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How would you get out of jury duty?

“I’d say I am strongly for the death penalty in all cases.” | Page 4

Dance show comes to Kobacker University production of “Step Lively” premieres tonight at Kobacker Hall and is open to students and community members alike | Page 3

Falcons to play this weekendAfter their wins this weekend the men’s and women’s basketball teams look ahead as each have a game tonight, men at Anderson and women at toledo | Page 6

Rome wasn’t built in a dayAfter just over a year in office President Obama still has a lot of work to do but all great changes take time and nothing can be fixed overnight says columnist Bryan Warrick | Page 4

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Energy drinks offer students a ‘perk’-me-upBy Hannah Nusser

Reporter

There’s a lot to consider when choosing which caffeinated beverage will give an appropri-ate alertness without that jolt of jitters. Luckily for college stu-dents who count on caffeine for a quick pick-me-up, it’s gener-ally accepted as safe by the Food

and Drug Administration.Jane Crandall, University

Health Center nutrition counsel-or, said caffeine has many posi-tive effects when consumed in the correct amounts.

“People feel like they need that extra little bit of a stimu-lant to get them thinking clear-ly … it helps stimulate your mind,” she said. “You can think

quicker right before a test.”The recommended daily

amount of caffeine is 300-400 mil-ligrams — equal to about three 8-ounce cups of coffee. Although it has benefits, Crandall said, caf-feine can leave consumers feeling jumpy and overenergized.

“It [caffeine] has to be taken on an individual basis

… because not everyone can

tolerate it,” Crandall said.Senior Stephanie Taylor said

she started to feel the need for caffeine because of a heavy course load her junior year.

“It was the only way I could make it through my day,” she said. “It keeps me going.”

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By Sean ShapiroSports Editor

In her 20 years teaching at the University, Julie Haught has been called into jury duty about, “half a dozen times.”

Never before has it interfered with her teaching abilities, or at least it hadn’t until this past Tuesday when Haught had to cancel classes to perform her civic duty.

While Haught canceled her classes that day, if it were later in the semester she probably would have considered trying to post-pone or forgo her jury duty.

“I’ve never been called before when it was a real disadvantage to students,” Haught said. “Perhaps if it was later in the semester when students were making pre-sentations and it was important for me to be there it would have been a different story.”

If Haught felt it would be det-rimental to her students, she would have had two options to try to avoid jury duty.

The first, according to Mary Bodey, a Wood County Court administrator, is postponing

CAMPUS BRIEFToday is the Centennial Anniversary

Kickoff for faculty and staff. Festivities begin at 9:30 a.m. with

refreshments and the University Steel Drum Ensemble, followed by the pro-gram at 10 a.m. featuring the Humanities Troupe performing “A Centennial Living Newspaper” and reflections by many faculty and staff, including President

Carol Cartwright, Board of Trustee Chair Robert Sebo and the Centennial co-chair Larry Weiss.

Students are welcome. Tomorrow night is the official commu-

nity Centennial kickoff event at the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting Dinner Dance.

The event, which will be in the Union ballroom, will begin at 6 p.m. with a social. Dinner and a brief program, high-lighting the University Centennial, will follow at 6:30 p.m.

Select student leaders and administra-tors will attend, as well as community members.

Many find jury duty difficult to

attend

See JURY | Page 2

Jewelry, pictures, beer, cigarettes, trophies, Burger King Whoppers – these are some of the things people take with them to the grave.

It is becoming more common for people to be buried with all their favorite things when they die, said Brian Habegger, district manager at Loomis Hanneman Funeral Home in Weston, Ohio. He said the most pop-ular things people are buried with are jewelry, notes, cards, letters from family and pictures.

Another trend that seems to be increasingly pop-ular is people requesting to be buried with their cremated pets.

Habegger said the most unique thing he has seen someone buried with was a Whopper from Burger King.

“Pretty much anything goes anymore,” Habegger said. “It’s just very open. People request anything. Their favorite of everything and anything they loved.”

Steve Dunn, owner and funeral director at Dunn Funeral Home, agreed.

“I have seen people buried with trophies, a bottle of beer, cigarettes and a deck of cards,” he said. “Really, people have been buried with anything you can think of.”

The types of clothes people are buried in are also changing, said University junior Jamie Brucker, funeral director assistant at Snyder Funeral Homes in Mount Gilead, Ohio. He said the clothes people are buried in are becoming less formal and more unique to the individual.

“I remember putting a purple alligator skin belt and shoes on a woman,” he said. “I just thought that was unique and different.”

Brucker also described putting “lumber jack clothes” on a guy, such as a flannel top with holes in it.

“The family said they didn’t want ‘normal funeral clothes’ because he was a working man and wanted to be remembered that way,” Brucker said.

Another woman, who died of breast cancer, but wanted to look like she was naturally sleeping, was buried hugging a pillow and wearing all pink for breast cancer awareness, he said.

“Work at the funeral home is never the same,” Brucker said. “Things are changing and it’s always dif-ferent, which is what makes life interesting.”

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Taylor said she’s been called a caffeine addict because she drinks more than five cups of coffee a day.

“I have a cup of coffee in the morning, but it’s like a bowl of coffee,” she said. “And depend-ing on how long of a day I’m going to have maybe I’ll make a pot of coffee later in the day.”

According to the Department of Health and Human Services Web site, regular brewed coffee typically has 85 milligrams of caffeine per 8-ounce cup. Adding one ounce of espresso to a drink adds another 40 milligrams of caffeine, the same amount as eight ounces of regular brewed tea. Soft drinks, another com-mon caffeine source, range from 20-40 milligrams per eight ounces.

Overall, Crandall said, stu-

dents can get the biggest bang for their buck from coffee.

Consuming energy drinks is a risky habit, Crandall said, because caffeine levels vary and can have as much as 300 milligrams per eight ounces. Red Bull has 74 milligrams of caffeine per eight ounces, close to a weak cup of coffee. A 16 ounce can of Monster has 160 milligrams; a can of Full Throttle has 144 milligrams.

Crandall said energy drinks are the least-favored caffeine source, in terms of safety, because they have many additives which are not well-regulated by the FDA.

“They often sneak other drugs into energy drinks besides caf-feine ...whether they’re good for you is really questionable,” she said. “Keep track of what other ingredients are in that energy drink and monitor how many milligrams of caffeine you’re actually consuming.”

Senior Kristen Kralik said

she doesn’t drink energy drinks because they make her feel worse than drinking coffee.

“With energy drinks, I twitch ... it’s bad,” she said. “My heart rate is probaby 30 times faster than it should be.”

Crandall said it is important for students to make sure their whole diet is healthy, because lack of sleep and nutrition can lead to fatigue — the initial cause for caffeine dependency. Students should also get their energy from eating healthy meals, she said, that contain energy-providing carbohydrates.

“Maybe they [students] are

depending on caffeine to get them the energy and haven’t eaten a decent meal,” she said.

“There’s also a nutrition factor in there.”

According to the FDA Web site, caffeine is not a required listing on the nutrition facts label of foods and beverages because it not a nutrient, but a naturally-occuring chemical found in tea leaves, cacao and coffee beans. However, if caffeine is added to a food or drink, it must be includ-ed in the listing of ingredients.

Crandall said moderation is key for caffeine cravings.

“Four to six cups [of coffee]

a day is exceeding, so maybe they should re-evaluate what they’re doing ... just to be safer,” she said.

Depending on an individual’s overall health, caffeine can have negative side effects and draw-backs. Caffeine is not safe for people who suffer from ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome or heart conditions such as high blood pressure.

“Overall I would say it’s a good thing in moderation,” Crandall said. “Caffeine can benefit but you have to be careful.”

“When you withdraw from coffee you can’t do it cold tur-key,” Crandall said. “You can experience withdrawal symp-toms … like headache, fatigue, irritability.”

However, if a caffeine guzzler wants to cut back on their caf-feine, withdrawal symptoms shouldn’t last more than a few days and a caffeine-free lifestyle is achievable, Crandall said.

“They often sneak other drugs into energy drinks besides caffeine ... whether they’re good for you is really questionable. Keep track of what other

ingredients are in that energy drink...”Jane Crandall | Health Center counselor

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one’s jury duty. This can be done by calling the court at least two business days before the sched-uled court date, and then once the postponement is grant-ed, the juror will be recycled through the system and will have to serve sometime within the calendar year.

“I actually got called during the school year and told them I was a student,” senior Amalia Boris said. “I asked them if I could do my service during the sum-mer and they said that would be fine.”

Boris, who is a native of Euclid, OH was called to serve

in Cuyahoga County Court, and served during the following summer for a full week.

“It was an amazing experience, I think it’s something everybody should experience. It’s really neat, you’re making the decision and it’s kind of scary how your decision is affecting somebody else’s life,” Boris said.

Not only did Boris have an eye-opening experience, she

also got paid for her time serving, even during the time when they were still selecting prospective jurors. In Wood County, jurors get 20 dollars a day if they get called and then receive 40 dol-lars a day if they get selected or if the selection process goes past lunch time.

While Boris got her jury duty postponed, it is also possible to get out of civic duty completely.

The second option is to be completely waived of jury duty, however this is a process very few citizens qualify for.

Wood County residents, or students who have registered to vote in Wood County, can be waived of their civic duty if they fill one of eight criteria:

1. No longer a resident of

Wood County2. Can’t communicate in the

English language3. A convicted felon who hasn’t

had their rights fully restored yet4. Over the age of 755. Spouse has recently died or

is near death6. Cloistered member of a

religious organization (Nun or a Priest)

7. Mental or physical disabil-ity that affects your ability as a juror

8. Serving on a jury would be physically or mentally detrimen-tal to you

While it is possible to avert jury duty, the Wood County Court does everything in its power to make sure that poten-tial jurors can perform their civic

duty, even if they take decide to postpone it.

“We do whatever we can to get them into service, and whatever we can to make it fit into their schedule,” Bodey said.

Bodey also said many stu-dents postpone their jury duty and select a time period when they’re either on break from classes or when their schedule is easier to alter.

However, if a student can’t get out of jury duty, several profes-sors, including Haught, would gladly grant the student the excuse absence.

“I understand it’s part of their civic duty and if a stu-dent was to miss my class for jury duty I would understand,” Haught said.

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‘TREAD LIVELY’ TWIRLS INTO KOBACKERTonight the Dance Program in the School of Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure studies will be premiering their annual dance show “Tread Lively” in Kobacker Hall. The show runs at 2 p.m. on Saturday and at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The dancers are students majoring or minoring in dance at the University along with special guest dancers from the Toledo School for the Arts and The Open Window Dance Company run by Tammy Metz Starr, a University professor.

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET How would you get out of jury duty?

BRIAN DAHLHAUSEN, Sophomore, Diatetics

“I’d say I’m too biased toward one outcome.”

TEDDIE LIVINGSTON, Freshman, Broadcast Journalism

“Say I know somebody who’s on trial.”

DONOVAN PAGE, Senior, Supply Chain Management

“I’d say I had a funeral to attend.”

LaTISHA EDWARDS, Senior, Liberal Studies

“I’d just tell them I don’t want to do it.”

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Dissident historian Howard Zinn leaves a legacy of truth and justice

It’s been said that only the good die young. But some-times, the good live long, ful-filling lives during which they enrich the world in innumer-able, invaluable ways.

The popular dissident, author, playwright, educator and activist Howard Zinn died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 87 years old.

I first became aware of Zinn through his associations with one of my then-favorite authors, Noam Chomsky. Somewhere in the upper reaches of my satel-lite channel guide was a network called FreeSpeechTV, and occa-sionally Chomsky and Zinn’s speeches or media appearanc-es would be highlighted. Their words were a revelation to me.

Somehow, these mild-man-nered, kind-faced, white-haired old men spoke with enough authority on their subjects to shake me as a 13-year-old. For the first time, it wasn’t the pre-sentation that mattered, it was

the material presented. And what they presented was a dis-sident alternative to the com-monplace worldview with which I had been educated, one which I had no choice but to adopt.

Zinn was an extraordinary man. He started his long career in academia at Spelman College, the nation’s first established institution of higher education for black females, and played an important role in civil rights demonstrations.

In 1980, he published his highly popular “A People’s History of the United States.” A revolutionary work, it offered a rewrite of his-tory told not from the perspective of the tycoons and politicians, but from ordinary, working-class people. Last November, the History Channel turned the book and its companion piece, “Voices of a People’s History,” into a docu-mentary special with readings by prominent actors, musicians and activists. It was the closest Zinn ever came to any kind of main-stream breakthrough.

But Zinn never had any real chance for mainstream suc-cess, nor desire for it. He was an occasional guest on news shows, particularly those like Charlie Rose’s, but he could never be an effective guest on a show like

“Hannity.” Zinn would never win a shouting match, but give him the time to make his case and he could convince anybody — not with cheap tricks or intimida-tion, but with words carrying an uncanny resonance of truth.

He was utterly fearless throughout his life. A relentless crusader for peace and equal-ity, the phrase “Speak truth to power” meant nothing to him. Power already knew the truth; they didn’t need Zinn to tell them. Instead, he spoke truth to people, which he knew were the real vehicles of social change.

Feelings of sadness at Zinn’s passing are only natural, but I can’t imagine Zinn himself spending too much time in mourning. His legacy is intar-nishable. A life dedicated to the advancement of human justice and understanding is a life well spent, and nobody better exem-plified that life than him.

Now, he belongs to the ages. In the coming centuries, when con-sequent volumes of “A People’s History” are being written, Zinn himself will have a permanent, crucial position in its pages.

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Obama’s first year on the right track, just give him time

We are just a little over a week into the second year of the pres-idency of Barack Obama, and while he has a lot of time left in his term, some people have already come to the conclusion he has not and will not fulfill the promises he made during his campaign.

The economy is still in bad shape and the Republicans are pointing out every little mis-take Obama makes. Of course, they seem to do that a lot with everyone.

But he’s only been our presi-dent for a year. The U.S. govern-ment takes a long time to get anything done and Obama has been working. What did people think would happen? Did they think the economy would be fixed overnight? The wars would end instantly?

What people seem to have for-gotten is it takes any president in any era more than a year to get real change underway. In today’s society of instant gratification and the Internet, we have come to see the whole world as some-thing that can be fixed as quickly as our Internet connection. But it is not, and that is the one fact people need to remember, if we as a nation are to fix anything.

Obama is taking the right steps to recovery, from the very suc-

cessful Cash for Clunkers to the still-stalled health care bill. But it will take years to see any kind of real result from these programs. That’s the way it’s always been.

During the Great Depression, it took President Roosevelt 12 years, billions of dollars and the economic boom of World War II to fix the economy. This new Great Recession may take some-thing similar to that as far as time and money goes.

While this economic downfall may only be a few years old, its beginnings stretch back over sev-eral presidents and governments, over the last few decades. Part of the blame can go to the huge deficits run up by Presidents Reagan and Bush, Sr.; other parts rest on the handling of the hous-ing market and banks during the presidency of Bill Clinton.

The final straw was the failed policies of the most recent president Bush, most of which became giant holes the govern-ment just threw money, resourc-es and people into.

All these mistakes combined to create the worst economic peri-od since the Great Depression. The sheer number of mistakes

and mishandling that led to this state, over so many years, would be hard for anyone to fix, no mat-ter how much time they have. Do people really think it can all be fixed in just a few months, or even a few years?

The real world is not Facebook and people need to act like it and start working to fix things in the long run, because it’s going to take awhile to really fix anything in this system.

Just a few days ago, Obama admitted change has not come fast enough and he will work hard to see a lot of his promises come true. But it will take more than just one man; we all have to work together and realize this world will take some time to get back on track.

We are just a year into the historic presidency of Barack Obama and while the improve-ment of things is taking a long time to get going, there is a lot of time left for things to change — if only people will have the patience to last that long.

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BRYAN WARRICKCOLUMNIST

“Part of the blame [for the economic situation] can go to the huge deficits run up by Presidents Reagan and Bush, Sr.; other parts rest on the handling of the housing

market during the presidency of Bill Clinton.”

New experimental band, Man Man, could be music’s saving grace

Despite, or perhaps because, of their oddity, the band Man Man is a fresh and innovative sound for the world of music.

Their biography per the Anti-records label describes their beginnings in quite a metaphysical way: “Before the world came into existence, all was a chaos, unimaginably limitless and without shape or form. Eon followed eon, par-ticle became mass: then, lo! out of this boundless, shape-less mass something light and transparent rose up and formed the heavens. And from the heavens fell five shapes, loud and heavy and jumbled, and from these rough forms were shaped and sculpted the first firsts: Honus Honus (the High-August-First-Voice), Sergei Sogay (the Divine-Center-of-Four-Strings), Pow Pow (the August-Beat-Divinity), Critter

Cat (the Divine-Twang-and-Everything-Else) and Chang Wang (the Other-Twang-and-Wondrous-Everything-Else).”

And so they are five unique musicians, all originally drummers, who reside in Philadelphia. Their style, if it must be categorized, is highly experimental — using a wide variety of instruments from the universal guitar and drums to chopsticks and stuffed frogs.

They’re renowned for their energetic live shows in which the members of the band wear white tennis out-fits and decorate their faces with war paint. During these shows the band does not take breaks between songs, mov-ing in a free-f lowing gypsy-jive from one enlightening song to the next.

Their music is centered around the unique piano playing of lead singer Honus Honus and the various crash-ing jam band-esque instru-mentals. Their 2006 album, “Six Demon Bag” (a reference to the film “Big Trouble in Little China”) is a tour-de-

force of contemporary sound that seems to be plucked straight from the waltzing tunes found in carnivals.

They have surrealist lyr-ics full of intense emotional vocalization that is diffi-cult to describe with words. One of the highlight songs of the album, ‘Van Helsing Boombox’, may also be their most accessible, while also retaining their metaphysi-cal distinctions with opening lines like, “Only time will tell if I’ll allow / the scenery around to eat me alive.”

Their followup album, “Rabbit Habbits,” adds to the manic style of the former, and retains the energetic level of their live shows. Man Man may well have opened a new door for music — a style that wholly defies any logical cat-egorization.

They stand a kind of new-age Pink Floyd, and may well be on their way to superstar status. They are certainly a band that has the pulse of their generation, and aren’t afraid to embrace the weird-

ness of life.

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ERIC RHOADSCOLUMNIST

There is more to a newspaper than opinion columns and puzzles

Something rather interesting was brought to my attention the other day by the Director of Student Publications and it really caught me off guard: The majority of stu-dents who pick up and read “The BG News” do so mainly for the columns, blotter, and Sudoku puzzle.

To some who are reading, this might not be a surprise. But I used to write news stories and it was a blow to my pride to say the least.

When I was little, my dad used to take me on his lap and read me the sports page of the Dayton Daily News. It was my first real “bonding experience” with my father and something I will always remember.

The funny thing is, according

to numerous studies, almost 50 percent of adults still use newspapers as a source for news. The flip side, however, is that it has dwindled from 60 percent ten years previous.

Most experts, when asked, will cite the Internet as the

prime reason for the decline in print journalism.

But I have to ask, why can’t we have both?

I am aware of the general disinterest most students on campus suffer. Hell, I’ve writ-ten about it before. But why does that mean you can’t pick up and read something crafted by a young reporter who, for all you know, could be sitting right next to you in class?

Since 1970, “The BG News” has been published daily and has dutifully served the needs of not only the cam-pus community but the city of Bowling Green.

The people on staff for our paper are some of the hard-est working individuals I have

ever met and deserve more credit than the crap they often get from those in the campus community, from staying late to finish a paper on deadline so you can have it in the morn-ing to making sure the last source is checked for an arti-cle so you can have the latest news, even if you don’t take advantage of it.

So next time you pick up the paper and start to flip to page 4 to read Forum, I urge you to take a moment and read the work of your fellow class-mates and think of all the work that goes into putting this free publication out.

Because from the edi-tors, reporters, copy editors, designers and everyone else who is going to hate me for forgetting them, it is a work of love on our part and should be treated as such.

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Court acquits former French PM in smear trial

PARIS — A court ruled yesterday that former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin did not take part in a smear campaign against President Nicolas Sarkozy, a ver-dict that means the two rivals may soon be sparring in the political arena again.

Villepin, a former diplomat known for his 2003 U.N. speech urging the U.S. not to invade Iraq, quickly suggested his acquittal means he is setting his sights on the presidency.

The 6-year court case backfired on Sarkozy who had been one of 40 plaintiffs. At one point, in a slip, Sarkozy had referred to the defen-dants in the case as “guilty.”

Yesterday, the court accorded Sarkozy one euro ($1.40) in symbolic damages. But other defendants were convicted in the case, which involved a phony list of leading French politi-cians and businessmen who alleged-ly held secret accounts purportedly created to hold bribes from a 1991 sale of warships to Taiwan, and other shady income.- By Nicolas Vaux-Montagny and Verena Von Derschau (AP)

Experts find source of ancient Roman aqueduct

ROME (AP) — Experts have located the source of an ancient aqueduct built by Emperor Trajan nearly 2,000 years ago to supply Rome.

Archaeologists and officials said at a news conference yesterday that the find near lake Bracciano, north of Rome, was made by a British documentary crew that was filming in the area and was told by residents about an aqueduct believed to date back to the 18th century.

Archaeologist Lorenzo Quilici, an expert on aqueducts, visited the site in June and confirmed it was much older.

Experts believe the labyrinth of underground galleries and vaulted chambers was built to collect spring water for Trajan's aqueduct, inau-gurated in A.D. 109. It was one of 11 supplying Rome with water.

Clinton: Iran leaves penalties as only choice

LONDON — Iran leaves the world no recourse but to apply penal-ties aimed at curbing a fast-track nuclear program, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday.

In London ostensibly for confer-ences on Afghanistan and Yemen, Clinton has devoted significant time to Iran ahead of a U.S.-led sanc-tions push at the United Nations expected by the end of the week.

Her discussions here are intended to win support from countries whose backing the United States and its allies need to win and enforce new U.N. sanctions.

“Our efforts to apply pressure on Iran are not meant to punish the Iranian people. They are meant to change the approach the Iranian government has taken toward its nuclear program,” Clinton said.

- Matthew Lee (AP)

Anti-Chavez protesters march on state energy co.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Thousands of university students protested in Venezuela’s capital yesterday, accusing President Hugo Chavez of forcing an opposition channel off cable and satel-lite TV as part of a broader strategy aimed at curbing criticism of mounting domestic problems.

It was the fifth straight day of stu-dent protests following the removal of Radio Caracas Television Internacional, or RCTV.

“We are not going to allow contin-ued shutdowns of media outlets that tell the truth, and we are not going to allow ineptitude and inefficiency to continue,” said Nizar El Sakih, a student leader.

Government critics argue Chavez is responsible for pressing problems ranging from double-digit inflation to violent crime to rolling blackouts, and demonstrators marched to the headquarters of the state-run electric-ity company to call attention to the energy shortages.

-Fabiola Sanchez (AP)

American man detained at China border SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said yesterday it has detained an American man for illegally entering the country from China, the second arrest of a U.S. citizen it has reported in the past several weeks.

The man was detained Monday and is under investiga-tion, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch. It did not iden-tify him by name or provide other details.

In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters yesterday that the United States has asked Swedish diplomats to press for details on the reports. He said there has been no confirmation of a second detention, but that the U.S. takes the reports seri-ously and urges the North to allow Swedish diplomats to visit any detained American citizens.

The U.S. Embassy in Beijing said it had no information while the embassy in Seoul had no comment.- By Hyung-Jin Kim (AP)

Police chief killed in western Mexico town

MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen killed a police chief and two officers yesterday in the same western town where a human head was dumped a day earlier.

Antonio Bravo, police chief of Quiroga, and two officers were attacked while they drove in a patrol car, Michoacan state pros-ecutors said in a statement.

Quiroga authorities found the severed head Wednesday in the town’s tree-lined plaza near city hall. It was accompanied by a threatening message referring to a drug cartel.

By Will WeissertThe Associated Press

HAVANA — Cuba wants to nego-tiate an agreement with the U.S. to slow the trafficking of its citizens fleeing the island and hopes to tackle the issue during immigration talks rescheduled for February, the foreign minister said yesterday.

Bruno Rodriguez said negotia-tors will meet Feb. 19 in Havana and Cuba wants Washington’s help in combating people smug-gling, often carried out by gangs with souped-up speed boats that ferry Cubans out of the country. While some head for Florida, most arrive on the Caribbean coast of Mexico or Central America and make their way north to the U.S., where they usually are allowed to stay.

“Part of the Cuban agenda presented to the government of the United States is a proposal for a new immigration agree-ment and solidifying coopera-tion in the fight against people trafficking,” Rodriguez said.

Under U.S. law, Cubans captured at sea are usually deported while those who

reach American soil can apply for residency — making Mexico an attractive route. Cuba has long denounced Washington’s so-called “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy as encouraging illegal immigration.

Rodriguez said the United States has yet to respond to Cuba’s proposals, however, and a spokeswoman at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana — which Washington maintains instead of an embassy since the two countries do not have diplomatic relations — said yesterday that Washington has not yet finalized an exact date for the talks.

Biannual discussions between the U.S. and Cuba were limited to immigration from 1994 until they were can-celed under President George W. Bush in 2003. They began anew in New York in July, and both sides called that session positive.

But a second round of dis-cussions planned for December were pushed back.

Looming over the encounter is the arrest of a U.S. government contractor who was detained in Cuba in December for allegedly

distributing prohibited satellite communications equipment.

Cuba accuses him of being a spy. U.S. officials deny that, saying he was not working with groups opposed to the commu-nist government but with a reli-gious and cultural organization.

Rodriguez said that under American law, the detainee “would at least be considered an agent of a foreign power.”

“Evidently the government of the United States will not quit endorsing the destruction of the Cuban revolution, the political structure of the government of our country,” he said. “In any part of the world that would be a serious crime.”

Still, Rodriguez said Cuba has coordinated with the U.S. on transporting aid to Haiti, with 60 U.S. flights using airspace in eastern Cuba to reach the quake-devastated country since Havana temporarily opened it to American planes.

“There have been some exchanges between the Foreign Relations Ministry of Cuba and the State Department on an eventual cooperation in Haiti,” he said.

Date set for Cuba-U.S. immigration talks in Havana

By Sylvia HuiThe Associated Press

LONDON — A British doctor who claimed links between a common children's vac-cine and autism failed in his duties and acted against the interest of the children in his care, a medical panel ruled Thursday.

The General Medical Council ruling against Dr. Andrew Wakefield regarded research that he and other doctors conducted in the late 1990s, purporting to show that the combined m e a s l e s -mu m p s -r u b e l l a (MMR) injection could put children at risk of autism or bowel disease.

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BASEBALLFalcons picked to win MAC EastThe Falcon baseball team and coach Danny Schmitz (above) were picked to win the MAC East by the preseason poll.

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Today inSports History1936—Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson are elected as the Baseball Hall of Fame’s inagural class.

1900—The American League organizes with eight teams.

The ListWith another busy weekend of BG sports coming up this weekend, we take a look at the top five events:1. Women’s Hoops: BG and Toledo match-up in not only a big rivalry game, but also a contest between the MAC’s top two teams.

2. Men’s Hoops: BG looks to continue their brief winning streak as they host Central Michigan Saturday night in Anderson Arena.

3. Gymnastics: The Falcons head to Kalamazoo for a match-up with Western Michigan.

4. Tennis: After two weeks on the road the Tennis team returns to the Perrysburg Tennis Center for two matches with IPFW and Youngstown State.

5. Track: For the third straight week BG hosts a track meet, this time they host the Tom Wright Classic at the Perry Field House.

SIDELINES

OUR CALL

Gymnastics team heads to Kalamazoo to battle Broncos

ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWSQUEEN OF THE MAT: Queenita Gamble performs her routine on the Balance beam in BG’s win over Northern Illinois.

By CJ WatsonReporter

The BG gymnastics team trav-els to Kalamazoo, Michigan this week to take on the Western Michigan Broncos in search of their second Mid-American Conference victory of the season.

Last week, the Falcons soared over Northern Illinois in their home and MAC opener in Anderson Arena winning 192.635-190.900.

Breanne Guy was given the All-Around medal where she put up

stellar scores all day including a 9.800 on the balance beam — in which she won — a 9.750 on the vault, a 9.700 on the floor exercise, and a 9.650 on the bars.

Western Michigan comes in with a record of 1-1 with a win against Ball State and the loss coming at the hands of Northern Illinois. The Broncos have also competed in two competitions. WMI finished fourth in their first competition of the year facing Big Ten and Big East opponents Michigan State, Penn State, and West Virginia. The Broncos fin-

ished second out of four teams including Illinois State, Air Force, and UW-Lacrosse.

All-around gymnast Kristine Garbarino has been a bright spot for the Broncos. At Illinois State last Sunday, Garbarino took the all-around medal for the third straight week after finishing in the top five in all four events.

The meet against Northern Illinois was a good test for the Falcons but they know it’s not

Men’s basketball hosts Central Michigan

ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWSDRIBBLE: Erik Marschall carries the ball up court earlier this season, on Saturday Marschall and his teammates host Central Michigan.

By Paul BarneyAssistant Sports Editor

Winning on the road is a tough task, but overcoming a defi-cit to win on the road is even tougher.

The BG men’s basketball team did exactly that, taking a big step Wednesday night at Eastern Michigan, bat-tling back from deficits as

high as 13 points to defeat the Eagles 64-61.

Wednesday’s win gave the Falcons (10-8, 3-3 Mid-American Conference) their third win out of their last four games, two of three coming on the road.

“Our guys are growing up,”

Falcons host Tom Wright Classic in unscored event

By Brad FrankReporter

After surviving the chaos from the first few weeks of classes and after battling the uncertainty of the start of a new season, the BG women’s track and field faces a different challenge now.

Tomorrow morning BG will host the Tom Wright Classic. The Falcons will be part of a four-team women’s field consisting of Robert Morris, Youngstown State, and IPFW.

Unlike BG’s two previous meets this season, this meet will not be scored and is open

to the public, as men’s teams and unattached individuals are scheduled to participate.

Also unlike what the Falcons are used to this season, BG coach Cami Wells said some members of the team will

JeannattePettigrewWill miss this week-ends Tom Wright Classic

Tennis team returns home to host IPFW, Youngstown

By Brett WaneReporter

The Bowling Green State University women’s tennis team looks to push their win-ning streak to five this weekend by picking up victories against IPFW and Youngstown State University.

The Falcons face off against IPFW on Saturday (Jan. 30) and YSU on Sunday (Jan. 31). Both non-conference dual meet

matches will take place at the indoor home for BGSU tennis, the Perrysburg Tennis Center.

IPFW has started their season off 1-1 after dropping a 6-1 deci-sion to the Toledo Rockets and then rebounding for a 5-2 win-

ning decision against Eastern Illinois. Sophomore Alexandra Forsyth was named the Summit League player of the week for

“The competition has been tough and we’ve continued to improve. Overall I’m pleased

with our play at this date.”Penny Dean | Tennis Coach

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By Sean ShapiroSports Editor

Curt Miller has called Toledo the best team in the con-ference all season, Saturday night he’ll have a chance to prove himself wrong.

“I’ve said all along they’re the team to beat,” Miller said.

However, while Miller has marked the Rockets as the best team in the conference, Eastern Michigan head coach AnnMarie Gilbert has first hand experience against both teams.

“Bowling Green is the best basketball team in the Mid-American Conference. With 45 seconds to go we we’re down three to Toledo, at Toledo and we had missed 11 free throws,” Gilbert said. “I just think Bowling Green is a smarter basketball team, they’re a little better skilled at position and they’re a bit older.”

Eastern Michigan lost to Toledo 72-63 on Jan. 13, but it took the Rockets a 10-2 run to end the game as they took sole possession of first place in the MAC West. When BG played Eastern Michigan, it wasn’t nearly as close as the Falcons dominated leading by as much as 25 points in a 83-71 win.

This season Toledo has posted an impressive 16-4, 6-1 Mid-American Conference record while BG has com-piled a 17-4, 7-0 MAC record.

Both teams are coming off a win this past Wednesday. BG dominated Western Michigan 74-56 and Toledo held on to beat Buffalo 69-67 in overtime, as senior Tamika Mays hits two free throws with 25.8 seconds remaining.

Not only did Mays win the game against Buffalo for the Rockets, but she has also been their offen-

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“It did give us a confident boost to win our first home meet but not too much,” said freshman Sunny Marchand.

“We know that we have to work hard every day in the gym to be prepared to go out and do even better each week.”

BG has been working hard

this week to prepare for the Broncos. Coach Kerrie Beach explained how gaining confi-dence on the balance beam is something that the team has been working on. She stated that the team feels comfort-able in a practice setting but gaining the ability to perform at that same level in a compe-tition is where the team looks to improve.

“We have been working on hit-ting every routine,” Marchand said. “Our goal is always to hit

her performance in the early part of the season.

Forsyth won both her singles matches and went 1-1 in dou-bles for the Mastodons.

BG is 3-1 and Coach Penny Dean has been happy with the team’s performance.

“The competition has been tough and we’ve continued to improve,” Dean said. “Overall I’m pleased with our play at this date.”

The Falcons will hope for continued strong play from junior Christine Chiricosta who was 6-0 before last week-end’s battle with Xavier where she dropped two matches.

Chiricosta who is 6-2, along with senior Katia Babina and freshman Maddy Eccleston will look to build off their early season success.

Babina picked up two sin-gles victories last weekend and Maddy Eccleston has posted a record of 3-1 in both doubles and singles play thus

far in the season.“Katia Babina has really

stepped up to the plate,” Dean said. “She’s handled the num-ber two spot very well and has been mature and a good leader for the team.”

Coach Dean looked for the past few years to repeat them-selves when the Falcons faced Youngstown State University.

The Brown and Orange have won 5 straight against the Penguins including a 5-2 victory last season, and two straight 7-0 wins in the 2007-08 and 2006-07 campaigns.

Chiricosta was 2-0 against YSU last season and will look to push the Penguins to 0-2 on the season.

Margarita Sadovnikova won her collegiate debut in the top flight last weekend for Youngstown State, but was the only player victorious as her team began the season 0-1 with a 6-1 loss.

After this weekend, the Falcons will face Detroit in Perrysburg before traveling to Michigan for a matchup with the Michigan State Spartans.

be competing in events they don’t normally compete in to strengthen them for the future in their primary events.

For instance, certain runners will be running races either lon-ger or shorter than the distance they usually run.

Wells said this is done in an effort to find ways to improve before the peak of the indoor track and field season.

“I told them after the last meet to use these coming weeks to continue to progress and get ourselves ready for the All-Ohio Championships,” she said.

“[Tomorrow’s meet] is our chance to regroup from having three meets in a row and get ready for basically our championships for indoor track this season.”

Tomorrow, and likely next weekend’s meet at Notre Dame, the Falcons will be resting some athletes who have minor injuries in an attempt to be as healthy as possible heading into the most difficult portion of their indoor schedule, when the Falcons will host the All-Ohio Championships two weekends

from now and compete in the Mid-American Conference Championships two weeks later.

BG heads into the Tom Wright Classic tomorrow with the momentum of a team title earned last Friday at home. Last weekend the Falcons won seven events with six individual vic-tories and the 4x400 meter relay team taking first.

This weekend the team is approaching the meet looking to not only build on what it has done already this season but, again, to start to gear up for the end of the indoor season.

Wells said the key to success for the team based on last weekend’s meet is to be consistent, regard-less of the level of competition, so that the team can rise to the increased level of competition they’ll face in the future.

“There’s always a better mark to achieve in track and field. You’re always competing against the clock, the tape measure, and your best marks,” she said.

“You’ve always got a next goal to achieve, so that keeps them fighting for more and striving to be better each time.”

Tomorrow’s meet begins at 9:30 a.m. inside Perry Field House.

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BG NEWS FILE PHOTOROUND WE GO: For the third straight weekend BG hosts a track meet.

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BG NEWS FILE PHOTONO. 1: Christine Chiricosta looks to return a volley during practice last season.

sive catalyst all season scoring an average of 15.5 points per game.

In addition to Mays, Naama Shafir has been a strong offen-sive force and has helped the Rockets be a very physical team, something that gave BG trouble in the win over Western Michigan.

“I think Toledo is the most physical team in the league,” Miller said.

While Toledo is a physi-cal team, Miller’s team has prided itself on it’s precision play which has dissected opposition defenses for the past five seasons.

This season Lauren Procaska and Tracy Pontius have lead the Falcons this season, and even when either of those players struggle someone else on the roster has stepped.

In BG’s win over Western Michigan the player stepping up was Tamika Nurse, as she scored 14 points and dished out six assists.

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GYM From Page 6

coach Louis Orr said of his team.The win at Eastern Michigan

improved BG to 2-2 in MAC road games this season, 7-4 on the road overall.

Apart from overcoming deficits and a hostile crowd in Ypsilanti, BG’s win against the Eagles was significant for a lot of reasons.

After shooting 60 percent from the floor in the first half, EMU was held to 28.6 percent shooting in the game’s final 20 minutes.

Brandon Bowdry, who came in averaging 17.3 points per game, was held to eight points on 4-of-9 shooting.

“I have to give our guys credit, they just stayed on the grind and kept playing,” Orr said. “They gave a determined effort in the second half and just kept fight-ing and fighting.”

BG’s defense gave way to its offense, which kept picking apart the Eagles.

Scott Thomas, Erik Marschall, Otis Polk and Jordon Crawford all had double-digit scoring efforts.

Marschall and Polk combined

for 20 points and 13 rebounds, while Crawford hit four clutch free-throws down the stretch to seal the win.

“I thought [Marschall] and [Polk] were much better in the second half,” Orr said. “They fin-ished better and rebounded bet-ter. [Crawford] gave us a huge lift off the bench.”

Thomas led all scorers with 18 points, this coming after a first half in which he had just one point on 0-of-5 shooting.

“[Thomas] has got what I call a scorer’s mentality,” Orr said. “He believes he’s going to make his next shot. He’s not afraid to put things on the line and step up in big situations.”

Thomas and the Falcons will look to carry their offensive surge into Saturday when the Falcons host Central Michigan at 7 p.m.

BG got the best of the Chippewas last season, com-ing back to win 67-61 in Mount Pleasant.

In that game, Thomas, a freshman at the time, drained three 3-pointers in a span of 2:18 seconds.

In Wednesday’s game, he also buried three shots from behind the arc.

HOOPSFrom Page 6

THEY SAID ITTONIGHT IN TOLEDOA load of bull comes to ToledoThe Doctor is in at Dave’s

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Local rock group the Bartones are set to perform at Howard’s Club H tomorrow night. The Bartones have made their pres-ence known in Bowling Green with their upbeat shows featuring original music that mixes blues, funk and rock. The show will start at 9 p.m. and also feature Cleveland native Doug Maverick.

Bowling Green natives The Doctor and The Priest will perform at Grumpy Dave’s Pub tonight. The experimental progres-sive-rockers will take the stage at 9 p.m. Tickets will be $3/$4 at the door.

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THE ‘UGLY’ TRUTH: ABC has decided to pull the plug on TV show ‘Ugly Betty.’ The network not only told producers this would be Betty’s fourth and final season, but also that they are cut-ting the final season back from 22 to 20 episodes.

AVRIL IN WONDERLAND: Avril Lavigne debuted her first song in two and a half years on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show Wednesday. The sin-gle. “Alice,” is from the soundtrack to the upcom-ing release “Alice in Wonderland.”

‘WORLD’ TO RETURN: Charitable album ‘We Are The World’ is set to make a return to benefit Haiti on the original album’s 25th anniver-sary. While the artist line-up is still in the works, probable artists for the remake include Miley Cyrus, Jason Mraz, Sugarland and Will Smith.

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Letter Grade: D

Rated: R, for strong, bloody violence and language.

Runtime: 104 min.

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ALBUM REVIEW ■ Artist Name | KE$HA

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“ANIMAL”

WHAT MATT LIASSE THINKS: There is something genius about the newest pop star to top the charts.Ke$ha, the female vocalist in Flo Rida’s No. 1 hit “Right Round,” has released her debut and what has become a pop culture phenomenon.After the single “Tik Tok,” a tune about a night of debauchery, catapulted her to fame by becoming the most downloaded song in history, there’s not much mystery left as to the central theme surrounding her album of 14 tracks.

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Ke$ha climbs the charts, lets loose

Let’s play a game. I’ll say a word, and you say the first word that pops into your brain.

Cat. (Meow). Carrot. (Top). Nancy Pelosi. (Miss

Havisham).Now let’s try one that’s a little

harder. What do you think of when I say the word, “bache-lor?” I asked this question to my buddy in class and he immedi-ately said, “party.” The kid next to him, whom I’ve never talked to before mind you, offered, “pad,” and then an awkward giggle. Other popular responses were,

“’s degree,” “ette,” and “the.” I, on the other hand, immedi-

ately think of my dad’s famous Bachelor’s Special when the topic of unmarried males is brought

The island. The numbers. Two Lockes. Either your mind has immediately rushed to count-less clues and theories or you have no idea what I am talking about. I only speak of “Lost,” which has become not so much a television series but a way of life for the past six years. And starting next Tuesday, Feb. 2,

the end looms ominously close. For some this will be a relief.

Discussions of hatches, Others, time travel and Cheech Marin cameos will cease to be heard in classrooms and offices. For fans though, therapy very well may be necessary. I will be in the latter category, assuming the finale and explanations pay off (if not you owe me six years, J.J. Abrams).

“Lost” earns my respect though because it has never been afraid to take risks in story-

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By Tom NepomucenoReporter

In the digital age, where access to social networking sites such as Facebook is readily available, social networks are becoming more than just a way to stay in touch with friends and family.

According to a Facebook press release, more than 35 million users update their sta-tuses each day. Facebook is also available on many mobile devices, including iPods, and the site allows users to grab for other’s attention.

The ability to update statuses wherever and whenever allows users to keep their friends in the know. However, some believe this ability crosses the line between staying in contact and narcissism.

“It’s an undeserving, self-congratulatory celebration of nothingness,” said junior

Kate Noftsinger. Noftsinger said the advent of

social networking is breeding a generation of narcissists. By prompting people to create a profile, customize it, upload pic-tures and make it as unique as they are, social networks have,

“elevated ourselves to celebrity status,” Noftsinger said.

Facebook still has to be a place for people to connect.

Senior Mallory Sanders spends about two hours a

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Pulse Reporter

For years, senior Ashley Brown has had a love for musical the-ater. Now, as one of the top per-formers in the University the-ater program she is on track to pursue her dream.

It wasn’t until Brown’s junior year of high school that she real-ized she wanted to study musi-cal theater and make a career of it. Today, several of her peers and instructors consider her to be one of the standout talents in the musical theater depart-ment. Brown said she came to the University because the theater program made her feel welcome, and everyone was at the same level.

Since her freshman year, she has performed in at least one theater production each semester.

“I have been in so many shows, and I always thought of each one as very gratifying,” Brown said. “I couldn’t really compare any of them.”

Junior musical theater stu-dent Leigh Yenrick served as Brown’s understudy in the musical “Godspell” and also performed with her in the play

“Don Quixote.” “Ashley is probably one of the

sweetest people on the planet, and she is a very hard worker,” Yenrick said. “You couldn’t ask for a better person to act with.”

While she has always had an interest in performing, Brown said she first became interested in musical theater when she began performing in the Fort Defiance Players, a community theater in Defiance, Ohio.

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For those wanting to warmup their vocal chords while having a little laid-back fun, downtown Bowling Green is the place to be.

Five nights a week, bars across town break out the karaoke machines and amp up the micro-phones for sing-along fans of all genres.

Whether it’s country, classic rock or preppy pop, students and residents can find a place to kara-oke Saturday through Wednesday nights.

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights are karaoke night at Nate & Wally’s Fishbowl. DJ Paul Music starts the tunes at 11 p.m. and also works the karaoke machine at Tubby’s Tavern on Wednesday nights.

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The former background singer for such acts like Britney Spears and Katy Perry fills her dance hooks with party-girl antics. The “ani-mal” inside of her comes out clear as day.So, the question arises, what makes her such a genius?It’s not her vocal capabilities. She sounds like an auto-tuned Avril Lavigne.It’s not her captivating lyrics. One of her songs is cleverly titled ‘Blah, Blah, Blah.”What makes Ke$ha a perfectly placed piece of the music business puzzle is her attitude for having fun and doing nothing else. Her entire album is a tale of what kind of drunken escapades she got into the night before.From what anyone can gather from the album, Ke$ha’s typical day involves waking up in the morning feeling like Diddy, brushing her teeth with Jack Daniels and hitting plenty of dance floors when the sun sets.So, of all her songs in which she boasts knock-ing over trash cans and having water bottles filled with whiskey, the ones that work are “Tik Tok,” “Take It Off,” “Blah Blah Blah” (even with the pointless 20 second cameo by 3OH!3). Her lustful songs work too, like “Boots & Boys.” Even “Hungover” and “Dancing With Tears In My Eyes,” the songs about the party lifestyle catching up to her, works for the feel of the album.What doesn’t work is her desperate attempt for a love song. “Stephen” is just unbearable.Overall, what Ke$ha creates is the perfect soundtrack for a night out. The album provides an escape for the listener. It’s the concept of Ke$ha that’s genius.

telling, be it hit (the inclusion of flash-forwards) or miss (season three’s Paulo and Nikki, although their demise was fun). Also, the writers demand attention from the audience which can be a risky venture. I mean, not every-one scours the Internet to learn the truth of the smoke monster, but all viewers have to pay atten-tion from episode to episode to keep up with the revelations.

For most television shows, I can watch one episode of sea-son one, then watch an episode of season four and immediately know what is going on. Take “24” for instance. Someone will be good then bad then good again, someone will fake his death and ol’ Jack Bauer will lose his cool.

Sorry, but I’d settle with Jack Shepard (Matthew Fox) of Oceanic Flight 815 any day. Maybe it’s the stubble, his dedi-cation to do good or my curios-ity as to why his deceased father keeps showing up on the island.

Ah let’s be honest. It’s because it’s Matthew Fox, and the guy’s a charmer.

All I can say is for those who have followed up until now, a fine moment in television history is approaching — a thoughtful, creative show goes out on its own terms and will most likely melt all of our minds with its crazi-ness. And for those non Lost-ies (that’s right, we’re like Trekkies only hipper), cover your ears a little longer, and who knows! There’s always the seasons on DVD to get you addicted.

By Josh WhetherholtPulse Reviewer

Just when I thought action mov-ies couldn’t become more ridic-ulous and terrible, Hollywood hit me with “Legion.”

“Legion” supposes that God has grown tired of the human race and rather than sending a flood this time, he is send-ing his angels to perform the extermination. This doesn’t sit too well with the Archangel Michael, played by Paul Bettany, who decides to cut off his wings and forsake his life as God’s ser-vant. He plans to protect strang-ers at a desert diner run by Bob, played by a typically over-acting Dennis Quaid. Michael’s main goal is to protect a pregnant woman, played by Adrianne Palicki, whose baby is appar-ently the last hope for humanity.

Sadly, the way the film was executed left much to be desired. With a combination of terrible acting from most involved actors and special effects used for the angel-possessed humans that left the audience laughing more than thrilled or scared, “Legion” fell far short of its expectations.

On the surface, this sounds like a somewhat decent plot, full of action and even a little religious twist that can pull in many viewers. However, it steals elements of “Terminator” and

“Children of Men” and follows “Daybreakers” and “Book of Eli” for the third consecutive week as a film with a doomsday plot. Obviously the crackpots in Hollywood have been work-ing extra hard to come up with original thoughts.

“Legion” did nothing to become a classic movie, either in the action genre or the reli-gious film genre. The only place

“Legion” could possibly find redeeming qualities would be if it finds its way into the category of movies so bad, they become popular (I’m looking at you

“Poltergeist”).If you have a chance to do

anything besides see “Legion,” take that chance. The apoca-lypse may not actually be com-ing, but after seeing “Legion,” God might be thinking twice about it.

day on Facebook, and updates her status about once a week. Sanders said Facebook is anoth-er outlet of expression. By having users customize their profile by featuring certain information and pictures, they can create their own identity online. This, according to Sanders, can draw

attention to the user, should they choose to fill their profile with fascinating information to draw attention to themselves.

However, just because peo-ple compulsively update their information doesn’t make them narcissists.

Mike Zickar, chair of the psychology department, said people have their own reasons for using Facebook. Zickar, whose status updates range

from a couple times a day to once every three days, said sta-tus updates are merely people sharing their thoughts, trying to establish a personal connection.

Zickar said if a person was a true narcissist, than he or she would not be interested in what others had to say; they would want everyone to pay attention to them, which in turn would alienate the person causing them to become isolated.

“I always knew it was some-thing I wanted to do, but I didn’t know it was something I could do for a living until I started performing at the Fort Defiance Players,” Brown said.

For stage performers, musi-cal theater usually requires skill singing, acting and dancing, and Brown is no exception.

“Singing is definitely my strength,” Brown said. “Some people have better stage pres-ence than others and some can act and dance better than others. My uniqueness comes from my voice, not necessarily my acting or dancing,” she said.

Theater student Kendra Brook said Brown is an amazing per-former.

“She is always positive, never takes anything too seriously, and she has an amazing voice,” Brook said.

Last spring, Brown played the lead role of Cinderella in the the-ater department’s production of “Into the Woods.” “Into the Woods” is a musical based on a book with music and lyrics written by Tony Award-winner Stephen Sondheim.

“It was rewarding to work on a Sondheim show because his songs are difficult to perform,” Brown said.

Senior musical theater per-former Joe Connelly who has performed with Brown said she is a hard worker and the perfor-mances she gives are solid.

“She is easy to work with and the characters she creates are easy to feed off of,” Connelly said.

Brown has also done work outside the University, per-forming this past summer as an actor for the Huron Playhouse in Huron, Ohio. The Huron Playhouse is a professional the-ater company that is a division of the University’s Department of Theatre and Film. It consists of about 25 performers. During this time, Brown performed in several productions including the role of Connie Miller in the jazz musical “The 1940’s Radio Hour.”

“It was an incredible experi-ence to sing tight harmonies with a small group of people,” Brown said. “I developed a whole new love for jazz music and worked with really talented people.”

Brown said that while she would consider working in

film and traveling, performing in musical theater is her main goal. After college, she plans to find additional work to build her resume, either with the Huron Playhouse or the Weathervane Playhouse in Newark, Ohio. Eventually, she plans to move to either Chicago or New York City to find work with a professional theater company.

Geoffrey Stephenson, instructor of voice and musi-cal theater performance at the University, said Brown is very talented, works very hard and has an angelic voice. Stephenson said just because people have talent in musical theater doesn’t mean they will be able to find work easily.

“Ashley will definitely work in the industry,” he said.

Brown said that performing is special to her because she gets to be someone else and walk in someone else’s shoes for the day.

“You’re looking at the world through someone else’s eyes,” she said. “Getting to share that with the audience is an extremely gratifying feeling.”

James Wiltsie, manager and bartender at the Fishbowl, said about 65 percent of the crowd consists of college students; the rest is an older crowd, includ-ing patrons who come in groups after work.

Kamikaze’s used to host karaoke twice a week, but with an increase in business, they decided to run it Sunday through Wednesday, manager Cody Lucius said. The bar has had karaoke for the past five years; DJ Karaoke Chuck starts at 10 p.m.

Lucius said many customers prefer to sing along to country and “Journey” numbers. He said the atmosphere on karaoke night is more friendly and laid-back than other nights.

“They just kind of come out to have fun and never have any problems,” Lucius said. “It lets people interact more when they can get up on stage; they can sing and have fun and make a fool out of themselves without everyone making fun of them too bad.”

Bowling Green resident Bruce Lillie, 53, said he’s been a regular on the downtown karaoke scene since 2003.

“Everybody’s more accepting of others versus the rest of the time when … everybody’s sit-ting in their own little cliques,” he said. “If somebody’s walk-

ing off the stage, they get high-fives from people they don’t even know.”

University alumnus and karaoke frequenter George Toth-Demetriade said karaoke serves as a good “ice breaker.”

“It’s a good way to have fun with people you’ve never seen before. It’s a good way to con-nect,” Toth-Demetriade said.

For those who can’t get enough sing-a-long fun during the week, Grumpy Dave’s Pub hosts kara-oke night on Saturdays at 10 p.m. with $1 off imported bottles.

Grumpy Dave’s bartender Holly Shepherd said, “I really like it when older men come in and sing Frank Sinatra — the real classic songs — because they always do so good at it, but that doesn’t happen very often.”

Shepherd said the most popu-lar karaoke songs are from the country and pop music genres.

Toth-Demetriade said he sings boy-band songs with his friends. Among his favorites are “Shape of My Heart” by the Backstreet Boys and “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morissette.

“I like to sing stupid songs … I don’t take it seriously,” he said. “I try to sing well but I don’t do it to show off — I do it to have fun.”

Lillie said his favorite genre to sing is 1970s rock. His favorite song to karaoke to is “Vehicle” by The Ides of March.

“I think we’re all kind of partial to what we grew up with in high school,” he said.

Lillie said half the fun of kara-

oke night is watching other peo-ple perform and “seeing who can sing and who can’t … who’s hav-ing fun and who doesn’t care.”

Toth-Demetriade said a down-side to karaoke is “the politics involved in getting in line.”

“It’s hard to get on [stage] when it’s busy, but it’s more fun when it’s busy so it’s a tradeoff,” he said.

Alcohol can be a factor in an individual’s willingness and ability to sing in front of strang-ers, Toth-Demetriade said. With an increase in alcohol intake,

“willingness goes up and ability goes down.”

“The first few seconds are awk-ward when the song’s coming on,” Toth-Demetraide said. He uses the “awkward” beginning measures of a song to dedicate his performance to random crowd-goers.

Lillie said for those too shy to take the stage, “just get ham-mered and don’t care … but I don’t like to tell people that because sometimes they get too ridiculous.”

“It’s funny to see people that are shy who have great voices that never get heard, and people that aren’t too shy that have ter-rible voices that should never be heard,” he said. “Come, find out where you sit [vocally], bring your friends and don’t worry about it,” he said. “It’s a cool social thing.”

Toth-Demetriade said, “As long as it looks like you’re having fun, people have fun.”

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up—and now that I think of it, perhaps that was my father’s plan all along…

The Bachelor Special is basi-cally what McDonalds ripped off from my dad and called their

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THE BACHELOR’S SPECIALThis hangover-curing reci-

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Stack all of the delicious lay-ers and douse in syrup. The Bachelor’s Special is best if eaten in conjunction with the biggest glass of orange juice you can muster.

“Singing is definitely my strength ... my uniqueness comes from my voice, not

necessarily my acting or dancing.”Ashley Brown | Theater performer

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‘Legion’ falls short of heavenly“Sadly the way the

fim was executed left much to be desired ... If you have a chance

to do anything besides see ‘Legion,’

take that chance.”

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36 Musical with Grizabella and Growltiger

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Lebron signs multiyear deal with McDonalds

Tom WithersThe Associated Press

CLEVELAND — LeBron James is now shooting with a Golden Arch.

The NBA superstar has agreed to a multiyear partnership with McDonald’s Corp., adding the global fast-food giant to a list of heavyweight corporate spon-sors that already included Nike, Coca-Cola and State Farm.

Financial terms were not immediately known, but the deal certainly will add to James’ substantial net worth. Last year, Forbes Magazine esti-mated the 25-year-old made more than $40 million in sal-ary and endorsements. He is

currently ranked behind only Tiger Woods on the Bloomberg BusinessWeek list of America’s most powerful athletes.

James will support several McDonald’s programs and promotions as well as Ronald McDonald House Charities, which provides housing to the families of seriously ill children.

He has filmed his first com-mercial with McDonald’s, a take-off on the infamous 1993 ad that featured hoops legends Michael Jordan and Larry Bird engaging in a trick-shot competition for a Big Mac. The new spot will debut during the Super Bowl on Feb. 7.

James, a six-time All-Star with the Cleveland Cavaliers and reigning league MVP,

is thrilled with his newest business partner.

“McDonald’s and I make a great team,” he said. “We share many of the same core val-ues, including a commitment to excellence and giving back to the community. I am also excited about the opportunity to work with Ronald McDonald House Charities, which helps improve the lives of so many children and their families around the world.”

Beyond his involvement in charity work with the company, James will be part of TV, print and online advertising campaigns for McDonald’s, which operates more than 31,000 restaurants in 119 countries.