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Volume 79 Issue 7 Oct. 12, 2012

The Red Dirt Round-Up chili cook-off is today and chilli cooks all around campus are getting ready to show off their recipies.

The round-up is a southwestern themed event based on Texan music and culture. “Red Dirt” comes from the color of the soil in Texas grounds. The festivity is scheduled Friday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m.

“The activities include food, a dance floor, the chili cook-off, a booth contest, roping lessons, corn whole game, live music and an appearance from ASU’s mascot, Dominic.” said student hall direc-tor of Centennial Village Matthew Lombardo. “Fort Concho will join the festivities with a fire cannon as an opening to the festivity and will con-tinue to fire throughout the event.”

Chili Chefs from across campus will prepare their dishes to be sampled and judged to win “Top Chili and People’s Choice Award winners.” Entry to the competition is free. Chili cook-off contes-tants are required to prepare their chili by Friday at 7 p.m.

Additionally, the group with the best deco-rated booth will win the “Showmanship Award,” an award given to the most flamboyant and at-tractive booth of interest. “Winners will win

Texas themed gifts and gift cards with a value up to $75,” said Lombardo. “We just ask that the chili chefs open their pots for the attenders at the round-up to sample.”

Stuart Lickteig, the chili cook-offs previous champion and director of Housing and Residen-tial Programs said, “It is time for me to retire while I am at the top.”

At last year’s event “Around 300 to 400 peo-ple attended,” Lickteigsaid. “This year we expect over 400 people in attendance.

With the intention of the round-up being a campus wide affair Lombardo said, “It is a great campus event with lots of entertainment. It is open to the community and all student organi-zations. We had teams from several residence halls and student organizations participate last year. It is a good place for organizations to recruit members.”

This year’s musical talent has two bands com-peting for the spot as the special guest.

To sign up call Centennial Village at 325-942-2576.

Buzz about the first-ever ASU Debate Watch series grew after over 80 students packed into the Texan Hall Theatre room last Wednesday to watch the Presidential Debate.

The events offer students a place to voice their opinions with others who share an interest in politics, Communications Professor Adria Battaglia said.

“I walked in, and the place was packed,” Battaglia said. “Kids were leaning against the walls. That was really exciting to see.”

Freshman Derin Oduye said that she did not have time to go to the Debate Watch, but watched the debate later with a friend.

“I like watching debates because they spark an interest in politics for people who normally wouldn’t pay attention to the election,” Oduye said. “I am fascinated by how the de-

bates have changed over the years.”Freshman Jared Goecker said

he watched the debate when he got home from work.

“Romney definitely won the de-bate,” Goecker said. “He beat Obama in substance and in style.”

Debates have an affect on the overall election, Goecker said.

“If a candidate can rock a de-bate, then it makes an impression on society,” Goecker said.

Debate Watches are common on most college campuses in the U.S., but this is the first year for ASU to adopt the event, Battaglia said.

“I thought that watching the de-bate would be a great learning ex-perience for my students,” Battaglia said. “I sent out an email to faculty across all departments and got a good response; then everything fell into place.”

The Debate Watches bring to-gether many different types of stu-dents with many different majors, Battaglia said.

“You have your political science majors and communications majors both discussing the same debate,

but with vastly different focuses,” Battaglia said. “For the most part, the political science majors are ana-lyzing the issues and the communi-cations majors are looking at body language and the structure of each candidate’s argument.”

This mixing of two very differ-ent disciplines creates a broad dis-cussion between students, Battaglia said.

“We really learn a lot about our differences and similarities through this event,” Battaglia said. “Being in a West Texas town, I expected the students to be predominantly Re-publican, but both sides were repre-sented fairly.”

The next Debate Watch will be Oct. 16 at the Plaza Verde Vista Room from 8 to 10 p.m. The last Debate Watch will be Oct. 22 in the Centennial Commons Room at the same time, Battaglia said.

“The debate on the 16th is go-ing to be about domestic and foreign policy and will be in a town-hall format,” Political Science Professor Shawn Morrow said. “Since it is a

town-hall meeting, the candidates will be judged not only on content, but by how they connect with the public.”

Morrow will be a moderator on the next Debate Watch along with Security Studies Professor Rob El-hers, Battaglia said.

“The moderators bring differ-ent perspectives to the students,” Battaglia said. “Their job is to guide discussion on key topics and provide their insight to students.”

Political Science and Philosophy Professor Deanna Watts said that she gets a lot out of the debates and listening to the students’ “fresh take” on politics.

“The thing that I focused on as a moderator was what the candi-dates said and what the candidates did not say,” Watts said. “Body language plays a huge roll – even the color of the ties can mean some-thing.”

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Chili cook-off headlines second year round upMystery bands to surprise and perform for students

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Presidential debates make students think and respond to candidates

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Illustration by Tim Peevy

First watch party highly successful

Quickie news:

- Debate watch party popular

- Chili cook-off today

- Textbook buybacks may change

- 26 homecoming nominees

- ASU haters blog divides students

- Women’s cross country win

- ‘Belles volleyball team on fire

Friday, Oct. 12, 2012Page 2 NEWSEvents Calendar

Get involvedon campus!

Here’s what’s going on this week.

Friday, Oct. 12

Housing and Residen-tial Programs: Red Dirt Roundup 7 p.m.@ Centennial Village

ASU Theatre: “The Who’s Tommy” 8 p.m.@ Mayer Administration Building

Saturday, Oct. 13

Wake Board & Float8 a.m. - October 14, 7 p.m.Texas Ski Ranch

Cyclocross Series 201210 a.m. @ Varsity Softball Complex

Sunday, Oct. 14

Brisket Cook-Off/Washer Tournament 9 to 6 p.m.

Basketball: Midnight Mad-ness 10:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.@ Junell Center/Stephens Arena

Monday, Oct. 15

IM Volleyball Officials Clinic5 to 7 p.m.@ Center for Human Per-formance

SMART Workshop: Dealing with Test Anxiety 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. @ Academic Build-ing 119

ASU Choir: Spooktacular7 p.m. @ McNease Con-vention Center, 500 Rio Concho Drive

Tuesday, Oct. 16

College of Arts and Sci-ences: Fall Science Days9:20 a.m. to 1 p.m. @ Cav-ness Science Building

Civil War Lecture Series: The Literature of the War7 p.m. to 8 p.m. @ Hous-ton Harte University Center

Wendsday, Oct. 17

Meeting: Staff Senate3 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ CJ Davidson

Music: Student Recital4 p.m. @ Carr Education-Fine Arts Building, Eldon Black Recital Hall

ASUFit: Cyclocross Series 2012 6:30 p.m. @ Varsity Softball Complex

Thursday, Oct. 18

Ricardo Viera: Lecture Spanish Colonial & Mexi-can Religion 11 a.m. @Carr Education-Fine Arts Building, room 101

Music: Senior Recital - Vin-cent Del Vicchio 7:30 p.m.@ Carr Education-Fine Arts Building, Eldon Black Recital Hall

Planetarium: 2012: The End of the World? Not!8 p.m. @Planetarium: (Global Immersion Center)

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

New degree cost effective, customizable by students

ASU will offer a $10,000 Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies ef-fective in the fall of 2013.

“The decision to have the $10,000 degree only for the Interdisciplinary Studies degree was made by the pro-vost [office] and president,” said John Miazga, Dean of the College of Educa-tion. “The thought was that this partic-ular degree would be helpful for those individuals who dropped out of college for a while and were looking for a way to complete their degree.”

The Interdisciplinary Studies de-gree consists of three 18-hour minors chosen by the student to form a major, said Paul Swets, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

“There are situations in the mod-ern world [that require] having broad understandings of the various disci-plines,” Swets said. “The Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies addresses that. Instead of having a great deal of hours in one particular subject you are able to focus on different subjects. You get a breadth of knowledge that you may not get in a standard degree.”

According to governor.state.tx.us, incoming freshmen with an ACT score of 27 or greater or a combined SAT critical reading and math score of 1220 or better can qualify for the degree. Transfer students may also qualify for the degree as long as those students meet certain criteria, Swets said.

“Transfer students with a 3.5 or better GPA on all previous academic work are eligible,” Swets said. “They, just like incoming freshmen will be re-quired to maintain a 3.5 or better GPA during their coursework at ASU.”

Gov. Rick Perry visited ASU last Wednesday to announce the universi-ty’s decision to take part in the $10,000 degree program. ASU is the tenth in-stitution that proposed this program in Texas.

“ASU took part in this [degree plan] to make education more afford-able for more individuals regardless of who they are,” Miazga said.

Students can choose to earn the In-terdisciplinary Studies degree, which comes out to be less than $10,000.

“All of the tuition and fees for all four years will come out to be less than $10,000,” Swets said. “If you change your mind and take five or six years to get your degree, then it may cost more. If you stay in the residence halls those fees are not included in the $10,000 expenses.”

According to the San Angelo Stan-dard Times, qualified students receive a $5,000 scholarship administered by ASU, which renews ever year.

“The $5,000 scholarship will [only cover] tuition and fees,” Miazga said. “It is not meant to cover books, room and board or any other incidental ex-penses that go along with the particu-lar degree. [The scholarship’s purpose] is to reduce the cost of the actual de-gree itself.”

Swets said ASU came up to the challenge of creating what seems to be the most flexible degree. Those stu-dents who qualify are strong enough to complete the program, he said.

“Part of what makes this an at-tractive degree is the flexibility,” Swets said. “Students, based on their interests, coursework they have taken and academic as well as career goals can form this degree themselves. ASU has more than 30 minors, so students are given many options.”

The provost office and all of the deans came together and did a good job on creating the degree plan, Swets said.

“The program is initiated but we have not yet begun,” Miazga said. “When we begin to [form the program] we will see where the pitfalls are and where the positives are and how it can be implemented.”

Three minors combine to create degree plan

Allison PriceFeatures Editor

ASU homecoming kicks off Satur-day, Oct. 13 with activities planned all week leading up to the Friday bonfire and Saturday parade and game.

“In addition to the quintessential homecoming activities such as floats, bonfire building and king and queen [nominations], we have other neat and innovative ideas for this [year],” nomi-nations chair Connor Frankhouser said. “For instance, we have a kickball tour-nament, a canned-goods castle build and a Jeopardy-type game show.”

Frankhouser said any student or-ganizations who wish to enter in the festivities and competitions during the week are welcome.

“This year we have a total of 22 registered student organizations par-ticipating in various events throughout the week,” homecoming adviser Jenni-fer Johnson said. “[Some] organizations are the African Student Association, Rams for Christ, Sigma Phi Lambda, Pi Kappa Alpha, etc.”

This year’s theme is “Roscoe Loves the ‘90s.” The homecoming committee decided a ‘90s theme would be appro-priate as that is the age demographic of the student body, Frankhouser said. By

choosing a theme students could relate to, it may increase student participa-tion.

“There was an overabundance of ideas and the [committee] was excited about the many [ways] students could work with the theme,” Johnson said.

This year, there are 26 nominees for king and queen from 14 different reg-istered student organizations, Frank-houser said.

“Students are nominated by their respective organizations,” Frankhous-er said. “The process the organization must go through is to fill out the requi-site paperwork for the male and/or fe-male nominee. After that they may pick from any of the roughly 7,000 students.”

Sunday marks the annual Brisket Cook-Off event hosted by Delta Sigma Pi. Delta Sigma Pi works the behind-the-scenes details for the cook-off, homecoming chair Gil Moreno said.

“We have noticed that students want the brisket, but we didn’t have enough to feed them,” Moreno said. “[This year] we will be paying for the student body to have a brisket dinner. We asked Heather Valle, who is coordi-nator for Student Organizations, if we could [provide the dinner] and she al-lowed us to do so.”

The students who are more involved in events are ones that are in a student organization trying to gain “spirit stick points,” Moreno said. Those not in-volved in participating organizations do show up to the more popular events.

“The Step Contest, Pep Rally, Bon-

fire and Parade [are the events] the general student [body] participates in,” Johnson said.

According to the homecoming sched-ule of events, there are eight activities where spirit sticks can be earned. The Spirit Stick winner will be announced during halftime on Saturday.

“Students enter to participate in events for points in hopes their organi-zation wins,” Johnson said. “Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity has won [the spirit stick award] the past four years.”

The Step Contest combines “stepping” which is a form of rhythmic dancing using footsteps, spoken word and handclaps, Johnson said. The top five organizations are chosen during a preliminary competition on Wednes-day, where they will then compete at the pep rally on Friday.

“Teams are [judged] on cos-tumes, use of their individual theme and skill in dancing,” Frankhouser said. “It is like ‘Stomp the Yard’ came to [ASU] to film its next sequel.”

The homecoming committee is formed mid-spring, Johnson said. Sev-eral elements about homecoming are discussed and later planned.

“[The committee chose] the theme last spring and throughout the summer and this semester, we have been working vigorously to finalize all of the details,” Moreno said.

A schedule of the homecoming week events with locations and times can be found on the Center for Student In-volvement homepage.

Student led activities highlight homecoming weekStep competition, kickball tournament and game-show events for this year

Allison PriceFeatures Editor

If students cannot make it to the next De-bate Watch, they are encouraged to join in via twitter using the hashtag #trdw, Battaglia said.

“TRDW stands for “Team Rhetoric Debate Watch,” Battaglia said. “Texas A&M started us-ing it for their own de-bate watches and it has spread to the national level.”

Students from ASU and colleges across the nation will use this hashtag to share opin-ions with other students who are watching the de-bate, Battaglia said.

“We are hoping to stimulate discussion by encouraging students to reply to other students’ tweets from across the nation, rather than just posting their own opin-ions,” Battaglia said.

Battaglia said she

urges everyone who at-tends the next Debate Watch to stay after the debate is over to discuss the debate, to ask ques-tions and to share their opinions.

Apathy concerning politics is common, but the best way to solve problems is to get to-gether and get involved, Battaglia said.

“The main thing I want the students to take away from these debates is a sense of community, responsibil-ity and accountability,” Battaglia said. “I want these students to recog-nize that we all are in this together.”

Battaglia hopes for an even bigger turnout at the next Debate Watch.

“I will definitely go to the next Debate Watch,” Oduye said.

Debate watch party set to growCont. from p. 1

Come pump up the Ram and ‘Belle basketball teams at Midnight Madness, Oct. 14, for their upcoming seasons.

Rams’ head coach Fred Rike said he is happy about how great of a job ASU does with co-ordinating Midnight Madness.

“Our Midnight Madness is nicer than some of the Division one events,” he said. “There is always a great student turn out.”

The men’s team will open at home, Nov. 10, taking on Lub-bock Christian. Rikes said this has been the best preseason in his five to six years of coaching at ASU.

“I love my team,” he said. “We are a young team and very teachable.”

Assistant Coach Stacey Duffell said the Belles have only been practicing individu-

ally but kick off team practice the Monday following Midnight Madness.

“We are returning a great group of players and are look-ing forward to an exciting sea-son within the LSC and a hun-ger to be better than last year,” Duffell said. “Our strengths will be our experience with our offense and the growth and ma-turity of our team on the floor to help close out games.”

The ‘Belles will host an exhibition game against Lub-bock Christian Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. Their season officially begins Nov. 13 against St. Edwards at 6 p.m. in the Stephens Arena.

The doors to Midnight Mad-ness open at 10:45 p.m. on Sun-day. There will be free food and T-shirts to the first 250 people. Both teams will compete in a three-point shooting contest and the men’s team will compete in a dunk contest. There will be a prize for most spirited dressed fan and one fan will be given the opportunity to win $30,000 in a shooting competition.

Midnight Madness set for SundayFans help welcome basketball season

Mariah PowellManaging Editor

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San Angelo dropped the drought level from Drought Level three to level one Monday after heavy rains increased the city’s overall ready wa-ter supply to 22 months.

“The move from one drought level to another is dictated by the city’s drought contingency ordi-nance whenever the developed and available wa-ter supply meets benchmarks established by the ordinance,” a city press release said.

Drought Level one is enacted when San An-gelo has less than 24 months of water supply.

“When you move into Drought Level one, then you start to implement more of the mandatory type of restrictions,” said Will Wilde, San Angelo director of Water Utilities. “Reduce those peak usages during the summer time.”

With the new drought level in place so soon after water levels were so low, one student said he felt that the jump from level three restrictions to level one was premature.

“I think it’s dumb,” senior Daniel Duarte said. “We should have stayed at three so that way we can learn to save and conserve water.”

As one of the largest institutions in the city, ASU is often looked at for their water use and their role in water conservation.

“We all have got to do our share; we all have to conserve water,” Hal Peter, associate director of Special Services said. “Could we go out and just start dumping the water? Yes we could. But we are going to try and be good to the city.”

While the decision to move to Drought Level one may be an unpopular one, the city council had no choice but to revert to the lower level in order to comply with their own ordinance.

“It is legally imperative that City Council ad-here to the scheme that is set out by ordinance,” San Angelo City Attorney Lysia Bowling said. “The council just does not have the ability to act

arbitrarily, to ‘dig their heels in’ so to speak, and remain in a drought stage that factually, we are no longer deemed to be in.”

S e n i o r Amanda Wil-helm said that water conserva-tion is important because of the scattered history of rainfall.

“The prob-lem with living here is you nev-er know when you’re going to get rain again,” Wilhelm said. “We just need to conserve it as much as possible.”

ASU has taken added steps to go beyond the Drought Level one restrictions in an effort to pre-serve some water.

“We shut down the water to the intramural fields and everything up past Texan hall,” Peter said. “Everything but the athletic fields is off. We have not watered that in years.”

The main source of watering on campus is the main mall area and the large trees around cam-pus. However, because of the drought many of those large trees will be removed, Peter said.

Peter said nearly 20 large trees on campus will be removed later this year. Many of them died throughout the drought this summer, he said.

“We will see about replacing them,” Peter said. “If we do, it would be with live oaks, some-thing that could handle the drought.”

An upcoming source of water, the Hickory Aquifer, is still under construction. Upon compe-tition it will supply San Angelo with nearly 9 mil-lion gallons of water per day.

“Water that would come from the Hickory

Aquifer is not considered in determining drought levels because it is not yet an active source,” a city press release said.

However, with the water supplied by the heavy rains, the city now has enough water to last until the aquifer is complete, Wilde said.

The Aquifer project is split into four parts, he said. Three of the four can be up and running as soon as July of 2013 and could deliver water to the city as soon as the beginning of August, should the city be in need of the water the aquifer would supply.

The treatment portion of the aquifer will be awarded by January and construction will start mid-2013.

Even though the treatment plant would not be ready in time for a 2013 emergency use situa-tion, the city will make sure the water is safe to supply before potentially distributing that water, Peter said.

“When you take six parts of surface water with one part of Hickory water you have achieved, in essence, the EPA standards,” Wilde said. At a 6:1 ratio you comply with all the standards.”

ASU seeks to lead the way in city efforts to conserve water after heavy rains

A freshman sena-tor in SGA Monday proposed a bill to save students money in the campus bookstore, as well as for students to receive money back for their books at the end of the semester.

Freshman Jared Goecker proposed this bill because the current system is disadvanta-geous to students.

“Currently a stu-dent buys an edition of a book, but then the publishing company comes out with a new edition of the book and professors switch to the new edition, forc-ing the students to buy the new book,” he said.

The bill would re-quire professors to keep for five semesters the same book and/or edition, he said.

Courses in which new editions are required for the integrity of the class would be an ex-ception.

Potentially, the first semester student would buy a book new and at the end of the semester, be able to sell the book back to the bookstore for 50 percent of the original price, he said.

For the next four se-mesters, students who buy that same book will be buying it used at 75 percent of the original cost; this is by contract of the bookstore, Goeck-er said. Because the book will still be in use for those semesters, the bookstore will continue to buy the book back at 50 percent of the origi-nal cost.

“The students I have talked to are all very enthusiastic,” Goecker said. “They are excited about some-thing that will be good for them and for every-one.”

Goecker said to get the bill passed in time for next semester, it will first have to be passed by the Student Senate. After passing through the Student Senate, the bill will be presented to the Faculty Senate, where the Student Sen-ate will explain the bill, he said.

If the bill is co-sponsored by the Stu-dent and Faculty Sen-ate, it will be sent to the administration for approval, he said.

“I’m hoping the faculty members will look at this bill and see that it will be very af-fordable for students,” Goecker said. “I believe the faculty will come to agree that this bill is convenient for [stu-dents].”

Sophomore Kris-ten Henry said she supports the bill. “Any college student in this economy would support this bill. It’s potentially a big money saver.”

Dillon BrollierEditor-in-Chief

Rainfall brings relief, frustration to city water situation

New used book system proposed

Photo by: Tim PeevyLake Nasworthy was just one of the bodies of water that benefited from the rain.

Alix HenryContributorLisa DeesCopy Editor

Friday, Oct. 12, 2012Page 4 FEATURES

‘90s

Homecoming King and Queen Nominees

Karina AldreteJunior

Alpha Phi Omega

Robbie ThayerSenior

Baptist Student Ministry

Katelyn JonesJunior

Bass Anglers

Austin SparksSophomoreDelta Zeta

Emily BandaJuniorAMAS

Aaron LozanoSenior

Alpha Phi Omega

Ashley HamptonSenior

Tri-Beta

Jaymie TrimbleSenior

AFROTC

Chelsea GibsonSenior

Pi Kappa Alpha

Joshua McGuireSenior

Honors Student Association

Danica WilliamsSenior

Sigma Kappa

Nathanial RedicJunior

Lambda Chi Alpha

ROSCOE

Loves The

Darcy MusickSenior

Block and Bridle

Henry LunaJuniorAMAS

Carl MilesSophomore

Bass Anglers

Kiel SieckmannJunior

Block and Bridle

Leah McFaddenJunior

Baptist Student Ministry

Jordan YedicaSophomoreDelta Zeta

Cassady HossenloppSenior

Honors Student Association

Chantel JacksonSenior

Kappa Delta Pi

Cecelia MillerJunior

Lambda Chi Alpha

Allen BennettSenior

Pi Kappa Alpha

Paul MasonSophomore

SAAC

Wiley JonesSenior

Sigma Kappa

Joshua HeimbeckerSenior

Tri-Beta

Mary CooperSenior

AFROTC

Homecoming King and Queen will be announced during

Halftime at the football game on Saturday, Oct. 20.

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PUBLISHING POLICYPublished every Friday and available to students, one copy per student, the student newspaper of Angelo State University is a public forum, with its student editorial board making all deci-sions concerning its contents. Unsigned editorials express the views of the majority of the editorial board.Ram Page welcomes all letters. Please include your name, classification/position and a phone number and/or e-mail ad-dress for verification purposes. Letters must be signed and be no more than 350 words. The paper reserves the right to edit letters for grammar and clarity, and all letters are subject to laws governing obscenity, libel and privacy. Deadline is 5 p.m., Mon-day. Submission does not guarantee publication. Letters may be mailed, e-mailed or submitted at the newspaper’s office, Room 324 on the third floor of the Porter Henderson Library. Opinions in letters are not necessarily those of the staff, nor should any opinion expressed in a public forum be construed as the opinion or policy of the administration, unless so attributed.

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Hey! Passion is a crazy thing. It can make us do things that we never would even think were possible.

The great and terrible thing about passion is that it is sparked by different things by different people at different times.

It is truly a testimate on the wonders of hu-mans, whether it be for better or worse.

For many people, myself included, music is the catalyst to this otherworldly feeling.

With the right tunes it can feel like you are in a parallel universe and you can’t stop feeling

good about the world. It can pull you from the lowest low all the

way up to higher ground.It can teleport you from a cold snow filled

winter environment to somewhere warm, like Ethopia, in an instant and back again as fast.

Why else do we play music when we go road trippin’ around the world? Because it just makes the trip better.

It strips our minds of all mundane thoughts and worries. That and it makes those aeroplane trips a lot less of a warped experience.

Of course you have to make sure the music doesn’t make it hard to concentrate with what you are doing, but that is the great thing about

music. You can easily multitask!Whether you are named Charlie living in

the swankiest of mansions or a jungleman living under the bridge downtown, most everyone can agree that music is an inescapable part of our lives.

It can mold us, from our minds, our souls to even our scar tissue.

I realize not everyone feels this way. Maybe your passion is sports, or worship, simply trying to make it to the otherside and graduate but the fact remains that in the 21st century we cannot escape music and all of its wonders and pitfalls.

By the way, if you can guess my favorite band congratulations! I just hope I don’t give it away.

Dillon BrollierEditor-in-Chief

What is shame? According to dictionary.com, shame is the painful feeling arising from the con-sciousness of something dishonorable, improper and ridiculous. But there is One we should never be ashamed of and that is God.

We have all too long been ashamed to go out and proclaim God’s Word. Maybe we don’t want to offend. Maybe we don’t want to seem intoler-ant. Maybe we don’t want to change our lifestyle and risk condemnation.

Shame will be our downfall. We will lose our souls if we become ashamed of telling people about

God. Luke 9:26 reads “ For whoever is ashamed of Me and of My words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in His glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.”

If we want everlasting life, then we must fol-low God’s commands and repent of our sins, or we will be thrown into eternal darkness. Yet, many teachers of the gospel go out the next day and do the work of the world.

Jesus says in Matthew 7:21-23, “Not every-one who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your

name, and cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then will I declare to them, I never knew you, depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.” Jesus loves us, but if we don’t believe and are ashamed of Him, then He will deny us before God.

If you don’t know if you’re saved, then I en-courage you to read the Bible, pray and become active in the church. But don’t do this believing that you can still live in your sin. This will change your life if you become a follower of Jesus Christ. We can choose to live our own way, but regardless of the road we take, we will all have to stand in front of the King.

Benton WarrenJunior

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‘Belles contiune home dominance, sweep weekly awards

The ‘Belles Continue Home Dominance with Straight Wins and Awards Sweep

There is no place like home for the ‘Belles as they have won seven volleyball games in a row at home including two matches this past Friday and Saturday.

The ‘Belles made quick work of their oppo-nents, defeating Texas Woman’s University 3-1 on Friday and then following up with a 3-0 win over Texas A&M Commerce on Saturday.

The ‘Belles have one conference loss, which is to the six-time defending Lone Star Conference Champions, the West Texas A&M Lady Buffa-loes, in September.

“We’re always thinking about that,” junior outside hitter Kaelen Valdez said. “We think about how we can better ourselves after that loss.”

The ‘Belles pushed the Lady Buffaloes to a five-set match for a second consecutive year, but Valdez said she believes this year, the ‘Belles were closer to winning.

“I felt like this year we were pretty close with them,” Valdez said. “I think it was the best we played.

Head Coach Chuck Waddington said he agrees with her and that this was the best team that he has ever coached at ASU in his five years here.

“We were pretty strong last year, but we’re just a little bit better in a couple of key areas,”

Waddington said. “Not to take away anything from last season because last year we had a great season, but I think this is the best team we’ve had so far.”

Waddington said the ‘Belles could handle anyone as long as they were consistent and kept up the effort.

The Lone Star Conference seems to agree as they have given the ‘Belles numerous awards for their weekly efforts.

The ‘Belles swept the Player of the Week awards for a second time this year after going 3-0 this past week including a road win over Tarleton State University.

Junior middle blocker Maddie Huth won her first Offensive Player of the Week award, senior Alex Woolsey won her third Setter of the Week award and sophomore Shelby Wilt won Defensive Player of the Week award for the second time this season.

“Since last year, I feel like I’ve improved a lot,” Wilt said. “Last year was the first time for me

to ever play libero, so it was different. Now, I feel like I’ve gotten used to it.”

Wilt’s Defensive Player of the Week award comes after accumulating 66 digs over 12 sets and helping limiting opponents to a .141 hitting per-centage against the ‘Belles.

Wilt has matched her career-high in digs this season with 30 against Texas A&M-Kingsville on Sept. 25 and leads the team in total digs with 319.

Huth finished the week with 36 kills and Woolsey collected 137 assists to secure their awards.

Another ‘Belle that has been an awards regu-lar is junior Shelbi Goode, who has been good all season while winning three Offensive Player of the Week awards.

The ‘Belles are now 16-3 overall and 10-1 in conference play.

“I’m proud of them,” Waddington said. The ‘Belles’ next game is Friday, Oct. 14 on

the road against Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls at 4 p.m.

16-3 ‘Belles on fast tract to LSC playoffs and beyond

Stephen CoganStaff Writer

Rambelles win at Blue and Gold Invitational

Throughout her entire college career, senior Emeline Crutcher never took first place at a cross country event.

On Oct. 9, 2012, she won ASU’s annual Blue and Gold Invitational.

Crutcher crossed the finish line with a time of 22:47.74 and helped the women win their first title of the season.

“It feels really good,” Crutcher said. “I’ve worked really hard the past four years, and I’m glad I got to win my home meet my senior year. But, what I’m really worried about is conference, and that’s in 10 days. That’s what we’ve been working for this whole year, and I want to do re-ally well there.”

ASU will go to the Lone Star Conference Fi-nals on Oct. 20 in Lawton, Oklahoma and com-pete for the championship.

Crutcher said that rest might have helped the team out for the competition.

“We’ve been training since the end of Au-gust,” Crutcher said. “But we’ve also taken some time off the past few days, and I think that helped a lot, too.”

The Rambelles finished with three members in the top five and six in the top 10.

In cross country, the team that has the fewest

points wins the tournament, and the strong finish led to an ASU victory over Tarleton State Univer-sity by a score of 22 to 39.

ASU’s men’s team provided a strong showing, as well, and took second place with a score of 39 points to TSU’s 30.

Junior Jamin Goecker took third place with a 26:51.12 time, and he said he never ran before he came to ASU.

“I was actually home-schooled,” Goecker said. “Opportunities were there, but I just never really took advantage of them.”

Goecker said that taking third place is defi-nitely a step in the right direction for where he wants to be.

“Coach Gabe is always talking about never accepting anything but the best from yourself and from other people,” Goecker said. “That’s the ap-proach I took when I first got here, and I knew when I got here, I was going to get destroyed, but I just kept coming back every day and kept doing work.”

Coach Gary Gabriel, the assistant head cross country coach said he was proud of the walk-on’s third place performance.

“He’s been a work in progress,” Gabriel said. “He’s one of those guys that works really hard and is able to work really hard on his own. He had a terrific summer and did everything I asked him to do.”

The Rams did well, despite the absence of their best runner, sophomore Dylan Littlejohn, in the race due to a minor injury.

“On the men’s side, we’re missing our number one guy,” Gabriel said. “Which really does hurt, but I told [the men] yesterday that somebody else was going to have to step up, and we had a couple of them that did.”

Gabriel said regarding Crutcher’s perfor-mance, “You can’t do better than first place.”

ASU still has its eyes focused on the Lone Star Conference Championship, and Crutcher summa-rized what the teams have to do in order to win.

“We have to show up, and we have to run well, or we’re going to get beat by teams we shouldn’t get beat by.”

Emeline Crutcher takes individual first placeStephen CoganStaff Writer

Photo by: Tim PeevySophmore Jamin Goecker finished first for the Rams (third overall) with a time of 26:51.12.

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“I was actually home-schooled. Opportunities were there, but I jut never really took advantage of them.”

- junior Jamin Goecker

The ‘Belles in a team huddle during their undefeated week..