I The Behrend Beacon Fargo braces for massive floods FARGO, N.D. For residents of Fargo, N.D., the situation went from bad to worse when forecasters predicted that the Red River would flood to 43 feet, 2 feet higher than previously predicted. Residents have already been working with the National Guard to raise their dikes to hold the surge back from the town. gency plan in place to evacu ate the city of over 90,000, four area nursing homes have already begun evacua- "A few of them said they don't want to go. I said I'm going where the crowd goes," said 98-year-old Margaret "Dolly" Beaucage, a resident of Elim Care Center. "I'm a swimmer, but not that good a swimmer." City officials in Moorhead have called for voluntary evacuations for several hun dred families on the city's south side. Source: Associated Press FRIDAY, MARCH 27 Make-A-Wish Basket Raffle and T-Shirt Sale 11 a.m. to 2 p.m Men's Varsity Tennis Match Outdoor Tennis Courts 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. ASB 2009 Reflection Ceremony (Reception) Smith Chapel Living Room 5:15 a.m. to 6:15 p.m LEB Weekly Movie Take a Class Home for the Summer with Online Classes at Clarion University Get a complete schedule at www.clarion.edu/summer For more information: Call 800-672-7171 or e-mail admissions@clarion.edu Clarion Unrversity is an attirmaSive action equal opportrunity employer World and National News In Brief NFL makes rule changes The NFL and the team owners have come up with 11 new rules to take effect in the upcoming season. • Loose balls that could have been the result of a fumble or an incomplete pass are now subject to video review. • Video replay can be used to determine if a loose ball stayed in bounds or hit the sideline. • No more rekicks after an illegal onsides kick. It imme diately becomes the other team's ball. • The draft order has been reworked to reflect playoff results, not regular-season results. • There's a new waiver peri od during the first two weeks of training camp, and the postseason waiver period will begin after the NFL's final game, whether it's the I'ro Bowl or the Super Bowl. • If a fumble or lateral goes out of bounds, the clock will stop only until the referee signals ready for play. • Forming a "wedge" on a kickoff return is no longer legal. If three or more players line up shoulder-to-shoulder within two yards of each other, it will be a penalty. • On onside kicks, the kick ing team can't have more than five players bunched Bedtime Stories in Reed 117 at 10 p.m - SATURDAY, MARCH 28 LEB Weekly Movie Bedtime Stories in Reed 117 at 10 p.m Open House 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m Varsity Baseball Game Outdoor Athletics Facility at 10 p.m. CAMPUS NEWS By Michael 0. Wehrer, mrwso94@psu.edu together. • A blindside block cannot be delivered with a helmet, shoulder or forearm to an opponent's head or neck. That'll be a 15-yard penalty. • Contact to the head of a defenseless receiver will also draw a 15-yard penalty. • A defensive player on the ground may no longer lunge or dive at the quarterback's HArer lees- those regarding the way that players can hit, have gone over well with most experts, but many fans are disgrunt ed, saying that the rules take the contact out of one of the most watched sports in America. Some changes, like the rules against lower leg shots from the ground, are clearly a reaction to events of this past season, which saw Tom Brady go out with a knee injury in the first game. An injury that would keep him out for the rest of the season The hit that leveled him is now illegal. Source: Yahoo Sports UPCOMING EVENTS Varsity Tennis Game Stations of the Cross Outdoor Tennis Courts Smith Chapel at 5 p.m. at 12:15 p.m. SUNDAY, MARCH 29 Varsity Tennis Match Outdoor Tennis Courts at 12:30 a.m. Varsity Softball Game Outdoor Athletics Facility at 6 p.m. TUESDAY, MARCH 31 Financial experts predict end to recession by 2010 Chicago-based Dow Jones Indexes brought together a group of financial experts to assess the impact of the Obama administration's actions thus far. The group judges whether or not the government has been effective in its effort to stem the recession and even tually turn the economy around. that "It is really unprecedent ed in the US to have nearly the entire country in a reces- sion simultaneoulsv." Faucher also claims that the economy will pull out of its recession and at the end of this year, marking a duration of 24 months, which is dou ble the average since World War 11. The unemployment rate is expected to top out at 10 per cent early in 2010 He says that the stimulus passed by the Obama admin stration helped the economy. Source: Yahoo Finance Varsity Softball Outdoor Athletic Facility at 1 p.m Varsity Water Polo Junker Center at 4 p.m WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 LEB Weekly Movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button North Korea readys missile for launch TOKYO North Korea has announced its intention to launch what it calls a corn mercial satellite sometime between April 4-8. Japan, a close neighbor of North Korea, has issued orders to be ready to inter cept any falling debris. Japan has a pacifist consti tution that prevents it from intercepting a missle that is not headed for Japan, but it posses the capability to pro tect itself from any debris falling on it from a missile passing overhead. According to North Korea, the missile's path would take it over Japan, dropping booster stages to the East and West of the island nation. The US military has said that it could most likely shoot down a missle heading for the US if ordered to do so, but North Korea has warned that any such act would be considered an act of war. China, Pyongyang's only neighbor that could be con sidered an ally, has remained low key and out of the spot light, merely saying that it hoped "all relevant parties will remain restrained and calm." Source: Reuters in Reed 117 Varsity Baseball Game at 10 p.m Intramural Events Junker Center 7:30 p.m. TaeKwonDo Club Junker Center Aerobic Room 9 p.m. THURSDAY, APRIL 2 GECAC Talen Search Reed Building 114 at 10 p.m. Friday, March 27, 2009 Obama to send an additional 4,000 troops to Afghanistan WASHINGTON President Obama has announced plans to send an additional 4,000 troops to Afghanistan along with hundreds of civilian specialists in an effort to con front what a senior adminis tration official calls "the cen tral challenge facing [that] country." The president also wants to send $1.5 billion per year for five years to Pakistan, more than triple the current aid going to that country. According to another offi cial "Al Qaeda's central lead ership has been moved from Kandahar, Afghanistan, to a location unknown some where in Pakistan, and in that location they're plotting against the United States. They are working with their friends and partners the Taliban, against American interests." This shows a new strategy in US official policy towards Pakistan, where there has been tension reently regard ing that country's apparently lackluster efforts to combat terrorist activity in their bor der with Afghanistan. Source: CNN Outdoor Athletic Facilites 2:30 p.m. VarsitylWater Polo Junker Center at 4 p.m. Smith Reading Series Smith Chapel 6 p.m. LEB Weekly Movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in Reed 117 at 10 p.m. RION ERSITY SINCE 1667
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