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Seven states claim the cardinal as their state birdBy Freddy Hunt

Editor-in-Chief

The Buckeye is the state tree of Ohio. Tomato juice is the offi-cial state drink. The cardinal is the state bird of Ohio... but also of Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.

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.

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 steward-ship coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

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By Courtney FlynnReporter

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 outstand-ing 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 loca-tion 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 24-hours-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 deci-pher which product goes in what container. These crates are emptied and shipped to receiv-ing 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.

Reiman said the products can-not be properly recycled if they are not separated according to material type because it throws off the composition of the final decompressed product of hun-dreds 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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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.

Local recycling center puts the ‘green’ in Bowling Green

Preparing for an all-out ‘orange out’contest for the

birdsBy 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 athlet-ic 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 stu-dents to through the Doyt Perry Gates will get a free orange T-shirt.

Not only is tomorrow’s home game important because it is the last home game of the season,

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

Hard and soft cover booksAluminum cansMagazines/catalogs on smooth glossy paper with plastic wrap removedNewspaperPhone booksPlastic bottles without the capFlattened cardboard boxesScrap metal: iron, steel, copper and aluminum. Source: Wood County Solid

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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.”

USG urges students to utilize its own professor evaluations

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By Dru SextonReporter

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 evalu-ations 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, special-ized version of ratemyprofessor.com, with the idea of giving stu-dents 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 pro-fessors and classes before reg-istration.

Molina said USG then select-ed 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 chalk-ing on the sidewalks, she said. But despite their efforts, there was little response to the first USG-conducted professor eval-uation.

“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 sena-tor in charge, said the evalua-tions “were very labor inten-sive” 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 diffi-culties 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 ques-tions come entirely from the student, and contain very help-ful information pertinent to registering for classes, he said.

Basch said it is not an evalu-ation 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 corre-late with their learning styles,” Basch said.

The questions on these sur-veys are very different. The evaluations are available for almost 900 professors and their courses and are also com-pletely 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 sur-vey include areas like how well a professor follows their sylla-bus, or if it is necessary to buy the book.

Freshman Nathan Pytel said when it comes time to regis-ter 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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“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 pro-motions 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 stu-dents 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 through-out the week to have as many

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 clos-ing down all dining halls on campus at 3 p.m. and relocat-ing 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.

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

Today, the Office of Campus Activities is having a campus-wide office decorating competi-tion.

Each office has to incorpo-rate the theme “Falcon Football Finale” with their decorations.

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

Another activity happening is the competition among resi-dence 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 sec-ond quarter.

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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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But even more common than the mockingbird is the cardi-nal.

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 eas-ily” 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 orni-thology, 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 can-didate 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, conser-vation 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 citi-zens 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 intro-duced 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 senti-ment for the state of Florida.

The phone calls she received were not from fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grad-ers; 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, prob-ably 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 enthusi-asts 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 get-ting young students interested in wildlife,” Bingman said. “There’s no reason the cardi-nal 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 car-dinal 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 learn-ing six other states also claim the cardinal, Austing said, “we should make them change.”

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including athletes. All I hear is, ‘We’re going to fight and going to win’ ...”

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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.

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In recognition of November being Alzheimer’s Awareness month, the Women’s Center invited Nicole Mancino to par-ticipate 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 stu-dent who is also studying for a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies, performed and dis-cussed an oral history pulled from 2006 interviews with her grandmother, Marianne Mitchell Blitzstein.

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

In the performance, “Painting Bubby’s Portrait: An Oral History 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 emo-tional recollection of Isodore’s eventual death from a brain

aneurysm, which he appeared to preternaturally foresee in his final words to Marianne, “It’s no good.”

An informal question and answer segment followed the performance. On the impor-tance 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 incom-plete, 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 opti-mistic 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 sac-rilegious 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 per-formed, incredibly informative, overall an engaging, exciting event,” Harrick said.

Timothy Schaffer, also a doc-toral 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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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 two-day 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 orga-nized by the office of commu-nity 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 vis-ited museums, applied for jobs, walked around and talked to homeless people.

At night, students had to com-bat rain and rats. They used cardboard as their mattresses, often huddling together to stay warm. Sophomore criminol-ogy 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 car-ried 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 experi-ment was panhandling or ask-ing 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 bioen-gineering major Helen Ji said.

A huge part of the experience included talking to homeless people throughout the week-end. 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.

Students choose to sleep on street

By Danielle TorralbaU-Wire

When it comes to recy-cled 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 edu-cate students on the impor-tance 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

buying virgin paper, having all printers set to print double sided, use both sides of paper as well as having professors encourage their students turn in homework assignments on the backs of scratch paper.

“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 foot-steps of Hannah Riches, who created and launched this proj-ect at her university, The New School in New York City, a few years ago.

Riches said the campaign evolved from a class project.

“I was in a sustainabil-ity class,” she said. “It was our class project to create

a proposal to submit to the National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Program, we weren’t required to actu-ally submit it, but I decided that if I was going to put that much effort into the proj-ect, 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 run-ning at her university. After she received the funds from the National Wildlife Federation, she began working on a logo design and spoke to manufac-turers 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 con-sumption by 67 percent, send 80 percent less paper to land-fills, 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 cheap-est way of slowing down the man-made climate change,” Le said. “If we stop deforesta-tion all together in 50 years, we would reduce 25 percent of all the carbon emissions, as well carbon storage.”

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

“It was wonderfully performed, incredibly informative, overall an engaging,

exciting event.”Stephen Harrick | Doctoral student

IM decides Iowa marriageBy James Heggen

U-Wire

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 panel Tuesday 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 mes-saged] 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.

“Schools are one of the top institutions

that consume paper.”

Anna Le | Assistant Director

Ahh, the beginning of the holi-day 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 holi-day 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 pro-viding entertaining television.

During the holiday season, I am addicted to watching QVC. I have never once bought any-thing 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 mas-ters in selling and market-ing 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

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 condu-cive than just a normal blan-ket. And they make each prod-uct seem unique despite the ordinariness of most of them.

QVC has also become a sta-ple 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 person-alities themselves. The crazy designer of Quacker Factory — a line of clothing regularly featuring dancing snowmen and Christmas trees that actu-ally light up — is a frequent target of Joel McHale on “The Soup.”

But one of the true high-lights 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 burn-ing fireplace for a mere 36 hours. Then on Dec. 26 they begin again with solutions for all the post holiday head-aches and start gearing up for next Christmas. It really is like an adult version of the North Pole.

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“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.”

After reading the article by Marisha Pietrowski, I would like to add some insight. I am a night time shuttle driver here on cam-pus, 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 passen-gers as a top priority. However, I must say that over the years that I have driven around the cam-pus, I have observed many care-less 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 sug-gestions to help resolve this:

1. Paint cross walks at the problem shuttle stops. (Harshman, Conklin, Jerome Library, McDonald, Life Science

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 real-ize that this practice is danger-ous. 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 com-ments or suggestions.

— Tom Cook is a University shuttle bus driver. Respond to him

at thenews@bgnews.com.

By Andy PostU-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 com-pletely ban smoking (outdoors and indoors) from any univer-sity property. Besides the indi-vidual 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 stu-dent body. This is nothing new; many policies are made based on extreme fringe groups that cor-ner 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 law-making body and does not have the duty to enact new regula-tions because it feels the legisla-ture 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-

tion to enforcement, and an out-door 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

to another, the sheer concept of banning anything under the parameters of physical property is ludicrous. We should be lead-ing, not following. We need a pol-icy 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 intend-ed to stop secondhand smoke

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 unenforce-able 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 per-sonal 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 ill-nesses. As much as some people on campus believe they have the authority to use tuition dollars to create a universal health care sys-tem, 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 student-funded subsidized healthcare when they get lung disease.

On a more general note, I’m most concerned about the smok-ing 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.

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

“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.”

It’s about time TRL was cancelled

By Emma LindUWire

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 genera-tion of awkward and not-so-awk-ward 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 counter-part forgot this defining feature of her adolescence.

For all of TRL’s apparent mindless-ness, 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 peo-ple 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 read-ing and clicking and chatting), the passing of TRL is a reminder that the media institutions that I always viewed as essential and contempo-rary are fading away. TRL’s viewer-ship has been dropping since its peak at the turn of the century, and its daily average number of view-ers 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 view-ers 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 val-ues actually being a celebrity your-self. Shows that depict the “real lives” of young people — like “The Hills” or the phenomenally popu-lar “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).

FORUM “I do understand that six other states have it also, but it’s a very famil-iar 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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By Rasha MadkourThe 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 yes-terday 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 rup-tured 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 cardio-thoracic 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, doc-tors at Holtz Children’s Hospital crafted substitute heart cham-bers using a fabric and connect-ed these to the two pumps.

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

there are fewer options for pedi-atric patients. That’s because it’s rarer for them to have these life-threatening conditions, so com-panies 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 situ-ation 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 pho-tocopier-sized machine that was the external part of the pumping devices.

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

D’Zhana said now she’s grate-ful 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 tur-quoise 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.

14-year-old girl lives 118 days

without a heart

By Dan NephinThe 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 arrest-ed in connection with the shoot-ing and was expected to appear in federal court yesterday. He was one of 35 people charged in a 27-count drug-trafficking indict-ment unsealed yesterday. The indictment accuses the defen-dants 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 acci-dentally 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.

DARRELL SAPP | AP PHOTO

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.

By Jon GambrellThe Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Stories of alleged beatings and sexu-al 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

Miller County showed no imme-diate 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 raid-ed 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 war-rant 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 par-ents or be placed under contin-ued 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.

By Mike SchneiderThe Associated Press

HOUSTON — Flight controllers were revamping plans yester-day for the remaining space-walks during space shuttle Endeavour’s visit to the interna-tional space station, after a cru-cial tool bag floated away during repair work.

Meanwhile, more than 200 miles above Earth, astronauts started hooking up the new space station equipment deliv-ered 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 recy-cling 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 con-tinue 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 space-walks 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 disci-pline” by continuing on.

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

Flight controllers are consid-ering having the two spacewalk-ers share Bowen’s pair of grease guns for the three remaining spacewalks today, Saturday and Monday. Each gun has a differ-ent type of nozzle to reach dif-ferent 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 joint repair work.

For more than a year, the joint has been unable to automati-cally point the right-side solar wings toward the sun for maxi-mum energy production.

NASA TV | AP PHOTO

GOING, GOING, GONE: In this image from NASA TV, a tool kit bag, center, as seen through the helmet camera of astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, floats away from the International Space Station after she lost hold of it during a procedure.

D’Zhana SimmonsWas kept alive by artificial heart pumps

“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

FBI agent shot and killed serving a warrant

More children involved in abuse case taken into custody

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

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By Ariel DavidThe Associated Press

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

Italian Culture Ministry offi-cials 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 sur-vived 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-influ-enced cultures that dominated central and southern Italy before the rise of Rome.

The objects are “of great his-torical, artistic and archaeo-logical 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

century B.C., which experts said is one of the finest remaining from a civilization that popu-lated 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 collection it is important that any museum acquire works ethically,” Rub said.

By Andrew Welsh-HugginsThe 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.

They were escorted sepa-rately 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 Bryant-Bey for execution appeared to take their time finding a suit-able vein in his right arm, but there was no sign of any prob-lem finding veins in either arm to deliver the deadly chemicals used in the lethal injection pro-cess, an issue that delayed pre-vious 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 spokes-woman Andrea Carson.

In a three-minute final state-ment, Bryant-Bey, who received the death penalty in the stab-bing 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 broth-ers and children and friends from being framed, lied on and convicted on invisible evi-dence,” 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.”

Cleveland Museum of Art returns looted, stolen Italian artifacts

Convicted Toledo killer dies of lethal injection

PHOTO COURTESY OF ITALIAN CULTURE MINISTRY

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.

“... it is important that any museum

acquire work ethically.”

Timothy Rub | Director

Prior to execution, he claimed he was framed

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HOCKEYMills steps up as new play-by-play announcerBob 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.Page 9

ONLINEThe BG NewsSports BlogBe sure and log on to The BG News Sports Blog to get additional updates and notes on all BG sports. Tonight, we will be bringing you the first live basketball blog of the 2008-09 season. We will also have our usual football live blog during tomorrow night’s Buffalo game.www.bgnewssports.com

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

Today inSports History1990—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.

The ListThanks 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.

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All he can beGarcia’s college career more than classes and rugby

By Christopher RamboReporter

On the surface, Dan Garcia appears to lead the innocu-ous life of a normal everyday college student. Like most of his peers, the sophomore edu-cation major from Perrysburg, Ohio, has a lot on his plate, as he tries to balance the rigors of Bowling Green rugby along with the academic demands typical of most college stu-dents. However, for several weekends a year, Dan Garcia’s

life is anything but common-place. For this is when he trav-els south to Fort Rickenbacker in Columbus to train with the U.S. Army’s 19th Special Forces Group, an item not likely to grace the weekend itinerary of the average BGSU undergrad.

The 19th Special Forces, more commonly known by their nickname “The Green Berets,” is one of two elite National Guard groups of the United States Army Special Forces. The group specializes in counter-terrorism and guer-

rilla warfare. Garcia, who was a key contributor on the Rugby Club’s B-side this year, is cur-rently 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 incred-ibly intense,” Garcia said.

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

By Ethan MagocReporter

Bowling Green’s hockey pro-gram 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 com-ing years, though this one never even played college hockey.

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

“He’s a really important piece of our staff and it’s reward-ing to see that he has an oppor-tunity 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 equip-ment 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 some-one like me to get involved and be part of a major D-I school right away.”

Ward worked as an assis-tant equipment manager for the Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League dur-ing 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,

ETHAN MAGOC | THE BG NEWS

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

Ward to intern with New York IslandersWomen’s basketball now 0-2 with loss to Valparaiso

By Andrew HarnerAssistant 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 mak-ing 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.

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 sub-par 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.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY BG RUGBY

Ryan WardWill be interning with the New York Islanders

See RUGBY | Page 9

See WARD | Page 9

Men’s hoops open home

season tonight

By Andrew HarnerAssistant Sports Editor

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

The team defeated Georgia State and Concordia St. Paul last week-end while drop-ping a contest to Minnesota by seven.

But tonight, the Falcons will not be facing a divi-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 with BG winning 64-41.

The Warriors are coming off a 10-16 (4-13) season in which they only won one road game. Wayne is also bringing back just three players from that squad this season.

Wayne brought in six fresh-man, two division one trans-fer 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 lead-ing the way for the Falcons so far with 16 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game.

Nate MillerWill return with two others tonight vs. Wayne State

Darryl ClementsHas a team-high average of 16 points per game this season

Lauren ProchaskaLed the team with 15 points against Valparaiso

BGSU Students, Faculty and Staff,I would like to take this opportunity to invite all stu-dents, 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 implica-tions. 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 contribu-tions 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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Mills is the new radio voice for Falcons hockeyBy Sean Shapiro

Reporter

After one year of play-by-play call by Danny Nieves, Bob Mills is the new voice of the Falcons for hockey’s flagship station Bowling Green Radio Sports Organization.

Mills has been involved in the organization since his freshmen year, and was one of the primary hockey color commentators for the last two seasons. Mills sites his friendship with Nieves as one of the main reasons he got the play-by-play job.

“I’ve been pretty good friends with Danny Nieves,” Mills said,

“So he kind of helped me go through the process of making sure I had a good demo tape done, then as far as getting the job I sent in the application and just waiting on a phone call.”

Mills likes to get to the arena around 5 p.m. for both home and away games where he makes sure his pre-game is all written out and prepared for the nights match up. At around 5:45 p.m. Mills will speak to Bowling Green head coach Scott Paluch for his coaches corner segment,

a three to five minute interview.Following his pre-game show

it’s down to the business of calling the game, for Mills it is a point of pride to be able to do play-by-play for one of the worlds fastest sports.

“It’s a unique challenge to try and call a sport like hockey that moves so quickly, and to do it on radio were nobody has a visual. I just feel like I’ve done something pretty fun

when it’s all over.” Mills said.In addition to the experience

of calling games for BG hock-ey, Mills has also enjoyed the opportunity to travel with the team, quite a heavy amount of travel considering the team has already played at Boston College and Alaska this season.

“I really like calling games here, at Bowling Green, our ice arena does a really good job of being loud. Which makes

hockey, feel like hockey,” Mills said, “We went to Boston College this year and that was kind of cool since they had indi-vidual boxes for everybody.”

While Mills’ goal is to even-tually become a play-by-play announcer for an NHL team the decision to step into the booth full time this year was made slightly more difficult than some may have thought.

For the past three years Mills was a forward for BG’s club hockey team and was able to juggle color commentary on a part time basis with a lengthy club hockey schedule. As the full time play-by-play man Mills had to give up his own play-ing career in order to pursue a future in radio.

“It impacted my decision a little bit, but in the end I was just doing club hockey because I like to play, and I want to do this as a career,” Mills said.

For many hockey play-by-play announcers they have a signa-ture call or unique style of call-ing the game. In only his first year as a full play-by-play man Mills plans to let his style and signature call work itself out.

PHOTO PROVIDED KATHRYN BOBEL

VOICE IN YOUR HEAD: Bob Mills has taken over the role of hockey radio play-by-play after assisting the broadcast crew for two years.

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 wres-tling, 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

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 assis-tant at BG, and who offici-ated 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

and play rugby for Bowling Green. Garcia would ultimate-ly 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, serv-ing as a key contributor to the B-side this year while also see-ing occasional A-side time as a substitution.

“Dan is just a really solid play-er,” Mazzarella said. “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-your-face kind of guy, but he is always doing what he is sup-posed 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 train-ing 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.”

RUGBYFrom Page 7

“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-your-face 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

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’ first-year 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 com-mon 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 video-loaded laptop into the locker room during each intermis-sion and projects the foot-age 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 for-ward 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 coordina-tor 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 work-ing 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 see-ing the guys succeed,” he said.

“So much goes into prepara-tion, 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 sopho-more Patrick Tiesling. “He’s always upbeat, positive and a good friend of everyone on the team.”

WARDFrom Page 7

TONY DEJAK | AP PHOTO

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

MRI shows sprain in Winslow’s shoulderBy Tom Wither

The Associated Press

BEREA — Cleveland Browns tight end Kellen Winslow sprained his right shoulder in Monday night’s win over the Buffalo Bills, an injury unlikely to keep him out for an extended period.

Winslow, who played through a painful injury to his left shoul-der last season, got hurt while catching a 16-yard pass that set up kicker Phil Dawson’s 56-yard field goal in a 29-27 win. After making the reception, Winslow was wrapped up by Bills line-

backer Paul Posluszny near the sideline and fell hard on his shoulder.

An MRI taken Tuesday revealed no structural damage in Winslow’s shoulder. Coach Romeo Crennel said Winslow would not practice yesterday and that the five-year veteran’s status for Sunday’s game against the Texans would depend on getting strength and range of motion in his shoulder.

“It’s sore, and he has got to work the soreness out,” Crennel said. “The main issue is his strength and his range of 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 fool-ing 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.

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By Paisley DoddsThe Associated Press

LONDON — The British gov-ernment announced plans yes-terday 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 anoth-er 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 account-able 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 ulti-mately 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 heav-ily restricted in Britain, unlike in many of its European neighbors where prostitution and solicita-tion are tolerated in some form.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the son of a Presbyterian minister, has already backed a series of sin taxes on alco-hol 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 closed-circuit 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) north-east of London. Recent head-lines, 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 “toler-ance zones” where prostitutes were allowed to work freely.

By Qassim Abdul-ZahraThe 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 al-Mashhadani adjourned the session until today after Sadrist lawmaker Ahmed al-Massoudi aggressively approached a law-maker from the ruling coalition who was reading aloud the text of the agreement.

Al-Massoudi appeared to be on the verge of grabbing the doc-ument as lawmaker Hassan al-Sineid 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 agree-ment, 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 proceed-ings. Al-Mashhadani was involved in several shouting

matches with the Sadrists, who demanded that a draft bill reg-ulating the adoption of treaties with foreign nations be adopt-ed 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 al-Adha. At that time, scores of lawmakers will travel to Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrim-age 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 par-liament followed an announce-ment by the small Shiite Fadhila party that it would not vote in support of the agreement. Fadhila has 15 lawmakers.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s ruling coalition dominates the legislature, so the security pact is virtu-ally 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’ vehe-ment opposition, however, reflect unease among some Iraqis about a continuing U.S. presence in their country after years of war, even if a clear time-table 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.

By Sam DolnickThe 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 sep-arate 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 this ves-sel with guns and rocket pro-pelled 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 speed-boats 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 war-ship foiled a pirate attempt to hijack a ship in the Gulf of Aden. The navy said an armed helicopter with marine com-mandos 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.

Aggressive Iraqi lawmaker causes court to adjourn

HADI MIZBAN | AP PHOTO

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.

by Mark StevensonThe Associated Press

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 infor-mation with traffickers.

Gutierrez Vargas directed the international police agency’s National Central Bureau in Mexico, where he had access to Interpol’s database of infor-mation 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 net-work 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 sys-tems. 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 anonym-ity because he was not autho-rized to be cited by name, said the allegations against Gutierrez Vargas did not involve purport-ed 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 direc-tor 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 2003-2005, was placed under house arrest pending a probe of alle-gations 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 gov-ernment 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.

Interpol terrorist database possibly leaked

Suspected pirate ship sunk by Indian navy

A possible end to prostitution

“Pirates were seen roaming on the

upper deck of the vessel with guns ...”Statement from the Indian navy

British government hopes to curb forced prostitution by naming men who solicit sex from ‘controlled’ women

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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 congres-sional 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 lame-duck 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, call-ing 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 oppor-tunities.” 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 sec-ond 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

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

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

He said he couldn’t say pre-cisely, 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 bil-lion financial bailout program to finance the loans.

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

Perino said yesterday the administration supports leg-islation to authorize just that, but will not go along with the proposal by Democratic lead-ers that an additional $25 bil-lion be taken from the gov-ernment’s existing $700 billion

Wall Street bailout fund.“The purpose of the $700 bil-

lion 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 fuel-efficiency fund.

Democratic leaders have rejected such a course, and envi-ronmentalists 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 mak-ers would not be tapping those funds immediately, support-ers argue, the money would be restored by the time they were needed.

Detroit’s ‘Big Three’ plea to Congress for bailout

MICHAEL AINSWORTH | AP PHOTO

RALLY FOR A JOB: General Motors employees and supporters listen during a “Support The U.S. Auto Industry Rally” at the General Motors Assembly Plant in Arlington, Texas.

Boehner re-elected as House GOP leaderBy Jim Abrams

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House Republicans yesterday re-elected John Boehner as leader of their depleted ranks while putting together a more con-servative team to represent them in the next, Democratic-controlled, 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 ses-sion of Congress in January with less than 180 seats in the 435-seat 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 oppor-tunity to renew our drive for smaller, more accountable gov-ernment,” he said.

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

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

They were replaced by Eric Cantor of Virginia as whip and Mike Pence of Indiana as confer-ence chair, who both ran with-out opposition. Both are lead-ing members of the Republican Study Committee, the conserva-tive caucus that now represents more than half of all House Republicans.

“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 solu-tions 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 conserva-tive 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.

LAWRENCE JACKSON | AP PHOTO

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

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