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March 25, 2008 Volume 101, Issue 124 WWW.BGNEWS.COM

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CAMPUS

Autism makes the grade

Universities across the country are adjusting standards to allow students with highfunctioning forms of the disorder to earn college degrees | Page 3

Alaskan fishing boat sinks, kills four Forty-two crew members aboard the Alaska Ranger were rescued after the ship sank for unknown reasons | Page 8

WORLD

Pakistan prime minister takes office

Shortly after being elected, Yousaf Raza Gilani freed all judges detained by his predecessor, President Perez Musharraf | Page 11

After hearing, struggle ends

By Dave Herrera Senior Editor

Carlos Adams, the former ethnic studies instructor who was denied a new contract last April and has fought for his job since, lost his appeal to the Faculty Senate last week and says he doesn’t plan to take further action.

Adams received the decision from the Committee on Faculty Personnel and Conciliation one week ago. His hearing was held before spring break.

In an interview, Adams said he was resigned to the fact that “my time at Bowling Green is over.”

“Next is moving on, trying to find a place that will hire me as a professor,” Adams said.

Last week’s decision closed a nine-month struggle for Adams, his supporters and the University.

Carlos Adams

Former ethnic studies instructor The ethnic studies department last April told Adams, who had applied for a new instructor contract, he would not be rehired for this school year.

Hundreds of students, faculty and community members signed a petition criticizing the decision within weeks.

They created the “Justice for Carlos Adams at BGSU” committee, which continually worked on Adams’ behalf.

Adams and the “Justice” committee argue Adams could not have received fair treatment because, among other reasons, he opposed the 2006 hiring of

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Fake IDs more serious than students may realize

By Gina Potthoff Assistant Campus Editor

Though the number of fake identification offenses in Bowling Green is unknown, students should be aware there are serious consequences in place for those who break this law.

Fake IDs are very common, Bowling Green police detective Justin White said.

White, a member of the Bowling Green Police for almost seven years, said most students who get them don’t realize the ramifications.

Faking documents is a very serious offense and has been taken more seriously since 9/11, White said.

Using a fake ID is a misdemeanor in the first degree and violates a law under the prohibited acts, which carries a sentence of anywhere up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Specifically, the use of a fake ID is a misrepresentation of persons under 21 years of

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age, White said.

Though the offense may not seem serious, it does go on a person’s permanent criminal record.

Bowling Green Police and BGSU Police work together to crack down on student fake ID use, sharing information on cases on and off campus when necessary to carry out the law.

In addition to legal consequences, a student caught using

a fake ID may also have to answer to the University.

The Office of Student Discipline gets the police blotter everyday and looks for inappropriate student behaviors that warrant regulation.

Underage drinking is the most common offense disciplined but public urination and indecent exposure offenses also come up

See FAKE | Page 2

SPORTS

Women’s b-ball loses to MSU in WNIT 74-66

In the second-round game of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament, the Spartans proved too much for the Falcons | Page 9

As death toll hits new high, look through another’s eyes

By Sharon Cohen The Associated Press

FORUM

USG presidential hopefuls speak up

The USG presidential and vice presidential candidates tell students why to vote for them | Page 4

How to deal with death

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET

Columnist Zack Franks reminisces about deaths he’s dealt with and questions how others deal with the subject | Page 4

Have you ever considered gettng a fake ID?

The chaplains:

EDITOR’S NOTE — The U.S. military death toll in Iraq reached 4,000 on Sunday with the announcement that four soldiers had been killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad.

This story examines the grim milestone through military chaplains’ eyes.

Chaplain Kevin Wainwright was preparing his Easter Sunday sermon in Iraq when there was a knock on his door.

The news was grim: 1st Lt. Phillip Neel was dead. The young officer and fellow West Point grad had been a regular at the chaplain’s Sunday church services. Wainwright knew and admired him. Now he had to find the right words to honor him.

Wainwright chose the legend of Sir Galahad, King Arthur’s noble knight, and the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson to salute Neel in a memorial.

He spoke of his compassion, his devotion to his soldiers. But in trying to understand Neel’s death, the chaplain also posed

See CHAPLAINS | Page 2

telling life stories of the fallen in Iraq DANCE MARATHON | PART ONE

Students get on their feet and dance to raise money ‘for the kids’

MATT BUYER, Sophomore, Architecture

By Steve Kunkler Reporter

“No, because I’m a good boy with good morals.” | Page 4

One team. One dream.

That’s the theme of the University’s 13th annual Dance Marathon, an event to be held on March 29 that brings together more than 1,000 students each year in the name of a common goal: to raise money for the St. Vincent’s Childrens Hospital in Toledo.

This year’s theme was selected to exemplify the teamwork Dance Marathon brings out, Dance Marathon Director Erin Small said.

“We like how the campus can come together as one and work together for an amazing cause,” she said.

For this year’s event — and

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“Dance Marathon can be just as rewarding for the people involved as it is for the kids.”

Joseph Goree | Senior

many in the past — students have sponsored fundraisers, worked to get donations and made countless phone calls.

On Thursday some of them will begin a four-day bike ride from Cincinnati to Bowling Green, and on Saturday, others will be dancing and cheering each other on for 32 hours.

Last year, they raised $194,660.22. They hope to surpass that amount this year.

The money raised will be used to provide equipment, education, research and treatment of children in Northwest Ohio, said senior Mika Johnson, entertainment chair for the event.

Ten area families with ailing children — to be introduced in a story in tomorrow’s BG News — serve to inspire the student fundraisers.

Despite the 32-hour dancing session, Johnson said she hopes the community realizes what the large event is all about: the children.

“I want people to know the money goes to a good cause, and FILE PHOTO | THE BG NEWS it goes for more than just toys or A COLORFUL DISPLAY: The Dance Marathon morale captains lead the party as they games it provides equipment for teach the participants the yearly line dance.

The morale captains are the leaders of different the hospital, and rehabilitation color teams as well as the spirit of the event. Dance Marathon is a 32-hour dance-a-thon to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network and will occur this weekend.

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BLOTTER FRIDAY 3:01 A.M.

Armond D. Lindsey, 23, of Fremont, Ohio, was cited for operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

3:09 A.M.

Bradley J. Kreinbrink, 21, of Glandorf, Ohio, was cited for refusing to take a breathalyzer test and failure to follow marked lanes while driving on East Wooster Street.

3:50 A.M.

A male was reported assaulted on South Main Street. The victim reported two males assaulted him and attempted to take his wallet.

4:40 P.M.

Brittany M. Riggs, 23, of Bloomdale, Ohio, was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and abuse of marijuana.

11:00 P.M.

Jason M. Grau, 19, and Thomas Aaron Duris, 18, both of Bowling Green, were arrested for a nuisance party and providing a place for underage consumption of alcohol. Lucas A. Staebell, 20, of Bowling Green; Mary L. Kelly, 19, of Perrysburg; Matthew A. Simonetti, of Dayton; Ryan N. Munch, 19, of Northwood, Ohio; and Brittany E. Manders, 19, of Bowling Green, were all arrested for underage under the influence of alcohol.

11:56 P.M.

Katelyn M. Gagen, 20, of Bowling Green, was arrested for open container, underage possession of alcohol and possession of drug paraphernalia. Christopher W. Wickard, 22, of Bowling Green, was cited for open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle.

SATURDAY 4:02 P.M.

The front passenger side tire of a vehicle parked on South Mercer Street was reported slashed.

SUNDAY 12:46 P.M.

Michael C. Spears, 18, of Fremont, Ohio, was arrested for obstructing official business. Chavella M. Gomez, 20, of Fremont, Ohio, was arrested for underage under the influence of alcohol.

2:15 A.M.

Nathan James Hartbarger, 21, of Temperance, Mich., was cited for operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

2:52 A.M.

Christopher J. Mtcastle, 28, of McClure, Ohio, was cited for disorderly conduct for urinating on North Main Street.

4:06 A.M.

Jordan Thomas Charles Helper, 19, of Bowling Green, was cited for disorderly conduct while intoxicated and underage under the influence.

6:09 A.M.

A female reported her apartment was ransacked after she passed out by a man she took home the night before. According to police reports, several items were also missing including a laptop, several debit cards and the keys to her vehicle.

8:13 P.M.

A Frazee Avenue apartment was reported broken into and items stolen.

MONDAY 1:29 A.M.

The window of a vehicle parked on Klotz Road was reported shot by a BB gun.

4:05 A.M.

Chad L. Hoover, 28, of Bowling Green, was arrested for robbery for threatening a man on East Wooster Street and demanding money.

Police said no money was taken and no weapons were brandished.

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ADAMS From Page 1 Timothy Messer-Kruse, the ethnic studies chair.

They say Adams was persecuted within the department for his views.

In an e-mail, Messer-Kruse declined to comment on the decision.

Last June the “Justice” committee held a vocal protest on campus before marching into that day’s University Board of Trustees meeting.

That day they met with College of Arts and Sciences Dean Don Nieman and Mark Gromko, then interim provost, for more than an hour of intense discussion, but remained unsatisfied with the

administrators’ responses.

Adams said the hearing didn’t go as well as he had planned.

“I was aware the minute the hearing was over we had lost,” Adams said. “We didn’t present our case effectively enough.”

But he was grateful for the support he received in the last several months, saying it proved “I am a man of integrity ... and I am a good teacher.”

“I appreciate, I truly appreciate, all the support I received from all the people on this campus,” Adams said.

He said he focused too much in the hearing on questioning whether he was given due process in the rehiring process and not enough on his argument that his academic qualifications were passed over.

Indeed, the “Justice” com-

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activities for the children,” she said.

Senior Joseph Goree said students involved in Dance Marathon get a lot out of the experience too.

“Dance Marathon can be just as rewarding for the people involved as it is for the kids,” he said.

Senior Alicia Crawford said she hopes this year’s event will inspire more students to get involved next year.

“I hope that this year we reach out to a larger group of people, that we want to come to the event and spread information about the Children’s Miracle Network,” Crawford said.

The Children’s Miracle Network, a non-profit organization, has helped to raise nearly a billion dollars for children in need of hospital care since its founding in 1983.

Dance Marathon isn’t just a BGSU phenomenon.

The University of Iowa, the University of California - Los Angeles and the University of North Carolina — among others — also sponsor similar events.

The amount of money raised by each one of the events goes towards a local area hospital.

an agonizing question: “Why does it seem that the good guys are the first ones to fall?”

On Easter night, the sad milestone of 4,000 American deaths in the Iraq war was reached with an announcement by the U.S. military that four U.S. soldiers had been killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad.

As the toll approached 4,000, Wainwright and hundreds of other military chaplains in Iraq and across America wrestled with hard questions constantly.

These are the men and women who pray with the mortally wounded, who administer last rites on bomb-scarred roads, who sit at kitchen tables with grieving families back home.

Army chaplains such as Wainwright have been especially busy: Almost threefourths of those who have died in Iraq were in the Army. Of the total lost in all services, more than 30 were just 18 years old; about 80 were older than 45, according to the military. Nearly 100 were women. A quarter of those who died were from just three states: California, Texas and New York.

But for every number, there is a name, and for every name, a husband or son, wife or daughter whose life is remembered, often by a chaplain.

“I’m the guy who knows all their stories,” Wainwright says.

“Of all the people in the battalion, the chaplain is the one who should know a little about everybody.”

In 14 months in Iraq, Wainwright comforted countless grieving soldiers, composed handwritten notes to families and conducted memorials, including one for Neel held last year at a concrete-barricaded chapel.

“I remember them all,” he says.

Military chaplains don’t carry weapons, don’t engage in combat, and yet they know as well as any the human cost of war.

Here are two of their stories: ——— When Kevin Wainwright arrived in Iraq in October 2006, it was his second deployment — he had served with the North Carolina National Guard two years earlier. This time he shipped out from Fort Hood, Texas.

The Army captain knew what the dangers were, but he was optimistic.

“I think we all go over there believing ... we’re going to be that battalion that doesn’t lose

CITY

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Death of man at home investigated

The Bowling Green Police Division is investigating the cause of death of a resident at the Dunn Family Home, a care center for the mentally ill.

Terry E. Snyder, 65, of Bowling Green, was found dead in a bathtub at 3:48 p.m. yesterday.

No further information was available at press time.

Police arrest two for possession of fire arms

Bowling Green police arrested two men yesterday morning for possession of three firearms which were reported stolen from an apartment on South Main Street earlier that night.

Bobby Combs Jr., 25, of Bowling Green, and Gabriel Delacerda, 18, of Maumee, were found in possession of two rifles, a shotgun and two 12-inch knives. Both were arrested for receiving stolen property and transported to Wood County Justice Center.

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dissented from the decision gave him some conciliation.

“I give credit ... to the hundreds who signed that petition,” he said. “No one knows who they are, no one talks about the petition, but they were not phantom people who came to that petition to sign it.”

Lam said the future of the committee was in doubt, but that the case reflected a need for students to remain involved in what happens at the University.

“Students are not politically conscious,” he said. “They’re not. They’re totally unconscious, they’re almost dead.”

“When you go to the classroom, you would normally assume that the teacher in there is very good, but I think [the University] didn’t care,” Lam said.

mittee frequently argued that the Department of Ethnic Studies ignored scores of glowing student evaluations when they declined to offer Adams a new contract.

An unsigned minority opinion from the hearing committee agreed.

“It is of concern to the committee that the five successful candidates’ record of teaching success is highlighted in the memo to the dean recommending their hire, but nothing is mentioned about Dr. Adams’ strong credentials in this area,” the opinion says.

Errol Lam, an emeritus faculty and head of the committee, said he had been optimistic about the hearing.

Lam said the fact that some members of the grievance board

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FINAL GOODBYE: Sgt. Major Chris Rodrigue pays his final respects to Sgt. Jose Gomez during his funeral service in 2006. Sgt. Gomez was killed by a roadside bomb.

unexpected help soothing souls.

One day, he was trying to counsel a soldier when Eddie, a bomb-sniffing dog with a pitiful look, walked by. The distressed soldier petted the golden Labrador and instantly brightened.

“I was trying to come up with some theologically significant interpretation of a life crisis,” Wainwright says, “but that dog did more ministry in 10 seconds that I could do in a month.”

——— Sometimes he arrived by foot, other times by helicopter, but Chaplain Jesus Perez always had the same feeling when he visited a morgue in Iraq.

“I had this sensation of emptiness,” he says. “The place is so cold, even colder than you expect. You’re losing somebody you probably know, or at least a brother in arms. But when you’re there with your commander and rendering honor to the soldier who died, it’s a solemn moment in the life of everyone in that room.”

In 14 months, the Fort Hood chaplain prayed over 56 fallen soldiers.

After the salutes and prayers were over, Perez, 43, always lingered behind.

“I’d wait for everybody to leave, then I’d cry like a baby,” he says. “I tried not to show my emotions in front of the other soldiers. I wanted to be strong for them. But when I was by myself, I cried. ... That was my way of coping with the situation.”

As chaplain for the Army’s 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, Perez conducted several memorial ceremonies. He comforted the survivors, then took care of himself by talking with another chaplain or counselor.

“I had to protect myself from burnout,” he says. “There comes a time after you hear so many are dead, you become frustrated, there’s some anger.”

anyone,” Wainwright says.

That didn’t happen.

Of the deaths in Iraq, more than 1 in 10 have come from sprawling Fort Hood, including some very personal losses for the chaplain: One was an airman he had given Communion to days before he was killed, one a soldier he had accompanied on patrol, another he had joined for dinner.

Wainwright was familiar with the rhythms of life and death as a Presbyterian minister serving churches in Wisconsin and the Carolinas.

But war was different. “It’s personal,” he says. “They WANT to kill you.”

And each soldier’s death, Wainwright says, took a toll.

“As a chaplain,” he says, “you lose part of yourself that you’re never going to get back.”

As chaplain for the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, Wainwright, 38, sometimes joined soldiers on patrols. He also tended to the injured.

He was there to tell one wounded soldier after he regained consciousness that five of his comrades had died.

Wainwright sat with him for hours, then gently told the survivor: “I’m glad you made it and you’re here.”

He also was there to clutch the wrist of another soldier dying from shrapnel wounds to the head. He prayed in a circle with his friends, then stepped aside so everyone could say goodbye.

Amid so much death, Wainwright remained steadfast in his beliefs.

“My faith is not a stack of cards — it’s rock solid,” he says.

“That doesn’t mean I didn’t grieve and think this guy is never going to know what it’s like to be married or be a father. ... It hits home, too. You have those fears yourself. What would a loss be like for your own family? But if you dwell on that, it makes you less effective as a chaplain.”

Wainwright smiles as he recalls the time he had some

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FAKE From Page 1 often, said Michael Ginsburg, interim associate dean of students and a member of the Office of Student Discipline staff.

He estimated the University finds students with off-campus fake ID violations a few times a week.

According to the BGSU Student Handbook 20072008, once an incident is reported, the student is brought in to read through the report and to discuss the code of student conduct violation with the office.

From there the student has two options, Ginsburg said.

A student can accept responsibility for the crime and be given a sanction, which is usually a warning or probation in addition to some sort of reflection project or community service that will teach them not to commit the offense again, or they can ask for a formal hearing, in which case they fight the charge before the University Discipline Committee and await the decision of the dean of students, he said.

The incident goes in a student’s educational file if they’re given a warning or probation and also on a final transcript if the student is suspended.

Ginsburg said the University believes in progressive sanctioning, so the more times a student is brought before the committee, the more severe the sanction.

It’s not worth it to use fake IDs because the consequences outweigh drinking alcohol for a night, he said.

Since fake ID offenses occur so often, it calls into question whether students know the seriousness of the offense.

Freshman Katie Barlak said fake IDs are probably more common than she thinks.

“I think they’re dumb,” she said.

Bowling Green Sgt. Jason Stanley said fake ID use is fairly common among college students and city police usually get around three to four fake ID calls a night on the weekends.

Ginsburg said some students might not take the law seriously because they don’t think the bars care, when in reality, the bars are liable and face legal ramifications of their own if they sell to underage individuals.

Joe Kostelnik, owner of Campus Quarters bar and convenience store in Bowling Green, credits the strict and good reputation of his business for the decrease in fake ID use this past year, saying they’ve confiscated less IDs this year than in previous years.

Workers at Campus Quarters know how to look for fake IDs because of Kostelnik’s training.

Girls always lie about their weight and guys lie about their height on fake IDs, he said, adding that eye color can be an indicator too.

If the worker doesn’t think the ID is legitimate, they ask the person to repeat their information and will confiscate the ID if they think it’s fake and will turn it into the police the next day.

“Nine times out of 10, the person just walks out the door [when their ID is confiscated],” Kostelnik said.

He also said most students probably don’t know that using an ID borrowed from a friend is less severe than faking their own documents.

In order to prevent liquor establishments from selling alcohol to people underage, the Bowling Green Police Division provides free Liquor Establishment Employee Training twice a year. Employees of businesses that sell alcoholic beverages are encouraged to attend, but the training is also open to the public at no cost.

“In all crime you don’t catch 100 percent,” White said, “but we can do better in identifying [fake IDs] by educating bar owners.”

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Autism no longer an obstacle for students seeking college degree

By Robin Erb MCT

DETROIT — If college were purely academic, 16-year-old Cullen Kappel would have no worries.

But the mostly straight-A student who studies astrophysics just for fun knows his challenge at college will be in what happens between classes.

Cullen has Asperger’s syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism.

Like others with Asperger’s, he tends to hyper-focus on topics, can be thrown off-kilter with a slight change to his routine and has a tough time deciphering conversation cues.

“I feel a bit socially challenged,” said the junior at Clarkston High School.

Now, universities across the state and the country are reaching out to students with autism and related disorders as their numbers grow rapidly — thanks to early treatment of the disorders in children.

The schools are setting up

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AUTISTIC GRADUATES: Tim Hull, 22, a senior at the University of Michigan, sits in a lobby on campus in Ann Arbor. Hull has autism and will graduate this year with a double major in history and computer science.

peer mentoring programs, having one-on-one interventions and working with housing officials, campus security and professors to help them understand why some students might seem quirky, rude or out of place.

Students with Asperger’s syndrome are some of the highest-

functioning among those with autism, many with above-average intelligence, “all the way to brilliant,” said Jane Thierfeld Brown, director of student services at the University of Connecticut’s law school. She’s coauthoring a book, “Students with Asperger’s Syndrome in Higher Education.”

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Dealer who sold campus shooters their guns aligns himself with ‘Concealed Carry on Campus’

By Erica Perez MCT

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — If gun dealer Eric Thompson had his way, college students would carry more than just books.

In his vision, the next college shooter is thwarted by a student armed with one of Thompson’s guns — averting a massacre, saving lives.

Thompson’s Internet-based business TGSCOM Inc. sold weapons to the shooters at both Northern Illinois and Virginia Tech universities. First, he said, he felt grief for the victims.

Then, a sense of resolve. Not to stop selling guns, but to advocate for guns on campus.

“The perfect situation is that nothing ever happens like that again,” Thompson said. “... But in a last-ditch scenario, you are able to protect yourself.”

Now he is partnering with Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, a national group that next month will hold an “empty-holster” protest against university gun-free zones.

Thompson will donate holsters to the group, adding a high-profile touch to a small but growing push for guns on campus.

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, born after Virginia Tech, has grown to 22,000 members. And at least 14 states — not including Wisconsin — are considering legislation to allow concealed weapons on campus.

Critics decry the idea, say-

“I sort of wish that those students had the opportunity to protect themselves.”

Michael Neiduski | Marquette student ing it would only increase violence on campus. Educators have responded to high-profile college shootings by adding security measures such as textmessage alerts and bolstering mental health services such as counseling and advising.

The movement faces a double hurdle in Wisconsin and Illinois — the only two states that bar concealed weapons for the public. But that hasn’t stopped Students for Concealed Carry on Campus from sprouting up at Marquette and Lawrence universities and Madison Area Technical College.

Marquette senior Michael Neiduski, 21, grieved for friends of friends who died when shooter Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people at Virginia Tech last April.

“I was in mourning and sadness for that,” Neiduski said. “... Along with that, I sort of wish that those students had the opportunity to protect themselves.”

That’s when Neiduski joined Students for Concealed Carry, becoming its leader at Marquette. He and about 15 stu-

dents wrote letters to U.S. senators and to pro-gun groups like the National Rifle Association, urging support for concealedcarry laws.

Neiduski grew up hunting and fishing in Massachusetts.

His father and grandfather had concealed-carry permits because they believed strongly in the Second Amendment and the Boy Scout mantra, “Be Prepared.” His father’s work as a property owner required that he carry large amounts of cash.

Neiduski’s family is also no stranger to violence. His grandparents were once held at gunpoint at their home in Florida. His grandfather was stabbed to death by a family acquaintance.

“Everybody thinks, ‘That can’t happen to me,’” Neiduski said. “Whereas for me ... I’m aware it can.”

Some 29 states, including Wisconsin, bar concealed weapons on campus. In other states, almost all universities ban concealed weapons. The only state that allows it is Utah, which has nine public campuses.

Wisconsin state Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, said no bills have been introduced this session in Wisconsin proposing a concealed-carry permit.

“I think the premise that the one-in-a-million times that you might use it to sort of repel a berserk person on campus is more than offset by the fact that if you allowed (guns) on campus you’d have many more incidences of

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Have you ever considered getting a fake ID?

“Yes, to drink when I was 18 — a couple of years ago.”

“I had one, it was from Virginia. I was trying to be 18 when I was 16.”

“Yes, when I was in high school, I was 17.

Everybody went to a club and I couldn’t go.”

“I’ve thought about it, but I’ve never really needed to get one.”

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A laundry list of plans and goals

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Ending apathy toward USG

JAKE GALLARDO AND SEAN CRISAFI

JEREMY LEHMAN AND LEO ALMEIDA

JARELL S. POTTS AND SARAH SHEPHERD

JOHN WAYNICK AND SUNDEEP MUTGI

Sean and I are offering proactive and creative leadership to our students.

We are going to run a program-based, resultsdriven and engaging student government next semester.

We will tackle the rising cost of textbooks, lack of grocery shuttle service and absence of vibrancy on campus with specific programs. We will start a campus-wide Rent-A-Textbook program, student grocery bus and live concert weekends. Sean and I have done our research on how to come up with specific solutions to those pressing problems.

Every semester University students pay $300 to $2,000 to get their textbooks. Sixteen weeks later, they sell their books for $15 or $10.

Meanwhile, a student taking 12 credit hours at the University of Wisconsin rents their textbooks and only pays $65 in one semester. UW has a successful textbook rental program for its students.

A campus-wide Rent-A-Textbook program modeled after UW is our solution to the rising cost of textbooks. We will seek technical assistance from the Lumina Foundation and Jerome Library. Sean and I are going to collaborate with the Faculty Senate, colleges and departments at the University.

A textbook endowment fund is another solution that we will pursue to the increasing textbook prices. Sean and I are going to start a fundraising

The Undergraduate Student Government is the official voice of the undergraduate students of the University. This means that the people elected to represent the students have to not only correspond with the student body, but with the administration as well.

If this correspondence is not built on integrity and trust, then it will be close to impossible for USG to truly be the voice of the students. In addition, USG members work on issues that are

First off, let me thank you for reading this guest column. I hope this column will show why I am running to be your USG President and why you should consider electing our team.

Three years ago, I (Jarell) moved from the home of LeBron James — Akron, Ohio — to the home of the National Tractor Pull — Bowling Green, Ohio — to attend BGSU. The first few weeks were rough, but soon I discovered what the University had to offer.

The experience of coming to this University has been the best opportunity of my life. I am on track to graduate with a degree in political science, something I never dreamed of five years ago.

I owe it to this University, and to the students that comprise it, to make sure students who follow will have their lives impacted the way my life has been.

USG has great potential and has made strides in the right direction. The shuttle bus placed in the Union Oval advertising our downtown shut-

Cynicism, anger and confusion.

Unfortunately, these are just a few of the many feelings that come to people’s minds when they hear the acronym “USG.” However, USG has the potential to truly be both a voice and advocate for the students at the University.

If elected, our first goal will be to capture the voice of the students in a “Student Bill of Rights.”

Several other universities have drafted such a Bill of Rights to include everything from protection against unreasonable tuition increases to a stronger voice in campus decision making.

Also, we would place a high importance on issues such as decreasing textbook costs

“If 100, 1,000 or 10,000 students bring an issue to us, then it is definitely worth a significant amount of hard work.”

campaign to create the endowment fund. The textbook fund will give us money to provide $50 and $100 book scholarships.

Once elected, Sean and I are going to start raising money on March 31. We will collaborate with the BGSU Foundation and Office of Development in this fundraising effort.

There are plenty of students who don’t have cars. Our students are struggling to find someone to take them to Meijer, Wal-Mart and Main Street businesses such as Panera, the post office, Staples, etc. Calling and asking their friends to give them a ride is difficult for both of them.

The Student Grocery Bus is our solution to this problem. The grocery bus is a dedicated shuttle

brought to them by the students to fulfill the needs of the University as a whole.

That is why we, Jeremy Lehman and Leo Almeida, want to be your next president and vice president.

We believe that we can utilize our past five years of combined experience to “make a difference, one student at a time.” In light of our experience, we have already built the trust of both students and the administration.

We have worked to represent the students in a variety of capacities that have allowed us to develop the correspondence discussed earlier.

Not only have we served the student body as senators, we have also served on a variety of University standing committees and have helped start new organizations and programs.

Jeremy helped with the establishment of the Alpha Tau Omega leadership fraternity and the Student Money Management Service, and Leo assisted in the creation of the Bowling Green Teen Center and is currently working with a group of students to establish an Ethnic Student Center.

We have been involved in these new initiatives because other students recognized our abilities and drive as student leaders. We want to continue working for the students as president and vice president because we know that even more students will come to us to help them with their issues and concerns.

Student issues are extremely important to us.

We believe that if 100, 1,000 or 10,000 students

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“We will tackle the rising cost of textbooks, lack of grocery shuttle service and absence of vibrancy on campus.”

“The best power we have is the ability to unite students around a shared cause and present a unified voice to the administration.”

“We have prided ourselves on realistic goals and it is not as though they are lofty or pipe dreams.”

tle plan is the result of USG work. The Academic Affairs committee is also working very closely with the University to establish student-run instructor evaluations, giving you a free alternative to services such as Pick-A-Prof.

These are just two of the issues we have been tackling this year. These are both great moves, and I am sure they both will have an effect on this campus.

However, the biggest issue facing us as a student government is the lack of student awareness of who we are and what we do. Without student support and a united voice, USG has very little power or influence.

The best power we have is the ability to unite students around a shared cause and present a unified voice to the administration. It takes a campus community to make the change we desire to see.

We are committed to working to bridge this gap between the student government and the

through an innovative idea involving increased book-buying options.

We are also the only candidates who have talked about a continuity plan with issues such as instructor evaluations, making sure that all the hard work of this past year in USG does not go to waste next fall.

We want to work towards improving simple transportation issues, such as filling a few potholes that are big enough to get lost in.

And we are the only candidates who are currently working on and will continue to work toward improving organizational reimbursement procedures.

You have heard them say it before. “If elected, we will put USG back on the map, making it a powerful entity that effectively advocates your feelings to the administration.”

But we understand that every year all the candidates say this, that every year they tell you that USG is broken and they are the ones who are going to fix it. And yet, every year there are articles in The BG News, just like the one that prompted this response, calling USG ineffective.

And so in order for USG to shake this stigma it is time for vision, it is time for plans, and most importantly, it is time for realistic goals that can be achieved and can show campus that USG really

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Staring death in the face ZACH FRANKS COLUMNIST

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While we all deal with death in our own way, it is safe to say that most of us get the same gutretching feeling when we learn of the passing of loved ones and acquaintances.

I don’t know how many deaths the normal American deals with in his or her lifetime, but it seems that I have far surpassed many of my fellow civilians. I am not looking for any sympathy here

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— I am quite comfortable with the idea of death, seeing as how it is inescapable.

What I am looking for is for a lot more compassion and a lot more accountability. I shall explain.

Like most young adults, I have had to deal with elder members of my family passing away.

Unlike most young adults, at least from a rural perspective, I have watched many classmates pass away much too young.

For some reason the class I graduated high school with has been very unlucky. We have lost a classmate on the average of one every other year since the fifth grade, and I only graduated with

about 145.

While many lose classmates through the years, and some lose multiple classmates at once, it seems that the rate at which our graduating class lost them, especially for our size and location, is a quite ridiculous.

I know that larger schools and ones in more urbanized areas have experienced a great deal of loss when it comes to the passing of classmates, but I am always concerned by the lack of change in behaviors in the student body.

It seems like when you lose someone to a car accident you

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FRANKS From Page 4 are more likely to wear your seatbelt, and less likely to drive intoxicated, at least for a while.

The problem is that the memory of the accident eventually fades and you are right back to making the same decisions that you did before the fateful event.

When somebody close to you dies from cancer, you promise to quit smoking, live healthier or visit your physician more often.

These things often fade away as well, leaving you just as prone to the same fate as you were before.

Many of us do make these changes and promises permanent, just not enough of us.

There should also be some concern as to the compassion that is due to those who have lost somebody close to them.

It seems that every night the local news stations are covering a story of somebody who died, and they always want a comment from the family. Talk about bad timing.

“I am all for an accurate reporting of news, but how much information is too much information?”

I am all for spreading the word of how important a loved one was to me, but making that statement to a reporter who is looking to grab a good story, and not provide comfort, would be unbearable. That’s usually when they go bother your neighbors and coworkers to see what they think of the death, and the life the person lived usually takes a back seat.

A week after I returned from California, I received news that an old classmate had been found murdered near where I had been visiting shortly after I had returned home. He wasn’t a best friend, but we had hung out occasionally throughout school, his sister was also in our class, and I had worked with his father on occasion.

What bothered me most about his passing was the fact that he

was murdered. I felt my gut turn upside down when I heard that word, and I could not stop thinking of how his family felt.

Another old friend of mine sent me a correspondence containing newspaper clippings and media quotes about the situation. The papers and quotes relentlessly referred to him as homeless, which even if true is a despicable term to use for someone who just brutally lost his life.

Does that distinction even need to be made? What difference does it make? I’m sure it didn’t change the way his family felt about him, or how much they cared for him.

Is that the distinction the Los Angeles Police Department makes in dealing with investigations and deciding which ones to pursue thoroughly? I am fairly sure this wasn’t even his situation,

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and his family surely didn’t need to hear their son referred to in such a manner.

I am all for an accurate reporting of news, but where is the line drawn in terms of how much information is too much information?

We should all use a lot more compassion when dealing with such emotional subject matters, and though we may not be directly accountable for what we say, we should always put ourselves in place of the other person and consider how our choices will affect them.

If we would all just keep others in mind, the compassion would flow from it.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Downtown shuttle could be just a vote away Curious as to why there’s a shuttle bus in the middle of the Union Oval?

Fear not, it’s just your Undergraduate Student Government hard at work.

This spring, a shuttle ad-hoc committee was formed and we’ve been busy trying to get students what they want: A shuttle that encompasses more students’ needs.

As a member of this committee I’m proud to let my fellow students know what we are working on.

This week, on the USG ballot, a student referendum is being conducted to gather student support on a no-more-than $20 per semester transportation (which wouldn’t take effect until the 20092010 school year — and would need to get passed by the Board of Trustees to go into effect).

The fee would help provide things like an additional full-time route that travels to downtown

Bowling Green, improvements to our parking lots, improvements to our current buses, the ability to purchase new buses in the future, more stops in residential areas, and extended shuttle service hours and days of operation.

The committee estimates it will take three to five years for all of these changes to go into effect.

We are also looking into changing the North Route for the 2008-09 school year, with University Police Chief James Wiegand’s continued support

and help, to have more stops in the downtown vicinity.

As always, we welcome student input and are extremely excited for the referendum — it can be found on the USG home page (http://www.bgsu. edu/offices/sa/studentgovernment/usg/USG_Home.html) on the rotating banner.

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GALLARDO From Page 4 service that will transport students from the University to Meijer, Wal-Mart and Main Street. It will cost us $365 a day and $38,000 a year to run the shuttle.

We are going to raise money to pay for the grocery bus.

We are not going to rely on University and Ohio’s state budgets. Sean and I are thinking outside the box!

We will collaborate with the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce to find sponsors for our grocery bus. We will team up with the Shuttle Service to get

POTTS From Page 4 student body.

We are passionate about earning your respect and trust so we can represent you and work for your interest. Until we gain your respect, we will continue to have this discussion every March.

Our team has plans for next year that we feel will make a lasting impact across this campus.

We are committed to uniting the student voice on dining services and the end of rollover.

Dining Services has made their stance clear. It is time we create ours so we make our needs

LEHMAN From Page 4 bring an issue to us, then it is definitely worth a significant amount of time and hard work to solve the issue.

At the same time, we believe that if one or two students bring an issue before us, it is worth the same significant time and hard work as the issue brought to us by multiple students. During our campaign, we have talked with some organizations

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advertising on our shuttle to generate additional revenue.

Our student life is very stressful. Being a student is like having a full-time job.

Sean and I are going to make the first weekend and the weekend before finals week as Live Concert Weekends every semester. We are going to make University a vibrant campus. We will have fun while learning.

We will start live entertainment programs such as Battle of the Bands, karaoke nights and dance competitions. Inviting our world-class orchestra, choirs and singers from the College of Musical Arts is one way to have live performers.

We will collaborate with Cru

to bring talented local performers. We are going to team up with UAO to bring big-time performers.

We will ask our professors, staff and administrators to showcase their talents in our live weekend concerts. We will find out next semester which of our professors can groove on the dance floor. This is an opportunity for our professors, staff and administrators to connect with our student body.

Let us share something about ourselves.

I founded Students Initiative for Global Competitiveness to inspire University students to become globally competitive.

I was very successful in raising

$10,500 and invited a deputy news director at Time Magazine to speak at our conference.

This year, I raised $11,500 and I’m bringing a senior vice president at Yahoo! to speak to University students on April 19.

Sean is the Kreischer-Compton Darrow Hall Council president.

Last year, he was Delta Chi Community Service chairman. He previously helped in Congressman Tim Ryan’s campaign at Mahoning County. Sean was junior class president and track and field team captain in high school.

Together, we can inspire and deliver change!

Vote to make a difference!

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known to the administration.

Secondly, Jarell will donate $1,000 of his stipend back to the University to start a fund, if elected your USG president.

The Presidential Campus Improvement fund will be used for you, the student, for campus improvements and programs.

Leadership is more than a title but rather an opportunity to serve and give back.

We also look forward to evaluating our parking services and making sure the space available reflects our needs as students.

We want to work with Parking and Traffic to open up Lot 8 near Offenhauer for commuter students during the day. Many

spaces go unused there each day and commuter students would avoid receiving tickets and being late to class.

We also look forward to seeing a shuttle take students to downtown Bowling Green.

The shuttle ad-hoc committee, which Jarell has been working on, has worked very closely with University Police Chief James Weigand and Parking and Traffic to come up with a plan we are confident will get us the services we need. You can help us by voting “yes” on the shuttle referendum on the USG election ballot.

In the words of Barack Obama, “our time is now.”

Consider this more than asking for just your vote but rather an invitation to join a movement.

This election is about what we can do together as a united student body. We are committed to keeping you informed through programs, flyers, e-mails, Facebook, MySpace, face-to-face discussion and The BG News.

We need you to hold us accountable for doing what we are elected to do. Can we do this by ourselves? The honest answer is no. Can we do this together?

Yes we can.

Thanks for reading and we humbly ask that you consider us for your next USG Presidential team.

that do not have more than 10 or 15 students; which tells them, and you, that we are dedicated to working with every student.

USG’s most pressing issue is working on the issues that the students want changed the most. For instance, the policy change to take away rollover has already been approved by our university. Even though we were against it, as was USG as a whole, we have moved on to actually working to solve the issue.

Due to Jeremy’s involve-

ment on the Food Advisory Board, we have been working on a compromise with Dining Services to make this transition easier. One of the ideas is

to have a lower meal plan, so that students do not have the burden of paying for something they do not need.

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a president and vice president that have, in the past, worked on issues instead of just talking about them, who are invested in the success of the students, who want to make a difference, and who know what departments and which administrators to talk to when a student issue does arise.

The student body needs the dedication, knowledge and experience of Jeremy Lehman and Leo Almeida in the presidency of the Undergraduate Student Government.

WAYNICK From Page 4 is there to look out for the students.

We have prided ourselves on realistic goals and it is not as though they are lofty or pipe dreams. In fact we already have the enthusiastic approval from our administrative advisers to draft a “Student Bill of Rights,” we have been working diligently this year to improve current transportation issues for next year, as well as producing instructor evaluations for the students.

We believe that by building USG from the foundation up, we can shake this ineffective stigma and start showing the students and the administrators the Undergraduate Student Government is a force to be reckoned with.

So you know our issues, you know our goals, you know our mission. But if you still aren’t sure who to vote for, hear this: If elected, John Waynick and Sundeep Mutgi will bring a fresh face to the same old group of USG members who run year after year. We will strive to make an action and issue-based senate to better achieve the needs of the student body.

Most importantly, we will work unceasingly to make sure that one year from the day we are elected, when you have any problem or issue with the university, your first thought will be, “USG can help me solve this.”

It’s time for realism, it’s time for a fresh face, and it is time that USG starts making your needs our goals.

We appreciate any support you may offer us this week and encourage every member of the student body to vote.

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DETROIT — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other offenses yesterday — and got a stern lecture about the importance of telling the truth — after a trove of raunchy text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with his chief aide.

The 37-year-old “Hip-Hop Mayor” who brought youth and vitality to the job in this struggling city of 900,000 could get up to 15 years in prison for perjury alone and would be automatically expelled from office if convicted.

Ignoring mounting demands that he step down, Kilpatrick said: “I look forward to complete exoneration once all the facts have been brought forth. I will remain focused on moving this city forward.”

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy brought charges of perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and misconduct against the popular but polarizing mayor.

In announcing the charges, she delivered something of a civics lesson on the importance of telling the truth under oath.

“This case is about as far from being a private matter as one can get.”

Kim Worthy | Wayne County Prosecutor “Some have suggested that the issues in this case are personal or private,” said Worthy, a Democrat like the mayor. “Our investigation has clearly shown that public dollars were used, people’s lives were ruined, the justice system severely mocked and the public trust trampled on.”

She added: “This case is about as far from being a private matter as one can get.”

Kilpatrick’s former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, 37, who also denied under oath that she and Kilpatrick had an intimate relationship in 2002 and 2003, was charged with many of the same offenses. A call to her lawyer was not immediately returned. Beatty turned herself in for booking in the afternoon.

Kilpatrick is scheduled to be arraigned today. No trial date has been set.

The mayor’s lawyer, Dan Webb, said forcing Kilpatrick to resign now would punish him before he has had his day in court.

The charges could be the beginning of the end of Kilpatrick’s six-year career as the youngest man elected mayor of Detroit, one of America’s largest and most troubled cities, with deeply entrenched poverty made worse by the downturn in the auto industry.

Worthy began her investigation in late January, the day after the Detroit Free Press published excerpts from 14,000 text messages that were sent or received in 2002-03 from Beatty’s cityissued pager.

The messages called into question testimony Kilpatrick and Beatty gave in a lawsuit filed by two police officers who alleged they were fired for investigating claims that the mayor used his security unit to cover up extramarital affairs.

In court, Kilpatrick and Beatty strongly denied having an intimate relationship, but the text messages reveal they carried on a flirty, sometimes sexually explicit dialogue about where to meet and how to conceal their trysts.

Ohio National Guard readies for largest state troop mobilization to Iraq, Kuwait since World War II

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FORT HOOD, Texas — A call to duty shields the Ohio Army National Guard’s 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team from the rhetoric in a presidential election year and makes moot for them the debate about bringing troops home.

Right after the Iraq war’s fifth anniversary, all that the 37th cares about is leaving central Texas and going to the Middle East to fulfill its mission — as soon as possible.

“We’re really ready to go,” said Capt. Tony McCarty, a Columbus resident. “It’s kind of a running joke: You’ve never been so anxious to leave your own country before.”

The brigade, based in Columbus, will fulfill its collective desire soon after a deployment ceremony Thursday at Fort Hood, where the 2,500 troops just completed more than 80 days of training to prepare for nine months in Kuwait and Iraq.

The deployment is the largest Ohio troop mobilization abroad since World War II, when the 37th went to the South Pacific.

It represents a transformation in the way the U.S. military uses the Guard, from a strictly reserve force to more of a regular component of the active-duty Army.

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Executive tries to discredit witness in $1.9 billion corporate fraud case

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins The Associated Press

COLUMBUS — The government’s chief target in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud case took the stand yesterday to criticize a former employee he is accused of trying to bribe to give favorable testimony.

Former health care executive Lance Poulsen testified that the key prosecution witness — Sherry Gibson, former executive vice president at National Century Financial Enterprises — didn’t get along with other employees. He said two employees accused her of being physically and sexually abusive toward them. Poulsen did not give details.

Gibson’s attorney, Terry Sherman, said he’d never heard the allegations and would not

have his client respond to them.

“It appears to me that Lance Poulsen has every reason to demean Sherry Gibson any way he can ...,” Sherman said by telephone. “It sounds to me like he’s trying to get the jury to take the eye off the ball.”

After the witness tampering trial, Poulsen goes on trial in August on multiple charges of conspiracy, securities and wire fraud and money laundering.

The government alleges he misled investors about unsecured loans his company was providing health care companies such as hospitals and nursing homes.

Before that trial, he is defending himself against charges that he and longtime acquaintance Karl Demmler, a Columbus bar and restaurant owner, teamed up to persuade Gibson to help Poulsen beat the fraud case

Background checks among reasons for slow moving recruitment of foster parents

By Terry Kinney The Associated Press

CINCINNATI — Efforts to recruit foster parents in three southwest Ohio counties have foundered since the death of a child who was bound and left in a closet.

Tough background checks were instituted to weed out bad risks, but the increased scrutiny also led good prospective foster parents to walk away.

“There’s been a negative stigma attached to foster parenting,” said Brian Gregg, spokesman for the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. “A lot of people have gotten out of it because of that; they don’t want the extra scrutiny.”

Some background checks have uncovered serious offenses, such as child endangering or felonious assault; others show minor traffic violations. The checks have

“There’s been a negative stigma attached to foster parenting.”

Brian Gregg | Spokesman spooked people with any sort of record, Gregg said.

Hamilton County has contracts with about 260 private foster homes, about one-third fewer than two years ago, Gregg said.

Background checks came about after the August 2006 death of Marcus Fiesel, a 3-yearold developmentally delayed boy who was placed by Butler County with a couple in Clermont County. Both counties border Hamilton County.

The boy died when he was bound and left in a closet while his foster parents, who were con-

victed of his murder, attended a weekend family reunion in Kentucky. Investigators later found the couple’s background should have raised numerous red flags about their fitness to be foster parents.

A year ago, Hamilton County created a system to compare the names of foster parents, and those who applied to be foster parents, with police and court records. The system was expanded last fall to include national databases.

To make up for its shortfall, Hamilton County kicked off a $1 million campaign in January to recruit 100 new foster homes.

The TV ads show ordinary people in tights and a cape performing everyday functions, like washing dishes or taking out the trash.

It calls them “Everyday Heroes” whose status is confirmed by their willingness to take foster children into their homes.

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GETTING READY: Ohio Army National Guard Col. Richard Curry reviews Arabic translation papers at a simulated Iraqi city at Fort Hood, Texas, yesterday.

“This is an opportunity for the 37th Infantry to continue to add to its lineage and honors,” said brigade commander Col. Richard Curry. In World War II, members of the 37th — then a division with 15,000 troops — received 9,800 Purple Hearts and seven Medals of Honor.

The majority of the brigade will be stationed in Kuwait. The roughly 1,600 infantry, artillery and support troops (medics, engineers and mechanics) from Ohio and 900 from Michigan

against him.

Poulsen is founder and former chief executive officer of National Century, once described as the country’s biggest health care financing company.

Poulsen took a two-pronged approach in his descriptions of Gibson during his testimony yesterday.

On the one hand, he described her as an unprofessional employee who betrayed him by agreeing to plead guilty and testify for the government. He also said she was mostly working for National Century in Tennessee in 2000 through 2002 and so would have known little about the company’s operations.

The first corporate fraud indictment against Poulsen in 2006 alleged dozens of counts of fraud.

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4 dead, 1 missing as fishing boat sinks “...did not have sufficient information to determine why the vessel foundered..They were incredibly brave, hard working men.”

By Rachel D’Oro The Associated Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A fishing boat sank off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Sunday, leaving four crew members including the captain dead and another missing, the Coast Guard said.

Forty-two of the 47 crew members on board the Seattle-based Alaska Ranger were rescued, but the search continued for the missing person, said Chief Petty Officer Barry Lane.

The 184-foot vessel started taking on water shortly before 3 a.m. after losing control of its rudder 120 miles west of Dutch Harbor, which is on Unalaska Island.

In a statement, the ship’s owner, the Fishing Company of Alaska, said it did “not have suf-

The Fishing Company of Alaska ficient information to determine why the vessel foundered.”

Seas with up to 8-foot waves and 25-knot winds were reported at the time the ship sank, Lane said. The Coast Guard was investigating the cause of the sinking, he said.

The company identified those killed as ship’s captain Eric Peter Jacobsen, chief engineer Daniel Cook, mate David Silveira and crewman Byron Carrillo.

“They were incredibly brave, hard working men. Our hearts are broken,” the company said.

The men’s ages and hometowns

were not released.

State environmental regulators were notified that the ship was carrying 145,000 gallons of diesel when it sank in deep seas, according to Leslie Pearson, emergency response manager for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.

An oil sheen covered an area of a quarter mile by a half mile, Coast Guard spokesman Ray Dwyer said. Because of the strong winds, however, any cleanup effort is unlikely, although those conditions would disperse a spill much

more quickly than calm weather, Pearson said.

Some of those on board the Alaska Ranger were heading to Dutch Harbor in the sunken vessel’s sister ship, the Alaska Warrior, with arrival expected sometime close to early yesterday. The vessel took part in the rescue operation along with two Coast Guard helicopters that were used to pluck crew members from life rafts, Lane said.

Other survivors were on board the Coast Guard cutter Munro, which remained at the scene to search for the missing crew member. A C-130 also remained to help search for the missing crew member, whose name was not released.

Coast Guard Lt. Eric Eggan said it was unknown how or when the four died.

Makah tribe members plead guilty to hunting gray whales Theron Parker, Andy Noel and William Secor took two motorboats into the strait and shot the California gray whale at least 16 times with at least one of the three high-powered rifles they had obtained from the tribe.

The men did not have the tribe’s permission for the hunt, nor did they have a federal permit to kill the whale, which eventually sank in the strait and was not harvested.

The five originally faced charges of conspiracy, unlawful taking of a marine mammal and unauthorized whaling, all punishable by up to a year in jail and a $100,000 fine. The killing was a public relations disaster for the tribe, which had been working with federal authorities to arrange a legal hunt, and Makah officials rushed to Washington, D.C., to assure the government they did not approve.

SEATTLE (AP)— Five members of the Makah Tribe who killed a gray whale during a rogue hunt off Washington state’s northwest coast have agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, their lawyer said yesterday.

Defense attorney Jack Fiander said the government agreed not to recommend jail time as part of the deal. Each defendant was scheduled to plead guilty later yesterday in U.S. District Court to one misdemeanor count of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Fiander said the men still believe they were acting within their tribal rights when they harpooned and shot the whale Sept. 8 in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. But they acknowledge there’s enough evidence for the court to convict them.

An indictment alleges Frankie Gonzales, Wayne Johnson,

Chinese-born engineer gets 24 years in export case

By Gillian Flaccus The Associated Press

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ALASKA: Alaskan fishing boat, Alaska Ranger, sunk on Sunday. Four people dead and one is still missing, but there were 47 lucky crew members rescued.

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love this country. I don’t believe I hurt this country,” Mak told the judge. “The truth is not like the one the prosecutor says. I still hope for justice.”

The judge said Mak lied on immigration security clearance forms and perjured himself .

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Chineseborn engineer convicted of conspiracy to export U.S. defense technology to China was sentenced yesterday to 24 years in federal prison by a judge who said the defendant betrayed his adopted country.

Chi Mak, 67, a naturalized U.S. citizen who worked on naval propulsion systems, was also convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent, attempting to violate export control laws and making false statements to the FBI. Federal prosecutors asked for 30 years, while Mak’s defense team proposed 10 years.

Mak asked U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney for leniency before sentencing. Four of Mak’s relatives, including his wife, pleaded guilty last year to related offenses in exchange for leniency.

“I don’t know so much about the law, but I feel I never intend to violate any law at all. I never intend to hurt my country. I

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WNIT Second Round: Michigan State 74 | BG 66

Falcons fall just short WNIT loss not the end for BG

BASKETBALL Achter on the short list for NCAA award BG women’s basketball point guard Kate Achter has been placed among the finalists for the State Farm Coaches’ All-America Team. The team will be officially announced at a press conference on the morning of April 5th.

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BASEBALL Falcons in Ann Arbor today After having a week’s worth of games canceled due to poor weather, the BG baseball team is back on the diamond this afternoon to face Michigan.

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SCHEDULE TODAY Softball: at Michigan State; postponed Baseball: at Michigan; 3 p.m.

OUR CALL Today in Sports History 1995—Mike Tyson is released from prison after a three-year sentence.

1982—Wayne Gretzky becomes the first NHL player to score 200 points in a season.

1972—UCLA wins its sixth straight NCAA men’s basketball title.

1668—The first horse race in America takes place.

The List The first weekend of March Madness is in the books.

Today, we’re listing the top five upsets from last week.

1. Davidson: Nobody expected Davidson to take down the Midwest Region’s No. 2 team, Georgetown.

2. San Diego: The Terreros beat the favored UCONN Huskies in overtime on Friday.

3. W. Kentucky: The Hilltoppers embarrassed Drake on Thursday.

4. Siena: Vanderbilt was favored to win, but Siena didn’t get the memo. They knocked the Commodores out in the first round.

5. West Virginia: The Mountaineers’ upset victory over Duke on Saturday may not have been as unexpected as Davidson over Georgetown, but it was still a feel-good story for any basketball fans who despise the Blue Devils.

BIG BLOCK: MSU center Allyssa DeHaan (right) blocks BG guard Kate Achter’s shot attempt during Saturday’s loss in East Lansing.

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A rally stalls and an era ends Prochaska, Keane give fans glimpse into bright futures at Michigan State

By Chris Voloschuk Sports Editor

By Chris Voloschuk Sports Editor

EAST LANSING, Mich. — With 15:51 to play in the second half of Saturday’s Women’s National Invitational Tournament second round game, Brittney Thomas of the Michigan State women’s basketball team laid the ball in to increase her team’s lead to 55-37 over BG. The Breslin Center was rocking, and BG head coach Curt Miller had no choice but to call a timeout to try and get his team resettled.

“We dug ourselves a hole.” Miller said. “In games at this level, with two very good teams, it’s one or two runs in a game that kill you.”

The game was getting out of hand, and the Falcons’ season was on the brink of being over sooner than the game itself.

Then the team woke up. For the next 14:08, the Falcons would outscore the Spartans 27-14 with threepointers and free throws. With 1:43 left in the game, MSU’s cushy 18point lead had nearly evaporated to just five.

But with the help of four offensive rebounds and a steal in the last minute of the game, MSU was able to hold off BG en route to a 74-66 home win.

“We were just a play or two short,” Miller said. “We just got

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Although the BG women’s basketball team fell short of beating Michigan State in the waning moments of regulation Saturday afternoon, the play of their host of young players continued to impress.

MSU was also paced by youth, with a freshman and a sophomore leading the team in points and rebounds.

While the big story of the game was the fact that it was the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament, a side story that may have gone fairly unnoticed was the stellar play of two freshmen.

On the one hand, there was BG guard Lauren Prochaska, who connected on five threepointers and finished with a game-high 24 points in 38 minutes of action. Her shots from beyond the arc allowed the Falcons to majorly cut into an 18-point MSU lead and get back in the game.

BG coach Curt Miller said he told Prochaska and the rest of the team to keep gunning.

“I was begging our kids to

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TRIPPED UP: Forward Lindsey Goldsberry hits the deck after a shot attempt.

beat on the boards a little bit down the stretch when we had a chance to get that rebound to get it to a single-digit game. We just came up a little bit short.”

Until the last minute of regulation, the game was still in doubt.

The fact that it would be the end of a great four-year run for BG seniors

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No matter the outcome of Saturday’s game, you should feel good about where the women’s basketball program is headed.

Of course losing in the playoffs probably feels like getting kicked in the face by Shaquille O’Neal, but the overall situation could be much worse.

Teams like Akron, Kent State and Central Michigan all finished at the bottom of the Mid-American Conference this season, and have a lot of work to do to move up. BG doesn’t have that problem.

In fact, BG’s coaching staff may have nipped the problem of a drop off in the standings in the bud with their recruiting a year ago. They brought in players who could be standouts, such as Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Tracy Pontius, and others who have plenty of potential, like Crystal Murdaugh, Chelsea Albert and Bianca Hooten.

Sophomore center Tara Breske played her first full season this year, so it’s kind of like having yet another freshman to throw into the mix.

Indeed, this team has the pieces to contend for years to come. With 10 underclassmen, the Falcons finished with over 20 wins this season and claimed the MAC regular season crown with a 13-3 record.

They also received a No. 1 seed in this year’s conference tournament in Cleveland, even though Ohio ended their three-year run as champs. It was a tough loss, but still, the program seems to be heading forward and not towards the cellar.

And a Women’s National Invitational Tournament bid was yet another positive in a season where it felt like Curt Miller and his roster broke every school record in existence.

Prochaska became the top freshman scorer in the program’s history. Seniors Kate Achter and Whitney Taylor will graduate as the most successful class in MAC history. Taylor even broke the record for most converted threepointers in a game in January.

Miller and his floor general Achter have both said at times that no one said BG had a chance to finish the season as high-up on the food chain as they eventually did. But the young players were good enough to hold their own in their attempt to replace five seniors who won three MAC titles and made an NCAA Sweet Sixteen run last season.

In short, the drop off has only been slight.

With the two guards leaving, rest assured that the remaining Falcons on the roster could definitely be contenders next year. And now they have some post season experience to build on.

ATTACKING THE RECORD BOOKS — 2007-08 Season Coaching Wins: Curt Miller has 150 career wins, the most in program history.

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ON THE MOVE: Lauren Prochaska drives past a Spartan defender.

not shy away from those threes, and Lauren was the recipient of a lot of good kick-outs, and she stepped up and made some shots,” Miller said.

On the other hand was MSU forward Kalisha Keane, who led her team in scoring with 20 points and also pulled down

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Class Acts: Senior guards Kate Achter and Whitney Taylor are the most successful class in MAC history, with 108 career wins.

Dropping Dimes: Kate Achter’s 681 career assists became the most in program history. Her 230 this season are also a new record.

Freshman Scorer: Guard Lauren Prochaska’s 502 points are the most ever by a BG freshman.

From Downtown: Whitney Taylor broke the program record for most consecutive threepointers made in a row with eight against Kent State on Jan. 16.

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Falcons hoping to play ball this afternoon at UM Softball team’s struggles After traveling to Kalamazoo, Mich. for the Mid-American Conference at Western Michigan, the games were canceled because of heavy snow.

“It’s always a big disappointment when you get the team ready to play and it gets cancelled,” said BG assistant coach Rick Blanc. “You never know what’s going to happen, it’s late March and you get 12 to 14 inches of snow.”

Although this was a disappointment to the team, the Falcons were able to hold practice at Western’s indoor facility.

“We just hope we have fair weather. The games are in Michigan, and they still have a lot of snow. We’re really excited if we can play.”

Nick Cantrell | BG pitcher “We’re ready to play, but the weather won’t cooperate,” said Captain Travis Owens. “We can’t control the weather.”

“We’re on a winning streak,” said senior captain Nick Cantrell. “You want to play when you’re winning.”

However, the Falcons are scheduled to play in Ann Arbor, Mich., when they take the field

“They’re just an amazing group of women, even more so off the floor than anything you get to see. They’re just an amazing group.

I was proud of them this season.”

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Curt Miller | BG women’s basketball coach quite catch up after that. “[MSU] had a 17-0 run in the first half and another big one in the second,” Miller said. “It was just too big of a deficit to come back from. We were one big stop or one big rebound away from putting all the pressure back on them.”

All throughout the game, the ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS Spartans would take advantage INTO THE SUNSET: Kate Achter of their considerable size advanscored 16 points in her final college game. tage down low. As a team, they pulled down 47 rebounds to BG’s BG went on a scoring stretch 32, and out-scored them 40-10 in where they lead 24-18, but it didn’t the paint.

Four Spartans scored in double last long. The Spartans called a timeout, took a collective deep figures, led by standout freshman breath and proceeded to bring the forward Kalisha Keane’s 20. 6’9” fight to BG, putting together a 17- center Allyssa DeHaan finished 0 scoring run that would last six with 12 points, nine rebounds and minutes and give them the lead four blocks.

Achter and freshman guard for good. The Falcons could never

Lauren Prochaska were the only Falcons to score in double figures.

Prochaska finished with a gamehigh 24 points and connected on five threes. Junior forward Lindsey Goldsberry scored eight and Jen Uhl finished with seven points and seven rebounds off the bench.

But everything BG did in the second half was just a little too late.

Miller said that despite the fact the season was officially over, he was proud of his seniors and the rest of the team’s effort.

“I told [the team] how proud we were and how much pride that they bring the University,” Miller said. “They’re just an amazing group of women, even more so off the floor than anything you get to see. They’re just an amazing group.

I was proud of them this season.”

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Kate Achter and Whitney Taylor didn’t completely register until the waning seconds of the game, when Miller called for time and Achter subbed out to a standing ovation from the Falcon fans in attendance.

Achter said after the game that despite the outcome, she was thankful to have the opportunity from Miller and his staff to wear the BG uniform.

“I can’t thank coach Miller enough for the opportunity he’s given me,” Achter said. “I can’t thank my teammates enough. They helped put me in this position.”

Achter would finish her final collegiate game with 16 points and seven assists.

MSU never lost the lead in the second half, but went back-andforth often with BG in the first.

Over the course of the first 20 minutes, there were five tied scores and four lead changes.

against the Wolverines, a 2007 Super Regional participant, at Ray Fisher Stadium. The first pitch is scheduled to be thrown at 3 p.m.

“We just hope we have fair weather,” Cantrell said. “The games are in Michigan, and they still have a lot of snow. We’re really excited if we can play.”

“Michigan is a very good

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We want to try to get everybody some playing time so we can get ready for this weekend against Northern Illinois, said Cantrell.

“It should be a good test for us and it should also help getting us ready for the weekend,” Owens said.

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the bottom of the seventh with a two-out, two-run homer that gave Ohio State the win while Despite the Buckeye classic being preventing BG as they fell one reduced from a full tournament out short of their first win. In to simply a Friday double-header, the game BG was lead by Hayley BG continued to fall, dropping to Wiemer who pitched a complete game only allowing three runs 0-16 on the season.

In the Falcons first game they on seven hits.

The Falcons second game hung with No. 21 ranked Ohio State for the whole contest keep- came against Eastern Michigan ing a one-run deadlock through and proved to be much worse of a loss as the Eagles ran the fifth and sixth inning.

In the seventh inning BG away winning 12-4 in only five was able to take a brief lead on innings. Neither Falcon pitcher an RBI single by senior pitch- Gouge or Melissa Bott could suber Emily Gouge, her first RBI due Eastern, as they were each of the season. While on base touched for at least four runs and the Falcons threatened to add barely lasting two innings. another tally as Gouge stole The loss moves BG to 0-16 on her first career base only to be the season. The sixteen losses stranded on second. are more than BG had all of last Despite the Falcons slim lead, season when they finished with the Buckeyes answered back in a 33-12 record.

FRESHMEN From Page 9 six rebounds. Despite being in foul trouble for most of the game, she was able to play some of her best basketball of the season in a winning effort.

After the game, MSU head coach Suzy Merchant said that Keane played one of her smartest games of the year.

“I thought that early on [in the season], she took some illadvised shots,” Merchant said.

“Now, when she takes a bad shot, she knows it. Tonight she did not take one bad shot; she did a great job on the boards for us and got a couple of key steals as well.”

Even though Prochaska and Keane wear different uniforms and play in different conferences, they share a commonality in that they were both highly touted high school players who made major impacts in their first college seasons.

Prochaska is a product of Jonathan Alder High School in Plain City, Ohio. As a four-year letter winner, she never averaged less than 23 points per game. During her senior year, she averaged 32.3 points on the way to being named coPlayer of the Year at the Ohio Div. III level and winning a state championship.

Schools that recruited Prochaska included Miami (Fla.), Princeton and an Eastern Michigan team that featured Merchant as a coach.

Merchant said that she knew Prochaska would be a success at the college level.

“I think [Prochaska] can play anywhere,” Merchant said. “We tried to recruit her when I was at Eastern Michigan … She’s athletic, she can run, she can shoot threes, she can hit a pull-up, she can take you off the dribble, she’s a defender, she rebounds great and when we look at her line, she is really hard to guard.”

“I thought she was as good as any guard in the summer that I saw, and I thought she could make an impact at a couple different levels,” she said.

Prochaska has made a major impact in a short time at BG. In only one season, she has earned a number of titles, including Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year, and was named to the All-MAC second team.

With her 24 points on Saturday,

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PLENTY OF POINTS: Lauren Prochaska finished with a game-high 24 points.

Kalisha Keane MSU freshman scored a team-high 20 points Saturday. she became the program’s alltime leading freshman scorer with a total of 502 points. Her 14.8 points per game led all MAC freshman and ranked in the top 10 in the country.

Keane also had success at the high school level in Ajax, Ontario, where she ranked as one of the top 50 college prospects by All Star Girls Report and was named the top female prospect in Canada at the AllCanada Basketball Weekend.

She has also played for two high school-level FIBA international basketball teams.

This season, she averaged 12.2 points and 5.9 rebounds and was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman team. In the final 48 seconds of Saturday’s game, Keane pulled down three rebounds, converted two free throws and dished out an assist to seal the win.

Miller said Keane presented a match-up problem for the Falcons all day.

“I think she’s phenomenal,” Miller said. “I think she can play anywhere in the country …

She’s so versatile.”

For one game, Prochaska and Keane were the side story. But by the time they’re through, they could be the headline-makers.

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Bhutto loyalist elected Pakistani prime minister, Greeks light flame for Beijing Olympics amid frees all of Musharraf’s detained judges

By Munir Ahmad The Associated Press

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A longtime loyalist of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was elected Pakistan’s new prime minister yesterday and immediately freed judges detained by President Pervez Musharraf.

The release of the judges was a powerful symbol of Musharraf’s slipping authority since Bhutto’s party swept parliamentary elections last month.

The newly elected prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, will form a new government dominated by Musharraf’s foes, who have vowed to slash the U.S.backed president’s sweeping powers and review his counterterrorism policies.

Minutes after parliament elected Gilani, dozens of political activists and lawyers climbed over a wall surrounding the home of deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, who had been under house arrest since November.

Chaudhry emerged onto a

balcony smiling and thanked supporters in his first public appearance since his detention. Riot police stood by as the intruders rallied on the justice’s front lawn.

The National Assembly voted 264-42 to elect Gilani, who told lawmakers he would demand the release of all judges detained under Musharraf. Soon afterwards, deputy Islamabad commissioner Amir Ahmed said Gilani’s order had been impleANJUM NAVEED | AP PHOTO mented, Pakistan’s state-run SPEECH: Yousaf Raza Gilani, center, a nominee for Prime Minister from Benazir Bhutto’s news agency reported.

Pakistan People Party, speaks during a press conference at Parliament House, Sunday.

After the vote, Gilani shook hands with Bhutto’s son, “I have no words to thank Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who Bhutto,” Gilani told lawmakwiped tears from his face and ers. “We didn’t get here out of you for the way you struggled smiled. His mother held the charity. This moment came for nearly five months for the post of prime minister twice because of continued struggle enforcement of the rule of law andourconstitution,” Chaudhry before being killed in a suicide and martyrdom.”

The new government has said from his balcony. attack in December.

The Bush administration has Cheers of “Long live Bhutto, promised to reinstate Chaudhry BB is still alive!” rang out and other senior judges within considered Musharraf a valued through parliament. Fellow 30 days — a move that could partner in the battle against lawmakers embraced Gilani as trigger a power struggle with terrorism. But some believe he made his way to the prime Musharraf, a former army chief Musharraf’s military approach who seized power in a 1999 — along with his friendship minister’s lectern.

“Democracy has been revived coup. Some believe it could with Washington — has led to more attacks inside Pakistan. due to the sacrifice of Benazir prompt him to resign.

Royalists win in Bhutan’s first parliamentary vote after century of monarchry

By Matthew Rosenberg The Associated Press

THIMPHU, Bhutan — Long known as a quirky holdout from modernity, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan ended a century of absolute monarchy yesterday by electing a staunch royalist as its first prime minister.

So it goes in Bhutan, possibly the first country in history where a king had to convince his people that democracy was a good idea.

Known by its people as the Land of the Thunder Dragon, Bhutan’s snowcapped peaks and mountainside monasteries have long intrigued Westerners in search of a Buddhist nirvana.

But the kingdom is, in many ways, a strikingly conformist place where the outside word

“There was much resistance when His Majesty told us that we must decide our future if Bhutan was to prosper. [But we still] prefer our king.”

Karma Dorji | Civil servant is viewed warily and self-promotion and confrontation are frowned upon.

Just a few months ago, criticism of high officials was unimaginable to many here.

Now they’re wondering what will become of their Precious Ruler as he gives up most of his power to politicians.

“There was much resistance when His Majesty told us that we must decide our future if Bhutan was to prosper,” said

Karma Dorji, a 55-year-old civil servant waiting to vote in Thimphu, the capital.

That order came in late 2006, and Bhutan was already prospering. Its average annual of income of $1,400 was twice neighboring India’s, and nearly all its people had access to schools and hospitals, a rare achievement in this corner of the world.

Such success contrasts sharply with South Asian countries like Nepal or Bangladesh, which

often seem like case studies in democracy gone wrong — a fact that left many here dreading the change.

But “we have come to see that this is an opportunity he has given us because he is farsighted and wise,” Dorji said. Still, he added, “We prefer our king.”

So does the new prime minister, Jigmi Kinley, who twice served as premier under royal rule. Kinley’s Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party was considered the more royalist of the two very royalist political parties in yesterday’s elections.

Kinley was celebrating his landslide — his party took 44 of the 47 parliament seats — in remote eastern Bhutan yesterday. The party’s spokesman, Palden Tshering, called the win a “victory for His Majesty.”

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“If the Olympic flame is sacred, human rights are even more so.”

By Nicholas Paphitis The Associated Press

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — Protesters disrupted the Beijing Olympics flame-lighting ceremony in Ancient Olympia on Monday and a Tibetan woman covered in fake blood briefly blocked the path of the torchbearer.

Protesters ran onto the stadium field during the ceremony, evading massive security aimed at preventing such disruptions in the wake of China’s crackdown on Tibet.

One man ran behind Liu Qi, president of the Beijing organizing committee and Beijing Communist Party Secretary, as Liu was giving a speech. The protester unfurled a black banner showing the Olympic rings as handcuffs.

Three protesters from the Paris-based press freedom group Reporters Without Borders who were detained.

“If the Olympic flame is sacred, human rights are even more so,” the Paris-based group said in a statement. “We cannot let the Chinese government seize the Olympic flame, a symbol of peace, without denouncing the dramatic situation of human rights in the country.”

China’s Communist leadership has faced a public relations disaster since demonstrations against Chinese rule turned violent March 14 in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, leading to waves of unrest in surrounding provinces.

People who sympathize with the Tibetan cause have also staged rallies in other countries.

The death toll from the violence inTibet has varied and been impossible to confirm independently.

China’s reported death toll is 22, but Tibet’s exiled government says 80 Tibetans were killed. Another 19 died in subsequent violence in Gansu province, it said.

Greek officials said politics have no place at the ceremony at the 2,800-year-old birthplace

Reporters Without Borders of the ancient games in southern Greece. More than 1,000 police were deployed ahead of expected protests by pro-Tibetan groups.

“The Greek government condemns every attempt to interfere with the ceremony for the lighting of the Olympic flame, through actions that have no relation at all with the Olympic Spirit,” government spokesman Evangelos Antonaros said.

China state TV cut away from the protest at the ceremony and showed a prerecorded scene, preventing Chinese viewers from seeing the incident. Chinese television commentators did not mention the demonstration.

The flame for the Aug. 8-24 games was lit using the sun’s rays.

From Olympia, the flame will embark on an 85,000-mile journey. The torch is to arrive March 31 in Beijing. It then will travel through 20 countries before returning to mainland China.

After the torch left the stadium, a Tibetan woman covered in red paint or dye lay in the road approaching the nearby village of ancient Olympia while other protesters chanted “Free Tibet” and “Shame on China.”

The torchbearer came within a few feet of the protester, then stopped and ran in place while plainclothes police officers removed the woman. Police also dragged off a man accompanying her who was waving a Tibetan flag.

Police said the woman and the three members of Reporters Without Borders were being detained. One of the men arrested was Robert Menard, the group’s general secretary.

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banks, the private equity firms and others who actually own the mortgage papers,” Clinton said in what she billed as a major address on the economy at the University of Pennsylvania.

“This is the case even though writing down the value of a mortgage is often more profitable than foreclosing,” she said. Clinton

said she would offer legislation “to provide mortgage companies with protection against the threat of such lawsuits,” but provided no further details.

Brian Deese, a Clinton economic adviser, said different categories of investors can have different interests in how a mortgage is handled.

PHILADELPHIA — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed several remedies to the nation’s home mortgage problems yesterday, including one tool more often associated with Republicans than Democrats.

The New York senator proposed greater protections for lenders from possible lawsuits by investors, a variation of socalled tort reform. For years, GOP leaders have called for restrictions on what they consider unwarranted lawsuits against businesses. Democrats have often resisted them on grounds they limit injured parties’ legitimate rights to redress.

“Many mortgage companies are reluctant to help families restructure their mortgages MATT ROURKE | AP PHOTO because they’re afraid of being sued by the investment ALL SMILES: Dem hopeful Sen. Hilary Clinton is seen after a speech at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.

Clinton campaign says she ‘misspoke’ of Bosnia trip

By Ann Sanner The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said she “misspoke” last week when she said she had landed under sniper fire during a trip she took as first lady to Bosnia in March 1996.

The Obama campaign suggested it was a deliberate exaggeration on Clinton’s part.

Clinton often cites the goodwill trip she took with her daughter and several celebrities as a part of her foreign policy experience.

During a speech last Monday about Iraq, she said of the trip: “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get

“That’s what she wrote in her book. That is what she has said many, many times and on one occasion she misspoke.”

Howard Wolfson | Clinton spokesman into the vehicles to get to our base.”

According to an AP story at the time, Clinton was placed under no extraordinary risks on that trip. One of her companions on it, comedian Sinbad, told The Washington Post he has no recollection either of the threat or reality of gunfire.

When asked yesterday about the New York senator’s recent remarks on the trip, Clinton

spokesman Howard Wolfson pointed to Clinton’s previous written account in her book, “Living History,” in which she described a shortened welcoming ceremony at Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Clinton wrote: “Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find.”

“That is what she wrote in her book,” Wolfson said. “That is what she has said many, many times and on one occasion she misspoke.”

The written account in Clinton’s book contradicts the comments she made last Monday about the welcoming ceremony.

McCain uses lessons from Cheney says Hamas, with help from Syria and Iran, Keating Five in campaign torpedoes Israel-Palestinian peace talks

By Larry Margasak The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain’s ethics entanglement with a wealthy banker ultimately convicted of swindling investors was such a disturbing, formative experience in his political career that he compares the scandal in some ways to the five years he was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

“I faced in Vietnam, at times, very real threats to life and limb,” McCain told The Associated Press. “But while my sense of honor was tested in prison, it was not questioned. During the Keating inquiry, it was, and I regretted that very much.”

In his early days as a freshman senator, McCain was

John McCain Republican presidential candidate known for accepting contributions from Charles Keating Jr., flying to the banker’s home in the Bahamas on company planes and taking up Keating’s cause with U.S. financial regulators as they investigated him.

The Keating Five was the derisive name given McCain and four Democratic senators, including then-Sen. John Glenn of Ohio, who were defendants in a congressional ethics investigation of their connections to Keating. McCain is the only one still in the Senate.

By Deb Riechmann The Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday that Hamas, with support from Syria and Iran, is trying to “torpedo” peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel.

Meeting reporters after having breakfast with the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Cheney said, “It is clearly a difficult situation, in part, because I think it’s true, there’s evidence, that Hamas is supported by Iran and Syria and that they’re doing everything they can to torpedo the peace process.”

Cheney said in his meeting with Palestinian leaders on Sunday they talked about efforts under way in Yemen

After his breakfast with to encourage reconciliation as terrorist.

The official commented Olmert — their second meetbetween moderate and milion condition of anonymity to ing in two days — Cheney flew tant Palestinians.

“My conclusion after talk- more freely discuss U.S. policy. to Turkey. ing about this with the Palestinians is that they have established some preconditions before they would ever consider a reconciliation, including a complete reversal of the Hamas takeover of Gaza,” he said.

Asked whether the U.S. supports the Yemeni mediation effort to bridge differences between Hamas and Fatah, a senior administration official traveling with Cheney said the United States has made it clear that it will not support working with Hamas unless there is a fundamental BURHAN OZBILCI | AP PHOTO change in the group’s current role, which the U.S. describes TRAVELING MAN: Dick Cheney and Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul during their meeting.

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If you buy yogurt, you’ve likely noticed the recent appearance of yogurt packages saying they contain probiotics that can help your digestion or improve the functioning of your immune system. If you pay attention to business news, you may have heard about a lawsuit filed in January by a California woman asserting that Dannon’s probiotics advertising is making false health claims.

The National Institutes of Health Web site has a page on probiotics stating there is “encouraging evidence” that they may be useful in treating diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, atopic dermatitis, bladder cancer and other diseases.

And you’re scratching your head wondering just what a probiotic is.

To answer that and other questions about this emerging medical topic, we spoke to Gary Huffnagle, professor of internal medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School and author of “The Probiotics Revolution” (Bantam Dell, $24).

What are probiotics?

Live microorganisms — almost always bacteria — that when ingested can confer a health benefit. They can be ingested in food, beverages or supplements.

There is also a population of probiotic bacteria that naturally lives inside us, and those were ingested when we were infants.

You can make the numbers of those go up or down by the food you eat.

Why should people care about these internal bacteria?

What we’re learning now, at an extremely furious pace, is that the bacteria that live inside of our body normally function together like an organ. They’re that important for our health.

There are 100 trillion bacteria that live inside us. That’s 10 times more bacterial cells than our cells, so someone joked that we’re a minority in our body.

This collection of microbes has a very important impact on our digestion, on how our GI tract works, our metabolism, and how our immune system works.

How can bacteria affect our immune system?

The most important way that bacteria affect our immune system is by providing chemical signals that make it slow down once an immune response has been generated. Normally, when you think of an immune response, you think about getting an infection, and then the immune response revs up. But once the infection is gone, the immune response keeps going unless something stops it. That’s how you get this widespread problem of chronic inflammatory disease.

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Honey, God wants us to have more sex Church pastor holds Sunday services to promote sex among married couples

By James H. Burnett III MCT

night and Sunday morning.”

But this is a worship service at Relevant Church Tampa and Day 21 of Relevant’s 30day sex challenge, aimed at helping married couples rekindle that sensual spark and helping single people strengthen their romances through nonsexual contact.

Beneath pastor Paul Wirth’s provocative message are traditional themes.

“Sex is a good thing within the confines of marriage. And it’s meant to be enjoyed,” Wirth says. “There is a 50 percent-plus divorce rate in the United States. And some experts say it’s because of money. But I really believe a large part of it has to do with a lack of intimacy in marriages.”

At the start of the challenge, most men at Relevant were t hrilled a nd t he women horrified, Wirth says with a laugh. Then both sexes caught on that the campaign was as much about emotional intimacy as intercourse.

MIAMI — It’s Sunday morning in the heart of Ybor City, Tampa, Fla.’s entertainment district.The streets are quiet, the nightclubs shuttered. In one ornate building, though, a crowd is gathering in a dark ballroom.

They’re 20- and 30-somethings, single, married, wearing skinny jeans, shortsleeved T’s over long-sleeved T’s and Vans tennis shoes, sporting spiky hair and sipping Starbucks. They file past a peaceful-looking man watching the doors, and they bob their heads to the music of The Embassy, a rock band jamming on stage. Screened silhouettes bookending the bandstand show men and women in flirty poses. And one ultra-hip-looking guy tells the crowd that having a lot of sex is good.

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Tell him that men who sleep less than seven hours a night have a 26 percent greater death rate over a two-decade period than men who sleep seven to eight hours a night.

And children who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to be overweight and to have behavioral problems.

And people who do rotatingshift work have lower levels of the hormone serotonin, low levels of which are associated with anxiety and depression.

These findings, all published in the journal Sleep within the last seven months, are part of a rapidly expanding body of knowledge about the physiology of sleep and the importance of adequate sound sleep to good health.

“Shift work was just added to the list of risk factors for cancer by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention),” says Dr. Jerrold Kram, a member of the board of directors of the National Sleep Foundation.

“It just suggests the increasing recognition of how profoundly sleep affects our lives.”

And it’s not just arcane statistics about risk factors and sleep that are accumulating. There are 83 recognized sleep disorders, including sleep apneas, insomnias, circadian-rhythm disturbances, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome and plain old wake-the-neighborhood snoring. Physicians like Kram are putting this knowledge to use, making sleep medicine

“Shift work was just added to the list of risk factors for cancer.”

Jerrold Kram | Doctor one of the fastest- growing medical specialties over the past decade.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine accredited the first clinical sleep lab in 1977.

The idea of community medical centers where patients would be hooked up to monitors while they punched their pillows, snored and dreamed about showing up for college exams naked, grew slowly at first — by 1996 there were just 300 AASM-accredited sleep centers — but the concept has exploded in the past decade, resulting in more than 1,000 accredited centers today and many more unaccredited centers.

You need all five stages of sleep.

“We used to think that sleep was a dormant period of time, and we’re finding out that there are a whole lot of things that go on during sleep,” says Dr. David Ostransky, a Fort Worth, Texas, pulmonology and sleepmedicine specialist.

Saying “a whole lot” goes on during sleep is like saying that war is “unpleasant.”

There are five stages of sleep, according to the National Sleep Foundation, four non-REM stages and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, and sleepers cycle through the stages about every 90 to 100 minutes.

TIPS FOR GETTING BETTER SLEEP: So you’re convinced that you need seven to eight hours of sound sleep a night, but your body just doesn’t want to cooperate. Here’s how to start solving the problem: ■

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For temporary insomnia: For this kind of sleeplessness, caused by extreme stresses in life, don’t be afraid to use a sleeping pill. Jerrold Kram of the National Sleep Foundation says he’d rather see a patient use a sleeping pill for two or three nights during a period of difficulty than develop chronic insomnia. “The newer sleeping pills are quite effective and quite safe,” he says.

For chronic insomnia: Sleep doctors will recommend a variety of lifestyle changes that fall under the rubric of “sleep hygiene,” including getting exposure to sunlight during the day, avoiding caffeine, exercising in the morning or afternoon, and establishing a bedtime routine.

For sleep apnea: If you have a problem such as sleep apnea, which affects 5 percent of the adult population, you might be able to cure it by dieting down to your college weight. What is obstructive sleep apnea?

A sleeping disorder in which your breathing “is briefly and repeatedly interrupted during sleep,” according to the National Sleep Foundation. Or consider getting a polysomnograph evaluation at a sleep center. Sleep apnea can be very effectively treated, Kram says.

For more on this subject, go to www. sleepfoundation.org

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Washington state child’s message in a bottle ends up in Alaska 21 years later

By Donna Gordon Blankinship The Associated Press

SEATTLE — Merle Brandell and his black lab Slapsey were beachcombing along the Bering Sea when he spied a plastic bottle among the Japanese glass floats he often finds along the shore of his tiny Alaskan fishing village.

He walked over and saw an envelope tucked inside. After slicing the bottle open, Brandell found a message from an elementary school student in a suburb of Seattle. The fact that the letter traveled 1,735 miles without any help from the U.S. postal service is unusual, but that’s only the beginning of the mystery.

About 21 years passed between the time Emily Hwaung put the message in a soda bottle and Merle Brandell picked it up on the beach.

“This letter is part of our science project to study oceans and learn about people in distant lands,” she wrote. “Please send the date and location of the bottle with your address. I will send you my picture and

tell you when and where the bottle was placed in the ocean.

Your friend, Emily Hwaung.”

Brandell, 34, a bear hunting guide and manager of a water plant, said many of the 70-plus residents of Nelson Lagoon were intrigued by his find.

Beachcombing is a popular activity in remote western Alaska.

Among the recent discoveries was a sail boat that washed onto shore last October.

“It’s kind of a sport. It keeps us occupied. It’s one of the pleasures of living here,” Brandell said of the village reachable only by plane or boat that is too small to have its own store.

Brandell tried to track down the sender: a fourth grader from the North City School in the Shoreline School District.

No one answered when Brandell called the school in December so he sent the school district a handwritten letter, which eventually ended up on the desk of district spokesman Craig Degginger.

After some searching, Degginger discovered Emily

Iowa police chase Ill. doughnut shop’s stolen delivery van at 100 mph TOLEDO, Iowa (AP) — A bevy of officers chased a doughnut delivery van at speeds up to 100 mph before arresting the driver at gunpoint, authorities said.

But the cops weren’t simply hankering for doughnuts.

The van, owned by Donut Delite of Moline, Ill., was stolen early last Thursday while the driver was making deliveries at a hospital in nearby Rock Island.

The driver had left the van running, and a man jumped in and headed for Iowa, just over the Mississippi River.

A Benton County, Iowa, sheriff’s deputy spotted the van later in the morning, and eight other officers eventually joined the chase. Authorities finally cornered it in neigh-

boring Tama County.

Frank Alvarado, 46, of Moline, Ill., was charged with theft and other counts and was held on $15,000 bond.

Security video showed Alvarado milling about before driving off in the van, but he was not listed as a patient, said officials at Trinity Medical HospitalWest in Rock Island. A jail official said he was assigned a public defender, whose name wasn’t immediately available.

Tama County Sheriff Dennis Kucera said his officers had no idea what the unmarked van was carrying.

They were rewarded for their efforts anyway — the doughnut shop gave them the purloined goodies.

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Shih said she was flabbergasted by the news and immediately shared it with her Kirkland co-workers.

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