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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. 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. 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 ran 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 as well as the music library which contains over 700,000 titles (mostly on vinyl), making it the 3rd 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 library.

Athletics

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.

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Educational institutions established in 1910 | Bowling Green State University | Central Collegiate Hockey Association | Wood County, Ohio | Mid-American Conference

 

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