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ESTABLISHED 1920 A daily independent student press serving THE BG NEWS the campus and surrounding community Tuesday KOUFAX AT HOWARD'S September 5,2006 Volume 101, Issue 12 WWWBGNEWSCOM Rushing record GOP courts set by freshman over weekend Despite BG loss, new record is set after Perrysburg Barnes rushes 158 yards. | Pag* 3 Gubernatorial candidate says teachers should get Volleyball wins $40,000 starting pay, some in audience balk opening match Trip to Denver pays By Megan Schmidt Ken Blackwell off in tournament Reporter The GOP wins for strong candidate says Republican Ken Blackwell offensive women's promised Friday to be a new schools lack team. | Page J and bold leadership thai accountability would halt the "brain drain" epidemic in Ohio if he tri- Politicians use umphs over opponent led that option, they can build a Strickland in November's race better life in this state." Facebook to for governor. Recognizing Ohio's sluggish campaign "I'll be the prescription economy as a motive for many the doctor ordered for Ohio's college graduates to move to Candidates compete economy," Blackwell told the other states, Blackwell said on Facebook for crowd of over 100 which gath- as governor he would work to student votes on the ered for the outdoor rally in "usher in a new era of prosper- internet | Page 4 Perrysburg's Levis Commons ity." shopping center. "This low we've hit In the Too many [young peoplel economy is not a permanent areleavingourstate," Blackwell condition," he said, describing Prison break said. "There's no more impor- plans to reform the tax code to tant job for the next governor one that promotes economic than putting an Ohio option growth. back into the hands of young people so they know with con- fidence that if they exercise See GOP | Page 5 Another installment of Burgled | Page 4 Some students Plans proposed for Lake Erie beached by shuttle zones criticized Ideas for weapons cutbacks training zones cause disturbances among Sarah Griffith Reporter "... for people who boaters, nature sup- took the shuttle bus porters | Page 13 The University's shuttle ser- vice drives the equivalent of a last year and rely on trip to Los Angeles every week Bush pushes as it transports students around that service, this is campus, according to the shut- for lower U.S. tle supervisor. But diis year not fair." shuttle service officials have oil dependency Guitar on his shirt, guitar in his hand decided that a trip to Copper Chris Cafferv | Senior WHY HE BOTHERS AT ALL: A guitarist for the band Kou'ax rocks out last night at Howaids ciub H The band is currently or tour with Beach Townhouses is a bit too In a Maryland The Forecast and the Finals They play tonight m Akron after a g»g last night in Columbus far, at too high of a price. because of its decrease In use Labor Day speech, But some copper beach resi- and increased time and cost. President Bush revis- dents feel the price is no excuse. Smith said the creation of the stop at Copper Beach its foreign oil depen- "For people who have transportation it isn't a big Townhouses was not received dency risks, domestic deal. But, for people who took well by its residents to begin employment rate the shuttle bus last year and with. The shuttle office num- issues | Page 14 Crikey! Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin rely on that service, this is bers show the highest number not fair," says Chris Caffcy, a of rides given from the Copper senior at BGSU and a resident Beach stop In one da) was -7. of Copper Beach. The ratio of riders to cost was U.S. air strikes dies from a stingray attacl A lease manager for Copper simply too much burden for Beach apartments, Kristen them to handle. kill Canadian By Brian Cassey show on the Great Barrier Reef, arm gestures. Morman. said there have Smith said the price of gas The Associated Press his manager and producer John "I am shocked and dis- been many complaints from has tripled since he took his Canadian troops in Stainton said. tressed at Steve Irwin's sudden, residents. "There are residents position as supervisor of all Afghanistan become CAIRNS, Australia — Steve News of Irwin's death rever- untimely and freakish death," here without cars and there shuttle lines five years ago. accidental target of Irwin died doing what he loved berated around the world, where Australian Prime Minister |ohn are international students who "When I started, we paid American warplane best, getting too close to one of he won popularity with millions Howard said. "It's a huge loss to really need the transportation." about 98 cents for a gallon fire. | Page 5 the dangerous animals he dedi- as the man who regularly leaped Australia." Morman saidthere have been of diesel fuel. Today. 1 paid cated his life to protecting with on the back of huge crocodiles Conservationists said all the requests to the shuttle office for $2.90." said Smith. an irrepressible, effervescent and grabbed deadly snakes by world would feel the loss of reconsideration of the Copper Due to the decrease in shut- personality that propelled him the tail. Irwin, who turned a childhood Beach decision. tle use and the increase in fuel "How do you feel to global fame as television's "Crikey!" was his catch love of snakes and lizards and But adding the stop back into expenses, Smith decided to cut about Air-Soft guns?" "Crocodile Hunter." phrase, repeated whenever knowledge learned at his par- the route might not be as easy the losses and go back to the The 44-ycar-old Irwin's heart there was a close call — or just ents' side into a message of wild- as it some hope. original south shuttle route that was pierced by the serrated, poi- about any other event — dur- life preservation that reached Shuttle Supervisor Fred operated prior Jo the 2005-2006 sonous spine of a stingray as he ing his TV programs, delivered Smith canceled the apart- with a broad Australian twang, ment complex's inclusion in swam with the creature yester- See HUNTER | Page 6 See IMMOBILE | Page 6 day while shooting a new TV mile-a-minute delivery and big the south off-campus shuttle MICHAEL LAMBERT Sophomore. Biology Al-Qaida in Iraq's leadership crisis does little to derail country's violence "I think they're kind of By Rabacca Santana of the southern city of Basra, faced threats, kidnappings and a nuisance because The Associated Press British military spokesman Maj. "[The two sides still need] to complete some killings. they look like real Charlie Burbridge said. At least two people also were weapons." | Page 4 BAGHDAD — A popular Iraqi Authorities found 33 bodies legal and protocol procedures that will lead killed and six were wounded in soccer star was kidnapped and 35 of people who had been shot and around Baqouba, 35 miles bullet-riddles bodies were found to death, all showing signs of to a complete understanding between the northeast of Baghdad, in shoot- in Iraq yesterday, a day after Iraqi torture, dumped around sev- ings and bomb attacks. officials touted the capture of al- eral neighborhoods in Baghdad, Iraqi government and the multinational The violence came a day after Qaida in Iraq's No. 2 leader as a police said. The bodies, all of Iraq's national security adviser move to reduce violence in the men, were blindfolded and their troops." announced the capture of al- TODAY country. feet and hands were tied. Iraq Defense Ministry Qaida in Iraq deputy Hamed P.M. Showers The U.S. military announced In Kut, 100 miles southeast of lumaa Farid al-Saeedi, also High: 75. Low: 56 the deaths of five more American Baghdad, police found another Ghanim Ghudayer, 22, consid- The head of the Air Force Club, known as Abu Humam or Abu troops, including a soldier who two bodies dumped on a high- ered one of the best players in Samir Kadhim, said the player, Rana, saying the arrest has left was killed by a roadside bomb way. Both had been shot in the Baghdad's Air Force Club, was who also was on Iraq's Olympic the terror group facing a "serious north of Baghdad yesterday. head and chest, said Maamoun abducted Sunday evening by team, had planned to leave for leadership crisis.' A roadside bomb also killed Ajil al-Robaiei from the morgue unknown assailants, some who Syria in two or three days to join a "Our troops have dealt fatal TOMORROW two British soldiers and seriously at Kut hospital. were wearing military uniforms, new team there. Iraqi sports offi- Few Showers woundedathirdinAdDayr.north ' Elsewhere in the capital, police said. cials and athletes have frequently See IRAQ | PageS High: 75, Low: 57 k VISIT B6NEWS.COM: NEWS, SPORTS, UPDATES, MULTIMEDIA AND E0RUMS FOR YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE 2 Tuesday.