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News: SGA hosts local candidate forum

Opinion: The ultimate band

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Sunday, April 29, through Sunday, May 6Spring 2012 Study Jam Week

LeGrand Alumni Center, Pavilion

10th annual “Pops at the Pavilion” Concert

President states goals, current issuesRallo: ASU hopes to in-crease pay for full-time em-ployees, incorporate distance learning in high schools

Sawyer RicardStaff Writer

Speaking April 12 to the faculty senate, ASU President Dr. Joseph C. Rallo said, “My No. 1 commitment as recently as this morning is that we will have a pay raise.”

Rallo spoke about several dis-tinct goals ASU administration had for next year as well as problems the school had faced over the past two semesters.

One of the primary goals for the incoming year is a pay raise for the full-time employees of ASU, he said.

ASU is searching for a new vice president of student affairs and en-rollment management and an ath-letic director, he said.

“Hopefully we’ll have the search-es wrapped up in a few weeks,” he said.

On the system level, one goal for ASU during the incoming year on the Texas Tech System level is to in-corporate distance learning in high schools, he said.

“A senior in high school has to have four years of math, four years of science and four years of English,” he said. “A lot of school districts simply can’t do that.”

Distance learning allows ASU to help provide education when the high schools fall short, he said.

“We can reach out to those school districts, especially those in West Texas,” he said.

This will also allow the school to reach out to homeschooled students, he said.

On the campus level, ASU is ask-ing the administration of the Texas Tech system for permission to create a freshman college, he said.

“The point of this virtual college will be bringing all the activities fo-cused on freshmen together,” he said.

This will allow freshmen to be

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Cadet wins national award

Student body president, vice president named for 2012-13

Sawyer RicardStaff Writer

The current student body president and presi-dent pro tempore won the election for SGA president and vice president.

Seniors Hector Romo and Joshua Heimbecker won 454 of the 813 votes.

One of the plans for next year is closing the health clinic on weekends and holi-days, Romo said.

“The administration and the Student Government As-sociation worked in conjunc-tion recently and agreed that the health clinic was costing a lot of money to keep open during these times,” he said.

Another reason for clos-ing the clinic on the week-ends and holidays is because

hardly any students use it, he said.

As an alternative for stu-dents, they can visit a clinic in town for free and only have to pay for services like x-rays and blood work, he said.

The alternative will start when the clinic starts closing either in the summer or the fall, Romo said.

The second plan is to find ways to enforce the smoking rules on campus, he said.

“A smoking fine was pro-posed for those that didn’t follow restrictions but there were a lot of impracticalities with it,” he said.

They have been research-ing other universities’ smok-ing policies to develop one for ASU, Heimbecker said.

“Some schools are very

strict,” he said. “We’re just trying to find a healthy bal-ance.”

Currently, they are look-ing into creating more desig-nated smoking areas, Romo said.

He said he hopes to find a solution during his presi-dency.

“This plan is already in the works,” he said.

Romo said he and Heim-becker believe that SGA was very active this year.

“There was a lot more participation than there has been in the past,” he said.

The previous goal of bringing SGA back to the

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Photo by Pam BelcherThe current student body president, right, senior Hector Romo, was reelected for the next academic year. President Pro Tempore senior Joshua Heimbecker, left, was elected for student body vice president.

SGA Election 2012

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ASU’s goals• Pay raise for full-time ASU employees• Incorporate distance learning in high schools• Permission to create virtual freshmen college• Lower tuition rates

• Some South Korean universities pay for students’ housing, meals, offer stipend• ASU signs new agreements with universities in Poland, Italy, France• New study abroad proposals to be discussed

Staff Report

A cadet from ASU’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 847 was one of four cadets nationwide to be rec-ognized over the Easter weekend as the top AS300, or junior-level, cadet in the Southwest Region at a ceremony in Detroit, Mich.

Junior Abraham Morland re-ceived the William Randolph Lovelace Memorial Award at the annual Arnold Air Society Na-tional Conclave during the AFA-sponsored awards luncheon.

Morland said he found out near the end of March that he had to try to go to Detroit because he was a finalist for the award.

“I was very excited,” said Mor-land, who will commission as a pilot when he graduates. “It’s not every day you win a national award like this.”

Every year, the 145 Air Force ROTC detachments nationwide each nominate their No. 1 AS300 cadet to their respective regions for the AFA-sponsored William Randolph Lovelace Memorial Award.

The award goes to one cadet from each of the four regions, which hold a board to select their respective cadets. The southwest region covers 11 states and 36 AF-ROTC detachments.

The criteria considered for this award include academics, athletics, military performance and other factors, such as Arnold Air Society membership, that help identify the cadet as an indi-vidual who expertly manages time and personal resources to permit extra performance and the capac-ity to take on extra responsibility.

Morland, said he puts 40 to 50 hours a week into ROTC, on top of intramurals, church and school.

“I give all I can,” he said.Recipients of the Lovelace

Award are also considered for the Olmstead Scholarship Program during their active duty service. This program provides an all-ex-pense-paid year of study at a for-eign university.

Partnership: ASU signs agreements with universities all over the world

‘This is not a Gnome Show’ in Gallery 193,

Carr EFA Building

South West Region:ASU AFROTC cadet one of four cadets in nation named ‘Most Outstanding Cadet in Southwest Region’

When you lose this opportunity, you won’t get it

again.

Dr. Won-Jae LeeAssociate Professor of

Criminal Justice

Sawyer RicardStaff Writer

As of last year, students can study in South Korea and parts of Europe with new study abroad programs.

Students can study over-seas either during the summer, fall and/or spring semesters.

Many of the Korean trips developed after ASU partnered

with some of the South Korean universities, Director of the Center for International Stud-ies Dr. Sharynn Tomlin said.

The first of 15 agreements between the universities was signed in 2011, she said.

“These are particularly in-teresting because many of the schools in South Korea will pay for the students’ housing and some of their meals,” she said.

Some of the schools will also pay each student a stipend of $800 for teaching people English, she said.

The students will teach

English 10 hours a week and gain experience as a teacher at the University of Ulsan, Yeung-nam, Dong-A and Dong-Eui Universities, Associate Pro-fessor of Security Studies Dr. Won-Jae Lee said.

Sophomore Haley Gaitan, who is applying to study at Yeungnam University in Dae-gu, South Korea, said she wants to participate in the teaching program.

“Teaching sounds really fun because we’re going to be teaching elementary students,” she said.

These study abroad oppor-tunities offer more than just teaching experience, Lee said.

“These trips are some of the best opportunities to globalize the ASU students,” he said.

He said that getting to know the world is difficult for many because San Angelo is “geologically isolated” and that these trips provide ASU stu-dents more diverse programs.

Besides being more knowl-edgeable about the world,

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Students have new opportunities to study abroad

Friday, April 20, 2012Page 2 NEWS

Events CalendarGet involvedon campus!

Here’s what’s going on this week.

Friday, April 20El Cafecito from 9 a.m. to noon in the Multicultural Center

Art Major Minor Meeting from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Phi Mu Alpha – “An Ameri-can Music Recital” at 7:30 p.m. in the Eldon Black Recital Hall

Saturday, April 21UREC: OA Day Mountain Bike Trip from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the San Angelo State Park

Sunday, April 22Striders Duathlon at 8 a.m. in Middle Concho Park

Monday, April 23Graduating Senior Exhibi-tion from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Gallery 193

El Cafecito from 9 a.m. to noon in the Multicultural Center

Meeting: Staff Senate from 3 to 5 p.m. in UC 203-204

Cafe’ et Conversation from 5 to 6 p.m. in UC 110/111

Tuesday, April 24Graduating Senior Exhibi-tion from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Gallery 193

El Cafecito from 9 a.m. to noon in the Multicultural Center

Q&A Session: “The Hot Seat” moderated by Evan Smith from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the C.J. Davidson Center

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

Marketing 101 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in Rassman 100

ASU Choir: “Pops at the Pavilion” Concert at 7:30 p.m. at the LeGrand Alumni Center

Wednesday, April 25Graduating Senior Exhibi-tion from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Gallery 193

El Cafecito from 9 a.m. to noon in the Multicultural Center

Facebook & Twitter BOOT-CAMP from 3 to 5:30 p.m.

Bookstore Advisory Com-mittee from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in UC 209

Department of Art and Music: Student Recital from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Carr Education-Fine Arts Building

UCPC Club Cafe: Comedian Jarrod Harris at 7:30 p.m. in the UC

Thursday, April 26Graduating Senior Exhibi-tion from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Gallery 193

El Cafecito from 9 a.m. to noon in the Multicultural Center

Art Major Minor Meeting from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

UCPC Monthly Movie Series Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows at 6 p.m. in the Texan Hall Theater

Jazz Ensemble Concert at 7:30 p.m. in the C.J. David-son Center

University Theatre pro-duction: “The Tempest by William Shakespeare” at 8 p.m. in the Modular Theatre

Submit event requests by 5 p.m. Tuesday for Friday publication to rampage@angelo.edu

Mock trial displays student group’s skills

Adam WashingtonStaff Writer

The ASU Mock Trial League showcased their first mock trial Monday to try to recruit new members and give students and faculty a taste of what the organi-zation is all about.

The Mock Trial League com-peted in February and won the American Mock Trial Associa-tion spirit award, which goes to the team that competing teams thought exhibited the spirit of mock trial the most.

“We were the best dressed, the most sociable and the most sportsmanly,” Defense Lawyer Tore Anderson said.

She said she hopes to gain students’ attention and recruit new members for next year.

“We are holding this mock trial so that the school can see what we did at competition and what this team is all about,” An-derson said. “If anyone is trying to join they can understand what we do in mock trial.”

Anderson hopes ASU’s Mock Trial League will have enough members for two separate teams to help them practice for compe-tition.

“A lot of the schools like SMU, Baylor and Georgia all have an A team and a B team, and we would like to be big enough to have two teams as well,” she said.

Although she is transferring to Texas A&M in the fall, Ander-

son hopes to become part of the prosecution on the A&M Mock Trial League.

Although many students may have heard of Mock Trial League, Anderson said they might not understand exactly what it is or what they do.

The American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) makes up cases for teams to compete with, Anderson said.

“We come up with the ques-tions and we come up with the angles,” Anderson said. “It’s about presenting the best case, not necessarily winning the trial.”

Anderson said it’s hard for students to join Mock Trial League if they don’t understand what it is about.

“This is our end-of-the-year closer,” Anderson said. “This is so everyone can see us and so we can prepare for next year, because preparation starts very early for these mock trials.”

Anderson said Mock Trial League takes many hours of studying cases and getting into character.

“You have to really get into your character; you have to know how the defense is going to see the affidavit, you have to make your own questions, anticipate how they will be answered, and you have to really work with your team,” Anderson said. “It’s very interesting going to competition because you never know what’s going to happen.”

Anderson said Mock Trial League isn’t just for law students.

“It’s really fun. You may not think it would be, but if you like acting, debating, or being argu-mentative in general, it’s fun,”

Anderson said. “I’m not a law stu-dent and a lot of us aren’t law stu-dents; we just do it to have fun.”

Founder and President of Mock Trial League Tyler Corder said he hopes to not only inform and entertain students, but also to gain sponsors.

“I hope to get people excited and gain more participation and more participants,” Corder said. “I also hope to get the community involved with the program so we can excel and gain sponsors.”

Sponsors are people who un-derstand the field of law and help coach the Mock Trial League.

The Mock Trial League in-vited the criminal justice de-partment, the political science department and the Tom Green County Bar Association to get do-

nors to give support to the Mock Trial team for the fall 2012 semes-ter.

“These people could get us prepared for competition, give us hands-on experience with experts in their field from the San Angelo area, help us learn the ways of the court, learn about the Texas rules of evidence and to just help make us better,” Corder said.

Corder said that he is also transferring to Texas A&M in the fall and he hopes ASU’s Mock Trial League will continue with-out him.

“We will hold elections for new officers soon and we have a constitution,” Corder said. “We have a budget and funding for the fall, so we hope to keep the team going.”

Showcase: ASU’s Mock Trial League gives campus taste of what members usually do

SGA hosts forum for local candidates

Adam WashingtonStaff Writer

ASU’s Student Government Association hosted a local candi-date forum Saturday in the UC for candidates running in the May 12 local election and the May 29 pri-mary election.

Each candidate gave a five-minute statement that was fol-lowed by a question-and-answer session with the audience.

Program moderator and SGA Vice President Vincent Perez said he hoped this informed the com-munity and students on all of the candidates that are running for election.

“We made good connections with the leadership of our com-munity,” Perez said. “We were also able to get some community members and a few students in-formed on the different issues that each candidate will be taking on.”

Although there was a small student turnout, Perez aims to find a better marketing campaign

for the event next year, as well as possibly work with students who are political science majors.

“I think that many students may not want to show up and hear candidates talk about their platforms on a Saturday after-noon,” Perez said. “Many stu-dents may not have an interest in San Angelo elections.”

Perez said the students who are not local citizens may have a lower interest in the elections than the citizens of San Angelo.

Perez said he feels that get-ting students to attend could be his biggest challenge.

“Overall, the event was suc-cessful,” Perez said. “For students who enjoy studying politics and want to learn more about cam-paigning, I suggest coming out to these types of events.”

Candidates running for City Councilmembers from different districts, Chief of Police, Dis-trict Attorney, Sheriff, County Commissioner and County Chair spoke.

City Councilmember candi-date of District 3 Johnny Silvas is running unopposed but plans to upgrade parks for children.

Almost every candidate talk-

ed about San Angelo’s water sup-ply and cleaning up the Concho River.

“I don’t like the water rates, but we can’t run out of water,” Sil-vas said.

City Councilmember candi-date of District 1 Robert J. Bank-ster also plans to stabilize the wa-ter rates.

He proposed cleaner water, to leave Lake Nasworthy alone and focus on infrastructure.

Kendall Hirschfed City Councilmember of District 5 is re-running and hopes to increase the current $1,000,000 budget by another $500,000.

He proposed to find a new water source for San Angelo.

Both Evan Pierce-Jones and George McCrea said they agreed that change was not necessary, because they are already doing things right.

“If the office isn’t broke, don’t fix it,” Pierce-Jones said.

Candidates for Tom Green County Sheriff include Walter Bryant, Keith Muncey, David Fai-son, David Jones and Steve Mild.

Bryant said he hopes to re-duce drug problems, address the short staff and change how offi-

cers treat citizens. “I’m here to maintain peace,”

Bryant said. “I’m here to protect you; I’m here to serve you.”

Muncey focused his cam-paign on how the sheriff needs to be proactive instead of reactive.

Jones discussed tax money while Faison and Mild discussed new equipment.

Constable candidate Thomas Delgado discussed the responsi-bilities of a constable and focused his platform around security for families.

He said he would make a smooth transition to constable because of his experience.

County Commissioner candidates’ discussion topics ranged education to protecting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

The event allowed students to see how the candidate compete with their opposition and how they run their platform, Perez said.

This is the first year that ASU and SGA have hosted this event, Perez said.

Leadership: Students see how candidates handle opposition

Photo by Adam SaucedaFreshman Savannah Logsdon portrays a key witness questioned by sophomore Sawyer Hirt, a defense attorney, in the mock trial held on Monday, April 16.

GEOGEO inducted into a national honor society

Lisa DeesManaging Editor

Sigma Gamma Epsilon, a national honor society for the earth sciences, inducted Tuesday the Geologic Exhi-bition Organization as a stu-dent chapter.

GEO will induct its members May 2 during a cer-emony following the club’s meeting, President of GEO Jeremiah Bihl said.

According to SGE’s web-site, the honor society was established to advance its members in scholastics, sci-ence and professionalism.

“GEO will now be a Na-tional Student Chapter of SGE, so now we get all the benefits of being a chapter,” Bihl said. “The members will be able to qualify to join SGE.”

GEO members must

have already earned 10 se-mester hours of geology or earth science courses with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and an overall GPA of 2.76, he said. Members of the chapter will evaluate the students on pro-fessionalism and participa-tion in department and club activities such as community service and outreaches.

Because SGE is a nation-ally recognized organization and requires a high GPA, fu-ture employers will see that these members are profes-sionally motivated, he said.

Bihl said GEO had to write a petition to SGE to be-come a chapter. A represen-tative from SGE evaluated GEO, wrote a letter to SGE supporting GEO’s petition to the chapter and SGE voted to induct the organization, he said.

CSI Spring Fest

Photo by Pam Belcher Robby Carr jousts with Brittnie Brown at the CSI Spring Fest. The event, which took place at the Pavilion April 12 through 13, consisted of many dif-ferent activities and a crawfish cookout.

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From Haugesund, Norway, junior Maria Ha-gland followed her boyfriend to ASU, where he plans on completing a degree in computer sci-ence.

Hagland said she transferred from the Uni-versity of Stavanger and began school at ASU in the fall semester to complete her degree in com-munications.

“Moving was difficult only because I missed my family, but I moved here with my boyfriend so every time I thought about [my family], he was there,” she said.

Because Norway is seven hours ahead of Tex-as, she said she could not call her parents when she wanted and had to learn to plan ahead.

She said it was a bit scary to speak English at ASU when she first arrived. Norwegians are brought up with English from an early age, but they never use the language, she said.

Despite these temporary difficulties, Ha-gland said she made friends easily and quickly.

“By the first week, I had like 20 friends al-ready because everyone was so interested in where I was from,” she said. “Everyone was super nice. Not that people in Norway aren’t nice, but you kind of have to get to know them before they open up.”

Hagland said after two days of meeting her roommate, she was impressed by her kindness. Hagland’s roommate drove her around town and said Hagland could borrow the car anytime, she said.

She said she also noticed that the level of Christianity is more noticeable in the U.S. than it is in Norway.

“People are really Christian here,” Hagland said. “Many people are atheist or agnostic in Norway, but here people are more open with re-ligion.”

She came to ASU with a bachelor’s degree in English from Norway, but she did not know what she wanted to do yet, Hagland said.

Hagland said she then chose to earn a bach-elor’s degree in communications because she “loves to communicate and help people.”

She said she hopes to work at a school one day as a counselor or a teacher.

“I love school here,” Hagland said. “The school is great and the teachers are great. It’s easy; Norway has a difficult school system.”

She said things like multiple choice tests and taking several tests during the semester make ASU easier than a university in Norway.

Hagland said she recommends that students travel abroad.

“They should do it,” she said. “I think this is going to be one of the best things I’ve ever done. I’ve learned how to accept other people’s views and accept them no matter their beliefs. I think everyone should travel abroad.”

Norway

International Student Spotlight

Maria Hagland

Students support representativesContinued from Page 1

students was met, he said. “In the past SGA was only seen

as a tool for administration to use when it came to raising fees and sim-ilar events,” Romo said. “We actually took stands against that this year.”

However, they plan on increas-ing SGA’s visibility on campus, he said.

The meeting where Vice Presi-dent of Finance and Administration Michael Reid spoke to the student senate about the increase in tuition is where he realized there was a large gap between the students and the administration, Heimbecker said.

“When we have meetings like these we can send out e-mails to advertise them to the students,” he said.

They plan to have more informa-tion provided to the senate so they can talk to the students, Heimbecker said.

Another goal is to expand pro-

grams such as the Student Discount Program, Romo said.

According to angelo.edu, the Student Discount Program is geared towards bringing local businesses to ASU students by providing them

with discounts on items and services.“We’re going to be visiting the

new businesses in San Angelo and ask if they’d like to be involved,” he said.

The last goal is to attempt to add more Reverse Osmosis water foun-tains on campus, he said.

Both of them are very excited about winning the election, Romo said.

“It was strangely fulfilling to see the poll results and see that we actu-ally had so much support from the student body,” Heimbecker said.

Romo said he was grateful for the support.

“Being reelected as student body president for a year lets me know that students were pleased with what I did this year and they are willing to trust me to do a better job next year,” Romo said.

Heimbecker said he is looking forward to next year.

“I’m definitely excited about what’s to come and being able to work with the senate, faculty and ad-ministration,” he said. “I’m ready to try and get some progress going.”

Rallo: ASU housing at full capacity

taught at an appropriate level, Rallo said.

“This is about getting the stu-dents who come here to be success-ful,” he said.

This virtual college will help re-tention rates go up, he said.

“This will help get them closer to graduating in four years,” he said.

Other goals of schools in the Tex-as Tech System include handling the overwhelming number of students in the Health and Science Center and Texas Tech’s growth to nearly 40,000 students, he said.

Rallo said there have been many issues the school faced over the past year, including the higher price of education.

“We’ve reached the ceiling on what we can do with tuition and fees,” he said. “We simply can’t let the number keep increasing.”

The school plans on lowering the tuition, he said.

“We’re going to move ourselves

out of the top of the market again,” he said.

However, this is difficult due to the 10.1 percent decrease in funding, he said.

Rallo said another issue the col-lege is facing is a low retention rate.

The graduation rate is also a con-cern, he said.

“We need to get students closer to staying four years before graduat-ing,” he said. “Our students are no-where near that.”

After the speech Rallo and Dean of Graduate Studies and Vice Presi-dent of Aca-demic Affairs Dr. Brian May answered ques-tions on a vari-ety of subjects such as hous-ing and further funds.

“Right now we’re at full ca-pacity on hous-ing,” Rallo said.

However, with less funding, rates are high and ASU’s housing price is higher than other colleges in the area, he said.

Currently, there are no plans for new residence halls, he said.

Plans for next year are already made for funding ASU may receive, May said.

“We would like to have full fund-ing for formula funding,” he said.

If there are extra funds they will go towards a new building on cam-pus, he said.

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students are “very strong when they come back,” he said. They learn to have more self-control and to not be self-centered, he said.

Along with students travel-ing from ASU, there are several coming over here from South Korea, Tomlin said.

“We’re expecting around 100 [new South Korean] students here for the fall,” she said.

This is a record number of exchange students, she said.

There will be more students next year from Japan, China, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam as well, Lee said.

The increase in students is due to ASU programs’ advertis-ing throughout the year, he said.

Junior Michelle Hamilton said she got interested in study abroad trips after seeing flyers.

Junior Joey Burney said he learned about the trip through e-mail and is looking forward to his time at Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea.

“I picked South Korea be-

cause I’ve always liked Asian cul-ture in general,” he said.

Some of the new programs in Europe include many countries, Tomlin said.

Tomlin said ASU signed new agreements with universities in France, Poland and Italy.

Hamilton said she is study-ing abroad for the first time in Europe.

“I’m going on the Great Cities in Europe study abroad trip,” she said. “We’re going to London, Paris, Verona and Rome.”

All of the study abroad trips

are very affordable, Tomlin said.“Many of the students this

year are spending a year abroad in Rome, Paris and London for around as little as $3,000,” she said.

There is a study abroad trip planned for every college in the university, she said.

Though most of the trips are created for the College of Busi-ness, anyone can study abroad, she said.

“There should be a class or course in the study abroad trips to suit just about anyone’s needs

or desires,” she said.Lee said he encourages all

students to consider going on a study abroad trip before they graduate.

“When you lose this oppor-tunity, you won’t get it again,” he said.

New study abroad trip pro-posals to Scotland, Ireland, France, Bulgaria, Italy, South Korea, Spain, Germany, England and China will be discussed next week.

According to an ASU news re-lease, President Dr. Joseph C. Rallo and Central Texas College Chan-cellor Dr. Thomas Klincar signed April 2 an articulation agreement with CTC in a ceremony at Fort Hood Army Post outside Killeen, Texas.

CTC students will have all of their CTC academic credits accept-ed at ASU if they transfer into any of the security studies and criminal justice programs offered here.

CTC, which was founded over 40 years ago, is a public, open-ad-mission community college that offers associate degrees and cer-tificate programs in academic, pro-fessional and vocational/technical fields.

Director of the Center for Se-curity Studies Dr. Robert Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Security Studies Dr. Bill Taylor, Assistant Director of Transfer Services Dal-las Swafford, Director of Market-ing and Outreach Barbara Merlo and Coordinator of Marketing and

Research Bruce Vasbinder also at-tended the ceremony.

Fall Textbook Adoptions are due in April, which are orders that a faculty member places with the campus bookstore designating which textbooks and course mate-rials are required for a semester.

“The textbook adoption pro-cess takes place three times per year,” Assistant Director Special Events Facilities/Services Jessica Manning said. “Summer textbook adoptions are due in March, fall textbook adoptions are due in April and spring textbook adop-tions are due in October.”

The ASU Bookstore can buy adopted books back from current students at a higher rate, Manning said. Students selling books back to the bookstore save money and the adoption reduces the amount of inventory the bookstore has to search for on the market.

She said the bookstore uses the time between the adoption date

and the start of the semester to find an appropriate quantity of the requested book.

“The earlier the bookstore can search for the books, the more likely they are to find used books, which are less expensive and often a better value for the student,” she said.

According to an ASU news re-lease, Club Cafe is bringing April 25 comedian Jarrod Harris and his act “Action Figure Therapy.”

The performance will take place in room 110/111 of the UC at 7:30 p.m.

Students may purchase tickets for $2 and non-students may buy them for $5.

Tickets will be sold at the door. The “LA Weekly” newspaper

recently named Harris the “Top Comic to Watch in 2012.”

Harris has appeared on TBS’ “Lopez Tonight” and Comedy Cen-tral’s “Live at Gotham.”

Credit will transfer

Adopt a textbook

It was strangelyfulfilling to see thepoll results and see

that we... had somuch support from the student body.

Joshua HeimbeckerFuture Vice President of

SGA

Laughs at the UC

Friday, April 20, 2012Page 4 FEATURES

We begin with the usual set-ting of teens on a camping trip and then things getting weird. I know, you’ve seen it a hundred times, so why this movie? Well, once at their destination, the group finds a collection of really mysterious objects and starts to snoop around. That’s about all I can say without spoiling any-thing. If you have seen the pre-view to this movie then you know

about the one thing I can spoil. You’re led to believe the victims are in some sort of controlled environ-ment. This seems like it would be a huge give away, but, in fact, it is not. No matter how hard you try, I guarantee you won’t be able to figure out where this movie goes. Not only was I surprised at the plot (once revealed), I found myself in hysterics for quite a bit of the movie. Most of the movie is intended to be hu-morous with the horror side as a bonus. Some parts will jolt you in your seat but other than that you’ll most likely be laughing. It had a very small Hunger Games feel to it at first, but that quickly goes away. They have few things in common. This movie is way darker and twisted. You may find yourself rolling your eyes at some of the dialogue, but it’s to be expected in a movie like this. Overall, I found this to be way dif-ferent and more outrageous than your typical “horror” movie and I do recommend it.

The Cabinin the Woods ’

Light Up The Sky Thousand Foot Krutch

Did Thousand Foot Krutch spend all year listening to Rage Against The Machine’s Evil Em-pire? If not they at least discov-ered how awesome a whammy pedal sounds because this sucker has Tom Morello blueprints scat-tered all over it. This track is as solid as a 10-pound concrete block and the album is too. This could be one of the best hard and heavy albums TFK has ever laid down.

Live to RiseSoundgarden

It is from the Avengers soundtrack. How can it not be cool? Soundgarden has always been heavy and good at get-ting down, but this track lacks a little kick. The beginning riff is great, but then power dies down. Maybe Soundgarden is missing something. I would think that the lead track from one of this year’s biggest films would go a little heavier.

Freedom at 21Jack White

Man this track is good. Ever wonder what the Grim Reaper gets down to right before he cuts you down? Well this piece of raw funk bleeds swagger that only Jack White could do. One of the defining guitarists of the 21st century, his new album Blunder-buss is coming out April 24th. This album marks his first album

solo, and promises to have some of his best material. IN JACK WE TRUST.

Mercy Kanye West

Trash.

Cry ThunderDragonForce

Maybe this should have been the lead single to the Aveng-ers Soundtrack? What would be more epic than to have Thor slamming the mighty Mjolnir, and hearing this in the back-ground? With a new lead singer and shorter tunes, Dragon-Force make a tighter album and keep the sounds intriguing. Cry Thunder is a perfect single to showcase the new sound, and check out the solos to this baby. No matter what the critics say, this band makes awesome power metal music. So keep rocking guys. Long Live DragonForce!

Zach Daniel

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Adam WashingtonStaff Writer

The Arts at ASU and ASU Theatre will present William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” April 26 through 29 and March 3 through 5 in the Modular Theater located in the Carr Building.

The cast and crew have been preparing for the event for about a year, University Theatre Direc-tor Dr. William Doll said.

“Since spring break we have met nightly to work on the stage, the fight scenes, the plot, the dancing and trying to put it all together,” Assistant Director of Theatre Michael Burnett said.

Burnett said he has worked with “The Tempest” in the past but this is the first time he is di-recting it.

“The Tempest has a special place in my heart,” Burnett said.

The Tempest will feature many special and visual effects such as computerized lights, flying characters, dancing and many fight scenes, he said.

“We have 10 computerized lights as well as a handful of LED lighting which is very helpful for setting the scene,” Burnett said. “There are five flying systems in the theater so we can fly actors in and out of the scene.”

The set, which features the map of a magical island and writ-ten letters, was hand painted by students, including painter and actress Margaret Katie Denton.

The preparation for the set

started immediately after the One Act Plays during the first weeks of March, Doll said.

Shakespeare’s original text was lengthy and didn’t fit a colle-giate audience, which allowed Dr. Erin Ashworth-King to adapt the text and modify it slightly.

Ashworth-King is the co-director for “The Tempest” and works with the actors to help them understand Shakespeare’s text.

“What I’ve found in Shake-speare productions is that if the actor understands and is mo-tivated by the text, it’s going to come through to an audience,” Ashworth-King said. “If an ac-tor doesn’t understand and they simply speak the lines, we can’t expect an audience member to be able to understand that and to re-ally connect with the characters.”

Ashworth-King helped the actors one-on-one with their text before rehearsals and is now fo-cused on character work and the way the actors approach the text.

She has shortened the origi-nal text, so the running time is now approximately two hours in-cluding intermission.

“The reason for that was to make it more approachable not just to a collegiate audience, but also to an American collegiate au-dience,” Ashworth-King said.

She said she has purged some references without damaging the context of the play.

“We wanted to make it to where the audience was not dis-

tracted by the very specific allu-sions in the text,” Ashworth-King said.

She said the play is being set in a Victorian style for costuming purposes.

Costumer Eldra Sanford has been designing and researching costumes since Fall 2011.

She said it takes over 80 hours of research to design appropriate costumes.

The design is focused around a Victorian silhouette rather than a specific period in time, she said.

“The only female in the show is the daughter of Prospero, Mi-randa, and we are fabricating her dress to represent the flowers of the island,” Sanford said.

In Shakespeare’s time, males played almost all roles, but for ASU’s cast, females will play most of the roles, Sanford said.

Sanford said she is adding padding for the female costumes to give them more of a male fig-ure.

“The spirits have more of a modern look,” she said. “They will be wearing full body unitards and will be airbrushed.”

Burnett said the text is the most important part of The Tem-pest.

“Without the text, it would just be a light show with scenery,” he said. “The text helps augment the meaning of the play.”

Opening night is Thursday, April 26.

Students take flight in ‘The Tempest’

Photosby Pam Belcher(Above) Amber Horton is lifted in the air while fellow actors perform below.(Left) Students rehearse one of many dance numbers in “The Tempest,” which opens April 26.

Friday, April 20, 2012 Page 5OPINION

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“Unlucky. I didn’t do so good on my Western Civ. test.”

Chad Ngwu,sophomore

“Unlucky. I had a long day of classes and working.”

Jonathan Kang, graduate student

Was Friday the 13th unlucky for you?

SidewalkSurvey“Lucky. I had a good day and did good on my spanish test.”

Matraca Cates,freshman

“Lucky. I aced my government and astronomy tests.”

JP Williams,junior

“Lucky. I got to spend it with my grandma for her birthday.”

Luke Perkins,sophomore

Dillon BrollierStaff Writer

If you could form a band with any known musicians from any point in time, who would you pick?

Some buddies and I talk about this from time to time and it really got me to thinking. Who would I pick?

Do you go with whoever would sell out stadiums and fill pocketbooks, i.e. any tween sensations?

NO, I say!I want the best of the best—mu-

sicians who could conform to others’ styles and musicians who could pro-vide the most to the band.

For those wanting to play along, the rules are simple: you must have a drummer, bassist, lead guitarist, lead singer and one extra member should you so choose. IF you want 2 drum-mers, go for it.

Let’s go!

Drummer: Jimmy “The Rev” Sul-livan – Avenged Sevenfold.

The day “The Rev” died was a sad one indeed. There is nothing I can say to do him justice. This man was an outstanding drummer, and by all ac-counts, a great friend and band mate. He was fast, he had power, and his drumming defined so many Avenged Sevenfold songs. On top of that, he could double as a vocalist if the need

ever arose, and could easily sing back up like he would during his A7X days. He was Avenged Sevenfold in many as-pects and to this day I am amazed at his ability. He is easily my go to guy in this fantasy draft of musicians.

Honorable Mention: Neil Pert, Jimmy Chamberlin

Bassist: Flea – Red Hot Chili Pep-pers.

Come on, Patrick, you know I was gonna have at least one Chili Pepper on this list. What can you say about a man who has been in the industry for 30 plus years, toured the world and helped found one of the greatest bands of all time? Now I am partial to slap bassists, and I had a really hard time deciding between Flea and Victor Wooten. I believe that Flea’s extensive knowledge of music would be a greater factor in helping a band write. Flea is more than just fast; he is smart and that is big time in my book. Honestly, you could easily say that they are even-ly matched, because each does things the other cant. Probably the toughest call on this list.

Honorable Mention: Victor Woo-ten

Guitarist: Carlos Santana.Why Santana? Because he is Car-

los Santana. I don’t need to say any more.

Honorable Mention: John Frus-ciante, Eric Clapton,

Utility: Dave Grohl – Nirvana, Foo Fighters.

DAVE GROHL IS THE MOST UN-DERRATED MAN IN MUSIC! He can do it all, guitar, bass, drums, sing, and I am pretty sure he can win a game of

tennis against a brick wall. As great as he is I have him as my utility man be-cause everyone that is instrument spe-cific is one of the greatest ever. What makes Ghrol so great is that while he is not an all time great in any instru-ment, he is great at every instrument. Combine that with his songwriting abilities and Mr. Grohl is a musician no band can go without.

Front Man: Freddie Mercury – Queen.

As if anyone else could be in this spot. To this day I have not witnessed anyone who can command the stage and captivate a crowd like Freddie did. His presence is omnipresent. Even years after his passing the effects of his performances are being felt. Not to mention that the man had an out of this world voice. There are very few people that I can think of that can out right out sing Freddie. Go on YouTube and look up “Queen at Live Aid” and you will know that as far as front men go, he was the very best and there is no one else I could put in this spot. Love you Freddie.

Honorable Mention: Dave Grohl, Anthony Kiedis,

Bands are like cities.Guitars are the buildings. They

tend to stick out.The drummer is like the roads.

They allow everything to fit together.The singer is like the people. They

carry it out and it happens to be what people pay attention to.

The bass is like the sewers. Even though a lot of people don’t pay atten-tion to it, without it, it’s all a load of crap.

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What is the ultimate band?

Jenni De BieContributor

I believe in human-ity, indecency, and in the truth of man’s goodness-- because people are, for the most part, pretty humane,

decent and good. Yes, we all have a tendency toward selfishness, we all speak cruelly and we hurt each other intentionally.

But we also take a spare second to hold the door open for strangers. We knee-jerk thank our profs when they hand out tests, and we apologize when we run into each other. We bless the sneezes of strang-ers, we tip our wait staff at restaurants and we stop for pedestrians. We hold the elevators open when we

can and wave apologeti-cally when we cannot. We learn the limits of publi-cally accepted jokes and we attempt to stay within rea-sonable limits when little ears are present. We don’t kick rainwater at anyone, but the friends we know won’t be overly offended.

Maybe I’m an optimist (I mean come on, how of-ten are we going to see puddles around here?) but I do believe in humanity. I believe that we are basi-cally good critters and will

continue to be so. We may play our music too loud and drive our cars too fast and stay at our parties too late, but isn’t that what col-lege is for? Even in this age of digital connectivity and emotional distance, we are essentially compassionate. So congrats guys. We may not be the angels our ma-mas want, but that doesn’t make us any less nifty. Cheers Angelo, let’s keep it classy.

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This week’s pollWhat do you wish you could have done more of during your time at ASU?

Get involved on and off campus

Study/Get better grades

Socialize/Party

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Last week’s poll results

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50% The night before/the day of

13% I’ve never procrastinated on a paper

Friday, April 20, 2012Page 6 SPORTS

Stephen CoganSports Editor

ASU’s softball team is one step closer to going back to the World Se-ries after securing the school’s sixth Lone Star Conference Championship with a 7-3 win over conference rival Abilene Christian on Wednesday.

Senior Claire Molina was on the mound for the ‘Belles and her parents were in the seats watching as their daughter pitched a complete game victory.

Molina walked none, struck out six and allowed only three runs, one of which was unearned.

“Claire Molina threw the ball great for us, and she got some time-ly hitting in front of a great crowd,” head coach Travis Scott said. “It was a fun day to be a part of Angelo State softball.”

Victories are plentiful with Claire Molina, who leads the entire confer-ence in wins with a 21-4 overall record and is fourth in earned run average with a 2.62 mark.

The 2012 season has been high-lighted with victories, milestones, ac-colades, and even a birthday party for Scott in the beginning of the season.

The ‘Belles have a 39-8 record with a 20-4 conference record that secured their spot as the best team in the Lone Star Conference for the 2012 season.

The ‘Belles are 15-1 at home, 16-4 on the road and 8-3 on neutral fields.

Both starting pitchers, Molina and sophomore Mary Kate McKay, have won LSC Pitcher of the Week this year.

McKay is third in the conference in earned run average with a 2.55 mark and is one of four women tied for second in total wins with an 18-4 record.

Scott celebrated reaching his 400th career coaching victory at ASU and now has his sixth Lone Star Con-ference Title.

The ‘Belles arguably have the best lineup in the Lone Star Conference with five different players winning LSC Hitter of the Week.

Sophomore outfielder Morgan was the first woman to win it for the ‘Belles when she hit back-to-back grand slams that won two games for ASU.

Sophomore Carly Peters won the award after she cracked four home runs in a three-game series against Eastern New Mexico University.

Junior catcher Kacie Easley won the award after her performance in week three and leads the conference with 66 hits, is fourth in batting aver-age (.420) and fifth in on-base average (.489).

Easley leads the team in putouts (242) and fielding percentage (.989).

Junior outfielder Lauren Smith’s two home runs in the second game of a double header against Abilene Christian on April 10 led to a 7-2 vic-tory that made her the recipient of the Hitter of the Week award.

Senior Deeshanalynn Tafiti won her own award after hitting .412 with four home runs and 14 RBIs in five games.

Tafiti is fourth in the conference in slugging percentage (.742), fourth in on-base average (.491) and is tied for fourth in home runs (14).

Tafiti leads the entire conference in RBIs with 60.

Senior third baseman Elsamar-tina Apo leads the conference in bat-ting average (.450) and on-base aver-

age (.576).Against Abilene Christian, the

‘Belles got off to an early lead in the second inning when they had short-stop Chelsey Walters at second and Amanda Wilhelm at third.

Spearman hit a line drive to cen-ter field that scored two runs for the early lead.

“With runners in scoring posi-tion, I was just hoping to do anything in my power to get one run across,” Spearman said. “I was fortunate enough to make solid contact and drive in two which gave us the mo-mentum.”

Spearman had two hits and three of the five RBIs on the night.

Molina kept Abilene Christian’s bats at bay until the ‘Belles bats made another rally with a five-run sixth in-ning by the ‘Belles.

That gave Molina all the run sup-port she needed to secure the victory.

It started with a pair of singles by Apo and April Breshears.

Then Peters reached on a field-ing error by the shortstop and a run scored.

A bunt by Britney Davis loaded the bases and singles by Taylor Jensen and Spearman scored two more runs.

Smith reached on an error by the third baseman that led to another run scored and Jensen at third base.

Easley hit a sacrifice fly into cen-ter field that allowed Jensen to tag up and score.

The ‘Belles are ranked 12th in the nation and will be a contender for the NCAA D-II World Series.

The ‘Belles have three games (all at home) left to play this season against Texas A&M-Kingsville that starts with a doubleheader on Friday, April 20 at 5 p.m.

Texas A&M Kingsville has a 17-30 record, a 5-19 conference record and a 4-14 record on the road.

‘Belles are Lone Star Conference Champions

Photo by Pam BelcherSenior Claire Molina (No. 4) winds up for her pitch.

Softball: Women win their sixth Conference Championship