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October 16, 2008 Volume 103, Issue 40

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A woman and her son were arrested for cremating their relative in their fire pit, and then collecting her checks | Page 3

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Tell us something we don’t know

Columnist Tannen Gliatta thinks the mass of celebrities encouraging young people to vote is an overkill, writing that they should use their starpower to alert the public to other issues instead | Page 4

STATE NATION

A moment of clumsiness proved to be one sixth-grade boy’s last moment, when he was run over by a bus after tripping and falling | Page 10

Editor in Chief

After being treated for heart abnormalities, Vice President Cheney is recovering in the privacy of his home | Page 5

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET

SPORTS

Outstanding volleyballer records 2,000th kill

Chelsey Meek leads the BG team with a record number of digs, placing her in a predigous category | Page 7

If you fought an ostrich, who would win?

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Olympian speaks about gold, struggles

By Lori Weber Reporter

By Michelle Bosserman Reporter

A lot of things happened in 1973.

John Denver sang at the University. The original Howard’s Bar was torn down and the new Wood County Library was built. The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Roe v. Wade. Dave Wottle graduated.

Yes, Dave Wottle.

“How many of you have had a chance to get your hands on a gold medal?”

Olympian Lucinda Williams Adams gave students and other attendees of her speech last night a chance to see an Olympic dream up close.

Adams, a member of the 1956

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ACORN nuts about registration

By Freddy Hunt

Cheney treated for heart issues

“The ostrich, because I would run away screaming like a little girl.” | Page 4

BGSU alum reflects on winning run

Wood County not suspected of voter registration fraud

Bus barrels over boy

Sarah Otterbacher Senior, Telecommunication

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Running rings around the world

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Helpful hints on how to avoid pre-test stress when there is so much going on | Page 3

As allegations of voter registration fraud surface in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County and other key battleground states, crooked canvassers are not suspected in Wood County.

Terry Burton, director of Wood County Board of Elections, said the organization ACORN, whose Nevada were raided last week and are now under federal investigation, has not been present in Wood County.

“We have not been contacted nor have we had any discussion with anyone from the ACORN organization,” Burton said. “If registrations are coming through other counties, typically they would winnow out any obvious voter fraud before they would come to our office.”

The difference between Wood and Cuyahoga Counties is volume, Burton said.

“It is much easier in a county with 3 million voters to not pick up on a duplicate name,” Burton said, comparing Cuyahoga County’s population to Wood County’s 101,400. “We have a much smaller office with people who are in much closer contact. So it is much easier for us to say ‘hey come look at this.’”

But a duplicate name really

doesn’t mean a whole lot since each person is only able to vote once, Burton said. But in cases like Nevada, where the Dallas Cowboy’s starting team roster turned up on voter registration forms, fraudulent identification documents would also be required for voting, he said.

“If an individual is registered under different names, it would take a much more orchestrated criminal act to produce the documentation to back up different identities,” Burton said.

C o l l e g e Republican Chairman Quinten Wise believes ACORN was registering individuals multiple times and then persuading them to vote that same day at several polls for Obama.

“Basically it’s an attempt to clog the system and hope things will just get pushed through,” Wise said. “I think that’s the idea.”

He said ACORN has been employing similar voter registration tactics for years, but was even more vigilant this election since it’s the first presidential election which Ohioans could cast early votes, creating a “perfect breeding

ground” for groups like ACORN that support Obama.

“One of the issues you face [is] you can get them registered, but you still have to get them to vote,” Wise said. “With this early voting, they can register, pick them up, take them to the polls and have them vote right there.”

While Obama has been accused of funneling money and even teaching classes for ACORN during his time as a communityorganizer in Chicago, Kamyl Bazbaz, Northwest Ohio communications director for the Obama campaign said Obama has no association with ACORN. “We don’t give them any money, and we do not employ any of their staffers for voter registration, and we never have,” Bazbaz said. “Because we care so much about the integrity of the process, we are running our own voter registration initiative. ...

We are doing it without the help of other groups.”

But Bazbaz said they did hire Citizen Services Inc., an ACORNfronted organization, for get-outand-vote initiatives during the

preliminaries. Get-out-and-vote is not voter registration, he said.

“When you’re getting people out to vote, they are already registered,” he said. “It’s a totally different operation, and they are totally unrelated.”

In cases like Nevada, where the Dallas Cowboys supposedly registered, and counties like Cuyahoga, where one man admitted to registering 72 times to “help out” ACORN activists in exchange for cash and cigarettes, Wood County Democrat Mike Zickar believes the intentions of the canvassers were not to cheat the voting system, but their employers.

Zickar said if ACORN canvassers are compensated by the number of voter registration forms they complete, as they have been accused, then the canvassers probably made up names and registered individuals multiple times just so they could make more money.

But the ACORN group is only a small percentage compared to all of the legitimate efforts made to register voters, Zickar said.

“I saw a lot of good voter registration drives and efforts on campus,” he said. “I mean the Obama campaign and the College Democrats, college fraternities and sororities doing a lot of work registering voters and getting them to vote in the

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New store gets crazy about prices, community

By Hannah Sparling Reporter

Crazy Prices, a new store in downtown Bowling Green, is doing business in a different way.

The difference is that Crazy Prices is not trying to make profit, unlike most sores.

Crazy Prices was designed to be a store for the community, store manager Daniel Wells said.

All money made will eventually make its way back into the community. Once the store has covered its opening costs and is self-sustainable, all profits will go toward funding community projects.

“It’s not just about money,” Wells said. “It’s about reaching a community. All the profits will go directly to the community, and will continue to while we exist.”

Most of the projects will be designed around helping children, said Mark Blake, University graduate and general manager of all Crazy Prices stores. The first project will be with the Bowling Green Christian Academy, a private school for kindergarten

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CRAAAZY: Crazy Deals on South Main Street sells quality products for low prices. Opened

by University alums, the profits from the store go back to helping the community.

through grade nine.

The store is also working on a program that would allow customers to designate a portion of their purchase money to a specific cause.

“We’d like to let the consumer have some say,” Blake said.

The store will also help the community simply by selling items for lower prices than other stores, Wells said. They are able to do this because they have fewer employees — two full-time

including Wells and five part-time — and because they get their stock through liquidation and closeout centers.

Going through closeout and liquidation centers can sometimes mean getting lower quality products, Blake said.

“But we’re working hard to eliminate most of that product,” he said.

Sam Meldon, the other fulltime employee, said prices at the store are definitely lower, and

the store will eventually help the community a lot.

“It’s a pretty timely idea,” he said. “You can’t watch the news without thinking the whole world is going down, and then you can come here and get stuff really cheap.”

Meldon said the fact the store’s goal is to help the community is what makes it different and honest, and is also what will draw customers in.

“I think it just sounds honest to customers, too,” he said.

“They won’t feel like we’re trying to scam them.”

At first glance, it’s not easy to tell what kind of store Crazy Prices is.

“A lot of people come in and say, ‘What is this store?’” Wells said.

The reason for the confusion is Crazy Prices does not have a set inventory, Wells said. Because they get their stock through liquidation and closeout centers, the items the store has to offer are constantly changing.

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By Beth Fouhy The Associated Press

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — John McCain assailed Barack Obama’s character and campaign positions on taxes, abortion and more yesterday night, hoping to transform their final presidential debate into a launching pad for a political comeback. "You didn’t tell the American people the truth," he charged.

Unruffled, and ahead in the polls, Obama parried each charge, and leveled a few of his own.

"One hundred percent, John, of your ads, 100 percent of them have been negative," Obama shot back in an uncommonly personal debate less than three weeks from Election Day. "It’s not true," McCain retorted.

"It absolutely is true," said Obama, seeking the last word.

McCain is currently running all negative ads, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But he has run a number of positive ads during the campaign.

The 90-minute encounter, at a round table at Hofstra University,

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The Rev. Al Sharpton will be speaking today at 10 a.m. in the Union Ballroom as part of his Voter Education Bus Tour.

Sharpton will be discussing voter fraud, participation, protection, education and the importance of voting in the upcoming elections. The event is sponsored by the NAACP.

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WOTTLE From Page 1 His name rests in Hall of Fame books, in the pages of past Sports Illustrated magazines and on a banner in the Perry Field House.

But it isn’t just his name that people remember. They remember the University junior with his signature white golf cap who ran in the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics and surprised the world.

They remember.

He was born in August, coming into the long stretch of summer in 1950.

“We were high school joggers when we came to BG,” Sidney Sink said. The former men’s track and field coach ran with Wottle at the U.S. Olympic trials, but Sink finished fourth and became an alternate. Wottle made it.

“It wasn’t until Mel Brodt that we became runners.”

Wottle was riddled with injuries during his time on the track.

The summer of 1971 was irritating for Wottle because he was sidelined so much of it. That is

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when he started wearing the golf cap. He officiated track meets in order to stay in contact with the sport he loved. He couldn’t miss the smell of the grass, or the way the dust would emerge from a runner’s feet as they made their way around the track. A runner like that could close his eyes and feel where the others were on the track, how fast they were going, if their breathing was labored and if he could win.

Some of Wottle’s injuries were minor, but it was a devastating knee injury that almost cost him the chance to run in the Olympics.

Five weeks before the race in Munich, Wottle was still trying to pull his body back together.

Brodt, who coached the men’s track and field team, said that most people didn’t believe that Wottle had much of a chance to win. But they never really saw him run, he said.

“I didn’t feel that I was going to be mentally and physically able to keep up,” Wottle said. He considered throwing in the towel, and letting Sink run in his place.

“Sid [Sink] was the better runner, and he should have gone to

the Olympics. He wanted it more,” Wottle said.

Sink, however, remembers it differently.

“Wottle had the hunger for it.

He is a humble man who wanted everyone to do well,” Sink said.

Wottle decided to go and slowly eased himself back into training for the 800-meter.

The day of the race was pure adrenaline. Hearts pounding; sweat trickling down each runner’s neck from nervous anticipation.

Yevgeniy Arzhanov of the USSR was in Lane 1. Dieter Fromm of East Germany was in Lane 2.

Wottle was in Lane 3. Arzhanov was the favorite for the race, expected to take home the gold.

The Germans put Fromm up against him, just hoping to medal.

Wottle was there to run.

The gun went off.

For all his training and desire, Wottle saw the other runners passing him, and soon he could only see their backs. He kept up his stride.

As the 400-meter mark approached, the runners ahead of Wottle started to strain. Their pace was too fast, he said. The

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pained expressions and grunts were showing the signs of wear.

He kept up his stride.

As the pack made their way around the 200-meter curve, Wottle was making progress through the numbers. 8th place, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th. He kept up his stride.

The last 100 meters made history. Runners from other countries were slowing. The lactic acid was eating away the oxygen in their muscles. Each step harder and harder. Their fast pace in the beginning had caught up to them.

They didn’t have the energy to push past the “wall.” Wottle, however, started his kick.

“It’s an explosive kick,” Sink said. “He made it look effortless to come from behind.”

It was an Olympic-worthy comeback, too.

When Wottle was just steps from the finish line, his last strides edged him past the competition.

At the photo finish, it was his white cap that made it clear he was the winner.

After a few minutes of deliberation amongst judges and Olympic officials, the huge screens at one end of the stadium flashed “WOTTLE, D. – USA, First Place.”

He finished with a time of 1:45.90.

“Coming-from-behind victories are exciting,” Wottle said. “They get

the blood and heart pumping.”

Cami Wells wasn’t able to watch the race live, or even in that decade. She has seen the video of the miraculous run and is still amazed.

Wells, head coach for the Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams, and head coach for the Women’s Track and Field, looks upon Wottle’s run as an inspiration.

“His run — the amazing finish, is hard to describe unless you see it,” Wells said.

She has met Wottle a few times, and describes him as a deeply humble man, interesting and proud of the track and field tradition at the University.

“What people don’t realize about Wottle’s run is that his lap splits have an almost identical time,” Sink said. “While other runners were breaking out fast and then slowing down, Wottle just kept the same pace. He kept up his stride.”

Wottle was 22-years-old when he walked into the Olympic Stadium in Munich.

“It was excitement and wonder at the same time,” Wottle said. He is now 58 with silver hair, and yet he still can remember the sound of the crowd that cheered him on, that gave him the rush he needed to break through the pack. Wottle lives near Memphis, Tenn., with

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We want to correct all factual errors. If you think an error has been made, call The BG News at 419-372-6966.

The headline “US removes South Korea from terrorist list” on page 5 in yesterday’s edition of The BG News was incorrect. North Korea was removed from the terrorist blacklist, not South Korea.

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his wife, Jan. She also graduated from the University, but in 1972.

“When she was graduating, I was running,” Wottle said.

It’s been 36 years since Wottle ran in that Munich heat. In that time he began coaching track and field, became a husband and father, and enjoyed life at its fullest. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1973, and in that same year he turned professional.

“I closed the door in being able to compete in 1976 in Montreal,” he said. And he never regretted it. He was a runner, not a trainer, and he didn’t want to try to out perform himself anymore.

He is now the dean of admissions and financial aid at Rhodes College in Memphis. The steps and strides he makes are a little bit smaller and slower now, but still have the same heart and determination. The gold medal rests either in a safety deposit box or with him as he travels around the country recruiting students.

He jokes about being too old to win another one if he should happen to lose it.

“They always ask about the hat though,” he said, laughing at how it became a part of that 22-yearold runner from Bowling Green, Ohio.

View the race at www.youtube. com/watch?v=cwGxLfWSnEM. will also vote for local officials. And if they vote for Obama, Wise said they will likely vote democrat right down the ticket.

“And most of them don’t know anything about the local officials,” he said. “They’re just there to vote for the president.”

The phoneline of Toledo’s ACORN office was disconnected at press time.

county they live.”

But voters registered in Wood County aren’t just voting for the president. Wise believes the newly registered voters could take a toll on local politics.

Newly registered student voters

STORE From Page 1

Lynn Wallace said some of the items in the store were of lower quality than usual, and she wasn’t sure the prices were lower either.

Helen Burnard said the prices were low and the products available were diverse and interesting.

“There were some things they had that I thought were really good prices,” she said. “I always look for a bargain. Bargains are fun.”

Both Wallace and Burnard said they like the idea behind the store, and if it works they will shop at Crazy Prices more.

“It’s an interesting concept,” Burnard said. “If it does work, it would be a model for others to use.”

“A lot of stuff we’ll get in and never see again,” Wells said.

Apart from a diverse inventory, ranging from televisions and vacuums to ketchup, Crazy Prices also offers free Wi-Fi, and has an area inside the store set up with tables and coffee.

“We want this to be a comfortable place where people can come,” Wells said.

The coffee is free for now, but will eventually cost about $1 a cup with 25 cent refills, Wells said.

Customers in the store had mixed feelings.

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Study habits, healthy lifestyles shrink anxiety Staying away from negative stressors help students cope with college.

By Courtney Flynn Reporter

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Latino conference focuses on education

By Lauren Graham Reporter

A diverse crowd of students and members of the community gathered yesterday at the Latino Issues Conference in Olscamp Hall. “It was the combination of Latino Heritage Month and an event that provided students with information that was useful to them,� said Nathan Olmeda, Latino Student Union president.

While the conference covered a variety of issues affecting Latinos, the main focus was on Latinos and education.

Guest speakers included students, professors and members of the surrounding communities. They touched on topics dealing with education ranging from

preschool to grade 12, including language and identity, higher education and what schools mean to their communities. “Listening to other college student’s perspectives made the conference more interesting,� sophomore Claire Bailey said. “I think it really helped in advancing the acknowledgment of Latinos in education.�

Sophomore Samantha George said her favorite part of the conference was listening to the stories told by the speakers. “One story in particular that stuck out the most was Jose Trevino,� she said.

Trevino spoke of his experience growing up as a migrant in America. As a child he was encouraged not to speak Spanish, which is his native lan-

guage. But today, despite that experience, he speaks Spanish with his son on a daily basis in honor of his family’s roots.

Keynote speaker Rosita Lopez returned to the conference for her second year. Lopez discussed her past as a high school dropout, her eventual return to high school and how education affects the Latino community.

The conference lasted from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with an optional lunch. It was hosted by LSU and the Center for Multicultural and Academic Initiatives. “Throughout the rest of the school year there are many ways to stay involved in these issues to promote culture through student organizations,�

Olmeda said.

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It’s that time of year; leaves are changing color, Halloween is around the corner and midterms are here.

Midterms can be a stressful time for students, especially with other aspects of everyday life factoring in, said Wellness Director Faith Yingling.

Aside from midterms, students begin to stress out this time of year because their finances are dwindling and the seasons are changing, Yingling said.

Midterms bring on a large amount of stress because of the anxiety caused by taking tests. “I stress out bad when I have to take tests,� said junior Josh Metuska. “I have really bad test anxiety.�

However, there are ways to relieve this stress.

One of the most important ways to avoid stress is to get enough sleep, which means about seven to eight hours a night, Yingling said.

Regular exercise and a healthy diet also help to relieve stress and ward off illness.

If you do find yourself feeling under the weather, be sure to see a health care provider or check the online self-care guide on the University’s Web site, Yingling urged.

The Counseling Center at the University also offers a stress clinic three times a week for students who need outside help handling the stresses of everyday life.

Yingling also suggests thinking positive thoughts, talking to family and friends and balancing work and fun to keep stress at bay.

Beyond staying healthy, students should also know study techniques that work best for them to avoid the

stress of midterms.

Some students are visual learners, others retain information better by listening or reading.

Yingling said students should figure out what type of learners they are and go from there.

Studying in a quiet and clean area with few distractions also helps students remain focused, she said.

Quality versus quantity is also a factor to consider when studying. “One hour of good studying is better than three hours of cramming,� Yingling said.

Associate Dean of Students Jodi Webb, who is involved with the University Success Program which helps students develop study habits, suggests staying on top of classes and their work load to be better prepared for tests. “I always suggest not waiting until the last minute,� she said. “Students tend to use marathon study sessions, which are usually not very effective.�

Webb suggests reviewing notes and reading materials after class a couple times a week to better retain information, as opposed to cramming. “It’s easier to break things down into smaller chunks to help avoid bad study habits,� she said.

Senior Vicky Steward said she doesn’t really stress over exams because she keeps up on the reading and notes.

Yingling said it is a good idea to plan ahead and to schedule in advance so there are no surprises.

Students should also be aware of positive and negative stressors, Yingling said.

Positive stressors are aspects of life that bring stress into your life, but for good reasons.

An example Yingling used was graduating, because it is

“One hour of good studying is better than three hours of cramming.�

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A negative stressor would be failing a class, because there is no positive aspect to it.

Alcohol and drug use are also negative stressors and should be avoided to stay healthy and remain on task, Yingling said.

The University has a number of resources for students to utilize in regards to school, life and stress issues. “I use a mentor group through the Study Skills center for one of my classes, and I also use the library to study,� Metuska said.

The Wellness Center, Counseling Center, Rec, tutoring sessions and professor’s office hours are all resources students can utilize to assist in studying and relieving stress. “You need to find ways you can help yourself,� Yingling said.

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“You can’t watch the news without thinking the whole world is going down, and then you can come here and get stuff really cheap.”

— Sam Meldon, employee at Crazy Prices, on the timeliness of opening a store that donates its profits to the community [see story, pg. 1].

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET

If you fought an ostrich, who would win?

“Me, because I would go all ninja on their butts.”

“I don’t think it’d be a fight because I would outrun the ostrich.”

“I think the ostrich would because it would go for the eyes.”

“I would because I’m awesome.”

SHEENA ORR, Senior, Education

YEMOJO MAROTTA, Senior, Liberal Studies

TOM ALBRECHT, Senior, Public Policy Administration

JESSICA ROMICH, Senior, IPC

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Democracy won’t work Celebrities should keep activism to raising unless you want it to awareness instead of encouraging voting JOSH WHETHERHOLT COLUMNIST

In 2001, the United States military forces went into Afghanistan, specifically the Tora Bora mountain range, in order to track down Osama bin Laden, the man responsible for attacks on our nation’s soil. Bin Laden was the most wanted man in the world.

Everyone had a thirst for his blood.

I honestly believe that we went into Afghanistan for just reasons. To track down a heinous killer like bin Laden was our only option. We weren’t there for any other military reasons and that was good.

However, when bin Laden continued to elude our forces, we turned our attention to the other hotbed in the Middle East: Iraq, where we subsequently invaded to bring down a dictator and install a new democratic g ov e r n m e n t in the Middle East. There was only one flaw.

An idea such as democracy must come from the actual people being governed, not flown in from thousands of miles away from a foreign land. I do not think it is plausible that the idea of democracy can just be given to such a currently unstable region, let alone forced on them by a foreign military. By getting involved in Middle East relations we completed the final step in bin Laden’s plan to harm our nation.

Democracy, a form of government initiated by the ancient Greeks more than 2000 years ago, was designed to give power to the middle and lower classes and take power away from the upper class, who gained power simply based on social standing. When the framers of the U.S. Constitution were writing our laws, the principle author, John Adams, looked to Aristotle’s Constitution for the Greeks and used it as a platform for ideas. But ultimately, for us to have a democratic nation, the idea came from the inside, from being tired of the religious tyranny of England and the want to govern ourselves, not from someone coming in and fighting the American Revolution for us and handing us a new government.

The same goes for France and their revolution against the aris-

tocracy in their country. They were inspired by our victory over the English, but the want for a just system came from the inside. Authors such as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau heavily influenced the need for revolt and democracy, and the French people took what they saw as an opportunity for self-government and ran with it, much as we did.

In the past we have tried to institute a sort of democracy in countries, and every time it turns out poorly. Vietnam, in particular, was a disaster. We initially went into the country to help our ally, France, hold onto leadership over many of the plantations and seats of power in the country. Later as France gave up on the war, we were determined to thwart communism coming out of North Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh by promoting democracy, only to end up being seen as the aggressors to the locals. The Vietnamese people were cheering for the home team in that situation, and it tarnished our world image for some time.

Perhaps we just have not been picking ourbattleswisely. In Vietnam, and most of Southeast Asia for that matter, we had a reputation for brutality and Ho Chi Minh was just about as popular as could be with the people. Now we are in Iraq trying to assemble a government capable of a democratic functionality, and needless to say, there is resistance. We invaded a country in a highly religious region of the world that has a government supported heavily by religious clerics and we have told people to follow a government that supports freedom of religion, equality for men and women and a separation of church and state in legal matters. This was doomed from the start.

In order to embrace democracy on a worldwide scale, people will have to want it for themselves. It is something that must be found and taken, not something that can be given as a gift. The Iraq War will be a shining example for our generation and for future generations. If we ignore this lesson again it could end up costing us everything, and we will only further the truth of the old adage, “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

“Ultimately, for us to have a democratic nation, the idea came from the inside, ... not from someone coming in and fighting ... for us and handing us a new government.”

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TANNEN GLIATTA COLUMNIST

Celebrities have a long history of doing charitable work, but this year in particular it seems the line between celebrity and activist has become blurred.

As the political climate heats up, celebrities are more than ready to tell us what topics we should be most concerned about. Bono, George Clooney, Brad Pitt and others want us to vote, help Darfur and build houses in New Orleans all before breakfast. These are all important causes and worthy of attention but sometimes it is a fine line between celebrities actually helping and when it just becomes too much of a good thing.

The year’s biggest overkill is the massive celebrity campaign urging people to register and vote. The onslaught of viral videos began last year with Will. i.am’s celebrity-filled video in support of Sen. Barack Obama.

The video opened up a floodgate and soon any actor, actress, musician, model or athlete with a political thought was telling us how important it is to vote.

The use of celebrities to

encourage young people to vote is not a new idea — the Rock the Vote organization has been around since 1992 — but for this election the extensive viral campaign and commercials are nearly impossible to escape.

The latest video created

by Leonardo DiCaprio says “don’t vote” with cameos from celebrities ranging from Sarah Silverman to Dustin Hoffman.

The video is clever and serves its purpose but it’s also borderline annoying. Jonah Hill’s rambling doesn’t inspire me to jump up and head to my closest polling location, nor does it take seeing Jessica Alba and Hayden Panettiere dress up as Hannibal Lecter for me to realize the importance of voting. I think it’s good that celebrities are encouraging people to vote, but I also think they overestimate their power. Hollywood seems to have this misconstrued notion that the only thing that will get 18- to 24-year-olds to vote is if P. Diddy or Scarlett Johansson tells us to.

I think celebrity activism works best when celebrities instead shed light on issues that need to be brought to the attention of the masses or exposing intimate truths of problems that we are already familiar with. Just like we know voting is important, we also know that AIDS,

Darfur, the reconstruction of New Orleans and cancer are big problems but with the help of Hollywood, we often get a closer look that we otherwise would not be shown.

This Sunday is the annual AIDS walk in downtown Los Angeles. During this event, thousands of people, including several celebrities like “Lord of the Rings” star Sean Astin and “The Girls Next Door” playmate Holly Madison will walk six miles to honor those lost and to gain awareness and raise money for the fight against HIV/AIDS. Hollywood has a long history of supporting HIV/AIDS research and awareness both internationally and domestically. During the 1990s when HIV/AIDS was not often spoken about in the mainstream media, the entertainment industry brought the issue to the forefront and encouraged conversation and emphasized awareness. This Sunday’s walk is just one more step that Hollywood continues to take in support of HIV/AIDS awareness.

Another disease that Hollywood has rallied behind is cancer. Celebrities can often seem invincible to everyday disasters, like cancer, but with the over 1.4 million new cases of cancer each year, many famous faces have had to battle the

disease in the spotlight. Just to name a few: this summer, 36year-old Christina Applegate battled breast cancer, Tom Green made a documentary about his experience with testicular cancer in 2000 and Sheryl Crow is a breast cancer survivor.

They, along with 50 other celebrities, partook in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon that aired simultaneously on NBC, ABC and CBS networks on Sept. 5.

The one-hour event was similar to the now annual [American] “Idol Gives Back” telethon with a blend of musical performances, stand-up comedians and profiles of people with cancer.

In addition to raising money — $100 million and counting — Stand Up to Cancer told intimate stories of both the everyday person and the Hollywood celebrity fighting the disease.

Maybe it was the bottle of wine I was drinking, but by the end of the hour, I was in tears.

The telethon was sad but also incredibly inspiring. Finding a cure for cancer or AIDS seems like a lofty goal but Hollywood convinces us it is possible. And that’s one of the best things Hollywood does, it is making the impossible possible.

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Pro-life feminists promote hypocritical ideals Courtney A. Fiske U-Wire

Politicos tend to present the abortion debate as an unbridgeable divide: One can either be for the rights of the fetus or for the rights of the woman. In a clever reversal, the self-termed “pro-life feminist” movement, spearheaded by the organization Feminists for Life (FFL) is attempting to have it both ways.

They object to abortion on the grounds that it harms women.

Yet, this position, joined to the term “feminist,” serves merely to conceal a deeply conservative and misogynistic agenda, motivated by ideology rather than a concern for women’s welfare.

Most pro-life feminists view abortion as an oppressive evil born of patriarchal society. A culture focused on women’s needs, they argue, would instead focus on both promoting and rewarding motherhood. This stance, however, assumes that a female’s most important societal function is anatomically determined: In essence, that she should serve as a womb and a mother before she should act as a holistic human being. By stooping to the level of biological essentialists, organizations like the FFL bolster the idea of an intangible “feminine mystique” and pervert conceptions of

modern womanhood.

Pro-life feminist groups have cleverly managed to mask these damaging assumptions by appropriating the discourse of modern pro-choice feminism. The slogan “women deserve better choices than abortion” inundates the FFL’s Web site, along with an exhortation to pregnant women: “Abortion is not the only way out: you have choices.” The latter statement links to a manual describing how to legally force the biological father into fulfilling his child support duties and how to utilize financial assistance programs such as Medicaid and subsidized housing. These proposed solutions fail to seriously address the root economic and social reasons that lead women to seek abortions. Advising an impoverished teenage mothers to procure food stamps merely places a Band-Aid on a gaping wound.

Interestingly, Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of abortion services, used this same slogan in her speech at the Democratic National Convention in August. Yet, rather than focusing on the limited options women possess after giving birth, Richards highlighted the preventative measures that safeguard women from having to make difficult choices in the first place. Not surprisingly, the

FFL refuses to opine on whether or not contraception should be legal. On the scant occasion when the group has addressed the issue of birth control, it has only perpetuated misconceptions about the side effects of the pill. By implicitly rejecting contraception and explicitly denouncing abortion, FFL gives women no other options but to give birth and deal with the financial and emotional consequences.

In its pamphlet, “Women deserve better than abortion,” the FFL again dismisses the viability of abortion as a choice by claiming that it is “no choice for most.”

Frequently pairing the verb “coerce” with the term abortion, the FFL cites statistics (gathered by pro-life groups) which show that lack of financial and emotional support motivate women to terminate their pregnancies.

But even if these statistics are accurate, the fact that many abortions occur under duress does not disqualify them as legitimate choices made by free-thinking, rational individuals.

After perusing FFL’s promotional materials, a potential member would be unaware that the organization touts a “no exceptions” abortion policy, even when rape, incest, or threats to maternal and fetal health are involved. In response to the

question, “What if it was your daughter who was raped?”, FFL founder Serrin Foster replied that she would profess unconditional love for both her daughter and her grandchild. She proceeded to conflate the destruction wreaked by international terrorism with abortion: “Abortion doesn’t erase a memory. Think about it. Could anything ever erase your memory of Sept. 11, 2001?” At least she was tactful enough not to mention the Holocaust.

The real agenda here is not to expand women’s choices, but to keep females from making a choice that they already have.

Only after a woman gives birth does FFL’s notion of “choice” come into play, a notion inextricably tied to existing power structures which FFL itself admits have institutionalized prejudice against motherhood. Although FFL recognizes the prevalence of pregnancy discrimination, its Web site contains no information on campaigns to promote access to child care or extended maternity leaves; rather, it highlights features that celebrate motherhood and advocate coupon-cutting. As indicated by the group’s former slogan, “refuse to choose,” FFL paradoxically attempts to persuade women that “choice” means relinquishing their right to choose.

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Economy dives further into the abyss as Dow Jones suffers steep stock drop

By Jeannine Aversa The Associated Press

The economy lurched deeper into the doldrums yesterday and took the stock market down with it, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a staggering 733-point loss and erasing any hopes that the convulsions that have shaken Wall Street for a month were over.

The daylong sell-off came as retailers reported the biggest drop in sales in three years and as a Federal Reserve snapshot showed Americans are spending less and manufacturing is slowing around the country.

Piling up losses in a rough final hour of trading, the Dow ended the day down nearly 8 percent — its steepest drop since one week after Black Monday in 1987. The Dow has wiped out all but about 127 points of its record-shattering 936-point gain on Monday of this week.

Earlier this week, after governments around the world announced plans to use trillions of dollars to prop up banks, including a U.S. plan to buy about $250 billion in bank stocks, the market had appeared to be turning around — or at least calming down.

Instead, relentless selling gave the Dow its 20th tripledigit swing in the past 23 trading sessions, an unprecedented run of volatility. The Dow has finished higher on only one day this month. The loss of 733 points is the second-worst ever for the average, topped only by a 778-point decline Sept. 29.

The plunge in stocks put the nation’s economic anxiety frontand-center as the two major presidential candidates, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, prepared for their final debate yesterday night in Hempstead, N.Y. In the meantime, the man they each hope to succeed met with his Cabinet. President Bush predicted “in the long run that this economy will come back.”

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke expressed confidence that the government’s radical efforts to stabilize the financial system and induce banks to lend again will eventually help the economy.

But Bernanke warned that even if the financial markets level off, the nation will not snap back to economic health quickly.

“Stabilization of the financial markets is a critical first step, but even if they stabilize as we

“Even if [the markets] stabilize ... economic recovery will not happen right away.”

Ben Bernanke | Fed chairman hope they will, broader economic recovery will not happen right away,” Bernanke told the Economic Club of New York.

Paulson, making the rounds of network TV morning shows, struck a similar note. “This will take time. There will be challenges,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Some analysts believe the economy jolted into reverse in the recently ended third quarter, while others predict it will shrink later this year or early next. The classic definition of a recession is back-to-back quarters of shrinking economic activity.

Two gloomy economic reports showed that the debate at this point is merely semantic.

The Fed’s snapshot of business conditions around the nation, known as the Beige Book, showed economic activity weakening across all of the Fed’s 12 regional districts.

Video-gaming monkeys overcome wrist paralysis

By Malcolm Ritter The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Monkeys taught to play a computer game were able to overcome wrist paralysis with an experimental device that might lead to new treatments for patients with stroke and spinal cord injury.

Remarkably, the monkeys regained use of paralyzed muscles by learning to control the activity of just a single brain cell.

The result is “an important step forward,” said Dawn Taylor of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, who studies the

concept of using brain signals to overcome paralysis. She wasn’t involved in the new work.

The device monitored the activity of a brain cell and used that as a cue to stimulate wrist muscles electrically. Researchers found it could even use brain cells that normally had nothing to do with wrist movement, said study co-author Chet Moritz.

So a large untapped pool of brain cells may be available for letting paralyzed people do things like grasping a coffee cup or brushing teeth, Moritz said.

But he stressed the approach is years, if not decades, away from

use in people.

Moritz and his colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle report the results in a paper published online yesterday by the journal Nature.

Taylor, who also works with the Cleveland VA Medical Center, said the study illustrates the potential of the approach and the flexibility of brain cells.

Lee Miller, a researcher at Northwestern University who has done similar work, said any demonstration of a device using brain signals to make paralyzed limbs move is “an important new development.”

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CHENEY IN HOSPITAL: Vice President Dick Cheney arrives at George Washington University Hospital yesterday in Washington.

Cheney treated for recurring irregular heartbeat

By Deb Riechmann The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney was treated “without complication” yesterday for an abnormal heartbeat, his office said, making a short visit to a hospital to restore his normal rhythm with an electric shock.

It was the second time in less than a year that Cheney, a 67year-old with a history of four heart attacks, had experienced and been treated for an atrial fibrillation, an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart. The episode caused the vice president to cancel his attendance at a political pcampaign event in Illinois.

Sensing a problem early yesterday, Cheney saw the White House physician, who discovered the vice president was experiencing a recurrence of the irregular heartbeat. Cheney participated in regular morning briefings with President Bush, among other duties, and remained working at the White House until he went to George Washington University Hospital in the afternoon for treatment.

The process took nearly two hours, after which Cheney went home, said Megan Mitchell, a Cheney spokeswoman.

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“An electrical impulse was delivered to restore the heart to normal rhythm,” she said. “The procedure went smoothly and without complication.”

Cheney told Bush of his condition. The president responded “like he would with any friend,” said spokesman Tony Fratto, by wishing the vice president well and telling him to “go and make sure the doctors do what they need to do.”

Later, in Ada, Mich., Bush told reporters that Cheney is “going to be fine.”

“He said he was confident, the doctors are confident, and therefore I’m confident,” Bush said.

Cheney also experienced atrial fibrillation in November 2007, and doctors also administered an electrical shock then in a treatment that took about 2 1/2 hours. That irregular heartbeat was discovered while White House doctors were treating the vice president for a lingering cough from a cold.

Dr. Zayd Eldadah, director of cardiac arrhythmia research at Washington Hospital Center, said it’s not unusual for Cheney to have another such episode. An estimated 2.8 million Americans have atrial fibrillation, the most common type of irregular heartbeat and one that is not lifethreatening in itself.

“This kind of rhythm problem generally does keep coming back over time,” said Eldadah, who is not involved in Cheney’s care. “The natural history of atrial fibrillation in people who have heart disease and are older is that it keeps coming back, and generally comes back more frequently.”

The main risk from atrial fibrillation is not that Cheney will have another heart attack, but that he eventually could have a stroke if the rhythm problem is not treated.

Atrial fibrillation causes the upper chambers of the heart to quiver, instead of pump. As a result, some blood can pool in the heart. When blood settles, it tends to clot. And if those clots are then pumped out to the body, they can lodge in tiny blood vessels in the brain and cause a stroke.

The procedure Cheney underwent yesterday is like resetting a computer, Eldadah explained.

It involves sedation, and then an electrical charge delivered to the heart. “The heart will be turned off and on to reset it,” said Eldadah. “It’s a quick fix to restore normal rhythm.”

If the procedure doesn’t work, patients typically are put on blood thinners to prevent clotting.

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Seat belts required in new school buses DEATSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Smaller school buses will have to be equipped with lap-andshoulder seat belts for the first time under a government rule drafted following the deaths of four Alabama students on a school bus that nose-dived off an overpass.

Larger buses also will have higher seat backs under the new policy, which was announced yesterday. The design change is supposed to keep older, heavier students from being thrown over the seats in a collision.

The seat belts will only have to be installed in new buses weighing 5 tons or less, and the requirement will not take effect until 2011. These smaller school buses are already required to have lap belts, but not the safer, harness-style belts. There is no seat belt requirement for larger buses.

Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said she stopped short of requiring seat belts for larger buses because that could limit the number of children that can squeeze into seats, forcing some children to travel in ways that aren’t as safe as school buses.

School districts sometimes expect as many as three younger children to share a bus seat, but if there are only two belts installed per seat then fewer children can ride the bus.

“We wanted to make sure that any measures we put forth don’t needlessly limit the capacity of the buses and then force that school or that school district to have more children walking, riding with parents, biking, etcetera,” Peters told The Associated Press in an interview.

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DEBATE From Page 1 was their third debate, and marked the beginning of a 20-day sprint to Election Day. Obama leads in the national polls and in surveys in many battleground states, an advantage built in the weeks since the nation stumbled into the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.

With few exceptions, the campaign is being waged in states that voted Republican in 2004 — Virginia, Colorado, Iowa — and in many of them, Obama holds a lead in the polls.

McCain played the aggressor from the opening moments of the debate, accusing Obama of waging class warfare by seeking tax increases that would "spread the wealth around."

The Arizona senator also demanded to know the full extent of Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a 1960s-era terrorist and the Democrat’s ties with ACORN, a liberal group accused of violating federal law as it seeks to register voters. And he insisted Obama disavow last week’s remarks by Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat, who accused the Republican ticket of playing racial politics along the same lines as segregationists of the past.

Struggling to escape the political drag of an unpopular Republican incumbent, McCain also said, "Sen. Obama, I am not President Bush. ... You wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago."

Obama returned each volley, and brushed aside McCain’s claim to full political independence.

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“If you were to flip over in a pond, the little ones might not be able to get the belt off.”

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School in Deatsville, about 20 miles north of Montgomery, Gov. Bob Riley and Deputy U.S. Transportation Secretary Thomas Barrett climbed aboard a bus with 12 schoolchildren who have been using the belts in the pilot project.

It was started after four Lee High School teens were killed in Huntsville on Nov. 20, 2006 when their school bus went over a highway overpass rail and plunged to a street below, with dozens of students flung from seats.

“We asked the question at that time — would it have been safer if the students on the Huntsville bus had had seat belts?” Riley said. “We were amazed to find out that no one knew.”

A bus driver who has been part of the pilot project, George Caudle, noted that keeping children from unclicking the belts may be a problem. He said the bus cannot start until all are strapped in, but sometimes after he starts driving it’s not long before he hears belts being clicked off.

Jacob Chandler, 12, said he was worried about the belts.

“If you were to flip over in a pond, the little ones might not be able to get the belt off and they might drown,” he said.

But Monessia Smith, another 12-year-old, said she supported them.

“... on the core economic issues . . . you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bush.”

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your policies for George Bush’s policies, it’s because on the core economic issues that matter to the American people — on tax policy, on energy policy, on spending priorities — you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bush," he said.

McCain’s allegation that Obama had not leveled with the public involved the Illinois senator’s decision to forgo public financing for his campaign in favor of raising his own funds.

As a result, he has far outraised McCain, although the difference has been somewhat neutralized by an advantage the Republican National Committee holds over the Democratic Party.

"He signed a piece of paper" earlier in the campaign pledging to accept federal financing, McCain said. He added that Obama’s campaign has spent more money than any since Watergate, a reference to President Nixon’s re-election, a campaign that later became synonymous with scandal.

Obama made no immediate response to McCain’s assertion about having signed a pledge to accept federal campaign funds.

Asked about running mates, both presidential candidates said Democrat Joseph Biden was qualified to become president, although McCain added this qualifier: "in many respects."

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in my heart and my head,” Adams said. “I would be the first in my family to go to college.”

Adams was awarded a grant and aid scholarship which helped provide funding for her schooling. While at TSU, she practiced everyday with the team while taking a full schedule of classes.

“I wanted to quit, but I knew I couldn’t let my coach, family and community down,” Adams said. “I kept focused and kept my feet on the ground.”

The social climate of the 1960s included many events centered around race. Sit-ins, boycotts, rebellions and black power were some of the things Adams experienced as a black female athlete.

“I knew the color of my skin was different from others,” Adams said. “However, we all cry the same, we all want the same. ... It all depends on what you have in your head and what you have in your heart.”

At times of race segregation, Adams had important decisions to make. She was asked to participate as an athlete in a sit-in and chose not to, due to the fact that she would lose her scholarship and go to jail if

and gold medal-winning 1960 4x100m track relay teams, spoke about her achievements in her speech “The Olympic Games: Its Challenges, Joys and Rewards.”

She started with an explanation of how she achieved her goals and the person she became because of what she experienced.

“All of my life I have tried to pay back the kinds of things shared with me,” Adams said.

“I have tried to make changes for others to assist and reinforce people to make good, sound positive choices to help improve the world.”

Her road to the Olympics began when she was in junior high school in her hometown of Savannah, Ga. In those years, there were only two schools with track and field teams for African American females.

Tennessee State University, one of the schools offering track and field, expressed interest in Adams during her junior year of high school.

“The motivation was placed

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INSPIRING: In a well prepared speech the former Olympic runner told of her trials and tribulations pre-competition and how the black power movement affected her running career.

she were to attend.

“Decision-making at an early age is so important,” Adams said. “Choices you make can either be a deterrent, hinderance or set you for life.”

Her decision to stay in school paid off. She went on to run in the 1956 Melbourne and 1960 Rome Olympics.

“One of the most wonderful things that you cannot explain is standing on the podium and seeing your flag raise up,” Adams said. “It’s the

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Some members of the BGSU’s female track and field team were in attendance to hear Adams retell her experiences with the Olympics.

Junior Kristin Carver and senior Kylie Korsnack have both been running for BGSU since they were freshmen.

“It’s inspiring to hear someone [like Adams] because I’m passionate about running,” Carver said. “Meeting an Olympian is just such a neat experience.”

Korsnack added that she went to see Adams because she “could really relate to her and how hard training is.”

Adams rapped up her speech with references to the latest Olympics in Beijing. She plans to always stand up for the Olympics, regardless of whatever may happen due to politics or substance abuse in her sport, because of what it did for her life.

“Always remember, no matter what happens in the Olympics, it’s still the greatest sports spectacle in the world,” Adams said.

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After having a 94-yard interception return for a touchdown against the Giants Monday night, Deion Sanders, among others, sent him a congratulatory text message after Wright mimicked Sanders going into the end zone.

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Volleyball: at Central Michigan; 7 p.m.

OUR CALL Today in Sports History 1991—Maverick’s Ron

Tarpley is the 7th NBA player to be banned for life under the league’s drug agreement program.

1988—BG alum Orel Hershiser becomes the first pitcher to throw a shutout in the playoffs and the World Series.

1909—Jack Johnson wins the heavyweight title.

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Lewis gives stability to Falcon returns after 170 yard night

By Chris Voloschuk Sports Editor

“He comes downhill, and he doesn’t go in there with hesitation.”

field at the Rubber Bowl toting the proverbial matchbook. His play may have put a stranglehold on the job.

On five different occasions during BG’s When Kenny Lewis spots a hole on a kick 37-33 win, Lewis fielded a kickoff. And return, he hits it hard and makes full use of when all five returns were over with, he his deceptive speed.

Stephen Bird | Special teams coach finished the game with a season-best 170 “He comes downhill, and he doesn’t go in yards. It was a season-best not only for there with hesitation,” said special teams coordinator Stephen Bird. “You give him a backs, and Tyrone Pronty, one of its receiv- Lewis, but for the team as well.

“He had a nice game returning kicks,” little seam, and he’s going to hit it.” ers, have split time returning kickoffs.

Since Roger Williams, the team’s startAnd just when the Falcons need- said head coach Gregg Brandon. “He was ing returner, went down with a hand injury ed a spark in the return game, play- our special teams Player of the Week. He in BG’s second game against Minnesota, ing against one of the nation’s best in See LEWIS | Page 8 Lewis, one of the team’s starting corner- Akron’s Bryan Williams, Lewis took the

3. 2007 ALCS:

Cleveland had a good-looking 3-1 lead going into Game 5, but Boston outscored them 30-5 in the next three to advance to the World Series.

4. 2003 ALDS:

Oakland was up 2-0, but the Sox won the next three games 3-1, 5-4 and 4-3 to advance in a nail-biting series.

5. 1999 ALDS: The Red Sox piled 44 runs on Cleveland in the last three games after finding themselves in an 0-2 hole.

Men’s golf struggles, takes 11th at Xavier In golf, like any other sport, you need the ability to finish — there are no points awarded for not being able to close out games or tournaments.

This inability to finish has cost the Falcons earlier this season and once again came back to haunt the Matt team at the Xavier Schneider To u r n a m e n t , Finished which concluded 18th for the on Tuesday.

“It’s actually Falcons at kind of troubling,” the Xavier said BG coach Tournament Garry Winger of his team’s lack of final round success. “We don’t seem to get very good scores in that final round — obviously we can’t address it in the fall because we’re done now, but hopefully it won’t start out that way in the spring.”

The Falcons probably were never in contention to win the team tournament due to the absurd scores that Eastern Kentucky and Marquette put up, but they could have been in contention for a topfive finish with a good final round.

That good final round was nowhere to be found for BG. The Falcons started off the tournament with a 285 and a 289 on the first day of the tournament which was good for a collective score of two under par.

Had the Falcons played even par golf on that final day, they would have come away with a topfive finish at a tournament with a very strong field. Unfortunately, BG shot a collective 13 over par on the final round to limp to an 11th place finish in tie with rival Toledo.

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BG student coaching at Coach K’s summer camp

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The List

The Red Sox enter tonight’s game against the Rays in a familiar position: needing a big win. Today we’re listing the top five playoff comebacks by the Red Sox: 1. 2004 ALCS: In what is regarded by some as the greatest comeback in sports history, Boston rallied from a 3-0 deficit to defeat the Yankees to advance to the World Series.

2. 1986 ALCS: Before Bill Buckner’s imfamous play in the World Series, the Red Sox won the last three games of the ALCS to beat the Angels.

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FOOTBALL Eric Wright gains high praise

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DIGGING IT OUT: Chelsey Meek watches for the ball during a recent BG meet. She recorded her 2,000th kill last weekend.

Meek leads netters into big weekend

By Sean Shapiro Reporter

Already the most successful defensive player in Falcons history, senior Chelsey Meek hit another milestone last weekend on the road against Buffalo.

Meek, who already essentially owns every dig record in Falcons history, became the first Falcon and fifth in the Mid-American Conference to record her 2,000th career dig, helping to earn her MAC East Co-Player of the Week honors.

Meek entered the weekend 27 digs away from the mark and almost hit the milestone Saturday when she recorded 26 in BG’s 3-2 win at Akron. One dig away from 2,000, she finally hit the milestone the next night in Buffalo.

In the opening set against the Bulls, Meek was able to dig her 2,000th career ball in a BG 3-1 win, part of her 23 digs in the match. Following the dig, BG stopped play and requested the game ball from the referee.

“Each year I’ve gone out and tried to beat my previous year’s record. To know that I was close to 2,000 just happened, and I was thankful I was able to reach this number.”

Chelsey Meek | BG volleyball “I never expected to reach 2,000,” Meek said. “Each year I’ve gone out and tried to beat my previous year’s record. To know that I was close to 2,000 just happened, and I was thankful I was able to reach this number.”

In Meek’s freshman year, she recorded 458 digs; the next two years she would beat her own mark and set the record for most digs in a season twice. With her place as the best digger in BG history essentially guaranteed, Meek has her goals set on the MAC dig record.

“I would love to beat the overall MAC dig record,” Meek said. “It is reachable, and it’s very possible I could reach it this year.”

Stephanie Keller, who played

Chelsey Meek

Is chasing Stephanie Keller’s MAC dig record

at Ball State from 2001-04, holds the current record of 2,273. Meek already owns a national mark, as her current streak of 77 straight matches with double-digit digs is first among all active players in the NCAA. Averaging 4.92 digs per set, Meek is currently ranked 26th in the nation in digs per set and

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When University student Chris Gross attended a basketball camp at Duke University, he had no idea he would be coaching it four years later.

Growing up as a die-hard Duke basketball fan, Gross had the opportunity to travel to Durham, N.C. to be a camper at the Coach K (Mike Krzyzewski) camp in 2003.

“Walking inside Cameron for that first time as a kid, as your hoop heroes hone their jumpers right next to you underneath the banners of champions past, you find yourself awestruck in the midst of the sheer greatness of the Blue Devil basketball program,” Gross said.

Unlike other basketball camps around the nation, Duke’s camp focuses on individualized and

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COACH K: BG student Chris Gross (right) poses with Mike Krzyzewski at Duke’s camp.

group stations for ball handling, shooting, passing and defensive improvement.

“There are very few camps around America that pay special attention to individual skills

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Bengals WR Henry suprised Pacman is suspended

By Joe Kay The Associated Press

ed scuffle earlier this month with one of his bodyguards at a private party. The suspension CINCINNATI — Bengals receiv- will be extended if he doesn’t foler Chris Henry is surprised NFL low the league’s treatment plan. commissioner Roger Goodell Henry and Jones, former came down so hard on Cowboys teammates at West Virginia, receiver Adam “Pacman” Jones, have been the biggest offenders who got at least a four-game of the league’s conduct policy, suspension for his latest off-field earning repeated suspensions. incident.

The two have kept in touch since Jones was suspended for at least four games on Tuesday, See PACMAN | Page 9 punishment for an alcohol-relat-

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LEWIS From Page 7 did a nice job for us.”

‘A nice job’ may be an understatement. After Saturday’s game, Lewis pushed his kick return average to 30.8 yards per return, good for second in the Mid-American Conference. For the sake of comparison, as a team BG averages 22.8 yards per return.

For the game, Lewis never allowed BG’s offense to start a drive at the 20-yard line or behind it. His shortest return was 23 yards and the offense started around its 30-yard line or better on all five of his returns.

“My blocks were set up good,” Lewis said. “The game plan was set up good. And it was just my adrenaline, just trying to get a win and get my team the best field position possible.”

His longest gain of the night came with just under three minutes to go in the first half and BG trailing 21-7. Lewis hauled in the kick from Branko Rogovic, jump-started the afterburners and sprinted 62 yards downfield to the Akron 33. The short field allowed the Falcons to eventually find the end zone, making the halftime deficit a more manageable 21-14.

Quarterback Tyler Sheehan said the extra boost from Lewis and the return team helped the offense immensely.

“That was the key to the game,” Sheehan said. “Our average start was at the 39. It showed how phenomenal our

VOLLEY From Page 7 her efforts were felt most in BG’s wins over Ohio and Kent State when both teams’ offense intentionally didn’t hit balls at her.

Meek will look to improve her streak of double-digit digs this weekend as the Falcons head to Central Michigan tonight. The Chippewas are currently the top team in the MAC West at 5-1 and off to their best start since 1996.

“We’re looking at this weekend like the Ohio and Kent Sate weekend a couple weeks

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Tressel, Dantonio set to write next chapter of rivalry this weekend

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RETURN HAPPY: Kenny Lewis pictured returning one of his five kickoffs against Akron last Saturday. Lewis gained 170 yards on his five kick returns in the game.

defense and our return game did. I thought Kenny was going to break one. He did a good job returning.”

The offense’s ability to score off of Lewis’ returns was as important as the favorable field position he delivered. On three of his five returns, BG’s offense scored a touchdown. His last return in the fourth quarter helped set up the drive that put the Falcons ahead on the scoreboard for good.

Until this season, Lewis wasn’t always penciled in as a returner. He’s made a nice college career for himself as a cornerback. Still, he has experience in the special teams game. He spent time hauling in kicks during his high school days as a standout running back at Penn Hills High School in Pittsburgh, Pa. “That was probably one of my

“I always knew I could play kick returner, I just had to get the opportunity.”

Kenny Lewis | Kick returner strong points [in high school],” Lewis said. “I always knew I could play kick returner, I just had to get the opportunity.”

With 170 total yards last week, it looks like Lewis will be getting a lot more opportunities to help out the offense with his combination of hard running and exceptional speed.

“He will be the option for the rest of the season, as of right now,” Bird said.

“We’re looking at this weekend like the Ohio and Kent Sate weekend a couple weeks ago. If you look at Central Michigan, they’re tied for the lead in the MAC West, and they are above us in every statistical category.”

Mark Hardaway | Assistant coach ago,” said BG assistant coach Mark Hardaway. “If you look at Central Michigan, they’re tied for the lead in the MAC West, and they are above us in every

statistical category.”

BG leads the all-time series with Central 24-19 and won the last meting between the two teams 3-1 last season.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The day Mark Dantonio was introduced as Michigan State’s head coach, he wore the 2002 national championship ring he earned as Ohio State’s defensive coordinator.

Dantonio’s Ohio roots run deep. So do his ties with Jim Tressel, the Buckeyes’ head coach. It’s one of several coaching staff connections that add a little more spice to Saturday’s Big Ten showdown between No. 20 Michigan State (6-1, 3-0) and No. 12 Ohio State (6-1, 3-0) at Spartan Stadium.

The winner will keep at least a share of the Big Ten lead.

Bragging rights also are on the line between the two longtime friends who first coached together in the early 1980s and their interconnected coaching staffs.

Dantonio, in his second season as Michigan State’s head coach, is looking for his first win against Tressel and the Buckeyes.

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SEE YOU NEXT SEASON: Jim Tressel (left) and Mark Dantonio meet at midfield after the Buckeyes 27-7 win in 2004 at Ohio State. The coaches will meet this Saturday.

“In terms of playing against Coach Tress, this is the fourth time ... 0-3,” said Dantonio, who lost 24-17 to the then-No. 1 Buckeyes last season and also lost twice while head coach at Cincinnati. “You learn a little something more every year.”

For the first time in a headto-head matchup, Dantonio gets to play Tressel in his home

DUKE From Page 7 and pride themselves of that,” Gross said. “It gives me more of an appreciation for the Duke coaching staff because it is still a teaching camp.”

At the camp, there are always Duke players — past and present — around, willing to teach basketball fundamentals or to just sign autographs for the kids.

During the evening sessions, players would lecture and participate in shooting contests with the campers.

Duke all-stars such as J.J. Redick, Greg Paulus and Chris Duhon were on hand at Cameron Indoor Stadium teaching youth how they got to where they are, as well as all the hard work and dedication it takes.

If the Duke players at the camp weren’t already enough, coach Krzyzewski — one of the most successful basketball coaches of all time — was almost always visible, readily available to comment or take campers aside for individual teaching.

“Just his presence in the gym alone does wonders for the campers’ attitudes toward

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BLUE DEVIL: BG student Chris Gross poses in a Duke sweatshirt after his camp.

wanting to achieve greatness,” Gross said.

After attending Coach K’s camp in 2003 and 2004, Gross stayed in contact with Mike Schrage, the director of basketball operations at Duke University, and he was very happy he did.

Gross merely asked if he could get a job as a coach, and the next thing he knew he was on his way down to Durham once again for what would be

stadium. That could give the Spartans an advantage they’ll need against the more experienced and talented Buckeyes.

Dantonio — a native of Zanesville, Ohio — first coached with Tressel when both were assistants at Ohio State under

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one of the most memorable experiences of his life.

When he asked about the job, he did not think it at all possible for it to happen. He was ecstatic from Schrage’s response.

Now, four years later, Gross would be living his dream again — but this time as a coach of over 500 campers, ages 8-17.

While there were a number of great basketball-related memories, Gross’ most memorable experience was spending time with Paulus, the starting point guard. He would hang out at Paulus’ apartment and do things from playing video games to swimming.

Gross took pride in his job — he wanted to have as big an effect on the campers as the coaches did with him four years prior. Even though he got paid for this position, he said he would have definitely done it for free, for it was a wonderful learning experience.

“Working the Duke Camp this past summer was one of the greatest memories of my life, a place in time that I will hold close to me as long as I live,” Gross said.

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BEREA — When Browns cornerback Eric Wright woke up Tuesday morning, he found several congratulatory text messages waiting on his phone.

One meant more than the others. The one from Deion Sanders.

On Monday night, Wright’s 94-yard interception return for a touchdown in the fourth quarter sealed Cleveland’s 3514 upset over the previously unbeaten New York Giants.

Wright cut in front of wide receiver Amani Toomer, picked off Eli Manning’s pass and eluded the QB by tiptoeing down the sideline. He strutted into the end zone, mimicked Sanders’ high-kicking strut and then his offered his signature TD jig.

“It’s something I’ve dreamed of doing since I was 8 years old,” Wright said.

As a kid growing up in San Francisco, Wright idolized Sanders, who brought his flashy game to the Bay Area for one year and won a Super Bowl title with the 49ers. Wright admired everything about Sanders: his flashy style, his work ethic, his game-changing knack.

So as he approached the end zone on Monday, Wright paid tribute to the man dubbed “Prime Time” in prime time.

And what did Sanders think?

“He told me I set a new standard for myself and that he expects me to play that way every game,” Wright said.

The Browns would settle for half of what Wright accomplished against the Giants, a performance that earned him AFC Defensive Player of the Week honors.

Wright was credited with three solo tackles, two passes defended and the interception, his third this season for the Browns. His team has recorded eight interceptions in the past three games and gave Manning his first three of 2008. Wright currently is ranked second in the league in interceptions and he doesn’t shy away from saying he wants to finish on top.

“It’s a personal goal, but in the bigger scheme of things it’s about helping the team,” he said. “It’s not something you do to sacrifice anything. I’m not

GOLF From Page 7 “We have to figure why that last round we seem to play poorly,” Winger said of the improvements that need to be made during the winter. “I don’t know if there’s an answer or just how it seemed to go this fall.”

Winger also mentioned that the previous year’s team had trouble during the opening rounds but then found their stride in the final round once all the expectations had been lifted.

The Falcons will need to find that happy medium in order to start being more competitive in these tournaments.

“Once again we kind of struggled the last day,” junior Matt Schneider said of the Falcon final round performance. “We’re a young team – we’ll figure it out.

We’ll practice up on our indoor golf room and be ready for the spring.”

BG finished the tournament with an 11 over par 875, which was 29 strokes behind tournament winner Eastern Kentucky, which fired an 846 over the two day tournament.

The individual tournament winner was Mike Van Sickle of Marquette, who completely

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PRIME TIME: Eric Wright mimicks his childhood idol Deion Sanders’ touchdown celebration on a 94-yard interception return against the Giants on Monday.

“I talk to him pretty much on a regular basis.

Anything I need to ask him, he’s there for me and I really appreciate him a lot. He’s just there as far as support goes.”

Eric Wright | Cornerback going to go out there and just take chances.”

He’s still learning, so the second-year player reached out midway through his rookie season to Sanders, the cornerback against whom all cornerbacks are measured.

The 5-foot-10, 190-pounder, who was drafted out of UNLV in the second round in 2007, came into the league dripping with confidence. He showed flashes of stardom during 13 starts, but there were times when he was out of position or played too softly in coverage and allowed receivers to make easy catches underneath.

Wright contacted Sanders, now an analyst for the NFL Network, for some advice.

“Anybody who knows me knows that I idolize him, I did growing up,” Wright said. “He’s such a down-to-earth person now that I don’t necessarily idolize him as much as I respect him a great deal because he’s so humble and ready and able to help people like myself.”

Wright also worked out with the former baseball/football star during the offseason.

“I talk to him pretty much on a regular basis,” Wright said. lapped the field with his performance over the three rounds.

Van Sickle was the only player to finish in double figures by posting a 17 under par score of 199.

His next closest competition was Nathan Wine of Toledo, who tallied a nine under par score of 207.

Schneider led the Falcon attack by posting a three under par score of 213, which was good for a tie for 18th place.

Freshman Parker Hewit continued to improve his play since the start of the season by notching his best score of the season with an even par score of 216 over the three day tournament.

“The first day I really hit the ball well — just played smart golf,” Hewit said. “Birdied the holes I should have birdied and didn’t do anything really stupid. It was kind of the same the third day — hit the ball really well but just didn’t putt as well as I would have liked to. That’s the way it goes — that’s golf for you.”

John Powers, Drew Preston and Bryan Mitchell rounded out the Falcon quintet by posting scores of 221, 227 and 235 respectively.

The tournament closed out the fall portion of the Falcons’ schedule. They will next be in action Feb. 23 to compete at the Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

“Anything I need to ask him, he’s there for me and I really appreciate him a lot. He’s just there as far as support goes.”

Wright hasn’t always been as open to advice. Browns coach Romeo Crennel said some of Wright’s struggles during the exhibition season and earlier this year can be partially attributed to his stubbornness.

“Sometimes when you have the ability of Eric Wright, you get a little overconfident in what you are able to do,” Crennel said.

Crennel said he was pleased to hear his young player has sought out Sanders, who had 19 career TD returns and is an almost certain lock for the Hall of Fame.

“You could put him on one guy and he could cover that one guy and you could take the rest of your coverage and push it somewhere else,” Crennel said of Sanders. “I don’t know if Eric is to that standard yet, but any pointers that Prime Time can give him, I know he appreciates. I noticed that as he high stepped into the end zone he tried to do a little Prime Time move there so they have been talking about something.”

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COACHES From Page 8 Earle Bruce.

When Tressel became coach at Division I-AA Youngstown State before the 1986 season, Dantonio went with him and stayed for five years. Tressel has said he and Dantonio grew up together in the coaching world.

Tressel became Ohio State’s coach before the 2001 season and lured Dantonio away from Michigan State, where he had been an assistant under Nick Saban and Bobby Williams.

Dantonio was the defensive coordinator on the Buckeyes’ 2002 championship team.

After a short and successful run at Cincinnati, he took over at Michigan State.

“He went in with a plan, didn’t waver from his plan, demanded excellence on and off the field, demanded toughness,” Tressel said. “It’s critical.

You can see that’s the way they play offensively or defensively or special teams.”

There aren’t many coaching staffs with more common connections than Ohio State and Michigan State.

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GOOD GAME: Mark Dantonio meets Jim Tressel at midfield after a 2007 loss.

Tressel’s nephew, Mike Tressel, coaches linebackers and special teams for the Spartans. The elder Tressel noted the connection this week and said he was impressed with Michigan State’s special teams.

“Trying to give him a little love here,” Jim Tressel said of his nephew, who spent two years as a graduate assistant at Ohio State.

Mike Tressel said yesterday the two coaching staffs

COME ON: Jim Tressel encourages his players earlier this year.

read the transcripts of each other’s press conferences and “there are probably hidden messages in there” everyone else would miss.

The younger Tressel said he enjoys the opportunity to get together with a wide variety of family and friends attending a Michigan State-Ohio State game, but there is a downside.

“You hate to be in a situation where somebody has to lose,” he said. “But that’s part of the business.”

PACMAN From Page 7 they entered the NFL in the 2005 draft, but haven’t talked since the suspension was announced.

“It was a surprise,” Henry said yesterday after practice.

“When I did talk to him, he just told me he didn’t think it would be anything, really. I don’t know. I guess the commissioner really ain’t putting up with anything, especially being in his situation and my situation.”

TONY GUTIERREZ | AP PHOTO Jones was drafted in the first round by Tennessee in 2005. SUPPORTED: Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry, who has previously been suspended by He was arrested six times and the NFL, is supporting Pacman Jones (above) after his recent suspension. involved in a dozen incidents requiring police intervention.

Jones was suspended for all last the offseason, but owner Mike a hung jury. season, and the Titans traded Brown decided to bring him The latest suspension was him to the Cowboys in April. back during training camp over a reminder to Henry that he Henry has been arrested five the objections of coach Marvin has no margin for error with Goodell. times since the Bengals draft- Lewis. ed him in the third round in Henry had to miss the first “I’m concentrating on football 2005. He was suspended for two four games this season, his and off the field with my family games by the league in 2006 punishment for the offseason every day, and that’s all I plan and the first eight games of last arrest on an assault charge. The on doing,” Henry said. “He ain’t season. The Bengals released charge was dropped over the going to have any problems him following his fifth arrest in summer after his trial ended in with Chris Henry.”

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — About 200,000 newly registered voters will be affected by a federal court ruling that requires a new system to verify eligibility, the state’s elections chief said yesterday.

An initial review found that at least 200,000 might have driver’s license numbers or Social Security numbers that don’t match records in other government databases, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said in an interview with The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati on Tuesday sided with the Ohio Republican Party and ordered Brunner to set up asystem that provides the names of these Ohioans to county elections boards.

Brunner, a Democrat, told the newspaper she’ll comply with the order but she is concerned

the decision is a veiled attempt at disenfranchising voters.

Brunner said she’ll urge counties not to force these people to vote provisionally.

A message seeking comment with Brunner’s office was left yesterday by The Associated Press.

About 666,000 Ohioans have registered to vote since January, with many doing so before the contested Democratic presidential primary election last March between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The presidential election is Nov. 4.

Since the primary, Ohio Republicans have filed a series of challenges to the registrations and Brunner’s administration of election rules.

Brunner has previously said sufficient systems exist to verify new voter registrations.

OREGON, Ohio (AP) — A boy running to catch a school bus was killed when he tripped and fell underneath the moving bus in suburban Toledo.

Witnesses to the accident yesterday morning say the sixth-grader was running alongside the bus and tripped over his book bag before he was struck by the vehicle.

Police in Oregon say 11year-old Austin Takacs was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Officers say students on the bus at the time of the accident weren’t hurt.

The bus driver was taken to a hospital to be treated for emotional distress.

LANCASTER — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden yesterday said investment in infrastructure projects would create 76,000 new jobs for the middle class in economically hard-hit Ohio.

Biden said Barack Obama would spend federal money on projects to rebuild the nation’s crumbling roads and bridges, a program that would create 2 million jobs nationwide and would help alleviate the loss of 240,000 jobs in Ohio during the Bush years.

He also repeatedly pegged Republican John McCain’s economic policies to the Bush administration. He said McCain’s only original idea was for the federal government to spend $300 billion to buy distressed mortgages and renegotiate them at a reduced price.

“Think about that, that

means every single bank in America gets off scott-free and the taxpayers foot the bill,” Biden said at a campaign stop in Lancaster, about 30 miles southeast of Columbus. “That’s the only fundamentally new idea John has come up with.”

A McCain spokesman said Biden’s comments were part of “a campaign that has spent more money on negative advertising than any other in presidential history.”

“Biden’s assault is a desperate attempt by a candidate to achieve relevance where he is yet to find any,” Ben Porritt said.

Biden spoke earlier at a county fairgrounds near the campus of Ohio University in Athens, where he wondered if McCain would mention the middle class by name in last night’s third and final presidential debate, a forum focused on pocketbook issues and domestic policy.

idea John has come up with.”

Joe Biden | Dem. VP Candidate Biden said McCain and his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, don’t understand the plight of struggling Ohioans, and he decried the fact that the median income of a middle class family in the state has dropped $2,000 in the last eight years and health care premiums have doubled nationally from eight years ago.

“Everything we will propose for the economy will be targeted toward the middle class,” he said of a Barack Obama administration. “When the middle class is growing, everybody benefits. That is the tide that rises all boats.”

Government demands an increase in biofuel conversions

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins The Associated Press

MARION — It may be one of the biggest green gambles of the century: a national goal of converting wood, grass, corn stalks and garbage into 16 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuels annually by 2022.

No com mercia l-sca le refineries exist, researchers have yet to agree on the best technology for fuel conversion and there is no distribution network to handle fuel once it is made.

Add it all up and the country’s not even close to meeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s renewable fuel standards a mere 14 years from now.

“The United States could not move that much ethanol today if it had to,” said biofuel consultant Bill Caesar, a principal with McKinsey &

Co. “There are a lot of other pieces of the puzzle which need to fall in place over time before we hit these very big numbers.”

The government has ordered that 36 billion gallons of biofuel be blended into the fuel supply by 2022.

Of that, 16 billion must be cellulosic ethanol. No more than 15 billion can be corn ethanol, with the rest coming from other biofuel sources, such as the residue left from sugar production.

Increased use of renewable fuel is one of the major roads to the country’s new energy goals, which include reducing reliance on foreign oil, shrinking greenhouse gas emissions and keeping basic transportation affordable.

An estimated 200-plus large-scale facilities are needed to meet the EPA’s standards — each capable of producing about 100 million

gallons a year.

A few dozen biofuel projects are on the drawing table across the country, almost all of them cellulosic. Those include 13 biofuel plants funded by the Department of Energy, and only four are commercial scale.

BlueFire Ethanol, based in Irvine, Calif., produces fuel from lawn trimmings and other landfill waste products.

Arnold Klann, co-founder and chief executive officer, says he could open dozens of commercial-scale plants from now until 2022 and produce only 5 billion gallons a year.

Klann’s first plant, the recipient of $40 million in federal startup money, won’t open until late next year.

Ethanol advocates all agree that cellulosic ethanol is the next step for the biofuel industry for a variety of reasons.

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PRODUCING ETHANOL: The POET LLC bio-refinery in Marion, Ohio, is seen Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, while still under construction.

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Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader killed, military says

By Robert H. Reid The Associated Press

BAGHDAD — American soldiers killed the alleged No. 2 leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, a Moroccan who trained in Afghanistan, recruited foreign fighters and ran operations in northern Iraq where Sunni insurgents remain a potent threat, the U.S. military said yesterday.

The man, who the military said was known as Abu Qaswarah, died Oct. 5 during a raid on a building in the northern city of Mosul that served as a major “command and control location” for the region. Four other insurgents were killed in the operation, the U.S. said.

The announcement of Abu Qaswarah’s death was withheld until yesterday to allow for positive identification, the military said.

American officials described Abu Qaswarah, also known as Abu Sara, as a charismatic figure who had rallied al-Qaida’s network in the north after the movement suffered major setbacks in Baghdad and other former strongholds.

The Swedish news agency TT reported that the man was also a Swedish citizen. Swedish officials confirmed that a Moroccan Swede suspected of al-Qaida ties was killed in early October and that he was on the U.N. and the EU terror watch lists. They declined to elaborate and it was unclear whether the Swede may have been among

the four others killed.

The death of such a senior alQaida leader will cause a major disruption to the terror network, particularly in northern Iraq, where the movement remains active, the military said.

“It’s going to be much more difficult for the factions left in that area to network and operate among themselves,” U.S. spokesman Brig. Gen. David Perkins said. “It allows the Iraqi security forces with the support of the coalition to go in and continue to tear apart that network.”

U.S. military officials said Abu Qaswarah, whose real name was unavailable, was a key figure in the al-Qaida network with ties to the movement’s global leadership in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he trained.

That suggested that many of al-Qaida in Iraq’s key leaders have remained in the country despite recent reports that many foreign fighters had fled to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where fighting has been on the rise.

A U.S. statement said Abu Qaswarah became the movement’s emir, or chief, for northern Iraq in June 2007 and served as second-in-command of alQaida in Iraq behind the group’s shadowy national leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.

During a news conference, Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll, another U.S. spokesman, said Abu Qaswarah supervised the smuggling of foreign fighters

Group of Eight meets to discuss ‘new capitalism’

By Aoife White The Associated Press

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The Group of Eight major industrial nations announced yesterday they will hold a global summit — perhaps as early as November in New York — to forge common action to prevent another economic meltdown.

Britain called for radical restructuring of international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. French President Nicolas Sarkozy demanded that the summit take place “preferably in New York, where everything started” and lead toward “a new capitalism.”

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the meeting would require vision similar to the creation of the U.N. and the Bretton Woods conference that laid out an international financial and

“We are confident ... we will meet the present challenges and return our economy to stability.”

G-8 leaders monetary system in the 1940s.

Emerging economies such as China and India and European economies outside the G-8 should also participate, he said.

The G-8 leaders said in a joint statement released by the White House that they were united in their commitment to change the regulation of the world’s financial sector to “remedy deficiencies exposed by the current crisis.”

“We are confident that, working together, we will meet the present challenges and return our economies to stability and prosperity,” they said.

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BOMBING: A U.S soldier inspects a building after a bomb went off in southwestern Baghdad yesterday wounding four Iraqi soldiers and five council members, the police said.

into northern Iraq and reportedly killed those who tried to return home rather than carry out suicide bombings and other attacks against Iraqis.

“His death will significantly degrade AQI operations in Mosul and northern Iraq, leaving the network without a leader to oversee and coordinate its operations in the region,” the U.S. statement said.

It was unclear what effect Abu Qaswarah’s death would have on al-Qaida operations in Mosul.

Senior American military officers have said al-Qaida in Iraq has proven more resilient than other insurgent groups because of its ability to successfully replace its leaders who are killed or captured.

Nevertheless, the death of

al-Qaida in Iraq’s founder, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is widely seen as a major setback because it cost the movement its most energetic and galvanizing figure. He was killed in a U.S. airstrike in June 2006 in Diyala province.

Nationwide, violence has declined drastically over the past year, particularly in Baghdad, but the U.S. military has consistently warned that al-Qaida in Iraq and other insurgents remain a serious threat — especially in the north.

A recent series of killings of Iraqi Christians in Mosul, widely blamed on al-Qaida, has highlighted the ongoing dangers in the north, where many Sunni insurgents fled intensive U.S. military operations in the capital and surrounding areas.

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Conservatives win larger minority of Canadian Parliament

By Rob Gillies The Associated Press

OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the first major world leader to face voters since the global financial meltdown, led his Conservative Party to victory in Tuesday’s election but was forecast to fall short of a majority in Parliament.

The election agency reported on its Web site that the Conservatives had won or were leading in races for 143 of Parliament’s 308 seats, an improvement over the 127 seats the party had in the previous Parliament.

But, based on results obtained directly from election officials, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. predicted the Conservative Party would not win the 155 seats needed to govern on its own. That would force it to again rely on opposition support to pass budgets and legislation — as it has had to since a 2006 election victory.

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Russia, Georgia leave talks unfinished

By Alexander G. Higgins The Associated Press

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CONSERVATIVE CANADA: Supporters cheer as results are posted at Conservative Leader Stephen Harper’s election headquarters Tuesday in Calgary, Canada.

early in hopes of getting his party a majority, but the Conservatives sought to put a good face on the results, pointing to their increased number of seats.

“Our party is bigger, our support base is broader and more and more Canadians are finding a home in the Conservative Party of Canada,” Harper said early yesterday.

“We have shown that minority government can work and

at this time of global economic instability we owe it to Canadians to demonstrate this once again,” he added.

The Liberal Party, long Canada’s top party, suffered a severe drubbing, dropping about two dozen seats from 95 in the previous Parliament, according to the election agency. Bloc Quebecois led for about 50 seats, the New Democrats just under 40 and independent

GENEVA — The first high-level talks between Russia and Georgia since their war broke down yesterday, but international sponsors said the negotiations had only hit a procedural snag and will resume next month.

The delegations from Russia and its allies in the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia left the talks before their scheduled end. Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said the delegation would explain at a news conference later.

“They no longer continue to talk,” U.N. spokeswoman Elena Ponomareva said. “They are finished.”

The talks were called to discuss several issues including whether both sides were complying with an EU-brokered cease-fire, security, the return of refugees and human rights and what steps need to be taken.

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Ramona Allmond’s daughter and grandson were arrested Sunday on suspicion of embezzlement, elder abuse and disposing of a body without a permit.

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A llmond’s daughter, Kathleen Allmond, 50, and Allmond’s grandson, Tony Ray, 30, told investigators their relative died in December. They left her body on her bedroom floor for a week before cremating the remains in their backyard fire pit, Hosler said.

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The two were arrested after Allmond’s son grew suspicious about her whereabouts.

Both were in jail in lieu of bail, with arraignment scheduled for today. The sheriff’s department said they do not yet have attorneys.

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PROUD OF HIS PUMPKIN: Thad Starr, of Pleasant Hill, Ore., tips his hat after winning in the World Championship Pumpkin WeighOff contest in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. Starr’s pumpkin weighed 1,528 pounds and beat the local contest record.

Pumpkin puts on the pounds, wins big Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay. Starr’s pumpkin finished at a record 1,528 pounds. Starr won last year with a pumpkin that that was four pounds lighter and also set a record.

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Greedy gas guzzlers love low prices WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) — Sure, gas prices have come down lately. But to 34.9 cents a gallon?

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OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — Five veterinary clinics in eastern Alabama received 32 surprises in the last week: Healthy cats in containers and carriers, along with notes from an anonymous donor saying she is dying from cancer.

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