THE O O RACLE Volume 95 | Issue 10 | Free in single copy | February 3, 2012 Tennessee Tech University | Cookeville, TN | 38505 More stories and exclusive content at tntechoracle.com RON PAUL IS INCONSISTENT | PAGE 3 MURPHY BREAKS RECORD | PAGE 4 CRITIC REVIEW: CASA MEXICANA | PAGE 5 FRIDAY CONTACT: news - 931.372.3285 - [email protected] | advertising - 931.372.3031 - [email protected]57/40 °F SATURDAY 54/46 °F TNTECHORACLE.COM FACEBOOK.COM/TNTECHORACLE @TNTECHORACLE SUNDAY 59/50 °F MONDAY 52/36 °F TUESDAY 53/37 °F WEDNESDAY 49/39 °F Jessica Wilson Henderson Hall renovations near completion Ms. Red, a custodian in the Ellington-Warf residence hall, starts off her Monday morning by cleaning bathrooms. By JESSICA SMITH Beat Reporter The restricted areas in Hender- son Hall have been removed and the building is safe for students and faculty use. While there is still no specified date for classes to resume in Hen- derson Hall, Paul Semmes, College of Arts and Sciences dean, and Kurt Eisen, Arts and Sciences interim as- sociate dean, said that renovations are extremely close to completion. “We expect classrooms to come back online, probably one-by-one, over the next few weeks,” Eisen said. Construction is complete, but technological upgrades are still in the works. Computer labs will not be open when classes resume in the building. Technology installation will continue as classes move back into Henderson Hall, but it should not disturb classes in session. Henderson Hall underwent the most extensive renovations of any building on campus so far, accord- ing to Eisen. Renovations included a roof re- placement, the replacement of heat- ing and air conditioning fan coil units throughout the building, in- stallation of a sprinkler system and classroom upgrades. Those who have classes in the building will no- tice new floors, light fixtures, new furniture, technology upgrades and Custodians future in hands of TBR, President Bell By NICK ROLLINS Asst. Managing Editor Despite a year of petitions and rallies, Tech has taken the next step in outsourcing its custodians at the beginning of this semester. “The proposed vendor, Ser- vice Solutions, would provide the cleaning services for $1.1 million dollars less than what the Univer- sity is spending now,” David Lari- more, Custodial Services Ad Hoc Committee chairman, said. Even though SSC Service Solu- tions was selected, they must first be approved by President Bob Bell and the Tennessee Board of Re- gents. If they are approved, they will take over all duties that the current custodians perform now. Service Solutions, of Knoxville, falls under Compass Group North America, which is also the parent company of Chartwells, who Tech contracted for food services. According to Larimore, Tech’s budget is facing problems. In the next budget for the University, expenses exceed revenue by $2.4 million. Until now, this deficit has been covered by stimulus money, as well as money that the Univer- sity receives from the state. “Now that all goes away, leav- ing the University to come up with a solution to the $2.4 million short- fall,” Larimore said. However, in the past, Tech at- tempted to save money as an effort to keep the custodians on payroll. Facilities and Business Services an- nounced that they reassigned the custodians to work third shift Oct. 29, 2010. This change eventually fell through because of its unpopu- larity. “The original thought was ‘That’s when everyone else cleans,’ such as at a bank, or doctors office,” Larimore said. “The faculty sen- ate, the custodians and the faculty were all upset about that change.” According to Larimore, Bell asked the TBR for permission to increase student fees in order to not be forced to outsource the cus- todians. However, the Board of Regents denied the proposal. “The response was, the other institutions had outsourced custo- dial services already, and that they would not grant our request since the other institutions had already done that,” Larimore said. The Custodial Services Ad Hoc Committee, appointed by Bell, was established to see if custodial out- sourcing is necessary, review bud- get documents for analysis and recommend the best method of providing custodial services to the campus. Suellen Alfred, curriculum and instruction professor, believes that outsourcing is not the solution to the budget problem. “The whole TTU culture in the past has put great value on the fact that we are all a family,” Alfred said. “You don’t outsource fam- ily.” Before a decision is made, the committee will continue to search for alternatives to outsourcing. “The faculty senate, in its last meeting, proposed that the com- mittee explore alternatives to out- sourcing before recommending outsourcing to the president,” Lar- imore said. According to Larimore, the committee has not identified a way that custodial services can be organized or restructured to be competitive with the Service Solu- tions bid, nor have they been able to identify a feasible alternative to outsourcing. “I don’t have any intentions in upsetting and rearranging peo- ple’s lives, and there are concerns about their future,” Larimore said. “The committee, I believe, is trying to take all of those things into ac- count. I do believe, on part of the senate, that somewhere there is something that could be sacrificed without any pain so that outsourc- ing custodial services would not have to be considered.” See “Outsourcing,” page 6 minimized room capacity to com- ply with updated fire codes. An expansion of classroom walls to hide wiring has resulted in smaller rooms. The limited space will mean that some classes may not return to their original locations in Henderson Hall, depending on class size. “How the building gets utilized will be a little different from pre- vious semesters because all of the classrooms have been configured differently and, in most cases, in seating and capacity,” Eisen said. David Phifer, English major, said he is concerned about the re- configuration of the classes in Hen- derson Hall. “I spent most of my college ca- reer in there and now I’m in all of these random buildings,” Phifer said. “It sucks because I was used to Henderson, but now I’m not used to anything so it’s like starting all over again. It was convenient be- cause all of my classes were in the same building, but now they may not be.” The department chairs will de- cide what classes will move back into the building. Casey Woodard Grace Claudy enters Henderson Hall to meet with her professor. ITS to put an end to free printing on campus By MEGAN SEVERE Beat Reporter Tech’s Information Technol- ogy Services is implementing a new printing system designed to reduce paper and toner waste. The Pharos Uniprint system has been installed and is expected to continue to expand this spring, around spring break. Students are already being required to swipe their Eagle cards in order to re- lease their printing jobs, though no charges are incurring. “We are trying to get people used to using this process and how it works,” Annette Littrell, ITS manager, said. ITS will be watching and monitoring the process. Students, faculty and staff will be given a 250-300 page quo- ta each semester, with charges accumulating once the quota is exceeded. Students printing more paper than the allowed quota will be charged via their Eagle card. The first labs to use the sys- tem will be in Clement Hall, Johnson Hall and the Learning Commons. Henderson Hall will be using the system once classes resume there. The quota cannot be rolled forward to the following semes- ter and renews at the start of each new term. At the end of each se- mester, the quota is erased. Once the initial quota is used, printing will cost 10 cents per single-sided page or 15 cents per double-sided page. Students printing double-sided will re- ceive a discount and be allowed 330 sheets. Sarah Williams, a Tech stu- dent, said she has had professors who require paper copies rather than e-mail or iLearn dropbox submissions and recommend stu- dents to print off PowerPoints be- cause information is covered too quickly in class for students to write it down. “I’ve started bringing my iPad to class to download Power- Points and take notes from that, but there are professors who don’t allow iPads or laptops,” Williams said. “I understand Tech wanting to go green, but not at the cost of making the lives of broke college kids more difficult.” Littrell said a lot of different universities are already using this system. Danny Reese, ITS vice president, said the system is something the University has thought about for several years. See “Printing,” page 6
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THE OORACLEVolume 95 | Issue 10 | Free in single copy | February 3, 2012Tennessee Tech University | Cookeville, TN | 38505
More stories and exclusive content at tntechoracle.com
RON PAUL IS INCONSISTENT | PAGE 3 MURPHY BREAKS RECORD | PAGE 4 CRITIC REVIEW: CASA MEXICANA | PAGE 5
Ms. Red, a custodian in the Ellington-Warf residence hall, starts off her Monday morning by cleaning bathrooms.
By JESSICA SMITHBeat Reporter
The restricted areas in Hender-son Hall have been removed and the building is safe for students and faculty use.
While there is still no specifi ed date for classes to resume in Hen-derson Hall, Paul Semmes, College of Arts and Sciences dean, and Kurt Eisen, Arts and Sciences interim as-sociate dean, said that renovations are extremely close to completion.
“We expect classrooms to come back online, probably one-by-one, over the next few weeks,” Eisen said.
Construction is complete, but technological upgrades are still in the works. Computer labs will not be open when classes resume in the building. Technology installation will continue as classes move back into Henderson Hall, but it should not disturb classes in session.
Henderson Hall underwent the most extensive renovations of any building on campus so far, accord-ing to Eisen.
Renovations included a roof re-placement, the replacement of heat-ing and air conditioning fan coil units throughout the building, in-stallation of a sprinkler system and classroom upgrades. Those who have classes in the building will no-tice new fl oors, light fi xtures, new furniture, technology upgrades and
Custodians future in hands of TBR, President BellBy NICK ROLLINSAsst. Managing Editor
Despite a year of petitions and rallies, Tech has taken the next step in outsourcing its custodians at the beginning of this semester.
“The proposed vendor, Ser-vice Solutions, would provide the cleaning services for $1.1 million dollars less than what the Univer-sity is spending now,” David Lari-more, Custodial Services Ad Hoc Committee chairman, said.
Even though SSC Service Solu-tions was selected, they must fi rst be approved by President Bob Bell and the Tennessee Board of Re-gents. If they are approved, they will take over all duties that the current custodians perform now.
Service Solutions, of Knoxville, falls under Compass Group North America, which is also the parent company of Chartwells, who Tech contracted for food services.
According to Larimore, Tech’s budget is facing problems. In the next budget for the University, expenses exceed revenue by $2.4 million. Until now, this defi cit has been covered by stimulus money, as well as money that the Univer-sity receives from the state.
“Now that all goes away, leav-ing the University to come up with a solution to the $2.4 million short-fall,” Larimore said.
However, in the past, Tech at-tempted to save money as an effort to keep the custodians on payroll. Facilities and Business Services an-nounced that they reassigned the
custodians to work third shift Oct. 29, 2010. This change eventually fell through because of its unpopu-larity.
“The original thought was ‘That’s when everyone else cleans,’ such as at a bank, or doctors offi ce,” Larimore said. “The faculty sen-ate, the custodians and the faculty were all upset about that change.”
According to Larimore, Bell asked the TBR for permission to increase student fees in order to not be forced to outsource the cus-todians. However, the Board of Regents denied the proposal.
“The response was, the other institutions had outsourced custo-dial services already, and that they would not grant our request since the other institutions had already done that,” Larimore said.
The Custodial Services Ad Hoc Committee, appointed by Bell, was established to see if custodial out-sourcing is necessary, review bud-get documents for analysis and recommend the best method of providing custodial services to the campus.
Suellen Alfred, curriculum and instruction professor, believes that outsourcing is not the solution to the budget problem.
“The whole TTU culture in the past has put great value on the fact that we are all a family,” Alfred said. “You don’t outsource fam-ily.”
Before a decision is made, the committee will continue to search for alternatives to outsourcing.
“The faculty senate, in its last
meeting, proposed that the com-mittee explore alternatives to out-sourcing before recommending outsourcing to the president,” Lar-imore said.
According to Larimore, the committee has not identifi ed a way that custodial services can be organized or restructured to be
competitive with the Service Solu-tions bid, nor have they been able to identify a feasible alternative to outsourcing.
“I don’t have any intentions in upsetting and rearranging peo-ple’s lives, and there are concerns about their future,” Larimore said. “The committee, I believe, is trying
to take all of those things into ac-count. I do believe, on part of thesenate, that somewhere there issomething that could be sacrifi ced without any pain so that outsourc-ing custodial services would nothave to be considered.”
See “Outsourcing,” page 6
minimized room capacity to com-ply with updated fi re codes.
An expansion of classroom walls to hide wiring has resulted in smaller rooms. The limited space will mean that some classes may not return to their original locations in Henderson Hall, depending on class size.
“How the building gets utilized will be a little different from pre-vious semesters because all of the classrooms have been confi gured differently and, in most cases, in seating and capacity,” Eisen said.
David Phifer, English major,
said he is concerned about the re-confi guration of the classes in Hen-derson Hall.
“I spent most of my college ca-reer in there and now I’m in all of these random buildings,” Phifer said. “It sucks because I was used to Henderson, but now I’m not used to anything so it’s like starting all over again. It was convenient be-cause all of my classes were in the same building, but now they may not be.”
The department chairs will de-cide what classes will move back into the building.
Casey Woodard
Grace Claudy enters Henderson Hall to meet with her professor.
ITS to put an end to free printing on campusBy MEGAN SEVEREBeat Reporter
Tech’s Information Technol-ogy Services is implementing a new printing system designed to reduce paper and toner waste.
The Pharos Uniprint system has been installed and is expected to continue to expand this spring, around spring break. Students are already being required to swipe their Eagle cards in order to re-lease their printing jobs, though no charges are incurring.
“We are trying to get people used to using this process and how it works,” Annette Littrell, ITS manager, said.
ITS will be watching and monitoring the process.
Students, faculty and staff will be given a 250-300 page quo-ta each semester, with charges accumulating once the quota is exceeded. Students printing more paper than the allowed quota will be charged via their Eagle card.
The fi rst labs to use the sys-tem will be in Clement Hall, Johnson Hall and the Learning Commons. Henderson Hall will be using the system once classes resume there.
The quota cannot be rolled forward to the following semes-
ter and renews at the start of eachnew term. At the end of each se-mester, the quota is erased.
Once the initial quota isused, printing will cost 10 cents per single-sided page or 15 centsper double-sided page. Students printing double-sided will re-ceive a discount and be allowed330 sheets.
Sarah Williams, a Tech stu-dent, said she has had professorswho require paper copies ratherthan e-mail or iLearn dropboxsubmissions and recommend stu-dents to print off PowerPoints be-cause information is covered tooquickly in class for students towrite it down.
“I’ve started bringing myiPad to class to download Power-Points and take notes from that, but there are professors who don’tallow iPads or laptops,” Williamssaid. “I understand Tech wantingto go green, but not at the cost of making the lives of broke college kids more diffi cult.”
Littrell said a lot of differentuniversities are already using this system. Danny Reese, ITSvice president, said the system is something the University has thought about for several years.
See “Printing,” page 6
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7:30 p.m.Lisa Garner Santa, fl ute, Guest Artist RecitalWattenbargerAuditorium
712:00 p.m.Healthcare ProfessionalsCareer FairRUC
7:30 p.m.Cumberland Quintet in ConcertWattenbargerAuditorium
7:00 p.m.Men’s Basketball v. Eastern IllinoisHooper Eblen Center
7:30 p.m.Brass Arts Quintet RecitalWattenbarger Auditorium
Emily Haile
Awesome Eagle presents his third place trophy at the men’s basketball game Jan. 30.
Awesome Eagle placed third in the Universal Cheerleaders Associa-tion’s annual mascot competition in Orlando, Fla., Jan. 13.
Awesome placed third out of 12 in the qualifi cation round in Novem-ber. The top fi ve mascots were given the opportunity to compete.
“We may not have gotten fi rst place, but it was our fi rst year,” Drake Fenlon, freshman Spirit Squad mem-ber, said. “We had no idea what to expect. This year we were just testing the waters, and now we know what to do to bring home the gold for Tech next year.”
First place went to the Univer-sity of Delaware’s YouDee. This is YouDee’s fourth win.
Second place went to newcomer Villanova University’s Will D. Cat.
The University of South Ala-bama’s SouthPaw, who placed second last year, came in fourth this year.
Arkansas State University’s Howl placed fi fth in his fi rst year to com-pete.
Each mascot performed a skit to try to win over the judges. The skit was judged based on crowd appeal and interaction, creativity, anima-tion and enthusiasm, prop usage and the overall impression, according to UCA’s rulebook.
Each mascot had music playing in the background while interacting with props.
“We incorporated some themes to our skit like Old Spice,” Ben White, sophomore Spirit Squad member, said. “We even threw in some Justin Bieber and LMFAO.”
Other themes included “Jersey Shore”, Apple’s Siri and songs con-taining the word “awesome.”
Awesome’s main prop was a gi-ant iPhone with his silhouette in place of the Apple logo. The iPhone was placed in a purple and gold iHome.
“We physically made the props from the beginning of Christmas break until fi ve minutes before we went on to get everything exactly working how we wanted it,” Fenlon said. “Making a 6-foot-tall iPhone with multiple screens wasn’t exactly easy.”
Jordan Allen, senior Spirit Squad member said, “We saw how props can be made in different ways, and we talked to other mascots about their programs and how they differ. We went to nationals not knowing what to expect, but next year we will defi nitely be ready to bring it even harder.”
White said, “We looked to go-ing to nationals as, as long as we get higher than our score from last year, which we defi nitely did, then we’ve won in our minds.”
All of the mascot routines are on UCA’s website. Go to uca.varsity.com and click on 2012 College Cheerlead-ing & Dance National Championship Coverage & Results, then click on the mascot tab.
Awesome places third in national competitionBy EMILY HAILEBeat Reporter
Cookeville Police are currently investigating an armed robbery that occurred less than a mile from Tech.
The robbery happened the night of Jan. 20, at the Dollar General Store located on West Broad Street.
“The suspect was de-scribed as a male of stocky build, between 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet in height, and wear-ing some type of hooded gar-ment that was blue,” Lt. Carl Sells, Criminal Investigation Division, said. “Unfortunate-ly, he did a good job of keep-ing his identity hidden with a face mask.”
According to Sells, the armed robber arrived and left on foot and forced entry into the store as employees
were preparing to close for the evening. The police re-port was not available to the public, as the investigation is still pending.
Due to the close proxim-ity of the crime and the sus-pect’s unknown direction of travel, TTU Alert sent out the fi rst warning message of the semester to students’ e-mail accounts and mobile phones.
“It’s free to sign up and get the messages but you have to have unlimited text in order to receive the up-dates,” Gay Shepherd, Tech police chief, said. “That way if you’re off campus, it will keep you off of campus if need be.”
For safety tips regarding suspicious individuals on campus, or more information about Tech Police, visit www.tntech.edu/police.
Armed robbery near campus prompts fi rst TTU Alert of semesterBy JACOB WALKERBeat Reporter
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SGA passed a bill requir-ing all on-campus eateries to provide nutritional informa-
tion to students upon request starting Jan. 24.
The bill, entitled the Nutrition Act of 2011, will require at least one sign to be posted in the Perch and
Swoops Food Court stating that nutritional information is available. While there will be no drastic physical change in these locations due to this bill, there will be a reminder
SGA bill calls for nutritional information postingsBy JODI LAWERENCEBeat Reporter
to students that facts about food are available.
“We are college students now,” SGA President Lee Gatts said. “We aren’t little kids anymore who rely on our parents to let us know what we are eating. It’s im-portant that if students really care about themselves they should be able to know what they are eating if they want to. I think it’s a great idea.”
While the bill still has to be approved by Food Servic-es, and may be revised, Gatts
said he feels that it has good motives.
“I think that everyone thinks it’s a great idea,” Gatts said. “Now it’s just, will Food Services comply to do more for the students, and I think they should.”
Seth Bradley, junior civil engineering major, said, “I think that it would be truly benefi cial to the students here at Tech to know the nu-tritional value of the food that we are eating. I want to know what’s in my food.”
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LETTER TO THE EDITORToo much parking
I would like to address a problem on Tech’s cam-pus that seems to grow each year. I think there is too much parking on campus and the University should make efforts to remove the unsightly park-ing lots as soon as possible.
Instead of continuing to have concrete eye-sores in the heart of the campus, I would like the University move the bulk of the parking to the edges of the campus. As I read in The Oracle, plans are in motion to do so with the area surrounding the recently purchased Prescott Middle School building. That is not
enough.The University needs
to demolish the commuter lot post haste and get those spaces moved somewhere on the edge of campus. I do not think we should outright elimi-nate parking spaces; they just need to be moved away from the heart of the grounds. With the parking lots as they are, Tech looks like nothing more than a glorifi ed technical school.
I for one would like to see more green areas on campus with more parks and recre-ational areas. Our grounds crew does an excellent job with the space they have and I would love to see what they could do with a nice large park
space, which promotes learn-ing and pride in Tech.
Even if the fi nancial means to move the parking lot are notavailable, the University couldpromote responsible and legalstreet parking on the roadssurrounding Tech.
In conclusion, Tech ad-ministration, please make allpossible efforts to get this uglyparking lot out of the heart ofTech. Let’s make Tech a beau-tiful campus that can give the other universities in the statea run for their money.
Chuck Achesoncpacheson21@students.
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Ron Paul speaks at yet another Republican debate.
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Ron Paul is a fascinating fi gure in American politics.
At 76 years old, the (sup-posedly) Republican con-gressman and Presidential candidate has amassed a large base of support on college campuses across the country and has an in-tensely loyal group of fol-lowers who knock on doors for him, come out en masse for his rallies, write his name in chalk on random sidewalks everywhere, and given the chance, would enthusiastically offer him one of their kidneys.
While I can appreci-ate the way that Ron Paul offers an alternative to the politics-as-usual style of many politicians and have chuckled at a few of his quips during the course of the 478,623 Republican debates this year, a closer look the congressman’s positions and statements over the years reveal a candidate who is out of step with the worldview of most Americans and who, ultimately, would be un-electable in a general election against President Obama.
In his 12 terms in Congress, Paul’s pro-
posed legislation has had a success rate of about .2%.
This year Paul has spon-sored 47 bills including leg-islation that would allow private groups to coin their own money and a bill to repeal the federal law ban-ning guns in school zones.
Interestingly, Paul has been a vocal supporter of term limits as well—appar-ently just not for himself.
Paul has also espoused disturbing positions on the events of September 11, 2001. In a 2007 radio interview, Paul called the government’s investiga-tion into 9-11 a “cover-up” and in December of last year, the conservative blog Redstate.com posted raw video of Paul stating that he did not trust the government’s account of 9-11, or the Kennedy as-sassination for that matter.
In this same video, Paul went on to call for an investigation into 9-11 lead by Dennis Kucinich, the Democratic congressman from Ohio who is perhaps best known for stating during a televised debate that he once saw a UFO.
What is even more dis-
concerting is Ron Paul’s record on the issue of civil rights. Paul has gone on the record more than once to say that he would not have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and in 2004 when congress voted on a resolution honor-ing the 40th anniversary of this historic legislation, Paul cast the only “no” vote in all of congress.
In a recent appearance on CNN, Paul said that this legislation, which re-pealed the Jim Crowe laws and banned discrimination in places of public accom-modation “undermine[d] the concept of liberty.”
As someone who proud-ly claims to be the one true constitutionalist running for President, one would think that Paul would sup-port legislation that fi nally extended the provisions of the equal protections clause of the 14th amend-ment to African-Americans, women, and other mi-norities who previously had not been given those same rights under the law.
As bitter a fi ght as this primary season has been, the general election promises to be that much worse, and there is noth-ing President Obama’s re-election campaign would love more than a Ron Paul nomination or third party candidacy. Let’s not give them that satisfaction.
Ron’s record raises red fl ags JONATHAN FRANK
Asst. Editorial Editor
The whole TTU culture in the past has put great value on the fact that we are all a family. You don’t outsource family.
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Suellen Alfred,Professor of curriculum and instruction
in reference to possible outsourcing of Tech custodians, page 1
Quotable Campus
CASSIE TESAURO
Editorial Editor
Freewheeling freshmen and stressed seniors
It’s amazing how much every college student changes in four short years.
If you talk to college seniors and freshmen, it’s easy to see which is which. They’re at two different ends of the college spectrum.
We all go through the same basic changes that take us from the freshmen personality to the senior personality. So if you’re a freshman, get ready to see what your future holds.
First on the list is how much effort and money you spend on where you live. When you fi rst come to col-lege, you have a plan for your dorm room. You pack your car full of decorations.
By junior year, deco-rations will be more of an after-thought. Usually this is around the time that you realize you’d rather have money for takeout and bar tabs than make your apart-ment really scream “you”.
Instead of cool, trendy shelves and dishes from target, you have the old fur-niture that’s been in your uncle’s basement for years.
And chances are you have at least one item you found on the side of the road with a cardboard sign that read “Free!”
If you think you’re too proud for that, just wait until that fi rst utilities bill comes in. You’ll join the dark side eventually.
You’ll do the same thing with your personal appear-ance. No, I don’t mean
dumpster diving. I mean that your standards will drop.
You’ll become a lot more open to wearing sweatpants in class. You ladies will wear less make-up on campus. You guys won’t see anything wrong with wearing the same hoody over and over again. On the fi rst day of classes it’s pretty easy to spot the freshmen and the seniors.
The freshmen look fantastic, almost like they walked out of a maga-zine. The seniors are proud of themselves for wearing clean jeans.
It makes sense. When you’re a fresh-
man, you’re making a fi rst impression wherever you go.
If you’re a senior, you’ve established your so-cial circle. Plus, that circle has already seen you being carried home at fi ve in the morning after a Halloween party, so they know just how awful you can look.
Your attitude to-wards classes changes, too. Freshmen tend to show up at Tech with enough sup-plies to stock half of an Offi ce Max. By the time you’re a senior, you have three pens, one no. 2 pen-cil for scantrons, and a few old spiral notebooks.
After years of instruc-tors who think you can write lecture notes as fast as they speak, you learn to use minimalist study-ing and note-taking skills.
For those of you who
use different color ink pensto organize lecture notes, getready to kiss that goodbye.
In a lot of ways, being a freshman or senior in college is a lot like being a freshman or senior in high school.
As freshman it’s all new and exciting. You can’t un-derstand why seniors areso cynical. As a senior, youcan’t understand why the freshmen are so easygoing.
Every senior on campus has wished they could goback in time and talk them-selves out of something.
We were all fresh-men at one point and weknow the pitfalls like de-ciding you don’t need aninternship, or fi lling your schedule with fun classesthat will later cause youto take multiple diffi cult classes at the same time.
Sometimes we feel like freshmen are acting spoiledbecause it’s hard for us to remember what it felt like to still have so much timeleft to do everything wewanted to do in college.
On the fl ip side, whatmany freshmen don’t under-stand is that getting readyto graduate from college is like standing on a cliff witheveryone you know con-gratulating you because you get to jump over the edge.
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SPORTS
By ROSS HARVEYSports Editor
Tech men’s basketball player Kevin Murphy scored a ca-reer-high and school-record 50 points Monday in a 98-80 win against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. Murphy’s total was also a Hooper Eblen Center record.
That total was also the highest single-game output for any NCAA player in Division I this year.
Head coach Steve Payne said after the game that he didn’t know how many points his senior guard had until close to the end of the game, (Murphy came out after scoring his 50th point at the free-throw line with 1:38 left) but Payne said this kind of scoring output from Murphy didn’t surprise him.
“[Murphy] can score the basketball. We’ve seen him score the basketball,” Payne said. “There’s no lack of ability there. He’s talented.”
Murphy’s night was recognized by the national media when he was referenced on ESPN’s “Sportscenter” and “Par-don the Interruption,” and also on CBSSports.com.
“It’s a great visibility tool for our team, our school, poten-tial recruits and Mid-major conferences,” Payne said. “I hope everyone gets behind him and the entire team.
“The key to having [that type of game] is shot selection, which the whole team is getting better at.”
Murphy, who was 16-21 from the fi eld and 12-14 from the free-throw line, agreed with his coach’s words.
“They kept getting me the ball. It was just an in-game thing,” Murphy said, adding that he felt no indication pre-game that he was in for a big night. “[Guard Zac] Swansey and the rest of my team fed me.
“We were all moving without the ball and getting good shots.”
Swansey added a career-high 14 assists in the game. He also had only one turnover, which coach Payne said was as impressive as having 50 points.
“He’s the engine for our team, and he’s got such a good feel for the game,” Payne said of Swansey.
The Golden Eagles are 14-9 (6-4, OVC) this season and
fourth in the conference going into Thursday night’s gameagainst the Austin Peay Governors (9-15, 6-5 OVC). Coach Payne talked about what his team needs to do to become bet-ter as a unit.
“Fourth place isn’t a bad spot,” Payne said. “A free-throw or two here or a more consistent effort in the second half and we are [in an even better spot]. It’s all out there.
“We are getting better at getting a good shot every time.”Payne added that it is more important to work on get-
ting better now so the team can be playing its’ best basketball heading into the OVC tournament. The top-eight teams in theconference make the OVC tournament.
“Basketball is a tournament sport,” Payne said. “You want to be playing your best late in the year.”
Tech’s last regular season game of this year will be at home against OVC-leading and undefeated Murray State (21-0, 9-0 OVC). As of this week, Murray St. is the ninth rankedteam in the country, according to the ESPN/USAToday poll.
“There is big time basketball happening on our campus,”Payne said. “This will be the fi rst time a top-10 team comes to the Hoop. There were over 9,000 fans when we went down there, and we hope to have that many when they visit us.”
Payne said the recognition Murray St. is generating for the conference is excellent.
“Honestly, I wish it was us,” Payne said. “But it’s good to see our name, our brand out there.”
Murphy said he was looking forward to the rest of the season, but he wouldn’t look to “get hot.” Instead, he will con-tinue to go through his regular routine just as he does before every game.
“I’m focused on winning an OVC Championship,” Mur-phy said, adding he wouldn’t mind being on the team that hands Murray St. their fi rst loss.
“I hope they come in here undefeated.“But, then again,” Murphy said, laughing, “if they lost a
few games, I wouldn’t mind that either.”For more information on Tech basketball and all of Tech
athletics, visit TTUSports.com
Weekly Roundup This week’s sports stories at a glance
Track and fi eld competes in fi rst indoor event of season
The Golden Eagle track team scored mul-tiple personal best fi nishes at the 34th annual Niswonger Foundation Invitational.
The competition was held inside the East Tennessee State University Athletic Center Jan. 27-28. The two-day event was the fi rst in-door race of the season for Tech.
Tech’s Emily Weinzetl placed 14th in the 800-meter race with a time of 2 minutes, 30.22 seconds, followed closely by Golden Eagle Leah Bradley at 2:30.38. Bradley’s perfor-mance was enough to secure her 16th place and a career best record for that event.
“I was very satisfi ed with my perfor-mance,” Bradley said. “Although there was some miscommunication between the offi -cials and our athletes, I believe our Distance Medley Relay has great potential. Overall it was a good fi rst meet and a defi nite learning experience.”
Along with a personal best record in the 800-meter, Bradley beat her previous re-cord in the indoor mile by running a time of 5:38.19. This was an improvement of four sec-onds from her old personal record.
Tech sophomore Meghan O’Donoghue completed the 5,000-meter run in 20:22.06, a personal best over her previous time of 20:25.80.
In the fi eld events, Golden Eagle junior Lacy Yslas threw for an indoor career best in the shot put with a distance of 36 feet, 4 3/4 inches. This was her fi rst time competing since the Niswonger Invitational in 2010.
The team’s next race will be the Tiger In-vitational at Sewanee on Feb. 3-4.
Women’s basketball goes on the road after overtime loss
The Golden Eagle women’s basketball team (10-14, 6-4) will hit the road this week-end for a conference battle with Jacksonville State (4-19, 1-9) Saturday at 2 p.m. The game will be the fi rst of a three game road trip.
Tech is coming off a heartbreaking 64-62 loss in overtime to SIU-Edwardsville on Wednesday night in the Hooper Eblen Cen-ter.
“I thought our players competed hard for 30 minutes but, unfortunately, the game is 40 minutes long,” head coach Sytia Messer said.
“Sadly, the outcome was not in our favor.”The Golden Eagles were led by sopho-
more guard Jala Harris who scored 14 points along with fi ve rebounds and fi ve assists. Se-nior guard Tacarra Hayes added 12 points along with three boards and senior Brittany Darling contributed eight points and eight re-bounds.
Other scorers included sophomore Molly Heady with nine, Kellie Cook and Brianna Jordan each with six, Rachel Glidden with fi ve and Krystal Stirrup with two.
“We’re going to bounce back well by hav-ing good practices,” Messer said. “We are go-ing to take it one game at a time and play our best basketball when it comes OVC tourna-ment time.”
Jacksonville State is also coming off a loss to SIU-Edwardsville, their fourth in a row.
Saturday will mark the second meeting between the conference foes this season. The Golden Eagles topped the Gamecocks 65-59 in a Jan. 23 game at the Eblen Center.
Tech will return home on Feb. 13 to host the OVC leading Eastern Illinois Panthers.
Tennis looks for quick start to the season
A new season for Tech sports has begun and Tech’s tennis team has their goals set high for this season and is ready to set out and make it happen.
Justin Kirstein, Tech tennis player and se-nior, has a good outlook for the tennis team’s season. “I think we have a great team with a mixture of experience and young talent,” Kirstein said. “We prepare each match as it comes. Our team is much stronger than last year with an addition of three new players.”
Every season a team will set specifi c goals to accomplish. Kirstein said, “Winning the OVC is our main goal.”
As a senior this means there is one last shot to accomplish such championship goals. Kirstein said, “It’s my last semester, so hope-fully I can graduate with a degree in one hand and a championship ring in the other.”
Tech plays at Elon University today, Feb. 3, and their next home match will be against Gardner Webb, Saturday, Feb. 11.
Tech baseball has a lot to look forward in preparation for the upcoming season with 30 home games, nine nationally-ranked op-ponents and two new assistant coaches.
The 2012 season will be the eighth year for head coach Matt Bragga at Tech and he said he expects this season to be the most exciting yet.
“I think this is the best schedule that we have had since I’ve been here,” Bragga said in a news release on the Tech Sports website. “Not only do we have 30 games at home, but we are facing several of the best teams in the country like Missouri State, Texas Tech, Kentucky and Clemson, among others.”
Even though Tech is in the Ohio Valley Conference, one of the smaller conferences in the country, they will still go up against teams from the bigger conferences in the nation, like the SEC, ACC and Big 12.
“There is no doubt we will be chal-lenged,” said Assistant Coach Matt Mihoci via e-mail. “But we have enough talent on the mound to beat anybody we step on the fi eld with so we feel very confi dent about our team.”
Mihoci, along with Brandon Turner, was hired as a new assistant coach this year. Both coaches are former Golden Eagles, knowing the program inside and out.
“I know how coach [Bragga] likes to do things, so we are defi nitely on the same page,” said Mihoci via e-mail. “I also know exactly what our players our going through since I was in their shoes a few years ago, so it is easy for me to relate to the challenges they face as student athletes.”
In order to mentally prepare the base-ball team for the season, Bragga said he is transforming his players by the renewing of their minds.
Bragga said he wants relationships with-in the team based off encouragement, not discouragement. He also said that bickering and strife are going to tear a team down, but encouragement and support builds it up, and he wants other baseball teams to see something special in Tech baseball.
The Tech baseball team will begin the 2012 season in Lubbock, Texas at the Red Raider Classic on Feb. 17. The Golden Ea-gles will begin their home stand on Feb. 24, starting a three-game series with Illinois State. Admission to home games is free.
Senior Murphy’s NCAA season-high 50 points garners national attentionHead coach Steve Payne acknowledges team effort, better consistency as reasons for scoring outburst
(Top) Kevin Murphy drives past a defender. Murphy had a career-high 50 points Monday night.(Bottom) Head coach Steve Payne (left) and Athletic Director Mark Wilson (right) present Murphy with the game ball.
Both photos courtesy of Photo Services
Tech’s baseball players fi eld ground balls during practice last week. Tech baseball begins its’ season against tough non-conference opponents this season.
Allie Sampson
Tech baseball prepares for tough scheduleBy AARON VICKBeat Reporter
This week’s Weekly Roundup features stories from Beat Writers David Lane and Justin Duke and Assistant Sports Editor Andy Rutherford.
Men’s Basketball | OVC Standings1. No. 9 Murray St. 9-0 (21-0)2. SE Miss. State 7-2 (12-9)3. Tennessee State 7-4 (14-10) 4. Tennessee Tech 6-4 (14-9)5. Morehead State 5-4 (12-11)6. Austin Peay 6-5 (9-15)
7. E. Kentucky 5-5 (12-11) 8. Jacksonville St. 4-6 (9-15) 9. SIUE 3-7 (5-14) 10. Eastern Illinois 2-7 (9-12) 11. UT Martin 0-10 (3-20)
- Overall record in parentheses
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ENTERTAINMENT
Casa Mexicana offers good food, friendly service
I checked out Casa Mexicana this week and I’m happy to say I have a new favorite to add to my list of Cookeville restaurants.
The atmosphere of the place is vibrant with yellow-ish-gold walls and paintings of Mexican life. Each of the tables and chairs throughout the restaurant look hand-painted, with different de-signs on each. The place isn’t too big, but just about average in size; so it’s nice if you’re a place not too crowded.
Another plus, besides the catchy Latin back-ground music, is the res-taurant’s excellent service.
Unlike other places I’ve been, the servers here are not overbearing or trying to hassle you about food choice.
The servers give you all the time needed, but they are also very helpful so you
can make the best choice. One nice part of the menu is the Mexican descriptions section, which acts as a make-shift glossary for cus-tomers making their choice.
I ordered the carne azada my fi rst time at the restaurant.
The carne azada is served hot with sides of lettuce, rice, guacamole and beans that go in tortillas, along with many slices of juicy steak cooked to perfection.
I sampled other dishes like the pollo loco, consist-ing of grilled chicken with seasoning, and the mixed chicken and steak fajita ques-adilla. I recommend the fajita quesadilla if you want a bit of everything, but if you want only one meat chose the loco.
If you’re interested in healthier alternatives, try the mushroom/spinach que-sadilla. Food photographer, Jillian Boreing said the spinach quesadilla was “legit, and a very tasty vegetarian option.”
Other veggie friendly op-tions are offered on the menu or you can ask your server for something more specifi c.
The restaurant opens for lunch and dinner, with different food specials each day and drink specials that stay the same all week.
I was sold the gener-ous 2 for 1 margarita special.
Each of the meals at the restaurant left me full and content when I fi nished and I paid around $12 for my meal, drink included.
Most meals gener-ally cost less than $10, but make sure you remem-ber to show your Tech ID for the student discount.
Defi nitely try Casa Mexicana for a food ex-perience that’s differ-ent than some of the oth-ers around Cookeville.
The restaurant is on North Willow Avenue next to Dominos, just a short walk or drive from campus.
“I’ll always be unhappy if I don’t sing,” confesses singer, songwriter Anthony Green before leading listeners into a catchy vocal melody in the fi rst track of “Beautiful Things.”
The second solo installment for Green, better known as the front-man and vocalist for the experimental rock band Circa Survive, was released Jan. 17, and is a surprising listen for fans who expected a follow-up similar to Green’s mellow, guitar-centric debut, “Avalon.”
Folk trio Good Old War, who performed as the in-studio band on “Avalon,” joined Green for a second time and has a noticeable presence and infl uence on Green’s record, especially in “How It Goes,” “Just to Feel Alive” and “Blood Song.”
Together, the four explored an assortment of genres, creating an entertaining and diverse collection of 13 songs.
However, such diversity becomes hard to follow at times, like in case of the out-of-place reggae tune “When I’m on Pills.”
Green begins the album with the powerful “If I don’t Sing” before subtly transitioning into the repetitive, locomotive-like “Do It Right.”
An unusual choice for
the album’s second track, “Do It Right” seems almost unrehearsed, making it more appropriate as a hidden track. According to Green, the raw a cappella tune was recorded using only one microphone and sounds as such.
By building aggressive guitars riffs and driving drum patterns around his signature high, gritty voice in songs like “Can’t Have It All At Once,” Green appears to be narrowing the gap of distinction between the contrasting sounds of his solo work and Circa Survive on “Beautiful Things.”
Several of Green’s new songs, such as “James’ Song” and “Lullaby,” refl ect his experiences as a new father.
“Love You No Matter What” opens with delicate female vocals and acts as a testament to Green’s devotion to his unborn child.
With lines like “Even ifspikes grow from out of yourhead, and you’re shootingvomit fi re all on the bed,”it is arguably the record’smost lyrically-peculiar song.
“Beautiful Things” iswell-balanced, with darker,yet catchy compositionslike “Get Yours While YouCan” and “Blood Song,”offset by light-hearted,“ A v a l o n ” - r e m i n i s c e n tsongs like “Just to FeelAlive” and “How It Goes.”
Although it is adisappointing follow-up to “Avalon” in somerespects, most notablythe overall less-polishedproduction and sporadicchoice of genre, “BeautifulThings” is undeniably morecreative and an interestingexperimentation of soundand writing, proof that Greenis anything but stuck in a rut.
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Anthony Green released his second solo installment, “Beau-tiful Things” on Jan. 17.
“The Grey” is an intense and nail-biting fi lm that por-trays the struggle between man and wild and the inter-nal struggles of being human.
Directed by Joe Carnahan, “The Grey” starts off with a bang when seven members of an oil- drilling team survive a horrendous plane crash that leaves them stranded in the harsh environment of the Alaskan wilderness. While facing the cold, barren landscape, the team learns the hard way that they are being hunted by a pack of wolves. The men are slowly picked off as the team strug-gles to survive and deal with their own internal confl icts.
Ottoway, played by Liam Neeson, becomes the self-pro-claimed leader of the group and begins to lead the group in what they hope is the di-rection out of the wolf pack’s territory. As the dwindling number of survivors struggles to navigate the snowy ter-rain and defend themselves from the wolves, fl ashbacks involving Ottoway’s wife in-troduce yet another struggle he must overcome to survive.
The overall visual effects are mediocre at times. The wolves come across as com-pletely realistic at times but often appear to be the product of lackluster CGI. The camera angles do not work to portray the action adequately during some scenes, but the harsh conditions of the terrain are captured effectively and beau-tifully more often than not.
A talented supportingcast aids the fi lm and comple-
ments Neeson’s performance. Frank Grillo, Dermot
Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Ben Bray, James Badge Dale and Nonso Anozie nearly perfect the rough characters they are meant to portray.
The ending, includ-ing a scene after the credits, was slightly disappointing.
The powerful action sequences and depth giv-en through philosophi-
cal moments prevail over the unsatisfactory ending.
“The Grey” is certainlyone of the must-see fi lms of the month that is guaran-teed to put viewers on theedge of the seat and leavepatrons thinking about theirown internal struggles.
“The Grey” is rated ‘R’ for violence/disturbing con-tent including bloody im-ages and pervasive language.
By LINDSEY GOREStaff Writer
By WILL SHECKLERAsst. Entertainment Editor
By LOGAN NICKLESONWeb Editor
The Young Folks
“The Grey” has non-stop action and an ending that is re-solved after the credits.
1. Salmon colored skinny jeans
2. Ugg boots and short shorts
3. Tank tops (it’s winter!)
4. Female Khaki Pants
5. Wearing Purple and Gold
6. Leggings under shorts/skirts
7. Brand labeled clothing
8. Pig Tails (are you 8?)
9. Brown Female Dress Shoes
10. Turtleneck Sweaters
Christina’s Top 10 fashion faux pas
Spring 2012 trends to know and love
With spring just around the corner, nautical motifs and ‘40s inspired trends are invading depart-ment stores and runways.
The fashion scene is an ever-changing, multi-fac-eted market that evolves through the seasons.
With spring’s introduc-tion, cable-knit sweaters and riding boots will be things of the past, making room for silhouette-conscious pieces, bold prints and patterns.
The curve-enhanc-ing peplum tunic is remi-niscent of a time when exaggerated, feminine features were desired.
While this trend has fl uctuated in and out of style
over time, the most recent adaptation leans more to-ward Marilyn Monroe-like icons and less toward the taffeta on Saved by the Bell.
Paired with a mili-tary-styled belt and a nau-tical jersey, the peplum is transformed into a ca-sual, urbanized accessory.
Bold print and pat-terned dresses of the ‘60s make a comeback, but in-stead of pill-box hats and white gloves, casual acces-sories make this trend fresh.
Head-to-toe fl oral com-binations paired with mas-culine accessories are ideal for the season’s arrival.
With such a heavy em-phasis on the feminine, lace-up ankle booties or a bomber jacket can prevent the Easter Sunday vibe.
A trend that has yet to fade away and presses through this sea-son is the technique of colorblocking.
The key to this style is to pick two very bold colored pieces, like cobalt blue slacks and a fuchsia pink button-up blouse, giv-ing the illusion that the colors block each other off.
The most recent incar-nation of this trend is to add print into the combination.
Be warned, however, that an outfi t can look like a splatter painting if this is executed improperly.
The idea is to experi-ment with colors and prints that complement one an-other and do not distract.
When in doubt, pick ei-ther colorblocking or print.
By CHRISTINA RIDDLEEntertainment Editor
Fashion Forward
Jillian Boreing
The spinach enchilladas, along with other dishes, offer vegetarian alternatives at Casa Mexi-cana.
A case of the good, the bad and “The Grey”
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Tech will host the Ten-nessee Association of Resi-dence Halls conference Feb. 3-5.
The yearly conference is for resident assistants, Resi-dence Hall Association mem-bers, hall council members and other students involved in Residential Life.
“At the conference, schools compete for things like spirit points as well as place bids for the next year’s executive board members and the privilege to host the
next year’s conference,” Al-lie Sampson, conference co-chair, said.
Last year, Tech placed a bid to host the 2012 confer-ence and won. This will be the University’s third time hosting TARH. Eleven dif-ferent Tennessee colleges will attend this upcoming conference.
TARH is made up of an executive board of four stu-dents from different schools around the state and two advisors from various state schools.
“We have 10 delegates that we are sending to repre-sent Tech, and what they’re
going to learn from the otherschools to bring back to ourhalls is just limitless,” An-drew Moneymaker, Tech area coordinator for Capital Quad and Crawford Hall,said. “A lot of the stuff we donow we have learned fromother schools at these typesof conferences, program-ming-wise, and getting stu-dents to interact is going tobe tremendous.”
Attendees will stay in hotels and Tech will provideshuttles to campus, whereprogramming sessions willbe available throughout theday.
By SHELBY MCDONALDBeat Reporter
Tech to host TARH this weekendSWING INTO SPRING
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“It is time to be able to control the issue and let stu-dents print what they need to print,” he said. “We’re one of the last TBR schools to implement a solution to the problem.”
Faculty will be asked to be more aware of the issue and try to fi nd alternatives to printing methods. Reese said turning in notes elec-tronically could be one sug-gestion.
“Faculty could choose to have their notes printed by Printing Services and it come out by the bookstore,” Reese said. “Printing in the Learning Commons is a lot more costly than through Printing Services.”
If Service Solutions is approved, the custodians will be allowed to hire on with them and take a sev-erance package from Tech. By doing this, they will lose their Tech benefi ts, which Alfred believes are greater than what Service Solutions will offer.
“What we’ve done is shifted the cost burden from Tech onto the city of Cookeville and Putnam County,” Alfred said. “That means people are going to
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Some departments may choose not to use the sys-tem. Littrell said if the de-partment chooses to opt out they will provide their own toner and paper.
The money for the Phar-os system installation came from other campus funds received, not the students’ fees. Littrell said the Pharos system will help save mon-ey to use for students.
“It will help us save pa-per and free up technology dollars to use for students,” she said.
In 2008, the price for toner and paper started doubling each semester. Littrell said students started noticing recycling bins were overfl owing with paper.
SGA passed a resolution in 2006 regarding printing services, calling for greener printing and less waste.
Lee Gatts, President of
SGA, said it will take a se-mester to see how it will go.
“Specifi c majors require more printing for studying than others,” Gatts said.
Reese said most of the feedback from students about the system has been positive.
While being off campus, students may send their print jobs to the printer and building of their choice on campus. The print job will be held until the student swipes his or her Eagle card.
“Students who are in a hurry can already have their print jobs waiting for them on campus,” Littrell said. “We hope students will appreciate that.”
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wind up in the emergency room, and who pays for that? Our taxes do. And we could see them in public housing, and we could see them on food stamps. Who pays for that? We do.”
In the past, the United Campus Workers have pro-tested and picketed as an effort to bring awareness to, as well as end the outsourc-ing effort.
Cassie Watters, orga-nizer for UCW, said the or-ganization plans to host a
prayer vigil Feb. 13 at 5 p.m. at Main Quad in response to the letter of intent. Accord-ing to Watters, their main focus is to pray for the cus-todians, and to pray that the right decision is made.
“With the way our economy is now, it’s go-ing to be tough for these people to get a job,” Alfred said. “They are going to be receiving benefi ts, not from Tech, but from tax payers.”
