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Sgt. Bill Brown explained the increase in theft on campus Tuesday at the SGA meeting.
“This year, we’ve already generated 80 theft reports,” Brown said. “One out of four thefts are cell phones.”
Cpl. Traci Simpson said the theft has increased at the Red Wolf Center.
“We have stepped up patrol over there,” Simpson said.
Out of the 10 reports for theft at the Red Wolf Center, nine of them were sto-len phones, Brown said.
Brown suggested that students must always be aware of where they leave their
cell phones, especially at the Red Wolf Center where the gymnasium is with the bleacher area where many students put their cell phones down and walk away.
Brown said the thefts have been con-vincing people not to leave their phones lying around.
“There are students out there who are laying their cell phones down, their wallet close by them, go play ball, come back and they are gone,” Brown said. “Students should rent lockers.”
Brown suggested more cameras be added to the Red Wolf Center, but that it is more of a student awareness problem. “We need to tell students of the problem that we have,” Brown said.
Katherine Prescott, associate univer-
sity council, introduced to SGA the revi-sion to the Intellectual Property Patent. Following the Supreme court decision on Stanford v. Roche, in which a lawsuit over certain patent wording resulted with a loss for the university, changes were made to ASU’s patent agreement. “After that, all universities looked at all their policies,” Prescott said. “The divi-sion of revenues in (ASU’s) policy is more generous then any others I have seen.”
The revision is mainly a change in wording, Prescott said.
“If this patent doesn’t pass then we will just act under the existing patent,” Prescott said. “This patent covers ASU, protecting property and faculty.”
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SGA talks theft, new parking plans
Caitlin LaFarlette | Staff PhotographerDavid Handwork, director of engineering services, discusses the ASU
Master Plan and proposed parking at the SGA meeting Tuesday.
The cafeteria will be rain-bow themed this Thursday for Coming Out Day, orga-nized by the Gay Straight Al-liance in honor of LGBT His-tory Month.
Robert Woods, president of the Gay Straight Alliance and a junior nursing major of Marion, said that several things were being planned for this month.
“Next week we are going to be having guest speakers. We are going to have Tay-lor Halliburton and she’ll be speaking about how to be a good ally,” Woods said.
“Then the week after we are going to have Katrina Crisp who is from the Center for Artistic Revolution and she’s going to be speaking about spirituality and sexual-ity.”
Other guest speakers at this event will be speaking at noon at the Multicultural Center.
This will be the second year that the cafeteria will be rainbow themed for LGBT
Coming Out Day comes to campus
ALEX HERNANDEZSTAFF WRITER
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On Oct. 12 the Alumni Association will host a free homecoming concert featur-ing Lauren Gray of “American Idol” and the Ohio Players at the Arkansas State University football practice field. Gray opens the show at 7 p.m. fol-lowed by The Ohio Players at 8 p.m.
In St. Louis, Mo. Lauren Gray received her golden ticket to Hollywood on the popular television show “American Idol.” Gray per-formed Adele’s, “One and Only,” and one of the judges, Jennifer Lopez, was so im-pressed she summed up the auditions when she said, “I have two words for today. Lauren Gray.”
In late February of this year, the soulful singer was eliminated from “The Final Judgment, Part 1” of season 11 on “American Idol.” The singer’s last performance on the show was “I’d Rather go Blind,” by the late Etta James, who actually passed away on the exact same day Lauren performed. Despite the cut, the soulful singer’s voice was still heard by millions.
Alumni Association brings free concert
ADEEJA ANDERSONSTAFF WRITER
Driver crashes car in center of campus
Ashley Helliwell | Sports EditorAn unknown driver crashed through two barriers on Caraway Road next to the Student Union on Wednesday afternoon. The driver took off on foot after the vehicle wreck and remains in the hospital. The driver’s name has not yet been released.
Wednesday around 1 p.m. the Uni-versity Police Department responded to an incident in which [unknown male] had crashed a grey Chevrolet Cobalt into a concrete flower pot used as a barrier on Caraway Road between the campus Post Office and Eugene W. Smith building.
Katharine Lee, a senior nursing major of Jonesboro, was walking into the old nursing building when she heard [unknown male] smash the car
into the pot. Lee went over to see if [unknown
male] was hurt, but he began stum-bling away from the scene on foot.
She asked him to stop, but he be-gan running.
After chasing him until they were almost behind the Reynolds building, Lee grabbed him and sat him down.
Lee said he had no visible injuries but she thought he had bitten his tongue.
“I later found out obviously he was drunk,” Lee said. “He didn’t want his
girlfriend to know he had been drink-ing.”
She asked [unknown male] how much he had been drinking.
According to Lee, he replied, “Enough to do a lot of things I wouldn’t have done. This just seems like a dream.”
“I’m thinking tomorrow he’s go-ing to wake up and be surprised,” she said.
Jonesboro police took [unknown male] into custody and he was treated for his injuries at a local hospital.
CHELSEA WEAVERNEWS EDITOR
The Johnny Cash Festival Friday night at the Convocation Center brought in about $200,000 for the restoration of Johnny Cash’s boyhood home in Dyess, and plans for the third annual Johnny Cash music festival are already underway.
The house is part of a restoration project obtained by ASU. A museum with exhibits related to Cash, historical markers, biking/hiking trails, and a theater are also part of the restoration project.
Ruth Hawkins, director of Arkansas Heri-tage Sites at ASU and the project director for the Johnny Cash Boyhood Hometown Resto-ration Project, said so far about $400,000 has been raised for the restoration of the home.
“We have projected the total restoration (including furnishings) at $470,750 so we are
close to finishing the house,” Hawkins said.Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash,
welcomed the audience to the festival and said she couldn’t be more thrilled to see so many fans of her dad in the crowd to help support the restoration of his boyhood home.
“This isn’t just a home that my dad grew up in,” Cash said. “But also where my aunt Joanne and Uncle Tommy grew up. It’s such an honor to be here tonight for this great cause.”
Before each song, she told a story about the meaning behind the song or album the song was from. She said when she was 18, at the back of her dad’s tour bus, her dad gave her a list of 100 songs she needed to know. She then turned that collection of songs into an album called “The List” and sang a couple of songs from that album.
Cash said she was honored to have most of her family in the audience. Her cousins, aunts
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Ashley Helliwell | Sports EditorRosanne Cash sings alongside her aunt and uncle, Joanne Cash Yates and Tommy Cash, Dierks Bently and the Civil Wars during the finale of the second annual Johnny Cash Music Festival at the Convocation Center Friday night.
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Presidential debates are always a highlight of election years.
They serve a vital role in allowing candidates to crystallize their positions to the American people. They also allow trailing candidates to close the gap, as appears to be the case with Mitt Romney.
At any rate, over the years it has become apparent that these debates do certainly have the ability to influence elections.
But with the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan looming, there has been a lot of discussion about whether or not this event bears the same weight in terms of election results.
You will hear vastly different accounts depending on who you ask or what you read.
The Washington Post recently ran a story about how important the debate will be, as it is a chance for Vice President Biden to make up for Obama’s lackluster performance last week.
The next day, Katy Steinmetz wrote for TIME suggesting that VP debates don’t really affect elections in the grand scheme of things, even if they seem to be a big deal at the time.
There’s one thing most analysts can agree on, however, and that is the propensity for vice presidential debates to determine the future success of political careers.
Julian Zelizer, a professor
of history and public affairs at Princeton recently wrote an excellent article on this subject for CNN.
Zelizer points out historical examples of VP candidates hampering or destroying their political careers with missteps during VP debates.
He talks about Dan Quayle’s mishap during his debate with Sen. Lloyd Bensten in 1988, in which Bensten uttered his famous quote, “I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”
This VP debate should not
be any different. With his considerable
foreign policy experience, and success in getting us out of the Iraq War, Joe Biden is a potential Democratic candidate for president in 2016.
Likewise, Paul Ryan is a young leader in the GOP and is very much seen as a potential leader for the party.
While this debate will probably not sway the nation in the 2012 election, it is a chance for Biden and Ryan to make or break their future candidacy.
So by all means, pay attention to the debate. It will certainly be relevant to all of us. Expect it to be more aggressive than the Obama/Romney debate, and expect a focus on health care and foreign policy.
But while you are watching, keep in mind that the real effects of this event may show themselves in four years rather than four weeks.
The Arkansas Supreme Court defended the wishes more than 120,000 voters, and countless patients’ rights when it upheld Issue No. 5 on the ballot, a measure that would allow patients in Arkansas equal access to medical treatments that are already available to patients in 15 other states.
The initiative was under fire from the Coalition to Preserve Arkansas Values.
The coalition apparently considers arresting seriously ill patients for using a treatment their doctors recommend to them is an ‘Arkansan’ value in need of preservation.
Unfortunately for the group, the democratic process prevailed, and Arkansas may indeed be the first Southern state to take a progressive stance on patient autonomy.
There is abundant scientific evidence that marijuana is a safe, effective medicine for some people.
In 1999, the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported, “Nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana.”
Since then, extensive new research has confirmed marijuana’s medical benefits.
Three University of California studies published since February 2007 found marijuana relieves neuropathic pain (pain caused by damage to nerves), a type of pain that commonly afflicts patients with multiple sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, diabetes and other conditions, and did so with only minor side effects.
An observational study reported in the European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology found that hepatitis C patients using marijuana had three times the cure rate of those not using marijuana, apparently because marijuana successfully relieved the noxious side effects of anti-hepatitis C drugs, allowing patients
to successfully complete treatment.
So why do some people oppose the initiative?
Well, after reading the objections brought forth in the Herald and other publications, I’m still not quite sure.
Every argument brought against Marijuana as a medication seems to be a non-unique quasi critique of using medicine in any context.
Many drugs that doctors prescribe can be abused, stolen, or can fall into the hands of children. Many drugs have serious side effects, much more serious than those from cannabis smoke.
So we should just make all medicine illegal?
These arguments are infinitely regressive, which is
why they should be rejected. And even with post
passage of the initiative, the federal government prohibits doctors from “prescribing” marijuana for any reason.
However, there needs to be some way for state criminal justice systems to determine which marijuana users have a legitimate medical need.
So state medical marijuana laws require doctors’ recommendations.
Doctors recommend many things: exercise, rest, chicken soup, vitamins and cranberry juice just for bladder infections.
The right of physicians to recommend marijuana when appropriate for a patient’s condition has been upheld by the federal courts.
This double talk on cannabis puts pressure on dispensaries that are operating completely in accordance with state law.
It’s time for the opponents of equal access to safe medicine to come up with some new talking points, and it’s time to start holding the opinion of physicians and patients in higher regard than the misguided opinion of a small group of moral absolutists.
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Our ViewArkansas has been part of its fair share of racial-based
history. From being the site of major battles in the Civ-il War in the 1860s to the forced desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Arkansas has been a battleground for civil rights for most of its existence.
Now it is once again in the spotlight, this time in the small community of Wynne, just 50 miles south of Jones-boro.
Two white players on the junior varsity football team were expelled for the rest of the semester after having allegedly grabbed a 14-year-old black player in a locker room and fitted a noose around his neck before proceed-ing to drag him across the floor.
The expulsion of the two players was a more lenient punishment than the full year expulsion suggested by Wynne’s Superintendent Carl Easley according to an As-sociated Press report.
Five students were originally suspended for the inci-dent before the Wynne School Board’s judgment came down Oct. 3. Wynne police said no one was injured in the incident and that “no criminal activity occurred.”
It’s the 21st century. We live in an age of growing so-cial consciousness, but still find ourselves retreading over issues our parents and grandparents fought for decades before us.
However, we don’t live in an ideal world, at least not yet. We don’t believe society as a whole will wake up one day with the sudden clarity to not judge people by the col-or of their skin, but we can still make the strides to achieve that goal.
But those strides begin at home, where children like the ones suspended for the Wynne incident can be taught to give people that are different from themselves a chance at proving there’s more to them than what stereotypes they have been labeled with.
“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.
“Expect it to be more aggressive than the O b a m a / R o m n e y debate, and expect a focus on health care and foreign policy.”
- Clint Simpson
Racism in Arkansas continues
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SGA, Continued
Homecoming Court Voting beginsOnline at in.astate.edu @ 9am
Mardi Gras Costume ContestHomecoming Court Announcement
Reng Student Union, Heritage Plaza Lawn @ 12:15pm
Homecoming Court Voting EndsOnline at in.astate.edu @ 9am
Homecoming Court InterviewsReng Student Union, 2nd �oor 9am-2pm
Thursday, October 11th
Tuesday, October 9th
Thursday, October 4th
Wednesday October 10th
Friday, October 12th
Friday, October 5th
Bourbon Street Steppin’ Step ShowConvocation Center @ 7pm
Homecoming King and Queen Voting Begins
Online at in.astate.edu @ 9am
Homecoming King and Queen Voting EndsOnline at in.astate.edu @ 9am
Display Decorating Reng Student Union, Heritage Plaza Lawn , 8am-2:30pm
Yell Like Hell Spirit CompetitionDisplay Decorating JudgingReng Student Union,Heritage Plaza Lawn @ 3pm
Free Concert Featuring: The Ohio PlayersAdjacent to Liberty Bank Stadium @ 7pm
Display Decorating Carnival Celebration
Reng Student Union,Heritage Plaza Lawn, 10am-11pm
Saturday, October 13thTailgatingAll Day at Liberty Bank Stadium
ASU vs South AlabamaLiberty Bank Stadium @ 6pm
Mardi Gras Open HouseRed Wolf Center, 8pm-11pm
For more information, please contactthe Arkansas State University
Leadership Center at 870.972.2055
SGA President Hunter Petrus mentioned that voting on the new wording for the Intellectual Property Patent will occur October 23.
David Handwork, director of engineering services, up-dated SGA to the current con-struction on campus. “There will be 163-space commuter parking lot that will be north of the Greek housing as well as parking associated with the Greek housing and Hon-ors dorms,” Handwork said. He didn’t state when park-ing lot construction would be completed.
Handwork also hopes to have the gravel walkways paved by the end of Decem-ber.
“Construction is going exceedingly well,” Handwork said.
“The progress of the Greek housing are coming along pretty good.”
“Some of the houses will be available and ready mid-June of next year.”
SGA held an executive resolution debate over the presentation over the on-campus pharmacy resolu-tion. The majority voted for the resolution.
Alex Dozier, a sophomore biology major of Paragould, was sworn into the senate seat for the college of math and sciences.
Petrus ended the meet-ing with wishes for a good homecoming weekend and encouraged students to show spirit in the student section of Saturday’s Homecoming game.
History Month, with last year being the first time it was done.
Tuesday in the Carl R. Reng Stu-dent Union GSA had a closet that people could walk into and read sto-ries about kids that were mistreated for being gay and different statistics about the gay community along with common misconceptions.
Some of those statistics said that 42 percent of homeless youth iden-tified themselves as gay or lesbian and that 19 percent of gay men and 25 percent of lesbian women have reported suffering physical violence at the hands of a family member as a
result of sexual orientation.At 6 p.m. Oct. 17 the group will
host a panel called “If You Really Knew Me” in the auditorium.
The panel will include stories from gays and lesbian about what coming out was like and the differ-ent challenges they faced.
Allies will also speak at the panel about what it is like being a support-er of the community and what they face as well.
“When we think about it, you have a lot of minority celebrations but you don’t have LGBT people being celebrated, and society treats
LGBT people as second class citi-zens,” Woods said.
“I think it’s important not only for LGBT people to know our his-tory but the entire world as well, be-cause there has been a lot of people who identify themselves as LGBT who have made an impact in the world so it’s important for people to know these facts.”
Woods discussed the importance of ASU being an LGBT-friendly community as well.
“It’s important because it’s a good image for the school. Diversity always makes college campuses bet-
ter,” Woods said. Kat Carrick, the faculty adviser
for the Gay Straight Alliance, ex-plained why it was important that the group is active this month.
“I think it’s important that every generation learn about their previ-ous history and especially when you’re talking about sexual minori-ties and that they don’t have a lot of understanding of who has come before them” Carrick said.
Carrick also spoke about the im-portance of the Gay Straight Alli-ance and ASU.
“I think Arkansas State Univer-
sity is trying to attract and retain a diverse population and be competi-tive on a global market” she said.
Having an awareness of gay or straight couples is important and the Gay Straight Alliance is an op-portunity to get to know about the community and talk about different issues, Carrick said.
Carrick said that the Gay Straight Alliance’s purpose on campus was to provide a sense of community and support for gay and lesbian stu-dents, questioning and transgender students.
COMING OUT, Continued
Since her appearance on “American Idol,” Gray has been present on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and has continued to perform locally in Arkansas for benefit shows. “I’ve been working here lo-cally in Cherokee at Paradise Studios,” Gray said. “I got about 14 songs recorded.” Lauren Gray is officially out of the contract with “Ameri-can Idol” as of Sept. 21, and she hopes to release an album by the end of this year.
The second act is a funky, R&B band that made a trade-mark in the music industry back in the 60s. The band originally started as the Ohio Untouchables in 1959. There were four initial members of the band including Clarence “Satch” Satchell and Ralph “Pee Wee” Middlebrook; both are deceased. Over the years, members like James “Dia-mond” Williams and Clar-ence Willis were added on.
In 1971, the Ohio Players signed with the Detroit-based
Westbound label. They had a hit single, “Pain,” that reached the Billboard R&B Top 40 and “Funky Worm,” which landed No. 1 on the Billboard R&B charts and the top 15 pop charts.
The group switched to Mercury Records in 1974. The single, “Fire” reached No.1 on the Rhythm & Blues charts and pop charts. “Love Rollercoaster” reached No.1 on the R&B and pop charts as well.
In 1976, “Who’d She Coo?” made the No.1 R&B hit.
“I am the only original member besides Clarence Willis and Robert Jones ‘Kuumba,’” said James “Dia-mond” Williams, who joined in December of 1972. “We will perform songs like ‘Fire’ and ‘Love Rollercoaster.’”
The concert will be a soul-ful collaboration.
With Lauren Gray’s oldie, yet blues feel and the Ohio Player’s funky touch, you can’t miss a beat.
CONCERT, Continuedand uncles were included
in the mix. She also hon-ored two special guests who received the Johnny Cash scholarship awards last year, Heather Myers and Ryan La-row.
The festival lasted about four hours long, and in be-tween band transitions audi-ence members were shown old talk shows featuring Johnny Cash telling some of his personal stories.
Gabbi Grinder, a freshman accounting major of Eads, Tenn., said, “My favorite part was going to the stage and being about five feet from Dierks Bentley. He was the one I was most excited to see. I was so happy to be at the show and help support John-ny Cash’s home.”
Willie Nelson also per-formed, dressed in his cow-boy hat, black jeans and a black T-shirt. During the middle of his performance,
he threw down his hat on the stage and took out his signa-ture red bandana to throw into the crowd.
As the Civil Wars appeared on stage, Cash said, “We may lose people, but their music is never lost.” She said she would never lose hope in mu-sic with such great young art-ists in this generation.
Joy Williams and John Paul White of The Civil Wars said at the end of their perfor-mance they were honored to have been asked to play at the festival. White said he grew up listening to Johnny Cash and he was thrilled to be on stage performing his songs.
Dierks Bentley, the last performer of the night, said he was happy Rosanne was a part of the restoration of her father’s boyhood home. Bent-ley said his last name meant everything to him, and Cash’s dad would be really proud of her and the rest of her family for helping out with the Cash home restoration project.
CASH, Continued
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Campus CrimeOct. 1
On Oct. 1 around 11:43 p.m., Officer Russell Gray fol-lowed a speeding vehicle down University Loop which was driven by Frederick Harris, according to the po-lice report. Gray checked the vehicle’s tags and noticed they were for a different vehicle. Officer Gray stopped the vehicle and was assisted by Cpl. Billy Branch, Of-ficer Gene Layne and Officer Steven Wilson. Accord-ing to the report, Harris failed to produce a driver’s li-cense or vehicle registration and his license on record was suspended. Officer Layne removed the incorrect license plates from the car and the car was towed. Har-ris was issue three Jonesboro citations for driving on a suspended driver’s license, fictitious tags and no tags.
Oct. 2
On Oct. 2 Officer Gene Layne arrived at Collegiate Park in reference to a smoky odor coming from the residence. Layne entered the residence with an RA, who conducted a health and safety check. According to the report, on the table was a bottle with tobacco, two small burnt marijuana cigarettes and some mari-juana seeds. John Cordell, Ryan Montgomery and Ju-lius Lavalais admitted to smoking a Black and Mild in the room, but stated they didn’t smoke the marijuana, according to the report. A Residence Hall Violation was issued for smoking in the room.
Oct. 7
On Sunday around 3:40 a.m. Officer Steven Wilson was on foot patrol in NorthPark Quads when he saw Koki Okamoto sitting on his window ledge smoking a cigarette, according to the report. After seeing Wil-son, Okamoto dropped the cigarette and jumped back to his room. Wilson approached the window and saw Okamoto and Yuki Tokyo in the room playing cards. According to the report there was also a bottle of vod-ka on the table. Wilson went into the room to get the students’ identification and ask the students to destroy the alcohol. According to the report, Okamoto poured the vodka down the sink. Okamoto and Tokyo both received alcohol violations for drinking on campus.
Homecoming Court ‘12Colea Blann, Junior
Major: NursingHometown: Little RockWhy do you love ASU? “ASU’s opportunities to develop who you are and the chances it gives to get involved are what make me love ASU. The people are great and my time at ASU has allowed me to grow.”Why do you think you would make a good Homecoming queen? “I truly feel that I represent ASU in the best way. I embody our slogan ‘educate, enhance and enrich’ through my leadership, academics and involvement as SAB president.”
Becca Hutchison, Senior
Major: Communications DisordersHometown: Hornersville, Mo.Why do you love ASU? “This university and community is a place for everyone. It’s so diverse and there are so many representatives of each culture here.”Why do you think you would make a good Homecoming queen? “I would take the title with so much honor. I would represent ASU, the BCM and Christ as the queen.”
LaTasha Moore, Junior
Major: Communication StudiesHometown: FalconWhy do you love ASU? “I love all of the opportunites that ASU allows students to be a part of and show their full potential.”Why do you think you would make a good Homecoming queen? “I think I’m a great representative of the student body and I’ve made several friends and connections here.”
Paige Turpin, Senior
Major: Early Childhood EducationHometown: BryantWhy do you love ASU? “I like how you’re an actual student and not a number. Students run the campus here and are involved in a lot of decision making.”Why do you think you would make a good Homecoming queen? “The Homecoming queen is someone who should be involved and promotes ASU in a positive way; I think I do that for our student body.
Natalie Wilbanks, Senior
Major: ChemistryHometown: JonesboroWhy do you love ASU? “I love all of the leadership opportunities I’ve been given. There are really a lot of opportunities that students can take advantage of here and I think that’s great.”Why do you think you would make a good Homecoming queen? “I love the Red Wolves with all of my heart. Howl yes!”
Sean Calaway, Senior
Major: Criminology/SociologyHometown: JonesboroWhy do you love ASU? “This is where my mom and dad met; my dad used to teach here too. I remember running around the campus when I was younger; I’ve really just grown up here.”Why do you think you would make a good Homecoming king? “I think the king should represent students and I feel like I could do that well.”
Adam “Sunshine” Cloninger, Senior
Major: Agriculture BusinessHometown: EnglandWhy do you love ASU? “I’ve always wanted to go here; my entire family has gone here for generations. ASU is not just my school, but my heritage.”Why do you think you would make a good Homecoming king? “I feel like I’m a model student. I work hard in every aspect and I think I would be a good representative.”
Austin Copenhaver, Senior
Major: Radio/TVHometown: JonesboroWhy do you love ASU? “It’s my university, my family, where I’ve grown up. ASU gives you just as much, if not more, opportunities as any other university.”Why do you think you would make a good Homecoming king? “I think I represent a lot of different aspects of the university. I know a wide variety of people in the university and the community.”
Art Singleton, Senior
Major: Agriculture BusinessHometown: MonticelloWhy do you love ASU? “The people, atmosphere and opportunities here are what make me love ASU. It’s not too big and not too small.”Why do you think you would make a good Homecoming king? “I think I represent ASU well, and I would represent the king well. I love ASU; it’s my home away from home.”
Jacob Yates, Junior
Major: Business FinanceHometown: JonesboroWhy do you love ASU? “I love ASU because of the opportunities available and the friendships I’ve made. I love the strong bond the students and faculty at ASU have together.”Why do you think you would make a good Homecoming king? “I’m highly involved, I have a high GPA and I put others before myself.”
-Compiled by Chelsea WeaverNews Editor
The ASU women’s soccer team will take on North Texas on Friday, continuing Sun Belt Conference play and hoping to retain its undefeated record at home for the season.
The Lady Red Wolves are currently ranked fourth in the Sun Belt with a conference record of 3-2-1, and will take on the Mean Green who are currently ranked second and are undefeated in conference play.
Head coach Tafadzwa Ziyenge is excited for the home turf advantage. “Playing at home our fans have given us the edge over the opposition. No other place has matched our crowd in terms of support. The rugby guys in particular have been a welcome addition and extra boost of energy. This support is what we will need to overcome a tough North Texas team,” Ziyenge said.
The Mean Green are led by Karla Pineda who has tallied six goals and six assists so far on the season. UNT’s leading goal scorer, Kelsey Hodges, has scored seven goals on the season and also poses a major threat for ASU. A key for Friday’s match will be for the Lady Red Wolves to shut down these dangerous opponents on the front end.
The Red Wolves’ offense is led in goals by sophomore Christina Fink, who has seven goals and five assists on the season.
An advantage for the Red Wolves, however, is the depth of the number of goal scorers
on the team. ASU has yet to rely on just one go-to player, but instead rely on contribu-tions from starters and subs alike, making its offense very tough to defend.
ASU’s defense is led by seniors Aja Aguirre and Ashley McMurtry.
Aguirre, ASU’s starting goalkeeper, is currently lead-ing the Sun Belt in fewest goals allowed, with an average of .84 per game. In addition, McMurtry was named Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Week after her solid defensive performance against Louisiana-Monroe
and Louisiana-Lafayette. McMurty is ready for this
weekend’s challenge. “North Texas is and always has been a very good team. They will be a great challenge for us, but nothing that we can’t handle. We’ve got a lot of girls from Texas on our team, so the UNT game is always really competitive. We’ve been training hard in anticipation of this game, because a win on Friday would put us in a very good position to qualify for the conference tournament.”
Friday’s kickoff will begin at 2 p.m. at the Soccer Complex.
Seven years ago, a men’s soccer club began at ASU but seemed to wither away after a short while, but now the ASU men’s soccer club is back as a registered student organization hoping to become more than just a club this time around.
With students from 13 different countries including, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Japan, the soccer team is starting to get their bonds as a team and develop some real chemistry on the field.
Felipe Odorcyk, a senior midfielder from Porto Alegre, Brazil, noticed connections starting to be built in one of the teams first tournaments in which they played teams such as Tulane and Mississippi State.
“If you compare the first game to the second, you can definitely tell that we built some chemistry with each other,” Odorcyk said, “and from there, we could see a lot of the connections start to come together.”
The teammates have also begun to build friendships off as well as on the field; which is something that sophomore defender Kevin Wang from Sherwood, noticed over the course of the weekend.
“It was really exciting getting to spend the weekend with all the international students; learning about their languages and cultures was a lot of fun,” Wang said.
Aristides Polio, the coach in charge of the soccer club, was once a part of the team back when it started in the early 2000s.
“It’s a new decade and a new tradition that we’re trying to develop in bringing more soccer to the community,” Coach Polio said.
A big obstacle that the
soccer club has faced is getting its name out and gaining support from fans and sponsors. With no sponsors and little to no fan base, the team expects to be limited in doing things such as hosting games and playing games at other universities.
The use of the rugby team’s practice fields, although not marked, is one thing the soccer club is thankful for.
“To feel like we were playing on an actual field was good because we were practicing on the intramural fields preparing to play schools that have the proper facilities for their students,” Coach Polio said.
When asked about the game played against defending regional champs, Mississippi State, Polio was proud to acknowledge the quality of play shown by the team thus far.
“I had a group of guys that have been playing together for less than a month going up against a team that will be defending a championship, and we were able to hold them at 1-1 at half, which shows that they can play at that level,” Polio said.
The soccer team looks forward to taking advantage of many fund-raising op-portunities as well as playing more teams of different cali-bers in the future. They have scheduled teams such as the University of Mississippi and Western Kentucky, as well as Memphis and Northern Ala-bama.
As far as fund-raising, they have a number of ideas in mind and hope to host a clinic for young soccer play-ers in the near future.
The ASU men’s soccer club will play the Hilltoppers at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 13 at the Western Kentucky Intramural Sports Complex.
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Shine Huang| Staff PhotographerFreshman defender Jordan Adams of Longview, Texas dribbles the ball up the field during practice on Wednesday. The Red Wolves hold a 9-5-1 record for the overall season and a SBC record of 3-2-1.
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Travis Sharp| Staff PhotographerThe Red Wolves will welcome South Alabama to Liberty Bank Stadium on Saturday for its annual homecoming game. South Alabama enter this weekend’s match up with a 1-4 record while ASU holds 3-3 all season record.
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Pack Notes-Baseball will hold its
annual Alumni weekend. Two games are scheduled with former players facing off against each other. First game will begin at noon followed by the second game at 1 p.m. at Tomlison Stadium and Kell Field.
-Cross Country returns to action Saturday, Oct. 13 to compete in the Chile Pepper Invitational in Fayetteville, Men’s competition will begin at 9:45 a.m. with a 10K race. The women’s 6K will begin at 10:30 a.m.
-The Oct. 17 deadline for going with the Astate Nation’s Gus Bus to the University of Louisiana- Lafayette for the Tuesday night match up against the Ragin Cajun’s is approaching. Cost is $95 per person. Email James Bryant at [email protected] to reserve your seats.
-Men’s basketball steps out on the court for its first official practice Friday as it prepares for its 2012-2013 season. Nov. 1 will mark the beginning of two exhibition games against Southern Ark. and Henderson State. Regular season will tip off Nov. 10.
-ASU softball will take on Three Rivers Community College at 5 p.m. Friday at Nettleton High School softball field.
-Rugby will have its annual Alumni game at 1 p.m. Oct. 13 at the rugby field
Sun Belt standouts-Sophomore linebacker Quashaun Lee has been selected as
this week’s Sun Belt Conference football defensive player of the week after his performance in Thursday’s win against Florida International. Quashaun helped the Red Wolves take its first conference victory with a game-high 12 tackles, nine of those tackles were solo tackles. Lee would get his first interception of the season and the third of his career.
-Senior Jasmine Terry and junior Megan Baska were named Sun Belt Conference’s Player of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week, respectively, after ASU’s win over Southeast Missouri, South Alabama and Troy.
Terry had 60 kills and a 5.00 kills per set average in three matches. She set a career-high with 24 kills against SEMO, adding 22 kills in a four match victory over Troy.
Baska totaled 58 digs on the week and moved into fourth place on the all-time ASU career digs list with 1.383 for her career. Against SEMO, Baska had 21 digs, as well as adding 21 digs in the Red Wolves match up against Troy. She finished the week with 16 digs against the Jaguars, averaging 4.83 digs per set.
SBC newcomers face defending champsFresh off a mid-week road win against Florida International,
the Arkansas State Red Wolves football team welcomes the South Alabama Jaguars into Liberty Bank Stadium for Saturday’s homecoming match.
The Jaguars’ football program has existed only since 2009, and this is their first football season in both the FBS and the Sun Belt. Though they are among the nation’s worst in every offensive category, they have the conference’s second-best defense, ranked 38th nationally.
“They’re really, really far along as a defensive football team (and) as a football team overall. They’re much further along than I think what a lot of people in this league anticipated,” said ASU offensive line coach J.B. Grimes. “I’ve been very impressed watching these guys on tape.”
Similar to what he said about Western Kentucky’s defensive line, Grimes praised USA’s linemen, and called them a “very, very well-coached” and “very sound” unit.
ASU head coach Gus Malzahn also praised the development of South Alabama’s program and said they are “building it the right way,” and was complimentary of their offensive talent.
“They have a new coordinator, and you can see they are getting better with what they are doing. Their quarterbacks stand out to me – they look very solid to me. Their offensive
line is a very solid line, and they have a big athletic running back,” Malzahn said.
South Alabama (1-4, 0-1) has played a strong schedule, losing contests to North Carolina State, who stunned then third ranked Florida State last Saturday, and 23rd ranked Mississippi State, who are 5-0 for the first time since 1999. The Jaguars dropped their first conference test last week to Troy, losing 31-10.
Arkansas State senior linebacker Nathan Herrold indicated his unit has worked to improve its rush defense and has practiced adjusting to the multiple formations employed by the Jaguars. The Red Wolves rank 113th nationally against the run, something that can be fixed simply through improved execution said sophomore safety Sterling Young.
It also helps to have sophomore linebacker Qushaun Lee back, as his suspension for a hit during the Alcorn State game caused him to miss the Western Kentucky match. He returned against FIU and notched 12 tackles, an interception and a pass breakup on his way to SBC Defensive Player of the Week honors.
A win for the Red Wolves (3-3, 1-1) would put them over .500 in conference for the first time this season and keep them in contention for a Sun Belt championship heading into a Tuesday night matchup against conference leader Louisiana-Lafayette Oct. 23.
Saturday’s showdown will begin at 6 p.m.
Kim MyoungHyang| Staff PhotographerAristides Polío, the head coach of the soccer club, giving instructions to his students at the beginning of the practice.
New decade, new traditionMen’s soccer club making strides, friendship
Soccer prepares for North Texas
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Shine Huang | Staff Photographer(Above) Members of Lambda Chi Alpha preform the signature dance to “Gangnam Style.”
Staci Vandagriff | Photo EditorLadies of Alpha Omega Pi dressed loudly in green, yellow and purple to
show their good times spirit.
Shine Huang | Staff PhotographerMembers of Delta Zeta show-off their choreography skills during the Steppin’ On Bourbon Street show.
Shine Huang | Staff PhotographerThe ladies of Chi Omega proved to be the best steppers of the night at the Steppin’ On Bourbon Street show
Wednesday night at the Convocation Center.
Shine Huang | Staff PhotographerAlpha Gamma Delta came dressed to impress in gold Wednesday night at the homecoming step show in the Convocation Center.
Paige Walker | Staff Photographer(Left) NPHC members strutted their stuff on the floor following the sororities stepping.
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