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Take it from the top Dance Program students perform in dance repertory ensemble “In Step” Saturday

BYRON MACK | THE BG NEWS

RIGHT: Miranda Calhoun completes a side arabesque in a performance titled “Yield to Pedestrians” with music by Wade Robson and choreograohy by Nikki Makely.

MIDDLE: Mandi Ross performs “Quirks” with music by David Lyndon Huff and choreography by faculy member Deborah Tell.

LEFT: Lois Snavely performs “Chasing Space” with music byThe Notwist and choreography by Samantha Basting. For more photos, check out Page 3.

Faculty salary negotiations expected in future

By Alissa Widman Reporter

The administration is doing all it can to address the discrepancies with limited funds and keep salaries competitive, said Becca Ferguson, chief As the University Administration and BGSU Faculty Association pre- Human Resources officer.

In fiscal year 2009, most faculty pare negotiations, both think faculty salaries will be a major topic at the members were exempt from mandatory furloughs and in fiscal year 2010, bargaining table.

The University’s faculty members faculty salaries increased 2.5 percent, are among the lowest paid in the she said. state, according to last year’s annual “We have never said [faculty] were survey by the American Association paid well in relationship to our peers,” of University Professors.

Ferguson said. “We have always The University ranks 11 out of 12 believed that our faculty members participating institutions in average were underpaid and we have a board faculty salary, with an average sal- that is currently trying to see if we ary of $63,233, according to the AAUP. can’t do something to help ... I can The only university that pays lower understand why they don’t think is Shawnee State University, with an we’re doing more.”

However, comparisons between average faculty salary of $58,012.

“Our salaries lag behind most other universities become more complicatuniversities in Ohio and that’s one of ed when data is broken into faculty the big reasons we elected to union- ranks, she said. ize,” said David Jackson, FA president.

“I think it was a factor of a lot of peoSee SALARY | Page 2 ple’s support.”

FACTBOX #1: Comparisons from the AAUP 2009-2010 Faculty Salary Survey: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

School Akron Bowling Green Kent State Miami Ohio University

Professor $93,793 $92,719 $103,240 $102,753 $99.249

Associate $69,819 $70,136 $75,595 $73,902 $73,862

Top five University salaries in 2010: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Employee Carol Cartwright David Clawson Kenneth Borland John W. Folkins Louis Orr

Average $72,778 $63,233 $72,227 $76,844 $77,938

Job Title President Head Football Coach Provost Professor - Communications Disorders Head Men’s Basketball Coach

Base Pay $364,462 $263,015 $234,978 $210,643 $214,655

Visit www.buckeyeinstitute.org for a complete searchable database of more than 3,600 University employees’ salaries.

Source: The Buckeye Institute

Six gyros in sixty minutes wins students $666

By Janae Avery Reporter

provide training to top-level professionals in the county and to change protocols that would help victims of crime, especially domestic violence and sexual assault, Broadwell said.

“So it’s not training for line officers, for instance. It’s for police chiefs, judges, magistrates, prosecutors, so the top-level professionals from the different agencies so that changes can be made in how services are provided to victims to help them after they’ve experienced one of these types of crimes,” she said.

Chidester and Broadwell are

See GRANT | Page 2

CAMPUS FORUM Dancers fall ‘In Step’ together Flirting site gains popularity Dance Repertory Ensemble hosts dance program ‘In Step’ featuring both recent graduates and undergradutes in Kobacker Hall on Jan. 28-29 | Page 3

Lecturer $35,330 $46,569 $48,484 $46,217 N/A

FACTBOX #2:

Grant to offer training for top-level county professionals for these cases

program, which behavior connections is.

Tom Chidester, the chief constable Wood County was recently awarded a federal grant of $50,000 to improve for Wood County, initially decided the protocol for cases involving vio- to apply for the grant. While Julie Broadwell, the program manager for lence against women.

The Wood County Common victims services at behavior connecPleas Court and Victims Services tions, was the one who wrote it. at Behavior Connections worked “I put in for this in 2010, in together to complete the grant, and January. It was a court grant for Wood County was the only county domestic violence training, sexual in Ohio to receive the grant and was assault, and those related crimes,” one of 21 in the United States.

Chidester said.

The court and behavior connecThe grant will fund a series of tions worked together because the national trainers who will come to grant was only available through a Wood County and host training sescourt, and one of the requirements sions for employees who deal with for the grant was for a court entity domestic violence cases. to partner with a victim advocacy The purpose of the grant is to

Instructor $46,133 $40,810 N/A $36,183 N/A

(N/A = school does not recognize this faculty rank) Complete survey results are available at http://hr.osu.edu/statistics/ohfacsal10.pdf.

Wood County receives $50,000 grant to benefit domestic violence victims

By Danae King Reporter

Assistant $61,217 $56,939 $64,068 $64,313 $61,076

Vanessa Ramstack of the College News Network discusses the growing interest and oppositon towards the ‘anonymous flirting’ website LikeALittle | Page 4

scarfs down the gyros. There is an initial entry fee of $60 and if the contestant is hungry and On your mark! Get set! Go! South brave enough to eat all six gyros Side 6 has a challenge for stu- in the allotted time of 60 mindents: Try eating six gyros in sixty utes they must then hold the food minutes for the chance to win down for a total of five minutes. $666.

After forcing all of that food down The owner of South Side 6, So the contestant is awarded their Shaheen, said that this difficult prize of $666. The 36 contestants challenge has been attempted by have generated a total of $1,494 many but in its 8-9 months of run- in profit. ning it has only been successfully Since there is not a dining area, completed by one. To be exact the contestant sits at the far end 36 (33 guys and three girls) have of the counter in plain sight of the attempted the task but Shaheen other customers. Shaheen said he said only one small young lady watches closely to make sure that by the name of Mallory has been the contestants are eating every victorious. bit of gyro.

The challenge is held at the front See CONTEST | Page 2 counter in South Side 6 where the contestant sits at a bar stool and

SPORTS BG hockey returns home

For the first time in three weeks, the BG hockey team will return to home ice to take on Lake Superior. The Falcons have not won a conference game since Nov. 12 | Page 6

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BLOTTER FRI., JAN. 28 9:29 A.M.

A side mirror was knocked off, causing $300 in damage, within the 100 block of N. Prospect St. 11:49 A.M.

A 42 inch plasma television, valued at $2,180, was reported stolen from a residence within the 100 block of the E. Evers Ave.

SAT., JAN. 29 12 A.M.

Michael J. Stallard, 21, of Columbia Station, Ohio was cited for criminal mischief near the corner of Pike and Enterprise streets.

12:06 A.M.

Meghan Sturges, 21, of Bowling Green, was cited for nuisance party within the 200 block of Troup Ave. 12:23 A.M.

Andrew R. Stansley, 19, of Sylvania, Ohio was cited for underage under the influence near the corner East Court and North Main streets.

12:36 P.M.

Dale T. Dukeshire, 27, of Oak Harbor, Ohio was cited for open container of alcohol within the 200 block of N. Church St. 1:13 A.M.

Tyler S. Teneyck, 20, of Toledo, Ohio was cited for open container and underage possession at City Lot 2.

1:16 A.M.

Jonathon B. Brumenschenkel, 19, of Crestline, Ohio was cited for underage under the influence and open container at City Lot 4.

Clark S. Graffeo, 18, of Powell,

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Ohio was cited for forgery and underage under the influence at City Lot 4.

1:19 A.M.

Katherine Elizabeth Suber, 19, of Deshler, Ohio was cited for underage under the influence within the 100 block of N. Main St. 1:53 A.M.

Patrick T. Smith, 18, of Berea, Ohio was cited for underage under the influence within the 200 block of N. Main St. 2:21 A.M.

Brian Dale Musser, 23, of Saint Joe, Ind., was cited for criminal mischief near the corner of North Main and Ridge streets.

2:29 A.M.

Mourning Dove Lane.

1:08 A.M.

Adam W. Miller, 19, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio was cited for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia within the 900 block of Thurstin Ave. Joseph D. Register, 19, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio was cited for underage possession within the 900 block of Thurstin Ave. 3:45 A.M.

Matthew Vincent Dukovich, 19, of Allison Park, Penn., was cited for underage under the influence within the 1000 block of 3rd St. 12:55 A.M.

Steven Mendieta, 34, of Toledo, was arrested on an active warrant from Perrysburg within the 100 block of E. Wooster St.

Brooke Nicole Holland, 20, of Pickerington, Ohio was cited for underage under the influence within the 300 block of N. Main St.

2:43 A.M.

4:19 A.M.

Sequoia L. Hampton, 20, of Fostoria, Ohio was cited for underage possession and open container within the 200 block of E. Wooster St.

Joel Gutierrez, 19, of Bowling Green, was cited for underage under the influence within the 300 block of E. Wooster St.

11:40 P.M.

Shaun R. Voress, 23, of New Bremen, Ohio was cited for open container near the corner of Troup Avenue and Clough Street.

11:52 P.M.

Adam E. Kuhlman, 21, of Napoleon, Ohio was cited for open container near City Lot 4.

Sun., Jan. 30 12:41 A.M.

Tyler R. Bentley, 18, of Toledo, and Joshua M. Boileau, 20, of Sylvania, Ohio were cited for underage under the influence within the 1000 block of

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“But even when you control for rank and compare us to institutions that we’re most like, we’re still lagging behind in most categories,” he said.

Karen Craigo, FA director of communications, said new committees like the Salary Research Committee are busy researching policies of other unionized institutions that may have “a good fit here” as the FA prepares to negotiate salaries.

“We don’t aspire to compete with schools like Ohio State in terms of salary, but we do aspire to be competitive,” she said.

“We obviously don’t know what to ask for just yet, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to rise to the middle. We’re a long way from the middle of the pack right now.”

It appears there is still a long way to go.

As the administration and FA prepare their bargaining teams for salary negotiations, both Ferguson and Jackson emphasized that the timeline for bargaining is usually extensive. The University of Akron — the most recent state university to unionize — ratified a bargaining contract in about two and a half years.

The FA wants to have its contract ready by fall 2012, after it ratifies a constitution and selects its officers and bargaining teams.

“It’s entirely reasonable to meet that objective,” Jackson said. “There’s a lot of anticipation, and people are eager to get things moving forward.

There are a lot of exciting changes taking place.”

ing a friendly and welcoming environment for customers and accommodating their needs.

“This ain’t Taco Bell and South Side 6 customer, Theresa Thompson, mostly nothing is Americanized,” shops for lottery tickets at Shaheen said.

“I’ve known So even before the carry out but said, “I would want to watch some- [South Side 6] had food,” said one take that challenge, but Christina Januszewski, a freI would never want to try quent customer.

Januszewski said she commyself.”

South Side 6 has been in mends Shaheen for running business since March of 1992, a friendly family business serving authentic Lebanese that offers generous amounts food. Shaheen said they set of delicious foods.

The store started off as a themselves apart by provid-

typical carry-out and eventually evolved into the carryout and delivery restaurant in 2004.

“Theyhavegonefromaplain old carry-out to a household name,” Januszewski said.

South Side 6 has daily specials but owner, Shaheen said the Thursday special is the most popular. The Thursday deal provides two beef and/ or chicken gyros for $5.99.

“He knows that his food is so good that he can afford to give it away sometimes,” Januszewski said.

The University has the lowest percentage of tenured faculty, who are paid most, and the highest percentage of non-tenured faculty, who are paid least.

“Therefore, one could jump to the conclusion that the numbers are skewed slightly, because we don’t have as many full-time professors,” Ferguson said. “That’s why it’s going to be an interesting conversation at the bargaining table. We’re doing better in some categories than in others.”

Jackson said the AAUP is the “gold standard” for comparing faculty salaries nationwide but, like Ferguson, also said it’s necessary to control for as many variations as possible.

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Ohio center for troubled youth has own problems Cleveland Job Corps program leaves students without services CLEVELAND (AP) — A federally supported Cleveland center that educates troubled teenagers and young adults has had problems of its own, according to a monthslong investigation by The Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland.

The Cleveland Job Corps Academy, which opened in 2007 with a $35 million campus, houses and trains those teens and young adults and helps to find them jobs.

The Plain Dealer, which sought public and private documents and interviewed former workers, found the company that gets millions of tax dollars to run the federal program has been behind on bills, leaving students without some medical and safety services at times.

Most of the roughly 400 people enrolled in the program are black students from within the state who left or were dismissed from traditional schools. The academy is run by Clevelandbased Applied Technology Systems Inc., which manages the students’ meals, academics, internships, travel and recreation.

ATSI owner Clark Hayes said he’s paid most bills on time and the $200,000 in bills that he’s missed are a relatively small amount. He defended the academy and blamed slow government reimbursements for billing problems.

The company has received more than $55 million since 2005, according to federal documents.

The newspaper determined late or missing payments delayed fire alarm maintenance and prompted a transit agency to cut off credit to the company when it did not pay $50,000 owed for students’ bus passes. A former secretary at the center reported boxes of medical waste were stored in a closet after ATSI failed to pay a waste collection company.

The secretary, who was fired last year and denies accusations that she was responsible for some bills going unpaid, also said the health center had to delay some eye care for students because the company didn’t pay the care provider.

Hayes said students have not gone without needed services.

Ohio zoo’s ‘bird geek’ job includes penguin parade John Johnston The Cincinnati Enquirer

CINCINNATI (AP) — His official title at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is aviculturist.

Or, as Cody Sowers puts it, “I’m kind of a bird geek.”

True bird geek that he is, Sowers isn’t in it for the glamour. The 29-year-old Milford resident doesn’t mind toiling in a cold, wet environment; or thawing and preparing 60 pounds of frozen fish for the 100 or so birds in his care; or cleaning exhibits — “we’re hosing poop,” he says — before the first zoo visitors arrive.

As a keeper in the polar section of the Wings of the World exhibit, he works with about 20 species of sea birds from the Arctic and Antarctic,

GRANT From Page 1 working together on implementing the grant and have hired a part-time training coordinator to help, as they both have full-time jobs and aren’t able to dedicate all their time to it, Chidester said.

“We are in the process of working with the technical systems provider from New York, she’s looking at the protocols we have for our county and then we’re going to be doing a focus group with the major players in Wood County and then determine the trainers based on that meeting,” Broadwell said.

Their plan is to have four trainings this year, the dates of which have not yet been set, and the trainers haven’t been selected yet either.

The target audience for the training sessions is pro-

“You see kids and adults — everybody — just so excited to be here”

day, all these people would probably pay to be standing right here.”

“Right here” is behind the glass of the Sub Antarctic Coast display, where it’s 40 degrees and Sowers has just finished hand-feeding Cody Sowers | Aviculturist six king penguins. The secincluding penguins, puffins ond largest penguin species, and auklets. The zoo has sev- king penguins stand about 3 eral species of auklets that feet tall and weigh up to 35 are not housed anywhere pounds.

Those are the birds he helps else the world.

If Sowers does find himself guide through the park for in a foul — rather than fowl the Penguin Parade at 10 a.m.

— mood, all he need do, he and 2:30 p.m. daily through says, is glance at the people February.

It’s nothing like herding streaming through the bird cats, he says. house.

“Since they’re a colony “You see kids and adults — everybody — just so excited animal, they like to stay in to be here. That kinds of a large group. As long as keeps me in check because they’re together, they’re even if I’m having a bad comfortable.”

fessionals in the court systems who deal with domestic violence cases. The professionals will learn the best practices across the United States for assisting victims who have been in a domestic violence situation or who have been sexually assaulted, Broadwell said.

“It’s not domestic violence 101; they’re not going to be learning very basic stuff.

They’re going to be learning what works best in a court room setting, you know what are the things that judges should be doing when these cases come before them, what information do prosecutors need to know, how best to hold perpetrators accountable, that sort of information,” Broadwell said.

Currently, domestic violenceisthenumberonecause of homicide in Wood County, said Michelle Clossick, the

Executive Director of the Cocoon Shelter. While the large number of domestic violence related homicides was not the only reason the grant was written, it is still significant.

The grant will last two years, through to August 2012, and Broadwell said the grant has two goals.

“One is to have a sexual assault protocol that everyone buys into and follows, and then the second goal is to have a domestic violence protocol that everyone agrees to and follows,” she said.

The grant will benefit the whole county, and hopefully cause a decrease in domesticviolence related homicides.

“It’s really, I mean we’re very, very excited to have the opportunity to implement this is Wood County,” Broadwell said. “What we want to do is make things more streamlined here.”

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“We have always believed that our faculty members were underpaid and we have a board that is currently trying to see if we can’t do something to help.”

— Becca Ferguson, chief Human Resource officer, on the low University salaries for professors, assistants and lecturers [see story, pg. 1].

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Taxes promote behavior for incentives PHIL SCHURRER FACULTY COLUMNIST

By Phil Schurrer Faculty Columnist

Last Friday, ABC Evening News broadcasted a story about John Paulson, a hedge fund manager in New York City. (For the record, he’s not related to Hank Paulson, the former Treasury Secretary.)

In 1994, John founded Paulson & Co., with himself and one other person as the only two employees. He’s now number 45 on the list of the world’s wealthiest billionaires with an estimated worth of $12 billion, according to Forbes.

As stated by the Wall Street Journal, John Paulson’s share of the 2010 profits of his firm amounted to about $5 billion.

In April of last year, the New York Times reported that his share was $1 billion, $2 billion and $2.3 billion in 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively.

In 2007, the firm made about $15 billion in profits, mostly by betting against sub-prime mortgages.

Very little of Paulson’s share was in cash. The ABC broadcast noted that the majority of Paulson’s share was in the form of lightly taxed long-term capital gains. For those in the upper tax brackets, the tax rate on this form of income is currently 15 percent For those in the lowest two tax brackets, there’s no tax due at all.

Representative Sander Levin,

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a Michigan Democrat intoned, “I think it’s outrageous. He should pay like everybody else does, ordinary income taxes.

He’s simply managing other peoples’ money, not his own.”

But Mr. Paulson has presumably been following the law. Paulson would have little to gain in the long run from evading taxes. Being a highprofile figure, it wouldn’t be surprising if he and his firm were prime candidates for a continual IRS audit and he no doubt has full-time tax advisors on his staff.

Yes, he earns his living “managing other peoples’ money” but he’s apparently rather successful at it. Rather than criticize him, I’d like him to give me a few investment pointers.

The problem with the media coverage in this instance is their rather obvious attempt to play the populist, class warfare card. Here’s a big-shot Wall Street tycoon making all this money while the nation’s going through the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. Notice, not just the words, but also their connotation: “Wall Street,” “hedge fund,” “sub-prime mortgages.”

The superficial conclusion to be drawn from the superficial reporting: It’s not fair - it’s just simply not fair!

News flash for the news media: the tax code is not “fair.” (I’m so convinced of this that I jokingly forbid the use of the word “fair” in any tax class I teach.) After spending decades wrestling with the tax code, I’m convinced that it’s designed to do just two things: raise money, and

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provide incentives to taxpayers to behave in certain ways.

The tax law is simply a wealth redistribution mechanism.

Through it, the government takes from some, gives to others, and keeps a portion for “overhead.”

While on the campaign trail in October 2008, thencandidate Obama reiterated this very point to Joe “the plumber.” Obama said, “It’s not that I want to punish your success … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Overlooked in this gush of concern “for everybody” is the fact that it’s my wealth or John Paulson’s wealth or Joe “the plumber’s wealth that politicians and the media suggest be spread. Helping the less fortunate is praiseworthy, but government’s not very efficient at it.

No doubt the tax law is festooned with loopholes and capital gains are taxed more favorably. But, there’s nothing wrong with taking advantage of it.

As a judge once famously wrote, “Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.”

“No doubt the tax law is festooned with loopholes ...”

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LikeALittle hits college campuses New website promotes anonymous flirting

By Vanessa Ramstack

So much for “spreading behaving in an alluring manThe Minnesota Daily the wealth.” ner — can take place over the University of Minnesota What should be truly Internet.

Yet, much of flirting College News Network upsetting to any thinking hinges on body language that person is the widespread You log on to the website cannot be conveyed through notion - aided and abetted LikeALittle and read: “Male, the written word. LikeALittle by the shallow reporting Blonde, T-Hall. You held the can be viewed as a harmless Friday night - that there’s door open for me today. I was way to release hormones or something wrong with a shocked that guys still did that. to express the “deep, burning person using the law to Chivalry isn’t dead!” Or this: emotions” for the person on his or her best advantage. “Female, Brunette, Bailey. One floor eight, but it is futile flirtEqually disturbing is the of the cutest girls I have seen at ing—flirting that goes absomedia’s working itself UMN so far.” The immediate lutely nowhere. The beautiful into a lather over what is thing about anonymity is that question: Could this be me? essentially someone who’s Ever since the launch of the no one knows who you are, but extraordinarily successful multibillion-dollar website the inconvenient thing about and who presumably pays Facebook, students have had anonymous flirting is that no taxes on his earnings. an excuse to delay any sort one knows who you are. You So, regardless of what of homework progress. Now, could be anyone. And it is Representative Levin may thanks to the new website awfully difficult to pursue a say, Paulson has appar- LikeALittle, there is another relationship, serious or otherently done nothing wrong. procrastination outlet — one wise, with some random “anyIt should also be noted that’s growing rapidly. one.” It seems silly to waste that Representative Levin In October 2010, Evan time hiding behind a computer belongs to the part of the Reas of Stanford University screen when there are so many Congress - the House of launched LikeALittle, pro- fascinating people to meet in Representatives - whose claiming it an FFP, or “flirt- person. At best, LikeALittle is members have the sole ing facilitator program.” The an excuse to ignore the advenpower under the U. S. main goal of the site is to allow turous, and yes, potentially Constitution to intro- college students to flirt across awkward, moments of flirting duce tax legislation. If campus without any human face-to-face.

Levin thinks that the tax interaction. Each user is Perhaps I am alone in this law overly favors the very assigned a random fruit name thought, because after creatwealthy, then change it. and can select the sex, hair ing a post asking for University In the meantime, don’t color and location of their flirt- of Minnesota users’ opinions, bellyache over someone ing interest and post an anon- each fruit did nothing but rave complying with a tax code ymous blurb. Make it funny, about the site. A user identithat you as a member of make it sassy, make it sweet fied as Cranberry says, “I think Congress helped enact. the site just has a really good— it is all up to the poster.

Reas explained the inspira- hearted idea behind it. We all tion behind the site to me via have that someone that we e-mail. “It is difficult and awk- just can’t seem to tell how we ward to make that first move feel. This site provides both and we knew that firsthand bold and shy alike an outlet to Respond to Phil at from seeing cute girls around say ‘Hey, you’re cute!’” thenews@bgnews.com Tomato follows up with, us and just being too shy to say hello,’” Reas says. “We decided “This site is a wonderful way to to try to come up with inter- procrastinate on homework! esting ways to connect people It’s perfect when I’m looking in the world around them, and for a distraction.”

Reas believes the site the rest is history.”

Currently, the site has appeals to college students the word. I assume oth- reached to more than 50 col- because it “empowers people ers ban it for the depic- lege campuses and contin- to express their feelings and ues to grow. If a campus does to communicate in a more tion of nude theater or the potentially homoerotic not have a LikeALittle page, authentic way. People feel relationship between Jim a simple e-mail request will very comfortable opening and Huck—just kidding, create one. up to strangers when they’re Flirting — defined as anonymous. that definitely is not there.

To date, Huck stands as the fourth-most banned book in the United States.

Also on that list are “The Anarchist’s Cookbook,” “Naked Lunch,” “The New Joy of Gay Sex” and the entire Harry Potter series.

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Mark Twain revision creates tension Patrick Danner The Daily Targum Rutgers University College News Network

When Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published, it met immediate controversy.

People called Twain crude.

He was uncultured. He did not belong in the elite literary class. And though the debate, a century ago, was arguably different, by and large the debate has been over Twain’s use of the word

“n****.” By the mid-20th century, the debate was so awkward that CBS aired a television-movie adaptation of the novel that did not mention slavery and had a white actor play Jim. Presumably these writers never read the novel or were just really stoked about making a 10-minute version of the story.

Today, though, there’s a new bastardization of the novel prepped for release as Dr. Alan Gribben of Auburn

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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s most prominent democracy advocate took up a bullhorn Sunday and called for President Hosni Mubarak to resign, speaking to thousands of protesters who defied a curfew for a third night. Fighter jets streaked low overhead and police returned to the capital’s streets — high-profile displays of authority over a situation spiraling out of control.

Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei’s appearance in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square underscored the jockeying for leadership of the mass protest movement that erupted seemingly out of nowhere in the past week to shake the Arab world’s most populous nation.

Venezuela (AP) — A fire and a series of explosions tore through a military arms depot Sunday, killing one person and leading authorities to evacuate thousands of people.

About 10,000 residents were removed to safety from areas up to several miles (kilometers) from the site as the burning ammunition produced powerful blasts, officials said.

The cause of the pre-dawn fire was unclear. Hours after the initial explosions, faint booms could still be heard in the distance as clouds of white smoke rose from the area alongside hills in Maracay, 60 miles (100 kilometers) west of Caracas.

“It’s under control but there is still risk,” President Hugo Chavez said as he visited firefighters and other officials in Maracay. He noted that the blasts hurled some explosives such as grenades long distances into surrounding communities, and urged caution.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican authorities say they have dismantled a cocaine smuggling network that used fishing vessels to ship drugs from Ecuador and Colombia through Central America and into Mexico.

The Security Ministry said in a Sunday statement that the Colombian-run network paid fishermen to haul cocaine to Guatemala and Mexico.

The ministry said raids in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose and in the Pacific coast city of Puntarenas were carried out Saturday. Five Colombians and a Costa Rican national were arrested.

Costa Rican officials said powerful drug cartels are increasingly using the country as a transshipment point for cocaine — much of it ultimately bound for the United States.

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say six bodies found outside the northern city of Monterrey were burned so badly that investigators couldn’t determine the cause of death or the victims’ gender.

A Nuevo Leon state prosecutors’ spokeswoman says the bodies were found on a dirt road north of the city Sunday morning and bore the hallmarks of cartel killings.

The spokeswoman said cartels have been known to burn bodies to prevent identification and to terrorize rivals.

She spoke on condition of anonymity because she is not authorized to be identified by name.

Officials say more than 100 people — including at least 20 police officers — have been killed in Nuevo Leon this month as cartels fight over smuggling routes to the United States.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Hard-line Islamic leaders on Sunday rallied at least 15,000 people against an American official arrested in the shooting deaths of two Pakistanis and warned the government not to cave in to U.S. pressure to release the man.

The protest in the eastern city of Lahore, where the shootings took place, came as the U.S. Embassy once again said that the American has diplomatic immunity and was being detained illegally by Pakistan. But Pakistan has refused to budge, they said the matter must be decided by the courts.

The U.S. has said the American, who has not been named, acted in self-defense when he shot two armed men who approached his car in Lahore on Thursday.

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities said Sunday that the death toll could still rise from a head-on collision between a cargo train and a passenger train that killed at least 10 people, injured 23 others and left wreckage scattered across a frost-covered field.

The trains crashed in heavy fog late Saturday on a singleline track near the eastern German village of Hordorf, close to Saxony-Anhalt’s state capital Magdeburg, vaulting the passenger train from the track and tipping it onto its side. The front rows of the first passenger compartment were crushed and several seats lay outside the train. Both trains caught fire, but most of the dead were killed on impact, police said.

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DUBAI,UnitedArabEmirates — The pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Sunday that Egyptian authorities ordered the closure of its Cairo news hub overseeing coverage of the country’s massive street protests. The station denounced the move as an attempt to “stifle and repress” open reporting.

The Qatar-based network has given nearly round-theclock coverage to the unprecedented uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and had faced criticism by some government supporters and other Arab leaders as a forum to inspire more unrest.

Al-Jazeera’s flagship Arabic channel has faced numerous bans and backlash across the Arab world, including bitter complaints this month from the Palestinian Authority over allegations that its reporting favored rival Hamas over leaked documents about peace talks with Israel. Al-Jazeera also broadcasts in English.

But the ban by Egyptian officials comes amid one of the most pivotal Arab political showdowns in decades and a possible watershed moment for Arab networks expanding their presence on

“An act designed to stifle and repress the freedom of reporting...”

Al-Jazeera the web and social media.

The blanket coverage offers another example of how border-spanning outlets such as Al-Jazeera and the worldwide reach of the Internet have destroyed the once-unchallenged control of media by governments.

Al-Jazeera called the Egyptian ban “an act designed to stifle and repress the freedom of reporting by the network and its journalists.”

“In this time of deep turmoil and unrest in Egyptian society, it is imperative that voices from all sides be heard,” said the statement from its headquarters in Qatar’s capital Doha. “The closing of our bureau by the Eg yptian government is aimed at censoring and silencing the voices of the Egyptian people.”

The network promised to continue its coverage, but it was unclear in what form.

It said Al-Jazeera journalists would provide updates on Twitter. The network had previously posted clips from broadcasts on YouTube.

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each of the three candidates jockeying to replace him.

Only two candidates can go on to the delayed secPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United States has no ond round, now scheduled plans to halt aid to earth- for March 20. The U.S. is quake-ravaged Haiti in backing an Organization of spite of a crisis over who American States recommenwill be the nation’s next dation that the candidate leader but does insist that from Preval’s party, governthe president’s chosen suc- ment construction official cessor be dropped from the Jude Celestin, should be left race, U.S. Secretary of State out in favor of populist rival Hillary Rodham Clinton Michel Martelly.

The top U.S. official at said Sunday.

Clinton arrived Sunday the United Nations, Susan in the impoverished Rice, said recently that “susCaribbean nation for a brief tained support” from the visit. She is scheduled to United States required the meet with President Rene OAS recommendations be Preval and earlier met with implemented. Many Haitian

officials, including leaders of Preval’s Unity party and Martelly, interpreted that to mean the U.S. was threatening an embargo and cutting off aid.

Clinton flatly rebuffed that suggestion. “We’re not talking about any of that,” she said Sunday.

“We have a deep commitment to the Haitian people,” she told reporters. “That goes to humanitarian aid, that goes to governance and democracy programs, that will be going to a cholera treatment center.”

Asked if there were any set of circumstances that would prompt Washington

to cut off aid, Clinton said, “At this point, no.”

Still, she insisted that the United States would press the recommendations by international monitors after a disorganized, fraud-ridden first-round presidential vote in November. They determined that Preval’s preferred successor, Celestin, finished last and should drop out. Celestin has yet to do so.

“We’re focused on helping the Haitian people,” Clinton said ahead of the meetings.

“One of the ways we want to help them is by making sure that their political choices are respected.”

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“We knew a 13-point lead was very deceiving because of how they can defend you and really be physical.”

Despite a 13-point lead heading Curt Miller | Women’s basketball coach into halftime, the BG women’s basketball team could not overBG got off to slow starts in each and we remain concerned about come a slow start in the second half as Western Michigan defeated half, scoring just 18 points in the it,” said BG coach Curt Miller. the Falcons, 66-55, Saturday after- second-half after leading 37-24 “Only eight points in the first eight minutes of the game and then only after the first. noon in Kalamazoo, Mich.

The Falcons’ 18-point second- three points in the first eight minThe loss drops BG to 17-4 overall and 5-3 in the Mid-American half ties the team’s lowest total in utes of the second half, so very few points in eight minutes on both Conference — the first time since a half this season.

In a 44-43 loss at Kent State ear- halves and it kind of set the tone in 2007, the Falcons lost back-to-back conference games, when the team lier this season, BG had 18 points See WOMEN | Page 7 lost three straight to Miami, Ball in the first-half.

“It’s been a reoccurring theme State and WMU.

Streak over; 12-game CCHA winless streak finally ends

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LAYUP: Jordon Crawford goes for a layup Saturday against Eastern Michigan

Men’s basketball tops Eastern Michigan, 68-63 BG went on a 15-5 run after the slow start to tie the game 17-17 and eventually took the lead with 1:17 left in the first half to take a 34-31 The BG men’s basketball team has advantage into the break. a phrase – 14 strong.

Jordon Crawford scored 12 points And against Eastern Michigan on Saturday, it showed an exam- in the first 20 minutes and was a perfect 5-for-5 from the field. ple of it.

“When I come into the game, Down 12-2 early, BG coach Louis Orr went to his bench, and it came I just try to be a leader and get up big, combining for 42 points, 22 things rolling,” Crawford said. “I rebounds and 11 rebounds in the was open, and they were setting great ball screens.”

Falcons’ 68-63 win.

“I thought the second unit guys BG improves to 10-11 overall and 5-2 in the Mid-American came in and made plays for us,” Orr Conference, remaining in a tie atop said. “Jordon Crawford was a big plus for us. He hit those big shots the MAC East standings.

“Every time you win these types early and that was big for us.”

And although Crawford had two of games and every time you’re able to close games out, I believe points in the second-half, he made it’s a confidence boost for you,” plays for other people as he dished Orr said. “We’ve been in close out five of his seven assists.

With starters A’uston Calhoun games all year long, and one of the things that we’re learning See MEN | Page 7 how to do is to get the job done at the end of games.”

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SPLIT: BG’s Brett Mohler splits between two defenders against Lake Superior Friday night.

Falcons split weekend series with Lake Superior

By Matt Nye Reporter

For the first time since Nov. 12, the BG hockey team won a Central Collegiate Hockey Association game.

The Falcons (8-18-2, 3-15-1 CCHA) split with Lake Superior over the weekend, dropping Friday’s game 4-2 before rebounding for a 2-1 win Saturday.

The Falcons started off the game Friday with momentum after they scored the first goal of the game coming from sophomore Jordan SamuelsThomas. Andrew Wallace and Robert Shea recorded assists on the tally.

The momentum didn’t last long for the Falcons, when Lake Superior would go on to score the next three goals of the game.

Two of the goals came off power plays, but the first goal was just three minutes after the Falcons’ goal. After a pair of BG penalties, setting up a five-on-three power play advantage for the Lakers, Zach Trotman scored on a blast from the point.

“Anyone who thinks that special teams doesn’t count is kidding themselves,” said BG coach Chris Bergeron. “You take a bad penalty and go down 5-on-3, you don’t get a shot block or a save.”

However, the momentum did carry for the Lakers after they scored in the second period. Just five minutes into the second period, the Lakers took a 2-1 lead after a Domenic Monardo goal on a power play. Rick Schofield and Zach Trotman picked up assists on the goal.

They didn’t stop after that; less than two minutes from their previous goal, the Lakers scored again coming off a redirection from Chad Nehring. The original shot came from the top of the far faceoff circle

by Tyson Hobbins then redirected off Nehring’s stick and past the Falcon’s goaltender Nick Eno. Trailing3-1, Bergeron made a change in goal putting in the sophomore Andrew Hammond.

Nathan Pageau scored his first goal of the season shortly after the change in goal. After various shots on goal, Mike Fink made a backhand pass to Pageau leading to a wrist shot, which breezed past Laker goalie Kevin Kapalka, cutting the lead to 3-2.

With 2:20 left in the game, the Falcons were on a power-play, but right after that BG also received a penalty, canceling out the man advantage.

Shortly after, LSSU’s Will Acton capitalized on a BG turnover to seal

the win with a Lakers goal.

“I thought we played all right, we came out strong in the third period, and then they scored and all the momentum goes away,” said BG forward Ryan Viselli.

Saturday Night Game two of the weekend series wasn’t the same story, the Falcons came out energized and looking for the win.

The Falcons received a valiant effort from the goaltender sophomore Andrew Hammond, to beat the Lakers Saturday night 2-1.

Once again the Falcons scored the first goal of the game — defenseman Ian Ruel scored his second goal of the season and helped the Falcons take a 1-0 lead into the second period.

BG kept the momentum and about five minutes into the period they went up 2-0. This time defenseman James McIntosh found the puck after a rebound and then shot it past Kapalka for his sixth goal of the season.

Jerry Freismuth took a shot that bounced off of Kapalka, then McIntosh followed up uncontested

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BG gymnastics finishes last in home tri-meet

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Monica Eaton

The BG women’s gymnastic team finished last in their home trimeet Sunday against Ohio State and Western Michigan.

OSU won the meet with a score of 195.450, WMU came is second with a 192.650 followed by BG with a 190.400.

Sophomore Monica Eaton tied for third place on the uneven bars with a personal record of 9.750.

Eaton was the only Falcon to place in the top three of all four events.

Coach Kerrie Beach said though her team didn’t finish as well as she’d have liked she was still pleased with its performance. The Falcons met their goal of scoring 190 points and earned nine season-best performances.

“It was definitely a step up from last week ... our score came up about four points,” she said. “I told them … ‘you guys won the warm up but you kind of defeated yourself a little bit in the competition.’”

The Falcons struggled the most, Beach said, on the balance beam.

“Beam was a real disappoint-

Finished top three in all four of her events. ment tonight, we were really hoping to go out and hit our routines,” she said. “It wasn’t like one person fell and then they all just fell apart. It just felt like we couldn’t get everybody going at the same time.”

Beach said the coaching staff will be applying the pressure this week in practice to help the team handle competition.

“We really did a great job in the gym this week training but I don’t think they necessarily handled the pressure of [Sunday] all that well,” she said. “I feel like they want to win and they want to do well. It’s just going to take taking each week and learning from it.”

Beach also said the results of the competition reflect the absence of sophomore Danielle Wishart who

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The BG track and field team hosted the Tom Wright Classic at the Perry Field House this weekend. BG athletes won eight of the 15 women’s events held.

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BG swimming drops weekend meet to Toledo, 195-80 In their final dual meet of the season, the BG swim team dropped a 195-80 contest to rival, and defending MidAmerican Conference champion Toledo.

The Falcons managed only two victories in 16 events held. Alexa Harris won the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 58. 36, less than half a second better than second place finisher Rachel Johnson of Toledo.

WOMEN From Page 6 the second half.

“We knew a 13-point lead was very deceiving because of how they can defend you and really be physical.”

The Falcons committed 10 turnovers in the secondhalf for a season-high 22 as the Broncos outscored BG 42-18 in the final 20 minutes of play.

WMU had three players score in double-figures, with Brenna Banktson finishing with a game-high 19 points.

Chrissy Steffen led BG with 12 points, but the Falcons shot a dismal 33.3 percent for the game.

Lauren Prochaska, the team’s leading scorer this season, was limited to four points on 1-of-10 shooting.

BG’s only other victory came from the 200-meter freestyle relay team, consisting of Brittany Szekely, Carrie Enright, Emily Bennet and Sarah Reinink. Their time of 1:36.44 was just under a second better than Toledo’s ‘A’ squad.

Vicky Yu performed well for BG, finishing second in all three events she competed in — the 100- and 200-meter butterf ly and the 400-

meter individual medley.

The 80 points scored was the first time since playing Toledo last season that the Falcons did not record triple digit points.

The loss drops BG record to 3-3 overall and 1-3 in the MAC. The Falcons have one meet left before the MAC Championships. The will travel to East Lansing on Friday to take on Michigan State.

“We have to get back to basics and work on what we do best and try to find out why we’re a slow starting team on the road,” Miller said. “My big concern heading into this year was how could we handle teams that were extremely athletic and extremely physical.”

BG will look to avoid three-straight MAC losses when it heads to Northern Illinois for a short turnaround Tuesday.

And even though the Huskies are in fifth place this season in the MAC West with a 3-5 conference record, Miller said NIU might be more physical than all three of the teams BG lost to in conference play this season.

“It’s a gut-check and a character test,” Miller said.

TYLER STABILE | THE BG NEWS “We really have our work cut SHOT: Lauren Prochaska attempts a layup against Toledo earlier this season. out for us.”

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“What he did today, he does to our guys in practice. Whether he plays or From Page 6 not he’s been a big positive and Torian Oglesby in foul for our team.”

Brandon Bowdry scored trouble, Orr went to Mike Dabney, who had not played a game-high 24 points, but the Falcons’ defense in a MAC game all year.

“Coach always tells me stepped up in the secondto be ready all the time,” half by limiting EMU to 2Dabney said. “The whole of12 from behind the arc time I’m watching I observe as it went 7-of-10 in the the game and see what I can first half.

Scott Thomas led BG with do when I get in.”

And what he did was pro- 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting while Dee Brown and Danny vide a spark.

In 15 minutes, Dabney McElroy also provided a scored seven points on 3- lift off the bench, finishing of-4 shooting and grabbed with 11 points and six points, respectively. four rebounds.

McElroy also grabbed a “I give him credit,” Orr said. “Mike practices hard team-high 11 rebounds.

BG will look for its [and] I get convinced with st ra ig ht win guys in practice. He plays on t h i rd our scout team and everyday Wednesday when it heads to Northern Illinois. he’s tough.”

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was injured last Sunday and Dawn Christman who wasn’t able to compete on beam due to an ankle injury.

Beach said the team’s “solid si x” at h letes for each event is still in the works but she ex pects the team will continue to improve throughout the rest of the season.

“We have some athletes that we haven’t even seen yet that are coming back in the gym, but they’re not quite ready to go out and compete yet and those athletes will really make a difference in our lineups,” she said.

The Falcons will take on the Kent State next Sunday at 2 p.m. in Anderson Arena.

Beach said Kent will be another big test for the team to prepare for.

“Kent is doing very well this year … but at the end of the day we can’t really focus on the other team but we have to focus on ourselves LAUREN POFF and doing the best we can,” BALANCE: Monica Eaton competes on the balance beam Sunday. she said.

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Hammond saved 24-of-25 shots against him on the night, which lead to his first conference win of his career. On the other side, Kevin Kapalka saved 18-of-20 shots and killed all four of BG’s powerplay chances.

Bergeron was pleased with his goaltenders play on the night.

“Our execution isn’t great at times and it still is the case, we miss the net too much, but our effort has been pretty consistent,” Bergeron said. “I was glad to see the guys get rewarded for their effort tonight.”

with a wrist shot and gave BG the eventual game-winning goal.

The Falcons allowed a second period power-play goal, but they were able to kill off a five-on-three man advantage for the Lakers. The Lakers during this time mustered up eight shots, while four of them were saved by Hammond including a crucial poke-check that stopped a great chance for the Lakers.

“The 5-on-3 was a turning point for us tonight and gave us a lot of momentum, our special teams were pretty good tonight,” Hammond said. “The poke check was just a reaction, I knew I had to at least make a save or do something because that would have been a huge turning point.”

In the third period Hammond and the Falcons shut down the Lakers. They stopped seven shots in the period and played penalty free to earn their first conference win since a 2-1 win at Northern Michigan Nov. 12.

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