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EXCHANGE: Cashier (sophomore Megan Oler) hands freshman Brian Moris his BG1 card after he purchased items from the University Bookstore Wednesday afternoon.

BG1 cards good for more than just buying meals on campus

By Jacob Ritts Reporter

The BG1 card is used for almost everything on Campus, it’s an I.D., a credit card and even a football ticket, but it can be just as flexible off campus as it is on.

The BG1 Card combines three separate accounts. There are Dining Dollars, used to purchase food at Residence Halls; Falcon Dollars, which can be used in the Union as well as Residence Halls and BG Bucks, which is money that is loaded onto the card and can be used at

various locations on and off campus, according to BG1 Card Office.

Off-campus locations that accept the BG1 card include Beat the Bookstore, Chipotle, Cinco De Mayo, Domino’s, Easy Street Café, Falcon Food Mart, Jimmy John’s, Papa John’s, Sam B’s, The Solarium, SBX and Speedy Burrito.

Using BG Bucks like a debit card is safer than cash since students have 24/7 access to lock the card if it gets lost or stolen, according to the BG1 Office.

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TREE: Century Tree one is 113 years old and sits in front of the administration building. Trees 100 years or older on campus are marked with signs so students can go online to see how old each tree is.

University trees honored for age during Centennial

By Max Filby Reporter

before the Revolutionary War began, sometime in 1751, according to the Century Tree website.

“You can tell which tree it is because While the University is celebrating 100 years, some of its inhabitants are its leaning in all of the old photoonly a few years away from celebrat- graphs too,” said Dave Kielmeyer, ing their 200th and 300th birthdays. senior director of communications.

To celebrate the Centennial, the Campus trees began growing decades before the University was University found the oldest trees on founded, the oldest being a 259 year campus and labeled them with signs old White Oak tree located across and numbered plaques. Students from Prout Chapel and behind See CENTURY | Page 8 Williams Hall. The tree’s age means it would have started growing

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models, stolen, according to police.

No further information could be released as of Wednesday afternoon due to the ongoing investigation.

Cell phones stolen, reward Police advised individuals with information about the crime to contact the Bowling Green for information possible Police Division at 419-352-2571 or the Wood Sixty-five cell phones were stolen from AT&T between the shop’s closing Monday night and 9 County CrimeStoppers at 419-352-0077. a.m. Tuesday morning.

Up to $1000 in reward money will be provided for information leading to a successful An employee arriving to work Tuesday reported the cell phones, of various makes and prosecution, police said.

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CAMPUS Students play in the dark

As part of Homecoming celebrations, students participated in the “It’s Falcon Dark Out” event with glow-in-the-dark activities. See photos | Page 3

Chapman Learning Community serves elementary school by cleaning, painting

By Alissa Widman Reporter

To kick off a year of service learning, Kohl Hall’s Chapman Learning Community completed nearly two hours of custodial work at a local elementary school.

More than 200 freshmen students and 12 sophomore leaders were shuttled to Kenwood Elementary School Wednesday to spread mulch, rake leaves, wash windows and paint playground ALISSA WIDMAN | THE BG NEWS equipment under the supervi- PAINT: Freshman Lindsay Allen, left, freshman Brooke Nicholson, middle, and sophomore Jordan sion of Kenwood head custodian Clemm, right, spray paint a playground table Wednesday at Kenwood Elementary School. Spray Rod Canterbury. painting was one of many volunteer opportunities offered at Chapman Learning Community’s all-comThe event was Chapman’s year- munity service project. ly all-community project and was the largest project Canterbury had seen in his seven years at Kenwood, on the surrounding community, and Kenwood, which will become he said. he said.

Chapman’s newest community “I know how it is with college partner in the spring.

“It’s really exciting because this helps us tremendously,” he said. students because I have four of my “In the spring, we will be par“Money is tight, and after all our own,” he said. “Sometimes, the ticipating in a recess program budget cuts, I would end up doing motivation just isn’t there — but where we teach structured, educa90 percent of this work myself. It that wasn’t the case here. To see tional games with moral content,” takes me a week and a half just to such motivation is such a nice Duntley said. “Chapman Learning do the windows, but with this many thing, and when people drive by Community focuses on service people, they have it coordinated to Kenwood, they will be able to see learning in its curriculum and a science and people are in all divi- the changes.” every first year student is enrolled Madeline Duntley, Chapman in one of 10 different service learnsions willing to do their jobs.”

The large-scale project exceeded director, said she pushed for this See CHAPMAN | Page 8 Canterbury’s expectations and will fall volunteer project to foster comundoubtedly have a large impact

FORUM Workers do not value their jobs

The recent expose on alcohol consumption on-theclock of auto workers at a Detroit Chrysler assembly plant shows that people are not appreciative of their jobs, says columnist Wade LaFever | Page 4

munity among Kohl residents

SPORTS Samuels-Thomas starts season

Forward Jordan Samuels-Thomas is ready to build off his strong rookie campaign. As the hockey team prepares for the season, he’s ready to lead the charge | Page 6

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KATIE GORMAN Junior, Journalism

“I am part of a sorority on campus, the RSA delegate for Panhel [and] I’m President of the Greek Housing Board.”| Page 4

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Ark. man to ask for new trial in child deaths

Charges dropped against widow in attorney’s death

Father and son go on trial in Ore. bank bombing

Marijuana tracking on the way in Colorado

Times Square bomber plotted 2nd attack

Lawyer: Baby left to starve after mother murdered

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A 35-year-old Arkansas man facing execution for the brutal killings of three 8-year-old boys will ask the state Supreme Court Thursday for a new trial based on claims of juror misconduct and new DNA evidence he contends proves his innocence.

The Arkansas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Damien Echols. He is on death row for the 1993 murders of Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore, all of West Memphis, Ark. The high court upheld Echols’ conviction in 1996, finding there was sufficient evidence to prove he killed the boys. Echols filed a new appeal after the court granted him permission for DNA testing that wasn’t available at the time of his trial in 1994.

According to a report filed with the court, there was no DNA from Echols or the two other men convicted of murder found at the crime scene — a wooded area where the boys were found beaten, nude and hog-tied.

—Jill Zeman Bleed (AP)

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — Prosecutors who received an unexpected autopsy result dropped a murder charge Wednesday against a woman who had been accused of killing her ailing husband as a result of a botched at-home medical procedure.

Authorities cautioned, however, that Laura Johnson isn’t in the clear. They plan to take hospital records and autopsy results to experts for another opinion on the strange death of lawyer Lloyd Johnson.

Nonetheless, the dismissal of charges was a victory for Laura Johnson, a week after her 47-yearold husband died at a suburban Detroit hospital.

“We’re relieved it’s over,” defense attorney John Williams said as he accompanied Johnson on a courthouse elevator.

Johnson, 46, declined to comment as she dabbed her eyes and walked with a cane.

—Ed White (AP)

SALEM, Ore. — A prosecutor says a father and son accused of setting a bomb in 2008 that killed two Oregon law enforcement officers acted because they feared Barack Obama, newly elected as president, would restrict their right to bear arms.

Prosecutor Katie Suver said in opening statements Wednesday that Bruce and Joshua Turnidge harbored anti-government feelings and Obama’s election was the catalyst for their decision to build the bomb and rob a bank in the Willamette Valley town of Woodburn.

The December 2008 blast also maimed a third officer.

Suver said the father, Bruce Turnidge, tried to create his own militia and told people the Oklahoma City federal building bombing was a good thing that would keep the government in check.

—Jeff Barnard (AP)

DENVER — Colorado wants to set up a first-in-the-nation tracking system of medical marijuana purchases to deter people from buying vast amounts of pot and selling it on the black market.

Patients and marijuana advocates fear they will be harassed by a Big Brother-type intrusion as computers and video cameras monitor every ounce of pot sold in the state.

Officials are also considering fingerprinting marijuana patients and keeping tabs on pot with radio-frequency devices.

“This is a matter of my functioning daily living,” said Diane Bilyeu, a 49-year-old woman who sometimes consumes up to 2 grams of pot in a day to treat her chronic pain since losing her right arm and leg in a 1997 car accident.

“Some days I need more or less. I don’t know what business it is of the government’s.”

Officials said the regulations will provide basic protections to ensure that the system isn’t being abused by drug dealers and users.

—Kristen Wyatt (AP)

NEW YORK — The man who planted a car bomb in Times Square boasted that he thought it would kill at least 40 people and that he planned to detonate a second bomb two weeks after the first, prosecutors said Wednesday, quoting the former financial analyst in a video where he said he’d hoped “to join my brothers in jihad” ever since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Faisal Shahzad should get life in prison when he is sentenced Oct. 5, prosecutors said in a filing, arguing that he “had every intention of delivering a powerful and terrorizing strike to the heart of New York City.”

The government noted that Shahzad showed no remorse when he pleaded guilty on June 21 after confessing to investigators.

—Larry Neumeister, Tom Hays (AP)

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A man charged with slaughtering three members of a California family, including a 6-year-old boy, nearly severed a woman’s head then left her baby girl to starve only feet from the body, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Quang Van Quan dealt with an $80,000 financial dispute by committing the 2006 massacre at the home of an ex-prison buddy, Orange County Senior Deputy District Attorney Scott Simmons told jurors in his opening statement at the murder trial.

Quan, 39, was arrested in Houston in 2006 and charged with three counts of murder during a robbery and burglary.

If convicted of murder with the special circumstances, he could face life in state prison without the possibility of parole.

His attorney was expected to present an opening statement later in the day.

Quan is accused of killing Phuong “Sonny” Le, 30; Ngoc Lam, 25; and her 6-year-old son Tommy Lam. —Gillian Flaccus (AP)

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Thursday, September 30, 2010

n i ’ n i y a Pl the dark Photos by | Kendallyn Nuss

When the lights go out, the party begins

ABOVE: “It’s Falcon Dark Out,” part of the weeklong celebration before the Homecoming game this weekend, featured glowing neon lights.

TOP RIGHT: Sophomore Matt Ostrow watches as Ian Gentile tees off on one of the neon lighted putt-putt holes set up in the Union.

BOTTOM RIGHT: During UAO’s “It’s Falcon Dark Out,” students partake in go kart races, wending in and out of the glow-in-the-dark cones.

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“We wanted to recognize them as members of the community.”

— Frank Schemenauer, University horticulture, on the many Century Trees located around campus. [see story, pg. 1].

PEOPLE ON THE STREET “I’m in big brothers, big sisters”

“I’m part of USG, in a fraternity, and work hard doing community service. .”

“Recycle”

KATIE ROEMER, Freshman, Undecided

Freshman, Business Marketing

KATIE TWYMAN,

TYLER BUCHANAN COLUMNIST

In the months leading into my freshman year of college, I unquestionably received more advice than at any other period in my life. Between relatives, teachers and the summer-orientation classes, I was flooded with study tips and constant reminders about responsibility.

At the heart of these discussions was time management.

Although college life promised to be a new adventure, I was confident that being able to manage my time would be a minimal issue.

Over were the days of school lasting for eight straight hours, and the prospect of separate classes and more extra-curricular time in my day relieved much of my college anxieties as movein day approached.

Two weeks later, I found myself in the laundry room hastily flipping through textbooks painstakingly wondering where all the time had gone. Twenty-four hours in the day seemed more like an apparition’s daydream than

on campus became difficult. Many other freshmen seemed scared and inexperienced with the newfound campus interaction.

I can say in retrospect, in many ways I was one of them.

A month prior to moving into college, I was in a similar situation while vacationing in France on a school trip.

Riding in Paris’ metro system was a necessity to tour the city. Weary of crowded metro cars and thieves, the first several rides were both exhilarating and downright frightening.

On about the second or third stop, a large man with a tubaenteredthecar.Speaking from experience, there are several major culture differences between France and United States. Random tuba encounters, however, are not one of them.

He began to play, and upon arriving at his stop, he stood and left as quickly as he had come. It was not uncommon for there to be musical performers in public areas, but he requested no money or acknowledgment. It was one of the most bizarrely entertaining moments of my life.

For the following days and at least a dozen or so rides, I

was no longer afraid of the metro. In fact, I enjoyed them, hoping there would be more spontaneous tuba players.

Likewise, while college life was at first intimidating and ruthlessly complex, I now relish the time I spend here. Impossibly, this past July, I could not wait for school to start. My childhood self would be quite disappointed.

With a year of college experience and several pieces of what Bill Watterson used to call the “mental Swiss Army Knife,” the University seemed invariably less threatening. At the very least, doing laundry was an immediate improvement.

The irony, of course, is that by the time several years pass and we as students have “found ourselves” collegially, graduation stampedes towards us quicker than preachers outside of the Union.

Despite that, we all progress differently as students and as people. Learning to balance our lives extends much farther than our years at Bowling Green. Yes, these lessons stay with us for our entire lives. The playbook was right all along.

Don’t pay the price to pee, restrooms should be free a civilized and sane manner. However, there are some rules that are just pointless and annoying.

One of my favorite movies of all time is “Big Daddy” with There is one rule in particular that really bothers me, Adam Sandler.

I can’t say I have a favor- and I’m sure many peoite part of the movie, but I ple would agree with me. like when Sandler’s charac- This rule can really put a ter walks into a restaurant downer on someone’s day. with the boy he is looking It could also cause a big after. He asks the manager scene in a public place, of the restaurant if the kid which isn’t good for anycan use the bathroom, but one. I’m talking about the the manager tells them that rule that many businesses customers only can use the have that says you have to bathroom. Sandler doesn’t be a customer in order to like this at all and he takes use the bathroom.

There should not be rules the kid around to the side of the restaurant, where the kid that affect a natural bodigoes pee on the wall. Later ly function. When nature in the movie the same thing calls, a person should be happens at a different res- able to answer that call without having to make an taurant. It is pretty funny.

Rules and regulations unwanted purchase. When are what make up society you gotta go, you gotta go. and allow it to function in You shouldn’t have to spend Drew Schneider Columnist

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DEREK SWORD, Junior, Psychology

Sophomore, Interior Design

College career requires balance a fixture of reality.

The sages and philosophers were right. Along with meeting new friends, not procrastinating, enjoying the best four years of my life and memorizing the rest of the motivational speaker playbook, managing campus life and classes did not appear to be an easy task.

The dividing line comes between the two student extremes. On one end, there is the student who spends the entirety of their time working and studying and often appears heavily stressed. The other rarely completes homework assignments, would strain to remember what his professor’s name was in week eight and suffers from a contagious ailment known as constant inebriation.

For much of my first year, the balance between academia and campus life was a constant struggle. As I learned, the binary oppositions of student personalities were hardly remote or exaggerated. It seemed like a majority of students fit into one of the two aforementioned categories.

Even with the gradual adjustment to increased workload at college, learning to associate myself socially

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“Make A Wish, and I gave blood”

BRIANA BUTLER,

Thursday, September 30, 2010

“There should not be rules that affect a natural bodily function.”

see what happens. Chances are, it probably won’t be a big deal. But I would do my best to cause a scene and make some people mad. I wouldn’t do it because I’m a mean person, which I’m not. I just think it would be funny to see money when all you need to do is “drain the main vain” what happens.

Recently, within the past or “take the browns to the few weeks, I have passed by super bowl.”

It’s amazing what some a few places with a sign that people will do just to make says “bathroom for customers a few extra bucks. It is truly only.” Every time I see one of insane that a store owner those signs it makes me pretty would deprive a person of irritated. I just know there is doing their “business” in the some poor guy or girl who is bathroom just to benefit the doing the potty dance and store’s business. There are they can’t go because of this plenty of other people who stupid rule.

One day, I would like to come into the store actually looking to spend money. meet the person who thought And if you are that desperate of this rule and not shake his for customers that you have hand. Or, maybe I would shake to charge someone to use hands after I use the baththe john, then maybe your room in a place where I’m not business doesn’t deserve to allowed and don’t wash my hands when I’m done. Then stay open.

Now, I have never been in I would tell him what a dumb a situation like this, but one idea it is and that I will use day I would really like to go the facilities where and when into a restaurant or store that I want and nobody can do a uses this ridiculous rule and thing about it.

Chrysler plant workers endanger customers’ safety WADE LAFEVER COLUMNIST

During his speech two months ago at the Jefferson North Chrysler plant in Detroit, President Barack Obama proclaimed his confidence in the American worker, saying he would bet on the American worker any day of the week.

The exuberant crowd cheered the man who signed over $6 billion in government funding to help save their jobs.

Having the president come to your work would be a real kick in the leg to most people, a morale booster.

However, to some assembly line workers at Jefferson North, it means consuming alcoholic beverages and smoking (what appeared to be) joints during their lunch.

That was all real footage uncovered by a Detroit news station. They followed the 15 workers on ten 10 different days from the time they left the plant for their half hour lunch, to the party store were they bought beer and to a park where it was consumed. Then it was back to work to build cars.

I know what you’re all wondering. How did they manage to do all of this in a half hour? Short answer: chug. Oh wait, you’re worried about your safety in an American made automobile? Maybe you should be. People claiming to be union auto workers on a Detroit talk radio station suggest that’s how it is at assembly plants.

I guess that’s what happens when your humanity is reduced to machinery. It is easy to sympathize with the auto workers. They have undoubtedly been through a lot with questions about job security and not to mention

working on an assembly line.

That has to be one of the most mind numbing jobs.

I’m not making excuses for assembly line workers.

After all, they have jobs while the unemployment rate in Michigan is still abysmal, and more importantly, they make cars; cars we drive.

Our safety is at risk and their income, as of now, is our tax dollars. Fact: Alcohol, even in low doses, can impair decision making and coordination. Look out for the guy driving the forklift.

Their actions are inexcusable, and if this is any indication of the assembly plant culture, more news might follow. The 15 Chrysler employees were immediately suspended after the report aired Sept. 22, and recently 13 of them were fired. Even the United Auto Workers put on their PR seat belts and condemned the actions of its union members when normally they’d stand beside ready to fight.

Assembly plant workers have a tough job. Technically it might be easier than rocket science, but the psychological aspect, for some, is hard to overcome. I do not condone getting loaded on the job, on the American dime. I’m suggesting there are other issues. Alcohol is an anti-depressant. Some people cannot function until they’ve had a couple, or chugged a 40-ounce beer during lunch. I’m not an expert but those might be signs of alcoholism.

It’s unfortunate they were made an example of, but what other option was there.

The American auto industry has made great strides against foreign manufactures during this past year.

Something like this can certainly slow that momentum and President Obama’s confidence in the American worker. President Obama bet on us, let’s try not to let him down.

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Canada to appeal ruling voiding sex trade laws

Al-Qaida suspects ambush Yemeni governor’s convoy

Palestinians dig in ahead of talks with US envoy

UK defense sec’y warns spending cuts too brutal

Hezbollah to block financing for Hariri tribunal

Group with Legion ties investigated

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TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s justice minister said the federal government will appeal an Ontario court ruling that struck down key provisions in Canada’s prostitution laws in a case that could set a precedent for the country if the provincial ruling is upheld.

Rob Nicholson said Wednesday prostitution harms individuals, and the government will appeal an Ontario Superior Court’s order to decriminalize many aspects of prostitution earlier this week.

Prostitution itself is not illegal in Canada, but communicating for the purposes of prostitution, pimping and operating a brothel were considered criminal acts.

An Ontario Superior Court judge said Tuesday these prostitutionrelated laws are unconstitutional and said laws set up to protect prostitutes actually harm them.

The Ontario court judgment is subject to a 30-day stay during which the law remains in place.

SAN’A , Yemen — Suspected al-Qaida militants in Yemen ambushed a convoy of cars Wednesday that were carrying the governor of a southern province where the terror group’s local offshoot has established a safe haven, security officials said.

The governor of Shabwa province, Ali al-Ahmadi, was not injured, but one soldier guarding the convoy was killed and six others were wounded in an exchange of fire with the masked gunmen.

The convoy, making its way toward the provincial capital, was also carrying senior Defense Ministry officials and army Chief of Staff Gen. Salem Qutn, the security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has taken root in Yemen’s remote and mountainous Shabwa province, far from the reach of the country’s weak central government. Its fighters have been hammering Yemeni security forces in attacks on checkpoints and other police and army targets. —Ahmed al-Haj (AP)

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians dug in ahead of a crucial meeting Thursday with Washington’s Mideast envoy, saying they can’t be expected to continue peace talks unless Israel reverses a decision to lift restrictions on West Bank settlement construction.

Neither side seems to want the month-old talks to collapse, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are publicly at an impasse, with a Monday deadline looming.

President Barack Obama’s emissary, George Mitchell, is making a secretive lastminute attempt to rescue the negotiations. He was to travel to Abbas’ West Bank headquarters Thursday, after meeting with Israeli leaders on Wednesday. Mitchell said after talks with Netanyahu that he is undaunted by what he described as “bumps in the road,� but offered no glimpse of a possible compromise. — Karin Laub (AP)

LONDON — Britain’s defense secretary on Wednesday made a surprising attack of his own government’s plans for sweeping spending cuts, telling Prime Minister David Cameron in a leaked letter that slashing the military budget could have dire consequences.

In his note, Liam Fox warned Cameron that his department had ruled that finding savings of around 4 billion pounds ($6.3 billion) from its budget — demanded under the government’s austerity program — was “financially and intellectually virtually impossible.�

The private letter — intended to be seen by Cameron only — was quoted at length by Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, which reported that Fox also told Cameron an option to scrap an order for new reconnaissance planes would leave the London 2012 Olympics more vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

Britain’s defense ministry is in the midst of the first major review of its capabilities and priorities since 1998, and has been asked by the Treasury to use the process to identify cuts amid a major spending squeeze aimed at clearing the nation’s record debts. —David Stringer (AP)

BEIRUT — Hezbollah will use its position in government to try to block Lebanon’s funding for the U.N. court investigating the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the group’s spokesman said Wednesday.

Hezbollah’s leader has said the tribunal looking into Hariri’s death could indict some of the Iranian-backed group’s members, fueling the country’s worst political crisis in years. Hezbollah contends the tribunal has been poisoned by witnesses who have given false information.

The indictments could be issued as early as next month. “You know our position on the tribunal, so we cannot agree to finance it,� Hezbollah spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi told The Associated Press on Wednesday when asked if his party will try to block the funding in Lebanon’s budget.

Lebanon pays 49 percent of the tribunal’s costs, with other U.N. member states providing the remainder. —Elizabeth A. Kennedy (AP)

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has named a Spanish archbishop to investigate a cult-like group affiliated with the Legionaries of Christ religious order.

According to an internal e-mail from the Legion’s administrative branch, Monignor Ricardo Blazquez, archbishop of Valladolid, Spain, will head the probe into the so-called consecrated women of the Legion’s lay movement, Regnum Christi. The Vatican confirmed the appointment late Wednesday.

The Legion has been disgraced by revelations that its late founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered three children.

In a recent report, The Associated Press exposed the cult-like conditions the group’s consecrated women live in, where family members are kept at bay and minute rules dictate nearly every hour of the day.

Terrorist attack plans come to light in Europe Terror attacks in France continue to keep security on their toes, ending in the brief evacuation of the Eiffel Tower, Victoria Station

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stages and not considered evacuated after an unusual serious enough to raise the smell was reported. “This plot was in its embryterror threat level, officials onic stages,� a British govsaid.

Still, the Eiffel Tower in LONDON — Security officials said Wednesday a terror Paris was briefly evacuated ernment official told The plot to wage Mumbai-style Tuesday — the second time Associated Press, speaking shooting sprees or other in two weeks because of an on condition of anonymity attacks in Britain, France unspecified threat — and because of the sensitivity of his work. He said the plot and Germany is still active French police were on alert.

A heavy police pres- had preoccupied the secuand that recent CIA strikes in Pakistan were aimed at al- ence was seen Wednesday rity community more than Qaida operatives suspected around Buckingham Palace, other recent threats, but Trafalgar Square and Big Ben. did not merit changing the in the threat.

The plot was still in its early Victoria Station was briefly security threat level from

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Some details about the plot came from Ahmed Siddiqui, a German citizen of Afghan background who was captured in Afghanistan in July, a U.S. official said.

Intelligence authorities

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because they were not authorized to speak about the plot.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters Wednesday the U.S. was working closely with its European allies, but declined to provide specifics.

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Jordan Samuels-Thomas looks to repeat success of freshman season

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it, one step showing that I have a lot more work ahead of me to get to the next level.”

While he started his collegiate career There is hardly a more important player to the BG hockey team than Jordan coming off a high note, he found a program that was coming off an extremely Samuels-Thomas.

The 6-foot-3 sophomore from South low note, which makes his decision to Windsor, Conn. led the team with 25 come here that much more incredible.

He enrolled at BG not knowing if the points last season, and is one of few returning forwards who are established hockey program would be around past his first year, as the University considered offensive threats.

“Coming in I definitely thought that terminating the team to lower the athletic I could have that presence on the ice, department’s budget.

“I came here on a visit when I was 16, and and felt that I could be a factor from day one,” Samuels-Thomas said. “Playing in (BG) was the first school that contacted the USHL the year before, I had a great me, so that really meant a lot to me, and year so I came in with a lot of confi- I kind of always figured that I’d wind up dence, and coming off of the draft I had here,” Samuels-Thomas said. “When the rumors started circulating there was defia lot of confidence.”

For Samuels-Thomas, he experienced nitely some uncertainty there, but I bought amateur hockey bliss several months into the vision that the guys here had that everything would work out.” before his BG career even began.

The faith he had in the vision paid off He was a seventh round pick of the Atlanta Thrashers — 203rd overall — in this past April, with the University investthe 2009 NHL entry draft, making him ing in the program long-term with a new one of two players on the roster, along with head coach, and a series of upgrades to the goaltender Nick Eno, to have been drafted BGSU Ice Arena.

Now, as the team looks to write a new by an NHL team.

“It was the greatest day of my life, to be chapter of BG hockey, you can bet that honest,” he said. “It’s something that when Samuels-Thomas will be one of the main you lace up the skates, it’s what you work for, to get to the NHL. See HOCKEY | Page 7 “That being said, that’s just one step of

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TOP: Samuels-Thomas (21) crashes the net in a game against Michigan last season.

BOTTOM: Samuels-Thomas looks for the puck in a game against Miami last season.

Notes: Football ready for MAC opener vs. Buffalo

By Paul Barney Sports Editor

schedule, and once MAC play starts we all start out undefeated.”

While Clawson said there may not be a rivalry developing between the Even though their record shows othtwo teams, the games played against erwise, the Falcons are undefeated.

BG’s non-conference season is each other in the past would make it over and come Saturday it will kick seem that way.

In 2006, the Bulls lost 48-40 in off what is the first of eight MidAmerican Conference games to triple overtime.

Two years later, they would get conclude the 2010 season.

The Falcons went 1-3 in non-con- their revenge as they erased a 20ference play, with their only win point fourth quarter deficit to win coming at home in Doyt Perry 40-34 in double overtime.

And just last year, as the Falcons Stadium — where they will return were staring at a 29-23 deficit with this weekend to take on Buffalo.

Much like BG, Buffalo went 1-3 in 2:59 remaining, Tyler Sheehan drove its non-conference schedule and is the offense 75 yards on 11 plays, capped off by an 18-yard touchdown coming off a big loss last week.

“Buffalo is a lot where we are,” See NOTES | Page 7 Falcons’ coach Dave Clawson said.

SPRINT: Tyrone Pronty runs for a touchdown last week against Michigan.

“They had a tough non-conference

It’s not a historical rivalry, but after the past four years it might as well be.

It doesn’t have the history or geographic factors of a BGToledo or BG-Miami game, but this Saturday’s BG-Buffalo could be the next chapter of a budding rivalry.

The groundwork has already been laid, during the 2006 season BG held on to defeat the Bulls in overtime 48-40.

Two years later, BG lead 27-7 with 13:09 left in the fourth quarter and looked to be heading for the Mid-American Conference title game. However, the Bulls scored 20 straight points including recovering an onside kick before going on to win 40-34 in double overtime in a game which probably cost former BG head coach Gregg Brandon his job.

The win propelled Buffalo into the title game, where they secured the championship by defeating previously undefeated and No. 12-ranked Ball State, 42-24.

One year later, BG dispatched the defending MAC Champions as Freddie Barnes hauled in a 18-yard touchdown pass with 39 seconds remaining, completing a 14-point rally from the start of the fourth quarter.

“For both teams, the whole season’s fortune can go back to this game. Two years ago the winner of the game goes on to the MAC Championship game, the loser doesn’t. Last year the winning team gets on a roll and goes to a bowl, the loser doesn’t,” BG coach Dave Clawson said.

This year the stakes are similar, both teams enter conference play 1-3, and whichever team loses will face an uphill battle to finish the season over .500.

In fact, to call it a big game would be an understatement, as both Clawson and his players have acknowledged, Saturday is a must win.

If Saturday is anywhere near the games the two teams have played in the past, we might as well start circling the BGBuffalo game as a rivalry on our calendars.

Perhaps, center Ben Bojicic said it best when asked about this Saturday’s game.

“It’s just one of those games, it’s not one of the technically rivalries we have, but everyone realizes it’s Buffalo and we just want to get the win.”

Sounds a lot like a rivalry game to me.

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Softball team ranked second in the nation academically

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The National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced that the BG softball team had the second-highest grade point average in NCAA Division I for the 2010 season.

As well, 15 players were recognized as a girls got game/NFCA Scholar Athlete for having a 3.50 GPA. BG’s 3.571 team GPA trailed only Robert Morris (3.580 GPA).

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Volleyball takes on Miami in MAC home opener

By Justin Onslow Reporter

With Homecoming festivities on the horizon, the Falcon volleyball team prepares for the first of its two matches in three days.

Tonight, the Falcons will host Miami for the team’s third Mid-American Conference match, and its first home conference match of the season. Last weekend, BG split a pair of MAC contests, losing its MAC opener to Akron, but rebounded with a five-set win at Buffalo.

The Falcons (6-10, 1-1) have been steadily improving this season, getting key contributions from several younger players.

Freshmen Paige Penrod and Ashley Dunn have been particularly productive this season. Penrod leads the team in kills with 169 and kills per set (3.02), which is ninth-best in the conference.

Dunn is currently leading the team in digs with 419 and digs per set (3.91).

Like the Falcons, Miami (5-10) played both Akron and Buffalo last weekend. The RedHawks were swept by both teams, however, and have gotten off to a slow start this season.

Miami’s opponents this season are hitting .242, which is the worst mark in the MAC. BG will look for big hitters Penrod, Danielle Tonyan and Noelle Spitler to make

the most of Miami’s poor defensive play, and also take advantage of an error-prone RedHawk offense.

Miami is led offensively by redshirt 6-feet tall junior Amy Raseman, who has tallied 140 kills for the RedHawks this season.

Raseman averages 2.86 kills and .43 blocks per set. Senior Michele Metzler is second on the team with 112 kills (2.24 kills per set).

Although Miami’s offense has been lacking this year, BG will still need to continue its solid defensive play tonight. For each of the last two weeks, a BG player has been named MAC East Defensive Player of the Week.

Two weeks ago, Dunn took the honor, while Penrod was last week’s recipient.

The Falcons have also played stronger at the net as of late. In its last two games, BG has recorded 27 blocks, which leads all MAC teams in blocks during conference play. Sophomore middle Kari Galen is second in the MAC during conference play with 1.17 blocks per set.

Tonight’s match is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in Anderson Arena. The Falcons will then host Western Michigan at 7 p.m. Saturday, which is also Alumnae Day. BG will also honor the “AllAnderson Team” to honor the 14 best Falcon volleyball TYLER STABILE players to have played in SPIKE: A volleyball player spikes the ball in a match earlier this year.

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BG’s second game and is eager to play a game again.

“I’m really excited to get back out there,” Bojicic said.

Nick Torresso, who filled in, will move back to left guard.

from Freddie Barnes with 39 seconds left to eventually win the game.

Near the top “They’ve been very competitive football games,” While he was held to his Clawson said. least amount of catches in a game this season at Michigan, Schilz BG wide receiver Kamar Quarterback Matt Schilz, Jorden currently ranks second who has not played since in the nation with 40 recepsuffering a shoulder inju- tions behind Oklahoma’s ry in BG’s home opener Ryan Broyles, who has 41.

Jorden has six fewer catches against Marshall, practiced earlier in the week but 53 more receiving yards and Clawson said he wasn’t than Freddie Barnes had through his first four games 100 percent.

Schilz is listed with of the season last year.

Aaron Pankratz on the Left out depth chart as the possible starters Saturday.

Believe it or not, Buffalo is Clawson said it may be the only team in the nation a game-time decision in without a rushing touchnaming a starter against down this season. The Bulls Buffalo. have not scored a touchdown on the ground in their Bojicic last five games, dating back Center Ben Bojicic is listed to to last season.

It is the longest stretch start after missing two weeks with an ankle injury. Bojicic in the team’s Division I-A suffered the injury at Tulsa in history (since 1999).

authors of it, as in addition to being the team’s best player, he was also one of the top freshman in the conference.

He was a Central Collegiate Hockey Association All-Rookie honorable mention last year, a list with very elite company, including the Detroit Red Wings’ 2010 first round pick Riley Sheahan of Notre Dame and 2009 Phoenix Coyotes’ second round pick Chris Brown of Michigan.

Even though he is currently the team’s top weapon, he is still young and is only going to get better each game.

“I got to work on my skating this summer, so that’s something that I needed to do for myself to help make the team better,” SamuelsThomas said.

As the team unofficially starts their season Sunday with an exhibition game against Wilfred-Laurier, SamuelsThomas and the rest of the Falcons are ready to kick the new era of Falcon hockey off right.

“Everything that we do, we do it with a relentless effort,” he said. “Everything is intense, it’s up-tempo, and a team philosophy that we’re going to hold each other accountable and stand by each other through the good and the bad.”

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dle of November, Otley said.

She said the plans for a skatepark began when youth in the city began to push for a place to practice their sport.

The comments about a need for a safe place to skateboard without getting in trouble became a reality when Parks and Recreation in Bowling Green began pursuing funds to build a skatepark.

“I can’t wait, especially for the kids that worked really hard to be able to use it,” Otley said.

She said she met with people of all ages who were interested in the skatepark, from teens, to college students, to older adults. A majority of the people interested were teens.

“It was a nice mix. We got all different age groups that might use the facility,” she said. “I can see some of the older kids taking some younger ones under their wing.”

Otley said she is happy to provide a space for a group that is interested in something other than the programs Parks and Recreation has previously offered.

Because City Park is frequently busy, the skatepark and the people who use it will be visible to other people in the community.

“It’s really cool for the people in the community to see. People don’t really know

CENTURY From Page 1

can access information about the trees including their age, at http://www.bgsu.edu/centurytree.

“We worked with the horticulture department and the Ohio Department of forestry,” Kielmeyer said. “We went out and found all the trees that have been here as long as the University or longer; its part of the Centennial celebration.”

Kielmeyer and University horticulturist Frank Schemenauer began searching for the oldest trees on campus last year by using aerial photos of the campus from the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘60s.

The Ohio Department of Forestry also helped to determine the ages of the trees

what’s involved with it and how skilled you have to be,” Otley said.

She said she personally learned a lot about the sport through this project.

The skatepark project is being funded by a $10,000 Tony Hawk Charitable Foundation grant, a $5,000 Bowling Green Community Foundation grant, and a $20,000 Nature Works grant from the state, Otley said.

She said the parks department is also contributing $15,000 to the skatepark, and other fundraising efforts were made, including skatepark Tshirts sales at the Bowling Green Community Center and raffles that were held.

“That’s what made this possible, community support and grant funding,” Otley said.

After consideration from the different departments, the Planning Commission and City Council, the project was approved in July.

Plans went into action Sept. 20 after A. A. Boos and Sons, Inc. was chosen as the construction company.

Planning Director Heather Sayler was involved in reviewing the zoning for the skatepark.

“There has to be drainage, where are the lights going, we consider things like that,” she said.

Sayler said the plans for the skatepark were approved with few issues and that there were public meetings held where

by taking core samples. Core samples used were removed from the trees by using a small drill, Schemenauer said.

“They don’t go all the way into the tree,” Schemenauer said. “They just drilled a small hole, about half the diameter of a pencil.”

The samples counted the number of rings per inch within a tree to help determine its approximate age, Schemenauer said.

Although the current signs on the Century Trees will only be hanging for the remainder of the University’s Centennial, permanent plaques may be added afterward in order to honor the trees’ lifespan.

“We were just hoping to identify and celebrate them,” Schemenauer said. “We wanted to recognize them as members of the community.”

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To contribute to the collaborative project, freshFrom Page 1 man Brooke Nicholson ing programs offered each gave Kenwood’s playground tables a fresh coat semester.”

Duntley said she hopes the of spray paint. Nicholson Kenwood project will be an is a member of the Art eye-opener and will prepare Appreciation at Family new students who have made House service learning a commitment to routine ser- course, a group that will vice projects by choosing to work on similar visual projects often, she said. participate in Chapman.

“I really think the school will “I really think this was a good project to show that be thankful that we’re doing not everything at a school this,” she said. “Hopefully it’s gets done automatically, and a really good reaction and it must be split into smaller, they’ll like what we did.”

Besides encountering an more manageable tasks,” she said. “A lot of faculty and peo- occasional spider underneath ple at BGSU have children at a table, Nicholson said she [Kenwood], so it’s also a good didn’t have any trouble using way to connect the commu- spray paint for the first time.

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people in the community were given a chance to voice their opinions on the details of plans for the skatepark.

Sayler said the parks department received the funding and made a majority of the decisions regarding the skatepark.

“They’re the ones who decide how they want it to look,” she said.

Freshman Luke Stoll is anticipating the completion of the skatepark.

He said he’s on his skateboard every day and that he would go to the skatepark a few times a week.

“I like that there will be obstacles that are actually made for skateboarding,” he said.

He has found some interesting skateboarding locations on campus, but he gets bored with the lack of a challenge.

Stoll said a skatepark would also offer a convenient place to skateboard without getting in trouble.

“It’s somewhere everybody can go, and we can all hang out,” he said.

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Historic Trees The oldest trees on campus, according to bgsu.edu/centurytrees 1. TREE 4 Leaning tree near Prout Chapel 259 years old 2. TREE 14 Behind Williams Hall, across from Prout Chapel 205 years old 3. TREE (N/A) Near the Student Health Center 202 years old 4. TREE 19 Near Alpha Omicron Pi sorority house 199 years old 5. TREE 10 Across from University Lawn 199 years old

“It was an awesome experience,” she said. “Originally we didn’t know what we were going to be doing here and we were curious, but once we found out, we were really excited. It was fun and a great way to serve the community.”

Jordan Clemm, Nicholson’s sophomore leader for the program, said participating in the Kenwood project was one of his most interactive volunteer experiences since joining Chapman as a freshman.

“I think with this type of project, everyone can tell that they’re really helping and they’re happy about it,” he said. “They can tell we’re doing good here, so they laugh and have a good time.

It’s a really good feeling.”

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