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Issue 38 WWWBGNEWSCOM "Cocaine" Class desks not right for lefties drink name By Freddy Hunt under scrutiny Famous Left-Handers Anti-drug group and University ■ Jimi Hendrix Every student is entitled to a Ohio students file ■ Marilyn Monroe comfortable learning environ- opposition to drinks ment, I mi sining in a right-hand- ■ Paul McCartney and Ringo classrooms ed desk as a left-handed person drug influenced name Star, half of the Beatles! is tar from comfortable, accord- | Page 5 ■ Ben Franklin ing to senior lared Deville. People getting ■ Albert Einstein do not fully "I have to contort my whole ■ Kurt Cobain body In order to write," Deville wrong number said. "Then I'm staring ai the ■ Larry Bird person to my right and its kind Ohio department ■ Jerry Seinfeld accommodate of awkward. fixes wrong number ■ Oprah Winfrey According to an article error leading to sex ■ Jack-the-Ripper at drspock.com by Robert line on official state ■ Robert DeNiro Needlman, associate professoi southpaws oi pediatrics at Case Western voicemail | Page 5 ■ Mark Twain Reserve University's School oi Ml dicine, about one in ten peo- ple an'left banded. U.S. hopes for "There .ire probably that UN to pass many left-handed desks iii most resolution classrooms. Lefties should stop whining," said David Skehon, a U.S. hoping resolution right-handed junior. passes to punish According to Hob Waddle. assistant vice president for capi- North Korea's nuclear tal planning at the University, testinq | Page 9 the target number of left handed desks in a classroom is II) to 15 percent, but depends on the lay- Buffalo beats out of the room. Although most classes have BG after well left-handed desks available, left- fought game ies still get dissatisfied. lunior Tyger Glauser, creator The men's soccer oi the Facebook group, "I efties team gave their best Deserve a Reward" said left- but fell short of a win handed desks are always pushed against the cold wall on the left to Bi.'f.ilo | Page 7 side of the classroom Falcons tennis "It started mil as a joke.' dlaiisei said "Mj friends and receives title I were talking about all of the inequalities as a left] BGSU women's Scissors, notebooks, vending tennis team wins machines, gas pedals, dining fourth flight match tables and n impute! mouses are at Northwestern all designed forrightles. One of Deville's biggest com Invitational | Page 7 plaints has to do with writing from left to right a lefty, yout hand plows overall ol your writing," Deville said. " I hen you're left with ugly smudges all over the side ol your hand." One solution for left-handed students would be to gel more left-handed desks Amanda Miller, a left-handed junior, said righties will com plain il I here is an increase in Education at See LEFTIES Page 2 a distance a l BGNtWS ILLUSTRATION rising trend Mote students are Rally kicks off choosing to use alternative programs College Republicans argue free speech to finish their studies. Homecoming The idea behind dis- By Megan Schmidt College Republicans Rotation, said tant education was to You have a right to speak out, but you do festivities Reporter that nott nth was the group "protest- give more people the not have a right to interrupt a meeting." ing ixsicefully" iuid was not disrup- By Dana Freeman opportunity to go to After being ordered by campus tive, but the officer did not under- school who might not police to move their protest ,'. egand | University Chief of Poke stand campus policy on tree speech. be able to. | Page 3 during an on-campus rally for "I le didn't seem to know what he Plenty of orange and brown U.S. Senate candidate Shcrrod ai id hoisting signs bearingmessagBS had nn grounds on which to ask was talking about." Bond said He spiiii went Into making a ONLINE: Read about Brown (D-Lorainl last Friday, like Tuff Puff Puff Pass On Shcrrod the (jillege Republicans to move. claimed they reserved the room successful Homecoming ■^ die movie "Iraq tor sale' some members of the College Brown" and "It's 420: Do You know "We were not chanting or doing and that it was a closed event, but Kickoff yesterda) In the | bgnews.com Republicans say their right to Where Sheirod Brown Is?" anything disrespectful — no it was advertised to Students as a Union Ballroom. free speech has been violated. But when University police behavior that would cause them public, open rally." from II a.in. to ^i p.m., A group of alxtul seven College arrived, officers told the group to remove us," Wasil said. "The But according to Universit) the Kickoff proved students How do you feel about Republicans gathered outside of the to move to rile free speech zone, officer acted like we had no right Chief of Police lim Wicgand. offi- are enthusiastic about public smoking being multipurpose room in the Union, located outdoors in front of the to be dierc, but we did have a right cers were dispatched to the ially I lomecomlng weekend. I potentially banned by when." the rally was held, clad in I Man, or risk "further action." slid to lie there. It was an open event." because campus pol ice received a The rally featured a free raf- the state government? T-shirts stippming Brown's oppo- one protester, senior |im Wasil. Miranda Bond, iiorilmcsi Ohio fle, food and games which nent. Mike IX-Wine (R-Cwlarville) But Wasil said campus police field representative for the Ohio See PROTEST | Page 2 helped students become excited about Homecoming weekend. At IJ::i() p.m.. the Brown Bag breaks boundary Homecoming court was Father of gay literature announced and main mem- bers of COURT MARCUS CAREY. By Katharine Kopkowski "The first time I was confront- the court J-UUK! Senior. Philosophy Homecoming Reporter ed with homosexuality, I was so stayed to share new work King Candidates: "It should be allowed confused. I was raised to believe to par- in bars all the time, The Catholic church's official it was a mortal sin, but I met ticipate in Chambltss. Trevor By Adam Shapiro but anywhere else ity in the 1950s, was critically stance on homosexuality has a friend who was gay and one activities. Ganabraffl. Mail Reporter acclaimed and considered one sometimes been summarized by of the kindest people I'd ever Marisa Ponlious. Eric Waqnpi. they can ban it." of the first and most important ft flowers as "love the sinner, hate known," she said. Adelnian, | Page 4 As a budding novelist in the coming out novels when it was the sin" — cutting off further Resnik was intrigued by the a sec- Homecoming 1970s, Edmund White did released in 1982. exploration and discussion. subject, and by the rationale for ond year Queen Candidates: I Raquel Dalion. Kal something rather novel — he "When I started writing about The group who planned the the stance held by the church gradu- against homosexuality. Fish. Kan Rood. began writing about gay life. gay themes in the 70s it was all Brown Bag luncheon yesterday ate stu- Dory Rousos. Nicole At a time when homosexuali- brand new," White said. "1 feel in Hanna Hall was not satis- Her opinion has lieen culti- dent and itandbad ty was still taboo in both society lucky because I got there first fied closing conversations with vated by more than a year of student TODAY and the literary world, White — with a number of topics." this catch-phrase, and created research and development. She personnel Homecoming Showers now dubbed the lather of Gay Before writing one of the first a forum for open conversation remains a practicing Catholic, adviser, said 20 students High: 45. Low: 28 Literature — began humaniz- coming out novels, White co- and debate and despite opposition voiced by are responsible for orga- ing the oft-demonized gay cul- authored 'The |oy of Gay Sex" Emily Resnik. a University other church members, believes nizing the Homecoming ture through both his fiction (1977), the first book of its kind senior double-major in psy- homosexuality is not inconsis- activities. and nonfiction writing. to be sold openly in bookstores. chology and women's stud- tent with her faith. These 20 students are His book. "A Boy's Own Story," He also was one of the first writ- ies, presented her research on Resnik argued that the bibli- known as the Homecoming TOMORROW about an adolescent boy's Catholicism and Homosexuality Partly Cloudy struggle with his homosexual- See LITERATURE | Pige 2 at the meeting. See BOUNDARY | Page 2 See KICKOFF | Page 2 High: 52. Low: 35 k VISIT BGNEWS.COM: NEWS. SPORTS, UPDATES, MULTIMEDIA AND FORUMS FOR YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE WWW.BGNEWS.COM 2 Thursday.