Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-19-2003 The BG News September 19, 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 September 19, 2003" (2003). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7158. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7158 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. Green State University FRIDAY September 19, 2003 A.M. SHOWERS IIKiH 72 I LOW 49 www.bgnews.com independent student press VOLUME 98 ISSUE 20 TRACKING HURRICANE ISABEI '7/i Louisiana it grows until mid- November to early December." RAOULT RATARD. LA STATE EPIDEMIOLOGIST Country headed for West Nile record By Daniel Yee IKE IUKM1C0 PRESS ATLANTA — The United Stales is headed lor another record number of West Nile civs this year, with ihe total shooting up by more than A third in the past week alone, ihe government said yes- terday Nationwide, 4,137 human cases have been reported b) yesterday just 19 shy of last year's total of 4,156, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. One reason for the higher numbers is a widely available test lo diagnose Ihe virus, health officials have said. Despite the high numhci nl Infections, there have been fat fewer deaths. So lar. ltd have been reported; las) year. 284 died from the virus, Ihe number of reported infec- tions climbed by more than 1.200 in the past week. But health offi- cials said even that may be lar lower than the number of actual cases, because many mild infec- tions are not diagnosed as IVcsl Nile. Dr. I.ylc IVicrsen, who heads (he (.1)1 s studies of mosquilo- Ixirne diseases, said al a confer- ence this week llialalxmt 100.IHKI \meiicans could get a nasty three-day IKMII of fever from ihe VinjS, and 500.000 people could be infected in alL with most show Patrick Schneider Ing no symptoms. IN TROUBLE: High waves from approaching Hurricane Isabel crash under the Avalon Fishing Pier in Kill Devil Hills. INC. Isabel closed in on the Outer Banks yesterday, last week's jump came al the causing over 1 million people up the coast to lose power peak of Ihe season for the 1110s- quilo-spread virus. Dr. Ilaoull Hatard. state epi- demiologist in Louisiana, said the number of reported cases is sure to grow, particularly in the South. "In Louisiana it grows until Isabel pounds Outer Banks mid-November to early December.'' he said. Louisiana has at least 52 cases and one punch it had days earlier. air traffic and widespread power The early effects of death from the virus this year. The storm that had once outages — about 1.3 million in On Thursday. CDC director Dr. the storm put 1 threatened 160 mph winds and a North Carolina and southeastern lulie Gerberding said that two 12-foot storm surge rolled in yes- Virginia alone — there were no million along the people this season have become terday afternoon just south of iso- immediate reports of any deaths infected with the vims by a blood Carolina coast lated Ocracoke Island with a 5- or widespread flooding. transfusion, last year, 23 people foot surge and gusts that rattled But National Hurricane (inter without power. got the vims through the blood plywood boards spray-painted Director Max Mayfield said fast- supply. " firing it on Izzy." moving Isabel still poses a threat By Emery P. Dalesio "Our transfusion supply is far IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS "A lot of trees are down — because of its dimensions — safer than it was a year ago," she there's one down across the about the size of Colorado — and KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. - said. "But we're still on the lookout garage,'' Rudy Austin said as he its potential to bring 6 to 10 inch- Hurricane Isabel plowed into for the occasional case diat could looked out on his yard in es of rain and flooding to an East North Carolina's Outer Banks slip through.'' Ocracoke surrounded by a knee- Coast already sodden from one of with 100 mph winds and pushed The nation's blood suppliers deep soup of sea water and the wettest summers in years. its way up the Uastern seaboard have been screening for West Nile debris. "There's a lot of stuff float- "This is certainly not over for yesterday, swamping roads and since July. ing around: boards and buoys people experiencing Hurricane Steve Helber AP Photo knocking out power to more than Most of this year's reported 1 million people but packing and boxes and young'uns' plastic FLOODED: A Virginia Beach resident walks up a set of sub- nowhere near the terrifying toys." merged steps yesterday after checking his personal watercraft in ISABEL PAGE 2 DISEASE, PAGE 2 Despite downed trees, snarled the wind and rain of Hurricane Isabel. BGSU one of 20 with STARS By Monica Frost interested in pursuing graduate that are doing something about be held at Ohio University. REPORTER school and ultimately, academic it." STARS participants must also Bowling Green is one of 20 careers. STARS is open to sophomores, find a faculty member to serve as Universities statewide thai par- Dr. lisa Chavers, director of juniors and seniors wiih a 3.2 a mentor throughout the ticipates in a program called the STARS program on campus, cumulative grade point average research process. Faculty mem- STARS - Student Achievement in describes the program as "a well- or higher. Students committed lo bers play a large role in the Research and Scholarship. kept secret. ... And it shouldn't the program are given a research STARS program, according to This program is designed to be." Chavers said. "We are pro- stipend to conduct a research Chavers. "They help students identify' undergraduate African- moting an opportunity." project that is presented at establish a research agenda and American, Hispanic and Native Chavers said STARS is a pro- STARS' annual student confer- Ben Smnget BG New American smdents with excel- gram for future leaders. "It is for ence in the spring. This year's THE DAY HAS ARRIVED: Running back P.J. Pope and his Falcon STARS,PAGE 2 lent academic records who are people who have dreams - and conference is March 5-7 and is to teammates storm the Horseshoe tomorrow to face Ohio St; Page 5 FOUR-DAY FORECAST »™°* SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY High: 71" High: 76" High:79° High:64' The four-day forecast is taken t Sunny Sunny * Showers Showers from weather.com Low: 42' Low: 52" m Low: 53' l«w: 50" FOR ALL THE NEWS VISIT WWW.BGNEWS.COM 2 Friday. September 19,2003 WWW.BGNEWS.COM Police shoot Tenn. hostage taker By Woody Bawd at Dyersburg State Community condition Thursday, and the automatic. Before taking over the class of Osama bin Laden. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS College in western Tennessee, other was listed as serious. "At the time, he was not firing at 13 students and one teacher, "He's not a member of al- MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A single about 75 miles north of Further investigation, including a (the hostages). He just fired a shot Kilpatrick left a note at his sister's Qaida," Mehr said. si ii u tired at random by a suicidal Memphis. ballistics test, should determine if off," Mehr said. house that said he "wanted to kill Police said Kilpatrick picked gunman holding a classroom of "He continued to fire shots they were shot by Kilpatrick or hit Police said they were willing to some people and die today." the math class at random. After college students hostage led after the police entered the by police bullets, authorities said. continue trying to negotiate with Kilpatrick, according to his taking over the class armed with a police to storm in and kill him, an room,"' said lohn Mehr of the Police burst into the classroom KilpaTv-k as long as he was not family, had a history of mental pistol and a large knife, he told investigator said yesterday. Tennessee Bureau of when Kilpatrick, who had earlier hurtiiig anyone. Mehr said police problems, also said in the note the students he wanted to talk to A SWAT team killed Harold Investigation. ordered pizza and soft drinks, had no way of knowing who or that he was a member of the ter- them about personal problems, Kilpatrick Jr.. 26, on Wednesday Two of Kilpatricks hostages suddenly fired his pistol, which what Kilpatrick was shooting at rorist group al-Qaida and police said. night after a nine-hour standoff were shot. One was in critical was believed to be a 9mm semi- with the single shot claimed to have talked with Nevada, Oregon the Storm does damage up lucky states; have not the North Carolina coast ISABEL FROM PAGE 1 Isabel," he said. "This hurricane will not be remembered for reported West Nile yet how strong it was. It will be remembered for how large it DISEASE. FROM PAGE 1 however, since there often is a lag found for the first time in the was." time in reporting Western Hemisphere, in New There were isolated areas of cases have been in the South and Nevada and Oregon are the York City. damage and distress on the West, with more than a third from only states in the continental The virus is passed by bites Outer Banks.