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About 30 different hands-on activities, displays and ed-ucational events will be set up by student groups and med-ical workers during the first ever Arkansas Science Festi-val (ASF) Oct. 3-11.
“The science festival occurs in other parts of the country. So, we wanted to bring that here as well to northeast Ar-kansas,” said Anne Grippo, associate dean of the college of sciences and mathematics and co-director of the project. “This is a celebration of sci-ence, technology and math, and trying to think of de-veloping a different type of activities that are related to science.”
Grippo said students and faculty as well as the en-tire community in Northeast Arkansas would be involved in the festival.
During the festival, a lot of events will be held within and outside of the A-State cam-pus. Short plays about science will be held in the auditorium of the Reng Student Union.
Timothy Bohn, associate professor of theatre, is orga-nizing a play competition, and the five winners selected for the best plays will be pre-sented at the auditorium.
On Oct. 3, the “ArcAt-tack” performance will be held at the Fowler Center for the festival. “ArcAttack” is a group of performers that make music from coils based on elements of physics and mathematics. Two perfor-mances will be at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
On the homecoming day, Oct. 4, ASF will have a tail-gate tent at Centennial Bank Stadium from 3-5:30 p.m. Bagpipers and jugglers will
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As A-State’s community presence continues to grow, its outreach programs have begun to reap the benefits of genera-tions of mutually beneficial in-teraction.
The ASU Museum was re-cently awarded a $90,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant will allow the 81-year-old muse-um to continue its membership in the Arkansas Discovery Net-work, something museum direc-tor Marti Allen finds especially important to the institution’s growth.
“In our partnership with the Arkansas Discovery Network, we try to give children learn-ing opportunities outside of the classroom,” Allen said. “We want children to have both formal and informal educational outlets.”
The museum, which is free to the public, is located in A-State’s historic library. According to their website, the museum pres-ents roughly 21,000 square feet of temporary and permanent ex-hibits for community members to enjoy.
The museum hosts exhibits from students and local artists, as well as interactive tours of representations of early Arkansas settlements. In addition to these popular attractions, the museum also hosts programs for students pre-k through eighth grade who are interested in learning hands-on outside of the classroom.
“Our childrens’ programs are really why we deem this grant
to be so important,” Allen said. “Without this grant, (paying) the $10,000 per year member-ship fee (to the Arkansas Dis-covery Network) would not be possible.”
The money will also go to fund advertising and outreach tools to encourage children, their schools or other extracurricular organizations, and their individ-ual families to visit the museum and take part in the activities of-fered.
“We send flyers home with children from area schools,” Al-len said. “The network member-ship allows us to give schools and scout troups money, which helps to pay for their gas. This provides them with the incentive they need to keep returning to the museum.”
According to the Discovery Network website, the Network is
a valuable educational outreach tool. The Network extends across Arkansas to six other museums and learning centers, and strives to provide support to each other by encouraging interrelated dis-plays and educational strategies.
The Network’s members in-clude the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock, the Mid-Amer-ica Science Museum in Hot Springs, the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkan-sas in Pine Bluff, the Amazeum in Bentonville, the Museum of Natural Resources in Smackover and A-State’s own museum.
“We are working alongside these museums to make more progressive studies like science and mathematics accessible for children at a younger age,” Allen said. “Ultimately, we want to cre-ate an environment that is wel-coming, so that we can eventual-
ly welcome these kids to campus as A-State students.”
However, children are not the only students the museum staff hopes to reach. Allen is also working with students to learn more about the preservation and outreach techniques she and her staff employ.
The museum staff will soon be teaching museum studies courses to encourage more students to enter the curator field. In addi-tion to museum-specific studies, Allen encourages students from all fields of study to visit the mu-seum and take advantage of the many resources it has to offer.
“We offer many educational resources for current and poten-tial students,” she said. “I would encourage anyone who is curious to visit and take advantage of some of these great opportuni-ties.”
Chelsea Hays| Photo EditorMaddie Kelso, a social work major, plays with one of the interactive games in the Design Zone exhibit Friday at the ASU Museum.
A-State public administra-tion graduate student Christy Mercer spoke to other students Thursday about her role as a staffer for one U.S. democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Mis-souri. During her speech, Mer-cer gave other students advice on how they could succeed and be competitive in the political field.
The event was held in the Wilson Auditorium, and stu-dents currently enrolled in po-litical science courses were en-couraged to attend.
Mercer, regional director for McCaskill in Caruthersville, said some of the top character-istics political science majors need to have are flexibility, pas-sion and the ability to listen.
Barbara Warner, assistant professor in the political sci-ence department, said when she realized Mercer was enrolled in her online class, she decided the senate staffer would make a
great speaker to help teach oth-er students about the political process.
“I teach a class on the Amer
ican legislative process, and it has a simulation congress,” Warner said. “We actually act as the senate, pass bills, consider
bills and debate. So, originally I wanted to get a speaker for that class.”
In her presentation, Mercer said political science students should realize that in the po-litical field, students will al-ways keep learning no matter how many years they have been working.
One way Mercer said stu-dents could keep learning is to be more active in the political field.
“We have a lot of people that don’t seem to care about politics or voting or democracy,” she said. “What I tell my students is to get engaged, let your voice be heard, be a part of an organiza-tion, or do something.”
Students said they enjoyed hearing about how Mercer bal-anced her professional and per-sonal life as a staffer for a U.S. senator.
Garrett Matheny, political science senior of Paragould, said, “I thought it was inter-
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Tian Wang| Staff PhotographerChristy Mercer, regional director for Claire McCaskill, United States Senator of Missouri, speaks to students on Thrusday in the Wilson Auditorium.
Homecoming week is here, and it was all that could be talk-ed about at the SAB meeting last Monday.
Events are being held throughout the week to get stu-dents into the school spirit and ready for football on Saturday.
Amber Sanders, homecoming and springfest director for SAB, said, “Homecoming week starts Sept. 29, and you don’t want to miss out on these great events.”
On Monday, the step show “A-State’s Legacy” will be held at 7 p.m. in the Convocation Cen-ter. This event is where Greeks and other A-State students get to show off their stepping skills while incorporating the Home-coming theme. It is free to all students and community mem-bers.
Mallory Floyd, SAB spir-it club co-director and junior criminology and sociology ma-jor, said, “There is a wide variety of competitions which makes it easy for all types of registered student organizations to get in-volved.”
Tuesday begins the Howl for a Cause event on the Heri-tage Plaza Lawn at 12:15 p.m. Sanders said, “A-State gives back with this fun and exciting com-petition. Different organizations will have to build structures with canned goods that will be do-nated to the NEA Food Bank.” Anyone can drop off canned goods in designated areas on the Heritage Plaza Lawn between 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
The “Run, Red Wolves, Run” event will be on Wednesday
at noon on the Heritage Plaza Lawn as well. During this event, different organizations race the clock and each other through an obstacle course to test speed, agility and balance.
A bonfire and Yell Like Hell will be hosted on Thursday at 7 p.m. on University Loop and Honors Ave. Sanders said, “Come out and ‘Celebrate the Legacy’ with this fun night.”
DJ Psychs will be performing and free food from Lewis’ BBQ and BA Eats will be available for everyone.
Athletics will light the bon-fire at 8 p.m. and organizations will compete in the annual Yell Like Hell competition with their prepared chants.
Wear Red Friday will hold the spirit board competition. The boards will be displayed throughout the weekend, and the winners will be announced during the football game on Sat-urday.
Saturday Oct. 4 is the A-State Red Wolves homecoming foot-ball game. Homecoming Court will be recognized and the 2014 Homecoming King and Queen coronation will be announced during the pre-game ceremonies. Ceremonies begin at 5:30 p.m.
Danner Sullivan, SAB volun-teer and senior communication disorders major of West Mem-phis, said, “There is nothing bet-ter than ending such an eventful week with the stands packed with excited Red Wolf fans.”
Throughout the week, stu-dents are encouraged to tag Stu-dent Activities Board in their pictures on Instagram and Twit-ter by using the hashtag #astate-hc.
Since the beginning of mass media, the knowledge and per-ception of modern day events has had the potential to be mis-understood.
As a society that demands the voice of the people to be heard, many seem to have for-gotten about placing the brain in the equation.
Some Americans can hard-ly recount accurate statements about news and events that are happening inside of the coun-try, let alone foreign affairs that have a tendency to be biased on our media.
Often times people raise their displeasure against each and every president that takes office on matters that are barely understood by anyone but the politicians and the citizens who actually take pride in the affairs of the country.
And now many are after Obama once more about his dealings with the Islamic State.
ISIS is an outrageously strong and growing terrorist group that some say may have split or had a connection with the Al Qaeda terrorist group that made noise during the presidency of George W. Bush, who received equal thrashing and criticism for his responses as Obama is now.
ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) has the strong reli-
gious purpose carried by most radical Islamists, and the orga-nization takes extremely violent action against the citizens and governments of whatever coun-try they find themselves in.
They have been predomi-nantly located in the Iraq area, but have also been causing may-hem in the northeastern borders of Syria.
ISIS is extremely hostile to-wards Americans and any oth-er group of people who do not agree with the radical view of Islamic practice, and the ex-tremists tend to show their dis-content through the chaos they cause.
One of the incidents oc-curred during the execution of British citizen David Haines,
one of the three hostages who have been kidnapped and pub-licly executed by ISIS in the past month.
Sending the videos of all three executions has left the western countries on guard to take action.
As expected, many Amer-icans are absolutely infuriated with this action, screaming the intrusion of life and liberty, as well as demanding that ven-geance be taken.
Unfortunately, as most gov-ernmental officials know, there is much more to a story then simply taking an eye for an eye, and many citizens of our country have been blind to this truth since mass media has been available.
A country cannot just march its military into Syria, lay waste to the Islamic State, and come out with no consequences.
The foreign affairs between the United States and much of the Middle East region have been very shaky for the past decade. ISIS is an independent terrorist organization, and has no technical affiliation with any of the government involved in the countries it is located in.
This means the United States cannot just start sending help without the permission of the country.
We now have backing from
Iraq to take care of the ISIS situation in that area, and have done a decent job so far in keep-ing the peace.
However, Syria is a bit more difficult to take on. While Syria dislikes the Islamic State, lead-ers still have barely budged on the subject of allowing U.S. af-filiation.
Due to enormous inter-national pressure, Obama’s speeches have contained the essence of intelligent action to take against ISIS.
Obama stated, “Our objec-tive is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy,” a message that screams for the American people to be patient while the government prepares for a strategy instead of taking action with desired haste.
Americans should do their research before criticizing our government.
Mainstream media does a great job of entertaining, but not exactly the most accurate job of informing.
Until Americans take it upon themselves to truly learn the affairs of the world, then our country will continue its down-hill slope of media misrepresen-tation.
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Since the onset of the Edward Snowden era, Americans have protested the government’s tracking and recording of private information of its citizens.
Legislators and citizens alike argue that private information should stay private, and that the government has no right to know what someone is up to without a justifiable security threat.
But perhaps the National Security Agency doesn’t have to work as hard to find out information as many are led to believe.
While the involuntary sharing of information is antithetical to the privacy standards of the United States, and arguably the world, the entire concept of information sharing seems to have been convoluted with increasing technology.
With the advent of social media, personal information sharing is rampant. And with confusing and often downplayed privacy settings on most networking sites, it is very easy for “private” information about one’s personal identity to become public.
For example, pictures posted on Facebook are considered fair-game for advertisers, no matter the content. This has led to not only confusion and outrage, but also misrepresentation, such as when ABC News reported on a man who found his own wife’s picture on a dating website advertisement in 2009.
Still, people flock to the interwebs to broadcast details of their lives, including current locations, updated pictures, employment and school information all the way to gossip about their personal lives. The over-sharing has many implications.
Sharing too much information can potentially ruin a job opportunity and also opens the door for crime when someone can find out where a person lives and works, and when the person isn’t guarding his or her home.
In addition to affecting the person posting the information, too much tweeting, posting and liking can also affect those around them. For example, many a friend’s Facebook and Instagram feeds are overloaded with pictures of people’s children.
While those without kids tend to groan and opt to block notifications from the offspring fanatics, there is a deeper implication for parents posting their children’s pictures on the Internet.
The fact is, it’s still the Internet: a place that anyone can access, from friends to unintended audiences that could potentially harm a child.
Moreover, the children themselves rarely have a say in whether or not they want to have their pictures posted for the world to see.
Instead of the photo albums our generation is used to perusing, children today will get to look on the web for pictures of their past. The catch is, so will everyone else.
They will grow up with their lives recorded online by their parents, with no chance of being able to burn or shred the millions of digital copies of their past. In turn, they will be more likely to over share personal information about their lives voluntarily, just as their parents did before them.
When posting online, it is easy to forget the basic concepts we were warned about when the Internet first became popular. What we post online is there forever, not just for those we know, but also everyone who has access to a computer.
While our complaints about unwarranted documenting by the government are undoubtedly valid, perhaps we also need to examine the private information we willingly share with the world. Stopping the NSA from illegally recording private information won’t have much of an impact if the information they are looking for is already available to the public.
The Internet is becoming increasingly essential for daily life, but that doesn’t mean it is essential to post every aspect of our lives online.
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The Islamic State and its many disputed acronyms seems to be anywhere and every-where one decides to glance.
From the depictions in the media to per-haps even under your child’s bed, the threat of ISIS is allegedly drawing near.
Following President Barack Obama’s recent announcement of plans concerning targeting of members of the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, or wherever else they may be residing,
it is of the utmost importance to under-stand the consequences such actions may procure.
“The reliance on airpower has all of the attraction of casual sex: It seems to offer gratification but with very little commit-ment,” claimed retired U.S. Air Force Gen-eral Michael Hayden earlier this month.
As former director of the CIA and the NSA, Hayden’s comparison between coun-terterror measures and sexual activity seems
to be puzzling, if not highly inappropriate.As seen from the escalation of U.S. co-
vert airstrikes that have taken place within the borders of Yemen since 2009, the effects of airstrikes have led to an increased rad-icalization of the Yemeni population that was previously unaffiliated with al-Qaeda.
For an example of the negative effects of air strikes, one needs to only look at the initial air attack launched against suspected al-Qaeda militants on the village of al-Ma-jala in the Abyan region.
Despite eliminating 14 alleged members, 40 civilians were killed, 21 of those being children.
By relying on preemptive strikes to de-stabilize militant organizations rather than strategically analyzing the group itself and the causes that led its formation, violence will be continuously met with violence.
“That one bombing radicalized the entire area, the men and boys from those families and tribes will have joined to fight,” said Abdul Ghani al-Iryani, a Yemeni political analyst.
While violence unleashed from the air displaces communities within these tar-
geted areas, al-Qaeda assumes a role in providing those affected with food, water and electricity, among other humanitarian needs.
As Lyndon B. Johnson famously said, “The ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there.”
In this way, it is certain that American foreign policy needs a strict reevaluation in its methods.
If not careful, the Islamic State may be-come the Casus belli for a continuation of the American involvement in the region.
Decision-makers within the foreign pol-icy community must take heed to the effects that these strikes may have in regards to the possibility of creating a revolving door of continued, sustained violence.
Otherwise, the West may constantly re-main at odds with an enemy in a true Or-wellian fashion.
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Chelsea Hays | Photo Editor Sarah Bray of Houston, Texas sits to talk about Clean Line Energy Partner, a renewable energy company specializing in wind energy, Thrusday, Sept. 18. Bray is the communication director of Clean Line Energy Partners.
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Clean energy is a hot topic for Arkansas and surround-ing states, and A-State stu-dents and faculty had the opportunity to join the fight when Clean Line Energy di-rectors came to share infor-mation about their project.
Clean Line Energy is a private company focused on developing and building elec-tric power transmission lines to enable new wind firms to be built in the windiest areas in the country, according to the Clean Line website. The company is based in Houston, Texas, but there are employees all over the country, includ-ing a branch in Fayetteville.
On Sept. 18, Sarah Bray, director of communications for Clean Line Energy, spoke to communications students in Carol Langston and Myleea Hill’s classes about how col-lege education relates to what employment after graduation.
“I spent some time with (the students) and walked them through all of the dif-ferent ways we communicate around our projects,” Bray said. “We talked about direct mail, video, meetings and press conferences we hold, and (I) tried to apply what they are learning in their classes to what I do in my everyday job.”
Bray also spoke on les-sons learned in social media and how companies are us-ing digitalized information to communicate to audiences.
“Media relations with re-
Plains and Eastern Clean Line Project is a $2 billion project that will connect the Oklahoma panhandle region to other states so wind energy can be delivered via a 700-mile transmission line. This line will bring clean energy to Arkansas and parts of Tennessee as well as other surrounding states.
Chris Hardy, associate at Clean Line Energy, delivered a presentation at an energy conference about the project through the A-State College of Agriculture and Tech-nology in the Reng Student Union on Sept. 19. The con-ference attracted 160 partici-pants from industry, research and government agencies.
“We discussed a full range of renewable energy technol-
porters and the way we engage them through press confer-ences and event management was a big topic of discussion,” Bray said. “We spent a lot of time on branding and graph-ic design also, because I be-lieve the integrated courses A-State offers has the ba-sic graphic skills included.”
Bray said that companies like Clean Line Energy do not have multiple departments like bigger companies, so it is important for students to know how to do a little bit of all forms of communication.
“We also wanted to talk to students about the proj-ect we are working on and how we use these different communication tactics to get the word out about how it will affect people,” Bray said.
ogies including biomass, solar and energy efficient technol-ogies, and we were pleased to hear what some of the A-State students are doing,” Hardy said. “We love to get students thinking about other sources of energy, creating lower car-bon emissions and develop-ing reliable sources of energy.”
Hardy said the project would create five thousand jobs in the construction and manufacturing necessary for the wind farms and trans-mission. Another 500 jobs will be created for the op-eration and maintenance of the transmission line.
The project began in 2009 and is undergoing a regulatory review that is led by the U.S. Department of Energy. The review will conclude in 2015, and construction will begin in 2016. Hardy said con-struction will take two years to complete and the earliest clean energy can begin to be delivered will be 2018 and will last for up to 50 years.
“Our overall goal is to de-liver a new source of low cost clean energy to states that have a demand for energy but don’t have the existing resources to do so. Arkansas is one of those states,” Hardy said. “In order to accomplish that we want
Counseling Center promoties positive
body imageALLISON NICHOLS
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“Body image” is defined by the Do Something website as the way someone perceives their body and assumes that others perceive them. Fami-ly, friends, social pressure and the media often affect this image, and poor body-im-age perception is a growing issue in college-aged people.
A-State counselors are holding support group meet-ings for students who are struggling with body image to promote body positivity.
Kristy Russell, student life counselor and head of the Body Positivity meetings, said the Counseling Center sees the growing need for education and awareness among college students, and they often help students with body image issue.
“We decided that this would be a good idea for our campus several years ago, and two years ago, we started do-ing outreach weeks pertain-ing to positive body image and eating disorders,” she said.
Eating Disorder Aware-ness Month is in February, and Russell said the support groups are part of it. “We want to raise awareness and support those that may deal with these issues,” she said.
According to a 2014 statis-tics article on the National As-sociation of Anorexia and As-sociated Disorders (NAAAD) website, 86 percent of col-lege-aged women report an on-set eating disorder by age 20. In a survey of 185 female students, 50 percent felt pressured to be a certain weight and 83 per-cent had dieted to lose weight.
“I do believe that this is a major issue,” Russell said. “So-ciety tells us that we have to be small to be pretty or that skinny equals happy, and many people struggle with that.”
Denise Goldstein, senior di-etetics major of Central Square, N.Y., said she is going attend the meetings to better educate her-self about these disorders that have affected her and will affect some of her clients later in life.
“As a recovered anorexic, it
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Chelsea Hays | Photo EditorPaul Burkhead helps Candace Crocker get over the wall during the obstacle course Saturday at the second annual Howler Run. Competitors had to compete in a six-mile run that ended in a obstacle course right outside of the Military Science Building. Throughout the run, there were several other obstacles. The money raised at the event will go toward ROTC support. See more photos on page 4B.
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perform and demonstrate the science behind the activities. Special sun-collecting lenses will also be featured, and the audience will be shown how to grill hot dogs using all-nat-ural energy.
Grippo said, “At the tail-gate, one of faculty members from biology will have a booth where people can come and actually touch fish and rep-tiles.”
On Oct. 6, ASF will have a science café at the Godsey’s Grill in downtown, Jonesboro from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Facul-ty from different universities including A-State will have a discussion and answer of as-tronomy questions.
“Our goal is for attend-ees to celebrate science in wel-coming community settings like local libraries, restaurants, museums, parks, performance halls, as well as university campuses,” said Amy Pearce, professor of psychology and director of the science cafe project. “We hope to reach over 2,000 attendees through our events.”
The Science Expo will be held in Centennial Hall from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and attendees can walk through a room of displays and tables to learn about different science projects participants have been working on.
The Women in Science, one of the registered on-cam-pus organizations, has been involved in the planning process for ASF. Elizabeth Prather, junior biology ma-jor of Marked Tree and the president of the organization, said she will have a booth at the Science Expo presenting a hands-on demonstration using a variety of household
items to explain how blood works as a suspension.
“I decided to become in-volved in the festival because of my passion for volunteer-ing,” she said. “By becoming involved in the festival I have been able to promote the sci-ences and promote volunteer-ing.”
The Psychology Club has also become engaged in the festival. Co-president of the organization Corey Green, se-nior psychology major of Hot Springs, said the organization plans on holding fun psychol-ogy activities such as mirror writing and brain coloring at the Science Expo.
Stephen Berry, junior psy-chology major of Bono and co-president of the psycholo-gy club, said, “It gives people a map into the world of science
and other related fields, and it may inspire some of them to enter these fields and make a difference in the world in some way or another.”
“We hope to have a wide variety of people attend dif-ferent events, including those who might not at first think that science is for them,” said Karen Yanowitz, professor of psychology and co-director of the Psychology Club’s project. “Hopefully attending the fes-tival will help promote more positive attitudes towards sci-ence.”
Grippo said, “We cer-tainly hope this year’s festival will be the first of many, and that in future years, we will coordinate with others in the state to incorporate their sci-ence activities to make this a true statewide event.”
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esting how well those working in the political realm balanced their lives.” He said the class read a book about the stress that comes between the life at Washington D.C. and the life back home.
“It was different to see that [McCaskill] was more open to compromising in the Senate,” he said. “Because you know all the time we hear senators say, ‘oh we don’t want compromise’. So, it was really cool to see she was 50th on the senator stand. That really stuck out to me.”
Mercer talked about how the way students present themselves in college can have effects on the way they are perceived in the work-force. It ’s a concern Warner said students need to always
remember. “I like how she talked
about students having (ethics), about learning to be punctu-al in attending their classes, to attend classes regularly, to follow instructions on how to do things and to be dressed, not come in your pajamas and to give that respect, because it all starts there. What we do in college translates into the workplace, and it helps us get jobs,” Warner said.
She said because of the events going on across the world, it is important that not only political science stu-dents, but students from all majors need to learn how to communicate effectively.
“I am a big believer in be-ing clear in your communi-cation, because now you will
hear the president talking about the terrorists in the Middle East as a network of death. I am a big believer that the words you use have power and that you should be care-ful in your communication and precise. People will attach emotional meaning to what you’re talking about to drive policy, on how you talk about things (as) being an enormous coalition. It sets the stage on having to do more ,” Warner said. “We’ve got to pay atten-tion to these things in college, which will help us succeed in our competitiveness in the world.”
Mercer left the students
with one final piece of advice, “Don’t be afraid to fail. Les-sons are learned with failure.”
be recognized and the 2014 Homecoming King and Queen coronation will be announced during the pre-game ceremonies. Ceremo-nies begin at 5:30 p.m.
Danner Sullivan, SAB
volunteer and senior com-munication disorders ma-jor of West Memphis, said, “There is nothing better than ending such an event-ful week with the stands packed with excited Red
Wolf fans.”Throughout the week,
students are encouraged to tag Student Activities Board in their pictures on Insta-gram and Twitter by using the hashtag #astatehc.
to engage people in talking about what the role of wind energy is, the number of jobs it will create and how our proj-ect really benefits the public in terms of a clean energy and reliable, domestic source.”
Bray said they are look-ing for students who advo-cate and support renewable energy and want to get in-volved in the project. “We want students who will help us mobilize other stu-
dents and be a part of the hearing that will happen in March of 2015,” she said.
A draft of the project will be released by the U.S. De-partment of Energy in De-cember, and the March hear-ing will be held to discuss the draft further. Students and other supporters are invit-ed to attend the hearing and show support to bring renew-able energy into Arkansas.
Bray said students can go
online and write a support letter at supportcleanenerg-yarkansas.com. “We enjoyed spending time with the stu-dents at Arkansas State Uni-versity, and we would love for students to get involved and show their support.”
“We invited everyone to learn more about our proj-ect and hope we can be a part of the clean energy future that is developing in Arkansas,” Hardy said.
BODY IMAGE, Continuedis very important to me
that I maintain a healthy, positive body image,” she said. “I hope I can one day helps others who are suffering with an eat-ing disorder and nega-tive body image no matter how minor or major it is.”
In February, the counsel-
ing center will have an en-tire week of education and awareness and a guest speak-er that will share the dangers of eating disorders and how to better appreciate oneself.
Right now, meetings will be held in the Counselling Center every Monday night at 7 p.m. beginning on Oct. 6,
and every Tuesday at 3 p.m. starting on Oct. 7. The meet-ings are open to all students.
“It is free and open and is just a time to come and talk and share your story in a confidential manner and know that you have a support system and are not alone,” Russell said.
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SETH PRICESPORTS WRITER
TILDA HELGESSONSPORTS WRITER
Denise Goldstein | Staff PhotographerKendal Davis, sophomore of Springtown, Texas, bumps a serve, blocking Texas States’ ball. A-State won both games over the weekend, giving them a 3-1 record in Sun Belt play.
The Red Wolves volleyball team played in two road games this weekend, winning both over Sun Belt Conference foes.
Friday night, A-State was able to defeat the Troy Trojans 3-2 after overcoming an early deficit in an exciting match.
The Trojans easily won the first two sets, but after intermis-sion something changed for the Red Wolves.
“We played really bad the first two sets, but the intermis-sion helped us. We were able to regroup and played really well in the third set, and then gut-ted out the last two sets against a good team. Our young team is starting to grow up,” David Rehr, the A-State head coach, said after the game.
The Red Wolves opened up the third set strong, taking a quick 10-7 lead. The Trojans fought back to tie the score at 13, but A-State responded with a 9-2 run to make the score 24-15.
Troy gave the Red Wolves a scare when they scored six con-secutive points to make it a 24-
21 game, but a kill from A-State freshman middle blocker Drew Jones gave A-State a 25-21 win.
The third set was the turning point of the game.
“The most important part of the match was after intermis-sion when we came out for the third game,” said sophomore setter Mallory Warrington.
“We had to win that to get to a fourth and fifth obviously, so I think that we came out with a lot of energy that was very im-portant and it got us through the fifth game.”
Now trailing only 2-1, the Red Wolves entered the fourth set desperate for another victory.
The set was closely contested, as the teams battled to a 17-17 tie.
Sophomore middle blocker Kelsey Reis had a kill at this point that gave A-State a lead they would never relinquish.
Troy fought hard to make the score 24-23 A-State, but a block from freshman middle blocker Jessica Uke gave the Red Wolves a 25-23 victory.
In the winner-take-all fifth set, Troy jumped out to a quick 6-2 lead.
A-State responded with three consecutive points, and then the teams began to trade scores.
After this point, the teams would be tied a total of ten times.
Troy earned match point at 14-13, but a kill from outside blocker Sarah Kemp tied the score at 14. The Trojans re-sponded with a score of their own, but a Troy attack error led to another tie at 15.
Both teams traded scores before a Jones kill gave A-State a 17-16 lead. Troy then made another attack error, giving A-State a set win, 18-16, and a game win, 3-2.
The following night, the Red Wolves travelled to Mobile, Ala. and swept the South Alabama Jaguars 3-0.
“We pretty much beat them in every facet of the game,” Rehr said. “They’re a good team, but we jumped on them fairly early in each set and we didn’t give them a chance to recov-er. I’m much happier with the way we came out and started this match tonight as compared to the match against Troy, but
these were two big road wins we needed before coming home next weekend.”
A-State got out to a quick start in the first set, going ahead 9-3. After that point, the Jag-uars were never able to get closer than four points behind A-State, and the Red Wolves went on to win 25-19.
South Alabama played bet-ter to start the second set as the Red Wolves led 7-6 early on. After that, A-State dominated, extending their lead to 24-13, before finally winning 25-17.
The third set was more of the same, as A-State jumped out to a 15-8 lead. The Jaguars kept fighting and got the score to 18-15 A-State. After this point, the Red Wolves would go on a 7-1 run to close the game and seal the win, 25-16.
With these two big victo-ries, A-State moves to 8-5 on the season and 3-1 in Sun Belt Conference play.
The Red Wolves return home for their next match and will play the University of Lou-isiana-Monroe Friday, October 4 at 7 p.m. in the Convocation Center.
Volleyball goes 2-0 over conference foes Troy and South Alabama
Cross Country performs well at Rhodes College Invitational
COURTESY OF ARKANSAS STATE ATHLETICS
The A-State Cross Country team returned to Shelby Farms last Saturday ready to race their first 6k women’s race and 8k men’s race of the season.
Their biggest opponents of the event were University of Memphis, University of Ar-kansas Little Rock and Uni-versity of Central Arkansas.
The Lady Red Wolves came back trying to defend last year’s team title, but despite placing four runners in the top 10, they did not succeed.
A-State scored a total of 47 points, which put them only two points behind the winning team, the University of Mem-phis. UALR’s Emma Dahl won the meet in 21:04, 40 seconds ahead of second place.
Leading the way for the Lady Red Wolves was junior Abbey Dixon, who scored 7th in the meet with a time of 22:33.
Dixon was followed by teammate senior Tilda Helges-son who ran a personal course
record of 22:41, finishing 8th. Freshman Arnica Zitting
ran the first 6k of her career in 22:43 and placed 9th. Senior Bailey Eller ran a personal best of 22:48 and placed 10th.
The fifth and last scoring runner was senior Heather Newberry, who ran a personal course record 23:01 and placed 13th.
“I thought it went really well. We performed our strat-egy very good. We ran as pack and almost won the meet and we were only two points away from a team win,” said Dixon.
The A-State’s men’s cross-country team finished fourth at Shelby farms last year. Saturday, A-State fin-ished fifth overall with 190 points.
The University of Northern Kentucky took home the team title with only 33 points.
Junior Lance Beckman placed 35th and was the first finisher for the Men’s Red Wolves with a time of 27:21 on the 8k course.
Beckman was followed by
junior Jesse Duvall who ran a personal course record of 27:27 to finish 40th, and sophomore Mark Talarico also ran a per-sonal course record of 27:41 and placed 43rd.
Junior Drew Mueller ran 27:49 for 48th place, and last scoring runner sophomore Rhett Raibley ran a personal course record of 28:17 to place 66th and round out the top five scoring runners for the Red Wolves.
“Lance Beckman and Jesse Duvall did a nice job leading the men in achieving that im-proved pack time. Additionally, three of the five men who have run on this course previously set individual course records. Jesse Duvall, Mark Talarico, and Rhett Raibley averaged a 40 second course improvement over last year which was great to see,” said head cross country coach Kyle Chandler in a press release.
The A-State cross country team will return to action this Saturday at the Chile Pepper Festival in Fayetteville.
Soccer falls 2-1 in conference opener against Texas State To learn more, visit asuherald.com/sports
JORGE QUIQUIVIXSTAFF WRITER
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We all know how important phone cases can be. They are the lifelines of our precious phones. By either making cells indestructible or simply adding a little protection, cases save us from the tragic moment of watching our phone screens shatter into tiny little pieces.
But as advertised in many places, not all phone cases are meant to withstand the trials of life.
Many are strictly made for style, and with that option for fashion fanatics comes along the outra-geous varieties of phone cases people can actually buy. Most people see their phone cases as unique, intriguing, outstanding and different, and a way to personally express themselves.
Phone cases range from small and sleek to bulging and big, and everything in between. There are plenty of stylish phone cases for ev-ery personality quirk, from bejeweled, to cartoon character-shaped, to stuffed animal-themed.
When using a phone case for just style, options are very easy to find and often very cheap. It’s honestly all your style preference; you can quickly dress your phone up with a simple pattern, like Aztec, cheetah or zebra prints, and still give your phone the makeover it needs. Not only are phone cases indicative of your year-long style preferenc-es, you can also dress your phone according to sea-sons and holidays--if you’re really into the whole phone case collection hobby thing, go for it. It’s simply just another stylish way to have fun with your phone cases, and an even better way to show off your personality.
Within the many types of phone cases, business and professional-looking cases are an option that tend to be more neutral colored and sleeker looking. For instance, an all matte black phone case is not meant just to be stylish, but also to give a very professional look to whichever
phone is wearing it. Neutral or natural-colored leather cases avoid
alerting or distracting the eyes of others, while still adding a personalized touch to your phone. With a more professional phone case, you can dress up your phone less yet still be attentive to your preferences and style. You can even have a customized phone case that is very simple looking but yet exactly how you want it.
Out of all cases the one kind of case phone users tend to trust the most and spend the most money on are the protective cases. Otter Boxes and Lifeproof-style cases protect the one thing college students can’t live without--their phones.
The protective phone cases tend to last the lon-gest, and they also can be very stylish as well. Most of them come in many different colors and designs, allowing you to add some spice to your over-pro-tective case. Being sure that your phone wears the best battle armor with a heavy-duty case will sure-ly give you the secure feeling of screen-fracture protection.
You don’t have to stick with one kind of phone case through-out the life of your phone; you can switch it up at any-time. It all depends on how you want to dress up your phone.
Students are on their phones daily on campus, and although many Twitter enthusiasts put their thoughts out in 140 char-acters or less, chances are not all of the student body is ex-posed to accounts that can benefit them. Through careful networking, A-State students can stay informed and up-to-tweet on all A-State has to offer.
Some of the necessary ac-counts that people inside the campus community need to be following include @Red-WolvesFball, @ASU_Stu-dentSect, @FowlerCenter1, and @DwntwnJonesboro.
Brooks Crockell, in-tern and graduate assistant of Cabot, manages the foot-ball account @RedWolvesF-ball and believes students have plenty of reasons to follow it.
“I think it’s important for students to follow our account because it is a way to interact with the team,” Crockell said. “Involvement is a big deal with college kids. We can provide information, encourage atten-dance, share pictures and vid-eos and thank (fans) for their support, all from one account.”
Crockell said that there are
several things that go into selecting what @RedWolvesFball decides to tweet.
“I like to share practice pictures be-cause people like to see players and coaches working,” Crockell said. “Even with open practic-es, lots of people still can’t make it. Sharing things like that helps build a sense community.”
However, when deciding to follow the football ac-count it only makes sense to follow those known for supporting the Red Wolves, the A-State Student Section.
Logan Mus-tain, a public relations junior of Benton and stu-dent government body presi-dent, said if students want to help set A-State as a prom-inent university, they should follow @ASU_StudentSect.
“It’s a way to keep up with what is going on,” Mustain said. “It’s a good way to get students behind our football team and our university, and
it makes us look not just like any other Sun Belt Confer-ence school, but rather one of those bigger schools that get rowdy and root for their team.”
As for the content of their tweets, Mustain said managers of the account keep it main-ly to positive tweets, and they always try to be personable.
“I try to toggle on peoples emotions,” Mustain said. “For
example, I’ll tweet, ‘we just won a game’ and everyone is pumped up about that. Last night, I tweeted something about one of our fallen teammates and that got a pull on some peo-ple’s emotions--retweets, fa-vorites and good reactions.”
For those students who are fancied by the boys wearing those short shorts, there is a way they can stay updated on how
well they are do-ing in the season. The rugby team has been recognized in the past as one of the best teams in the nation. So, why not follow someone with an A-list status, right?
These are just a few of the sports-related ac-counts of many that are available for a follow, but if track, golf or baseball does not interest, there are many other ac-counts that can suit tastes on campus.
If you are main-ly interest in dra-mas, a great way to know what talent
will be on campus is by following the Fowler Center, @FowlerCenter1. This account provides the public with infor-mation about upcoming events including many events students may otherwise have missed.
Jonesboro is also known for the talent and entertain-ment brought to the commu-nity and a versatile account to stay in the know is the
Downtown Jonesboro Twit-ter account. @DwntwnJones-boro announces community updates and special events.
One of the other import-ant accounts that students who drive cars in Jonesboro should follow is the E911 Jonesboro Dispatch account, @D1Jones-boro. The dispatch account tweets traffic alerts if an acci-dent slows down, closes a lane or completely shut downs a street.
Every student is impacted by weather, especially severe weather, and one account focus-es on sharing local forecasts on Twitter: chief meteorologist at KAIT, @RyanVaughan. When people ask Vaughan about the weather he usually responds with a hyper-local forecast, fo-cusing on the precise weather predictions for the NEA area. On game days, Vaughan tweets a tailgate forecast showing hour-by-hour rain forecasts.
Just like professors encour-age students to get the most out of their courses in col-lege, there should be no rea-son why future professionals do not use their Twitter ac-counts to thier full potential.
“The ones that keep you updated and involved in a fun way are the [accounts] you’ll enjoy,” Crockell said.
Phone cases express personality, practicality
A-State and Jonesboro social media informs and amuses
Being “bold” and “putting yourself out there” requires a large amount of cour-age, as you’re subject to rejection and embarrassment. On the other hand, rejection is a lot easier to take from behind a screen where you can send a witty comeback and block the offender before they have a chance to reply. Undoubtedly, dating online poses more pos-itives to your self-esteem, so why not try it?
Not everyone in college is looking for the perfect match promised them by many dating sites. In this sort of case, a few new dating apps have surfaced that leave users with the power to show everyone they’re DTF by simply creating a profile. Let’s have the Tinder talk.
Tinder has become extremely popular among young adults. Unlike most other sites, users don’t have to sift through a long list of interests and dislikes they’re not concerned about. You don’t even have to read a preferred partner’s name. Here’s the gist of how the app works.
Photos of users in your area of your specified gender and age pop up on your phone. The per-son’s name and age is below with a non-obliga-tory bio. Now you can either swipe left for “no, thanks” or right for “yes, please.” If you both swipe right, then you can make small talk in an-other window.
I took it upon myself to download this little nugget of social networking gold. I chose a neu-tral picture, one of me fully clothed and laughing, and left my bio bare in hopes of not influencing anyone’s remarks to me. Next began the rapid swipes right to every male and female within 30 miles of myself. The waiting game was the short-est of these processes. It only 10 minutes for my
matches to gain some gall and shoot me a wide array of pick up lines.
After digging under handfuls of “sit on my face,” there were some pretty creative ones.
Here are some of my favorites:“Are you a unicorn? Because you are
too good to be true...”“Girl, are you a beaver? Cause
DAM.”And probably my favorite, “Baby, you are so hot that if you
ate bread, you would s*** toast.”Overall, Tinder was pretty
enlightening. Dating online in college sounds more like a game
show, where you win if you are both mildly attractive and have the same goals in mind for the relation-ship. Also, I would like to sincerely
apologize to everyone at A-State who mes-saged me during awkward the few hours I had Tinder. Not everyone’s Tinder experience is like mine, however.
“Let me make this appropriate,” said Si-erra Karambellas, junior biology major of Ashdown. “I downloaded it because a friend
recommended it to me. In all actuality, it’s sort of just an unnecessary confidence booster,” she added. “I met some people a year ago that I still talk to now, but it really had no influence on my sex life. Zero influence. It’s still funny to see all the dumb things people say, though.”
Gaylen Aiken, a physical education major of Brookland also uses the app and said several of his friends do.
“I mean, it’s used to hook up with girls,” he said. Much like Karambellas, though, he report-ed having absolutely no experiences of getting lucky with a girl from the app.
I’m definitely not saying no one on Tinder is looking for a serious, genuine relationship. From experience, though, I am saying those people are probably far and few between. If you’re looking for something serious, keep it to the actual, tan-gible, in-the-flesh meetings.
JAMIE ALVORDSTAFF WRITER
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Photo by Chelsea Hays, Photo Editor
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After high school, maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle is an uphill slope that only gets steeper with more responsibility, harder classes and higher expectations to go above and beyond every aspect of a college student’s life.
Unfortunately, this fast-paced race toward a degree can leave the body off track and behind schedule. The infamous term “freshman 15” wasn’t created out of thin air, and it most definitely isn’t used jokingly.
Pursuing a healthy body is a constant battle college students face. These five exercise methods can help keep students’ bodies in good condition throughout the stress of school and into alumni life.
1. SwimmingProfessional swimming can
be one of the most reinvigorating exercises a body can perform. The movements of swimming in water uses muscles that aren’t otherwise used in land exercises. This allows swimmers to have a unique and defined tone that can be the first step to reaching the peak physical condition of a healthy college student.
With various different forms of swimming, including freestyle, butterfly and breaststroke, anyone can find a comfortable pattern for a good workout in the pool.
Swimming also causes less impact stress on joints and bones, which broadens the horizons of those plagued with injuries or disabilities.
2. Incline WorkoutsRunning can be monotonous
for some people and can even become too easy or slow paced to burn and shape the way an athlete desires. However, adding an incline to the workout, changes things dramatically.
By utilizing hills, steep roads, bleachers or even the stairs at home, a workout can be exponentially multiplied in intensity. The angle of the
incline in any of these exercises will work different parts of the legs and arms, and push them much harder throughout the routine.
Inclining the settings of a workout adds variety to the mix, and keeps those muscles guessing on every different angle.
3. Kettlebell LiftsGyms are filled with a
countless amount of different machines and weights, pulleys and bars, with each one designed to work a specific group of muscles.
Although this might be advantageous to those who wish to build up one muscle group at a time, those looking for an efficient all-over workout should look into the Russian Kettlebell.
These dumbbells are designed to engage every muscle in the body through a selection of three or four movements. This versatility grants astounding results to those who use Kettlebells, a variation of the traditional dumbbell style, and can be bought online for around $100.
4. Core ExercisesWhy is it called “the core?” It
is the center of the body as well as the foundation upon which other muscles extend and grow. The core refers to the center-most muscles in the body, such as the chest, abdominals and oblique muscles.
This center is very important for increasing metabolism, and should be taken care of well to ensure a healthy body.
Core workouts include various ab workouts, push-ups and even running, which uses the core to maintain a healthy pattern of breathing. Focusing on the core is the beginning to developing a body into a healthy one.
5. Interactive WorkoutsIn each of the other four
exercise methods, we discussed different ways to strain the muscle to create a stronger, healthier college student through aerobic and anaerobic workouts.
However, almost as important as the activity of the workouts is the stretching, coordination and body synergy that is required for them. Yoga instills not only mental wellness, but also maximizes the body’s balance and flexibility.
Dance workouts like
Zumba also create the body coordination needed to really step up the pace of the body and
enable the transformation of the healthy student body to be achieved.
GREYSON FULLBRIGHTSTAFF WRITER
Healthy body, healthy student
Chelsea Hays | Photo Editor Brianne Henson, freshman exercise science major of Marion, works out on one of the machines at the Red WOLF Center on campus. Regular exercise can promote a healthy mind, as well as a healthy body.
The infamous term “freshman 15” wasn’t created out of thin air, and it most definitely isn’t used jokingly.
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Denise Goldstein| Staff PhotographerJillian Martinez attempts the fifth of the seven obstacles with assistance from ROTC friends at the second annual ROTC Howler run.
Chelsea Hays| Photo EditorBo LeMay, Paul Burkhead and student Candace Croker, pre-dental hygiene major, carry a log as a team endurance obstacle during Saturday’s Howler Run held by ROTC.
Sarah Thompson | Staff Photographer Danielle Early, a member of Delta Zeta sorority, wades through a dumpster full of ice water during the second annual Howler Run.
ROTC held their second annu-al Howler Run on Saturday. The Howler Run is a six mile obstacle course that stretched out all over campus starting and ended at the
Military Science building. The course was created to teach competitors endurance and stamina as they ran the six miles while con-quering different obstacles. Some the obsta-
cles they had to endure were running through a dumpster of ice water, crawling through
mud under barbed wire and carrying a log in circles, among others. The competitors were judged on the time it took each team of six to make it through the obstacle course. Out of the 16 teams that competed, Lambda Chi Alpha placed first in the competition. The
money raised during the event will go toward supporting the ROTC program.
Brett Whitman| Staff Photographer“Just don’t drop me!” cautions one of the Sigma Chi members during the Buddy Carry obstacle of the Second Annual Howler Run.
ROTC hosts second annual Howler Run
Chelsea Hays| Photo EditorPeter Hasik and Tariq Springs, members of Lambda Chi, crawl through the mud under barbed wire in the ROTC’s second annual Howler Run Saturday. The Howler is a six mile obstacle course that stretches out all across campus.
