The debate over whether Arkansas State University should play the University of Ar-kansas in any NCAA sanctioned event could come down to a House bill recently submitted to the state legislature or by a simple vote by sports fans on the Internet.

HB 2274, submitted by District 27 Repre-sentative Andy Mayberry (R) of Hensley, and

co-sponsored by District 58 Representative Harold Copenhavor (D) of Jonesboro, pro-poses a one-time meeting between the two universities at War Memorial Stadium in Lit-tle Rock, beginning with “the earliest possible regular season” with regards to NCAA rules, contractual obligations of the universities ex-isting on the date the bill was amended and the availability of War Memorial.

Mayberry, who has held office since be-

ing elected in 2010, is attempting to make the prospect of a game between the state’s only two Football Bowl Subdivision programs more “palatable” to legislatures by making it a benefit matchup where at least $250,000 of ticket revenue from the game goes to a char-itable cause.

The proposed game is one Mayberry has thought for many years should take place for a variety of reasons. The representative said he

drafted a bill months ago for a regular series between the universities, but it was Copen-haver’s idea to make it a one-off benefit game.

“It had become obvious over a course of a period of time that without a little bit of urg-ing from somewhere on the outside that that probably wasn’t going to take place as long as it was left to the administrations to do so,” Mayberry said in a phone interview Wednes-day afternoon. “They’re both state supported

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Kim MyoungHyang | Staff PhotographerSarah Bish, a senior psychology major of Searcy, Ethan Reed, a sophomore psychology major of Concord, Xee Lee, a senior psychology major of Jonesboro, and Hayley Beall, a sophomore psychology major of Jonesboro are ready for their trip to Europe. “It is the perfect opportunity for me. I’m excited to go,” Reed said.

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AndersonWinsAs the “Petrus era” ends, another begins

as junior D’Andre Anderson was named the newest Student Government Asso-ciation president Wednesday evening.

The announcement came unlike those in years past when the results were posted outside the Leadership Center. This year, they decided to make a formal announcement in the Student Union.

When Anderson’s name was called a little after 5:30 p.m., he said he was excited to know all of the hard work paid off.

“I feel like it was my time to continue what the former presi-dents have been doing,” Anderson said. “I’ve wanted to be the SGA pres-ident ever since I came to Camp Astate as a freshman, and now I can finally do that.”

Anderson, a biology major of Little Rock, isn’t a rookie to the SGA procedures, coming off a term as the chief of staff in Hunter Petrus’ second year as president.

Before that, Anderson filled SGA seats as a freshman and sophomore senator. He also has experience as a resident assistant and is involved in several student organizations.

Anderson said former SGA president Adrian Ev-erett was his role model when it came to leadership at ASU.

“He really took me under his wing ever since I came to ASU,” Anderson said. “He showed me how things

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Internationals showcase traditionsAfter the weeklong, la-zy-filled, travel-packed, vaca-tion of spring break, students will return to experience a week of cultural events pre-sented by the Student Activ-ities Board.Wade Shapp, marketing di-rector of Student Activities Board said, “All ASU stu-dents are invited to come just like any other SAB event and

anyone with motivation to learn about cultures.” Cultural Week’s activ-ities include a cultural showcase at 11 a.m. to

1 p.m. Tuesday, March 26 on the first floor of the Reng

Student Union. International students will showcase their culture, clothing and henna tattoos will be offered. “ASU is a very diverse uni-versity. Students walk around campus seeing different cul-tures and have classes with international students, but no one gets to know them unless they talk to them,” Shapp said.Tyler Durham, sophomore international business major of Cave City said, “I think Cultural Week is a good idea. It lets people share their cul-ture. For students who have never left Arkansas, ASU is

the only place where they are exposed to different cultures.” Mohammed Almistadi, pres-ident of the Saudi Student Club said his group plans to represent their culture at the showcase. “The club is going to be involved in the Cultur-al Showcase because it is a great opportunity for us to represent our culture, which is one of our goals.” The Saudi Student Club will have Ara-bic name writing, Saudi tra-ditional clothing and Arabic coffee.Almistadi thinks Cultural Week is a great event. “Every culture is unique and has its own features and attributes that have been shaped by the effects of many factors and elements. Sometimes cultures get clouded by mis-understandings and stereo-types,” Almistadi said. “This organized event by the uni-versity is an appreciated ini-tiative that proves that ASU is a beacon of knowledge and wisdom. Also, this event aims to highlight the vast culture represented by ASU stu-dents.”The Chinese Student Orga-nization is planning to have traditional clothes with pho-to opportunities as well as display boards about Chinese festivals and Chinese decora-

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Psychology Department offers Europe trip

The deadline is coming up for students to register for the European history of psychol-ogy trip, sponsored by the Department of Psychology. Applications for the two-week trip are being accepted until the end of this month, with three upper-level psychology credit hours being awarded to participants.

Led by Amy Pearce, associate professor of psychology, the trip will be June 11 through June 26, and the participants will be staying in several hostels.

“This trip provides the experience focused on people in Europe who had been very influ-ential in the psychological field,” Pearce said. “There are many things to learn in Europe, where psychology emerged.”

Psychology formally originated in Leipzig, Germany in 1879, a site participants will visit on their trip.

The creation of the first psychology labo-ratory conducted by a German physiologist, Wilhelm Wundt, is generally considered the

official beginning of psychology as a field of science, separating it from philosophy and physiology.

Pearce also said that learning and under-standing those notable psychologists and sci-entists enable the participants to integrate dif-ferent areas of psychology and develop a rich appreciation for the roots of their discipline.

Pearce, who has led psychology-based stu-dent trips to both Australia and Turkey, en-courages people to join the trip.

This time, the tour will be a course-and-tour, which consists of two weeks of study and two weeks of travel, all of which will cost $3,400, plus the cost of tuition. It includes the airfare, room accommodations, rail pass card, site admission and some meals.

During the first week, the participants will attend orientation sessions in Jonesboro and study the European history of psychology, in preparation for the trip.

On June 11, the group will head to Zurich, Switzerland.

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Just when I think I don’t have to deal with people thinking they are “popular” in high school, I have to see and hear all this hype about reality TV shows that are far from reality.

Some reality shows focus on the worst of human behavior, like disloyalty and back-stabbing motivated by greed in shows like Survivor.

Judges on American Idol seem to have issues too. The show is in its 12th season and is starting to get old. The concept of the series is to find new solo recording artists and the winner is chosen by the viewers.

There are shows being produced now trying to find singers. American Idol might have been successful, but it should come to a close. All good things must unfor-tunately come to an end.

The Bachelor and The Bachelorette shows both attempt to help find a romantic match, but only a couple of months into the engagement the couples al-ways call it quits. They make Kim Kardashian look like a committed going through engagement, then ends her marriage to Kris Humphries after 72 days. They are still not legally divorced, and

yet she is expecting Kanye West’s baby. The media is pretty much congratulating her.

Bristol Palin was on season 11 of “Dancing with the Stars.” That show might as well be called “Dancing with Random People.” She has not done anything that deserves recognition.

She is supposedly a teen pregnancy prevention spokesperson. If that were so there probably wouldn’t be so many pregnant teenage girls featured on shows like “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom.”

These shows try to focus on the challenges of deal-ing with relationships and raising a child, but most of the girls end up getting in more trouble or end up being pregnant again during

filming. Having their first pregnancy filmed for Ameri-ca to see clearly taught them the lesson.

Our society gives so much attention to people for their attractiveness and wealth. We give attention to people who are doing something positive for a brief second, then we go back to focusing on people for the bad things they’ve done.

We are all humans’ and make mistakes because no one is perfect. It is frus-trating though. It looks like people on reality shows are being praised and paid for their mistakes.

These reality TV per-sonalities complain about the paparazzi, always being in the public eye and not getting much privacy. They might have a contract with their show, but if they really

hate their life they can get out of the show and be an av-erage American. That might mean they would actually have to work or go to college to earn a living.

I obviously do not care for reality TV shows. I don’t mind shows that film a celeb-rity’s everyday life, if the ce-lebrity is a positive influence, using a talent they have been blessed with and that talent is their passion. They can also be filmed doing philan-thropy work because he or she is really passionate about the cause, not the attention. It would be even better if ordinary people were filmed for their philanthropy work, for being a really good teach-er or another occupation that impacts so many lives in such a great way.

Reality is the quality or state of things being actual or true, rather than as one might wish them to be. Reality shows are supposedly actual and true, but maybe they should find some better people who are deserved of the recognition.

Jennifer Wells is junior jour-nalism major of Mountain Home.

Imagine the days of yore when knights rode around on horses to save damsels in distress and a king spelled out the supreme law of the land while a class of peas-ants worked to sustain him. It looks a lot like 2013 America (without the chivalry, obvi-ously).

The executive branch of the United States govern-ment has been absorbing power for the last 225 years.

While the Constitution grants power to a variety of elected officials in the United States, the problem of decid-ing which powers should go to what branch still remains a gray area.

The Constitution was spe-cifically vague about a lot of hot topics so it could earn quick ratification among the various states. In fact, the Constitution only has about 4,500 words (excluding the Bill of Rights), however it es-tablishes the federal govern-ment in its entirety.

This fogginess in the Con-stitution has led to an incred-ible power struggle among the branches of government.

While Congress gets an adequate amount of the loose power, the Supreme Court can impact law a great deal by judging important cases such as Brown v. Board of Educa-tion or Roe v. Wade.

A lot of implied power goes to the executive branch, however, which can lead to a very dangerous situation.

The executive branch is headed by the president, but contains many more import-

ant positions. Most of the bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. belongs to the execu-tive branch. Do to the “spoils system” made popular by Andrew Jackson, whenever a president takes office, he can bring all his political buddies to key positions around the executive branch.

The bureaucracy was much smaller in Jackson’s time, but as the poet Oscar Wilde once said, “The Bu-reaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the ex-panding Bureaucracy.”

The biggest problem with a bulk of the bureaucracy fall-ing under executive control is that one elected official, the president, can appoint a plethora of other unelected officials.

The secretary of state, sec-retary of defense, secretary of treasury, etc. all enter office with very little input from constituents. Even when ad-vocacy groups band togeth-er to try to get Congress to block a nominee, there is still little effect.

For example, when Chuck Hagel was nominated as secretary of defense, many

conservative and pro-Isra-el groups called and emailed senators to vote against the nomination.

The initial attempt was blocked, but only as politi-cal collateral for the Senate Republicans to gather more information on the Benghazi attacks. In short, the Ameri-can voter has practically no say in choosing these offi-cials.

Chuck Hagel’s prede-cessor, Leon Panetta, was the man that made the con-troversial decision to allow women to serve front-line roles in the military.

This man was not elect-ed. Congress did not vote on this measure. Even Michelle Obama has altered public policy.

Half-way through Pres-ident Obama’s first term, his wife, Michelle, publicly pressured the department of education to make healthier school lunches.

It is simply remarkable that a person who was not elected, nominated, or vot-ed for by Congress can have such an impact on public pol-icy.

Obama clearly holds a lot of power. He also acknowl-edges his executive power. On Feb. 6, President Obama released a memo justifying the specified killing of any in-dividual.

This particular memo was not acknowledged by the Obama administration until pressure from Congress and the press encouraged the ad-ministration to release the in-formation to select members of Congress.

In this example, the execu-tive branch didn’t even share critical information concern-ing the ability to wield lethal drone strikes to the Intelli-gence Committee in Con-gress.

This example shows the further proliferation of exec-utive power. The President of the United States now has the ability to perform a justified execution via drone strike on any individual without due process of trial.

So, looking at the execu-tive branch of our govern-ment, does it look like the monarchy in days of yore first described? Perhaps that was an exaggeration.

If you were to ask the founding fathers the same question, however, they would probably agree that the president acts more like King George III than the president that they awarded limited powers to in the Con-stitution.

Korey Speaight is a sopho-more histyory major of Jones-boro.

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Implied power shouldn’t imply kingshipSocial media has been abuzz this week after a bill was filed

in the state legislature proposing the Red Wolves play the Hogs in a one-time benefit football game, with a portion of profits going to a charity.

The bill, presented by Andy Mayberry and Harold Copen-haver, encourages economic activity and statewide interest in intra-collegiate activities and increased community and philanthropic support. According to the bill, the game would be played on neutral ground, at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.

Along with the bill, the two representatives created a web-site, www.arkansasasubenefit.com, which allows Arkansans to vote on whether the game should be played, and if so, which charity should receive the profits.

Although the Arkansas Children’s Hospital is in the lead by a large margin, those that follow include The Arkan-sas Veteran’s Home, War Memorial Stadium, the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and the Little Rock Zoo.

Not only would profits go to an in-state charity, voted on by Arkansans, but it would finally soothe the push for the two teams to play each other after many years of contention.

Not only would the game proceeds go toward a philan-thropic cause, but it would ultimately benefit ASU’s players by allowing them to prove themselves worthy of their instate rivals at UA.

Right now, there is a strong message that says our football team isn’t good enough to play the Hogs. This is unfair to our football team members, and it doesn’t accurately represent their strength and ability as Red Wolves.

U of A has played several of our opponents in the Sunbelt Conference, including the University of Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), which beat U of A this season, after which the Red Wolves beat ULM. If the Hogs can play other Sunbelt teams, why not play us and keep the money, UA pays these teams to pay, instate.

Several may argue we are not at the level needed to com-pete with the Hogs. However, this isn’t true. In 2004-05, the Lady Red Wolves basketball team played the Lady Razor-backs in an NIT matchup at the end of season, and ASU won.

Several states have in-state games comparable to an ASU - UA matchup.

LSU plays the University of Louisiana-Lafayette regularly; Middle Tennessee has played the University of Tennessee for years and Iowa University regularly plays Iowa State.

It’s time for ASU and U of A to finally compete on the football field.

The benefits for ASU could be endless, and it’s disheart-ening that it takes a play from the Legislature to finally make this idea a real possibility.

Although this bill proposes the game as a one-time event, we hope that if it is passed, it will lead to an annual event that the Red Wolves, and Hog fans, can look forward to each year – a win-win for all of us.

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needed to be done here and treated me like his little brother. He taught me a lot.”

Anderson said Petrus also taught him a lot in terms of leadership while acting as his chief of staff.

“As president, I just want to start off the year by continuing what he was already work-ing on,” Anderson said. “They’ve put a lot of hard work into what they’re doing right now, and I want to see those through before start-ing anything new.”

Anderson’s running mate, and now SGA vice president, Sarah Hamilton, also holds the title of Miss ASU.

The second-year junior, and Paragould na-tive, hasn’t yet held a position with SGA. But, that’s exactly why Anderson said he chose her.

“I wanted someone who could think out-side the box and didn’t have experience with SGA so they could give us a different opinion,” Anderson said. “She has a different friend group than just the SGA senators. She can reach out to different groups that aren’t really represented and can give us a different per-spective.”

Hamilton, a communication disorders ma-jor, said she’s eager to jump into SGA head-first.

“I’ve always been interested in SGA and (Anderson) is so highly qualified, he’s the perfect president for ASU,” Hamilton said. “I know I have big shoes to fill, because Copen-haver did such a wonderful job, but I’m ready to start.”

Petrus will continue to go to committee meetings as the SGA president until the next SGA senate meeting on April 9. There, Petrus will pass down the title to Anderson and the new SGA staff will be sworn in.

“Overall, I’m really impressed with both of the candidates,” Petrus said. “They both worked really hard and ultimately, both can-

didates would’ve done a great job.”Petrus will finish his two-term reign and

said it’s a bittersweet experience to be finally finishing his duties.

“It didn’t really hit me until we made the announcement,” Petrus said. “It’s exciting that someone is here to fill my spot, and I’m proud of everything I’ve accomplished as president. But, for a little while, I’m sure there’s going to feel like there’s a void.”

Petrus said that he’s confident in leaving Anderson in his position, and the completion of his role as chief of staff is foretelling of his upcoming job.

“(Anderson) did a great job as chief of staff, he was really on top of his A-game,” Petrus said. “He showed that he wanted to be the next SGA president, and him being really in-volved in SGA will help him transition well.”

Petrus said he believes either candidate would’ve been great in the position of presi-dent though.

“Jack (Ellington) showed excellent leader-ship abilities and while (he and Katie Calla-way) didn’t win, I’m confident they’ll be very involved and do a lot for ASU,” Petrus said.

Hamilton and Anderson have already cho-sen most of their SGA staff, and will begin meetings today as they start their term as president and vice president.

“There’s a lot of learning that they’ll have to do at first,” Petrus said. “I think (Anderson) is prepared and he’ll have my guidance along the way.”

Anderson said he’s eager to be in the of-fice and his plans for ASU revolve around academic excellence, new traditions and in-volvement in the Jonesboro community, all of which he plans to initiate after completing the work Petrus has already begun.

“The best days are ahead of us,” Anderson said. “It’s going to be a long, fun ride.”

universities. It really hasn’t made sense to me why the game hasn’t taken place.”

To fully gauge the pub-lic’s interest in the legisla-tion, Mayberry spent money out of his own pocket to set up www.arkansasasubene-fit.com, where fans can vote on what Mayberry is calling “The People’s Game.” The site asks two questions, if the vis-itor wants the game to take place and to what organiza-tion they would prefer the minimum $250,000 be do-nated.

The choices include Ar-kansas’ Children’s Hospi-tal, the Arkansas Veteran’s Home, War Memorial Stadi-um, the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and the Little Rock Zoo.

Voting ends at midnight Saturday night and the re-sults could determine just how far HB2274 advances in the legislature.

“If for some reason the people vote that they do not want to see this take place or do not want us to legislate it, then we will pull the bill down and we won’t spend a single moment of legislative time on it,” Mayberry said.

At press time, a total of 10,099 votes had been cast, with 53.3 percent in favor of the game occurring, with only 6,456 votes going toward the recipient of the game rev-enue with 71.4 percent voting for the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

“I’m not sure how far in this legislative process we’ll be able to take it. There’s a lot of folks out there who are not in favor of this for a variety of different reasons,” Mayber-ry said. “There certainly has been some positive respons-

es; I’ve also heard not so pos-itive responses.”

Mayberry believes the prospect of a game between the Red Wolves and the Ra-zorbacks is also an “econom-ic” issue for the state. The representative believes state taxpayer’s money would be more wisely spent going to-ward an in-state game than the U of A giving the Uni-versity of Louisiana-Monroe $500,000 to play at War Me-morial in 2012.

Should the bill pass, it would cancel out the U of A’s policy regarding playing in-state programs that has stood since John Barnhill be-came Arkansas’ AD in 1946. The two universities have only faced off twice in NCAA sanctioned events, with Ar-kansas winning an NIT game in 1987 in Fayetteville and ASU’s women’s basketball team winning a 2005 NIT game in Jonesboro, 98-84.

Governor Mike Beebe, a consistent presence at ASU football games, was unavail-able for comment. Matt De-Cample, the governor’s com-munications director and spokesman, said the Amagon native has been steady in his view of a proposed match-up between the schools since he took office in 2007.

“He thinks the two schools should play. He thinks it would be good for both in-stitutions and for the state. However, he does not think it is the government’s role to compel them to play,” De-Cample said. “He thinks that games between the U of A and ASU should occur when both school boards decide that it’s time.”

Mayberry doesn’t know if Beebe’s disposition toward

such a bill will affect his fel-low representatives voting decision, but he cites more than one “precedent” in the country where a state’s leg-islature has stepped in with bill requiring two major pro-grams to play each other.

Among his examples is the “Iron Bowl” between the University of Alabama and Auburn University, which re-sumed in 1948 after the state threatened to pull funding from both schools unless they continued the series that had been suspended since 1907. The University of Florida of the SEC and Florida State in the ACC are also required to play by state law.

Mohajir, like Beebe, would rather a game occur between the two universities through a cooperative relationship with his fellow athletic direc-tor than by other means.

“I would love to work with Jeff Long to schedule any ath-letic competition between the schools, that’s my stance,” Mohajir said. “I think it’s good for the state, I think it’s good for the programs, I think it’s good for the budgets. I think it’s good for everything.”

ASU is scheduled to play the University of Arkan-sas-Pine Bluff in football for the opening game of the 2013 season on Aug. 31.

“We can’t say we want to play the University of Arkansas and not play in-state teams ourselves,” Moha-jir said.

As of Wednesday night, HB 2274 had been transferred to the committee on House Rules after being reported correctly engrossed, meaning it was in proper form to go through the bill process.

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tions. “We want more students and faculty to learn more about our culture and promote cultural awareness around the campus,” said Shanshan Ai, president of the Chinese Student Organi-zation. “While we bring in different perspec-tives to the campus, the campus becomes more accommodative to the international students. The event benefits both local and foreign students.”Later Tuesday night, the Chinese Acrobats will provide entertainment at 7 p.m. in Cen-tennial Hall of the Student Union.Colea Blann, president of SAB said, “Every-thing is free, even the admission and tattoos. It is just a fun time for students to engage in the cultures.”Cultural Week will close with the Women’s Leadership Conference, “Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination.” The free conference will be at noon and conclude at 5 p.m. Thursday on the third floor of the Union.

The annual Women’s Leadership Conference features workshops about balancing personal and work life, branding and other great tools for success. There will also be the Living Leg-end Luncheon, featuring the First Lady of Ar-kansas, Ginger Beebe, as the guest speaker. This year’s Living Legend Luncheon features the first lady of Arkanas, Ginger Beebe, as the guest speaker.Candence Williams<< look up name), pro-gram coordinator of the Multicultural Center said, “This conference is for Women’s Histo-ry Month, but it also ties into Cultural Week because it is targeting women of all cultures. Men can also attend.”Blann looks forward to the upcoming event. “I think Cultural Week will be a success and will continue to happen annually because our international population is growing and will prosper and become bigger every year,” she said.

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During the trip, students will travel to six differ-ent countries: Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Czech Re-public, France and England.

Psychology major, Xee Lee, is excited to join the trip.

“I’m really excited because all of the places we are going to see are psychology related. We are going to see places where psychologists have done their studies and thera-pies,” Lee said.

The participants will vis-it the Freud Museum, Kafka house, Prague Castle, Dar-win’s Down House, Univer-sity of Leipzig and “Bedlam” Hospital, all being historic psychological landmarks.

“It will help me under-stand the history of psychol-ogy better and where some of the therapies originated from,” she added. “If some-

one has the opportunity to study abroad, I recommend them taking it. It’s definitely a life-changing experience.”

The trip isn’t just opened to psychology majors. Stu-dents of all majors are en-couraged to participate as well as Graduate students and students of other univer-sities.

Non-psychology majors can apply credit to their gen-eral elective hours.

Hayley Beall, a sophomore psychology major of Jones-boro, will take the trip to Eu-rope as wel.

“Vienna is the place I want to visit,” Beall said. “I want to learn more about psychology to help people. It’s pretty in-teresting to me,” she added.

The trip helps students who plan to work in the psy-chology field in the future.

Sarah Bish, a senior psy-chology major of Searcy, is looking forward to it as well.

“I’m learning psychology because I want to help people through counseling and this trip would make it more real,” Bish said.

Among the six countries she will be visiting, Pearce is looking forward to visiting the Czech Republic.

“It is the country I’ve nev-er been to. Czech (Republic) will be very different. It’s ex-otic,” Pearce said, who has visited Europe in the past.

Currently, there are 10 participants confirmed on the list, but there is no limit to those who can attend. Peo-ple who are interested in the trip need to apply by the end of March.

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The morning rain had passed and the sun was shining as Arkansas State’s rugby team took on the No. 1 ranked Run-ning Eagles from Life University on Saturday, March 9.

The Red Wolves came back in the second half to beat Life 28-22, knocking the Eagles out of first place.

“It’s great to start off the season with a win and it’s always an awesome feeling beating Life, no matter what they are ranked. We try not to look at what our opponents are ranked or how they play, we just focus on ourselves and make sure that we get better each week and put out a better performance,” senior fly half Patrick Sullivan said. “We have to take what we learned in the game and keep building on it.”

With the wind blowing in Life’s favor, the first half finished with the Eagles on top 11-5. Senior lock Rob Hayslip was the first Red Wolf to have a successful try in the game, who said he kept telling himself “Don’t screw this up!” as he got closer and closer to scoring.

At the end of the first half, head coach Alex Houser said the halftime talk consisted of working on defensive play and to not worry as much about the strength of the wind because it wasn’t such a bad thing.

“I told them to use the wind to our advantage and to play the territory a little bit more, which we started to after the first 10 minutes of the second half,” Houser said. “We needed to be patient and let the game come to them and not force it too much, and to believe in the systems we’ve got.”

Following the coach’s orders, the team used the wind and scored 23 points in the second half.

“We knew that when we switched sides we were within striking distance and could really control territory,” junior scrum half Dylan Carrion said. “In the first half, we had a few breaks that ended in penalties or passes that didn’t go to hand. In the second half, we did a much better job of finishing the

breaks and taking care of the ball; we improved as the game went on.”

Sullivan had one try, a conversion and two penalty kicks in the game to make him the leading scorer with 13 points. Hayslip, sophomore wing Dale Bates and freshman back row Kirk Pretorius each had five points.

Saturday, March 16 at 1 p.m., ASU will take on the Daven-port Panthers from Grand Rapids, Mich. The Panthers (1-1) lost to Life 0-48 on March 2; however, Houser said the team still needs to go out and play Davenport as equals and not look at the Panthers as the underdogs.

“Davenport is a young, hungry team,” Hayslip said. “We know they’ll come into the game much improved from their game against Life and we expect a stern test. If we keep our intensity up and execute our game plan, we can win.”

The Arkansas State Red Wolves baseball team picked up a key win to take them into their conference opener this week-end, splitting their midweek series with the Missouri State Bears with a 7-5 win yesterday afternoon at Tomlinson Sta-dium.

Only four of the 12 runs were earned in a game that saw

four errors, including three from the Bears. Senior Brandon Milhouse picked up the win for the Red Wolves, throwing three scoreless innings in middle relief, while freshman Adam Grantham collected his first career save.

The Bears claimed Tuesday’s match 6-2 on some extra-in-ning heroics that saw them edge ASU in the 11th inning, and they again jumped the Red Wolves to start Wednesday’s game.

Junior Cody Woodhouse got the start for ASU and was hit hard early, surrendering seven hits and five runs in four

innings, though only one run was earned. He also issued a pair of walks.

Catcher Luke Voit’s one-out single set up Conor Smith’s RBI fielder’s choice, scoring Matheny after Red Wolves shortstop Dustin Jones made a diving play to snag the ball as it crossed sec-ond base and threw the ball to Alex Potts, but Potts was un-able to turn the double play.

MSU right fielder Spen-cer Johnson belted a two-run standup double on a 2-0 pitch and was then scored by a dou-ble from Travis McComack to put the Bears ahead 4-0 after a half of an inning.

The Red Wolves matched MSU in the bottom of the second. Potts and DH Ryan Emery walked and after a fielding error on pitcher Mat Hall, that would end the in-ning, allowing Kaleb Brown to reach first, which loaded

the bases for Jones, whose second swing tore down the right foul line but stayed fair, resulting in a two-run double.

The Bears’ pitching and defense failed further, with Brown scoring on an error from Eric Cheray and Jones coming in af-ter Hall issued a bases-loaded walk to put the game even.

MSU briefly retook the lead in the fourth after an RBI dou-ble from Cheray, but catcher Ryan Roberts smashed a pitch from reliever Zach Merciez onto the warning track of the cen-ter-right gap in the fifth to score Logan Uxa and once again tie the game.

“One of the biggest offensive plays of the game besides Em-ery’s two-out was Ryan Roberts beating out that double play ball,” Raffo said. “That extended the inning and it gave us a chance to get more runs. It is amazing the way little things happen in this game that can turn into positives.”

A pair of singles in the seventh from Uxa and Potts set up Roberts with one out, but he struck out swinging, bring-ing Emery to the plate in a tight spot. With the count full, he bombed the ball into the opposite-field gap, and Potts and Uxa came home to give ASU the lead for good.

“[Merciez} started me off 3-0 on three fastballs outside, and coach Raffo gave me the green light [to swing], and I took it and got to 3-2. I sat on the same pitch, a fastball away, and crushed it in the gap,” Emery said.

“We were real excited about the energy and what we brought to the table after the performance last night,” head coach Tommy Raffo said. “We knew it was going to be a dog fight today and they are very good club. We got down early and that was tough after last night, but we battled back and were able to come back and tie the game and eventually take the lead and were able to close it out.”

The Red Wolves now turn their attention to this weekend’s series against UALR to begin conference play. ASU will travel to Little Rock for three games before heading to Missouri for two midweek games over Spring Break.

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ZACH LOTTSTAFF WRITER

Xinzhong Zhao | Staff PhotographerFreshman Kevin Fitzpatrick connects bat to ball during a game vs. the University of Alabama-Birming-ham last weekend.

Kim MyoungHyang |Staff PhotographerSophomore lock Harry Higgins takes a line-out ball for the Red Wolves against Life University last Saturday. The Red Wolves won the match 28-22.

MEREDITH SCOTTSTAFF WRITER

The Arkansas State women’s golf team picked up its fourth top-three finish of the season Tuesday, recording a combined 937 at the Jackrabbit Invitational to finish third among 13 teams.

Following the conclusion of the second round that was sus-pended yesterday due to darkness, the Red Wolves shot a fi-nal-round 305 for its lowest score of the spring and third best this year.

ASU’s 937 total was also its best this spring and third best of the season.

A-State closed out the first round Monday in third place as well with a 313 and posted a 319 for the second round, which it concluded this morning with the final three holes.

Jennifer Loiacano led ASU with a 226 to place a season-best third, collecting her third top-10 finish this season. The senior ended the 54-hole tournament with her best round, a 74, that followed a 75 and 77 for the first two, respectively.

“I am very excited about Jennifer playing so well,” head coach M.J. Desbiens Shaw said. “She definitely showed some maturity, drew from her experience and really put three good rounds together. She has worked hard trying to improve her own scores and help the team, and she was able to accomplish that goal at this tournament.”

Loiacano was one of three ASU players to finish among the top-11 individual leaders, joined by senior Anna Carling and sophomore Marie Couffignal.

Carling claimed a tie for seventh place to collect her third top-10 finish this season, while Couffignal was tied for 11th.

Carling also closed out the tournament with her best round as she shot a 73, the lowest score by an ASU player over the last two days.

Carling’s 73 followed her 79 and 78 for the first and second rounds. Couffignal, who joined the ASU team in the spring, collected her second top-20 finish over her first three tourna-ments played.

She was tied for 11th, her best finish of the season, with rounds of 76, 80 and 76.

“I’m just so pleased with Marie and the effort that she is showing,” Shaw said. “She just joined us this spring, but has already made a huge im-pact and I’m really excited about that. I thought Anna did some nice things as well, and she showed some great playing ability and really hung in there. Our goal is to win, but this third-place finish will still give us some good momentum heading into the UALR tournament.”

Also competing for Ar-kansas State, Anna Flanrey finished tied for 53rd place with a 253 and Courtney Manning 57th with a 256.

The Red Wolves finished just five strokes behind sec-

ond-place Eastern Washington, while Houston Baptist won the title with a 926.

Loiacano ended the tournament three strokes behind sec-ond-place Marissa Borja of Eastern Washington, and North Dakota State’s Amy Anderson was the individual medalist with a 209.

A-State returns to action March 25-26 at the UALR Classic in Hot Springs, Ark.

Courtesy Photo |Sports InformationSenior Jennifer Loiacano takes a swing during the Jackrabbit Invitational in Primm, Nev. The Lady Red Wolves finished third among 13 teams.

Women’s golf takes third in Jackrabbit Invitational

Baseball picks up key win, splitting midweek series

Rugby defeats Life

Takako Okumura |Staff PhotographerSophomore fullback Tom Haussrer runs the ball as Life University’s Calvin Nell tries to tackle him during Saturday’s game.