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Thursday
October 15,2009
Volume 104. Issue 57
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Intramurals
offer fun,
opportunity
Intramural Sports
Department offers
students another
chance to get
involved | Page 3
Tips for
not acting
like a creep
GROWING IT
GREEN
HOUSE.
University greenhouse provides tours, classes, and escape from autumn chill
Columnist Sarah
Folmar provides
common courtesy
tips for partying at
local bars | Page 4
Poverty in
industrialized
nations
Columnist Hama Bbela
argues that perceptions
of poverty and the
resulting inaction are
society's most ignored
By Megan Woodward
Reporter
problems | Page 4
GOP support
grows for
health care bill
Following Olympia
Snowe's lead, another
GOP female senator
is supporting President
Obama's health care
bill | PageS
Volleyball
player
breaks out
Falcons
volleyball player
Emily Kauth
dominates on
the court | Page 6
With the winter months
ahead,
the
University
Greenhouse gives students
a chance to keep warm.
"Since
1968,
the
Greenhouse has kept
a collection of plants
from the dry desert and
tropical areas, to show
diversity of plants two
different habitats,"
said
Greenhouse
keeper and horticulturist, Frank
Schemenauer said.
Open to students, faculty and
the community,
the Greenhouse
is open to many
tours and class
projects.
"We
give
weekly tours
to schools and
groups
who
visit
campus,"
said
Schmenauer.
"The Greenhouse is used
for
botany
experiments
and
class
projects for
students and
we like people to come
in and ask
about growing plants.
We even
give the
community and
students
cuttings
|a piece
or a root of a
plant to grow]."
Senior intern Corey
Reasonover explains
his first experience at
the Greenhouse.
"I came there first
to see about growing
Ginkgobilobafromseed
and eventually bonsai,"
said Reasonover.
Reasonover said Joe
Baker, who retired in
2008, gave him direction on how to care for
plants and essentially how to take care
of the Greenhouse.
He said his love for
plants made him
stick around.
"As an intern,
I do a lot, keep
the facilities
clean, prepare spaces
for classes
and
water
plants," said
Reasonover.
From banana and
orange trees, hibiscus flowers,
cacti, Venus fly traps, wilting
weeds and others Reasonover
also has to catalog the plants.
"My favorite duty is cataloging the plants in our collection
by species. So we know what
we have and what we need,"
said Reasonover. "There is a
lot of meticulous taxonomy
going behind the scenes."
Other students who have
taken science classes have
also been to the Greenhouse
for class projects. Senior
Sausha Parham took two biol-
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Demonstration questions
Columbus' hero status
BySar.ilirj.iil.-y
Reporter
Christopher Columbus should
not be a national hero, according to a group demonstrating
yesterday, despite the rainy
weather.
The demonstration, held at
the Union Oval at noon by a
group of students, community
members and retired faculty,
was against the celebration of
Christopher Columbus, calling him a "cruel and brutal
man by contributing to the
slave trade and first mass
genocide."
Senior Keith Kovacs said
thai while some schools arc
still getting this holiday off,
people just aren't facing the
facts.
"Columbus was worse than
Hitler," he said, explaining,
"While Hitler was responsible
for the deaths of six million
people, Columbus was responsible for eight million."
Fawn Crawfoot, a community member who attended
the University when there
was an elementary school in
Hanna Hall, said she is against
(he celebration of Christopher
Columbus for personal reasons.
"I speak for Native Americans
when I say Columbus was a
monster," she said.
She said she remembers her
grandmother's house being
burned down, facing prejudices and nasty names as she
grew up as a Native American.
The demonstration included what Crawfoot explained
as a prayer circle, as she and
another member of the group
traced the shape of the oval,
starting at the left and going
to the right.
"This is a prayer for everybody of all colors, to show that
everyone should be respected,"
she said. "I won't let others
bring my people down."
What do you want
to protest?
BOBBY CAM
Junior, Supply Chain
Management
"I want to protest
the charging for
little things like
condiments." | Page 4
This year, students will be
provided with a plethora of
healthy food choices from the
Balanced Choices program.
Balanced Choices is a
health and wellness program
started four years ago with
Chartwells, the food provider
for the University.
Patrick
Hannan,
the
Executive Chef of University
Dining, said the program
is being developed for the
University. Balanced Choices
is a program that will provide
new recipes for students to try,
and each food item will have
icons that describe to students
what is in the food. The plan
is to place a Balanced Choices
banner at the beginning of
each line at all dining locations on-campus. The banner
will explain what the program
is and the significance of the
icons. The dining locations
will list the definition of each
icon and there will be pocket
guides for students to grab.
The chefs are building up
their culinary skill sets for
the recipes before putting the
entire program into action.
The culinary chefs are also
planning on doing demonstrations once they are prepared.
"We want to start it because
it's a part of the profile that we
think fits in higher education
and universities," Hannan
said.
Daria Blachowski-Dreyer,
the Associate Director of
Nutrition initiatives, said that
food service is meant to be an
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FREE SPEECH: Freshmen Dylan Terry and Chloe Beard with community members Errol
Lam. Faye Lam. and Fawn Crawfoot during yesterday's Columbus Day demonstration
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Healthy food options for students in Balanced Choices
By Emily Tuckar
Reporter
Many such as Crawfoot suggest something likea "Heritage
Day" instead, to celebrate
everyone, including Native
Americans, and the history of
their own specific heritages.
Celebrating Columbus Day
encourages people to ignore
and support racist practices
that are embedded in social,
economic, political and judicial systems, according to the
demonstration group's event
Web site on Facebook.
Sophomore
Danni
McConnell said how students
face the difficulty of thinking of Columbus in a different
way.
"When we go through
our education, we learned
Columbus was a great person
and character," she said, "We
have problems thinking otherwise of Columbus because
this is what we've always been
taught."
The ethnically diverse demonstration group, McConnell
said she hopes, will help people be aware of the correct
history of Columbus.
Errol Lam. a retired faculty librarian at the University,
explained how Columbus
accidentally
found
the
Americas, and that he didn't
discover them. "We'd like to
make students a little more
aware of the founding facts,''
he said, "When Columbus
found people in (he Americas,
he called them Indians, when
in fact they were really just
natives, people who had been
there for years. He was an
explorer sailing the seas, but
people shouldn't be honoring
Columbus because he didn't
know where he was, thinking
he had found India."
States such as Alaska,
Oklahoma, and Arkansas now
celebrate "Discoverer's day"
Bowling Green
receives honor
for preservation
By Anthony Phillip.
Reporter
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George Bush's plans to preserve
American hometowns comes
home to Bowling Green.
Recognized by the White
House, the Preserve America
honor informs tourists that
Bowling Green is a community
that preserves its cultural and
historical aspects.
Tina Bradley, city grants
administrator, worked in 2008
to gather all the information
for the recognition in a binder,
which was all condensed down
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in calories and has no saturated fats,
"We design the icons to
From I
match the recipes, and
educational experience. The we build the recipes only
program is meant to help through a certain group of
prepare students for the real chefs," Hannan said. "Our
world and how there are so unit does not develop a balmany options.
anced choice recipe and put
"As time goes by, faculty on icon on il. It has to go
and students will start to see through our national nutria lot more of this interwo- tionist to meet that criteria."
ven into the regular menus,"
lane Crandall, a dietitian
at the Health Center, said
Blachowski-Dreyer said.
Higher education chefs she will encourage students
designed recipes that contain to look into the Balanced
certain food criteria such as Choices program. Students
less processed food, no trans will have an easier time
fats, no saturated fats and understanding what they
a measured amount of pro- are eating because they will
teins. They also leave less of a not have to look at calories
carbon footprint. More local and add them up. Students
produce is going to be used can look at an item and know
what exactly they are eating.
as well.
"Students want to know
Icons were designed to go
with each recipe. I or exam- what they're eating," Crandall
ple, if a student picks up an said. " Ihey want to know how
item that has the vegetar- to eat healthy."
ian symbol on it. that means
there are no animal fats in
the product. Also, selected
products will have the "fit"
icon, which means it's lower
BALANCE
COLUMBUS
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in substitution for Columbus
Day and in respect to Native
Americans. KovaCS said, supporting the alternative.
He said things aren't going
to automatical!) change when
it comes to how people see and
continue to see Columbus.
"1 can't see the capital of
Columbus changing anytime
soon." he said.
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PRESERVE
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into a few short paragraphs
on the Preserve America Web
site.
"I learned a lot about the
community doing this, and
1 live here and work here,"
Bradley said.
She said this was an unusual project for her because, as
the grants administrator, she
mostly looks at grants, loans
and other funded programs,
which excludes Preserve
America.
Being deemed a Preserve
America community is purely
a recognition. Bradley said,
since the government has no
funding available for Preserve
America communities.
However, under the Hush
administration some funding
was available. Bowling Green
received the recognition Dec.
10,200H. so l he city was unable
to request any grants.
In 2009, Bradley said the
government reassessed the
importance of the Preserve
America Program.
"I think from everything I
have heard, the reassessment
has come back that they feel it
is strongly a benefit." Bradley
said. "1 do look for the funding to be reestablished in 2010
or 2011 at the latest."
Mayor John Quinn said he
thinks the Obama admin
istration will continue the
funding in 2010 with matching grants.
Quinn said if grants become
available they will most likely
be used for planning purposes.
According to the Preserve
America Web site, many
things come with this recognition including a certificate,
a road sign, authorization to
use the Preserve America logo
and a place in the Preserve
America directory.
In addition, the recognition
may attract tourists by letting
them know Bowling Green
finds importance in its culture and history.
Quinn said the recognition
is more for tourists and people outside the community.
"The community people do
appreciate our heritage and
culture." Quinn said. "The
recognition just screams thai
out."
Wendy Strain, executive
director of the Convention
and Visitors Bureau, said the
recognition looks great for
any community.
"It is something that you
can put on your community's
resume, "Strain said.
Bradley said what really has
come out of this recognition
over anything else is community pride.
"We have for many, many
years been focused upon
preserving our cultural and
historical treasures, but it is
in the fact that now there is
some mindfulness to the feel
thai others are saying this
too," she said.
Stram said she is proud of
our community as well.
"I am very pieased that we
have a community, a historical society, a downtown and a
university that are all doing a
really great job in preserving
our history." she said.
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Thursday. October IS. 20O9 3
12,3, FENCE!
Fighting LGBT
discrimination
By Morgan Addington-Hodge
Reporter
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FENCING: Ashley Bokar (left), a freshman business major spais against Daniel Ellison, president of BG Fencing Club and a senior sociology major, using epees The BG Fencing Club
is not affiliated with the University except as a club and meets fn the Eppler North Gymnasium.
Intramural Sports Department offers a variety of sports
for students to enjoy for a one-time individual fee
Despite departmental budget cuts, students can join multiple University teams
By Austin Arnold
Reporter
The
liiii.uiiui.il
Sports
Deparlmeni offers students a
variety of activities such as flag
football, dodgeball and even
water polo.
Morgan Montgomery is
a student supervisor within the Intramural Sports
Department said that there is
a lot to gain from participating in intramural sports.
"Intramurals is good for students because it's involvement
with the University, it's enjoyable, it's movement and there
is a lot of opportunity for companionship as well," he said.
Tim Pedro, who is a student
manager in charge of setting
up events and overseeing officials, also said he thinks students should get involved.
"Students can gain the
opportunity to still play the
sport that they liked to play
before college through intramurals, and meet new people
at the same time," he said.
Senior Hope llernacki, also
a student manager, said intramurals offered an opportunity
to play a sport that she always
wanted to play.
"1 really enjoyed playing flag
football because I never had a
chance to play football in high
school," she said. "So, it was
fun to experience what that
sport was like."
Hernacki has participated in
a number of other intramural
sports such as volleyball, water
polo, dodgeball and Softball.
" 1 played sports i n h igh school
and intramurals is a great way
to carry on the competition
that you are used to having in
the past," she said. "It's also a additional reason.
great way to get some exercise
"Once you pay the individand it helps relieve some stress ual fee, you can participate in
as many sports as you want
from school as well."
Some students may have for either the semester or the
noticed the increase in price whole year, depending on
to play intramural sports. lust how much you pay," he said.
a year ago, there was a team "Before, you would have to chip
fee of about S50; now, there is in for every sport you played.
an individual fee of either $15 Now, you pay once up front
for a semester or $25 for the and then you can play as much
as you desire."
whole year.
Thechampionship winner of
"Part of thechange is because
the Intramural Department's each sport receives a champibudget received cuts," he said. onship t-shirt and their photo
"The other reason is because, is posted on the Intramural
with the old system, team Department's Web site.
For a list of all the intracaptains were responsible for
the team fee and a lot of them mural sports that are availendedupgettingshortchanged able and when they are
by their teammates. The indi- offered, students can visit
vidual fee takes the burden off the Intramural Department's
Web site at www.bgsu.edu/
of the team captains."
Montgomery said that the of fices/sa/recwell/intramunew policy is better for an rals.
The effects of discrimination
in the community were a main
focus during yesterday's Brown
Bag Lunch Event.
lane Rossery was the main
speaker at the event and was invited to speak about her involvement
in the recent passing of t wo pieces
of anti-discrimination legislation. The first, about discrimination within Pair i lousing, passed
unanimously. The second, about
discrimination within employment, public accommodations
and pubic education, passed 6 to
1. Rossery spoke about the legislation but the focus quickly changed
to discrimination in general when
the discussion moved into a more
open forum.
lust because The University has
a history and tradition of acceptance doesn't mean that discrimination doesn't happen, a faculty
member of the University who
wished to remain anonymous
said. She said she believes there
are definitely instances of discrimination on campus and in
the community in general. Other
faculty members present mentioned that specifically because
it isn't welcoming most of the
University staff and faculty don't
live in the community.
Chris Prey, one of only two men
at the Brown Bag Lunch, is an
openly homosexual professor in
the college of education. Prey said
he came to the event because
he wants to be involved in his
community. He tells his students
about his sexual orientation at
the beginning of each semester.
Frey said that telling his students
seems to actually help them.
"I want them to know that it's
part of who I am and it informs
how 1 look at the world." Prey said.
Frey said he wants his students
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to realize that at some point in
their professional futures they
will almost certainly come in contact with students and coworkers who are part of the lesbian
Gay Bisexual Transvestite (LGBT)
community. Frey also said hefeels
that coming out to his students at
the beginning of each semester
helps to make his LGBT students
feel more comfortable in his class.
Prey has never experienced discrimination due to his sexuality
but said he doesn't feel entirely
safe from it.
"I would never hold hands, especially not walking down Main
Street on a weekend night," Frey
said.
Rossery mentioned that the
legislation, while working for
a broader group, was mainly
focused on rights for members of
the LGBT community. Rossery is
a lesbian and was surprised and
upset by some of the opposition
for the legislation.
"I was very disappointed that I
had friends and neighbors who
didn't feel I should have the same
rights as them," Rossery said.
Rossery said one argument of
the opposition for the legislature
was that discrimination didn't
happen in the city. Rossery said
she was surprised people were
so ignorant, and the expressions
of others at the event reinforced
Rossery s surprise.
"BG is a welcoming community and many of us have been
able to experience town that way,"
Rossery said, "but it's not consistent for everyone."
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" Columbus was worse than Hitler."
- Keith Kovcs. University senior,
on his views of the Columbus Day [see story, pg. 1].
Thursday. October 15.2009 4
PEOPLE ON THE STREET What do you want to protest?
Overpriced stuff at
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it's ridiculous"
destruction."
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too much."
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Global poverty trends
gnored throughout history
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HAMABBELA
COLUMNIST
Eighteenth-Century Britain
thrust mankind into an era aptly
titled the Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution
was an era when agrarian animal-based society was
replaced with a mechanized
society. Advances in technology led to advanced agricultural
techniques that gave Western
Europe huge surpluses in food
and raw materials.
The Industrial Revolution
led to an explosion in human
populations in cities around the
world. The revolution created an
empire out of Britain and helped
turn America into the economic
behemoth it was destined to
become. The foundation and
infrastructure that facilitated
some of mankind's most daring exploits were built on the
groundwork of the Industrial
Revolution, which facilitated
resurged efforts by nations to
colonize the rest of the world
and gain natural resources.
Yet, amidst this nation
building and conquering, society's lifestyles improved only
slightly and populations grew
exponentially.
Thethingtherevolutiondidn't
completely destroy was poverty.
Poverty would increase in many
countries that never had it, especially in the developing world. In
developed countries, the conditionsof poverty would be largely
eradicated, but even then large
numbers of people would still
be ignored by the gains of the
Industrial Revolution.
It's sad to find that even in
today's digital revolution, we are
still grappling with increased
poverty levelsin bothdeveloping
and developed countries. Sure,
British poverty levels are better than those during Victorian
England, asdescribed in Charles
Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Yet the
truth is that in these powerful
industrialized countries, poverty is real. The fact that poor
people still exist should shame
all societies, industrialized and
developing. It should shame us
as a sign of a misappropriation
of priorities. Nations are too
busy trying to build their nuclear arsenals, fight terrorism and
get oil that we have lost sight of
providing people with an ability
to sustainably feed themselves.
One of the many causes of
poverty is how nations define
it — a hungry homeless person
walking in Toledo is quite different from a child in southern
Sudan or India. Poverty has
different faces, but generally
has more similarities than differences. Defining what it really means to be poor, regardless of the context, probably
doesn't mean anything to the
poor mother in some Favela in
Sao Paolo or in some Parisian
ghetto.
Yet the reality is that how a
society chooses to define poverty shades how it chooses to
respond to it. Many societies
usually create a so-called poverty line, a kind of marker below
which people are declared
poverty-stricken. This marker
will vary, but generally poverty
stricken people are plagued by
extreme levels of hunger, illiteracy, lack of health and decent
housing.
Inaction still follows these
definitions. We have all heard
grand speeches at the UN or by
headsofstate.promisingtomake
sure everyone lives above the
poverty line. Inaction accompanies these promises, the result
of many of the wealthier people
being lulled into believing that
because poverty isn't in their
immediate vicinity, it doesn't
need to be dealt with, or politicians spending their time perpetuating wars that create more
poor people.
The causes of poverty tend to
be the same in developed and
developing nations. In many
cases, the poor are blamed for
their situation by wealthier
members of society'. The truth
is, many people work but don't
earn the type of wages that
would allow them to escape
poverty in their respective societies.
One thing that connects poverty around the world is that it
tends to be the same people that
society marginalizes. Victims
of poverty are normally ethnic
minorities, children, women
and the elderly.
Society's age-old perception of poor people has also
further eroded society's ability
to solve poverty. One common
presumption heavily linked to
racism is that poverty is the
result of some pathology or
deviance. In other words, the
poor person's behavior or state
of being is abnormal and has
lead to poverty.
The poor are often viewed
as unmotivated, rebellious, apathetic, stubborn,
unskilled and illiterate. We
get to a point where societies think the cure lies in
changing the person, meaning many feel it was through
ethical conduct and moral
values that poverty can be
alleviated. Leaders choose
to reject structural modifications in favor of the poor
because they view poverty as
a behavioral problem.
Societies are heavily structured to favor the interests
of the policy makers, governors and the rich. As citizens of countries, all those
that realize that poverty
in the world is one of the
greatest sins on the planet.
People should pressure governments worldwide to quit
squabbling about oil, nuclear
proliferation and war.
Poverty is modern society's
oldest problem and most
ignored, as compared to the
man-hours spent on inventing frivolous toys like sports
cars that go really fast and
serve no real purpose.
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night out on the town with friends
SARAH FOLMEB I COLUMNIST
Being young and in college means
many of us take the opportunity
to go out with our friends to do
anything other than homework.
The past few weekends, I have gone
out to BG bars to spend time with
friends and get out on the dance
floor. The cliche movie scenario
running through my mind offuxling a trendy nightclub quickly disappeared
Maybe my idea of going out and
having a fun time is old fashioned,
or maybe it is just unrealistic in
today's world. Whatever the case
may be, seeing the drunken orgy
develop as the night went on was
appalling There are ways to avoid
looking like a moronic and homy
drunk though, and hopefully the
rest of this column will guide some
of you to better behaviors.
If a woman says that she doesn't
want to dance, this isn't the time
to make a scene and debate her
reasons. It could be because she
wants to just dance with her
friends, she truly isn't interested
in you or maybe she doesn't want
to simulate sex to bad rap music
—which seems to be the trend.
If you insist on taking up room
on the dance floor, could you at
least move your feet and arms
a little and pretend that you are
actually going to dance? There's
nothing more annoying than having a group of guy friends stand in
the middle of the floor and stare
at other people. You may think it
seems creepy to gawk from a distance, but it is far less disturbing
than towering over the ladies and
staring aimlessly.
If you know every word to a rap
or hip hop song there is no reason
to shout it at the top of your lungs.
Everyone around you can already
hear the noisy tune coming from
the giant speakers and adding
your contribution to the song is
unnecessary.
If you are a woman and happen to have some drama in your
life, please do us all a favor and
leave it at home. The women's
restroom is constantly filled with
mascara-running tears, groups of
friends telling the drunkest in the
group that she is too good for her
boyfriend, and enough perfume
to smell like a French whorehouse.
It would be great if we could all
just go to the restroom for obvious
reasons, and leave the counseling
sessioas somewhere else.
If you happen to be in a relationship try not to assume that every
single person is trying to take away
your significant other. There have
been countless numbers of fights
at the bars over someone talking
to another person's girlfriend or
boyfriend. This egotistical domination gets really old really fast
and if you happen to have jealousy
issues, then therapy is out there
somewhere.
Finally, if you are desperately in
need of a good fist fight, try to take
it outside so the cops can arrest
you much sooner. Dninkenly
brawling in a crowded bar ruins
the time of people around you
and causes quite a bit of extra
work on the employees. Going
outside helps you get handcuffed
faster and it allows more people
to see how stupid you look.
Hopefully some or all of these
tips will give you and those around
you a better experience at our local
watering holes.
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Veterans Affairs
to ease way for vets
Burned Florida teen
'not out of woods yet'
Twitterers invited to
next shuttle launch
U.S. aid won't hurt
sovereignty
New Orleans awaits
Obama's visit
Clinton urges Russia
to open up
WASHINGTON-Soldiersand
others in dangerous roles that once
were behind Ironl lines in Iraq and
Afghanistan have long complained
about how hard it is to prove their
combat experience when applying lor
disability due to post-traumatic stress
disorder
MIAMI- A 15-year-old doused
with rubbing alcohol and set on fire
after he turned in another teen for
trying to steal his fathers bicycle
is at extremely high risk for organ
failure and infection, his doctor said
yesterday
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. - NASA
is inviting its Twitter followers to the
next space shuttle launch.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pakistan's
foreign minister said yesterday he would
return to his country satisfied that a
multibillion-dollar U.S. aid package does
not hurt Pakistan's sovereignty
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - When
President Barack Obama visits New
Orleans, he is going to find a city wearied by the rebuilding from Hurricane
Katrma and disillusioned with its leadership
KAMN. Russia - US. Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
That could soon change
The Veterans Affairs Department
has proposed reducing the paperwork
required for veterans to show their
experience caused combat-related
stress. Even just the fear ot hostile
action would be sufficient, as long as
a Veterans Affairs psychologist or psychiatrist agreed
The Veterans Affairs Department
says the change would streamline
claims and recognize the "inherently
stressful nature" of war service. The
agency is accepting comment until
Oct. 23.
- Kimberly Hefling (AP)
Michael Brewer was heavily
sedated and breathing with a ventilator at Jackson Memorial Ryder
Trauma Center and Dr Nicholas
Namias said he is doing as well as
can be expected but is not "out of
the woods yet."
Brewer's troubles started when
15-year-old Michael Bent gave him a
video game and expected him to pay
$40 for it. Broward County Sheriff's
Office spokesman Jim Leljedal
Brewer never paid for the game,
which authorities would not identify,
so Bent tried to steal a $500 custom
bike that belonged to Brewer's father.
Leljedal said.
The shuttle Atlantis was moved to
the launch pad yesterday for its planned
liftoff on Nov. 12. The shuttle will deliver
more goods to the International Space
Station
Eor the first time ever. NASA is
holding a liftoff Tweetup. The first 100
NASA Twitter followers who sign up
will get a tour of Kennedy Space Center
and a front-row seat for Atlantis' launch
Registration opens Friday
NASA has had Tweetups before, but
never for a shuttle launch
-Matthew Lee (AP)
Shah Mahmood Qureshi said U.S.
assurances would "allay the fears of
Pakistan" U.S. lawmakers, however,
have no plans to change the bill, which
awaits President Barack Obama's signature into law.
yesterday challenged Russians to
open up their political system and
embrace diversity and dissent, saying
that Cold War-era thinking would
limit their prosperity in the 21st
century.
Obama is set today to make his
first visit to the city since he became
president.
Clinton spoke to university students m Moscow and also in Kazan,
the capital of Russia's religiously
and ethnically diverse republic of
Tatarstan These informal meetings,
which wiapped up a five-day tour
of Europe, were aimed at helping
redefine US -Russia relations.
More than $126 billion has been
committed to New Orleans' recovery,
but bureaucratic snags and finger-pointing by officials have slowed progress.
A week after he dismissed complaints in Islamabad about the aid bill.
Qureshi made a rushed return visit to
Washington on Tuesday amid angry
cries in Pakistan that the bill was an
attempt to interfere with the military
and civilian government
After Obama took office, he
ordered some of the red tape cut to
get federal funding flowing to the city.
Administration officials say thats freed
about $1 billion for public infrastructure
in Louisiana so far this year
Clinton appeared taken with oilnch Tatarstan. where a mosque and
church stand side by side inside the
Kazan Kremlin. She talked with students about how their republic, with
a moderate Muslim majonty. could
be a model for promoting religious
tolerance.
- Tamara Lush (AP)
-Matthew Lee (AP)
Another GOP Senator open to health care overhaul
By Alonio-Zaldivar
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A second
Republican senator signaled
yesterday she's open to voting
for sweeping health care legislation this year, putting President
Barack Obama closer to a historic
achievement that has eluded generations of Democratic leaders.
But Sen. Susan Collins. RMaine, told The Associated Press
that the bill approved Tuesday
by the Finance Committee needs
substantial improvements to
make coverage more affordable, contain costs, and protect
Medicare. Nevertheless, she
joined her Maine GOP colleague
Sen. Olympia Snowe in endorsing
the goal of far-reaching changes.
"My hope is that we can fix
the flaws in the bill and come
together with a truly bipartisan
bill that could garner widespread
support," Collins said in an interview. "I think this bill is far superior to the ones passed by the
Senate (health) committee and
the three House committees, but
it needs substantial additional
work."
The ten-year, $829 billion
Finance bill was approved by
the committee Tuesday on a 149 vote, after Snowe broke ranks
with her Republican colleagues to
support Chairman Max Baucus'
middle-of-the-road plan.
Yesterday, Snowe tackled the
most divisive issue still on the
"I want to make sure the insurance
industry performs, and that's why we
eliminate many egregious practices."
Susan Collins I Senator
table: creation of a government
insurance plan that would compete with private ones.
While emphasizing that she
still opposes the so-called public
option, Snowe said in a nationally broadcast interview that she
could foresee a government-run
plan that would "kick in" if private insurers failed to live up to
expectations that they keep pre-
miums in check.
"I think the government
would have a disproportionate advantage" in the event of a
government-run option, Snowe
acknowledged. At the same time,
she added, "I want to make sure
the insurance industry performs,
and that's why we eliminate
many egregious pi act ices."
If the industry didn't follow
through on congressionallymandated changes aimed at
making health care more affordable, she said, "then you could
have the public option kick in
immediately."
Snowe previously had proposed using the public option as
an incentive, ora threat, to private
insurers. This "trigger" option, or
some version of it, has survived
the bitter debate and scrutiny to
remain a viable option for compromise.
Such a statement from a
Republican can be very influential in an environment in which
GOP lawmakers almost universally hare opposed any kind of
government-run health care
option to compete with private
insurers. It represents a break
in party solidarity, even if finite.
I lealth care proposals advanced
in the I louse include such a gin
eminent option.
Snowe broached her standby
notion again as talks among lawmakers on health care were going
back behind closed doors; Senate
leaders are trying to merge two
very different bills into a new
version that can get the 60 votes
needed to guarantee passage.
Collins, however, said she could
not support Snowe's idea because
she thinks it would make it too
easy for a Democratic administration to impose a government plan
nationwide. It would simply delay
the public plan for a couple of
years," she told AP,
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SIDELINES
BGs
Football Notes: Barnes
adds new Web site to
season's accolades
mom couldn't be happier that
Ruggiero came through on his
word.
"They asked me if I wanted it,
Before this season, it was said
by offensive coordinator Warren and 1 was like'()f course, why not?'"
Ruggicro that senior receiver Barnes said. "I said 'It's cool. I have
Freddie Barnes was going to be to tell my mom.' I sent her the link
and she's been happy and can't
famous.
"Coach Ruggicro. when he first slop smiling."
Bui the origin of the idea for a site
met my mom. the first thing he
said was that he was going to is in limbo.
Coach Dave Clawson asked
make me famous, and I laughed."
Barnes said. "I can never forget that assistant director of athletic combecause right now all this stuff is munications Dave Meyer who's
idea the Web site really was. While
happening."
Barnes leads the nation in recep- Meyer said it was his. Clawson had
tions (75) and receiving yards (722). a different idea.
"It was completely, 100 percent
appeared on ESPN yesterday and
now has his own Web site courtesy my idea," Clawson joked.
Regardless of whose idea it was,
ol the athletic department.
At www.freddiebarnes.com. quarterback Tyler Sheehan wants
fans can find statistics, pho- to make sure the site stays relevant
tos and videos of Barnes, His all season long.
revival also
important
to the future
By Andrew Harner
Sports Editor
FOOTBALL
Barnes gets air time
on ESPN2
BG senior wide receiver
Freddie Barnes was guest on
ESPN2's show First Take on
Wednesday airing at 11:35
a.m. and again at 1:35 p.m.
A video o( the interview is
available at the new athletic department website for
Barnes, www.freddiebarnes.
com
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ON THE WEB: Barnes got his own website after his exploits this season.
"I'll let Freddie handle that
and take care of all the Web
site stuff," Sheehan said. "I'll
make sure 1 keep giving him
the ball so he can stay up on
that."
reinstated to practice Tuesday,
Clawson said yesterday.
Mahone - who was suspended indefinitely Sept. 15-is
practicing with the scout team
and may return to the field next
Mahone reinstated
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By Chris Sojka
Reporter
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There was a time last year when the volleyball coaches weren't sure
if Emily Kauth could play the middle hitter position and they considered moving her to the outside.
Kauth proved them wrong.
"|Kauth| had a really good spring and went home over the summer
and really worked hard," coach Denise Van De Walle said. "She came
back in terrific shape and is one of our top players right now on the
floor. She needs to stay in the middle."
The 5-foot-l 1 sophomore from Vandalia is absolutely one of the top
players on the floor right now for the Falcons,
Today in
Sports History
1989—Wayne Gretzkey
passes Gordie Howe as the
all time goal scorer in NHL
history.
The statistics say it all.
1988—Kirk Gibson hits
Kauth is second on the team in kills per set (2.70) and second in
attack percentage (.289). She is second on the team in blocks with 40,
second in points with 236.5 and second in kills with 200.
Corey Domek has an idea why Kauth has as many kills as she
does.
"She could rip the cover off the ball," Domek said. "Emily's a stud.
For her first year playing, I think she's a huge force on our team. She's
really taken over some matches and really dominated."
Domek and Van De Walle were on the same page when discussing
Kauth's hitting ability.
"I think Emily has the best arm swing on the team," Van De Walle
said. "She hits fast, very fast. When she swings at the ball, it gets on
the floor fast and that's exactly what you need."
But even though the players and coaches know she has the
)est arm swing on the team, she is very modest about her tal-
a two-out. two-run walk off
homerun with an injured leg
to win game one of the World
Series in the bottom of the
9th inning.
1935—The St Louis Eagles
of the NHL cease operations.
The List
With Emily Kauth having a
breakout season for volleyball,
■nt.
we take a look at her top five
"I don't know. Sounds good. Whatever," Kauth said of being the
reasons for her performance
this season:
1. Consistency: Kauth
See VOLLEY | Page 7
Thank god for Scott Hamilton.
While the figure skater
and Bowling Green native is
most known for his Olympic
exploits, I'm more excited for
what he might have just done
for college hockey.
Hamiltonalong with Garry
Galley and Mike Pikul (both
members of the 1984 NCAA
Championship Team) have
teamed up to "Bring Back
the Glory," to both the BGSU
Ice Arena and the hockey
program.
If their fundraising campaign is successful, Hamilton's
team could effectively save
two college hockey programs
from going the way of the
dinosaurs.
Yes that's correct, two programs.
Head south 586 miles and
you'll get to the University
of Alabama Huntsville, a
school who might be in a
much warmer climate than
BG, but still loves the game
played in sub-freezing temperatures.
This season will be the swan
song for the four-team College
Hockey American Conference,
of which Huntsville is a member. While the other three
teams (Bemidji State, Niagara
and Robert Morris) have all
found conferences for the
future, Huntsville is about to
be left out in the cold.
The Chargers tried to find a
new home earlier this season,
when they applied for admission into the Central Collegiate
Hockey Association.
After
Nebraska-Omaha
declared it was leaving
the CCHA for the Western
Collegiate Hockey Association,
many thought it was a shooin that Huntsville would take
their place along side BG in
the CCHA.
However, that wasn't the
case as the conference rejected
the application on August 11.
"It's disappointing, because
now we're the only school, out
See COLUMN | Page 7
SPIKE: Emily Kauth goes up for a kill earlier this season.
is one of two Falcons to have
played in all 74 sets this season She is also one of three
players to have started all 21
matche.
2. Killer: With 200 kills:
Kauth is one behind Kaitlin
Golfers take swing on the road
Jackson for the team lead; it's
even more impressive after
he lack of playing time last
Men finishes sixth out of 17
season.
3. Aced: In addition to her
exploits at the net. Kauth has
shown prowess behind the
at Bearcat Invitational
By Morgan Carlson
serving line picking up 14 aces
this season.
4. Blocks: So far this
season the sophomore has
picked up 40 blocks in 21
matches.
5. Good Percentage:
Not only has Kauth been
picking up kills, she's also
been effecient. Recording a
.289 hitting percentage this
season.
Yout leads the way
for women's team
By Christopher Rambo
Reporter
Those who closely follow golf
know that the players who win
the most are those who continually put themselves in contention
week after week.
The same player is highly
unlikely to win every week, but
the one who gives himself the
most opportunities is usually the
one able to string together the
most sustained success. The BG
men's golf team certainly gave
themselves an opportunity to
win the Bearcat Invitational in
Hebron, Ky. This week — they
were in second place going into
the final round—but the Falcons
could not quite follow through,
shooting a 313 in cold blustery
"The whole key to tournament golf is just to
Reporter
keep giving yourself a chance to win coming
The underclassman on
coach Stephanie Young's
golf team took the lead
this weekend, as the
women competed in the
Mid-American Conference
Preview in Fishers, Ind.
Freshman
Susannah
Grunden and sophomore
Paula DiFrancesco were the
Falcon's top scorers at the
preview. Grunden shot a 223
(79-78-76) to tie for 1Mb place,
while DiFrancesco, in her
first tournament of the season, tied for 67th with a 252
(79-92-81).
"We all went out there to
put solid scores together,"
DiFrancesco said. "We stayed
down the stretch. We've been able to do that
now for three out of four weeks so far and
have come away with two victories."
Garry Winger | BG Golf Coach
conditions on Tuesday to finish
6th out of 17 teams.
Despite the fact that his bunch
could not take advantage of their
opportunity, coach Garry Winger
is pleased that the team gave
themselves a shot and is fully
aware that if they keep doing so,
then good things will surely con-
tinue to happen.
"The whole key to tournament
golf is just to keep giving yourself
a chance to win coming down
the stretch," said Winger. "We've
been able to do that now for three
MEN ■ ,
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Susannah
Grunden
Finished 11th place
in the individual
tournament
focused and played our
game."
Grunden is still on-pace
for the season round average
record, improving her average to 77.91 this past weekend.
BG ultimately finished in
14th place in a 16 team field,
coming off a 16th place finish the first day of competition.
The women say they knew they
See WOMEN | Page 8
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COMING BACK?: Suspended since the Missouri game. PJ Mahone may gel another chance to see the held this season
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month if he continues to meet
Clawson's standards.
"We're hoping it works out. Inn
ultimately that will he up to PJ,"
Clawson said.
Sophomore Keith Morgan
has filled in for Mahone since
the suspension, recording 41
tackles, one fumble recovery
and one interception this season.
Mahone had recorded 21 tackles in two games before the suspension.
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of the SB [college hockey programs] that is not the member
of a conference," said lluntsville
athletic director |im Harris, who
is a BGSU alumnus.
It seems one of the issues with
Huntsville's application wasn't
a problem with lluntsville at all,
perhaps the biggest con against
their addition to the CCHA lies
at North Mercer Road in Bowling
Green.
If BG's hockey program had
a certain future, the CCHA
shouldn't have had a problem
allowing the Chargers into the
conference. But. with BG's recent
turmoil and swirling rumors,
the conference looked after its
own interests.
Currently the CCHA has
12 teams (soon to be 11 after
Nebraska-Omaha leaves for the
WCHA), and an odd number of
teams would cause a scheduling fiasco that would undermine
the current grouping system.
It's not fair to Huntsville, who
has proven they more than
belong in the college hockey
world.
While they don't have a national championship banner hanging in their arena, they still have
compiled a 389-296-50 record
and made the 2007 NCAA tournament, something BG hasn't
done in the past 18 years.
They're also scheduled to host
the 2012 Frozen Four and NCAA
Title game, which just adds to
their appeal as a CCHA member.
The program even made
national news this past weekend,
when they upset CCHA powerhouse and No. 5 team in the
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Freshman kicker Jerry Phillips
has not lost his starling job.
After battling some minor injuries last week. Phillips was given
the green light to take the first kick,
but he was also on a tight leash.
"I watched him pre-gamc.
and he said he fell healthy but
I saw he was kicking the ball
low," Clawson said. "If we had
an issue with the first kick,
we were going to make the
change."
His first kick was low, blocked
and turned into an 82-yard
touchdown for Kent State.
country Notre Dame in South
Bend.
For a little bit of perspective,
that's something BG hasn't done
In 16 tries dating back to lanuary
29,2005.
According to Flarris the plan
for now is to try and maintain the Huntsville hockey
program as an independent,
which will be a very difficult
process going from 10 nonconference games a season to
around 30.
This will be even more difficult since every other school
in the nation will have a conference schedule they must commit to during the middle of the
season.
The difficulty in scheduling
alone and the lack of precedent for a non-conference team
making the NCAA tournament,
could be just a few of the factors leading to the program's
demise.
So why is Harris alma mater
privileged to determine whether
or not his current school will
survive on the ice?
Hopefully Hamilton and his
fundraising committee have
answered Huntsville's prayers
of salvation, because now the
existence of hockey in two college towns is restingon his goldmedal winning shoulders.
It doesn't even matter that
Hamilton isn't a hockey player
or even technically an alumnus
of BGSU (he received an honorary degree in 1994). he still holds
the power to save both an ice
arena and two college hockey
programs.
And if Hamilton can help save
collegiate hockey for two universities.well then we can once
again all thank god for Scott
Hamilton.
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kicking job despite
an injury last week
From then on, senior walk-on
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kicking duties, making a field
goal and three PATs.
And while Phillips has struggled at times this season, the
starting job is still his to lose.
"1 don't want him going out
there thinking it's one bad kick
and he's getting a quick hook,"
Clawson said.
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She talked as if this talent
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Kauth fell in love with the
game when her mother, who
played collegiately at Ohio
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family.
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Though Kauth feels pressure at times, she handles it
well and feels like she's always
being supported.
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a team we do a good job supporting each other and encouragi ng each other. There's never
any class separation, which is
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Domek doesn't think
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doing this.
"She's quiet at times, but she
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play," Domek said. "Playing in
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know the teams. Emily is gaining that knowledge and I think
she's going to continue to do
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The final round was doubly disappointing for Preston,
whose 77 not only contributed
to the team's overall slide, but
also cost him a chance to win
the individual competition.
Preston was one of only two
players to shoot in the 60's
on Monday, firing a second
round 69 to vault himself into
a tie for the lead with Nathan
Sutherland of Miami heading
into Tuesday. However, things
went south for the BG sophomore almost immediately in
the final round. Through seven
holes, he was already five over
for the round and effectively out
of the running. A nice birdie
stretch on the back nine was not
nearly enough to put the heat
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by seven shots.
"I was disappointed with the
way 1 played today," said Preston.
I got off to a terrible start, played
a little better on the back nine,
but gave much of it back with a
double-bogey at 18. It just wasn't
a great day overall."
Nevertheless, it is Preston's
second top-5 finish this season
and the third time he has placed
in the top-15. After a rocky freshman season, he appears to be
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needed to improve and motivated each other to move up
two spots.
"We did not want to he at the
bottom of the scoreboard leaving the tournament," Grunden
said. "We motivated each other
and ourselves and didn't think
about the past."
The Falcons shot an overall
992, good for 59 strokes behind
tournament champion Ball
State (933). The preview consisted of all nine MAC teams,
with the exception of Kent
State, as well as eight other
schools.
"I think it's really good to
see the competition that we're
going to see in the spring,"
DiFrancesco said. "It was good
for me to play in this as my first
tournament Ithis seasonl, and
great for us to measure where
we're at and what we need to
work on."
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finding his place.
"Even though I can still get
a lot better. I'm overall pretty
happy with the way 1 am playing right now," Preston said, "it
was nice to be in contention so
soon again after winning my
first tournament."
As for the team as a whole,
Winger hopes they can parlay
their fine play thus far into a
strong finish to the fall season,
which has only two events left.
"I'm happy with the way my
guys are playing right now,"
Winger said. "We are going to try
and catch up on some practice
the next few days and be ready
to head down to Dayton next
week."
Hannah Lambert tied for
75th place (256), Marisa Glew
placed 78th (261) and Lauren
Cilew came in 81st (263) for the
Falcons.
The
women
will
compete again next Monday and
Tuesday. October 19th and 20th
in the University of Dayton Fall
Invitational in Kettcring, Ohio.
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LAST TOURNAMENT: BG
finished 14th out of 16 teams at the
Mid-American Conference Preview
Tournament.
TOP PERFORMERS: Susannah
Grunden and sophomore Paula
DiFrancesco lead BG during the
tournament, with a 223 and 252
respectively.
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for the University of Dayton Fall
Invitational Tournament.
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