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State University WEDNESDAY January 14, 2004 GYMNASTICS: The women look to PM SHOWERS pommel Eastern HIGH: 27 LOW 15 Michigan University; www.bgnews.com PAGE 9 independent student press VOLUME 98 ISSUE 75 Shuttle offers new services CATCH A RIDE TO FLY AP File Photo HOW IT WORKS: This updated By Kara Hull that's typically four phone calls to find a advantage of the shuttle is that they will image illustrates what the Mars EDITOR-IN-CHIEF New shuttle service ride for one student It will be an invalu- Bursar it for you." rover Spirit will look like as it For Anne Saviers, associate director of able service to us at the beginning of the But International Programs isn't the only • $20 fee for the shuttle service to rolls off the lander. International Programs, the addition of (fall] semester." office who hopes to keep this service alive. and from Toledo Express Airport. University Shuttle Services routes from One of the best perks of the service, According to Gary Swegan, director of • The tee is bursarable. campus to the Toledo Express Airport and Saviers said, is "Because there is a money Admissions, with back will be a lifesaver come fall semester. that students an increase in • Students must register before- Rover That is, if it lasts that long. can Bursar the amount associated with recruiting efforts hand: Visit the information Desk at The service, which was first offered to $20 fee, rather (rides to the airport), we have of students from the Union to register or for more students overTTianksgiving break, is being than expect to Texas, New York information. rolls into piloted this year. But turnout for the option pay $40 or more to assess if sporadic use can and California, so far has been low with no takers for the to take a taxi. be continued." his staff had been • Shuttle routes for spring break first trip and just four students utilizing the This is especially using office time and the end of spring semester are being planned. journey service over the recent holiday break. appealing to ANNE SAVIERS, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF to transport stu- While organizers are hopeful that use international dents. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS will increase with more promotion, the students who "Around break staff in Admissions shouldn't be taking service could be cut after the end of this often arrive low it was becoming* time to transport students to and from the on Mars year if "business" doesn't increase. Trips to on American more and more airport." the airport cost S20 per student with currency. problematic because they were relying on Transporting these students was not By Andrew Bridges almost $2,000 for the pilot program being "The international students usually staff in our offices to drive them (to air- only taking time away from staff members THE ASSOCIATED PRESS allotted through the Office of Student arrive in the country having little or no U.S. portsl," he said. "Once a student is a BGSU for recruiting and other duties, but also PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's Affairs. dollars," she said. "The student. presented liability issues in the event of an Spirit rover cut the last umbilical "Because there is a money amount asso- accident, Swegan said. cord to its lander and rolled for ciated with this, we have to assess if spo- f » » the first time since reaching Mars, radic use can be continued," said positioning itself for the start of its Marcos Rivera, codirector for the ^ journey across the surface, offi- Office of Student Academic BGSU ft iJAHPu!i Mlllh FALC0VS cials said yesterday. Achievement and coordinator of "Spirit is a rover," flight director the pilot. "If it doesn't pick up... we Chris Lewicki said of the six- won't be able to continue it." wheeled vehicle, which previous- This is exactly what Saviers and ly stood up from a crouch but her staff don't want to hear. Otherwise had been largely With large numbers of international immobile since landing Ian. 3. students arriving for the start of fall ! Nevertheless, the rover's semester, the office has had to find trans- B0WLWfiGlIW8TATIlMV!Wm wheels have yet to touch the sur- portation for as many as 85 students from face of Mars. The row merely Toledo to campus. Though the office has severed the last cable attaching il been assisted by members of Global to its lander and lucked up It) Connections— a partnership between inches atop the platform, starting local churches to connect international a three-part turn to line itself up students to the community—the task has- with the exit ramp it will use to n't been easy. reach the rust-colored ground. "August is the biggest time for us." Spirit is expected to roll the 10 Saviers said. "That's not just 80 phone calls, feet onto marlian soil late Wednesday or early TTiursday, Spirit is expected to follow a meandering path, pausing to sample rocks and soil in its search for evidence that the planet was once wetter and more hospitable to life. The rover may try to climb the BRIEFINGBGNEWS Racial slur in magazine 18-foot-high lip of a crater and survey the dunes believed to lie Court orders state inside. Then it may try to reach USA Weekend A photo illustration, accompa- The slur was noticed during withheld distant hills — or die trying. to offer Limbaugh's magazine gives news- nying an article about story- USA Weekend's printing run, said "We are extremely chagrined "We know where we are now telling in the magazine's Ian. 16- Marcia Dullard, the magazine's this found its way into print and and we also know where we're medical records papers option to not 18 edition, contains the slur in president. It was corrected, but believe it is important to let our going." Steven Squyres, the mis- randomly chosen text that was 327 of the 598 newspapers newspapers and readers know in WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. distribute issue. sion's main scientist, said at used for the illustration's back- received the edition with the slur. advance that we are aware of the NASAs let Propulsion laboratory. (AP)—An appeals court yester- ground. The magazine sent a letter of problem and are apologetic," day ordered prosecutors to The unnamed crater is about The freelance artist who pre- apology to the newspapers, Hi ill.11 (I said. 825 feet away. The asteroid or turn Rush I jmbaugh's medical By Matthew Barakat pared the illustration was which have the option of pulling USA Weekend, published by records over to the courts and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS meteor that punched out the unaware of the offensive lan- distribution. USA Weekend pro- McLean-based Gannett, has a crater could have exposed keep them sealed, pending fur- McLEAN, Va. — More than 300 guage, the magazine said. The vided the papers with a state- circulation of 23.7 million. The ther review of the case. ancient rocks that may contain newspapers that distribute the text came from a November New ment they can include in their magazine, which competes with important evidence, Squyres The Palm Beach State weekly USA Weekend magazine York Times magazine piece in paper if tliey choose to distribute Parade, uses the familiar logo Attorney's Office, must surren- have been warned that a racial which the author discussed the the magazine, as well as an alert from Gannett's flagship newspa- der them to the circuit court in slur inadvertently appears in the epithet's use. that can be used if distribution is per, USA Today. MARS, PAGE 2 West Palm Beach, upcoming issue. The appeals I court also ruled that the American Civil Liberties Union can join the I conservative radio ""* limbi",*h commentator in fighting to keep the records private. New game room opens on campus The ACI.U, an unlikely ally, joined the case Monday, sup- porting the claim that Money benefits student programs in student union Limbaugh's right to privacy has By Allison Halco student organizations and meeting interest remains high, the game been violated. CAMPUS MEWS EDITOR with different student groups to room will remain in the Union next State Attorney Barry Krischer Students are finding a new fea- find out what they would like to see year. insisted Limbaugh's rights have ture at the Bowen Thompson in the Union," Edgington said, "and For right now, it seems that the been protected. Mike Student Union as they begin the video games kept coming up." games are gaining popularity. Edmondson. said yesterday spring semester—a game room. The money the machines bring "1 haven't been to an arcade in that investigators have foUowed The new Union game room is in will be added to the Union bud- years. It brings back old memories." state laws since the investiga- located in room 105, across from get and will be used to fund addi- Matt Benzel, senior, said while visit- tion started, after Limbaugh's the Black Swamp Pub and next to tional student programs at the ing the game room.