Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-8-2008 The BG News February 8, 2008 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 February 8, 2008" (2008). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7877. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7877 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 BG NEWS the campus and surrounding community Friday February 8,2008 The sky's not Volume 102. Issue 100 WWW.BGNEWS.COM falling, but a Professors take leave to learn to satellite is teach better After seven years of By Suva KunkUr teaching, teachers at the Reporter University are allowed to take a semester off We've all seen the movies of in order to improve the objects falling to the earth and courses they teach causing massive damage to anything in its path. Last week, government offi- cials told the Associated Press M Woman chooses that a large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and could hit Earth beer over baby in late February or March. According to police, But where? instead of strapping in a While that kind of scenar- io makes for a good film, the T 16-month-old girl, Tina probability of an object, like D. Williams chose to a satellite, hitting the earth is B secure a 24-pack of beer remote. in her passenger seat According to Robert Huckleberry, a Lt. Col. at the | Page 6 University ROTC, the chances of any object, including a satel- Do not legalize lite, hitting the earth is remote at best. partial abortion Calculations done by Columnist Jess Hylton Huckleberry show the chances of an object falling to earth and explains partial abortion hitting any where near Bowling and the repercussions it Green are almost non-existent. has on both the mother and Ohio makes up only seven the value of the unborn child thousandths of a percent of the earths surface, which | Pag* 4 Huckleberry said makes the Stand up for your chances of derbies hitting any part of Ohio .002 percent. right to a professor Huckleberry also calculat- who respects you ed the chances of any object falling from space landing in Guest columnist Aleda PHOTO IUUSIRATI0N8Y RACHEL RADWANSKI I THE BG NEWS Bowling Green as being 4X10 Lynch encourages (-8) of a percent chance that students to demand Emily Keegan, senior, said out of their way as well. The debris from space would actu- Facing slow walkers and a labyrinth of sidewalks, slow walkers are difficult to sidewalks on campus are seen ally land in Bowling Green. active and respectful pass because they often walk as inconvenient and unorga- Although there is a slim professors | P»g« 4 students find themselves confused on campus in groups, taking up the entire nized by many students. chance a satellite manages to sidewalk. She said if everyone "They sort of bisect the mid- By Hannah Sparling winding, indirect paths, mak- paid attention and stayed to the dle of campus at random angles, Women's b-ball Reporter ing the journey frustrating and right, sidewalk traffic would leading you nowhere," Keegan See SATELLITE | Page 2 to host Northern time-consuming. flow much more smoothly. said. "You have to double back linois tomorrow Classes at any university can be "It drives me up a wall when "I think we could all learn to get to the actual building." difficult, but at Bowling Green people walk too slowly," said from following the rules of the This random organization of Coming off of a 71-41 State University, just getting to "sophomore HannahCirohowski. road, Keegan said. sidewalks can make any trip victory over Toledo last them can be a challenge. "I usually try to get around Students not only have to Sunday, the Falcons Students often run into slow them, though sometimes that walk slowly on the sidewalks, walkers while following the isn't possible." but they are often forced to go See SIDEWALK | Page 2 are looking to keep the momentum going in MAC competition | Page 1J Local loyalty, from FALL 2007 TOP FEEDER HIGH SCHOOLS IN OHIO INTO BGSU Bobcats to Falcons N By Kyle Reynolds to college was easy because of the 49 Reporter familiarity with the area, "I already know my way around." Nagy said. "It's nice to SO 50 28 This year, 79 students shed the know the back roads and all the 27 26 red and gray of their old school best places to go and not have to and went about a mile down worry about where something is the road to put on the orange in relation to Wooster Street or and brown. Main Street — since those are Bowling Green High School the only two streets people know is the largest feeder school into when they first come to BG." BGSU. bringing 79 students into Knowing the streets can be the University this year, and 340 valuable, but for sophomore students within the past four. Samantha lapierre, having a For some students, going to col- family that lives on one of the Bowltncj Anthony Eastwood Sytvania EL. Sl.onos.iM. Wnitmo. Mantor lege in their hometown is an ideal GlMIt HS.Wood Wayna HS. Lues HS.Wood HS\ Lucas Bowihef Santor. HS. Laka HS. Wood Co HS. Lot.. Co Co Co HS. Wood Cuyahoga Lucas Co Co fit. For sophomore Kirsta Nagy, See LOCALS | Page 2 Co Co Co the transition from high school Name of High School What food do you wish the University sold in dining halls? Teacher attacked in classroom APA, BSU shed light on issues By Lisa Halvantadt black students. By Tarry Kinnay Ohio teacher stabbed and shot at by estranged Editor in Chief Instead, Effah said, she felt The Associated Press alienated. Students asked if she husband at Notre Dame Elementary Sometimes African interna- could get a Big Mac in Ghana. PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — A man tional students seem to think Or if she lived in the jungle. charged into a school where they're better than black stu- She gave up on trying to SARAH HARRINGTON, his estranged wife was a teach- dents. And sometimes, black make more black friends. Sophomore. Allied Health er yesterday morning, firing students seem rude. Meanwhile, black students Sciences a gun before stabbing her as These stereotypes — and were likely wondering why "Yams." her fifth-grade class watched, everything from use of the Effah was keeping to herself I Page 4 police said. He later was found "n-word" to flirting patterns or making (unknowingly) dead in his home after appar- — were discussed at "Fade to offensive comments about ently shooting himself during Black," a discussion co-spon- black Americans, Conyers- if t/M a standoff with police. sored by the Black Student Page said. The teacher, Christi Layne, was Union and the African Peoples' These misunderstand- in critical condition at a hospital Association last night. ings result when differences in nearby Huntington, W.Va., a What black and African stu- aren't appreciated and peo- TODAY hospital spokeswoman said. dents have to understand, BSU ple make assumptions, non- Few Snow Showers Police originally said William president Starmisha Conyers- traditional student Nichole High: 37 Low: 32 Michael Layne shot his wife at Page said, is that just because Robertson said. Notre Dame Elementary, but they share similar skin tones, Robertson, who lived in Chief Charles Homer said it was doesn't mean they understand West Africa until age 14, said unclear whether a gunshot fired one another. those from both America and in the school hit her. When junior and Ghana African nations need to be TOMORROW WAYNE ALLEN I AP PHOTO Minutes before the teacher native Elizabeth Effah arrived secure enough to accept what Snow Showers COMFORTING ARMS: A Notre Dame kindergarten student embraces a loved one out- at the University, she said she expected to be welcomed by High: 33, Low: 11 side the school alter the alleged stabbing and shooting of a Notre Dame Elementary teacher. See ATTACK | e2 See ISSUES | Page 2 k VISIT BGNEWS.COM: NEWS, SPORTS, UPDATES, MULTIMEDIA AND FORUMS FOR YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE 2 Fnday. Fcbuary 8.2007 WWW.BGNEWS.COM his yard. "We don't just randomly put in sidewalks. If ATTACK Neighbor lack Freeland BLOTTER SIDEWALK said police eventually broke From From Page 1 WEDNESDAY [students] knew all the things you consider through the door with a bat- longer. when you're putting in a sidewalk it might was stabbed, police say her tering ram and sent in a robot. 1:44 P.M. "I feel like it usually takes husband stabbed and wound- Police had been involved in Paul Neal Howey II. 20. of Monroe. me a lot longer than it should ed a different woman in an a domestic dispute between Mich., was arrested for theft for to get to a class," said junior help them understand." alley about five blocks from the Laynes about two weeks failing to pay $35 in gas from the the school. ago, Homer said, but he did Sunoco station on East Wooster Chelsea Sheldon. Michael Schuessler | Project manager for Office of Design and Construction Not everyone limits their Homer said at a news con- not give details.