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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-29-2003 The BG News October 29, 2003 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 29, 2003" (2003). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7184. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7184 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. State University WEDNESDAY October 29, 2003 REST ASSURED: PARTLY CLOUDY Marlins owner Jeffrey I IK ill 52 LOW 38 Loria says the team will www.bgnews.com not dismantle; PAGE 7 independent student press VOLUME 98 ISSUE 45 DM kicks off 150-day count By Monica Frost in Dance Marathon. Free pizza, March 27-28. suffer from terminal diseases. munity Ollticach chair for Dance changes This is the first year REPORTER pop and a performance by a local The event is sponsored by the Students who participate in Marathon, remembers her danc- Dance Marathon Will have a In 150 days, many students will band, RHSC, will also help start Dance Marathon Steering Dance Marathon are given a ing experience as a freshman theme foi the event, rhe theme li put their dancing shoes on for the the kickoff. Committee and the Children's "Miracle Family" and arc able to I'hc whole thing was amazing "Miracle Mntion Pictures pre- University's 32-hour fundraising Amy Rosen, a senior and spe- Miracle Network. All funds raised meet a child and their family who but after about 20 hours you get a sents: rhe Stars of a Brighter event that is Dance Marathon. cial promotions chair for Dance benefit the Mercy Children's benefit directly from Dance little delirious." IcSagesaid. rbmorrow." The Dance Marathon steering Marathon, is enthusiastic about Hospital, a partnership of St. Marathon's fundraising efforts. According to LeSage, the key to Dance Marathon members are committee is kicking off the 150- the significance of the count- Vincent Hospital at the Medical "When you see all the 'Miracle staying awake is to keep nun ing. also attempting to get the coin day countdown today in the down. "It kicks off the fundraisers College of Ohio. Children', all your hard work pays whether it be participating in munity more involved bj work- Lenhart Grand Ballroom from 11 and awareness programs for Students' fundraising efforts off," Rosen said. "It makes them Dance Marathon's line dance or ing with Howling Green High a.m. -2 p.m. The event will have Dance Marathon,'' Rosen said. provide treatment, research, Ithe families] feel so good—it's meeting new people. School as well as planning a ben- tables set up that showcase stu- The University's eighth annual equipment and education to worth every minute." Although in its eighth year, efit dinnei for laimary. dent organizations' involvement Dance Marathon will take place children in Northwest Ohio who Kara I cSage, a junior and com- Dame Marathon is making some Librarians give 1-on-l Suicide bombings kill dozens research By Robert H.Reid In Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's THE ASSOCI ATE 0 PRESS hometown, insurgents opened BAGHDAD, Iraq—A car bomb fire late yesterday on the south- assistance exploded yesterday west of em gate of the main U.S. military By Christy Jenkins Baghdad, killing at least four peo- base, wounding at least one REPORTER ple a day after three dozen people American soldier from the 4th The University libraries are died in a wave of suicide bomb- Infantry Division, witnesses said. offering research project clinics ings in die Iraqi capital. U.S. offi- A patrol was sent out to search for for undergraduate students. cials said one of Baghdad's three the assailants, who soldiers said The clinics started Monday and deputy mayors was killed in a hit- apparently fired from a nearby run through Nov. 21. and-run shooting. rooftop. During the research project The latest attacks, including And a U.S. military convoy was clinics, students have the the killing Sunday of Deputy attacked last night by small amis opportunity to work one-on- Mayor Paris Abdul Razzaq al- fire in the northern city of Mosul, one with a librarian on a specif- Assam, raised fears that a the military said. There were no ic research assignment for any strengthened insurgency is casualties. class. increasingly targeting Iraqis who In Fallujali, a flashpoint Sunni "We want students to come work with the U.S.-led coalition Muslim city 40 miles west of to the library when they actual- as well as international groups Baghdad, a car exploded yester- ly need to and have a reason to that had considered themselves day afternoon on a major street, leam," said Colleen Boff, the at less risk than U.S. soldiers. killing at least lour people. The first year experience librarian Despite the escalation in explosion occurred about 100 and a librarian with the pro- anacks on Iraqis, American forces yards from a police station and gram. remained targets, with insurgents 100 feet from a school but the Boff said that all students in firing on a U.S. military base and. target was unclear. all majors—anyone who has a convoy in two northern cities Later yesterday, eight huge research assignment, even yesterday. explosions were heard after sun- informative speeches— can In Baghdad, a rocket-propelled down from the southern area of benefit from the research pro- grenade attack killed one U.S. sol- Fallujali. U.S. officials in Baghdad Giefc Baker -f Pd • dier and wounded six others said they were unaware of the ject clinics. She also said stu- AFTERMATH: Iraqis walk past butned out cars outside the al-Khudra police station in Baghdad yester- dents do not need to be working while they were trying to destroy blasts, which residents described on a research paper to benefit roadside bombs, the U.S. military as "deafening." day. The station was hit by a car bomb Monday, one of four suicide attacks which killed about three from the program, but any said yesterday. In Baghdad, at least three mor- dozen people in the bloodiest day in the Iraqi capital since the end of major combat six months ago. assignment that requires gath- The soldiers, from the 1st tar shells exploded late yesterday lie progress in determining who tion official. Investigators were rocket barrage on a hotel Sunday ering and using information. Armored Division, were attacked in the ladriya district across die was behind Monday's car bomb- trying to confirm his nationality, that killed a U.S. lieutenant Boff said that these one-on- Monday, the same day a team of Tigris River from the palace head- ings in Baghdad the official said on condition of colonel and wounded IH other one librarian to student consul- suicide car bombers devastated quarters of the U.S.-led coalition. A fifth would-be suicide anonymity. people, tations are available throughout the Red Cross headquarters and Iraqi police said. There was no bomber, who was caught President Bush blamed both Mush told a news conference the year, but during these three police stations, killing three immediate word on casualties or Monday before he could deto- loyalists to Saddam and foreign yesterday thai "basically what dozen people and wounding damage. nate his explosives, told police he terrorists for the attacks in and LIBRARY, PAGE 2 more than 200. Coalition officials reported lit- was Syrian, according to a coali- around Baghdad, including a CAR BOMB. PAGE 2 BG NEWS BRIEFING California blazes threaten to merge Suspect in Friday By Brian Skotoff on the fires, 15 in Southern from Simi Valley in neighboring robbery still at large THE ASSOCIATED PRESS California and wo in Mexico, as Ventura County, had feared they LOS ANGELES — Firefighters separate blazes were scattered could lose hundreds of homes in A man who robbed a local beat back flames that had threat- along an arc from the suburbs the Chatsworth section. convenience store by gunpoint ened hundreds of homes yester- northwest of Los Angeles to "They saved every one of early Friday morning is still day in northwest Los Angeles, but Ensenada, Mexico, about 60 them," said Bill Peters, a eluding police. to the south, a fire official said his miles south of the border. At last spokesman for the California According to Lt. Bradley exhausted crews were being count, 1,137 homes had been Department of Forestry. Biller of the Bowling Green pulled off the lines even if it destroyed in California Firefighters went driveway to Police Division, there are no means more homes will bum. More than 512,000 acres of driveway in the Chatsworth area, new leads in the case. Amid one of the mosi destruc- brush, forest and homes — or which extends up the Santa According to reports, a white tive and deadly wildfire outbreaks about 800 square miles, roughly Susana slopes from the city's San male entered Barney's in California history, two major three-quarters the total area of Fernando Valley, and turned back Convenience Mart, 1091 N. blazes were threatening to merge Rhode Island — had burned in the flames before dawn, Peters Main St., at 3:40 am. with a and destroy more homes in San California said. handgun. The subject was seen Diego County. Even so, some fire- "It's a worst-case scenario.

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