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ummer is an excellent time to explore Seattle by bike. Situated near quirky Fremont and pristine Green Lake,

the University of Washington is an ideal launching point for a biking expedition. For the less intrepid, biking can simply be an alternative to navigating campus on foot. Whether you’re tentative about cycling, a seasoned cyclist or somewhere in between, here are some of the basics for successful biking at the UW.

Getting Into GearLocated a couple blocks from Lander Hall on Boat Street and Brooklyn Avenue Northeast, Recycled Cycles is a popular place to buy used and new bicycles. For approximately $200, you can purchase a decent pair of wheels.

“!eir sta" is super friendly and they have one of the wider selections of bikes,” said Taylor Leischman, member of the Husky Cycling Club.

Alternatively, Performance Bicycle on Northeast 45th Street and Roosevelt Way Northeast sells and repairs a large variety of bikes.

!e bicycle store Fluidride caters to mountain bikers. In addition to exclusively selling mountain bikes, they o"er biking lessons and host the Fluidride Cup.

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Pump It UpGetting low on air? If you purchased your bike at Recycled Cycles, they’ll fill your tires for free.

“!eir mechanic shop does everything from change a flat tire to overhaul an entire bike and they are typically pretty quick about it,” said Leischman.

!e student-run ASUW Bike Shop also specializes in biking accessories. !ey furnish equipment for students to perform their own repairs and provide an on-hand mechanic if do-it-yourself repairs go awry. Prices range from $3.69 for a tube replacement to $50 for a full tune-up.

Buying your own pump or other repair gear is another option for the do-it-yourself type.

!ere are also plenty of other bicycle stores within a few milesof campus.

Trekking the Burke-GilmanFor a quick jaunt, the Burke-Gilman trail allows easy access to local destinations.

Linking North and South campus, the trail provides an easy commute to Husky Stadium and the IMA virtually free from cars and intersections. What’s more, the trail extends well beyond the UW.

“It provides a cross-section of a large part of our city’s personality,” said Daniel Koski-Karell, president of the Husky Cycling Club.

!e westerly route stretches to Gas Works Park, where abandoned, rusty reservoirs stand sentry to a magnificent view of downtown Seattle and Lake Union on a clear day.

Further down the trail is the Fremont District, infamous for such funky features as the Fremont troll and Lenin statue. Fremont also has its share of delectable eateries.To the east, the Burke-Gilman Trail traverses University Village and reaches all the way north to Bothell. It encompasses a dispersion of beaches and parks along the way.

View Seattle from two wheels

PrecautionsWith bicycle theft rampant, it’s important to take some basic steps to prevent robbery.

First, buy a sturdy U-lock. !e bike racks scattered throughout campus are designed so that the U-lock can be looped through a bike’s front wheel and frame. !at way, your only liability will be your back wheel.

Second, go down to the Police Station on Boat Road and register your bike. !ey will give you a sticker to put in a conspicuous place in order to deter burglars from absconding with your ride.

Finally, remember while riding on the road, the same laws that apply to vehicle drivers apply to cyclists.

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HOMECOMING!e trees on campus turn into a brilliant orange and gold and as if on cue, UW students begin to turn purple and gold for Homecoming weekend. Homecoming begins Oct. 12 with the Dawg Dash as thousands of students gather to run or walk through the beautiful UW campus together. Other events include carnivals, competitions and games. !e main event is the homecoming football game; this year the Huskies will take on Oregon State. Tickets for the game are $30.

APPLE CUPIt’s the time of year when purple, gold, crimson and gray can be seen everywhere together. !e two largest universities in Washington, UW and WSU, meet together on the football field in a contest designed to prove that Huskies are superior to Cougars. !e annual game is century-old tradition that draws out the pride and spirit of each team. !is year’s game falls on Nov. 22 in WSU’s hometown of Pullman, Wash. Dawgs can take the Husky Express Bus for $35 or carpool over the mountains with friends. For information on how to purchase tickets for the Apple Cup, visit the Husky Ticket Information Web site.

GREEK WEEKEvery May, Greek Week brings together the UW’s fraternities and sororities to compete for the title of Greek Week champions. Some events are fun, including volleyball tournaments, team trivia, waterslide relays and a car cramming competition that stuffs as many participants as possible into a car. Other events, such as blood and clothing drives, are service-based.

RELAY FOR LIFE Grab a group of friends and camp out in Husky Stadium overnight to raise money to help fight cancer. Take turns walking, jogging or running around the track in this spring event. In 2008, the 174 UW teams raised $272,919.83 for the American Cancer Society.

U-DISTRICT STREET FAIRThe annual University District Street Fair fills the Ave, featuring mostly local crafts, music, arts and food. Street performers entertain with feats of strength (the classic tearing of phonebooks) and show off their agility skills through juggling. First started during the Vietnam War to lighten community tension, the Street Fair has now transformed into a weekend of fun and celebration. The fair usually begins the third weekend of May.

BITE OF ASIADuring spring quarter, booths filled with tasty Asian cuisine fill the HUB lawn. Sold at cheap prices, the tasty treats include cuisines from countries such as the Philippines, !ailand, China, Korea and Vietnam. Many of the booths are sta"ed by student organizations and cater food from local restaurants to provide UW students with an array of ethnic foods usually unavailable in the campus cafeterias.

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Olympic Sculpture Park

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!e Olympic Sculpture Park is located downtown next to the waterfront. !e park provides an open space where visitors can walk around and enjoy views of the Olympic Mountains, Puget Sound and the Space Needle while also perusing displays of outdoor art.

!e Goods» !e park opened in January 2007.» !e Seattle Art Museum chose to preserve downtown Seattle’s last undeveloped waterfront property by creating the nine-acre park.

Gas Works Park, on the north side of Lake Union, used to be a plant to manufacture gas from coal but now is a park that includes picnic shelters, a children’s barn play area and the remnants of the old factory.

!e Goods» On top of a grassy hill, the centerpiece of the park, you can catch a picturesque view of downtown Seattle.» On the Fourth of July, local residents pack into the park to watch fireworks above Lake Union.

Gas Works Park2101 N. Northlake Way

Green Lake Park is near campus and therefore easily accessible by bus or bike. You can walk around the lake, which is a 2.8-mile loop. !ere are also many facilities, including basketball and tennis courts as well as a community center with an indoor pool.

!e Goods» On a sunny day, rent a paddleboat for an hour. » !ere are many restaurants and cafés nearby the park.» !e park is a great place for people-watching. You are sure to see hundreds of joggers, bikers, swimmers and beachgoers on a warm, sunny weekend afternoon.Green Lake Park

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!e Goods» !e 534-acre park is the largest in Seattle.» !e park has much to o"er with many marked paths to explore as well as protected tidal beaches, open meadows and seaside cli"s.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2008 PAGE 5THE DAILY PENNSY LVANIAN

By KATIE KARAS Staff Writer

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As food prices increase nationwide, students and West Philadelpia residents are feeling the strain on their purse strings.

The price of many food staples, including milk, eggs and bread, rose drastically in 2007, resulting in higher prices at grocery stores and restaurants.

Overall, the average price of food rose at a rate of 5.3 percent for 2007 through the month of November, accord-ing to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In comparison, food prices rose just 2.4 per-cent during 2006.

The price of eggs rose by more than 36 percent from December 20 0 6 to 20 07.

Bread prices increased by 12.6 percent .

And some students have expressed outrage at the higher prices they face at lo-cal grocery stores.

An Engineering sophomore who did not want his name to be used has resorted to thiev-ery from the Fresh Grocer at 40th and Walnut streets to beat the price increases.

“If I think it’s overpriced and it fits in my pocket, I’m taking it,” he said. “I’m not paying $7 for a thimble-sized bottle of oregano.”

Other shoppers, like Ju-lie Micca, who lives on the 4200 block of Chestnut Street with her husband and two children, have taken less ex-treme measures.

Micca, who shops at Su-preme Supermarket on 43rd and Walnut streets, said she now clips coupons before going grocery shopping and looks for the cheapest item, rather than brand names.

“Instead of shopping with a menu in mind for the week, I base my dinners on what’s on sale,” she

said.Local restaurants are

also trying to cope with the price jump.

Rose Li , who is a manager at Cosi on 36th and Walnut Streets, said the restaurant has been forced to raise prices by a small amount in re-

sponse to the more expensive cost of ingredients, especially milk.

Despite the price increas-es, Business Services spokes-woman Barbara Lea-Kruger said students should not wor-ry that their meal plans will become more expensive this school year.

“Penn Dining is commit-ted to maintaining prices in all locations, including retail locations, for the re-mainder of the school year,” she said. Lea-Kruger did not say if any Penn Dining price increases would occur after this year.

Penn Dining’s partnership with Aramark, a dining-man-agement service, prevents short-term market f luctua-tions from impacting the price of meal plans.

National brands on cam-pus, however, such as Subway and Chick-Fil-A, may adjust their prices in response to changes in food costs.

Last year’s price increases have been precipitated by a number of international and domestic factors, explained Political Science professor Mary Summers , who teaches a class called The Politics of Food.

“We’ve based an entire food system on cheap corn and cheap soybeans from go v e r n me nt su b s i d i e s ,” Summers said, adding that government promotion of using corn in biofuels has a ltered t hat system a nd contr ibuted to food-pr ice increases.

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Sitter charged with murder

By DAVE COLLINSThe Associated Press

Julie Adkins-Gasque never worried when she spotted a fresh bruise on her one-year-old son. He just played rough with the baby sitter’s son, she thought.

Yet there was the working mom yesterday, burying her boy, Elijah Gasque, in a snow-cov-ered rural cemetery and trying to understand how he wound up with a fractured skull in the care of the 25-year-old sitter, Yalines Torres.

“What, did he cry too much for her? I don’t know why she would do it,” Adkins-Gasque said after the funeral. “I’m angry. I’m confused. I’m blank sometimes. I miss my son.”

A judge in Hartford arraigned Torres on a murder charge yes-terday and set her bail at $1 million in the child’s death last weekend. Torres told investiga-tors his head smacked a door frame as she ran around with him slung over her shoulder in a sleeping bag.

A family friend, Mayra Velazquez, said she was stunned by the arrest.

“She’s a good mother,” Velazquez said. “She takes care of her kids.”

Adkins-Gasque, 23, said she met Torres two months ago through a friend and asked her to watch her son as much as five days a week. She noticed fresh bruises on him four or five times, but she said Torres told her Eli-jah sometimes fought with her son over toys.

“I thought she was letting her son get out of control,” Adkins-Gasque said. “I thought that’s just the way it was.”

Last Thursday, Elijah came home with a fresh bruise on his forehead, his mother said. But she left her son with at Torres’ apartment in Hartford again Friday because she had to work and couldn’t find or afford a dif-ferent sitter.

According to a police report, Torres called Adkins-Gasque at her job at a fast-food restaurant that night and told her that Elijah had a seizure.

By FRANK ELTMANThe Associated Press

For months, the nurses com-plained that they were subject to demeaning and unfair work-ing conditions — not what they were promised when they came to America from the Philip-pines in search of a better life. So they abruptly quit.

But in doing so, they put more than their careers at

risk: Prosecutors hit them with criminal charges for allegedly jeopardizing the lives of termi-nally ill children they were in charge of watching.

The 10 nurses and the at-torney who advised them were charged with conspiracy and child endangerment in what defense lawyers say is an un-precedented use of criminal law in a labor dispute. If con-victed of the misdemeanor of-

fenses, they face up to a year in jail on each of 13 counts, and could lose their nursing licenses and be deported.

The case has unfolded against the backdrop of a chronic nursing shortage in the United States. All of the de-fendants were from the Philip-pines, which exported 120,000 nurses last year.

One defendant was a doctor back home and a top scorer on

the country’s medical board exams, but decided it was more lucrative to be a nurse in the United States. Others had re-spectable medical jobs back home and viewed their work in New York as a dream come true.

“Coming to the United States is like the fulfillment of your nursing career,” said Maria Theresa Ramos, who arrived on Long Island in 2004.

Filipino nurses may face criminal charges

Connecticut cops accuse a babysitter of abusing and murdering a one-year-old

Bob Child/AP PhotoYalines Torres, the babysitter, sits in her arraignment for the murder of the 18-month old child that was in her care.

NEW YORK

NYSE acquires rival Am. Stock Exchange

NEW YORK CITY (AP) — The New York Stock Ex-change agreed yesterday to buy the American Stock Exchange, ending a once in-tense rivalry that began in colonial times when brokers traded in outdoor markets.

Both exchanges have bat-tled for corporate listings and bragging rights since the early 1900s, with their trading f loors just a short walk away from one another in Lower Manhattan. News-papers around the country all listed the stock swings on the nation’s two dominant mar-kets, until investors began paying more attention in the 1990s to technology issues on the upstart Nasdaq Stock Market.

Their evolution took a very different path — with the Big Board forming NYSE Eu-ronext to become the world’s first trans-Atlantic exchange.

ILLINOIS

Warrant issued to seek sender of text

CHICAGO (AP) — Au-thorities investigating the disappearance of a former suburban Chicago police of-ficer’s wife have obtained a warrant seeking information to identify who sent a racy text message to her cell phone.

Drew Peterson’s attorney, Joel Brodsky, said yesterday that a message sent to Stacy Peterson’s cell phone in Sep-tember shows she was having an affair and lends credence to Drew Peterson’s contention she left him for another man.

“This is obviously sent by a lover of Stacy prior to her disappearance. Drew did not send it,” Brodsky said.

LOUISIANA

New Orleans police move headquarters

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After a trying year of more than 200 murders and a rise in crime, at least police once again have a permanent place to call home.

The New Orleans Police Department, which has oper-ated out of trailers in the 2½ years since Hurricane Ka-trina, dedicated a renovated headquarters yesterday that brings its major components back under one roof.

Crime has become a lead-ing concern for local govern-ment and business leaders trying to attract investment, boost tourism and reassure residents that the city is on the mend.

The move to a permanent headquarters coincides with what Mayor Ray Nagin be-lieves is a crucial time in the city’s recovery. It “sends the signal that the criminal jus-tice system is back,” he said.

TEXAS

U.S. fugitives f lee, escape execution

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A drug dealer who gunned down a deputy during a traffic stop in Southern California. A man in Arizona who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents and brother and snatched his children. A man who suffocated his baby daughter and left her body in a toolbag on an expressway overpass near Chicago.

Ordinarily, these would be death penalty cases. But these men fled to Mexico, thereby escaping execution.

The reason: Mexico refuses to send anyone back to the United States unless the U.S. gives assurances it won’t seek the death penalty.

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THEY SAID IT“We know that we’re not gonna outscore people, so we have to get stops.”

Cameron Lewis Penn forwardQUAKERSGAMEDAY

PENN-ST. JOE’SWHEN: Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m .WHERE: The Palestra TELEVISION: CN8 RADIO: None

■ THE RECORDALL-TIME RECORD: St. Joe’s leads, 43-33. The Hawks won an 84-74 de-cision at the Palestra last year, using a punishing inside game to take over down the stretch.

■ THE EDGEThe Quakers face off against the Hawks — who’s got the advantage?

OFFENSE: No question here. The Hawks aver-age nearly 75 points per game; when the Quakers aren’t turning it over, they can’t seem to shoot.

Advantage: ST. JOE’S

REBOUNDING: St. Joe’s has three solid rebound-ers in Pat Calathes , Ahmad Nivins and Rob Ferguson . Penn doesn’t have that depth up front.


DEFENSE: St. Joe’s has a defensive specialist in Ferguson, but the Quak-ers have been better on defense of late.

Advantage: PENN

COACHING: Phil Martelli is a demigod in the Big 5 and his team is over-achieving; Glen MIller hasn’t gotten much out of his older players.


OVERALL: This is a game St. Joe’s has to have if it wants to snag a coveted at-large bid. If Harrison Gaines’ (possible) return can mix things up, Penn has a shot. But don’t count on it.


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good so it’s going to be a team effort to keep them off the glass,” Lewis said. “We’ll prob-ably run some double teams at Nivins, I imagine.”

The University of Massa-chusetts found out what can happen if Nivins is left one-on-one deep in the post. Last week, he lit up the Minute-men for 31 points and 12 re-bounds .

The Quakers’ improvement may suit them against Nivins and Calathes, but it was Penn’s lack of ability to stop guards getting in the lane that was its downfall on Tuesday.

“We allowed too much pen-etration off the dribble,” Penn coach Glen Miller said of his team’s 62-58 loss. “And our big guys overreacted and stepped up too high, which led to some easy baskets down low.”

But at least the Red and Blue may not have to deal with starting point guard Tasheed Carr, who has averaged 11.8 points per game. The junior sprained his ankle Monday night and didn’t make the trip for the Hawks’ game at Char-lotte Wednesday. He is listed as questionable for tomorrow’s game.

Also questionable is one of Penn’s point guards, Har-rison Gaines . The freshman — who missed several games over winter break — re-in-jured his hamstring in the win over NJIT and sat out the loss against La Salle.

Miller was not sure yester-day if Gaines would be able to practice, but said it was still a possibility that he would get some playing time tomor-row.

In the games that he did play, Gaines was inconsistent

but managed to spark the Quakers. He also did a good job of taking care of the ball, something unexpected for a freshman.

Whether Gaines returns or not, the Quakers’ point guard play will have to improve. Backups Kevin Egee and Aron Cohen have not stepped up, and Penn has averaged nearly 19 turnovers per game — far too many if the Quakers hope to stay with the Hawks.

“We don’t have much mar-gin for error, so we can’t have turnovers,” Miller said.

“We have to change sides of the floor more on offense and just be efficient with our pass-ing.”

Yet the biggest obstacle the Penn needs to overcome may be its own collective mental-ity. The disappointment of the season has taken its toll on the team.

“I think guys are a little down right now, maybe lack-ing a little confidence,” captain Brian Grandieri said.

“I think we definitely can beat [the Hawks] and I hope guys understand we can.”

M. HOOPS from page B1

Lewis: Nivins double-team in gameplan

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Kevin Egee drives against the Hawks’ Ahmad Nivins at the Palestra last season. This year, the 6-foot-10 Nivins is second on St. Joe’s with 14.6 points per game. Egee, meanwhile, has struggled, with just 25 points on .233 shooting in 14 contests.

Standings

Big 5 Overall Last 5

Villanova 3-0 12-3 3-2

La Salle 1-1 6-9 2-3

St. Joseph’s 0-0 9-5 4-1

Temple 0-1 7-8 2-3

PENN 0-2 5-10 2-3

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By RACHEL BAYE Staff Writer

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The restoration of the fence surrounding the Quadrangle has faced many hurdles as Facilities and Real Estate Services work to maintain historical accuracy.

The fence, which has sur-rounded the Quad since the first phase of its construction in 1880, is “historically sig-nificant,” Facilities interim managing director Mariette Buchman said.

Both the fence and the Quad itself are historic landmarks

officially rec-og n i ze d by t he c i t y o f Philadelphia.

The project was started late last sum-mer a nd is projected to be completed no later than graduation .

“This is a project that

Facilities and Business Ser-vices have had their eye on for a number of years,” said Buchman.

Facilities has been careful to arrange the construction schedule so that students feel minimal disruption. For ex-ample, no construction was done during reading days or finals last semester.

Still, many students have

complained about construc-tion noises disrupting their early morning sleep.

College freshman and Ware College House resident Tzve-tomir Peev said that last se-mester he was often awoken as early as seven or eight in the morning.

But for the most part, stu-dents are tolerant of the con-struction.

“I wish it wasn’t there,” said Fisher-Hassenfeld resident and Engineering and Wharton freshman Issei Suzuki, “but it’s not that big of a problem.”

The fence is composed of brick, topped by limestone caps. Wrought iron emerges from the limestone.

Buchman explained that too much of the fence was dete-riorating, so they needed to restore it.

But she added that they are trying to use as much of the original materials as possible to remain historically accu-rate.

“We counted on being able to reuse some of it,” Buchman said.

“We were able to salvage enough brick to do the front face all the way around the Quad,” said David Pancoe, Facilities project manager for the fence.

However, he added that on the back of the fence they substituted newer bricks that matched the color of the older ones.

Buchman explained that because of its historical sig-nificance, every minute detail of its restoration had to be ap-proved by the city.

“We complete a small sec-

tion and then cannot proceed until we receive this approv-al,” Business Services spokes-woman Barbara Lea-Kruger wrote in an e-mail.

Since the Quad was con-

structed in three sections — with three different colors of mortar — Pancoe had to use the same three colors of mortar in different parts of the fence.

“You apply the latest tech-nolog y,” sa id Un iversit y Landscape architect Bob Lun-dgren, “but you really have to match exactly what the build-ing looks like.”

Hundred-year-old Quad fence well into restoration process

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The historic brick fence outside the Quad is currently being restored by the University. Strict efforts have been made to ensure that the construction complies with city requirements for restoring historic sites. Noise has been an issue for Quad residents.

Penn Facilities works with Philly to ensure historical accuracy during construction

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BurglaryJan. 15 — A male student

reported that an unknown suspect entered his secured home on the 400 block of 41st Street and removed electronic gaming equipment at about 9:45 a.m.

TheftJan. 14 — A female student

reported that an unknown suspect broke her vehicle’s passenger side window and removed an I-pod from her cup holder on the 200 block of 41st St. at about 10 p.m.

Jan. 14 — A female Univer-sity employee reported that an unknown suspect entered her unsecured vehicle and took her purse from the parking garage located at 40th and Walnut Streets at about 9 a.m.

Jan. 14 — Steven Scott, 36, of the 2400 block of Catherine Street, was arrested after a fe-male student reported that she observed an offender break her vehicle’s rear window and remove a laptop from the back seat on the 3600 block of Chest-nut Street at about 3:55 p.m.

Jan. 15 — A male student reported that an unknown suspect removed his com-puter from a secured room in Meyerson Hall, located at 210 S. 34th St.

Jan. 15 — Currency was reported to have been taken from two copy-card vending machines in the Schattner Building, located at 240 S. 40th St., at about 2:30 p.m.

Jan. 16 — A male employee reported that an unknown suspect removed both rims and tires from his unsecured bicycle by Stemmler Hall, lo-cated at 3450 Hamilton Walk, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Jan. 16 — A female Univer-sity employee reported that an unknown suspect removed her unattended purse from an unsecured room at the Labora-tory for Research and Struc-ture of Matter, located at 3231

Walnut St., at about 3:50 p.m. Jan. 17 — Two females un-

affiliated with the university reported that their unattended purses were taken from a win-dowsill at Cavanaughs, locat-ed at 119 S. 39th St., at about 2 a.m.

Jan. 17 — A male employee reported that an unknown sus-pect removed clothing items from an unsecured locker room and electronic items from an unsecured media room in the Palestra, located at 220 S. 32nd St., at about 11:20 a.m.

NarcoticsJan. 15 — Ahrmand Drake,

26, unaffiliated with the uni-versity, was arrested by Penn police for being in possession of a green leafy substance within his vehicle.

-Elizabeth Rubin

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to trends in bundling textbooks with supplements, such as CDs and workbooks, and releasing frequent new editions.

Some critics say such extras and revisions are unnecessary.

But publishers say they are responding to demand.

Hildebrand said that book supplements expand classroom

capabilities and improve perfor-mance despite their high cost.

And some professors have to-tally done away with textbooks.

Statistics professor Paul Sha-man said he began opting for fac-ulty-produced packets and online notes instead of books about 20 years ago.

“My motivation was I couldn’t find a textbook that I liked,” Sha-man said. “It had the added ben-

efit of lower cost.”Lea- Kruger and Row said pro-

fessors can help students save money by ordering books early, which allows time for stores to make used versions available.

Row added that today’s text-book business causes headaches for all sides.

“It’s not like anybody’s making a killing,” he said. “It’s an all-out war where everybody is losing.”

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ment of new faculty members” is something that the Senate Faculty committee is examin-ing, Provost Ron Daniels said.

While the prospect of a self-disclosure policy discouraging candidates from applying for a faculty position at Penn re-mains a concern, there is little evidence to suggest it would.

Whether self-disclosure will effect the University’s ability to recruit new faculty would be “speculative,” Faculty Sen-

ate Chairman Larry Gladney said.

“There exist other colleges with self-disclosure policies, but we don’t have the informa-tion,” on its recruiting impact, he added.

The University of Wisconsin instated a self-disclosure and background-check policy for potential faculty members last spring, after the university dis-covered that three professors were convicted felons.

Wisconsin also considered the issue of faculty recruitment before requiring disclosure and background checks, but says the policy is too new to evaluate its effect.

“It remains too early to tell” whether the policy impacts the recruitment of faculty, Univer-sity of Wisconsin-Madison Hu-

man Resources Director Mark Walters said.

The extent to which faculty recruitment may be affected at Penn hinges on the decisions made by the Faculty Senate on how the issue will be handled.

“It’s hard to know whether this will have a negative effect on recruitment,” said Jonathan Knight , director of the depart-ment of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Governance for the American Association of Uni-versity Professors . “But it all depends on what you’re being asked to sign and how the ad-ministration administers it.”

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There are over 250 rac-es at this year’s Penn Relays, but you ought to focus on a two-foot

pool of water.The crowd starts form-

ing when they pour the first drop. It’ll balloon into the thousands. (Get there early. There’re only so many seats around a puddle.)

Not sold? Sure, you’re laughing now. By the end of day one, you’ll have watched 10 hours of races. Most of them have names like “High School Girls Championship of America 4x400-meter Suburban Group A, Subheat C.”

If you’re not pining for something different, you’re either lying or being paid not to. Or both.

Besides, there’s more. In front of the puddle stands - wait for it - a three-foot hurdle.

Thrilling, I know.

* * *The steeplechase really is

that simple. It’s 3,000 meters - just over seven laps, with five hurdles per lap. The puddle, or “pit,” sits right after the lap’s last hurdle. Ideally, run-ners propel off the hurdle and fly over the puddle.

Only the springiest suc-ceed; most are destined for a wet landing.

Fans encourage the latter. As the runners approach, the crowd begins a monotonic chant. The pack gets closer; the fans get louder. When the leaders hit the hurdle, the noise reaches a deafening crescendo, like the opening kickoff in football. “Ohhhhh-OH!!”

Dozens of cleats return to Earth. Splashing ensues, a photographer’s dream. The gallery - probably as involved as it will be all weekend - roars its approval.

Most of it, anyway. A spectator at this month’s Penn Invitational was un-impressed. “That’s all it is?” she asked, assessing her cell phone camera’s blurry output.

That’s all it is. Nothing else

needed.* * *

The race is really a giant accident. A 19th-century cross-country course at Ox-ford led runners over stone walls and small creeks. The obstacles just happened to catch on. Athletic facilities have improved since then, but apparently nobody’s told the NCAA or the Olympics.

No surprise, then, that it’s the bastard child of track events. At many schools, it’s the domain of those who couldn’t crack it at 5,000 or 10,000 meters.

The steeplechase demands real versatility: a jumper’s technique, a distance run-ner’s endurance, a middle dis-tance runner’s pace. But few high schools even run it, so few recruits come ready for it.

Penn’s best steeplechaser, Alejandro Shepard, was no exception. He learned from watching the Olympics on TV.

“I pretty much went to coach [Charlie] Powell and said ‘I’d like to give the stee-plechase a shot.’ And he said ‘sure.’”

Shepard has since come within three seconds of an NCAA regional qualifying time.

But like Shepard, many of the guys in tomorrow eve-ning’s lineup were not dream-ing of the steeplechase when they signed up for track.

Inexperienced runners in a treacherous event: sounds like a tailor-made disaster.

In truth, nothing could be better.

* * *If we wanted people to play

the right notes every time, we would stay home and listen to Beethoven.

The steeplechase is not Beethoven. It is Slipknot: loud, chaotic, visceral - and extremely compelling.

Put up enough hurdles, and even the best athletes fatigue.

Five laps in, a man who could once clear the puddle may be getting his heels wet.

The trough is sloped from deep to shallow, swimming-pool style. It creates a reward structure: The more distance you cover with your leap, the less grimy water you have to thrash your way out of.

For the weary runner, it’s no metaphor: you find your-self in deeper and deeper.

Guys burn out. They stumble. They drop two, three minutes back, or drop out entirely. A few may slip in the water, victims of the crowd’s chant: “Fall! Fall! Fall!”

And this ain’t the 100-me-ters. They are running, slosh-ing and jumping for eight to nine minutes, minimum. Usually more. When the bell for the final lap sounds, some

don’t look like they can even make it to a hurdle, let alone jump one.

That’s why the crowd sur-rounding that puddle is so big and the opening-kickoff roar so loud. For the first time all day, the Relays will offer something that’s not quite so polished: A bunch of guys stumbling around a track, looking decidedly imperfect, pushing themselves beyond the limit.

Besides, it’s steeplechase! None of them even knows what the limit is.

Sebastien Angel, Mass. Acadmey of Math and Sciences ‘05, is a rising senior Political Science major from Worcester, Mass., and is former Sports Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. His e-mail address is [email protected].

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Texas’ student leaders plan to convince legislators to support laws they believe to be in students’ best interest — like the Toward EXcellence, Access and Success Grant, commonly known as the TEXAS Grant.

The Texas Student Association is comprised of college students from 13 state universities. TSA has been dormant, but Student Congress President Travis Boren said it usually revives around legislative years.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board proposed changes to the TEXAS Grant, but it must be approved by the legislature, Financial Aid Director Karen Krause said.

The grant was for financial needs only, as long as students graduated from the recommended curriculum, she said. Now students must pass two out of four standards. They must have graduated from a distinguished high school curriculum or international baccalaureate, be in the top third of their graduating class, score a 1,590 on the SAT or 23 on the ACT or have a 3.0 high school GPA.

She said there are 799 TEXAS Grant recipients at the university this semester. This is a typical level, and she said it could go down by half if this rule is made law.

Boren said SC has not made any formal endorsements and would not until it went to a vote, which would only happen if it were deemed in the university’s and system’s best interest.

“We definitely want to look at it from a system or statewide view,” he said.

TSA will meet again in January prior to the 81st legislature.

— Jason Boyd

Lecture to address new tech to improve prosthetics

A lecture on “Nano and Bio Contributions to Advanced Neurointerfacing” will take place at 3:30 p.m. today in 105 Nedderman Hall.

Bioengineering Associate Professor Mario Romero-Ortega will lecture on a biosynthetic implant that he and his associates have developed. The implant can repair gap injuries and allows for peripheral axon regeneration. The device will enable people to potentially have higher control over prosthetic limbs.

Thanh Bui, Nano Fab administrative assistant, said that. If time permits, Romero-Ortega will answer questions after the speech.

Bui said people interested in the subject are already attending, but anyone can come and attend for free.

“Most people know about it and are interested in it,” Bui said.

The event takes place as part of the Nanotechnology Facility lecture series.

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A student was issued a disciplinary referral Wednesday for jumping the Arlington Hall south fence.

A staff member reported losing his San Disk on Thursday at the Business Building.

A student reported his motorcycle helmet stolen Thursday at the Chemistry and Physics Building.

A student reported a bicycle theft Wednesday at Timber Brook apartments.

A student reported that a man was making rude comments toward him Saturday at Meadow Run apartments.

An officer was dispatched Sunday for a report of an assault involving two students at Maple Square apartments.

A student required medical assistance Sunday at Kalpana Chawla Hall. EMS responded and treated the student.

An officer responded to a fire Sunday at Oak Landing apartments. The Arlington Fire Department responded and determined there was minimal damage.

Friday’s editorial, “Style over Substance,” should have stated that the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington has already been scheduled to host the NCAA Final Four.

“If you engage someone with the university as a student, it’s easier to

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Taking An Active RoleStudent organizes a campus watch program

to combat crimeBY SARAH LUTZ

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Instead of silently standing by while crime intrudes the campus, Meshach Buoye decided to do something.

The biology sophomore started a Resident Assistant Crime and Safety Committee Campus Watch chapter at the university. The committee’s first event will be a campus mixer at 8 tonight in Arlington Hall.

Buoye said because the organization is in the early stages, the mixer will focus on recruitment and there will be a sign-up sheet for anyone interested in joining and open to students living on campus.

“Once we get some people then we can get something started,” he said. “Even if we can’t get all the residents halls at once, then we can at least build up from here.”

Buoye said the committee will work like a neighborhood watch by using students, faculty and staff as a resource for preventing criminal activity.

“I remember last year there was a lot of crime going on on campus, and I thought it would be a good idea to get this started,” he said. “To be honest, I just wanted to get more involved this year.”

As a resident assistant, Buoye’s role would be different than a police officer, because he can reach out to students easier as an RA.

Buoye said that Paul Kastner, the university police’s crime prevention specialist, gave Buoye the idea to start the committee, and in the future, he will teach members how to run the campus watch.

“We could give them training on how to ID people, what to look for so that they could call us if they notice anything out of the

ordinary,” he said. “It’s based on neighborhood watch and it does work … right now our campus looks like a target for some people that aren’t very good.”

Kastner said the police department is reaching out to social organizations and residence halls to make the campus safer.

“If we had a chapter in each residence hall and each organization, then we could pretty much lock down this campus and make it safer for everybody,” Kastner said. “If we had everybody watching everybody’s back

it would make the campus a lot tougher and a lot safer.”Assistant Police Chief Rick Gomez said the expansion of the

campus crime watch committee is part of university police’s ongoing crime prevention process.

“We just want to get more people involved ... watching out for one another and just watching our campus,” he said. “Hopefully if they see anything suspicious they’ll report it to the police department.”

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The 14th annual Film and Video Festival attract-ed producers, college stu-dents and high school stu-dents to the Mass Media and Technology Hall auditorium this week to watch cutting-edge and fresh films created by Emmy-winning filmmak-ers and students.

The four-day film and video festival, hosted by the School of Journalism and Broadcasting, brings filmmakers and Western students together to show a variety of films ranging from comedy and documentaries to experimental films, short films and music videos.

High school students from Tennessee and Kentucky also participated in their own ver-sion of the festival that ended Wednesday. Their films were screened the week before by senior broadcasting students and then showcased. The finalists came to Western on Wednesday to receive awards

for their work.Lexington senior Jon

Peacock attended on Tuesday to see “Uncounted,” a film about uncounted votes during the presidential election, pro-duced by Nashville filmmaker David Earnhardt.

Peacock said that it was good that other filmmakers came to showcase their work.

“It gives you a sense that people more than students are out here doing stuff like that,” Peacock said. “And no matter what you do, there’s career opportunities for you.”

Ronald DeMarse, assistant professor of journalism and broadcasting and who helped organize the festival, brought in speakers. Filmmakers who were former Western students, or had connections to Western, were invited to share their films, he said.

DeMarse thinks that the film festival is a great chance for students to show off their work as well.

“It seems like Hollywood or a film industry profession is

unattainable,” DeMarse said. “But it shows that we can do this stuff.”

Hunter Curry, a junior from Georgetown, Ind., helped pro-mote the festival. Curry thinks that the festival is a great ave-nue for students to be creative.

“I think through this indus-try we can express things in a different way as an art form,” Curry said. “I think it’s more about the creation thing.”

Curry also thinks the rea-son why students submit their films is more than just to get noticed.

“Now that we’re more grown up, we don’t have time to imagine like kids do,” he said. “It’s good for students to imagine and create.”

The awards ceremony is at 7 p.m. tonight in the Mass Media and Technology Hall audito-rium. The short films that are nominated will be shown and door prizes will be given out before the ceremony begins.

Reach Stevie Mattos at [email protected].

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Students learn from Emmy-winning filmmakersSTEVIE MATTOSHerald reporter

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His conversion was a slow process because he had appre-hension about going to hell. He believes in an afterlife, so that eased him into the new faith.

But Gillock still goes to church with his family occa-sionally out of respect for his former faith and family mem-bers. They also respect his deci-sion to switch to a religion that fits his beliefs more.

“I have an appreciation for nature and want to respect it,” he said. “So I wanted a religion that was more natural, and in more of a natural element.”

Wiccan followers don’t have set rules. They choose what works for them spiritu-ally, unless it harms others, as Wiccans are strong believers in karma, according to www.wicca.com.

Wiccans believe in two main higher powers, Lord and Lady, that show both male and female forms of divinity. Wicca is an earth-based religion that is open-minded to all forms of life and celebrate diversity and considers all to be children of the same mother.

Eric Bain-Selbo, head of the philosophy and religion depart-ment, said many people change their religions because they question prior beliefs formed through childhood.

“The religion switch has a lot to do with the matter of community,” Bain-Selbo said. “It can be seen as one goes through the educational system because people ask more ques-tions. When you’re in college, you can question things more deeply.”

Gillock questioned his own Christian faith once he learned more about Paganism. He said that most of the rituals that Christians perform were taken from early Paganism and other religious traditions and altered to fit a Christian message.

“I found out that Christmas came from another holiday, Yule, but they twisted the details and said it was Jesus’ birthday,” he said. “Things like that made me realize that I couldn’t relate to that anymore.”

The religion switch can also be attributed to the social mobility of society, Bain-Selbo said.

Jiaqi Li, a grad-uate student from Shenyang, China, made a conver-sion from atheism to Christianity after moving to Bowling Green. And like Gillock, found beliefs that fit him better.

“I would go to the temples in China and talk to monks, but I did not feel I could have that life,” Li said. “I used to be easily tempt-ed by money, sex and power, but now I do not need those things, and I can help more people feel comfort.”

Li converted to Christianity once he joined the Baptist Campus Ministry to meet more people. A few of his friends told him about Christ and he felt comforted by the fundamentals of Christianity.

“I was going through things in my life that I didn’t know

how to handle and I needed help,” he said. “I love reading the scripture. God is your way, your life and your direction.”

Bain-Selbo said that religion switches also occur in society because of the need to have choice and freedom. Religion seems to be a “consumer product.”

“Religion seems to be prod-uct and can be purchased when-ever,” he said. “It is like when

you buy Wonder Bread and you find another type of bread you like. You do not have a strong connec-tion to that bread, so you can pur-chase the other.”

Humans are not narrowly defined by their religious beliefs and can make a switch eas-ily in a society that is increas-ingly secular and scientific. This may explain the drop of a religion altogether, Bain-Selbo said.

Gillock will never forget his childhood reli-gion and has respect for other

faiths. Yet he doesn’t miss the rules and won’t turn back.

“I think back on my life before Wicca and I don’t miss that part of my life that much,” he said. “(Christianity) was how I was raised, therefore I respect that faith and I am glad to have the support of my friends and family that understand that my conversion is much more me.”

Reach Jill Erwin at [email protected].

Faith

“I think back on my life before Wicca and I don’t miss that part of my life that much. (Christianity) was how I was raised, therefore I respect that faith and I am glad to have the support of my friends and family that understand that my conversion is much more me.”

— Chip Gillock Franklin sophomore

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With the progress came a price increase to four cents in 1942.

Mack wrote: “We are very sorry to have to go up on the price, but the war is making the price of paper go up a lot.”

As World War II escalated, the paper ended. The last issue went out on Sept. 12, 1942.

“I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did,” Mack said. “I was getting the money, the graham crackers and the Milky Way bars.”

Mack still loves graham crackers and Milky Way bars, he said.

He used some of the money from the Tom-Tom to buy a receiver and transmitter at an appliance store in Nashville.

“Mack would sit and listen to the radio,” Dick said. “He brags about listening to Hitler.”

Mack became fascinated with languages and world leaders.

“My mother would always ask me, ‘When do you get tired of listening to that bull?’” Mack said.

And he continued to come up with business ideas, Dick said.

“My father told me, ‘You do have all four brain cells operating,’” Mack said.

Beginning in 1946, Mack showed movies in different locations and auditoriums. He’d rent black and white films, pop popcorn beforehand, set up a screen and a projector and sell tickets.

“The people loved it,” Dick said.

Mack called it the traveling movie. From this plan, Dick said Mack came up with the idea of the drive-in theater. But it didn’t go anywhere.

“Mack always took the lead,” Dick said. “He could have been a multimillionaire.”

But it wasn’t the money that drove Mack.

“My father told me, ‘You gotta work for your money,’ and I said, ‘How?’ He said, ‘Whatever you want,’” Mack said.

Mack had the ideas, Dick said.

Dick visits him once every two weeks.

Last year, Dick visited Mottley in Albertville and stayed a couple of nights.

“We reminisced, we ate,” Dick said. “They made a reservation at a motel for me, but when I got there, I found out they had already paid for it, too. We went out to eat the next night and I told the waiter, ‘Bring me the bill.’ It turned out (Mottley’s son) Joe had already paid for it in advance.”

Their friendship has endured, as does their fondness for the simple things in life.

“And as I was leaving Albertville, Mottley gave me some tomatoes that he had picked himself the day before,” Dick said. “And he apologized because some of them might not be as good as when they were picked. But some of them were still good.”

Reach Ryan W. Hunton at [email protected].

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The childhood home of Mack and Dick Lee, where the Tom-Tom was printed.

Many houses that line the streets leading to the down-town square have history.

Some are barely standing to tell it.

On Chestnut Street, St. James Apartments will be closed soon for mass renova-tion.

Some are still going strong.

At 1149 State St., the dark red brick, two-story Victorian house stands with a porch and a balcony wrapping around the right. An octagonal tower with bay windows is on the left. Above the attic is a green steel roof.

The house was built in 1890 by T.C. Mitchell. His name and the year are engraved into the red brick beside the front door.

This is the house that the Lee family lived in from 1934 to 1940. Dick Lee, 77, published a newspaper there about 70 years ago with his brother and his friend.

It was called The Tom-Tom.

The hecto-graph that they used was in the front hall, beside the par-lor.

Now there is a barris-ter bookcase. George and Jane Morris live and work inside the house.

“Jane and I wanted to do a historic restoration,” George Morris said.

Moving “one room at a time,” the Morris’ have gut-ted, rebuilt, painted and wall-papered. It can take up to five months to finish a single room, Jane Morris said.

George Morris said that over the years, he and Jane have learned how to divide the tasks.

George Morris does the construction work and heavy lifting.

“I want to modernize and fix it up while keeping the look,” he said.

Jane Morris does the paint-ing and stenciling.

She said she wants to reinvent the house’s original Victorian style, so she stencils remnants of the wall design before.

The Morris’ have gathered pictures and memorabilia from past owners and decorated the parlor.

One postcard from 1905

shows the 15-year-old house on the left. State Street was a dirt road. Across the street, where the Bell South building stands behind sidewalk, there were once trees and yards.

It’s one of a few houses still standing today, George Morris said. It’s a quality house.

The framing and the floor are built out of poplar and red oak, hardwoods. George Morris said houses today are usually built out of soft-wood plywood, of pine and spruce.

“The cost of materials to reproduce this house makes it difficult,” he said.

The house is a historic landmark of Bowling Green.

The Morris’ have won awards for their work — the Jean Thomason Award for Historic Restoration and the Operation Pride Award.

Outside of the house, Jane Morris is an office assistant in the Career Services Center at Western; George Morris is a self-employed contractor specializing in historic resto-ration, which explains why they moved into the house 12

years ago.“We wanted

this house, but it wasn’t in the market,” George Morris said.

Despite its sta-tus, George Morris said a customer at his antique shop told him to con-tact Lena Ellis, the previous owner.

When he did, Ellis told him that

the couple that was going to buy it canceled.

“It was kind of like fate put us in this house,” George Morris said.

When George and Jane Morris first moved in, he said they were on “the 10-year plan.”

“Now we’re on the ‘15-year plan,’” he said.

George Morris said the condition was what contrac-tors call “elegant squalor.”

“It was worn out,” he said.But George and Jane

Morris said they have come a long way. They hope to have the house done in three years. When they finish the house, Jane Morris said they will put up an iron fence in the front and back yards, like it used to have.

“Then we will just enjoy it for a while,” George Morris said.

Reach Ryan W. Hunton at [email protected].

RYAN W. HUNTONHerald reporter

If walls could talk:Family renovates historical home on State Street

“It was kind of like fate put us in this house.”

— George Morris homeowner

Mack Lee, 13, 1149 State St., created a paper of his own, The Tom-Tom.



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(Top right) Charlie Caspar, 11, of Joppa, Ala., lays with his new helper dog, which he and his mother, Ginny Patterson, traveled to Brownsville to get from trainer Tammy Staten. Caspar, who has mild autism, will use the dog to help him stay on track and not wan-der away from his home.

(Above left) Girls from Brownsville Missionary Baptist Church participate in an Easter egg hunt at their church following the service. Community events are a big part of the entertainment for Brownsville.

(Above right) Located on the west side of Mammoth Cave National Park, Brownsville offers many outdoor activities to residents and visitors. During the warmer months, Brownsville gets tourists from the park who visit their stores and restaurants, which is easily noticed in this rural town of only 1,200.

(Left) Retired janitor Dale Smith fishes for muskie on the Green River. Smith credits the fish’s elusiveness to why he has not caught one in more than a year. However, this doesn’t discourage him. Smith still comes out for a couple of hours every morning to try and catch a muskie.

(Above middle) Former Edmonson County attorney and self-pro-claimed mountain man, “Natty Bumppo,” moved to Brownsville more than 30 years ago from Chicago, seeking a simpler way of life. Bumppo built his own home and law office at the top of a hill outside of town. Although he no longer works for the county, he still practices law privately.

(Above) Dakota Roff, a student at Brownsville’s 5/6 Center, partic-ipates in the school’s second annual life-sized chess tournament. The event, which was started by Stephanie Raymer, a sixth grade math teacher at the school, was designed to get the kids more interested in chess.

Photos by NATHAN MORGAN

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Brownsville, located in Edmonson County, is a 30-minute drive from Bowling Green. Our photographer documented small town life in this community of 1,200 people over a period of six weeks.

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