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PINE LOG By Samuel Acholem
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Every 10 years, the United States Census Bureau conducts a population count of all individuals in the United States. This year, 2010, is a census year, and members of the SFA community can make history by taking part in the process.
Every year more than $400 billion is dis-tributed by the federal government to state, local and tribal governments based on cen-sus data. This data is also used in local decision-making for developing programs that affect quality of life.
The office of student affairs will be con-ducting a census awareness campaign titled ‘Be Counted Week’, which will run from April 11 to April 16.
“All students attending school this semes-ter are mandated to participate in the census exercise, and students are to be counted in the Nacogdoches County as they are regard-ed as residence of Nacogdoches,” Michael Preston, director of the office of student life, said.
Census form will begin arriving on cam-pus this week. All students in residence halls should begin expecting the forms from the residence hall officers in April or May. The forms are to be filled out and returned to the respective CAs or officers at the front desks.
Students residing in sorority or fraternity houses should fill out the forms and return them to a designated site on campus. Off-campus students will receive theirs in their mail boxes. The completed forms should be mailed to the returning address provided.
Even international students are not ex-cluded from this process, as they are advised to take part in the counting. Non-resident and out-of-state students are not to be counted in their respective home counties.
“Since they spend about nine months of the year in Nacogdoches, they are termed residents of Nacogdoches and their parents/guardians shouldn’t include them in the household forms,” Preston said.
Staff and faculty should expect the forms, which consist of five questions, in the mail.
“They are easy to answer and shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to complete,” Preston said.
“All students should participate, since they constitute a large percentage of Nacogdoches county population,” said Dr. Baker Pattillo, SFA president, in an e-mail to students and
faculty. “Off-campus students living at a par-ticular address are considered one house-hold, as only one form would be sent to that address.
A student who commutes to school and resides full-time at his/her parent’s or guard-ian’s household should be accounted for in the family’s household form.”
If you do not receive the census form, visit the Be Counted Center located in the in-volvement center of the BPSC. Help is avail-able for completing the form for everyone in Nacogdoches. All information provided by participants is deemed confidential and any unlawful disclosure by Census Bureau em-ployee can attract a fine of up to $250,000 or imprisonment of up to five years or both.
For additional details on the 2010 census, visit www.2010census.gov.
By John CovingtonSTAFF WRITER
Mattress Firm Inc. announced the promo-tion of a new senior management team, which includes five SFA graduates, one as president and chief executive officer for the company.
Steve Stagner will take over the leadership of day-to-day operations of the company, which is one of the nation’s top specialty bedding retail-ers with more than 525 stores in 22 states.
An 1991 SFA graduate, Stagner opened his first Mattress Firm franchise store in 1996 in Atlanta. His franchise group Mattress Firm Elite grew to be the company’s largest with 50 stores and over $60 million in sales. Mattress Firm Corporate acquired Mattress Firm Elite in 2005 and Stagner was named president of the com-pany in 2006. His duties as president included merchandising, sales and market training, op-erations and real estate.
“In the last three years we have made six acquisitions, opened five new markets, and opened more than 200 stores under the Mattress Firm banner. I am looking forward to my ex-panded role with Mattress Firm and to the chal-lenges of maintaining an aggressive growth strategy while also continuing to provide our
customers with the unmatched shopping expe-rience that has defined Mattress Firm. I have never been more excited about our potential,” Stagner said in a press release.
Along with Stagner, four other SFA gradu-ates were promoted to the senior management team.
“Currently we have approximately 70 SFA graduates that are part of the Mattress Firm team across the country. We have a long stand-ing relationship with SFASU and we enjoy visit-ing campus several times a year to recruit for our sales and management program,” Stagner said.
“Our company’s success depends on our people, so I am incredibly thankful to have a talented team during this transitional pe-riod to help support the growth of the Mattress Firm brand. The strategic promotions of our sales, merchandising and advertising talent will help facilitate Mattress Firm’s growth in brand awareness and market share,” Stagner said, ac-cording to a press release.
Mattress Firm will hold a Career Fair on Tuesday from noon to 3:45 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. on the third floor of Rusk.
By Holley GaskillSTAFF WRITER
A bright and sunny Saturday shone down upon the SFA Rugby team’s Division III State Championship match against rival team Midwestern State University. The bleachers were crowded with cheering and howling fans as the Jacks went head-to-head, often literally, with the competing team.
The SFA team also won first place in last November’s 12th Annual Rugby Fest, which brought together men’s and women’s teams from all over Texas and Louisiana. The Lumberjacks are fast becoming one of the best in their division across the south, going undefeated in this year’s Division II and III competition.
The game began with a demonstration of the infamous Haka, the war dance of the New Zealand Maori warrior, typically demonstrat-ed before each game of New Zealand’s rugby team, the All Blacks. Led by New Zealand stu-dent Karran Macklin, the Haka is tradition-ally performed as means of intimidating the opposing team and exciting the fans.
To add to the crazy atmosphere of the match, shortly after in the pre-game huddle, one of the coaches, a charismatic Englishman named Fred, warned SFA to avoid being soft on its rivals.
“None of this sort of stuff,” he is reported to have said, reaching over to plant a large kiss on team president and Forney senior Josh “Caveman” Kuykendall’s face. Turning to his fellow teammate, Tommy “The Law” Law, treasurer and Keller senior, Kuykendall told him, “If I get kissed by a British man and lose today, I’m going to have to hurt someone.”
The game, however, was to end in a 32-10 win over MSU, with a large trophy and brag-ging rights as the reward for the SFA Jacks.
“The first half we made a lot of little mis-takes,” Kuykendall said, “But the second half we really stepped up the game. It was the best I’ve seen this team play in the past two years.”
Team captain and Mineola senior PhillipCrash” Hughes agreed. “I am so excited about the win today. I was
definitely proud of the way the guys handled themselves out there.”
Several team members and alumni said they thought Saturday’s crowd was the big-gest turnout in more than about eight years. Some mused that the recent release of the rugby film Invictus may have increased awareness about the sport, while others joked that fans come out of the woodwork when the team starts winning.
Either way, the fans were brilliantly sup-portive, most of them on their feet the whole game; some yelled into bull horns, and a couple even painted themselves purple.
“After the game was over,” Law said, “as we finally raised the trophy, being able to look around at the other guys on the team and knowing they played their hearts out with me for this win was an incredible feeling.”
As is the spirit of rugby, the losing team was able to shrug off the defeat and enjoy the rest of the afternoon with their rivals, the Lumberjacks. After the game was over, both teams joined up in good humor at one of the coach’s homes for a cookout in the beautiful spring weather.
“One of the things people tend to remark on most concerning rugby is the comrade-ship,” Hughes said. “We love to all get togeth-er after a game and just have a good time, win or lose.”
The match marked the final collegiate game of the season, but Hughes says the team will be planning some friendly men’s teams matches for the rest of the semester. Students are encouraged to come check out the team. Information on SFA Rugby can be found in the Recreation Center.
Student Affairs conducting census awareness campaign
SFA alumnus Stagner named new president of Mattress Firm
By Audrey SpencerSTAFF WRITER
SFA’s Interfraternity Council hosted Greek Week, a weeklong com-petition between cam-pus fraternities including both sporting events and community service ac-tivities, last week.
The IFC is a “govern-ing body” for fraterni-ties on campus, with officers elected by chap-ter presidents, accord-ing to Michael Shelton, Mabank junior and IFC vice president. “Greek Week is a week of sport-ing events… and friendly competition.”
In recent years, IFCs across the country, including SFA, have changed their Greek Weeks to revolve less around sports and more around activities to ben-
efit the community.“In past years, the over-
all goal (of Greek Week) was to find out who is the best athlete, but IFC is try-ing to change that,” Jacob Whitehurst, IFC pub-lic relations officer and Frankston junior, said. “We’re trying to reach out and do something for the community. We’re tired of being ridiculed or being seen as guys just playing sports and trying to rip each other’s heads off.”
Last week’s events in-cluded Ultimate Frisbee, basketball, racquetball, volleyball, washers, floor hockey, softball and four-on-four football, as well as a canned food drive for Godtel Ministries and a service day at the Boys & Girls Club of Nacogdoches, helping to clean equipment clos-ets, spread mulch on the
playground, and mow the field, said Shelton.
“Godtel was really ap-preciative. We got about 1,000 cans between 15 fraternities,” Whitehurst said. “The community does a lot for us. Boys & Girls Club helped with Fight Night.”
The move toward more philanthropic projects is part of an effort to change the image of fraternities positively.
“A lot of guys under-stand Greek Week doesn’t have to be about sports. It’s nice to know you won, but there’s more to it than winning… They welcomed the idea with open arms,” Whitehurst said.
“It’s nice for Greeks to come together and help out,” Shelton said. “We like to show Greek life can do more for the community.”
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SFA Rugby new state champions
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Tucked among the pine trees, on the corner of Loop 224 and Old Tyler Road is the charming Lamp-Lite Theatre. It is small, seating only 216. The entry room is decorated with paintings and the lobby walls are adorned with photos from plays. The theatre is spacious. There is plenty of room to walk between the rows of comfort-able seats. The bare rafters al-lude to the humble beginnings of the Lamp-Lite.
Lamp-Lite’s latest produc-tion was William Inge’s award winning play, “Picnic”. “Picnic” opened at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre in 1953 and was turned into a film starring Kim Novak and William Holden in 1955. Lamp-Lite first premiered “Picnic” in 1980.
It is set in a small town in Kansas in 1951. The entire play takes place in the yard between the houses of widowed mother, Flo Owens and divorced neigh-bor, Helen Potts. It is Labor Day and everyone is preparing for the upcoming neighborhood picnic. Flo sees this picnic as more than an opportunity to socialize for her daughters. Flo’s daughters Madge and Millie are different in every way. Madge is the beautiful, older sister, while Millie is the talented, smart one. Madge is looking for more out of life than what her beauty and a small town can offer. Her mother encourages her to pursue marriage with her well-to-do, college educated boyfriend, Allan Seymour, but things change when wanderer, Hal Carter comes to town.
Lamp-Lite’s cast and crew are
all volunteers, but that doesn’t hinder performance. Katy Peppard, (who played Madge Owens) shined, but not alone. Jody Ryan (Flo Owens), Justin Hughes (Allan Seymour), John Hudec (Hal Carter) joined her in the spotlight. Beth Sensabaugh (Helen Potts) and Megan Farrish (Millie Owens) gave brilliant performances as well. However, Linda Pilapil and Lou Ann Dean who played two smaller charac-ters, Irma Kronkite and Christine Schoenwalder, overacted quite a bit, throwing off the play at times. The set was well con-structed and decorated. As well, the costumes were fitting to the time period and added to the scenes.
This play explores many is-sues of the time: gender roles, true love, money and status, and the importance of beauty.
It’s not too late to submit a time sheet of volunteer hours to be eligible for the President’s Volunteer Service Award – the Office of Student Affairs is still willing to accept the service re-cords.
“The deadline was before Spring Break, but we know stu-dents are very busy during that time with midterms and other obligations,” Jamie Bouldin, as-sistant director for student life, said. “We want to make sure that everyone who has volun-teered this year gets counted, so we still really want students to turn in those time sheets.”
Time sheets are available online at http://www.sfasu.edu/studentlife/volunteer.asp or in the Involvement Center on the first floor of the Baker Pattillo Student Center. The sheets should be submitted to [email protected] or the Involvement Center as soon as possible.
Students become eligible for the President’s Volunteer Service Award at 100 hours of service in a 12-month period. SFA’s volunteer calendar year runs from March to March each year. Recipients of the award are recognized at the annual Leadership Awards Banquet on April 29.
Time sheets should record all hours from last March to
March 12, 2010. If students have not turned in any hours, they should turn in hours for the whole year. If they turned in a fall time sheet, they should only document hours that have not
been previously submitted.
For more information, please contact Bouldin at 936-468-1088 or [email protected].
Dr. James V. Reese, former SFA vice president for academic affairs and professor emeritus of history, died Wednesday, March 17, while recovering from cancer surgery.
Dr. Richard Berry, provost and vice president for academic affairs, described Reese as a valued friend, colleague and academic leader.
“He served the University with distinction,” Berry said in an e-mail to the campus community. “His wisdom and humor will be missed by all who knew him.”
Reese, 75, came to SFA in 1977 when he served as dean of liberal arts. In 1985, he was named academic vice president, a position he held through 1992. He taught history until his retirement in 2003.
According to a feature article written by longtime friend Ken Kennamer, former SFA director of University news, Reese began his academic career as a student of mechani-cal engineering at Rice University in the early 1950s. But, he “realized (he wasn’t really cut-out for that and decided on a teaching career in history.”
An esteemed teaching career followed, along with some natural progressions through positions including associate dean of the graduate school at Texas Tech University.
After earning his BA degree in history from Rice in 1957, he added a master’s and doctoral degree in that field from the University of Texas at Austin.
He taught history 15 years at Texas Tech University before moving to Nacogdoches with his wife Shirley in 1977. During his time at Texas Tech, Reese was associate dean of the gradu-ate school and served as interim director of the Texas Tech Museum, which included a grand opening he described as “complete with a Longhorn cattle drive down the main street of Lubbock.”
He explained to Kennamer why he accepted the position as SFA’s dean of liberal arts.
“It was a chance to re-establish contact and activity in the area of undergraduate education, which is a major concern of mine, and the change to be a dean at a good undergradu-ate institution was very appealing,” he said.
“Besides, I never had gotten used to the wind and dust in East Texas.”
Reese’s love of history and commitment to academia was reflected in active participation in the Texas State Historical Association, East Texas Historical Association and National Academic Deans Council. He was appointed to the Sam Houston Sesquicentennial Commission by then Gov. Ann Richards.
A collection of his work, consisting of professional, stu-dent and personal correspondence, historical commissions, museums and other publications, speeches, cards and invi-tations, is housed in the East Texas Research Center at SFA’s Ralph W. Steen Library.
According to the feature story, written in 1988, Reese believed SFA’s greatest challenge was “to find a way to take advantage of a high quality faculty and a residential envi-ronment to create a high quality academic community that people know about.”
An active Democrat all his life, he supported the ACL, Southern Poverty Law Center and many similar groups.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Shirley Reese, who served as principal of Christ Episcopal School. He is survived by his son, James Lee Reese of Austin, daughter Sallie Coach of Pflugerville, and four grandchildren, Trey, Andrew, Audrey and James.
[email protected] Dr. James V. Reese
Former SFA vice president remembered as friend, leader
Blooming flowers first sign of spring
THOMAS MOTYKA/THE PINE LOGAcross campus, vibrant tulips are blooming to signal the end of the cold weather and the beginning of spring. The flowers were planted by the Building and Grounds Department.
Volunteer program still accepting student time sheets for President’s Volunteer Service Award
Lamp-Lite Theatre presents ‘Picnic’
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“Picnic” carries intensity right along with humor. This play was funny and maintained the seriousness and conflict throughout. Peppard, Hudec, Hughes, and Ryan convey raw emotion enticing the viewers to sympathize with all sides. Overall, an excellent and very satisfying performance.
Judging by the age of the crowd at “Picnic” (middle-age and above mostly) it is clear that many students do not know about this hidden wonder. Students should venture off campus and check out the Lamp-Lite. The tickets are reasonably priced at eight dollars for students. The theatre’s next show “The Miracle Worker,” a play about the life of Helen Keller, will open May 14. For more information visit the Lamp-Lite’s Web site, lamplitetheatre.org.
The SFA School of Art and Friends of the Visual Arts will present a one-night screen-ing of “Who Does She Think She Is?” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 2, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches.
The 73-minute film was
directed by Pamela Tanner Boll, co-executive produc-er of the Academy Award-winning Best Documentary Feature “Born Into Brothels.”
“Through the life stories of five women, “Who Does She Think She Is?” explores some of the most problem-
atic intersections of our time: mothering and creativ-ity, partnering and indepen-dence, economics and art,” explained Christian Cutler, director of SFA galleries.
The film invites the audi-ence to consider both the an-cient legacies of women wor-
shipped as cultural muses and more modern times when most people can’t even name a handful of female artists,” he continued.
“Who Does She Think She Is?” was named Best Documentary at the 2008 Baltimore Film Festival and Best of Show at the 2008 Colony Film Festival.
The film is sponsored in part by Nacogdoches Junior Forum and Stephanie Stephens, attorney.
Prior to the screening, a short video about Judy Pfaff, juror for SFA’s “Texas National 2010” competition, will be shown.
For more information, please call (936) 468-1131.
On 3-24-2010 an officer contacted a sus-picious person on Vista Drive. The officer discovered the subject was intoxicated and a danger to himself. The subject was arrested and transported to the Nacogdoches County Jail without incident. There is one suspect.
On 3-25-2010 an officer was dispatched to Lot 54 in reference to a suspicious person. Upon arrival, the officer made contact with the subject and discovered that the sub-ject has been previously issued a criminal trespass warning from SFA’s campus. The subject was arrested and transported to the Nacogdoches County Jail without incident. There is one suspect.
On 3-24-2010 an officer was dispatched to Mays Hall in reference to theft. Upon arrival, the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 3-23-2010 his unattended wallet was possibly stolen at the Music Building. There are no suspects.
On 3-24-2010 an officer was dispatched to the lobby of UPD in reference to harassment. Upon arrival, the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 3-22-2010 a possibly known person created a fictitious Facebook page using her identity. There is one suspect.
On 3-24-2010 an officer was dispatched to Hall 14 in reference to criminal mischief. Upon arrival ,the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 3-24-2010 a glass window was broken out of a door on the third floor stairwell. There are no sus-pects.
On 3-19-2010 an officer was dispatched to the lobby of UPD in reference to a hit-and-run. Upon arrival, the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 3-19-2010 her unattended vehicle was damaged in lot 43. There are no suspects.
On 3-24-2010 an officer was dispatched to Lumberjack Village in reference to bur-
glary of a habitation. Upon arrival, the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 3-23-2010 her laptop was stolen from her unsecured room at Lumberjack Village. There are no suspects.
On 3-22-2010 an officer made contact with a subject in the lobby of Permits and Citations. The officer discovered that the subject had warrants and was also in posses-sion of marijuana. The subject was transport-ed to the Nacogdoches County Jail without incident. There is one suspect.
On 3-21-2010 an officer was dispatched to Hall 20 in reference to criminal mischief. Upon arrival, the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised between 3-16-2010 and 3-21-2010 obscenities were written on her personal bulletin board on her resi-dence door at Hall 20. There are no suspects.
On 3-14-2010 an officer was contacted at the Nacogdoches Baseball Complex in refer-ence to criminal mischief. The complainant advised on an unknown date an unknown person cut a Ford emblem from the left field fence. There are no suspects.
On 3-14-2010 an officer observed three ve-hicles in lot 47 that had been damaged. Three complainants were contacted who advised numerous items had been removed from their vehicle in lot 47. There are no suspects.
On 3-13-2010 an officer observed a subject on SFA’s campus that had been previously issued a criminal trespass warning. The sub-ject was contacted on East College St. and was transported to the Nacogdoches County Jail without incident. There is one suspect.
On 3-13-2010 an officer conducted a traf-fic stop on a vehicle on East College St. The officer made contact with the driver and discovered the driver and the passenger in possession of drug paraphernalia. There are two suspects.
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THOMAS MOTYKA/THE PINE LOGAs part of a continued effort to upgrade and maintain the utility infrastructure throughout campus, the hot and chilled water pipes between the HPE complex and the Education Building are being replaced. Work began on February 22 and will be completed by August 15.
SFA to screen ‘Who Does She Think She Is?’
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THOMAS MOTYKA/THE PINE LOGThe Garner Tower demolition is nearly complete as only the foundation is left. The construction crew has been working to remove the rubble so that construction on the parking garage can begin.
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Anyone who has been on an airplane in the past 10 years knows about the pain and stupidity of airport security. Granted, experi-ences on a personal level differ from airport to airport, and they can be worse at busier times of the day. Nonetheless, the actual “se-curity” aspect of airport security still seems relatively poor.
In the post-9/11 world, security at American airports has come under scrutiny by the masses for being ineffective and slow, and it’s something I can personally vouch for. As the country enters a new decade, the TSA looks to be moving forward with incor-
porating new full-body scanners into airport security around the country.
The scanners are already in use in a num-ber of countries around the world, and have only begun to slowly rollout in airports here in America. Privacy groups and average citi-zens have argued against their adoption in airports, citing it as an invasion of privacy and even “perverted” and misguided.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said earlier this year that we “don’t need to look at naked 8-year-olds and grandmothers to secure air-planes.” Jokes involving Chris Hansen not-withstanding, Chaffetz makes a good point. Are the extra steps to see a few naked people in the line at the airport truly necessary and will they have any impact at all?
Airport security always seems one step behind the people would commit acts of violence and terrorism. Some experts have said that full-body scanners would have stopped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (oth-erwise known as the “underwear bomber”) last December.
I find such a notion to be reminiscent of the cries for policy change following attacks
like those that occurred on 9/11, and even earlier ones such as the Lockerbie bombing. Of course, change isn’t always a bad thing, and it’s good to be able to learn from mis-takes. It begins to become a problem when such mistakes shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
If the TSA wants to make real changes to security that will make a difference, then perhaps we need to do a better job tracking dangerous people and organizations in the first place. The pitfalls associated with the terror watch list have been well publicized, with stories of infants and the elderly citizens being refused boarding airplanes because they happen to share a name with someone suspected of being a threat.
Reforming the watch-list is apparently al-ready underway, but in the meantime the TSA has deemed the full-body scanners to be an effective means of keeping airplanes secure. For me, if it means being able to move through the security line in a matter of minutes, then I could care less who sees a pixilated x-ray image of my naked self.
I can understand people not wanting to be
strip-searched (who would?), and appearing naked is something that irks most people. Considering the limitations of the technolo-gy in question, such as it erasing every image after being scanned and having no kind of storage unit, and the fact that the image in question is as scandalous as an x-ray image of a Barbie Doll, I don’t think that should be the issue here. The issue here is the necessity of the device itself, and how it will truly affect and deter terrorism and violence in the long run. Measuring such an outcome is some-thing that will take some time.
For security, I don’t really mind looking like Dr. Manhattan on a screen for a few brief seconds if it means the plane I’m going on is truly safer. But after dealing with poor policy and bad security for nearly a decade, no flight ever really feels safe anymore – something that’s ironically perpetuated by the same or-ganization that’s sworn to protect us.
Jonathan is a journalism junior from Burlington, NJ.
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Body scanners can’t stop stupidity in airports
Axes Up to staff members of The Pine Log and the Stone Fort yearbook for bringing home awards from the 2010 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association convention.
Caffeinated sodas, alcohol, ciga-rettes, fast food and tanning are all industries that have faced scrutiny. While each industry is vastly dif-ferent than the other, they have all come under fire and faced either rising sin taxes or talk of sin taxes.
One of the first things I heard in reference to healthcare reform passing was the 10 percent tax on indoor tanning. At first, I felt sur-prised the government had chosen the tanning industry to tax, but as I looked deeper, the shock slowly morphed to anger.
I am neither a fan of tanning, nor an avid tanner. I am however, an opponent of sin taxes. I dislike that the government continually
chooses the same industries to tax over and over again, ultimate-ly punishing the same people for no other reason then using their American given right to chose for themselves. Generally cigarette users are the ones who suffer most in terms of sin taxes.
Twenty-nine percent of American smokers live below the poverty line. Continually tax-
ing them causes often times the smoker not to quit ,but make cuts in their lives other than cigarettes. While I would agree smoking is bad for you and does more harm then good, I disagree that the gov-ernment should continually pun-ish someone for smoking. Smoking is legal, and people have a choice whether or not to participate in smoking. Bad decisions should not be replaced by the government making our own decisions. Am I mistaken or is having the right to choose not one of the things that makes America so great?
Originally in the healthcare re-form bill the cosmetic industry was targeted, specifically botox.
Allergan, a producer of botox, quickly and swiftly sought to stop the tax on botox. In one of their statements the company went as far to say “it is unfair and insult-ing” to tax the cosmetic industry that primarily has a female clien-tele. Upon all of the negative re-sponse from the cosmetic industry (which has a heavier pull within Washington than the tanning in-dustry according to critics) tanning was suggested as a replacement. The botox tax would have raised nearly $6 billion over the next de-cade in comparison to the tan-ning tax which is estimated to raise nearly $3 billion.
I find it almost ironic though one of the complaints about taxing botox is the industry mainly caters to women, and women were being unfairly singled out. Last time I checked the tanning industry mainly catered to women as well.
While the tax is being put in place to deter women from tanning and hopefully prevent cases of cancer, it is also being put in place to raise revenue. Another reason I dislike
sin taxes so much is because if the tax itself accomplishes it’s goal of deterring people it ultimately can leave the government in a budget crisis. Budget crises are often why sin taxes are brought about. So when the smokers suddenly quit smoking and the government falls short with the budget they have to look elsewhere to replace that tax with another tax. This is the same thing the tanning tax will encounter.
The tanning industry is already scrambling to try and figure out how to absorb the tax themselves. A majority of the businesses are going to pay the taxes themselves instead of passing it onto the con-sumer for fear of losing clients. Tanning salons are businesses just like any other business in the com-munity. They generate and provide revenue in the form of business taxes within their own communi-ties. A majority are also small busi-ness owners that feel trampled by the government.
People sometimes make poor decisions when it comes to their
health. Industries like fast food, caffeinated soda, tanning, and ap-parently anything else remotely unhealthy will continue to face scrutiny. Instead of holding indi-viduals accountable for their own actions the government will con-tinue to punish each industry as a whole. For every person that eats fast food everyday, and refuses to exercise, their will always be a per-son that is responsible and makes good decisions.
The same can be said for the per-son that tans everyday religiously. That person faces a higher risk of cancer. But there will always be the smart tanners that are careful and make good health decisions. To me, taxing the entire industry and punishing everyone is unjust and unfair. With taxes like these, the government ultimately tries to make our own decisions for us. I will never support sin taxes for this very reason.
Jennifer is a public relations se-nior from Rice.
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New sin taxes anger consumers, ignore issues
Axes Down to the pollen on students’ cars and the coming allergy season.
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By Nicole SperlingENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
How to Train Your Dragon won the weekend box office race with ease, grossing $43.3 million for the three-day frame. (A solid 11.5 percent of that cash came from 187 IMAX theaters.) The DreamWorks Animation film, which has won rave reviews from critics and audiences alike, may well have bowed with a far bigger number had it not been sandwiched between two other high-profile 3-D releases. The Viking-era-set ac-tion-adventure had to share 3-D screens with Alice in Wonderland, which in its fourth weekend in theaters managed to claim $17.3 million of box office gross, a respectable 49% drop that leaves the Tim Burton-directed film on the precipice of $300 million total. Dragon should enjoy solid grosses during the upcoming week with kids across the country out of school for spring break, but it’s likely to get squeezed next weekend when the highly anticipated Clash of the Titans rolls into 3-D theaters with a vengeance.
Hot Tub Time Machine bowed to an estimated $13.6 million for its opening weekend, good enough to claim third place. The R-rated ’80s nostalgia fest starring John Cusack drew in a crowd mostly over age 25, playing strong on the two coasts and in college towns, while underper-forming in the South. The movie, from director Steve Pink, generated a B from Cinemascore, a response that doesn’t necessarily portend a strong second weekend. Surprisingly, The Bounty Hunter, which debuted last weekend in third place, held in well its sophomoªºe session, drop-ping only 40% for an additional $12.4 million. The Jennifer Aniston-Gerard Butler-starrer has now grossed $38.8 million total. Diary of a Wimpy Kid suffered from Dragon competition. The well-reviewed film fell 55% in its second weekend to $10 million and a fifth-place finish. The movie’s
two-week take now stands at $35.7 million.She’s Out of My League landed in the sixth spot
in its third weekend with another $3.5 million and a total gross of $25.6 million. Green Zonetook in $3.3 million; total gross for this expensive Matt Damon-starrer stands at only $30.4 million after three weekends. The Leonardo DiCaprio-Martin Scorsese thriller Shutter Island earned another $3.2 million for a six-week total of $120 million. Repo Men landed in 9th spot with $3 million. The Jude Law-Forest Whitaker-starrer has grossed only $11.3 million after two week-ends. Our Family Wedding rounded out the top ten with an additional $2.2 million. The film has earned $16.7 million in three weeks.
Limited release films are not scoring well with audiences lately, despite boasting a solid pedigree of talent. For example, Atom Egoyan’s R-rated drama Chloe starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried earned just over $1 million. Opening in 350 theaters, the film scored a weak per-screen average of $2,863. The second weekend of Greenberg and The Runaways didn’t earn much better results. Even with the star power of Ben Stiller, the Noah Baumbach film grossed only $1 million, though with a per-screen average of $5,850. Meanwhile, the Kristen Stewart-Dakota Fanning-starrer The Runaways grossed $445,810 its second weekend in theaters. On 237 screens, the film’s per-screen was a weak $1,881 and its total is only $1.57 million.
Despite solid turns from the new releases, the overall weekend was down compared with last year at this time, when Monsters vs. Aliens bowed to $59.3 million. The difference: MVA had the 3-D screens all to itself. Next weekend sure will be interesting when three studios are competing to hold on to those coveted extra-dimensional theaters.
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COURTESY PHOTODreamworks’ How to Train a Dragon took the top spot this weekend at the box office with a respectable $43.3 million. Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland managed to earn another $17.3 million to bring its cumulative total to $293 million.
FILM: Hot off a starring role in Cameron’s all-time-box-office-champ Avatar, Sam Worthington takes on another special effects-driv-en popcorn flick with Clash of the Titans in 3D. He’s joined by legit-thesps-slumming Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes in the story of how Zeus’s mortal son embarks on a jour-ney to stop evil and its minions from speading from the underworld yada yada yada. Let’s be realistic: you’re going to see a lot of high-octane ac-tion intermittenly disrupted by lines of dialogue and shoddy character de-velopment. Might be fun, though.
DVD: Carey Mulligan was nomi-nated for an Academy Award for her instant-classic-coming-of-age per-formance as a wide-eyed wannabe sophisticate in one of 2009’s finest dramas, An Education. Her 16-year-
old Jenny wants to break free of her claustrophobic middle-class London existence and go to France and smoke and listen to jazz and drink cock-tails and be cultured. When Peter Saarsgard enters the picture as an older smoothie too good to be true, she finds that’s she no match quite yet for the real world. Wonderfully scripted, performed, and directed, this DVD should go to the top of your Netflix queue.
TELEVISION: I’m pleased to an-nounce the arrival of a very good new series on a channel that de-serves consideration alongside AMC and HBO as one of the boob tube’s premiere pay-cable channels: FX’s Justified, starring Timothy Olyphant of Deadwood fame as U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, reassigned to his hometown in Kentucky after a shoot-
ing incident in Miami rubs the suits the wrong way. Once stationed back home, Givens crosses paths with some interesting characters from his past, mainly an old friend turned criminal played by The Shield alum Walton Goggins and an ex-wife who tells Givens, “you’re the angriest man I ever met.” While it’d be a lie to say that a deep well of anger doesn’t mo-tivate Givens, Olyphant plays him as a Zen master with occasional flashes of fury in his eyes. The show itself is an intricately plotted, atmospheric crime show that’s as good as they come on TV, but more than anything, after only 2 episodes, it feels like a character piece with one of televi-sion’s most compelling protagonists at its center. Tuesday nights at 9 o’clock on FX.
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COURTESY PHOTOTimothy Olyphant stars in Justified.
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sportsPage Six Monday, March 29, 2010Pine LogThe
The SFA men's and wom-en's track and field team re-corded an impressive outing on the final day of the Bobby Lane Invitational in Arlington, Texas Saturday afternoon.
The Ladyjacks' jumps squad brought home the two individual titles. Silent-Joy Egboba-Waye, Lancaster se-nior, won the women's long jump with a mark of 6.08 meters. The second individ-ual title came in the triple jump where Camelia Sams, Longview junior, posted a jump of 12.22 meters to win the event. In both events, SFA placed two athletes in the top five.
Crystal Walker, Oak Cliff freshman, finished fourth in the long jump with a mark of 5.79 meters, while Kelli Hermes, Victoria freshman, finished just behind Sams in the triple (11.97m). Egboba-Waye returned to action in the 100-meter hurdles where she posted a time of 14.27 to finish fourth overall.
SFA had several other ath-letes who just missed individ-ual titles at the Bobby Lane Invitational. Thrower Jon Arthur, Brazoswood sopho-more, finished second in the shot put with a toss of 16.67 meters. Arthur also posted a top-five finish in the hammer throw. The Ladyjacks team of Brittany Shorter, Guyer soph-omore, Amahra Edwards, Fort Worth freshman, Mary
Dickerson, Groveton sopho-more, and Lauren Watts, Forney sophomore, clocked a time of 3:48.61 to finish sec-ond in the women's 4X400-meter relay.
Tabitha Riley, Carrollton senior, and Carrie Hahn, Vista Ridge sophomore, both came up short of their bid for an individual title in the high jump. The duo both cleared a height of 1.68 meters to finish tied for third overall. Frednisha Marshall, Tyler se-nior, and Marcus Rosendall, Arlington sophomore, also recorded third-place finishes in their respective events. Marshall recorded a throw 51.23 meters in the ham-mer throw, while Rosendall cleared a height of 2.01 me-ters in the high jump.
Other Lumberjacks who recorded strong outings in Arlington consisted of Josh Cruse, Woodville senior, and Nick McCloud, Tyler sopho-more, Cruse was fourth in the triple jump with a mark of 14.45 meters, while McCloud placed fourth in the 110-meter hurdles (14.30).
Macy Wade, Crandall sophomore, and Megan Harlan, McGregor junior, re-corded top-five finishes in the their respective events. Wade cleared a height of 3.35 me-ters to finish fifth in the pole vault, while Harlan recorded a throw of 39.72 meters to fin-ish fifth in the javelin.
Ladyjacks record two individual titles at UTAEgboba-Waye, Sams bring home titles in the long and triple jumps
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sFA Rips Cowgirls in a weekend
Jerid scarafiotti, shreveport sophomore, earns a base in Tuesday’s loss against Uh. The sFA baseball team gave up a seven-run second inning to the University of houston last Tuesday, and the Cougars cruised the rest of the way in taking a 10-3 win at Jaycees Field. game two of the series was cancelled due to inclement weather in houston and the Jacks were well rested when they earned a win in their first game of a three game series against nicholls at Ray e. Didier Field on Friday 9-2. After being run-ruled on saturday 11-1, The Jacks picked up another victory against the Colonels (17-10) on sunday to win the series.The Jacks are currently 15-7, 6-2 in conference play with their next six games to be played
A day after pounding out five home runs against McNeese State in a series-opening doubleheader sweep, the SFA Ladyjacks blasted three more long balls on Sunday on the way to a run-rule-shortened 9-1 verdict at Cowgirl Diamond. The win gives SFA its second series sweep of the Southland Conference season and keeps the Ladyjacks on top in the league standings.
SFA improves to 17-8 on the year and 10-2 in Southland play, while McNeese State falls to 18-19 overall and 6-9 in conference action. The Ladyjacks have now won four straight games and 14 of their last 16 contests.
Kendal Harper, Palmer senior, and Jillian Bussell, Tomball freshman, each homered for the first time this season, while Ashley Struchtemeyer, Plano junior, ripped her third home run of the series.
Starter Monika Covington, Huffmanjunior, (7-5) kept the McNeese bats quiet as she spread five hits over five innings before giving up a solo home run to Molly Guidry in the bottom of the sixth. Covington didn't issue a walk and struck out eight.
SFA got on the board with Harper's two-run homer in the top of the third. Amber Price, Leander sophomore, had drawn a one-out walk two at-bats before Harper came to the plate.
The Ladyjacks added three more runs in the fourth. Kayla Gutowski, Tomball sophomore, led off with a double - her third extra-base hit of the series - then cruised home on Struchtemeyer's fifth home run of the year. The junior second baseman went deep in each of Saturday's wins and finished the series with seven RBI.
Brittany Caruthers, Midlothian freshman, chased the long ball with a double to right-center and was lifted for pinch-runner
Michele Huffman, Keller senior. Huffman took third on a passed ball, then scored on a squeeze bunt by Amber Price, Leander sophomore, to give SFA a 5-0 lead.
The Ladyjacks played small ball to add a run in the fifth. Briana Bishop, College Station senior, led off with an opposite-field single to right, then stole second. Krista Hallmark, Tomball sophomore, came in to run and moved to third on a base knock by Gutowski. The next batter, Caruthers, brought Hallmark across with a single up the middle.
SFA put the game away with a pinch-hit, three-run homer by Bussell in the top of the sixth. After Price drew a leadoff walk and Harper reached on a fielder's choice, Bussell came in to bat for Jessica Arana, The Woodlands sophomore. The freshman re-sponded by belting a home run to center for her first career long ball.
Covington worked around Guidry's home run and a single by Dani Price, striking out the side in the bottom half to preserve the eight-run cushion and end the game early.
With only one exception, every Ladyjack that got an at-bat in the game, registered a base hit. Gutowski went 3-for-4, and Caruthers was 2-for-4. Bethany Brown, Magnolia freshman, Harper, Arana, Bussell, Bishop and Struchtemeyer each hit safely once.
As a team, the Ladyjacks blasted eight home runs in the series and outscored McNeese, 22-5.
SFA will be back on the diamond Friday, when the Ladyjacks open a three-game set at home against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The series-opening doubleheader is set to start at 1 p.m. at SFA Field.
Softball beats McNeese in Saturday’s doubleheader 6-4, 7-0, closes sweep on Sunday with 9-1 run-rule win
