2009-08-26

THE BG NEWS Wednesday August 26, 2009 Volume 104, Issue 4

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A night for games Students enjoyed themselves at the Resident Student Association-sponsored Casino Night | Page 3

FORUM

Keep the health care debate reasonable Forum editor Kyle Schmidlin encourages students to check the facts on both sides of the issue of health care reform | Page 4

Journalism, PR should be separate University alumnus Mark Scheerer explains how the departments should resist combining forces | Page 4

Two injured in bus accident NATION

AP analysis: Bernanke is Obama’s safe choice at Fed

By Philip Elliott and Tom Raum The Associated Press

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the nation through the worst economic distress in decades in offering him a second four-year WASHINGTON — Giving Ben term on yesterday. In so doing, Bernanke a second term as Obama followed the pattern of Federal Reserve chairman was other recent presidents in reapthe politically safe course for a pointing a central bank chief president beset by multiple cri- first appointed by a predecessor ses and wanting no new battles. on grounds that he was doing a The decision also helped good job.

To do otherwise could have soothe jittery financial markets, while drawing applause across jeopardized the still-fragile recovery that Bernanke played a party lines.

President Barack Obama central role in engineering.

While other potential candicited the former Princeton economist’s role in navigating dates were considered, includ-

ing top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers, any choice other than Bernanke might well have roiled Wall Street and touched off a fierce political battle in Washington.

“He couldn’t have nominated anybody else. It would have been destructive to the financial markets and nobody would have ever understood it,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com.

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The newly formed Catholic worship organization, Veritas, aims to provide an inclusive environment for students of all beliefs and a forum for addressing and understanding issues of faith.

Veritas, which translates from Latin as “truth,” is the product of combining Creed on Campus, the Catholic Newman Club and various off-campus Catholic organizations. Additionally, the organization is affiliated with St. Thomas More University Parish.

Rob Howler, a senior who serves as one of

Health, Counseling centers become Center for Health RACHEL RADWANSKI | THE BG NEWS

Robiskie back with Browns

SPORTS

By Richard Chandler Reporter

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Freshman kicker Jerry Phillips illustrates how to properly kick a field goal | Page 7

PEOPLE ON THE STREET

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A KEEPER: President Barack Obama looks on after announcing he is keeping Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, left, to a second term yesterday during a news conference.

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An accident involving an Iowa State University bus and a car Monday sent two people to the hospital | Page 5

THE BAR: In this BG News file photo, a large island bar decorated with images from classic movies greets those who enter the renovated Cla-Zel. The Cla-Zel will now begin showing films that city residents won’t be able to see at other movie theaters.

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Brian Robiskie is on the playing staff instead of being the team’s ballboy | Page 8

Executive director of Health Services says change will help University to better aid students’ health

By Emily Tucker Reporter

Story by Matt Liasse | Reporter

The Cla-Zel’s ‘Brew & View’ gives city residents a chance to experience culture and discuss issues

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hen the Cla-Zel theater on North Main Street opens its doors tonight at 5 p.m., and for the many Wednesdays that follow, patrons can expect more than just a drink and a movie.

Brew & View, an event attempting to bring a unique movie experience to Bowling Green, will begin tonight.

The event is shooting to “provide a sense of culture” for the town of Bowling Green, said owner Ammar Mufleh, and will be an opportunity for people from the town and the University to “order [their] favorite beverage and view classic and independent films.”

When doors open at 5 p.m., the bar will be ready to serve any of its 50 different imported and specialty beers, and any wines and other drinks as well. The bar will also include a special deal called the “Cla-Zel Six Pack,” which allows customers to sample six different eight-ounce beers for a low price. At 7 p.m., movies will begin, during which guests may either watch from the theater room or from the bar if they prefer.

Different from other megaplexes in the area, Mufleh said the Brew & View at the Cla-Zel will center on movies that are not shown in many other venues. This is to fulfill one of Mufleh’s other goals for the event,

What would you do with one more day of summer?

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Two campus student health services have combined forces to become one unit for students.

On July 1, the Health Center and Counseling Center united to become the Center for Health.

Both centers were brought together and developed into one administrative unit.

“This is where a lot of universities are starting to go in terms of organization structure,” said Richard Sipp, executive director of Health Services.

The health services in the University want to be a community that strives to help students with any type of medical issue, Sipp said.

The Center for Health uses electronic health records. All of the students’ information is kept together so both centers have access to the same information and work as a team.

The centers are not changing the practice structures, but instead are trying to create interaction and see each student as “a whole person,” Sipp said.

Barbara Hoffman, associate director for Medical Services, said students will not notice the change, but both centers work internally to aid students.

Garrett Gilmer, associate and clinical direc-

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Israeli leader seeks compromise with U.S. on West Bank settlements

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A COLD ONE: Seniors Katelyn Bonko and Alyssa Schcegel grab a quick Starbucks treat in between class. The friends enjoyed their cold drinks yesterday afternoon outside of the Union.

in a deep Arab enmity to Israel that predates them.

Netanyahu’s remarks came LONDON — Israeli Prime in a briefing to reporters after Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a meeting with British Prime hopes to defuse an unusually Minister Gordon Brown durpublic spat with the United ing his four-day trip through States over West Bank settle- Europe. The subject of settlements when he meets with a ments is also sure to be raised at his meeting with German top U.S. envoy this morning.

Netanyahu said yesterday Chancellor Angela Merkel before his meeting with George tomorrow.

The steadily growing settleMitchell in London that he wants an agreement that allows ments in the West Bank, which Israel to proceed with some set- the Palestinians want for a tlement construction while at future state, are home to 300,000 the same time restarting peace Israelis, making an Israeli withdrawal more difficult. The territalks with the Palestinians.

But he also made clear he tory is home to some 2.5 million sees the spotlight on settleSee WEST BANK | Page 2 ments as unfair and insisted the Mideast conflict is rooted

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CLA-ZEL From Page 1

2:44 A.M.

“We’re using that thread that connects all of us — the thread of humanity.”

Ammar Mufleh | Cla-Zel owner

which is to raise awareness on issues depicted in the selected films in order to stimulate conversation amongst those who attend. Discussions will be held after each of the films during intermissions and will be led

by Derrick Jones, director of Film Program for the Cla-Zel, who also takes part in the film department at the University.

“We’re using that thread that connects all of us — the thread of humanity,” Mufleh said.

Mufleh got the idea after traveling to other places outside Bowling Green. After growing up in the area and studying at the University of Toledo, Mufleh has visited places such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

He said after visiting, he realized they all had an eclectic feel to their culture. With the Brew & View event, Mufleh said he is attempting to create the same entertainment opportunities that people in bigger cities have.

Mufleh said he would like to

create a “unique, educational experience.”

“I think this is a great idea for the town of BG,” junior Brandon Hines said. “It’s something different … and it’s unique.”

“When you get different people together they will bring their own ideas to the table, so there will be [diversity,]” Hines added.

The first film shown tonight will be a repeat of the first film ever shown at the Cla-Zel back in the 1920s — the 1926 silent film “Irene,” starring Colleen Moore.

The theater’s showing will also feature Michael Peskilis playing piano live that will accompany the 90-minute feature.

Other films being shown on the upcoming Wednesdays include the 2008 documentary “How Ohio Pulled It Off,” the 1937 “A Star Is Born,” the 2007 documentary “Movement (R)evolution Africa,” the 1968 horror flick “Night of the Living Dead,” and the 1960 classic “Little Shop of Horrors.”

According to a press release, the Cla-Zel is looking to share its history with the town, which is why they created the Brew & View, but Mufleh said Wednesday movie events are only the beginning. He said his long term goal is to have a ClaZel International Film Festival by the year 2011, and he is currently in talks with many different filmmakers from all over the world negotiating contracts which would allow him to show their films.

In addition to showing movies, the Cla-Zel is also attempting to make an impact in the music scene, with many different bands coming to perform in the next couple of months including the Greencards on Sept. 24, Ekoostik Hookah, the Recipe and Neko Case. According to Mufleh and co-worker Banan AlKilani, they are attempting to invite artists and bands that are not performing anywhere else in Ohio or Michigan.

Complainant reported $300 was taken from her apartment within the 600th block of 7th St.

HEALTH From Page 1

9:21 P.M.

tor of the Counseling Center, agreed with Hoffman.

“When a student comes to the Counseling Center they are still going to get the same care.

When they go to the Health Center they are still going to get the same care, but behind the scenes there may be more interaction,” Gilmer said.

Gilmer said the change will help communication between the Counseling Center and Health Center become stronger.

For example, a counselor and a physician dealing with the same student will work together and have access to the same records.

“Anything that we are trying to do is to help improve the student’s stay here at BGSU, help them stay and finish school, be successful while they are here,” Hoffman said.

Hoffman said students and the Center for Health will both benefit from the change. The communication between the Health Center and Counseling Center keeps the students’ personal information and needs organized. Students will have

no difficulty accessing care from both centers.

Both centers are located in separate buildings, but the plan is to possibly create one building for both units, Sipp said. It is unknown if and when the two centers will be under one roof.

Matthew Rush, 24, of Bowling Green, was cited for disorderly conduct when he was observed urinating at the corners of East Wooster and Enterprise Streets.

4:30 A.M. Cory Pennington, of Clinton, Ohio, and Joshua Diloreti, of Uniontown, Ohio, were cited for criminal mischief.

7:34 A.M.

Complainant reported an unknown subject had sprayed black spray paint at Bowling Green Junior High School. Damage valued at $2000.

8:52 A.M.

Complainant reported unknown subjects wrote various epithets, including “Daniel was Here” and “Chris was Here,” with marker on the inside of the potting shed at Simpson Park.

1:39 P.M.

Complainant reported unknown subject was kicking the door to their house within the 200th block of Manville Ave. The subject cracked the door frame, with damage estimated at $200.

2:18 P.M.

Jasmine Williams, 20, of Detroit, was arrested for littering on public property when she was observed throwing a straw wrapper outside her window while parked at the drive through at McDonald’s on East Wooster Street.

11:53 P.M.

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WEST BANK BERNANKE From Page 1 From Page 1 Palestinians.

The issue has come to overshadow Israel’s ties with the U.S and much of the international community since March, when Netanyahu took power with a hardline government and President Barack Obama indicated that years of reluctant U.S. tolerance for settlement construction had ended.

Netanyahu’s aides have been dropping optimistic hints in the past week, saying a compromise with the U.S. is growing closer and that peace talks could resume within two months, even floating the idea of a meeting between Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the U.N. General Assembly in New York next month. U.S. officials have also suggested an agreement is within reach.

Fed chairman,” said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.

Reconfirmation seems all but sure. White House officials feel certain that any vote of no Bernanke, 55, now faces the confidence in Bernanke would challenge of meeting the high come at much too high a politiexpectations from the White cal cost to lawmakers with the House — and the rest of the economy still in a fragile state.

Bernanke is recognized in country — to repair the battered economy. To keep inflation at academic circles as a leading bay, he also must tread care- scholar on the Great Depression, fully in unwinding hundreds of deemed a good area of expertise billions of dollars in Fed finan- given the current crisis.

Although his present term cial rescue programs once the doesn’t expire until early next recovery is under way.

The mild-mannered econo- year, Obama moved to end mist, who has taken some of the speculation percolating in boldest, costliest actions of any political circles and on Wall Federal Reserve chief, does not Street, announcing his decibring heavy political baggage to sion yesterday morning on the job, even though he served the Massachusetts island of briefly as chairman of President Martha’s Vineyard where the George W. Bush’s Council of president is vacationing with his family.

Economic Advisers.

“Ben approached a financial “I’m sure he hasn’t made all the right calls, but he doesn’t system on the verge of collapse have a political cell in his body, with calm and wisdom, with and that’s what you need in a bold action and out-of-the-box

Veritas’ coordinators, said the primary functions of these groups remains unchanged.

“We didn’t change the mission of the previous groups; we just brought them together under a single group to better serve the Catholic community,” Howler said.

The organization’s president, senior Jon Marc Grodi, said Veritas is more than simply a worship group.

“It’s also a place for people to learn about the faith, about what they believe and why they believe it,” Grodi said. “A lot of students haven’t had time to examine the faith or really think about it. We really want to offer these students authentic Catholic teaching.”

Though Veritas is explicitly Catholic in its religious practices, it is a group in which all students should feel comfortable, Grodi said.

“It’s a venue where students of other Christian denominations and even non-Christians should feel free to come and worship and discuss their beliefs,” Grodi said.

Veritas will hold a number of events throughout the year.

The organization will host weekly meetings on Thursday evenings at 8 p.m. in the second floor gallery of the McFall Center.

Howler, who coordinates the Thursday night events, said they will include prayer, praise and worship and reflection. Howler said the Thursday meetings will also include a speaker educated in the Catholic faith who will talk about faith and morals.

In addition to the weekly meetings, Veritas will also go on monthly service trips.

Senior Amanda Powell, who serves as the service coordinator for Veritas, said the trips will range from serving the elderly to helping the homeless and poor, and each will encompass a specific Catholic social teaching.

On Sept. 5, the organization will visit a migrant camp in Fostoria.

With a focus on service and information in addition to worship, Grodi said non-Catholics shouldn’t feel unwelcome to Veritas.

“We want people who are interested in worship or who just want information on the

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thinking that has helped put the brakes on our economic freefall,” said Obama, with Bernanke standing by his side. “Almost none of the decisions he or any of us made have been easy.”

The announcement’s timing also helped the White House divert attention from a pair of gloomy economic reports issued yesterday by the administration and Congressional Budget Office predicting a slow recovery and giant deficits for years to come.

First appointed chairman by Bush in early 2006, Bernanke has been widely praised by economists, and his reappointment was generally expected.

Still, there remained some uncertainty. Bernanke has been criticized by some lawmakers for not doing more to head off the crisis, and by others for doing too much to combat it with what some see as an overly accommodating monetary policy.

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WHAT A GAMBLE: RSA sponsored a Casino night for students in the Union last night. Students were given a ticket worth 5,000 imaginary dollars and were able to exchange it for chips inside.

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Blu and White week kicks off on campus at Harshman courts

By Lin Chafetz Reporter

Strollin’ on the Harshman basketball courts on Monday were members of the National Panhellenic Council Fraternities and Sororities to kick off Blu and White week.

Blu and White week is a week sponsored by Zeta Phi Beta and Phi Beta Sigma in order to interest new freshmen in Greek organizations. The week includes many events such as a pool party tonight at 6 p.m. in the Rec, a picnic co-hosted with the Black Student Union on Friday and a car wash at Huntington Bank on East Wooster Street on Saturday.

The week’s events are all spon-

sored by Zeta Phi Beta and Phi with Zeta Phi Beta, had visitBeta Sigma, who’s colors are ing members from Ohio State blue and white (or royal blue and University, including member pure white in the case of Zeta Prince Williams, a recent graduPhi Beta), and have been a long ate, come to the BGSU for Blu running tradition according to and White week.

“This is my second year comBrittney Ragin, member of Zeta ing to this event,” Williams said.

Phi Beta.

“I’ll bet you nobody here could “It’s just always a good show.”

The events this week also tell you how long it’s been going on for,” she said.

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“[Veritas is] also a place for people to learn about the faith, about what they believe and why they believe it.”

— Jon Marc Grodi, Veritas president, on the new Catholic organization on campus [see story, pg. 1].

PEOPLE ON THE STREET “Eat my mama’s food.”

JORDAN KONAH, Sophomore, Biology

What would you do with one more day of summer?

“Bask in the air conditioning that I will not have in Bowling Green.”

“Absolutely nothing unless I had to.”

JAMES McCANN, Junior, Communication

JULIE DeWOLF, Freshman, Undecided

LETTERTO THE EDITOR Why we shouldn’t have merged the departments of Journalism and P.R. Forty years ago this fall, when, as a rising senior at the University, I changed my major to journalism, that department’s talented faculty, among them Emil Dansker, Jim Gordon and Jay Black, affirmed my decision with their inspired teaching and made the additional year of classes it took to accumulate the required credits time and effort well-spent.

Back then, the journalism department was in the College of Business Administration, which rankled much of the faculty, I recall, because the role of the news media is to keep an independent check on the institutions of the private, as well as the public, sector of American society. This was rectified at some point, apparently, because the department, I see, is now in the College of Arts and Sciences.

It is with dismay that I read in the Spring edition of the Alumni Newsletter of the decision to create a “department of journalism and public relations.”

Two reasons were given in the article.

One was that “there has been confusion among prospective students about where to find PR at BGSU.” If that is indeed the case, I fear for a new generation of would-be public relations professionals who haven’t mastered navigating the Internet — or reading a course catalog — by the time they are graduated from high school.

The other reason was that “it also helps promote the importance of writing as an element of public relations.” In my career I’ve come across some public relations professionals who couldn’t write their way out of a paper bag, so far be it from me to stand in the way of anyone who desires to write well. In fact, I see where the College of Arts and Sciences offers a major in English/Creative Writing, which might be worth a looksee for PR students.

But for reasons that seem glaringly obvious to me, journalism and public relations do not belong under the same roof. The two disciplines work at cross purposes, quite simply.

Corporate spin and government propaganda are the ene-

mies of transparency and integrity and work all too often to the detriment of fair and accurate reporting. Yet at BGSU, somehow the PR curriculum hitched a ride when the J-School migrated to the College of Arts and Sciences.

The early 20th century British newspaper magnate Lord Northcliffe is not widely regarded as a paragon of the trade; he once called journalism “a profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.” Yet I find another of his quotes extremely pertinent: “News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”

Advertising, marketing and public relations all belong snuggled together in the College of Business Administration, in my opinion, and no amount of PR, however well-written, will convince me otherwise.

— Mark Scheerer, University alumnus Scheerer, who graduated in 1971, currently resides in New York City. Respond to him at thenews@bgnews.com.

Should students be paid for grades?

By Alicia Williams Daily Utah Chronicle (U-Wire)

It wasn’t so long ago that even some who desperately wanted to go to school couldn’t. Prejudices against individuals of certain genders, races and financial situations dictated the precious opportunity of attending. Things certainly have changed.

Now kids have to be bribed into attending school. With the increasingly popular pay-forperformance programs popping up all over the country, American students have gone from appreciation of education to an expectation of cash incentives to learn.

Programs range from encouraging student attendance to tardy control, tutoring and stressing good performance on standardized tests and Advanced Placement exams.

They target a wide variety of schools but primarily focus on low-income inner-city areas with predominately low college attendance. One idea is to pay students a monetary award for their hard work, and thereby promote good habits to create successful college students.

It’s hard to find fault in the theory. Other than the possibility that in doing so, we are creating a generation of students who will expect to be paid for every effort they make toward knowledge, there aren’t many negatives. Money in students’ pockets instead of money explic-

itly designated to a college is the newest form of scholarship. It doesn’t seem to matter if it’s the right thing to do, it only matters that it works.

According to a New York City program, Rewarding Achievement, or REACH, which pays students up to $1,000 for high scores on AP exams, the opportunity to increase the low number of black and Latino college students is worth the experiment.

“It’s a different type of scholarship,” said Edward Rodriguez, executive director of REACH. “The global nature of economic competition is one that requires our young people to be committed to their studies so that they can develop the skills to compete and participate in an economy that is totally different than yesteryear.”

The sad fact is that these program’s proponents believe money is the only way to promote that commitment. And so far, they are right. The REACH program began offering cash incentives to students at 31 high schools in New York City two years ago. According to Rodriguez, in 2009, those schools increased enrollment into AP courses by 25 percent, going from 2,843 students in 2007 to 3,561 in 2009. In addition, 1,385 of those students passed the AP exam — an increase of 20 percent from 2007, said Rodriguez.

More dramatically, the number of black and Latino students who

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passed increased 31 percent.

“It’s only an experiment, but we think the trend is only going to improve,” Rodriguez said.

“Kids taking AP courses have to put in the work, and so that’s why these financial incentives are not a giveaway. We are focusing kids on something that is important to them in a way that means something to them — 500 bucks means something to them. It’s worth the experiment.”

What exactly happened to people wanting to learn for the pure value of gaining knowledge? These programs are functioning successfully on the basis that money will motivate, and as such, they have no evidence of how long this theory will last or what the long-term consequences will be. Better yet, what will happen when these students go to college and have to perform just for the grade, just for the degree or just for the ambition of achieving a future career?

Unfortunately, cash incentives are working, and because they are, school districts all over the nation are jumping on the pay-for-performance bandwagon. Kids are being taught that monetary awards should be attached to everything they do: homework, tests, grades, attendance, learning, creating and achieving. Soon, nothing will be accomplished without a reward being offered. This could ultimately be the downfall of academia, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Hopefully, kids will still continue to learn for the love of knowledge, and not just learn enough to pass the test and say, “Show me the money.”

“Stay up all night, watch TV, eat a bunch of crap and go for a late night drive.”

FREDDY BITTNER, Freshman, Biology

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Keep the health care debate in the realm of the reasonable KYLE SCHMIDLIN FORUM EDITOR “Americans don’t want your socialized medicine.”

It’s a statement so riddled with falsity that the only reaction a sane person can have to it is confused stammering. I heard it Monday outside the Union.

Health care has become the primary concern of many Americans, and rightly so — it’s in shambles. But the debate has taken on interesting tones recently, exemplified by the town hall meetings we surely have all seen reported on cable news.

Take another look at the statement: “Americans don’t want your socialized medicine.”

It makes several bold assumptions with regard to public opinion, the president’s actual plan and the term “socialism” itself.

The first problem is the most pressing. Conservative talk show hosts such as Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have touted the statistic that more Americans disapprove of President Obama’s handling of health care than approve.

Were I asked the question, I would certainly agree with the majority. This doesn’t put me on the side of Beck and Hannity; rather, it puts me in league with the vast majority of Americans who do want reform — and probably, more reform than Obama is offering. (39 percent call for major reform and 21 percent call for a complete overhaul, according to a recent NBC News poll.)

Even in Massachusetts, so routinely cited as an example of a public health system in collapse, the majority favor Obama’s plan, according to a Rasmussen poll published Monday.

Frank Luntz, a Republican

strategist specializing in areas of public opinion, advised Republicans several months ago against rallying against health care reform, warning that it was too popular to simply stand in opposition.

Politico.com reports that Luntz advised Republicans to warn of a “Washington takeover” of health care. He suggested they warn people they’d have to stand in line with bureaucrats running health care.

Like Karl Rove before him, Luntz is offering Republicans the most viable way to communicate their ideas to the general population. And it is far too frequent that this general population regurgitates those talking points, sometimes verbatim.

This could account for the startling objections to the president’s plan, and the downright silly claims of “death panels” and “rationing of health care.”

The latter point is more interesting than the former, partly because the former is so easily dismissible but partly because “rationing of health care” is a real danger.

Republicans argue that under a government plan, only those individuals deemed most valuable to society would receive health care. Even if there were merit to this claim, it’s hardly any different from the current system of rationing. Only those with the necessary capital or position receive proper benefits, and even many who are covered find themselves scrambling to cover what the insurance companies will not.

Words are chosen very deliberately. The idea of the “death panel” is surely meant to evoke some kind of Nazi connotation, and comparing one’s political opposition to Hitler is hardly a new phenomenon.

Whether Republicans want to admit it or not, the town hall protesters are largely artificial.

Documents have emerged urging people to take precisely

some of the steps we have seen in town halls, and on FOX News, sometimes mere moments after saying “it’s a completely grassroots effort,” a host or a guest will say, “Yes, and we urge them to keep it up.”

Still, it would be inappropriate to charge everybody who opposes reform as being manipulated by somebody else.

I doubt the gentleman who spoke ill of the plan outside the Union was being ordered to do so — he genuinely believed what he said and probably has very real fears about health care.

Unfortunately, such fears are fostered largely by disinformation and propaganda.

Now, this brings up the question of “socialized medicine.”

Socialism now is about as useless a term as “Nazi” or “fascist.”

There are real definitions associated with each of these, but they are used now largely to just cast derision.

My biggest qualm with Obama’s plan is that it is not socialized medicine at all. In fact, it’s about as limp an improvement as one might imagine and he may have to compromise it even further.

Americans have an unrealistic fear of the term “socialism.”

I’d suggest to anybody who fears Obama’s plan as overly socialistic to look around their world at the boarded-up businesses, foreclosed homes, throngs of sick and lengthy unemployment lines and ask themselves how well capitalism has been working.

Something has got to be done about health care. Don’t allow irrational fears to shade the truth, and always check the information you hear, especially on cable news. The issue is one of vast importance, and is literally a matter of life and death for many.

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Two injured in Iowa State bus accident Monday afternoon

By Chris Potratz Iowa State Daily (U-Wire)

An accident involving an Iowa State University CyRide bus carrying 19 passengers and a small compact car sent two individuals to Mary Greeley Medical Center.

The incident occurred at approximately 3:30 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Sixth Street and University Boulevard.

Sheri Kyras, CyRide transit director, said both the driver of the bus, Karen Goodman, a fulltime CyRide employee, and the unidentified driver of the small white compact car, were transported to Mary Greeley. No passengers on the bus were sent to the hospital.

At press time, Irina Bassis, director of community relations with Mary Greeley Medical Center, said that information is not yet available regarding the condition of anyone involved in the accident.

The first of many deadlines required by the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (CARD) went into effect last Thursday.

Card companies must now give at least 45 days of warning of any policy changes to credit accounts. In addition, consumers must be given at least 21 days to pay their monthly statements and are now able to opt out of any interest rates and fee increases by canceling their accounts and paying their balances under the old terms of usage, according to creditcards.com.

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“Preliminary discussions with the driver indicate that she was watching the road and saw the car slowly veer across the center lane, and she tried to avoid the accident,” Kyras said. “And, talking with our supervisor on the scene, he said the bus tire was actually up on the curb trying to avoid the car. Again, it is all still under investigation, and we need to see what happened.”

Although Kyras said that no passengers of the bus were injured, she did note that after the accident, one passenger contacted CyRide to report that they later began to notice a headache.

Kyras added that CyRide has a good history of safe driving, saying, “The year before this, in the fiscal year of 2008, we had no accidents reported. Then this last year, we ended with five claims — which is a really good accident record, which is something we are pretty proud of.”

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included Monday’s Back to School Xplosion, an event meant to feature the NPHC Greeks and their strolls to music DJed by WFAL, and an open mic night in the Black Swamp Pub, said Ragin, who co-chaired the event.

“We throw this event for the new freshmen to get to know the Greeks,” she said.

Jimmy McLeod, a Phi Beta Sigma senior who co-chaired the Xplosion event with Ragin said he is looking forward to the upcoming events during the week.

“We’re really looking to give a place for people to belong,” he said. “This week helps to promote the Greeks and to promote Unity.”

NPHC Greek organizations are the traditionally AfricanAmerican fraternities and sororities on campus. The University has eight out of the coined “Divine Nine” represented, including Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Phi Alpha, Iota Phi Theta, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi along with Zeta Phi Beta and Phi Beta Sigma, the two sponsoring this week’s events.

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Students protest Iowa State coal plant; engineer says facility is efficient

Changes in credit card regulations may benefit students

By Rashah McChesney Iowa State Daily (U-Wire)

Kyras said the cause of the accident has yet to be determined, but early reports from those on the scene help to paint a clearer picture of what may have transpired.

“All we know right now was that it was a green route bus headed east-bound on Sixth Street, and there was a white car headed westbound on the same street, and they collided,” Kyras said. “We are still in the process of investigating exactly what went on, and we will be doing that for the next couple days by interviewing people who were on the bus and drivers, if we can. We will also be working with police to see exactly what went on and what we can do in the future.”

Kyras said that according to early reports, it appears that Goodman, the CyRide driver, was attempting to avoid the white compact car, which was drifting into the wrong lane. She said the conditions and cause of the acci-

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means drastic changes in how they obtain and use credit. Yet the deadline for companies to comply with parts of the law pertaining to students is not until February of 2010. Jon Drummond, corporate spokesperson for Discover, said his company does not anticipate making any major changes to their policies.

“We have the basic direction, but we’re waiting for the full interpretation of the law from the Fed.,” he said. “We haven’t marketed on campuses for more than three years, so we really don’t have to do anything with regard to that. We haven’t needed to go on campus like some of our competitors and offer free incentives.”

Walking by the Iowa State University Parks Library Monday afternoon, students were greeted with tents and signs welcoming them back to campus. But on the lawn across from the Hub, students were greeted by another message: “Watch your ash, ISU!” The slogan was part of a demonstration by the student environmental group ActivUs. The demonstration, made up of several students, a golden retriever and some painted signs, protested the ash disposal practices of Iowa State’s coal power plant.

The group plans to continue a campaign directed at the coal plant.

ActivUs, formerly known as Students for Iowa PIRG, wants to raise awareness about fly ash, a residual product of coal combus-

tion. Fly ash can contain radioactive elements such as uranium and thorium, as well as arsenic, boron, mercury and lead. The group took issue with the method of disposal used by the ISU power plant.

Currently, the fly ash is sent to the Basic Materials quarry in Waterloo, said Lindsey Wanderscheid, plant engineer at the coal plant. The potential problem lies in the fact that it is an unlined quarry. There are no federal standards pertaining to fly ash disposal, which allows states to regulate as they see fit. ActivUs member Graham Jordison, senior in political science, worries that this method of disposal could lead to contamination of the water supply. Cases of fly ash water contamination have been documented in Indiana, Maryland, Montana, Wisconsin and Virginia, according to an article in the Iowa Independent.

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Postal Service offers $15,000 buyouts to employees to cut costs

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could take the buyouts work in the mail processing facilities, the post office said.

The offer is open to those WASHINGTON — The Postal Service is offering $15,000 buy- eligible for retirement and outs to employees in an effort early retirement. It also to cut costs at a time when the includes employees in select post office is being buffeted by positions, such as retail the recession and the popular- clerks, distributors and mail ity of e-mail and electronic bill handlers who are willing to resign voluntarily. payment.

Letter carriers, who are in difUp to 30,000 employees could take the offer at a total ferent unions, weren’t offered cost of about $450 million, the the buyouts because the numagency said yesterday. The ber of addresses the post office post office said it could save must service is growing, Postal as much as $500 million in the Service spokeswoman Yvonne Yoerger said. “That’s not an area next two years.

The agency said it reached where we need reduction,� she an agreement on the buyout said.

The workers have to decide offer with the American Postal Workers Union and the National by Sept. 25.

Employees who take the offer Postal Mail Handlers Union.

The majority of those who would get paid $10,000 over the

months of October, November and December. They would get an additional $5,000 in October 2010.

The buyouts are part of a series of cost-saving efforts by the post office. A hiring freeze is also in place and management salaries have been frozen. The post office has also cut more than 100 million work hours since the fiscal year started last Oct. 1. It has stopped construction of new facilities and closed six district offices, along with other steps.

The Postal Service lost $2.4 billion from April through June, according to numbers released earlier this month. The agency has lost $4.7 billion so far this year and expects to be $7 billion in the red by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

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Consumer sentiment, home prices show signs of life Housing market shows first encouraging increase in three years, comforting buyers

By Christopher S. Rugaber The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Americans’ pessimism about the economy appears to be lifting, with consumer expectations for the next six months hitting their most positive point since the recession began.

The improvement stems partly from the housing market, as a national gauge of home prices yesterday posted its first quarterly increase in three years.

The consumer and housing reports, along with President Barack Obama’s reappointment of Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chief, sent the financial markets modestly higher. But economists warned that consumer confidence remains far below levels associated with a healthy economy and might not lead to the increased spending critical for a broad recovery. “People’s spending decisions depend more on whether they

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ON THE RISE: Shoppers move through the aisles at Kohl’s department store. Consumer sentiment rose more than expected in August.

have money in their pocket than on how they feel,� said Bill Cheney, chief economist at John Hancock Financial.

Still, Cheney and other economists said yesterday’s report on consumer sentiment was encouraging. The New Yorkbased Conference Board said its Consumer Confidence index rose to 54.1, from an upwardly revised 47.4 in July. That reading reversed two months of decline and easily beat analysts’ expectations.

Economists closely monitor confidence because consumer spending accounts for about

70 percent of U.S. economic activity. Consumer sentiment, fueled by signs the economy is stabilizing, has recovered a bit since hitting a record-low of 25.3 in February.

A reading of 90 indicates the economy is on solid footing; anything above 100 signals strong growth.

Consumers’ expectations for the economy over the next six months rose to 73.5 from 63.4 in July, the highest level since December 2007, when the recession began. The consumer confidence survey was sent to 5,000 households and had a cutoff date for responses of Aug. 18.

More consumers said they were likely to buy a home or a car within the next six months than said so in July’s survey. The outlook for jobs also improved, albeit from very low levels.

The housing sector received positive news, too. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller’s U.S. National Home Price Index rose 1.4 percent in the second quarter from the JanuaryMarch period, the first quarterly increase in three years. Home prices, though still down nearly 15 percent from last year, are at levels last seen in early 2003.

Government extends deadline for clunkers Inside the CIA’s thrownBy Ken Thomas and Stephen Manning The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Car dealers have a few more hours to get reimbursed for their Cash for Clunkers deals after the government extended the deadline for filing applications for the $3 billion government incentives into yesterday evening.

All sales under the program ended Monday evening. But after already pushing back the deadline to submit records for the car rebate deals to noon yesterday, the Transportation Department said the deadline would be extended to 8 p.m. EDT as the Web site set up to handle the program was taxed by dealers rushing to submit last minute claims.

Before the extension, all the paperwork was due to be submitted by Monday night, but an influx of submissions shut down the government’s computer filing system temporarily. That raised concern among dealers that they wouldn’t be repaid for the $3,500 or $4,500 per vehicle incentives, and prompted them to push for an extension.

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NEW CARS: Mariano Serrano holds Cash for Clunkers government paperwork on Monday, as he looks at the car he hopes to purchase with the help of the government program.

The government agreed to give dealers more time to provide the proper documentation and have ramped up staff to handle the onrush. Transportation officials said the computer system was up and running yesterday afternoon.

The National Automobile Dealers Association recommend-

ed that dealers e-mail claims to the Clunkers Web site, CARS. gov, to create a back up paper record in case they couldn’t get their deals in on time through the online submission process.

NADA also wants the government to extend the filing deadline to Aug. 31.

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president of the Washington-area Koons Automotive Companies dealer chain, said Koons employees weren’t able to access the claims system for about 45 minutes yesterday afternoon. That meant that five deals from one of Koons’ Toyota dealerships still couldn’t be filed. “It’s a waiting game every time you put a deal in. You cross your fingers and hope the site is up,�

Perdikis said.

Through early yesterday, dealers had submitted 665,000 vouchers totaling $2.77 billion. Many dealerships have worked overnight in recent days to submit each trade-in vehicle’s 13-page reimbursement application, including the title, proof of registration and proof of insurance.

Cash for Clunkers has been wildly successful in spurring newcar sales since it began in late July.

Consumers rushed to take advantage of rebates taken off the price of new cars in return for trading in older, less fuel efficient vehicles.

But dealers so far have only received a fraction of the reimbursement funds they are owed.

Through last Thursday, the most recent data available, the Transportation Department had reviewed and processed more than 150,000 reimbursement applications and approved just $140 million in payments to dealers. At the time, DOT had processed about 30 percent of all the applications they had received.

together patchwork interrogation program

By Matt Apuzzo and Pamela Hess The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — With just two weeks of training, or about half the time it takes to become a truck driver, the CIA certified its spies as interrogation experts after 9/11 and handed them the keys to the most coercive tactics in the agency’s arsenal.

It was a haphazard process, cobbled together in the months following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington by an agency that had never been in the interrogation business. The result was a patchwork program in which rules kept shifting and the goals often were unclear.

At times, the interrogators went too far, even beyond the wide latitude they were given under the Bush administration’s flexible guidelines, according to newly unclassified documents released Monday. Interrogators took the simulated drowning technique of waterboarding beyond what was authorized. Mock executions were held. Family members were threatened. There

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If it was a terrifying process for the detainees, it was a bureaucratic nightmare for the interrogators. Until 2003, the agency provided its interrogators with rules on a case-by-case basis, sometimes giving permission by e-mail or even orally from CIA headquarters.

Despite the lack of clarity, interrogators were required to sign documents saying they understood the rules and would comply with them. Yet they were given ample room to improvise and make decisions about how much humanity to show to terror detainees.

While former Vice President Dick Cheney said the interrogation program was run by “highly trained professionals who understand their obligations under the law,� the newly released documents suggest otherwise, at least in the early months.

The interrogators slapped prisoners, held a handgun to one’s head, used power drills to make threats and left men shackled and naked in frigid rooms until they cooperated. “How cold is cold?� one officer said in the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report released Monday. “How cold is life threatening?�

The CIA’s Counterterrorism Center began training interrogators in November 2002, two months after suspected terrorist Abu Zubaydah already had been repeatedly subjected to waterboarding.

But because the CIA had so little information about al-Qaida, CIA analysts could only speculate about what the detainees “should know,� hobbling the interrogators’ ability to ask meaningful questions and identify misleading or useful answers.

Some in the CIA correctly feared that the existence of the program would leak out someday.

Others worried they’d be identified by name in news stories. “One officer expressed concern that, one day, agency officers will wind up on some ‘wanted list’ to appear before the World Court for war crimes,� the inspector general wrote.

Another added, “Ten years from now we’re going to be sorry we’re doing this ... (but) it has to be done.�

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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HOW TO KICK A FIELD GOAL Freshman kicker Jerry Phillips gave us a step by step demonstration on how to kick a field goal after practice last week.

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MEN’S HOOPS James Erger joins the Falcons BG men’s basketball coach Louis Orr has announced that freshman James Erger will join the Falcons for the 2009-10 season. Erger, a 6foot-6 guard, was a two-time first team All-State selection for Princeton High School in Texas. He averaged 25.2 points and 7.0 rebounds a game while also excelling off the court, serving as his high school class president.

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THE STANCE “Me personally, I take about three steps straight back and then two steps to the left at a 90degree angle. You’re attacking the spot where the plant foot’s going to be. You’re taking off straight towards that. You don’t want to make a little snake or an S to get to the ball.”

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The List In honor of Jerry Phillips’ kicking lessons to The BG News, we’re taking a look at the top five special teams players in the MAC: 1. Ian McGarvey: Ball State’s junior kicker averaged 7.9 points per game last season. He was perfect on extra points and converted 76.2 percent of field goal attempts.

2. Mike Salerno: An AllMAC second team selection as a junior, Salerno had the conference’s longest field goal in 2008 of 52 yards.

Freshman kicker ready to show off his kicking skills for BG

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three points or capping off a Falcon touchdown with a PAT. “That’s just the nature of the position; those guys

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will be on the sideline for quite some time,” said co-special teams coach Adam Scheier. “Whether it’s going to be a field goal or an extra point he has to be ready.”

Phillips will have big shoes to fill after Sinisa Vrvilo converted 68 percent of his attempts the past two

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years, with only three of his misses coming from fewer

“The meat of the ball is halfway between the middle of the ball and the bottom nose. That’s the sweet spot, right on the seam. If you hit the ball on the seam, it causes the most compression on the ball and that’s when you’re going to get the best trajectory off your foot and through the uprights.”

then 40 yards.

He also converted on 98 of 100 extra point attempts, See PHILLIPS | Page 8

3. Antonio Brown: Central Michigan’s punt returner averaged 20.5 yards per return and took back a 75-yard return for a touchdown last season.

4. Andrew Aguila: A third-team All-MAC selection as a junior, Central Michigan’s kicker converted on 16 of his 21 field goal attempts in 2008, including a 48-yarder.

5. Eugene Harris: The Miami junior was fourth in the conference when he averaged 9.1 yards per return in 2008.

He was also the only returner to take two kicks back for touchdowns.

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“The idea is to hit the first bone on your foot, the hard top of it. You don’t want to hit the instep of your foot, you don’t want to hit too much on the outside of your foot and you want to avoid hitting your toes on the lower half of your foot or else you could push the ball to the right.”

“You have to graze the ground. You want to avoid kicking the ground, but you have to get as close to it as you can so you can get good height on the ball.”

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Robiskie back with Browns as player BEREA (AP) — Brian Robiskie still has to carry other players’ equipment off the Browns practice field, only now the pay is much better.

Robiskie is back with the Cleveland Browns. Sometimes it feels like he never left.

Drafted in the second round with the 36th overall pick in April’s draft, he grew up cheering for the Browns as the son of an assistant coach.

Terry Robiskie worked on the Browns’ staff from 2001-06, even serving as interim head coach for the final five games of the 2004 season following Butch Davis’ resignation. While his father was on staff, Brian Robiskie sometimes served as the team ballboy — while also setting records at Chagrin Falls High School and then Ohio State.

“It was strange walking into the building and not being a coach’s son, not being a ballboy, not being an assistant equipment guy,” Robiskie said. “Being a player was definitely a different feeling. But that’s been over for a while. I’ve gotten pretty used to what I’m doing now.”

Robiskie hasn’t given up all his old duties, since by tradition rookies carry veterans’ shoulder pads and helmets off the field. Robiskie doesn’t mind.

He’s focused on more important duties, such as battling fellow rookie receiver Mohamed Massaquoi, selected 14 picks after him in the second round.

Based on practice snaps, Massaquoi seems to hold a slight edge over Robiskie, although both rookies are behind veterans Braylon Edwards, Josh Cribbs and Mike Furrey.

TONY DEJAK | AP PHOTO

PRACTICE: Browns’ rookie wide reciever Brian Robiskie works out with an elastic resistance band at Browns’ training camp.

Massaquoi started at receiver against the Detroit Lions on Saturday in Cleveland’s second preseason game, but was back working with the second team during practice on Tuesday.

Robiskie and Massaquoi each had a 24-yard reception against the Lions.

With Donte’ Stallworth suspended for the season by the NFL, Cleveland is searching for a receiver to start opposite Edwards. So far, neither rookie has been able to supplant Cribbs, a special teams star who is getting his first real shot on offense this summer.

Browns coach Eric Mangini concedes Robiskie may have hit a wall during training camp, similar to how most rookies deal with their first tour of the NFL. “I think with rookies, they don’t hit the wall, the wall hits them,” Mangini said. “It’s a tough transition.”

Mangini recalled his first

year as a quality control coach with the New York Jets in 1997, when he was in charge of film breakdowns and complaining to his wife, Julie, that nothing was making sense.

“It’s a gigantic playbook and you’re studying every night,” Mangini said. “You think you’re relatively intelligent until you can’t pick it up as quickly as you hoped you would. I remember talking to Julie at night sometimes going, ‘I must be slow. I can’t pick this up as quickly as I thought I would.’ Then the clouds start to move away, the sun comes out and things make sense.”

Intelligence is a strength for both of the Browns’ rookie receivers. Robiskie was a twotime Academic All-American at Ohio State and a finalist for the Draddy Trophy, otherwise known as the academic Heisman. Massaquoi was an Academic All-SEC member at Georgia.

Mangini looked at the rookies’ notebooks last week and was particularly impressed with Massaquoi’s intricate notes.

“I like to go back and review and retain and put things in my own words so I can better understand how it relates to me,” Massaquoi said. “I like to put a more vivid description of what is being said. If somebody quotes something, I might not write it verbatim. I’ll write it how I understand it and how it relates to me. If they say, ‘Go to the stop sign and turn right,’ I’ll say, ‘Go to the stop sign this way and turn this way,’ so I can better conceptualize it.”

Robiskie left Ohio State in the top 10 in career receptions and receiving yards. Massaquoi’s 2,282 career receiving yards rank fourth all-time at Georgia, where he was catching passes from quarterback Matthew Stafford, the No. 1 overall pick in April.

“We’re both real competitive and we both push each other,” Robiskie said. “When you have two guys like that coming in together and playing the same position, it can only help one another. We don’t feel like we’re competing for one spot and trying to push each other out of the way. We know the better we both are, the better this team can be.”

Editor’s note: DT Shaun Rogers was held out of practice yesterday, but was hitting the sled and working on individual drills before returning to the stationary bike.

Rogers has been held out of both preseason games. The Browns signed DE Brian Schaefering on Tuesday and released WR Paul Raymond.

Santana to have elbow surgery, out for the season

By Ben Walker The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Johan Santana needs surgery for bone chips in his left elbow and the star pitcher is out for the season, the latest blow to a New York Mets team battered by injuries.

The team said their 30-yearold ace is expected to be ready for spring training next year.

The two-time Cy Young winner was examined yesterday by Mets medical director Dr. David Altchek in New York.

Mets general manager Omar Minaya said Santana was evalu-

ated around the All-Star break, adding the injury worsened in recent weeks, especially after his last start. The GM said “nothing major was there” during the previous checkup.

“It’s mostly soreness. It’s my understanding from the doctors there are bone chips,” Minaya said on a conference call.

“We all want to see Johan Santana pitching in September.

But this is a smart move because we want to see him pitching for the long haul,” he said.

The Mets had feared a major setback to Santana, who has four seasons left on his $137.5 million,

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Manager Jerry Manuel said Santana wanted to keep throwing, despite complaining of elbow soreness after his last outing, but the team decided to shut him down.

“He felt he could still pitch. He wanted to come on the plane and give it a shot,” Manuel said before yesterday night’s game at Florida. “When it gets to the point where he says something, then the red flags went up.”

Santana was put on the 15day disabled list and became the 12th Mets player on the DL, join-

ing David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes, Carlos Delgado, J.J. Putz, John Maine and others.

The development with Santana came on the same day that the fourth-place Mets traded reliever Billy Wagner to Boston for two players to be named. Lefty pitcher Pat Misch and first baseman-outfielder Nick Evans were recalled from Triple-A Buffalo.

What began for the Mets as a season with hopes of reaching the World Series has fallen apart, leaving them out of contention and wondering when the next injury will occur.

Akron names former Minnesota administator AD Tom AKRON (AP) — The University of Akron has appointed a top Wistrcill Minnesota sports administrator as Named athletic its new athletic director. director at Akron Akron President Luis Proenza yesterday introduced Tom Wistrcill at a news conference yesterday. He has been a senior associate athletic director at the University of Minnesota.

Wistrcill replaces former athProenza said Wistrcill’s Big Ten letic director Mack Rhoades, who experience would give Akron a left last month to become athspringboard to “even greater excel- letic director at the University of lence in all of our athletic programs.” Houston in Texas.

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PHILLIPS From Page 7 a skill set he has since brought to the Amarillo Dusters of the AFL2. “[Vrvilo] helped me mature a little and helped me get used to this whole new level of play,” Phillips said. “As far as technique wise, we kind of butted heads here and there. But, he obviously did pretty well, and I’m going to try and continue that.”

Despite employing a different technique then Vrvilo, Phillips enjoyed success at Clyde High School, where he made 64.71 percent of his kicks during a four-year career, also being named to the 2007 Division III All-State team.

The 6-foot-1, 206-pounder is a well-rounded kicker who was not only consistent, but also showed a strong right leg as he booted a career long 44-yarder twice while in high school.

That same right leg almost hampered Phillips’ chances of taking the field against Troy, as he suffered a right hamstring injury earlier in camp, but battled back to win the head-tohead battle with fellow freshman Matt Oczypok.

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According to coach Dave Clawson, Phillips’ job isn’t set in stone, but his progression from spring practices to training camp was one of the main reasons he’ll most likely be BG’s next kicker.

“This summer was good,” Scheier said. “He really improved his technique, and I think he came back to camp with a lot of confidence. That’s really showed in camp. He’s striking the ball well and is emerging as our number one guy.”

Falcon punter Nick Iovinelli is going through his third training camp and has helped the young kicker get used to the ins and outs of training camp — which can often be very lonely as a punter or kicker.

“Sometimes it’s hard to find stuff to do,” Iovinelli said.

“Some guys want to go out and kick and kick and kick, but you can’t do that because your legs get shot.”

Hopefully, for Phillips and the Falcons, the training camp experience will have paid off by the first time Clawson sends No. 48 out to try and convert a kick.

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Federal prisons and five states largely ban shackling pregnant women in prison.

U. S. seeks crackdown on drug smuggling aboard trains

Thousands of pounds of drugs arrive in the U.S. by freight train every year. Now the federal government says it’s time American rail companies cracked down on their Mexican business partners to keep the drugs from reaching the border.

Drugs shipped by rail still represent only a fraction of the drugs seized along the border. But the

By Christopher Sherman volume of illicit cargo is growing The Associated Press in some places.

Last year, customs officers in BROWNSVILLE, Texas — When Nogales, Ariz., seized more than rail cars idle on side tracks in 650 pounds of marijuana on three Mexico to be loaded with legiti- different trains in just one week.

In the previous six months, they mate cargo and shipped to the United States, drug smugglers had seized about 1 1/2 tons of scan for places to hide their own marijuana, compared with only loot — and if no good place is 367 pounds the year before. In Calexico, Calif., a particularly probapparent, they make one.

Marijuana and cocaine can be lematic crossing, 4 1/2 tons were concealed above rail car axles or seized between 2001 and 2006.

Smugglers have “been very behind false undercarriages made of plywood. Bolder smugglers opportunistic, and they have sometimes weld a false wall into very good intelligence,” said Scott a car or sabotage trains to stop Carns with Duos Technologies, a them and quickly stow their con- Florida company that has sold traband on board before the train security systems to railroads and moves on. Cars are then tagged the government for use on the with graffiti or other markings so border.

Because American rail compathe dealer in the U.S. can spot his nies have an ownership stake in delivery.

Drug smuggling by rail “is the two largest Mexican railroads, something that for years may have U.S. law enforcement is pressurgone under the radar,” said Mayor ing rail companies to crack down Chad Foster of Eagle Pass, which on smuggling.

If they do not comply, U.S. railis expected to become by next year the busiest rail crossing on roads risk massive fines. If the the U.S.-Mexico border. Creative railroads improve security, trains smugglers, he added, “don’t miss could get quicker border inspections. a stroke.”

Gov. David Paterson is expected to sign a law this week that would make New York the sixth state to do so.

“A woman giving birth to a child is hardly the first person that is going to be thinking of trying to escape or create any kind of problem,” the governor said last week.

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NEW YORK — For nearly four hours before she gave birth, Venita Pinckney had a chain wrapped around her swollen abdomen. Her ankles were shackled together and her hands were cuffed.

The 37-year-old was in a maximum-security prison for violating parole. An officer told her the use of restraints on pregnant inmates was “procedure.”

“I’m saying to myself, ‘I feel like a pregnant animal,’” said Pinckney, who was taken from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility to a hospital for the birth of her boy last year.

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41 killed in Afghan blast caused by vehicle bombs

By Noor Khan The Associated Press

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A cluster of vehicle bombs detonated simultaneously yesterday in the Taliban’s spiritual homeland near a foreign-owned construction company that had recently taken over a contract to build a road through an insurgent-held area. At least 41 people were killed, all civilians, officials said.

The thundering explosion occurred just after nightfall in a district that includes U.N. facilities and an Afghan intelligence office. The force of the blast shattered windows around the city and sent flames shooting into the sky.

So many houses and nearby buildings had collapsed that officials feared the death toll could rise further. At least 66 people were wounded, said Gen. Ghulam Ali Wahabat, a police commander in charge of southern Afghanistan.

“There was big smoke in the sky, and there were many dead bodies,” said Mohammad Ismail, a vegetable seller being treated at the hospital for leg and hand injuries from the blast. “Some of the wounded were crying out.”

It appeared the main target was the Japanese company that is involved in reconstruction efforts in the southern Afghan city. The company recently took

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CAR BOMBS: A wounded man is treated at a hospital after five car bombs detonated simultaneously in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

over a contract to build a road that insurgents had stalled for several months.

An intelligence office is about a quarter mile (400 meters) from the attack site and a U.N. office is located about a half mile (800 meters) away.

“The staff is good, everybody is safe,” said Samad Khaydarov, head of the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. “Our office, our guesthouses, are safe. ... Unfortunately, security is not so good in Kandahar.”

No one immediately claimed

responsibility for the attack.

The blast in the center of the city was one of the largest since the Taliban were expelled from the country in 2001. It destroyed about 40 shops, including restaurants and bakeries.

“Once again they’ve killed children, women, innocent Afghans.

They are not human. They are animals. You can see for yourself the destruction of this enemy,” said deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Sher Shah.

The exact mechanism of the bombing was still being determined.

Provincial council member Haji Agha Lalai said five vehicles filled with explosives detonated together, causing the massive blast. But Shah said the vehicles used were an oil tanker filled with explosives and two car bombs.

Kandahar is the spiritual home of the Taliban, and the militants have carried out several complex attacks here in the last several years. A large NATO base sits on Kandahar’s outskirts, but militants control districts immediately to the city’s west.

In other violence, a bomb blast killed four U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan yesterday, said military spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr.

Christine Sidenstricker. No other information was released pending the notification of family members.

Dutch teen in battle to sail solo globally

By Mike Corder The Associated Press

Halt the trip.

Judges at Utrecht District Court were to announce Friday whether THE HAGUE, Netherlands — they will scupper Laura’s recordThirteen-year-old Laura Dekker breaking plans. In the meantime, wants to become the youngest the legal battle has ignited a wideperson to sail solo around the ranging debate even in this tradiworld, and her parents think it’s a tionally seafaring nation about the role that parents should play in great idea.

But the Dutch Council for Child their children’s risky adventures.

The rat race to become a soProtection is so concerned about the dangers of the marathon voy- called “super child” — the youngage it has asked a court to grant it est to accomplish some grueling temporary custody of Laura so it feat — can be fueled by ambitious can do what her parents refuse to: parents, laser-focused children

with talent, or youngsters with a deep need to please or be praised, psychologists say.

Dutch social workers fear that could be an issue in Laura’s case, for she lives with her Dutch father who is divorced from her German mother.

“Laura has divorced parents and it is very normal for a child of this age to be very loyal to the parent (he or she) is living with,” Child Protection spokesman Richard Bakker said. “How much does she identify herself with her father, who is a good sailor?”

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South Korean satellite fails to launch Despite failure, attempted launch may antagonize rival North Korea

By Kwang-Tae Kim The Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s first rocket launch yesterday failed to push a satellite into its orbit but the flawed mission may still anger rival North Korea, coming just months after the communist nation’s own launch drew international condemnation.

The failure dealt a blow to Seoul’s quest to become a regional space power. It comes against the complex backdrop of relations on the Korean peninsula — and recent signs that months of heightened tension over the North’s nuclear program may be easing.

Also yesterday, a South Korean newspaper reported that North Korea has invited top envoys of President Barack Obama for the first nuclear negotiations between the two countries under his presidency, but Washington quickly said it has no plans to send the envoys to Pyongyang.

The North gave no immediate reaction to the rocket launch but has said it will watch to see

if the U.S. and regional powers refer the matter to the U.N. Security Council — which in June approved sanctions on the North over its recent nuclear and missile tests.

The two-stage Naro rocket, whose first stage was designed

by Russia, was South Korea’s first launch of a rocket from its own territory. It lifted off yesterday from South Korea’s space center on Oenaro Island, about 290 miles (465 kilometers) south of Seoul.

The rocket was carrying a domestically built satellite aimed at observing the atmosphere and oceans. A South Korean official said they could not trace the satellite in orbit after it separated from the rocket.

“We could not locate our satellite. It seems that communications with the satellite scheduled for today are unlikely to happen,” Science Ministry official Yum Kisoo told The Associated Press late yesterday.

He said more details could be available today as South Korean and Russian scientists were analyzing data to try to determine

the cause of the failure.

Russia’s Interfax-AVN news agency, citing an unidentified Russian space industry source, said the satellite never reached orbit and problems occurred in the South Korean-built second stage of the rocket.

In Moscow, an official at the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, declined to comment on the report that the satellite did not enter any orbit or say anything about what happened to it.

In joint statements, Roscosmos and the state-controlled Khrunichev company, which made the rocket’s first stage, said that the first stage operated as planned.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called the launch a “half success.”

“We must further strive to realize the dream of becoming a space power,” Lee said, according to his office. Among Asian countries, China has conducted a manned space flight, and Japan and India have also sent rockets carrying satellites into space.

Top reformist confesses in Iranian trial

By Ali Akbar Dareini The Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Saeed Hajjarian was a die-hard hero of Iran’s reform movement, campaigning to reduce the power of the Islamic clerics even after being shot in the head in an assassination attempt that left him partially paralyzed.

Yesterday, he was brought into a courtroom propped up by men who put him in the front row of defendants in Iran’s biggest political trial in decades, where he proceeded to renounce his entire career as a reformist.

His speech slurred and nearly unintelligible from the 2000 attack, Hajjarian had a statement read proclaiming that Iran’s supreme leader represents the rule of God on Earth

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IN TRIAL: The leader of the biggest Iranian reformist party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front, Mohsen Mirdamadi, center, sits between two police officers, during the trial of dozens of opposition activists and protesters in a Tehran Revolutionary Court.

and asking for forgiveness for his “incorrect” ideas.

The stunning confession was among the most dramatic in the trial of more than 100 reform leaders and protesters

arrested in Iran’s post-election crackdown — testimony the opposition says was coerced by threats and mistreatment during weeks of solitary confinement.

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