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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-28-1999 The BG News October 28, 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 October 28, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6554. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6554 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 2 I WORLD NEWS SPORTS NOW 11 8r ■ Columnist Judson Laipply Police question NOW writer, Erik Pepple. provides ■ Men's soccer loses explains the difference between suspected Falun the University with a list of scary 1-0 to Oakland spirituality and organized Gong members movies to watch for Halloween. University. religion. in Tiananmen Square. j " - - " Weather Today: Thursday sunny October 28. 1999 High 70. Low 48 Volume 87 & Issue 46 AGNews daily independent student press ROTC places 12th in Fort Knox By MICHELLE REITER rope bridge drill, and the dating. "This year we really connect- The BG News biggest event: the rucksack run Cadet Brian Richard, a ed as a team," she said. up a hill named Misery, which sophomore Business Adminis- Duncan is one of only two Last weekend the Uni- is conducted at night. tration major, had never seen women who competed with the versity's ROTC Ranger Cadets are required to run in the hill before. Third Brigade this year. Challenge team com- full gear up Misery, a hill at "When I first saw Misery, I "The guys were really sup- peted against 29 other teams Fort Knox whose steep incline couldn't believe how steep it portive," she said, "but we did- from the region in a series of and enormous height has was," he said. The ruck march n't get any special treatment, military skills tests in Fort awarded it a reputation army- ~. is very hilly both up and down." and that's how it should be." H< >* '. Knox, Ky. wide, said Kevin Duff, a second As with many of the Ranger The rope bridge event was Taking 19th place in last year cadet. The Third Brigade Challenge competitions, the Duncan's favorite because it came in seventh in the run, year's challenge, the Third important part of successfully was the greatest test of team- making it one of their most suc- completing the rucksack run work, she said. Cadets are fc w. Brigade of the Black Swamp cessful events. But for some Battalion finished in 12th place lies in teamwork, Richard said. assigned positions ahead of cadets who faced Misery for the this year. Some of the events "The main thing is keeping time, and together they must first time, the hill was intimi- included a hand grenade toss, a the team together," he said, as rig a rope across a body of the teams are required to run water and pull themselves as a group. "The team is only as across it with rucksacks and fast as the slowest person, so all. we learn to encourage people "We practiced this almost who are falling behind all the three or four times a week," +£%J way." Duncan said. "By the time we Working as a team is a cru- went to Ranger Challenge we cial skill learned early in the knew exactly what to do, and we worked together really well. Ranger Challenge training, ' * SM which begins in August. Cadet It was a high intensity event." Emily Duncan, a junior ele- This was Cadet Steve mentary education major, who Vargo's second year competing competed for the first time this in Ranger Challenge. if m year, said that it takes about a "My favorite event was the month of intense training to hand grenade event," he said. learn to work as a team. "You have to read the instruc- "It takes a while to learn tions, find out what to do, hit how everybody works," she the target and run back in said, "but we practice every time," he said. "All but one of Photo Provided event hundreds of times and us got done in under seven min- have our jobs and positions utes." Phil Johnson, member of BGSU's ROTC Ranger Challenge Ptaoto Provided down before we go." This, Dun- The cadets feel that Ranger team, attempts to do as many push-ups as he can in two min- can said, was exactly what utes. BGSU placed 12th in the competition. Kevin Duff (back) and Cory Flannery participate in a two mile helped the Third Brigade team run at Fort Knox during a series of military skills tests. do better this year. » See ROTC, page seven Minorities have high retention rate FDA approves pill to Only 5 percent ofHispanics graduate from college in Ohio combat A, B By IRENE SHARON SCOTT they feel isolated. The lan- The BG News guage barrier limit their access "Many students are first generation students of flu symptoms to assistance with paperwork and don't know the process. [To] many of According to recent statistics By LAURAN NEERGAARD thirds of the estimated 20 mil- and getting financial aid. Self- lion U.S. flu cases yearly, and in Ohio, about 50 percent of sufficiency barriers involve them college is not an option and they are AP Medical Writer Hispanics drop out of high lack of planning, lack of posi- expected to work to support the family." doctors have said those medi- school, 20 percent graduate tive role models, low self- WASHINGTON — Flu suf- cines didn't work very well. Dave Garcia Tamiflu is not a cure-all, the from high school and go onto esteem, giving into negative ferers won their first effective Assistant Director of Admissions FDA warned. Studies showed college. Only 5 percent of them peer pressure and low expecta- pill against both types A and B finish college. tions. Cultural barriers are taking the drug helped flu Wednesday, as the Food and patients recover only about a Yesterday in the Town Room, racism, discrimination and val- Drug Administration approved third floor of the Union, stu- helps to be able to speak Span- concerns about teachers or day earlier than flu patients ues of the culture. Tamiflu. dents attended a seminar ish." financial aid come to see me who took a dummy pill, the "Many students are first The pill, manufactured by regarding Latinos in higher Secondly, the University is because I was their first con- agency said. generation students and don't Hoffman La-Roche, helped education and factors affecting know the process," said Garcia. trying to hire more multicul- tact," he said. To get that benefit, patients their retention rate. tural staff members that are Garcia shared a story about reduce the duration and severi- took Tamiflu within 40 hours of "(To) many of them college is ty of flu symptoms in unvacci- Dave Garcia, assistant direc- not an option and they are bilingual and bicultural. a student from Texas, who was the first flu symptom — mean- tor of admissions, said factors expected to work to support the "You don't have to be His- told to go home by an adminis- nated adults who agreed to be ing patients would have to rec- which affect retention in post- family." panic to be bicultural," he said. trator because there was a hold infected with influenza to test ognize flu symptoms and get to secondary education are the One of the solutions to solv- "It's good that at this Universi- on her financial aid package the drug. the doctor to get the prescrip- insufficient numbers of Latinos ing these issues is learning the ty students have to take a cul- and she had a large bursar bill. Wednesday's decision means tion-only drug rapidly. on campus, Hispanics do not Hispanic culture. tural diversity class. Students It turned out that she had more flu sufferers this year have two Side effects included nausea, see people like themselves. "When recruiting students, need to take an ethnic studies than enough money to cover new treatment choices. The vomiting, bronchitis, trouble Furthermore, they feel unwel- colleges must recruit the fami- class, not to necessarily change her expenses. It would have FDA earlier approved an sleeping and dizziness, FDA come. ly," said Garcia. their perspectives, but to learn been a shame if the young lady inhaled flu drug called Relenza said. Additional factors are the "Latinos have a strong fami- a different perspective." went home and didn't contact that also works against both A Health experts stress that language barriers such as ly resistance," he said. "When Third, having University him. and B flu. neither Tamiflu nor the com- being bilingual or having lack recruiting students to the Uni- staff members train in cultural Students can play a role in Older flu medicines worked peting Relenza flu treatments of support on a regular basis. versity, I have literature both diversity awareness is critical. against only the type A flu, Once they register for classes, in English and Spanish. It also "Some students that have • See HISPANICS, page seven. which accounts for about two- • See FLU, page seven. Author shows students how to smooch, smack By JEFF ARNETT apr>eared to take part. he had the volunteers pretend The BG News Some of the exotic kisses he they were showering. described were: • upside-down kiss.