DAILY KENT STATER Wednesday, March 3, 2010 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Snow showers HI 31, LO 25 LATEST UPDATES AT KENTWIRED.COM Sign up to receive breaking news updates from Kent State student media at KENTWIRED.COM SPORTS: Mitcheff looks to cement name in record books. Pg 6 WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU: Students will have a chance to be active in learning. Dan Richardson Daily Kent Stater For once, a syllabus is going to tell students to turn on their cell phones. Thomas McNeal and Mark van ’t Hooft of the Research Center for Educational Technology, are working to bring the use of the Quick Response code to the class- room with their Geo-Historian Project. The program was created to investigate using cell phones as a tool to enhance the educational value of historic sites with on- demand multimedia. “They’ve got the phones, and they are practically a computer already. Let them use it,” McNeal said. With the Geo-Historian Proj- ect, McNeal and van ’t Hooft have found an inexpensive method to put this technology to use. “It gives kids a chance to be active in their own learning,” McNeal said. “They’re not just sit- ting back watching something or watching somebody tell it to them. They are doing their own research and making it themselves.” The process involves upload- ing student-created images, videos and sound clips to a host Web site. Students then paste the URL from the hosted data into the QR creating site. The result is a two-dimensional, black and white mosaic that will instantly access the hosted multimedia every time a smart phone’s cam- era scans the code. Although the project has yet to hit the classroom, McNeal and van ’t Hooft have tested its application at the World War II Monument in Washington D.C. with high reviews. The success of the trial run left evidence that the program seems limitless. TECHNOLOGY New project allows cell phones in classroom KSU targets better qualified students RECRUITMENT University revamps advertising campaign Jenna Staul Daily Kent Stater Kent State is adopting a more aggressive strategy to attract out- of-state students as Ohio high school graduation rates continue to decline. The university’s marketing department has stepped up its presence in several specific regions of the country and will revamp its advertising campaign to lure more non-Ohio students to Kent State, said Iris Harvey, vice president of university marketing. “There will be fewer and fewer high school graduates coming out of Northeast Ohio,” Harvey said. “And so a number of things we’re looking at is where else can we find students who have a tendency to leave home to go to school.” They’re finding them in areas such as Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Maryland, Illinois and New York — states where the university plans to heavily advertise itself to potential students. Three years ago, the university hired five additional admissions counselors to focus on bringing in students from those key states. Enrollment of out-of-state students jumped 14 percent over the last year, said David Garcia, vice presi- dent of enrollment management. “The communication flow is a little bit different (when talking to out-of-state students),” Garcia said, adding counselors tend to focus on scholarship opportunities and the campus’ residential options with non-resident students. Garcia said by July, the admissions department and the undergraduate studies depart- ment will add a new position to coordinate alumni recruitment efforts out-of-state. “It’s a greater personalization,” said Harvey, who described the university’s new marketing strat- egy as embracing a more specific analysis of students’ geographic region and background than it did in the past. President Lester Lefton credits this new strategy with bringing in “higher-quality students” to Kent State. This year’s freshman class averaged both a higher high school GPA and composite ACT scores than in previous classes, with a GPA of 3.19, compared to last year’s 3.16, and an ACT score of 22.19, com- pared to last year’s 21.94. “We are marketing, better, smarter with more of an empha- sis on excellence,” Lefton said. “People are starting to recognize that Kent State is a great value. We’re trying to re-assert Kent State as a local, statewide and nationwide source.” See IMAGE, Page 4 See PHONES, Page 4 BRITTANY ANKROM | DAILY KENT STATER Thomas McNeal scans a Quick Response code with his smart phone in his office in Moulton Hall. After the QR code is captured by the camera, on-demand mul- timedia appears on the phone. What is a credit score? A credit score is a three-digit number that shows a person’s credit capabilities. It is calculated from an algorithm used by three credit reporting agencies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — to determine the amount of poten- tial risk for lending people money, said Kelly Paton, pro- gram coordinator for Consumer Credit Counseling Services, a program of Family and Com- munity Services in Ravenna. How is a credit score determined? Paton broke down the five contributing factors that deter- mine a credit score based on the score estimator by FICO, the company that created the credit- scoring model: 35% is payment history — making payments on time, any legal actions against a person in relation to money, such as bank- ruptcy or garnishments and the total amount past due. 30% is amount owed — the available credit being used and if credit cards are maxed out. 15% is the length of credit history — how much time since a person established his/ her first credit account, how long a person has had loans established, such as a car loan or a mortgage. 10% is the type of credits used — these include credit cards, home loans, personal loans, car loans, mortgage, etc., and shows how a person man- ages different types of payments and responsibility. 10% is any new credit appli- cations a person has requested — how many credit applications a person applies for, and how many times someone looked at a person’s credit report to make a decision about a loan. Based on those factors, credi- tors report a person’s informa- tion to the three credit reporting agencies, and then those agen- cies compile the information and publish the report. “ People are starting to recognize that Kent State is a great value. We’re trying to re-assert Kent State as a local, statewide and nationwide source. LESTER LEFTON PRESIDENT KENT STATE IS RECRUITING FROM: n Pennsylvania n New York n Washington, DC n Maryland n Illinois KRISTINA DECKERT | DAILY KENT STATER W hen applying for loans or credit cards, the make-it-or-break-it factor lies within credit scores. But some students do not know what goes into their scores. Sophomore finance major Olivia Blatt said she uses credit cards, but doesn’t know the exact number of her credit score. “I know it’s good, though, because I’ve never made any late payments,” she said. “I’ll figure out what it is eventually, but I don’t have a set idea of when that will be.” It takes years to build good credit such as Blatt’s, but with just a few late payments, stu- dents’ credit scores can drop significantly, delaying their chances of obtaining loans. Knowing the basics of credit scores and maintaining a good score in college can save stu- dents money and serve as the groundwork for a financially responsible future. Courtney Kerrigan | Daily Kent Stater See CREDIT , Page 4 FIVE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS THAT DETER- MINE A CREDIT SCORE BASED ON THE SCORE ESTIMATOR BY FICO 760 849 699 620 850 579 450 619 850 700 619 660 699 450 700 A NUMBER WORTH WATCHING YOUR CREDIT 35% IS PAYMENT HISTORY 30% IS AMOUNT OWED 15% IS LENGTH OF CREDIT HISTORY 10% IS TYPE OF CREDITS USED 10% IS NEW CREDIT APPLICATIONS A PERSON HAS REQUESTED THE FICO SCALE IN A NUTSHELL: (FICO is the company that created the credit-scoring model) 300 IS A LOW SCORE (BAD) 850 IS A HIGH SCORE (GOOD) 680 ANYTHING ABOVE THIS NUMBER IS CONSIDERED GOOD CREDIT 700 THIS IS A GOOD SCORE, BUT THERE’S ROOM TO IMPROVE 650 ANYTHING BELOW THIS NUM- BER MEANS YOU MAY HAVE HIGH DEBTS 700 CREDITORS ARE GENERALLY LOOKING FOR ANYTHING ABOVE THIS NUMBER
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DAILY KENT STATER Wednesday, March 3, 2010 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Snow showers HI 31, LO 25
LATEST UPDATES AT KENTWIRED.COM Sign up to receive breaking news updates from Kent State student media at KENTWIRED.COM
SPORTS: Mitcheff looks to cement name in record books. Pg 6
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU: Students will have a chance to be active in learning.
Dan RichardsonDaily Kent Stater
For once, a syllabus is going to tell students to turn on their cell phones.
Thomas McNeal and Mark van ’t Hooft of the Research Center for Educational Technology, are
working to bring the use of the Quick Response code to the class-room with their Geo-Historian Project. The program was created to investigate using cell phones as a tool to enhance the educational value of historic sites with on-demand multimedia.
“They’ve got the phones, and they are practically a computer already. Let them use it,” McNeal said.
With the Geo-Historian Proj-ect, McNeal and van ’t Hooft have found an inexpensive method to
put this technology to use. “It gives kids a chance to be
active in their own learning,” McNeal said. “They’re not just sit-ting back watching something or watching somebody tell it to them. They are doing their own research and making it themselves.”
The process involves upload-ing student-created images, videos and sound clips to a host Web site. Students then paste the URL from the hosted data into the QR creating site. The result
is a two-dimensional, black and white mosaic that will instantly access the hosted multimedia every time a smart phone’s cam-era scans the code.
Although the project has yet to hit the classroom, McNeal and van ’t Hooft have tested its application at the World War II Monument in Washington D.C. with high reviews. The success of the trial run left evidence that the program seems limitless.
TECHNOLOGY
New project allows cell phones in classroom
KSU targets better qualified students
RECRUITMENT
University revamps advertising campaign Jenna StaulDaily Kent Stater
Kent State is adopting a more aggressive strategy to attract out-of-state students as Ohio high school graduation rates continue to decline.
The university’s marketing department has stepped up its presence in several specific regions of the country and will revamp its advertising campaign to lure more non-Ohio students to Kent State, said Iris Harvey, vice president of university marketing.
“There will be fewer and fewer high school graduates coming out of Northeast Ohio,” Harvey said. “And so a number of things we’re looking at is where else can we find students who have a tendency to leave home to go to school.”
They’re finding them in areas such as Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Maryland, Illinois and New York — states where the university plans to heavily advertise itself to potential students.
Three years ago, the university hired five additional admissions counselors to focus on bringing in students from those key states. Enrollment of out-of-state students jumped 14 percent over the last year, said David Garcia, vice presi-dent of enrollment management.
“The communication flow is a little bit different (when talking to out-of-state students),” Garcia said, adding counselors tend to focus on scholarship opportunities and the campus’ residential options with non-resident students.
Garc ia sa id by July, the admissions department and the undergraduate studies depart-ment will add a new position to coordinate alumni recruitment efforts out-of-state.
“It’s a greater personalization,” said Harvey, who described the university’s new marketing strat-egy as embracing a more specific analysis of students’ geographic region and background than it did in the past.
President Lester Lefton credits this new strategy with bringing in “higher-quality students” to Kent State. This year’s freshman class averaged both a higher high school GPA and composite ACT scores than in previous classes, with a GPA of 3.19, compared to last year’s 3.16, and an ACT score of 22.19, com-pared to last year’s 21.94.
“We are marketing, better, smarter with more of an empha-sis on excellence,” Lefton said. “People are starting to recognize that Kent State is a great value. We’re trying to re-assert Kent State as a local, statewide and nationwide source.”
See IMAGE, Page 4
See PHONES, Page 4
BRITTANY ANKROM | DAILY KENT STATERThomas McNeal scans a Quick Response code with his smart phone in his office in Moulton Hall. After the QR code is captured by the camera, on-demand mul-timedia appears on the phone.
What is a credit score?
A credit score is a three-digit number that shows a person’s credit capabilities.
It is calculated from an algorithm used by three credit reporting agencies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — to determine the amount of poten-tial risk for lending people money, said Kelly Paton, pro-gram coordinator for Consumer Credit Counseling Services, a program of Family and Com-munity Services in Ravenna.
How is a credit score determined?
Paton broke down the five
contributing factors that deter-mine a credit score based on the score estimator by FICO, the company that created the credit-scoring model:
35% is payment history — making payments on time, any legal actions against a person in relation to money, such as bank-ruptcy or garnishments and the total amount past due.
30% is amount owed — the available credit being used and if credit cards are maxed out.
15% is the length of credit history — how much time since a person established his/her first credit account, how long a person has had loans established, such as a car loan or a mortgage.
10% is the type of credits used — these include credit cards, home loans, personal loans, car loans, mortgage, etc., and shows how a person man-ages different types of payments and responsibility.
10% is any new credit appli-cations a person has requested — how many credit applications a person applies for, and how many times someone looked at a person’s credit report to make a decision about a loan.
Based on those factors, credi-tors report a person’s informa-tion to the three credit reporting agencies, and then those agen-cies compile the information and publish the report.
“People are starting to recognize that Kent State is a great value. We’re trying to re-assert Kent State as a local, statewide and nationwide source.
LESTER LEFTONPRESIDENT
KENT STATE IS RECRUITING FROM:n Pennsylvanian New Yorkn Washington, DCn Marylandn Illinois
KRISTINA DECKERT | DAILY KENT STATER
When applying for loans or credit cards, the make-it-or-break-it factor lies within credit scores. But some students do not know what goes into their scores.
Sophomore finance major Olivia Blatt said she uses credit cards, but doesn’t know the exact number of her credit score.
“I know it’s good, though, because I’ve never made any late payments,” she said. “I’ll figure out what it is eventually, but I don’t have a set idea of when that will be.”
It takes years to build good credit such as Blatt’s, but with just a few late payments, stu-dents’ credit scores can drop significantly, delaying their chances of obtaining loans.
Knowing the basics of credit scores and maintaining a good score in college can save stu-dents money and serve as the groundwork for a financially responsible future.
Courtney Kerrigan | Daily Kent Stater
See CREDIT, Page 4
fIvE contributing factors that deter-mine a credit score based on the score estimator by fico
760849699620850579 450
619850
700
619660
699450700
A NUMBER WORTH WATCHING
YOUR CREDIT
35% IS PAYMENT HISTORY
30% IS AMOUNT OWED
15% IS LENGTH OF CREDIT HISTORY
10% IS TYPE OF CREDITS USED
10% IS NEW CREDIT APPLICATIONS A PERSON HAS REqUESTED
THE fICO scale in a nutshell:
(FICO is the company that created the credit-scoring model)
300 IS A LOW SCORE (bAD)
850 IS A HIGH SCORE (GOOD)
680 ANYTHING AbOvE THIS NUMbER IS CONSIDERED GOOD CREDIT
700 THIS IS A GOOD SCORE, bUT THERE’S ROOM TO IMPROvE
650 ANYTHING bELOW THIS NUM-bER MEANS YOU MAY HAvE HIGH DEbTS
700 CREDITORS ARE GENERALLY LOOKING FOR ANYTHING AbOvE THIS NUMbER
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EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s that time of year again: Undergraduate Student Government elections. Throughout the week, the Daily Kent Stater will be running candidate profiles for the nine director and 16 senator positions. The USG election is Tuesday, March 9. Students can vote then by logging onto their FlashLine accounts.
Allison Rapp said she assures students she will not take her student government responsibilities lightly.
Rapp is a sophomore polit-ical science major with a con-
Kevin Papp said he wants to help foster the flow of com-munication between policy makers and students.
“I want to facilitate a strong link between the student body and the local, state and nation-al government,” he said.
Papp is a sophomore inter-
Taiwo Adesina said she wants to put students’ ideas to action.
Adesina is a junior psychol-ogy and pre-med major. She’s running for Director of Aca-demic Affairs.
Brett Fodor said he wants to provide education outside the classroom for students.
“I feel like there’s a gap between education and real world application,” he said.
Fodor is a sophomore phi-
usGELECTIONS 2010
centration in American poli-tics. She’s running for director of governmental affairs.
“Through creat ing a monthly newsletter and holding open forums for dis-cussing legislation, I hope to inform and also excite our student body about govern-mental affairs,” she said.
Rapp said her primary goal is to increase student involvement in politics.
Rapp said she also plans to write grant proposals to receive the funding needed to “continue enhancing our campus.”
— Jessica White
national relations major with a minor in justice studies. He’s running for director of governmental affairs.
Papp said he plans to fre-quently publish bulletins on state legislature and congres-sional issues that affect Kent State students. He said he also wants to hold forums during which students can discuss these issues. Papp said he intends to voice any student concerns to the university, Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio state legislature if necessary.
“Students should have an active voice in legislation that affects them,” he said.
— Jessica White
Adesina said she plans to increase study abroad involve-ment, look into diversity train-ing for college advisers and extend library hours to 24/7 during finals week.
She said she also wants to improve the annual “Meet the Deans” event. Adesina said she would like the event to be more interactive and to give all stu-dents the opportunity to meet deans from every college, in case students are thinking about changing or doubling majors.
“I want to find out what stu-dents need to make their stay at Kent successful,” she said.
— Jessica White
losophy major. He’s running for Director of Academic Affairs.
Fodor said he wants to improve tutoring services and increase student awareness of current events.
“Too many students are detached from prominent issues in our society,” he said.
Fodor said he also wants to institute screening for learning disabilities.
“Many people are unaware they even have a learning disability because they are uneducated on the subject,” he said. “If we provide free testing for STDs, why not learning disabilities?”
— Jessica White
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n Battle of the BandsWhere: RathskellerWhen: 8 p.m.
USG candidates to present goals
Nick GluntDaily Kent Stater
The candidates running for Undergraduate Student Government will be attend-ing ‘Meet the Candidates night’ to tell students their platforms and goals at 6 p.m. today in the Rathskeller.
“It’s basically kind of an open forum,” said Donna Carlton, USG faculty adviser.
There will be a panel that asks questions specifically to the candidates running for each individual posi-tion. It will take a debate style, with candidates giv-ing their own opinions and rebuttals of their opponent’s positions.
Carlton said the forum should last no more than two hours.
The election is March 9. Students can vote on Elec-tion Day for their favorite candidate on FlashLine.
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Passing on the pizza
SUMMARY: So the job market doesn’t look very good to begin with, and now you’re realizing your narrow major could also inhibit you. You have to make sure to take a few extra steps so you can get
that job right out of school.
Richard Mack, a former Ari-zona sheriff, riveted the crowd with his rhetorical magic. The group, “Friends for Liberty,” an umbrella group under the famed “Tea Party Movement,” was held at bay with each clever remark by Mack. And then, with the crowd at his fingertips, it was brought to its feet — 1,400 people in all — as his speech turned to the necessity of confronting a despotic federal government.
“Friends for Liberty” is just one branch of an ever-expanding web of the Tea Party Movement. Members include Ron Paul sup-porters, Aryan Nation supports and Neo-Nazis; gun rights activ-ists, anti-tax crusaders, “birthers” who doubt President Obama’s citi-zenship and the Sovereign States movements. In the background are conservative lobbying groups, most notably FreedomWorks. Also represented are “Oath Keepers” who claim to be “Guardians of the Republic” that recruit military and law enforcement officials and have informal ties with militias. Each group, though, is united by the belief that America is being held captive by a tyrannical dictator and a large federal government.
David Aaronovitch, author of “Voodoo Histories: The Role of Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History,” writes that over-arching theories tend to be “for-mulated by the politically defeated and taken up by the socially defeated.” Many conservatives, still reeling from the election of Barack Obama, have become avid members of this movement, and Sarah Palin has claimed a crown seat for the future. Aaronovitch further writes that, “If it can be proved that there has been a con-spiracy, which has transformed politics and society, then their defeat is not the product of their inherent weakness of unpopularity … it is due to the almost demonic ruthlessness of their enemy.” Thus, for the Tea Party Movement, con-servative members have clamped onto conspiracy theories that makes sense of the current politi-cal and social world. In the case of Obama, it is big federal gov-ernment and centralization –— a tyrannical takeover of America.
As a grassroots protest move-ment, the Tea Party movement is exemplifying its rights that have been vital for America’s democ-racy. Protests and grassroots move-ments have shaped America’s democracy as shown in the 1960s and 1970s with Civil Rights Activ-
DID YOU KNOW?
On this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan began teaching six-year-old Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing after a severe illness at the age of 19 months.— History.com
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DON WRIGHT’S VIEW
Ask not what your major can do for you…Remember how you used to answer
the “What do you want to be when you grow up?” question? You were
probably specific. You wanted to be a fire-fighter with big muscles just like Hulk Hogan. Or you wanted to be a beautiful actress who got to marry a handsome boy from *NSYNC.
You were specific then, and chances are that you are specific now. You want to work at a Fortune 500 company in the next 10 years. Or maybe you want to open your own dance school in a major city. You know exactly what you want to do.
But sometimes it’s not that simple, especial-ly not with the economy the way it is today.
There was never this many major oppor-tunities in history. People used to just open restaurants with a business degree, if even that. They didn’t major in hospitality man-
agement. People also used to start out as a paperboy and work their way up to editor, so you can say the same about the fairly new necessity of a journalism major as well.
This only means that with narrower fields, people will be racing for the same one, single job. So how do you get a one-up on others? Get an internship, even if your major doesn’t require one. Talk to your pro-fessors if you don’t feel as though you’re prepared, they may know a professional you could speak with who could give you a head start.
And never underestimate the power of a connection. As much as you’re sick of mom or dad suggesting you call their friend Pat or Dennis, call them. Even if they’re not the person you needed to talk to, maybe even they can point you in the right direc-tion. People will always be more apt to hire
someone they know previously than a totally new face they know nothing about.
Those of you with majors that don’t even do too well when the recession is in good shape (art, philosophy, English), think about graduate school or a minor. It never hurts to try art education, or minor in business as a philosophy major. This way you can get one career going while you continue to work on your first love.
It’s a rough world out there and things aren’t getting any easier, so make sure you have a one-up on others when you enter the job market.
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Garrison Ebie
Marchaè Grair
What’s your Facebook face?
Put down the guns, let’s talk
ists and Vietnam Marchers, or even seen as recently with the move-ments for gay rights. Democracy is a public square of debate and conversation, of argument and rec-onciliation — a gray area that fuses many ideas and beliefs together.
The Tea Party Movement defies this ideal of democracy. As Mack’s speech suggests, the Tea Party is facing an all-or-none moment, a worldview that pins “the people” against the “Bolshevik” U.S. gov-ernment. The Tea Party movement has created a conspiracy narrative and made it mainstream reality. The Tea Party is envisioning the nation on the verge of war or, as Mrs. Stout, president of a local Tea Party chapter in Sandpoint, Idaho, said, “It (a Civil War) is my deepest fear … I don’t see us being the ones to start it, but I would give up my life for my country.”
Let’s be realistic, though. As history has shown, each generation faces moments of great conflict and disaster whether it was the Ameri-can Civil War or the Lost Gen-eration of World War I, the Great Depression or the Cold War. Today is no different. But anger and the loading of guns, the gathering of militias and the calls for the return of the Articles of Confederation will not solve the problem. The attempt to simplify the world and our nation into black and white boxes, us vs. them ideologies will not bring an end to the constant and difficult changes that charac-terize modernity.
Just as Obama has called for an open debate with Republicans about health care reform, the same needs to be done at the grass-roots level because if we don’t, all of us will be the victims of history. Put down the guns, let’s talk.
David Busch is a senior psychol-ogy and history major and columnist
I am on Facebook too much. I am both a diehard Facebook user and
observer. (Some would call me a Facebook stalker, but they don’t realize how much valuable information one can obtain from social media.)
After I spend hours on Facebook a week, I feel guilty for dedicating my limited time to something so unnecessary.
I start to lose this guilt, however, when I look at people’s profiles when they are obvi-ously on Facebook 10 times more than I am.
As I was Web surfing the other day, I chose to put off chores and school reading to observe a growing Facebook phenom-enon — the Facebook face.
The “Facebook face” is the repeated expression someone uses in the pictures he or she posts on Facebook in an attempt to encourage a certain perception of him-self or herself by the person who views his or her profile.
Facebook users, I write the following with your Internet safety in mind. I am try-ing to protect you from looking like a tool.
Please consider a new Facebook look if you use the following poses on a normal basis:
■ The lip pucker: Girls use this face in pictures to look like they are kissing some-thing or someone who may or may not be in the picture. Unfortunately, girls pucker their lips so hard that a cute face turns into
I bought this laptop a few weeks ago. My life is still the same. One exciting change, though, is that now I can write my columns at work while hiding back behind the deep fryers, always ready to jump up off this milk crate in case I have to do something.
If I had majored in food service, I’d prob-ably have my Ph.D. by now if I received class credit for feeding drunk college stu-dents a bunch of greasy bar food.
For the last three years I’ve been shifting between glorified fast food establishments that specialize in beer and pizza — never earning enough to live comfortably — but also never being required to wake up before noon. It’s a decent trade-off. All I have to do is show up for work, somewhat coher-ent. Then I drop things into a deep fryer for specified amounts of time, count chicken wings and add toppings to large slabs of flat bread.
Believe me though, this takes skill. You don’t just learn the ins and outs of pizza overnight. Experience only comes with a certain amount of failure. And this failure is one of the factors assisting in a conundrum I currently face. More on that later.
But first, when I say “failure,” what I really mean is getting an order wrong. You know when you go to a pizza shop and you try to be really specific about your food, but those idiots in the kitchen get it wrong anyway? Yeah? Then you make them do it over again?
Well whether you know it or not, your
a slightly goofy, and slightly terrifying one. Puckering is for lovers only. Leave your creepy puckered face out of your Facebook photos. You look like a deformed duck.
■ Eyes on the heavens: This face is for people who are obviously taking planned pictures of themselves, but inexplicably looking at the sky. Message to people using this picture: No one thinks your eye roll is that revolutionary. Everyone knows you are standing in your bathroom trying to get the perfect Facebook profile picture. Surprise! It’s not working.
■ Mirror Time: I get it. You have really nice abs. You worked out every day, ate nothing but protein bars, and inked new tattoos the world has to see. This doesn’t mean it’s flattering to get in front of a mirror and take a picture of yourself half-naked for your Facebook. I can see your dirty toilet behind your half-dressed body, and both
prissy tastes are not welcome. Your appre-ciation for crispy chicken, extra mayonnaise and vendetta against onions is not appreci-ated. Kitchen workers like to keep it simple, but there you are, thinking you’re all special.
More often than not, that master con-coction of ingredients that was off by only one variable, which you rejected, was probably eaten by the kitchen staff. Because of this, I’ve eaten a lot of pizza. Maybe I should thank you.
Naturally, kitchen mistakes are not the only things that have brought me to eat dis-gusting amounts pizza. As a college student, pizza is a part of life. I am thoroughly embar-rassed how many weeklong pizza binges I’ve been on through the years. Sometimes I can still walk into a building and immediately detect the faint, glimmering smell of pizza. I can even name the toppings.
However, without any warning, one day my body had enough. Leaving out the details, I can faithfully say that I had over-dosed on pizza. And thus, I cannot eat pizza anymore. I find a slab of dough with tomato
your nudity and soiled toilet disgust me. It’s even worse when mirror offenders
take a picture of their bodies without their faces in it. This leaves the Facebook browser to assume the picture isn’t really that person or that person is pretending to be shy by hid-ing his or her face, when everyone knows he or she is a vain idiot for posting 20 pictures of his or her body in a Facebook album.
■ Toilet Smiles: It will never be cute to take a picture on the toilet and post it on Facebook. But for some reason, plenty of people think it is. I don’t want to think of you having a bowel movement every time I look at your Facebook. Knock it off.
■ Worst Day Ever: If it’s the worst day of your life and you want to cry, why is it your first priority to take a Facebook picture of yourself? The world does not pity you. Stop brooding and get off of Facebook.
There are many more Facebook faces I could warn against, but it looks like my Web-cam is done loading. Time for a photo shoot.
Marchaè Grair is a senior electronic media management major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at [email protected].
sauce and cheese smothered all over the top to be entirely unappealing, and I want no part of it.
That extra pizza at work and a slice or two someone offers to me at a party, I will not touch. Don’t even bother trying. I don’t want any.
Needless to say, pizza is everywhere. It is unavoidable. This newfound distaste came with a price. Not only do I have to look at it every single day, but a fair percentage of food around me is now inedible. What’s worse is that I am almost always hungry, and if not, I will be in an hour. The fact that I now find pizza to be unappetizing is a discourag-ing addition to everyday life.
On the positive side, my cholesterol is now probably somewhere within an accept-able range. What little chubby fat I might have been gaining a year ago is now receding and again I have had to start adding addi-tional holes to my belt.
When I get home tonight, I know what will be somewhere in the kitchen. I have four roommates, and they all love pizza. How-ever tonight, as with most nights, I’ll have to find an alternative. It’s not easy, and if things keep going this way, pretty soon I won’t eat spaghetti either.
Garrison Ebie is a senior electronic media major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater.
The above editorial is the consensus opinion of the Daily Kent Stater editorial
board whose members are listed to the left.
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“You walk the Kent State memo-rial and there are all kinds of written supplemental information provid-ed,” McNeal said. “Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a barcode that you could scan and watch a one-minute video clip with it?”
The idea came from the realiza-tion of the world we live in today. Throughout the nation, cell phones have grown in popularity to the point where a fifth grader having an iPhone is no longer unfathomable, McNeal said. Instead of banning a cell phone from the classroom, teach-ers should be embracing them and finding ways to involve them within the curriculum, he added.
McNeal said the Geo-Historian Project is essentially free, except for the cost of the smart phone.
Through Web sites like ScanLife.com/us, anyone is able to create QR codes and download the scanner and reader application. With the help of free Web sites to host the multime-dia and students filming their own media, the plan can be relatively expense free.
Although the project shows great promise, there are limitations that complicate its expansion. For example, the requirement of a smart phone limits the population who can currently use it, but McNeal said
The university hired Colum-bus-based firm Fahlgren Adver-tising to launch its new ad cam-paign this spring, and production of the new TV spots will begin in the next few weeks, Harvey said.
“It will take a more emo-tional tone,” Harvey said. “More authenticity, probably including a first-person testimonial. I’d like to think more creative, hipper.”
Costs for increasing out-of-state TV and radio advertising have not yet been finalized, but Harvey said the university looks to continue to invest in more per-sonalized contact with prospec-tive students.
What will be noticeably absent from the new advertising push is the “Excellence in Action” slogan that the university took on three years ago.
“You probably won’t see that as our advertising tagline,” Harvey said. “I think it’s more a part of our internal excellence agenda.”
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the popularity of the smart phone makes this less of an issue with time. Another complicating factor is that the same company must make the QR code and the reader.
“If the program gets large enough, someone would have to make the codes universal,” McNeal said. “Right now it’s like having a Verizon phone, therefore you can only call other Verizon phones.”
“I think it could enhance the pop-ularity of museums and places with historical value, while also broad-ening the understanding of travel sites,” said sophomore psychol-ogy major Steve Burton. Burton, the owner of an AT&T Quickfire phone, said he can see some of the complica-tions that lie ahead.
“Not everyone is going to have a smart phone; I know I don’t,” he said. “And in that case, there’s no such thing as a disposable (phone) to take with you when you travel.”
RCET plans to put the Geo-His-torian Project into action this year, starting with three middle school classes in Northeast Ohio.
“Our plan is to first have it local-ized within a few communities, then state,” McNeal said. “Then from there, who knows?”
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The information provided in that credit report determines a person’s credit score, said Greg McBride senior financial analyst for Bank-rate.com.
“Your credit score is based on five different factors, but the two most significant are paying your bills on time and the amount of debt you have,” McBride said.
Both Paton and McBride said a legitimate Web site students can use to obtain their credit reports is www.annualcreditreport.com. They can get one free copy of their credit report from each of the three credit reporting agencies every 12 months.
The reports from the Web site do not include credit scores, but gives the option of purchasing them.
People must give their social security number, date of birth, street address and other information spe-cific to their reports.
What determines a good or bad credit score?
“A good credit score is reflec-tive of a consumer with a low risk of fault, and is based on a solid track record of handling money,” McBride said.
Paton said the higher a credit score is, the better interest rates and fee structures a person will get when paying for loans and credit.
She added that there are other services that base their decisions on credit scores, such as car insur-ance rates and the ability to get a cell phone plan.
The lower the credit score, the more interest a person will have to pay on the same types of loans someone with a high credit score can get for less.
Students may not qualify for credit with a majority of the lenders
out there, Paton said.“Creditors today are being much
more restrictive in lending money, based on the current economic situ-ation,” she said.
Is there an ideal credit score?
The FICO scale ranges from a low of 300 to a high of 850. McBride said anything above 680 is consid-ered to be good credit — a score of 700 is good credit but leaves room for improvement, and those in the 800-range have no worries.
“Most people have a credit score above 700, but the fact is, you have to try hard to have a credit score below 650,” McBride said. “If your credit score is below 650, you’ve stepped out of bounds somewhere — you have very high debts, you’ve made late pay-ments or defaulted on obligations before.”
Paton said creditors today are generally looking for anything above 700.
What should college students focus on with their own scores?
It is important for students to focus on building their credit, but McBride and Paton said it’s not par-ticularly adamant they know what their credit scores are in relation to knowing what is on their credit reports.
“If you’re going to apply for a loan, it’s good to know where you stand and what your negotiating power is, but I think that for a lot of college students, they may not have had the chance to build much credit history, so to pay $8 or $12 for a credit score isn’t going to help too much,” Paton said.
She added that the priority of students should be managing and building the credit they have by making payments on time and making more than minimum pay-ments.
Students should also know that
their parents’ credit scores can affect their ability to take out a loan, but only if the parents apply for a loan to help pay for school, or if they cosign on a loan.
“But it’s not genetic — it’s not something you inherit, so just because mom or dad may have a poor credit score doesn’t mean that you will,” McBride added. “Your credit score is yours and yours alone.”
How do you maintain good credit?
The fundamentals of a good credit score are found in the people who keep their borrowing in rea-son, have track records of repaying what they borrow and make pay-ments on time, McBride said.
“Auto insurance companies, respective employers and respective landlords will all check either your credit score or your credit report, so credit worthiness is often seen as a reflection of your character,” he emphasized.
How can you com-pletely ruin your credit?
If students “bite off more than they can chew financially,” at some point they won’t be able to make their payments, Paton said. With payment history playing the big-gest role in credit scores, making late payments will bring the scores down significantly.
Paton added that applying for a lot of accounts, filing for bankruptcy or having a civil suit against a per-son based on money can also bring down credit scores.
“Credit scores are like a reputa-tion — they take a long time to build up, but they can be destroyed very quickly,” McBride said.
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Today’s birthday (3/3/10)Your willingness to listen to others develops in two ways this year. Your partner(s) have plenty to say about responsibility and work. Your internal source speaks clearly about how you can remain indepen-dent AND satisfy your associates’ demands.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 7. Consider a partner’s demands early in the day. This frees up time to work on independent projects that tickle your imagina-tion. Exchange ideas in a group setting.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 7. Today, all group members come together to discuss the rationale for a project. An older person presents irrefutable logic.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is a 6. Logic is your strongest tool today. Associates have imagi-native ideas that take work in an independent direction. Your job is to bring everything down to earth.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) Today is a 5. While spending time away from home with associ-ates, you refocus thinking on a household project. Perhaps you run across some unique home ac-cessories.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 7. A partner or associate offers clever insight into a problem that has resisted solution. This transforms a great difficulty into a happy conclusion.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7. Just about everyone tells you how much they appreciate your efforts now. These compli-ments spur your creative ideas.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is an 8. Your general health benefits from creative interaction with your favorite person. This could involve recreational sports or artistic pursuits.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is an 8. Your imagination has worked overtime, providing you with the concepts you need to create a practical, logical scheme. Incorporate a healing element. Add good medicine.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is a 7. Don’t allow others to dismiss your creative ideas. Restate your position if necessary. Make sure everyone gets your point.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 6. Logic suggests that you bend under pressure. The best way to accomplish that is to demonstrate generosity (except on key points).
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is an 8. Take time today for rest and healing. You’ve been push-ing hard enough, and now can relax (easier to say than accomplish, maybe).
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 7. The focus shifts to other people. You need their resources. Find creative ways to show why they want to help you. It’s a win-win.
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4-5 bedroom University Townhomes for rent August 2010. Starting at $270/month. Water included. 440-336-6761 www.kenttownhomes.com
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Kent State’s March
MadnessAll sports fans have their
favorite time of year. Wheth-er it’s MLB spring training, college football bowl season or the Super Bowl, there is always something to look forward to.
If you like sports at all, you like March Madness. Even if you haven’t watched a game all season, you will go to ESPN.com, do 20 min-utes of research, fill out a bracket and act like you’re Dick Vitale when you’re talking to your friends, baby! With conference tour-naments starting and the NCAA/NIT tournaments looming, Kent State basket-ball fans have a lot to antici-pate (knock on wood) during March Madness.
But should March Mad-ness at Kent State be all about basketball? Sure, both basketball teams have high expectations going into the Mid-American Conference tournaments next week, but let’s not forget about the “other” Kent State teams and players competing for titles.
Before the MAC basket-ball tournament even starts, the wrestling team will head to Central Michigan Univer-sity this weekend to take its own shot at a conference title.
The No. 16 Flashes boast four wrestlers ranked in the top 15 in the nation, includ-ing sophomore Dustin Kilg-ore who is ranked No.1. No. 8 Danny Mitcheff will not only be competing for anoth-er trip to the NCAA tourna-ment this weekend, but he looks to tie and even break the record for the most wins ever by a Kent State wrestler.
The women’s indoor track and field team already claimed its conference glory by winning the MAC cham-pionships this past weekend. The men’s team did its job as well by placing third in the meet. Princeton Bryson and Diana Dumitrescu earned Most Valuable Performer honors while Destin Heasley claimed Track Athlete of the Meet. The women’s team is also led by the MAC Coach of the Year in Bill Lawson.
To close out the month, the gymnastics team will look to win its third con-secutive MAC crown. In the meantime, the team is hosting No. 12 Kentucky this Friday while trying to maintain a perfect conference record with two MAC meets remaining.
Now I’m not saying that you all should go to Central Michigan this weekend to support the wrestling team or drive to Arkansas to cheer on the track and field team at the NCAA Championships (but, by all means, go to anything if you can), I’m just asking that you simply don’t forget that we have other sports besides basketball.
Sure, we’re not Duke or Kansas or Kentucky, who have a legitamate shot at a national title but we have four teams that can win con-ference titles this month and one that already has. We have a wrestler that, by the time this season is over, could be the most successful wrestler in the history of our program. We have runners, throwers, jumpers, grapplers, floor exercisers, coaches, players and teams that are looking to bring pride and glory to Kent State this month. To me, that is the true definition of March Madness.
Just outside the wrestling locker room, sophomore Dustin Kilgore yelled, “Dan-ny Mitcheff, national champ!
Danny Mitcheff, best wrestler in the world!”
While that may be the opinion of many members of the Kent State wrestling team, Mitcheff himself would never admit it. Even with a record of 28-3 this season, the soft-spoken senior lets his dominance on the mat speak for itself.
“I’m not a very vocal person, so I think I lead more by example,” Mitcheff said. “I just try to do all the right things.”
Laing Kennedy, the athletic director for Kent State, said Mitch-eff politely greets him every morn-ing on his way to practice.
“In my opinion, he just does about his business,” Kennedy said. “He’s not pizazzy like, ‘Hey, look at me.’ He wrestles for the team.”
The road to 126With 125 wins in his collegiate
career, Mitcheff, ranked 10th in the nation at 133 pounds, needs just one more victory to tie Alex Camargo’s record for the most in the program’s history.
“It wasn’t really a big goal, but
I’m happy I have a chance to break it,” Mitcheff said. “I’m proud of myself (for putting) a lot of hard work into wrestling.”
For Kennedy, any Kent State athlete who sets a new record reflects on the athletic program as a whole.
“You say to yourself, ‘This is why we do this,’” Kennedy said. “I’m proud of Danny, who has a chance to break the all-time school record, which is very unusual because of the history and traditions of Kent State wres-tling. He’d be one of our really outstanding student-athletes, at least in my time here.”
With the Mid-American Con-ference Championships this weekend, Mitcheff will have a chance to tie and even break the record. But this is not Mitcheff’s first attempt at getting his name in the record books.
Last Sunday, Mitcheff lost 3-2 to Central Michigan’s seventh-ranked Scotti Sentes (17-5).
Kent State coach Jim Andrassy said Mitcheff has been working all week in practice to make sure he doesn’t make the same mis-takes again.
“Against Central Michigan, he didn’t wrestle his style; he didn’t wrestle his pace,” Andrassy said. “The other kid set the pace and in return, he
finish in the conference tourna-ment his sophomore year. He was even named MAC Wrestler of the Tournament last season.
“If my career is half as good as that, I’ll be happy,” Steve said. “I see that, and it makes me want to do good in wrestling, too.”
Mitcheff said he hopes this success continues as he prepares for the MAC Championships this weekend.
“My goal is to win the tourna-ment and if I get the record, then I have the wins,” he said.
After the three-time national qualifier fell one match short of earning All-American last year, he said his ultimate goal this year is to win the NCAA Cham-pionship.
Andrassy said Mitcheff’s strong work ethic could help him accom-plish that goal.
“I think when Danny wrestles his best, he can beat anyone in the country,” Andrassy said. “I firmly believe that, and Danny believes that.
“Everything he has in life is because he worked hard, not because it was given to him. He’s got a lot of talent, but he works hard. That’s why he’s so successful.”
FILE PHOTO BY JESSICA KANALAS | DAILY KENT STATERKent State senior Danny Mitcheff (133) holds down Central Michigan opponent Scotti Sentes during the meet on Feb. 21. Mitcheff lost to Sentes in the match 3-2. Kent State lost the meet 13-21.
Mitcheff looks to tie wins record
The ROad TO 126
Lance LysowskiDaily Kent Stater
Going into last night’s women’s basketball game, the Flashes needed a win to secure a three seed in next week’s Mid-American Conference tournament.
Kent State earned that spot with a 67-55 victory over Buffalo to com-plete a season sweep over the Bulls.
The Flashes’ star junior duo of Jamilah Humes and Taisja Jones played as well in the regular season finale as they have all season. The two repeated their success last night as Humes led the Flashes’ offense with 25 points, while Jones added 20 points.
“I thought this was a great way to cap off the season,” Humes said. “I think this game will help carry our momentum into the MAC champi-onship.”
After a back-and forth first half, Buffalo lead at the break 27-24, but Kent State responded in the opening
Flashes win regular season finaleminutes of the second stanza.
With 16:03 left in the game, Humes caught a pass from junior guard Stephanie Gibson and drained a jumper, giving the Flashes the 32-31 lead which they would not relinquish.
Following Humes’ basket, Kent State went on a 6-0 run that was capped off by a free throw by Jones.
Buffalo narrowed the deficit to five, but two free throws by Jones and a 3-pointer by sophomore guard Jena Stutzman gave the Flashes the 44-34 lead with 9:06 left in the game.
Humes added that the team increased their intensity in the sec-ond half. While Kent State coach Bob Lindsay gave his defense credit, he said the Bulls’ struggles with posses-sion aided the Flashes victory.
“I thought we played better defensively in the second half. I thought we shot the better in the second half and defended (junior forward) Courtney Brown better,” Lindsay said. “They turned the ball over 27 times, and that helped us. I think we pressured better and forced the turnovers.”
Buffalo cut the Flashes’ lead to four at one point in the second half,
but Kent State’s free throw shooting in the closing minutes sealed the vic-tory.
Kent State held an early lead in the first half, but a 7-2 run over four minutes of play gave Buffalo the advantage with 12:29 left.
The Flashes gained the lead or tied the game eight times before the conclusion of the first half.
The Bulls shot 50 percent from the field in the first half, while Kent State shot 34 percent. The Flashes’ struggles from behind the arc con-tinued as the team shot 0-for-8 from 3-point territory in the first half, but 18 offensive rebounds and Buffalo’s 27 turnovers made the difference.
Since Kent State secured the third seed in the upcoming MAC Tourna-ment, the team will not play until March 10 against the winner of Sat-urday’s game between the number six and eleven seeds.
didn’t have the best match.”Mitcheff said he has been
watching the video of the match to prepare for a rematch with Sentes if the two wrestlers meet again.
“I know I didn’t win, but I think losing kind of helped me figure out a better gameplan for wrestling against (Sentes),” he said. “I’ll definitely try to get more offense going in the first period. Every time I lose, I think I learn something different.”
How it all startedMitcheff started wrestling
when he was 5 years old and the rest is history.
“My dad got me started when I was really young,” Mitcheff said. “I played other sports, but I just felt like I was the best at wrestling and stuck with that.”
Danny grew up wrestling with his brother, Steve, who is also a member of Kent State’s wrestling team. Steve said one of the reasons he chose Kent State was to wrestle with his brother.
“(Danny) said he liked it and that it was a good program,” Steve said. “He’s been here for four years, so he showed me the ropes.”
This year the brothers helped each other out, pushing each other during practice.
“We were drill partners this year,” Danny said. “He makes me work hard and it’s fun. We’re always competing against each other and trying to make each
other better.”Danny laughed when he said
he could beat Steve in a match, but then gave his brother credit.
“He’s tough,” Danny said. “He has better credentials than me from high school. I think he’ll do really well if he stays focused.”
When Danny wrestled for Elyr-ia High School, he went to state championships his freshman and sophomore years while winning it his senior year. He said he was not heavily recruited out of high school due to an injury he suffered in his junior year.
“A couple of schools wanted me, like Ashland and Ohio Uni-versity,” Mitcheff said. “But I came on a visit here and liked it a lot. It was close to home, so it was a good fit.”
Andrassy, who recruited Mitcheff, said he chose him because of his strong offensive attack and advice from his previ-ous wrestling coach.
“I knew his high school coach really well, and (he) kept pushing him my way,” Andrassy said. “He told me he was a good kid with a good character and work ethic.”
‘I’m not even sure what all I’ve won’
During his time at Kent State, Mitcheff has won several titles and awards even he could not remem-ber them all. Some standout moments include last year’s MAC Championship and a second-place
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
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PHOTO COURTESY OF ROB SCHULZ | THE SPECTRUMKent State senior center Lorriane Odhiambo defends Buffalo junior Kourtney Brown last night. The Flashes beat the Bulls 67-55 to clinch the three seed in the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
