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The BG News November 13, 2006 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-13-2006 The BG News November 13, 2006 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 November 13, 2006" (2006). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7676. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7676 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 Monday November 13.2006 Local convenience store brings Lebanese cuisine to Bowling Green Volume 101. Issue 57 WWWBGNEWSCOM Cuban dictator not expected to South side sensation survive 2007 U.S. medical spies By H.idi Gricur Reporter spoon, I just throw it in, some predict Fidel Caslto people measure but 1 don't. SIDE SUPPLIES will die soon from South Side Six, a carry- Every time I make them, I learn Beer List cancer | Page 6 out located on the corner of a bit more," Eman explained. Napoleon and South Main "Now I think they're perfect. ■ Imports Irom: Belgium, streets, offers more than the My daughter is learning with Holland, Germany, Japan. Memorial wall usual beer and cigarettes. me. She'd rather help than sit China, Czech Republic. built for victims So Shaheen, owner and man- at home." Scotland. Wales. Ireland. of Flight 587 ager, stands behind a counter While she deftly spread England, Vietnam, South covered with bags of fried and the dough and filled pies, she Africa, Lebanon, Italy. Relatives and friends seasoned pita chips, baklava explained how the food ends Canada. Bavaria. Austria. Mexico, Australia. France of people in the crash and containers of hummus and up tasting so good. grape leaves. Behind him hunks "Onions and garlic. Without ■ Buy it by the bottle or in come together to of seasoned beef, lamb and them, our Lebanese food would six-packs. remember. | Page 6 chicken spin on gyro cones that taste like nothing," she said. keep them sizzling and adds to Eman begins listing ingredi- Other Beverages: the uniquely spiced smell that ents off the spice rack. ■ Wine Toledo fire kills pervades the restaurant. "Cayenne pepper, 7 spice, ■ Sake So and his wife, Amal, cumin, citric acid, mint, sumac ■ Fermented Cider two adults, two bought the carryout in 1992, — oh." She stops to explain she children and from day one had a vision couldn't find the sumac earlier, A few interesting to serve Lebanese food. Finally, and grabs it off the shelf, add- microbreweries: Four people are dead in August 2004. that dream ing it to her mixture, ■ Dead Guy Ale after a fire destroys became a reality. "Whoever buys the last ones ■ Chocolate Stout a Toledo home South Side Six now offers deli will have the sumac in them," and bakery items, sandwiches she said. "Pakistanis use a lot ■ Arrogant Bastard Ale Saturday | Page 7 such as gyros and falafel, sal- more spices. I went to a store in ■ Buckeye Brewing Co. ads and munchics including Pakistan, and I thought we had Hippie IPA wings and onion rings. They a lot of spices, but no." ■ Hebrew — the Chosen Podcasts are also cater for large events and So and Amal make trips up Beer back! sell party trays. to Dearborn, Mich., to find a lot Back in the kitchen of South of the ingredients they use in Grill hours: Listen to audio news Side Six, a cousin of So's their food. So explained there ■ II a.m. to 9 p.m. updates everyday on named Eman Shaheen makes are a few differences between your walk to class meat, cheese and spinach pies making these dishes at home bgnews.com/podcast called Fatayer, while her young and for a restaurant. Carryout open: daughter washes dishes. Eman "If you just need a few things ■ Monday through Thursday learned the recipe, which isn't you can go to the Tiger Market 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. written down, from her mother or something like that in MARIA HUMMER THE BG NEWS ■ Friday 7 a.m. to 12 a.m. in Lebanon. BG basketball ON THE SIDE: Fikre Mohammed, a chef at South Side Six. uses unique spices, meats and ■ Saturday 8 a.m. to 12 a.m. "1 don't put like one table- See SENSATION | Page 2 sauces to create a gyro for a customer. ■ Sunday 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. teams take the court Both men's and women's basketball CAMPUS start the season with Students form local literary society BRIEF wins | Page 8 BGSU employee By Ella Fowl.r senior and co-content exet u "I started ihis organization senior and co-content exei utive suspended pending Reporter tive of the society. because |of| just being in class of the society. "We have orga- Other departments come and wanting to talk more about nizational executives, who deal investigation Students Rebecca Halsey and together to form a sense of com- books, but having nowhere to with the secretary and treasurer An employe afffated mth the Emily Shreve felt the English munity by creatingorganizations go," said Halsey, senior and co- aspects, content executives who Northvwst Oho Book Depository. vM 6 department lacked a sense of that Involved what they loved the outreach executive of the society. deal with the literary side of operated by BGSU. was suspended with pay community. most. Halsey and Shreve realized "1 wanted to find other people things and outreach executives OctftpenrJng the outcome of an internal So at the end of last year, they that there were no organizations who wanted to talk about things who deal with publicity. Each ■^Ktx^eonre^tothepossilerrishaiv decided to create The Black for them to talk about their love that mattered." seat has two people." ring of University funds The employee was Swamp Literary Society. of literature. The society isn't a traditional Involvement in the organiza- cbresed by the Llriversty ai Nov Z and "Professors only take discus- With nowhere to go to discuss organization on campus because tion doesn't demand much time the investigation nto the matter continues sions so far in class and we topics tackled in class, the stu- it is run differently than most. from its members. Because the iwstxjaoon s cocprxj the U.N. resolution wanted to expand on those dents decided to create a forum "We don't have the traditional University is unabe to share further infor- topics," said Samantha Meyers, and space to do so. executive board," said Shreve, See SOCIETY | Page 2 to pull Israeli mation at thrs time troops vetoed American veto sparks criticism in furious Middle East officials Lampus groups create Congo democracy faces challenges | PageS ByMkMbFaul The Associated Press Baghdad bomber Thanksgiving food drive kills recruits in KINSHASA, Congo—Among the By Janecn Morgan GIVING THANKS biggest challenges Congo's first suicide explosion Reporter Bowling Green lends a helping elected government in nearly 50 Several attacks hit hand to solving the problem of years will face is bringing order world hunger. Iraq yesterday, and The Office of Residence Life and to a chaotic mining sector whose the Catholic Newman Club are riches provoked a regional war the death toll is still spearheading a Thanksgiving ■ Every year, 15 million that killed millions ol people. rising | Page 5 food drive in an effort to help children die ot hunger Congo's vast mineral resourc- unfortunate families in and ■ Three billion people in the es are worth an estimated S300 around Bowling Green. world today struggle to billion over the next 25 years. In the past, the Office of survive on U.S. $2 a day. In die past, though, the earth!) Should the U.S. send Residence Life has partnered up ■ One of every eight children riches have only contributed I help to Darfur? with some other organizations under age 12 in the U.S. goes to misery and today most of to sponsor different drives with- to bed hungry every night. Congo's 58 million people are in the dorms, but this year is the Source: www.librarythinkquest.org/ mired in poverty. first time in a long time the two Endemic corruption is the have paired up for a food drive. major impediment to develop- ANJAN SUNDARAM AP PHOTO "In the time I've been in my successful because students feel ment, says Babaair Cisse. head of PANHANDLING: An unidentified miner sifts through sand and smashed rocks looking current position [six yearsl, we the need to give to those unfor- the U.N. Development Program for gold at the town of Mongbwalu. Congo in this Monday. Sept 26.2005 file photo have helped out with different tunate families. in Congo "Our major concern as SAMANTHATUFT. drives within the halls," Nick The food being collected a partner is how they can come "Our major concern as a partner is how Freshman. Psychology Hennesey, associate director will be distributed to house- up with policies that will fight of Residence Ijfe said. "We do holds in and around Bowling corruption in this country — it's they can come up with policies that will "We need to get our all kinds of drives ranging from Green so families can have a the whole system that needs to troops home and food to clothes to books.
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