Josh Chamberland

School: Bowling Green State University
Location: Bowling Green, OH

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BGSU Police Attempt to Shutdown Students Calls for 100% Clean Energy

Students call into President Mazey's office on Monday, April 15th

On Monday April 15th, the Environmental Action Group at Bowling Green State University launched a week-long “Call-In” drive to our President’s office to demand a 100% clean energy future for BGSU with an end goal of 2020.

The day started off slow at 10am, when most college students are still half asleep and just rolling out of bed. By 11:30, our administration had really begun to hear the students’ demands in numbers. The administration sent the University’s police captain out to where we were standing in our Student Union’s Oval to tell us that having students call into President Mazey’s office was “illegal” because it was “disrupting the work that could be done in the office” and supposedly “harassment”, ultimately threatening us by saying that he “could write us a ticket.”

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BGSU Students Support Clean Energy in Record Numbers

Environmental Action Group Volunteer stops a crowd of students to sign petition

Environmental Action Group is still going strong here at BGSU! After yesterday's overwhelmingly successful walk with their president, Dr. Mary Ellen Mazey, students continued to show their vast support for a transition to 100% clean energy at BGSU by 2020. Today students led a day long petition drive in front of their student union, where hundreds of personal conversations were had about a clean energy future and at the end of the day..

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Today (April 3rd) BGSU president, Dr. Mary Ellen Mazey, and her cabinet hosted a National Start! Walking Day event. This event aimed to raise awareness about healthier lifestyles for faculty and students at BGSU by leading a 30 minute walk around campus. While this helps promote personal health, students believe that Bowling Green State University has a greater responsibility as a higher-education institution to promote/ support health across the globe.

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