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Thursday, April 5, 2012
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Construction of new sorority row causes racial tensionCharmaine Foster
Staff Writer
The fact that four predomi-nately Caucasian sororities of the National Pan-Hellenic Con-ference (NPC) are having houses built when no historically black sororities of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) are has caused uproar amongst students and faculty alike.
In a recent letter to the edi-tor of The Herald, Prof. Cath-erine Reese, associate professor of public administration, stated, “Where are the houses for the predominantly black sororities? How will that look to young Af-rican American females visiting the campus?”
To make the situation worse, some faculty along with two African-American fraternities,
Phi Beta Sigma and Alpha Phi Alpha, have been forced to relo-cate from their houses in order to accommodate the new sorority housing.
“It looks really bad on them. They’re not thinking that people lived in those houses and now they have to find somewhere to live,” said Jaelyn Epps, a fresh-man theatre major, “You’re tear-ing someone else down to build
[another] up.” Despite the way the situation
looks, however, this progress is not one-sided. The NPHC sorori-ties were also given the opportu-nity to pursue sorority housing, which they declined.
“NPCs have a lease that they have signed with the University [in which] they have a monetary responsibility,” stated Alexis Hurdle, assistant Dean of Greek
life, “That exact same deal was offered to the NPHC groups and they chose not to move forward at this time.”
In short, the NPHCs cannot afford it.
Since African-Americans are a minority at ASU, membership within historically black Greek sororities and fraternities are significantly lower than those of
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Jordan Green (left), a sophomore computer science and nursing major of Forest City and Jeffrey Turley (right), a junior psychology major also of Forest City, enjoyed one of the inflatable games that was set up on the Heritage
Plaza Lawn Friday afternoon. This event was sponsored by RHA and kicked-off the
third annual Residence Hall Week.
Residence Hall WeekMalzahn's salaryamong highestin Arkansas
Leah McDanielStaff Writer
The newest addition to ASU athletics, head foot-ball coach Gus Malzahn, is the third highest paid coach and state employ-ee in Arkansas, earning $850,000 a year, more than twice what President Ba-rack Obama earns annual-ly and $750,000 more than Gov. Mike Beebe earns each year.
Obama earns $400,000 a year, a $450,000 salary difference compared to the Red Wolves’ head football coach.
ASU president Charles Welch earns $285,000 an-nually, a difference of more than $500,000 compared to Malzahn’s annual income, which does not include bo-nuses, housing and other benefits.
Many students’ respons-es to the new coach’s salary seem to be a resounding
“ridiculous” and “outra-geous.”
Jeremy Ragsdell, a se-nior biology major of Wal-nut Ridge, said, “I feel like sports leagues and all their affiliates are vastly over-paid. But as long as people keep footing the bill, it’s not going to change.”
While the majority of students seem to agree, this view is not shared by all.
Sophomore engineer-ing major Jonathon Delp of Jacksonville said, “I feel like it’s much more diffi-cult to be a Division One football coach than it is to be a college administrator. [Malzahn’s] salary is the product of the law of sup-ply and demand since there are not nearly as many people who can do what [Malzahn] does. Their sal-aries are fair.”
The No. 2 for top-paid coaches in Arkansas is the
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ASU Online Yardsale: 'Faster than Amazon.com, cheaper than Walmart'Emily Alexander
Staff Writer
Yet another ASU social networking page is reach-ing great popularity and has become the talk of the campus.
Shuto Ikeda, a senior international business ma-jor of Kobe, Japan, started the Facebook group “ASU ONLINE YARD SALE” on Jan. 2.
“The reason why I start-ed this page was simply because, first, I wanted to create an easy and simple platform for students to sell their stuff to squeeze a little money out of it, and buy stuff cheaper and fast-er," he said.
Second, Ikeda said he wanted to make a platform that connects people who live in the same town, go to the same school and have the same interests.
"This page is an open page, you don’t have to be a friend of anybody in the group, so you can just click ‘join’ and meet new
people who have the same interests, help each other out and get good deals,” he said.
Since its creation, many ASU students have taken advantage of the opportu-nity. Since Ikeda started the page, a little more than three months ago, he’s had 597 members join, and the number keeps growing.
“My friends in ASU started joining this page at the beginning, and those friends’ friends started ask-ing to join, and it goes on and on like a spiral. Feed-back is all positive so far. I think people hopefully un-derstood right away, and started dealing. I haven’t gotten any complaints or anything,” Ikeda said.
Ikeda has a goal of mak-ing the page more repu-table and getting more people involved. He’s even come up with a personal slogan, “Online Yard Sale: faster than Amazon.com, cheaper than Walmart.”
“I think Online Yard Sale is so much handier
than e-bay or Amazon. You can just take a picture with your phone and upload it on Facebook like you do al-most everyday, and people will check them as they do almost every single min-ute," Ikeda said.
"Once you get a response, you can meet him or her at school instead of register to a website and ship them all the stuff,”.
Ikeda said the page isn’t just a place for students to buy and sell merchandise, but also an opportunity to showcase talents, and many students are doing just that.
“There are also people who are selling their own art works. I think this is great opportunity to show your talents and make some profit out of it, es-pecially for those who are majoring in the fine arts,” he said.
Ikeda encourages all stu-dents to check out the items and people in his “ASU ON-LINE YARD SALE!” group on Facebook.
Screenshot from ASU-Jonesboro Yardsale Facebook page
Students are participating in an online yard sale on Facebook, making quick cash and selling things they don't need, or finding items they do need — cheap and easy. The page's slogan is, "Faster than Amazon.com, cheaper than Walmart."
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Support intramuralsAre you tired? Run down? Listless? Leave your
sedentary lifestyle back at the dorm and go support the Intramural sports at Arkansas State.
Intramural sports are a great way to get our minds active and away from the monotony of schoolwork. Plus, there are added health benefits.
According to an April 2 article headlined “Science and Health” on montgomerynews.com, computer technologies are forcing us to spend a considerable amount of time sitting in front of a screen, negatively affecting our health in different ways—including eye and neck strain, soreness and fatigue.
With April being the last full month of the school year, many projects and assignments will be due for many students in the next coming weeks.
Oftentimes, these projects mean endless hours of little to no activity, sitting behind a desk or in front of a computer screen.
But even with heavy assignments, staying physically active is possible, and Intramural sports can help us do that. They are some of the best ways students can get involved and stay active without the monotony that can come from a daily exercise routine.
Here at ASU, we have many Intramural sports throughout the school year. Although it is nearly the end, there are still some sports in which students can get involved and support.
Next week, softball teams will be facing it off in single-elimination knockout tournaments. On April 23-24, several teams will compete in flag football, and from April 30-May 1, men’s and women’s teams will have the chance to play some 3-on-3 basketball.
These are just some of the sports that can get us motivated and break the dullness of schoolwork. Even if one doesn’t play, simply going outside, enjoying the fresh air and sunshine to watch these teams play or doing something productive can have positive effects.
As the semester begins winding down and deadlines fast approach, activities like these can give us just the break we might need for our minds to stay sharp in our schoolwork, when we’ll need it the most.
“Our View” is written by the editorial staff. The opinions are not necessarily reflective of the student body, faculty or administration of Arkansas State University.
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The vast majority of the 4,000-plus colleges and universities in the U.S. currently do not allow guns on their campuses, but 25 schools have chal-lenged that by claiming it is unlawful to restrict a person’s license to carry a concealed weapon.
After considering both sides, I believe that al-lowing concealed carry on campus will not produce the most positive results.
First, let’s consider our rights. The Second Amend-ment clearly states that we as citizens have the right to bear arms.
So, we should have the right to carry weapons wherever we please, right?
Obviously, this is not the case. All but two states, Alaska and Vermont, re-quire citizens to obtain a license to carry a concealed weapon.
But even after obtaining a license, there are restric-tions concerning where you can carry including college and university campuses.
According to an article in The Denver Post from Monday, March 5, the Colorado Supreme Court affirmed Colorado Uni-versity students’ rights to carry concealed weapons on campus.
Until reading that ar-ticle, I hadn’t even con-sidered guns on a college campus as a relevant topic up for discussion. Appar-ently it is, and there are groups with strong opin-ions on both sides of the argument.
According to their web-site, concealedcampus.org, Students for Concealed Carry is a student-run or-ganization that advocates
for legal concealed carry on college campuses in the U.S.
Their website contains sayings such as the follow-ing:
“Self-defense is a hu-• man right”“Disarming good guys • won’t stop bad guys”“Prepared, not para-• noid” and “No one plans emer-• gencies…plan your re-sponse instead.”
Valid points. Now I would like to address a few of these.
“Self-defense is a human right”: I will wholehearted-ly agree with this. But at what point does a person’s right to self-defense begin to infringe on the safety of others?
There are unavoidable risks when it comes to handling guns, and put-ting guns on a college cam-pus in places like residence halls, where security is not always a student’s top pri-ority, can be potentially harmful to others.
Accidental gunfire and theft of a gun by someone who may not have proper gun training are just two possible risks of students maintaining their right to self-defense.
“Disarming good guys won’t stop bad guys”: Sure, but will arming “good guys” neces-sarily stop bad guys? I’m not inclined to think so.
In any sort of active shoot-er situation on a college cam-pus, chaos is inevitable.
According to students-f o r g u n f r e e -schoo ls . o rg , a 2006 study
of three decades worth of data showed trained po-lice officers to have about 20 percent success in their bullets hitting their tar-gets.
And a concealed carry licensee’s training course could hardly be equivalent to the amount of training police officers are required to receive.
So imagine an active shooter scenario where a noble concealed carry li-censee stands up to defend himself and the helpless others around him. Do you feel safe?
In the chaos of an emer-gency situation like this, two guns in the room are not better than one, even if one of them has the best of intentions.
“Prepared, not para-noid”: Once again, I com-pletely agree with this; however, preparedness is possible without allowing concealed weapons on col-lege campuses.
Being prepared does not necessarily mean having a gun at your side ready to defend yourself when trou-ble arises.
A big part of being pre-pared rather than paranoid is simply being educated on the possible threats and knowing how to stay calm.
Pulling out your trusty gun could possibly injure
innocent bystanders in your frantic attempt to protect yourself.
“No one plans emergen-cies, plan your response in-stead”: The same is true of this point. Being educated on the risks and possible threats should be a part of planning your response to an emergency situation.
However, you do not nec-essarily have to be armed in order to plan a response.
If safety is the key fac-tor in deciding whether to allow students and faculty to carry concealed weap-ons on campus, the list of “pros” outweighs the “cons” on the side of pro-hibiting concealed guns on campus.
While anyone could ar-gue on either side of the issue, the more reasonable option seems to be keeping guns off college and uni-versity campuses.
According to the Stu-dents for Gun Free Schools website, the safest policy for limiting possible vio-lence is to “prohibit stu-dents and faculty from keeping handguns on cam-pus and allow trained law enforcement officers to pro-vide for campus security.”
I am inclined to agree.
McDaniel is a sophomore photojournalism major of Jonesboro.
Guns on campus pose threat to safety“In the chaos of an emergency situation like this, two guns in the room are better than one, even if one of them has the
best of intentions.”
Leah McDaniel
Back on February 26 in Sanford, Fla., George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Officials have not filed charges against him. Based on your background in criminal justice, do you believe this was the right move?
Mr. Zimmerman justified the shooting as self-defense un-der Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. The police claimed they did not find sufficient evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to make an arrest. It appears that the Sanford Police Department could have done a more solid investigation in the first place.
What is the “Stand Your Ground” law?The state of Florida passed a specific “Stand Your Ground”
law in 2005, which allows a person to defend himself/herself with deadly force without having to retreat if the person be-lieves “it is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm.”
The “Stand Your Ground” law removes the obligation to retreat, even outside of your house, as long as you reasonably believe your life is in danger.
Why do you think this particular case has ig-nited public outrage?
It is an avoidable tragedy. Mr. Zimmerman, who was a neighborhood watch volunteer, followed a 17-year-old Afri-can American child, Trayvon Martin, into a gated community because he suspected the young child may attempt to bur-glarize. A 911 operator advised Mr. Zimmerman it was not appropriate to follow Martin.
While the exact circumstances of the shooting are not conclusive, the prevalence of some of the evidence seems to indicate that Zimmerman may have exceeded the bounds of the “Stand Your Ground” law by following the young child due to his suspicion. Although we do not know what hap-pened exactly at that time, Mr. Zimmerman claimed there was a scuffle on the ground.
The public outcry arises from a feeling that the police did not thoroughly interview all witnesses before they decided not to make an arrest. As a result, the public is demanding that the state and federal law enforcement agencies inter-vene in this case.
Certainly there have been many protests around the country over this issue. In your opin-ion, are people overreacting or should it remain an important concern to the public?
I think it is an important issue. I hope Trayvon Martin’s death will not be in vain. These kinds of tragedies should be avoided in the future. I concur with former President Clin-ton’s suggestion that the “Stand Your Ground” laws be re-assessed because they are vague.
Persons who are the aggressors may try to use the laws to establish self-defense claims. The “Stand Your Ground” laws may also encourage unnecessary violence while retreat can be an option.
CHALK TALKwith Professor Doris Chu
About Doris Chu:
Associate professor of criminology
Ph.D. in criminal justice, State University of New York at Albany
Teaching specialties include police and society, criminology, intro to criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, gender and criminal justice, institutional and community interventions.
Research interests include policing, comparative criminal justice and public perceptions of law enforcement.
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Campus Corner
Sara KrimmHerald Editor
The sun is finally out, the semester is coming to an end, and the season of music festi-vals is upon us. Some students save all semester to pay for summer trips to all their fa-vorite festivals — some of the most popular being Wakarusa, Bonnaroo and Hang Out Fest.
But for those of us who are, as I like to say, “ballin’ on a budget,” there is always the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival, just a hop and a skip away.
The lineup this year is well worth the $75 all-weekend ticket, which includes artists such as the Civil Wars, Flor-ence + the Machine, Wiz Khal-ifa, Needtobreathe, Grace Pot-ter and The Nocturnals, Girl Talk and more.
Whether you’re into rap/hip-hop, folk rock, alternative rock, punk rock, indie rock, blues, jazz — there is some-one playing this festival that you’re bound to enjoy.
Five acts you should def-initely see:
1.The Civil Wars, because your ears will never be the same.
2.Girl Talk, because it’ll be
the best dance party all week-end.
3.Grace Potter & The Noc-turnals, because guys, you’ll want her, and girls, you’ll want to be her.
4.Dr. Dog, because their latest album “Be the Void” is full of good ole sing along, sway back and forth with your friends, American rock — per-fect for festival fun.
5.Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, because they’re the perfect combination of folky Nashville charm and Memphis bluesy rock and roll — every-thing lovely about Tennessee.
A few tips on what to bring/what not to bring to the festival:
It somehow seems to rain almost every year… turning into what veteran festival go-ers refer to as, “Memphis in Mud.”
Just in case:Wear shoes you would be
OK with having to throw away after the weekend.
Bring a very small bag (if you’re really feeling bold, go with the fanny pack) with the bare necessities: a Ziploc with your phone and some cash in-side, your I.D., a poncho, and ladies, you may want some toi-let paper or tissues.
I’m just saying, there are a lot of people and not a lot of port-a-potties — the toilet pa-per runs out!
You may want to leave a towel, trash bag and change of clothes in the car. Otherwise it could be a long, disgusting drive back to Jonesboro.
What not to do:
Bring small children. Come on, it’s the Beale Street Music Festival, and 3-6-mafia is play-ing. Technically there isn’t an age limit, but leave the kids at home.
Wear your nicest threads. It’s hot, it’s dirty, and it’s bound to rain. Be comfortable … you can still be stylish! This just might not be the best time to wear that new dry-clean-on-ly Free People dress you just bought with an entire month’s wages.
Tickets to the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festi-val are available at ticketmas-ter.com. An all-weekend pass is $75, and single-day passes are $32.50 in advance and $40 at the door.
The festival is May 4-6, which is of course right in the middle of finals. So do your studying early and go have a good time — it’ll be good for your stress levels.
Tips for the closest, most affordable festival of the seasonBeale Street Music Festival
http://www.memphisinmay.org/
The Beale Street Music Festival Line-up includes artists of all genres--rap/hip-hop, folk rock, alternative rock, punk rock, indie rock, blues, jazz and more. The festival is scheduled for May 4-6, and tickets are available at the gate, or at ticketmaster.com.
Kari HendersonStaff Writer
Channing Tatum and Jo-
nah Hill have once again managed to be talk among the entertainment business. This time in a film based off the television show, 21 Jump Street, that aired from 1987 to 1991. The show carried a more serious, dramatic tone as the movie is based entirely on comedy. The televi-sion show is more promi-nently known for getting the jump on one of today’s greatest actors who is al-ways up to some sort of mis-chief- Johnny Depp. Tatum and Hill both al-
ready have movies hit the big screen with success as Tatum starred in the Vow- which sold out in several theatres for opening night- while Hill proved his comedic genius once again in The Sitter. The two star as high
school classmates who were complete opposites but end up as police officers years after graduation and be-come great friends while helping each other make it through police academy. But, the life of authority
is not as they imagined. Both are assigned as undercover agents posing as high school students to unveil the dealer behind a new drug craze. But as you could have imagined tables turn
and the duo gets caught up in reliving the glo-rious and not so glorious days of high school. To keep with the theme, the movie in-
tertwined some adult humor with count-less high school level jokes that kept the audience giggling as if the audience had gone back into time to the teenage years The movie offers good laughs from start
to finish as of course one could imagine Hill would bring to the table. But, for Tatum this
is one of the first few comedy roles he has taken and he did a pretty good job at that. A new comer to the spotlight, Dave Franco did
a fantastic job of playing Eric Molson. His char-acter mixed qualities of a nature loving down to earth guy with a popular kid who had a secret. I am sure Franco had some help of learning
how to mix the characteristics together thanks to his big brother, James Franco who starred in the Spiderman trilogy as Harry Osborn. Together, familiar faces, good punch lines and
corny jokes along with a few new faces and a lit-tle mix of action make a great movie I would sug-gest to anyone who has the time for a good laugh.
-Movie review-21 Jump Street: keeping itold school on the big screen
Haley JohnsonArts and Features Editor
Walk across the campus of Arkansas State and you’ll find all
types of talent. You’ll discover designers, athletes, writers, brainiacs, and multi-
taskers. And then there’s the musician category, where you’ll find a talented group of students called “Artists Unknown.” “Artists Unknown” is an acapella vocal group that uses only
their voices to blend and create music. The group formed in the fall of 2010 with a hope to appeal to all types of audiences and “share art with everyone.” ASU students Jordan Griffin, Jeremy Smith, Cameron Hepler,
Courtney Hostler, Reid Shelton, Ryan Lee, Adonias Finch, Kale McDaniel, Kyle Smith, and Matt Penny make up the group and practice on a weekly basis to perform their music throughout Jonesboro. You name it, and they can sing it. They perform all genres, in-
cluding gospel, pop, hip-hop, R&B, and classical. “It has been a dream of mine since junior high to be a part of
an acapella or barbershop group,” said sophomore member Matt Penny. “My favorite part about being in the group and perform-ing is watching the audience’s face when I sing the low notes in ‘Lean on Me.’ It’s priceless.” They perform gigs of all kinds. They’ve sold singing valentines,
sang for the ladies in Greek Life, and participated in battle of the bands. They’ve performed for church services, school luncheons, sporting events, and are currently welcoming invitations to per-form at all kinds of social functions. Learn more about this group, their upcoming events, and how
to book a gig by visiting their Facebook page: https://www.face-book.com/pages/Artists-Unknown/176091739100553, or by con-tacting any of the group members.
Discover local talent‘Artists Unknown’
Photo courtesy of Artists Unknown
Members of ‘Artists Unknown,’ a student-ran acapella vocal group, perform using only their voices to blend and create unique music. The group has been together since 2010, and is made up of 10 Arkansas State students.
SPORTSPAGE 4 Thursday, April 5 The Herald
ASU team competes at national tournament
The internet can be a playground for just about everyone, and that in-cludes those who devote a good chunk of their time to sports.
This was evident Mon-day night following the conclusion of the Men’s NCAA basketball cham-pionship between Kansas and Kentucky in New Or-leans, which ended with the Wildcats winning their eighth championship, the second most in NCAA his-tory behind UCLA’s 11.
Thanks to an online stream of police scanners, many listened in as cit-izens of Lexington, KY and students of the SEC school torched furniture (“We have multiple burn-ing couches blocking the road.”); cars were turned over and set on fire while one person was reportedly shot before running away from the police.
Celebration is expect-ed and should even be en-couraged when a team wins a title, but not cele-bration that is arguably ri-oting.
Even though Kentucky is a year-in and year-out powerhouse and visited the Final Four just last year, Wildcat fans cele-brated like they hadn’t won the Big Dance since 1975 instead of the far
more recent 1998 and as if they had been a 15th seed instead of the highest ranked team in the coun-try.
This is behavior one would expect out of fans of teams who haven’t tasted success in decades like the Cleveland Browns or the lovable losers, the Chica-go Bears.
Seeing fans celebrate a monumental win like a championship is some-thing I relish in, having never gotten to do so for any team I support, either pro or college.
There is nothing quite like being among a crowd of people who share a love for your favorite team, win or lose.
However, it is embar-rassing to hear officers of the law say things like,
“The garage is engulfed in flames,” and it be related to something that isn’t a routine fire call.
When a sports team is on television, other than the athletes playing, it’s the fans who are the face of your school or city.
Acting the way students did in Lexington leaves a bad stigma for those wish-ing to attend the school in the future.
We see events like this involving fans of teams that win on a regular ba-sis, specifically when the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA win a championship (L.A. has 17 titles in its 65 year history).
For fans of the Lak-ers and even the Yankees of baseball (27 champion-ships in 111 years), win-ning is expected and by now would be taken in stride one would think.
I missed out on the Red Wolves defeating Texas A&M in 2008, so I look for-ward to Arkansas State once again winning that kind of game.
The game that sends people into the streets of Jonesboro to scream at the top of their lungs while waving Red Wolves flags.
Just make sure there isn’t any alcohol around and nothing flammable is in reach.
What the Howl?Kentucky: How not to celebrate
Daniel McFadinSports Editor
Caleb HenningtonNews Reporting Student
A sport uncommon to most Americans, cricket, recently has been intro-duced onto ASU’s campus, thanks to the interests of a few international stu-dents.
The team is made up of 15 members who are most-ly international students from countries such as In-dia, Sri Lanka and Bangla-desh.
Divya Patel, a junior chemistry major from In-dia, said there were a lot of students interested in playing cricket so he re-searched and located the American College Cricket League, a league composed of about 52 teams.
“Cricket was being played on campus by a lot of students, but just with friends for fun. It was nev-er taken to another lev-el,” Patel said. “With the help of the American Col-lege Cricket League we joined them in the Nation-al Cricket Championship,” he continued.
29 teams participated in the championship, which was held in Ft. Lauder-dale, Fla. from March 12 through the 14th.
ASU was entered as a wild card in the tourna-ment because of the lack of regional cricket colleg-es near Jonesboro for the team to compete against.
The tournament is held in Ft. Lauderdale every year because it is the only city in America with an In-ternational Cricket Coun-cil recognized cricket field.
ASU’s team was the newest team in the tourna-
ment and entered as a No. 16 seed.
The team’s first match was against number one seed, Texas A&M.
They lost their first game and also their second game against five-seed Univer-sity of South Florida. The third match, against the University of Maryland, also a 16 seed, was won by ASU.
Pradeep Mishra, jour-nalism and graphic com-munications professor at ASU, is an adviser and also one of the three coaches of the team.
He has played cricket at the Jonesboro Cricket Club for a number of years and was invited to be the coach after interest was started in a cricket club.
The JCC is also where the ASU cricket team has their practices. The pres-ident of the JCC, Junior Das, is one of the other coaches of the cricket team, along with Dan Das.
The ASU Red Wolves Cricket Club doesn’t own any equipment or grounds
on campus to practice and because the JCC cricket season has started, Patel said they currently can’t practice at the JCC because of ground availability.
“We would like for crick-et to be recognized as an official sports team by the university and for students to get scholarships through it,” Patel said. “That would encourage more students to play and know about crick-et,” he continued.
Mishra said they are not recognized by ASU as an official school sponsored sport and most of their funding comes from differ-ent sources, including the International Department.
“Our main challenge is funding. We still have a long way to go for the school to recognize us as an official school sport,” Mish-ra said.
Nevertheless, the crick-et club has received fund-ing from Interim Chancel-lor Dan Howard, the inter-national program and also the university in support of the team.
Courtesy of Pradeep Mishra
The ASU cricket team poses during the Ft. Lauderdale Na-tional Cricket Championship held in Florida March 12-14..
Cricket Club Takes Off
The 14 women of the ASU Softball club are head-ed to the NCSA World Se-ries in Columbus, Georgia after they swept all three of their games against SIU-Edwardsville Saturday.
With a standing of 9-3, the clubs outstanding per-formance comes from the leadership of its founder, April Arford.
Arford started the club in July after realizing how easy it was to start a sports club at ASU.
After a period of recruit-ing, the club was ready to play.
Since then, the wom-en have played in several conference games against schools like Saint Louis Uni-versity, Lyon College and Mid-Continent University.
It wasn’t until Saturdays game when the club won all three games against SIUC
(11-1, 6-2, 9-1) that it was obvious the club will be trav-eling to Georgia.
Arford said going to the World Series was one of the clubs hopeful goals whenev-er it started.
“We didn’t think we would actual make it, but we are excited and ready to go. If anything, we can get a couple of wins under our belts.”
Mandy Herring, a se-nior psychology major of Jonesboro, was one of the first players to be in the club.
Graduating in May, Her-ring is excited about going to the World Series.
“I couldn’t ask for a bet-ter dream come true,” Her-ring said.
“I am the only senior on this team and I am so blessed to have gotten the opportunity to play with ASU,” Herring continued. “I have been waiting for them to start a team ever since I
was a little girl and I never thought it was possible.”
The club has its star play-ers.
Chance Brown, a senior mid level education ma-jor of Marion, is the second ranked pitcher in the confer-ence with the best earned runs average and the fourth most strikeouts.
Team captain and cen-ter fielder, junior psycholo-gy major Jessica Waggnor of Fort Smith averages 0.413 batting average (minimum of 45 plate appearances) and was ranked third, while first basewomen Kaite Collier ranked third with one home run on the season.
The team will compete at the NCSA World Series on April 18 – 22.
“We need all the support we can get. Any donations that will help us get to the World Series would be ap-preciate it. Other than that, we are good to go,” Arford said.
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Red shirt freshman receiver J.D. McKissic makes a catch during spring practice drills Wednesday morning at ASU Stadium. 2012 roster.
Early Bird Catches the Ball
Markey BoeckmannStaff Writer
The Arkansas State men’s golf team hosted the 16th annual Red Wolf Intercollegiate Monday and Tuesday at the Ridge Point Country Club golf course in Jonesboro.
Competing against 22 schools the Red Wolves Started off the opening round by shooting a 291, which put them in fourth place at the end of the first round. In the sec-ond round, the squad add-ed seven strokes dropped them four places in the standings.
Sawyer Radler led ASU with a combined 142 to finish day one tied for eighth place.
Out of 18 holes Radler made a 69 for the opening
round. Radler carded a final
round of 67 sending him to a four-player playoff, which Radler won, giving ASU its first individual ti-tle in the Red Wolf Inter-collegiate since 2008.
Radler, a senior, along with Wessel Zwiegers were among the top 25 leaders for ASU making it the best finish of Radler’s career.
“I’m a senior and I re-ally love playing in this tournament, so this is a really special way for me to end my home career,” said Radler.
ASU competed with two squads. The first squad ty-ing for seventh and squad B led by Matt Howton and Christian Helmbold fin-ished 22nd with a 910.
Cory Williamson who
finished tied for 78th place with a 227 (76-77-74) said, “I really struggled in this tournament.”
The team had a hard time with a hilly course, which made shots diffi-cult.
The Red Wolves trailed behind Louisiana-Monroe in seventh place. Willam-son said, “Our team be-ing younger with a lot of newer players this season hasn’t found a way to han-dle the pressure.”
The team looks forward to getting back to practice to improve their stand-ings in the next tourna-ment, the Memphis In-tercollegiate, set for April 9-10.
Pictures of the Red Wolf Intercollegiate can be found at ASUHerald.com
Radler claims singles title at Red Wolf Intercollegiate
Softball heads to NCSA World Series
Baseball• : Junior Michael Faulkner tied an ASU record Wednesday by steal-ing four bases in a 12-5 loss to Missouri State. All 26 of Faulkner’s steals this season have gone uncontested. The ASU single season record for steals is 29 set by Jerome Miller in 1978.
Tennis• : The women’s tennis team defeated Arkansas-Little Rock Wednesday 5-2 for their first Sun belt conference win of the season. Freshman Tamara Slijepcevic won her fourth straight match with a victory over Viktoriya Plyuta. Slijepcevic is now 12-2 on the year and 8-2 in her last 10 matches. The Lady Red Wolves improve to 9-5 over all and 1-3 in conference play.
Sports Briefs
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BriefsThe 2012 WolfTracks Yearbook is now available at the Student Union Info desk. Students
must have their valid ASU id to obtain a book. For more information please contact [email protected].
ASU will host a Bone Marrow Drive on Tuesday, April 10th from 9a-4pm in Spring River Room. Donors and Volunteers are needed. It only takes 5 minutes to donate, and is a painless swab. Email [email protected] if you would like to volunteer to work at the event and/or donate.
Are you gluten intolerant? Join us for a general interest meeting for a new student-led organization specifically for students who have celiac disease or gluten intolerance. Everyone is welcome. We will have our first meeting Wednesday, April 4 at 4 p.m. on the 3rd floor of the library. For more information please email Sarah Scott (faculty advisor) at [email protected].
A part-time position is available in the Department of Finance and Administration located in the Administration Building. The person filling this position will work Monday-Friday, 10-2. Anyone interested may call 972-3081 and speak to Vicki Fletcher.
Volunteer ASU is seeking volunteers to assist with the Non Trad Spring Fling on Saturday, April 21. Volunteer shifts are 11am-1pm, 1pm-3pm, and 2pm-3:30pm. Volunteers will assist with managing kids on inflatables, set up , clean up, and with the operations of the event. For more information or to sign up for shift contact [email protected].
Volunteer ASU is in need of students, faculty, or staff to assist with the Area Special Olympics on Friday, April 20th. Shifts begin at 7:30am, and the event lasts until 4pm. This event will take place on campus at the ASU Track. To register to volunteer contact [email protected].
The English as a Second Language (ESL) program of The International Center for English (TICE) in the Office of International Programs is going to watch the Memphis Grizzlies face the Cleveland Cavaliers at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee on April 23, 2012. Everyone is welcome. The cost is $75/person which includes pre-game warm-up (meet and take pictures with the players), game, and transportation there and back. To sign-up or for more information, please contact Rani Cooksey at [email protected] or Amy Copeland at [email protected].
Golden Key International Honour Society will be having a Credit literacy workshop on April the 11th at 5pm in the Mocking bird room. This is open to all members and the ASU community. Our speakers are Mr Garry Patterson from clear credit and Mr. Daniel Robinson from First Simmons. For more information please email [email protected] or [email protected].
A course focusing on Service and Leadership will be offered on Wednesday s from 4pm-5pm, Fall 2012. This course will be worth 2 credit hours and can be used towards a leadership minor at ASU. The course name is Intro to Leadership 101, and the CRN is 60572.
TENSION, CONTINUED Campus CrimeApril 1At 1:34 a.m., Officer Robert
Peevey reported a vehicle travelling southbound on University Loop going 47 m.p.h. in a 20 m.p.h. speed zone. After pulling the driver, Jose Jaramillo, over for a traffic stop, he said he noticed a beer can on the floorboard behind the passenger seat. After asking for his paperwork, he said he smelled a strong odor of intoxicants coming from inside the vehicle and on his breath when he was answering. When asking Jaramillo if he had been drinking, he replied that he had two beers and some tequila.
After performing and failing three sobriety tests, Jaramillo was taken to the Craighead County Detention Center and his breathalyzer test came back as a .14.
March 31At 2:30 a.m. Officer Steven
Wilson and Robert Peevey responded to a loud noise complaint near the Pi Kappa Alpha picnic tables. Upon Wilson’s arrival, he came into contact with eight individuals walking and stopped all of them. The victim, Chris Lawrence, said three black males had just assaulted him. After asking if he needed medical
attention, which he did not, he asked if there were any witnesses. There were not.
Lawrence told Wilson that he was alone when three black males came to him looking for a friend. When he said he didn’t know who they were looking for, words were exchanged and for no reason they got into a fight. He stated that he got one man on the ground while the other two hit him. After they hit him, all three males ran off and he could not identify them.
March 29Officers Keith Gilliam and Ron
Smith reported observing several vehicles parked in the fire lane located at University Hall around 8:30 p.m.
As they responded, they saw several males and females outside the building. Clint Sparks was standing outside with an open beer. He was advised to pour the contents out.
There were a few beer cans lying around that other subjects began to pick up. Sparks was allowed to leave with another individual who hadn’t been drinking.
— Compiled by Lindsey Blakely, News Editor
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the NPCs. This means that NPHCs cannot gen-erate the funds needed to pursue the loans nec-essary to support such a large project as the south-ern mansion style houses. Knowing this, the univer-sity did their best to try to accommodate the needs of the NPHCs.
Having such a large house without enough peo-ple to fill the rooms would ultimately be a waste of funds. Because of this, the university explored other options for NPHC Greek housing.
One of the options was to build a townhouse in which NPHC sororities would have to share with their fraternity brothers. For example, Alpha Kappa Alpha women would split the townhouse with their Alpha Phi Alpha brothers.
The townhouse would be arranged so that one side would be dedicated to the women, one side would be dedicated to the men and a neutral area would di-vide them. There would be about six beds in each of the townhouses, as this is all an NPHC organization is projected to be able to support – opposed to the 20 needed for an NPC organi-zation.
The NPHC organiza-tions as well as the non-Greek community were ap-palled.
“That’s wrong,” said Chelsea Best, an undecid-ed freshman, “I wouldn’t want to have to live with guys. It’s not fair.”
Answering to this, Hur-dle said, “The reason for the townhouse option op-posed to what is happen-ing for NPC is because of membership size. NPC can support 20 beds whereas NPHC cannot.”
Hurdle went on to say, “When we initially met with the advisors from each of the NPHC groups, they were the ones who were very interested in having that shared townhouse op-tion.”
Some NPHCs have ex-pressed that, though they are all Greek, they do not feel that NPHCs are viewed as an important part of the Greek community.
“Only thing we come together with is the step
show,” stated Marcus Shockley, a senior electri-cal engineering major of Phi Beta Sigma.
Having been forced to relocate from the house the Sigmas just acquired in spring 2008, Shockley feels like building these sorority houses is a great injustice to the NPHC community.
For the office of Greek life, it seems as if they are fighting a losing battle against perception.
“When you try to fight perception it’s just kind of an endless battle. We can’t make sure every sin-gle person understands . . . it’s the age-old [story of] Perception versus Reality,” Hurdle said.
Hurdle also stated that Greek Life is open to hear-ing any complaints or con-cerns from whoever is will-ing to be honest.
“For any student who needs to come in and ex-press concerns, this is a safe place. Our office oper-ates on an open door poli-cy,” she said. “We’re ready to have any conversation because we want to make sure the students feel heard and like they feel like we’re
doing the best that we can to give them the best expe-rience.”
Hurdle also stressed the fact that this is merely the beginning of the “Greek vil-lage phase for ASU.”
“Sorority housing isn’t the period, the sentence is still going. And that’s our big picture. We want a Greek village consisting of all three Greek branches – the IFCs, the NPCs and the NPHCs,” Hurdle said. “It may not be the ideal construction timeline that everyone would like to see but progress is being made.”
As for what African-American girls will see when they visit our cam-pus, Hurdle says, “The sky is the limit as to where NPHC can go. We’re go-ing into high schools to get NPHC out there for minor-ity students [so that] our chapters [can have] more members. With more mem-bership, you generate more money. [So that when] phase two [starts] and we are revisiting NPHC hous-ing we would be at a time when we could begin build-ing.”
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Ground breaking for the new Greek Village was held on Sat-urday. The date that actual demolition will begin, however, is still not set.
University of Arkan-sas’ head men’s basketball coach, Mike Anderson, earning $2.2 million annu-ally. And at the top spot is Bobby Petrino, U of A’s head football coach, earn-ing roughly $3 million a year, according to Arkan-sas Online’s database.
Arkansas Online’s “Right2Know” database contains salaries of state employees from all state agencies, public universi-ties and colleges.
Not only can Petrino, Anderson and Malzahn boast the highest coaching salaries in the state, but they also have the high-est salaries in the entire Arkansas Online “Right-2Know” database.
Of the top 10 state sala-ries in Arkansas, seven of them are in positions at the University of Arkan-sas for Medical Sciences. These UAMS salaries range from $550,000 to $648,327 for the positions of chancellor, surgeons
and professors.Meanwhile, high-salary
coaches are common. Pe-trino ranks among the highest of them, as the sixth highest paid coach in the nation trumped only by Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz ($3.78 million), LSU’s Les Miles ($3.75 million), Oklaho-ma’s Bob Stoops ($4.075 million), Alabama’s Nick Saban ($4.68 million), and the No. 1 highest paid coach, Mack Brown of Texas, who will earn $5.19 million this year.
This seems to be the trend for university coach-es. U of A’s head football coach is paid $2.6 million more than Obama, with the highest paid coach earning about $4.7 million more than the president.
These high salaries made some students ques-tion whether academics were the priority of their university, while others seemed to think these numbers made sense.
Sophomore communi-
cation studies major of Jonesboro, Rachel Car-mack, said she under-stands that universities have to pay a lot for a good coach, but said it makes more sense for the $500,000 pay difference between ASU’s president and head football coach to be divvied out among the professors.
Nevertheless, Nathan Shelby, a sophomore his-tory major of Bryant, said athletics build academics.
“Let’s face it, to most college kids, campus life-style is way more impor-tant than the classes, and sports are a huge part of that. You can’t get as ex-cited about a biology lec-ture as you can about a football game. So having a strong coach is as impor-tant as a good [university] president,” Shelby added.
For more information about Arkansas’ state salaries, visit arkansa-sonline.com/right2know/statesalaries/.
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Staring at the Sun
Ashdon Floyd, a senior education major of Brinkley, gets ready to serve the ball in a friendly volleyball game.
Students welcome the spring season with Springfest
Photods by: Staci Vandagriff
A Tropical Sno. booth was set up on the Heritage Lawn where students and faculty were able to obtain a free ice cone.
DeAnna Watson, a freshman phsycial science major of North Little Rock, tosses a bean bag in an attempt to win a free t-shirt.
AccountingCareersForDummies.com, which is associated with the popular brand of how-to books of the same name, recently announced in a press release that they ranked ASU’s accounting program the sixth best undergraduate program of seven throughout the state.
John C. Lukrich, Owner/CEO of the website, mentioned the placement criteria that were used, in addition to what this honor could mean for ASU’s faculty and students.
“The team at VRG (Vertical Response Group) carefully weighted and reviewed the following criteria in creating the list of top schools: academic rigor, levels of faculty experience, overall education value, class sizes, accreditation, financial aid availability to students and job placement/post graduation results,” he said.
“The areas of particular strength for ASU included preparing accounting students for a wide range of career opportunities in accounting, a challenging accounting curriculum, preparing students for the CPA (Certified Public Accountant) examination and developing the skills and knowledge students need to excel in the global market.”
He then explained what having the approval of the ‘for dummies’ brand name could do to improve the name recognition of ASU’s accounting program.
“The ‘for dummies’ brand is pretty familiar to most college students. In creating the list of accounting schools by state, we reviewed various sources of information available and compiled the findings. ASU’s inclusion on the list is really just a confirmation that they offer a strong business accounting program, and we are just calling attention to that fact. Whenever a college or university receives recognition for their work or the schools well-prepared graduates who enter the workforce- it’s a positive,” he said.
Dr. Len T. Frey, dean of the college of business, said the following about the accounting program, though he did not know enough about the ranking to address it specifically.
“The accounting program at ASU is well-respected by accounting firms throughout Arkansas that hire our accounting
graduates. Over the past two or three years, the Masters of Accountancy degree underwent fairly significant curriculum changes which have further strengthened this program. In general, the job market for outstanding accountant graduates is very strong. I would encourage any student with an interest in this field to give very strong consideration to pursuing an accounting degree, as it prepares graduates for job opportunities in both the public and private sectors,” he said.
Lukrich also went on to explain the origins of the website, as well as the relationship with ‘for dummies.’
“Accountingcareersfordummies.com was created by VRG, an exclusive online licensee of the ‘for dummies’ brand by John Wiley publishing. The site was created expressly for prospective accounting students in the U.S. to provide useful and authoritative content to students seeking a career in accounting. The site presents information, such as in-depth profiles on the leading accounting schools in the U.S., detailed information on accounting credentials and provocative interviews with thought-leaders in the accounting industry. There are quite a few accounting-related websites that offer little more than merely a list of available online schools and we wanted to create a site that was relevant and useful to future accounting students. VRG has been working with the ‘for dummies’ brand for the past three years.”
Lukrich noted that the website is looking to publish this list annually.
Lukrich’s final statement was, “ASU stacks right up with some of the best accounting programs in Arkansas. ASU’s accounting program provides an educational experience that prepares students for a wide range of career opportunities and a challenging curriculum. It also develops students with the knowledge and skills to perform in a global marketplace.”
For further information, you can visit http://www.accountingcareersfordummies.com, you can contact Lukrich via e-mail at [email protected], or you can contact Dean Frey at [email protected], or call the college of business at (870) 972-3035.
ASU named in top accounting schools
Casey RinaldiStaff Writer
Whether it is finding ways to make some extra cash, or just trying to find the next piece of clothing that is trending, ASU stu-dents will soon have the option to sell unwanted clothes and search through the racks of name-brand clothing at a discounted price at Plato’s Closet.
Jordan Prater of Jonesboro attended ASU from 2004-2007 and then transferred to the Univer-sity of Arkansas.
Prater began shopping at Plato’s Closet in Fay-etteville and eventually became an employee work-ing her way up as a key holder.
“I know exactly how life is in college and trying to fit in having the name brand clothing, but not having the money,” Prater said.
Prater moved to Jonesboro in August 2011 after getting married and believed that Jonesboro was the perfect place to open a store with the fran-chise.
Plato’s closet has sev-eral different locations in Arkansas, but
Because of territory lines associated with the company, Jonesboro was not an area within the Pla-to Closet territory.
In January 2012, after a revision of the compa-ny territory lines, Prater was able to start the pro-cess of opening a store in Jonesboro.
“We are in the process of looking and negotiating a location for the store,” Prater said.
The idea behind Plato’s Closet is nothing like the consignment shops stu-dents are familiar with in Jonesboro.
Local consignment shops do not offer a compensa-tion for bringing in items and the stores that do buy items, sellers have to wait till the items are sold be-fore receiving any money.
Senior math education major Courtney Smith of Jonesboro, visited a Plato’s closet in Houston, Texas. “A Plato’s closet would be another great addition to the consignment stories in the area, as well as giving students another option to sell unwanted clothing,” said Smith.
The concept behind Pla-to’s Closet is buying gently
used clothing and acces-sories that are top-name brands, trendy, clean and in good condition.
“Most students are liv-ing on a budget, and still want to have a sense of fashion. After all, college is the time that most of us re-ally come into our own and what better way to show-case our personality than what we choose to wear on a daily basis,” said Katelyn Brown a Public Relations major from Morrilton, Ark.
A typical Plato’s Closet store will buy items that have been in retail stores within the past 12-18 months and are current styles still being sold.
“This is a win-win for students who are trying to get some extra cash, or just to save money on those name brand clothing items,” said Prater.
Once Prater finalizes a place of location, and reno-vations take place, her plan is to open the store in July for a two-month period to buy clothing.
“We are pushing for a grand opening in Septem-ber, if everything goes ac-cording to plan, and we have the stock to open” Prater said.
Plato’s Closet making its way to JonesboroAshley Helliwell
Staff Writer
The University Heights Lion Club sponsored the 23rd Annual Auto Show held on March 31 and April 1 at the Convocation Cen-ter.
Roughly $15,000 was raised over the weekend between registration, en-try fees and sponsorships, with the proceeds going to Lions Club projects.
The service club donates an estimated $10,000 a year toward free glasses for people who cannot af-ford them.
Entry fees were $40 for
cars and $35 for motorcy-cles. Sponsorships were The show featured custom-ized cars, modified stock cars, jacked up trucks and restored antiques.
About 140 cars were showcased in the auto show, which displayed ve-hicles from a Volkswagen Thing to a Ford Fairlane.
Nucor’s chief executive Dan DiMicco’s 2011 carbon-fiber corvette was a high-light for many attendees. “It’s really cool,” 6-year-old Jonathan Treadwell said.
The carbon-fiber Cor-vette was one of only 200 built by Chevrolet and
originally owned by Mark Martin.
Danny Ward’s Roadrun-ner caught the attention of ASUJ alumni Chris Mc-Nabb although, “The Shel-by GT 350 stole the show for me,” McNabb said.
McNabb is a Mustang enthusiast, and was im-pressed by the collection displayed on Saturday. “You can tell people real-ly put some time and effort into these cars today,” Mc-Nabb said.
Before the event ended, Gus Malzahn also greeted the crowd as the new head football coach at ASUJ.
Auto show hits big at Convocation CenterJessica Rainwater
Staff Writer