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April 11, 2008

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T-shirts that deserve a double-take

A T-shirt project works to bring attention to violence committed against Wood County women | Page 3

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Losing a loyal best friend

Mythbusting, emo style

In this week’s “BG Mythbusters,” the Pulse delves into the myths of emo students on campus | Page 11

Campus primed and ready for the sibs and kids

Check out the Sibs N Kids special section for a project to make with your sibling, among other columns by editors | Page 9

WEATHER

PEOPLE ON THE STREET

SPORTS

NATION

Polygamist sect in trouble

A confidential informant helped sheriffs bust a polygamist compound in West Texas for forcing underage girls to marry older men | Page 7

Two teams the Falcons became familiar with after the long season will battle it out in the Frozen Four to determine the nation’s premier hockey team | Page 13

What’s your favorite board game?

[See story, p. 9]

ARIELLE BIGGUMS Junior, Political Science

“I like Hands Down. I used to be the best at cheating, so I always won.” | Page 4

TODAY Strong Storms High: 72, Low: 43

TOMORROW Few Showers High: 59, Low: 36

FAITH

Among other college transitions, a student’s religion can also be called into question

By Kate Snyder Reporter

Columnist Ally Blankartz chronicles the last few days of her dog, Millie, who went through the trials of cancer | Page 4

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When coming to college, the obvious changes include dorm life, new classes, a new town and different food. But for some students, many of these transitions can impact their religion as well.

One of the biggest differences between practicing religion at college and during high school is the lack of parental influence.

“The main thing is once a student comes to college, he or she has a decision whether or not to continue on with their faith and make it their own,” said Ryan Rahrig, president of Creed on Campus, a Catholic organization.

They need to understand why it’s important for them, Rahrig said. They need more

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than just somebody telling them it’s good for them.

And everybody practices faith differently.

Some flourish by joining organizations and getting deeply involved socially.

Others might choose to only attend formal church worship, while others might not even participate in organized religion.

“They could be raised in a strict religious background and reject all of that,” said Jeremy Wallach, a former adviser of Hillel, a Jewish organization.

For those who choose to continue with their practices, they also have to adjust to a new congregation.

“The network they have at home has to be extended

Save the Woods Foundation is looking for donations to pay off loans for 20-acre lot

By Freddy Hunt Assistant City Editor

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From Saturday Night Live parody to journalistic hypothesis Forum discusses issues regarding Hillary Clinton’s press coverage after SNL skit

By Kristen Schweitzer Reporter

A Saturday Night Live actor posing as Hillary Clinton was hushed in a mock debate. Whatever “Hillary” had to say couldn’t possibly compare to “Obama’s” words.

A crowd of about 50 people watched this skit at the April Arts and Science Forum in the Union Thursday.

“That sketch got a lot of attention, as well as the ones that followed,” said Melissa Miller, an assistant professor in the University’s department of political science and affiliated faculty with the women’s studies department. Clinton even made a reference to the skit in a debate with Obama in Cleveland, a week after it aired.

Miller wanted to test the hypothesis Saturday Night Live suggested.

“Our project received a jump start from Saturday Night Live,” said Miller. The skit was meant to poke fun at journalism coverage of the 2008 election, specifically Clinton and Obama coverage.

In her presentation, “Testing the Saturday Night Live Hypothesis: Preliminary Findings on Hillary Clinton’s Press Coverage,” Miller wanted to answer the questions she had about Clinton’s press

coverage, such as what Clinton’s coverage really focused on, how she was doing in the horse race, whether the majority of her coverage was positive or negative and whether her success in the running has been hampered by media coverage.

Miller gathered a team of graduate and undergraduate students in order to aid her and colleague Jeff Peake, also an assistant professor in the political science department with the research.

Miller used articles and editorials from the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times for her research. The articles were categorized by those that mentioned candidates’ sex, appearance, marital status, viability to win, policy issues and positions, qualifications and jobrelated accomplishments and failures.

The team also made note of whether the candidates were mentioned in the headline of opening sentence or paragraph or the articles, as well as if that mention was positive or negative.

“If history is our guide, we would expect [Clinton] to receive minimal coverage,” said Miller, who gave a brief history of women who have recently ran for president including Elizabeth Dole, Carole Moseley Braun and Patricia

Art History Symposium serves as artists’ outlet

By Alison Kemp Reporter

The symposium began as a way to give University art history students a stronger community and a competitive edge.

Now, the Second Annual Art History Symposium, which will be held this Saturday, is hopefully a mainstay and the work of more than just art history students.

Last year, the Art History Association created the symposium, which gives all levels of students the opportunity to present their work, because the presentation of art history papers is usually reserved for graduate students and professionals, said club advi-

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sor and art history professor Allie Terry.

“It’s frustrating not to have an outlet [for our work],” said AHA’s

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Hillary Clinton Played by Amy Poehler on “Saturday Night Live”

Barack Obama Played by Fred Armisen on “Saturday Night Live”

Schroeder.

“They all struggled to get press attention,” said Miller of Dole, Braun and Schroeder.

However, Miller found the opposite was true for Clinton.

Clinton has by far received the most press coverage according to Miller. Of the 1374 articles and editorials examined for the study, Miller found that 833 of them mentioned Clinton.

Miller described this as a “real break in terms of how the press covers women.”

However, Miller wanted to go beyond just finding out if Clinton was receiving enough coverage.

Miller wanted to assess if the coverage Clinton was receiving was

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CAMPUS BRIEF

University police join investigation of airport fraud University police have joined the investigation into the fraud case at the Wood County Airport after two Technology Annex staff members came forward with more information pertaining to the case.

According to police, a University student has been accused of stealing approximately $60,000 through credit card fraud between May 2007 and March 2008.

The student’s name has not been released because he has yet to be charged.

What is known is that he worked at the Technology Annex, a University

Carlene Creps, 70, remembers driving a tractor down the once dirt Wintergarden Road, tending to her sheep and galloping her horse through the seemingly endless wooded acres nearby. She has lived there for 67 years. She likes it the way it is.

In 2005, a real estate development company purchased the 19.6-acre parcel of land adjacent to Creps’ 20-acre lot for building condomeniums. No longer would Creps’ memories resemble the view beyond her backyard.

Thanks to the Save the Woods Campaign, one of Bowling Green’s last undeveloped wooded area’s will remain preserved, just as Creps remembers it.

By the end of 2005, Bowling Green Parks and Recreation negotiated with the development company and agreed to purchase the lot, said Mike Przysiecki, natural resource specialist. A low-interest loan was secured with a $105,000 down payment, he said.

Now the goal is to raise $480,000 plus interest to pay off the rest of the loan, said Michelle Grigore, director of Park and Recreation. She said $141,500 has allready been collected and that she hopes the rest will be collected within three years.

A large chunk of the down payment was funded by the city’s Greenspace Acquisition Fund and a partnership between private and public donors, Grigore said.

She said the Save the Woods Foundation has largely been a group effort between public and private partys. Bowling Green Parks and Recreation didn’t want their parks backing up to a condo complex, and the Wintergarden Road residents didn’t want to see the woods disappear, she said.

When the property first

building next to the Wood County Airport on Poe Road, from September through December of 2007 before moving to the Wood County Airport.

While at the Airport he was an assistant manager up until allegations surfaced, according to the police report.

The student is accused of fueling planes on a University-controlled Air BP card. According to a police report, he would “recredit the purchase of the fuel during the middle of the night to his own personal credit card,” which was discovered during an audit of the airport conducted by the state.

According to the police report, a former employee of the Technology Annex got suspicious when the suspect had an excessive amount of tools and supplies for a classic car he was rebuilding. It is believed that car tools and supplies are not the only items purchased by the student, according to the report.

No other information was available at press time.

“We were determined that they were not going to develop [the parcel of land].”

Carlene Creps | Supporter went up for sale, Creps said she did not dream developers would pick it up.

“I thought, oh my heavens, we can’t let this happen,” Creps said, “We were determined that they were not going to develop [the parcel of land].”

Creps and a team of neighbors started getting orginized.

They hired an attorney, raised some funds and held monthly meetings, she said.

They started soliciting and more people started getting involved. Finally, Parks and Recreation got involved and the attorney negotiated with the developers, she said.

The foundation is campaigning by passing out brochures in the park and community, Grigore said. There was also a kick-off campaign on March 29 and a fundraising dinner set for May, she said. For people who wish to contribute, but can’t make monetary donations, Grigore said they may volunteer their time to clean up of the newly acquired property.

But until the loan is paid off in full, Parks and Recreation will not be able to build hiking trails or develop the park at all, Grigore said.

“It’s kind of like having a mortgage on your house,” she said. “So we have to pay it off untill it is actually ours.”

The new 19.6-acre parcel willincreasetheWintergarden Nature Preserve to over 100 acres and includes a pond and a log home which will serve as a community retreat center, Przysiecki said.

CITY BRIEF

Bowling alley broken into for second time For the second time in 10 days, Varsity Lanes on South Main Street was broken into overnight and had money stolen.

The entrance to the bowling alley was forced open and an undisclosed amount stolen from the coin machines sometime overnight on Wednesday, police said.

The first break-in occured on March 31. An ATM machine and the wall behind the safe were damaged sometime that night. Police said there were no signs of forced entry and an undisclosed amount of money was stolen.

The Bowling Green Police Division said investigations of both incidents are ongoing.

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FAITH From Page 1 or rebuilt when they come to college,” said Bishop Craig McClanahan of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints.

Socials and activities organized by a church or group can help take the place of the role of the parental support, McClanahan said, but also “hopefully for most of them the parental involvement continues, but is just long distance.”

Another big difference that could impact students’ religion in college is time.

There are so many conflicting demands on students’ time and energy that they have to decide how to invest their effort and figure out what to take seriously, Wallach said.

There’s a lot of pressure to achieve academically, and making money is another concern that might not have been so important before.

“Most high schoolers don’t

ART From Page 1 co-president and symposium presenter Mary Cabrera said.

Mark Zuzik, next year’s AHA president and a conference presenter, said the symposium gives undergraduate students a special experience.

“You’re able to experience the scholarly feel before you have to,” Zuzik said.

So Cabrera worked with Terry to get the club involved and they created last spring’s conference.

They knew the conference could be better, so Terry’s art history capstone course used the symposium as an opportunity to gain professional experience.

The first half of the semes-

“A lot of people might spend two or three years procrastinating.

Generally people want to go along with what everyone’s into.”

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work 35 hours a week,” Wallach said. All sorts of decisions come about that weren’t relevant to many students’ lives before.

“These wrenching transitions are a part of growing up,” Wallach said.

But he also said the transition is a process, and religious identity might not be questioned or realized for a couple of years.

“A lot of people might spend two to three years procrastinating,” he said. Especially if friends aren’t actively involved in religious activities. “Generally people want to go along with what everyone’s into.”

But it’s also common for some students to get involved in religions other than their own, through a church or an organization, Rahrig said. Students might identify more with another religion, despite what they were brought up with, or they simply might be curious about the history and teachings of another religion.

“Sometimes people are very curious and want to talk to others with another religion,” said Madeline Duntley,

an associate professor in American culture studies.

Inter-religious friendships can help students explain and explore different religions as well as cause their own religion to deepen, Duntley said.

For Angie Wasserman, vice president of Creed on Campus, it was important to try out different religious organizations to learn more about them. Through attending different groups, she said she started to learn more about her own faith.

“You’re definitely questioning more things,” she said.

Being in a new environment can help make students more curious about what their own beliefs are. And even if students might not have the time

or means or interest to join any campus organization or church, some of them may still think of themselves as religious.

Community service and volunteer projects are other ways students can find meaning, said Duntley.

“Things we think are entirely secular, they find meaning in,” Duntley said.

McClanahan said that’s what college is for: becoming open to new ideas and concepts. These are the years most used to ask questions about growth and spiritual awakening.

In college, “you can be who you want to be on your terms,” Wallach said. “Once you get out of college, you have to conform to the rules or your profession.”

ter was spent learning about conferences by shadowing students and faculty involved with the Beholding Violence conference held at BGSU just before spring break.

Then the class work changed gears.

“Now this is your moment to create your own conference,” Terry said she told her students.

By watching the Beholding Violence conference take shape, the class was able to learn what they wanted — or didn’t want — as part of their own conference, Terry said.

“With the practice of doing, they are learning,” she said.

The class made a national call for papers that were about contemporary theory, which means the papers analyzed art using

current themes. These themes led to the title of the symposium — New Perspectives in Visual Culture.

“We have a completely different view of reality than the scholars we read,” Cabrera said.

“It’s very contemporary.”

Then the class did a blind critique of all the submitted abstracts. The abstracts were ranked and their ability to be debated, their strengths and weaknesses, and their ability to effectively present an argument in 20 minutes were considered.

11 from almost 30 submissions were chosen.

Cabrera had a run-through on Monday, but is still worried about her presentation.

“I’m terrified that someone who knows more than me will

say ‘That’s not right,’” Cabrera said.

The papers are grouped into four groups.

“We’re pulling things together that have connections you may not see,” Cabrera said. The categories are visual gender, politics, how the artists use mediums and typecasting and consumerism.

So the presentations aren’t just about art. They’ll include information about many other topics too, like history, culture, religion and science, Cabrera said.

The new perspectives that the symposium will show are “anything that can define a culture,” Cabrera said.

“Unless you take the time to look ... you’re not going to catch the [distinctions],” Zuzik said.

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more negative than the other candidates’.

“It’s generally accepted that [gender] is the type of coverage [Clinton’s] getting,” said Peake.

While Miller found elevated mentions of sex, marital and parental status in articles related to Clinton, she concluded that coverage of Clinton in general is not significantly more negative in terms of first headline mentions and firstsentence tone in the articles used. Miller displayed these findings in graph form to the audience.

Overall, Miller concluded there was not much support for the SNL hypothesis.

These findings are still of importance though, according to Miller.

“The null finding is of great interest to people who study gender and politics,” she said.

Miller also noted that the articles used were from Labor Day through Super Tuesday.

“Up until Super Tuesday, her coverage was not significantly more negative,” she said.

Miller received a great deal of help from the University library. The library helped he get the newspaper articles she needed for the research.

Linda Brown, who works in the University library attended the presentation after helping Miller. Brown said she helped Miller to secure the grant that was able to get the library the subscriptions needed for the articles used in the research.

Miller’s audience ranged from students to faculty and

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staff members. Several members of her research team also attended the forum.

Several retired faculty members also attended the presentation.

“I wanted to know if [Miller] is right about Hillary being treated differently. I’m not convinced she’s right,” said Charlotte Scherer, a retired faculty member.

The college of arts and science has been hosting the forum event for over 30 years, focusing “on interesting and timely topics,” according to Donald Nieman, the dean of the college of arts and science.

Nieman introduced Miller at the forum. Miller, who joined the faculty in August 2005, is a specialist in gender and politics, said Nieman.

Miller plans to continue her study of Clinton’s press coverage though the summer.

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A T-shirt can reveal a lot about a person: what bands they listen to, where they go to school, where they shop or their favorite sports team.

But today in Olscamp Hall, the T-shirts will reveal a different kind of message with the Clothesline Project.

The Clothesline Project is a visual representation that bears witness to violence against women through the display of T-shirts, according to the Sexual Assault Awareness Month Committee.

Today about 350 T-shirts provided by Victims Services of Behavioral Connections will be hung up across 101 Olscamp.

Each shirt represents a woman from Wood County and the violence committed against her, said Julie Broadwell, Victims Services program manager.

“For a lot of women it is the first time they are facing what happened to them.”

Megan Zorn | Victim Advocate Along with the display volunteers will be available to talk to people about the project and hand out information regarding violence awareness and prevention, victim advocate Megan Zorn said.

The Clothesline Project was started in 1990 in Massachusetts for rape victims and then became a national movement, Broadwell said. She said Victims Services of Behavioral Connections started their collection in 1995 and have been displaying it at various times and locations ever since.

Zorn said each shirt was made by a victim or by friends or family of a victim. The purpose of making the shirts is to

help them cope with their feelings and give them an outlet for their emotions, she said.

“For a lot of women it is the first time they are facing what happened to them,” Zorn said.

Broadwell said all of the supplies are provided to anyone willing to share their story through a T-shirt.

Many of the shirts, she said, are color-coded to the crime committed against that woman.

There are many different colors in the display, like red representing sexual assault and white representing murder, she said.

But Broadwell said the victim can also make the color and the shirt choice themselves.

“We had a woman who was

Project because it makes the topic of violence more real. “[The T-shirts] show the emotion that goes along with sexual assault,” she said.

Amanda Dennison, a victim advocate, said the project is meant to help students and community members acknowledge that violence against women exists in Bowling Green and to inform them on how to prevent assaults and where to get help.

“This project is about more than being aware, but knowing what to do with that awareness,” she said.

Broadwell said she looks forward to providing the campus and community with information.

“I hope people approach it [the Clothesline Project], read a shirt and come away with a better understanding of what these women have been dealing with for years,” she said.

assaulted and used the shirt she was wearing that night,” she said.

Broadwell also said there is a vast range of messages on the T-shirts. Some are testaments of how the survivor has overcome what happened to her, while others display angrier emotions representing the crime itself, she said. “[The T-shirt] allows them to reflect on their experience and present it in their own way,” Broadwell said.

Since the shirts represent so much, Victims Services of Behavioral Connections treat each shirt for what it is, a work of art. Broadwell said each shirt is packed and sealed carefully with a number to be inventoried.

“We consider them very special to us,” she said.

Senior SAAM Chair Jessica Kayse said the committee decided to present the Clothesline

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET

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What’s your favorite board game? [see story, p. 9]

“Scrabble, because I like to find the weirdest words in the dictionary.”

“Apples to Apples.

Whenever I play it, controversy starts.”

“Monopoly, because I’m all about makin’ money.”

“Board games suck.”

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A lament for the loss The of a close friend ‘point’ is “Her final curtain justice call was imminent; ALLY BLANKARTZ COLUMNIST

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Groups are important in college, but they’re worth only so much JESS HYLTON COLUMNIST

College, as some would say, should be the time of our lives.

It’s the time to get involved, to do new things, to have an overall outstanding experience.

I am a huge advocate of involvement in school. Taking part in an organization or other activity can be one of the most rewarding aspects to your college career.

Sometimes, though, there can be an unnerving value placed on an individual affiliations.

Many people, including myself at times, allow the activities they are in to shape a part of their lives or to influence the people they associate with. I touched on this issue briefly in my column last week, but there was one integral underlying fact that I forgot to mention.

The fact is when we graduate college, people are not going to care about what organization we were involved in or who our friends were.

There are, of course, exceptions, such as an employer who looks at a resume, or another individual who was involved in the same organization.

But, the majority of the time it is not going to matter if most of your college friends were goodlooking or well-known.

What will stick out to new people coming into your life is who you are as an individual, not who you have been made into by others.

I do believe that each person you interact with in your life

“I have great pride in the organizations I am involved in. I met some of the most amazing people. But, I would never predetermine who and who not to meet or be friends with.” plays a role in shaping who you become. But there is a fine line between allowing a person to have an impact on your life and allowing a person to have control over a part of you.

When a person impacts your life it is usually your decision as to the degree of their influence.

But letting a person control a part of you, no matter how small, can drastically change you as an individual.

I have met multiple people who have told me why they socialize with certain groups and why they avoid others.

In most cases, it comes down to maintaining an image, or upholding a criterion for their organization.

Is it really worth it to steer clear of certain individuals for four or five years merely because a certain faction says that’s what you should do?

It seems as though we are living in a false reality, and a rather sheltered one at that.

I suppose it can be comforting to believe that there is not much outside of our university or our current social world.

But we do graduate or move somewhere new, and, although it may seem like it at times, we are not the most important people in the world (at least I know I’m not).

There are millions of people in the world, living in various countries. Many of these people will have never heard of the

organization you were in or even the school you attended.

College is a very small part of our lives, although it can be one of the most memorable.

We have a very rare opportunity here to meet a diverse group of individuals.

Most of us will never again be at an institution where people from around the country and around the world come together and live in such close proximity.

I have great pride in the organizations I am involved in. I met some of the most amazing people. But, I would never predetermine who and who not to meet or be friends with.

I encourage everyone to get involved on campus. But more than becoming involved, I encourage each person to make an effort to meet people outside of their usual social group.

Do not limit yourself to the familiar or the accepted.

Mosey to the other side of the room. You never know what you might find.

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Rarely can we claim to have found perfect companions; the perfect match notion is more fallacy than fact.

I consider myself blessed to have found a perfect companion in our first dog, Millie.

Millie had unparalleled intelligence and a sixth sense awareness to her family’s emotions and overall physical wellness. But this is not a tale of her endeavors, nor of the family that misses her dearly. This is a tale of her destruction.

This is the recounting of my witnessing death effortlessly steal away from my family, our dearest companion.

Until that moment in my life’s journey, I was never burdened with the sorrow of witnessing death escort another expired soul to their respected afterlife.

Cancer is absolutely the quietest of killers; it slashed Millie from the inside out. The only inclination of Millie’s pain was reflected in her eyes. Each harrowing day, all of her agony was mirrored through her amber eyes.

We were not expecting a disease of this caliber to attack our pet. She was only seven, we were positive she could have lived for another five or even six years.

Death pays no regard to age, though, striking her down in one fell swoop.

Her starvation during the ensuing weeks instilled in me emotions I was not even personally aware I possessed.

In a twisted sense, her short period of suffering could be viewed as a silver lining; she was not burdened for long. It was less than a month from her diagnosis to her time of passing.

Since the cancer was waging an all-out war against her digestive tract, she was forced into a state of starvation. Everything that she attempted to digest was violently regurgitated within minutes. Pitiless, the cancer rotted away her appetite.

While the course of the disease lasted only a trifling amount of weeks the anguish that we witnessed in Millie’s eyes was enough to drive me to tears on a daily basis.

We would try every method within our human power to force food into her dying stomach. This was death at its greatest; Millie rendered the greatest price for death’s magnum opus.

In that time space of less than a month we watched, utterly

we could sense its approach; much like one can feel a terrible storm looming on the horizon.” incapable of easing her pain.

Her final curtain call was imminent; we could sense its approach; much like one can feel a terrible storm looming on the horizon. Defeat was at hand, and death was about to make its final move.

Her final days were hell. She could barely stand, and the pain was replaced by exhaustion at every turn.

I could no longer stand to lay eyes on her gaunt form. Every bone in her emaciated body jutted a harsh line against her coat.

I could not help Millie. She silently suffered, never once compromising her wonderfully warm disposition and never once expressing her pain in anything other than her gaze.

I was begging for miracles, but true life is not cinema.

Death checkmated Millie the day she seceded to her pain and began to vocalize her torment.

The discomfort she felt was expressed to us in whimpers; the sound could wrench knives deep into your heart.

These cries were not loud, nor were they drawn out. They were muffled, pitiful and dripping with misery. It was on this day that it was decided she should be euthanized.

Her pain had become unbearable and she had not ingested food in almost a month. The cancer took her down hard, and death was, as death always is, triumphant.

Although she held no championship titles, she held an air of dignified grace, and she housed a champion’s heart within her chest. The aurora of regality about her is one that I have never since witnesses in another animal.

My hand lay on her chest even after her valiant heart stopped.

I never cried so hard in my life.

That moment for me was surreal, for even in all her agony and discomfort Millie still reached a dry tongue towards our hands as if to comfort us,

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JOELLE RUBY RYAN | GUEST COLUMNIST In his bombastic April 8 opinion column, conservative ideologue Brian Kutzley asks: What’s the point? [“Take back the night, but what’s the point?”]

Apparently, he has much to learn when it comes to gender, violence and oppression. In the charitable tradition of edification, I proffer the following points of reality to help educate Mr. Kutzley.

The point is that we live in a white-supremacist, Christiandominated, capitalist, heteropatriarchy. This means that white, heterosexual, Christian men such as he receive innumerable unearned privileges because of their hegemonic status in U.S. society.

This is not about assigning blame, but about making people acknowledge their privilege and their role in perpetuating systemic discrimination.

The point is that we live in an extremely violent society, and that this violence is neither race-blind nor gender-neutral.

It is a tool in the maintenance of structures of domination.

Patriarchy constantly exerts violence to keep women and TBLG (transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay) people in check.

Rape, domestic violence and hate crimes are but three examples of violence being used to perpetuate heteropatriarchy and instill a sense of terror in all women and TBLG people.

The point is that we honor the dead by remembering them. Many of the hateful acts committed against women, people of color and TBLG people are buried in the newspaper, not covered at all or reported in a sensationalized, inaccurate manner.

This, of course, is not accidental.

Certain groups in society are onsidered “disposable” people. Blaming the victim is practically a national sport in the U.S., not to mention a routine practice among defense attorneys.

Because of all this it falls upon activists’ shoulders to do something to challenge this injustice.

We do not exploit their names; we honor them through demanding justice and equality.

The point is that comparing TBLG people to Christians is like comparing apples to oranges. Here’s a little factual reminder: Christians are the agents of oppression while TBLG people are the targets of oppression.

Right-wing Christians love reminding us that this country is founded on Christian principles and that this is a Christian nation (sounds like a position of dominance, does it not?) while simultaneously usurping

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RYAN From Page 4 the rhetoric of the left to bemoan their own victimization at the hands of liberals and secularists.

Guess what? You can’t have it both ways.

The point is that picket signs and slogans do, in fact, matter.

I refuse to allow cynicism to impede the work of activism, liberation and social justice.

Everything we do to change the world matters. Without the picket signs and slogans that Mr. Kutzley so cavalierly dismisses, where would this world be?

Women and minorities have progressed because of picketing, protesting, organizing and speaking out.

And we are not going to stop, either, until this nation fulfills its promise of freedom and justice for all. The point is that we are not victims, we are survivors.

The point is that we do not have an “alternative lifestyle,” we have a life.

The point is that we do not invoke victims’ names for our gain, but to proudly spread awareness and demand justice.

The point is that respect lies at the core of our work to change society and we will not allow our hard work to be misrepresented, falsified or degraded.

The point is that naysayers like you will never, ever halt our journey to freedom and liberation.

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and assure us that this was for the best.

Her ashes rest upon our mantleplace. Propped up against the box is a picture from her youth, all that remains of an unconditionally selfless creature.

The bereavement process was formidable. The days felt longer, and the nights were colder without her nestled against my side.

Our yard was empty without her sunning herself, lounging on the lush grass. Slowly the products of her shedding began to fade.

Once in a while we’ll discover a hair clinging desperately to a pair of pants, unwilling to be forgotten with time. Silence falls over us and we catch ourselves in reveries of the days past.

Witnessing death is unlike

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We made the decision to invest in another Boxer, and have now welcomed Roxy into out family. She has impeccable standards to live up to, and an incredible pair of shoes to fill.

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John McCain and Martin Luther King, Jr. “As far as what he stood for, McCain was very much an opponent of Dr. King.”

ROBERT SWITZER | GUEST COLUMNIST Did you know that John McCain voted against making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a holiday? I didn’t know until last week when McCain apologized for the vote in a speech on the anniversary of King’s assassination.

Perhaps he should have kept his mouth shut. But of course, he can’t because it’s now obligatory for presidential candidates to suck up to Dr. King.

But why was McCain not so willing to sing King’s praises a few decades ago? Apparently his argument at the time was that there were already enough federal holidays, and that it would be too costly to have another one. That’s kind of hard to buy, at least to me.

So what was his real motivation? Some might suggest that he’s a closet racist. I don’t think there’s any evidence of that. Of course, he could have been employing a Nixon-esque “Southern Strategy,” pandering to the lingering widespread racism of the conservative base in those times. That’s plausible.

But I have my own theory: McCain simply didn’t like Martin Luther King. I don’t mean that he didn’t like him personally. But as far as what he stood for, McCain was very much an opponent of Dr. King. Do you think McCain would vote against a national holiday for Ronald Reagan? McCain is a self-described “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution.” But he wasn’t a foot soldier in the King

movement because he wasn’t on his side.

Speeches and television programs about King tend to focus on his civil rights achievements, which makes sense, considering they are the most important part of his legacy. But what is sometimes forgotten is that his civil rights support was just one element of his populist, progressive and arguably even socialist agenda. A huge opponent of the Vietnam war (which McCain still supports to this day), King never saw a war he liked or a social program he didn’t.

McCain, on the other hand, is a strict, regulation-loathing capitalist (along with the rest of his party). He believes that the best thing for America is tax cuts, deregulation and for the government to leave us all alone to fight amongst ourselves for jobs. He hates “handouts” like welfare benefits and affirmative action.

There is no question that King disagreed vehemently. King’s dream of equality didn’t stop at the right to vote and eat in the same restaurants as white people; it meant doing anything possible to help black Americans climb out of the hole that had been dug for them via centuries of slavery and Jim Crow. King was a huge supporter of affirmative action. As he once said, “A society that has

done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro.”

But in his infinite wisdom, he recognized that poverty is a thing that does not discriminate based on race. Before he was killed, he was planning a massive demonstration in which thousands of poor people from all around the country would be bussed in to Washington to stay in a massive tent city, highlighting the enormity and the multi-racial reality of poverty.

King understood that although tax cuts and deregulation might make our gross domestic product and stock market look a little better, focusing on those numbers invariably leaves out the masses who don’t get a piece of that pie and don’t have the resources to even try. And he took the radical (and dare I say, Christian) position that we should actually take care of those people. Quoting him again, “It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself up by his bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to a bootless man that he should lift himself up by his bootstraps.”

The man was a veritable leftwing quote generator. One of my favorites: “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see

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Restructuring? That’s a pretty radical statement right there.

McCain knocks aside, my favorite Republican “Kingsupporting” hypocrite is Condoleezza Rice, who had the honor of appearing on a CNN special about King last week. She kept a straight face the whole time, even though she has actually said that the civil rights movement “didn’t affect” her, and has actually argued that the movement was largely unnecessary because the government would have come around eventually anyway.

That’s right: Condi Rice, a black woman, thinks that King’s movement was unnecessary. And like McCain and all other Republicans, she no doubt — by definition of her ideology — believes that the vast majority of King’s beliefs were flat-out wrong.

So for the sake of honesty, Republicans shouldn’t use King’s holiday to praise him, but to criticize him for his naive idealism and big government liberalism. (And don’t forget his antiAmericanism for opposing the war.) But unfortunately, they don’t do honesty well. Their “support” of King’s liberal legacy is just further proof of that.

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Despite the issues that are raised almost weekly on college campuses about underage drinking and the perils of alcoholism, in some cases the problem may be met much before a student reaches their chosen university.

Recently, in Great Britain, a 6-year-old boy was treated for alcoholism at a hospital.

There is a debate, which rages principally amongst many young adults ages 16 to 20, which questions what exactly the drinking age should be.

Whether it is 21, 18 or 16 I think everyone in the debate can come to a consensus that six is far and away too young.

There are some well publicized studies which preach the negative aspects of drinking for people whose bodies are still developing.

Whether you think you are still developing at 18 or not, six is a developmental stage for everyone in the world.

In addition to this, the primary targets of anti-drinking propaganda are the culprits of the drinking. Perhaps parents should be targeted more.

Not only should parents be targeted to understand the negatives of drinking themselves, but also of the extremely negative effects of drinking as a young child.

Furthermore, this child was not a one-time drinker.

He was treated for alcoholism, which suggests that this was not the first time that the child was drinking.

How can a parent be so irresponsible to not realize not only that their child was drinking, but that he was drinking heavy amounts on a regular basis?

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“Cases like this show that everyone should be armed with the knowledge to stay alive at the youngest age possible.” lum which outlines the effects of alcohol on a person's body should be moved to the first day of classes that a child takes.

Who cares if a person can read, distinguish colors or add, if they are not equipped with the common sense to stay alive?

This responsibility usually rests on the parents because they are believed to have enough sense and understanding of life to protect their children.

However, cases like this show that everyone should be armed with the knowledge to stay alive at the youngest age possible.

Parents are given free reign to raise their children the way that they please. In many cases, they can choose to allow their children to follow or break the law.

After all, who's going to know?

But in many cases, that can create situations just like this.

Educating a 6-year-old is unlikely to do enough to make them realize not to drink, but it is perhaps necessary for the few that it might save.

Let's face it, compulsory education for parents will never happen and 99 percent of parents do not need it to understand something as simple as this.

Something should be done because no matter what excuses you may have, it is an abomination for a 6-year-old to be hospitalized for alcohol.

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Campus organizations band together to fight for rollover

By Brian Szabelski Web Editor

Approximately 40 students and members of the community gathered outside the Union on Thursday to protest the University’s decision to end meal plan rollover.

Protesters stood in the free speech area outside the Union’s front entrance, holding signs and chanting phrases like “B-G-S-U, stealing from you” and “stealing money, that’s just rude, let us buy our dining food.”

The protest was organized by FREEDOM, a social activist group on campus, as a way to keep the issue on student’s minds.

“We’d been talking about it for two weeks, so we decided it would be a good issue to protest,” junior Jacob Moore said.

Moore, who spearheaded the protest, said as soon as FREEDOM heard about what was going on, they began work-

ing with USG and other student organizations on the issue.

“Higher education affects everyone,” Moore said. “We don’t think [rollover] ought to be taken away. The University is about education, not food.”

“We’re trying to get as many people as possible aware of this because it’s part of the bigger issue of student apathy and under-representation,” FREEDOM member Shane Juntila said. “The students who care don’t have enough representation on campus.”

Ron Collier, secretary for College Democrats, said his organization was hoping to work with FREEDOM to raise awareness on the issue.

“We have a connection with FREEDOM through friendships and that we’re both socialist active groups on campus”, Collier said in between leading protest chants. “We knew they had a first protest in the Union

and worked with FREEDOM on this one.”

Junior Steve Currie, president of College Democrats for the 2008-09 academic year, noted that College Democrats have not finalized a position on the rollover protests.

“I’m going to make sure to represent my constituency,” Currie said. “We haven’t voted on it just yet.”

Currie, however, personally supports the moment.

“It’s legal what they’re doing, but it’s ethically wrong,” Currie said.

FREEDOM also held a teach-in tonight at the United Christian Fellowship on Thurstin Avenue. No further protests are planned after that, but FREEDOM plans to hold more meetings on the issue to determine any future plans.

“We’re trying to see what happens after today and go from there,” Moore said.

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ELDORADO, Texas — When authorities moved to search the large white temple on the polygamist compound in West Texas, about five dozen of the sect’s men prayed and cried around the structure, state investigators said yesterday.

Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran also said he had been working with a confidential informant for four years who was feeding him information about life inside the polygamist sect.

Doran declined to say whether the informant was in Texas or other sect compounds in Utah or Arizona. It wasn’t until after the search had begun that Doran learned about marriage beds in the temple and the forced marriages of underage girls to older men.

“It was instrumental in teaching me the group’s ways,” Doran said.

But state authorities defended

their decision to leave the sect alone for the four years it had encamped in West Texas.

“We are aware that this group is capable of [sexually abusing young girls],” Doran said. “But there again, this is the United States. We are going to respect them. We’re not going to violate their civil rights until we get an outcry.

I’ve said that from day one.”

Texas Ranger Capt. Barry Caver said some of the 57 men near the wall were on their knees praying. Others sobbed.

One resisted officers’ attempt to enter the area and was arrested.

When authorities finally gained entrance to the TONY GUTIERREZ | AP PHOTO three-story building, no one POLYGAMIST PROBLEMS: Department of Public Safety spokesperson Telan Mange is was inside.

But on the top they found beds followed into a news conference regarding the polygamist compound in West Texas. allegedly used by husbands after The children “were shuffled they married underage girls on would be then.”

Caver also described the dif- around houses as we were the top floor of the temple.

He said authorities made the ficulties faced by child welfare searching,” he said, noting that temple the last stop on the week- officials in finding and remov- as soon as they saw children in long search because “if there was ing all 416 children from the one house, they would be quickly ushered to other houses. going to be any resistance at all it compound.

Olympic torch relay in China defined by crisis

By Stephen Wilson The Associated Press

BEIJING — Crisis. Disarray.

Sadness.

Four months before the opening of what was supposed to be the grandest Olympics in history, the head of the International Olympic Committee is using words that convey anything but a sense of joyous enthusiasm.

The protest-marred Olympic torch relay and international criticism of China’s policies on Tibet, Darfur and human rights have turned the Beijing Games into one of the most politically charged in recent history and presented the IOC with one of its toughest tests since the boycott era of the 1970s and ‘80s.

“It is a crisis, there is no doubt about that,” IOC President Jacques Rogge said Thursday.

“But the IOC has weathered many bigger storms.”

At the same time, Rogge

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TORCH CRISIS: International Olympic Committee Chairman Jacques Rogge speaks of situation surrounding Olympic torch relay.

called on China to respect its “moral engagement” to improve human rights and to fulfill promises of greater media freedom. He also reaffirmed the right of free speech for athletes at the Beijing Games.

Rogge spoke in Beijing just hours after the completion of the torch relay in San Francisco, where the route was shortened and the flame diverted to prevent disruptions by massive crowds of anti-China protesters.

Rogge’s use of the word “crisis” to describe the torch relay and the Beijing buildup came as a surprise. The Belgian orthopedic surgeon’s comments usually are measured and low-key.

He cited previous crises — the attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics and the boycotts of the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Games.

“The history of the Olympic Games is fraught by a lot of challenges,” Rogge said. “This is a challenge but you cannot compare to what we had in the past.”

British IOC member Craig Reedie believes the worst is over.

“I hope that we are through it now,” he said. “I think the furor that has affected the torch in London, Paris and to some extent in San Francisco will now die down. ... But it is fair to say that this kind of political protest is a new experience for the IOC and we have all found it extremely uncomfortable.”

After the chaos caused by pro-Tibet demonstrators during torch relays in London and Paris, IOC officials were relieved the North American leg passed without any injuries.

“Fortunately, the situation was better in San Francisco,” Rogge said. “It was, however, not the joyous party that we had wished it to be.

“Athletes in many countries are in disarray and we need to reassure them,” he added.

“Our major responsibility is to offer them the games they deserve. ... We have 120 days to achieve this.”

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VT families take state settlement

By Sue Lindsey The Associated Press

ROANOKE, Va. — Most families of victims of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech have agreed to an $11 million state settlement that will compensate families who lost loved ones, pay survivors’ medical costs and avoid a court battle over whether anyone besides the gunman was to blame.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said yesterday a “substantial majority” of families of victims of the Virginia Tech shootings agreed to the settlement.

Peter Grenier and Douglas Fierberg, who represent 21 families, said the settlement was worth more than $11 million, but neither they nor the governor would discuss its terms until final papers are drawn in a few days.

Grenier and Fierberg said seriously injured victims “will be well compensated and have their health care needs taken care of forever,” and that families who lost loved ones would

be “similarly compensated and cared for.”

“We want to make sure the settlement is fiscally responsible for the commonwealth,” Kaine said, “but it’s kind of a fair balance of a variety of interests.”

Kaine called the agreement “very positive,” but noted that families who have not agreed to it still could file suit. Notice must be filed by April 16.

Seung-Hui Cho, a mentally disturbed student, killed 32 victims and wounded two dozen others at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, before committing suicide. Forty families had previously filed notice with the state that they may sue.

Cho killed two people in a dormitory, then killed 30 more than two hours later in a classroom building before taking his own life. University officials have been criticized for waiting about two hours before informing students and employees about the first shootings, which police initially thought were an act of domestic violence.

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Bring on the kids, campus is more than ready

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CHRISTY JOHNSON | THE BG NEWS

Sibs N Kids Weekend is here, and with it comes a slew of activities and a lot of special guests.

A tradition for many years, the weekend is meant to provide a safe and fun place where siblings and youth friends of students can experience a taste of life at the University, said Ryan Gardner, president of the Resident Student Association.

“Sibs and Kids is something we have been doing for as long as I have been at the University,” Gardner said.

The RSA sponsors and puts on the weekend filled with inflatables, a carnival and appearances by Freddie and Frieda Falcon, Gardner said.

In addition, the juggling team is set to perform, and some student athletes will participate in a coloring activity with children.

RSA began preparing for Sibs N Kids Weekend last semester.

Gardner estimates that at least 6 or 7 organizations and offices have put time into planning weekend events for children of all ages.

There is also a t-shirt that students and their siblings can purchase from the University Bookstore for $8.99.

“We have sold a bunch of them, we had a great success

“There are a lot of events going on, so check it out, and get your siblings out to events that you think that they will enjoy.”

Ryan Gardner | RSA President with them this year,” said Yvonne Stoner, associate director of the University Bookstore.

“We may even sell out before this Saturday.”

The T-shirts can be taken to the carnival and tie-dyed, Stoner said.

The carnival is one of the most popular events of the weekend.

It includes many popular events plus popular fair treats that kids of all ages can enjoy.

“There are a lot of events going on, so check it out, and get your siblings out to events that you think that they will enjoy,” Gardner said.

Be at one with nature and your inner child at the same time

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STEP ONE CANDICE JONES SENIOR EDITOR

This, one of my favorite crafts of all time, is for the birds.

With all of these kids around and in the spirit of passing on our falcon pride, here is an easy

craft to add to the weekend activities — Falcon Feeders.

Supplies are easy: pinecones, peanut butter, bird seed and string.

If you are looking to pass the time with your miniature guests, this craft offers some great features like fresh air, low cost, and little to no skill.

So, when you are showing your little sib around campus, keep your eyes peeled for a few

STEP TWO pinecones in the grass, then swing by the Union and pick up some peanut butter packets in the Falcon’s Nest — they are only a couple cents.

Tie any old string to the top of the pinecone, and leave room for hanging.

Next, you guessed it, roll that sticky pinecone in bird seed.

You can make as many as you want, then you can hang them outside your window or

in a tree on campus — voila!

This craft has the potential to be a tad messy, but just save the newspaper you are reading to use as a workspace.

And use this craft idea to think of other fun crafts you can do without having to leave campus. There are lots of things to help you achieve crafting greatness and keep kids entertained for hours on end!

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STEP THREE

Board games, a friendly contact sport Come on everyone,

let’s get kiddy with it

TIM SAMPSON SENIOR EDITOR

Growing up with two brothers, I was bound to wind up with at least a couple of scars.

But my cuts and bruises as a child didn’t come from playing football and trying to pop wheelies on my bike. Most of mine were derived from brotherly board games that went horribly awry.

And as siblings descend on campus this weekend, I can’t help but be reminiscent for all those childhood games of “Mouse Trap” that ended in bloody-noses and hurt feelings.

It’s not that my brothers and I pulled these games out of the upstairs closet expecting a fistfight to ensue. We always had high hopes that these games would be played fairly and that we would see

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them through to their conclusion. But each game had a fatal flaw that led to bitter competitiveness and ultimately a foot in someone’s face.

I’ve still got thimble-shaped scars from “Monopoly,” a beastly game that never ended in the Sampson household until somebody flipped the board and sent the other one crying to Mom. To give you a sense of the bad blood generated by this game, I’m currently on a lifetime ban from being the banker in my family.

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Why? Because I love to steal! I’m like a Park Place kleptomaniac! And whenever my brothers caught me nonchalantly sliding a couple of $500 bills out of the bank, that game was about 20 seconds and one screaming match from being over.

But “Monopoly” was not the only board game known for causing conflict among the Sampson brothers. Whenever my younger brother Matt and I

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When I was a freshman, my then 13 and 10-year old sisters came to our wonderful University to share in the joy that is Sibs and Kids weekend.

I was more than settled in my room in McDonald Hall.

I had made good friends and knew the campus like the back of my little hand.

But what good would that be for entertaining two youngsters?

Loads of good is what.

My friends banded together to show my sisters a weekend of good, clean fun, filled with microwaveable s’mores and bowling (as my then 10year old sister said, “What

good is Bowling Green if we don’t go bowling?”)

So if you are bringing your siblings onto campus for the first time, take a few deep breaths and realize that there’s plenty to do in Bowling Green to keep any sibling from wanting to go back home immediately.

Aside from the events campus has planned for the weekend, the city can be your playground.

And if your siblings are coming back for a second, third or forth time around, try something new.

Check out new restaurants or shops in town, and go to activities on campus that you couldn’t get to in years past.

Sibs and kids weekend can be fun for everyone, not just those who have siblings here.

We were all children once, and some of us are still young at heart.

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Search the paper each line by line you will find the falcons, a family of nine.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Some events taken from events.bgsu.edu

6 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Open Recreation and Exercise Come and enjoy all that the SRC has to offer. BGSU Student Recreation Center

6:30 p.m - 9:00 p.m.

Falcon’s Nest Karaoke Test out your vocal talents as you karaoke the night away to your favorites. Falcon’s Nest, Bowen-Thompson Student Union

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Offenhauer Ice Cream Social Stop by and enjoy some delicious ice cream toppings with the residents of Offenhauer.. Offenhauer Residence Hall

9:00 p.m -11:00 p.m.

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broke out “Thirteen Dead End Drive,” our parents knew we wouldn’t be on speaking terms for the rest of the day.

“Thirteen Dead End Drive,” for those who did not grow up in the 90s, was kind of like “Clue” for stupid kids. It was a murder mystery board game that replaced the logic and deduction of “Clue” with the wacky traps and shenanigans of “Mouse Trap.”

Now this game always started off on a sour note because it took about an hour to put together, and we constantly fought just assembling that damn cardboard mansion.

And because this is one of those games where you can fall quickly from near victory to agonizing defeat, emotions tended to run high. That’s why most games of “Thirteen Dead End Drive,” started off with someone saying, “Hey! Let’s

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“But when I think back on all those simple, carefree afternoons of playing “Hungry, Hungry Hippos” on the living room table, I can’t help but long for those fun filled days with my brothers.” play a game,” and ended with someone saying, “Mom said you were an accident!”

I’m proud to say, however, that Matt and I have outgrown this pettiness. In fact it’s been almost two years since our last major “Thirteen Dead End Drive” fight.

But as with most childhood issues, I believe my inability to play board games without cheating and losing my temper can be blamed entirely on my mother (interesting side note: I spent two years as a psychology major before switching to journalism).

You see, as where my father was one for strictly adhering to rules, Mom was always more

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willing to bend, exaggerate, or just make up rules in board games. That’s why, instead of trying to win games of “Risk” through superior game play and strategy, I liked to accuse Jeff and Matt of making unwarranted, aggressive war, and I attempt to put them on trial for war crimes in the Hague – a strategy that often failed.

But when I think back on all those simple, carefree afternoons of playing “Hungry, Hungry Hippos” on the living room table, I can’t help but long for those fun filled days with my brothers… it also makes me glad that neither of them are coming to visit this weekend.

Environmental adaptations

Saturday, April 11, 2008 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.

Sibs N Kids Carnival

By Michael Casey The Associated Press

Carnival for kids of all ages! Inflatables, caricature artists, snacks and more!

Lenhart Grand Ballroom and the Multipurpose Room, BowenThompson Student Union

12:30 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.

Sibs N Kids Weekend Bingo Fun and Plenty of great prizes! The Falcon’s Nest, Bowen-Thompson Student Union

2:30 p.m.

Go-Kart Grand Prix Races Sponsored by BGSU Motorsports. Watch go-kart races as they reach speeds of up to 50 mph. Parking Lot — adjacent to Anderson Arena

2:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.

Free Climbing at Climbing Wall Sponsored by Rec Sports. Free Climbing for anyone over 8 years of age.

Climbing Wall Room, BGSU Student Recreation Center.

5:15 p.m.- 7:45 p.m.

Sibs Skate Enjoy skating at the ice arena with your Sibs and Kids! Sibs skate free with BGSU Student. BGSU Ice Arena

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Sibs N Kids Brunch with Freddie and Frieda Registrr for event by calling the Office of Campus Activities at 419-372-2343. Costs $13 for adults and $6.50 for youth under 12 years. 228 Multi-purpose Room, Bowen-Thompson Student Union

BANGKOK, Thailand — A frog has been found in a remote part of Indonesia that has no lungs and breathes through its skin, a discovery that researchers said yesterday could provide insight into what drives evolution in certain species.

The aquatic frog Barbourula kalimantanensis was found in a remote part of Indonesia’s DAVID BICKFORD | AP Kalimantan province on Borneo island during an expe- BREATHLESS: This frog does not have any lungs yet still is able to function. dition in August 2007, said David Bickford, an evolution- came across the frog 30 years the research team.

Bickford surmised that the ary biologist at the National ago and the biology professor University of Singapore. from the Bandung Institute frog had evolved to adapt to Bickford was part of the trip of Technology has been its difficult surroundings, in and co-authored a paper searching for it ever since. which it has to navigate cold, on the find that appeared Five earlier expeditions had rapidly moving streams that are rich in oxygen. in this week’s edition of proven fruitless.

“It’s an extreme adaptation Iskandar said it was exciting the peer-reviewed journal to see the frog alive in its natu- that was probably brought Current Biology.

Bickford says the species is ral environment but another about by these fast-moving the first frog known to science thing altogether to realize it streams,” Bickford said, adding that it probably needed to without lungs and joins a short was lungless.

Iskandar said the first sign reduce its buoyancy in order to list of amphibians with this unusual trait, including a few that something was unusual keep from being swept down species of salamanders and a with the frog was after it was the mountainous rivers.

He said the frog could help worm-like creature known as captured in the field. The first specimen died in a bucket of scientists understand the envia caecilian.

“These are about the most water, which prompted the ronmental factors that conancient and bizarre frogs you researchers to take the remain- tribute to “extreme evolutioncan get on the planet,” Bickford ing frogs back to the lab for ary change” since its closest relative in the Philippines and said of the brown amphibian further investigation.

“We just suspected that other frogs have lungs. with bulging eyes and a tenBickford and Gillespie said dency to flatten itself as it glides something was peculiar about this frog because it died even in the frog’s discovery adds across the water.

“They are like a squished water,” Iskandar said. “When urgency to the need to proversion of Jabba the Hutt,” he we cut it open, we found it had tect its river habitat, which in said, referring to the charac- no lungs, no trachea not even a recent years has become polluted due to widespread illeter from Star Wars. “They are wind pipe.”

Graeme Gillespie, director gal logging and gold mining. flat and have eyes that float above the water. They have of conservation and science Once-pristine waters are now skin flaps coming off their at Zoos Victoria in Australia, brown and clogged with silt, called the frog “evolutionarily they said. arms and legs.”

“The gold mining is comAlong with the lungless frog, unique.” He said the eight Bickford said his team discov- specimens examined in the pletely illegal and small scale. ered two new lizard species lab showed that lungless- But when there are thousands and four other species of frogs ness was consistent with the of them on the river, it really species and not “a freak of has a huge impact,” Bickford during their two-month trip.

Bickford’s Indonesian col- nature.” Gillespie was not a said. “Pretty soon the frogs will league, Djoko Iskandar, first member of the expedition or run out of the river.”

By Jonathan M. Katz Associated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ U.N. peacekeepers used rubber bullets and tear gas to chase away hungry Haitians who stormed the presidential palace Tuesday demanding the resignation of President Rene Preval. The riots over soaring food prices turned into looting as terrified residents huddled inside.

The protesters tried to break into the presidential palace Tuesday morning by charging its chained gates with a rolling dumpster, demanding Preval step down.

“We are hungry! He must go!” they cried.

Preval, a soft-spoken leader backed by Washington, was inside the palace at the time, aides said. He has made no public statements since the riots began last week.

Brazilian soldiers in blue U.N. helmets arrived on jeeps and assault vehicles, forcing the protesters away from the palace gates. But as the protests turned into looting, the outnumbered peacekeepers only watched as people broke into shops around the palace.

After dark, the looting spread. People broke into stores and factories on a road to the airport, witnesses said, amid blackouts reported from Port-au-Prince's center up through its densely populated hills. Frightened residents barricaded themselves behind locked doors.

On one rain-drenched street, a group of men swarmed a slow-moving car and tried to drag its driver through the window. She appeared to get away.

The U.S. Embassy suspended visa services and routine operations Wednesday because of the violence, and advised Americans in Portau-Prince and Les Cayes to remain indoors. Embassy buildings were pelted with rocks Tuesday but there were no reports of injuries to U.S. citizens.

Food prices, which have risen 40 percent on average since mid-2007, are causing unrest around the world. But nowhere do they pose a greater threat to democracy than in Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries where in the best of times most people struggle to fill their bellies.

“I think we have made progress in stabilizing the country, but that progress is extremely fragile, highly reversible, and made even more fragile by the current socio-economic environment,” U.N. envoy Hedi Annabi said Tuesday after briefing the Security Council.

For months, Haitians have

“As long as the two have a possibility to meet, you're going to have trouble.”

Patrick Elie | Preval adviser compared their hunger pains to “eating Clorox” because of the burning feeling in their stomachs. The most desperate have come to depend on a traditional hunger palliative of cookies made of dirt, vegetable oil and salt.

Riots broke out in the normally placid southern port of Les Cayes last week, quickly escalating as protesters tried to burn down a U.N. compound and leaving five people dead.

The protests spread to other cities, and on Monday tens of thousands took to the streets of Port-au-Prince.

"I compare this situation to having a bucket full of gasoline and having some people around with a box of matches," said Preval adviser Patrick Elie.

“As long as the two have a possibility to meet, you're going to have trouble.”

The protesters also are demanding the departure of the 9,000 U.N. peacekeepers, whom they blame in part for rising food prices. The peacekeepers came to Haiti in 2004 to quell the chaos that followed the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

They helped usher in a democratic transition, but critics say both Preval and the international community have focused too much on political stability without helping to alleviate poverty.

That could spell trouble not only for Preval, but for Haiti's fragile democracy as well.

“We voted Preval for a change. Nothing happened,” said Joel Elie, 31, who like many Haitians is unemployed.

“We're tired of it and we can't wait anymore.”

While the peacekeepers spend more than US$500 million ( 320 million) a year in Haiti, the World Food Program has collected less than 15 percent of the US$96 million ( 61 million) it says Haiti needs in donations this year.

The WFP issued an emergency appeal Monday for more.

Meanwhile, new customs procedures aimed at collecting revenues and stopping the flow of drugs has left tons of food rotting in ports, especially in the country's north.

In a country where almost all food is imported, cargo traffic from Miami ground nearly to a halt, though shippers say intervention by Preval last month has improved the situation somewhat.

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WEEKEND PLANS LOCAL MFA Thesis Exhibitions Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m.-4 p.m., the Fine Arts Center will host the first of two exhibitions displaying work by candidates for the Master of Fine Arts degree. Free.

Chelada style, I’ll give it a while Freddy Hunt | Assistant City Editor

Company The University’s Department of Theatre and Film presents “Company” by Stephen Sondheim in the Eva Marie Saint Theatre at University Hall. Contact the box office at (419) 372-2719 for tickets.

Friday-Sunday at 8 p.m.

CHILL OUT ON THE WINE COOLERS TOLEDO AREA Mobile Meals’ Great Chili CookOff Saturday from noon-4 p.m. at the Great Hall at the Stranahan Theater, taste a variety of awardwinning chili. Vote for your favorites while enjoying music and chef demonstrations.

32nd Glass City Marathon Sunday at 8 a.m., The Toledo Roadrunners Club will be sponsoring a marathon and 5k in downtown Toledo. The scenic course goes through city and country roads in Maumee, Rossford and Perrysburg.

When I first tried this “beer,” I took the gas station attendant’s word. I shouldn’t have.

The Miller Chill is a light beer with a hint of lime and salt. My main beef with the Chill is that it doesn’t taste anything like a light beer.

The reason for my disappointment was that I didn’t understand what a Chelada style brew was all about. By definition, Chelada means a Mexican style beer prepared with sauces and lime. The Miller Chill has no sauces, just lime, and tastes like just lime.

Sure it can be refreshing. Anything cold, sweet and carbonated can be.

But don’t purchase a six pack if you are looking for a good beer to sip on.

But there are occasions when I would purchase a sixer of Chill.

Somebody once told me it’s a good lawnmower beer. I think that describes it very well. It is something to quench your thirst when the weather is hot. It’s definitely not a drink to indulge in.

I would also purchase it if I was expecting company that enjoys drinks like Mike’s Hard and Woodchuck Cider.

It would also be suitable with a Mexican meal, but I think I would be more likely to go with Dos Equis or a more flavorful Mexican beer rather than a weak, salty, lime-infused Chelada.

ELSEWHERE Columbus Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hank Williams, Jr. will perform at 7 p.m. at the Nationwide Arena as part of the Rowdy Friends Tour.

In the second installment of BG Mythbusters, the Pulse tackles stereotypes surrounding the ‘emotional’ students on campus

By Alissa O’Neill Reporter

Emo. Today’s society holds the image of a teenager wearing tight jeans and a tight rock band T-shirt with dark, straight hair slightly covering one eye. They picture someone who is depressed and maybe even suicidal. But there’s more to emo than meets the eye.

Bowling Green State University student Sarah Haberecht says that she considers herself emo to an extent.

“I think more people think I am emo than I think. I know my roommates always say I am emo,” Haberecht said.

“On the other hand, I’m just a real relaxed laid-back girl.”

Haberecht says that she fits some of the stereotypical “emo girl” looks with her dark, straight hair and side

swept bangs along with her black glasses and piercing and tattoos.

However, emo is a case where you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.

The media has suggested that emo is a popular subculture that includes being emotional, shy and full of angst, but this isn’t the case with all those who associate themselves with the emo culture.

“I am a complete extrovert and really outgoing, but I’m also emotional and sensitive,” Haberecht shared. “Like anything, I

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BUD LIGHT AND CLAMATO: REALLY? Sandusky Saturday at 9 p.m., Detroit comedian Jay Cooper will perform at Cedar Villa Restaurant in Sandusky.

Tickets are $8.50.

Check out our preview of “Prom Night” online!

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Take a perfectly fine Bud Light and add the juice of a clam and a tomato — I think I threw up, but I’m not sure. It tastes like I did, but I don’t think I did.

When I first saw this product in the cooler I thought: “Come on Budweiser, don’t stoop to that level.

Coming out with a Chelada style beer of your own.” But then I saw it was a tomato based beverage. I like Bloody Mary’s and Bud Light, so maybe this wont be so bad? I was wrong.

It’s terrible. The can says: “with salt and lime, the perfect combination.”

I don’t think any amount of salt and lime can fix Bud Light & Clamato.

Maybe my taste buds aren’t mature enough to appreciate the complicated flavor. Because to me, it tastes like a clam ate a tomato and pooped it out into my flat Bud Light.

I applaud Anhueser-Busch for trying new things, but don’t loose your dignity in the process. Bud Light & Clamato should be used as a mixer only, never consumed straight. With a little vodka and a lot of spice and ice, it might be drinkable.

I would tell you to try for yourself, but I can’t do that to my readers. So if you are choosing between the two Cheladas, I strongly advise Miller Chill.

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PEP TALK: The Duluth Bulldogs, a determined football team, gear up for a game during a time when the sport was trying to gain a public fanbase.

Pigskins and ‘Leatherheads’ throw with a classic twist

By Aaron Helfferich Reviewer

After years of Hollywood success, George Clooney has finally fulfilled yet another dream. It was the determination to play high school football that evoked Clooney’s latest project titled “Leatherheads”.

Acting as the film’s star, producer, and director, George Clooney has extended his unique vision on all things Hollywood. With a pres-

ence that looks back to the classic days of cinema when some of the most memorable movies of all time came into existence. With “Leatherheads,” George Clooney tries to capture exactly that.

The setting is 1925. The organization of professional football is desperately trying to make its way into the public’s eyes. With

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will be the first time in 30 years that the unions have not showed a united front when going into negotiations, all previous talks resulted in a compromise between the unions and studios.

Currently the Screen Actors Guild is set to begin talks on

By Tannen Gliatta April 15 while the TV guild has Reporter yet to set a date Variety reported.

The actors are asking for nearly Just as your favorite television the same things that sent the shows are returning another threat writers into a 100 day strike.

Compensation for changing is looming to take them away.

Actors are the next group in technology including increased Hollywood ready to set down residuals for Internet downloads their scripts in favor of picket and DVD sales are at the censigns. The actors’ labor contract ter of the conflict according to expires on June 30. This should Entertainment Weekly magazine.

While the writers’ strike hurt be more than enough time for the actors and studios to reach a Hollywood an actors’ strike has deal but it has already gotten off the possibility of destroying it. The writers’ strike wounded to a rough start.

Variety, a Hollywood trade television the most because of newspaper, explains actors are the more immediate ramificaeither members of the American tions while movies could conFederation of Television and tinue to be filmed as long as Radio Artists, which represents their scripts were finished. Even soap opera actors and a hand- television stands to rebound ful of prime time shows, or the from the writers’ strike as most Screen Actors Guild, which shows are gearing up for a few represents essentially everyone new episodes this season. But if else. On May 29 the two unions the actors go on strike television decided they would not go into contract negotiations together.

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What Hercules and Love Affair do better than a rather formidable heap of like-minded artists within the dance genre, is stretch their credibility and good natured crafting to the point of suspension of disbelief, using damaged emotion, carnal frenzies, genuine club bangers and an overall jubilant imagery. In short, NYC DJ Andy Butler may have just killed the radio star. The main reason why Butler is so enjoyable as an artist and producer is because he is probably just as big a music fan as you or me. The only difference: he doesn’t over think things. — Daniel Rivera

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Gus Van Sant is no stranger to turning ordinary stories into extraordinary films: “My Own Private Idaho,� “Drugstore Cowboy� and “To Die For� all blossomed in the director’s hands. Van Sant shows in “Paranoid Park� that he has the market cornered on telling the stories of teenagers in the most realistic way of any working director.

He has a feel for youth counter-culture that other directors just miss completely. He consistently portrays the developing moral compass of a jaded youth with a heartfelt sincerity and a steady hand. — Matt Mazur

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“The Odd Couple� continues an alternately disturbing, comforting and challenging exploration of the human mind that commenced on “St. Elsewhere.� The kaleidoscope of beats and melodies is still there, and so are the quasi-paranoiac lyrics. The songs play like dramatic vignettes connected by the drone of a film reel. It’s an effective tactic, and not only because it underscores Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo’s proclivity to appear in drag as well known film characters. — Christian Wikane

If the film has a message, it’s this: A risk-averse society succeeds only in doing just that, avoiding risk. This message is punctuated by the movie’s dominant mid-century aesthetic, which harkens back to the beginnings of the human exploration of space. Without the heavy risks assumed by those who first ventured it, space travel would not have become the routine event that it is in “Gattaca’s� version of the future. This is the historical irony of the film’s vision of the future. — Shaun Huston

Twin siblings, a dead Russian mother, an estranged father, a long-lost brother, an expat heroin addict _ with “Pravda,� young British writer Edward Docx has taken these ingredients and concocted an impressive and moving narrative of failure and family. Spanning New York, London, Paris and St. Petersburg, “Pravda� tells of Gabriel and Isabella Glover, two moderately successful 30-something Brits, dealing with the death of their mother, Masha, a Soviet-era defector who returned home following the end of the Cold War. The prose is so fluid and the characters so well-constructed, that it holds together tightly and moves at thriller-like speed. — David Pullar

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sets as well as film sets will go dark instantly according to USA Today.

Audiences will still have their summer blockbusters at the local movie theater and even the onslaught of horror films in the fall but after that the theaters could get a bit deserted. And television could face the bleak fall season everyone thought they avoided when the writers’ strike concluded in February reports USA Today.

Mosttelevisionprogramsresume production right around the same time as the actors’ contract expires on June 30. In anticipation of the possible strike some programs are filming straight through and not taking a summer hiatus, but

play “Opoona� [Wii] “Opoona� is like the “Zak and Wiki� of Japan, well-received on a critical level but utterly ignored by the public. It’s an adventure/role-playing experience, moderately long on the first playthrough and utterly gargantuan if you are to complete all of the objectives. The unique, cute, perfect-for-theWii art design is by a “Dragon Quest� alum, which is another mark in its favor. Featuring the first Nunchuck-only control scheme to be found on the system, it’s innovative in its control, even for the Wii. It’s the sort of game that could help to legitimize thirdparty software on the Wii. — Mike Schiller

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according to Entertainment Weekly, most shows would only have five or six episodes stockpiled for fall. The fate of new series slated for fall could also be in jeopardy. It is unknown if networks will bother to launch new series like J.J. Abrams’ latest “Fringe� or JossWhedon’s return to television “Dollhouse� if only a few episodes have been filmed Entertainment Weekly reports.

While actors stand to put a halt in Hollywood once again many have been outspoken about their desire not to hit the picket lines.

In between his social activist responsibilities and promoting his new film George Clooney has also been trying to bridge the gap between the actors’ unions and the studios. Clooney released a statement expressing his displeasure with the circumstances and

encouraging both sides to begin negotiations even before the writers’ strike was over.

If the actors’ do strike in June, just like all strikes, it will end.

Eventually production will once again be up and running for television programs and films. There will be new episodes and movies to watch, but the question is, will audiences even care anymore?

An answer could lie in the ratings of the new episodes airing the next few weeks on television. Audience’s may be willing to come back to their favorite shows after the writers’ strike, but with other media trying to capture audiences’ attention, it stands to reason that viewers may not be so quick to block out time for shows if there is another strike induced hiatus.

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Video games take us everywhere from the depths of the ocean to outer space, but they rarely take us to a court of law.

That’s the beauty of Capcom’s Ace Attorney series for Nintendo DS: You get to play as a defense attorney.

Your battlefield is the courtroom, your enemy is the prosecution, and your weapon is evidence.

For the first three games in the series, you play as Phoenix Wright, but the fourth title, “Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice,� puts you in control of a rookie defense attorney named, of course, Apollo Justice.

There are actually two stories told in this game. On the surface, we see Apollo take on his first four cases and defend the innocent.

Beneath the surface, however, the story of Phoenix Wright contin-

ues; since last seen in the series, he has lost his attorney badge, picked up piano playing and gambling, and raised a daughter (who aids Apollo). Fans of the series will enjoy learning more about Phoenix while newcomers can relate with Apollo’s struggles.

One of the highlights of “Apollo Justice� is a colorful cast of characters that will make you laugh out loud, from a mafia family to a rock star with 3-foot-long hair to a creepy-looking “doctor� who likes women a bit too much. Their dialogue is over-the-top and hilarious.

Just be aware that Apollo Justice is a text-based game, meaning that there is a lot of reading and not much action beyond investigating crime scenes and presenting evidence. But if you enjoy reading, laughing and trying to solve mysteries logically, you will absolutely love “Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice.�

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Feelings among those who claim the anti-emo status are similar and From Page 11 often very harsh. Most believe that all think that people can fit parts of emo kids are depressed and suicidal stereotypes, but maybe not all all the time, some say without reason.

Comments made, particularly in antiof it.�

Popular culture professor Dr. emo Facebook groups, attack emo Jeremy Wallach says that there are kids for being overly emotional and a few misunderstandings surround- purely wanting the attention.

Haberecht says that the belief ing the emo subculture, especially that emo kids are depressed and when it comes to “emo guys�. “Emo is a straight, white male suicidal all the time is a complete subculture,� Wallach clarified. “I misconception. “I do not think you can categorize think one reason why emo is a misunderstood label is because people who dress a certain way, and the heterosexuality of its devotees have a certain look about them to them being depressed and suicidal,� has been attacked.�

Wallach said that this reason, in Haberecht said. “Many people are addition to others, makes people depressed, and many people who hurt themselves are not ‘emo’.� wary to claim the emo label.

Wallach said that the misconcepHaberecht agreed when she said, “Emo people aren’t like, ‘I’m tion that emo kids are overly emoso emo.’ It is more of an outside tional is one that has been present opinion than anything. When I since the onset of the subculture. “They are using musical extremlook at myself I just see myself, I ity to express emotional extremity,� don’t see myself as an emo girl.�

The myths surrounding the emo Wallach said of the bands who started stereotype have caused an influx the emo culture. “Emo is a rebellion of anti-emo sentiments. Groups of middle-class white males versus such as “Emo Is Lame-o� and “Every the normal definitions of masculinTime You Laugh an Emo Kid Dies� ity that say men should not express have popped up on Facebook, in emotions or have feelings.�

Haberecht commented that she addition to many Facebook bumper stickers flaunting anti-emo phrases. is targeted as being emo everyday “I believe “Cheer Up, Emo Kid� is by someone, but is flattered by it.

as well. Senior and avid moviegoers will unavoidably be transported back to the memories of classic films like “The Sting� and “Some unflinching determination, Jimmy Like it Hot.� Even though its rough ‘Dodge’ Connelly, played by none on the get go, “Leatherheads� evenother than George Clooney, is one tually finds a strong relationship of the only players trying to keep with the classic screwball comedies the game alive. As a teammate of the golden age of Hollywood. of the fictional Duluth Bulldogs, Look for dynamite dialogue Dodge finds his potential cash cow between Clooney and Zellweger in respected war hero and suc- that is more laugh-provoking than cessful college football star, Carter the influencing films of the past Rutherford (John Krasinski). But, and the comedies of today. when cub reporter, Lexie Littleton With such a distinct clas(Renee Zellweger), starts to form a sic Hollywood fashion, George relationship with the handsome Clooney has finally found a niche hero, Dodge gets more trouble that is unlike any other working than he bargained for. star today. With an already impresWith such an impressively star sive classic style in films like; “Good studded cast, “Leatherheads� holds Night, and Good Luck�; “The not only a charming presence, but Good German� and “O Brother, a classic take on the comedy genre Where Art Thou?� Clooney gives

an even fresher take on the dying memories of the past. In its sharp and inventive dialogue combined with heartfelt craftsmanship, “Leatherheads,� boosts Clooney even further into the historical spotlight of the greatest faces in Hollywood.

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GOLF Woods not the only one capable of winning at Augusta While Tiger Woods will no doubt dominate the headlines this weekend at the Masters, Phil Mickelson has won at Augusta National twice and could challenge again.

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SCHEDULE TODAY Baseball: at Ball State; 3 p.m.

Softball: vs. Eastern Michigan; 1 p.m.

Tennis: at Miami; 1 p.m.

Track: at Miami Invitational; TBA

Familiar foes in Frozen Four Michigan and Notre Dame are still playing, but BG had good showings against both

By Ethan Magoc Reporter

TOMORROW Baseball: at Ball State; 1 p.m.

Softball: vs. Central Michigan; 2 p.m.

Tennis: at Ball State; 1 p.m.

Track: at Miami Invitational; TBA

SUNDAY Baseball: at Ball State; 1 p.m.

Softball: vs. Central Michigan; 1 p.m.

Women’s Golf: at Cardinal Classic; all day

OUR CALL The List Pitching wins championships in Major League Baseball.

Today, we’re listing five of the best pitchers going right now.

1. Felix Hernandez: Seattle’s ace hasn’t given up a run yet in two starts.

2. Joakim Soria: He’s tied for the A.L. lead in saves with four for the Royals.

3. Daisuke Matsuzaka: All of his over-hype aside, he leads the league in strikeouts with 22.

4. Brian Bannister: He’s got two wins and an ERA under two. This may be the only time we ever put two Royals on the list.

5. Jake Peavy: Peavy is 2-0 and has held opposing hitters to a microscopic .096 batting average.

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TOUGH OUT: BG lost a pair of hotly contested games to Michigan earlier this season. Michigan is set to play in the Frozen Four in Denver, Col., tomorrow.

It’s no secret that the Central Collegiate Hockey Association has always been one of, if not the best, college hockey conferences in the country.

This weekend, a few CCHA teams will look to take that claim to another level.

The Frozen Four tournament will conclude on Saturday at the Pepsi Center in Denver, and the CCHA is ensured that at least one of its teams will be competing for the national title.

Two weekends ago, Miami, Michigan, Michigan State, and Notre Dame, all opponents of BG in the CCHA, vied with 12 other teams from around the country for a berth in this weekend’s title game.

Miami took down Air Force before falling 4-3 in overtime to Boston College, who had handily beat college hockey powerhouse Minnesota the night before.

Michigan plowed through Niagara 5-1 and shut out Clarkson 2-0 to advance to the title round.

Notre Dame easily pushed through New Hampshire 7-3, ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS and later that night Michigan State beat Colorado College NARROW ESCAPES: BG gave Notre Dame a run for its money during the regular season.

3-1 in what was essentially a

Tennis to face tough MAC competition

By Nate Parsons Reporter

BG tennis coach Penny Dean’s theme for this weekend’s match against Mid-American Conference co-leader Miami is “domination.”

The Falcons (14-2, 3-2) have recently been the thorn in the RedHawks’ (11-5, 5-0) side winning the last two match ups.

Although the Falcons trail the all-time series, 29-5, two of those five wins came last season.

BG defeated MU, 5-2, during the regular season and three weeks later they defeated them again in come-frombehind fashion.

Down 3-0 in the quarterfinal round of the MAC Championships, the Falcons battled back to win the next four points and claim the match.

BG will look to continue its “domination” of the RedHawks today at 1 p.m. in Oxford, Ohio, before it heads to Muncie, Ind., for a match against Ball State tomorrow.

“We’re not satisfied with anyThe Falcons will look to get off to an early lead just like they thing short of first place,” Dean have all season by winning the said.

“We just need to keep believing doubles point.

BG has won the doubles in ourselves and get out there on point in 14 of the 16 dual the court and fight and grind for matches, sweeping the three every single point.” doubles matches on nine of those occasions.

The sophomore duo of Katia MAC TENNIS Babina and Sam Kintzel lead STANDINGS the team with a 13-1 mark at the third flight, including a 41. Miami: (11-5) 5-0 0 record in the MAC. The duos of Kelsey Jakupcin/Christine 2. W. Michigan: (11-7) 5-0 Chiricosta and Andrea Volle/ Jenna Nussbaum both are 3. BG: (14-2) 3-2 12-4 at the first and second 4. Toledo: (12-5) 3-2 flights, respectively.

BG will also be relying on its 5. Buffalo: (7-7) 2-3 top-four singles players who have combined for 46 wins and 6. E. Michigan: (6-12) 2-3 14 losses.

With only three games left on 7. N. Illinois: (3-9) 1-3 the slate, the Falcons sit tied for third place in the MAC, looking 8. Ball State: (8-8) 1-4 up at league leader’s MU and Western Michigan.

9. Akron: (5-10) 0-5 The only thing on BG’s mind is winning its next three games and winning the MAC.

“We knew all along that this would be a strong year for our conference. Four of our 12 conference teams were top 10 all year long, and now we have two of those in the Frozen Four. It doesn’t surprise me at all.”

Scott Paluch | BG hockey coach

Frozen Four Will be held at Denver’s Pepsi Center home game for the latter team at the Colorado Springs World Arena. Had the Spartans and the Fighting Irish not had to play each other in the Regional Final (a 3-1 Notre Dame win), there could have been three teams from the Falcons’ prestigious conference in the championship round.

That would have been akin to having three men’s basketball teams from the Mid-American Conference in the Final Four this past week. That’s the kind of competition that BG hockey faces every winter.

“We knew all along that this

would be a strong year for our conference,” said BG coach Scott Paluch. “Four of our 12 conference teams were top 10 all year long, and now we have two of those in the Frozen Four. It doesn’t surprise me at all.”

But what could be surprising to some is how well BG played these talented teams in each game. With the exception of a forgettable series against Notre Dame at the end of January, the Falcons competed extremely well against the conference’s top dogs.

Even Michigan coach Red Berenson felt compelled to dish out praise for the Falcons after his team swept them back in December.

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Harang, Encarnacion help Reds take down Brewers

By Chris Jenkins The Associated Press

DARREN HAUCK | AP PHOTO

HEADING HOME: Reds third baseman Edwin Encarnacion rounds third after hitting a home run off of Brewers reliever Carlos Villanueva during yesterday’s Reds win.

MILWAUKEE—FranciscoCordero said it didn’t really bother him to get booed by the fans who used to cheer him on.

In fact, he said, the harsh reception gave him a little extra motivation — something he showed by mowing down three of the Milwaukee Brewers’ biggest bats to earn a save in the Cincinnati Reds’ 4-1 victory yesterday.

“They’re probably a little upset that I left,” Cordero said. “They probably want me back.”

Cordero’s new teammates, meanwhile, thought it was hilarious.

“Man, they booed [you] worse than they booed me,” Ken Griffey Jr. hooted in the clubhouse afterward. “That was tremendous!”

Cordero’s second save of the

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Mickelson looking to end Tiger’s run of dominance

By Paul Newberry The Associated Press

AUGUSTA, Ga. — It’s easy to get carried away with Tiger Woods at Augusta National, or any other place, for that matter. Will he win a fifth green jacket? Will he get started on a Grand Slam?

But let’s not forget another guy who knows his way around Bobby Jones’ layout.

Over the last four years, Phil Mickelson has more Masters wins (two) than Woods (one).

Now that Arnold Palmer has struck the ceremonial tee shot to get things started, Lefty probably has the best chance of anyone to stop Woods’ seemingly inevitable march to a fifth title here.

Woods teed off under sunny skies yesterday, about an hour behind schedule after soupy fog blanketed the course just past sunrise. The world’s No. 1 player got off to a shaky start, pulling his drive up against the second cut to the left, then missing the green to the right with a towering second shot.

He chipped 6 feet past the cup, but managed to sink the putt to save par, the ball rolling around the edge before dropping in. Luke Donald was the early leader, with birdies on two of the first three holes. Heath Slocum got to 3 under before dropping back with two straight bogeys around the turn.

Mickelson had an afternoon tee time.

Palmer was able to say his tee shot traveled so far he never saw it land. The thick fog limited visibility to about 200 yards, leading to a delay after the King’s ceremonial strike. “As a matter of fact, it went out of sight,� Palmer said with a smirk.

But even Palmer, who left for Latrobe, Pa., sensed something special about this Masters. “There’s a lot of enthusiasm.

You can see it and feel it,� he said. “The golf course is going to be difficult early. Today is going to tell

HOCKEY From Page 13 “There wasn’t a lot of difference between the teams,� Berenson said. “BG has such a good crowd that we had to hang in there to salvage this game.�

It’s nearly impossible to believe that Mike Krzyzewski would speak quite as highly about the BG men’s basketball team if Duke were to ever face the Falcons.

This example is used because Berenson has been coaching the Wolverine hockey team nearly as long (24 seasons) as “Coach K� has been in Durham.

For a legend like Berenson to describe his team’s need to “salvage� a game against BG certainly casts this University in a positive light. “It’s a great measuring stick for people coming into the league and people who are there already,� said former Falcon tri-captain Derek Whitmore. “Anyone in the Bowling Green program will have that confidence to say ‘Hey we played Michigan and Notre Dame

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season came after eight strong innings from starter Aaron Harang, who gave up a soft RBI single to J.J. Hardy in the second and then held the Brewers’ potent offense scoreless until Cordero came in for the ninth.

With the victory, Cincinnati rebounded from Tuesday’s loss

DAVID J. PHILLIP | AP PHOTO

WATCH YOURSELF: Phil Mickelson (left) has won the Masters twice in the last four years.

Tourney favorite Tiger Woods (right) has only claimed one in the same time frame.

“I love this tournament, and I love when I get here, how you don’t have to be perfect.

You don’t have to hit everything well to be able to score well.�

Phil Mickelson | Golfer jacket two years ago. us a lot about the week.� “I love this tournament,� he Mickelson certainly feels at home at a course where he sank said, “and I love when I get here, an 18-foot birdie putt on the how you don’t have to be perfect.

72nd hole to claim his first major You don’t have to hit everything championship in 2004, and fol- well to be able to score well.�

He’s describing his own game, lowed it up with another green

“We’ve seen it all year long how close we are to beating those teams. We’re ready to get beyond that difference from this season and give ourselves a chance to play at this time next year.�

Scott Paluch | BG hockey coach

of course, a perplexing mix of brilliant shots and indefensible gaffes. This is the guy who’ll attempt swings in the heat of a tournament that no one else will even try on the practice range.

This is also the guy who said this about himself, “I’m such an idiot,� after throwing away the 2006 U.S. Open and losing a chance to go for a Grand Slam of his own.

Which brings us to Augusta, as pristine a spot as you’ll find on the planet, but pocked with all sorts of idiosyncrasies that reward creativity as much as consistency. Back when he was still the best player never to win a major, Mickelson always felt this would be the tournament where he broke through. “You have to be able to miss it on the proper sides of the greens, and you have to have a great short game,� Mickelson said, describing himself to a T. “You have to get up and down from on and around the greens.

Those have always been the areas of my game that I feel the most comfortable with, which is probably why I always believed before I had won a major that this would be my best opportunity to win one.�

Of course, Woods is the total package. He sent expectations higher than a Georgia pine when he said earlier this year the Grand Slam — winning all four majors in the same year — was “easily within reason.�

He has won eight out of his last 10 tournaments and is an even-money favorite to capture his fifth Masters, odds never before seen in golf. Essentially, it’s Woods against the field, Mickelson included. “You have to understand why I said that,� Woods said. “I’ve done it before. I’ve won all four in a row. I think this is my 12th or 13th season out here, and nine of those years I’ve won five or more tournaments. So you’ve just got to win the right four. That’s what it boils down to.�

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MONEY BALL: Fausto Carmona will earn $15 million over the next four years.

Tribe inks starter Carmona to a new four-year deal

By Tom Withers The Associated Press

following this season.

The Indians announced a 3 p.m. press conference at Progressive CLEVELAND — Fausto Carmona, Field with “exciting news about a a surprising 19-game winner last member of the Indians pitching season, agreed to terms of a $15 staff [NOT C.C. Sabathia].�

Sabathia rejected a preliminary million, four-year contract with the offer from the Indians, and durCleveland Indians on yesterday.

A person familiar with the nego- ing spring training he suspended tiations says Carmona’s deal will negotiations with the Indians be announced later in the day. The until after the season. There’s no person spoke on the condition of guarantee he’ll be back, and if anonymity because the contract he’s not, Carmona will ascend into the No. 1 role. has not been finalized.

Carmona joins a core group of The deal runs through 2011 and includes club options from young players — along with Grady Sizemore, Travis Hafner and Victor 2012-2014.

The 24-year-old Carmona went Martinez — who have signed long19-7 with a 3.06 ERA and emerged term deals with the Indians.

The right-hander, whose signaas one of the AL’s top starters in 2007, one season after he went ture sinker is as good as any in the majors, pitched 215 innings 1-10.

His signing gives the Indians last season. He and Sabathia were protection in case they are unable the first Cleveland teammates to to re-sign C.C. Sabathia, the win at least 19 games since Bob defending Cy Young Award win- Lemon, Herb Score and Early ner, who is eligible for free agency Wynn did it in 1956.

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tough, and we beat Miami.’�

The Falcons certainly did, winning 4-2 over Miami on January 4th at the BGSU Ice Arena. To play the Redhawks, along with the other three title contenders, so closely in the regular season speaks volumes about the BG hockey program. “We’ve seen it all year long how close we are to beating those teams,� Paluch said. “We’re ready to get beyond that difference from this season and give ourselves a chance to play at this time next year.�

Recently, Paluch and his assistants Doug Schueller and Todd Reirden met with their players

teams that are still playing and teams that are not.

That conversation must not have lasted very long, as the differences are seemingly quite slim.

Whitmore, now playing with the Buffalo Sabres’ AHL team and looking to make an impact in the NHL next fall, probably wouldn’t be where he was today if not for the competitiveness of the CCHA. “I’ve always heard throughout hockey that the CCHA is most comparable to the NHL at the college stage. Playing there the last four years really prepared me for the next level,� Whitmore said.

Playing in such a difficult con-

to take two out of three from the Brewers. Cincinnati held Milwaukee to eight runs in three games. “It shows that we’ve definitely turned it around, and I think we’re going to be a team to be reckoned with,� Harang said.

Cordero, who left Milwaukee to sign a four-year, $46 million contract with Cincinnati in the offseason, said he enjoyed facing Prince Fielder, Ryan Braun and Bill Hall.

“They’ve all got power,� Cordero “No,� Yost said. “It’s reality.� said. “Just in a blink, they can tie Meanwhile, Fielder is dealing the game. So you’ve got to go right with his own reality: He hasn’t hit at it and try to get it done quick.� a home run yet.

He did, getting Fielder to pop “It’s God-awful,� Fielder said. out, striking out Braun on a slider “Being in the middle of the lineand getting Hall to ground out. up, I have to do a little better.

Brewers manager Ned Yost, I’ll just keep going out there who has patiently watched new swinging hard.� closer Eric Gagne blow two of Harang (1-1) allowed five his first three save opportunities, hits, striking out three without was asked if it was strange to see a walk. He threw 74 of his 99 Cordero in another uniform. pitches for strikes.

ference every year might seem daunting to some programs.

Perhaps it would be better for the program to blow through a weaker conference and secure an automatic bid to the Frozen Four tournament every year?

No way, says Paluch and his players. “Bowling Green belongs in the CCHA,� Paluch said. “We were one of the founding teams and got the CCHA on the map with national success in 1984. Those are significant milestones and we wouldn’t want it any other way.�

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Group of 2,000 people to bare it all for the sake of art

By William J. Kole The Associated Press

VIENNA, Austria — It might be a good time to make strategic use of a yellow card.

New York contemporary artist Spencer Tunick has gained notoriety worldwide for photographing thousands of people in the nude. Now he’s planning to pack a Vienna soccer stadium with 2,008 naked fans in the run-up to the

Euro 2008 tournament.

Austria’s national railway said yesterday it will offer free travel to the first 2,008 men and women who sign up to bare it all for the May 11 spectacle.

Tunick wants to pose them on the field inside Ernst Happel Stadium, where the tournament final will be played. Austria and Switzerland are co-hosting the event, which runs from June 7-29.

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The Brooklyn-based artist has grabbed headlines for draping naked bodies on glaciers, in front of the United Nations, in downtown Amsterdam, Netherlands and in more than 70 other locations from Montreal to Melbourne, Australia.

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UP IN THE TREE TOP: Dave Csaky checks on his pet squirrel “Tilt” in the Eastlake Neighborhood of Seattle in a treehouse he has called home for almost two years.

‘Squirrelman’ moves from a tree to an RV SEATTLE (AP) — A homeless man who has spent the past two years living in a treehouse has a new, terrestrial home just in the nick of time, thanks to neighbors.

David “Squirrelman” Csaky, a self-taught carpenter, learned Tuesday that neighbors had found an aging recreational vehicle for him to occupy.

“I’m overwhelmed,” Csaky said. “I started crying when they told me.”

For two years, Csaky, 52, has lived about 30 feet above the ground in a 300-square-foot self-made platform, accessible by a ladder counterweighted with sandbags on pulleys on city land.

Csaky outfitted the treehouse with a tent, wood stove, three chairs, shelves and a counter with an unplumbed sink. His pets include Lucky, a rat; Rainbow, a ferret; and Tilt, a squirrel.

He was lately threatened with eviction because the treehouse is a health and safety concern.

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and Maria Bolander, 27, who befriended him after watching the treehouse take shape, found an aging 22-foot RV online after they learned of Csaky’s situation.

“It broke our hearts,” Ferrante said. “He’s taken care of the neighborhood. We couldn’t sleep at night. We decided to make it happen.”

They and their landlords, Janet Yoder and husband Robby Rudine, agreed to buy the rig for $500 after the owner offered a special “Squirrelman” discount.

“David’s a unique character but a good neighbor,” Yoder said.

After delivering the RV Tuesday evening, owner Timothy Custer decided instead to sell it to Csaky for a penny.

“It’s Dave’s new house,” Custer said.

To make the house a home, Ferrante said, the task is now to find a permanent parking place.

“We don’t want to see it get towed,” he said.

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