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FIRST PLACE BATTLE CouNTRY RelATIoNsThe women’s basketball team will host Central Michigan Wednesday at 7 p.m. Central Michigan is the only MAC team to beat the Falcons this season. Read more in SPORTS | PAGE 6

Columnist Derek Sutter talks about American - Chinese relations and how these relations were shaped in the past couple decades and how Americans can keep the ties going. | PAGE 4

Jamel malloryFreshman, Criminal Justice

Do You THINK THe CommuNITY eNFoRCemeNT PolICY FoR THe smoKING BAN Is eFFeCTIVe? WHY?

“No because no one listens to it and it’s too cold to walk to the designative areas.”

The medal standings for the 2014 Winter Olympics place Germany, Norway and Netherlands as the top 3 countries so far. The standings are determined by the total amount of gold medals the country has earned, according to Google.com.

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Effectiveness of community enforcement for smoking debated among students

Low enrollment leads to fewer coursesFIRST AID FIX

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REBECCA MABILE, a graduate assistant, demonstrates on Sophomore Zach Grohowski the proper way to apply bandages.

By Seth WeberWeb Editor

The clean air policy was instituted at the begin-ning of the semester, bringing with it a large amount of support, as well as skepticism.

While the policy has been well received, it will still take some time for everyone to accept it, said Faith Yingling, director of Wellness.

“I think it’s a culture change. Anything like this takes time for anyone,” Yingling said.

Yingling said the feedback she has seen has been positive. She said people with comments about the policy can email cleanair@bgsu.edu.

Freshman Liz Tiemeyer said she supports t he policy, but doesn’t t hink smokers are responding well.

“I like it, but people still smoke, and nobody’s going to do anything about it,” she said.

Junior Aaron Wells also likes the policy, and said he doesn’t like being exposed to cigarette smoke.

“No one wants to walk through campus and walk through a cloud of smoke,” he said.

Freshman Michael Sanchez is a smoker and feels the clean air policy is harming the campus.

Sanchez said smoking is about more than get-ting a nicotine fix; it’s about making friends.

“[Smoking is] a social thing. It’s how it is,” he said.

Sanchez said he’s met many of his friends through smoking and feels the University is making it harder for freshmen to make friends that way.

As an adult, Sanchez feels it is his right to smoke and thinks the University shouldn’t take it away.

“We’re all adults here and when you become 18 years old you have the right to use tobacco prod-ucts,” he said.

If students or faculty do smoke on campus, the policy will be enforced by their peers, meaning it is the responsibility of the faculty and students to report offenses to the University, which will then take action against the offender.

Although this is how the University is enforcing the policy, some students aren’t sure they would

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By Amber PetkosekSocial Media Editor

Fewer classes being offered by the University may seem like an incon-venience for some students, but there is reasoning behind which classes are available and which ones are not.

The main reason some classes are not being offered can be attributed to low enrollment at the University.

“That obviously influences the number of courses offered,” said Sue Houston, the vice provost for Academic Affairs.

Enrollment at the University has been decreasing over the last couple of years.

In the fall of 2012, the number of students enrolled was 19,697. The

15-day enrollment numbers for fall 2014 was 19,408.

This academic year, there are approximately 32 fewer courses being offered.

In fall 2012, there were 1,500 courses offered and in fall 2013 there were 1468, which is about a 2 percent decrease, Houston said.

For some, it may seem like the University offers fewer and fewer classes each semester, but that is not the case.

Compared to other universities,

the offerings here are much more extensive.

“There were about 145 new cours-es offered in the fall that had never been offered before,” Houston said.

Sheri Wells-Jensen, an associate professor in the English department and the Faculty Senate chair, said she is not surprised that, despite the different classes cut, there are new classes being offered each semester.

“You can’t suppress the urge to offer new things,” she said. “I don’t think anyone is going to say reduc-tion of faculty is a good thing or reduction of classes is a good thing, but we may be able to redeem some of that by being clever.”

Students may feel like more

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By William ChannellAssistant Pulse Editor

While most teachers work with pencils and paper, University instructor Zimra Beiner works with his hands and clay.

“He definitely has a different style to his work,” said freshman Hunter Wehrle, a student in Beiner’s introductory ceramics class. “It’s not so perfect, and it’s more expressionalistic, and I like that.”

Beiner is a ceramics instructor in the Fine Arts Department, teaching under a one-year contract. Faculty on one-year contracts can be rehired on another contract for the next year or have their contracts expire.

During his time here, Beiner has had a chance to work on his own art and pass his experience on to students.

Originally from Toronto, Beiner’s artistic journey began with an interest in architecture, and he’s had experience in other mediums, including paper mache and drawing. He eventually ended up studying ceramics at Sheridan College in Wyoming, NSCAD University in Nova Scotia, Canada and Alfred University in New York.

Beiner said he chose ceramics because of the unique way it rep-licates the physical world.

“I’m interested in it as a material that records your body,”

Ceramics instructor inspires students through artwork

molding an educationClean air

policy receives mixed

response

FACES OF THE FACULTY 3 OF 3 The BG News features a few faculty members and their contributions to the University in a three-part series that will come out each Wednesday.

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ZIMRA BEINER, ceramics instructor, teaches a group of students during a ceramics class on Tuesday afternoon.

BEINER SAYS he likes pottery because it’s “material that records your body.”

Sheri Wells-JensenFaculty Senate chair

By Eric LagattaCampus Editor

The city received 600 tons of salt since Friday to combat a snow storm that hit Bowling Green on Monday night.

Addressing city coun-cil on Tuesday night, Brian Craft, Public Works director, said the salt

delivery is in response to depleting storages fol-lowing heavy snowfalls since January.

“Hopef u l ly t hat ’s enough to get us through winter,” Craft said.

Winter may be waning, a welcome relief to Craft and his crew. Weather forecasts indicate highs in the 40 degrees and

upper 30 degrees the rest of the week, with a chance of rain on Friday.

“We’re going to let Mother Nature do a lit-tle bit to get the gutters cleared out,” Craft said.

Craft’s Public Works division has clocked

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courses have been cut, but they should also consider the different sections of each course offered.

“You may have a biology 2040 course, there may be 10 different sections of that one course,” Houston said. “All of those biology sections would count as one offering.”

The number of sections each course has is based on the demand for the course.

Houston said because there are fewer students enrolled, there are fewer sections and classes needed.

There are some guidelines given by the University that dictate if a class will be offered or not, but the colleges and departments make the final decision.

Wells-Jensen said she thinks there is a link between the classes cut and the faculty cuts that occurred.

“If you have fewer class-es, you have fewer faculty,” she said.

If the enrollment continues to go down, Wells-Jensen said the University will have to get creative with its resources.

“If that happens, the University administration and the faculty are going to have to work together to decide how we’re going to respond to that,” she said.

Despite new classes being added, some students still find the registration process difficult.

Senior Mary O’Sullivan, a psychology major, said when she was trying to get into her senior lab class there were only three sections available.

“I had to jump through a lot of hoops to get in the class so I could stay on track to graduate in May,” she said.

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enforce it.If it doesn’t become a big

problem, freshman Joel Kissel said he most likely won’t enforce the policy.

Sophomore Ada m Knipfer said he tolerates people still smoking on campus, but would prefer people to follow the rules.

Jill Carr, vice president of Student Affairs, says she hasn’t seen anyone smok-ing on campus.

“From my own person-al viewpoint, I think peo-ple are trying to comply,” she said.

Carr did hear one stu-dent report a breach of the policy. However, she said it wasn’t official, but came up in a conversation inadvertently.

To remind people about the new policy, Yingling said the University has put up signs about it, as well as sending an email to fac-ulty and students.

The biggest issue with the policy has been the location of the smoking receptacles, said Michael Ginsburg, associate dean of students.

He said while new recep-tacles won’t be added, there are plans to change

where they are located.“As we kind of see where

people tend to naturally congregate, we might move some smoking receptacles to locations that are more popular than others,” he said.

Yingling predicts that as the weather gets warm-er, more criticisms of the policy will be heard.

“With the weather and all of that, it may be a lit-tle hard to tell right now,” she said. “As the weather warms up, it may be easier to see if there are some more challenges ahead.”

When asked about a bursar fee associated with the policy, Yingling denied it, not knowing where the idea originated.

Ginsburg said the University plans to put a FAQ about the fee on the policy’s web page.

Ginsburg is hopeful for the future of the policy and believes students will continue to respond posi-tively to it.

“I think in general our campus is a pretty respectful environment, it always has been,” he said. “I think people under-stand why the policy has been put into place and whether they agree with it or not are complying with it.”

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City invests more resources to combat winter weather

3,547 overtime hours since January, he said. The record snows have given way to record salt used, as the city has used 1,800 tons so far, Craft said.

The division has spent $45,478 of its $48,742 set aside for overtime, leaving it with a little more than $3,000 to last the rest of the year, according to an article published in The BG News on Feb. 12.

Craft said it is likely he will request more money from council, but for now he’ll see how the weather pans out.

“We’ll probably just let the dust settle a little bit,” he said.

The council passed an ordinance Tuesday night that might help counter-act the damage from the winter weather.

T h e r e s o l u t i o n aut horizes Municipa l Ad m i n ist rator Joh n Fawcett to contract pri-vate companies for side-wa l k i mprovements, including deicing salt and improving streets.

Council also passed a resolution allowing Utilities Director Brian O’Connell to partici-pate in the AMP Demand Response Program. The program offers incentives to businesses that reduce energy use.

The resolution was passed with an emergen-cy clause, meaning it goes into effect immediately

following Mayor Richard Edwa rds’ sig nat u re. Typically, resolutions go into effect 30 days after the mayor’s signature.

The need for the clause, said O’Connell to council, is a May 1 deadline for customers to sign up for the program.

During lobby time, members of a steering committee presented a master plan for future land use in Bowling Green.

W hile acknowledging Bowling Green’s assets, like a strong university, the committee also iden-tified ways to improve, such as adding greens-pace and improv ing transportation.

Members of the com-mittee include at-large Council Member Bruce

Jeffers, business owner Sandy Milligan, University Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Jill Carr and University Vice President of Capital Planning Steve Krakoff.

They encouraged coun-cil to think of their own ideas as they look for-ward to future conversa-tions.

T he pr e s ent at ion prompted a st rong response from Mayor Edwa rds a nd Mi ke Aspacher, Third Ward counci l member and council president.

“I just think it’s another example of citizens will-ing to engage in the pro-cess of making Bowling Green a better place,” Aspacher said.

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Beiner sa id. “It ’s ver y tact i le, a nd it records t he body in a way t hat ot her materia ls don’t.”

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“I like [his] idea of showing things you can’t describe,” Young said. “Simple everyday things emphasize what’s he’s try-ing to say.”

Beiner said he has many questions about objects,

the space around us and the world in general. The work he does in ceramics, he said, is his way of trying to answer those questions.

“I think what’s unique about clay is that it’s obvi-ously fragile,” he said. “It’s very physical, and sensi-tive to touch and timing ... I’m just really interested in those things.”

Though Beiner is only in

his second year of teach-ing, he said it’s been a great experience so far.

“I’ve still been learning a lot, but the students have been really great,” he said.

Te ach i ng st udent s with majors outside the School of A rt, Beiner said, gives him a chance to give those students a new perspective.

“I teach a lot of non-art majors as well as art majors, so that’s been interesting,” Beiner said. “To try to make them understand that there’s a value in it whether you’re an artist or not, that’s been an interesting challenge.”

Despite his relative inexperience, Beiner has

a comfortable, soft-spoken manner in class. Freshman Makenzie Wheat said the gentle way he interacts with his students is what she likes about his class.

“He’s really relaxed and open,” Wheat said. “He lets you have control.”

Between the students, a nd t he oppor tunit y to continue his work, Beiner said he’s enjoyed his time at the University being around all artistic mediums.

“I’m just in a circum-stance where ceramics works for me,” he said. “I don’t think that it has to be ceramics, but I like cermamics, so I think, ‘why not.’”

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“I’ve still been learning a lot, but the students have been really great.”Zimra Beiner | Ceramics Instructor

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As a liberal Democrat in a con-servative country, I can find something infuriating to write about every day.

Today, I am writing about three things hold-ing this nation back. They are ignorance, racism and hyper-religiosity.

Three stories in the news smacked me in the face like a scorned lover this past weekend.

They were the Michael Dunn verdict in Florida, the new science survey results just released and the snake bitten preacher who apparently was not holy enough.

All three were terrific exam-ples of the intellectual demise of many in America and I, for one, am not surprised.

Dunn emptied a whole clip of bullets into a minivan in Jacksonville, Fla., killing 17

year old Jordan Davis. Dunn did not like the loud

hip-hop coming from the minivan and said it was a “threat.”

I guess murder is the penalty for loud music in Florida now.

A jury hung on the murder charge while convicting Dunn of other charges.

This was not a Stand Your Ground case; this was murder.

It was also racism, pure and simple.

A young, minority male is now open season. This is outrageous but it simply keeps happening. I weep for an America where this is the norm.

A National Science Foundation survey result became public this past week.

It found that one out of four polled do not know that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

This is not a failure of the American educational system. This is wanton, willful igno-rance. It is ignorance like this that believes global warming is a myth.

It is thought like this that believes Jesus walked with dinosaurs.

Stupidity can be fixed if someone is willing to learn; willful ignorance is inexcusable.

The third story is one of hyper-religiosity. As a Christian, I cringe when I read about Biblical literalists. These people give Christianity a bad name and much harm has been done by them.

Their intolerance for the LGBT community has caused incalculable pain.

Their abhorrence of science has held this nation back as well. The Bible was also used to justify slavery and Jim Crow by these types. This is not what the Bible teaches us.

This brings us to Jamie Coots: Snake Bite Preacher.

He is one of the simpleton, backwoods preachers who “take up with serpents” to prove their faith. Another par-lor trick they use is drinking strychnine.

The preacher was bitten by a rattlesnake this past weekend.

Being sanctified, he refused medical treatment. In beauti-ful irony only God could cre-ate, Preacher Jamie died from the bite.

As a Christian and thinking human being, I am appalled by these people; as one who can be snide, I find it amus-ing. What is Preacher Jamie going to say to God? I am no theologian, but I know this guy did more harm than good with his position, just as the hyper-religious do with theirs.

Once again, our society is the real loser.

Whether it is being a Christian, an American, or just a human being, we were given a fantastic gift - our brain.

All of these cases proved that some of us in this nation are completely wast-ing our gift.

Is this what our God, coun-try, and fellow citizens want?

I think not.

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Sometimes, I have to have reminders for why I’m happy with where I am and what I’m doing.

I’m not unhappy with the decisions I’ve made in the past year and a half since I started college, but sometimes I struggle to get through the same thing from day to day — going to class, going to work, going home and sleeping for a couple hours after doing homework.

Even though I love my routines, they need break-ing. I have to do some-thing else and get outside of the imaginary box I keep myself in most of the time. At that point, I take myself out of my comfort zone and do something I want to do in the future.

This gets me out of my

slump. I know for other people this might not work, but try doing what you plan on doing in the future. For me at least, the feeling of doing what you love is amazing. Other people I know

who do this also love what they’re doing. The looks on their faces when they do what they want to do is so awesome — it gives me hope for the future, for them and myself.

Then things are f ine again. I go back to my normal days and live my life, remembering what it’s like to be on top of the world.

When you’re feeling down and think it might be because you’re not happy with life, do some-thing that might change your perspectives and brighten your day.

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Everyone has a dream. Every human has some-

thing that they wish would happen, an aspiration to something so much greater than themselves.

And with the philosophy of “follow your dreams, believe in yourself” that the Disney movies and children’s shows we watched fed us, being the generation that we are, we have confidence in this thinking.

There are so many big dreams, in a world that takes such small steps generally. It’s the thinking that the power to succeed lies within in us, that I think ironically inhibits us.

Having a dream is not enough. Believing that you can do it is not enough, though I think both of these are a piece of the formula for making dreams come true.

Often times I think selfishness and laziness cripples us from doing the things we want.

The problem with the idea that all you need to do is believe in yourself, is when the mindset of “I deserve this” comes into play.

This results in the expecta-tion of ease and immediate outcomes. Little work should be required if I’m as great as

the deemed “inspirational” movies told me that I am.

However, even the most talented people still need to work hard.

Hard work has had such a huge emphasis in America.

I see it slowly drifting away as self-initiative gets replaced with self- entitlement.

The truth is, no one really deserves anything. These things we aspire to have or become should not be granted to us because we want them.

Sitting around and want-ing something is not a good reason for it to happen, rather it is simply a good intention.

And although good inten-tions seem admirable, they essentially just result in dead ends because they never really begin.

Hard work is unpopular because, in the moment, it does not feel pleasurable.

Working hard for some-thing does not yield imme-diate results, which makes it easy to give up.

Still, the best things in life take the longest to happen and dreams are no exception.

Dreams do come true, but a willingness to invest, be dili-gent and a realization that dif-ficulty is not a sign to give up are necessary for the things we wish for to happen.

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The Chinese-American relationship is perhaps the most important rela-tionship between any two nations on today’s global political scene.

The U.S. and China have the world’s largest econo-mies, with China’s GDP surpassing Japan’s in 2010 and still growing rapidly.

Both China and the U.S. have massive militaries and both have nuclear arsenals.

These two powers hold permanent seats on the ever-impor ta nt U.N. Security Council, guar-anteeing their inf luence on world events for years to come.

Because China and the U.S. are each so strong, their ability to cooper-ate and develop a level of mutual trust is vitally important to tackling global problems, be they world hunger, climate change or Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

The U.S. and China can actually find large swaths of common ground on many present internation-al issues.

Considering America’s unquenchable thirst for

consumer goods and China’s export-oriented economy, the protection of trade between the two nations and the rest of the world is of vital interest to both Washington and Beijing.

In addition, both coun-tries are concerned with terrorism, and some coor-dination on preventing the rise of more Jihadists should be considered.

On other issues, how-ever, t he at mosphere appea r s much less cooperative.

For instance, the U.S. has pledged that it will help protect the territory of Japan, yet Japan’s terri-torial claims overlap with China’s.

The U.S. has sold high-tech weapons to India, one of China’s regional rivals.

Perhaps most important, Beijing views Taiwan as a

province of the People’s Republic, while the U.S. deals with Taiwan like an independent country, often selling them weap-ons used to fortify the island.

These disagreements between the world’s pri-mary powers are not just unfortunate. As China’s wealth and strength con-tinue to grow, its demands for accommodation and respect will like-wise increase in volume, threatening the unipolar world order.

If harmony on earth is desirable, if the world’s problems are in urgent need of address, there must first be built a bridge of trust between China and the United States.

Achieving this trust is the global political chal-lenge of this century.

Because China is the growing power, many of the disagreements ought to be resolved in a way that favors China. In the long run, this will also be help-ful for the U.S.

The resolutions to these disagreements ought to be viewed as the build-ing blocks in the bridge of trust that absolutely must be built.

The U.S., firstly, should stop selling weapons to India and Taiwan. These sales are making China into an enemy of the U.S.

before China itself decides to become one.

Promoting a great improvement in relations between China and Japan is of supreme importance as well.

The U.S. is bound by word to protect Japan. It cannot go back on this promise, else the cred-ibility of the U.S. would be devastated. Thus, the optimal solution is a bet-ter engagement between the Chinese and Japanese.

Most importantly, as the U.S. backs Japan, it should not be seen as backing the atrocities committed by the Japanese during World War II. Some public pressure from the U.S. on Japanese leaders that visit the Yasukuni Shrine and thus pay homage to war criminals is overdue.

Many other means may be utilized as build-ing blocks in the bridge of trust and cooperation. Encouraging student exchanges between China and the U.S., increasing diplomatic dialogues, and deeper trade ties are just a few more ideas.

The important thing for the world’s future is that the bridge gets built.

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The softball team will come back from their tournament in Atlanta. Having added two losses, one win and one tie to their record.

Despite the losses, this weekend was an improvement from last weekend.

Game one was an 11-1 loss to host team Georgia State. Those 11 runs were the most that the Falcons have given up so far this season. Georgia State went 4-1 on the weekend.

“Our team found our identity in terms of who we are as a team and that’s an important piece,” head coach Shannon Salsburg said. “When you’re not sure what kind of team you are going to be you will go out and have uncertainty. That ETSU game was the catalyst of saying ‘This is who we are.’”

East Tennessee State was a win for their second game of the day. Senior Katie Yoho had her first home run of the season to give the Falcons an early 1-0 lead. The Buccaneers responded with four runs in the fifth and six innings to put them up 4-1.

It was two freshmen who cut the deficit in the bottom of the sixth. With Haley Schrock in scor-ing position after hitting a single, Chelsea Raker hit a two run home run to bring the score up to 4-3.

Senior captain Erika Stratton hit a solo home run right after Raker to give the Falcons back to back home runs and tie the game up at 4-4.

Freshman Amanda Durham hit a walk off triple in the bot-tom of the seventh for her first collegiate hit and sent Madison Schrock home to give the Falcons a 5-4 win.

On day two of the tournament, the Falcons lost to Georgia Tech 3-0 and tied against Tennessee at Martin 6-6. The 6 runs scored against UT-Martin was a season high for the Falcons.

The Falcons were down 2-0 after three innings. After Yoho plated a run to bring them back 2-1, UT-Martin scored three more runs in the bottom of the fourth to take the advantage 5-1.

The Falcons responded with some solid hitting in the next three innings. Stratton hit a three-run homer in the top of the fifth to get her team into posi-tion down only one. One of Yoho’s six hits of the game sent Stratton home to tie the game up.

“The team never felt out. When UT-Martin got the big hit, our team came back from the dug-out and said ‘let’s get after it,’” Salsburg said. “It is just a different mind set that we have now. They really believe in themselves.” The game was called after eight innings due to travel plans.

Yoho had six hits during the second day of the tournament. “Yoho is an important piece to our lineup and Erica Stratton con-tinues to come up clutch for us when we need it,” Salsburg said. “Even when we are not having successful outcomes we are hav-ing solid at-bats and when you do that people will make mistakes.”

The Falcons will travel to Mississippi next weekend for the Ole Miss tournament where they will play Northern Colorado, Ole Miss, Buffalo, Saint Louis University and rematch the University of Tennessee Martin.

The 2014 NBA All-Star Weekend included various surprises this past weekend.

The East defeated the West 163-155 for the first time since 2010, thanks to Cleveland Cavalier Kyrie Irving.

Irving has now won an All-Star MVP, three-point shoot out and rookie challenge in his three years in the league.

The All-Star game also featured New York Nicks’ Carmelo Anthony scoring 30 points and setting the 3-point record by scoring eight 3-point shots.

Other notable statistics were Los Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin and Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kevin Durant who each scored 38 points.

The All-Star game festivities start-ed Friday night when Arne Duncan won the celebrity All-Star game MVP while recording 20 points, 11 rebounds and six assists.

Next was the NBA Rising Stars Challenge, where Detroit Pistons’ Andre Drummond finished with 30 points, 25 rebounds and a MVP. Drummond broke DeJuan Blair’s rebounding mark of 23, which was set in 2010.

Team Bosh won the Shooting Stars contest for the second con-

secutive year. Bosh scored two half-court shots,

leading his squad to victory. The three-point contest winner was San Antonio Spurs’ Marco Bellinelli.

The Italian sharp shooter earned 24 points in the final round to defeat Washington Wizard Bradley Beal who had a score of 18 of his own.

The Slam Dunk Contest was a bit of a let down, as they used a different format in this years All-Star layout.

Instead of each player dunking and going against each other, each conference began with a 90 sec-ond freestyle round. All three par-ticipants of each conference would pass or bounce it to each other and dunk it. Needless to say, it was not very exciting.

After the freestyle round, partici-pants of their conference would face off against the other conference. This made the dunk contest three East players vs. three West players. However, since all three East play-ers defeated the West players, the dunk competition was over after just six dunks. John Wall found himself champion when he jumped over his team’s mascot while double clutch-ing a reverse dunk.

While the All-Star Weekend had some disappointment to it, there were also some pleasant surprises. First was when Irving won the MVP award at age 21, scoring 31 points and 14 assists on 14-17 shooting, and Melo who broke the three-point scoring record.

By Tara JonesAssistant Sports Editor

The Falcons have lost to only one opponent in the Mid-American Conference so far this season. On Wednesday, that team comes to town.

The rematch will take place in the Stroh Center, as BG hosts Central Michigan on Feb. 19 with tip-off scheduled for 7 p.m.

The BG women’s basketball team is 21-3 overall and 11-1 in MAC play. BG’s one loss in con-ference play came to Central Michigan earlier this season on Jan. 18 in Mount Pleasant. The Falcons lost by a score of 79-82 in overtime.

BG head coach Jennifer Roos said Central Michigan is having a tremendous season, and the Falcons will need a large home crowd to disrupt the Chippewas the way it did against Miami in their last outing at the Stroh.

“We’re back at square one where we’re playing the most highly talented offense against our defense, which is ranked number one in the MAC as well, so it’s two forces colliding again.” Roos said. “I will say, Central Michigan is playing so much bet-ter than what they were the first time we played them, and we’ll have our hands full.”

Wednesday’s game is a cross-division matchup of the top two teams in both the East and West Divisions of the MAC. The Falcons hold a two-game lead in the East, and Central Michigan stands atop the West Division.

By Cameron Teague RobinsonSports Editor

The men’s basketball team will be presented with a unique opportu-nity Thursday. They have the chance to play the University of Toledo twice in the regular season something that has not been done in head coach Louis Orr’s time at BG.

“This is the first year we have played them twice in the regular season since I’ve been here.... that is unique.” Orr said. “The rivalry against Toledo is a little separate from the big picture. The big pic-ture is it’s another MAC game.”

The 13th Mid-American Conference game for the Falcons will host the finale of the two-game series against The University of Toledo. This will mark the first time the two teams played each other twice in the regular season since the 2005-06 season when each team won their home game. Toledo would get the best of the Falcons that year in the MAC Tournament.

“Any time you get a chance to play somebody a second time at home you want to give yourself a chance to be successful,” Orr said.

In their last match up on Feb. 5, 6,031 fans packed Savage Arena to watch the Rockets defeat the Falcons by a score of 83-76. The Falcons started from behind in that game, trailing by 16 at one time. They came back and cut the lead to one point, but were never able to gain a lead.

“I would like to get out to a better start and not fall down early like we did,” Orr said. “We fight and we

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BRETT CREAMERASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

“Our team found our identity in terms

of who we are as a team and that’s an important piece.

When you’re not sure what kind of team

you are going to be you will go out and have uncertainty”

Shannon Salsburg | Head Coach

Falcon softball team finds identity in Atlanta tournament

Irving wins all-star MVP, dunk contest disappoints

Men’s basketball to continue rivalry with Toledo Thursday

Women’s basketball to host Central Michigan Wednesday

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keep playing. We did that at Toledo.”

In that game the Falcons got into foul trouble early and often as Toledo shot 35 total free throws making 82 percent of them.

“We have to be aggres-sive. What’s good for them is good for us,” Orr said. “The less they are attack-ing the basket the better chance you have in not fouling.”

The Falcons have been getting off to better starts in their past two games as they led Kent State 13-0 early and Ball State 13-4. Despite the good start, the game at Ball State came down to the last possession. But the Falcons got a defen-sive stop and were able to leave Indiana with the win.

With only six games left

in the season, the Falcons are currently sitting at 5-7 in the MAC and tied for last in the MAC East divi-sion. Toledo is currently 9-3 in the MAC and tied for first place in the MAC West division.

“We want to be more successful at home,” Orr said. “Every game you are trying to play for a MAC Tournament seeding . . . You have to be motivated and excited for every game.”

The Battle of I-75 rival-ry season finale will be Thursday night at 7 p.m. aired on ESPNU as a part of the Athletic Department’s “48 Hours of Orange” promotion.

“The fact that it’s Toledo, it adds more to it,” Orr said. “The fans come out and the atmosphere is a little more lively - that’s great. But there is a reason to come out and compete every game.”

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Central Michigan enters Wednesday’s matchup at 16-8 overall and a per-fect 12-0 in the MAC. The Chippewas are the only undefeated team in con-ference play and are on a 12-game winning streak, including nine which were by double digits.

The Chippewas returned 10 letterwinners, includ-ing three starters, from the 2012-13 season. Last year’s team finished 21-12 over-all and 12-4 in MAC play, tying for second in the West but they also went on to capture the conference tournament title.

The Falcons lead the overall series 46-16 between them and Central Michigan, but the Chippewas have won the last two meetings. Last season, the teams split the two games they played in lopsided fashion. The Falcons won at the Stroh Center in the first meeting last season in an 84-59 decision, but the Chippewas would defeat BG in the third round of the MAC tournament

81-48.In this season’s first

matchup between the two teams, Central Michigan made a late second-half comeback to force the game into overtime, where the game would remain close. Ultimately, the Chippewas would clench the 82-79 victory.

Though Central is known primarily for their scor-ing offense, Roos said the Chippewas have improved their defense as well since their first meeting.

“They were strong defensively in Januar y when we played them, but they have amped it up to another level and are playing much, much better defensively now,” Roos said.

Roos said that the Chippewas’ defensive pressure is hard to recre-ate in practice and to pre-pare for. She added that Central Michigan is also “an extremely confident group.”

“They have been down in multiple games by sin-gle-digits or double-dig-its, and they don’t have a panic in them,” Roos said. “That kind of confidence is scary.”

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