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ST. PATTY’S CELEBRATION: The fist pump gets an Irish twist as University students celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday afternoon. Seniors Brian Mapson, Matt Migal, Brian Cancian and Tomasz Rapocz enjoyed the warm weather and Irish spirit in their Wooster Street yard. “I’m rocking out with my shamrocks out,” Cancian said.

Professor honored for dedication to students and work By Hannah Nusser Reporter

Mary Ellen Benedict

Economics professor Mary Ellen Benedict was recognized as this year’s Distinguished Teaching Professor for her 19 years of outstanding teaching methods, alltoo-rare dedication to her work and changing the lives of her students and colleagues. When Benedict arrived at the University in 1991, she said, she thought she was a good teacher but quickly found she had a long way to go. She’s been working on her teaching technique every day since. “It’s interesting for me. I feel very honored, first of all, but … you find wonderful teachers everywhere, so I think I’m overwhelmed by the recognition,” Benedict said. “I’m not really sure what in my [application] packet made the difference.” Her continuous improvement through the years and developing active learning in her classes may have given her an edge over

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LEFT: With the luck of the Irish, sophomore Corbin Pickett tosses a corn bag and scores her first point ever in a game of cornhole. Pickett’s partner Stephen Lambert said he was proud of Pickett’s St. Patrick’s Day accomplishment. RIGHT: Even with green beer glasses on, junior Chelsea Dobbs is successful with a cornhole toss. Dobbs played a couple of toss games on Wednesday afternoon on Wooster Street.

other nominees, Benedict said. “I’m very open to changing what I do, and so for me, I think I’m a lifelong learner and that comes out and people are open to me and appreciate that I’m willing to take what they have to say,” she said. Each year, a committee of former Distinguished Teaching Professor recipients review nominations and recommend one professor for the coveted honor. The Provost approves it, and the Board of Trustees has the final say. Benedict is only the 13th professor to receive the award. Distinguished Teaching Professor of 2007 Sue Mota, asso-

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Census form easy to fill out, necessary for U.S. MAKING SENSE OF THE CENSUS

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Recognized as this year’s Distinguished Teaching Professor

Don’t think all mail is junk this week. Packaged in between flimsy coupon pages and unwanted bill notices lays a vital document — the 2010 U.S. Census form. The census is the nation’s best method of calculating the U.S. population. The census is recalculated each decade. All census forms are due April 1. Students living on campus will receive the form in April and get extensions to hand one in. Larry Courtney, Bowling Green census office manager, said it’s imperative University students and Bowling Green residents perform a patriotic duty. Completing the census can only benefit one’s community,

What is the U.S. Census? A government initiative to count each person living in the United States. How often do I have to fill one out? Once every 10 years. The next time will be in 2020. When do I have to fill out the census and mail it back in by? April 1 if you live anywhere other than campus. Mid-April is the deadline for students living in residence halls. Why do I have to fill one out? It’s required by the U.S. Constitution.

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Stroh and Wolfe Centers’ construction remains on schedule

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The women’s basketball team will be playing this Saturday in Louisville, Ky., against Michigan State University in the first round of the NCAA Championships. University Activities Organization, the Office of Campus Activities and the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs are providing free transportation for the first 52 students who are interested in attending the game. Sign-up will begin at 8 a.m. today in the Office of Campus Activities (Union 401). Students will need their ID and health insurance information to complete their registration. Tickets for the game are $10.

building masonry on the second floor of the east side. They are also beginning to build up Though winter slowed con- from pre-cast concrete planks struction, both the Stroh Center on the second floor. Passers-by will be able to and the Wolfe Center for the Arts are still on track for a 2011 see the masonry walls up by late April, and in July they will completion date. Respective crews are now start to see the top height of the putting together the bases and building over the stage. “The main theater will be 78 frames of each building. “The Stroh Center is mostly a feet in the air — as tall as the steel structure, the Wolfe Center library,” Miller said. Miller said structural steel is concrete,” said Ryan Miller, project manager of the Wolfe will be erected over the stage, which will be able to be seen in Center. Miller said the construction June or July, and outside metal crew for the Wolfe Center is panels will be added in August. “By the time people come back working on pouring concrete in the walls of the orchestra pit and to school, there’s going to be a

pretty big difference,” he said. Katerina Ray, director of the School of Art, said she was excited to watch the Wolfe Center go up. “I keep going up to the music studio and looking down,” she said. Ray said the School of Art has waited for new facilities since 2002, and the theater department has been waiting for 25 years. “The building’s going up fast,” she said. “I can’t wait for it to keep going up.” Cameras monitor both build-

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FORUM Census is essential to complete

For University faculty and employees, being tenured allows for job security in a weak job market as long as they maintain good job performance | Page 3

The BG News staff editorial stresses the importance of filling out the Census form, since it does not take a lot of time to fill out the forms, and it provides financial benefits to communities | Page 4

PHOTO PROVIDED BY RYAN MILLER

BUILDING: A construction crew pours concrete into what will eventually be the orchestra pit for the Wolfe Center for the Arts. The Wolfe Center is scheduled to be completed by fall 2011.

SPORTS Falcons prepare for NCAA The women’s basketball team reacts to the news that they will return to the NCAA tournament to play Michigan State in Louisville, Ky. | Page 7

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BENEDICT From Page 1 ciate dean for executive and MBA programs of business, is a longtime colleague of Benedict and said she was the perfect candidate for this honor. “I’m just thrilled we have another distinguished teaching professor in the college [of business] … I’m thrilled to have Mary Ellen in particular because she’s an excellent teacher … she’s everything you want in a distinguished teaching professor.” Mota said the running was extremely close this year, and the decision came down to recommendation letters from Benedict’s former and current students. “That really stood out — how she just made a difference in their lives,” Mota said. “It sounds like a cliché, but she truly does care.” Economics department chair John Hoag nominated Benedict after 19 years of working together because he felt she deserved it. “You make the nomination and you hold your breath,” he said. “I’m very glad she won. She’s extraordinary with the students.” He said within Benedict’s first few semesters at the University he saw her potential. It wasn’t long before students were requesting to take her classes, and her evaluation numbers were strong. “It doesn’t take very long before you see here’s somebody who really does make a difference,” he said. “[Students] will ask, ‘which one’s Dr. Benedict teaching?’” he said. “I know that when I ask her to teach a class it will be taught carefully and thoroughly, and at the same time it will be challenging, and at the same time students will like it.” Benedict focuses not just on terms and equations of economics but works on improv-

ing skills she thinks students will need in the real world, like writing and applying concepts to their surroundings. Many of her classes revolve around a key discussion component, Benedict said. “One thing I’m good at is learning people’s names. So I learn people’s names, and I ask them what they think,” she said. “I think students appreciate being asked about their opinions.” Junior Skyler Rogers said Benedict’s method of relating economics to what’s going on in the world helps students understand the sometimes difficult material. “Economics wasn’t really the easiest subject that I had at all — it was kind of difficult. So that dedication and that willingness to do whatever it takes for the students [helped],” Rogers said. Junior Andrew Umbel has been working with Benedict since his freshman year, and said her microeconomics class was anything but boring. “I honestly wasn’t really that interested in [economics],” he said. “But working with Mary Ellen, it was really a different experience because she herself has a really high energy about her … it was always really fun and exciting to be in her class; not what I was expecting in an economics class.” Umbel’s favorite element of Benedict’s class was the engaging discussions. “We applied economics principals to studying the marijuana market. That sounds kind of risqué, but she presented the information fairly and accurately and gave us a lot of insight to things we didn’t really know were really going on,” Umbel said. Umbel said Benedict’s guidance throughout his college career has changed his expectation for professors and his outlook on life in and outside the classroom. Benedict’s exuberance and motivation sets her apart from other professors. “As cliché as it might sound …

she just embraces life and she loves to get to know students on a personal level in and outside the classroom, and she’s always there to help with school related problems and other things beyond school, so she’s really a great role model and a professor,” Umbel said. Benedict also changes lives outside the classroom. She’s found guidance and success in her mentors through the years and now returns the favor by working with other faculty members in the department, she said. “We have this open door policy in our department that the junior faculty and instructors know about,” she said. “It’s really this department that keeps me going; it’s just a great group of people.” Teaching is her passion, Benedict said, and she still finds happiness in her classes and students after almost 20 years. “I don’t care what anybody says … I get a real joy sometimes in teaching so if I get to that high that’s really great for me,” she said. “I wouldn’t have stayed in academia if it wasn’t [a passion] … that passion has to be there or you won’t survive because teaching … is not an easy thing to do.” Benedict also plays a role in University research and involvement. Her research has been published in numerous professional journals. She is the adviser of the economics club, serves as interim economics department chair and has served on the Faculty Council in the college of business. Rogers said Benedict’s knowledge and dedication to her subject make her an exceptionally great teacher. “She is by far one of the best teachers I ever had here on campus,” he said. “She’s very knowledgeable — she knows all the material through and through. She lives this.” A recognition dinner will be held next Monday to honor the newly-inducted Benedict.

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Courtney said it’s the responsibility of Americans to fill out From Page 1 the form, which will take about Courtney said. The government 10 minutes. “I want to help in any way I can budgets $400 billion for statefunded projects. The more peo- to make sure we get an accurate ple living in an area, the more count,” Courtney said. Anyone not receiving a census in money the location is entitled to, so long as residents fill out a the mail, or having questions on the process, can call the Bowling census, Courtney said. “That money goes for infra- Green office at 419-807-8581. structure, schools, roads [and] On campus all sorts of municipal and state The Office of Residence Life is projects,” he said. Sophomore Lindsey Gazdak preparing to count each student said filling out a census is “pret- living on campus for the 2010 ty important.” Gazdak said she U.S. Census. Beginning the week of either hopes other students take a few minutes to finish the govern- April 12 or 19, residential advisors and Greek housing direcment-issued document. “I think everyone should do tors will administer the census to students, said Sarah Waters, their part,” Gazdak said. The census is also crucial senior associate director of for politics. Population figures Residence Life. Students living on campus are determine how many elected officials from a state sit in the placed into a separate census category. This means the University House of Representatives. For example, Ohio ranks sev- is allowed an extension to hand enth among the 50 states in in census forms, Waters said. The deadline for the United the country. Out of 435 elected officials, Ohio has the seventh States, including students living most representatives in the off campus, is April 1. Knowing the exact number of House with 18. The number of Ohio rep- students living on campus can resentatives can increase or help the city receive federal doldecrease depending on the lars and retain the proper numamount of Ohioans returning ber of elected officials in the House of Representatives. the census to the government. “We’re concerned that our stu“I want Ohio to be properly represented in the House of dents have the best information Representatives … and the and realize their voice matters municipalities of Ohio to get here at our University and in our their share of the $400 billion,” city,” Waters said. Students must count where Courtney said. Yet some won’t consider the they live presently and not expect their parents to fill a cencensus a priority. Courtney estimates some- sus out for them, Waters said. Residence Life will educate its where between 30 to 40 percent of citizens won’t complete staff on the proper procedure a form. For every percentage for issuing the census. Students point not turning in a census living on campus will not have above 30 percent, it will cost to mail the form in, Waters said. the government $90 million. Students can hand the form to Government employees must the appropriate person in their go door-to-door to collect the living quarter. necessary data. If 40 percent of “Our staff will not go into this Americans don’t hand in a cen- blindly. They will have the best sus, it will cost the government possible information they can $900 million to send employees have,” Waters said. door-to-door to collect the data.

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What does the census ask me? Your name, birth date, sex, race and phone number. It also asks how many people live in your residence, if you stay in more than one place and if you rent, own or live free of charge at the occupancy in question. Can this information incriminate me? No. These documents are used strictly for population count and are kept confidentially for 72 years. Can I complete the form online? No. All forms must be mailed back to the government. Where do I mail the census back to? A self-addressed envelope is included with the form. Postage is not necessary. All you have to do is put the completed form back in the mailbox and you’re done. Sources: Larry Courtney, Bowling Green census office manager; www. census.gov

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in late April or early May. “I think there’s a sense of excitement watching the steel go up,” Schuessler said. Jim Elsasser, associate athletic director for internal affairs, said he was excited to see the beginnings of the Stroh Center. “You can see it as you come down Wooster Street,” he said. “It’s basically the blueprint coming alive.” The administration is pursuing LEED certification for both buildings, which stands for Leadership Energy Efficiency Design. Schuessler said utilities would be reduced through an energy-efficient design. Both buildings are projected to be LEED-certified at this point.

What are the main purposes of the U.S. Census? Two reasons: 1.To determine how many elected officials from each state serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. 2.To determine how much each state receives in federal spending. Each year, the U.S. Government administers $400 billion to states for public uses.

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Tenure position offers beneficial job security to University employees Long-time professors can keep their jobs if they continue to perform well By Jason Henry Assistant City Editor

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Pong play on St. Patrick’s Day CELEBRATE: Junior Jeff Shelby follows through on his shot during a beer pong game on St. Patrick’s Day, while his teammate, senior Chris Fraver looks on. Fraver said he had gone to all his classes and waited to celebrate, while Shelby started the festivities at 9 a.m. “It’s all good friends, good times, cold drinks,� Shelby said.

Union suites provide offices for select campus organizations By Max Filby Reporter

The fourth floor of the Union is home to several student organization office suites. Every two years, a selection committee determines which organizations will be given offices and workstations in the Student Organization Suite. The committee includes at least one faculty member, one staff member, a number of student representatives and Kelly Jo Larsen, coordinator of student organization programs. “Any student group is open to apply for an office or workstation,� Larsen said, “it’s just a matter of who applies.� The committee determines what groups will be provided with offices based on their possible and past use of the available workspace. Organizations residing in the offices must also attend work suite meetings that are used to evaluate whether or not certain organizations can continue using the offices. “Some organizations have had their spaces non-renewed because they didn’t use them but none have ever been nonrenewed for behavior problems,� Larsen said. The next application and selection process for student organization offices will take

With an unstable job market, tenure at the University offers faculty members job security. According to the Office of Institutional Research, out of 795 full-time faculty members, 405, or 50.9 percent, are tenured at the University as of Jan. 10. An additional 16.1 percent are on the tenure track, which means they are an assistant professor who will be eligible for tenure after completing the process. “It is just a very stressful period because it is a period of uncertainty,� said Ronald Lancaster, associate professor in computer sciences. “If you get tenured, then that is basically job security. But if you don’t get tenure, that means you simply can’t continue on at all. So you don’t know ‘Will I have a job in a year or will I not?’ That level of uncertainty is very difficult.� Lancaster, who went through the process more than 30 years ago, said beyond job security, tenure allows professors to research or teach in areas that are controversial. “One of the benefits of tenure is that the discussion of unpopular topics does not put your job at risk,� Lancaster said. “Tenure is supposed to eliminate that kind of impediment to free inquiry.� Chair of Faculty Senate Ronald Shields said as far as he is concerned, job security is the least important element of tenure. “[Tenure] is an important part of faculty life,� Shields said. “It

guarantees a level of quality work within given programs, and it is a recognition of excellence.� Shields said that an individual with tenure is expected to perform, in a productive way, to ensure the quality of instruction, research and service. There are consequences if an individual is not doing their job. “Tenure is not forever. If you don’t have a good job performance, tenure can be revoked,� Shields said. The University Charter states that tenure can be revoked through death, retirement, discontinuance of the position for financial reasons, not accepting a teaching assignment for the next ensuing academic year or termination for adequate reasons. Dean of the college of musical arts Richard Kennell said the tenure track typically happens during a period of six years. After the first three years of being hired, there will be a mid-course review of the individual’s portfolio. At this time, feedback is provided to help the assistant professor prepare for the next review in three years which decides whether or not an individual is given tenure. “So these reviews don’t happen in a vacuum — there is annual input from department chairs [and] there’s peer reviews of teaching. There are all kinds of opportunities for input along the path to tenure,� Kennell said. He said the tenure process includes a review by tenured members of the department,

a review by the chair of the department, a review by the dean of the college and then a review by the Provost. The provost then forwards his own review to the Board of Trustees. Lancaster said the many levels of the evaluation process contribute to stress. “At any level something can go wrong and you are aware of this,� Lancaster said. “It is quite stressful.� After obtaining tenure, an assistant professor will be promoted to associate. An associate professor can then apply to be a full professor. “Tenure is what gets you the benefits of the continued employment, and if you want to advance from a associate professor to a full professor, then there is another review where you document your continued scholarship and successful teaching record,� Kennell said. Lancaster, who never applied to be a full professor, said the promotion involves the same amount of effort to obtain as tenure but not as much stress. “It is a big difference because if you don’t get promoted, you still have a job. But if you don’t get tenure, you don’t,� he said. “So right there is a big, big difference in stress level.� Kennell said that while tenure can be stressful, it is a goal to work for. “Obviously it is important. And with anything important that people care about, it is going to increase the level of stress involved with it because they care about it,� he said. “I don’t think its a pain-free process, but it is one that people take seriously and work hard at.�

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PREPARE: Seniors Nadia Gibbons, Curtis McKinnon and Michelle Haldeman hang out in the Black Student Union’s suite, No. 419, on the fourth floor of the BTSU. Gibbons said they were working on planning the next BSU meeting.

place in the spring of 2011. The Union Activities Organization (UAO) utilizes the largest office suite on the fourth floor. “We plan 28 events a semester like concerts, movies and comedy shows,� said Candice Loehrke, vice president of finance. The UAO headquarters has been located in the Union for 50 years, and it is the only organization that has always been located in the Union. The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) and the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) offices are the only other permanent organizational offices

on the fourth floor, located across from the UAO office. The suite mainly consists of multiple offices, a conference room and a lobby area, said office assistant Tyler Deitsch. “The USG and GSS offices were previously located in the administration building and Saddlemire,� said Alice Cook, secretary for USG and GSS. Located in the front-center of the fourth floor is the Student Organizations Suite that is home to 41 different student organization. Some of the organizations include the African Peoples Association, the HeeBeeBGs and the College Democrats.

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Man has yet to harness technology to properly discover past the stars KYLE SCHMIDLIN FORUM EDITOR Stars can’t help but beg the question: Are we alone in the universe? Man has tried to answer this question numerous ways. The ancients assumed the heavens to be a realm of the gods. Since then, the gods have disappeared, replaced by Klingons, Xenomorphs and Tralfalmadorians. But however imaginative or superstitious man might be about what lies beyond our immediate perception, the only answer science can offer so far is, “We don’t know.” At least not yet. The search for extraterrestrial life has yielded disappointingly few results, but we haven’t been at it for very long. In 1954, Frank Drake, a Cornell astronomer, developed the Drake equation, a way of quantifying the likelihood of life forming elsewhere using a simple formula which included, among other things, the number of planetharboring stars, number of planets which form life and expected lifetime of a technological civilization. Drake’s pioneering work led to the foundation of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Using a radio telescope (a telescope attuned particularly to radio wave emissions) Drake attempted to see if a nybody else was doing what humans were — broadcasting our presence to the rest of the cosmos through radio transmission. Of course, Drake’s equation contains many built-in assumptions, one of which is t hat intelligent civ ilizat ions w i l l broadca st. Humans have been broadcasting for about 90 years; long enough for our signal to reach the star Gamma Crucis 90 light-years away. For comparison, our galaxy, the Milky Way, is about 100,000 light-years across. This means a millionth of our galaxy could possibly be

aware of our presence, and they’d have to be fortunate enough to have the technology to “listen” during those 90 years. In order for communication to actually happen, other civilizations must be listening at the same time we’re sending. For a star 90 light years away, a single back-and-forth communication would take 180 years. If we assume the age of a technological civilization to be 500 years, the chances of a particular planet’s inhabitants hearing our broadcast would then be roughly .00002 percent at best, based on the not-unreasonable assumption that our galaxy has been able to produce life-supporting planets for 5 billion years. While it may appear bleak, this probability multiplied by the number of stars in the Milky Way is 2 million — if every star in the Milky Way is listening, given enough time, that many of them should hear us (and, ideally, we them). Although it’s seriously unlikely every single star contains intelligent life-supporting planets, there’s a good chance life itself may be very abundant. When we look for the fundamental “stuff” of life — including water, carbon and even complex molecules like amino acids - we find it everywhere: in the atmospheres of other worlds, embedded in asteroids and even in interstellar space. Of course, Earth is the only sample we have, the only world known to harbor life, but the life here dates to nearly 4 billion years ago, as far back as the geologic record will let us look. This suggests as soon as conditions on Earth allowed it to, life formed and spread. Our own immediate galactic neighborhood, the Solar System, contains several potential candidates for life. Chief among these are Mars, which shows evidence of having at one time lakes and rivers on its surface and an early atmosphere similar to Earth’s, and Jupiter’s moon Europa, believed to contain a vast liquid water ocean beneath its cracked, icy surface. And when scientists search

for life elsewhere in the galaxy, it is water they look for first. Using a variety of sophisticated methods, including determining a “wobble” in a star’s orbit caused by orbiting planets and a dimming of the star’s light as a planet passes between the star and observers on Earth, astronomers are finding new planets in other star systems almost daily. By characterizing the light emitted from a star, astronomers can determine the elemental composition of that star. A new mission, Kepler, is designed to look for Earthlike planets in nearby star systems. Where we see water and better still, free oxygen — which, as far as science currently knows, is only maintained by biological processes like photosynthesis — we will have a likely candidate for a life-supporting system. Still, Earthlings have no reason to presume water and carbon to be fundamental to life. It may be harder to do, but other elements can do many of the same functions. Silicon, for example, can bond organic material together. The resiliency of life on Earth suggests it could exist in just about any form. Recentlydiscovered “extremophiles” can live in volcanic vents and solid ice. One recent study at the University of Manchester demonstrated spontaneous creation of RNA molecules. Simply get the right stuff together (and the “right stuff” is everywhere) and the basis for RNA molecules will combine. It’s simple chemistry, and the building block of life as we know it. Civilizations like us may well have existed, but only for brief periods. One variable of Drake’s equation is the lifetime of a technological civilization. Creatures which evolve the technological capacity to destroy themselves must also evolve the (truly basic) morality required to avoid that fate. If humans hope to have any chance of interacting with our cosmic neighbors, our morality must catch up with our technology soon. Otherwise, we may not be around to hear the “Hello” from Gamma Centauri.

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Filling out census is important for government and community Just do it. The U.S. Government shipped out approximately 120 million U.S. Census forms this week. The mission? To successfully judge how many people live in this country and where. The goal? To have every single American accounted for. In addition to population count, the U.S. Census is important for two reasons. First, it’s crucial for accurate government representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. Unlike the U.S. Senate — which has two senators representing each state — the 435 politicians are determined proportionally by how many people live in the state. Second, filling out the census is vital for obtaining a piece of the $400 billion the government will be dishing out. Each year, the government allocates $400 billion to statesponsored facilities such as parks, libraries and schools. Not completing or mailing the census back to be counted is detrimental to a country in critical trouble. Researchers are estimating more than 33 percent of citizens will not fill out the census, costing the government hundreds of

millions of dollars to send employees doorto-door to collect results in April. But why the apprehension? The questions are easy. All the government wants to know is your name, residence, date of birth, race, how many people live in the residence, if you stay somewhere else other than your current address and if you own or rent the property. They also ask for your phone number in case they need clarification on an answer. People shouldn’t fret about their personal information being in the wrong hands. The U.S. Census keeps all information confidential for 72 years, only using the answers to tabulate results. The 1940 U.S. Census will become public record in 2012. It doesn’t cost any money to fill out the form, and the big, white government envelope requires no postage to mail. It also won’t be a time constraint. You can fill out the 10-question form before your professor arrives to class or when you are waiting in line for food in the Union. It’s been dubbed the “shortest form in history.” We’re thinking it should be called “the easiest way to make money for your community.”

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UN rights chief says Gaza war probes inadequate

Brazilian president places wreath on Arafat’s tomb

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Frail, bonecold and surrounded by death, Jewish teenager Anne Frank did her best to distract younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales, a Holocaust survivor said. The account by Berthe Meijer, now 71, of being a 6-year-old inmate of Bergen Belsen offers a rare glimpse of Anne in the final weeks of her life in the German camp, struggling to keep up her own spirits even as she tried to lift the morale of the smaller children. That Anne had a gift for storytelling was evident from the diary she kept during two years in hiding with her family in Amsterdam. The scattered pages were collected and published after the war in what became the most widely read book to emerge from the Holocaust. But Meijer’s memoir, being published in Dutch later this month, is the first to mention Anne’s talent for spinning tales even in the despair of the camp.

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights has criticized Israeli and Palestinian authorities for failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes last year in the Gaza Strip. Navi Pillay says Israel’s investigations are “inadequate.� She also said in a report published Wednesday that as yet there is “no indication of credible investigations� by the Palestinians. A U.N.-appointed expert panel led by South African judge Richard Goldstone recommended last year that Israel and the Palestinians conduct independent investigations into the three-week war. Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian envoy at the U.N. in Geneva, said he expects credible probes to be carried out in the coming months. Israeli officials in Geneva wouldn’t immediately comment.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Brazil’s president placed a wreath on the tomb of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday and sharply criticized Israeli policies, leading Israeli officials to suggest he was not being evenhanded. Making the first visit by any sitting Brazilian president to Israel and the Palestinian territories, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has termed the trip amission of peace.� The visit appears aimed at helping Brazil emerge as a bigger player in foreign affairs. Brazil could play a bridging role: the country is Israel’s largest trading partner in Latin America, but also has close ties to Iran, Israel’s archenemy. Silva has been a defender of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, which Israel sees as a potentially grave threat. Silva laid a yellow and green wreath on Arafat’s mausoleum on Wednesday, following protocol for visiting leaders. The visit came a day after Israel’s hawkish foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said he boycotted meetings with Silva because the Brazilian did not pay a similar visit to the grave of Zionist founder Theodor Herzl.

UK can’t guarantee allies don’t torture detainees David Stringer The Associated Press

LONDON — Britain’s government can’t completely rule out that its allies torture detainees while seeking to tackle the threat from terrorism, according to an official report released Wednesday. An annual report on human rights, issued by Foreign Secretary David Miliband, said Britain must work with intelligence agencies overseas, not all of whom share U.K. standards and laws. “But we cannot afford the luxury of only dealing with those that do. The intelligence we get from others saves British lives,� the report said. The government said in the report that it does all it can to check that people detained by other nations who are considered intelligence sources aren’t badly treated. But the government acknowl-

edged “there are times when we cannot reduce the risk to zero.� Police are investigating the actions of two British intelligence officers over their alleged complicity in the torture of people held overseas. A dozen ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees — 11 of whom now live in Britain — have begun legal cases against Britain, accusing the government of being involved or condoning their alleged mistreatment overseas. Prime Minister Gordon Brown had repeatedly insisted Britain does not condone torture, or solicit others to torture on its behalf. Launchingthereport,Miliband said Britain has a responsibility to cooperate in probes about such cases as terror networks in South Asia and drug trafficking in the Caribbean — even though “engaging with foreign justice and security organizations may expose us to human rights risks.� The minister had previously

“The intelligence we get from others saves British lives.� David Miliband | Foreign secretary acknowledged that Britain has stopped operations with allies to question suspects when officials believed they could not guarantee detainees involved would not be mistreated. “This is never an easy judgment, and we would be failing in our twin duties to defend the country and uphold human rights if we pretended that there was never a tension between the two,� the report said. Last week, the former head of the country’s domestic spy agency MI5, Eliza ManninghamBuller, said U.S. intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, over its treatment of suspected terrorists.

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CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio judge has learned that a colleague allowed a newspaper reporter to see a psychiatric evaluation on a Cleveland man accused of killing 11 women. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold said Wednesday that Judge Timothy McGinty called her and said he had allowed a reporter at The Plain Dealer to see the report. The report concluded Sowell was unlikely to assault women after he finished a prison term for attempted rape. Saffold has backed off a threat to arrest the journalist, Gabriel Baird. Saffold had ordered Baird be arrested after he missed a Tuesday hearing to find out his source. McGinty was attending a family funeral and could not be reached for comment Wednesday. A message was left at his office.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. David Paterson’s press secretary is resigning, making her the fourth top staffer to resign amid scandals that threaten the administration. Press Secretary Marissa Shorenstein said she is quitting because her reported role in one of the scandals makes her unable to do her job effectively. She said it has been a privilege to work for Paterson. The New York Times had reported that Shorenstein, at Paterson’s direction, contacted a woman who had accused a trusted Paterson aide of abuse. The woman dropped her claim soon after. Shorenstein said she has always performed her duties with integrity and based her actions “on what I believed to be true at the time.� Paterson’s communications director, deputy public safety secretary and state police superintendent have also resigned.

DETROIT (AP) — The emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools said more than a quarter of the district’s schools will close in June as it struggles with budget issues and declining enrollment. Robert Bobb announced the closures of 44 of the district’s 172 schools Wednesday as part of a proposed five-year plan to create a leaner district. Six more schools are slated to close in June 2011, and seven more a year later. Many current programs will be moved to other buildings. Bond money would be used to build new schools in targeted neighborhoods. The closures are in addition to the shuttering of 29 schools before last fall. The nearly 88,000-student district faces a deficit of at least $219 million. Full-time enrollment is projected to drop to about 56,000 by 2015.

CAMPBELLTON, Texas (AP) — A broken drive shaft likely caused a Mexico-bound bus to veer wildly on a Texas highway before flipping over, killing two passengers and injuring 40 others on board, investigators said Wednesday. The drive shaft, which transfers power from the engine to the wheels, apparently fell off before the Americanos USA bus carrying 42 people careened from the right lane toward the median and spun wildly, Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said. She said the findings were preliminary, and that the investigation was ongoing. The crash occurred along Interstate 37 about 45 miles from San Antonio, from where the bus had departed. It was carrying spring breakers and other travelers to the Mexican border city of Matamoros, with planned stops in Falfurrias and McAllen, Texas.

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Nation, world go green to Obama’s health care commemorate St. Patrick’s Day plan gets support from Cities prepare for large, rowdy crowds for festive holiday parades in the midst of economic troubles By Sara Kugler and Verena Dobnik The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Dancing Dubliners and New York City paradegoers wearing kilts and green body paint led the world in celebrating St. Patrick on Wednesday along sun-warmed parade routes in gatherings large and small. As many as a quarter-million marchers headed up Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue for the world’s oldest and largest St. Patrick’s Day parade, just as crowds gathered along parade routes in Dublin and cities around the country to mark the emerald-hued holiday. It was a mix of lighthearted cheer and serious politics at the White House, where President Barack Obama met with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen. Obama noted that 36 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, adding, “I’m sure more do on St. Patrick’s Day.� “And it’s a testament I think to how close our two countries are that America has been shaped culturally, politically, economically by the incredible contributions of Irish Americans,� Obama said. In Savannah, Ga., organizers put up crowd control barricades for the first time in preparation for large numbers at the city’s

186th St. Patrick’s Day parade, and Columbus, Ohio, was expecting a record 121 marching groups including Irish clubs, police and fire departments, and pipe and drum bands. The day was kicked off in earnest by the more than a half-million people who lined the 2-mile route of the flagship Dublin parade, which had a theme this year celebrating the global spread of the Irish. Mixed in with the usual displays of U.S. marching bands and Irish sporting heroes were dancing troupes from Africa and India, bands from Austria and France, giant insect floats from Spain, and Dubliners dancing with mops and dusters. The holiday seemed to stand for a simultaneous celebration of spring, with many cities experiencing temperatures in the 60s after a harsh winter. The embrace of Irish heritage and culture in New York City includes bands, bagpipes and grand marshal Ray Kelly, the city’s police commissioner. The 249th St. Patrick’s Day extravaganza will be the last of New York City’s world-famous parades to take place before new restrictions go into effect April 1 requiring all parades to be shorter to save money. John Rupy, of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., considered this news along the parade route, where

he arrived dressed in a kilt with his skin painted green. “That’s not good,� he said, “because the whole world comes to this.� The city issued the new parade rules in February. All parades must cut routes by 25 percent and reduce time to less than five hours, changes estimated to save $3.1 million in police expenses. The St. Patrick’s Day parade runs about 2.1 miles from 44th Street to 86th Street and is typically a six-hour celebration. Some welcomed the idea of a pared-down event. “It’ll be good because people will be able to get where they’re going easier,� said Yogesh Pai, of Henderson, Texas, as he navigated the crowd with his 5-year-old son. In Boston, city and state government offices were largely shuttered as locals marked Evacuation Day, commemorating a British retreat from Boston in March 1776. But because it coincides with St. Patrick’s Day, it has become a controversial holiday amid the down economy as private sector employees continue to trudge to their jobs. Legislative Republicans failed Tuesday in their latest effort to repeal the holiday, a move that Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick supports.

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While the Black Rose and other Boston Irish pubs opened as early as 6 a.m., the city was not holding a parade. That took place Sunday in South Boston, but the crowds were sharply off amid the nor’easter that lashed the region. With the sun shining and temperatures in the 60s, a large turnout was expected in New York City. Parade participants on Wednesday included the “Fighting 69th,� a New York National Guard unit whose history stretches to the U.S. Civil War when immigrants made up the so-called “Irish Brigade� of the Union Army. Gov. David Paterson and Mayor Michael Bloomberg attended Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral before the parade. Representatives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups were not allowed to participate in the march — at least, not under their own banner. Members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, who run the nation’s biggest St. Patrick’s Day celebration, say they may invite whomever they please. Bloomberg favors inclusion but still planned to participate. The day is named after St. Patrick, who introduced Christianity to Ireland about 1,500 years ago and became the country’s patron saint.

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Kucinich, Catholics By Alan Fram and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s much-challenged health care overhaul gained traction Wednesday as a liberal lawmaker became the first to switch his opposition and Catholic nuns declared their support in an unusual public break with the bishops. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, long a supporter of Medicare-for-all, voted against the House Democratic bill in November because it did not go far enough in creating a robust government-run plan to compete with private insurance. But Kucinich said Wednesday that the bill coming before the House represents the best chance to expand coverage to the uninsured, even if it does not include a public plan. At a Capitol Hill news conference, Kucinich said his decision was a combination of pragmatism and concern about the impact that defeat of the health care bill would have on Obama’s presidency. “You do have to be very careful that the potential of President Obama’s presidency not be destroyed by this debate,� said Kucinich. “Even though I have many differences with him on policy, there’s something much bigger at stake here for America.� Kucinich said he’d met with Obama four times to discuss the health overhaul, most recently on Monday when he flew back to Ohio with the president aboard Air Force One. Obama called Kucinich’s decision “a good sign.� At stake is a bill that would cover some 30 million uninsured people, end insurance practices such as denying coverage to those with a preexisting conditions, require almost all Americans to get coverage by law and try to slow the cost of medical care nationwide. The comprehensive legislation could affect nearly every American, from those undergoing annual checkups to people facing major surgery.

“We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering ...� Sister Simone Campbell | Network Democratic leaders hope to vote this weekend. Meanwhile, in a rare public disagreement that will reverberate among the nation’s 70 million Catholics, leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 nuns sent lawmakers a letter urging lawmakers to pass the Senate health care bill. Expected to come before the House by this weekend, the measure contains abortion funding restrictions that the bishops say don’t go far enough. “Despite false claims to the contrary, the Senate bill will not provide taxpayer funding for elective abortions,� said the letter signed by 60 leaders of women’s religious orders. “It will uphold longstanding conscience protections and it will make historic new investments ... in support of pregnant women. This is the real pro-life stance, and we as Catholics are all for it.� The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Right to Life Committee have denounced the bill as a backdoor subsidy for abortion. But the nuns and the Catholic Health Association — representing some 600 hospitals — say restrictions in the Senate bill would still prevent taxpayer funding for abortion, although the legal mechanism for doing so is different from what the bishops prefer. “This is politics; this isn’t a question of faith and morals,� said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a national Catholic social activism lobby. “We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don’t have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faithbased response to human need.�

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“It was beyond exciting. You’re a little kid and that’s what you dream of and actually having it become reality, I have no words.”

Mid-American Conference regulars season and tournament Player of Year Lauren Prochaska and her teammates will leave tonday for their NCAA Tournament game at 1 p.m. from Anderson Arena. Fans are encouraged to arrive at Anderson Arena at 12:30 and see the team off.

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his first retirement after 17 months away from the NBA. 1991—Reggie Miller ends his streak of 52 consecutive games with at least one made free throw. 1945—Maurice “Rocket” Richard becomes the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season.

LAURA BUGHER • FORWARD “I remember all the excitement of going to the tournament, really close, intense games and especially that memory of when we made it to the Sweet 16.”

The List With the post game playing a major role in the Falcons first round matchup with Michigan State on Saturday, today we take a look at BG’s top five performances inside the paint this season: 1. March 10: Against Miami in the quarterfinals of the MAC Tournament, senior Tara Breske grabbed six rebounds and had 20 points on 9-of-15 shooting from the floor. 2. Feb. 6: Breske finished with a double-double of 13 points and 12 rebounds in BG’s win against Ball State. 3. Feb. 24.: Jen Uhl shot 8-of-11 from the field and finished with 20 points and eight rebounds in a win at Buffalo. 4. Feb. 20: Just a game prior, Uhl posted a doubledouble with 10 points and 10 rebounds in the Falcons’ win at Akron. 5. Jan. 23: In 19 minutes of work, Kelly Zuercher posted 10 points and five rebounds and shot 62.5 percent from the field in BG’s win against Eastern Michigan.

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On Saturday, BG will play its first NCAA Tournament game since the 2007 Sweet 16, solidifying their position as the most dominant team in the Mid-American Conference during the past decade. But, while the BG women will be playing in the Big Dance, four other MAC teams will also be headed to postseason play. Toledo, Eastern Michigan and Kent State all received bids to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament, while Akron will be partaking in the inaugural Women’s Basketball Invitational (WBI). It’s a huge advancement for the MAC after so many years of being a league that has traditionally sent two teams to postseason play. “We’re really excited that five out of 12 teams, and well deserved, got into postseason play,” BG coach Curt Miller said. “It’s going to help all of us, and our entire league in the recruiting wars that over half our teams went to postseason play.” Granted the number of teams in the WNIT expanded from 40 to 64 and the WBI opened up 16 other possibilities, but the past success of BG women’s basketball may have helped punch other MAC school’s postseason tickets. BG proved that MAC schools can compete on the highest level, reaching the Sweet 16 in 2007, and then last year, Ball State solidified the ideal, stunning defending champion Tennessee in the first round. Even when BG hasn’t made the Big Dance, they’ve performed well in the WNIT. Last year, BG made it to the third round, hosting two games and then a year earlier they played a strong game at Michigan State, a team they’ll play in NCAA Tournament play Saturday. Regardless of the MAC’s past success, they still probably would have sent two teams to this year’s WNIT. But, without BG and Ball State’s performances, Eastern Michigan probably would not be headed to the post season. So while BG will be tangling with Michigan State in the NCAA Tournament, four other MAC schools season will live on thanks to the Falcons.

Post play will be pivotal in matchup with Michigan St. By Paul Barney Assistant Sports Editor

The post game is one of the most physical, most important components of a basketball game, and for the BG women’s basketball team, it’s becoming more and more crucial as they head into the NCAA Tournament. The Falcons’ inside presence played a major role in their winning the MidA mer ic a n C on fer enc e Tournament last week. In wins against Miami, Akron and Toledo, BG outs cored its opponents by an average of 24.7 points and grabbed an average of 10 more rebounds per game. Tara Breske and Jen Uhl played a big part to that success. In those three games, Breske shot 52.9 percent from the field

“They’re huge. We have mismatches in nearly every position. How we do with points in the paint, how we are able to compete on the boards is going to be a big, big story.” Curt Miller | BG Coach and averaged 13 points and six rebounds per game. Uhl was just as dominant, averaging 8.7 points and 6.3 rebounds per game as she went on to shoot 50 percent from the field. Last week, the Falcons played as good a post-play as they’ve done all season, and with a Saturday first-round matchup with one of the most dominant post teams in women’s basketball in Michigan State, BG

will have to bring that same kind of intensity in the paint as they brought in the MAC Tournament. “They’re huge. We have mismatches in nearly every position,” BG coach Curt Miller said. “How we do with points in the paint, how we are able to compete on the boards is going to be a big, big story.”

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