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State University TUESDAY January 22, 2002 MISSING: CLOUDY The search is on for HIGH:41 I LOW 28 Louis Peyton and his www.bgnews.com father; PAGE 6 independent student press VOLUME S3 ISSUE 05 M BOWLING GREEN 76, TOLEDO 57 r^ ( " -» ST 4 Falcons back on track • tlAssociated Press Photo with win over Rockets CONGO: A Congolese family walks from Gisenyi towards By Jason A Dixon Kigali. THE BG DEWS Unsure whether their first loss in 12 games, or the fact that they were competing against arch- Volcano rival Toledo should be empha- sized for reason to play well. The men's basketball team decided a victory would be the only incen- forces tive. Key reserves, Josh Atmanson and Gennaine Fitch, along with Len Matela's career-high 28 people points ignited a second-half surge that led to the Falcons 76-57 win over die Rockets. It was an inauspicious begin- out of ning to Matela's career day, because only 30 seconds into the game the senior center was sent to the bench after University of Congo Toledo's A.J. Shcllabergcr scored the first four points of the game. By Chris TomNnson ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER "I screwed up," Matela said. "Coach told me all week if that GOMA. Congo — lava touched happened I was coming out It off a massive explosion and a was real embarrassing and 1 was series of fireballs at a gas Station really mad. There were a bunch of Monday, killing at least 90 people feelings. 1 just tried to put it in the scavenging for fuel. Still, residents back of my mind, and put it in the picked their way across hardening back of everybody's mind*. slabs of lava, returning home to When Matela returned, he this town demolished l>y a vol- scored his first points with 15:47 canic eruption. left in the half, making the score With most of the tens of thou- 7-6. UT's Jim Clement hit the first sands who fled last week's erup- of his 2 1st half three-pointers, tion already relumed, a volcano giving the Rockets their last lead expert declared the area reason- of the game at 13-11. Matela's 6th ably safe despite continuing earth point of the half nodded the game tremors. He said there were no up at 13-13, followed by his three- indications Mount Nyiragongo point play, which extended the would erupt again soon and that lead to 16-13. Keith Mcleod, who all lava flows had halted. poured in IS points, scored his Residents scoured cooling first points of the game giving the tongues of lava for scorched sheets Falcons a 19-13 lead with 7:30 left of comigated iron to use as roofs in the half. for makeshift dwellings. BC then began to assert itself, ending the half on a 14-12 run, making it a 33-25 lead at halftimc for the Falcons. The first half was even closer Studenfs than what the 8 point lead indi- cated, however, the Falcons forced 15 turnovers and held the Rockets to 36 percent shooting research before intermission. Head Coach Dan Dakich cred- ited his team's first half perfor- published mance to their awareness of a zero-tolerance for defensive laps- es, which had occurred in the two previous contests. in journal "We had been slipping and 1 Chits Schooler BG News just made up my mind that we By Jennifer Bracken THE BC NEWS TOPPING IT OFF: Senior Len Matela tries to keep a Toledo player from scoring. Matela was the lead scorer in Saturday's game against Undergraduates are usually not Toledo. BASKETBALL. PAGE 2 associated to big scientific discov- eries. Rut Krishna Csaszai, a senior, has made tremendous WESTERN MICHIGAN 72 AKRON 66 MIAMI OHIO 61 GEORGETOWN 83 contributions to the area of chem- KENT 75 BALL STATE 78 OHIO 85 NOTRE DAME 73 istry and mathematics through COLLEGE her research and analysis. It is a good thing to have CENTRAL MICHIGAN 86 BUFFALO 82 MISSOURI 71 GEORGIA 84 undergraduates involved in BASKETBALL EASTERN MICHIGAN 73 MARSHALL 78 OKLAHOMA 84 FLORIDA 79 research projects," said Craig Zirbel, assistant professor in the department of mathematics and statistics. "They can make real contributions. This is exactly what Csaszar has recently done. Bowling Greenery opens i sas/.u is a senior majoring in both chemistry and mathematics. She recently wrote a paper enti- tled "Molecular Dynamics of the for campus community Frame-shifting Pseudoknot from Beet Western Yellows Virus: The By Craig Gilford will offer these menu items and Greenery in the old union had. Role of Non-Watson-Crick Base- rHE BG NEWS more to the campus community. "It's really a combination of Pairing, Ordered Hydration, One new Union dining area is "I think the students will be both types of services offered in Cation Binding, and Base opening today, while construc- very excited by what we are offer- the old union," O'Donnell said Mutation on Stability and tion crews and Union employees ing," said Edward O'Donnell, Dining services will mark the Unfolding." Because of the signifi- work through problems for director of dining services. opening of the new restaurant cance of the results, the paper was another. According to O'Donnell, the with a flute trio playing in the published in the Journal of Fillet Mignon, Salmon Fillet menu will be an, "expanded ver- Union atrium at lunchtime. Molecular Biology." and smoked pork chops are not sion" of what the Pheasant Room "We're going to have some The research was as complicat- usually items someone would offered when it was in the old music to be enjoyed by folks in ed as the title. Neolcles B. Leontis, find on a menu dealing with union. the restaurant," said Dave Professor in the Chemistry University dining until now. There will also be a buffet in Crooks, director of the Union. Department, as well as Jiri Sooner, The Bowling Greenery is the Bowling Greenery, which is A final practice run through Sarah CtsttBGNem opening today in the Bowen- still under construction that will GREENERY: The Bowling Greenery opens today to allow a restau- SCIENCE, PAGE 2 Thompson Student Union and be similar to what the Bowl 'N GREENERY, PAGE 2 rant atmosphere for students and faculty. \ 2 Tuesday, January 22,2002 FROM FRONT PAGE WWW.BGNEWS.COM Basketball team dominates Toledo BASKETBALL, FROM PAGE 1 course within the game, as UT would come as close as 67-53 played game by both learns," Reynolds was whistled for his 4th during the second half, but they Dakich said. "When Keith went were going to play the way I want foul. could not withstand the inside out with the four fouls, we us to play, or we were going to play "Milo Kirsh made a good play presence of Matela, who record- ended up playing about as well with other people," Dakich said. and I picked the ball up and the ed his 26th double-double, as we could play, and my guys "It sent a message to everyone on guy (Erik Crawford) just kind of Almanson's 14 points off the hung in there and did a good the team". flopped, and the referee made the bench, and Fitch, who had only 2 job. This was no 19-point game. After the Rockets' Terry call. V\fe were gaining momentum points, but made significant con- This was a tough game." Reynolds converted on 1 of 2 free- at the time and I think that kind of tributions with his defense and With the win BG not only throws to make the score 33-26, changed the game a little bit" hustle. rebounded from a 92-79 lose to Mel md picked up his 4th foul With Reynolds on the bench "Coach tells us Keith can't be the Ball State Cardinals, they less than two minutes into the the Falcons went on a 19-5 run, the savior every game, and we also ended a three-game losing half. With BG's star seeing his first which included Brandon Pardon's knew when he got his fourth foul streak to the Rockets (6-8,3-2). minutes on the bench in two three-point field goal that made somebody was going to have to The Falcons (14-2, 4-1) travel games, UT tried relentlessly to the score 44-38, and Fitch's block step up and do that," Fitch said. to take on the Akron Zips take advantage of his absence. that led to Almanson's dunk giv- "We talked about coming out January 23, with the tip-off Reynolds, who led the Rockets ing the Falcons a 46-38 lead. and out-hustling them, out- beginning at 7:30 p.m. And with 20 points, brought UT within By the time Reynolds had scraping them, and that's what return home Saturday, playing 3, at 41 -38.