Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a public four-year institution located in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA; about 20 miles south of Toledo, Ohio on I-75. It was established in 1910; as part of the Lowery Act, which also established Kent State. As of 2003 it boasts a student body of about 20,200. It offers over 200 undergraduate programs, as well as master's and doctoral degrees in a variety of areas, including the nation's first Ph.D. program in photochemical science and one of the first undergraduate program in Neuroscience. In addition, BGSU has accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools to offer full degree programs online. In sports, BGSU is a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA), and was the 1984 NCAA national hockey champion; its mascots are Freddie and Frieda Falcon. BGSU also has an official spirit crew known as SIC SIC which began in 1946. BGSU is home to the student operated, independent daily newspaper BG News, which has published since 1920. The Department of Telecommunications ran student operated, independent, non-commercial, FCC-liscensed college radio station is WBGU 88.1 FM and the student operated, commercial radio station is WFAL 1610 AM. BGSU is also home to BG24News, a student-run television newscast airing live at 5:30pm three days a week.

McDonald Hall, a dormitory at BGSU, is the namesake for the webcomic Mac Hall.

BGSU is especially known for its Popular Culture Department, the first and only one in the country. By extension, BGSU also has quite an extensive popular culture library, along with a music library which contains over 700,000 titles (mostly on vinyl), making it the third-largest collection of popular music in the world. However, most of the fiction titles that the University owns are in the Popular Culture Library, and students are unable to take them out of the building. This policy preserves materials that have become more important to researchers as second- and third-generation interpretations of comic books have become popular on- and off-screen.

Athletics

The logo of the Bowling Green State University Falcons

Bowling Green's sports teams are called the Falcons. The Falcons participate in NCAA Division I (Division I-A for football) and in the Mid-American Conference and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. BGSU is one of only 13 universities in the country offering NCAA division I-A football, division I men's and women's basketball, and division I hockey. The Falcons won back-to-back conference championships in Women's Basketball in 2005 and 2006 and won a conference crown in Women's Soccer in 2005. The Falcons' main rivals are the Rockets of the University of Toledo. Separated by just 20 miles on Interstate 75, the two schools celebrate a heated rivalry in several sports. The most well-known of these games is the Battle of I-75, a football game held each year in which the winner takes home the Peace Pipe, an American Indian peace pipe placed upon a wood tablet. The game is usually seen on a national broadcast.

The 1984 Falcons hockey team defeated the University of Minnesota-Duluth, in the longest college hockey championship game in history, to win the NCAA National Championship.

Buckeye Boys State

Bowling Green is the current home for the American Legion Buckeye Boys State, which gathers high-school students from all over Ohio for a nine-day program. At Buckeye Boys State, the students operate a full government modeled after the Government of Ohio. Buckeye Boys State is held each June.

Notable alumni

Arts and Entertainment

* Actor Tim Conway
* Actor Robert Patrick
* Actresses Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish
* Actress Eva Marie Saint
* Writer James Baldwin also spent time at the university, first as a writer-in-residence and later as a temporary professor, from 1978 - 1979.
* Writer Barbara Paul
* Writer Allen Wier
* Musician Bob Hartman
* Composer Jennifer Higdon
* Actor and Visual Artist Bernie Casey
* Composer James Swearingen
* Writer Carolyn Forche, noted poet, editor, and human rights advocate
* Writer Jim Daniels
* Writer Robert Ferrigno
* Poet Dara Wier
* Writer Jennifer Crusie Women's Contemporary Fiction
* Writer Anthony Doerr
* Webcomic authors Ian McConville and Matt Boyd

Sports

* Basketball Hall of Famer Nate Thurmond
* Football Player & Super Bowl XI Champion Phil Villipiano
* Professional Figure Skater Scott Hamilton (Honorary Alumnus, 1985)
* Major League Baseball Player Orel Hershiser
* Olympic champion in the 800m Dave Wottle
* Hockey player Aris Brimanis
* Hockey player Mike Liut
* Hockey player Ken Morrow (Miracle On Ice)
* Hockey player Mark Wells (Miracle On Ice)
* Hockey player Jordan Sigalet
* Hockey player Alex Foster, son of Dwight Foster
* Hockey player Paul Ysebaert
* Hockey player Ken Klee
* Hockey player Mike Johnson
* Hockey player Greg DeVries
* Basketball player Antonio Daniels
* NFL quarterback Omar Jacobs
* Rob Blake, a hockey player for the Colorado Avalanche, was drafted from the university after his freshman year.
* Doug Bair, retired Major League Baseball player and World Series Champion (1984)
* Bernie Casey, professional football player, 49ers (1961-1966) and LA Rams(1967-1968). Received BFA and MFA.
* Hobey Baker Award (Outstanding Collegiate Ice Hockey Player of the Year) winners George McPhee (also current General Manager of the Washington Capitals of the NHL) and Brian Holzinger.
* Football coach Don Nehlen
* Basketball coach Bob Hill
* College Football Hall of Fame Inductee (Coach) Doyt Perry
* Basketball Hall of Fame member, Basketball coach Harold Anderson

Politics

* Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan
* Ohio Lieutenant Governor Bruce Johnson
* Cincinnati Mayor Tom Luken
* Cincinnati Bengal Anthony Campanello
* Israeli Ambassador to the US Daniel Ayalon
* Ohio State Senator Randy Gardner
* Ohio State Senator Kevin Coughlin
* Ohio State Auditor Betty Montgomery
* Ohio State Representative and Chair, Ohio Democratic Party Chris Redfern

News

* CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman
* ESPN Sportscasters Jason Jackson and Jay Crawford
* Sportscasters Mike Emrick and Jim Tocco
* Cleveland Fox 8 Wilma Smith and Todd Meaney
* WEWS Cleveland's Leon Bibb and Lee Jordan

Other

* Library Scientist Michael Lorenzen
* Computer Scientist Daniel Sinclair
* Texas Christian University Chancellor Dr. Victor J. Boschini, Jr.
* Adobe Systems President and COO Shantanu Narayen

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