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One University student combined her loves of running and helping kids to make a difference.

Senior Mandi Gentner said it has always been her lifetime goal to run in a marathon. When searching for charities online to sponsor her, she found Team Hole in the Wall, an organization that sends seriously ill children to camp around the world, she said.

Children can go to Hole in the Wall camps for free, because of the team’s fundraising, Gentner said. The 11 camps are equipped with medical supplies and faculty to assist with the child’s needs, according to their website.

Annually, Team Hole in the Wall runs 26 miles in the New York City Marathon as a fundraiser. Each member has the goal of raising $3,000 by the race date, Nov. 7.

Gentner said she has been raising money since the beginning of this year through bake sales and local donations. On her own, Gentner has already raised $1,300 with about $2,000 more to raise. Gentner said she has encountered people who donate a dollar per mile she will run in the marathon.

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Running a marathon to raise money for ill children get,” Gentner said.

Her donations raised will be used to send children to camps across the globe.

Team Hole in the Wall director Peter McBride said he is excited about the opening of a new camp near Columbus called Fly Horse Farms.

This will be the 12th camp opened internationally since the organization’s creation in 1988 by actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, according to the website.

According to McBride, Team Hole in the Wall began participating in the marathon in 2005.

“Today, our goal is to raise $650,000,” McBride said.

In the New York City Marathon, there will be 43,000 runners and 200 sponsors for Team Hole in the Wall to reach the team’s fundraising goal.

Because Hole in the Wall is a global charity, team members are from all over the world said McBride. Gentner will run with members she has yet to meet from Moscow, Athens, London,

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PREPARED: Matt Stimmel prepares ingredients for one of the many food selections offered at Stimmel’s Market.

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sion difficulties, according to Matthew Stimmel.

“We are sorry we were gone fter closing briefly last sum- for a little bit, but we are happy mer, Stimmel’s Market, for- to be back,” Stimmel said. “We merly a gourmet food and wine originally came back as just a store, reopened in July 2009 as a bakery but with all the money delicatessen and bakery.

See STIMMEL | Page 3 The market closed for a

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PUMPED: An overview of some of the current Student Recreation Center facilities. Students complete their workout routines on Wednesday afternoon.

Rec attendance rises due to new students

any large differences for this year.

He said between the first day of classes and Sept. 15, more peoSophomore Leah Martin was bom- ple came through this year than barded with freshmen at the Student last year. Within the more than Recreation Center during the first three-week time period, 31,006 students went through the SRC this week of school.

“You could tell they were new stu- year, compared with only 30,834 dents, because they didn’t know how students last year. The difference is not large, but Hollinger also said to swipe their cards,” she said.

Martin is the Center Manager at the number from this year could be the SRC where she began working about 1,000 students short, due to the malfunctioning ID scanner on last spring semester.

Although she said the first week the first day of classes.

Hollinger said he is used to the was busy this fall, she thinks the number of people at the SRC has fluctuations in the number of studied down to a level comparable to dents at the SRC. He said the busilast year. est times are the beginning of fall “I think it’s about the same. It’s not semester when people are exploring like a drastic increase by any stretch,” campus and have not gotten heavily she said. into their classes, and the beginning The freshman class has grown by of the spring semester when people 800 students, but several people at the have made New Year’s resolutions SRC said it has not had a big impact and are preparing for spring break. on the number of people there.

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JOIN: Freshman Alex Krempasky talks to Amanda Aldrich and Mike Schiewer about getting involved with Toledo’s Food for Thought Organization. Food for Thought contributes by weekend lunch distribution, food pantry, mobile food pantry, hygiene giveaway and survival backpacks.

The office of the Dean of Students and members of the Undergraduate Student Government will celebrate Constitution Day in the Union on Sept. 17.

At the tables near the front entrance of the Union, the Dean’s office and USG will pass out pocket sized constitutions to anyone interested in learning more about Constitution Day. Students are also free to take a “Which founding father are you?” quiz. The quiz will act as a personality quiz and will assign students as former presidents or founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin.

As a state school, the University is federally mandated to perform an activity in honor of Constitution Day. Students may also enter to win free prizes at the tables in the Union. All students are free to visit the table anytime Friday afternoon.

Dave Hollinger said he hasn’t noticed

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Judge wants imam to prove he’s fixing NJ buildings

CA files lawsuit against leaders of troubled city

Arlington opens graves, finds 3 misplaced bodies

Obama urges troops, veterans to claim back pay

White House sends spending wish list to Congress

DHS spends money on flawed nuclear detection plan

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A judge has demanded an imam who wants to build a mosque near New York’s ground zero produce documents proving he’s making repairs at two northern New Jersey apartment buildings he owns.

State Superior Court Judge Thomas Olivieri told a lawyer for Feisal Abdul Rauf to submit the documents by Thursday afternoon.

Attorney Tomas Espinosa told the judge some work is under way at the buildings in Union City, which is just across the Hudson River from New York and has about 70,000 residents.

Rauf didn’t attend Wednesday’s hearing.

Union City sued this week, claiming Rauf ignored safety violations at the buildings. The lawsuit claims Rauf didn’t fix 12 fire code violations the year before one building caught fire.

It said parts of the other building didn’t have electricity, smoke detectors or fire alarms.

LOS ANGELES — The California attorney general’s office sued eight former and current Bell city officials on Wednesday, accusing them of fraud, conspiracy and wasting taxpayers money by approving huge salary increases for themselves.

The suit demands city officials, including former City Manager Robert Rizzo and three current council members, return hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bloated salaries.

The legal action also calls for a reduction of pension benefits that were based on the high salaries.

Attorney General Jerry Brown told reporters the officials defrauded the public and enriched themselves by taking salaries he said were “enormous and obscene” and not anywhere in line with those paid to officials in cities of comparable size.

“You can’t just take the public’s money and give it to yourself or give it to your friendly employees or members of the city council just because you want to,” said Brown, a candidate for governor.

“There’s a standard and that standard is that the pay must be commensurate with the duty and the work.”

— John Rogers (AP)

WASHINGTON — Three people were buried in the wrong graves at Arlington National Cemetery, the Army said Wednesday as it followed up an investigation into bookkeeping problems and burial mix-ups at one of the nation’s most hallowed sites.

After a report issued in June found that the problems could potentially affect thousands of graves, defense officials received about 1,100 calls from worried families.

One of those callers, the widow of an Army staff sergeant, led to the exhumation of three graves late last month. The three remains in those graves, all former members of the armed forces, were found to be in the wrong place, said Gary Tallman, an Army spokesman.

“The families are satisfied that the problem was fixed,” Tallman said Wednesday.

A fourth grave was opened Wednesday in a different section of Arlington. At the request of his father, the grave and casket of Marine Pfc. Heath Warner of Canton, were opened. The site was found to hold the remains of Warner, who was killed in Iraq in 2006, Tallman said.

— Pauline Jelinek (AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is encouraging service members whose tours in Iraq or Afghanistan were involuntarily extended or who weren’t allowed to retire as planned to meet an Oct. 21 deadline to apply for special retroactive pay.

Obama signed a bill last year making anyone whose service between Sept. 11, 2001 and Sept. 30, 2009 was extended under what’s known as “stop loss” eligible for $500 a month in retroactive pay for every month their service was extended.

The bill set aside $534 million for 185,000 service members, but many have yet to apply.

The White House released a video Wednesday in which Obama urged them to beat the deadline. Said Obama: “As your commander in chief, I’m here to tell you that this is no gimmick or trick.”

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is pushing a pre-election shopping list on its Democratic allies in Congress as they prepare must-pass legislation to prevent a government shutdown next month.

Republicans are protesting the spending requests, which include $1.9 billion for school grants, financial help for the Postal Service and more than $4 billion requested by the administration to finance settlements of long-standing lawsuits against the government.

A back-of-the-envelope tally

by Republicans puts the price tag of the Obama requests at more than $25 billion, including $5.7 billion to prevent shortfalls in the popular Pell Grant program and $5.5 billion the cash-strapped Postal Service.

The White House is targeting a bill to continue funding the government past the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year to carry its spending requests. The measure is needed because Congress is failing to pass the annual spending bills that fund the day-to-day operations of the government.

Such stopgap funding bills typically don’t carry controversial legislation or large spending initiatives. But the stopgap measure is the last measure that Congress absolutely has to pass before the elections, and so it is a tempting target on which to add unfinished business.

— Andrew Taylor (AP)

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department is wasting time and money on its current plan to develop technology to detect nuclear material at the nation’s borders, two senators said Wednesday.

Sens. Joseph Lieberman, IConn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, slammed the department for not having a strategic plan to develop critical technology that could prevent a nuclear terrorist attack on the U.S. Congressional investigators have criticized the program since 2006. The Obama administration blames most of the program’s problems on the Bush administration. But Lieberman and Collins said the current administration isn’t working fast enough to fix them.

“We’re not happy or satisfied with progress on the whole nuclear detection architecture,” Lieberman said.

The department has spent $400 million to develop two technology programs that have failed and $4 billion to develop nuclear detection technology over the past seven years. Lawmakers and congressional investigators have repeatedly criticized those efforts, saying the department has little to demonstrate that the cost justifies the programs.

Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute said Wednesday that the department is improving the technology program.

— Eileen Sullivan (AP)

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Wis. attorney allegedly sent explicit texts to abuse victim

By Ryan J. Foley The Associated Press

CHILTON, Wis. — A prominent Wisconsin district attorney sent repeated text messages trying to spark an affair with a domestic abuse victim while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend, a police report shows.

The 26-year-old woman complained last year to police after receiving 30 texts from Calumet County District Attorney Kenneth Kratz in three days, according to the report obtained

by The Associated Press.

“Are you the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA ... the riskier the better?”

Kratz, 50, wrote in a message to Stephanie Van Groll in October 2009. In another, he wrote: “I would not expect you to be the other woman. I would want you to be so hot and treat me so well that you’d be THE woman! R U that good?”

Kratz was prosecuting Van Groll’s ex-boyfriend on charges he nearly choked her to death last year. He also was veteran chair of the Wisconsin Crime Victims’ Rights Board, a quasi-judicial agency that can reprimand judges, prosecutors and police officers who mistreat crime victims.

In a combative interview in his office Wednesday, Kratz did not deny sending the messages and expressed concern their publication would unfairly embarrass him personally and professionally. He said the Office of Lawyer Regulation had found he did not violate any rules governing attorney misconduct. That office cannot comment on investigations.

“This is a non-news story,” Kratz shouted. But he added, “I’m worried about it because of my reputational interests. I’m worried about it because of my 25 years as a prosecutor.”

“They gave him a slap on the wrist and told him not to do it again. If it was anybody else that did something like this, they’d lose their job.”

Stephanie Van Groll | Victim Van Groll told police in Kaukauna, Wis., where she lived, that she felt pressured to have a relationship with Kratz or he would drop the charges against her ex-boyfriend.

Kratz then removed himself from that prosecution and the state Department of Justice took over. He resigned from the crime victims board, which he helped create, after more than a decade as chair.

He and his wife filed for divorce last December, although he said they were separated when the messages were sent.

Kratz has remained the top prosecutor based in Chilton, where he has

served since 1992 and earns a $105,000 salary. Kratz, a Republican, said he intends to run for re-election in November 2012.

“Nothing really happened to him and I had three days of hell,” Van Groll said in a phone interview with the AP. “They gave him a slap on the wrist and told him not to do it again. If it was anybody else that did something like this, they’d lose their job.”

Domestic violence experts called Kratz’s text messages disturbing and unethical for several reasons, including the power differential between a prosecutor and a younger abuse victim.

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STIMMEL From Page 1 we made during our reopening we were able to then reopen the deli shortly after.”

The family-owned business first opened a little over six and a half years ago.

“My father is the majority share holder of the market and is in charge of all the office work,” he said. “My wife and I work here, along with my nephew. My niece worked here last year, but recently graduated from the University.”

The market is located at 1220 W. Wooster St., just past Wood County Hospital and a mile from Main Street downtown.

“We do not have the beer and wine selection that we once had, but our bakery and deli are great,” Stimmel said. “The farmers market is actually held in our parking lot from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays, and during that time we have promotional items to make it more of a festive atmosphere for the residents of the city.”

Stimmel said the bakery and deli are in competition with each other when it comes to popularity.

“The sandwiches at the deli are the most popular item we sell at the bakery, hands down,” he said. “They’re all made with Boars Head Brand meats and cheese and the finest ingredients. They are all put on bread we make fresh everyday at the bakery, and are topped with condiments we make from scratch.”

The deli also caters events with sandwiches, party

subs and homemade potato, chicken and macaroni salads.

“We sell pounds and pounds of our potato and macaroni salad every day,” he said. “It’s a favorite among the customers.”

Each evening just after closing, the Market comes back to life as they mix, bake, fill and glaze until dawn so when customers come in for their morning coffee, their favorite baked goods are waiting. They also have doughnut delivery and bring baked goods to churches and departmental meetings on a regular basis, according to the market’s website.

Pemberville resident Katie Bruning said she frequently shopped at Stimmel’s Market before it closed.

“I used to go out of my way to get their meat and cheeses because they have Boars Head products, which have no preservatives,” Bruning said.

“Since I work in Bowling Green, I used to stop by every once and a while, either for the meat or for wine.”

Bruning said she hadn’t visited the market since their reopening a little over a year ago until now because she was unaware they had reopened.

“They were a market that people would go to when they wanted something special and out of the ordinary, like customized gift baskets with cheese, crackers, barbecue sauce, peppers, olives — anything really,” she said. “They also used to have specialty beers and wines and held tasting events every once and a while. Now that I know they’re reopened, I’ll come back for the same reason as before: their deli.”

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very attached to the charity,” Gentner said. “I want to make a difference in someone’s life.”

For more information on Ireland and Israel.

“I have always loved how to join or donate to Team kids, when I found Team Hole in the Wall, go to www.

Hole in the Wall, I became teamholeinthewall.org.

“A lot of people come to check it out,” he said. “I think it has a lot of social networking opportunities too.”

Although there are several reasons for students to start going to the SRC, there are several reasons they stop going, Hollinger said.

“Things taper after literally two weeks,” he said.

Reasons he gave for the decrease in students is the walk in the winter and becoming busy with schoolwork.

The number of students fluctuates throughout the year, but Hollinger said an average of 1,300 people come through the SRC in one day.

“We get a good amount of people,” he said.

Hollinger said with the number of people that go through the SRC there is a lot of maintenance that continues throughout the year.

“Wear and tear takes place on everything,” he said. “It’s hard to keep up with maintenance issues especially when we have more students.”

He also said that although the SRC is in an older building, built in 1979, it has held up well for all of the use it gets.

“This is an older building, but it’s in pretty good shape,” Hollinger said.

With the building’s age and the possibly growing number of new students, Hollinger said he would welcome a renovation.

“We’d love to try to expand or at least renovate,” he said.

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move forward with a renovation, Hollinger said.

He said he has not received any complaints from students at the SRC, but welcomes feedback.

“We are here for the students,” he said. “We do care; we want to hear feedback.”

Freshmen Brian Griffin and Matthew Leverett said they have not had a problem with the number of students at the SRC. They go almost everyday after their classes get out around 4:30 p.m.

“We come in and lift a little bit and play some basketball,” Leverett said.

If it gets busy, Leverett said there can be a wait to play basketball if you lose.

“There’s good competition if you’re playing basketball,” he said.

Griffin said there are perks to the SRC being busy.

“It’s a good chance to meet people” he said.

General Studies Writing Instructor Joe Celizic said the SRC is busier this year than when he was working on his master’s degree at the University two years ago.

“The very first week, it was the more crowded than I’ve ever seen it,” he said.

Although he thinks the SRC has gotten busier, he said it is not an issue for him.

“I used to try to go with a set schedule in mind. Now I just do what’s available,” he said.

Leah Martin said she has some advice for students worried about the SRC being busy.

“I would say if you don’t want to come when there are lots of people here, come in the morning before 3 p.m., before people get out of class,” Martin said. “It is free for students, so they should take advantage of the facilities.”

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“England.”

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“Japan.”

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Americans no longer invest in their future MIKE THURAU COLUMNIST What’s the matter with America?

The very question is regarded as offensive or incoherent in many circles, but I suspect you’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t asked themselves this question in their heart of hearts at least once. For those of us who keep their ear very close to the ground when it comes to the permutations and vagaries of American culture and politics this is a question that we ask ourselves constantly.

I’m not asking what is the matter with America in terms of the economy or political process (although ample examples can be found).

For starters, why do we have the worlds largest prison population and the world’s highest rate of incarceration?

Why is a baby born in Puerto Rico more likely to survive into adulthood? Why does 10 percent of the population control nearly 80 percent of the wealth while 3.5 million people are homeless every year? Or, why are students in former Soviet prison states like the Czech Republic and Latvia consistently scoring better on achievement tests than American public schools despite the billions of dollars we invest in education?

These are all problems that you wouldn’t expect the richest country in the world to have, yet they are all very real, however numbers and statistics aren’t what interest me. After all, raw data doesn’t explain what its cause is, it merely measures a phenomenon. The sources behind these phenomenon are likely much more difficult to uncover than the numbers quantifying their effects, however I think a good place to try and look for the roots of our political and social realities is what is going on in our culture.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is why I’d like to talk about the highest rated television show for viewers between the

ages of 18 and 30 ... “Jersey Shore.” Three-quarters of the top rated television shows right now are all in the reality genre with “Jersey Shore” sitting on top. What’s interesting is that the same TiVo surveys show that reality TV is the most likely genre for viewers to mark as “overdone”.

If so many people feel that reality TV is overdone, then why does it draw such huge ratings? I propose that it is for the same reason that we are the fattest nation on Earth with one of the greatest obsessions with slimness. It is the reason that the majority of Americans regard themselves as middle or upper class, but the top two income quintiles comprise only 6 percent of the population while the bottom two comprise 57 percent. We talk a good game, but when it comes down to it, we have simply stopped putting our money where our mouth is.

No amount of money is going to improve the test scores of a student who refuses to learn and doesn’t care if he’s ignorant. And just because we profess to being sick of mind numbing reality TV, it doesn’t mean that we are going to turn off the tube.

This failure to match words and actions is both personal and social. It is personal because at the end of the day we are the ultimate masters of our own lives, and social because the culture of hype without content and choice without commitment is all around us.

When the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed on 9/11 and the nation was gripped in collective trauma what did President Bush ask us for? He asked us for our “continued participation and confidence in the American economy” and to “continue praying for the victims of terror and their families, for those in uniform and for our great country.”

Both of these things require virtually no effort. Praying and shopping are both passive activities and they are exactly the kind of thing that we Americans can be counted upon to engage in. Right now, our national debt is at a num-

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ber so high that it was previously only used in discussions on space travel and subatomic particles, 13 X 10^12.

You would think that with a problem this huge, Americans would be willing to sacrifice a small portion of their own incomes to avoid the long term catastrophe that so much debt carries.

This is not the case.

Not only is it political suicide to suggest a moderate tax increase across the board, but Obama’s decision to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire is frequently described as “controversial” or the efforts of congress to regulate the financial industry as “class war.”

If mustering the political will to tax our corporate masters is too much to ask, then we deserve what is coming to us. Furthermore, we complain about the overextension of federal authority but we wish it had the power to prevent the construction of a mosque.

Public service and sacrifice are highly regarded among most Americans when your talking about volunteering at a soup kitchen or donating to the construction of a new playground.

However, when you’re talking about the government, such sentiments are received with either boredom or hostility. It is possible that the American people have stopped regarding their political leaders as an extension of their collective will and started regarding them as agents of an alien agenda or as distant parent figures.

Perhaps the feeling is mutual. But the results of this view of the democratic process is an abdication of social responsibility and an electorate that is docile at best and reactionary at worst.

Can we survive as a nation of passive consumers guided to and fro by the moneyed interests that make our lifestyles possible? Sure. Vastly unequal societies have managed to perpetuate themselves for far longer than the United States has existed in the past. But a better question is; is such a society worth perpetuating?

Most people blink about 25,000 times a day.

“Scotland.”

PAUL SMITH, Sophomore, Undecided

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The Beatles were wrong, life needs more than love “True love is rare. While millions of people claim to be in love, to have found their soul mates, I disagree. If you’re lucky enough to really find true love, that’s great.”

By Nick Glunt, The Daily Kent Stater (Kent State University) College News Network

The textbook resting in my hands had gone mostly unread through the twohour drive to Erie, Pa. Though homework had piled up during the first week of classes, my Labor Day drive with two of my closest friends was instead filled with tunes from a mix CD. Disney songs sucked the whole car into a nostalgic sing-along, while show tunes had me actually attempting to put a dent in my readings. Other songs, like the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love,” got me thinking.

While John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr may be some of the most revolutionary and wellknown musicians ever to grace the planet, the lyrics they wrote are strangely inaccurate.

Though Lennon’s sentiment behind “All You Need Is Love” is heartwarming and sweet, it is sadly mistaken.

Those who think like this aren’t living life to its fullest. They’re focusing on one aspect of

something with billions of opportunities.

In a society where radio, books and movies perpetuate the idea that “All You Need Is Love,” I am taking a stand.

It seems like ever y few days, my Facebook news feed is telling me some friends of mine just got into a relationship, engaged or even married. They’re having children and talking about how much they love each other.

At the same time, my news feed is telling me about all the ending relationships, all the heartache, all the depression.

I just can’t wrap my head around it. We’re all still so young. To be entirely honest, I don’t see most of these relationships lasting more than a year or so. The word “love” is thrown a round so w i l lingly today that I just don’t believe it anymore.

Now, this isn’t to say that I don’t believe in love.

I really do believe in it. It’s just hard to believe when people tell me they’ve found it and six months later, they’re sitting on a couch some place with a tub of Ben and Jerry’s, crying their eyes out.

I could throw facts at you saying how high America’s divorce rate is, but I don’t think that would get my point across.

So I’ll just lay it down on the line.

True love is rare. While millions of people claim to be in love, to have found their soul mates, I disagree. If you’re lucky enough to really find true love, that’s great. I may not believe you, but at least you’ll be happy.

Just do me a favor: Try not to take yourselves so seriously. While you may believe the lyrics in those Beatles songs, there’s more to life than love. It’s only part of the equation.

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BG swimmers prepare for the season as the hunt for a new head coach starts to heat up

By Matt Nye Reporter

T

he search for a new swimming team head coach is heating up while getting closer to the start of the swimming season.

The previous head coach, Kerri Buff, resigned on Aug. 13, and the search for a new coach took off from there.

Lesley Irvine, the senior associate athletic director, said there has been a lot of interest from all around to fill this position.

“We are trying to do this as quickly as we can, but also as thoroughly as we can and keep the well-being of our program at the forefront,” Irvine said. “There is an aspect of recruiting in this as well and we have been very excited in the interest shown for the program here.”

Since the season is right around the corner, the candidates will be on campus in the next few weeks and the list of candidates will be narrowed down until the University finds the right fit.

“Swimming is big in Ohio and we have a great athletic board and this will be great opportunity for the right candidate,” Irvine said. “We expect to make a decision here in the next two-three weeks and our hope is that the team doesn’t miss a beat when it happens.”

Mark Howard is currently the assistant swimming coach and he has had to assume the role of head coach during this period. He has been with the program for four years and

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Men’s golf places 13th at Marshall Invitational

By Brendan Packert Reporter

The men’s golf team posted one of their best team scores in recent memory. However, they could only finish in 13th place at the 2010 Marshall Invitational in Huntington, W. Va. Hosted by Marshall University at the Guyan County Club, the Falcons faced an early tough test at the par-71 course.

In the opening round, BG was paired with Ohio State and Xavier.

The Buckeyes’ team score of 820 (273-274-273) would go on to win the tournament and the Musketeers’ team score 827 (274-282-271) would put them in second place.

The Falcons looked in good form after the first day, with no player shooting less than a 73. They were tied for seventh place with Virginia Tech and Wright State, but Tuesday’s round ended with higher scores.

The Falcons shot an overall team score of 860 (279-288-293), the third best overall team score in the past four years.

“We had a great start on Monday, the course gave us good scores,” said coach Garry Winger. “We were in a good position to finish well, but in the end it was a disappointment.”

Winger attributed the Falcons’ stumble on Tuesday to the players’ attitudes and body language on the course.

“Everybody has bad weeks; it

“We had a great start on Monday, the course gave us good scores.”

Gary Winger | BG men’s golf coach just comes with the sport,” Winger said. “But we can’t let that show to the competition.”

“It’s something I plan to address at practice this week,” Winger said. “If you have a great attitude you have a better chance to play well.”

Chris Melvin shot a team-best 211 (70-71-70), to continue his great start to his collegiate career.

“Chris played real well, he made par or better in all three rounds,” Winger said. “He played very maturely for having only played in six rounds of college golf.”

Melvin ended the tournament tied for 21st place.

Parker Hewit also posted a solid overall score of 214 (68-73-73), he would end the tournament tied in 34th place.

“I just want the boys to go out and play tougher,” Winger said.

“We need to put this week behind us and focus on next week.”

The Falcons will look to bounce back next week, Monday and Tuesday Sept. 20-21, at the Cardinal Intercollegiate in Louisville, Ky.

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Women’s golf sets new record for lowest three-round score

By Kristi Kopaniasz Reporter

The women’s golf team hit the fairways on Monday to open their season.

They had an excellent showing at the Worldlink Classic in Denton, Texas, earlier this week.

The team finished sixth overall, and broke records in the process.

The Falcons played three rounds in two days. After 54 holes they broke the team record for total strokes. The previous record was 937.

The women knocked off 13 strokes to set a new record of 924. They have already started to greatly improve, as last year their best three-round score was 980.

BG’s standout golfer from the tournament was sophomore Susy Grunden. She had the best showing BG has ever seen.

This was Grunden’s second

Susy Grunden

Amy Ruthenberg

Broke BG’s 54-hole record by 11 strokes this past tournament

Set three career-best rounds and finished tied for 30th

overall victory. She now has the record for 18, 36 and 54 holes.

She broke BGSU’s 54-hole record by 11 strokes. Susy could compete with the men, as her score is only two strokes from tying the men’s record.

Fellow sophomore Amy Ruthenberg had a very successful tournament as well. She had three career high rounds and finished tied for 30th.

Other strong scores include junior Paula DiFrancesco, who beat her career average in the last two rounds.

Freshman Bailey Arnold started her career as a Falcon on a positive note. She had three

solid rounds with a total score of 234, tying her for 30th with Ruthenburg.

Freshman Kelsey Benson also showed she has what it takes to be successful at the collegiate level. She lowered her score in each round, shooting an 85, 81 and 80.

With a quick turnaround, the girls will leave for North Carolina’s Great Smokies Intercollegiate on Thursday. Practice rounds begin Friday and the tournament is on Saturday and Sunday.

The Falcons will have nearly the same lineup for the weekend.

Senior captain Lauren Glew will replace Benson.

Notes: BG prepares for tough test in Marshall

By Paul Barney Sports Editor

Clawson said.

Harvey was a 2009 First-team All-Conference USA selection after BG coach Dave Clawson said recording 117 tackles — including Wednesday that aside from Boise seven sacks.

The six-foot, 250-pound linebackState, Marshall was the second best team the Falcons played last season. er has picked up where he left off Since that 17-10 loss, Clawson is last season, leading the team with not overlooking the Thundering 27 tackles.

Just in front of Harvey on the Herd’s 0-2 start this season and knows his team will be challenged line is the 6-4, 252-pound Curry, who against West Virginia, recordagain this weekend.

“Ninety percent of the football ed 11 tackles, two sacks and forced teams in the country, if they played two fumbles.

“This is a very good team and we’re Ohio State and West Virginia two weeks in a row, would probably be going to have to play extremely well this weekend.”

0-2,” Clawson said.

BG vs. C-USA Marshall opened its season losing The Falcons have not fared well at No. 2 Ohio State 45-7 and dropping a 24-21 overtime decision to No. against the Conference USA. They have not won against a C-USA 22 West Virginia last week.

The Thundering Herd returns team since they defeated Memphis 13 starters, including linebacker 52-35 in the 2004 GMAC Bowl.

Since then, BG is 0-3, with two Mario Harvey and defensive end losses coming against Tulsa and one Vinny Curry.

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International students adjust to living and learning in the United States

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PURPOSE: Communications doctoral student Franklin Yartey helps his students to better understand the requirements for their research assignments. Yartey, of Accra, Ghana, is a teaching assistant for Radhika Gajjala’s class, Digitally Mediated Social Cultures.

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GUIDANCE: Anastasia Widmer teaches a workshop to help other international students navigate through their studies at the University.

Widmer, of St. Petersburg, Russia, is a doctoral student studying communications.

International students find ways to ‘phone home’

By Allison Dunn Reporter

University student Munene Mugambi doesn’t dread when he has an incoming call from his parents.

Mugambi, a junior is an international student from Nairobi, Kenya.

Mugambi moved to the United States when he was 11 while his parents finished their education.

Though he has lived here for several years, his parents and his sister currently live in Nigeria. His younger brother stayed in Kenya to finish school.

“I haven’t had the chance to experience growing up at home,” Mugambi said. “My situation’s kind of different from all the other international students.”

Because his family is spread throughout the world, he said it’s important to keep in contact on a weekly basis. His family mainly keeps in contact through the telephone.

“We tried [Skype] but my mom’s not technically savvy,”

Mugambi said.

Mugambi said he buys calling cards to keep phone bills down. He said a 20-minute phone call is usually two dollars on a calling card.

He also keeps in contact through e-mail, Facebook, texting and sometimes through the old-fashioned letter.

“If I send a text, I might get [a response] tomorrow,” Mugambi said.

“Calling is better because it’s good to hear their voices. At least you’re guaranteed that you heard them; it gives you that sense of security. Anyone can write you an e-mail.”

Mugambi said there have been situations when he needed to reach his parents quickly, but was unable to because of the time change or technology itself.

“I see a lot of people always complaining like, ‘I don’t know what my mom wants.’ I wish my mom could call me all the time. A lot of people here are very lucky to be close [to] their parents,” Mugambi said.

“Sometimes you can go two days

“Sometimes you can go two days without a good [phone] signal.”

Munene Mugambi | Junior without a good [phone] signal.”

He said this reliance of technology is different from the way the rest of his family lives.

“We lived a fairly simple life. I feel like right now I have more media, cell phones, TV, everything. We were always outside playing [in Kenya],” Mugambi said. “Everything in this country moves so fast but then when I go to Kenya, it’s slow and relaxed.”

Graduate student Franklin Yartey also has family spread throughout the world. His father lives in New York, his mother lives in the UK and his five siblings live in one house in Accra, Ghana.

He said he tries to contact his

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Students learn English through language program

hen Franklin Yartey’s cousin drove him to school in the United States for the first time, Yartey wondered where all the buildings were.

“I kept asking my cousin, ‘When am I going to start seeing skyscrapers?’” Yartey said. “He kept saying, ‘Just wait, just wait.’”

After arriving at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, Yartey didn’t find many skyscrapers, but he found he

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Students from all over the world call University home doesn’t look like many, all things considered, but it still outnumbers my entire high school.)

International students arrive from KATE SNYDER IN FOCUS EDITOR as many as 90 different countries, and they stay for as long as a semester up to the rest of their lives.

Many speak English, and many My uncle’s wife and her two kids visited from France for a couple of weeks don’t. Most still have trouble reading American social cues. More don’t this past August.

It was the first time the kids had have cars. But they’re here for the same reason everyone else is — to ever been to the United States.

During their stay, I noticed what gain an education.

And just like all the new freshmen my cousins talked about most were things many of us take for granted, and transfer students, the internahaving grown up here. Like free refills. tional students, too, have to acclimate And grilled cheese. And the liberty of to Bowling Green. Unlike everyone assuming 96 percent of the people else, though, many also have to adjust to the United States. around you speak your language.

I chose international students as But now imagine, on top of navigating another country, having to also the first In Focus topic so more students could learn some of the maintain a GPA. Out of about 20,000 students who See SNYDER | Page 7 attend the University, 515 of them are from other countries. (That

USG, GSS work to improve class costs, insurance options

By Max Filby Reporter

By Danae King Reporter

TLC. Many know this acronym to stand for tender loving care, or, on cable, the Learning Channel. But at the University, it stands for The Language Company.

The Language Company is a program that operates out of Moseley Hall.

The premise of the company isn’t complicated, according to Andrea Voogd, director of TLC-BG. “We teach students English and American culture,” she said.

TLC is a national organization with 11 branches scattered across the United States, one of which is at the University.

During the program, students learn

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ENGLISH: Saed Aldossary of Saudi Arabia works on his homework before getting a bite to eat at the Union. Saed is a former student of The Language Center, and has been in the United States for two years.

A language barrier is not the only problem international students face when taking classes at the University.

For the first time, graduate assistants working quarter-time assistantships are receiving fee waivers for a maximum of nine credit hours instead of the 12 to 18 hours previously waived.

International graduate assistants usually take an English class along with classes toward their desired degree. With fewer waived credit hours, international assistants have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for classes.

“The nine-hour fee waiver hurts them in a couple of ways,” said Stephen Dinda, Graduate Student Senate president. “International students usually take an English class

“The nine-hour fee waiver hurts them in a couple of ways.”

Stephen Dinda | GSS President too, making them eligible for only two other classes.”

In order to finish their degrees on schedule, international graduate assistants have to pay more money for the additional credit hours that are no longer waived. Members of GSS will continue looking into situations involving international graduate assistants and paying for classes at the University, Dinda said.

Although GSS has not yet heard from individual international gradu-

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he had already been to the United Kingdom, and he could speak English.

“The official language in Ghana is English,” Yartey said.

“When you go to the store, you speak in English.”

He lived on Northwestern’s campus and, like most college students, had to adjust to life in residence halls, but Yartey also had a host family who cooked dinner for him a couple of times each week. The hardest adjustment he had to make, he said, was the food.

“It’s a little bit of an ordeal adjusting to the food,” Yartey said. “American food tends to be too sweet.”

Graduate student Anastasia Widmer said culture shock happens to most people in stages.

The first stage is the honeymoon stage, when for the first few weeks students notice similarities between the new culture and their own.

But when they realize they aren’t leaving soon, Widmer said students begin seeing the differences.

“If you’re thrown into a com-

pletely different environment, the first thing you want to do is find something familiar,” she said.

Widmer finished her bachelor’s at St. Petersburg State University. She completed her master’s at the University in 2006 and became a faculty member in Russian studies; now she, too, is working on completing a Ph.D. in communication studies.

Widmer said she traveled a lot in Europe, but had never been to the United States, so she decided to enroll in a U.S. school. She arrived knowing English, but almost nothing else about American culture.

“Knowing the language and knowing the culture are two different things,” Widmer said.

Widmer said she had trouble adjusting to a smaller town from a big city, and she visits Chicago whenever she can, just to feel like she’s somewhere familiar.

“I come from a big city and believe me, I feel much more comfortable in New York or Chicago,” she said.

But for many international

students, Widmer said, traveling is a luxury. Most don’t have cars, so just getting to the store for groceries could be an issue.

Widmer said students are limited on how much they can bring on a plane without paying extra for more bags, so many arrive with little. Many graduate students living off campus might not have necessities like cooking pots, pillows, bed sheets or silverware.

She said she knew the Center for International Programs helps students as much as possible, but she encouraged others to ask their international classmates if they need anything, like a ride to Walmart.

And many might need help adjusting for more than a semester or year.

Widmer said getting a student visa could be an open door to staying in the United States longer than the original plan.

“The motivation to adjust is very different when you know you’re going to stay here for at least a couple of years,” Widmer said.

formulate a student rental car program on campus.

“A lot of international students go back home after they finish school here, so buying a car wouldn’t be the smartest financial decision,” said Kevin Basch, USG president.

“It would be nice instead of having to work your schedule around public transportation.”

While normal rental cars are usually rented on a dayto-day basis, the proposed program would allow students to rent cars by the hour, allowing easier travel for international students.

Normally, rental car companies would charge around $45 a car, per day, but the student program would charge students $8 per hour, Dinda said. Any international student over the age of 18 with an Ohio license would be able to rent a car.

GSS and USG both hope to get the program up and

running by the end of this school year.

“International students have it so rough,” Dinda said. “They have to pay for rent, food and health insurance, this would be a cheap way for them to travel or run to a grocery store for an hour.”

USG will also be looking into issues with international students this school year, including concerns about health insurance.

Like domestic students, international students are also required to have some form of insurance while attending the University, said Hunter Wright, USG state and national liaison. However, international students may waive the University-provided health care, so long as the health care they purchase contains a $500 deductible and a $10, 000 deposit.

A deductible is the payment an international stu-

dent would have to pay before receiving any benefits from their health care provider.

In the past, some international students have faced technical problems when waiving or alerting the University of the health care they have purchased.

“I think a lot of international students have problems before they get here,” Wright said. “The first step is to clearly identify the problem, but we might need to get better communication between us, our health insurance and the students.”

This year, Wright and other members of USG will look into setting up a specific program between USG and international students.

The program would focus on addressing problems by improving communication, specifically with international students and other programs on campus.

go to the University when they graduate from the program,” Voogd said.

Although those in TLC aren’t University students, English grammar and the 200 most-used words in col- they still learn in campus lege classrooms, Voogd said. classrooms and participate in The average time it takes to campus activities.

Linda Hartjes, a 21-year-old complete the program is four from Germany enrolled in months.

Students from all over the both the University and TLCworld apply to The Language BG, said she spends a lot of Company. There are 500 time in the library, hanging out Language Company students with friends and studying not nationally and around 115 only English but also for the students in the University pro- Graphic Design course she is taking through the University. gram alone, Voogd said.

“I started learning English “I like it when they come from all over because that makes at eight because of my aunt, I my school better,” Voogd said. really love to hear her speaking and therefore I wanted “It makes BGSU better.”

The program is designed to learn it too,” she said. “I to prepare students for col- really love the language and lege, Voogd said, and many I really want to be kind of end up officially enrolling in perfect in English.”

Hartjes has family in the University.

“I’d say about 80% of them Rochester Hills, Mich., and

chose to come to the University to be close to them and learn English. But she also came because when she visited as a child, she said she noticed how “everyone is nice and everyone is talking to you.”

“Bowling Green, the city, is a small safe community, it’s a well-rounded community,” Voogd said. “They welcome people who want to learn, that’s something that’s welcome in this area, so that’s really an attractive thing.”

University student Saeed Aldossary, who graduated from The Language Company program, originally went to Colorado to learn English. But he did not like the program there, so on the recommendation of one of his friends, he came to the University to learn English.

Aldossary said when he lived in Saudi Arabia, he didn’t

know any English, but his father had studied in America and told him that taking classes in the United States was a smart idea.

“He said you will learn a lot of things from studying in the United States, so I chose that,” Aldossary said.

Cuilin Ge, a former TLC-BG student who now attends the University, completed TLC last year.

“The first time I walked on the road a lot of Americans said hi to me, it’s really nice, but in China if you say hi to strangers, it is kind of really weird,” she said.

Ge, from Zhejiang, China, graduated from a university in China but said her parents wanted her to get her master’s in the United States. She said she thought Bowling Green was a good place to start.

“I love this place,” Ge said.

STUDENTS From Page 6 liked the city all the same. And he liked being in the States.

Originally from Accra, Ghana, Yartey is one of more than 500 international students at the University — 323 pursuing undergraduate degrees and 192 for graduate studies, according to the Office of Institutional Research’s 15-day report.

Director of the Center for International Programs Paul Hofmann said international students arrive each year from more than 90 different countries to learn, teach and live for a semester, year or longer.

Yartey received his bachelor’s in communication at Northwestern, then his master’s at Indiana University.

Now he’s looking to earn a Ph.D. here at the University to teach others as well as continue to learn from them.

He said he never had much trouble adjusting to the United States culture. By the time he enrolled at Northwestern,

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ate assistants, graduate coordinators have expressed concerns about the nine credit hour waivers, Dinda said.

A committee, including Graduate Dean Timothy Messer-Kruse, has already been formed in GSS in order to attempt to resolve the issue through discussion and possibly the passing of a resolution if needed.

“If we can’t resolve it in talks then we might turn to a resolution as the last thing,” Dinda said. “A resolution would show that we are serious about the issue.”

GSS is also looking to help international students with other problems they might have when attending the University. Together with the Undergraduate Student Government, GSS is trying to

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States four weeks ago and plans to stay through the From Page 6 fall and spring semesters studying abroad. She has family every weekend.

Besides calling, Yartey two cell phones — one also sends text messages, in English to use in the e-mails and uses Facebook United States and one in with his siblings and Skype Japanese to keep in contact with her family. with his friends.

“I can’t read English well “I wish my whole family had Skype, it’d be a lot cheaper so it is difficult to use [the then,” Yartey said. “My mom’s phone in English],” Ito said.

Finding time and money not really an e-mail person. If I send her an e-mail, I might for calls home is tough, so Ito only speaks to them get a response in a month.”

Though he has other once a week for about an forms of communication, hour. She wakes up at 5 Yartey prefers talking with a.m. to talk to her parents at 6 p.m. in Japan. his family on the phone.

And calling home became “I feel there’s more immediacy to calling,” Yartey more difficult when her said. “There’s so many overseas phone broke last things missing over the week and she was unable phone but I guess it’s the to speak with her family.

She had trouble with the best that we have.”

Sophomore Chiaki Ito cell phone company since it also tries to keep in touch was a different type of phone, with her family in Nagoya, and she also said fixing the Japan, through the tele- phone was expensive.

But now that her overseas phone, but she said she has also used Facebook phone is fixed, Ito is back to to keep in touch with her weekly, hourlong talks.

“When I call my family, I family, and they somemiss Japan. I want to go back,” times write letters.

Ito arrived in the United she said. “But I like [it] here.”

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or two, for as long as they’re here, they’re part of our community and University.

And they probably have difficulties of moving across some great stories.

So take a moment to step the world and attending a outside of your comfort school in another country.

And though many inter- zone and say hello to your national students might classmate from a different return home in a semester corner of the world.

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ATTACK: BG defenders attempt to make a tackle during the team’s spring game earlier this year.

against Marshall.

Home sweet home Saturday’s game against Marshall will be the home opener for the Falcons after starting the season on the road at Troy and Tulsa.

For the first time this season the Falcons will not have to worry about f lights and playing in hostile environments.

“It’s going to be great,” said BG linebacker Calvin Marshall, who is fifth on the team with 12 tackles.

“It’s going to feel real good

to be able to just come out here and play for our fans in ‘The Doyt.’”

Win or lose A Falcon win Saturday would snap a t hreegame losing streak dating back to the 2009 Humanitarian Bowl.

A win would also give BG its third straight win at home.

A loss, however, would be the Falcons’ first threegame losing streak to open a season since the 2000 team began the year 0-4.

Honorable mention BG’s Kamar Jorden was named an honorable mention wide receiver of the week by the College Football Performance Award after his efforts at Tulsa last week.

Jorden racked up 168 yards on 14 catches, which is the fifth-most catches in a single game in BG history.

Through two games this season, Jorden has 23 catches for 279 yards.

His 23 grabs is tied for the most in the country.

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handles the duties of recruiting and coordinating team travel arrangements.

“A couple weeks ago they brought in four candidates, including me. We had about an eight hour day of interviews, including a one-on-one meeting with the athletic director, Greg Christopher,” Howard said.

“It’s always been a goal of mine to become a head coach of a Division I program and with my love for this school, athletic depart-

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Since the swimming team already began practicing, the decision hasn’t affected the attitude or philosophy of the program.

“We are full go at this point, all the training is full go,” Howard said. “As long as we act like there is no coaching change and adapt to whatever comes our way, we will be fine for the start of the season.”

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staying focused on the start of the season and are refusing to get caught up in the coaching vacancy.

Junior Amanda Rom, a swimming captain, expressed the team’s feelings toward the offseason change.

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“There are many different coaching styles, but we will be able to adapt to any style and this might be a big change, but we are prepared for whatever happens.”

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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:

Collective bargaining may limit faculty voice in the future. > Only those who actually join will be able to vote for BGSU-AAUP leadership team. In contrast, all full-time faculty are eligible to vote for Faculty Senate representatives. > While the employment contract must be voted on by dues-paying members, a very small number of people on the BGSU-AAUP leadership team will have the authority to negotiate on behalf of ALL faculty members. Will they be representative of ALL interest groups?

Collective bargaining may place important academic decisions in the hands of non-academics > Disagreements on decisions unique to the academy that go to arbitration will be decided by arbitrators who are unlikely to have any familiarity with academic issues.

A simple majority of voters decides whether BGSU faculty will unionize.

Make sure your voice is heard. If you are eligible, please vote beginning September 28.