Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-5-2000 The BG News December 5, 2000 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News December 5, 2000" (2000). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6731. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6731 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Green State University TUESDAY December 5, 2000 MOSTLY CLOUDY HIGH: 261 LOW 6 www.bgnews.com independent student press VOLUME 90 ISSUE 66 FOOTBALL GOES URBAN 'URBAN' LEGEND: The new Bowling Green State University Head Football Coach. Urban Meyer, addresses the media during a press conterence yesterday, where Athletics Director. Paul Krebs, named Meyer as the new coach. MEYER'S CAREER Alone It"! way lie's stopped at live schools. Hoes a time lite 1985 Cincinnati. Student Mey<er takes over as head coach Assistant Coach 198f> Ohio Slate. Graduate and the distant future tor our Assistant, Tight Ends football program." 1987 Ohio Mate. Graduate Football program looks to Fall for new start With the possibility of 1(X) per- Assistant. Receivers cent of the Falcons rushing, pass 1988 Illinois State, Outside linebackers By Pete Stella Green Mate University and the coaches such as Earl Bruce, Lou es, someone who is familiar with ing, receiving, scoring and all 1989 Intro •on man to lead our football pro- 1 lolt/and Sonny l.ubick will help the Midwest and a person who purpose attack (liming bark. Ill starters reclaiming their roles and Quarterbacks. R" As I liban Meyer stated out into gram. I am confident that we the Falcons next season. will help sell' the loolball team 10 1990 Cdotado State. Wide eight of the teams top MI (adders ,i sea ni reporters Monday after- have done just that. We have "I have ix'cn very fortunate to the community ■ ■ . ii i, a new light »i football found die best lit." work for some ol the lop coaches Besides the obvious coaching returning, Meyei inherits a great 1991 Colorado Slate. Wide knowledge and plans lor the With the support of his family in the history of college lootball." abilities, we weie looking lor deal ol talent. Receivers future of the Bowling Green foot- and past coaches he's worked for, Meyer said. "Hopefully, I can things like leadership, recruiting lie has already met with the 1992 CotaadoStataWWe Meyer became the 15th head share with the players my experi- ability, a high energy level, some- team and said he has a good idea Receivers ball team peered out with him. 1993 ■ Wide The national search done by coach at BCi and leaves behind ences and use them to build a body who was committed to of what talent he has to work with mid that the guys are ready and R.i i .' ' the KG athletic department for a Notre Dame, where he has been winning program here at BG." Bowling Green and wanted lobe 1991 Cotmadu State, Wide new head coach, which began the receivers coach since 1996. "Urban is an ambitious and at Bowling Green State eager to learn lie also slated the Receivers when recently departed coach He will, however, coach with hard working coach," said University," he said. importance ni his players to trust 1995 Cokxadu State, Wide him and know that he is doing Gary Blackney announced his the Irish in the l-'iesta Bowl I ulm k. the head football coach "Its the beginning ofa new day, R ■ . resignation plans after the 20-17 against Oregon State New Year's at Colorado State. "This position it's the beginning ol a new era," everything he can foi the players. 19% Notre Dam .'. loss to Buffalo Sept. 23, succeed- Day. is well deserved lor a highly moti- said BG President Sidney Ribeau. But Meyer's main concerns ai Receivers 1997 Notre Dame. Wide ed greatly, according to BG's Meyer has spent time in the vated, intelligent football Coach. "ItS a beginning ofa new era with this point are reci tilling, which he !,'.,. ., Atheletics Director, Paul krebs. Cincinnati, Ohio State, Illinois We all miss him and wish him the Urban Meyer al the helm of foot- said he will "hit hard" and go altei 1998 NoUe Dame, Wide uv searched all over the Stale and Colorado State pro- best." ball operations It's a time for a players who will help the pro RecervcnV Special! country," he said. "It was an grams, along with Notre Dame According to Krebs, he wanted direction that is forward looking, gram, and the attendance prob 99 IK) Notf [ exhaustive search to find the best and believes the knowledge he someone who has been associat- a direction thai will really chart ?001 Bowling Green. Head fit, the best candidate for Bowling has learned from working under ed with top programs, top coach- the course in the year 2(XX)-2(K)i URBAN. PAGF 8 Coach PLAYING FOR MEYER Bill Miller— Illinois State, 6th round pick In his 15 years of coaching, new Falcon football coach Urban Greg Primus—Colorado State, Meyer has guided a slew ot All-American players who have either seen NFL action or stood out in the Paul Turner—Colorado State. NFL Draft i college ranks. Here's a few: Jeremy Burkett—Colorado BOB DAVIE SIDNEY RIBEAU PAUL KREBS Chris Carter—Ohio State, State. Denver Broncos HEAD FOOTBALL COACH UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY Minnesota Vikings Malcolm Johnson—Notre U. OF NOTRE DAME PRESIDENT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Everett Ross—Ohio State. 7th Dame. Pittsburgh Steelers round pick "I have no reservations "It's a beginning ofa new "It was an exhaustive Bobby Brown—Notre Dame, Nate Harris—Ohio State. 60 about Urban Meyer being era with Urban Meyer at search to find the best receptions Green Bay Packers a head coach. He has a the helm of football Jit...I am confident that Ed Taggart—flnirj State, All- Raki Nelson—Notre Dame, tremendous future." operations." we have done just that." Big 10 Philadelphia Eagles I I numMii 2 Tuesday, December 5,2000 BG NEWS Diver makes living beneath the waves www.bgnews.com/nation PARKVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Handy with tools and drawn to the sea, Don Degener has made a living beneath the waves. Construction, welding, concrete work—what- ever jobs can be done undersea, Degener has per- formed them in nearly three decades as a professional diver. NATION Cancer fighting drug brings hope Double rape By Colleen Valles the cause of the disease without ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER damaging other cells. shocks college SAN FRANCISCO — A CML caused by an abnormal leukemia drug thai brought can- protein that is the product of an By Nicholas K. Geranios al bondage and sadomasochism cer into remission in most abnormal chromosome, leads to ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ring active just outside the city. patients in clinical trials is gener- a huge increase in the number of SPOKANE, Wash. — The tea It is further complicated by ating excitement among cancer white blood cells in the body, room at the local branch of a efforts being made by police and specialists and patients as a gen- which can interfere with the Japanese college has a name that college officials to withhold tler, more effective treatment that functioning of other organs. translates as "place of tranquility, details of the attack and the iden- may mean cancer researchers are Glivec blocks a signal that pro- far to the east of lapan." tities of the victims, who face the on the right track. tein sends out and effectively pre- Mukogawa Fon Wright possibility of being stigmatized "This drug is a major break- vents the abnormal growth and Institute is well east of lapan, but when they return to lapan. through," said Dr. Hagop production of other cancerous it is far from tranquil. "We're trying to pull this veil of Kantarjian. who oversees trials of cells. The abduction and rapes of anonymity over them," said the drug at the MD Anderson "The whole of cancer research two female students Nov. 11 have Barbara Love, director of pro- Cancer Center in Houston. has been to identify the differ- traumatized the campus and grams at Mukogawa. "The whole In manufacturer-financed ences between cancer cells and upset many in this eastern truth would be so devastating." clinical trials, more than 90 per- normal cells. That's been the goal Washington city. In lapan, it is uncommon to cent of patients in the first phase of cancer research and here it is," Part of the uproar concerns publicly discuss sexual attacks, of chronic myeloid leukemia saw said Brian Druker, an Oregon police response. Although they Love said. The school's 160 stu- their cancer go into remission Health Sciences University arrested three suspects within a dents don't know which of their within the first six months of tak- researcher who was the drug's week, police bungled their inves- classmates were assaulted. ing the pill, according to trial principal developer. "I view it as a tigation of a similar attack two The parents of one of the stu- findings presented Monday at a new era of cancer therapeutics. weeks earlier and failed to alert dents flew immediately to meeting of the American Society Irs the most effective treatment the community about potential Spokane to comfort their daugh- of Hematology.