asuherald.com Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 What we asked you last week on asuherald.com: Hear something funny or interesting on campus? Tweet it to @OverheardAtASU and you could see it printed in The Herald! SPORTS, PAGE 4 OPINIONS, PAGE 2 NEWS, PAGE 3 twitter.com/ASUHerald twitter.com/ASUHeraldSports youtube.com/ASUHerald facebook.com/ASUHerald Vol. 90 Issue 30 Of interest online Are you thrilled with the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil's prediction of six more weeks of winter? T HE H ERALD T HE H ERALD Informing Arkansas State University since 1921 Rain Dance: ASU Rugby defeats Emory The 90-day challenge: unplugging from technology Lindsey Blakely News Editor As Pride Day has become an annual spring semes- ter event for ASU, so have the friendly competitions it merits each year. Those include the craziest fan contest, Pride Day Global Student Leaders take ASU brand abroad Ari Yuki Staff Writer The Global Leadership Experience course gives students valuable experi- ences through trips to vari- ous parts of the world. This year, the course is offering three trips over- seas to Ecuador, India and Sri Lanka. Trips to Ecuador and India are scheduled during the week of spring break, March 16 through 25. Clint Relyea, a coordi- nator of the international business program, said the trip to Sri Lanka is very new and will be in August. On the trip to Ecuador, students will work in micro industries in Salinas. Coordinator of the trip to Ecuador, Taylor Woodruff, an undergraduate assis- tant for the International Business Resource Center, said students will not only help people in those places have a better quality of life and learn how the culture functions, but will also learn to appreciate what they have here and the dif- ferences of other developed cultures. “They don’t have elec- tricity all the time, and they don’t have clean wa- ter and education,” Wood- ruff said. He went to Ecuador once and he said it was very sur- prising for him how some- one who lives on $2 a day can be so happy and ener- getic about life. “Here in the U.S., we forget what living is truly about and we work to live and live to work. We all could use a good lesson on simple appreciation; in- stead we worry and become angry when our 3G isn’t working.” Woodruff said. “That is something this experience has really taught me, just appreci- ate.” He also said it is incred- ible to see how people who joined the trip have im- pacted them over the last four years. “The community now has a positive business strategy and some of the industries have really grown.” Woodruff said. Paxton Marotti, a senior international business ma- jor of West Memphis, also went to Ecuador last See GLOBAL, page 3 Photo courtesy of Clint Relyea The Global Student Leadership Experience took a trip to Ecuador last year, where they will be returning this year, as well as going to India and Sri Lanka. Kayla Paine Staff Writer All students and persons employed by the Arkansas State University System may lose their rights to their own “Intellectual Property” in an updated policy that is being reviewed in the shared governance process. The policy made its way to the faculty senate meeting on Friday. “Intellectual Property” is defined in the policy as any material capable of legal protection (copyright, license and patent) arising out of scholarly production. The ma- terial can be a multitude of things including invention, works of art, computer software, biological discoveries, etc. The senate unanimously gave an advisory vote against the policy and passed a resolution that urged for the cur- rent policy that was passed in 2005, remain in effect. The revised policy would make all “intellectual prop- erty” no longer the author’s property, but rather the See FACULTY, page 3 Staci Vandagriff/Herald Michael Docktor, office of research and technology transfer, present- ed the revised policy to the senate and said it was "restrictive" and that he was "personally concerned that faculty would have to jump through hoops in the new policy." Office Decorating and a handful of other awards. Awards such as the Scarlet Bella Award, the Howler Award and the Alpha Wolf Award were given out in the leadership center Thursday at noon, led by the spirit club director for SAB, Stevie Overby. There was also a prize wheel in the center where participants were able to spin for chances to win free t-shirts and other prizes. The first award handed out was the Office Decorating Contest, which went to Wilson Advising. The next award handed out was the Scarlet Bella, an award handed out by Natalie Wilbanks, vice president of the Student Government Association. See PRIDE, page 3 Who's Got Who's Got Spirit? Spirit? Staci Vandagriff/Herald Faculty Senate objects to policy No 25% I'm indifferent 75% Yes 0% Pride Day continued
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What we asked you last week on asuherald.com: Hear something funny or interesting on campus? Tweet
it to @OverheardAtASU and you could see it printed in The Herald!
As Pride Day has become an annual spring semes-ter event for ASU, so have the friendly competitions it merits each year.
Those include the craziest fan contest, Pride Day
Global Student Leaderstake ASU brand abroad
Ari YukiStaff Writer
The Global Leadership Experience course gives students valuable experi-ences through trips to vari-ous parts of the world.
This year, the course is offering three trips over-seas to Ecuador, India and Sri Lanka.
Trips to Ecuador and India are scheduled during the week of spring break, March 16 through 25.
Clint Relyea, a coordi-nator of the international business program, said the trip to Sri Lanka is very new and will be in August.
On the trip to Ecuador, students will work in micro industries in Salinas.
Coordinator of the trip to Ecuador, Taylor Woodruff, an undergraduate assis-tant for the International Business Resource Center, said students will not only help people in those places have a better quality of life and learn how the culture functions, but will also learn to appreciate what they have here and the dif-ferences of other developed cultures.
“They don’t have elec-tricity all the time, and they don’t have clean wa-
ter and education,” Wood-ruff said.
He went to Ecuador once and he said it was very sur-prising for him how some-one who lives on $2 a day can be so happy and ener-getic about life.
“Here in the U.S., we forget what living is truly about and we work to live and live to work. We all
could use a good lesson on simple appreciation; in-stead we worry and become angry when our 3G isn’t working.” Woodruff said.
“That is something this experience has really taught me, just appreci-ate.”
He also said it is incred-ible to see how people who joined the trip have im-
pacted them over the last four years.
“The community now has a positive business strategy and some of the industries have really grown.” Woodruff said.
Paxton Marotti, a senior international business ma-jor of West Memphis, also went to Ecuador last
See GLOBAL, page 3
Photo courtesy of Clint Relyea
The Global Student Leadership Experience took a trip to Ecuador last year, where they will be returning this year, as well as going to India and Sri Lanka.
Kayla PaineStaff Writer
All students and persons employed by the Arkansas State University System may lose their rights to their own “Intellectual Property” in an updated policy that is being reviewed in the shared governance process.
The policy made its way to the faculty senate meeting on Friday.
“Intellectual Property” is defi ned in the policy as any material capable of legal protection (copyright, license and patent) arising out of scholarly production. The ma-terial can be a multitude of things including invention, works of art, computer software, biological discoveries, etc.
The senate unanimously gave an advisory vote against the policy and passed a resolution that urged for the cur-rent policy that was passed in 2005, remain in effect.
The revised policy would make all “intellectual prop-erty” no longer the author’s property, but rather the
See FACULTY, page 3
Staci Vandagriff/Herald
Michael Docktor, offi ce of research and technology transfer, present-ed the revised policy to the senate and said it was "restrictive" and that he was "personally concerned that faculty would have to jump through hoops in the new policy."
Offi ce Decorating and a handful of other awards.Awards such as the Scarlet Bella Award, the Howler
Award and the Alpha Wolf Award were given out in the leadership center Thursday at noon, led by the spirit club director for SAB, Stevie Overby.
There was also a prize wheel in the center where participants were able to spin for chances to win free
t-shirts and other prizes.The fi rst award handed out was the Offi ce Decorating
Contest, which went to Wilson Advising.The next award handed out was the Scarlet Bella, an
award handed out by Natalie Wilbanks, vice president of the Student Government Association.
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Too much of a good thing?
Today, we are bombarded by Twitter updates, Facebook photos and blog posts. Most of us are frequent users of Twitter, Facebook and other social media. Sites like these are allowing communication with others in ways thought impossible decades ago.
Certainly, there are great benefits to our use of social media. For example, we are able to keep in touch with others and see glimpses of their lives through the various photos, status updates and contact information our friends and family provide.
Social media is also not limited to friends, of course. Many of us receive daily news updates and promotions through these means.
But while it’s easy to point out the many benefits of social media, it is not very difficult to see many of the drawbacks social media presents.
It goes without saying that our increased use of social media has dramatically changed our relationships with other people. In many ways, viewing our “friends” on Facebook, while interesting, are typically false views of their lives.
The vast of majority of social media users present themselves so as to make a good impression. While this is not to be unexpected, it does show how social media is often very far removed from reality.
Blogs, Facebook profiles and Twitter updates do not always reveal the struggles people go through on a daily basis.
Sometimes, our obssession with the newest piece of juicy information on the Jones’ takes away the quality time we could spend in developing a relationship with someone real.
Is it any wonder that as we continually add to our list of e-friends on a daily basis, our relationships with our real friends seem to suffer?
In light of Depression Awareness Week, it is important for us to take a step back from social media, if we use it constantly, and look for others who are in need. There are hundreds of students at ASU who would much rather have a genuine relationship with someone than become friend number 486 on a Facebook page.
“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.
Major: Favorite College Memory: Business Being crowned 2010 ASUAdministration Homecoming King
Plans after Graduation:Enter the management and training program for Sam’s Club and then run my own club, and later advance into the corporate office.
The 90-day challenge: unplugging from technology
Think of just how many hours a day you spend im-mersed in technology.
How many texts do you send out? What about tweets? How many sta-tions do you have on Pan-dora?
It’s hard to think of giving all of these things up, but according to Jake Reilly’s “Amish Project,” it can be done.
For 90 days Reilly, a 24-year-old student at Chicago Portfolio School, unplugged from all forms of social media to first see if he could live without it.
However, it quickly turned into a project to reclaim his social rela-tionships that had grown somewhat stale.
In an article with Yahoo
News, Reilly explained how taking on this chal-lenge allowed him to find out who his true friends were.
Those he spent hours a day texting were soon gone, and those he rarely got to see were the ones he spent most of his time with. It’s funny how those things work out.
As I’ve said in the past, social media and technol-ogy are great things, but they’ve certainly changed how we as a society look at social situations.
While technology is not necessarily a bad thing, it has changed the way we function, and some of the effects are not all that great.
These are just some of the comments I’ve heard people say:
“I’d rather text than call,” or “It’s so weird to see my Facebook friends in real-life.” It is as if they are celebrities or Sims or
something. While I know I’m defi-
nitely guilty of this, I con-stantly wonder why we’re so scared of human inter-action.
The biggest problem I see is that we already know everything about a person from their social media.
We know what all they like to do, we know who they’re dating and why they break up, and we know exactly where to find them at any given time (for all you people who check-in everywhere).
So why talk to them? You already know their story.
But then again, we all post what we want oth-ers to see of ourselves and that can be a very distort-ed view.
I appreciate the project because it gave me insight into something I’m not quite ready to tackle – cutting myself off from in-
stant communication, but I think it’s something we all need to consider.
Even if we just cut back a few hours or unplug our routers, getting to know people again for more than what we see on Facebook and Twitter could be ben-eficial to all of our lives.
So next time you get an urge to text someone to see how they are do-ing, try a call first and see if that brightens both of your days.
Next time you go to creep on someone’s wall, ask them out to coffee so you can see them in per-son instead.
Social media has made interaction effortless and non-existent, but if we put forth the effort to recon-nect, there may be hope for our social skills.
Bright is a junior pho-tojournalism major of Hot Springs.
Understanding the Christian faith: the Bible
Coming off my article last week, I feel it is nec-essary to explain why I believe God is the only one who is worth living for, why only He will ever com-pletely fulfill your life.
To do so, I am going to attempt to explain the validity of the Christian faith.
Over the next few weeks, I plan on talking about our positions as hu-mans, the reality and deity of Jesus Christ, and why only Christ saves. Today, though, I want to explain the validity of the Bible.
First, I want you all to know I am no scholar. I have done research on this subject and have listened to some people who are
much smarter than I am explain this subject. That said, let’s jump in.
It’s important to start by comparing the manuscript evidence of the Bible with other ancient writings.
The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, has over 20,000 ancient pieces of manuscript, in many dif-ferent languages.
Granted, some of these are fragments or parts of writings, but many are books of the Bible in their entirety.
For example, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain the entire account of Isaiah. This is especially notewor-thy because of the prophe-cies of Isaiah about Christ.
Considering texts like “The Iliad” and writ-ings from famous Greek philosophers like Aristo-tle and Plato have fewer than 1,000 manuscripts to back up their reliability, it seems to me that the Bible has the greatest potential
to be as close to its original form than any other an-cient writing.
This means that the Bible is hard to tamper with, and it makes it dif-ficult for people to add or detract from it without be-ing caught.
Having established that the Bible has great histori-cal reliability, it’s impor-tant to look at how it is divinely inspired.
The Bible was written by forty different men over a span of 1,600 years, and yet it maintains a single theme. That theme is that a perfect God came to save a fallen creation.
You might say the Bible is rife with contradictions, but I would say this is un-true.
However, if you do be-lieve the Bible has mis-takes and contradictions, I invite you to make those known.
There has been much debate over this issue, and
it would be good for us to investigate these things together.
However, considering the fact that many different men, from different times and different stations of life, were able to compile a text with a single, con-sistent message, you can’t tell me there was not some higher power overlooking the transcription.
I realize this may not seem like a strong argu-ment. I realize a 500-word article is not enough to con-clusively prove the validity of a text that has been de-bated for so long.
My main point of writ-ing this article is to get people thinking. This is a matter of eternity, not just the here and now.
Don’t let something that will change your life go un-investigated.
Kurtz is a sophomore education major of Little Rock.
“This is a matter of eternity, not just the here and now.”
Aaron Kurtz
“While technology is not necessarily a bad thing, it has changed the way we function, and some of the
effects are not all that great.”Beth Bright
The Herald
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“Pride and tradition makes this award unique. To honor someone with a rich legacy at Arkansas State University makes this award special. This recipient not only has shown his spirit at ASU but also continues to go above and beyond to rep-resent our university in the Jonesboro community on the national level,” Wilbanks said. “For his commitment to the stu-dents of Arkansas State University, it is my plea-sure to present Howl with the Scarlet Bella Award.”
The third award hand-ed out was the Howler Award, presented by
Colea Blan. The Howler award is meant for teach-ers, mentors, advisers or coaches who show poten-tial and interest in their students.
This year’s winner was Rick Neeley, chair of the department of communi-cation disorders.
“He persistently dem-onstrates a willingness to serve students as an adviser and mentor. Not only does he support students of communica-tion disorders, but he is also very helpful to many nursing majors as well. No matter what time of the day, he is always de-termined to help his stu-
dents reach their goals and answer their ques-tions,” Blan said.
His nominators, Casey Hosman and Hillary Tri-pod, were there to accept his award since he was unable to attend.
The Alpha Award, which was presented by SAB president Jonece Carter, was given to the Hinton family.
“This award is given to a family or organization that has faithfully exhib-ited their superb support for ASU through the do-nation of time, gifts or talent,” Carter said. “It is through such notable acts of generosity that
the university continues to grow as an institution of higher education.“
The last award was given out after the men’s basketball game that night against Louisiana Monroe.
The craziest fan award went to freshman Kara Franklin of Benton.
The leadership center teamed up with athletic marketing and provided the winner with $100 as a prize.
A slideshow from pride day and the competitions can be found at www.asuherald.com and on the ASU Herald’s Facebook page.
spring, and he decided to go on the exact same trip this year.
“I applied for this trip because I have a minor in Spanish and I love any-thing that involves inter-national travel.” Marotti said.
“My expectations for this trip are really high be-cause this time, I believe our group will positively impact Salinas Village in a more permanent and ef-ficient manner.”
Kara Jacks, a junior in-ternational business major of Lonoke, also went to Ec-uador last year and is go-ing on the same trip this year.
“Going to Ecuador was beneficial for me because I got to see a small part of the world’s economy and how it differs from the United States,” Jacks said.
“Going back with the ex-perience that I gained from last year, I'm hoping that we can bring more new and fresh ideas that can help the businesses thrive and expand.”
Jacks also said the glob-al leadership experience is important because it gives people a chance to see the world and gives them a chance to become a global citizen.
Associate professor of environmental economics, Gauri Shankar Guha, who coordinates the trip to In-dia, said students will have three different types of ex-periences in India.
One of them is a cultural experience visiting the Taj Mahal, and another is an educational experience in-teracting with faculty and students at the School of Management in Pondi-cherry, visiting labs and classrooms.
Students will also have the opportunity to do ser-vice projects by working
with artisans in micro in-dustries, making silk and handicrafts.
“Our students will work for free and if possible bring back some handicrafts, sell them locally, and remit the monies to the micro-com-panies.” Guha said.
“Service leadership is most important, because this gives us an opportu-nity to create a positive image about ASU in the minds of the local people.”
Guha said one of his aims on this trip is tak-ing the ASU brand to the world.
He said if ASU students help people in the country, then those people will be interested in and think of ASU when they want to come to the United States to study.
“That is the strategy of building a brand,” Guha said.
He also talked about the international business theory. This means that before people start sell-ing something in different countries, they should go there and grow the product in the country first.
According to Woodruff, about 18 students are planning to go on the trip to Ecuador, about five stu-dents are planning to go to India and about 10 stu-dents are planning to go to Sri Lanka.
Relyea said the deadline for the application for the Ecuador trip has already passed, but anyone at ASU can apply for the rest of the trips.
Woodruff said each trip usually costs about $2,500, and can be acquired through fundraising. For the India trip, Guha said it will cost only $1,000.
“We look for students who are very driven and who really want to have an impact,” Woodruff said.
property of ASU. It says, "the author has voluntarily transferred the copyright by accepting employment with the University or by entering into a contract for work for hire."
Daniel Marburger, pro-fessor of economics, was not happy with the revised policy. He gathered infor-mation and presented it in the meeting.
He said that copyright law was designed to pro-tect ideas. Hiring a compa-ny to write an instructors’ manual for computer soft-ware that an individual de-signed does not mean the company copyrights the software, but that the indi-vidual hired that company to do that which is called a work for hire relationship.
Marburger insisted that faculty and students devel-oping “intellectual prop-erty” is not a work for hire relationship.
Online classes are a good source of income. Marburger suggests that an underlying reason for this revised policy is spe-cifically for online class production. A complete online class with power
points and notes is worth a pretty penny.
“I’m not sure if making money from online classes is the university’s inten-tion, but the information I have suggests that it may very well be,” he said.
The senate questioned if the policy was legal in nature, that ASU has the power to make revenue from their ideas without having any input.
The senate talked about the poor media coverage ASU will receive if the re-vised policy were to be ad-opted. Predictions of messy litigation were mentioned.
Throughout the years, ASU has been pushing to have more research come from its faculty and stu-dents.
“I think this is discour-aging research rather than encouraging it,” said John Hall, professor of psychol-ogy and counseling.
Some of the faculty were okay with the current pol-icy, but still felt as though the current policy could use some clarification. They pointed out confusing language and claimed it to be a mess.
PRIDE, CONTINUED
GLOBAL, CONTINUED
FACULTY, CONTINUED
2012 McNair Scholars Announced
The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program is funded through the U.S. Department of Educa-tion TRIO Programs. The program is designed to increase the number of low-income, first-generation and under-represented college students who pursue and complete a doctoral degree in one of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) or Psychology disciplines.
The program prepares undergraduates for doctoral study through involvement in research and scholarly ac-tivities. The purpose of the McNair Program is to assist in the academic and professional development of under-graduates whose goals are to earn a Ph.D., and teach and conduct research at the college level.
ogy and Management; *Jon Calhoun, Computer Science and Mathematics; *Charmaine Conner, Psychology; Sa-mantha Davis, Biology, Pre-Professional; Cheyenne Gerdes, Wildlife Ecology and Management; *Alisha Gilmer, Chem-istry, Pre-Pharmacy; Jasmine Jackson, Psychology; Kayleigh Lincomfelt, Civil Engineering; Star Loerch, Wildlife Ecology and Management; *Edith Martinez, Civil Engineering; Jer-ry Maupin, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics; *Carson Munn, Electrical Engineering; *Tabitha Reynolds, Psychol-ogy; *Skye Roberson, Psychology and Physiology; *Lau-ren Tyler, Psychology; Laura White, Mathematics; Farrann Wilkinson, Psychology; Alexander Worm, Wildlife Ecology and Management; *Shaela Wright, Biology (* indicates Researcher)
Staci Vandagriff/Herald
Photo courtesy of Laura Kuizin
Sophomore communications studies of Falcon miss essence, Latasha Moore, was one of many “crazy” fans showing their love for the Red Wolves. Staci Vandagriff/Herald
To show support during Pride Day, the financial office painted its windows red and decorated its office with red and black streamer.
Fans show thier dedica-tion during Thursday’s men’s basketball game against Loui-siana-Monroe at the ASU Con-vocation Center..
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ASU Press Release
The Arkansas State track and field teams re-turned to action Saturday at the Orange & Blue Open hosted by the University of Illinois.
Junior thrower Julia Agawu finished second in both the weight throw (17.64m) and the shot put, but her throw of 14.33m in the shot put was the second-longest throw in Arkansas State history.
Sophomore Richard Chavez was the top collegiate fin-isher in the men’s shot put with a throw of 17.02m.
Sophomore hurdler Sher-ika Nelvins finished first in both the preliminaries and the final of the women’s 60-meter hurdles posting times of 8.32 and 8.31 re-spectively.
Sophomore Shane Heath-cock was fourth overall but was the top collegiate fin-isher in the men’s pole vault with a jump of 5.19m.
Sophomore Will Oliver continued his string of sol-id performances winning the men’s long jump with a jump of 7.24m.
The Red Wolves got solid finishes in both the men’s and women’s 400 and 800-meter runs.
Sophomore Joseph Mey-er won the men’s 400 with a time of 48.97, while Ally-son Perry was second in the women’s 400 at 1:00.22.
ASU also took second place finishes in the men’s and women’s 800 as fresh-man Tilda Helgesson post-ed a time of 2:23.85 and ju-nior Robert Lanier had a time of 1:59.97.
ASU’s distance runners also ran well on Saturday, as senior Bailey Bunyan was the top collegiate fin-isher in the men’s 3K with a time of 8:37.20.
Sophomore Kristina Au-
bert was second in the women’s 3K and led three top 10 finishers for the Red Wolves.
Aubert clocked a time of 9:59.24 followed by ju-nior Samantha Salinas in fifth (10:15.54) and senior Chelsea Weaver in seventh (10:19.93).
ASU will compete in the Indiana Hoosier Hills on Friday in Bloomington, Ind.
Nelvins and Meyer among top finishers at Orange and Blue Open in Illinois
ASU Press Release
Arkansas State men’s basketball fell in its final nonconference contest at Seattle Saturday night 75-69 at the KeyArena.
The loss drops ASU to 10-15 while Seattle im-proved to 6-13 on the year.
Senior forward Mal-coln Kirkland led three Red Wolves in double-dig-it scoring with 14. Junior forward Brandon Peter-son recorded his ninth ca-reer double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds. It was Peterson’s fourth double-double of the sea-son while he also recorded three blocked shots. Junior guard Adam Sterrenberg came off the bench to score 13 for ASU.
The Red Wolves trailed by 12 early in the second half but went on an 7-0 run to cut the lead to four 48-44 early in the first half.
It was a single-dig-it lead through most of the game and when soph-omore Kinley Ogbonnaya-Branch hit a three-point-er with 14-seconds remain-ing in the game, ASU cut the lead to four again, 73-69. But, ASU was forced to foul and Seattle’s Cervante Burrell connected on his free throws.
Seattle built a 10-point lead at the half, 46-36. The Redhawks shot 54.3 per-cent from the floor in the half connecting on 19-35 shots from the floor. Bur-rell scored 15 points going 6-6 from the floor in the
half for the Redhawks. At the break, ASU was
14-15 (93.3 percent) from the free throw line and 10-28 from the floor (35.8 per-cent). Peterson and soph-omore guard Ed Townsel led A-State at the half with eight points each. Peterson also led ASU with six re-bounds, including four of-fensive boards.
Seattle outshot ASU 51.7 percent (30-58) to 38.9 percent (21-54) and out-rebounded the Red Wolves 36-30.
Cervante finished the game with a career-high 24 points for Seattle, leading all scorers.
The Red Wolves return to Sun Belt Conference ac-tion Thursday when they travel to South Alabama.
ASU falls 75-69 in final non-conference game against Seattle Redhawks
Daniel McFadinSports Editor
Gus Malzahn and his choaching staff didn’t have all that much time to as-semble their first coach-ing staff at Arkansas State compared to other schools.
From the day of his hire on Dec. 14 to National Signing Day last Wednes-day, the first year head coach had 50 days to as-semle his staff and give their best pitch to prospec-tive Red Wolves.
“I don’t know if I had any expectations,” offensive coo-dinator Rhett Lashlee said. “We hit the ground running so fast, you get thrown into it and you just go.
“My first day on the job I had my press conference here and I was in Little Rock seeing Fredi [Knight-en] that night and I saw Dezmond [Stegall] that same night as well.”
Malzahn worked so hard, that at his press conference on the eve of the GoDaddy.com Bowl on Jan. 7, he said he’d only spent three days in Jonesboro, enough time to familiarize himself with the driving route from his new home to the ASU foot-ball facility.
With the staff being on the road for much of the last two months, it helped having David Gunn, a 10-year veteran of the Arkan-sas State program, help-ing to keep recruits com-mitted.
“Of course David Gunn gave us a little list of the guys and we just tried to scramble and figure out as much information as possi-ble,” Malzahn said.
“At the same time, the coaches that had connec-tions, that’s where we started and I told my staff that if it’s close, we’re go-ing with an Arkansas guy and that will be our philos-ophy the whole time we’re here.”
That home state men-tality paid off, with 14 new players being added to the ranks of Red Wolves that originate from the Natural State.
While the most high pro-file athlete is Michael Dyer (Little Rock) and his trans-fer from Auburn, ASU is now home to offensive line-men Jemar Clark (McCro-ry) and Kansas transfer Travis Bodenstein from Springdale, where Malzahn coached at both Shiloah Christian and Springdale
High.“He’s got the ability to
play at the next level past this if he works hard,” Malzahn said of Clark, who is ranked the sixth best player in the state by Rivals.com.
Bodenstein will sit out an year due to NCAA trans-fer rules.
Other Arkansas na-tives include Quanterio Heath and Maruis Walk-er of Rison, Colton Jack-son (Ozark), Derek Keaton (Camden), Warren Leap-heart (Morrilton), Darius Rosser (Marion), Dezmond Stegall (Searcy), DeKea-than Williams (West Hel-ena), Austin Moreton (Fort Smith) and kicker Luke Ferguson who is walking on from Jonesboro High.
The biggest in-state re-cruit was quarterback Fredi Knigten from Little Rock.
“He was one of the prior-ities that we had as a staff when we first got here. We really felt that he was the key to this whole thing, Malzhan said. “I’ve sat there and really was what [Michigan quarterback] Denard Robinson can do and he can actually throw it better than Denard Rob-inson can.”
Zach LottStaff Writer
By the time you read this, the world will know the winner of Super Bowl XLVI.
The media, eternal slaves to the notion that individual players are judged by their champi-onship rings, has either crowned Tom Brady the greatest quarterback of all time or elevated Eli Manning above his broth-er, Peyton.
Neither proclamation will be true, but it clearly demonstrates the obses-sion sportswriters have with attributing the play of an entire team to one person.
After all, Aaron Rod-gers single-handedly led the Packers to 15 wins this season, right? Well, one would assume so the way the media has come just short of deifying him.
Rodgers was named league MVP Saturday despite the fact that his backup, Matt Flynn, stepped in for him dur-ing a Week 17 match-up against the Lions and set franchise records for passing yards and touch-downs in a game.
If your team is so good that your offense has its best day of the year with-out you under center, then you are in no way
the most valuable play-er in the NFL. You aren’t even the most valuable player on your team.
But in the sports world, context is not important.
Rodgers’ cartoonish numbers and 15-1 record are credited solely to him, without regard for the fact that he plays in a superb offensive system with an excellent coaching staff and perhaps the greatest receiving corps in history. He is a good quarterback playing on a great team.
Meanwhile, Brady has long been the beneficia-ry of a great offensive system. He consistently has one of the best offen-sive lines in football and a strong cast of skill play-ers. When he gets protec-tion and his wide receiv-ers get open, he is good. When he gets crushed by elite defensive ends and linebackers and doesn’t
have time to dump the ball off to Wes Welker, he doesn’t play well.
Shocking, isn’t it?When he suffered a
serious knee injury in Week 1 of the 2008 sea-son, he was replaced by Matt Cassel, who hadn’t started a game since high school. The Patriots went on to win 11 games. Like Rodgers, Tom Brady is a good quarterback playing on a great team.
If championships are the only standard by which players are judged, then Trent Dilfer, Brad Johnson and Jim McMa-hon were all better quar-terbacks than Dan Mari-no.
Football is a team sport, and very few play-ers are capable of elevat-ing a mediocre team into a great one.
Peyton Manning does that, but because he has only one championship ring he will forever be seen as Brady’s inferi-or. But when Manning went down and missed the entire 2011 season, his Colts, previously a pe-rennial Super Bowl con-tender guaranteed to win at least ten games a year, came within 17 points of being winless.
Who is the most valu-able player in the NFL? The answer seems obvi-ous to me.
What the howl?The NFL’s MVP vs Reality
Travis Sharp/HeraldArkansas State Rugby club players tangle with players from Emory University Saturday
afternoon at the ASU Rugby Field. Arkansas State’s B-side team defeated Emory University 68-0 in their first game of the season. The A-Side’s first game will be at home against the University of Arkansas Feb. 11.
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Joseph Meyer competes in the men’s 400 run at the Orange and Blue Open in Champaigne, Ill., Meyer ran a time of 48.97 to capture first place.
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