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BEST OF FALL 2014 CLIMATE CHANGESome of the top moments of the fall semes-ter included a MAC East title, a team’s first victory and a top 20 national ranking. Turn to Sports to check out some of BG’s top moments of the semester. | PAGE 3

Columnist Ian Zulick talks about the politici-zation of the topic of climate change. He says that if people continue to ignore scientific warnings about climate change, it will lead to devastating consequences. | PAGE 4

Elizabeth MoserJunior, English Education

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR WINTER BREAK?

“I am going to visit my family.”

2014 TOP GROSSERSWhich movies made the most money and which albums sold the most copies in 2014? Find out more in Page 5.

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TRAVIS WILLHOITE | THE BG NEWSA STUDENT brings his books to the Union to drop them off. Students are allowed to return or sell back their books all week from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the multipurpose room of the Union.

Those involved pick particular area of focus, given real-world experienceCouching minor available to students of all majors

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Volunteers help to keep families fed during holidays

Pantry gives food to those in

need

By Corey MaxwellReporter

This year, the University began offer-ing students an opportunity to pur-sue a coaching minor, which is the first time the minor is being offered since the early 2000s.

Students from any major are able to pursue the coaching minor and so far students enrolled range from computer science majors to educa-tion majors.

“We have a number of students from the college of education who are interested in becoming teach-ers in various types of areas and want to pick up a coaching minor because they’re interested in coach-ing,” says associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development, Adrian Turner.

Students who wish to pursue a coaching minor can elect an area that they’re interested in and then take a combination of courses

based on the strategies involved in those particular games and sports, says Turner.

“If a student is interested in bas-ketball, football or soccer then that would be classified as an Invasion sport and take that course, and if they choose a sport like volleyball, then they would take a course in Net/Wall games,” Turner said.

To successfully complete the minor, each student has to com-plete 21 credit hours. 15 credit hours have to be completed in courses that include: AT 2100 which is Care and Prevention of Sports Injuries, KNS 3280 which is Principles, Ethics & Problems in Sport Coaching and KNS 2470 which is Introduction to Pedagogy, Coaching and Leadership.

“The Introduction to Pedagogy class is the initial teaching and coaching class we recommend everyone takes,” Turner said.

One of the courses students have to take is KNS 3390, Sport

Coaching, involves the student being involved in a practical coach-ing setting and will have to complete a specific number of hours in that particular setting.

This class serves as the end class in completing the minor, says Turner.

Students then have to complete the six remaining credit hours in the elective courses that are offered.

Turner believes that having a coaching minor will be beneficial to students looking to get involved in coaching after graduation.

“I think it will help provide people that are going to be coaches with more expertise and more of a theo-retical background to what they’re doing,” Turner said.

Although the program is in its early stages, students are aware that it’s available to take and agree that it will be beneficial.

“I believe that it would look very

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By Chris McGowanReporter

The BG Christian Pantry is making sure that needy fami-lies have something to eat this holiday season.

Shirley Woessner, the director of the BG Christian Pantry, oversees the operations of the Pantry.

Woessner has been the director for the last ten years now.

“I’m in charge of organizing the volunteers, making sure we have what we need and making sure we have volunteers to work,” Woessner said.

The volunteers are the cen-ter of the BG Christian Pantry, Woessner said.

“We couldn’t do it without the volunteers,” Woessner said.

Roosevelt Chandler is one such volunteer. He’s been volunteering at the BG Christian Pantry for a little over a year now.

“I thought it was a worthwhile task to perform for the needy,” Chandler said.

Chandler volunteers every Monday and sometimes takes a leadership position at the Pantry.

“I respond to everyone’s needs and take care of problems as they arise and work out a solution,” Chandler said.

Nancy Preston, also a volunteer at the pantry, helps out by donat-ing some food to the pantry.

“One day a week I bring food to the pantry to help out,” Preston said.

The Pantry has been serving the Bowling Green Community since 1984, Woessner said.

It generally serves about 200 to 250 people a month, about a third of which are children under 13, Woessner said.

This Thanksgiving, the Pantry, in partnership with the Salvation Army, helped 275 families by donating food baskets containing Thanksgiving meals to the needy.

By Annie FuriaCopy Chief

When students return from break, the Delta Sigma Theta sorority will start the second round of audi-

tions for its Jabberwock event. Sydney Howell, treasurer for the sorority and co-coor-

dinator for Jabberwock, said the show has many compo-nents.

“Jabberwock is a display of art, culture, fashion and talent held in March every year,” said Howell. “It’s a very classy event.”

Students can audition from 6-8 p.m. Jan. 12, 13 and 14 in the Business Administration building and in the Eppler Complex.

The audition process differs slightly depending on what component of the event students are trying out for.

Howell said those who audition to be models are asked to walk back and forth and female models are asked to walk in heels. She added that those who

audition for the talent show are given 2 minutes to present their talent.

Sorority event gives students opportunity to express themselves

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Fashion and

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good on a resume when a student is interviewing for a coaching position,” freshman Jeron Hennon said. “It would

teach the students many skills necessary to instruct kids of various ages and skill levels.”

Turner expressed his hope-fulness for the program and is encouraging those that are looking for a minor to

consider coaching.“It’s in its infancy right now,”

Turner said. “There are only a few people that have started and we are looking for people to enroll this spring if they’re interested as four of the core classes are being offered.”

“This year we put together baskets containing a variety of things like pasta, soup, fruits, vegetables and a ham or a turkey,” Woessner said.

The Pantry gets a lot of its food through donations but what it doesn’t get, it buys from the Toledo Food bank, Woessner said.

“We can get most items for 18 cents a pound [at the Food Bank],” Woessner said. “We buy most of our

food in bulk.”The food that does get

donated mostly comes from organizations like

churches and businesses, Woessner said.

“We often get monetary donations from busi-nesses,” Woessner said. “We use those donations to purchase more food for the pantry.”

If someone would like to donate to the BG Christian Food Pantry or volunteer, they can go to their location at 317 Gould St or call them at 419-353-5174.

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Auditioners are contacted a week later to let them know if they got into the show, Howell said.

Jabberwock is also a schol-arship program.

Howell said the sorority sets aside funds every year to give out a scholarship at Jabberwock.

Catherine Peterson, co-coordinator for Jabberwock and future financial and recording secretary for Delta Sigma Theta, said that this year the scholarship will be for $150.

Applications are received

before the show. Peterson said the applica-

tion will be sent out in January and has a GPA requirement and an essay portion.

“At the show, we are going to reveal who the win-ner of the scholarship is,” Howell said.

Howell first attended Jabberwock last year and said she thought “it was a show like none other.”

She said people think it’s going to be like other fashion or talent shows but “it’s a dif-ferent spin on that.”

Peterson agreed that Jabberwock stands out.

“It’s more of a variety show,” she said. “It’s not just modeling, it’s not just talents,

it’s everything put together.Peterson said she expects

the show to go well this year.“We have a good theme

and we had a good turnout so far for people trying out, so I think we have some good talent,” she said.

Freshman Davesha Perkins said she had not heard of Jabberwock before, but she will probably attend.

“I think some girls on my floor are auditioning,” she said.

Howell said the show will be changing locations this year, moving from the Union Ballroom to Olscamp 101.

She said that this will give the event an “intimate atmo-sphere.”

By Tobias FlemmingReporter

Starting Fall 2015, the University will introduce a new class for incoming freshmen called BGSU 1910: First Year Seminar.

The class piloted this year in the fall, and Dr. Susan Kleine, Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, was part of the team that developed the course. She said there are multiple goals as to why this class will be offered to first year students in the future.

“The intention is to offer students an academic experience for first year students,” she said. “An opportunity in a seminar setting to explore a topic of interest and to learn what it means to approach a topic academically.”

Kleine said another goal is to allow students to connect with their fellow classmates and their teachers.

According to Kleine, research across the coun-try shows that connecting with others is an impor-tant way to help a stu-dent transition quicker and more successfully to college.

The maximum class size of the first year seminar will be 20 students and Kleine said the class was modeled after a similar class for freshmen at the University of Georgia.

While the class is man-datory there, the First Year Seminar at BGSU will not be a requirement on each student’s check sheet.

Some of the classes

that were offered this fall included titles like The Last Days of Mankind: WWI in Literature and Film, The Psychology of Social Media: You Are What You Post, or The Politics of Sex.

Kleine also said it is vol-untary for teachers to pick up a section.

“In most cases, typical-ly it will be an overload and they get compensated according to the collective bargaining agreement,” she said. “I call it a faculty member’s dream course because we all have cours-es we wish we could teach but there is no opportuni-ty and this is your chance to do it. The students tend to like that too,” she said.

Freshman Heather Ann Bee chose to take BGSU 1910 this semester as an introduction to her college career.

“I took Politics of Sex in particular because I knew it would not be the typical college course,” she said. “There was nothing graph-ic in the class, but you had to be mature enough to discuss some of the material.”

She added that her teacher Dr. Sarah Rainey pushed the students out of their comfort zones, yet it opened her eyes to a better college experience.

While there are some basic learning outcomes that are generic and done regardless of a teacher’s topic, Kleine said that teachers will be able to add their own learning out-comes to the curriculum.

“One of the things we expect faculty to do, is to

get students to take part in activities outside of class,” she said. “It is really all about coming to college and realizing the world is a little bit bigger than maybe you thought.”

Freshman Samantha Deckard said that some of the strategies she learned while taking the class could help her in the future.

“We had question-and-answer sessions every couple of weeks where we could anonymously ask anything we wanted without fear of embarrass-ment,” she said. “These were particularly help-ful, since they answered questions I might not have necessarily wanted to ask out loud.”

Teachers can currently submit proposals for sec-tions they would like to teach in the fall of 2015.

Kleine said that with the start of the fall semes-ter next year, BGSU 1910 will be part of the open-ing weekend for first year students.

“Next year we are going to have a three-day open-ing weekend and it will start on Friday instead of Saturday,” she said. “So on that Friday, about three or four hours worth will be this class and it will be part of the obligation for pro-fessors to make this a very interesting and engaging experience but it will also help the class bond.”

Although the class start-ed out as a small pilot this year, Kleine hopes to add a lot more sections to “grow the program because it’s working.”

FOOTBALL VS. INDIANA: BG defeated a Big Ten team for the first time

ever at home.

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Confidence radiating through BG locker roomBy Cameron Teague Robinson

Editor-in-Chief

The Falcons had a poster of the Mid-American Conference preseason media poll on the wall in their lock-er room.

After their comeback victory against Cleveland State University on Saturday, that poster was ripped right off of the wall.

The poster being ripped off the wall symbolizes one thing: this team has a lot of confidence. The men’s basketball team knows they are better than the fifth place ranking the media gave them in the offseason.

“It doesn’t symbolize that we’ve done anything yet,” junior Spencer Parker said. “We have a lot more confidence and we are working hard to make sure we aren’t that last place team anymore.”

Head coach Chris Jans pitched the idea of the rankings to the players Parker said.

“He would tell us ‘this is how people view you,’” Parker said. “We didn’t want to be looked at that way, so we went hard in practice every day to make sure that was not the case.”

The Falcons hard work has turned into an early 6-2 record. While that is a good starting record, the Falcons could be 8-0 if they didn’t let the Dayton and Western Kentucky games get away from them late in the second half.

“We were hoping to be 8-0, we felt like we had two games slip away,” Parker said. “Six-and-two is a great start to how we ended last season, but I think we have a lot to work on and a lot of room to improve.”

There are 10 players who returned from last year’s team that finished 12-20. The difference between that team and this one, is not so much the experience, but the new coach-ing intensity, Parker said.

“We have a lot of guys from last year, but I think coach Jans has provided us with an extra push,” he said.

While Jans will admit he is excited about where the team is right now, he knows this is just the start and that the Falcons are not even close to their potential.

“The best part of this team is that we aren’t close to where we can be,” he said. “We still have a high ceil-ing because of the talent and pieces that we have.”

One of the biggest surprises of the season has been the emergence of guard Zack Denny. Denny was

on and off the f loor last season because of injuries, but is currently the second leading scorer with 9.8 points per game and is also second in rebounds with five per game.

“I think he will keep it up,” Parker said. “He has been going hard in practice, he deserves this.”

As finals week winds down for the players, so does the non-con-ference schedule. The Falcons will have three games left before they open the conference schedule at Kent State on Jan. 7, 2014.

This will be Jans and his coaching staffs first tour through the MAC conference, in terms of competi-tion this may be a tough run for them. Out of the 12 teams in the MAC eight of them have five wins or more.

“From what I’ve seen and what I’ve heard there are a lot of good basketball teams in the MAC, but there isn’t one dominant team,” Jans said. “I think there will be a lot of close games. I think we need to prepare to be coming down the stretch in a lot of close games.”

The first eight games of the sea-son have gone well for the Falcons, but they still have work to do as the conference schedule comes closer.

“The expectations are really high for us, we want to compete for a MAC Championship,” Parker said. “We want to send these seniors out with a ring on their finger and something to be proud of after a couple bad years here.”

TYLER TATE: Tate was named to the Capital One Academic All-America First Team, becoming the first BG football player named since 1990.

MADELINE GARDA: Garda won her third-straight MAC Defensive Player of

the Week award.

WOMEN’S SOCCER: Women’s soccer won its first match in two years with an 8-0 victory at Chicago State.

MAC CHAMPIONSHIP: BG football made it to the MAC Championship game at Ford Field in Detroit where they fell to

Northern Illinois 17-51 .

MEN’S SOCCER: The team’s 14 total wins was the program’s highest since the 1997

season, advancing to the MAC Championship match where they fell to Akron 2-1.MAC EAST CHAMPS: Football team clinches MAC East title with 30-20 win against Kent State.

Snapshots

HOCKEY: BG hockey entered the USCHO Poll at 19th, marking the first time the

program has been ranked since the 2007-08 season. BG is currently ranked 13th.

A YEAR IN

Men’s basketball looks to build on hot start as non-conference matches come to an end

“Six-and-two is a great start to how we ended last season, but I think

we have a lot of room to improve.”

Spencer Parker | Junior

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I guess I should be relieved that the Senate decided to reject the proposal for the Keystone XL pipeline back in November, even if that decision could be reversed as early as January.

Along with President Obama’s veto, the mea-sure will easily be over-ridden, but as always, the issue is much deeper than one pipeline.

The Democrats say it won’t create jobs, the Republicans say it will, but frankly, I don’t really care anymore which it is.

The issue is that both parties, in this instance as well as in many others, are focused on short term solu-tions whose consequences they will hopefully be able to blame on the opposing party during the next elec-tion cycle.

Weather patterns are get-ting more extreme, hurri-canes and tornadoes more frequent and more violent and all the while, we’re not worried about global flood-ing or the deterioration of the ozone layer or the deple-tion of the rainforests.

No, we’re worried about money from fossil fuels.

97 percent of the scien-tific community agrees that climate change is real and that humans are playing a large part in it, but for some reason, no one seems to care.

Maybe it’s a problem of human nature that we don’t want to accept problems or face up to them until they confront us, but by then,

it’s almost always going to be too late to do anything about it.

Even if all of those sci-entists are wrong, do we really even want to take that chance?

The burgeoning alterna-tive energy industry will be able to offer efficient energy and a great many jobs, some today and some tomorrow, but if we continue on our current trajectory, we’ll be out of potable water and breathable air long before we’re out of petroleum.

It could also be a cultural problem.

Perhaps we’re all so lost in our nation’s attitude of instant gratification that we’ll embrace any kind of “solution” that will keep the lights on and our cars run-ning just a while longer.

But just for a second, I wish we as a people could step back and take a look at the big picture.

No, alternative energy will not be profitable, it won’t be fast and it won’t be easy, but in order to pass on a livable environment to future generations, we have to eventually abandon fossil fuels altogether.

What ends up happening in the next 50 years could be very exciting and could restore some of my faith in humanity, but it could also

be very dismal and justify a big part of my cynicism.

I don’t want the lat-ter to happen; I don’t want a species that’s only inhabited the earth for a 100,000-odd years to let something so beautiful be destroyed because of greed and impatience.

No, it’s not affecting us right this second. We can all still waste time on Tumblr and fiddle with our iPhones, but there may come a day when we can’t.

Whenever I bring this up, apathy and cop-outing are the most common respons-es, but as the saying goes: “Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last river poisoned, the last field has been burned; only then will you realize that money can-not be eaten.”

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The recent police killings of several unarmed African American men - and the lack of indictment of the police officers involved – have inspired multiple orga-nized protests across the United States.

This past weekend, on Saturday, December 13th, civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton led a march-ing assembly of over 10,000 people to the U.S. Capitol to demand an end to racial pro-filing by police.

The “Justice for All” march in downtown D.C. uni-fied the supporters of two deceased black men: Eric Garner and Michael Brown, both of whom were killed by police officers.

Just hours later, even larger groups of protesters stormed the streets of Manhattan, San Francisco and Oakland.

In response to the killings, President Obama has voiced support for the requirement of personal police cameras.

Had cameras been record-ing the interaction between Michael Brown and Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, we would know whether or not Brown held his hands up [as protesters maintain] or whether he assaulted Wilson, as he testi-fied in front of the grand jury.

Tamper-proof record-ing devices would pro-vide an objective, third-party account of all police encounters.

Technicalities aside, per-sonal cameras would func-tion along the same lines as surveillance cameras

in stores: behavior is regu-lated and curbed by an internalized awareness of being watched.

It’s like Thomas Jefferson once said, “Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”

However, given the fact that the entire incident in Staten Island between Eric Garner and Officer Daniel Pantaleo was recorded on video but there were no charges filed against the offi-cers involved, how beneficial would body cameras actu-ally be?

In fact, not only were the officers exonerated for their actions, the only person indicted in the Eric Garner case was the person who provided the video footage.

What makes this particu-larly hard to swallow is the fact that, for months, those involved in the Michael Brown case have reached different conclusions regarding certain indefinite and ambiguous claims.

Did Brown have his hands raised or not? Did Officer Wilson fear for his life when he shot and killed Brown?

But in the case of Eric Garner, with perfect clar-ity and video recorded evi-dence, no officers were indicted and blame was placed on anything but the seeming injustices of a

flawed and prejudiced sys-tem.

For the second time in a ten-day span, a grand jury [which, in Federal cases, has a 99% indictment rate] failed to indict an officer who caused the death of an unarmed man.

Perhaps this is the result of a criminal justice sys-tem that is composed of two separate, but equally significant parts: Firstly, a police force that investigates crime and secondly, the dis-trict attorneys whose job it is to prosecute. Essentially, they are colleagues that work together, so when one group is called into ques-tion - in these cases, the police officers - the situation becomes tricky.

Questioning the sys-tem that brings forth these results is both impera-tive and urgent and as the “Justice for All” march demonstrates, it’s actively being done.

I certainly don’t pretend to know all of the facts regard-ing either of the aforemen-tioned cases and I will admit that bias is introduced from both sides when you look at any source of information.

However, I do believe there is great promise for the current social unrest to develop into something positive, transformative and revolutionary that has the potential to sweep through and seize this nation.

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“Maybe it’s a problem of human

nature that we don’t want to accept

problems or face up to them until they

confront us, but by then, it’s almost

always going to be too late to do

anything about it. ”

PEOPLE ON THE STREET What are you doing for winter break?“Spending time with my family.”

“I’m doing community service.”

“I’m going skiing.”

“Just going to be working.”

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014 5THE PULSEThese are the 10 highest-grossing films of 2014 for

the U.S. The numbers below are in millions of dollars.

These 10 albums sold the most copies in 2014. All sold at least two million.FILMS ALBUMS

TOP TOP

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• Top10totalgross:$2.41billion• AllbutMaleficentarepartofaseries

• AllarecertifiedatleastdoublePlatinumbytheRecordingIndustryAssociationofAmerica

• ThelastsoundtracktotopthelistwasTitanicin1998Source: IMDb Source: Billboard

Guardians of the Galaxy

The Hunger Games: Mock-ingjay - Part 1

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

The Lego Movie

Transformers: Age of

Extinction

Maleficent

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Godzilla

Frozen Soundtrack

Beyoncé Beyoncé

1989 Taylor Swift

Midnight Memories One Direction

The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Eminem

Pure Heroine Lorde

Crash My Party

Luke Bryan

Prism Katy Perry

Blame It All On My Roots: Five Decades of Influences

Garth Brooks

Here’s to the Good Times

Florida Georgia Line

Local highlights from 2014Fluffy performance• Gabriel Iglesias or “Fluffy” performed March 30 at the

Stroh Center• It was an LOL with UAO event

B.o.B. concert• The rapper came to the Stroh Center Aug. 31

• Nico and Vinz opened

Rosco No E’s album• He released “Christ Soldier” Oct. 24• He is also known for his 2011 “Stroh Center Rap”

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Feliciano song13 Kevin of "Dave"21 Took the show on the

road26 Poetic time of day28 Post-workout destina-

tion29 Mall stand30 Wall St. hedger31 Cote cry32 Present day?34 Transport in an

Ellington classic35 Informant36 Hotel amenity38 Instruments that

sound similar to glockenspiels

42 The Tigers of the Ohio Valley Conf.

43 Attorney general under Ronald Reagan

44 Entertainer47 Equally hot or cold?48 Inspire deeply (with)49 In good shape50 Smart guy?52 Fits of fever53 French hens count56 "__ la Douce"57 Recipe meas.58 Hiker's shelter

1 Flexible lunch hour7 PC speed unit11 D.C. United's __ Stadium14 Marvel Entertainment parent com-

pany15 Cinders of old comics16 Reef dweller17 Needing to be bailed out, maybe18 "Double, double, __ and trouble":

"Macbeth"19 DCIV ÷ IV20 Spreadsheet figure22 Individual : SSN :: corp. : __23 Hospital fluids24 "Impressive!"25 Take by force27 Happen afterward29 Capital on the Dnieper River30 Tot's recitation33 Prosecutors, at times37 Cheering word38 Nod from the maestro

39 Short or gross measure40 See 59-Across41 Ones making the rounds?44 "The Thin Man" pooch45 Dot on un mapa46 Capital of Senegal48 Debate subject50 Bon __: Comet rival51 Sports fan's factoid54 Clever remark55 Classic 6-Down suggested by

this puzzle's circles59 With 40-Across, trumped-up

charge60 Holiday purchase61 Remove all doubt62 A, in Oaxaca63 Gremlins and Matadors64 Lustrous fabric65 Mag staff66 "... be good for goodness' __!"67 Determined ahead of time

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Stephen Colbert has been hosting The Colbert Report since 2005. In that time, the show has won two Emmys and been nominated for seven more. Colbert him-self has had a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor and a recently discovered spe-cies of spider named after him. He’s attended a White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner and testified in Congress about migrant workers.

It’s been a good run. On Dec. 18, it’ll end as Colbert prepares to host the Late Show on CBS starting in 2015.

The beginning of The Colbert Report was a bit rough, says Matt Meier, a communication profes-sor at Notre Dame College, who focuses on shows like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. “It took him about a year to figure out who the character was.”

I wasn’t paying atten-tion to Colbert in 2005, and was probably unaware of his existence entirely. But that means the Colbert I’ve known always had his char-acter (also named Stephen Colbert) figured out. The character has always been a privileged rich white dude who’s absurdly unaware of how good he’s got it—absurdly, because the things that come out of his mouth constantly make that status clear to every-one else. It’s that absurdity that makes the character a parody of all the privileged rich white dudes who don’t acknowledge how good they’ve got it.

That type of character is a great one to present news with. You get the exaggerat-ed (or maybe it isn’t) point of view of out-of-touch conservatives who don’t

understand what matters to average people. At the same time, the character’s complete insensitivity to others people’s problems tells you exactly what those problems are. And it doesn’t hurt that guests on The Colbert Report get an opportunity to tear down the character’s views, something more liberal viewers like myself only wish happened more often to the type of real people the character parodies.

Occasionally the satiri-cal character didn’t quite hit the mark. Most nota-bly, that happened when Colbert was discussing Washington Redskins Origina l A mericans Foundation, the non-profit organization cre-ated by Redskins owner Dan Snyder. The character said he would create the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever, and some Twitter users responded with the hashtag #CancelColbert.

“Colbert thinks he’s making a joke, but it’s not a good joke,” Meier says. What separated this joke from countless others was that the funny part ended up being the racial com-ments, not the satirical comments that were actu-ally meant to make a point. But even though the joke failed, “that doesn’t mean throw out all satire,” Meier says. Colbert’s satire usu-ally does make the point it’s supposed to.

That’s why I’ve enjoyed the show: I like to be

informed, but I like to laugh too. I’m not alone here; the show’s pretty popular with younger crowds.

Despite that popularity, it can seem like the end of The Colbert Report won’t be felt hugely by viewers. After all, we still have Jon Stewart and John Oliver for all our news-in-a-humor-ous-format needs. But, Meier reminds me, the three really are different. Colbert plays a character, a parody of pundits like Bill O’Reilly. Stewart’s show is a parody of news shows, but Stewart is being himself. Oliver is hilarious, but what he’s doing isn’t a parody.

Of the three, Oliver is perhaps closest to what we can expect to see from Colbert on the Late Show. Colbert is supposed to drop the persona he’s main-tained for years on The Colbert Report and be him-self on the Late Show, says Charles Coletta, a pop cul-ture instructor at Bowling Green State University. But Colbert the real person is still smart and funny.

“He really is quick,” Coletta says. You can see when somebody says something that he doesn’t expect or is not planned out, he can keep up with them and keep the thing moving along.”

That’s not surprising; Colbert’s background is in improv comedy, Meier says.

That’s reassuring. No one’s sure what the Late Show’s new format will be, but with quick-witted Colbert at the helm it should turn out alright. I’ve never been one for the Late Show (or late shows in general), but on the basis of Colbert’s past work I’ll at least want to see how this goes.

KATHRYNE RUBRIGHTPULSE EDITOR

A look back at The Colbert Report