SCOPE MAKES HISTORY

The first annual Fall Concert goes off without a hitch.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Volume 86, Issue 7

Q MUSIC AWARDS IN LONDON

Find out which artists won big.

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The student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938

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INDEX

Arts & EntertainmentPage 8

Bulletin BoardPage 15

CommunityPage 9

EditorialsPage 6

Fun & GamesPage 12

National/World NewsPage 3

New Haven NewsPage 4

SportsPage 10

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UNH BEGINS CELEBRA-TION OF RAMADAN

Take a look at the roots and benefits of this Muslim tradition.

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UNH Athletics Prepare forMidnight Madness 2007

WEST HAVEN—The University of New Ha-ven will hold its annual Midnight Madness event Sunday, Oct. 14 beginning at 10:30 p.m. in the Char-ger Gymnasium. This will be the first opportunity to see the Charger men's and women's basketball teams in action, as their practices can officially kick off at the stroke of midnight.

Midnight Madness 2007-08 will feature prizes, mu-sic, performances, the in-troduction of the men's and women's basketball teams, a special ChargerREC in-tramural three-point shoot-ing championship, and the

night's biggest contest- the Free Tuition Hoops Chal-lenge.

Details of the Free Tu-ition Hoops Challenge are being kept tightly under wraps. But one lucky stu-dent's ticket stub will be chosen at random, and that student will have a chance to complete the Hoops Challenge to win one year's FREE tuition to UNH! (The student cannot be a current or former college basket-ball player. Complete rules will be available on site.)

Beginning at 10:00 p.m., Madness buses will run in a loop from Bethel to be-hind Bixler to the front of Maxcy and finally across to North Campus. At the conclusion of the event, buses will shuttle students

to Echlin Dining Hall for Midnight Breakfast.

Midnight Breakfast will be served beginning at 12:45 a.m., with the Char-ger baseball team donning the aprons to serve the Midnight Madness attend-ees. Students must attend Midnight Madness and stay the entire time. Then, at the end of the night, stu-

dents will receive a special bracelet to be admitted to Midnight Breakfast.

Midnight Madness is the final event of Spirit Week at UNH, which features school spirit competitions between the university's undergraduate classes. Mr. & Mrs. UNH will be an-

Off-Duty Deputy Shoots Students

CRANDON, Wis.— An off-duty sheriff's deputy who killed six young peo-ple and wounded another during a homecoming weekend gathering may have been motivated by a romantic dispute, relatives of the victims said.

Tyler Peterson, 20, was shot to death after opening fire early Sunday, Sept. 7 at a home where authori-ties said the friends met for pizza and movies. He was off-duty from his full-time job as a Forest County deputy sheriff; he also was a part-time Crandon police officer.

"I'm waiting for some-body to wake me up right now. This is a bad, bad dream," said Jenny Stahl, whose 14-year-old daugh-ter, Lindsey Stahl, was the youngest victim. "All I heard it was a jealous boy-friend and he went berserk. He took them all out."

Crandon Police Chief John Dennee declined com-ment on whether Peterson had a romantic relationship with any of the victims.

The lone survivor of the shooting, Charlie Neitzel, 21, of Pickerel, was up-graded to serious condition and was improving Mon-day at St. Joseph's Hospi-tal, spokeswoman Karla David said.

The white, two-story duplex where the shooting occurred was about a block from downtown Crandon, a small town located 225 miles north of Milwaukee in an area known for log-ging and outdoor activi-ties.

Marci Franz, who lives two houses from the du-plex where the shooting oc-curred, said she was awak-ened by the gunshots.

"I heard probably five or six shots, a short pause and then five or six more," she said.

Then she heard eight louder shots and tires squealing, she said.

"I was just about to get up and call it in, and I heard

sirens," she said. "There's never been a tragedy like this here. There's been indi-vidual incidents, but noth-ing of this magnitude."

Sheriff Keith Van Cleve said he would meet with state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Mon-day morning to discuss the case. Crandon Mayor Gary Bradley said Sunday that a sniper killed the suspect, but Van Cleve would not confirm that officers shot him.

The shooting raised questions among residents about whether Peterson had met requirements to become a law enforce-

COLLEGE NIGHT A SUC-CESS!

Check out photos from the fun night Downtown.

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Campus Events, Etc.The Charger Bulletin | October 10, 2007Page 2

There is grass in the quad! I know, it sounds like an oxymoron. But it’s there! I touched it myself! It’s nice and long and fluffy, al-though it’s a little odd that the grass in the middle is much longer than the rest of the quad, but I’m not complaining. Hopefully it’ll last…

Family weekend was a great success. I saw plenty of fami-lies here and nothing seemed to go horribly wrong. Apparently this was the biggest turnout yet—it’s good to know families care about their kids at college! It’s just surprising that this small campus can ac-commodate so many people—congrats to ev-eryone who put it together and pulled it off!

Purportedly, the Brazilian sauce at Sandella’s is no more. As was mentioned in USGA, the people who ship food to our San-della’s don’t make the Brazilian sauce. It’s such a shame since that sauce was one of the best things Sandella’s had. Oh how I and many others are going to miss that sweet yet delicately tangy sauce!

This whole “print on both sides” at the library is starting to get VERY annoying. It’s the default option for any print job and it’s easy forget to

undo it when in a rush. Many a lab report or essay

have been ruined by this option. They say it’s to save paper—it doesn’t save pape r when p e o p l e a r e throwing out their double-sided, unpro-fessional docu-ments that they need to hand in for a grade!

Positives NegativesA weekly recap of the positives & negatives at UNH

By Dan Osipovitch

Want To Write for The Charger Bulletin?Come to our meetings every Monday at 2pm in

Meeting Rooms A & B or in the newspaper office in Bartels Hall

Thursday, October 11 Women’s Volleyball vs.

University of Bridgeport North Campus, 7pm Burn Box

Bethel Parking Lot, 5:30pm Clue Tournament

Bartels Lobby, 7pm Spirit Week- Inside-Out

Thursday

Saturday, October 13 80s Flashback Dance

German Club, 8pm

Friday, October 12 Women’s Soccer vs. Holy

Family University North Campus, 3pm Women’s Volleyball vs.

Bentley College North Campus, 7pm Movie: Bourne Ultimatum

Alumni Lounge, 7pm Spirit Week- Fall Out of Bed Friday

Sunday, October 14 Movie: Bourne Ultimatum

Alumni Lounge, 7pm Midnight Madness

North Campus, Shuttles start at 10pm

Wednesday, October 10

Comedian: Wendi Fox Dodds Hall, 8pm

Spirit Week- Charger

Wednesday Fire Prevention Week

Monday, October 15

EID Celebration Alumni Lounge, 10am

Make Your Own Bamboo Plant Bartels Lobby, 11am-3pm

Mock-Tails Bartels Dining Hall, 4:30-5:30pm

Alcohol Awareness Week

Tuesday, October 16 Delta Chi Blood Drive

Alumni Lounge, 8am -5pm Pumpkin Painting ($1 per

pumpkin) Residential Quad, 4-6pm

Mock-Tails Bartels Dining Hall, 4:30-5:30pm

National/World NewsThe Charger Bulletin | October 10, 2007Page 3

NEWS BrIEFSBy Associated Press Writers

Your place to find the oddest stories in mainstream news.By Zack Rosen

Zack’s Wacky Stack of News

Story Behind Sputnik PublicizedBy ERIN ENNISSTAFF WRITER

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RUSSIA—In the days following October 4, 1957, thousands of people worldwide gathered to watch what they believed to be the Soviet satellite Sputnik sail across the skies. As the tiny blinking light sailed across the horizons, America and the So-viet Union began to pedal faster and faster into the space race. Now, 50 years later, the man behind the Sputnik launch is tell-ing all the secrets be-hind the satellite.

Sergei Korolyov, chief scientist in So-viet Russia’s space program, places the victory of Sputnik’s launch in the hands of the Cold War. Al-though he was forced to remain quiet about the process behind Sputnik for the last fifty years, he whole-

heartedly admits that he did not see Sputnik as an actual possibil-ity. In fact, the missile used to launch Sput-nik into space had nothing to do with the space program at all.

The R-7 ballistic missile was origi-nally created as a le-verage point during the growing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Perfectly ca-pable of reaching the United States with a hydrogen bomb, the R-7 missile also had just the right amount of thrusters to push an object into space. When the R-7 hit a snag and was realized to be unusable in the arms race, Korolyov took a chance and began experimenting with a satellite that could be attached to it.

The prototype orig-inally designed by the Soviet space program

would take years to build, so Korolyov began to take short-cuts in an attempt to beat the Americans. Arguing against some of the most well-known scientists in his field, Korolyov changed the shape of the satellite from con-ical to spherical and cut it down to include four antennas and only two radio trans-mitters. He believed that a satellite shaped similar to the Earth would have the best chance of making it out of the atmosphere and a satellite with fewer parts would have less of a chance of breaking apart.

One week before the planned launch of the satellite, Korolyov decided to move the date forward to Oct. 4 and cancel all of the last minute tests in or-der to beat the Ameri-cans. Naming it PS-1, Russian for “The

Simplest Satellite,” Korolyov watched as Sputnik defied odds and reached far be-yond the skies.

Now that the world knows the truth about Sputnik, determina-tion and happenstance coming together to make history for the Soviet Union, what was the blinking light that crossed the skies fifty years ago? One of the last thrusters of the R-7 actually, fall-ing from orbit as it fi-nally let go of the tiny satellite. Sputnik was actually invisible to the naked eye.

What does all this mean? Why the sud-den deviation from secrecy? Above any-thing else, as we pass into the fiftieth year of space exploration, Russia hopes to make us remember; they got there first.

Get a free sandwich! All we ask for is your naked bodyG R E E N V I L L E , Maine— A sandwich called the “Skinny Dip,” featuring sliced prime rib in a baguette roll, has been offered free of charge to any-one willing to jump naked from The Black Frog Restaurant's dock into a lake.

Since the free sand-wich offer was in-troduced, there have been two to three at-tempts per week. But now the offer is run-ning into trouble after a patron suggested to selectmen that the ac-tivity be banned.

The naked lunch is-sue surfaced this week

when Town Manager John Simko presented the Black Frog's ap-plication to renew its liquor license. Simko said he had been ap-proached about the nudity and suggested that Police Chief Scott MacMaster speak to the owner.

The skinny dip was typically done at night, no frontal nudity was exposed to customers and a towel was read-ily available, Turner said. "Most everybody applauded" after the plunge, Turner said.Naked man arrested because he was na-kedUNIONTOWN, Pa.— A man who stripped naked in a Fayette

County convenience store for no appar-ent reason has been convicted of indecent exposure and criminal mischief.

A jury rejected the defense offered by 26-year-old Gregory David Moore, Jr. The Uniontown man said he didn't realize what he was doing because he had consumed a spiked drink at a par-ty.

Moore went to the store after the party and was pre-paying for some gasoline when he undressed and told the female clerk, "I want everything."Wow! Cheese on the Internet!LONDON— A ma-

turing English ched-dar cheese that has attracted a devoted worldwide following on the Internet showed its patriotic colors on Friday ahead of England's World Cup quarter-final against Australia.

Dubbed Wedginald by its many admirers, the cheese appeared on screen on Friday, Oct. 5 with an England rugby ball perched on top.

Since it first ap-peared on the www.cheddarvision.tv Web site in late December last year the cheese- which simply matures on screen in real time- has attracted 1.6 mil-lion hits.

As Maine goes ... Former Maine nuclear ex-pert comes to Vt.

MONTPELIER, Vt.— Critics of the Ver-mont Yankee nuclear plant routinely call for an “independent safety assessment” of the sort that led to the closing of the Maine Yankee plant in 1997. But Vermont’s new point man on nuclear power, a veteran of the Maine Yankee wars, is cool to the idea.

“Without a doubt, if I compare Vermont Yankee to when Maine Yankee was running into trouble, there’s no comparison. Vermont Yankee is not experiencing the mechanical dif-ficulties that Maine Yankee was,” said Uldis Vanags. Vanags joined the Department of Pub-lic Service in August, replacing William Sher-man, who retired earlier this year.

But he doesn’t mind critics like the New England Coalition and Citizens Action Net-work staying on the case.

“They bring up issues that you may not have looked at,” he said. “I don’t have a problem with people bringing up issues, even opposing the plant. If you had it the other way, if nobody opposed, that would not be good. You’ve got to have this check and balance.”

Housing costs, low wages lead to rise in number of homeless families AMHERST, Mass.— There is just enough space for Lisa Rivera's family to sleep at Jes-sie's House homeless shelter.

In one room, she fits the full-sized bed she shares with her 9-year-old daughter, the trundle for her 11-year-old son, a twin bed for her 14-year-old daughter and a playpen for her 1½-year old son.

"It's comfortable, but it's hard sleeping all together," the 32-year-old woman said. "Oh my God, sometimes it's so hard."

About 1,800 homeless families were in Massachusetts shelters last week — up from 1,400 in June 2006 and just under 1,200 in June 2005, according to state figures. There are more families in shelters now than at any time since the inception of the state's family shelter program in 1983, according to the Massachu-setts Coalition for the Homeless.

State officials blame a wide range of prob-lems — from cuts in assistance to the recent housing crisis.

"We're very concerned that this is going to keep going," said Julia Kehoe, commissioner of the state Department of Transitional Assis-tance.

Massachusetts is one of the few states that keep government records of the number of homeless families in shelters. State law re-quires the Commonwealth to shelter any fam-ily that meets income and other guidelines.

New Haven NewsThe Charger Bulletin | October 10, 2007Page 4

First Fall Concert Rocks North CampusPhotos by Keri Comeroski

Paula DeAnda

Sugarcult

Baby Bash

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USGA President’s CornerFall Concert a Success!

Louis Eswood IIIUSGA President

UNH ExperiencesRamadan

By SAUDI STUDENT CLUBUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN

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WEST HAVEN— Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. Fasting in this month is one of the Five Pillars of Is-lam. During this time, Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical needs during the daylight hours. As a time to purify the soul, refocus attention on God, and practice self-sacrifice, Rama-dan is much more than just not eating and drinking.

There are three as-pects of Ramadan: (1) Understanding hun-ger— we know that feeling hungry is not the same as needing food. Ramadan helps people to experience what poor people go through day after day. By the end of the day, the person who fasts will appreciate how lucky he is to have plenty of food to eat. (2) Scientific ben-efits— fasting reflects on outward physical appearance by cut-ting out gluttony and getting rid of excess fat. The benefits of fasting on health are instrumental in alle-viating a number of physical diseases, in-cluding those of the

digestive systems, such as chronic stom-achaches, inflamma-tion of the colon, liver diseases, indigestion, and conditions such as obesity, arterio-sclerosis, high blood pressure, asthma, diphtheria and many other maladies. (3) Purifying yourself— Muslims are called upon to use this month to re-evaluate their lives. They are sup-posed to strengthen ties with family and friends and do away with bad habits- es-sentially to clean up their lives, thoughts, and feelings. The Ar-abic word for "fast-ing" (sawm) literally means "to refrain"- and it means not only refraining from food and drink, but from evil actions, thoughts, and words.

During Ramadan, every part of the body must be restrained. The tongue must be restrained from back-stabbing and gos-sip. The eyes must restrain themselves from looking at un-lawful things. The hand must not touch or take anything that does not belong to it. The ears must re-frain from listening to idle talk or obscene words. The feet must refrain from going to sinful places. In such

a way, every part of the body observes the fast.

Therefore, fasting is not merely physi-cal, but is rather the total commitment of the person's body and soul to the spirit of the fast. Ramadan is a time to practice self-restraint; a time to cleanse the body and soul from impuri-ties and re-focus one's self on the worship of God.

Eid ul-Fitr or Id-Ul-Fitr, often abbre-viated as simply Eid, is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. Fitr means "to break the fast" and therefore symbolizes the breaking of the fasting period.

The Saudi Student Club at the Univer-sity of New Haven is planning two events as a part of Ramadan. One is the preview of the documentary film ISLAM: Empire of Faith on Friday, Oct. 12 at 3 p.m. in Buck-man 120. The second one is the EID cel-ebration on Monday, Oct. 15 at 10 a.m. in the Alumni Lounge. The entire campus is welcome to attend the events and learn more about this Muslim tradition.

Well, if you are currently a student you can say that you were part of history because for the first time in UNH’s his-tory, SCOPE hosted a Fall Concert. In case you missed it, the acts were Paula DeAnda, Baby Bash, and Sugarcult. The concert kicked off just past 8 p.m. on Friday night to a gym full of students, and the show was amaz-ing. There were many volunteers who lent a helping hand prior to, during, and after the show.

For everyone who helped at this con-cert my thanks go out to you because from helping with the Spring Concert all day I know how much

work goes into it and how tiring it gets. It’s never a simple task to set up a full scale pro-fessional stage with a professional sound crew, do the show and then load it back out in the same day. Also, thank you to the members of SCOPE who were the organi-zational managers that made all of the differ-ent parts of the show fit together. And of

course to the SCOPE Co-Chairs, for all of their hard work during the summer, and the foresight to be able to put on another con-cert; thank you. I can’t wait for the Spring Concert!

Also this past week-end was Family Day. This year’s family day had an astonishing 750 people signed up. Un-fortunately, I was not around on Saturday as I had a prior engage-ment; however I heard from many students that everything went great and people re-ally seemed to enjoy themselves. Thanks to everyone who helped plan all of those great activities for visiting families.

ment officer. David Franz, who is married to Marci Franz, said it was hard to accept that someone in law enforcement was the gunman.

"The first statement we said to each other was, 'How did he get through the system?'" Franz said.

Peterson's father, Steve Peterson, said that the family planned to draft a statement to the public, but de-clined Monday to talk in detail. Nothing his family said about him now would be believ-able to most people, he said.

"It is very trying," he said.

Three of the victims were Crandon High School students, said school Superintendent Richard Peters, and the other three had graduated within the past three years. The Crandon School Dis-trict called off classes

Monday."There is probably

nobody in Crandon who is not affected by this," Peters said, adding that students "are going to wake up in shock and disbelief and a lot of pain."

Residents gath-ered at Praise Chapel Community Church Monday morning to meet with counselors. Many walked in with their arms around

Deputy Kills Six in Shootingeach other for sup-port, embraced and sobbed.

Victims included Jordanne Murray, Katrina McCorkle, Leanna Thomas and Aaron Smith, accord-ing to Sjana Farr, the pastor's wife, who was present when the town's police chief announced the vic-tims' names to people who gathered at the church Sunday.

AN AP/ MORRY GASH PHOTO

Residents embrace outside of the Praise Chapel Community Church.

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Celina NatolaEditor-in-Chief

Zack RosenAssistant Editor

See WHO page 14

Trouble with LandlordsThroughout past

years, the Interna-tional Services Office has been doing an ex-cellent job in direct-ing students towards prospective landlords and helping them find housing. But many students have faced a real nightmare with a few of the landlords. These landlords hike the rents without any notice and when old students vacate, they have hundreds of reason as not to give the deposit back. The unavailability of on-campus housing for UNH graduate stu-dents has put a big hurdle in front of the incoming internation-al students (who are mostly graduate stu-dents)– searching for a proper housing.

Recently, one of my friends had a very bad experience with a landlord. Let’s call this person “Rahul.” Close to campus, there was a three-bed-room basement apart-ment for rent and Ra-hul went to talk to the owner. He spoke to

the owner via phone and was informed the rent would be around $1500 a month. Later, when Rahul spoke to the owner in person, he was told that rent would be $1600.

Due to the sudden increase of $100, my friend asked for one day to decide whether he wanted it or not. The owner informed him that in the mean-while if any new stu-dent was interested, they would be given priority.

The next day, two new students went to look at the apartment. The landlord increased the rent for each room to $600, which raised the total rent to $1800. Within 15 minutes, the deal was made with the new students, who were clearly not aware of other renting rates around campus.

Due to the sudden turn of events, the landlord asked my friend Rahul that he could take the third bedroom for $600. Since Rahul was sup-posed to move in with

his other couple of friends, he declined the deal and left the house.

This event has nothing to do with ei-ther the International Services Office or the people assisting with new student housing. The trouble is due to these landlords. This issue needs some-one to take action. The graduate in-ternational students are part of the UNH student body. Their problems are prob-lems suffered by all students. As a person interested in journal-ism, I personally felt it is my responsibility to bring this issue to the UNH community. We have lots of services being offered to stu-dents via our school website. How nice it would be if we have an internal website helping the students search for local hous-ing. The International Services Office could ask the landlords to post their renting in-

Who is More Important- Students or Parents?Last time I checked,

this is our school; we live here, we eat here, we learn here. True, some of our parents pay for us to be here. However, this is not their school.

The way I see it, everything done here should be done for us. I understand that as a university, one of UNH’s main goals is to recruit new stu-dents. Obviously, this should affect the appearance of the school. The bottom line is that students should be priority.

Unfortunately, I feel like my interests

are the least important in the minds of admin-istration.

Recently, as many

of you are aware, the university has been making giant strides- it is looking into cre-

ating a law school, it is bringing back the UNH football pro-gram, it is finishing up the new recreation center, it is redesign-ing the student cen-ter, and it is planning the construction of two new buildings (the Forensic Science building and the new residential hall). All of these developments are great on paper, and will probably make our school better.

However, how many of these new features were devel-oped with our best in-terests in mind? Those two new buildings

are being put in two of our largest parking lots, even though we already have a park-ing problem here. That recreation center took away a large parking lot and has been wak-ing us up at dawn for a year now. Everything else is bound to incon-venience the students here as well. The nui-sance these projects are to students seems to take a back seat to how better the school will look against other schools and to other people.

Not only does it seem like the admin-istration is trying to

impress other schools, it is trying to impress our parents. It is a shame that our quad was rendered useless for the past few weeks due to the reseeding that should have oc-curred over the sum-mer when it wouldn’t inconvenience any-one. What is more of a shame is that the ropes were taken down right in time for Family Weekend. So now that the warm weather is departing, we finally have our quad back. The funniest part is that on Saturday, Oct. 6, the new grass was covered up again with

the Inflatable Fun Fest; kind of counter-productive.

Obviously, our school should look nice when our parents come to visit. But therein lies the prob-lem- it is our school. Shouldn’t it look nice for us? 5,6,7,8’s prac-tice was displaced for a full week from the Alumni Lounge (which they had ap-propriately reserved) because the Board of Governors was com-ing. One of The Char-ger Bulletin’s meet-ings was displaced

Bush Caused 9/11?So you’re prob-

ably wondering why I didn’t write an editori-al last week. Okay, so you’re probably NOT wondering. Regard-less, it was because I was shocked by those “9/11 Dollars” floating around campus. They boast that 9/11 was an inside job planned by none other than our Wonderful President, George W. Bush, and that the September 11th attacks were used solely for his personal gain and wealth.

For those of you who know me, you know that I can-not stand George W. Bush. For those of you who do not know me, let me tell you some-thing. I cannot stand George W. Bush.

That aside, I need to make something very clear. Our President is not the brightest bulb on the marquee. Sure, for the few of you left who still think he’s the best thing since sliced bread, he’s not the worst leader this world has seen; not at all. However,

I have many strong conservative friends who would agree with me- the man is not too smart. That said, he could not have planned the atrocious attacks on America that occurred on Sep-tember 11, 2001. First,

as corrupt as I may think he is, he is not so corrupt that he would do something so ter-rible. Second, he’s not smart enough to plan something so severe. Third, he doesn’t have the staff to keep the secret if he actually did. Should I go on?

So for those of you looking for some-thing to catch me on

and write about how wrong I am, and that our President should be given a royal car-pet to his awaiting chariot, turn away. Because this week’s rant is not about the President, but, rather, how ignorant those who believe that the Bush administration planned 9/11 are; ev-ery reason I’ve ever heard explaining Bush having planned 9/11 is complete hog-wash.

Osama bin Lad-en and his group of cowardly terrorists are responsible for the attacks, and we all know that. Could the FBI have been in-formed prior? Yes, of course; they receive G o d - k n o w s - h o w -many threats per day, and even more since 9/11. One of those threats on the days leading up to Septem-ber 11th very easily could have been fore-casting the attacks. So should they have looked into this one

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Steps for SuccessBy Sijith Salim - www.Sijith.com

The Mind- An Extraordinary Garden

The Charger Bulletin | October 10, 2007 Page 7

Sijith Salim

Dear Mr. Osipov-itch-

The unfortunate technicality of ex-pressing one’s opin-ion in printed mate-rial which I’m sure you are well aware of is that people have the ability and funda-mental right to inter-pret that material in a variety of ways. I think my response to your blurb which was originally published in The Charger Bulle-tin’s September 19th issue was construed as a personal attack on your words.

On the contrary, I applaud the fact that the subject of Sand-ella’s and its malfunc-tions has been brought to such a public fo-rum. Let me just ex-

plain that in the origi-nal Charger Battery, I was disappointed because such a basic idea was tossed out there (my memory seems to have failed me about the subject of your battery almost a year ago) with no reason why, just this is happening and it’s “annoying.”

While you are not required to publish complete ideas, I felt obligated to do so af-ter hearing first hand of the consequences to your words. Shortly after your blurb was published the man-agement team called a staff meeting for all the employees of San-della’s. I was upset when I learned that the staff meeting con-

sisted of an unkind, stern talking to by the managers, some of the employees felt that the nature of this meeting was quite de-meaning. During this meeting, there was no acknowledgement of the working con-ditions, the lack of supplies and the ef-fects these conditions might have on bicker-ing. (See they forgot your blurb from 2006, too.)

Since the manage-ment took action af-ter your first article was published, I as-sumed they were pay-ing attention; hence my reason to write a response, in the em-ployees’ defense. Since they responded to what you wrote,

maybe they would re-spond better upon be-ing presented all the facts at once, instead of in the span of a year.

Reading your re-sponse, I was surprised that you would stoop so low to conclude that my inferences made from your blurb about Sandella’s are crazy and not found-ed: “Was she even reading The Charger Bulletin?” Sodexho management certainly put together what you were trying to say- when they called their special meeting.

Like I said, the thing about communicat-ing in print is that it is difficult to determine the author’s tone, thus allowing the possibil-

Charger Battery Response, Part Two

Let us consider that each of you has a gar-den. Will we be ready to throw toxic waste all over our precious and beloved garden? As a matter of fact, most good gardeners guard their gardens like proud soldiers and make certain that no contamination ever enters. We also pos-sess a very precious garden – and this is our mind. If we care for our mind, nurture it and cultivate it just like a fertile, rich gar-den, it will blossom far beyond our expec-tations.

Every single day, we put toxic waste into our garden: worries and anxieties, fretting about the past, brood-ing over the future and those self-created fears that wreak hav-oc within our inner world. Worry drains the mind of much of its power. To live life

to the fullest, we must stand guard at the gate of our garden and let only the very best in-formation enter. We truly cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought—not even one. The most joyful, dynamic and content-ed people of this world are no different than you and me in terms of their makeup. They mastered their mind and succeeded in life. We need to learn how to master our minds.

Most people just don't realize the enor-mous power of our minds. I have read that even the best-condi-tioned thinkers are us-ing only 1/100th of a percent of their mental reserves. There is only one thing that we have absolute dominion over – our mind. We don’t need anyone’s permission to control our mind. We might not be able to control

the weather or the traf-fic or the moods of all those around us. But, we most certainly can control our attitudes toward these events.

We all have the pow-er to determine what we will think about at any given moment. This abil-ity is part of what makes us h u m a n . No mat-ter what h a p p e n s to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. When you form the habit of searching for the positive as-pects of every circum-stance, your life will move into its highest dimensions.

Fatigue is actually a mental creation. It influences our body to

feel tired. My friend went home after 10 hours of a hectic col-lege schedule. He was not even in the mood to eat dinner, so he went to bed. Suddenly he got a call from his friend inviting him to

a birthday party. His f a t i g u e w e n t away in a second and in a few min-utes he was driv-ing to-ward the party.

Let’s look at another example. Imagine sit-ting in a class and the class is too boring. We feel sleepy. We look our watch frequently, praying that the class ends quickly. Sudden-ly the professor gives us a basketball and permission to go to a playground and play.

Our fatigue is gone and we become one of the most energetic people in the campus. Our mind believes what we tell it to. Just close your eyes and say “I am weak, I am feeble” twenty times and when you open you eyes, you will feel like your body weak and feeble. In the same way, if you think “I am strong, I am powerful” and open your eyes, your body will feel strong and powerful.

I read in a book that there is a simple secret to achieve life happiness. Find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy toward it. Once you do this, abundant happiness flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace. If you study the happiest, healthiest, most satisfied people

in the world, you will see that each and ev-ery one of them has found their passion in life, and have spent their days pursuing it.

This passion is al-most always one that, in some way, serves others. Once you are concentrating your mind power and en-ergy on a pursuit that you love, you are hap-py. This is the power of the mind. Training your mind is not a very easy task. It takes time and requires a lot of our patience. Let us all try our best to look after our mind and make sure that we grow it into a fer-tile garden, providing fruits of happiness and life success.

ity of many different interpretations. So what if I interpreted what you wrote incor-rectly? The issue here (I thought) is Sandel-la’s. Not how well the readers of The Char-ger Bulletin can inter-pret Dan Osipovitch’s own personal forum for what he likes and dislikes.

Getting back to that, the employ-ees of Sandella’s are fabulous people; they work hard, they are dependable, they care about their jobs, and they are consistent. Additionally, many of them have worked at the various eating locations at UNH for years. With that said, they deserve better working conditions. If

they are happy, it will reduce the “unpleas-ant” encounters.

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By JULIE WINKELDIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELA-TIONS

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Metal Buzz-Led Zeppelin To

Reunite For Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Show

-Scott Weiland re-cently made a surprise appearance at the Sec-ond Fiddle club in Nashville earlier this month, after announc-ing his intentions on embarking out into the world of Country music.

-Mastodon will support Queens of the Stone Age on Mon-day, Oct. 29 at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, CA.

-Chris Cornell has added another run of dates to his North American tour, which he began last spring to support his latest solo effort, Carry On.

-Bad news, Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi) is reportedly in rehab, yet again.

-Glenn Danzig will hit the road beginning in late October for a handful of live concert dates on both the East and West coasts.

-A drummer from The Ramones, filed a federal lawsuit Sept. 21 claiming he is owed nearly $1 mil-lion in royalties on songs sold over the Internet.

-Courtney Love settled a lawsuit brought against her by the attorneys who represented her in her own legal battle with the surviving mem-bers of Nirvana.

-Apoca lypt ica ' s new album Worlds Collide, has entered the Finnish chart at position No. 8.

Upcoming Albums/Music DVDs

Oct. 9: Soilwork- Sworn to a Great Divide, Overkill– Immortalis, Carnal Forge- Who's Gonna Burn (Reissue), Ill Nino– Enigma.

Oct. 16: All that Remains- Live (DVD), Demiricous- Two (Poverty).

Oct. 22: Blut Aus Nord– Odinist.

Oct. 23: Caliban- The Awakening, Exo-dus- The Atrocity Ex-hibition: Exhibit A.

Oct. 30: The Au-tumn Offering– III, Avenged Sevenfold- S/t, VA- Unholy Alli-ance (DVD).

Oct. 31: Hellow-een- Gambling with the Devil.

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cancelled their Euro-pean tour in response to the attacks of 9/11.

2002: WARREN ZEVON was diag-nosed with lung cancer which had advanced to an untreatable stage.

2003: former VAN HALEN frontman DAVID LEE ROTH cancelled the remain-ing dates on his tour due to an illness/injury that landed the singer in the hospital.

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Keri Comeroski gets a makeover at Origins.

Dan Osipovitch attempts to win big in the Cash Cube.

Students browse at Urban Outfitters. UNH musician Jordan Moser performs for students.

UNH Opens HolocaustMemorial Exhibit in Dodds

WEST HAVEN— On Wednesday, Oct. 10, the University of New Haven will host guest speaker Martin Schil-ler, a Holocaust sur-vivor and UNH ’64 alumnus during the opening reception for “Memory & Legacy,” an exhibition telling the history of the New Haven Holocaust Me-morial. Schiller will

discuss the impor-tance of remembrance and refer to his recent memoir “Bread, But-ter and Sugar: A Boy’s Journey Through the Holocaust and Post-war Europe.”

Former State Sena-tor and UNH Presi-dent Emeritus Larry DeNardis, who played a role in making the New Haven Holo-caust Memorial a real-ity in 1977, will offer his perspective on the

Memorial’s continued relevance.

The exhibit will be on display from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. start-ing this week and end-ing on Thursday, Nov. 15. The opening re-ception for the exhibit is Wednesday, Oct. 10 at 4:00 p.m. in Dodds Hall.

The multi-media “Memory & Legacy” exhibit features a se-ries of display panels with text, photographs,

documents and audio accompaniment via headphones. The New Haven Holocaust Me-morial was erected by a handful of Nazi death camp survivors and their children, with help from sym-pathetic New Haven residents. The design of the monument was sketched by architect Augustus Franzoni based on the six-sided

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Want to know what’s going on this weekend?

Add UNHActivities to your buddy list! Events are listed in its away message!

What’s Happening in Community Service?

Thank you to everyone who participated in the United Way and UNH Book Drive for Children. We collected 420 children’s books which will be donated to New Haven Reads and Read to Grow!

Saturday, October 13th ~ New Canaan Nature Center Fall FestivalThis is an important frundraiser that will take place at the New Canaan Nature Center from 9:00 – 5:00 pm. It is a widely at-tended and fun day for both kids and their families! There will be a variety of outdoor activities and crafts to help with! Shifts are available. Please contact the Community Service Office by Mon-day, October 8th if you plan to attend and help with the event.

Friday, October 19th ~ DAY OF CARINGThe University of New Haven’s annual Day of Caring in the New Haven and West Haven communities will be held on Friday, Oc-tober 19th from 9:00 – 4:30 pm. There will be two shifts avail-able: 9:00 – 12:30 pm and 1:00 – 4:30 pm. Please email commu-nityservice@newhaven.edu to participate!

* Special Olympics *Once again we will be helping with the Special Olympics Bas-ketball and Volleyball Divisioning Tournaments that prepare the athletes for the Holiday Classic in November. There were many volunteers from UNH last year and we would like to continue this tradition. Volunteer opportunities: line judge, scorekeeper, time-keeper, results recorder, food service and official (if have experi-ence). Forms available at the Community Service Office.Basketball Divisioning Tournament, Saturday October 27th from 7:30 – 5:00 pmVolleyball Divisioning Tournament, Sunday October 28th from 8:00 – 5:00 pm

* Trail of Terror forms are now available! *Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October

sponsored by the American Red Cross

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nounced, as will the winner of the Battle of the Classes competi-tion.

There will be nu-merous participatory events throughout the night, including a Dizzy Bat contest, Saran Wrap contest, Big Shoes to Fill, and of course the Free Tu-ition Hoops Challenge

Let the Madness Beginto top it all off. The night also features performances by the Charger Cheerlead-ers, the Charger Pep Band, LASA, 5,6,7,8, and Emanon.

Of course the high-light of the night will be the unveiling of the 2007-08 men’s and women’s basket-ball squads. The UNH women are the two-

time defending East Coast Conference champions and have made back-to-back NCAA appearanc-es. The UNH men’s team was competitive throughout last season, advancing to the ECC tournament, and is on the rise with some of the best young talent in the region.

Midnight Madness TENTATIVE Schedule10:00 – Buses start from Residence Halls to North Campus (Bethel to behind Bixler to Maxcy to Charger Gymnasium)10:30 – Midnight Madness at Charger Gymnasium – Music Starts and Doors Open10:45 – Welcome and National Anthem10:50 – Announcement of Mr. & Mrs. UNH and performances by 5,6,7,8 and Marching Band11:00 – Performance by Empathy, Dizzy Bat Contest, LASA perfor-mance11:20 – ChargerREC Intramural Sports 3-point Shooting Champion-ship, performance by the Step Team11:30 - Performances by Chargers Pep Band and Emanon, plus Saran Wrap Contest11:45 – Performances by the UNH Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams and Charger Cheerleaders, plus Big Shoes to Fill contest12:00 – First Look at the UNH Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams12:10 – Announcement of the winner of the Battle of the Classes fol-lowed by the Free Tuition Hoops Challenge12:20 – Distribution of Midnight Breakfast tickets, buses begin running back to Bartels Hall12:30 – Midnight Breakfast begins, last bus leaves North Campus (must attend Midnight Madness to receive Midnight Breakfast bracelet)

ChargerREC Intramural Sports 3-Point Shooting Con-test

The UNH Department of Campus Recreation invites all students to participate in the ChargerREC 3-Point Shooting Contest, to be held Sat-urday, Oct. 13 and Sunday, Oct. 14 at Charger Gymnasium.

The ChargerREC 3-Point Shooting Contest begins on Saturday, Oct. 13 with the preliminary rounds from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. Current students can come to Charger Gymnasium during that time frame with their stu-dent ID.

Then, the Final Four from Saturday’s competition will have their nerves tested as they battle it out in front of a packed house at Charger Gymnasium on Sunday night at Midnight Madness, where the first-ever ChargerREC 3-Point Champion will be crowned.

To be eligible to compete at Midnight Madness, participants must ad-vance from the preliminary rounds that begin on Saturday afternoon.

For more information about ChargerREC, the new Department of Campus Recreation, or the ChargerREC 3-Point Shooting Contest, e-mail Assistant Director of Campus Recreation Morgan Rocheleau at mrocheleau@newhaven.edu.

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The Mets Fall Hard

NEW YORK—The New York Mets com-pleted one of the big-gest collapses in Ma-jor League Baseball history. The Mets could not win or force a one-game playoff against the Philadel-phia Phillies the day after being defeated by the Florida Marlins 8-1.

Tom Glavine took the mound for the Mets and gave up a career high seven runs in the first inning and had to exit the game recording one out in the first inning. From there the Mets had to play catch up and could not take advan-tage of various oppor-tunities to get runners across the plate.

Throughout the

game, the Mets were jeered by fans. One player who took the most heat was short-stop Jose Reyes who struggled throughout the whole second half of the season. Reyes went hitless in the last game of the sea-son and was booed off the field after his last at bat.

As of Sept. 17, the Mets were seven games ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies. They soon became the first team in MLB history to lose a sev-en-game lead so late in the season. Mets manager Willie Ran-dolph said after the loss to the Marlins, “We didn't play well at the right times, guys didn't play smart or didn't execute. The bottom line is, we gave away the oppor-

tunity to win the divi-sion.''

Despite the epic collapse, Randolph will return next sea-son to manage the Mets. However, there are a lot of questions as to how the 2008 New York Mets will look. Fans are unsure of who will and will not be back to play next year.

Mets season ticket holders received e-mails on Oct. 1 from the Mets apologizing for the team’s inabil-ity to win the division and make the postsea-son for the sixth time in seven seasons. In the e-mail, the Mets said that fans deserve better and that they are going to do their best to fix the short-comings of the team that caused them to miss the playoffs.

Men’s Soccer Grabs Third Straight Win

WEST HAVEN— Senior forward Tyler Smith scored twice, giving him three goals in the last two days, to help lead the Univer-sity of New Haven to its third straight win with a 3-0 decision over Felician College in a non-conference men's soccer game on Sunday, Oct. 7 at Kayo Field.

Smith scored in both the first and sec-ond half to help pace the Chargers to their

third straight win and a 5-7-0 record overall. UNH has now won five of its last eight matches after starting the season with four straight losses.

"After a tough spot to start the season, we've gotten ourselves onto a little bit of a roll here," said UNH head coach Joshua Krusewski,

At 25:56 in the first half, Cristian San-chez hit a long pass to the right side to find Smith. He dribbled in a few steps before chipping the ball from

about 18 yards out, over the head of goal-keeper Nick Lyons.

In the 66th min-ute, junior John No-lan crossed the ball from the left side and found Smith in front of the goal for a low, hard shot to the lower left corner and a 2-0 UNH advantage.

The Chargers got their third goal with just 2:45 remaining on the clock and a num-ber of reserve players on the field. Starter Jason Zurita chipped

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Celina’s Salacious Celebrity GossipThe latest in celebrity news and gossip

By Celina NatolaWrestler Benoit on excessive medication

Federal prosecu-tors have released that wrestler Chris Benoit was over prescribed testosterone medica-tion by his physician, Dr. Phil Astin.

Benoit made head-lines this past June when he strangled his wife and seven-year-old son and then hung himself.

Until now, many suspected that mental illness caused Benoit to crack, but these new developments shed light on another pos-sibility. At the time of his death, Benoit had ten times the normal level of testosterone in his system, accord-ing to the Associated Press. Astin has been charger with over pre-

scribing medication to two other patients.

I’m glad that this information has come out. Until now, the media made Benoit out to be a complete psychopath. Now, we can medically account for his mental health at the time of the mur-der/suicide.

I have to wonder, though, whose fault the prescription was. Did Benoit insist on the excessive levels? Or did Astin make a huge mistake? In the first instance, it would be a shame. Obvious-ly Benoit never knew that his testosterone levels would cause him to kill the ones he loves. It just goes to show you, medicine is not something to be messed with.

Would the babies please just pop out already?

Is it just me or does Hollywood pregnan-cies run in cycles? Last year, we were bombarded with the Jolie/Pitt baby, the Cruise/Holmes baby, and Spears’ second baby. Now that the baby world has been quiet for the past few months, it is com-ing back with a ven-geance.

Christina Aguilera is so big she can’t hide her pregnancy any-more. She and hubby Jordan Bratman are expecting their first child, which is bound to cause a head-to-head between Agu-ilera and former pop rival Britney Spears. I can’t wait to hear sto-

ries about how good a mom Aguilera is com-pared to Spears.

Nicole Richie is going to pop soon with Joel Madden’s child. Supposedly, the couple is going to be getting married on Saturday, Oct. 13 in Laguna Beach. Good thing, who wants a child born out of wed-lock? I don’t think they’ll care, though, seeing as the whole pregnancy was prob-ably an accident in the first place. Madden (of Good Charlotte fame, if you can call it that) was only single for a matter of months before Richie became pregnant. Worse than that, the entertainment media barely even knew that Madden and long-time girlfriend

Hilary Duff were bro-ken up before Madden and Richie were ex-pecting and engaged (in that order). And one thing’s for sure, the entertainment me-dia know all!

The big secret pregnancy is Jennifer Lopez’s. The singer (and now movie pro-ducer with the release of Feel the Noise) has not admitted her pregnancy, but if she’s not pregnant, she is just plain fat. Lopez’s belly has clearly been growing, and sources tell TMZ.com that she and hubby Marc Anthony are expect-ing twins. Good for them! Not only has J. Lo managed to stay married for more than a couple of months, but she is making the

relationship official with children! It had to happen sometime!

AN AP PHOTO

AN AP/KEVORK DJANSEZIAN PHOTO

Jewish star, barbed-wire stanchions remi-niscent of the fences at killing centers all over Eastern Europe, and six evergreen trees representing re-birth. The memorial also features six radi-ating stone strips sym-bolizing the six mil-lion Jews who were starved, worked and gassed to death in the Third Reich.

Schiller, a native of Poland, was released 62 years ago from Bu-chenwald, the second of two concentration camps he had been sent to as a boy. Schil-ler moved to the Unit-ed States after World War II and eventually settled in Connecti-cut, where he earned a

Holocaust Exhib-it Opens in Dodds

bachelor's degree from the University of New Haven. He worked for General Dynamics, in Groton, and eventu-ally became an engi-neer in private prac-tice in Norwalk. His specialty was consult-ing on air pollution control. After a long-awaited trip back to Poland and much en-couragement from his wife, Schiller wrote a memoir, Bread, Butter and Sugar: A Boy's Journey Through the Holocaust and Post-war Europe (Hamil-ton Books, 2006) as “evidence of the Ho-locaust.”

This exhibition is free and open to the public. For more in-formation call 203-932-7095.

LONDON— Paul McCartney and Kylie Minogue were among the honorees Monday, Oct. 8 at the Q Music Awards.

McCartney paid

Musicians Honored at Q Mu-sic Awards in London

tribute to his late wife, Linda, as he was awarded the title of Q Icon at the annual cer-emony. He thanked his children and his former b a n d m a t e s in The Beat-les, but didn't mention his second wife, H e a t h e r Mills.

"I thank Linda for seeing me through some real tough peri-ods," McCartney said.

McCartney, 65, said he still loves the music business.

"I've been doing this since I was just a little bairn and it's still

the same for me now- still the same magic, still the same emotion, still the same thrill," he said.

Minogue received a Q Idol award.

"Just don't ask me what it means, but I'm very grateful and hon-

ored to be receiving this," the 39-year-old Australian pop diva told the audience at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.

Honorees were chosen by readers of music magazine Q.

Arctic Monkeys were named Best Act in the World Today, while Kate Nash was named Best Breakthrough Artist. Amy Winehouse, who has been in and out of headlines and rehab in recent months, won the Best Album prize for Back to Black, but didn't attend the ceremony.AN AP/ JOEL RYAN PHOTO

British band Muse win Best Live Act at the Q Music Awards on Monday, Oct. 8.

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Landlord Nightmareformation on the site. Students looking for roommates could post a roommate re-quest on the site and interested students could respond. The International Services Office could pass the

website link to new students. The students could browse through the site even before coming to the United States and make ar-rangements ahead of time.

Getting proper housing is an issue

among all internation-al students. As a part of the UNH commu-nity, anything we do to help these students would be highly com-mendable and some-thing we could always be proud of.

-Sijith Salim

because nearly all of Bartels Hall was be-ing painted due to the Board’s arrival.

The C-Store is never fully stocked and never has nearly enough milk to go around. Conveniently enough, there was plenty of milk for family’s to see this weekend.

If this is our school then why is every-thing done for other people? The green grass, the blooming

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hedges aren’t for us. They are for everyone else. They are for the tours full of prospec-tive students, they are for when families visit, and they are for hefty donations from wealthy alumni.

I don’t think it would hurt to keep us in mind- the people that live here, the peo-ple that pay to be here, and the people that should feel at home here. The truth is, I don’t feel like a stu-

dent, I feel like a paint-ing on the university’s wall. I’m just here to make the school look good. My good grades are just a statistic. Just like the newly-planted flowers, they are only important because they make the school look good.

I wish I felt more like my opinion mat-tered and that I’m not just here for decora-tion. After all, this is supposed to be my school, and even more so my home.

Chargers Shut Out Feliciancon’t from page 10the ball from the right end line to the front of the goal, where fresh-man substitute Trent McCaskill, just into

the game, headed the ball into the right side of the goal for his first career score.

The Chargers played twice this

week, with a trip to Southern Connecti-cut and a road match at nationally-ranked Dowling College.

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a bit more, judging by the severity of it? Yes, they should have. But it is in no way right to point your fingers at the President and his administration for planning 9/11 just be-cause you hate him.

If you ask me, Bush has shamed the Amer-

ican people and hurt the American way of life. But no human could plan 9/11, and the men of al-Qaeda are anything but hu-man. But if you actu-ally believe that Bush planned 9/11, just be sure you have your reasons. As long as

you stand up for your beliefs, whether some-body thinks they’re crazy or not, and have reasons for your be-liefs, then more pow-er to you. There are many out there who don’t do that, and you should always be-lieve in yourself, and

always keep your be-liefs no matter how much somebody may say your opinions are wrong.

In fact, the only thing you shouldn’t believe is that I said “hogwash” a few para-graphs back. What the hell was I thinking?

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