A New Way to Support Mid-American Review

A message from Karen Craigo, Editor-in-Chief of Mid-American Review:

I recently stumbled on to something really marvelous on the World Wide Web — namely, a search engine and shopping portal that can actually earn money for charitable causes. The search engine, Good Search, and the shopping portal, Good Shop, provides funding to the registered charity of the user’s choice for each Yahoo-powered web search or for shopping at specified online outlets.

Naturally, I signed Mid-American Review up right away as a potential recipient of funds, but that move wouldn’t make much sense if I didn’t take the extra step of telling our friends and supporters.

Mid-American Review makes a penny per search every time someone who designates us as their favorite charity looks something up on Good Search. The magazine also earns a percentage of the total sale when shoppers make ordinary online purchases through eBay, Amazon, Target, and lots of other retailers. For MAR to benefit, a shopper has to access these retailers through the Good Search site.

If you prefer a different charity, you may want to look it up in the list of donors on the Good Search site. A quick inspection revealed several Bowling Green-area charities, including Dance Marathon, the Wood County Humane Society, some other excellent causes.

Please think of MAR the next time you shop or search. So far we’ve made only a modest 27 cents from my own 27 web searches, but just imagine if all of us designated a favorite charity to receive 1.5 percent of the purchase the next time we bought books at Amazon.com — or 25 percent of eBay’s proceeds on our successful bids there. That could make quite a difference.

Thanks for considering my request, and thanks in advance for your support.

Sign Up for AlertBG for Emergency Text Messages

In light of yesterday’s tragedy at Northern Illinois University, now is a good time to take a simple, extra step to assure members of the campus community are immediately notified in the event of trouble.

By signing up for AlertBG, a text-messaging program used to communicate with students, faculty and staff in case of emergencies on campus, you can get personal messages to your cell phone about situations such as crimes in progress, campus closings, canceled classes, building closures and severe weather. The department of campus safety sends the emergency messages.

Messages will include instructions whom to contact in the event that the recipient needs to notify campus police immediately.

Sign up now and register your cell phone number with the University. Signing up is simple. AlertBG can be accessed under “Links” at the bottom right of the home page and through the secure MyBGSU site.

In MyBGSU, click on the AlertBG tab at the top of the Welcome page. The signup form asks for a name, password, mobile phone number and service carrier. You can also set a date by which to opt out (typically, a student’s expected graduation date). Once you have established text message alert service, you may add email alert notification.

Taking this easy step today is one more way to assure you receive the fastest possible notice of emergency situations. If you have any questions, please contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 419-372-2843.