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Bellydancing Solved, but not saved showcase for local women’s shelter There hasn’t been a student murdered at the University in more than 12 years.

But since the University opened its doors in 1914, four students have unexpectedly lost their lives.

The four murders, all unconnected crimes, were committed off campus.

According to Sgt. John Shumaker of the University police division, this is because the University police can regulate who is on campus property.

“We can’t control what happens on your front porch, but here [on campus] we can get a handle on this place,” he said.

The last student murder took place Sept. 17, 1996, when a University student was beaten to death during a burglary.

Lt. Tony Hetrick, of the Bowling Green Police Division, said there hasn’t been a murder in the city of Bowling Green since 2007.

“It is a lightning strike when [murders] do happen,” he said. “Most we have had have been ... people who have had intimate [relationships] with each other.”

However, the fights that do break out downtown on Friday and Saturday nights could easily escalate, Hetrick said.

“We could easily have one of those situations [turn to murder],” he said. “There is no such thing as a friendly fight.”

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Kimberly L. Jackson University student Kimberly L. Jackson, 22, of Youngstown, Ohio, was found beaten to death at her residence, 400 Napoleon Road, Apt. 334.

Her boyfriend, Joe Curry, 27, pleaded guilty to her murder in August of that year.

According to police reports, Curry was found outside a Delta House, located at 129 S. Prospect St., at 4:53 a.m. He filed a report, claiming he had been assaulted by two white males at a phone booth at the corner of Main Street and Napoleon Road. He also filed a missing person report, saying his girlfriend, Jackson, had left the apartment they shared together earlier that night to get boxes because they were planning to move soon, but she hadn’t returned.

Officers accompanied Curry back to his apartment since he refused to go alone, and they discovered the door open and Jackson’s body covered in blood on the bed, according to reports.

Steven Bowers University freshman Steven Bowers, 18, was killed in a knife fight behind what is now Uptown bar.

Four people were convicted and a fifth, Rejello Garcia, was arrested.

According to police reports, Bowers, who was from Canton, Mich., was beaten on his head and body and had about four to five stab wounds in the stomach area. Bowers died after the incident at Wood County Hospital.

A 4-inch pocket knife was found at the scene, and the individuals involved in the stabbing were seen leaving in a dark blue car.

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By Anthony Phillips Reporter

Bowling Green residents and University students have an opportunity to attend a cultural family event at Naslada Bistro on South Main Street — a dinner with bellydancing entertainers.

The event will run from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday.

Laura Shakti, producer of the event and owner of Radiance Dance Studio, which will be providing the entertainment, said the event has several different purposes including debunking myths, entertaining, teaching and fundraising.

Shakti said part of the proceeds, which will come from both an entrance fee and tips, will go to the Cocoon Shelter in Bowling Green. The shelter houses women and children who are victims of domestic abuse.

There are two ways to tip a dancer, Shatki said. Patrons can either place money on the

side of the dancer’s hip in her belt or have the money showered down on top of her.

“It is much nicer, [and more] exciting than writing a check,” Shatki said.

Shakti said even though most people think of stripping when they think of bellydancing, the event is actually for families.

Lindsay Meijers, a Wood County resident and dancer for Radiance, said she heard someone once say bellydancers are glorified strippers. She, and most of her colleagues, including Shakti, disagree.

“Do not come expecting a lap dance, go somewhere else,” Shakti said.

Shakti said in the Middle East, where bellydancing originated, it is used for celebration and fun, not specifically for something sexual. “[The dancers] are not there to have someone see them in a

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Karen Sue Hirschman Karen Sue Hirschman, 22, was found dead in her 2nd Street apartment at 9:05 p.m.

Until recently, Hirschman’s was the only unsolved homicide in the city of Bowling Green. Michael Dixon, 50, was sentenced last Friday to life in prison and must spend every anniversary of the crime in solitary confinement.

Hirschman’s body was found by her boyfriend. Her hands were bound behind her back and her clothes were torn, according to police reports.

The management information systems major was stabbed 10 times in the chest and abdomen, and according to reports from the Wood County coroner at the time, Hirschman died of internal hemorrhaging from the stab wounds. She was also sexually assaulted.

Police had few leads after Hirschman’s killing. Former Bowling Green Police Chief Garland Ash said the reason Dixon was finally convicted was because of old DNA evidence that was re-examined.

Julie Lynne Kane

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Julie Lynne Kane, 22, was stabbed in her apartment at 911 Mourning Dove around 11 p.m. Her roommate, Tara Fahringer, was also assaulted.

Craig Baker, 19, of Fostoria, pleaded not guilty to the murder, but was apprehended running from the crime scene. He was later found guilty and was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison.

Multiple 911 calls about Baker occurred during the night of Sept. 7, during which complainants reported Baker was attempting to enter their residences. Complainants reported his speech was slurred, but Baker was found to be not intoxicated.

Police suspected drugs were involved, according to police reports.

Baker entered the back entrance of Kane and Fahringer’s apartment and asked if “Jill was there?,” according to a BG News article at the time. When Baker didn’t leave, Kane called 911 and attempted to usher Baker out of the residence. He BG NEWS FILE PHOTO then stabbed her in the neck and attacked Fahringer, causing CUFFS: Craig Baker is handcuffed after his a 2” cut on her cheek. Kane, a double major in special educaguilty ruling at the Wood County courthouse tion and developmental handicaps, died en route to the Wood County Hospital. in 1996.

A tree was planted on campus between the Education Building and the Centrex Building in remembrance of Kane, a senior, with a plaque that reads “Her smile is like a butterfly. When it flew away it left a beautiful memory.”

Editor’s note: Editor-in-Chief Gina Potthoff, Campus Editor Becky Tener and Managing Editor Kate Snyder also contributed to this report.

BEN LOHMAN | THE BG NEWS

PERFORMING: The 10 members of the Hungarian folk band Parno Graszt perform last evening at Grounds For Thought on South Main Street.

Hungarian bands play at Grounds For Thought

By Andrew Farr Reporter

Once a month, Grounds for Thought coffee shop in downtown Bowling Green hosts live music.

Last night, students and local Bowling Green residents packed the coffee house to hear two bands that came all the way from Hungary.

Kelly Wicks, owner of Grounds for Thought, said he is proud of the fact that people are attracted to Grounds for several

Other than getting a job, how could you pay off student loans?

JENNIFER HINKLE Junior,, Telecommunications COURTNEY STELLAR | THE BG NEWS

FOOTBALL: A group of students practice for their next intramural flag football game. The team suffered a tough loss the previous night, and was working to get better on their plays..

different reasons. He said what sets the shop apart from others in Bowling Green is probably the live entertainment, like last night’s show.

“I think the fact that you can come in for coffee, books, games and music that both students and community members can enjoy is a big draw to Grounds,” Wicks said. “If you told the average person around here that a Hungarian band was playing,

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BGSU ranks high in Ohio in average student loan debt

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With the recently solved murder of Karen Sue Hirschman (see “Man convicted of 22-year-old murder of University student” at www.bgviews.com), The BG News decided to take an in-depth look at past student murders in Bowling Green. Below are four cases involving murders of University students.

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Some students are getting sick of debt, and for a good reason.

The 2007 Project on Student Debt study showed the average BGSU student’s debt to be $24,075 and the University has the second largest average student debt of the non-private institutions in the state of Ohio.

Many University students have no problem paying back their loans and getting out of debt, but some said they are worried by the declining job market.

“I’m anxious to see how everything will work out,” freshman Adrien Boerger said.

“I don’t really have a plan for paying everything back.”

Boerger’s situation is not unique. With the uncertainty of the nation’s economy, students across campus are finding it more stressful to think about paying back their college loans.

Despite this, the student employment section of the University’s Career Center aides the employment of over 4,500 students a year in on-campus positions alone, according to their Web site. The Student Employment staff can assist any student in finding a source of income during their

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costume with cleavage,” she said.

Meijers said many Egyptian costumes show as little skin as possible, if any. She said in some parts of Egypt, it is illegal for bellydancers to even show their navels.

Senior Danielle Bonanno said she was dressed up in her costume at CampusFest to promote her own bellydance class on campus. She said people would give her looks and stares, but nobody really said anything.

“I had a very big snake from the herpetology department,” she said. “So nobody bothered me that much.”

Bonanno said she will not be using a snake for Saturday’s performance.

For the event, the dancers will perform a few different styles of bellydancing.

Bonanno will perform a cabaret and a tribal type of dance. She said she likes the tribal a little more because the dance focuses on the isolation of the hips and chest.

Meijers will perform Egyptian cabaret style dances, which focus a little less on isolation.

New wildfires erupt in windy Southern California MOORPARK, Calif. (AP) — New wildfires erupted in Southern California yesterday as windy, dry and hot weather turned the region into a tinder box.

One blaze erupted northwest of Los Angeles in rural hills of Ventura County between the cities of Moorpark and Fillmore. It quickly grew to 200 acres and was expanding, fire Capt. Ron Oatman said.

Evacuations were ordered for scattered ranches and homes. Oatman couldn’t provide a specific number but said numerous homes and electrical infrastructure were threatened. One small building was seen ablaze.

“Don’t wait for an evacuation order if you feel like you’re in danger,” he said.

Air tankers and helitankers aided 150 firefighters on the ground. The weather was hot, with sustained winds of 15 mph to 20 mph and single-digit humidity percentages.

Another fire broke out in hills above homes in the Riverside County city of Norco, 40 miles east of Los Angeles. The city of about 26,000 is set in rolling terrain with hundreds of acres of parkland and horse trails.

Flames were whipped by the region’s notorious Santa Ana winds, which blow from the northeast, speeding up and warming as they descend through mountain passes and canyons and push seaward.

The air is extremely dry, lowering humidity levels and making brush easier to burn.

Gusts of 30 mph to 40 mph were reported in Southern California’s mountains, the National Weather Service said.

The Santa Anas also whipped up clouds of ash north and east of Los Angeles in the vast area of the San Gabriel Mountains burned over by a gigantic wildfire that continues to smolder a month after it began.

The winds caused some increased fire activity on ridgetops in the San Gabriels, but the haze was from blowing ash, not smoke columns, said Carol Underhills, a public information officer for the U.S. Forest Service.

The fire burned across 160,557 acres — 251 square miles — of Angeles National Forest after it was ignited by arson on Aug. 26. At its peak it destroyed 89 homes and caused two firefighter deaths.

The blaze chewed through heavy growth in areas that hadn’t burned in decades, leaving a carpet of ash in about a quarter of the 1,000-squaremile forest north and east of Los Angeles.

The fire remained 94 percent surrounded yesterday, and fire commanders again pushed back the projected date for full containment, this time from yesterday evening to tomorrow morning, due to the weather.

Shakti, Bonanno and Meijers said they also usually pull people from the crowd to dance with them as well as teach them moves near the end of the night.

“Anyone can bellydance; any shape, any size, any gender, anything,” Bonanno said.

Shakti said Saturday’s event will introduce people to a culture they have never interacted with before and about which they may have preconceived notions.

Mariana Mitova, co-owner of Naslada, said the event will definitely introduce attendees to new ideas.

“It is different than anything you will see in town,” she said.

Mitova said one unusual aspect of the event is that they ask couples to sit next to each other even if they do not know one another. She said this idea is common in Europe and Bulgaria, where she is from, but not in the U.S. “[However,] people find common things to talk about,” she said.

As far as food goes for the event, Naslada’s menu includes grape leaves, Greek salad, vegetarian moussaka, and cake-style baklava.

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four years at the University, and can even help students land a job after graduation.

The Student Employment staff uses the online resource WorkNet. But while the Web site can be reached easily through students’ MyBGSU portals, few students have actually used or even know of the WorkNet system.

“I wouldn’t have known about WorkNet if not for my mom,” freshman Paul Lockerd said. “She snooped around the Web site and in the papers I got at orientation. I think it should be advertised around campus a little bit more because I never would have found it on my own.”

Alex Keyer, a junior working in the Saddlemire Student Services in Conklin North, said Student Services is doing its part to get the word out.

“We’re about to put up posters around campus and last year we had outreach tables in the Union once a week,” Keyer said. “People could come to us and we would show them how WorkNet works. Students can also come to us if they have any questions, and a lot of information is on our Web site.”

After creating a profile on WorkNet, students can search for vacancies in on- and offcampus locations. They can then contact employers for interviews for jobs based on the student’s interests, qualifications and class schedule.

Help is also available for students looking for a bit more than just a part time job.

The Career Center’s Student Web site provides many links to students looking for co-ops, internships and post-graduate positions. The site also presents ways to make students more marketable for possible employers and gives tips to make résumés more attractive.

WorkNet is available to all University students and registration is free of charge.

FACTBOX: Average student debt of the following main campuses: Miami University: $26,378 Bowling Green: $24,075 Kent State: $23,456 University of Toledo: $21,513 University of Cincinnati: $21,302 Ohio State University: $19,978 Source: www.projectonstudentdebt.org

BAND From Page 1 they may not be interested, but if they came and checked it out, I’m sure they would find the whole experience to be exciting.”

Wicks said another bonus to the show was its admission cost — free.

“Also, people have the opportunity to come here and see some free live music, whereas the band playing would probably be performing somewhere else tomorrow for $20,” he said.

The first band to play last night was Parno Graszt, from the village of Paszab in Hungary.

Parno Graszt is a Gypsy band on their first tour of North America. Gypsy music is commonly associated with acoustic folk music played at a faster tempo.

Parno Graszt consisted of 10 members, the musicians all playing acoustic instruments.

The band performed for about an hour and was wellreceived by the diverse crowd at Grounds.

Tour Manager Mark Szasz said he is excited the band has been well-liked in America. He said it means a lot to the band to be able to bring their style of music to America.

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GETTING THE CROWD GOING: Parno Graszt made sure to involve the crowd at their intimate concert last evening at Grounds For Thought. A crowd of all ages was clapping and humming along with the Hungarian folk band.

“For people from the western world, this is a different type of music,” Szasz said.

“And for the band, it means a lot, almost in a romantic kind of way, to come to America and perform.”

The next band to play was Little Cow, from Budapest, Hungary. Like Parno Graszt, Little Cow also performed at the Black Swamp Arts festival last weekend.

Little Cow’s sound is more of the traditional Hungarian rock and roll style. Singer/ songwriter and lead guitarist Laci Kollar-Klemence said Little Cow’s sound comes from many different elements, such

as Gypsy roots, Hungarian folk, and some ska and western punk.

“Rock and roll music is very cultural in America, and it’s good to get positive reactions from both older and newer generations,” he said.

California inmates turn canes, walkers into weapons

By Tracie Cone The Associated Press

AVENAL, Calif. — A California prison was under lockdown yesterday as administrators investigated a riot involving rival Latino gangs that sent 24 inmates to hospitals, one in serious condition.

Inmates at Avenal State Prison used canes, walkers and foot rests from wheelchairs to beat each other Monday night. The most seriously injured inmates suffered puncture and slash wounds, none life-threatening.

“Exactly what they were fighting over, we’re still trying to figure that out,” said Lt. Doug Snell, prison spokesman. “It’s still a big mess.”

Ittook16ambulancesresponding from four counties to carry the injured to five hospitals.

Avenal, built in 1986 in the southern Central Valley, is a medium-security prison where inmates have earned the right to live in dormitories instead of cells. Only one of the six housing complexes was involved.

The fight began in the yard of Facility 5, where 1,026 inmates are housed, then immediately spread inside three of the four dormitories. Two hours later, as prison officials were cleaning up, fighting broke out in the fourth dorm, Snell said.

At least 193 inmates were involved. Prison officials confiscated 30 weapons.

“That’s very significant, and it’s very troubling,” said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections.

All programs have been suspended as prison officials work to transfer fighting inmates to different facilities. Those involved will either be charged with participation in a riot, or the cases will be referred to the Kings County District Attorney’s Office for consideration, Snell said.

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Students can be creative with dorm decorations while still following rules

By Hannah Walsh Reporter

Many students wonder how they can personalize their rooms in accordance with University guidelines.

Sarah Waters, senior associate director in Residence Life, said there are many ways, such as using decals, which come in many different colors, shapes and designs.

“Decals, contact paper over posters and pictures, framed pictures and magnetic [decorations] are good to help personalize your room without creating fire hazards or other danger,” she said.

Waters said students can prevent fire hazards by putting contact paper over posters, which protects the paper from fire since most contact paper is not flammable.

Students suggested ways to bring color and flavor to a boring room.

“You can also put in a rug to help spice up the floor,” freshman Chelsea Delaney said.

There are other fun ways to customize a room, such as adding a poster of games or movie quotes, freshman Jason Cowell said.

“A basketball hoop is a great and

fun way to individualize the dorm room by putting the hoop on either the door or ceiling,” he said.

Other students make occasional changes to their rooms.

“My roommate and I reconfigure our dorm room every month or so to mix it up,” senior Joe Connelly said.

Rearranging is a fun way to be creative and create more space to move around, Connelly said.

While the rules about what is allowed in residence halls may make decorating more difficult, Founders desk clerk Jennifer Rhodes said they also help to make buildings more safe. Students are not allowed to bring specific items because of the potential fire hazards or other dangers they may cause, she said.

“It’s for the building’s and the University’s safety also,” she said.

“We don’t want Founders burning down just because you want to bring a toaster.”

According to the University Student Handbook, student residents are asked by the Office of Environmental Health and Safety to adhere to specific decoration guidelines, including only using fire resistant or noncombustible decorations and not hanging decorations from the ceiling.

However, some students disagree with some of the precautions put in place by Residence Life.

“I think some of the rules are silly,” senior Cassie Guion said.

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■ No decorations can hang from the ceiling or be placed in offices, rooms or lounges in a manner that will interfere with safe passing or evacuation.

■ Exit signs, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, fire alarm pulls, emergency lights, PED boxes and audible signals cannot be decorated, covered or obstructed in any manner.

■ Straw, hay, leaves, corn shocks and dry vegetation are prohibited in buildings.

■ Excessive dirt or sand is not permitted in any building.

■ Students are not allowed to have candles or other open flame devices (whether lit or unlit) in any residential building or small group living home.

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THE SPAGHETTI CONNECTION Photos by Courtney Stellar | The BG News

TOP: A group of students show their support at the Student Alumni Connection event Spaghetti at Miletti. The event, which was held in the Miletti Alumni Center, took place yesterday evening. A lunch earlier in the day was also offered to the University staff.

ABOVE: Junior Kala Zink stirs the spaghetti at the fundraiser. Zink, vice president of fundraising, says the organization is really on its way to achieving its goals.

LEFT: Denise Freeman, a retired part time employee at the University, is served dinner.

Freeman said she was at the event to support the Student Alumni Connection. Freeman was also familiar with a few of the students from the organization through her work on campus.

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“I’m anxious to see how everything will work out. I don’t really have a plan for paying everything back..”

— Adrien Boerger, freshman, on paying back student loans [see story, pg. 1].

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Besides getting a job, how could you pay off student loans?

“Save half your refund check and let it build interest, then use that to pay it off.”

“Whoring myself out.”

SIERRA WHATLEY, Sophomore, Sociology

TROY BOWMAN, Sophomore, Film Production

“Save up all your Christmas and birthday money.”

“Open a CD account and use responsible money management.”

BECCA MEYER, Junior, Telecommunications

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Victorian-era misconceptions of Africa persist to the present HAMA BBELA COLUMNIST When we think Dark Continent, we think thick jungle and wild animals and we think Africa.

In the Internet and cell phone age, when people are expected to be more conscious of the larger world than ever, the old Victorian England adage of the Dark Continent of Africa still applies.

Only now it has taken a vastly different form and is still the product of a condition of ignorance born out of indifference.

The West used this term as a way to justify their “benevolent” attempts at civilizing what they viewed as savage wastelands, void of culture and art. This term also highlighted the West’s ignorance about the African interior; places like Congo were described as “The Heart of Darkness” by writers like Joseph Conrad.

These Old Age images may not be as exaggerated and overtly racist as they were then, but a lot of the exaggerations still apply.

They continue to inform ideas about Africa and how the media chooses to cover the continent.

Today, Africa is the poster child for world dysfunction. It’s portrayed as dangerous, inhospitable and crawling with warring factions and starving kids. These

are images of 20th Century Africa and they don’t seem to be letting up. These images seem to feed an old fascination with an image of the continent as a dark, evil, foreboding place.

The media is often guilty of disaster pornography, with a habit of blacking out African stock markets, cell phones and literacy while gleefully parading genocides and freak incidents. The end result of disaster pornography is that people become desensitized to calamity because Africa is now the poster child for all things bad.

When the tragedy happens in the west, like in New Orleans, it is considered catastrophic in nature and the first comparison people make is with Africa.

I have on many occasions found myself having to justify how I am able to speak English, or how I have come to love the Simpsons to people who just can’t wrap their heads around the fact that television sets have existed in African households for a long time. Also, some people can’t wrap their heads around the idea that healthy, happy Africans exist. Not every African is starving or the victim of genocide.

This is part of the great folly of reliance on big media, and the reason why the Internet is the most democratic view of the world. I would be naïve if I completely blanked out the many disasters and calamities that dot the continent. Yet the

reality is, this continent is larger than continental North America and because there was genocide going on in one part doesn’t mean the whole continent is engulfed in war.

The sheer size and diversity of the continent makes it an enigma to many. I am African, but I’m as alien to Sudan or Mali as anybody in Bowling Green is to Mongolia. I share a continent, but I do not share language, culture or custom with all Africans.

In the same way, you can be American and never live in New York or have any idea what it’s like in North Dakota.

As college students and responsible human beings, we need to learn to understand issues from varied perspectives.

We need to look at Africa as a sum of its many parts. When the news says there is genocide in Rwanda, look at Rwanda and understand the crisis from that part of the continent. The news is obsessed with disaster when it comes to Africa, and good news about the continent probably doesn’t sell advertisements for the media.

As media consumers, how we choose to take the information given to us is important, whether considering news on Africa or any other part of the world.

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Mainstream media resembles that of Orwell’s dystopian ‘1984’

By Matthew Jarzen The Rebel Yell (U-Wire)

A couple months ago I reread George Orwell’s “1984.” In the book, the main character, Winston Smith, works at The Party’s “Ministry of Truth.” His job simply entails rewriting newspaper articles to make whatever projections or statistics The Party made accurate.

For instance, if The Party said that 100 million boots would be manufactured but only 50 million were actually produced, Smith would “correct” the number, saying that The Party projected 50 million boots would be produced.

This is how I see the mainstream national media — or as Rush Limbaugh has aptly dubbed, the “state-run” media. What you are actually seeing and feeling isn’t accurately represented by the media.

If you have ever have a chance to watch clips from actual state-run news agencies such as those in Iran, Venezuela or North Korea, you’ll laugh at the absurdity of their “reporting.”

But the same goes for our own national media outlets.

Take the ACORN story for instance: You may not have even heard about it unless you watch Fox News, as they were one of few who covered the story in detail.

At the Baltimore office of ACORN, two journalists — a male and female — posed as pimp and prostitute. What transpired as a result was truly sickening. ACORN employees were captured on tape giving advice to the “pimp and prostitute” as to how they could avoid paying taxes, hide their money and get a business loan for the brothel in which underage Salvadorian girls

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In a matter of days afterward, the U.S. Senate voted to cut off all federal funding to ACORN. Many of the mainstream media outlets ignored it.

Charlie Gibson of ABC News claimed at one point that he didn’t even know about the story.

So here we have undercover videotapes surfacing about more of ACORN’s illicit and illegal activities the U.S. Senate consequently voting overwhelmingly to cut off funding to ACORN, and Charlie Gibson didn’t know about the story?

On Sept. 12, protesters in support of the 9/12 Project gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest the explosion of the power of the federal government, health care “reform,” cap and trade and a list of other grievances.

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Hookah smoke also dangerous

By Tyler Angelo The Daily Eastern News (U-Wire)

When I start to like something, I become pretty much infatuated with it.

When I hear a band’s music I like, I try and acquire it all as hastily as possible. When I first became interested in playing guitar, I had to have one as soon as possible and learn as fast as possible. It’s just my personality.

My most recent endeavor has been smoking with a hookah.

A hookah is a water pipe with a hose that is used to smoke a flavored shisha tobacco/molasses/fruit combination. This combination sits in a bowl at the top of it and is heated up — not burned — by a charcoal. And yes, it is legal.

Sure, I’d done it plenty of times before, the first time about five years back while going to school in Arizona, and then a session at my friend’s house in Bloomington, Ill., last year was pretty good. But I’d never thought about it past that.

The time that got me hooked was at a friend’s house recently, when I decided, “Hey, I’d like to do this whenever I please.”

And with alluring shisha flavor names like chocolate mint and

blue mist, it’s hard not to want to try.

So, I went ahead and researched hookah, shisha tobacco and, of course, the health concerns that come with it. I spoke to my friend from Bloomington, who is heavily into hookah culture. He gave me tips on what to look for and what would best suit my minor measures.

But I’m not sure I properly looked up the health concerns until just the other day. I ignorantly thought shisha had fewer health risks when compared to cigarettes. Apparently smoking tobacco, even shisha tobacco, is still bad for you.

I know. I was shocked, too.

But since smoking hookah is such a college craze, as most college towns have hookah bars, I think people should think twice before lighting the charcoals and packing the bowls.

According to Sheila Baker, medical director at Health Service (Eastern Illinois), shisha’s effects are just the same as smoking a cigarette and since hookah hoses are typically passed around among a group of people, it’s more unsanitary, too.

“You’re sharing more than just smoke at that point,” Baker said.

Ryan Messinger, health edu-

cation coordinator at the Health Education Resource Center (Eastern Illinois), agreed with these health hazards. He said the same chemicals from tobacco are found in shisha.

“In my opinion, I believe it would be just as dangerous as normal cigarette smoke,” Messinger said. “Smoke is still not any more safe going through the water.”

And, as might be obvious by now, the same long-term health defects go along with smoking shisha. Messinger said problems such as headaches, high blood pressure and cancer can result from smoking hookah.

According to a study done by the World Health Organization and reported in a 2007 USA Today article, these dangers are real.

“The [WHO] said a person can inhale more than 100 times more smoke in a hookah session than in a single cigarette,” the article said. “By delivering nicotine, the water pipe can cause addiction.”

So after properly researching my new fascination, I’ll have to find better ways to relax. Infatuation sometimes leads to love, but sometimes expectations aren’t met without proper attention to those first details. So next time I’m infatuated with something, I’ll double-check my research.

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Falcons have rough landing MEN’S GOLF Falcons win second straight tournament The men’s golf team won the Earl Yestingsmeier Intercollegiate, hosted by Ball State, yesteday. As a team, the Falcons shot an 850 (276280-294), while sophomore Drew Preston (pictured) won his first career individual title.

Preston shot a 209 for the tournament, one stroke away from the school record for 54 holes.

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Volleyball falls to visiting Golden Grizzlies

By Paul Barney Reporter

Coming off a tough weekend in Columbus, the BG volleyball team was looking to bounce back at home last night as they played host to Oakland University.

The Falcons (7-7) entered yesterday’s match 12-0 all-time against the Golden Grizzlies, but it didn’t matter, as the visitors went home with a four-set victory (25-16, 22-25, 26-24, 25-19).

Battling the entire match, BG struggled to find the offense when it desperately needed to pick up the points.

“Offensively, we just didn’t have the fire power,” coach Denise Van De Walle said. “This is a tough loss because we’ve never lost to Oakland before in my career.”

After dropping the first set 25-16, BG was able to erase an early 5-0 deficit to take the second set behind strong play from Emily Kauth and Shari Luther. Both athletes, who Van De Walle said are getting better and better, combined for 26 kills and a .760 hitting percentage in the loss.

Unfortunately for the Falcons, the team was unable to build off the second-set win, as they dropped the next two to lose the match. Despite the loss, BG held their own and the team realizes there are certain aspects of their game that need to be tweaked.

“I feel like we’re right there,” Kauth said. “We just need to fix a couple things and work hard in the gym.”

Also leading the Falcons was Kaitlin Jackson with 10 kills and Cassie Berning with 7 kills. Meanwhile, Alex Zlabis had 20 digs and Sam Fish recorded 44-assists, her most so far this season.

While they did play hard in the match, Van De Walle realized how the team has to get tougher in practice in order to avoid losses like this one later in the season.

“When you drop a match like this, the team just has to be patient and not panic, not freak out,” she said.

The Falcons will take a couple days off before opening MidAmerican Conference play Friday, where they will play host to Akron starting at 7 p.m.

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BLOCKED: Senior Shari Luther attempts to snuff out an Oakland University attack yesterday evening.

Today in Sports History 1988—Jose Canseco is the first player in MLB history to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in a season.

1939—The Dodger’s Cookie Lavagetto goes 6-for6, as his team picks up 27 hits in a 22-4 win over the Phillies.

1845—The first organized baseball team, the New York Knickerbockers, is organized.

The List After the BG volleyball team’s 3-1 loss to Oakland University, we take a look at the five things that went wrong for the Falcons in the match: 1. Errors: The Falcons commited 44 errors in the match that resulted in points, while Oakland University committed only 35.

2. Out-hit: While BG hit a decent .225 for the match, the Golden Grizzlies had a strong night, hitting above .300 in two of the four sets.

Getting run over Falcon defense struggling to stop the run in past two weeks

By Sean Shapiro Assistant Sports Editor

At the beginning of the season, one of the biggest questions for BG was how a young defense would fare against the run.

It seemed the question was answered when they held Troy to 41 yards in a season opening win, but after allowing 427 over the last two weeks, the questions have come up again.

“Well, we saw it on film; we were planning on them running the ball,” said senior linebacker Cody Basler after Saturday’s 17-10 loss to

Marshall. They were able to stretch it outside a couple times which kind of caught us off guard.”

Not only did the run catch BG off guard against the Thundering Herd, it also ultimately doomed their chances as they allowed an 80-yard, go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter to running back Darius Marshall.

Marshall was the second running back BG has allowed to reach the century mark this season. Against Missouri, running back Derrick Washington ran for 120 yards including the game winning touchdown with six minutes remaining

Chris Jones One of the two defensive lineman with a sack this year in the second week of the season.

“Defensively, we struggled to shut down their running game and those things finally caught up with us,” said BG coach Dave Clawson Monday during the Mid-American Conference teleconference. “I think that proved really to be

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3. Adrienne Leone: Oakland’s star of the night dominated the net all evening, recording 24 kills and only three errors for a .375 hitting percentage.

4. Blocked: Falcon attacks were stuffed at the net nine times yesterday night, while BG only blocked five Oakland attacks.

5. Aced: While BG had five service aces in the match, the Grizzlies performed even better behind the serving line, acing the Falcon defense seven times.

Richards has taken long journey to reach BG

By Angelo Velotta Reporter

Traveling from Warwick, England to Corvallis, Ore., to Bowling Green is a lot of miles, but for BG women’s soccer coach Andy Richards, it couldn’t have been a better trip.

Richards grew up across the pond in Warwick. He attended school there eventually receiving an undergraduate degree in education at Sheffield City Polytechnic.

Fresh out of college, he landed a job as a high school physical education teacher in England.

It was then time to jump over to America, but it wasn’t before he fell in love with the sport of “football, as we can call it back

“Post-season is what we’re always gunning for, but it’s not always about the wins and losses. I challenge myself professionally, just like I do the team.”

Andy Richards | Coach home.”

Richards became both a huge fan and an exceptional soccer player, and for him, that would be his golden ticket in America.

He went to Oregon State University in 1995 and pursued his master’s degree in education, while also acting as the graduate assistant coach to the women’s soccer

team there. He also ran summer soccer camps in Oregon and Washington.

With his master’s degree in hand, Richards became the full-time assistant coach for the Beaver’s soccer program.

After three years of serving at this position, he wanted to

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MAX EFFORT: Max Weston will try to fill the void left by teammate Cameron Hepple.

Soccer to meet Michigan today

By John Lopez Reporter

The Falcons soccer team will head to Ann Arbor today to face off against the University of Michigan (7-1).

The Wolverines lost to No. 10 Notre Dame in the club’s season opener but have bounced back by winning seven straight.

For the Falcons, injuries to reigning Mid-American Conference Player of the Week Cameron Hepple and starting right back Chris McLean have forced coach Eric Nichols to change his lineup.

The Falcons will play with a 3-1-2-4 formation, with Chuko Evwaraye, Byard Ebling and Max Weston all getting the start up front.

The Falcons will mix it up a bit

Cameron Hepple Will miss the game against Michigan with an injury in the midfield, playing center back Jacob Lawrence in a holding position alongside freshman Joey D’Agostino.

Filling in the holes left in the back line will be Jake Custer at center back and Thomas McLean will fill in for his younger brother Chris at right back.

The Falcons look to score against a Michigan squad that has only allowed four goals in their last six games.

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Cincinnati challenging Ohio State for title of best in the state

By Joe Kay The Associated Press

fan chose to watch Ohio State lose to Southern California 18-15 on Sept. 12 instead of watching CINCINNATI — While Ohio the Bearcats win again on a difState fans up in Columbus ferent TV channel.

“I think as long as you’re in debate whether their team is the best in the Big Ten, folks down the state of Ohio and you’re not south are asking a much differ- looked at as an equal or partent question three games into ner, you’re going to play with the season: Who’s the best team a chip on your shoulder,” Kelly said yesterday. “And I’m not sayin Ohio? ing we should be looked at as Buckeyes? Or Bearcats?

In years past, it would have an equal or a partner. But our been a ludicrous question. But players sense and feel that every Cincinnati’s impressive 3-0 day by who they talk to and who record and Ohio State’s spotty they see at the mall and, ‘Did you 2-1 start have left the two teams see the Ohio State-USC game?’ nearly dead-even in this week’s ‘Yeah, did you see our game?’

“So they’re going to carry that Top 25 poll. Ohio State is No. 13, (chip), and I’m certainly not followed by Cincinnati. going to tell them to change Bearcats? Or Buckeyes?

“Hey, if we ever have to strap the way they think because as a it on with them, we’re going to coach, I kind of like that role that win,” Cincinnati running back we have.”

Pead knows well that his Isaiah Pead said yesterday, not even flinching when the ques- opinion will be anathema to the Buckeye fans who inhabit every tion was raised.

Head coach Brian Kelly corner of the state. He grew up coached at Grand Valley State in in Columbus, where he topped Michigan and Central Michigan one of Ohio State’s greatest before coming to Cincinnati, so players: Pead broke two-time he knows all about Ohio State’s Heisman Trophy winner Archie lore and how fans get wrapped Griffin’s career rushing record at up in the program’s history. He Eastmoor Academy, then had to also knows it stings when a choose between the two schools Cincinnati player hears that a for college.

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Scheidler expected to play Saturday

“We have learned so much every time we played,” Nichols said. “We need to put some passes together before we can attack, and have a purpose for what we are doing offensively.”

With the Wolverines’ goal scoring ability and the Falcons’ commitment to attacking play, chances are good that the game will see some goals.

“We agreed early on as a team to play our style of soccer,” Weston said. “We won’t adjust for any other team.”

As for playing without Hepple, Weston has confidence.

“It will be tough to loose a player as good as Cameron,” Weston said. “But I think we have shown we have guys that can go out there and score goals.”

The game is the Falcons’ eighth of the season, and will be the first for the team against a Big Ten opponent.

BRIEF

After appearing to injure his ankle against Marshall, BG senior tight end Jimmy Scheidler is still listed as the starter for Saturday’s contest against Boise State.

In BG’s 17-10 loss to Marshall, Scheideler went down late in the third quarter while attempting block for Adrian Hodges, who had just caught a shuttle pass from quarterback Tyler Sheehan.

The tight end’s ankle was caught in a pile at the line of scrimmage, following the five yard gain by Hodges.

Scheidler has started all three games this season, making three catches for 82yards, including a reception that went for 40-yards in BG’s 31-14 win over Troy to open the season.

In 2008 Scheidler lead all MidAmerican Conference tight ends with seven touchdown grabs, including one against BG’s opponent this weekend, Boise State.

Buckeyes? Or Bearcats?

“I liked the situation they have here,” the sophomore running back said. “They were an upand-coming team and I love the coaches. The coaches were nice, whereas the OSU coaches were, ‘If you come here, you come here.

If you don’t, then that’s fine, we’ll get the next guy.’ I felt these coaches, they cared about you.”

Not even a little lobbying by Griffin himself could sway Pead.

Griffin was a frequent topic of conversation in Pead’s home because his grandfather played little league baseball and high school football against him in Columbus. Pead grew up reading the yellowed newspaper clippings of those encounters.

“I know a lot,” Pead said.

“Going to OSU games growing up, Archie would be there and I would talk to Archie.”

Now, Pead and the Bearcats are getting some clippings of their own.

The defending Big East champions beat Oregon State 28-18 on Saturday, ending the Beavers’ streak of 26 straight victories against nonconference teams in Corvallis, a stretch that spanned 13 years. It was impressive enough to jump the Bearcats

right behind Ohio State in the poll.

The Buckeyes struggled to beat Navy at home — they had to thwart a 2-point conversion try in the closing minutes — then lost to USC at home before rebounding with a 38-0 win over Toledo. Their struggles have dropped them from No. 6 in the preseason to one spot ahead of Cincinnati.

The last time another Ohio college was ranked ahead of Ohio State was Nov. 13, 2004, when Bowling Green was No. 25 and the Buckeyes were unranked.

The Bearcats and Buckeyes won’t play again until 2012. That game was originally scheduled to be played at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, but the Buckeyes decided to invoke a contract clause and opt out of it. They agreed to play the 2012 game as long as it was in Columbus, as well as another game there in 2014.

The best team in Ohio this season?

“I would say Cincinnati,” Pead said.

With no game to decide it, the answer to the state’s percolating football question remains a matter of opinion.

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LEADING THE WAY: Richards took over the BG women’s soccer program in 2000.

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won the regular season and the post-season,” Richards said.

Since then Richards has be a head coach, so he began continued to coach BG to applying across the nation in many wins, and through more hopes of landing his dream great moments.

“Both senior co-captains job.

That opportunity came could vouch for how hard he from BG as Richards became pushes the team.

And that’s just it. Richards coach of the women soccer hasn’t just helped his team on team in 2000.

“The first year is one of my the field, but he had off the favorites because we had to field as well.

One thing is for certain is pull everyone together, [and we] got everyone excited,” Richards likes to win and have fun. It’s what’s worked for nine Richards said.

But the real highlight years now, and it’s what he will for the England native was continue to do.

The Falcons are currently 2005 because he led the Falcons to a Mid-American 4-5 this season, and have high Conference championship hopes for returning to the postalong with a plethora of season.

And for Richards, he’s just other awards.

“We had MAC player of the an Englishman in Bowling year, freshman of the year, I Green. won coach of the year, we

the difference in the game.”

So far this season the Falcon defensive line has only recorded two sacks, and none of the starters have recorded more then four tackles this season, by comparison all four Boise State defensive line starters have at least five tackles.

The inability to stop the run has left Clawson and the BG defense with the perplexing problem of figuring out how to fix the problem before their game Saturday with No. 8 Boise State.

“Well No. 1 is you got to get the guys up front playing better,” Clawson said. “The second thing is you look at schematic answers. Do you move more? Do you shift more? Do you zone-blitz? Do you manblitz them more? We have to do what puts our guys in the best position.”

Answering those questions is even more important, considering Boise State is picking up just under 200 rushing yards a game, averaging 5 yards per carry.

Boise State will be without half of their running back tandem, after D.J. Harper suffered a season-ending ACL injury last week against Fresno State.

His replacement, Jeremy Avery, has 279 yards on 45 carries through three games.

In particular last week Avery had 269 total yards and a touchdown. The running back almost had a second score, but fumbled at the 1-yard line following a 75-yard run which was recovered for a touchdown by teammate Titus Young.

If Avery is the third running back in as many weeks to reach at least 100 yards, he’ll be the first opponent to do so at Doyt Perry Stadium since Eugene Jarvis torched the BG defense in a 45-30 Falcon win over Kent State last season.

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WASHINGTON BRIEFS GAO: Feds failed to tell schools of suspect food

Obama urges Israeli, Palestinian sides to do more

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Byrd, the longest serving senator in history, was admitted to a Washingtonarea hospital yesterday after a fall at his home in northern Virginia.

The 91-year-old West Virginia Democrat was admitted to the hospital after blood tests showed his white-blood cell count was high, which raised the possibility of an early-stage infection.

“His doctors have determined that Byrd should remain in the hospital for antibiotic treatment and observation,” said a statement from Byrd’s office.

Byrd had been transported to the hospital after a minor fall at his home, spokesman Jesse Jacobs said. He suffered no broken bones or bruises.

Byrd has been in frail health in recent years and was hospitalized in May and June with dangerous infections. But he returned to the Senate in July to vote and earlier this month gave his first floor speech in months, where he talked about the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy.

The statement said Byrd is in good spirits but that he was disappointed he was unable to come to the Senate for its official photo.

WASHINGTON — Federal authorities failed to tell schools about recalls of potentially tainted peanut products and canned vegetables, and cafeterias may have unknowingly served them to children, the Government Accountability Office reported yesterday.

A GAO investigation found the Agriculture Department didn’t always make sure states and schools were notified promptly about recalled food distributed through the federal school lunch and breakfast programs, which serve 30 million students.

GAO reported yesterday that it took as long as a week for states to figure out which products were recalled, and that schools may have served the suspect food to kids during that time.

“This report underscores the need for comprehensive reform of our food safety structures,” Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said in a statement.

— Libby Quaid (AP)

NEW YORK — Pressing for elusive Mideast peace, President Barack Obama yesterday challenged Israeli and Palestinians leaders to do more. It was the president’s most direct engagement yet on a problem that has vexed leaders for years.

In a moment deep in symbolism but offering little expectation of any immediate breakthrough, Obama brought together Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for their first three-way meeting. Obama’s words as the meeting got under way showed frustration with the looming gap between the two sides as the U.S. again tries to foster a deal.

“Simply put, it is past time to talk about starting negotiations,” Obama said. “It is time to move forward.”

Obama got specific with his expectations for both sides and outlined a timeline of steps for the coming weeks, eager to show momentum.

— Jennifer Loven (AP)

“Every responsible airline executive I WASHINGTON — A former CEO of American Airlines yesknow thinks these terday backed imposition of a three-hour time limit on how things are an outrage.” long airlines can strand pasRobert Crandall | Ex-CEO

declined invitations to attend the hearing. The association has warned there will be more inconvenience and delay for passengers if a hard time limit is imposed.

Passenger rights advocate Kate Hanni called that assertion a “myth.” She said advocates only want passengers to be given the option to deplane every three hours, and that doesn’t require the plane to return to a gate. She said airport people movers or other equipment could be used to help people leave planes still in takeoff queues.

Hanni, executive director of FlyersRights.org, pointed to the example of Sun Country Flight 242, which sat on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport in New York for nearly six hours last month before it was allowed to take off for Minneapolis.

Of the 136 passengers aboard the flight, 96 were connecting through Minneapolis and most likely missed their connections and had to spend the night there before they could get other flights to their destinations, Hanni said.

Those passengers might have been better off if they’d had an opportunity to get off in New York after it became apparent they would no longer make their connections, she said.

Two weeks earlier severe thunderstorms forced a Continental Express flight from Houston to Minneapolis to land in Rochester, Minn., where 47 passengers were forced to sit in a cramped plane for six hours overnight amid crying babies and a stinking toilet before they were allowed to deplane.

A Transportation Department investigation found that employees of a Delta Air Lines subsidiary — the only workers still at the airport — refused to make a gate available to the plane because the airport was closed and security personnel had gone home.

Deeper relationship with China urged

By Barry Schweid The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A strategic think tank with close connections to the Obama administration is calling on the White House to develop better and broader relations with China.

The Center for a New American Security, in a study prepared by a panel of 10 academics, declared yesterday that the first principle of China policy should be: “China should not be treated as a threat.”

The center was co-founded two years ago by two now-highranked administration officials, Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for Asia, and Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao were meeting in New York yesterday.

China’s influence is increasingly global. The United States, consequently, “should make a concerted effort to engage China as a major partner in confronting global problems.”

These include, the study said, the economic crisis, climate change and energy security. At the same time, the two sides should be open and comfortably address issues of disagreement, the study said.

Thirty years after President Jimmy Carter established diplomatic relations with China and after a ground-breaking visit by President Richard M. Nixon, the United States “has been slow to articulate a comprehensive framework that moves beyond the simplistic,” the study said.

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sengers on airport tarmacs, but he also warned of unintended consequences.

Robert Crandall parted company from his former industry colleagues and joined passengers rights advocates as they took their case to Congress, staging a hearing in a meeting room provided for the event by a House committee.

Crandall said he supports legislation pending in the Senate that would require that passengers be allowed to deplane after a three-hour wait.

The bill makes an exception for instances when the pilot believes the plane will take off in the next half-hour or it might be unsafe to leave the plane.

“I think the airline industry should have led the way in responding to this problem rather than having resisted it,” Crandall said. “Every responsible airline executive I know thinks these things are an outrage.”

However, he said returning passengers to terminals likely will result in more flight cancellations and modest fare increases.

Since flights are increasingly full or nearly full due to airlines’ cutbacks in schedules, passengers who opt to deplane may have difficulty finding seats on other planes and may be delayed longer than if they had continued to wait on a runway, Crandall said.

He recommended an initial four-hour time limit to give airlines time to make adjustments before ratcheting down to a three-hour limit in 2011.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., co-sponsor of a “passengers bill of rights” containing the threehour limit, rejected Crandall’s suggestion. There are “a lot of folks behind the scenes who don’t want this legislation,” Boxer said. “I’m going to fight for the three hours because it will get watered down — it always does.”

The Air Transport Association, which represents major airlines,

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