Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-16-2008 The BG News January 16, 2008 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 January 16, 2008" (2008). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7861. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7861 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 January 16,2008 Volume 102. Issue 84 ; WWW.BGNEWS.COM • :-x=- fcai 4 THINGS TO HELP IMPROVE A new reason for YOUR RESUME: being late to class ^» *!*.»- *>»W * A new study finds that drivers using cell phones FREDDIE FALCON 1214 Main V increase their travel time IW»tdw(>rr>ri Oh-! ISMS and are more likely to be involved in an accident EDUCATION: | Page 3 3% s—> "** - I-ist your GPA if above 3.0 - Leave out high school accomplishments unless they are extremely unique. All Oprah, IMOTERO I M> PHOTO all the time VICTORY: Republican presidential hopeful. Mitt Romney. greets supporters at a campaign rally on primary day in Grand Rapids., Mich SKILLS: Oprah signs a deal - Make sure your listed skills an- relevant to the position with Discovery you are applying for. - Make sure you are very specific when it comes to job Communications, turning positions and the skiUsyou learned. Discovery Health into Oprah Winfrey Network Michigan says yes' ACTIVITIES: |Pagt« • List activities and dubs, especially when you have a leadership role within the group. - Spell out scholarships and honor societies. Condi Rice makes a surprise visit REFERENCES: Sec. of State Rice meets to Romney - Make sure the contact inloi mation lm your referent es with Iraq's Foreign is correct. Minister Zebari: Rice By Liz Sidoti McCain, the four-term sena- congratulates Iraq for "It's a victory of The Associated. Press tor he beat. "Now on to South national reconciliation optimism over Carolina, Nevada, Florida." | Page 9 DETROIT—Mitt Romney scored Minimizing the significance his first major primary victory Washington-style of yesterday's vote, McCain said yesterday, a desperately needed he had called Romney to con- Private military win in his native Michigan that pessimism." gratulate him "that Michigan companies: Good gave his weakened presidential welcomed their native son with candidacy new life. It set the Mitt Romney | Presidential candidate their support." idea or bad idea? stageforawide-open Republican "Starting tomorrow, we're College Columnists Sean Martin showdown in South Carolina in Republicans to help him repeat going to win South Carolina, just four days. his 2000 triumph here. Mike and we're going to go on and Levi Wonder debate the Three GOP candidates now Huckabee, the former Arkansas win the nomination," McCain issue of corporate militia have won in the first four states governor, trailed in third, and declared, also in an AP interview and America's utilization to vote in the 2008 primary former Tennessee Sen. Fred from Charleston, S.C. ends, the season, roiling a nomination Thompson is makinga last stand Huckabee, too, already of troops for hire fight that lacks a clear favorite in South Carolina. campaigning in the next pri- |Pag.4 as the race moves south for the "It's a victory of optimism mary state, said in Lexington, first time. over Washington-style pes- S.C: "We're going to win South The former Massachusetts simism," Romney said in an Carolina. We put a flag in the job search Apple slims down governor defeated lohn McCain, Associated Press telephone ground here Saturday." He also with MacBook Air the Arizona senator who was interview from Southfield, hoping that independents Mich., echoing his campaign See ELECTIONS | Page 2 Steve Jobs, Apple and Democrats would join speeches and taking a poke at Inc's chief executive ins introduces its thinnest personal computer at By Ryan Sullivan .76 inches to .16 inches Six students sent packing Reporter thick | Page 10 As the last days at the University start to dwin- i City ordinance sets cap at three for unrelated individuals in a single house dle for seniors, the all important question of what to do with the soon-to-be-earned degree Athlete of the begins to come mind. Week: Crystal By LIM Halv.rstadt University students who lived Facts about this City For most students, this process starts with Murdaugh Editor in Chief in the house last school year had resume building and career searching. a similar arrangement. Their Zoning Ordinance The University's Career Center is the pri- BG women's When senior lenna Sobb and parents signed agreements and ■ According to city zoning mary place for students who are preparing basketball player five of her friends moved into a mailed checks to Cheetwood. ordinance No. 3200, no to enter the job market to get a leg up on the more than three unrelated Murdaugh proves five-bedroom house on Troup By Jan. 9, Cheetwood was competition. Avenue, she didn't know much convicted of 200 violations of students may live in a The most important step towards getting herself worthy ( about a city ordinance that does city code. Cheetwood could be single-family dwelling. a good job is having a good resume said the title, scoring i not allow such an arrangement. fined nearly $50,000 if he vio- ■ This zoning ordinance was Andrea Gutierrez, the assistant director of 17 points and 11 By letting six University lates the code again during his passed in 1975 and homes the Career Center. two-year probation. which housed more than The first and foremost priority is making rebounds against the students live in the home, her landlord violated a zoning rule Feilow Bowling Green land- three unrelated individuals sure your resume is stellar," Gutierrez said. Bobcats 11 that bars more than three unre- lord lohn Frobose was charged were grandfathered in. "|The resume] should be error free with not a lated people from living in a in November with 82 counts of ■ Those who violate this or lot of white space with your skills listed and so rented home. zoning violations. any zoning ordinance can your attributes shine through. All companies Code enforcement officers The owner of Frobose be charged up to $500 for have to go on is a piece of paper so it needs to be soon discovered the roommates Rentals is accused of allowing each day they are in the best it can be." were violating the law and asked five women to live in one of violation of the law. A good resume should not only showcase a the roommates to cooperate his Orchard Circle properties student's skills but also incorporate things such with investigators. Three were and according to court records, said city officials will continue as past work experience as well as any major ordered to move out. encouraging them to "keep a to investigate zoning violations skills or special training received from the job. Their landlord, Douglas low profile" and "most impor- and uphold the ordinance cre- She said it is very rare to find a job listing or Cheetwood, had separateagree- tantly keeplingl the cars to a ated in 1975. a fair where the employer or recruiter doesn't ments with the three students minimum of three." Nearly all of the violations require a resume. who weren't on the lease and Frobose will appear at have involved college-aged peo- had allowed them to mail their BowlingGreen Municipal Court See JOBS | Page 2 rent checks to him, accord- tomorrow at 1 p.m. ing to court records. Six male City Prosecutor Matt Reger See ZONING | Page 2 Turning the tables on University officials By Adam Louis life. looks for are a passion for Reporter "There are a lot of people on recruiting and the ability to campus who make the claim evaluate talent. "Yeah, hopefully it'll be Students will have an oppor- they are here to serve ... I'm Christopher pointed out dif- ss tasty as the original." tunity to attempt to stump taking them at their word," ferences between college and prominent University officials Browne said. professional coaches. |Pag«4 through a new program offered Asking tough questions shows "|As a college coachl, you're by Residence Life throughout respect for a person, Browne said. helping someone grow up," I the semester. It allows the interviewee to be Christopher said. "It's a lot of Distinguished economics seen as someone who can han- fun to be a part of that process professor M. Neil Browne host- dle the challenging questions. whether serving as a coach ed the first of six question and The first student question read, or administrator. At the pro answer sessions called "Tough "When you hire a coach, what are level you're getting a finished TODAY Questions" last night. He inter- the criteria you look at?" product." Mostly Sunny viewed director of intercollegiate "It's different, yet the same Christopher was then asked High: 33. Low: 27 athletics Greg Christopher. with each coach," Christopher what it would take to see Students were asked to sub- said. There are three things more one-loss records at the mit questions to the office Christopher looks for in coach- University. of Residence Life that were es, he said, the first is "absolute "Is there a problem in job both "respectful and tough" integrity and high character." making sure fans are realistic?" PATRICK CONRAD 'HE BG NEWS for University authority fig- "If somebody you hire has Browne asked.