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E^^ M Bowling Green State University THURSDAY September 27, 2001 SHOWERS BENCH: KurtGerling Ik ■ 1 HIGH 57 I LOW: 45 3returns from injury to Ul■ ■ Iww-^- ™ —■—^ ■ ■ ^—-^ lead the Falcons; PAGE 6 MM A daily independent student press VOLUME 92 ISSUE 23 MM ^M www.bgnews.com Budget GMT DAYS Tornado shrinks kills2 by Tim Bugansky U-WIRE Maryland KENT, Ohio — Laura Haas is loaded down with loans. The Kent State University junior has subsidized and unsubsidized students loans from the federal govern- by Etan Horowitz ment. She also uses a PLUS loan, a U-WIRE federal loan available to parents. COLLEGE PARK, Md. — It's in her parents' names, but Colleen and Erin Marian had just since (hey can't help Haas pay for finished class for the day. The sis- college, she'll be repaying it when ters, who did everything together, she graduates and her deferment stopped by the Maryland Fire and ends. She also borrows an addi- Rescue Institute on Monday to tional $3,000 available to students see their father. After the two visit- whose parents take out PLUS ed the office where Colleen had loans. And since her sophomore worked for three years, he escort- year, Haas has taken out a loan to ed them to their car. pay for her books. E Patrick Marian said goodbye "I'll probably have (o pay at to his daughters and told them to least $30,000-$60,000 in loans," hurry home because a storm was said Haas, an exercise physiology coming. major. "Yeah, it's scary. What else Little did he know the storm am I supposed to do?" would change his life. Haas' financial frets are intensi- Three minutes after kissing his fied by a growing gulf faced by stu- daughters goodbye and sending dents and their parents across the them on their way, Marian, the country. assistant director of the institute, Tuition hikes are an annual found himself buried under a pile affair at colleges and universities. of rubble. A tornado had hit the But the maximum amount for the University of Maryland campus most common federal loans has and in its wrath destroyed the remained stagnant since 1992. trailers housing me MFR1. And nationally, available grant After being stuck in the col- and scholarship money is dwin- lapsed building for more than 45 dling in proportion to the loans minutes, Marian was taken to the students and their parents must Washington Hospital Center take out to pay for school. where he was treated for minor Al Kent State, tuition has cuts and bruises. increased every year for the past Dr. Clifford Turen, a longtime 10 years, from $3,596 a year in family friend, rushed to the hospi- . 199? to $5,598 in 2001, according tal to check on Marian. At the hos- lo information from the pital, they learned the tornado University Budget Office. That's a had killed two campus students. 56 percent increase. Marian had been in contact with But since 1992, federal loan his wife, who told him their amounts have not budged. daughters had not returned home Stafford loans are the major yet. Turen said Marian realized at type of federal Stf'M loans. The that moment those students were his daughters. LOANS, PAGE 2 "He was in disbelief," Turen said. Turen said the women proba- bly did not even get out of die parking lot when their car was picked up by a tornado and Pope okays thrown over the top of Easton Hall, coming to rest in a wooded area By all accounts, the women animal-to- shared a strong bond. "They were wonderful, loving children," Turen said. "They did human the things that friends would do together." Both sisters graduated from Notre Dame Preparatory School transplants Mkluei latimkuMe BG News in Dulaney Valley. They The Associated Press WEATHER WOES: Sheltered by an umbrella, a student walks across campus through yesterday's dreary weather. Today's forecast VATICAN CITY —Concerned calls tor more showers. The weather is to clear up gradually by the weekend with highs in the 70s. about the shortage of human TORNADO.PAGE 2 organs for transplants, the Vatican is encouraging research into the use of animal organs to save peo- ple's lives. The Vatican released a position paper yesterday that researchers Hip women hop to top of charts; aspire to keep it real should use caution as they strive by Will E Sanders popular media calls graffiti," women the hip hop culture. want the money, but not the val- black imagery," Osumare said. to see if animal-to-human trans- I H t BG NEKS Osumare said. "Hip hop is a way She talked about important ues" "We need to look at the broader plants will become a reliable Heavy bass hits, drum beats of talking back to the system, concepts of hip hop. One of Showing Trick Daddy's "I'm a stroke of American culture and method of treatment. and the lyrical styling of several 'fighting the powers that be.' those concepts is "keeping it Thug" video, illustrated how where these gender identities The paper was issued after con- women hip hop stars, past and Anybody that knows hip hop real." Trick Daddy, though rich, is still come from." sultations with surgeons, trans- present, echoed through dark knows that I am quoting Public "That is a very important con- "keeping it real" and staying in Next, a Destiny's Child video, plant experts, immunologists, corridors of Hanna Hall yester- Enemy." cept," she said. "Rappers that are touch with his roots, according which showed gratuitous sexy geneticists and veterinarians, as day. Osumare said hip hop now on the top of the charts today, to Osumare. The video shows shots of the women dancing, to well as experts on anthropology, Halifu Osumare, associate identifies with many cultures don't really aspire to be like the the artist driving down the show how women are represent- morality and ethics. professor from the Human and everyone "around the middle class. They are trying to streets in a predominately black ed in today's era of hip hop. The The Vatican said it prepared the Movement Sports and Leisure globe," rather than one certain keep it real', stay in contact with part of town. video also features Da Brat in document in response to all those Studies Department came to the ethnic group. the so called underclass, yet In his video Trick Daddy has military fatigues, who bursts "who have expressed doubts Women's Center yesterday to She also showed a selection of obtain the material aspects of the identity of a thug, which onto the screen rapping faster about the ethics of animal-to- talk about hip hop culture and videos from the 1980s through the American dream. So the Osumare said is a revision of a and harder than the other human transplants" because of the role women play in it the present. She used her American dream of the hip hop masculine outlaw, and the women in the video. These the uncertainty of success and the "Hip hop is culture that research combined with exam- generation today has changed. image has intrigued males of all videos show the diversity of high cost of research, which could includes deejaying, break danc- ples she found in the videos, to Their values of the middle class races across America. be spent on other prospects for ing, and aerosol art, which the talk about gender and the role of do not appeal to them. They "Don't just think of it (thug) as HIP HOP, PAGE 2 treatment "In the face of such doubts, it's opportune to recall that, even While taking into consideration the necessary cost-benefits equa- International women fear deportation if relationship abuse reported tion, the huge use of health by k. ie Chtche Center about domestic violence status used as a weapon to prevent the Manyibe, a graduate student resources in this case is justified IH[ SC HEWS by the urgent necessity to try to and its effects on banered immi- The man is more likely to use woman from leaving, she said. from Kenya, said domestic save the lives of so many patients Non-citizens living in the U.S. grants. power and control tactics in a Social isolation is also used, abuse was not considered a who otherwise wouldn't have any often risk their visas when "1 don't think that there's a relationship where the women's and almost more effective since problem in his country until chance .at survival," the Vatican reporting abuse in relationships. higher occurrence of domestic visa is dependent on her hus- the family of the woman often recently. said. Deidra Bennen, victim advo- violence happening in the inter- band's, Bennen said lives thousands of miles away in Benjamin Fosu, a graduate The document, prepared by the cate at the University, and" national community," Bennett The abuser will use his citizen- another country, Bennett said.