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Forum seeks out next University president

By Alissa O’Neill News Editor

pink pong

Carol Cartwright

The search for the next University president is in the planning stages and faculty and staff members have high hopes for Carol Cartwright’s replacement.

Faculty and staff from offices and programs across campus voiced concerns and hopes for the next president at an open forum hosted

by Heidrick & Struggles, Inc., the search firm hired to run the presidential search process. The attendees’ main concerns included handling the growth of the University with the freshman class, campus construction, undergraduate curriculum changes, managing resources (financial and facultyrelated) in order to ensure future success and lifting the morale of the University.

Those in attendance voiced an opinion that this next president will be a crucial part of the University’s future. As Rodney Rogers, dean of the College of Business said, that person will need to help define how the school will be successful in the future.

“It seems to me the next president of our University is critical,” Rogers commented. “We’re at a tipping point.”

That tipping point the University sits on is one that separates lower

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President Cartwright will step down at the end of the 2010-11 academic year

tier one schools from the higher tier one schools. With all the attention the University has been receiving from U.S. News and World Report, the faculty believes the University sits in the first tier and has the ability to move to the top of that tier.

Travis Chapin, an associate professor in Technology Systems, said the tipping point position the University is in may be a selling point to candidates.

“This is a tipping point, you can be effective,” Chapin said. “That can appeal to some people.”

The University is also on a tipping point when it comes to the direction of the student body, many attendees pointed out. They discussed the rapidly changing demographics of the student population, how it is moving away from the traditional on-campus, fresh-out-of-high-school freshman and what can be done to reevaluate the University’s focus.

Those in attendance want to see

See PRESIDENT | Page 8

“Pink” Pong, sponsored by Delta Sigma Pi, was held Wednesday afternoon in front of the business administration building. Participants enjoyed pink lemonade while playing water pong for breast cancer awareness. see page 8

KATE SNYDER | THE BG NEWS

MONEY MANAGEMENT: State Representative Randy Gardner answered students’ questions at a brown bag event hosted by the Graduate Student Senate in Olscamp Wednesday. One of the issues Gardner spoke about was the state budget.

Alumni discusses state budget issues over lunch

By Jess James Senior Reporter

CAMPUS

Donated blood stays local to help out at hospitals

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Faculty open house

The University Faculty Association will sponsor an open house during the Black Swamp Arts Festival to connect with the community.

The event, “Chomp at the Swamp,” will take place Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the FA office, 126 N. Main St. Everyone is invited to attend.

Food and beverages will be offered, as well as an opportunity to meet FA members and ask questions about the organization.

“We thought this would be a nice way to connect with faculty and answer questions,” said Becky Mancuso, FA member and event coordinator. “The Faculty Association is very open and we encourage anyone to stop by to take a break while they’re at the festival.”

The blood students give on campus reaches out to the Lake Erie region, including Wood and Lucas counties

By Jennifer Hojnacki Reporter

County, but said she was also unsure of exactly where it goes.

Heather Haynes, the American Senior Zach Shaffer donates blood on a regular basis, but has always Red Cross Wood County Donor Recruitment representative said wondered where his blood went.

“I have a lot of blood, and I don’t the donated blood from this week’s need it all,” Shaffer said. “I’m O-posi- American Red Cross Blood Drive goes through quite a journey before it tive, it would be selfish not to.”

American Red Cross Wood County See BLOOD | Page 8 intern Debbie Alderman said the blood usually stays within Wood

CAMPUS Students learn self-defense St. Thomas More University Parish held a self-defense workshop Wednesday night to help students protect themselves from harm. See photos | Page 3

FORUM Fight for equal rights in city

Columnist Kate Noftsinger urges student voters to support local ordinances in the November election that will prevent discrimination among minority groups in Bowling Green | Page 4

Issues concerning the University’s budget funds were addressed Wednesday at the Graduate Student Senate’s first monthly brown bag luncheon. The round-table forum welcomed Ohio state representative and University alumni Randy Gardner as its guest speaker.

“I want people to become familiar as possible with the state budget and how difficult it is to balance,” Gardner said. “It’s not going to be an easy task. Nearly $618 million will be deducted from the state budget for higher education.”

By July 1, 2011, restrictions on Ohio spending will reduce state funds, limiting several Ohio institutions.

“As we make decisions based on priority, it is very difficult to see how there won’t be some reductions made in every department and agency in the

SPORTS Rieke readies for new season Fifth-year senior tight end Mike Rieke is ready to step into a starting role after serving as a backup to Jimmy Scheidler for several seasons | Page 6

state budget,” Gardner said.

While Gardner spoke adamantly about the financial challenges facing several state universities, he is determined to position Ohio to be in better shape moving into the future.

“The one thing I don’t support is less support for higher education that would yield higher tuition rates or reducing access or programs for students,” Gardner said.

“Ohio already has tuition rates above the national average,” Gardner said. “I believe families are already paying more for higher education than many students in the country. You can’t just go across the board and cut 15 percent of all departments funding and then raise tuition, it’s not fair.”

Cuts in department funding have affected University programs like Canadian studies, which was

See GSS | Page 8

PEOPLE ON THE STREET What would you do if you were president of the University?

TIFAH STREET Junior, Philosophy

“Ban leggings as pants.” | Page 4

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Ariz. education chief: feds looking at bias claims

Ex-mayor: Philly housing czar given too much power

Chicago mayor race wide open as Daley steps aside

Hermine remnants cause massive flooding in Texas

Schwarzenegger continues to reject Prop 8 appeal

Obama tells Ohio audience of own family struggles

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s education chief says the federal government has launched an investigation into whether the state discriminates against teachers who are nonnative English speakers.

The state Department of Education for years has been monitoring the fluency of teachers who instruct English learners. In April, the education department began instructing districts to fire teachers who weren’t proficient in English.

The probe was launched by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne said federal officials disclosed the investigation in a letter to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.

PHILADELPHIA — In hindsight, they gave him too much power.

That’s why the Philadelphia Housing Authority board learned years too late that its revered executive director had secretly settled a string of sexual harassment complaints. And spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money doing so.

“I feel betrayed by Carl Greene, because we gave him every support that he would ever need,” former Mayor John F. Street said Wednesday, responding to Greene’s financial woes, alleged sexual power plays and, now, breach-of-contract lawsuit.

“Over a period of time, we ceded too much (power) to him,” said Street, chairman of the fiveperson board.

Gov. Ed Rendell, fellow board members and tenants in public housing share his sense of betrayal, Street said.

He spoke outside the authority’s headquarters, where Greene’s personal belongings have been boxed up after 12 years on the job.

Technically, Greene remains on paid leave while a federal grand jury, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development agency and the authority’s board investigate his tenure.

— Maryclaire Dale (AP)

CHICAGO — Mayor Richard M. Daley said Wednesday that he will not endorse anyone to replace him as leader of the nation’s third-largest city as speculation grew about who would emerge as a front-runner from a long list of potential contenders, including one-time aide and current White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday he has “no doubt” that Emanuel will weigh his future options now that the race for Chicago mayor is wide open. Emanuel has made no secret of wanting to run for Chicago mayor one day.

“Obviously something like that doesn’t come around a lot,” Gibbs told reporters traveling with the president to Ohio. “I presume that Rahm will take some time and make a decision about that.”

For now, Emanuel is focused on being President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, and, “the enormous number of tasks we have in front of us as an administration,” said Gibbs, who hadn’t spoken with Emanuel about his plans and he wasn’t sure if he’d talked with the president.

Emanuel represented Chicago in Congress before going to work for Obama.

— Deanna Bellandi (AP)

ARLINGTON, Texas — The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine caused massive flooding in northern Texas on Wednesday, killing at least one person and much of the city of Arlington under water.

Television footage from a Fox affiliate showed firefighters using ladders to reach residents stranded in the upper floors of their homes in a subdivision. Bewildered residents surprised by the extent of the flooding waded through waist-deep water in the streets.

Two mobile homes and a house were swept away north of Austin, and dozens of people sought emergency shelter after state and local authorities performed numerous high-water rescues from Austin to Dallas. Remnants of the storm, downgraded to a tropical depression Tuesday night, appeared to be moving into southern Oklahoma in satellite images and were forecast to move as far north as Kansas in the coming days.

The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for many parts of Oklahoma, and the entire state was under a flash flood watch.

— Jay Root and Jeff Carlton (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is holding firm in his refusal to defend the state’s same-sex marriage ban in court.

Lawyers for Schwarzenegger said in a letter Wednesday that the governor has authority to refuse to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that overturned Proposition 8. The letter was filed with the California Supreme Court.

It came in response to an effort by a conservative legal group to persuade the court to force Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to challenge the Aug. 4 ruling that declared the voter-approved ban unconstitutional.

Proposition 8’s sponsors have appealed. But doubts have been raised about whether its members have the authority to do so because as ordinary citizens they are not responsible for enforcing marriage laws.

CLEVELAND (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting a little personal about the sluggish economy, telling a Cleveland audience about his own family’s struggles and hardships.

Obama noted Wednesday that his grandfather served in World War II while his grandmother toiled in factories back home. He was raised by a single mother who put herself through school and got up before sunrise to help him with schoolwork.

And, the president says, first lady Michelle Obama’s father kept working in spite of suffering from multiple sclerosis that forced him to walk with crutches.

BLOTTER TUES., SEPT. 7 2:14 A.M.

Devon Hervey, of Redford, Mich., was cited for obstructing official business and drug abuse at the Union.

8:31 P.M.

12:35 A.M.

Sasha C. Caynor, 19, and Heidi Ann Long, 19, both of Bowling Green, were cited for theft/shoplifting after attempting to leave Walmart without paying for $60.14 worth of merchandise.

Matthew Michael Solarik, 20, of North Baltimore, Ohio, was arrested for violation of a protection order after being in Uptown/ Downtown Bar at the same time as the protected person.

9:10 P.M.

1:24 A.M.

A complainant reported that his ex-girlfriend shoved him, but police suspect the former couple to be in a race to tattletell on one another at area police departments.

A bicycle was reported stolen at Harshman Anderson Hall.

WED., SEPT. 8

Jillian M. Halfhill, 19, of Canfield, Ohio; Allison K. Papenfuss, 20, of Bowling Green; and Christine Ellen Steffen, 20, of Carmel, Ind. were cited for underage under the influence near the corner of East Court and North Summit streets.

12:10 A.M.

2:02 A.M.

2:18 P.M.

A driver’s side mirror was broken within the 300 block of E. Merry Ave.

The front window of Black Swamp Bootleggers was broken out, causing an estimated $1000 in damage.

8:28 A.M.

An individual was warned for driving on the sidewalk near Commons.

2:10 P.M.

A complainant called to report that “inappropriate things” were drawn on several dry erase boards in Harshman.

11:54 A.M.

A tricycle was reported stolen within the 200 block of E. Napoleon Road.

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12:17 A.M.

Robert A. Taylor IV, 21, and Connor S. Breisacher, 20, both of Bowling Green, were cited for nuisance party violation within the 600 block of E. Wooster St.

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2:54 A.M.

Two subjects were warned for disorderly conduct after being observed lying in the Main and Wooster street crosswalk.

A B O U T

Unionization and BGSU The faculty members of Bowling Green State University have a critical decision to make about their future and the future of our University as they prepare to vote on forming a faculty union. The administration of BGSU feels strongly that a labor union will not advance the mission of BGSU, and will, in fact, impede progress that is under way. As you weigh this decision, we ask that you consider the following:

Everyone’s needs are not the same. > The BGSU Faculty Association has chosen to include both tenure track and non-tenure track faculty in the same bargaining unit.

While each of these groups of faculty are critical for the success of BGSU, the career paths and professional needs and expectations of these two groups of faculty are very different. > BGSU is comprised of a variety of academic departments/units/ programs with varying, but aligned missions. Some departments/ units/programs have more emphasis on outreach and access (i.e. BGSU Firelands), while others may be more focused on basic research. Regardless of variations of mission, all faculty members will be covered by one negotiated employment contract. Because faculty members are the critical element for any academic program, this loss of individuality might limit a unit’s ability to deliver current programming.

A simple majority of voters decides whether BGSU faculty will unionize. Make sure your voice is heard. If you are eligible, please vote beginning on September 28.

8 people missing in Colo. wildfire

By Dan Elliott and P. Solomon Banda The Associated Press

BOULDER, Colo.

— Firefighters encountered a tangle of rattlesnakes, downed power lines and combustible propane tanks Wednesday as authorities looked for eight people missing in a wildfire that has destroyed dozens of homes.

Some residents have refused to leave the area and stayed behind, risking their lives to try to save their homes. Authorities are following up with family members and checking homes in the area to find the missing.

About 3,500 people have been evacuated from about 1,000 homes since the fire broke out in a drought-ravaged area north of Boulder on Monday. The reports about the eight missing residents surfaced Wednesday, adding to complaints from locals about a lack of information from authorities about the blaze.

At the Colorado Mountain Ranch, 60-year-old Mike Walker has been making a stand against the fire with his wife and 25-year-old daughter in a desperate effort to

“He’s safe, he’s up there ... He just won’t leave. We never doubted where he was, he just won’t leave for anybody.”

Rose Walker | Evacuee save the children’s summer camp and outdoor recreation center they operate.

“He’s safe, he’s up there,” said Walker’s 19-year-old daughter Rose, who evacuated. “He just won’t leave.

We never doubted where he was, he just won’t leave for anybody.”

Rose Walker said her father, mother and sister are trying everything to save their ranch, with her father using a tractor to scoop up flames away from structures, “literally dragging the fire away from the buildings.” On Wednesday, Rose Walker said her family were still at their ranch, using rakes and backpacks filled with water and a hose to put out any hot spots.

Firefighters say mapping now shows the blaze is burning on 6,168 acres, or about 9 square miles. That’s about a thousand acres smaller than they had thought.

Laura McConnell, a spokeswoman for the fire management team, said as many as 300 firefighters are at the fire and more are on the way.

She said they’re dealing with downed power lines, debris, poison ivy and rattlesnakes.

They also have to be watchful for propane tanks in the area.

Seven of the country’s 19 heavy air tankers have been sent to Colorado to fight the blaze, considered the nation’s top firefighting priority. Two more have been dispatched to the fire, said Ken Frederick, spokesman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.

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Students gather at St. Thomas More to learn basic self-defense

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TOP LEFT: Junior Susan Fial and sophomore Stephanie Walters sign their waivers at the beginning of class.

BOTTOM LEFT: Junior Kevin Rowlands demonstrates a knee strike as instructor Tony Howard braces for impact.

CENTER TOP: The class assembles for another demonstration. United Karate Systems held a seminar at St. Thomas More Wednesday night in order to help students be prepared and stay safe at the University. Regular martial arts classes are held on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:00 p.m.

CENTER: Officer Guthrie answers questions and expresses ways for students to stay safe and contact authorties in the event of an emergency.

CENTER BOTTOM: Self-defense participants bow at the beginning of class as led by senior instructors.

RIGHT TOP: Sophomore Andrea Flaig performs a palm strike while instructor Jorge Chavez helps her perfect her technique.

RIGHT BOTTOM: Head instructor Jim Hasenfratz explains the proper way to perform strike manuevers while instructors prepare for contact.

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FORUM PEOPLE ON THE STREET “Fix commuter parking.”

“I think we are the only university in the US whose colors are orange and brown.”

— Rodney Rogers, dean of the College of Business [see story, pg. 1].

Thursday, September 9, 2010

What would you do if you were president of the University?

“Switch the faculty and commuter lots around.”

JACLYN THOMPSON, Freshman, Digital Arts

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ANDREW BOHLAND, Sophomore, Business

“Have more student employment.”

“Have music playing and have more concerts.”

CAITLIN RUDOLPH, Sophomore, Early Education

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Republicans create own Jesus Student votes necessary to prevent housing discrimination MIKE THURAU COLUMNIST In all the speculation about whether the President of the United States is a secret Muslim — a concern matched only be the pre-election fear that his Chicago pastor made him a secret black nationalist — we sometimes forget another possibility: That he secretly subscribes to no religion at all.

Obviously, when you’re publicly speculating on a man’s deeply-held beliefs, you can’t just accept what he says. Until we devise some sort of test for determining whether someone is actually a Christian, possibly involving a very large wheel, or an Iron Maiden we’ll have to rely on two means of discerning the truth, our primal “gut” instincts and textual analysis.

During the President’s famous “folks haven’t been reading their Bibles” speech from 2006, Obama points out that government, following scripture, would restore slavery and ban shellfish. This suggesst that the President finds religion a useful force for uniting people and inspiring them to good but also might not believe that an actual god wrote the actual Bible, which serves as a blueprint for the ideal society in both 2010 and 3000 B.C. but was withheld from humanity for the first 95,000 years.

It sounds kind of stupid when you put it that way, doesn’t it? Obama reminded us of our willingness to ignore certain portions of Leviticus, Deuteronomy and the Sermon on the Mount to expose the absurdity of employing religious politics in a secular democracy.

When Obama said, in the same speech, “Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal — rather than religionspecific — values.

It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason,” he was essentially arguing for the principles western culture adopted in

the Enlightenment.

While such a stance might not have been controversial in the past, the profoundly radicalized American right is quick to expose his heresy and bludgeon him into conformity with the convictions of Reagan Jesus.

Reagan Jesus is a fickle deity, whose idea of the Golden Rule is “whoever has the gold, makes the rules” and regards “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s” as a redundant statement.

If Reagan Jesus had his way, he would do everything in his power to make men like King Herod and Pontius Pilot as rich as possible so that their wealth might “trickle down” to people like John the Baptist or Mary Magdeline.

Reagan Jesus would have still brought Lazarus back to life, but he would have charged a hefty fee as well because free health care is for socialists. He would have cut his long hippie hair and pasted a “Support our Roman Troops” sticker to the back of his donkey.

Reagan Jesus’ disciples were positively pervasive at Glenn Beck’s rally last week, and counted among them was Becky Benson, who said she drove up from Orlando because “we believe in Jesus Christ,” and said that Jesus would not have agreed with welfare. “You cannot sit and expect someone to hand out to you,” Benson said.

I bring up this grotesque i nversion of the values expressed by Jesus in the New Testament to point out the degree to which, in America, a certain type of Christianity has become a brand name for a certain social politics. Ironically, it is the Christianity commonly professed by the most devout among us.

The earthly arbiters of this divine law invoke the teachings of Christ at every turn, yet are also pro-war and anti-welfare.

It is a self-jusitfying, rich man’s religion — the Sunday morning gesture of a George H.W. Bush, the oil millionaire who ran the CIA and orchestrated the Iran-Contra Affair, yet had the audacity to publicly declare “I don’t know that atheists should be

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considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots.”

In other words, it’s Republicanism, and it resorts to Scripture only when it runs out of justifications. It is the collar around the neck of the faithful that makes vast economic inequality, continual war and a State morality dictated by asexual flagellants look like look like paradise.

Which brings us back to the question of whether the President believes in God. In “The Audacity of Hope,” he discusses his a-religious upbringing, and how he brought that agnosticism to his work as a community organizer in his 20s. It was there that he encountered a problem: “The Christians with whom I worked recognized themselves in me ... but they sensed that a part of me remained removed, detached, an observer among them. I came to realize that without an unequivocal commitment to a particular community of faith, I would be consigned at some level to always remain apart, free in the way that my mother was free, but also alone in the same ways she was ultimately alone.”

Obama is not talking about the existence of an omnipotent entity that created the universe. He is not talking about a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, a moment when God tells him to put down the bottle like he did for George W. Bush and Beck. Barack Obama is talking about the church, about the organization of people around faith to take action in this world. In other words, he’s talking about politics.

The difference between Obama’s politics and Reagan Jesus’ of course, is that he doesn’t expect you to roll over and do what he says every time he finds a relevant verse in the Bible.

Obama seems to see his Christianity as a tool for leadership rather than control. Whether it is a real Christianity — whether he has God in his heart, or whether he just likes people getting together to help each other and throw potlucks — seems like the second most interesting question in the argument.

The first is, in 2010, in an America where the vast majority of Bible-believing Christians vote the same way, what does being religious really mean?

KATE NOFTSINGER COLUMNIST

Why this election is so important?

In the city of Bowling Green, you cannot discriminate on the basis of race, age or sex. However, you can discriminate against the LGBT, pregnant or veteran members of our community.

Does that make sense?

Of course not. Thinking that something should be done about this? Duh. So there’s this movement in progress. And it needs your help. But before I get ahead of myself, let me go back to the beginning.

Last August, our city council passed two ordinances that would help protect the entire community from unlawful discrimination. This story might have ended there, had it not been for an opposition group petitioning for a repeal vote this November. Their name? BG Equal Rights, Not Special Rights. Their motivation? To keep those people out of the city.

Yes, a group of likeminded people organized an anti-equality campaign and smeared enough narrow-minded propaganda across this town to block legislation promising fairness to all citizens of Bowling Green.

Embarrassingly enough, there are residents who would trample the freedom of others because they believe they have a right to discriminate.

Like the real estate agent who blatantly told

two graduate students “we don’t rent to your kind,” when they were looking for an apartment.

Ordinance 7905 deals with housing and would prevent that from happening. And then there’s the Bowling Green High School teacher who was fired because students and faculty suspected he was gay. Ordinance 7906 deals with employment and would prevent that from happening.

Other members of our community are being affected as well. In fact, 12 categories of people are covered in the ordinances. One’s marital status, physical characteristics or genetic information are all currently unprotected, ensuring applicants can be told “no” for being single or “not having the right look.”

And as it stands, being a veteran or HIV positive could keep you homeless or unemployed in our city.

Sorry, Magic Johnson. Not in my backyard.

The fact that there were enough local people to invest in hate and make that happen is frightening. And the fact that they’re very close to getting what they wanted is totally absurd. BG Equal Rights, Not Special Rights believes that it would take excessive effort to uphold basic human rights for everyone. But if the law pertains to them, and only them, doesn’t that make them special? So what, exactly, is their definition of equal then?

But there’s good news, too. We have a chance to redeem ourselves. And it’s going to take student involvement. ONE Bowling Green is the

counter-campaign willing to take on the haters.

Here is what they need from you: On Nov. 2, it is of the utmost importance that everyone vote YES for ordinances 7905 and 7906.

That means you must register to vote in Bowling Green. This has to be done before October.

Also, members of ONE BG will be on campus re cruiting volunteers.

Couldn’t you spare a few hours for justice? In the midst of a “so what” election year, many people are unaware that ordinances of this magnitude are on the ballot. Indeed, knowing is half the battle.

Then there’s canvassing. People need to be approached over the phone and door-to-door.

You could help with fundraising activities. Or you could show your support with a sign in your yard or window. Or make a donation to the campaign.

Any involvement can be initiated at ONE Bowling Green’s headquarters on the corner of Main Street and Wooster.

It used to be the Diversity Boutique. Now it’s the Diversity Mecca.

From a n out sider perspec t ive, Bowl i ng Green appea rs to be unif ied, reject ing certa i n people f rom l iving or work ing in our c it y, w hen not h i ng could be f urt her from t he trut h. A nd from a nu mbers perspect ive, t he student population could w in t his. So let’s put our BG perspective to work, focus up t his fa l l a nd ma ke a d i fferent i mpression a s a fa ir a nd welcoming Bowling Green.

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Muslim mason immortalized at French cathedral

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Mexican marines arrest 7 in killing of 72 migrants

Muslims see Quran burning as threat to God’s word

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Iran: mitigation ‘possible’ in stoning case

PARIS — A Muslim stonemason who spent nearly four decades helping to restore a Roman Catholic cathedral in France has been immortalized as a winged gargoyle peering out from its facade — with the inscription “God is great” written in French and Arabic.

It was conceived as a symbol of inter-religious friendship that reflects the city of Lyon’s links to its large Muslim population. But a widely publicized outcry from a small extreme-right group has forced the Archdiocese of Lyon into damage control.

“This has nothing to do with religion. It’s a sculptor who wants to pay homage to a construction site chief,” said the Rev. Michel Cacaud, rector of the cathedral.

“That’s all.”

In France, where Islam is the country’s second religion, the government has worked to integrate Muslims into French culture, while at the same time confronting cases of Islamophobia, from the desecration of Muslim graves to attacks on mosques.

— Elaine Ganley (AP)

JERUSALEM — Israel Tal, a decorated war hero and the creator of Israel’s renowned “Merkava” tank, died in the Israeli town of Rehovot on Wednesday.

He was age 86, according to the military announcement.

Born in 1924, he held a series of important posts in the course of an illustrious military career, leaving the army as deputy chief of staff.

He is considered one of the best five armored commanders in history, alongside U.S. Gen. George S. Patton, Gen. Creighton Abrams, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and Israeli Maj. Gen. Moshe Peled, according to the Armor Museum at Fort Knox, where he is commemorated.

“This morning one of the legendary commanders was taken from us, one of the founders of the armored division of the army and one of the developers of the Merkava tanks,” said Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi in a statement.

His best known accomplishment was heading up the Israeli military committee in the mid-1970s that sought to design a battle tank that would wean the Jewish state off its dependence on foreign weapons.

— Diaa Hadid (AP)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican marines have arrested seven gunmen suspected of killing 72 Central and South American migrants in the worst drug cartel massacre to date, the government announced Wednesday.

Four of the suspects were arrested after a Sept. 3 gunbattle with marines, and the other three were captured days later, spokesman Alejandro Poire said at a news conference.

Poire alleged the seven belong to the Zetas drug gang, but he gave no further details on their identities or what led to their arrests.

Investigators believe the migrants were kidnapped by the Zetas and killed after refusing to work for the cartel.

The arrests “will help determine exactly what happened in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, and it’s a significant step toward ending the impunity surrounding assaults on migrants by organized crime,” Poire said.

Marines — alerted by an Ecuadorean survivor who managed to escape the mass killing — found the bodies of the migrants Aug. 24 at a ranch in Tamaulipas, a state that borders south Texas. The bodies, bound and blindfolded, were found lying in a row beside a wall, some slumped on top of each other.

CAIRO (AP) — The Quran is the most sacred object in the daily lives of Muslims and burning it would be considered an offense against God. Islam teaches that the holy book is the direct word of God, received by the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel, and it defines the belief and conduct for followers of the religion.

The Quran is so important in the faith that Islamic teaching spells out how it should be handled, including directing anyone who touches it to be in a state of ritual purity. Muslims can only burn or bury Qurans that have been damaged or corrupted to prevent God’s word from being defiled.

Concern about Muslim sensitivities has prompted the White House, religious leaders and others to call on the leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy, the Rev. Terry Jones, to call off a threat to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11.

MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed over the past four years, according to a U.S.-based media watchdog group that is calling on the government to respond forcefully to the dangers facing reporters who cover the country’s drug war.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report released Wednesday that at least seven other journalists have gone missing and more have fled the country since President Felipe Calderon took office December 2006 and intensified the crackdown on drug trafficking by deploying thousands of troops and federal police to cartel strongholds.

Gang violence has since surged, claiming more than 28,000 lives as the splintered cartels fight with each other and stage increasingly bold attacks on security forces, government officials — and journalists.

“Violence against the press has swept the nation and destroyed Mexicans’ right to freedom of expression,” the report said. “This national crisis demands a full-scale federal response.”

— Olga R. Rodriguez (AP)

ROME (AP) — Iran’s envoy to the Vatican said mitigation could be “possible” in the stoning sentence of an Iranian woman convicted of adultery because Islamic law allows for clemency.

Ambassador Ali Akbar Naseri told Italian state TV in an interview broadcast Wednesday night that the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was under study by experts.

He said Islamic law “is inspired by clemency and forgiveness.”

Asked if that meant the 43-yearold mother of two might receive clemency, the envoy replied that “some mitigation of the punishment is possible.”

The ambassador to the Holy See didn’t elaborate.

On Sunday, the Vatican raised the possibility of using its diplomatic channels on humanitarian grounds in the case but stopped short of saying such efforts had begun.

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Taliban leader Omar tells Afghans terrorists will win war

By Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s shadowy leader told Afghans on Wednesday that the insurgents are winning the war and warned Americans that they are wasting lives and billions in tax dollars by continuing in the conflict.

In an end-of-Ramadan message posted on jihadist websites and relayed by the Site Intelligence Group, the Taliban leader also said the Americans and their allies will soon leave the country. He urged his fighters to adhere to his code of conduct and avoid harming civilians — instructions U.S. com-

manders say the Taliban frequently ignore.

“The victory of our Islamic nation over the invading infidels is now imminent and the driving force behind this is the belief in the help of Allah and unity among ourselves,” Mullah Omar said.

“In the time to come, we will try to establish an Islamic, independent, perfect and strong system.”

In remarks directed to the American people, Mullah Omar said the U.S. military had failed to achieve its objectives after nearly nine years.

“You should know that your rulers have continuously told you lies since the beginning of the aggression

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“The victory of our Islamic nation over the invading infidels is now imminent and the driving force behind this is the belief in the help of Allah and unity among ourselves.”

Mullah Omar | Taliban leader on Afghanistan until this very day. They have wasted hundreds of billion of dollars of your tax money in the shape of financial expenditures and your manpower in Afghanistan and have still been wasting them,” he said.

“Therefore, they should abandon their headlong stubborn policy. Otherwise, the Americans will themselves face humiliation and

disgrace before any one else does that.”

Mullah Omar has not been seen in public since the Taliban were driven from power following the Sept.

11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States. The Bush administration launched the war after the Taliban refused to hand over al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the architect of the attacks.

Gunmen kill Iraqi television journalist in Mosul Killing shows dangers news correspondents face after American combat forces left nation Media,” which coincided with the killing of Riyad Assariyeh, an anchor at staterun Iraqiya TV. Assariyeh also served on BAGHDAD — Gunmen on Wednesday killed an Iraqi Baghdad’s Provincial Council.

TV journalist, the second to He was shot dead by unidenbe slain in Iraq in as many tified gunmen in a western days, highlighting the dangers Baghdad neighborhood.

In the northern city of media workers continue to face in the country seven years Mosul, Safaa Abdul-Hameed, a correspondent for a local TV after the U.S.-led invasion.

While a number of foreign station, was killed Wednesday correspondents were killed in morning near his home in the the years immediately follow- eastern part of the city. The ing the invasion, Iraqi journal- gunmen shot him from a ists are now the main target, speeding car, police said.

Hameed, a father of six, especially photographers and TV journalists who are easier had worked at al-Mousiliyah to spot, according to Reporters channel for a year, his colWithout Borders, a Paris-based leagues said.

At least 230 media workers media watchdog.

The group released a report have been killed in Iraq since Tuesday titled “The Iraq War: 2003, according to Reporters A Heavy Death Toll for the Without Borders. Of those

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Ready to ascend into the role Tight end Nick Rieke ready to break out for BG

By Sean Shapiro Web Editor

Nick Rieke has witnessed a lot of completions.

Since his freshman year in 2007, the Falcons have completed 1,009 passes for more then 10,600 total yards, however only two of those completions have landed in the hands of the now redshirt-senior tight end.

However, that role as a blocker first, pass catcher second could change when BG heads to Tulsa this weekend.

With a young quarterback and relatively inexperienced receiver corp, tight end could prove to be a more highly targeted position in coach Dave Clawson’s offense this season.

“We’re a big part of the offense ... it’s interesting to see a west coast offense with seven tight ends on the roster,” Rieke said.

At 6-foot-4, Rieke leads a trio of tight ends that will see significant playing time, including freshmen Alex Bayer and Tyler Beck.

Last season, Rieke was the only healthy tight end for most

“Jimmy was kind of my mentor, I miss playing with him but I kind of took over the role he had.”

Nick Rieke | BG tight end of the season, as starter Jimmy Scheidler suffered a high ankle sprain that hampered him for the second half of the season.

That’s all changed this year, as Clawson has three tight ends he’s comfortable throwing too.

“We really didn’t have a third that was playable ... Nick, who had never really played before, played a lot more, now Nick is playing far better then he ever did a year ago,” Clawson said.

While Rieke is playing better then he has at any point in his career, Bayer, who redshirted last season, and Beck have both picked up the offense quickly, with the help of their new senior leader.

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BLOCK: BG tight end Nick Rieke (44) looks to create a running lane in a game against Ohio last season

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Notes: Magnone, defense ready to face prolific Tulsa offense

BG native Powers enjoying role as hometown hero Barbra Powers

By Nick King Reporter

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TACKLE: BG linebacker Angelo Magnone (55) makes a tackle against Central Michigan last season

By Paul Barney Sports Editor

Angelo Magnone has not forgotten about the last time BG played against Tulsa.

He hasn’t forgotten about the 563 yards of total offense the Golden Hurricane put up compared to the Falcons’ 229.

And he certainly hasn’t forgotten about the final score, 63-7.

“We went in there pretty confident about that game and it was a disappointment,” Magnone sad. He started as a freshman on the defensive line against Tulsa in the 2008 GMAC Bowl.

“At the time and going into winter conditioning that year I was still pretty down about it,” he said.

Magnone joins Neal Dahlman, Tyler Donahue, Willie Geter, Calvin Marshall, Tyrone Pronty, Nick Rieke and Nick Torresso as the only returning players from that Falcons’ team.

Now a senior, Magnone is excited to get another shot at Tulsa Saturday, but knows it will be challenge, much like when the two squared off in 2008.

“It’s definitely a challenge,” Magnone said. “They run a really fast paced offense and they’ll try to catch you sleeping.

They run a whole lot of formations on offense that we have to prepare for and be able to line up against.”

Like the Falcons, Tulsa is also entering this week’s game com-

ing off a heartbreaking loss.

East Carolina defeated the Golden Hurricane 51-49 on a 33-yard touchdown pass from Dominique Davis on the game’s final play.

Tulsa quarterback G.J. Kinne completed 28-of-43 passes for 399 yards and five touchdowns — completing passes to 10 different receivers.

Kinne’s performance against ECU was the second-best NCA A passing performance of the opening weekend behind North Carolina’s T.J. Yates’ 412 yards and three touchdowns against LSU.

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Senior Barbara Powers has been a runner for BG women’s cross country team the last four years.

She is just one of the many seniors that will be leaving the team this year. This year she is expecting better things from the team and that they will continue to improve from last year’s performance at the Mid-American Confrence championships.

“Last year we were really disappointed in our finish at the MAC championship,” Powers said. “We definitely are working to improve upon that and use it has motivation for this season.

“We have a tight pack that we are going to have to use to our advantage racing. It really helps when you have your teammates next to you pushing you along each step of the way.”

What many people might not know about Powers is that she grew up in Bowling Green. This has made her time at BG even more special because she got to run in front of her friends and family.

“It has been great being in my hometown with the support of my family and friends,” she said. “It is so nice seeing familiar faces at races.”

Her teammates are a big part of her experience the past four years at BG. When it came to her favorite

One of seven seniors on the BG women’s cross country team memory of the past four years her teammates are a reason for every one of them.

“My whole experience at Bowling Green has been great; I love competing with my team,” Powers said. “We have gotten to see some different parts of the country and every day I get to run with my best friends, I couldn’t really ask for more.”

Her family has helped to make cross country in general easy for her.

“Cross country is such a hard sport in that each time you race you are trying to push your body to its limit; it makes it a little bit easier when you have people out there cheering you on,” Powers said.

With it being her last year running in college, she feels that her time at BG has come and gone quickly.

“Time really does fly by, it feels like yesterday that I was a freshman just coming in,” she said. “I am extremely excited about this year and just want to make the most of my last opportunity to compete as a college runner.”

Don’t expect Powers to stop running when she graduates. She hopes that it will end up being a lifelong activity of hers.

Former Falcon Reimold returns to Bigs Former BG baseball player Nolan Reimold was recalled by the Baltimore Orioles Sept. 1. He hit his first homer since the recall last night against the Yankees.

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BG’s Andrew Krelove ready to file role as mentor, team’s top defenseman

By Ryan Satkowiak Assistant Sports Editor

Andrew Krelove has big shoes to fill this year.

Following the graduation of captain and doit-all defenseman Kyle Page, Krelove is the only defenseman on the roster who has more than one year of collegiate experience.

However, he is ready to accept the challenge of leading a young defensive unit.

“I learned a lot from Page, having played with him for three years before he left,” Krelove said. “He has a great work ethic, and he would come in and work as hard as he could and be a great leader.”

More of a true defensiveoriented defenseman than Page, Krelove has only put up 11 points — one goal, ten

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assists — and 71 shots in three seasons with BG. He has blocked 93 shots over the same period, with 82 of them coming the last two seasons.

In preparation to fill the top defenseman role, vacated by Page, Krelove spent the offseason concentrating on improving his physicality in the defensive zone.

“I did a lot of strength-type workouts, so when I’m in the defensive zone I can push guys around more,” Krelove said. “I’m a smaller guy, and there are a lot of big guys in this league, so it’s going to be crucial to clear the front of the net.”

The main challenge that was present for the defense last season is still an issue this year: the unit’s overall youth. While the unit is

deep, with eight defenseman listed on the roster, seven of them are either freshman or sophomores.

However, Krelove is confident that the unit’s talent will outweigh the inexperience.

“We haven’t done too much systems stuff yet, it’s has just been captains practices so far, but the young guys look great,” Krelove said. “We have four other returning defensemen, so it’ll be about getting our systems set and getting on the same page.”

Krelove also reiterated what senior forward David Solway said several weeks ago, stating that the new coaching staff’s attitude has the players energized to start the season.

“They here to win, and here to be a family, and that’s

caught four passes for 58 yards and rushed the ball once for 15 yards.

our special teams overall,” Clawson said. “We spent a lot more time [during the offseason] on punt returns. If we didn’t have [Cooper’s] play we’re probably not in the game at the end.”

“Tulsa is very explosive Honorable mention on offense, they have tremendous skill,” said The Falcons’ Eugene Cooper BG coach Dave Clawson. was named punt returner “They have a tremendous honorable mention by the quarterback who is physi- College Football Performance cally tough and can make Award for his efforts at Troy every throw.” over the weekend.

In his first career punt National ranks return, Cooper ran 63 P ront y r a n k s sevent h yards for a touchdown to i n t h e n a t i o n a f t e r give BG a 24-17 lead early we ek one w it h 224 a l l in the third quarter.

It was the first punt pu r pose y a rd s.

Pronty recorded 151 return for a touchdown kick return yards on five by a Falcon since Corey attempts against Troy, Partridge went 79 yards for including a 48-yarder a score against Temple on — one yard farther than Oct. 1, 2005.

Cooper finished his night any other kick return the with two returns for 72 yards.

Falcons had last year.

“I was very pleased with The wide receiver also

one of the big things we’ve stressed so far,” Krelove said.

While renovations to the BGSU Ice Arena are still ongoing, the main sheet of ice has been laid down, allowing the team to hold optional practices, which will be an important time for the team as they start to play together again.

With 25 days to go until the team’s exhibition game versus Wilfrid Laurier, Krelove says that the team has one common goal for the season.

“I’m expecting to win, I think everyone here is,” Krelove said. “We want to build a strong foundation for years to come.”

“Last year wasn’t really one of the best years here, but I think that’s something to build off of going forward.”

almost every person will never forget- where they were, what they were doing and who they were with.

For Clawson, the day is very personal to him for many reasons.

“My sister worked in the second World Trade Center Win or lose building on the 92nd floor, A win at Tulsa would be and it was one of those the Falcons’ first win ever miracle stories that her against them and the first train that day was 10 minwin over a Conference USA utes late,” he said.

In 2001, Clawson was the opponent since their 52-35 win over Memphis at the head coach at Fordham in New York, and was pre2004 GMAC Bowl.

A loss, however, would paring his team to play be their first two-game Columbia that weekend.

Nick Brandemarti, who losing streak to open a season since the 2000 team was a player at Fordham, became a student coach opened the season at 0-4. for Clawson after suffering Remembrance a concussion in practice, which led to him not being Sept. 11, 2001 was a day

RIEKE From Page 6 “Jimmy was kind of my mentor, I miss playing with him but I kind of took over the role he had,” Rieke said. “I’ve got a lot of young guys who will be following in my footsteps, so I have to set a good example both on and off the field.”

One of the ways he’s setting an example is by instilling the same work et hic he learned from his mentor.

That work ethic, one which allowed Scheidler to compile 466 yards and eight touchdowns over the past two seasons, includes going hard on every play and even if you’re going to

able to play again.

Brandemarti went to work in the city at the WTC. After the attacks when many began finding out all the names of the people they knew that worked in the building, Clawson realized that Brandemarti had passed.

Clawson said there are a few kids in the course of his career that he’s coached and became very close with — Brandemarti was one of them.

“Every time its 9/11 I still think of Nick and my sister,” he said.

During pre-game and halftime of the BG-Tulsa game Saturday, ceremonies will take place in memory of the attacks.

Nick Rieke Did not record a catch in season open versus Troy make a mistake. “You’re still going 100 percent,” Rieke said.

He’s also worked at developing chemistr y with freshman quarterback Matt Schilz, something that could be a valuable asset when the quarterback is under pressure and looking for a safety valve receiver.

“Matt’s my boy, he’s one of my best friends ... we did some extra things this summer, we went out and threw and started to develop a chemistry,” Rieke said.

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“We want to find a balance that will help higher education between the state and university,” Gardner said. “If we can save 15 or 20 percent on a $40 million construction plan, that is a good sum of money that can save many programs and departments.”

Graduate student Stacey Freyer thought Gardner’s proposals will benefit students and faculty members.

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“The brown bag luncheon was informative and well organized,” Freyer said.

“Gardner’s intentions for higher education are sincere and honest. It is nice to have a bigger voice that is open to ideas.”

“Effective leadership is well informed leadership,” said GSS president Stephen Dinda. “Rep. Gardner works hard to have the best interest of the students and our University.”

The next GSS brown bag luncheon will take place Sept. 22 in 101 Olscamp at noon. Bowling Green Mayor John Quinn will lead the discussion. Community members and undergraduates students are also welcome.

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University students’ blood will be used and distributed in 11 counties including Lucas and Wood counties, which contain 23 local hospitals.

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Each donor can give up to four times a year, and so far Shaffer has donated ten times since he was 17.

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