Founded in 1920, the ''BG News'' is the student-run newspaper at

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, which is published Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters and weekly during the summer. It can be picked up at hundreds of locations on and off campus around

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. The newspaper offices are located at The Michael & Sara Kuhlin Center and is advised by the Director of Student Publications. Past editors include: Maxwell Selby in 2013, Danae King in 2014, Cameron T. Robinson in 2015, Annie Furia in 2016 and Holly Shively in 2017.

Sections

News

The BG News offers local campus and city news, as well as state, regional, national, and international news stories, and editorials.

Sports

Sports appears in every issue and provides the latest scores and sports related news stories. The paper is also the only newspaper source for several campus sports such as football, men's and women's basketball, hockey, baseball, soccer, and other various sports on

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's campus. Also covered in the sports section are other

NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...

games as well as regional professional sports.

The Pulse

''The Pulse'' is an entertainment section that comes out once a week on Tuesdays during the academic year.

The Blotter

''The Blotter'', a daily review of the strangest calls that the

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City Police and

Police received the past night, and the entire weekend in Monday editions. Typical blotter reports range from underage alcohol consumption and pranks to more serious crimes such

burglary Burglary, also called breaking and entering and sometimes housebreaking, is the act of entering a building or other areas without permission, with the intention of committing a criminal offence. Usually that offence is theft, robbery or murder ...

and

vandalism Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property. The term includes property damage, such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any property without permission of the owner. The term f ...

Forum

''Forum'' is the opinion section of the paper with articles from BG News columnists and guest columnist submissions. The Forum section also includes political cartoons and an opinion poll question and answer in a section called "People On The Street."

Other features

BG News also includes

classified ads Classified advertising is a form of advertising, particularly common in newspapers, online and other periodicals, which may be sold or distributed free of charge. Classified advertisements are much cheaper than larger display advertisements used ...

, a

crossword puzzle A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answ ...

, and

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in each issue. The BG News also operates a website called the "BG News Network" and features forums, links to local

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properties, and classified ads.

References

External links

BG News Official Website
{{Bowling Green State University Bowling Green State University Student newspapers published in Ohio