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State University MONDAY February 23, 2004 TO THE HOOP: SNOW SHOWERS Check out highlights of HIGH 36 I LOW: 29 BG Men's win over www.bgnews.com Youngstown State; PAGE 7 independent .student press VOLUME 98 ISSUE 101 Dance team fills cultural gap Eccentricity, a newly started the dance group because frorn the Falconettes dance team The group practices three to five times she received a negative view from because there is currently an ice a week and will IK- performing commu- formed dance team upperclassmen concerning the "Our mission statement is to Skating group that performs occa- nity service after a large performance receives positive feedback University's dance team. enhance the diversity ofBGSU's sionally with the same name.They next month. According to Freeman, the team chose the name Eccentricity "Since we are a recognized organiza- from campus. didn't cater to the style of dance performing arts community." because eccentric means "differ- tion on campus, it is important for peo- that represents the black commu- ent" and their form of dance is dif- By Kryslal Cobb ple to see that not only do we dance, but REPORTED nity. ferent from any other dancing we give back to the community as well," Through the vision of University fresh- Even though Freeman was SHARMAYNE FREEMAN, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF group on campus. Freeman said. impressed with the ballet and jazz Reaction from students con- lilitor's note: Eccentricity will be per- man Sharmayne Freeman, a new dance inspired form of dance, she felt ECCENTRICITY group that fuses hip-hop and jazz cerning the new dance group has forming at Delta Sigma Tlieta's that something was missing. Vice President Vera Sanders agrees been very encouraging for Freeman. labberwack on March 19 in the Union together to form a different style of "Our mission statement is to enhance that the University needed a new form of dance has been created on campus. "We've received nothing but positive Ballroom. They will also lie ix'rforming at the diversity of BdSU's performing arts dance. feedback, which was surprising because Dance Marathon and Sfiring-Fest this Eccentricity — formerly known as the "I agreed to help her with the dance Falconcttes dance team — has begun its community," Freeman said. Currently it came from a lot of upperclassmen, year. Although it is too late to join the the group is comprised of lfi members team here because it caters to our form who said they have been waiting on this team for this year, tiyouls will be held second semester. of dance," Sanders said. I'reeman. president and founder. which is primarily black but is open for for a long time, which really meant a lot next fall for anyone interested in joining. anyone. Eccentricity had to change their name to me," she said. BRIEFINGBG NEWS Korean War Museum opens War veterans pay tribute to the'forgotten ones' By Matt Sedensky dent of the museum's board of trustees. symbolic because the war lasted 38 TMt ASSOCIATED PRESS "As they come in here their shoulders months and the 38th parallel divides the WAH1AWA, Hawaii — They were never straighten up," Kopitke said. "They feel that Koreas. The museum features such war welcomed home with a parade; their war they won the war. They feel that their sacri- memorabilia as a 58-foot-long mural of became known as the forgotten one. fices are finally acknowledged." the Battle at Inchon; towering statues of Manuel Baloe Ctneta AP Photo Now, 51 years later, Korean War veterans The museum occupies a 10,000-square- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun at last have a place to gather dieir memo- foot open-air space in a military town that and his war-era predecessor, Rhee Syng- NOT KEEN ON GREEN: Several ries — albeit a humble one. many of the country's first Korean immi- man; a wartime jeep and dozens of pho- protesters against Ralph Nader Linle fanfare marked the official opening grants called home while working in tographs. running for president in Maryland. of die NaUonal Korean War Museum on the Oahu's pineapple fields. In the rear of the museum, a meditation island of Oahu on Friday, but visitors didn't I JnTe about the place mirrors the grand area contains a simple wooden cross anc Nader announces seem to mind. museums that pay tribute to other groups. soldier's helmet that recall the losses suf- he'll run for top spot The museum, housed in a 1940s-era There are no interactive exhibits, no gift fered. Quonset hut, is still a work in progress with shops, no stunning displays. By month's end, Kopitke hopes to have WASHINGTON (AP) -»■ dangling wires, incomplete murals and Regardless, Kopitke, 47, said the muse- machinery on hand to engrave plaques Consumer advocate Ralph yet-to-be-installed attractions. um does not lack emotional impact for with the names of the war's fallen soldiers, Nader announced yesterday "When we were in the war we never had those who served in the Korean War. to be put up as families of the men visited. he is running again for presi- any nice, facilities to begin with," said Louis "I have veterans in here crying," he said. Meanwhile, another group has opened dent, this time as an indepen- Baldovi, a 72-year-old Korean War veteran. When the fighting ended in the summer a small site — the Korean War Veterans dent, and rejected claims that "Maybe it does bring back that. It's some- of 1953, more than 33,000 Americans had National Museum & Library — at an Carol Cunningham AP Photo a longshot candidacy would thing that we have versus not having any- been killed in the three-year war between outlet mall in Tuscola, 111. Organizers merely siphon enough votes thing" North and South Korea The Koreas were plan to start const met lot I on a larger facil- EXHIBIT: Kyle Kopitke, president of the from the Democrats to ensure Previous attempts to build a museum divided in 1945, and their border remains ity next month. board of trustees of the newly opened President Bush's re-election. honoring the 1.8 million Korean War veter- tightly sealed. National Korean War Museum talks to But Nader's decision was ans have faltered, said Kyle Kopitke, presi- There are 38 sections to the museum. reporters. greeted with a chorus of con- demnation from Democrats, longtime friends and former supporters who blame him for Al Gore's loss four years ago. They suggested that Casino serious Nader would not pull close to the 2.7 percent of the vote he won before without the back- ing of an established party and some of his past support- topic for tribe ers.. By Don Thompson the membership against the tra- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ditional leaders' wishes to PLYMOUTH, Calif.—A once- include members from two tiny, nearly destitute American other bands in the area. The fed- Indian tribe is pushing hard to eral officials then oversaw an Bush campaign build a $100 million casino — Aug. 10, 2002, election that but it's not traditional tribal swapped the old leaders for a denies Kerry members gunning for riches. pro-casino group that includes accusation I iundreds of some of the people have BIA employ- WASHINGTON (API- been newly ees them- George W. Bush's presidential added to the selves. campaign told John Kerry it lone Band of Before the "does not condone" any Miwok Indians' Bureau of effort to impugn his patrio- membership Indian Affairs tism but asserted that sena- rolls, which were became tor's voting record on nation- opened up by involved, the al security and defense issues regional Bureau lone Band is a valid target of political of Indian Affairs Stevt Yoater AP Photo had about 70 scrutiny. Responding yester- officials Among members liv- day to a letter in which Kerry the new mem- BIG PLANS: Matt Franklin, front, ing on land accused President Bush of bers are several chairman of the lone Band of near lone, using surrogates to attack his BIA employees Miwok Indians, looks out over about 40 miles military service in Vietnam and dozens of some of the land where he hopes east of and his subsequent opposi- their relatives. t0 Dui|d a casjno jn California. Sacramento tion to the war, Bush-Cheney Four congress- in the rolling 2004 campaign chairman men have called for an investi- hills of one of California's wine Marc Racicot said, "1 ask you gation, though federal officials regions. to elevate the remarkably have so far declined to inter- Now the band's official mem- negative tone of your cam- Mite MprM News vene. Rep. Nick Rahall, ranking bership has swelled to 535. None paign and your party over the ART THROUGH WORDS: Jesus, a member of Creative Minds Movement on campus entertains stu- Democrat on the House of the new members is related to past year." dents in the Union Pub last night at Poetry night.