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MARCH 19, 2014 ISSUE NO. 24 VOL. 50WWW.THEGUARDIANONLINE.COM

Wright LifeRainbow Alliance hosts photo shoot for marriage equalityPg 8.

I’m dumb (and so can you!)Pg 4.

City of Dayton releases new smartphone appPg 3.

Opinion SportsNews PhotoWomen’s Tennis: Momentum builds into conference playPg 9.

What do they make?Pg 6.

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Leaving for LexingtonRaiders matchup with Wildcats in first round of NCAA TourneyAndrew SmithSports [email protected]

High above the Nutter Cen-ter floor, in front of a

throng of media members, the Wright State women’s basketball team crammed into the Fricker’s Deck, pacing anxiously and wait-ing to learn who and where they would be playing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

After several minutes and nu-merous commercial breaks, it was revealed – Lexington, KY for a matchup with the Kentucky Wildcats.

The 14-seeded Raiders will play the 3-seeded Wildcats in the Lexington Regional Saturday at Memorial Coliseum at 11 a.m. The game will be broadcasted on ESPN2.

“It’s exciting. [When] we go down to Lexington, it’s close, our fans are able to go, friends and family are able to go. Hope-

fully we’ll be up to the challenge,” Raiders head coach Mike Brad-bury said.

WSU punched its dance ticket Sunday with an 88-69 win over Green Bay in the Horizon League Championship that saw the Raid-ers overcome a 10-point second half deficit.

It was the first win for WSU at the Kress Events Center in the last 28 games. The victory also clinched the Raiders’ first-ever Horizon League Championship.

The Wildcats narrowly lost to Tennessee, 71-70, in the SEC Championship on March 9. Eight teams from the SEC qualified for the tournament, with two teams receiving No.1 seeds.

Though the Raiders will enter Saturday’s first round contest as the underdog, Bradbury does not expect UK to take his team lightly.

“Kentucky is going to know a

Photo by Justin Boggs: Sports Writer

The Raiders celebrated the team’s first NCAA Tournament selection in program history when the field of 64 teams was unveiled Monday night on ESPN.

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Student Opinions on Ukraine:

Five things you should know about the conflict in Ukraine

Jawad AhmedContributing [email protected]

Benjamin VirnstonNews [email protected]

It’s happening halfway around the world. Why

should you care? Will there be any impact on those of us living in the U.S.? Wright State Politi-cal Science professor and expert on the former Soviet Union, Liam Anderson, puts the issue in context.

1. We are involved whether we like it or not.

We should follow the events unfolding in Ukraine because the situation could escalate un-less we are careful, according to

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City of Dayton releases new smartphone app

Named “Dayton Delivers,” the new app was concep-

tualized as a customer service tool that will help connect citi-zens of Dayton with city govern-ment services and local infor-mation.

The app is available for free through the App Store for iPhone users, and the Google Playstore for Android users, according to the City of Dayton website. Dayton Delivers is not yet supported for Kindle and some other tablet users; how-ever, a desktop version is avail-able.

In a press release on Wednes-day, Acting Manager of Dayton’s Office of Public Affairs Bryan Taulbee described some of the “customer services” the app provides.

“Dayton residents and busi-nesses can now more easily and

quickly report problems such as potholes, graffiti, streetlight outages and more,” Taulbee wrote. “Dayton Delivers also allows customers to order bins for recycling, schedule bulky waste pickup, report vacant lot problems, low water pressure and other issues to the City.”

Reported issues are viewable by anyone using the app. The hundreds of issues already re-ported range from fallen trees, to neighbor complaints, to squatters in abandoned homes, to road kill. Users have the op-tion to include pictures with their reports, and the reported issues are plotted on a map of Dayton, giving city civil servants enough information to address the issues, if needed.

In addition to reporting Pub-lic Works and Water/Sewer is-sues, app users have access to an events calendar and dining and entertainment opportuni-ties in Dayton, according to the

press release.Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley

expressed her support for the new app.

“The City of Dayton is always working to make it easier for citizens to interact with City Hall, including additional op-tions to complete customer service and information func-tions online,” Whaley said. “The convenience of Dayton Delivers is a small way of improving the quality of life and ease of doing business in our community.”

Dayton Delivers was devel-oped in collaboration with PublicStuff, a company that provides customer service tech-nologies to various government entities. PublicStuff was found-ed with a keen commitment to re-energizing civic engagement and connecting citizens more closely to their local govern-ments, according to their web-site.

Anderson.“The US has global inter-

ests, which include providing security guarantees to many countries,” Anderson wrote. “Regardless of whether the US wants to be involved in some-thing like this, it is involved al-most by definition.”

2. Escalation of the conflict could lead to war.

“Ukraine has a presidential election coming in May. The candidates are likely to stoke up the anti-Russian rhetoric in order to win votes, and as this happens, Ukraine’s Russian population (in the east of the

country) will feel less and less secure,” Anderson wrote. “This might provide an opportunity for Russian intervention into Ukraine proper.”

3. If Russia annexes Crimea, post-Cold War tensions could be reignited between the U.S. and Russia.

“After the Cold War, the in-formal deal between the US and Russia was not to expand NATO eastwards. By going into Crimea, Russia is putting down a marker that they are not pre-pared just to lay down and ac-cept the further expansion of NATO to include Ukraine,” An-

derson wrote. “Western powers will bluster a lot and talk about violations of international law ... but there is not much the U.S. can do militarily because Russia has thousands of nukes pointed at the U.S. so if things escalate, it may get very nasty.”

4. Russia is not necessarily the aggressor in this situation.

“The standard media nar-rative is that this is an unpro-voked act of aggression by Rus-sia (Putin),” Anderson wrote. “In fact, Crimea only became part of Ukraine in 1954 (it was given to Ukraine by Russia), most Crimeans are Russians

“It is not good to be fighting there with all the people there who do not have a say in the fighting. It should be more talking be-tween the governments rather that fight-ing or invading.”

- Josh Weaver

“I am not very well informed on the issue. It seems that a big problem that stems from a lot of animosity from Ukraine/Russian people.”

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and/or Russian speaking and want to join with Russia.”

5. Don’t believe everything you read.

The most important thing you should keep in mind about the conflict in Ukraine is not to trust entirely the media’s por-trayal of it, according to Ander-son.

“It is more complicated than the media is suggesting,” An-derson wrote. “Stories of this type are never purely black and white.”

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OPINION

Dear Mandy,

I have developed a crush on my best friend. She and I have been friends for over 7 years and I’ve never been closer to anyone in my life. I hesitate to act on these feelings because I don’t want things to become awkward or fall permanently into the “friend zone.” What do I do?

-Crazy in Love

Disclaimer: Ask Mandy is satirical and intended for humorous purposes. The views and opinions reflected are

those of Mandy, not The Guardian as an organization.

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Brandon BerryContributing [email protected]

I’m Dumb (And So Can You!)

“I Can’t Even!” Yes, you can.

Crazy in Love,

You’ve been friends with her for years, so you can imagine that when you tell her this, she’s going to question everything.

When you went to Kings Island two years ago and you rode the rollercoasters with her, was it because you were just two kids palling around the amusement park or was it because you wanted to have an excuse to squish your entire body up against hers?

When you hugged her after her last break-up, did you actually care to give her comfort or was it just be-cause you wanted to be her rebound?

These are questions she’s going to ask! You know, along with every other moment that we can’t put in the paper: like, every moment that you hugged, were you really just feeling her up?

These are things you need to consider when you tell her about your feelings for her.

Your friends might be telling you to take a leap of faith, but I think you need to keep your feet planted firmly on the ground.

After all, I don’t think you’re standing in such a bad place.

Love,

Mandy

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I knew I was stupid, but didn’t realize the severity of

my stupidity until my recent trip to New York City.

It was the first time I had been there and was, in fact, the first time I took flight. If you have never been on an airbus before (technically called that; I’m not making a joke here), it is a very nerve-racking experience to say the least. Many things swim through our liquid filled minds before the plane even takes off; most of the time when we’re still in the terminal. This is the se-quence of events I experienced prior to boarding: 1) Palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy 2) Vomit on sweater al-ready 3) Mom’s spaghetti.

When the flight attendant calls your zone number located conveniently on your ticket, heart beats stop in their tracks (the coronary ones). The sweat, your hot body produces, chills, stings to the touch and your hairs stand up on end. Okay, none of this really happens. You just get on the plane and hope you don’t die in a blazing fireball of death.

When I finally boarded, I passed the other passengers by

I think everyone has forgot-ten simple sentence struc-

ture.Let’s break it down. A sen-

tence has a subject and a predi-cate (or action). It’s that simple.

“I can’t even” is not a sentence.Neither is “Can’t,” “Must,” or

“Dying.” Those are words. I’m sure I can speak for the

English majors and the like when I say that this is becoming an increasingly annoying fad. It makes people sound like they were sick for the entirety of el-ementary school.

It’s really not that hard to add something at the end of those words to make a complete thought. And I feel that in many instances, what is actually being discussed is not nearly awesome

and viewed them as the charac-ters from Final Destination (you know, the one where everybody dies on a plane?) as I headed towards my seat. Not only that, I viewed everyone as the char-acters of Lost, thinking to my-self, “I’m gonna get to know you guys really well after we go down and survive on an island like those other Lord of the Flies posers.” I swear to you I saw a handsome doctor and a guy that looked like he was named after a philosopher known for only one thing.

Anyway, I got to my seat and the guy next to me was already asleep. His butt was aimed to-wards me. Now I’m not a reli-gious man, but holy hell did I pray that I didn’t need to use an oxygen mask.

After about fifteen minutes of boredom (get it?), we took off. My ears popped and I had no gum. My sinuses got going and I felt like total crap. I gazed out the window but really only clouds happened. The fright-fulness that was bottled inside never did show and eventu-ally subsided. After the rough and turbulence-filled decent, we landed and exited the plane alive. Kind of upset I didn’t be-come a statistic but it’s what-ever.

We got our bags from the

claiming station and went out the first of many revolving doors. Here’s the part where I got stupid.

A short, yet nicely-dressed, Arabian man came up to me and asked if I wanted a taxi. Of course I wanted a taxi! Gotta have the NY experience, right? Wrong; so so wrong. He led me and some others toward a slick black car and said, “Get in” in the sternest of voices. I truly believed, in that moment, that I was going to die. We left our lug-gage on the curb and he packed it into the trunk for us. Well, at least he was one of those nice murderers.

I got in, like he said, and sat on the comfiest leather seat possible and thought, “mmm, oh yeah, I could get used to this. Hey, hey, driver; how much does this cost?” He mumbled a little bit. “What?” And no joke, he stated, “$65 plus toll.” “Al-right I’m getting out.” He shut the door and there was no es-cape. Me and three others were trapped in the car until we reached our destination. This was no taxi; this was a limo.

Within ten minutes of arriv-ing in the Big Apple, we had al-ready fallen off the turnip truck. We must have had “sucker” written on our foreheads.

Correction on my last article: my Twitter handle was changed (foolishly the day of the publication) to @BrandonTBerry. Not that anyone was going to follow me anyway. Read on.

or dramatic enough to warrant feigned speechlessness.

I get it, and I‘m not blame-less. When Leo lost out on the Oscars this year, I was saying “I can’t even!” followed by a string of very vulgar words that were only interrupted by chugs of wine.

When my friend sent me a link to a news report of a woman stabbing her husband with a squirrel lawn ornament because he didn’t come home with beer, I replied “Dying!” as I laughed into my cereal.

Then I got ahold of myself, remembered that I was an intel-ligent woman, and I articulated my thoughts.

“I can’t (bleep) believe Leo didn’t get a (bleeping) Oscar over that (bleep) in Sahara. This is a (bleepbleepbleep) outrage.” “I can’t believe that woman used

a squirrel lawn ornament. I think a standard garden gnome would have sufficed!”

The same thing occurs with using the word “Literally.” Un-less you’re Chris Traeger from Parks and Rec, you probably don’t mean you are literally go-ing to die if you don’t get a cup-cake or Beyoncé’s new album.

Maybe it’s not as big a deal as I make it out to be. Perhaps it’s just the way our language and method of expression is headed. We went from shortening words like “whatever” to “whatevs” and “probably” to “probs.” Now we are shortening sentences, and next will be paragraphs and entire papers.

Maybe this is the beginnings of telepathic communication.

Can you even!?


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Dylan DohnerNews [email protected]

“I Can’t Even!” Yes, you can.

Students’ academic pro-gression is being more eas-

ily monitored with the Student Success Platform (SSP), a sys-tem designed for fast and fluid academic conversation between students and their advisors.

“The goal is to allow advisors to proactively reach out to stu-dents rather than waiting until the student reports a concern or, potentially, withdraws from college altogether,” said Student Success Collaborative Liaison Linda Hockaday.

The SSP is a web-based pro-gram designed by the Educa-tional Advisory Board (EAB), and it is currently used by around 60 WSU advisors and 90+ colleges and universities nationwide.

It gives advisors a snapshot of the student’s academic progress in areas that could impact a stu-dent’s class progression and/or degree completion if not ad-

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Color-coded academic advising platforms aim to reach out pro-actively to students

dressed. Financial aid eligibility could also be affected.

The snapshot screen includes up-to-date information on cu-mulative GPA, D and F grades, withdrawals, GPA over time, credit accumulation over time and credit completion rates. These are monitored by stop-light-themed color indicators that change when certain pre-requisites and criteria are found unsatisfactory to advancing.

“If there doesn’t appear to be any cause for concern, the student has a green code,” ex-plained Hockaday. “The student will have a yellow code if he/she has a small number of concern areas, and if there are several areas of concern that are likely to impact his/her academic pro-gression, they will have a red code.”

It should be noted that these indicators do not tell whether a student will or will not gradu-ate. It means that there are some areas of concern of which advisors should be aware and

consider discussing with the student.

As of now, students don’t have direct access to the Student Suc-cess Platform page. The EAB is developing a student interface that will be a v a i l a b l e via WINGS, WINGS Ex-press and even tablet or phone appli-cations.

A similar application, the Course Signals proj-ect, is being built in tan-dem with the SSP. It is an early in-t e r v e n t i o n system that warns stu-dents if they are under-performing in a course,

using similar color-coding fea-tures to give a visual cue. This should be up and running by the Fall 2014 semester.

Assistant Dean of University College Tim Littell said, “With

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Charlotte HarrisAssociate Professor/Dean, CEHS

$175,099.32

Joanne LiProfessor/Dean, RSCOB

$230,625.00

Nathan KlingbeilProfessor/Dean, CECS

$173,400.00

Rosalie MainousProfessor/Dean, CONH

$197,373.75

Yi LiProfessor/Dean, COSM

$204,867.00

ENGLISH

Richard H. BullockProfessor of English and

Director of Writing Programs$119,279.66

Jimmy ChesireSenior Lecturer in English

$53,730.00

Erin FlanaganAssociate Professor of English

$68,378.78

James R. GuthrieProfessor of English

$88,147.12

Kathleen KollmanInstructor of English;

Advisor, College of Liberal Arts$53,368.00

MATHEMATICS

Kimberly KinatederAssociate Professor of

Mathematics and Statistics$86,770.44

Linda K. LesterLecturer of Mathematics

and Statistics$56,364.97

Steen PedersenProfessor of Mathematics

and Statistics$87,958.59

SOCIOLOGY

Marlese DurrProfessor of Sociology

$87,009.14

Gaetano GuzzoInstructor of Sociology

$43,665.00

Azadeh JahanbeglooLecturer of Sociology

$44,302.20

Chigon KimAssociate Professor

of Sociology$69,568.49

HISTORYEdward F. Haas

Professor of History$103,764.16

Noeleen McIlvennaAssociate Professor ofHistory and Education

$103,764.16

Sean PollockAssistant Professor

of History$56,892.07

FINANCE

Burhan KawosaInstructor of Finance

$76,000.00

Robert J. SweeneyExecutive Vice President

for Planning; Secretary, Boardof Trustees; and Professor of

Finance$191,824.85

Carol WangAssistant Professor

of Finance$132,034.33

NURSING

Lynne KelleyClinical Assitant Professor

of Nursing$58,589.16

Kristine ScordoProfessor of Nursing

$111,609.40

Donna C. ZengelClinical Instructor of

Nursing$51,894.04

COMPUTERSCIENCE/

ENGINEERINGMaher S. Amer

Professor of Materials Scienceand Engineering$108,341.82

Travis E. DoomAssociate Professor of Computer

Science and Engineering andElectrical Engineering

$107,788.63

Lang HongProfessor of Electrical

Engineering$118,431.00

Karen MeyerSenior Lecturer of Computer

Science and Engineering$64,628.51

Robert J. RitziProfessor of Earth and

Environmental Sciences$108,253.17

J. Ashot KozakAssistant Professor of Neuroscience,

Cell Biology, and Physiology$74,069.10

David L. GoldsteinProfessor of Biological

Sciences and DepartmentChair

$139,977.99

Rachel AgaAssistant Professor of

Chemistry$64,219.93

SCIENCES

Ron HelmsProfessor of Education

$89,269.77

Sue GruberInstructor of Teacher

Education$48,508.93

Christa AgiroAssistant Professor of

Teacher Education$68,422.42

EDUCATION

Gretchen L. McNamaraInstructor of Music

$43,665.00

William JobertInstructor of Music and

Coordinator of Music Education$43,665.00

David M. BoothProfessor of Music;Director of Bands

$85,170.27

MUSIC

RANDOM/ NON-GROUPED

Norma C. AdragnaAssociate Professor of

Pharmacology andToxicology

$109,085.08

Dorothy AlvarezLecturer of Spanish

$46,677.53

Erik BanksAssociate Professor of

Philosophy$67,472.04

Justin GibbsAssociate Professor of

Dance$55,163.78

Eric N. RowleyInstructor of Physics

$47,179.19

David R. HopkinsPresident

$416,000.00

Kristin SobolikProfessor/Dean, COLA

$185,400.00

Billy DonlonMen’s Basketball

Head Coach$254,798.21

Mike BradburyWomen’s Basketball

Head Coach$138,431.34

WHAT DO THEY MAKE? The Guardian compiled salaries of the 2013-14 fiscal year for Wright State faculty. The goal of our resulting infographic is to

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WRIGHT LIFE 7Marketing student moonlights as local rapper

Wright State to present “Les Miserables” Wright State University

junior marketing ma-jor Isaiah Mo-rales performs and releases music under the name Eazy El Loco.

Eazy El Loco has been rap-ping since high school, but has a long history with music, in-cluding rap. However, he said that he “just fell into it” as a ca-reer.

“I listened to rap when I was growing up, but my mother is a salsa singer, so music was all around the household. I just found what I liked and stuck with it,” Morales said.

Morales said his background as a hispanic growing up in Dayton is an aspect of himself

The Wright State Univer-sity Theater Program will

be performing “Les Miserables,” a classic musical which follows the life of an ex-convict who finds God while destitute after his stint in prison. He eventu-ally works his way up in society and becomes well-respected. Then, when a woman to whom he owes a debt dies, he adopts her daughter, who later falls in love with a man that partici-pates in the French Revolution.

The stage production of “Les Miserables” differs from its literary origin, due to the sheer mass of the work it was attempting to portray. Some copies of the iconic novel have spanned nearly 2000 pages, so the stage adaptation has some inconsistencies. In fact, Zach Steele, the senior musical the-ater major who plays Marius in the production, described it as its own entirely new animal.

“It’s more heavily based on the novel rather than being an actual version of a novel,” Steele said. “The ending is completely different.”

Junior musical theater major Mark Beyer, who plays Enjolras in the WSU production, men-tioned that one change from the novel was his character’s rela-tionship with Marius.

“On stage we’re comrades and best buds, as opposed to in the book, where we are more adversaries and rivals working for the same cause,” said Beyer. “Things like that get trimmed up just to make a more cohesive picture.”

Even after these cuts, the mu-sical lasts around three hours and is a difficult piece to handle, with a wide array of cues to be called during the show, accord-

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that he continually brings into his music.

“I’m all about sticking to my roots,” Morales said. “It’s some-thing that makes me unique. I want to keep that around.”

According to Morales, his ca-reer had modest beginnings at the age of 14.

“I started recording on an Xbox 360 headset connected to the computer,” said Morales. “It sounded terrible. I didn’t start taking it seriously until I was around 18, because that was when I was old enough to play shows at bars.”

Eazy El Loco counts artists like Jay-Z, The Hot Boys, R. Kelly and even Frank Sinatra as influ-ences on his music.

“Frank Sinatra is actually a big inspiration for me,” said Morales. “That’s what the con-cept of ‘Casual Fridays’ is built around. Fedoras, old-school bow ties, the whole swagger. It was all built around Frank Sina-tra and everything he stood for.”

Sinatra’s impact can be heard

throughout Morales’ music. He described his music on the whole as “smooth” and “chill,” and said he often samples smoother music like jazz in his tracks.

When asked what he writes his lyrics about, Eazy El Loco said that he raps about things that the average person can re-late to.

“I have a song called ‘Life-styles of the Broke and Name-less,’ and it’s about how you see me live,” Morales said. “You see me in college, you see me strug-gling, you see me out here just trying to live everyday life. I rap about things that college kids can relate to, or what the aver-age person can relate to. I’m not trying to glorify money or cars and the stereotypical stuff you hear on the radio.”

Students can find Eazy El Loco’s music on iTunes and Spotify, as well as his personal website.

ing to Victoria Sutton, senior de-sign technology major and Stage Manager for “Les Miserables.”

“We have 600 lighting cues, 20 sound cues, 350 spot cues, 55 shifts and 20 projection cues,” said Sutton. “On stage we have live fire, a turntable and a seven foot tall barricade. It’s a lot for one show.”

“[Director Stuart McDowell] has been talking to us a lot about the parallels of this story about the French Revolution and the June Rebellion, and how that re-lates to what’s been happening in the Ukraine and Venezuela right now,” said Beyer, “and how the spirits of rebellion, equality, liberty and brotherhood are still very alive and very relevant.”

Members of the cast described “Les Miserables” as “iconic,” particularly sophomore musi-cal theater major Cassi Mikat, who plays Madame Thenardier. When asked why, she said it ap-peals to wide audience.

“Within this story, there’s something that everyone can relate to,” said Mikat. “There’s love, unrequited love, feeling impoverished: struggles that most people have experienced at some point in their lives.”

Despite the difficulty, the cast members have enjoyed their time working on “Les Misera-bles.”

“I couldn’t have picked a bet-ter show for the seniors to go out on,” Steele said. “It’s going to be a hard one to let go of. Thank God we get to do it fifteen times.”

“Les Miserables” will be show-ing on weekends from Thurs-day, March 20 to Sunday, April 6. Tickets are currently sold out, but students can visit the WSU Theater Department webpage or contact the box office for tick-et information.

Timon ClineContributing Writer [email protected]

“Vikings”: Best show on TV?

In the post-Oscar season, it’s only human nature to turn

to television during the movie drought. “Non-Stop” and “The Lego Movie,” though mildly en-tertaining, are just not going to get the job done on a lonely Fri-day night.

What to do as we weather the final weeks of winter hiberna-tion?

HBO’s raw and riveting “True Detective” came to a close about two weeks ago, and if you’re waiting on the promising fourth season of “Game of Thrones” (winter is still coming), and/or the first half of the final sea-son of “Mad Men,” you still have about a month of surmounting anticipation to bear.

The answer: History Chan-nel’s “Vikings.” Now in its sec-ond season, “Vikings” chronicles the loose-true story of Viking hero/explorer Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel), who was the first Viking to lead raiding par-ties to England in the early 800s A.D.

Season two has kicked off with a bang that rivals the sound of Thor’s hammer crashing into

Loki’s skull on the battlefields of Asgar (viking gods joke).

More than exciting, and with thankfully realistic battle se-quences, “Vikings” offers cultur-al depth to the viewer. Michael Hirst, the show’s mastermind, layers the script with a clash of cultures between the English and the Scandinavian invad-ers. Ragnar lives in a state of perpetual curiosity about this new world and its potential, un-like his comrades who virtually seek only treasure and pleasure. Within this dynamic is the con-trast of spiritual beliefs: the Vi-kings and their worship of the god Odin, and the Christians of England.

In season two, Athelstan, the Christian monk taken captive by Ragnar in his first raid in Eng-land, has truly reached a cross-roads regarding his faith and the complete embrace of the culture in which he has become immersed. Some of the most complex scenes thus far involve this conflict.

The show deepens the plot ex-pertly in this regard, preventing the viewers from counting the minutes between fight scenes. Ragnar’s only gigantic and “tatted-up” brother, Rolo (Clive Standen), provides some of this

plot thickening I speak of, but I don’t want to create too many spoilers, so I will go no further.

And for all those female TV addicts whom are possibly skeptical of a History show that highlights a primitive, hyper-masculine culture, “Vikings” ac-tually provides more in-depth female character development than it does for the males.

Lagertha has been all but abandoned by Ragnar, her ex-husband. We find her married to a new, dominant and abusive husband who denies her son, Bjorn (now played by Hunger Games’ Alexander Ludwig) con-tact with his father, or any of his other wishes for that matter. The former earl’s wife, Siggy, is striving to find her worth and purpose in her new, somewhat powerless role in the village. And Ragnar’s new wife, Aslaug, has provided her husband with many sons but struggles to maintain his attention and affec-tion, and has to protect her fam-ily from usurpers while Ragnar is away.

“Vikings” is quite possibly the best show on the tube right now, at least until Don Draper and Pe-ter Dinklage return next month. Episode four airs Thursday, March 20th.

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8 WRIGHT LIFE

In his final appearance in a regular season home game, senior AJ Pacher led the Raiders with a team-high 20 points in a 67-58 win over Valparaiso.

Photo by: Justin Boggs, Sports Writer

Zara QureshiContributing [email protected]

Rainbow Alliance hosts photo shoot for marriage equality

On Thursday, WSU stu-dents in the Student

Union Atrium posed for the NOH8 Campaign photo shoot, hosted by Wright State’s Rain-bow Alliance. The students in line to get their picture taken had “NOH8” written on their faces and some also wore duct tape over their mouths.

The photo shoot is a form of visual protest started by the NOH8 Campaign, an organiza-tion that promotes marriage, gender, and human equality, formed in response to the 2008 passing of Proposition 8 in Cali-fornia. The proposition amend-ed the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The duct tape symbolizes the voices be-ing silenced by legislation like Proposition 8.

Many celebrities have partici-pated in the popular campaign, and WSU students were given a chance to show their support for equality too during the open event. Their photos will be post-ed on the Rainbow Alliance’s

Facebook page. Meredith Baird, the Rainbow

Alliance’s Internal Affairs Offi-cer, explained why this form of protest is effective in spreading awareness.

“All forms of protests are im-portant, but these silent, visual presentations will outreach to the web and social media,” said Baird. “Photos are shared more easily and these multiple pho-tos of different people of dif-ferent backgrounds is a good representation of our commu-nity. Also, an image is more poi-gnant.”

The NOH8 website describes the campaign as a “photograph-ic silent protest,” but Khadija Kirksey, the President of the Rainbow Alliance, said it is more that. Kirksey said the pho-to shoot itself is impactful on its own by standing out and entic-ing people to join.

“This is not a silent protest—visibility has a sight of its own that creates movement,” said Kirksey. “What we are doing is highly visible as it is in the middle of the Student Union. It’s more than a silent protest be-cause it has a voice of its own.”

The Rainbow Alliance has a “no outing” policy and provides a safe and supportive environ-ment at all meetings and events.

“These events are a good way to reach out and spread aware-ness, and are also good for peo-ple still trapped in the closet because it lets them know that there is a community out there

to support them,” Baird said.Elizabeth Schoppelrei, the

Rainbow Alliance’s Vice Presi-dent, also explained the impor-tance of the event and the orga-nization’s importance to WSU.

“This has been an annual event for us for a while and it is a recognized image that helps people demonstrate what we

[stand for],” said Schoppelrei. “The Rainbow Alliance makes WSU stand out because we are a fairly large GLBTQA organiza-tion in comparison to those on other campuses, and that helps increase awareness of issues that affect the community.”

Photo by Megan Waddel: Contributing Photographer


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Women’s Tennis: Momentum builds into conference play

Softball: Raiders lose two at Hoosier Classic before returning home

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Emily GayContributing [email protected]

SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP, Ohio – After a 2-8 start to

the season, Wright State took three out of four contests last week culminating in a dominat-ing 7-0 sweep over Dayton Sun-day.

The Raiders used a lineup of all freshmen in doubles ac-tion Sunday. The youngsters did their part as WSU swept all three doubles matches versus UD for the opening point.

Wright State coach Sean Mc-Caffrey used five of his six fresh-men in the 6-0 sweep in singles play with senior Liz Steingass in the No. 6 slot as the lone upper-classman in the lineup.

“It was a match where if they had let up at all, they could have had a lot harder time,” McCaf-frey said.

The Raiders start conference

The Wright State softball team fell short to Ohio University before

dropping to Toledo and Indiana this past weekend at the Hoosier Classic.

With a 3-1 loss against Ohio on Friday, the Raiders continued to get defeated by Toledo with a 7-2 loss, and Indiana with a 6-1 loss on Saturday.

Going into this weekend with a 2-16 record, the Raiders need to sharpen their focus to prepare for upcoming games against Miami on Thursday and Oakland on Saturday.

Head coach Lynn Curylo believes this team needs to continue to focus on the game while staying enthusiastic during these tough losses.

“The one thing I’m noticing about this team is that they’re paying attention to what is happening, and they’re continuing to approach it as a matter of, they’re ready to get back at it,” Curylo said.

With a total of five one-run loses so far this season, the Raiders have seen some tough competition in the early season.

“I think sometimes when you’ve only won two games at this point, you can get defeated,” Curylo said.

The Miami Redhawks currently hold a record of 9-12 going into this weekend against the Wright State Raiders.

For the Raiders to win, they need to continue to focus on teamwork as well as maintaining a good defense.

play Saturday at Youngstown State. It will be the first time through conference play for the core of the Raiders’ team.

“They have a lot of momentum going into conference season next weekend,” McCaffrey said. “It is great. They just do a fantas-tic job of keeping things simple, not trying to over-execute.”

At the beginning of the sea-son, McCaffrey said he expected his young freshmen to be play-ing like sophomores by confer-ence season. McCaffrey said his young players are no longer playing like freshmen.

With freshmen Elaine Cloern and Linsey Verstrepen regularly in the top two slots, McCaffrey has battled-tested freshmen that appear ready for confer-ence play.

“There are times we still see things flip but the maturity level has improved a whole lot,” he said.

Freshman Linsey Verstrepen is part of an experienced group of underclassmen that led the Raiders to a 7-0 sweep over Dayton Sunday.

Photo by Justin Boggs: Sports Writer

“We still have so much room to get better and show who we are as a pro-gram. We just haven’t been doing it consistently. There have been glimmers and pieces here and there but overall it hasn’t happened from the beginning to the end of the game,” Curylo said.

The Oakland Grizzlies currently are 10-10 coming into this weekend against Wright State. In their season, the Griz-zlies have lost three and won two matches by one run. With these close calls, the Raiders need to show strength in numbers if they plan to defeat the Golden Grizzlies.

For the Raiders to succeed this week-end against Miami and Oakland, the de-fense needs to continue to stay focused while the pitchers increase their accu-racy.

“Our pitchers are still working on being consistent, with locating their pitches and they have been getting hit, it’s obvious, but at the same time I think that is giving our defense a lot of prac-tice,” Curylo said.

Wright State has a double-header against Miami on Mar. 20 in Oxford, Ohio, with the first game starting at 5 p.m. and the second game at 7 p.m.

The Raiders will host their first con-ference game on Mar. 22 with a double-header against Oakland, with the first game starting at 1 p.m. and the second at 3 p.m. Wright State will also host a game on Mar. 23 against previous oppo-nent Oakland which will begin a noon.


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full-court trapping defense sim-ply known as “40 minutes of dread.”

Bradbury said his team mim-ics many of the same philoso-phies Mitchell’s Wildcats use.

“They play exactly like we play,” Bradbury said. “They’re going to pressure you, they’re going to play fast and they’re go-ing to get in your face. It will be very identical games.”

Elkins lost for season with ACL injury

“It’s really not describ-able,” KC Elkins said.

The senior guard had a hard time finding the right words for the ACL injury she sustained dur-ing the second half of Sun-day’s Horizon League title game.

With just under nine minutes left, the Raiders clung to a three-point lead. El-kins broke free on a fast break and drove strong towards the basket. Green Bay’s freshman guard Tesha Buck was there to meet Elkins and hit Elkins on the arm, forcing her to plant her left leg awkwardly.

Elkins crumpled to the floor, in agonizing pain for several minutes as the 1,762 fans inside the Kress Events Center fell si-lent.

“It’s nothing I’ve ever felt be-fore,” Elkins said. “It’s painful and it was as bad as it sounded. It was more shock than any-thing. I knew immediately what it was. I think it just scared me a lot. I wanted to play more, so it

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lot about us,” Bradbury said. “Myself and coach [Matthew] Mitchell go way back. We’ve been in a few wars together. We won’t be a surprise down there. We’ll show up and we’ll play.”

WSU Director of Athletics Bob Grant said the Raiders fan base should travel well, considering Lexington’s proximity to Day-ton.

“The neat thing about be-ing down there is we’re close enough that virtually anyone can come down there in a car pretty easily,” Grant said. “My expectation is we’ll have a lot of people down there. We’ll have the pep band and the cheer-leaders.”

For junior guard Abby Jump - a native of Florence, KY, about an hour north of Lexington - Saturday’s game will be a home-coming event.

“I honestly thought we were going to go to Purdue. One of my friends plays for Purdue and I really wanted to play her. But what I really wanted to do is go home to Lexington. It’s awe-some to be able to play in front of my family and friends for the first time in the NCAA Tourna-

ment,” Jump said.

Bradbury, Mitchell no strang-ers to one another

The Raiders’ first-round game against Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament Saturday will mark the first-ever meet-ing between both schools, but Bradbury and Kentucky head

coach Matthew Mitchell have a history together.

“He was at Morehead State. When he left to go to Kentucky, that’s where I went. So, we know each other well,” Brad-bury said.

Bradbury began his first head coaching stint at More-head State in 2007 after spending the first 13 years of his career as an assistant at Chattanooga, East Tennessee, Cincinnati and Xavier. He re-mained with the Eagles until the end of the 2009-10 season when he arrived in Fairborn.

Mitchell assumed the reigns of the Wildcat’s program at the start of the 2007-08 season. Since 2009, UK has posted 25 wins or more under Mitchell, who employs an aggressive,

was kind of a lot of emotions all at one time.”

Nine minutes later, the pain briefly subsided. Elkins joined her teammates in a raucous cel-ebration at mid court.

“Once the adrenaline wore off a little bit, I was hurtin’, but the adrenaline kind of helped. I was excited for my team and I was just glad I still got to enjoy it with them,” Elkins said.

Now, Elkins will be a specta-tor for the Raiders first trip to the NCAA Tournament.

“It will be tough, but I’ll defi-nitely be cheering my heart out. Hopefully not jumping up and down, but I’ll be there as much as I can be.”

Demmings’ second half burst fueled Raiders’ comeback over

Phoenix

Raiders guard Kim Demmings was discouraged.

Her team trailed by six at halftime of the Horizon League Championship and she had to sit out the last 8:27 of the first half due to early foul trouble.

“Honestly, I was just frustrat-ed in the first half. I got those three quick fouls…and I had to just zone in and play smart,” Demmings said.

What followed was what Demmings herself called the best half of basketball the Ho-rizon League Player of the Year had ever played.

With the Raiders trailing the Phoenix 46-36, less than a min-ute into the second half, Dem-mings exploded. The tourna-ment MVP scored 11 points on four consecutive shots in a span of 2:38. Her last shot gave the Raiders their largest lead since her opening layup made it 2-0 52 seconds into the game.

“My coaches tell me that’s the time where you have to mature

and be a better basket-ball player and I feel like that’s what I did in the second half. In situations like that, I learn a lot,” Demmings said. “At the end of the day, I knew I was go-ing to play smart and I knew I had to attack.”

“For me to be out there and be scared, or let my girl drive it or not drive it my-self, then what is the point of me being out there? My coaches told me to stay aggressive and everything is going to work out,” Demmings said.

Point guard Tay’ler Mingo – who set a Horizon League Tour-nament record with total 81 points, including a game-high 31 against Green Bay – said Demmings’ performance hap-pened when the team needed it most.

“I thought that was great. Ob-viously we needed it. She only played [nine] minutes in the first half, so in the second half she came out ready and she hit some clutch shots. I thought she showed up right when we need-ed her,” Mingo said.

“They play exactly like we play. They’re going to pressure you, they’re going to play fast and they’re going to get in your face. It will be very identical games.”

-Mike Bradbury,

“My expectation is we’ll have a lot of people down there. We’ll have the pep band and the cheerleaders.”

-Bob Grant

Ivory James (left) and Abby Jump (right) wait side-by-side for the Raiders’ first round destination.Photo by Justin Boggs: Sports Writer

Photo by Andrew Smith: Sports EditorKC Elkins will finish her career at Wright State on the bench after after sustaining an ACL injury against Green Bay in the Horizon League Championship

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