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September 17, 2009 Volume 104, Issue 19
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Glass studio to draw a crowd The renovated glassmaking studio has reopened in the Fine Arts Center and an alumnus returns for the celebration | Page 3
Student laments attendance policies Arizona Daily Wildcat columnist Chris Ward argues that attendance policies are unnecessary for non-major classes | Page 4
taking sole possession of second place on BG’s all-time list. And while that production will be Senior safety P.J. Mahone has missed, coach Dave Clawson been indefinitely suspended said he had to make the decifrom the Falcon football team sion. “It doesn’t help us, but this will after breaking an undisclosed not be an excuse why we’re not team rule. The fourth-year starter will be successful,” Clawson said. “It’s replaced in the line-up by soph- hard to replace a guy that has omore Keith Morgan, starting that much experience. He’s been a four-year starter.” this weekend in Marshall. Clawson later said there is a Through two games, Mahone was leading the Falcons with 21 chance Mahone will return to tackles and was just one inter- the team before the end of the ception return yard away from season, but that there are things
“It doesn’t help us, but this will not be an excuse why we’re not successful. It’s hard to replace a guy that has that much experience He’s been a four-year starter.” Dave Clawson | Coach he’ll have to do before getting that opportunity. Mahone is also barred from any football activities this week, but will meet with Clawson next week to determine his future
with the team. Each year, the team is given a policy manual that outlines all the on- and off-the-field expectations. The coaches then review every page of that manual with
the players, leaving stars and the reserves all on the same page when it comes to rules. “Whether it’s a fifth-string walk-on or your starting tackle, you have to apply all those rules fairly and equally,” Clawson said. “P.J. violated one of those rules and he knew if he did this, this could happen, and it did.” With discipline as one of the bigger issues facing the Falcons in the past couple years, one
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Drug use delays death sentence Prior drug use contributed to the delay of an Ohio inmate’s execution after teams were unable to find a suitable vein | Page 6
An open letter to coach Bylsma
SPORTS
The sports section posts an open letter to the BGSU alumnus and Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma, asking him to bring the Stanley Cup to BGSU as a reminder of the importance of the hockey program | Page 7
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Culinary legacy lives on at Ben’s Table By Hannah Nusser Reporter
PEOPLE ON THE STREET
The first time Deb Pirooz took her son Ben out to dinner as a child, he ordered escargot and Alaskan king crab legs. More than twenty years later, Ben’s love for food is still alive. Pirooz said Ben aspired to
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EMMY HAYES Sophomore, Hospitality Management
“Everybody should get $1000 a week for a shopping spree.” | Page 4
By Christie Kerner Reporter
GOOD EATS: Ben’s Table a local restaurant located at BEN LOHMAN | THE BG NEWS 1021 S Main St is local hotspot. She set out to keep the legacy attend culinary school after working for his dad at Easy Street of her son alive by re-opening Café. However, Ben became ill what was once Godfrey’s restauwith bronchitis, and eventually rant as a tribute to her son. Pirooz said she wanted to open doctors found a tumor on his trachea. In 2000, after almost the restaurant but “couldn’t a year of chemotherapy, Ben come up with a name, I didn’t Pirooz died at 22 of Germ Cell know what to do.” Ben’s Table got its name from Carcinoma, a rare form of canthe Pirooz family tradition of cer. “Ben had said to me, ‘Mom, Sundays spent around the dinplease don’t let anyone forget See BEN’S | Page 2 me,’” Pirooz said.
The Pelotonia Tour provides ‘amazing’ experience for University senior By Andrew Farr Reporter
A month ago, Lance Armstrong led a bike ride of more than 2,200 people from Columbus to Athens, Ohio, to raise money for cancer research. Called the Pelotonia Tour, it is named for a peloton, or the main pack of riders in a cycling race. The event was originally modeled after the Pan-Mass Challenge, a similar cycling event in Boston that has raised over $250 million in the last 29 years. The Pelotonia is not a
race but a ride, and was made up of cancer survivors, people who have cancer, as well as devoted cyclists that just wanted to help the cause. This year’s tour raised more than $4.3 million, all of which will go directly to Ohio State University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Pelotonia consisted of three different routes, 50, 100, and 180 miles long. Each participant was required to gather donations of $1,000, $1,500, or $2,000, depending on the distance they would ride. While Armstrong did serve
The story of our nation’s history is filled with stories of hardship, war, turmoil and slavery. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared freedom for African-American slaves in the Confederate States in 1862, however, the stories of slavery continue to be written in our nation’s history to this day. An issue often viewed as a problem in places such as India and Thailand is going on in our very own back yard. The U.S. Government estimates one million people are suffering in human trafficking today. Of these people, 20,000 are estimated to be trafficked into the U.S. each year, in either labor or sex slavery. A non-profit ministry known as the Daughter Project is hoping to provide a safe house for women res-
cued from human trafficking in one of the nation’s top recruitment cities. Toledo has been cited as a top U.S. recruitment city for trafficking by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Center for Missing Children and Exploited Children. Daughter Project Director Jeff Wilbarger, who has worked as a math teacher for 22 years, loves his job, but started to get the feeling a couple years ago that he needed to do something else in his life while still teaching. He was given a copy of the book “Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—And How We Can Fight It” by David Batstone and could barely finish the first two chapters. “I started reading it and had to stop,” he said. “I thought slavery was over, at least in the United States.”
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as honorary chairman of the Pelotonia, Executive Director Tom Lennox was responsible for organizing the event. According to a press release for Pelotonia, Lennox said that as a cancer survivor and avid cyclist, he was excited that people were getting involved in the event, and even more so that Lance Armstrong agreed to join the cause. “Lance returned to cycling in order to increase global awareness about cancer, and Pelotonia will help him further that mission while also raising the funds necessary to support the high quality research performed every day at The Ohio
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FINISH: Two cyclists cross finish line after biking from Columbus to Athens in a trip called Pelotonia Tour.
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