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Volume 90, Issue 125

‘It won’t phase me’

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USG positions will remain vacant Despite election, new president must appoint senators

By Max Filby Assistant Web Editor

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RECOVERY: Patterson was life-flighted to Toledo hospital and put into a medically-induced coma due to his injuries.

Police are still searching for these suspects: LEFT SKETCH: White man; 5-foot-9-inches to 6-foot tall; 190 lbs; muscular; dark brown hair; wearing a gray thermal shirt with white writing on the chest.

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ALL SMILES: Caleb Patterson grins prior to the March 26 attacks on E. Court Street.

RIGHT SKETCH: White man; 6-feet tall, 200 lbs, blonde

- brown hair; muscular; wearing jeans and a dark colored Vneck T-shirt.

Assault victim undeterred by recent attack, recovers day by day

By Hannah Sparling Senior Reporter

thought was a guy trying to mug or rape a girl.

He tried to stop the attack and was hit from the It’s been 10 days since Caleb Patterson was side. He got up and was immediately hit again. assaulted near the railroad tracks on E. Court That’s the last detail he remembers.

“I don’t remember going to the hospital or Street, and he wakes every day with painful being life-flighted; nothing,” he said. “I just reminders of the attack.

But even after two bleeds on his brain, stitch- remember waking up in the Toledo hospital es in his upper lip and a medically-induced wondering what the hell I was doing there.”

Caleb later learned from witnesses that there coma, the 23-year-old from North Baltimore, Ohio, said that given the chance, he would step were approximately six people kicking and beating him after he was knocked unconscious. Two into the middle of the fight again.

“I’ll act in the same way, just because that’s the others were also injured trying to help him. way I was brought up,” he said. “If somebody’s For now, Caleb is taking it day by day. He in trouble, you go help them out.”

Caleb was walking to a friend’s apartment See ASSAULT | Page 2 March 26 at 2:30 a.m. when he saw what he

The race for president and vice president of the Undergraduate Student Government is the only contended race for any USG position this year.

While students have their choice of three pairs of candidates for president, other positions, such as the senator spots for the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Musical Arts, have no candidates running.

The three college senator positions along with a vacant at-large senator position will likely be decided by the president or other administrators in USG, said Kevin Basch, USG president.

“Basically, the open positions will come down to a presidential appointment,” Basch said. “Depending on who is president next year, it will be up to them.”

While students have until 8 p.m.

Wednesday to vote, anyone nominated for a senator position after elections must first meet with the chair of internal affairs and then interview with whomever is serving as USG president.

One of the three presidential candidates — Jake West, Emily Ancinec or Clayton Stewart — this summer or in the fall will appoint the USG candidacies vacant on the ballot.

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City residents can voice feedback on road updates

The Ohio Department of Transportation is hosting two open houses to get the public’s opinion on transportation projects. This is part of a required four-year update to the 2035 plan to improve statewide transportation, which was started by the Toledo Metropolitan Area

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Council of Governments.

The open houses, which are available for public access, will be this Wednesday at the District Two Complex in the city and next Wednesday at the TMACOG office in Toledo from 3 to 6 p.m.

“They really want to reach out and get the public’s reaction,” said Municipal Administrator John Fawcett. “The planners could pull back and rethink it to make better decisions.”

There are several projects affecting the city that will be discussed, including projects set to

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start in 2014 through 2018. Some projects are requesting the improvement of intersections such as Haskins and Poe Road, which Public Works Director Brian Craft said the city would like to start in 2015, or improvements of roads such as Manville from East Wooster to Napoleon in 2018.

This spring’s construction project at N. Main St., which includes resurfacing and adding a left-turn lane to the intersection at Poe Road, was approved through this same 2035 plan.

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Instructor uses social networking to change classroom experience

By Brian Bohnert Reporter

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Although the next president will be able to appoint students to vacancies, USG had a problem with retaining senators this year, Basch said. USG saw its highest loss of members at the end of the Fall 2010 semester.

“The issue isn’t so much recruitment as it is retention of senators,” Basch said. “We need to do a better job with that. We really struggled with it this year.”

In order to avoid vacancies, USG is allowing students to write in candidates for uncontested positions and positions for which no one is running. Justin Albright, USG chief administrator, has set up a table in the Union where students can vote on a laptop between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. today and Wednesday.

“I don’t think this idea is brand new, but it wasn’t done last year,” Albright said. “We’re just doing anything we can to try and encourage people to vote.”

Approximately 30 people voted at Albright’s table Monday. Voter turnout affects whoever is elected for both administrator and senator positions in USG, Albright said.

“I definitely think it’s a factor. It just depends on who votes,” Albright said. “Some people have even won

Facebook and Twitter could soon have a little competition on campus.

A University art instructor is developing a social-media based Web application which aims to keep students engaged and interested during class time.

Learning technologist and University art instructor Anthony Fontana has been developing learning software called QizBox to encourage and stimulate student learning through the use of interactive social media. The program includes functions which allow both students and teachers to interact with one another on a much more involved level than in a normal class lecture.

Fontana’s work combines necessary elements of a college classroom with the interactive features of social networking. He calls this new type of technology “social learning” and said it is a unique and exciting way to keep students interested in the classroom.

“Social learning can be defined as learning that happens with a significant amount of social interaction reinforcing the learning outcomes,” Fontana said. “QizBox allows an educator to empower student learning by providing them with social spaces such as back-channel chat rooms and publicly shared notes.

Beyond that, the students’ involvement in the class is sharable with their larger social circle.”

Fontana said his program can

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“With this tool, students can stay engaged with the content ...”

Anthony Fontana | Art instructor host PowerPoint presentations for lectures while holding studentrun chat rooms at the same time, allowing students to both engage in conversation about the lecture and post questions to be ranked and answered by the teacher’s aide or other students.

Other QizBox features include pop-up polling, an area for students to take either public or private notes and a quiz-hosting application. The quizzes will be able to provide “realtime” feedback to students.

Fontana got the idea for QizBox when he noticed a disconnect between the classroom environment and mobile technology. He said the use of cell phones and laptops in classes is viewed as a distraction and he hopes QizBox will have a positive impact on the way teachers and students use technology during class lectures.

“It’s my hope that college educators will adopt this tool as a way to engage the students with technology without having to drastically change their teaching methods,” Fontana said. “With this tool, students can stay engaged with the content and with each other dur-

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Government appeals judge’s health care rule Government motion argues Congress can enact coverage requirement

By Greg Bluestein The Associated Press

ATLANTA — The federal health care overhaul’s core requirement to make virtually all citizens buy health insurance or face tax penalties is constitutional because Congress has the authority to regulate interstate business, the Justice Department said in its appeal of a ruling that struck down the Obama administration’s signature legislation.

The government’s 62-page motion filed Friday to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals argued that Congress had the power to enact the overhaul’s minimum coverage requirements because it is a “rational means of regulating the way participants in the health care market pay for their services.”

The motion also warned other pieces of the overhaul,

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ing a lecture.”

Fontana said QizBox brainstorming began last summer and development began in the start of the 2010 fall semester. The creation started in a software development class taught by associate professor and Director of the Agile Software Factory Joseph Chao. Since then, Chao and four University student employees have been working together on the project.

“Three of the four student employees were the original student developers in the software development class,” Chao said. “My role is more coaching and team leading, which means providing

including a law that blocks insurers from denying coverage to people because of preexisting conditions, would be “unworkable” without a minimum coverage provision.

Twenty-six states filed a lawsuit that said Congress had exceeded its authority by requiring that all citizens buy health insurance or face tax penalties. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of Florida agreed in a Jan. 31 ruling that said President Barack Obama’s entire health care overhaul is unconstitutional. It is considered the most sweeping ruling against the health care law.

Vinson ruled against the overhaul on grounds that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring nearly all Americans to carry health insurance, an idea dating back to Republican proposals from the 1990s but now

almost universally rejected by conservatives.

His ruling followed the same reasoning as one last year from a federal judge in Virginia who struck down the insurance requirement. But while the first judge left the rest of the law intact, Vinson invalidated provisions that range from Medicare discounts for seniors with high prescription costs to a change that allows adult children up to age 26 to remain on their parents’ coverage.

At the center of Vinson’s ruling and the government’s challenge is the legality of the requirement that Americans carry health insurance except in cases of financial hardship.

Those who cannot show they are covered by an employer, government program or their own policy would face fines from the IRS when the program takes effect in 2014.

guidance in planning and design in addition to project management.”

One of the student developers is University senior Nicholas Pfundstein.

Pfundstein, one of the original students in Chao’s class, said he has been involved with QizBox since its start in August and he said this is not the first experience he has had with software development.

“I’ve worked on a couple of projects for the Agile Software Factory before,” Pfundstein said. “The largest of which was an e-learning system for the TD Canada Trust bank.”

Both Pfundstein and Chao said the initial testing has already begun and he and the team hope to have QizBox available for limited

class use by the end of May. “We started the first round of live testing two weeks ago,” Chao said. “We plan to finish all major features by the end of this semester and begin pilot testing the system in selected classrooms this summer.”

Fontana, who said the system will hopefully be used campus-wide in the fall, said both his passion for art and the rise of technology paved the way for him to create QizBox. “I’m a total geek and an artist,” Fontana said. “When you combine a rigorous creative practice with an interest in technology, innovation is bound to happen.

I’m extremely grateful and excited to be living in a time of a technological revolution such as this.”

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President Dan Caldwell are confident the next president, vice president and senators will represent the students fairly. with write-ins in the past.”

Despite lower voter turn- “The more voters, the out, USG members like Vice more representative the

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get some extra sleep.

“Never did I think that when I was woken up it would be different,” she said. “You know, boys are going to fight. They’re got out of the hospital last Tuesday, and in three weeks going to be tough, whatever … he’ll go back to get his brain but you’re just never prepared examined. He is still in a lot for anything like this.

“For the most part, I’m a of pain and can’t drive, so his mom, Diana, takes him any- pretty calm, upbeat person, but this took a toll. It really where he needs to go.

What the attack won’t do, did,” she said.

For Diana, the worst part however, is scare Caleb away from Bowling Green. He said about the attack is how it he’s not going to spend any changed her son. Usually the time looking over his shoulder, most talkative person in a scared of being jumped again. room, Caleb is now subdued, Before last Saturday, Caleb slow and tired. He has a hard drove to Bowling Green about time walking, and he never once a week to hit the bars seems comfortable.

“He’s not relaxed at all,” with friends, and he plans to Diana said. “He can’t continue that tradition.

“It won’t change my mind find a happy moment about coming up there again,” just to be calm.

“When he has his down he said. “It won’t phase me.”

In January, Caleb was laid moments, I just really try to off from his job at Continental be positive with him. We do a Structural Plastics in North lot of praying.”

Diana is thankful the attack Baltimore, so missing work isn’t a problem. He was look- wasn’t worse, though. Caleb ing for another job before has no brain damage and no the attack, but for now he’s broken bones.

“It’s a miracle, that’s all I can putting that off until a doctor say,” she said. “I just can’t give clears him to work.

Each day, he said, he has enough glory to God.” She is also grateful for the more energy and wants to do more, but “it sucks not being two people who stepped in able to just come back to my after Caleb was down, who took punches and kicks that ordinary self.”

The night her son was were meant for him. She attacked, Diana Patterson believes that without them, went to bed early. All three Caleb would have died.

“To me, they’ll be my heroes of her boys had called to check in, so she decided to forever,” she said.

On March 29, the Bowling Green Police Division released a description of Caleb’s attack and drawings of two people who were involved. The release said the BGPD’s investigation had “resulted in a number of investigative leads being collected by the agency.”

Lt. Brad Biller said the department is still tracking down those leads, but it doesn’t have any new information. He said the chances of catching those involved are still high, but it depends on the information people bring in.

Neither Caleb nor his mother know a lot about the BGPD’s investigation. Diana hopes they find whomever beat her son, but doesn’t want that to be her main focus. She would rather devote her efforts to helping Caleb heal.

“I feel that it takes more [energy] to be angry than it does to be loving,” she said.

“I’m not a hateful person. I don’t want to become hateful over this at all. My main concern is for him to be just fully who he was before and that it won’t change him permanently … I just want Caleb to be my Caleb that I know.”

Caleb, however, takes a more direct approach toward his attackers.

“I guess sooner or later it’ll come back and bite ‘em all in the ass, that’s the way I think,” he said.

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NH men sentenced for roles in home invasion

LOGAN, Ohio (AP) — A kidnapped Ohio woman has been laid to rest nearly a week after her body was found in a church’s septic system with a zip tie pulled tightly around her neck.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that Summer Inman’s her three young children attended her funeral Monday at the First Church Praise and Worship Center in Logan. She was buried in nearby Rockbridge.

Inman’s estranged husband and his parents have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping her and are being held on $1 million bond.

Her body was found last Tuesday night at a church in neighboring Athens County. Police said the mother-in-law provided information that led to the discovery.

Police said Inman and her husband were involved in a divorce and custody dispute. Their children are 5, 3 and 1.

NASHUA, N.H. — A 19year-old New Hampshire man apologized for his role in the Mont Vernon home invasion in which others killed a 42year-old woman and maimed her daughter.

Quinn Glover apologized for “his despicable actions and cowardice” before he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Glover’s sentencing came shortly after a judge sentenced 19-year-old William Marks of Amherst, who had pleaded guilty, to 30 years in prison.

At sentencing, the judge told Marks she doesn’t think he’s being punished enough for his “extensive role in these despicable crimes.”

Glover and Marks did not participate in the attacks that killed Kimberly Cates and maimed her 11-year-old daughter, Jaimie, but they were in the house.

The knife-and-machete wielding assailants, Steven Spader and Christopher Gribble, are serving sentences of life without parole.

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NYC mayor: Military trial appropriate in 9/11 case NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg said a military commission is a “more appropriate” choice than a civilian trial for avowed Sept.

11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH’-leed shayk moh-HAH’-med).

Bloomberg addressed the issue Monday at an unrelated event. He said it’s “probably more appropriate to do it in a secure area with a military tribunal.”

When a plan to try Mohammed in New York was announced in 2009, Bloomberg took a different view. At that time he called it “fitting.”

Bloomberg said New York City could have provided the security for a civilian trial. But he says it’s better to be spared the considerable expense.

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Burglary suspect killed in Calif. at Apple store

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Police said a private security guard fatally shot a suspect carrying out a smash-and-grab burglary at a California Apple store, a common tactic in which thieves break the windows and grab iPads, iPhones and other hot-ticket items and run.

Chula Vista Police Chief David Bejarano said the man and two other people drove to the store just before 7 a.m. Monday.

A woman stayed in the car while the two men smashed the store’s window and grabbed items when the guard confronted them.

The guard said he opened fire when one of the men pulled a gun.

The suspects drove away but crashed into a light pole.

Bejarano said the driver died from a gunshot wound to the head. The two other suspects were found an hour later.

NEW YORK (AP) — With the possible theft of millions of consumer email addresses from an advertising company, several large companies have started warning customers to expect fraudulent emails that try to coax account login information from them.

A dozen companies said over the weekend that hackers may have learned their email addresses because of a security breach at a Dallas-based company called Epsilon that manages email communications.

Among the affected companies are banks like Capital One Financial Corp., Barclays Bank, U.S. Bancorp and Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and retailers like Best Buy Co., TiVo Inc., Walgreen Co. and Kroger Co. The College Board, the notfor-profit organization that runs the SATs, also warned that a hacker may have obtained student email addresses.

Walt Disney Co.’s travel subsidiary, Disney Destinations, sent emails warning customers on Sunday.

NEW YORK (AP) — A toddler has died after being severely beaten in a foster home in New York City.

The city medical examiner’s office said 17-month-old Kymell Oram died in a hospital on March 28. He was hospitalized on March 17 with blunt force injuries, cuts, broken ribs and damage to his lungs.

Spokeswoman Grace Burgess said the medical examiner’s office has ruled his death a homicide.

Paramedics found the boy unconscious in a Brooklyn home after responding to a 911 call.

Prosecutors said the boy was severely beaten by his foster mother’s 19-year-old boyfriend while she was away from the house.

Oram was also known by his official name, Louis Mosley.

Obama re-election Biden launches campaign for launches with email sexual violence awareness

By Liz Sidoti The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign Monday, urging grass-roots supporters central to his first White House run to mobilize again to protect the change he’s brought over the past two years.

The official start of his second White House bid, in the midst of three wars, a budget fight with Congress, and sluggish economic recovery, comes 20 months before the November 2012 election.

“We’ve always known that lasting change wouldn’t come quickly or easily. It never does,” the Democrat said in an email announcing his candidacy to more than 13 million supporters. “But as my administration and folks across the country fight to protect the progress we’ve made — and make more — we also need to begin mobilizing for 2012, long before the time comes for me to begin campaigning in earnest.”

He told them he was filing the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission, and directed them to his new campaign website where a launch video featured clips from supporters talking about

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“We’ve always known that lasting change wouldn’t come quickly ... ” Barack Obama | President their continued backing of the Democrat.

“I don’t agree with Obama on everything but I respect him and I trust him,” Ed from North Carolina said, delivering what’s certain to become a key part of the president’s pitch as he tries to re-energize liberal backers who have criticized some of his policies and independent voters who have fled from him in his first term.

Between now and the election, the incumbent Democrat will work to convince a fickle America that he has delivered change, made the right moves and earned the chance to continue the job. He will have to defend policies that have proven divisive, chief among them his sweeping health care overhaul and his efforts to boost the slowto-rebound economy.

Obama announced his bid just as the White House is in a budget standoff with Congress that could lead to a government shutdown, weeks after the commander in chief directed U.S. mili-

tary operations to a third major warfront, Libya, and days after the post-recession economy showed more signs of a rebound with a report that the still high unemployment rate had fallen to 8.8 percent.

Republicans were quick to criticize the news.

The Republican National Committee circulated a research document that accused Obama of failing to lead on the budget and entitlement spending. And former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Republican competing for the chance to take on the Democrat next fall, released his own web video in which he said: “How can America win the future, when we’re losing the present? In order for America to take a new direction, it’s going to take a new president.”

Widely expected, Obama’s campaign launch was planned to coincide with the second fundraising quarter of the year. Filing paperwork will allow the president to begin raising money in earnest for what allies said could be a record-breaking haul of more than $1 billion for his campaign. That begins this month; he’s slated to visit major money venues of Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles in the coming weeks.

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Biden and Education DURHAM, N.H. — A nation that prides itself on fighting Secretary Arne Duncan the abuse of power has an spoke at the University of obligation to prevent sexual New Hampshire on Monday violence in schools and on col- to announce the initiative. lege campuses, Vice President Colleges and public and priJoe Biden said Monday as vate K-12 schools will receive he kicked off a nationwide letters outlining their duties

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“It’s my hope that college educators will adopt this tool as a way to engage the students with technology without having to drastically change their teaching methods.”

— Anthony Fontana, learning technologist and University art instructor, on “QizBox” [see story, pg. 1].

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“Guys like girls, girls like guys, why not.”

“Yumyum.com, a place to share recipes.”

“MyFace. It’s Facebook and MySpace together.”

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If you started your own social networking site, what would you call it?

“Spacebook, because I’m not creative.”

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and as fast as I can, but that doesn’t work. So I just CHAD EVERY fall back into the same trap COLUMNIST with different names and faces. It takes waiting and patience and good friendThere’s nothing quite like the ship to wait around and feeling of seeing that some- slowly pull you out.

This school year has one has moved on while been a seemingly perpetual you’re still fighting to get out.

Quicksand. That’s what quicksand pit for me from it feels like sometimes. a relationship standpoint.

Trying to get out as quick Sometimes the best advice

people have given me is “You just need more time, you’ll see.”

And of course, they were right. Slowly and carefully I have time and time again found myself grabbing for the hands of my friends who have never failed to be there for me when I needed someone to

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WEAKSAUCE

FALCON SCREECH Dear Center for International Programs (CIP), It is ironic that I am writing to suggest diversity training for you. Diversity is one of the virtues at the University, yet the sense of it is completely absent when I come in for anything. I hate how I am treated and I wish I could help your staff understand the true meaning of diversity.

Please get some help so we can be helped.

— LEARN ABOUT IT Let’s talk about relationships. If you really want to see someone, you will make time to call or see them, no matter how busy you are. If you feel lonely or upset because your significant other doesn’t make time for you, then they really don’t like you as much as you would like to think. Trust me, you can find someone better for you, don’t keep allowing them to mistreat you.

— RUN THE OTHER WAY Listen up, drivers. When it’s pouring outside, why must you drive right through the largest puddle and splash people?

I’m sure you wouldn’t like it if someone did that to you. If you weren’t speeding and actually paid attention, I’m sure you could easily avoid puddles and be a decent person by not splashing anyone.

— CARELESS CARS Gossiping is getting a little old. I understand everybody gossips, but there are some things that should just not be spread around. Take a second to think about the other person. Although you may think they don’t mind certain things being said, it is still not for you to tell. In the end, you are the one who looks bad and can’t keep a secret.

— OVER IT

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Decrease alcohol-related fatalities by adopting medical amnesty policy Heavy alcohol consumption in the form of binge drinking is responsible for 79,000 deaths each year and is the number one preventable cause of death according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Alcohol-related deaths range from falls, drowning, and traffic accidents to alcohol poisoning. Estimates of binge drinking among adults in the state of Ohio for 2009 were between 14.3 percent and 17.1 percent.

Young adults ages 18-24 constitute the age group with the greatest self-reported incidence of binge drinking in the U.S. in 2009. College alcohol abuse caused 1,400 deaths, 500,000 injuries, and 2.1 million drunk driving incidents in 1998. The U.S. Surgeon General declared college binge drinking as the number one public health problem affecting college students in 1990s.

Recent cases of deaths and near-deaths related to binge drinking include Andrew Greer, age 20 from Tulsa, Okla., Alexander Grant, age 19 from Boston College, Bradley McCue, age 21 from Michigan State University, and the University’s Jordan Shirey, who died from alcohol poisoning on his 21st birthday.

The University has been in the forefront of alcohol education on college campuses for many years. Despite receiving prestigious grants to raise alcohol awareness on campus and educate incoming freshmen, University students like Shirey still succumb to injuries and death related to heavy alcohol consumption.

Nationwide, universities have been including medical amnesty legislation into their policies with the aim of safeguarding students’ health by reducing

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this scenario. It is normal.

Trudging through 12 years of basic education, only to jump into four more years of undergraduate schooling, and possibly a few more “Why am I going to college?” years after for graduate a student asks a parent.

Without blinking, the par- studies, is normal.

Sometime in those years ent responds, “So you can get a better job and make of education, we are expected to pick a career, work more money.”

All of us have gone 9-to-5, make money, buy a through some form of house, get a nice car and

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start a family. This is the example of the so-called “American Dream.”

But we never think about the downsides of this system.

In our running of the “rat race,” we are forced to make decisions about our lives. We are taught that in these decisions we have to weigh the financial risks of each outcome.

“People with low income are oppressed for their social position.”

vending machine for less.

We are encouraged to think this way. People with low income are oppressed for their social position.

Pidgin, for example, is discouraged in Hawaii schools Which option will make because of its historical us the most money or pre- connection to poor migrant vent the most loss? We do plantation workers.

When children do fisit every day — choosing between buying a soda from cally responsible things, Campus Center or from a we reward them and call

them “thrifty” or “business-smart.”

But what about those tricky situations when our choices are financially driven but go against certain ethics we may hold?

If a person has to choose between McDonald’s and Down to Earth, but only has $3, McDonald’s is the obvious choice even though it is unhealthy.

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Official: UN plane crash in Congo kills 26

Swiss: Google Street View must grant anonymity

Mexico clash between soldiers and gunmen kills 3

Suicide bomb threat in Jordan proven fake

Nicaragua proposes former FM for UN post

Musician declared Haiti presidential election winner

KINSHASA, Congo — A U.N. plane carrying staff members and peacekeepers crashed Monday upon landing at the airport in Congo’s capital, breaking into pieces and killing at least 26 people, a top Congolese aviation official said.

The cause of the crash was not immediately known, and six other people were injured in the crash.

“A crisis task force is working at the crash site,” U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

The top Congolese aviation official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to speak to the media, said the plane was traveling from Kisangani to Kinshasa.

The U.N. mission in Congo, known as MONUSCO, includes more than 19,000 uniformed peacekeeping troops. The mission is charged with protecting civilians in the enormous Central African nation wracked by violence from a myriad of rebel groups and militias.

— Anita Snow and Saleh Mwanamilongo (AP)

GENEVA — A Swiss court has ruled that Google Inc. must guarantee anonymity before publishing faces and license plates captured in Switzerland for the popular Street View service.

The Federal Administrative Court largely sided with Switzerland’s data protection commissioner who claimed that Google was breaching citizens’ right to personal privacy, according to the ruling published Monday.

Google said it was disappointed by the verdict and is considering an appeal to the Swiss supreme court.

The Bern-based court said Google needs to ensure that all faces and vehicle license plates are blurred before uploading pictures to the service that provides panoramic views from various positions along the world’s streets.

It also ordered the company obscure other identifying features, such as skin color and clothing, from people photographed in the vicinity of “sensitive establishments,” such as women’s shelters, retirement homes, prisons, schools, courts and hospitals.

— Frank Jordans (AP)

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Authorities said a clash between soldiers and gunmen in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco left three people dead and caused a fire that destroyed a supermarket, movie complex and stores in a shopping center.

The Public Safety Department in Guerrero state said a soldier and two gunmen were killed in the clash early Monday along a major thoroughfare in Acapulco.

Acapulco police also found two human heads along a main avenue in the exclusive Las Brisas neighborhood.

Factions of the Beltran Leyva cartel have been fighting for control of Acapulco since the December 2009 killing of cartel boss Arturo Beltran Leyva.

AMMAN, Jordan — A man who appeared drunk was arrested after threatening to set off what turned out to be a fake explosive belt in the headquarters of Jordan’s largest opposition group on Monday, officials said.

The Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, has been organizing protests demanding reform in Jordan.

Islamic Action Front leader Jaafar Sabti said the man smelled of alcohol and displayed what he said was an explosives belt.

Bomb experts found the belt was fake, police said. They said the man was being questioned for “inciting fear of an attempted attack.”

The IAF and the Muslim Brotherhood have been taking to the streets across Jordan, pressing demands for change.

Suicide bombings are rare in Jordan but in November 2005 a triple hotel suicide bombing later claimed by al-Qaida in Iraq killed 60 people.

— Jamal Halaby (AP)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nicaragua has told the United Nations that a former foreign minister and rebel priest initially tapped to be Libya’s U.N. envoy will now be the Central American country’s deputy ambassador to the world body.

A Nicaraguan government website said Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann will be second in charge at its U.N. mission. The statement does not mention Libya’s proposal last week that D’Escoto be its U.N. envoy.

U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said Monday that a letter sent by Nicaragua announcing D’Escoto’s appointment, and said it is “being studied.”

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice has questioned whether D’Escoto could represent Libya, noting he required a diplomatic visa.

D’Escoto is a former president of the U.N. General Assembly.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Musician Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly scored a comefrom-behind victory Monday in Haiti’s presidential runoff, according to preliminary results from last month’s election in which he easily defeated a former first lady for the leadership of a country facing enormous challenges.

Martelly, who has never held political office, received nearly 68 percent of the vote in the two-way race with Mirlande Manigat, electoral council spokesman Pierre Thibault said in an announcement that was immediately followed by noisy celebration in the Haitian capital.

The popular musician, a star of the Haitian genre known as compas, had trailed Manigat in the crowded first-round election in November. But his campaign gained momentum in the second round and many voters seemed enchanted with his lack of political experience in a country where the government has failed to provide many basic services.

— Trenton Daniel (AP)

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talk to, cry to, complain to or sometimes just be in the company of.

Friends like Bevan Binder, Abby Wood, Matt Olszewski, Ben Day, Brian Yinger, Kees Groenewegen and especially my mom, Janice Every, have been tirelessly lending me their time, patience, strength and love during this school year so I can pull myself back up again. It is my hope for everyone that they too are blessed with friends and family like this in their life.

People who love you enough that they will sit with you as you cry about the same situation for the fifth time, people who will be there at the drop of a hat for you. People that aren’t ashamed or embarrassed to openly help you out of the desperation you some times find yourself in.

I can confidently say that I don’t believe I would’ve been able to survive this year without my friends and family’s love and support.

You might not view this article as relatable, masculine or good — in any sense of the word. And that’s okay, because this wasn’t written for you. This was written for the handful of people that have helped me stay afloat during this tenuous time of my life.

Thank you so much my friends, both named and unnamed, I love you guys so much and appreciate our friendship more than these simple words will ever be able to show.

the fear of disciplinary action when seeking care for alcohol-related illnesses. Harvard University attributes a portion of the surge in student health service admissions on campus to this policy.

Medical amnesty on college campuses is generally defined as a policy that seeks to reduce the chance that a student will hesitate to seek help in an emergency situation where alcohol or drugs are involved by waiving academic conduct policies to those involved in seeking help.

Each university can tailor the policy to their specific criteria. Many universities in Ohio have already adopted a medical amnesty policy including Ohio State University, Ohio University and most recently, the University of Toledo.

Why is the University so hesitant to take action on this policy when other universities have embraced it? Past University president, Sidney Ribeau, might have hinted at one of the reasons when he addressed the issue of binge drinking in 2000. Past president Ribeau stated “... when I began to speak out on

this issue some within the administration thought that wasn’t a good idea, fearing that talking about the issue would draw attention to our own campus issues surrounding binge drinking.”

Could this still be the case with medical amnesty? Are administrators afraid that the University will be portrayed as tolerant of alcoholconsumption if they adopt such a policy?

Prestigious universities such as Harvard and Yale have adopted medical amnesty policies without ruining their reputations as outstanding universities.

Even Ohio University, which was named as the nation’s 5th top party university in 2009

by Princeton Review, has included medical amnesty into their academic policies.

The Undergraduate Student Government has been involved in bringing medical amnesty to the University since the death of Shirey in 2007. Despite receiving support from the Graduate Student Senate last year, a medical amnesty policy is still debated on campus.

The Student Wellness Center, which is implicated in providing alcohol education to the University student body, the Student Health Center and

the Campus Police should be more involved in developing a medical amnesty policy that would satisfy both the administration’s policy requirements and the students’ demands for academic tolerance in alcoholrelated emergencies.

Students on campus need to step up and be heard about the issue of medical amnesty.

Why wait for another senseless death like Shirey’s to bring the issue to the forefront?

As students, you can write letters to the Dean of Academic Conduct, and the President of the University to voice your opinion on the issue. Students can also sign petitions to get the administration to take action and put the medical amnesty policy issue on the agenda for the next administrative meeting.

By banding together, we as students and administrators can contribute to reducing the risk of grim health consequences associated with heavy drinking. Medical amnesty can save lives.

Gadhafi-crafted plan calls for sons to take power

By Alessandra Rizzo and Christopher Torchia The Associated Press

ISTANBUL — A diplomatic push by Moammar Gadhafi’s regime ran into trouble Monday as opponents at home and abroad rejected any solution to the Libyan conflict that would involve one of his sons taking power.

While a Gadhafi envoy lobbied diplomats in European capitals, Italy became the third nation to declare that the rebels’ interim council in Libya is the only legitimate voice for the people of the North African nation.

The diplomatic whirlwind could signal a softening of his regime’s hardline public stance against any compromise that would end the fighting and steer Libya toward a political resolution.

Any long-term settle-

ment poses tough questions about the fate of Gadhafi’s family and the new leader of a post-Gadhafi nation.

Some of Gadhafi’s adversaries quickly rejected the idea that any of his powerful sons, some of whom command militias accused of attacks on civilians, might play a transitional leadership role that would undoubtedly protect the family’s vast economic interests.

Gadhafi, who took power in a 1969 coup, has a legacy of brutality and involvement in terrorism but was able to prolong his rule and even emerge from pariah status over the past decade with the help of Libya’s immense oil wealth. Potential rivals to the eccentric leader were sidelined during four decades of harsh rule based on personal and tribal loyalties that undermined the army and other national institutions.

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DRIVE: Lauren Prochaska drives to the hoop in a game earlier this season.

Prochaska earns State Farm Coaches’ All-America Honorable Mention

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RUSH: BG prop Duane Miller barrels through a defensive hole in the Wilfrid Laurier defense Saturday afternoon at the College Park rugby field.

BG senior Lauren Prochaska has earned honorable-mention accolades on the State Farm Coaches’ AllAmerica Team for 2010-11.

It is the second consecutive season that she has been named to this list.

This is the fourth BG player

in the last five seasons to earn this distinction. Kate Achter was named to the list three seasons ago. Ali Mann was named in 200607, while Prochaska appeared for the first time last season.

The list was announced from a group of 40 finalists.

BG rugby improves to 3-0 in spring season with 38-12 win over Wilfrid Laurier

By Paul Barney Sports Editor

BG rugby coach Tony Mazzarella was captain of the Falcons the last time Wilfrid Laurier visited Bowling Green.

Mazzarella and the Falcons won that game 34-0 in the fall of 1997.

On Saturday, they did it again.

In the midst of a warming sun, driving rain and two brief hail storms, the BG rugby team improved to 3-0 all-time over the Golden Hawks and 3-0 on the season as it cruised to a 38-12 win.

The Falcons dominated Wilfrid Laurier in the scrums, which made it difficult for the Golden Hawks to get the ball out of their backfield.

“It’s tough to get a clean ball out of a scrum that is constantly being shoved backwards,” said Wilfrid Laurier coach Rob McQueen.

The Golden Hawks, who compete in the Ontario Varsity rugby league, were down 12-0 before getting on the scoreboard as eighth man Kyle Bonek ran in for a try as well as fly half Nick Viviani, who split a gap and won a 50-yard foot race to the goal line. “[Viviani] can cut on a dime,” McQueen said. “He left a lot of my guys grabbing nothing but air out there.”

After center Jason Hubbell brought Wilfrid Laurier to within seven points as he turned the end of the line to score in the corner, the Falcons added to their lead with scores by scrum half Ben Marshall

“Defense in rugby may look like a bunch of guys just strung out in a line, waiting to tackle the ball carrier, but it’s actually a sophisticated system of marking opponents in man-to-man coverages.

We spend a lot of time working on defense.”

Tony Mazzarella | BG rugby coach and hooker Mike Brown Viviani — who added two conversion kicks to give BG a 26-5 lead at halftime.

Mazzarella said when the Golden Hawks managed to get the ball out of their backfield they put on a “very impressive passing display,” but BG’s defense was equally impressive.

“Defense in rugby may look like a bunch of guys just strung out in a line, waiting to tackle the ball carrier, but it’s actually a sophisticated system of marking opponents in man-to-man coverages,” Mazzarella said. “We spend a lot of time working on defense.”

The work on the defensive side of the ball continued to payoff in the second half for the Falcons, allowing Wilfrid Laurier to score just once more for the rest of the match.

And while the defense was getting stops, the offense didn’t stop.

Wing Jon Bill cut through the center of the defensive line untouched for a try to start the second half and BG closed out the game with freshman flanker Frank Viancourt recovering a

Golden Hawks fumble for a try.

This week, the Falcons will split their squad as half the team will travel to Chicago for a matchup with the University of Minnesota at 1 p.m., while the rest of the team will go to Detroit to compete in the Ruck City Tournament against the likes of Hillsdale, Saginaw Valley, Hope, Grand Valley and Oakland University

BG rugby remaining schedule April 9 — University of Minnesota ■ * April 15 — Toledo RFC ■ * April 23 — Eastern Suburbs RFC ■ * April 30 — National Championship Round of 16 ■ May 1 — National Championship Quarterfinal ■ May 14 — National Championship Final Four ■

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Berti named MAC East Player of the Week BG junior shortstop has been named the Mid-American Conference Eastern Division Player of the Week for his efforts last weekend against Eastern Michigan.

He went 7-for-12 at the plate in the three-game series, scoring six runs, notching seven RBIs, and posting

four extra-base hits. His slugging percent on the weekend was 1.167.

He posted back-to-back three-hit games on Friday and Saturday, finishing a single short of hitting for the cycle on Friday. A base hit on Sunday extended his team-best hitting streak to eight games.

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Former BG guard Antonio Daniels is heading back to the NBA after signing a 10-day contract with the Philadelphia 76ers. He was the No. 4 overall pick in 1997 by the Vancouver Grizzlies.

BG shortstop Jon Berti and high-jumper Tatijana Jacobson have been named the Papa John’s BGSU athletes of the week for their efforts in games last weekend.

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Cincinnati Reds only undefeated team in National League after weekend

By Joe Kay The Associated Press

CINCINNATI — The defending NL Central champions have opened the season playing like they belong in first place.

And, maybe more.

The Cincinnati Reds swept their opening series against the Milwaukee Brewers, considered one of their top challengers in the division. The Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies — the team that swept them in the first round of the playoffs — were the league’s only unbeaten teams left on Monday.

A win at home over Houston on Tuesday night would give the Reds their first 4-0 start since 1990, when they led their division wire-to-wire and won their last World Series championship. It would also continue their domination of NL Central rivals.

The Reds made the playoffs for the first time in 15 years by beating up on the rest of the NL’s weakest division. They went 49-30 against the Central, posting winning records against everyone except the Cardinals.

They’re at it again.

“Whoever we play against, it’s very important,” second baseman Brandon Phillips said. “We’ve got to try to get as many wins as possible because we’re not trying to

wait until the last minute to try to clinch something. Of course, it’s important to beat teams in our division.”

Phillips isn’t the only one thinking about clinching so soon.

The Reds started winning back fans with their playoff push last season, and it’s carrying over. They drew only 1.7 million fans in 2009, their smallest gate since 1986. That increased by more than 300,000 last year, when the Reds surprised everyone by pulling away from the division.

They packed them in for the first series at Great American Ball Park despite nasty weather. The Reds didn’t disappoint, winning opening day on Ramon Hernandez’s two-out, threerun homer in the ninth. They then finished the sweep.

“Honestly, I think it does more for the city than it does for us,” said Phillips, who had a three-run homer on Sunday.

“It just shows the city, lets them know that we’re here, we’re going to do this again, and y’all just better make sure you keep coming out here to support us because we really need them.

“I think it means more to the city because we know what we can do and what we’re going to do.”

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“Whoever we play against, it’s very important. We’ve got to try to get as many wins as possible because we’re not trying to wait until the last minute to try to clinch something. Of course, it’s important to beat teams in our division.”

Brandon Phillips | Reds’ second baseman virtually intact, spending more than $150 million in the offseason to lock up young players for years to come. They ran into problems in spring training, when starters Johnny Cueto and Homer Bailey were disabled by shoulder problems and starter Bronson Arroyo came down with mononucleosis.

So far, no problems. Lefthander Travis Wood took Bailey’s spot in the rotation and beat the Brewers in the second game. Arroyo, who has lost eight pounds and loses energy on the mound, went seven innings to complete the sweep.

The Brewers became a trendy pick to overtake the Reds after they acquired starters Zack Greinke and Shaun Marcum in the offseason. Greinke is out with a cracked rib, and the Reds got to Marcum early while winning the second game of the series.

Brewers pitchers walked 13 during the series. By contrast, the Reds walked only five batters, two of them intentionally.

“Ever since the walk-off home run, the momentum has been in our favor,” said catcher Ryan Hanigan, who had a pair of homers on Sunday. “I think we rode that in the last two games. Once we got rolling, we kept pressing. We know this team is capable of scoring five or six runs in a hurry.”

The third game showed them at their best, piling up 19 hits — the most they had in any game last season — and four homers. Twelve different players had at least one hit.

“Everybody contributed,” manager Dusty Baker said.

“It can be contagious. It was just a big weekend, and to go 3-0 against a team you know is going to be there at the end is big. But there’s still a long way to go.”

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The team as a whole won four of 20 events, and scored 18 topfive finishes.

Tatijana Jacobson won the high jump with a 1.70 meter leap, which ties her for 26th overall in the NCAA’s East Region in the event this season.

BG track and field finishes third in Toledo The BG track team placed third out of eight teams over the weekend at the Toledo Collegiate Challenge, scoring 134.5 points.

Eastern Michigan and Buffalo were the top two finishers.

Senior Barbara Powers set a BG school record in the 2000 meter

making her the BG career leader for doubles wins. It was her 85th doubles win, putting her past former BG tennis player Jenny Cheung (1995-98).

She is already the school record holder for singles wins (85) and career wins (170).

Chiricosta breaks BG doubles record BG senior Christine Chiricosta added to her collection of school records this past weekend against Ball State.

Along with Maddy Ecclestone, Chiricosta won her doubles match,

Challenge Cup. BG freshman Bailey Arnold won the only match for the Falcons, who defeated Ohio’s Megan Weaver 3 & 2 in match play.

Jen Blanchard was playing in her first match of the 2010-11 season for the Falcons, and she lost her match 4 & 3.

Bobcats defeat Falcons to win Spring Challenge Cup The BG women’s golf team lost five of six matches to Ohio University over the weekend, as the Bobcats retained the Spring

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By Mary Clare Jalonick The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Like it or not, many restaurant diners will soon know more about what they are eating under menu labeling requirements proposed by the Food and Drug Administration.

The requirements will force chain restaurants with 20 or more locations, along with bakeries, grocery stores, convenience stores and coffee chains, to clearly post the amount of calories in each item on menus, both in restaurants and drive-through lanes. The new rules will also apply to vending machines where calorie information isn't already visible on the package.

The calorie counts will apply to an estimated 280,000

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Mike Taylor | FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods establishments and could be on menus by 2012. Required as part of health overhaul legislation signed into law last year, they are designed to give restaurant diners information that has long been available on packaged goods cooked at home. The FDA estimates that a third of calories are consumed by eating out.

"We've got a huge obesity problem in this country and it’s due in part to excess calorie consumption outside the home," says Mike Taylor, FDA deputy commissioner

for foods. "Consumers, generally when you ask them, say they would prefer to have that information."

But don't expect calorie shock when ordering at the movie theater, where a tub of popcorn can contain well north of a thousand calories — movie theaters are exempt, along with airplanes, bowling alleys and other businesses whose primary business is not to sell food, according to the FDA. Movie theaters pushed to be left out after guidelines published last year included them.

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