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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Volume 104, Issue 137

New school, major in University’s future

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ASL 1 takes class out of the classroom to enjoy the spring weather

Don McQuarie

By Nicole Krohn Reporter

Soon there may be a new school at the University.

Ethnic studies, women’s studies, American culture studies and popular culture may be reorganizing and combining to form the School of Cultural and Critical Studies.

The new school will offer a larger variety of classes to students, allowing faculty to work together more and possibly create a new major in Cultural and Critical Studies said Don McQuarie, director of American Culture Studies. “It’s the natural thing to do,� he said. “And it intellectually appeals to faculty because they will be able to work together.

Faculty will be able to work across departments and teach courses in multiple areas.�

Junior Jennifer Irving, an ethnic studies minor, said

Director of American Culture Studies she thinks the new school is a good idea and will probably attract more students to the department. “I’m sure more students will go into the college and they will have a more concrete set of students,� she said. “With a school, they would be more extensive and have a bigger face on campus. Many students choose to only minor in the areas, and I think this way more would choose it as a major.�

Irving said her main concern with the new school is that it would change the requirements

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Feminist blogger visits campus, talks about book

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MYTH BUSTER: Feminist blogger Jessica Valenti speaks in the Union Wednesday evening.

By Mike Hays Reporter

“It seems like I didn’t have a choice,� she said. “When you’re an opinionated woman Jessica Valenti wrote a book titled and you grow up in this world “The Purity Myth: How America’s and you’re taught so often that Obsession with Virginity is your opinion doesn’t matter, you have no choice but to fight Hurting Young Women.�

In her book, Valenti looks at against that; it seemed like a the way women are affected by natural thing for me.�

Valenti considers herself a the image of women being only feminist journalist, even though virgins or sluts. “The American culture, right she said she thinks the term is now at this particular histori- an oxymoron. “Journalism is cal moment, where you’re see- thought to be objective and feming this hypersexualized pop inism is certainly not objective,� culture where women are just she said. “I think of the work that shown as loving sex and want- I do as media advocacy work; ing sex all the time ... how that’s I don’t do objective journalism. really crashing into conservative All of the writing that I do is virginity culture. That’s telling opinionated and it is activism. It women, that if you want to be is for a cause, and it is to advocate good, if you want to be valued, on behalf of women’s issues.�

Valenti also said woman aren’t you have to be virgins, you have the only people who can be to be chaste,� Valenti said.

The feminist blogger and advocates for women’s issues. “I reject the idea that you have writer hosted a workshop on campus Wednesday, talking to be a woman to fight on behalf to students about her views on See VALENTI | Page 2 feminism and why she became a feminist writer.

PHOTOS BY | ALAINA BUZAS TOP: Sophomore Holly Delgar follows along in her American Sign Language class, which was held on the lawn near the Education Building Wednesday afternoon.

BOTTOM: Annette Barga, instructor in the School of Intervention Services, leads her ASL class in a lesson about family and people.

University trombonist wins first place, receives $3,000 at national competition in Albuquerque

By Max Filby Reporter

major competing,� Gruber said. “It’s nice for teachers to be able to show that we can Senior trombonist John Gruber perform too.�

Gruber and his current almost never got the chance to accompanist, Sara Young, won compete at the national level.

However, a last-minute the National Young Artists rehearsal with Laura Melton, Competition presented by associate professor and tem- the Music Teachers National porary accompanist, allowed Association in Albuquerque, Gruber to advance to the final N.M. on March 22. Along with round of the National Young his cash prize, Gruber was also Artists Competition, where he honored by performing his repsecured a first place honor and a ertoire at the winner’s concert on March 23. $3,000 grand prize.

Gruber and Young had close “I was the only education

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John to a month to prepare for the third round of the national comGruber petition. Gruber met Young in Won first place at rehearsals while collaborating National Young with Gruber’s roommate, Joel Artists Competition Trisel, Young said.

For the final round, Gruber and Young prepared five selections from the baroque, modern Before qualifying for the and classical periods, accord- national competition, Gruber ing to a University document. progressed through two preGruber performed his songs liminary rounds, the first in in a 40-minute session in front Cleveland in October, and the of a panel of judges including See MUSIC | Page 2 members of the New Mexico Symphony.

SPORTS Falcons lose to Wolverines The Falcons took on the Wolverines Wednesday afternoon but were unable to pull through for a win, losing by three with an 8-5 final score | Page 6

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Debate temporarily opens city yard waste drop-off site, options examined

By Christine Talbert Reporter

Municipal Administrator for the city, said the input of citizens through the city council memAfter disagreements between bers indicated that the desire for council members on city yard this service to be reopened was waste drop-off at last Monday’s very high. “We had a choice to either keep city council meeting, the Bowling Green Yard Waste Collection site the yard waste drop off open opened temporarily to eligible to residents, or closed, during the time period in which we are residents last Friday.

Eligible residents include exploring and discussing the those who receive a collection of options we have in this drop-off curbside pickup of garbage and service,� Trettor said. “We need to look over budget balancing recycling.

Municipal Administrator John strategies if we are going to make Fawcett said after discussing the this work. “ Trettor said a significant issue with city council, they have decided to use the drop-off as a amount of time is being put into deciding what is best for the city temporary substitute option. “We’ve listened to the input and the residents. “Back in November, the profrom our citizens and, working with city council, decided to posed 0.08 percent tax increase reopen the site on a temporary was going to fund these servicbasis while the use of the site or es and provided the city with alternatives are more thoroughly approximately $72,000,� she said. “But since it did not pass, examined,� Fawcett said.

The city’s yard waste drop-off it eliminated two of three heavy site is located at the Public Works item pickups, and one of two Facility at 815 E. Poe Rd. and will brush pickups annually.�

The city’s Web site states the reopen at 8 a.m. Friday. Its regular hours will be daily from 8 a.m. city has had ongoing challenges with the year’s budget and to 8 p.m.

The drop-off is only for “green hopes to minimize the cost of waste� and is only eligible for this service. “The Public Waste Department residents who receive curbside refuse/recycling collection by is decreasing in size, not through layoffs but through attrition,� the city.

Lauren Trettor, Assistant said Trettor. “Because of the

“We need to look over budget balancing strategies if we are going to make this work.�

Lauren Trettor | Administrator decreasing number of workers, minimizing the cost of this service is an ongoing challenge, especially since the municipal budget is always a changing process.�

The city’s next curbside collection of yard waste will occur in October. However, residents may take brush to the Wood County Landfill and drop it off there for a fee. According to the Wood County Solid Waste Management Web site, they will collect brush up to 24 inches in diameter and the charge is $20 per ton of waste with a $5 minimum fee. “It is important for the residents of the city to cooperate and are careful not to put their yard waste in with their garbage,� she said. “Once the trash gets to the landfill, the trash and brush has to be sorted out. This takes more time and sometimes more man power, which ultimately costs the city more money.�

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it will be real good for students.�

McQuarie also said the school will be good for the departments From Page 1 in general. “Instead of four little departand make it more challenging to be a major or minor in any of the ments, now we may be a big bully on campus,� he said. four departments .

Even with the new school, “If they changed the level of difficulty, that would be really the four units will not lose unfair,� she said. “But overall, I their autonomy, said Timothy Messer-Kruse, professor and think it’s actually a great idea.�

However, McQuarie said all chair of ethnic studies. He major programs will continue also said there will be no cuts and the reorganizing should not in faculty of staff, and in the change requirements for cur- future they may be able to hire rent students in the program even more faculty. “Our hope is by creating the or delay graduation. However, there may be some future school we will be able to prochanges in curriculum such mote our programs better and as the development of com- get higher national recognimon courses to be taken by all tion,� Messer-Kruse said. “It will highlight the strengths of majors within the school. “We’re hoping to have some BG because people recognized exciting courses to bring stu- Bowling Green as a real area of dents together,� he said. “I think strength in this area – interdis-

ciplinary cultural studies.�

Messer-Kruse said the reorganization, which they have been working on for over two years, will happen in phases over the next year. “It’s going to happen, it’s just a matter of when,� he said. “Even though we might not have the sign outside that says we’re a school, the fact we have been cooperating has strengthened our units. There are real gains in the way our faculty has been working.�

Messer-Kruse said once the school is established, it will be a gain for everyone involved. “It will strengthen all our programs, allow faculty a greater range of opportunities and allow students a greater range of choices,� he said. “If you look at the overall variety, it will increase.�

MUSIC From Page 1

Being a music education major, Gruber is required to learn how to play every musical instrument to a minimal extent. Gruber hopes to be a public school music teacher in Ohio. “I figured out in high school that I wanted to go into music,�

Gruber said, “I want to help young people find something important as a form of self expression.�

Gruber will be performing in his senior recital on April 24 at 6 p.m. in the Moore Musical Arts Center.

second in Wisconsin in January.

Prior to competing in the NYAC, Gruber had competed in the Akron Tuesday Music Festival as a sophomore.

When Gruber first picked up a trombone in the fifth grade, he wanted to be a pilot and had never considered majoring in instrumental music education. “I chose to play the trombone because it had no buttons and looked like the easiest instrument

to play,� Gruber said.

Gruber began taking private trombone lessons in the eighth grade and started working with Dr. William Mathis, professor of music performance studies, in high school. “John played in the University’s trombone choir when he was a junior in high school,� Mathis said. “We started working together through weekly lessons.�

Gruber has been involved in the University marching band, Jazz Lab 1, the wind symphony and the men’s chorus during the past four years.

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then it ceases to be useful,�

Valenti said.

When Valenti began her From Page 1 college education, she was of woman’s rights,� Valenti said. a journalism student and According to her Web site, didn’t see herself going into Jessicavalenti.com, Valenti feminist writing. “I took a class on a lark and earned a master’s in women’s and gender studies from found it,� she said. “Taking my first women’s and gender Rutgers University. “The masters degree helped studies class is what sparked me have a more analytical my interest.�

In addition to her three mind around the issues and gave me more of a base in fem- books, Valenti is founder and editor of Feministing.com — inist theory,� she said.

That base helped her realize which is host to her and other that feminism should not be feminist’s blogs. Valenti has another book in mind; howlinked to college campuses. “Feminism is supposed to ever, she said she also has her be for everyone, not just peo- attention on film. “I’m working with [media ple who go to college, and I think when you start to study education] foundation to make things that people who don’t the purity myth into a docugo to college can’t understand, mentary,� Valenti said.

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A great brouhaha has arisen about a mid-level bureaucrat in Israel’s Ministry of the Interior releasing a routine notice that 1,600 residences were to be built in Jerusalem. To the surprise of many, this routine announcement was construed as an insult or worse to Vice President Biden, who was visiting in Israel at the time. Mrs. Clinton, the Secretary of State, also was “shocked� and sent a “stern message� of displeasure to Mr. Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. “infidel� may visit.

A tenuous Muslim claim. It is on the basis of this Capital of Israel. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel religious tradition that the Muslims designated the and will remain that whatever the final entire Jewish Temple Mount to be their holy site. The accommodation with the Palestinians may be and Israeli government, in its constant spirit of whatever the “world,â€? including the United States, accommodation to Muslim sensibilities, has largely may desire. That has been understood and recognized acceded to this tradition and has put the area in and by every U.S. Administration since the very birth of around the two mosques Israel. Therefore, to be entirely under Muslim “shockedâ€? by an “Jerusalem is the undivided control. But how would announcement that Israel will capital of Israel‌there is no Christians feel if, instead of build housing for its citizens from the Temple Mount, in its capital is strange. This is reason at all why the Israeli tradition had a trumped-up situation and government could not plan and Muslim Mohammed ascend from the puts the relationship with Israel with one fell swoop on build residences for its citizens‌â€? Church of the Holy Sepulcher and if the Muslim Arabs were an entirely different level. It is to claim that site as their property? The Christian strange because the President himself has stated that world, often ready to consent to Muslim claims Jerusalem should remain undivided as Israel’s against Jews and Israelis, would be greatly astonished capital. So has Mrs. Clinton, especially when she was and would certainly resist such claim. But Muslim senator of New York and felt to be much dependent Arab assertiveness doesn’t end there. On the tenuous on Jewish support. It almost appears as if somebody claim of their right to the Temple Mount, they have in the administration wanted to produce a “crisisâ€? construed a claim to the entire city of Jerusalem (or and was looking for an expedient way to accomplish at the very least to its eastern part), which they have that. declared to be their “third holiest city.â€? And, it would The Muslim Palestinians also claim Jerusalem, or be an insult to all Muslims and all Arabs to leave the at least its eastern part, as their capital. They want city in the hands of the “infidel Jews.â€? the city to be divided – as it was between 1948 when Jerusalem: Never an Arab capital. The city of the Jordanians occupied the eastern part of the city – Jerusalem – in contrast to Baghdad, Cairo or until 1967, when the Israelis liberated it in the SixDamascus – has never played any major role in the Day War. political and religious lives of the Muslim Arabs. It The principal basis for the Muslim claim is that was never a political center, never a national, or even Jerusalem does indeed contain an Islamic holy site, a provincial or sub-provincial capital of any country, namely the Temple Mount (sacred to both Muslims since Biblical times. It was the site of one Muslim and Jews) with its two mosques, El Aksa and the holy place, but otherwise a backwater to the Arabs.

Dome of the Rock. It is the place from which The passion for Jerusalem was not discovered by the Mohammed, who never in his life had set foot in the Muslim Arabs until most recent history. city, is believed to have ascended to heaven. But But Jerusalem has stood at the center of the Jewish aware that it was the holy city of Christians and Jews, people’s national life since King David made it his and wishing to convert them to his new religion, he capital in 1000 BCE. After the return from commanded his followers to build a mosque in Babylonian exile, Jerusalem again served as the Jerusalem. But never in Muslim history did this capital of the Jewish people for the next five-and-amosque or this city compare in significance to the half centuries. holy cities of Mecca and Medina – cities that no

What are the facts?

Jews are not the usurpers in Jerusalem. They have been living there since the Biblical era and have been the majority population since the 19th century. Jews have synagogues and other holy sites in most cities of the world. But do they claim sovereignty over those cities because of it? Of course not! It would be preposterous and people wouldn’t accept it. Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel and will remain so. That is why there is no reason at all that the Israeli government could not plan and build residences for its citizens – Jews and Arabs – in any part of the city. Those who get out of joint about that are either misinformed or looking for a pretext to create a “situation.�

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University hosts third Brown Bag Lunch addresses annual Glass Olympics challenges student parents face

By Rose Schneider Reporter

By Angela Green Reporter

On April 3, more than 100 students and faculty from seven universities crowded into the University’s glass studio in the Fine Arts Building for the third annual National Student Glass Olympics.

During the two-day event, participants spent one day at the Toledo Museum of Art and the second at the University.

Scott Darlington, head of the glass department, said the Olympics are a great networking source for students and schools.

“You’re meeting your peers and making connections,” Darlington said. “These are the people you’ll be dealing with for the rest of your career.

The Olympics are just a goofy excuse to do that.”

Each university brings a team of 10 to 12 students. The University had a team of 30 to 40 members.

Instructor Nadine Saylor explained some of the silliness that takes place during the Olympics, beginning with making the Olympic symbol out of glass rings. Then, each school has half an hour to create a trophy so no one goes home empty-handed.

“Every school makes a trophy,” Saylor said. “The winner gets to choose which trophy they want. While the trophy is being made, the faculty sneaks off and decides the events.”

Darlington said this is to make sure every school is even.

“Nobody knows what the events will be so there’s no time to practice or plan before that,” he said. “It’s more difficult, but it makes it more fun and kind of adds to the excitement.”

The excitement continues

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CHALLENGE: A University glass student works on creating a piece for a trophy during the Glass Olympics.

when students figure out what the events will be.

“Everything tends to be who can make the longest or biggest or tallest, so we decided to do a shortest goblet event,” Saylor said.

There was also a longest lip trim event, and a tallest animal or creature event.

“All the events are five minutes long,” Saylor said. “These are nearly impossible events that also create a sense of fun and community for everyone.”

Sophomore Lydia Boss was on the University’s team.

“BG made a giraffe,” Boss said.

“They made a really tall bottle and put four pieces of glass on the bottom for legs, sculpted a head and said it was a giraffe.”

Saylor said there is always a tie-breaker event and this year it was a longest drip competition. Students let a piece of hot glass drip from a balcony and were disqualified if it touched the floor.

The faculties from the participating schools judge each event.

“The events are all so silly, no one expects to win,” Saylor said.

This year the University came

in first place, Kent State came in second and the University of Louisville third.

Darlington said the final placings are not important.

“Glass is about people and community,” he said. “The Olympics are just byproduct for meeting people.”

Saylor also said the trophies are not as important as the networking that goes on during the event.

“The Olympics are really representative of building bridges between all of the schools with glass programs,” Saylor said.

Boss said the Olympics are just about fun.

“People are coming together over the love of the material,” she said. “We can all relate to each other on such a basic level.”

She also said Darlington was a crucial member of the University’s team.

“We are very fortunate to have Scott here to guide us,” she said. “He’s one of the reasons the glass Olympics was so successful. He was here to inspire us. We’re really lucky to have him here.”

Next year’s Olympics will be held in Salem, N.J.

“Some mothers I talked to said if there were more classes online, it would make their lives a whole lot easier. But there’s only certain classes ... you can pursue online at BGSU.”

Balancing a job to pay for tuition and day care while fitting in time to attend school are just some of the struggles student parents have to face.

Sarah Jefferson, a University graduate, spoke Wednesday at the Women’s Center Brown Bag Series about her own personal struggles as a student with a child.

“My senior year of college, I got pregnant and didn’t know exactly what to do,” Jefferson said.

Jefferson, who had to drop out of the University in 2006, eventually came back and graduated in 2009. She said since having her son, Jonah, she wants to help other students who are mothers and inform the public about the hardships student mothers face.

“In 2009, there was a 4 percent increase in unemployment among single women homes,” Jefferson said. “A lot of people would attribute that to the slow economy, but for these women, if they were getting a chance to get an education, there may be a chance that they would be able to get better jobs or not risk unemployment.”

Jefferson said the average single mother’s income is $21, 284, which is around the average cost to attend the University for one year.

“That’s not even including housing or utilities or day care costs or other costs that come with having a child,” Jefferson said.

Mary Krueger, the director of the Women’s Center, said the University needs to realize that student parents are becoming a trend in college.

“We’re living with an old idea

Sarah Jefferson | University graduate of what a college student is,” Krueger said. “Bowling Green State University is traditionally a residential University, and so students, historically, have lived on campus for the most part. If you live on campus, you generally are not a parent, not married, and with population trends in general, there’s just more diversity in who college students are. Our thinking has not quite caught up to that reality yet.”

Jefferson said some of the biggest struggles student mothers face at the University include limited on-campus resources and day care.

“Having a child and not being able to live on campus and having limited time on campus, you don’t have access to the same things regular students have. You’re missing on computer labs, the library and the writing center,” Jefferson said She said one of the hardest parts of having a child and attending college is finding appropriate housing with no help from the University.

“When I was moving back, I had called the campus to find out if there’s anything available and they gave me no information,” Jefferson said. “I had to go out, on my own, and find the resources to find a place for my son and me.”

She said the on-campus day care is also an added stress

because of its strict entrance requirements.

“If you have an infant, you’re already out,” Jefferson said.

“Most day cares have the 24 hour rule, so if your son or daughter gets a fever, you have to keep them out of day care for 24 hours, so that’s like two days of classes.”

Jefferson said to help student parents, the University could offer more online and night classes.

“Some mothers I talked to said if there were more classes online, that would make their lives a whole lot easier,” Jefferson said. “But there’s only certain classes and certain degrees that you can pursue online at BGSU.” Jefferson, who had an experience where she was asked to leave the Union computer lab because of her son, said the University could offer an area that was more child-friendly where students with children could go and use the computer labs and other on-campus resources.

“As a student, who is also paying tuition, I don’t feel like I should be asked to leave because of my child,” Jefferson said.

Sophomore Quintina Coney, who attended the luncheon, said it is unacceptable that the University does not do enough to help students with children.

“It’s a very important issue,” she said.

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“Instead of four little departments, now we may be a big bully on campus.”

— Director of American Culture Studies Don McQuarie said about the combining of Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies, Popular Culture and American Culture Studies [see story, pg. 1].

PEOPLE ON THE STREET

What instrument do you wish you could play?

DREW JACOBS, Junior, Creative Writing

LASHAWNA WILLIAMS,

Graduate Student, College Student Personnel

People should find time to read HANNAH BEALER COLUMNIST Most of us probably read Ray Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451” at some point in high school. The book tells the story of Guy Montag, a man living in the future whose job is to burn books in order to establish censorship and basically keep society free from varying degrees of intelligence. I recently discovered a quote by Bradbury: “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

While book burning still takes place all over the world, we don’t necessarily deal with it here in the U.S. We do, however, witness the latter half of Bradbury’s quote. Not enough people are reading, and it’s not necessarily their fault.

I’ve always considered myself a bookworm. There’s hardly ever a time I don’t have a novel I’m engrossed in. Before I started college, I could read a novel a day if I had the time. However, when I came to college I noticed a very distressing change. I was going for days or even weeks without reading.

Unfortunately, this trend

hasn’t exactly changed now that my freshman year is coming to a close. In the midst of classes, studying, working and socializing I rarely read more than a chapter or two every now and then. It’s not as though I didn’t expect this. I was definitely aware college would be very time consuming.

The majority of people I recently spoke with about this are in a similar situation. They don’t regularly read due to their lack of free time.

In a 2007 interview, Bradbury said the theme of “Fahrenheit 451” wasn’t necessarily about government censorship. It was about the effect of television and other forms of media on literature and reading in general. This made me consider my own television viewing habits.

I realized there are at least two shows I take the time to watch weekly. After all, it’s more convenient to watch a show than read — you can write a paper at the same time. This type of effect, I believe, is close to what Bradbury meant. Sadly, watching a TV show takes a lot less effort than reading a book.

While researching for this column, I discovered test scores have been decreasing due to students not regularly reading.

Also, employers have recently been upset by employees’ lack

PATRICK SAUNDERS FACULTY COLUMNIST It is a quiet night in the University residence halls. Suddenly, doors on the living quarters of students are kicked in and armed soldiers in combat dress storm in demanding identification papers.

The students offer their University IDs, driver’s licenses and passports. Their student IDs are tossed back at them and their driver’s licenses and passports are scrutinized. Those from out of state are told that they have 30 minutes to gather up their things and assemble outside in front of the residence hall. The students are loaded onto military trucks and driven to the Indiana state line, where students from Indiana are unloaded and told not to come back. The others are taken to a detention center at an undisclosed location.

Far-fetched, you say? The Israeli government just announced that on the West Bank and Gaza Strip portions of the Palestinian “State,” Palestinians without Israeli identification papers will be rounded up and deported forever. The Palestinian Authority estimates

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of writing and reading comprehension skills. This is why we tell people we view as unintelligent to “go read a book,” after all.

A study conducted in 2004, “Reading at Risk,” reported less than half of Americans over age 18 read for pleasure. Luckily, the National Endowment for the Arts reported the percentage of literature-reading adults in the States was up to 50.2 percent in 2008.

Even though we’re all busy college students, try to take the time to read a little before bed. If that doesn’t work, try books on tape or create a summer reading list.

Facebook’s “Visual Bookshelf” application is great for searching and saving book titles you want to sort through later.

There you have it. Reading for enjoyment can help increase your test scores and impress your employers. I once had to fill out an application for an internship where I had to list around six of my favorite books or publications. Reading also offers a source of entertainment that doesn’t involve a television.

Trust me, I know it’s tough. But the next time you have this socalled “free time,” don’t hesitate to open up a novel you’ve been waiting to read.

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length of the border with Palestine.

All along, the United States has been the handmaiden of Israeli policy toward Palestine. U.S. foreign policy that supports the actions of Israel toward Palestine is a sore point in our relations with the entire Muslim world. Worsening treatment of Palestinians by Israel has become a battle cry for their Arab cousins and Muslims across the globe, which means our policies in Afghanistan and Iraq are being filtered through an existing bias because of U.S.-supported Israeli actions in Palestine and Lebanon.

The sanctions policy toward Iran is also considered through this bias, as the United States has not taken similar actions toward other nations who have developed nuclear weapons secretly — Israel, India and Pakistan, none of whom have signed the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty. Less powerful countries see the NPT as an attempt to impose total U.S. hegemony and a reaction toward any country that stands in the way.

We are fortunate to live in a country where a knock on the door late at night usually means your pizza is here. It does not have the uncertainty it does in other countries. It is for this reason we should be mindful of these actions in other countries and how they reflect on us as being a self-ordained “moral leader” of the world.

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Foreign policy should be consistent this could impact more than 50 percent of the people who live in Palestinian areas on the West Bank and Gaza.

This is seen by many as a brazen attempt by Israel to depopulate the West Bank and Gaza so they can continue to construct new settlements in those areas. Most Palestinians affected by this sweeping order have ancestral connections to the region that go back thousands of years, which cannot be said for most of the people in the new Jewish settlements being built on Palestinian lands.

From a historical point of view, the irony of a directive of this type coming from a government composed of the “children of the Holocaust” is overwhelming. In the past 30 years, the Israeli government has taken on an aggressive military strategy, attacking first and asking questions later.

This began with the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, followed by involvement in the massacre of at least 800 Palestinian civilians at Shatila and Sabra Refugee Camps, continuing to the 2009 invasion of Gaza by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) troops that caused the death of over 1400 Palestinians, mostly women and children. Israel continues the construction of new settlements on Palestinian land and the erection of a huge wall that will run the

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HAMA BBELA COLUMNIST As Pakistan and India thrust themselves deeper and deeper into the new nuclear arms race, we, as a generation, are forced to reevaluate our relationship with nuclear weapons.

Fifty years ago, nuclear weapons were viewed as a necessity and the only means of preventing an attack. During the Cold War the lines were clear as to who had weapons and why. Today, those lines are blurry. Many countries begin to produce weapons grade fuel and increase the possibility of weapons getting into the hands of militants and terrorists.

The sheer cost and power of nuclear weapons says a lot about human nature. It begs the question: Why are these creatures so fixated on their own destruction? We spend billions of dollars and thousands of man-hours on killing each other. According to the Brookings Institute, the Manhattan Project cost the United States government $20 billion. It may seem like just a bunch of zeros (10 of them), but tons of manhours, resources and science were used to devastate and kill millions in mere moments.

Now we live in a world in which we are forever weary of the potential of mankind’s annihilation. For years we lived under the icy grip of the Cold War; now it’s the grip of extremist fervor.

Nuclear weapons, genocide, suicide bombings and ethnic

cleansing are all forms of mass annihilation, unique to our species. Chimps can fight wars, but we have the ability to take out everyone. According to the Brookings Institute, in 1998 the U.S. government spent almost $35.1 billion on nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs.

It isn’t just the fact that we have this capacity that fascinates and scares me, but the fact that mankind spends too much time and energy thinking of complex ways to destroy his fellow man.

Nuclear weapons are made to incur maximum damage.

Maximum damage is felt by military personnel and civilians alike.

This makes nuclear weapons the biggest threat to our existence, a threat so real and present that it far outstrips any other threat to our existence.

Writer and biologist Jared Diamond described humans as having “the power to threaten our own existence.” Diamond, an author of books like “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Collapse” and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has dedicated his life to studying humans. He finds our penchant for mass annihilation and mass killing to be saddening, but characteristic.

Describing this phenomenon in one of my favorite books, “The Third Chimpanzee,” Diamond says: “It’s a common belief that species in a state of nature live in balance with each other and with their environment. Predators don’t exterminate prey, nor do herbivores overgraze their plants.”

Alas, we humans overuse our resources and then plan on

destroying each other. We can’t live in balance with nature, let alone each other. Nuclear weapons are a reflection of humanity and our capacity for great genius and our capacity for great evil. If we destroyed all nuclear weapons and erased people’s capacity to make them, we would still devise a way to kill each other.

Nuclear deterrence theory states the reason for having nuclear weapons is that the potential for mutually assured destruction stops people from actually using nuclear weapons. Nukes are a symbol of annihilation; they symbolize the death of rationality and the reality of man’s propensity for self destruction. We are probably always going to be slaves to these tools of death because everyone thinks they are safe if they have them and unsafe without them.

The Obama government might be making strides, but they too are slaves to the nuclear weapon and what it represents.

The Cold War was defined by the threat of Soviet-American holocaust. Today, the lines are more blurry and more countries have the capacity to wipe out one another. If the biggest and most powerful nations don’t push and encourage an end to nuclear dependency, the world will be like a mine field with booby traps waiting to explode.

In the words the title character from Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” “Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack!”

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The gunman, who was later arrested several miles away, told police he went on the shooting spree after hearing voices that told him to kill members of his family, a person close to the investigation told The Associated Press.

Police believe the gunman is related to the victims, but have not said how. Chicago police spokeswoman Amina Greer said the shooting may have been the result of a domestic situation.

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Palin rallies tea partiers with anti-tax message BOSTON (AP) — The cross-country Tea Party Express tour built toward a climax Wednesday with a rally steeped in anti-tax symbolism and an exhortation from one of the few politicians it has embraced, Sarah Palin.

The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee said in Boston that President Barack Obama must be rebuffed in this fall’s midterm elections after overreaching with his first-year stimulus law and with health care, student loan and financial regulatory overhauls.

“Is this what their ‘change’ is all about?” Palin asked a sun-splashed crowd of roughly 5,000 gathered just a mile from the site of the original Tea Party from which the movement got its name. “I want to tell them, nah, we’ll keep clinging to our Constitution and our guns and religion — and you can keep the change.”

Rescuer says God led him to Fla. girl in swamp NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man says God led him to an 11-year-old girl lost for days in a swamp.

James King clutched his Bible outside a Manhattan TV studio Wednesday as he told The Associated Press that his rescue mission took him into a dangerous part of the swamp where it’s easy to slip and fall.

He said he was watching out for snakes and reciting passages from the Bible about serpents.

The father of five also said that when he found Nadia Bloom, he was surprised she was not panicked or even worried.

King says Nadia, a member of a church he once attended, joined him in reading another biblical passage about God directing people’s paths.

Families sue over how NM company treated bodies ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man received what he thought were the cremated remains of his wife’s body after donating her organs to science — only to learn a few weeks later that police found her body, intact, at the company that was supposed to handle the donation.

Philip Fajardo is now one of two people suing the Albuquerque firm, Bio Care, alleging it gave them ashes it represented as the remains of their loved ones. They said authorities later told them at least parts of the bodies had never been cremated.

“In these instances, they were given an urn full of ashes and they have no way of knowing what those ashes were,” said their attorney, Sam Bregman. “They could be burnt up paper for all they know.”

Health secretary addresses minority health issues NEW YORK (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday that she is developing a national plan of action that would focus for the first time on reducing health care disparities between minority and white populations.

HHS has been writing reports for 25 years documenting the gap in health care services between white and minority communities, but there never has been an action plan to address the gap, she said in an address to the National Action Network convention.

“I’m here to say that’s going to end this year,” Sebelius said.

She said one in three U.S. Hispanics and one in five African-Americans do not have health insurance, adding that the National Institutes of Health also is looking into the issue.

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Running together John and Jeanette Pettigrew bring family bond to BG

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Former BG hockey player and coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins Dan Bylsma began his title defense of the 2009 Stanley Cup against the Ottawa Senators last night.

Bylsma, who won the cup as a rookie head coach last season, will be back for game two of the series on Friday night in Pittsburgh.

John and Jeanette Pettigrew have been close since the day they were born.

Fraternal twins, John and Jeanette are more then just brother and sister, they’re also Division I athletes.

Jeanette, a sprinter on the BG track team, and John, a running back on the football team, have both enjoyed having their sibling on campus. But it’s their mother, Joann, who has enjoyed having both of her children at the same place.

“It definitely made my mom happy; she comes down here for every game and meet. She also comes down when there isn’t a meet or game,” Jeanette said.

“She’s [my mom] definitely my biggest fan,” John said.

“She’s there for everything.”

While Joann — who resides in Cuyahoga Falls, a suburb of Akron and Cleveland — is both of her children’s biggest fan, both John and Jeanette feel each other finish second on the list, as they both attend each other’s game and meets regularly.

“She’s definitely my second biggest fan,” John said.

The Pettigrews both ended up at BG through separate paths. Jeanette chose to become a Falcon first after the recruiting process during John’s high school football season.

“As soon as I arrived on campus, I didn’t have any question or doubt in my mind that I wanted to come here to Bowling

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ACE: Zada Lines prepares to deliver a pitch earlier this season.

Today in Sports History 1997—Jackie Robinson’s No. 42 is retired by all of Major League Baseball.

1947—Jackie Robinson makes his MLB debut and breaks the color barrier in baseball.

1896—First Olympic Games close in Athens.

The List With BG’s loss in both softball and baseball, we take a look at Wednesday’s top performers: 1. Spencer: Derek Spencer went 2-for-5 and hit a home run in baseball’s loss to Michigan.

2. Lines: Softball’s starting pitcher, Zada Lines, only allowed two hits and one earned run in four innings of work.

3. Michigan’s bullpen: After their starter allowed four runs, Michigan’s relief pitchers shut the door only allowing one run over five innings.

4. Anthorpe: BG’s starter for baseball, Cody Anthorpe only allowed one run through five innings, before the bullpen fell apart in the loss.

Falcons drop first game 4-0; still out hit Buckeyes 7-4 The Buckeyes got on the board early and never looked back.

Melanie Nichols pitched all seven In the first game of a doubleheader innings for OSU, giving up seven against Ohio State, the Falcon soft- hits and striking out eight batters.

Nichols was able to retire the first ball team lost 4-0.

Withtheloss,theFalconsfallto8-13 five batters she faced, two of which on the season. The game was played she fielded and threw out at first.

The Falcons and junior Zada at Buckeye Field in Columbus.

Despite outhitting OSU 7-4, BG Lines gave up a two-out single had a tough time getting anything which drove in the Buckeyes’ first going and left six runners on base run, but then bounced back to get during the game. Six different play- an OSU batter to ground out, enders recorded hits in the game, led ing the inning. During the first two by senior Karmen Coffey with two. innings, OSU left six on base and Freshman Paige Berger struggled scored three runs.

Lines gave up just two hits and at the plate going 0-3.

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Volleyball adds setter to roster Volleyball coach Denise Van De Walle has announced the signing of 5-foot-6 setter Laura Avila to a National Letter of Intent on the first day of the spring signing period Wednesday afternoon. Avila is a senior at Yorktown High School in Yorktown, Ind. “I’m thrilled that Laura will be a part of our program,” Van De Walle said. “She is a talented setter, an exceptional student, and has tremendous leadership skills, which was evident when she won the Mental Attitude Award for Indiana at the state championships this fall. As well, she comes from one of the best club programs in the country (Munciana) so she’s used to winning.”

Avila comes from a volleyball-rich background as her father,Ramon, played volleyball at Ball State during the same time that Van De Walle played on the women’s team at Ball State.

Along with being the 2009 Indiana Class 3A State Mental Attitude Award winner, Avila was First Team All-State, All-Hoosier Heritage Conference, All-Delaware County, and All-State Academic Honorable Mention. A three-year team captain, Avila led the Tigers with 1,154 assists and 60 aces, while adding 261 digs and 106 kills. She guided Yorktown to a 37-2 record, including 7-0 in the Hoosier Heritage Conference, and to the state runner-up.

one earned run during her 4 1/3 innings and she struck out five.

Junior Melissa Bott gave up three runs and struck out two during her 1 2/3 innings. The main problem for BG was that five Falcons went a combined 0-11 at the plate.

During the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, the Falcons were able to get a hit, but all three innings ended with runners on base after the final batter struck out.

BG concluded the doubleheader with the Buckeyes late Wednesday night. See www. bgnewssports.com for a full recap of the second game.

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THROW HOME: Logan Meisler throws the ball towards the infield earlier this season.

Falcons fight, but fall to Wolverines by three

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Pitching struggles once again were too much for the Falcons to overcome, as they fell to Michigan 8-5 Wednesday afternoon.

The Wolverines got on the board with one run in the bot-

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Larson and Jakubowski earn Academic All-MAC honors Senior Marc Larson and junior Joe Jakubowski were named to the Mid-American Conference Academic All-MAC men’s basketball team Wednesday afternoon. BG was the only school to have multiple members on the five-person team.

Larson and Jakubowski join Buffalo’s John Boyer, Northern Illinois’ Xavier Silas, and Western Michigan’s David Kool on the squad. Larson, who was also named ESPN The Magazine Second Team Academic AllAmerican this year, received the honor for the third time in his career and Jakubowski was named to the team for the second time.

Larson owns a 3.97 grade point average in engineering technology and played in all 30 games during his senior season for the Falcons. He ended his career ranked 10th in school history in blocked shots with 83, blocking 19 this past year.

Jakubowski holds a 3.32 grade point average in business and has started 85 consecutive games for Bowling Green dating back to the 200708 season. He averaged 8.3 points in 2009-10 and led the team with 3.7 assists per game.

tom of the first, and retained a 1-0 lead until the top of the fourth inning. BG right fielder Mark Galvin singled up the middle and advanced to second on a Jon Berti sacrifice bunt.

After a hit batter and a walk,

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Lines, Berger earn MAC honors The softball team swept the Mid-American Conference weekly awards, nabbing both player and pitcher of the week, as announced by the conference office on Tuesday. Junior Zada Lines earned the pitcher’s award while freshman Paige Berger earned player of the week.

Lines, from Akron, Ohio, tallied a win-loss record of 2-0 from the mound in BGSU’s weekend sweep of Toledo. She fanned 13 batters and walked only three people in the nine innings she pitched. Entering the first game on Saturday in the fourth inning, she faced 15 batters striking out three and keeping the Rockets hitless and scoreless each inning. She ended the weekend with a 0.78 ERA. Berger, a native of Rootstown, Ohio, continues to lead her Falcon squad in batting averages and slugging percentages, tallying a team-high .340 batting average and .849 slugging percentage. In BGSU’s weekend sweep of the Toledo Rockets, Berger played in and started 2-of-2 games.

On the weekend she racked up a .750 batting average and posted three hits that resulted in two runs, including her eighth home run of the season.

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SIBLINGS From Page 6 Green,” Jeanette said. “But, I didn’t want to tell my brother because I didn’t want to impact his decision.”

John Despite his sisPettigrew ter’s intent to not affect his decision, Freshman John still chose running back to come to BG for on the footsimilar reasons ball team. that his sister did.

“W hen she first chose to go to BG, I knew about it. I really was thinking I wasn’t going to like it,” John said. “When I came here I liked Jeanette the coaches and Pettigrew the campus; it had a real fam- Freshman ily atmosphere, sprinter on so I was kind of the track surprised.” team.

While Jeanette committed to BG first, John arrived to campus first due to football and was influential in helping his sister get used to life as a collegiate athlete.

“I knew it would be tough for her, and since I already knew a little bit more about it then she did, I helped her cope with [life on campus],” John said.

According to Jeanette, having someone to talk to on campus helped her get used to collegiate life.

One thing that both siblings didn’t have to get used to was running, and they’ve both been doing so their entire lives. And both doing so at BG, one on the track and the other on the field, has allowed them to keep their close family together.

Surprisingly the one thing they couldn’t agree on was who was faster.

“I get that question a lot,” Jeanette said. “Surprisingly, he’s faster, but since I’ve gotten here we haven’t raced, so I might be faster now.”

“We used to run when we were a little younger. I was a little on the chubby side so she could beat me then,” John said.

“But now that I’ve been working out, it could be a different story, but then again, she still RUNNING BY: Jeanette Pettigrew competes in a race earlier this season. is running track.”

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SWING AWAY: Derek Spencer awaits an oncoming pitch earlier this season.

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catcher Ryan Schlater hit a sacrifice fly to center field, evening the score at 1-1.

The Falcons tacked on three more runs in the fifth, seemingly taking control of the game with a 4-1 lead. Cody Apthorpe finished out the fifth inning and was relieved by freshman Michael Frank.

Frank did not make it out of the sixth, however, allowing four runs on three hits in twothirds of an inning.

The Falcons battled back and cut the lead to one on a one-out, solo home run from Derek Spencer, but BG failed to score again after a Michigan pitching change.

The Wolverines earned the go-ahead runs on a two-run home run by Mike Kittle.

Although the Falcons played tough defensively and got some timely hitting, it was not enough to bury Michigan.

After allowing seven earned

Went 2-for-5 in BG’s loss to Michigan. runs to Michigan batters, BG’s team ERA is now 6.77 — more than a run higher than opposing pitchers this season.

Logan Meisler, T.J. Blanton and Derek Spencer led the Falcons’ offensive charge, all going 2-for-5 at the plate. BG is now hitting .305 on the season, but is still missing key productivity from several struggling position players.

Only four Falcons came into yesterday’s game hitting better than .300.

The Falcons will take today off as they prepare to travel up Interstate-75 to take on MidAmerican Conference rival Toledo Friday at 3 p.m.

The three-game weekend series is crucial for the Falcons, who are 3-6 in MAC play this season.

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the right tackle to miss most of the season. Smith is expected to start next to Williams this CINCINNATI — Bobbie season.

Despite all the shuffling, the Williams’ laughter filled the locker room after a workout on line played well enough to get Wednesday, reminding every- the Bengals into the playoffs for one within earshot that the only the second time since 1991.

Cincinnati Bengals have taken a They ran the table against division opponents in the AFC North, big step forward on offense.

They signed the right guard finished 10-6 and lost to the Jets to a two-year contract this week, in their first playoff game. “Last year, everybody was keeping the offensive line intact from last season’s playoff run. saying there was no continuity The move delighted Williams, with the group and that was a who at age 33 is the line’s senior big concern outside this lockmember and wanted to stay for er room,� quarterback Carson Palmer said. “Now that group at least one more season. “I made it well-known that has played together and played I wanted to be back,� said successfully together and won Williams, who was an unre- big games and ran the ball on stricted free agent. “We knew it good defenses. “They have another year under was going to happen.�

The offensive line was one of their belt with each other. We’re the biggest questions heading only going to get better up front into last season. Williams was from here on out.�

The Bengals went to a run-first the only starter lining up at the same position, with everyone philosophy last season, and finelse moving around after the ished ninth in the league with team jettisoned left tackle Levi an average of 128.5 yards per game. The passing game was far Jones and center Eric Ghiaciuc.

The plans had to be changed less effective, finishing 26th out again after top draft pick Andre of 32 teams. Cincinnati released Smith held out and then broke receiver Laveranues Coles after his left foot on Sept. 1, forcing only one season and signed free

“It’s very important. I felt we did a pretty good job last year, being the first time together. Establishing some continuity on that offensive line is crucial. It’s important to the success that we’re trying to keep going and build on here.�

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The line helped Bengals’ running backs have eight 100-yard games, a franchise record. The Bengals kept the line together by re-signing center Kyle Cook and Williams within a oneweek span. “It’s very important,� Williams said. “I felt we did a pretty good job last year, being the first time together. Establishing some continuity on that offensive line is crucial. It’s important to the success that we’re trying to keep going and build on here.�

While negotiations on Williams’ contract stretched on, Palmer texted him to find out

what was going on. Veterans wanted him to stay because they thought his experience — and his personality — were needed on one of the NFL’s youngest rosters. “He’s played in so many games, been around so long, played against every defensive front, played against every lineman in the league,� Palmer said. “And just the attitude he brings. “He’s one of the most fun guys I’ve had the opportunity to play with. Day in and day out, he’s smiling and he’s laughing. But when it gets time to work, he’s there to push people around and move people. That’s what he does best.�

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For the first time in 29 years, rain falls at Twins home game

By Dave Campbell The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — Rain fell on the Minnesota Twins at home for the first time in 29 years and John Lackey dampened their bats.

Lackey turned in a second strong start and Jeremy Hermida gave Boston room with a three-run double in the eighth inning, leading the Red Sox to a 6-3 win Wednesday in the second game at Target Field.

Lackey (1-0) lasted 6 2-3 innings for his first Red Sox victory, lifted early by Marco Scutaro’s two singles and Dustin Pedroia’s RBI double and solo home run.

The crowd of 38,164, more than 1,000 below capacity, rediscovered baseball’s unique relationship with the weather. Temperature at first pitch was 73 degrees, but raindrops started to fall in the third and sprinkled the sparkling new ballpark intermittently over the next four innings.

Some fans went scurrying for the concourses and others hastily put up their umbrellas, but the rain brought a cheer and a few chants of “out-door base-ball� in another sign of the celebration of Minnesota’s move out of the Metrodome to an open-air facility.

Twins starter Kevin Slowey (1-1) inched through five, giving up three runs and taking the loss.

Hermida’s bases-clearing hit gave the Red Sox a 6-2 lead, but the Twins had chances to come back.

The sun came out when Joe Mauer came to the plate in the seventh, but he was intentionally walked to load the bases after a passed ball with two outs. Justin Morneau hit a weak popup near the mound to end that threat.

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With Jacoby Ellsbury likely out for the series while his bruised ribs heal, Scutaro is the replacement leadoff hitter. He got the Red Sox going right away with sharp singles in each of the first two innings, scoring on Pedroia’s double in the first and driving in J.D. Drew in the second. Minnesota tied it in the third, but Pedroia gave Boston the lead back with his homer to left.

After a sharp start last week in a win over the Los Angeles Angels, Slowey never found his footing — even literally in the fifth following Pedroia’s two-out shot.

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Lackey looked like he had a little weather trouble for a bit, too, shaking his hand a few times in the bottom of the third when the rain really started to fall.

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laboratory was also a learning process, Bryan said. “I got to see just how they run,� she said. “They do things a little differently ... but they were really friendly and very welcoming.�

As a research laboratory assistant in Germany, Bryan assisted graduate students from all over the world with their research on sediment layers of Lake El’Gygytgyn in Siberia, Russian Federation. Bryan was assisting with examining the paleoclimate record of the 3.6 millionyear-old lake.

Bryan said the more researchers understand about past climate changes, the better, because significant factors like tsunamis, rises in sea levels and the amount of icebergs affect overall climate changes. Another factor is the impact of carbon dioxide levels, she said. “That’s kind of the big question, [the] impact on CO2 from humans or a regular cycle,â€? she said. “A lot of times in science, people are just like, ‘That’s great, but it really doesn’t apply to my life,’ ‌ But this really does.â€?

Bryan has worked closely with associate geology professor Jeff Snyder on this research.

Snyder said he has traveled to Germany a few times to conduct research on Lake El’Gygytgyn.

Lake El’Gygytgyn is a relatively undisturbed lake, Snyder said, ideal for studying sediment layers aging as far back as 3.6 million years. It’s also a good area for this type of research because the Antarctic is more sensitive to changes in climate. “We can use past climate as an indicator of what can happen with future climate change, in a

What started out as a love for traveling turned into an academic research endeavor for junior geology major Allison Bryan. Bryan has taken her travels abroad for a higher purpose — assisting with groundbreaking geological research in Germany.

Bryan said her interest in geology started as a child, when she traveled with her family across the United States, visiting most of the continental states including Florida, New York and the Western states. “I’ve seen a lot of different land features and I’ve learned that what really interested me are more geological cycles,� she said. “It’s the one thing that I was like, ‘Wow, geology’s a really cool field.’�

Bryan said the more she traveled, the more she wanted to learn about geology. “Being born in Ohio definitely doesn’t breed geologists — it’s rather flat and boring,â€? she said. “But if you get out of Ohio ‌ you see more active geology and that’s more exciting.â€?

A geology major and chemistry minor, Bryan earned an internship in Germany last summer through the Research and Internships in Science and Engineering program; the internship was funded by the American Chemical Society.

She said her summer overseas helped her in many ways. “Berlin is a very insane but culturally enriching area,� she said. “It’s an amazing place. It was a really, really great experience for sure.�

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BEIJING — Soldiers and civilians used shovels and their bare hands to dig through collapsed buildings in search of survivors after strong earthquakes struck a mountainous Tibetan region of China on Wednesday, killing at least 589 people and injuring more than 10,000.

The series of quakes flattened buildings across remote western Yushu county and sent survivors, many bleeding from their wounds, flooding into the streets of Jiegu township. State television showed block after devastated block of toppled mud and wood homes. Local officials said 85 percent of the structures had been destroyed.

Residents and troops garrisoned in the town used shovels and their hands to pull survivors and bodies from the rubble much of the day. Several schools collapsed, with the state news agency saying at least 56 students died. Worst hit was the Yushu Vocational School, where Xinhua cited a local education official as saying 22 students died.

nut shell,� Snyder said. “That’s the main objective of our study of past climate ... using it as a guide.�

Bryan examined sedimentary layers 10,000 years old. She said she studies the oxygen isotopes and diatom compositions, which indicate water temperature from thousands of years ago. “What’s really cool about the paleoclimate record is ‌ we can tell what the temperature of the lake was thousands of years ago,â€? she said. “We can say it was cold and it was hot, then cold, then hot again.â€?

Junior Trina Dennison said she and Bryan became friends as they bonded over long geology classes and labs. She said Bryan is a hard worker, and the paleoclimate research is a

Pu Wu | Jinba Project Director Footage on Qinghai Satellite TV showed bodies wrapped in blankets lying on the ground while rescuers pulled shards of concrete from a pancaked school building.

Crews set up emergency generators to restore operations at Yushu’s airport, and by late afternoon the first of six flights landed carrying rescue workers and equipment. But the road to town was blocked by a landslide, hampering the rescue as temperatures dropped below freezing. Tens of thousands of the town’s 70,000 people were without shelter, state media said. “The situation here is difficult.

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Bryan said she plans to go to graduate school, and while she hasn’t decided on a specialization, she enjoyed working on the Lake El’Gygytgyn project and may want to continue the pursuit. “Grad school will definitely be the next step,� she said. “[Doing research] has been really fascinating and enjoyable.�

Snyder said Bryan is motivated for success and is likely to succeed in whatever she decides to do. “I think she’s promising for a future career in research,�

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MEXICO CITY — Michelle Obama stepped from her black SUV and into a sea of screams, cheers and squeals of delight that filled the sun-splashed courtyard of a public elementary school Wednesday in Mexico’s capital.

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One group dressed as Aztecs in white paper costumes and caps with multicolored feathers performed a Mexican ritual dance. Another group did calisthenics for Mrs. Obama, whose cause at home is a campaign against childhood obesity. Other kids entertained with a lively twist-style dance, and they were followed by a chorus that serenaded her.

Mrs. Obama joined in at one point, clasping hands with a group that had formed a circle and singing along with students at the Escuela Siete de Enero, which is in one of Mexico City’s poorer neighborhoods. “That was beautiful, everything you did,� said the first lady, whose two-day visit is her first ever to Mexico. “I loved the singing. I loved the dancing. I loved to see you all moving and exercising.�

She said she loves “getting to see really smart, bright young people� when she leaves the U.S. There was one small request, though. “Before I leave, I need some hugs,� Mrs. Obama said.

Wading into one of the groups, the tall first lady bent at the waist to embrace the kids.

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Iran could be about a year away from nuclear bomb Missile could be powerful enough to reach US WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Iran could amass enough nuclear material to build a bomb in about a year and with help might eventually be able to field a missile powerful enough to reach the United States, senior military and intelligence officials said Wednesday.

Four top representatives of the Obama administration told Congress they are pursuing new sanctions on Iran urgently and add that a military strike has not been ruled out.

President Barack Obama has said he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;take any options off the table with respect to Iran,â&#x20AC;? Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now, that means to me that military options remain on the table.â&#x20AC;?

Iran is pursuing an aggressive missile program, including intercontinental missiles it would need outside expertise to perfect, Defense Intelligence Agency director Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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Once Iran decided to build one bomb, it could amass enough highly enriched uranium to do so in as little as 12 months, said Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But he added that Tehran would still need additional time to test the weapon and make it usable against an enemy.

New nuclear nations generally need three to five additional years to make a usable weapon, Cartwright said, but the timeline could be shortened if Iran pursued a warhead and a missile or other delivery system at the same time.

Iran has spurned Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts at diplomatic outreach, said Undersecretary of State William Burns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reckless intransigence has left us no choice but to employ a second tool of diplomacy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; economic and political pressure,â&#x20AC;? Burns said.

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