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appears to have been flogged 99 times by authorities in Iran, following a British newspaper running a picture of an unveiled woman who, reports are now saying, was mistakenly identi-fied as her.

Regardless, the Iranian stoning sen-tence is at the center of a human rights is-sue that questions the brutality of the pun-ishment. In support of Ashtiani’s freedom, French foreign prime minister Bernard Kouchner has called her stoning sentence “barbaric” and stated that he would go to Tehran to save her, if he needed to. French First Lady Carla Bru-ni was labeled a pros-titute by Iranian me-dia after she signed a petition along with other celebrities to save Ashtiani. Yet,

Iran has cut warring words with human rights activists. Despite the support for her stoning sen-tence to be lifted, Iranian For-eign Ministry Ramin Mehm-

ports, Ashtiani was convicted of an “illicit relationship” with two men in 2006 just after her hus-band was murdered the previous year, a murder in which she is suspected to have participated in. An August claim showed a

woman identified as Ashtiani confess about being an accom-plice. However, her lawyer, Ja-vid Houtan Kian, says she was probably just tortured into con-fessing. Beyond that, Ashtiani

DES MOINES, Iowa – A 25-year-old soldier from Iowa who exposed himself to enemy gunfire to try to save two fellow soldiers will become the first living service member from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Friday.

President Barack Obama phoned Army Staff Sgt. Salva-tore Giunta, on Thursday at the base in Italy where he’s stationed to tell him he’d be receiving the nation’s highest military honor, Giunta’s father told The Associ-ated Press. He will become the eighth service member to re-ceive the Medal of Honor during operations in Iraq and Afghani-stan. The seven previous medals were awarded posthumously.

“It’s bittersweet for us,” said Steven Giunta, of Hiawatha. “We’re very proud of Sal. We can’t mention that enough, but in this event, two other soldiers were killed and that weighs heavy on us. You get very hap-py and very proud and then you start dealing with the loss as well. You can’t have one without the other.”

Classic. As always, when Dr. Lee is

scheduled to give a lecture at the University of New Haven, a high attendance can be ex-pected. This particular lecture was no exception. Half an hour before the lecture was sched-uled to begin, Dodds auditorium was already half-full. Staying

true to the expected amount of people who would attend, by 6:50 p.m., the entire theatre had only enough room to stand; six-ty to eighty people even had to be turned away from the event. When so many people have to be turned away from an event such as this, you know that it’s got to be good. Packed with students, faculty, alumni, and members of the NAACP, everyone waited anxiously for the lecture to be-gin.

If you have never been to a lecture given by Dr. Lee, then

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Chargers Top Lincoln 30-0

WEST HAVEN, Conn. – The University of New Haven foot-ball team opened play at Del-laCamera Stadium with a bang, d o w n i n g L i n c o l n University by the fi-nal score of 30-0 on S a t u r d a y af ternoon at the 2010 N A A C P H a r m o -ny Clas-sic. Mike D e C a r o and Victor Jones led a potent ground at-tack that a m a s s e d 143 yards, coupled with a formidable de-fense that allowed just 206 total yards of offense from the Lions.

With the win, New Haven improved to 2-0 on the season, while the Lions dropped to 1-1 through their first two games. In two meetings with Lincoln Uni-versity, the Chargers are now 2-0, outscoring the Lions 63-10.

The Chargers’ defense set the tone early on in the opening quarter. UNH forced the Lions into a difficult situation at 4th and 21 in their first series, lead-ing to a punt at the 12:48 mark. On the first offensive set from the New Haven offense, Ronnie Nelson connected with a wide

open Sharieff Hall for an 86-yard touchdown pass for an early 6-0 lead. Chris Scifo tacked on his first of three extra points on the afternoon.

After the quick burst of of-fense in the first quarter, neither team was able to muster much of

an attack through the remaining 12 minutes. UNH finished the opening stanza with 126 yards passing and six yards on the ground.

However, when the whistle sounded for the second quarter, once again the Chargers’ offense wasted very little time moving the chains. A short punt left UNH in great field position with just 39 yards to go to the goal line. Victor Jones rushed for 17 yards on five carries and Ryan Osiecki completed a pass for six yards leading the a 28 yard field goal from Scifo. The Chargers now controlled a 10-0 advantage.

The defense stunned the Lions

offense in the next series, giving the offense another chance with just over eight minutes remain-ing in the half. Ryan Osiecki led a nine play, 78 yard drive for the next score of the game. The Chargers held possession for 3:57, eventually leading to a

four-yard touchdown pass from Osiecki to Jason Thompson. Mike DeCaro was crucial in the drive, rushing for 24 yards on five carries, propelling the Char-gers to a comfortable 17-0 lead.

New Haven’s defense fol-lowed the score with another strong showing in the ensuing series. J.D. Chalifoux intercept-ed Laquan Williams near mid-field, returning it to the Lincoln 12-yard line. Chris Scifo con-nected on a 45-yard field goal, closing out the scoring summary in the first half of action.

After the intermission, the offense went quiet from both

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Iranian Woman’s Stoning Sentence DelayedBy MICHAEL J. CRUMB

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Move over, balloon boy. The newest story to face outrageous media coverage and subsequent fervor from those who have become engrossed in it is the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning in Tehran. In fact, the case has been rous-ing an international uproar from people like Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Pope Benedict XVI, Nobel Peace Winner Shirin Ebadi, and French president and First Lady Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni that such campaign-ing has helped to bring about a crusade for sav-ing the forty-three year old woman, Sakineh Moham-madi Ashtiani, who was convicted of adultery in July.

Though Ashtiani, who is currently having her stoning sentence reviewed by the Iranian Supreme Court after global pres-sure and criticism, awaits pos-sible execution, she has not left the headlines. According to re- See STONING page 6

Celebrating diversity and ra-cial harmony, the 2010 Harmony Classic started the week with a two-part academic lecture se-ries. The lecture series began on Wednesday evening, at 7:00

p.m. in Dodds Hall. Leadership expert Gary Steele, senior con-sultant at Learning Dynamics, in Wallingford, Connecticut, pre-sented a public lecture entitled “History – The Backbone of Opportunity.” On Thursday eve-ning, at 7:00 p.m. in Dodds Hall as well, world renowned foren-sic scientist and UNH professor Dr. Henry C. Lee presented his lecture entitled “Equal Justice – Lessons Learned from High Pro-file Cases.” These lectures were part of a weeklong celebration of diversity and racial harmony based around the 2010 Harmony

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First Medal of Honor for a Living Afghan War Vet

Giunta was serving as a rifle team leader with Company B 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment when an insurgent ambush split his squad into two groups on Oct. 25, 2007, in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, the White House said in a news release.

Giunta went above and be-yond the call of duty when he exposed himself to enemy fire to pull a fellow soldier back to cover. He engaged the enemy again when he saw two insur-gents carrying away a wounded soldier, 22-year-old Sgt. Joshua C. Brennan, of McFarland, Wis. Giunta killed one insurgent and wounded the other before tend-ing to Brennan, who died the next day.

“His courage and leadership while under extreme enemy fire were integral to his platoon’s ability to defeat an enemy am-bush and recover a fellow Amer-ican soldier from enemy hands,” the White House said.

Giunta, who enlisted in the Army shortly after graduating from Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, is now stationed in Italy with the Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He was in his second tour of

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USGA President’s CornerWould you want to have your voice heard?

If so, come out this week and meet the candidates for freshmen and junior class elections!The schedule is as follows:

Campaigning Week: Monday, September 13, 2010 to Sunday September 19, 2010Meet the Candidates BBQ: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Quad. Candidate Platforms: Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the Programming Space. Polls open: Monday, September 20, 2010 Polls close: Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Many people know very little about Jew-ish Holidays, except that maybe they got the day off from school when these holidays came around. But like any other holi-day, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipper are two very important days on the Jewish calendar. Though all people do not celebrate these two days like they would others, the his-tory and traditions behind them are worth learning about, because they do hold a lot of importance for so many people.

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year and is one of the high holy days in the Jewish religious calendar. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah translates to mean “head of the year” or “first of the year.” It is celebrated on the first day of Tishri, the seventh month of the Jewish cal-endar, and it is known as the Day of Remembrance because it commemorates the creation of the world. Marking the beginning of the Ten Days of Repen-tance, also known as the Days of Awe, there is a ten-day period of reflec-tion and remembrance that leads up to Yom Kip-pur.

The first mention of Rosh Hashanah is found

Jewish Holidaysin the book of Leviticus in the Hebrew Testament. Rosh Hashanah is cel-ebrated on the first day of the month of Tishrei, which falls in September or October in the mod-ern calendar. In the He-brew Testament, Tishrei is considered the seventh month of the calendar, not the first. Just as the sev-enth day of the week is considered special, so is the seventh month of the year. The most important, or High Holidays, are cel-ebrated in Tishrei and it is considered to be a very holy month.

Rosh Hashanah is a more subdued and con-templative holiday, but no work is permitted and religious Jews spend the day in synagogue. Re-ligious services for the holiday often focus on the sovereignty and judgment of God and use an extend-ed version of the liturgy. The shofar, or ram’s horn, is blown, and one of the important observances of the holiday is hearing the shofar in the synagogue.

One custom on Rosh Hashanah is to eat a round Challah instead of the normal braided ones to symbolize the circle of life. Apples, honey, and pomegranates are eaten during this time. Honey is used in many dishes dur-ing this holiday to sym-bolize the want of a sweet new year. Pomegranates are eaten because of the many seeds that they con-tain. The seeds symbolize the 613 commandments that are found in the To-rah. It is also a custom to eat a fruit that has recently come into season or one that has not yet been eaten (for at least 30 days) to symbolize the New Year.

The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a time for in-trospection, prayer and good deeds. These days are a time to examine the sins of the previous year and repent before Yom Kippur. One of the tradi-tions of the Days of Awe

is to make amends and seek reconciliation with any people you may have wronged or harmed dur-ing the year. Yom Kippur is a day of atonement for sins with God, the days preceding it are for atone-ment for transgressions against others.

Yom Kippur is cel-ebrated on the 10th day of Tishrei, 10 days after Rosh Hashanah. Yom Kippur is first mentioned in Leviticus 23:27 where it is described as a day of atonement when no work should be done. The text goes on to describe the special rites that the priests would do to expi-ate the sins of the people. One of these rites takes the people’s sins and sym-bolically places them onto an animal which is then driven out into the wilder-ness. This rite is the origin of the term “scapegoat”.

Because Jews go by the lunar calendar, Yom Kip-pur begins at sunset, and ends one hour after sunset of the following day total-ing 25 hours. Yom Kippur is so important to the Jews that it is sometimes re-ferred to as “the Sabbath of Sabbaths” and is the only fast day that can fall on Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath). The day is spent in Synagogue praying and supplicating to God to be sealed in the book of Life.

Yom Kippur is not a sad day; it is a day of reflec-tion and atonement. Fast-ing is used not as a punish-ment, but as a cleansing of the body as well as the spirit. Some Jews stay in the synagogue all day and only take one small break between prayers. Because the day is very important, there are five different prayer services instead of the four that appear on a regular Sabbath. Yom Kippur ends with a long resonating Shofar blast followed by the breaking of the fast; this marks the end of the ten day long period of repentance and reflection.

The temperatures are dropping, the days are shortening, and the leaves are changing. With Sep-tember in full swing and fall approaching, the temptation to take part in the autumnal beauty is bound to win out over those boring reps inside a stuffy gym. And despite the mass amounts of kettle corn and apple cider doughnuts you are sure to consume, there is one fall activity that you can feel good about: apple picking.

We have all heard the saying. We have all been bombarded with strict instructions to eat the ap-ples Mom packed for us in our lunches. However, what is it that makes this fruit so highly praised?

Helps the Flat Belly StayApples contain a substance called pectin, which is proven to help you lose the pounds and main-

tain a healthy weight. Pectin slows the emptying of the stomach, successfully keeping you feeling full longer. In addition, apples are a low calorie, fat free fruit. What other food can provide you with up to five grams of fiber in about 80 calories?

Keeps the Cholesterol at BayIn addition to keeping you thin, apples have also been proven to keep your heart healthy. The

soluble fiber found in apples helps lower LDL (bad) cholesterol and regulate blood pressure. The natural phytochemicals in apples have also been shown to help fight heart disease.

Allows You to PlayApples are full of water, vitamins and minerals, which are all necessary components of a healthy,

active lifestyle. Fructose, the type of sugar found in apples, is a simple water-soluble sugar that pro-vides the body with energy. Apples can even help you breathe easier; they are rich in quercetin, a bioflavonoid that alleviates allergies and acts as an anti-inflammatory in your nasal passages.

Keeps the Doctor AwayIt turns out Mom was right… an apple a day really can keep you healthy. Apples are full of flavo-

noids and polyphenols, which are both strong antioxidants that help ward off illnesses and disease. The malic acid found in the fruit has even been shown to promote healthy liver function.

Connecticut is a great place to spend the fall – especially in September, during prime apple-pick-ing season. The state contains over 75 apple orchards; so get out there and start eating!

Health and Fitnessby Melanie RovinskyAn Apple a Day...

OH MY GOSH!!! Did you see what SCOPE planned last week??? Toy Story 3 brought back Woody and Buzz, man their adventure was… Rob Rasner, he told this joke… Second Childhood made memories flow back… At Who Doesn’t Need Toilet Paper??? there was money… and at Beanhouse there was so much talent… Well I guess you just had to be there, but I’ll sum it up for you!!!

Let’s start from the beginning. Last week Film Committee brought Toy Story 3 to campus. Your favorite childhood friends, Woody, Buzz, Potato Head, and the rest of the gang were on the big screen in Bartels in what, sadly, is their last adventure. The movie was filled with the best new and old sayings from our friends and maybe one of the saddest moments I have ever seen in a kid film. This week, Film is bringing Jonah Hill and Russell Brand from Get Him to the Greek on Wednesday and Friday in Bartels at 9 p.m.

Weekend Programming had two great events this weekend: Rob Rasner the Magician and Second Childhood. Rob Rasner was funny and involved the audience with his mind reading, which I will admit wasn’t that good, but it was funny. He showed us some great tricks. Even yours truly participated and had her money burned, then brought back; it was impressive. Second Childhood was also brought to cam-pus. They brought in inflatables, fun foods, and games; everyone there was living out their favorite childhood memories on the Moon Bounce and eating snow cones. This weekend they are bringing Mini Golf to the Alumni Lounge from 7-11p.m. on Friday and on Saturday they are taking students to Six Flags, with the bus leaving at 8 a.m.

The beginning of the week was busy as well. Day Programming had “Who Doesn’t Need Toilet Paper???,” the cash cube event where stu-dents tried to grab as much money as they could in 15 seconds to win prizes, such as a printer, ihome, lamps, of course toilet paper, and more. For 15 seconds, students looked sort of ridiculous but it was for a wor-thy cause….FREE STUFF!!! Then on Tuesday, we held our monthly open mike night, Beanhouse. There were some really good singers, guitar players, and sometimes both. Even those that didn’t perform had a great time listening to UNH’s talent; it was great time all around.

An event still to come this week is Comedian Marcus on Thursday, September 16 in Dodds, starting at 8 p.m. So basically….there are more great times to come!!!

SCOPE It Out!by Michelle R. Morra

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Hurricane Hermine Drenches TexasBy ASHLEY MCDOWELLSTAFF WRITER

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On Sept. 6, forecasters said that Tropical Storm Hermine had put a hur-ricane watch in effect for parts of Texas. According to CNN.com, the storm was expected to dump four to eight inches of rain over northeastern Mexico and sections of southern and north-central Texas. Isolated amounts of up to 12 inches were possible, according to the hurricane center.

The storm could have caused threatening storm

surges, tornadoes and mudslides. “Isolated tor-nados are possible along lower and middle Texas, beginning Monday eve-ning and continuing over-night,” said Yahoo! News.

Hurricane Hermine was the latest storm to form just shortly after Hurri-cane Earl. Hurricane Earl blasted through the south-eastern coast as a category four storm. However, Earl weakened as it approached the northeastern coast, but the storm was still a con-cern. Even with all the hype surrounding Hurri-cane Earl, the storm pro-duced very little damage.

On Sept.8, at least four tornadoes that were creat-ed by Hurricane Hermine touched down in Dallas, Texas in the evening. One tornado was reported in Ellis County and three in Dallas County, accord-ing to CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward. The other areas that were affected were Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas. These states experienced high amounts of rainfall.

According to the Na-tional Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration’s Hydrometeorological Cen-ter, parts of Texas, such as Cedar Park and Anderson

Mill, received over 12 inches of rain. Killeen and Austin received over 11 inches. Fort Worth and San Antonio received over six inches of rain, and Hous-ton received over four.

The Dallas tornadoes knocked down power lines, damaged a couple of homes, and blew over a tractor-trailer rig. There were a few fatalities, which were mostly caused by the overwhelming in-land flooding. Rescuers searched for the individu-als reported missing.

Go Greek Or Go Home!By JAKKI GOUVEIAEXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, IFSC

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Welcome back every-one! The Inter-Fraternity Sorority Council hopes you all had a great summer and are ready to get back into the swing of things. We just wanted to let you all know that Greek Life is excited that recruitment week is finally here! We will be having a Go Greek table in the Bartels stu-dent center from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. every day this week. If you’re interested about joining a Greek organiza-tion, we strongly suggest you stop by the table and pick up some information about each organization.

For all of you who are

unsure of the Greek orga-nizations here on campus, here are your fraternities: Sigma Chi, Kappa Gamma Rho, Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon, Lambda Alpha Up-silon, and Delta Chi. The following are our sorori-ties on campus: Phi Sigma Sigma, Chi Kappa Rho, Delta Phi Epsilon, Delta Epsilon Beta, Sigma Iota Alpha, and the newly col-onized Lambda Psi Delta. IFSC hopes to see you all out at 9:45pm in the Bix-ler-Botwinik quad each night to check Greek life out.

Everyone, also please check out any future ar-ticles that will come out about all the events Greek

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Equal Justice Packs Doddscon’t from page 1

it is advisable for you to attend one before your time here at UNH is up. It is highly unlikely that there is any other lecture comparable to one of his. Never did five minutes go by without the audience laughing at something that was said. Those are the types of lectures people remember. Those are the types of lectures people want to go back and see again.

Dr. Lee’s lecture fo-cused on the idea of “equal justice” and how it relates to the world, especially the Criminal Justice and Forensic Science world, today. Dr. Lee discussed

many details about Foren-sics as a whole, including comparing it to CSI and the common misconcep-tions associated with it. He then followed by going through the OJ Simpson case with the audience, ex-plaining how things in this particular case went wrong and what should have been done from the beginning. Dr. Lee emphasized that the job of a forensic sci-entist is to determine the facts and not to take any particular side.

Sadly, the hour and a half went by too quickly for those in attendance, and the second case was only just briefly skimmed over. Time always flies

too fast when Dr. Lee is speaking, but that is what happens when you are having fun. Whether this lecture was a first time lecture for some people or another good one to add to the books for someone else, a good time was had by all. The evening ended with a few lucky people going home with one of Dr. Lee’s book. Of course, many people received one of his standard badges, keychain lights, and stress balls, but one lucky win-ner even won Dr. Lee’s of-ficial ruler. Just remember though, according to the USA government’s stan-dards, it is still 1/1000 of an inch to short.

Second Childhood Here We Come

By JOANN WOLWOWICZASSISTANT EDITOR

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When you get to col-lege, it’s official, child-hood is over. Wrong!!! This weekend, SCOPE had a second childhood planned for the campus that was set up in the quad. Who says that childhood should end? Every once in a while, people need to re-lax and just have fun, for-getting about the stress of the previous week. Those days of childhood fun are great memories for ev-eryone, and this Saturday, SCOPE made sure that we could experience those once again.

Set up in the Bixler-Botwinik quad were giant inflatables, big games, cot-ton candy, and sno-cones. Nothing makes you want to stop and see what’s go-ing on more than when you see a moon bounce, cotton candy, and a polar bear sno-cone machine, and that’s the truth. Start-

ing from 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., people could come and enjoy being a kid again, either by jumping in the moon bounce, slid-ing down the big inflat-able slide, playing Con-nect Four or Twister, and enjoying cotton candy and sno-cones. There was a great turn out to the event, especially as the evening progressed. More and more people lined up for twister and cotton candy, while the moon bounce was never still.

It is events like these that make weekends fun here at UNH. A lot of times, many of these events include the “all time favorite” free stuff. Who wouldn’t want free cotton candy? That was the line to be in ap-parently that evening. If you missed out on all of this fun, there’s no need to worry, because eventually this event will be back. But, until then, there are always this week’s events to look forward to.

life is planning on cam-pus, as well as information about community service and fundraisers. Along with the Go Greek table in Bartels this week, there will also be a fundraising table for the Diabetes walk on September 18, in which Kappa Gamma Rho and Phi Sigma Sigma will be participating in. There is a bet for which organization will raise the most money for Diabetes, so please stop by the table and help raise money for Diabetes!

Again IFSC hopes to see you come out for re-cruitment and get involved with Greek life…Go Greek or Go Home!

Sigma Alpha EpsilonBy KENNY HALLSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON

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The Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon fraternity is the newest Greek-letter organization recognized by the Uni-versity of New Haven's USGA. Sigma Alpha Ep-silon, SAE, has only been a colony for less than a year, but still has had an enormous impact at the Univer-sity of New Haven. In less than a year, SAE has accomplished the following:

-Hosted the 1st an-nual "SAE Powerade World Cup" with national corporate sponsorship from Powerade

-Placed 1st amongst all fraternities in "Greek Week 2010" and 2nd over-all among all organiza-tions

-Organized a toy drive along with the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority to do-nate toys to children in the

Yale/New Haven Hospital-Sent brothers to the

national SAE Leadership School on a cruise out of Miami, FL and into Mex-ico

-Participated in numer-ous philanthropic events throughout the New Ha-ven community

All members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon strive to live by the True Gentle-men Creed. SAE encour-ages all men interested in learning about joining this strong brotherhood to come out to their Recruit-ment Week Events. SAE's Recruitment Week con-sists of their traditional Monday "Stogies and Hoa-

gies" informational and Tuesday's trip to Hooters for all you can eat wings! On Wednesday, SAE and the Delta Phi Epsilon so-rority are having an event of "Guess Who?" to bond with potentials. On Thurs-day night, the brothers will be hosting an arm wres-

tling competition for the chance to win tickets to Wiz Khali-fa! The week ends on Friday with an invite only forum with the brothers and alumni throughout the north-east.

Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon has more initiates

than any other Greek letter organization in the world. We encourage everyone to look into joining one of the largest brotherhoods in the world, and one of the new brotherhoods at the University of New Haven. Strive to be better, Strive to be a Gentleman, Strive to be SAE.

Vatican Library Reopens After 3-year Restoration

By NICOLE WINFIELDASSOCIATED PRESS

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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican's Apostolic Li-brary is reopening to schol-ars following a three-year, euro9-million ($11.5- mil-lion) renovation to install climate-controlled rooms for its precious manu-scripts and state-of-the-art security measures to pre-vent theft and loss.

The library, started by Pope Nicholas V in the 1450s, houses one of the

world's best collections of illuminated manuscripts. It includes the oldest known complete Bible, dating from about 325 and be-lieved to have been one of the 50 bibles commis-sioned by Emperor Con-stantine, the first Christian Roman leader.

It reopens its frescoed halls to scholars Sept. 20. Library officials took pains to note that the renovation work was completed on time — a rarity in Italy but also an acknowledgment of the inconvenience the

three-year closure caused many scholars who had to suspend their research while its collections of tens of thousands of vol-umes were in storage.

Cardinal Raffaele Fa-rina, the Vatican's chief librarian, thanked those re-searchers "who understood the reason for the closure."

"Given the amount of what had to be done — the noise and the intrusiveness of the technical and con-struction work necessary — we decided the library

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Calif. Neighbors Survey Ruins of Blasted Hillside

By TREVOR HUNNICUTTASSOCIATED PRESS

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SAN BRUNO, Calif. – Patrick Yu has had night-mares and headaches since a fireball from a natural gas explosion caused his ceiling to crash down next to him while he slept.

He was one of many residents who returned to the ruined hillsides of their suburban San Fran-cisco neighborhood Sun-day after Thursday’s p i p e l i n e blast and fire d e s t r o y e d nearly 50 homes and d a m a g e d dozens of others.

The ex-p l o s i o n p r o m p t e d Ca l i f o rn i a r e g u l a t o r s to order the utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, to survey all its natural gas lines in the state in hopes of heading off another disaster.

Yu said he crouched in the doorway after the blast, thinking he was in the middle of an earth-quake. When the shaking subsided, he found that the heat had warped the door so much he had to pull with all his strength to get out of the bedroom.

The 62-year-old learned Sunday that his house had been red-tagged, meaning it has extensive damage and will require closer in-spection before authorities can declare it safe.

“I have lots of memo-ries in that house,” Yu said. “Lots of stuff you can’t re-place.”

A few blocks away, houses had collapsed into black and white debris on ground, with a smell like charcoal in the air. All that remains standing is a row of brick chimneys, while across the street, some homes are undamaged.

Authorities were still working Monday to con-

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firm how many people died.

The remains of at least four people have been found, and authorities have said four are missing and at least 60 injured, some critically. Two people re-ported missing after the blast were located Sunday, city spokeswoman Robyn Thaw said.

San Mateo County Cor-oner Robert Foucrault said investigators were still trying to confirm whether

some of the remains are human and identify vic-tims.

Meanwhile, federal in-vestigators were probing how the gas line was able to rupture, blowing a seg-ment of pipe 28 feet long onto the street some 100 feet away and creating a crater 167 feet long and 26 feet wide.

Christopher Hart, vice chairman of the Nation-al Transportation Safety Board, said investiga-tors want to speak with anyone who smelled gas in the days leading up to the blast, especially those who reported the problem to PG&E or any other of-ficials. Hart said Monday that investigators have not yet seen any record of gas leak complaints.

“We’re pursuing those rumors, and we’ve ob-tained records — not only from PG&E but from other places where people might call. And so far, we have not been able to verify that anybody smelled gas and called it in,” Hart said.

PG&E spokesman An-drew Souvall said Sunday

there had been no gas leak complaints to the utility’s call centers from the San Bruno neighborhood in the week leading up to the blast.

Hart said investiga-tors also want to talk to residents who had noticed dead vegetation around the rupture spot, which can be a sign of a leak.

A risky segment of the gas line was due to be re-placed, the utility respon-sible said, because it ran

through a heavily urban-ized area and the likelihood of failure was “unaccept-ably high.” That 30-inch diameter pipe a few miles north was installed in 1948 and slated to be swapped for new, smaller pipe.

PG&E submitted pa-perwork to regulators for ongoing gas rate proceed-ings that said a section of the same gas line about 2 1/2 miles away was within “the top 100 highest risk line sections” in the util-ity’s service territory, the documents show.

The company also con-sidered the portion that ruptured to be a “high con-sequence area” requiring more stringent inspections called integrity assess-ments, federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materi-als Safety Administration spokeswoman Julia Valen-tine said.

Nationwide, only about 7 percent of gas lines have that classification, she said.

PG&E spokesman An-drew Souvall said the company had planned to

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inevitably had to close," Farina told reporters Mon-day inside the frescoed Sistine Hall.

Some 4,000 to 5,000 scholars are given per-mission to con-duct research in the library every year; ac-cess is gener-ally restricted to academics con-ducting post-graduate level research. None of the items in the library can be checked out, and rules for working inside are strict: No pens, food or even mineral water are al-lowed in the manuscript reading room.

Researchers will now find improved communi-cations and elevator ac-cess to the Vatican's vast collections, as well as a new tower inside the Vati-can's Belvedere Courtyard to ferry manuscripts from their bomb-proof bunker to climate-controlled con-sultation rooms. Inside the bunker itself, fire-proof and dust-proof floors and walls were installed to further protect the manu-scripts.

The library's 70,000 books have been outfit-

ted with computer chips to prevent loss and theft, closed-circuit cameras have been installed and new automated entry and exit gates keep tabs on who is coming in and go-

ing out.The security measures

stem in part from an in-cident in which an Ohio State University art his-tory professor, Anthony Melnikas, smuggled pages torn from a 14th-century Vatican manuscript that once belonged to Petrarch. He was sentenced in 1996 to 14 months in prison af-ter admitting he took the pages during a research visit in 1987.

The library was start-ed by Pope Nicholas V with an initial 350 Latin manuscripts. By the time Nicholas died in 1455, the collection had swelled to about 1,500 codices and was the largest in Europe.

Today, the Vatican Li-

brary has about 150,000 volumes of manuscripts as well as the "Codex B" — the oldest known complete Bible.

During a presentation and tour of the library

Monday, of-ficials showed off a replica of the illuminated Urbino Bible, produced for the Duke of Ur-bino in 1476-78 by David and Dominico Ghir-landaio and oth-ers. The bible,

one of the finest works of art in the 15th century, is said to contain over a kilo of gold in its il-lustrated pages.

Italian cement compa-ny Italcement paid a hefty chunk of the euro9 million renovation price tag while savings and private dona-tions funded the rest, Fa-rina said.

The Apostolic Library is next door to the Vati-can's Secret Archives, which contain centuries of Vatican diplomatic cor-respondence and papal documentation. Citing frequent Dan Brown-in-spired confusion, officials stressed Monday that the collections and institutions are different.

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NEW YORK – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Mon-day that it is introducing the first cell phone plan that uses the chain's own branding, further demon-strating its clout in getting special deals from wireless carriers.

The Wal-Mart Fam-ily Mobile service will run on T-Mobile USA's network. Unlimited call-ing and texting will cost $45 per month for the first line and $25 for each ad-ditional line for the family. The service will be offered starting next week in most of its stores across the na-tion.

Since last year, Wal-Mart has been the exclu-sive seller of the Straight Talk service, which runs on the Verizon Wireless network. Wal-Mart is also trying out another service from Sprint Nextel Corp. called Common Cents.

Those are both "pre-paid" plans, under which customers pay in advance and don't need to sign con-tracts.

Wal-Mart Family Mo-bile will be "postpaid" like conventional contract-based plans, so the family bill is paid at the end of the month. But in other ways it works much like prepaid service, and it won't come with a contract require-

ment or early termination fees. Buyers also won't need to go through credit checks.

Greg Hall, vice presi-dent of merchandising at Wal-Mart U.S., said there's a perception among customers that prepaid ser-vice doesn't offer access to the best phones or the best network quality. He said the postpaid nature of the plan is a way to avoid that.

Starting Monday, the chain plans to sell five phones, including a full-blown smart phone, the Motorola Cliq XT, which will cost $249. T-Mobile sells it for $329 with-out a contract, or gives it away to buyers who sign two-year contracts (with monthly fees that are high-er than the no-contract op-tion).

The cheapest phone for the service will be a simple Nokia phone for $35.

Straight Talk also costs $45 per month for unlim-ited calls and texting, but doesn't offer a discount for additional lines. And while Straight Talk offers unlim-ited free data, there are no smart phones available for it; the new Family Mobile plan includes only a small amount of free data. Com-mon Cents is a basic pay-by-the-minute service.

"What we saw was an opening in the market-place for really bringing family savings and a fam-ily plan and T-Mobile was

a great partner there," Hall said.

The plan undercuts T-Mobile USA's own prices, but Jim Alling, its chief operating officer, said that Wal-Mart putting its own stamp on the brand name was a "tremendous en-dorsement."

While there's no con-tract, Ailing said the phones will be "locked" to Wal-Mart Family Mobile, so they won't be usable on another network, or even under a T-Mobile-branded plan.

There will also be a prepaid component to the service: extra charges for data use and international calls will come from a prepaid account, pooled for the whole family. For instance, one gigabyte of data usage will cost $40. By comparison, AT&T's contract customers pay $25 per month for 2 giga-bytes of usage, but the data allowance doesn't carry over from month to month the way Wal-Mart's will.

T-Mobile USA is a subsidiary of German phone company Deutsche Telekom AG.

Shares of Wal-Mart, which is based in Benton-ville, Ark., increased 37 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $52.34 in midday trading Monday.

Obama Awards Medal of Honorduty in Afghanistan at the time of the ambush.

Giunta, who was previ-ously awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart, among other medals, called his parents after hearing from the presi-dent, his father said.

“He was very honored to talk to the president but he’s very reserved about it,” Steven Giunta said. “It’s not something he’s comfortable with, the event or the Medal of Honor.”

Steven Giunta said his son is humbled because he believes he was just doing what he was supposed to be doing.

“He mentions every other soldier would have done the same thing. It kind of rocks his world that he’s being awarded the Medal of Honor for something each and every

one of them would have done. He’s very aware of that.”

“What a privilege and honor it is and what the men have done over the years to receive it, the feat, the above and beyond por-tion of it, it’s amazing to me,” Steven Giunta said.

Giunta will be award-ed his medal at a White House ceremony at a date yet to be determined.

The President will pres-ent the Medal of Honor posthumously to Staff Sgt. Robert Miller in a White House ceremony on Oct. 6.

President Barack Obama will award the first Medal of Honor to go to a living service member who fought in the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Gi-unta served as a rifle team leader during combat op-erations in Afghanistan’s

Korengal Valley. The White House says Giunta went beyond the call of duty during an October 2007 attack when he ex-posed himself to enemy fire to pull a comrade back to cover. When he later no-ticed two insurgents carry-ing away another fellow solider, Giunta engaged the enemy, killing one and wounding the other before providing medical aid to the wounded U.S. soldier.

Obama spoke with Gi-unta Thursday to inform him he would receive the nation’s highest military honor.


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Stoning Sentence Delaycon’t from page 1anparast says the West is sensationalizing the case into something political and unreasonable while Iran is simply following legal protocol: “Western nations must not pressur-ize and hype the case up. Judicial cases have pre-cise procedures, especially when it concerns murder.

If releasing all those who have committed murder is to be perceived as a hu-man rights issue, then all European countries should release all the murderers in their countries.” As of now, the fate of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is yet to be determined.

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China Mass Measles Vaccination Plan Sparks Outcry

By GILLIAN WONGASSOCIATED PRESS

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BEIJING – China’s plans to vaccinate 100 million children and come a step closer to eradicating measles has set off a popu-lar outcry that highlights widening public distrust of the authoritarian govern-ment after repeated health scandals.

Since the Health Min-istry announced the World Health Organization-backed measles vaccina-tion plan last week, au-thorities have been flooded with queries and Internet bulletin boards have been plastered with worried messages. Conspiracy theories saying the vac-cines are dangerous have spread by cell phone text messages.

The public skepticism has even been covered by state-run media, which noted the lack of trust was about more than vaccines.

“Behind the public’s panic over the rumors is an expression of the citi-zens’ demands for security and a crisis in confidence,” a columnist wrote in the Chongqing Daily newspa-per.

“The lack of trust to-ward our food and health products was not formed in one day,” said the Glob-al Times newspaper. “Re-pairing the damage and building credibility will take a very long time. The public health departments need to take immediate ac-tion on all fronts.”

In recent years, gov-ernment agencies have dragged their feet or with-held information about the spread of SARS, bird flu and, last month, an out-break of cholera. China’s slow response to SARS, or severe acute respirato-ry syndrome, was widely blamed for causing the outbreak that swept the globe in 2003, and led to deep mistrust both inter-nally and internationally.

Milk products con-taminated with industrial chemicals are still found despite mass recalls and several criminal convic-tions, including execu-tions, after tainted infant formula sickened 300,000 babies and killed at least six two years ago.

Feeding into worries about the measles vac-cine were media reports in March that vaccines for encephalitis, hepatitis B and other diseases pos-sibly killed four children

and seriously sickened dozens in one province. The health ministry said an investigation showed those vaccines were im-properly stored but sub-sequent illnesses were unrelated. Many remain unconvinced.

Meanwhile, two Chi-nese vaccine makers re-cently said they shut oper-ations after rabies vaccines they produced were found

to be substandard.The ministry has tried

to calm the public’s anxiet-ies about the 10-day mea-sles immunization drive, which started Saturday. It has busily issued state-ments, refuted rumors and held briefings to empha-size the need for the vac-cine as well as its safety.

The campaign, likely the world’s largest, targets all children ages 8 months to 4 or 14 years, depending on locality, and is intended to include remote areas, migrant communities and other places where previ-ous vaccination coverage has been spotty.

Yet the publicity is not likely to easily reassure a public increasingly skep-tical of reassurances from a government often seen as opaque and unaccount-able, especially where public health is involved.

“This time how could the public have no doubts? They are asking: ‘Is there an outbreak of the disease? Are previous vaccinations not working? Are the peo-ple in the government try-ing to make money from this?’” newspaper com-mentator Wei Yingjie said in an interview.

The public push-back marks a turnaround from the mass campaigns in the communist heyday under Mao Zedong and shows how prosperity and greater

access to information are creating a more assertive populace.

“This campaign would have been no problem in the Mao era, but today we know with globaliza-tion, the Internet, the in-formation explosion, this increasingly assertive civil society, they want to participate in the public policy process,” said Yan-zhong Huang, senior fel-

low for global health at the Council on Foreign Rela-tions in New York.

Measles is a highly con-tagious viral disease that can develop into blindness, pneumonia and encephali-tis and lead to death, and health experts say China needs an effective vacci-nation program.

Despite previous vac-cination drives, China recorded 52,000 measles

cases last year, including 39 deaths. The infection rates mean China is far from meeting its national pledge from 2005 to eradi-cate measles by 2012.

Mass drives in other parts of the world have either virtually eliminated measles or significantly reduced the number of in-fections. The disease has been nearly nonexistent in the Americas since 2002 and cases in seven coun-tries in southern Africa fell from 60,000 in 1996 to 117 by 2000, according to the WHO.

Dr. Lisa Cairns, head of immunization at WHO China, said many of those infected with measles in China are young children who were likely never vaccinated.

“Because the disease is not as common as it used to be, it is easy to forget how serious it is,” she not-ed.

China’s Health Min-istry has repeatedly said that the measles vaccine is safe, with random samples tested from stores around the country, and has tried to assure the public that medical personnel are pre-pared for emergencies, in-cluding any adverse reac-tions.

On Friday, a senior min-istry official promised that no one would be forced to take the vaccination.

“Vaccination will only proceed after parents sign an agreement,” the min-istry’s deputy director for disease control Hao Yang

GOP Spokesman: Senate GOP to Oppose Obama Tax Plan

By DAN STRUMPFASSOCIATED PRESS

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WASHINGTON – Sen-ate Republicans will op-pose any effort to renew soon-to-expire Bush ad-ministration tax cuts if up-per income taxpayers are excluded from the reduc-tions.

A spokesman for Sen-ate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that every Senate Repub-lican has pledged to op-pose President Barack Obama's tax-cutting plan. Obama would renew the tax cuts for most people, but let the top income tax rate rise back to almost 40 percent on family or small business income over $250,000.

McConnell has said a bill extending the tax cuts for only low- and middle-income earners cannot pass the Senate. Forty-one senators can block a bill with a filibuster, but Mc-Connell spokesman Don Stewart declined to say whether all 41 Republi-cans would support a fili-buster.

At issue is a year-end

deadline to renew a vari-ety of tax cuts enacted in 2001 — when the federal government was running a surplus.

On Sunday, House GOP Leader John Boehner said he would support renew-ing tax cuts for the middle class but not the wealthy if that was his only choice.

Democrats are worried that November elections could hand the GOP con-trol of the House and per-haps the Senate. The White House and its Democratic allies hope to use the tax-cut fight to cast themselves as defenders of the middle class and Republicans as a party eager to revive the days of the still unpopular former President George W. Bush.

"We're going to take the next 50-some days to con-vince the public that's ex-actly what the Republicans would do — back to the Bush policies," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Gibbs said on NBC's "Today" show.

Gibbs said the middle class should not be used as a political football by Republicans maneuvering

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Vaccination Sparks OutcryHISTORY OF THE WORLDSept. 13: ON THIS DATE in 1788, the Congress of the Confederation au-thorized the first national election and declared New York City the nation’s temporary capital. In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

Sept. 14: ON THIS DATE in 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. In 1901, President McKin-ley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin.

Sept. 15: ON THIS DATE in 1620, the Mayflower departed Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims bound for America. In 1894, Japan defeated China in the Battle of Ping Yang.

Sept. 16: ON THIS DATE in 1960, longtime college football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg retired at the age of 98. In 1974, President Ford announced conditional amnesty for U.S. deserters in the Vietnam War.

Sept. 17: ON THIS DATE in 1394, all Jews were expelled from France on the order of King Charles VI. In 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Consti-tutional Convention in Philadelphia.

Sept. 18: ON THIS DATE in 1927, the Columbia Phonograph Broadcast-ing System (later called CBS) made its debut with a network of 16 radio stations. In 2008, the Treasury Department unveiled a $700 billion plan to rescue the housing market and bolster the battered credit system with the intent of saving the faltering U.S. economy.

Sept. 19: ON THIS DATE in 1881, President Garfield died of an assassin’s gunshot wounds, which had become infected due to poor medical treat-ment. In 1970, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” premiered.

Answer to last week’s question: This week in 1968, Republican presiden-tial nominee Richard Nixon made a guest appearance on the TV comedy/sketch show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.”

This week’s question: In 1980, war began when Iraqi troops seized terri-tory from what neighboring country in a border dispute?

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California Neighbors Survey Ruinscon’t from page 5replace the piece of the gas line mentioned in the documents with 24-inch pipe as a part of its broader proposal to upgrade infra-structure that the commis-sion began considering last year.

He said the ruptured section, which was in-stalled in 1956, was last checked for leaks in March. The company said later Sunday that no leaks were found.

The segment farther north was checked for leaks Friday and none was found, Souvall added.

“We take action on a daily basis to repair our equipment as needed,” he said. “PG&E takes a pro-active approach toward the maintenance of our gas lines and we’re constantly monitoring our system.”

In ordering the com-pany to conduct the leak survey on its natural gas lines, the state’s Public Utilities Commission said Sunday that PG&E must give priority to higher pressure pipelines, as well

as to lines in areas of high population density.

The order came after Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado asked the commission to order the utility company to conduct an integrity assessment of its natural gas pipeline system. Mal-donado is serving as act-ing governor while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger travels in Asia.

The commission also plans to appoint an inde-pendent expert panel to help with their investiga-tion.

Crews Monday pre-pared to ship to Washing-ton a crate containing the 28-foot section of rup-tured natural gas pipe-line that was blown out of the ground. Also being shipped were two 10-foot sections of pipe removed from the crater Sunday from either side of where the ruptured section had been.

Investigators believed they had collected all the sections needed to recon-struct the metal pipeline but asked that anyone who

found metal fragments in the blast area contact the NTSB.

Residents of destroyed or red-tagged homes wait-ed anxiously Monday for more information on what would happen next, while the luckier ones settled back into the neighbor-hood.

Returning residents were wearing wristbands that show police they live in the area.

Pat and Roger Haro and their dog, Rosie, have been living in a hotel room since Thursday after flee-ing their home with the clothes they were wear-ing, dog food, water and an iPad.

When they returned, their home was marked with a green tag — indi-cating less damage than others with yellow or red tags — and their electric-ity was still off.

“Once I saw the house was still there, then I felt a whole lot better,” Pat Haro said. “I think we’ll be a tighter community.”

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Animal Awareness Tipby Maideline Sanchez

Wild BoarWild boars reside

mostly in Northern Eu-rope, Central Europe, and the Mediterranean Region, including Af-rica’s Atlas Mountains. For the purpose of hunt-ing, wild boars have been artifi-cially intro-duced into the Americas and some parts of Aus-tralia. They are noted for having larger heads in pro-portion to their bodies and also con-tain a conglomeration of stiff bristles along with finer fur, usually varying in color from dark grey,

brown, and black. Adult male boars are

usually solitary animals outside of the breeding season. However, females and their offspring live together in groups called sounders. A sounder may consist anywhere from 20

to almost 50 boars, with a dominant female in the group. Wild boars are con-sidered to be omnivorous scavengers, consuming

anything from grass, ber-ries, nuts, insects, or rep-tiles. They are also known to hunt young deer and lambs.

During mating season, males will move into fe-male groups and rival oth-er males for dominance.

After a female has mated with a dominant male, the ges-tation period lasts for 115 days. After two hours of giving birth of up to six offspring, the mother will begin to wean her offspring

from suckling after about four months. They will then commence to eat-ing solid foods, such as worms and grubs.

said. “We heard that some places were linking vac-cination with admission to kindergartens and schools. So yesterday we issued a notice that admission to school should never be used to force children to vaccination.”

Health care profession-als, however, have ques-tioned the immunization drive’s broad scope, given that many children have

previously been inoculat-ed and thus would be vac-cinated again.

A blog posting by a prominent immunization expert, Wang Yuedan of Peking University, urged the government to focus on formerly underserved groups like the children of rural migrants now living in urban areas, instead of vaccinating some children again. By Friday, Wang withdrew his reservations

and backed the campaign, saying he was convinced by the Health Ministry’s explanations.

Still, Wang said in an interview that he winced at the thought of his 4-year-old daughter suffering a possible fever from the vaccine.

“I’m a man and a father first, who has emotions and who can’t watch his child suffer pain blindly,” he said.

Senate GOP to Oppose Obama Tax Plan

to give tax cuts to wealthy taxpayers, who he said don't need the reductions. Republicans say par-ing taxes for the wealthy would encourage them and the businesses they oper-ate to create jobs.

Congressional analysts say renew-ing the tax cuts for everyone would cost the govern-ment $4 trillion over the next de-cade. With polls showing a broad public anger over spiraling federal deficits, Obama wants to exclude individuals earn-ing over $200,000 and couples mak-ing over $250,000 — who account for $700 billion of that total.

"That's a debate we're happy to have," McCon-nell told the Washington Post. "That's the kind of debate that unifies my cau-cus."

Democrats aren't uni-fied behind Obama and their House and Senate leaders. Several Senate Democrats say they would like all of the Bush tax cuts

con’t from page 6 to be extended for another year or two as the econo-my slowly recovers from the recession.

"I don't think it makes sense to raise any fed-eral taxes during the un-

certain economy we are struggling through," Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Con-necticut independent who aligns with Democrats, said Monday. "The more money we leave in private hands, the quicker our eco-nomic recovery will be. And that means I will do everything I can to make sure Congress extends the so-called Bush tax cuts for another year."

Treasury Secretary

Timothy Geithner on Monday also called on Congress to move quickly to extend the tax cuts.

Geithner and the ad-ministration have tried to make the case that condi-

tions would have been worse without Obama's economic policies, including the $814 billion stimulus package. Geithner said that a return to Republi-can policies would put the economic recovery in jeop-ardy.

"We can't af-ford to go back to the policies of the past decade when we passed large tax cuts for

the wealthiest Americans without paying for them and saw little impact on job creation and years of stagnation in middle class wages," he said.

Republicans say the level of spending under-taken by the Obama ad-ministration has done little to boost the economy. In-stead, it has increased the deficit to unsustainable levels, they say.

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So You Weren’t at the Football Game Because…

Hooray for Ignorance!

Recently in the news there was the story of Pas-tor Terry Jones, the head of the Dove World Outreach program, who planned to hold burn the Qur’an day on the ninth anniversary of the September 11th at-tacks. Is this really what some people have resorted to? Burning a religious book that, if nothing else, can be enjoyed for its lit-erary and poetic value? What does Pastor Jones hope to accomplish by burning the Qur’an? He probably had some idea in his head, but in reality the two main results would be

This Saturday was a day to remember as hundreds of people, myself includ-ed, made their way up to North Campus for the first home football game of the semester. It was absolutely the most beautiful day for a game, especially since it wasn’t too cold sitting in the stands, at least dur-ing the beginning. I have never seen that stadium so full of students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, and members of the NAACP. It made me proud to be a stu-dent here at UNH. (Win-ning the game didn’t hurt either.)

Sitting in the stands, all I could hear were compli-

ments for everything that happened that day. (Well, that doesn’t include those people who just complain about ev-erything.) For those of us who attended last year’s games, it was obvious that there was already a lot of improve-ment on that field. I was impressed with our team this year and quickly had high hopes for this season, early on in this first game. Of course, there’s al-ways room for im-provement, but see-ing last Saturday’s game, I’m confident that we have an ex-citing season to look for-ward to.

That being said, I was also impressed with the packed stadium. Many

scrambled for seats and others squeezed more

people onto the bleachers than was comfortable for those around them. Sure,

I know that a lot of this was due to this being the first home game and the Harmony Classic, but I fully expect to see the stands full for the coming games. If we don’t support our own team, then who will? For those of you who had to miss this first game or decided to skip it because it just wasn’t worth your time, then you missed out. Keep taking that attitude and pretty soon you will re-alize how much of your college experience you have missed.

Halftime is always something to look for-ward to in my book. (It’s

a chance to stretch for one thing.) This was one half-time to remember, with both our Charger band and Lincoln’s band tak-ing the field to perform for the crowd. It was a surprise to see how our own band has increased in size from last year. How-ever, the star of halftime had to be Lincoln’s band, whose performance was both entertaining and up-beat. I think it’s safe to say that we all enjoyed that halftime show. Sadly, time did not permit to see the cheerleaders or UNH’s dance team Emanon per-form during halftime. But, maybe if people in the stands had listened, they would have known that both the cheerleaders and Emanon would be per-

forming after the game. To anyone who may not have gotten the hint, that meant stick around. Honestly, five minutes left of the game and half the crowd left. If you missed it then you missed out because the dance team just keeps getting better and better, and it was nice to see the cheerleading squads from both schools do a routine together.

Next week’s game is promising to be a good one as well, so I want everyone to put some blue t-shirt on (I know you all have one, because they are given out on this campus like free candy.) and go support our Chargers. See you all at the game!!!

a fire and a large number of angry people.

In the end, following statements and ac-tions from both im-portant American figures including General David Pe-traeus, who made a statement that the burning would en-danger American troops, and Muslims in the Middle East, who held protests with effigies of Pas-tor Jones and flag burnings, Pastor Jones cancelled the burning. His reason-ing, however, was that he had suppos-edly made plans to speak with Imam Feisal

Abdel Rauf, the leader be-hind the mosque planned blocks from Ground Zero,

in New York City on Sat-

urday. Rauf denied this, but the Qur’an burning was still, at least temporar-

ily, canceled.I struggle with the

immense ignorance that it takes to swal-low the words of people and groups such as Pastor Jones’ church and the fa-mous Westboro Bap-tist Church. Haven’t people learned that violence, hate, and inflammatory actions traditionally lead to results that are less than desirable? Some would argue that the right to free speech protects groups like this, and yes, that is

true. There was no army or

police force there to attack and detain Pastor Jones to prevent his event, but free speech comes with certain responsibilities, and in my mind, one of those is to use common sense.

Many people in today’s world don’t have the luxu-ry of free speech, so please don’t stomp on that right by abusing it. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely do not advocate snuffing out any ideas that I or others disagree with, but as a na-tion, and even throughout the world, people need to step back and look at the big picture to see the true results of their actions.

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National Suicide Prevention Week

As you may have known or not known, National Suicide Prevention Week was from September 5th to the 11th and World Sui-cide Prevention Day was September 10th. Whether you have been affected by suicide, know someone that has been affected by suicide, or neither, suicide is real and when it hits, it hits hard. I was exposed to suicide in the 7th grade when my friend took her own life. Here is the story that changed my life for-ever. Note: Some of the names have been changed for personal reasons.

On a Sunday morn-ing, I was at church sing-ing praises to my God and hearing the word. At the same time, a beauti-ful angel was taking her life away. Sandra was a friend. We weren’t close, but she was a friend. When I said hi she said hi. We had many conver-sions, none serious, but some funny. She always made me laugh. Every-body loved her. Basically, the whole town knew her. I remember sitting on the floor against some lockers

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with her just talking about life, school, and people in general. Just sitting there and talking to her made me picture an ocean, an ocean that flows on a calm day. There were a lot of teach-ers who didn’t like her and she was condemned for every little thing she did. Their problem was that they didn’t have an open mind, but her friends and I saw something in her that the teachers refused to see: a beautiful angel who made mistakes. I saw a beautiful angel who was still young and didn’t know everything. I saw a beautiful angel who loved life the way life should be. I walked in the hallways of our middle school and saw a smile all the time from her, but I didn’t know what was really going on inside.

May 21, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. on a school after-noon: it was almost time to leave school. I was walk-ing to my locker when I saw Sandra and our other friend, Vanessa, walking towards me. Sandra left first and Vanessa noticed that she had Sandra’s CD player; so she gave it to me to put in my locker. I didn’t know that that day would be the last time I would ever see Sandra.

May 23, 2004 at 10:00 p.m.: I was watching tele-vision with my brothers when I got a phone call from my friend Kenny. My brother, Bruce, took the call. After talking to him for about a couple of min-utes, Bruce said, “Sandra killed herself this morn-ing!” I really didn’t take it too seriously. “You’re kid-ding, she would never do that.” I took the phone to talk to Kenny. We thought maybe she was faking it to prove a point, but we really didn’t know any-thing. At this point, I was getting scared. I called my friend Vanessa to see if she knew anything. Van-essa confirmed that it was true. Sandra took away her life for a reason that I will never know. We just burst into tears on the phone. “Why would she do this?” I kept asking myself this over and over again. My mom was at work so I called her and told her. She came home to be with us at this time. We were sitting in our family room cry-ing, thinking, talking, and feeling our hearts break-ing into a million pieces. “I don’t want to go to school tomorrow,” I told my mom, but she said that I had to be there. All of her

loved ones would be there to comfort each other. We need to get through this to-gether. I went to bed that night knowing in a couple of hours I would be facing the hardest day of my life.

May 24, 2004: I ap-proach the school feeling sadness in the air. Some of the counselors were out-side talking to the students. All morning I told my-self that I wouldn’t break down. My mom walked with my brothers and me to my locker. I opened it and the first thing I saw was her CD player, making my heart sink. We walked to take it to the office. Af-ter, my mom hugged me and left. I walked to home-room and sat at my desk. Our principal announced the tragic news during our homeroom period. There would also be counselors and social workers in the media center all day to talk and help people. I was fine at this time. The bell rang and I walked to my first period class, which was art. After sitting there for a couple of minutes, I finally broke down. I didn’t want to leave but my art teacher had another teacher help me to the library. When I walked to the media cen-ter, I thought the whole

entire school was in there. People were crying on the floor and others were against the wall. Many were talking to counselors and hugging each other. A lot of us were there for hours. After crying, we finally started to laugh, because we were just talk-ing about funny things that helped us remember the good times with San-dra. Then I walked with a bunch of friends back to seventh period. I felt a lit-tle better, but this was only the start.

It was time to say good-bye to a beautiful angel. I attended the wake know-ing I couldn’t go to the fu-neral. The only thing going through my mind when I saw her lying in the casket was “Wake up angel, wake up!” I knew she would not wake up on this earth anymore. This was the last time I cried in front of ev-eryone. This was real; she was gone. It had finally hit me and it hit hard.

It was a long journey for me to heal 100%. I leaned on God, my family, and friends more than any-thing. The two very valu-able lessons I learned from this experience were to let pain run its course and to not be afraid to cry. These

lessons are also great ad-vice for others who might be in the same situation as I was. It hurts to lose some-one who was so young and had so much potential. Now six years later, I think about what she would be like today. Every year on May 23, I remember San-dra as the beautiful angel that is now looking down on us from Heaven.

Since 2007, I have been an advocate for sui-cide prevention. I was not prepared emotionally or psychologically for such a tragedy at a young age. I did not see the warn-ing signs and my friends didn’t either, because we did not know what these warning signs were. You can go through your whole life asking “What if I saw something or said some-thing to prevent it,” but you will never find the an-swers to these questions.

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I want to give a shout out to thank everyone for the great turn out that we had for the fi rst football game. It was amazing, to say the least, to see all of the school spirit on this campus.

I want to say, that from my point of view as head of special events for USGA, that the BSU party was a killer success, and I can’t wait for the next one to be put on. It really

was bumpin’ somethin’ fi erce yo!

NegativesPositivesSo as great as the BSU party was, it was a disappointment that there were only two

offi cers and a few Murphy’s security patrollers that were present. I know it’s not the fault of the offi cers that were there, because they did all they could with the resources allocated to them. I just think that it would be in the best interest of the student body if the police force expanded to fi t the growing student population. That way, student events on campus can have greater security in the future.

Okay, so this is a two-fold one here. It’s a shout out to both the drivers and pedestri-

ans on this campus. Drivers, you should slow down when driving through campus. That extra two minutes that you save by putting students in danger isn’t going to help you if you end up with a ticket or injuring someone. Pedestrians, you need to stop walking in the middle of the streets; there are things called crosswalks and sidewalks for a reason. It’s a pain in the butt to have to wait for some Chatty Cathys to get off the road. Also, I’d appreciate it if you didn’t shoot me dirty looks.

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Okay, it was awesome that we totally curb stomped the lions in a friendly game of football. Both teams played admirably and should be proud of the game they played. But even more exciting was the Lions’ marching band. That, in my opinion, would have made the game worth going to even if we didn’t win. I was also impressed with

the development of our own marching band from what it was last year to what it is now. I can’t wait to see its evo-lution and development as the year progresses. Last shout out goes to the EMANON dance team and the cheer-

leaders who, I am sorry to say, were not able to perform during half time but did get to perform at the end of the game. I know that they too will continue to wow us all in the future.

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Fire Science. Charlie is a member of the track and fi eld team, throwing discus and shot put. He is the presi-

dent of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and worked on the super-mileage vehicle last year. He is also active in the Mechanical Engineering

department. Charlie is from New Jersey and is currently living in Soundview.

Ashley is a sophomore at the University of New Ha-ven. She is currently living in New Hall and is from New Rochelle, New York. Ashley is a Criminal Jus-tice major, and this program is a major reason why she chose UNH. She is a member of the track team and the Anime club. In her spare time, she attends Anime Fest.

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Boise Makes a Statement “Are They BCS Worthy or Bust?”

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The Cinderella story continued for the No.3 ranked Boise State Bron-cos as they defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies 33-30 during the fourth quarter. Kellen Moore TD passed to Austin Pettis for a 13 yard score at 1:09 left on the clock to give the Broncos their 15th regular season win on Labor Day at Fed EX Field, home of the Washington Redskins since 1997.

With a 17-0 lead in the first quarter by the Bron-cos, the Hokies dominated through the second quarter and on, but couldn’t hold on in the end. This was the first time both of these schools faced each other in the regular season in a span of 42 years. In front of 86,587 people, which was pro Virginia Tech even though the game was played at a neutral site, Moore, junior quarterback for Boise State, was able to hold his composure and lead his team down the grid iron for an exciting

victory. This victory was perhaps the biggest win in regular season history for Boise State. “We are cer-tainly proving people right now,” he said, accord-ing to ESPN.com. “You should gain a little respect by beating Virginia Tech out here. You’re basi-cally playing a road game; you’re having one heck of a game with them, just fighting back and forth.” Moore is now 27-1 as the starting Quarterback, go-ing 23 for 38 with 215 passing yards and throw-ing for three scores. What makes him so effective? He’s a football aficionado and is a great game man-ager. He’s a major student of the game and knows how to utilize the weapons around him. Moore makes good decisions, but, more importantly, he avoids making stupid mistakes.

Austin Pettis, Bron-cos’ wide receiver, made Moore’s and the entire Boise State University’s night by giving them a reason to believe that they were BCS National Cham-pionship material. “We

know how much was at stake for us, so it was kind of like a bowl game,” he said according to ESPN.com. “There’s a lot we need to work on too be-cause there were a lot of mistakes we made. We can’t afford any slip-ups especially after setting up ourselves like this.” Cred-it has to go to the Broncos Head Coach, Chris Peters-en, whose in his fifth year with a 50-4 record and is taking each game one at a time. “Game 1 and that’s what it is,” he said on ESPN after the game. “We’re just pleased to get out of here with a W.” The Broncos are highly talent-ed and so well-coached, making them such a dan-gerous opponent to play against, especially since they are proving people right. They were 6 for 15 in 3rd down conversions and had 215 yards passing, 168 yards rushing, giving them a total of 383 yards.

As for the Hokies, they have fought valiantly ev-ery step of the way, but their chances of getting in the BCS hunt are over. The

Hokies fell 0-22 against Associated Press’ top-5 teams away from home, 1-26 overall. It was the first time since Dec. 2007 that Virginia Tech lost a regular-season game when scoring 30-plus points. Head Coach of Virginia Tech, Frank Beamer, who is in his 24th season with a 187-93-2 record, said the following after the game: “When it’s all said and done, we were one first down from winning that football game,” according to ESPN.com.

Now, the debate begins with Boise State becoming the first team from a league without an automatic BCS bid to play for a national championship if they go undefeated. The Bron-cos, starting from 2002 to 2009, have been unbeaten at home with a 51 game winning streak and are absolutely unbelievable. Western Athletic Confer-ence (WAC) is clearly dominated by the Bron-cos with a (71-9) record, a total of 89%, the high-est winning percentage in the conference, a total of

Chargers Win 30-0 Over Lincoln in Harmony Classic

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squads. Neither team man-aged to score in the third stanza, leaving the score at 20-0 entering the final quarter.

The Chargers’ defense held strong, forcing anoth-er turnover on fourth down from the Lions. This one provided great field pos-session for the home team, leading to another Char-gers’ field goal early on in the fourth quarter. Scifo split the uprights for the third time, this one coming from 38 yards out. Osiecki and the offense generated 17 yards on seven plays on the drive.

The Lions moved the chains once on their next

drive, but could not reach the scoreboard. After a turnover-on-downs, UNH

controlled possession for the next six minutes of ac-tion. Victor Jones, Ronnie

Nelson and Ryan Osiecki put together a 57 yard drive on nine plays, ending

with an 11-yard rushing touchdown from Jones. The score capped off the scoring column for the game, finalizing a 30-0 victory on the blue and gold turf.

Osiecki led an offense that amassed 317 yards in the non-conference af-fair. He finished with 88 yards passing, six yards rushing and one passing touchdown. Sharieff Hall collected five catches for 109 yards and one touch-down, while Demetrius Washington-Ellison reg-istered 47 yards in the air. Victor Jones and Mike DeCaro each recorded 60 yards on the ground, with Jones crossing the goal

line for a touchdown run. On the defensive side

of the ball, Charlie Hatch-ett and Robert Hill led the way with 11 and 10 tackles respectively. Hatchett also forced a fumble whereas Hill registered 2.5 tackles for a loss of eight yards. As a team, the Chargers forced five fumbles, recov-ered two and allowed just 58 yards on the ground.

The Chargers return to action one week from today with their North-east-10 Conference open-er. UNH welcomes As-sumption College to Ralph R. DellaCamera Stadium for a 1 p.m. kickoff.

15 conference titles, and being 4-1 against teams in the AP top-10 since 2000. The USA Today’s coach’s poll had the Bron-cos ranked fifth, the AP had them ranked third, and the NCAA had the squad ranked second. Talk about the amount of public inter-est they’re getting. Maybe the Broncos can get the re-spect they so desperately want right now after one game against a quality Vir-ginia Tech team. They are America’s underdog in all of college football. Are they BCS Championship worthy?

Right now, the Bron-cos are in the discussion with other teams like Tex-as, Oklahoma, Alabama, TCU, South Carolina, Iowa, Florida, Ohio State, etc. They still have to beat Wyoming, Oregon State, Fresno State, and Nevada to become more worthy. The enormous factor in all of this is the strength of schedule. Teams like Alabama play stronger opponents and are in a su-per conference with much more competiveness. The

Broncos would have to be ranked No.1 and be the only team undefeated to get a shot at the National Championship, but the problem with college foot-ball is that there’s never going to be a playoff sys-tem. Also, if Alabama and Ohio State go undefeated or a team out of the SEC Conference, like South Carolina, wins out by leap frogging the Broncos out of title contention, the Broncos will be in trouble.

There’s a lucrative so-lution to this issue. The answer is that they should decide the National Cham-pionship the same way other teams do in the NCAA, which means hav-ing a 16-team playoff. The Broncos would have to beat three elite opponents to get to the national title game, eliminating all con-cerns about the schedule. Until that happens, this de-bate will keep raging on. Making teams earn their stripes and prove to the world why they’re the best teams in college football will make things more fair overall.

The Crimson Tide Alive and WellBy TOM CHIEPPOSTAFF WRITER

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The Alabama Crimson Tide sprinted down to the gridiron as they crushed the Penn State Nittany Li-ons (24-3) at Bryant-Den-ny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with 101,821 fans in attendance to see the Tide cap their second win of the season.

Mark Ingram, the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner and the only one to win the award in Alabama Uni-versity history, had a left knee injury and didn’t par-ticipate in this contest. He also didn’t see any action to begin the 2010 regu-lar season. Ingram’s stats through 2009 are 414 car-ries, 2,386 rushing yards, 388 receiving yards, and 29 touchdowns. Ingram will return to action at

Duke on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Also, the Tide didn’t have defensive end, Mar-cell Dareus, who has been declared as ineligible and suspended for the first two games, accepting nearly $2,000 in improper ben-efits during two trips to Miami. Dareus was ruled ineligible for receiving preferential treatment and agent benefits, including airfare, lodging, meals, and transportation during Miami trips. The NCAA ordered Dareus on Thurs-day to pay $1,787 to a charity of his choice before regaining eligibility. So far an agreement has not been reached yet. A question re-mains whether he will be returning against the Duke Blue Devils.

Trent Richardson, run-ning back for the Crimson Tide, had an exceptional game. He had 22 carries

for 144 yards and one score. However, Richard-son had 102 of those yards against the Nittany Lions, who had gone the previous 17 games without a 100-yard rusher in the first half. (Iowa’s Shonn Greene gained 117 yards on Nov.8, 2008.) “This will be something I remember for a long time,” Richard-son said, according to Ya-hoo Sports. “I tried to put the offense on my back and run with it.” Head Coach of the Alabama Crimson, Tide Nick Sa-ban, explained the impor-tance of Richardson’s role. “Trent Richardson played a fantastic game,” he said, according to Yahoo Sports. “He’s the first one to get 100 yards against the de-fense in a long, long time, which says a lot about their defense, but it also says a lot about Trent.”

The Crimson Tide had a total of 409 yards, 229 passing, and 180 yards rushing. Greg McElroy, Senior quarterback for the tide was 16 for 24 and threw for 229 yards with two touchdowns. The game didn’t live up to the rivalry’s history. The Nittany lions were com-pletely out-manned by this Alabama defense. Robert Bolden, freshman Penn State quarterback, ran into trouble because he is still very inexperienced in this position. The same goes for their defense. Bolden was 13 for 29 with 144 yards passing with two interceptions. The Tide’s defense was able to come up with three interceptions and take advantage of two Penn State turnovers at the red zone.

“A tough crowd and a tough football team,” Penn

State Head Coach Joe Paterno said, according to Yahoo Sports. “That made it tough on, Bolden. We didn’t do a good job coaching and getting him ready for this one. I think [we’ve] got a long way to go to be a good football team.”

Paterno also explained about his visit to Alabama in week two. “I didn’t think about being back in Alabama,” he said, ac-cording to Yahoo Sports. “I was just thinking about whether we have a little better of a football team then we showed today.”

Credit also goes to the Tide’s defense for shut-ting down the Lions run-ning game, which consists of Evan Royster, who had nine carries for 32 yards and Silas Reed who had five carries for 26 yards. These two schools were

ranked in the top ten at least six times throughout the fourteen times they faced each other. Ala-bama has outscored Penn State with a total of 227-174. Nick Saban’s record is 35-8 in his fourth year with the Tide. Last season they were 51 for 59 in the red zone, which is 86.44%. Their total offensive last year was consisted of 947 plays for 5,642 yards total.

It’s been more than 20 years since the last time Penn State and Alabama faced each other. The Crimson Tide’s squad is insurmountable and the Nittany Lions need to turn their season around in a hurry if they want to get to a big bowl game.


Denard Robinson Puts on Record-breaking PerformancesBy TOM CHIEPPOSTAFF WRITER

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The most exciting quar-terback in all of college football has to be Denard Robinson, because he scored the game winning touchdown with 27 sec-onds left on the clock in the fourth quarter this Sat-urday afternoon, to give the Michigan Wolverines a 28-24 victory against Notre Dame at South Bend.

In front of 80,795 people in attendance, Robinsons’ most electrifying moment came late in the second quarter when he went to the right side and sprinted right pass the Irish defense for an 87-yard score, mak-ing it the longest run in Notre Dame Stadium his-tory. (Dick Panin broke off an 88-yarder for Michigan State in 1951, the longest run ever at Notre Dame Stadium.) Robinson oblit-erated his three records at UConn last week, where he had 186 yards passing, 197 yards rushing, giving

him a total of 383 yards. Now, these records include 244 passing, 258 rushing and 502 total yards. He was 24 for 40 passing as well. Also, Robinson was the ninth quarterback in NCAA history to rush and pass for 200 yards. “Man, I didn’t even know that,” Robinson said, according to ESPN.com. “I just do whatever it takes for the team to win. I don’t look at the stats.” Robinson broke down the last drive of the game. “I’m speech-less right now,” he said, according to collegefoot-ballrivals.com. “The of-fense came together. Ev-eryone was ready for the drive. It was time to put it away. We had let them stick around for too long.”

The Wolverines im-proved to 2-0 and Head Coach, Rich Rodriquez, who is 2-1 lifetime against the Irish, had more to say on NBC after the game. “There were a lot of ups and downs in this game,” he said. “Lot of momen-tum changes, and I’m

proud the way our players played. We will enjoy this win for the next 24 hours, and it is on to the next one.” Rodriquez explained the importance of Robinson’s role. “Needless to say, our quarterback was special today,” he said according

to collegefootballrivals.com. You would be happy to if you had Robinson. I don’t know if I ever have had a quarterback account for that many yards in a game, and I have had some good ones.”

“He’s a tough kid,” said Notre Dame Head Coach Brian Kelly, according to ESPN.com. “We hit him

hard. You run a quar-terback 25 times, you got to have toughness.” Kelly also said, accord-ing to NBCsports.com, “We have a lot of things to cleanup. We were one play away. Our offense needed to give us a chance

to win this game. It was a good game.” Coach Kel-ly’s Fighting Irish squad dropped to 1-1. This was the first time Kelly expe-rienced a rivalry just like quarterbacks Tommy Ress and Nate Montana, who is the son of Hall-of-Famer quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, Joe Mon-tana.

Is Robinson Heisman trophy material? Robin-son has a total of 885 yards in his first two contests, 455 rushing yards, and 430 passing yards. He’s an un-flappable quarterback and has great intelligence of what defenses are coming, whether it’s a blitz, send-ing eight men in the box, and a cover. He has a keen ability to escape that the opposition’s defenses are always one step behind. Additional skills include him having a great pocket presence, knowing where to find his wide receivers and also knowing when it’s time to run the ball when the play-action pass is taken away. This will be Coach Rodriquez’s ulti-mate weapon to get a shot at the BCS Championship if his performance con-tinues like this; he will be the leading candidate for the Heisman. Robinson certainly belongs in the discussion because he can back up his performances with a bunch of victories.

The Michigan and

Notre Dame clash began in 1887 and this matchup was the 38th time these schools met each other in the regu-lar season. Wolverines outscored the Irish 802-637. They lead the over-all series 22-15-1. Both schools have a combined total of 21 national titles: 10 titles for Michigan and 11 for Notre Dame. Some of the biggest moments in the epic rivalry history for both teams were Harry Ol-iver’s game-winning kick for 51 yards in 1980, Reg-gie Ho’s four field goals in 1988, Raghib “Rocket” Ismail two touchdown re-turns in 1989, Desmond Howard’s catch in 1991, and “the tie” in 1992. Now you can add Robinson’s 502 yards performance for 2010, with the Wolverines having 533 yards as a team. Robinson became the en-tire offense that day. Just like all these other memo-rable moments, Robinson will cherish this game for the rest of his life.

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Crispy GamerWith lengthy battles

and no checkpoints, I’ve always felt the PS3-exclu-sive “Valkyria Chronicles” would be more suitable for a handheld system. The ability to put the game to sleep without having to stick a battle out or quit in the middle (the cause of many tensions when on a schedule) is a necessary feature for a game that puts the player in battles that often take a minimum of one hour to complete - not including retries. To my elation, the sequel will be released for the PSP, set for Aug. 31, and the demo was just put up on the PSN store. The devel-opers claim it has the same gameplay as the first in the series with improvements, despite being put on a less powerful system, and from what the demo exhibits, they’re right.

Until recently, “The Valkyria Chronicles” is a title I’d heard plenty of times but knew little to nothing about. However, after completing the sev-eral-years-old PS3-exclu-sive, I can confirm that it is a series to be reckoned with, boasting elements of strategy RPGs, third-person shooters and beau-tiful watercolor anime art rolled into a solid story.

The original “Valkyria Chronicles” is the story of the small nation of Gallia, which remained neutral in a brutal war between the

Imperial Army and the Federation Alliance until the Imperial Army invad-ed Gallia for a quick claim to their rich soil full of ragnite, a precious power source that was decreas-ing in availability. This “chronicle” is told chapter by chapter in a book called “On the Gallian Front,” about the small nation’s clever and epic de-feat of the Imperial giant, while discover-ing living decedents of a powerful race of Valkyria thought to be both mythological and extinct.

Two years after Gallia’s victory, how-ever, the nation has broken into civil war. In “Valkyria Chron-icles II,” a group of dissatisfied aristocrats and likeminded soldiers and citizens calling them-selves the Gallian Revo-lutionary Army faces off against the nation’s army, still exhausted from its fight against the Imperial Army in the first game, to ethnically cleanse the Gal-lian nation of the Darcsen race. Because of a series of laws against forming a national militia to fight its own people, the govern-ment is forced to deploy military academy cadets to try to stop the Revolution-ary Army. There are seeds of tensions brewing in the first game, but the sequel throws the player into the

game after the war has al-ready begun.

While “Valkyria Chron-icles II” utilizes the same battle engine as the first, there is a noticeable dif-ference in polygon count on the character models, as everyone looks skinnier and lumpier than the char-acters of the PS3 game - though you’ll quickly get

used to it. Another minor gripe is that at first the gunshots from each at-tack felt more superficial, perhaps due to the lack of vibration, though I quickly got used to this, as well, and neither were a prob-lem for more than 10 min-utes. The map still zooms in and out of a bird’s-eye-view of the field as in the first game, though the zoomed out map is less detailed and not 2.5D, so the height of an object can be hard to judge from that view. Non-battle character animations and cutscenes have also been reduced in graphics; instead of the in-game engine rendering

the characters, they are animated in an anime art style, which works just as well.

As for battle itself, like the PS3 iteration units are chosen before being deployed, and are then moved by selecting their icon from the map. Each ground unit’s turn uses one command point, or CP

(tanks use two), and when all your CP is depleted your turn ends, though if you end your turn early unused CP carries over to your next turn. When a unit is chosen, you control them in third-person mode until their endurance is used up, nearby enemies automatically attacking as you run by. When you choose to shoot, throw a grenade, or heal, you are put into a turn-based mode where you can take your time and aim and any en-emy shot at is given the chance to shoot back.

Your goal in battle is typically to either capture all enemy camps by clear-

By Robert ErreraPreview: ‘Valkyria Chronicles II’ing the camps of soldiers and taking their flags or by killing the enemy’s leader, though some battles have more specific goals like moving safely to a key point on the map.

What’s new here is the inclusion of a morale me-ter. Though not explained in the demo, its increase every time an enemy was

defeated suggests it may increase your team’s stats, and per-haps decrease them as morale goes down, adding an extra chal-lenge to battle. Some things were made easier in return, like being able to have any unit retreat for CP without it counting as a once-per-round Or-der, and putting any

unit within one of your bases on standby for no cost. “Standby” or “re-treat” takes a unit out of the battle, allowing a dif-ferent unit to take his or her place. This is especial-ly useful if a unit falls too far behind or is severely wounded and surrounded.

One major addition in the sequel is the inclusion of multiple maps per bat-tle. The battle in the demo allows you to explore this feature, in which a “gate-way camp” must be taken before being able to move to the next map. This is where “standby” is impor-tant, and why it’s good it doesn’t cost any CP. Once

you’ve taken the gateway camp you must put some units on standby to free up your roster so you can de-ploy them to the connected gateway camp on the next map. The purpose is most likely more technical than strategic; in the PS3 title it would all be one con-tinuous map with multiple camps, though the PSP probably cannot render as much without adding load times.

“Valkyria Chronicles II” plays relatively the same on PSP as the first in the series did on PS3. If you don’t own a PS3 or don’t want to take the time to play the original title, you could try to find the Japanese anime series and manga that were loosely based on the game. Then you’ll be ready to take on the PSP sequel head on without missing any in-formation or references. I am very much looking forward to this game, and I urge you to support it, too, as the “Valkyria” series is fun RPG to play with all the challenges and con-templation a strategy game requires.

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Google Search Accelerates With ‘Instant’ ResultsBy MICHAEL LIEDTKEASSOCIATED PRESS

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Google Inc. stepped on its Internet search acceler-ator Wednesday by adding a feature that displays re-sults as soon as people be-gin typing their requests.

The change, called “Google Instant,” is the closest the 12-year-old company has come yet to realizing its founders’ ambition to build a search engine that reads its users’ minds.

The achievement wasn’t lost on Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who jokingly told reporters that the company’s lightning-quick computers are mor-phing into the “other third” of people’s brains.

“I think it’s a little bit of a new dawn in comput-ing,” Brin said Wednesday.

The shift means Google

users will begin to see an ever-evolving set of search results appearing on their computer screens, poten-tially changing with each additional character typed. That means a satisfactory set of results could take just one keystroke. As an example, a person who types “w” in Google’s search box could see the weather results in the same area as where the request was entered.

Google will also try to predict what a person real-ly wants by filling out the anticipated search terms in gray letters. Below that, in a drop-down box, Google will still offer other sug-gested search requests, as the site has been offering for the past two years.

The feature will be grad-ually rolled out throughout the U.S. this week and will be offered in other parts of the world later this year.

It’s designed to work on the latest versions of the major Web browsers.

The instant results only will be displayed on Google’s standard website, which features little more than its logo and a search box. They won’t be shown to users making requests on individually designed “iGoogle” pages that are usually already covered with different decorations and programs plugged into other online services. Peo-ple who prefer Google’s basic website and don’t want to see instant results can turn them off by click-ing on a link next to the search box.

To minimize the chanc-es of offending people or inadvertently exposing children to inappropri-ate material, Google has programmed the instant results to block websites deemed to be pornograph-

ic, violent or hateful. That restriction may trigger complaints that Google is stifling freedom of expres-sion or unfairly screening out some sites that were improperly blacklisted.

Because Google’s search formula draws heavily upon common search requests, the instant results also could be bi-ased toward featuring ma-jor brands and companies during the first few char-acters of a request. That factor conceivably could hurt smaller merchants if people stop typing after the first few keystrokes and accept the results that show up the most quickly.

Despite those potential pitfalls, Google search executive Marissa Mayer hailed the instant search breakthrough as a quantum leap akin to Bob Dylan’s switch from an acoustic to electric guitar in 1965.

“It’s a fundamental shift to search and how people think of search,” she said.

If nothing else, Google is hoping that the innova-tion will help it to maintain its dominance of the lucra-tive search market as rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. team up to mount a more formidable chal-lenge. Currently, Google processes about two-thirds of Internet search requests while Microsoft and Ya-hoo handle most of the rest.

Google rose to popu-larity mainly because it focused on delivering search results within a few seconds. But Brin and the company’s other founder, Larry Page, have perpetu-ally pushed Google’s en-gineers to make the search engine even faster.

By speeding up its search results, Google be-lieves it will keep its us-

ers happier and possibly encourage people to make even more requests. That’s important to Google be-cause each query presents another opportunity to present another one of the ads that generate most of the company’s nearly $30 billion in annual revenue.

As part of its quest to speed things up, Google figured out that the aver-age search request takes nine seconds to type and then users spend an aver-age of 15 seconds to de-cide which result to pick.

With the new instant feature, Google expects to reduce the time spent on search by two to five seconds per request, col-lectively saving its more than 1 billion weekly users about 350 million hours annually.


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Dave’s Music ReportGoing into the 2010

MTV Video Music Awards, hopes were high for an amazing and memo-rable night. With a great lineup of per-formers and p r e s e n t e r s , Chelsea Han-dler hosting, and the Kanye/Taylor Swift debacle still fresh on ev-eryone’s mind, this year’s show was al-most guaran-teed to be full of great sur-prises, amaz-ing music, and ( h o p e f u l l y ) a few screw-balls thrown into the mix. Unfortunately, the show failed to live up to expectations. Handler, who stars in her popular talk show Chelsea Lately on E! was the perfect host for the event, because she fearlessly poked fun at almost every major nomi-nee in attendance over the course of the night.

The performances were about 50/50 this year. Emi-nem kicked off the show with an amazing medley of his number one singles “Not Afraid” and “Love the Way You Lie,” where the show’s only surprise guest, Rihanna, joined him. Usher also performed a medley of his hits “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love” and “OMG” with an ab-solutely incredible light show and high-energy choreography, which not only showed his experi-ence, but talent as well. While many people might

not know Florence + the Machine, the group made everyone aware of their existence with their elabo-rate performance of “Dog

Days Are Over.” Both Taylor Swift and Kanye West debuted new songs at the show, both seemingly written about last year’s incident. Swift’s song, “Forgiveness” was a clear peace offering to West, with the performance even starting off with a clip from her interrupted speech. Kanye ended the show with his new song “Run-away,” which showed a rare, humble side of him owning up to his actions. While the song itself may have missed the mark, he left the stage with the audi-ence chanting his name.

Other performances in-cluded Linkin Park’s new single “The Catalyst” and a medley that featured the B.o.B. hits “Nothin’ on You” and “Airplanes” featuring Bruno Mars and Haley Williams of Para-more, respectively, which

led right into Paramore’s “The Only Exception.” While the performance was strong, the songs were cut so much to fi t for time

that it almost didn’t seem worth it, especially see-ing as B.o.B. was one of the least featured parts of his own headlining per-formance. Another per-formance that missed the mark was Drake featuring Mary J. Blige and Swizz beats on “Fancy.” It was really hard to call this a “Drake performance” at all, seeing as Blige sang a majority of the song. Probably the worst per-formance of the evening was teen singing sensation Justin Bieber, who unfor-tunately couldn’t mask his lip-syncing well and man-aged to lose a drum stick early on in his (already impressive) drunk solo. Overall, the good perfor-mances were good and the bad ones were bad, but nothing really stood out as being amazing. The lack of surprises was also incred-

ibly disappointing, seeing as the VMAs are known for those great moments.

As far as the awards go, it was pretty close to being

a clean sweep for Lady Gaga, who took home 8 moonmen, in-cluding Video of the Year, Best Pop Vid-eo, and Best C o l l a b o r a -tion, as well as awards for Best Direc-tion, Chore-ography, and Editing. After Cher (dressed in an outfi t most 64 year olds should not be wear-ing) handed

out the award for Video of the Year, Gaga revealed the title of her upcoming album, Born This Way and proceeded to sing a snip-pet of a new song (seem-ingly the title track.) Other big winners included Emi-nem, who took home two awards for “Not Afraid,” while Justin Bieber was crowned Best New Artist for his hit “Baby.”

Overall, the 2010 VMAs were a series of hits and misses as usual, but it unfortunately lacked the spark of previous ceremo-nies. There were no shock-ing or monumental mo-ments like everyone was hoping for, but it wasn’t exactly a complete failure. If anything, this was the calm before the storm, and next year’s show should be full of everything this year’s lacked.

By Dave Iannacone2010 MTV Video Music Awards

Survivor NicaraguaBy DAVE IANNACONESTAFF WRITER

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Since its debut a de-cade ago, Survivor has been one of the most popular and groundbreak-ing reality shows on television. Af-ter celebrating the show’s 20th sea-son by compiling the show’s greatest heroes and villains to duke it out for another shot at the title of sole survi-vor, season 21 had a lot to live up to.

This time, 20 brand new castaways will be stranded in Nicaragua. As in most previous seasons, the cast-aways will be divided into

two tribes. However, this season they will be sepa-rated according to age. The Espada tribe will con-sist of contestants over the age of 40, while the La Flor tribe will be made up

of contestants 30 years old and younger. Having pre-viously divided teams by everything from gender to even ethnicity, this will no doubt bring a new dynam-ic to the show.

This season also sees the brand new addition of the Medallion of Power, which will give an advan-tage to a tribe in a chal-lenge, but will then be given to the other one. It

will also feature a famous castaway, Jimmy Johnson, former head coach of the Dallas Cow-boys and current Fox Sports an-nouncer.

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night timeslot for the fi rst time since its debut sea-son. Survivor Nicaragua kicks off this Wednesday, September 15 at 8:00 p.m. on CBS.

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