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Filename: A3-MAIN-AJCD0909-5Star created: Sep 9 2005 Username: SPEED2 AJCD0909-5STR Friday, Sep 09, 2005 MAIN 3 A 5STR 3 A 3 A 5 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday, Sept. 9, 2005 A3 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 5STR Filename: A3-MAIN-AJCD0909-5Star Brigham Young earns in tness By JENNIFER DOBNER Associated Press Provo, Utah On annual lists of college campuses, Brigham Young University may be best known for ranking near the bottom when it comes to party schools. But now the university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a new distinction: college campus. The ranking comes courtesy of Fitness magazine, which went in search of the test and fattest schools. Working with the Princeton Review, Fitness surveyed more than 10,000 university students from 660 campuses and released its rankings in its October issue, which hit newsstands this week.

BYU graduate student Jeff Dixon, 26, who lifts weights about four times a week, said regular workouts do more than just whittle his middle. It also helps in mental games. I feel good, it helps me have a crisp, sharp he said. He also thinks the early marriages of most Mormons play a role. of us get married in college, so maybe we do it just for the opposite The survey asked if students had gained weight during college, if they worked out regularly and what types of campus facilities or services supported or discouraged healthy habits.

Along with BYU at the top of the list are the University of California, Santa Barbara; Boston University; the University of Vermont; and Northwestern University. Topping the list of the fattest schools: the University of Louisiana, Lafayette; the University of New Orleans; Mississippi State University; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; and Portland State University. Although the survey Fitness Editor in Chief Neal Boulton believes it paints a of campus environments that can be instructive for their chubbier counterparts. Schools with the highest rankings provided healthy meal programs, good access to education and facilities including trainers and rehabilitation support for injury recovery and high campus safety rates. Most also mandated at least some physical education courses.

School tops U.S. rankings Eatery that share space with ghosts sued ASSOCIATED PRESS Orlando, Fla. The landlords of an Orlando entertainment complex are suing two restaurateurs for refusing to move into a building under renovation because they claim it is haunted. Subcontractors working there and others have reported seeing ghosts or apparitions, said Lynn Franklin, attorney for the restaurant owners. very Franklin said Thursday.

lot of people are corroborating having seen incidents in this The $2.6 million suit, last month by the owners of Church Street Station, says an exorcism was refused. asked them if these were good ghosts or bad ghosts, and if they were good ghosts why it was a said David Simmons, an attorney representing the owners. Christopher and Yoko Chung, the owners of Amura Japanese Restaurant, had planned to move in last October but backed out of the lease. Franklin said Christopher religious beliefs as a Witness required him to encountering or having any association with spirits or and Chung also objected to the offer of an exorcism because it is a Roman Catholic rite not accepted by his faith. The lawsuit asks a judge to decide whether the building is haunted and, if so, whether the ghosts would interfere with the business.

Renovations have stopped, and the building remains empty. Ophelia intensi es; Florida keeps watch By TRAVIS REED Associated Press New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Tropical Storm Ophelia strengthened into a hurricane as it stalled 70 miles off the northeast Florida coast Thursday, churning waves that eroded beaches and drenching the Kennedy Space Center. Thursday night, Ophelia had top sustained winds of 75 mph, just over the hurricane threshold, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said. But forecasters said it was still unclear where Ophelia was headed.

If it hits Florida, it would become the third hurricane to strike the state this year and the seventh in the last 13 months. Downpours from earlier storms had caused in Flagler County, raising anxiety levels about the effect of more rain. Authorities shut down a mile-long stretch of beachfront road in Flagler Beach so workers could shore it up. storm is eating up our said Carl Laundrie, communications manager for Flagler County. As a precaution, 14 Navy ships at Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville headed to sea.

Two shelters in Flagler County were readied just in case. Neighboring Volusia County opened three shelters, but later closed them because just 12 people showed up. know from last year these storms can do an about- face. We are not out of the woods unless this storm moves well away from said Dave Byron, spokesman for Volusia County. Volusia County schools were closed Hurricane specialist Jack Beven said Ophelia should start moving north or northeast away from land within a day or so.

However, it could curl back early next week and slam North Florida or Georgia as a Category 1 hurricane. Storm warnings or watches were posted for east coast from Sebastian Inlet to Fernandina Beach. Rhonda Long, working at the Thunderbird Beach Motel in Daytona Beach, said after Ophelia strengthened that she was nervous but boarded up. course in the back of my mind she said. Katrina.

JIM TILLER Daytona Beach News-Journal Department of Transportation trucks dump large rocks into a washout along Fla. A1A in Flagler Beach, on Thursday. Authorities shut down the mile-long stretch of beachfront road so workers could shore it up in anticipation of Hurricane landfall. at NASA also were keeping an eye on Ophelia. Last summer, the space launch and landing site took the brunt of three hurricanes, which punched big holes in the massive building where shuttles are attached to their booster rockets and fuel tanks.

Ophelia is the seventh hurricane of the Atlantic season, which began June 1 and ends Nov. 30. Hurricanes Nate and Maria were churning elsewhere in the Atlantic, but neither was considered a threat to the United States. tropical storm warning was canceled. IN SECTION Charismatic Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymo- shenko (above) is amid corruption charges.

C1 The new guardian of the United image overseas says looting after Hurricane Katrina is a black eye. C1 U.S. and Iraqi forces raid an insurgent stronghold and arrest 200 suspected militants. C2 Associated Press FLA. GA S.C.

CUBA 11 p.m. Thursda BAHAMA KGG KGG Hurricane Ophelia Fraternity barred as alcohol infraction echoes death By MONTE WHALEY and JENNIFER BROWN Denver Post Fort Collins, Colo. Colorado State University severed ties with one fraternity and penalized seven other Greek organizations Thursday because of a dawn drinking rite held before classes. School and students said the Sept. 1 incident marking the end of sorority recruiting could not have come at a worse time for the university, which is working to clean up its alcohol-soaked image.

The incident is a violation of said director of Greek life, Mark Koepsell, in an e-mail to Greek chapter presidents. was strongly reminded today that the Greeks at CSU will not survive another negative The moves come while CSU and its fraternities and sorori ties are launching several reforms in the wake of last death of 19-year-old sophomore Samantha Spady, a victim of alcohol poisoning. Her body was found at the Sigma Pi fraternity house Sept. 5, 2004. Her death sparked several changes aimed at quieting the drinking culture at CSU, including the banning of alcohol in all 17 Greek houses.

That rule was broken about 5 a.m. Sept. 1 when sorority and fraternity members drank alcohol at several fraternity houses and private homes to celebrate the end of sorority recruiting during a and ritual, said. The drinking came to light because of noise complaints from neighbors and from some Greeks who objected to the activity, said Anne Hudgens, director of campus life at CSU. As a result, Pi Kappa Alpha was stripped of its student organization status.

The fraternity loses all privileges at CSU. It was punished most severely because of a pattern of problems, Hudgens said. Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and two sororities, Chi Omega and Delta Delta Delta, were sus pended from engaging in any Greek-related activities for one academic year. Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and three sororities Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi and Gamma Phi Beta were put on social probation for one academic year and hold parties or formals. Nichole Borman and Elizabeth Reider, sophomores who participated in and last year, called it a long-standing tradition.

wake up at 5, and we just go out and drink and go to classes Reider explained. Borman said it was a coincidence that the event happened near the anniversary of death. would never drink to remember Samantha Borman said. all took very Still, and students Thursday were disappointed that the messages put out by CSU and the Greeks in the aftermath of death had not made an impression on some students. certainly is a said student body President Courtney Healey.

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