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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 2001-2011 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 4-8-2011 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 2011-04-08 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2001-2011 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 2011-04-08" (2011). The Voice: 2001-2011. 538. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2001-2011/538 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 2001-2011 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. he Wooster oice I CXXX, XXII 1 VOL. ISSUE A STUDENT PUBLICATION SINCE 883 FRIDAY. APRIL 8, 2011 "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." John F. Kennedy College and community mourn Bite-Size- d News WORLD Nuclear waste greatly affects wa- Ideath of Cooper Larsh '14 ter in Japan The leakage of highly radioactive water from a cracked Madelyn Halstead Larsh's death wasn't the first Dinosaur National Park. He learned concrete pit at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi reac- tragedy that his family faced. When how to ski when he was still a tod- tor No. 2 has Editor in Chief stopped, the Japanese utility said early Wednesday. Larsh was 10 old he was hit dler. Larsh's Facebook years profile listed The leakage stopped after workers poured 1,560 gallons of "water gathered at Gault by a car while crossing a street. He interests in kayaking, rock climb- glass" a sodium silicate compound through holes around the Students back-packin- Recital Hall last Saturday to sustained severe traumatic brain ing and g. Although it pit and at the bottom of the pit, a Tepco spokesman said. Japan's celebrate the life of Cooper Larsh, injury and was in a coma for five is tragic that Larsh's death resulted son of Maureen Ryan and Kurt weeks. Larsh remained hospital- from one his favorite pastimes, his government announced on Tuesday its first radiation safety stan- 19-year-- first-ye- Larsh. Larsh, a old ar ized for several months and faced family is taking solace in the fact dards for fish, hours after the operator of a crippled nuclear power at the College, died tragically a staggering amount of rehabili- that he died doing something he plant said that seawater collected near the facility contained radia- Ac- - loved. on March 17 in a skiing accident in tation following the accident. tion five million times the legal limit. (AP) Steamboat Springs, Co. In keeping with his interests, ! ; A vibrant and colorful personal- Larsh's family chose to bury him ity, Larsh was spending his spring in an informal burial at the Idaho break with his mother and stepfa- Springs Cemetery. "He came from ther, Mark Squillace. As Squillace the earth, we wanted him to go NATIONAL Abortion Outlawed in Idaho explained, Larsh was an avid skier back to the earth, to go back into The Idaho legislature on Tuesday gave final approval to a , who sought out the most challeng- a lot of living things," said Larsh's measure that would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy ing runs. Larsh's mother wasn't mother, fighting back tears. unless it could be proved that the pregnancy endangered the wom- worried when she dropped him Larsh's stepfather built a life. Senate-backe- d 54-1-4 off at Howelson Hill Ski Resort on wooden casket for the occasion, an's The bill cleared the House in a vote Thursday morning. When Cooper and friends and family decorated and now heads to Governor Butch Otter, who is expected to sign it. did not return text messages or the outside with bright colors. His The bill is similar to one recently approved by the Kansas legislature and family thoughts and prayers phone calls . from his mother wrote and to measures proposed by lawmakers in more than a dozen other the bottom of that Larsh's friends had left on his failed to meet her at states. It is part a broader campaign by the National Right to Life the hill as they had planned, she The College commemorates Facebook on the outside of the Committee to tighten restrictions on abortion after sweeping conser- began to worry. Ryan reported her the life of Cooper Larsh (photo casket. He was buried at the foot vative gains in state elections last son missing and'the Howelsen Ski courtesy OPI). of a mountain, in a scenic setting. year. (Reuters) Patrol began searching for Larsh "It was what Cooper would have around 8 p.m. cording to his family, Larsh was a wanted," his mother said at the Larsh's body was discovered fighter, and fought to beat the odds memorial. around 9:30 p.m. partially buried of recovery. After spending months At the memorial, students filled LOCAL Man gets life for 1993 murder headfirst in snow near the alpine at the University of Michigan Pe- the Gault Recital hall to pay their A convicted rapist already serving prison time in Ohio has " slide, an attraction that runs in the diatric Neurorehabilitation Clinic, respects to Larsh's family and re- been sentenced to life in prison in Florida for killing a woman in summer. The area was off limits to Larsh made a tremendous recovery flect on the life of such a charismat- Orlando nearly 1 8 years ago. An Orange County judge sentenced skiers at that time. As reported by and was able to return to everyday ic individual. "We are all one family 39-year-- old Dennis McCroskey on Tuesday. He pleaded guilty to Steamboat Springs Police Detec- activities. today," President Grant Cornwell first-degr- tive, Nick Bosick, it is suspected Larsh loved the outdoors. In his said. "We will cherish Cooper as a ee murder last month in exchange for prosecutors agreeing that Larsh hit a bump and went air- obituary in The Durango Herald, fallen Scot." Cornwell encouraged not to pursue the death penalty. McCroskey's life sentence in Florida borne, hitting another bump before his family said that the first time students to follow in Larsh's foot- - will begin after he serves his time in Ohio, where he was sentenced he landed head-fir- st in the snow, Larsh slept through the night as in 1996. (AP) suffocating. an infant was on a camping trip in Cont. on page 2 Turmoil in Japan still escalating Ramsey Kincannon the rebuilding efforts in Indonesia, concern is great enough that Japanese officials have declared Senior Staff Writer Myanmar and New Orleans. government a The miijor concern is still the nu- state of emergency, and energy offi- After a series of disastrous earth- clear power plants which had been cials have compared the nuclear crisis quakes, which measured a 9.0 on the poorly maintained throughout the to the Three Mile Island and Cher- Richter scale, Japan is slowly start- years. The Fukushima I and II power nobyl disasters. ing to rebuild its cities and country- plants are two of the six major nucle- Many people have suggested that side, as well as tending to the ailing ar power plants that have been almost the tsunami could also impact the population. Unfortunately, though, its completely destroyed and could global economy and those con- poor nuclear infrastructure has led potentially turn into a major situation cerns were initially realized when to continued worry about the safety for the north of Japan. Inside the nu- - indexes of many countries across of all of the Japanese the world dipped in Clt reaction to the crisis. The Tohoku earth- - "The major concern is still the nuclear Since then, though, quake, which struck on power plants which mostly had been the global economy has responded well, ' 1 x ! . i ; .A a . t w'hicEhed maintained throughout the years." , .1 ;t. uunami poorly and growth has been ' 1 1 1 "i'.'ii i H1;!-- ' ' ; :t"t' '. :1 i:l , A T.:l i (A I' t! 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