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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. | l|g -'flU ^A M 1 Bowling Green State University THURSDAY May 1, 2003 ""^^ — - \ ll 1/1/ 1 SCATTERED Iowa State head basket- ■ ^^ ■ ■ m 1/ T-STORMS ball coach is in hot water ^B JL 1 A ■' Ik V HIGH 74 I LOW 49 after discovery of incrimi- . „ . www.bgnews.com nating photos: PAGE a I M A daily independent student press VOLUME 96 ISSUE 70 DNA tests Graduation rates consistent may clarify By Andrew Scharf 'As tuition costs go up, the time required to get a degree becomes counseling and learning com- identity of RCrORTE* munities on campus. The It's a common misconccplion a greater concern for students and parents." Summer Advantage is one result (hat il now lakes more than four of the Success Challenge pro- missing boy years lo graduate with a bache- WILLIAM KNIGHT, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING AND INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH gram. By Mike Robinson lor's degree. However, four-year This program gives S30O to stu - IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS graduation rates have not average Bowling Green student One reason the University Bowling Green receives S3.5 mil- dents who can graduate in four CHICAGO — Initial tests changed over the past few years. graduated in 4.3 years. This figure strives for a four- year graduation lion from Success Challenge. years by attending summer failed to show whether a boy left According to reports from the ranks in the middle range for rate is because of the Success With increased stale budget cuts courses. The program has helped at a suburban hospital was the Office of Institutional Research, Ohio colleges. Challenge program. for higher education, the pro- approximately 500 students each same boy who has been missing approximately 30 percent of stu- Making sure students graduate Success Challenge is a slate gram has become essential to the summer. from his North Carolina home dents graduate in four years. This in the quickest time possible is a program that gives financial University. "It's done some good things for more than two years, the FBI rate has been the same for over a concern for University officials. incentives to universities for each "Departments have come to our graduation rates in the sum- said yesterday. decade, and is similar to other "As tuition costs go up, the time student that graduates in four depend on this for survival," I. mer.'' Linda Dobh executive vice Authorities estimated results universities in Ohio. required to get a degree years. The program was started Michael Sproule, director of the president, said. from DNA testing would take at According to an Ohio Board of becomes a greater concern for during the 1997-1998 school school of communication stud- Beyond the Success Challenge least another 48 hours. Regents report on colleges and students and parents," William year. State-wide, the program ies, said. and Summer Advantage pro- "Everything else came back universities during the 1998-1999 Knight, director of planning and gives colleges approximately $40 The Success Challenge's funds inconclusive," FBI spokesman and 1999 - 2000 school years, the institutional research, said. million in additional funding. go to several programs including GRADUATING. PAGE 2 Ross Rice said. Rice also said Ricky Quick, who described himseif as the youngster's father, was ques- tioned by agents Tuesday night and had been cooperative. Quick was released after answering the questions. Grads to gain Authorities are trying to PAT MCGEE BAND determine if the boy — who has identified himself as FJi Quick- is actually Tristen "Buddy" Myers. from training Tristen was 4 years old when he vanished from his great By Nick Kos dents will benefit because they aunt's home in North Carolina more than two years ago. CUES! REPORTER will have a graduate student Over the next three years, stu- w <• • The FBI had been hoping it working with them, who has a lot would not have to wait for the dents and teachers from local of content knowledge in a partic- schools will leam science and DNA results to determine if the ular field of math or the natural i boy is Tristen. They had hoped mathematics in new ways with sciences," Dr. Lena Ballone, the assistance of graduate stu- assistant professor in the college that quicker tests, such as fin- dents from Bowling Green. gerprints, blood types and den- of education, said. tal records, would give them The National Science The program is currently in HHt * T Foundation (NSF) awarded a the organizational stages. "No enough information to be cer- $1.4 million grant to the one is out in the schools yet," Van tain. University to form a cooperative Hook said. "That will not happen The boy was brought to an Evanston hospital in February learning experience in the class- until September because it takes ,*\ room. by Quick, who said he wanted a while to get things off the the youngster evaluated for Teachers from participating ground." local districts will work with aggressive behavior. Because of According to Ballone, the w„# V, the boy's unkempt appearance, University graduate students team is still selecting teachers juvenile officials were called. from the natural sciences and from the surrounding districts 1 \} ". t ~ Authorities said that when math departments to improve and graduate students to partici- ► • Quick sought to leave the hospi- the teaching of science and math pate in the program. "After the tal, police were called, and they from kindergarten to high teachers and graduate students found an outstanding theft war- school. have been sorted out and rant for him. What makes this program picked, the graduate students {■■ M The Illinois Department of unique from the graduate stu- and the teachers will take a six Children and Family Services dents' perspectives is they will week training course over the circulated the youngster's pic- learn about teaching beyond summer that will teach them ture to the National Center for what they get from the regular inquiry methods," she said. Missing and Exploited Children. programs here at the University, She also said this teaching k A Eventually it was shown to the according to Dr. Stephen Van experience would count toward Myers family, who thinks he Hook, an associate professor of the graduate students' assistant- physics. Van Hook is working looks like Tristen. ships by providing them a posi- On yesterday, reporters found with Dr. Robert Midden, an tion outside of the University Quick at an apartment where assistant professor of chemistry with teachers at local schools. neighbors say he has been stay- and director of the project. Not only will the training <s Chrt Schooler BC News ing for the past few months. He Graduate students, however, count for their assistantship, but *, -IM said he could not comment are not the only ones benefiting it will help improve their college CONCERT: Pat McGee performs last night at UAO's "Pre-Exam Jam." Pat McGee not only plays gui- since the FBI was investigating. from the grant. "As a whole, the itar but sings as well in the band that shares his name— the Pat McGee Band. local school teachers and stu- TRAINING, PAGE 2 US. marches towards resolution of conflict Iraqis adapting to U. S. occupation Bush eager to bring IH( »SS0CI»rn PRtSS •Hundreds.ii~.j_j. of-*-. thousands J- of-f U.S.,„.. andJnJJ British.L combatv. troops. A •U.S..nc- Central I Command,- J said.... it Key developments yesterday Shiite Muslims, beating their spokesman refused to identify erred when it said earlier that concerning Iraq: chests and reciting religious vers- the other nations. American Special Forces soldiers closure to conflict •President Bush will speak to es, made a pilgrimage to Najaf to • An Arabic-language newspa- worked secretly with Iraqis in a the nation from an aircraft carri- mark the death of the Prophet per in London published a letter Baghdad suburb for months By Tom Raum visions requiring the speedy er's deck today to announce that Muhammad. it claimed was from Saddam before the war began. It said the IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS release of prisoners of war and major combat in Iraq has ended. •The Defense Department will Hussein that urges Iraqis to "rise team began work with residents WASHINGTON — From the limit efforts to go after defeated Spokesman Ari Fleischer said test the blood of soldiers leaving up" against occupation. The in early April, but officials would - deck of a homebound aircraft Iraqi leaders. Bush will not declare the war is Iraq and follow up with health newspaper, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, n't say when the troops first carrier off the California coast, But the setting will allow Bush over, however. evaluations. The tests follow a has taken a pro-Saddam editori- arrived. President Bush will declare to showcase the rapid U.S.-led •Defense Secretary Donald H. law passed after complaints, still al line. •Iraq's Christian churches today 11 MI major combat in Iraq military campaign that led to the Rumsfeld became the first top debated, that soldiers from the •The director of the United made a public appeal for a is finished.