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January 30, 2009 Volume 103, Issue 91

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Columnist Joel Berry says it time to get out of Obama-groupie mode and look at the facts of his new economic plan | Page 4

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By Hannah Sparling Reporter

By Alison Lodge Reporter

When Pam Kaufman Heringhaus agreed to go to an award reception last Saturday she had no idea it was in her honor.

Heringhaus, magistrate for the Wood County Common Pleas Court, won the 2009 Athena award on Jan. 24. The award is given annually by the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce to a community member dedicated to influencing and furthering the lives of women in the community.

Heringhaus was nominated for the award by Martha Woelke, retail administrator for First Federal Bank and past Athena winner.

“She’s a building up person,” Woelke said. “I felt she had the right spirit, and she does a lot of things specifically for women.”

Woelke said the combination of Heringhaus’ work experience and also the number of women she has helped and influenced made her a perfect candidate for the award.

“She’s a very well-rounded person,” Woelke said. “I think she was a really good nominee and a really good winner of the award as a reflection of Bowling Green.”

Woelke wasn’t the only one who thought Heringhaus deserved the award. Elaine Paulette, director of the Wood County Library and another

The Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce recognized Karen Seeliger and Doug Valentine, two local residents, for their exceptional contributions to the community at its annual meeting on Sunday.

The Outstanding Citizen Award has been given annually since 1957 to those who live or work in the Bowling Green area and have demonstrated an active leadership role for the betterment of the community through involvement in business, civic, social and/or service organizations, according to the Chamber Web site.

Seeliger and Valentine were both presented with the 2009 OCA for the work they’ve done over the past few decades.

Seeliger, vice president and city executive for the Fifth Third Bank in Bowling Green, was awarded for her extensive involvement in local development, including leadership roles in The Simpson Garden Park Campaign, the BGSU Festival Arts Series and the Community Development Foundation.

For local developer Valentine, his community contributions date back to the 1970s and include a night air flight mission to transport the water plant superintendent during the blizzard of 1978.

More recently, at his own expense, he tore down a building in order to make room for a new group home with the help of the Wood Lane Residential Care Services.

One of Valentine’s nominators wrote, “He has consistently demonstrated, over several decades,

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Graduation is on the horizon and for University seniors that means stacks of resumes to mail, unwanted stress to relieve and lots of stretching for the mad dash to those few and far between job openings.

All of these efforts are geared toward leaving the comfort of Bowling Green and delving into the daily grind of the “real world.”

However, University alumnae Anne Tracy and Laurel Zawodny found both college excitement and career fulfillment right here on campus.

Working as administrative assistants to President Carol Cartwright, these ambitious ladies are the first to agree that there is no place like Bowling Green.

“There is such a strong sense of community here at the University,” Tracy said.

“The faculty and staff are always looking out for each other.”

Who’s making the grade?

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As an undergraduate, Zawodny majored in education, yet found herself quite far from that original path when moving into the workforce. Even before graduating, she took the University’s offer for a full-time job at the Bursar’s Office and then moved into Registration and Records.

“It’s quite interesting how Anne [Tracy] and I first met each other,” Zawodny said.

“Before I worked for the president, I became the chair of the Classified Staff Council, and [Tracy] became the vice chair that same year. Neither one of us had any prior experience with administrative offices.”

In 2001, Zawodny began her work in the office of the president, working under former University President Sidney Ribeau. When she took maternity leave, Tracy filled her shoes as the replacement.

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CITY ALL-STARS: Chamber Director Earlene Kilpatrick, 175th Committee Head Joan Gordon, Karen Seeliger, Doug Valentine and Athena Award winner Pamela Kauffman Heringhaus.

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The pond next to the Student Recreation Center became a frozen training ground for the Bowling Green Fire Department yesterday as they practiced an ice rescue drill.

Thirteen firefighters spent nearly two hours at the pond running rescue drills from the middle of the ice and taking turns playing the victim, on-ice crew and shore crew.

“This was something we wanted to do for a long time,” firefighter Bill Moorman said. “We just had to wait for the right conditions. ...

Today was the perfect day.”

While the department has not been called for many frozen pond incidents, Moorman and crew prefer to be prepared for any potential accident in the Bowling Green area.

(Left) A firefighter checks to make sure the “victim’s” harness is secure. (Center and Right) The shore crew readies the rope used in the rescue and anchors it to a nearby tree.

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When the maternity leave was over, Zawodny and Tracy continued working for the president together.

“We both have areas of individual responsibility,” Tracy said, “but we definitely share many day-to-day responsibilities. We are a team. We work together to solve anything that might come up.”

Tracy’s direct responsibilities to President Cartwright include managing the president’s schedule and calendars, making sure she has all the necessary information for any events she attends and serving as a liaison between President Cartwright and other University divisions and contacts. “[Cartwright] has said, ‘I want to be busy from morning until night.’ She tries to pack in as much as she can, and she doesn’t like to turn people down,” Tracy said. “She is very active and does a lot of her own correspondence, but for everything else, [Zawodny and I] take care of the constant information flow.”

Zawodny, currently a parttime employee, works mainly with the president’s budgets and travel. She takes care of everything from hotels to transportation and travel logistics for the countless conferences and events Cartwright frequents.

“This is such a rewarding job,” Zawodny said. “You get to know so many people in different offices that you can go to if you need help or have a question. However, we don’t have as much contact with the students, which we miss.”

But even with such fastpaced days, both Tracy and Zawodny still find time for outside endeavors.

Zawodny, who currently has a 14-year-old son and a 6-yearold daughter, finds that her children’s activities have turned into her own. Between taking the kids to dance class and band practice and volunteering in the Parent’s Club at her daughter’s school, Zawodny’s time after work is limited.

Family is also a high priority for Tracy. She enjoys spending time with her three adult

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Laurel Zawodny | Admin Assist. children and three, soon-to-be four, grandchildren, reading and gardening. With a degree in music education, Tracy also plays the piano and pairs up with a violinist friend to play at area nursing homes.

“It’s not that I have a hard time getting away from my job,” Tracy said. “But things will come up in the evenings. Regardless, I consider working on campus a huge plus. It keeps you young and helps you know what’s going on with young people.”

With the demanding capacities both Tracy and Zawodny fill in the president’s office, they are not alone in meeting Cartwright’s daily needs. Kelli Blinn, an office secretary, works side-by-side with the administrative assistants. “[Tracy] is my direct supervisor in the office, but I work equally with the two,” Blinn said. “It’s great. They make you feel like it’s safe to ask questions, and we have fun. Sometimes things get crazy stressful, but we try to laugh. It helps make things better to have a sense of humor.”

While Tracy and Zawodny work hard every day to keep one of the University’s most powerful women on schedule and able to function at her utmost capacity, they still remember how they started - where more than 4,500 University students are currently - serving as student employees.

“My best piece of advice is that regardless, being a student employee is so beneficial,” Zawodny said. “You can make good connections for later on and gain good working experience.”

Both women have landed far from their degrees and prior positions, but, as Tracy put it, “Be open to all opportunities, whether or not it is your chosen path. There will be lots of different opportunities in life, and you may end up liking where they take you.”

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Shocking discovery made in abandoned warehouse Homeless man found frozen in elevator shaft, dead possibly several months before discovered by authorities

By Corey Williams The Associated Press

DETROIT — In an abandoned warehouse, the image was stark and shocking: two denim-clad, lifeless legs poking up through trash-choked ice.

Investigators who took three 911 calls over two days before finally going out to retrieve the body will now try to figure out what killed the man, but this much is clear — it’s become another symbol of Detroit’s decay and indifference.

“Most of us grew up with this,” said Mike Corbin, 34, pointing toward the old warehouse and brooding, dilapidated Michigan Central train depot nearby. “It’s depressing.

Chicago and New York have their own problems, but those are in certain areas. But in Detroit, it’s the entire city.”

Investigators are looking into reports that a group of urban adventurers who get their kicks exploring Detroit’s crumbling buildings and at least one homeless man had seen the man’s body, but didn’t call police.

Detroit is a tough town, often described as gritty, hard-knuckled, a survivor.

Its post-World War II population soared to more than 1.8 million. Many of the 900,000 people who now call it home lived through Detroit’s days as the country’s “murder capital” when more than 700 people were slain in 1974.

Now they are slogging through the worst economy in its history as Detroit ranks among the nation’s leaders in unemployment and home foreclosures. Restructuring by the slumping U.S. auto industry promises to leave many more jobless.

Faced with a budget deficit expected to top $200 mil-

lion, bond ratings at junk status, a recently ended sex scandal that landed ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff in jail and a current federal probe into City Hall corruption, Detroit’s fortunes mirror the nameless unclaimed man on thaw at the city morgue.

“When you hear somebody say it’s a dead body near a train station, you say ‘and?’” said 28-year-old Bianca Glenn over her vegan Jamaican stew at the Mercury Coffee Bar near the abandoned warehouse.

“I’m kind of desensitized to it.”

The Mercury, which opened just four months ago, and several other nearby eateries contrast sharply with the surrounding neighborhood dominated by the empty train station, out-of-business Roosevelt Hotel and numerous vacant lots.

Around the corner and down the block stands what remains of the old Tiger Stadium, mostly torn down after closing down nearly a decade ago.

In warmer weather, the homeless languish in a park facing the train station.

“It’s a monument and symbol of what we used to be. It’s like our Roman ruin,” said Corbin, manager of the Mercury. He acknowledges he’s explored the depot and other abandoned structures in the area.

Detroit News reporter and columnist Charlie LeDuff found the body after receiving a tip that it was at the bottom of a submerged elevator shaft at the Roosevelt Warehouse. A homeless man camped a few yards from the shaft where the body lay, but didn’t report it to authorities, LeDuff wrote.

A group of young men playing hockey in the frozen

interior also didn’t call police because they were trespassing, LeDuff said, though he didn’t quote anybody by name.

Firefighters used saws to cut through the ice Wednesday afternoon. It wasn’t known how long the man’s body had been in the shaft.

Ribbons of razor wire proved no barrier to the warehouse grounds yesterday as the manhigh fence was peeled back.

Inside, amid the dumped trash and crumbled bricks lay shoes, mattresses, cheap gin and wine bottles. The paper cover of Scott Turow’s novel “Presumed Innocent” lay folded on the loading dock.

The county medical examiner’s office said an autopsy will have to wait until the body naturally thaws. Detroit police won’t know until then how he died.

Police spokesman James Tate disputes LeDuff’s account that officers failed to respond Tuesday afternoon when he called 911 to report the body.

LeDuff wasn’t clear on the location of the body, Tate said.

In a front page story that was accompanied by a photo of the frozen legs, LeDuff wrote that he returned Wednesday to find the body still there.

It took two more calls to 911 before firefighters and police arrived, he wrote.

Detroit News Editor and Publisher Jonathan Wolman told The Associated Press yesterday that the decision to put the photo on the front page “was not made lightly.”

“We found it to be a shocking image, but at the same time a poignant and heartbreaking one,” Wolman said. “I felt telling the story was profoundly respectful of this victim’s life and death, yet a difficult story to tell. What it says about the community, I’ll leave that to others."

Laurel Zawodny

Favorite movie: “The Sound of Music” First thing you would buy with $1 million: take care of my family and Ugg boots I can’t get enough of: my grandchildren Favorite location: beaches; I want to go to Nova Scotia Worst fear: the economy/continued job losses at BGSU and beyond

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Favorite movie: “Jerry Maguire” Favorite musical artist: Motley Crue First thing you would buy with $1 million: a swimming pool I can’t get enough of: Chex bars Favorite food: chicken ceasar salad

DETROIT DECAY: A dead body is seen frozen in a block of ice located in an elevator shaft in a former Detroit Public Schools warehouse building in Detroit, Mich. The Detroit News newspaper says it took making three calls to Detroit authorities over two days before they recovered the body of the man. Authorities used saws to extricate the body Wednesday afternoon, the Detroit Free Press and WDIV-TV said. Investigators said they think the body was there for several months. The man’s name and the cause of his death weren’t immediately known.

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ATHENA From Page 1 previous Athena winner, also helped nominate her.

“She’s just one of those quiet, behind-the-scenes workers who will get things done,” Paulette said.

Whether it was when she was working at Kaufman’s, the once family-owned restaurant in Bowling Green, serving on the library Board of Trustees, practicing law as an attorney, working as a court appointed special advocate or working as a magistrate, both Woelke and Paulette agreed Heringhaus has always been a positive role model for women.

“In all of those positions she has hired, supervised and trained young women,” Paulette said. “She’s someone who gives of herself without expecting any recognition.”

Heringhaus said her career has simply given her the opportunity to help and be a role model for women.

“Throughout my career I have had the opportunity to be in a profession dominated mainly by males,” she said. “Hopefully I’ve been able to give some advice and be a leader for women, to show them they can aspire to that same level of leadership.”

Heringhaus said the award was completely unexpected, but a nice surprise. She said it made her feel appreciated and gave her a new drive to continue working and giving back to the community of Bowling Green.

“It kind of reinvigorates you,” she said.

an uncommon public spirit and a remarkable willingness to use his influence, knowledge and resources to help others individually as well as the public-at-large.” “[The award] truly helps recognize individuals who give to their community and continue to give,” Chamber Executive Director Earlene Kilpatrick said.

Seeliger and Valentine were both presented with a piece by a local artist to commemorate their work.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Rod Blagojevich was thrown out of office yesterday without a single lawmaker coming to his defense, brought down by a governmentfor-sale scandal that stretched from Chicago to Capitol Hill and turned the foul-mouthed politician into a national punchline.

Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat, becomes the first U.S. governor in more than 20 years to be removed by impeachment.

After a four-day trial, the Illinois Senate voted 59-0 to convict him of abuse of power, automatically ousting the second-term Democrat. In a second, identical vote, lawmakers further barred Blagojevich from ever holding public office in the

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“He failed the test of character. He is beneath the dignity of the state of Illinois. He is no longer worthy to be our governor,” said Sen. Matt Murphy, a Republican from suburban Chicago.

Blagojevich’s troubles are not over. Federal prosecutors are drawing up an indictment against him on corruption charges.

Outside his Chicago home yesterday night, Blagojevich vowed to “keep fighting to clear my name,” and added: “Give me a chance to show you that I haven’t let you down.”

“I love the people of Illinois today more than I ever have before,” he said. And in a joking reference to Chicago’s history of crooked politics, he reached down to a boy in the crowd of well-wishers and said: “I love

you, man. You know, this is Chicago. You can vote for me.

You’re old enough.”

Democratic Lt. Gov. Patrick Quinn, one of Blagojevich’s critics, was promptly sworn in as governor and said he would work to “restore the faith of the people of Illinois in the integrity of their government.”

Blagojevich’s name and picture were promptly stripped from the state’s official Web site, and his photo was removed from a display at the Capitol entrance. Quinn also canceled Blagojevich’s security detail.

Blagojevich, 52, had boycotted the first three days of the impeachment trial, calling the proceedings a kangaroo court.

But yesterday, he went before the Senate to beg for his job, delivering a 47-minute plea that was, by turns, defiant, humble and sentimental.

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20 years ago to cut costs by recycling envelopes. “We’re looking for ideas President Carol Cartwright and like that, but we’re also lookthe Office of Human Resources ing for the next, ‘My gosh, we are encouraging the University never thought about that one!’� community to share its ideas Ferguson said.

The suggestions sent to through a new online forum, the Great Ideas site are first the Great Ideas Web site.

An idea of Cartwright’s, the received by a generic inbox in site was launched Dec. 19 and the Office of Human Resources, allows the University commu- Ferguson said. “Our office is behind the nity to share their thoughts on reducing costs, generating new scenes, filtering where the sugrevenue sources and retaining gestions should go,� she said.

Human Resources begins the and recruiting students with filtering process by responding University administrators. “I shared my e-mail address with thank-you e-mails. Then, with the campus commu- the department forwards the nity during my opening day ideas to designated adminisaddress and told everyone trators who directly respond to that I welcomed their input the messages. Each adminisand suggestions,� Cartwright trator is assigned ideas within said in an e-mail. “I have been a specific category, includreceiving ideas ever since. The ing faculty issues, staff issues, Great Ideas program is an facilities, entrepreneurial ideas, extension of that — a way for technology, student affairs and faculty, staff and students to student life, residence life and student retention and recruitshare their ideas.�

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51st Band Music Reading and Directors Clinic Moore Musical Arts Center

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Bad Astronomy

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112 Physical Sciences Bldg.

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State of the University Address

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Changing Lanes

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Eva Marie Saint Theatre, University Hall

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ONLINE: A new online forum set up by President Carol Cartwright and the Office of Human Resources encourages the community to submit suggestions for improvement.

The vision is love, the concert is hope and Tuesday, students will gather to encourage, advocate and — To Write Love On Her Arms.

The Concert of H.O.P.E. (Helpi ng Ot hers Pu rsue Encouragement), sponsored by the Student Organization of Social Workers (SOSW), is a benefit concert for the To Write Love On Her Arms movement.

The movement is a nationwide non-profit organization that promotes awareness and help for people struggling with depression, abuse, suicide, cutting and addiction, SOSW Secretary junior Megan Gerken said. “To Write Love On Her Arms really does a lot to raise awareness about these issues no one really talks about,� she said. “The concert is hopefully going to help break the social stigmas associated with these issues.�

The concert will be on Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Union Multipurpose room where six up-and-coming bands w ill be performing throughout the night. Tickets will be on sale today for $4 at the Union tables or can be bought at the door for $5, Gerken said.

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“Be open to all opportunities, whether or not it is your chosen path. There will be lots of different opportunities in life, and you may end up liking where they take you.”

— Anne Tracy, administrative assistant to the President, on taking various opportunities throughout life even though they may not be what you thought you would be presented with [see story, pg. 1].

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If you could eat a cookie of anyone’s face, who would you want to eat?

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You start with one video, thinking it won’t hurt. After all, it’s only three minutes, and three minutes won’t take up too much of your time.

After 180 magical seconds of good, quality entertainment — perhaps Kelly Clarkson’s latest music video or a rare interview clip of Hillary Clinton back

when she was a hippie — you happen to glance over to the side column, which boasts at least 20 more exciting videos just like the one you just watched.

You’re intrigued but know you probably shouldn’t continue.

Finally, without an eye on the clock or a care for the paper you should be writing instead, you’ve spent nearly four hours of your day catching up on the television shows you missed last

Economic plan shows Obama’s true colors JOEL BERRY COLUMNIST

It is time for We the Sheeple to wake up. Just 10 days after his inauguration (which, by the way, was the most expensive inauguration in history) President Obama’s honeymoon is unofficially over.

Forget the inspiration you felt as you raised your fist shouting the ambiguous, yet incrediblyfun-to-shout-at-the-top-ofyour-lungs motto, “Yes we can!

Yes we can!” Forget the tingling feeling that ran up your legs as you heard the great orator speak and the mainstream media coo in response like ‘90s-era teen girls at an ‘NSYNC concert.

Forget the “In your face!” satisfaction you received when former President Bush was booed out of office.

I am not mocking you, dear reader, I am only saying it is time to get real and face facts.

Our country is in grave financial trouble. It’s time for America to slap itself out of drooling, Obama-groupie mode and start thinking about what is good for our nation. We need to critically look at who President Obama really is and see if “change” has really come to Washington.

On Jan. 8, 2009, Obama told the nation in order to save the economy, we need to spend a trillion dollars. Apparently, the $700 billion Bush spent in October wasn’t enough.

President Obama claimed this spending package would create new jobs, while not explaining exactly how this would work.

“Only government can break the vicious cycles that are crippling our economy,” he said. Then, just 21 days later, he said the exact opposite before a group of businessmen, stating bigger government is not the answer, and our hope lies in the private sector and free market.

When we have a president

who sounds like FDR in front of one group and Reagan in front of another, what are we to believe? To wade past all the smoke and mirrors and find out who Obama really is, let us look at Obama’s baby — the Economic Stimulus Plan.

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted on the package Obama says is essential to saving our economy. The $900 billion plan is the biggest spending bill in Congressional history. Spread evenly, that’s a $10,520 bill slapped on every family in America. Change indeed — isn’t it funny how liberals were up in arms over Bush’s budget deficit, yet are now praising President Obama, who wants to jump a trillion dollars more into the hole? With a price tag like that, this plan better work.

According to the congressional budget office, only 12 cents of every dollar spent will actually go toward economic stimulus. Instead of a set of rules to make sure the money goes where it is supposed to, the package looks like a page from a liberal wish list sent to Santa.

The bill is loaded with pork.

Whenever the government announces the plan to release a large sum of money, Congress members come running with their hands open like 2-yearolds who have just broken a piñata full of Tootsie Rolls. The Congress members add clauses or “earmarks” to these stimulus packages to guarantee they get some of the money. As a result, you get a package where the politicians are investing in themselves rather than the economy.

This stimulus package has been earmarked to oblivion.

The plan includes 32 brand new government programs, socialized medicine, so-called “green” jobs, $335 million for STD prevention programs, $650

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“Elmo.”

“Jerry Garcia.”

“My old geology teacher, Don.”

“Megan Fox because she’s a cutie.”

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week, brushing up on random newscasts, simply consuming 21st-century technology in its most accessible platform to date.

Yes, it is in this very way — our hands shackled to our keyboards and eyes glued to our monitors — the Internet-crazed generation has made YouTube

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Travelin’ the Globe: Almost done with finals and London’s calling ALISON KEMP COLUMNIST

SA L ZBURG, Austria — London is calling.

I hope to be on the Beefeater (formally called the Yeoman Warder, the name for the Tower guards) tour of the Tower of London by the time most of you read this. I’ve got my roughly five-day stint in London planned out, practically to the minute.

But that was before I knew I would have one more final to complete while I’m on vacation. I tried to get it finished before I left, but it just wasn’t possible. I can’t decide what I want to give up, so I’m going to get as much work done on

the plane as possible (it’s a two-hour flight) and then fit in essay writing whenever I can.

In addition to seeing the Tower of London, I’m really looking forward to the Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Parliament, the Tate Modern and the British Museum.

I also hope to see Wicked, pending my front-row-ticket-winning luck carries over from New York City and Les Miserables.

Fortunately, London is the place to go if you like free art and history museums.

The Houses of Parliament, National Gallery, National Portrait Galler y, British Museum, British Library, Wallace Collection, the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, Victoria and Albert Museum (art and

“I have learned from Paris and New York that seeing museums during their free hours is hit or miss.” design), Natural Histor y Museum, Museum of London, Imperial War Museum, Tate Modern and Tate Britain are all free. Many of these museums also offer free tours.

Places like the Tower of London, Westminister and St. Paul’s Cathedrals and the London Eye charge, but still offer student discounts or discounts for booking online. It is possible to get into the churches for free if you go to a service. I plan on doing this at least once, because I would like to hear an Evensong performance, a sung Anglican service. St.

Martin-in-the-Fields also offers free lunch time concerts.

I have learned from Paris and New York that seeing museums during their free hours is hit or miss. For instance, the Louvre on the two Friday nights I was there was packed, but because the museum is so large, the crowds were not a huge problem. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City also was the same; the galleries with the really famous

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Black face cookie crumbles in controversy

By Lauren Herget U-Wire

Last Tuesday in Paris, I was at last psyched and actually kind of proud to be an American. After spending nearly two weeks trying hard to cloak my accent and telling all the lecherous dudes that I was vacationing from South Africa because I wanted to experience the cold (and no, I’m really not interested in grabbing a cup of coffee with you), Jan. 20 might have been the only day during my whole abroad experience that I am allowed — and almost encouraged — to speak in fullblown American English (i.e. pronouncing all of my R’s).

Let me tell you: The French really love Obama. A lot of their interest seems to come from the fact that our country was built on the economics of racism, yet we are now willing — and excited — to elect a half-African man from the Midwest. From what I understand, the French are also pumped for us because, after so many years of what they perceived as Bush’s insular, arrogant

doctrine, Americans are ready to accept a new, sympathetic regime (which is incidentally headed by a black man and which, as a result, appears more racially equitable than any European government).

So I was riding this high of idealistic Obama-lovin’ until today, when one of my friends sent me an article in the NYC blog Gothamist. Apparently, a (seemingly disgruntled) baker in Greenwich Village sold “Drunken Negro Face” cookies for Inauguration Day to “honor” President Obama. He chose to toss aside the ebony-and-ivory conviviality of black-and-white cookies and hawk instead a nonsensical, Minstrel-looking cookie.

Unsurprisingly, the design caused nearly all once-hungry customers to lose their appetites.

An egg-shaped cookie cloaked in milk chocolate, finished with maraschino cherry “eyes,” chocolate sprinkle hair, a disproportionately large nose and a goofy mouth so wavy a 4-year-old could decorate better — this cookie most likely does not scream politically correct to you.

And yet! Ted Kefalinos, proprietor of Lafayette French Pastry, the bakery at which the notorious cookies were produced, claims his cookies were innocent —and even benevolent. “We were just trying to make a large number of people happy, and instead we made a large number of people confused and angry,” he said.

Oh, really, Teddy? You are shocked people are confused and angry when you say things like, GOTHAMIST.COM “Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your cof- COOKIE: The “drunken negro face” cookie fee? They’re in honor of our new was offered on Inauguration Day. president.” Oh, but saying that the malformed, stereotypical cookies But to impart this article with “honor” our new president will just a little journalistic integrity, get you out of all sorts of trouble I’m trying to find some artistic — you’re right! merit in this dude’s cookie — Andyou’reundoubtedlyspread- especially since he has the libing the love by saying, “[Obama erty to create such a monstrosity. is] following in the same path of It’s not even like the cookie looks Abraham Lincoln; he will get his,” delicious or aesthetically pleasing, (implying of course that Obama though. Frankly, I don’t like eating is on a course towards assassina- maraschino cherries, except when tion). Hey Ted, maybe it’s time you they are soaking in a Manhattan, listened to that Black Eyed Peas hit, and furthermore, the chocolate “Where is the Love?” and stopped ganache for the face and features trifling with your apparent theme looks like it was applied with a heavy hand. Gross! song: Maino’s “Hi Hater.”

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the third most visited Web site on the World Wide Web, with over 100 million viewers each day and 13 hours of new video content uploaded to the site each minute.

But now, its services — or maybe disservices, for distracted college students — threaten to grow even bigger.

Warning: Procrastination may ensue.

The most powerful videosharing hub has become the pesky guest that has outstayed its welcome. We were so gracious having invited it into our homes; yet, four years later, it’s still here and shows no signs of leaving anytime soon.

Since its humble beginnings when three former PayPal employees concocted the idea back in February 2005, YouTube has contributed immensely to our society. Aside from launching the careers of ordinary people and giving a handful of undeserving no-names, well, names, the Web site is now an epicenter of the news world, with major networks streaming

BERRY From Page 4 million for digital TV coupons, $200 million to beautify government buildings, $600 million for brand new government cars, $24 million for groups, including ACORN, $50 million to renovate a museum and $200 million for repairs to the national mall including $21 million for sod, to name just a few items.

The Obama we are seeing now is different from the Obama we saw last year, who vowed to Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press that under his watch, “the days of pork coming out of Congress are over.”

While these pork-barrel programs may sound good to some liberal ideologues, they offer neither a good return on their investment nor the intended stimulus. In contrast, Bush’s infamous “tax cuts for the rich” directly and immediately caused the economy to grow five percent. That’s because it is the rich who create jobs and opportunities for humble college students like you and me.

Instead of going into the hands of the entrepreneurs and hard workers who run our economy, the money will be filtered through the hands of clueless, greedy politicians.

information directly to audiences from YouTube accounts.

Last fall, YouTube’s popularity with music fans around the nation may have single-handedly led to the demise of late MTV music video show, “TRL.” People wanted their favorite full-length music videos at their fingertips and YouTube was indeed more than capable of fulfilling their demand.

More recently, YouTube was instrumental in educating young voters about the issues surrounding the 2008 election and was a major factor in encouraging the youth vote to participate in the eventual election of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama.

Campaign advertisements, special debates and even headline-snatching spoofs performed by self-proclaimed video hottie Obama Girl not only gave Obama greater visibility, but allowed him to present himself and his team as cutting-edge and technologically forward.

During the brutal campaign season, the close relationship between YouTube and the average American was utilized to great advantage by political candidates.

Additionally, the House Tax Committee staff can’t estimate a single job that will be created.

Some of the plans might put people to work on temporary government projects, but they won’t do the job of providing lasting wealth and economic growth.

Here’s the secret — Obama’s plan is not actually meant to stimulate the economy. Instead, it is meant to expand the already-bloated government, give the Democratic Party more power and use an economic crisis to force liberal ideologies down the throats of an unsuspecting America.

President Obama is not ignorant of history. Obama knows this massive spending will fail just as every other massive government spending plan has failed. If you ask me, he does not care as long as he gets his liberal policies through. It is shameful.

President Obama played the game well, and now that we elected him, he is continuing the tradition of pork, earmarks and out of control spending that got us into this mess in the first place. You want “change?”

Well, get ready for “more of the same.”

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Today, the Web site’s expansive coverage and relevance throughout almost every facet of life is unprecedented.

And the most recent person to join the YouTube phenomenon?

None other than Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican’s official YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/ vatican, brings a new tech-savvy to a religious denomination based on tradition and over 2,000 years of history. The Roman Catholic Church’s efforts to join the wannabe cover bands, shock personalities and talking babies on YouTube should, however, be commended.

Looking from a spiritual standpoint, over 1.4 billion people are online worldwide, many of whom are undoubtedly not religious. YouTube allows the church to tap into an enormous audience by bringing God to them directly, in a place where people are already visiting.

It’s the “Word of the Lord” in e-form.

The Pope acknowledged that the “wise” use of such technologies and communication would enable more people to “feel involved in this great dialogue of truth.”

But this year, Benedict isn’t the first leader to get a YouTube account. He joins President Barack Obama, who became a member on Inauguration Day by launching the official channel for the White House.

In an attempt to implement his goal of full transparency, Obama hopes that his messages on YouTube will give him the opportunity to skip the filters of mainstream media and talk directly to the American people.

While there’s still the fair share of critics who point out that the president should no longer be in campaign mode, Obama’s plan just might work.

Passing up press conferences and media junkets, Obama released a YouTube video this past weekend advocating for his $819 billion economic stimulus plan. Within a day, the video already had more than 600,000 views.

Now that the Pope, Obama and even Queen Elizabeth have YouTube accounts — who will be next?

To keep in line with the creators’ original intent for YouTube — as entertainment — I’m keeping my fingers crossed for Sarah Palin.

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My plans for Dublin, on the other hand, are not structured at all, mostly because I don’t know how exhausted I will be after London. There are a couple museums I am interested in, such as the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum.

There is also a castle in Dublin, and a second castle and a prison are just outside of town.

The National Concert Hall offers stand-by tickets to students an hour before each performance, and there is a performance the second night of my stay.

I am looking forward to going on a couple of tours on my own. The city tourism Web site offers tours of the city you can listen to on your iPod. I know I am less prepared for Dublin, but that is because I don’t have a guidebook or map for the city. As long as I visit some pubs, drink some Guinness and don’t get too lost, I am sure this portion of my trip will be just as successful and as rewarding as London.

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pieces were difficult to move through, but touring the rest of the museum was quite comfortable.

Other museums in both cities were not busy at all during their free periods. I am sure the same will happen in London.

As I mentioned before, day-of theater tickets are also available. The two ticket booths offer day-of tickets at reduced prices. Some theaters also offer day-of or stand-by tickets. Wicked, and perhaps other shows, offer a lottery and studentpriced day-of tickets.

The British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Modern all have extended weekend hours.

I am excited to try out some walking tours in London.

I have heard good things about the Original London Walks company, so I plan on going on at least one of their tours. The offerings are endless, from the Beatles, Harry Potter and Jack the Ripper (led by a renowned Jack the Ripper expert) to Victorian England and Greenwich

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hope and help to those students who are struggling.

“They’re not alone in this struggle,” she said. “Social students a chance to par- workers are about advocaticipate in Post Secret, cy so this concert of hope where students can share is a great way to exemplify their secrets anonymously that.”

Along with the musical or words of encouragement, and they will be posted on enter ta inment, spea kers from the campus ministhe wall during the event.

SOSW Treasurer Chasity try H2O and the National Bradley, senior, said these Alliance on Mental Illness activities are meant to offer (NAMI) will share encour-

agement and information, she said.

“We wanted speakers from different realms,” Bradley said. “H2O can present the spiritual side and NAMI can present the professional side of our cause.”

Junior Jenn Karno will be delivering the closing remarks for the night. She said the purpose of the benefit is to raise awareness about issues like suicide,

Respond to Alison at thenews@bgnews.com depression and addiction but also for students to have fun.

Karno said she hopes students will come and support the cause because their attendance can help make a difference.

“I can’t stop these things alone,” she said. “ You can help, every effort is important whether you’re giving money, your time or coming out to the concert.”

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Junior Terra Richardson had He said he received a suggestion about lowering the water another idea for the site.

As an off-campus student who temperature in the academic facilities, and the idea is being frequently has a hard time finding a parking spot, Richardson given serious consideration.

“It’s always a useful exercise to said she would like to see either seek ideas from various parts of the addition of more parking the University community,” he lots for off-campus students or the combination of faculty and said.

Once responses have been commuter parking lots.

“Just make it parking for everysent, the Office of Marketing and Communications summarizes one. That way, you wouldn’t the ideas and responses and have to spend money at all,” posts them to the site, which is Richardson said.

Overall, Cartwright is happy updated about every two weeks.

“Our role is to communicate with the University’s response the ideas to all of campus after to the site.

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Strickland will increase school funds Governor says new education plan will not rely on availability of federal aid

By Stephen Majors The Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Ted Strickland said yesterday the state will provide a historic increase in funding for public schools without having to rely on federal aid.

Strickland, speaking at a legislative preview session for journalists organized by The Associated Press, said he expects to receive money from the federal stimulus package soon and that new levels of school funding are sustainable.

The Democrat did not reveal additional details of his school funding plan, which he first announced during his State of the State speech Wednesday.

Details would be provided when his budget proposal is rolled out Monday, he said.

Strickland said his plan would result in an increase of $925

million in state aid for education over current funding levels, despite a budget and economic environment that has left the state with a projected deficit of $7 billion compared to current funding levels.

Strickland is counting on about $3.4 billion in aid from the federal government. But, he said, his education plan will call for a funding strategy that doesn’t hinge on the availability of federal aid.

He also promoted the use of the ACT test as both a requirement for students to receive their high school diploma and as a tool to get more students interested in attending college.

The ACT test is a rigorously tested tool in evaluating student performance, he said.

Strickland said he wants to use the test to “kill two birds with one stone” — it can simultaneously serve as a graduation requirement and the college entrance

examination for which it has traditionally been known.

House Minority Leader Bill Batchelder, a Medina Republican, wants to see more details about the use of the ACT test. He wondered what score would be adequate for a student to receive a diploma.

Batchelder said it was difficult to comment on many parts of Strickland’s plans — including how the state would pay for expanding children’s health care and maintaining a tuition freeze at four-year colleges and universities for another year — because the details have not been released.

“We have to be a little bit skeptical about it,” Batchelder said about Strickland’s plans for school reform and funding.

Strickland also wants to pass a second state-level stimulus package to create jobs. Lawmakers last year passed a plan to spend

$1.6 billion on targeted industries such as advanced energy and bioproducts.

Most of that money, however, has not yet been spent.

Batchelder said he did not yet know how the state would fund a second stimulus package, but said it should be careful picking “winners and losers” because it would make bad choices, much like those made by Lehman Brothers — a major Wall Street bank that recently collapsed.

Also yesterday, two statewide officeholders considering runs for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by George Voinovich in 2010 told journalists they weren’t any closer to making a decision. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, and Auditor Mary Taylor, a Republican, said they had to consider the personal, professional and political ramifications of making a run.

FBI opens forensics lab in Ohio, one of only 14 nationwide

By James Hannah The Associated Press

CENTERVILLE, Ohio — FBI labs that scour computers and cell phones in search of links to terrorism, murders, child porn and other crimes are multiplying as demand for processing digital evidence escalates.

Among the newest Computer Forensics Laboratories nationwide has begun operating in a new facility in this Dayton suburb. The FBI held an open house yesterday that drew law enforcement officials from around southwest Ohio who will use the lab to investigate criminal cases.

The amount of digital evidence to process has exploded in recent years as computers,

cell phones and other electronic devices proliferate, said David Barnes Jr., lab director.

“In the mid-90s most of it was child pornography cases. Now we’re getting cell phones from homicides, we’re getting computers from terrorism cases,” Barnes said. “Also, officers are looking more for digital evidence.”

The FBI’s executive assistant director, Stephen Tidwell, has said the bureau should try to hire more staff to handle the growing amount of digital evidence.

The first FBI computer forensics lab was created in San Diego in 1999. There are now 14 labs, each of which has between six and 15 examiners and support staff. Two more labs are in the planning stages.

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CATCHING CRIMINALS: Skip Burnham sits in his work station at a new FBI forensic lab in Centerville, Ohio. The FBI opened its 14th regional lab devoted to analyzing evidence on computers to everything from identifying suspects in child-porn cases to finding maps used by bank robbers.

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Police say autoworker killed family then shot himself, motive unclear Man was temporarily laid off and killed his wife and two children who were home from school on snow day

By Matt Reed The Associated Press

WHITEHALL, Ohio — A man who police say shot and killed his wife and their two children in a murder-suicide had been unemployed but recently got his old job back at a car dealership.

Mark Meeks, 51, left a suicide note in his home, but police declined to discuss its contents yesterday. A motive for the shootings remained unclear.

Meeks worked the night shift as a service adviser for Immke Northwest Honda in Dublin, helping customers decide what kind of repair work their vehicles need.

He had been laid off while the dealership tried to adjust to a tough economy but had been back on the job for three weeks, service manager Gary Kennedy said.

“We’re just as shocked as everybody else,” Kennedy said.

“We loved him, and he did a hell of a job.”

Police downplayed Meeks’ unemployment history as a factor in the shootings.

“We are not investigating this as a financial or unemploymentrelated crime,” Whitehall police Sgt. Daniel Kelso said.

Police found the bodies Wednesday inside Meeks’ home in Whitehall, a Columbus suburb. It appears to be a murdersuicide and that the father was the gunman, Kelso said. The gun that Meeks used was in the house.

The gruesome finding came a day after authorities in Wilmington, Calif., said a man who was awash in debt and recently fired from his job at a hospital shot and killed his wife and five children in a murdersuicide.

Autopsies were being performed yesterday on the Meeks

“We’re just as shocked as everybody else. We loved him, and he did a hell of a job.”

Gary Kennedy | Service manager family. Police identified the other family members Jennifer DallasMeeks, 40; and their children, Abbigail, 8, and Jimmy, 5.

All family members had gunshot wounds, Kelso said.

Meeks previously worked at Coughlin Chevrolet in Pataskala, said general manager John Riley.

Meeks left last year on good terms, he said.

Riley said Meeks and his wife spent a lot of time together walking along park trails.

“I just saw him three months ago out on the running trail, out with his wife walking, and I stopped and talked to him and asked him how he was doing and it seemed like everything was going well,” Riley said.

The couple’s children were home from school Wednesday because of a snow day.

A family member called police about 2 p.m. asking that authorities go to the home to check on the family’s welfare, Kelso said.

He declined to say why the relative made the request.

Yellow police tape remained around the family’s brick, ranchstyle home yesterday. Family friends stopped by the house and left stuffed animals and personal notes by a bush on the front lawn.

Denise Ford, 39, said she’d known the family for four years.

“I didn’t know of any trouble,” Ford said. “They just seemed to be a good, normal family.”

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SUPER BOWL Falcon football players make Super Bowl picks

During college football season, four editors from The BG News pick games every week. Today, we are turning the tables and having three Falcon football players make Super Bowl predictions against Sports Editor Andrew Harner. The results will be published on Tuesday.

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Be sure to log on to The BG News Sports Blog for continued updates on all your favorite Falcon teams.

This weekend, basketball is in Northern Illinois so there won’t be a live blog, but we will try to get some notes up there. But, there will be some hockey live blogging from Miami. www.bgnewssports.com

SCHEDULE TODAY

Hockey: at Miami; 1 p.m.

SATURDAY

Track and Field: Tom Wright Classic; 9:30 a.m.

Women’s basketball: at Northern Illinois; 1 p.m. CST Men’s basketball: at Northern Illinois; 4 p.m. CST Hockey: at Miami; 7:05 p.m.

SUNDAY

Gymnastics: at Eastern Michigan; 2 p.m.

OUR CALL Today in Sports History 1978—Addie Joss and

Larry MacPhail elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1971—UCLA begins 88-game men’s basketball winning streak.

The List

Now that Arizona has made the Super Bowl, there are five teams left to make it. Here are those teams: 1. Lions: Detroit has been pretty bad for awhile now and it isn’t looking good either.

2. Browns: Cleveland last won a championship in 1964, but that was before the Super Bowl.

3. Saints: New Orleans has been building in the right direction and could be the first to break into the Bowl.

4. Jaguars: Jacksonville had a run last year, but fell short. They have the pieces but need to work together.

5. Texans: Houston is the newest NFL franchise so it’s no surprise they are on this list. They have a solid core developing so they could break off soon too.

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WHO

IS

MAKING THE

GRADE? PART TWO OF TWO

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The Falcon’s men’s basketball team is rated on its season performance

GUARDS

Point guard Joe Jakubowski started the season very well, but has tailed off in the past few games. Darryl Clements and Brian Moten have given the Falcons consistency from the 2-guard position.

FORWARDS

Nate Miller and Chris Knight have been the core of the team at different times this season. With starter Marc Larson injured, Knight and Erik Marschall will call upon much more in the coming games.

CENTERS

Otis Polk had a season high 13 points on Wednesday night, but his most impressive stat is blocked shots, where he leads the MAC. Polk’s size (6’9”, 285) gets the attention of every team BG faces.

BENCH

Because of the rotation BG has used this season, several players have started and come off the bench with regularity. Because of that, BG has outscored its opponents’ bench nine straight games.

COACHING

Louis Orr is in his second season as coach and the growing pains are still evident. The team has only won once on the road, and Orr has never really had an explanation when hard times hit.

OFFENSE

The Falcon offense is in the middle of the MAC in points scored and most shooting categories. The offense has only twice scored more than 60 points in MAC play.

DEFENSE

Contrary to the offense, the Falcon defense ranks fourth in points allowed and first in field goal percentage among MAC teams. The defense has kept opponents under 70 in four of their conference games.

HOME PLAY

BG played very well inside Anderson Arena this season during the non-conference schedule. However, once conference play began, the Falcons dropped its first two home games before beating Ball State on Wednesday.

ROAD PLAY

Just like the offense and defense, home play and road play have been day and night for the Falcons as they have managed just one road win this season.

They also won two neutral site games in Minnesota.

OVERALL

On the season, BG has a winning record of 10-9 and are an even .500 in conference play at 3-3. While there is still a lot of room for improvement for BG, the start of the season has been what is expected from a second year coach.

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ETHAN MAGOC | THE BG NEWS

ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS

VERSATILE: Brian Moten has been strong this season as a starter and off the bench.

LEADING THE WAY: Lauren Prochaska leads the team in scoring and rebounds.

Men’s and women’s basketball travel to NIU

By Jason Jones Assistant Sports Editor

Both BG basketball teams will head west tomorrow for meetings with Northern Illinois.

Both teams enter the game hot, though seemingly at different temperatures.

The women’s team has now won 17 games in a row. That win streak is the third longest in the nation, behind only Auburn and No. 1 Connecticut, who have 19 wins and 18 wins respectively.

The women haven’t played since last Saturday when they turned in a mediocre performance against a struggling Eastern Michigan team.

Despite playing one of their sloppiest games of the season, the Falcons still managed to bring home a 14-point win over the Eagles.

Now their attention will shift to some better opponents.

Having not really been challenged by any team so far in conference play, the women will now play three of their next four games against the three teams currently tied atop the Mid-American Conference West standings.

The Huskies come into the game at 10-9 (5-1 MAC) and have looked strong as of late.

“They really seem to be confident right now,” said coach Curt Miller.

The Falcons, who come in at 17-2 (6-0 MAC), will once again rely on the scoring and rebounding of sophomore Lauren Prochaska, who leads the team in both categories.

The Falcons will also look for continued production out of junior Niki McCoy. McCoy was one rebound shy of a double-double against EMU and could match up well with the Huskies. With one field goal in tomorrow’s game, McCoy will have 1,000 points in her college career.

Miller has done a good job of keeping his team looking forward all season, making them move on to the next game as soon as the last one is over.

The men’s team will also enter the game on a streak, theirs a modest two games. But those two games were big for the Falcons.

Against Ohio last Saturday, the men picked up their first road win of the season, with a nail-biting one point win.

The win proved that BG is capable of both winning on the road and finishing in the

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Hockey team travel to Miami for playoff rematch

By Ethan Magoc Reporter

The two-week stretch that the Falcon hockey team is currently playing through brings back memories of the recent past.

In the 2008 Central Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs, the Falcons opened at home against Lake Superior, defeating them in three games. The following weekend, BG traveled to Miami, where it was swept out in two games.

Moving ahead 10 months, the Falcons hosted the Lakers for two games last weekend, splitting the series and staying relatively the same in league standings.

Tonight, BG faces off against the RedHawks in Oxford at 7:35 p.m. The series marks the first time the two teams have played since the playoffs last season.

“The motivation is clearly for us to give ourselves a chance to move up,” said BG coach Scott Paluch. “Last year’s playoffs is not the motivation. The motivation now is to win and go by some teams.”

Chances are BG will not catch Miami this weekend in the standings. The RedHawks currently have 28 points, four behind first-place Notre Dame and 15 ahead of the Falcons.

But BG does have a legitimate chance to bounce toward the coveted eighth seed, a spot that would allow them to claim home ice advantage when playoffs begin again in early March.

Sweeping the RedHawks would be the most ideal outcome for BG in the series, but the Falcons have had diffi-

ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS

STEADY: Brandon Svendsen and his line have scored 58 percent of BG’s points.

culty finishing off opponents on Saturday nights. They beat then-No. 6 Michigan Friday night at Yost Arena two weeks ago, but were shut out 1-0 at the BGSU Ice Arena Saturday.

They followed that performance with a win over Lake Superior last Friday, but failed to stop the Laker attack last Saturday.

Paluch said he doesn’t know what the exact reason for the second night lapses are.

“It’s a stat that you don’t want to have,” Paluch said. “But I don’t know if I’d feel any better if it was always losing on Friday instead of Saturday.

“The one area that is moni-

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Track team set to host Tom Wright Classic

By Christopher Rambo Reporter

After making solid progress in their first two meets, the BG track team will look to take another step forward this weekend when they host the Tom Wright Classic.

The Falcons will welcome IPFW, Toledo, Notre Dame College and Tiffin to the Perry Field House with field events getting underway at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Unlike the first two competitions, this weekend’s meet will be non-scoring and will include both men and women track athletes.

According to coach Cami Wells, the new format has altered the way her squad had went about its preparations this week. “It [preparation] is a little different,� Wells said. “We will definitely be focused more this week on making small individual improvements rather than worrying about points. We will try and limit the number of events that some of our athletes are in.�

For the Falcons, Whitney Hartman will be gunning for her third consecutive first place finish in the weight throw, while Brittani McNeal, coming off a personal record set last week, will be attempt-

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THE FALCON FOOTBALL PICKS OF THE WEEK We’re mixing up the pick ‘em a little bit for the Super Bowl as we have invited some of the Falcon football players to make their picks.

They will be going against our sports editor. Check back in next Tuesday’s BG News for the complete results of this pick ‘em.

Ben Roethlisberger vs. Kurt Warner More passing yards

ANDREW HARNER

FREDDIE BARNES

TYLER SHEEHAN

CODY BASLER

Sports Editor

Wide Receiver

Quarterback

Linebacker

Big Ben isn’t known as a light ‘em up passing type. Kurt Warner throws balls downfield like a janitor throws away trash: often.

Kurt Warner

Warner will pass for more yards, because they don’t have that hefty of a run game.

Warner.

Kurt Warner

Kurt Warner

Roethlisberger is a young buck, whose ability to drive motorcycles is just as bad as his passing game.

Warner will win.

Kurt Warner

my drift ... Larry Fitzgerald will have more Fitzgerald.

Larry Fitzgerald “Catch�

Fitzgerald is the best receiver in receiving yards, even though he vs. Anquan Boldin football. will get a lot of attention from the secondary.

Larry Fitzgerald

More receiving yards

Larry Fitzgerald

Larry Fitzgerald

Reed.

Jeff Reed

I believe that Rackers will get more opportunities, while Reed will be sidelined for inexcusable behavior.

Neil Rackers

or not they win the toss, Pittsburgh will score first simply Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Whether the Steelers force a turnover and because they have experience vs. Arizona will score first on either offense in Super Bowls with the second

The Cardinals will draw first blood, the Steeler’s don’t like to score points.

Jeff Reed vs. Neil Rackers BEN LOHMAN | THE BG NEWS

SUCCESS: The track found success last week with a second place finish.

Most points kicking

“Things have been going very well in practice this week.�

First score

Cami Wells | Coach ing to make it two-in-a-row in the long jump. “Things have been going very well in practice this week,�

Wells said. “Everyone is working hard and looking forward to another chance to compete at home.�

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fact that they’re at home should completely level the playing field, if not tip it in their favor.

BG will enter the game with a second half, two things they will record of 10-9 (3-3 MAC).

For the Falcons to win, they’ll need to do to extend their win need to see continued success streak to three games.

On Wednesday, the Falcons from their big man Otis Polk. hosted Ball State, and picked Polk had arguably his best game up another impressive win. The of the season against Ball State Cardinals entered the game and will definitely need to perwith only one loss in confer- form well again if the Falcons ence play, but was outdone by are to win.

On Wednesday it was BG, who led the game from start announced that BG’s Marc to finish.

Now, BG travels to NIU, who Larson will undergo surgery to currently sit at 2-3 in conference repair a torn meniscus in his play. NIU has had their struggles knee. The severity of the tear in the weak MAC West, but the and the timetable for his return

Fitzgerald seems like a big time guy and will come out on top.

Who is Boldin?

Larry Fitzgerald Neil Rackers will be “racking� up I will have to say Reed will win the field goals. [Drum beats and the kicking battle. cymbal crash] Come on. No? No one?

Neil Rackers Jeff Reed

or defense.

Pittsburgh Steelers

most appearances at seven.

Pittsburgh Steelers

Pittsburgh Steelers

Arizona Cardinals

all big defensive names in this Pittsburgh will have the best Pittsburgh Of game, I will say there will not be a chance at a defensive TD. vs. Arizona defensive touchdown.

No.

There is going to be a defensive touchdown, there always is.

Defensive TD?

No

Yes

No

Yes

Coach Clawson, Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Arizona Cardinals.

Pittsburgh Dear I’m picking against your guy Tim Steelers will be Super Bowl vs. Arizona Hightower. Please don’t hate me. champions.

Who will win?

Overall record

Sincerely, Andrew Harner Pittsburgh Steelers Pittsburgh Steelers

Arizona Cardinals

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are still unknown, but what is certain is that BG will need Polk to step up and fill the void left by his fellow big man.

Chris Knight and Erik Marschall will also help fill the void.

The Falcons will also need Nate Miller to get back on track.

Miller, who had led the Falcons in scoring for three straight games, faltered against Ball State, shooting 2-for-8 from the field and finishing with seven points.

The men can climb back above .500 in conference play with a win, and the women can put their win percentage at .900.

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HOCKEY From Page 7 tored and could be a contributing factor is that we’ve really relied on one line a lot. That’s not a secret.�

He referred to the line of David Solway, Dan Sexton and Brandon Svendsen, who have accounted for 58 percent of the team’s points against conference opponents. “Kyle Page and Nick Bailen also play a lot. I don’t think their performance has slipped off on Saturday, but it’s something to watch for sure,� Paluch said.

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Tomlin has come a long way as NFL coach

By Dave Goldberg The Associated Press

TAMPA — A small group gathered for a closed-door meeting at NFL headquarters two years ago in December, as it had regularly since 2003. The topic: identifying minority candidates for coaching jobs.

The session was led, as always,

by Steelers owner Dan Rooney.

The hottest name during the discussions — Mike Tomlin.

Soon after, Tomlin was hired as Pittsburgh’s coach.

It was a classic case of the “Rooney Rule” in action, even if it wasn’t intended that way.

And on Sunday, Tomlin could deliver the ultimate reward to Rooney: A Super Bowl championship won by a black coach for a team owner whose very name has become synonymous with diversity hiring.

The Rooney Rule requires any team with a head coaching vacancy to interview at least one minority candidate. Tomlin is one of 11 black coaches hired in the NFL since the rule has been in place, finally addressing an embarrassing lack of diversity in America’s most popular sports league. There were two in 2002.

Tomlin credits his hiring to the Rooney Rule.

“I have no question it helped me get this job,” Tomlin said this week. “Anything that brings a group of people an opportunity is a policy worth having. But I also thought that eventually I’d get an opportunity, Rooney Rule or not.”

The rule was born after two lawyers, Cyrus Mehri and the late Johnnie Cochran Jr., threatened to sue the NFL in October 2002 if it didn’t open up more opportunities for minorities. Then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who had been pushing minority hiring for the 13 years he had been in office, immediately appointed Rooney to head a committee on the subject.

He was the perfect choice — a humble man who cares deeply about his team, the game and the people involved with it.

Now 76, Rooney eats daily in the cafeteria at the Steelers’ facility with the rest of the team’s employees — from players to secretaries.

CHARLIE RIEDEL | AP PHOTO

WINNER: Mike Tomlin shows off his 2009 NFL Coach of the Year award.

Politically, he’s to the left of most of the NFL’s conservative owners.

He endorsed Barack Obama during the Pennsylvania Democratic primary last April and campaigned for him and with him, notably in Steelers strongholds in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

At the Super Bowl, he has kept a low profile, preferring to talk to Pittsburgh reporters and others he knows. On media day, he walked the field, slightly hunched, wearing a windbreaker and brown pants with suspenders, a phalanx of cameras trailing him.

The son of the Steelers founder Art Rooney, he’s more comfortable working out of the public eye, as he did when Tagliabue put him on the diversity committee. Two months after his group got the assignment, they came up with the rule.

“It wasn’t as easy to get done as some people now seem to think it was,” Rooney said. “A lot of people thought the league was meddling in team business. We got comments like, ‘Why should you be involved in telling us who to hire?’”

But it has undeniably had an impact.

During the second half of this season, after Mike Singletary got the San Francisco 49ers job, there were seven black coaches — an all-time high. There are six now, with vacancies in Kansas City and

Oakland yet to be filled.

The current group includes Raheem Morris, who at just 32 was picked this month to lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

While the NFL hasn’t achieved the coaching diversity of other sports leagues — the NBA has had double-digit numbers of black coaches for a decade, Major League Baseball has nine black, Hispanic or Asian managers for 30 teams — the Rooney Rule seems to have inspired minority hires not only on the sidelines but in the front offices.

The rule does not apply to top executive hires, but the number of black general managers has increased from one in 2002 to five now. Just as important is the success of minority coaches and GMs: five of the six teams in the last three Super Bowls have had either black coaches or general managers.

The group includes Tomlin and general manager Rod Graves of the Arizona Cardinals, who will play the Steelers on Sunday; Jerry Reese, general manager of the New York Giants, who beat New England last year; recently retired Colts coach Tony Dungy; and Lovie Smith of Chicago. In 2007, the latter two were the first black coaches in a Super Bowl.

“To me, that’s remarkable,” Mehri said this week. “To go from a situation two decades ago when the only minorities in the NFL were on the field to having people of color in the forefront of all but one of the Super Bowl teams is the kind of progress we’ve never thought we’d get so quickly.”

Mehri, a Washington-based civil rights lawyer, has gone from being an outsider to an insider under the Rooney Rule.

Another participant is John Wooten, a guard for Cleveland and Washington from 1959-69 and chairman of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, an organization named after the man who in 1921 became the NFL’s first black head coach.

Pollard was a player-coach in an era where many teams were pickup squads that changed from week to week. He was an exception, however. By the 1930s, the NFL wouldn’t even sign black players, a practice that lasted until 1946, a year before Jackie Robinson integrated baseball.

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GET OUT THE RECORD BOOK: If Roger Federer wins the Australian Open, he will surpass Pete Sampras for most Grand Slam titles.

Federer closing in on Sampras’ record

By John Pye The Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — Andy Roddick was right there when Pete Sampras won his 14th Grand Slam title. And he was right there again when Roger Federer moved within one victory of matching Sampras’ record.

After a scorching day in which temperatures hit 111 degrees, Federer beat Roddick 6-2, 7-5, 7-5 in more manageable 91-degree heat yesterday night in the Australian Open semifinals.

The Swiss star will be playing in his 18th Grand Slam final but won’t know his opponent until tonight, when Spanish left-handers Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco meet in the other semifinal.

Federer will be going for a fourth Australian title. Serena Williams will be doing likewise, and also going for a 10th Grand Slam singles title. She ended the 15-match winning streak of Olympic champion Elena Dementieva, winning 6-3, 6-4 to set up a final against Olympic silver medalist Dinara Safina.

This was Federer’s seventh straight win over Roddick in a major and put his overall record in this matchup at 16-2. His loss to Roddick in Miami last year now seems like an aberration.

Roddick lost to Sampras in straight sets in the quarterfinals at the 2002 U.S. Open when he

was a 20-year-old emerging talent.

Sampras, then 31 and in his 52nd major, retired after beating Andre Agassi two matches later to win the U.S. Open.

Roddick won the next year at Flushing Meadows and held the No. 1 ranking in 2003. Federer was about to embark on an astonishing run.

“I think when Pete did it — I was a part of that one, too — everyone was saying how kind of lofty of an achievement it was,” Roddick said.

“I don’t know if we thought we would see it any time soon. Little did we know [Federer] was going to start it the next year and go after it.”

Roddick is 26, just more than a year younger than Federer.

“It’s like my childhood was Pete, and now it’s kind of my grown life is Roger,” he said. “I guess Roger is a contemporary of mine, which didn’t lessen the affect. I see Pete and Andre and I still get a little jittery. It’s crazy to think it’s come full circle and the magnitude of the numbers [Federer’s] accomplished, it’s pretty scary if you sit down and go through what it takes to accomplish that.”

Roddick lost 15 pounds during the offseason and started retooling parts of game with new coach Larry Stefanki so he’d be more competitive against Federer. Yet every time he gave himself half a chance, Federer shut him down.

“He just came up with shots

when he needed to,” Roddick said.

“That’s what he does.”

Serena Williams had little problems in her singles semifinal, then combined with sister Venus to win a doubles semifinal. They will play for the title today against Slovakia’s Daniela Hantuchova and Japan’s Ai Sugiyama.

Safina defeated fellow Russian Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 7-6 (4) to move into contention for her first major and the No. 1 ranking — two things her older brother, Marat Safin, achieved.

Federer’s focus has been increasingly sharp since he was forced to come back from two sets down to beat Tomas Berdych in the fourth round. In his quarterfinal, he convincingly took down No. 8-ranked Juan Martin del Potro, then did the same against Roddick.

This was the hottest January day in Melbourne in 70 years. By the time Federer and Roddick were on court in the evening, temperatures had dropped and the retractable roof was open.

Federer broke twice in the first set. Adding to Roddick’s frustration was a call that went against him as Federer served at 4-1, sparking a running discourse with chair umpire Enric Molina.

A tiebreaker loomed in the second set with Roddick serving at 5-5. That was until Federer upped the ante and won the last 12 points.

The pattern was repeated in the third.

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How To: play WAH

By Matt Liasse Pulse Reporter

For anyone gearing up to play WAH, make sure there are no neighbors near you attempting to study or do homework. In this game, you are not only required to scream loudly, but the excitement that stems from it may make you laugh uncontrollably, raise the volume in your voice higher and higher and force you to throw your

hands around in all different directions.

The history of the game is unknown, as is the game itself. But many people across the nation are getting attached to playing this game at parties or small gatherings. This game is a fun icebreaker for meeting people or a fun time with old friends. Just don’t let anyone too shy near the circle of people playing. It is sure to be out of their comfort zone.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED: ■ A group of people.

■ An area allowing lots of noise.

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■ When two players remain,

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there are two options the group can make: either both people are considered the winners, or “Rock, Paper, Scissors” decides who receives the title.

down to a winner.

This weekend at 8 p.m., plus an additional 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday at the Eva Marie Saint Theatre, a dance concert from the University Performing Dancers and other students majoring or minoring in dance will perform new choreography in modern dance and rhythm tap among others. Tickets are $12.

JANUARY 9, 1977 Oakland Raiders vs. Minnesota Vikings In the Middle: L.A. Unified All-City Band and Crowd Participation Now this seems pretty cool. What better way to unite a crowd than have a sing-a-long? The magnitude of thousands of people singing must have been pretty trippy, as much of the ‘70s would prove to be, but an innovative idea for a halftime show nonetheless.

BASIC RULES: ■ Gather a group of people (the bigger the better) into a circle

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with everyone’s palms pressed together, as if frozen after performing a clapping motion.

The game begins when one person (who is declared before the game starts) throwing his or her hands into the air while exclaiming, “Wah!” Next, the two players to the left and right sides of the person with their hands raised swing their hands horizontally toward the person’s waist as if they are slicing them with an imaginary sword. When doing this, the two are also supposed to exclaim, “Wah!” The person with their hands raised then aim their palmstouching hands toward another person in the circle, and step 3 is then repeated.

The game continues until a player hesitates and messes up the rhythm. The person who messes up or performs the wrong hand motions is then out of the game.

After someone gets out, the person who performed the last Wah starts again.

The game continues until there are only two people standing.

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THEY SAID IT “A word to the wise ain’t necessary. It’s the stupid ones who need the advice.”

—Bill Cosby

The grumbling non-sports fans saving grace has always been the glitz, the glamour and possibly the scandal surrounding the Super Bowl halftime show. Among the impressive commercials and sometimes-inspiring renditions of the national anthem, this year’s show always promises better than the year before.

This Sunday in Tampa, Fla., the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals will play as long as most Academy Award ceremonies go to secure the glory of the 2009 football season.

Since its birth in 1967, the halftime show has adapted to popular culture accordingly, moving from flashy marching bands to Motown to Mardi Gras to New Kids on the Block. From a purelyentertainment, celebrity-obsessed reporter’s opinion, a few of the most memorable in the last 42 years:

JANUARY 16, 1972 Dallas Cowboys vs. Miami Dolphins In the Middle: Carol Channing Theme: Mardi Gras An icon in her time, Channing, an Oscar-nominee as well as three-time Tony-winner, starred in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 20 years prior to her Super Bowl performance and established her place as an American icon.

At the tail end of the Vietnam War she was probably picked for her persona as an American sweetheart or pretty lady, but came first in the long line of entertainers to come.

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JANUARY 15, 1967 Kansas City Chiefs vs. Green Bay Packers In the Middle: University of Arizona and Michigan marching bands.

Perhaps there was a Super Bowl of its own between national college marching bands that year, as obviously the Arizona and Michigan marching bands are not local to Kansas City, Green Bay or the stadium where the game was played. The mystery of this union is still an open case. Either way, pretty traditional. A fun, classic American past time to get the bowl rolling.

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A walk through the court of the Crimson King

By Kyle Schmidlin Forum Editor

Of all the artists likely to be featured in an Influential Artist column, King Crimson will surely leave the greatest number of students scratching their head.

Without any hit singles to their name, very little chart success with their records and virtually no radio airplay, selecting King Crimson for a column like this may cause some to wonder how a band so few people are aware of could possibly rank among the most influential popular artists of all-time. Even the briefest sampling of their output will remove any uncertainties.

First, it’s important to define precisely what King Crimson is.

Founder Robert Fripp is the only member to be with the group from inception to the present. For the majority of the band’s history, no two consecutive records were made with the same lineup. Despite being the most wellknown vehicle of the music of Fripp (a man who could be entitled to a column like this of his own), it is impossible to pin down exactly what the King Crimson sound is.

In the late 1960s, an emerging musical scene was growing mainly out of Europe — progressive rock. Borrowing elements from many spheres of music, the prog groups began to create what is also sometimes called “art rock,” using more sophisticated arrangements than their peers and pushing pop music to its limits. But whereas the latter part of the 1970s saw the decline

of most prominent prog groups (Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant and Emerson, Lake and Palmer all either lost their way or fell apart completely), Fripp continued pushing King Crimson in exciting new directions.

The debut album, “In the Court of the Crimson King,” took the world by storm in 1969 with its mellotrons and symphonic sound. No less-prominent a figure than The Who’s Pete Townshend called the record “an uncanny masterpiece,” a phrase which now adorns the CD reissue. Right away, the opening “21st Century Schizoid Man” attacks the listener with a sonic assault that no amount of modern digitized distortion and effects-producing could ever hope to reproduce.

Greg Lake’s aggressive singing, the pounding, militaristic drum parts, Fripp’s manic guitar lines — the song is as close as anybody has ever come to recording pure carnage.

After 1971’s gorgeous “Islands,” Fripp took the group in an entirely different direction. Dropping pseudo-intellectual lyricist Pete Sinfeld and bringing in former Yes drummer Bill Bruford, Fripp embarked King Crimson on a journey that would take them far from their classical roots and into the realm of free-form jazz experimentation.

For the next three albums, improvisation and dissonance would dominate the sound.

They would run the gamut from the breathtaking (“Starless,” off the “Red” album, is possibly the band’s finest hour), to the beautiful (“The Night Watch,” about as

close as they ever came to a hit single), to the completely nonlistenable (“Fracture,” a noodling mess of an improvisation which is only redeemed after eight minutes of painful listening).

After 1974, Fripp put the band on hold, declaring it dead.

However, in 1980, after jamming with Bruford, Chapman Stick player Tony Levin and former Talking Heads associate Adrian Belew, Fripp decided to release the album “Discipline” under the King Crimson name. Here was a record unlike anything ever attempted by the band before, with elements of gamelan music (polyrhythmic and polyphonic music from Indonesia) and New Wave added to the mix of clean guitars and Belew’s almost singer-songwriter structures.

This group recorded three albums together, and the band was once again put on hold until 1995. At this point, Fripp put the group back together again, this time under the guise of the metallic onslaught of the Double Trio — two bass players, two drummers and two guitarists. They recorded “Thrak” and launched a successful tour, and the most recent incarnation released the almost purely metal “The Power to Believe” in 2003.

Such a prolific output of so many diverse musical motifs

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JANUARY 27, 1991 Buffalo Bills vs. New York Giants In the Middle: NKOTB Ah, finally a halftime show the present generation can remember sinking their cute 12-year-old teeth into. New Kids on the Block was experiencing a Beatle-mania of their own during this time and the producers gave those pop music junkies their much-needed fix of boys with bad haircuts in suits.

Little did the dads of those little girls know that a mere 15 years later those boys would turn into chubby, middle-aged, married men in suits still singing about fun in the sun with ‘tweens.

JANUARY 31, 1993 Buffalo Bills vs. Dallas Cowboys In the Middle: Michael Jackson with 3,500 local children Theme: Heal the World The obvious retrospective jokes about this halftime show will be left out of this timeline because Michael Jackson was a dancing-messiah, the likes of which has never been seen. After the Gulf War and to help charity efforts, Jackson healed the world, if only for an instant, in a family-friendly way with a giant globe in the center of the football stadium. A fun idea and still an optimistic world view with a giant budget in giant proportions.

JANUARY 25, 1998 Green Bay Packers vs. Denver Broncos In the Middle: BoyzIIMen, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, The Temptations, Queen Latifah.

What a sexy bowl. This performance was a salute to Motown’s 40th anniversary and it was too bad that Bobby Brown and his prerogative couldn’t have taken part in this salute to seduction. Also marking the introduction of rap music into halftime history. No Aerosmith, you don’t count as rap.

FEBRUARY 1, 2004 Carolina Panthers vs. New England Patriots In the Middle: Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, P. Diddy, Kid Rock, Nelly Who even remembers that P.Diddy or Nelly were there? Surely not America. The FCC and parents of young children everywhere revolted by boycotting the Super Bowl for a full year. Backlash toward the two stars, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson, was the best publicity that not even money can buy and a new buzzword entered the nation’s psyche: wardrobe malfunction. Now a phrase so cliché that it makes the humblest English 112 professor shudder at its utterance. And we got to see some partial nudity on network television. As awesomeness goes, it was pretty tit for tat.

This year Max Weinberg will leave his post on the Conan O’Brien show to join Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. I forget if he or John Mellencamp are supposed to be the “everyman” for America, but if Springsteen isn’t considered that, he should and will be from now on. With Democrats still licking the sweet taste of victory off of their fingers, Springsteen will bring it as the ultimate inoffensive all-American.

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The moment the album (which runs about 43 minutes in length) starts with a bang of brash guitars and playful lyrics. The opening track, the album title is derived from, “Wolves ■ Artist Name at Night” is a smooth/glossy taste ■ Grade | Bof what is to come which blends shades of bands like Jimmy Eat “I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child” World, Brand New, Placebo, the WHAT TONY KASMAR THINKS: After Decemberists and the Format. The years of trying to add gems to my band blends synth-stylings that collection of albums I have formumake the track a toe-tapping single. lated a way to expand my musical From there the band takes you on tastes, keep my collection fresh and a rhythmic and emotional rollerstill find something that can be a coaster that pays an homage to their catharsis. forefathers with occasional pauses Whether buying a couple albums for the introspective acoustic track at the local Finder’s Music or snag(‘Don’t Let Them See You Cry’ ging a deal on Amazon, I find that and ‘I Can Feel Your Pain’). A track picking up a few albums at a time is like ‘Sleeper 1972’ allows a listener a the best way to go about it. Many chance to dream of a more mature a time I find myself buying a disc sound, but do not let this fool you.

I know will become a staple on This four-man orchestra is at it’s my iPod and then taking a risk on best when the guitars and vocals are another. Often the latter album is a allowed to soar which is not lackrecommendation from friends and in ing on the album. Again, ‘I’m Like many instances proves to be better a Virgin Losing a Child’ is a solid than the safety pick. effort for a young band with many This would be the case of years of great music ahead of them.

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Add to this the almost inconceivable who’s-who of great musicians which have been members at one point or another, the wealth of diverse musicians who counted them as influences (all the way from Peter Gabriel to Kurt Cobain) and Fripp’s remarkable innovations to all forms of sound making, and King Crimson’s place in music history is as assured as Johann Sebastian Bach’s. Even the most amateur musicologists would do well to become familiar with the band’s output.

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Rourke gives takedown performance in Oscar- nominated flick, ‘The Wrestler’

By Aaron Helfferich Film Critic

We’ve seen countless films that are the product of their lead roles.

Typically featuring heart-wrenching stories about a character’s life struggle, these films tend to flood our theaters come award season due to the need for powerful lead actors.

Unlike the false attempts that simply seek Oscar gold, more rewarding stories spawn from the creative talent depicting their roles through fascinating realism. Today, it takes an imaginative director and a unique performer to tell stories like “The Wrestler.”

While the Academy Awards have already recognized “The Wrestler” with a nomination for Mickey Rourke as one of the best actors in a leading role, the film is first formed by the intriguing story of a riveting man. Rourke portrays a has-been professional wrestler who is trying to hold onto his fame and purpose in life. By frequenting local wrestling events at high school gymnasiums and spending his nights at a strip club, Randy “The Ram” Robinson fears he is losing sight of more important things when a doctor tells him he should no longer wrestle.

When director Darren Aronofsky hired down-and-out actor Mickey Rourke for the lead role of “The Wrestler,” his intentions couldn’t have been much clearer. There’s no better person to portray a character in search of redemption than an actor who clearly could use a boost himself. With a documentary-like cinematography that follows Rourke through nearly every scene, “The Wrestler” refines its story through the people within it.

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Marisa Tomei gives “The Wrestler” an endearing sense of compassion, even as she portrays, Cassidy; the exotic dancer that Randy garners much respect for.

When Randy calls upon Cassidy to help him piece together the gaps in his life, the action is not only ground-breaking for Randy but causes an eye-opening view on the meaning of relationships for Cassidy as well.

There is relentless power in actors like Rourke and Tomei. With an ability to evoke true human emotions out of characters that often transcend reality, the important message of “The Wrestler” is even more deserving of your full attention and wavering emotions.

1. Jason Mraz — “Butterfly” 2. Lady Gaga — “Just Dance” 3. Kelly Clarkson — “My Life Would Suck Without You” 4. Beyoncé — “Single Ladies [Put A Ring On It]” 5. Kevin Rudolf (featuring Lil Wayne) — “Let It Rock”

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Obama signs his first bill designed to eliminate pay discrimination

By Darlene Superville The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Declaring that ending pay disparity is not just a women’s issue, President Barack Obama signed legislation yesterday that gives workers more time to take their pay discrimination cases to court.

Lilly Ledbetter, the Alabama woman whose story was the impetus behind the new law, stood alongside Obama as he signed the first bill of his presidency. Also in the East Room of the White House were labor, women’s, civil rights advocates and members of Congress for whom the bill was a priority.

“Equal pay is by no means just a women’s issue, it’s a family issue,” Obama said. “And in this economy, when so many folks are already working harder for less and struggling to get by, the last thing they can afford is losing part of each month’s paycheck to simple and plain discrimination.”

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act effectively nullifies a 2007 Supreme Court decision that denied Ledbetter an opportu-

nity for redress.

Ledbetter, 70, has said she did not learn about the sizable discrepancy in pay between her and her male co-workers until near the end of her 19-year career at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Gadsden, Ala. She sued, but the high court said in a 54 decision that she missed her chance to bring the action.

The court said a person must file a discrimination claim within 180 days of a company’s initial decision to pay a worker less than another doing the same job.

Under the new law, each new discriminatory paycheck would extend the statute of limitations for an additional 180 days. That was the interpretation before the Supreme Court was asked to step in.

First lady Michelle Obama held a separate reception with Ledbetter in the State Dining Room just down the red-carpeted hallway from the earlier event. “She knew unfairness when she saw it, and was willing to do something about it because it was the right thing to do — plain and simple,” Mrs. Obama said.

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PAY DISCRIMINATION ACT: President Barack Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. With the president are, from left, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland and Lilly Ledbetter.

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CADIZ, Ky. — Storm-battered residents of several states hunkered down in frigid homes and shelters yesterday, expecting to spend at least a week without power and waiting in long lines to buy generators, firewood, groceries and bottled water.

Utility companies in Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Arkansas and West Virginia warned that the estimated 1.3 million people left in the dark by an ice storm wouldn’t have power back before Saturday at the earliest, and at worst, as late as mid-February.

Already, the situation was becoming dire for some communities in Kentucky, where the power outages crippled pumping stations and cut off access to water. Tracie and Jeff Augustinovich drove 15 miles from their home in the western Kentucky town of Rock Castle to buy groceries. Their home had very little running water,

and though they stocked up before the storm, they weren’t sure their supplies will last.

“We’re buying up anything that we can eat cold,” Tracie Augustinovich said.

For heat, the couple were using a kerosene heater loaned to them by a friend — at least until the fuel runs out. When it does, she said, they would go to a shelter.

At a Pep Boys in Louisville, Jason Breckinridge scored one of the last 5,500-watt generators for his elderly parents after putting his name on a waiting list.

“Man, this thing is huge,” he said as he wedged it in the back seat, “but we’ll find a way to get it out and get it hooked up.”

Utility crews found themselves up against roads blocked by ice-caked power lines, downed trees and other debris. Help from around the country was arriving in convoys to assist the states with the worst outages. But with so many homes and businesses in the dark the effort is still expected to take days, if not weeks.

SPRING EXPO is February 10th Are you ready?

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BG massage therapist needs model for handbook & video. 2-4 hrs/wk. $14/hr, female w/ reddish hair. Fit, engaging, confident. Photo a plus..

Send brief bio & contact info by Feb. 4th to myo-fit@myo-fit.com Bus Driver - PT 12 mnth position w/ beneifts. Will provide transportation for adults with mental retardation/developmental disabilities. Must have high school diploma or GED & CDL. Salary $9.00-$15.34/hour. Application packet may be obtained from: Wood County Board of MRDD, Ent. B 11160 E. Gypsy Lane Rd, BG. M-F, 8:00am-4:30pm. E.O.E Application deadline 2/4/09 @ 12pm.

Caregiver needed PT in home M-F in Perrysburg, educ. major pref.

Call 419-874-5156.

Alaska fears volcano eruption ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Mount Redoubt, a volcano 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, is rumbling and simmering, prompting geologists to warn that an eruption may be imminent.

Scientists from the Alaska Volcano Observatory have been monitoring activity round-theclock since the weekend.

Yesterday, the observatory said: “Seismicity remains above background and largely unchanged with several volcanic earthquakes occurring every hour.”

The last time the 10,197foot peak blew was during a five-month stretch starting in December 1989. It disrupted international air traffic and placed a layer of volcanic dust

throughout the Anchorage area.

Volcanoes in Alaska, including Redoubt, typically erupt explosively, shooting ash almost eight miles high. Volcanic ash features small, jagged pieces of rock and glass.

This differs from volcanoes in Hawaii, which usually have slow rolling lava ooze out.

The difference is gas trying to escape gets blocked, possibly by a lava dome or a viscous magma that increases the power from beneath, said observatory geologist Jennifer Adleman.

“Its pressure keeps building and building,” she said.

Depending on wind, the ash plume could be pushed straight at Anchorage, the state’s largest city.

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Earn extra $, students needed ASAP Earn up to $150 a day being a mystery shopper, no exp needed.

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3 BR apt, 443B N. Enterprise- $550, 2 BR house, 819 N. Summit- $400, 1 BR apt, 1112 Ridge- $350, 443 N. Enterprise efficiency- $250.

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426 E. Wooster, Lg. 1 Bdrm, avail. Fall 2009, $475/mo, utils incl.

Call 419-352-5882

Make up to $75 for online survey, student opinions needed. www.cashtospend.com THE SUMMER OF YOUR LIFE AT CAMP CANADENSIS! Sleep away camp in the Pocono Mtns seeks college students to enjoy the perfect balance of work & fun teaching athletics, water sports, outdoor adventure and the arts.

We will be on your campus in Feb. www.canadensis.com info@canadensis.com Call 800-832-8228.

3 BR house $825/mo w/ C/A, W/D, avail. 8/15/09.

3 efficiency apts, 1 three room $375 & 1 one room for $290 avail 5/15, Call 419-601-3225.

3 BR units, 1/yr lease, avail. May 09, 4th & 5th St. 2 BR apts, 1/yr lease, avail May or Aug 09, 4th St. Pets allowed.

Call 419-409-1110.

3/4 BR apt for rent, recently updated, small pets ok. 619 High St, BG. 3 or more unrelated OK. Call 419-308-3525.

For Rent **09-10 SY few remaining houses.

Large - 315 & 321 E. Merry, few 1st semester leases 09-10, 1-2 bedroom apts. cartyrentals.com, 419-353-0325. *AVAIL NOW 2 BR apts low as $449 see Cartyrentals.com or call 419-353-0325 9am-9pm 1 BR apt. $465/mo incl. util, close to BGSU, non-smker pref. Avail 5/1/09.

Call 419-352-2104.

1 female subleaser needed immed. thru May 09. 3 BR, 2 bath apt, 921 Thurstin Ave, $266.67/mo + util.

For more info, call 419-305-7969.

4 BR house avail. Aug-Aug lease, 302 N. Enterprise, close to campus.

Call 419-392-0920.

4 BR, one & 1/2 baths, washer/dryer, large deck, and garage.

Call 419-305-5987.

Avail. Aug 2009, 3 BR house, W/D, close to univ, 718 3rd St. - $650/mo.

127 Georgia Ave. A/C, D/W- $975/m.

218 Dill, A/C, W/D, D/W -$1000/mo.

220 Dill, W/D hookup, A/C and dishwasher- $725/mo.

606 5th St. W/D, A/C - $900/mo.

219 N. Enterprise - $1400/mo.

131 N. Church - $750/mo.

118 Clay St. W/D - $900/mo.

202 E. Merry, W/D, A/C, D/W -$1200 Call 419-308-2458

January/February SPECIAL 10% OFF monthly market rate Student Housing for 2009/2010

House w/ 6 BR, 2 baths & laundry, 916 Third St. Call 419-308-7955.

Houses & Apartments 12 month leases only S. Smith Contracting, LLC. 419-352-8917 - 532 Manville Ave. Office hours: 10-2, M-F www.bgapartments.com Retired teacher will rent rooms & share house, ideal for grad students or professors. Large older BG home, 4 BR s, 2 w/b fireplaces, wooded 1.5 lot, full use of kitchen, laundry, etc. $300/mo incl. util. Call 419-352-5523 Roommates needed to share house, $300 a month. 878 W. Wooster.

Avail. Jan. 09. Call 419-308-7596.

SHAMROCK STUDIOS: Studio apts avail, semester leases avail. Fully furnished. We provide all util, cable TV & high speed internet.

Call 419-354-0070 or visit www.shamrockbg.com

IVYWOOD APTS.

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710 Scott Hamilton 730 Scott Hamilton

Highland Management 1 & 2 BR apts. for 2009-2010.

Great locations/low sec. dep.

Call 419-354-6036, 9-3 M-F or www.bghighlandmgmt.com

1, 2, 3 bedrooms and up available!

Houses Available close to campus!

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Mid Am Management 641 Third #4 BG 352-4380

- Air Conditioning - 2 Full Baths - 3 Large Bedrooms - Garbage Disposal - Dishwasher - Walking Distance to Campus - Plenty of Parking - On Site Laundry Facility - Fully Furnished Apts.

- Microwaves (not available in Columbia Ct) - Fireplace In Many Units - 9 1/2 or 1 Year Leases

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