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By Angela GreenReporter

Students who are at risk are of great concern to the University.

“At risk” is the University’s term for those students who are more likely to not return to school. There are many different factors that could cause a student to become at risk.

Barb Henry, assistant vice president for advising and aca-demic success, said there are social, personal and academic factors.

She said students can be at risk if they have a low GPA or ACT score, if the University is a long distance from their home, if a family member is ill or if they do not join any campus organi-zations.

The University’s institutional research department has stu-dents complete a new student transition questionnaire every year to look at these factors.

“This typically identifies 300 to 500 new students who are at risk of not returning to college,” said Bill Knight, assistant vice presi-dent for planning and account-ability and professional associ-ate in the institutional research department.

The department has been doing these questionnaires since 1998 and, based on responses and GPA, they can develop an at risk scale. Students at the bottom third of the scale are considered at risk.

The University tries to help students who are at risk, par-ticularly those who do not have good academic standing, based

on their GPA.Linda Swaisgood, director of

undergraduate services in the College of Technology, said the college has an intensive inter-vention system for students who are on academic warning, on probation or have been rein-stated.

“Students sign a success con-tract and meet with an academic adviser once a month until they get back onto good academic standing,” Swaisgood said.

Swaisgood said of the approxi-mately 220 new students who entered the college in the fall, 26 are on academic probation and 20 are on academic warning.

This semester is the first that the college is also requiring at risk students to attend at least one of the University’s First Year Success Series workshops.

Assistant Dean of Students Andrew Alt said the University started the series five years ago to provide transition assistance to first-year students. The work-shops help students learn about study skills, leadership and time management and also offers tutoring.

“We had about half of our first year class attend at least one this

Low grades, less involvement leaves students at risk

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“This typically identifies 300 to 500 new students

who are at risk of not returning to college.”

Bill Knight | Institutional Research

Organization prepares Passover meal for students

By Ryan BortReporter

For Jewish students on campus, today marks Passover, an event that symbolizes the Jewish People’s exodus from Egypt.

The holiday started Monday at sundown and will last until sundown of next Monday. Many Jewish students on campus are unable to spend the holiday at home, so Hillel, the on-campus Jewish organization, is bringing the celebration to students.

The group will be putting on a Seder meal on Wednesday. This meal is an annual event for Hillel, in which they eat tradi-tional Passover foods, including unleavened bread, matzo ball soup, salad, fish and a vegetar-ian dish, all provided by dining services.

According to Rachel Rosenthal, treasurer of Hillel, matzo ball soup is a staple of Seder meals and said it is simi-lar to chicken and dumpling soup.

“For Jewish people, you are used to being home during this time, but because it’s a week-day, you can’t really go home,” Rosenthal said. “So we want to provide a nice home away from home experience for people.”

The executive board of Hillel is trying to make the dinner a traditional Seder meal and spent approximately $500

of their budget on the dinner because of its significance to their faith, Rosenthal said.

Hillel is expecting 30 to 40 people to attend the event, said Dan Lubin, president of Hillel.

“Because of limited food and space, the event is kind of by invite only, but we also want-ed to invite people of other faiths,” Lubin said. “So all the members of Hillel are invited, as well as some people from other religious organizations on campus.”

Ashley Berman, vice presi-dent of education and reli-gion of Hillel, said the event would be beneficial of peo-ple of all faiths to attend.

“We’d rea l ly l i ke it to be a lea r n i ng ex per ience for people to lea r n more a b out Je w i s h h i s t or y,” Ber ma n sa id.

Students who attend the event will get a different experi-ence with their meal.

“During the dinner, we tell a story,” Rosenthal said. “You eat a specific thing and learn the symbolism of it. Everything is part of the story and you can’t eat something until you get that part of the story.”

The dinner will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Business Administration Building room 117. For more information, contact Ashley Berman at bermana@bgsu.edu.

Hillel brings traditional meal to student’s second home

Cesar Chavez blood drive raises awareness of Latino actvisimBy Christie Kerner

Reporter

A national event will bring rec-ognition to the University’s work with Latino students and raise awareness about the activ-ist Cesar E. Chavez.

The National Cesar E. Chavez Blood Drive Challenge will take place for the first time at the University from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday in the Union Ballroom.

Over 100 Universities will participate in the national com-petition, with Bowling Green State University and Ohio State University representing the state of Ohio.

“The main purpose [of the event] is to save lives and raise awareness about Chavez and what he did,” aid Samantha

Pena, vice president of the Latino Student Union.

Bowling Green Mayor John Quinn will speak at Wednesday’s event at noon, as well as the former Chairman of Ohio Latino Affairs, Richard Romero.

As a student in the late 1970s, Romero was surprised about the small percentage of Latino stu-dents at the University when he and a group of students decided to protest the University. The protest would make national news.

“Students took over the

President’s office,” Romero said. “I left the protest to per-form in a play, and when I came back they [the students] were already arrested.”

Chavez sent a lawyer to rep-resent the students at the trial.

“There’s a tie with Cesar Chavez and Bowling Green State University,” Romero said.

“He reached out to many Latino students in the 70s, and we were one of the groups he reached out to.”

As a result, administrators met with students to put togeth-er an event to aggressively bring more Latino students to the University.

“It went from one extreme to another,” Romero said. “As a state commissioner, I gave an award to BGSU for having one of the largest percentages of Latino students by any state

university in Ohio.”Quinn will present President

Carol Cartwright and the University with the award for the University’s work with Latino students in retention, student programming and more.

March 31 will also be pro-claimed Cesar Chavez Day in Bowling Green.

Chavez was forced to quit school in the 8th grade when his father lost his ability to work. While working to support his family he learned about the injustice and bad treatment of farm workers.

“I met him personally and I was extremely impressed with his non-violent approach to jus-tice,” Romero said.

Students planning the blood

Cesar ChavezLatino activist

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By Alaina BuzasSenior Reporter

Local Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender (LGBT) group, Equality BG, met Sunday to prepare once again to rally support for an anti-dis-crimination ordinance in the city.

After the ordinance was passed by City Council last August, those opposed to the legislation suc-cessfully petitioned to have it paused. The legisla-tion will now appear on November’s ballot for a public vote.

Equality BG held their first organization meeting on Sunday, March 28 at Grounds For Thought coffee shop in downtown Bowling Green.

Rob Koob, president of the University’s LGBT group, Vision, said the meeting was a success. According to Koob, the meeting was spent strat-egizing how to spread information throughout the campus and the city about the issue and vote in

November. “We want one collective group branching out as a

well-oiled machine,” Koob said.As of now, the upcoming meetings will likely be

bi-monthly and are not open to the public.City Council member John Zanfardino, who

helped get the ordinances on the council’s table last August, said the student body will likely be targeted by organizers.

“It will be interesting to see how word can be gotten out,” he said. “It wouldn’t be unusual for stu-dents to not know the ordinance existed.”

Vision plans to be involved in educating the cam-pus community about the ordinance. Koob said the group will be working on spreading the word about the ordinance and registering voters before November.

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Equality BG fights for protection for 21 groups with anti-discrimination legislation

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CORRECTIONPOLICYWe want to correct all factual errors. If you think an error has been made, call The BG News at 419-372-6966.

In Monday’s article “More students opt to exercise off campus at com-munity center,” it was incorrectly stated that faculty use the Rec for free. They have to pay to use the facility.

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year,” Alt said. “It was about 1,000 students during the fall semes-ter,”

Alt said students taking UNIV 1000 are required to attend at least one workshop, and most of the colleges are using the work-shops in one way or another for their at risk students.

Swaisgood said these work-shops and meetings with advis-ers are only as successful as stu-dents want them to be.

“We don’t have any way of forc-ing them,” she said. “Students who take it seriously end up doing well. We ask them to meet us halfway.”

Swaisgood also said high school GPAs and ACT scores should not be the only factors used to predict how well students will do once they get to college.

“There’s no characteristics that you can look at and say ‘that student is going to do great’ or ‘that student isn’t,’” she said. “It’s unfair of us as academic advisers to pass that kind of judgment.”

Swaisgood said advisers try to help students as much as they can and try new things.

“I’ve been at the University for 32 years, and there have been various programs for students and none of them have worked any better than the others,” she said. “That’s not to say [that] we give up.”

“If students, even if one-fourth of students switch to voting in the area, maybe even one-sixth, or one-eighth, change their voter status to Wood County, this [ordinance] would pass with flying colors,” Koob said.

Koob said more of the stu-dent body is affected by the ordinance than they realize.

“You may not know someone who is LGBT, but you probably know someone who is a vet-eran or pregnant or disabled,” Koob said. “Even if you aren’t one of those things, you may know someone who is.”

According to Jane Rosser, Bowling Green resident and director of service learning at the University, the movement for the ordinance started from a grassroots collection of peo-ple who knew people directly affected by the lack of protec-tion from discrimination cur-rently in city legislation.

Rosser said many in the group knew a doctorate student who almost left the University after being denied housing by

a major local landlord because he would be moving in with his partner.

“I think this is a huge piece of legislation for students, who are also very vulnerable,” Rosser said. “They’re younger, less expe-rienced and may be nervous about coming to BG, especially if you’re a student of color, or LGBT, or perhaps a veteran.”

However, the legislation refers to more than three groups. It offers protection from 21 differ-ent categories of discrimination: race, color, religion, national ori-gin, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sex, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, creed, ancestry, disability, military sta-tus, veteran status, marital status, family status, physical charac-teristics, HIV-status and genetic information.

Despite the variety of groups included in the legislation, Zanfardino said opposition concentrated on one of them. According to Zanfardino, at the council’s meeting on Aug. 17, when the final ordinance vote took place, most of the spoken opposition concerned the LGBT community.

“Equality BG was very aware it

would all boil down to people with different sexual orienta-tions,” Zanfardino said. “Most of the opposition did seem to have religious factors to their opposition. There was a real religious rejection of people of different orientation.”

The day of the vote was former city council member and University student Jacob Redfern’s first day on the job. He said he remembers hearing opposition to the ordinance that the legislation would raise the cost of doing business because of a rise in litigation against landlords and employ-ers. However, Redfern said the arguments lost their weight when the same person claimed the ordinance was unnecessary, citing Toledo’s similar legisla-tion that had only produced one formal discrimination com-plaint.

“How will it increase the cost if no one is taking advantage of it in other cities?” Redfern said.

Rosser said she supports the opposition’s rights to a further debate on the issue, but sees holes in their arguments. She said sometimes complaints go

unfiled because the system cur-rently has a very complicated process in place.

“This is important for BG as a community and as a college town to update its statements and laws to be very inclusive and to make it much easier for someone who had an issue to raise that issue,” Rosser said.

According to Rosser, there have been issues in the commu-nity dealing with employment discrimination. Some of them have been settled in court, but others were never raised.

“People don’t think you can lose a job, but you can,” she said.

“We’ve had teachers that have lost their teaching jobs.”

But Rosser said reducing the ignorance in the commu-nity was just one mission of the organizing the meeting.

“To me, it’s hard to know why you would object to human rights,” she said. “[The ordi-nances] aren’t about special rights for anyone. It’s about everyone being treated fairly.”

Rosser encourages anyone interested in getting involved to contact Equality BG at equalitybg@gmail.com.

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“I think this is a huge piece of legislation for students who are also very vulnerable. They’re

younger, less experienced...” Jane Rosser | Director of Service Learning

In 1969, sunbathing on the BGSU campus was limited to the area south of the Ice Arena on Mercer Road, according to the student handbook.

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RYAN PIROG | THE BG NEWS

JAZZ TRIO: Chelsea McCarty on trumpet, Gio Gomez on drums, and Sam Schmitt on saxophone are part of Sam/Chelsea’s Jazz All Stars performed Monday night at the Black Swamp Pub.

JAZZIN’ IT UP AT THE BLACK SWAMP PUB

Jess James Reporter

Students tested their knowledge of University facts at last night’s

“Are You Smarter than Freddie Falcon” event.

Based off the game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader,” participants and panel judges consisted of graduate students and University mascots Freddie and Frieda Falcon.

The event was associated with the University’s Cenntenial Celebration, sponsored by Residence Life.

Liz Wengner, a graduate hall director at Kreischer Compton-Darrow and one of the director

of the event, said contestants were selected to play by guess-ing how many beads were in a jar located at each of the indi-vidual residence halls.

“Originally we placed jars with a certain number of beads on the front desk and had resi-dents guess how many were in there,” Wengner said. “The two closest people were contacted and then asked to be a partici-pant in the game.”

Questions ranged from what year the University was built to the name of a female falcon.

Students battled out until the contestant with the most points was declared. The title went to freshman Angela Kelbley, who

said she prepared for the show by brushing up on her University

trivia and remembering facts from freshman orientations.

“My friend is a tour guide and she let me borrow her book that all the campus guides are given when they conduct tours,” Kelbley said. “The book had school history, important dates and other information that defi-nitey helped me win. I thought about orientation and the his-tory facts they told us there too.”

Participants were able to choose one of the judges from the panel to ask for help or copy their answer similar to the show on T.V.

Kelbley received a prize pack-age consisting of a Nintendo Wii, a $25 dollar gift card to the book store, picture frames and a portfolio calendar. All prizes were either donated or bought

by Residence Life funds. Preliminary contestants

received free T-shirts while University swag was given away throughout the show for audi-ence members.

Graduate student Amy Foust helped coordinated the event and brought the idea to campus.

Overall she said the event had a good turn out and hopes more people will have the opportu-nity to test their smarts in the near future.

“I thought the show was great,” Foust said. “Everybody got a prize and seemed to have fun and that’s what we wanted. Hopefully we will be able to do another show next year.”

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IS THAT YOUR FINAL ANSWER: Contestants guess the relation of Freddie and Frieda Falcon at the “Are You Smarter Than Freddie Falcon” event held Monday.

PLAYIN’ THE SAX: Sam Schmitt performing at Monday’s Jazz night in the Union Pub.RYAN PIROG | THE BG NEWS

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Dear lazy pet owner,I get it you are to busy to pick up your dog’s business. However, allowing him to leave it on the sidewalk and then dingle berry traps for two blocks is excessive. I do not enjoy that my morning walk to class now includes watching every step to avoid the prolific landmines. I would like to wear flip flops soon, so at the very least could you curb your pooch to the grass next to the sidewalk when he goes to squat? That is not too much to ask, is it?— RIDGE STREET WALKER

Dear obviously-biased instructor,I’m really glad you like some students in our class better than others and have formed strong bonds with them. That’s great. Everyone needs a friend. But maybe you shouldn’t let this affect your grading. Giving anyone an “A ++++++” on a report is a little ridiculous. Are we in kindergarten again? Plus, your Parisian pet gave one of the weakest presentations in the class. It’s pretty obvious she didn’t know anything about her topic.— COLLEGE STUDENT

Dear residents of Harshman Bromfield,We are all adults, so if we must share the dorm hall, would you please use some common courtesy and wash your hands after using the restroom? It is disgusting to use the restroom and simply walk out without washing your hands. You do realize that every time you leave the restroom without washing your hands you are walking around with your own waste on your hands — how does that sound for an early morning snack?— DISGUSTED RESIDENT

Dear maintenance staff of Harshman Anderson-Bromfield,Thank you for making me late to class last Thursday because you were too lazy to put an “out of order” sign on a malfunctioning washing machine that stays interminably locked at 6 minutes on a spin cycle the minute you push start. You said you knew it would happen, but for some reason you didn’t know how to fix it. I really appreciate your courtesy for those on-campus students paying a rather large laundry fee. Maybe if the University spent some of their moldy money on things that students actually want — like, I don’t know, more washers and dryers, maybe? — it wouldn’t have been such a big deal. But since no other washers were available, and to top it all off, my clothes were trapped for over an hour because of your inconsiderate behavior, you made my Thursday night very memorable.— ANGERED RESIDENT

Attention Professors: I understand that you seem to think that you are teaching the most important class ever — that may or may not be true — but stop running over your time. We have this understanding, you and I, that I will show up to class to learn and that you will teach. I pay for your time, but I also pay for other professors’ time, and they are tired of me sprinting into class late because you went too far over your time. I can understand a minute or two, but consistently five minutes over consis-tently makes me late for my next class.— HATE BEING LATE

FORUM “To me it’s hard to know why you object to human rights. [The ordinances] aren’t about special rights for anyone. It’s about everyone being treated fairly.”—Jane Rosser, Director of Service Learning on city anti-discrimination ordinances [see story, pg. 1].

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET What would you bring if you had to travel in the desert for 40 years?

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“My cell phone.”

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“A dune buggy with a full tank of gas.”

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“My iPod.”

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I’m going to guess you’re some-where between the ages of 18 and 23. How much of your life has America spent at war? Are your memories of America at war different from your child-hood memories of America at peace? I’m going to go out on a limb and say for most of us, the answer is “not really.”

For the majority of the American population, our wars are distant and irrelevant. The families of soldiers and the soldiers themselves seem to be the only ones involved with our wars, but nothing could be further from the truth.

If you pay federal taxes, you are involved. If part of you or your parents’ retirement plans includes stock in a company like Boeing, Lockheed Martin or Haliburton, you are involved. If you voted for a pro-war candi-date as the lesser of two evils, you are involved. By abdicating your democratic responsibilities to vote, self-educate and serve your community, you are involved.

You won’t hear about it on the news, but there is still an anti-war movement going on in this country. Last weekend, I and thousands upon thou-sands of libertarians, social-ists, anarchists, Democrats, Republicans and first-time demonstrators marched on the White House. Despite virtually no reports of vio-lence, eight of us were arrest-ed. Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom burned the American flag and the only publication to cover the story was the Washington Post — one of the primary desti-nations of the march. I am opposed to America’s wars around the world, and the police state it creates.

The freedoms we lost dur-ing the Bush years have not been regained. These lost freedoms include elements of our right to privacy, our right to a fair trial and our right to know what our elected officials are doing with our money and our trust.

I am 22 years old and nearly half my life has been spent in a nation at war. I do not expect Social Security to survive until my 65th birthday and I am sta-tistically unlikely to achieve a

better standard of living than my parents, simply because I was born into the wrong gen-eration. The America of 2010 is in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s and its wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of far fewer individuals since the age of the robber barons.

Of greater importance are the people who are even less free than I am. These people include the one percent of Americans who are in prison and the millions of others in Iraq and Afghanistan whose lives are materially worse than they were under the Saddam Hussein regime and only mar-ginally more free. The Iraqi people have been granted “elections,” but at tremendous cost. The war in Iraq alone has cost perhaps over a million Iraqi lives according to some studies — one sixth of the lives lost in the Holocaust. All of this takes place in our name.

War should not be included in our definition of normal. However, for many of us (young people especially), being at war is just part of being an American. A free people do not grow accustomed to war. War is the health of state power,

and if you study history, noth-ing else destroys the freedom of the individual to speak, think and act freely like war does. The decline in American democracy, government responsiveness and financial stability can all be traced back to the fact that our country has been at war for nine years.

At the risk of sounding like a soothsayer, American free-dom and democracy has been in steady decline for decades, and we are getting far too accustomed to being some-thing other than free. The gov-ernment can be a useful tool, but if we rely on it to act on our behalf without sufficient popular pressure, then we are abdicating our responsibilities and agency.

When Barack Obama said, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek,” I interpret that as, “You can’t count on me to end the war and fix America’s prob-lems — that’s your job.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORAdministration decision on fraternity houses is disrespectfulLast week many of us read about the unfortunate situ-ation regarding the transfer of fraternity houses here on campus.

Recently, the administra-tion decided to move Delta Tau Delta (Delt) from their house on Clough Street to a Conklin unit that will be opened up by another chapter leaving.

In the article last week, it quoted the administration saying that Delt is being moved because they could not fill the 16 beds in their current house.

Wait a second. Doesn’t the Conklin spot also have 16 beds to fill?

Yes, that is correct, the administration is moving the Delts out of their house into another house with the same number of beds, and yet they argue it is because of the inability to fill the required spots.

I understand that Phi Kappa Tau will be getting the Delt house, and since their house was recently demolished I am glad they are being offered a place to live. I also don’t blame Phi Kappa Tau for agreeing to live in the Delt house, because they need to do what is best for Phi Kappa Tau.

What I strongly disagree with is the administration’s decision to transfer the Delts

from their current house to another house that has the same number of beds. If the Delts were apparently strug-gling to fill their current house, how does the administration expect them to fill a house they are less happy with?

As Undergraduate Student Government vice president, I am deeply disappointed in the way the administration han-dled this residence issue, as many of the affected students are not pleased with the final decision.

Last semester USG passed a resolution stating how unacceptable it was for the administration to demolish the Sigma Phi Epsilon and Phi Kappa Tau houses without any student input regarding the decision. While this time the issue is not as drastic as the demolition of two build-ings, it is still forcing people to leave their home.

To me this shows a lack of respect for USG and, more importantly, a lack of respect for the students we represent.

I hope in the future the administration shows more respect and transparency to us, the students, and makes better decisions regarding stu-dent housing.

Kevin Basch is a junior polit-ical science major and USG

vice president. Respond to this letter at thenews@bgnews.com.

Student media sources should stay unbiased and unopinionatedWhen I wake up in the morn-ing, my cup of coffee in hand, the first thing I grab once on campus is a copy of The BG News. Although I never fully agree with opinions expressed in the paper, I still continue to be an avid reader, mostly because I believe that being informed and knowing both sides of issues is key in devel-oping my own opinion.

And, of course, I love the blotter!

However, upon opening Monday’s (3/29/10) paper and seeing that the BG News edito-rial staff “endorsed” specific candidates for USG elections I was, to say the least, less than happy. Putting aside any poli-tics, any stances I may have or which candidate I support, there is a serious problem with that article. The article brought up a lot of problems with media today in general, far beyond the University.

The purpose of media, origi-nally, was simply to inform. Americans trust media to feed them facts, and any journalist who goes into the field should share that passion. However, due to the lack of facts the media supplies, all I see hap-pening is a loss of faith in any form of news, which presents an even bigger problem.

Thanks to the media taking

sides and reporting opinions, the view of our world is slanted. It is now to the point where we have newspapers that only conservatives read and news stations only liberals watch. How absurd does that seem? And although you will most likely not publish this letter, just know that by doing so you prove my point even more than I ever could.

Now, seeing as the University is an educational institution, you, the editorial staff, should be attempting to put aside all of this nonsense and simply report the facts. I don’t care who you endorse. I want you to research each candidate, in depth, and write, for once, an educated, non-biased article. Let me form my own opinion and vote how I see fit.

Alexandria E D’Ettorre-Saber is a senior Individualized

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Ohio congressman gets some health care support

CINCINNATI (AP) — A freshman Ohio congressman whose vote for the health care overhaul has drawn heat-ed criticism and protests said Monday he expects support to grow as people learn more about its benefits.

Democratic Rep. Steve Driehaus answered questions about the legisla-tion from journalists, health officials and a mostly supportive audience of several dozen people at a Cincinnati community health center. Driehaus said there has been overheated rheto-ric and fear tactics by opponents.

“That’s all they have to hang their hat on; again, it’s fear, fear, fear,” he told The Associated Press before the event. “I think the more people under-stand what’s actually in the legislation, the more they’ll support it.”

He told his audience the main ben-efit will be “peace of mind” for people worried about being denied or losing health insurance, getting bankrupted by medical costs, or being unable to afford needed prescription drugs.

Ohio to keep trying for federal school money

COLUMBUS (AP) — Disappointed Ohio officials say the state will keep trying for money from a federal stimulus program to strengthen education.

Delaware and Tennessee received $600 million on Monday in the first round of the U.S. Department of Education’s $4.35 billion competition to encourage innovative school improvement efforts. Ohio was among 14 other finalists that were overlooked.

In a joint statement, Gov. Ted Strickland and state schools Superintendent Delisle (deh-LYL’) say the state had high expectations, so the news from Washington is a disappointment. They say Ohio will take into account comments from federal officials as the state immediately starts work on apply-ing for the second phase of the competition.

The next application deadline is June 1.

Ohio AG won’t sue over new federal health care law

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s attor-ney general says he won’t join other states in a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s sweeping new health care law.

Attorney General Richard Cordray says he believes such lawsuits are without merit and would be a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Cordray said Monday he based his decision on an analysis of the new law and his knowledge of federal consti-tutional law.

Democrat Cordray was responding to pressure from U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner (BAY’-nur), other Republican members of Congress from Ohio and GOP mem-bers of the Ohio Senate.

The Republicans urged Cordray last week to join his counterparts from 13 other states in challenging the constitutionality of the massive health care overhaul.

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CLEVELAND — Ohio offi-cials outlined plans Monday to put Lake Erie, the shal-lowest of the Great Lakes, at the forefront of offshore wind power development.

Gov. Ted Strickland and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown joined industry and educa-tion leaders to detail tax-cut and regulatory measures to jump-start wind power devel-opment on Lake Erie. The lake’s comparatively shallow depth is seen as an advantage when erecting towers to pro-duce wind power.

Strickland said his pro-posal to eliminate the tan-gible personal property tax on wind and solar generation equipment would make Ohio competitive in developing wind power.

The measure, now before state lawmakers, would cover wind and solar facilities where ground is broken this year and energy is being pro-duced by 2012.

Last week, regulators approved the state’s first large-scale wind farms, all in western Ohio: two farms in Hardin County and an opera-tion in Champaign County.

Construction is scheduled

to begin this summer.Under Ohio’s alternative

energy plan, 25 percent of elec-tricity sold in the state must be generated from alternative energy sources by 2025.

Brown said legislation he is backing in Congress would expand federal tax incentives for offshore wind develop-ment. The measure will pro-vide a guide for federal agen-cies coordinating the develop-ment of the industry, he said.

Ohio already leads the nation in the number of clean-energy jobs funded by the federal economic stimu-lus package, Brown said at a news conference at the Great Lakes Science Center, which has a 150-foot tall wind tur-bine tower.

He urged people to look beyond the upfront cost of developing wind power and other clean-energy sources, saying it could create jobs in the U.S. energy industry and Americans already are

spending money to buy over-seas oil.

According to the U.S. E nerg y I n for mat ion Administration, 57 percent of the petroleum used in the U.S. in 2008 was imported, with 45 percent of imports coming from the western hemisphere, 22 percent from Africa, 21 percent from the Persian Gulf and the remain-der from other sources.

“As we develop this indus-try, instead of importing wind turbines from China and other places, we’re going to be doing the development in this country,” Brown said.

Cuya hoga Cou nt y Prosecutor Bill Mason, work-ing with the Lake Erie Energy Development Corp., released a request Monday seeking proposals from developers for an initial wind-power project off Cleveland. The goal is to reduce startup costs for devel-opers and make wind power attractive.

Ohio plugs wind power on Lake Erie“As we develop this industry, instead of

importing wind turbines from China and other places, we’re going to be doing the

development in this county.”Sherrod Brown | Senator

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TRACKConger named Papa John’s Athlete of the WeekTrack and field junior Heather Conger has been named a Papa John’s Athlete of the Week after helping the Falcons to a second-place finish at the Toledo Collegiate Challenge this past Saturday. Conger won two events, taking top honors in the 800 meter and 1500 meter runs.

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Today inSports History1997—Tennessee defeats Old Dominion 68-59 for the NCAA Women’s Championship.1990—Jack Nicklaus makes his debut in the “Seniors” golf tournament.

The ListWith Matt Schneider winning his second tournament of the season at the BSU Cardinal Classic, we take a look at the senior’s top five moments of his Falcon career. 1. JPI: Schneider finished first at the John Piper Intercollegiate (70-70-74) during the 2008-09 season.2. EYI: At the Early Yestingsmeier Intercollegiate last season, Schneider finished in second.3. MAC: In 2007-08, Schneider finished in a tie for 14th at the MAC Championships with a score of 289.4. MAC/BIG EAST: Also in 2007-08, Schneider finished third at the MAC/Big East Challenge.5. MAC: In his first season with the Falcons in 2006-07, Schneider finished in a tie for 11th at the MAC Championships.

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Perkin cited for disorderly conduct while intoxicated Senior and former BG hockey player James Perkin, of Calgary, Alb., was cited on Saturday for disorderly conduct while intoxicated on East Wooster Street.

In 33 games this past season, Perkin finished sixth on the Falcons with 13 points (four goals and nine assists). In four seasons on the BG hockey team, Perkin played in 137 games and recorded 20 goals.

Perkin recorded his best statistical season during the 2007-08 season, a season in which he played in all 39 games. He recorded 25 points on a career-best seven goals, (including two game-winners) and 18 assists.

By Rusty Miller The Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Just about everybody loves an underdog. Not Geno Auriemma. He’ll go with Goliath in his bracket.

After all, his Connecticut team is 36-0 and has won its last 75 games, something that has never been done in the women’s game.

“Now, I’ve been the underdog a couple of times, certainly earlier in my career,” the UConn coach said Monday. “I’m not a big fan of the underdog. But we’ve been the overdog for so long I like the favorites. I root for Tiger to win every golf tournament, I don’t care. Freddie Couples I’ve gotten to know, he just won his third straight (senior) tournament and I hope he wins 10 in a row. That’s kind of how I am.”

The kind of guy who favors Everest instead of climbers. The kind of guy grew up lov-ing the team that set the men’s standard with an 88-game winning streak.

“When I was playing high school basketball, I think every-body’s favorite team was UCLA,” he said. “If they weren’t, it’s because they were either lying or they were jealous. I loved UCLA, loved everything about them. It was probably the fact that they

won all the time, and the way they played. They were excep-tional at every position. I rooted for them to win all the time, and I never wanted to see them lose.”

UConn is now where UCLA was a generation ago. The team the Huskies play in Tuesday night’s regional final hosted Connecticut on Dec. 28. The Huskies won 78-59 in Tallahassee, routing a team ranked No. 12 at the time.

Aside from the Florida State players, coaches and families, it would be hard to find any-one who thinks the Seminoles have a good chance at winning. That’s OK with Florida State.

“I came to college wanting to be the underdog,” guard Alysha Harvin said. “It gives you the mentality that nobody really believes in you. When you step up and meet that challenge, it’s a great feeling — it’s the best feeling in the world.”

Florida State (29-5) is as quick and athletic as any team in the country. If the game becomes a track meet, though, UConn feels it can adapt.

“Our team knows how to con-trol the tempo,” Huskies guard Kalana Greene said. “If Florida State wants to play full court, we’re very good at that. If they try to force us to play half court, we are good at that, too.

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Falcons hope to bounce back today against Flyers

By Justin OnslowReporter

The BG baseball team hit a small rough patch recently, but looks to rebound today against the University of Dayton.

The Falcons will travel to Dayton for one game and then venture north over the week-end for a three-game series against Eastern Michigan University.

The Falcons (7-11-1, 1-2 Mid-American Conference) have shown the ability to play well in every area of the game this year, but have not been able to put it all together consistently.

The squad has dropped four of its last five games, allowing 38 runs in that span. Only 23 of those runs were earned, how-ever.

The Falcons have had very few problems at the plate this year.

The team is hitting .316 on the year and is scoring over seven runs per game. Hitting is only one aspect of the game though, and the Falcons have had issues elsewhere.

BG’s defense is averaging 2.26 errors per game this season, and head coach Danny Schmitz has been unhappy with his team’s performance in the field.

Defense is one of the three major areas Schmitz emphasizes to his players. With the heart of the schedule coming up, today’s game against Dayton could prove to be a final tune-up for the Falcons before their stretch of MAC games.

Twenty-four of the team’s final 32 regular season games will be played against MAC opponents.

The Flyers won the Atlantic 10 Conference last year, setting records in several offensive cat-egories.

Head coach Tony Vittorio was voted the Atlantic 10 Baseball Coach of the Year in 2009. Vittorio has several starters returning this season, including Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year Cameron Hobson.

Hobson set a new school record for strikeouts last season with 83.

Senior center fielder T.J. Blanton will look to continue his hot streak against the Flyers. Blanton is on a 13-game hitting streak, batting .480 over that span.

He leads the team in several offensive categories, including home runs, with six.

First pitch is set for 3 p.m. at Time Warner Cable Stadium in Dayton.

Swinging toward successSchneider wins BSU Classic, leads Falcons to second place finish

GOT IT: Pitcher Brennan Smith fields a misplayed ball against Northern Illinois last weekend. The BG defense is averaging 2.26 errors per game.

By Christopher RamboReporter

It started one week ago with a simple conversation.

BG golfer Matt Schneider was coming off a disappointing tie for 39th at the semester-opening Palmas Del Mar when he was telephoned by former teammate Jace Walker.

Walker, who currently resides in Scottsdale, Ariz. is preparing to make a run at a pro career. He told Schneider how much he had benefited from the tutelage of a mental coach, and offered some of the concentration tips that he found most useful.

Schneider seems to have taken the advice, as he followed that talk with a historic victory this week-end in the Ball State Cardinal Classic, calling it, “without a doubt, the best tournament of my college career and the best display of overall course management in my entire life.”

Coach Garry Winger was quick to concur with his senior.

“I’ve seen Matt play really well in the past, but I would have to say that is the best I’ve ever seen him,” he said. “He just blew the field away.”

At the conclusion of the tour-nament Sunday afternoon, Schneider’s final tally of three under 213 was the lone under-par total in the 84 man field.

It was enough to cruise home comfortably on Sunday by five shots over runner-up Nathan Kerns of Marshall.

With the victory, Schneider secured a permanent place for himself in the history of BG golf, tying former two-time All-American Ken Walters (1972-1975)

for the most career wins in Falcon history (3), while also becoming the first Falcon golfer to win more than once in a season.

“This win is just a validation of Matt’s career and what he has done for us,” Winger said. “He has just been a wonderfully consis-tent individual over the years for us, and it has been a tremendous pleasure to watch him grow as both a competitor and a person.”

Schneider would establish a strong foothold Saturday, putting up matching 71s over the first 36 holes and taking a one-shot lead heading into Sunday.

“I really felt good about my approach on Saturday,” Schneider said. “I was making all the right decisions on the course, and stay-ing away from trouble. Going into the last round I thought that as long as I stayed away from any big numbers then I would win.”

Sunday dawned damp and chilly with intermittent bursts of wind-driven rain, the type of conditions that bring any kind of score into play.

Five players started the day within three shots of the lead, but Schneider never wavered, parlay-ing his sublime inner focus into a third consecutive 71, smoothly gliding away from a field muddled with 74s and 75s.

“After every shot I just kept telling myself to stay confident and keep within the moment,” Schneider said. “Even though the weather was bad, I didn’t really mind it that much. I was just having fun being out there and executing shots.”

Meanwhile, the Falcons nearly took home top honors as a team.

Buoyed by Schneider’s steady play, the Falcons entered the final round playing in the last group-

ing, tied for the lead with Detroit Mercy and Eastern Kentucky.

On Sunday, the Falcons played like a team that was in the hunt, shooting 295, the second lowest score of the day.

However, in golf one can never control how their opponent fares and on this day, Evansville University blindsided the Falcons, shooting a superb 290 to rally from a three shot deficit to take medal-ist honors in the team category.

Although the sting of losing a close one rarely ceases for any competitor, Winger was able to take solace in the fact that it took a terrific round of golf to beat his team.

“This one definitely does not hurt as bad as some other tourna-ments where I feel that we gave it away,” Winger said. “I am abso-lutely proud of how we performed out there as a team.

“Our guys handled themselves very well all day in tough condi-tions and battled right down to the end. As a coach, that is all I can ask for.”

John Powers put in another solid showing, fighting off a first round 79 to come back and finish 70-76 and take home a tie for 19th at plus-nine 225.

In his first tournament back from suspension, Parker Hewit shot 75-75-79 for a total of plus-13

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Pair of Kentucky freshmen headline All-America Team

By Jim O’ConnellThe Associated Press

Having a couple of freshmen on The Associated Press’ All-America team is nothing new. This year, however, they are from the same school.

Kentucky’s John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins were on the All-America team announced Monday.

Joining them were Ohio State junior Evan Turner, who received all but one first-team vote, Syracuse junior Wes Johnson and Villanova senior Scottie Reynolds.

In the age of one-and-done players, the All-America team has become a home for fresh-men.

Kevin Durant of Texas and Greg Oden of Ohio State were on the 2007 team, while Michael Beasley of Kansas State and Kevin Love of UCLA were on it the next year.

After a year without any fresh-men being honored, Wall and Cousins moved in as the ninth set of teammates to be select-

ed and the first since Duke’s J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams in 2006.

“This means a lot to both of us. I’m surprised and glad we both made it,” said the 6-foot-4 Wall, who averaged 16.9 points, 4.2 rebounds and 6.4 assists after arriving as one of the most highly touted high school recruits. “We had to learn a lot as freshmen and we were able to help our teammates along the way. This means a lot to both of us.”

The 6-11 Cousins became one of the country’s top big men and was the only player selected to the team who averaged a double-double with 15.3 points and 10.1 rebounds.

“It’s important to me but it wasn’t something I was expect-ing,” Cousins said. “This means a lot because all we really did was try to come in and help our teammates.”

They helped the Wildcats reach No. 1 for one week in a season they were no lower than fifth in any poll.

“The challenge of it is to get

them to reach beyond where they’ve ever reached in their lives,” first-year Kentucky coach John Calipari said.

“They’re in the best shape conditioning-wise they’ve ever been in. They are play-ing for the team more than they’ve ever played for a team. Usually it’s been about them. Yet they got to respect each other.”

Wall said he and Cousins knew they had a chance to be honored this way.

“We talked about it a lot,” he said. “We’ve known each other since we were 14 years old. We came here together and we are like brothers. It was tough for us at the beginning but we stuck together and basically helped each other through the season.”

Evan TurnerReceived all but one first-team vote for All-America team

GOLF From Page 6229 and a tie for 34th.

Drew Preston improved his score each day, shooting 78-77-76 to finish tied for 39th at plus-15 231.

Freshman Wes Gates had one of those nightmarish days, shooting 87-81 before nicely rounding back into form on Sunday with 72. He finished tied for 65th at plus-24 240.

The Falcons will take their sec-ond place finish to Wichita Kansas next week for the Diet Pepsi Shocker Classic, with the action beginning on April 5.

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Tennessee man pleads guilty in plot against Obama

JACKSON, Tenn. — A Tennessee man authorities say is a white supremacist has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and doz-ens of other black people in 2008.

Twenty-one-year-old Daniel Cowart of Bells, Tenn., pleaded guilty Monday to eight of 10 counts in an indictment accusing him of conspiracy, threatening a presiden-tial candidate and various federal firearms violations. Under a plea agreement, he faces 12 to 18 years in prison, but a federal judge could choose a longer sentence.

Co-defendant, 19-year-old Paul Schlesselman of Helena-West Helena, Ark., pleaded guilty in January and will be sentenced April 15.

Authorities have described the two as skinheads who planned a cross-country robbing and killing spree that would end with an attack on Obama.

Man guilty of drugging, fondling teen at sleepover

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A jury has convicted a Vermont man of drug-ging and molesting a 13-year-old girl during a sleepover.

Robert J. Kolibas, a 51-year-old father of four from Williston, was found guilty Monday of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and aggravated assault.

The girl, a friend of Kolibas’ daugh-ter, drank a smoothie laced with a sedative and a sleeping aid before falling asleep at Kolibas’ home in May. She testified that she awoke several times to find Kolibas touching her breasts and genitals but that she was too woozy to fend him off.

Kolibas, who says the drink was intended for his wife after the two had argued, denied molesting the girl.

He faces up to 25 years in prison. No sentencing date was set.

Gay student settles lawsuit against NY district

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A gay teen-ager in upstate New York who had claimed he was relentlessly bullied by classmates while school admin-istrators stood by settled his lawsuit Monday against the school district.

Jacob — who is identified as “J.L.” in the lawsuit and doesn’t want his name revealed — sued the Mohawk Central School District in federal court last summer with help from the New York Civil Liberties Union. Now 15, he said school officials did virtually nothing to stop bullies who picked on him because he acted differently from other boys.

The U.S. Department of Justice had sought to intervene, citing the

“important issues” it raised in enforc-ing federal civil rights laws.

Under the settlement filed in federal court, the district agreed

LA police probe 3rd slaying in Armenian family

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say an Armenian family is being targeted by a killer who has slain a child and both of her parents in Los Angeles.

Police Detective Dan Myers said Monday there is a connection between the recent shooting death of a 38-year-old mother in Hollywood and the killing of her husband and daughter in December 2008.

He did not provide details of a pos-sible motive.

Police say Karine Hakobyan was found Friday behind the wheel of her Honda CRV with a gunshot wound to the back of her head.

Her husband, 43-year-old Khachik Safaryan, and their 8-year-old daughter Lusine were found shot to death Dec. 11, 2008.

A neighbor says the couple’s remaining child is living with grand-parents.

Groups vow to sue because sage grouse unprotected

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three environmental groups say they intend to sue the Interior Department for not protecting sage grouse as an endan-gered or threatened species.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Desert Survivors and Western Watersheds Project said Monday the agency violated the Endangered Species Act by classifying sage grouse as merely a candidate for federal protection.

An Interior spokeswoman declined to comment, citing its policy for mat-ters in litigation.

The department on March 5 said federal protection is warranted but not a high priority for the brown chicken-sized bird.

Sage grouse are found in California, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and Canada.

Calif. lawmaker seeks amount paid for Palin speech

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A state lawmaker is asking a California State University foundation how much it will pay Sarah Palin to appear at a black-tie event in June.

Sen. Leland Yee requested details of the contract Monday between the nonprofit California State University Stanislaus Foundation and the for-mer Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate. Palin will be the guest of honor at the CSU Stanislaus 50th anniversary gala on June 25.

Palin has charged some groups $100,000 for speaking fees.

Foundation board president Matt Swanson says Palin’s contract prevents him from disclosing the details of her compensation.

Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, says such a stipulation might violate the California Public Records Act.

By Corey Williams and Devlin Barrett

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DETROIT — Nine suspects tied to a Christian militia that was preparing for the Antichrist were charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then kill scores more by attacking a funeral using homemade bombs, federal pros-ecutors said Monday.

The Michigan-based group, called Hutaree, planned to use the attack on police as a cata-lyst for a larger uprising against the government, according to newly unsealed court papers. Members of the group, includ-ing its leader, David Brian

Stone were charged following FBI raids over the weekend on locations in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.

According to the indictment, the group had been meet-ing and conducting military-style training exercises in the Michigan woods since 2008 to prepare for an impending war with its enemies. Members practiced building and deto-nating explosives and shooting firearms and built storage bun-kers, investigators said.

The group says on its Web site that Hutaree means “Christian warrior” and describes the word as part of a secret language that few are

privileged to know. The site also features a pic-

ture of 17 camouflaged men, all holding large guns, and includes videos of camouflaged men tot-ing guns and running through wooded areas in apparent train-ing exercises. Each wears a patch on his left shoulder that bears a cross and two red spears.

According to investigators, the Hutaree view local, state, and federal law enforcement personnel as a “brotherhood” and an enemy, and planned to attack them as part of an armed struggle against the U.S. govern-ment.

The idea of attacking a police funeral was one of numerous

scenarios discussed as ways to go after law enforcement offi-cers, the indictment said. Other scenarios included using a fake 911 call to lure an officer to his or her death, killing an officer after a traffic stop or an attacking the family of a police officer.

Once other officers gathered for a slain officer’s funeral, the group planned to detonate homemade bombs at the funer-al, killing scores more, accord-ing to the indictment.

After the attacks, the group allegedly planned to retreat to “rally points” protected by trip-wired improvised explo-sive devices, or IEDs, for what they expected would become

a violent standoff with law enforcement personnel.

The indictment says mem-bers of the group conspired “to levy war against the United States, [and] to oppose by force the authority of the government of the United States.”

The charges against the eight include seditious conspiracy, possessing a firearm during a crime of violence, teaching the use of explosives, and attempt-ing to use a weapon of mass destruction — homemade bombs. All seven defendants in court on Monday requested to be represented by the federal defender’s office, and a bond hearing is set for Wednesday.

THE SUSPECTS:The suspects in the indictment are:

David Brian Stone, 44, of Clayton, Mich.; David Brian Stone, Jr., of Adrian, Mich.;Joshua Matthew Stone, federal authorities say he is a fugitive;Jacob J. Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio;Kristopher T. Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio;Joshua John Clough, 28, of Blissfield, Mich.;Michael David Meeks, 40, of Manchester, Mich.;Tina Mae Stone., no age, town providedThomas W. Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind.

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KABUL (AP) — After weeks dominated by health care, President Barack Obama’s secret trip to Afghanistan turned attention back to another issue whose progress this year could help define the success of his presidency.

By deciding in December to order a massive buildup to the war he inherited, Obama placed a big bet. Nearly tripling the U.S. presence with 30,000 more troops, he escalated an unpopu-lar war that has seen few gains in its eight years.

Those new forces are still flow-ing in, and the first major cam-paign under Obama’s new strat-egy was launched last month, in the south. Although Afghanistan has been eclipsed recently by the contentious, cliffhanger health care debate, Obama’s daunting challenge has not gone away.

Obama must show Americans that the big infusion of U.S. troops, to reach a total of about 100,000 by summer, will be worth the additional loss of life. As Obama traveled to Afghanistan on Sunday for his first visit to the war zone as president, his aides made clear they understand the challenge and the importance of this year.

“This is really a strategic moment in the history of our involvement,” national security

adviser Jim Jones told report-ers aboard Air Force One dur-ing the covert overnight flight to Afghanistan.

Whether he was talking to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the presidential palace in Kabul or before 2,500 cheering American troops at Bagram Air Field about 50 miles away, the message during his six hours on the ground was the same: Afghan leaders, particularly Karzai, must step up now and make progress on old demands. Those include reducing corruption, ensuring the delivery of basic services to Afghans, providing true rule of law with an effective judicial system, turning away warlords and unqualified cronies from government positions and creat-ing an effective national police force and army. None of these exist in Afghanistan in any large measure.

“Our intent is to make sure that the Afghans have the capac-ity to provide for their own secu-rity. That is core to our mission,” Obama told the troops crammed into the cavernous tent known as the “clam shell.”

For if Afghan leaders can’t provide government that citi-zens can trust or security that can hold back Taliban and al-Qaida extremists, the U.S. can’t leave. As Obama said, letting the region backslide to the days before the U.S.-led, 2001 invasion ousted Taliban rulers that gave

safe haven to al-Qaida would put more American lives at stake.

“Make no mistake,” the president declared, “this fight matters.”

Obama said the U.S. would not quit in Afghanistan and would be a long-term partner with its leaders and people. But, in part to pressure Karzai and in part as a nod to sentiments about the war at home, he built a deadline into his December strategy over-haul, saying U.S. troops would start withdrawing in July 2011, only a year after the new infu-sion is fully in place. Polls show public opinion divided on the war, though a majority approve of how Obama is handling it.

At least 945 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan since the war’s start, according to an Associated Press

count. With the fight engaged more intensely now, the number killed in the first three months of this year has roughly doubled over the same period last year.

There have been initial mili-tary successes since Obama revamped the war.

Last month’s Marjah cam-paign in the southern Helmand province routed most Taliban fighters from a town they once controlled, without a high casu-alty toll for U.S. troops and the Afghan security forces fighting alongside them. Military offi-cials have lauded the results — cautiously. Fighting still rages across Afghanistan, any successes are still reversible and a key phase — bringing in an effective government and devel-opment so ordinary Afghans turn away from the Taliban — has barely begun.

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By Charles BabingtonThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee spent $1,946 last month at a sex-themed Hollywood club that features topless dancers and bondage outfits. Now the GOP wants its money back.

Listed in a monthly financial report, the amount is itemized as expenses for meals at Voyeur West Hollywood.

RNC spokesman Doug Heye said Monday the committee

doesn’t know the details of how the money was spent, all who may have attended or the nature of the outing, except to say it was an unauthorized event and that the expenditure was inappropriate.

The RNC will be reimbursed by Erik Brown of Orange, Calif., the donor-vendor who billed the com-mittee for the club visit, Heye said.

Brown did not respond to an e-mail and phone message seeking comment. The transaction was first reported by the Daily Caller.

Since November, the RNC has paid Brown’s company, Dynamic

Marketing Inc., about $19,000 for printing and direct-mail services, campaign spending reports show. He has contributed several thou-sand dollars to the party.

The RNC spent tens of thou-sands of dollars in February on private planes, car services and high-end hotels. The $1,946 for meals at Voyeur West Hollywood was the most eye-catching item in the monthly financial report.

RNC Chairman Michael Steele, whose spending decisions have angered some donors in this midterm election year, had

nothing to do with the Voyeur West Hollywood expenditure, Heye said.

The most recent financial dis-closure report said the RNC spent more than $17,000 for private planes in February and nearly $13,000 for car services. Heye said such services are used only when needed.

Some Republican officials and donors have complained about Steele’s spending decisions, say-ing the party should devote every available dollar to trying to win House and Senate races this fall.

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DIPLOMACY: President Barack Obama chats with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during the start of a dinner at the Presidential Palace in Kabul Afghanistan, March 28, 2010.

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Pena grew up hearing stories from her father’s experiences in Mexico and his move to the United States to work in the fields.

“I’ve always been passionate about Latino issues,” Pena said.

Pena’s father lived in difficult conditions in Mexico until he became a migrant worker in Ohio, where the conditions were still harsh, but good in compari-son.

The Latino civil rights move-ment has fought for clean drink-ing water, rest periods, protec-tive clothing and health benefits. These are many things a lot of us take for granted, Pena said.

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LSU looks to bring awareness to the University on Latino issues and to the Mexican American Cesar Chavez who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.

“In high school, we learn so much about African American civil rights movements, which is great, but it’s disappointing to me that we don’t learn much about Latino civil rights move-ments,” Pena said.

Planning committee mem-ber Lauren Higgins spent her summer working for the Texas Migrant Council as a social work-er for 35 families, and described the summer as a kind of catalyst for her activism.

“What I saw in the fields when we would go talk to the families was not too pleasing,” Higgins said. “All they wanted was water, a place to go to the bathroom and safe working conditions.”

LSU hopes more students learn about what Chavez did and the struggles people in migrant work face.

“We want people to come [and] donate blood, but we want peo-ple to know why we’re doing a blood drive,” planning commit-tee member Lauryn Vargas said.

“There’s a meaning behind it in honor of Cesar Chavez and his activism.”

People can register to donate at lifesharedonor.org using the code name BGSU, and anyone who donates will receive a free Chipotle burrito.

“Chavez gave his entire life to help workers that were treated unfairly,” Romero said. “If he was able to give up his life to improve the life of those who were struggling, then we should all be able to honor him by donating a pint of blood.”

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