by Karl Smith | Jan 30, 2023 | History Blog, News Blog
You can find the special edition of the BG News covering the Pike cheating scandal in 1980 on the BGSU Scholarworks website but good luck finding a physical copy. BG alum Patrick Hansford, who shared this artifact with me, explains: As I recall, Winter Quarter was...
by Tyler Buchanan | Jul 16, 2021 | History Blog
How big was the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1950s? Big enough to earn a six-column headline spanning the top of the BG News front page on the Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1958 edition: Tommy Dorsey Band To Play At Homecoming. The concert, it should be noted, did...
by Tyler Buchanan | Mar 18, 2021 | History Blog
Brandi Barhite had no specific plans for how to cover the inauguration of President George W. Bush. The BG News reporter had no tickets and no inside connections. But the senior had the enthusiasm and ingenuity that so marks a successful student journalist. And she...
by Tyler Buchanan | Jan 25, 2021 | History Blog
The “Letters to the Editor” feature has been a staple of The BG News for much of its history. The section has long been a place for students to sound off, professors to provide expert commentary and, on occasion, the university president to respond to the...
by Tyler Buchanan | Oct 14, 2020 | History Blog
In our last History Blog installment, we began telling the story of how the Poe Ditch Music Festival came to be. Part 2 below details the festival itself — and the fallout of the legendary event. The headline in the June 3, 1975 edition of The BG...
by Tyler Buchanan | Jul 11, 2020 | History Blog
Y2K might seem like a joke decades later, but in 1999 it was no laughing matter. Essentially, early computer programmers saved memory by shortening years in dates to two characters: 99 instead of 1999. The fear was that when the calendar flipped to 2000, computers...
