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Issue 81 A search WWWBGNEWSCOM 8 Conflicting interests halted, The Canadian Studies Center is hosting its 22nd annual Reddin not over Symposium, which will focus on the water Despite the University rights held by the U.S. and Canada | Pag* 3 spending $117,000, the Presidential Search This isn't a quick fix Committees work Columnist Josh isn't in vain Whetherholt looks at the problems Barack By Fr.ddy Hunt Obama will face once IK he enters the White Sometimes searches to fill House next Tuesday ABOVE: Larry Shaner. known by students jokingly as "Scary Larry," makes his routes in 1998. his first year as a shuttle bus driver at the University. Shaner. who died at 59 c open positions don't go as | Page 4 a heart attack, gained the nickname years ago due to his curly hairstyle at the time originally planned. And that's t lie case for t he University as it completed its quest to find its A day for all to 11th president take off work Suite lune, the University's Beloved shuttle driver Presidential Search Many Americans are Committee had been work- telling their bosses they ing to Find a new perma- won't be coming to nent replacement for former President Sidney Ribeau. But work on Jan. 20 due to dies of heart attack at 59 all along, they had one wishful Barack Obama's candidate in mind. inauguration | Page 5 By Kit* Snydar The day Carol Cartwright Assistant Campus Editor was announced interim presi- dent in lune, Board ol Trustees A winter Larry Shaner, the shuttle bus driver some students called "Scary member Bill Primrose con- gratulated her and then asked weather Larry" several years ago, died on Jan. 3 of a heart attack. lur a question. wasteland Shaner was 59 years old, had five kids "I could count on him ' I asked her if she would Near-zero and drove shuttles at the University for consider taking the position as president il the search was temperatures and 11 years, usually on the main route to just do the job. unsuccessful," said Primrose, heavy snowfall from 7:30 a.m. to 330 p.m. "He really loved his job," said his The kids liked him, who also headed the search caused many places wife, Nancy Shaner. "He enjoyed all committee. to temporarily the kids he met tin the bus." Cartwright didn't humor he liked the kids." IMAGES PROVIDED BY AILEEN BEBRV Primrose in the slightest, sim- close | Page 11 Nancy remembered when he was called "Scary Larry," and said he Aileen Berry | Shuttle service Assistant S ABOVE: "Scary Larry' gives the camera a goofy smile. This is ply stating, "no." earned that nickname because of his the last photo of "Scary Larry" taken by Aileen Berry, a supervisor So the committee met reg- Hey, no cuts! curly haircut. "He's the number one guy 1 go to of his at the campus shuttle service. ularly, drafted a presidential when 1 had to train drivers," Beny BELOW: "Scary Larry" behind the wheel as shown in a dipping profile and hired the search Two men were arrested "His hair was so long and it froed up," she said. said. "I could count on him to just do of a BG News ancle from 2002. firm Witt/Kieffer to lind the when they cut in front Nancy also remembered a time when the job. The kids liked him. he liked best candidate. of an off-duty police a handicapped woman was on uV bus, the kids." Board ofTrustees Chair John Harbal said the search firm officer at Wal-Mart and Shaner stopped right in front of He was also a volunteer fireman for the building instead of the bus stop so as long as Berry knew him. 'Scary Lary' Witt/Kieffer has been paid | Page 12 she wouldn't have to walk as far. "That truly was his first love," Berry nearly S117.0110 to date. I le said "He would come home and share said. "Running to accidents to help stands out on route the firm had completed all on- some of the stories with me," Nancy- people." site consultations, visits and Women win said. She remembered he used to drive interviews, and that the com- Before his death. Shaner had with two police scanners so he would mittee would have reviewed 14th straight arthroscopic knee surgery, but the be up-to-date on the news and know the applicants sometime this month. Falcon's women's surgery wasn't the cause of the heart whether (here were any incidents In town. And although the search basketball keeps their attack. "This came on so suddenly, it was "He was chomping at the bit to gel committee was suspended winning streak alive just really a shock," Nancy said. off the bus and go help someone," when Cartwright accepted the position of president on Ian. beating out the Miami Shaner's co-workers were also jarred Berry said. I lie last picture Berry took of Shaner, 6. Primrose believes the prog- Red Hawks at home by his sudden passing. "It was awful sudden," said Rich Van he gave her a goofy smile. At the lime ress made in the search is not | Page 7 Horn, another shuttle driver. "In fact, she was irritated because he didn't act progress wasted. he was in the office that Friday. normally. Now, it just makes her laugh, "It's not like the search is Aileen Berry, the assistant supervi- she said. done, it's just been postponed The University police are collecting sor at the campus shuttle service, was SEARCH >2 hired at the same time as Shaner. donations for the Shaner family. Students who can't find the right BABY. ITS COLD OUTSIDE major may want to create their own By Sen Shapiro "I was originally double-majoring in Russian and If you were to design Reporter your own major, what French, and that didn't feel right to me. So, I would it be? Lin ChafetZ is an International Photojournalism major. Never sat and thought, 'What do I like to do?' I like to heard of il? Probably because she made it travel, I like to write and I like to take pictures." up. For students like ChafetZ who ■itemational Photojournalism major aren't interested inanyoneofthe ♦ University's over 200 majors, they students come from all types of While Chafetz has avoided have the option of creating their backgrounds. Currently, she is some of the more dreaded classes advising majors anywhere from by picking her own curriculum. LAUREN NEELY own through the College of Arts Carpenter pointed out that an Freshman. English Education and Sciences. Naturalist Studies to Innovative Communication. IPP major is not a solvc-all-sys- "I was originally douhle- WATCH YOUR STEP: Students n "Food tastingology. the majoring in Russian and French "One student wanted to be a tem for students who want to chiropractor.bin hedidn't want to avoid certain requirements of a bundled up yesterday in attempt to art of eating food." and that didn't feel right to _ keep warm between clasws.-ba»Mig the me," Chafetz said. "So, I sat and major in biology," (:arpenter said, traditional major. | Page 4 "So, he combined biology, some "Students still have to complete frigid conditions and a wind chilld thought, "What do I like to do?' I advisory. Temperatures lurked In I like to travel, I like to write and I chemistry, physics and kincsiol- the BG perspective, so it's not a ogy; he called it Biomechanics." system where you can just avoid tht lower teens most ol the day and like to take pictures." dropped below ;ero overnight, fir. "~X Officially known as an Students can only complete certain classes," Carpenter said. Individual Planned Program, an IPP if the University doesn't Another option for students is according to the Weather Cmniltl,.^ Chafetz combines classes offer another major that allows to create their own minor, which Bowling Green Police Division from Visual Communications them to reach their career goal requires a student to complete 21 reported eight automoblie acclderttjj TODAY Technology, Journalism and or if they wish to combine two credit hours and at least one must within the city limits ytMj^r^ Snow Flurries International Studies programs. different interests. Between their bea400-levelclass. constant wlntery weather mi! High: 8. Low: -9 While she doesn't have the per- freshmen and senior years, IPP BCSU isn't the only Ohio respomiMi I - the unusTilfllfl fect career in mind, Chafetz is students must submit a proposal school were students have the number of accidents, police said. hoping to someday work for a including a list of planned cours- ability to create their own major; magazine along the lines of es and a cover letter that entails both Ohio State and Kent State National Geographic.