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For University librarian Amy Fry, a lingering shad-ow has been lifted from her workplace.

“It’s been hanging over the process — until now,” Fry said. “Now that Issue 2 is defeated, we can move on and do the work that needs to be done for the good of

us and the University.”Ohioans voted against

Issue 2 on Tuesday, over-turning a former state law limiting public employees’ ability to collectively bar-gain and strike. The law also could have increased public employee contributions for pensions and health care.

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DEMOCRATS filled Cla-Zel on Tuesday night and celebrated after hearing the announcement that Issue 2 did not pass.

Ohio voters reject Issue 2

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City elects Richard Edwards for mayor

Richard Edwards will be the next Mayor of Bowling Green after run-ning an uncontested race for office.

Running for office uncontested allowed Edwards to take a different approach in campaigning.

“Well, I’m not polluting your yard with signs,” Edwards said. “I’m grate-ful not only to the Republican party but everyone else who supported me too. It’s worked out nicely.”

Before Election Day, Edwards already met with Mayor John Quinn and Municipal Administrator John Fawcett to allow for an easy transition.

“I have every confidence that it will be as seamless a transition as pos-

sible,” Edwards said. “Mayor Quinn and Mr. Fawcett have been very helpful.”

Although no official time or place has been set for Edwards’ swearing-in ceremony, it will take place sometime on January 1, 2012, Edwards said.

On election night Edwards made visited watch parties for both Republicans and Democrats at DiBenedetto’s Italian Bistro and Cla-Zel on Main Street, respectively. He also watched part of the football game against Northern Illinois at Doyt Perry Stadium.

Before running for mayor, Edwards was also part of the presidential search committee this past year for the University.

Richard EdwardsCity MayorElect

Map is not to scale and the wards expand beyond the area shown.

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AT-LARGEBRUCE JEFFERS | Democrat | 53.39%At-large council members are elected by all four wards of the city.

READ ABOUT CITY COUNCIL’S STUDENT MEMBERSee CITY on PAGE 3.

DANIEL GORDONDemocrat

53.29%JOHN ZANFARDINODemocrat

100%

MICHAEL ASPACHER

Democrat65.08%

GREGORY ROBINETTERepublican50.41%

At the time of press all votes were unofficial; absentee and early voting were unavailable; provisional votes will be counted within 10 days. Source: Wood County Board of Elections.

By Matthew ThackerReporter

Ohio’s Issue 3 passed last night by an overwhelming margin.

Issue 3 was essentially a referendum on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Obama in 2010.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

was designed to reform the health insurance indus-try by expanding medical coverage and limiting pre-existing medical conditions a patient can be denied medical coverage for. It does this by mandating that those who can afford to buy health insurance do so.

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Levy benefits senior citizensThe senior citizens levy passed Wood County voters’ approval. The levy is a renewal and will benefit the seven senior centers in the county | Page 3

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BLOTTERTHURS., NOV. 39:20 A.M.Criminal damage was report-ed at the Moore Musical Arts Center.

6:43 P.M.A general information incident was reported at Centennial Hall.

8:08 P.M.Commercial vandalism was reported at Harshman Chapman.

FRI., NOV. 48:22 A.M.

Criminal damage was report-ed in Conklin C.

10:05 A.M.A non-roadway traffic accident was reported in University Lot BTM.

11:01 A.M.A crisis intervention was reported at the Student Recreation Center.

12:49 P.M.A non-roadway traffic accident was reported in University Lot 8.

3:16 P.M.A theft of less than $500 was

reported in McDonald West.

SAT., NOV. 512:37 A.M.Criminal damage was report-ed in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

3:01 A.M.Disorderly conduct was reported in Harshman Dunbar.

SUN., NOV. 62:07 A.M.A warrant was served near East Wooster and Interstate 75.

3:03 P.M.A theft of less than $500 was reported at Falcon Heights.

9:45 P.M.Commercial vandalism was reported at South Hall.

MON., NOV. 710:30 A.M.Complainant reported theft of prescription medications from a purse within the 900 block of Robinwood Lane.

11:15 A.M.Complainant reported his son used his checks within the 500 block of W. Gypsy Lane Road. An investigation

is pending.

3:11 A.M.Andrew F. Scharer, 33, of Elmore, Ohio; and Brandi L. Wagner, 38, of Lindsey, Ohio, were cited for theft/shoplifting at Walmart after allegedly concealing about $280 worth of merchandise.

3:22 P.M.Andrew S. Lemay, 22, of Bowling Green, was arrested for rape within the 300 block of Colony Lane and was lodged at the Wood County Justice Center.

5:38 P.M.Shane C. Kroll, 19, of North

Olmsted, Ohio, was cited for theft at Walmart and lodged at the Wood County Justice Center.

7:02 P.M.Amanda A. Gray, 26, of McClure, Ohio, was cited for assured clear distance ahead near North Main and East Wooster streets in a traffic crash that caused an injury.

Issue 1 voted downIssue 1, which would have increased

the maximum age of judges able to be elected to the Ohio Supreme Court from 70 to 75, failed.

Since the issue failed, judges must be no older than 70 when elected and the Governor can appoint a Supreme Court commission. The General Assembly can also still establish courts of conciliation.

Mike Zickar, Wood County Democratic Party chair, said early on that the polling data pointed to a “no.” His party also endorsed a “no” vote for the issue.

“I think the Republicans put it on the ballot to keep their Supreme Court justices in power longer,” said Zickar, who also serves as chair of the psychology department at the University. “I just viewed it as a Republican power grab.”

Zickar said the Republicans have six of the seven Ohio Supreme Court justices, several of which are right up against the age limit.

“We viewed this as a partisan ploy

for them to extend their monopoly on the court,” Zickar said.

Tim Brown, a Republican and a Wood County commissioner, was in favor of the issue.

“[I] don’t believe in age discrimina-tion,” Brown said. “It should be up to voters to decide competency of judges.”

Before the results came in, Brown said he thought the issue would pass.

“People in Ohio, I think, are pretty open-minded and not prejudiced,” Brown said.

Zickar said the focus was more on the Issues 2 and 3 than Issue 1.

“I think we cared a lot more about Issue 2 and Issue 3 as well,” Zickar said. “Everybody focused on Issue 2. Nobody really discussed 1.”

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The election was called at 9:16 p.m. with 22 percent of precincts reporting.

At that time, 64 percent of Ohioans voted “no” and 36 percent voted “yes” on Issue 2.

As of about 1 a.m. Wednesday, about 61 percent of Ohioans voted “no” and 31 percent voted “yes” on Issue 2, according to the Ohio Secretary of State website.

Community members, as well as University faculty, staff and students gathered at watch parties Tuesday night in anticipation of the election results.

Andy Schocket, commu-nications director for the Faculty Association, the University’s faculty union, said he wasn’t surprised by the outcome.

“I had faith in the people of Ohio,” Schocket said at the Democrat watch party at Cla-Zel. “They understand the importance of collective bargaining and the impor-tance of workers’ rights.”

The repeal of Issue 2 means collective bargain-ing can continue at the University, which not only affects faculty members but students as well, he said.

“It affirms that the faculty are who lead the students; we can have a voice in the institution,” Schocket said. “It increases faculty morale, and by bargaining for sala-ries and benefits, it will help us recruit and retain better faculty members to educate students.”

Students gathered at Cla-Zel expressed similar feelings.

“I’m glad it didn’t pass, because the money the state would have saved wasn’t going to the right things,” senior Jake Stewart said. “I knew this would happen. The pendulum can only swing so far before it has to swing back.”

Issue 2 supporters, gath-ered at the Republican watch party at DiBenedetto’s Italian Bistro, expressed disappoint-ment following the election results.

“I’m unemployed, but I still want to take responsibility for my own health care,” said

Mary Vollmar, a city resident. “I don’t want to be taxed more to pay for state employees’ insurance. I’m very disap-pointed.”

Graduate student Amy Peplinski, however, said she saw Issue 2’s defeat as an opportunity to plan for future reform in Ohio.

“Being a child of two teach-ers, I definitely respect public employees’ rights; but I also believe in times of economic difficulty we’re forced to make sacrifices,” she said at the watch party at DiBenedetto’s. “Something still needs to be done, and the fact that this even came up gives us an opportunity to look at it fur-ther.”

University President Mary Ellen Mazey released a state-ment via email following the announcement of the elec-tion results.

“Bowling Green State University will continue to follow the laws of the state of Ohio governing collective bargaining,” the statement read. “I came to Bowling Green with the understand-ing that our faculty had formed a union. My experi-

ence at unionized institutions and with faculty negotia-tions was one of the reasons the BGSU Board of Trustees selected me.”

The statement also out-lined the administration’s future plans for collective bar-gaining at the University.

“Negotiating the first con-tract with our faculty is a top priority,” the statement read. “We look forward to con-tinuing the negotiations that began in July. We are moving forward and are negotiating in good faith.”

The next negotiation ses-sion between the Faculty Association and the University’s administration will take place Nov. 15.

Issue 2 voting results from Wood CountyVotes were tallied with 100 percent of precincts reporting.

■ Yes: 14,392 (37.33 percent)

■ No: 24,159 (62.67 percent)

Source: www.co.wood.oh.us/boe/index.html

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The law also mandates that employers who employ 50 or more people provide health insurance to their employ-ees, said Bowling Green small business owner and Issue 3 opponent Corey LeRoux.

“We are a very small compa-ny with only about six employ-ees, but we have big aspira-tions,” said LeRoux. “When this law passed it really dis-couraged us from being able to grow past 50 employees.”

LeRoux joined up with the organization “The Ohio Project” last year to help col-lect signatures petitioning the state to put health care

on the ballot. “This is a big deal,” LeRoux

said. “We are a state that stood up and said we don’t want to be forced to buy something that we don’t want or need.”

Not everyone agrees with LeRoux though. Many people believe that the vote on Issue 3 was skewed by the language used on the ballot — which said that Issue 3 was, “To pre-serve the freedom of Ohioans to choose their health care and health care coverage.” Some who have followed Issue 3 closely say that the number of votes for Issue 3 does not accu-rately reflect what the majority of voters want.

“If you ask people if they support Issue 3 and then ask them if they voted yes or no,

most of the time they got it wrong,” said BGSU alumnus Earl Britt.

“The ballot language was so confusing that people didn’t know what they were voting on,” said Mike Zickar, Chairman of the Wood County Democratic Party. “This [issue] was a Tea Party political ploy that will have no influence on the future of

anything in Ohio.”“Federal laws super-

sede state laws,” said BGSU Graduate Teaching Assistant, Michael Hale.

Hale said that this issue was only placed on the ballot to ensure heavy Republican voter turn-out.

“It’s loaded words that sometimes cover up things that are quite substantive. It’s so obvious that this [issue] is heading to the Supreme Court,” Hale said.

Whether or not the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will ulti-mately rest with the Supreme Court remains to be seen, but for opponents of Ohio’s Issue 3, Tuesday was a day for cel-ebration.

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DANIEL GORDON celebrated with his parents at the Cla-Zel Tuesday night, after hearing the news that he won the election for city council.

Student wins 1st Wardcity council election

Senior citizens levy approvedWood County residents to pay 7 cents per $100 in taxes for next 5 years

By Alex AlusheffReporter

More than 60 people shuf-fled in and out of Cla-Zel, eager to hear the results of the election, both in the city and the nation.

Daniel Gordon sat hunched over his laptop at a high-top bar table, constantly refreshing the page for his result in the crowded venue, surround-ed by his family, friends and supporters.

His phone rang, reveal-ing the information he had been waiting to hear.

Gordon defeated 1st Ward Incumbent Mark Hollenbaugh by a margin of 28 votes.

What Gordon felt next, he could only describe as elation.

A large cheer erupted from the crowded bar as he was embraced by his moth-er, father and girlfriend.

A student hasn’t won an election in city council since Sarah Tomeahefski in the 90s.

“I’m very happy and I’m very tired,” Gordon said.

Gordon said he is proud of all the work he and his volunteers have put into the campaign.

“I think this is a big win for the students and the citizens,” Jeff Gordon, Daniel’s father said.

“Students needed a voice and Daniel will give them one - that’s what this town needs,” he said.

“He’s young and bright and has fresh ideas. He

will bring a lot of zeal as a councilman,” his father said.

Daniel’s father was a 2nd Ward councilman from 1988 to 1990 and is cur-rently a geography profes-sor at the University.

Councilman for the 2nd Ward, John Zanfardino attended the Democratic watch party as well.

“I think it’s great to have a student on city council again,” Zanfardino said.

“Gordon is clearly inter-ested in the city, he’s sharp and he’ll be a good asset to city council,” he said.

Mike Zickar, the chair of the Wood County Democratic Party, who was also there, said he was delighted by the results.

“Both candidates ran a hard campaign,” he said. “Daniel focused on the stu-dent votes and that’s why he won.”

Gordon said he thinks he won because he has a com-pelling story being both a student and a resident.

Gordon also announced his approach to city coun-cil.

“I want to create con-stant dialogue on campus everyday - my work is not done,” Gordon said

“I’m here for all of them [constituents], they can

call me anytime. I will be there for them,” he said.

“I think Daniel is in a unique position. He’s got one foot in both worlds which is very helpful,” Daniel’s father said.

While there are provi-sional ballots that still have to be counted, Mark Hollenbaugh feels that they won’t make a big difference in changing the results.

“The people voted and Daniel got more votes. I called and congratulated him and I’m sure he’ll do a fine job,” Hollenbaugh said.

While Hollenbuagh said he doesn’t know yet if he will run again, he is looking forward to some rest and relaxation.

Before the results were posted, Hollenbaugh said regardless of the results he would sleep well.

“Hollenabaugh did a great job in city council, he’s very involved in the com-munity and he’s embraced the issues that came before him,” Zanfardino said.

“We both ran great cam-paigns ... I wouldn’t have wanted to run against any-one else,” Gordon said.

Tuesday night’s elec-tion resulted in 227 votes for Gordon and 199 for Hollenbaugh.

Senior Daniel Gordon is first student to win in nearly 2 decades

“Students needed a voice and Daniel will give them one — that’s what this

town needs.”Jeff Gordon | Daniel Gordon’s Father

By Brian BohnertReporter

Wood County voters showed their approval of a levy ben-efitting the area’s elderly Tuesday.

The renewal of a tax levy for the Wood County Committee on Aging was approved with 69 percent of the overall vote in Tuesday’s election.

With the approval, Wood County residents will con-tinue to see an extra .7 mills, or 7 cents, for every $100 of valuation taxed every year for the next 5 years.

Denise Niese, executive director for the Wood County Committee on Aging, said the levy is vital to the area. Without it, the county’s seven senior centers could not continue to provide the services currently available to the community’s elderly residents, she said.

“This levy is 72 percent of our agency budget,” Niese said. “Without it, we could not continue to provide any of the services we currently provide. We are not a coun-ty-funded agency. All of our funding comes from these levies and the grants that we get.”

The Wood County Committee on Aging pro-vides more than 60 servic-es to the area’s elderly. For homebound seniors requir-ing extra assistance so they can stay in their homes, Niese said the agency pro-vides special services that could only be provided with levy funding.

“This levy supports ser-vices for people age 60 and over,” Niese said. “We pro-vide home delivered meals, help clinics, home assess-ments and medical trans-portation 5 days a week. We also do minor home repair as well as provide educational information to caregivers.”

The levy’s approval will also keep senior citizens in their own homes instead of in nursing homes, which helps stimulate the local economy because they can continue to spend locally, she said.

“Senior service levies help stabilize seniors in those communities,” Niese said. “No one wants to live in a nursing home and nursing homes are expensive. So these senior service pro-grams help keep seniors at home in their communities.”

Jan Stoudinger, Wood County resident and mayor of the village of Wayne, Ohio, said the levy’s approv-al is about much more than just stimulating the econ-omy — it is about realizing that everyone will eventu-ally grow older and per-haps need the resources the Wood County Committee on Aging provides.

“It’s about all of us,” Stoudinger said. “Someday, we’re all going to be there and we’re all going to need the type of help they provide. The way I look at it, we’re not just supporting today’s elderly, we’re supporting ourselves.”

Sue Kinder, levy co-chair,

became passionate about approving the levy because every American knows what it’s like to have an elderly member need help.

“It’s probably the most fair levy of all of them out now and it’s the one that touch-es everyone,” Kinder said. “Everyone knows somebody affected by this. Whether it’s a neighbor, friend, grand-parent … everyone knows somebody who will be affected by this levy.”

Because the “baby boom-er” generation is turning 65 and there are more people age 85 and older than ever before, Niese said senior centers across the state will see an increase in demand.

“The baby boomers are turning 65 and they’ve been turning 60 for the past 10 years,” Niese said. “With the senior citizens living longer, it’s going to change the pro-grams and services we offer.”

The first year Wood County placed senior citizen levies on the ballot was 1986. Since then the Wood County Committee on Aging has never lost.

Despite the impressive record, Niese said the cur-rent economy has taught her that voters are more sensitive than ever about what they will do with their money.

“We can’t take that for granted,” Niese said. “We realize the economy is struggling and that is why we were not asking for any more money. We were only asking for a renewal of the same amount for five years.”

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A couple of weeks ago, a let-ter to the editor stated that “Some opinions are not meant to be published, and something as controversial as the ethics of contracep-tives is a good example of topics to keep out of the forums.”

I am not concerned in any way with the contraceptive/abstinence debate.

I am, however, disturbed by the above assertion that controversial topics should be kept out of the forum page.

First of all, the forum page would not exist if it weren’t for controversy.

What would be the point in writing about and pub-lishing opinions that every-one agrees with?

There wouldn’t be.We need to write about

and discuss, rather than avoid, those issues labeled “controversial” because they revolve around extremely relevant and fundamental moral and ethical issues.

We cannot be expected to just ignore social prob-lems because we don’t want to step on anyone’s toes or upset any fragile egos.

Second, controver-sial opinion articles play a vital role in positive social change.

Women’s suffrage, prohi-bition and black civil rights were all “controversial” issues that caused major social and legal reform in our country.

And none of these chang-es would have occurred if it weren’t for brave citizens publicly exercising their freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech is a right I take very serious-ly, and although there are

How do you make a water well blow up?

If you have seen the documentary, Gaslands, you know that the hydrau-lic fracturing, or “frack-ing” method of natural gas removal from deep deposits can allow large quantities of methane to seep into water sources, accumulating in high enough concentrations to actually explode, as did a Dimock, Pa. well.

Many complaints about water contamination result-ing from fracking center around methane, which is a very minimal health hazard unless it builds up in gas-eous concentrations high enough to explode or cause asphyxiation.

Other cases, though, have involved more harmful chemicals, such as phthal-

ates, which have been found in private water wells in Wyoming.

To the industry’s credit, so far, evidence for contam-ination of water with chem-icals other than methane is limited.

Water contamination, though, is certainly not the only problem associated with fracking.

Like other complicated industrial processes, frack-ing is prone to calamitous accidents.

Recently there was a blow-out in a gas well in Bradford County, Pa, and thousands of gallons of wastewater, laden with 750 chemicals, several of which are carcino-genic, and others of which are generally harmful, spilled onto farmland and into creeks.

The dangers of fracking lie not only with the extraction of methane, but also with

Last week, a guest columnist wrote an intriguing article entitled, “Moral actions do not always require the Bible.” I’m writing now to continue this discussion of morality.

I agree that it is possible to learn morality outside of the Bible, however, I find the idea of different religions having “vastly unique moral codes” troubling.

The reason it is possible for people to learn morality even if they have never read the Bible or had significant reli-gious education of any kind is because a sense of good and evil, right and wrong is part of our shared humanity.

Yes, we have moral dis-agreements, but these take place within a common understanding of morality.

The most often cited example of this is murder.

We may disagree about when it is morally permis-sible to kill, but, by and large, we recognize that to kill another innocent human being is wrong.

Whether you exam-ine Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, or Christianity you will find common tenets of morality. You will also find significant differences among belief sys-tems as religion is more than morality, but a basic sense of morality may be seen both in these and other systems and cultures.

I find when speaking with atheist or agnostic friends or acquaintances that they, too, have a similar sense of good and evil, right and wrong.

We may disagree about whether morality is inherent or constructed and whether

certain specific actions are moral or not, but we have these disagreements within the context of a larger agree-ment.

In fact, the nature of hav-ing these disagreements about morality suggests a belief that there is a universal morality to which we must hold each other accountable.

In C. S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity,” he argues that “Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.”

This understanding of good and evil, while present-ed by a Christian, may be held whether one is Christian or not. We can see that evil is destructive and false while good is what is real, true and constructive.

This idea of good and evil as well as a basic sense of morality along similar lines, may be seen in humanity in general. That is to say, moral-ity and a sense of good and evil are not arbitrary.

What is known or learned to be destructive of oneself and/or others, in general, is recognized as evil, and what is not destructive or disor-dered is good.

This shared morality is not only due to our shared place in time and culture.

We can see that it is not because it falls within a clear, although it may also be complex, cause and effect process that is largely self-correcting.

In this light, we can rec-ognize a sense of shared morality and use this under-standing to help each other to learn and grow as we “will the good of another.”

In fact, we can recognize a responsibility to do so out of human solidarity.

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Depression requires medical treatment, not stigma

The column “Hope for sui-cide prevention” about depression made me rethink a condition I’ve been dealing with for 10 years.

How silly I have been! All this time I’ve thought my depression was a legitimate medical problem involving a chemical imbalance in the brain.

If only I had remembered that stars are pretty, then I wouldn’t have spent half a summer curled up on a couch, trying to force myself to remember that there are

things worth living for, even if I couldn’t believe that I was worth keeping alive.

How useful it would have been to have someone tell me I just wasn’t being thank-ful enough.

If I sound angry, it’s because I am.

Actually, angry doesn’t even cover it. “Outraged” is the right word. What the author has done is confuse sadness, which is a normal, healthy human emotion, with depression, a legitimate medical condition that can be treated with therapy and medication.

There is already enough stigma about depressed people being lazy attention-seekers who just need to “suck it up” without this col-

umn adding to it. This attitude only serves

to shame people suffering from depression into trying to hide it and to make them believe that seeking medical help is weak.

This adds to the lack of self-worth a depressed per-son feels, one more reason to hate yourself on top of all the others.

(And if you think that we don’t know that our depres-sion is lying to us, you are sadly mistaken.

We are completely aware that, from a logical point of view, there will be an end to the sadness.

But knowing intellectu-ally and feeling it emotion-ally when our own brains are fighting us, telling us we

are helpless and worthless? Not the same.

When my depression first manifested itself, I was for-tunate enough to have a mother willing to put me in therapy and a father in medicine who sat me down and drew me a diagram on a napkin to explain what my brain was doing wrong and how my medication worked to counter-act it.

Not everyone is so lucky. They have people in

their lives telling them they just need to think happier thoughts.

I can’t even begin to list the number of friends I’ve had who’ve suffered from depression but resisted my suggestions that they get help.

Nearly every time, their reasons were, “My parents don’t believe in medication,” or “My parents think depres-sion is just weakness.”

It frustrates me to no end that people would honestly let someone they loved suf-fer because of their own mis-understanding of the nature depression.

I want to take this moment to tell everyone who is depressed that seeking treatment is not a weakness.

It’s not always easy, and sometimes you have to switch counselors and medi-cations until you find what is right for you.

It’s like any other medi-cal condition — some treat-ments work better for some people than others. But it

can be so worth it.And for the record, friends,

family and partners of depressed people: Starting therapy and/or medication does not magically solve the problem.

It’s the beginning of a treatment process. If you wouldn’t ask a cancer patient why she’s still sick after one round of chemo, don’t expect similar mira-cles from your depressed loved ones.

Seeking help is the first step in a long road.

Please bear with us. We’re trying, and your support is invaluable.

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exceptions to this right (slan-der, fighting words, etc.), con-troversy is definitely not one of them.

The letter urges the news-paper to “be more selective” in choosing which articles to publish.

I wonder what criteria the staff is expected to use in this selection, especially consid-ering the person who asks for this discretion utilized the forum section to make that point.

Somehow, the way in which “contraceptives have affected society” is too con-

troversial to publish, but a letter that belittles absti-nence is acceptable?

One author’s letter con-cludes with the following statement: “The day America realizes that fear is not the way to lead the masses will be the day that the popula-tion will start making smarter decisions.”

Yet, another letter attempts to use the fear of “how the audience will react to such bold statements” to control what articles are printed in the paper.

I can’t speak for the paper and I can’t speak for other journalists, but I myself am not concerned with hurting anyone’s feelings, and I don’t

believe the goal of any pub-lication should be to avoid negative feedback.

I am, however, exceedingly distressed about the over-whelming amount of igno-rance present in our society.

People, for various rea-sons, are simply not properly informed on many issues, and I believe it is my respon-sibility and the responsibil-ity of every columnist and informed reader to assist in alleviating that ignorance.

I’m not saying I have the answers — I actually doubt that anyone does — but I do believe that openly discuss-ing ideas and sharing differ-ing viewpoints is beneficial to everyone.

I encourage you to inform yourself and others about controversial affairs even though they might provoke undesirable feelings or cause disagreements.

Knowledge of your own opinions is not enough to deem you informed to make an educated decision.

It is vital for your world and mine that we concern our-selves with every viewpoint that impacts our society.

Controversy should incite us to engage in intellectual discussions rather than scare us into submissive silence.

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the disposal of the millions of gallons of wastewater that it produces.

The water is frequently taken elsewhere and inject-ed deep into the earth, a pro-cess that has been linked to earthquakes in Britain, and possibly here in Ohio.

Ohio has been a location for the disposal of fracking waste, which not only has toxic chemicals that have been intentionally added to aid methane release, but also heavy metals, radioac-tive elements and carcino-genic hydrocarbons that have been brought up from thousands of feet under the earth during the extraction process.

When we can’t even pin-point the mechanism of how methane is getting into pri-vate wells, I find it hard to believe that we can be cer-tain that millions of gallons of frack water can be used to fracture rocks, recollected, transported, re-injected and stored indefinitely without toxins or carcinogens mak-ing their way into the ecosys-tem or our water.

Let’s not be hubristic enough to think that we can completely control all these processes, or completely understand the effects of what we are doing, especial-ly over long time scales.

Industry representatives claim that many incidents, such as a string of illnesses in Dish, Texas, where residents were sickened by airborn compounds, have not been conclusively linked with fracking practices.

The rest of the incidents, they argue, are due to sub-

standard practices or fail-ure to follow procedure correctly.

The problem with the former argument is that industry had denied respon-sibility for methane incur-sion into water wells, but a study published this year in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences dem-onstrated that private water wells within one kilometer of a gas well have an average methane concentration 17 times higher than the aver-age for water wells located farther from gas wells.

The problem with the lat-ter argument is that there will always be a certain percent-age of cases where things get messed up as a result of cut-ting corners, negligence, or large accidents like the spill in Pennsylvania.

The truth about the effects of fracking probably lies somewhere between the claims of its industry advo-cates and those who vocifer-ously villainize it.

It is important though to do more long-term stud-ies, including seismologi-cal surverys, in order to get a better handle on where exactly the truth lies, before the practice expands, for instance, into Ohio.

It seems that Ohio is lined up to be not just a site of wastewater storage, but also a host for many gas wells. Before we allow this, we should at least wait for the results of additional stud-ies or we could be at risk of pollution of our land, water and air, and possibly even of exploding water wells and earthquakes.

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Falcon football misfires against Northern Illinois Huskies, 45, 14

With more than 300 kills, Tonyan continues to improve

By Nick MarlowReporter

Danielle Tonyan acts as one-half of a two-headed monster the Falcons start up front: holding down the right side while counterpart Paige Penrod reps the left.

A native of McHenry, Ill., Tonyan has remained true to her roots since migrating to the Buckeye State last fall, still a fan of the Bulls, Bears and the Blackhawks despite the unruly temptation of jumping on the ships of the constantly anchored Browns, Caviliers and Indians franchises.

As for the burdensome decision all Illinois citizens are faced with at a young age:

“I’m a Sox fan, no Cubs whatso-ever,” Tonyan said.

The right side hitter said she came to BG because of the town’s “homey” atmosphere and the opportunity the volleyball program presented of playing as a freshman; a choice coach Denise Van De Walle is happy with.

“She’s a really good kid,” Van De Walle said. “She’s fun to be around, she’s light hearted.”

And she’s very good at volleyball. Now sophomores, all Tonyan and Penrod have done since joining the Falcons is obliterate volleyballs – last season becoming just the fourth and fifth freshmen in program his-tory to record at least 300 kills.

“I don’t like to be a benchwarm-er,” Tonyan said. “I’m not okay with sitting the bench. I knew I had to work hard to start [as a freshman] … I know that to get all the kills that I do I have to work hard.”

However, after Penrod easily surpassed the record for most kills in a season by a freshman last year, putting 405 balls away, the tide has changed a bit this year. While both have already more than 300 kills, Tonyan leads the way with 371 – third in the Mid-American Conference - while hit-ting at an impeccable .298 clip to Penrod’s .175.

To gauge the impressiveness of maintaining a rate of .298 through-out a season, Van De Walle com-pares it to baseball, as if a player hits .300 they are an All-Star.

Penn State, Michael Jackson coincidence

Oh how quickly things change.Saturday, the Penn State football

program and its fans were reveling in the incredible feat reached by leg-endary coach Joe Paterno. Four days later, Nittany Lions nation sits shell-shocked, numbed by the alleged transgressions surrounding former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

The number of victims (nine), the quote from one victim’s mother and the program’s alleged passiv-ity to Sandusky’s transgressions are almost as surreal as they are appalling. I don’t need to get into the particulars because if you are not yet informed as to what is going on in University Park, Pa., you will be soon.

What does not surprise me, how-ever, is the timing in which these

allegations have flooded the media. With Paterno having just passed Grambling’s Eddie Robinson for most division one wins — with 409 coming against Illinois Saturday, and the Nittany Lions sitting atop the Big Ten’s Leaders division — it is the perfect and most dramatic time for the unveiling of these abomina-tions. After all, it is not as if the inves-tigation began this week.

Yet what is even more ironic is the fact the Sandusky news hit the public during the same week Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. It is as if the ghost of Michael Jackson has returned to pass the torch of shat-tered reputations to Sandusky.

Or could this odd coincidence be a premeditated scheme orchestrat-ed by the divine to remind us we shouldn’t be surprised by the news, using Michael Jackson and his repu-tation – complicated by the binary

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DANIELLE TONYAN, BG right side, reaches to hit another ball across the court. Toyan’s hitting is third in the Mid-American Conference with 371 kills.

See FOOTBALL | Page 7

By Ryan SatkowiakSports Editor

Ultimately, Chandler Harnish was too much for the BG defense.

Northern Illinois’ senior quar-terback dominated both on the ground and through the air, 16-for-26 for 294 yards and two scores through the air while running for 151 yards, his ninth career 100 yard game, on 17 car-ries and another score, in NIU’s 45-14 win over BG.

“Harnish is a great player and we couldn’t tackle him,” BG head coach Dave Clawson said. “He’s, if not the best, certainly among the top two or three players in the conference.”

Early on this game looked like it would mirror Northern Illinois’ offensive shootout versus Toledo last week, with each team getting on the board in the first minutes of the game.

On the first play from scrim-mage, BG quarterback Matt

Schilz hit Kamar Jorden down the middle of the field for an 83-yard touchdown pass.

Just 34 seconds later, Harnish and the Huskies answered back as he hit Willie Clark with a 56-yard touchdown pass.

“We’re in cover four and our safety is supposed to have his eyes on that guy, and he let him go right by,” Clawson said. “For whatever reason, his eyes were in the backfield, and we gave them a cheap one.”

From there, NIU’s run game took over, with a combo featur-ing Harnish, Jasmin Hopkins, Akeem Daniels and Jamison Wells.

Hopkins and Daniels each ran for first half scores, while Harnish ran for 104 yards on nine carries in the first two quarters.

“Their offense is lots of misdi-rection with the backs and receiv-ers, and pulling by the offensive line,” said defensive end Ronnie Gobel. “We were ready for that,

we just didn’t execute.”Despite being outgained 324-

244 in the first half, BG entered halftime within striking differ-ence thanks to a second touch-down pass by Schilz.

While he was erratic for much of the first half, Schilz was able to buckle down to lead an eight play, 64 yard drive, which ended with him finding Jorden in the end zone for the second time, this time from 13-yards out.

“We went quickly on offense and spread the ball around,” said Schilz. “It probably helped we had little time left [in the half] since we seem to do well then.”

Jorden had a second con-secutive strong game, catching 8 passes for 152 yards and two scores.

Anthon Samuel, back in the lineup for the Falcons after miss-ing the Kent State game with

NOTES: BG hockey struggles in conference

TYLER STABILE | THE BG NEWS

MIKE SULLIVAN, BG defensiveman, gets into position to field a puck that came his way. Pushing it back out to center ice, Sullivan kept a goal from scoring.

of his music and personal life – metonymically. Or maybe it is instead reminding us not to jump to conclusions. After all, Jackson was innocent…

Or is it not ironic or coinci-dental at all that the Murray and Sandusky news dropped the same week? Rather, it is just a ploy by media execu-tives to increase readers and viewership.

I’m not sure about you, but I’m leaning toward the latter.

COLUMN From Page 6

CHANDLER HARNISH, NIU quarterback, takes the ball into the endzone.TYLER STABILE | THE BG NEWS

FOOTBALLFrom Page 6

Matt NyeReporter

The Central Collegiate Hockey Association is a tough league. The BG hockey team has been struggling to find its stride within the conference.

The Falcons started the season on fire, but have hit a wall in conference play. That is due in part to the top-lev-el competition the Falcons have faced early this season. They have played No. 5 Notre Dame and No. 10 Ferris State in back-to-back weeks.

A break from the CCHA may do the Falcons some good, as they try to snap the current five-game los-ing streak.

Badly Needing a WinWith such a young team,

it is important for BG to respond this weekend against Canisius. The five-game los-ing streak matches the longest since last year, one that lasted the whole month of January.

With the freshman and sophomores leading the team right now, coach Chris Bergeron said the two seniors haven’t been ignored, the players just know that they have to earn playing time.

“I know what they have been through has been dif-ficult,” Bergeron said. “We are not beating up on them, we just hold everyone account-able and need to keep push-ing those guys.”

Sophomore Ryan Viselli knows the team is young, but it needs to keep concentrating on the details every day.

“After the season last year, we said we needed to grow up quickly and take it one game at a time,” Viselli said. “We just need to keep a positive attitude. I need to improve on consistency and play my game every game.”

An Unfamiliar OpponentThe Canisius University

hockey team is from the Atlantic Hockey Association. That is the same conference as the UConn Huskies, the first opponent of the Falcons this year. Bergeron said the Golden Griffins were some-

what similar to UConn.“They want to beat CCHA

teams,” he said. “They work very hard. I bet they will be getting on the bus and expecting to win two games this weekend and we have to be ready.”

Canisius comes into this weekend with an overall record of 2-3-1, having both of their wins in conference play. Just like BG, the Golden Griffins have been troubled in the scoring department so far this season. They are cur-rently just averaging 1.7 goals per game, which is last in their conference. They have also struggled on the power-play, converting only 10 percent of their chances.

post-concussion symp-toms, had a strong game, rushing for 73 yards, giv-ing him 777 on the sea-son, a new BG freshman record.

However, BG did not go to him often, as he only carried the ball 12 times. As a team, BG only attempted 17 rushes.

“We probably should have been more patient on the run game,” Clawson

said. “But you fall behind, and even down 24 points, you play to win the game. At that point you can’t be balanced.”

Both defenses held steady for much of the third quarter until Harnish struck again with his arm, hitting a wide-open Daniels for a 79-yard touchdown pass on a play action pass with just over five minutes to go in the third quarter.

For the game, the Huskies had great success against the BG defense,

accumulating 627 yards of total offense, using a strong run/pass balance to keep the Falcons hon-est.

Early in the fourth, Harnish iced the game with a short touchdown run, his third total score of the game. The score also ended his game early as NIU replaced him with backup Jordan Lynch with under 11 minutes remain-ing in the quarter.

He came in and threw a touchdown in mop-up time for the Huskies.

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this past Friday, Tonyan was above the .300 mark and among the top 10 in the MAC in hitting percentage - second to Lauren Wicinski among outside hitters. Van De Walle said she thinks Tonyan will eclipse the .300 mark again by season’s end.

Further, Tonyan’s efficiency is even more impressive when considering how hard she hits the ball. A kill from Tonyan is something one must see live to truly appreciate, though earplugs are advisable as the sound is equivalent to that of a 12-gauge shotgun.

“She probably is the hardest hitter that I’ve ever coached,” said Van De Walle, who is in the midst of her 29th season at the helm. “We’re going to get the radar gun out in practice this week, just for fun … I’m going to guess that she’s above 60 [mph], which is awesome.

“She has the capability to hurt people, badly … A day doesn’t go by where we don’t think, ‘boy if a block doesn’t close, or if it’s not set up right, Danielle’s going to hurt some-body.’ Because she is very, very strong and she has such a fantastic swing.”

Van De Walle said the team brings out the radar gun every year and that 63 mph is the highest recorded by one of her players.

Fortunately for Tonyan, there is a direct correlation between hard and efficient hitting and racking up kills. With two games left, she is on the threshold of 400 kills.

“I’ve already talked about

it,” Tonyan said. “It’s kind of a big deal. I have to split 15 and 15 kills for the next two games and I’ve been averag-ing around 15 a game, so I think I can do it. But these are big teams (Miami and Illinois) we are playing.”

Van De Walle was a bit more confident. “She’s going to do it.”

Asked what it means for a player to post 400 kills in a season, Van De Walle put it into perspective when she said a player’s goal for a career is 1,000.

“Danielle had 300 her fresh-man year, and let’s say she gets 400 this year, she’s get-ting her thousandth kill in her junior year,” Van De Walle said. “And they’ll [Tonyan and Penrod] be on pace to be in [the record books], possibly.”

Penrod leads Tonyan 705 to 672 in career kills. Both are above pace to break into the top 10 in program history, as Holli Costein rests at tenth place with 1,243 (1989-92). Tammy Schiller (1988-91) holds the record with 1,709.

Here’s a scary thought: Tonyan has substantial room for improvement.

Van De Walle said that Tonyan will record even more kills as she learns to play in the back row. Right now, Erika Fullenkamp and Penrod are the only players who stay in during all six rotations.

“Someone like her that’s predominantly been a front row player her whole life, doesn’t really know there’s another realm in the back row that she could be play-ing,” Van De Walle said. “And that would add more kills.

“We would like to set her more in the back row. It’s tougher to hit out of the back

row because you’re further away from the net. It’s anoth-er dimension that when she grows into I think she’s going to love the full game.”

Van De Walle said Tonyan is still learning how to work hard every day at the Division I level and that it is different from high school where one can get by on tal-ent alone, though Tonyan is making strides. The sopho-more has been utilized in the Falcons serving scheme this season atypical of 2010, when the coaches would take her out after her three, front-row rotations.

“Being a freshman you have no experience playing col-lege volleyball and it’s a total transfer from high school to college,” Tonyan said. “The first offseason really helps.”

Van De Walle said the touch on her serve improved during the summer to a point where the coaches determined they needed to leave her in.

When it comes to taking on a leadership role, Van De Walle said captains Emily Kauth, Laura Avila and Lindsey Butterfield are most vocal, but that Tonyan has spoken up a lot more lately when the coach has asked for feedback and can see her stepping into a leadership role in the future. Van De Walle credits a rise in confidence and Tonyan’s understanding of her weighty role on the team as the source.

“When we started our sea-son and she started seeing success right away it built her confidence and it was steam rolling,” Van De Walle said. “I don’t think she takes the floor with anyone thinking, ‘I can’t play against them’… I think she takes the floor every night believing she can hit .300.”

TONY CLEETON | THE BG NEWS

DANIELLE TONYAN, jumps up to spike the ball over then net in matchup against Ohio University earier this season.