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A-State officials are looking at other funding options after the Jonesboro Advertising & Promotion Commission voted to fund the Keller Family Hotel and Convention center project over a proposed project on university property.

A-State joined leaders in the Keller project to present ideas to the commission March 2. After

one commission member recused himself from each of the votes, a motion to fund the A-State proj-ect failed 2 to 3.

The commission voted 3 to 2 to approve funding to the Keller project to the amount of $150,000 for the first year, $100,000 for the second year and $50,000 for the third year, including a relief on taxes for those three years.

Located along Browns Lane Access Road near the future I-555, the Keller Family Hyatt

Place and Convention Center will occupy 37,000 square feet of land owned by the Keller family. The project includes a 159 room Hyatt Place Hotel, convention Center, and space for second ho-tel in the future. The project has an estimated completion date of mid-2017.

Meanwhile, A-State’s project includes a 202-room Embassy Suites, convention center and Houlihan’s restaurant. O’Reil-ly Hospitality Management is

heading the project and leased the land from the university. Rep-resentatives from the university and the O’Reilly group are not discouraged by this development.

A-State Chancellor Tim Hudson released a statement fol-lowing the A&P Commission’s decision, expressing his disap-pointment and noting the bene-fits a project like this could bring to students and area residents.

“We are very disappointed by the Jonesboro A&P Commis-

sion’s decision today. The pub-lic-private partnership between Arkansas State and O’Reilly Hospitality Management will bring an upper-upscale hotel and convention center to our com-munity at an ideal location. The cooperative effort of the city’s second-largest employer and home to 13,000 students and an experienced developer of hospi-tality venues throughout the U.S. is significant for Jonesboro and the region. It will allow A-State

to establish a new academic program and enhance student recruitment. We are grateful to the city’s medical centers and businesses who have expressed support for our partnership. We look forward to continuing our plans with O’Reilly and will al-ways focus on what is best for our students, who clearly understand the value of this project for our campus,” Hudson said.

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JOHNATHAN REAVES | KASU NEWSOpponents of Jonesboro’s Property Maintenance Code have turned in over 5,000 signatures to the Jonesboro City Clerk’s office. Attorney Travis Story turned in a box full of petitions. A special election will be held May 10 to allow citizens to cast the deciding vote.

Hotel, convention center plans stalled

MELISSA MARTIN | PHOTO EDITORHannah Aldridge, a sophomore dietetics major from Jonesboro and cur-rent Public Relations Director in the Student Government Association, speaks on behalf of her campaign for SGA President at the #RedWolf-Debate Monday night. Aldridge is joined on the ticket by Ross Grant. If elected, Aldridge and Grant plan to implement a safe ride program, late hour food access, improve parking, expand Starbucks, and develop a 24-hour “quiet lab.”

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Jonesboro A&P declines to fund O’Reilly campus convention center project

The Jonesboro City Council approved an ordinance calling for an election regarding the city’s newly approved property main-tenance code at a special council meeting Feb. 26.

The new Jonesboro Property Maintenance Code has raised concern from many citizens. The election was sparked after a group called Repeal Jonesboro Proper-ty Code 105-2 collected 3,653 verified signatures to call for an election.

In December, the city of Jonesboro proposed to adopt a new code for the maintenance of existing residential and com-mercial structures. The Jonesboro Property Maintenance Code was adopted on Dec. 15, 2015, and was to be enforced on March 15.

The intent of the newly ad-opted code was to “maintain the beauty of Jonesboro through structural integrity and health and safety of property.” How-ever, there have been concerns with language of the code it-self. Citizens of Jonesboro have gathered at the City Meetings to be informed, ask questions, and voice their concerns. One

particular concern was property code 104.3, or “Right of Entry” clause. Residents were concerned about “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Because of the increas-ing vocalization of this issue, the Council amended the code with more specific language to address the concern.

Despite the amendments to the code and public informa-tional meetings, there has still been extensive resistance to the Jonesboro Property Maintenance Code. The code will be placed on the ballot on May 10.

The difference between this Jonesboro Property Code and the code already in place has been unclear to some.

Lieutenant Todd Nelson, of the Jonesboro department of Quality of Life & Code Enforce-ment, explained the difference between the two. Jonesboro does not have middle ground between condemning property and pass-ing property. The intent of the code is to allow enforcers to issue warnings if a property has not been properly maintained.

“The vast majority of homes already meet this code,” Nelson said.

According to the code, there will be fines for those who are

TYLER PORTERSTAFF WRITER

The Student Government Association drew a crowd at Arkansas State University as they held their presidential debate Mon-day. About 50 spectators attended the debate, during which candidates presented their per-sonal goals if elected.

With the official hashtag of the event be-ing #redwolfdebate, students came in support to hear what each party had to offer. The par-ties, Hannah Aldridge and Ross Grant, and Tucker Crain and John Hakenewerth, were each asked a total of 10 questions. Each party president had to answer seven questions, and the vice president had to answer three.

SGA presidential candidate Hannah Al-dridge, a sophomore dietetics major from Jonesboro, said her campaign goals include setting up a program for students to pay off collected parking tickets through Vol-unteer-Astate and offering late night food options every weekend with food trucks or extended operations hours in the food court. Aldridge also planned on starting a safe ride program to allow students to have a safe ride in any situation, creating a 24-hour library for students to study at any time and expanding the Starbucks in the available space at the Sun Belt Lounge.

“We plan to work closely with the colle-

giate center and the university administration to make all of these things possible. Our con-nection throughout campus will help to make dreams a reality,” Aldridge said.

On the other side of the campaign, Crain, a sophomore multimedia journalism major of Jonesboro, talked about his pride in being an A-State student. He said he even grew up knowing that ‘razorback’ as a curse word and as a result Crain surrounded himself with ASU memorabilia, beginning when the uni-versity’s mascot was still an Indian.

“I am proud of being a member of this A-State community, and I am so thankful to call it my home. If you vote Crain-Hak-enewerth, we are going to make sure you are proud to call this place your home as well,” Crain said.

Meanwhile, Grant, SGA vice presiden-tial candidate and running mate of Aldridge, classified himself as the voice of the students at the university. Grant is a sophomore chem-istry and biology major of Bryant.

“We will be a voice, a true representation of the university unified for a common cause,” Grant said.

Nevertheless, Hakenewerth, Crain’s’ run-ning mate, informed the audience that ever since he joined the SGA office as freshman senator, he and Crain have possessed a pas-sion to be student leaders.

“The passion we possess started the day we

accepted our scholarship and grows every sin-gle day we step on campus and get involved in different organizations. Passion catches our attention, commitment and respect, but one thing’s for certain, it causes you to act,” Hak-enewerth said.

At the same time, Aldridge’s campaign slogan is “Unifying the University.”

“Unifying the University can mean so much to us. We want to unify the body by taking a stand for all students and being a voice for all students, whether it be Greek life, residents life, athletics, every student,” Al-dridge said.

Crain’s campaign slogan is “What a great time to be alive.”

“This is the best time to be alive not only at Arkansas State University but across this entire world,” Crain said.

Crain said that with A-State becoming a larger campus, this is the time to go from smaller campus commodities to larger com-modities to accommodate the growing cam-pus.

With talk of passions, goals and dreams, both SGA candidates Aldridge-Grant and Crain-Hakenewerth expressed ideas they are ready to make a reality on the campus of Ar-kansas State University.

Voting begins March 10 at 9 a.m. and will end March 11 at 9 a.m.

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The Great A-State DebateSGA presidential candidates make their cases for the upcoming election

Jonesboro City Council approves property code

special election code

KYLE FOUTS | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERTucker Crain, a sophomore multimedia journalism major of Jonesboro, spoke to those in attendance about what this university means to him at the Red Wolf Debate on March 7 in Cenntenial Hall. Crain is joined on the ticket by John Hakenewerth. They plan to bring “new ideas and sensible upgrades” to A-State, which they feel are long overdue.

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The increasing scrutiny of our newspaper is of great concern to me as editor in chief of The Herald. Many faculty and upper-level ad-ministrators feel that we are poorly representing our university when we publish news that may not present the institution in a positive light.This problem is not unique to student journalists, and it is certainly not unique to journalists on a profes-sional level. Those in our industry bear the heavy burden of acting as the fourth estate, and in doing so, open themselves up to such scrutiny. However, as student jour-nalists, we are in a unique position. We are still hon-ing our skills. Student journalists are develop-ing new ways to circum-vent the obstacles faced in

newsgathering, learning proper time management and cultivating appropri-ate and reliable resources. In the real world, there is no time and no excuse for mistakes. At the collegiate level, mistakes, while un-savory, are not so costly. The burden of the fourth estate is to hold institu-tions accountable for any activity that may seem questionable to the body it serves. As independent organizations, student newspapers have no legal obligation to censor them-selves when it comes to these matters. Typically, if the story is factual, the in-formation is presented in an unbiased manner and it is of considerable interest to their respective reader-ship, journalists are under no obligation to justify why they chose to write the piece, just as their ed-itor has no obligation to justify running the piece. The Herald operates under these principles. My staff and I follow the SPJ Code of Ethics, and base our content on what we feel A-State and the surround-ing community want to know. What has become increas-ingly apparent in recent months is a restriction of resources for the College

of Media and Communi-cation.Particularly egregious is the establishment of pol-icies strongly discourag-ing faculty and staff from speaking to the press with-out prior clearance from A-State officials. “It is not the intent of the university or the Office of University Communica-tions to suppress the flow of news and information from the university. How-ever, when those who rep-resent the university are asked by the news media for information or opin-ions, their professional as-sociation may invariably involve the university in the minds of the public. In that regard it is the univer-sity’s right and responsibil-ity to define the limits of its involvement,” according to the A-State University Advancement policy, Re: Responding to the News Media.Strongly worded sugges-tions like this are not new, but they are growing in number. Frank LoMon-te, director of the Student Press Law Center, noted via email an increase in reported instances of thin-ly-veiled prior restraint-es-que requests at the colle-giate level.“This whole ‘gag order on

employees’ imposed by campus P.R. agencies is something we’re hearing a lot of. It’s incredibly frus-trating, and it’s very hard to fight … as journalists,” LoMonte stated.Limiting credible campus resources, many of which are faculty and staff at A-State, only serves to hin-der the learning process for student media profes-sionals. The Herald staff is protected by the First Amendment because we are an independent news organization. But the seeds of distrust and disunity that will inevitably stem from sanctions like this will have effects that stem beyond the print media world. KASU, ASU-TV, ASU-TV News and Red Wolf Radio reap no reward from these restrictions, ei-ther.As a leader in student me-dia, I wonder what is left to gain from suppressing student journalism. If we are part of a university that prides itself on its me-dia and communication programs, why not foster them? University image may remain intact, but at the cost of education. What is the point of train-ing a generation of student journalists if their first in-stinct is not to question

everything, but to comply?Dr. Alisa White, president of Austin Peay State Uni-versity, spoke to an audi-ence of student journalists during the 2016 Southeast Journalism Conference in Clarksville, Tenn. White encouraged those going into the field to challenge

their readership. “You must be the fourth es-tate. You must protect the First Amendment,” White said. “You are in a position of public trust. Say some-thing meaningful.”Journalists have the power to drive the conversation and the power to put their audience in the passenger seat. An informed reader-ship is the ultimate goal of journalism. White’s remarks are pow-erful for a number of rea-sons, foremost being the support to student media from administrators. It is rare to see high ranking officials delivering words of encouragement to the individuals who hold them publicly accountable for

their actions.There is a certain unspoken understanding between many university P.R. agen-cies and university media that pits the two organiza-tions as rivals. The fourth estate and the institution in question will never exist without contention. P.R. may provide some of the most appealing facts, but there is almost always a deeper story to pursue. It is our job to scratch the glossy surface of a press kit and use our journalis-tic intuition and integrity to guide us. I fear that the burgeoning generation of young journalists will face an uphill battle in the face of such sanctions.As their forebearers, we have an obligation to stand our ground and protect the rights that were afford-ed to us through no small struggle. There is a harmo-nious balance to the nature of the estates of the realm. There is considerable risk in an unchecked system. Free speech is a right af-forded to all Americans. The danger in suppressing student journalists lies in the nature of the slippery slope that follows. Student rights violations are sure to follow. A student body that lives in fear is a dysfunc-tional student body.

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Emma Williams is a senior journalism major from Jones-boro.

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Campus CrimeCampus Crime is a weekly report compiled from University Police logs made publicly available in accordance with the Clery Act.

March. 3, 20163:00 a.m.—After making

an improper left turn into the entrance of McDonald’s on Johnson Avenue, a black vehicle continued around the building without stopping to order food. Officer Daniel Bradway then ob-served the vehicle pull back onto Johnson and make an improper lane change while going through the intersection of Johnson and Marion Berry. Officer Bradway pulled behind the vehicle and initiated his emergency lights to make a stop. The driver ignored the officer and made no attempt to pull over, even after hearing the police siren. Officer Bradway then ordered the driver to pull over on his public address micro-phone. Bradway heard the driver yell, “what for?” The passenger of the vehicle was let out because she didn’t want any part of a po-lice chase. She approached the officer’s patrol car and explained that she would be happy to tell who the driver was and where they might find him. The car drove off and Bradway did not pursue it further. The passenger

provided Bradway with informa-tion on the suspect, and the ve-hicle was later found at an apart-ment complex. The driver had a suspended driver’s license and 23 outstanding warrants. Unable to locate the suspect at that time, another warrant would soon be applied for.

March 4, 20164:00 p.m.—A 20-year-old fe-

male student reported that some-one had taken the Bernie Sanders sticker off the front of her Ford F150. She had parked at Honors Building 4 and returned to find the political sticker missing. She also noticed scratches on both the driver and rear driver’s-side doors. It looked as if someone had keyed the vehicle. Perhaps the culprit disagreed with the owner’s candidate of choice. A report of criminal mischief was filed.

March 5, 20161:13 a.m.—William Hodg-

es, 19, was stopped on John-son Avenue for driving without headlights during the night. Upon contact with Hodges, Of-ficer Keith Gilliam could smell a strong odor of intoxicants com-ing from the vehicle. Another officer could see several beer bottles in plain view in the front passenger floorboard. Hodg-es was asked to exit the vehicle

and perform a field sobriety test. After failing several parts of the test, Hodges was arrested for suspicion of DWI, minor in pos-session of alcohol, no headlights, and refusal to submit to a chem-ical test. He also was referred to Student Conduct for an alcohol violation.

March 5, 20169:16 a.m.—When a golf

cart was reported stolen from University Hall, Officer Rob-ert Chrestman attempted to locate it. Driving his patrol car near The Edge Coffee House, he noticed 18-year-old Vontar-io Robinson operating the cart. Robinson proceeded to exit the golf cart and flee from the offi-cer. The cart continued forward until it stopped in the middle of an intersection. Chrestman ordered Robinson to stop, but Robinson ran until he came to a fence. After failing to comply with Chrestman’s order to show his hands and get on the ground, Robinson jumped the fence. Chrestman lost sight of Rob-inson but was notified later by Jonesboro Police that Robinson had been located. Robinson was arrested and cited for a felony count of theft, fleeing, criminal trespassing, and careless or pro-hibited driving. He is also hereby banned from the entire campus.

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Millennials for CruzA-State students join the political

movement, advocate for Cruz

Green County Tech Sweeps Communications Day

Paragould’s Greene County Tech High School swept the award ceremony, taking home the sweepstakes award for the most accolades at the 78th annual Communications Day at Arkansas State University, held on Saturday.

The A-State College of Media and Commu-nication hosted the event, which targets Arkansas high school students, allowing them the opportu-nity to compete in over 20 contests involving a va-riety of media and communications related topics. Forty students attended this year’s competition.

The most popular events were photography, with eight students competing, and editorial writ-ing, hosting seven students.

Awards were given for first, second and third place, as well as honorable mention. Greene County Tech High School of Paragould received the most points, obtaining the Overall Sweep-stakes Award, followed by Armorel High School and Valley View High School. There were 10 high schools represented in the competition.

Lisa Moskal, a Department of Communica-tion instructor, who attended the event and who helped coordinate the public relations (PR) com-petition, explained that, compared to previous years, the turnout was not near as great. She be-lieved that this was due in part to the event being cancelled last year because of snow. That cancella-tion had a great effect on the return rate of high schools.

“The university students spent several hours preparing the Public Relations competition task the high school students would perform,” Moskal said.

The end result was a contest to produce speeches and logos as the hypothetical campaign manager for Kanye West in the 2020 Presidential Election. This creative, challenging and relevant proposal was, to the disappointment of professors and university students, met with no challengers.

YULIA RUFIMSKAYA | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERArmorel High School students take group photograph during the 78th Annual Comunication Day on March 5. Their Canadian Township school won 2nd Runner-Up Sweepstakes award.

KELSEY RIVERSSTAFF WRITER

An Arkansas State Univer-sity student hopes to inform others of presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s vision with a new political organization.

“Millennials for Cruz” has been a grow-ing coalition with the purpose of bringing to-gether a group of Mil-lennials from colleges throughout the U.S., to help Sen. Cruz win the election. Members of the organization want to inform young peo-ple about the presiden-tial candidate and what Cruz has to offer, hop-ing to get the vote out.

Tyler Campbell, ju-nior secondary educa-tion major, has searched for an adviser to oversee the organization on the A-State campus. Camp-bell decided to support Cruz after speaking with a supporter of the candidate who had the opportunity to meet Cruz.

“It is important to pay attention to local politics and to know what is going on around you and to know which candidate would best fit the need. In order to vote for the candidate who has the best in-terests of the people, there must

first be an awareness of what candidates stand for,” Campbell said.

The nationwide organization has looked to encourage young people to be aware of the power a vote has, and to gain the vote

for their candidate of choice. As one of the first political organi-zations on campus to represent

a single candidate, there have been seven prospective mem-bers of ‘Millennials for Cruz’ on campus.

With the launch of the or-ganization, Cruz said, “I am committed to restoring the eco-

nomic growth that our nation needs so young people have the same opportunities that their parents and gen-erations before them had, and ensuring that future generations can enjoy the same oppor-tunities.”

National Co-Chairs Alessandra Gennarelli, student at the University of Texas at Austin, and Elliot Kelley, student at Bob Jones Univer-sity in South Carolina, have worked together to share Cruz’s vision for the country.

At the start of the organization, Gennarelli said, “ The Millennials for Cruz coalition is off to a strong start, and I am confident that the Senator’s consistent conservative record and his plans for the

future of this generation will win the Millennial

vote for Cruz in 2016.”The coalition has continued

to reach out to young voters,

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YULIA RUFIMSKAYA | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERMary Conroy (left), Valley View High School student, is presented 3rd place in the Radio Announcing con-test by Teisha Bagwell of Red Wolf Radio during the 78th Annual Comunication Day on March 5. Conroy also received the 1st place in Editorial Writing, 2nd place in Social Media and 3rd place in TV Anchoring.

Beams, wolves up in Mexico

COURTESY OF ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Steel goes up at Campus Queretaro. Progress on A-State’s partnership for a new campus in Mex-ico continues. Ricar-do Gonzalez, ASUCQ Chairman, stated in November he expects completion of the first phase of the campus in 2017. The “American style” campus will in-corporate the A-State brand and logo and the university’s curriculum. Courses will be taught in English by creden-tialed faculty approved by Arkansas State, and degrees will be joint-ly recognized in both Mexico and the United States.

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KYLE FOUTS | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERBoth parties running for President and Vice President of the SGA take the stage Monday night (L to R: Ross Grant, Hannah Aldridge, Tucker Crain, John Hakenewerth). Hannah Aldridge, a sophomore dietetics major from Jonesboro, speaks on behalf of her campaign for SGA President at the #RedWolfDebate Monday night. Aldridge is joined on the ticket by Ross Grant. If elected, Aldridge and Grant plan to implement a safe ride pro-gram, late hour food access, improve parking, expand Starbucks, and develop a 24-hour “quiet lab.” Tucker Crain, a sophomore multimedia journalism major of Jonesboro, spoke to those in attendance about what this university means to him at the Red Wolf Debate on March 7 in Cenntenial Hall. Crain is joined on the ticket by John Hakenewerth. They plan to bring “new ideas and sensible upgrades” to A-State, which they feel are long overdue. SGA voting begins March 10 at 9 a.m. and ends March 11 at 9 a.m.

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Convention Center, Continued

Property Code, Continuedfound to be in violation, pro-

vided the property owner has done nothing to fix the issue in a given time period.

This code will also be com-plaint driven as decided by Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin. Complaints will also be anony-mous, so as to avoid bullying or retaliation by the recipients of the complaint.

The Jonesboro Property Maintenance Code pertains to the maintenance of existing structures. It does not, however, deal with construction, updating, or renovation of property. Con-struction, updating, and renova-

tion projects must adhere to their respective code enforcements.

KAIT reports the Jonesboro City Council will decide the de-tails on the election in a meeting on March 1. The council can ei-ther decide to hold a special elec-tion in May or hold the election in November.

Opponents are against the interior requirements which they believe code enforcement offi-cers could enter people’s homes. Despite the strong position taken by opponents against the perceived invasive nature of the code, a group of Jonesboro resi-dents calling themselves Citizens

for a Better Jonesboro released a statement Feb. 12, stating their presence as a “broad coalition of concerned citizens have joined together to form a new ballot committee to combat an inten-tional misinformation campaign and a distorted view of a Jones-boro city ordinance concerning property maintenance.”

The group was organized by Dr. Gregory Hansen, professor of folklore and English at Ar-kansas State University.

More information about the Jonesboro Property Main-tenance Code can be found on Jonesboro.org.

Moskal suggested the col-lege, as well as the university, look into the relevancy of this competition. While there may be possible improvements in the promotion of the event, the interest may not be present. She said, “The faculty and universi-ty students are passionate about their focus and their event, but perhaps this style of compe-tition is outdated and needs a fresh perspective.”

The accredited program will continue to attract high school seniors searching for a skills set

needed to succeed in commu-nications. Only 109 schools in the U.S. are accredited by the ACEJMC, and A-State is one of them.

The goal of the college is to teach the students to “gather, or-ganize, synthesize and commu-nicate information professional-ly in a democratic, multicultural society.”

Rachel Brantley, a senior majoring in strategic communi-cations, was a volunteer for the Communications Day events.

Brantley said, “I love the

communications department at ASU because it pushes you to gain as much experience as you can while you’re in college. The professors truly want you to succeed and I feel completely prepared to enter the workforce this May.”

With creative strategies to promote the event in years to come and the vibrancy of the program, the College of Media and Communication at A-State will surely continue to thrive and expand.

hoping to capture young en-thusiasm and turn it into prom-ised votes. For years campaigns have worked to involve younger generations, and to encourage young people to gather more in-formation about the presidential

candidates. “Millennials seek truth and

demand a candidate who will enact policies that will change the direction of our country,” Kelley said.

With the presidential elec-

tion in November, the group at A-State has begun to prepare for the possibility of supporting their candidate Ted Cruz in the upcoming election.

Cruz, Continued

A representative for O’Reilly mirrored Hudson’s response.

“Obviously we were looking for a favorable vote today and since that didn’t happen we will have to go back and reevaluate our plan. I don’t have an exact answer of what the end result will be, but we will have to evaluate the impact that has and change the scope of the project,” Region Director for O’Reilly Hospitality Darren Harrelson said.

Jonesboro Mayor Harold Per-rin released the following state-ment on March 2:

“I’m pleased that Jonesboro will be getting a convention center. This city government and others have been working on a conven-tion center for at least seven years, and it appears that it will soon be a reality. “I would like to congrat-ulate Chuck Keller Sr., and his organization for putting together a successful proposal, and we look forward to working with him in the future to bring more people to Jonesboro for meetings, conven-tions and other activities. “I also would like to express my appre-ciation to the A&P Commission

for thoroughly analyzing the two proposals that were put forward and for making the difficult de-cision. Although ASU’s propos-al was not successful in getting A&P money, there should not be any doubt about the fact that Jonesboro strongly supports our university. If O’Reilly Hospitality Management goes forward with its hotel and convention center proposal, we will do whatever we can to help.”

Perrin previously spoke in sup-port of the Keller project, noting it was the first to be introduced.

Arkansas State’s Aundrea Gamble was named the Sun Belt con-ference’s Player of the Year, while Head Coach Brian Boyer was named the Sun Belt’s Coach of the Year, as announced by the league office on Tuesday.

Gamble also was named to the First-Team All-Conference squad, alongside fellow Red Wolf Khadija Brown-Haywood, while Brittney Gill was named to the Third-Team All-Conference squad.

This is the third straight year Gamble has won the the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year award, something no one in the his-tory of A-State women’s basketball can claim.

Gamble finished the regular season averaging 18.4 points per game on 50.8 percent shooting from the field, and 33.7 percent from beyond the arc.

Gamble ranks fourth in points for a career at Arkansas State with 1,845. Gamble passed Julie Hagood (1,840) for fourth after scoring 16 in the season finale at Appalachian State. Gamble ranks fourth in assists with 450, just 23 off Crystal Service (473) for third. Gamble leads the field in free throws made for a career by a wide margin. Gamble is in first with 423, while the next closest is Amber Abraham with 243.

Boyer has now been honored as the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year for the fourth time during his illustrious 17-year career at Arkansas State.

Boyer is the all-time wins leader in the SBC, and has guided the Red Wolves to a record 71-27 over the last three seasons, and back-to-back appearances in the WNIT. He has now coached the Lady Red Wolves to three regular-season Sun Belt Conference champi-onships.

This is the second straight season Brown-Haywood has been named to an All-Conference team, but it is the first time she has been named to the All-Conference First-Team. Brown-Haywood was named to the All-Conference Third-Team last year.

After losing Jasmine Hunt, the team’s leading rebounder last year to graduation, Brown-Haywood stepped up in a big way. She com-plied her best season in the scarlet and black this year, finishing the season with 12 double-doubles.

She hauled in a career high 18 rebounds in a win over ULL on Jan. 9, and scored a career high 31 points on 11-18 field goals in the season’s final game at Appalachian State. She finished the season as the team’s second leading scorer, averaging 17.7 points per game, and the leading rebounder averaging 9.3 per game.

Gill was named to an All-Conference team for the first time during her A-State career. Gill averaged 7.4 points per game on

40.3 percent shooting, and was a lockdown defender. She compiled a total of 53 steals this season, which ranked third on the A-State team. Gill recorded three or more steals eight times this season. She also dished out 54 assists this season.

A-State will now turn its attention to the Sun Belt Conference tournament in New Orleans. After winning 19 conference games, something no other team has ever done in the history of the league, A-State will enter the tournament as the No. 1 seed. The Red Wolves will take on Appalachian State, the eight seed, in round one on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m.

A-State trumped the Mountaineers on Jan. 16 at the Convo by the final score of 83-56, and again last Saturday, 83-74.

Appalachian State finished the regular season with an overall record of 10-19 and a 7-13 conference record. The Mountaineers closed out the season losers of six of their last eight games.

While A-State enters the tournament as the one seed and win-ners of 25 games, the Lady Red Wolves have more than just a reg-ular season championship on their mind.

“My goal is to actually win the Sun Belt Conference tourna-ment,” Gamble said. “We made it there the last two years in a row, and we’ve come up short both times. I think getting back into that position, and just winning it, is something we all want.”

Boyer added, “Our goal is to go to the post-season, and specifi-cally the NCAA tournament. That’s where our goals are as a team.”

A-State would move on to the semi-finals of the tournament with a win over App State, and would take on the winner of four seed Troy vs. five seed South Alabama on Friday at 11:30 a.m. If A-State was to accumulate two wins, they would move on to the Championship game for the third year in a row. The Championship game will be on Saturday at 7 p.m.

All Sun Belt Conference tournament games can be seen on WatchESPN.

Arkansas State baseball played their first games in Jonesboro over the weekend, taking on the Milwaukee Pan-thers in a four game series. The Red Wolves came into the se-ries following a 4-4 start which featured back-to-back wins vs. Saint Louis, and were able to take three out of four from the Panthers.

The Red Wolves put on an offensive clinic in the first three games, scoring 28 runs to Mil-waukee’s eight, and had 10 play-ers with RBI hits. Ty White had a stellar weekend, with five RBIs and a two-run homer in Satur-day’s game, one that sealed the deal for the team’s second win.

Tanner Ring had his second home run of the season in the home opener, and three RBIs for the weekend.

Pitchers Tyler Zuber, Pey-ton Culbertson, and Adam Grantham each picked up their first wins of the season, and Tanner Ring earned his second save on the year. Though it was in a loss, Bryan Ayers had six strike outs in his four complete innings on Sunday.

“If you look at the four game set, I thought that Zuber, Cody Jackson, and Grantham all set-tled in well,” A-State Head Coach Tommy Raffo said. “Ayers not as much, but today they just outplayed us.”

Junior catcher Frankie Al-varez had his first hits of the season for three RBIs over the

weekend. “Frankie and Daltan Lovell, our two catchers, have done a good job,” Raffo said. “When you have to catch 36 innings in three days, that’s a lot of work for both catchers. Thankfully we don’t have many doubleheaders left in the sea-son.”

Though they missed the sweep, losing the series finale 9-2, Coach Raffo only saw the weekend as a positive. “Any time you can go 3-1 for a weekend, that’s a positive weekend,” Raffo said. “We had the opportuni-ty to sweep, but they came out and they just played better ball today.”

The 3-1 weekend improved A-State’s record to 7-5, with two home games left before playing seven of their next eight on the road.

They will open up confer-ence play this weekend at UT Arlington.

“Every game’s important,” Raffo said. “It doesn’t matter what you play, you play to win. That’s the mindset you want to have. Obviously conference games are a fun part of the sea-son, but, any way you tee it up, you play to win.”

The team is back in action at Tomlinson Stadium Tuesday as they face the Governors of Aus-tin Peay. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

Red Wolves lead the league in post-season honors after compiling a record-setting 19 SBC wins

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Arkansas State’s tennis team faced off against Lipscomb and Murray State this past weekend, and were defeated overall in both matches.

Senior Sofia Krsmanovic and junior Victoria Pisani teamed up for the Red Wolves only victory of the day on Saturday, winning their doubles match 6-2. Junior Julie Gauguery and freshman Victoria Roberts lost a close match in the No.1 dou-bles match with a score of 7-5. In the third and final doubles match, senior Chiara Stefanov and sophomore Sabina Jeresic fell 6-0.

Going into singles play, Lip-scomb was 1-0 overall. Stefan-ov dropped the No. 3 singles match 6-1, 6-1. Jeresic fell in the fourth singles game 6-3, 6-0. Pisani lost 6-1, 6-4. With Lipscomb already up 4-0 over-all, the rest of the games were called off, as the Red Wolves could not win. Gauguery faced off in the No. 1 singles match and won the first set 6-2 and was up 5-3 when the match was called. Roberts lost her first set 4-6, and was tied in the second set 3-3 when it was called. Krs-manovic lost her first set, but lost 6-7. She was tied at 2-2 when Lipscomb won the overall

match. With the loss, A-State fell to 0-6 on the season going into their match against Murray State the next day.

To start off the match agains Murray State, Guaugery had a dominating performance in the top singles match, and won 6-0, 6-1. Roberts lost 6-3, 6-3 in the second match, while Stefanov lost 6-1, 6-2 in the No. 3 singles match. Krsmanovic played in the No. 5 singles match and fell 6-2 in both sets.

Krsmanovic and Pisani lost 6-2 in the No. 2 doubles match. Stefanov and Jeresic paired up for the No. 3 match, and lost 6-3 to give Murray State the doubles victory, which also gave them their fourth, and match winning overall point. Jeresic won her first set 6-4 and was losing 1-2 in the second set when the games were called. Pisani also won her first set with a score of 6-4 and was down 1-4 when Murray State captured the win. Gauguery and Roberts were down 4-5 in the top dou-bles pairing when the games were called.

Despite the outcome, head coach Kel Lange was pleased with his team.

“I really liked the way we competed today,” Lange said. “Yesterday was a tough day for us, but we came back with the

right attitude and worked hard on the things we needed to work on. We just have to keep believ-ing in the process and working hard to get better.”

The Red Wolves return to the courts on Thursday to face Iowa State, followed by a match against Eastern Illinois on Sat-urday. Both matches will be held at Allen Park in Jonesboro.

CHASE BECVARSPORTS WRITER

A-State prepares for SBC tournament play after receiving five post-season honors

A-State tennis drops two

CADE CARLTONSPORTS EDITOR

BRETT WHITMAN I STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERFreshman Tony Ortiz of Olympia, Wash., tags out a runner during the double header against the Milwaukee Panthers on March 5.

ROB NELSONSPORTS WRITER

COURTESY OF SANDRA L. COMBSThe Lady Red Wolves celebrate after defeating Texas State 87-50 to clinch the regular season Sun Belt championship. A-State will start tournament play on Wednesday vs. Appalachian State.

Red Wolves take three out of four

BRETT WHITMAN I STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Julie Gaugery, junior from Sailly-en-Ostrevent, France, caputured a point with a straight set 6-0, 6-1 win over Murray State in the top match on March 6 at Allen Park.

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The rise in popularity of online personality quizzes has yielded several different tests that claim to gauge a person’s character through a series of questions. Among this string of quizzes, the most popular are often fandom-based, which means they relate to a popular television show, book or movie.

Perhaps one of the most popular is the sorting hat quiz that assigns you to a Hog-warts house based on your strongest charac-ter traits. In the same vein, there are also tests that tell you which dis-trict from the Hunger Games trilogy you be-long and which faction from the Divergent series your personality fits.

However, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test, which originated in 1962, is the predecessor to the multitude of tests that have cropped up online in the past decade.

According to the Myers-Briggs website, the way in which a person uses perception and judgment is a piv-otal element in indicat-ing their MBTI type. There are 16 different types total, with labels such as ISTJ, ESTP, INFP and ENTP.

By identifying certain facets of one’s personality, the test concludes whether you are an extrovert or in-trovert, whether you are a sensing type or intuitive type, whether your rational thinking or emotional feeling is stronger, and if you are more susceptible to perceiving or judging. With these elements combined, the test-taker will be labeled with one of the 16 personality types.

Developers Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Kath-arine Briggs, drew on the psy-chological theory of Carl Jung

in creating the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Since its incep-tion, the test has been proven reliable and valid through a se-ries of studies.

According to the MBTI

website, the goal of the test is to appreciate differences between people and the types they iden-tify with, noting the positive qualities that exist in each type.

Emma Hidy, a junior graphic design major of Bates-ville, said, “While it is good to be your own person and not lis-ten to a quiz to determine your identity, they can actually tell

you a little more about your-self.”

After taking the MBTI test herself, Hidy considered whether she agreed with the results. She said, “I got ESTJ. I

am definitely an extro-vert, and I agree with the statement, ‘likes to run the show and get things done in an or-derly fashion,’ because I am a bit of a control freak.”

A recent study identified Arkansas State University as be-ing one of the best col-lege choices for ESTP Myers-Briggs per-sonality types. In fact, Hidy’s MBTI type is extremely close to the ESTP type. This type is characterized by be-ing a risk-taker and an energetic leader.

The study, led by degreematch.org, con-sidered many factors including cost of at-tendance and degrees offered that appeal to the ESTP type (such as the Bachelor of Arts in Business Adminis-tration and Master of Science in Sports Ad-ministration).

Among the enter-tainment and informa-tional uses of the test, many have used their MBTI personality type as a starting point in determining what degree path they will go down. By drawing on the strengths and weaknesses of each type, a prospective ca-reer can be gauged for the test-taker based on their results.

Personality quiz-zes are being circulat-ed daily on social me-dia, with users sharing

their results and encouraging others to take the same test.

While the popularity of these quizzes shows no sign of declining, the Myers-Briggs personality test is rooted in psychological theory and can lead to a better understanding of one’s personal character.

Meyers-Briggs personalities put to the test at A-StateHAYLEY WEBB

MULTIMEDIA EDITOR


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Unless genetics gave you a naturally petite torso, most of us can admit, at some point or another, we’ve wanted a small-er waist. Businesses have spent decades profiting off this in-security selling quick fixes like diet pills. Some people go to extremes to slim their bellies, some resort to age-old tech-niques and some use a combi-nation of both--waist training.

Formerly known as “tight-lacing,” waist training is a cen-turies old phenomenon that is making a comeback in the 21st century.

It consists of a person wearing a tightly-laced corset regularly to shrink the waist for aesthetic. More often than not, the trend tends to occur amongst women, though there have been times when it was popular amongst men. This practice goes as far back as the Minoans of Crete -- rough-ly 2000 B.C.E., according to research found on the web-site Haabet.dk. However, they didn’t gain significant popular-ity until the 1500s.

The idea is to easily ob-tain a smaller waist, but more recently people have come to discover the harm they cause. In an interview with Wom-en’s Health Magazine, Katie Peterson, M.D., said wearing

a corset often can cause acid reflux. Additionally, the corset compresses your stomach and causes digestion issues. It can also cause bruised bones and shortness of breath. And lastly, it can actually increase chances of getting pneumonia or a pul-monary edema due to fluid in the lungs.

There are dozens of arti-cles and studies available on-line by popular publications illustrating the hazards of waist training, so why would some-one today, with access to this knowledge, still choose to defy professional advice?

Reason No. 1 -- Celebrity endorsements. Everyone from the organic-soccer-mom Jes-sica Alba to the tabloid queen herself, Kim Kardashian, have raved about their success with waist training. If it works for our favorite celebrities, surely it will work for us right? Wrong.

According to an inter-view with Christopher Ochner, Ph.D., by Marie Claire Mag-azine, waist training doesn’t actually work. As soon as you stop regularly wearing the cor-set, your waist will return to it’s normal size. It won’t help you lose any weight. It just relocates the tissue. The best way to slim your waist, and keep it slim, is through regular exercise and a well-balanced diet.

However, despite all the negativity around corsets and

waist training, there are still people who argue its health benefits.

While it may not keep your waist little, according Hourwaist.com, corsets can help prevent back pain and can prevent a scoliosis patient’s condition from worsening. Us-ers also have claimed it helps with asthma.

Some A-State students might be willing to gamble with the new day corset.

“I would love to try waist training! The modern waist training method is definitely safer than traditional corseting which manipulated ribs and shifted organs. That seems a little too intense for me,” said senior biology major Sierra Karambellas of Texarkana.

Waist training is also be-coming increasingly popular because it is marketed as an easy solution. Companies de-liberately exploit people’s in-securities to turn a profit for a product that might not give you the desired effects.

Most of the celebrities “loving” these products are cashing a fat check, so don’t believe the hype. Chances are, any diet products marketed as “quick” or “easy” are not going to work. As for it’s other al-leged health benefits, it is best to seek a physician for these ailments, and not a diet fad.

RACHEL MOORE#LIFE COLUMNIST

The physical cost of trying to get a smaller, thinner waist quick


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Regardless of whether a Girl Scout was in the family, most American families know at least the name (if not the taste) of a Thin Mint, a Do-si-do or a Samoa.

During the spring, when the selling time for Girl Scout Cookies is at its peak (know in scout-speak as “cookie season”), the Girl Scouts of America al-ternate between setting up ta-bles at venues to going door to do to sell their 12 varieties of sweet snacks. In 2015, the or-ganization established a digital means of selling their cookies, called the digital cookie pro-gram, which amounted in the sell of 194 million boxes of cookies, or about $776 million in sales. According to the Girl Scout website, the Girl Scout Cookies program is the largest girl-run business in the world.

Of course, Girl Scout troops are getting more and more creative with their selling techniques, as girls have set up to sell their cookie treats out-side of legal marijuana dispen-saries, such as in California and Colorado, although recently the organization issued a comment via Twitter stating that they do not allow scouts to sell cookies in front of “marijuana shops or liquor stores/bars.” However, the most recent spike in cook-ie sales had to come from the 88th Oscars, where host Chris Rock allowed a L.A. troop the opportunity to reportedly sell about $65,000 worth of cook-ies to an audience of celebrities.

So, clearly, the Girl Scouts of America draw in a lot of rev-enue for their cookies sales. The

cookies have been in existence since the 1910s. But what is the whole purpose between having Girl Scouts sell these cookies to begin with? Well, the sale of cookies not only benefits the corporation of Girl Scouts of America to fund their pro-grams, in which 100 percent of the revenue goes to local coun-cils and groups, but they also use the cookie program to ben-efit the individual Girl Scout (outside of just earning badges) by teaching them five skills, according to the Girl Scouts of America’s website. They are Goal Setting, Decision Mak-ing, Money Management, Peo-ple Skills and Business Ethics. Speaking in the voice of “every girl,” the five skills demonstrate the essential tools girls will ob-tain as members of the organi-zation.

Goal Setting “We’re all about trying

new things and having fun. Selling cookies is about both. My friends and I work together to set our team goal for the sea-son; maybe we’ll donate to our local animal hospital or go on an adventure. Sure, selling the cookies is great. But what we do with the money we earn is even greater.”

Decision Making

“When I sell cookies with my Girl Scout forever friends, we make our own decisions, like how many boxes we want to sell. We all have to agree on what we’ll do with the money,

which means talking it out and being OK not getting our way sometimes. And we have to fig-ure out how to solve problems, like what to do when one of the girls is sick and can’t help out. Our decisions matter.”

Money Management“It’s cool that I get to

make change when someone buys cookies. I’m really careful about it. I count it out twice, so I know it’s totally right. And I know each box sold gets us one step closer to our goal.”

People Skills“I’ve met so many new

people at our cookie booth. And I’ve gotten really good at chatting with them about how we are doing more than just selling Girl Scout Cook-ies. We’re earning money to achieve our cookie-season goals and do great things.”

Business Ethics “The other day at the cook-

ie booth I made my friend’s mom laugh really hard and she totally forgot her change. I made sure she got it back. She was so impressed she bought another box of cookies. Now I’m even closer to reaching my goal for robotics camp.”

So basically, these classic cookies are not only popular, but they also give a way for girls to learn business tech-niques and empower them-selves from a young age.

National Women’s Month

“House of Cards” beings its fourth season in a rare posi-tion: an election cycle. No time has passed since Claire (Robin Wright) removed herself from the White House and the frac-tured partnership she found herself in with her husband.

It is a far cry from season one, in which Frank (Kev-in Spacey) once remarked he loved he wife “more than sharks love blood.” In HoC’s present time, the Underwoods are out for blood. Frank is on his way to New Hampshire, where he is behind Heather Dunbar (Eliz-abeth Marvel) by double digits in the polls.

Season four gives viewers a glimpse into the sexual politics the Underwoods so masterfully manipulate. If season three was political, four is personal. To es-cape the blistering spotlight of Frank and his campaign, Claire travels to Texas. Ellen Burstyn and Neve Campbell join a me-

nagerie of guest stars as Eliza-beth Hale, Claire’s mother, and Leann Harvey, a powerful Tex-as political consultant.

After a shaky third sea-son, four jumps into the drama, hurling the twists and turns at breakneck speed. Claire has left Frank, and now sets her eyes on an elected office. Her icy resolve pits her to be Frank’s greatest adversary yet, but it feels bittersweet and, to a cer-tain extent, highly illogical. The Underwoods are the ugly side of the American dream, illus-trating just how cutting one must be to achieve power in a heightened political and social climate. Their ability to scratch and claw their way to the top is formidable, and it’s obvious they work better as a team.

The campaign season ups the dramatic ante, leaving each candidate scrambling to cut off political scandals before they break. Anyone with respect for the journalistic profession will have a difficult time rooting for the Underwoods. Even as fierce political juggernauts, their abil-

ity to silence any dissenting opinion may be their downfall. Loyalty is tenuous, especially between the Underwoods.

When loyalty is so thread-bare and holds such a heavy price-tag, it is easy to see why the Underwood camp remains so small. By season’s end, even Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) wavers in his devotion.

Showrunner Beau Wil-limon does not take the easy route, and avoids capitalizing the Trump media circus. HoC already has one over-the-top politician utterly consumed by power and pageantry (Frank.) There would be no room, and no contest, for a Trump-like character’s buffoonery.

Season four does much to dispel the slow pace and thin story left behind by season three, and it works. It will be hard to resist the temptation to binge watch all 13 episodes, but it pays to savor each one. It will be a long year without the Underwoods to remind viewers that the political atmosphere really could be worse.


MICHELLE GOULD#LIFE EDITOR


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Coloring books no longer just for kids

Coloring books are pop-ular activities among children that not only is a way from them to entertain themselves, but coloring books do not cost all that much either—which is why coloring books can be commonly found at restau-rants, doctor offices and librar-ies as a way to keep children entertained while adults go about their business.

But now there has been a large emergence of “adult” col-oring books, which are just as they sound—coloring books for grown-ups rather than children. However, these adult coloring books are much more detailed than “children” color-ing books, and sometime depict detailed scenes from various classical literary works.

Although the first edi-tions of coloring books styled for adults first appeared on the market around 2013, it was not until famous crayon-maker Crayola put out its first adult coloring material line, includ-ing a variety of coloring books, colored pencils and fine-point markers, that the trend explod-ed and gained a lot of grown-up attention.

Since then, a variety of coloring books have appeared on the market, several of which feature colorable pieces from popular artists, and genres of “adult,” “child,” and “all ages” have now appeared in the col-oring book sections of mass retailers such as Barnes & Noble, and “adult” coloring supplies, such as watercolors, finer-pointed pens and ink sets are now available alongside school supplies.

Although the “adult” col-oring books match its child counterparts as far as the tech-nique—coloring in lines with crayons or markers—the rea-soning between the activities are different. While children use coloring books to explore their imaginations or just to keep themselves entertained, adults use coloring books as a relaxation technique to deal with stress.

Research conducted by John Hopkins University in 2014 even revealed that when adults color in a coloring book, their brain switches off other thoughts and focuses just on the one task, creating a brain wave pattern that is similar to the brain waves of meditating individuals. Therefore, the ac-tivity reduces stress and allows

them to focus on one specific thing.

“I’ve gone through an adult coloring book with one of my friends before,” Sam Joplin, senior education major of He-ber Springs, said. “It was really relaxing, to just kind of drop everything for a little while and just color. It’s nostalgic too, being able to just color in dif-ferent drawing likes when you were a kid.”

Coloring in adult coloring books also has been found to help with chronic anxiety as it is a simplistic task that allows adults to put aside other tasks and focus solely on coloring for a little while, and once the individual is finish, they have something to show of their hard coloring work. There have also been case studies that have revealed coloring books can be a part of therapy for adult au-tistic individuals, according to autismspeaks.org.

“Coloring is just a fun lit-tle hobby you can do by your-self while listening to music or watching television and then once you are finished you have something pretty to show from it,” Ellen Whitley, sophomore art education major of Hot Springs, added to Joplin’s state-ment.

MICHELLE GOULD#LIFE EDITOR


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To help reach their goal of $60,000, Up ‘til Dawn, a student-led philanthropic program that benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, partnered up with Pinot’s Palette of Jonesboro for a night of fundraising on March 3. Up ‘til Dawn received 30 percent of the proceeds from those who paid to paint and a portion of the food sales. A total of $600 was raised for St. Jude’s. For more photos of the fun, visit astateherald.com.

Painting for a purpose with Up ‘til Dawn

MELISSA MARTIN | PHOTO EDITORA-State students pose with their finished masterpieces titled “Whimsical Eve” after a night full of laughter and an all around good time.

SARAH THOMPSON | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERErica Blackford (left), senior interdisciplinary studies major of Marion, and Rebekah Frayer (right), senior interdisciplinary studies major of Caraway, add to their paintings to make sure the finish products are just right.

MELISSA MARTIN | PHOTO EDITORJamie Holley (left), sophomore exercise science major of Cave City, and Jaysa Barnett (right), sophomore accounting major of Cave City, twirl their “big brush” as instructed so they would know the difference between it and the “small brush.” The painting instructor joked about how technical the names of the brushes were.

MELISSA MARTIN | PHOTO EDITORA-State Women’s Soccer team players (right to left) Kat Padgett, Bailey Reed, Michaela Supple and Darah Merritt document their fun night at Pinot’s Palette by talking a group selfie.

MELISSA MARTIN | PHOTO EDITORUp ‘til Dawn executive director, Ashley Burrows, senior interdisciplinary studies major of Little Rock, enjoys herself during the easy first step of the lesson, painting the canvas entirely yellow.

SARAH THOMPSON | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSAB directors paint their canvases at the Pinot’s Palette fundraiser. Students enjoyed learning a new skill.

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