vol. 78, no. 22

Dana ChoiEditor-in-Chief

Many people take basic neces-sities such as shoes for granted, but children in developing coun-tries often grow up barefoot, ac-cording to TOMS’ website.

ASU’s TOMS Campus Club will hold two events in April to raise awareness of this issue.

The organization Wednes-day, April 4, will hold “Style Your Sole,” where students can learn about the importance of shoes and conscious consumerism.

Students can bring their own blank TOMS shoes and decorate them from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Super Slab, TCC treasurer Kailee Leabo said.

“It brings people together to artistically express themselves and to help children in need,” Leabo said.

It is too late to order shoes through Bonjour Boutique in time for the event because orders need four weeks to ship, Bonjour Boutique owner Lori Rabon said. However, people can still buy TOMS shoes that are in store, which is located downtown at 33 East Concho Avenue.

According to its website, TOMS matches “every pair of shoes purchased with a pair of new shoes given to a child in need.”

If someone buys a pair of shoes, buying a child a pair of shoes in the process, he or she is being a conscious con-sumer, TCC President Barbara Coty said.

“If you can help some-one else with your pur-chase, why not?” she said.

TCC and AMAS will host One Day Without Shoes on Tuesday, April 10, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Coty said. Dur-ing this event, students can learn about health problems that might come from growing up without shoes.

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A day without shoesTOMS: Students can help put shoes on children in need and learn how it feels to live without shoes

‘Belles softball ranked No. 1 in the nation

Stephen CoganSports Editor

ASU’s softball team is ranked No. 1 in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Top-25 Poll.

The ‘Belles received 11 of the

16 first place votes and totaled 389 points to secure the top spot.

The women started the sea-son 0-2 and turned the tables over by winning 25 of the next 26 games. They made their record 25-3 and a perfect 9-0 against Lone Star Conference opponents.

The softball program at ASU has flourished under the direc-tion of head coach Travis Scott who has been at ASU since 2004.

In his first year of coaching, Scott led the ‘Belles to a NCAA II National Championship win in the College World Series for ASU’s third ever National Cham-pionship of any sport.

Scott’s teams have won 395 games, four Lone Star Confer-ence Tournament Champion-ships, and four NCAA Division-II South Central Regional Champi-onships.

Softball under Scott has pro-duced 20 All-American, three Academic All-Americans and zero losing seasons.

Scott said the goal every year is to win the Lone Star Confer-ence Tournament and then win the College World Series. He’s been there four times, and he said he wants to go back again this year.

The team has award-winning

players all across the dugout from batters to pitchers.

ASU has had a different wom-an win Player of the Week for five consecutive weeks starting in week three and continuing up to present time.

In week three, sophomore outfielder Morgan Spearman

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Division II: Award-winning players honored as Players of the Week

Photo Courtesy of Lee FloydEvery day of Beach Reach an artist creates a sand sculpture of something biblical to provide a gathering place on the beach and create a conversation starter.

BSM leaves comfort zone to reach peers

Sawyer RicardStaff Writer

Students of ASU’s Baptist Stu-dent Ministry traveled March 9 to South Padre Island for an annual mission trip to spread the gospel to

their peers on vacation.“Beach Reach” is a mission trip

for BSM groups from around the country that was started in 1980. The students travel to South Padre island every year and minister to students for five days through various activi-ties such as free meals and van rides to hotels.

Though students talked to vari-ous people on the island, mostly they talked to other college students, Di-

rector of the Baptist Student Minis-try Lee Floyd said.

Floyd, who has attended the trip for 11 years, said some of his favorite moments of the trip were the van rides the students gave vacationers on the island.

“The rides are when we see some of the really neat things happen,” he

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Students plant ASU garden, reap memories


A group of students participated March 9 in service projects around homes and communities in New Or-leans as part of the third annual Project Spring Break.

The Center for Student Involvement selected five students, Binhong Lin, Jerrica Handy, Stephen Henry, Tori Truelove and Tyler Corder, from those who applied to spend their Spring Break in New Orleans to help fix damages caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Though typically they work on a house, the students did yard work in the area and planted a community gar-den for a local charter school, Coordinator for Student Organizations Heather Valle said.

“We were able to plant some okra, some watermelon, some zucchini and other Southern items, and [the gar-den] was marked as an ASU garden,” she said.

This lets the school know that ASU contributed to their food, she said.

Valle said the vegetables provide individual students with food during the year.

“Students are able to take home a basket of fruits and vegetables so they have nutritious meals throughout the week or weekend,” she said.

Data research gathered from surveys directed their projects, she said.

The students asked members of the neighborhood if they were interested in helping with the garden, sending a student to a summer program or whether they needed something done for their houses, she said.

For the students involved, it was a great experience, freshman Jerrica Handy said.

“Memories that were made on this trip can’t be re-placed with anything,” she said.

She said her favorite part was helping out with the yard work.

“We mowed this woman named Joyce’s backyard,” Handy said. “She came out there to talk to us and give us water, while her neighbor gave us popsicles.”

Meeting the people was another great aspect of the trip, she said.

Project Spring Break: Center forStudent Involvement sends group to tend to damages from hurricanes

Beach Reach: Students give rides and conversation to South Padre college vacationers

Photo Courtesy of Heather ValleThe Center for Student Involvement selected Binhong Lin, Jerrica Handy, Stephen Henry, Tori Truelove and Tyler Corder to participate in Project Spring Break.

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Friday, March 23, 2012 NEWS

Events CalendarGet involved on campus!

Here’s what’s going on this week.

Friday, March 23WEBINAR: Getting Started in Government Contracting at 9 a.m. online

Blackboard Training: Journals from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Mathematics-Computer Science Building 111A

Saturday, March 24SARL Abilene Steamboat Challenge at 6 p.m. at Buffalo Gap, Texas

Center for International Studies: Passport Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the CIS Passport Office

University Theatre production of: An Evening of Student Works at 8 p.m. in the Modular Theater

Monday, March 26FAME Exhibition Monday through Friday on the second floor of the Carr Education-Fine Arts building

Horn Masterclass with John Whita-ker at 1 p.m. in the Band Hall

Cafe’ et Conversation from 5 to 6 p.m. in the University Center

SMART Workshop: Successful Writ-ing Strategies from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Writing Center

Tuesday, March 27El Cafecito from 9 a.m. to noon at the Multicultural Center

Conversation Partners from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Mathematics-Computer Science Building 119

WTMA Distinguished Lectureship in Science from 2 to 3 p.m. in the C.J. Davidson Center

UREC: OA Top Rope Belay Clinic from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Climbing Gym

SMART Workshop: 7 Study Strate-gies of Highly Effective Students from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Information Literacy Corner

Choosing Your Legal Structure from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in Rassman 100

Faculty Recital: Dr. Daniel McCloud at 7:30 p.m. in the Eldon Black Recital Hall

Zumba Class from 8 to 9 p.m. in the University Center

WTMA Distinguished Lectureship in Science from 8 to 9 p.m. in the C.J. Davidson Center

Latin Class from 9 to 10 p.m. in the Multicultural Center Lobby

Wednesday, March 28Teacher Job Fair from 9 a.m. to noon in the Junell Center

LiveWhale Training: Open Session from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Mathemat-ics-Computer Science Building 111B

New ADA Requirements Update from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in Rassman 100

UCPC Club Cafe with singer/song-writer Tje Austin at 7:30 p.m. in the C.J. Davidson Center

Thursday, March 29El Cafecito from 9 a.m. to noon at the Multicultural Center

Zumba Class from 8 to 9 p.m. in the University Center

Latin Class from 9 to 10 p.m. in the Multicultural Center Lobby

Submit event requests by 5 p.m. Tuesday for Friday publica-tion to [email protected]

Qualifying students to perform in talent show

Dillon BrollierStaff Writer

Students who have gotten past auditions will showcase their talents at the 29th annual Student Talent Show April 11 at 7 p.m. in the C.J. Davidson Center.

“The talent show has been going on for 29 years,” said Gil-bert Mendoza, University Center

Program Council entertainment chair.

The talent show, which has been around since the begin-ning, is a big event for UCPC, Mendoza said.

“It is special to keep going,” he said.

Mendoza and the entertain-ment committee judged and chose acts last Tuesday during the audition.

Sophomore Michael Reyes said he has never performed in front of others before.

“I am kind of nervous, but I

love to dance,” Reyes said.Reyes is not the only per-

former nervous about the talent show.

There are definitely nerves, freshman Ezra Gonzalez said.

“I am here with Michael to show how dancing can make our hearts speak,” Gonzalez said.

The committee tries to choose a wide variety of acts or the show, Mendoza said.

“The flow of the show will depend on how many acts come through,” Mendoza said. “We have a special guest poet, Rob-

ert Robinson, who will host the event. He will start off with his bit and then we will go through a few acts, and then take a break to let the acts set in the audience’s and judges’ heads.”

A panel of judges and crowd reactions will choose the winner of the talent show.

The committee selects staff members to make up the judges panel.

The judges’ identities will be kept secret until the show to avoid any form of cheating, Men-doza said.

“There will be first, second and third prizes.” Mendoza said “First place will get a $200 check, second place will get $100, and third will get $50.”

The checks will allow the winners to use the money for whatever they want, as opposed to giving out gift cards, Mendoza said.

Jamie Westfall won last year’s talent show with an original ren-dition of “It’s Raining Men” by The Weather Girls.

Performances: Talent show to reward top three placers

Criminal activity low on campus

Adam WashingtonStaff Writer

Angelo State University Police Depart-ment is pleased to announce decreased crime rates since last year.

“Typically during spring break, when stu-dents aren’t here, a lot of the call load and ac-tivity goes down,” Chief James Adams said.

Adams said there has not been a car bur-glary in about three weeks because students and police have both been on the lookout for suspicious activity.

“On a monthly basis, all local law enforce-ment are having intelligence meetings to ad-dress car burglaries and other [issues],” Adams said. “These meetings are usually about sus-pects they have as well as other things.”

Adams said these meetings have been pro-ductive in sharing information with the San Angelo Police Department.

ASUPD is still following leads from the January car burglaries and will continue to in-vestigate them.

Although the crime rates are down, the ASUPD call load has increased over the past two years because of heightened student awareness, Adams said.

ASUPD sends out e-mail notifications on suspects they need help identifying.

Other than a decrease in crime and an in-crease in student involvement, Adams said the ASU Alert system has been updated to send notifications and warnings out to students faster.

The ASU alert system now also has a mo-bile app, Adams said.

Adams: Students’ and police’sefforts result in no car burglary in three weeks

AFROTC pays military tribute

Photo Courtesy of Terry TaylorASU’s AFROTC Detachment, over the spring break weekend, provided an honor guard to present the colors during the Military Appreciation Softball Tournament held at ASU. “We are proud to pay tribute to our fellow brothers and sisters in arms across all services,” C/3C Brett Estes said. The honor guard was led by Cadet Felts and ac-companied by C/4C Dylan Meador, C/3C Travis Felts, C/4C Robert Crumley and C/3C Brett Estes.

Students to help clean up local river


The Geologic Exhibition Organization (GEO) members and Upper Colorado River Au-thority volunteers plan Satur-day to clean up the Red Arroyo River.

This event, where they will clean up the area around Buffa-lo Wild wings, is GEO’s way of recognizing World Water Day in an attempt to keep the water in San Angelo clean. The event is open to any San Angelo citi-zen who wants to participate, as well as the volunteers from the two organizations.

“We’ll pick up trash and clean out the rivers,” GEO President Jeremiah Bihl said. “We’re doing it all by hand.”

For Assistant Professor of Geology Dr. James Ward, there is another goal to the event be-sides keeping the water clean.

“I hope we can have a pub-lic outreach and have people start being more in charge of their own waterways,” he said.

He said he hopes the event will get people more interested in cleaning up the environ-ment.

“Hopefully this will spark more interest in the commu-nity,” he said.

Though this is the first proj-ect that the club has worked on in recognition of World Water Day, it isn’t the first joint ef-fort between GEO and UCRA, Assistant Professor of Geology Dr. Joe Satterfield said.

“The club did a project

with UCRA last semester,” he said. “They painted special signs on drains in the streets that flow into the Concho River to alert people that the water in the drains goes straight into the river.”

This goal of this project was to warn people that dump-ing waste down the drains is a bad idea since the water does not go to a treatment center, but straight into the Concho River, Bihl said.

According to its website, UCRA’s goal is to enhance the water quality of the streams and tributaries in the Colorado River watershed and that they have done several projects like this.

Members of the UCRA contacted the GEO a few se-mesters ago, Bihl said.

“We met with them earlier to get in contact with local ge-ologists and hydrologists,” he

GEO: Studentorganization aims to get more people interested in cleaning up theenvironment

Photo by Pam BelcherStudent organization Geologic Exhibition Organization (GEO) volunteered to help Upper Colorado River Authority clean up the environment. Anyone can help clean up the Red Arroyo River to recognize World Water Day and the importance of keeping water clean.

said.The club then contacted

them again in order to do proj-ects around the community, he said.

“I contacted them and talk-ed about how the club could help the Upper Colorado River Authority and bring more water awareness to the area,” he said.

When the UCRA men-tioned the river-cleaning event, the club volunteered, he said.

“The club basically jumped on and said, ‘We’d help, and we’ll be there,’” he said.

This community outreach effort is extremely valuable right now, Bihl said.

“We’re doing this because of the drought,” he said. “It’s re-ally opened people’s eyes to the fact that water is precious here and isn’t as available as they think.”

GEO plans to aid in other clean-up events like this one in the near future, Ward said.

“This may turn out to be a bi-monthly event where we go out and clean various areas,” he said.

Bihl said he enjoys the proj-ects and wants to keep doing more like these.

The club is currently in-volved in after school programs at the YMCA and public school programs.

According to the United Nation’s website, World Water Day is on March 22 every year. It is a tool to increase people’s awareness of the importance of water in the environment, ag-riculture, trade and health, ac-cording to the website.

Some events held each year celebrate water through the arts, educational seminars, swimming competitions and fundraising.

Friday, March 23, 2012 NEWS

News Briefs

Construction sees progress over semester


ASU’s construction projects have seen great advancement as the spring semester has continued.

“The MCS exterior insulation fin-ish system restoration project is the restoration of the upper band of the MCS building,” Construction Project Manager Clayton Smith said.

EIFS is a foam material that has a finish system on it that weathered over time, so that had to be redone, Smith said.

“That project is very close to com-pletion,” Smith said.

Plans to relocate the Pavilion have been put on hold on an administrative level, Director of Faculties, Planning and Construction John Russell said.

“We are answering questions about the project to help administra-tors make a decision about the Pavil-ion, but nothing is happening now,” Russell said

The rest of the ongoing projects are relatively small in nature, Smith said.

“Cavness 233 will get refinished lab tops,” Smith said. “We are repainting the room, cleaning up the floor, and adding some cabinets with laminated tops and adding the same laminate to the existing cabinets,” Smith said.

The Chemistry department is go-ing to buy about $100,000 worth of

equipment and the renovations that are going to be done will run about $53,000, Smith said.

“One of the projects that is cur-rently in the design phase is the 2012 library renovations where we are tak-ing existing study rooms and splitting them to create more room,” Smith said.

Along with creating more study rooms the technology in those rooms will be upgraded, Smith said

“There will be flat screen displays in the room, and we will be adding some wireless access points to those rooms,” Smith said.

The library project is in the final planning stages, and a final budget for the project has not been determined, Smith said.

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Group brings home life lessons“Some of the people I met I’m going to keep in contact

with,” she said, “Hopefully I can send them postcards and tell them that we’re still thinking about them.”

Another favorite part of the trip for many was see-ing people’s reactions to the help, sophomore Tyler Cord-er said.

“You could tell they weren’t used to getting help as they usually did it by themselves,” he said.

He said he enjoyed hear-ing the stories people had to tell.

“We really got to know the people, and they’d tell us stories about how Hurricane Ka-trina hurt them,” he said.

The hardest part was leaving, he said.“I was ready to go home, but I wanted to do more for

them,” he said.Despite having to leave,

the students took a few les-sons back home with them, Handy said.

She said something sim-ple like holding a door open or saying hello can make a differ-ence.

“Something that seems small can be something re-ally big to someone,” she said. “You may not know it, but it’s always best to give back and be the change you want to see.”

Currently, a trip for Proj-ect Spring Break is being

planned for next year and is open to any student that wish-es to apply.

Staff Reports

According to an ASU news release, the Career Development Center will host Tuesday, April 10, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. University Dining Etiquette at Zentner’s Daughter Steakhouse.

ASU and other students can enjoy a three-course meal, while learning etiquette with Diane Gottsman, national etiquette expert and owner of The Protocol School of Texas, a company specializing in corporate etiquette training.

Most people don’t know what fork to eat with or how to eat properly, student worker at Career Devel-opment Besspher Mannah said.

Registration for the event ends Friday, April 6, and costs $10 for ASU students and $15 for non-ASU students.

The ASU’s President Circle is sponsoring Gotts-man.

According to an ASU news release, the Physics Department is hosting through Saturday, March 24, the Texas Physics 2012 Joint Spring Meeting of the Texas Sections of the American Association of Physics Teachers and American Physical Society and Zone 13 chapters of the Society of Physics Students on campus.

The meeting will feature research and education presentations, plenary sessions and an evening ban-quet.

More than 200 professional and student physi-cists from throughout the state are expected to at-tend.

Scheduled speakers include Dr. Chrystal Bailey, APS education and careers program manager; Dr. Robert Hilborn, AAPT associate executive officer; and Dr. Gary White, national SPS director.

The banquet speaker will be Susan Cummins Miller, former member of the U.S. Geological Sur-vey, current research associate of the University of Arizona’s Southwest Institute for Research on Wom-en, and author of the award-winning “Frankie Mc-Farlane” geology-based mystery novels.

Screeners, ASU’s film club, and Mu Epsilon Kap-pa are hosting tonight at 7 in the Texan Hall Theater Cosplay.

Students will have a chance to watch animated movies and win prizes for cosplay, or for costume role playing, Vice President of Screeners Cameron James said. Students can dress as their favorite character, whether the character is animated or a celebrity.

Judges will pick the best cosplay based on the creativity of his or her costume, he said.

Also, the University Center Program Council showed Wednesday “The Victim” in Texan Hall The-ater.

The psychological thriller is a new independent film, which has only been released on college cam-puses.

The University Center Program Council is host-ing a short film contest open to students regardless of their major.

No entry fee is required and $400 worth of priz-es is available to win. Students must submit their entries by April 2, 2012.

Students must fill out an entry form and submit a DVD no longer than six minutes. Entries cannot include profanity, nudity, alcohol or drug use, sexu-ally explicit content or law breaking activity.

Entries must be the students’ original work, and they will retain all ownership rights.

A judging panel will select winners based on original content, production, post-production, im-age and sound quality.

UCPC will announce the winners on April 11, 2012. Entry forms may be found on the UCPC web-site or picked up in the Center for Student Involve-ment.

said. “Sometimes we see students who realize that their time down there wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.”

Junior Eric Sespinoza said, “The fellowship with all my brothers and sisters [in Christ] was cool—one of the best parts of the trip.”

Another part that many students enjoyed was meeting people, sopho-more Josh Nichols said.

“There was this one guy we picked up named Logan, but everyone called him Peter,” he said. “He’d met some of the people in the van an hour ago, and they’d become best friends for life.”

One of the best parts was helping people by sharing the gospel and lead-ing them to God, junior Lezlie Jackson said.

“There was one boy in our van who came to know Christ while we were sitting there with him,” she said. “That was a really special moment.”

While the trip is rewarding, there are hardships, Floyd said.

“The hardest part is hearing all the stories people had to share,” Sespinoza said. “We heard stories about people raping others and it’s not something I was used to.”

Some had to overcome personal obstacles, Nichols said.

“It was hard in the beginning be-cause you really have to step out of your comfort zone,” he said. “I’m nat-urally shy so it was difficult to talk to

people I didn’t really know.”Despite the obstacles students

learned valuable lessons, Floyd said.“One of the main things I learned

was that you just have to have faith and not be discouraged,” Sespinoza said.

Another lesson learned by the stu-dents was that people were willing to talk to them, Jackson said.

“I learned that I shouldn’t be scared of approaching someone to talk to them about things that matter

to me,” she said. Floyd said the trip is great for both

the ministry as well as the students who come back “changed and chal-lenged.”

“Now that I’ve experienced what I can do with a mission for a week, I wonder what I can do here in everyday life,” Jackson said.

ASU’s BSM plans to take the trip again next year, Floyd said.

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Beach Reach offers life-changing experience

Photo Courtesy of Lee FloydBaptist Student Ministry students traveled to South Padre Island for their annual “Beach Reach” mission trip.

TOMS’ origin mission, and students can choose to walk barefoot the entire distance of the mall start-ing at the UC and get a taste of how it feels to be with-out shoes.

“We want people to experience what children in other countries and even here in the U.S. have to go through,” Leabo said.

AMAS, which hosted One Day Without Shoes last year, will provide a display that will give people a chance to walk on different soils, rocks, and other kinds of terrain to see what it feels like to walk bare-foot everyday, AMAS Secretary Martha Esquivel said. Los Hermanos de AMAS, the subgroup for men of AMAS, will create the terrain boxes, she said.

According to TOMS’ website, children all over the world face adversities without shoes.

A leading cause of disease in some develop-ing countries is soil-transmitted, according to the website. Bare feet are vulnerable to painful cuts and sores, which can become dangerous when infected. A lack of shoes can also affect students’ education in areas where school uniforms require shoes.

Coty said, when she first heard of TOMS and its business model, she thought TOMS would give a child a pair of plain shoes for each purchase. Actu-ally, TOMS gives the needy children the same pairs of shoes, but with thicker soles, she said.

“We’re not just trying to sell shoes here,” Coty said.

TOMS Campus Club, which formed in spring of 2011, meets every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in either UC 209 or UC 210, Coty said.

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Dress for Success modelsstylish, work place attire

Photos by Adam Sauceda(top left) Freshman Erika Boyd. (bottom left) Freshman Araceli Waters and Sophomore Evelyn Sullivan. (above) Seniors Kelly Causin and Alonzo Rojas. Students model various professional categories of outfits such as smart casual, business casual, and professional during Dress For Success which took place on Feb. 20.

Photo Courtesy of Heather Valle

Friday, March 23, 2012 FEATURES

Here we go again. Another found footage film where you see everything through the eyes of a camera that’s being held by one of the characters. Hopefully this new fad of found footage will move on from Hollywood, but for now expect more and more of it. We begin with the cliché high school setting. Three geeky friends, Thomas (Thomas Mann), Costa (Oliver Cooper) and

JB (Jonathan Brown), are the usual unpopular kids who are picked on by the popular kids. When Thomas’ parents go out of town, Costa the instigator seizes the opportunity to throw a huge party in order to gain popularity. A viral cam-paign to promote the party gets way out of hand when the party ends up on Craig’s list and several radio stations. Ev-erything is going smoothly as nearly every young adult in Pasadena show up to Thomas’ house. When the ecstasy is brought out, everything goes downhill. Household items are broken, cars are smashed and submerged, dogs are tied to balloons taking flight, and then the guy with the flame-thrower shows up.

When the movie really got moving, I found myself in stitches the entire time thinking that it couldn’t possibly get any crazier, but it always did. The three main charac-ters have extremely funny chemistry. Most of the humor is nothing special, but some of it is surprisingly clever. I wouldn’t rush out to go see this, but if you find yourself with nothing to do and would like a good laugh, then this movie would be perfect.

‘Project X’

Muhu Oud Metsatoll

What are these dudes saying?! Who cares?! It sounds AWE-SOME. A metal song with a flute, and your thinking I don’t know about that. Trust the metal force within you and give this track a try. After the flute intro, the song hits with hard and heavy drums plus a solid crunch guitar riff. They are not from Earth, but a distant planet where metal mu-sic is the only music played. Just be grateful they stopped by and dropped this insane throw down. All hail the flute breakdown!

Electric RattlesnakeOverkill

“Overkill” has declared to take over the world. They will use the sound of Thrash Metal to destroy all that you know, and you will thank them for it. Bobby and the boys are back, and this album will shock you. Their lead single, “Electric Rattlesnake” is like a lightning bolt of aggres-sion that breaks the speed bar-rier and then slows down the speed to break your bones.

The DoomCorrosion of Conformity

Sludge Metal pioneers, “Corro-sion of Conformity,” are now a three piece with a new self titled album fueled and ready to burn. On their new track “The Doom”, they have the right idea, and the riff has an old Sabbath feel, but it is still lacking a little. Now miss-ing Pepper Keenan (former gui-tarist now playing in DOWN), they have lost the crucial C.O.C. sound that fans came to love. Although Pepper is gone, it is a respectable effort from the band

and is highly recommended.

Jack of all Trades Bruce Springsteen

The “Boss” has had some great songs in his past, but this one is something special. Not only is it beautifully written and instru-mentally perfect, but there is an eeriness that lingers around the song like Bruce is looking back at his career. Hopefully this isn’t his last album, but boy if it was, this would be a masterpiece to go out on. Musicians don’t make songs like this anymore, or albums for that matter. So thank you, “Boss,” we needed this.

The Oath Street Sweeper Social Club

“AHHHHHHHHH” screams Boots Riley, right as the ultimate guitar groove begins. And who is playing that groove? Tom Morel-lo, that’s who! His funkalicious riff blends hip hop and metal into a marriage of an anthem. This song sounds like SSSC spent countless hours in the studio creating what Swag sounds like.

Zach DanielContributor

3.5/5 stars

Patrick McKeownContributor

Music Review:Movie Review:

Justin SeguraContributor

Here in San Angelo, in the 1990s and early 2000s, there was once a thriving music industry and one of the largest country music festivals in Texas.

San Angelo’s live music scene provided a plat-form for music festivals such as the San Angelo Pic-nic, aka Blaine’s Picnic. Eventually, though, local politics drove the festival out of town.

While people in San Angelo are trying to revive the once great live music industry, residents travel as far as Oklahoma or Louisiana to listen to live performances and discover up-and-coming artists.

Millions of people over spring break gathered at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, including many students from San Angelo.

SXSW is one of the largest music festivals in the U.S., with more than 2,000 performers playing in more than 100 different venues. This festival has inspired similar festivals all over the country and in other parts of the world as far away as the Neth-erlands.

Audiences from all over the world came to Austin to discover new music with hopes of catch-ing a live concert from already well-known artists. This year’s festival included performances by Jack White, Nas, Norah Jones, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Neon Indian, Dev, Of Monsters and Men, The Shins, and Jesus And Mary Chain, as well as a wide range of known acts like Keane, Thomas Dolby, Pennywise, Talib Kweli, The Magnetic Fields, and Tenacious D. With its immense amount and variety of perform-ers, SXSW is bound to have something for every-one.

South by Southwest: Austin-based music festival draws in millions withthousands of performers

Photos by Justin Segura1. Historical street intersection of Congress and 6th Street

2. Grammy award-winning artist Juanes Friday, March 16, takes the stage at Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater.

3. A music lover enjoys the 6th Street atmosphere.

4. A street performer provides a beat to entertain 6th Street audiences.

5. Norah Jones performs her new album at La Zona Rosa.

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Daniel Hernandez,freshman

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Janis Amaro,sophomore

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Scott Jarmon,senior

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Kara Gorton,junior

Friday, March 23, 2012


The 2011-2012 NBA season has been the fast and furious season that most of us expect-ed.

Nearly every team has experienced a back-to-back in their schedule, and we are now approaching the final month of the regular season.

That means we get to start talking playoffs.

Yes, Jim Mora, playoffs!In the Eastern Conference

we have the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat battling for the No. 1 seed and home court throughout the playoffs.

The question is, after that, who really matters in the east?

The Orlando Magic are playing well, and now that they know that franchise cen-ter Dwight Howard will be sticking around for at least the next year, they can focus on the task at hand. That is being finding a way to beat the Mi-ami Heat IN Miami.

The Philadelphia 76ers have had a resurgence of sorts, and could make it as far as the Eastern Conference Finals, call me crazy. However, they are only 7-11 against potential playoff teams.

You have to be better than that to have hope of coming

out of your conference, but this is a young team.

They still have some time to get some things figured out and make a solid playoff run or three in the coming years.

Indiana actually matches up well with the Miami Heat, which is important seeing as how the winner of the East will most likely have to go through Miami to get to the NBA Finals.

In the Western Confer-ence things are a bit more muddled.

The OKC Thunder have distinguished themselves as the class of the West with San Antonio not far behind them.

The one-seed buster from a year ago, the Memphis Griz-zlies, find themselves in sec-ond place in the Southwest Division and with solid big men like Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol, they pose a lot of matchup problems with a lot of West teams.

The L.A. Lakers have Kobe Bryant, so they always have a chance.

Dealing long time point guard Derek Fisher has to be a gut check to Laker fans, but the acquisition of Jordan Hill gives them youth and speed at the point.

The departure of Lamar Odom leaves a void on the Laker bench, but that may be a good thing for LA given Odom’s uninspired play in Dallas.

The no-name Denver Nuggets continue to chug along without a bona fide su-perstar, and that seems to be

working out for them.No one in Denver is av-

eraging more than 20 points a game, but they are the top scoring team in the league av-eraging 103.6 points per game (ppg).

The trouble spot for them is that they give up the third most points per game on de-fense (101.3 ppg). You have to play great defense in the play-offs to win.

The Spurs, Lakers, Pis-tons in the mid 2000’s and last year’s Mavericks all showed us that.

Speaking of the defend-ing world champion Dallas Mavericks, what happened to the talk of the Mavs defense falling apart without Tyson Chandler?

The Mavs have a top five defense allowing only 92 ppg, and they have Dirk Nowitzki.

The rest of the league does not have Dirk.

If I have said it once I will say it a thousand times: no one presents more of a mis-match than the big German.

On top of that, he has learned how to be “the man” when it matters most in the playoffs.

Jason Kidd is somehow playing top caliber point guard at 38 years of age, and Vince Carter and Delonte West have done well in filling the void left by JJ Barea and Caron Butler.

Their recent struggles could be attributed to the ridiculous schedule in the lockout shortened season and being shorthanded at center

over the past few games. But once the playoffs get

here nobody will be playing four games in five nights.

The older teams in the league, Dallas, San Antonio and the Lakers will have time to get into a rhythm without having to worry about burn-ing out too fast.

Right now, I see the Miami Heat making a return trip to the NBA Finals. The big three with Lebron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh have learned how to play together and I think this year’s Heat team is way better overall than last year’s team.

In the West, I have either the Dallas Mavericks or the San Antonio Spurs.

The Thunder are the trendy pick but they remind me a lot of the Mavs of the early 2000s—great young team with a lot of offensive firepower, but not quite ready for a trip to the Finals.

The Thunder will have their year, but it will not be this year.

Dallas and San Antonio are veteran teams that have proven themselves again and again. You could easily include the Lakers in this discussion, but I do not think that they have enough to get by the Dal-las and the San Antonio’s of the NBA.

Don’t even get me started on the L.A “lob city” Clippers.

No Chauncey (Billups), no way.

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Insane NBA season comes to fitting end


ASU and the city of San Angelo lost one of the most impactful people who ever stepped foot on campus this past spring break.

Dr. Ralph Chase, San Angelo’s 1988 Citizen of the Year, left this world on Friday, March 16 at the age of 89. The pediatrician lived in San An-gelo for over 70 years of his life.

He was a man whom peo-ple looked up to even though he was maybe 5’7, and he was a healer who devoted himself to progressive causes.

“Uncle Ralphie,” as most people called him, was the reason the Roy E. Moon Dis-tinguished Lectureship was established in the ‘70s that has brought Nobel Prize win-ners to lecture science stu-dents here at ASU.

He was a natural with

children. He went to the same church as I did when I was a child, and I grew close to the man who had a natural grand-father image.

I would hug him before church, and he’d look at me and say with his rich voice, “Stephen. You’re a wonderful person and I love you.” He’d go to my father, shake his hand, and say the same thing. He’d tell every person that gave

him a greeting that they were wonderful and worthy of his love.

The fact that he said that to you made you feel special inside. I love Ralph for that. He spread love like a farmer spreads seeds and his love grew in all of those who knew him.

His work with ASU earned him numerous recognitions in the form of building dedi-

cations.The West Texas Collec-

tion on the second floor of the University Center was re-named the Dr. Ralph R. Chase West Texas Collection in his honor.

It contains numerous his-torical photographs, memora-bilia and artifacts that depict the history of West Texas.

The Angelo Community Hospital Lectureship in the Humanities Series at ASU was named Chase Lectureship in the Humanities in his honor for his work as a humanitar-ian.

However, all the buildings and all the awards and all the praise cannot stack up to the amount of love, kindness and compassion Ralph had.

It is with heavy hearts and pouring tears that ASU and San Angelo say goodbye to Ralph Chase who is a wonder-ful person and we love him.

Note fromthe editor

Since I asked for more responses and feedback, I’m glad to hear more from stu-dents, staff and faculty.

I would like to address a concern of mine that I hope readers will understand.

Because of budget-related issues, we cannot produce as many pages as we would like. Thus, we are very limited on how much of what is going on at ASU we can cover. From now on, the Ram Page website (www.asurampage.com) may fea-ture stories not available in Ram Page’s paper copies, so I highly encourage read-ers to check out our website.

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Photo Courtesy of John Griffis

Friday, March 23, 2012 SPORTS

Winning together as a team

was Hitter of the Week after she launched back-to-back grand slams that were the difference in two games against Arkansas at Monticello University and Henderson

State University. Spearman has 41 total

bases, 28 runs scored, and 17 RBIs.

In week four, senior second baseman Dee-shanalynn Tafiti smacked four home runs and 14 RBIs in five games.

Tafiti leads the Lone Star Conference in runs scored (32), RBIs (45), and home runs (12).

She is also second in slugging percentage (.872) and third in total bases (75).

In week five, it was junior catcher Kacie Ea-sley’s turn as she helped the ‘Belles go 7-0 in games against Texas A&M-Inter-national, Cameron, and St. Edward’s University.

Easley went 12-23 for a .522 batting average with six RBIs. She hit three home runs, a pair of dou-bles, and a triple.

Easley was an All-American catcher her freshman year and has nu-

merous rankings in the Lone Star Conference.She is third in RBIs (32), fourth in total bases (74),

third in hits (42), and fifth in batting average (.424).In week six, first baseman Carly Peters was not to be

outdone. In a three-game sweep against Eastern New Mexico, she had seven hits, knocked four out of the park, and 11 RBIs.

The sophomore has seven home runs, 21 RBIs, and 19 hits in limited action over the season.

In week seven, the `Belles had a different player win a different award.

Senior Claire Molina is the reigning LSC Pitcher of the Week for holding Midwestern State University’s offense to a .122 team batting average.

Molina allowed six hits over 14.0 innings and struck out 15 pitched with a complete game shutout in game two of the series.

Molina leads the Lone Star Conference in wins with a 14-2 record and has a 3.35 ERA with 78 strikeouts.

Each week, a different player has stood out and each week, the women keep winning. Since their first Player of the Week Award, the ‘Belles have gone 22-1.

There are other star players who have not been recog-nized like third baseman Elsamartina Apo.

The senior veteran leads the Lone Star Conference in batting average (.500) and on-base average (.626), and is fourth in walks (22).

Sophomore pitcher Mary Kate McKay’s 2.27 ERA is second in the Lone Star Conference and has an 11-2 record to go with 70 strikeouts.

The team itself has a .361 batting average, has scored 245 runs, and hit 41 home runs.

The pitching staff has a 3.54 ERA, 13 complete games, and 154 strikeouts.

All of this adds up to a 25-3 record and a No. 1 ranking in the nation.

Rams split series with Texas A&M-Kingsville to make record 18-6


ASU baseball began Lone Star Conference play March 16 through 18 on the road in Kingsville against Texas A&M-Kingsville.

The Rams stumbled over spring break, but managed to break even in a four-game series to make their Lone Star Conference record 2-2 and their overall record 18-6.

The Rams lost the first two games 4-1 and 3-2 respectively where they had season lows in hits.

The Rams had three hits in game one and the single run that they scored came on a passed ball by the opposing catcher that allowed senior shortstop Zach Cohen to score from third base in the top of the fourth in-ning.

Sophomore pitcher Jake Feckley earned the loss and is now 3-1 with 2.81 ERA, allowing four runs (one un-earned) against Kingsville’s Javelinas.

In game two, the Rams had four hits and almost rallied to a win after scoring two runs in the top of the seventh inning, but fell short. Se-nior Rick Reyna picked up the loss to make him 3-3 on the year.

The back-to-back losses did not keep the Rams from winning game three as they had seven hits in the 6-3 victory.

The Rams were tied 3-3 in the top of the eighth inning and senior in-fielder Toby Semler singled into right field and advanced to second when the right fielder committed a fielding

error. A passed ball by the catcher ad-

vanced Semler and Snover drew a walk to put runners at the corners with no outs. Snover stole second and the next batter struck out making its runners at second and third with one out.

The Javelinas issued an inten-tional walk to Neumann to bring junior outfielder Ryan Greer up with the bases loaded. Greer ripped the first pitch into right field, scoring two and advancing Neumann to third to make the game 5-3.

Junior catcher Andrew LaCombe did a suicide squeeze bunt to the pitcher and scored Neumann and ad-vanced Greer to second. Parsons then struck out to end the inning with a 6-3 lead that stayed that way after three straight outs in the bottom of the eighth.

Michael Weatherly pitched 3.1 innings of relief, striking out five and giving up zero runs to make his re-cord 3-0 on the year.

In game four, the Rams’ bats ex-ploded for 13 hits, Neumann hom-ered into left field for two RBIs, and the Rams won the game 6-3 to finish out the series.

Greer had zero hits in the first two games, but bounced back with three hits and five RBIs in the final two games.

Neumann leads the team in total bases (49), triples (3), and doubles (7).

The Rams have a four-game se-ries at home starting Friday, March 23, at 6:30 p.m. against Incarnate Word University.

Photo by Pam BelcherSenior shortstop Zach Cohen (left) and senior third baseman Toby Semler (right) prepare for a possible hit.

Photo by Pam BelcherSoftball infield meets in the middle (far left, Elsamartina Apo, second from left Taylor Jensen, middle Claire Molina, second from right Deeshanalynn Tafiti, far right, Holly Vanden Bossche).

Photo by Pam BelcherSenior pitcher Rick Reyna winds up to deliver a pitch to the opposing batter.

Baseball: Rams ranked ninth in the nation


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