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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. m mm^^ ^| ■ ■ 1 Bowling Green State University THURSDAY February 21, 2002 wmlJiLES MISERABLES: ^^k HtllN1 i 1/ 1/ L 1 CLOUDY A look inside from an H ■ ■ Mm V< / HIGH: 42 I LOW 29 actors point of view; H V www.bgnews.com VOLUME 93 ISSUE 22 First forU. speech team By Chuck Soder 1HE BO NEWS For the first time in the group's history, the BGSU Forensics and Debate Team took first place at a national competition, not to mention 29 individual awards. The team's long list of awards includes five of six awards for best speaker at the event, the Collegiate Forensics Association Championships, held on Ian. 26 and 27. "There wasn't any single event that we didn't excel in," said Paul Alday. director of the team. Nicknamed "the Winter Weekend Tournament," the 22nd annual event is held in Montreal, Canada and features colleges and universities from across the nation, east coast schools in particular. Alday said his group beat all 15 schools, including Purdue University and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, by a large margin. "We more than doubled the Pholo Prorated score of the second place team," he added. GOLDEN BOYS- Bowling Green Olympians Mark Wells, 15, and Ken Morrow, far left, celebrate with the rest of Team USA after upsetting the Russians in 1980. Success is no stranger to the 14-member group, as they had won team awards 10 times in various national competitions before winning first place at the CFAC. But this win held special meaning for Alday, being his first year with the team. MIRACLE MEN "It's wonderful," he said. "This is both the team's first vic- The red. white and in apartments off Wooster tory and my first year as coach." blue of USA Former Falcon behind McDonalds. Team member Dustin hockey is speck- "I'm not really sure what Brozene said his favorite led lightly with duo play key they were called," Morrow moment at the event was get- orange and said, his memory a little ting to face teammate and brown. You may roles in biggest cloudy. However, he remem- friend Rebecca Bi&s to deter- have seen that gentle tint last bered his days at Bowling mine the event's best speaker. Saturday lighting the sports moment Green enough to call them "Being able to give her a big Olympic cauldron, and you "The best years of my life." hug before they even almost certainlyhave seen it in American To put that statement into announced second was great," time after time in 22-year old perspective, you must realize he said. history that Morrow graduated from photos of American hockey KEN MORROW Though Brozene took sec- MARK WELLS players drunk with joy after -ByDanNied Bowling Green a year before ond, he said he had other rea- demolishing Russia's iron he won his gold medal, and he BOWLING GREEN: BOWLING GREEN sons to be happy, "I was just so curtain. then went on to win four con- Games: 154 (1975- Games: 154(1975-1979) proud of Rebecca and the rest If you look closely, you'll secutive Stanley Cups with the 1979) Points: 125 of the team." see him. The man with the New York Islanders from 1980- Contestants compete in Points: 231 7th all-time beard, Ken Morrow, the only man to ever win 1983. He also made the Cup Finals in 1984. He Goals: 34 events requiring them to pre- must have loved his time at BG. GOALS:77 Olympic gold and Stanley Cup silver in the same TEAMUSA: pare and give speeches, debate Morrow, Wells and their Bowling Green team- year. Games: 63 (1980) current issues and read poetry, mates played an important role in putting TEAMUSA: 1980. Points: 25 drama and prose. Games: 29 (1980). Along with Monow is Mark Wells, one of the last Bowling Green hockey on the map. The duo Even events putting limits players added to the 1980 Olympic team. played under legendary coach Ron Mason and Goals: 5 on preparations require prac- Points: 16' They know each other well. After all, they've led the Falcons to three CCIIA championships. tice. Alday said. For such Goals: 9 played hockey together since they were young "It was a great time to be a hockey player at ON WINNING: "I never events, speakers are given their They spent four years rooming together in the late Bowling Green," Morrow said. "The program was thought winning was a testa- questions only a few hours BG TRAINER BILL JONES 1970s as college hockey players at Bowling Green. fairly new at this time. The record got better every ment to me There was a lot "Wellsy was just a skill cen- Morrow and Wells spent their first years at of luck involved." FORENSICS. PAGE 2 ter. He could fly and scote Bowling Green in Anderson and their later years GOLD, PAGE 2 Hard economy ieriff Death of teen kills internships V- leads to charges By Foster Klug will recommend that a judge sen- By Will E Sanders Susan Young assistant direc- ASSOCIATED P!ESS *B TER tence Hutty to probation on a THE BG NEKS tor of the co-op and internship PHOENIX — Authorities negligent homicide charge. Hutty On September 11, the World program, said that in the last announced a deal Wednesday was originally indicted for Trade Towers, a symbol of eco- four years leading up until 9/11, under which a counselor at a manslaughter, which carries a nomics and commerce, fell. students did not have a problem tough-love boot camp will plead maximum 12 1/2 years in jail. Since that day, something else with getting internships off- guilty to a lesser charge in con- Director Charles tang II was started falling at an alarming campus. nection with the death of a teen- charged last week in the teen- pace—the economy. "It was becoming increasingly age camper and cooperate in a ager's death. Two other staffers Though this economic impact more plentiful until this year," case against the camp's director. also face charges. has affected many people in this she said. "With the economy the Troy A. Hutty was one of two "We want the truth," prosecu- nation, it has also affected, and way it is, it makes getting an counselors who put Anthony tor Rick Romley said. Hutty's still affects, students at this internship in their field even Haynes. 14, in a motel bathtub to cooperation "allows us to get not University trying to get intern- more important in order to com- cool him after he collapsed in just a clearer understanding but ships. pete nationally." triple-digit heat last summer. The things we not might otherwise get According to Career Services, Since the economy started to teen later died of complications without him." it has even deterred some stu- fall, employers have become Associated Press Photo of dehydration and near-drown- Hutty's attorney. Gary Beren, dents from trying to get intern- more selective when looking at SHERIFF: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announces the ing. ships or turning to Career As part of the deal, prosecutors arrest of Charles Long on eight counts of child abuse. CAMP. PAGE 2 Services for help. INTERNSHIPS, PAGE 2 i 2 Thursdiy. Febfuary 21.2002 WWW.BGNEWS.COM Speech teams Students struggle to find work INTERNSHIPS. FROM PAGE 1 majors because of an economic ting one.' Career Services though the trickle-down effect. She offers some advice to number of companies at recent dominate event applicants for internships, forc- Young said that this should take into consideration for job fairs have gone down. ing those seeking internships to not discourage students. In those students who wish to Some of the assistance that fact, this should encourage stu- intern. Career Services and the co-op FORENSICS. FROM PAGE 1 book and flipped to a page with become more competitive than in years past. dents to register with Career Perhaps the most important and internship program offers a former student, Kevin Dean. is helping students finding a before they are to answer them. "He was a machine," Brozene "We see companies with Services for help. thing is flexibility. Young said But the team carries several said, speaking of 50 individual internship programs who hired "We would hate to see stu- students need to be flexible major, preparing students for internships, job development, thick files of newspaper articles awards Dean won during 1981, a certain number of students in dents backing off on utilizing with location, pay, benefits, and and other sources of informa- setting a record that still stands. the past hiring a fewer number our office or trying to find the semester of the internship. and arranging companies to "It is a necessity for students meet with students both indi- tion to quickly educate the Brozene hopes to one day to of students because of the internships just because the speakers.