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ROOMMATE RUMBLEROOMMATE RUMBLEBy Spencer Good

Reporter

There are many roommate stories that can be heard throughout the hallways of the dorms.

One story is from sophomore Pac Wood IV. “People that know me know that I wear abstract outfits a lot of

times,” he said. “While one day I was wearing a long f lowing blue dress, because I am gender f luid, my roommate and I went to the gas

station. While in the gas station the guy cashiers started to f lirt with me thinking that I was a girl and I decided to have a little fun and went along

with it.” Wood said then my straight friend saw this, wrapped his arm around my

waist and started to play along.The friend said, “What you talking to my girl for?”

This lasted for a good twenty minutes until they realized that I was not a girl then they both became awkward around me, Wood said.

Some other stories can be pretty horrible compared to this story. “Last year I had a roommate that was gay and he was a furry,”

said sophomore Bryce Dotson. A furry is a person who dresses up as an animal and

has an alternate persona of that animal.“His boyfriend ... would never shower

or brush his teeth.

People share stories from living together, conflicts arise from new strangers

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WISCONSIN DROPS FALCONS INSPIRATIONAL TEACHERSThe BG Football team was defeated by Wisconsin 68-17 Saturday afternoon in Madison. Wisconsin rushed for a modern-era Big Ten record of 644 yards. The Falcons begin conference play next week. | PAGE 3

Columnist Abigail Kruse talks about the influ-ence that many professors have had on her as a student. These teachers encourage her to be the best she can be and is grateful for their efforts. | PAGE 4

Jim KnippenJunior, Finance

WHAT WAS THE CAUSE OF A FIGHT YOU HAD WITH YOUR ROOMMATE?

“Eating his food.”

Enrollment numbers for University, Firelands downEXERCISING THROUGH ZUMBAReasons for decline due to rise in economy, University more selective of students

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By Kendra Clark Campus Editor

Both the University’s main campus and Firelands have gone down in enrollment this academic year.

While the University went down in body count by 2.4 percent, the Firelands campus went down in student body count by 6.3 percent.

However, Joseph Frizado, vice provost for Academic Operations and Assessments for the University, said the two numbers are probably not connected.

There are a number of differ-ent influences of the enrollment numbers at both Firelands and the University.

Director of Marketing and Community Relations for Firelands

Dean Schnurr said one of the reasons the numbers might be down for Firelands is because of the economy.

“Regional campuses are coun-tercyclical to the economy,” he said. “As the economy improves, there is a drop in enrollment because students take classes because they didn’t have jobs and will go back and drop out of education if they get one.”

However, as compared to other regional campuses, Firelands has experienced the least drop in the area.

Frizado said this is because even though many students go to Firelands to pursue an associate’s degree, there are certain degrees

where students can get a four year degree.

“They can be pursued online or having professors from main cam-pus go to Firelands,” he said.

This may have caused a less decrease than the other surround-ing colleges like Owens and Terra, who have decreased into double digits, Frizado said.

Because of the decrease in stu-dents, Schnurr said the Firelands is taking their budget into consideration.

“We are taking a close look to our budget to reduce operation bud-gets,” he said. “But we may have to use some of our reserves to offset

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I tried to talk about this with him and he would lis-ten but he would never do anything about it,” he said.

To get revenge, one time when he was asleep they put whipped cream on the boyfriend’s hand and then they waited to see if he would smear it all over his face.

“It took him a few min-utes and finally he wiped his forehead with that hand and he woke up and saw this and said,

‘What the heck hap-pened. Someone is going to pay,’” Dotson said. “Then my friend and I busted out laughing.”

Wood also shared he never saw his roommate.

“Usually, last year I didn’t see my roommate at all but three times,” he said. “One time I came in to the room thinking that he was not there like usual but instead he was there and he had the look of a deer in front of car headlights because we very rarely ran into each other in the room.”

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the reduction in enrollment.” Frizado said the climate of

the economy doesn’t usually have as big of an impact on four-year degree universities.

One of the reasons why they went down in numbers this year is because the University was looking to bring in a more academically prepared fresh-man class.

“If you look back three or four years, there were larger freshman classes then but they were not as academically prepared, meaning their high school GPA and SAT scores were lower,” he said. “We retained a smaller amount of them.”

That’s why last year they let in a more academically prepared freshman class and they noticed a higher reten-tion rate, 75.8 percent of stu-dents from last year came back this year.

That is one reason, Frizado said, why the number of students at the University is smaller this year than last year. They continued to only accept students that are more academically prepared.

One system the University and Firelands are using for the first time this year to help increase enrollment is called Firelands Pathway Program.

This is where a select few students that try to apply to the University who show positive signs but didn’t quite make the qualifications have another option available to them. They can become a Firelands student but take classes at the University.

There were 20 students enrolled this first year in the program.

“If they are successful for that year, they can become a BGSU student,” Frizado said.

Sophomore Sarah McClure thinks the program is a great idea and the University should offer it further next year.

“It is good that the University is trying to up their game,” she said. “I think it’s really cool for them to offer that option. It’s better than not getting accepted into the school.”

She also thinks this is a good idea because of the struggle some students have with standardized tests.

“It is true that a lot of stu-dents aren’t good at standard-ized tests so it’s good that the school is looking beyond that score to the actual student, especially if they did a good job with GPA and not the SAT or ACT,” she said.

Schurr said Firelands is also working really closely with high schools around the area like Sandusky High School.

“We created something called Blue Streak University to assist them to get col-lege credit while still in high school,” he said.

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Career Center offers internship program for freshmen

Res Life brings changes

Falcon Internship Guarantee promises students help in professional world, experience

Requirements changed this year for students to live off campus

By Kathryne RubrightPulse Editor

Freshmen interested in completing internships can now participate in the new Career Center’s Falcon Internship Guarantee pro-gram to prepare for finding internships.

The Falcon Internship Guarantee is a four-year program, so only fresh-men can sign up. They can do so until the end of the fall semester.

It’s good for students to start thinking about internships early, said Jessica Turos, asso-ciate director of the Career Center.

The program “[gets] students to be intention-

al about their internship search,” Turos said.

More opportunities to meet employers are avail-able to students who start earlier, said Jeffery Jackson, Career Center director.

Over the course of the program, students com-plete a variety of tasks

designed to help them pre-pare for and successfully gain an internship.

They complete infor-mational interviews with people in the field(s) they are interested in to find out more and get a better idea of whether that field is right for them. Students go to resume workshops and consultations, familiarize themselves with WorkNet and complete mock interviews in person or via Skype.

“What’s neat with that is we’re also incorporating the technology that’s often used,” Turos said.

Students also attend career fairs. Preparations for that include more

resume workshops and mock interviews.

There are workshops that help students know how to succeed at their intern-ships. University students who have already complet-ed internships share their experiences with students who are going to complete internships. The future interns go over intern-ship case studies and set goals for their upcoming internships.

After a student com-pletes their internship, they follow up with the Career Center to process the experience.

“If [an internship is]

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By Cassie SullivanAssistant Managing Editor

Last spring, Residence Life changed the requirements for students to qualify living off-campus.

The basic requirements, which include students hav-ing to fulfill their first two years on campus, also now require students to be at least 20 years old before the beginning of the current fall semester, have been out of high school for at least two years and have completed at least 12 credit hours.

The changes also mean those who have served 12 months with the military are excluded from living on campus.

Josh Lawrie, the assistant director of Residence Life, said the changes were to align the University with other schools.

“These changes came to align us better with our sis-ter institutions. Our policies align with other institutions within the state,” Lawrie

said.For sophomore Christa

Federico, the changes do not affect her, but she thinks the changes make sense.

“It makes sense. If you’re transferring to BG, you can live on your own,” Federico said.

While the changes have been in effect for the fall semester, Residence Life hasn’t noticed any changes in the number of students living on campus.

“[The number of stu-dents] have been steady with the retention rate, has been high. Our capacity of amount filled is really high,” Lawrie said. “Students have a really good experience with our residential com-munities. We have students who are not even required to live with us who live with us because our programming and experience. We have not seen a major impact due to the change.”

While students live on

BY THE NUMBERSEnrollment numbers for 2014 fall semester in different uni-versities/colleges compared to last year.

■ BGSU Main Campus - Down 2.4%

■ Firelands - Down 6.3% ■ Owens - Down 14.3% ■Terra - Down 12.2%

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Monday, September 22, 2014 3SPORTS

By Brandon ShriderAssistant Sports Editor

The BG men’s soccer team scored two late goals to come away with their sixth victory of the season, defeating Eastern Illinois 3-1 Friday night at Cochrane Field .

Despite controlling the match for the majority of the first half, limiting Eastern Illinois to just one shot, the Falcons were only able to put one of their eight shots on goal. That shot late, which came late in the first half, was the only goal through the first 45 minutes.

The Falcons had plenty of first-half shots, but none of them were dangerous, head coach Eric Nichols said.

The lack of urgency was a pri-mary concern for the Falcons as they came out for the second 45 minutes.

“Our coach talked about being patient, but still having that urgency. We got a little quiet in the first half,” senior Vlad Lekarev said.

While the Falcons looked to respond well in the second half, they conceded a goal in the first three minutes putting the game even at 1-1. This was just the third time the Falcons failed to grab a shutout on the season.

“I think one of the dangers now that we’ve won some games is to think that any of them are going to be easy,” Nichols said. “I think we were prepared for a tight game and then not to respond with a little more energy and a little bit more emotion was disappointing. You can’t just flip the switch.”

However, the Falcons were able to flip the switch against the Panthers.

With just over 11 minutes left in the game, Pat Flynn headed in the tiebreaking goal for his nation-leading eleventh of the season.

To put the game away, Flynn pushed in his second goal of the game with just 13 seconds left on the clock to give the Falcons the 3-1 victory.

“We have Pat Flynn putting things on frame and when that

happens, good things happen,” Lekarev said.

“We came back and we showed some good attributes, but it defi-nitely wasn’t our strongest per-formance on either side of the ball,” Nichols said. “But I think our quality shined through and that’s why we won the game.”

Despite notching the victory, the Falcons showed that more work still needs to be done.

Twenty-two shots were taken, but just seven of them were on frame. However, three of the seven shots on frame were scores for the Falcons.

Thus, the Falcons realized they must clean up their play on both sides of the ball in order to beat Michigan State in their next match at Cochrane Field on Sept. 24 at 7 p.m.

“We’ll have to clean up a lot in order to beat Michigan State next week,” Flynn said. “We can’t take a half off. We have to come out like we did against Michigan and play a full ninety minutes, and put shots on frame.”

By Hampton CrawfordReporter

The BG volleyball team came away from the Oakland Invitational this past weekend with a 1-2 record beating Robert Morris but falling to both UC Irvine and Oakland in three sets.

This drops the Falcons to 0-3 at home, 1-2 away and 2-4 at neutral sites for a combined record of 3-9 overall of the season.

The Falcons struggled against Oakland, tallying 25 kills to Oakland’s 48. BG’s hitting percentage

The Falcons had some oppor-tunities, but Oakland was too big of a powerhouse and swept the Falcons in three straight sets win-ning those 25-22, 25-20, 25-21.

Freshman Paige O’Connor led the team with nine kills, followed by freshman Nicole Slimko with six and senior Kelsey Bates with three. Senior Erica Fullenkamp led the team with 20 assists, while sophomore Madeline Garda led the team with eight digs.

The team continues to struggle but looks to build more consistent play as it heads into the conference play next weekend.

“I would say that we play really well as a team but our consistency is what is lacking right now,” said senior Kelsey Bates. “That is what we need to work on we need to come out confident each and every game … we just need to pull it together and become more consis-tent with our play.”

The Falcons then followed with two games on Saturday. The Falcons lost their first match to UC Irvine 25-15, 25-21, 25-22.

The Falcons showed some resil-iency and toughness as they ended the tournament with a win against Robert Morris 25-21, 15-25, 27-29, 25-20, 15-8. This is their third win which went to five sets.

Head coach Danijela Tomic said

these five-set victories are key to getting valuable experience.

“I do think that to develop that resiliency, to develop that mental-ity of never giving up, you have to be pushed to the edge. There is no other way to learn,” said Tomic. “Sometimes I think you learn more valuable lessons from a tough loss than an easy win, and I think we will get some payback for all the struggles that we have gone through.”

Both Slimko and O’Connor finished with 20 kills each in the win, followed by Bates with 16. Fullenkamp had 49 assists and Garda mustered up 21 digs. The team also posted their second highest attack percentage, finish-ing .213 percent in the game.

Now with the non-conference play officially over, Tomic is look-ing forward to playing the Mid-American Conference schedule. She said the team is much more prepared after playing in four tournaments.

“I feel good about what this pre-season has done for us,” Tomic said. “When you have a young team, it is about gaining that experience and we have been pushed to the limit. I do think after four weeks of pre-season we will be as ready as we could be.”

The Falcons will open up MAC play on the road this Friday, Sept. 26, facing off against the Buffalo Bulls at 7 p.m. in Alumni Arena. Afterwards, the Falcons will make a trip to play Akron Sept. 27 at 5 p.m.

Falcons improve to 6-1 overall with 3-1 victory at Cochrane Field Friday night

BG volleyball team defeats Robert Morris in 5 sets, loses to UC Irvine, Oakland in 3 sets

Men’s soccer team uses two late goals to elevate against Eastern Illinois

BG leaves Oakland Invitational 1-2

By Cameron Teague RobinsonEditor-in-Chief

When a defense surrenders a modern-era Big Ten record in rushing yards, it is safe to say that something went wrong on the field.

The Bowling Green defense gave up 644 yards on the ground and a Wisconsin school record of 756 yards of total offense, in their 68-17 loss at Camp Randall Saturday afternoon.

According to linebacker Gabe Martin it wasn’t a flaw of positioning.

“If you were really watching that game, even when we go back and look at the film, you will see that there was never a time where we didn’t have somebody in place to make a play,” Martin said. “As a defense we pride ourselves on making plays and that’s what we have to do in those situations. We didn’t make the plays we were supposed to make in this situations and that’s what it boils down to.”

It wasn’t all bad for the Falcon defense, who recovered two fumbles in the first quarter to keep the game close.

The first fumble was forced by Kendall Montgomery and recov-ered by Nick Locke. That fumble led to a 35-yard touchdown run by Fred Coppet, which tied the game 7-7.

The second fumble came at the end of the first quarter when the Badgers fumbled the snap and Taylor Royster jumped on the ball. In a 14-10 game that gave the Falcons a chance to take the lead but their drive stalled.

The Joe Davidson punt was returned 40-yards by Badger receiver Kenzel Doe. That return set up a 34-yard touchdown pass from McEvoy to Sam Arneson on the next play, giving them a 21-10 lead.

The Falcons had a chance to cut the lead, as they drove to the Wisconsin 8-yard line but an interception thrown by James Knapke would end that drive.

“When somebody beats you by 51 points you can’t pick out one play and say that was the difference in the game. You lost by 51 points,” head coach Dino Babers said. “You can hit a wall once or twice and it might dent a little bit but over the long haul that thing is going to stand up. It was obvious they were a lot more physical and a lot stronger than us.”

From there the game seemed to tailspin out of control for the Falcons.

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Badger

VLAD LEKAREV takes the ball down the sidelines Friday night in the team’s match against Eastern Illinois at Cochrane Field.MARIE COURONNE | THE BG NEWS

“Sometimes I think you learn more

valuable lessons from a tough loss than an

easy win...”Danijela Tomic | Head Coach

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When professors comically mention that they saw a stu-dent hammered at the bar the weekend before and ask their lecture hall how they get satisfaction from drink-ing heavily, usually the response is, “It’s just a part of the college experience.”

When opening week-end crawls around and the houses across the street are lined with, “Daddy drop-off” and “Will trade beer for your daughter,” most people shrug it off and say, “Well, that’s a college campus for you.”

So, when a fraternity party goes a little wild and targets specific girls to drug and date rape, it must just be an experience of college.

It isn’t fair to suspend the fraternity chapter because every girl goes through it at some point in their college

career, right?HuffPost Women wrote

an article reporting that the fraternity chapter Tau Kappa Epslion [TKE] at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hosted a party Sept. 12 where girls were sold “tickets” to gain access to the party and open bar. A girl interviewed during the investigation said, “You had to be hot” to be sold these tickets. A few girls remem-bered being marked with a red X.

The marked girls turned out to be victims of date rape drugs, as later that night they were found violently sick near a dorm hall on campus.

This chapter is currently under investigation and has been suspended from their campus.

I love the Greek communi-ties because I know many good, genuine people who are a part of them.

They have high standards and they give back to the community that built them.

Whenever someone bashes on Greek life, I will defend the wonder-

ful community that I have come to know and love at the University.

When I shared this arti-cle on Facebook, a Greek friend of mine commented, “As a TKE here at BGSU I am completely disgusted hear-ing about this. Absolutely disregarding all major val-ues of the fraternity.”

However, while reading this article, I was com-pletely horrified.

Not only was the article upsetting, but the respons-es that followed were equally as vile.

Someone put up a story on Huffington Post shortly after called, “Frats Behaving Badly,” which was a compilation of sto-ries of frats all over the country committing hor-rible acts such as tortur-ing chickens at their tail-gates, selling date rape drugs on Facebook and letting brothers take a survey called, “If You Had the Chance ... Who Would You Rape?”

A couple weeks ago, I

discussed the invention of a nail polish that is sup-posedly made for detect-ing date rape drugs and for a small period of time, I thought that women were a little ahead of the game.

As it turns out, the war is far from over.

I believe that this TKE story is lucky to have made headlines.

I know there are thou-sands of cases where women fall victim to date rape drugs and sexual assault on college campus-es that go unreported and unnoticed because “boys will be boys” and “that’s just how college is.”

The humongous weight that is put on young girls to keep quiet and behave is becoming more than we can bear.

If the call for responsibil-ity doesn’t come soon, the war on women is not going to be clean fight.

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At my age, I’m well on my way to being what is affec-tionately called a “profes-sional student,” when it seems very possible that the world will indeed end before I walk across the stage at the Stroh Center.

As such, I have had a few professors in my time that I did not get along with, for one reason or another.

Sometimes students and professors don’t gel, and that’s okay.

More often I’ve had professors whose class-es I wished would go on for longer than only a semester.

Freshmen, please take note: you’ve heard, I’m sure, about how impor-tant it is to get to know your professors. It sounds corny and maybe even pointless, but it’s true.

Quality time with those professors might just be the key to finding out what you’re truly passionate about if you’re unsure, or to going from a B to an A, or even to landing that first job.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to have professors who are so profoundly inspiring that you want to be them.

As a future teacher, I’m lucky to have some mar-velous examples.

They make me want to jump into a classroom tomorrow because they care so much about what

they do that they make me care even more already.

They are tough but fair graders, and they make me want to do better because I know that they believe I can.

They teach work ethic and accountability, two paramount, visible traits for anybody who plans to be gainfully employed, but especially for someone soon to be responsible for other people’s children.

Anything less than my best, and I feel like I have let them down, not to mention myself.

I won’t lie: convic-tion like that was pretty hard to summon back in the day when was I was running late on the regular to my 8 a.m. Communications class.

It was just a Gen Ed

course, but now I know dependability counts no matter what it’s for.

That’s one of the things I’ve learned in my Education courses through the people who teach them.

They take their work so seriously because they are training the educators who will go on to inspire a whole new generation of citizens.

In short, they teach us how to care. If that’s not important, I don’t know what is.

So, in the words of the immortal Kid President, “Is there a teacher that inspires you? Let ‘em know.”

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My sandwich from Mondo Sub was so poorly wrapped that I had to eat it with a fork.#KEEPTHETOPPINGSBETWEENTHEBREAD

I’m tired and cranky. I can’t handle you right now. -PLEASE STOP TALKING

Not even a full month of classes and I’m already ex-hausted.#INEEDABREAK

You should really educate yourself before speaking about certain topics. You sound like an idiot.-THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK

Why do you care so much about the way other people look? Stop being shallow and focus on improving yourself.#GETALIFE

The cashier I work with can’t even count money properly.-TAKE ANOTHER MATH COURSE

You think you’re special, but you’re not really doing much with your life. I guess being cocky makes you feel better? #LOSER

This weather is driving me crazy. 80 degrees one day then 60 degrees the next; make up your mind, Mother Nature.-I CAN’T HANDLE THIS

When you throw Jimmy Fallon a birthday party and he doesn’t show up...#PLEASEBEMYFRIEND

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Michelle Cowin-Mensah has chosen to combine theatre performance and research for her dissertation.

The fourth year doc-toral student majoring in theatre and film at the University chose to com-bine theatre performance and urban ethnography in an effort to understand the behavior of natives in her hometown of Detroit.

“At first I thought I was going to do Zora Neale Hurston, but I got bored with her because I didn’t find enough of myself in her,” Cowin-Mensah said. “I can codify my black-ness; I wanted to do a proj-ect that had my own con-text in identity.”

That is when the light bulb went off and Cowin-Mensah got the idea to use her hometown of Detroit as the basis for her project.

“I love Black people. I’m deeply fascinated with stories that have to do with black and brown bodies,” Cowin-Mensah said. “There’s a certain blackness ingrained in Detroit culture; it’s a high-ly racialized area with a rich history. So the proj-ect is looking at how black Detroiters perform and live identities of self.”

Cowin-Mensah received her Bachelor of Arts from The University of Michigan and earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Acting at the University of California Irvine. Now she is working on her Ph.D.

“To earn a Ph.D, there are certain benchmarks

that a graduate student must pass. First there’s a set of comprehensive exams, then there is the perspectus and the part I’m working on is my dis-sertation,” Cowin-Mensah said.

The process of doing field work for the project was rigorous as described by Cowin-Mensah. She began interviewing peo-ple she knew and those people introduced her to other interview prospects. Phone calls and surveys are included, although she usually meets the subjects at their home and asks them a series of questions.

“Some of these people I’ve never met before,” Cowin-Mensah said. “I do have one BGSU student participating in the proj-ect and she lives in the suburbs. So a mix of phone conversations, in-person interviews and surveys helped create the project.”

Cowin-Mensah has traveled to different ven-ues and areas in Detroit to complete her field work.

“I’m giving myself until October first to finish all of my ethnography work,”

Cowin-Mensah said. “My brother is a hypeman at a club in Detroit where I spent a lot of time at. I look at how blacks use Detroit behavior and cul-ture as spaces of perfor-mance and also as prod-uct/commodity. I chose Detroit because of the racial, class and gender inequalities there.”

Also, she said that the ethnography she has been engaging in has been nothing short of interesting.

“Amid the standard questions I ask, I always ask if Detroit were a body, what race and gender would it be and how would it move?” she said. “I always get the most inter-esting answers, Detroit is a beautiful woman with lots of jewels but she was raped and left desolate. Just goes to show how much pride people still have in their city.”

Cowin-Mensah is hop-ing her work inspires oth-ers to dig deeper.

“As far as my project, what I find is what I find,” said Cow in-Mensah. “They’re human beings. I hope to find Detroiters who are surviving and thriving. I hope to incor-porate a lot of black radi-cal thought/black nation-alism into my project. It takes a lot of time, not only to absorb yourself in the culture/fieldwork but to go back and reflect on what you’ve done. If all goes as planned I should be finished by Spring 2015.”

Cowin-Mensah believes in the power of perfor-mance as a way to show

social inequality and expression.

“I wrote and directed “Detroit 67” and have acted in numerous per-formances, such as a piece I wrote and starred in a while back called “Blunt Force Trauma,” where a boy throws a Wii remote at a f lat screen television and his moth-er, a single 19-year-old girl, beats him to death and kills him,” Cowin-Mensah said. “Lynchings were performative, the Trayvon Martin tragedy was performative. The people freedom fighting in Ferguson are perform-ing. We oppress ourselves in specific ways and can lose our black identity. Performance used to be expressive and sometimes silence; that’s why it’s so powerful and important for me to do the work that I do.”

She hopes to eventually become a theatre teacher.

“Here at the University, I teach acting courses. I teach THM 2410 which is Acting Principles and THM 2020. I want to even-tually teach, but be more of a jack of all trades. I want to build a black the-atre program focused on Pan-Africanism and traditional theatre, the oldies but goodies, like old time Negro theatre performance.”

Above all, Cowin-Mensah knows the power of expression and encour-ages people to not only combine it with aca-demia but use it to their advantage.

“Performance is the key,” she said.

already required for your program, there’s no reason you shouldn’t sign up for this,” Turos said.

As a student in the College of Technology, junior Wes Mathias is required to have three internships.

“Any way they can help us find internships... is nothing but a plus,” Mathias said.

Though only fresh-men can sign up for the whole program, other stu-dents can attend individ-ual workshops. Many ele-ments of the program have existed for a while, but now they’re packaged together, Turos said.

Additionally, the pro-gram has coordina-tors who can help stu-dents find internships. Sometimes students don’t know where to look for internships, or they don’t

think to reach out to com-panies that don’t have internships posted.

Some students have found success reaching out to companies and explaining what skills they can offer, Turos said.

In addition to helping students land internships, another goal of the pro-gram is to help students find a field they will enjoy.

“We don’t want you to work. We want you to enjoy what you do,” Jackson said.

campus for the experience, some find living off campus cheaper.

Keagan Gertz, a sopho-more, is a student who thinks off campus living is cheaper.

“It’s cheaper [to live off campus], that’s pretty much the biggest reason though. Everything else is an inconve-nience because it’s off campus and you have to drive here. It’s worth it though if rent’s cheaper,” Gertz said.

While the cost can be a fac-tor in keeping students off campus, Federico wants the apartment lifestyle.

“I’m already looking at apartments with friends. I spent a lot of time at my friends’ apartments already because it’s more homey than what we have,” Federico said. “I was pleasantly surprised last year. I would only [stay on campus] if I was in the apart-ment style living. I would not stay in a regular dorm.”

“There’s a certain blackness ingrained in Detroit culture;

it’s a highly racialized area with

a rich history.”

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Taking the next step in its rebuilding process may be a little more difficult than anticipated for the young BG women’s soccer team.

On Friday evening, the Falcons were defeated 5-0 on the road by the Butler Bulldogs in Indianapolis in their last non-conference game this year.

Head coach Lindsay Basalyga credited the loss partly to her team’s youth and inexperience.

“We are very young, hav-ing eight or nine freshmen and sophomores on the field at a time, and we are seeing the effects of this youth as it pertains to the mental side of the game,” she said. “But every game gives us something to learn from and back pocket for the future.”

Although the game went scoreless into half time, the Bulldogs outshot the Falcons 17-0 in the first 45 minutes. Goalkeeper Lauren Cadel’s nine saves in the first half helped the Falcons stay in the game.

The second half started

off with a shot by Falcon junior Haley Parkinson in the 46th minute, which was saved by Bulldogs goalkeeper Jayne Heinrich.

In the 50th minute how-ever, Butler player Hannah Farley was able to score the 1-0 for the Bulldogs on a breakaway. Two min-utes later the Bulldogs scored their second goal as Butler’s Serina Kashimoto’s shot from the right side of the box went past Lauren Cadel.

Only 18 seconds later, Bulldogs player Elise Kotsakis made it 3-0 for Butler marking her sev-enth goal of the season.

“The first goal came from poor possession which resulted in a break-away and unfortunately we didn’t respond well in the following minutes,” Basalyga said.

After going scoreless for

10 more minutes, BG con-ceded two more goals in the 64th and 65th minute, both scored by Butler’s Kathryn Voelker.

Over the 90 minutes of soccer, the Bulldogs not only outshot the Falcons 27-3 but also shutout the Falcons on corner kicks 4-0.

Butler is now on a five-game winning streak and improved its record to 6-4-0, while BG dropped to 1-6-0.

The Falcons were out-scored 8-0 by opponents over the last two games and will start their Mid-American Conference play next week at Ball State, which has only lost one game so far this season.

“We’ve seen everything we can see over the last nine games to prepare us for the MAC mentally, physically and tactically, and I’m confident that this group will contin-ue to press forward and embrace our process,” Basalyga said.

BG will travel to Muncie, Indiana, to take on Ball State on Friday, Sept. 26 at 5 p.m.

BG drops match at Butler after Bulldogs score 5 second-half goalsWomen’s soccer falls to 1-6

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FOOTBALL From Page 3

For the most part, the tail-spin resulted in touch-down after touchdown for Melvin Gordon. In the sec-ond quarter Gordon tallied touchdowns of 50, 3 and 29 yards.

The second play of the second half Gordon added a 69-yard touchdown run to his stat sheet. He fin-ished the day with 254 yards on 13 carries and five touchdowns.

“That’s the best running back I’ve seen in a long time,” Babers said. “He is very shifty, has great speed and great strength.”

The Badgers had two other players who ran for 100 yards. Badger quarter-back Tanner McEvoy had 160 yards rushing and run-ning back Corey Clement had 111. Third string run-ning back Dar Ogunbowale almost reached the 100-yard mark with 94 yards rushing.

The Falcon offense was left scoreless in the second half until Andre Givens ran in a 60-yard touchdown in

the fourth quarter. That run accounted for 60 of their 93 rushing yards on the day.

“We were prepared every-thing they did we saw on film,” offensive lineman Alex Huettel said. “It just didn’t go our way.”

The Falcons will now prepare to go back on the road when they face The University of Massachusetts on Sept. 27 at 3 p.m.

“When that clock hit zero it’s behind us,” Huettel said. “We look at that as the preseason. If we were sit-ting here at 4-0 we aren’t guaranteed a MAC [Mid-American Conference] title. We want our respect in the MAC and we are going to get that.”

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seen in a long time.”Dino Babers | Head Coach

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