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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-17-1999 The BG News September 17, 1999 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 September 17, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6525. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6525 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. Opinion WORLD NEWS NOW SPORTS Columnist Louis Lomanski offers Hurricane Floyd :- Entertainment writer. James BG football to solve the University's e-mail hits the North Eldred. gives the movie 'Limbo' a team looks for problems. Carolina coast, four-star rating. upset at 7 dead. Marshall this weekend. Weather Today: Frida September 17. 19 sunny a Volume 87 & Issue 18 High 73 . Low 43 The BGA daily independent News student press Two prepare for walk BY BRANDI BARHITE a tour of Ireland. O'Donnell said she is not try- O'Donnell and Pattenburg said The BG News Though, traveling to Ireland ing to set a record at the they hope to start training They have been friends for was a motivation to get marathon, but just wants to together and to try more meth- years, yet come October when involved in the marathon, Pat- finish, especially since it is her ods to raise the $6400. So far they walk a 26-mile marathon, tenburg and O'Donnell said marathon. they have raised one-third of they're a little concerned they'll they decided to get involved "During the marathon, I the amount. run out of conversation. after they heard about it on a probably will start saying, 'I Pattenburg said she thought Ann Pattenburg, junior IPC radio station. can do it, I can do it. I can do it," raising the money would be major and her fellow walker Although, neither of them is she said. easier Megan O'Donnell, senior IPC related to an arthritis-sufferer, When O'Donnell trains she "I just thought I would have major, are training with the both have met several sufferers uses the University walking to find 320 people and have trail Later when it gets cold, Arthritis Foundation's Joints in through the Arthritis Founda- them give me $10," she said. "I tion. she is going to use the indoor Motion team for a walking/run- didn't think it would be as time- ning marathon in Dublin, Ire- "Both of us wanted to volun- track at the Student Recreation consuming." land, October 25. teer this semester and so we Center. Yet she said no walk in O'Donnell shared similar "I don't know what we are have made it our priority," Bowling Green will compare to sentiments, yet said the Bowl- going to talk about," Patten- O'Donnell said. the walk in Dublin. burg said. "We might stop talk- In fact, both had to clear "When I'm walking the ing Green community has been ing for a few days so we'll have their schedules to train and marathon, I'm going to keep my supportive of their endeavors. something to say." they will have to miss school for eyes open to the city," she said. Their next potential event will In order to participate they the marathon. Pattenburg even Jane Hopkins, development be "bar night," which would each must raise $3200, an quit smoking in preparation for coordinator for the Arthritis involve bars donating a certain amount they have been raising the marathon. Foundation, said Dublin is a percentage for every purchase. through letter campaigns and In order to prepare for the "walkable city," which makes In between fundraising, flyers. marathon, the Arthritis Foun- this marathon popular among O'Donnell and Pattenburg said Last year 5,000 people from dation provided a personal participants. Last year $3 mil- they are going to start breaking around the world participated trainer for O'Donnell and Pat- lion was raised for the Arthritis in their running shoes, or in in the marathon, yet this year tenburg, who established an Foundation. this case, their walking shoes. O'Donnell and Pattenburg are individual walking plan for "A lot of people like the idea "We aren't runners, but we of international travel- it's very the only participants from each of them. Though Patten- aren't going to let that stop us, thrilling and it's a challenge," Bowling Green. There are six burg has not been walking as she said. "We are going to do much as she would like, O'Don- Hopkins said. other participants from north- the best we can," she said. nell tries to walk 20 miles per Hopkins, who walked half west Ohio. Anyone interested in donat- BG News Photo/ MIKE LEHMKUHLE Despite the money they have week. the marathon last year, said it to raise for the Arthritis Foun- "I was late in starting my is exciting because "people are ing to their cause, can contact cheering you on." O'Donnell and Pattenburg at Ann Pattenburg (left) and Megan O' Donnell stroll through cam- dation, the five-day trip to Ire- training, but I have dedicated With a little more than a [email protected] and apat- pus in preparation for their 26-mile charity marathon. land is free, including plane myself for the past few weeks." fare, hotel accommodations and O'Donnell said. month until the marathon. [email protected]. Student ranger battles fires, clears paths Before the autumn breeze for clearing the trails is that arrives and the leaves begin to about half of the forest has fall, The News is going to ASalut&to been burned, so trees regularly revisit the summer every Fri- fall over the trails. day in September through sto- The work was hard ;.nd long, ries about summer programs, the living difficult and the bugs experiences and internships. atrocious. Fisher said, however, he loved it. "It was a hell of a good time," ByJEFFARNETT m Fisher said. The BG News Park. There the wilderness is to 200 pounds in supplies and He said a major reason he To some students, a great kept so primitive that almost tools between their horses, and liked it was the solitude. The summer job means big money no modern equipment can be would go out for over a week at setting was so remote that and tolerable co-workers. Darin used there. a time. Fisher recalled that one machines are banned, it was in Fisher, however, had an entire- "In wilderness areas, you're time, misjudging the depth of a the outdoors and it allowed ly different kind of great sum- not allowed to use motorized or stream nearly led to his head time for introspection mer job. mechanized things," Fisher getting squashed by his horse's "It was nice to get away," Fisher, a senior American said. "You're not even allowed hooves. Fisher said. "It was mostly me, Culture Studies major, spent to ride a bicycle." Eric Sandeno, natural my partner and the horses." his summer volunteering as a Therefore, he had to clear resource manager at the Black- In the last two weeks of his wilderness ranger, clearing the forests with only simple rock Ranger Station and Fish- time there. Fisher went to paths and fixing trails for up to saws and axes. For transporta- er's boss for the summer, said Idaho to for a better paying job eight days at a time. Fisher tion, Fisher and his partner the job has a lot of variety, and as a fire fighter, which paid $10 worked out of the Blackrock would ride horses, sometimes includes contacting campers per hour. PHOTO PROVIDED Ranger Station in the Bridger- all day, to their destinations, regarding grizzly regulations "I got sent to Idaho to fight Teton wilderness, which bor- which was slow and sometimes and camping ethics, as well as Darin Fisher, a senior American Culture Studies major, battled ders Yellowstone National dangerous. They would take up clearing trails. A major reason • See RANGER, page five, two fires as a wilderness ranger this summer. Flu shots are urged University students make reading fun By KIMBERLY DUPPS to 10 percent of recipients of a By MICHELLE REITER "We provide one-on-one help The BG News flu vaccine experience mild side The BG News to kids who need it. using dif- "We get so many positive comments from the AsNthe flu season approach- effects, but about one-third do University students are try- ferent strategies to get them parents," she said. "It's great to think that es, the, Ohio Health Depart- report soreness or redness in ing to teach kids who don't like interested," she added. ment urges students, especially the area, she said. reading that reading can be Kauffman said that it is the you've had a positive impact on some child's those who\live in a communal If more serious side effects, fun. response that she gets from life." setting, to get a flu vaccination. such as high fever, difficulty Located on the fifth floor of both the kids and their parents Susie Kauffman The CenteV for Disease Con- the education building, the that makes it worthwhile. breathing and hives occur, a America Reads coordinator trol said that,getting the vac- doctor should be consulted.