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Democrats clash in Cleveland Clinton and Obama battle for Ohio delegates

Students are finding it harder to pay attention, when using computers during class time | Page 3

China to help rid North Korea of nuclear weapons Chinese officials confirmed with Condoleezza Rice that they will aid the United States in disarming North Korea | Page 12

Sporadic power outages affect all of Florida

By Tim Sampson and Kristen Vasas The BG News

It’s not often that last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live comes up during a Presidential debate.

But that’s just what happened at Cleveland State University last night, when Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama engaged in their final presidential debate before the Ohio Democratic primary next Tuesday.

Trailing Obama in total num-

ber of pledged delegates in the nationwide nominating contest and slowly losing ground in Ohio public opinion polls, Clinton went after Obama at every available opportunity.

The latest public opinion polls from the Associated Press and Quinnipiac University show Clinton leading Obama in Ohio by 11 percentage points after she had been leading by 21 points in mid-Febuarary. Obama currently leads Hillary in the national race, 1,362 pledged delegates to 1,266.

This resulted in a confrontational debate as Clinton and

Obama were asked to address recent attacks from both sides, criticizing each other’s plans for universal health care.

Clinton said the Obama campaign has been distributing direct mail ads in Ohio that tell voters her plan will not cover all Americans. But she said that it is Obama’s plan that will leave 15 million citizens without health care.

“My plan will cover everyone and it will be affordable,” Clinton

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ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS

OHIO FACE-OFF: Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are introduced at a debate at Cleveland State University last night.

SPECIAL REPORT | CAMPUS SAFETY

After a nuclear plant automatically shut down, nearly the whole state experienced a power outage | Page 6

Women’s b-ball tries to continue hot streak vs. OU The Falcons head to Athens tonight to try and sweep a tough Bobcats team for the season series | Page 13

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A technical solution Ralph Nader is running for president

Columnists Levi Joseph Wonder and Sean Lutzmann debate the decision to vote for a third party candidate | Page 4

When the news reached Bowling Green that there had been a shooting at Northern Illinois, students and officials started to wonder how the University would react if anything were to happen here on campus.

University Police Chief James Wiegand believes the University is prepared, if a situation were to occur, to promptly protect its students.

“We would certainly be able to respond promptly,” Wiegand said. “Most places on campus we could respond to within a

few minutes.”

Though the chief admitted we are just as ready as the police force at NIU, he was quick to point out how it is nearly impossible to prevent something like this and any police force would have to be very fortunate to be informed of something similar prior to it occurring.

The officers of the University trained this past summer with members of the state highway patrol and county police for active shooter training in Harshman, said Wiegand.

“It was excellent training,” Wiegand said. “We are going to continue to do it and also look

at other available training.”

He said this type of training is important because a shooter such as the one from NIU is capable of doing a lot of damage or injure several people in just a short period of time.

This training was a very high priority for the University and budget was really not a concern because the police force was able to apply for a reimbursement from the state for the overall cost of the exercises, Wiegand said.

After the shooting at Virginia Tech, the University introduced

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DIANA DEL BALSO,

Senior, Economics “As much as gas costs to and from Cleveland.” | Page 4

TOMORROW Mostly Cloudy High: 28, Low: 23

By Janeen Morgan Reporter

By Janeen Morgan Reporter

For some students and faculty, Valentine’s Day 2008 will forever be remembered for the tragic shootings that took place at Northern Illinois University.

When staff members from the University Counseling Center and students from the Undergraduate Student Government heard about

The shootings at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech are making people question whether students with mental health issues pose a threat to University safety.

But Craig Vickio, director of the counseling center, said it is not likely in most cases.

“The vast majority of

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University student portrays gender-neutral superhero to raise awareness

By Kristen Vasas Reporter

TODAY Few Snow Showers High: 22, Low: 10

Counselors Mental and students health not aid NIU a sure risk

Behind the mask of Super Queer

How much is your spring break going to cost you?

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Ze walks through the Union alone, a black and pink triangle mask hiding the chocolatebrown eyes that dominate hir narrow face.

A rainbow flag trails behind hir as students stare questioningly at the giant pink Q dominating the baggy T-shirt ze wears. Ze smiles in their direction, walks up to their table and asks them how the weather is.

Just another day in the life of Super Queer.

For senior Jennifer Dietsch, or Super Queer as she is known when in costume, living the life of a gay female can often feel like living behind a mask.

“I don’t want any kid out there to cry every night like I did because they think they’re a freak for being attracted to the same gender or sex,” Dietsch said. “If there is someone in the

closet out there who sees Super Queer and knows that gays are around on campus, then they might not be so scared when it’s time for them to come out.”

Super Queer, which has become the official mascot of the gay rights group Vision, was created by Dietsch after attending a pride fest in Indiana this summer. The superhero debuted on campus during a protest at Coming out Week in October.

“People would see me go past and be like, ‘what the heck was that?’” she said. “That’s when I started going up to protesters and talking to them about what I was representing.”

The message behind Super Queer is aimed at creating awareness and understanding of queer issues on campus in a world that constantly blames homosexuality on personal choice, Dietsch said.

“I was raised in a situation

VISION’S MASCOT Student Jennifer Dietsch’s “Super Queer” character is gender-neutral ■ ■

“Ze” is the gender-neutral pronoun for he or she.

“Hir” is the gender-neutral pronoun for him or her.

where I should have been hetero, but something in my genetics or biological makeup made me attracted to girls,” she said. “Since I was a little girl, I wanted to be more than friends with other girls.”

Dietsch came out to herself when she was 16-years-old.

But it wasn’t until she was 18 that she felt comfortable enough to come out to friends and family members.

And though she acknowl-

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said. She also called on Obama to take accountability for his campaign’s tactics.

Obama denied that his campaign has been misleading, and after agreeing that Clinton’s and his health care plans were “95 percent similar,” Obama said he did have the better plan. He said that Clinton’s plan forced people to buy health care programs and punished those who could not afford it.

The health care argument went back and forth for 16 minutes, with neither side willing to concede the final word, until debate moderator and NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams intervened.

Co-moderator Tim Russert then moved the debate toward the topic of the controversial North American Free Trade Agreement, asking Clinton first whether or not the trade agreement has hurt or helped the American economy.

That is when Clinton questioned the debate’s moderators, suggesting that she is always asked questions first during the debates as a way of showing favoritism for Obama.

She referenced the opening sketch from last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, which lampooned the democratic debate in Texas, showing debate moderators and journalists fawning over Obama.

“Maybe we should ask Barack if he’s comfortable and needs another pillow,” she said, alliciting the night’s biggest reaction from the audience.

The debate once again became confrontational when the moderators asked Obama if he would reject a recent endorcment from Louis Farrakhan, a leader of the

SUPER From Page 1 edges that her family loves her, she didn’t get the warm reception she had hoped for after she first told her parents she was gay.

“I honestly was afraid my father was going to kick me out of the house,” she said. “He’s come a long way in the last few years though. I love my father, and I know he loves me, but there’s still tension between us sometimes.”

Much like her husband, Dietsch’s mother was also upset when first told her daughter was a lesbian because of her fear that Dietsch would be raped or beat up. However, she has always been supportive and expressed her love for her daughter no matter what, Dietsch said.

And though she has made progress with her family, Dietsch said she continues to face discrimination both on and off campus.

“When I went to OSU my freshman year, I would hear the term gay and faggot and I wouldn’t be afraid to speak out against it,” she said. “Using a word that represents an oppressed minority to mean stupid reflects destruction in our population, and I’m just trying to turn that around.”

According to Joelle Ruby Ryan, a friend of Dietsch’s and the founder of transgender rights organization Transcendence, speaking out against the intolerance often targeted at gay men and women is the only way

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“I’d love to see an America in which the American people see that kind of leadership .”

MONDAY 2:49 A.M.

A mountain bike was reported stolen from a bike rack outside of Kreischer-Compton.

7:42 P.M.

A purse was reported stolen from an apartment on Colony Lane.

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nation of Islam who has been an outspoken anti-semite.

“I’ve been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan’s anti-semetic comments,” Obama said.

After Obama answered, Clinton voluntarily jumped into the discussion, saying she had rejected the support of the antisemetic Independence Party of New York when she was running for Senate in 2000.

“I thought it was more important to stand on principle and to reject the kind of conditions that went with support like that,” Clinton said, suggesting that Obama took a weaker stance by denouncing rather than rejecting.

But Obama disagreed.

“I don’t see a difference between denouncing and rejecting,” he said. “There’s no formal offer of help from Minister Farrakhan that would involve me rejecting it. But if the word ‘reject’ Senator Clinton feels is stronger than the word ‘denounce,’ then I’m happy to concede the point, and I would reject and denounce.”

Obama supporters thought his ability to retain this kind of poise allowed him to win the debate and demonstrate why he would make a good president.

“I’d love to see an America in which the American people see that kind of leadership,” said Richard Cordray, Ohio Treasurer who publicly endorsed Obama last week.

8:31 P.M.

A vehicle’s window was reported shattered at Wal-Mart on West Gypsy Lane.

11:39 P.M.

Officers were sent to Offenhauer East on a report from an R.A. of the smell of marijuana. The officer confiscated the marijuana that was found in the room as well as a pipe.

The two students in the room were referred to student discipline.

TUESDAY 12:38 P.M.

Diana Sanchez Swartz, 51, of Bowling Green, was arrested for criminal trespassing.

ONLINE: Go to www.bgnews.com for the complete blotter list.

But Clinton supporters thought her experience and breadth of knowledge on the issues made her the victor. “[There are] no substitutes to experience,” said Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher. Fisher said Clinton understands the problems facing Cleveland and Youngstown better than Obama.

Regardless of who won, CSU President Michael Schwartz felt that it was important the candidates came to Ohio to debate. “[It was a] wonderful event — made all the difference in the world to the students and city,” Schwartz said.

“I see her as a very introverted person, and it was weird when she started doing Super Queer, because it’s just so out.”

Amanda Monyak | Jennifer Dietsch’s girlfriend to make a difference.

She said she admires Dietsch for her boldness and her willingness to challenge those who see her in a negative light.

“Jennifer isn’t afraid to talk the talk and walk the walk for gender equality,” Ryan said.

Dominant religious groups have also continued to pose a challenge for the acceptance of homosexual peoples like Dietsch.

Although she no longer identifies with the religion, Dietsch was born, raised, baptized and confirmed as a Presbyterian.

Her religion did not believe in gay marriage and was generally un-accepting of her lifestyle, she said.

“I got to the point where I was tired of crying when I prayed,” Dietsch said. “I wanted to be treated just like everyone else.

I want to be in a monogamous relationship with a wife I can grow old with, a job I enjoy, a house and maybe a couple of puppies.”

And though she may be far from most of the items on her list, Dietsch has found love in her girlfriend of over a year, senior Amanda Monyak.

“I’ve had people say, ‘You don’t know what love is because you’ve never felt love,’” she said.

“I say, you don’t know what love is if you can’t see me and my girlfriend are clearly in love.”

Monyak, who has also faced negative feedback from the community outside of Bowling Green, said she supports the idea of Super Queer because it spreads awareness and visibility.

“I think Jennifer is fabulous,” Monyak said. “I see her as a very introverted person, and it was weird when she started doing Super Queer, because it’s just so out.”

Monyak said Dietsch has not received much negativity from the students at Bowling Green, but has experienced disapproval from members of the gay community.

According to both Dietsch and Monyak, members of Vision have quit the group because of the representation Super Queer portrays.

“It’s sad they’re threatened by something so visual,” Monyak said. “They’re not used to social things like this and that’s why they feel so uncomfortable, which is why there is a definite need for Super Queer.”

But regardless of the communities’ views on the mascot, Dietsch said she will continue her efforts to help spread understanding and awareness about the challenges gay men and women face.

“This is just the way we are,” Dietsch said. “The only choice we have is to love ourselves.”

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NIU admission numbers not expected to drop

By Jerry Burnes U-Wire

DEKALB, Ill. — The Feb. 14 shooting Northern Illinois University is not expected to affect admissions for the 20082009 school year.

Director of Admissions Bob Burk said it is too early to determine the effect the shootings will have on admissions, but said by this time, NIU usually receives about 95 percent of their applications.

As of Feb. 4, Burk said NIU had already received 15,000 freshman applications and an additional 2,400 transfer applications. He added that the university set a goal of 16,200 freshman applications and expects a total of 5,000 transfer applications. With those numbers, Burk does not believe the university will have to extend application deadlines.

“It’s much, much too early to tell,” Burk said. “I spoke with Virginia Tech officials, and although it happened at a different time in the admissions cycle, they had no policy change and had a successful

“Do I feel safe sending him? No, not exactly. If I knew security was going to be increased permanently, I would feel safe letting him go.”

Judy Punzi | Mother of incoming freshman recruitment class.”

Incoming freshman Joey Punzi from Norridge said he plans to attend NIU next semester.

“I still feel safe going to NIU; it’s still like any other college,” Punzi said. “I have not had any second thoughts after the shooting. It could happen at any school and the NIU shooting was just coincidence.”

His mother, Judy Punzi, feels differently about sending her son to school. “Do I feel safe sending him? No, not exactly,” she said. “If I knew security was going to be increased permanently, I would feel safe letting him go.”

Both mentioned they would like to see the police in large lecture halls as well as patrolling campus.

“They should have police in and around the buildings.

What good are the police if they are not in the buildings and not patrolling campus?” Judy said.

Burk recognizes that questions will be raised by incoming students about safety on campus and believes the university did a good job telling the public what happened and what they are going to do. He said the admissions office has referred people to the NIU Web site to help answer those questions.

Burkalsosaidthathighschool counselors around Illinois have sent continued support to NIU staff and students. He believes the counselors will also help talk to students and parents of incoming students to help convey that NIU is a safe school.

Lack of female interest in technology hinders product design Melissa Lomenzo U-Wire

THE POLY POST — The disparity between the number of females and males achieving degrees in technology fields may be hindering new product designs.

Because fewer females are going into information technology programs, there is less product innovation designed toward women. Women, however, make 83 percent of buying decisions, according to the National Center for Women and Information Technology.

In fall 2007, 67 women and 407 men were enrolled in the computer information systems option at Cal Poly, according to Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning census files. In fall 2003, 239 women and 687 men were enrolled in

the CIS option.

“Lack of diversity in any field potentially has a negative impact because you’re not getting different perspectives, different ideas [or] people who see things in slightly different ways,” said Cheryl Wyrick, a management and human resources professor.

Some technology products are harder to navigate because there are few women on design teams, as females help create more userfriendly interfaces, according to an MSNBC article.

In 2006, females held 26 percent of professional ITrelated occupations in the U.S., according to the NCWIT. Although women can obtain technology jobs, there is less interest in the field.

“People want to hire female graduates, [so it’s] more competitive,” said Yuanjie He, a

technology and operations management professor.

Women are underrepresented in all computer technology programs at Cal Poly. In fall 2007, 32 women and 486 men were enrolled as computer science majors, according to IRAP census files.

“It’s the way society norms are now,” said Alex Ambriz, a second-year sociology student.

“Guys are further down the line, [but females will catch up].”

Increasing numbers of females getting bachelor’s degrees in technology will not be seen anytime soon.

Nationally, there was a 70 percent decline in the number of incoming undergraduate females majoring in computer science between 2000 and 2005, according to the NCWIT. About 35,000 bachelor’s

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Applications are due Wednesday, March 12, 2008 by 5pm and can be found by visiting the Office of Campus Activities, 401 BTSU, or www.bgsu.edu/getinvolved/page12036. html.

The Student Organization Awards recognize: • Advisor of the Year • Citizenship Program of the Year • Cross-Cultural Program of the Year • Emerging Male Leader of the Year • Emerging Female Leader of the Year • Honorary Organization of the Year • Most Innovative Program of the Year • Most Outstanding Leader of the Year • Most Outstanding Student Organization

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS Now Available for the 2008 Gregory T. DeCrane Applauding Excellence Banquet The Office of Campus Activities encourages students to apply for the Gerald Saddlemire Scholarship and the Richard A. Lenhart Scholarship.

The Saddlemire Scholarship recognizes students who are completing their sophomore year and have excelled academically in and out of the classroom.

The Lenhart Scholarship is available to students who have been involved with the University Activities Organization, Undergraduate Student Government, and the Off-Campus Connection Organization. These scholarships are due to the Office of Campus Activities, 401 BTSU, by 5pm Friday, February 29, 2008.

The Office of the Dean of Students encourages students to apply for the Hazel H. Smith Scholarship and the SICSIC Scholarship. The Smith Scholarship is available to full-time off-campus/commuter students who have excelled academically. The SICSIC Scholarship awards either a junior or senior that has excelled academically, while displaying outstanding qualities of leadership and initiative. These scholarships are due to the Office of the Dean of Students, 301 BTSU, by 5pm Friday, March 14, 2008.

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degrees in computer science were given to men and fewer than 10,000 were awarded to women in 2006. In 2007, 2,767 female and 12,282 male high school students took the Advanced Placement Computer Science A exam in 2006, according to a College Board report.

“I guess women are not as interested in the field as men,” said Youssef Hijazi, a first-year biotechnology student.

Although computer and mathematical science jobs are expected to grow about 25 percent through 2016, according to the Department of Labor, fewer females may join technology programs because of preconceived notions about job outlook.

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2008 cold season only seems worse than it actually is

By Jeanne Nelson U-Wire

THE POLY POST — It appears this could be the worst cold season yet, but contrary to belief, it’s not, according to health officials. Even though the flu shot only protects against 40 percent of viruses — compared to previous dosages that protected against 70 to 90 percent — the vaccine is still reliable.

“The flu and cold season arrived a bit late this year, but the flu activity is present in all 50 states and it’s an average season,” said Carla Jackson, a health educator at Student Health Services. “Here, we gave nearly 600 flu shots to students, staff and faculty this academic year.”

Health officials advise people to protect themselves and note that it is not too late to be immunized. Although the vaccine is not a perfect match to all strains, it may help build immunity and enable a faster recovery when people do get ill, according to the Inside BayArea Web site.

“I got sick last week,” said Guadalupe Sumano, a fourthyear marketing student.

“Although I haven’t taking any medication this time around, I haven’t felt as sick, probably since I had my flu shot back in November.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the flu epidemic is well under way in the United States. The CDC said it had a clear indication that the viruses have mutated, making the current vaccine less effective.

It’s impossible to predict which viruses will be dominant or how long they will be during the season. Because the virus is constantly changing, experts must pick which viruses to include in the vaccine months in advance in order for

“We gave nearly 600 flu shots to students, staff and faculty this academic year.”

Carla Jackson | Health Educator the vaccine to be produced and delivered on time.

Each year in the U.S., more than 225,000 people are hospitalized and 35,000 die from flu-related complications. The nation benefited from relatively mild flu seasons in the past two to three years, and that may make what is happening this year seem more intense by comparison, according to the Inside BayArea Web site.

“So far I have been sick twice with a cold and for one, I was hospitalized during my birthday,” said Ernest Algar, a fourth-year computer information systems student. “The reason for getting hospitalized was that I was sneezing blood. Luckily, it wasn’t something serious. The doctor said the reason for the bleeding is that during cold weather, a person’s inner layer of your nose gets thin, and it can cause light bleeding.”

For students who are sick there are suggestions they can follow in order to prevent spreading the cold. Even though they may not be feeling the symptoms, they can still be contagious.

“Rest, stay home so you don’t spread the germs, drink hot liquids and soups. Take Tylenol or Ibuprofen for symptoms of fever or body aches,” said Jackson.

As for students who are not sick, they should continually wash their hands with soap and hot water and, most importantly, eat healthy foods and get plenty of rest.

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“I don’t want any kid out there to cry every night like I did because they think they’re a freak for being attracted to the same gender or sex.” — Jennifer Dietsch, senior, on why she becomes Super Queer, the mascot for transsexual rights organization Vision [see story, pg. 1].

PEOPLE ON THE STREET: SPRING BREAK EDITION “$0. I’ll be here practicing for softball.”

“Around $150. I’m going to Florida and camping on the beach.”

“As much gas as an eight-hour car trip.”

SUSAN SONTAG, Sophomore, Architecture

JOSH McCRAY, Sophomore, Psychology/ Political Science

MIKE NIEMAN, Senior, Aviation Studies

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Day 3: How much is your spring break going to cost you?

“Since Mike’s paying for gas, absolutely nothing.”

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HEAD TO HEAD

Third party presidential candidates: Wasting your vote?

The only ‘waste’ is in not voting at all LEVI JOSEPH WONDER COLUMNIST

“I swear, if I hear that term one more time, I will run for president and I will ‘waste my vote’ by voting for myself!”

We’ll post the responses on this page in the coming days.

I’m pretty much assured that at least five people will comment on this article, only to claim that I am “wasting my vote.”

I swear, if I hear that term one more time, I will run for president and I will “waste my vote” by voting for myself!

To vote for an independent is not a waste of a vote, nor is it a “protest vote.” It is (in my case, at least) a voluntary choice to vote for a candidate who is no less politically valid than any other candidate. Just because Nader probably won’t win this upcoming election does not mean that voting for him is a waste of a vote.

In fact, the real way to waste a vote is to not vote at all.

Unfortunately, many people do indeed waste their votes by not voting. And of course, a good portion of those people fall into the category of (you guessed it) college students.

I can assume that many of my college peers can be very apathetic about politics and voting in general, and for good reason.

First off, they’re college students, and secondly, the mainstream media continuously bombards people with rightwing and left-wing propaganda during the heated debating and campaigning which defines the presidential race.

This kind of politically charged drivel is disgusting to watch, painful to listen to, and painfully obsequious in the way such advertisements promote

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The bipartisan political party system which has existed in the U.S. since this country’s nascent years is a source of genuine anathema to me.

I don’t like the whole polarization involved with bipartisan politics, and it seems that politicians who appear (and claim) to be at opposite ends of the political spectrum are much more similar than they are perceived to be.

All in all, I truly dislike the Democrat-or-Republican-ornothing system we have. It has been the norm for far too long.

Why is this? Because myself and those who share my political views realize the currently implemented system does not adequately cover all sides of the political spectrum. It doesn’t even do justice to the two-way scale between the left and the right, let alone the whole statistlibertarian-conservative-liberal scale.

There are too many issues that cannot be truly solved by

Nader doesn’t do anyone any good

extremism. More moderation is needed on the part of our politicians, especially those running for the White House job.

Independent candidates, however, have a different flavor to them: one which does not reek of special interest association and has nothing to do with: “Is he/she a baby killer or not?”

They tend to take more moderate stances on the issues, and if not, they definitely prove to be an effervescent refresher to the monotony of Republicans and Democrats ripping each other to tatters.

Those are just a couple of reasons why I’ll be voting for Ralph Nader in the upcoming presidential election.

Yeah, that’s right. Ralph Nader is running for president.

But much to my dismay, we have, as a public body, essentially stigmatized the concept of voting for independent or third party presidential candidates.

By proclaiming that I’m voting for Nader (I really hope he doesn’t drop out of the race),

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In a sad and, to be honest, somewhat surprising moment last Sunday, liberal political activist and consumer-advocacy champion Ralph Nader declared for the fifth time in the last 16 years his intention to become a presidential candidate.

Though he denies to this day any responsibility for the resulting negative consequences, Nader’s 2000 candidacy (along with some serious disenfranchisement shenanigans committed by Florida election officials) was instrumental in tipping the Florida vote and thus the presidential election towards George W. Bush.

Based on his take-no-prisoners populist campaign, Nader was able to capture 97,421 votes in Florida, mostly from liberal voters who would have supported the Democratic candidate over the Republican.

That number far exceeded Bush’s narrow advantage of 537 votes over Al Gore, thus granting him the state’s Electoral College vote, which was the final push he needed to become president.

Not only did he take away Florida votes, but Nader’s campaign efforts in must-win Democratic states like Wisconsin

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How to actually support the troops SEAN MARTIN COLUMNIST

I draw the line when one condemns the troops and the war by actively supporting the opposition. Sadly, the city of Berkeley, Calif., crossed the line separating dissent and treason.

Instead of voting to impeach

“the vast right-wing conspiracy,” the city council voted on sending a letter to the United States Marine Corps asking them to vacate their recruiting station.

“Uninvited and unwelcome intruders in the city” were the words of the city council and the mayor. They also claim the USMC offends their “standards of decency.”

I find it interesting that upholding the Constitution and the Bill of Rights offends their decency.

Makes you wonder what these

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“Nazis” want to do with their town.

In a further display of the city’s corrupt and degenerate views they showed their true colors.

During the same meeting, on Jan. 29, the council approved for antiwar protesters to be awarded a permanent parking spot right in front of the Marine offices.

Further, there is a six-month window in which the anti-war protesters do not need a permit to use noise making equipment or assemble.

There was also a second resolution passed that night. Actually, resolution may be a little too timid — it was more like an act of war.

The problem was that this resolution applauded any persons or groups “[impeding], passively or actively” military recruiting.

Actively impeding? Would the City Council support setting fire to the recruiting station? That’s active and also gets the Marines

out of town.

Less than a fortnight later, these cowards waffled and rescinded their previous claim after a torrent of backlash.

They then went back to the cliché, “for the troops, but against the war.”

Personally, I think this a cop-out by those that don’t wish to show their real disdain for everything.

But if you think you can pull it off, all the more power to you.

What confuses me is how you can be adamant about the war and nonchalant towards the troops and see any sort of balance.

Imagine how much esteem would be created if the troops were supported as much as Berkeley hates the war.

Maybe someone can explain this to me, but I have always

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“It’s not as if Nader and his supporters teaming up with a Democratic presidential administration would be an impossible task, never attempted before.” and Oregon forced Gore’s campaign to spend extra resources in those areas to get would have otherwise been secure sources of electoral votes. That diverted resources away from his campaigns in tougher contests around the country such as New Hampshire, Ohio and — of course — Florida.

Fortunately the voters learned their lesson from the Nader effect and in 2004 he earned less than a sixth of the vote he had garnered in 2000.

To be fair, this was due in some part thanks to the somewhat shameful (though somewhat understandable) efforts of Democratic Party officials who fought like Hades to keep him off the ballot in as many states as possible, especially in battleground states like Ohio.

Unfortunately it was not enough for the Democrats to win, and despite a relatively heavy turnout, close to 40 percent of those eligible to vote apparently had something more important to do on Election Day 2004.

This time around, however, after what is coming up on four additional years of a Bush White House and a weak Congress in Washington, D.C., along with some particularly motivational presidential candidates, people are turning out in truly recordshattering numbers to have their say in who will be the Democratic Party’s next presidential candidate.

Young first-time voters are doing their part as well.

According to the Young Voter

Political Action Committee, their turnout for the Democratic Primary in the state of Wisconsin alone almost doubled in size compared to the 2004 primary.

So it appears that more Americans than ever before are not only seeing the importance of which of the two parties ought to control the White House, but a lot of emphasis is being put (at least in the Democratic race) as to who can best bring about the much needed reform to the country.

In other words, the drive to “waste” one’s vote on another hopeless third-party campaign is at its weakest point since the 2004 elections, a fact that will hold true unless the Democrats’ superdelegates appoint the party’s nominee.

So I would strongly suggest what Nader and his few remaining supporters do is, instead of wasting their time, money and hard work on a Presidential campaign destined for an embarrassing failure, to make the offer to be advisors and volunteers to the campaign for one of the Democratic candidates.

It’s not as if Nader and his supporters teaming up with a Democratic presidential administration would be an impossible task, never attempted before; just look at the good achieved under the all-too-brief period of time during the Carter presidency in the 1980’s, when Nader and his team of consumer rights activists took an active role in

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A syllabus that doesn’t support learning CONRAD PRITSCHER | GUEST COLUMNIST Mary Beth Marklein reported on Jan. 23 that a recent survey conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates said universities need to look for new ways to demonstrate student success. She referred to success in terms of student self-direction, global knowledge and intercultural competence as well as critical thinking and communication skills.

In my work as a university educator over many years, I rarely found self-direction and global knowledge as goals in course syllabi. Narrow goals (excessive specialization) may prevent learning self-direction, global knowledge and intercultural competence.

An inquiry oriented (mind-

opening) professor facilitates mental processing so as to help learners become more aware, more self-directing and approach global knowledge and intercultural competence. This movement toward self-direction includes some training but many university students may already have been trained to desire to keep being trained.

Training requires less thinking than education. There is an endless amount of information to any field of study. Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. A wise teacher, Kahlil Gibran said, does not give you wisdom, “but rather, leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

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the administration’s policies.

I realize that in doing so again (especially if the Democratic candidate is the perceived symbol of the corporate establishment Sen. Hillary Clinton) they would be supporting what they often dub the “lesser of two evils.”

Such a concept is a terrible, if naïve position to take as Nader’s Raiders would be allowing the ideologically perfect to become the enemy of the more realistic good.

It also makes no sense to abandon a party that traditionally acquires the working class vote if you perceive it as being too heavily influenced by corporate America, as the best solution to such a problem would be to fix the system from within the party itself, by gathering its grassroots elements vote by vote while still denying Republicans of unearned victories.

thought: The sooner we win the sooner we can leave. So if you want the US to leave, you would want us to win ASAP. If one were to really care about the troops as much as the anti-war groups claim, why don’t they just suck it up and support the troops?

I bet the troops would be moved that people were putting their petty differences aside to fully support them. Also it really would show them real support.

Selfless support and unselfishness would go along way to show you truly support the troops.

I stress this point because when one hates the war as much as Berkeley and the “murderers and traitors” that are fighting it, all you tell me is one thing.

You tell me that you hate America.

Why aren’t those on the left who claim to support the troops call out Berkeley for what they are doing? If they really cared about America they would say

— Respond to Sean at thenews@bgnews.com.

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“Why aren’t those on the left who claim to support the troops call out Berkeley for what they are doing?” something, but alas, they haven’t and probably won’t.

These fervent anti-war and anti-troop protests are disgusting. This idea is shocking.

With a mindset like this one could “support the pedophile, but be against child molestation.” Or even better, “the pedophiles will leave us alone if we quit interfering with their lives.”

After all this is just blowback from our objectivist laws, and are simply sexual “freedom fighters.”

You simply cannot support someone and at the same time condemn what they do. So we can support the CEO that makes more money than God, but then hate what he does? How does that sound logical at all?

The troops are the personification and embodiment of an abstract thing. They are the face and necessary part of the war.

Without them, there would be no war.

Maybe I am wrong and you can really have it both ways. If this is so, then why can’t we say Hitler was a good guy who did some bad things?

Even though you should, you don’t have to tell them “thank you,” send them supplies, donate money, etc. You have that right solely by their action.

I think the troops would be happy enough that you are not taking a giant crap on them every chance you get.

I find it funny that when members of Congress threatened to take away the city’s funding, all the comments were retracted. Nice to know that the city’s true feelings aren’t up for sale.

Wait. This means they sold out for federal funding.

— Respond to Sean at thenews@bgnews.com.

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WONDER From Page 4 their specific candidates.

It’s supremely likely for people to be turned off by all of this media madness, and that’s probably one of the primary reasons why only 32 percent of registered voters age 18 to 24 actually choose to complete their voting obligations, according to flyernews.com.

For those of you who fall into this category, do not lose hope.

Your vote matters. Contrary to what everyone else says (well, not quite everyone else), individual votes matter.

Furthermore, there are indeed other candidates running for president besides the

PRITSCHER From Page 4 It is from the threshold of your mind from which you become self-directing, globally knowledgeable, and interculturally competent.

Most professors teach the way they were taught.

Professors who lead you to the threshold of your mind are more powerful learning agents than those who only disseminate information (except for some courses which primarily “train”). Professors who lead you to the threshold of your mind often have imaginations that go further than those who primarily “train.”

Todd May, the Lemon and Calhoun Chair of Philosophy at Clemson University, says: “We need to consider the possibility that the world — or, since the concept of world is too narrow, things or being or what there is — outruns any categories we might seek to use to capture it. … This is not to say that our particular categories are lacking something that other, better categories would give us. Our imagination must go further than that.”

We go “further than that” when we have professors who help us stretch and open our minds so that we can think something that cannot be found in textbooks, as Einstein suggested. Many mind-opening professors learned mind-opening on their own since their university coursework probably did not teach mind opening.

Most professors were taught to train rather than educate.

The center of education is selfdirection. You can, in a polite way, resist excessive training, but be polite when resisting or you may flunk.

The CEO of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, a month ago, mentioned curiosity first on his list of three characteristics of leadership. With a nudge from schools, we could greatly increase curiosity and imaginative behavior and help change “trainers” to “educators.”

At charityfocus.com, Nipun Mehta reports that Paul MacCready, winner of a human-powered flying machine contest, won because of his naïveté and inexperience, and the president of Teach for America said inexperience was

front-runners. Nader is only one of them.

I don’t want to sound like some sort of snooty political expert, but by choosing to vote for an independent candidate, I have a way to go the voting booth in November and actually vote for someone who aligns with my political beliefs.

Besides, I won’t be mentally vomiting with disgust if my candidate loses, because I’ll know that I voted for someone whom I actually supported.

Now that that’s taken care of, all we need to do is to overhaul the whole electoral college process.

— Respond to Levi at thenews@bgnews.com.

“One may notice one’s thinking is often overly dependent on requirements and rules given by others.” a major cause of success of Teach for America teachers.

Experts in wing designs had preconceptions which prevented them from noticing superlight wings could be built.

MacCready built them. He has a conventional list of rules for innovation: goals, positive attitudes, detail, innovation, enlisting the subconscious, making it real, having the dominant factor. The final rule? Don’t follow rules.

When a student is being trained, as most university students seem to be, the training often consists of following rules.

With courteous nudging and resistance to being primarily “trained” to follow others rules (narrow course requirements), you may help educate yourself.

The American Psychological Association deserves praise for reporting investigations of open avenues which facilitate selfdirection and which were previously not explored. Subjects such as feeling, consciousness, and wisdom are now being given attention.

Attention itself now needs more attention. Intending to attend to attention is a first step.

If one gave more attention to one’s present experience, one may notice one’s thinking is often overly dependent on requirements and rules given by others who have been deemed to be authorities.

Remember the rule of not following rules when it comes to your education/ self-direction. Self-direction makes you your own authority. This does not apply when you have agreed to be trained, but you came to BGSU for an education.

— Pritscher is a professor emeritus. Respond to his column at thenews@bgnews.com.

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By Brittney Bruner U-Wire

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Before registering for classes, many students have different approaches to choosing what they will take for the upcoming semester.

As some students know, Web sites like pick-a-prof.com, ratemyprofessors.com and services available on myspace.com provide students with the opportunity to view the critiques that their fellow peers give certain professors.

“I found some success using the sites for this semester,” said freshman Nathan Armentrout, a computer engineering and computer science major. “I think the idea that drives these sites is good and has good intentions.”

Most of the Web sites allow students to rate a professor on a number of different scales including clarity, easiness, helpfulness and overall quality.

Hotness factor is even thrown in there at the user’s discretion and perhaps to poke a little fun at the ratings.

However, it’s undeterminable how accurate such ratings are. Obviously, several different aspects have to be considered: the credentials of the students providing the critiques, the seriousness taken by each student, and the educational growth each student expects to obtain from their college courses.

However, there is a varied fan-base among students and professors that present an array of negative, positive, and indifferent positions about the principle and purpose of these Web sites.

Senior Anthony Cash contended that students should rely on their own initiative to determine whether a class is worth taking rather than looking to others.

“I did look at these sites my first couple of years, but the reviews rarely match up to reality,” said Cash, a triple major in philosophy, political science and history. “It would be better for students to visit a professor’s personal Web site, or actually take the first week of class and then drop if it isn’t working out.”

Nonetheless, other students found the resources to be successful and the peer input they provide to be reliable.

Students do recognize the potential problems such sites can create.

“However, at the same time it has its drawbacks,” said Armentrout. “For one drawback I think about the quality of the curriculum. Everyone wants to find the professor who asks the least out of the class and in this case may pressure other professors to lower their standards to a bare minimum.”

Professors seem to have mixed feelings regarding these Web sites.

“I do not check those sites,” said Arnold Karpoff, biology professor. “I always view these sort of voluntary commentaries the same way we used to score ice-skating in the Olympics: throw away the highest and the lowest commentaries and those in the middle are probably closer to the truth.”

Philosophy Professor Robert Urekew offers a unique perspective on the system of professor evaluation.

“Students are consumers, and they have all the rights of consumers. Before consumers purchase a product or service, they have the right to be informed about their purchase,” said Urekew. “In a free market, products and services that are worth the purchase price will identify themselves, and those that are not will not last long in the marketplace.”

Urekew said he believes that, though the sites are designed to aid students, they can also provide valuable input to professors on what does and does not work in the classroom.

“These Web sites are of lasting value to instructors. Every instructor should be a preacher of the value of lifelong learning,” said Urekew.

“Thus, instructors should welcome information that empowers them to learn more and more about how to improve their courses.”

SECURITY From Page 1 the emergency text message service, Alert BG. A similar text message system was in place at NIU and it took over 10 minutes for the message to get out to students.

Wiegand said because of this delay, the University will be having a test of our emergency systems on March 12.

The systems being tested include not only Alert BG but also the school Web site update, the campus computers changing wallpapers to show an alert, the sending of an emergency e-mail, and the 37-ALERT and 372-SNOW phone numbers students can call to get information on closings and emergencies said Media Relations Director Teri Sharp.

Sharp said after Sept. 11, the snow line was used to get out terrorists alerts and this caused the creation

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of 37-ALERT so students would have a more accurate line to call for up to date information.

Since implementation, the Alert BG system now has 3,943 subscribers, 180 of which have signed up since an email was sent out by the marketing department on Feb. 15 urging people to sign up after the tragedy at NIU, said Sharp. “[Alert BG] was a priority program and was a major concern of the University,” Sharp said.

The University is also looking to add more safety measures besides Alert BG, University Executive Vice President Linda Dobb said.

“We are hoping to have plasma screens in all buildings,” Dobb said.

“We already have the technology to send out e-mails and flash messages on campus computers.”

She said the biggest problem facing them right now is the budget due to the high cost of purchasing

the televisions.

Dobb said with the budget, what it’s really about is what would help get the message out to students for the best price.

“Safety is number one,” Dobb said. “Can we get the word out and if not, what are the gaps and how can we fill them.”

There are some students who feel the University is already doing enough to help keep students safe Sophomore Trevor Gebhardt is one of the students who thinks there is already a surplus of security on campus.

“I’ve always felt safe,” said Gebhardt.

“Even walking from lot six at night, I have always felt safe.”

He said that even after the events from NIU, he was never really concerned and if anything happens around here, he has friends who have Alert BG who will let him know if anything happens.

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the tragedy, they wanted to help.

“Three of our staff, the associate director and two licensed psychologists, went to NIU to assist students with counseling after the memorial service and as they attended classes on Monday,” said Craig Vickio, the director of the counseling center.

The members of the staff were not the only ones to offer their support. Members from the USG also reacted to the shooting.

“When this happened, we thought ‘What can we do to help?’, so we decided to make a banner for them to send with our Counseling Center staff when they left,” said Nick Gamero, vice president of USG. Similar to what USG did last year after the VA Tech shootings, Gamero explained how they created the banner as a way for the University to support students while they are going through a hard time.

“The banner has a husky and a falcon, looking at each other. Our mascot and theirs shows we are here for them,” Gamero said.

people with mental health concerns do not pose a danger to others,” he said.

But Vickio advises professors who are concerned about students in their classes to direct them to the counseling center or the center’s Web site, www.bgsu.edu/offices/sa/counseling, so the student can take an anonymous online screening service.

The services are not new, but Vickio said students and faculty should be aware of them.

Vickio said the screenings, whether at the Counseling Center or online, determine whether students have symptoms of depression, anxiety or other disorders.

The counseling center does not just provide screening; it is also taking preventative measures which would aid in helping students cope if something did ever happen at the University.

Known as the “mutual aid agreement,” the

Professor lets students know how to stand out

By Jenna Gibson U-Wire

LINCOLN, Neb. — Sometimes students need more than a brown nose to stand out.

John Janovy, a biology professor at the University of NebraskaLincoln, recently published “Outwitting College Professors: A Practical Guide to Secrets of

the System,” a treasure trove of tips for students to worm their way into the hearts of their professors without sucking up.

“Everybody who stands out in some way, you tend to remember those people,” he said. “What you really want to do is establish yourself as a responsible citizen and someone the faculty remembers.”

Senior Kevin McCann also said he feels extremely safe on campus most of the time as it is.

“The only time I felt unsafe was when the blue lights went out during the black out last year,” McCann said.

McCann said he doesn’t have the Alert BG system because he can get the same information by logging into MyBGSU and he doesn’t want to give out his phone number.

Not all students agree the University is doing enough already for students protection.

Senior Jessica Belcher said there is always room for improvement with safety on campus, adding theft in the dorms is her primary concern.

Certain areas of the school do still bother her, however, especially after it gets dark she said.

“I don’t feel safe around the cemetery,” Belcher said. “Instead, I go around them or try to find other ways to avoid them.”

University is partnering with other Ohio universities’ counseling centers to develop ways to help students cope if a similar situation occurred.

“Before the tragedy took place at Virginia Tech, we had been working closely with the department of psychology to develop a protocol for mobilizing campus mental health resources in times of large scale emergencies,” Vickio said.

As another way to educate the public about mental health, the Counseling Center will also host a discussion to help increase the awareness of recognizing and responding to students’ mental health and safety.

The Counseling Center, Disability Services, Dean of Students’ office and Campus Police are all set to send representatives to serve on the panel.

“No specific time and date has been set, but we are shooting for a tentative date sometime in April, in honor of the anniversary of the VA Tech shootings,” Vickio said.

Even Janovy’s own tricks will work on him.

For example, a student met him wearing an Oklahoma University shirt, knowing that one of Janovy’s tips is to play up the professor’s alma mater.

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of 200, immediately.”

According to Janovy, one of the best ways for a student to stand out is to ask a few intelligent questions in class or oneon-one.

“Over the last 20 to 25 years, students have become more intimidated by faculty members than their parents were,” Janovy said.

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Country’s fire departments not equipped to handle ethanol fires

By Chris Blank The Associated Press

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The nation’s drive toward alternative fuels carries a danger many communities have been to slow to recognize: Ethanol fires are harder to put out than gasoline ones and require a special type of firefighting foam.

Many fire departments around the country don’t have the foam, don’t have enough of it, or are not well-trained in how to apply it, firefighting experts say. It is also more expensive than conventional foam.

“It is not unusual to find a fire department that is still just prepared to deal with traditional flammable liquids,” said Ed Plaugher, director of national programs for the International

Association of Fire Chiefs.

The problem is that water doesn’t put out ethanol fires, and the foam that has been used since the 1960s to smother ordinary gasoline blazes doesn’t work well against the grain-alcohol fuel.

Wrecks involving ordinary cars and trucks are not the major concern. They carry modest amounts of fuel, and it is typically a lowconcentration, 10 percent blend of ethanol and gasoline. A large amount of conventional foam can usually extinguish such fires.

Instead, the real danger involves the many tanker trucks and railcars that are rolling out of the Corn Belt with huge quantities of 85 or 95 percent ethanol and carrying it to parts of the country unaccustomed to dealing with it.

“Now, the most common haz-

ardous material has a new twist to it,” said Mike Schultz, a firefighter who manned a foam gun during a recent blaze in Missouri.

The risk is more than theoretical. Over the past several years, ethanol accidents on highways, along railroads and in storehouses and refineries have triggered evacuations and fires from Texas to Minnesota, injuring several people and killing at least one person.

Water is not used against gasoline fires, because it can spread the blaze and cause the flames to run down into drains and sewers. Instead, foam is used to form a blanket on top of the burning gasoline and snuff out of the flames. But ethanol — a type of grain alcohol often distilled from corn — eats through that foam and continues to burn.

Increase in weather storms cause accidents, deaths and power outages BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A broad storm system spread heavy snow across the Great Lakes region yesterday and fired up violent thunderstorms that knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in the Southeast.

At least two deaths were blamed on the stormy weather.

Fallen trees and other debris on roads slowed travel and several traffic accidents brought morning rush hour traffic to a standstill in Birmingham, authorities said.

A falling tree struck a mobile home and killed a 71-yearold woman in Leeds, a town outside Birmingham, The Jefferson County coroner’s office said.

Utilities said about 42,000 homes and business lost electrical service across central Alabama early yesterday. About 93,000 more were blacked out in northern Georgia, mostly in the Atlanta metropolitan area, said Georgia Power spokeswoman Carol Boatright.

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PICKING UP THE PIECES: Lisa Foster picks up clothing and pages of a Bible that were blown from Linda Bryant’s Bowden home during a possible tornado that hit the area.

Snow fell from Illinois to New England, with more than 6 inches on the ground by late morning in northern Indiana and Ohio.

Up to a foot of snow was possible in parts of Ohio, the National Weather Service said.

Schools were closed in parts

of southern Michigan and northern areas of Indiana and Ohio, where the University of Toledo also closed for the morning. Some local government buildings closed in Ohio and the Akron zoo also closed for the day.

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A DANGEROUS BLAZE: Smoke rises from the scene of a train derailment in Painesville, Ohio. in this Oct. 10, 2007 file photo.

Confidence in U.S. economy starting to fall

By Eileen Alt Powell The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Consumer confidence plunged in February as Americans worried about less-favorable business conditions and job prospects, a business-backed research group said yesterday.

The Conference Board said its Consumer Confidence Index fell to 75 this month from a revised 87.3 in January.

The reading was the lowest since the index registered 64.8 in February 2003, just before the U.S. invaded Iraq, researchers said, and was far below the 83 expected by analysts surveyed

by Thomson/IFR. The index measures how consumers feel about the economy. It has been weakening since July, suggesting that wary consumers may retrench financially, which could fatigue the economy further.

The expectations index, which measures consumers’ outlook over the next six months, fared even worse. The expectations index dropped to 57.9 from 69.3 in January. The February figure was a 17-year

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low, the Conference Board said, standing just a bit above the 55.3 of January 1991.

In midmorning trading, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 17.99, or 0.14 percent, to 12,588.21. Broader indexes, including the Nasdaq composite and Standard & Poor’s 500, were down.

Lynn Franco, director of The Conference Board’s Consumer Research Center, said in a statement that the consumer confidence survey — which is based on a sample of 5,000 U.S. households — indicated that consumers felt economic conditions were deteriorating.

“The weakening in consumers’ assessment of current conditions, fueled by a combination of less-favorable business conditions and a sharp rise in the number of consumers say-

ing jobs are hard to get, suggest that the pace of growth in early 2008 has slowed even further,” Franco said in a statement accompanying the report.

She pointed to the low “expectations” reading and added: “With so few consumers expecting conditions to turn around in the months ahead, the outlook for the economy continues to worsen and the risk of a recession continues to increase.”

A third reading, the index looking at current conditions, also dropped in February to 100.6 from 114.3 the month before.

Those saying jobs were “hard to get” rose to 23.8 percent in February from 20.6 percent in January, while those claiming jobs were “plentiful” decreased to 20.6 percent from 23.8 percent.

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By Hannah Sparling | Reporter Paying for college is a huge financial burden for most students, but freshman Melanie Wagner found a way around that when she earned a full-tuition scholarship to Bowling Green State University.

Wagner earned the University Professor’s Scholarship.

This full-tuition, renewable scholarship allows her to spend less time focusing on finances and more on education.

“Because I don’t have to worry about financial things, I can just focus on studying,” Wagner said.

With fewer financial responsibilities, Wagner does not have to get a job during the school year, which opens up time for her to get involved in campus activities.

“It’s not just school, she does other things too,” said freshman Cortney Redman, one of Wagner’s close friends.

“She’s well-rounded,” said Wagner‘s roommate, fresh-

By Dave Herrera | Senior Editor It wasn’t until the beginning of this semester that Megan DeWolf realized her time was coming.

She would graduate this May, then she’d have six months.

Six months, then she’d have to start paying back the $22,625 in loans she needed to attend the University.

She laughed, a little nervously, talking about the situation at a Starbucks last week. “There’s definitely a lot of stress,” she said, “especially because you only have a certain amount of time to get that money back before they come after you.”

It’s hard to go too far on campus and find a student without loans of some sort.

Nearly 75 percent of the students who earned bachelor’s degrees between July 2006 and June 2007 borrowed at some point during their time here, according to the Office of Institutional Research. On average, their loans

By Kelly Metz | Reporter In her red Rite Aid vest, Stefanie Vine works 40 hours a week, full time.

She is 20 years old and, in March, will be promoted to shift supervisor after working at the drug store for two years. This promotion, she said, will help her remain financially stable and give her more responsibility.

She said her life sounds like the story of a college graduate but in reality it’s all about how she had to leave the University because of financial problems.

“It was my only decision,” she said. “I didn’t have any other option.”

Vine’s first year of college was completely paid for with one loan and with scholarships. She was in the first semester of her second year when she found out she lost financial aid.

“I didn’t want to apply for loans because I didn’t have anyone to co-sign for me and financially I was

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Paying tuition gets personal The cost of college is on our minds and on our news pages and on our tongues.

CANDICE It is also the topic of this JONES month’s In Focus section.

SENIOR EDITOR But this time we tried to put a face on the cost of college.

Because each situation is individual and each person different. There are so many different stories that we could never hope to tell them all. But what we can hope is that for every student, there is a recognition that even when we are in classes together, at the basketball games together and eating Wendy’s together, we are paying for college in different ways.

I think it is important to address the difference in order to look at what the cost of college means — not just for you or for your neighbor, but for everyone.

At the end of March, Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut will announce the his master plan for higher education in Ohio. Reports say that the plan is meant to raise college enrollment, lower costs and increase research being done.

While we eagerly await the miracle solution, we will continue on our own paths — whether they be paths of scholarship from the University, paths to debt, or paths that lead us away from college temporarily.

Unfortunately, this column contains no solutions. But the section does contain a taste of the stories here in Bowling Green, and hopefully a bit of perspective on the cost of college.

man Chelsea Schumann.

Wagner is a member of the Hall Council for Harshman Chapman/Dunbar and she is also participating in Dance Marathon.

“I see at least some involvement as pretty important,” Wagner said.

The scholarship will also help relieve pressure for Wagner after graduation.

“Not having to worry about loans once I graduate will be a huge help,” Wagner said.

Without a full-tuition scholarship, Wagner would still have been able to go to college, but it would have been a much more difficult task. She is one of five children, and her parents are already helping pay for the education of two of her sisters.

“Obviously that makes things more limited when you

Name:

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totaled $24,000.

DeWolf’s primary concern is finding a way to start paying back the loans while still having money for food.

Ideally, she said, she’d find a job before graduating with her interpersonal communication degree.

During her time here, knowing she’d have to pay the money back was always a factor in deciding how much to borrow each year.

“I knew that I didn’t want to take out too much,” DeWolf said. “I think a lot of people’s mistake is that they take out too much and then use it for living expenses.”

But she tried not to let that stop her from making the most of college. She joined the Phi Mu sorority as a freshman and studied in France last summer. The trip overseas nearly doubled her loan for the year, but she liked it so much she wants to go back for graduate school.

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not in a place to get one. I didn’t want to drown in loans just to stay in school,” Vine said.

Asking her parents for money was never something she could fall back on, she said. Her brother left the University of Toledo for the same financial reasons.

“With my parents, they always said going to college was the only option, but since they didn’t go, they never had any real idea of what goes into it. I’m not trying to disappoint them, but I want them to see I’ve still made a life.”

By working hard, Vine is able to handle a car payment, rent, phone bill and other bills. These financial burdens help her get up in the morning to go to work and be proud of what she does.

Rite Aid Store Manager Ken Shellhouse said she has developed a strong character through her struggles,

Name:

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How falcons pay to learn

By Adam Louis Reporter

It’s something many students struggle with — paying for college.

The reason some students may be struggling at the University is because of rising utility and gas bills, the cost of improvements to older facilities and paying for student services have caused college tuition prices to rise, according to the Director of Financial Aid Gary Guzman.

“That’s where we come in,” Guzman said about the Office of Financial Aid. Students fill out a Free Application for Federal Student

Aid before every school year, which is used to determine eligibility and analyze a family’s need for financial aid. More than two-thirds of University students receive some form of financial aid, most in the form of federal direct loans and grants.

There are two main types of federal loans: need-based subsidized and unsubsidized.

While students must pay interest on unsubsidized loans, the government pays for interest on subsidized loans as long as the student is in school. Loans can be taken out by either parents or students.

The University provides one loan, the BGSU Signature Loan.

Itsinterestrateis1.5percentbelow the standard bank-loan rate. This can save a student $7,000 over the course of four years, according to a 2006 statement from the University’s Office of Marketing and Communications.

Other financial aid provided by the government include workstudy programs.

Work-study is a form of financial aid in which the government pays 75 percent of a students wages should they choose to work in certain positions on campus.

According to Career Center

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VINE From Page 9 has a great work ethic and never even in comes late.

“We never expected her to stay two years but she always comes in with a positive attitude and we are happy she has stayed.”

Vine said the idea of someday being able to go back to school pushes her to do better work.

“I am completely supporting myself,” she said. “That thought is what gets me up every morning to come in on time and what helps me do a good job.”

Many of her friends go to BGSU, which makes not going to class and participating in events hard, she said, but they understand and are supportive.

Senior Daniel Richardson met Vine in the fall of 2006 when they had a class together.

“She was really smart, she reminded me of a teacher because not only is she book smart but she can also read into things and voice her opinion,” he said.

Richardson found out Vine wouldn’t be returning to the University after she had already made her decision. He understands why she had to leave but believes it will be harder for her to come back because of the annual rise in tuition rates.

According to Policy Matters Ohio, a non-profit research organization, the tuition for Universities usually has a spike of 5 percent each year, if the school is not on a tuition freeze.

Terry Streetman, another friend of Vine who attends BGSU, believes it will be harder to come back for the same reason.

“It seemed necessary at

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HIT THE BOOKS: Melanie Wagner pays for college with a full tuition academic scholarship. Being in the University Honors Program helps her keep her GPA so that she can keep her scholarship.

WAGNER From Page 9 have so many children to pay for,” Wagner said.

Wagner said she feels better knowing that she is not a financial burden to her parents. “[The scholarship] has made a big difference for me, not only for my own security, but just knowing that my parents don’t have to worry about paying for tuition,” Wagner said.

Wagner’s parents are grateful that they do not have to pay for her tuition.

Her mother, Kris Wagner, said they pay an average of about $17,000 a year for her two older sisters, and are happy for a break.

“It has been wonderful,” Kris said.

Kris said not having to pay for tuition has allowed the family to help in other ways. They can now send her brother to private school, something they wouldn’t have been able to do before, and also help Wagner with her books, she said.

Wagner earned the scholarship by meeting University requirements for her high school GPA and ACT score.

Doing well enough in high school to earn the scholarship was hard, Wagner said, because for three of the four years she went to Mont‘Kiara International School, a small private high school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and getting good grades was tough.

“I did work pretty hard in high school,” Wagner said.

In order to keep her scholarship at the University, Wagner has to maintain a GPA of 3.0. However, she is fairly confident that she will

be able to avoid falling below the line.

“I don’t really see that happening,” she said. “I haven’t had any troubles yet.”

Wagner said being part of the University Honors Program helps her keep her GPA up.

“I take a lot of honors classes, which I think makes it easier just because the classes are small,” she said.

Maintaining a 3.0 GPA does take a lot studying, but Wagner said she doesn’t see it as a burden. “[Education] determines a lot of what you’re going to do with the rest of your life,” she said. “I don’t see it as a sacrifice. It’s just necessary.”

While Wagner might not see studying as a sacrifice, she does spend a lot of time doing it.

“I wouldn’t say I kill myself, but I definitely spend enough time to make sure I do well in [each] class,” she said.

Schumann described Wagner as diligent and consistent.

“When she starts a paper, she doesn’t stop until it’s completed,” Schumann said. “She studies hard for everything.”

Redman also said Wagner is a hard worker and she often studies instead of hanging out with friends.

“She’ll say, ‘Hey guys, I can’t go tonight. I have to do this instead,’” Redman said.

“She’s really smart [and] she definitely does her work.”

Having a full-tuition scholarship has made a big difference in Wagner’s educational career.

“It was a big part of my decision to come to BG,” Wagner said. “I’m just really thankful for it.”

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HELLO : Megan DeWolf in her rooam at the Phi Mu house on campus. Student loans help her pay for school.

DEWOLF From Page 9 DeWolf grew up in Euclid, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland. From almost the beginning, she knew she “wanted to attend college, almost needed to go to college,” and enjoyed enthusiastic support from her family as she worked toward her goal.

“My parents worked really hard to give me and my sister a good life, and they worked really hard to get me to this point,” she said.

Her dad lost his steel mill job shortly before he could retire and she could graduate from high school. He had saved some money, but not enough to pay full tuition for four years.

DeWolf was unfazed. “I was going to college, one way or another,” she said.

Since she came to the University her parents have filled out forms and talked with University administrators for her. They’ve continued to help through what can be a complex financial aid process, although she’s learned more about it over the years.

“I don’t think I would have known what to do,” DeWolf said. “Going through high school you didn’t really have these experiences.”

FINANCE From Page 9 Director Michelle Simmons, one-fourth of the jobs on campus are paid through work-study.

In addition to loans and workstudy, the federal government provides the Pell Grant through the FAFSA, which does not have

She credits their work ethic with pushing her to excel in classes, earning scholarships to help defray tuition and fees.

“I just wanted to concentrate on my academics,” she said.

“I’ve learned from their experiences. I’ve seen how they’ve worked on a lower income.”

DeWolf hopes her experiences with loans have better prepared her for post-college life than students without any loans at all.

“I wish I could be in that spot, but I think because I’ve worked so hard, I think I’ve learned a lot,” she said.

“I’ll be better able to appreciate my financial status in the future.”

She’s found lessons learned about borrowing itself, too.

For younger students taking loans, she offers one main piece of advice: prioritize.

“You’d be surprised how quickly it adds up,” she said.

Students should ask themselves, “Do I actually need this? Can I get through the week without having this?

Or a semester?”

“I’m not saying you can’t go the movies every once in a while. Just be careful about what you spend,” DeWolf said.

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“I am completely supporting myself.

That thought is what gets me up every morning to come in on time and what helps me do a good job.”

Stephanie Vine Former student the time for her to leave and I know she is trying her best to get other things in order first. It’s just going to be harder for her to come back because most financial options for students force us into a financial hole,” he said.

Crawling out of that financial hole is what Vine hopes to do within the next five years and returning to school is a goal, even if that school isn’t BGSU. “I’m sad I’m not going to be graduating with a lot of my friends,” she said. “But at this point, it’s not so bad to be working. You have to do what you have to do to survive in this world.”

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Similarly, scholarships do not have to be repaid.

Scholarships are awarded typically by the University or by an outside organization. They are granted to students on the basis of academic merit, need or talent, Assistant Director of Scholarships Robin Belleville said.

Scholarships can also come from a variety of civic organizations as well as donors, Belleville said. Some donations are bequeathed to the university through a will upon the donor’s death. When money is donated to the University, donors can give the money in the form of a general scholarship or have it specified to certain majors

or qualifications according to their wishes.

Scholarships range from $300 to full-tuition coverage.

The University awards more than $18 million in scholarships annually, according to the financial aid office’s Web site.

The University gave out a total of $207 million in financial aid last year, Guzman said.

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POWER STOPPED: University of Miami Police Officer Eddie Somarriba directs traffic in Coral Gables, Fla., yesterday after sporadic power outages affected more than 3 million people.

Power outages an inconvenience for southern Florida MIAMI — A South Florida nuclear plant automatically shut down yesterday, causing sporadic power outages throughout the state that affected up to 3 million people from Daytona Beach through the Florida Keys.

Authorities did not specify the cause of the midday shutdown of both reactors at Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point plant south of Miami but say there were no safety concerns.

Power was already restored in some places by early afternoon and was estimated to be fully

restored by 6 p.m., Florida Power & Light said.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the two reactors automatically shut down.

Two other power plants farther north, the Crystal River reactor and St. Lucie twin reactors, continued to operate, although officials at those two facilities noticed the grid disturbance.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez said the outages were technical, not criminal.

“It’s a matter of just a cascading effect,” he said.

The outages have no connection to terrorism, Homeland Security Department spokes-

Teens arrested for torture of a disabled woman

By Lisa Cornwell The Associated Press

CINCINNATI — Two teenagers hid overnight in a house and spent more than six hours torturing a disabled woman after her mother left in the morning, authorities said.

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said the teenage boy and girl tied up the 18year-old woman, clubbed her, kicked her, shaved her head and soaked her with water before making her walk barefoot outside in the snow.

They also ignored pleas from the woman, who had undergone brain surgery, not to hit her in the head, investigators said.

“This is one of the worst crimes I’ve ever seen,” Jones said Monday. “They are sick animals, apparently just doing this for kicks and no other reason.”

Cheyenne Blanton, 17, and Joseph Nagle, 16, both of Hamilton, were arraigned Monday on juvenile delinquency charges that include aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, felonious assault and vandalism, according to juvenile court officials.

They were ordered held in the county’s juvenile detention center pending a court appearance later this week.

Neither entered a plea, and both requested court-appointed attorneys. Those attorneys had not been named Monday.

The teens are accused of physically abusing Ashley Clark, 18, for more than six hours Friday at her home in Hanover Township, about 35 miles northwest of Cincinnati.

Both Jones and the woman’s mother, Sheila Clark, want the teenagers tried as adults, and Jones said the two could get 75 years to life in prison if tried and convicted as adults.

“I want full justice for my daughter,” Clark said Monday.

“Those two never need to walk the streets again.”

Clark would not comment on details of the case or provide specifics on her daugh-

“I can’t understand how anyone could do this to anyone, but especially to someone with such a beautiful, loving heart..”

Sheila Clark | Victim’s Mother ter’s disabilities or injuries, other than to say that her daughter was doing as well as possible.

“I can’t understand how anyone could do this to anyone, but especially to someone with such a beautiful, loving heart,” Sheila Clark said.

Messages seeking comment on whether adult charges would be pursued were left at the prosecutor’s office Monday. There was no answer at telephone listing for a Joseph Nagle in Hamilton. There was no listing for Cheyenne Blanton.

Jones said the teenagers hid overnight in the basement of the Clark home, intending to steal the car and leave town before an upcoming juvenile court appearance date for one of the suspects.

They apparently missed their chance to get the car when Sheila Clark left the house in it Friday morning, and they went into the kitchen to get something to eat before going upstairs and waking her daughter, Jones said. The pair then spent the next six to eight hours torturing Ashley Clark, he said.

The mother realized something had happened when she came home, saw the house ransacked and called 911. A neighbor also called the sheriff’s department to report two juveniles in the neighbor’s yard.

Detectives apprehended the teenagers a few minutes later in nearby woods after following their footprints in the snow, Jones said.

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“We don’t know whether the grid disturbance caused the units to shut down or that their shut down caused the grid disturbance,” said Kenneth Clark, a spokesman at the NRC regional office in Atlanta. He said the two reactors were automatically shut down.

“There are no safety concerns. The reactors shut down as designed,” Clark said. Both reactors continued to have offsite electric power, and two coalburning power plants at Turkey Point also shut down, he said.

Florida emergency management officials said the outages

cut power to about 2-3 million people, although FPL said the number was closer to 800,000.

Outages appeared to be concentrated in the southeast portion of the state, but were also reported in along the southwest coast and northeastern part of the state. The outages began shortly after 1 p.m. EST, though power in some affected areas had been restored an hour later.

Several Miami-area hospitals switched to backup generators when the power went out. Miami-Dade schools were scheduled to be dismissed on time, and officials said school buses would be running.

Republicans help advance a bill to cut war funding “Americans need to start taking care of Americans. We cannot spend a half billion dollars every day in Iraq.”

By Anne Flaherty The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans yesterday helped advance a Democratic-pushed bill to cut off money for the war in Iraq, saying the additional debating time would allow them to hail progress there.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said the discussion will allow the GOP to cite the “extraordinary progress that’s been made in Iraq over the last six months, not only on the military side, but also with civilian reconciliation beginning to finally take hold in the country.”

The Senate voted 70-24 to advance the bill past a procedural hurdle and begin debating it in earnest. A final vote was expected later this week or

Harry Reid | Senate Majority Leader next week.

The White House said the president would veto such a measure.

“This legislation would substitute the political judgment of legislators for the considered professional military judgment of our military commanders,” according to an administration statement.

Democrats said they welcomed the debate, although they accused Republicans of stalling on plans to debate

Home prices experience steepest decline in 20 years

By J.W. Elphinstone The Associated Press

NEW YORK — U.S. home prices dropped 8.9 percent in the final quarter of 2007 compared with a year ago, Standard & Poor’s said yesterday, the steepest decline in the 20-year history of its housing index.

“We reached a somber yearend for the housing market in 2007,” said one of the index’s creators Robert Shiller. “Home prices across the nation and in most metro areas are significantly lower than where they were a year ago. Wherever you look, things look bleak.”

The S&P/Case-Shiller home price indices, which include a quarterly index, a 20-city index and a 10-city index, reflect yearover-year declines in 17 metropolitan areas with double-digit declines in eight of them.

The 10-city index also set a record annual decline of 9.8 percent in December, while the 20city index dropped 9.1 percent.

Home prices also plunged 5.4 percent from the previous threemonth period, by far the largest quarter-to-quarter decline in the index’s history. The previous record was the revised 1.8 percent drop in the third quarter of 2007.

The quarterly index tracks prices of existing-family homes nationwide compared with a year earlier.

A government report yesterday said U.S. home prices posted their first annual decline in 16 years. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said nationwide prices dipped 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter from the year-ago period.

The OFHEO index is narrower in scope and is calculat-

ed using mortgages of $417,000 or less that are bought or backed

by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. That excludes properties bought with some of the riskier types of home loans.

“It will only get worse. This record will be shattered by subsequent declines,” said Peter Schiff, author of “Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse” about the S&P/Case-Shiller report. “We will experience the most substantial decline in history because before this we had experienced the most unprecedented rise in U.S. real estate history.”

After 14 years of rising prices, the housing market is unwinding, taking victims from Main Street to Wall Street.

Homeowners are losing their houses to foreclosures at an increasingly rapid rate as interest rates on home loans adjust higher and declining values eat into equity.

Ir vine, Calif.,-based RealtyTrac Inc. said yesterday that the number of homes facing foreclosure climbed 57 percent in January from the previous year and more lenders are being forced to take possession of homes they couldn’t dump at auctions.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that “a civil war rages” in Iraq and shouldn’t be the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers.

“Americans need to start taking care of Americans,” he said.

“We cannot spend a half billion dollars every day in Iraq.”

Senate Republicans had been widely expected to block the measure, as they had done repeatedly in the past. But

after emerging from a closeddoor meeting earlier yesterday, McConnell said the GOP members were now eager to discuss the war.

In recent months, violence in Iraq has subsided significantly and the Baghdad government has made small steps toward political reconciliation, including plans to hold provincial elections on Oct. 1.

While Democratic voters remain largely against the war, polls have shown, the security improvement has helped to cool anxiety among Republicans and has turned voters’ focus to economic problems at home.

The vote came as the Army’s top general said he wants to reduce combat tours for soldiers in Iraq from 15 months to 12 months this summer.

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Peaceful protests turn violent New York Philharmonic concert brings North Korea and U.S. together at U.S. consolate in Bosnia “I can say that through the concert tonight, all the members of the New York Philharmonic opened the hearts of the Korean people.”

By Burt Herman The Associated Press

By Irena Knezevic The Associated Press

BANJA LUKA, BosniaHerzegovina — Police fired tear gas at Bosnian Serb rioters yesterday to prevent them from storming the building of the U.S. consulate after protests against Kosovo’s independence.

A group split away from the almost 10,000 peaceful protesters in Banja Luka and headed toward the consulate, breaking shop windows and throwing stones at police who blocked the streets leading to the building with armored vehicles.

A rain of stones poured down on police before officers fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. Several officers were seen limping. Police were also seen detaining several demonstrators as they withdrew to a nearby park.

Hundreds of hooligans attacked the U.S. embassy in downtown Belgrade Thursday, setting part of it on fire and smashing windows. One person died and hundreds were injured and arrested.

Some bystanders returning from the peaceful part of yesRADIVOJE PAVICIC | AP PHOTO terday’s protest yelled “shame DEMONSTRATION: Bosnian Serb youths gesture as they hold Serbian flags during a on you!” at the rioters and protest against Kosovo’ s declaration of independence, in the Bosnian town of the Banja Luka, one man, apparently a former Bosnian Serb soldier, shouted, 75 miles northwest of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, yesterday.

“This is not what I fought for!”

The incident occurred with participants gathering states, one run by Bosnian despite repeated calls by orga- peacefully at the main square Serbs, the other by Bosnians and nizers to hold a peaceful pro- in downtown Banja Luka, car- Croats. The Bosnian Serb parliatest against Kosovo’s indepen- rying Serbian flags, pictures ment has condemned Kosovo’s dence. Police secured diplo- of Russian President Vladimir declaration of independence matic missions in the city and Putin and banners reading “No and said it will consider a referwarned it would use all legal America.” At least one U.S. flag endum to secede from Bosnia if more countries recognize an had a swastika scribbled on it. means to prevent violence.

Bosnia consists of two mini- independent Kosovo.

Yesterday’s protest begun

PYONGYANG, North Korea — The New York Philharmonic’s unprecedented concert could herald warmer ties between North Korea and the United States. After three encores, some musicians left the stage in tears as the audience waved fondly.

Between horn fanfares and the flourishes of the conductor’s baton, the U.S. and North Korea found common ground in a concert yesterday that spanned American and Korean musical traditions.

Whether the feeling lingers after the music will depend on the North’s compliance with an international push to rid it of nuclear weapons.

After the New York Philharmonic played the last notes of the folk song “Arirang,” the adoring audience stood and applauded enthusiastically, waving to the musicians.

Orchestra members — some moved to tears — paused with their instruments and waved back, an emotional finale to the concert that was the highlight of the Philharmonic’s 48-hour visit.

The enraptured crowd drew music director Lorin Maazel and concertmaster Glenn Dicterow out for a final bow after the rest of the ensemble left the flower-adorned stage at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater.

The concert was broadcast live on North Korean TV, meaning it was heard beyond the 2,500 people in the theater. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, one of the world’s most reclusive leaders, did not attend; there was no way to know whether he watched.

“We may have been instrumental

Song Sok Hwan | Vice culture minister in opening a little door,” Maazel said after the performance.

He dismissed the significance of Kim’s absence, saying: “I have yet to see the president of the United States at one of my concerts. Sometimes a statesman is too busy.”

Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry attended the performance and called it a “historic moment,” remembering how close the countries came to war in 1994 amid a crisis over the North’s nuclear program.

“This might just have pushed us over the top” in finding a way beyond past discord, he said after the concert, adding that Washington should reciprocate by inviting North Korean performers to the United States.

“You cannot demonize people when you’re sitting there listening to their music. You don’t go to war with people unless you demonize them first,” Perry said.

North Korea’s vice culture minister agreed.

“I can say that through the concert tonight, all the members of the New York Philharmonic opened the hearts of the Korean people,” Song Sok Hwan told the orchestra. The concert, he said at a banquet, “serves as an important occasion to open a chapter of mutual understanding between the two countries.”

Performing on a stage flanked by the U.S. and North Korean flags, the Philharmonic played

the North Korean national anthem, “Patriotic Song,” following by “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The audience stood respectfully and held their applause until both had been performed.

The Philharmonic then presented Dvorak’s “New World Symphony,” written while the Czech composer lived in the United States — followed by Gershwin’s playful, jazz-influenced “An American in Paris.”

“Someday a composer may write a work entitled ‘Americans in Pyongyang,’” Maazel said in introducing the Gershwin work, drawing warm applause from the audience.

North Koreans in attendance — men in suits and women in colorful traditional Korean dresses — fixed their eyes on the stage. Many wore badges with a portrait of national founder Kim Il Sung, father of the current leader.

Some raised digital cameras to capture the event, an indication of the elite status of the concertgoers in a country with an average salary of just dollars a month.

For one of its three encores, the Philharmonic performed the overture to Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” without a conductor.

Maazel yielded the podium to the spirit of the legendary musician with an exhortation of “Maestro, please!” in Korean.

Northern campaign in Iraq sees further violence China agrees to help dismantle North Korea’s nuclear programs

By John Affleck The Associated Press

BAGHDAD — Insurgents targeted passenger buses north of Baghdad yesterday, as a suicide bomber killed at least eight people west of Mosul and gunmen seized 21 men traveling through Diyala province.

The latest bloodshed highlighted the slow-going, punchcounterpunch U.S.-led campaign against al-Qaida in Iraq, more than a month after Iraq’s prime minister said he expected the fight for Mosul would be a “decisive battle.”

The Americans view the northern campaign as a chance to subdue al-Qaida in Iraq in

areas surrounding Mosul, a major transportation hub which the military has described as the terror group’s last urban stronghold.

Yesterday’s bombing, 40 miles west of Mosul, struck a bus heading from that city to the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Al-Qaida is believed to use the cover of sprawling sheep and produce markets in Mosul to smuggle foreign fighters, weapons and cash from Syria.

Mosul, the country’s third-largest city, lies some 80 miles east of the Syrian border and 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.

Farther north, Turkish officials said yesterday their troops pressed an incursion deeper

into Iraq, as they chased separatist Kurdish rebels as much as 12 miles across that border. Fedup Iraqi leaders demanded that Turkey end the military operation, and the regional parliament in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish area unanimously approved a measure authorizing its military forces to fight back if attacked by Turks.

The south, however, was relatively calm. There, millions of black-clad pilgrims clogged the streets of Karbala for the peak of an annual religious commemoration for a revered Shiite figure.

A nationwide pilgrimage to the city was marred by attacks earlier in the week that killed at least 63 people.

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“We are the cusp of something very special here. Now it is time to move on because the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is in everyone’s interest.”

By Matthew Lee The Associated Press

BEIJING — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice got a verbal assurance yesterday from China to use its influence to help jumpstart the stalled process of dismantling North Korea’s nuclear programs. Yet it was unclear when or how the Chinese would follow through.

In broad discussions with Chinese officials, Rice also won an agreement from China to resume an on-again, off-again human rights dialogue with the United States and she pleased her Chinese hosts by restating firm U.S. opposition to a Taiwanese referendum on United Nations entry that has infuriated Beijing.

But North Korea dominated the talks and Rice urged China, which has considerable leverage with its Stalinist neighbor, along with others in the sixnation denuclearization effort, to “use all influence possible” with Pyongyang to meet its pledges to the group.

“I believe that all of the parties to the six-party talks have both an obligation and an interest to make certain that the obligations of the first phase are carried out,” Rice told reporters at a news conference with Chinese Foreign

Yang Jiechi | Chinese Foreign Minister Minister Yang Jiechi.

“We are the cusp of something very special here,” she said, referring to the shutdown and continuing disablement of North Korea’s main nuclear facility in Yongbyon. “Now it is time to move on because the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is in everyone’s interest.”

“What I am expecting from China is what I am expecting from others: Use all influence possible with the North Koreans to convince them that it is time to move forward,” Rice said.

Yang said China was “consistently committed to the six-party talks and the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” and would continue to work on the matter. But he also made clear that Beijing had already pressed the North hard on the matter.

“The Chinese side hopes that the parties will treasure the results we have already produced, which have not come eas-

ily,” he said.

Speaking later after extensive discussions with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Rice said she was pleased with the Chinese stance. “I think China shares our desire to get this moving forward at a more rapid pace and I know they are using their good offices to try to do so,” she said.

Although progress has been made in disabling Yongbyon, the United States says North Korea has not yet produced a full declaration of its nuclear programs, including details on the transfer of technology and know-how that could be used to develop atomic weapons.

The declaration was due almost two months ago, and the North says it has already met the requirement but the Bush administration rejects the claim, which has slowed progress on the process aimed at restoring stability in North Asia and bringing a final end to the Korean War.

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BG on fire, prepares for Ohio Falcons sport six-game winning streak BASKETBALL Houston Rockets lose Yao for the rest of the season The Rockets had won 12 in a row and were only three games out of the top spot in the west prior to the injury and now will be forced to go the rest of the way without their All-Star center.

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JUMP FOR JOY: The Falcons have certainly given Whitney Taylor (left) and Crystal Murdaugh something to jump about. They are currently on a six-game winning streak and have over-taken Miami for the top spot in the MAC East division. BG will look to improve the winning streak to seven tonight in Athens as they face the Bobcats at 7 p.m.

SCHEDULE TODAY Women’s basketball: at Ohio; 7 p.m.

OUR CALL Today in Sports History 1987—NCAA cancels SMU’s entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption.

1963—Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees signs a baseball contract worth $100,000.

1960—US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal.

1959—Boston Celtics guard Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists as the Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers.

The List Running backs are a position of emphasis at the Combine.

Today we list the top five performances this past week:

1. Darren McFadden: The Arkansas running back solidified his position as the top running back in the draft with two 40-yard dash times in the 4.3 region.

2. Chris Johnson: The East Carolina product had the fastest 40 time of all with a blazing 4.25 time in his second attempt.

3. Jonathan Stewart: His 28 reps on the bench press were the most of all running backs. The Oregon standout also posted two 40 times in the low 4.4.

4. Rashard Mendenhall: The running back out of Illinois did 26 reps on the bench press and ran two 40 times in the low 4.4 region.

5. Jamal Charles: The Longhorn ran two 40 times in the 4.3 region.

FALCONS AT OHIO

After such a crucial win last Saturday, the BG women’s basketball team could only celebrate for the duration of the bus drive home.

With three games left in the regular season — and only one of those at home — the Falcons still have work to do.

Tonight, they’ll be in Athens to take on Ohio.

Ohio will be a tough team at home. Not only will tonight’s game serve as “Senior Night,” but the Bobcats will also have some revenge on their minds.

When OU visited a packed Anderson Arena early in January, BG dispatched them 60-45. Throughout that game, OU’s post presence was completely neutralized.

According to BG coach Curt Miller, that shouldn’t be the case again. “[Ohio’s] success depends on their post game,” Miller said.

TONIGHT: 7 p.m.

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WHERE: Convocation Center (13,080) Athens, Ohio BG RECORD : 21-6 (10-3) OHIO RECORD: 15-10 (8-4) SERIES: BG leads 43-18 LAST MEETING: BG 60 — OHIO 45 (January 12, 2008 at BG) STREAK: BG — 1 COACHES: OHIO — Sylvia Crawley, 2nd Year (33-22). BG — Curt Miller, 7th Year (145-66) STARTING LINEUPS: BG — G Kate Achter, G Lauren Prochaska, G Lindsey Goldsberry, F Crystal Murdaugh, F Tara Breske OHIO — G Quintana Ward, G Jennifer Poff, G Lauren Kohn, F Lauren Hmiel, C Chandra Myers

Blue Jackets trade Foote and Fedorov in separate deals

Tennis stays unbeaten with two victories

By Rusty Miller The Associated Press

By Nate Parsons Reporter

If winning the doubles point is any indication of how well the BG tennis team will do the rest of the season then other schools had better watch out.

The Falcons improved to 9-0 — one shy of the school record — with wins over the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University this past weekend thanks in large part due to their doubles play.

The Falcons swept the doubles point in both matches to take an early 1-0 lead. They have swept the doubles point in four straight matches and six out of the last seven.

Overall, BG has won the doubles point in eight of the nine dual matches.

Coach Penny Dean credits the team’s doubles’ success to the Indiana Doubles Invitational held in January where she was able to experiment with different tandems.

“The experiment time helped us come up with four really good combinations that work well together and are comfortable together,” she said.

“Out of all four of them, any one

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UNDEFEATED: Tennis improved to 9-0 on the year with two victories over the weekend. of them could step up and play at the No. 1 on any given day.”

Dean also credits Kent Wymer, a teaching pro at Shadow Valley Tennis Club, who has been helping the team once a week working a majority of that time on doubles.

Winning the doubles point can control the fate of a team, especially when the teams are comparable ability-wise.

“If you and another team are very close in ability, it often comes down to splitting the singles three and three,” Dean said, “so you know winning the doubles point means winning the match.”

To help win the point and the match, the team has a new outlook

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COLUMBUS — Rather than fortify their lineup for the first playoff run in franchise history, the Columbus Blue Jackets yesterday unloaded marquee players defenseman Adam Foote and center Sergei Fedorov.

The impetus for the trades was that both players — the two oldest on the team and both in the final years of lucrative contracts — could have gone elsewhere this summer without the Blue Jackets getting anything in return. Now Columbus will have money available to spend on free agents this summer.

Foote was being paid $4.6 million and Fedorov more than $6 million this season.

The 36-year-old Foote, also the Blue Jackets captain, went to the Colorado Avalanche for a firstround pick in either 2008 or 2009.

Columbus also gets a conditional fourth-round pick in 2009.

Fedorov, 38, was traded to the Washington Capitals for defenseman Theo Ruth, now playing collegiate hockey for Notre Dame.

Columbus, the only NHL team to never make the playoffs, has a record of 29-26-9.

Their 67 points put them just five back of the Nashville Predators, who hold the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

“I wanted to play two more seasons here and get in the playoffs.”

Adam Foote | Former Blue Jacket General manager Scott Howson scheduled a news conference for later yesterday to discuss the trades.

Foote returns to his former team where he won two Stanley Cups.

He was a mainstay on Colorado’s blue line before signing with the Blue Jackets as a free agent before the start of the 2005-2006 season.

Six weeks into that season, he was selected as the fourth captain in club history.

Howson had been in discussions with Foote on a new twoyear contract, but the sides were $1 million apart — the Blue Jackets offering $7 million and Foote and his agent, Rick Curran, looking for $8 million.

When it became clear that he could not reach an agreement with the Blue Jackets, Foote waived the no-trade clause in his contract.

“I found out a lot of teams were interested in me, but I didn’t want

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Indians hope 2008 season ends better than its 2007 counterpart did

By Tom Withers The Associated Press

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Clutching a sheet of paper with his name boldly typed on one side, Grady Sizemore fidgeted in a folding chair as a photographer barked out instructions to Cleveland’s AllStar center fielder.

“Grady, hold the bat a little higher,” he said. “Grady, swivel to your left, please,” he said.

“Smile, Grady,” he pleaded.

It was photo day at Chain O’ Lakes Park, an annual rite of training camp for the Indians, who will pack up and leave Florida for good next month and relocate their spring home to Goodyear, Ariz.

For more than two hours, players dutifully paraded in front of portable backdrops and tiptoed around klieg lights and over extension cords while posing for head and action shots — the initial impressions of an upcoming

2008 season the Indians hope ends with at least one more win.

But there’s a lasting image from 2007 that C.C. Sabathia can’t forget.

“For me,” the Cy Young winner said yesterday, “it was just being on the plane back from Boston with everybody after Game 7, talking about what happened and talking about how to get back.”

Last October, the Indians were in control of the ALCS, leading the Red Sox 3-1 before losing three straight games to drop the series and extend a World Series title drought turning 60.

Sabathia insists he spent little time brooding over the collapse, which came after the Indians had run away with the brutal AL Central and followed their playoff elimination of the New York Yankees.

“I went back and watched the games,” Sabathia said. “But once I left Cleveland about three days later, I just let it go.”

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FAVORITES: The Indians know they will not sneak up on anybody this season.

The left-hander just hopes his teammates did the same.

“This game is tough, and if you’ve got that in the back of your head and you’re dwelling on that, it’s hard to get ready for this year,” said Sabathia, who is eligible for free agency next fall.

In order to get back where they were, the Indians may have to match a season in which they tied the Red Sox for the most wins (96) in the majors, recorded

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Youth will be served — next season BILL BORDEWICK ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR I’ve got a question for you.

Can you name all of the outgoing seniors that currently make up the BG men’s and women’s basketball teams?

Do not worry if you are struggling, as it should probably not take you very long seeing as there are only two of them combined for both teams.

Yep, only a combined two — such a low number means that the BG seniors need to recruit three more people just to play a pick-up game at the Rec. Guards Kate Achter and Whitney Taylor have been all by themselves this season in the senior retirement home.

Now I know what you are thinking — neither one of those names sound very masculine.

And in fact they are not. The two seniors both come from the women’s program. The men have gone senior-less since December when the lone senior on the team, Ryne Hamblet, was dismissed from the program.

Two seniors for one team is a low number. Two seniors for an entire basketball program is just insane.

To put this youth movement in perspective, the Akron men’s team has four seniors alone.

BG needs to call up a few club players just to reach that lofty of a number.

This is what has made the season so unique — both programs have essentially gone through youth movements and been successful doing so.

The women have dominated the past three seasons and were expected to struggle this season when they lost five of their top six players on last season’s Sweet 16 team and would be forced to start two freshmen and a sophomore.

That thinking could not be further from the truth.

Curt Miller and his Lady Falcons have picked up right where they left off and continue to pace the MAC this season.

They are the only team to have 10 wins in conference play and are also the only team to reach the 20-win plateau.

Rebuilding is not a concern for the Falcons — they just reload.

They have set themselves up for another successful run through the MAC tournament and that is with 10 of its 13 players being underclassmen.

A lot of that success this season came because of Achter’s leadership and they will need to replace that next season but at least it will not be like replacing five of its top six players like it had to do this season.

The men, on the other hand, have not had quite the success that the women have had over the past three seasons but that does not mean that this season has not been a vast improvement.

Last season, they won three more conference games than I did (that would be a 3-13 record for those of you counting at home).

They already have six victories this season in conference play with three games to play under new coach Louis Orr. How many out there expected BG to have a chance to finish the conference season with nine wins?

Granted a three-game stretch featuring away games at Buffalo and Miami and a home game with conference leader Kent State is not going to yield any easy victories.

Even if they do not win another conference game, the team has battled through a whole host of adversity and

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TENNIS From Page 13 on doubles, according to Dean.

“We’re trying to start out every doubles match strong, going after our shots and testing the other team right off the bat to see if there are certain shots they can hit or not. We focus more on that process rather than focusing on winning or losing.”

BG definitely came out focused this weekend.

Against the Musketeers (7-4) on Sunday, the duo of Kelsey Jakupcin and Christine Chiricosta won 8-2 at the top flight.

The tandems of senior co-captains Jenna Nussbaum/Andrea Volle and Katia Babina/Sam Kintzel both won their matches, 8-6, at the second and third flights, respectively.

On Saturday against the Bearcats (3-8), the Falcons dropped no more than four games in any match, including an 8-0 win by Babina and Kintzel at the third flight.

Babina feels winning the doubles point gives the team more motivation.

“If we get this one point, we’re more motivated and we know we’ve started strong and on top and we’ve got to keep on going,” she said. “It’s kind of a motivational point for us.”

Not only does winning the doubles point give the team more motivation to do well, but according to Dean, it also gives them confidence.

“It’s definitely a confidence builder to go into singles feeling good because you won and there’s not a lot of pressure to win four or five of the singles matches to win the match.”

BG didn’t need to win four or five singles matches in either contest this weekend, but it did anyway.

Out of the 12 singles matches played over the weekend, BG lost only one.

Against Xavier, each Falcon competing in the top-five singles flights came away with victories.

Jakupcin (first flight), Chiricosta (second) and Stefanie Menoff (fifth) all posted straightset victories for BG, dropping no more than four games in each of their respective matches.

Kintzel lost her first set, 3-6, in the fourth flight, but bounced back and won the next two sets against Kaitlyn Zinn.

Babina clinched the victory for the Falcons with her straight-set victory (6-1, 7-5) over Jill Ducro in third-flight action.

It was more of the same for BG against Cincinnati as it won all six singles flights — five were in straight sets.

Jakupcin (top flight), Babina (third), Kintzel (fourth), Menoff (fifth) and Nussbaum (sixth) all defeated their respective opponents in straight sets.

Falcons competing in flights three through six lost no more than three games in any particular set.

Chiricosta’s second-flight match against Jennifer Keiner was the lone match to require a tiebreaker.

After Keiner won the first set, 76, Chiricosta fought back to win the second set, 6-0. Chiricosta then won the match by winning the tiebreaker, 10-3.

The Falcons will try to break the school record for best start when they travel to California over spring break for two matches. They will face UC San Diego on March 4 and Cal Poly Pomona two days later.

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Rockets dealt a blow with latest Yao Ming injury

By Kristie Rieken The Associated Press

doesn’t expect the center to miss the Beijing Olympics in August.

That possibility is weighing heavily on him though.

“If I cannot play in the Olympics HOUSTON — All-Star center Yao Ming is out for the season with for my country this time, it will a stress fracture in his left foot, be the biggest loss in my career to a stunning blow to the surging right now,” he said.

He doesn’t even want to Houston Rockets.

General manager Daryl Morey think about how his absence made the announcement yes- in the game would affect his terday, hours before the Rockets fans in China.

“I don’t want to try, actuput their 12-game winning streak on the line against the ally and I don’t want to know either,” he said.

Washington Wizards.

Coach Rick Adelman and Yao was having a terrific season, averaging 22 points and 10.8 Morey told the team before yesterday’s shootaround. Yao said rebounds per game.

“It is not an injury we feel he it was a difficult day for him can play with,” Rockets team from the moment he walked doctor Tom Clanton said. “I’ve into the building.

“When coach tells everybody I made the recommendation that it be treated surgically and we am out for the season, everybody are working with him to get is like quiet,” he said. “That kind other opinions just to be certain of quietness makes me feel kind that that is indeed what should of scared, it was quiet like nobody was there and you just feel alone.” be done.”

Morey said he doesn’t believe If Yao chooses surgery, Clanton said, it would involve placing theinjurycompromisesHouston’s screws across the bone to hold playoff hopes. The Rockets were it together. The second option 36-20 entering yesterday’s game.

“We’ve been playing excepwould be to treat it with a cast and crutches. Both options tional ball and Yao’s been a huge involve a healing time of about part of that,” Morey said. “We feel very confident about our playoff four months.

Clanton would not say when push. We’ve managed to step up Yao could play again, but said he and play well without Yao in the

WOMEN From Page 13 “In our first match up, their post game did not score one field goal from the floor. That’s not going to happen again. Their post game is very talented.”

While the Bobcats’ post players are to be reckoned with, overall depth at the guard positions could be the team’s real strength.

In their January meeting, OU guards Lauren Kohn and Jennifer Poff scored 18 and 13 points, respectively.

“They have the deepest backcourt in the conference,” Miller said. “They can go six guards deep and not drop off at all.”

Tonight’s game will take on even more significance because both teams are quite close in the Mid-American Conference East Division standings. BG, on the strength of a six-game winning streak, sits atop the entire conference at 10-3, while OU is 8-4 and just a half game out of second place in the division.

Second place in the division could have been tied, but the Bobcats lost to Buffalo on Saturday, 67-63.

Meanwhile, the Falcons are sitting pretty at the top of the standings and are riding what could be their largest wave of positive momentum all season.

During the win streak, the Falcons have hung their hats on stout defense and timely rebounding. This season, they’ve only allowed an average of 60.7 points per game.

“I truly believe in the cliché ‘defense and rebounding wins championships,’” Miller said.

“Our defense over the last few games has really stepped up and had some big stops in big time opportunities.”

While getting all of those stops on the defensive end, BG has also consistently been

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“We can never get too high, we can never get too low.

As soon as we got back to campus [after the Miami game], we knew that preparation was beginning for another monster game at Ohio University.”

Curt Miller | BG coach able to score points. They rank No. 1 in the MAC in total points per game with 72, and have been the top scoring team all season.

Since Saturday, the schedule has not been kind to the Falcons. With Miami out of the way, Ohio should prove to be equally difficult.

“We can never get too high, we can never get too low,” Miller said. “As soon as we got back to campus [after the Miami game], we knew that preparation was beginning for another monster game at Ohio University. With a young team it’s going to be fun to find out how mature we are.”

FALCON NOTES STREAK: BG has beaten Toledo, Northern Illinois, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Kent State and Miami during its six-game winning streak.

RACE FOR NO. 1: Falcons hold a one-game advantage over Miami for first place in the East division.

past and coaches and players feel confident that we’re going to continue to play well and make the playoffs this year.”

Morey acknowledged that it was difficult news to receive when the team has been playing so well.

“It’s a pretty big swing from a high to a low, with how we were playing,” Morey said. “We feel like our supporting cast is superior to when we played without Yao in the past. We remain ready for the challenge ahead.”

Clanton said there was no specific event that led to the injury, but rather an “accumulation of stresses on the bone. Yao first experienced soreness and pain in his ankle before the AllStar game and tests were done Monday when the situation didn’t improve.

This is Yao’s fourth major injury in the last two years. He missed 32 games last season with a fracture in his right leg and 21 games in late 2006 with a toe infection that required surgery. He missed four games in April 2006 after breaking his foot.

Houston went 20-12 when Yao was injured last season.

The Rockets, who remain in seventh place in the tough Western Conference despite their

CHARLES KRUPA | AP PHOTO

SHOCKED: Houston Rockets’ center Yao Ming will miss the rest of the season after suffering a stress fracture in his left foot. The Rockets were on a 12-game winning streak.

winning streak, will now have to rely heavily on 41-year-old Dikembe Mutombo. The 17-year veteran has been averaging just eight minutes per game.

“I really feel bad for Yao,” Adelman said. “It’s just such a shocker. [Monday] morning he was OK and then four hours later,

he wasn’t. It’s tough on everybody, but we’ve got to move on.”

Yao said he took Tracy McGrady aside after speaking to the team and told him the success of the team is up to him now.

“We’re in a good situation right now,” he said he told McGrady.

“Right now is your time.”

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will be better for it.

The Falcons will bring back everyone on the team and even gain more depth next season.

Center Erik Marschall will be back after taking a medical red-shirt this season. The Falcons will now feature three junior centers in Marc Larson, Otis Polk and Marschall to bang with the MAC’s best.

BG will also gain new recruits for the upcoming season. All those games where the Falcons might have been short-handed this season, will be turned around.

Both the men and the women will reap the benefits next season and have already seen improvements this season.

Pretty good for two teams that have the majority of their rosters closer in age to their high school days rather than their collegiate graduate days.

44 comeback victories and won their division by eight games over the Detroit Tigers, who added All-Star reinforcements Miguel Cabrera, Dontrelle Willis, Edgardo Renteria and Jacque Jones this winter.

And as 2008 sprouts, it’s the Tigers, not the Indians who are being labeled as the team to beat.

“That’s good. That’s OK,” said pitcher Paul Byrd, still awaiting word from Major League Baseball on his admitted use of human growth hormone. “It should be that way. They have an All-Star lineup. Everybody should be talking about them.”

“But I like our team. I like our pitching especially. I like our team chemistry. I’m excited about where we’re at.”

The Indians did little during the offseason. They didn’t have to, which is perhaps the most telling sign of their arrival among baseball’s elite class.

Cleveland general manager Mark Shapiro made a couple of tweaks, adding Japanese reliever Masa Kobayashi and utility infielder Jamey Carroll, but the Indians will return virtually their entire team from a year ago.

There is one major change, though.

“We’re not going to sneak up on anybody, that’s for sure,” Sabathia said.

“We’re going to have to go out and earn it. We’ll grind it out, look up every now and again to see where we’re at, and keep grinding.”

The Indians would appear designed to grind.

Their roster is a well-proportioned mix of experience and enthusiasm, proven veterans along with up-and-comers. Cleveland’s top players — Sabathia, Sizemore, Travis Hafner and Victor Martinez

“We know we’re a pretty good team now. There’s no question anymore about that. We’ve got that silent confidence around here.”

TRADES From Page 13 to go anywhere, because I wanted to finish the job here,” Foote told The Columbus Dispatch. “I wanted to play two more seasons here and get in the playoffs.”

Fedorov, who played on three Stanley Cup-winning teams in Detroit, becomes just the second most-famous Russian on his new team. He joins NHL scoring leader Alexander Ovechkin, one of the top young guns in the league.

Fedorov had suffered through a string of injuries this season and recently rejoined the team after recovering from a concussion and leg problems.

He returned in time to score a goal in a shootout victory at Ottawa on Saturday but hasn’t practiced this week.

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“They all work hard and lack ego,” Byrd said. “It’s a very unusual situation over here.

It’s very unique to have the quality of personality, quality of people and quality of talent on the field together.

“Usually you have one or two guys like that, you don’t have five or six that are all superstars and they go about their business the right way.”

And they take their cues from their 40-year-old manager.

Wedge demands accountability from his players. He preaches to respect each other, their opponent and the game.

As his sixth season in Cleveland dawns, he isn’t worried about complacency, not from this group, which after finishing fourth in 2006 wasn’t expected to do much last season.

“There’s a lot of old school in them in how they play,” Wedge said, “and in what’s important to them.”

Since camp opened, Sabathia has sensed a resolve in the Indians, who came so close a year ago.

“I see the commitment, but this clubhouse is loose,” he said. “We know we’re a pretty good team now. There’s no question anymore about that.

We’ve got that silent confidence around here.”

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Underwear is no longer a private display

By Ryan Lucas The Associated Press

OPATOWEK, Poland — Victoria has no secrets in this Polish town.

In an exhibition that’s making some Poles do a double-take, the Museum of Industry in Opatowek has chronicled the evolution of women’s underwear from the knee-length knickers and tight corsets of the early 20th century to the skimpy thongs of today.

“Undergarments were pretty much kept well out of sight in the old days,” said Ewa Sieranska, curator at the Central Textile Museum in Lodz, which loaned 140 items to the exhibit called “From Pantaloons to G-Strings.”

“At the beginning of the 20th century you couldn’t show them at all, and later only a little bit, whereas now they’re everywhere,” she added.

Female underwear evolved as women’s role in society changed.

The frumpy drawers of the early 20th century gave way to more modern styles in the 1920s — including garter belts to hold up the stockings of women entering the workplace.

Among notable items on display in this town 150 miles east of Warsaw is a white garter belt with pink hearts and clasps to attach to silk stockings, a style popular before pantyhose were developed in the 1960s.

There are also pantaloons (knee-long cotton underwear with lace fringe), day shirts, night gowns and two-piece corsets.

ALIK KEPLICZ | AP PHOTO

FUN-TO-WEAR?: A schoolboy tours the exhibition “From Pantaloons to G-strings” at the Museum of Industry in Opatowek, central Poland Thursday.

Nylon rose in popularity in the 1970s, while natural materials like cotton hold sway today.

Inthe1980s,whenPoland’sthencommunist regime was staggering from one political and economic crisis to the next, so-called “tygodniowki,” which came in packages of seven — a pair for each day of the week — were the standard cotton undies for women.

The exhibition, which opened in January and runs until the end of March, is sprinkled with a few items of male clothing — boxer shorts, robes and a jock strap from the 1930s.

But male underwear has changed little over the years, and the vast majority of the collection is made up of what once was known as women’s unmentionables.

“When people came to see the exhibition after it first opened, it caused a range of different reactions,” said museum curator Ewa Klysz. “But these items are subject to historical research, and this is a serious exhibit.”

Serious it may be, but it is also proved entertaining.

“It’s great,” said Klaudia Kepa, 15, who visited the museum with her high school classmates.

“You’re not just learning about art or something that you can read about in a history text book, but something that’s important, well, every day.”

The underwear did generate a fair amount of giggling among the three other groups of students that visited the museum on Valentine’s Day. Older visitors, however, tend to take a different spin on things.

“They want to see some things they aren’t familiar with, or remember items that they once wore,” Klysz said.

“Sometimes they say, ‘Oh, I used to wear that, or, ugh, those were horribly uncomfortable.’”

A frequent source of such memories: a magenta nylon nightgown with pink frills around the chest.

“Those were terrible,” Klysz said with a laugh. “Women hated wearing those things.”

And where does underwear style go next? Klysz looked around the room and shrugged.

“Oh, I don’t know what’ll come next,” she said with a laugh.

“Maybe a return to what we wore before underwear — nothing.”

WHO reports high rate of tuberculosis infections

By Maria Cheng The Associated Press

LONDON — Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned in report issued yesterday.

The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain topped 20 percent in some countries, the highest ever recorded, the U.N. agency said.

“Ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to see rates like this,” said Dr. Mario Raviglione, director of WHO’s “Stop TB” department. “This demonstrates what happens when you keep making mistakes in TB treatment.”

Though the report is the largest survey of drug-resistant TB, based on information collected between 2002 and 2006, there are still major gaps: Data were only available from about half of the world’s countries.

In Africa, where experts are particularly worried about a lethal collision between TB and AIDS, only six countries provided information.

“We really don’t know what the situation is in Africa,” Raviglione said. “If multi-drug resistant TB

“Ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to see rates like this.”

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CINCINNATI — Republican John McCain quickly denounced the comments of a radio talk show host who, while warming up a campaign crowd, referred repeatedly to Barack Hussein Obama and called the Democratic presidential candidate a “hack, Chicago-style” politician.

Hussein is Obama’s middle name, but talk show host Bill Cunningham used it three times as he addressed the crowd before the likely Republican nominee’s appearance.

“Now we have a hack, Chicagostyle Daley politician who is picturing himself as change. When he gets done with you, all you’re going to have in your pocket is change,” Cunningham said as the audience laughed.

The time will come, Cunningham added, when the liberal-leaning media will “peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama” and tell the truth about his relationship with indicted fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko and how Obama got “sweetheart deals” in Chicago.

McCain wasn’t on stage or, he says, in the building when Cunningham made the comments, but he quickly distanced himself from the radio talk show host after finishing his speech.

McCain spoke to a couple hundred people at Memorial Hall in downtown Cincinnati.

“I apologize for it,” McCain told reporters, addressing the issue before they had a chance to ask the Arizona senator about Cunningham’s comments.

“I did not know about these remarks, but I take responsibil-

WASHINGTON — Gen. George Casey, the Army’s chief of staff, said yesterday he has no reason to doubt Barack Obama’s recent account by an Army captain that a rifle platoon in Afghanistan didn’t have enough soldiers or weapons.

But he questioned the assertion that the shortages prevented the troops from doing their job.

Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Casey said the incident would have occurred in 2003 and 2004 following the Iraq invasion.

He said he remembers it as a “difficult time” trying to rush armor and other equipment to the troops.

“I have no reason to doubt what it is the captain said,” Casey said. “This was 2003 and 2004, almost four and a half years ago.

We acknowledge and all worked together to correct the deficiencies that we saw in that period, not only in Afghanistan but in Iraq. It was a period that we worked our way through.”

During a Democratic debate last week, Obama said an Army captain remembered leading a platoon in Afghanistan that

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KEEPING HIS DISTANCE: Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., delivers a statement of apology to the news media after local radio host Bill Cunningham made disparaging remarks about his Democratic opponents on stage prior to McCain’s arrival at a campaign rally at Hamilton County Memorial Hall in Cincinnati.

ity for them. I repudiate them,” he said. “My entire campaign I have treated Senator Obama and Senator (Hillary Rodham) Clinton with respect. I will continue to do that throughout this campaign.”

McCaincalledbothDemocrats “honorable Americans” and said, “I want to dissociate myself with any disparaging remarks that may have been said about them.”

Asked whether the use of Obama’s middle name — the same as former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein — is proper, McCain said: “No, it is not. Any comment that is disparaging of either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama is totally inappropriate.”

McCain said he didn’t know who decided to allow Cunningham to speak but said he was sure it was in coordination with his campaign. He said he didn’t hear the comments and has never met Cunningham, but “I will certainly make sure that nothing like that happens again.”

Responding to McCain’s apology, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, “It is a sign that if there is a McCain-Obama general election, it can be intensely competitive but the candidates will attempt to keep it respectful and focused on issues.”

Last fall, McCain faced criticism for initially not repudiating a voter in South Carolina who called Clinton a “bitch.”

McCain chuckled in response to the voter’s question, but didn’t embrace the epithet. A few minutes later, he said he respected Clinton, a New York senator and colleague.

Aside from using Obama’s middle name, Cunningham also mocked the Illinois senator’s foreign policy statements about his willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue nations. He said he envisions a future in which “the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing Kumbaya together around the table with Barack Obama.”

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GAME OF 20 QUESTIONS: Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, right, accompanied

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Obama campaign has declined to release the name of the captain, citing the soldier’s privacy.

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Casey said the Army has purposefully not tried to seek out the captain individually. But he did contact the platoon’s brigade commander, which belonged to the 10th Mountain Division, and reviewed the division’s readiness reports.

was short on men, ammunition and humvees.

“They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief,” Obama said.

Obama’s account prompted denials from the Pentagon. In a letter to Obama, Sen. John Warner, R-VA., demanded the name and whereabouts of the captain so he could investigate the matter.

Iraq veterans vie for seat in Congress “I would be putting all I learned in that ... environment into practice.”

By Julie Carr Smyth The Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Scott Radcliffe believes two tours of duty in Iraq gave him the stuff to serve in Congress. As a platoon commander, he helped spearhead economic development, built citizen coalitions and made many tough decisions, often amid enemy fire.

“I would be putting all I learned in that pressure-filled environment into practice. So it really cuts through metal,” said Radcliffe, 28, who seeks to unseat a newly elected Republican in northwest Ohio.

He’s among the dozen young Republicans from across the

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the war.

The platform of Iraq Vets for Congress grew out of the attitudes of the previous election: They believe in victory in Iraq, staying on the offense in the war on terror and taking care of all veterans, said founder Kieran Lalor, who’s running for a seat in New York.

Lalor’s pro-war band of brothers includes California’s Eric Egland, a military intelligence officer who gained national attention for his book “The Troops Need You, America” and a charity of the same name. Other members of the group hail from Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, Indiana and Maine.

country helping each other campaign under the banner of Iraq Veterans for Congress, cross-promoting each other and directing donors to a shared Web site. It’s a response to the antiwar veterans whose campaigns drew attention in 2006, when Patrick Murphy of Philadelphia was the only Iraq vet to win election while openly supporting

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