2008-03-20

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Meal plan costs set to jump 4.5%

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Rising oil costs is the biggest of several factors driving up the prices at University dining halls next year.

University Dining Services will be raising the cost of meal plans by 4.5 percent for the next year, said Dining Services Director Gail Finan. This means

the Bronze Plan will go up to approximately $1,400, the Silver to $1,660 and the Gold to $1,814.

Normally, food plan prices rise an average of 3 percent per year.

The rapidly rising cost of oil and gasoline is a significant factor in the decision to raise food plan prices, Finan said.

“If we don’t get control of

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what we’re charging for gas, we haven’t seen anything,” Finan said.

The food products themselves, accounting for 40 percent of Dining Services’ budget, have become pricier due to gas prices, shortages in grains and severe weather.

The devastation of Hurricane Katrina has dramatically raised the price of sugar, said

Dining Services Associate Director of Business Affairs Charles Wiersma.

As a result of the devastation to the sugar crop, Coca-Cola has raised its juice prices significantly. The University cannot switch to a less expensive brand due to a pouring rights contract, which means CocaCola and its affiliate beverages are to be served exclusively at

the University in exchange for sponsorship.

Labor wages also contribute to the food price hike. Finan said minimum wage in Ohio is supposed to rise in January 2009, further adding to expenses.

In addition to a rise in food plan charges, rollover has been eliminated as of next year.

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International students often need time to adjust to life in Bowling Green

Rescue crews face a dilemma with car wrecks

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Looking back at Iraq to move ahead in America Reflecting on the war may bring back bad memories, but how else can we learn from the past? | Page 4

Laundry fees will empty pockets An additional charge added to Bursar bills for laundry would short-change students | Page 4

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Stepping into a new culture Story by Becky Tener | Reporter International students come to the University to study their fields of interest and practice their English.

But beyond their school responsibilities, many international students deal with cultural differences that can make adjustment to life at the University more stressful, said Anne Saviers, assistant director of the Center for International Programs.

Before international students begin attending classes, the center eases the

stress of culture shock with a few days of orientation. New students are shown how to register for classes, open a bank account and find an on-campus job.

“We try to get them started,” Saviers said.

The center workers provide students with as much information as they can, especially warnings about certain social behaviors, such as drinking and parties, she said.

Junior and Mexican native Mario ReynosoCaro said not being allowed to drink here

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has been annoying, because at age 20, he has been able to drink legally in his country since his 18th birthday.

International students also find other annoyances while living in Bowling Green.

Guest student Anahit Asatryan, who is from Armenia, said she was stunned by her new living conditions.

It was difficult to adjust to the size of her

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War anniversary will not trigger troop exit

By Jennifer Loven The Associated Press

How do you feel about the cost of meal plans increasing 4.5 percent?

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DIGGING: Local fifth and sixth grade students help break ground for the new junior high school that will start being constructed next week.

Middle school groundbreaking kicks off $27.5 million project

By Christie Kerner

“I think it’s dumb. You pay Reporter a ton to go here already.”

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members celebrated the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new middle school on a cold rainy afternoon yesterday.

“There’s an old wives’ tale that rain brings good luck on a wedding day, so hopefully that will translate to groundbreaking,” Superintendent Hugh Caumartin said.

A bond was put on the ballot in order to authorize the building of the new school.

The community passed the bond in 2006 after a second attempt by the board of education.

“After the first one failed, we asked the community to fill

“The easy work is done and the tough work is beginning.”

Jim Price | Project Architect out a survey to see what they thought was necessary for a new school and placed that on the ballot,” board member Ellen Scholl said. “We are happy they agreed.”

The $27.5 million project will begin construction next week.

The new school will be located on the north side of the high school, and the two schools will be connected by an auditorium.

“Students from both the junior high and high school will have access,” Caumartin said.

The school will be built in pods where each team of 80 to 90 students in seventh and eighth grade will have all classes in one area.

“We’re excited for a facility that supports a great program and a building built specifically for the team concept,” Caumartin said.

The school will also offer the only air conditioning system in the school district.

The design of the school underwent several changes before coming to the final blueprint.

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WASHINGTON — Five years after launching the invasion of Iraq, President Bush strongly signaled yesterday that he won’t order troop withdrawals beyond those already planned because he refuses to “jeopardize the hard-fought gains” of the past year.

As anti-war activists demonstrated around downtown Washington, the president spoke at the Pentagon to mark the anniversary of a war that has cost nearly 4,000 U.S. lives and roughly $500 billion. The president’s address was part of a series of events the White House planned around the anniversary

and next month’s report from the top U.S. figures in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. That report will be the basis for Bush’s first trooplevel decision in seven months.

“The battle in Iraq has been longer and harder and more costly than we anticipated,” Bush said.

But, he added, before an audience of Pentagon brass, soldiers and diplomats: “The battle in Iraq is noble, it is necessary, and it is just. And with your courage, the battle in Iraq will end in victory.”

Democrats took issue with Bush’s stay-the-course suggestion.

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OFFICIAL REMARKS: President Bush delivers a speech on the “Global War on Terror” yesterday at the Pentagon.

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Wiersma said Dining Services do not receive meal plan money until the students spend it. The money is placed in a special account, and Dining Services plans its budget for the nine-month school period around that amount.

Without student spending, there is no income, Wiersma said.

Dining Services has just finished paying off the Rogers renovations and will be paying for renovations in Kreischer until 2011, Wiersma said.

Another part of the decision to eliminate rollover, which Finan said has been made illegal in several states, is to pay for the rising costs of utilities.

“We’re still operating as if you’re going to come in to get breakfast, lunch or dinner,” Wiersma said. “That’s how the University operates. We don’t

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get a break on our expenses.”

About 80 percent of students had less than $750 in rollover funds last year, Wiersma said.

Junior Rebekah Skoog, who had about $800 in rollover her freshman year, has an alternative idea to avoid a price hike.

“Prices are going up all over, so they should have smaller meal plans to compensate,” she said.

Other students are unsure, waiting to see how Dining Services’ plan unfolds.

“As of now I’m not a fan, but [we’ll] see what happens,” said sophomore Philip Cogar.

Money for rollover is to be used to cover not only expenses, but also to update and renovate Commons, MacDonald and possibly Kreischer’s kitchen.

“We appreciate that students felt like they weren’t involved as much in the past,” Finan said. “We recognize that may have been true, and we will correct that.”

“It is unique because of the sight constraints, so we had a number of design options to stay in between those constraints,” project architect, Jim Price said.

Project manager Kent Buehrer has envisioned the school for some time.

“A few years ago, when I learned of the desire for a school, I began to dream about what the facility could be,” Buehrer said.

Ideas for the design also came from faculty members.

The auditorium will seat 739 guests and serve as the performing arts center.

“The easy work is done and the tough work is beginning, and in 18 months we believe the community will be blessed with the facility,” Buehrer said.

Future students of the school are also looking forward to the end product.

“I’m excited, and it’s cool to go there for the first year of the school,” Crim Elementary student Richard Burbey said.

Other students also showed anticipation for the school.

“I’m excited about having air conditioning and going to a bigger school,” Ridge Elementary student Samantha Garno said. “I want to meet new people.”

Communit y members, faculty and staff look forward to the new building and the opportunities it will provide.

“We’re just excited to have a building that will meet the needs for middle-aged students,” Mayor John Quinn said.

The community continues to show its support.

“The school system reflects the community it serves,” Caumartin said.

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dorm room, to live in the same building as male students and deal with residence hall bathrooms, she said.

“There is no lock on the door and no door on the shower, just a curtain,” Asatryan said.

International students also face the challenge of getting around off campus.

Junior Sophia Woodward is from England and said she was amazed at how difficult it was for her to get anywhere.

“Even isolated villages [in England] have a bus service,” she said.

Saviers said many international students are from large cities and have never needed to drive or find other means of transportation, making their lack of transportation options in Bowling Green more jarring.

While adapting to their new home, international students also must adapt to new foods.

Part-time French instructor Heather Gabel said international students can find comfort in food, and a lack of familiar food can make them feel homesick.

Freshman Xiaodan Li, who is from China, said she is getting used to the food here, but misses Chinese food.

“Food here is convenient when you have [somewhere] to go,” Xiaodan said. “In China, we enjoy our food.”

Woodward said the change in food is beginning to take a toll on her body, since she mostly cooked for herself in England.

“In general, the food [here] is larger and fattier,” she said.

Adjustment to American culture can be made more challenging with a language barrier.

“For so many students, this is the first time they are working, living, eating and dreaming in English,” Saviers said.

WAR From Page 1 “With the war in Iraq entering its sixth year, Americans are rightly concerned about how much longer our nation must continue to sacrifice our security for the sake of an Iraqi government that is unwilling or unable to secure its own future,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DCalif. “Democrats will continue to push for an end to the war in Iraq and increased oversight of that war.”

Bush repeatedly and directly linked the Iraq fight to the global battle against the alQaida terror network. And he made some of his most expansive claims of success.

He said the increase of 30,000 troops that he ordered to Iraq last year has turned “the situation in Iraq around.”

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“For so many students, this is the first time they are working, living, eating and dreaming in English.”

Anne Saviers | Center for International Programs Assistant Director Asatryan said when she got to Bowling Green she felt overwhelmed because everything was in English.

She also said she was surprised students didn’t discuss topics such as philosophy, history and geography. In Armenia, these were normal topics of conversation.

“American students always talk about music and movies,” Asatryan said.

Woodward, whose native language is English, said the differences in speaking and conversation make it difficult for people to understand her.

“I didn’t think my accent would get in the way,” she said.

But sometimes misunderstandings can happen without words.

Saviers said she can recall many mannerisms international students have that Americans don’t understand.

For example, some foreign students wobble their heads, meaning yes. To Americans, it looked like a mix between nodding yes and no and often threw people off when answering a question.

“They eventually pick up on it,” Saviers said, “and they stop using it.”

Reynoso said a confusing gesture difference between Mexico and the United States is shoulder shrugging. He said if he shrugged his shoulders here it would imply he doesn’t know, but in Mexico the gesture is rude and means he doesn’t care about something.

Another difference that can cause misunderstanding, Gabel said, is that many international students have a smaller “space bubble” than American students.

Conflict can arise because Americans act in less friendly manners when their “space bubble” is invaded, Gabel said.

Asatryan said she was warned before she came about the proper distance to stand or sit when talking to a professor.

“Americans like their space,” she said.

Saviers said international students can be uncomfortable with what Americans find socially acceptable, too.

For example, making eye contact, shaking hands and being alone with a student of the opposite sex is sometimes unacceptable in other countries.

International students can even be afraid of talking or asking questions in class because in some countries that behavior would be unacceptable, Saviers said.

Many international students are also be confused by the friendliness of Americans. In the United States, friendship is much more instant than in other countries, Gabel said.

Woodward agreed.

“You have a friendship with everyone straight away,” she said.

She also said people smile more in America. While she’s walking to class, Woodward is surprised when a person she doesn’t know smiles at her.

“We don’t smile as much [in England],” Woodward said.

Coming to a new place can be difficult, and international students appreciate the help and interest in their countries, Saviers said.

It is also important, she said, for Americans and international students to be patient and learn from each other.

become the place where Arabs joined with Americans to drive al Qaida out.”

“The surge ... has opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror,” the president said.

“We are witnessing the first large-scale Arab uprising against Osama bin Laden, his grim ideology, and his terror network. And the significance of this development cannot be overstated.”

Bush appeared to be referring to recent cooperation by local Iraqis with the U.S. military against the group known as al-Qaida in Iraq, a mostly homegrown, though foreign-led, Sunni-based insurgency. Experts question how closely — or even whether — the group is connected to the international al-Qaida network. As for Bin Laden, he is rarely heard from and is believed to be hiding in Pakistan.

The U.S. has about 158,000 troops in Iraq. That number is expected to drop to 140,000 by summer in drawdowns meant to erase all but about 8,000 troops from last year’s increase.

Bush, who has successfully defied efforts by the Democraticled Congress to force larger and faster withdrawals, said they could unravel recent progress.

“Having come so far and achieved so much, we are not going to let this happen,” he said.

He criticized those who “still call for retreat” in the face of what he called undeniable successes.

“The challenge in the period ahead is to consolidate the gains we have made and seal the extremists’ defeat,” he said.

“We have learned through hard experience what happens when

we pull our forces back too fast — the terrorists and extremists step in, fill the vacuum, establish safe havens and use them to spread chaos and carnage.”

This sort of cautionary rhetoric is consistent with all the president’s recent statements about Iraq.

It has been widely believed for weeks that Bush will endorse an expected recommendation from Petraeus next month for no additional troop reductions, beyond those already scheduled, until at least September.

This so-called pause in drawdowns would be designed to assess the impact of this round before allowing more.

The surge was meant to tamp down sectarian violence in Iraq so that the country’s leaders would have time to advance legislation considered key to reconciliation between rival Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities.

But the gains on the battlefield have not been matched by dramatic political progress, and violence again may be increasing.

With just 10 months before he hands off the war to a new president, Bush is concerned about his legacy on Iraq.

Both Democratic candidates have said they would begin withdrawing forces quickly if elected.

Only expected GOP nominee John McCain has indicated he planned to continue Bush’s strategy of bringing troops home only as conditions warrant.

Vice President Dick Cheney, who just completed a two-day visit to Iraq, said the administration won’t “be blown off course” by continued strong opposition to the war in the United States.

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BOSTON — Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates Mike Aponte and David Irvine recounted the rise and fall of their careers as world-famous, card-counting blackjack players at their alma mater last night, as a movie based on their experiences is set to premiere.

The upcoming movie, “21,” was filmed last year on Boston University’s campus. The movie and a future HBO series are based on Ben Mezrich’s bestselling book, “Bringing Down the House,” whose characters are based on some of the MIT students involved in the team of card counters. Card counting allows players to determine their odds against those of the house depending on the cards that have already been dealt, and to bet big when cards turn in their favor.

After the real-life MIT team won millions, casinos began to suspect the team was counting cards. Aponte and Irvine said disguising themselves became

“Ultimately, we were victims of our own success. All we were doing was just looking at the cards. This is information that’s available to every player.”

Mike Aponte | MIT graduate more difficult once casino authorities started recognizing their faces. The team was winning too much money for it to pass as merely luck, they said.

“Ultimately, we were victims of our own success,” Aponte said. “All we were doing was just looking at the cards. This is information that’s available to every player.”

Despite the legality of card counting, casinos look down upon the practice and often kick out known card counters.

Aponte said he was a member of the original MIT cardcounting team, which called itself Strategic Investments and operated behind closed doors.

The team disbanded after a member told casino authorities the names and information of all the other team members.

N.C. mayor calls for investigation of repeat offender

By Troy Shelton U-Wire

DURHAM, N.C. — Small in number but frequent in infractions, repeat offenders are responsible for much of the nation’s crime, and most recently for the deaths of two college students.

Following the deaths of Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato and University

of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior Eve Carson, Durham, N.C., Mayor Bill Bell called Monday night for a formal investigation into the January release from custody of a Durham teenager, Laurence Lovette, who has been charged in both murders.

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“I want to know what the judge’s role was, what the district attorney’s role was, what the police department’s role was, what the bail was under which he was released,” Bell said.

The murders garnered local and, in Carson’s case, national attention in recent weeks.

Mahato, a 29-year-old from India studying computational mechanics, was killed after being shot point-blank in

the head in his home in The Anderson Apartments Jan. 18.

Carson, the 22-year-old student body president at UNC, was found dead a short distance from the school’s North Campus March 5 after being shot in the head.

With Lovette’s indictment Monday, many, including Bell, are questioning whether or not the murders could have been prevented.

The setback did not stop the young men from continuing with their gambling. Ten devoted members made a new, more selective team shortly after that and employed tougher and stricter training for its members.

“There was a big differ-

ence in philosophy between Strategic Investments and the newer team, which involved a lot more working together as a team and less individual work,” Irvine said.

The new team employed a complicated system of body signals that allowed two members to communicate while at the casinos. Sharing the work made the process less suspicious, Irvine said. The men used this system on a large scale.

“When we were in Vegas, time was money,” Aponte said. “We considered ourselves businessmen. This meant getting in as much gambling as possible.”

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“We don’t smile as much [in England],” -Sophia Woodward, junior, on the differences she sees in America being as a foreign exchange student. [see story pg.1]

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How do you feel about the cost of meal plans rising by 4.5 percent?

“The food is expensive. For putting more money in, we should get better quality.”

“If they’re going to increase the cost of a meal plan, we should still have rollover.”

“I’m not buying a meal plan next year, but it sucks for everyone else.”

“It’s ridiculous. I don’t pay for my meal plan, but I still am mad they’re going up.”

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JACOB LAWRENCE, Sophomore, Psychology

KEVIN KEAGAN, Sophomore, Health Science

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A mandatory laundry fee is just plain dirty MARISHA PIETROWSKI COLUMNIST

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Crying over spilt milk does not clean it up KAMPIRE BAHANA COLUMNIST

As we approach the five-year anniversary of the Iraq war, some would argue that it solves nothing to look at what the war has cost us.

It solves nothing, in the middle of an economic crisis, to reflect on the $600 billion that has been added to the national debt. (Experts such as Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz put the true cost of the war closer to $3 trillion).

There is no point in questioning the past five years’

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“Are we any safer now, $600 billion later, than we were when a malevolent dictator ruled a relatively stable country?” exorbitant military expenditure which, according to Hillary Clinton's best calculations, could “provide health care for all 47 million uninsured Americans and quality pre-kindergarten for every American child, solve the housing crisis once and for all, make college affordable for every American student and provide tax relief to tens of millions of middleclass families.”

It does nothing to dwell on the 90,000 Iraqis who have lost their lives in the war, the 3.9 million refugees created by the crisis and the 14 million Iraqis who today live in absolute poverty.

It is unproductive, in fact some people have even cried “unpatriotic,” to list the names of the 3,988 American soldiers who have died fighting that shadowy enemy called terrorism on Iraqi soil.

Some have argued that reflecting on the propaganda

and the blatant lies that led the country to another war does not change the fact that we are in this mess today.

Since it is painful, unpatriotic or unproductive to reflect on where the past five years have brought us, then how are we to learn from our mistakes?

If we examine the motives that led this nation to choose war — not the motives of greedy, war-mongering politicians, but the motives of the normal American families who have sacrificed their own sons to fight for a cause they believe in — we find valid fears about an insecure world.

Unforeseeable terrorist attacks, possible environmental collapse, terrible epidemics only an airplane voyage from your doorstep, corrupt corporations and economic insecurity — it is only normal and right to feel threatened.

But is military security and a “my bombs are bigger than

your bombs” attitude the only way for us to feel safe anymore?

Are we any safer now, $600 billion later, than we were when a malevolent dictator ruled a relatively stable country?

Our concept of what it takes to achieve global security must expand in accordance with the threats that face us in the 21st century.

The war on terror must become a war on poverty if we truly wish to prevent the spread of religious fundamentalism.

If we truly believe that democracy should be universal, then we should drop knowledge instead of bombs.

If we want to combat the desperation that forces a man to turn against his own neighbor, then we should allow him the means to buy his own bread.

If this country wants to be respected as a peer on the global stage rather than hated as an enemy, we cannot allow leaders to use our fears against us, and against innocent mothers, fathers and children on the other side of the world.

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The 2004 election was novel for me in a number of ways. It was the first time I was able to vote, the first time I began to understand the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties, and also the first time I’d heard real encouragement for people to go out and vote.

I remember distinctly flipping through the channels and hearing commercials on MTV for “Rock the Vote.”

I kind of thought that the concept was a little silly, but I

“But before we hastily point the finger of irresponsibility at voters, let us also look at the way we have elections structured.” never really put much thought into it. It turns out, many are not only encouraging the youth of America to vote, but are petitioning to decrease the voting age. And why?

The justification I’ve read is along the lines of: We can charge 16-year-olds for adult crimes, so why shouldn’t we say that they have the presence of mind to be good voters also?

This may be good reasoning in the idealistic world, but let’s be pragmatic for a while.

The truth is that we afford the right to vote to a good per-

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centage of our citizenry, yet the citizenry returns the favor by regularly not showing up for general elections.

A bit of research suggests that the number of eligible Americans who vote in any given election is somewhere between 45 percent (International IDEA) and 60 percent (United States Voting Project).

How are we to explain the actions of so-called conscious voters? In that we are assuming they have the presence of mind to be good voters, are

we therefore saying that such a high number simply choose not to participate?

The quandary is only further compounded when you consider that the United States’ voter turnout isn’t even among the top 50 in the world.

Sadly, according to some estimates, our voter turnout is less than that of Russia.

But before we hastily point the finger of irresponsibility at voters, let us also look at the way we have elections structured. In addition to the American voter’s low confidence in our ability to count votes, Americans also have to put up with a somewhat counter-intuitive voting date.

In the infinite wisdom of

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Last week, The BG News reported that the Office of Residence Life is weighing charging on-campus residents $50 per semester for laundry fees.

The charge would be added to students’ Bursar bills, regardless of how frequently, if at all, they use the laundry services in their residence halls.

Supporters argue people won’t have to worry about finding quarters to wash their clothes.

But this one positive step does not justify many other negatives that are tied into this proposal.

The proposed fee is a high rate to begin with, and although this may not be the intention of Residence Life, it will take advantage of the students on campus that would not generate enough laundry in a semester to break even.

According to last week’s article, students would need to do an average of two loads a week, a number that seems unrealistic to many students.

I myself only do one load a week, meaning that under this plan, I will be “donating” approximately $50 a year to Residence Life.

My Bursar bill is already high enough with miscellaneous fees and payments, and I do not want this to be added to the list.

The story also said 30 percent of on-campus residents take their laundry home and do not use campus facilities.

This plan will be charging money to students who do not even use the service, and as one of these students, I am opposed to the idea that I will be paying for something that I could do at home on my own time and at my own pace.

I prefer doing laundry in the privacy of my own home; I can have the space to air-dry my clothes and not have to confine everything to a dryer that will shrink my clothes or hang wet clothes in my small dorm room.

It’s not mandatory to do laundry in our dorms, but with this fee it almost becomes this way unless you want your money wasted.

The fees would go toward buying energy efficient equipment, if the infrastructure of the dorms could handle it.

I also question the logistics of this plan.

How many machines could

“I myself only do one load a week, meaning that under this plan, I will be ‘donating’ approximately $50 a year to Residence Life.” be bought in order to alleviate possible long lines, and where would these machines go?

In my dorm, there is only a small room with laundry machines, and I wonder where any new equipment could be placed in the building.

Also, if this new equipment isn’t preemptively bought and installed over the summer, frustration could arise with the influx of demand for on-campus laundry services when the new year begins.

Another reason for this proposal is to make doing laundry on campus more like doing laundry at home because payments aren’t required every time.

At home, there may not be a fight between numerous people to use limited resources, and if more on-campus students do their laundry in their dorms to break even, it will be just like waiting in line at a laundromat, not like being at home.

Speaking of, this proposal could also negatively affect local laundromats.

Any students who take their laundry off-campus might stop so their fee doesn’t go to waste.

This money may help improve facilities on campus, but it shouldn’t come at the expense of city businesses.

If it is a priority of the University to eliminate the vending of quarters, it’s unfortunate that a system similar to the BG1 Card’s BG Bucks could not be viewed as cost efficient for Residence Life.

This way, students could voluntarily load any amount to a card at their own leisure and can still choose not to use oncampus facilities.

Instead, the cost will be passed on to the students, whether they take advantage of the service or not.

The transportation fees being considered for next year will likely be optional and will have a method to see who has paid the fee.

Laundry fees should be the same way.

If people don’t use the ser-

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If this country wishes to influence the rest of the world on human rights, environmental and economic standards of decency, it must first measure itself by those standards and see just how far short it falls.

Albert Einstein once said, “The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.”

We must — must — expand our conception of security to include the security of all world citizens, who equally deserve freedom from hunger, freedom from ignorance and freedom from fear.

vices, they should be not be charged for them.

Costs of living are rising all around campus.

Room and board and meal plan rates are rising next year, and it will be the last year for meal plan rollover.

I like knowing that I have options for my laundry, including scrounging some quarters together to do it on campus if necessary.

While this planned laundry fee could benefit students that would break even, it comes at too great of a cost to other students on campus.

the Founding Fathers, Election Day in America happens on the first Tuesday after the second Monday of November.

The only problem with this system is that it is smack-dab in the middle of the modern American workweek.

Voters who might otherwise be very interested in casting their vote would have to make the decision: take the time off of work or fulfill my civic responsibility.

Though I propose that this is the choice, I think it is a bit more complex than I just allowed for.

For instance, consider the reality of telling someone who just got off work in a factory that they have a few hours left

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“Someone with a 20-minute lunch break may not be very excited to spend all of it in line at the polls. A simple solution, I think, would be to simply preserve Election Day as a national holiday in America.”

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to vote.

For many factory workers (my former self included), when they get home, the only thing they want to do is to go take a nap.

Similarly, we might argue that they could go vote during their lunch breaks.

However, then we have to consider the possibility that they’re going to face lines at the polls, when they chose to go.

Someone with a 20-minute lunch break may not be very excited to spend all of it in line

at the polls. A simple solution, I think, would be to simply preserve Election Day as a national holiday in America.

We could celebrate the principles of democracy in the very same way that we celebrate fat, bearded men who make toys during December.

There is at least one part of me that finds celebrating democracy much more meaningful.

Also, proposing Election Day as a federal holiday could serve the dual purpose of giving

people the day off.

Instead of making people battle between their everyday responsibilities and their civic responsibilities, we could simplify the decision for them by taking away the alternative.

Also, granting people a full day off work might also permit would-be voters to familiarize themselves with the candidates and issues important to that particular election.

Thus, to allow people their fullest potential to exercise suffrage is not only important to a modern democracy, but consistent, and is indeed advocated by our Founding Fathers.

The spirit of democracy ought not be impeded by something as simple as a scheduling conflict.

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Presidential council decision prepares Iraq for fall provincial elections

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BAGHDAD — Under strong U.S. pressure, Iraq’s presidential council signed off yesterday on a measure paving the way for provincial elections by the fall, a major step toward easing sectarian rifts as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the war.

The decision by the council, made up of the country’s president and two vice presidents, lays the groundwork for voters to choose new leaders of Iraq’s 18 provinces. The elections open the door to greater Sunni representation in regional administrations.

Many Sunnis boycotted the last election for provincial officials in January 2005, enabling Shiites and Kurds to win a disproportionate share of power at the expense of the Sunnis — even in areas with substantial Sunni populations.

That in turn helped fuel the

Sunni-led insurgency and the wave of sectarian bloodletting which drove the country to the brink of civil war before President Bush rushed nearly 30,000 U.S. reinforcements to Iraq last year.

The decision by the council came two days after Vice President Dick Cheney visited Baghdad to press Iraqi leaders to overcome their differences and take advantage of a lull in violence to make progress in powersharing deals to heal sectarian and ethnic divisions.

A spokesman for the biggest Sunni bloc, Saleem Abdullah, said Cheney pushed hard for progress on the provincial elections as well as a long-stalled measure to share the country’s oil wealth.

Last month, Iraq’s parliament passed the bill calling for provincial elections by Oct. 1.But the presidential council blocked implementation after the Shiite vice president, Adel AbdulMahdi, raised objections to some

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SPONSOR: Employees prepare computers on display at the Lenovo headquarters in Beijing. Computer maker Lenovo Group has paid millions of dollars to sponsor the Olympics.

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“This is a good, positive step to enhance national unity and defuse the political tension,” Nasser al-Ani, a Sunni lawmaker and presidential council spokesman, told The Associated Press.

The difficulty in arranging for provincial balloting underscored the immense challenges involved in trying to distribute power among Shiites, Sunni Arabs and Kurds five years after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

BEIJING — McDonald’s, CocaCola and other sponsors paid tens of millions of dollars to link their names with the Beijing Olympics.

Now they’re trying to mollify activists pressing for change on Tibet, Darfur and other issues, without angering China.

They have expressed concern over Tibet. Some talk privately to Beijing organizers. Samsung Electronics Co. called off a Beijing news conference scheduled for Friday on the torch relay. But sponsors insist they should stay out of politics.

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Flying into the WNIT Falcons to host Dayton in the first round of the Women’s NIT shortly after losing the tough semifinal game to Ohio, 68-66, in double overtime. “[The texts said] we are very There is indeed life after a excited, and trust me coach, we Mid-American Conference will have this young team ready Tournament loss, and it includes and excited to play in the WNIT,” Miller said. “That came from 22an extra home game.

The BG women’s basketball year-olds on a night where they team made the regular season could’ve been devastated with count more than most. By fin- the type of heart-breaking loss ishing the season with the best that it was … They look at this record in the MAC at 13-3, the as an awesome opportunity.”

Although they didn’t meet at Falcons guaranteed themselves a bid to the Women’s National any point during the regular season, both teams are very Invitational Tournament.

Now, they will face Dayton familiar with one another.

They scrimmaged in the tonight at Anderson Arena, with preseason. the opening tip set for 7 p.m. “[Dayton] is a strong team,” Although the team fell short of its even larger goal of win- said junior forward Lindsey ning the MAC tourney and Goldsberry. “They come moving on to March Madness, from a great coached team … head coach Curt Miller said the They’re very good. They play a players still know the WNIT is a lot like us. They have the same kind of offense and the same good situation to be in.

“I think we’re genuinely real- kind of defense.”

This year, UD posted a record ly excited about being in the of 25-8 (9-5). Much like the WNIT,” Miller said.

According to Miller, team Falcons in the MAC, they lost in captains Kate Achter and See DAYTON | Page 8 Whitney Taylor sent him encouraging text messages

By Chris Voloschuk Sports Editor

BASEBALL Red Sox to head to Japan afterall The players threatened to boycott their trip to Japan because their coaches were not going to receive the $40,000 appearance fee like the players would. The issue was resolved and Boston will head to Japan to take on the Oakland Athletics.

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FOOTBALL Pryor picks OSU Terrelle Pryor, the muchtalked about recruit from Jeanette, Penn., made his decision final yesterday in choosing the Buckeyes over Oregon, Penn State and Michigan Page 8

ONLINE The BG News Sports Blog Be sure to log on to The BG News Sports Blog tonight for live updates during BG’s WNIT game vs. Dayton. http://www.bgnewssports. blogspot.com

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INSIDE FORCE: Sophomore forward Tara Breske proved in the MAC Tournament that she is a force to be reckoned with on the inside for future opponents.

WOMEN’S NATIONAL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT (WNIT) — The Selection Process (from the WNIT Web site) — The 48-team tournament field consists of 31 automatic berths and 17 at-large selections. An automatic bid is offered to each conference’s team that finished highest during the regular season and did not receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament.

How Host Schools Get Picked — The host site selected by the WNIT committee is based on several factors such as fan base, host bids, facility availability, tournament seed, travel constraints, etc.

DAYTON FLYERS — 2008 Team Stats Team Scoring: 66.3 points per game.

Team Rebounding: 27.64 defensive rebounds per game.

11.76 offensive rebounds per game.

Team Assists: 15.7 per game.

Team Steals: 5.70

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Women’s basketball: vs. Dayton; 7 p.m.

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— Because BG finished the regular season with the Mid-American Conference’s best record, they received one of the WNIT’s 31 automatic bids.

OUR CALL Today in Sports History 1989—Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation.

1934—Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia A’s in exhibition game against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1914—First international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven.

The List BG will host the University of Dayton tonight and with that said, we bring you the top five storylines as the game approaches: 1. Kate Achter: The senior point guard drives the engine for the Falcons. How she goes, the Falcons go.

2. Tara Breske: Dominated the MAC Tournament but fouled out in the game against Ohio.

3. Nikki Oakland: Oakland averaged 13.8 points per game to go along with eight rebounds per game for the Flyers this season.

4. 20-20 club: The game pits two teams that won more than 20 regular season games — BG finished 25-7, while Dayton was 25-8.

5. Senior night part two: Kate Achter and Whitney Taylor will get one more home game. The senior duo is already the winningest class in the history of the MAC conference.

Team Blocked Shots: 4.73 Opponents’ Scoring Average: 58.4 points per game.

Game brings up intrigue between a BG guard and her father, who works for the University of Dayton

By Chris Voloschuk Sports Editor

Normally, going to an event such as a Women’s National Invitational Tournament game could be grounds for some level of family togetherness.

However, tonight’s match-up between the BG women’s basketball team and the University of Dayton is sure to flip that theory on its ear.

This game has taken a somewhat different tone, with two Goldsberrys squaring off for the right to move on to the next round of the tournament.

In one corner is Lindsey Goldsberry, BG’s starting small forward and defensive ace. In the other corner is her dad, Frank, who currently serves as Dayton’s Director of Basketball Operations.

Both family members are well aware of each other’s teams, but they’ve tried not to get into too many details.

“I know how [Dayton’s] doing because he works there, but we don’t really talk about x’s and o’s,” Goldsberry said. “I mean, we would never do that. That would just be weird. But we do talk about how [BG’s] doing and how [Dayton’s] season is going.”

Frank Goldsberry could definitely be considered a multitasker. While serving as a member of Dayton’s basketball staff, he also teaches at Tipp City High School and attends many

DAYTON FLYERS — 2008 Season Overall Record: 25-8 Atlantic 10 Record: 9-5 A-10 Tournament Record: 2-1 How They Fared: UD lost to Temple 56-51 in the semifinals.

“I know how [Dayton’s] doing because he works there, but we don’t really talk about x’s and o’s.”

Lindsey Goldsberry | BG guard of Lindsey and her younger brother’s basketball games.

He also has a number of responsibilities at UD, including film exchange with other teams, team travel plans, hotel stays and meals. He is in a part-time role.

“I think [my parents have been to] pretty much all of my home games, except maybe one where they went to see my younger brother,” Goldsberry said. “And then [my parents] try to make most of my away games. … about ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS 70 to 75 percent.”

Goldsberry has also multi- FAMILY TIES: Junior guard Lindsey Goldsberry knows the University of Dayton — her tasked. She averaged 8.2 points dad is the Director of Basketball Operations for the Flyers.. and 4.3 rebounds this season.

But her biggest contributions DAYTON FLYERS have come on the defensive end, — 2008 Individual where she has frequently had to guard talented offensive players.

Stats It’s quite possible that her best defensive effort of the year came Points: Nikki Oakland — 13.8 inBG’sMid-AmericanConference ppg. semifinal loss to Ohio last week, where she held Lauren Kohn, one Rebounds: Nikki Oakland of the conference’s most potent — 8.0 rpg. offensive players, scoreless.

But when it comes to tonight’s Assists: Karah Cloxton — 4.39 WNITgame,theonlythingcertain in this battle of the Goldsberrys is Blocks: Kelly Keil — 2.10 bpg that Lindsey will be on the floor doing whatever she has to do to 3-Point Percentage: Kiki get a win, and Frank will be in the Lund — 42.9 percent. stands, cheering for everybody involved at Anderson Arena.

Field Goal Percentage: “What a great side story for this Brittany Holterman — 53.1 game,” said BG coach Curt Miller. percent.

ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS “It’s probably a little bittersweet.

He’s probably going to be rooting SHOOT IT: Freshman guard Lauren Prochaska for both of us.” will need to shoot well for the Falcons to win.

A city editor’s first crack at a March Madness bracket TIM SAMPSON CITY EDITOR For the first 21 Marchs of my life, I’ve always managed to stay sane and avoid “the madness.”

Maybe I’ve spent too many hours in the newsroom or too many nights studying, but for some reason I’ve never taken the time to indulge in the perennial male rite of passage: filling out an NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket.

Some might say the reason I’ve never filled out a bracket is because I know nothing about basketball.

It is true that the only reason I ever watch ESPN is to see reruns of “American Gladiators” (because, frankly, the new episodes on NBC just don’t cut it), but don’t let my complete ignorance of sports fool you; I’m more than qualified to publish my tournament predictions. After all, I am the holder of several elementary school basketball camp certificates of participation, and I recently covered a Harlem Globetrotter game for this very newspaper — so I think I know what I’m talking about.

But I am entering the bracket process at a considerable disadvantage — mainly that I haven’t seen a single NCAA men’s basketball game this season. So rather than relying on skilled analysis of past game-play and athletic performance, I will be basing all of my decisions on a bizarre combination of superstition, nonsense and coin-flips.

I’m not going to lie, the guiding principle of my first, second and third round picks was which school had the shorter name. I’m a busy guy — news doesn’t just stop while I fill out my bracket — and I didn’t have time to write out long, hard-to-spell school names like Villanova or Mississippi Valley State. That’s why I’m predicting an acronym-heavy Sweet 16.

But the choice became a bit more difficult when I got down to the elite eight. Likewise my reasoning became a bit more erratic.

In case it’s not clear by now, I’m a geek. So I’m looking to Cornell to pull-off a revenge of the nerds and prove to the world that you can spend all your time studying and still be good at sports. But unfortunately, I see these guys getting knocked out in the fourth round. Hey Cornell, if you want to do better next year, maybe you should put down that copy of “War and Peace” and start running some layup drills!

I’ve also got another odd reason for one of my picks. But if Kansas, the basketball team, is anything like Kansas, the 1980’s rock band, I predict big things for these guys. Carry on my wayward sons! Carry on all the way to the Final Four!

But don’t think my reasoning is completely without logic.

There’s a definite home-state bias that runs through my picks.

Born in southern California and raised in eastern Pennsylvania, my home-state pride has led me to predict a UCLA/Temple match-up in the semi-finals.

But obviously Temple will prevail, feeding off of all the greatness that emanates from the City of Brotherly Love. After all, it was Philly that also gave us Ben Franklin, the Bill of Rights and cheesesteaks.

But when it comes to the championship, the petty allegiances I hold to my native states must give way to my overriding love of this country.

I say American University all

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Top recruit Terrelle Pryor makes decision final to play for OSU

By Joe Mandak The Associated Press

JEANNETTE, Pa. — Oregon was too far away. Penn State was too rural. Michigan was a close second.

Terrelle Pryor, the highly touted western Pennsylvania prep quarterback, announced yesterday that he will play for Ohio State.

The 6-foot-6, two-sport star — flanked by his parents, two younger siblings and some of his coaches — made the announcement on the auditorium stage at Jeannette Senior High School near Pittsburgh, where Pryor had one of the greatest prep careers in state history.

“If everyone’s here,” Pryor said to start the news conference, “University of Ohio State.”

He then unzipped his windbreaker to reveal an Ohio State Tshirt and donned an OSU hat. His parents, Craig and Thomasina, also revealed Ohio State shirts.

Pryor, considered by many scouts to be the top-rated unsigned high school recruit in the country, said he couldn’t go wrong with any of the four schools he considered.

But he said the car trip for his family to games in Columbus, Ohio, is shorter than the flights they would have to take to Oregon.

Penn State was too “countryside.”

And despite a last-minute push by new Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez, Pryor decided Ohio State is best for him, even though senior Todd Boeckman is the entrenched starter and Pryor felt he would have a chance to start as a freshman at Michigan.

“I can learn from a senior,” Pryor

DAYTON From Page 7 the semifinals of the Atlantic 10 Tournament.

“It is a lot of fun, because we study a lot in the offseason together as coaching staffs, because we believe in the same philosophies,” Miller said. “We’ll

father and others, Pryor said sim- ming from his non-announceply, “I’m an 18-year-old kid and I ment last month, and a scuffle feel like a man. I’ve got to make earlier this month between some choices for myself.”

Jeannette players and another One person noticeably absent team after a recent state playoff yesterday was Charlie Batch, the game. backup Steelers quarterback and “I’m not worried about none family friend who advised Pryor. of that,” Pryor said. “I think the Pryor said the former Detroit football field will speak for itself.

Lions starter, who played at I mean, that’s why you are here, Eastern Michigan in college, was right? Whether I was a bad kid or Terrelle Pryor | OSU QB pushing Michigan. not, you are still here.”

Batch was in Hawaii during the Pryor said he doesn’t seek said, “and whenever I can get in announcement. attention. “Ask my teammates, “He’s up right now, texting me ask anybody around here. That’s on some plays, I can make someactually. I mean, he’s cool with my not how I am. I don’t like being in thing happen.”

Pryor said he didn’t make a final decision,” Pryor said. “He’s just the spotlight at all. I didn’t ask to choice until Wednesday morning. trying to see which one would be, be No. 1 in the country.”

When he told Jim Tressel, the for me, better to get in the NFL.” Ohio State signed 19 players last Pryorbrushedofflocaltalkshow month and had been holding a coach said, “Welcome to the famcriticism about his image stem- 20th scholarship for Pryor. ily.”

As for his final call with Rodriguez: “He was still recruiting me, giving me lines,” Pryor said. “Coach Rod did his job. He’s going to be a great coach — he is a great coach. He’ll make stuff happen (at Michigan).”

Pryor called a Feb. 6 news conference to announce his choice, then said he wasn’t sure.

Tressel said he was impressed by that, given that Pryor was trying to help his high school basketball team to a state title and was mulling conflicting advice from friends and family.

Tressel said Pryor felt like “there’s a whole bunch of people that are very important in my life who think I should give this some more thought. He respected them and he loves them. So I think he’s grossly misunderstood.”

Pryor’s advice to other recruits: KEITH SRAKOCIC | AP PHOTO “Pick early. You don’t want to go BUCKEYE BOUND: OSU fans can rejoice with the news that the nation’s top recruit, through it.”

Terrelle Pryor, will be playing football in Columbus in the fall.

Asked about advice from his

“I can learn from a senior, and whenever I can get in on some plays, I can make something happen.”

be mirror images of each other.”

Both teams also run identical ball screen offenses and work to contest as many shots as possible on the defensive end of the floor.

There are even similarities between the actual rosters.

According to Miller, UD has personnel this year that closely resembles last season’s BG roster.

“They’re very similar to our team last year, where they’re very big across the board at each position,” Miller said.

“They have big, thick wings, strong wings. They have good size in the post … They have big size at point guard. They can have a lineup where they put four kids all around six-foot to 6-2 on the floor.”

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UNIFIED NATION: The Red Sox had considered boycotting their two-game series with the Oakland A’s in Japan, had their coaches not been paid the $40,000 appearance fee.

Red Sox reconsider, decide to make trip to Japan to play Athletics

By Howard Ulman The Associated Press

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Boston Red Sox ended a threatened boycott yesterday of their final spring training game in Florida, resolving a dispute over paying coaches for the seasonopening trip to Japan.

The game against Toronto started an hour late when the team voted unanimously not to play or go to Tokyo after learning coaches and staff would not get a $40,000 appearance fee for the Japan trip. Players said they believed that fee was part of the deal.

“Everyone connected with the trip will be fairly compensated,” baseball spokesman Rich Levin said.

Red Sox spokesman John Blake would not say how the dispute was resolved.

“We’re going to Japan,” he said.

Earlier, catcher Jason Varitek

Dayton also showed that they showcase two very similar could put points on the board. teams in both look and stratThey ranked third in the A-10 egy, only one team gets to this season in pointer per game play their first WNIT game with 66.3. Defensively, they in their own gym. The atmowere at their best when they sphere in Anderson Arena will were defending the perimeter. surely play a big role in the Opponents only shot 28 per- game’s outcome. “[The team has] genuinely cent from the three-point range looked at this as an awesome against them.

While tonight’s game will opportunity,” Miller said.

said the team would not take the field or go to Japan until Major League Baseball agreed to pay the coaches and staff.

Kevin Youkilis, the Red Sox player representative, said the agreement still must be put in writing and that the compensation for coaches and staff “is not the greatest thing that we wanted for them, but it’s good.”

Manager Terry Francona and his players became upset after learning staff members were not going to get a $40,000 stipend.

“We’re so united. And I don’t mean just the players,” he said in a dugout interview with ESPN during yesterday’s game.

“I mean the staff, the trainers and our players showed that, and that’s what this was about.

It wasn’t about being greedy. It was about trying to be unified.”

Daisuke Matsuzaka, who had been scheduled to pitch, left the stadium to pitch at a game against Minnesota’s Triple A affiliate.

“And I’m really excited for them. And I’m really excited about our home crowd, to be able to have a home game in the post season.”

“It’s a big reward for [the fans] on how much this program’s grown through the years …

[The fans] deserve a lot of credit for how we got that home game,” he said.

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WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton was home in the White House on a half dozen days when her husband had sexual encounters there with intern Monica Lewinsky, according to Sen. Clinton’s schedule, released yesterday among 11,000 pages of papers from her years as first lady.

The words of the schedules are dry, but they take on emotional weight when coupled with revelations about the sex scandal that eventually came to light.

A year later, the first lady’s schedules show her pressing ahead with public events and showing her face as revelations about the scandal upended her life and threatened Bill Clinton’s presidency.

The papers also shed light on her struggle for health care reform early in the Clinton administration, her scaling back when that effort failed, her travels abroad and the legal woes that dogged the Clintons in the White House.

It’s unlikely she would be surprised at this late date to learn that the president was cheating on her while she was at home in the White House. But the release of the documents reminds voters anew about Bill Clinton’s affair and the

impeachment proceedings that brought Washington to a halt for a year.

The private crisis came at the most public of times for the first lady.

She had speeches scheduled, at home and abroad. She appeared by President Clinton’s side at an education event where he angrily dismissed the reports of having sex with Lewinsky.

Her schedule has her choosing flowers for a black-tie dinner, congratulating “Guns Aren’t Cool” award winners and reading to kids in the week in January 1998 when allegations of the scandal begin coming out. She denounced a “vast right-wing conspiracy” in a TV interview.

Almost a year earlier, the schedules show, she was home on Feb. 28, 1997, the day when the Kenneth Starr report says Bill Clinton had a sexual encounter with Lewinsky in an Oval Office bathroom in the early evening, staining her blue dress.

Hillary Clinton had “drop by” events or meetings in the Map Room and Diplomatic Reception Room between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. that day, according to her schedule. It also lists plays that night at Washington’s Arena Stage and National Theater, and a National Symphony Orchestra pops concert with singer Sarah Brightman at the Kennedy Center.

Supreme Court overturns sentence from all-white jury

By Mark Sherman The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court threw out a death sentence and murder conviction yesterday because a Louisiana prosecutor kept blacks off the jury in a trial he called his “O.J. Simpson case.”

By a 7-2 vote, the justices said state prosecutor Jim Williams improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted Allen Snyder of killing his estranged wife’s companion. Snyder is black and the jurors were white.

Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, said the trial judge should have blocked Williams from striking a black juror. Alito’s opinion made no mention of Simpson.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia dissented.Thomas said he would not “second-guess” the judge.

During jury selection in the trial, Williams disqualified all five blacks in the pool of prospective jurors.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1986 that prosecutors may not exclude people from a jury solely because of their race. The court already had sent Snyder’s case back to the Louisiana courts following a ruling in 2005 that bolstered the prohibition on race bias in jury selection.

The prosecutor’s explanation for striking a prospective black juror was “suspicious,” said Alito. In contrast, the prosecutor accepted white jurors who disclosed conflicting obligations “that appear to have been at least as serious as” the prospective black juror who was excused, Alito wrote.

The trial took place in August 1996, less than a year after Simpson was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and a male friend

“The disturbing thing is that courts ... were just deferring to trial judges.”

Stephen Bright | Snyder’s Lawyer of hers. Leading up to the trial, Williams made repeated public references to the Snyder case as his “O.J. Simpson case.”

Snyder was convicted of first-degree murder in Jefferson Parish, just outside New Orleans. He was found guilty of repeatedly slashing his estranged wife, Mary Snyder, and a man, Harold Wilson, with a knife when he found them in a car outside her mother’s home in August 1995. His wife survived, but Wilson died.

Adding to the Simpson comparison, Snyder told police just before his arrest that he was suicidal. Simpson, armed with a gun and apparently considering suicide, led police on a dramatic, televised chase before surrendering.

In a 4-3 decision, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that race had no part in the state’s decisions involving black potential jurors.

Stephen Bright, Snyder’s Atlanta-based lawyer, said the ruling shows there is broad agreement among the justices that courts must closely examine the reasons given for excusing potential jurors when racial motives might be present but not acknowledged.

“The disturbing thing is that courts in Louisiana and elsewhere were just deferring to trial judges, no matter the reasons,” Bright said.

Snyder will get a new trial as a result of the ruling, Bright said.

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PIEDMONT, Mo. — Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated yesterday as a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in the Nation’s midsection. Ten deaths had been linked to the weather and four people were missing.

Record and near-record flood crests were forecast at several towns in Missouri. Widespread flooding was reported in parts of Arkansas, southern Indiana and southwestern Ohio.

Schools were closed in parts of western Kentucky because of flooded roads.

“We’ve got water rising everywhere,” said Jeff Korb, president of the Vanderbugh County, Ind., commissioners.

The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings from Texas to Pennsylvania.

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DISASTER: Floodwaters flow through a building in Ozark, Mo., yesterday. Storms dropped six to ten inches of rain in much of the southwest.

Arkansas as the weather system crawled toward the northeast, drenching the Ohio Valley and spreading snow over parts of northern New England. A parallel band of locally heavy rain stretched from Alabama and Georgia to the mid-Atlantic states.

Atlanta police closed some downtown streets in case the stormy

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In Ohio and other areas, the rain fell on ground already saturated from heavy snowfall less than two weeks ago.

A foot of rain had fallen at Mountain Home, Ark., and at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and

Evansville, Ind., had measured 6.2 inches, the weather service said.

Four deaths were linked to the flooding in Missouri, five people were killed in a highway wreck in heavy rain in Kentucky and a 65-year-old Ohio woman apparently drowned after checking on a sump pump in her home.

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TAMPA, Fla. — Capt. Clint Roberts makes his living cutting accident victims out of hideously mangled vehicles, but even he could hardly believe it when two people in a 2007 midsize car survived a head-on crash with a fullsized pickup last year.

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WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials have identified a contaminant in batches of the blood thinner heparin associated with 19 deaths and are trying to determine how the chemical got into the drug.

The lots of heparin, whose key ingredient was imported from China, were recalled Feb. 28, and Food and Drug Administration officials said yesterday that no new deaths have been reported since that time.

Dr. JanetWoodcock, head of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said the contaminant is oversulfated condroitin sulfate, a chemical that does not occur naturally.

Condroitin sulfate is a natural compound that occurs

widely and is used as a dietary supplement, but the oversulfated version has not been widely studied.

“We cannot rule in or out whether this was accidentally or deliberately introduced into the product,” Woodcock said, “We are investigating how it got in.”

The FDA has also initiated testing of imported heparin entering this country and Woodcock said the agency feels “doctors and patients now can be confident that the product on the market has been tested and is safe.”

Condroitin sulfate is a compound in the same family as heparin, so preliminary testing did not identify it, Woodcock said. She said more exacting tests by the government and university researchers uncovered the contaminant.

Oversulfated condroitin sulfate

would be less expensive to make than heparin, but FDA officials said they could not estimate the cost difference.

Congress quickly reacted to the report with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s subcommittee on oversight and investigations scheduling an April 15 hearing.

“This latest development underscores our concerns that the FDA does not have a robust enough presence overseas in conducting inspections in plants that make drugs for the U.S. market.

Ongoing surveillance inspections are critical if the FDA is to find

shortcomings,” said committee chairman John Dingell, D-Mich.

On the other side of Capitol Hill, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said: “Whether this contaminant was introduced intentionally or by accident, the full force of the law must be brought to bear to bring those responsible to justice. To guard against future abuses, every drug manufacturer needs to inform the FDA of where it sources its ingredients and what it is doing to ensure that these ingredients are pure and potent.”

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