Who needs friends in real life when I could meet them on the Internet? While the Residence Life online application was developed in 2010 to make housing sign-ups easier, three years later, students are still struggling with the online portal. e problems students are having range from not getting emails to having no clue how the portal works. Brett Shirley, a junior psychology major of Bono, said his experience with the online application has been difficult. “It’s not too hard signing up as an individual, but it gets difficult when trying to sign up two or more people,” Shirley said. Patrick Dixon, director of Residence Life and as- sociate dean, said that most of the problems come from a low amount of housing availability. “I think that some of the challenges that our stu- dents have faced include sometimes we run out of rooms and that’s not a product of (the program) it’s just a product that there’s a higher demand of num- ber of rooms,” Dixon said. “at’s really stressful for some of our students.” said that an online application was a necessary step forward. “e reason that we (started it) was because we wanted to provide a better customer service component to our sign-up process,” Dixon said. Joshua Pock, a sophomore music major of Bates- ville, thinks that the sign up process should revert back to personally signing up in the of- fice. “When a lot of people are signing up at the same time, using the application at the same time, it causes it to crash,” Pock said. Dixon explained that before the on- line application the sign up process would consist of lines extending all the way out the building. “Our goal was to end the lines and to allow the students to have more control and flexibility when they went through sign up,” Dixon said. “I do prefer the online application,” Shirley said. “e digital access is much more efficient and reliable.” Dixon said there is a notable differ- ence in the amount of people lining up in the Residence Life office. “e only time we do see lines is when we have the no-questions-asked room changes, but other than that peo- ple are able to go into the computer, book the room and get roommates together,” Dixon said. “It has also made us greener. We don’t have as many files as we used to have to maintain. It has made it more efficient for us.” Dixon said the good feedback he has received comes from faster sign-ups and hassle-free to people enjoying the ability Vice Chancellor for Fi- nance Len Frey addressed the Faculty Senate at their Friday meeting, regarding the recent news of IRS Tax fraud involv- ing ASU Faculty. To date, 30 faculty mem- bers are known to have been affected by the information breech, according to Len Frey, vice chancellor for fi- nance. “We are trying to narrow down and determine where it is the breach of security oc- curred,” Frey said. “e like- lihood of identifying it grows each day, but we may never know.” Frey had a realistic mes- sage to share with senate members. “e bigger picture is, we live in the 21st century, we are all at risk,” he said. “In reality, the only thing [the hackers] needed were Social Security numbers.” On Tuesday and Wednes- day, emails were sent out to the faculty encouraging them to visit the IRS web- site to check that their re- turns had not been compro- mised. “A lot of people have checked, and their returns are not fraudulent,” Frey said. “But as a blanket statement, I would say everyone should check.” e finance department was originally informed of this crisis when campus em- ployees reported IRS letters explaining their returns had been flagged for potential problems. “But just because you don’t have the letter yet doesn’t mean it hasn’t hap- pened,” Frey cautioned. Frey expects a meeting to be scheduled next week for all faculty who have been affected or are concerned about this crisis. e new A-State website, launched in January, has been met with some mixed feelings among students and faculty. According to Todd Clark, of the university’s marketing and communica- tions department, IT services is still working to correct and further improve upon those changes, according to Todd Clark of university marketing and communications. “e goal was to enhance the way we do things on- line,’ Clark said. “We’ve taken some major strides on tack- ling the problems people are having on sites, and we are working every day to improve those issues.” Clark emphasized the website change was not an instantaneous, one-time ad- justment. “is isn’t a proj- ect we can flip the switch and walk away from,” he said. “ere is a full set of changes to be implemented over the next 18 months.” Clark also stated that the website’s designers still have at least three major projects left on the agenda. e first is working on a revised struc- ture for degree information, which would allow prospec- ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ON THE WEB www.ASUHerald.com Informing the campus and community since 1921 Volume 92, Issue 33 Baseball The Red Wolves opened their baseball season this weekend, taking on the Bradley Braves. Sports 4 Monday, February 18, 2013 is week in history: In 1989, SGA and Faculty Senate approved the scheduling of Spring Break to always be the third week in March. “ “ Days left until Spring Break 28 Opinion|2 Quoteable What’s Inside Opinion ......................... 2 Sports............................ 4 News............................... 3 Staci Vandagriff | Staff Photographer Len Frey, vice chancellor for Finance and Administration, speaks with the faculty senate about steps they can take to find out if they’ve been affected by the recent problem of possible fraudulent filing of employee tax returns during their meeting Friday afternoon in the Delta Economic Center. BETHANY GALLIMORE STAFF WRITER FRAUD, 3 Faculty Senate addresses IRS fraud Students struggle with online housing Takako Okumura | Staff Photographer S-TAC carries legacy e Strong-Turner Alum- ni Chapter of the ASU Alum- ni Association is celebrating 30 years since the establish- ment of the organization in 1982. It was founded by black alumni to carry the legacy and promote essentials for African-Americans’ educa- tion. e chapter was named after Walter B. Strong and Fred C. Turner, who were the first two black males to graduate from ASU in 1959 and 1960. e organization wanted to honor these two men and serve the purpose of informing and advocating the black community. Strong-Turner hosts events such as the annual Soul Day, which was in its eighth year on Feb. 7, and the annual Black Alumni Re- union, which will be the third annual April 19-21. e annual Black Alumni Reunion isn’t just in honor of S-TAC, but also in honor of the black Greeks on campus and the Black Student Asso- ciation (BSA). It is 40 years for black Greeks and 45 years for BSA. Every October, S-TAC hosts events during home- coming weekend. Last year, the organization and the ASU Alumni Association hosted a free outdoor concert featur- ing the Ohio Players. e organization doesn’t only support the unity of African-Americans, but also promotes the welfare of the university and its Alumni As- sociation. Strong and Turner es- tablished something greater than history; they created an opportunity for all blacks to have the same education as others. eir past realized a future of possibilities in the present. Angela Austin, historian for the Strong-Turner Alum- ni Chapter, said, “e chapter was established in 1982 as a HOUSING, 3 S-TAC, 3 Arkansas State named Best for Vets ASU has been working very hard to keep up with the educational needs of veterans, and it shows. One thing ASU is doing: ey are responding to publi- cations that examine and rank colleges in an effort to find which schools are, “doing the most for veterans.” e “Mili- tary Times” is one of those publications. e “Military Times” is a newsweek- ly, print and online, publication that ca- ters to military personnel and veterans. at means if a college wants veterans within their student body, what the Mil- itary Times has to say matters. e Military Times has ranked ASU among the best colleges in the country for veterans in the pursuit of a higher education. As of Tuesday, 433 veterans attending classes at ASU, said Kathy Mathes, ASU Veteran’s Representative. With so many student veterans, it stands to reason that the administration would want to know how ASU ranks among other universities around the nation. ere were 650 colleges and univer- sities that the “Military Times” looked at, and out of them, 510 fell into the same category as ASU. ey collected information from each of these schools to find out which schools would benefit veterans the most. ASU ranked number 31 overall, the top 6 percent. e Times collected and evaluated data from many categories: college cred- it for military training, tuition cost, re- laxed residency rules, graduation rates and number of veteran-focused staff. ey looked at accreditation and stu- dent loan default rates. e methodolo- gy, while not exhaustive, is very impres- sive. Mathes said, “ASU hovers near the top of the Military Times list for best col- leges, but this year there are way more schools participating in the survey.” e services provided through the Beck Pride Center became a major fac- tor contributing to the excellent ranking, according to a recent ASU press release. e Beck Pride Center was founded in late 2007 as a result of a generous con- tribution from a former ASU graduate, class of 1961, Buddy Beck of Fairfax, VA. e center started with a staff of one and has come a long way, now serving 170 TANYA GIRALDO NEWS EDITOR Paige Walker | Staff Photographer The Hall of Heroes is located at the east entrance of the Military Sci- ence building. The room is dedicated to ROTC alumnus who have rep- resented ASU, served with the government, or participated in other heroic service. VETS, 3 KEN CHITWOOD STAFF WRITER
Transcript
Who needs friends in real life
when I could meet them on the
Internet?
While the Residence Life online application was developed in 2010 to make housing sign-ups easier, three years later, students are still struggling with the online portal.
The problems students are having range from not getting emails to having no clue how the portal works.
Brett Shirley, a junior psychology major of Bono, said his experience with the online application has been difficult. “It’s not too hard signing up as an individual, but it gets difficult when trying to sign up two or more people,” Shirley said.
Patrick Dixon, director of Residence Life and as-sociate dean, said that most of the problems come from a low amount of housing availability.
“I think that some of the challenges that our stu-dents have faced include sometimes we run out of rooms and that’s not a product of (the program) it’s just a product that there’s a higher demand of num-ber of rooms,” Dixon said. “That’s really stressful for some of our students.”
said that an online application was a necessary step forward. “The reason that we (started it) was because we wanted to provide a better customer service component to our sign-up process,” Dixon said.
Joshua Pock, a sophomore music major of Bates-ville, thinks that the sign up process should revert
back to personally signing up in the of-fice. “When a lot of people are signing up at the same time, using the application at the same time, it causes it to crash,” Pock said.
Dixon explained that before the on-line application the sign up process would consist of lines extending all the way out the building. “Our goal was to end the lines and to allow the students to have more control and flexibility when they went through sign up,” Dixon said.
“I do prefer the online application,” Shirley said. “The digital access is much more efficient and reliable.”
Dixon said there is a notable differ-ence in the amount of people lining up in the Residence Life office.
“The only time we do see lines is when we have the no-questions-asked room changes, but other than that peo-ple are able to go into the computer, book the room and get roommates together,” Dixon said. “It has also made us greener. We don’t have as many files as we used to have to maintain. It has made it more efficient for us.”
Dixon said the good feedback he has received comes from faster sign-ups and hassle-free to people enjoying the ability
Vice Chancellor for Fi-nance Len Frey addressed the Faculty Senate at their Friday meeting, regarding the recent news of IRS Tax fraud involv-ing ASU Faculty.
To date, 30 faculty mem-bers are known to have been affected by the information breech, according to Len Frey, vice chancellor for fi-nance.
“We are trying to narrow down and determine where it is the breach of security oc-curred,” Frey said. “The like-lihood of identifying it grows each day, but we may never know.”
Frey had a realistic mes-sage to share with senate members. “The bigger picture is, we live in the 21st century, we are all at risk,” he said. “In reality, the only thing [the hackers] needed were Social Security numbers.”
On Tuesday and Wednes-day, emails were sent out to
the faculty encouraging them to visit the IRS web-site to check that their re-
turns had not been compro-mised. “A lot of people have checked, and their returns are not fraudulent,” Frey said. “But as a blanket statement, I would say everyone should check.”
The finance department was originally informed of this crisis when campus em-ployees reported IRS letters explaining their returns had been flagged for potential problems. “But just because you don’t have the letter yet doesn’t mean it hasn’t hap-pened,” Frey cautioned.
Frey expects a meeting to be scheduled next week for all faculty who have been affected or are concerned about this crisis.
The new A-State website, launched in January, has been met with some mixed feelings among students and faculty. According to Todd Clark, of the university’s
marketing and communica-tions department, IT services is still working to correct and further improve upon those changes, according to Todd Clark of university marketing and communications.
“The goal was to enhance the way we do things on-line,’ Clark said. “We’ve taken some major strides on tack-ling the problems people are having on sites, and we are working every day to improve those issues.”
Clark emphasized the website change was not an instantaneous, one-time ad-justment. “This isn’t a proj-ect we can flip the switch and walk away from,” he said. “There is a full set of changes to be implemented over the next 18 months.”
Clark also stated that the website’s designers still have at least three major projects left on the agenda. The first is working on a revised struc-ture for degree information, which would allow prospec-
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Monday, February 18, 2013
This week in history:In 1989, SGA and Faculty Senate approved the scheduling of Spring Break to always be the third week in March.
Staci Vandagriff | Staff PhotographerLen Frey, vice chancellor for Finance and Administration, speaks with the faculty senate about steps they can take to find out if they’ve been affected by the recent problem of possible fraudulent filing of employee tax returns during their meeting Friday afternoon in the Delta Economic Center.
BETHANY GALLIMORESTAFF WRITER
FRAUD, 3
Faculty Senate addresses IRS fraud
Students struggle with online housing
Takako Okumura | Staff Photographer
S-TAC carries legacy
The Strong-Turner Alum-ni Chapter of the ASU Alum-ni Association is celebrating 30 years since the establish-ment of the organization in 1982. It was founded by black alumni to carry the legacy and promote essentials for African-Americans’ educa-tion.
The chapter was named after Walter B. Strong and Fred C. Turner, who were the first two black males to graduate from ASU in 1959 and 1960. The organization wanted to honor these two men and serve the purpose of informing and advocating the black community.
Strong-Turner hosts events such as the annual Soul Day, which was in its eighth year on Feb. 7, and the annual Black Alumni Re-union, which will be the third annual April 19-21.
The annual Black Alumni Reunion isn’t just in honor of S-TAC, but also in honor of the black Greeks on campus and the Black Student Asso-ciation (BSA). It is 40 years for black Greeks and 45 years for BSA.
Every October, S-TAC hosts events during home-coming weekend. Last year, the organization and the ASU Alumni Association hosted a free outdoor concert featur-ing the Ohio Players.
The organization doesn’t only support the unity of African-Americans, but also promotes the welfare of the university and its Alumni As-sociation.
Strong and Turner es-tablished something greater than history; they created an opportunity for all blacks to have the same education as others. Their past realized a future of possibilities in the present.
Angela Austin, historian for the Strong-Turner Alum-ni Chapter, said, “The chapter was established in 1982 as a
HOUSING, 3
S-TAC, 3
Arkansas State named Best for VetsASU has been working very hard to
keep up with the educational needs of veterans, and it shows. One thing ASU is doing: They are responding to publi-cations that examine and rank colleges in an effort to find which schools are, “doing the most for veterans.” The “Mili-tary Times” is one of those publications.
The “Military Times” is a newsweek-ly, print and online, publication that ca-ters to military personnel and veterans. That means if a college wants veterans within their student body, what the Mil-itary Times has to say matters.
The Military Times has ranked ASU among the best colleges in the country for veterans in the pursuit of a higher
education. As of Tuesday, 433 veterans attending classes at ASU, said Kathy Mathes, ASU Veteran’s Representative. With so many student veterans, it stands to reason that the administration would want to know how ASU ranks among other universities around the nation.
There were 650 colleges and univer-sities that the “Military Times” looked at, and out of them, 510 fell into the same category as ASU. They collected information from each of these schools to find out which schools would benefit veterans the most. ASU ranked number 31 overall, the top 6 percent.
The Times collected and evaluated data from many categories: college cred-it for military training, tuition cost, re-laxed residency rules, graduation rates
and number of veteran-focused staff. They looked at accreditation and stu-dent loan default rates. The methodolo-gy, while not exhaustive, is very impres-sive.
Mathes said, “ASU hovers near the top of the Military Times list for best col-leges, but this year there are way more schools participating in the survey.”
The services provided through the Beck Pride Center became a major fac-tor contributing to the excellent ranking, according to a recent ASU press release.
The Beck Pride Center was founded in late 2007 as a result of a generous con-tribution from a former ASU graduate, class of 1961, Buddy Beck of Fairfax, VA. The center started with a staff of one and has come a long way, now serving 170
TANYA GIRALDONEWS EDITOR
Paige Walker | Staff PhotographerThe Hall of Heroes is located at the east entrance of the Military Sci-ence building. The room is dedicated to ROTC alumnus who have rep-resented ASU, served with the government, or participated in other heroic service.
VETS, 3
KEN CHITWOODSTAFF WRITER
With meteors hitting Rus-sia, tornadoes hitting Mis-sissippi and the recent raft of mass shootings, students at ASU might be wondering about their safety on campus.
If you research campus safety concerns online you will most likely find yourself staring at www.campussafet-ymagazine.com.
After looking through their stories, it is clear that preparation for campus emergencies are a big issue and that the university needs reevaluate the university’s preparations for emergen-cies.
The student handbook on ASU’s website has in-structions for some standard emergencies including fire and tornado drills.
When the fire alarm sounds students are required to exit the building, maintain a distance from the building of 100 feet and may only en-ter the building when cleared by a university official.
For tornadoes students are required to go to the lowest part of the building. When a storm strikes, students are to crouch down with their head between your knees with your hands above your head, and may leave when cleared by an official.
While the handbook has good plans for these, what of
other emergencies? Consider the email that
was sent out one week ago about earthquakes.
The moment you opened the message, you were told that an earthquake drill was in order and you were to take cover and hold on to something until the shak-ing stopped unless you were driving.
There is no guarantee, however, that every student checked the email.
Perhaps a required drill with an alarm sound differ-ent from the fire alarm desig-nated to signify that an earth-quake drill is in progress will help solve this problem.
From this drill it is clear that students will have no preparation for such an emergency.
What about school shoot-ings?
The university does have the active shooter presen-
tation in preparation for a campus shooter situation, but there is no guarantee that everyone on the campus has attended the seminar.
Personally, I think it should be legal for individuals with concealed carry licenses to take their concealed weapons on campus as I believe that the only way a violent threat to your life can be stopped is with preparation to recip-rocate appropriate and equal force to said threat.
Larry Seigel’s book Crim-inolgy, suggests that 40,000 lives have been saved annual-ly as a result of citizens being armed and said citizens have always testified their confi-dence that having their guns on their persons almost cer-tainly saved their lives.
Moreover, the author of this book suggests that 30,000 lives are lost in Amer-ica annually as a result of gun
crime. While I am a respect-
ful, law abiding citizen who trusts the police to stop a threat, there is no guarantee that the police can always ar-rive at the scene.
However, there are some issues with concealed carry that would need to be consid-ered.
For instance, one has to be 21 or older to own a gun, be eligible for a gun permit, and legally carry a weapon.
A great deal of students are under 21, but this is-sue could be resolved if the gun law restrictions could be pushed back to 18 as one only needs to be that age to join the military.
Currently legislation is be-ing proposed to allow faculty to carry concealed firearms on campus. This is a start, but how is the students right to carry any different?
Let me close by saying re-gardless of what your take is on drills or the right to carry weapons on campus, the bot-tom line is something must be done to improve emergen-cy preparation on this cam-pus.
Jason Holland is working on his second bachelors in crim-inology and resides in Jones-boro.
When it comes time for homework, I have a ritual in getting my work done. I pull out my textbooks, my note-book, my ink pen and my computer and start.
Sounds lovely, except this is never quite how it happens. When I pull out my comput-er, I get on the Internet, and when I get on the Internet I allow myself a few minutes to check on my activity on the interweb.
I like this photo on Face-book; I retweet that tweet on Twitter; I reblog a gift set while scrolling through a random tag on Tumblr. Next thing I know, the few minutes I said I’d spend has turned into a couple hours and I still haven’t done any homework.
I would start, but I need to check on my blog to see if it has any more page views while Instagramming a photo of me doing this.
Hi. My name is Sharanda Crews and I am addicted to the Internet. I am not alone in my addiction. According to ansonalex.com one in every eight Americans experience signs of Internet addiction.
Take Facebook for ex-ample, I have 1,239 friends, 2,357 photos, 333 checked-in places and 542 liked pages.
Approximately one out of every 13 people on Earth use Facebook and more than half are logged on everyday according to the digitalbuzz-blog.
On Twitter, I have 7,529 tweets with 254 followers. There are over 175 million tweets sent on Twitter ev-eryday with the average user having 307 tweets and 51 fol-lowers according to the Huff-ington Post.
On Instagram, I have 1,623 photos with 129 fol-lowers. More than 575 likes and 81 comments happen on Instagram every second with more than 5 million photos uploaded everyday reports the HuffPost.
My point is everyone, and everything, is on the Internet. My Grandma has a facebook; you can google an answer to anything instantly.
Maybe we shouldn’t be so tied to the internet.
I don’t even have to buy real books anymore; I can find them on the Internet along with almost anything else I want to buy.
As soon as they make on-line grocery stores, I won’t have to leave the house any-
more.I’ll just work from home
and live my life via Internet. Even as a college student,
I don’t let class get in the way of my addiction. I can get my fix anytime as long as my phone battery lasts.
Some classes encourage Internet usage and most re-quire it for Blackboard.
But is this really a good thing?
With Internet usage en-couraged from friends, to school, to sharing, whatev-er is going on in my life, it’s harder to pull myself away from the screen.
I’m on 11 different social networking sites and those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Who needs friends in real life when I could meet them on the Internet?
Who needs to go to class when I can YouTube it and find a video that will tell me all about it?
Who needs a best friend
when I have Siri to remind me of how awesome I am?
Internet addiction is a real thing and it has real side ef-fects just like any other ad-diction out there.
For example, in a study done on college students, 58 percent reported a decline in study habits, a drop in grade averages and excessive missed classes resulting in academic probation.
The Mid-Western State University study showed In-ternet addiction could lead to social isolation, increased depression, academic failure, debt and unemployment.
With all of those nasty side effects, what can be done to help?
I can’t divorce myself from my computer because I need it for class and using a The-saurus and typewriter are not realistic options.
Don’t be a victim. Figure out exactly how long you spend on the Internet and work on cutting that time down. Use an alarm clock in-stead of your phone so you’re not tempted to be on it till late. It is time for students to take charge of their lives by combatting their addictions.
And, with any addiction, take it one day at a time…
Sharanda Crews is a sopho-more polical science and buis-ness managagment major of Jonesboro.
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At this point in the semester if you purchased your books using a credit card you may just be finding out how expensive your textbooks really are.
The high cost of textbooks can act as the Achilles heel for college students. According to the National Association of College Stores, in 2012 students could expect to pay $655 for their classroom supplies. Other sources quote the price of required textbooks and supplies cost over $1,100.
To combat these high prices, students seek to buy used books from local book stores. Students also purchase books new or used online which can further scale back the price of paying for the overhead of a brick and mortar store. Some students have purchased tablets, giving them the option of buying eBooks. If students don’t care about owning textbooks, there is usually a renting option.
What if there was was another option that allowed students to buy their textbooks brand new and up to 75 percent less than the normal retail price?
International textbooks have been sold in our country for the past decade or so as the Internet and improved shipping removed shopping barriers in foreign markets.
Don’t be confused by the title “International Edition,” as these books are simply printed by the same major publishing companies in foreign countries and have a slightly different cover picture. While not all textbooks have international editions, the ones that do are guaranteed to have identical content and of course are written in English.
Buying international textbooks is an easy way for students to get the books they need at a more bearable price.
In the U.S., book publishers base their book prices upon the strength of the economy. Since the U.S. has a strong economy, textbook publishing companies artificially raise their prices.
Whereas, in foreign countries prices are reduced so that students can afford to purchase them, changing our $125 biology book into $25.
With the global recession in 2008 you would have expected a reduction in book prices. Sadly students have had no such luck seeing a reduction in prices.
In fact major publishing companies have brought lawsuits against sellers of their international textbooks. Although it is legal to purchase and use international textbooks, it is still being determined whether or not it is legal to sell these books on the open market. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on this issue in June.
Until publishing companies can establish reasonable prices for their American markets, students will continue to be forced to pay exceedingly high prices or go without textbooks for classes.
Thankfully not all the loopholes have been filled for students to purchase some of their books from international markets. . . at least for now.
“Our View” is written by the editorial staff. The opinions are not necessarily reflective of the student body, faculty or
administration of Arkansas State University.
“Personally, I think it should be legal for individuals with con-cealed carry licenses to take their con-cealed weapons on
campus...”
-Jason Holland
“My point is every-one, and everything, is on the Internet. My Grandma has a facebook; you can google an answer to
to go selecting their room, roommates and knowing ex-actly when to make those de-cisions, according to Dixon.
Shirley said that the prob-lem he has had is running into rooms that are maxed out.
“You don’t ever know if you will get the room you want or not,” Shirley said. “There needs to be less steps to the process.”
Pock believes there is a glitch in the system that has caused a lot of people trouble signing up.
“It is so particular,” Pock said. “If you go through the entire application and confirm it, it automatically thinks you have a room when you don’t.”
Dixon has encountered students having problems not receiving their email in-forming them of their sign up time.
“We can go back and trace it but you get a lot of emails all day. Sometimes you delete
it, don’t follow instructions or don’t look at it and you miss the sign up time,” Dixon said. “Those are some of the things that we are trying to work out.”
Shirley thinks there needs to be a change in who is in control of signing a group up for housing.
“Usually what happens is that if one person messes it up, the entire group suffers for it,” Shirley said.
Dixon said being aware of Residence Life emails is stu-dents’ best bet in successfully signing up for housing.
“Read instructions,” he said. “A lot of the times we run these systems during our office hours so if there are problems, feel free to call our office and we can walk them through it. They can visit the office; we have a computer here in the office that we can go over it and we can see ex-actly what they’re seeing to see exactly what the problem is.”
tive students to view all information relative to their field of study out of one single-source database. This would eliminate discrepancies in the vast num-ber of forms and checklists which were available on the previous website, Clark said.
The second priority, beginning March 1, would be to implement a scrolling set of pictures and videos on the website’s homepage. Clark believes this will also appeal to prospective students, by show-ing them a more personal side of ASU they might not get from raw factual in-formation.
The website workers hope to build a database of faculty and staff information that would allow the website to build the requested page on the fly, Clark said.
“These could also cross over onto the app, and digital sciences. We’ll be ready to start importing data Feb. 25.”
The potential for establishing the ASU-Querétaro was also discussed, pre-sented by Yvonne Unnold, chair and as-sociate professor of languages. ASU-Q, as the project has come to be called, would eventually establish an autono-mous branch of ASU in central Mexico.
“The motion has been approved by the board, and we are beginning work in that direction,” Unnold said.
Proponents of ASU-Q are expecting students not only from Mexico, but all nationalities, similar to the range of stu-dents attending in Jonesboro. “We antic-ipate a very international student body,” Unnold said. “It would have the same
admission requirements as ASU, and predominantly be an English-speaking campus.”
The campus would be the first Amer-ican campus as well as the first residen-tial American campus in that area, ac-cording to Unnold.
“The students would be earning a U.S. degree, in addition to one recog-nized by Mexico,” Unnold said.
In response to questions raised con-cerning student and faculty safety in a region often thought of as unstable or violent, Unnold gave the ultimate stamp of approval.
“I would not have any reservations about sending my own children to Querétaro,” she said.
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vehicle for blacks to com-municate and build relation-ships around campus.”
The recognition of achievements for black stu-dents is rewarded through scholarships and honors. A registered junior or senior ASU student has the ability to receive the Linual Cameron Memorial Scholarship. The
Strong-Turner Scholarship is given to a registered student who is at least a sophomore.
“I got my first experience of knowledge about the chap-ter once I received my 3.0 award in 1991,” said Peggy Wright, S-TAC president, “I started asking questions about the organization.”
S-TAC member, Victor
Hill, was involved in setting up the honors program in the fall of 1995. The purpose was to recruit minority stu-dents for ASU. Therefore, an honors program was estab-lished to honor talented Af-rican-American students and their achievements.
“It was the first major ef-fort by Arkansas State to re-
cruit academically talented minority students and it was a huge success. In the fall of 1996, minority enrollment was up,” Hill said.
Lonnie Williams, vice president of student affairs, said, “Through its scholarship efforts, the members have made a difference in a num-ber of students lives.
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active participant veterans. The center has been so successful that the
Department of Defense has taken notice and awarded them $1.4 million to conduct a four year study of the program and create a model that can be used by universities throughout the country.
In the academic support category, ASU only received two out of four stars. This cat-egory rates a school’s academic help for vet-
erans, such as special withdrawal and re-en-rollment policies for service members who are deployed, as well as veteran-only classes, tutoring and mentorship programs, according to the Military Times.
ASU received three out of four stars in the veteran staff category. This category tallies the number of staff members that are dedicated to veterans’ needs, veteran-specific work.
Sandra Worlow, Beck Pride Center’s direc-
tor, believes ASU could improve. “I think there needs to be more education
on the part of the faculty when it come to vet-erans’ unique needs,” she said. The average veteran, if there is such a thing, has so much pride that they won’t ask for help, Worlow said. Even some disabled veterans refuse to sign up at the disabilities center because it’s embarrassed, but instructors need to be no-tified. Other than that, Worlow thought ASU
was doing a great job. “The only thing that I would tell other in-
stitutions is: Don’t throw your veterans a bar-becue and call yourselves military-friendly, unless you’re going to get them a job the next day,” said Cory Payne, Mountwest’s military programs coordinator, in the “Military Times” website. “Your program needs to have teeth. It needs to have purpose. If it doesn’t, it’s just a dog-and-pony show.”
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The baseball team swept the Bradley Braves in their season-opening series getting off to their best start since 1997 when they started the season 9-0.
The Red Wolves defeated Bradley by a score of 10-5 in the opening game. Leading the way was the combined pitching perfor-mances of John Koch, Bradley Wallace and Levi Shordon who totalled a school record of 19 strike outs, breaking the old mark of 18 set in 1995 against Memphis.
“I don’t know if I ever coached a staff (that had 19 k’s), I think Lincecum struck out 18 by himself one time but I don’t know if we ever struck out 19 on a team I’ve coached,” pitching coach Tighe Dickinson said.
Koch set the tone on the mound for the Red Wolves allowing three runs on nine hits and striking out 11 while walking one in five innings work.
In middle relief, Wallace (1-0) went three innings, allowed two runs on three hits while striking out seven of his nine recorded outs and earned the win for the Red Wolves. Shor-don finished the game and struck out one of three hitters faced capturing the record.
“I thought he threw the ball really well to start the game. First time out emotions tend to get to guys,” Dickinson continued “To get a win on Friday night, to start the season I’m really happy with that.”
Leading the way offensively, senior Ryan Emery went two for five with a pair of doubles driving in two runs and redshirt sophomore Kaleb Brown had a solid three for three day with a couple singles, a double and scoring once.
“It just feels good to be back on the field playing another team. All of us were really ex-cited about today ready to go and it showed,”
Brown said.Trailing 5-3 in the seventh inning, the Red
Wolves got it going offensively. Brown lead off with a single and after a Dustin Jones walk, Ryan Emery doubled to left scoring Brown. Jones scored on a wild pitch to Zach George who later walked and Logan Uxa topped it off with a two-run double to right field.
“We always focus on winning the last few innings and that’s what we did,” Brown said.
The Red Wolves went on to score three in the eighth to help clinch their first win of the season.
Game two was dominated by the Red Wolves for their second win of the season (2-0) by a final score of 10-1. Bradley led 1-0 go-ing into the third inning and was all A-State from then on scoring 10 unanswered runs on 9 hits and allowed no errors over the course of the game.
Senior Daniel Wright (1-0) picked up his first win of the season as he went seven in-nings giving up one run on five hits and struck out seven to go along with two walks.
“I thought Daniel, once he settled in, real-ly helped us. He got some big zeros after we scored, basically in the sixth, and really held them down to give our offense a chance later in the game to score some runs and break it open,” head coach Tommy Raffo said.
Sophomore Chandler Hawkins and senior Brandon Milhouse made their first appear-ance of the year, each striking out one as they closed out the last two innings.
Freshman Austin Baker highlighted the Red Wolves offense going three for three with a walk in his first collegiate start, finishing a triple shy of hitting for the cycle. Baker led off the third inning for the Red Wolves down 1-0 and homered off the left field foul pole for the first hit of his college career.
“I just took a deep breath, stepped in the
box and was looking for a fastball and I got it,” Baker said
ASU captured the lead later in the in-ning on a Ryan Emery ground ball to sec-ond bringing senior Alex Potts home and the Red Wolves never looked back. They scored again in the fourth, twice in the sixth and took advantage of five walks is-sued by Bradley scoring five in the seventh capped off by a two-run Alex Potts single to end the day offensively.
“It’s pleasing to have a team come out and win the series and now we have anoth-er opportunity for the third game which doesn’t happen very often,” Raffo said.
The Red Wolves got off to a quick start in the series finale scoring six runs in the first inning off three hits, three walks, and two errors committed by Bradley. The in-ning was broken open on a misplayed sin-gle to right field by Alex Potts that cleared the bases for the Red Wolves. ASU posted two runs in the sixth and four in the eighth to finish off the sweep by a score of 12-2. Potts finished the day two for three with a walk.
Freshman Adam Grantham held down Bradley’s offense in his debut.
Grantham gave up no runs, two hits and struck out five in four innings work.
“Obviously I was a little wild and need to work on my control but for the first start I felt like I did pretty good,” Grantham continued. “I was pretty nervous, butterflies were defi-nitely there, but the veteran pitchers really helped me and helped calm me down.
Senior Seth McWilliams followed up Grantham’s performance by allowing only one hit and struck out one in two scoreless innings of work. Junior Jon Luthe posted a scoreless seventh inning in his first appearance. Shor-don only managed to get one out giving up
two runs on three hits in the eighth and was replaced by Sophomore Tyler Winfield who closed out the inning. Freshman Tanner Ring closed out the game and the series with a 1-2-3 ninth in his first appearance.
“Obviously it’s a good first weekend and there are a lot of things to keep working on,” Raffo said. “Its 3 out of 56 in the regular sea-son but it’s good to see some guys get some time and opportunities to perform against outside competition.”
ASU will take on the Memphis tigers Tues-day before returning home the following day to face Lyon College at 6:30 p.m.
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Xinzhong Zhao | Staff PhotographerAlex Potts slides onto base as Hunter Schneider sprints to catch the ball. The Red Wolves won against the Bradley Braves in their season opener this weekend.
Team off to best start since ‘97
Xinzhong Zhao | Staff PhotographerAlex Potts slides into base as the Braves’ Tyler Leffler watches.
The ASU women’s bowling team finished in second place at the Morgan State Invita-tional. The Red Wolves went 10-2 overall on the weekend.
The Red Wolves won their first match of the day over No. 1 Central Missouri 4-1 to advance to the championship match against No. 2 Mary-land-Eastern Shore. A-State lost to UMES 4-1 to finish as the runner-up. The match was much closer than the score indicated as both teams bowled really well.
“We bowled really well in the final match, but lost game one 194-193,” ASU bowling coach Justin Kostick said. “We lost games four and five after bowling 230 so we bowled really well, but UMES
made some great shots too.”ASU went 4-1 on day two
of the tournament to improve to 9-1 overall heading into the tournament play on Sunday. The Red Wolves defeated St. Francis of Pennsylvania (989-933), Long Island University (973-900), Hampton (993-823), Morgan State(856-808) and lost to Kutztown (947-879). A-State went into the final day of the tournament as the fourth seed with a total pinfall of 8,653.
Kostick added, “We did go 10-2 which was best at the tournament and we’re 55-20 overall so we’re in good shape for the NCAA’s. I am satis-fied with our performance on the weekend.”
Arkansas State’s next tour-nament is the Holiday City Classic Feb. 22-24 in Besse-mer, Ala.
Bowling takes second place
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The B-team brings its ‘A’ game
Staci Vandagriff | Staff PhotographerThe Red Wolves rugby B-team defeated St. Louis University 42-10 on Saturday.
