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KRISTA ELVEYSenior, Environmental Science

Do you think it’s hard to get an on-campus job?

“No, because I’ve never tried.” | Page 4

Muslim veils banned in FranceWith an overwhelming majority, the French Senate passed a ban on burqa-like veils for women living or traveling in the country | Page 7

Soccer player can now competeSweatpants show slothfulnessForum editor James Bero wants to alert students of their poor fashion sense and how sloppy and lazy they look when they choose to wear baggy sweat-pants | Page 4

Following the reversal of an NCAA ruling declaring her ineligible to play, freshman women’s soccer player Ivi Casagrande has taken the field for the Falcons | Page 5

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TYLER STABILE | THE BG NEWS

RIGHT: Sophomores Travell Davis and Rachel Woods look through a selection of items at the poster sale. The sale is located in the Union Multi-Purpose room through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

PERUSING FOR POSTERS AT THE UNION

By Savannah HayReporter

Tuesday evening, the Cla-Zel on North Main Street downtown filled with Democrats to watch the debate between Ted Strickland and John Kasich aired on the club’s projector screen.

The Wood County Democratic Party hosted the event at 7 p.m. The crowd was light at the begin-ning, but as the night went on more people trickled in.

Aiden Hubbell-Staeble of Bowling Green High School and

Nico Cabanillas of The Toledo School for the Arts, went to the event to find out more informa-tion on the two parties’ stances.

“[This election] is going to affect our future,” Hubbell-Staeble said. “If people just pick a name they like better [it’s] not going to end well.”

University sophomore Jon Heider said some major issues in the debate for him were education and the economy.

“Ted Strickland has a good track record. [He] is trying to keep momentum going from the ‘08

election,” he said. “Republicans will bring back the Bush era and that’s not what anybody wants.”

Mike Zickar, chair of the University’s psychology depart-ment, is also the Wood County Democratic Party chair. He said this election is important because it affects Ohioans directly.

“The Governor has more impact on your daily life than the President,” he said.

This past year it was cheaper for

Cla-Zel hosts Strickland-Kasich debate watch party

By Emily TuckerReporter

For the first time since Starbucks opened in the Union in 2005, gift cards are now accepted as a method of payment.

In the past, Starbucks did not accept gift cards. It took a year to get the system worked out and almost seven weeks to test it, said Director of Dining Services Mike Paulus.

He said the issue was getting the programming and account-ing through the registers. The technology department and BG1 Card Services helped with the programming.

“The gift card money sits on a dif-ferent data bank,” Paulus said. “We have to be able to grab the money and validate numbers.”

He said there haven’t been many students using gift cards, but it might catch on. For now, the location does not sell gift cards.

“It’s about providing levels of ser-vice for students,” he said. “We try to provide more and more every year.”

Karen Piotrowski, Starbucks

manager, said Dining Services has wanted to be able to accept gift cards for about five years, close to when it first opened.

“Since Chartwells was introduced and they have other Starbucks who take gift cards, it was a lot easier,” she said.

Although Starbucks does not sell gift cards, Piotrowski said Dining Services has thought about it.

“We have other gifts and holiday items that people can buy for fam-ily and friends,” she said. “But it’s nice for moms to buy Starbucks gift cards for their kids when they leave for college.”

In the past, Starbucks had to

ANDREA FEHL | THE BG NEWS

WATCH PARTY: Bowling Green residents Victoria Teneyck, Greg Litzenberg and Alex Bielen watch the debate between Ted Strickland and John Kasich at the Cla-Zel.

BELOW: Students browse the variety of art available for purchase at the semian-nual poster sale.

Gift cards now accepted at Union Starbucks

“Parents like to buy [gift cards] for their kids, and now they can use them

at the University.”Chrissy Daniel | Senior

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By Christine TalbertReporter

The Orange Bike Program is a bike-share program in which bicycles donated by local community members are made available for students, faculty and staff to use.

University Sustainability Coordinator and pro-gram creator Nick Hennessy said the program was created last fall and first started to generate membership in the spring.

“Once we established the rules and had the keys, we discovered it worked well enough to know that it is a viable program to have open campus-wide,” he said.

The orange bikes help students get to class faster than walking or driving, and since the bikes are donated by community members that do not want them anymore, they end up here

BIKES

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Orange Bike Program allows students to borrow bikes, help environment

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Pa. gov. looking into intel report on activists

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Ed Rendell says he is looking into an intelligence bulletin out of his homeland security office that lists events likely to be attended by environmental activists.

Questioned about news reports on the bulletin, Rendell said Tuesday he was not aware of how it was assembled but would find out.

James Powers, the governor’s homeland security director, told the Patriot-News of Harrisburg that he started inserting information about anti-drilling activists in the bulletins because of recent acts of vandalism around the state related to the natural gas industry.

The bulletin includes a list of municipal hearings, a forestry industry conference and a screening of the documentary

“Gasland” as events likely to be attended by anti-drilling activists.

Coroner confirms ID of 4th death in Calif. blast

SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — The coroner has confirmed that an 81-year-old woman is the fourth fatality identified in a massive gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb last week.

San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said Tuesday that Elizabeth Torres died in Thursday’s fire that consumed her San Bruno home.

Her grandson, Frank Torres, said his mother, aunt and uncle also were seriously hurt and are hospitalized with burn injuries.

According to property records, the family’s home was yards from the source of the blast.

Others confirmed dead from the explosion are 20-year-old Jessica Morales, 44-year-old Jacqueline Grieg and her 13-year-old daughter, Janessa.

Endangered bird dies on longline fishing hook

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An endangered bird once thought to be extinct has died after being caught on a longline commercial fishing hook in Alaska.

The American Bird Conservancy said the short-tailed albatross was killed in the Bering Sea. Federal officials said the death of the 7-year-old bird is the first such by a U.S. commercial fishing vessel since 1998.

The short-tailed albatross was once thought to be extinct but now numbers a few thousand. The dead animal had a metal leg band identifying it was from Torishima Island in Japan, where the majority of short-tailed albatross breed.

A federal program has helped greatly reduce the number of albatross deaths caused by commercial fishing. The problem is known as by-catch, or the unintended capture of a non-targeted species.

— Mary Pemberton (AP)

By Jennifer PeltzThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — The dispute was about ancient history. But the tactics someone used to cast aspersions on a prominent Judaic studies scholar couldn’t have been more modern.

New York University profes-

sor Lawrence Schiffman’s stu-dents and colleagues started getting panicked and confes-sional e-mails, in his name, that pointed them to blog posts accusing him of plagia-rism. Prosecutors say the e-mails and website posts were a hoax created by a lawyer on an idiosyncratic mission: to

champion his father and dis-credit Schiffman in a debate over the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The attorney, Raphael Golb, went on trial Tuesday on crim-inal charges of online imper-sonation and harassment for the sheer sake of coloring opinion. The case is a rarity:

While impersonation claims have generated civil lawsuits, prosecutions are few unless phony identities are used to steal money, experts have said.

Golb, 50, has pleaded not guilty to identity theft, crimi-nal impersonation and other charges. He hasn’t acknowl-edged crafting the messages,

but his lawyers said the plagia-rism allegations are true, and the writings amount to typi-cal blogosphere banter — not crime.

Manhattan prosecutors said Golb mounted an elabo-rate, carefully cloaked effort to promote his father’s side in a rarefied but vigorous

scholarly dispute over which ancient Jews wrote the more than 2,000-year-old scrolls. Found in the 1940s in Israel, the scrolls include the earli-est known version of por-tions of the Hebrew Bible and have shed important light on Judaism and the beginnings of Christianity.

Dead Sea Scrolls debate spurs New York criminal trial over online tacticsCourt questions whether e-mail hoax over potential identity theft, plagiarism case is simple blogosphere banter or criminal impersonation

Dean stabbed at Kansas City community college

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A dean of a Kansas City community college is recovering after being stabbed in the neck while he stood with other administrators awaiting the arrival of Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon.

The stabbing occurred Tuesday morning at Penn Valley Community College, where Nixon was to have held a news conference. Nixon was still at the airport at the time.

The dean’s name has not been released. The school is part of the Metropolitan Community College system. A spokeswoman for system chancellor Mark James said the dean was in stable condition after surgery.

A witness told The Associated Press that several people, including the chancellor, pulled the attacker off the dean and held him until police arrived. The suspect, who was described only as a man in his 20s, was being held by police.

— John Hanna (AP)

Feds seek to halt inmate’s frequent lawsuits

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A federal inmate who has filed more than 3,800 lawsuits and targeted the famous, the infamous and even the long-dead is now being sued by federal officials who want him to knock it off.

Federal prosecutors who said they have had enough of the frivolous filings have filed a lawsuit of their own asking a judge to take unusual action to stop Jonathan Lee Riches.

Since 2006, Riches has filed lawsuits in nearly every jurisdiction in the country, court documents show. The inmate who dubbed himself “Lawsuit Zeus” in one of his thousands of court cases has filed up to four of his handwritten petitions a day in Kentucky courts alone.

The 33-year-old inmate at the federal prison in Lexington has sued New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, former President George W. Bush, then-Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and even Somali pirates. Sometimes, Riches asks for money, other times an injunction to stop alleged, if physically impossible, activity.

— Brett Barrouquere (AP)

La. man charged in 4 mobilehome killings

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Authorities in Louisiana say a man who shared a mobile home where four people were killed has been charged with first-degree murder in their deaths.

Calcasieu (KAL’-kuh-soo) Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said Tuesday that investigators believe 52-year-old Lee Roy Williams Jr. acted alone. The sheriff described the killings as “brutal murders” but he wouldn’t say how they were killed Sept. 3.

He also said Williams may have sold or traded some important evidence, though he wouldn’t describe the items.

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MON., SEPT. 139:44 A.M.An iPod 2GB Nano and three pairs of shoes were reported sto-len from a vehicle within the 400 block of N. Prospect St.

1:57 P.M.An unlocked bike was reported stolen from within the 400 block of Thurstin Ave.

3:38 P.M.Stella Ping Huang, 51, of Bowling Green, was cited for theft at Meijer.

4:38 P.M.A phone was reported sto-len from a vehicle parked at Wal-Mart.

5:36 P.M.Michael Crawford, of Grandview Heights, Ohio, was cited for possession of marijuana at McDonald East Hall.

6:38 P.M.A complainant called to report that she tripped over a manhole cover on Conklin Drive.

8:27 P.M.Melissa J. Zemanski, 52, of Bowling Green, was cited for operating a vehicle impaired near the corner of West Poe and Wintergarden roads.

10:25 P.M.A game of naked beer pong was reported within the 1000 block of E. Wooster St. No one was found to be lacking clothing, but residents were advised to take the game inside and close the blinds.

TUES., SEPT. 148:36 A.M.An American flag was reported stolen from within the 1100 block of Haskins Road.

turn people away when they tried to use gift cards. Piotrowski said the cashiers turned 10 to 20 people away every day. Now, students are using gift cards every day.

Senior Chrissy Daniel said she does not drink Starbucks very often, but she has a gift card that she plans on using in the future.

“If my friends call me and want to go get coffee, then I’ll go with them,” she said.

“If I have a gift card, I will use it eventually.”

Daniel said she likes to be creative when she buys gifts, so she wouldn’t buy a Starbucks gift card if the Union started selling them.

“Even though I wouldn’t buy one, I think it’s a good idea that students can use gift cards now,” Daniel said. “Parents like to buy them for their kids, and now they can use them at the University.”

COFFEE From Page 1

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

on campus rather than in a landfill, helping to keep the city green, Hennessy said.

The idea to have orange bikes for everyone on cam-pus to use for getting to and from class as well as for rec-reational purposes was first thought of after seeing other campuses with similar pro-grams, Hennessy said.

“[Ohio State University] has a program where students can swipe their ID card, so the uni-versity has their information, and rent a bicycle for let’s say, two days at a time. They have that bike for 48 hours and can use it to get to places around campus or take it around the Columbus area for exercise. That student is then respon-sible to return the bike when it is due,” he said.

“But here, if someone is part of the program, they are given a key to unlock an orange bike

from one of the bike racks, use it anywhere on campus and return it to whatever bike rack they want — it doesn’t have to be the same one they got it from. It’s like a taxi service.”

Hennessy said he was excited to see how many people were interested in the Orange Bike program during Campus Fest.

The program is 100 percent volunteer based; no one is on work study or gets paid but it’s for students who wish to donate their time.

The bikes used for the program are donated through Campus Police. The used bikes that are damaged or abandoned are impounded by Campus Police and are reported to the municipal court.

After a certain period of time, the University is given ownership of the bikes, and they are then donated to the program. Donations from faculty and community members also contribute to

the bike inventory.Environmental science

and international stud-ies major Gabriel Morgan said he fully supports what the Orange Bike Program is doing.

“The program has been implemented at other schools and has been made wildly successful,” Morgan said. “The more people aware of this program and the more people involved, the better.”

Marketing and advertising for the program is impor-tant so that more people are aware they can use any one of these orange bikes for free, anytime during the year, Morgan said.

“Imagine so many orange bikes that students no lon-ger need to bring their own or even their cars to school because it’s unnecessary,” he said. “We don’t need everyone to ride a bike right now — we need a shift in consciousness.”

BIKES From Page 1

By Andrew TaylorThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In a win for President Barack Obama and his political allies, Senate Democrats on Tuesday won a crucial vote to clear the way for a bill to create a $30 billion govern-ment fund to help open up lending for credit-starved small businesses.

Democrats cracked a GOP filibuster of the bill with the help of two Republicans: Sens. George Voinovich of Ohio and George LeMieux of Florida.

The 61-37 tally sets the stage for a final vote later this week to return the mea-sure to the House, which is likely to approve it for Obama’s signature.

The bill is probably the last piece of Democrats’ ambi-tious jobs agenda that would become law before midterm elections, which will deter-mine whether Democrats keep their majorities in the House and Senate. Democrats started the year with ambitious plans for a series of bills designed to boost the economy and job creation but have relative-ly little to show for it. The nationwide unemployment rate ticked up to 9.6 percent last month.

The new fund would be available to community banks with less than $10 bil-lion in assets to encourage lending to small businesses. The bill would combine the fund with about $12 billion in tax breaks aimed at both large and small businesses over the coming decade.

Democrats said banks should be able to use the lending fund to leverage

up to $300 billion in loans, helping to loosen tight credit markets. Some Republicans, however, have likened it to the unpopular bailout of the financial industry.

Democrats said the mea-sure is needed to help small businesses cope with a credit crunch that worsened dra-matically after the financial crisis two years ago.

“This bill is about righting a wrong that was done to small business when Wall Street closed Main Street down and cut off access to capital,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.

“Small businesses are holding off on hiring while they wait for us to act,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. “Banks large and small are holding onto their capital while they wait for us to act.”

On Tuesday, Republicans focused their attention on amendments to ease a requirement in Obama’s health care overhaul bill that businesses file tax forms called 1099s for every ven-dor that sells them more than $600 in goods. Business groups say it would create a paperwork nightmare for small businesses. Competing Democratic and GOP mea-sures to address the matter each failed.

Democrats had hoped to pass the bill in July, but

they couldn’t win any GOP converts and fell just short of defeating a filibuster that was called because Democrats blocked Republicans from offering unrelated amendments.

The small business tax cuts in the bill include breaks for restaurant owners and retailers who remodel their stores or build new ones. Larger businesses could more quickly recover the costs of capital improve-ments through depreciation. Long-term investors in some small businesses would be exempt from paying capital gains taxes. And loan caps under the Small Business Administration’s chief lend-ing program would be sig-nificantly raised.

The measure also would allow small business owners to deduct the costs of health insurance for themselves and their families from self-employment taxes, but only for the 2010 tax year.

Much of the bill would be paid for by allowing taxpayers to convert 401(k) and govern-ment retirement accounts into Roth accounts, in which they pay taxes up front on the money they contribute, enabling them to withdraw it tax-free after they retire. Taxpayers who convert accounts this year would pay the taxes in 2011 and 2012, generating an estimated $5.1 billion.

Democrats’ small business credit plan clears Senate hurdle

“This bill is about righting a wrong that was done to small business when Wall

Street closed Main Street down and cut off access to capital.”

Maria Cantwell | Senator

some Ohioans to go to col-lege outside of state, which Zickar said was an issue.

“Why send your best and brightest out of state? Then

they’ll never come back,” Zickar said.

Governor Strickland was one of the first gov-ernors in all 50 states to put forth a tuition freeze, which Zickar said is mak-ing Ohio universities more affordable.

The Democrats have a great candidate, Zickar said, but are scared about the election.

“Nat iona l ne w s i s u n f a v o r a b l e ,” h e sa id. “[But G over nor Str ick land is] 50 t imes t he better ca ndidate.”

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In address to students, Obama stresses personal responsibility

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama took to the nation’s air-waves once again, this time to tell America’s schoolchil-dren that nothing is beyond their reach as long as they dream big, work hard and focus on learning.

Obama made that point Tuesday at a Philadelphia school when he delivered his second back-to-school pep talk.

“Nobody gets to write your destiny but you,” Obama said in the speech, which the White House released a day early Monday so peo-ple could read the remarks beforehand and judge the contents for themselves.

“Your future is in your hands. Your life is what you make of it. And noth-ing — absolutely nothing

— is beyond your reach. So long as you’re willing to dream big. So long as you’re willing to work hard. So long as you’re willing to stay focused on your edu-cation,” he said.

After the White House announced last year’s speech, some conserva-tives accused Obama of trying to foist a political agenda on children. Some parents threatened to pull their children from class rather than have them hear directly from the president.

A similar outcry is largely missing this year.

In his speech the presi-dent urged students to stay in school, study hard

and take responsibility for their education. Obama long has said an educated work force will help the U.S. compete globally in the 21st century.

He hit that note again, telling students that noth-ing will affect their suc-cess in life as much as their education.

“The kinds of opportuni-ties that are open to you will be determined by how far you go in school,” Obama said. “In other words, the far-ther you go in school, the far-ther you’ll go in life.”

Raised by a single mother who often rose before dawn to tutor him before they went to work and school, Obama said government, educators and parents have a responsi-bility to prepare students for classroom success. But stu-dents have responsibilities too, he said.

“Here’s your job: Showing up to school on time. Paying attention in class. Doing your homework. Studying for exams. Staying out of trou-ble,” Obama said. “That kind of discipline and drive — the kind of hard work — is abso-lutely essential for success.”

Obama said he knows that’s true because he didn’t always have the drive. He used his earlier-in-life slacking-off as a motivating example.

In the speech, he recalled a conversation with his moth-er about his slipping grades, how he hadn’t started filling out college applications and how he was being “casual”

about his future. He started to tell her he didn’t need to hear that, but Obama said she cut him off, gave him a hard stare and asked if he remembered what it was like to put in a little effort. Obama said hearing that from his mother jolted him.

“But eventually, her words had their intended effect,” he said. “I got serious about my studies. I made an effort. And I began to see my grades — and my prospects — improve. And I know that if hard work could make the difference for me, it can make the dif-ference for you, too.”

Obama went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a law degree from Harvard University, two of the nation’s best schools. He served in the Illinois State Senate and the U.S. Senate before being elected presi-dent in 2008.

In the speech, Obama also announced the second Commencement Challenge, a nationwide contest in which schools compete to land him as their gradua-tion speaker. He spoke at Kalamazoo Central High School’s graduation in Kalamazoo, Mich., last June.

“Your future is in your hands. Your life is what you

make of it.”Barack Obama | President

DID YOU KNOW...

There is a Ding Dong, Texas.

Ding Dong is an unincorporated community in Central Texas. It is situated on the Lampasas River, eight miles south of Killeen in

southwestern Bell County

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“Once we established the rules and had the keys, we discovered it worked well enough to know that it is a viable program to have open campus-wide.” — Sustainability Coordinator Nick Hennessy on the University’s bike rental program [see story, pg. 1].

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CALLING ALL COLUMNISTS & CARTOONISTS!

That’s it, I am done eating. I am going on a diet. My butt

looks huge in these pants.

In most cases, you don’t necessarily need to diet, you just need to buy pants that fit your body shape. This usu-ally means not buying pants that are too tight, but for today’s issue, not ones that are too big and make you look like an Oompa Loompa.

Is it ever acceptable to wear sweatpants in public? Writer Sean Macaulay at the Daily Beast calls sweatpants

“the universal wardrobe shorthand for sloth and las-situde” in “Our Sweatpants Nightmare.” He said wear-ing sweatpants in public is a lack of social responsibility by the younger generation.

I will agree with Macaulay’s statement when speaking of pajama pants. Nothing screams, “Hey, look at me, I’m a bum” more than a nice pair of pajama pants you have had since freshman year of high school. However, I believe on rare occasions sweatpants can be worn in public if you follow a few simple guidelines.

First, make sure you are not wearing your sweats any-where you would care if peo-ple judged your appearance,

Comfort of sweatpants cannot hide poor fashion choices

JAMES BERO FORUMEDITOR

which is usually every-where, so choose wisely. This would include almost anywhere other than your home or the grocery store. Even in those places, you may be stricken with sev-eral judgmental glances.

Next, make sure your sweatpants fit properly and are not two sizes larger than they should be. Not only do you look incredibly bad, but also you look as if you put on 15 pounds. This is probably not the best decision if you’re current-ly “Ridin’ Solo” and look-ing for a significant other.

Now that we covered what sweats should not look like when on our bod-ies, we need to discuss some major fashion faux pas that are attached to sweatpants.

First, the sweats should not have holes, stains, or be sagging in the crotch and rear end area. If your sweats look any worse than they do naturally, you are not doing yourself any favors.

Second, they should not have any writing across the butt region. We are not in junior high or high school anymore. If you have sweatpants that say “CHEER” across the butt, and still wear them in public, you should lower your head in shame.

Thirdly, the sweats must be paired with gym or fash-ion-forward sneakers. This

means sweatpants can’t be worn with flip-flops, Ugg boots, or ... I can’t believe I have to say this, high heels.

I know wearing high heels seems crazy. But I saw a young, obviously sense-less girl walking to class Monday morning in her baggy sweatpants and high heels. I was horrified and could not get the camera on my phone to work fast enough to snap a picture of this creature before she crawled into Olscamp Hall.

I hope everyone will learn from this sad, young woman and never wear your sweatpants with high-heels.

Lastly, if you are going to wear your sweats in public, make sure they are straight legged and not gathered at the bottom. Wearing gathered sweat-pants is social suicide, and one should refrain from such extremities.

I am not condoning the use of sweatpants in ones everyday wardrobe. However, I am not a com-plete airhead, and I real-ize that sweatpants lovers across campus will con-tinue to wear their sweats on a regular basis, regard-less of how they appear.

I can only hope that if you must wear your sweats across campus, and in your daily life, you will take these few simple guide-lines into consideration.

Religious convictions drive people to insanity, irrationality

Karl Marx once said religion is the opium of the people.

Sociologically, he was asserting that faith was a sedative keeping even the most oppressed complacent. Those bent over on Earth would be rewarded later for their suffering, but only if they followed the rules.

Historically speaking, his observations were correct. The Protestant work ethic fueled the industrial revo-lution and paved the way for an exploitative capital-ist system. The proletariat worked hard, avoided sin and patiently awaited their just deserves.

Marxist theory paints a vivid picture of our budding Christian nation that might still be applicable today, except that nothing was ever said about Islam. Given the recent tensions across the globe, I would argue that religion is suddenly more comparable to acid. Really bad acid.

Nearly a decade after the World Trade Center site became ground zero, the United States is still at war with “terror.” Does that even make sense? Comedian David Cross equated this to declaring a war on jealousy.

See, even Tobias Funke from “Arrested Development” knows there’s no winning against an abstract concept, but that hardly matters because the anti-terror campaign is just political rhetoric. What we really waged war on was

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Islam and anyone trying to get through airport security.

This endless battle con-tinues to be fueled by emo-tion. Fear mainly rationaliz-es discrimination and racial profiling from sea to shining sea. Anxiousness has given way to righteousness. This is our crusade, which has all the potential to become a civil war. This is exactly why the controversy over an Islamic community center at Park51 in New York came to a head on the anniversary of 9/11.

The new wave of intol-erance is referred to as Islamaphobia and has peo-ple taking to the streets.

Opposed doesn’t even begin to describe the way they feel about this commu-nity center and some of the opponents don’t even live in New York.

For example, Florida Pastor Terry Jones incited a media frenzy when he revealed his intentions to publicly burn the Quran. Others in Nashville, Washington D.C. and New York City planned to fol-low suit. He also provoked a series of deadly, trans-national counter-protests in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Gaza and Jerusalem.

So how is it that Pastor Jones’ Dove World Outreach Center, a church with less than 50 members, led by a man whose own daughter called him “delusional,” was able to illicit this response? It’s because religion is no longer the opiate that keeps people in their place. Lately, it’s been making people crazy. Bad acid crazy.

In Tennessee, the holy book barbecue was led by more

evangelicals. Demonstrators in the nation’s capital posi-tioned themselves directly in front of the White House to rip pages from the Quran.

Then again, to be fair, most Tea Party members call themselves leaders, sig-nifying their “official” sta-tus with a bumper sticker placed strategically next to the one that reads “culture warrior,” or something to that effect.

Apparently some indi-viduals are having difficulty maintaining separation of church and state. Remember how Glenn Beck’s “restor-ing honor” rally was really about religion? Remember how Tea Party members like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin agreed to speak at the Park51 protests, but then never showed up?

Those who have been paying attention might make the point that, while nine years is hardly a sig-nificant anniversary for 9/11, it is an election year and conservatives are des-perate to regain control of the House and Senate.

So is that what this is all about? Is the Tea Party whip-ping their fellow Americans into a frenzy over a non-issue in order to gain voter support? Are they preying on impressionable constitu-ents who secretly wish the TV would still tell them how scared to be with shades of orange and yellow?

It seems ironic that the first amendment protects both freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But if religion is truly the opium of the people, or any drug for that matter, why don’t we have a PSA to “just say no” already?

The school colors of orange and brown were selected when President Williams asked representatives from industrial arts, home economics, and a student to chose the colors. Rumor has it that the colors were suggested by Prof. Winslow after he saw them on a lady’s hat. However, no record can be found that indicates formal approval by faculty or students. The colors were chosen because they “made a pleasing combination, and as they knew, were not used by any other colleges.”

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET Do you think it’s hard to get an on-campus job?

MIKE HORTON, Freshman, Business

“Yes. I’ve been looking since the term started and I haven’t found one.”

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CHRIS FALK, Freshman, Marine Biology

“I haven’t been looking. From what I can tell its not hard to find one.”

ABBEY HILBORN, Sophomore, Undecided

“At orientation two years ago they gave us papers on how to but I never looked.”

MUSTAFA SALAM, Sophomore, Pre Dentistry

“No, I have a job at the Study Skills Center tutoring other students.”

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SPORTSBRIEFWomen’s Basketball ranked 17th nationally by Athlon Sports

The Athlon Sports College Basketball 2010-11 preview ranked the BG Women’s Basketball team as the No. 17 team in the nation.

BG, which finished the 2009-10 season with a 27-7 record, is the lone Mid-American Conference team ranked.

BG went 14-2 in MAC play last season, their sixth consecutive year with the conference’s best record, and they won the MAC tourna-ment for the fourth time in six seasons. The season begins for the Falcons on Friday, Nov. 12 at Evansville, with their home opener scheduled for three days later, Nov. 15, against Creighton.

SPORTSBRIEFJohn Quinn issues “Mayorial Challenge” to Kim Wolfe

BG mayor John Quinn has called for a friendly wager with mayor Kim Wolfe of Huntington, West Virginia, home of the Marshall Thundering Heard.

If the Falcons emerge victorious, Mayor Wolfe will have to display a BG flag at Huntington’s City Hall for the duration of the week following the game. If Marshall leaves Bowling Green with a win, Mayor Quinn will fly a Marshall flag at the Bowling Green City Hall for the following week.

The game is also the home opener for the Falcons, following an 0-2 start on the road.

This Falcon is here to stay By Becky Tener

Reporter

Thousands of miles away from her home in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Ivi Casagrande watched as her team played without her.

Playing collegiate soccer in the United States had been Casagrande’s dream since she was 5 years old.

“My friends would ask me about going to a Brazilian university, and I would tell them about my dream to go to the United States,” she said.

To the 19-year-old, an education in the U.S. was the key to getting a medical degree and playing profes-sional soccer one day.

But after moving to Ohio and beginning preseason training to become one of the newest freshman Falcons, the NCAA told Casagrande she was ineligible to play Division-I soccer the weekend of the team’s sea-son opener — a ruling that confined her to the bleachers and kept her away from her teammates.

“It was the worst week of my life,” she said. “It was really frustrating ... It was something I didn’t expect.”

Women’s soccer coach Andy Richards said Casagrande is the first international player he has had and knew ineligibility could always be an issue.

“It happens and even when you work to prevent it, every program in the country can run into problems,” he said. “It was really unfortunate for Ivi to have to go through it.”

Mark Shook, the University associ-ate athletics director for compliance and student-athlete services, said there was an issue with Casagrande’s high school records.

The NCAA factored in the year Casagrande failed ninth grade, while she was struggling through the divorce of her mother, Cynara, and her stepfather, Jose.

“My stepfather is like my real father. He is my role model, and he always

took care of me,” Casagrande said. “He treats me like a real daughter ... there is a strong bond between us, so the divorce was so tough on me.”

Shook said the athletic depart-ment appealed the NCAA ruling and showed the association her improved high school grades from when she retook ninth grade and her place-ment results from the University. Casagrande also sent letters from her family, coaches, and teachers.

“We requested [the NCAA] consider her 11th grade year [instead of the year she failed],” he said. “We knew Ivi deserved to be here.”

Then Casagrande waited to hear her fate.

“I had to be patient, but it was hard. I had to watch the games from the stands, because I couldn’t be with the team,” she said. “I was praying every day and crossing my fingers.”

While Casagrande waited, she was allowed to go to classes but couldn’t buy books, because her ineligibility suspended her scholarships.

“I didn’t unpack, because I didn’t know if I was staying, going back to Brazil or finding another [Division II] university,” she said.

Less than a week after filing her appeal, Casagrande noticed Shook searching for her at one of the games.

“When I saw him I knew he might have news for me and he did,” she said. “[He] told me everything was OK ... [the NCAA] looked at my grades.”

Casagrande, eligible to play, quick-ly took the field and was greeted by hugs and cheers from her teammates. Her coach told her to go to the locker room, change into her uniform and join her team.

“I think the girls were happier than me,” she said with a smile.

Team co-captain Katie Stephenson said the team has become a fam-ily. When Casagrande was unable to

TYLER STABILE | THE BG NEWSJUGGLE: Ivi Casagrande juggles the ball as she looks to get around a defender in a game earlier this season

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Ian Ruel excited to help lead young BG defensemen

By Ryan SatkowiakAssistant Sports Editor

Ian Ruel is a large man.Listed at 6-foot-4, 200 pounds, the

sophomore defenseman from Ann Arbor, Mich. is one of the most physi-cally dominating presences on the BG hockey team.

With the team fielding a young defensive corps, they need his play to be equally big this year.

“We have to go out this year and set a good example for the freshmen, and I just have to go out and play my game and I think everything will fall in place for all of us,” Ruel said.

Last season, Ruel spent a signifi-cant amount of time playing in the top defensive pair with Kyle Page, with his more defensive approach serving as a compliment to Page’s offensive prowess.

While only tallying six points — two goals and four assists — his 51 blocked shots were second most on the team and most among return-ing players, while his -7 rating was tied for second best on the team amongst players who played in at least 30 games.

He suited up in all but two games last season, making him the second most experienced defenseman on

the roster, despite only having a year of experience under his belt.

This year, he hopes to use some of the lessons he learned from playing with Page to help the team.

“He’s probably one of the best cap-tains BG has ever had and was just a great guy--had a great work ethic,” Ruel said. “I really learned a lot from him on and off the ice.”

Ruel is part of the 10-player class of 2013 that in a few years could be viewed as the class that helped save BG hockey. In the spring prior to his enrollment, the future of the pro-gram was uncertain after the then-upcoming 2009-10 season.

Despite this, Ruel enjoyed his visit to the school and had faith that everything would work out for the team.

“I had a great visit, and the coach-ing staff at the time was really posi-tive about everything,” Ruel said.

“That was back when Todd Reirden and Scott Paluch were here, and I really liked them and then my visit here I really liked all of the guys, so it just made sense.”

Ruel’s faith, as well as the faith of the entire sophomore class, has

See RUEL | Page 6 BG NEWS FILE PHOTO

DEFENSE: Ian Ruel looks to break up a play in a game against Michigan last season.

Freshman Ivi Casagrande overcomes distance and NCAA ruling to take the field for the Falcons

By Rusty MillerThe Associated Press

COLUMBUS — There’s no need to preach to Ohio State offensive lineman Justin Boren about how good an underdog can be, or what one can accomplish.

You see, Boren has first-hand knowledge of one of the biggest upsets in college football history.

On Sept. 1, 2007, Boren played for Michigan when the fifth-ranked Wolverines were shocked 34-32 by championship-subdivision Appalachian State.

“Appalachian State was a good team. People think that these (unranked) teams are so much different, but they’re really not,” Boren said Tuesday. “They’re all very capable teams. Appalachian State was a very good team. People look at it and, like, dang, Michigan must be ter-rible. It’s not like that.”

Now in his second year starting since transferring to Ohio State, that afternoon is indelibly etched in Boren’s mind. With the second-ranked Buckeyes favored by more than four touch-downs over Ohio University on Saturday, Boren scoffs at what the oddsmakers and experts say.

“It seems like every year there’s a couple of those games,” he said.

The Buckeyes are coming off a huge victory, a 36-24 decision over then-No. 12 Miami on Saturday. They are well aware that their next four opponents — Ohio, Eastern Michigan, at Illinois and then home against Indiana — are given little chance of beating them.

But Boren recognizes that the gap between a great team and an unknown one isn’t as large as many might think.

“You think the talent’s going to be so much better on a No. 1- or a No. 2-ranked team and there are better players, but everyone that’s playing college football is a good player,” he said. “You have guys at Ohio U. who can play on some of these bigger programs.”

Ohio State coach Jim Tressel called the Miami game a bruising contest that was also highly emotional. Many times, it’s difficult for a team involved in a game like that to rise to the occasion a week later.

But Tressel said there are reasons why the Buckeyes won’t look past the in-state Bobcats.

“The first thing that will make it difficult is OU will be tough and they’ll be good,” he said. “The second thing is reality, that when you play in an emotional game, is there that human tendency to take a deep breath? We kind of take the approach of showing the film, showing where we need to get better.”

One film that will undoubt-edly be playing at the Tressel Theater this week is the 2008 video of Ohio’s foray into Ohio Stadium. In that game, the Bobcats led 7-6 at the half and 14-12 going into the fourth quarter before the third-ranked Buckeyes came back to pull out a 26-14 victo-ry. A flat Ohio State struggled all day, barely escaping with the win despite forcing five

turnovers.“If you look back two years

ago, this is a team we kind of struggled with,” said defen-sive lineman Dexter Larimore.

“On defense we took their start-ing quarterback out and then all of a sudden Boo Jackson comes in and has a heckuva game. He’s running all over the place, converting third downs, getting first downs on his feet and slinging the ball all around.”

Jackson completed just 9 of 25 passes for 86 yards with three interceptions that game in relief of the injured Theo Scott. But he scrambled for 55 yards on seven carries and kept his team in the hunt until Ray Small’s 69-yard punt return for a touchdown with less than 6 minutes left. Jackson, by the way, will quarterback the Bobcats on Saturday.

It’s only human nature to think some teams are vastly better than others. However, Larimore said he and his teammates can’t afford to buy into that.

“Obviously, there’s always that risk of that, coming after a big win against Miami and coming into a game against a team that, quote unquote, isn’t supposed to be able to contend with you,” he said.

“Normally this would be chance to overlook a team. But this year, with the guys and the leaders and the seniors we have, we’ll get our young guys ready to play on Saturday.”

By John LopezReporter

Regardless of the sport in question, most coaches would love to have a superstar or two on their squad.

Men’s soccer coach Eric Nichols does not have that luxury and by the looks of it, he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Nichols’ first offseason at the helm saw the graduation of the team’s two co-cap-tains Jacob Lawrence and Hunter Van Houten, as well as the team’s leading scorer Cameron Hepple.

The Falcons relied heav-ily on Hepple’s goal out-put, as the Bahamas native accounted for nearly 50 per-cent of the Falcons scoring, despite only playing in 12 of the team’s 18 games.

To further demonstrate the Falcons’ heavy reliance on the graduating seniors, Lawrence and Hepple’s combined goal tally accounted for 16 or 17 of the team’s 21 total goals.

The challenge for Nichols and his team is to find a way to replace those goals with-out a proven goal scorer on the roster.

Freshman Ryan Comiskey,

who scored 38 goals his senior season in high school, could prove to be an offensive weapon at some point in his Falcon career. However, asking him to take over the role of primary goal scorer as a true freshman is a tall order.

Nichols and his staff have seemingly found an answer to their scoring woes by tak-ing a different approach to their offensive game this sea-son. By sharing the scoring responsibilities and spread-ing the wealth offensively, the Falcons look to have a more balanced score sheet this sea-son, instead of becoming over-reliant on one or two players like in the past.

“The gap between our top player and our weakest player is much smaller,” Nichols said.

“We have a great deal of parity on this team with a number of guys who can step up and score goals.”

The foundation of this philosophy began in the Falcons’ training ses-sions well before the team played its first game, where Nichols had implemented a competitive approach.

“We challenge our guys every day to set out to be the

best player in training that day,” Nichols said.

The approach allows each player to compete with his teammates on a daily basis, thus becoming better on game day.

Nichols has also come to the conclusion that his team has the most depth in the midfield. In order to assure he gets his most skilled play-ers on the field, Nichols will employ a formation that allows him to employ five midfielders, instead of the normal three or four.

“With five midfielders, we can posses the ball much more,” Nichols said. “We can help the defense when the opposing team has the ball, and offensively, we can make runs from all over the field using our midfield.”

Nichols and his staff are confident that competition for spots within the team will lead to positive results on game day, regardless of who plays.

The Falcons have start-ed the season with two consecutive draws, tying Appalachian State 0-0 and Davidson College 2-2 at the Davidson Classic last weekend.

ANDREA FEHL | THE BG NEWS

EVADE: Ryan Comisky looks to get past a defender in a game against Windsor earlier this season.

Men’s soccer looks for offensive punch

Ohio State not going to overlook the Bobcats

“You think the talent’s going to be so much better on a No. 1- or a No. 2-ranked team and there are better players, but everyone that’s playing

college football is a good player.”Justin Boren | Ohio State lineman

paid off, as the program is in great hands going forward, with Chris Bergeron at the helm as coach.

In preparation to take a larger role with the team, Ruel spent the offseason working on improving his skating.

“I’m a pretty big guy, so I always think that my skating can get a little bit better,” he said. “So I tried to work hard on that, and I obviously worked a lot on my strength and stuff like that, but I mostly worked on skating, because I think it’s very important for a guy my size to be a good skater.”

There is no question that this is an important year for Falcon hockey, and with 20 combined freshmen and sophomores on the roster, a strong year could springboard the Falcons back to a nationally prominent pro-gram in the near future.

Ruel is excited to potentially be a part of that revival.

“I think we can do very well with our new coaching staff, I think everyone is excited about it,” he said. “I think everyone is on board with it, and I just want to go out and win some games, and I think that we can do that.”

By Bryan FilipponiReporter

The BG men’s soccer team kicks off their two-game road trip today, facing the University of Detroit Mercy followed by a match Sunday against Valparaiso University.

The Falcons will have confi-dence going into the matches after a quality performance against the No. 1 team in the country. They held the Akron Zips scoreless for 64 minutes with solid team defense and inspired goalkeeping from Miguel Rosales, who had a career-high 11 saves.

Offensively the team cre-ated a number of solid oppor-tunities with freshman Ryan Comiskey being the main cat-alyst. The match finished as a 2-0 victory to Akron, with all the statistics heavily favoring the No. 1 ranked team.

The Falcons go into the match 0-1-2 (0-1-0 in the

Mid-American Conference) with the two draws from the Davidson Adidas Classic, 0-0 versus Appalachian State and 2-2 against host team Davidson.

The Titans’ overall record stands at 0-3-1. Two of the losses stem from the Spinx/Diadora Classic where Detroit lost to host Furman 4-3 and College of Charleston 3-1.

Michigan handed the Titans their other loss in an overtime 2-1 thriller. Detroit then played Cincinnati resulting in a 1-1 draw.

Sunday’s opponent, the Valparaiso Crusaders, current-ly hold a 3-0-1 record and will play a match Friday against IUPUI, before hosting BG two days later. The Crusaders are coming off a win at the Marquette Invitational with a 1-0 victory over Santa Clara and a 0-0 draw against Florida Gulf Coast.

During the first weekend of September, the Crusaders

defeated a pair of teams by one goal each. They were able to shutout UNLV 1-0, and pull off a 2-1 overtime victory over UC Riverside.

Valparaiso will be a strong test for BG. They are very tough on both ends of the pitch, scor-ing four goals in their last four games while only giving up a single goal.

The Falcons will need to improve on their offensive attack, control more of the possession and become more efficient, convert-ing on goal opportunities, while maintaining their great play in their defen-sive third of the pitch if they want to be successful.

Men’s soccer kicks off two-game road trip

RUEL From Page 5

MiguelRosalesGoalkeeper had a career-high 11 saves against Akron

play, “we still wanted to make sure she was all right and was taken care of.” Now that Casagrande is back on the pitch with her teammates, Stephenson said she is excited about what Casagrande can

bring to the team.“She is very positive and has

a great attitude. She’s great to be around and she has a great left foot to add to our arsenal,” she said.

Richards said he is happy to have Casagrande back and practicing.

“She’s really a great kid. Having her back is good,” he said.

Casagrande said the situ-ation helped her discover where she really wants to be.

“That Saturday I started to practice again and I was so happy, I unpacked my things and was like ‘I’m finally here,’” she said. “I don’t judge the situa-tion ... this was hard, but I think it was good for me to feel that this is the place for me.”

IVI From Page 5

BG NEWS FILE PHOTOPREGAME: Ian Ruel during pregame intros in a game last season.

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Bomb threat causes Eiffel Tower evacuation

PARIS (AP) — Paris’ Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated amid French news reports of a bomb alert.

An AP photographer on the site saw several busloads of police officers under the famous tower. An officer on the site said the tower and the nearby Champs de Mars park have been evacuated but has declined to give any other details. About 2,500 people were affected.

Tourists are still on the nearby sidewalks, however, and road traffic continues to circulate.

French media reported that Tuesday’s evacuation followed a bomb alert. Further information was not immediately available. Paris police headquarters did not return numerous calls.

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A S E R I E S O F M E S S A G E S A B O U T

The faculty members of Bowling Green State University have a critical decision to make about their future and the future of our University as they prepare to vote on forming a faculty union. The administration of BGSU feels strongly that a labor union will not advance the mission of BGSU, and will, in fact, impede progress that is under way. As you weigh this decision, we ask that you consider the following:

Collective bargaining may not make BGSU a better place for faculty or students

> Evidence from Ohio suggests that the highest ranked universities have non-unionized faculty (U.S. News and World Report and Forbes rankings).

> Charting Our Future and Connecting the Undergraduate Experience (CUE) are but two recent initiatives that have had a great deal of faculty involvement. These “faculty- engaged” initiatives are working to increase the quality and reputation of a BGSU education. A union would slow down the recent progress of BGSU, especially while the first contract is being negotiated.

> A vote for unionization could impact the pool of presidential applicants and the focus of the new president in his/her first several years at BGSU.

A simple majority of voters decides whether BGSU faculty will unionize. Make sure your voice is heard. If you are eligible, please vote beginning on September 28.

Unionization and BGSU

US troops help Iraqi military battle al-Qaida

BAGHDAD — The U.S. military said American troops have helped Iraqi security forces battle suspected al-Qaida militants north of Baghdad. Iraqi officials said five Iraqi troops were killed in the two-day operation.

The U.S. military said Iraqi soldiers and police called for help after they came under fire while searching for suspected militants and locating weapons sites across the two northern provinces of Diyala and Salaheddin.

The U.S. military said Tuesday that American troops provided air and ground support against

“a determined and well-armed enemy” dug into trenches in a palm grove outside Diyala’s provincial capital of Baqouba.

The Iraqi officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

— Barbara Surk (AP)

Plea bargain reached in student beating case

BELGRADE, Serbia — Lawyers reached a plea bargain Tuesday under which a Serb college basketball player charged with beating an American student into a coma would serve about two years in prison in his homeland, potentially ending a case that had strained relations with the U.S.

The victim’s family denounced the deal as too lenient and said Serb prosecutors should reconsider it.

Under the agreement, 23-year-old Miladin Kovacevic would plead guilty to the brutal beating of Bryan Steinhauer and be sentenced to two years and three months — with three months of that having been served already in the U.S. and Serbia. He would have faced up to eight years in prison if convicted by the First Municipal Court in Belgrade of inflicting severe bodily harm with possible deadly consequences.

The plea bargain must still be approved by the court, which said it would rule on Sept. 27.

— Jovana Gec (AP)

Doubts growing about Sunday election in Guinea

CONAKRY, Guinea — Supporters of the leading candidate in this weekend’s historic presidential runoff election called Tuesday for Guinea’s prime minister to step down, as doubts grew about whether the West African nation would go ahead with the vote.

Any delay is sure to escalate tension in the mineral-rich country that has only known authoritarian rule since winning independence from France more than half a century ago. Over the weekend, street fighting between supporters of rival political parties left one person dead and 54 others wounded.

Only days before Sunday’s vote, hundreds of thousands of voting cards have not yet arrived and the trucks needed to transport materials to distant villages are still idling at a warehouse in the capital.

— Rukmini Callimachi (AP)

By Elaine GanleyThe Associated Press

PARIS — The French Senate on Tuesday overwhelm-ingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure that affects less than 2,000 women but that has been widely seen as a symbolic defense of French values.

The Senate voted 246 to 1 in favor of the bill in a final step toward making the ban a law

— though it now must pass muster with France’s consti-tutional watchdog. The bill was overwhelmingly passed in July in the lower house, the National Assembly.

Many Muslims believe the legislation is one more blow to France’s No. 2 religion, and risks raising the level of Islamophobia in a country

where mosques, like syna-gogues, are sporadic targets of hate. However, the law’s many proponents said it will preserve the nation’s values, including its secular founda-tions and a notion of frater-nity that is contrary to those who hide their faces.

In an attempt to head off any legal challenges over arguments it tramples on reli-gious and other freedoms, the leaders of both parliamentary houses said they had asked a special body to ensure it passes constitutional muster. The Constitutional Council has one month to rule.

The bill is worded to trip safely through legal mine-fields. For instance, the words

“women,” “Muslim” and “veil” are not even mentioned in any of its seven articles.

“This law was the object of long and complex debates,”

the Senate president, Gerard Larcher, and National Assembly head Bernard Accoyer said in a joint state-ment announcing their move. They said they want to be certain there is “no uncer-tainty” about its conforming to the constitution.

France would be the first European country to pass such a law, though oth-ers, notably neighboring Belgium, are considering laws against face-covering veils, seen as conflicting with the local culture.

“Our duty concerning such fundamental principles of our society is to speak with one voice,” said Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, opening a less than 5-hour-long debate ahead of the vote.

The measure, carried by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative party, was

passed by the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, on July 13.

It would outlaw face-cover-ing veils, including those worn by tourists from the Middle East, on public streets and elsewhere. The bill set fines of euro150 ($185) or citizenship classes for any woman caught covering her face, or both. It also carries stiff penalties for anyone, such as husbands or brothers, convicted of forc-ing the veil on a woman. The euro30,000 ($38,400) fine and year in prison are doubled if the victim is a minor.

French Senate passes ban on burqa-style Islamic veils“This law was the

object of long and complex

debates.”Gerard Larcher | Senate president

By Nasser Karimi

The Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — The American woman released by Iran on Tuesday after more than a year in prison said she was grateful to Iran’s president for her freedom shortly before she boarded a flight to the Gulf sultanate of Oman where her mother greeted her with a warm embrace.

Iran freed Sarah Shourd, 32, after arrangements were made to satisfy Iran’s demand for a $500,000 bail. American offi-cials said neither the U.S. gov-ernment nor the family put up the money for the bail and they thanked U.S. ally Oman, which they said had played a criti-cal, behind-the-scenes role in securing Shourd’s release.

However, the case that has deepened strains between the U.S. and Iran was still far from resolved.

Shortly after announc-ing Shourd’s release, Iranian authorities said they are not considering the immediate release of the two Americans arrested with Shourd — her fiance Shane Bauer and their friend Josh Fattal. Iran has charged all three with spying, though their families say they

were innocent hikers arrested in a scenic mountain area along Iran’s border with Iraq.

“I want to really offer my thanks to everyone in the world, all of the governments, all of the people, that have been involved, and especially, particularly want to address President Ahmadinejad and all of the Iranian officials, the reli-gious leaders, and thank them for this humanitarian gesture,” Shourd told Iran’s English-lan-guage Press TV at the airport before she flew out.

“I’m grateful and I’m very humbled by this moment,” she added. “I’ve learned a lot from women in the Middle East in this part of the world and I have a lot of respect for women and the tradition that surrounds them. I just want to assure you that my commitment to truth will not change. You know, when I go back to my country and I will never say anything but the truth to media and I will not succumb to any pressure.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Shourd was being released on compassion-ate grounds because of health reasons. Her mother said she has serious medical problems, including a breast lump and precancerous cervical cells.

Shourd arrived in Oman on a

private government jet after a flight of about two hours. She was greeted with an embrace from her mother and then, looking relaxed and smiling, they strolled arm-in-arm on their way out.

President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both thanked Oman for its assistance and U.S. officials said Omani negotiators were key in the release. The Omanis worked with Swiss diplomats and the Iranian judiciary to win her freedom, particularly in resolving the issue of bail, the officials said.

Oman “in recent days and weeks became a key interlocu-tor to help us work this case with the Iranian government,” said State Department spokes-man P.J. Crowley. “And we are very grateful to the role that Oman has played.”

Tehran’s chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said a $500,000 bail had been paid to Iran’s Bank Melli in Muscat, Oman but did not say who paid it. A U.S. official said nei-ther the U.S. government nor the families of the hikers had paid the bail, but could not say who else might have paid it. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

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