Beacon April 1, 2010 * | www.thebehrendbeacon.com LOCAL NEWS ERIE On Tuesday, George Wands, a senior aide with the Greater Erie Community Action Com mittee, agreed to help the anti graffiti task force in Erie in getting grant money. Wands, who has experience in grant writing, agreed to help the task force after seeing graf fiti along a stretch of West 16th Street. “When I saw that I said.’l have to get involved’,” he said. Wands got his first experi ence in grant writing while working as the general man ager of the Erie Youth Sym phony Orchestra. So far, the task force’s efforts have been funded through donations from individuals and businesses. The leader of the task force, Erie 3rd Ward District Judge Tom Carney, said, “It’s a huge boost. I always said this is a war on graffiti, and we have to take every effort to be as effective as we can.” ERIE 25-year-old Vincent Davis has requested that his case be heard by a judge in a non-jury trial. Davis, who has pleaded guilty twice in the murder of his infant daughter and his family dog, first expressed interest in a trial by jury back in Feb. 2009. Davis was first set to go to trial with Judge William Cunningham presiding, along with a jury. Instead, Cunningham re cused himself from the case due to the fact that he was exposed to too much infor mation in court after presid ing over Davis’s two prior guilty-plea hearings. Davis remains in the Erie County Prison with no bond set. iftffiLCREEK car crash on West 12th street in Millcreek township sent three people to the hos pital on Tuesday. It was reported that Jes sica Anderson of Fairview Township with a 39-year old female passenger turned left at the intersection of West 12th Street and McConnell Avenue, colliding with An drew Foyle of Girard Town ship at 11:15 a.m. Anderson and Foyle were both taken to Hamot Med ical Center for minor in juries, while the woman in Anderson’s car had to be pulled from the wreckage of the vehicle before being taken to Hamot Medical! Center for serious but non-i life-threatening injuries. NATIONAL POLITICS President Barack Obama proposes new oil drilling for U.S. waters President Obama revealed plans on Wednes day to open large areas of the U.S. coastal water in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico for oil and natural gas drilling on Wednesday. Along with opening up U.S. coastal waters to drilling, the plan would also lift the ban on drilling off the Virginia coastline. If a congressional moratorium on oil and gas operations is also lifted, acoording to the pro posal, around two-thirds of oil and gas resources in the eastern Gulf of Mexico would be opened to drilling. The drilling would be nearly 125 miles off the coast of Florida. The secretaries of interior, energy and the Navy, as well as the chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, joined the president as he gave his proposal and re marks regarding the proposal to an audience at the Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility in Maryland. “This is not a decision that I’ve made lightly,” said Obama as he addressed the crowd. “But the bottom line is this. Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs and keep our businesses competitive, we’re going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel even as we ramp up production of new sources of renewable, homegrown energy." Some Republicans, though, believe the presi dent’s proposal is not enough. “It’s long past time for this administration to stop delaying American energy production off all our shores,” said House Minority Leader John 1. South Korea stops search for sailors SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean military halted the search for missing sailors due to high winds on Wednes day. Since last Friday, searchers have been looking for 46 miss ing sailors since the Cheonan, a naval ship, sunk in the Yellow Sea after an unexplained ex plosion on Friday. The South Korean military stated that an explosion in the ECONOMY Health care bill aids college students The major health care reform bill that was passed into law not only helps middle aged adults and seniors, but also young college students. The bill, which also included a student aid reform, is one of the most beneficial legislative victories for young people that has been enacted in the recent years. Young adults, from the ages of 19-29, represent almost a third of the uninsured population. And two-thirds of those unin sured young adults reported in 2007 justi fied that they did not get the medical care they needed because they could not afford the high costs. Most of the health care problems that are related to young adults can be traced back to the low-incomes of more than half of young adults, according to research con ducted for the Commonwealth FUnd. But with the passage of this health care bill, nine million more young adults will be have access to care with the expansion of Medicare, while two million more young adults will be able to stay on their parents’ plans since the cut-off age for family bene fits was extended to the age of 26. Other young adults will be able to afford insurance after benefiting from tax credits, and be no longer denied because of a pre existing condition. Along with the health insurance, young Boehner. ERIC PEIRCE asst, news editor Boehner said that it seemed strange to still re strict drilling in the Pacific Coast and Alaska while gasoline prices are rising and Americans need more jobs. But while some politicians argue for more drilling than listed in the proposal, some believe that this plan should be reconsid ered, and even scrapped. One advocate for the enviroment, Senator Frank Lautenburg, says that the proposal is sending the wrong message to oil and gas drilling companies. “Giving Big Oil more access to our nation’s wa ters is really a ‘Kill, Baby, Kill’ policy,” Lauten burg said. “It threatens to kill jobs, marine life and kill coastal economies that generate billions of dollars. Offshore drilling isn’t the solution to our energy problems, and I will fight this policy and continue to push for 21st century clean-en ergy solutions.” One Democrat, Senator Mark Warner, believes that offshore drilling will actually help the envi roment, saying that, “Moving forward on the mid-Atlantic offshore proposal will provide an opportunity to determine the scope of our re gion’s offshore energy resources, the economic viability of accessing those resources, and the potential impacts on our environmental and na tional security priorities.” Other politicians stressed the economic bene fits of the proposal. “Virginians will benefit from the thousands of jobs that will be created and the economic activ ity and development that will accompany this vital industry’s arrival in the state.” said Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, who backed the pro- World News rear of the ship tore a hole through the hull and caused the ship to sink. So far, 58 of the crew of 104 sailors have been rescueed. President Lee Myung-bak said that an investigation into the cause of the sinking was underway 2. Serbian parliament apollgizes lor massacre BELGRADE, Serbia -- On Wednesday, the Serbian ERIC PEIRCE asst, news editor adults will also benefit academically from the bill. The bill ended the spending of a sub sidy program that put money into banks and institutions for servicing government student loans. This will lead to over $36 billion being in- Local parliament issued an official condemnation of the 1995 mas sacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys. The massacre left over 7,000 Bosnian men and boys dead in Srebrenica after Bosnian Serb troops overran a United Na tions “safe” area. The condemnation also ex pressed the concern of the cap ture of Ratko Mladic, a former Serb-Army commander who was involved in the massacre 3. Americans on CERRiTOS COLLEGE = The health care bill helps college students with both student loans and health insurance. posal with enthusiasm. Obama tried to make the small solution to a growing problem, since the proposal appear as a way to balance the coun- U.S. is only in possession of two percent of the try’s growing energy needs and enviromental world’s oil supply but accounts for over 20 per concerns. He also stressed that this is only a cent of global oil consumption. National News trial in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Five U.S. college students began their trial on Wednesday in Pakistan after being accused of several terrorist-related acts including criminal conspiracy to commit terrorism. Sargodha Police Chief Usman Anwar testified that he has strong evidence against the five, including over 20 wit nesses. The "D.C. 5” as the men are called were arrested back in December after they had been missing for a month from their homes in Virginia. vested into the Pell Grant Program, which provides money for low-income students to attend college, over a period of 10 years. The bill also allows the government to give out loans directly to students, instead of sending loans to banks that came with high interest costs. Offshore oil rigs may start dotting the landscape of the Gulf Coast. BEACON ONLINE The Beacon website, the behrendbeacon.com, is your online source for campus news. Constantly updated with new and breaking news sto ries, the website will feature immediate coverage of events as well as an archive of past articles in the Bea con. 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