The BG News July 25, 2007

Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 7-25-2007 The BG News July 25, 2007 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 July 25, 2007" (2007). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7776. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7776 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. ESTABLISHED 1920 A daily independent student press serving THE BG NEWS the campus and surrounding community Wednesday July 25,2007 .„ Volume 101. Issue 159 WWWBGNEWSCOM Data loss inquiry continues Harry Potter pandemic hits America Professor says drive with Social Security numbers was stolen Another wave of the British Invasion comes By Tim Sampson Markctingand Communications Security numbers to identify It was nearly a month later tact information for all affected ashore with the latest City News Editor announced that a flash drive, students before switching over that the University announced alumni and students and set up the flash drive had gone miss- an informational phone line. book release | Page 5 used by accounting professor to the P00# system. Three weeks after announcing David Albrecht to store grade The flash drive has uoi yet ing, posting a banner on its Web During that time, the that a USB flash drive contain- information dating hack to 1992, been recovered, according to site, e-mailing the entire student University also made arrange- Voldemort ing the personal information of had gone missing. Media Relations Director Teri population and mailing letters to ments with the ID security firm stealing your roughly I .BOOcurrentand former The memory device con- Sharp. There has been no evi- all those whose information was Life Lock, to offer a year of ser- magic? University students had gone tained the names, grades and dence that information on the on the memory device. vice to the alumni whose Social missing. University officials are University ID numbers for about flash drive has been used for The reasc in t he Uni\ ersity wait- Security numbers where on the Find out how to deal still investigating the incident 1,600 students and alumni, as fraudulent purposes. ed nearly a month before inform- drive. As of press time, none of ing students was so Information the affected alumni have taken with muggle trouble and looking for ways to prevent well as Social Security num- Albrecht informed officials a similar data loss from happen- bers for 199 students from the about the missing flash drive on Technology Sen ices could deter- the University up on this offer. in your relationship ing again. class of 1992. That was the last May 30 — three weeks after real- mine what information was | Page 5 On June 27, the Department of year the University used Social izing it was gone. on the drive, Hack down con- See DATA | Page 2 Check out the BG News blog Police to up on the Web For the latest in news surveillance of on the digital world, check out what our railroad tracks columnists are saying By Megan Armcntrout online at: Reportei blogs.bgnews.com Bowling Green, like many cities Community across the country with active info online railroads, has had several accidents involving pedestrians Find out about local trespassing on the railroad's events and special property, faking recent fatalities into consideration, city offers on 6GFile.com police will increase their patrol read more about it at: of the tracks. www.bgnews.com Two men were victims of train accidents within nine days of one another and less Club sports than a mile apart in Bowling keep students Green. Timothy Gregory, 21, of 1'indlay, Ohio, was killed July 6 active and Dr. lason Sheehan, 32, of The series continues Toledo. Ohio, died luly 15. this week with women's The same train engineer who works for CSX. the company soccer and ultimate who runs the trains that travel frisbee | Page 3 through Bowling Green, was Vicktositthe involved in both cases. CSX offered the train engi- bench and neer, Matthew Brandon. 28, of await his fate Franklin, hid., accident coun- The NFL is forcing the seling and he was given paid time off. guarterback to sit According to Garrick Francis, out of training camp spokesperson for CSX, pedes- during indictment trian fatalities and accidents caused by trains happen more proceedings | Page 3 frequently than people think. According to the Federal Railroad Administration, in 2001), trespasser fatalities nationwide went up 12.5 percent from the year before, bringing the total to 521 deaths. In Ohio, there were 24 deaths Global youth discuss drug abuse last year an increase of 71.4 percent from 2005. The trains are required by By Jillian Roach African teen from the province of together they had a very common the IRA to blow their horns Reporter KwaZulu-Natal, was excited to acquire problem among each of their com- through town and at every ■ Adjusting to more tools to help her communities munities," Subreendoth said. 'The railroad crossing. The speed South African and Ohio teens worked financial growing problems. common problem they decided to limit for trains passing through together throughout last week under a "Our group, Project Citizen, came discuss and raise awareness about BowlingGreenis35mphand50 freedom common cause; teen drug abuse. to America to present a project about was drug abuse." mph outside the city limits. The South African teens came to l- Some students may suicide," Mthalanc said. "After that, we The group spent the first part of their If a train is traveling at the the United States to present a Project came here to work with the Ohio teens week getting to know one another. speed of 55 mph it takes about a 2 have a hard time Citizen Showcase In Washington D.C. to help solve some community prob- Their first meeting was at a welcoming mile for the train to completely ■ dealing with debt and Project Citizen is a program organized lems we're all facing." banquet on Tuesday night. stop, according to Francis. other issues | Page 4 by the Outer for Civic F.ducation After arriving in Ohio the group of Thursday, the parliament worked If a person or object is in Washington, D.C, that brought 12 teens—four South African, six from together to plant a garden at the Padua obstructing the path of the together hundreds of youth to pres- Bowling Green and two from Marion Center in Toledo. The group weeded I If you could pass off train, the train has no way to ent and discuss problems facing their — were given time to discuss, within and planted a variety of flowers and stop in time to avoid a collision. your student loans communities. each of their town groups, which prob- shrubs. Along with the garden, the "We have worked with to anyone who you Once Sharon Subreendoth and lems needed addressing. teens worked with local artists to con- informing the public and the choose? LornaGonsalves. co-organizers, heard Subreendoth, an assistant profes- struct a mural to be placed as the back- enforcement of the laws with of the South African students' trip they sor at the University, was surprised at drop for the garden. city authorities in the past and came up with the idea of a "Global each groups' similarities. F.loisa Vapata, an Ohio teen from it has been successful." Francis Parliament" of the South African and "The groups came up with commu- said. "It has been a long time Ohio youth. nity problems on their own, we didn't See YOUTH | Page 2 Thcmbekc Mthalanc, a South help at all, and when the groups came See TRACKS | Page 2 JESSICA YOUNG. Senior. Dietetics "My future employer. If they want me, they Loans wont disappear after death University holds worldwide horn should have to pay for everything I did to By Christy Johnson competition this past weekend get there." | Page 4 Campus News Editor "It doesn't make me feel good that my By Jillian Roach horn and a solo performance Student loans make it possible education could create a financial burden Reporter with the Temple Orchestra in for many students to attend col- Salt 1-ake City, Utah. lege and most students expect for my parents, especially if I don't get to Bowling Green State University's The competition is held every TODAY to graduate and pay them off campus lent its ears and musical other year and is widely know in — but the untimely death of two finish it out and they still have to pay." arts center to the International the horn community. Scattered T-Storms University students shows that Steve Furnas I Senior Horn Competition last weekend, Andrew Pelletier, host and vis- I High: 81. Low: 60 this may not always be the case. which brought over 50 musi- iting assistant professor at the The way that lenders handle cians from around the world to University, was a judge in the debt if a borrower dies depends with bad or no credit, is the loans, and he knew that if he its campus. previous hom competition, held TOMORROW highly on two things: if there is route in which debt will likely could not pay them back, that The musicians came to com- at the University of Oklahoma, Scattered T-Storms a co-signer for the loan, and the have to be paid back — by who- his parents would have to.

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