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University students connect on film project

By Ella Fowler Reporter

It is not very often one can say they had a hand in fulfilling their dream over the summer, but some University students had just that opportunity last month.

A common connection through BGSU landed a faculty member, eight University students and many recent University graduates roles on the independent film called “Closed for the Season.”

“We were looking to give Bowling Green students some great firsthand experience on an actual feature film,” said Beth Rypel, unit production manager for the film.

“The kind of experience you don’t necessarily get in a classroom environment.”

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It’s not Frisbee, and it’s not golf.

It’s not even Frisbee golf.

And although Frisbees could be used at the disc golf course, senior Matt Holland doesn’t recommend them.

Official discs are “smaller and heavier,” Holland said.

“It’s kind of a harder plastic.”

Their weight and shape helps them go farther, and they are less affected by the wind.

“The wind is kind of a hindrance,” Holland said. “And you know, being in BG it gets kind of ridiculous.”

Originally hailing from the Cleveland area, Holland was never really introduced to disc golf until he came to Bowling Green.

There was a course in Medina, he said, a 30 minute drive away. But here, Carter Park is close by.

The history of the course at Carter Park is short and uncomplicated.

“Basically it was just put in to meet a need in the community,” said Kristin Otley, Bowling Green’s Recreation Coordinator. “It gets pretty heavy use.”

The game rules are fairly consistent with golf: an 18-hole course with each toss counted as a stroke.

Instead of holes, the targets are baskets on poles. Chains hang above the basket, to help guide the disc inside. Discs hit the chains and drop into the basket below.

“The folks that really get into it have different size discs for each hole,” Otley said, but specialty discs aren’t a requirement.

Senior Adam Clark, another disc golf player, listed some of the different discs.

There are drivers, putters and mid-ranges as well as spe-

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The producers called Jose Cardenas, a University faculty member and professor in the telecommunications department, to be the director of cinematography.

“I have a very close connection with the producer and the director, so they called me up and they said,

the internship positions available through the film department’s listproc via e-mail,” said Chris Bushman, a University junior and intern on the film.

Other interns, Joe Cunningham and Colleen Mleziva, found out about the film the same way.

Past University graduates got the opportunity to work on the film through Cardenas.

“It all goes back to who you know,” Cardenas said. “I knew them because they went to school here, they were good students here and they did good work here.”

With an established crew, well more then half affiliated with BGSU, the production team then

Disc golf gives students a new reason to go outdoors

The drinking age: 21 or 18

Where do you go when you’ve just gotta dance?

In an effort to give students the opportunity of a lifetime, Rypel and fellow producers Jon Wagner and Jay Ellison set out to find interns. And they knew where to look because they all shared a common element: they graduated from the University.

‘I really want you to shoot this,’” Cardenas said. “My first student was Jay Ellison who went on to graduate and move to L.A. to form his own company Shadowcast pictures, and he is the one producing this picture.”

Cardenas added with a laugh, “He [Jay Ellison] went from a former student to my current boss.”

The production needed students in a range of different jobs, Rypel said. So, through Cardenas and the film department, the producers began to gather past University graduates and current students to work on the film.

“Professor Williams had received some information from BGSU alumni who worked for Shadowcast pictures and he proceeded to forward the notice of

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FORE!: Freshman Andy Wilhelm tosses a putter disc towards a goal basket during a game of disc golf at Carter Park.

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AIMING FOR THE GOAL: Senion Kevin Krutch throws a putter disc towards the goal during a game of disc golf at Carter Park.

New club The Beat adds new vibe to LGBT community celebrates old Bowling Green Hotel downtown second annual Big Gay Picnic

By Miranda Rohde Reporter

By Jessica Kopp Reporter

The owners of CB CB’s Apparel are expanding their business and breaking into the Bowling Green club scene.

Little more than a year after opening their clothing store on East Wooster Street, Conell and Chelsea Benton have expanded the CB CB’s brand with the opening of the CB’s The Beat, a new club on Main Street which had it’s grand opening last weekend.

“I’ve been in the industry for awhile, worked in major department stores, and now I am fortunate enough to come back home, and open my own bar,” Conell Benton said.

The bar is split up into two separate rooms. The bigger room includes a lounge, with a couple of couches and chairs, the dance floor, and then the bar area. In the other room there is a slightly different vibe. This room is meant for requested styles of music, and live performances.

The room, which can be rented out for private parties for official organizations, was part of an old Bowling Green Hotel. One can walk into the “lounge room” and see the old staircase, check-in desk, and other objects that are visible in an original hotel. Conell Benton decided to take advantage of those old antiques, and make

Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual and transgender students often feel left out from their broader community. But yesterday they were given a chance to meet, greet and eat barbeque.

This was the second year for the Big Gay Picnic organized by Annie Russell, a graduate student for the University’s LGBT Programs and Services.

“Last year we had 125 people, which was amazing,” Russell said before the picnic began.

“I’m hoping we hit that mark and more.”

Russell wants to encourage people to get out and meet each other.

“The broad focus is to provide an introduction to faculty and staff to programs that are ongoing, and getting an opportunity to socialize, whether you’re gay and just trying to meet new people, or an ally,” she said.

The atmosphere of the picnic was very casual, with several large round tables set up on the second floor of the Union. There was a welcome table set up with books, movies and magazines, all relating to the LGBT cause and community. Buffet tables set to one side of the room were filled with hamburgers, hot dogs, potato chips and soda.

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GONE CLUBBIN’: Conell Benton, owner of The Beat, which recently had its grand opening.

use of them. So what used to be the check-in desk is now a small bar area, where customers can get premium beers.

“I like the bar, especially the lounge room because it was different from every other bar in Bowling Green,” said Tim Naidia, who present on opening night.

The owners hope their bar will not only appeal to the typical crowd of college students, but to a broader group of club goers.

“Every bar will have the normal college students, but we’ve had some professional, mature friends of ours come in and relax from the

long week,” said Conell Benton. He said that with the urban style, and the variety of music, one would agree that this bar is welcoming to all people.

The Benton’s are very excited about this new project, and are ready to take on the challenges.

Conell Benton said, “It is very competitive, but we have been fortunate enough to have a lot of support from the community.”

Throughout the week, The Beat has different theme nights. Monday

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“Our organizations are here to help educate, support and provide.”

Alete Robison | Transcendence Pres.

People began arriving a few minutes before the 4 p.m. start time and helped themselves to the food and drinks.

Conversation and music could be heard within minutes.

Members of the two on-campus LGBT groups were also present to support their organizations and help support the community at large.

Alete Robison, the president of Transcendence, spoke about the importance of these two groups.

“Our organizations are here to help educate, support and provide. People who are LGBT are always going to feel out of place,” Robison said. “Until they can accept themselves, they can find comfort from the BGSU LGBT groups.”

Mark James, the historian for Vision, shared his sentiments.

“We feel we should support the community,” he said.

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moved on to begin filming in an abandoned amusement park called Chippewa Lake Park near Medina, Ohio.

“That park was horribly creepy at night,” Bushman said.

“It was a very interesting set for this movie. I hope they were able to catch the creepiness of that park.”

Jay Woelfel, writer and director of “Closed for the Season,” based the screenplay on the myths and legends surrounding the park, Rypel said.

Complaint reported somebody stole the parking decal from his Mustang convertible.

2:17 P.M.

Complaint reported somebody took a leather couch from a lounge in Kreischer Darrow.

4:01 P.M.

Complaint reported somebody stole a BMX bike from Founders Courtyard. The bike is valued at approximately $230.

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Complainant reported somebody stole a BMX bike from Founders bike rack. The bike is valued at approximately $1,200.

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Stephen A. Burton, 32, of Fremont, was cited for possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and OVI. 1:30 A.M.

Nicholas E. Foster, 20, of Bowling Green, was arrested for underage under the influence, criminal trespassing, carrying a concealed weapon and receiving stolen property, and Ryan D. Corbin, 18, of Findlay, was arrested for underage under the influence, criminal trespassing and obstructing official business.

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PICNIC From Page 1 “I came for the food and a nice big dose of queerness.”

Jen Dietsch | Super Queer Several of the students in attendance hoped to gain support and interest for some groups that have yet to be formed on campus. Adrienne Hill, a second year graduate student, was at the event to reach out to other graduate students.

“There wasn’t a grad student group last year, and I wanted to help get that off the ground. I don’t really have a specific agenda, but one thing grad students deal with is alienation, particularly queer grad students; and I think that for us to be in any way effective we have to know each other and end that alienation,” she said.

One of the most notable attendees at the event was Jen Dietsch, the “secret identity” of Super Queer, a queer super hero who can often be seen around campus in a rainbow flag, cape and a mask.

“I came for the food and a nice big dose of queerness,” she said.

DISC From Page 1 “It’s a growing sport right now. I can see more and more ... start to play.”

“That is kind of like my dream working in that environment and I got to learn a lot.”

Joe Cunningham | Intern Because the producers chose University students as interns, Cunningham, Mleziva, Bushman and the other interns got firsthand experience in their future career.

“It was my first experience on a major film set,” said Cunningham, a senior film production major.

“That is kind of like my dream working in that environment and I got to learn a lot.”

Overall, choosing University interns gave students an opportunity they might not have had otherwise.

“They could have gone to another university and put out a huge casting call for interns in another general area,” Mleziva, who hopes to be a cinematographer someday, said. “But I think

allowing BG interns to pick up this internship first is a real great opportunity for students because being in Ohio you don’t see a lot of internships for film.”

Cardenas agreed, saying that because the production was so small, students “had the opportunity to jump into the deep end and gain a lot of first-hand experience.”

Also, seeing fellow University graduates gave hope to the interns that they too can succeed in film.

“To see a bunch of BG alumni living out the dream that the interns have was really cool,” Mleziva said.

“And getting to learn from them and knowing that they graduated from BG was awesome.”

The experience also showed students a lot about themselves.

“Because of the long days and working with other people with that intense of an experience the first time, you also learn a lot about yourself,” Cardenas said. “Being a small crew not everyone had a lot of experience and you very quickly become relied upon.”

But for Cunningham, Mleziva and Busham the involvement on

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JUST STANDING AROUND: University alumni and students celebrate their collaboration and chance to live out their dream.

the film fueled their desire and dream to see their name in the credits of future films.

“I think about that stuff all the time,” Mleziva said. “Just going to a regular movie and seeing cinematographer I would imagine my name in the credits and think ‘Oh

my God how cool is that?’”

Cunningham added, that it is a dream come true to see his name in the credits and sure it isn’t directed by, well at least not yet.

For more information about the film log onto www.shadowcastpictures.com.

Matt Holland | Senior cialty discs used for hooks or curves around trees.

He knows people who have 15 discs, each one for a specific situation, and he knows people who have only one multi-purpose disc.

Eight to 12 dollars, Clark said, could buy one disc and an “unlimited amount of time and enjoyment.”

Locals are taking advantage.

On a good day, Clark has seen families with children out as well as senior citizens.

“It’s a growing sport right now,” Holland said. “I can see more and more people start to play.”

It helps that the course is free, and open as long as the park is open. Essentially, Otley said, the park is open from dawn to dusk.

“That’s what’s very enjoyable about the sport,” Clark said. “The only real expenditure you have is discs.”

No current teams or leagues are in place at the course at Bowling Green, although it does host the occasional tournament. But it is far from the only course in the area.

Toledo has a course by UT, and another is in Findlay.

As far as the potential for growth, Clark believes the sport will simply remain consistent for the next few years.

“There is professional disc golf out there currently,” Clark said. “There’s guys that can toss discs 800 ft.”

Just not really in this part of Ohio, he added.

No matter how popular the game is, though, Clark and Holland will continue to play.

One of the best parts remains, to Holland, the sound the disc makes against the chain.

“It’s gratifying once it hits the chain,” Holland said. “Ching!”

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BEAT From Page 1 will be ‘80’s night, poetry night will be held on Tuesday, and following will be jazz night, on Wednesday.

However that’s not all the Bentons have planned. In the future, The Beat will be serving food from 3 p.m. until 8 p.m., hosting Art Shows, and having a Wine Bar. The bar, which is currently open from 8 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday, had a very successful opening weekend, and if looking for a different type of bar, with a New York style and an Urban flare, one should check out CB’s The Beat.

“We wanted to open a place up with class, an eclectic style of music and an experience that would reach all age groups. We want a place where people enjoy coming and want to return,” Conell Benton said. “We want to be accommodatENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS ing to all people, for them to feel comfortable, and to leave with an ON THE INSIDE: The Beat incorporates features of the old Bowling Green Hotel into its design as well as introducing New York style and urban flair. experience.”

Palin plays Republican party’s ‘greatest hits’

By Sara Kugler The Associated Press

LEBANON, Ohio — John McCain took a risk in picking little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate, but now the campaign’s playing it safer. She’s sticking to a greatest hits version of her convention speech on the campaign trail and steering clear of questions until she’s comfortable enough for a hand-picked interviewer later this week.

More than 40 million people tuned in last week to listen to the speech from Palin, the 44year-old first-term governor whom McCain announced as his surprise vice presidential pick just days before. Since then, that basic script is all anyone has heard from her publicly, and her only interaction with the media was a brief conversation with a small group of reporters on her plane Monday — off the record at her handlers’ insistence.

Associated Press reporters were not on the plane, but an aide told the journalists on board that all Palin flights would be off the record unless the media were told otherwise.

At least one reporter objected.

Two people on the flight said the Palins greeted the media and they chatted about who had been to Alaska, but little else was said.

By comparison, her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, has been campaigning on his own for weeks, at times taking questions from audiences. He was interviewed on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.

His campaign appearances have touched on a range of issues — in Florida he talked about U.S. support for Israel, in Pennsylvania it was economics and tax policy.

Amid growing sniping from Democrats, the McCain campaign announced that Palin would sit down for her first interview, with ABC. It will take place over two days at her home in Alaska.

And then?

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis has said that Palin will “agree to an interview when we think it’s time and when she feels comfortable doing it.”

“She’s not scared to answer questions,” Davis said on “Fox News Sunday.”

So far, Palin has barely spoken with voters either. Since the con-

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MCCAIN PALIN 2008: Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, signs autographs as she enters a campaign rally in Lebanon, Ohio, yesterday.

vention, she and McCain have breezed through a Wisconsin ice cream shop, a New Mexico restaurant and a Missouri barbecue place, shaking hands with diners but not taking any questions. Photographers and television cameras have been

allowed full view while reporters are typically ushered too far away to ask questions or hear most of the conversations.

Her public remarks essentially have been excerpts of her convention speech, delivered while introducing McCain at rallies.

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“I came for the food and a nice big dose of queerness.”

— Jen Dietsch (a.k.a Super Queer) on why she attended the second annual Big Gay Picnic yesterday in the Union [see PICNIC pg. 1].

PEOPLE ON THE STREET “Somewhere private.”

Jason Brady, Senior, Math Education

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Where do you go when you’ve just gotta dance?

“The bathroom, where nobody will see me.”

“I’d purposely go take a shower. I like to sing and dance in the shower.”

“I’m a really terrible dancer. There’s not enough alcohol to help me dance.”

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Columnist’s medical ordeal is a lesson for all women LORI WEBER COLUMNIST

It started out as a test. Routine.

Ordinary. The pap-test: A slightly uncomfortable procedure performed by registered nurses, OB/GYN’s, and women’s health doctors.

What it turned out to be was a test of strength, spirit and how many Darvocets it takes to dull the pain.

It was almost a year ago when I went to the University Health Center because my menstrual cramps had gotten much worse.

For me, cramps usually included severe crippling pains in the lower to mid abdomen, nausea, migraines and occasional vomiting. I was prescribed 550mg of Naproxen by a former doctor about four years ago, which took care of the majority of the pain when I would take three pills at a time. Six hours later, I’d take another three. It became a constant cycle of pain for the six days of my period. It was all I could do in order to come to classes, go to work, get up and take a shower instead of just curling in a fetal-position in bed.

Refill after refill resulted in my body becoming so accustomed to Naproxen that it started to lose its effectiveness.

I would try other pain killing cocktails, anything to stay lucid from the pain. Ibuprofen, acetaminophen, Vicodin, Percocet: Just numbing myself from the onslaught of suffering for a week.

I talked to Joanne Navin, a nurse practitioner, and Dr. Penny Mullins, both at the Health Center. Both decided that a pap-test and a cervical

exam was necessary to find out why I was in this much pain.

The results of both exams made me numb for weeks.

I was abnormal: And I was scared. The results were showing that there was a high-risk chance that I had HPV, the human papilloma virus.

Everything started to make me worry. Would I be able to have children? How severe were the results? What was going on with my body? All that was going through my head was the image of a group of cells in my body were expanding, getting bigger and bigger by the minute, and that soon I was going to be spade.

From January until the end of March, I was going back and forth on who else I could talk to about these tests. I was getting restless. How many more tests would it take to find out what was wrong with me? Was I imagining all this pain? Were abnormal pap-tests normal?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that about 11,000 women will be diagnosed with HPV in 2008.

Navin referred me to a gynecologist in Maumee, Ohio.

His name was Dr. Jonathan Detrick.

HPV, according to Detrick, is a relatively new discovery for doctors. Until technology caught up with these cells, no one knew how a woman could go from being normal to having cancer of the uterus, vulva and other female genital cancers.

HPV provided a stepping stone as to the in-between state of those cells.

Unfortunately, there is no way to cure HPV. There are vaccines that one can take BEFORE, but they are not 100 percent guaranteed.

Detrick explained the abnormal pap-test to me is the first

line of defense in determining abnormal cells in the cervix.

From the answers it provides, doctors can determine the next course of action, which for me was to have a colposcopy.

This diagnostic procedure allows the doctor to view the cells of the cervix and the vagina and see with certainty how many cells were affected, which areas, and what developmental stage they were in.

Each and every time that I had a doctor’s appointment, I took my boyfriend with me because I’m terrified of doctors.

It’s my little phobia.

He held my hand, and let me squeeze it so tight that his fingers turned white. He would soothe my worries by telling me that everything would be fine, and that thinking positive proved amazing results. I would smile weakly, the nervous affection between us; wondering what the next step entailed.

At this point in time, the cramps and pains that are associated with the menstrual cycle were spreading across the entire month. I would have spotting and uncontrollable pain. None of my previous medicines and pain killers worked. I still had not heard what the results were from the last test.

Detrick concluded that I had severe dysplasia, which is a really annoying Latin term for precancerous cell growth.

He wanted me to imagine five stages of cell growth: One being normal, and five being cancer. I was a four.

Four.

Four.

Four. I rolled that number around in my head. Four.

I wasn’t done yet, and neither was Dr. Detrick.

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If you were wondering why America is the only country in the world that has a drinking age of 21, you can thank former President Ronald Reagan and his war against drugs. Also, Mothers Against Drunk Driving can take some credit. In 1984, Ronald Reagan, along with Congress, threatened to withhold 10 percent of highway funds to those states that did not raise the drinking age to 21. But was this a great idea? I don’t believe so.

Restricting the drinking age to 21 and older hasn’t prevented underage people from drinking.

If anything, it has made alcohol consumption more dangerous. People under 21 are going to drink regardless of its legality.

Even the federal government’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health discovered in 2005

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Republican vice-presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska strongly defends her pregnant daughter’s right to privacy. Unfortunately, Palin is not as eager to defend all young women’s (and men’s) right to proper education regarding their reproductive choices.

Palin is one of many government officials in favor of abstinence-only education. This is an ineffective practice, which at its best omits vital information about the health of young people and at its worst borders on religious interference in secular education.

A report released in 2004 by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., cited several examples of inaccurate or misleading informa-

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am I promoting drinking and driving; the same laws should be applied to being over the limit no matter what age. With fewer under-cover officers, there could be more checkpoints to make sure people who are driving are still under the limit.

With a drinking age of 21, alcohol is more desirable to those who may not consume it.

The simple reason is that people want what they can’t have.

This leads to binge drinking, or when a person consumes more than five alcoholic beverages in one night. Minors are not always in access to alcohol, so they want to try to enjoy it as much as they can because they are not sure when they will be able to do so again. Lowering the drinking age will also lower the percentage of people binge drinking. People will be able to have access to it freely, so it won’t be such a big deal.

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that 85 percent of 20-year-old Americans reported they had used alcohol.

A non-profit organization called Choose Responsibility, brought together by John M. McCardell, former president of Vermont’s Middlebury College, holds that the drinking age should be lowered to 18. This is a very responsible decision because, instead of being thrown into a drinking environment such as a college university unaware of the consequences of drinking, people will know what they are getting into.

Also, the police force would do a lot more protecting and a lot less enforcing. Instead of having under-cover officers trying to catch people they know are drinking, they could spend more time patrolling the streets to make sure our community is a safer place. And by no means

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tion included in federally funded abstinence-only education programs. Among the claimed errors were: misrepresentation of contraceptive-failure rates, misrepresentation of condom’s effectiveness in preventing HIV transmission, erroneous claims regarding abortion and risks of infertility, premature birth, and promoting stereotypes of gender roles, and other scientific errors, including the correct number of chromosomes passed to a fetus from its mother and father.

Most recently, a 2007 study ordered by Congress found that middle-school students who participated in abstinence-only education programs were just as likely to have sex in their teenage years as those who did not.

The study followed more than 2,000 students for roughly seven years and comprised students who had participated in one of four abstinence-education programs, as well as a control group that had not participated in that type of program.

Abstinence-only education has been criticized by many organi-

zations, including the American Psychological Association, the Society for Adolescent Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Association, all of which assert that effective sex education must be comprehensive.

It is in children’s best interest to receive the most comprehensive education available so that they are ready to and capable of making an informed decision. This is especially true of federally funded programs, which should provide accurate scientific data, not inaccurate statistics and misleading information. Abstinence-only education, especially programs that stress abstinence until marriage, fail to satisfy these criteria.

Furthermore, it excludes those who do not embrace marriage or are not allowed that option, in particular, homosexuals living in areas where same-sex marriage is not legal. Highlighting abstinence as the most effective method of safe-sex is perfectly reasonable and even encouraged; however, ignoring all other forms of sex education is downright irresponsible.

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Med students opt for higher paid specialties

By Carla K. Johnson The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system.

The results of a new survey being published today suggest more medical students, many of them saddled with debt, are opting for more lucrative specialties.

The survey of nearly 1,200 fourth-year students found just 2 percent planned to work in primary care internal medicine.

In a similar survey in 1990, the figure was 9 percent.

Paperwork, the demands of the chronically sick and the need to bring work home are among the factors pushing young doctors away from careers in primary care, the survey found.

“I didn’t want to fight the insurance companies,” said Dr. Jason Shipman, 36, a radiology resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., who is carrying $150,000 in student debt.

Primary care doctors he met as a student had to “speed to see

enough patients to make a reasonable living,” Shipman said.

Dr. Karen Hauer of the University of California, San Francisco, the study’s lead author, said it’s hard work taking care of the chronically ill, the elderly and people with complex diseases — “especially when you’re doing it with time pressures and inadequate resources.”

The salary gap may be another reason. More pay in a particular specialty tends to mean more U.S. medical school graduates fill residencies in those fields at teaching hospitals, Dr. Mark Ebell of the University of Georgia found in a separate study.

Family medicine had the lowest average salary last year, $186,000, and the lowest share of residency slots filled by U.S. students, 42 percent. Orthopedic surgery paid $436,000, and 94 percent of residency slots were filled by U.S students.

Meanwhile, medical school is getting more expensive.

The average graduate last year had $140,000 in student debt, up nearly 8 percent from the previous year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Another likely factor: Medicare’s fee schedule pays less for office visits than for sim-

“I didn’t want to fight the insurance companies.”

Dr. Jason Shipman | Resident ple procedures, according to the American College of Physicians, which reported in 2006 that the nation’s primary care system is “at grave risk of collapse.”

Lower salaries in primary care did not deter Dr. Alexis Dunne of Chicago, who is 31 and carrying $250,000 in student debt.

Last year, a parade of specialists couldn’t solve the mystery of her mother’s weight loss, fevers and severe anemia. Finally, an internist diagnosed a rare kidney infection. The kidney was removed, and Dunne’s mother has felt fine since.

Watching her mother go through the health crisis affirmed her decision to go into primary care. She also enjoys being “the point person” for her patients.

“You become so close to them you’re almost like a family friend,” said Dunne, who completed her residency at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital in July.

She also found inspiration

Student journalists arrested outside GOP convention

By Brendan Gibbons U-Wire

When Brad Luttrell, editor-inchief of the Kentucky Kernel, an independent student newspaper at the University of Kentucky, came into his office on the morning of Sept. 2, he intended to start work on the daily paper.

Instead, he received a voicemailmessagefromKernelphoto adviser James Winn’s wife telling him Winn and two Kernel staffers, Britney McIntosh and Edward Matthews, had been arrested at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

The two staffers were not on assignment for the Kernel but were documenting dem-

onstrations outside the convention, according to a news release by the American Civil Liberties Union.

McIntosh said the three had been watching the protests all morning Sept. 1. In the afternoon, a fight broke out between law enforcement and protesters on Kellogg Boulevard in St. Paul.

Police started throwing tear gas bombs and using pepper spray to control the crowd.

The police corralled about 50 journalists and protesters in an adjacent parking lot, McIntosh said.

“They said, ‘Get on the ground’ and started arresting everyone,” McIntosh said. “[Matthews] and I were lying on the ground saying, ‘We’re with the media,’ but they arrested us anyway.”

The two students were released Sept. 3 after being held 36 hours without charge, according to the news release. Their equipment was seized, and the two were informed that they could be charged with crimes at a later time. Winn was released earlier without charges.

No charges have yet been pressed, McIntosh said, but if the two are convicted of felony rioting, they could face a minimum sentence of one year in jail and a minimum fine of $3,000.

McIntosh said she and Matthews are supposed to receive their camera equipment and cell phones later this week.

Representatives of the St. Paul District Attorney’s office did not return phone messages left on Sept. 8 regarding the case.

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from the doctors she met during training: “They were the ones who would sit at a patient’s bedside and spend more time with them rather than running off to surgery.”

A separate study in JAMA suggests graduates from international medical schools are filling the primary care gap.

About 2,600 fewer U.S. doctors were training in primary care specialties — including pediatrics, family medicine and internal medicine — in 2007 compared with 2002. In the same span, the number of foreign graduates pursuing those careers rose by nearly 3,300.

“Primary care is holding steady but only because of international medical school graduates,” said Edward Salsberg of the Association of American Medical Colleges, a co-author of the study. “And holding steady in numbers is probably not sufficient when the population is growing and aging.”

And as American students lose interest, teaching hospitals will probably become less interested in offering primary care programs, said Dr. David Goodman, associate director of the Center for Health Policy Research at Dartmouth Medical School.

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It’s not a czar: It’s an educator.

That about sums up the University’s vision for Yale’s first-ever director of alcohol and substance abuse initiatives, a new Dean’s Office post the University is trying to fill by fall 2009. The director, administrators said, will be tasked with centralizing the University’s broad but scattered resources for drug and alcohol education while working to raise awareness of and challenge misconceptions about substance abuse on campus. Although the Dean’s Office has yet to define many of the specifics of the new post’s portfolio, in interviews administrators were emphatic

about one point: the director will not be an enforcer.

“I view this person as a real partner to students and organizations,” said Assistant Athletic Director Amy Backus, who serves on the search committee charged with recruiting someone for the post, “not as someone who’s going to come in, lay down the law and tell people what they can and can’t do.”

Alcohol education is currently handled by a decentralized network of staff that includes residential-college deans and masters, health professionals and officials within the Dean’s Office, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said. Together, their goal is to make sure every student understands the effects of drinking and how to drink

responsibly, if they choose to do so. But because of the volume of administrators involved, Gentry said the University’s message becomes diluted and can lose focus. The new director would assume responsibility for those efforts and consolidate the University’s information and outreach efforts inside the Dean’s Office.

“People are getting misinformation,” Gentry said. “Having the right information from one person and one source is better than having an approach that’s not systematic.”

The director would spearhead the rollout of new programming geared toward offering alternative social events for students looking to have fun in a dry setting.

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BASEBALL Schmitz and Falcons open camp BG’s baseball team has opened its fall camp in preparation to defend last season’s MAC Championship.

There are 33 players in camp, and the first intra-squad game will be on Saturday at Stellar Field.

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The List The pennant races are heating up in baseball with five of the six divisions and both Wild Cards still up for grabs. Today, we take a look at five of the best races remaining in baseball.

1. AL East: In what was supposed to be a tight race between the Red Sox and Yankees has tunred into a battle between the Red Sox and the jump start Tampa Bay Rays.

2. NL West: The Diamondbacks started off strong and expected to easily win the division behind strong pitching, but the Dodgers have made some moves that have put them into first place.

3. NL East: Before the season, it was anyone’s guess whether the Phillies, Mets or Braves would win this division. While Atlanta fizzled and Florida made a small run mid-season, it is now a repeat of last year with the Mets and Phils fighting for the top spot.

4. AL Central: The Twins and White Sox, not the Tigers and Indians, are going to be fighting for this division until season’s end.

5. NL Central: The Brewers acquired CC Sabathia to improve their chances, but the Cubs struck back by getting Rich Harden.

Milwaukee is slowly fading, but they have the chance to come back on a moment’s notice.

COACHING HARD: Dan Blysma (top) plays in his final BG game in 1992. Todd Reirden (bottom) coaches in games during last season.

Former Falcon hockey players reunited as AHL coaches

By Ethan Magoc Reporter

This summer, two former BG hockey players took a pair of pretty important jobs.

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins hired Dan Bylsma, BGSU Class of 1992, on Aug. 4 to replace Todd Richards as head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ American Hockey League Affiliate. Two weeks later, Bylsma hired former BG

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assistant coach Todd Reirden as his bench partner.

Bylsma worked as Richards’ assistant for two years with Wilkes-Barre before Richards

took a job with the San Jose Sharks in July.

The new Baby Pens head coach immediately began the search for his own assistant

coach, and eventually turned to his alma mater where Reirden had worked since July 2007.

Bylsma said he based his search on four criteria—work ethic, passion, hockey knowledge, and the ability to develop personal relationships.

There are a lot of ups and downs in an AHL season and

The Falcons were blanked this weekend at the Diadora/Spinx F u r m a n Invitational, a fairly disappoi nt i ng weekend ended with a pair of 2-0 losses.

The team Paul however, has Shoemaker not been get- Shoemaker ting down on t hemselves didn’t allow over the Furman to results of the score until the trip, making 81st minute sure to point out that these tough road trips only better prepare them for conference opponents later in the season.

“We have some players do some good things,” Head Coach Fred Thompson said. Thompson has done a good job of remaining positive while his team has taken its punches.

The weekend actually started out on a positive note, as the Falcons put up a very good fight against a very talented, previously No. 25 Furman team. The Falcons battled their opponents to a scoreless tie, late into the game, before giving up a goal in the 81st minute.

Senior goalie Paul Shoemaker played an exceptional game, denying several shots, six in total, including four big saves down the stretch.

“We had an absolutely stellar performance from Paul.”

Thompson said.

The Falcons, however, gave themselves too much to handle in the late minutes of the game.

It proved to be too much for the Falcons when they were presented with the challenge of facing Furman with one less player, after Freshman Vuk Krkeljic was issued his second yellow card of the game.

In Krkeljic’s absence, Furman would also go on to score another goal in the 86th minute to cement their victory.

The Falcons ability to hold off Furman that long, and even hold them off for 26 minutes while playing a man down was something Thompson viewed as very encouraging, stressing that his players showed a great deal of heart in the latter portion of the game.

It’s not often a team can take such a positive outlook from a 2-0 loss, and there are no moral victories, but this game may have very well come close.

After the game, when asked about the tournaments second game, against Charleston,

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Schneider claims individual title at Piper Intercollegiate

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BACK IN BUSINESS: Chris Wells (center) returns to the Buckeyes after missing just one game.

Wells returning to Buckeyes for USC game

By Rusty Miller The Associated Press

COLUMBUS — Ohio State will have its Beanie back for Southern California.

Buckeyes tailback Chris “Beanie” Wells has been given the OK to play in the showdown at No. 1 USC on Saturday night.

Wells, who rushed for 1,609 yards and 15 touchdowns a year ago, went down with a foot injury in the second half of the fifth-ranked Buckeyes’ opener against Youngstown State and did not suit up when Ohio State struggled to beat Ohio University 26-14 last week.

But coach Jim Tressel said

yesterday that Wells would definitely play against USC. “You know, Beanie ran well yesterday,” Tressel said. “In fact, he ran better than I thought he might.”

The next test for the 6-foot1, 237-pound Wells is how he feels after going through his first workouts in 10 days.

Golf can be a tricky game at times — some victories are secured in a playoff and others slip through the collective fingertips.

The home-standing Falcons held the lead through 36 holes at the John Piper Intercollegiate with a score 586.

Unfortunately for BG, they were unable to hold that lead as the tournament concluded yesterday. MAC East rival Ohio shot a 289 to vault them from second to first.

“It’s definitely disappointing,” said BG coach Garry Winger of the final round struggles. “I was very interested to see how we handled ourselves — that team as five players has never had a lead before.”

“I was excited about going into [yesterday],” he continued.

“Obviously we did not get it done today but we’ll learn from that experience and hopefully we have an opportunity to win a tournament again.”

Matt Schneider Finished first at the John Piper Collegiate

John Powers Finished sixth at the John Piper Collegiate The Bobcat final round score of 289 was good for the secondbest team showing throughout the tournament with only the Vikings of Cleveland State posting a better showing of 288 on the tournament’s final day.

BG’s final tally of 883 was good for third behind Ohio and Eastern Kentucky, who posted cumulative scores of 876 and 882 respectively.

While the team fell to third in the overall tournament stand-

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HOCKEY From Page 6 you need that passion and energy for the game,” Bylsma said.

“When you’re genuinely interested in helping players achieve their goals, that rubs off on people and they work harder.”

Bylsma said those four factors made Reirden, a former Falcon teammate, an easy choice.

The two played together at BG for two seasons in 1990-91 and 1991-92, and totaled more than 160 points combined in their respective four-year Falcon careers.

Pittsburgh Penguins fans may notice a coincidence in the years that Bylsma and Reirden played together at the BGSU Ice Arena. They were the same two years that the Penguins won back-to-back Stanley Cups, and also the last.

In June, the Detroit Red Wings defeated Pittsburgh in six games during the Penguins’ first chance at the Cup since the year Bylsma graduated. A week later, the Wilkes-Barre Penguins lost to the Chicago Wolves in six games during the AHL championship.

Reirden had worked as a volunteer assistant to Bylsma during the AHL playoff run, an experience he said helped him earn his current position.

“Dan had already seen me work for those two months, so that’s how I got hired,” Reirden said. “I had hoped to bring that AHL coaching experience back to Bowling Green’s program.

That’s the reason I went down there in the spring, but it didn’t work out that way.”

During the same winter he helped the Baby Penguins reach the Calder Cup Finals, Bylsma watched as Reirden helped to turn around his alma mater’s hockey program. The Falcons

“It’s something that definitely wasn’t planned for. I was planning on being in Bowling Green this season. I put a lot of time and effort into that program last year, and with it being my alma mater, I felt really badly about leaving so late.”

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will meet players like Sidney Crosby, and Evgeni Malkin for the first time.

Despite moving onto a bigger opportunity, Reirden said he feels guilty of how he left the Falcons.

“It’s something that definitely wasn’t planned for,” Reirden said. “I was planning on being in Bowling Green this season.

I put a lot of time and effort into that program last year, and with it being my alma mater, I felt really badly about leaving so late.”

Bylsma, too, shared his regret about having to steal Reirden away just before the season starts.

“In some aspects, I didn’t feel great about the hire because I left Bowling Green without their assistant coach in the middle of August,” said Bylsma, “But at the same time, it says volumes about BG’s hockey program that their players and coaches are out there in the world of professional hockey.”

Falcon head coach Scott Paluch said he hopes to fill Reirden’s position at BG in the next few weeks.

“Todd did a very nice job in his year here, but people get opportunities and they move on,” Paluch said. “We’ve been very fortunate to attract good people and we’re confident that’ll continue.”

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SOCCER From Page 6 on Sunday, Thompson said “hopefully we will take the lessons learned from our first two matches and come back better and stronger.”

Thompson must have been disappointed on Sunday then, because in the games 11th minute, Charleston put their first shot on goal in the back of the net.

“A slight mental lapse on our part, but a good goal for them,” Thompson said.

The Falcons battled back the best they could though, launching the most impressive offensive assault they’ve been able to produce all season. During this offensive awakening, Tyler Deal had a gut wrenching miss that went off the cross bar. The goal would have tied the score and changed the entire complexion of the game.

Instead, the Falcons spent the game battling back, only to give up a second goal in the late minutes, solidifying another scoreless defeat, and dropping them to 0-3-0 on the young season.

The offense was the down point for the weekend, being outscored 4-0 and outshot 28-17. But the offense did show promise against Charleston, and could be ready to strike.

GOLF From Page 6 ings, junior Matt Schneider was able to hold onto to his 36 hole individual lead and bested Ohio’s John Mlynarski on the first hole of the playoff to secure the individual tournament victory.

“It feels awesome,” Schneider said of the tournament victory. “It’s been my goal since the day I got to college. It feels great to accomplish a goal like that.”

Schneider was able to par the playoff hole while the best Mlynarski could was bogey.

The two players actually had identical scorecards when it was all said and done. Both players shot rounds of 70 (2 under par) for the first two days and concluded the third round by posting a pair of 74’s (2 over par).

With Schneider coming out on top during the playoff, he became the first BG player to earn medalist honors at the John Piper Intercollegiate.

“Hopefully I can gain some confidence from it and play good the rest of the fall season,” Schneider said.

He also became just the fifth player under coach Winger to achieve top individual honors at a respective tournament — the

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MOTIVATION: The men’s soccer team has yet to score a goal this season, but they are looking at it as motivation rather than disappointment.

“Hopefully we will take the lessons learned from our first two matches and come back better and stronger.”

Fred Thompson | Men’s soccer coach “Once we stick one in, the flood gates will open,” Thompson said.

The Falcons took home some individual accomplishments from the weekend as well, as Shoemaker and Jacob Lawrence, back from injury, took home alltournament honors.

The Falcons will make one final road trip this weekend before finally returning home for their first action of the year in the

confines of BGSU. They will travel south once again, this time to the Central Arkansas Tournament, where they will meet Centenary, and Central Arkansas.

It’s been a difficult start for the Falcons, but after taking on two of the best teams in the nation, they can now embark on the rest of the season with that experience, and some confidence.

“If I can start eliminating some of those bad swings where I’m making bogeys, I’ll be right up there in the top five every time.”

John Powers | BG golfer other players include Otto Larson in 1999, Heath Ziglar in 2004, current Falcon John Powers last season and Jace Walker in the spring of this year.

Powers continued his stellar play by finishing in tie for sixth place with a three round total of 219. Powers, the BG native, finished with a tournament-best 12 birdies en route to his 3 over par performance.

“Birdies are going to come — at least lately they have been,” Powers said. “If I can start eliminating some of those bad swings where I’m making bogeys, I’ll be right up there in the top five every time.”

Freshman Drew Preston, who was coming off the Rutherford Intercollegiate in which he finished in a tie for third and was named the Mid-American Conference’s Golfer of the Week, finished in tie for 16th place by posting a score of 224.

Parker Hewit and BryanWilliams rounded out the Falcon scoring by posting scores of 228 and 235 respectively.

The Falcons will be off this com-

ing week but will return to action Sept. 22 as they travel to Muncie, Ind., to compete in the two-day Earl Yestingsmeier Intercollegiate.

Look for more coverage about Matt Schneider’s big victory in tomorrow’s edition of The BG News as well as online at bgnewssports.com.

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The pair’s past coaching success should help them to keep Wilkes-Barre moving in the right direction.

“My job is outlined,” Bylsma said. “First and foremost, I’m developing players for Pittsburgh. The players I have now are players that will be wearing Pittsburgh Penguin uniforms in the near future.”

Reirden’s life hasn’t stopped spinning since he received word of the hiring on Aug. 18.

On Aug. 20, he was looking for a house in Wilkes-Barre and a school for his five-year-old son, Travis. Then he came back to BG to help freshmen move in on Aug. 25, and the next day he met Bylsma in Pittsburgh for meetings with team officials.

That group included Ray Shero and Michel Therrien, two of the NHL’s most recently successful personnel.

“Those meetings were all about making sure that our AHL players are playing the same system that theirs are when they go up to the NHL,” Reirden said.

After a short stay in WilkesBarre, Reirden and Bylsma headed to Pittsburgh again on Tuesday to run the team’s rookie camp. On Sept. 16, they’ll help out during Pittsburgh’s full training camp, where Reirden

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Off-target NATO bomb kills innocent civilians, wounds 10

By Rahim Faiez The Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — A NATO bomb mistakenly hit a house 1 1/2 miles off target yesterday, killing two civilians and wounding 10 even as Afghanistan's president was saying that terrorism cannot be defeated if innocents are killed in coalition operations.

Meanwhile, a roadside bomb killed an Afghan contract worker and three soldiers in the U.S.-led coalition elsewhere in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said.

No other details were released.

A NATO statement said the bomb was aimed at a spot used by insurgents to fire rockets in eastern Khost province but the weapon malfunctioned and hit a civilian house.

“An immediate investigation into the cause of the incident has been launched and further details will be forthcoming once established,” the alliance said.

Because of Afghanistan's mountainous terrain and few roads, foreign troops rely heavily on air power to combat Taliban and al-Qaida fighters. But airstrikes have been blamed for a series of civilian deaths, and President Hamid Karzai is pushing for a review of the use of U.S. and NATO air power.

He raised that theme again yesterday after attending the inauguration of Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari.

“The war against terrorism will only be won if we have the people with us. There is no other way. In order for us to have the people with us, we must avoid civilian casualties,” Karzai said.

The mistaken NATO bombing came amid a dispute over a U.S. and Afghan special forces operation in the western village of Azizabad on Aug. 22.

Afghan and U.N. officials say some 90 civilians died during fighting in the village. The U.S.

initially said up to seven civilians were killed but announced Sunday that it is reinvestigating the incident after video images of victims came to light.

The bodies of at least 10 children and many more adults covered in blankets and white shrouds appear in videos obtained by The Associated Press on Monday.

Two grainy videos, apparently taken by cell phones, showed bodies lying side by side on a mosque floor, covered by floral blankets and black-and-white checkered shawls. A young boy lay curled in a fetal position; others looked as if they were asleep.

It was impossible to verify conclusively that the videos showed the aftermath of the Azizabad battle, but the contents appeared to back claims by Afghan and U.N. officials that the U.S. operation killed far more civilians than the military acknowledged.

Yesterday, Sher Ahmad, a vil-

lager in Azizabad, told the AP that “no Taliban were killed” in the operation.

“There are children, old men and women who have been killed. There is no one among these dead who are Taliban, or a big Taliban member,” he said.

U.S. and Afghan officials have said the opening shots of the clash were fired from the village at a joint force of U.S. special forces troops and Afghan army commandos.

Karzai expressed pleasure yesterday that the U.S. investigation into the Azizabad incident had been reopened. He said Afghan authorities had received “messages of regrets and condolences from as high as the president of the United States.”

“While we say ‘no civilian casualties,’ we reiterate ... that we are dedicated in the war against terrorism because it brings our people safety and security that we so much need,” he said.

FRAIDOON POOYAA | AP PHOTO

BOMB HITS HOME: An Afghan woman holds a poster with photos of her family members, who were killed during a US led raid in Azizabad village.

ANJUM NAVEED | AP PHOTO

NEW PRESIDENT: Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, right, widower of assassinated former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto speaks as his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai looks on during a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan.

New Pakistani President says ‘his people are behind him’

By Paul Alexander The Associated Press

ISL AM ABAD, Pakistan — Repeatedly paying homage to his assassinated wife, new President Asif Ali Zardari declared yesterday that he has a comprehensive plan to fight terrorism and said Pakistan’s people are behind him.

Zardari, elected by legislators Saturday, was long on platitudes but short on specifics while meeting with media after taking the oath of office in a short ceremony at the presidential palace. He was chosen to replace Pervez Musharraf, a U.S. ally who resigned under pressure last month.

With President Hamid Karzai of neighboring Afghanistan by his side for a news conference, the widower of former two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said he hoped to turn Pakistan’s negatives into positives.

“As far as America is concerned, the fact that we are on the globe and we are in the eye of the storm, I consider that an opportunity,” Zardari said, noting that most countries welcome foreign investment.

“I intend to take that and make it our strength. We intend to take the world with us in developing the future of Pakistan and changing the future of our neighbors,” he said.

Karzai said he found common ground with Zardari.

“For each step that you take in the war against terrorism for bringing peace to two countries, for bringing stability to two countries, Afghanistan will take many, many steps with you,” he said.

Private talks between Zardari and Karzai were likely a bit more contentious. Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of failing to take action against Taliban militants based around the countries’ common border.

Asked about allegations that Pakistan’s intelligence agency had collaborated with militants waging war on Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed government, Zardari said the neighbors would work together on any “weaknesses.”

The United States came to depend heavily on Musharraf for cooperation to capture or kill al-Qaida leaders who plotted the 9/11 attacks on America and fled Afghanistan after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 toppled the Taliban regime.

However, the Taliban revived on Musharraf’s watch, and al-Qaida chiefs Osama bin Laden and Ayman

“We intend to take the world with us in developing the future of Pakistan ...”

Asif Ali Zardari | Pakistan’s President

al-Zawahri remain on the run, probably somewhere in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

Washington has increasingly taken matters into its own hands in recent weeks, with controversy erupting every time civilians become casualties. Missile strikes in Pakistan’s northwest have killed dozens, and U.S.led forces last week took part in a helicopter-backed ground assault that killed at least 15.

“Regrettably, there will be times when our pursuit of the enemy will result in accidental civilian deaths,” President Bush, who spoke by phone Tuesday with Zardari, said in a speech.

He did not specifically mention Washington’s more aggressive moves of late in Pakistan — portraying the U.S. intentions as only to “help the government of Pakistan defeat Taliban and al-Qaida fighters hiding in remote border regions.”

The unilateral actions have sparked a public backlash, including official protests, although it appears that Pakistan, the Islamic world’s only nuclear power, is too dependent on the billions of dollars in U.S. aid to do much more than complain.

“We are very explicitly clear; we cannot tolerate civilian casualties,” Karzai said, claiming that operations against militants have to be “foolproof.”

“The war on terrorism will only be won if we have the people with us. To have the people with us, we must avoid civilian casualties.”

But such operations are complicated. Militants often mingle with civilians. Troops in ground operations have more flexibility than drone-fired missiles, but such missions also carry risks of military casualties.

Many Pakistanis oppose their country’s role in the war on terror, and blame it for fanning religious extremism. Pakistan Taliban have carried out a series of attacks, including a suicide bombing Saturday that killed at least 35.

The 53-year-old Zardari, whose wife was killed in a gunand-bomb attack in December, is trying to convince them that the war on terror is their battle, not just Washington’s.

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