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ESTABLISHED 1920 A daily independent student press serving THE BG NEWS the campus and surrounding community Thursday March 1,2007 Volume 101, Issue 112 WWWBGNEWSCOM Painting a picture of the city Designing the perfect major for yourself Students work to finish a mural of Bowling Green by May Today, many college students are By Kyi. Reynolds instructor, Greg Mueller, thought Mueller's ARTS 401 class. The working on the project since the Great Black Swamp. designing their own Reporter the project could be completed by class was broken into three small summer. "I designed the Central area of majors | Page 3 Homecoming in October, but the groups, with each group having During the summer, the group the wall, which depicts the Great Three University art students hope project is still under construction. to design a proposal to enhance toured the city of Bowling Green Black Swamp." karas said.'Hincor- to complete a 350-foot long mural "This is being done entirely the intersection of Poe and North and took pictures of people in the pontles over 20 hidden animals Gambling on they have been working on since by the volunteerism of three College. community working and living arranged throughout the renter, the future of summer by May. students and an instructor with The group that won consisted of their everyday lives. lliis is in die center because we The project has been met with very little additional resources," Megan Small and Steve Williams, The mural features silhouettes believe it is the foundation of the bird flu some adversity. Mueller said. who are both seniors, and Jason of the photographed people on Experts are betting Originally the students and their The project started as pan of Kant, junior, who have been the wall with a centerpiece of the See ART | Page 2 money on where this disease will strike next | Pag* 3 Buildings Al Qaida operative OK to conserve to stand trial Mapping out travel plans Prisoner said he was energy damaged from inter- ByAl.xandri.CUrt> rogation and isolation Senior Reporter | Page 5 The BGSU Office of Design and Constntction is making it key to Two of kind on upgrade buildings for energy con- the BG men's servational perfonuance, while planning to shape perfonuance team use of environmental sustainabil- Martin Samarco and ity for new buildings. Matt Lefeld are the There ate 40 campus build- ings on the energy audit list to only seniors on the B- be improved, such as for window ball team | Page 7 replacements, heating and cooling and system controls and mechan- ical upgrades. Women's team "Some of the buildings are wins their University Hall, llanna Hall, West season's last Hall, Mi Fall (enter, Olscamp and the Administration building that The basketball team need to be improved," said Bob beats Miami by 30. Boucher, senior project manager. Boucher said when putting a Final score: 92-62 building on the energy audit list | Page they look at each building and assess if it will be a reasonable payback because of the money that is put into the renovation. "We look at the energy that is saved, how much energy is saved, and then if it can be paid back ideally benveen two to 12 years," Boucher said, "laborers talk about a number of costs of things that URAHMCGINNIS THE BG NEWS llUSTRATOn they would think would be a big payback." But Boucher said many people think lighting is a big payback, but it's not, because the costs are very Bookstore CULTURE TRAITS PREPARATION TIPS high when replacing light fixtures. Before you leave for a foreign closing Before you go: country, it's good to do a Going abroad See ENERGY | Page 2 ■ Get a passport if flying in prompts local little bit of research into the country's customs and tradi- or out of the country readers to tions. If you are traveling to ■ Tell family and friends where you will be requires research search for any of these countries, these would be a few good points ■ Make copies of important By Alison Kemp ac Dining new outlet to remember. documents — one set for Features Editor yourself and one for your Since Waldenboob M«xico:There is a very family Students may think spring break is all fun and Hall gets a closed in January, relaxed approach to meeting Register with the US games, but going to another country is a whole Department of State at https:// local readers are on times outside of the business different story. Without making some basic safety travelregistration.state.gov/ibrs/ makeover the search for a new world. Be prepared for your preparations and learning a little bit about the des- Mexican friends to not be on home.asp By Freddy Hunt store to fulfill their tination country are visiting, the tun may be lost time. In fact, different laws and different customs can Reporter literary needs around China: Most bathrooms are make or break a trip. the Bowling Green holes in the ground, there Journalism Associate Professor Catherine Future McDonald and Offenhauer area. is no toilet paper and some Cassara is taking students on an biannual trip to residents will have to choose charge admission. There are a France for an international media seminar at The between growling stomachs and I few with porcelain basins and Do you think the American University of Paris. In preparation for the sore legs. A S13 million reno\ations running water, and these will trip, Cassara had Nicole Anderson, interim director proposal for McDonald Dining University's shuttle increase in Beijing because of study abroad, speak with applicable students 11, ill has been approved, with con- buses are over- of the 2008 Olympics. Find about preparations for going abroad. stntction planned for Mav 2008 to bathrooms in department crowded7 Spanish professor Valeria Grinberg Pla also January 2010. stores, hotels and Western had Anderson speak to her class, which is going Besides a cnimbling infrastruc- fast food restaurants to use to Xalapa, Mexico, for a community service trip. instead. ture, the 45-year-old dining hall Don't be afraid of stares. Few In Paris, the main problems have been a purse no longer caters to the demands Westerners are seen in rural left behind on the metro, a dropped passport and of the students, said Gail I inan, areas, and you are a tourist someone being separated from the group, said director of dining services. sight to them. Cassara who has led students on this particular "The old fashioned three line SARAH JEAN WON. trip three times. cafeteria system isn't what students Source: Let's Go China, Japan. Junior. Interpersonal All of these situations worked out fine, she said. want anymore." Finan said. "We communication Mexico and Eastern Europe have to come up with a design that , TRAVEL •2 is flexible, so we can roll with what "No, at the time the students want and provide they're not. It them with more options," depends on the McDonald residence hall will weather" | Page 4 not be physically impacted by the renovations, but the residents of I Offenhauer and McDonald will City works overtime to clear streets of snow have to find a new place to grab a meal. Nancy loseph, associate director By Gin* Potiboff difficult for many drivers. snow out of parking lots; and ees taken overtime pay. of dining services, said the Food TODAY Reporter The city's public works lastiy to remove access snow With the cost of the salt. Advisory Board has formed a sub- Rain employees sprang into action, from residential areas. the city spent an additional committee to address feeding the F3 High: 45, Low: 32 As a result of the blizzard that working 12-hour shifts to clear The entire operation took 94 S14.892.50 on 350 tons, paying students that,will be housed in hit Bowling Green a couple the snow from noon on Feb. 13 hours. All together, 24 full-time $42.55 per ton. McDonald arid Offenhauer. weeks ago, mounting snow piles until 4 p.m. on Feb. 17. and part-time public works The snow was moved to the More grab-and-go options at needed to be moved out of the Director of Public Works employees and three supervisors Wood County Fairgrounds park- temptations, dining shuttles for middle of the streets. William Blair said their course put in 798 hours of overtime. ing lot, since it was the shortest McDonald and Offenhauer resi- TOMORROW The snow was blocking the of operation was to first get the This would have cost the city Showers turn lanes and making visibility roads open; second, to get the $21,654.76, had all the employ- See SHOW | Page 2 See F0O01 Page 2 i High: 38. Low: 27 k VISIT BGNEWS.COM: NEWS, SPORTS, UPDATES, MULTIMEDIA AND FORUMS FOR YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE 2 Thursday. March 1 2007 WWW.BGNEWS.COM rels, school children, a skateboarder, Small said the group also had to wait BLOTTER ART athletes, a sushi chef and much more," for a long time seeking engineers to TUESDAY From Page 1 Small said.