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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. ■u State University MONDAY December 12, 2005 RALLY: Falcons bounce back after loss to earn PARTLY CLOUDY win against St. Lawrence; HIGH: 21 LOW: 9 PAGE 7 www.bgnews.com independent student press VOLUME 100 ISSUE 74 University plans AVIAN MM) FLU SKRJES | THIRD IN A THREE-PART SERIES Police cite trip to help victims party hosts Students line up zations to aid in hurricane relief efforts but this was not for illegal for five-day trip to enough; they wanted to do Mobile, Ala. more. A five-day trip to Mobile, activities By Lindsay Baker Ala., was organized with 54 GUESl REPOFtlER openings for any BGSU stu- Students concerned Residents in the states of dent who'd take a 17-hour bus about right to free Mississippi, Alabama. Florida ride during their holiday break and Louisiana — especially to a state thai was in desperate assembly, due process the greater New Orleans area need of help. BOWLING GREEN, (AP) — City — experienced a devasta- On the morning of Nov. 9, police can cite hosts of panics tion in Hurricane Karrina that students were able to sign up where guests are doing some- wiped the landscape clean for the trip. Sign-ups started thing illegal, a state appeals court and left lives shattered. at 8 ,i.ni. but according to has ruled. Karrina, "the sixth-strongest students, people arrived two Twenty-five college students storm ever recorded in the hours early to wait in line. had appealed a municipal judge's Atlantic basin," according to "It's crazy to think that col- decision to uphold the 18- the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, lege people would wake up at month-old ordinance, which the left people all over the nation 6 am. to go on a trip to help city prosecutor said was mod- eager to aid in relief efforts other people. It's surprising eled alter laws in other cities. The for their fellow Americans — in a good way," said Andrea misdemeanor including BGSU students. Whinner, junior, who will be citation carries Read how The After Karrina struck, mem- going on the trip. aS50fine. bersofUndergraduateStudent BGNews feels Whitmer arrived an hour In a ruling about the party Government, Graduate early for sign-up and was very Friday a panel law PAGI 1 Student Senate, the Office of surprised to find almost 20 of judges from Campus Involvement and the people ahead of her. the 6th District Alumni Connection began to If you can remember back Court of Appeals concluded the brainstorm ideas about how to last year when the BGSU law was "neither unreasonable University students could get football team played in nor arbitrary" large parties that involved in helping the vic- the Greater Mid-American gel out of control "disnipt neigh- tims rebuild their lives and Conference (GMAC) Bowl, it borhoods with acts such as pub- communities. Over $5,000 lic urination, criminal damage, was raised by these organi- KATRINA, PAGE 2 littering and noise," the panel wrote. City officials enacted the ordi- nance to let police cope with complaints about loud, off-cam- pus parties. The city is home to Brazilians found Bowling Green State University. The students who appealed their cilations claim the ordi- guilty of nurfs death nance violates their right to free assembly and due process. Men jailed for 17 The three are expected to face trial some time next year. PitDmsman BGNews Rodney Fleming a lawyer for the years, three other Under Brazilian law, any first students, said he would discuss A PIECE OF THE PAST: Scott Rogers looks at vials containing bacteria and organisms that were found in the the ruling with them and decide men stand accused offender sentenced to more ice being tested. The organisms have survived for many years within the glaciers. than 20 years is automatically whether to take die case to the Ohio Supreme Court. By Michael Astor granted a new trial, so Sales wiil THE ASSOCIATED CRESS be retried later. BELEM, Brazil —Two Brazilian On Friday, both defen- men were convicted Saturday dants recanted earlier confes- of killing an American nun sions. Sales said he acted in Ice preserves DNA BG NEWS who spent decades trying to self-defense, believing Stang save the Amazon rain forest, was reaching for a gun as she Ancient viruses could GENOME RECYCLING BRIEFING in a trial many saw as a test of pulled out a Bible. Batista said (CYCLES CAN BE > 10s YEARS) THE BG NEKS he did not know about plans be freed as glaciers Brazil's commitment to pros- Microbes are deposited onto the glacier by precipitation or by falling onto to kill her. Bowling Green fire ecuting land-reiated killings. melt from wanning the glaciers surface. They can be trapped in the glacier for long periods Rayfran das Neves Sales Prosecutors alleged Sales of time, eventually melting and becoming part ot the hydrosphere. causes evacuation and Clodoaldo Carlos Batista and Batista were offered ByBobMoser $25,000 by ranchers to kill EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Qa om Residents were evacuated were found guilty of killing Mixing Zone 73-year-old Dorothy Stang on the nun, and shot her at Some people check an ice cube from a University-leased Feb. 12 in the heart of the close range while she read for oddities before dropping it apartment building around Amazon rain forest. her Bible. into their glass. 5:30 a.m. yesterday morning The seven-member jury Sales acknowledged that It's a long shot that a bug was when fire was detected in the sentenced Sales, who shot his employer, Amair Feijoli, frozen inside, or that black mold building's hallways. Stang six times with had given him from the freezer's ice machine The building, located at 451 Frazee Ave., houses 96 a 38 caliber revolver "Even getting the gun and told had caught on the cube as it on a muddy road, to him to kill the solidified, but they check any- students — including two 27 years in prison. a conviction nun a day earli- way — just for safety's sake. University residence advi- Batista, charged as for the er. But both men Now in a lab on the fifth floor sors. an accomplice, was denied being of the University's Life Sciences There were no injuries, Source Dept of Biological Seances Mltlpl BC*W no personal property dam- sentenced to 17 gunmen is offered money Building, Scott Rogers, chair of years. The men had a victory in to kill her. the biological sciences depart- age and no major property faced up to 30 years Stang was ment, is checking ice dating Rogers was able to extract "It was quite interesting," damage as a result of the in prison. the state of a nun with the back more than two million fire, according to Teri Sharp, DNA from the 100,000-year-old Ma said, "because when you media relations director for Stang, who was Para." Sister of Notre years — for everyone's safety's seeds due in large part to the make the hypothesis — that in bom in Dayton, DamedeNamur sake. packrats unique preservation extreme conditions organisms the University. Ohio, was killed in FELICIO PONTES JR., and spent the With countries in Asia and method, and he began to won- can be trapped in suspended The apartment building Para state, which is FEDERALPROSECUTER last 30 years of Europe fearful of how an avian der how other things could be animation — and look into the was equipped with a hallway notorious across her life work- bird flu may mutate and begin preserved over long periods of research, it showed the hypoth- fire alarm, smoke detectors and sprinklers. The individu- Brazil for corruption and land- ing with poor settlers in the affecting humans, and cries of time. esis to be more and more rea- related violence that in the past Amazon rain forest, helping global warming coming from And he took this curiosity to sonable, which is very exciting." al apartments also have heat them gain land and protect every direction, Rogers' research and smoke detectors, along 20 years has claimed the lives the next level in 1995. Rogers Now Rogers and his team with sprinklers. of some 534 people. Before the environment. into what lies dormant inside began working with scientists of graduate assistants at the Her efforts earned her the glacial ice is more important Students were allowed to Saturday, only eight killers had at Syracuse on how yeasts may University bring in ice cores—or return to their apartments ever been convicted. enmity of powerful loggers than ever. or may not have been able to small pieces of ice removed from around 9:30 a.m. after meet- "We think it's just the begin- and ranchers, who routinely And to think, Rogers got into survive in ancient ice. glaciers — from the National Ice hire "pistoleiros" to harass researching organisms trapped Core Conservatory in Denver, ing with fire and police offi- ning, but it's a great beginning," "I didn't plan on working on cials.