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The Hoosier Election Takes It to the House
by Chase Slaughter
The idea that Indiana is a “Battleground
State” is a common thought to most peo-
ple. That phrase, “Battleground State,”
is becoming uncomfortably valid as the
election draws near. In the general run of
things, Indiana is often seen as a pure Re-
publican strong-hold. This is certainly not
the case this year.
All of the Mid-
Eastern States
have become
battlegrounds:
Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and yes, In-
diana. These are
the areas where
the Republican
and Democratic
National Com-
mittees, Labor
Unions, Abortion Groups, and everyone
else are sending their armies out in full
force.
Of Indiana’s mere nine congressional
seats, three of them have been considered
major battles for the past two years by Re-
publicans and Democrats alike. Indiana’s
9th Congressional District, no matter who
you talk to, is ranked in the top 10 most
competitive districts, often at number two.
This seat has been battled for time and
time again with some very close results. In
2002, Republican Mike Sodrel narrowly
The Search for the Next Purdue President:
For Your Consideration, Dog the Bounty Hunter
by Rachel Semmel
In choosing university presidents, I do
not claim to be an expert, nor do I pretend
to know what it takes to fill the role. As
many of you know, Martin C. Jischke an-
nounced this past summer he will be retir-
ing his position as president in hopes of
bringing change that will greatly benefit
the institution known as Purdue Univer-
sity. He has done a great job with this
university, but nonetheless, the time has
come to carefully select who is subject to
fill Jischke’s shoes. Even though our opin-
ions as students probably won’t be consid-
ered in choosing a new president, as one
student who contributes my fair share of
tuition to the effort, I’m going to go ahead
and give my recommendations anyway.
Though this task of finding an indi-
vidual to be the face of Purdue may seem
daunting at first, I feel I have found the
perfect candidate. Not only will he be a
good transition from President Jischke and
provide exactly what Purdue’s strategic
plan needs, but he is also a lifelong hero of
mine: Dog the Bounty Hunter. For those
of you who are unfamiliar with Duane
“Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman is, let
me provide a quick synopsis. Chapman is
lost to Democratic Congressman Baron
Hill. In 2004, Sodrel defeated Hill by a
very slim margin and now it’s a re-match
between the two again this year. Both sides
will spend millions of dollars in this race
because it could very well be the one seat
in the nation to determine control in the
United States House of Representatives.
District No. 9 is the most politically
watched district
in the state, but
there are others
as well. Indiana’s
8th District isn’t
very different.
This seat is of-
ten in the top ten
most competi-
tive districts and
many analysts
claim it to be
number eight this
year. Congressman John Hostettler, long
known as an extremely conservative Re-
publican, is facing Democratic opponent
Brad Ellsworth, currently the Vanderburgh
County Sheriff. The 8th District is con-
stantly referred to as “The Bloody Eighth”
because of the fierce battle between both
parties.
Also joining the battleground is Indi-
ana’s 2nd District. It has been nothing but
hot water for many years but second-term
See “Hoosier Election...” - pg. 3
a real-life bounty hunter who seeks notori-
ous criminals and brings them to justice in
the U.S. with his wife and son along for
the ride. Since 2004, The Arts and Enter-
tainment Network (A&E) has put him in
the public spotlight with his own reality
TV show, bringing viewers an up close
and personal look at what bounty hunting
is all about. Before you start thinking it is
incredulous that a celebrity like Dog the
Bounty Hunter is a viable candidate for
this job, please consider three reasons for
why he is so.
One fundamental ability a university
president needs to demonstrate is being
able to provide safety for students and fac-
ulty. Crime on campus has been a concern
and was especially brought to the fore-
front this last year. It is always a priority
of a president to protect his or her students
and make the campus a safe place. With
Dog, this would be the top priority. Cam-
pus rapes, drug possession, domestic vio-
lence? Not a problem with Dog in charge.
Can you imagine prying around campus
late at night looking for trouble only to run
into Dog in a dark alley behind Heavilon?
No way. Crime on campus would not be
an issue.
The next inherent trait is being able to
“Quidquid latine
dictum sit, altum
viditur.”
November, 2006
ELECTION
DAY
TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 7
6 AM UNTIL 6 PM
Find your polling place at
www.indianavoters.com
Purdue students living on cam-
pus should go to Purdue Memo-
rial Union Room 118 to vote
handle global issues with extreme skill.
With Purdue having some of the highest
numbers of international students in the
nation, it is good to get a president who
is socialized in globalization and open to
other cultures. The Bounty Hunter not
only works with minorities and interna-
tionals during the day when he’s on the
job, but recently came to face-to-face with
the legal conventions of Mexico. Dog was
arrested for bounty hunting a rapist (which
happens to be illegal in Mexico) and had
to come to terms with the country’s gov-
ernment. Fortunately, he was able to ne-
gotiate an understanding with Mexican of-
ficials. This “quality time” in Mexico most
likely caused him to broaden his horizons
and learn how to communicate with other
cultures. Dog the Bounty Hunter would
be a great ambassador to and for our inter-
national friends on campus.
The fian quality is preeminence. This
seems to be a buzz word among strategic
plans and goals of Purdue University, and
I can think of no one better to bring us
there than Dog the Bounty Hunter. He has
the charisma, character, experience, and a
sense of justice it will require to lead us
See “Purdue President...” - pg. 10
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The
P URDUE REVIEW Welcome From the Purdue Review
Dear Reader,
JEFF SHULTZ
Editor-in-Chief College is always an exciting time and
recently stress has been hitting the top of
SCOTT SOWERS the scales. Even though fall break has
Managing Editor come, it has also gone. In the past few
weeks, we all have had our share of be-
ing trampled on by job fairs, interviews,
COLLIN LEWIS midterm exams, and not to mention a brief
Sports Editor snow flurry. But now, it is time to take
a break from all this commotion and cel-
NATHAN ARNOLD ebrate.
Associate Editor Just recently, many of you celebrated
Halloween in a lot of ways. People found
NICK WEISMILLER it fun to get dressed up as your favorite
Sports Writer pirate or French maid (girls are still well
aware of Halloween immunity). Others
ADAM DOERR shared in the “spirits” of the evening, risk-
Staff Writer ing not making it to that 7:30 class the next
day. Some of us kept the boob tube on
MARK DUDLEY
American Movie Classics wondering what
in God’s green earth is Busta Rhymes do-
Staff Writer ing in a Halloween movie. And some of
the less socially tuned people spent all
JOSH TEASDALE
Staff Writer
night in the pumpkin patch waiting for the
great pumpkin (hey, I’m not afraid to ad-
mit it).
Now, it is time to celebrate something
JEFF CRITES
Staff Writer else. Democracy.
There are many ways you can celebrate
Halloween, but there is only one way you
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exciting to see, two years ago, the turn-
out of voters was the highest it’s been in
nearly 30 years for a presidential election.
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Hoosier Election... Letter to the Editor

FROM PAGE 1 Dear Editor, staff left at 5 p.m. and had to be complete
before they returned at 5 or 6 a.m. These
Republican Congressman Chris Chocola who often attempts to rally the African- I read your April 2006 issue with inter-
were some grueling all-nighters and some
has already survived two terms and is American vote, appears to have a dif- est. In your “Welcome From the Purdue
of my favorite memories from college! In
growing skeptical for a third ficult time doing this when her Review” column, you referenced a publi-
late 1985, the decision was made to fund
term in the political battle opponent is African-Ameri- cation from “a few years back” called The
production by charging ten cents a paper.
of his life. He is facing can himself. Independent, as “somewhat of an inspi-
The rest is history...until now.
his 2004 opponent, Joe The future now lies ration” for your newspaper. Many of us
Congratulations to you for publishing
Donnely. The largest in the faith of Indiana who worked on those monthly magazines
three issues and good luck in continuing
city in the district is voters and for Dis- would be encouraged. Like you, we had
the tradition!
the fiercely Demo- tricts 2, 8, and 9, the inspiration from some papers we found in
cratic city ofSouth votes will matter the “stacks” of the Stewart Center library, Tena (Crudden) Woenker
Bend, and Chocola more than ever. The these were Independants from 1930-1949. Editor, The Independent
has been down in Republican Party Some of these are still in library archives, 1984-early 1985
the polls lately. will have to shake as well as many issues from the second
In recent weeks, a few more hands if season of the paper, which ran from about
political newcomer they are to keep their 1977 until late 1985. At that time, we were
Eric Dickerson has power by next Tues- a publication sponsored by the Off-Cam-
shown himself to be a day. The whole nation pus Student Association with a free cir-
worthy opponent against will have their eyes set on culation of 10,000. We held fund raisers
Indiana’s 7th District Demo- Indiana to see where control (parties) and sold ads to cover our costs.
cratic Congresswoman, Julia Car- of Congress will go. This was before the era of computers so
son. This district encompasses most of In- to print the paper we rented the Exponent
dianapolis and only Indianapolis. Carson, Contact Chase at chslaugh@purdue.edu. typesetter-production began when their

In the 2006 mid-term election, 33 Senate seats will be decided by the voters of their respective states. The map above
shows the current political affiliation of each of the 33 States where a Senate race is underway. 17 seats are held by
Democrat incumbents, 15 by Republicans, and 1 by Independent Jim Jeffords of Vermont. Democrats must gain a
minimum of seven seats to gain a majority in the Senate.
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Boomer Terror
by James Taranto
The American Spectator © October
2006
IN AUGUST ANNA DIGGS TAYLOR
held that Americans have a constitutional
right to communicate with enemy agents
during wartime and ordered the Bush
administration to end its terrorist surveil-
lance program. The country’s two most
prominent liberal editorial pages disagreed
sharply on the merits of her ruling. The
Washington Post described it as “neither
careful nor scholarly, and… hard-hitting
only in the sense that a bludgeon is hard-
hitting.” But the New York Times praised
Taylor’s “careful, thoroughly grounded
opinion” that “reasserted the rule of law
over a lawless administration.”
The next day, the Times reported that
the Post was right and the Times was
wrong.
“Even legal experts who agreed with
a federal judge’s conclusion on Thursday
that a National Security Agency surveil-
lance program is unlawful were distancing
themselves from the decision’s reasoning
and rhetoric yesterday,” began the story
by reporter Adam Liptak. “They said the
opinion overlooked important precedents,
failed to engage the government’s major
arguments, used circular reasoning, substi-
tuted passion for analysis and did not even
offer the best reasons for its own conclu-
sions. Discomfort with the quality of the
decision is almost universal.”
This wasn’t the first time this summer
that the Times editorial page seemed to
be living in an alternate universe. The day
after Ned Lamont beat Sen. Joe Lieber-
man in Connecticut’s Democratic primary,
the Times editorialize d that “the rebellion
against Mr. Lieberman was actually an
uprising by that rare phenomenon, irate
moderates.”
Most observers regarded Lieberman as
the moderate and Lamont as the liberal—
and so did the Times’s news pages. A few
days after the election, Times reporters
Nicholas Confessore and Avi Salzman in-
terviewed “nearly three dozen Lieberman
supporters” and found that most planned
to stand by their man, who was running
as an independent in November. “Only a
handful of those Lieberman supporters in-
terviewed said they would switch to Mr.
Lamont, signaling the difficulties he may
have attracting Connecticut’s moderate
voters in a general election.”
The week after the primary, Confessore
and Patrick Healy wrote: “As the newly
proclaimed Democratic nominee, Mr.
Lamont is moving to adopt a general elec-
tion strategy that attracts more moderate
voters, who are crucial to victory in Con-
necticut elections.”
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A term like “moderate” is something of “apology” for having failed “not to repeat aware of the way international terrorism
a political inkblot, and the Times’s char- the mistakes of our predecessors” is less an can come crashing down on an ordinary
acterizing Lamont this way tells us more honest statement of regret than a show of family, leaving the survivors stunned and
about the Times—which enthusiastically moral vanity—an indictment of the world bereft. A dozen of their neighbors died at
endorsed Lamont over Lieberman—than for failing to live up to Sulzberger’s high the World Trade Center. They will never
it does about Lamont. One of the most standards. But while youthful idealism be able to go back to a “pre-9/11 mind-
insightful descriptions of Lamont support- and impatience are well and good, there is set.”
ers’ mentality also came from the Times— something sad about a man in his mid-50s But the Times remains in a pre-1974
this time from an article by Matt Bai that reproaching the world for not being free mindset, ever vigilant for Vietnam-style
appeared in the paper’s Sunday magazine. of war and corruption. Furthermore, at a quagmires and Watergate-like abuses of
Bai wrote that Lamont owed his victory time when America faces a vicious enemy, power. As to how to confront the dangers
less to the “young, online activists” who a politics based on dreams of a perfect of today, the paper offers nothing but ba-
took most of the credit than to “exasper- world—and on reproaching one’s own nalities:
ated and ideologically disappointed baby country for its real or imagined imperfec- Here is what we want to do in the wake
boomers ”: tions—is a dangerous form of escapism. of the arrests in Britain. We want to under-
These are the liberals who quietly This point was never clearer than two stand as much as possible about what ter-
seethed as Bill Clinton worked with Re- days after Lamont’s victory over Lieber- rorists were planning. To talk about airport
publicans to reform welfare and pass man, when the British announced that they security and how to make it better. To find
free-trade agreements. After the “stolen” had thwarted a terror plot that might have out what worked in the British investiga-
election of 2000 and the subsequent loss involved even more murders than 9/11. To tion and discuss how to push these efforts
of House and Senate seats in 2004, these those who generally support the admin- farther.
Democrats felt duped. If triangulation istration’s approach to terrorism, it was a “This is a mysterious universe,” the
wasn’t a winning strategy, they asked, why reminder that feckless policies—such as Times opined in yet another August edito-
were they ever asked to tolerate it in the the fetishization of civil liberties at the ex- rial, “and the more we know about it the
first place? The Web gave them a place to pense of intelligence-gathering abilities, more mysterious it seems.” The subject of
share their frustrations, and Howard Dean or cutting and running from a difficult bat- that editorial was the latest discovery in
gave them an icon. tle—have potentially dire consequences. astrophysics, but it’s a nice encapsulation
Iraq has energized these older The Times went on the defensive: of the worldview of liberal baby boomers
lapsed liberals; for a generation that got Within the Democratic ranks, the vice trying to make sense of an age of terror.
into politics marching against Vietnam, an president added, “there’s a significant
antiwar movement is comfortable space. body of opinion that wants to go back—I James Taranto is editor of Opinion-
But it was the yearning for a more confron- guess the way I would describe it is sort of Journal.com, the website of the Wall Street
tational brand of opposition on all fronts, the pre-9/11 mind-set, in terms of how we Journal’s editorial page.
for something resembling the black-and- deal with the world we live in.”
white moral choices of the 1960’s, that The man who beat Mr. Lieberman, Ned
more broadly animated Lamont’s insur- Lamont, lives in Greenwich, a suburb full
gency. of commuters who work in New York www.spectator.org
Call them Pinch Sulzberger Democrats, high-rise buildings. They are completely
after the Times’s publisher, Arthur Sulz-
berger Jr., who described his worldview
in a revealing commencement address in
May at the State University of New York’s
New Paltz campus:
When I graduated from college in 1974,
my fellow students and I had just ended
the war in Vietnam and ousted President
Nixon. OK, that’s not quite true. Yes, the
war did end and yes, Nixon did resign in
disgrace—but maybe there were larger
forces at play.
Either way, we entered the real world
committed to making it a better, safer,
cleaner, more equal place. We were de-
termined not to repeat the mistakes of our
predecessors. We had seen the horrors and
futility of war and smelled the stench of
corruption in government.
Our children, we vowed, would never
know that.
So, well, sorry. It wasn’t supposed to be
this way.
AMERICA’S MISADVENTURE in
Vietnam and the abuse of power in Wa-
tergate were tragedies for the country, but
to liberal baby boomers, the outcomes—
America’s defeat, a president’s down-
fall—were moral triumphs. Sulzberger’s
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THE MURKY LIAISONS OF A LOCAL CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
Submitted by Prof. David Bridges
It is my belief that the people have a
right to know the political connections
of local candidates in the upcoming elec-
tions. One candidate whose connections
deserve scrutiny is David Sanders, an as-
sociate professor at Purdue University.
His campaign manager is listed as Sheila
Rosenthal. She is also the driving force
behind a number of radical left-wing orga-
nizations. They include the Lafayette Area
Peace Coalition (LAPC), Progressive Al-
liance of Greater Lafayette (PAGL), the
Lafayette Committee for Israeli/Palestin-
ian Peace and Justice (an anti-Israel and
pro-Arab group) and the Indiana Peace
and Justice Network (IPJN). The latter is a
kind of umbrella organization for Indiana
that includes not only LAPC but also Pro-
gressive Indiana, an organization endorsed
in writing by Sanders.
One may well ask whether there is re-
ally cause to worry. Unfortunately, there
is. In many cases, the contemporary peace
movements are dominated by the Commu-
nists who once toadied to Stalin’s Soviet
Union and Mao’s People’s Republic of
China. Before my critics start having hissy
fits and screaming McCarthyism, let them
ponder the following facts. LAPC, Indi-
ana Alliance for Peace and Justice, Indiana
Peace Action Coalition, Indiana Peace and
Justice Network, and the Lafayette Com-
mittee for Israeli/Palestinian Peace and
Justice are all formal members of United
for Peace and Justice (UPJ).
UPJ has an interesting history. Its ori-
gins can be traced back to 1991, when
Angela Davis (of Black Panther infamy)
and others broke away from the Commu-
nist Party USA to found the Committees
of Correspondence (CC), which morphed
into the Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) in
2000. A prominent co-founder of CC and
CCDS was Leslie Cagan, an active les-
bian-feminist, member of the communist
left since the 1960’s, a strong supporter of
Fidel Castro and a member of the Vencer-
emos Brigades. In 2002, while retaining
her position as co-chair of CCDS, she pro-
ceeded to found UPJ.
Although UPJ claims to be a non-parti-
san organization, its three most influential
officers are Judith LeBlanc (vice chair of
the Communist Party USA), Leslie Cagan
(co-chair of the Committees of Corre-
Student Critique on National Issues:
A Realistic Way to Fix Our Health Care System
by Chad Kaschube
America has a problem. Not everyone
can get health insurance. I have a plan that
takes a common sense approach to health
coverage in America. Our nation can solve
this problem without having to create an
inefficient government program. In or-
der to best understand my plan, one must
understand my perspective as a college
student, why government run universal
health care cannot work, and my plan to
fix America’s health insurance system.
First of all, one must view this prob-
lem through my perspective in order to
best understand my thinking. I am a 21-
year-old college student working towards
an undergraduate degree in engineering.
November, 2006
spondence for Democracy and Socialism)
and Jessica Marshall (Young Communist
League). Member groups include the
Young Communist League - USA, Com-
munist Party of Central Indiana, Com-
munist Party USA and its regional affili-
ates, CodePink, Young Koreans United (a
pro-North Korea group), Islamic Circle of
North America, the Socialist Party USA
and a number of international communist
and socialist groups.
The underlying ideology of UPJ can be
summarized simply as “America is always
the problem, and is the root of all evil in
“Before my critics start having hissy fits
and screaming McCarthyism, let them
ponder the following facts...”
“To what extent does [Dave Sanders]
share the views of his campaign manager,
his committee, his close supporters and
all the radical leftist groups with which
they are connected?”
the world”. This deeply-held belief mo-
tivates UPJ and its member groups in all
their activities, which involve pressing for
troop withdrawal from Iraq, counter-mili-
tary recruitment, “global justice”, nuclear
disarmament, withdrawal of Israel from
Palestine, immigrant rights and open bor-
ders.
Our local peace activists may argue
that although LAPC is a member of UPJ,
it does not necessarily subscribe to its
policies. O.K., so let’s take a closer look
at LAPC. For starters, their web site car-
ries a Citgo logo (courtesy of Chavez?)
and the statement “Looking for an easy
way to protest Bush foreign policy week
after week? And an easy way to help al-
leviate global poverty? Buy your gasoline
at Citgo stations”.
LAPC has organized rallies against
campus military recruitment and Caterpil-
lar, accusing the company of human rights
violations in connection with their sale of
I also have a chronic medical condition
called Crohn’s disease that requires a bi-
monthly IV treatment. This treatment can
cost in upwards of $7,000 per infusion.
This boils down $42,000 a year! Right
now insurance covers it. However, I will
no longer be eligible for my parents’ medi-
cal insurance once I reach the age of 23. I
will not graduate until I am 24. There is a
program called COBRA that allows me to
extend that coverage, but I can only utilize
this program for two years. This means
that I would have a lapse in coverage if I
were to pursue a more advanced degree.
I cannot afford a $40,000 education and
$42,000 in medical bills, so a graduate
degree is completely out of the question
for me. My problems would not stop at the
bulldozers to Israel. With Purdue’s Com-
mittee on Peace studies, LAPC has spon-
sored a series of videos that included one
by Lynne Stewart (“I don’t believe in an-
archistic violence but directed violence”),
who was indicted by the Justice Depart-
ment for aiding and abetting the terrorist
responsible for the bombing of the World
trade Center in 1993 and who also planned
to blow up the Lincoln and Holland tun-
nels.
LAPC member and grassroots supporter
of Sanders Kris Hoggatt wrote in the Jour-
nal and Courier “it is precisely the (mostly
covert) foreign policy of the U.S. govern-
ment during the last 40 years that led to
9/11.” She was also author of a pro-Cuba,
pro-Venezuela rant to Senator Lugar, post-
ed on the Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism Web site.
LAPC member and Purdue Profes-
sor Frank Rosenthal supports mobilizing
resources to ban military recruiters from
schools and participating in the anti-glo-
balism movement, specifically in opposi-
tion to transnational corporate power.
Purdue professor Patricia Henley, to-
gether with LAPC, launched a petition
campaign demanding that Congress sup-
port legislation to create a bipartisan Truth
Commission to study the role the United
States has played in terrorist activities
since World War II.
LAPC member, self-professed Trotsky-
ite and retired Purdue professor Mark
Levinthal speaks proudly of the Vietcong
flag that he carried in his Vietnam War pro-
end of that lapse in coverage. Assuming I
can somehow come up with the money to
pay for my treatment throughout a gradu-
ate degree program, after six months off
of insurance, my Crohn’s disease will be
a pre-existing condition. This means that
even when I graduate and get insured, I
will have to wait another year for my new
insurance to even begin to cover any med-
ical expenses related to the disease.
Hillary Clinton and John Kerry are al-
ways talking up a universal health care
program. That sounds so perfect. Un-
der their plan, everyone would have free
medical insurance. No one would have
to pay for any prescriptions, hospital vis-
its, or surgeries. This sounds great to the
casual observer; however, upon further
examination, it is far less beneficial than
it sounds. First of all, taxes would have
5
test marches and which he still displays.
LAPC member and Purdue Professor
Harry Targ is a member of the National
Executive Committee of the Committees
of Correspondence for Democracy and
Socialism (see above for the history of this
Communist Party spin-off ). Targ’s views
are standard Communist dogma. He holds
pretty much to the Marx/Engels line that
sees society as a struggle between the op-
pressors and the oppressed (bourgeoisie
and proletariat) for the ownership of the
means of production, distribution and ex-
change. Targ runs the Committee on Peace
Studies that directs the Peace Studies pro-
gram at Purdue. It has been said that the
program is designed to indoctrinate unsus-
pecting undergraduates in the views that
have made Targ such a dedicated commu-
nist.
This brings us back to David Sanders.
To what extent does he share the views of
his campaign manager, his committee, his
close supporters and all the radical leftist
groups with which they are connected?
Does he believe that it is Americans who
are the terrorists? Does he believe that
we brought 9/11 upon ourselves? Does
he support Lynne Stewart and her client?
What are his views on illegal immigrants
and the status of the US-Mexican border?
What does he have to say about “global
justice”? Is he sympathetic to the ideology
of the anti-Israel, pro-Arab groups? Does
he buy his gasoline at Citgo and admire
Chavez? Does he have any views on Cuba,
North Korea, and Iran? And what will he
do with all this baggage if he gets elected?
It is time for him to step up to the plate and
explain himself.
Contact David Bridges at dbridges@bil-
bo.bio.purdue.edu.
to be raised astronomically to fund such
a program. This would place even more
burden on domestic businesses where it
is already difficult to compete in a global
economy with current taxes and regula-
tions. It would be even more difficult to
compete because more taxes would fur-
ther increase costs for product develop-
ment and production. More importantly, a
universal health care system would disrupt
the most powerful medical system in the
world. Right now, hospitals are competing
to provide the most advanced treatments
to draw customers. If a socialized health
care system is put in place, competition
would be replaced with government regu-
lations. This would greatly hinder future
advances in medicine. Most importantly,
See “Health Care...” - pg. 10
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state elect
State Representative - District 26

Joe Micon (D)

• Education is his top priority
• Opposed to flat lining the budget
• Opposed to Major Moves
• Opposed to the Marriage Amendment because he believes it duplicates state law
• Believes Purdue is the key to economic development

Representative Micon received his bachelors degree from Purdue University in Applied
Sociology and a Master of Social Work degree from Indiana University. He worked as ex-
ecutive director of Lafayette Urban Ministries for 14 years and now serves part-time as its
Director of Development. His wife is a therapist at Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological
services. He is a member of the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. His favorite hobby
is coaching Little League baseball.

State Representative - District 27

Sheila Klinker (D)

• Opposes the Marriage Amendment because it prohibits domestic partner benefits
• Opposed the Major Moves program
• Supports increased use of Riverboats and Hometown matters
• Opposed flat lining the most recent budget
• Sees herself as an effective bi-partisan legislator, earning the trust of Republicans

Representative Klinker has significant ties to Purdue. Currently employed in the College
of Education when she is not at the Statehouse, Klinker is a faculty fellow at Earhart Hall
and a mentor for the Purduettes. She has a long history with the Purdue Musical Organiza-
tion. A singer when she attended Purdue, her three children all attended Purdue and sang
with the Glee Club or the Purduettes.

State Senate - District 22

Dave Vorbeck (D)

• Supports all day kindergarten
• Advocates serving the public above all
• Supports better enforcement of existing state and federal immigration laws
• Opposes Major Moves
• Opposes Daylight Savings time

Mr. Vorbeck was born and raised in Tippacanoe County and has been a citizen here for 32
years. He currently lives in rural West Lafayette with his family. Mr. Vorbeck takes tremen-
dous pride in being a successful small business owner. Currently, he is managing Director
of Bison Financial here in Lafayette. Vorbeck was named the 2004 Small Business Person
of the Year by the Lafayette-West Lafayette Chamber of Commerce. As a State Senator,
Vorbeck would work to create a healthy atmosphere for business growth, economic devel-
opment, and job security for every Hoosier.
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tions - 2006
State Representative - District 26

Connie Basham (R)

• Educational reform as a top priority
• Supports a balanced budget as a means for full school funding
• Supports the Marriage Amendment because it will put the issue to the voters
• Supports the Major Moves initiative
• Supports Governor Daniels’ economic policies

Mrs. Basham has been a lifelong Lafayette resident. She and her husband started their
own apartment business in 1980. Through its success they have sponsored five scholarships
to Purdue students and two to Ivy Tech students. Her government experience includes serv-
ing on the Tippecanoe County Council for 8 years. She sees her business experience as be-
ing key to helping her understand how to run State government efficiently.

State Representative - District 27

Jack Rhoda (R)

• Economic development and illegal immigration are his two key issues
• Supports Major Moves
• Supports the Marriage Amendment
• Supports Governor Daniels’ economic policies
• Supports making higher education a top priority

Mr. Rhoda is a lifelong Lafayette resident, who graduated from Southwestern High School
and received a BS degree from Purdue. As a teacher for 39 years, 34 of those years spent
in the Lafayette School Corporation, Mr. Rhoda is deeply concerned about maintaining the
quality of public schools. His government experience includes 11 years of service on the
Lafayette City Council, and 8 years on the Area Plan Commission as well as President of the
Wildcat Creek Watershed Alliance. He is a deacon at the Reformed Presbyterian Church of
Lafayette.

State Senate - District 22

Ron Alting (R)

• Education has been his top priority through career
• Supports all day kindergarten
• Supports additional funding for Purdue and Ivy Tech
• Looking for ways to lower property taxes
• Had a 100% voting record during the 2006 legislative session

Sen. Alting has lived in the Lafayette community for 50 years, except for 6 years when he
lived in New Orleans. He is a graduate from Lafayette Jefferson High School and Purdue
University. He is also recognized as a Major in the Indiana Guard Reserve. Alting is greatly
involved in community organizations like the Bright National Bank Board of Directors,
First Free Methodist Church Board of Directors, Lafayette Symphony Orchestra Board of
Directors, Meals on Wheels, Sons of American Legion, Post 11 Board of Directors, and the
Tippecanoe Arts Federation. He has served as State Senator since 1998.
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Foglesong on Leadership
by Jeff Crites
What’s better than “learning by doing?”
To learn from those who have done it. And
since more speakers are coming to Pur-
due University, students are starting to get
more opportunities to do just that.
On Tuesday, October 3, the Purdue
Association of Leaders (PAL) hosted an
evening with speaker Dr. Robert H. Fogle-
song to talk about Leadership. The room
was packed for this exciting testimony of
career leadership.
Dr. Foglesong, President and Executive
Director of the Appalachian Leadership
and Education Foundation, is regarded as
one of the nation’s top leaders. He was
nominated by the President, confirmed by
the U.S. Senate, and served as a four star
general in the U.S. Air Force. Over the
past 33 years, Foglesong has worked in
public service with a sharp sense of how
leadership plays a role in establishing
character integrity, encouraging service
above self, and fostering an attitude of ex-
cellence. He is currently the president of
Mississippi State University.
“Leadership is the most fundamental
aspect in an organization,” Dr. Foglesong
said. One day you might be, “the person
setting at the head of the table taking a
group of ordinary people to do extraordi-
nary things.”
The speaker said it’s important to un-
derstand what motivates people. Leaders,
in order to be successful, need to be big on
understanding the human factor in motiva-
tion.
Dr. Foglesong believes that you need
a pre-game strategy when managing: Un-
derstand the mission – know it when you
go through the door; Vision – have one
and express it frequently.
What leadership tactics should you use?
Dr. Foglesong recommends: Communica-
tion, communication, communication; Ru-
mor control; Character; Integrity; Service
before Self; Reaching for Excellence; Pas-
sion in the business; Genuine compassion;
Courage
As any good leader knows, if you,
“make courageous decisions every day,
it makes it easier to make the big ones
later,” said Foglesong. He recommends
a “straight talk” meeting every month
where everyone can stand up for and say
what they believe. But, he also says you
should be prepared to lose your job when
you do. People need to believe what you
are saying.
What else would a good leader do?
According to Dr. Foglesong a good lead-
er will: Worry about yourself and take a
down day – health and family are impor-
tant; Hire the most extraordinary people
you can find; Have people around you who
know your leadership style – this helps to
get the word out; Match good junior lead-
ers with senior leaders; Show loyalty.
When it comes to employees, Dr. Fo-
glesong has found that: 15% will be self-
achievers, ethical, do it themselves and be
off your radar; 80% will need to be moti-
vated and will do a good job; 5% just don’t
get it and you should let them go.
Lastly, for the long term benefit of the
organization every leader
should have an exit strat-
egy. Dr. Foglesong recom-
mends; Always set up the
next guy for success; Re-
member the people who
helped you; Accomplish
goal overall assessment.
With the information
from Dr. Foglesong’s
visit, anybody would be
well on their way to be-
coming a better leader. If
you’re interested in these
topics, take an Organiza-
tional Leadership and Su-
pervision or Management
class. Better yet, take a
few of these classes. Get-
ting a minor will vastly
improve your chances of
being a great leader. As a
student of Organizational
Leadership and Entrepre-
neurship, I would recom-
mend the following: OLS
284 Leadership Principles
– Prof. Roland Guay; OLS
388 Leadership Through
Teams – Prof. Louis Hill; OLS 440 Lead- For biographical information about Dr.
ing With Integrity; OLS 456 Leadership In Robert H. Foglesong: http://www.msstate.
a Global Environment; MGMT 306 Man- edu/president/foglesong_bio.php.
agement Science; MGMT 390 Interna-
tional Business; MGMT 390F Leadership
and Ethics; ENTR 200 Entrepreneurship I
– Prof. Hank Feeser Contact Jeff at crites@purdue.edu

Ronald Reagan on: Monthly Featuring of a Purdue Stu-

dent Group :
Leadership The Purdue Association of Leaders
by Mike Primus
Normally referred to as ‘PAL’, the Pur-
due Association of Leaders is a student
organization set up to develop leadership
skills for its members. Although PAL is
considered solely a student organization
for Organizational Leadership and Super-
vision (OLS) majors, any student wanting
to gain leadership experience is welcome.
PAL is broken down into five committees:
professional, social, fund-raising, market-
ing, and community service. Each com-
mittee focuses on their respective aspects
of major projects, such as bringing in Dr.
Robert Foglesong, as well as smaller side-
projects of their own. A few of the past
events PAL has hosted or participated in
include Purdue’s Relay for Life, Boo at
the Zoo, resume building workshops, in-
terview workshops, bowling at the Union,
and several plant trips to local manufactur-
ing facilities.
One of the most popular events PAL puts
on each semester is the dinner etiquette
presentation by Anthony Cawdron, the
events coordinator for President Jischke.
Anthony teaches an etiquette course in the
School of Consumer and Family Sciences.
His presentation takes place over a mul-
“A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right tiple course meal and covers everything
one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted from proper dining etiquette during job in-
terviews to hosting events. PAL members
when the going gets rough.” know he or she will someday be eating
- December 5, 1990
in front of people who are judging them.
The material and side-tips Cawdron shares
can never hurt a job-seeking student.
PAL’s overall goal is to turn good stu-
dents into great leaders. However, joining
the club is not enough to become a great
leader. The executive board provides the
members with the opportunity to create
their own events or to step up and take
over an existing event. The members
can only get out what they put in towards
developing their leadership skills. One
important aspect of leadership involves
teamwork, which is where the committees
fall in. Most events cannot be coordinated
by one person, so they must learn to work
with others and delegate assignments.
For more information about the Purdue
Association of Leaders, contact the cur-
rent president, Nick Keller at nk2985@
yahoo.com or check out their web site at
www2.tech.purdue.edu/ols/students/pal
Mike Primus
mprimus@purdue.edu
PAL webmaster
Contact Jeff at crites@purdue.edu
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Colorful Headlines of Fall 2006
For those of you with a slight case of
retrograde amnesia, here is what happened
since the last time you saw us.
September 25
The largest re-roofing project in the Un-
tied States commences as The Louisiana
Superdome in New Orleans re-opens 13
months after Hurricane Katrina with ex-
tensive repairs.
September 26
An armed suspect holds 6 female stu-
dents hostage in Platte Canyon High
School located in Baily, Colorado. One
hostage is fatally wounded as the gunman
kills himself.
September 29
Congressman Mark Foley (R) of Flori-
da resigns after it is revealed that he sent
explicit E-mails to underage male pages.
Later, Foley checked himself into rehabili-
tation facility for alcoholism treatment.
October 2
The Amish school shooting takes place,
where Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-yr-
old milk-truck driver, kills 5 female stu-
dents at an Amish schoolhouse in Lancast-
er County, Pennsylvania before shooting
himself.
October 3
The DOW Jones Industrial Average
(DJIA) Index broke its January 2000
all-time record of 11,722.98 to close at
November, 2006
11,727.34 with an all-time intra-day high
of 11,758.95.
October 5
NATO expands its security mission to
the whole of Afghanistan, taking com-
mand of more than 13,000 U.S. troops in
the east of the country.
October 6
A azardous waste plant near Apex,
North Carolina explodes releasing chlo-
rine gas, resulting in the evacuation of
thousands and the hospitalization of over
100 residents.
October 9
North Korea claims to have conducted
its first ever nuclear test.
October 10
Google buys YouTube for $1.65 bil-
lion.
October 11
A small, fixed-wing plane hits the Bel-
Air Tower in New York City, killing New
York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle.
October 13
Record Snowfall in Buffalo, New York
and surrounding metro area leaves up to
two feet of heavy wet snow, three dead,
damaged trees, and over 400,000 residents
without power.
October 15
The UN agrees to sanction North Korea
over nuclear testing issue.
October 17
The United States population reaches
300 million based on a United States Cen-
sus Bureau projection.
October 19
The United States adopts documents
that reject any proposals to ban space
weapons.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
(DJIA) Index closes above 12000 for the
first time ever at 12,011.73.
October 22
A national referendum approved the ex-
pansion of the Panama Canal by nearly 80
percent.
October 24
Musa Matwalli Atwah, one of the FBI’s
Top Ten Terrorists, was killed in North
Waziristan during an airstrike by Pakistani
forces near the border with Afghanistan.
October 24
The WWF conservation group announc-
es by current trends, humans will rid Earth
of all its resources by the year 2050.
October 26
President Bush signs a bill authorizing
700 miles of new fencing along the U.S.-
Mexico Border.
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October 27
The St. Louis Cardinals win the World
Series against the Detroit Tigers 4 games
to 1. The last time St. Louis took the title
was in 1982. The Cardinals’ shortstop Da-
vid Eckstein is named the series MVP.
October 30
President Bush and other Republican
leaders demand that John Kerry apologize
to the troops and to their families for his
comments, “You know, education, if you
make the most of it, you study hard, you
do your homework and you make an effort
to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t,
you get stuck in Iraq,” at an education ral-
ly in California. John Kerry reported that
he botched the joke and was referring to
President Bush, not the troops.
October 31
The long time host of CBS’s The Price
is Right, Bob Barker, announces he will
retire from the show in June 2007. He
will be 83 years of age.
 THE PURDUE REVIEW
Cultural Learnings of Borat
by Jeff Schultz
The movie industry is always one for
stirring up controversy once in a while.
Films like this year’s Death of a President,
The Da Vinci Code, and Fast Food Nation
deal with themes that are both provocative
and incendiary. But there is one movie
that is stirring the pot in a different way,
not through our heads, but through our fun-
nybones.
Jagshemash! This weekend 20th Cen-
tury Fox brings to you the misadventures
of Borat Sagdiyev, the number one jour-
nalist in all of Kazakhstan in his documen-
tary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America
for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Ka-
zakhstan. The man hiding underneath that
Jewish afro and Mario Bros. mustache is
the notorious British comic Sacha Baron
Cohen. Cohen is known more famously
as Ali G and as the French Nascar Driver
Jean Girrard, Will Farrell’s rival in this
summer’s Talladega Nights. The character
Borat comes from Cohen’s Da Ali G Show,
a satire based on the format of an investiga-
tive news program. The movie is raising a
lot of eyebrows and lowering others, pri-
marily the Kazakh government.
In Cohen’s form of comedy, nothing is
sacred. His characters (Borat, Ali G, or
Bruno) consist of tricking unsuspecting
interviewees into thinking they are really
being interviewed only to make often hi-
larious reactions to Cohen’s taunting be-
havior. Since he appeared on the spot in
2003, Borat has interviewed women at a
Texas gun club, the Sons of the Revolution
asking them if they like porno, Vietnam
war veterans, and Conan O’Brien. In what
could be his most controversial ploy, Bo-
rat interviewed Republican congressman
James Broadwater about his political back-
Purdue President Health Care...
FROM PAGE 1
onward. President Jischke has worked well
in establishing Purdue as a leading school
in research, discovery, and innovation. It
takes someone who is fearless and willing
to delve even further into these discoveries
and innovations. Dog would only continue
in the path. Plus, just think of how much he
could benefit our image as Boilermakers.
He would look great plastered all over our
spirit wear, hanging on large posters off the
light posts down Northwestern, and sitting
in his press box in Shively during the foot-
ball games.
If you think there is no way a macho,
muscle-armed celebrity can become a polit-
ical figure, then tell me who is the governor
of California? I hope these arguments are
convincing enough for you to ally with me
in my quest to see Dog the Bounty Hunter
come to Purdue to be our next president. If
you even feel so compelled, please help me
in my lobbying efforts to spread the word.
As the introduction to his Web site says,
“He’s fierce. He’s unstoppable. He’s com-
ing.” A great institution needs someone
like him to be its leader. There should be
no doubt in him coming to Purdue.
Contact Rachel at rsemmel@purdue.edu
November, 2006
ground and duped him into saying Jews are
not allowed into heaven. Broadwater was
swamped with hate mail after the show
aired in the U.S.
Now that his Borat character is reach-
ing global fame, fewer people are not let-
ting Cohen’s antics get away. Borat had
the job of emceeing the MTV Europe Mu-
sic awards where he joked about shooting
dogs for fun and portrayed Kazakhs as
drunks who participate
in sports such as cow-
punching. The wom-
en are often portrayed
as prostitutes and the
wine there is made
of fermented horse
urine. Kazakh foreign
ministry stated, “We
view Mr. Cohen’s
behavior at the MTV
Europe Music Awards
as utterly unaccept-
able, being a concoc-
tion of bad taste and
ill manners which is
completely incompat-
ible with ethics and
civilized behavior,”
and threatened to sue
Cohen.
With doubts they
will be able to stop the movie from being
played in theatres (although it has been
banned in Kazakhstan), the Kazakh gov-
ernment has made efforts to counter Co-
hen’s portrayal of the country as overrun
with poverty, sexism, and bigotry. The Ka-
zakh Embassy has run ads in the New York
Times about the country’s culture and tol-
erance for all. Borat even staged his own
guerilla news conference at the Kazakh
Embassy criticizing the ads ran in the New
FROM PAGE 4
this would result in patients receiving the
cheapest treatments and not the best. This
is clear in the treatment of Crohn’s disease
in Canada where the health care system is
socialized. The government will not pay
for the regular IV treatments that I receive.
They will only pay for much cheaper treat-
ments like prednisone. While prednisone
is only twenty dollars, it can destroy one’s
bones and liver. It also can lead to extreme
anger, mood swings, weight gain, acne,
glaucoma, ulcers, abdominal pain, cata-
racts, insomnia, horrible infections, diabe-
tes, and hypertension. Even with all those
side effects, it only works in some cases. In
my case, my body did not respond to it at
all. With the treatment that I am currently
receiving, Remicade, I have been nearly
symptom free for almost five years. Some
people from Canada are so desperate to get
Remicade treatments that they travel to
the Cleveland Clinic to receive treatments
at their own expense. This is not accept-
able. I cannot even imagine having to live
without my medication. My life would be
absolutely miserable.
I have a plan that could fix the problem
with health care without having to social-
ize it. The concept is quite simple. The big-
gest problem with America’s health insur-
ance system is the necessity to be part of
a group to get affordable coverage. As a
York Times claming they were “disgust-
ing fabrications” made by the neighboring
country of Uzbekistan while the Kazakh
president Nursultan A. Nazarbayev was
visiting with President Bush in Washington
that same day.
Is the film really worth all this buzz that
Cohen has created for himself? Well, Joe
Podhoretz of The Weekly Standard has
called it “one of the four or five funniest
movies ever made.”
With reviews like
that, it is doubtful
that this film will
flop. Audiences
are enthralled with
laughter as Borat
searches to marry
Pamela Ander-
son, kisses random
New Yorkers on
the cheek, travels
around the coun-
try in an ice cream
truck, and sings the
national anthem
at a Texas rodeo. I
guess the question
is will the extreme
comedy factor of
this movie be worth
the unwanted con-
sequences of new and old stereotypes that
Sacha Baron Cohen is hatching.
The thing we have to look at is why the
elements in the film are so funny in the first
place. Borat cannot be denied that it’s a
farce, something so absurd it just has to
make you laugh. The main purpose of farce
is not to deceive, but to make you laugh
as hard as you possibly can. As a matter
of fact, one could say Cohen’s exuberant,
over-the-top antics in promoting his movie
college student, once I am off my parents’
coverage, I have nowhere to turn to. Even
if I wanted to pay a premium rate, I could
not get coverage. My plan would effective-
ly get rid of that problem. The expected
outcome is to allow United States citizens
to purchase an individual, affordable health
insurance plan through a private company.
In order to accomplish that, the federal or
state congress will first determine minimal
standards for two types of coverage: mini-
mal coverage and premium coverage. After
that is set, they will set up a linear tax cut
system. This system would provide a cer-
tain amount of tax relief to health insurance
companies who provide individual plans
that meet the standards set. The system
would be linear because the amount of tax
relief would be proportional to the number
of people insured. This would encourage
competition between the insurance com-
panies to receive the maximum tax break.
Competition ensures the best value for
the consumers. It is also necessary for the
government to require that the company
offer the two plans for the same price to
all members. This will help to ensure that
people with chronic conditions will be able
to afford coverage as well. It is necessary
that a dialog take place to determine what
level of tax cuts are necessary for the insur-
ance companies to participate.
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are almost admirable. He manages to outdo
any ounce of hassle thrown in his way. He
knows that if he breaks the act just once,
he will undo everything he has worked for.
However, I don’t blame Kazakhstan at all
for trying to defend their image. This is
chance for Kazakhstan to start a movement
of cultural learning and understanding that
is certainly absent in this world.
Anyone who has studied abroad knows
the benefits of learning a different culture.
It allows you to open your mind and think
in ways you normally wouldn’t, making
you a stronger thinker and well rounded
individual. With our understanding of what
culture is, we can learn to accept other cul-
tures. We can even make peace with our
differences as President Bush advocates. If
you decide to see Borat, you should see it
from to angles: One for the comedy aspect
and one to see how culture is portrayed in
the film vs. how we view different cultures
in real life.
Borat is one example how entertainment
enriches our learning process. If you doubt
it, then consider The Daily Show with John
Stewart on Comedy Central. More col-
lege students and teens get there informa-
tion and political understanding from The
Daily Show than any other news program.
Humor offers a large level of comprehen-
sion and knowledge. Before the film Borat
was made, hardly anyone knew the slight-
est about Kazakhstan. Some probably
didn’t even know it was a country. Now
people will be willing to further their re-
search and knowledge about the culture of
Kazakhstan. See, there is something good
about Borat after all. Although I am sure
that some people would rather wait for the
DVD.
Contact Jeff at jaschult@purdue.edu.
This plan would create and utilize the
same capitalistic environment that has
made our country such a great and pow-
erful nation. This would make insurance
companies compete for tax breaks. Any
time companies are competing, the con-
sumer wins. This would allow any citizen
of the United States of America to get health
coverage at an affordable rate without the
creation of an inefficient government pro-
gram. With the available coverage, the life
expectancy and overall health of our nation
will likely improve. The tax cuts provided
to the insurance companies would also help
to improve economic conditions. It would
put money back into our economy to help
create economic growth. The most impor-
tant thing about this plan is that all of these
results could be achieved without disrupt-
ing the operation of our globally superior
medical institutions.
Submitted by Chad Kaschube - ckaschub@
purdue.edu
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SPORTS REVIEW DISCLAIMER: All rankings and stats were as of November 2, 2006

Top 5 Most Overrated Teams in College Football

by Collin Lewis and Nick Wiesmiller
Most college football polls have many
people vote on what teams are the best in
the nation. So why would we want to do
the same thing. This poll is unlike any poll
you might have read. We don’t have a lot
of people vote on this poll. In fact, there
are only two of us (both football geniuses
might we add) that vote on this poll. In
a means to let out what disappointment,
anger, or just plain dislike we might have
we present to you the Top Five Most Over-
rated Teams in College Football. Drum
roll please…
1) Texas Longhorns (8-1
Current AP Poll ranking: 4
Texas is one of 5 teams that have been
number 2 this season. They are no longer
number 2 because they took a beating from
number 1 (final score: 24-7). Now, there
are loonies claiming Texas should be play-
ing in the national championship, prob-
ably against the same team (Ohio State)
that beat them earlier! I can’t foresee the
result of such a game being much different
than the first meeting between Texas and
Ohio State.
Both of Texas’s last two games have
been come from behind victories. One of
them was a total domination by Texas Tech
(519 passing yards) that in the end came
down to a couple of 4th down calls by the
Mack Brown Texas Football refs. In my
book, an 8-1 record in the Big 12 is de-
serving of no more than a national ranking
of tenth. May-
be the Mack
Brown Texas
Football AP
Poll voters will
pay more at-
tention to Tex-
as’s remaining
schedule than
the loonies call-
ing for a Janu-
ary 8 rematch.
Probably not
though.
2) USC Tro-
jans (6-1)
Current AP Poll ranking: 9
I hope this doesn’t catch anyone off
guard. I say that because if it does, you
need to forget the past and look at the
present. So you might argue that they re-
mained undefeated until they lost to Or-
egon State… wait, no that’s embarrassing.
But they have been annihilating their other
opponents… wait, no they haven’t. On pa-
per the Trojans are merely scraping by this
season with wins over powerhouse teams
such as Arizona and Washington. Who?
The USC you all knew and loved to
hate is gone. USC managed to score an
average 49 points per game last season.
This season Pete Carroll’s Trojans average
30 points, which is still a good stat in any
conference but the Pac-10 (and the Big 12,
MAC, WAC, MWC, and C-USA). If there
are two things USC excels at, they are
pushing and
recruiting.
The pushing
will come in
handy now,
as USC will
probably
need last min-
ute “shoves”
to continue a
run at a BSC
Bowl Game.
The recruit-
ing will come
in handy later
and will keep
USC on the
college football radar for a long time.
3) Boise State Broncos (8-0)
Current AP Poll ranking: 14
This team just doesn’t go away. I have
never seen any team play so many oppo-
nents with the word “state” in their name.
There are definitely good football schools
that have the suffix “state.” Those schools
definitely are not the ones that have the
prefix “Sacramento,” “Oregon,” “New
Mexico,” “Fresno,” “San Jose,” or “Utah”
(I could have said “Boise” but they are
certainly in a different league than the oth-
ers). Going around the southwest beating
up on state schools that are weaker than
your state school has its pros and cons.
Pros: undefeated seasons, bowl games,
top 25 rankings. Cons: no respect and no
satisfaction. The whole blue turf idea is
pretty cool though.
4) Rutgers Scarlet Knights (7-0)
Current AP Poll ranking: 15
I will start this one off by telling you
I am impressed that the Scarlet Knights
have gotten as far as they have. Kudos.
However, Rutgers still are not a top 25 cal-
iber team. As with Boise State, Rutgers is
undefeated. Also like Boise State, Rutgers
runs over its opponents by embarrassing
margins. Check out my new magic trick.
Now the Scarlet Knights is an impressive
team and… (combined opponent record:
26-27; includes teams like 1-7 UNC, 2-
6 Illinois, and 2-5 Howard) now they are
not! Please, hold your applause.
5) Miami Hurricanes (5-3)
Current AP Poll ranking: none
At 5-3, Miami is amazingly right on
the verge of getting a bowl game. With 3
losses, no team should be on the verge of
a bowl game. Should Miami get a bowl
game, it would say something about the
ACC for sure. Miami should not be bowl
eligible for much longer with upcoming
games against Virginia Tech and Boston
College (thankfully, because as of yet
there is no UFC sponsored Fisticuff Bowl).
Here’s a rumor I heard: if you play as Mi-
ami in next year’s EA Sports NCAA 08,
there might be a play where you kick the
extra point then jump the opposing team.

It’s Not the Defense that Matters, It’s the Numbers

Football Icon Joe Paterno Walks Purdue’s Home Turf
by Collin Lewis and Nick Weismiller
This past Saturday’s football game
against Penn State was a special one. Sure
it was a Big Ten match-
up, but there was more
to it than that. A very
important person to col-
lege football attended,
and more importantly
coached, the game. If
you don’t know who I’m
talking about, it’s Joe
Paterno. JoePa (as he is
affectionately known by
college football fans) is
college football history
in the flesh, and hope-
fully you didn’t miss the
opportunity to see him
coach this past week-
end. Paterno will be
turning 80 years old this
winter (two weeks after
Coach Tiller turns 64),
yet he never misses a beat. Still almost
as jubilant as he was in his younger years,
Paterno can be seen running onto the field
with his team and getting into the action
like a man of half his age. If that doesn’t
impress you than this should: despite hav-
ing the flu during the Ohio State game ear-
lier this year, Paterno stayed on the side-
lines to coach and only left twice to use the
restroom. Most 79-year-old men use the
bathroom twice that much in one quarter
of football—without the
flu! If you missed out on
the game last Saturday
don’t fret. Paterno has
been with Penn State for
56 years and if it is with-
in his power, he will be
back at Ross Ade in two
years to take on Coach
Tiller and the Boiler-
makers again. Check out
some amazing numbers
for Joe Paterno:
December 21, 1926 Joe
Paterno’s birthday.
40 Years Paterno has
been PSU head coach.
56 Years Paterno has
coached (assistant or head) at PSU.
359-120-3 Record as PSU coach.
2 National Championships won by Pa-
terno.
PR Stat Book of the Game Some Would Want To Forget
If you were at the Wisconsin game I
know how you might be feeling. It wasn’t
pretty. I heard a lot of negative comments
from fans at the game directed mostly at
the offensive struggles. Again I’ll admit
it wasn’t pretty. The offense wasn’t click-
ing in the usual Purdue style. Sometimes
the passing was off-target, sometimes the
target was off-route. Whatever happened,
the stellar numbers and statistics that give
Purdue Football fans something to brag
about just weren’t being put up. Here are
some disturbing numbers.
301.2 Average passing yards Purdue’s op-
ponents have allowed against Purdue this
year.
187 Total Purdue passing yards allowed
by Wisconsin.
58.9 Percent of passes QB Curtis Painter
has completed this year.
50 Percent of passes Painter completed
against Wisconsin.
1.8 Average passing touchdowns thrown
by Purdue per game this year.
0 Passing touchdowns thrown by Purdue
against Wisconsin.
Don’t get down now. It’s going to be all
right. Those are scary numbers but don’t
lose faith just yet. Check out some posi-
tive numbers that may ease your troubled
mind.
12.4 Average passing touchdowns allowed
by Purdue’s opponents all year.
2 Passing touchdowns allowed by Wis-
consin all year.
224.1 Average passing yards allowed per
game by Purdue opponents.
312.9 Average number of passing yards
Purdue has posted per game against op-
ponents.
129 Average passing yards allowed per
game by Wisconsin this year.
187 Passing yards Purdue posted against
Wisconsin.
Contact Collin at cllewis@purdue.edu and
Nick at nweismil@purdue.edu