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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-10-2009 The BG News April 10, 2009 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 April 10, 2009" (2009). BG News (Student Newspaper). 8074. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/8074 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. Today's • 5 THINGS YOU ■ ••0%.... ■ SHOULD KNOW hi) : ■ ■ TODAY ESTABLISHED 1920 A daily independent student press serving THE JWEWS the campus and surrounding community Friday April 10. 2009 Volume 103. Issue 135 WWWBGVIEWSCOM Battling more than just the disease Registering the kinks Bowling Green resident Cheryl Weber Students have encountered several ts cancer, financial problems By Ell* Fowler problems with the new as the) are unable to work. PeopleSoft system to A leu ol teats have been shed in register classes this house the last few months," rerry. Since February, i hetyl Weber's life said. | PageJ has been lived from a beige rediner Every month, after paying theii in her living room ■siii min rent, the Webers have around Diagnosed with Inn;; cancer $100 left for food, medications and Feeling Cheryl, 52, has undergone three other household expenses. disappointed rounds of chemotherap5 leaving her "His [Telly's disability is our only exhausted and weak. income right now." Cheryl, who with life? l*in what causes more stress foi sports a black and white I lalloween Columnist Andrea Cheryl and hei husband feny, 59, bandana to cover bei shaved bead. Wadsworth thinks it is isn't her cancer. It is that for the past CANCER FIGHTER important to learn how lew months, they have been living ' iin an incomeol about $700a month I ■■■ to let things go. even if things do not go your way | Page 4 Take a walk in ite dec me, the park! There are many parb University still ranks in Ohio, all of which are good places to visit now that the weather is warming up | Page 8 Students cough up the By Sfephanie Spencer Theres always a lot of cover charge common misconceptions As cover charges rise, I rom bare statistii s alone nine out ot III lit iSl I wannabe- are about how we re so do complaints: sent big, fat ■:< i eptance lettersai however, cover charges the end «ii eat It school year. admitting students." are more than just I he actual percentage is 87.4, a figure thai is among the lugbest entry fees | Page 8 nut oi the fivi selective, publii state universities in Ohio, It any ot the important paper- Marine officer Vccording to U.S. News ami work I- mil completed, or it they World Report's "Best I ollcges decide on .mi ilhei » oltege alter is acquitted ol .'oii'i" rankings, Ohio ted those an also l A Marine sergeant University selects only "'■ per- shot down as well cent of their college-hopefuls \ml bragging right- between from Illinois was while Ohio University is only a universities ate also important — acguitted on charges lew pointslovvei than HliSU's.u which s,lnml. .lie lanked and in pertaining to the about 82 pen enl Kent State is in which -pot- on the popular U.S. between at 79.7 percent. New- and World Report survey. murder of a detainee in Director ot Undergraduate Higher selectivity might mean Iraq | Page 10 student Admissions Gary a belter college degree to some Swegan said the numbersaren i student- Harvard .i\ui Yale have as cut anil clrv as they seem. .u.eptance rates around 1(1 per- It's a rebound According to raw dara. the mini iflit and are Iv v I eague schools. weekend bet ha- been dropping ovet the i hey cost more money to attend The Falcon softball pa-t seven years in small incre- and arc the models ol exclusiv- ments ity. Lowet acceptance late- may team returns home "Ihere's always a lot ot emu mean better education to some. this weekend for a moii misconceptions about how swegan said sometimes the double-header against wen' admitting students, he numbei ot applicants can be said. "We're -elective but with inflated tor this verv reason and Ball State and a two- an eye lor giving as much . on paper, the numbers c an gen game weekend series as we can eratebighei appeal against Miami | Page 6 Eight years ago in the 2001 Ways that other universities do .'no.' school year, the accep tin- tan simply be better com lance late was 91.5 percent and munication to high school and THROUGH THE COURT has been dropping ever since. transfer students. More pain Swegan and his stall attribute phlets, brochures .aid advertis- pan ol the high numbers to the ing all around tan help get the wav the University processes the word out about what puts this actual application letters. particular University above the TREET LOOKING GLASS Students without transcripts, lest. the minimum grade point avet Othei tunes, (he application age.ornoACl scoresaredropped lee is waived fol students on a immediately from the applicant "need basis meaning that Stuffed rabbit stares down students, pool ami aic never counted. tho-e approved do not base to Even after they do jump through residents while walking on Court Street the first tew lumps, applicants RATES mav not finish what thev started. Story and photos by John Bisesi | I Residents of Bowling Green don't have to go "through the If you could have looking glass" to see a big white rabbit. SCALING THE any movie character His name is Harvey and be lives on (lourt Street COLLEGIATE painted in a portrait I he "rabbit man" peering out ol an upstairs window at 210 with you, who would East Court St. has a name, and he is not then! to creep out PYRAMID: pedestrians, although that happens more often than not. Acceptance tales it be and why? "I can't even look at that thing, eveiv nine I walk by I jusi round avert my eyes.' said senior Krisii Kelley, who has to pass the the US bouse on her daily route to campus. I feel like it's following me, staring me down." Nancy I enhart owns the home on fast Conn Stun ami V*t loves the dapper rabbit that occupies an upstairs bedroom. She is an avid fan of the infill film "Harvey." which tells the story of a man who has an invisible friend resembling a si\ JONATHAN SHAFFER loot tall rabbit. Freshman. Biochemistry PART OF THE FAMILY: Lenhart is so enthusiastic about the character that she pur '. "Rafiki from The Lion See RABBIT Page ! ■ King.' because he's ; vireon (bottom). cool, funny, agile and wise" | Page 4 100" STATISTICS FROM US N[WS AND WORID REPORT k VISIT BGVIEWS.COM: NEWS. SPORTS. UPDATES. MULTIMEDIA AND FORUMS FOR YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE 2 10.2009 WWWBGVIEWS.COM HOLDING IT BLOTTER BACK: Terry Webe* holds back tears as wife Cheryl Weber WEDNESDAY. speaks on her APRIL 8 experiences with cancer and how the 1045A.M couple has been nid pre- fighting to press > ; *rom forward with their lives despite then 2:51 P.M. disabilities. Currently ■ I . A IS the couple lives iving the Heinz on around $700 a uising month ■ HI. She red being on t that ENOCHWU 'Htft.NC/rt was OK ■ l.iiniK likelulieWillniarth. his heart attack. Cheryl contin- "When you only got 100 bucks to live 5:31 RM CANCER "She [Cheryl] has a cell phone, ued to provide an income for ■ subject and it is in my name. I pay for Terry and their daughters, who From Page 1 on a month, and you have people saying hallway that" U illmarth said. at the time were in junior high said "Family and Mends are the Willmaith recently held a bake and high school. Terry was able you got to pay this, you got to pay that; ■ din's who have stepped up and sale at Krogers and will be hold- to collect disability payments ing a spaghetti benefit dinner for while Cheryl worked several part 425 PM helped us pay for food, medica well, I got to live, too. Just wait your turn." lie HI and cat Insurance" (henI in Ink. Willmanh added time jobs on top of her work at she feels closer u > (herj I than she I lioenix Technologies. Totry Weber | Bowling Green Resident ■ ■ i 'hop- Despite facing seemingly candy Insurmountable odds, longtime doeshei nun sister Hut things changed in 2007. Every day Cheryl thanks God uming residents of BowlinsjGreen Cheryl "If something would happen In After working for 10 years at Terry make the hour-long trek to and lorry air determined to get hoi. ii would nv.ile a big void (in llioenixTechnologies, Cheryl was St. Charles Hospital in Oregon she gets out of bed and looks for- through Cheryl's cancer and theii mylitel." she said.' I want pcopk-lo laid off. losing her benefits and There Cheryl gets her clniiiu ward to the days she can spend 5:05 P.M. financial problems. kntitv when you have a disease like her health insurance. She began therapy treatments. The ehemo with her six grandchildren. Ibe back* wiili mounting medical hills iliis, di ml give upon lite, and that is working two to three jobs a week takes its toll quickly, leaving her so magnitude of what she will miss the Business already Ix'ing sent to collections what I try to encourage her to do.