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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-4-2008 The BG News November 4, 2008 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 4, 2008" (2008). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7990. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7990 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 s<" THE NEWS the campus and surrounding community Tuesday November 4, 2008 Volume 103. Issue 52 What can your Gearing up for the big day minor do for you? It turns out a minor in Not just the popular vote: a studestudent's USG registers record-breaking number of English can lend itself to a lot of versatility guide to the Electoral College voters, ready for presidential election in masters and Ph.D. fields | Page 3 By K«vin Morrisscy said Chris Dawson, freshman. By Eliuboth Hartnun Hie campaign targeted students Reporter In fact, the official votes for McCain through numerous strategies, During Making it right, or Obama will be cast by a group of \ ot- the summer list,- campaigning efforts Today many University students ers selected by the Secretary of State in A voter registration campaign headed In' resulted in 1,(100 Student legisirarions. 61 years later will cast their votes lor the next U.S. December. the Undergradu.iir student (iovemmetu This segued into their tall semester's A woman recently President, though many Americans do Today voters will be selecting mem- registered.a record-setting 4.f>00 stu- efforts including .sending all on-campus found a book she noi know how the president is actually bers of the Electoral College in the gen- dents in Wood County since the summer students and 1,200 oil-campus students borrowed from her selected. eral election. months. voting information. Forty-five classroom high school library in "I don't think that many people actu- Once it is determined who gets the During the course ol the summer and USG 1 Page 2 1947 and returned it. ally know what the electoral college most votes, one of two separate slates of fall semester, USG headed a campaign does," electors are chosen, said Jeffrey Peake, with Graduate Student Senate; College along with a check to associate professor of political sci- Democrats, College Republicans and pay for late fees ence. If McCain wins Ohio a group of Progressive Future, among others, to |Page 12 Republicans will be the members of a'gister as many students as possible in A the electoral college and vice versa if Wood County. It is your civic Obama wins. Deputy Director of Worxl County Each political party has a sepa- Hoard of Elections Debbie Hazard duty to vote! rate group of loyal party members said, Although the Board of ready to cast their vote, Peake said. Elections is not active in voter reg- Columnist Lori Weber These voters can hold offices, hold istration drives, special interest asks students at the party positions or be large sup- groups are very active." University to fulfill their porters oil heir party. BcwrdofEleclionssuppliesinfor civic responsibility this He said the Electoral College mation through press releases, its election by voting, also makes it possible for the VVeb site and office resources, she winner of rlio general election to said. writing that each vote lose the popular vote. Hazard's office supplied USG impacts the outcome This has happened three limes in with all the information needed to |Page 4 history/according tnthcU.S. National register voters. Archives and Records Administration, "The state-wide voter registration Lasik sales in 1824, 1872 and 2000. goal was to regt'er 20,000 students, but it was well surpassed and Bowling going down See COLLEGE | Page 2 Green registered over 4,500 students," The number of said USG President lolui Wavnick. corrective eye surgeries performed falls as people begin having to focus on necessities Go out and vote! instead | Page 9 It's your constitutional right. Shooter held Go to www.sos.state.oh.us to find your voter location. without bond Frederick Davis, the nged for the murders of two clergymen, appeared in court and will have a re preliminary hearing on Nov. 121 Page 11' Univ. employment on May balllot BG Soccer goes By Courtnoy Ftynn to MAC Tourney "I feel this is a bad The womens team stopped cold precedent for us \t last nights eitv council meeting, beat out WMU and ((rdinaiKe 7iu> was passed with a are to face Toledo on 2 vote to put dx1 driving widi a ceil on ordinances Friday in the semifinals, Hiring freeze, a response to fund deficit phone issue on the ballot. in general ..." while the men s team BovvUngGrmi residents will iieAv face off against Detroit IK- able to deride ivhrthct or not today | Page 7 By K.itr Snyder and was reduced again In SfvKI STATE BUDGET CUTS thev think driving while talking mi million in September 2()OH. rhe ,i u'11 phone should lx considered with freeman's stance, saving the University's operating budget was JANUARY 2008 a primary oilcnse. wiiich means h.il!nl should lx- tin issues luu weeks ago. the University reduced by 4.75 percent, which drivers talking on a< ell phone could importance, like taxes, and the issue issued a hiring freeze, amounted to slightly more than lx1 pulled i iv i'i and issiml ,i ticket li H -In mill be decided hv council mem Facultj positions and student $250X100, SEPTEMBER 2008: thai sole purpose, hourly positions ate exempted, \liotil 30 percent of the I Mthough the ordinance was i HV council member .it large so the only people affected by University's finances come from passed ii did not get finalized with tin1 freeze are classified staff and state support. I he money saved ■ ■ ■ out a lively discusskm. lleinetii.in. administrative staff. Classified staff Irom the freeze would lie used to Howling Green resident Hill with pulling ihis includes anyone who's not a stu- make up fbl the Hits at the state I reeman made his stance on the tile ballol Ini .i nunilx't dent, hill is paid by the hour, such level. Issue deal nt reasons," Ilium said. I fed this as secretaries, grounds workers "Salary dollars from non-faculty, faculty have their own hiring pro lie said niilv a lev wi eks ago he is ,i bad precedent fot us mi oidj / and those working in facilities. Open positions alter ted hv 'this hir- cess, which is largely why thev an saw three children almost ■UT.I! 11 ii- law sets "Students will largely not feel ing Iree/e would lx'swept centrally exempt from the freeze. by .i clisii.K ted drivei li tin- drivct mid tin howling Green and _ the Impact," Vice Provost Mark and used to offset other operating Requests ran also be madi win i tai ell phone, thosechikiren Ohio." Giomknsaid. expense shortfalls throughout the lor [xisitioiis considered "critical could have been hit. Freeman said lx'would In inatavot Who do you want to I le also slid this is not cause It H year," according to the memo. to the operation of an office or tile council H> |UII the Issue nil tile ol a law that council could adopt win the election? alarm, and the freeze is in response Additionally, it a department is department," as stated in a I VQon balk it. IK iping it w ill pass .is .i law. and adapt as time goes by to siate budgetary issues. ill the process of tilling an empty the human resources home page. I ask vim in search vnui con c miinil membei at large Robed According to a memo from classified stall position, they could Rebecca Ferguson, the silence .mil put the issue on the \iii timber disagreed with Dunn. President Cartwright circulated go through the provost office for Assistant Vice President ol Human ballot for Bowling Green to decide, I thought a lot ol points retry ihioiigh the University communi- permission to continue tin1 hiring he said ty, the state's budget was reduced process FREEZE Anoiliet Howling Green resi CITY 1 hv $733 million in January 200H, Also according to the memo. dent, \oirn lleiiiem.ui. disagreed MELISSA BARBER Sophomore. VCT Duck hunters gather to preserve wetland habitat for fow "Obama" By Ira Sairs | Page 4 organization whose goal is to i i.illv ,i campus organization yet, - raise money fot the awareness i oogan and others are detei of wetlands preservation. I he mined to get the BG chaptet North American duck hunters wetlands provide ,i habitat fot stalled have united in protection ot the waterfowl to breed and in exist We had 20 people and lew Lie same waterfowl thev pursue. Rzicznek said the group is foi ult\ members show up in out Ducks Unlimited, a national anyone with an interest in the in-t meeting." ( oogan said. conservation group, is dedicated outdoors and environmental ( oogan thinks there is defi TODAY to preserving North America's preservation. nilelv room lui a wetlands h.ihi Sunny wetland habitats lor the benefit lunioi I awrence Coogan, .at i.n group here in Hi. High: 72. Low: 43 of waterfowl.