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Preparing for an all-out ‘orange out’

By Alexandria Clark Reporter

Even though the gates of Doyt Perry Stadium don’t open until 4:30 p.m. tomorrow, the University’s Falcon spirit has been on display since the beginning of this week.

University offices such as the Athletic Department, Office of Residence Life and University Dining Services are taking part in many activities this week to get students, faculty and alumni ready for tomorrow’s last home football game against the Buffalo Bulls starting at 6 p.m.

Brian Delehoy, assistant athletic director for marketing, said the Athletic Department is declaring the game an “Orange Out” day.

“We would like all attendants to wear their orange this Friday,” Delehoy said. “We want the fans to show their spirit and support for the Falcons.”

To encourage attendants to wear their orange the University Bookstore and Student Book Exchange (SBX) are offering 20 percent off on all orange BG apparel this week.

Also, the first 2,000 BGSU students to through the Doyt Perry Gates will get a free orange Tshirt.

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On Nov. 4, while the country was racing to the polls to vote for the 44th president of the United States, over 77,000 fourth to eighth graders in the state of Florida cast their votes for a new state bird.

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Seven states claim the cardinal as their state bird Florida’s current state bird, the mockingbird, is also shared by Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee and Mississippi.

“The main reason is because many Floridians think there are more interesting and unique birds that represent Florida than the mockingbird,” said Judy Gillan, conservation stewardship coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

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Local recycling center puts the ‘green’ in Bowling Green

By Courtney Flynn Reporter

Community residents’ vehicles line up at all hours of the day with recyclables to drop off in front of the Bowling Green Recycling Center.

One such resident, Gary Thomas, is thankful Bowling Green offers such an outstanding outlet to recycle materials.

Thomas works for the newly reopened Cla-zel Theater and said having a place where the Cla-zel, and other members of the community, can bring its recyclables has its benefits.

“I’m a big green person, so having a place that keeps trash from going to the landfill, which can also save money, is a plus,” he said.

The Bowling Green Recycling Center first opened in 1978 in the parking lot of Cooper-Standard Automative Inc. on Main Street.

The program started with a $100 loan from the Bowling Green Jaycees Club and two men with two semi-trailers and gallon barrels, said Wood County Solid Waste Director Ken Reiman.

Just a little over five years later the program picked up speed and moved to its current location at 1040 N. College Drive, Reiman said he has been there from the beginning.

“This was something I got enthused about to make the community better,” he said.

The Recycling Center has taken great strides to go from being a two-man operation in a parking lot to offering a 24hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week drop-off center for all Wood County residents.

Just inside the sliding doors at the drop station, labeled steel crates are lined up against the wall to help the recyclers decipher which product goes in what container. These crates are emptied and shipped to receiving centers two to three times a week, depending on the weather, Reiman said. He also said it is important people put the right product in the right container to avoid problems and extra work.

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CLEANING UP: A group of locals including junior Bridget Haley do their part to recycle as they recycle their various items. Bridget (left) says she comes and recycles every Monday.

Reiman said the products cannot be properly recycled if they are not separated according to material type because it throws off the composition of the final decompressed product of hundreds of aluminum, cardboard or paper recyclables.

The workers rarely have to deal with this problem though.

“Ninety-nine percent of people that bring things out do it right,” Reiman said. “If they didn’t drop it off we wouldn’t be there.”

Due to the efforts of many community members, the Bowling Green Recycling Center provides jobs for four full-time employees and one part-time employee.

Scott Reiman is the manager at the center and one of the four full-time employees. Scott has been working at the center for 17 years and looks forward to the unpredictability of the job.

“Every day is a different day,” he said.

Recurring mishaps that add to the unpredictability of the job include machine breakdowns, unexpected large recyclable loads and the problems that can go along with sorting, Scott said.

Even with daily mishaps, the employees and community members are able to create about seven million pounds of pro-

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cessed material a year, Ken said.

He said the numbers change year to year and he believes this year the numbers will be higher than seven million.

“It’s a good-sized recycling operation,” he said.

The center has also set up a 16 smaller, satellite recycling operations in Wood County.

“Our mission is to recycle as much as possible; it doesn’t have to go to this center.”

Recyclable Items The Bowling Green Recycling Center, located at 1040 N. College Drive, can recycle the following items: ■ ■ ■

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Hard and soft cover books Aluminum cans Magazines/catalogs on smooth glossy paper with plastic wrap removed Newspaper Phone books Plastic bottles without the cap Flattened cardboard boxes Scrap metal: iron, steel, copper and aluminum.

Source: Wood County Solid Waste Management District Web site

USG urges students to utilize its own professor evaluations

By Dru Sexton Reporter

USG is hoping students will take advantage of professor evaluations created to give them an advantage when choosing classes which best suit them and appeal to their specific needs.

Last year, professor evaluations were one of the many goals USG set to help students know what to expect from a class when they register. The idea behind the project was to create a more efficient, specialized version of ratemyprofessor. com, with the idea of giving students some insight as to what the class requires.

USG Sen. Jessica Molina was one of the representatives who spearheaded the project. She said it was originally on the agenda last year.

According to her, the first step was researching the whole faculty evaluation plan. Next, a few senators randomly selected students and asked what they would like to know about professors and classes before registration.

Molina said USG then selected frequently asked questions and submitted them to the Faculty Senate, who then gave feedback. After a few minor changes were made, USG made the evaluations available online.

To help gain support, USG advertised via flyer and chalking on the sidewalks, she said.

But despite their efforts, there was little response to the first USG-conducted professor evaluation.

“We were shooting for 500 and we had about 300 hundred submitted, but we expected our sample size to be small,” Molina said. “It was the first time, and for the first time, the sample size is always small, unless you have some incentive.”

Kevin Basch, the USG senator in charge, said the evaluations “were very labor intensive” because they devoted hundreds of hours compiling data. He said USG would like

to conduct the evaluations on paper rather then online, because it would help get a lot more responses if they could be conducted at the end of classes.

But the cost of paper keeps this from happening.

USG President John Waynick said first-year technical difficulties with getting them online and entering all the data caused minor problems, and added to the time it took to make the surveys available.

“We had over 2,000 lines of data responses, each year we expect more and more people will take the surveys,” he said.

Especially because the questions come entirely from the student, and contain very helpful information pertinent to registering for classes, he said.

Basch said it is not an evaluation of the professors, but is here to help students decide what best appeals to them in the classroom.

“If students use this resource, they can find classes that correlate with their learning styles,” Basch said.

The questions on these surveys are very different. The evaluations are available for almost 900 professors and their courses and are also completely confidential. A student’s University ID number is only used to verify that the student is currently enrolled.

On the evaluations, students won’t find questions about if a professor is good or bad, but questions to help identify how a particular course is structured.

Sample questions on the survey include areas like how well a professor follows their syllabus, or if it is necessary to buy the book.

Freshman Nathan Pytel said when it comes time to register for classes, it helps to know what a student can expect.

“I think the evaluations are a great idea and more people should fill them out,” Pytel said. “It makes things easier so that students are not caught off guard.”

To access the evaluations, students can go to www.bgsu.

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but the Falcons have a chance of winning the Mid-American Conference East Division.

“The team has to win this game on Friday and the one next week against Toledo,” Delehoy said. “And the Falcons will be able to have the MAC East Division title and a trip to Ford Field in Detroit on Dec. 5 for the MAC Championship.”

Junior Jason Baxter, a member of the marketing student promotions team, said the Falcons need support to win tomorrow’s game by students’ coming out and showing they care.

“If the Falcons win it all, it would make the University look great and I think future students will feel proud to watch their team and cheer them onto victory at every home game,” Baxter said.

The Athletic Department has gone through a wide-spread promotional program throughout the week to have as many

“Everyone is really pushing for people to come out and support the team, including athletes. All I hear is, ‘We’re going to fight and going to win’ ...”

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attendants at the game.

“The team feeds off each other, but when they look out into the stands and see all that orange, it gives them a sense of pride and energy to win the game,” Delehoy said.

Dining Services will be closing down all dining halls on campus at 3 p.m. and relocating to a tent on the east side of Doyt Perry Stadium in the Falcon Football Tailgate Park to encourage students to go to the game.

Students can use their meal plan, BG1 cards and cash to buy food from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., but food service in the Union and campus convenience stores, such as Common’s Marketplace, will stay open.

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The phone calls she received were not from fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth graders; they were from older bird lovers who grew up with the mockingbird. Gillan said the vote was left up to the younger generation to get them active in the voting process and familiar with how a bill becomes a law.

The students seem to relate to the large predator Osprey, probably because of their majesty and power, Gillan said.

“We haven’t tested this with adults, so I don’t know how it will go,” she said.

And in Ohio, bird enthusiasts seem to be just fine with the small, colorful song bird as their feathered representative.

“I think cardinal is a fine bird, but I like the idea of using the state bird as a way of getting young students interested in wildlife,” Bingman said.

“There’s no reason the cardinal should be bumped. Sure it shares it with a few states, but there’s no other bird distinctive to Ohio.”

It’s an easier choice for Florida to replace its bird than Ohio, Bingman said, because Florida has the Everglades, and the Osprey is the king of the Everglades. He said Ohio doesn’t have an ecosystem like the everglades to identify with, and that Ohioans should be happy with the cardinal.

“It’s the common man’s bird, but it’s not a sparrow, it’s not a brown spot on the ground,” he said. “You go outside there’s snow on the ground and you see this bright red bird sitting in the tree singing away. It’s inspiring.”

According to netstate.com, Ohio was the third state, along with Indiana, to adopt the cardinal as its state bird in 1933.

The first state was Kentucky in 1926, and second was Illinois in 1929. The cardinal was adopted

by North Carolina in 1943, West Virginia in 1949 and Virginia in 1950.

Sophomore Langley Austing, of Cincinnati, said he really likes the cardinal because its bright red feathers set it apart from other birds. But after learning six other states also claim the cardinal, Austing said, “we should make them change.”

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But even more common than the mockingbird is the cardinal.

Tom Lavergne, an Ohio Division of Wildlife officer, said he hasn’t heard anything about the state considering to replace the cardinal, and that a vote “probably wouldn’t fly very easily” in Ohio.

“I doubt we would,” he said. “I think people are pretty tied on to the cardinal.”

Vern Bingman, a University instructor who teaches ornithology, a branch of zoology focusing on birds, is OK with Ohio’s state bird.

“They’re nice birds, but they’re cardinals,” he said.

“They’re common.”

But Bingman said a rare bird wouldn’t be logical since it would hardly be seen. He said cardinals are perfect because they thrive in wooded and suburban areas, are attractive, have a beautiful song and stick around all year.

If Ohio was ever to place a bird on the ballot, a good candidate would be the bald eagle, Bingman said, which is found commonly along Lake Erie and soaring over riverbanks.

“Bald eagles are attractive, common and there’s the thrill of being a large predator,” he said. And since the bald eagle virtually disappeared from the state of Ohio in the 1960s and 70s, Bingman said it’s a great conservation success story.

Julie Shieldcastle, conservation director for the Black Swamp Bird Observatory in Northwest Ohio, thinks the cardinal would be a hard bird to replace.

“I do understand that six other states have it also, but it’s a very familiar bird for the citizens of Ohio,” she said. “I think state bird, state bug, state fish should be something people are familiar with.”

The Florida bird that received the most votes was the osprey, a large predator bird. If the osprey earns the stamp of approval from the Florida House, Senate and Governor when it is introduced as a bill next year, it will become the new state bird of Florida.

Replacing the mockingbird has not been a unanimous decision for Florida. Gillan said she received several phone calls from concerned citizens who believe the mockingbird is a great representative and sentiment for the state of Florida.

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In addition, offices campuswide have been taking part in activities to build up the momentum for the game.

Today, the Office of Campus Activities is having a campuswide office decorating competition.

Each office has to incorporate the theme “Falcon Football Finale” with their decorations.

The offices selected as “Best of Show” in the two-division competition will receive football game tickets and usage of the Wilcox Board Room in the Sebo Athletic Center.

Another activity happening is the competition among residence halls to see which three residence halls has the highest attendance for games.

First prize winner will receive $250, second place will receive $200 and third place will receive $150.

Also, the top three Greek organizations will be awarded $500 in Adidas credit to be split amongst them.

The Athletic Department is also providing activities during halftime.

One student in attendance will win free textbooks for the Spring 2009 semester and the winner will be randomly selected from the University student section during the second quarter.

Another student will have a chance to win $10,000 during halftime in the Roll Along Target Toss Challenge. The student will be selected at random from the University student sections during the first quarter.

Many students are getting excited about the game because of the involvement throughout campus. Freshman Leah Sence said she doesn’t normally get excited about football games.

“Everyone is really pushing for people to come out and support the team, including athletes,” Sence said. “All I hear is ‘We’re going to fight and going to win’ and it really encourages a lot of students to support a cause.”

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Speaker paints a portrait of Alzheimer’s through interviews

By Richard Chandler Reporter

In recognition of November being Alzheimer’s Awareness month, the Women’s Center invited Nicole Mancino to participate in this week’s “Brown Bag Luncheon” series, held yesterday in Hanna Hall’s Women’s Center.

Nicole Mancino, an ABD doctoral theatre and film student who is also studying for a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies, performed and discussed an oral history pulled from 2006 interviews with her grandmother, Marianne Mitchell Blitzstein.

Mancino decided to interview Blitzstein, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, in an effort to preserve her experiences.

In the performance, “Painting Bubby’sPortrait:AnOralHistory of a Jewish Grandmother,” Mancino recalls Blitzstein’s meeting of her future husband, Isodore Blitzstein, after she had been spurned by her previous boyfriend.

It follows their brief courtship and subsequent marriage.

Finally, there is the emotional recollection of Isodore’s eventual death from a brain

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An informal question and answer segment followed the performance. On the importance for the interviews and the performance, Mancino said that they were a way to preserve the family history.

“It’s really for me as a way of coping or dealing or sharing,” Blitzstein said.

Her interviews with her grandmother are still incomplete, she said.

“I need to spend more time tracking what is important to her,” she said.

Mancino admits to having been depressed about what her grandmother has lost through Alzheimer’s disease but is striving to remain optimistic about what Blitzstein has retained, such as her memories of her relationship with Isodore.

One of the memories her grandmother does retain is a story from Passover in 2007, which she spent with her family.

When Blitzstein arrived, she ate the food and drank the wine that is traditionally prepared for the prophet, Elijah. While some of those present were taken aback by this seemingly sacrilegious occurrence, Mancino said, “Who am I to say that she isn’t a prophet: someone who wexpresses love and hope?”

Stephen Harrick, a doctoral theatre and film student, was impressed by the event.

“It was wonderfully performed, incredibly informative, overall an engaging, exciting event,” Harrick said.

Timothy Schaffer, also a doctoral theatre and film student, noted the value of oral history.

“It’s an excellent example of oral history and how it is effective at conveying family experiences,” Shaffer said.

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It started with an instant message.

That’s what set off the events that led to Tim and Sean McQuillan to eventually become Iowa’s only legally married same sex couple.

Tim, Iowa State University senior in linguistics, and Sean were part of a panelTuesday in the Ames City Auditorium on marriage equality.

The event was put on by One Iowa and Lambda Legal.

Tim and Sean told the story about how they raced to the alter the day after Judge Robert

Hanson handed down his ruling, which briefly allowed same sex couples to marry in Polk County.

After the ruling was reported by the Des Moines Register, Sean got a message from a friend.

“My good friend [instant messaged] to tell me that marriage was legal in the state of Iowa,” Sean said. “I don’t think he had any idea that I was going to run out and get married the next day.”

Sean called Tim’s mother to ask for her permission to marry her son. After he received her blessing, he bought two rings and a white rose and went, with his neighbor, to pick up Tim from work.

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A COLD SPRINT: Men’s Chorus member Ben Popson takes a sprint towards the student union on the request of Melissa Jackavitch (far left) a student who donated to the Hot Tub-a-Thon. The fundraiser is put on by the Men’s Chorus every year to raise funds for tour costs.

Chorus members will take shifts in the tub until noon on Friday.

Students choose to sleep on street

By Shruti Rastogi U-Wire

In grungy clothes and not much else, six University of Maryland students faced rain, rats and judging stares. They had nowhere to sleep, no money and no food.

They were homeless.

A group of students chose to temporarily become homeless for the weekend as part of the twoday Student Homeless Challenge Project offered by the National Coalition for the Homeless in Northwest, Washington, as a way to raise awareness during Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. They begged for money, applied for jobs and interacted with homeless people.

Called Urban Plunge at the university, the event was organized by the office of community service learning.

Students wore old clothes and split into three groups during the day and into two groups at night, accompanied by a guide who had either been homeless or was homeless. They left the university with only bedding, a journal and an I.D. card.

Students were forced to adapt to the homeless lifestyle. They begged for money in order to buy

food, often using the dollar menu at McDonald’s. Others went to a park in the city where a church was handing out food in vans.

During the day, students visited museums, applied for jobs, walked around and talked to homeless people.

At night, students had to combat rain and rats. They used cardboard as their mattresses, often huddling together to stay warm. Sophomore criminology and criminal justice major Megan McFeeley said she had a hard time sleeping both nights.

Junior biochemistry major Robert Hughes said the students did not exactly blend in with the homeless community, however.

For example, the students said they stood out since they carried around trash bags, when the typical homeless luggage is more like a duffel bag.

“We lacked that look,” Hughes said, “many people [knew] we weren’t homeless.”

All six agreed that one of the harder aspects of the experiment was panhandling or asking strangers for money.

“It hurt my pride to ask for money,” McFeeley said.

McFeeley said she sat on the ground in Chinatown and let about 100 people walk by before

working up the courage to ask for money. She said the only people who gave her money were young kids who looked about 13 or 14 years old.

“Panhandling was terrible. It’s not something you ever want to do, … depend on other people’s generosity,” sophomore bioengineering major Helen Ji said.

A huge part of the experience included talking to homeless people throughout the weekend. For the most part, the homeless people were eager to talk to them, and some even offered to help them and gave them money, students said.

Mostly, students said they just felt restless. As a homeless person, there is nothing to do, and to get anywhere, they had to walk, they said.

Freshman chemistry major Sahar Romem attempted to ask McDonald’s if she could wipe down tables in exchange for food. The first time, she saw someone she knew and quickly walked away, and on the second day she made it to the counter before leaving again.

Finding a public bathroom to use was another challenge.

“Starbucks always lets you use their bathrooms,” Romem said.

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SJSU chooses ‘slut’ over ‘virgin’ when using recycled paper

By Danielle Torralba U-Wire

When it comes to recycled paper, San Jose State University’s Environmental Resource Center would rather have a slut over a virgin.

Anna Le, the assistant director of the Environmental Resource Center, is the leader of the “I Heart Slutty Paper” campaign, which started in 2007 and promotes the use of recycled paper on campus.

Le said it is designed to educate students on the importance of using paper products that contain recycled content, not virgin pulp paper, which is paper directly from a tree.

The campaign stresses that school administrators should adopt a policy that eliminates

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“Schools are one of the top institutions that consume paper,” she said. “As society is growing for a greener trend, it would be a great image for SJSU to move forward in this issue.”

Le is following in the footsteps of Hannah Riches, who created and launched this project at her university, The New School in New York City, a few years ago.

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Anna Le | Assistant Director a proposal to submit to the National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Program, we weren’t required to actually submit it, but I decided that if I was going to put that much effort into the project, I may as well submit it.

I didn’t want to do anything predictable. I wanted to do something that would catch people’s attention but that wasn’t too complicated.”

Riches said the project did not

take long to get up and running at her university. After she received the funds from the National Wildlife Federation, she began working on a logo design and spoke to manufacturers for bumper stickers and buttons.

She said she also met with staff at her school’s computer labs and arranged to have them create their own logo in support of the campaign and post information around the labs.

“I would see students with the stickers on their notebooks and buttons on their bags,” Riches said. She said she saw the staff had posted them on the doors of their offices. “I think that they liked that it was humorous, simple, and also it played on the famous

‘I Heart NY’ slogan that is all over NYC.” According to a study done at Penn State University in 2001, by reducing margins, font sizes and spaces on paper, Penn State was able to reduce its annual paper consumption by 67 percent, send 80 percent less paper to landfills, cut paper-related carbon emissions by 77 percent and reduce its impact on forests by 90 percent, all the while saving money.

“Preventing deforestation is the fastest and cheapest way of slowing down the man-made climate change,” Le said. “If we stop deforestation all together in 50 years, we would reduce 25 percent of all the carbon emissions, as well carbon storage.”

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“I do understand that six other states have it also, but it’s a very familiar bird for the citizens of Ohio. I think state bird, state bug, state fish should be something people are familiar with.”

— Julie Shieldcastle, conservation director for Black Swamp Bird Observatory in Northwest Ohio, on the commonness of the Ohio state bird [see story, pg. 1].

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KRISTA VONNEGUT, Senior, History

LETTER TO THE EDITOR After reading the article by Marisha Pietrowski, I would like to add some insight. I am a night time shuttle driver here on campus, working from 11:20 p.m. to 3 a.m., and have been a part of the University for over 6 years now. I am sure that I join with my fellow drivers in that all of us put the safety of our passengers as a top priority. However, I must say that over the years that I have driven around the campus, I have observed many careless and reckless drivers when students are entering and exiting my bus. I have had many, many close calls when students exit the bus and attempt to cross in front of me. I do my best to watch my mirrors, and keep my hand near the horn so as to sound it when a vehicle is coming around the bus to get their attention. I also drive schools buses, and this is part of our training, to sound the horn when there is a danger. My suggestions to help resolve this: 1. Paint cross walks at the problem shuttle stops.

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If you could have a bobblehead of anyone, who would it be?

— Tom Cook is a University shuttle bus driver. Respond to him at thenews@bgnews.com.

On Sunday, MTV’s “Total Request Live” issued its swan song, and I wasn’t listening. Dubbed TRL by its hordes of devotees — among whose ranks I used to count myself — the show marked a generation of awkward and not-so-awkward teenagers who tuned in for a decade to watch, fanatically, their favorite “celebs” battle it out for the top spot on the show’s daily music video countdown.

In middle school I watched TRL religiously, falling in lust with Lance Bass and experimenting with eye glitter in the bathroom mirror.

Today, ‘N Sync is dissolved, Lance Bass is gay and TRL silently ran its last episode while I sat in my room pretending to work on my thesis. I feel a certain degree of guilt about letting my last chance to watch the show slip by, not because I was waiting with bated breath to see who was number one, but because I cannot imagine my 13-year-old self feeling anything but shame at the way her 21-year-old counterpart forgot this defining feature of her adolescence.

For all ofTRL’s apparent mindlessness, it represented a crucial slice of pop culture — the idea of “climbing the charts” — that I loved and felt a part of. TRL facilitated the sort of direct public engagement with artists you can’t get on YouTube, eMusic or iTunes. Though it was a commercial experience, it was par-

ticipatory, even communal. Beyond the viewer and the video, TRL was about you, your best friend, host Carson Daly, the hundreds of people waving signs outside of MTV’s studio in Times Square and Britney Spears before she got trashy. It was bubblegum beautiful.

As much as I love clicking and watching (and clicking and reading and clicking and chatting), the passing of TRL is a reminder that the media institutions that I always viewed as essential and contemporary are fading away. TRL’s viewership has been dropping since its peak at the turn of the century, and its daily average number of viewers of more than 700,000 over the past 10 years pales in comparison to MTV’s top rated show right now — “The Hills” — which regularly lures four million.

Is there something about a show like“The Hills” that appeals to viewers more than TRL does? I think this is possible. When you watched TRL, it was possible to envision yourself, maybe someday, as one of those sign-wavers floors below.

But hanging out with celebrities is so 20th century. Culture today values actually being a celebrity yourself. Shows that depict the “real lives” of young people — like “The Hills” or the phenomenally popular “Gossip Girl” — present viewers with a more palpable alternative to their own life. You might not be an Upper East Side socialite, but maybe you’ve sat next to one on an airplane (or in section).

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Building, theRec Center) 2. Install “no passing” signage in these areas. Perhaps institute fines for passing a stopped bus.

3. Paint double yellow lines in these problem areas. While I realize that there is no law that requires the vehicles to stop before passing my bus, I would like to make the car drivers realize that this practice is dangerous. I feel that we have been lucky here at the University in that no one has been seriously hurt or killed. Lets hope that improvements are made in the future that will help keep this from ever happening.

Also, in closing, I would like to add one more safety tip for the students that ride the bus: please do not ever pound on the side of the bus while it is in motion, or while you are running along side the bus. It is very easy to slip and fall under the wheels. It is also very difficult to see you along side of the bus, especially at night. Perhaps these issues could be discussed at an upcoming USG meeting. I invite any comments or suggestions.

“Dolores Huerta.”

“Kenny Chesney.”

“Bear Grylls.”

It’s about time TRL was cancelled

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Christmas carols, decorations and 24-hour QVC TANNEN GLIATTA COLUMNIST Ahh, the beginning of the holiday season. I love this time of the year. More so than the actual Christmas Day, I love the two-month preparation and anticipation.

I anxiously pass the days until I can set out my holiday decorations and relish in the fact that I now have an excuse to eat whatever I want, especially if it is peppermint or gingerbread flavor. And beyond the superficial aspects I love the feel in the air that only comes in November and December. I am fully aware how cheesy that sounds, but it’s true.

Ok, back to the superficial side: along with decorating and cooking there is another holiday tradition I have come to anticipate. And that is watching QVC, the shopping network, around the clock.

Arguably the worst part of the holidays is going to the mall. Trying to find the perfect gift for someone is stressful enough, but add in a million strollers, kids that should be in said strollers but instead are waddling around, people who suddenly stop in the middle of a walkway without warning and people wearing the shoes

with wheels who almost knock you over and it’s enough to make a person go insane.

But QVC eliminates all of those aggravations while providing entertaining television.

During the holiday season, I am addicted to watching QVC. I have never once bought anything from the network but in the course of November and December not a day goes by that I don’t at least check in to see what they are selling.

The people at QVC are masters in selling and marketing and during the holiday season they are at the top of their game.

Besides their Christmas in July, they really start their around-the-clock holiday countdown in early October.

Watching the growing urgency as the weeks tick by is one of the most entertaining parts.

In October the hosts, or sales people, are laid back and casual, but by December they remind viewers of all the last minute gifts they forgot. But, if they call today only QVC can still guarantee delivery

by Dec. 24.

And the hosts are a rare breed who can make even the most ridiculous item seem like a must have. I find it more fun to watch segments on absurd products because the hosts in the course of three minutes will make the product seem actually useful and appealing.

After a couple of minutes they

“During the holiday season, I am addicted to watching QVC. I have never once bought anything from the network but in the course of November and December not a day goes by that I don’t at least check in to see what they are selling.” have me believing a flashlight shaped like a cat would make a nice gift for the mailman or a massive blanket with arm holes would be more conducive than just a normal blanket. And they make each product seem unique despite the ordinariness of most of them.

QVC has also become a staple for celebrities to sell their own products. Food Network Chef Paula Deen appears almost on a weekly basis to sell everything from Christmas Day ham to pounds of her famous macaroni and cheese.

And Jessica Simpson isn’t above selling Proactiv on the network. Occasionally QVC creates semi-famous personalities themselves. The crazy designer of Quacker Factory — a line of clothing regularly featuring dancing snowmen and Christmas trees that actually light up — is a frequent target of Joel McHale on “The Soup.”

But one of the true highlights of QVC is the on-air

testimonials from viewers at home. Listening to viewers demonstrates how much the people at QVC are marketing geniuses. The callers always thank the hosts for bringing the product into their lives. Where else do consumers thank the makers of the product and not the other way around? And I must not be the only one who regularly watches QVC because the callers repeatedly mention all the other products they bought from the network and speak to the hosts like they are best friends.

Eventually on Christmas Eve QVC fades to a burning fireplace for a mere 36 hours. Then on Dec. 26 they begin again with solutions for all the post holiday headaches and start gearing up for next Christmas. It really is like an adult version of the North Pole.

— Respond to Tannen at thenews@bgnews.com.

University of Minnesota bans smoking on campus much to students’ dismay

By Andy Post U-Wire

What happens when policies fail to protect the people they are intended to protect because they aren’t properly enforced? At the University of Minnesota, we just create new policies.

That is the mentality of the university in their quest to completely ban smoking (outdoors and indoors) from any university property. Besides the individual liberty issues and gross violations of self responsibility, common sense is once again in jeopardy for students, faculty and support staff.

Student groups and university health officials are mostly behind this push, not the actual student body. This is nothing new; many policies are made based on extreme fringe groups that corner the administration. But this time is different because we, as students, may be asked to help enforce this new rule.

The Minnesota Student Association and University Senate discussions have focused somewhat on the inability of the university police to enforce such a smoking ban, and they’re looking

for your help. Here are the main issues at stake: 1) The university is not a lawmaking body and does not have the duty to enact new regulations because it feels the legislature hasn’t gone far enough. As much as some officials enjoy a nice power trip from time to time, policies that affect more than 50,000 students should be well thought out, from implementa-

to another, the sheer concept of banning anything under the parameters of physical property is ludicrous. We should be leading, not following. We need a policy that fits our needs and doesn’t replicate campuses one-tenth the size of ours, like Moorhead State University and University of Minnesota-Duluth.

3) The ban must not be intended to stop secondhand smoke

“The university is not a law-making body and does not have the duty to enact new regulations because it feels the legislature hasn’t gone far enough.” tion to enforcement, and an outdoor smoking ban meets neither of those requirements.

2) Passionate supporters of the ban will tell you that many other colleges are moving toward such a ban and smoking is costing the university millions in health care costs. Common sense tells us that the Twin Cities campus is unique.

With students intermixed in an urban setting stretching from one major metropolitan center

related interaction on campus, or it will be doomed to fail like so many other policies before it. We currently have laws that require smokers to stay several feet away from buildings when they light up, and these laws aren’t enforced.

Does that mean we make more rules that nobody will enforce?

Why is the automatic response to policies that are unenforceable the creation of more unenforceable rules? Once we have the guts

and resources to move smokers away from buildings, we will have essentially solved many of the secondhand problems we have.

4) This is America; we have personal liberties until the elected lawmakers of our government take them away. The university is not an elected government.

5) On healthcare costs: If the university is spending too much money covering people with health defects due to smoking, it should stop covering such illnesses. As much as some people on campus believe they have the authority to use tuition dollars to create a universal health care system, they do not. We should stop covering smokers if we want to send a signal, instead of telling them which piece of dirt they can smoke on and which one they can’t, followed up by studentfunded subsidized healthcare when they get lung disease.

On a more general note, I’m most concerned about the smoking ban becoming a priority for the leaders of our school. With double-digit tuition increases, a staff hiring freeze and what looks like a gigantic budget deficit in the legislature, we really do have other things to spend our time on.

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14-year-old girl lives 118 days without a heart

By Rasha Madkour The Associated Press

MIAMI — D’Zhana Simmons says she felt like a “fake person” for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest.

“But I know that I really was here,” the 14-year-old said, “and I did live without a heart.”

As she was being released yesterday from a Miami hospital, the shy teen seemed in awe of what she’s endured. Since July, she’s had two heart transplants and survived with artificial heart pumps — but no heart — for four months between the transplants.

Last spring D’Zhana and her parents learned she had an enlarged heart that was too weak to sufficiently pump blood.

They traveled from their home in Clinton, S.C. to Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami for a heart transplant.

But her new heart didn’t work properly and could have ruptured so surgeons removed it two days later.

And they did something unusual, especially for a young patient: They replaced the heart with a pair of artificial pumping devices that kept blood flowing through her body until she could have a second transplant.

Dr. Peter Wearden, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh who works with the kind of pumps used in this case, said what the Miami medical team managed to do “is a big deal.”

“For [more than] 100 days, there was no heart in this girl’s body? That is pretty amazing,” Wearden said.

The pumps, ventricular assist devices, are typically used with a heart still in place to help the chambers circulate blood. With D’Zhana’s heart removed, doctors at Holtz Children’s Hospital crafted substitute heart chambers using a fabric and connected these to the two pumps.

Although artificial hearts have been approved for adults, none has been federally approved for use in children. In general,

D’Zhana Simmons Was kept alive by artificial heart pumps there are fewer options for pediatric patients. That’s because it’s rarer for them to have these lifethreatening conditions, so companies don’t invest as much into technology that could help them, said Dr. Marco Ricci, director of pediatric cardiac surgery at the University of Miami.

He said this case demonstrates that doctors now have one more option. “In the past, this situation could have been lethal,” Ricci said.

And it nearly was. During the almost four months between her two transplants, D’Zhana wasn’t able to breathe on her own half the time. She also had kidney and liver failure and gastrointestinal bleeding.

Taking a short stroll — when she felt up for it — required the help of four people, at least one of whom would steer the photocopier-sized machine that was the external part of the pumping devices.

When D’Zhana was stable enough for another operation, doctors did the second transplant on Oct. 29. “I truly believe it’s a miracle,” said her mother, Twolla Anderson.

D’Zhana said now she’s grateful for small things: She’ll see her five siblings soon, and she can spend time outdoors.

“I’m glad I can walk without the machine,” she said, her turquoise princess top covering most of the scars on her chest.

After thanking the surgeons for helping her, D’Zhana began weeping.

Doctors say she’ll be able to do most things that teens do, like attending school and going out with friends. She will be on lifelong medication to keep her body from rejecting the donated heart, and there’s a 50-50 chance she’ll need another transplant before she turns 30.

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RUSHING TO THE SCENE: Law enforcement officers run at the scene of a fatal shooting of an FBI agent in Glenshaw, Pa., in Indiana Township outside Pittsburgh yesterday. FBI agent Sam Hicks was shot and killed Wednesday while serving a warrant, said FBI Special Agent William Crowley, a spokesman for the agency in western Pennsylvania.

FBI agent shot and killed serving a warrant

By Dan Nephin The Associated Press

GLENSHAW, Pa. — An FBI agent was shot and killed yesterday while serving a warrant at a home near Pittsburgh.

The agent, Sam Hicks, was shot about 6 a.m. in Glenshaw, about 10 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, said FBI Special Agent William Crowley, a

spokesman for the agency in western Pennsylvania.

The home’s owner was arrested in connection with the shooting and was expected to appear in federal court yesterday. He was one of 35 people charged in a 27-count drug-trafficking indictment unsealed yesterday. The indictment accuses the defendants of conspiring to traffic cocaine and crack from October

2007 through September.

The FBI said Hicks had been working in Pittsburgh since August 2007 and had been with the FBI since March 2007. Hicks was a former Baltimore police officer and school teacher.

The shooting happened at a cream-colored house that backs up to fields and woods. A child’s basketball net and play fort could be seen in the backyard.

The last FBI special agent killed in the line of duty was Barry Lee Bush, who was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow agent outside a bank on April 5, 2007, in Readington, N.J., according to the FBI. Bush, 52, of Forks Township, Pa., and other agents were in pursuit of three bank robbers who were armed but did not fire their weapons, authorities said.

More children involved in abuse case taken into custody

By Jon Gambrell The Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Stories of alleged beatings and sexual abuse prompted Arkansas child-welfare officials to take custody of 20 more children associated with the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, an official said yesterday.

The children — 11 boys and 9 girls ranging in age from 1 to 17— were taken into state care Tuesday while hearings were being conducted on whether six girls seized in September should remain under state protection or be returned to their parents, Department of Human Services spokeswoman Julie Munsell said.

Munsell said yesterday that the children picked up Tuesday in

“The information that we presented to the court included allegations of abuse and neglect on all of the children, not exclusive to certain children.”

Julie Munsell | Spokeswoman Miller County showed no immediate signs of poor health and did not require medical attention.

Alamo was arrested by the FBI in September, days after his compound in Fouke was raided by state and federal agents.

The six girls, between ages 10 and 17, who were the subject of Tuesday’s hearings were seized for their own protection.

Alamo has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of transporting minors across

state lines for sex.

He has preached that the Bible allows girls to marry once they reach puberty but has said he didn’t adopt the practice.

However, witness testimony and assertions from prosecutors indicate otherwise.

A court order for Tuesday’s removals came after Fort Smith police issued an arrest warrant for John Erwin Kolbeck, an alleged enforcer for Alamo who is accused of beating fol-

lowers for perceived slights and offenses.

“The information that we presented to the court included allegations of abuse and neglect on all of the children, not exclusive to certain children,” Munsell said.

Munsell declined to elaborate on specific allegations.

The hearings this week are to determine whether the girls should be returned to their parents or be placed under continued care arranged by the state.

Alamo’s trial is set for February.

His lawyer, John Wesley Hall Jr., questioned whether his client will be able to get a fair trial in Texarkana considering the news coverage of the case. Hall said Alamo is an easy target in the child welfare hearings.

International Space Station crews making adjustments after the recent tool bag accident

By Mike Schneider The Associated Press

HOUSTON — Flight controllers were revamping plans yesterday for the remaining spacewalks during space shuttle Endeavour’s visit to the international space station, after a crucial tool bag floated away during repair work.

Meanwhile, more than 200 miles above Earth, astronauts started hooking up the new space station equipment delivered by Endeavour, primarily a new recycling system that will convert urine, sweat and wash water into drinking water.

It will take a while for the astronauts to install the recycling equipment; the first batch of urine should run through the system later this week. Samples will be flown back to Earth for safety tests — and additional samples returned on the next shuttle flight in February — before anyone is allowed to taste it.

“I’ve got some unpacking to do,” astronaut Donald Pettit said after updating Mission Control on the progress by the two crews.

Added shuttle pilot Eric Boe: “We’re ready to continue making extreme home improvements.”

The briefcase-sized tool bag drifted away from astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper on Tuesday as she cleaned and lubed a gummed-up joint on a wing of solar panels on the space station. The tool bag was one of the largest items ever lost by a spacewalker.

She and fellow astronaut Stephen Bowen were midway through the first of four spacewalks when the bag was lost.

As Stefanyshyn-Piper cleaned up a large gob of grease that seeped from a gun used to lubricate the joint, the tool case somehow became untethered from a larger bag and floated away along with a pair of grease guns, wipes and a putty knife attached to it.

“What it boils down to is all it takes is one small mistake for a tether not to be hooked up quite correctly or to slip off, and that’s what happened here,” said lead spacewalk officer John Ray. Stefanyshyn-Piper and Bowen finished the spacewalk in almost seven hours by sharing tools

from Bowen’s bag. Ray noted that Stefanyshyn-Piper showed “real character and great discipline” by continuing on.

“Despite my little hiccup, or major hiccup, I think we did a good job out there,” StefanyshynPiper said after returning to the space station.

Flight controllers are considering having the two spacewalkers share Bowen’s pair of grease guns for the three remaining spacewalks today, Saturday and Monday. Each gun has a different type of nozzle to reach different areas in the joint.

The astronauts could also use caulking guns meant for repairing the space shuttle.

Another option is to have one spacewalker clean the joint while the other uses the grease gun to lubricate it.

Stefanyshyn-Piper is the first woman to be assigned as lead spacewalker for a shuttle flight.

She will venture back out on the next two spacewalks for more NASA TV | AP PHOTO joint repair work.

GOING, GOING, GONE: In this image from NASA TV, a tool kit bag, center, as seen through the helmet camera of astronaut Heidemarie For more than a year, the joint has been unable to automati- Stefanyshyn-Piper, floats away from the International Space Station after she lost hold of it during a procedure. cally point the right-side solar wings toward the sun for maximum energy production.

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Cleveland Museum of Art returns looted, stolen Italian artifacts

By Ariel David The Associated Press

ROME — The Cleveland Museum of Art agreed yesterday to return 14 ancient treasures ranging from Etruscan jewelry to a Medieval cross that authorities say were looted or stolen from Italy.

Italian Culture Ministry officials and the director of the Cleveland museum signed a deal in Rome to transfer the artifacts within three months in exchange for long-term loans of other treasures.

The agreement is the latest success in an Italian campaign to recover artifacts that survived for centuries only to be dug up by looters, smuggled out of the country and sold to prestigious museums across the world.

Similar deals have yielded the return of scores of pieces from museums, including the J. Paul Getty Museum in California and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Director Timothy Rub stressed that the Cleveland museum had not knowingly acquired or received looted items. He said they were bought or donated to the museum in the 1970s and 1980s.

The treasures to be returned from Cleveland are mostly a sampling of art produced by the Etruscans and by Greek-influenced cultures that dominated central and southern Italy before the rise of Rome.

The objects are “of great historical, artistic and archaeological interest,” Italian Culture Minister Sandro Bondi said.

Among them are a pair of Etruscan silver bracelets from the 6th century B.C. and a bronze statue of a horned warrior, dated to the 9th-8th

“... it is important that any museum acquire work ethically.”

Timothy Rub | Director

century B.C., which experts said is one of the finest remaining from a civilization that populated the island of Sardinia.

Most of the artifacts are elaborate and richly decorated pottery pieces from 5th to 4th century B.C. southern Italy.

They include vessels shaped as a donkey head, a pig and a duck as well as a 1-meter-tall (3-foot-tall) vase attributed to the so-called painter of Darius — an artist named after one of his works which depicts the ancient Persian king.

The odd object in the group is a 14th century gold-plated processional cross stolen in the 1960s from a church near Siena, in Tuscany.

The artifacts were shown to have been looted mainly because photos and documents related to them turned up in raids conducted in the 1990s on the Swiss warehouses of antiquities dealers accused of controlling the flow of illegal art exports from Italy. The raids sparked what has turned into a worldwide hunt for Italy’s lost treasures.

The deal signed at the Culture Ministry came after nearly two years of negotiations that began when the museum contacted the Italians to check if Rome was seeking to recover any of its antiquities.

“When putting together a PHOTO COURTESY OF ITALIAN CULTURE MINISTRY collection it is important that any museum acquire works LOOTED: An Apulian volute crater, dating back to the 4th Century B.C., is one of the 14 art works to be returned to Italy from the Cleveland Museum of Art. ethically,” Rub said.

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Convicted Toledo killer dies of lethal injection

Prior to execution, he claimed he was framed

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins The Associated Press

LUCASVILLE, Ohio — Two men on opposite sides of a death penalty case tried to reach across the divide of murder after Ohio’s latest execution.

Gregory Bryant-Bey, 53, a double killer who said in a final statement he’d been framed and had poor legal help, died by lethal injection yesterday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.

Bryant-Bey was convicted in the Aug. 9, 1992, robbery and killing of Dale Pinkelman, who owned a sports collectibles and coin shop in Toledo. Two months later, he killed Peter Mihas, owner of The Board Room restaurant in the city.

After the execution, Jay Clark, a son-in-law of Pinkelman, called it a difficult day.

“There aren’t any winners on either side,” said Clark, who watched Bryant-Bey die.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Mihas family, the Bryant-Bey family and all victims of violent crimes and their families.”

Moments later, Bryant-Bey’s younger brother, who also was a witness, called the execution state-sponsored murder.

But Elton Williamson then reached out to the families of Bryant-Bey’s victims.

“I do want to say that I feel for the families that was involved, that lost their loved ones,” Williamson said. “After today I can understand their grief also.”

Clark and Williamson watched the execution in the same viewing area but on opposite sides of a wall partially dividing the room into areas for members of the victim’s family and the inmate’s family.

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They were escorted separately and never appeared to speak to each other directly.

They were not in the same room when they each made their separate statements after the execution.

Prison staff preparing BryantBey for execution appeared to take their time finding a suitable vein in his right arm, but there was no sign of any problem finding veins in either arm to deliver the deadly chemicals used in the lethal injection process, an issue that delayed previous executions in the state.

Bryant-Bey smiled as he entered the death chamber, made a peace sign and clenched his right fist in the direction of his lawyers, spiritual advisers and brother.

As he was being placed on the gurney, Bryant-Bey became concerned and asked his brother why his sister, Darlene Hines, wasn’t with them. Bryant-Bey had visited with Hines the night before and yesterday morning but she was not scheduled to be a witness, said prisons spokeswoman Andrea Carson.

In a three-minute final statement, Bryant-Bey, who received the death penalty in the stabbing death of Pinkelman, said he’d been framed, convicted on the basis of false evidence and had had poor legal help.

“My brothers and sisters wonder what can be done to protect their sisters and brothers and children and friends from being framed, lied on and convicted on invisible evidence,” he said, lifting his head off the gurney and reading as a prison staff member held the handwritten statement.

“We have to pray that they live a life consistent with the truth and love doing right.”

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Men’s hoops open home season tonight

By Andrew Harner Assistant Sports Editor

HOCKEY Mills steps up as new play-by-play announcer

Bob Mills has been involved with hockey announcing since his freshman year. With the departure of Danny Nieves, Mills has taken over the main play-by-play call this season.

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Men’s basketball: vs. Wayne State; 7 p.m.

OUR CALL Today in Sports History 1990—Sacramento Kings

win their first road game in over a year.

1984—Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins the NL Rookie of the Year.

1977—Steve Largent begins NFL streak of 177 straight games with a reception.

1969—Pele scores his 1,000th goal.

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Thanks to the money-making ability of the NFL Network, there is a football game tonight. Even better, it’s a rivalry game. Here are the top playmakers between the Bengals and Steelers:

1. Steelers Defense:

The No. 1 defense in the NFL is allowing 169.2 passing yards per game while the Bengals only pass for 158.9, 30th in the league.

2. Hines Ward: His hit in the first game between these two broke Keith Rivers’ jaw. Now, he’s the target of the Bengals defense.

3. T.J. Houshmandzadeh:

T.J. has been the top Bengals receiver all season and after a 149 yard performance last week, he will be counted on again this week.

4. Cedric Benson:

Facing such a tough pass defense, Benson needs to run the ball well.

5. Willie Parker:

Parker is back and will be looking to have a big game against the lowly Bengals.

All he can be

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Garcia’s college career more than classes and rugby

By Christopher Rambo Reporter

life is anything but commonplace. For this is when he travels south to Fort Rickenbacker On the surface, Dan Garcia in Columbus to train with the appears to lead the innocu- U.S. Army’s 19th Special Forces ous life of a normal everyday Group, an item not likely to college student. Like most of grace the weekend itinerary of his peers, the sophomore edu- the average BGSU undergrad.

The 19th Special Forces, cation major from Perrysburg, Ohio, has a lot on his plate, as more commonly known by he tries to balance the rigors their nickname “The Green of Bowling Green rugby along Berets,” is one of two elite with the academic demands National Guard groups of the typical of most college stu- United States Army Special dents. However, for several Forces. The group specializes weekends a year, Dan Garcia’s in counter-terrorism and guer-

rilla warfare. Garcia, who was a key contributor on the Rugby Club’s B-side this year, is currently awaiting an assignment to Fort Bragg in North Carolina where he will continue a 2 year training regimen that he hopes will end with him becoming a Staff Sergeant in charge of weapons.

“I would specialize in all weapons foreign or domestic,” Garcia said. “For example, if we were in a foreign country, I would have knowledge of their local weapons and be able to

use them should the situation present itself.”

The road to acceptance into the group is a long and grueling one however.

“The training is incredibly intense,” Garcia said.

“Oftentimes we are up from morning until night doing various drills, many of them over heavily wooded terrain. But that’s all part of being in the Army, you just have to put your

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After going 2-1 at the NABC Tournament in Minneapolis, BG’s men’s basketball team is coming back to the friendly confines of Anderson Arena tonight.

The team defeated Georgia State and Concordia St. Paul last weekend while drop- Nate ping a contest Miller to Minnesota by Will return seven. with two But tonight, the others Falcons will not be facing a divi- tonight vs.

Wayne State sion one school.

They will host Wayne State, a team they defeated 59-42 in an exhibition game last season.

The two teams also met in the 1942-43 season Darryl with BG winning Clements 64-41.

The Warriors Has a teamare coming off high average a 10-16 (4-13) of 16 points season in which per game this they only won season one road game.

Wayne is also bringing back just three players from that squad this season.

Wayne brought in six freshman, two division one transfer and two junior college transfers .

In their first game, the Warriors posted an 89-59 win over Marygrove College.

Transfer Bryan Wright scored 24 points in the game.

The Falcons are gaining back three players who did not travel with the team to Minnesota: Nate Miller, Chris Knight and Cameron Madlock.

The trio will add depth to the team that has averaged 68.3 points and 40 rebounds per game. Darryl Clements is leading the way for the Falcons so far with 16 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game.

BGSU Students, Faculty and Staff, I would like to take this opportunity to invite all students, faculty, staff and Falcon football fans to attend our game vs. Buffalo Friday night at 6 p.m. It is a huge game for the Falcons with championship implications. Bundle up, fill your thermos with hot chocolate and support our team.

Also, Friday is senior night. Before the game, we will honor our 17 outstanding senior football players and their families to thank them for their many contributions to the athletic department and the university.

Let’s make this an “Orange Out” at the Doyt Friday night—come early and greet the team at 4 p.m. as our seniors take their final team walk. Thank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you all Friday!

Gregg Brandon

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AT WORK: Ryan Ward (center) captures footage onto his laptop during Saturday’s game against Northern Michigan.

Women’s basketball now 0-2 with loss to Valparaiso

By Andrew Harner Assistant Sports Editor

Valparaiso used consistent shooting throughout the entire game to defeat the Falcons 69-58.

Valpo made 10 of 19 (52.6%) three pointers and shot 48.2% from the field while also making seven of 13 free throws on their way to victory.

The Crusaders were led by top scorers Aimee Litka (6-11 including 5-7 from three for 17 points) and Agnieszka Kulaga (9-14 shooting and 22 points).

For BG, Lauren Prochaska again led the team in scoring with 15 points, but she also had six of the team’s 18 turnovers.

Lauren Prochaska

Led the team with 15 points against Valparaiso Niki McCoy had 11 points and a team-high six rebounds.

Tracy Pontius added 11 points, five rebounds and three assists.

The Falcons had another subpar shooting performance as they only made 17 of 50 (34%) from the field goal and 7 of 19 (36.8%) from three.

BG takes the court again at home on Saturday (2 p.m.) when they face off with Lipscomb.

Ward to intern with New York Islanders

By Ethan Magoc Reporter

Bowling Green’s hockey program has attracted plenty of talent during its storied 40-year history.

Players like George McPhee, Nelson Emerson and Rob Blake, to name a few. All of these Falcons, and many more, went on to have careers in the National Hockey League after their college days were over.

And the program may be able to claim another alumnus in professional hockey in the coming years, though this one never even played college hockey.

Ryan Ward, the team’s video coordinator, will begin a semester-long internship with the New York Islanders in less than a month.

Ryan Ward

Will be interning with the New York Islanders “He’s a really important piece of our staff and it’s rewarding to see that he has an opportunity to move on to the NHL,” Paluch said. “Our players have the same aspirations and it’s good that Ryan has that chance as well.”

Ward, a senior, is in his second season as BG’s video coordinator after working as a student equipment manager in his freshman and sophomore years.

Throughout high school, Ward sought a college with both a Division I hockey team and a quality sports management

degree program.

The Assonet, Mass., native found each at Bowling Green.

“BG was just a special place from the get-go,” Ward said.

“The hockey program is kind of unique because it allows someone like me to get involved and be part of a major D-I school right away.”

Ward worked as an assistant equipment manager for the Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League during his high school years. There he met J.W. Aiken, a Bowling Green graduate who had worked for the Falcon hockey team during his time here as well.

He also met Scott Gordon, then Providence’s head coach,

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Mills is the new radio voice for Falcons hockey hockey, feel like hockey,” Mills said, “We went to Boston College this year and that was kind of cool since they had indiAfter one year of play-by-play vidual boxes for everybody.” call by Danny Nieves, Bob While Mills’ goal is to evenMills is the new voice of the tually become a play-by-play Falcons for hockey’s flagship announcer for an NHL team the station Bowling Green Radio decision to step into the booth Sports Organization. full time this year was made Mills has been involved in the slightly more difficult than some organization since his freshmen may have thought. year, and was one of the primary For the past three years Mills hockey color commentators for was a forward for BG’s club the last two seasons. Mills sites hockey team and was able to his friendship with Nieves as juggle color commentary on a one of the main reasons he got part time basis with a lengthy the play-by-play job.

PHOTO PROVIDED KATHRYN BOBEL club hockey schedule. As the “I’ve been pretty good friends full time play-by-play man Mills with Danny Nieves,” Mills said, VOICE IN YOUR HEAD: Bob Mills has taken over the role of hockey radio play-by-play had to give up his own play“So he kind of helped me go after assisting the broadcast crew for two years. ing career in order to pursue a through the process of making future in radio. sure I had a good demo tape a three to five minute interview. when it’s all over.” Mills said.

“It impacted my decision a In addition to the experience Following his pre-game show done, then as far as getting the job I sent in the application and it’s down to the business of of calling games for BG hock- little bit, but in the end I was just calling the game, for Mills it is ey, Mills has also enjoyed the doing club hockey because I like just waiting on a phone call.”

Mills likes to get to the arena a point of pride to be able to opportunity to travel with the to play, and I want to do this as a around 5 p.m. for both home do play-by-play for one of the team, quite a heavy amount of career,” Mills said.

For many hockey play-by-play travel considering the team has and away games where he worlds fastest sports.

“It’s a unique challenge to already played at Boston College announcers they have a signamakes sure his pre-game is all ture call or unique style of callwritten out and prepared for the try and call a sport like hockey and Alaska this season.

“I really like calling games ing the game. In only his first nights match up. At around 5:45 that moves so quickly, and to p.m. Mills will speak to Bowling do it on radio were nobody here, at Bowling Green, our ice year as a full play-by-play man Green head coach Scott Paluch has a visual. I just feel like I’ve arena does a really good job Mills plans to let his style and for his coaches corner segment, done something pretty fun of being loud. Which makes signature call work itself out.

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By Sean Shapiro Reporter

SUDOKO To play: Complete the grid so that every row, column and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. There is no guessing or math involved.

Just use logic to solve

MRI shows sprain in Winslow’s shoulder backer Paul Posluszny near the sideline and fell hard on his shoulder.

BEREA — Cleveland Browns An MRI taken Tuesday tight end Kellen Winslow revealed no structural damage sprained his right shoulder in Winslow’s shoulder. Coach in Monday night’s win over Romeo Crennel said Winslow the Buffalo Bills, an injury would not practice yesterday unlikely to keep him out for and that the five-year veteran’s an extended period. status for Sunday’s game against Winslow, who played through the Texans would depend on a painful injury to his left shoul- getting strength and range of der last season, got hurt while motion in his shoulder. catching a 16-yard pass that set “It’s sore, and he has got up kicker Phil Dawson’s 56-yard to work the soreness out,” field goal in a 29-27 win. After Crennel said. “The main issue making the reception, Winslow is his strength and his range of was wrapped up by Bills line- motion; if he can get it strong

enough to do what he has to do on the football field then he will be able to play. If the range of motion is as such he can get it over his head and catch the ball, then he will play.

“If he can’t get it above his head or doesn’t have any strength in it, then we are fooling ourselves if we think he will be able to go out and be effective.”

Winslow declined comment when he entered Cleveland’s locker room yesterday.

Wide receiver Braylon Edwards is certain Winslow will be ready by kickoff.

program in need of players.

“I remember Ben was really enthusiastic about signing up and I guess he just kind of signed me up too, even though I still wasn’t sure about playing,” Garcia said. “Once I started playing, I really liked it though, I loved the change of pace from football where you have to go back and huddle up after every play, and I also liked the team concept.”

Garcia’s parents, however, were not initially on board with their son’s new endeavor.

“At first they would not even come to my games,” Garcia said.

“I think they were really upset with me getting hit with no pads on and did not want to see me get hurt. After they started coming to a few games though they saw that it really wasn’t that bad and they began to feel better about it.”

One person who got an up close view of Garcia’s playing ability was Tony Mazzarella, who was at the time an assistant at BG, and who officiated some of Garcia’s High School games.

“Dan stood out to me not because he was the biggest or most athletic guy, but because he had a knack for being in the right place at the right time,” Mazzarella said.

Mazzarella was impressed enough to try and convince both Garcia and Marshall to make the short trip down I-75

sure tackler. What also sticks out for me is his ability to lead by example. He is not an inyour-face kind of guy, but he is always doing what he is supposed to do and other guys see that and follow his lead.”

Those leadership traits should prove invaluable for Garcia in his military career. Should he complete the 2-year training program and be accepted, he would be available to be deployed anywhere around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan.

“It’s not something I really think about too much,” said Garcia, who wishes to come back and complete his degree after his stint in the Army is up. “Hearing my relatives share their military experiences has made deployment a little easier to deal with. I am prepared to go wherever I am sent.”

By Tom Wither The Associated Press

TONY DEJAK | AP PHOTO

DOWN AGAIN: Kellen Winslow has battled injuries his whole career.

RUGBY From Page 7 head down and get through it, and know that there are other people who have it far worse than you.”

For Garcia, the idea of military service was one took root in his mind at a very young age. As a boy, he was imbued with a deep sense of patriotism from his Grandfather and three uncles, all of whom either served in the Army or Marine Corps. While other kids of his age would dream of being a fireman or baseball player, Garcia always wanted a military career.

“When I was growing up, I wanted to be a Navy SEAL,” Garcia said. “I would listen to all my uncles talk and it would make me want to serve my country too.”

Garcia grew up in the quaint Toledo suburb of Perrysburg and was active in a number of sports from football, to wrestling, to soccer.

“I was one of those little kids who was always rushing off from one practice to another, “Garcia said.

It would not be until his junior year of high school that Garcia would become introduced to rugby when he and his longtime friend and current BG teammate Ben Marshall signed up for what was at the time a fledgling

“Dan is just a really solid player. He has a nose for the ball and is a very sure tackler.

What also sticks out for me is his ability to lead by example. He is not an in-yourface kind of guy, but he is always doing what he is supposed to do and other guys see that and follow his lead.”

Tony Mazzarella | Coach and play rugby for Bowling Green. Garcia would ultimately accept the offer, choosing Bowling Green over Ohio State, Texas, and Cincinnati.

“At first I wanted to go away for college but then the more I thought about it, the more I felt that Bowling Green was the place for me,” Garcia said. “I really liked the small-college feel that is offered here, plus I wanted to continue playing rugby and the program here is really solid.”

Since arriving on campus, Garcia has steadily worked his way up through the hierarchy of Bowling Green rugby, serving as a key contributor to the B-side this year while also seeing occasional A-side time as a substitution.

“Dan is just a really solid player,” Mazzarella said. “He has a nose for the ball and is a very

WARD From Page 7 who is now the Islanders’ head coach.

Hence the internship, which Ward begins on Dec. 16.

“I’ve known [Gordon] for eight years and we have a pretty special relationship,” Ward said.

“Wardo,” as BG players have fondly termed him, received a phone call from Gordon in August. The Islanders’ firstyear head coach offered him a position which could become permanent after Ward receives his diploma in May 2009.

Modern technology has undoubtedly helped Ward along a path to video coaching success. Paluch recalled that, in his playing days, the duty of taping games often fell to whichever player sat the bench that night.

“We had VHS to use in the ‘80s, but the game has really evolved with technology,” said Paluch, who played for BG from ‘84 to ‘88.

The team currently uses a video analysis system called “XOS,” which can break a game down in every way imaginable.

Players can access common game moments such as a goal or penalty, but can also go through and watch every offensive or defensive zone face-off, neutral zone play or penalty kill formation.

Ward carries his videoloaded laptop into the locker room during each intermission and projects the footage onto a video screen so coaches and players can immediately see what went right or wrong.

“After everything is done, you can sit there and evaluate yourself too,” said junior forward Tomas Petruska.

While all players are required

to attend weekly team video sessions, Petruska said he likes coming in for additional individual review. A native of Presov, Slovakia, Petruska was introduced to watching game video during his junior hockey career in the North American Hockey League.

“It’s amazing. It’s a big help for us and it helps you to not make the same mistakes again,” Petruska said.

The Central Collegiate Hockey Association is in its third year of requiring each home team’s video coordinator to upload game footage to an online league server within 24 hours of a weekend series completion.

That, along with other daily responsibilities, could become stressful for some, but Ward said he enjoys working for the team to such an extent that he doesn’t mind the demanding work pace.

“The most rewarding thing is being a part of it all and seeing the guys succeed,” he said.

“So much goes into preparation, and more than people probably realize.”

He will likely be succeeded next month by Ryan David, the current student equipment manager and brother of Patrick David, who served as video coordinator before Ward.

Somewhere between all the hours spent editing video in a corner of the coaches’ office, manning a tripod in the press box each game and riding thousands of miles on busses to every CCHA arena, Ward has become an integral part of the team.

And one who will surely be missed.

“He’s definitely another guy on the team,” said sophomore Patrick Tiesling. “He’s always upbeat, positive and a good friend of everyone on the team.”

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Interpol terrorist database possibly leaked

by Mark Stevenson The Associated Press

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DESTRUCTION: Iraqis inspect the damage to a liquor store after two simultaneous roadside bombs in downtown Baghdad, Iraq yesterday.

Four civilians were injured in the attack, police said.

Aggressive Iraqi lawmaker causes court to adjourn

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra The Associated Press

BAGHDAD — Lawmakers loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr yesterday disrupted a parliamentary debate ahead of a Nov. 24 vote on a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that would keep American troops in Iraq for three more years.

Speaker Mahmoud alMashhadani adjourned the session until today after Sadrist lawmaker Ahmed al-Massoudi aggressively approached a lawmaker from the ruling coalition who was reading aloud the text of the agreement.

Al-Massoudi appeared to be on the verge of grabbing the document as lawmaker Hassan alSineid read it. Personal guards of Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, seated next to al-Sineid, stopped al-Massoudi from reaching the bench.

The Sadrists oppose the agreement, which enjoys the support of the ruling coalition.

Last Thursday’s session was stormy from the start, with Sadrist lawmakers constantly trying to disrupt the proceedings. Al-Mashhadani was involved in several shouting

matches with the Sadrists, who demanded that a draft bill regulating the adoption of treaties with foreign nations be adopted ahead of the debate on the security agreement.

The 275-seat legislature does not have much time to adopt the security pact, and the Sadrists’ tactic appears designed to take advantage of that to derail the agreement. Al-Sadr has a long history of conflict with the United States, launching several uprisings against U.S. forces since they occupied Iraq in 2003.

The legislature is expected to go into recess in early December for the Muslim feast of Eid alAdha. At that time, scores of lawmakers will travel to Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, denying the house a quorum to debate or vote on the pact.

If the agreement is approved by parliament, it will go to the president and his two deputies for ratification. Each one — President Jalal Talabani and vice presidents Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Tariq al-Hashemi — has the power to veto the agreement.

Failing to adopt it will leave the government of Prime Minister

Nouri al-Maliki no choice but to seek the renewal of a U.N. mandate under which American and other foreign forces operate in Iraq.

The Sadrist disruption in parliament followed an announcement by the small Shiite Fadhila party that it would not vote in support of the agreement.

Fadhila has 15 lawmakers.

Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki’s ruling coalition dominates the legislature, so the security pact is virtually assured of a parliamentary majority despite the opposition of Fadhila’s lawmakers and the nearly 30 loyal to al-Sadr. The Cabinet approved the deal with Washington on Sunday.

The complaints of the Fadhila party and the Sadrists’ vehement opposition, however, reflect unease among some Iraqis about a continuing U.S. presence in their country after years of war, even if a clear timetable for their withdrawal is laid out in the deal.

The Fadhila party, which is largely based in the southern city of Basra, complained that it had not been kept informed of developments during months of negotiations.

MEXICO CITY — Interpol is sending a special investigative team to Mexico to determine whether sensitive information from its database on criminals and terrorists was leaked to drug cartels, the agency said yesterday.

Interpol launched the probe after Mexican federal police official Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas was placed under house arrest as part of an investigation of law enforcement officers who allegedly shared police information with traffickers.

Gutierrez Vargas directed the international police agency’s National Central Bureau in Mexico, where he had access to Interpol’s database of information on suspected terrorists, wanted persons, fingerprints and DNA profiles, among other data, the Lyon, France-based agency said.

Interpol’s Web site says that officers of the National Central Bureaus are connected to its

police communications network so they can share crucial information on criminals and criminal activities daily.

Staffers from Interpol’s General Secretariat plan to meet with Mexican authorities and determine if there was any improper use of Interpol’s systems. Meanwhile, the agency is standing by its man in Mexico: “Interpol can categorically state that it has never been given any reason to question the integrity of Mr. Gutierrez Vargas.”

Interpol said the team will leave for Mexico today and determine what needs to be done to ensure compliance with the agency’s rules, which are designed to prevent leaks.

An official of the federal Attorney General’s office, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be cited by name, said the allegations against Gutierrez Vargas did not involve purported leaks of Interpol information, suggesting the data he allegedly passed to criminal groups was domestic police intelligence.

The Attorney General’s office is responsible for Interpol’s office in Mexico.

Gutierrez Vargas, the director for International Police Affairs and Interpol at Mexico’s Federal Investigative Agency, is only the latest high-ranking Mexican police official to be detained on suspicion of links to drug gangs.

Earlier this month, Rodolfo de la Guardia Garcia, the No. 2 official at the Federal Investigative Agency from 20032005, was placed under house arrest pending a probe of allegations he leaked information to the Sinaloa cartel in return for monthly payments.

De la Guardia was elected to Interpol’s executive committee in 2002 but was removed from that post by the Mexican government in 2004, Interpol said.

The detentions of both men are part of “Operation Clean House,” a government effort to weed out corruption exposed by the January arrest of Alfredo Beltran Leyva, a reputed Sinaloa cartel lieutenant.

Suspected pirate ship sunk by Indian navy

By Sam Dolnick The Associated Press

NEW DELHI — An Indian naval vessel sank a suspected pirate “mother ship” in the Gulf of Aden and chased two attack boats into the night, officials said yesterday, as separate bands of brigands seized Thai and Iranian ships in the lawless seas.

The owners of a seized Saudi oil supertanker, meanwhile, negotiated for the release of the ship, anchored off the coast of Somalia.

A multinational naval force has increased patrols in the waters between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa, where pirates have grown bolder and more violent. The force scored a rare success Tuesday when the Indian warship, operating off the coast of Oman, stopped a ship similar to a pirate vessel described in numerous bulletins.

The Indian navy said the pirates fired on the INS Tabar after the officers asked to search it.

“Pirates were seen roaming on the upper deck of the vessel with guns ...”

Statement from the Indian navy

“Pirates were seen roaming on the upper deck of this vessel with guns and rocket propelled grenade launchers,” said a statement from the Indian navy. Indian forces fired back, sparking fires and a series of onboard blasts — possibly due to exploding ammunition — and destroying the ship.

They chased one of two speedboats shadowing the larger ship.

One was later found abandoned.

The other escaped, according to the statement.

Larger “mother ships” are often used to take gangs of pirates and smaller attack boats into deep water, and can be used as mobile bases to attack merchant vessels.

Last week, Indian navy com-

mandos operating from a warship foiled a pirate attempt to hijack a ship in the Gulf of Aden. The navy said an armed helicopter with marine commandos prevented the pirates from boarding and hijacking the Indian merchant vessel.

Separate bands of pirates also seized a Thai ship with 16 crew members and an Iranian cargo vessel with a crew of 25 in the Gulf of Aden, where Somalia-based pirates appear to be attacking ships at will, said Noel Choong of the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting center in Malaysia.

“It’s getting out of control,” Choong said.

Tuesday hijackings raised to eight the number of ships hijacked this week alone, he said. Since the beginning of the year, 39 ships have been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden, out of 95 attacked.

“The criminal activities are flourishing because the risks are low and the rewards are extremely high,” Choong said.

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LONDON — The British government announced plans yesterday to make it illegal to pay for sex with women forced into prostitution and to name men who solicit sex on the streets — measures that prostitutes say will put more women at risk.

As part of the Home Office’s “name and shame” campaign, people who pay for sex with a prostitute “controlled for another person’s gain” could face criminal charges and a fine of 1,000 pounds ($1,500).

The crime would be a “strict liability offense,” which means men would be held accountable even if they didn’t know a woman had been trafficked or was working for a pimp, according to the Home Office.

“What I disapprove of is women being exploited in this country, coerced, trafficked into the country, effectively treated as slaves,” Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told British Broadcasting Corp. radio yesterday.

The government also planned to hold lap-dancing clubs to the same licensing requirements as sex shops and sex cinemas. The clubs are currently regulated like pubs.

Smith said the measures — which would need to be approved by lawmakers — are aimed at lessening the demand for paid sex and to cut down on human trafficking.

Sex trade workers, however, said the wording of the proposed law would make it illegal for men to use prostitutes who work for other women at brothels or in other voluntary arrangements.

“This is a very dangerous moral crusade,” Cari Mitchell, spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitutes, said yesterday. “What this will ultimately do is drive the sex trade further underground and put the focus on criminalizing clients

that, for the most part, women aren’t complaining about. This plan is of no benefit to women.”

The sex trade is already heavily restricted in Britain, unlike in many of its European neighbors where prostitution and solicitation are tolerated in some form.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the son of a Presbyterian minister, has already backed a series of sin taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, called for tougher drug laws and scrapped plans for Britain’s first Las Vegas-style casino.

Smith said there was no public support for a “wholesale ban” on paying for sex and the measures were aimed at cutting down on exploitation.

The Home Office said it would “name and shame” men who solicit sex on the streets as they are in the London borough of Lambeth, where police send warning letters to the homes of drivers whose license plate numbers are caught on closedcircuit television picking up street walkers.

Under current laws in England and Wales, it is illegal to loiter and sell sex on the streets or elsewhere in public. Keeping a brothel is unlawful, but a lone woman selling sex inside is not.

Similarly, paying for sex is legal.

But solicitation has largely been tolerated.

Britain made headlines in 2006 when a man murdered five prostitutes in Ipswich, 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of London. Recent headlines, however, have focused on police raids on brothels where women from eastern Europe, Asia and Africa have been forced into the trade.

There is growing debate on whether a crackdown would lessen violence or cut down on human trafficking.

Scottish cities such as Edinburgh used to have “tolerance zones” where prostitutes were allowed to work freely.

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WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats suggested yesterday that a bill to rescue Detroit’s Big Three automakers was stalled and challenged the Bush administration to take steps to save the industry if congressional efforts falter. The White House quickly rebuffed the suggestion.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada sought to lower expectations of reaching a deal on the $25 billion proposal before Congress quits for the year.

While he told the Senate he still hoped lawmakers could agree to an auto deal in the “next day or two� of the current lameduck session, he added: “If we can’t do it here legislatively, I would hope that the secretary of Treasury would listen loud and clear because they could take this into their own hands and do what I think is appropriate from their perspective.�

Responded White House press secretary Dana Perino: “There’s no appetite for that.� She said it was up to Congress to act.

Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., was even more downbeat, calling the possibility of reaching agreement “remote.� “I don’t see how in the next few days this is going to move forward,� Dodd told reporters.

Still, he added, “That does not mean that there are not opportunities.� He suggested that the Federal Reserve could possibly step up to the job.

The difficulties of striking a deal on the package before a new president and a new Congress with expanded Democratic majorities take office appeared to be too great to overcome. The deadlock persisted even as the heads of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler returned for a second day to plead for relief and as their congressional backers urged colleagues not to punish them for past mistakes.

General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner told the House Financial Services Committee

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that collapse of the U.S. auto industry could lead to a loss of 3 million jobs within the first year and ripple throughout communities around the nation.

In sometimes contentious testimony, Wagoner was pressed on when GM would run out of money if the loans weren’t extended.

He said he couldn’t say precisely, but that the company now was burning through “$5 billion each month.�

Still, with the $25 billion emergency package, “We think we have a good shot to make it through this,� Wagoner said. He said he anticipated that, if the package is approved, GM would qualify for about $10 billion to $12 billion of the money.

President George W. Bush and Republicans in Congress have been reluctant to use the Treasury Department’s $700 billion financial bailout program to finance the loans.

The White House wants Congress to draw the $25 billion from an Energy Department program established to encourage production of fuel-efficient cars.

Perino said yesterday the administration supports legislation to authorize just that, but will not go along with the proposal by Democratic leaders that an additional $25 billion be taken from the government’s existing $700 billion

Wall Street bailout fund. “The purpose of the $700 billion was clearly intended for financial institutions, and we wanted to keep that whole,�

Perino said.

If Congress quits without taking any action, “then the Congress will bear responsibility for anything that happens in the next couple of months during their long vacation,� Perino said.

Congressional Republicans battled uphill to try to pick up Democratic support for the White House plan to allow auto companies to draw emergency loans from the $25 billion fuelefficiency fund.

Democratic leaders have rejected such a course, and environmentalists don’t want that money used for anything other than its intended purpose.

But the GOP approach, being crafted by Sens. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and George Voinovich, R-Ohio, would require the automakers to plow back into the fund repaid loans, interest and income from equity stakes.

The proposal, outlined in a position paper obtained by The Associated Press, is intended to satisfy Democrats concerned about raiding the fuel-efficiency loan program. Since auto makers would not be tapping those funds immediately, supporters argue, the money would be restored by the time they were needed.

Boehner re-elected as House GOP leader

By Jim Abrams The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House Republicans yesterday reelected John Boehner as leader of their depleted ranks while putting together a more conservative team to represent them in the next, Democraticcontrolled, Congress.

In Boehner’s second term as House GOP leader, the Ohio Republican must deal with the aftermath of an election in which his party lost at least 20 seats.

They will go into the 111th session of Congress in January with less than 180 seats in the 435seat chamber and, for the first time in eight years, dealing with a Democratic president.

Boehner put an optimistic spin on the situation: “The months ahead will present Republicans with an unprecedented opportunity to renew our drive for smaller, more accountable government,� he said.

A popular leader with solid conservative credentials, Boehner was re-elected with only a token challenge from Rep. Dan Lungren of California.

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RE-ELECTED: House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, is pursued by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.

But his two chief deputies, party whip Roy Blunt of Missouri and Republican Conference chairman Adam Putnam of Florida, resigned after the election.

They were replaced by Eric Cantor of Virginia as whip and Mike Pence of Indiana as conference chair, who both ran without opposition. Both are leading members of the Republican Study Committee, the conservative caucus that now represents more than half of all House Republicans.

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“I’m going to continue to be my same old conservative self,� Pence said.

Still, Republicans said they would work with the incoming Obama administration and with House Democrats when possible. “We’ll give the president-elect the benefit of the doubt,� Boehner said. “When he is offering solutions to the American people that we are in agreement with, we’ll be right there with him.� “We are going to serve as the honest opposition,� said Cantor, who is in his fourth term as he rises to his party’s No. 2 position.

Boehner, first elected to Congress in 1990, is a conservative who aligned himself with Newt Gingrich as Republicans fought their way back into power in 1995.

While a staunch supporter of the Bush administration on such issues as Iraq and the benefits of tax cuts, Boehner has also worked closely with Democrats.

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