Hunter Petrus, Student Government Association president, presented a proc-lamation thanking the Execu-tive Council at the bi-weekly meeting Tuesday.

The executive resolution is to recognize the adminis-trators and Chancellor’s Ex-ecutive Council for their hard work, dedication and pas-sion for making ASU a better place for students, according to the resolution.

“Everything we have done in resolution-form and in committee-form, everything this year has been present-ed or relayed to them to all of the (Executive Council),”

Petrus said. “All of them have touched a resolution in some way.”

According to the resolu-tion, the Executive Council is made up of the chancellor, provost, chief of staff, vice chancellor of student affairs, vice chancellor of finance and administration, vice chancel-lor of university advancement and the athletic director.

“They really have helped us, giving us feedback, so this is our thank you to them and we are going to recognize them,” Petrus said.

The resolution will be vot-ed on at the next SGA meet-ing.

Austin Copenhaver, vice president, reminded the sen-ate of the upcoming SGA

elections.“Elections are March 12-

13,” Copenhaver said. “Just a reminder to be aware that there is no campaigning any-where in the Student Union or Library or 100 feet of ei-ther of those.”

Copenhaver also men-tioned that there are no polling sites allowed and if anyone sees this activity to report to him.

“Just be aware,” Copen-haver said.

Martha Spack, adviser, reminded the senate of the upcoming Rugby Day and the game that will take place at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

“SGA is co-sponsoring Rugby Day on Saturday,” Spack said. “I believe the

games are about 90 minutes long and they’ll be giving away free T-shirts. There will be some food out there, so make sure to attend.”

Petrus also brought up the Sun Belt Conference that will take place this weekend in Hot Springs.

“It is the very last one to be

The Department of Higher Education has re-quested more than $10 million in funding for all four-year and two-year universities.

Numbers are configured by the amount of funding requested by the university. “The focus this year is giving all the institutions, two-year and four-year, an increase of about 2 percent,” said Shane Broadway, interim director of the Ar-kansas Department of Higher Education.

While ASU’s, enrollment increased over the last couple of years, it has received less money than it should have based due to the equity fund-ing formula used by the state, Broadway noted.

Major funding changes included in the pro-posed budget include an increase in general reve-nue for institutions overall by 1 percent over base each year, $2 million towards the Biosciences In-stitution Tobacco Fund each year. Also, the Ar-kansas Treasury sets aside an increase in money of about $4.4 million the first year and $4.8 mil-

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TANYA GIRALDONEWS EDITOR

MONEY, 4

What you need to know about

proposed major funding changes, how they could affect universities

(and what the 2013 Legislative Session means for you)

Proposed budget cuts could send schools looking for money

Freedom of Information Act could be changed after bill

New IDs could be required for voting Arkansans

The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act has been under the microscope in this 89th General Assembly, with more than 30 amendment bills submitted. One in particular, House Bill 1327, threatens the availability of policy information involving security and safety on school campuses.

Representative Marshall Wright, R-Forrest City, proposed the bill last month, citing the con-cern of keeping schools safe and secure by with-holding information about the school’s policies, procedures or plans regarding campus security. If this bill is passed, the public won’t be able to ac-cess these security-sensitive documents, as they would be deemed confidential.

Arkansas’ FOI Act allows for anyone to access public records of federal agencies. Public records include paper documents, films, tapes and even objects such as evidence in a criminal prosecu-tion. The act also grants access to open public meetings.

INFORMATION, 4

A bill proposed by the Arkansas legislature re-quiring voters to show photo identification has aroused some criticism from Arkansas residents.

“Voter ID laws have been tools to suppress the vote in the past and used to ensure that minorities and poor whites have more difficulty accessing the polls,” Hans Hacker said, professor of political sci-ence.

The voter ID bill was proposed by Republican Sen. Bryan King and passed in the Senate two weeks ago.

The bill has been sent to the House, and dis-cussed at the House State Agencies and Govern-mental Affairs committee meeting on Feb. 27. The constituents decided they will wait to vote for the bill until a study of the fiscal impact statement is completed.

The bill requires the county clerk to issue free IDs for those who cannot get a driver’s license and the fiscal impact statement would include infor-

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VOTING, 4

ARI YUKISTAFF WRITER

Petrus announces proclamation of thanks

Takako Okumura | Staff PhotographerHunter Petrus explains the resolution to thank the Executive Council at the SGA meeting Tuesday afternoon.

PROCLAMATION, 4

Employers look to social media for resume

In an increasing-ly web-driven and inter-net-connected society, many employers have begun look-ing beyond paper resumes and evaluating potential employees based on the way they present themselves through social networking sites. Job applicants can now be screened based on their online conduct and, in some cases, their online persona combines to form an over-arching picture of the appli-cant in what has come to be known as a “social media re-sume.”

“The paper resume is dead,” Vala Afshar, chief mar-keting officer for tech firm Enterasys said in an interview with USA Today. “The Web is your resume. Social networks are your mass references.”

So what does this mean for students at ASU? For some, it may be as simple as “cleaning up” their Twitter profile or adjusting the pri-vacy settings of their Face-book page. But for others, a full-scale self-representative social media resume may be their ticket to career success.

By now most social net-working participants are fa-miliar with the cautionary warnings against inappro-priate website postings. “If you are using Facebook as a vehicle for communicating with other people, you have to be careful,” Rebecca Oliver, director of the honors col-lege, said. “Pay attention to what your friends are saying, tagging and commenting, be-cause that is a reflection on you too.”

But some employers are looking for more than just a “clean” profile, they want to see that their potential employees are experienced in, and well adapted to, the world of social media. “They are expecting employees to be ambassadors for their company in social media,” Christi Crawford, social me-dia director for the office of recruitment, said.

So how are these online resumes translating between the job seeker and job provid-er? Surprisingly well, accord-ing to Associate Dean of the College of Business C. Wil-

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How many parents have to be advised that their children will not be coming home from school because they were shot by a gunman on campus?

As we know, most uni-versities and colleges, ASU being included, prohibit the carrying of firearms on campus. This is exactly why we have so much gun crime in the first place. However, legislation has been pro-posed and now it is up to our university to decide a proper policy.

Governor Beebe has signed the bill to allow cam-puses to use their own dis-cretion in allowing staff and faculty to carry their con-cealed firearms on campus.

This is a great start in the restoration of our firearms rights as Americans. Cam-pus safety will be increased to a certain point if this is allowed because there will be responsible, intelligent adults with more preparation to de-fend their lives and the lives of innocent bystanders.

However, even if this bill does pass it will not suffice. What about the students who have concealed carry licenses? What about their rights to protect themselves?

Even if our university

passes a policy to allow fac-ulty and staff to carry their guns on campus, students who have concealed carry licenses would not have the legal right to protect them-selves on campus.

This fight for concealed carry is nothing new. A previous group for concealed carry known as Arkan-sas Carry was pushing for students right to concealed carry on campus back in 2011. Nicholas Stehle, head of this group argued that he does not think it is right for a college student to be told that he or she cannot protect themself.

I have to agree with this man wholeheartedly. Every-one has the right to defend their life and a student with a concealed handgun license is no exception to that fact.

Not only should students, faculty and staff members be allowed to carry their guns anywhere on campus but anyone with a gun license for that matter, should be legally allowed to carry a weapon anywhere in most cases.

While some cases, like a bar should be restricted because guns and alcohol do not mix, an individual, who is trained, passed a back-ground check, received their concealed carry permit and purchased a legal firearm should be allowed to carry.

The bottom line is the Constitution’s 2nd Amend-ment clearly states the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

A great deal of restric-tions to where an individual can carry is an infringement of our American rights.

If you chose not to carry a gun in preparation to protect your life, that is your right and your decision but you have no right to tell me that I cannot defend my life.

What about trusting the police to protect us? This is a good point and I agree that we should trust them.

However, research shows even police cannot respond to situations in time. For in-stance, consider former law enforcement officer Robert Campbell’s “Personal

Protection and Home Defense” where he argues it is important for an armed citizen to be prepared to protect himself for the very reason a gun attack can happen very quickly and the police may not be able to stop the attacker because of how fast it can happen.

It is very important that legislation passes that would allow all persons with a gun license, be they faculty, staff members, or even students, to carry their weapons on campus.

It is high time we take necessary steps to restore the partial loss of our 2nd Amendment rights.

Jason Holland is a criminolo-gy major of Jonesboro.

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Our ViewLate nights, coupled with waking early to finish homework

and attend class, are a cornerstone of collegiate life. Of course, college life is also is plagued with relationships, activities, work and other daily frustrations.

The headache from lack of sleep is only further pained by the fact that you didn’t have time to do laundry over the weekend.

The assignment you worked on all last night has developed errors while you rested your eyes. Although the milk hasn’t gone bad in the fridge yet, the cereal you chose is half composed of alphabet dust.

With hair disheveled, outfit redesigned and belly full of sugary cement, you make your way to class. You realize all too late that the time on your microwave is behind and you have but seconds to jog up the staircase before class starts.

Uncomfortable, ill prepared and out of breathe, you lower your head as you search for your desk among classmates.

Then your teacher, unbeknownst to him of your ordeal, warmly says, “welcome to class.”

You look up, smile and think “if only you knew,” then say thank you and take your seat.

How interesting is it, that a small gesture of kindness can go such a far way. Chances are we can all relate to this story as students or past students.

Nothing feels better to a college student when they are happily welcomed into a classroom. Knowing the students name can supercharge this positive response even more.

Besides just putting a smile on students’ faces, small gestures like these can be incredible classroom boosters.

These behaviors by teachers encourage classroom participation, classroom cohesion and acceptance of students.

It can be so incredibly simple for teachers to become complacent with simply teaching class material. Many teachers at ASU, however, spend countless hours in and outside of class creating interpersonal relationships with students.

For teachers who are frustrated by the lack of attendance or participation in classes, this may be the best way to solve their dreary class times.

As students, it is reassuring to hear words of welcome from professors. Those words of encouragement can change the downward spiral of a bad day or week.

We want to thank the teachers who have made their classrooms personal again and urge other teachers to take on he challenge. And students time a teacher offers those words of encouragement and makes you feel welcome in class make sure to let them know how much you appreciate it.

“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.

“Everyone has the right to defend their life and a stu-dent with a con-cealed handgun license is no excep-tion to that fact.”

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I wish to respond to the three selective service opin-ions published on Monday, March 4. I took issue with all three; as a soldier and the spouse of a former soldier I feel that I can provide some clarity on this issue.

First of all, every soldier currently serving in the Unit-ed States Army has an opin-ion on this. Every soldier also knows that publicly disagree-ing with a policy announced by the President of the Unit-ed States or the secretary of defense is insubordination. Therefore any currently serv-ing soldier should be unwill-ing to discuss this subject in the public forum except to provide clarification; those who are reading this should take heed and guard their words.

Having said that…Mr. Speaight seems to

think that the integration of the Army combat arms branches is a necessary social experiment. He also seems to think that females are be-ing denied their rights by not being drafted. Allow me to respond:

“Women simply can’t get above certain ranks.” True. Gen. Ann Elizabeth Dun-

woody did not make it past 4-star rank. However, nei-ther did Norman Schwarz-kopf or Colin Powell.

“If women are excluded from the draft, they would also be excluded from the benefits of the GI Bill.” False. My wife used the GI Bill to attend college. This college benefit is gained by serving in the military honorably, not being drafted. Some former service members have been excluded from using the GI Bill, but only for dishonorable conduct, not gender.

Mr. Lott has admirably pointed out the obvious re-garding testosterone. Yes, men have more testosterone, and yes, men have a more muscular morphology be-cause of this.

However, citing studies from the 1980s and 1990s does not truly contribute to his argument; those who agree with him already will accept those references, and those who do not will reject them as sexist and outdated.

In point of fact, concern has been raised about the physical demands of infantry soldiers, which is why the full integration is not expected to occur until at least October

of 2015. Mr. Lott might avail him-

self of the records of the last integration controversy in US Army history: that of the racial integration, in 1948. Similar protests regarding physical limitations were raised prior to the desegrega-tion, and make for an enlight-ening comparison.

Mr. Christensen expresses his desire to abolish the draft entirely. This is not a wise recommendation. The draft exists because the armed forces of the United States need to be able to activate the necessary personnel in case of declared war.

While it is true that we have an all-volunteer mili-tary, Mr. Christensen is in-correct when he implies that no remedy exists for those who refuse to serve in the military. The phrase we use for those persons is “consci-entious objector”, and there is a process involved. The conscientious objector is re-quired to state their reser-vations and the grounds for those reservations.

If those grounds are prov-en to be based upon recog-nizable moral qualms, the conscientious objector is

either permitted to serve in a limited capacity that does not violate their beliefs, or released from service. To provide a pair of examples, practicing Jehovah’s Witness-es and the Amish are released from service, because serving in uniform violates their reli-gious beliefs.

While I’m sure that Mr. Christensen has either served or knows someone who has served, his presentation smacks loudly of post-Viet-nam era anti-draft senti-ments.

Soldiers like me are of-fended by his use of the word “slavery” to describe the draft. Sometimes, the Unit-ed States must be defended by more than just volunteers. Thankfully this is not true to-day; I shudder to think what training draftees in the “New Army” would be like.

I support the policies of the President of the United States. It will not be easy, and I think even President Obama agrees with that statement. That’s alright, though; in the Army, we never do things the “easy” way.

Submitted by Derek Ott, ASU student.

Letter to the editor

Twenty-one is the age where a person feels reborn again and feels like they can do whatever he or she wants with-out parental consent. Walk up to a bouncer and flaunt an ID to prove how much of a grown-up he or she is. Get so drunk to the point of dancing on top of bar tables, jumping on cars, eating tampons, throwing up, and then passing out. Yeah, that sounds like a plan.

Mandeville Films present “21 and Over,” a film about Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) who has turned 21-years-old. His friends, Miller and Casey, who are played by Miles Teller and Skylar Astin surprise Jeff to celebrate his birthday.

The film was written and di-rected by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore who also wrote “The Hangover.” “The Hangover Part II” was released in 2010 and there are already plans in motion to film a part three.

Unfortunately, Jeff can’t party hard like a rock star be-cause he has a big interview the next day that could decide his future. The plan was only one drink and then go straight back home, but one drink turns into a big party for Jeff.

The objective is for Miller and Casey to get Jeff back home before his interview the next morning. It’s kind of hard to do that while carrying dead weight around the whole night. Plus, Miller and Casey are like morning and night.

It’s obvious to know how the night turned out. This is a typical house party movie that involves a bunch of drunken students, who act crazy while the music is pumped up loud and somehow manages to break something. This film was a repetitive crazy night of the norm.

However, it was refreshing to know that

the main character wasn’t the typical black or white actor but rather an Asian actor, but that still isn’t a good excuse for the way the mov-ie turned out. Yes, friendships were mended, sort of. Jeff Chang had secrets he was keeping from his friends that made him sound like a criminal. But even though this isn’t the main point of the movie it still makes the audience wonder.

All in all, the film was a stereotypical crazy affair.

I would give this movie a C+ rating. Over-all, the purpose was delivered and it was funny on occasions. However, it’s what you would expect from an R-rated comedy involv-ing college students and alcohol. The events weren’t typical, but the outcome of stupidity was evident.

As many college students say, you can’t sleep, study and have a social life. You have to pick two. Most students will say sleep is not one of their top choices. Maintaining scholar-ship requirements and a social life are among the top priorities.

In order to maintain a healthy sleep pat-tern, the National Sleep Foundation suggests adults receive seven to nine hours of sleep ev-ery night.

Hours of sleep a night vary based on ge-netic and physiological factors as well as age and gender. According to a study in the Jour-nal of Adolescent Health, the University of St. Thomas in Minn. found that 70 percent of college students do not get more than eight hours of sleep a night.

Director of the ASU Counseling Center, Dr. Phil Hestand said lack of sleep can cause several different problems for students.

“Lack of sleep can cause emotional, physi-cal and psychological issues,” Hestand said. “If a person misses one night of sleep, he would mostly be alright. He might not be able to pay attention as well or be able to recall infor-mation on a test, but he wouldn’t be in any serious danger. I am also a teacher and have witnessed several students who have fallen asleep in my class, and you just know they ar-en’t learning anything that day and won’t be able to do as well on the test.”

Short-term effects of not sleeping can cause students to forget items they just learned in class. The ability to pay attention in class could be slightly less than it would be if they would have received a full night’s rest.

“People who don’t receive the right amount of sleep might not be able to stay focused,” Hestand said. “Their ability to drive could be-come impaired making them a hazard on the road.”

Not getting the full eight hours of sleep ev-ery now and then might not hurt oneself too much, but going several days or even weeks without sleep can cause long-term issues; Is-sues such as getting sick more, experiencing hallucinations and even depression.

“Students, well anyone who goes long pe-riods of time without sleep, will eventual-ly develop some health issues such as their immune system failing,” Hestand said. “Not enough sleep can cause stress on the body and brain, as well as the ability to actually man-age outside stress such as academics or fam-

ily stress. People will actually start dreaming while their eyes are open from lack of sleep. This is a very serious problem.”

Causes of sleep deprivation can vary from one person to another. It could be from in-somnia, stress, too much noise present, dis-tractions such as computers and cellphones, staying awake to study or staying out late with friends.

“When students come in with sleeping problems, we try to figure out what is caus-ing them not to sleep,” Hestand said. “We have to figure out what’s causing the problem before we can figure out a plan to help them sleep better. Sometimes it’s a matter of ‘well is there an outside noise keeping you up? Is the room too hot?’ Residence halls don’t help with sleeping problems.”

Along with noisy residence halls, stress on students can create sleeping problems. Dalton Broadaway, junior engineer major of Jonesboro, said he believes stress from school and work can cause a lot of college students to lose sleep.

“I think procrastination is a large part of why students aren’t getting as much sleep as they need,” Broadaway said. “There are also a lot of students who work multiple jobs. It’s hard to support yourself that way and get enough hours in to do school work. It real-ly helps me to plan things out and not break from those plans unless it’s necessary.”

Broadaway said he tries not to procrasti-nate. With not procrastinating, he can plan his days to where he can get about seven to eight hours of sleep a night excluding week-ends.

“I know when I get out of class, when I’m going to eat lunch, when I’m going to work and when I’m going to do homework,” he said. “And if I don’t have all my homework done by 10:30-11, it just doesn’t get done usually un-less it is due the next day.”

Freshman early childhood education ma-jor Becca Neuman also thinks time-manage-ment plays a huge role in school-related stress that can cause students to not get the recom-mended amount of sleep.

“I think many college students do not un-derstand time-management,” Neuman said. “People, like me, pile up too many duties on themselves. I’m sure about a fourth or so of college students simply stay out late partying too often. However, when it comes down to it, I think most of the problems with sleep that college students face is due to the amount of

schoolwork we all have.” Neuman typically gets five to seven hours of sleep depending on how much work she needs to do for school, her sorority, volunteer work and work for other clubs.

Prioritizing tasks and activities in one’s day can help reduce the amount of stress students have and can increase the amount of sleep one gets in a night.

“Students aren’t putting the most import-ant things first,” said Sean Johnson, freshman video and graphic design major of Murphy, Texas. “If students would start worrying about what is more important, they might

have time to actually get a decent amount of sleep. But they are staying out late and study-ing even later.”

According to the Centers for Disease Con-trol, there are several things people can do to insure they have good sleep hygiene.

Tips include: going to bed at the same time each night and rise at the same time each morning; moderate physical activity may help promote sleep, but avoid vigorous exercise in the few hours before going to bed; avoid large meals before bedtime; avoid caffeine and al-cohol close to bedtime; and avoid nicotine.

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‘Read Across America’ brings Dr. Seuss to ASU ADEEJA ANDERSON

STAFF WRITER

MICHAELA KABERLINE STAFF WRITER

I’ll sleep when I’m dead

“The Cat in the Hat” is one of the most well-known children books by Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Geisel. Children of all ages are entertained by Dr. Seuss’s beloved stories of imagination and timeless characters.

All of Dr. Seuss’ begin-ner books are meant to be enjoyed and a useful tool toward learning. His car-tooning for magazines and advertisements led him to writing his first children’s book titled “And to Think I saw it on Mulberry Street.”

Since then, children of all ages have read Dr. Seuss’ books of rhymes and bright creatures. Dr. Seuss’ goal was to create children’s books for interest and easy reading. And after decades, his books are still read among thou-sands of young readers.

Jill Kary, coordinator of the event, hosted the 2nd an-nual celebration called “Read Across America.” The event is in honor of Dr. Seuss’ 109th birthday. Young children came together to play activ-ities, games, win prizes, and see the Cat in the Hat himself

in the auditorium of the ASU museum.

All of the activities were based on Dr. Seuss’ books such as: “Hop on Top,” “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish,” “Horton Hears a Who!” and “Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?”

The children partici-pated in a treasure hunt to find pom-poms, played hop scotch with bean bags, pin the hat on the cat, took pic-tures as Thing 1 and Thing 2, sounded out words and a re-lay race by using a spoon to pick up plastic fish from one bucket to another.

All participants received candy, toys and hats during the festivities. The children also formed new friendships along with having fun being active in the games.

Brittany Haught, a fresh-man early education major of Mountain Home, worked at the event. “It’s good. I’ve always liked kids, and it’s cool to see them interacting.”

The children welcomed the Cat in the Hat with cheer as he peddled his way on a unicycle in the auditorium. The special guest juggled his way to the children’s laughter

and then read “Fox in Socks.” Jill Kary, director of the

event, said “I love to read, and I love it when children read.”

Kary participated in the festivities herself while read-ing multiple Dr. Seuss books to the children as they passed around the Cat’s hat full of candy.

“It’s all about the mission. Touch people where they live. It is all about reading,” Kary said.

The National Education Association established the “Read Across America” cel-ebration on March 2, 1998. It’s a worldwide event to en-courage children to read and motivate the community to make reading an important factor toward a child’s edu-cation.

A total of 200 kids showed up last year at the event. This year, an average of 100 kids and parents were present. At the end of the event, children watched the 1957 version of “The Cat in the Hat” animation with their parents.

“Dr. Seuss, kids love him,” said tour coordinator Paige Creed, “It’s a fun thing at the museum.”

ADEEJA ANDERSONSTAFF WRITER

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lion the second year for Higher Ed. The governor’s recommendation includes $8 million for

four-year and two-year schools. “They have to look at K-12 schools, Medicaid and prisons leaving higher education fourth in line. By the time the legislature gets to Higher Ed. there’s usually not a lot left, so he’s recommended $8 million to go to institutions,” Broadway said.

Actually a total of $10 million has been requested for High-er Ed. One million is for Adtech, which is a conglomerate of institutions that ASUJ is a part of and $1 million is set aside for UAMS.

The budget for ASUJ is funded by about 20 percent from the state’s general revenue, 2 percent from Educational Ex-cellence Trust Funds and 2 percent from tobacco settlement funds with the remainder coming from tuition, fees, federal funds and grants.

The recommendation to fund higher education is under discussion in the Joint Budget Committee consisting of Senate and House members.

The House is currently discussing House bill 1041 that will limit the increase in general revenue expenditures from year to year. This would cap spending by the state Legislature at a certain point, however if K-12, Medicaid and prisons are taken care of first that could possibly cut out Higher Ed all together,” Broadway said.

In November, Arkansas voters approved a half-cent in-crease in state sales tax to finance a $1.8 billion highway construction program. However, the Arkansas Highway De-partment is asking the Legislature to allow it to access gener-al revenue funds. This has never been done before and could impact Higher Ed.’s 20 percent of general Revenue funding.

The Highway Department is asking the Legislature to pass a bill that would allow the department to collect sales and use taxes on new and used cars and the estimated sales tax on auto parts and services, which usually goes to general revenue.

The proposal diverts 10 percent of the revenue the first year, but then increases yearly until the department collects 100 percent in 10 years. One hundred percent would amount to nearly half a billion dollars diverted from general revenue.

“When you adjust the pool of revenue by that large of an amount it would negatively impact all areas general revenue generally funds,” Broadway said. Gov. Beebe has expressed his opposition to giving the Highway Department money from the state’s general revenue fund.

Six bills being discussed in the Joint Budget Committee in-tend to reduce taxes in Arkansas, which would also take mon-ey away from the general revenue funds if approved.

The bills include reducing sales tax on food and ingredi-ents; decreasing income tax rates for individuals, trusts and estates, income tax on capital gains and a bill that reads “to reduce or repeal certain taxes.”

Estimations reported by Arkansas Online noted that if these bills do pass it could decrease the legislative budget by $150 million.

Currently more than 15 exemptions to the act are not ac-cessible to the general public, including income tax records, medical records, adoption records, education records as well as the number of undercover cops serving, court-protected documents and grand jury minutes.

Tom Larimer, the executive director for Arkansas Press As-sociation, expressed his concern about HB1327. “While the title of the bill, ‘to keep schools safe and secure,’ sounds really good, what in essence it does is make secret the security plans for the public schools or schools of higher education,” he said. The bad thing about the bill, Larimer said, is how the public is supposed to know if (the school) has a security plan and if they’re abiding by their own security plan if the citizens can-not even ask for it.

Justin Cook, a senior English major of Harrisburg, said he didn’t understand the reasoning for the bill considering the vital information at stake. “There is a line that must not be crossed when it comes to the welfare and wellbeing of citizens. In fact, with the frequency of school shootings recently, I think this is the kind of information that should be shared and even taught in classes,” Cook said. “Many students have never been through a shooting, thankfully, but that means that they are also ill prepared for one were it to happen.”

Members of the FOI Coalition, a group of concerned jour-nalists, broadcasters, lawyers and others in the state who monitor and respond to threats against the peoples’ law, have discussed their concerns with Wright, stating they will object and testify against the bill in committee hearings.

After hearing them, Wright said he would not amend the bill to exclude the FOI exemption because the purpose of the bill would be negated. “It was also a concern that when this comes up as a topic during a board meeting at these institu-tions, then that would be exempt from FOIA and would be-come a closed session. The coalition found that repugnant,” Larimer said.

Larimer thinks college students should be concerned about the bill because they are members of the public. “They have a right to know if there’s a security plan, if in fact the school is doing what they said they’re doing in their security plan,” Larimer said. “I’m not sure if I’d feel any safer by knowing that. We’d just have to take the school official’s word for that if they have a security plan in place.”

Shena Dickson, a senior psychology major of Paragould, said it’s a right as an American citizen to be informed, espe-cially on how facilities like ASU or public schools would re-spond in a dire situation. “What if their private policy was something extreme or dangerous when bad situations arose?” Dickson said. “I wouldn’t want to agree to something I had not even the slightest clue about.”

Larimer said he believed this bill is one that’s going to be fought out on Capitol Hill. “With this run of FOI amendment bills that we’re dealing with right now, it’s becoming challeng-ing at this point to keep the people’s business being conducted in public, unfortunately,” he noted.

mation about how much issuing these IDs costs the state. The legislature must then figure out where that money

should come from. Reps. Jim Nickels said at the meeting, “It has to have a fiscal

impact statement so I recommend stopping our consideration of the bill to receive the fiscal impact statement under our house rule.”

Some committee members also raised questions on the bill in terms of voter fairness.

“I believe the right to vote is fundamental to Americans,” said Reps. Butch Wilkins, a vice chair of the committee. “This bill will in fact make it much harder to vote for many Arkan-sans.”

He said he is often saddened by the low voter turnout. “I believe this bill will cause more people to be disenfran-

chised,” Wilkins said. “I believe the voters sent me here to do what is right and this is not good for Arkansas.”

Reps. John W. Walker said the bill would repress black vot-er turnout and discourage elderly and poor people from vot-ing and that is a serious issue related to entire democracy. “It’s a racial bill,” he said.

“It’s another way of trying to fix the land scape to ensure republican majority,” Walker said. Republicans have more in-fluence here and they believe they can win.”

In contrast, Dan Greenberg, a Little Rock lawyer testifying in support of the bill at the committee meeting, said, “There is nothing in this bill against any groups. It treats (everyone) equally. In Arkansas, we ordered county co-workers to ask for IDs so we’re not talking about a big educational extent. This bill will be widely performed amongst the public, even among minority voters.”

Hacker said even when minorities and poor people obtain state issued ID, the bill will attempt to keep them from voting by purging rosters of registered voters, comparing names on IDs to those of people with criminal records.

He also said the bill would also exclude those people with the same name as a convicted person without any other evi-dence.

“Voter fraud is a problem, but this solution creates an even bigger threat to democracy,” Hacker said.

Abigail Wang, a junior political science major of Jonesboro, said, “Though providing identification is important in the vot-ing process, I think there needs to be some flexibility.”

Wang believes that the presence of an ID shouldn’t hinder someone their right to vote. “People who only have one form of ID, for instance, should still be allowed to vote because it is their right as citizens to participate.”

Nathan Williams, a senior English major of Jonesboro, said, “We have already in place a registration system for exercising our right to vote. It seems that adding an additional, manda-tory requirement places an extra burden on would-be voters, and would likely do more to discourage voting than encourage it.”

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in (Arkansas),” Petrus said. “If you’re not busy make sure to go to that because from here on out it’ll be in New Orleans. While that may be more fun and rambunctious,

it’s not going to be easily ac-cessible for everyone.”

The next SGA meeting will be held March 26 at 5:30 p.m. on the eighth floor of the Library.

liam Roe. “On the job seeker side, it’s a great thing, because it allows the job searcher to very easily get the word out and get their resume out to a broad base very quickly, very easily and very effec-tively.”

“On the employer side, it’s also a great thing because they can have ac-cess to this type of resume, this ‘social media resume’ without them having to go through an extensive and expensive search,” Roe said. “It’s a win-win situa-tion.”

Social media has the potential to not only revolutionize how people look for job openings, but also how companies search for potential candidates for jobs, according to Roe.

“(The media resume) is becoming popular as it is, but I think it’s going to become more popular as we continue to

embrace technology in all aspects of our lives,” he said.

In some circumstances, employers may evaluate an applicant’s paper re-sume, then follow up by comparing the paper profile to the applicant’s social networking profile.

“One reason may be to see if the hard copy resume and the social media re-sume are essentially the same, that (job applicants) are not trying to be one thing in one (medium) and something else in another,” Roe said.

The College of Business faculty are aware of the changing face of personal publicity.

Many information and technology, computer application and human re-sources professors are incorporating social media and networking into their classes. “This is becoming an increasing-

ly important part of our course materi-al,” Roe said.

“I don’t actually teach the undergrad-uate students myself, but I know that faculty in our college are talking about different ways that students can essen-tially sell themselves in more cost-effec-tive and efficient ways,” he said.

But will online social profiles ever truly replace paper resumes? “It depends how things continue to evolve,” Roe said.

Oliver said, “I think paper resumes are still very valuable, still alive and well, particularly for making that first initial contact.”

Yet in a world where a Google search may very well form an employer’s first impression, savvy online networkers and future job seekers should stay aware of the pitfalls and opportunities present-ed by the growing world of social media.

SOCIAL MEDIA, Continued

Blackboard app continues to growWhile many students and faculty

may be familiar with the Blackboard on-line service, most are still unaware of a Blackboard app for mobile devices that allows users to acces the service, as well as some exclusive features.

Tamera Elliot, product marketing manager at Blackboard Mobile, spoke about the origins of the applications as well as what it has to offer students.

“The Blackboard app has been around since April of 2012, and it was first launched in conjunction with the iPad’s release, as the iPad app was the first one that we had out to market. We’ve released apps for the iPhone, An-droid, Blackberry and so on,” Elliot said.

Some students have reported the app not working, however Elliot had no knowledge of the problems.

“We’ve had no reports of outage is-sues across the country, so I’m wonder-ing if it might be something as simple as campus Wi-Fi going out. It hasn’t been a widespread issue to my knowledge,”

Elliot said. “If Blackboard’s up and run-ning, the app should be running too.”

Elliot said the app’s development has been successful since its launch in 2010.

“The reason we instituted the app in the first place is because we were get-ting reports of students trying to access Blackboard from a mobile browser and Blackboard itself is a really complex website,” Elliot said.

Elliot noted that, as of today, there have been over 3 million downloads worldwide.

“We developed the app with the the-ory in mind, that students are really de-manding access to the most core, basic parts of their classes, even when they can’t get to a computer, for things like being able to check their grades, pulling up their syllabi or commenting on dis-cussion boards,” Elliot said.

Elliot said there are special licensing agreements that allow either an individ-ual to purchase the app or the school to buy it for their students and faculty.

“A lot of schools have been facing budget cuts in these tough times and

schools have wanted to offer this solu-tion to students, but if a school couldn’t afford to pay that license, we wanted to offer a way for students to have access themselves.”

Students can download the app from the app store for free, but if the school hasn’t purchased a license on their be-half, they’ll be directed to subscribe themselves and can either choose to pay $1.99 per year to subscribe or pay $5.99 and have access to that app for life.

Elliot said some features are exclusive to the Blackboard app, such as push no-tifications and the ability to synchronize classes with their Dropbox account.

“When you think about being a stu-dent, your academics are such a key part of the university experience, that some-thing like the Blackboard app makes it easier for you to be a student. It helps you keep up with your courses in a way that just makes sense,” Elliot said.

Xingzhong Zhao | Staff PhotographerPhoto Illustration

The last time the Arkansas State rug-by team faced Life University’s team, it was in College Station, TX and the Red Wolves had just won the National Championship. On Saturday, March 9 at 1:00 p.m., Life will step onto ASU’s rugby field and face the Red Wolves’ 15s team.

Although the strategy and rules of

play are different for 7s and 15s, the ri-valry between the two teams is the same. Junior scrumhalf Dylan Carrion said beating Life is a goal everyone on the team is craving.

Saturday’s game marks the beginning of conference play for Arkansas State, who is ranked #2 in the country behind #1 ranked Life. Sophomore center Jon-athon Mbaya said he feels confident the team can compete against Life and knows the importance of a home win.

“This is a huge game and Life will be fired up after the loss in the National Champion-ship, and even though it is the 15s season now, they will still be feel-ing the pain of that de-feat,” Mbaya said. “Life is well-coached and fit. They will be testing us with every opportuni-ty that they get and we feel as if we are ready to match them physically.”

“Winning the first game of the season is always important. It helps with confidence and gives really good momentum for the rest of the season. Beating Life at home would be the ideal start for us and would give us great foundation to build on,” Mbaya added.

This may be the first game of conference play, but it is one of few league games the team will play.

“We only have four in total this season, so

it places a premium on each one,” head coach Alex Houser said. “With such few league matches, there is little margin for error if we want to qualify for the post-season. We have been focusing on eliminating unforced errors in practice that have crept into some of our previ-ous matches. If we are able to do that and rise to the level of physicality that the match will require, it will give us an opportunity to win.”

An expected increase in fan atten-dance this weekend has several play-ers looking forward to the turnout and chance to show off what they have been working on all season.

Saturday’s game is part of ASU’s Greek Week.

The match has been chosen as one of the week’s events and each Greek or-ganization receive points for attending the game; the more members, the more points. Freshman wing Gavin Brown said the increase in fans will be appreci-ated because it’s nice to see the universi-ty supporting their sports teams.

Coach Houser agrees.“It’s great that ASU made the match

a part of Greek Week and I hope they turnout in large numbers,” Houser said. “The weather should be nice, the match will be very competitive and to have a good sized, enthusiastic crowd will add a lot to the atmosphere. It will help our guys push themselves on the field.”

The game between the Red Wolves and Life—the top two teams in the coun-try—will begin at 1:00 p.m. this Saturday at the Arkansas State rugby field.

“We’ve been focusing on the basics, but the main goal is to go out and im-prove as a whole,” junior fullback and fly half Zinzan Elan-Puttick said. “It’s always a dog fight when it comes to this rivalry, but it’s a game we are all looking forward to.”

ASU student athlete Shari-ka Nelvis has qualified for the 2013 NCAA National Indoor Track and Field Champion-ships this weekend, and will be competing in the 200-me-ter run and the long jump.

The National Meet is be-ing hosted by the University of Arkansas, and will take place this weekend in Fay-etteville.

Head coach Jim Patchell is excited about the strides that both the men and women’s track teams have made, but he is also ready to continue to push for more.

“We are certainly pleased with Sharika qualifying for indoor nationals. This is the second year in a row for her, although this year she quali-fied in the long jump and the 200m instead of the hurdles,” Patchell said.

“ASU has had a long his-tory of qualifying athletes for the national championships and we have historically been one of the top track and field teams in the nation. ASU has also had alumni in every Olympic games since 1972. One of the goals I had when I accepted the coaching job back in 2011 was to bring that tradition back.”

The women’s indoor track

and field team took first place in the Sun Belt Conference Meet last weekend, scoring a total of 122 points as a team.

Nelvis contributed 40 of those points throughout various events. Other strong point contributors for the Conference Title came from the pole-vaulters, who placed first, second, and fifth, scor-ing 22 points, and from Kris-tina Aubert, who won the 5K and took second in the 3K.

The NCAA D1 Champi-onships this weekend will be a competition of the best of the best.

In each event, the top 16 athletes out of all of the D1 programs in the nation quali-fy to compete.

Nelvis is currently ranked 15th in the 200-m, with a time of 23.38 seconds, and is tied for 13th in the long jump, with a distance of 6.32 meters.

Regarding this weekend’s competition, Nelvis stated, “It’s not just this week, but hard work throughout the season that pays off. Training this week is actually an easy week, going into Nationals. I’m really nervous because the events I’m doing I would have never expected to do at a national level, but I’m also very excited to see how it turns out.”

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March is here; let the madness begin.After wrapping up the regular season on Saturday, the Ar-

kansas State men’s and women’s basketball teams are looking to make a run at the Sun Belt Conference Men’s and Women’s Championships this weekend in Hot Springs.

The tournaments kick off on Friday, but both teams were awarded first round byes and will not play until Saturday.

The Lady Red Wolves (15-14, 12-8) will enter the tourna-ment as the No. 4 seed and will take on Florida International at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday at Convention Center Court.

After winning the Western Division of the Sun Belt Con-ference, the ASU men’s basketball team (18-11, 12-8) were awarded with the No. 2 seed in their tournament and will face the winner of Troy and Florida Atlantic at 9 p.m. on Saturday in Summit Arena.

The women are currently coming off of two straight losses but were able to sweep FIU during the regular season. The two wins over FIU were decided by a total margin of nine points.

“Both games were very close and could’ve gone either way,” head coach Brian Boyer said. “The whole bracket is very bal-anced and it’s going to be a challenge. We were fortunate to beat FIU twice but it’s not the regular season anymore.”

Boyer added that the week off will definitely benefit his team and they have to take advantage of the bye.

“It’s that time of year where everybody is just beat and tired. I think the whole conference is on the same page as far as that goes, but we have to use this week off to our advantage and come out fresh and sharp,” Boyer said.

Like the Lady Red Wolves, the ASU men’s basketball team has lost their last two games, but head coach John Brady thinks the week off will help his team get back on track.

“This break has really allowed us to focus on some of the little things that we haven’t had a chance to cover since Octo-ber,” Brady said.

During the regular season, the Red Wolves split their series with both FAU and Troy at winning one game apiece. But, Brady believes the bracket fell in the favor of the Red Wolves this year.

“I like the way the bracket fell. I think we’re in a good posi-

tion but obviously nothing is a given. I think if we come in and play our game to the best of our abilities we’ll have a chance to win some games,” Brady said. “All we have to do is go over there and take care of business and get back to the way we were playing when we won seven out of eight.”

This year marks the last year that the tournaments will be held in Hot Springs as it will be moving to New Orleans in March 2014.

Brady said that though winning the tournament here in Ar-kansas would make for a great story for both teams, in reality it’s just another tournament.

“I’d love for our teams to win the championships here in the state. It’s an opportunity for our basketball teams to do something special and it’d be a great way to end the run in Hot Springs,” Brady said. “But we would put just as much empha-sis on it as if it were being played elsewhere.”

The Lady Red Wolves’ game on Saturday can be watched through a live stream online at the Sun Belt Conference web-site. The men’s game will be televised Saturday night and will air on the Sun Belt Network.

After dropping a weekend series to Sam Houston State, the Arkansas State Red Wolves baseball team corrected course with a 9-0 pummeling of the UT-Martin Skyhawks Tuesday night at Tomlinson Stadium.

The game was a make-up for the Feb. 20 match against Lyon College that was canceled. The Red Wolves controlled the game from the start and racked up 13 hits against six Skyhawk pitchers. Ju-nior third baseman Claude Johnson hit 3-5 including a double, while senior first baseman Logan Uxa went 3-3 with an RBI and two walks.

“I think the biggest thing was our pitchers were down in the strike zone, the hitters were more aggressive early in the ballgame and we played clean in the field,” head coach Tommy Raffo said. “When those three things happen, good things are going to happen for Arkansas State.”

UTM managed only three hits against an ensemble of ASU pitchers, including junior starter Bradley Wallace, whose

three strikeouts in three innings earned him the win.

After a three-and-out to start the game, the Red Wolves began the rout in the second inning. Uxa started the bot-tom of the inning with a standup double and advanced to third after catcher Ryan Roberts grounded out.

Later in the inning, center fielder Collin Massanelli tripled on a 2-0 pitch to score Uxa and himself the following at-bat after UTM catcher Ben Brewer couldn’t get a handle on a pitch in the dirt.

ASU busted down the gate in the third, scoring five against Cody Miller, who surrendered three hits and issued two walks in only a third of an inning. Johnson’s single put right fielder Ryan Emery, who walked, at third and Uxa knocked him in on a base hit.

Second baseman Alex Potts’ double scored both Johnson and Uxa and Mas-sanelli and DH Ethan Yeo added runs from a sac fly and a single to put ASU ahead 7-0.

The Skyhawks never found a rhythm at the plate, as five Red Wolf relievers stymied the opposition, giving up only

two hits in six innings with no walks. Meanwhile, ASU continued to rake, reg-istering a hit against every pitcher they faced, though the team struck out ten times.

“When you play a game like this, the zone gets expanded. In other words, our hitters have to understand that when you a score that’s eight [or] nine to noth-ing, pitchers on the outer half now are called a little bit differently,” said Raffo.

By the latter third of the game, Raffo began cycling in a number of freshmen, including center fielder Ryan Fitzpat-rick, who smacked his first career RBI on a single that scored Potts in the sev-enth. Redshirt sophomore Kaleb Brown added a run on fielder’s choice in the eighth to solidify the win.

The team will now prepare for a weekend showdown at home against Alabama-Birmingham, though they will be without junior Zach George, who suffered a torn ACL and will miss the rest of the season. Friday’s first pitch is set for 6 p.m., while Saturday’s game will be played at 4 p.m. and Sunday’s will be at 1 p.m.

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MEREDITH SCOTTSTAFF WRITER

Xinzhong Zhao |Staff PhotographerSenior Daniel Wright pitches during the baseball game vs. Western Illinois Feb. 23.

ZACH LOTTSTAFF WRITER

Staci Vandagriff | Staff PhotographerMichael Baska tackles Israel Nearman during rugby practice Wednesday afternoon.

March madness in Hot Springs Men’s and women’s basketball to compete in SBC Championships this weekend

Nelvis to compete in NCAA Indoor Track Championship

Baseball team overpowers Skyhawks in make-up game

Rugby battles Life this weekend

ASU has three shopping hubs within the Student Union; the Campus Store, the Bookstore and the Food Court. Each is filled with students on a day-to-day basis, whether it is to kill time, browse for the new-est item to spend their ex-tra book money on or grab a quick snack before their next class. But what exactly is it they are all buying?

According to records from dining services, the most sold items in the food court are the Chick-fil-A nuggets and the regular Chick-fil-A sandwich.

Manager of ASU’s Chick-fil-A Express, Michael Wil-lard, said the items are pop-ular because of how quickly they are made.

“They are accessible and you don’t have to wait in line,” Willard said. “Students can just grab them and go.”

On a normal day usually about 200 nuggets, both 8 and 12 piece boxes, are pur-chased, and the Chick-fil-A sandwich is right behind with 195 sold. The two are pretty close in numbers. In fact, some days the sand-wich may be the number one pick for the day.

The eight piece chicken nuggets have 260 calories and 12 grams of fat at $3.29, while the 12 piece chicken nuggets have 390 calories and 18 grams of fat, at $4.89.The chicken sandwich, how-ever, has 410 calories, 18 grams of fat and costs $3.59.

“I get the eight piece chicken nuggets from Chick-fil-A. There are al-ways a lot in stock and they taste pretty good,” Miya So-man said, a freshman nurs-ing major of Little Rock.

Gwendalyn Newton, a cashier at the campus store, estimated the most bought items being the 20 ounce drinks. Newton was correct, according to the records.

The campus store sold a total of 7,576 of their 20 ounce drinks last week.

“The reason why they are so popular is the drinks are easy to access and grab,” said Michelle Cobb, admin-istrative assistant for dining services.

The 20 ounce Coca-Cola products each cost $1.59, and range anywhere from 240 calories, such as a Coke, to zero calories, such as a Dasani water bottle, both of which are the most popular.

“I think the reason why drinks are purchased so

much is because people are more thirsty than hungry,” Newton said.

The turkey cheddar Kai-ser sandwich came in sec-ond place with more than 3,000 sold last week.

The sandwich, composed of lettuce, tomato, turkey and cheese, has 310 calories, and 13 grams of fat while costing a total of $2.79.

In the last month, 65 Red Wolf plush animals were purchased at $18, which makes this the top seller in the bookstore. The second best sellers are the pom-poms at $1.95, with a to-tal of 64 bought in the last month.

According to Jeanie Pechilis, manager of the bookstore, this is the first year the bookstore has car-ried the plush animal. “They are a replica of the mascot, Howl,” Pechilis said.

To some, it is a small price to pay to have a mini-Howl to remember ASU.

Takako Okumura|Staff PhotographerKurt Kamphausen, a senior RTV major of Little Rock, buys waffle fries from Chick-fil-A.

Smoking tobacco is a common practice amongst men and women of all professions, trades and colleges. One of the more recent-ly popular methods of smoking tobacco in America is smoking from a hookah.

A hookah, also know as a water pipe, is a device used to smoke tobacco. A ceramic bowl is filled with tobacco, which burns when coals are placed on top. The smoke produced is filtered with water, which turns the smoke into water vapor and allows the smoke to be less harsh when inhaled.

Smoking from a hookah is not illegal. It is simply the act of smoking different flavored tobacco out of a water pipe .

“Cigarettes are for nervous people, com-petitive people, people on the move. When you smoke from a hookah, you have time to think. It teaches you patience and tolerance, and gives you an appreciation of good com-pany,” according to hookahcompany.com.

In Fayetteville, “The Fez” is a downtown hookah bar right off of Dickson Street. Upon entering the building and walking down a flight of stairs, there are lounge areas with pillows and comfortable seats surrounding a table.

Most hookah bars, such as this one, can hold several groups at different tables. Some-one from the group can place an order for their desired tobacco flavor such as blueber-ry, vanilla or almond, just to name a few. The hookah is either in place at the center of the table or delivered to the table with the tobacco and fresh burning coals to burn it down.

A smoking session usually lasts about as long as the coals do, which can be anywhere from 30-45 minutes. Customers can even order drinks or snacks as they lounge and smoke.

A typical one-hour hookah session in-volves inhaling 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette, ac-cording to studies by the Center for Disease and Control Prevention.

In a study by the American Lung Associa-tion (ALA), many hookah smokers consider the smoke to be less harmful than the smoke from cigarettes. While the setting for smok-ing hookah is meant to be a relaxing and fun activity to share with friends, people should be aware that the harms of tobacco, like in cigarettes or chewing tobacco, are still pres-ent. Both cigarette and hookah smoke con-tain nicotine, which is an addictive drug that is found in tobacco.

Jonathan Stidman, an ASU Alumni, and his wife Katie smoked at a hookah lounge last week when they were on vacation in Miami, Florida.

“I always feel dizzy when I do it, which is also why I like to do it,” Katie said. “My stom-ach hurt afterwards, but I don’t know if that was from the hookah smoke or from being

out in the sun all day,” Katie said.“My wife and I like it because it tastes

good. We like to play with the smoke by mak-ing smoke rings,” Jon said.

“We know it’s bad for us but it is fun and relaxing. It is probably not the best thing for you, but it’s definitely not one of the worst things for you either,” Katie said.

Jackson Spencer, a Jonesboro native and senior graphic communications major at ASU, enjoys the friendly atmosphere smoking hookah creates.

“It’s social because it’s something that you pas around,” Spencer said. “There’s a lot of va-riety with smoking hookah. There’s also no filter on it so you get a buzz from it.”

In 2006, the Center for Disease and Con-trol Prevention (CDC) said that an estimate of 300 hookah cafés up and running in the U.S., and the numbers continue to grow.

Studies of Health Effects from hookah as cited by the (CDC):

-The charcoal used to heat tobacco in the hookah produces high levels of carbon mon-oxide, metals and cancer-causing chemicals.

-Even after it has passed through water, the smoke produced by a hookah contains high levels of toxic compounds, including carbon monoxide, heavy metals and cancer-causing chemicals.

-The irritation by tobacco juice products is likely to be greater among hookah smokers than among pipe or cigar smokers because hookah smoking is typically practiced more often and for longer periods of time.

Even though there are proven health con-cerns for smoking hookah, it is continuing to spread as a leisure activity amongst the youth.

Photo Illustration by Caitlin LaFarlette|Photo Editor

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Campus CrimeOn Feb. 27, Officer Andrew Thrasher assisted Jonesboro Police in a traffic stop. According to the police report, a strong odor of marijuana was com-ing from the passenger compartment of the vehicle. All four subjects were asked to exit the vehicle while a K-9 officer conducted a sniff search of the vehicle. No marijuana was located in the vehicle, according to the report. However, while searching the sub-jects, a small bag of marijuana was located between the silicone cover and the hard plastic case of the Ot-terbox to Brittney Gill’s iPhone. Jzade Forte admitted to smoking marijuana earlier that evening, and the officers proceeded to perform a set of stan-dardized field sobriety tests. Forte was deemed no longer under the in-fluence. The four subjects were given a university referral for drug violation, according to the report.

On March 3, Officer Daniel Bradway went to Collegiate Park to investigate a tip that someone who had been banned from campus was staying in the apartments, according to the po-lice report. Taylor Young answered the door when Bradway knocked. Brad-way asked her if Kendall Shelton was inside. Young hesitated, but stated he was, according to the report. Once inside, Officer Bradway took Shelton

into custody for criminal trespassing. Young’s apartment was also searched, with permission. A marijuana bong, a small marijuana cigarette, and a hookah tobacco pipe were located in Young’s room. According to the re-port, Young was given referrals for fail-ure to comply because she was pres-ent when Shelton was served and still allowed him to stay. Shelton is being held in lieu of a suriety bond, accord-ing to the report.

On March 3, Officer Chris Kirksey was patrolling Arkansas Hall at approxi-mately 2 a.m. when he could hear ex-cessively loud music coming from a room nearby, according to the report. After knocking on the door twice, Christopher Fletcher opened the door. Kirksey asked if there was any alcohol in the room. Fletcher advised there was and Kirksey entered the room where two other students were also present. According to the report, all three students admitted to drinking alcohol and Fletcher showed the offi-cer the liquor he had in his room. Ac-cording to the report, an on duty R.A. poured out all of the liquor and the three students were given referrals.

-Compiled by Tanya Giraldo,News Editor

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