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Green State University THURSDAY January 26, 2006 ON THE ROAD: Falcons will face Buffalo MOSTLY SUNNY in Mid-American HIGH 35 LOW 28 Conference meet on wvrw.bgnews.com Saturday; PAGE 9 independent student press VOLUME 100 ISSUE 87 Witnesses can be vital in criminal situations Landlord report card MAC students act as BE A GOOD WITNESS example of how being ■ Don't become hysterical or nearby can help out distraught. Survey offers students insight about housing ■ Make your presence known it By Lisa Harverstatlt it's a fairly minor crime — the By Kara Ohngren Bullard, interim program coor- never lived on my own before, according to Bullard. REPORTER perpetrator may run away. REPORTER dinator for the office of student my parents had always done "I think at day end. those Claire Keys, a sophomore at ■ Be able to give a detailed The Office of Student Life will life. "We eventually hope to those things, so I felt kind of lost who keep their properties main- Miami University, had to be per- physical description, noting the soon post an onlinesurvey where take all of the results and create when I was looking for a place suaded to go out on Thursday, person's clothing and belong- smdents will have the opportu- one report that would reside on to live." SURVEY, PAGE 2 Ian. 12, but the Oxford Police ings. nity to view a report outlining USG's Web site; this way, stu- Similar surveys are common Department is grateful she did. ■ Write down every detail you how past residents rated their dents can access the report and practice and are becoming That night as Keys walked back can about the getaway vehicle, off-campus rental companies. make better-informed deci- increasingly more frequent at to her apartment with a friend including the license plate Planned to go live Feb. 1, with sions before they sign a lease for larger universities, such she helped solve an abduction number, body type and any a direct link from the University the next academic year." as Ohio State and the and assault case. identifying characteristics. home page, the survey will ask The survey results are confi- University of When they came across an ■ lake note ot which direction questions that pertain to resi- dential, and individual respons- Michigan, intoxicated freshman struggling the vehicle is headed. dents' expectations versus what es will never be released. to make it back to his dorm, the ■ Take precise notes on what was reality. For instance: "I know I would have looked two helped him to his feet and you see as soon as possible. ■ What was the condition of at a survey like that before I asked where he lived. Moments ■ Answer these questions: the interior of the property at moved into my apartment," later, two strangers approached Who? What? When? Where? time of move-in? said Carlynn Barnard, them. They claimed to know How? ■ Was the rental company senior, resident at the boy and helped him into Contact the police as scon as timely when returning the secu- College Park their van. ■ you can. rity deposit? Enclave. But Keys and her friend Describe exactly what you ■ 1 low was the maintenance "I had became suspicious as they drove ■ saw the person do. and repair service? away, realizing that the vehicle ■ Was there sufficient privacy didn't have a license plate and granted by the landlord? that it wasn't headed toward the At 5:30 a.m, Keys was informed The survey, present- freshman dorms. that her suspicions had been cor- ed in conjunction "When the ran came to the rect and the freshman had been with Executive Vice intersection at the bottom if the found in Indiana robbed, beaten President Linda O^ hill, it turned right. All freshman ;uid thrown from a vehicle, later, Dobb, USG and GSS, *"» dorms are to the left and turn- the two suspects were located also gives students the «jr ing right leads out of Oxford and and placed in custody. chance to report whether toward Indiana," Keys said. Sgt. Jim Squance of the Oxford or not they would refer this Acting on a hunch, she called Police Department is grateful rental company to a friend. 911 and reported what she "The survey basically gives had seen. WITNESS, PAGE 2 students a voice," said Valerie Ptwto ilfcntiatiM By Cotleen ReOmonB Student composer wins award Foreign language Grad student's hard Bowling Green community, it's picked it up because 1 was driv- many other competitions before a local face. ing and told me that I had to winning the MWS competition. benefits careers work pays off after Noah D. Taylor of Columbus, take the call. So I pulled over Taylor first came to Bowling a second-year graduate student and they told me the news. I was Green in fall 200-1 from Capital Studying a second language skills]," Dever said. "It composing years ago is important to be bilingual." at the University and member of very happy." University where he majored language could By Kristen Vasas the BowlingGreen Philharmonia Taylor composed his winning in composition. BGI IS offers French, German REPORTER and BGSU Symphonic Band was piece in 2002. He said his first interest become requirement and Spanish, with a first year of The Boston Metropolitan announced winner of the com- It was the second piece he in music stemmed from the courses available in the eighth By Alison Kemp grade. The highest enrollment Wind Symphony's 2005 petition earlier this month. composed for concert band, movies. REPORTER North American Composer "I was shocked!" Taylor says. and it's now being performed "I liked the music in films is in Spanish, which is also the Competition winner has been As the world changes, knowl- most common language to be "I was driving in my car and in Kansas. when I was little," he said. edge of foreign languages is announced, and lucky for the my phone rang. Someone else His piece was entered into taken in the state, according COMPOSER. PAGE 2 increasing in importance. Yet to Robinson. there is no foreign language High school is not the only requirement for high schoolers factor that causes students to in the state of Ohio. take Spanish. Individual school districts "There is a false impression Flu shots stressed may have foreign language that it is easy to learn, and advi- STRUMMING requirements, but the state only sors ... automatically suggest it," requires foreign language for said Tim Pogacar, the chair of a student to receive an honors the German. Russian, and East after new outbreak diploma. Because of this, high Asian Studies department at the By Stephanie Spencer she can to avoid the typical schools are required to offer University. REPORTER symptoms such as stom- three years of one language or A recent rise in influenza out- ach problems and overall two years of two languages. Career Choices breaks are a cause for concern body ache. The lack of a foreign language among University students, "I carry around anti-bacterial This generation has come to requirement is because Ohio understand the importance of considering a 90 percent resis- stuff with me on my key chain. legislature has not required tance to the drug most often I haven't gotten sick yet while Spanish, said I-'edcrico Chalupa, state-wide testing in this area, i-bait ol the Romance languages prescribed. everyone around me is hack- explained Deborah Robinson, "The issue is that we have ing and coughing" she said. "I department. the state's world language "Spanish adds to your mar- a strain of influenza really didn't know consultant. that is heading our "I carry how big of a deal ketability," he said, adding that At BowlingGreen I ligh School, it can be beneficial in business way and it is resis- around anti- this was, but I principal Jeff Dover explained tant to the two med - have always tried careers like accounting or adver- that even though BGHS does tising. ications that we are bacterial mv best to stay not have a foreign language well." The best language to take treating it with," stuff with requirement, he thinks learning depends on career choice, espe- said Student Health Luckily, there another language and culture is Services Director me on my is now a work- cially since English is not always very important. used when translating. For Glenn Egelman."We key chain. ing vaccine "The country is changing. For have students living for the newest certain jobs, you need it |foreign in tight quarters and I haven't influenza that is LANGUA6E, PAGE 2 it spreads very rap- gotten sick currently avail- idly, we really need able on campus to get our students yet..." at the Student immunized." Health Center. HEARING FOR ALITO: Judiciary And with the LOUISE SCHIPLE, The Center for Committee advances Samuel Alito weather getting SENIOR Disease Control colder, and living and Prevention to move on after enough sup- spaces tighter, sickness may is urging people get the shot be inevitable this flu season.