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MARCHING FOR JUSTICEStudents protest Trayvon Martin casewith hoody march across campus

Myriah DownsStaff Writer

The United States was recently riveted by the case of Trayvon Martin, a seven-teen-year-old boy who was gunned down by neighborhood watch member, George Zimmerman, on February 26th in San-ford, FL while walking home from the convenience store after purchasing a bag of Skittles and an Arizona tea.

In recognition of the Trayvon Martin shooting and subsequent inaction against his shooter, many ASU students organized a rally and a march. The events took place Tuesday with the rally at noon under the arch where more than fifty students gath-ered to create signs and make shirts to raise awareness.

The march featured more than a hun-dred students, registered student organi-zations, Greek organizations and univer-sity officials who marched from the Village Apartments to Heritage Plaza under the rallying cry of, “No Justice, No Peace.”

The event was then led into a formal presentation featuring a speech from Jonathan Martin, senior communication studies major of Memphis, Tenn. The event was concluded with a moment of si-lence in recognition of the struggle faced by Trayvon Martin’s family.

National outrage and confusion has extended from the police recording in which George Zimmerman, Trayvon Mar-tin’s shooter, allegedly refers to Trayvon Martin as a “coon,” which has led many to believe the shooting was racially moti-vated. In the recordings, a Sanford Police Department representative clearly tells Zimmerman not to pursue Trayvon Mar-tin, an order he disobeyed as he pursued Travyon Martin to his death.

National support has also poured out for Trayvon Martin’s then sixteen-year-old girlfriend, who Trayvon Martin was on the phone with during the shooting.

His girlfriend, who remains anony-mous, speaks of desperation in Trayvon Martin’s voice as he spoke to her about, “some man following him” and her desper-ate pleas with Trayvon Martin to, “please run.”

During the shooting itself, she states, “somebody pushed Trayvon because the head set just fell. I called him again and he didn't answer the phone.”

Jonathan Martin said that he felt im-plored to host the rally and march at ASU, since “this hit home,” for him. Martin said he has been following unarmed black males being killed for some time all the way back to Emmitt Till.

See MARCH, page 5

Staci Vandagriff and Andrea Cox/Herald

(Top) Students march across campus on Tuesday to protest the death of Trayvon Martin.

(Bottom) Leonard Jones, a junior social science major of Stockton, Cali. marched during the "Hoodie" march Tuesday. Jones marched hold-ing a can of Ice tea and a bag of skittles, the same items Trayvon Martin was holding.

Lindsey BlakelyNews Editor

In its final meeting of the term, SGA passed its last resolution, which calls for previous SGA senators to have the right to receive and wear SGA cords at graduation.

The stipulation for this honor is that the senator must have made a signifi-cant contribution to the student body through SGA during their term.

Hunter Petrus, Natalie Wilbanks, Andrew Peters, Courtney Bolin and Myri-ah S. Downs sponsored the resolution.

Before this resolution, there was no form of recog-nition for individuals who had made significant con-tributions, but now there will be a committee chosen to decide whether or not their contributions were significant enough to re-ceive cords.

President Hunter Petrus said he is thrilled for this resolution to be passed.

“I’m very excited that we passed this resolution,” Petrus said. “A lot of great senator and staff mem-bers will now be able to get cords. I’m happy we can honor them for all of the great things they’ve done at ASU.”

During the 11-minute meeting, Petrus thanked the staff and senate for a successful year and said he is eager to begin his next term as president.

The next meeting will be on April 10 where Petrus will announce his new staff and the new senate will meet.

There are several sena-tor positions still open.

SGA passesresolutionto honor senators

University planning committeediscusses 2013 budget priorities

Sara KrimmHerald Editor

The University Planning Committee discussed bud-get priorities for the 2013 fiscal year in its Wednes-day morning meeting. Some staff raised concern that Governor Beebe only approved salary raises for non-classified staff and fac-ulty, leaving classified staff out of a raise in pay.

Tammy Fowler, director of admissions, spoke up for the classified employees. Fowler said she was “very, very concerned about the budget proposal.”

“I know many of you have classified staff in your office, and I’m not comfort-able going back to them and saying I can’t give you a raise because the gover-nor won’t let us,” she said.

Interim chancellor Dan Howard said he “felt ter-rible about not being able to give classified staff a raise,” but that it was not legally allowed.

“There are times when classifieds are the only ones who get salary increases, and we certainly hope that in the future as the econo-my of the state improves, that we are allowed the dollars to be expended for (classified staff to be given raises),” Howard said.

Classified staff is sup-portive staff that aren’t administrative or faculty, such as administrative as-sistants (among other posi-tions). Classified employ-ees under state law are assigned to a class with others having similar du-ties and responsibilities.

See BUDGET, page 5

Take me out to the ball game

Staci Vandagriff/Herald

Students enjoyed their free hotdogs during Day At The Park, hosted by the Student Activities Board, at the baseball game Wednesday night.

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Too much tech?Technology is supposed to improve our lives,

making our jobs easier and more efficient when we use it. However, we just might be sacrificing something very important in the process—the ability to use our brains.

In the March 12 issue of Time Magazine, an article entitled “Your Head is in the Cloud” points to the fact that information overload has caused many of us to begin ‘storing’ our information on computers and mobile devices.

This trend is very apparent, as many of us have resorted to using sites like Wikipedia or Google to search for things that can easily be stored in our heads.

Instead of memorizing friends’ and relatives’ phone numbers, most of us simply store them on our phone’s contact list.

While the trend shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, we should be quick to understand some of the negative consequences.

According to the Time article, our reliance on electronic sources to provide us facts and information is causing us to lose critical thinking and memory skills, as these two things tend to go hand-in-hand.

When we delegate the job of remembering facts to computers, we have few things to contemplate, decreasing our ability to think critically.

Heavy reliance on technology will certainly rob us as college students of these critical skills needed during this time.

Researching problems and evaluating solutions may get pushed aside as our focus turns toward finding a computer to give us a quick answer.

Another problem arises when we consider that technology may not always be available to us. Computers can shut down unexpectedly, internet connection can be lost and our smart phones can run out of battery.

All of this should encourage us to reevaluate our use of technology. Instant access to information in this day and age certainly has its benefits, but we should never let it interfere with the skills we need for college and beyond.

“Our View” is written by the editorial staff. The opinions are not necessarily reflective of the student body, faculty or administration of Arkansas State University.

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When growing up, my mom would prepare my family home-cooked meals. Once in a while she would decide that we’d be having breakfast for dinner, which was always just fine with me, I love breakfast.

Sadly, I’ve grown to hate breakfast for dinner this semester. Why? Because it’s what’s for dinner al-most every night in Acansa Dining Hall, what we call the “caf” on campus.

OK, maybe that’s a bit exaggerated, but it’s at least once a week, if not twice.

I often resort to waiting ten minutes for a grilled chicken sandwich on these

nights after wandering around a bit debating whether I want cereal or the sandwich.

I’m a four-year caf reg-ular and the argument against that may be that I just need to stop complain-ing and move off campus or at least out of North Park Quads so I can cook myself.

But, I have made the decision to continue eating in the caf and pay $1,295 a semester to do so.

When I started eating in the caf, it was never great, but there were times that it was good, and through-out the years there have been decent options.

But continual breakfast, week after week, is just too much to handle anymore.

Maybe I should go buy a semester’s supply worth

of eggs. At $2.50 a dozen, I could have about 55 eggs per day throughout the semester, at least I’d get more for my money.

I received a text from my friend Amalie Benja-min of Cabot on Monday at dinner time that said, “Belgian waffles… again.”

I remember walking in and groaning out loud, because when the menu reads scrambled eggs, Bel-gian waffles, grilled kiel-basa or huevos rancheros, I know I’m going to wander around the caf having the cereal or chicken sandwich debate.

A student, Nick Ber-lein, deemed this issue worthy of Spartan anger on the A-State Memebase on Facebook. Another student Zach Marsh com-mented on the meme, “I

rage when I see it!”The rants, raves and

cravings board doesn’t have paper anymore for students to place their re-quests. Does Sodexo care that its customers are sick of eating breakfast for din-ner?

I miss the days of chicken strips, pizza that didn’t ooze grease, rotis-serie chicken, decent veg-etables, and hummus and pita bread.

I believe the salad bar and international line have improved a lot since my freshman year. But otherwise, this semester, which is my last, has been an incredible letdown in the quality of caf food.

Paine is a senior jour-nalism major from Siloam Springs.

Cafeteria needs better food options“I miss the days of chicken strips, pizza that didn’t ooze grease, rotisserie chicken, decent vegetables and hummus

and pita bread.”

Kayla Paine

President Obama’s landmark health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is over 900 pages and made many reforms. In your opinion, what reforms in the bill will have the largest impact on our health care system?

The health insurance mandate. In Arkan-sas, we have over 500,000 who are currently uninsured, and the vast majority will become eligible for Medicaid or for subsidies to pur-chase health insurance.

If we add even 300,000 of those to our current health system, it will definitely strain our health care workforce. Many of those who are uninsured live in the Arkansas Delta.

Because Arkansas in a predominately rural state, we already have many federally identi-fied Health Professions Shortage Areas and Medically Underserved Areas.

Primary care providers (nurse practitio-ners, physicians assistants and primary care physicians) will be in greater demand than they are currently. As a college that is all about health care workforce, those are things that keep you awake at night.

What do you believe is the biggest deficiency in the health care system right now and how does the bill address that?

Right now, third party reimbursement pays

for health care and not for health. For exam-ple, Arkansas faces some of the highest rates of hypertension (much of it uncontrolled), obesity and diabetes in the country placing a major stress on our system for health care.

Early detection and prevention of these diseases will have a significant effect on cost and disease burden. People in America need to take more responsibility for their individ-ual health.

We make choices that predispose us to preventable disease and often many do not want to be accountable or responsible for the cost of that chronic disease.

What are some positive as-pects of the bill? Negative?

I think the bill has helped everyone bet-ter understand that the current system is unsustainable relative to cost. Some of the measures in the bill (like a focus on health and wellness) moves us in the right direction but cost savings may not be realized in the near term.

We have built a system around the best health care in the world but the health of our population is not improving. No one has a so-lution so it is up to each state to make some decisions.

Governor Beebe has created an Arkansas Health System Improvement Structure which focuses on four pillar areas—workforce, in-formation technology, payment and quality improvement and health benefits exchange.

These public workgroups, representing

a full range of stakeholders, have identified significant opportunities to reduce cost and improve the quality of care across a variety of conditions. These groups are looking at more population based and episode based care with a focus on prevention, chronic care management, acute/post acute care and sup-portive care when needed while integrating health information technology and payment to support that delivery focus.

The debate over health care is obviously very political. Where do you see the role of doctors and nurses in the whole debate?

In health care we have always had to be flexible and innovative. The federal govern-ment and the insurance industry change our rules of operation all of the time.

Our focus then and now will remain on the patient. Access to care and the quality of that care will become even more critical with health care reform.

In addition, whether all of the reforms are implemented or not, we are going to have to be more cognizant of keeping the patient healthy (keep them out of the hospital, out of the nursing home) and reducing, or at least controlling, the cost of those services (through better care transition, coordinated care, use of technology, etc).

This is a significant shift in how we deliver care today but one that will be necessary for long term system viability.

CHALK TALK with Dean Susan Hanrahan

About Susan Hanrahan:

Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions

Ph.D. in health education, administration track, Temple University

Serves on board of directors for the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, Washington, DC and member of the Health Policy Board of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement

Research interests include health policy, health behavior, and health prevention and promotion.

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“May the odds be ever in your favor.” If you’ve heard of “The Hunger Games,”

chances are you’ve heard that idiom before. If you haven’t heard of “The Hunger Games,” make sure you dust off your clothes a little after climbing out from under your rock.

The story follows a young girl named Kat-niss Everdeen who is forced to fight to the death against other teenagers in what is known as the “Hunger Games.” The tributes, as the fighters are called, are selected in a process called the “reaping,” in which one boy and one girl are selected from each of the 12 districts of their dystopian country, Panem.

The novel, written by Suzanne Collins, has sold more than 10 million copies to date. The popularity of the film adaptation of the novel was shown in box office sales this past weekend, as “The Hunger Games” took in the third largest box office opening weekend in movie history, pulling in $155 million.

The top opening weekend in movie history belongs to last summer’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2,” with an opening weekend of $169 million. The second largest is 2008’s “The Dark Knight” with $158 mil-lion.

Does the movie compare to the thrills and suspense of the novel? For many of us fans, the film does a great job of capturing the best parts of the novel, but in other ways it might leave more demanding fans desperately wanting more.

Without ruining the major parts of the story for those who haven’t read the book or watched the movie, there are a few small changes made in the movie that alters some of the emotion found in the novel.

In the novel, Katniss receives a token to remind her of home; it is a pin in the shape of a mockingjay bird. She receives this pin from Madge, daughter of the mayor from District 12. In the film, the pin is bought by Katniss and then given to Prim, Katniss’ little sister. Right before Katniss is taken away to The Capitol, Prim gives Katniss the mockingjay pin so Katniss can remember her while she is away from home.

This change, while unnoticeable and small to someone who hasn’t read the novel, would be noticed by a true fan. The mockingjay pin is much more important in the novel than just a way for Katniss to remember her home; it’s a symbol of resentment and revolt toward The Capitol.

Furthermore, the death scenes during the games are toned down a lot more in the film than they were in the book. The book goes into much more detail about the brutal ways in which the tributes are slaughtered by the other tributes.

This change is a little more understand-able because of the PG-13 rating on the movie. If the director had chosen to make the

deaths more gruesome it’s possible the film could have received an R rating and would not have been a good move financially for a book series aimed at young adults.

Along with the changes made, there was also a scene added to the movie that never occurred in the book.

When one of the tributes is killed during the games, the movie cuts to a scene show-ing the citizens of the district the murdered tribute was from rioting against The Capitol members.

While this scene does add more drama to the movie, it seems unnecessary to include something that was never a part of the book’s plot.

One of my favorite scenes from the film was the scene where Katniss drops a nest full of tracker jackers, genetically-altered wasps, on top of the other tributes. As mass chaos breaks out and the tributes are rendered im-mobile by the tracker jacker stings, Katniss is also stung by them. The poison from the tracker jackers causes Katniss to hallucinate and the viewer gets a first-person view of Katniss’ hallucinations.

These minor changes did not affect the en-joyment I got from watching the movie. The acting was superb, the drama was gripping, and the directing was phenomenal.

Overall, “The Hunger Games” has been one of the best film adaptations of a book in a while. Rottentomatoes.com gave “The Hun-ger Games” an 86 percent on the tomatom-eter and certified it fresh.

“The Hunger Games” is shaping up to be one of the most successful films of 2012.

The Malco Theatre in Jonesboro is cur-rently showing the film and they offer online tickets on their website at www.malco.com.

Chelsea WeaverStaff Writer

Sleigh Bells, an American duo from Brook-lyn, released their second full-length album, “Reign of Terror,” Feb. 21, which is about in-ternal conflicts including war with one’s self.

Sleigh Bells is led by singer Alexis Krauss, who said in a recent interview with webzine Coup De Main that “Reign of Terror” is “a much more personal record.”

This personal touch Krauss mentions is easily seen in the lyrics, which are much more complex than its predecessor, “Treats.” The lyrics are often deep and rather dark, which is a direct contrast from the melodies played by guitarist Derek Edward Miller, former guitarist of Poison the Well.

The first hint to what “Reign of Terror” might sound like was through the single, “Comeback Kid.” Although it definitely isn’t as loud and chaotic, at first listen it doesn’t seem like the new record would be much dif-ferent than “Treats.”

“Reign of Terror” has a much softer, slower sound than “Treats” and much better audio quality, whereas the previous record seemed to experiment with heavier tones, more unique guitar riffs and a faster tempo.

Lyrically “Reign of Terror” is a much heavi-er album than “Treats,” but many Sleigh Bells fans loved the spontaneity of “Treats,” which is something “Reign of Terror” lacks.

Musically, “Treats” is a much more unique

album than “Reign of Terror” with the songs being much more experimental and diverse. Both are very appealing for sepa-rate reasons, making it hard to pick a favor-ite, yet creating a challenge that is easily accepted.

One thing neither album lacks is good ex-ecution. Krauss’s soft voice is flawless and contrasts well against Miller’s melodic, al-though sometimes messy and chaotic guitar riffs.

Both albums portray Krauss’s voice sounding completely relaxed in the midst of chaos, yet she is unaffected by how loud the other instruments are and never fights to be heard. Her voice is so engaging, one can’t help but listen.

First with “Treats” and now with “Reign of Terror,” Sleigh Bells has reached the perfect balance between simplicity and complexity in a way that is unexplainably beautiful.

“Reign of Terror” also showed they could do more than just create a unique sound; it showed they were also creative in the lyri-cal department.

In my opinion, “Reign of Terror” is not better or worse than “Treats,” but it is easy for me to choose a favorite. “Treats” wins it for me because of its innocence and fun, but “Reign of Terror’s” lyrics are so well-writ-ten, I can’t deny that it isn’t a great album as well.

Sleigh Bells releases new album

The Hunger Games:Does the film live up to the book?

Staci Vandagriff/Herald

Photo credit: http://www.thehungergames.co.uk/

Benton BajorekStaff Writer

In a decisive showing, the A-State Red Wolves beat out the UAPB Gold-en Lions 4-2 Wednesday night at Tomlinson Stadi-um.

The win puts ASU at 15-10 for the season and gives the Red Wolves a four game win streak fol-lowing a 10-5 win over SEMO Tuesday night.

“I think the biggest thing coming out of the mid-week with Tuesday, Wednesday games is be-ing able to see some guys you wanna throw on the mound,” head coach Tom-my Raffo said. “We saw that and we were able to get two wins and take care of home field.”

A-State had an early scare in the first inning when starting freshman right hand pitcher Chris Kerwood walked the first and third batters, which put UAPB in a position to score.

Then, UAPB was able to get two hits to bring in their runners.

ASU relief pitcher Seth McWilliams was called in to finish the inning and keep the Golden Lions at a 2-0 lead.

“[McWilliam’s] tem-po wasn’t very good,” ex-plained Raffo. “Setting the tone of the game was kinda slow and we just had to make a move.”

However, this would be the only time UAPB would score in the game.

The Red Wolves were able to rally in the second inning and sent two run-

ners home to tie the game up 2-2.

McWilliams did his part defensively and was able to hold off the UAPB offense by allowing just two hits, three strike outs, and no runs scored.

“He upped the tempo a little bit more and things got going more,” said Raffo. “It kinda held it down for us to kinda catch up and take a breath.”

Junior outfielder Ryan Emery was able to pick up another run in the bottom of the fourth to put ASU in the lead 3-2 for the first time in the game.

After that, ASU picked up the last and final run of the game when Lo-gan Uxa scored all the way from second base af-ter a ball thrown from the catcher to first base was overthrown.

The Red Wolves brought in closing pitcher Cory Kyle to pitch the last four innings and made it

impossible for UABP to score.

Kyle struck out six bat-ters and shut out the last three innings going 1-2-3.

“It’s a good confidence booster going into the weekend,” said Kyle. “I got two key strike outs and I really got the ball going so I felt really con-fident out there. “

The four win streak gives ASU momentum as they go to Alabama this weekend to take on Troy in conference play.

“Troy is a great road trip for us,” said Raffo. “It’s gonna be very dif-ficult. They are a good club at home, they have the Sun Belt Conference pitcher of the year, [and] you got a lot of things you got to overcome.”

A-State goes to Troy, Ala. this weekend for Sun Belt Conference play. First pitch is scheduled for 6:00 P.M. Friday at Riddle-Pace Field.

SPORTSPAGE 4 Thursday, March 29 The Herald

The Final StepFormer Red Wolves work out for NFL scouts at ASU’s Pro Day

Daniel McFadinSports Editor

With 29 days left until the NFL draft in New York City on April 26, 13 former ASU athletes and two play-ers from Arkansas Tech and Harding University went in front of 14 NFL scouts at ASU Stadium.

The 13 players who took part in the days sessions of weight room and on the field testing included Demario Davis, Brandon Joiner, Dor-vus Woods, Darryl Feem-ster, Dwayne Frampton, Darron Edwards, and Kelcie McCray.

Jermaine Robertson, Jus-tin Robertson, Rod Hall, Jaquan Kilcrease and Trey Outlaw rounded out the ASU players in attendance.

After four years of hard work in the college ranks, the pro day was the last step for the former ASU foot-ball players toward the life long dream of playing at the highest level of the sport.

‘It’s been a blessing from God just to be able to come out here and show [the scouts] what you’ve been working on your whole en-tire career. It’s just a bless-ing to be able to execute,” Demario Davis said follow-ing the conclusion of the pro day.

Scouts in attendance at the pro day included rep-resentatives from the New York Giants, Baltimore Ravens, St. Louis Rams, Green Bay Packers, New

England Patriots, New Or-leans Saints and the Buffa-lo Bills.

Davis said preparation for the event was different from normal season train-ing.

“It’s a different type of training from January to this point because you’re training for the combine, you’re training for the pro day,” Davis. a linebacker from Brandon, Miss. said. “It’s not really football train-ing, it’s more track training, skill specific training. Af-ter this is done, you can get back in football shape to get ready for training camp.”

Defensive back Kelcie McCray said his condition worked against him.

“I’ve got a lot of good feed-back, the only bad thing was my conditioning. I really haven’t worked and condi-tioned since the last game we played. I worked a lot of drills and movement drills, but not really conditioning and that’s what they really look for out there.”

Running back Jermaine Robertson excelled in the weight room portion of the day, putting together 31 repetitions on the 225 pound bench press, a four rep increase over his previ-ous high.

“One team picked me up and wanted to see what my power at the full back posi-tion might be, so I was hap-py about that,” Robertson said. “I got a lot of good jobs from them, so hopefully that

presents an opportunity in the future.”

Robertson, a native of Tuscaloosa, Ala., said his faith is strong for his future in football.

While he hopes to be picked up by any team, his favorite growing up was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, thanks to former fullback Mike Alstott.

“I kind of like his style, me being a big back that sometimes gets the ball. He kind of, in my era, set the way and gave me a feeling that I can run the ball too.”

Davis finished his time

at ASU by winning the Sun Belt championship and get-ting a late spot on the North team in the Senior Bowl which was held on January 28.

“I got the call late, my agent pulled some strings, they got a good reputation so they were able to get me and a few other guys into the game,” Davis said. “I just wanted to get down there and show that I be-longed there.”

Davis recorded four tack-les in the game, one solo and three assisted.

The game was played in

Mobile, Ala. just 20 days af-ter the Red Wolves were de-feated in the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

“It brought back a lot of memories. It hadn’t been much time since I had been there, all of the hotel people still remembered my face,” Davis recalled.

One memorable image from the game was of Da-vis attempting a tackle on South team and Arkansas Razorback representative Joe Adams.

“Yeah, Arkansas versus Arkansas State, they need to get that game together,”

Davis remarked.Another step on the road

to the NFL was at the Com-bine held in Indianapolis from February 22 through the 28th.

Davis and defensive back Kelcie McCray both repre-sented ASU.

“It was a lot of fun going up against the nations best and kind of knowing what they’re about and what they’ve been doing, training for your career,” Davis said. “All of those guys coming to-gether on the same stage.”

At the combine Davis ran a 4.61 second time in his 40-yard dash

One Arkansas State play-er has been taken in every draft in the last five years, with full-back Oren O’Neal (Oakland,2007), safety Tyrell Johnson (Vikings, 2008), tight end David Johnson (Pittsburgh,2009), defensive end Alex Carrington (Buffa-lo, 2010) and offensive line-man Derek Newton (Hous-ton, 2011).

The web site www.nfl-draftscout.com has Davis projected as a third round pick and McCray as a sixth round

The 13 ASU players will find out beginning on April 26 what their future holds for them outside of Jonesboro.

“I’m excited, it’s just a waiting game, waiting to hear my name called,” Mc-Cray said. “Whenever I get picked, I’m going to go in and give them 100 percent.”

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Former Red Wolf wide receiver Dwayne Frampton is timed by a scout from the New Orleans Saints as he conducts his 40-yard dash Tuesday at ASU Stadium during ASU’s pro day.

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Junior Brandon Milhouse attempts a bunt Wednesday night against Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Tomlinson stadium.

ASU triumphs over UAPBRed Wolves take in-state battle 4-2

ASU Bowling earns fifth straight bid to NCAA tournamentDaniel McFadinSports Editor

While march madness is winding down in the world of basketball, the post sea-son has yet to kick off on the bowling lanes.

For the fifth straight year, the Arkansas State Red Wolves women’s bowl-ing team will take on seven of the best teams in college bowling at the NCAA tour-nament, this time in Wick-liffe, Ohio.

Head coach Justin Ko-stick and his team found out they were officially in this year’s tournament Wednes-day when they gathered in the media room at the Con-vocation Center to watch the tournament selection show.

With the lights dimmed and Athletic Director Dean Lee and other ASU athlet-ic staff in attendance, the Red Wolves were the first team announced out of

the eight team field.“[It was] a little easier

than in years past because we knew we were probably going to be in, unlike the last couple of years we’ve been closer to the bubble,” Kostick said. “It’s always a great ex-perience, a great feeling when you get a chance to go.”

ASU will be facing off against Central Missouri, Fairleigh Dickinson, Mary-land-Eastern Shore, Nebras-ka, Sacred Heart, Valparaiso and Vanderbilt.

Maryland Eastern Shore is the defending national champion after winning last years tournament and beat-ing ASU in the first round.

ASU will be led by junior Rachel Gittings, who led the team this season with four All-Tournament selections and will be taking part in her third championship.

“Last year was a lot more stressful than this year, so we’re excited to go,” Gittings

said. “[The tournament’s have been] unforgettable. You’ll remember shots like it was yesterday,” Gittings said.

“It’s the most stressful four days of my life probably from the time we get there to the time we leave. It’s one of the greatest experiences of my life and I feel honored to be able to go.”

The tournament will be the last one for ASU’s two se-niors, Lela Dudley and Emily Troutman, who as a redshirt senior, has been to all five of the schools tournaments.

“It’s kind of sad, I’ve been here five years. This has been a good part of my life,” Trout-man said. “We have a solid team. We just need to make sure we go in there and focus and do what we need to do.”

The NCAA bowling tour-nament will be held April 12-14 with the finals being aired on ESPNU at 7 p.m. on the 14th.

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Junior Ioana Teu winds up during her singles match against Central Arkansas’ Sasha Ruocco in which Teu won her second straight match with a 6-2, 7-6 score. The Lady Red Wolves went undefeated against UCA Wednesday, going 7-0 to improve their over all record on the season to 8-3.

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BriefsThe WolfTracks Yearbook is now accepting applications for designers and photographers for the

Fall of 2012. Applications are available in the Leadership Center on the 2nd floor of the Reng Student Union, or by emailing jcherry@astate.edu. Applications are due Friday, March 30 at 4pm.

Are you gluten intolerant? Join us for a general interest meeting for a new student-led organization specifically for students who have celiac disease or gluten intolerance. Everyone is welcome. We will have our first meeting Wednesday, April 4 at 4 p.m. on the 3rd floor of the library. For more information please email Sarah Scott (faculty advisor) at sscott@astate.edu.

A part-time position is available in the Department of Finance and Administration located in the Administration Building. The person filling this position will work Monday-Friday, 10-2. Anyone interested may call 972-3081 and speak to Vicki Fletcher.

MARCH, CONTINUED Campus CrimeMarch 22

On March 22, Leesing Choo reported to the UPD that she believed she had been the victim of fraud. She stated she was contacted by a “Goldsterin & Associates Law Firm.” She was advised by them that she needed to send them money because she was in debt $200 to the Bank of America. She reported speaking to an unknown male, a female named Chasey and an attorney named Jones.

After speaking with them, she was told she needed to send them an $18,000 payment and that they threatened to have her taken to jail if she didn’t make the payment. She was then advised that a police officer would be at her door in the morning to arrest her if she didn’t pay them.

Choo stated the group told her she was in debt to the Bank of America in California from a balance owed in 2007.

Choo stated that in 2007 she was Malaysia and wasn’t in the United States. She didn’t come to the U.S. until 2008. Out of fear of going to jail, Choo said she sent the group a payment of $1,000.

Soon after, she shut down all of her bank accounts in order to prevent the group from getting any extra money from her account.

On March 22, two Facilities Management workers came to UPD to report that Michael Ring was looking into vehicles in the library parking lot. Officers Ryan Crawford and Raymond Mansker proceeded to the parking lot and observed Ring walking on University Loop East. After stopping and asking Ring to identify himself, they arrested him for criminal trespassing and violation of an order of protection. He had been banned from campus previously because of an incident with his ex-wife and family members.

Ring stated that he didn’t know he wasn’t allowed on ASU property and that he would leave the campus and have an officer follow him. Crawford told him he did in fact know he wasn’t allowed and him leaving would not be possible. He was then taken to the Craighead County Detention Center.

March 18

At about 2:20 a.m. on March 18, Officer Robert Peevey was traveling east bound on Johnson Ave when he noticed another vehicle traveling and crossing the center line multiple times. According to the report, the vehicle moved erratically back and forth between lanes before being stopped at A-Street.

As Peevey approached the vehicle, he said he noticed several empty beer cans in the bed of the truck. When he made contact with the driver, he could immediately smell the strong odor of intoxicants coming from inside the vehicle.

When he asked for the driver’s license of the suspect, Jose Castellon, he didn’t understand Peevey because of a language barrier. Peevey proceeded to speak to Castellon in Spanish when he said he had only two beers.

Peevey attempted several field sobriety tests, which were inconclusive because of the language barrier. However, Peevey gave a portable breath machine test to Castellon, which came back as .27.

Castellon was taken into custody and then taken to the Craighead County Detention Center where a translator was available. The translator relayed that Castellon had been drinking since 10 a.m.

After two breath samples, his results came back as a BAC of .26.

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“If nobody says any-thing, then it will be okay that Trayvon Martin died. If we say nothing then it is inevitably okay,” he said.

Prior to the event, a social media campaign was launched using the hashtag #HoodiesUp to raise awareness of the ral-ly and march on social net-working sites in the days prior to the event.

Flyers were also posted around campus calling for justice for Trayvon Mar-tin and asking students to bring t-shirts and poster boards to make signs in or-der to raise awareness for his case.

During the march, stu-dents wore hoodies and carried bags of skittles with the message, “Do I look suspicious?” to bring attention to the alleged logic as to why Trayvon Martin was considered as a threat in the first place.

In regards to the com-ments made by television news anchors, including Geraldo Riviera’s com-ments stating it was the hoody and not Trayvon Martin’s race as the cause for his murder, Jonathan Martin said that situations such as these only show how ignorant the majority of the population is.

“We all know what stereotypes are and we all know how people can tend to act toward people because of those stereo-types,” he said. “The fact

of the matter is no matter the hoody or the skittles or anything of that, it was an unarmed child who was killed. That is the prob-lem.”

Jonathan Martin’s com-ments are in line with many leading activists from the civil rights communities including Democratic Rep-resentative, Bobby Rush of Illinois, who was escorted from the House floor after refusing to remove a hoody he wore as a tribute to Trayvon Martin.

As he removed his suit jacket and put on the hoody, Representa-tive Rush stated, “Racial profiling has to stop. Just because someone wears a hoody does not make them a hoodlum."

Many students attended the march because they shared Representative Rush’s sense of urgency at stopping racial profil-ing. This included Circle of Trust vice president, Brit-tany Jackson, who said, “for years our ancestors fought for justice and we of this generation also need to make the same fight for justice. Every day, injustic-es are happening in front of our eyes, so [we are] here to raise awareness.”

Also involved in the fight for ending racial pro-filing were several repre-sentatives from Registered Student Organizations including Student Activi-ties Board, Circle of Trust,

Brother to Brother among others.

“If we do not stand for something, we will fall for anything, and right now we are standing for Tray-von Martin,” said Student Activities Board president JoNece Carter.

Dan Howard, interim chancellor, attended the demonstration as well.

Regarding the event, Howard said that he deep-ly appreciated the solidar-ity of the students and how they are bringing to the forefront this terrible in-cident that occurred, hop-ing that it will not happen again in the future.

Also present at the event was Multicultural Center director, Niya Blair, who said she felt it was great how the students had got-ten together for such a great cause, “coming to-gether and uniting togeth-er to show that equality can be had by all.”

The event also had con-siderable attendance from representatives of the Na-tional Pan-Hellenic Coun-cil.

“This issue is not black or white; all men are equal,” Jonathan Mar-tin said. “Change can be done…with the power of thought, but if we stand by silently, the status quo will not change and Tray-von will have died in vain. Our silence is worse than violence. We must stand as one, united.”

BUDGET, CONTINUED

Since the state has not allowed for classified staff positions to be given salary increases, those employees that are classified will not receive any of the three percent cost of living ad-justment (COLA) for non-classified staff and faculty in the 2013 budget.

“It’s very much the per-ception of the rich getting richer and the poor staying poor,” Fowler said. “They’re struggling, and I just felt compelled to speak for that group today.”

There is $1.1 million in the budget to cover a two percent COLA for non-classified staff and faculty. In addition to that, there is $70,000 in the budget to-ward faculty promotions, an additional $385,000 to cover a one percent COLA for faculty and $165,000 for a faculty equity pool.

There is also $228,000 in the budget for a non-clas-sified equity pool. Donna McMillin, vice chancellor of finance and administra-tion, said the amount for equity is roughly the same amount that ASU has had in the past for that pool.

“Each vice chancellor will take the actual salaries of non-classified employees

per division — student af-fairs, finance, etc.— and distribute this based on that percentage per divi-sional pool. Then each vice chancellor will make a de-cision to adjust for equity,” McMillin said.

Human capital costs were at the top of the bud-get priority list, which in-cluded the three percent increases in salary that faculty and non-classified staff will receive. Also on the budget list were costs covering campus safety, federal compliance, uni-versity web development & marketing and fixed cost increases.

McMillin said the cam-pus safety costs would cover an additional UPD officer and dispatcher.

Howard explained two potential student fee in-creases that are included in the 2013 budget as well. The first is an excellence in academic fee, providing funds that are enabling the university to help progress faculty compensation.

The second is an increase in the athletic fee, to adjust for the cost of additional scholarship support neces-sary in athletics. Howard said this fee will increase

presuming that there is an increase in tuition, which would necessitate an in-crease in scholarship funds for athletes.

“Keep in mind, they’re scholarships for athletes, but they are student ath-letes,” he said. “So although this is an athletic fee that’s going to athletes, they’re all students and it’s all for scholarships.”

This increase will not be necessary, though, if tu-ition does not go up in the 2013 fiscal year. Both of the two fee increases would be a two-dollar per credit hour increase.

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Dan Howard

To view more photos from the Trayvon Martin hoody march, please visit asuherald.com.

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Taking ASU to the WorldStudent organizations give back during Spring Break

NEW ORLEANS

CHICAGO

NEW YORK

The Volunteer ASU center visited New Orleans for the “Alternative Spring Break” program.

During their time, the 11 student volunteers helped rebuild and paint houses for those that can’t afford to . (Pictured right) Gar-reth Clines, a biology/pre-med major of Jonesboro and Grant Cagle, a senior biol-ogy major of Bernie, Mo.

Photos courtesy of Jodie Cherry

The Baptist Col-legiate Ministry travelled to Chicago for various service projects that includ-ed prayer stations and cleaning public parks.

(Pictured) BCM members pose un-der the cloud gate in Chicago, Ill.

Members of the First Baptist Church college ministry (a.k.a. ReMIX) lent a helping hand in New York city by volun-teering in soup kitchens as well as helping and mentoring youth kids.

(Pictured left) Cara Prichard, a sophomore RTV major of Little Rock.

Photos courtesy of Cara Prichard

Photos courtesy of Tanner Oxner

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ECUADOR

ASU’s global student leaders traveled to Ecua-dor.

Their mission was to help people to have a better quality of life and learn how the culture functions.

(Pictured left) Coordi-nator of the trip, Taylor Woodruff, an undergradu-ate assistant for the In-ternational Business Re-source Center.