facebook, follow updates on Twitter and take a selfie with a message that challenges a stereotype, which many people did after the event before they departed.

The f loor then opened for questions and com-ments. One panelist said he believes being uncom-fortable is key.

“I think embracing the uncomfortability is important, move these conversations beyond this room and move for-ward despite how uncom-fortable you feel to pro-mote growth,” said Chris Valentino, grad assistant

in the Office of Residence Life.

Closing remarks were made by Barbara Wadell, director of the Office of Equity and Diversity.

“Take care of yourself,” Waddell said. This work can be exhausting. Self talk is important, we are what we are today. Love your identity and be okay with yourself.”

Daniel Conklin, grad-uate student in the International Student Senate, enjoyed the panel.

“Marginalization and stereotyping is a nation-wide problem,” Conklin said. “While being in morocco as a Peace Corps volunteer, I finally under-stood what being a minor-ity felt like. This exists, and we need more programs outside of a school set-ting and the term diversi-ty, because there’s always something to learn.”

in a time capsule to represent themselves. Students didn’t attribute their names to their note-cards and the class evalu-ated what people think of the person who wrote the objects.

The event turned out to be a great success, Harris said.

There were about 36 faculty who came to lis-ten to the presenters. The event is something that the department wishes to continue in the future, although advertising it more is something they want to work on.

“This demonstrates the importance of fac-ulty sharing ideas. It provides an opportunity to hear what others are doing in their classroom,”

Harris said. Every presentation was

videotaped in an effort to provide the resourc-es to faculty who were unable to make the event. The Center for Faculty Excellence intends on working to promote the fact that everybody used ideas that everyone can use.

With teaching being somewhat of a lonely pro-fession, it can be power-ful to share ideas and this was one approach to facil-itate that growth among faculty at the University.

looking for nominations to honor 50 individuals. They’re seeking alumni, friends and family, found-ers, organizations or businesses.

Anyone can sub-mit nominations for someone that they feel made an impact on the Firelands campus.

“We are also asking peo-

ple to send in their fond-est memories of Firelands, which we will collect and use in a book collection,” Schnurr said.

These main events are not the only things expect-ed to happen to celebrate this anniversary, though.

Schnurr said celebrating the Firelands’ 50th anni-versary is going to be a yearlong activity. They are starting at the beginning of fall 2015 and it will run through spring semester.

There are going to be events and activities hap-pening throughout the year to bring the stu-dents and community together. One event that they have planned so far is an anniversary bas-ketball tournament and they are also creating a scholarship fund.

Schnurr said the com-munity plays a very important role in celebrat-ing Firelands’ anniversa-ry. The Firelands campus

was created through the actions of the community and they were the ones to raise funds to help build the campus.

Celebrating Firelands’ 50th anniversary is about recognizing community members and founders of the campus.

“We want a year long celebration for the com-munity, not just the cam-pus … both the campus and community are inter-twined,” Schnurr said.

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the game,” Bien said. “I think trying it in the minors will be better because it’s closer to professional base-ball, those guys are going to eventually be playing in the big leagues.”

Certainly players at the collegiate level have expressed their displeasure for the changes. However, if it attracts more fans, it’s always going to be something that

baseball considers.“I think any type of chang-

es that are made, if it’s fan-friendly and it’s best for the fans, that’s kind of what they’re leaning toward now more than anything else,” said BG head baseball coach Danny Schmitz. “It could be a good thing. I guess only time will tell.”

Bien is worried that the array of changes could potentially open a “Pandora’s box,” especially attempting to regulate the new rules.

Whether players don’t wel-

come the changes, or feel as though it hurts the tradition of baseball, the league seems to have its mind set on imple-menting a variety of changes. These are changes that play-ers across every level must adjust to.

“We’ll have to get through some bumps in the road, but it’ll be interesting to see how it goes,” Schmitz said. “You don’t want to erase the his-tory because [baseball] is a great game, but if it makes the game better, I think we’re all for it.”

He is averaging 14.5 points per game, eight rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game and in the midst of a season where the Falcons are among the best in the MAC he has stood out as their best player.

“Everything showed up on the court that I was doing in practice. This is the first time I’ve ever worked this hard,” Holmes said. “It’s the first time I’ve ever played this well too, there is definitely a correlation and I understand that now.”

He may just now under-stand the correlation, but after not receiving any Division I scholarship offers out of high school he vowed to work his way to a Division I basketball team.

He went to Moraine Valley Community College and used not getting any offers as his motivation.

“I knew I had the talent and skill to play Division I, it was just a matter of work-ing and somebody giving me a chance,” Holmes said. “I was set on being a Division I player.”

Moraine’s head coach at the time Dedrick Shannon told Holmes that if he went there he would get a lot of Divison I offers. They didn’t just flow in though, Shannon made sure Holmes worked for everything he got, Holmes said.

“Coach Shannon pretty much forced me to be good,” Holmes said. “He worked out with me tirelessly. He made sure he worked me hard

enough to be successful and I appreciate him for that.”

After a year averaging 19.3 points per game, 9.3 rebounds and 5.2 blocks the offers came pouring in.

There were a lot of teams that recruited Holmes he said, but BG stood out because they recruited him the hardest.

“They really showed inter-est and made it known that they really wanted me,” Holmes said. “[Louis Orr] was there and he was the only head coach who came to see me.”

“It was surreal because you work so hard to achieve a goal and now it was right there in front of you.”

Holmes went on to sign with the Falcons, but his work ethic took a step back. On a scale of 1-10 he rated his work ethic in his first few years at BG a four compared to the six it was in junior college.

So he found a role on the team as a shot blocker, a role he was comfortable in and best at, he said.

“As time went on I got used to the game and I found different ways to score,” Holmes said.

This year new head coach Chris Jans’ intensity rubbed off on Holmes and that has made him want to perfect his game that much more, he said.

“This is the hardest I’ve ever worked in my life,” he said. “[Jans] is a hard work-er and I think that kind of rubbed off on me, because he is a winner and just see-ing the time he puts in made me want to work that much harder to perfect my craft.”

It wasn’t an overnight mindset change for Holmes though, it was a day-to-day process, because he wasn’t in the right shape he said.

“I told myself ‘okay you are going to work hard until you can’t work hard anymore this day,’” he said. “‘The next day you are in shape more and you can work harder and harder.’”

That mindset is one of the main reasons the Falcons are a favorite to win the MAC Tournament in March and one of the reason he is a MAC Player of the Year candidate.

Both Henderson and Jans said they think he is the best player in the MAC right now.

“No offense to any-body else in the MAC, but I wouldn’t trade Richaun for anybody,” Jans said.

“He can do just about anything really. I would say he is number one just off of the versatility that he has,” Henderson said.

Holmes said he appreci-ates the talk, but isn’t really listening to it.

“Me personally I’ve never been into individual awards playing basketball. If I’m in the talks for MAC Player of the Year that’s because my team is doing well,” Holmes said.

The Falcons are on pace for their best season since 2002 and with a hold on the three seed in the MAC they can make it to Cleveland for the MAC Tournament for the first time in four years.

“I’m a team player, this is a team sport and this is about us, about Bowling Green Falcons not about Richaun Holmes,” he said.

SPORTSBRIEFBowling Green Baseball game can-celed

The Falcons were scheduled to play against Dayton in an away game, but the game was canceled due to weather and field condi-tions.

This is the second cancelation in the past week after not playing against Morehead State this past weekend.

The next game is scheduled against Eastern Kentucky in Emerson, GA. on Friday.

The team is currently 1-2 overall and have yet to play a home game.

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