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www.ulmhawkeyeonline.comVOLUME 85 ISSUE 16 February 6, 2012

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE

student success fee

Student harrassed by Comcast worker

Mansfield gets tough battles, still achieves

Author Sparks shares life experience

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P 8

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Chateau, Tony’s, The ‘50s Grillset to close

Band chosen for Spring Fever concert

CAMPUSCOLLAPSE?

Student Support Fee renewal vote

to decide fate of campus systems

illustration by Srdjan Marjanovic and Lane Davis

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Whitney S. Sutherland, 28, of Finks Hideaway Road, Monroe, is coordinator of advisement services at ULM.

Sutherland was arrested Feb. 2 on charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, DWI first offense and speeding.

Louisiana State Police said in a report Suther-land was going 39 mph in a 25 mph zone. Officers pulled Sutherland over and said she appeared to be in-toxicated. Officers reported smelling alcohol and mari-juana when approaching Sutherland.

Sutherland failed multiple field so-briety tests and was subsequently ar-rested.

Officers found a hot pipe that con-tained suspected marijuana inside Sutherland’s car.

Sutherland was transported to the Ouachita Correction Center where a breath-test indicated she was legally in-toxicated.

Yakeen Henderson, 33, of Wilton Drive, Monroe, was arrested early Fri-day morning for simple possession of marijuana, possession of parapherna-lia, illegal carrying of a firearm, open container, and no headlights.

ULMPD re-ported observ-ing a vehicle with no headlights on traveling east-bound on Desiard Street.

Upon pulling Henderson over, officers said they smelled marijua-na coming from the vehicle.

Henderson admitted to previously smoking marijuana in the vehicle and al-lowed officers to search his car.

The search revealed two bags of suspected marijuana, a semi-automatic pistol and a bottle of vodka.

A Comcast employee was fired af-ter a female student complained the worker messaged her on Facebook after installing cable in her dorm.

Sarah Cucullu, a sophomore sec-ondary education major from Wasilla, Alaska, was not in her apartment when they installed the cable box. After she returned to her apartment, she had a Facebook friend request from a stranger. Soon after, she received a mes-sage from the stranger saying he fixed her ca-ble and Internet and thought she was cute.

Since this encounter, Cucullu said she felt par-anoid.

“I made sure to lock my doors,” she said.

Other students have also com-plained about the cable workers.

Logan Ray, a freshman radiolog-ic technology major from Mansfield, Texas, also felt unsafe after an inva-sion of his privacy. Ray was trying to study when he overheard the Com-cast employees talking about Hostess

cupcakes and messing with his food drawer.

Tresea Buckhaults, director of Residential Life, immediately took action upon hearing Cucullu’s testi-mony, and the employee has since been terminated.

“Comcast is responsible for who they hire,” Buckhaults said. “They are not supposed to have any conversa-tions with students.”

The only acceptable conversation is one that involves helping a student who doesn’t understand how to use the new equipment.

“It makes me wonder what they could or have done to other stu-dents,” Ray said. Cases such as these should not be a problem again, but students should never hesitate to report situations where they feel un-comfortable to Residential Life.

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says the highest levels ever of drug-resistant tubercu-losis (TB) have been found in Russia and Moldova.

But the agency didn’t have data from most of Africa and India, where TB rates are much higher. Experts said trends in drug-resistant TB in most countries “are still unclear.”

Experts reported that about 29 percent of new TB patients in parts of Russia were drug-resistant. They also found 65 percent of previously treated patients in Moldova had re-sistance problems.

Normally, less than 5 percent of TB cases are drug-resistant.

YREKA, Calif. (AP) — Investiga-tors in a far Northern California town sought leads Thursday in the theft of large chunks of gold from the coun-ty courthouse’s $3 million historical collection, as residents lamented the loss of an important piece of their cultural heritage.

Thieves smashed a lobby display case and stole the gold from the Sis-kiyou County Courthouse in Yreka, the site of an 1851 Gold Rush.

In addition to searching for the suspects, investigators were trying to figure out how the thieves broke the display case’s supposedly unbreak-able glass and why no alarm alerted authorities to the heist, Giannini said.

Highest level drug-resistant TB in Europe

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A feder-al program that provided temporary housing assistance to nearly 20,000 families displaced by two 2008 hurri-canes has come to an end.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said 3,500 households affected by hurricanes Ike and Gustav were still enrolled in its rental assistance program when it ended Tuesday.

The department said it will provide $28 million to help find permanent housing for residents, most of who live in Texas and south Louisiana.

The program originally was de-signed to last 17 months, but federal officials extended it several times.

Gold nuggets stolen from courthouse

Housing aid ends for Ike, Gustav victims

“I am greater than, less than and

equal to the universe. I’m

greater than it because I hold it in my mind, less than

it because, well that’s obvious, and

I am equal to it because I’m made of the same atoms

as it.” George Carlin,

comedian

“They are not supposed to have any conversations

with students.” Tresea Buckhaults,

Residential Life director

by Hope Barton

contact Hope Barton [email protected]

Cable worker fired after Facebooking female resident

Sutherland

Ray

Henderson

NEWS

WORLD

CRIME

NATION STATE QUOTE

In a display of physical strength, a student all but leaves the ground as a martial arts practice takes place in the Quad.

photo by Amber Dixon

Gravity-defying stunts

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*courtesy of opso.net

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NEWSNEWS

Student Government Association (SGA) Pres. Brooke Dugas painted a bleak picture of ULM. The ULM she described was without the services of the Student Success Center. It had no health center to keep the campus healthy, no Spring Fever, no Nicholas Sparks-like speakers and no student life activities of any kind.

The ULM Dugas described is not the one students know, but it could be the new reality on campus de-pending on the outcome of the spring elections.

Students will vote in April to rein-stitute the $95 Student Success Fee, a fee responsible for paying for most services offered on campus and pays 22 salaries of workers running those facilities.

“If we do not have it, campus life

as we know it will cease to exist,” Du-gas said. “It is absolutely essential we pass it.”

Dugas said the clear choice for the Univer-sity would be to cut services or cut academics should the fee fail.

The fee was first approved three years ago to offset expenses af-ter a severe round of budget cuts. This referendum does not change any-

thing that students haven’t already been paying; it just allows the fee to continue.

“The Student Success Fee is more important now than ever,” Dugas said.

Still, some students may not un-derstand the gravity of the fee and will vote against it, thinking their fees are being raised.

“From what I’ve seen, students don’t like anything to do with fees,” said Ritchie Conley, a communica-tion graduate student from Jefferson City, Mo.

Conley cited last year’s failed refer-endum that tried to alter fees to give

more money to athletics, the art de-partment and SGA as an example of students being leery of fees. Conley said SGA needs to do a better job of promoting the referendums so stu-dents know exactly what they are voting on.

“Most students are not informed and all they see is ‘fee,’ and they say ‘no,’” Conley said.

Corlyn Key, a freshman nursing student from New Iberia, agrees with Conley, saying the school tacks on too many fees that should just be part of tuition.

“A lot of people use the SSC, and it would affect them,” Key said, “but my tuition is already sky high. All these little fees make it look like I’m pay-ing extra.”

Dugas said SGA plans to heavily promote the referendum so students know exactly what the consequences will be if the fee fails.

“It’s in the students’ hands,” Dugas said. “I have faith students will make the right decision.”

“If we do not have it, campus life as we know it will cease to exist.”

Brooke Dugas,

SGA president

The Student Government Associ-ation (SGA) removed nine senators Jan. 27 after the president deemed their appointments unconstitution-al.

Calvin Stafford, SGA secretary, appointed the senators to fill va-cancies left from the fall semester. The appointments were revoked because Stafford did not have the authority to appoint them in the first place, according the SGA Pres. Brooke Dugas.

Stafford notified the nine senators of Dugas’ decision by email saying: “Brooke will be personally selecting the new members of SGA in her own time, and you will be notified if you

are one of the lucky people she has selected to be part of SGA.”

“I did what I was told to do,” said Stafford. “I followed appropriate procedure.”

Stafford would not comment on who told him to appoint the senators, but the SGA governing documents make no mention of any instance when the secretary may ap-point senate members.

The constitution says senate va-cancies will only be filled on the regular voting dates unless quorum is lost. A quorum is the number of senators required to conduct busi-ness, and it had not been lost in this case.

The bylaws mention senate ap-

pointments only once, giving only the president power to select at-large associate senators, who have the ability to debate but not vote.

Dugas said, “The bylaws are very clear. They can’t serve. It’s very re-gretful, but at the end of the day, we have to follow the constitution. It’s my responsibility to make sure we do that.”

Nathan Hall, the SGA advisor, confirmed Dugas’ take on the rules was correct.

Stafford’s email said the nine senators would be offered other opportunities to serve the student body.

The Student Government As-sociation (SGA) recently passed a referendum that, if approved, would raise fees to pay for an outdoor pool in Bayou Park.

The referendum comes after a straw poll vote in December showed students preferred the outdoor pool to the natatorium.

Students will vote on the referen-dum in April.

The new fee would cost students taking four or more hours an addi-tional $65 per semester, a number less than first estimated. The pool’s size has been scaled back 75 percent to make it more cost efficient, ac-cording to SGA adviser Nathan Hall.

The total cost of the pool is expect-ed to be between $10 and $12 million.

Some argue Bayou Park will help in recruiting and give students more things to do on campus. SGA Pres. Brooke Dugas suggested the outdoor

pool may be the way of the future.“Do we want to be at a stand-

still or move forward?” Dugas said. “We’re facing difficult times, but we still want to be competitive with oth-er colleges.”

Critics of the straw poll argue the voter turnout was too low to show how stu-dents really feel, but Dugas said the turnout was actually higher than last year’s fall election.

Another refer-endum institutes a $25 fee to renovate the natatorium into an event venue. If passed, the fee could not be used to renovate the natatorium into a better swimming pool.

Hall and Dugas both said the Uni-versity has no preference to the new plans or keeping the natatorium. They say their only interest is in giv-ing students what they want.

“It would be wrong for us not to put this in their hands,” Dugas said.

Services hanging in the balance

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Unpacking nat, Bayou Park fees

by Cole Avery

by Cole Avery

by Cole Avery

Student Success Fee renewal on ballot for spring election

DID YOU KNOW?The Student Success Fee is a three-year-old fee

that was installed to help offset the costs from bud-get cuts and pays for most campus services.

The new referendum will only extend the $95 fee students have already been paying for the last three years.

Students will vote on the fee in the April election.

photo by Srdjan Marjanovi

SGA Secretary Calvin Stafford (left) and SGA adviser Nathan Hall (right) discuss business during Tuesday’s student government meeting.

SGA removes 9 from office

Students vote in spring on future of outdoor pool, event center

Conley

Dugas

$95Amount students

will continue to pay if the

Student Success Fee passes

“I did what I was told to do. I followed

appropriate procedure.” Calvin Stafford,

SGA secretary

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NEWS

The Chateau, Tony’s and The ‘50s Grill will close their doors this March after nearly 50 years of service. The restaurants were bought by Eddie Hakim, who plans to demolish them to add on to The Atrium Hotel.

“It’s kind of really upsetting,” said Rino Nicholas, a sophomore phar-macy major from Thibodeaux. Nicholas is just one of many students who enjoys the 3 a.m. dinners avail-able at The ‘50s Grill.

“I’m really devastated,” said Ah-

maad Solmone, a senior mass communication major from Ham-mond. “Where am I going to go?”

The restaurants are operated by the Cascio family of Monroe. Victor Cas-cio, owner of The Chateau, said he’s going to miss the long-term friends he’s made over the years.

“My restaurant feels like a living room,” said Cascio. He said it nev-er felt like a restaurant because he thinks of customers as family.

Cascio has entertained all types of guests from Liberace to two Miss Americas at The Chateau

“[My fondest memory] was when Liberace was here. My mother tried on all of his jewels and his mink coat,” Cascio said with a laugh.

The Chateau has been in Mon-

roe since 1964, but the Cascio family have been serving Monroe since 1943 when Cascio’s mother started a little restaurant on Desiard, where he grew up playing in a cardboard box with colored quilts and his books.

Cascio’s fans do have something to look forward to. Cascio’s son and daughter-in-law will be opening a restaurant in West Monroe in the An-

tique Alley area. Cascio, however, is retiring from the restaurant business and won’t be involved with his son’s new venture.

Cascio also had a television show, “Holiday’s with Victor,” that offered decorating advice. He is also a col-umnist for “The News Star.”

Monroe and West Monroe’s Mardi Gras festivities officially kick off Sat-urday, Feb. 11.

The Krewe of Janus 2012 Mardi Gras parade, “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” starts at 6 p.m. on the corner of Natchitoches Street and 8th Street in West Monroe. It will travel up Tren-ton Street and turn right to cross the bridge into Monroe. From there, the parade route will continue down Louis-ville Avenue and eventually end on Breard Street.

“Around 3 p.m., we go to tailgate

and wait for the parade,” said Rob-in Greer, a senior psychology major from West Monroe. “I look forward to it because its one of the biggest par-ties in the Twin Cities.”

Other students like Storm Ridg-way, a senior history major from Start, don’t make special plans to go to the local Mardi Gras parade and may even avoid going all together.

“…I just do not enjoy the crowds

and the baggage that comes with large groups of people acting like a child and showing their ignorance.”

Since 1984, the Krewe of Janus has hosted a themed Mardi Gras parade in the Twin Cities. This year’s pa-rade is ‘50s themed and dressing up in costume is encouraged.

Other events celebrating Mardi Gras on Feb. 11 include a children’s parade at 10:30 a.m. at Pecanland Mall, the PAWS (Progressive Animal Welfare Society) pet parade, which begins at 1:30 p.m. on the corner of Commerce Street and Antique Al-ley in West Monroe and a children’s art project at Masur Museum where children are welcome to drop-in from 2 to 5 p.m.

The presidential election of 2012 is well under way, and many ULM stu-dents say, “Eh...?” This election year has been met with a sense of apathy common among young voters.

“It’s just not what I’m into,” said Natalie Newsom, a sophomore nurs-ing major from Shongaloo.

Newsom isn’t the only one who feels this way about politics. New-som said it didn’t matter what she thought, and one person can’t make a difference anyway.

“What say so do I have?” asked Morgan Todd, a freshman criminal justice major from Rayville, another voice who feels she’ll never be heard.

According to the U.S. Census Bu-reau, voters aged 18-24 have dropped since 1964, with nearly 60 million young people voting in the ‘60s to just under 17 million in 2000.

The “Rock The Vote” project takes on this apathetic generation and has registered nearly 5 million young vot-ers since its founding 21 years ago. While the youth is not a majority, nearly one quarter of the electorate is in the 18-24 age group.

Critics of young people who be-lieve they have no input say to look at the grass roots campaign of Ron Paul. Paul is a candidate for the Republi-can nomination for president, and his campaign is comprised of mostly people in the 18-24 age group.

Young people also impacted the race four years ago, when then-Sen. Obama gathered huge support from the young people in the nation. Four-teen million young people voted for Obama out of the 122 million people who voted in 2008.

The 2008 election marked the largest youth voter turnout for one candidate in the history of the United States. However, that number sharply declined in the 2010 midterm elec-tions with a 60 percent drop among voters aged 18-24.

The drop in number of young vot-ers, which bolstered the Democrats into power in congress in 2008, con-tributed to the Republican takeover in the House. The Democrats didn’t mobilize to capture the young voters, and they paid for it in 2010.

With only three months left until graduation, seniors are beginning to think about life after college. Looking for a job can be frustrating and stress-ful, but CenturyLink may have made their search easier.

CenturyLink, the third largest tele-communications company in the United States, plans to add 800 new jobs by 2016.

Michael Can-ty, an analyst at CenturyLink and a ULM graduate, said, “ C e n t u r y L i n k does enjoy a great relation-ship with ULM, and we hope to continue it in the future.”

Canty encourages graduating stu-dents to look at the CenturyLink website for employment opportuni-ties and internships.

Andrea Fontenot, a senior mass communication student, interned at CenturyLink last semester and said working in the marketing de-partment at CenturyLink was a great experience.

“CenturyLink looks for job appli-cants, who are well-educated and multidimensional,” Fontenot said. “Recent graduates must be willing to put in the hard work that is necessary for the company to grow.”

by Garrett Boyte

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End of Monroe restaurant era

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Centurylinkto add 800 jobs to Monroe area

Young voters lack as many feel they have no influence

Chateau, Tony’s and ‘50s Grill to close in March

Monroe prepares for Mardi Gras

by Rachel Niblett

by Garrett Boyte

by Lauren Creekmore

Fontenot

Ridgway

photo by Robert Brown

Krewe members spend Saturday building floats for the upcoming Mardi Gras parade. Floats will begin running around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

DID YOU KNOW?

This year’s theme is “Shake, Rattle and Roll.” Parade patrons are encouraged to dress in 1950’s style clothes.

“[My fondest memory] was

when Liberace was here.”

Victor Cascio,

restaurant owner


OPINION

The Louisiana Democratic Party has launched a tour to rally support for its cause. For two weeks, Chair-man Buddy Leach will go from town to town to rally support for his party.

Of course, many throughout the state are probably looking at the tour and asking, “Buddy, where was this tour last year?”

It’s a fitting question. Last year’s state elections saw the Republicans further cement themselves as the only legitimate party in Louisiana. The Democrats couldn’t muster a single high-profile candidate to run against Gov. Bobby Jindal. Actually, they had trouble finding someone to run for any statewide office.

Leach claims the Democrats did speak to many constituents last year, but the decision was made by party leaders to spend time and money on the legislative races.

And therein lies the root of the problem with the Louisiana Demo-

cratic Party: no leadership.It’s unimaginable a once-proud

party would simply concede the gov-ernor’s mansion to the Republicans. Not only was that choice a failure of party policy, it was a failure to voters around the state praying the Demo-crats would find someone to point out the many flaws Jindal had.

So how did the tactic to focus on the legislature fair? Leach proudly boasts all incumbent Democrats kept their seats.

Congratulations, Buddy. That means the Senate is still 62 percent Republican. That means the House of Representatives is still 55 percent Re-publican. That means you still have a Republican governor who can sign into law anything the Republican leg-islature passes.

Leach points out during the tour that all of the major cities in Louisi-ana have Democratic mayors. In his mind, the party base just needs to get to the polls during state elections.

That’s a fair argument, if you dis-count the fact that past the mayors’ offices, the Louisiana people are ral-lying behind Republicans.

All statewide offices are Repub-lican, except for U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu. All congressmen, except for the New Orleans congressman, Cedric Richmond, are Republican.

The message needs to change,

and the Democratic Party needs to change if it hopes to survive. Unfor-tunately for Democrats around the state looking to be a factor again, it doesn’t look like your party is going to adjust its message any.

Leach said during his stop in Mon-roe, “The Democratic Party is still the party of helping those who cannot help themselves.” That is likely not a popular message to be spreading in a state as red as Louisiana.

And it may not be such a good idea to be praising Pres. Obama in the way Leach and the Democrats in Louisi-ana are doing.

Consider less than 40 percent of the vote in 2008. A Clarus Research poll conducted in October found his numbers to be even lower this elec-tion.

The Democrats need to get with it. Otherwise, elections between Re-publican A and Republican B will persist year after year. This will create nothing but stagnation in the state.

Voters need a choice. Since we live in a two-party nation, the Democrats have to step up their game and give the voters that choice.

And they need to start conduct-ing their statewide tours in years that matter.

Ever since I can remember, Feb-ruary has always been Black History month. “Lift Every Voice” is usually the song of choice, and the black his-tory parades are put together to help African-Americans remember and be knowledgeable of their history.

If we haven’t noticed by now, the same old black history information

we have been learning since ele-mentary school is constantly used as the go-to facts. From Martin Luther King, Jr. to Madam C.J. Walker, in-formation about their contributions to the nation are embedded into our brains to the point where it kind of seems as though those are the only black figures we know.

People have heard of the Tuskegee Airmen but aren’t fully aware of their story. Most of us are even unaware that on Feb. 3, 2009, Eric Holder, Jr. was the 82nd U.S. Attorney Gener-al and very first African-American to serve as the U.S. Attorney General. Facts such as these are overlooked, but what’s even more overlooked is the black history that has been creat-ed in our very own cities or families.

The amount of history and his-torical figures from the Monroe is absolutely amazing.

For example, Black Panthers founder Huey P. Newton is original-ly from this area. And many locals may not be aware that Carroll High School’s original name was Wis-ner High School, which was later changed to Monroe Colored High School.

When it comes to black history, or any history, we should always know not only of the facts that are popular-ized, but also do some research on our cities and even our families. You will be extremely shocked at what you will find.

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Democrats need to change direction or lose La. forever

Black History more than routine facts; know past

There’s really no way around it: fees just suck. They do. No one wants to pay more money than they feel like they should. Chances are, not many of us have much of it to throw around these days.

But the thing is, sometimes we have to so we can keep the things that make life special.

The Student Success Fee (SSF) is not a way for ULM to nickel and dime you out of your money. The SSF is absolutely vital to this cam-pus. When SGA Pres. Brooke Dugas says, “campus as we know it will change,” if it fails, she’s not exaggerating.

Too many of the services on this campus rely on that fee. The Stu-dent Success Center, the health center, Career Connections and all of the services under Student Life need the fee to survive.

This issue is very simple: Without the fee, those services will cease to exist. Without those services, the University could not provide stu-dents the necessary components vital to life as a college student.

Another alternative is the University closes the budget gap by slashing programs and laying off faculty.

Is $95 really so much to pay to keep the University afloat? Are we so irritated by the idea of paying any sort of fee we will allow ULM to go by the wayside just to make a point?

Some will argue the University should have thought of that before putting so many eggs in the SSF basket. ULM simply didn’t have any choice thanks to the onslaught of cuts and a clear lack of dedication to higher education from the lawmakers in Baton Rouge.

Colleges around the state are dealing with the same cuts and the same fee proposals ULM is also dealing with. Colleges students are at a point we have to fend for ourselves.

We need to come together as a student body right now over this issue. We need to stand up and say, “Yes, we want a campus we can be proud of.”

Otherwise, we need to start looking for alternatives.Yes, fees suck. Yes, we’d all like to keep our money. But what’s more important than any of that is our desire to learn

and grow into successful adults. Keeping the SSF is essential to se-curing that opportunity.

HAWKEYE P.O.V.

Student Success Fee needs to be passed

COLE AVERY

illustration by Kelsey Hargrove

JACKIE JOHNSON


Isn’t it funny how a threat to our web-based lifestyle can bring so much attention back to politics? Many people don’t keep up with the Republican candidates for presi-dent, much less the actions of Congress on passing laws, but when the proposals for SOPA and PIPA started to circulate around the Internet, users throughout the country became aware and took action against them.

Internet users showed, in this case, what they are really concerned with: The integri-ty of their life online. If people could be as involved in other politics, working together to show our representatives what we really think about various topics, then perhaps our country, not just our Internet, could become a more democratic society.

The truth is, the movement towards the SOPA and PIPA bills has only been post-poned until “a wider agreement on a solution” is reached, according to Lamar

Smith, the man who authored the SOPA bill. These bills haven’t been completely

stomped out by any means. Could it be that this “wider agreement”

will take place when voters aren’t looking? Will Congress wait until after the storm has died down and everyone has gone back to the daily grind? Are they hoping people will believe they have won the fight and continue on with life, unconcerned with politics and Congress? This was just one battle in a more political war.

Politics are a tricky business. If we show our complacency, then we really can’t com-plain when things don’t go our way.

Each of us has the hard earned right to vote and voice our opinions to those who run our country. They have the obligation to listen to us as appointed officials.

When it comes to bills like SOPA, PIPA, H.R. 1981, and so many others, wouldn’t it be nice to know that you knew what was go-ing on and could support or object those laws that directly affect you?

This extends to keeping up with local and federal elections. The people elected to of-fice have a direct effect on how our country is run. It’s good to be aware of who is running and know who you do and do not support.

contact Kelsey Hargrove [email protected]

KELSEY HARGROVE


SOPA, PIPA awareness should revive thirst for political knowledge

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At 28 years old, author Nicholas Sparks wrote a story about how his wife’s grandparents met.

This story became known by thou-sands as “The Notebook,” which turned into literary gold, sold to an agency for $1 million in 1996. The book spent 56 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, and in 2004 the movie adaptation was released.

Sparks told the story of “The Note-book”, and many others, Thursday at the ULM Lyceum series, “An Evening with Nicholas Sparks.”

He began by telling the audience how he became a writer. Sparks was 19 years old when he injured his Achilles tendon and was told he couldn’t run track anymore.

“I lost the chance to chase a dream,” Sparks said.

Sparks spent the summer feeling sorry for himself. He moped around the house with nothing to do until one day his mother said out of frus-tration, “Go write a book.”

Sparks wrote his first book that summer, a horror novel in honor of Stephen King. Though the book has never been published, this book made Sparks realize he enjoyed the process of writing.

After graduating from Notre Dame, Sparks had numerous jobs includ-ing waiting tables and selling dental products by phone. He didn’t know

what he wanted to do with his life. Sparks and his wife transferred to

North Carolina where he worked as a pharmaceutical rep. He decided it was time to start writing again and that’s when he wrote “The Notebook.”

He explained how some of his books are based on his family. “Mes-sage in a Bottle” is based on his father’s walk through grief after the death of Sparks’ mother. “A Walk to Remember” is about his sister dying from cancer. “The Rescue” is about his son’s medical problems.

Ahmaad Solmone, a senior mass communication major from Ham-mond, said he hasn’t read any of his books, but will pick one up soon.

“I like how the books have a per-sonal connection to him,” Solmone said.

Only 200 people were given the op-

portunity to have their books signed by Sparks after the speech. Emily Plunkett, a senior mass communica-tion major from Choudrant, was one of the few to get her book signed.

“Sparks is such as amazing author and meeting him was awesome. I can die happy now!” Plunkett said.

Thursday afternoon, Sparks spoke to a master class about the writing process. He told students that he starts each book by picking ages for the characters.

“The age of the characters de-termines the conflict in the story,” Sparks said.

Sparks said the moral of his mes-sage is, “Figure out what you want to be, then learn how to do it.”

The Louisiana Cancer Foundation awarded ULM’s College of Phar-macy with a check for $10,000. This check will go towards further cancer research and buying new research equipment for students and facul-ty. Pres. Bruno; Executive Director of LCF, James Adams; Assistant Di-rector of LCF, Donna Nolan; Paul Sylvester; and several others attend-ed the event.

The Louisiana Cancer Founda-tion is a nonprofit whose services aid in taking on all phases of the can-cer experience and raises awareness about the dangers of cancer. It has donated a total of $67,500 to the Col-lege of Pharmacy for research. LCF is the only organization in Northeast Louisiana that provides free cancer screenings for patients financially unable to afford them.

“Our mission is to support re-search in our state,” said Donna Nolan, the assistant director of LCF. “We are very fortunate to have these great opportunities in our area.”

There are around 400 students cur-

rently in the College of Pharmacy. With this check, there is a possibility that the facility can find a treatment for breast cancer.

The LCF was thrilled to assist in furthering their progress in the study of Tocotrienols, which is rare form of vitamin E that can attack cancer cells in early stages without damag-ing healthy cells.

“This gives us a great flexibility to keep our progress going and is a wonderful opportunity for everyone involved,” said Sylvester, director of graduate studies and research of Col-lege of Pharmacy.

NEWS

Paul Sylvester (left) accepts a check from James Adams of the La. Cancer Foun-dation (middle) while Pres. Nick Bruno (right) looks on.

Above: Nicholas Sparks speaks to a classroom full of people Thursday afternoon about the process of writing a book.

by Emma Herrock

by Sydney Bonner

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Sparks tells his story to packed Civic Center

College of Pharmacy gets $10,000 donation from La. Cancer Foundation

“This gives us great flexibility to keep our progress

going...”Paul Sylvester,

College of Pharmacy


The band for Spring Fever has been chosen… (Insert drum roll)…The Fray is coming to Monroe!

The Fray, who formed in 2002, gained much fame from their sin-gle “Over My Head (Cable Car)” and even more because of their next sin-gle, “How to Save a Life.” Both were off of their debut album. “ T h e Fray is a great band and for many have been a long time favorite! Peo-

ple love their music, and we are excited to see them live in concert,” said Ben Young, CAB (Campus Ac-tivities Board) president and senior marketing major from Rayville.

The Fray’s opening acts are still un-known. CAB will hold a competition in March for local bands to com-pete for the opportunity to open for The Fray. Although the band has just recently been selected to appear dur-ing Spring Fever week, the buzz has already spread through campus.

“As a freshman in college, I’m excit-ed to see a popular band on campus. It’s something that freshmen don’t get to experience in high school,”

said Jessica Simms, a freshman ki-nesiology major from Hillsborough, N.J. However, according to recent Facebook post, it’s obvious not all students are as enthusiastic with the choice of band.

“It’s cool that ULM got such a big name as The Fray to come, but I would have chosen different. I don’t remember being asked who I wanted to come,” said Mark Kerry, a senior biology major from Monroe. “I would have chosen Hinder.” The Fray will hit the stage at 7 p.m. Friday, April 27 at the Monroe Civic Center.

FREESTYLE

Students seem excited about this year’s choice

The popular rock band “The Fray” was chosen to perform at this year’s Spring Fever concert.

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The Fray chosen for spring concert

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“Underworld” fans unite because the latest installment of the “Under-world” saga was made specifically for you. That’s right folks: The dream is still alive and running. We join Se-

lene once again in the heat of battle, but this time with humans. After dis-covering the existence of vampires and werewolves, the humans do what they do best: total eradication.

Twelve years of being a popsicle hasn’t improved the life of vampires much as Selene realizes in this in-stallment.

She wakes up to find 90 percent of her race has been decimated by

a horrible human vs. non-human war. And get this: The werewolves

are secretly masterminding it. The lycan (werewolf) race desperately searches for the vaccine to cure their weakness to silver. Turns out they can get more

done if they pit the human race against their bloodsucking enemies.

The casting was very well select-ed, and the performances were top shelf. Although the theme was a re-petitive one, I was still able to remain conscious. This was owed, of course, to the flawless decoration. The differ-entiation of the dark and brooding world of the non-human and the sharp realism of the human world kept my eyes wide open.

The opulence of the décor, how-ever elaborate, did not disguise the combination science fiction-fantasy specific language of the film. Those who have kept up with the saga can

follow with ease, and those new to the series should acquaint them-selves with the language be-forehand.

The motion picture did manage a

three out of five star rat-ing in my opinion for the

wonderful acting and the beautiful set design.

The film was a great success in many viewers book, and I’m sure

it will be on DVD and Blue Ray in no time.

Last Wednesday, the SUB held its first Coke Freestyle Show. The “Red Carpet Freestyle Event” was thrown to introduce the new Coke freestyle machines and to give students a chance to show off their talents. Al-though the new machines have been in the SUB for a few weeks now, this was the grand opening for the ma-chines.

“Everybody is a star today,” says North Louisiana marketing coor-dinator for ARAMARK, Daniela Smallwood. Smallwood wanted all the students to show their star pow-er by expressing themselves with the

new Coke options, and showing off their unique talents. To get the full star treatment, students took to the red carpet to get their picture taken.

The SUB gave an all day drink pass to the students, and several oth-er prizes were given away to contest winners as well. There was an outfit contest, where the male and fe-male with the best red and white outfit was crowned Mr. and Ms. Freestyle. There was also a Wii dance competition where the best dancer was crowned.

With the release of the new ma-chines, Coke hopes to give students an array of new flavors to go with their classic product. To show off all the new flavors, there was an origi-

nal drink contest. The “mixologist” contest gave students the chance to make their own original drink and win a free drink pass for the semester. There was also a freestyle competi-tion where students were allowed to make their own jingle for the Coke machines. Students took that oppor-tunity to get on the microphone, and show off their freestyle skills.

Food service director Rob-er Hoage believes that events such as these will help bring more people into the SUB and let the students know all the services that the SUB offers. The event definitely brought out crowds to the SUB and helped the new machine get plenty of atten-tion.

With the addition of the new machines, students can make each drink exclusive to

them. The new Coke freestyle ma-chines help students put a new spin on an old classic.

COKE FREESTYLE SHOW

Excitement shoots out for latest “Underworld” installment

UPCOMING EVENTS

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Keynote Speaker- Irwin ThompsonWhen: 7 p.m., MondayWhere: Library seventh Floor Conference RoomInfo: Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize winner and graduate of ULM.

Keynote Speaker- Don HudsonWhen: 7 p.m., ThursdayWhere: Library, seventh floor Conference RoomInfo: Hudson is the Executive Direc-tor of the Decatur Daily.

“Seven”- Performed by Rachel HastingsWhen: 7 p.m., Feb.28 Where: Brown AuditoriumInfo: Hastings performs a poetic journey of the black woman.

by Jarred Keller

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by Justin Hughes

contact Jarred Keller [email protected]

SUB holds grand opening for coke machines

photo by Robert Brown


FREESTYLE

To like or not to like the timeline?

The timeline, which is Face-book’s newest design for their page, is coming with different features for its users.

Some of these are: Incline pri-vacy controls, adding life events and highlighting what matters. To sum up the actions of these three features, they will allow users to show who they are sharing their posts with, allow one to revisit their past posts and allow one to set which post is more important and which is not.

The timeline will soon become mandatory for all Facebook us-ers, according to several sources. An exact date has not been con-

firmed, but according to some sources it could be within the next few days to few weeks.

When it came to asking some of the students around campus about the new-est design there were mixed re-actions.

C h r i s t i -na Matheus, a freshman pre-nursing major from Tampa, Fla. said, “I personally like it.”

When asked why, she said, “I like the way it’s set up and how you can have a cover photo.”

Emily Stratton, a freshman bi-

ology major from West Monroe said, “I don’t like it.”

When asked why, she said, “I liked where you could go and look at people’s pages without having to go through the time-line; it just doesn’t show enough information.”

As for the mandatory action of Facebook, both Matheus and Stratton felt that it should be the choice of the individual wheth-er one wants to switch over to the new timeline feature or not.

From the small screen to the billboard, Glee star, Lea Michele, is the newest spokes woman for Candies shoes. The actress will make her debut as a model appearing in various ads for the Candies’

shoe company. Although the company is remaining tight lipped about their collaboration, according to Eonline.

com, Michele will appear in sever-al ads for the company later this

year. Previous spokeswomen for the company include Vanessa Hudgens, Britney Spears and Jenny McCarthy.

Aceshowbiz.com gives us the scoop on British singer Adele and reports her extended reign on the Billboard Hot 200 for yet anoth-er week. Source says she takes the throne at the album charts now marking her 16th non-consecutive week as No 1. Upon releas-ing her second album entitled “21” on Feb. 22, 2011, Adele has secured 5.82 million cop-ies of her masterpiece. This pop sensation has become an artist who has had an album to spend the most weeks at No. 1 on the weekly rundown since “Titanic” soundtrack. Adele has the sales rolling in from her hot single, “Rolling in the Deep”, racking in 5.81 million copies. One thing is for sure: Adele has worked hard for her crown and isn’t giving up the throne so easily.

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Once again Kim Kardashian and her “marriage” fiasco are back in the news. According to abcnews.go.com, Kim Kardashi-an and mother/manager Kris Jenner allegedly staged a scene for “Kourtney and Kim Take New York.” In a scene that was suppos-edly filmed in Dubai, Kim and Kris talk about the disintegration of Kim’s marriage to Nets basketball player Kris Humphries. Howev-er, photos have surfaced of Kim and Kris wearing the exact same outfits from Dubai, leaving a L.A. studio in December. The photos have lead to speculation that Kim staged the scene due to public backlash from her 72 day marriage.

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The ULM division of music host-ed the Division I Junior High School Honor Band this past Friday and Sat-urday.

The event brought together junior high school students from around the Ouachita parish area and allowed them to showcase their band mem-ber talents.

Students rehearsed at ULM’s band room and Brown Auditorium all Fri-day and then again on Saturday morning.

The honor band concert was held in Brown Auditorium on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

This event is a way to showcase some of the facilities that are pres-ent on campus. It gives students who

may want to attend ULM in the future a look at what life might be like as a music student.

According to Jason Rinehart, assis-tant director of bands, “It’s not really held on campus to recruit students to come to ULM.”

Still, sever-al ULM students who attend-ed honor band in the past said it factored into their decision when thinking about where they wanted to attend college.

James Hodge, freshman music ma-jor from Monroe, said, “It did have an effect on my choice of where to go to college because I was familiar with the facilities that were on campus.”

ULM’s Phi Mu Alpha music frater-nity has been just a colony for about three years, but may soon be able to call themselves an official chapter of the fraternity.

All of the members of the colony will go through an eight to 12 week process in order to finally become a chapter.

According to Chris Pleasant, a colony member and senior music ed-ucation major from West Monroe, the process will include learning all of the information about the fraternity including its ceremonies and ideals.

“We will actually have to learn the ideals about being a chapter and will

actually be able to be a part of the brotherhood,” Pleasant said.

ULM’s big brother chapter, Lou-isiana Tech, will be the chapter in charge of taking ULM’s colony through the pro-cess of becoming a chapter.

Zach Alma-rode, a junior music education major from West Monroe, said, “We will be working out a schedule for Tech’s chapter to come over here one week and us going over there the next to complete the process.”

If everyone in the colony success-fully completes the required process, they will be able to call themselves a chapter by the end of this semester.

by Scott Simoneaux

by Scott Simoneaux

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contact Scott Simoneaux [email protected]

Junior High Honor Band on campus

Fraternity strives to reach official chapter statusConcert showcases

potential Warhawk band talents

Phi Mu Alpha learns ceremonials, ideals of brotherhood

Hodge

Pleasant

Of the seventeen students from the division of art who submitted work, a total of twelve pieces from ten different students were accepted into “Art From the G.U.T.,” an annual juried art exhi-bition hosting works from students of Grambling, ULM and Tech.

The opening reception will be held Friday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Enter-prise Center located at 509 West Ala-bama Ave. in Ruston.

The exhibition will run Feb. 10 through March 8, featuring ULM stu-dents: Rachel Barnes, Kelsey Hargrove, Srdjan Marjanovic, Michelle McDaniel, Leah Norris, Christen Parker, Betsy Put-nam, Stephanie Routzen, Allison Sals-bury, Jonathon Strange.

Ten students admitted into juried art show hosted in Ruston

A photo entitled “Kanon” by Kelsey Hargrove can be seen at the G.U.T.

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In 2007, Jarvis Mansfield joined the track and field team as a walk-on hur-dler.

Since then he has faced many chal-lenges on and off the track, but he never gave up.

Now he is in his senior year com-peting to become indoor conference champion in the 60-meter hurdles for the last time.

“I haven’t been focusing on any-thing else but to win, just go out and put it all on the line,” Mansfield said.

Last season, Mansfield had an in-jured heel, which forced him to red-shirt the indoor season.

His last shot to become champion will be at the Sun Belt Conference in-door track & field championships on Feb. 25 in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He will need to beat his personal best time of 7.5 seconds to do so.

Head coach J.D. Malone said, “He has come a long way, and we would like to see him finish in the top three.

He may have a chance to be confer-ence champion.”

Mansfield said, “If I finish dead last, or first, it is a victory. Consider-ing where I’ve come from, regardless of what happens, I’ve won.”

Mansfield grew up in Northeast Louisiana and he didn’t always have a smooth path to follow.

Running hurdles on the track isn’t the only obstacles he’s had to go over in life. He’s had to overcome person-al issues as well.

“I don’t stop. Sometimes I run through hurdles and it may slow me down, but I don’t stop,” Mansfield said. “When I have a problem, I nev-er gave up or looked to quit, especial-ly when my mom died.”

In 2009 his mother died, leaving the responsibility to care for three young children on Mansfield’s hands. Mansfield said his family insisted for him to quit track to take care of his siblings, but he said no.

Mansfield said, “I’m going to take care of my brothers by finishing school, because in the long run who is going to benefit more.”

Malone said, “He’s worked very hard to overcome the personal is-sues, and he is probably the most driven hurdler I’ve ever coached in terms of getting better on the track.”

Mansfield never was afraid of hard work. He said to take care of his sib-lings he would work about 25 hours per week, while being an athlete.

He said, “It doesn’t seem like it is work when you are thinking about the outcome. It is for them.”

Mansfield said he gets encourage-ment from his fraternity. In the fall of 2011, he joined Iota Phi Theta frater-nity and he said the support he gets from it is “real.”

Mansfield said, “I don’t consider it as a brotherhood. They are my real brothers because that’s how they act towards me.”

ULM athletics are often a frustra-tion to diehard Warhawk fans. There have been a few deep runs into con-ference tournaments and winning streaks, but at the end of the season the teams end up at home on the couch watching the postseason like everyone else. But through all the fu-tility of Indian and Warhawk sports, one thing is for sure. ULM is the un-disputed champion of water sports.

Students often remember the school water ski team which owns 23 national titles, but other aquatic sports have thrived at the University as well.

The wakeboarding and fish-ing team have earned accolades. The wakeboarding team had strong showings at the Collegiate Wake Se-ries Championships and received team of the year honors. Continu-ing the water dominance, the fish-ing team improved to second in the national rankings in 2011 and had members win third place at the 2011 SFA Bucketmouth Invitational.

I suppose the question becomes

how does ULM use its strengths moving forward? Sadly, you can’t play football on water or hit a hom-er with a fishing rod, so those ideas are out. ULM once had a contend-ing swimming and diving team. They were top three in National Indepen-dent Championships twice. I still re-member when I heard swimming and diving were getting the boot in 2005. There was a knock on the door of my cousin’s dorm in the old Mon-roe Hall.

A swimmer walked up to him and said they eliminated the sport. May-be it’s time to resurrect that pro-gram, but if not then perhaps water polo should be added. It would take a while to build the program up, but if the natatorium is still around, then you might as well put it to good use.

Why don’t we freeze that planned Bayou Park pool in the winter and use it as a rink for a new college hock-ey team? It may be frozen, but it’s still water. And with the university’s sto-ried reputation in water sports why not?

Louisianans love to shoot things, and hockey pucks could be the new rage. Of course I’m just kidding and dreaming of what could be through the eyes of a hockey fan, but there are real ideas out there. This univer-sity should capitalize on what it does best, and that’s dominating the com-petition whenever the action shifts from the land to the water.

Mom’s death drives Mansfield to best obstacles on, off track

SPORTS

Athletics best in water; forget about land games

Senior Jarvis Mansfield competes in the 110m hurdles at the ULM Warhawk Classic at Brown Stadium.

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by DeRon Talley

photo by Srdjan Marjanovic

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The water ski team recently recruited two new skiers from Belar-us, making the team even more inter-nationally diverse.

The new skiers, Nikita Papakul and Sergey Bushin, have come to ULM for the opportunity to continue compet-ing in the sport while earning their master’s degrees.

Bushin and Papakul were of-fered to come to ULM, but they had one year of school before earning their de-grees.

Bushin said, “I will say that the most important reason that we didn’t come two years ago was because we wanted to get our degree, to finish that.”

Bushin has a bachelor’s degree in

computer math, and Papakul has a bachelor’s degree in management.

Prior to ULM, Papakul and Bushin cable-skied for Team Belarus, the na-tion’s water ski team. There are only six members on the cable team and six on the boat team.

“Our team is really tough and hard to get on. Most of the guys are expe-rienced and around 28 years old, so we were kind of young compared to

them,” Bushin said.The two competed internationally

with the team for five years, winning several medals.

Papakul was the world champion behind the cable in 2008, and Bushin came in second.

Although they are new to ULM, they’ve already found an obvious dif-ference from their previous college experience.

Papakul said, “We definitely like the campus life.”

Bushin said, “The whole process of education [was] completely different. We have the gyms, we have the swim-ming pools, but you have to pay.”

Papakul said, “Student sports are not very popular in our country. We

watch NCAA and wonder if we can do something close to that in our country,”

Papakul said, “The big influ-ence on our coming here was our team mates from Belarus, Natallia Berdnikava and Aleksey Zharnasek. They are the best skiers in our team, and they just showed us that ULM is [the] place to go.”

Despite being formed three years ago, the bass fishing team has be-come one of the elite fishing pro-grams in the country after earning a second place national ranking in the 2011 Collegiate Bass Fishing Cham-pionships.

The ten-man team is led by fishing duo Nick LaDart (team Vice-Presi-dent) and Brian Eaton who placed fourth in last year’s national champi-onship out of 200 entered teams.

After Paul Clark took over as pres-ident last year, the team competes in 10-15 tournaments a season, which kicks off this spring and lasts into the summer months.

“In fishing it’s all about consisten-cy. It’s easy to win one tournament a year, but our goal is to win every tour-nament we enter,” LaDart said.

The team has higher expectations

for this year’s tournament schedule and is looking to overtake first ranked Stephen F. Austin.

The team has picked up several local sponsors. The team doesn’t receive any funding from ULM,

because it isn’t recognized as a NCAA sport.

LaDart said, “We supply all of our own money through fundraisers and out of our own pockets.” He said, “We should at least receive some support

from the University for the way we have repre-sented ULM this year.”

With additional fund-ing, LaDart said he hopes the team can travel to more tournaments through-out the country, and this is “valuable experience” for such a young team.

LaDart, Eaton duo leads team in championships

Bushin, Papakul joins team to bring more goldby Christopher Boyle

“In fishing it is all about consis-tency. It’s easy to win one tourna-ment a year, but

our goal is to win every tournament

we enter.”fisherman Nick LaDart

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New water ski member Sergey Bushin competes for his national team, Team Belarus.

Brian Eaton celebrates two bass he caught in Lake D’Arbonne last season.

Fishing team ranked 2nd nationally; stalking 1st

Water ski... speaking Belarusian

by Conrad Cable

Papakul

Bushin

SPORTS

photo courtesy: facebook

7With the addition of Bushin and Papakul, the water ski team features athletes from seven different countries.


Several football players are training for the NFL pro day coming up this March. Nate Brown (DB), Troy Evans (DE), Lincston Jones (LB), Antho-ny Montgomery (OT), Darius Prelow (Safety), and Kenneth Dorsey (LB) are training at Ath-letic Republic in Monroe in hopes of catching the eyes of NFL scouts for the 2012 NFL Draft.

“These workouts are intense. They are a big strain on your body, but it’s a great environ-ment, and the other guys push me to workout harder and get better every day,” Evans said.

At the Athletic Republic training facility, the players fo-cus on their speed, agility, and they are training to improve their skills and to build con-sistency in every drill. Their

training is led by ULM graduate Stepfon Williams.

Williams said, “Every day they come in and give all they have, I’m expecting nothing but the best results by the time the pro day arrives.”

Dorsey said, “The training is tough and different from any-thing I’ve ever done before. When I leave here I just want to lie down and go sleep.”

The players said they are

confident they will excel in ev-ery drill by the time March rolls around, and cite the success to the ultimate training they receive by working in small groups of three.

Dorsey said, “Most places train groups in sessions of four or more, and sometimes it’s hard for a trainer to connect on a personal basis with each cli-ent. That’s what sets Athletic Republic apart.”

Evans said, “I feel like ad-versity is a good thing. Some people might be scared of cer-tain things, but I have faith and I know things will happen for the best.”

The pro day provides a chance for these players to ful-fill a lifelong dream of playing in the NFL, but there is always that chance of being over-looked.

Dorsey said, “I feel as though I can bring an NFL team lead-ership, and also relentless play every chance I get.”

Knocking on NFL’s doorFootball seniors get extra help to impress scoutsby Conrad Cable

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Senior Lincston Jones runs on an incline treadmill with the help of trainer Stepfon Williams at the Athletic Republic on Friday.

Senior Troy Evans squats to take a breath after his workout on Friday at the Athletic Republic.

photos by Emi McIntyre

“The training is tough and

different from anything I’ve

ever done before.”

senior Ken Dorsey

SPORTS

MARDI GRASThursday Feb. 16SUB Ballroom 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

COURT AND ROYALTYPRESENTATION 9 p.m.

BUFFET Open till 11 p.m. Music till 1 a.m.CASH BAR PROVIDED

Presented by SGA

Tickets available in the SGA office!

Free !! !(for students and faculty/staff)

Attendee Ticket Pricing Student Guests $5Faculty/staff Guests $10

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