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ASU community fights for preservation of Kays House
Abdullah Raslan/Herald Photo Editor
Across the street from Arkansas Hall and the Red W.O.L.F. Center on Aggie Road sits the historic Kays house, the home of ASU's first president, V.C. Kays. The house is set to be torn down when ground is broken for the new sorority row. Faculty, staff and other members of the ASU community are fighting for its preservation.
Sara KrimmHerald Editor
Since the final plans of the new sorority housing on campus were released, controversy has risen in the ASU community re-garding the home of the university’s first president, Victor C. Kays, on Aggie Road.
Scott Darwin, who taught German at ASU for 39 years and is now a re-
tired professor emeritus, is doing all he can to preserve the home.
“I have written letters to all the administrators,” Darwin said. “(Preserv-ing the house) would take an act of generosity on the part of the university.”
According to the Jonesboro Sun earlier this week, Darwin lived in the Kays House when he first moved to Jonesboro with Henry Eldridge (a Nation-
al Guard captain) and his wife.
The Kays House is rep-resentative of V.C. Kays’ influence on the univer-sity. He served ASU for almost 33 years, from 1910 to 1943.
John Hall, professor of psychology and counseling, called Kays “our first and perhaps most significant leader in the history of this institution.”
Julie Morrow, station ar-
chaeologist for ASU, point-ed out that the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) could potentially protect the home of V.C. Kays, which was built in 1936. Section 106 of the act states that any building older than 50 years can be considered for registry as a historic property.
However, even if the home meets the criteria to be considered a historical landmark, Darwin said it
is not a guarantee that it will stay.
“Although a house or public building can be list-ed on the registry, it does not mean that it can’t be torn down,” Darwin said. “I always thought that it was sacred once it was on that listing, but it’s merely an honorary designation. It does not guarantee that the house will always stand.”
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Chi Omegasorority to raise funds,grant wish
Leah McDanielStaff Writer
Chi Omega will grant a wish through the Make a Wish Foundation at its fourth annual Run for a Wish 5K run/walk is com-ing up on Saturday, March 31.
The race will take place on the ASU campus, start-ing and ending in front of the Arkansas Biosciences Institute building.
The course is a USA Track and Field certified course, making directions and a course map avail-able on the race’s website, www.runforawish.net.
The run/walk is set to begin at 8 a.m. A kid’s fun race begins at 8:45 a.m.
Chi O and sophomore nursing major of Jonesboro, Karina Cazano, said she is really excited about her first year to volunteer for this event.
“It’s a fun race you can do with your family or friends…you’re actually helping out and making a difference,” she said.
The Run for a Wish 5K will benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation, one
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"Going home to spend time with the family."
Reggie Wright FreshmanPhysical EducationNashville, Ark.
"I am going to Florida during Spring Break. It is for travel with my friends."
Jaehee HyunFreshmanSocial WorkKorea
"I'm working and most definitely going to the Memphis Zoo."
Winston Lee SophomorePublic RelationsJonesboro
"I'm heading to Panama City with one of my close best friends."
Hannah WileyFreshmanPre-medPrescott
"I'm going to Miami to have some fun with my friends."
Cemil Kilincoglv JuniorComputer ScienceIstanbul, Turkey
"I'm shadowing surgeons at home and getting a shot for my trip to Honduras this summer."
Kara NittiSeniorBiologySt. Charles, Ill.
STUDENTSSPEAK:
What are you doingover Spring Break?
What's Saferide? 25%
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Vacation responsiblyAccording to a Miami Herald article on Tuesday,
authorities identified a 24-year-old man who died from consuming too much alcohol while on spring break in Florida.
Another story from Fox News Phoenix reported a few days ago about a college freshman who died from alcohol poisoning while spending her spring break at the beach.
Reports like these appear each year, as many students go out of town on spring break and consume excessive amounts of alcohol at parties and social functions.
It continues to be a serious problem for students each year, and we hope increased awareness will bring light to the subject and encourage many to give up the urge to drink excessively.
Spring break is normally the time of year students like to get away and leave the cares of school behind.
To be sure, experiencing new and exotic places with friends or simply going away for a relaxing vacation is beneficial and may actually improve one’s health, but getting drunk quickly can be deadly, posing greater physical and psychological effects than most people realize.
In a research study reported by the Bradenton Herald, the body can only metabolize one drink per hour—this amounts only to a one-and-a-half ounce shot of whiskey. Many have even warned that as little as ten shots can be enough to kill a person.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns that binge drinking has been strongly associated with unintended pregnancy, liver disease, neurological damage, STDs, cardiovascular diseases and a whole host of other problems.
Aside from these things, consequences like hangovers, vomiting, car accidents and other problems associated with binge drinking can overshadow an otherwise exciting spring break.
So while it is important all students relax and enjoy their break from school, we encourage those who drink to do so responsibly.
Drinking at the legal age limit, having a designated driver and watching out for friends can go far in ensuring a relaxing and enjoying spring break. The consequences of binge drinking are just too great, after all.
And remember, there is always plenty of sober fun to be had.
“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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With your background in computer-mediated communication, why do you believe the makers of “Kony 2012” have been so successful in raising awareness to this issue?
Messages that are spread across multiple channels of com-munication are often more persuasive than messages only sent through one channel. The Kony 2012 video was transmitted through a mass communication broadcast method, via You-Tube and interpersonal communication channels through the social media avenues of Facebook and Twitter. When the topic started trending on Twitter, it received attention from online, broadcast and print sources, which added more channels.
There have been many films about global issues like this one before, but they have
not always stirred up debate like this. What makes this one so different?
I would say there are two key differences: 1) The use of celebrity Twitter accounts. Through Twitter, people feel as if they have a personal connection to celebrities. Accordingly, a message connected to the identity of a celebrity can gain from the Halo effect of that celebrity’s fame even if the celebrity did not actively endorse the message. 2) The narrative of the video allows the intended audience to easily identify with the message.
Since much of the debate is taking place through social media and the internet, how does that affect people’s reaction to the issue?
Consistency Theory would argue that a message has a bet-ter chance of changing attitudes when you can get the target to participate actively. While watching a video is a fairly pas-sive exercise, choosing to re-tweet a link or posting a link on Facebook is an active behavior. Once I take such an active stance, I am more willing to do things consistent with that behavior.
In your opinion, will this movement be here to stay for a while, or will it die quickly?
The research on social media pays strong attention to how connected people are to each other. Some connections are strong tie connections, where individuals have multiple points of contact. Some are weak tie connections where people may only be associated through a social network, but have no con-tact outside that one network.
The Kony 2012 film is interesting in that it originated in weak tie networks, celebrity Twitter feeds, etc, but then start-ed spreading through strong tie networks. If it was just the weak tie networks, we would expect it to die out quickly like many Internet memes etc.
However, if people started taking active steps to support the cause within strong tie networks, it could help to keep the cause active. The social presence of the cause will likely decrease in size rather quickly over time.
Accordingly, it may be easy to dismiss the campaign as a flash in the pan. However, it has succeeded in raising aware-ness and may result in a significant increase in people interest-ed in furthering the aims of the organization through financial support or activism.
For the third time in U.S. history a sitting gov-ernor faces losing his of-fice. Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker faces an election seeking to have him removed from of-fice only halfway through his first term.
His recall election is due to his signing of a conten-tious collective bargain-ing bill in January 2011, which essentially removed the rights of Wisconsin state employees to collec-tively bargain (their abil-ity to negotiate their work-ing conditions), except for their ability to negotiate wages.
Walker’s legislation (passed by both Repub-lican-controlled houses of the state legislature) also amounted to an eight percent reduction in take-home pay for all public employees, except for police and firefighters (whose unions, ironically, endorsed Walker before he was elected).
Walker’s bill is con-tentious because public employees provide ser-vices to the entire state. If it weren’t for state government employ-ees, many state services would not function.
In essence, the question is political. What, critics ask, is the financial value of these public employees?
Many argue that public employees should pay their fair share, and I agree.
But the reason I support Walker’s recall is because he embarked upon this radical change without consulting both political parties and ignored even the main group who had a stake in the outcome—public employees, from sewer workers to public school teachers.
Walker passed his “bud-get-repair bill”, as he calls it, in order to prevent the mass layoff of state em-ployees and eliminate the budget deficit.
From the onset of the bills passing, citizens from around the state turned out en-masse to protest at the state capitol in Madison.
Conflicting reports de-scribe the amount of pro-testors, but the Associated Press says almost 70,000 protestors (including some who supported Walker’s plan) showed up at the state capitol on Feb. 19, 2011. On Feb. 26, between 70-100,000 protestors met at the state capitol.
Out-of-state union sup-porters continued to join the protests to show their support, with hundreds of protesters being bused by the New York Teamsters Union.
In other words, since Walker was elected, he has embarked upon change that doesn’t advance Wis-consin, but brings it back-wards.
Unions are not too pow-erful; they are the product of a society in which busi-nesses and corporations are held in higher regard
than those who keep them afloat—workers.
Wisconsin has enjoyed the benefit of unions for decades, even though pub-lic employees have had no raises for several years in a row.
Today, the Government Accountability Board, the agency in charge of admin-istering elections in Wis-consin, is reviewing more than 1.9 million signatures submitted to recall the gov-ernor and four Republican state senators.
This is significant be-cause only two states have succeeded in removing their governors from office after being elected. Only North Dakota in 1921 and California in 2003 removed their popularly elected gov-ernors.
The Governor of North Dakota was removed from office by voters over a dis-pute over state-owned industries. In California, the Governor was removed because of his alleged mis-management of the state budget.
Wisconsin law mandates that a recall election only take place after the official being recalled has been in office one year.
In order to force a recall, petitions must contain 25 percent of the vote cast for the office of governor at the last election in the same district or territory as that of the officeholder being re-called.
In this case, the terri-tory is Wisconsin and the number of signatures re-quired was approximately 540,000, or 25 percent of the votes when Walker
was elected to office. Citi-zens have 60 days to col-lect these signatures.
There is no doubt stu-dents have played a signif-icant role in the recall pro-cess because Scott Walker’s bill affects students just as much as it does public em-ployees.
In the last semester of my undergraduate career at the University of Wis-consin- Green Bay, three faculty members in the po-litical science department retired early.
Our faculty members there (and even here at ASU) are subject to the will of their state’s legisla-ture.
Many students, includ-ing myself, realized their education was threatened. A lot of students work with the same faculty through-out their undergraduate careers.
I can imagine it would be upsetting if their pro-fessors who they developed close relationships quit their job over Walker’s bill. And many did.
Many of my peers circu-lated petitions to have the governor recalled, exercis-ing what is known as di-rect democracy.
My peers sent the Gov-ernor of Wisconsin a mes-sage: if you mess with my professor’s rights, you mess with us.
Only time will tell if Walker ends up paying the ultimate price: his removal from office by the very peo-ple who put him in it.
Varney is a graduate student in political science of Green Bay, WI
“Thereisnodoubtstudentshaveplayedasignificantrolein the recall process because Scott Walker’s bill affects
students just as much as it does public employees.”
Andrei Varney
Governor faces recall over union busting
CHALK TALKwith Professor Matthew Thatcher
About Matthew Thatcher:Assistant prof. of Communications Studies
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Teaching specialties include oral, health and computer-mediated communication.
Research interests include health communication, computer-mediated communication and use of second life in teaching and research.
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Campus Corner
Allie McKinleyStaff Writer
An online petition tool is giving a voice to advocates around the world.
Social media site Change.org allows users to start and sign petitions to bring about social change. According to the site, millions of people sign petitions on Change.org each month on thousands of issues, winning campaigns every day to advance change locally and globally. The site allows ordinary people to take on some of the most powerful corporate and political interests around through online petitioning.
Current CEO Ben Rattray, Mark Dimas, and Adam Cheyer launched Change.org on Feb. 7, 2007. The site currently has 100 employees with offices on four conti-nents.
The mission of the online petition tool is “to empower anyone, anywhere to start, join, and win campaigns for social change.” The top causes on the site range from economic and criminal justice, human rights, education, the environment, animals, health, and sustainable food.
Change.org claims over 100 successful campaigns so far. Some of these campaigns are displayed on the web-site’s home page, referred to as current victories. One of these petitions includes a campaign that successfully caused Bank of America to drop the debit card fee they attempted to initiate.
The petition was started by 22-year-old Molly Katch-pole, a recent college graduate and nanny working two
jobs. On Oct. 1, 2011, Katchpole created a petition on Change.org asking Bank of America to drop their new $5 a month banking fee, which would have charged custom-ers $5 to use their own debit card.
The petition gained 100,000 signatures during its first three days. It further accumulated over 300,000 signa-tures in the course of a month, including a signature from President Barack Obama. Katchpole’s campaign gained national media exposure, and ultimately Bank of America announced it would drop its banking fee.
Katchpole launched a similar petition in late Dec. when Verizon announced they would begin charging a fee to pay bills online. The petition gained 130,000 sig-natures within a couple hours, and Verizon backed down less than 24 hours after announcing the initial fee.
Success stories like Katchpole’s have fueled others to start their own campaigns. Another recent “victory” started from a petition launched by a fourth-grade class.
In December 2011, Ted Well’s class in Brookline, MA launched the “Lorax Petition Project” after the popular Dr. Seuss book was adapted into a movie. According to the petition, “We were excited for The Lorax movie to come out in March, but when we went to the movie website, there was absolutely nothing about saving the Earth which is what Dr. Seuss wanted us to learn.”
The petition requested Universal Studios include more of an environmental message on their website and trailer for their upcoming movie. The petition received 57,000 signatures, and on Jan. 26, 2012 Universal Studios up-dated the website with the environmental message the
kids had requested.These success stories illustrate how anyone, anywhere
can use Change.org for advocacy, regardless of social sta-tus or political power. ASU students have even started to take notice.
Sophomore public relations major Natalie Marcus of Manila has been an active Change.org member for about a year.
“I first came across Change.org when one of my friends, Jessica Fleeman, sent me a petition through a Facebook message,” Marcus stated. “The petition was to stop the government from sending one of Jessica’s friends and classmates at OBU who had attended American schools his whole life back to Mexico. When I clicked on the link it took me straight to Change.org.”
Marcus said she receives e-mail updates on time sen-sitive petitions in order to keep informed of ongoing cam-paigns.
“I have signed many petitions related to national and global issues featured on Fox, CNN, and NBC News,” Marcus said. “It’s always fun to see a petition you signed featured on Fox News a week later.”
Marcus encourages ASU students to promote Change.org, noting the site provides a fast and easy way for peo-ple to make a difference.
“I like that I’m part of something bigger,” Marcus stat-ed. “Change.org allows you to make the state, country, and world a better place by allowing people to be aware, giving them the tools to stand up for what’s right and have their voice heard.”
Music more accessible than ever
Lindsey BlakelyNews Editor
In a night filled with lights, cheers and cowboy boots, Eric Church, Brantley Gilbert and Drake White made their way to a near sold out ASU Convocation Center as part of the “Blood, Sweat and Beers” tour and his second appearance in Jonesboro.
Doors opened at 6:30 p.m. and Drake White opened the concert at 7:30 with a slew of songs about his country life. His energetic presence ac-companied his dancing and guitar on stage. The most comical point of the night was when White yelled at the crowd to hold their beers up. The crowd replied with a showing of empty hands. It was quite obvious at that point that we are in a dry county.
After White’s few songs, the much anticipat-ed Gilbert came on stage to a large presence of screaming fans, the men as much as the women. With all of the cowboy hats thrown on stage to Gil-bert and his band, it was amazing to not see any undergarments. Gilbert played many songs from
his albums “Modern Day Prodigal Son” and “Half-way to Heaven.”
Gilbert even played songs that he wrote for Al-dean, like “Dirt Road Anthem.” He also played one of the favorites of the night, which was “My Kind of Crazy.”
Gilbert was energetic and didn’t just focus on one side of the audience. After switching sides of the stage multiple times and engaging with his audience, he put on a great show.
Lastly, Church made his way to the stage, com-ing through the floorboards in a fit of light and fog. His first song was “Country Music Jesus” accom-panied with fire shooting out from the stage when-ever Church sang the word fire. He continued on with more of his famous songs and kept the crowd entertained.
His quote of the night was calling all of Jonesboro “bad asses,” which sent the crowd into a frenzy.
With his energetic dancing, tremendous ability to play guitar and wonderful talent of keeping the crowd’s attention, his concert was one of the best of the year.
Create social change with Change.org
Chelsea WeaverStaff Writer
Life as a college student can mean quite a few things. For some, it turns out to be an adventure full of late nights with friends and few worries. For others, it can be a never-ending cycle of late nights full of homework, projects and stress.
If it weren’t for a to-do list, which al-ways seems to be full, students would not even remember half of their responsibili-ties.
But while creating a to-do list is impor-tant, prioritizing it can be just as impera-
tive.So what should your to-do list look
like? The first step in organizing your list is
to place tasks according to the time they need to be completed.
This will help you stay on track and avoid the stress that comes with procras-tination.
You can plan to complete tasks by a cer-tain month, week, day or even how, if you need to be that specific.
The second step in organizing your to-do list is to categorize your tasks.
Some students may want to categorize
their to-do list according to subject or due dates; however they may have things go-ing on outside of their schoolwork that need to be focused on as well.
Breaking tasks down by categories is less overwhelming than a never-ending list of unrelated things to do.
The next step in prioritizing your to-do list is to be sure to mark off tasks as you complete them.
This will give you a sense of accomplish-ment while reminding you of what is still on the list.
When a task is complete, you can re-ward yourself with a break. This reinforc-
es that sense of accomplishment.The last important question to ask is,
“Where are you keeping your to-do list?”When you do not have easy access to
your to-do list, you are less likely to com-plete it.
If you own a smart phone, keep your to-do list on a note pad so it will be with you wherever you go. If not, keep a list in your pocket or carry a planner with you in your backpack.
Remember, to-do lists don’t have to be limited to things you have to do. Feel free to use your to-do list for personal goals and ambitions as well.
Abdullah RaslanPhoto Editor
You hear it in the car, in class, in supermarkets and commercials. Call it noise or a jingle, you can’t deny that we are surrounded by music.
With the help of social media networking sites, music can now be reached anywhere around the world as long as you have an Internet connection.
Almost 10 years ago, the music industry was in chaos wondering about how to deal with sharing music over the Internet, which caused record companies to lose money.
After fighting the battle, record companies now em-brace this new technology and have started using it for their advantage.
The latest edition to the social music network is Turn-table.fm.
Launched only nine months ago, the website allows users to DJ in different cyber chat rooms.
Upon entering the site, an avatar version of the user may choose to enter or leave a chat room.
Each room is equipped with five DJ spots and a dance floor for the avatars to socialize.
A chat bar on the side gives the user a place to ex-change text messages between the host of the room and the other members.
Internet radio website Pandora has already reached the 100 million user mark according to techcrunch.com’s article, “Pandora Crosses 100M Users, Seeing 36M
Monthly Active Users.”Pandora users have the option to create music stations
of their favorite artist or genre. Then the software takes over and leads you into new music it thinks you might like.
The secret to Pandora’s ability to predict a song the listener would like is the “Music Genome Project.”
Created by Will Glaser and Tim Westergren, the Mu-sic Genome Project captures the essences of a song and breaks it down to its fundamental attributes.
These attributes are then compared with other songs in Pandora’s database and the best match is played to the listeners.
Pandora offers it’s users the ability to explore new art-ists by giving the song a “thumbs up” or a “thumbs down” indicating if you would like to hear of the same attributes or to try something else.
Muriel Aston, a senior graphic design student of Mar-shall, said that she likes using Pandora because it’s easy.
“You can give a song a thumbs up if you like it and a thumbs down if you don’t. I have found a lot of great songs this way.”
Other music programs give the user more freedom on which artist they would like to listen to.
Spotify is a music steaming service that gives listeners the opportunity to browse through artists, albums and even your friends’ playlist.
With the desktop version being free of charge, Spotify
shows the songs your friends on Facebook and Twitter have been listening to and even suggests you to send a song or two.
So whether you would like to explore new music, ex-plore new people or just would like to explore what your friends have been listening to, there is a music software for you.
Gilbert and Church rock Convocation Center
H ow t o : p r i o r i t i ze yo u r t o - d o l i s t
Photo credit: turntable.fm
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Daniel McFadinSports Editor
He may have won a na-tional championship, coached one of the most electrifying players in college football history and been recognized as the nation’s top assistant coach in 2010, but under-neath all of those accolades, Gus Malzahn says he is still a high school football coach.
“I’ve always been one of those guys that’s really fo-cused in on what I was doing at that time and not gotten caught up in stuff around me. I just kind of go day by day,” said Malzahn, the 28th head coach in the history of Arkan-sas State’s football program.
Hired by ASU to replace Hugh Freeze after his depar-ture to Ole Miss in Decem-ber, Malzahn is now in his first year as a head coach af-ter stints at Auburn, Tul-sa, Arkansas and a 14 year career as an Arkansas high school coach at Hughes, Shiloh Christian and Spring-dale High.
“I think it prepared me fair-ly well. As far as the football goes, there’s not much differ-ence,” Malzahn said. “When you add the recruiting, all of the alumni functions and ev-erything that goes with that, it’s almost like a different profession as far as that goes. But the football part is exact-
ly the same.”When he was introduced
as the Red Wolves head coach, Malzahn said he had taken a nontraditional route to his current position, which is as the highest paid coach in the Sun Belt conference.
What does Malzahn see as the traditional route?
“I’d say the guys who have been in the college ranks and that’s all they’ve done, trying to get the most money, trying to get the biggest high profile popular job no matter where it’s at. Moving their family, that’s what most coaches do,” Malzhan said. “I’m just not made that way, I’m a high school coach.”
Malzahn and his wife Kris-ti have two daughters: Kylie, who will graduate from Au-burn later this year, and Ken-zie, who is a student at ASU.
For Malzahn, the idea of becoming a division 1A head coach was a “dream” he has had for “a little over a year.”
But for the coach who is known for wearing visors just like his predecessor, that dream became a reality when he accepted the position with the Red Wolves, at a price ASU had never paid a head coach before.
After being considered for more high profile jobs at Kan-sas and North Carolina last year, Malzahn came to ASU, where according to a Feb. 22
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article, Malzahn is still work-ing under a letter of agree-ment to earn around $156,000 (the state maximum), while earning a total of $850,000 a year through 2017 with help from private donors and mon-ey from appearances and foot-ball camps.
When asked if he was still working under the agree-ment and not a final contract, Malzahn replied, “That’s none of y’alls business really.”
His salary makes him the highest paid employee in the ASU system, making more than System President Charles Welch ($285,000) and athletic director Dean Lee ($147,179) according to arkansasonline.com.
Once his time with Au-
burn ended following the Ti-gers’ win against Virginia in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, it was time to hit the road to recruit for his new team, while also getting used to his new sur-roundings.
“Anytime you take a new job, you’re in an evaluation mode for a long period of time,” Malzahn said. “Getting familiar and acclimated with everything and at the same time getting to know your players. It’s a process. I think the big thing for me is being able to get onto the field and actually coach.”
One of the first big steps as a head coach was Nation-al Signing Day on Feb. 1.
Malzahn and his staff, hav-ing only been together for a month, were able to assemble
the best recruiting class Ar-kansas State has ever seen, with a class ranked No. 78 in the country by Rivals.com.
“[National Signing Day] was pretty stressful like they all are, but things happened pretty quick,” Malzahn re-members. “We had all of our letters of intent in by 9 a.m. There weren’t any hiccups, there weren’t any surprises. Traditionally at a school this size you have a lot of surpris-es. I think that’s a tribute to our coaches, and a tribute to the future of where we’re go-ing with this program.”
When it comes to which of the 28 players ASU signed who will have the biggest im-pact the quickest, Malzahn said he can name at least 10-12 who could make a differ-
ence on team that returns four starters on each side of the ball.
Outside of football, Malzahn and his family are still getting accustomed to their new city of residence.
“I’m still learning about Jonesboro, but I really like it.,” Malzahn said. “It’s a safe place with a lot of church-es, which is really important to me. [And there are] good places to eat and you can get around real easy.”
Jonesboro is the latest stop in a career that has led Malzahn from northwest Ar-kansas, to central Oklahoma, to southeast Alabama and back to his home state.
Though it’s taken him awhile to get settled into each city.
“As a coach you probably don’t get a real chance until summer to really spend time in the place you’re living and be somewhat of a regular per-son at that place and learn more about it,” Malzahn said.
After the departure of Hugh Freeze after only one season, Arkansas State fans have plenty of reasons to hope Malzahn will stick around.
As Welch said at Malzahn’s introduction, “We are step-ping up to the plate. We are sending a signal to the rest of this state…we are here and we’re here to stay.
Zach LottStaff Writer
Coming off their sec-ond tournament win of the year, the Arkansas State women’s bowling team will close out the regular season at the Music City Classic this weekend in Smyrna, TN.
The tournament will be the Red Wolves’ first action since they edged out Vanderbilt and Cen-tral Missouri on their way to a first-place finish at the Holiday Classic last month.
ASU had previously won the Big Red Invita-tional in Lincoln, Nebras-ka in January.
Head coach Justin Ko-stick explained the win was crucial for shaking off
the team’s prior failures to close out tournaments on Sundays.
“That’s our second win, but we’ve pretty much been leading every tourna-ment going into Sunday. The one tournament we won [before] was a Thurs-day-Friday-Saturday tour-nament, so we had a su-perstition behind Sun-days,” Kostick said.
ASU will again face the Commodores and the Jennies at the Music City Classic along with other top teams they’ve clashed with throughout the sea-son.
“Every tournament we’ve been to has had a pretty good field. It’s ei-ther had Nebraska, Cen-tral Missouri, Vanderbilt, [or] Valparaiso,” he said.
“[So] we’ve had really good competition at tour-naments. It’s a good step-ping stone, but we need to make sure we take care of business going into [Smyr-na].”
Kostick plans to rotate players from his roster, but he will continue to rely on his top four perform-ers.
“We’ve been playing ev-erybody. The ones that have gotten the most [playing time] are Rachael Gittings, Amanda Labos-siere, and Sarah Lokker, and then Ashley Ruck-er has the next most. All four have a chance at All-American,” he said.
The Red Wolves have a potential advantage over their competition because several players have com-
peted at the bowling center that will host this week-end’s tournament as part of singles competitions.
“College bowling kind of has two separate ent-ites. You’ve got the NCAA, and you still have people on the club side because the club side is ran by the governing body of bowl-ing,” Kostick said. “It has a singles championship, so some of my girls bowled at the qualifier, and four of them went to the section-al in Smyrna. Part of the reason why they went was to get a feel [for the lanes there]. Sarah Lokker ac-tually won the sectional there.”
The tournament, host-ed by Vanderbilt Univer-sity, will run from Friday through Sunday.
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Malzahn a high school coach in a college football world
Sammy CowgillStaff Writer
Daniel McFadinSports Editor
Arkansas State’s Rugby club has been a very suc-cessful sport for ASU ath-letics.
Now that success will be rewarded with a brand new club house.
On Dec. 2, the Board of Trustees announced the school would build a new home for the ASU Rug-by club to be located on the home/away team side-line. The start date and estimated time of comple-tion have not yet been an-nounced according to head coach Matt Huckaby.
The funds being used to construct the new $650,000 to $750,000 club house come from the inter-national students fees and excess revenues as well as other local private and corporate contributors, ac-cording to the Dec. 16. is-sue of the Chancellor’s newsletter, “First Friday.”
Right now, ASU only fields two men’s teams (A-side and B-side), however the club is planning to ex-
pand beyond just the new club house.
“[I] plan to have a men’s and women’s 7’s team up and going next fall semes-ter,” said Huckaby, who is in his second year as the rugby club’s head coach.
Rugby will once again be an Olympic sport after being absent since 1924, beginning in 2016 at the summer games in Rio de Janeiro.
ASU’s rugby club, which was officially recognized by the school in 1991 ac-cording to redwolvesrug-by.com, is one of the top college programs in the country, currently ranked third in the country.
The 6,100 square foot clubhouse will have locker rooms and showering facil-ities for both ASU and vis-iting opponents.
Huckaby said the club house will, “elevate the club full circle, give our guys a place to shower and dressing room to change in.”
Coach Huckaby and the team have been excited about the idea since late last semester.
“I think that it proves that students think we are
quality enough to become a more known sport across campus and [I] think it will heighten the fan base of students,” said fresh-man winger Michael Kro-chta, a nursing major from Chapin, S.C.
“Our rugby club consists
of many international stu-dents and athletes in our own backyard. Anywhere from South Africa to Rus-sia to Texas, the rug-by team is very diverse,” Huckaby said. “Hopefully, it will give us a better in-sight on more quality ath-
letes and become a symbol of ASU rugby for recruit-ment.”
The Red Wolves rugby team is undefeated so far this year after defeating Oklahoma Saturday while also winning in matches against Notre Dame, Tex-
as A&M and a win over the University of Arkan-sas in the first game of the season.
The A-Side team begins a four game road trip this Saturday against Life Uni-versity.
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Preliminary plans for the Rugby Clubhouse (as pictured) have been developed as a charitable contribution by Mr. George Krennerich of Brackett-Krennerich Architects.
Courtesy of ASU Sports InfoSophomore Ashley Rucker sends a ball flying down the lane at the
Paragould Bowling Center.
Rugby club moving on up with new club house
Women’s bowling heads to Music City for season finale
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Head football coach Gus Malzahn conducts his first spring practice session at Arkansas State. Malzahn is reportedly being paid $850,000 a year through 2017 to lead the Red Wolves.
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BriefsThe WolfTracks Yearbook is now accepting applications for designers and photographers for
the Fall of 2012. Available positions are Editor in Chief, Co – Editor of Copy, Co Editor of Design, Greek Life Editor, Academics Editor, RSO & Activities Editor and Leadership Editor. The WolfTracks Yearbook will also be hiring 4 photographers. Applications are available in the Leadership Center on the 2nd floor of the Reng Student Union, or by emailing [email protected]. Applications are due Friday, March 30 at 4pm.
The office of International Programs would like to send you away in 2012. There are over 200 study abroad options around the world. We work with you and your adviser to make sure the credits you earn abroad will transfer back to ASU. You pay the same tuition and fees that you do at ASU and all of your current financial aid will apply. We have summer programs, single semester programs, and academic year programs. Come by our office, Room 104 of the Administration building, to begin your application right away.
Volunteer ASU is seeking students to help facilitate the Girls of Promise Conference on March 31, hosted by the Women s Foundation of Arkansas. Volunteers are needed to help lead teams, set up, help with lunch, survey and assist with check in. This conference is designed to introduce eighth-grade girls to careers in ESTEM (economics, science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and amazing women role models at a critical time in their development. If you are interested in serving at this conference please email [email protected] to obtain a volunteer registration form.
After capturing the 2011 Sun Belt Conference Championship and an appearance in the GoDaddy.com Bowl, the excitement level is at an all time high for ASTATE football. Don t miss any of the action this season. Join new Head Football Coach Gus Malzahn and your Red Wolves football team, for 6 exciting games at ASU stadium this fall featuring a non-conference match up with rival Memphis and a battle with Alcorn State. Also, a key conference nationally televised ESPNU game vs. Louisiana Monroe. Season ticket packages are available with General Admission season tickets only $75 each and the affordable Family Plan (4 GA season tickets) for only $205 a great family value. For more information or to purchase tickets contact the ASU Box Office at (870) 972-2781 or 1-888-ASU FANS or log onto astateredwolves.com.
Volunteer ASU is seeking students, faculty, or staff who can speak fluent Spanish and English for a volunteer opportunity with one of our non-profit partners, Habitat for Humanity. The volunteer would be committing to 6 hours of service per month. Email [email protected] for more information.
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Campus CrimeMarch 11
According to a report, Officer Ryan Crawford had agreed to be a police presence at a party that was held at the pavilion.
The party was scheduled from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. A short time after Crawford arrived at the pavilion, he observed a group of individuals who appeared to be fighting toward the back of what was set up to be the dance area at the pavilion.
He also reported Sargeant Jimmy Johnson shining his flashlight on the group of two males who were fighting. When Crawford approached the suspect, 18-year-old Antonio Brodie, he took control of him using upper body restraints.
Brodie was removed from the area and taken to the parking lot. Meanwhile, Johnson went to look for the other subject but was unable to locate him due to the crowd being uncooperative and refusing to provide information.
After escorting Brodie to the parking lot, he questioned him and the only thing Brodie said was that the subject pushed him and he wanted to find out why the other subject had pushed him.
Since the officers were only able to locate one suspect, they let him go with a university referral for disorderly conduct.
March 3
On Saturday, March 3, Officer Bobby Duff responded to the Red Wolf Den in response to an
anonymous caller who said there was a male at the residence banging on the door and yelling.
Duff made contact with the suspect who said he was worried and trying to contact the victim after she had sent a text message stating that she was going to kill herself. The suspect showed Duff the text on his friends phone which read “If he doesn’t come over right now I am going to kill myself.”
The victim was not answering her door the entire time the officer was knocking, so they forced themselves in. The victim was found sleeping in her bed and had the odor of intoxicants on her breath. Her speech was very slow too.
When she confirmed that she sent the text message, she said that she would be fine and she just wanted to sleep. She was offered the option of speaking with a counselor, but said that she already had one.
The suspect was asked to leave and advised him not to return since both had been drinking and emotions were high which could create a situation that was a violent domestic disturbance instead.
Duff said he waited to see if the suspect would return, and he did when the victim called asking him to come over and talk. The suspect was then given a Persona Non Grata for the residence since he didn’t follow their directions.
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connection to the home, Darwin’s personal attach-ment isn’t the most of his concerns — it’s the fact that ASU promotes histori-cal preservation, yet is al-lowing its own history to be demolished.
He said it will take the university changing its mind for the home to be preserved — the NHPA can’t be relied on, because it’s really up to the owner of the home (ASU) to de-cide whether to register it under the act and preserve the property.
“(It will take) the ad-ministrators and the board of trustees to recognize the error of their ways, and see the need to preserve that house,” he said. “Par-ticularly in light of the fact that we have the heritage program here on campus that has a PhD program in which they teach people the preservation of our na-tional heritage.”
Darwin said it makes sense that ASU would pre-serve its own history by not tearing down or removing
the Kays House from cam-pus, especially in light of the university taking care of other preservation proj-ects such as the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home proj-ect.
It was also reported in the Jonesboro Sun this week that once controversy over the demolition of the Kays House began to stir, administration offered it for sale and removal through a sealed bid pro-cess. It would, however, be a lengthy and expensive process.
Vice chancellor for stu-dent affairs Rick Stripling said preserving the home was never in the plans made by the administra-tion.
“Planning for the new construction has, from the beginning, included remov-al of houses, among them the residence formerly oc-cupied by V.C. Kays,” he said. “Very soon ASU will place an ad calling for bids for the sale and removal of the house.”
With the ground break-
ing on the construction of the new sorority row set for March 31, Darwin said it will take administra-tion “admitting they were wrong” to save the Kays House.
He suggested the house could be saved and sorority row could still be built if administration would just change the plans and move the construction down one lot.
David Handwork, di-rector of planning, design and construction, was un-available to comment on whether moving construc-tion down a lot was pos-sible. Greek adviser Alexis Hurdle was not sure of the answer either, but said they are still working out the ground breaking date, which could mean there is time for plans to change.
“The official ground breaking is March 31,” she said. “But as far as when we’ll actually start demoli-tion and all that, I do not know that there has been a date set yet for that.”
of the world’s most well known charities whose mission is to grant wishes for children that have been diagnosed with life-threatening medical conditions “to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.”
“I have always loved the Make-a-Wish Foun-dation and when I heard that Chi Omega was hav-ing a race to support that cause I knew I had to run in it,” said Stevie Overby, a sophomore animal sci-ence major of Little Rock.
One of the organizers of the race, junior pre-dental hygiene major and Chi O of McGeehee, Cath-erine Kozubski, said they are really excited to have the privilege of granting 4-year-old Halle’s wish the day of the race.
“I am so excited that they are able to grant a wish through this and I can’t believe I was able to help make that possible by running!” Overby added.
Junior exercise sci-ence major of West Mem-phis and organizer for the event, Shelby Walker said the entire Chi Omega chapter will be working as volunteers during the 5K. Walker added that there are more than 250 run-ners and 100 spirit run-ners already signed up
to participate in the run/walk.
Registration for the 5K is $25 and will begin at 6:45 on the morning of the race. Pre-registration is available online and in-cludes a Run for a Wish T-shirt, goodie bag and snacks and refreshments following the race.
Anyone ages 9-65 and over can register to par-ticipate in the Run for a
Wish 5K. Instead of hav-ing medals for each age group as done before, Ko-zubski said trophies will be awarded to the Top 5 overall male and female runners and the Top 5 overall male and female walkers.
For more information about the Run for a Wish 5K run/walk, visit www.runforawish.com or con-tact any Chi O.
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Photo courtesy of Chi Omega sorority
The Chi Omega Run for a Wish 5K run/walk is in its fourth year, and the women of Chi Omega sorority will raise money for the Make a Wish Foundation as well as grant a wish to a child at the event.
Members of the ASU student “Interactive IR Panel” competed in a panel at the 2012 Arkansas Political Science Association Annual Meeting, on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas in Conway.
Each student represented different in-ternational organizations attempting to get a large (hypothetical) grant from the Gates Foundation.
The three undergraduate contestants from ASU were Lilia Pacheco, James Williams
and Mary Bailey. The winner, picked by the audience, was Mary Bailey, who represented CARE International.
Charles Hartwig, professor emeritus of political science, said, “Congratulations to the three students for doing such a great job rep-resenting themselves and ASU.”
Pictured from left to right: Lilia Pacheco, James Williams, panel chair Charles Hartwig and Mary Bailey.
Photo courtesy of Mary Bailey
Bringing home some hardwareASU political science students win at ArkPSA Conference
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Women’s History Month
In honor of women's histor y month, the Multicultural Cen-ter and the ASU women and Gender Studies program hosted a faculty lecture series entitled "Brilliant Women."
Four female faculty members, from four different depart-ments, were picked to give presentations throughout the week
in the Multicultural Center. (Pictured) Melissa Wilkinson, assistant professor of art, gave
a speech Wednesday entitled "The Beautiful Boy" in which she spoke about how men and women have been portrayed in the arts and media.
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UPD says students should be aware
As the campus has undergone numerous changes in such a short time, UPD is concerned with the safety of those on campus and is urging students to be more aware of their actions, mostly on roads.
According to Officer Ron Smith, a big concern is the use of crosswalks.
“We have very good crosswalks,” Smith said. “What we see is people crossing where there isn’t a crosswalk. When you do that, you’re not only jaywalking, but you don’t have the right away anymore.”
Smith said he also sees
students misusing the crosswalks with bicycles.
“People ride their bicycles through the crosswalks and think they have the right away, but that’s not the case,” Smith said. “Unless you are walking your bike across the crosswalk, you are still considered a vehicle.”
Smith said one area that he sees a lot of problems is on the new Marion Berry Parkway.
“I’ve seen a lot of students trying to park at the armory and then cross the four lanes of traffic,” Smith said. “They’re crossing at the curve where it’s dangerous, especially in the late afternoon or at night.”
When it comes to
vehicles however, he said he has seen many dangerous situations on Aggie, near the Stadium intersection.
According to Smith, drivers follow each other too closely, which results in accidents.
On the bright side, Smith said that UPD has seen a decrease in speeding tickets since the Marion Berry Parkway’s speed limit was changed from 20 mph to 30 mph.
The main thing that Smith said he wants everyone to do is be safe.
“This is a safe place to be,” Smith said. “It’s their safety, we just need their help and cooperation. They are the determining factors.”
Beginning this month, ASU students can enjoy the opening of the Krispy Kreme franchise in four locations on campus.
“I wanted to bring something exciting to the last semester,” said Pam Hatcher, retail manager for dining services. “Everyone is usually exhausted the last semester, and I’m very enthusiastic for this new exciting new outlet. Hopefully it’s exciting for everyone.”
Although the exact origins of the doughnut is full of myth, records show that the Dutch were preparing a primal variant of the culinary delight in olykoeks, or “oily cakes,” as early as the 19th century.
These basic Dutch treats were balls of bread cooked in animal fat until golden brown, often stuffed with fruit or nuts in the center as the inside of the delicacies did not cook as quickly as the outside – an important footnote as this frustration is what gave rise to its modern incantation.
The modern version, most historians agree, also came in the 19th century from a sea captain in Maine named Hansen Gregory, who gave the doughnut its signature hole after being frustrated with its recurrently uncooked
center. According to its website,
Krispy Kreme surfaced almost 100 years later, in 1947 when North Carolina resident Vernon Rudolf, purchased Krispy Kreme’s now signature recipe for a yeast-raised doughnut from a New Orleans French chef. Vernon then began selling the product to grocery stores in Winston-Salem area, as it quickly caught on with the depression battered and war-fatigued American public.
Krispy Kreme is currently found in four locations on campus: the Sunbelt Lounge, the Food Court in the Student Union, Café a la Carte in front of the library, and in a limited capacity one can purchase them in the convenience store on the second floor of the Student Union.
“The doughnuts retail for $1.19 in all locations,
but if you go to the Campus convenient store, you can buy a two pack for $2.19 or a six pack of the glazed in a box for $3.59,” Hatcher said.
All locations are currently offering five different doughnut selections, with more on order.
“We of course have the standard, ever popular glazed doughnut, the chocolate doughnut, Crullers, Raspberry filled and Crème filled,” Hatcher noted. “But I am wide open to suggestions. If students are looking for a particular kind, I would love to hear suggestions. I’m always looking for innovative ideas.”
And innovation is exactly what the Krispy Kreme franchise gives, offering more than 20 assortments of doughnuts, along with a few seasonal products – a long way from the
standard glazed doughnut first offered 65 years ago.
While Krispy Kreme doughnuts may be good for the soul, but they remain salaciously hateful for a student’s waistline.
A single chocolate iced glazed doughnut is packed with 240 calories, 11 grams of fat, 33 grams of carbohydrates, and 21 grams of sugar – something most students, and Americans should take into consideration with their increasingly sedentary lifestyle.
As with everything, Hatcher notes, consuming Krispy Kreme doughnuts in moderation is key.
“Students have to make a decision on what their body can take,” Hatcher said. “We [dining services] offer lots of alternatives for weight conscious students in the Food Court and at the Library. We have salads, fruit cups, grapes and cheese cups and a new portobello on Pakashi sandwhich for vegetarians.”
The Krispy Kreme sites, which opened on March 7, have found popularity among the student, faculty and staff population, with a few sites selling out by the end of the day.
“We opened on last Wednesday, and it has been incredibly well received,” Hatcher said. “Everyone seems to love these doughnuts.”
A student buys coffee and a Krispy Kreme donut at one of the new locations in the Sunbelt Lounge.
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Krispy Kreme comes to ASU
From the Polish countryside to ASU Red Wolves Country, Paula Chelminska, arrived in 2005 on a Tennis Athletic Scholarship. Chelminska enjoys playing tennis with her friend and doubles partner, Marina Englbrecht, who would become the head coach of the ASU tennis team.
Chelminska received her bachelor’s of science in international business with magna cum laude fall of 2009 from ASU. She is currently working on her Master’s degree in business administration. She will receive her diploma in May.
Chelminska is an MBA student and recently was awarded the “ Certified Global Business Professional” credentials which is the only professional certification in the field of international business offered by a US agency said Gauri-Shankar Guha, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics. He said Chelminska studied the CGBP exam curriculum in Guha’s Export Policies and Procedures course and received guidance from the international business resource center faculty.
She is widely recognized by the business faculty as an excellent student. She is also expected to have a very successful career in international business because of her knowledge, resourcefulness and winning personality Guha said.
Chelminska is a graduate assistant for the economics and finance department where she is organizing and facilitating the lab for macroeconomics class (undergraduate level).
As an intern for the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center, she became interested in taking the exam for CGBP because it would help broaden her knowledge about international business. Also she said that it would enhance her chance in becoming an international management consultant.
Chelminska said that faculty members Fish, Guha and Relyea of the college of business were the first three recipients of the CGBP in Arkansas and they were instrumental in helping her to prepare for the exam and receiving the credentials. It is a prestigious acknowledgement of International business expertise, according to the CGBP webpage. She was the fifth person from Arkansas to receive the influential credentials. Examination was given in Memphis she then received her certificate.
Chelminska said she misses her family in Poland and the hospitality she remembers. She thinks about family dinners that her mother cooked and how she would love something her aunt had baked for her. Her last visit with them was this past Christmas.
She spent a semester in Valencia, Spain as an intern with a dental clinic. Her group worked to improve the operations of a dental clinic. They prepared a business plan and made recommendations to the clinic.
She has very fond memories of her homeland of Poland and is very proud of her country. It is a very diverse landscape that has lakes and mountains as other rural areas. Poznan, Poland is a country in central Europe about the size of New Mexico with 38 million people.
Chelminska hobbies are photography and travel. She said she loves both and wants to combine the two when she travels after graduation. She is also interested in Spanish and German learning more about the languages.
Paula Chelminska
ASU student receives Certified Global Business Professional credentials
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