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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-13-2007 The BG News November 13, 2007 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, 2007" (2007). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7836. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7836 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 NEWS the campus and surrounding community Tuesday November 13,2007 Volume 102. Issue 60 WWWBGNFV. Still in pursuit of bank robbery suspect Tenured positions in college courses Police: Man may have called in a school bomb threat so he could rob a local bank held by white men By Tim Sampson sought by authorities on charges No bombs were found. Fortney Police said Westfall entered A recent study states that Joel Kenneth City I of aggravated robbery and mak- said Westfall likely made the call the bank with a semi automatic Westfall minorities and women are ing a terroristic threat. to distract police from his alleged pistolai 11:25 a.m. He threatened Police believe he underrepresented in the Police are still searching for a Westfall is suspected of call- robbery of the Huntington Bank the tellers, demanded money man they believe is responsible ing city school officials shortly s responsible for a branch' at 1050 N. Main Si. less and then fled from the scene in fields of engineering and lor robbing a North Main Sinn before 11:05 a.m. on I riday and bank robbery I hail a hall an hour later a blai k I lodge pick up truck with science | Page 4 bankandcallinginabomb threat telling them that bombs had I hnrs reason to believe the ,w\ undisclosed amount of cash. to Bowling Green City Schools on been planted in their school bomb threats were a diversion I he abandoned truck was later U.S. dollar is Friday. buildings. an hour as police scan lied the because ol die (lose lime and Bowling (irciMi resident loci All schools in the district were buildings, Bowling Green police proximity to the bank robbery," SUSPECT the currency of Kenneth Westfall, i~. is being placed on lockdonn lor about l.i. ken Fortneysaid formes said. the world Problems could lie in store for other countries with the Judge orders declining value of United States currency, says White House to columnist M'Mailutha |Page4 Living the ROT preserve e-mails Racial tension builds in 70s BG By Pete Yost In part one of a three-part series. BG News alumna The Fighting Falcons strive to learn how to serve WASHINGTON \ federal Julie Hohman comments judge yesterda) ordered the White House to preserve copies on the racial climate of ot all its e-mails, a move that the University in 1977 Bush administration lawyers had IPageS argued strongly against By Kelly Day Us. District ludge Henry Campus editor Kennedy directed the Executive Ship crew is put Office ot the President to sale- under criminal A lino of cadets from BGSU's ROTC battalion stand guard the material in response investigation lacing an intimidating task on a cool October morn- to two lawsuits thai seek to deter- ing at the Camp IVny training facility in Port Clinton, mine whether die White House After the Cosco Busan lias destroyed e-mails in viola- ^\, Ohio. leaked 58.000 gallons tion of federal law. Perched in a control tower behind them, Master In response, the White House of fuel oil into the San said ii has been taking sleps in Sergeant Nathan Aguinaga instructs the group to Francisco Bay, the crew preserve • opies of all e-mails maintain (lie correct shouting posture. is being detained by the and will continue to do so. Ihe I le doesn't want (o he out all day, he says into the administration is seeking dis- Coast Guard | Page 11 tower microphone missal ol the law soils brought lint no matter what he wants, long days are typical by two private groups, Citizens Falcon football foi Responsibility and Ethics in in the lives of the officers ami cadets in the Fighting bowl eligible V Washington and the National Falcon Battalion. Security Archive. With Friday night's On tliis, day, the cadets, dressed in their camou- Ihe organizations allege the victory over EMU. the disappearance of5 million White flage uniforms, combat boots, and helmets, lay in House e mail-. I he court order team has ignited bowl the grass and brace their elbows on wooden sup- issued In Kennedy, an appointee game hopes that were . ports. They begii' to fire rounds at the paper targets ot Pre,idem Clinton, is directed not even a possibility a pinned to uprigi , wooden boards. Only a few "zero" at maintaining backup tapes year before | Page 8 which contain copies of While * this time, meaning they hit 5 out of 6 rounds within House e-mails. BG basketball a 4 centimeter circle. I he I edeialliec .mis \c-tdetails strict standards prohibiting wins in close call Nearby, senior Matthew Swaney sits at a picnic the destruction ol government against Bearcats table with two of his older comrades, loading the documents including electronic After beating Belmont rifle magazines with rounds and remembering the messages, unless first approved by the archivist of the United the night before, the training he had to go through before he became a V States. Falcons narrowly defeated student leader in the ROTC program. The training lustice Department lawyers Cincinnati 69-67 on the staff sends cadets who have zeroed in to Swaney. had urged the courts to accept road over the weekend Walking in a single-file line, the cadets approach a proposed White House decla- ration promising to preserve all | Page 7 backup tapi's. See ROTC | Page 3 "I he judge decided thai wasn't enough," said Anne Weismann, an attorney forCREW, which has gone to i nun ovei secrec) issues involving the Hush administra- tion and has pursued ethical issues involving Republicans on Capitol Hill. Ihe judge's order "should stop any future destruction of e-mails, but the White House stopped archiving its e-mail in » mm 2003 and we don't know if some backup tapes lor those e-mails were already taped over before we went to court. It's a mystery," said Meredith I uchs. a lawyer for ' the National Security Archive. It's Transgender CREW and the National Awareness Week. If w SecUlit) \irhi\c ari' seeking to you could create an force ihe u hiie I louse to imme- awareness week, whi'i diately explain in court what hap- pened to iis e-mail, an issue that would it be? "MOJOttlilMJKIWIW titst surfaced nearly two years I ago in Ihe leak probe of admin- istration officials who disclosed Valerie Plame's CIA identity to reporters. Kappa Alpha brothers create award-winning video Special counsel KitrickHtzgerald revealed early in -txx> that relevant KATY DUNNING A telecommunications major and his fraternity shoot footage to entice others to join their brotherhood e-mails could lx' missing because Sophomore. Businessi of an archiving problem at the "'Obesity.' There's so l By Amanda Gilles Larry Eric IM Brandon White House much fast food Report I he White House has provided Marshall Heffinger /* B^ Parent everywhere, people don't little public Information about the Spreading the word of brother Junioi who i T "> ^ Junior who j^^^^B Sophomore who stop to eat healthy." matter, saying that some e-mails hood jusi got a little bit more created Kappa assisted with thinks video is ma) not have been automatically | Page 4 entertaining for BGSU's of the Alpha video v recruiting video t good for recruiting archived on a computer server for I Kappa Alpha /eta lambda thcl.Mviitiu'Olliceoflhel'rcsidciii chapter. and ihatlhee-mails may have been lunioi Larry Marshall knew to recruit potential new ineni philanthropies, chapter ceremo hill out past lot ti. preserved on backup tapes, even before he got his bid in the ben to the chapter." Marshall nies and incorporated personal "My camera probably almost I he White I louse has slid that its TODAY fall 2006 that he wanted to make said. insights from current members froze, but I still brought it along t lllice of Administration is looking Mostly Sunny a video for his chapter. A tclc- Helping as his partner with of the chapter. to capture our good limes. into whether then' are e-mails that cominunications major with a Marshall said. High: 60. Low: 45 the video, junior Brie Heffinger, Interviews and still shots were were not automatically archived minor in film, I jury has his own began shooting for the film w it li not all the duo captured in the While the Kappa Alpha and that if there is a problem, the editing system, lie wanted to Marshall in March 2007, six-minute film. Marshall was brothers thought they were just nivi'ssin, steps will be taken to show the campus and parents With Heffinger conducting sure to ha\ e his camera along for making a video for their own address it. what being in Kappa Alpha was interviews, and Marshall behind even the unexpected live shells. enjoyment, they soon learned Kennedy issued the order fol- TOMORROW really about.