By Andrew Welsh-Hugginsand Jeannie Nuss

The Associated Press

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — A sheriff in central Ohio said a tarp and trash bags were taken from the home of a 13-year-old girl who was found bound and gagged in the basement of a man’s home about 10 miles away.

The girl had disappeared Wednesday along with her mother, brother and the mother’s friend. Authorities said she was found Sunday in the Mount Vernon home of Matthew J. Hoffman, who is being held on $1 million bond on a kidnapping charge. The other three remain missing.

Knox County Sheriff David Barber said Tuesday that the items found in the girl’s home in Howard are significant to the investigation. He also said a WalMart receipt listing tarps and trash bags has been found, but would not say where or when.

Barber said Hoffman is on sui-cide watch after giving certain

“indications” to staff.Hoffman spent six years in a

Colorado prison for setting a fire to cover up a burglary and had been released from parole only a month ago.

The teenager’s mother and brother, along with a friend of her mother’s, remained missing Tuesday after authorities searched a lake and park near the suspect’s home. Authorities offered little hope that they would be found alive but planned to continue their search.

Hoffman has been held at the Knox County jail since his Sunday arrest on a kidnapping charge.

He appeared in Mount Vernon

Municipal Court on Tuesday through a video link from the jail, where he was wearing a green sleeveless shirt that revealed muscular arms. He mostly stared straight ahead, and yawned at one point.

He did not enter a plea. The judge set bond at $1 million and assigned a public defender to rep-resent Hoffman. Authorities said more charges were expected.

Police on Sunday rescued 13-year-old Sarah Maynard from the basement of Hoffman’s home, then began a search of a nearby lake for Maynard’s mother, 32-year-old Tina Herrmann; the woman’s 10-year-old son, Kody Maynard; and her 41-year-old friend, Stephanie Sprang.

It wasn’t clear how well Hoffman, 30, knew the four, but county Sheriff David Barber sug-gested the defendant had been watching them.

“They knew Hoffman or Hoffman made himself known to them; he acquainted himself with the family whether they knew he was acquainting himself with them or not,” Barber said Monday at a news conference at which he said it was possible “that these folks are dead.”

Sprang’s father, Steve Thompson, said Tuesday morn-ing that he’s staying optimistic.

“I don’t think either one of the girls would

have been really talking with him ...”

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By Julie Carr SmythThe Associated Press

COLUMBUS (AP) — A bomb threat targeting Ohio State University was e-mailed to the FBI Tuesday morning, prompting the school to evacuate four academic buildings, including the main library. An ini-tial search turned up nothing out of the ordinary, officials said.

The threat was in a message received Tuesday at FBI head-quarters in Washington, said Paul Bresson, an agency spokes-man based there. Campus police said they were alerted at 8:19 a.m. Tuesday that the threats involved the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library and three labo-ratory buildings.

“This is still in our assessment a threat, and there have been no suspicious package or devices found at this time,” University Police Chief Paul Denton said at a news conference.

Authorities did not identify the

source of the bomb threats at Ohio State, one of the nation’s largest universities, with more than 56,000 students at its main Columbus cam-pus. The FBI’s Bresson declined to provide information about where the e-mail appeared to come from or whether the bureau believed the threat was real.

University officials did not offer information on the nature of the threats and declined to speculate on why the four buildings were targeted.

All were evacuated and closed as investigators went through them with bomb-sniffing dogs, and authorities also closed off three streets.

“It’s a little worrisome. Maybe there won’t be a warning next time,” said Todd Elder, 21, a psychology major from Columbus.

Staff members outside one of the labs had thought they were being

By Jim SuhrThe Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — Federal agents scour-ing for a second day for two jail escapees — one a suspect in a possibly multimillion-dollar sum-mer heist — expressed confidence Tuesday the fugitives still were hid-ing out around St. Louis, some 60 miles from the lockup that couldn’t hold them.

John Wesley Jones, 36, and Corey Durand Cross, 31, are both from St. Louis. But Robert O’Connor, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, declined to detail why he believed they still were in the area, a day after they bolted from the Lincoln County Jail after making their way onto the lockup’s roof and down a 30-foot wall.

Investigators suspect the two

men got to St. Louis using a truck stolen from a gas station 7 miles from the jail and found aban-doned Monday along eastbound Interstate 70 near the city, O’Connor said. Bloodhounds led searchers from the truck to a home in nearby Pine Lawn, but the fugitives were nowhere to be found.

“With the information we have, we believe they’re still likely in the St. Louis metropolitan area. I can’t get into why we think that,” O’Connor said Tuesday during the manhunt that included help from the FBI and St. Louis police.

Authorities have publicly warned that the escapees could be armed and dangerous given the men’s backgrounds. At the time of their jailbreak, both were being held on federal charges in separate weap-ons-related cases. Cross also was

awaiting a trial scheduled next month on felony counts of illegally having an SKS assault-style rifle during suspected drug-trafficking and possessing heroin with plans to deal it.

Jones and Cross also each had been ordered jailed without bond pending trial, at the behest of feder-al prosecutors who claimed in court papers that both men were serious flight risks and threats to the com-munity if allowed out on bail.

The FBI has named Jones as a suspect, though federal prosecu-tors haven’t charged him yet, in a well-orchestrated, daylight holdup in August of an ATM Solutions site in St. Louis. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis said this week it’s unclear why no one has been charged directly in the heist.

Ohio State closes library, three labs

in bomb scareClasses, activities cancelled as authorities investigate

Tarp, bags found in case of three missing in Ohio

Search presses on for two escaped federal prisonersAuthorities believe Jones and Cross are still in the St. Louis metropolitan area

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By Max FilbyReporter

As the newest dining halls open, new food options will be coming in.

University Dining Services hopes to bring Dunkin’ Donuts and possibly Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt to the new McDonald Dining Center and Commons Dining Center, respectively. The new restaurants would open

when the dining halls open one year from now.

Dining Services is also explor-ing the option of having Dunkin’ Donuts open 24 hours a day.

“Dunkin’ Donuts recently expanded their menu,” said Mike Paulus, director of University Dining Services.

“It really includes a nice mix of items.”

Dining Services will open

the Dunkin’ Donuts location in the McDonald Dining Center in hopes that it will bring in some of the community. John Zachrich, Undergraduate Student Government chair of auxiliary affairs, has been col-laborating with Dining Services to determine new food options.

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University Dining Services works to bring new franchises to McDonald, Commons

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Woman becomes nation’s 1st transgender judge

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A 49-year-old California patent lawyer has been elected as the nation’s first openly transgender trial judge.

Alameda County elections officials say Victoria Kolakowski beat prosecutor John Creighton 51 to 48 percent

— a margin of nearly 10,000 votes — in the Nov. 2 election to fill the vacancy in California’s Superior Court.

Kolakowski had been leading since election night, but outstanding absentee and provisional ballots made the race too close to call until Monday.

The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund has said she is the first openly transgender trial court judge in the country.

Ariz. mom gets 30 days in jail after punching boy

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman who reportedly told police she didn’t want her children any longer, and then punched her 11-year-old son in front of authorities, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail.

A statement from Maricopa County Superior Court says 29-year-old Christina Jean Muniz (MYOO’-neez) of Surprise also was sentenced Tuesday to three years’ probation after pleading guilty to one count of child abuse.

Officers in the Phoenix suburb came to Muniz’s apartment June 11 after receiving a distress call from her son. Police say Muniz told officers she was “sick of her children” and wanted to be free of them.

As her boys were being removed by welfare workers , of ficers say the 11-year-old attempted to hug his mother and Muniz punched him in the stomach.

19-year-old gets prison for NYC coffee shop blast

NEW YORK (AP) — A teenager who set off a homemade bomb outside a New York City Starbucks coffee shop has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. Authorities said the stunt was meant to emulate an anti-hero in the film and novel “Fight Club.”

Kyle Shaw declined to speak at his sentencing Tuesday. The 19-year-old pleaded guilty in September to charges including attempted arson. He was 17 at the time of the blast.

The May 2009 explosion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side shattered windows at the Starbucks. No one was injured.

Authorities said Shaw was trying to imitate “Fight Club” character Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt in the 1999 movie. Durden orchestrates attacks on symbols of corporate America. Shaw’s lawyer said his client’s actions reflect a “troubled youth,” not an anarchist campaign.

1 officer fired, 3 suspended in man’s shooting

PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon police officer has been fired and three others suspended after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man during a standoff with a white officer.

Portland police announced the disciplinary actions on Tuesday, nearly 10 months after police shot 25-year-old Aaron Campbell in the back as he ran away from them.

Officer Ron Frashour, who fired the lethal shot, was terminated. He has said he thought Campbell was reaching for a weapon.

Another officer and two sergeants were suspended for two weeks without pay for unsatisfactory performance.

A Multnomah County grand jury found no criminal wrongdoing but said police training, command and communication were inadequate.

— Jonathan J. Cooper (AP)

Minn. teen charged with killing Iowa store clerks

DES MOINES, Iowa — Authorities on Tuesday charged a Minnesota teenager with murdering two convenience store clerks at separate stores in northern Iowa.

Michael Richard Swanson, a 17-year-old from St. Louis Park, Minn., was charged as an adult with two counts each of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery in separate slayings at stores in Kossuth and Humboldt counties.

Kossuth County Attorney Todd Holmes said during a news conference in Algona that Swanson walked into the Crossroads Gas Station on U.S. Highway 18 in Algona just after 9 p.m. Monday wearing a ski mask and demanded cash and cigarettes from the clerk, 47-year-old Vicky Bowman-Hall. She complied with the request, but Swanson shot her anyway and she died at a nearby hospital, Holmes said.

Pittsburgh first Pa. city to ban gas drilling

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh became the first city in gas-rich Pennsylvania to ban natural gas drilling after city council members, citing health and environmental concerns, unanimously approved the measure Tuesday.

The council received a standing ovation after voting 9-0 to approve the ban within city limits.

Pittsburgh sits atop part of the Marcellus Shale, a large rock formation in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Drilling companies have been flocking to those states to tap into the vast natural gas reserves underneath.

The companies use what’s called fracking to break up the rock; opponents said the chemicals used in the process can contaminate water and air.

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Eva Cummings, 51, appeared to cry as a prosecu-tor described her behavior in the family’s ramshackle North Collins home outside Buffalo as “depraved and hor-rific” and the victim as “an

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old Laura Cummings, who had the mental capacity of a preteen, spent days and nights tied to a chair with a hood over her head and was repeatedly raped, beaten and scalded, her face pushed into feces. Her 31-year-old half brother, Luke Wright, is await-ing trial on charges including rape and incest.

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“She hated her daughter,” District Attorney Frank Sedita said after court.

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TOP: Workers continue to make progress on the main arena in the Stroh Center.

FAR LEFT: The world’s largest falcon statue was donated to the University by philanthropist Irwin Belk. The $100,000 statue is part of the University’s Falcon Spirit Plaza, which will be located at the entrance of the Stroh Center.

NEAR LEFT: Mike Schuessler, the project manager of operations at the Stroh Center, explains how ceiling installations were installed prior to the flooring. Large machinery was used to install the speakers and lighting in the rafters.

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Dear Sarah Palin,

I told myself I wasn’t going to watch your show. I told myself it would only encourage you. I made a con-scious effort to boycott your folksy shenanigans, and I hoped others would do the same. But then I read Sunday’s premiere of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” broke TLC’s rating records. And I gave in.

Blame it on curiosity, or voy-eurism, but I tuned in for a late-night rerun and gave you an hour of my life that I will never get back. I couldn’t help but make a few observations.

First, while you refer to yourself and your family as normal, I believe the word you’re looking for is pre-dictable. You’ve sold us an image,

and I applaud your dedication to upholding this northern fantasy.

Your reality program is 60 min-utes of Tea Party rhetoric in a prop-ish outdoor setting. You’ve incor-porated more extreme sports than the winter Olympics. In a delicate balance of neoconservative poli-tics and national parks, it felt like an episode of campaigning woman versus wild.

For instance, you took your family salmon fishing, and ironi-cally encountered the iconic Mama Grizzly. That same epi-sode, you admitted lacking vir-tuous patience. Understandable. I too hate delaying gratification. However, had you waited to show-case your beloved bear it may have been less transparent.

Also, your children’s robotic responses to your leading ques-tions do not constitute real dia-logue. Haven’t they been exploit-ed enough? Piper’s full of spunk, and Willow’s quite the tenacious teen. Although you portray them as stereotypes, I’m almost positive

they’re real girls with dynamic per-sonalities who desperately want the “normal” life you keep insisting you live.

It’s too late for Bristol, whose busy on “Dancing with the Stars.” But we’re promised she’ll make several appearances. Funny how you accuse the tabloids of invad-ing your privacy when just months ago you handed US Weekly an engagement exclusive on a silver platter. And while we’re on the topic of antagonist baby daddies, I’m hoping Levi Johnston will stop by for an awkward demonstra-tion of teen shared parenting; the disastrous result of abstinence-only education.

But honestly, the most convinc-ing character thus far is your neigh-bor — the author writing a book about your comings and goings. You claim he will be “bored to death” and wonder who would want to watch your very normal family rou-tine. Good point, but then why do you have a reality show?

In the middle of your ordinary

day, you put on a power suit for a television appearance with Bill O’Reilly from your home. As soon as the broadcast ends, you’re hop-ping in an RV and taking off for Denali for a little glacier climbing. It’s as if every minute filmed inside must be compensated by two min-utes of footage outside in the ele-ments. I see what you’re doing, and so does everyone else.

I watched you suit up for your next stunt. Then I watched you berate your elderly father because he won’t be able to scratch “climb-ing McKinley” off his bucket list. And I wondered, if it’s truly an Alaskan badge of honor, why did you wait until now to do it? As I wit-nessed you dramatically straddle that crevasse, I couldn’t help but think falling in would have been a wicked dose of instant karma.

Your poor dad. I can’t tell what he regrets more, missing his opportunity to climb or agreeing to participate in this sham of a reality show. And your poor kids; they’ve made the ultimate sac-

rifice in an attempt to help you attain your personal goals. It’s not fair. So please, stop putting your family through these wilderness adventures to uphold the false persona created by your campaign and perpetuated by the media.

You promised viewers four wheelers, kayaks, chain saws, rifles and dog sleds in the future. I’m hoping for an early cancellation. Otherwise, TLC owes your 2012 opponent a reality show under the equal time rule, because this is nothing more than an extensive political commercial, heavy on the hockey mom.

Finally, no matter how many times you claim to live an average, relatable life, please understand — it’s just not. The more you say, the more it’s not. In fact, “every time Sarah Palin says ‘normal’” would make a hell of a drinking game. And from now on, that’s how I’ll be watching. You betcha.

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By Drew SchneiderColumnist

One thing that really annoys me on TV is infomercials. I think they are so stupid, even worse than regular commercials. They are especially irritating because a lot of the items that are advertised are pointless.

There are a few things that deserve to be advertised, such as Oxi Clean or pretty much anything Billy Mays has ever done. But most of the things I see are really ridiculous and although whoever invented them might make a lot of money, the people who buy them will probably use them once or twice and then realize that it was a waste of money.

I’m not the most creative person, and I would have a very hard time trying to think of a new idea for an invention. However, I can tell whether something that someone else came up with is a good idea or not. Besides household prod-ucts that are advertised on TV, there are a lot of ideas for movies and television shows that are either not original or just plain bad.

There are several new shows on TV that I think are very good and original, such as “Modern Family,” “The

Middle” and a bunch of oth-ers. But there are also a lot of shows that are not good at all. The commercials for them make them seem like they are the best shows ever, but once you actually watch a full episode they don’t live up to your expectations.

Another problem with some new shows is that they are actually not new at all. They are old shows that are being remade. Shows such as “90210” and “Hawaii Five-0” were new a long time ago, but they ended and were off the air for several years. Now these shows are back on the air with pretty much the same plot, but some different characters.

Now I have never really watched any of these shows, but I just think that it is pret-ty pathetic that people can’t come up with their own ideas, so they have to take old ideas and just tweak them a little bit. Is it really that hard to come up with a new idea for a TV show? I mean I probably couldn’t do it, but it’s not my job. These people are getting paid to come up with new ideas.

The same thing is happen-ing with movies lately. Don’t get me wrong, there are some amazing movies that have come out over the past few

years. However, some mov-ies are very unoriginal. For example, there is a new movie out called “Skyline.” When I saw the preview for this film, it made me think of “War of the Worlds.” In fact, everything that hap-pened in the preview was almost identical to “War of the Worlds.”

It was also pretty annoy-ing when the whole vampire trend was going on. There were so many movies and shows about vampires and werewolves and it was really just enough. After “Twilight” came out, it was like people got brainwashed and could think of nothing but pale guys and girls with sharp teeth who drink blood.

Even though this science fiction fad is slowing down, I still wish there would be more new ideas. No matter how good an old show was, there is no need to bring it back. There can be too much of a good thing. That’s why shows go off the air in the first place, unless they just suck. I know I can’t think of any amazing ideas myself, but the ones who are supposed to think of them need to do a better job.

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Products, TV shows, movies come off as using false advertising Unoriginal ideas cause disappointment, loss of faith in entertainment

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By Karen IngramKansas State Collegian

(Kansas State University)College News Network

I loathe Black Friday, but I must admit it is the most aptly named “holiday” shopping spree ever. There is no bet-ter way to see just how selfish, petty and heartless people can be than to stick them in a parking lot with 2,000 other people and tell them the TVs they want to save $50 on so badly only number 400.

Black Friday has left a bad taste in the mouths of many, especially since 2008, the deadliest year for holiday shopping to date. You might recall that was the year a young Walmart employee was trampled to death by overea-ger shoppers in Long Island, N.Y., and two men shot and killed each other at a Toys-R-Us in Southern California. It was later reported that the shooting had nothing to do with shopping, according to a Nov. 28, 2008, article by the Huffington Post, but the trampled Walmart employee was most definitely a result of Black Friday mob behavior.

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an

employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been in line since Friday morning!’” a wit-ness said in a Nov. 28, 2008, New York Daily News article.

“They kept shopping.”The next year, many stores

implemented new safety standards to ensure the loss of life would be minimal, but there’s no reasoning with a mob of shoppers when they’re still high on the tryptophan mindset from the day before: I’ll-give-thanks-by-overeat-ing-while-the-family-down-the-street-goes-to-the-soup-kitchen bingefest.

Black Friday 2009 was cel-ebrated in style at a Walmart in California with fights and a visit from the cops. To try pre-venting a mob and possible casualties like the 2008 incident, this Walmart chose to stay open all night, rather than open the doors suddenly and encourage stampeding. But within min-utes, they had to chase custom-ers out of the store when they began breaking into merchan-dise not due for sale until 5 a.m., according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. Even after the cops and managers forced everyone out into the parking lot so the merchandise could

be reshelved, angry would-be shoppers banged on the glass doors and attempted to sneak back in through other parts of the store.

The only patient Black Friday shopper is a dead one. Who cares about human life when there’s a cheap Blu-ray player on the other side of the corpse? Who cares about the holiday spirit, or about using this time of year as an excuse to treat others extra nicely, when you can elbow somebody in the nose to get that last Xbox 360 on sale? Common courtesy is a sign of weakness best left to bell ring-ers on the sidewalk outside.

Black Friday is despicable. It brings out the worst in people and encourages mob behav-ior. Any of these people, if you asked them, I’m sure would swear up and down they’d normally never do stuff like this. They’d say they would never intentionally hurt or kill somebody because of a toast-er. But people are not rea-sonable or rational creatures when in large numbers. They are a mob, plain and simple.

So, instead of starting an office pool to guess the num-ber of casualties for Black Friday 2010, I just want to voice the wish I’ve had for years, now: Please end Black Friday. I don’t need a plasma TV badly enough to lose teeth over, and neither do you.

Be thankful for human life, not salesBlack Friday mob mentality needs to end for safety, sanity reasons

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“Watch romantic comedies.”

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“Pack that Grizzly mint.”

TIM CAMPBELL Freshman, Sports Management

“Video games, ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ and listening to music.”

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WOMEN’S GOLFFalcons sign two for next seasonBG women’s golf head coach Stephanie Young has annound the signing of two Texas student-athletes for next year. Shelby Wilson and Patricia Holt will be members of the team next season.

ConnorKuceraDefenseman from Twin Lakes, Ind. has 20 penalty minutes and a plus-four rating in nine games.

RyanCarpenterForward from Oviedo, Fla. has nine points in 13 games this season in the USHL.

MikeSullivanDefenseman from Toronto has 15 points in 23 games this season in the OJHL.

WyattGalleyGoalie from Ottawa, Ontario posted a 3.54 GAA and a .904 save percent last season.

Back in the spotlightBG hockey signs four players to national

letters of intentBy Ryan Satkowiak

Assistant Sports Editor

Tuesday afternoon the sports infor-mation department announced the signing of four hockey players for the 2011-12 season.

Wyatt Galley, Ryan Carpenter, Connor Kucera and Mike Sullivan each have sent their letter of intent to the program.

The group consists of two defen-semen, one forward and one goalie. This season’s senior class consists of two forwards, one defenseman and one goalie.

Even though the number of players entering matches the number of players leaving, coach Chris Bergeron said they will con-tinue to try and build on this class, and he will look to add the type of players that just signed.

“More than anything, I was looking for winners,” Bergeron said. “With a change in culture, focusing on excellence on a daily basis, you need to get a certain kind of person, and these kids

expect a lot of themselves.”I don’t think that next year’s

recruiting class is done, I feel that there is still a lot more to do, but I’m really happy with this start and the four guys we added.”

Galley is goaltender from Ottawa, Ontario currently playing with the Langley Chiefs of the British Columbia Hockey League. He is also the son of former BG defenseman Garry Galley.

Last season with the Chiefs, he recorded a goals-against average of 3.54 and a save percent of .904.

“I look at scholarship goaltenders — and that’s what Wyatt is replac-ing [in Nick Eno] — and I see that he has big shoes to fill,” Bergeron said. “It’s something that is going to work itself out, the expectation is that Galley coming in as the scholarship goaltender is going to be ready to fill that role [as number two goalie].”

Meet the new guys:The first four recruits BG signed for the 2011-12 season.

By Paul BarneySports Editor

For the first time since the 1999 sea-son, BG and Toledo will not renew its rivalry in the regular-season finale.

Historically known to be the game the day after Thanksgiving, the two will play tonight at 8 p.m. at the Glass Bowl in Toledo.

The game will be the 75th meet-ing between the two schools, with BG holding a 39-31-4 advantage — winning the last three.

The Falcons won the last game played at the Glass Bowl in 2008, but have not won back-to-back games at Toledo since the 1992 and 1994 seasons.

Both teams are heading in oppo-site directions this season, as the Falcons are 2-8 overall and near the bottom of the Mid-American Conference standings, while the

Rockets are 6-4 and are currently second behind Northern Illinois in the MAC West.

BG coach Dave Clawson said Wednesday that even though his team is not bowl eligible, tonight’s game against Toledo is like its bowl game.

“This is a great rivalry with a great tradition, and it’s one of those games that you throw out the records,” Clawson said. “This is one of those games that I think in every foot-ball season, to some degree, defines your season.”

And because of the implications of the game, Clawson does admit it should be the last game of the season.

“I would love for this game to be the last game of the season,” he said.

“I just think that’s where your biggest rival belongs. I’m a fan of having your biggest rival be the last game of the season.”

Another difference this year is

that the game will be carried live on ESPN2.

This will be the second straight week BG will play in front of a national audience after last week’s 24-21 loss to Miami in the midst of heavy fog.

And for the second straight week the Falcons will be playing an oppo-nent that with a win will move atop the conference standings in their respective division.

The Rockets are led by sophomore wide receiver Eric Page, who ranks eighth in the country with 73 recep-tions and 21st in receiving yards with 843.

He also ranks second in the MAC in kickoff returns (27.8 avg.).

“Eric Page is one of the best receiv-ers in the conference if not the coun-try,” Clawson said. “He’s just a great open field player. He’s just dynamic, he plays hard and he knows how to setup defenders.”

TYLER STABILE | THE BG NEWSDIVE: Tight end Alex Bayer dives for the end zone in last Wednesday’s game against Miami.

Falcons play on ESPN2 for second straight week tonight against Toledo

Notes: Falcons have ‘bowl game’ mentality for final two games

By Sean ShapiroSenior Reporter

There won’t be a bowl game this year; at 2-8, any chance of that ended when the Falcons started the season losing seven of their first nine games.

However, that doesn’t mean the Falcons don’t have anything to play for as they head to rival Toledo for a national televised game on ESPN2.

“I think the last two weeks have been ‘our bowl game,’” said BG coach Dave Clawson. “These are two opportunities to play our big-gest rivals, and two opportunities to play on national television. We have something to play for — but we also have something to play for in our last game, because it will be our seniors’ last game here.”

Unlike the past nine years, the Falcons and Rockets will not meet for the final game of the season, which is traditionally the day after Thanksgiving. This change has already spurred debate between the

TYLER STABILE | THE BG NEWSDEFLECT: BG defensive end Darius Smith knocks down a pass last Wednesday against Miami.

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Women’s cross country finishes fall season

By Nick KingReporter

The Falcons’ 2010 season wrapped up this past Saturday during the Great Lakes Regional that took place in Rochester, Mich.

In the 6k race, the Falcons would put in a strong effort and would take 19th overall out of the 33 teams competing. The team win-ning the regional was Michigan State. Rounding out the top five was Michigan, Mid-American Conference champions Toledo, Ohio State and Indiana.

“I was happy with the improve-ment from last year’s regional meet and a good effort across the board,” said coach Cami Paulson about the team’s performance. “This was our

first meet all season with some roll-ing hills which was a nice change from the flat courses we raced on the majority of the season.

According to Paulson, Autumn Dettmann, Abby Koch, Megan Kelsey and Tara Weiss each had their best regional finishes.

For the second straight race senior Autumn Dettmann posted the best time on the team. She fin-ished with a time of 22:29.63, which was seconds away from beating her personal best time from the MAC championship of 22:28.7.

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Dettmann was Koch with a time of 22:34.98. Right behind her was senior Barbara Powers finishing in 22:51.93

There were two other MAC schools to finish in the top 10 of regionals with Miami (OH) finishing sev-enth and Central Michigan finishing eighth.

The MAC will have two rep-resentatives in the National Championship meet that

will take place in Terre Haute, Ind. on Nov. 22. Ari Fischer from Toledo finished third and Rachel Patterson from Miami (OH) finished fifth.

Joining them in the all-region team for Great Lakes will be Ohio University run-ner Annie Beecham who finished 13th and Toledo runner Emma Kertesz, who finished 19th.

Overall the season has brought much excitement to those who have followed cross country this season.

“When you are compet-ing you are always going to

strive for more, but I was very pleased with the season overall and the effort and dedication the team showed week to week,” Paulson said. “They were consistent and working hard from the day they arrived in August until the season ended last Saturday.”

Everyone on the cross country roster will be run-ning in track during the spring. They will take two weeks off from manda-tory practice before they start training for track after Thanksgiving break.

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SPIKE: Noelle Spitler spikes the ball in a match against Toledo earlier this season.

By Paul BarneySports Editor

What began in East Lansing, ended in Ypsilanti, Mich.

The BG volleyball team ended its 2010 season Tuesday night as it was elimi-nated in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament, falling to fifth-seeded Eastern Michigan in three sets, 25-20, 25-15 and 28-26.

After trailing throughout the first two sets, the 12th-seeded Falcons saved their best for last in a back-and-forth third set that went the distance and then some.

Eastern Michigan held an advantage in just about every offensive category, including

kills (46-37) and hitting per-centage (.252-.216).

In their first taste of the MAC Tournament, Falcon freshmen Paige Penrod, Laura Avila and Lindsey Butterfield provided some insight into the future as to what coach Denise Van De Walle has to look forward to over the next three years.

Penrod, who set the school record last week for most kills in a season by a freshman, added 18 against the Eagles to bring her season total to 405.

While Penrod was ending the play, Avila was setting it up, dishing out 34 assists, while Butterfield added 11 kills of her own.

Freshmen contributions played a big part in the

Falcons’ success this season; for three consecutive weeks a BG freshman was awarded on of the MAC’s Player of the Week awards.

While the Falcons will look to move forward with its talented slate of fresh-men, they will also say goodbye to seniors Sam Fish and Noelle Spitler.

Tuesday’s loss drops BG’s overall record to 8-23 overall, with five fewer wins than last year’s team that defeated arch-rival Toledo in the first round of the MAC Tournament.

This year’s team was highlighted by a strong freshmen class. If they continue to produce in the future, more wins could be on the horizon.

Falcons swept in first round of MAC tournament

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THE BG NEWS PICKS OF THE WEEKWelcome to another edition of “The BG News Picks of the Week.” Last week Paul Barney went 5-1 to all but seal his fate as pick ‘em champ. Can the other three gain any ground on him this week?

As much as I would love to see BG get a win against Toledo, I just don’t see it happening.

Toledo 24, BG 17

Toledovs. BG

Toledo -9.5

Like with all of my picks, I may not think the team I pick will win, but I have to pick the opposite teams that Paul picks to catch that guy.BG 24, Toledo 21

Would it be cruel if this game ended on the last play of the game? Yeah, but it wouldn’t surprise me.Toledo 24, BG 21

Yeah, Falcons! Take down the Rockets. Roll Along. This week I have chosen every team closest to BG.BG 21, Toledo 20

No. 9 Ohio St.vs. No. 20 Iowa

Did you see that seond half Ohio State put on last week? Besides, Iowa lost to Northwestern.

OSU 45, Iowa 20

Ricky Stanzi has a knack of coming up in big games. Northwestern was evidently not a big game to him.

Iowa 28, OSU 17

The Buckeyes need a “signature win” to look attractive to the BCS, but is beating a team that lost to Northwestern a signature win?OSU 27, Iowa 17

Buckeye Nation you drive me crazy, but this time I’m cheering for you.

OSU 34, Iowa 23

No. 18 Virginia Tech vs. No. 24 Miami

Virginia Tech -3

I like winnings streaks, and Virginia Tech has a good one going.

VT 28, Miami 17

The ACC wheel of destiny lands on .... Miami!

Miami 31, VT 24

The Hokies already had their major choke of the year, but maybe that James Madison loss was just what they needed to find an ACC title.VT 27, Miami 24

Hokies in a Hurricane doesn’t sound possible but I love that Tyrod Taylor.

VT 14, Miami 12

Illinoisvs Northwestern

Pretty cool this game is at Wrigley. With Dan Persa out with an injury, I don’t see how Illinois doesn’t win this game.Illinois 20, Northwestern 21

Did you like how Sean thinks that Northwestern is ranked by the AP? They’re first in “others receiving votes” big guy. Maybe in the coaches poll ...Northwestern 21, Illinois 14

I don’t know if you noticed, but the Wildcats are in the AP top 25 (just don’t remind them their MVP and QB are out for the season).Northwestern 25, Illinois 17

I have no hope in the Wildcats!

Illinois 15, Northwestern 10

West Virginiavs. Louisville

West Virginia -6.5

Country singer Brad Paisley is from West Virginia, and I love country music.

WVU 35, Louisville 20

In case you didn’t know, Paul has been rigging the NCAA this season. In fact, he’s behind the Cam Newton mess too. Just a sketchy year for Mr. Barney.Louisville 42, WVU 22

The Kentucky Derby is in Louisville. That’s reason enough for me.

Louisville 17, WVU 16

It was close — but West Virginia is closer.

WVU 40, Louisville 27

Pittsburghvs. South Florida

Pittsburgh -3

I’m 24 games above .500, it really doesn’t matter who I pick at this point.

Pitt 33, South Florida 14

Paul’s overconfidence will be his undo-ing. Probably not but I always wanted to say that in context.

South Florida 35, Pitt 14

It’s kind of sad that one of these teams will most likely be in a BCS bowl. Flawed system? You be the judge.

South Florida 24, Pitt 17

Neither one of these teams is very good. Pitt you win by proximity.

Pitt 3, South Florida 0

RYAN SATKOWIAKAssistant Sports Editor

SEAN SHAPIROWeb Editor

BECKY TENERManaging Editor

Ohio State -3.5

Illinois -5

Overall record 45-21 37-29 31-35 34-32

two teams.Toledo coach Tim Beckman

has lobbied for the game to be moved from its traditional slot since he’s been the coach of the Rockets, citing it was bad for the student body to play a rivalry game when everyone is on break.

Clawson, however, felt the final game of the season gave the rivalry more meaning and a little extra for the players to play for.

“I’m a big advocate [for that)]” Clawson said. “Obviously they moved it up this year for national television and other reasons, but I’m a fan of having your biggest rivalry [played] the last week of the season. And certainly you look around the country and that’s usually the case.”

O-line questionsWith so many injuries

on the offensive Clawson couldn’t help but laugh in Monday’s press conference, because “sometime you have to laugh about it to keep from crying.”

The only certain thing is that there will be five offen-sive lineman on the field against Toledo, who that is, depending on multiple inju-ries, will work itself out.

“Scott Lewis is a tough kid,” Clawson said. “I believe that some way, some how, he’ll get himself ready to play. Ben Bojicic is a tough kid, and I believe some how he’ll be ready to play. If we can get a full game out of those two, we’ll be fine.”

Kicking it aroundKyle Burkhardt kicked

off to start the second half against Miami, something that has been Bryan Wright’s job all season.

According to Clawson, Wright’s kicking foot swelled up where he felt he could

punt but not kick; who will kick off against Toledo is a game-time decision.

Kicking it around, part 2While his career at BG

ended in 2005, Shaun Shuisham found his way back on to an NFL roster Tuesday afternoon.

Kicking for the Redskins and Cowboys during his career, Shuisham signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers to replace recently cut kicker Jeff Reed. It’s Shuisham’s second stint with Pittsburgh, after he signed with them during training camp in 2005 but never made the roster during the regular season.

This is the third team Shuisham has at least prac-ticed with this season, after having short stints with Cleveland and St. Louis.

Truss returnsCameron Truss practiced

this week and will be back in the lineup against Toledo.

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Carpenter is a 6-foot-1 for-ward from Oviedo, Fla. who is currently playing with the Sioux City Musketeers of the United States Hockey League. Last season, he scored 10 goals and registered 12 assists for the Musketeers in 58 games.

So far this season, he has three goals and six assists in 13 games.

“I’d say that Carpenter was [our top priority],” Bergeron said. “He was a guy that when I got the job here in April. Rob Krohl, our direc-tor of hockey operations, had experience coaching him at another level, so he was somebody that we went

after and pushed hard for right away.”

Kucera is a 205 pound defenseman from Twin Lakes, Ind., currently play-ing for the Des Moines Buccaneers of the USHL. Through nine games this season he has registered 20 penalty minutes and a plus-four on ice rating.

“I like his physical pres-ence,” Bergeron said. “I think that he is going to be a guy who is physical for us, and I think that there is some offense in his game but it won’t be something where we force him to go outside of his comfort level.”

Sullivan is a 6-foot offen-sive defenseman from Toronto, currently playing with the Markham Waxers of the Ontario Junior Hockey

League. His previous team was the Georgetown Raiders of the OJHL, but he was trad-ed to Markham on Nov. 12.

With the Raiders, he had four goals and 11 assists in 23 games, and he has yet to play a game with Markham.

Prior to this season, he played two seasons with the Ajax Attack of the OJHL, where he scored 10 goals and had 48 assists in 84 games. He had 48 points last season with the Attack.

“He’s a guy who could wear a couple different hats, because I think he’s got some offense to him,” Bergeron said. “He’s a guy that when we saw him play he was making plays all over the ice, both in the offensive and defensive zones; that’s what caught our eye the most.”

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“There really isn’t a dough-nut-style shop on this side of town,” Zachrich said. “We kind of wanted to get more community members coming in to buy stuff.”

The Toledo Dunkin’ Donuts is currently the closest location to campus.

At first, Dining Services also considered adding a drive-thru to the new McDonald dining center to encourage people outside of the college to purchase food. Instead, 10-minute parking will be avail-able to people visiting from off campus.

“It’s a prime reality location,” Paulus said. “I tried to get a drive-thru, but because of the space available the University said we couldn’t do it.”

In addition to Dunkin’ Donuts, Dining Services is

also considering new restau-rants to open in the recon-structed Commons Dining Center. Although a final deci-sion has not yet been made, Dining Services is considering Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt as one of the services that could be available when the new Commons opens.

Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt is a restaurant that opened five years ago in New York and Los Angeles, according to the Pinkberry website.

The University currently has a contract with Chartwells, the company through which Dining Services obtains the rights to franchise names such as Dunkin’ Donuts and Pinkberry, Paulus said.

And just as the McDonald and Commons Dining Centers will be getting an upgrade, The Falcon’s Nest may also see some changes in another year.

Wendy’s may be replaced with another franchise after

its contract runs out next year, Zachrich said. Wendy’s has a contract with the University separate from the Dining Services and Chartwells.

“Nothing is set in stone yet,” Zachrich said. “But we are looking at other chains and always trying to keep the Union updated.”

Also, the new McDonald Dining Center was originally going to include an area where students could try out pos-sible new food choices that would then become available in the Union, Founders and the Sundial at Kreischer. Space limitations will prevent a per-manent experimental food area from being established in the McDonald Dining Center, but Dining Services will con-tinue to experiment with options in other dining halls.

“We are doing a lot of things right now,” Paulus said. “We’re exploring all viable options for each location.”

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evacuated for a routine fire drill. Many left purses, coats and car keys in their offices and were stuck waiting for hours in the cold rain.

Art history professor E. Okechukwu Odita was stranded because his car was parked behind police tape.

“I appreciate what they are doing. We don’t want the whole place to blow up,” Odita said, as he waited on a bench near the labs.

Some students standing outside the labs joked that the threat may have been called in by someone who just want-ed to miss an exam.

Students and faculty mem-

bers were warned by text-message alerts and online and phone messages to stay clear of the buildings until 5 p.m. The buildings would remain closed at least until that time, with their regular classes and other activities canceled, said Vernon Baisden, the univer-sity’s director of public safety. Baisden could not specify how many students were affected by the evacuations.

All other classes and functions on campus will continue as scheduled, Baisden said.

The Columbus Fire Department bomb squad, school security and FBI were at the scene.

Besides the library, which is along the campus green area called The Oval, build-

ings closed were McPherson Chemical Lab, which houses the chemistry and astron-omy departments; Smith Laboratory, which houses engineering experiments and anthropology; and Scott Laboratory, a mechanical engineering building.

The bomb threats marked the second time in less than a week that a criminal investi-gation disrupted activities at an Ohio college campus.

Students at Kenyon College, about 60 miles north of Columbus, were subjected to a nearly nine-hour lockdown from Thursday night into Friday morning after a truck belonging to a woman who disappeared along with her two children and a female friend was found nearby.

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“We know they are alive and we will find them even-tually,” Thompson said in an interview with CBS’

“The Early Show,” express-ing hope that the three are tied up somewhere and will soon free themselves and resurface.

Hoffman was sitting nearby last week when police recovered the miss-ing family’s truck in central Ohio, Barber said.

His mother and stepfa-ther live less than a mile away from Herrmann’s home in a lakeside commu-nity about 40 miles north of Columbus. Hoffman last lived there two years ago,

his mother said.Thompson said he did not

know Hoffman and had no idea how he became con-nected with his daughter and Herrmann.

“I don’t think either one of the girls would have been really talking with him or just hanging out with him,” Thompson said on NBC’s “Today.”

Hoffman was sentenced to eight years in prison in Colorado in 2001 for arson and other charges.

The Steamboat Pilot & Today of Steamboat Springs, Colo., reported Tuesday that he pleaded guilty to setting a fire to cover up a burglary he had com-mitted the day before at a town house where he had installed some plumbing

fixtures. The fire destroyed two town houses, damaged eight others and forced the evacuation of 16 people.

“I just want to say that I did have concern for the people in the condos,” Hoffman said at his sentencing, according to the newspaper.

“Now that I think back about it, I would not have done it.”

Authorities allowed Hoffman to move to Ohio in 2007 after he was released on parole, which ended about a month ago. He had paid about $4,800 toward $2.06 million in restitu-tion, Colorado court system spokesman Jon Sarche said.

Knox County Prosecutor John Thatcher referred to the Colorado case when arguing for the $1 million bond.

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