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State University THURSDAY April 14, 2005 SUNNY HIGH: 60 LOW: 34 www.bgnews.com independent student press VOLUME 99 ISSUE 148 Vaccine Concert gives hope Former football star raises to Type 1 money for diabetics women By Dan Myers RCPOKUB redefines masculinity By Sarah Cox GUIS! RiPOmn Soon, treatments such as insulin needles will be a tiling of By Carrie Whitaker anything like this before," "Gimme Shelter II," a the past for those prone to Type EOIIOB-IN-CHIEF Marx said. "What he had benefit concert with funds 1 diabetes. Thirty years ago, loe come to learn is all the prob- donated to operate a It's thanks to a new vaccine Ehrmann was a professional lems, the typical inner-city ills women's shelter in Bowling being developed by British sci- football player and captain of ... were subsets of the biggest Green, will be presented at entists at the University of Bristol the Baltimore Colts. He was crisis in America, the crisis of Howard's Club II this Saturday and King's College in bnidon. known for giving nicknames masculinity." beginning at 3 p.m. It is hoped that the vaccine, to his fellow players, but one Ehrmann will speak on the Cocoon Shelter is a when given to infants, will nickname did not belong to subject tonight at 8 p.m in non-profit organization that prevent their bodies from a player. It belonged to the the Union Ballroom. It is free aims to provide a safe space destroying their own team's 11-year-old ball boy. and open to the public. for women in Bowling Green insulin-producing cells in the He was nicknamed Brillo, Since his retirement from and surrounding areas pancreas, called "islets." because he had a huge head professional football in 1985. Local talent and the In Type 1 diabetes, white of hair. Ehrmann is the founder of an community will come togeth- Wood cells in the body attack Now, some 30 years later, inner-city community center er at the event to raise money the islets, reducing their abiliiy Brillo is grown up and, in a called The Door, created the for Cocoon Shelter's operat- to create insulin — a chemical twist of fate, the two are again Ronald McDonald chapter ing costs. Bands like Potato that regulates the transfer of working side-by-side, speak- in Baltimore and launched Babies, Hubbcap and Midget sugar from the blood stream to ing to groups on a subject a racial-reconciliation proj- Finger will play at the venue. the body's cells they feel passionate about. ect called Mission Baltimore Poetry readings and Without this insulin, sugar Jeffrey Marx, who hasn't as well as a program called other commentaries on builds up in the blood stream been called Brillo for years, Building Men for Others. domestic violence will take and can cause damage to became a Pulitzer Prize- "As I began working with place throughout the night, the heart, blood vessels, eyes winning journalist and loe, I was working on a including remarks by Mary and kidneys, according to the happened to get reconnected simple premise; I had learned Krueger, director of the BGSU National Diabetes Information with Ehrmann when he was so much from loe as a child I Women's Center, at 6:30 p.m. Clearinghouse. working on a story about felt there was more to learn "Around one in four women Diabetes UK. an organiza- former Colts players. from him as an adult," Marx experience domestic violence tion that campaigns and raises What he found surprised said, "This was the only book in their lifetime," Krueger said. money for diabetes research, is him—Ehrmann had become out of the four books I have A junior majoring in sociology funding the vaccine effort a minister and started a num- written that I did not set out at the University took on orga- "A hundred years ago, Type 1 ber of community service to do." nizing the second "Gimme diabetes was a death sentence," projects in Baltimore. The book, "Season of Life," Shelter" benefit show as part said Georgina Slack, head of All the projects centered hopes to spread Ehrmann's of an independent study. on Ehrmann's belief that message to a larger audience, "Whether or not domestic research at Diabetes UK, in a violence is happening to you. press release. "We've come a America does not success- Marx said. fully teach boys to be men. "I realized this guy has it is still going on around you," "1 had never heard DIABETES, PAGE 2 MASCULINITY, PAGE 2 WOMEN, PAGE 2 Expo informs college students about file sharing By Joel Currier Washington University, bringing download songs If I really like ed music and movies — called including Washington University ogy companies to pursue legal nut CAMPUS together representatives from something, I'll just buy the "ripping" or "burning" — online. and the University of Missouri at alternatives to Internet piracy. Universities are finding entertainment and technol- CD," said Scon Abrahams, 19, Some said they would be more Columbia, are doing. They seek Technology has changed the themselves trapped at the ogy with seven companies that of Northbrook, 111., a sopho- willing to pay if their schools to weed out illegal sharing by entertainment business model center of a bitter battle over market "peer-to-peer" file- more who estimated that he has made it cheap and convenient. arranging deals with a bevy of by forcing it to cater to changing bandwidth—caughtbetweenthe sharing networks to colleges. collected thousands of digital "If |the university] were to new digital wholesalers licensed consumer demands for digital entertainment industry's cru- The goal of the vendor fair and music files on his computer — a sponsor something, I think to provide libraries of,digital music, said Mark R McKenna, a sade to end copyright piracy and panel discussion Thursday night play list long enough to run for it would make it more of an music and movies to colleges. St Louis University law profes- tech-savvy students' casual was to educate students about two weeks nonstop. approachable option for us," Recording and film industry sor representing the Electronic sharing of songs and movies. legal alternatives to trading Students said the perception said Jeffrey Dorr, 21, A senior pre- representatives at last Thursday's Frontier Foundation, a San The competing interests copyrighted materials. is that there's little risk of getting medical student from Miami. event said they embrace inno- converged at a Digital Expo at "I don't want to pay to caught downloading copyright- That's what some schools, vation and encourage technol- FILE SHARING, PAGE 2 SILENT SOLDARITY Class offers etiquette advice for students By Fred Tasker Winick explains the K*l CAMPUS importance of learning some Teacher poses problem: You're couth: "The minute you leave at an office party and the boss the university, you'll be out in a walks in. You know you need to competitive world. We're going shake hands, but your hand is to show you how to outclass the wet from holding an icy drink. competition." What do you do? Turning to the essential art Student Adam Gorman, of handshakes, Winick calls grinning, reaches over and Wenger to the front of the class pretends to wipe his hand on the for a demonstration. She grasps shirt of fellow student Edward his hand and says, "In the Wenger. Teacher's first mistake, Middle East it's customary for it seems, was searing these men to hug, even to kiss each two together. They're football other on both cheeks." players, part of a classroom Wenger looks around in full of Florida International panic. University athletes taking a Moving on to how to coursetitled "Business Etiquette make small talk at business and Dining Protocol." networking events. Winick says: "No, Adam, that's not what "You can talk about school, you do," sighs Pauline Winick, where you're from, the weather, teacher and co-owner of The your job. But you never just say Protocol Centre, based in Coral Hi." "She looks around: "What Gables, brought in to smooth else might you say?" MMMMMMUM out the pending graduates' Gorman suggests: "How SILENCE IN UNISON: Members of Women's Studies 400, "Theories of Othered Bodies," and other supporters gathered yesterday edges for life in the world of about sup?" in front of the Union for a silent protest against rape, sexual assault and domestic violence. This event was one of many this week business. T can see you guys designed to raise awareness, and to promote tomorrow's "Take Back the Night," which will begin at 7 p.m. in front of Saddlemire. are going to be trouble." ETIQUETTE, PAGE 11 FOUR-DAY FORECAST MONDAY The four-day forecast is taken Sunny High: 60' Thunder High: 67" from weather.com Low: 38" Storms Low: 48* FOR All MNEWS VISIT WWW.BGNEWS.COM 2 Thursday.