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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. For the the 2006-2007 academic year BGSU boasts a student body of about 20,300 of which 3,000 are graduate students. BGSU 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. Housed within the School of Communication Studies is the national and international award-winning Falcon Forensics, Speech and Debate Team, established in 1919. BGSU is also home to the student operated, independent daily newspaper BG News, which has been 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.
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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. Arts and Entertainment Sports Politics News Other | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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