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HITTING THE ROAD VICTIM-BLAMINGThe men’s soccer team goes on the road again, maintaining its focus in search of its eighth win against Indiana University- Purdue University Ft. Wayne. | PAGE 3

In focus editor Ashley Hardwick criticizes those blaming Janay Rice and her deci-sion. She thinks individuals need education about domestic violence before assuming one’s reasoning for staying. | PAGE 4

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HOW HAS COLLEGE EXPANDED YOUR CULTURAL AWARENESS?

“It’s made me come to respect other peoples’ religion/cultural heritage and not force my own upon them.”

Firm estimates losses outweigh league fees paid by members nationwide

JOHN CLEVENGER | THE BG NEWSMEMBERS OF the Falcon Marching Band rehearse Tuesday for their homecoming show.

Path starts downtown, ends on campus

Fantasy fooball costs billions in lost productivity

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By Denny

McCarthyReporter

For journal-ist Lawrence

Pinta k, being immersed in the

world of Islam is no alien concept, but rath-

er, a pivotal point of his career.

In an effort by the World Affair Council of Northwest

Ohio, Pintak spoke at the University Tuesday about his

experience in the Middle East and the American media’s misrepresenta-

tive portrayals of other cultures.“We don’t graze the media,” Pintak

said. “We don’t take in a variety of view-points. We go to the media organization

that ref lects back to us our preconceived notion. Anywhere you look, you see the world

By Jon StinchcombReporter

While more and more people are playing fantasy football, the impact it has on work, school and friends may not be what some would expect.

Over the past 10 years, the number of Americans partici-pating in fantasy sports has more than tripled to an esti-mated 41.5 million, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.

The FSTA is an organization comprised of over 200 mem-ber companies in the fantasy sports industry and is one of the leading researchers in this continually expanding social phenomenon.

According to demographic research by the FSTA, the vast majority of these millions are college-educated males whose favorite fantasy sport is football.

Just under half of them pay league fees. At an average of $52 per player, it accounts for a U.S. market share of $1.71 billion.

While that may seem like a staggering amount of money, there is evidence that the game’s impact on workplace productiv-ity amounts to much more.

Cha llenger, Gray and Christmas, Inc., an outplace-ment consulting firm in Chicago, sought to find out how much of the time spent on fantasy football occurred while players were at work and the resulting amount of lost productivity.

Using the FSTA’s statistics on time spent by players and the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data on average earnings for the spe-cific demographic, Challenger, Gray and Christmas found that fantasy football may cost employers $13.4 billion in lost productivity. That was based on a “conservative” estimate of only two hours per week spent while on the job.

“We are not trying to demon-ize fantasy football,” said the firm’s CEO, John A. Challenger, in a statement. “It is impor-tant to understand that there are more distractions than ever in today’s workplace. If it’s not fantasy football, it’s the latest Hollywood gossip, shopping on Amazon, or checking Facebook.”

Students at the University who play fantasy football seemed to affirm these findings.

Dylan Fultz, a freshman majoring in middle childhood

education, said he sometimes checks his fantasy teams dur-ing work or class. Fultz is in three different leagues and said he spends about two hours per week managing those teams.

“I play with friends just for fun,” Fultz said. “I really want to win though.”

Freshman Josh Pomplas said he considers winning pretty important as well. Pomplas is in a paid league and said he has occasionally finds himself managing his fantasy team during class.

“I probably spend around an hour a day on my fantasy team,” Pomplas said.

Whether it’s setting starting lineups, checking the waiver wire or reading the latest from the plethora of experts online, managing a fantasy football team takes time. Doing it well takes even more.

In fact, despite the potential for a seemingly large loss in productivity, Challenger said an across-the-board ban on fan-tasy sports can actually back-fire on employers. It can cause a drop in morale, loyalty and,

By Jon StinchcombReporter

The University’s homecoming parade has long been a tradi-tion allowing current students to showcase their organiza-tions to returning alumni, but this year’s events are expand-ing to embrace an even broader community.

As a result, the most promi-nent change is to the parade route. The route will now begin at the corner of South Grove and Wooster Streets on the west end. It will head east, marching through downtown, through campus and ending on Mercer.

“This route came to fruition after collaboration with city leaders and members of the Homecoming Student Steering Committee,” said Christopher Bullins, the University’s associ-ate dean of students.

Bullins said the city of Bowling Green and the University share a “tremendously strong partner-ship.” Through this, members of both communities expressed interest in extendending the parade route and including a new downtown component, he said.

Bowling Green Municipal Administrator John Fawcett said the new route reflects the desire of both the city’s and University’s administrations for all homecoming events to be more inclusive of the entire community.

“We thought it was important to make the downtown a part of the parade route, hoping it will serve as an invitation to residents to partake in home-coming activities, capped off by

A BALANCEDPERSPECTIVE

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ABOVE, BOTTOM RIGHT: Journalist Lawrence Pintak speaks to students in room 207 of the Union about American news coverage of the Middle East.

ERIC BURGASSER | THE BG NEWS

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Speaker touches on American news coverage of Middle East, shares views

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PINTAK IS the founding dean of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University.

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their attending Saturday’s football game,” Fawcett said.

Bullins said they’re also encouraging the com-munity to participate in events prior to the parade such as the pep rally at 12:45 p.m. in Falcon Tailgate Park. The rally will be emceed by basket-ball head coaches Jennifer Roos and Chris Jans.

In addit ion, t he Homecoming Student Steering Committee even invited Mayor Richard Edwards to ride in the parade. The mayor happily accepted, Fawcett said.

“We are hoping with the new extension of the route, and the inclusion of the community, that all will feel welcome to attend our kickoff event,

Falconpalooza, which takes place on University Lawn immediately follow-ing the parade,” said Julia Hage, president of the steering committee.

This year the parade will feature campus organiza-tions, community groups, University and city VIPs and more, with more than 105 units for all of Bowling Green, alumni, and cur-rent students to enjoy, Hage said.

Among those is the Falcon Marching Band, although its entrance will be a little different this year.

Carol Hayward, direc-tor of the Falcon Marching and Athletic Bands, said they are aware of how important it is for the band to be part of the parade, but they did have to make some compromises due to the change in route and start time.

“We are doing our best to accommodate the route and time change with a compromise for us which involves joining the parade as it arrives on campus,” Hayward said.

With the event begin-ning downtown at 4:30 p.m., Hayward said it was difficult with the band’s rehearsal sched-ule. However, they decid-ed to end rehearsal early, she said, and will join the parade once it reach-es campus then contin-ue the march eastward on Wooster.

Overall, the new route was about expanding to include both more of cam-pus and the surrounding community, Hage said.

“I think this route change demonstrates the continued partnership and excellent relationship between BGSU and the city,” Bullins said.

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Women’s golf team led by senior duo over the weekend

Tony Romo is better than you think, much better

America’s team has quickly become America’s most hated team, and it all begins with the guy under center.

Tony Romo is the most criti-cized player in the National Football League, and he might just hold that same title in all of professional sports.

Critics claim that Romo isn’t clutch, untimely turnovers are his calling card and he simply can’t win the big game.

However, there is much more to Tony Romo than a botched PAT snap-and-hold eight years ago and the quirky interception that is played over and over again on SportsCenter.

Tony Romo has proven, time and time again, that he belongs in the conversation as one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, and has been for some time now.

Sure, his 1-3 playoff record is dis-couraging and his 66-46 record is nothing to write home about, but Tony Romo has a long list of sta-tistics and accomplishments that separate him from his peers.

Romo has won 57 percent of his games started, a slightly better per-centage than his predecessor, Troy Aikman, a three-time Super Bowl champion, a hall-of-fame inductee and arguably the greatest quarter-back to wear the star on his helmet.

These wins, yes, actual victo-ries, are not just coming from his supporting cast either. Romo has consistently put up unprecedented numbers, year in and year out.

Romo holds the Cowboys’ fran-

chise record for career passing touchdowns with 212, which is near-ly two per game. This is good for the third highest touchdown percent-age among active quarterbacks in the NFL, behind only Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning.

Romo isn’t just blindly throwing the ball either, although some may recklessly argue as such, as he effi-ciently gets his team to the end zone as well.

He holds the sixth highest com-pletion percentage in NFL histo-ry, 64.7 percent, good enough for fourth best among active quarter-backs. Again, behind just Rodgers, P. Manning and Drew Brees.

But, if touchdowns and comple-tions aren’t what you’re looking for from your quarterback, maybe his passer rating will tickle your fancy.

Romo holds a 95.6 career passer rating, the fourth highest among all active quarterbacks and fifth high-est all time. This again places him behind Rodgers, P. Manning, Philip Rivers and former 49ers signal-call-er, Steve Young.

The passer rating is simply a measure of performance for quar-terbacks. The formula used by the NFL accounts for passing attempts, completions, yards, touchdowns and interceptions, as a way to deter-mine the league’s passing leader.

However, ESPN has since created its own measure of quarterbacks, attempting to provide a meaning-ful alternative to the general pass-er rating. The statistic is a general scale from 1-100 with an average score of 50, referred to as the Total Quarterback Rating in which cer-tain, more important plays, are graded with greater emphasis.

Tony Romo has a career QBR of 64.74, just a few points lower than

Tom Brady’s 71.75 career score.But enough of what Romo can do;

he is sure to find a way to mess it up.Romo not only gives the ball away,

but he always throws the intercep-tion at the “wrong time.”

Again, Romo proved this to be a fabrication as well.

He holds a career 93.1 passer rat-ing in the final two minutes of a game, the highest rating among all active quarterbacks. He also holds a passer rating in the entire fourth quarter of 102.1, again, highest among all active quarterbacks and five points higher than second best, Aaron Rodgers.

Romo has just two career post-season interceptions in four playoff games, good for a 1.5 playoff pass-to-interception percentage, fifth best among active quarterbacks.

Regardless of Romo’s undeniable numbers, Romo still isn’t clutch and never will be.

But wait, the lie detector test [or the statistics] determined that too was a lie.

Romo has engineered 24 game winning drives in just 112 games, more than Cowboy greats Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach. Yes, including Staubach, who was often referred to as “Captain Comeback.”

Romo has also accumulated 21 fourth quarter comebacks in his near seven seasons worth of games started. That’s enough for sixth most among active quarterbacks, behind P. Manning, Brees, Brady, Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger, but again, more than Aikman and Staubach.

In addition to the numbers Romo has put forth, he has done so with a lackluster supporting cast.

Men’s soccer team looks to capture eighth victory of season

Brandon Shrider Assistant Sports Editor

By Trevor ThompsonReporter

The Bowling Green women’s golf team went to Rochester, Michigan this weekend for Oakland University’s Golden Grizzlies Invitational at the Katke-Cousins Golf Course.

The Falcons have been roll-ing along lately as they earned a third straight third place fin-ish. The Falcons as a team had a combined score of 626 [+50].

The Falcons were led by seniors Shelby Wilson and Patricia Holt. Wilson scored two rounds of 77 [+5] and that gave her a score of 154 [+10], enough for a tie for fourth-place. Holt scored rounds of 77 [+5] and 79 [+7] to give her a combined score of 156 [+12] which was good for seventh-place.

Junior Hannah Lewis started out the event by scoring a first round of 86 [+14] but in the second round shot very well as she scored 72 par and that gave her an overall score of 158 [+14] and vaulted her into 13th place overall.

Head coach Stephanie Young was once again proud of her team’s performance at the event.

“We saw a lot of improve-ment today overall and made up a little bit of ground, but it wasn’t enough to catch the teams ahead of us. It is a solid top-three finish on a challeng-ing golf course,” Young said. “It

was great to see a huge come-back from Hannah, who led us with six birdies and an even par round. The team will get back to work and get ready for Cincinnati next week.”

Ohio won the team champi-onship, as they finished with a score of 618 [+42], while host Oakland finished in second with a team score of 624 [+48].

The Falcons’ next event will be at Bearcat Classic hosted by the University of Cincinnati on Oct. 6-7 at the TPC River’s Bend Golf Course in Maineville, Ohio.

The Bowling Green men’s golf team participated at the Badger Invitational in Madison, Wisconsin on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The Falcons fin-ished for a tie for ninth-place overall with a combine team score of 916 [+52].

Sophomore Jose Narro scored rounds of 77 [+5], 71 [-1] and 76 [+4] to give him an overall score of 224 [+8] which was good for 21st place. Ryan Triller scored rounds of 73 [+1], 78[+6] and 74 [+2] to give him an overall score 225 [+9] which was good for 28th place.

Head coach Kevin Farrell was pleased with his team’s efforts during the event.

“We played pretty good con-sidering the cold and windy weather conditions today,” Farrell said. “Jose and Brett struggled to make putts all day

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By Brandon ShriderAssistant Sports Editor

With just two losses on the season, the BG men’s soccer team goes to Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne with their sights set on capturing their eighth victory of the season.The game won’t be an easy one for the Falcons, however.

The Mastodons have lost just one of their past five games, scoring six goals during the stretch. That’s the same number of losses and one less goal than the Falcons have accumulated over the same

span.Despite the numbers, IPFW holds a 3-3-3 record for the season placing them 173 of 205 in the Division-I

men’s soccer rankings. The 7-2 Falcons are ranked 100 in the same pool.The Falcons have been one of the premier scoring teams in the nation, fourth in the nation in goals-per-

game at just over two-and-a-half, and featuring the nation’s most proficient goal scorer in the country, Pat Flynn.

However, it has been the strength of the defense that has led to the Falcons’ success.“Concentration on the defensive side of the ball has been really good,” said head coach Eric Nichols. “The orga-

nization and the playmaking have been good. For us to have any sort of success, it has to start on the defensive side of the ball.”

Despite the early-season success on both sides of the ball, the Falcons are still eager to improve as Mid-American Conference play approaches.

“We still need to improve, but it’s just bits and pieces here and there. The really small things,” said junior defender Jake Genrich.

It’s these little things that will ultimately define the season for the Falcons.A 7-2 record to date is a positive for the Falcons, but they have aspirations for a MAC championship and they must find

ways to be victorious as the season continues.“It’s always harder to win games in college,” said sophomore forward Pat Flynn. “But our team motto is do whatever

you can to get the win.”The team just needs to continue playing as a team to get the results it wants, said senior midfielder Danny Baraldi.

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REMAINfalcons

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I’ve tried my best to avoid the topic of domestic violence. However, sitting in women’s study class with tears about to fall from my eyes after watching a docu-mentary on battered women, I decided that this subject is not only crucial, but one that people need to be better edu-cated on as well. For example, the Ray Rice controversy. On numerous occasions, I have had in-depth discussions with individuals in which they excused his behavior. They claimed that the media exploited the inci-dent and that the now-suspended NFL player’s actions need to be overlooked. One reason, they claimed, was because “she” stayed. Or this one is even better: “Ray Rice’s wife” stayed. Her name is Janay. And anyone I’ve discussed this issue with should be intelligent enough to know she is a victim, not the person to blame. This column is not about the NFL; it’s not about the Ravens, the decision made or even Rice. This is about Janay. That’s where everyone’s focus should be. We need to educate ourselves on the possible reasons why a battered woman would stay in an abusive relationship, not shame them. If it can happen in a public eleva-tor in an Atlantic City casino, imagine what kind of abuse is happening behind closed doors— that thought alone terri-fies me. According to the documentary we watched in class [the one that triggered

me emotionally], women who leave abusive relationships increase their chances of being murdered by their abusers by 75 percent. According to The Washington Post’s website, three women are killed by their partners each day. And four out of every five victims of domestic violence are women. While many people question Janay’s intentions throughout her marriage, some even criticize her saying the only reason for staying with her husband is for financial security— I believe there are more factors to consider. A victim of domestic violence could be impacted emotionally as well as mentally. An abusive relationship doesn’t always involve physically hurting a partner; It’s more than that. Victims typically feel as if it is their fault and that they have failed their marriages. Often times, if there is a child involved it gives the victim more of an incentive to stay. Perhaps they stay in hopes of fixing their relationships. Or maybe to ensure their child’s safety, as children can be used as a weapon against the victim. Another factor to consider is the cycle of abuse. Honestly, does anyone really believe

Janay’s husband always subjects her to vio-lence? Typically, this is not the case. But that doesn’t mean the one visual act of evidence we have is excused. There’s what we call ‘the honeymoon phase.’ This happens after any abuse, verbal and physical. During this ‘phase’ [because it is just a phase] the manipulator makes the victim feel special and loved. He will remind her why she fell in love with him in the first place. He will promise her all these great things and promise the abuse will never happen again. As a result, and after all the manipula-tion, she will be convinced everything is her fault. Instead of assuming why Janay stayed, let’s give her credit for dealing with such a tough decision. Let’s not assume she’s staying for financial stability, but maybe because her husband has manipulated her into thinking the abuse is her fault. Maybe she really loves him and believes all of his hopeless promises. It’s called the cycle of abuse for a rea-son and we can only hope that one day she realizes her worth, and that when she does, she doesn’t face the emotional trauma he has inflicted on her life thus far. Hopefully, one day, she can move on and not be a statistic.

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In my column two weeks ago, I com-pared the public university to the goose that lays golden eggs.

In Aesop’s famous fable, a farmer and his wife live well off the weekly golden egg, but decide that there must be a lot of gold in that goose. So they cut her open to find it.

Of course, they lose the goose and do not find the gold they had hoped for.

Our post-oil-crisis, post-Reagan, post-Cold-War, post-9/11, post-2008 economic and political systems could not abide by the idea that there was a huge sector in our society, the public universities, that was not for profit, pri-marily tax-payer funded and mainly run in order to produce educated grad-uates whom I described in my previ-ous column as independent, aware and adaptable citizens.

For 30 years or more, we have made the collective decision through our elected representatives that this system should be turned into a for-profit, pri-marily customer-funded structure that produces the golden eggs of trained labor and trained consumers.

The decline in state funding, the resulting steady increase in tuition and the need to assume large debts [this is where the profit comes in] is not a natural phenomenon or the product of inexorable economic forces.

It is based on a changed policy: the main responsibility for higher educa-tion was shifted from the body politic to

those being educated. Students stopped being protégés of

the society at large. They were now largely on their own.

The education they received changed from a public good to a private qualifi-cation, between them and their poten-tial employer.

For many, the nature of employment changed too, from the pursuit of your “passion” to the pursuit of a job that might at least provide a roof over your head and transportation to work while paying off years of debt.

What has this done to the golden egg, the “product” of higher education?

At one point the Ohio Board of Regents website flatly stated that the “product of higher education is graduations.”

Not graduates, but graduations. You won’t find that revealing state-

ment there anymore, perhaps because for the system to work, it has to at least give lip service to individual outcomes.

One way to produce graduations and keep costs down is to make the teach-ing faculty more manageable, meaning more subject to market forces.

Standing in the way of this manage-ability is the long tradition of tenure,

which guarantees academic freedom and the faculty’s professional status.

Such a tradition is hard to get rid of. It has defined the modern univer-

sity since it was developed in the nine-teenth century.

And so instead of getting rid of ten-ure, public [and private] universities have gradually been getting rid of the tenured.

The majority of college teaching is now done by adjunct faculty, low-paid teachers who are typically hired course-by-course according to need.

The perennial academic values of loyalty to the institution, extracurricu-lar involvement in students’ individual growth and time for the professional development and research that keeps instruction current and lively, are being replaced by existential uncertainty, direct competition with colleagues and a resultant erosion of institutional iden-tity, which is one of the selling points of any university.

The goose is still alive, but it is harder for her to produce eggs because the farmer and his wife keep squeezing her, trying to force her to make those eggs at the pace the market seems to demand.

All this manhandling just makes the magic fowl less and less able to lay golden eggs.

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This fall, the University of California at Berkeley celebrates the 50th anni-versary of the Free Speech Movement.

For those not alive dur-ing this time, its fallout has proven to be a very mixed blessing on American cam-puses today.

In fairness, it did succeed in limiting some excesses of the university administra-tion back then.

But, as is often the case, the baby was thrown out with the bath water.

The student radicals of the day grew older, but a few never truly grew up.

Some are now members of what Saul Bellow called the “Good Intensions Paving Company,” a play on the proverb “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

They believe that humans can be perfected if only some of the more reaction-ary members of the species would step aside and let those with [allegedly] more knowledge run the show.

Of course, these anoint-ed ones usually work for some university or govern-ment entity and are always ready, willing and able to devise some new program or initiative.

These programs will cost money, but think of the divi-dends in human happiness or progress or equity or what-ever the current goal du jour may be!

Besides, we can always tax the rich.

Many of the wealthy built businesses but, as everyone knows, they really didn’t build it themselves.

There’s an army of people at the university— any uni-versity— that must imple-ment a program or initiative and file report after report to

feed the government’s statis-tical grist mills.

Any HR representative will testify about the expansion of work in the profession.

What’s also troubling is the one-sidedness of some course offerings.

There is evidently only one way to think about American History, Political Science or any other course dealing with hot-button topics.

Woe betides anyone utter-ing a good word about the Robber Barons, the capital-ists or the anti-Communists.

The thought control of UC Berkeley’s administration has been replaced by that of the Progressives.

Fortunately, saner influ-ences are arising on cam-pus today, which are blunt-ing some of the excesses of the Good Intentions Paving Company.

The growth of Christian student groups, the increas-ingly moderate tone of some feminists, the growing dis-satisfaction with groups that excessively play the “victim” card are all positive signs that today’s students are taking a more moderate approach toward social causes and politics.

As is often the case, Churchill is reported to have said it best. “If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.”

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“Companies that not only allow workers to enjoy fantasy football, but actually encourage it by orga-nizing company leagues are likely to see significant benefits in morale, which, in turn leads to an overall boost in productivity as well as employee retention,” Challenger said.

Students at the University seemed to share this positive sentiment about the game.

Austin Smith, a sophomore busi-ness major, said he doesn’t really check his fantasy team during work or class, but does spend up to an hour a week managing it. He plays against his friends but said it is not a strain.

“Most of the time it’s just friendly competition,” Smith said.

Fultz said he thinks fantasy foot-ball is more likely to strengthen friendships as well, even after light-

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Fultz also said there is a slightly stressful element to playing.

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differently. Some of it is consciously skewed, some of it is just skewed because of the audience or those preconceived notions.”

Pintak’s informal Q-and-A ses-sion and lecture took place in room 207 of the Union. About 30 students and faculty interested in journal-ism and multicultural affairs lis-tened to Pintak speak about domes-tic coverage of foreign crises and social justice.

Formerly a reporter for major news outlets including ABC, CBS, CNN, Time and Newsweek, Pintak now works at Washington State University as the founding dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. He said there is a big difference between reporting in the Middle East during his time as a reporter compared to now.

“One of the most fundamental things that has changed is how jour-nalists cover the world,” Pintak said, “is the fact that people now cut our heads off.”

As a CBS foreign correspondent, Pintak covered the Marine barracks bombings in Beruit. He was able to

interview the bombers the day after the bombings. Pinktak said that if reporters were to attempt to inter-view terrorists today, they would “lose their head.”

The number of foreign correspon-dents has dwindled in recent years due in part to the fear of being kid-napped. Pintak said the silver lin-ing of the decline is that more local reporters, meaning local people, are reporting on their own events for American organizations, changing their “prisms” of cultural awareness.

Pintak has reported on landmark events while corresponding in the Middle East, including the Iran-Iraq War, the invasion of Lebanon, the Libyan invasion of Chad and the kidnapping of U.S. citizens, among others. He said that in his time as a reporter in the region, he has noticed that news organizations have con-sistent biases relating to cultures they aren’t part of, making Muslims an “other” to American media.

“He said the problem with this coverage is that Americans report about what ‘we do’ and what ‘they are,’” Pintak said, referencing a book by Palestinian American intellec-tual Edward Said. “This effectively means we all make mistakes, you’re an aberration, you’re different than

the rest of us, you killed this guy but that’s just because you’re a nut, but if a Muslim does it, it’s something in the DNA. You really do see this play out in perceptions of stories.”

Pintak’s speech preceded another event scheduled at the University of Toledo on Tuesday. Office of Multicultural Affairs Assistant Director Krishna Han is on the council that f lew Pintak to Ohio. She said he was glad he found an available time for him to speak at the University.

“It’s a great opportunity for us to listen to somebody who has such a unique experience,” Han said. “I figured it’s not only the school of journalism that’s appreciative of his talk, but also for people who study international relations.”

Derya Dogan, a Muslim second-year graduate student studying cross-cultural and internation-al education, said Pintak brought up objective viewpoints that she has only heard Middle Eastern media mention.

“I don’t think it was totally on the side of the Muslims or totally on the side of Americans,” Dogan said. “I think he was lecturing from both sides, which is cool and very impor-tant.”

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During the Romo era, the Cowboys have featured the 19th ranked defense and the 23rd ranked rushing attack.

Thus, Romo has repeat-edly proven that he is, and will continue to be, one of the best quarterbacks to take the field on Sundays. He has consistently put his team in a position to win games in spite of the talent around him.

You may not think Tony Romo is a great quarter-back, but I suppose some-one has to be wrong.

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long, but Ryan [Triller], Holden [Pahr] and Eli [Stacy] all shot lower today than they did yes-terday. Overall we fin-ished the tournament on a high note.”

Sam Houston State got the team win with a tour-nament score of 871 [+7].

The Falcons’ next event will be at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate hosted by N.C. State University at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course in Raleigh, N.C. on Oct. 6-7.

However, ‘a team’ is something the Falcons are still starting to use.

For most of the season, the Falcons have used just one starting lineup, often using only one substitution per game.

Coach Nichols under-stands that a lack of depth will become problematic as the season progresses.

“Depth is definitely one thing we’re looking at,” Nichols said. “We’ve got some guys showing well in training, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see some more guys soon. They have to

play their way in, but they’re knocking on the door.”

This was evident on Sunday as redshirt-soph-omore goalkeeper Ryan Heuton received his first start for the Falcons, ulti-mately posting a shutout.

The Falcons will look to get more players involved as the season progress-es, but their goal will not waver: play defense, score goals and find a way to win games.

They have been success-ful thus far, but now they will look to be 8-2 with a victory over IPFW.

“What happened in the past doesn’t matter,” Nichols said. “It’s all about the next game.”

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