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More than a hundred APSU students, faculty and staff plunged into the cold waters of the Foy Center pool on Thursday, Jan. 31, to benefit the SOS Food Pantry in the fourth annual APSU Polar Plunge.

At 3 p.m. the water temperature in the Foy Center pool was 48 degrees and the outside temp was 43 degrees, according to University Recreation but the cold air and water did not stop 135 brave members of the APSU community from jumping in.

An estimated 674 cans of non-perishable food were collected for the SOS Food Pantry on campus for students in need, according to Jason Wills, assistant director of programs.

Not only were participants there to help raise food supplies for the SOS Food Pantry, they were also there for a good time.

“It was a lot more fun than I had expected,” said Sierra White, freshman political science major. “It definitely took my breath away and it was really cold, but I am looking forward to doing

it again next year.”Many participants wore costumes for the plunge. There were

participants dressed in cowboy hats, aerobic outfits, speedo’s and even Care Bear costumes. President Tim Hall did not break tradition and plunged in the pool wearing a suit and tie as he has done the last several years. There were also many APSU nursing students that jumped in wearing their red and white scrubs as well.

Many of the nursing students also broke out in a flash mob dance routine just before the plunge to add some more entertainment to the event.

This year, University Recreation incorporated a team canned food drive into the Polar Plunge. Nineteen teams plunged into the pool and competed to raise the most cans in order to win a private pool party for their groups.

Members of the Tennessee Early Childhood Training Alliance won the group competition, donating 126 cans for the SOS food pantry, according to University Recreation.

For many participants, the anxiety of waiting for the plunge was

the hardest part.“The wait was probably colder than the plunge itself even though

the water is way colder than I am used to,” said Craig Rossiter, sophomore digital media major. “It was a great experience and I recommend everyone to come try it out next year.” TAS

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» By DIONA GARDNERGuest Writer

In the spring of 2013, APSU began offering three-year bachelor’s degrees and “3+1 year Bachelor’s to Master’s” programs.

The three-year Bachelor’s degree is available in several different areas of concentration including art, business, communication arts, computer science, english, health and human performance, history, Mathematics, philosophy, political science, psychology and theatre.

The 3+1 year Bachelor’s to Master’s degrees are available in communication arts, corporate communication, public relations, and business.

APSU offers accelerated degree programs by implementing heavier workloads, as well as utilizing the under used summer session. Course loads during the fall and spring semesters are scheduled anywhere between 16 and 22 credit hours while the summer sessions can be between six and 18 credit hours. Scheduling varies based upon the area of concentration.

Offering the three-year bachelor’s degree allows APSU students to graduate sooner than a four-year degree and spend

less money paying for their degree.Students, traditional and non-

traditional, now have the option to pursue their career cheaper and sooner. Graduating faster will also help cut the amount of debt students accumulate.

In an APSU press release, provost and vice president of academic affairs, Tristan Denley was quoted stating, “At APSU we are committed to finding ways to help our students successfully complete their degrees. Sometimes that means creating new pathways to success. These dozen degree pathways will provide accelerated academic tracks for those wishing to expedite their education. We are also ever watchful of the cost of higher education. The total tuition cost to follow each of these new paths is also less than following a path that takes four or more years.”

Although the workload for the three-year degree is significantly heavier, students have the potential of jumpstart their careers earlier and of saving thousands in debt.

For more information on the Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree completion or the 3+1 Bachelor’s to Master’s program or to view the complete list of degree concentrations available, visit apsu.edu/academics. TAS

» By CHASETON DONAHOE Staff Writer

Desire2Learn recently announced the acquisition of the Degree Compass system from APSU.

Degree Compass is the new course recommendation system available to students on the D2L website. This system was inspired by the predictive result systems of websites such as Netflix, Amazon and Pandora, and was developed by Tristan Denley, provost and vice president of academic affairs.

Using a combination of data to pair students up with courses that are best for them personally, the system attempts to ensure the best academic progress and success for each individual. By utilizing this tool, Desire2Learn aims to be even more effective in providing a personalized learning experience and improving college graduation rates.

“Degree Compass is transforming the higher education student experience,” said D2L CEO and President John Baker in an APSU press release. “Using predictive models to determine ideal curriculum and the quickest path to degree completion, Degree Compass is a game-changer that will help guide students to academic success.”

Degree Compass begins working on a student’s first day of school, monitoring success and giving recommendations accordingly. Degree Compass uses information about each student’s past academic

progress and its own predictive models to determine which courses he or she should take next, based on the appropriate program of study and with respect to the best sequence of courses that program has to offer. It then uses its grade records from thousands of previous students to modify its recommendations so that the user is presented

Left: Particpants jump into the Foy Center pool during the Polar Plunge Thursday, Jan. 31. Top Left: Sophomore business major Brena Andring poses with freshman Lindsey McCoy after taking the plunge. Top Right: Freshman marine biology major Dustin Burney and senior business marketing major Gary Willis warm up after taking a dip in the Foy Center’s pool at Polar Plunge. Bottom Right: Participants rush out of the cold water after the plunge. BRANDON CAUTHEN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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only with courses in which he or she is likely to make the best grades possible.

Research gathered by Complete College America shows that the average student takes 20 more courses than are necessary to fulfill degree requirements.

The Degree Compass provides s t u d e n t s w i t h d e g r e e p a t h recommendations, reducing the time-to-degree with its superior course suggestions and greatly improving each student’s chance of graduating.

Degree Compass has earned national attention in the past six months and also played a vital role in Tennessee’s Completion College Innovation Challenge.

This resulted in a $1 million grant from Complete College America and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to begin implementation of Degree Compass at three other Tennessee campuses, with hopes for even more growth and usage nationwide in the future.

This kind of personalized advice might be very helpful to students at universities all over the country.

Degree Compass is meant to provide radical improvements to the higher education experience, giving each person the best curriculum for them personally based on their academic talents, and vastly improving the probability of success for each individual. TAS

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NEW ORLEANS — A Super Bowl week that had gone so smoothly for the Big Easy suddenly turned bizarre when everyone was watching.

The lights went out on the biggest game of the year.

The outage, blamed on an unspecified “abnormality” in the Superdome’s power system, was an embarrassment for New Orleans, which was hosting its first Super Bowl since 2002 and was eager to show off how it has been rebuilt since Hurricane Katrina.

The Ravens had been cruising along with a 28-6 lead in the game when, without warning, the power to the Superdome suddenly shut down early in the third quarter, plunging parts of the 38-year-old stadium into darkness and leaving TV viewers with no football and no explanation why.

For 34 minutes, the players tried to stay loose,

the fans milled about in darkened corridors, and stadium officials scrambled to figure out what went wrong.

Escalators stopped working and credit-card machines shut down, though auxiliary power kept the playing field and concourses from going totally dark.

Most fans seemed to take the outage in stride, even starting up the wave to pass the time.

“So we had to spend 30 minutes in the dark? That was just more time for fans to refill their drinks,” said Amanda Black of Columbus, Miss.

The problem occurred shortly after Beyonce put on a halftime show that featured extravagant lighting and video effects.

A joint statement from Entergy New Orleans, which provides power to the stadium, and Superdome operator SMG shed some light on the chain of events, although they weren’t sure about the source of the problem. It apparently started at the spot where Entergy feeds power into the

stadium’s lines.“A piece of equipment that is designed to

monitor electrical load sensed an abnormality in the system,” the statement said. “Once the issue was detected, the sensing equipment operated as designed and opened a breaker, causing power to be partially cut to the Superdome in order to isolate the issue. ... Entergy and SMG will continue to investigate the root cause of the abnormality.”

The FBI quickly ruled out terrorism, and the New Orleans Fire Department dismissed reports that a fire might have been the cause.

Finally, the lights came back on throughout the dome and the game resumed.

“Let’s go” referee Jerome Boger barked to the teams.

The Superdome has undergone $336 million in renovations since Katrina ripped its roof in 2005.

Maybe they forgot one of the basics.Joked Doug Cook, a Ravens fan from New

Orleans: “They didn’t pay the light bill.” TAS

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Perspectives

More and more, every day, we hear of v iolent tragedies that have taken place across t h e U . S . Unfortunately most, if not all of them, involve guns. At this stage

in human existence, gun violence is almost inescapable.

No matter how many precautions we take, no matter how much we try to create and enforce new laws, it never seems to be enough.

Now lawmakers and politicians are

turning to more than just gun control acts. They are attempting to look at other problematic sources that may influence individuals to turn to guns and inflict harm on others. They have found that some of the individuals who commit these crimes have some ties to violent media.

According to Tara Palmeri of the New York Post, Adam Lanza, who murdered 27 people, most of them children, “spent hours playing violent video games such as ‘Call of Duty’’.”

Popular games like “God of War,” “Call of Duty,” “Halo” and many others all flagrantly display acts of violence and require it in order to progress further in the game.

Rick Nauert, a senior news editor at PsychCentral.com, claims that there is

growing evidence that violence in video games will “desensitize individuals to real-life violence” and that “exposure to violent video games increases aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, physiological arousal and aggressive behaviors.”

What many have yet to bring into this equation is that almost all of these individuals have a history of mental illness. Adam Lanza had been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. James Eagan Holmes, the mass murderer at a movie theater in Aurora Colorado, is believed to have Dysphoric Mania. Even past serial killers and mass murderers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy had both been diagnosed as sociopaths. These serial killers were without exposure to the violent media we have today.

Without a doubt, these diagnoses point to a deeper problem than just the superficial world of media.

Is it the video games themselves that make people want to commit these crimes? Or is it the exposure to these violent video games that make the mentally ill more likely to commit them?

Violent movies, video games and news stories reach us in some form every day. Unless there is a major change in the media that we watch, the problem that we face cannot be fully fixed. Unfortunately, it would be almost impossible to remove violence from media. Instead, a level of discretion should be taken when allowing people to buy or view this material.

Background checks on an individual’s

mental history should be done before allowing them to buy or watch such material. It would be even better if continuous background checks were done every three to four years in order to maintain a suitable level of safe viewing.

It may seem drastic, but if we are going to change things for the better we have got to look at the very root of the problem and find ways to stymie its growth. We can try to control the tools of destruction all we want, but until we look and care for the users of these tools I don’t think the problem will be resolved.

With perseverance and diligence we can make this world safe and not have to live through the tragedies that have been plaguing us. TAS

R e ce nt l y, p o p s i n g e r B e y o n c é Knowles-Carter sang the national anthem at the presidential inauguration.

Not long after, the internet began to buzz about her lip-syncing the anthem. The idea of a Grammy award- winning artist lip

-syncing the national anthem during the inauguration is disrespectful to some, and with her Super Bowl performance, many were wondering if she would do it again.

“Because she didn’t have time to rehearse with the Marine Band, she decided to use her recording

with the Marine Band,” an unnamed source from the inaugural told CNN News.

Performers have busy schedules; for this reason, it is understandable Beyoncé lip-synced. If she would have done the performance without practicing, she could have gotten on stage and sounded terrible.

“There was no opportunity for Mrs. Knowles-Carter to rehearse with the Marine Band before the inauguration so it was determined that a live performance by the band was ill-advised for such a high-profile event, each piece of music scheduled for performance in the inauguration is pre-recorded for use in case of freezing temperatures, equipment failure or extenuating circumstances,” said a spokeswoman for the Marine Corp Band, Master Sergeant Kristin DuBois to the NY Times.

It would not have been fair to Beyonce or

anyone else behind the performance if there had been a mess-up due to one of these circumstances.

“The weather down there was about 46 or 44 degrees and for most singers that is just not good singing weather,” said former Grammy award- winning artist Aretha Franklin, according to Us Magazine. Franklin is one of many celebrities who stood up for Beyoncé and admitted to lip-syncing the national anthem before herself.

If the “Queen of Soul” can lip-sync the national anthem, surely Beyoncé can do it too.

The fact is, everyone knows they are still great singers, so lip-syncing one time should not affect anyone’s opinion of them as artists.

“Even though Beyoncé got caught lip-syncing, she sings live at most of her performances and she’s still the ultimate entertainer,” said Kerry Marable, sophomore health and human performance major.

With so many people making comments about the situation, it seemed as though the one person everyone wanted to hear a statement from did not make one.

Beyoncé finally made her response during a conference for the Super Bowl, where she sang the national anthem again, except this time was live.

“I am a perfectionist, I’m very proud of my performance,” she said after confirming that she did use a backing track because she had not rehearsed prior to the performance and there were high stakes surrounding the event.

The inauguration should be remembered for way more than just whether or not Beyoncé was lip-syncing.

There are more important things to discuss, like how this presidential term will be different from the last. TAS

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Thursday, Feb. 7

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� 11:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.; HCC Mexican Hot Chocolate; Hispanic Cultural Center

� 4 p.m.; Weight-lifting Contest; Foy Center

� 4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.; HCC Spanish Game Night; MUC 213

Friday, Feb. 8

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For those of you who have ever had an argument over the possibilities of a real zombie apocalypse,

the answers might be right here on campus.Antonio Thompson, associate professor of history,

and his wife Amy Thompson, associate professor of biology, are currently writing a scholarly book on zombies.

“It’s not a fiction book,” Antonio Thompson said in an APSU press release. “Zombies are just a vehicle to push us forward. We’re looking at real life events and disasters that we thought could be world enders, or at least devastating, such as Hurricane Katrina or the 1918 flu epidemic.”

“The Real World implications of a Zombie Apocalypse” is set to be released in the fall of 2013.

The content of the book is driven by two main questions: Is it moral to kill a zombie, and what is the true likelihood of a zombie takeover?

“I know of one parasite that attacks people, and the victim has zombie-like traits,” said APSU student Amber Schmidt. “I think a zombie apocalypse is

possible, but not probable. I don’t want it to occur in my lifetime.”

An APSU news release states the book is “very academic and could be used as a tool for planning for real-life catastrophes.”

R e c e n t l y , o t h e r universities have been using the study of zombies as pop culture phenomenon in order to engage students.

“The zombie books and movies, they really capture what we’re frightened of right now,” said Antonio Thompson according to an APSU press release.

Prior to the Thompsons’ book, many shorter articles have been written on the subject.

In one such HubPages article “The Reality of a Zombie Apocalypse,” holding tight and keeping a low profile are said to be paramount to survival. The article states the best chance of survival is to go north, it said,

“Theory is that in extreme cold, because zombies have no blood flow, and that they would freeze easily, or at the very least, they would be slow in movement.”

Bringing an academic perspective to the issue, the Thompsons’ book will consist of “20 chapters that

examine the zombie a p o c a l y p s e f r o m historical, political, military, neurological a n d b i o l o g i c a l perspectives,” Antonio Thompson told the APSU press. “It will also examine the legal and financial implications of such a disaster.”

Zombie literature as a pop culture phenomenon is on the rise throughout the country, and is beginning to have an impact on the academic world.

In treating the subject with academic professionalism, the Thompsons’ hope is to build more connected relationships with students while studying the real-life implications of disaster training. TAS

Professors Antonio and Amy Thompson are “attacked” by student zombies. Their book discusses realistic implications of a zombie outbreak. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY BETH LIGGETT

Zombie apocalypse,,

It’s not a fiction book. Zombies are just a vehicle to push us forward.”— Antonio Thompson, associate professor of history

Grassroots film ‘The Human Experience’ resonates with students, community» By DENZEL BAXTER

Staff Writer

Thursday, Jan. 31, APSU held a screening of the critically-acclaimed film “The Human Experience” in the Clement Auditorium.

Produced by Grassroots Films, “The Human Experience” is a documentary that tells the story of Jeffrey Azize and his travels as he sets out in search of answers to the question, “What does it mean to be human?”

The screening was sponsored by 12 campus organizations, including the Wilbur N. Daniel African-American Cultural Center, Student Government Association and Disability Services and was free and open to the Clarksville community.

Director Charles Kinnane and producer Michael Campo were also present for the screening and held a question-and-answer session immediately following the showing.

Many students said they were moved and inspired

by the film, and reported identifying with its overall moral message.

“I found this documentary to be a very serendipitous experience,” said Amber Bowens, a freshman theatre major.

Bowens added that we never know what exactly is in store for us, and we have to stay optimistic for the future.

The film is divided into three experiences which take Jeffrey and his friends to New York, Peru, and Ghana. The first experience follows Azize and his brother Clifford to the streets of New York City where the boys live with the homeless for a week in one of the coldest winters in the city.

The boys look for sympathy among their homeless companions, learning how to survive on the streets of New York City. During their second experience, the brothers join a group of surfers from Surf For The Cause, traveling to Peru.

There, they visit a hospital for abandoned children in the Andes Mountains.

Their final experience takes the brothers, along with their friends Michael Campo and Matthew Sanchez, to Africa.

At the time, Michael is on his way to visit a leper colony in Ghana.

On their way to the colony, the boys meet victims of AIDS and their families.

Once they reach the leper colony, they befriend disfigured lepers who have been exiled from their villages.

“The Human Experience” also explore the personal relationship with Jeffrey Azize and his brother and their estranged father, who they had not seen in ten years.

At the end of the film, Jeffrey and Clifford have a surprise meeting with their father and are reunited.

Their father had battled drug and alcohol abuse along with abusing their mother for years, but Jeffrey and Clifford still profess their love and forgiveness towards him.

Thus, despite exhibiting a lot of human suffering, “The Human Experience” ends on a positive note. TAS

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NASHVILLE — Even the members of The Lumineers are puzzled by the success of their song “Ho Hey” and their sudden rise to fame after years on the road. The song has long legs and is not only getting played alongside Nicki Minaj and Maroon 5 on the radio, it’s been ruling Spotify and working its way into popular culture.

A few years ago, singer Wesley Schultz said, hearing The Lumineers’ brand of all-acoustic folk rock on a Top 40 countdown would have been pretty unthinkable. Now his band’s caught up in a wave that could crest at the Grammy Awards, and he says he’s still trying to sort out why.

“I can tell you that when we play live and when we sometimes go out in the audience, the reaction to just playing your instruments without any help, without any amplification or tricks, that surprises people in kind of a funny way because you’d think that most people would assume you could play your instruments and how it would sound,” Schultz

said. “But they’re caught off guard, I think. People are used to things that are overproduced or slick or glossy, and this isn’t any of that.”

It’s been two years since producer Ken Ehrlich and the Grammy Awards reintroduced the world to folk rock, pairing the dazzlingly handsome young bands Mumford & Sons and The Avett Brothers with Bob Dylan for a rocking rendition of “Maggie’s Farm.”

“There was a lot of music I loved that year, but I particularly loved the Avetts and I loved Mumford and I wanted a way to get them on,” Ehrlich said. “But the way I wanted to put them on was to frame them. Again, it goes back to where did they come from? They came from Bob Dylan, you know?”

Flash forward and the London-based Mumford & Sons are platinum-selling artists who draw 10,000 at a pop and are among the six top nominees at the Sunday, Feb. 10 awards show in Los Angeles with six nominations, including album of the year for “Babel.”

The like-minded Lumineers, whose self-titled

album shot to No. 2 last week on the Billboard 200 — 10 months after its release — have two nominations, including a coveted spot on the best new artist list alongside spiritual cousins Alabama Shakes. The Avetts are back in the Americana category. The Civil Wars, Old Crow Medicine Show and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are aboard, too, among others.

Call it folk. Call it roots rock or Americana. Almost anywhere you go these days you can hear the lonesome sound of the banjo — even in Brooklyn, now overcrowded with hipsters turned would-be pickers trying to catch a ride on the wave.

“Every good character in a movie or play is either running toward something or running from something,” Schultz said. “I think it was pretty apparent I was running from New York.”

Unable to focus on music because of the money it took to survive in the city, they fled to Denver where they found cellist Neyla Pekarek on Craigslist. And it couldn’t have worked out better. The scene was thriving and full of contacts who

helped them hit the road and hone their sound.They did not aim for pop stardom in their

songwriting, preferring a raw sound they never figured would lead them down a red carpet. It’s more of a lifestyle choice for many of the acoustic-leaning acts on this year’s list.

“I see it more on a social level,” Old Crow fiddler Ketch Secor said. “I see it as a reaction to Walmart parking lots and Applebee’s, O’Charley’s and country music.”

These sounds have been echoed back at a new generation, one that seems open to sad songs that resonate deeply — like “Ho Hey.” The song has surpassed 70 million global listens on Spotify and incongruously, Schultz said, it’s been showing up as a first-dance song in weddings.

“And that’s not where it came from,” he said. “The feelings that made it come out were not necessarily about finding love, but losing love or missing love. I think that’s what’s interesting about songs. You can come from a dark place, but people see light in there and they can identify different parts of it.” TAS

Folk creeping into pop charts

The Lumineers perform at KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in Los Angeles. Like many folk acts, The Lumineers have been surprised by their recent pop success. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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1987: No smoking rules take effect in

federal buildings.

1971: NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used

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inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the

surface of the moon.

1943: Frank Sinatra made his debut as vocalist on radio’s “Your

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Sports

» By VICENTE GRAYMANStaff Writer

Many APSU students enjoy playing a variety of sports. Although most of the student population does not play for the APSU organized sports teams, there are ways to find a high level of competition, organization and structure with intramural sports.

The leagues offered include basketball, racquetball, outdoor soccer, softball and tennis. The tournaments and individual events offered include table tennis, billiards, badminton, four-on-four flag football and kickball. APSU faculty, staff, alumni, students and patrons who have access to the Foy center are eligible to play.

The basketball and soccer leagues are $30 per team. Softball is $20 per team, four-on-four flag football is $15 per team, kickball is $10 per team and everything else is $5 per person. Fort Campbell campus students must also pay the student access fee that isn’t on Fort Campbell, but is charged on the main campus. To sign up for intramural sports, visit APSU One Stop.

Jonathan Higdon, coordinator of intramural sports, said, “we play a regular season in sports that is designated as a league, and at the end we have playoffs. Our other events such as table tennis and billiards have one day tournaments that are held on either a Friday or Saturday.”

A high degree of competition can be found within the basketball and flag football leagues. Higdon said, “these are the most popular.” For the leagues students can come with their own team and sign up, or they can come by themselves using the free agent system. Using this system, captains view a student’s information then decide their team members based on this information.

The indoor games are played in the Foy, the outdoor events are played at the intramural field, and the billiards tournaments are held at the lobby of the UC. Winners of the tournaments, and playoffs receive championship T-shirts and the rights to claim that they are number one at APSU in their sport.

No matter what sport, from basketball, soccer, football, table tennis, billiards or any of the other intramural sports, this is guaranteed to be exciting. TAS

Intramural sports offer competition, fun for APSU

SCHEDULEUPCOMING SPORTS

SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, FEB. 7Basketball (M) - 7 p.m.versus Tennessee State

FRIDAY, FEB. 8Track and Field- All day

at Spire Invitational

Tennis (W) - 6 p.m.at Chattanooga

Tennis (M) - 6 p.m.at Chattanooga

SATURDAY, FEB. 9Softball 10 a.m.

at East Tennessee

Tennis (M) - 1:30 p.m.versus Alilene Christian

Basketball (W) - 5:15 p.m.versus Tennessee State

Softball - 5:30 p.m.at Army

Tennis (W) - 7 p.m.at Evansville

Basketball (M) - 7: 30 p.m.versus Belmont

SUNDAY, FEB. 10Softball - 9 a.m.

at Furman

Softball - 2 p.m.at Auburn

THURSDAY, FEB. 14Basketball (M) - 7 p.m.

at Eastern Illinois

FRIDAY, FEB. 15Track and Field - All Dayat Ohio State Tune Up

Baseball - 3 p.m.versus Iowa

SATURDAY, FEB. 16Baseball - 1 p.m.

versus Iowa

Softball 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.at Trevecca

Basketball (W) - 2 p.m.at SIU Edwardsville

Basketball (M) - 7 p.m.at SIU Edwardsville

Ravens defeat 49ers in Super Bowl despite power outage» By ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS — For a Super Bowl with so many story lines, this game came up with quite a twist. Try a blackout that turned a blowout into a shootout — capped by a brilliant defensive stand.

The Baltimore Ravens survived a frenzied comeback by the San Francisco 49ers following a 34-minute delay in the third quarter for a power outage Sunday, Feb. 3 night, winning their second championship 34-31. Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco threw three first-half touchdown passes, Jacoby Jones ran back the second-half kickoff a record 108 yards for a score, and star linebacker Ray Lewis’

last play fittingly was part of a defensive effort that saved the victory.

“To me, that was one of the most amazing goal-line stands I’ve ever been a part of in my career,” said Lewis, who announced a month ago he would retire when the Ravens were done playing.

They are done now, with another Vince Lombardi Trophy headed for the display case.

“What better way to do it,” Lewis said, “than on the Super Bowl stage?”

Flacco and the Ravens (14-6) were turning the game into a rout, leading 28-6 when, without even a flicker of warning, several banks of lights and the scoreboards went dark. Players from both sides

stretched and chatted with each other in as bizarre a scene as any Super Bowl has witnessed.

“The bad part was we started talking about it,” said safety Ed Reed, who had the game’s only interception. “That was mentioned. It was like they were trying to kill our momentum.”

After power was restored, the 49ers began playing lights out. San Francisco wasn’t done challenging, and Kaepernick’s 15-yard TD run, the longest for a quarterback in a Super Bowl, made it 31-29. A 2-point conversion pass failed when the Ravens blitzed.

Justin Tucker added a 38-yarder with 4:19 remaining, setting up the frantic finish. TAS

» By KORY GIBBSStaff Writer

The Govs and Lady Govs were in double-header action against Murray State on Saturday, Feb. 2. The Govs were coming into this rivalry game on a five-game losing streak and looking to get a victory over fierce rival, the Murray State Racers. Both the Govs and Lady Govs lost.

In past games, like the meeting these two had in early January, the games always came down to the wire and this game was no different. The Govs came out strong taking a commanding 10-point lead off of turnovers and defensive rebounds. The

Racers caught up with the Govs and took the lead right before the end of the first half.

The first half lived up the hype of a Murray State and APSU match up with a one point difference at halftime. The Racers took over making four of their first six shots and pulling out to a nine-point lead. The Govs pulled back and both teams continued their first half battle and traded baskets and the lead. The game was tied with ten seconds left, and it came down to one shot by Junior Travis Betran that missed hard off the side of the backboard and it sent the game into overtime tied 63-63. The Govs were going into overtime without one of their lead scorers and lead blocker, Chris Horton and

Chris Freeman. The Govs kept hanging around in overtime but, Murray State pulled away to get the win 68-75. The Lady Govs, just coming off their first OVC victory against Jacksonville State on Monday, Jan. 28, had a little momentum and were looking to notch another OVC victory against Murray State. Coach Carrie Daniels, the head coach for the Lady Govs, said that their main focus for this game is “having consistency, confidence and intensity.” Early in the game the Lady Govs exhibited all of those as they came out to grab an early lead against Murray State.

Although Murray managed to climb their way back in it, the Lady Govs were not going to tone

down their aggressive offense and defense. Murray was pulling away late in the first half, but the Lady Govs kept it close at halftime, only down by six. In the second half, the Lady Govs came back and took the lead and after that, both teams were fighting for the lead. The second half was good for the Lady Govs leading scorers Meghan Bussabarger and Leslie Martinez scoring 16 and 11 points in the half. As well as freshman guard Tiasha Gray who had eight points and two assists after not scoring the first half. The Lady Racers made many key free throws that allowed them to separate from the Lady Govs and hand them a loss with a score of 61-65. TAS

Govs, Lady Govs basketball fall to rival The Murray State Racers in double-header

Left: Dimitar Ristovksi returns the ball during his double match on Saturday, Feb.2, with Iago Seffrin against Southern Illinois University. They won the match 8-5. Above: Jasmin Ademovic waits for the ball with his double’s partner Sean Bailey. In their match, they won 8-4. PRINCESS ANDRESS | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

For video of the Saturday, Feb. 2 game, www.theallstate.org

Tennis

» By VICENTE GRAYMANStaff Writer

After a 2012 season that saw the Govs baseball team becoming 40-24 against Division I opponents last year, and coming very close to winning the regionals, one has to wonder what is next for the Govs.

With the depth, superb pitching, commendable defense and the 25 years of experience from head coach Gary McClure it is hard not to envision success for the APSU baseball team. Many of the components that led to the achievements of last year are still intact. Pitcher Casey Delgado had an earned run average of 5.59 last season and made a tremendous impact.

“Our biggest goal is to get back to the regionals and we need to win one”, Delgago said. He also admits that mid-week opponents are very crucial to having a successful season for them.

McClure said he plans to take the talent they have and maximize it as much as possible, getting the best out of players such as pitcher Delgado, middle infielder Reed Harper and catcher P.J. Torres. All the players from the Govs baseball team are trying to contribute positively to achieve team success. The unselfishness, team-first attitude and the will to win is further noted by second basemen Jordan Hankins. “We came very close to winning the regionals the last few years, and we have the tools to do it this year. We’re not

going to stop until we reach those goals,” Hawkins said. It should be interesting to see how the Govs take the experience they have gained from going so far into the postseason last year and use it as a stepping stone this year. The season starts with them facing the University of Iowa Friday, Feb. 15.

On the opposite side, the Lady Govs softball team has high hopes of getting into the postseason. They have a new coaching staff and a group of young talented players who have not been to the postseason yet. Junior pitcher Lauren deCastro has goals of getting more strikeouts, more ground balls and not giving out as many walks in previous seasons.

Coach Stephanie Paris and the Lady Govs have their goals set at making it into the OVC tournament.

Paris said she believes their strengths are that they are decent in the circle, but admits they have faced struggles with their hitting through the history of the team.

With players such as senior Morgan Brewer, junior deCastro, and junior Taylor Mills, the Lady Govs will have to see if they can turn their offensive troubles around this year. “The coaching staff is building them up as one unit instead of individuals, and it will be hard for people to play them … it will not be the old APSU that everyone knew”, said Jessica Ryan. They open their season on Saturday, Feb. 9, against East Tennessee State, and hope to turn things around this year. TAS

Bat Govs, Lady Govs hopeful for season