The BG News August 26, 2008

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THE BG NEWS ESTABLSHED 1920 A daily independent student pess seving the campus and suounding community Tuesday August 26,2008 Volume 103, ssue 3 WWWBGNEWSCOM Student health a top pioity The Univesity encouages students to stay healthy by making use of on-campus health sevices Page 5 Fiend o foe Columnist Sean Lutzman pondes how the U.S. should deal with China now that the Olympics ae ove Page 4 Film's success boosted by death of acto The Dak Knight' was a huge summe hit. but did the death of acto Heath Ledgef help fuel the success of the film? Columnist Maisha Pietowski believes so Page 4 New Jesey dog keeps beas at bay A cocke spaniel-poo- dle mix kept a mothe and two cubs fom enteing its owne's yad Page 8 Democatic convention begins Sen. Edwad Kennedy and Michelle Obama stat the events off with speeches and appeaances Page 5 Stating QB: ound two Afte a ough end to the 2007 season. Tyle Sheehan looks to impove his game and stun opponents, stating with Pittsbugh P.ige 6 Who would be you vice-pesidential i unning mate? «MKESCHMTT Feshman. Video Poduction "Steve fom 'Blues Clues' cause he can solve poblems." Page 4 TODAY Sunny High: 79. Low: 57 ' V TOMORROW Patly Cloudy High: 80, Low: 60 k Obama camp banking hopes on youth vote By Tim Sampson Executive Edito n the heat of Republican dominated Nothwest Ohio, the Baack Obama campaign is niming to Bowling Geen and moe specifically its ample supply of college-aged votes as an island of suppot in a sea of consevatism. Afte opening up a field office in Bowling Geen ealie this month, voluntees and staffes fo the Obama pesidential campaign wee out canvassing the city and campus communities this past weekend duing movein. But the pesidential campaign of lohn McCain is hoping a solid Republican base outside of the campus will lead to victoy. Nealy 40 voluntees took to the steets all day Satuday and Sunday to egiste seveal hunded votes, said k, ii n\ Bazbaz, the Obama campaign's Nothwest Ohio communications diecto. Voluntees even tolled aound Main and WboMB Steets on Satuday night into the ealy hous of Sunday moning looking fo potential votes. Why all the attention fo Bowling Geen? The pize fo the Obama campaign is the youth vote paticulaly the nealy 16,500 students on BGSU's main campus. "Ou campaign in Ohio is eally focusing on the student vote and on college campuses," Bazbaz said. "They ae paticulaly impotant to the campaign." And the votes of 16,000 college students can mean a lot to Obama in a state whee Democats lost the pesidential election by just 118,601 votes in 2001. The Obama campaign has aleady helped encouage ecod tunout RACHEL RAOWANSK THE BG NEWS CAMPUS GETS A FACELFT: The Univesity's beautification pogam has become mosl noticeable aound the Hashman and Keische quadangles with the landscaping of the entances and suounding teain. Stokes of Genius: PANTNG A NEW CAMPUS PCTURE USG and administation push fo Univesity upgades By Chistio K.n. Repote Sidewalks, landscaping and painting ae a just a few examples of what the administation is doing to impove the appeaance of campus. The Undegaduate Student Govenment pushed fo the committee known as "Campus Beautification" that will be woking on impoving the image of the campus. "This has tuned out to be ou biggest victoy thus fa and it has been taken to the next level," said USG Pesident lohn Waynick. The committee will be focusing on what needs to be impoved and finding pivate donos to help fund the poject. "t's been a constant push fo the student govenment," Waynick said. The esidence halls have had impovements since students left last sping semeste. "We want eveyone to take pide in ou campus," said Diecto of Residence Life Michael Giffel. Thee was a $900,000 electic upgade in McDonald lull and epais wee done on the loading dock and sidewalks. Students may also notice newly painted hand ailings and new doos on the sooity cottages. "Weaelookingto what helps facilitate community and academic success," Giffel said. Othe impovements include suite funitue in Poundes, new kitchens and capeting in fatenity houses and new desses and capets in Hashman. "t's all about how do we meet students' needs," Giffel said. USG is also looking to impove the oveall look of campus and has made a list of poblem aeas. Entances and exits ae one of the main concens. "Thee is nothing hanging SP«'BEAUTY Page 2 BEAUTFCATON: BY THE NUMBERS 20% The pecentage of tees on campus that ae ash 250k The total cost of an electical upgade in McDonald 250k The amount spent on sidewalk upgades evey two yeas on the ovepasses and the exits ae vey unattactive," Waynick said. The Gounds Depatment focuses on cetain aeas of campus known as focal points that would daw someone's eye to a cetain spot. "An example of this would be the Univesity seal o whee two sidewalks come togethe," said Bian Benne, associate vice pesident fo administation wok. Vaious mounds have been placed to ceate focal points thoughout campus. Plants and landscaping have also helped emphasize the 50 diffeent focal points on campus. Anothe majo poject is along Wooste Steet by -ot 6 whee si x mou nds wee placed to impove the campus look fom 1-75, Benne said. The administation invests $250,000 evey two yeas to epai sidewalks and is also focusing on epaiing oofs. Othe impovements include epaiing the bell 333k The amount spent on new suite funitue in Rodges afte having to compete fo a stating fback Tyle Sheehan has a fim hold on among votes unde 30. Accoding torockhevfoteandorclecente fo nfomation & Reseach on Civic leaning & Engagement), vote tunout among 18 to 29 yea olds doubled o tipled in almost evey state pimay and caucus. But thee is one poblem with Obama pinning all his hopes on young votes to cay him to electoal victoy, said David lackson, an associate pofesso in the Univesity's political science depatment. Despite ecod um out among young votes ecently, they still epesent the smallest age demogaphic among votes. lackson is quick to citicize the conventional wisdom that young votes failed both Howad Dean and lohn Key in 2004. Young votes did um out in ecod numbes that yea, he said, but so did ad othe age goups, so the effect was minimized. "t has been seen in the past as a bit of a poblem fo candidates expecting huge inceases in youth vote tunout," lackson said, explaining why he thinks some pundits unwisely wite off the 18 See OBAMA qe 2 Knowle e is powe Q & A with six of the Univesity's student leades By Kyi. R.ynold. Senio Repote JOSH BENNER Majo: Philosophy Hometown: Westeville How did you got involved with FC?: " stated going to meetings as a sophomoe and thought the oganization had lots of potential" Pevious positions include scholaship chaiman and vice-pesident of sevice and involvement. Goals fo FC: "To have solid ecuitment and looking to impove scholaship thoughout FC." Why join FC?: t is a good way fo men in fatenities to be a pat of something that effects the entie Geek community and it is also a geat way to netwok with othe Geeks and adminlltation" Advice fo feshman: " encou-. age all feshmen to exploe Geek life. t's not fo eveyone but a good fatenity o sooity can eally affect a peson's life." Hobbles: Witing, thinking and weightlifting What did you do this summe?: " took five classes so studied, went to class and weightlifted." EMMANUALGULLORY Hometown: Lufkin. Texas How did you get involved with GSS?: " was involved in student govenment as an undegad [at Texas A&M]. Govenment has always been a passion of mine." Goals fo GSS: "To addess ou list of ou top 10 concens and build moe community between gaduate students. Why join GSS?: "Ou Univesity is facing some challenges, and now is the time fo gaduate students to step up and insue ou issues ae at the foefont. Advice fo incoming gaduate students: "Meet someone outside you depatment, take advantage of Ohio and what the suounding aea has to offe and Josh Benne Senio. nte-fatenity Council Pesident Emmanual Guilloy Second Yea Maste student. Gaduate Student Senate Pesident get the educational expeience you need" Hobbies: "Woking out. music, hanging out and having a good time." What did you do this summe?: "Woking bid in GSS. and also had two pacticum's and was taking an LSAT class" DERRCK COLEMAN Majo ntenational Business and Appael Mechandising Hometown: Detoit How did you get involved with BSU?: " got involved last yea when the pesident asked me if wanted to do public elations fo the goup." Goals fo BSU: "To eally commemoate ou 40th annivesay, have a bigge fashion show and moe campus involvement fom eveyone. People think BSU is exclusive to black students, but we want to include anyone. Why join BSU?: "Good times, fiends and good oppotunities like community sevice. You get to do a lot and netwok with administation, and you ae put into contact with a lot of othe oganizations." Advice fo feshmen: "Get involved and make the most of it. Don't go excessive though like did [holding executive positions in thee oganizations] but get involved and lean time manage- See LEADERS Page 2 Big plans fo the Univesity's hundeth bithday ByGinaPotthoff Managing Edito "A legacy of excellence. A futue without limits." This is the slogan the Centennial Annivesay Commission chose to sum up the fist 100 yeas of the Univesity's existence and what's to come. The committee stated meeting in Novembe to plan the events that will take place thoughout the 2010 academic yea in celebation of the Univesity's 100th annivesay, which officially occus on Nov. 10,2010. Committee Co-chai Lay Weiss has woked fo the Univesity a numbe of yeas and wants to make this centennial celebation count. "Thee's only going to be one of these," Weiss said. He said the committee is woking on a maste calenda, and he expects homecoming e position - and he's getting bettt _ VST BGNEWS.COM: NEWS, SPORTS, UPDATES, MULTMEDA AND FORUMS FOR YOUR EVERYDAY LFE!» 2 4» "We would like to make this a community celebation..." Lay Weiss j Centennial Committee 2010 to be the social highlight of the centennial yea and Nov. 10 to be the academic highlight as the official date BGSU was founded. "We would like to make this a community celebation, not just a Univesity celebation," he said. The committee, which continues to gow in size fom its oiginal 43 membes, divided into seven subcommittees: community and business, maketing and public elations, student events, Univesity events, academic, alumni/dono and See BRTHDAY Page 2

2 i. August 26.2008 WWW.BGNEWS.COM LEADERS Fom Page 1 ment Hobbies: Watching TMZ, playing and listening to music, cooking and fashion. What did you do this summe?: May though June woked fo BGSU's Alumm and fnends Weekend (June 20 22) visited Chicago and woked "as an inten at Exclusive Styles in Deabon. Mich" NATHAN OLMEDA Majo 'Human Development and Family Studies Hometown: Cleveland How did you get involved with LSU?: "As a feshman my RA invited me and a goup of people fom my hall to the meetings and went to them on and off feshman yea. Sophomoe yea it ecame moe like a family and *vas dedicated to it." Goals fo LSU: "To live out ou mission statement, which states that ou pupose is to stimulate common inteest, insue civil libeties and impove quality of life fo all Why join LSU?: We ae vey inclusive with ethnicity, ace, gende and sexual oientation. We ae also a vey family based oganization smc family is the basis fo Latino Cultue Advice fo feshmen: "Go with whateve inteests you and dig deep beciusp that is whee you will find people who will be the closest to you Hobbies Music What did you do this summe?:.*.. m Bowling Geen and woked itlhi Rookstoe and was getting t Latmo Heitage Month [Sept l5too ' JOHNWAYNCK Majo Accounting and Finance Hometown: Toy. Mich. How did you get involved with USG?: oiginally stated out as i senato feshman yea and then teasue. have an inteest in deal- >sues students cae about." Goals fo USG: Campus beaun and investigating cost- ; textbook options Why join USG?: "To make a positive diffeence fo Bowling Geen Jnivesity students in the and into the futue." Advice fo feshmen: "f you'e ; to play had, you have to ide. Hobbies: Playing spots, woking out and hangingnxit Deick Coleman Sophomoe. Black Student Union Vice Pesident Nathan Olmeda Senio. Latino Student Union Pesident John Waynick Junio. Undegaduate Student Govenment Pesident Scott Loehke Junio, Univesity Activities Oganization Pesident What did you do this summe?: "Woking on ihe zoning laws [petition to incease the numbe of occupants in a home in Bowling Geen] and an intenship at a maketing fim in Toledo." SCOTTLOEHRKE Majo: Jounalism Hometown: Ottawa How did you get involved with UAO?: When was a junio o senio [in high school] head Dashboad Confessional was coming to BG. and knew want to be involved with the oganization that was putting it on. So when was a feshman looked fo UAO's table at Campus Fest and signed up." Goats fo UAO: "To appeal to a wide vaiety of students and have divesity in ou events. Why join UAO?: Students should join if they ae eady fo a challenge, looking to have fun and in ode to develop ove the next fou yeas. Advice fo feshmen: "The people you hang out with the fist weekend will pobably be the people you hang out with fo the fist few months so choose you fiends wisely. -^ Hobbies: My dog. music and Falcon athletics What dm you do this summe?: " woked hee as an inten fo the Office of Campus Activities, took a full load of classes and saw some concets." BRTHDAY Fom Page 1 athletics. Accoding to Weiss, fome Pesident Sidney Ribeau is still excited about the upcoming annivesay and the events planned. "One of the last things [Ribeau] said to me befoe he left was ' sue hope get invited back fo some of these things,'" Weiss said. While Ribeau was suppotive and obtained the budget the committee needed to get stated, Weiss said nteim Pesident Caol Catwight is also getting onboad witli the plans. "She's vey excited about this," Weiss said. Dean of Students Jill Can chais the only subcommittee with student involvement and ' thinks the student events planning subcommittee is geneating some geat ideas. "The students on the committee ae wondeful," Ca said. Ca's committee was challenged to come up with events and displays that will get the Student body inteested in the Univesity's centennial. The goal is to have one event pe month leading up to the official centennial date in Novembe. Students have suggested concets, student oganization histoical displays and special athletic events. A kick off event is being planned fo Januay 2010 when students come back fom winte beak, but the specifics ae still being decided Though six students ae aleady bainstoming, Canwelcomes additional student input. "We ae always open to student involvement," Can said. She ecommends students contact Weiss o co-chai Kim Mclioom if. they want to join centennial planning. The maketing and pubic elations subcommittee is also doing its pat to build centennial buzz. NEWS Flit PHOTO VOTER REGSTRATON: Voluntees fom the Obama pesidential campaign set up a field office in Bowling Geen ealie this month. Thei mission is to egiste as many potential college aged votes as they possibly can. "This yea we want to ceate awaeness," said TeTy Rentne, diecto of the school of communications and chai of the maketing and public elations subcommittee. Rentne said maketing and public elations is woking closely with the Univesity Bookstoe in getting centennial mechandise on the shelves next yea and is hopeful the lit.ml home page will also get people thinking about the centennial. "The Web site will have a huge pesence," Rentne said. Students can expect to see centennial bannes with the slogan on them in sping 2009 and mechandise in fall 2009. Rentne said they'e also hoping to have billboads, special giveaways, a 100-yea pictue book and special stickes epesenting the Univesity's 100 yeas available fo depatment letteheads. The Centennial Annivesay Commission will meet once a month stating Fiday, Sept. 26. OBAMA Fom Page 1 to 29 cowd. But Obama is not the only one seeking out votes in the Bowling Geen aea. The McCain campaign ecently announced it would be opening up its own field offices in Wood County and neighboing Lucas County. Focusing less on the campus cowd, the GOP campaign will concentate moe on the ual aeas of Nothwest Ohio that have been "a consistently stong vote block" fo the Republican paty, said Paul lindsay, a spokesman fo the McCain campaign. The aeas in and aound Wood County have indeed poven a successful aea fo Republicans. F.ven though Obama has a fundaising lead ove McCain oveall in Ohio McCain has aised nealy fou times as much as Obama in the ibledo aea. And Republican pesidential candidates have won in Wood County in evey election since Fanklin Roosevelt. Whethe o not Obama's youth appeal o McCain's solid pany base pay-off in Ohio will be seen on Election Day. The Pesidential election will be held Nov. 4 and votes in Ohio must K- egisteed by Oct. 6. BEAUTY Fom Page 1 "We ae looking to what helps facilitate community and academic success." Michael Gnfiel Diecto Res. Life towe. "Students will once again hea chimes on-campus," Benne said. USG is also looking to place logos on the oads. Students can help with the "Campus Beautification" poject by adopting an aea to wok on. "The gounds depatment does a geat job, but we ae open to anything the students would like to get involved with," said Diecto of Campus Sevices Duane Hamilton. Students can also voluntee to donate a tee and place a plague fo thei oganization next to it. Thowing away tash in the appopiate places is anothe way students can help impove the oveall look of campus. Howeve, cetain impovements have a diffeent pupose behind them. "Thee ae many memoial pojects whee donos donate to emembe loved ones," Hamilton said. Campus Beautification will be in conjunction with the Univesity's Centennial Campaign. 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WWWBGNEWS.COM CAMPUS Tuesday. August 26.2008 5 GETALFE CALENDAR OF EVENTS Some evets taken ani ewntsbgu edu 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. Exhibit #1: D. Joe Jacoby Union Galley Space 8 a.m. -11 p.m Muslim Student Association Paye Room 204 Olscamp 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. Tie Dye Thon Union Table Space Keeping an eye on the healthie side of life Univ. offes a plethoa of options fo students who want to pusue bette lifestyle habits TE DYE TOM 11:50 a.m.-12:30 p.m. H20 Paye Meeting Pout Chapel 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. FYSS Seies: Hie Education 206 Union 6 p.m. - 950 pi The Back2School Xplosion Yad Show 101 Olscamp 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Back with the Blue Yad Show Hashman Keische Basketball Couts 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. NPHC Stoll Show Keische Basketball Cout 9 p.m. - p.m. Megan Mooney Comedian 202 Union 9 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Monday Night Tivia Black Swamp Pub quote ol the day... "Guesswhal?lhavellaws. What ae lhey? Oh donno. sing in the showe? Sometimes spend too much time volunteeing. Occasionally 'll hll somebody with my ca. So sue me- no. don't sue me. That s opposite the point 'm tying to make." - Michael Scott Twenty-one is nitiative By Justin Antill Repote The Univesity offes many facilities and pogams on campus to encouage its students to live a healthy lifestyle. A lot of the health sevices on campus ae povided by the Student Health Cente, which has a staff of tained physicians to help students by giving the students a diagnosis and pescibing medications. The cente also has its own phamacy to eceive the pescibed medications. The health cente has a lab whee blood count tests, mono tests, pegnancy test, uinalysis and apid flu tests ae done. "We ae like you home health cae povide, but a lot moe," said Glenn Egelman. diecto and physician in chief. Accoding to a suvey of 343 students conducted by F.gelman, 98 pecent of the students said they wee satisfied with the sevice and 99 pecent said they undestood thei diagnosis and wee teated with espect. The health cente anked a 399 of 400 quality points by a cediting agency, which shows that not only students ae impessed but outside agencies ae impessed with the cente as well. "A vast majoity say we exceed expectations," Hgelman said. The health cente includes an insuance office which educates students about health insuance and tanspotation to Wood County lospital if needed. The Student Receational Cente is anothe place whee students can stay healthy by taining fo a spot o even just keeping in shape using the aay of execise equipment. The Rec also includes two pools, basketball couts, a tack and even a ock-climbing wall. Students in seach of equipment can find it in the po shop. Anothe health conscious aspect on campus is thewellness Connection, which povides pogams such as pee education, alcohol and dug counseling. They also offe sexual education, sexual assault help, stess elief pogams and many of the Fist- Yea Success Seies pogams ae encouaged fo feshmen. "We ae the educational pogam of the health cente," said Faith Yingling, Diecto of the Wellness Connection. The Wellness Connection even povides HV testing, pee education and a dietitian at no cost to students. Students can also keep the envionment healthy in the Envionmental Health Pogam. Pofesso of Envionmental Health Chis Keil said students can tain and focus on "potecting human health by making sue we have a safe envionment." The students ae educated to pevent illness and ensue safety by woking with local health depatments to cove food safety, wate quality, ai quality and waste management. "This is citical because it's all about peventing illness athe than aiing," Keil said. not woking,' The Amethyst esto lowe dinking age MHLOHMAN "Hi BG NEWS SELLNG TAPESTRES: Tie Dye Tom watches ove his tapesty tabenacle in font of the Union Tom encouages students to join campus activities such as UAO Tom will be selling a vaiety of items fo the next two weeks Students ecycle old bikes though 'Razobikes' pogam By Kimbe Wenzelbuge U-Wie A bicycle-shaing system fo the Univesity of Akansas community was just an idea a yea and a half ago, but now, 20 bikes late, the "Razobikes" pogam is available on the UA campus. Away to emove and evamp old bikes left sitting on campus, as well as an "envionmentally fiendly" method fo students to move aound, Razobikes is the bainchild of Mike Seithe, associate diecto of UA Tansit, and is jointly sponsoed by the Associated Student Govenment. This fee pogam places bikes on campus, and once students, faculty, staff and alumni egiste fo the pogam, any Razobike distinguishable by the tennis ball on the handleba can be unlocked by combining "t wasn't paticulaly because was tying to save the plant. was just tying to stop the madness." Mike Seithet Associate diecto of UA Tansit the use's pass-code with the thee-digit numbe found on the bike decal Even though poviding "sustainable" tanspotation is an impotant pat of Razobikes, Seithe said, the pogam wasn't bon with just the SU8- tainability aspect in mind. "t wasn't paticulaly because 1 was tying to save the planet," he said. " was just tying to stop the madness." Still, though, membes of the UA Applied Sustainability Cente have expessed inteest in Razobikes. "We as individual people ae definitely inteested," said Jeff Rice, ASG pogam manage. "We'e inteested in suppoting it and we want to see it become successful, even if that's as mino as us finding bikes to donate to the pogam." While UA Housing officials geneally collect abandoned bikes once a yea and delive them to the Seven Hills Homeless Cente in FayetteviUe, many of those bikes poved to be unusable and simply wee thown away by the cente, Now, howeve, old bikes found left on campus ae donated to Razobikes and fixed up to become usable to the UA community. Univ. of Texas pesident debates whethe to sign The Amethyst nitiative By Andew Keighbaum Daily lexan Univesity of Texas Pesident William Powes has not yet signed on his name to a contovesial document uging a loweing of the legal dinking age. He will not make his final decision without moe campus discussion and input. The Amethyst nitiative, which was launched this lune by fome Middlebuy College Pesident John McCadell, eleased the document Wednesday, which included the headline "Twentyone is not woking." One hunded univesity pesidents fom acoss the county signed the lette. The majoity of the pesidents ae fom small, libeal ats colleges, but the list includes the likes of Ohio State, Duke and Syacuse univesities. Don Hale, Univesity of Texas vice pesident fo public affais, said Powes became awae of the statement only last week, and he plans to intoduce the matte to the Vice Pesidents' Council next Thusday befoe making any decisions on the matte. n (he meantime, Powes will seek expet advice fom seveal of the Univesity of Texas faculty membes familia with issues of undeage dinking and alcohol abuse among college students. Diana Dinitto, a social wok pofesso at the Univesity of Texas, said the idea of loweing the dinking age should be consideed but any debate should also focus on esponsible dinking, " think pat of the idea behind it is that if it's not illegal, then thee might be less enticement to sot of push the envelope hee," Dinitto said. "f it's legal, you don't need to take advantage of oppotunities to dink in moe advanced quantities." Dinitto said policy makes may want to combine a lowe dinking age with laws that lowe the legal blood alcohol level unde which someone may opeate an automobile. "You can't eve look at one policy alone; you need to look at it in combination," she said. The legal dinking age is fl William Powes Univesity of Texas pesident, debating The Amethyst nitiative decided on a state-by-state basis, but fedeal law calls fo 10 pecent of highway funding to be withheld fom any state with a legal age below 21. "f you can fight, you should be able to dink," public elations feshman Chistina DeFioe said, in efeence to the U.S. amed sevices' enlistment age minimum of 18. DeFioe said the illegality of alcohol leads many of he pees to consume excessive amounts of alcohol duing a shot time fame, wheeas pevious geneations pacticed moe modeation. "They did it in moe of a social atmosphee, instead of binge dinking like we do," she said. Mechanical engineeing senio DougYacek said illegal and often excessive dinking will always be pat of the college mentality. CSH4BKS i j CHARTNG OUR FUTURE BOWLNG GREEN STATE UNVERSTY ' STRATEGC PLAN MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND THE PREMERE OF CHARTNG OUR FUTURE WFEK. SEPT. 8-12 Help shape the diection of BGSU. Faculty, stall and students ac invited to '.hae thoughts and ideas m a seies <>l campus wide collaboative dialogues ' * ~^^HHHHM BUM Monday, Sept. 8 8:30-11 a.m. 6:30-9 p.m. Tuesday. Sept. 9 8:30-11a.m. 1-3:30 p.m., Ceda Point Cente, BGSU Fielands 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10 1:30-4 p.m. Thusday. Sept. 11 1:30-4 p.m. Fiday. Sept. 12 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. All sessions in 202A Balloom. Bowen-Thompson Student Union unless noted. Plan to aive 15 minutes ealy. 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FORUM "Students will once again hea chimes on-campus." - Byan Benne, Associate Vice Pesident fo Administation on estoing the bell towe as pat of geneal campus impovements [see stoy, pg. 1]. Tuesday. August 26.2008 4 fcvj Lb ON ihtblkttl Who would be you vice-pesidential unning mate? "Myself. know 'm the only peson can tuey ely on." Dave Lux, Feshman, JlB Studies "Camen Sandiego. She's been all aound the wold." Bandon Double, Feshman. Finance "Eic Catman, because he's vey funny but smat... he don't play no games." Ashley Stothes. Feshman Biology "Monica Lewinsky. She's aleady been in the White House." Jessica Wisle. Feshman. Undecided [\ VST US AT ^ BGHEWS.COM Have you own take on today's People On The Steet? O a suggestion fo a question' Give us you feedback at bgnewscom. Was it Batman foeve, was the Joke wild, o was "The Dak Knight" just a good MARSHA PETROWSK COLUMNS My summe was petty low-key (that's a euphemism fo " sat aound and didn't do anything that special"!, and one of the moe exciting aspects of that time was the aival of what is one of the most commecially successful movies eve made: "The Dak Knight." Somehow, a faily lage chunk of my summe was spent evolving aound all things "Dak Knight." nly 18 was like Chistmas moning. Thee was so much hype suounding the film, geneated fom ntenet Altenate Reality (lames (ARG) set up fo the film, as well as an geneated content (such as "Joke-izing" an image by dawing a ed smile and black eyes on it, o alteing animated images fom shows such as "Aested Development" with the chaactes fom the film. Yes, this is as idiculous as it sounds). To me, it was impossible to avoid heaing about the film, so bought into the excitement, and became faily enamoed with seeing the movie, and talking about it with fellow fans. The peculiaity about my newfound Dak Knight enthusiasm is that seven months ago, didn't have much inte- Once Heath Ledge passed away in Januay, the hype ove his potayal of the Joke began to escalate. t seemed that eveyone knew was anticipating his ole, and wee even moe cuious to see Ledge's pefomance afte his untimely death. est in the film. had neve seen "Batman Begins," the fist film with Chistian Bale playing Batman, and was not in any huy to see eithe of these films, simply because 1 did not find them appealing. Howeve, once Heath Ledge passed away in Januay, the hype ove his potayal of the loke began to escalate. t seemed that eveyone knew was anticipating his ole, and wee even moe cuious to see ledge's pefomance afte his untimely death. A July Vaiety magazine aticle even explains that Wane Bothes intended to scale back on the Joke's image afte Ledge's death, stating they would "tansition its maketing mateials to evolve moe aound Batman." Would people eally want to see the pefomance that, accoding to gossip outlets, dove the acto to take (he sleeping pills he accidentally ovedosed on? Appaently, Wane Bothes discoveed Ledge's death did not dete people fom seeing the film. n fact, as Vaiety states, "Batman, to be sue, is featued in ads, but he almost takes a backseat to his ach nemesis." 1 can't help but wonde if Ledge's death in fact helped the film. Befoe knew it, seemingly eveyone came into contact with had Batman feve. People wee waiting in lines to see the film as soon as possible, and have seen it multiple times (such as myself). f one would listen to entetainment insides and citics, Ledge's pefomance was something of legend, and afte his death, it became speculated that the peviously Osca-nominated Ledge could be the fist posthumous winne in ove thity yeas. A fiend of mine sent me a 'Bumpe Sticke' image on Facebook which eads "Until you see "The Dak Knight," ou fiendship is put on hold". t's as if seeing "The Dak Knight" was like a ite of passage o a simila epic event in life. 1 was baffled by this newfound obsession among what seemed like evey peson eve came into contact with in my life in egads to this movie. cetainly could not emembe these people going batty (yes, that bad pun was intended) ove the "Batman Begins" thee yeas ago. Maybe 'm eading into all of this too much. need to ask myself "Why so seious?" (Alight, that was a bad joke, apologize) and ealize that "The Dak Knight's" ecod-beaking success may simply stem fom being a quality movie that kept audiences entetained, even upon epeated viewings. No matte what happened to those behind the mask o the paint in eal life (Chistian Bale's now-dopped domestic violence chages against his mothe and siste didn't exactly cause the movie to bomb eithe), people may have just been inteested in the movie fo the movie itself and the pefomances put foth by the actos, nothing else. Howeve, speaking as a new convet to the Batman fanchise, wonde if eally would have caed all that much about "The Dak Knight" if Heath l-edge was woking on a new movie ight now. as well as othes. Unfotunately, we'll neve know. know one thing fo sue: wheneve see a pencil now, cinge a little. - Respond to Maisha at thmewsqbgnews. com. STAFF EDTORAL The BGSU main campus... a good fixe-uppe Bowling Geen has been descibed as a lot of things; beautiful is not one of them. Which is why we at The BG News commend the Univesity and USG fo focusing on the un-down and neglected campus buildings and landscape. What pospective student wouldn't want to attend BGSU fo the weatheed quality and dim lighting of Univesity Hall, o the flat teeless expanses that bode the Univesity like a concete moat? Cleaning up campus doesn't only help make a lasting impession on pospective students, but also shows the Univesity gives a damn about the thousands of people who wok, eat, leam and live on campus evey single day. t may neve have olling geen hills, babbling ceeks and dense foests, but BGSU doesn't have to be viewed as one big paking lot. By making small steps towads impoving aesthetics on campus students may one day pide themselves on the quality of thei leaning envionment. This yea, moe than a small step was made. As epoted in today's issue of The BG News, see main featue pg.ll the Univesity and USG have leap-fogged an emphasis on impoving the Univesity's image. As campus is again buzzing with students at the stan of a new yea, it's looking bette than eve. Flowe beds ae mulched, mounds ceated, sidewalks estoed, oofs eshingled, electical wok epaied, handails painted, tees planted, funitue and capets eplaced. Pehaps next yea we can wok at tuning Lot 6 into a eally petty wind baie. CALLNG ALL COLUMNSTS AND CARTOONSTS!!!! Need a place to voice you opinions? The Foum section is looking fo moe people like you to wite columns and illustate fo us. Just contact us at thenews@bgnews.com! ith the toch extinguished, what to do about the U.S. and China As the Beijing Olympics wap up (and to be honest, 've been nined out since the U.S. won gold in women's beach volleyball last week) attention now tuns to what kind of elationship the United States ought to have with the up-and-coming supepowe that is China. The question of how the United States should now teat China post-olympics ties diectly to geopolitical questions aised long befoe China's own gold medal-winning gymnast Li Ning lit the toch at the opening ceemony two weeks ago. Contovesy fist aose ove whethe o not the United States athletes should boycott the Olympics in potest of the host county's undemocatic poli- SPEAK YOUR MND cies. Thee was also the question of whethe o not ou tagically (o not so tagically) lame duck Pesident should have made his unpecedented tip to China, becoming this county's fist sitting Head of State to attend Olympic games held in anothe county. (Appaently he had nothing moe impotant to do like unning two was o peventing ou ally Geogia fom stating anothe one with Russia). At fist. was with those who felt we should have boycotted the "communist" state based on China's goss violations of human ights inflicted upon its own people, especially towads those who would citicize the authoitaian policies of thei govenment. This is not even mentioning the communist egime's genocidal policies in Tibet and Sudan which spaked numeous potests the wold ove as the Chinese Olympic Toch beaes passed though hostile cowds in San Fancisco, ondon, and Pais, among othe cities. Got something you want to say about an opinion column o news stoy? Hee's how to get in touch with us fo lettes to the edito: E-mail us at thenews@bgnews.com. Dop a note into ou new comment box at the Union nfomation Cente. Call us at 419-572-6966. Come to ou newsoom in 210 West Hall. Be sue to ead the submission guidelines at the bottom of this page. But afte futhe thought on the issue, 've come to ealize that the United States was in no position to stick a genuine and effective thumb in the eye of both its second lagest lende and its second lagest tading patne. (We tade with Canada the most, so the South Pak guys might want to conside taking it easy on the "Canada on Stike" jokes). Now 'm not saying that if Michael Phelps had stayed home this summe we would have anothe wa on ou hands, but it would have been incedibly hypocitical of the U.S. to boycott the Olympics, theeby punishing the Ameican Olympic athletes who had been taining and competing these last fou yeas with eveything they've got to compete fo the gold medal, while maintaining the tade policies and bonowing pactices that enable the Chinese govenment to act, howeve atociously, without impunity. So if we as a county eally want to put pessue on the Chinese egime, the United States needs to lessen its dependence on the money and goods we've come to depend on fom So if we as a county eally want to put pessue on the Chinese egime, the United States needs to lessen its dependence on the money and goods we've come to depend on China though two policies. The fist of these polices is potectionism just enough to even out the playing field. Not an all-out embago which would hut both economies and impove nothing fo the people of China. (Just look at how well this kind of policy has woked on Cuba. Has it impoved the lives of the people thee?) Rathe the U.S. should adopt a system of taiffs that would account fo China's policies of cuency manipulation, envionmental degadation as China now exceeds the U.S. in cabon dioxide and othe Geenhouse Gas emissions and of couse woke's pay. With such policies in place, it might not be so difficult to find something made in Ameica again. fom China. The othe policy is fiscal discipline, which eveyone seems to be in favo of until you get into the details of what it involves. Accoding to the Teasuy Depatment, as of Apil, 2008 the Chinese govenment has puchased S502 billion of ou debt, which accounts fo almost 20 pecent of the debt we owe othe counties. Washington's out of contol spending and iesponsible tax cutting is not making mattes any bette. On the spending issue, we need to focus not on cutting the money we put towads education (which the Bush administation has been doing in ecent yeas, making the long-tem situation in this county's economic futue wose) and those pesky eamaks that Senato FND OUT WHAT BGNEWS.COM HAS TO OFFER YOU! TOP NEWS STORES The site is updated daily with stoies fom the pape and online extas. BL06GNG Check out the spots bloq fo the latest in BG athletics ARCHVES Miss something' Find atides and columns since 2000. SPEAK YOUR MND Comment on stoies and columns, o send a lette to the edito. McCain seems so obsessed with (which at $13.2 billion fo this yea is nothing compaed to the tillion dolla pesence in aq that he seems to want to continue fo a hunded yeas) but athe on copoate bailouts, Social Secuity, and especially Medicae, which in the end tuns into a copoate bailout fo dug and insuance companies. On the tax cutting issue, and this also involves those ebates pactically eveyone got just a while ago, we have to stat looking at these cuts and efund checks as govenment-issued cedit cads that will stick futue geneations with the buden of paying back the inteest ates that China and the est of the wold will be expecting. Once we begin to look at the Chinese govenment not as ou bank o ou supemaket, but as an oppessively efficient model of authoitaianism mixed with copoatism, we may just have enough eal leveage, economically and diplomatically, to bing about eal efom. - Respond to Sean at thenews@bgneivs.txim. MULTMEDA Podcasts. audio slideshows and video add to the stoy. 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WWWBGNEWS.COM NATON Tuesday. Augui 26 2008 5 Sen. Kennedy, Michelle Obama kick off Democatic National Convention By David Espo The Associated Pess DENVER Democats opened hei national convention yesteday, seeking peace in the family as they pusue victoy in the fall fo Baack Obama and his histoic quest fo the White House. An appeaance by the ailing, aging Sen. Edwad M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and a pimeime speech by Obama's wife, Michelle, headlined the convention's fist night. Yet the opening gavel fell with Obama and Hillay Rodham Clinton still stuggling to wok out the choeogaphy fo the fomal oll call of the states that will make him a 47-yea-old senato bidding to become the fist black pesident the paty nominee. "Thee is no doubt in anyone's mind that this is Baack Obama's convention," the fome fist lady told epotes. And yet, she said, some of he delegates "feel an obligation to the people who sent them hee" and would vote fo he. As the delegates took thei seats in the Pepsi Cente, Obama campaigned in owa, the fist in a sting of swing states he is visiting en oute to Coloado. He aanged to watch his wife's speech on television late fom Kansas City, then speak biefly to the convention via a huge TV sceen. Public opinion polls made the ace with Republican John McCain a close one, unexpectedly so given a widespead desie fo change in an ea of economic uncetainty, continuing conflict in aq and poo appoval atings fo GOP Pesident Bush. Obama delives his acceptance speech on Thusday at a football stadium, befoe a cowd likely to total 75,000 o moe. Then he and Sen. Joseph Biden of Delawae, his vice pesidential unning mate, depat fo the fall campaign. f the opening night's convention pogam had a feel-good quality, not so the intensifying campaign outside the hall. Obama shipped a new commecial that used humo to depict McCain as an extension of the Bush administation, the latest in a seies of negative advetisements by both sides. "Really can't explain the pice of gas, o what has happened to the middle class," the announce sings to the tune of Sam Cooke's "WondefulWold."With McCain and Bush appeaing togethe on the sceen, the announce says, "Do we eally want fou moe yeas of the same old tune?" While the White House is the biggest pize of the election yea, pominent Democats expessed optimism in Associated Pess inteviews, about majo gains in the fall in aces fo the House and Senate. CHARLES DHARAPAK TALKNG THE TALK: Michelle Obama, wife of Democat* pesidential candidate. AP PHOTO Sen. Baack Obama, D-. stands at the podium in pepaation fo he speech late in the day as she tous the site ot the Democat* National Convention m Denve, yesteday The Democatic gatheing began yesteday evening. ay's emnants spead ain, stoms acoss South Fames could benefit fom inceased ainfall, poviding much-needed elief afte long-tem dought By Saah Laime The Associated Pess The emnants of Topical Stom Fay spead ove a wide swath of the South yesteday, binging heavy ain and wind as foecastes waned of possible flash flooding and tonadoes fom Louisiana to Geogia. The ain could be good news fo some, including fames looking fo a beak fom a longtem dought that stetches fom pats of Louisiana though the Caolinas into Viginia. nhloida.denchedbyfaylast week, floods foced esidents in nothen pats of the state out of homes Sunday. Some esidents stated cleaning up yesteday as wate slowly eceded in places, while othes saw swollen ives continue to ise. As Fay ebbed, a new stom was bewing. The seventh topical depession of the Atlantic huicane season fomed in the cen- tal Caibbean and was heading fo the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the National Huicane Cente in Miami said. Thundestoms, flash flooding and isolated tonadoes wee a possibility yesteday fom nothwesten Geogia though Alabama and Mississippi to southeasten Louisiana, all due to emains of Fay, foecastes said. n Geogia, a family membe said Fay's winds knocked an oak tee onto the Plains home of fome Pesident Jimmy Cate late on Satuday. One of the fome pesident's sons, Jeff Cate, said both his fathe and his mothe, Rosalynn Cate, wee at home at the time but neithe was hut. The stom's emnants wee likely to bing seveal inches of ain to Alabama, Mississippi, easten Louisiana and Tennessee. Many hoped the stom could bing much-needed "We need something like this to echage the soil. t pobably won't be a total damage-buste." elief fom a egional dought. "We need something like this to echage the soil. t pobably won't be a total dought-buste," said National Weathe Sevice senio foecaste Andy Kula in lluntsville.ala. Rain was also eaching westen Noth Caolina's pached mountains. Meteoologist Doug Outlaw at the National Weathe Sevice in Gee, S.C., said some aeas of exteme southwesten Noth Caolina had gotten as much as an inch of ain as emnants of Fay moved in fom notheast Geogia, whee as much as 3 to 4 inches had fallen. Fay made landfall a ecod Andy Kula Senio 1-oecaste fou times in Floida befoe it was downgaded to a topical depession late Satuday. The stom caused widespead flooding as it zigzagged acoss Floida fo nealy a week. Fay has been blamed fo 13 deaths in the U.S., 11 in Floida and one each in Alabama and Geogia. A total of 23 died in Haiti and the Dominican Republic fom flooding. Pesident Bush declaed fou had-hit Floida counties disaste aeas. The declaation makes funds available fo emegency wok and epais to govenments in Bevad. Monoe, Okeechobee and St. Lucie counties. Moe could be added late. Taffic fatalities diven down by high gas pices Death toll eaches lowest levels since ealy 1960s By Joan Lowy The Associated Pess WAS NCHON Roll back t he clock to 1961: John - Kennedy was inauguated pesident. The Peace Cops was founded. The Dow lones industials hit 734. Gasoline eached 31 cents a gallon. And the numbe of people killed in U.S. taffic accidents that yea topped 36,200. hisyea.gasolinectimlx'dovei S4 a gallon, and the taffic death toll accoding to one study appeas headed to the lowest levels since Kennedy moved into the White House. The numbe is being pulled down by a change in Ameicans' diving habits, which is fueled lagely by ecod high gasoline pices, accoding to the Tanspotation Reseach nstitute at the Univesity of Michigan. The institutes study which coves 12 months ending in Apil found that as gas pices ose, divingand fataliliesdeclined. The supise, said Pofesso Michael Sivak, autho of the study, was the huge decline in fatalities in Mach and Apil as gasoline pices suged above 53.20 a gallon. Che the pevious 10 months, monthly fatalities declined an aveage of 4.2 pecent compaed to the pevious yea. Then, Sivak'-. data shows, fatalities dopped 22.1 pecent in Mach and 17.9 pecent in Apil of this yea numbes that did not show up in a ecent fedeal epot that tacked a dop in taffic deaths though the end of 2007. The declines found by Sivak "Thee is something moe than just the eduction in diving that has to be... an explanation..." iel Sivak Autho of study suggest that motoists eached what he calls a "tipping point" and have begun significantly changing thei behavio alteing no) only how much they dive, but whee, when and how they dive. Sivak said ealy data fo May and June show simila tends "Thee is something moe than just the eduction in diving that has to x 1 bought n as an explanation fo the huge dop in fatalities." sivak said. f the patten continues fo the est of this yea, it would lead to "an unhead of impovement" in moto vehicle fatalities, said Sivak, who used data fom the National Safety Council, National Cente fo Health Statistics and the National Highway Taffic Safety Administation. Sivak pedicts that highway deaths this yea will dop below 37,000 fo the fist time since 1961 if the Mach and Apil tends continue. The govenment moto vehicle death count fo 1961 totaled 36.2&5. The numbe of highway deaths peaked in 1972 at 55,600, then geneally declined ove the next two decades. Fo the past seveal yeas, the numbe has hoveed above 42,000 a yea. 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SPORTS Tuesday. August 26.2008 6 SDELNES M 1 VOLLEYBALL Falcons picked to finish fouth in East The BG volleyball team was picked to finish fouth in the Mid-Ameican Confeence East Division today in the MAC peseason poll. Miami was picked to win the division, with Ohio and Kent taking the No. 2 and 3 spots, espectively. Women's socce dops fist match of yea to Cincinnati te NEWS FLE PHOTO ROUGH BEGNNNG: The BG women's socce team gave up thee goals in the fist 50 minutes of play in Satuday's 5-1 loss to Cincinnati. By Jodan Cavani Repote Afte giving up thee goals in the fist thity minutes of Fiday's match against Cincinnati, the hole dug by the women's socce team was just too deep to climb out of. "We gave ouselves a eal mountain to climb at halftime which is why 1 am disappointed," said BG coach Andy Richads. " undestand that it was ou fist game of the season and so thee ae some things that happen thee," he said, citing playing on a tuf field and not having competed on such an intense level, as vaiables the team should have taken cae of. "We gave ouselves a eal mountain to climb at halftime which is why am disappointed." H Gina Rossi Scoed the Falcons' lone goal against Cincinnati The Beacats wee the fist to stike in the match, putting them up 1-0, but BG's Gina Rossi, immediately followed up with a goal of he own following the kick-off afte Andy Richads Coach the Beacats' goal. Although Richads was not paticulaly happy with the ealy goal scoed against his team, he was pleased with the quick etaliation by Rossi. "She has done a fantastic job this pe-season... she has basically put heself in the stating line-up about See SOCCER Page 7 MEN'S SOCCER Team to hold open tyouts The BG men's socce team is holding open tyouts fo all cuent male BG students Today is the last day to ty out. Tyouts ae conducted on the men's socce pactice field on the west side of Doyt Pey Stadium fom 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. ONLNE The BG News Spots Blog Log on to The BG News Spots Blog today fo moe infomation egading the football team's pepaation fo Pittsbugh. And fo hockey fans, we'll have new links up fom aound the CCHA http://bgnewsspots.com OUR CALL Today in Spots Histoy 1971 The New Yok Giants football team announces a move fom the Bonx fo New Jesey in 1975. 1961-The Official ntenational Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toonto. 1939-The Cincinnati Reds beat the Booklyn Dodges in the fist Majo League Baseball telecast The List f you haven't done you fantasy football daft by now. it's sue to be coming up soon. Today, we list five of the top playes you should conside. 1. LaDanian Tomlinson: He's usually the top pick in eveybody's daft evey yea fo his ability to pile up points fom the unning back position. 2. Adian Peteson: He set the wold on fie in his ookie yea and scoed people a ton of fantasy points. Look to snatch him up if you can. 3. Bian Westbook: He accounts fo oughly half of Philadelphia's offense, so he's going to get the ball ealy and often. 4. Tom Bady: The Patiots' offense boke a ton of ecods last yea, so Bady's a vey safe pick. 5. Randy Moss: With Bady thowing him the ball deep, Moss will get his fai shae of touchdown catches. He could be the best eceive pick available. One yea late With his job secued, Tyle Sheehan looks to step hisgame up a notch ByChi,Volo.ehuk Spots Edito t a diffeence a yea makes. Last August, it was uncetain until the of taining camp who BG's statquateback would be. Anthony nc. the state n 2006, young backup hony Glaud and an unpoven tue homoe named Tyle Sheehan wee 1 in competition to line up unde cente the Falcons. Fo Sheehan, at least, k'aming the spead " know a lot moe of the offense than did this time last yea. feel eal comfotable with the offense." offense was tough in the begtaninj " emembt kw yea how had pactice was." Sheehan said. "The games seemed easjenhanw But by 1 tfinbiof caon Sheehan had shown enough to ean the job. And he USA basketball looking fo sustained success in futue By Bian Mahonay The Associated Pess BEJNG The 2008 Olympic celebations wee baely unde way and ley Colangek) was aleady thinking about wok. "They fogot this was a six-yea commitment," USA Basketball's managing diecto said at the pess confeence following the U.S. Olympic team's 118-107 victoy against Spain Sunday in the goldmedal game. Golangelo was joking, but he aises seious questions. How many of the best playes on this team will be back fo the 2012 Olympics and does USA Basketball continue to equie a thee-yea commitment fom them? These playes have seved the time Golangelo equied of them fo the 2008 Games and ae now fee to enjoy thei summes. But if the United States wants to stay on top afte fighting so had to get back thee, Golangelo o whomeve eplaces him bette hope some playes ae seious about playing again and willing to make anothe long-tem commitment. The Ameicans can no longe affod to send anyone but thei best and expect to win. A team with Kobe Byant, LeBon lames, Dwyane Wade andanumbe of othe NBA supestas who had been togethe fo thee yeas was baely enough to get it done in the gold-medal game against a Spain team that won't be going away. Put injued point guad lose Caldeon See HOOPS Page 7 Tyle Sheeha Qjatebad wouldn't wait long to show what, he could tkx n font of a hostile cowd at the Metodome in the season opene, Sheehan led a pa* of lightning-quick scoing dives n the fist quate to help stun a heavfly-favoed Minnesota team. His finishing stat line told the stoy 34 completions, 388 yads and two touchdowns. He even caught a TD pass. And the Minnesota pefomance wasn't a fluke. Fo the season, Sheehan would thow fo a Mid-Ameican Confeence East-best 3264 yads and 23 touchdowns. Fo his accomplishments, he was named Thid Team AD-MAG n unde a yea, he went fom a elative unknown to being on the ada of evey BG opponent fs been almost a full yea since he SeeSHKHAM Paqe7 Connecticutyouth uled toogood to pitch DOUGHS HEALEY APPHOO GETTNG SOME WORK N: Jeicho Scott. 9. of New Haven. Conn. wams up on the pitches mound befoe the stat of his little league game. By John Chistoffatan The Associated Pess NEW HAVEN, Conn Nine-yeaold Jeicho Scott is a good baseball playe too good, it tuns out The ight-hande has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He thows so had that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any moe. When Jeicho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team fofeited the game, packed its gea and left, his coach said. Officials fo the thee-yea-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 playes, said they will disband Jeicho's team, edistibuting its playes among othe squads, and offeed to efund $50 sign-up fees to See PTCHER Page 7

1. WWWBGNEWS.COM BG NEWS fill PHOTO PRODUCTON: Sheehan ihew fo 5.264 yads and 25 touchdowns last season. SHEEHAN Fom Page 6 opened so many eyes at Minnesota, and Sheehan's new tack ecod of making plays has allowed him to etain his stating ole and bing stability to the quateback position that hasn't quite been thee since Oma lacobs led the unit in 2005. And he's feeling much moe comfotable in his ole. "(Running the system's] completely diffeent than last yea," Sheehan said. " don't feel like evey mistake 1 make could cost me my job and things like that 'm just back thee having fun. As pactice goes on it keeps getting easie and easie." His being fimly in place unde cente, along with a much bette-developed gasp of the spead offense, has also made life easie fothecoachingstaff. Passing game coodinato Toy Rothenbuhle said the game has slowed down fo Sheehan since last yea, and it has allowed fo easie adjustments. "t's easie to make a tweak hee and make a tweak thee when a guy undestands the system itself," Rothenbuhle said. "He does an outstanding job studying the game and just makes it easie and easie the moe he leans." The job secuity has allowed him to wok extensively on the moe subtle pats of his game. At this time last summe, he didn't have as much time available due to the quateback competition. His focus on things othe than getting acquainted with the offense could pay dividends duing the new season. He eads coveages and opposing safeties moe easily than befoe, and he has a bette knowledge of when to call audibles and apply the coaches' new playcalling winkles. He's even getting back to basics. "He's eally focusing in on fundamentals," Rothenbuhle said. "Once he not only knows the offense and the things we've adjusted, he's picked up well. But he's eally gone to fundamentals, footwok and getting the ball out [quick] being a good field geneal." Being so fimly in place has changed Sheehan's day-to-day appoach on the pactice field. He's become moe vocal and has taken on moe of a leadeship ole with teammates. "Last yea, we had some good senio leades and we lost some of those guys," Sheehan said. "Being a quateback, feel like have to step up and get the leadeship ole. land of go about my business that way, not only as an offense, but fo the young quatebacks, just tying to develop them as best as we can so ou tadition continues, as fa as quatebacks." Even with a numbe of vetean offensive playes having gaduated and moved on, the bulk of the unit is back this season. Sheehan will have a numbe of familia options available at the unning back and eceive positions. Senio wideout Coey Patidge said the yea of expeience has made it easie to wok togethe. "t's easie in the offseason all though the winte and the sping and the summe when the coaches aen't aound, and we'e unning by ouselves just to get that timing down with one quateback and not have to go with two guys and get used to each of them," Patidge said. "t's eally fun to wok with Sheehan] evey day." Sheehan is now a yea wise and his job at the helm of the Falcon offense is secue. With a good knowledge of the playbook that wasn't quite thee last August his confidence is way up. " know a lot moe of the offense than did this time last yea," Sheehan said. " feel eal comfotable with the offense. 1 feel like on any play can get us in the best situation possible and get the potection in the best situation possible. So knowing the offense is the biggest thing fo me ight now as an advantage that 1 have ove last yea.", ndeed, what a diffeence a yea makes.. SOCCER Fom Page 6 a week ago, pobably befoe anyone else," Richads said. With the scoe evened at 1-1, it was a whole new game. " would athe have that than 0-0," Richads said. "t was a eal change in momentum." But the Falcon's failed to futhe capitalize on that momentum as they wee held scoeless fo the emainde of the match and suendeed two additional goals. Defense did, howeve, pick up in the second half, as Cincinnati was held scoeless. "We put a flea in thei ea at half time so to speak." Richads said. "We did play a little bette second half." Accoding to stats povided by Cincinnati, BG was bested by the Beacats 15-0 in shot attempts the second half, but Richads believed the stats to be biased. "Neve in a million yeas would some of those attempts be counted as shots on goal," he said, also noting a few attempts by his team T ;f T t T f Alexa Asenault Goalie made a caee-high 12 saves on Satuday would likely have been counted in anothe match. Despite beginning the season with a loss, one positive to come out of Fiday's match was seveal feshman being able to see action. Richads was impessed by feshman state Leah lohnson, who was able to "geneate some good offense fo us," adding (hat all feshman who saw time in the match played with "enthusiasm and a desie to impess." Othe ookies making thei debut included: Megan Amann, Coutney Beinlich, Kelsey Kovacs andayssazuccao. Defensively, Alexa Asenault made a caee-high 12 saves, playing all 90 minutes at the net. The Falcons will play thei fist home match on Sunday against Michigan State, beginning at 1 p.m. at Cochane Field. SPORTS Tuesday. August 26.2008 7 HOOPS Fom Page 6 back on the cout, and give you ng phenom Ricky Rubio a little moe expeience, and the Spanish have to feel good about thei chances to defend thei wold championship in two yeas. The Ameicans wee unchallenged in thei fist two competitions with NBA playes, stating PTCHER Fom Page 6 anyone who asks fo it. They say Jeicho's coach, Wilfed Vido, has esigned. But Vido says he didn't quit and the team efuses to disband. Playes and paents held a potest at the league's field on Satuday uging the league to let Jeicho pitch. "He's neve hut any one," Vido said. "He's on taget all the time How can you punish a kid fo being too good?" The contovesy bothes Jeicho, with the Deam Team in 1992. But by 2000, that dominance was gone, with the U.S. baely hangingon foatwo-point victoy ove Lithuania in the semifinals of the Sydney Games. t was lost fo good ealy in the decade, when the Ameicans lost thee times on home soil in the 2002 wolds and thee moe times two yeas late in Athens. Thoseteamsihat lost wee filled with second- and thid-choices, who says he misses pitching. "1 feel sad," he said. " feel like it's all my fault nobody could play." Jeicho's coach and paents say the boy is being unfaily tageted because he tuned down an invitation to join the defending league champion, which is sponsoed by an employe of one of the league's administatos. Jeicho instead joined a team sponsoed by Will Powe Fitness. 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SPORT 6 men's socce dops fist match of yea to Cincinnati VOLLEYBALL Falcons picked to finish fouth in East The BG volleyball lean was picked to finish fouth in the Mid-Ameican Confeence ROUGH BEGNNNG: The BG women's socce lean gave up thee g minutes of play in Satuday's 5-1 loss to Gncimati als in the fist 50 By Jodan Cavens Repote Afte giving up thee goals in the fist thity minutes of Fiday's match against Cincinnati, the hole dug hy the women's socce tam was just too deep to climb out of. "We gave ouselves a eal mountain to climb at halftime which is why am disappointed," said BG coach Andy Richads. " undestand thai it was ou fist game ofthc season and so thee ac some things that happen thee,"he said, citing playing on a tuf field and not having competed on such an intense level, as vaiables the team should have taken cae of. "We gave ouselves a eal mountain to climb at halftime which is why am disappointed." Gina Rossi Scoed the Falcons' one goal against Cincinnati The Beacats wee the fist to stike in the match, pulling them up i-o. but BG'sGina Rossi, mmediately followed up with a goal of he own following the kick-off afte isds Coach the Beacats'goal Although Richads was not paticulaly happy with the ealy goal scoed against his team, he was pleased with the quick etaliation by Rossi, "She has done a fantastic job this peseason... she has basically put heself in the stating line-up about See SOCCER Page 7 East Division today in the MAC peseason poll. Miami was picked to win the division, with Ohio and Kent taking the No. 2 and 3 spots, espectively. MEN'S SOCCER Team to hold open ty outs The BG men's socce team is holding open tyouts fo all cuent male BG students. Today is the last day to ty out. Tyouts ae conducted on the men's socce pactice field on the west side of Doyt Pey Stadium fom 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. ONLNE The BG News Spots Blog Log on to The BG News Spots Blog today fo moe infomation egading the football team's pepaation fo Pittsbugh. And fo hockey fans, we'll have new links up fom aound the CCHA http://bgnewsspots.com Today in Spots Histoy 1971-The New Yok Giants football team announces a move fom the Bonx fo New Jesey in 1975 1961-The Official ntenational Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toonto. 1939 The Cincinnati Reds beat the Booklyn Dodges in the fist Majo League Baseball telecast. The List f you haven't done you fantasy football daft by now. it's sue to be coming up soon. Today, we list five of the top playes you should conside. 1. LaDanian Tomlinson: He's usually the top pick in eveybody's daft evey yea fo his ability to pile up points fom the unning back position. 2. Adian Peteson: He set the wold on fie in his ookie yea and scoed people a ton of fantasy points. Look to snatch him up if you can 3. Bian Westbook: He accounts fo oughly half of Philadelphia's offense, so he's going to get the ball ealy and often. 4. Tom Bady: The Patiots' offense boke a ton of ecods last yea, so Bady's a vey safe pick. 5. Randy Moss: With Bady thowing him the ball deep, Moss will get his fai shae of touchdown catches. He could be the best eceive pick available. One yea late With his job secued, Tyle Sheehan looks to step his game up a note By Chis Voloichuk Spots Edito What a diffeence a yea makes. Last August, it was uncetain until the end of taining camp who BG's stating quateback would be. Anthony Tune, the state in 2006, young backup Anthony Claud and an unpoven tue sophomoe named Tyle Sheehan wee all in competition to line up unde cente fo the Falcons. Fo Sheehan, at least, leaning the spead " know a lot moe of the offense than did this time last yea. feel eal comfotable with the offense." offense was tough in the beginning. "1 emembe last yea how had pactice was," Sheehan said. "The games seemed easie than pactice." But by the end of camp, Sheehan had shown enough to ean the job. And he USA basketball looking fo sustained success in futue By Bian Mahonay T he Associated Pess BED1NG The 2008 Olympic celebations wee bady unde way and ley Colangelo was aleady thinking about wok. "They fogot this was a six-yea commitment," USA Basketball's managing diecto said at the pess confeence following the U.S. Olympic leans 118-107 victoy against Spain Sunday in the goldmedal game. Colangelo was joking, but he aises seious questions. low many of the best playes on this team will be back fo the 2012 Olympics and does USA Basketball continue to equie a thee-yea commitment fom them? These playes have seved the time Colangelo equied of them fo t he 2008 Games and ae now fee to enjoy thei summes. But if the United States wants to stay on top afte fighting so had to get back thee, Colangelo o whomeve eplaces him bette hope some playes ae seious about playing again and willing to make anothe long-tem commitment. The Ameicans can no longe affod to send anyone but thei best and expect to win. Ateamwith Kobe Byant, lebon lames, DwyaneWadeandanumhe of othe NBA supestas who had been togethe fo thee yeas was baely enough to get it done in the gold-medal game against a Spain team that won't be going away. Put injued point guad lose Caldeon See HOOPS Page 7 Tyle Sheehan Quateback wouldn't wait long to show what he could do. n font of a hostile cowd at the Mcodone in the season opene, Sheehan led a pai of lightning-quick scoing dives in the fist quate to help stun a heavily-favoed Minnesota team. His finishing stat line told the stoy 34 completions, 388 yads and two touchdowns. He even caught a T) pass. And the Minnesota pefomance wasn't a fluke. Fo the season, Sheehan would thow fo a Mid-Ameican Confeence East-best 3,264 yads and 23 touchdowns. Fo his accomplishments, he was named Thid Team AU-MAC n unde a yea, he went fom a elative unknown to being on the ada of evey BG opponent. t's been almost a full yea since he See SHEEHAN Page 7 Connecticutyouth uled too good to pitch joufcushealey APFHole GETTNG SOME WORK N: Jeicho Scott. 9. of New Haven. Conn, wams up on the pitche's mound befoe the stat of his little league game. By John Chistoffasan The Associated Pess NBW ll/wfjn, Conn. Nine-yeaold leicho Scott is a good baseball playe too gckkl.it tuns out. The ight-hande has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mpli. 1 le thows so had that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any moe. When leicho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team fofeited the game, packed its gea and left, his coach said. (ifficials fo the thee-yea-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 playes, said they will dis- xmcl leiciio's team, edistibuting its playes among othe squads, and offeed to efund $50 signup fees to See PTCHER Page 7

WWW.BGNEWS.COM SPORTS Tuesday August 26.2008 7 BGNeww PHOTO PRODUCTON: Sheehan thew lot 3.264 yads and 25 touchdowns last season. SHEEHAN Fom Page 6 opened so many eyes at Minnesota, and Sbeehans new tack ecod of making plays has allowed him to etain his stating ole and bing stability to the quateback position (hat hasn't quite been thee since Oma lacobs led the unit in 2005. And he's feeling much moe comfotable in his ole. "Running the system's! completely diffeent than last yea," Sheehan said. " don't feel like evey mistake make could cost me my job and things like that. 'm just back thee having fun. As pactice goes on it keeps getting easie and easie.'' lis ik'ing fimly in place unde cente, along with a much bette-developed gasp of the spead offense, has also made life easie fo the coaching staff. Passinggame coodinato Toy Rothenbuhle said the game has slowed down fo Sheehan since last yea, and it has allowed fo easie adjustments. "t's easie to make a tweak hee and make a tweak thee when a guy undestands the system itself," Rothenbuhle said. "He does an outstanding job studying the game and just makes it easie and easie the moe he leans." The job secuity has allowed him to wok extensively on the moe subtle pats of his game. At this lime last summe, he didn't have as much time available due to the quateback competition. lis focus on things othe than gettingacquainted with the offense could pay dividends duing the new season. He eads coveages and op H)sing safeties moe easily than befoe, and he has a bette knowledge of when locall audibles and apply the coaches' new playcalling winkles. le's even getting back to xisics. "He's eally focusing in on fundamentals,'' Rothenbuhle said. "Once he not only knows the offense and the things we've adjusted, he's picked up well. Hut he's eally gone to fundamentals, footwok and getting the ball out quickl being a good field geneal." Being so fimly in place has changed Sheehan's day-to-day appoach on the pactice field. le's become moe vocal and has taken on moe of a leadeship ole with teammates. "last yea, we had some good senio leades and we lost some of those guys," Sheehan said. "Being a quateback, feel like have to step up and get the leadeship ole. kind of go about my business that way, not only as an offense, but fo the young quatebacks, just tying to develop them as best as we can so ou tadition continues, as fa as quatebacks." Even with a numbe of vetean offensive playes having gaduated and moved on, the bulk of the unit is back this season. Sheehan will have a numbe of familia options available at the unning back and eceive positions. Senio wideout Coey Patidge said the yea of expeience has made it easie to wok togethe. "t's easie in the offseason all though the winte and the sping and the summe when the coaches aen't aound, and we'e unning by ouselves just to get that timing down with one quateback and not have to go with two guys and get used to each of them," Patidge said. "t's eally fun to wok with [Sheehan] eveyday." Sheehan is now a yea wise and his job at the helm of the Falcon offense is secue. With a good knowledge of the playbook that wasn't quite thee last August, his confidence is way up. " know a lot moe of the offense than did this ime last yea." Sheehan said. " feel eal comfotable with the offense. feel like on any play can get us in the best situation possible and get the potection in the best situation possible. So knowing the offense is the biggest thing fo me ight now as an advantage that have ove last yea." ndeed, what a diffeence a yea makes., SOCCER Fom Page 6 a week ago. pobably befoe anyone else." Richads said Wit lit he scoe evened at 1-1, H was a whole new game. " would athe have thai than 0-0," Richads said. "l was a leal change in momentum." But the Falcon's failed to futhe capitalize on thai momentum as they wee Meld scoeless fo the emainde ol the match and suendeed two additional goals. Defense did. howeve, pick up in the second hall, as Cincinnati was held scoeless. "We pui a flea n thei ea at half time so to speak," Richads said. "We did play a little helle second half." Accoding lo stals povided by Cincinnati, BCwaslx'stedbythc Beacats 15-0 in shot attempts the second half, hut Milliads believed the stats lo lx' biased. "Neve in a million yeas would some of those attempts be counted as shots on goal" lie said, also nodngatevv attempts by his team f T f /- Alexa Asenault Goalie made a caee-high 12 saves on Satuday would likely have been counted in anothe match. Despite beginning the season with a loss, one positive to comeout of Fiday's match was seveal feshman being able to see action. Richads was impessed by feshman state Leah lohnson, who was able to "geneate some good offense fo us," adding thai all feshman who saw time in the match played with "enthusiasm and a desie to impess." Othe ookies making thei debut included: Megan Amann, (loutney Beinlich, Kelsev ki ivacs and Alyssa Zuccao. Defensively, Alexa Asenault made a caee-high 12 saves, playing au 90 minutes at the net The falcons will play thei fist home match on Sunday against Mulligan Slate, beginning al p.m. atccxhanc field. HOOPS Fom Page 6 back on the cout and giv e vi King phcnoni Ricky Hubioii little moe expeience, and the Spanish have to feel good about thei chances lo defend thei wold championship in two yeas. The Ameicans wee unchallenged n thei fist two competitions with NBA playes, staling PTCHER Fom anyone who asks fo it They say ii'lin's coach, Wilfed Vido, has esigned. Bui Vido says he didn't quit and the team efuses to disband. Playes and paents held a potest at the league's field on Satuday uging the league to let cicho pitch. le's neve hut any one,'' Vido said, "lie's on tagcl all the time. How can you punish a kid fo xing too good?" The contovesy bothes lei ii ho. with the Deam Team in 1992. Bui by2000, that dominance was gone, with the U.S. baely hanging on loatvvo poinuicloiv oui Lithuania in the semifinals ol ihesydnej Games, was lost lot good ealy in the decade, when the Ameicans lost thee times on home soil in the 2002 wolds and thee moe limes two yeas late in Athens, Thosetcanisihallosiucefilled with second and thid -choices, vviio says he misses pitching " feel sad," he said feel like its allmv fault nobody could play" leicho's coach and paents say (he boy is being unfaily tageted because he tuned down an im ita lion lo join the defending league champion, which is s xinsued n an employe ofone of the leagues administatos. cicho instead joined a team sponsoed by Will Powe tness The team was B-0 and on its nay io the playoffs when leicho was banned fom pitching " think its discouaging when you'e idling a 9-yea-old you'e too good ai something,'' said ins EXPRESS YOURSELF WiTH HP. 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'1 ^Tuesday. August 26.2008 ODD NEWS WWW.BGNEWS.COM VVYCKOFE N.J. (AP) - f onl\ Goldilocks had a cockapoo. A 15-pound cocke spaniel-poodle mix named Pawlee scaed off a mothe bea and he two cubs Sunday moning afte they stayed into his ownes' backyad. Whethe his bak was wose than his bite, l'aulcc's tactic woked just fine. These thee beas got the hint anil look off. "We had just let him out fo the moning, and he an into the yad and stated baking his head off." owne Plan ()siason said. Osiason said he nine yea old son, Jacob, went outside in see what the commotion was about, and came unning back in to epot thee wee beas n the yad. She was woied that the mothe would come afte Pawlee to potect he cubs, hut the pugnacious pup, just eight months old. had othe plans. His baking dove the two cubs up a tee, and they eventually climbed down and hopped ove Ganite City POODi W NV* Now accepting applications fo seves at Ganite City Food & Bewey Expeience equied Apply in peson at 2300 Village Dive West. Maumee uppy love: Feisty puppy scaes off thee beas in New Jesey back yad i ftmnnnnnn. Self-Defense Poducts & Alams "We had to let him out... and he an into the yad and stated baking his head off." Fan Osiason Owne a fence with thei mothe and eteated into the woods. Osiason said she. he son, husband Andew and daughte Eden, six, have had Pawlee since he was about eight weeks old. She maveled at his fealessness. "1 le's a little fu ball." she said. Nothen New lesey seems to beed feisty pels: n 2006. a tabby cat named lack chased a bea up a tee in his West Milfod yad. Beas ae not uncommon in Wyckoff, but Osiason said he family has lived thee fo about 10 yeas and had not seen any until Sunday. With Pawlee on guad, they might not see anothe one anytime soon. The BG News Classified Ads 419-J72-6977 ih.hi. idm iii. dhctntauhh w nt'itiiw <!.«. ii 1.-1.1 MHon. im ilis.ilulitv tnywhci otccwd -t.tiii» Sevices Offeed Southside Laundomat 993 S Main St OPEN 24/7 FREE YF Wanted Sigma Alpha Lambda, a National Leadeship and Honos Oganization with ove 75 chaptes acoss the county, is seeking motivated students to seve as founding ottices/membes to assist in staling a local chapte. Contact Rob Mine at jnine('?salhonos Qfg WANTED Gaage nea Wooste S Main St. intesecton to motocycle stoage Will pay to all yea Contact Tony at 419-575-9456. ' Amtak tain standed without fuel Moe than 80 passenges wee stuck fo two hous SAN DEGO (AP) t was the little engine that couldn't because it was thisty fo fuel. A quick tain tip down the coast tuned into a long haul fo moe than 80 Amtak passenges when thei tain fom l.os Angeles to San Diego an out of fuel Sunday night. 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