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For the first time ever, World Wrestling Entertainment brought their own unique blend of family entertainment to a receptive Bowling Green audience.

Smackdown and ECW invaded Anderson Arena and put on a death-defying dis-play of high-flying, adrena-line-fueled excitement that kept fans on their feet all night long.

Hundreds of people stood in-line, hoping to catch a glimpse of their wrestling heroes.

The event started with ring announcer Justin Roberts welcoming fans to the event and letting fans know they would play an important part in the show by allowing them to text in votes for their choice in a match for the ECW Championship.

The wrestlers’ interaction with the fans helped make this a show that many in attendance will remember for a long time to come.

The crowd went wild after the Irish wrestler Dave Finlay and his leprechaun, Hornswoggle,

Progressive Future registers voters on campusBy Gina Potthoff

Managing Editor

It’s not everyday someone leaves the sunny beaches of California for the windy streets of Bowling Green, but Esteban Tadeo feels so strongly about Progressive Future he did just that.

Tadeo, 26, came to the University this fall to help register voters for Progressive Future, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising political awareness and mobiliz-ing students to vote around the country.

While earning a degree in politi-cal science from San Marco State near San Diego, Calif., Tadeo became involved in student gov-ernment and soon realized some

students weren’t interested in the elections.

“I found it was very challenging to get students to vote,” he said.

After addressing California leg-islatures with student concerns and learning they didn’t care about student issues, Tadeo was determined to get student voices heard.

“I found this pretty alarming,” he said. “There are students that care.”

Tadeo joined Progressive Future, trained as a campus communi-ty organizer and came to Ohio to register 2,500 students at the University before Oct. 6, the Wood County voter registration dead-line.

Tadeo visits classrooms and

trains student volunteers, giving them the skills to register vot-ers, like teaching “clip boarding,”

“phone banking” and the “power stance.”

“I train them to do what I do,” he said. “This is really a student-led campaign. I’m just the person bringing the skills.”

This week Progressive Future is hoping to gather at least 100

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HAWK: Yesterday morning University Flight Instructor Jason Thompson snapped a photo of what was first believed to be a falcon perched atop the tail of a University plane. The bird was later iden-tified as a red-tailed hawk. Joan Kitchen, the chief flight instructor, said she has seen the hawk hanging around the airport feed-ing on mice, but never in 20 years has she seen it perch on the tail of an airplane. The make of the airplane is ironically a Cessna Sky Hawk.

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5 laptops in 10 daysA rash of computer thefts have

hit MacDonald Residence Hall. In the last 10 days, there have

been five laptops stolen from resi-dents of the building, according to a Campus Crime Alert sent out by the University Police Department.

The alert said with the exception of one incident, all of the rooms were unattended with either the door unlocked or left open.

Most of the thefts have taken place in the late night to early morning.

Included in the alert, the police sent along the recommendation students should keep their comput-ers out of sight or secured in a safe manner with a cable lock.

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Donate plasma to make money and

save livesBy Kate Snyder

Reporter

Some students on campus are selling their plasma for money.

Plasma is part of what blood is made of, after red and white blood cells, and BioLife is a plasma-collecting agency looking to buy all that can safely be given.

There are three BioLife cen-ters in Ohio: Lima, Athens and Findlay.

The Web site, biolifeplasma.com, details what the plasma is used for as well as the pro-cess and who is eligible for donation.

Junior Eric Merritt donated his plasma twice a week for a two-year period.

“You can do it twice in a seven-day period,” he said,

“but not twice in a row.”The process, Merritt said, is

somewhat similar to donating blood. Donors have to answer a bunch of questions and get their blood tested.

“You can walk in and you can wait,” said recent University graduate Opha Keith, “or you can make an appointment and you won’t

wait nearly as long.”Only then can they go

through the plasmapheresis, a process that removes the blood from the body, sepa-rates the plasma from the blood and then sends the blood back to the body.

That’s why plasma can be donated more often than blood.

“You can live without so much plasma; you can’t live without so much blood,” Merritt said.

Saline is added to the body to make up for the volume lost in donation.

The plasma is then used to help treat hemophilia and immune system disorders, according to the Web site.

“The more donors that come to our center, the more lives [that] can be saved,” said Christina Salerno, a regional marketing representative of BioLife. “The more medicine can be made.”

But the biggest motivation for many students remains the money.

“When I started, it was a lot less,” Merritt said.

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Markets remain on edge as investors seek safetyBy Tim Paradis

The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Volatility swept the financial markets again yesterday as inves-tors grew nervous about an amorphous government plan to buy $700 billion in banks’ mortgage debt. Stocks fell sharply, taking the Dow Jones industrials down more than 370 points, while inves-tors sought safety in hard

assets such as gold and oil, which at one point shot up more than $25 a barrel.

The credit markets were still uneasy but not show-ing the frantic trading they saw last week. And the dollar skidded lower, contributing to oil’s surge.

While investors last week were pleased that federal authorities were constructing a plan to relieve the nation’s banks of their toxic assets, many weren’t waiting for the

details to emerge yesterday before seeking safety; selling was heavy across the market, although the financial sec-tor again took some of the biggest hits. Investors are not sure how successful the plan might be in unfreezing credit markets, which many busi-nesses depend on to fund day-to-day operations.

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brought in kids to the ring to celebrate and dance with him after he defeated wres-tler Jake Swagger.

The crowd also came to life for the entrance of some of their favorite performers, running down the aisles to the front gate trying to touch the hand of the wrestlers.

While everybody had their own wrestlers who they root-ed and cheered for last night, Triple H was by far the crowd favorite.

“I got to touch Triple H and the Undertaker,” said freshman Aaron Betz. “It was a once in a lifetime opportunity.”

Betz, who has been to a WWE show in the past and

watches their pay-per-view and weekly television pro-gramming, said the show last night was amazing.

Tyler Gombash, also a lifelong WWE fan and University freshman, gave the show the same assess-ment.

“Getting to touch Triple H was amazing,” Gombash said. “Triple H is my favor-ite wrestler and his was my favorite match of the night.”

It wasn’t only students who attended the show.

Will Weirich brought his son to the show as a birthday gift for him.

“It was a good show, the same as always,” Weirich said.

He said that while he does try to make it to some of the shows in the area, he isn’t

able to attend all that come around.

“It is kind of hit or miss,” Weirich said. “We don’t go to all of [the shows], but we try to go to about every other one.”

The final match of the night was the one the crowd got the most excited for.

When the music of Triple H and the Undertaker came over the sound system, almost everybody in the arena started screaming and the night was capped off

when Triple H hit his signa-ture move, the “Pedigree.”

Triple H fan and University freshman, Alana Drury, said the ending of the show was the best part of the night.

“I thought [the show] was good,” Drury said. “I am a Triple H fan so tonight was great for me.”

As the show finally came to a close, Roberts thanked everybody for coming and said that the WWE is looking forward to coming back to Bowling Green very soon.

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FRIDAY1:15 A.M.Complainant reported somebody stole her cell phone from Sigma Phi Epsilon.

1:44 A.M.Nicholas Nekic of Euclid, Ohio, and Anna Dzurovcin of North Canton, Ohio, were cited for underage under the influence.

10:45 A.M.Complainant reported somebody stole a book she was renting while at the Union.

1:49 P.M.Complainant reported somebody cashed two forged checks from her bank account.

9 P.M.Complainant reported somebody stole a laptop from her room.

SATURDAY3:47 A.M.Shena Stayden of Bethel, Ohio, was cited for underage possession.

8:38 P.M.Anna Sherman and Jane Harrington of North Oldsted, Ohio, and Amber Bolin of Dublin, Ohio, were cited for underage under the influence. Bolin was taken to Wood County Hospital ER for possible alcohol poisoning.

SUNDAY5:40 P.M.Complainant reported somebody stole his laptop and two pairs of sunglasses.

6:22 P.M.Damien R. Plaugher, 21, of Kenton, Ohio, was arrested for assault, and Derek Ray Stalder, 22, of Ridgeway, Ohio, was cited for obstructing offi-cial business.

volunteers to register voters so they’ll be ready for the Voter Registration Blitz next week.

The plan is to have the vol-unteers all on campus Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the week before the voter registra-tion deadline, said Anne Halkias, Progressive Future organizer.

“[Esteban] can’t register 2,500 people alone,” Halkias said.

“And it’s historically shown most people wait until the last day to register.”

Halkias, 24, took a two-month leave of absence from her job in Pennsylvania to work with Progressive Future. She is in charge of overseeing group members at BGSU, the University of Toledo, Wright State University and Miami University of Ohio.

She said Progressive Future has members in 12 different states with the ultimate goal of registering 500,000 voters total before the Nov. 4 election.

“The election is going to be really close,” Halkias said.

“Traveling to different campuses, [I see] students care about the same things.”

She noted the War in Iraq, healthcare, the economy and higher education as major student issues.

Sophomore Kat Little volun-teered to help register voters after someone from Progressive Future spoke to one of her classes.

Little stressed the importance of students using their voting power, saying she’s most con-cerned about the healthcare issue and being kicked off her parents’ insurance when she graduates in two years.

“It could come down to our state,” Little said. “You need to vote.”

Halkias encourages students to volunteer because they can learn skills they can use throughout their lives, like public speaking and organizational skills.

Tadeo said Progressive Future volunteers will be registering voters in the Union oval today starting at noon and encourages students to come out.

“The best way to voice your opinion is to vote,” he said.

Students interested in volun-teering with Progressive Future may contact Tadeo by e-mail at tadeo001@gmail.com or by phone at 530-521-2582. Students are also encouraged to fill out the information cards they receive in class.

Tadeo also recommends vis-iting progressivefuture.org for more information on the group and opportunities for students to get involved.

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It was only $20 at a time, he said.

Now, though, if Merritt goes the full twice a week he said he could make up to $300 a month at the center in Findlay. The rates vary for each center, Salerno said.

Physical side affects also vary for each person.

“People who go often will get scars on their arms,” Keith said.

He recommended people switch their arms every two weeks.

“That way your body regen-erates it okay,” he said.

Keith hasn’t donated plas-ma in a couple of years, but he’s thinking about starting up again.

“I got some bills coming up I gotta pay for,” he said.

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have been meeting on the rescue plan, the thrust of which congressional leaders have endorsed. Many mar-ket observers are hoping for details of the plan to emerge by midweek and delays could weigh further on investor sentiment.

“This government open-ing of the checkbook — it’s a stopgap measure that will calm people and help us buy a little bit more time but ulti-mately what we need to see is more confidence,” said Rob Lutts, chief investment officer at Cabot Money Management Inc. in Salem, Mass.

While investors try to gauge the effect of the gov-ernment’s lifeline they also were absorbing more rapid changes in the banking sec-tor. Morgan Stanley said it is working to sell up to a 20 per-cent stake to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Japan’s largest bank.

The announcement comes after the Federal Reserve late Sunday granted Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Wall Street’s last two major investment banks, approval to change their status to bank holding companies. The move will allow the companies to set up commercial banks that will be able to take deposits, significantly bolstering the resources of both. However, they also will be subject to more regulation.

That shift came a week after negotiations failed to save Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. from bankruptcy. That and a quickly assembled gov-ernment bailout for insur-er American International Group Inc. helped lead to a seizing up of the credit mar-kets that spurred federal offi-cials to formulate a plan to rescue companies from their bad debt.

The Dow fell 372.75, or 3.27 percent, to 11,015.69. The retreat follows the Dow’s best two-day point gain since March 2000 so some retrench-ment, especially amid the

anxiety on the Street, wasn’t unexpected. But the decline erased a gain of nearly 370 points from Friday.

Broader stock indicators also tumbled. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 47.99, or 3.82 percent, to 1,207.09, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 94.92, or 4.17 percent, to 2,178.98.

Oil’s rise of $16.37 to a clos-ing price $120.92 a barrel came as investors snapped up supplies to cover the October contract, which expired at the end of yesterday’s session. Although the contract’s pend-ing expiration helped inflate crude’s advance — it was up $25.45 at one point — trading still showed the intensity of emotion in the market, and still-active contracts also rose sharply.

Gold, also in demand as a safe haven, jumped more than $40.30 to settle at $909

an ounce.The yield on the Treasury’s

3-month Treasury bill was at 0.88 percent Monday, down from 0.94 percent late Friday, indicating that investors were still willing to take low returns on a safe asset. However, the yield was well above yields around zero at the height of last week’s frenetic buying; yields move in the opposite direction from price. Short-term Treasurys are seen as the safest place to put cash.

The Treasury’s 2-year note’s yield was at 2.16 percent, up from 2.13 percent Friday. The yield on the 10-year bench-mark Treasury rose to 3.85 percent from 3.81 percent late Friday.

Investors could grow ner-vous about the trajectory of the government’s bailout plan if it appears that enough prog-ress isn’t being made, observ-ers said. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., said yester-day he wants the government to receive a stake in the com-panies helped by the rescue. Senate Democrats are also calling for the plan to include aid for homeowners strug-gling with mortgage pay-ments and caps on executive compensation.

Treasury Secretary Henry

Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are scheduled to appear before Congress today and tomorrow for briefings on the economy.

“There is going to have to be some sort of a homeowner relief package. I think that’s part of where the give-and-take process is going to unfold this week,” said Michael Strauss, chief economist at Commonfund. “I think the moderates on both sides know something has to get done.”

The market did get some good news from Microsoft Corp., which said it plans to repurchase as much as $40 billion of its shares. The soft-ware maker said it completed a previous $40 billion buyback plan. The company also raised its quarterly dividend to 13 cents from 11 cents. Microsoft rose 24 cents to $25.40.

Morgan Stanley said it signed a letter of intent to

sell its stake to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial for an as yet undetermined price. Morgan Stanley fell 12 cents to $27.09.

Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs fell $9.02, or 7 percent, to $120.78 following announce-ment of its move to become a commercial bank.

Other financial stocks fell sharply amid the continued uncertainty about the sector. JPMorgan Chase & Co. fell $6.25, or 13 percent, to $40.80, while American Express Co. fell $3.11, or 7.7 percent, to $37.29. They were the biggest decliners among the 30 stocks that make up the Dow indus-trials.

Declining issues outnum-bered advancers by about 4 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where consoli-dated volume came to 5.22 billion shares compared with an extremely heavy 9.1 billion traded Friday.

The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 33.30, or 4.4 percent, to 720.44.

Overseas, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index climbed 1.42 per-cent, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rose 1.58 percent. Britain’s FTSE fell 1.41 percent, Germany’s DAX declined 1.32 percent and France’s CAC 40 fell 2.34 percent.

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REGISTER: Esteban Tadeo from Progressive Future came to the University from California to urge students to vote.

“It was a good show, the same as always. It is kind of hit or miss. We don’t go to all

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By Ben PennU-Wire

Some University of Maryland students, undeterred by the state’s lack of battleground sta-tus this presidential election, are taking action 40 minutes down the road in the far more consequential state of Virginia.

Members of the College Democrats knocked on the doors of undecided voters in the Springfield, Va.-area Saturday afternoon, part of the group’s efforts to campaign for Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a traditionally conservative state that is consid-ered in play for the Democrats this year.

“Maryland is never going Republican,” said Bill Franklin, a freshman computer sci-ence major, as he prepared to depart for Virginia on Saturday. “Virginia is going to be a big toss-up and what’s going to make a big difference is the ground game — volunteering, like I do.”

Franklin was one of 16 stu-dents who volunteered last weekend while six students campaigned the Saturday before, College Democrats Vice President Amy Hartman said. Hartman hopes the num-ber of volunteers will double each week in the six Saturdays

remaining prior to the election.Senior economics and govern-

ment and politics major Jason George knocked on around 50 doors in several hours, and found the people he talked to mostly receptive to his appeal for Obama.

“For a lot of people, it was just kind of giving them infor-mation and asking them if they had made up their minds yet. I wasn’t really having heated dis-cussions,” George said. “They appreciated that somebody was willing to go out and take the time to reach them.”

The student volunteers’ ability to sway enough undecided voters for Virginia to carry a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 is unclear, but one volunteer coordinator remains optimistic.

“There’s a general rule of thumb: For every four voters you

talk to, you’re picking up one vote. That’s going to be a big dif-ference maker right there,” said Justin Slaughter, the Washington outreach coordinator with the Virginia campaign, who deals with volunteers from both Maryland and Washington.

Republicans on the campus are also acknowledging the importance Virginia will play in this election and are stepping up their canvassing in the area. College Republicans President Chris Banerjee said his group plans on traveling to northern Virginia in the next few weeks to staff a phone bank for Republican candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and will attend rallies and pass out campaign literature.

One local McCain campaign official has noticed a number of Maryland volunteers devoting time in Virginia.

“We have seen a large num-

ber of volunteers who are in Maryland who want to desig-nate their weekends to efforts in Virginia at the grassroots level, and that goes for students, work-ing men and women, senior cit-izens and anybody who wants to be active and go to where all the action is in Virginia,” said Gail Gitcho, McCain’s commu-nications director for the mid-Atlantic region. “We certainly do welcome them.”

College Democrats and Republicans are not the only student groups spearheading campaigning trips in nearby states. Hartman said she is hop-ing College Democrats will team up with Students for Barack Obama, and the campus activist group Community Roots is plan-ning on coordinating meetings to educate students on the elec-tion process, according to Steve Jackson, the group’s president.

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RAISING MONEY: Senior and Sigma Nu member Kenny Brown peddles his bike hard to help his fraternity raise money for USO. USO helps provide troops overseas with everything from basic toothbrushes to phone cards so they may call home to their families. The brothers will be biking 24 hours a day until the raffle drawing on Friday, Sept. 26 at 6 p.m.

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As the presidential election comes closer, members of the Undergraduate Student Government hope to con-tinue efforts in registering students to vote.

During last night’s general assembly meeting, repre-sentatives from The College Democrats spoke during the open forum asking for USG’s assistance in getting students registered.

Holly Cipriani, a member of the College Democrats, asked USG for its help in get-ting students registered and actually voting in this year’s presidential election.

Cipriani spoke of some problems faced while registering students.

“Since we are the College Democrats, people are sometimes hesitant to reg-ister because of the party affiliation, and that is why we would like to work with USG and other student organizations as an umbrel-la group in registering students,” she said.

So far Cipriani said College Democrats have registered about 1,700 students on- and off-campus students, but most have been off-campus students.

“We’ve been successful in getting students registered, however many of those students live off campus,” Cipriani said.

Cipriani said she would like to see more on-campus students registered to vote.

“You are considered a res-ident of Wood County, and so you should care about where you live and vote,” Cipriani said.

USG President John Waynick also said he would like to see more students registered, but stressed that USG would not affiliate with a particular political party’s viewpoints.

“USG is nonpartisan and we will remain nonparti-san,” Waynick said.

Since early voting begins Sept. 30, Cipriani and Waynick said they would like to work quickly in registering more students.

“It is blitz time, but I know we can continue register-ing even more students,” Waynick said.

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st udents a re reg istered they often t imes neglect to request a n absentee ballot once they arrive at the University.

“About 95 percent of the time students forget to get an absentee ballot,” Cipriani said.

This is a reason why Cipriani said she would like students to re-register to vote once they arrive in Bowling Green.

“It’s really quick and easy to do, and that way you can vote right here in BG when election time rolls around,” Cipriani said.

Jeff Kegolis, a co-advisor to USG, gave members a challenge.

“I urge you to learn more about each candidate and the position on the issues and to then share that infor-mation with your constitu-ents,” Kegolis said.

Kegolis also asked USG members to watch the presidential debates and to keep up with what is going on with each party so they can be an informed student body.

Waynick also reminded USG members they rep-resent the students of the University, so they owe it to them to know what is going on in the world.

“We are here for the students,” Waynick said.

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Critics have lobbed a number of arguments against it. It could potentially create a black hole that would gobble and grind up the Earth. It could create a Big Bang and a universe, possibly similar to our own Big Bang and universe (do we have origins in some alien particle accelerator?). And the cost of the structure is an incredible $8 billion.

Still, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC, a massive particle col-lider recently fired up at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN for short), is well worth the effort. Not since Newton, Einstein and Heisenberg has the potential for human understanding seemed so limitless.

To better understand exact-ly what is going on at CERN, I recently sat down for a discussion

about it with University professor Dr. Lewis Fulcher. He explained that although there certainly is the possibility of finding out numerous interesting things, the tests will be conducted primarily to confirm the existence of two previously-hypothesized phe-nomena about our world: the Higgs boson, and extra dimen-sions.

These extra dimensions are not exactly of the “Twilight Zone” variety — instead, the ones the LHC seeks to confirm experi-mentally are almost impossibly tiny, curled up and hidden from our perception.

However, according to the laws of energy conservation, we should be able to pour huge amounts of energy into very small spaces, and if we see any of this energy dissipate, it will be reasonable to assume that it dissipated into one of these hidden dimensions.

The energy with which pro-tons and antiprotons will be fired at one another in the LHC is immense. Essentially, the experiments are massive “Myth

Busters”-style demolition. The particles will smash into each other at incredible speeds and with trillions of electron volts.

Upon impact, they will smash into tiny bits, and the hope is that one of these bits will bear the expected energy signature of the hypothesized Higgs boson, the popularly-named “God particle,” believed to be responsible for giv-ing mass to matter.

Radical new ideas in science have always met resistance, par-ticularly with men like Galileo. The LHC is no exception, with criticisms coming from all direc-tions. Most popular in the media is its capacity to create world-devouring black holes. But the notion any of these could destroy

the Earth has “no scientific basis,” according to Fulcher.

An article from MSNBC begins, “The builders of the world’s big-gest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might cre-ate globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.”

StartsWithABang.com lent this argument as much credence as possible, and even provided a compelling worst-case sce-nario of a black hole being cre-ated in the machine and stay-ing in Earth’s gravitational field. According to their results, a black hole of the nature creatable by CERN would gobble the Earth

up at an alarming one gram over three billion years. There simply isn’t a threat of this nature from the LHC.

CERN isn’t the only place where scientific progress is being made. For about ten years, Fulcher did important work looking at fundamental particles called quarks and antiquarks, as bound together in mesons. It may be difficult to understand without some physical back-ground, but mesons are believed to carry the force holding pro-tons and neutrons together; they are, in a sense, the fundamental glue holding matter together.

Maybe the most unfortu-nate criticism of the LHC is the immense cost of the structure. In the United States, with so many Americans feeling finan-cial pincers in all aspects of their life, such a project would have a particularly hard time getting off the ground. While I can cer-tainly understand the view that the money would be better spent feeding and clothing the hun-gry of the world, a tiny fraction

of our massive defense budget could easily do the same, many times over.

Perhaps rather than diverting money from programs like NASA and CERN-like equivalents in the U.S., such as Fermilab near Chicago, we could halt construc-tion of our billion dollar embas-sy in Iraq, or produce a few fewer bombs, or fund fewer covert CIA operations. We should look to France and Switzerland as mod-els, and increase funding for our own scientific endeavors.

Try imagining a world where governments, instead of playing Chess over oil-rich regions of the world at immense cost to both local and domestic populations, look to gain an enlightened wis-dom for discovering the inner workings of our universe. I can think of no more humbling way to pursue the path toward peace.

-Respond to Kyle at thenews@bgnews.com.

I have been craving a Falcon Fan Mocktail ever since the end of last semester.

For those of you not enrolled at the University before this year, this was a signature item at Campus Corners. This was a meal-plan friendly, sit-down res-taurant students could go to in order to escape the numerous cafeteria-style options on cam-pus, or avoid microwave meals to go.

The food prices were higher than those at other dining loca-tions on campus, meaning it was easier to spend the large amounts of meal plan points residents are forced to purchase.

Unfortunately, I will never again have the chance to enjoy this orange drink, or anything else from this restaurant. At the beginning of the semester, UDS decided to close Campus Corners and move a weekend-only Commons Buffet to the location.

With the drastic rise in food costs, it is understandable UDS needed to make cuts to their operating budget, and one of the cuts is the controversial decision to get rid of meal plan rollover from academic year to year.

However, in addition to that decision, UDS has decided to remove the option that would best help students spend their meal plan points, since full course meals were offered at premium prices at Campus Corners.

By taking away a unique din-ing center on campus, UDS has made it difficult for students to spend their meal plans by the end of the academic year, leaving rollover they will not see again.

Now, students have no options to enjoy a sit-down meal with their meal plan points they pay so much to have. Everything is limited to ala carte choices from dining centers, or pre-made and microwave meals from the con-venience stores which accept meal plan points.

These items tend to be less expensive than full course meals. Therefore, I am having issues spending my meal plan fast enough to avoid UDS from keeping what I paid for at the end of spring semester.

It was easy to spend $25 per person at Campus Corners, which is difficult at the remain-ing dining centers. Students’ meal plan rates have risen, and it is unfortunate UDS decided to remove the facility where stu-dents could have a unique meal and spend their money.

While students can still have a sit down lunch at the Greenery in the Student Union, only flex points may be used. However, since residents are allotted such a small amount of flex points, they cannot regularly eat there.

Campus Corners helped stu-dents spend their larger amount of meal plan points available to them, and students will have to find new ways to spend the money they will lose in May.

When I attended freshman orientation, University students were explaining the various din-ing options on campus. I remem-ber Campus Corners was touted as the impressive dining center where you could take your par-ents or visiting friends and show off the dining options.

I took this advice to heart, inviting people to help me spend the enormous amount of meal plan dollars I had to spend (and this was before they took away rollover!).

Now, there is no place on campus that is unique or special to the University, and it’s not as

MARISHA PIETROWSKICOLUMNIST

Give me back my rollover,or at least my Campus Corners

MICHAEL WEIGMAN | THE BG NEWS

It won’t destroy the earth, it won’t make a black hole, it’s just science“Try imagining a world where governments,

instead of playing Chess over oil-rich regions of the world at immense cost ... look to gain an enlightened wisdom for discovering the

inner workings of our universe.”

nice to take a friend or family member to the remaining dining centers. That is not meant as an insult to the dining centers on campus, but they do not offer the same sit-down atmosphere and made to order food as Campus Corners did.

Campus Corners was a nice change of pace from other dining centers on campus offering some of the same food at different loca-tions. College students are on the go and don’t necessarily have a plethora of time, but that doesn’t mean they don’t like the occa-sional sit-down meal. It is sorely missed by at least one diner, and my large meal plan balance.

If you are in the same situation I am (too many meal plan points, not enough options to spend them), it’s time to buy bulk. Go to the convenience stores and stock up on anything nonperishable you can take home.

I know I do not want to leave any rollover money to the school, so I pick up anything I think family or friends would appreci-ate when I return home. If I still need to spend, I have no prob-lems buying food on campus, and giving it to local food banks. If UDS is going to take away our options to spend our meal plan, it is necessary to find new ways to spend it.

As for the Falcon Fan Mocktail, the closest substitution I can rec-ommend is an orange CreamSlush from Sonic. Of course, Sonic is neither on campus nor meal plan friendly, but still delicious.

-Respond to Marisha at thenews@bgnews.com.

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WASHINGTON — The wave of immigrants entering the United States slowed dramati-cally last year as the economy faltered and the government stepped up enforcement of immigration laws.

The nation added about a half million immigrants in 2007, down from more than 1.8 million the year before, accord-ing to estimates being released today by the Census Bureau.

“The U.S. is still a beacon for many people who want to come here for all kinds of reasons,” said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution who analyzed the numbers. “But what this shows is that the economy plays a big part in it.”

The U.S. has added an aver-age of about a million immi-grants a year since 1990, includ-ing those in the country legally and illegally.

At more than 38 million, the number of immigrants in the U.S. is now at an all-time high. Immigrants made up 12.6 per-cent of the population in 2007, the largest share since 1920, when the U.S. was nearing the end of its last immigration boom, one that brought mil-lions of people from Europe to the United States.

That wave of immigrants ended with the Great Depression and the onset of World War II.

The immigration figures released today were from the 2007 American Community Survey, the government’s annu-

al survey of about 3 million households. The survey, which is replacing the long form from the 10-year census, yields reams of demographic, social and eco-nomic data about the nation.

Because the estimates come from a survey, each includes a margin of sampling error that makes year-to-year compari-sons inexact. Annual immigra-tion changes for many states and cities were within the mar-gins of error, but the national trend was statistically significant: The nation’s immigration boom slowed substantially in 2007.

Fourteen states showed declines in the estimated num-ber of immigrants from 2006 to 2007, including New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont and South Dakota. Several major cities also posted decreases, including Atlanta, Las Vegas and Oakland, Calif.

Other cities continued to show gains, including Phoenix, Boston and Denver. “Immigrants have always come to the United States for jobs, but before they went to big immi-gration magnets to be with family or other immigrants,” Frey said. “Now the geography of where these people move is much more tied to the economy than ever before.”

Much of the nation experi-enced a housing boom in the first half of the decade, providing jobs that attracted immigrants. The housing bubble burst last year, sending housing markets tumbling and contributing to a slumping economy that some economists believe is in recession.

By Stevenson JacobsThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Oil prices briefly spiked more than $25 a bar-rel yesterday, shattering the record for the biggest one-day gain as unease about the gov-ernment’s $700 billion bail-out plan pummeled the dollar and spurred investors to buy safe-haven assets. An expiring crude contract added fuel to the frenzied rally.

Light, sweet crude for October delivery jumped as much as $25.45 to $130 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange before falling back to settle at $120.92, up $16.37.

The contract expired at the end of the day, adding to the vol-atility as traders rushed to cover positions; the October price began accelerating sharply in the last hour of regular trading, a common occurrence when a contract is about to go off the board.

Still, the rally, which shattered crude’s previous one-day price jump of $10.75, set June 6, showed the intensity of emotion in the market. The Nymex temporar-ily halted electronic crude oil trading after prices breached the $10 daily trading limit. Trading resumed seconds later after the daily limit was increased.

The November crude contract, which became the front-month contract at the end of yesterday’s session, settled at $109.37, up $6.62, still a very sharp gain.

Phil Flynn, analyst and oil trader with Alaron Trading Corp. in Chicago, said the late-session surge in oil appeared to be the result of a large invest-ment fund scrambling to cover

their short positions, or bets that prices would fall.

“When people sense that someone is short, it’s like blood on the streets. It just accelerates the rally,” Flynn said.

In other trading, gold prices shot up more than $44.30 to set-tle at $909 an ounce, and other safe-haven commodities also rallied, underscoring investors’ uncertainly about the direction of the economy and their fear of more turmoil ahead.

“We’re off to the races again,” said Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena, Ill. “There’s a renewed scramble for commodities because of a gen-eral weakness in the dollar.”

Crude has gained about $30 in a dramatic four-day rally that has at least temporarily halted oil’s steep two-month slide below $100. At this rate, crude is within striking distance of its all-time record of $147.27, reached in July.

The rally came as energy trad-ers grappled with the implica-tions of the government’s pro-posed initiative to stem the U.S. financial crisis by absorbing billions of dollars of banks’ bad mortgage-related securities.

Anxiety over the plan also sent stocks sharply lower yesterday; the credit markets were calmer than they were last week, but still showing the effects of investors’ nervousness.

Investors fear that the govern-ment will have to dramatically ramp up borrowing to pay for the mammoth rescue effort, an inflationary move that could further devalue the dollar and trigger another wave of safe-haven buying in investments like commodities.

By Stephen MajorsThe Associated Press

COLUMBUS — Ohio has become the epicenter of a national debate on payday lending restrictions. The pay-day loan industry is trying to get issues on the November ballot in Ohio and Arizona that would overturn restric-tions on the interest rates it can charge. Uriah King, a pol-icy associate at the industry-critic Center for Responsible Lending, says Ohio’s size and status as a battleground state make it the center of attention for those watch-ing the payday industry.Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have passed laws restricting the industry, while four other states are watch-ing Ohio to see what happens.The industry is spending millions of dollars to gather signatures and run television ads to keep restrictions from taking effect.

By Philip ElliottThe Associated Press

COLUMBUS — Ohio’s elections chief was sued yesterday for a second time for sug-gesting that counties reject absentee bal-lot requests that were printed by John McCain’s presidential campaign and that she considers incomplete.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, has been unfairly advising boards of elections to reject the GOP petitions, according to William Todd, an attorney advising Republicans on ballot issues, who filed the lawsuit at the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of two Franklin County voters.

Residents Paul Doucher and Deloris Eagle wanted to vote by mail and sent in a request for absentee ballots, the lawsuit said. But both had left blank a box that indicated they are qualified voters.

“Ohio law is clear that there needs to be on absentee voter applications an affirma-tion that the person is an Ohio elector,” Brunner spokesman Jeff Ortega said. “The forms at issue here selected by a certain campaign are confusing.”

Republicans printed the applications to help voters and said the box was not required.

Brunner hasn’t issued a directive to county boards instructing them what to do. She has, however, sent them a memo-randum explaining her legal interpretation that ballots without the boxes checked be rejected. She also noted that the McCain

campaign designed the forms and chose to place the box on the application.

Last week, two Cincinnati voters also sued over the same question.

Former U.S. Sen. Jack Danforth, who is leading McCain’s Election Day legal strategy, said a close election could deny voters’ rights.

“We are concerned that the Secretary of State of Ohio is in effect disenfranchis-ing many, many people who have turned in applications for absentee ballots,” Danforth said. “We’re concerned that a lot of people who want to vote absentee in Ohio are not going to be able to do so.”

Ohio, for the first time, has allowed vot-ers to cast absentee ballots for the presi-dential election by mail or in person for any reason. Both McCain and Democratic rival Barack Obama have attempted to use the absentee ballot rule to bank thou-sands of votes ahead of Election Day in a state where polling suggests a tight race.

State secretary sued over GOP ballots

Dollar value falls, oil prices rise due to gov’t. bailout plan

“We are concerned thata lot of people who wantto vote absentee in Ohio are not going to be able

to do so.”Jack Danforth | Former U.S. Senator

Nike removes itself from swimwear competition

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Nike said yesterday that it is leaving the elite swimwear market.

The company will continue to provide swimwear for colleg-es and sell to traditional retail customers. But it will not com-pete against the likes of Speedo to get the swoosh on the world’s top swimmers.

“We will not invest in next-generation swim innovation, which is not in line with our stated category growth strat-egy,” the company said in a statement.

Nike said it made a “strategic decision as part of the compa-ny’s long-term growth plan.”

The Beaverton, Ore.-based company had announced sev-eral years ago that it would focus on six key categories to reach a $23 billion revenue goal by 2011. Those categories are running, soccer, basketball, men’s train-ing and women’s training and sportswear.

CNBC reported this week-end that Nike may be halting its swimsuit development after a showdown at the Beijing sum-mer Olympics. Nike lost some of its edge at the games when Speedo stole the spotlight with its LZR Racer suit.

According to Speedo, of the 77 world records set since the release of the suit in February, 72 have been in the LZR Racer. And it was worn by Olympics darling Michael Phelps.

Other swimmers clamored to get the suit at the games. Nike even allowed some of its ath-letes to wear the LZR Racer, an unprecedented move by the world’s largest athletic shoe and apparel company.

But Nike denied that Monday’s decision was a direct result of Speedo’s success, saying it was a “direct result of our long-term growth strategy focusing on the areas where we can have the largest growth.”

Research organization The SportsOneSource Group said Nike is a distant third in the $200

million performance swimwear marketplace — which encom-passes consumer swim goods for exercise rather than leisure. Speedo holds roughly 60 per-cent of the market share, up from 54 percent last year. TYR comes in second at 20 percent and Nike is third at 13 percent, lower than its 18 percent share last year.

Speedo said Nike’s move would not have much impact on its own business, such as the launch of the Racer to general consumers in October.

“We’ve been in the swim-wear business for 80 years,” said Stu Isaac, senior vice pres-ident of team sales and sports marketing for Speedo. “We are going to keep doing what we’ve been doing.

But Evan Morgenstein, an agent who represents a number of top swimmers, said Nike’s decision is a blow to elite ath-letes who depend heavily on apparel companies for their funding — especially in non-Olympic years.

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GOLFAzinger could coach Ryder team againPGA veteran Paul Azinger is the first coach of the American Ryder Cup team since Ben Crenshaw in 1999 to lead the team to a victory over Europe. The U.S. team won the cup Sunday by a score of 16.5-11.5. Because of the success, team members are already calling for Azinger to lead them in 2010.Page 7

ONLINEThe BG News Sports BlogBe sure to log on to The BG News Sports Blog all week to read on the build-up to Saturday’s football game at Wyoming. Also, we’ve got photo slideshows of all of the weekend’s home games and continuing coverage of every fall sport you won’t find anywhere else.www.bgnewssports.com

Today in Sports History1988—Jose Canseco is baseball’s first player to steal 40 bases and hit 40 home runs in a season.1952—Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.1926—Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title.1845—The New York Knickerbockers organize, become baseball’s first team.

The ListWith every fantasy football success story comes a few disappointments. This season is no exception. Today, we list five of the biggest fantasy disappointments in the NFL.1. Peyton Manning: The Colts’ offense has looked about as smooth as a root canal this year. Manning’s got three touchdown passes and four interceptions.2. Steven Jackson: Jackson, who was a first round pick for a number of owners, has rushed for just 159 yards and zero TDs.3. Carson Palmer: Palmer has thrown for 513 yards and just one TD for 0-3 Cincinnati.4. Derek Anderson: The Browns look terrible, but Anderson has managed to look worse. He has two TDs and five interceptions.5. Tony Gonzalez: With a lack of quality quarterbacks to get him the ball in Kansas City, Gonzalez has not scored many points for fantasy owners. He has 129 yards and just one touchdown this season.

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ETHAN MAGOC | THE BG NEWS

A Falcon four spotWomen’s soccer notches fourth straight shutout win over the weekend

By Jordan CravensReporter

The women’s soccer team has found its stride.

And with Mid-American Conference play to begin in just three days, the timing could not be better as the team closed out their non-conference schedule with two shutout victories.

Friday’s victory against Detroit began slowly as both teams were held scoreless in the first half, but BG came out strong in the second half, scoring four goals in 45 minutes of play.

“The first half of Friday’s game was pretty slow going ... but we put things together and scored four goals in the second half,” said BG coach Andy Richards.

“To score four goals in one game is good, but to do it in one

half is pretty amazing,” he said.Katelyn Turner kick-started

the scoring drive for the Falcons’ heading in a ball off of a corner-kick. Her goal was followed up by a ball served in by Stacey Lucas, which was challenged by the Detroit goal-keeper and deflected off a defender, some-how finding its way over the goal line.

“We did a great job of serving the ball in and putting pressure on the goal keeper,” Richards said of the play.

Leading 2-0, freshman Leah Johnson recorded her first col-legiate goal with a long ball that sailed into the net. Kristin McDonald scored the final goal of the match.

On Sunday, the team traveled

to take on Xavier, where Corbie Yee made quick work of scoring first with a goal just 19 seconds into play.

Yee, a second-team ALL-MAC selection last year, got off slow start to begin the season, but has recently come on strong with timely goals and assists.

“We know that she is a dan-gerous player … she can be quiet sometimes and suddenly

pop-up with the game-winner,” Thompson said.

Katie Stephenson netted the second goal of the afternoon in the second half of play, which put the Falcons’ up 2-0, a score which remained unchanged for the remainder of the match.

ETHAN MAGOC | THE BG NEWS

TOUGH IN GOAL: BG hasn’t allowed a goal in their last four matches.

See FOUR | Page 7

“The first half of Friday’s game was pretty slow going ... but we put things together

and scored four goals in the second half ... To score four goals in one game is good, but

to do it in one half is pretty amazing.”Andy Richards | BG women’s soccer coach

Falcon football notes: Team begins preparation for Wyoming By Chris Voloschuk

Sports Editor

Injury updatesTwo weeks ago in the 20-7 loss to Boise State, the Falcon football team sustained several injuries to key players. Among them were receivers Anthony Turner and Freddie Barnes and middle line-backer Erique Dozier.

Along with those three injuries, kick returner Roger Williams and offensive tackle Jeff Fink were also hurt, albeit in previous games.

“Right now, hopefully we’re going to have everybody,” said head coach Gregg Brandon. “It’s still day-to-day with Barnes, Turner and Dozier. Those are the three. Fink rested all week and is ready to go. He’d have to get hit by

a mack truck to keep him out.”

Brandon also said Williams is indeed playing with a club brace on his injured right hand and should be ready to go for Wyoming.

About those Cowboys

A l t h o u g h Wyoming is coming off a 44-0 loss to BYU last week, they’ll present some tough opposition for the Falcons.

They feature a pair of talented running backs with diverse talents. Devin Moore (five-foot-10, 191 lbs.) is a quick, shifty scat back while Wynel Seldon (six-foot, 217 lbs.) is

a more physical rusher.

“They get in and out of things with those two guys,” Brandon said.

Brandon lik-ened Moore to Pitt’s talented back LeSean McCoy, the major differ-ence being in over-all size. Although smaller in stature, Moore will lower his shoulder and push through the

line when he has to.The defense is also a tough

group.“They’re sound in what they do,”

Brandon said. “They have good skill in the secondary. Their cor-

ners are athletic. The safeties tackle well and support the run. Their front seven is physical, stout. We’re going to have to mix up our running and passing to be suc-cessful.”

A sort of homecoming

This game won’t be Brandon’s first time in Wyoming. He was a quarter-backs and receivers coach there from 1987-1990.

During his time on staff, the Cowboys won back-to-back WAC championships and made three bowl games in four years.

“I worked for a great head coach, Paul Roach, who coached in the NFL for nine, 10 years,” Brandon said. “I learned a lot of football from Paul. We had some good teams.”

Praise for KelleySenior receiver Jermiah Kelley

has seen an increase in playing time this season compared to last. So far this season, he ranks fourth on the team in receiving with nine catches and 111 yards.

Brandon had some nice things to say about the junior college transfer from San Jouquin Delta, who will likely see even more snaps due to the current injury situation at the wideout position.

See NOTES | Page 7

GreggBrandonCoached QBs and receivers at Wyoming from 1987-1990

Jermiah KelleyRanks fourth on the team in total receiving yards with 111

DanteLoveBall State receiver suffered a cervical spine injury

Ball State receiver Love’s football career likely over

Reds down Marlins in final home game

By Michael MarotThe Associated Press

MUNCIE, Ind. — Ball State officials said injured receiver Dante Love will probably never play football again.

Love was hurt during the second quarter of a game Saturday night at Indiana and underwent a 5-hour operation Sunday for a broken spine and an injury to his spinal cord.

The university had said after the surgery that Love could move his arms and legs.

“Due to the injury Dante sus-tained, his football career is expect-

ed to be over,” coach Brady Hoke told reporters during his weekly news conference yesterday. “He should have normal and healthy functions for the rest of his life. He touched a lot of lives, and he will continue to do so.”

Love entered Saturday’s game as the nation’s leader in yards receiv-ing per game (144.3), and the fleet 5-foot-10, 179-pound senior was considered an NFL draft prospect.

The injury came in the biggest

See DANTE | Page 7DAVID KOHL | AP PHOTO

TOUCH ‘EM ALL: Cincinnati’s Joey Votto rounds the bases at The Great American Ballpark after a home run in the sixth inning yesterday.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Joey Votto pushed the Florida Marlins right to the brink of elimination and gave fans a sweet way to remember the Reds’ final home game.

Votto homered and doubled to help Cincinnati rally from a four-run deficit and beat the Florida Marlins 7-5 yesterday in a makeup game.

The Marlins took a 4-0 lead before giving up six runs in the sev-enth inning on their way to a third consecutive loss after a nine-game winning streak fanned dreams of a miracle comeback.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — No one spent more time in the PGA of America hospitality room last month at Oakland Hills than Corey Pavin, presumably to start lobbying to be the next U.S. captain for the Ryder Cup.

The list of candidates has rarely been this short, nor has it been so obvious.

“Zinger in 2010,” Phil Mickelson said after the Americans reclaimed possession of the Ryder Cup.

Paul Azinger widened his eyes with what little strength he had left Sunday night when asked if he would consider devoting another two years as Captain America, this time with far more to lose than to gain.

“Zinger in 2010,” Justin Leonard added.

It’s easy to get wrapped up in the emotion of winning golf’s most passionate event, especially since it had been nine years since the Americans climbed to the balcony of a clubhouse for a champagne shower.

Captains sometimes get too much credit when they win, and even more blame when they lose. But for all the spectacular shots over three days at Valhalla that car-ried the United States to a 16.5-11.5 victory, the “man of the match” might have been the one American who didn’t hit a single shot.

It was Azinger who persuaded the PGA of America to scrap its archaic system of picking a Ryder Cup team. For 60 years, points were awarded to only the top 10 performances on a PGA Tour that did not include players from Fiji to Australia, from South Africa to South Korea. Azinger wanted the

criteria based on money, the uni-versal language in golf.

It was Azinger who got the Americans to play like a team, unlocking the secret to recent European dominance.

Even without the best player in the world — Tiger Woods’ only involvement was text messaging Azinger — and a team comprised of six rookies and three veterans who knew nothing but losing in the Ryder Cup, his messages got through.

Enjoy the week. Embrace the crowd support. Forget recent history.

Trailing early in all four matches when the Ryder Cup began Friday morning, the Americans didn’t panic and wound up taking a 3-1 lead for their first opening-session victory since 1991.

Europe never caught up.“It was a dream start for them,”

said Ian Poulter, who lost a 3-up lead that morning in what turned out to be his only loss of the week.

“They’ve always left it to the singles

to press on. That was crucial to be that far in front after Friday and Saturday.”

By Sunday, the swagger returned.

Anthony Kim refused to con-cede a 2-foot birdie putt to Sergio Garcia on the opening hole, made five birdie putts inside 5 feet and gave Europe’s best Ryder Cup player his worst loss. Boo Weekley, who provided comic relief and pure iron play, galloped off the first tee using his driver as a toy horse. Kenny Perry, who wanted this Ryder Cup to define his career, left the best impression.

And while Jim Furyk won the decisive point — fitting since it was Furyk who watched Europe celebrate on him when it began its winning streak at The Belfry in 2002 — the pivotal match belonged to Kentucky bomber J.B. Holmes.

Tied with Soren Hansen, he smashed consecutive drives to set up birdies on his final two holes for a 2-and-1 victory.

What was Holmes doing on the team as a captain’s pick?

Azinger wanted someone who hit it far enough to get Europe thinking about him. Holmes put on a clinic at the practice range, one time pointing to the stage at the back end of the range and hitting a drive that landed on the roof.

“He hit it quite long,” Hansen said. “But ‘quite long’ is prob-ably an understatement. He hit it really long.”

Even as Hunter Mahan was get-ting criticized for saying in a mag-azine interview that the PGA of America cares more about the net income than the gold trophy from the Ryder Cup, Azinger said he would not hold that against him. He used one of his four captain’s picks on Mahan, and the rookie tied a U.S. record for most points by a pick with a 2-0-3 mark.

Ultimately, the players are responsible for points and no one else. Even so, it was clear this U.S. team loved playing for its captain, another European trait.

“This team was more of a European team,” Padraig Harrington said.

The blame for Europe ultimate-ly falls on Harrington, Garcia and Lee Westwood for not winning a match and combining to go 0-7-5. Europe’s four rookies combined for a 6-5-2 record.

European captain Nick Faldo divided his team early when he snubbed Darren Clarke, the inspi-rational leader, even though he had won twice in the previous five months. Then he benched Westwood and Garcia for the first time in their careers. Finally, he put some of his best players this week (Poulter, Graeme McDowell) and this year (Harrington, Westwood) at the bottom of the lineup.

ED REINKE | AP PHOTO

PLAYERS’ CHOICE: U.S. Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger (center) has got the vote of many of his golfers as far as being the captain again in 2010.

DAVID J. PHILLIP | AP PHOTO

COPPING A FEEL: Azinger (right) and the U.S. Ryder Cup team reach out to touch the tournament trophy they won Sunday afternoon.

Earning four shutout victories in as many games, defense has been exceptional over the final stretch of non-conference play.

Richards credited goalkeep-ers Alexa Arsenault and Christy Zabek, who have shared time at the net, while also commending all fronts for their effort.

A little luck along the way has not hurt either—coming in the form of shots deflecting off the crossbars and being cleared out by the defense.

With MAC play beginning Friday, Richards feels confident that his team is where they need to be.

“They’ve been playing well … people are contributing from all over the place.”

“The team has come a really long way,” he said in reference to progress made from the start of the season, which began roughly a month ago with a 3-1 loss to Cincinnati.

But despite the recent success the team has shared in, Richards has one thing on his mind.

“It’s great to win non-conference games, but we know the season really starts this Friday.”

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“He has really nice hands. He catches the ball extremely well,” Brandon said. “He runs nice routes. He’s able to catch the ball in traffic and take some hits. He’s faster than he looks — he can run in the open field — but he looks more like a stout guy that’ll whack you. He has good hands and he runs good routes.”

Rest and reflectionAfter the Boise State game, the

team was able to get some rest on their bye week.

Senior receiver Corey Partridge said although the rest was short, it was still kind of nice.

“We had a couple days off after the Boise State game, but we got right back into it and start-ed getting into this next game,” Partridge said. “We’re trying to get back that edge we’ve lost these last two games.”

In the losses to Boise and Minnesota, ball control and finishing drives were the two biggest problems the

Falcons faced. “We’re just going to have to take

care of the football and do the lit-tle things right, move the football down the field like we have been and just finish drives,” Partridge said. “It’ll be interesting to see if we can do some of the things that BYU did to them.”

Some love for DanteBrandon opened his weekly

press conference with some words regarding Ball State receiv-er Dante Love, who sustained a cervical spine fracture and a spi-

nal cord injury on a helmet-to-helmet hit during Saturday’s win over Indiana.

Love is not expected to play football ever again.

“[It was a] tragic injury,” Brandon said. “All the Falcons are praying for Dante and his family … It was a tragic loss. I hope he’s alright.”

Love underwent surgery early Sunday morning and had move-ment in his arms and legs after-ward. Before the injury, he was leading the nation in receiving yards per game with 144.3.

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“We’re just going to have to take care of the football and do the little things right, move

the football down the field like we have been and just finish drives.”

Corey Partridge | BG receiver

victory in school history — a 42-20 win over the Hoosiers, Ball State’s first victory over a BCS school.

Running back MiQuale Lewis struggled to watch the play on tape. Love had caught a short pass and started to turn up field when Indiana cornerback Chris Adkins walloped him.

Love immediately dropped the ball in front of the Hoosiers bench and went down to the ground. After about 15 minutes, Love was strapped to a back-board and taken off the field on a golf cart, his parents running behind the cart.

“At first, I watched it back-to-back a couple of times,” Lewis said. “After that, I just couldn’t watch it again.”

Losing Love will force Ball State, off to its first 4-0 start since 1988, to make adjustments.

True freshman Briggs Orsbon was listed as Love’s replacement on the offensive depth chart Monday, and Hoke said he would have to choose from three players to return kickoffs. Love was the school’s career leader in kickoff return yardage with 2,129.

Love, from Cincinnati, also ranks second in school history in receptions (199), yards receiving

(2,778) and is tied for fourth in TD receptions (20).

But even as Ball State pre-pares for this week’s Mid-American Conference game against Kent State, Love remains a primary focus.

“The role we want him to play is to get better,” Hoke said. “That’s what his teammates want, that’s what we all want because of the respect we have for him. That will always be there, and he will always be in our thoughts.”

CHRIS BERGIN | AP PHOTO

PRODUCTION: Dante Love was leading the country in receiving yards per game.

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“It’s tough trying to rebound from those two games,” Florida starter Ricky Nolasco said. “Just coming in here for the day and losing that way definitely hurts.”

The loss dropped Florida 5.5 games behind New York in the NL wild-card race with six games left. The Mets played Chicago at night.

Votto hit a go-ahead double during a six-run burst in the seventh inning. Jerry Hairston Jr. drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single to tie it, and pinch-

hitter Andy Phillips later deliv-ered a two-run single.

“That usually happens any time you can’t get one or two outs,” Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez said. “We didn’t get the outs, and they took advantage of it.”

Aaron Harang (6-16), who pitched a shutout against St. Louis last Wednesday, gave up four runs in seven innings. David Weathers worked the eighth and Francisco Cordero closed for his 33rd save in 39 chances.

“We stuck with him because we were trying to get him the win,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said.

“He ended the season on a posi-tive note—big time.”

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The front yard of a house in a British Columbia neighbor-hood is a little less welcoming for pirates now.

Architect Andrew Dewberry and a crew of friends spent Saturday dismantling the pirate ship tree house he’s had in his Vancouver yard for two years. He said he had no choice after a court ordered it to be removed for not complying

with city bylaws.Dewberry had to explain

the situation to his sons Jack, 9, and Sam, 7, before the tree house came down. He said, “They’ve had a lot of joy with the tree fort.”

Jack, who stood with a friend and watched the dismantling, said, “We wanted to sleep in it over the summer one time, but we didn’t get around to it and now we can’t.”

In July, the judge in the case admired the workmanship of the ship, complete with plastic cannons, in a perch 6? feet up a large, leafy tree in front of the family’s home. But the judge said its merits were irrelevant to whether the tree house violated city bylaws.

Dewberry said the tree house would be auctioned for the Boys and Girls Club of Vancouver. The benefit is set for Oct. 16.

DARRYL DYCK | AP PHOTO

SHIPWRECKED: Andrew Dewberry looks out from atop his children’s tree house in the front yard of his home. As his two young sons looked on, Dewberry and a crew of friends dismantled their pirate-ship-shaped tree house.

Treasured ship to benefit kids

DELHI, Ill. (AP) — Here’s a tip: Bartending nude can get you arrested.

Sheriff’s deputies doing a routine check this week at a southern Illinois bar say they discovered a not-so-routine sight. Authorities allege that 33-year-old Janet Brannon was naked while serving bar patrons at the Cabin Tavern in Delhi.

Brannon was arrested and charged with misdemeanor public indecency. She was freed on $8,000 bond.

She was the only bar employee working at the t ime, so the tavern was closed Thursday.

No telephone listing can be found for Brannon, and the Jersey County sher-if f ’s department doesn’t know whether she has an attorney.

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HUNTINGDON, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Grubb cares so deeply about the future of his for-mer diner that he is offering to give away the 1950s-style restaurant for free.

He has only one stipula-tion: The new owner must move it and reopen it.

“These types of diners are really making a come-back, and I’m surprised no one locally wants it,” Grubb said. “It’s an excel-lent piece, and you can’t get them much cheaper.”

Locals called it the end of an era when Grubb’s Diner shut its doors last year to make way for a pharmacy. Grubb, the manager and cook for 52 years, decided it was time to hang up his spatula, but he didn’t have the heart to demolish the restaurant.

Instead, he dismantled it and paid a moving company to haul the 68-foot-long sil-

ver diner a mile up the road from its original location in the central Pennsylvania town of Huntingdon. It now sits on two flatbed trailers, empty except for the origi-nal light fixtures, booths and bar.

The diner was recently appraised for $100,000, but Grubb said he is willing to negotiate a lower price or donate it to the right person. Grubb bought the diner in 1964 from the Swingle Diner Co. in Middlesex, N.J.

In an ideal world, some-one would reopen it in Huntingdon and bring back the 15-cent pie slice, said Barb Blair, a longtime Grubb family employee.

“People came here from all over,” she said. “Jerry’s mother would make the pies, and people f locked here because they were that good.”

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CHIC AGO (A P) — More than 2,000 people lined up on O’Hare Airport’s new-est runway Sunday, but they weren’t boarding a f l ight. They were running a 5K.

But try telling them that.Severa l part icipants in

the “5K on the Runway” race made mock jet sounds and threw out their arms to pantomime an airplane. Some even ran with f loppy plastic jets on their heads.

Real jets using adjacent r u nways screa med just hundreds of feet overhead during the race, and bright red signs a long the route wa rned t hey were in a n a rea where a ircra f t were moving.

The event was designed as a community outreach effort to unveil the airport’s newest runway since 1971. Proceeds w i l l support a $750,000 sculpture cal led “Runners” t hat w i l l be installed at O’Hare.

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CALLING ALL PIGS: Jolee Bacon, of Lapwai, does her best hog call at the Nez Perce County Fair in Lewiston, Idaho. Bacon won first place in the adult category.

LEW ISTON, Ida ho — Jolee Bacon really sizzles when it comes to hog-calling.

The northern Ida ho woman took f irst place Saturday in the compe-tition at the Nez Perce County Fair.

She has raised several

champion pigs for 4-H contests. Bacon says she calls pigs every morning and night with her 9-year-old daughter, Jacey.

Bacon won the crown over as she started her hog call with a few loud snorts and a long, drawn-out “sooey.”

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Runners take off on runway to raise money