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ali ClarkCollegio Reporter

Apple sold 25 million iPads over the last two years. The Kindle Fire has already passed 5.5 million units sold. And last week Apple announced the launch of the iBooks2. Whether electronic readers will affect college education is no longer an issue. The question now is: when will it affect college education? iPads and tablets are being brought into classrooms all over the U.S. and have come to Pittsburg State University. Chris Huitt, professor in graphics and imaging technologies, taught Layout and Design last semester a little bit differently than he has in the past. Academic Affairs recently launched an iPad Pilot Project and decided Huitt would be the perfect candidate to test it. Twenty-four students in Huitt’s class received a new iPad on the first day of class. Students were allowed to use them for

madison dennisCollegio Editor-in-chief

On Wednesday, Jan. 18, some Pitt State students noticed something odd about a few popular websites – they weren’t there.

An estimated 7,000 websites coordinated a service blackout to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills last week. SOPA, or Stop Internet Piracy Act, and PIPA, or Protect IP Act, were measures before Congress that were meant to protect intellectual property and cut down on internet piracy. However, the bills were met with strong opposition that led to legislators shelving the measures before they could be brought before the entire Congress.

Seth Russell says that though he understands the idea behind the bills, he doesn’t think they should be implemented as they currently exist.

“I’m a musician, myself,” said Russell, freshman in marketing. “I get that you work hard and you put something out there. When people aren’t paying for it and you’re getting screwed, yeah that’s bad.”

Russell says that he would support a bill that protected his rights as a musi-

cian and his rights as an Internet user.“What’s out there now is that they’re trying to come into this thing late and

make rules, and people have been doing it this way for a while now,” Russell said. “People are used to putting copyrighted music to their videos and putting it on YouTube or linking to movies or whatever. You can’t just say, okay now that’s illegal.”

Mckayla Ryan says she agrees with Russell, but believes that a revised bill will soon be considered.

“I honestly have been surprised that something like this hasn’t come earlier,” said Ryan, junior in English. “It seems like online piracy and file sharing has been completely out of control for a while now.”

Ryan says she knows many people who have downloaded movies or music illegally.

“It’s somehow not considered stealing, but it is stealing,” Ryan said. “You don’t think that someone is getting hurt when you do it, but there is always

Caitlin taylorCollegio Reporter

The new University House that will house univer-sity President and be used for entertaining visitors to the university is currently under construction and should be finished by the end of the summer.

Dr. Brad Hodson, vice president of university advancement, and John Patterson, vice president for administrative and campus life, were put in charge of the project.

Hodson says he primarily deals with the design and getting the construction implemented while Patterson handles overseeing the construction and handling the expenses.

OLD MEETS NEW“Probably the main difference between the old

house and the new one is that it’s called a University House,” Hodson said. “Universities around the nation have started to implement the idea of a University house. It’s not solely for the president anymore.”

Hodson describes the house as a “mixed use facil-ity” meaning part of the house will be for entertaining purposes, and a smaller part will be the president’s actual home.

“One of the reasons we decided to make it a university house is because the president already lives like he is in a bubble, having to be president 24/7,” Hodson said. “And since the expectations of the president entertaining guests has grown tremendously since back when the original house was built, we decided to build two parts to the house.”

ROOM TO ENTERTAINHodson says that when you first walk into the

house, there will be a large entryway big enough for people to be checked in while not being crowded.

“This house is being built with coat closets that will hold 100 coats,” Hodson said. “In the old house, the president would have to put coats on their per-sonal bed.”

Hodson says there will be public restrooms for guests on the left and right side of the entryway whereas in the old house, all guests would use the president’s own personal bathroom.

“After you pass the bathrooms, you enter a big vaulted room that can hold 60-80 people dining, or 100-140 people standing,” Hodson said. “There is a large fireplace at the end of the room, and French doors leading out to a patio facing the lake.”

SEPERATE SPACESHodson says that this house will have a separate

dining room with a table big enough for 20 people. There will also be a separate catering kitchen contain-ing state-of-the-art equipment for Sodexo.

“In this house, we also decided to put guest beds into the structure that will be completely opposite the president’s quarters with a personal entrance so guests can come and go as they please,” Hodson said. “And the president will not have to have them invad-ing their personal space.”

Hodson says that the actual living quarters for the

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Following their NCAA Division II national championship, the Pittsburg State football team re-turned to a hero’s welcome and a town buzzing with excitement and pride. In the five weeks since the players reached the pinnacle of division II football, the limelight has faded and the team must adjust to a different lifestyle.

“It still hasn’t hit me yet. After all those wins, especially the big one, I just want to enjoy it as long as possible,” said senior defensive lineman Cody Moore. “It was just an amazing season.”

Senior quarterback Zac Dickey says he kept in contact with several players over winter break and the overwhelming sentiment was a desire to bask in the moment for as long as possible.

“The effects of winning that game have stayed with us,” Dickey said. “I talked to one guy who told

me he woke up every morning with a smile on his face.”

Some of the younger players, like sophomore cornerback Israel Maselera, don’t have the luxury of relishing the victory as long as others. Members of the team that are returning next season have already started off-season workouts. Maselera says the workouts make you forget and get focused on preparing for what’s next.

“I’m still in the moment, but I’ve realized that

it’s time to start working for another championship,” Maselera said.

Players have more free time now, regardless of whether they are returning to the team next year. Dickey says he planned to use the off-season to focus on his job search, getting his last classes out of the way, and graduating until he played in the Casino del Sol College All-Star Game on Jan. 16. He says he received a lot of positive feedback on his

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Opponents of the SOPA/PIPA legislation protest the bills in New York City, NY on Saturday, Jan. 18.

Obama challenges: Shrink gap between rich, poor

WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama deliv-ered a populist challenge Tuesday night to shrink the gap between rich and poor, promising to tax the wealthy more and help jobless Americans get work and hang onto their homes. Seeking re-election and needing results, the president invited Republicans to join him but warned, “I intend to fight.”

In an emphatic State of the Union address, Obama said ensuring a fair shot for all Americans is “the defining issue of our time.” He said the economy is finally recovering from a deep and pain-ful recession and he will fight any effort to return to policies that brought it low.

“We’ve come too far to turn back now,” he declared.

Obama outlined a vastly different vision for fix-ing the country than the one pressed by the Repub-licans confronting him in Congress and fighting to take his job in the November election. He pleaded for an active government that ensures economic fair-ness for everyone, just as his opponents demand that the government back off and let the free market rule.

Abortion-rights advocates decry Kan. proposal

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion rights advo-cates say an anti-abortion proposal pending in the Kansas House would limit women’s access to birth control.

But a key supporter of the measure says those worries are exaggerated. Rep. Steve Brunk, a Bel

Aire Republican, says it only ensures that medical professionals who oppose abortion can’t be demoted or fired for refusing to participate in terminating pregnancies, including with medication.

The so-called “conscience protection” bill was introduced Tuesday. It expands a law preventing medical personnel from being forced to participate in abortions.

The bill would extend the protection to medi-cal professionals who don’t want to participate in prescribing or administering drugs or devices they

believe could end a pregnancy.Planned Parenthood said the bill is broad enough

to cover birth control. Brunk said it’s narrowly drafted.

The shredding occurred 18 months after 107 criminal charges were filed against the clinic in Johnson County, with some alleging the clinic had falsified the reports. Once the shredding became public, a judge dismissed 49 of the charges.

Assault charge dropped against former Kansas QB

DENVER (AP) — Prosecutors in Castle Rock, Colo., have dismissed an assault charge against former University of Kansas quarterback Brock Berglund after he completed community service, took a conflict management course and paid restitu-tion to the alleged victim.

The highly touted quarterback was charged after allegedly punching a man during a party on April 9. Because of the misdemeanor charge, Berglund

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non-school purposes. “The iPads weren’t issued for just the Layout

and Design class,” Huitt said. “What they were issued for was so students would get the iPad and then use it in all of their classes, to see how well they could integrate using the iPad for university classes.” Kelli Von Cannon says she used the iPad effectively in her English classes.

“I used it a lot for the literature class I was in because I liked to carry it around instead of those humongous books,” said Von Cannon, senior in English. “I find it easier to just Google the poems or books we’re supposed to read and just read it on there.”

Huitt spent the first few class periods training students to effectively operate their iPad and, as the semester progressed, administered surveys to the students to see how the project was going. According to Huitt’s research, 45.5 percent of the class said only one of their required textbooks were available in an e-book version, 22.7 percent of the class said two e-books were available and 22.7 percent said three were available.

“Not all textbooks are available as e-textbooks,”

said Fawn Chesnutt, manager of the University Bookstore on campus. “Approximately 30 percent of the textbook titles we carry at the Gorilla Book-store are available as an e-textbook.”

Chestnutt says even though e-textbooks are sold, on average, at 60 percent of the new textbook price, many college students don’t purchase e-textbooks. According to the National Association of College Stores, digital textbooks accounted for just 2.8 percent of the total textbook sales in 2010.

“The popularity of e-textbooks has increased over the past year,” Chestnutt said. “However, the majority of students still prefer the hard copy.” Some students, like Sydney Ward, read e-books on a tablet but prefer a hard copy to a digital copy. Ward says she took an online class last spring and decided to buy an e-textbook for the class and used it on both her laptop and her Kindle. The hard copy of the book was sold for $75 while the e-book was only $33. “The one thing I didn’t like about it was the teacher would reference certain page numbers that you can’t just scroll to,” said Ward, junior in communi-cation. “E-books have locations, because you can make your text bigger or smaller.

president will be more mod-est, with a little kitchen and din-ing room, living room, a master bedroom with a full bath, and a small room for the president to have an office.

“The president’s actual living area is smaller than normal,” Hodson said. “But it is normal and modest, and there is a three car garage for the president’s university car and his and his

wife’s personal cars.”Hodson estimates that they

should be moving furniture into the new house in June or July.

MOVING DAY“I think that once they have

moved in and settled down for a while, there will be an open house, probably during a foot-ball game, so everyone can come and check out the new house,”

Hodson said. “And private do-nors have supplied 100 percent of the funds for the house. They also signed a pledge that even though they are donating to the house, they will still supply any contributions they normally do to the University.”

someone who has something riding on that movie or that song. I don’t think that SOPA or PIPA will work or should work, but I think that some kind of action needs to be taken.”

One of the causes of controversy regarding the bill was that the bill would hold websites culpable for the content on their individual webpages, requiring constant moderation of user content that many websites would be un-able to support.

“They would be taken down because the bill is basically shifting responsibility for content on the website to the website, and any

content on that website showing a copyrighted item would be subject to action by that law,” said Jeremy Butler, head technician at Gorilla Geeks. “It would make that illegal and then make whoever is in charge of that site respon-sible.”

Butler says he feels that there is a good idea at the heart of SOPA.

“I’m not for censorship, and I don’t like the idea of stopping the flow of free information,” Butler said. “But if they stripped away all the extra stuff and could shut down shareware and torrents, it would be reasonable at that point.”

performance during the game and he’s interested in seeing how far playing football can take him.

“I thought there could be no better way to walk away from the game, and I’ve had some of the best memories and times with this team,” Dickey said. “But if the opportunity pops up, I’d be very open to it.”

Maselera is enjoying the free time. He and his teammates spend about two hours each morning working out with train-ers, but the afternoons and eve-nings are theirs to spend as they wish. Maselera says he spends his free time at the Student Rec Center playing basketball and catching up with friends, but that he’s still used to the old routine.

“I feel like a normal student now, but when it’s time for practice, I find myself looking at the clock,” Maselera said, “I’m used to listening to coaches at

that time, but now it’s teachers now and I’m still getting used to that.”

Not everyone is enjoying the extra spare time as much. Junior safety Bryant Sanchez says he misses the grind of the gridiron season. Sanchez enjoys seeing friends, getting his school work in on time, and the occasional video game now, but he was eager to get back to work.

“I’d rather be in season and playing every Saturday,” Sanchez said. “Practices are hard, but I love the game and I’d rather be out there in front of the fans.”

Like the others, Moore appre-ciates the ability to focus more on his studies, but he thinks he might be bored with all his spare time. His five years of eligibil-ity are up and he still has a year of school left. Moore says he aims to find a job here in town

and finish his physical education degree so he can pursue his goal of coaching football.

“Our motto last season was ‘humble and hungry,’ but now we’re a target,” Maselera said. “Everyone wants that top spot, but we want to repeat as national champions.”

Moore says he’s looking for-ward to being on the other side next season. He says he wants to be in the stands rooting for his friends and the new players. Dickey says he’s most looking forward to picking up the guitar again and getting to travel a little bit, but he still loves Pittsburg.

“Pittsburg State is a great place to live and receive an education from,” Dickey said. “And I’m looking forward to experiencing it in a different way after the past five years.”

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Minh Bui was far away from home last Christ-mas. He and his family were separated by the Pacific Ocean. But Christmas wasn’t bad at all for Bui. Actually, he had a good time.

Bui, freshman in finance, is from Nha Trang, a big city in Vietnam where there are no holidays at the end of the year. So, for the first time, Bui experienced a traditional Christmas. His Pitt Pal, Evan Wilson, invited him to spend the holidays with his family.

“I thought it was a good idea because I knew that even the dining hall at PSU would be closed,” said Wilson, freshman in pre-pharmacy. “And there is not so much to do here on break.”

Wilson and Bui traveled to Hutchinson, where Bui stayed with Wilson’s family for two weeks.

“It was a new experience,” Bui said. “We decorated a tree, I received a lot of presents, met the entire family.”

When Bui called his parents on Skype and told them that he was spending winter break with an American family, they expressed appreciation toward Wilson’s parents. They talked to them on Skype, with Bui acting as translator.

Like Bui, a lot of other international students

spent the holidays with American families of PSU students.

“Spending time with another family is bet-ter than being here, missing home,” said Brenda Hawkins, director of the Pitt Pal program.

Hawkins says that the program is designed to help new international students in their transition to PSU by pairing them with an American student. Hawkins herself and her family celebrated the holidays with two students from China.

“My family loved to have somebody different,” Hawkins said. “It is a beautiful experience, not only for the international students, but the families are also blessed.”

Ali Blanchard, sophomore in biology, and Betty Deng, who graduated with a master’s in business, say they also experienced the benefits of the Pitt Pal program.

“I went to Ali’s house and we ate a lunch with her family,” Deng said. “In the afternoon we ex-changed presents.”

Deng says she enjoyed her visit because it exposed her to a real American tradition.

Blanchard agreed with her that it is a positive experience.

“I really enjoyed getting to show her our culture and spend time together,” Blanchard said. “My family learned about her culture, too.”

Christmas far away from homeInternational students get taste of an American tradition

Carl J. BaChusCollegio Reporter

The Student Activities Council hosted an open mic night last Tuesday in the Overman Student Center. The event included an array of performances including poetry, stand-up comedy and live music, all performed by PSU students.

The student band Deadeye won the $100 grand prize. Members of the band include Megan McCoy, vocalist and bass player, and Jenna McCarty, vocal-ist and banjo player. Deadeye served as the final act of the night, performing two original songs.

“We really enjoy playing music, so we’re always looking for ways to play for the most people,” said McCoy, junior in music performance. “It’s just re-ally fun. There’s no point in writing music if you’re not going to share it.”

McCarty said that the atmosphere was different from what they normally perform in.

“There was a really warm audience,” said McCa-

rty, senior in nursing. “A lot of people haven’t heard us play before.”

Other students like Megan Day participated in the event just to have fun.

“At first, I think the audience was a little freaked out, because I’m so obscene,” said Day, senior in psychology and amateur comedian. “I’ve been try-ing to put myself in front of an audience. The $100 was just a bonus.”

James Smith, SAC club entertainment chair, says that SAC holds an open mic night almost every month but this was the first time that they offered a cash prize.

“We had a few of these last semester and they were pretty dead,” said Smith, senior in commer-cial graphics. “I think we got about five times the amount of people. We had 11 people and a waiting list, so there was a good turnout.”

Smith says the SAC plans free entertainment and student events like open mic nights, comedians and Monday’s screening of “Footloose.”

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Jeremy Donahue, like some students, finds it hard to wake up in the winter months. Un-like other students, Donahue’s problem stems from seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of depression that occurs at the same time every year.

“In the winter months it gets really hard to hang out with friends,” said Donahue, senior in plastics engineering technology. “You always don’t feel up to it which causes a lot of depression.”

Sean Lauderdale, PSU psy-chology and counseling pro-

fessor, says SAD isn’t taught as a mind issue but rather as a biological issue.

“It can be traced back to our natural biological rhythm and the notion that we need a certain amount of daylight,” Lauderdale said. “That, in turn, will eventually affect, to some degree, mood and functioning in general.”

According to Lauderdale, SAD is believed to be a bio-logical disorder, so more than 50 percent of the treatment is biologically oriented. Lau-derdale says one way to treat it is to expose the person to a high degree of light for certain periods of the day or certain

days of the week, although anti-depressants can also be used for the treatment.

Lauderdale says the major treatment is exposure to some type of light and the whole body doesn’t have to receive the exposure.

“This has been found to be a pretty effective treatment of SAD,” Lauderdale said. “Though therapy can help with some of the mood-related issues, you really do need to have a biological treatment for SAD because the phenomenon is related to lack of adequate sun exposure.”

Lauderdale says SAD is most common along the

northeast and northwest coasts because these places receive limited amounts of sunlight in the winter.

Vince Daino, director of campus recreation, says that they try to get people actively involved in the various pro-grams offered at the recreation center, like basketball, rac-quetball and cardio activities because this lessens the effects of SAD-related depression.

“When people are work-ing out and interacting with friends they are less moody as opposed to those who don’t do anything,” Daino said.

Daino says the variety of programs offered during the

winter months helps people get over the winter blues and keeps them motivated, alleviat-ing their depression.

Lucas Foster, senior in automotive technology, says he feels SAD-related symp-toms in the winter months and he lessens the symptoms by interacting with his friends.

“There is less sunlight so it never seems to be a good time to do anything,” Foster said. “You just want to stay in the room and do nothing. I get over my SAD by interacting and doing lots of activities with a bunch of my friends to simulate the conditions of warmer months.”

A season of sadness?Students suffering winter blues

Zach WagnerCollegio Reporter

Every year colleges offer scholarships to student-athletes and in turn colleges rake in millions from sports. But do these student-athletes benefit enough from scholarships?

In October of last year, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors tried to an-swer that question by allowing Division I schools to offer stipends of up to $2,000 a year. According to the board of directors, the stipends’ intended purpose would be to cover any remaining expenses that a partial scholarship doesn’t take care of.

However, the proposal was met with

an outcry from nearly 160 of Division I schools, whose presidents feared that these stipends would force schools to cut back on other needs, such as coaching staff. The outcry resulted in the board suspending the idea.

So what does the NCAA’s decision mean for Pitt State? Absolutely nothing, says Pittsburg State’s athletic director, Jim Johnson.

“The whole concept of offering stipends in the NCAA just pushes us closer to being considered a professional organization, which I think deters a good majority of the Division I schools from accepting a situation like this,” Johnson said. “Even if it did eventually pass, I think Division II schools wouldn’t agree

upon this proposal.”Though chances seem slim that sti-

pends could ever be offered in Division II athletics, one Pitt State coach sees some merit in the idea. Assistant football coach and PSU record-setting former quar-terback Neal Philpot expresses a more favorable view of the stipend idea.

“Even though it’s unlikely, I think some student-athletes definitely deserve it,” Philpot said. “There’s definitely certain circumstances where athletes even on scholarships would be near a tight budget.”

One of the main reasons for imple-menting stipends is something student athletes deal with: paying for expenses even after receiving scholarship money.

“Last year I had a bit of money troubles even after my scholarship went through,” said Graylon Sanders, senior football player in business management. “Since the stipends would only be given to those who need it, there’d be fewer student-athletes who struggle to get by, and athletes would probably be more motivated.”

Another student athlete says he hopes the stipend idea gets the NCAA OK.

“You quickly realize how much time limits your life,” said Ryan Reddick, junior baseball player in physical educa-tion. “Your only other option to make ex-tra money is to go work on breaks, which from that you can only make so much.”

Currently the stipends offer is still on

the table for Division I schools only and is to be voted on in April. If it passes, the stipends would not go into effect until the 2013-2014 season.

Sophomore Austin Riggs, undeclared major and member of the track team, says that what athletes put into college sports is what they are going to get out of it.

“I don’t think that necessarily there are some significant issues with the system. We treat sports like a job,” Riggs said. “We get our scholarship money based on how well we perform. It is a bit unrealistic that more money will come our way just like that.

“I definitely wouldn’t mind it, though.”

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The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic is only three months away and it serves as a reminder of the errors that captains can make when they place passenger entertainment over passenger safety. However, in contrast to the recent crash of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, the Titanic’s captain reacted in a manner that has long been expected of ship captains.

Edward J. Smith ordered the ship abandoned and sent out distress calls in a timely fashion and had the sense to stay aboard his ship to oversee emergency actions. Sadly, the same cannot be said of Frances-co Schettino of the Costa Concordia. Schettino reacted to the crash in a manner befitting a small child, characterized by panic and hesitation that ultimately undermined efforts to ameliorate the disaster. Nearly 100 years after the most romanticized occurrence of the captain going down with the ship, Schettino pulled a J. Bruce Ismay and cowardly abandoned the ship before many of the passengers and crew. While

it is not a written rule that the captain go down with the ship, it is expected that the captain will do everything within his power to ensure the safety of his passengers.

Schettino has given various reasons for leaving the ship early, among them: He tripped and fell into a lifeboat and he thought he had a better understanding of the situation on board the ship from a life-boat. Neither passes for anything but a half-hearted attempt at a flimsy rationalization and reinforces the image of a scared child. Schettino should have had the training and decision-making skills that are neces-sary for anyone in charge of the safety of others. Yet it seems that he possessed neither.

What makes the Costa Concordia incident worse is that Schettino had steered the ship close to the shore intentionally to give a crew member a close view of his hometown and to give passengers an ex-tremely good, albeit completely unnecessary, view. It seems that there are two things a captain should consider regarding passengers when they are in control of a cruise ship: passenger safety and passenger entertainment. To me, passenger safety should be the higher priority

and I find it hard to justify recklessly endangering lives just to show off one particular piece of scenery, especially given that the cruise was a week long and the scenery can be seen farther from shore. In this sense, Schettino not only failed to provide for passenger safety, but he intentionally made a safe situation dangerous by doing a job that wasn’t his. The captain is not expected to entertain passengers. He is expected to provide safe transportation.

The blame does not fall entirely on Schettino. His subordinate officers should have objected to his course correction and if needed, changed his course to a safer one, especially given that the rocks that the ship struck were marked on nautical charts. Further, why didn’t his company order him to stay on the original course? Honestly, it amazes me that there seems to be so little oversight that the captain is allowed to alter a course without anyone questioning him.

The Costa Concordia incident is tragic in and of itself. But what makes it more tragic is that it occurred so close to the 100th anniversary of another wreck that involved a captain putting passenger entertain-ment over passenger safety.

Panic, pandemonium at seaCaptain, crew and co. showed poor judgment in tragic crash

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As an organization that is reliant on the free flow of information, the Collegio staff would like to formally oppose the SOPA and PIPA legisla-tion.

In a new generation of technology, policies are often implemented long after practices are already in place. By now, many businesses, artists and in-dividuals are dependent upon the free flow of information. News outlets, bloggers and individual citizens rely on free sharing to become eyewit-nesses to events they would not have ordinarily been able to view.

For instance, although all broad-casts of NBA games are copyrighted, when something noteworthy happens such as a fight breaking out on court or a fan being chosen to participate in a halftime game, thousands of fans with smartphones and instant Internet access would break the law by film-ing and uploading these videos. In turn, news outlets and bloggers view it, cover it and publish stories all before the game is even over. If this practice was to be made illegal, literally hundreds of people who had Tweeted, Fa-cebooked, or linked to independent videos in any way would have violated the SOPA law, in turn making all the websites that hosted these videos or coverages responsible in turn making them susceptible to prosecution.

The Collegio runs a website which allows users to comment on stories. If those comments were to include links to copyrighted material, the Collegio would be responsible for that post. As a smaller website, it is

feasible that we could moderate every post we get on our site. However, larger sites that have thousands of posts and com-ments every day cannot and should not have to devote their time and resources to sifting through individual posts.

The responsibility of law enforcement lies with the law, not private companies. If the government was to make the reposting of copyrighted mate-rial illegal, it is their time and resources that should be used. Home Depot is not legally responsible for a customer that brings cocaine into their store, nor should Twitter be respon-

sible for a user Tweeting a copyrighted item.As a news outlet that survives due to the creative and unique work of

our staff members, we are sympathetic to groups that are suffering as a result of piracy or shareware. We would not be able to provide the services that we provide if they were stolen and published elsewhere without our consent and without reimbursement. However, the Collegio staff, as well as most journalistic organizations, is a steadfast supporter of the First Amendment. We feel that this legislation puts too much trust in the gov-ernment to not its their power.

Because this bill is broadly worded and the definition of what would technically merit legal action is vague, it leaves the Internet vulnerable to censorship by the government.

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The swearing in of 10 new senators was the highlight of the Student Govern-ment Association’s list of accomplish-ments at its meeting Wednesday night.

The students were sworn in after going through an interview process and being approved by the members of SGA. In all, 16 candidates were interviewed and 10 were approved by SGA.

SGA also appointed Thomas Gregory, senior in communication, as the election board chair. Gregory was approved because the appointed chair, Vice President Austin Osborn, junior in biology, is ineligible to serve as chair because he is seeking re-election this spring. Gregory will oversee the election process, any issues that arise, and the promotion of student awareness for the upcoming election.

The deadline for spring semester funding allocations is approaching and any registered student group must at-tend an informational workshop. The workshops will be held at 5:30 on Jan.

31 and at 6 p.m. on Feb. 1-2 in the Over-man Student Center. After attending the workshop, groups are eligible to receive student fee funding to support their activities.

Funds were allocated for the Equal Opportunities Fund at the meeting last night. The program funds numerous stu-dent resources across campus like tutors and career services. More then $161,000 was requested but only $69,249 was approved.

David Adams, assistant director for campus activities, informed SGA that the televisions posted around campus can be used to promote student groups’ events. Adams said any group hosting an event can send a JPEG file of its SGA approved flier to him and he will add it to the rotation. Adams also said that applications for the eight leadership awards are available on the Campus Ac-tivities Center website. Nominations are due by March 6 and the winners will be announced at the Leadership and Awards Banquet on April 11.

Lara Ismert, junior in English and math and academic affairs director,

reported that her committee is preparing to select outstanding faculty members. Each student can nominate two profes-sors and the nominations are due in the SGA office by Feb. 6. Three winners will be announced March 1.

Associate Vice President and Campus Life Director Steve Erwin informed SGA that the future of the Student Ticket Office in the Overman Student Center may be uncertain. Erwin says the office may be relocated to the Weede during the upcoming renovations to the student center because over 90 percent of the tickets issued are athletics related. Erwin says the better parking and the proximity to the future performing arts center offer benefits to students and the university. Erwin says paper tickets may be a thing of the past as well. As early as Fall 2012, students could receive their tickets elec-tronically in their PSU student ID cards.

President Eric Jones, senior in eco-nomics, says SGA members will be in Topeka next week for Higher Education Day. They will be visiting with 25 state legislators about Pittsburg State’s stance on educational return on investment,

student debt, and whether or not to allow firearm conceal and carry on campus. Jones says PSU and the other student

governing bodies from other state universities on campus will be arguing against it.

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Alice John says she knows she is unlikely to get a job in her field, but she enjoys her major anyway.

Love what you do “Literature is my heaven,” said John, freshman in literature.

John says students who study litera-ture don’t do it for the money or quick placement after graduation but for the beauty associated with the art.

A sure thing On the other hand, Bilall Abdullah says he is more confident that he’ll find a job after graduating because there are more employers than there are graduates.

“When you are a tech major, the sky is pretty much your limit in anything you want to do,” said Abdullah, senior

in plastics engineering technology. “The placement rate for us is exceptionally amazing.”

Mindy Cloninger, director of career services, says students who major in technology-related fields or accounting and business-related disciplines continue to have good placement rates after gradu-ation. Cloninger says that students major-ing in liberal arts and sciences are more difficult to place after graduation because a lot of these majors are non-traditional.

How PSU can help “As a career counselor, I want to encourage students to follow their dreams,” Cloninger said. “We are really particular about letting students follow their passion.”

Paul Grimes, dean of the Kelce Col-lege of Business, says one important thing his college does to ensure a high placement rate after graduation is making

sure the right companies are visiting PSU and talking to the students who are ready to go into the workforce.

“The career services put together a lot of expos over the semester,” Grimes said. “And we make sure that our stu-dents are out there, talking and exchang-ing resumes with potential employers.”

Adding a minor According to Grimes, this gives students and professors the opportunity to interact with the companies and find what sector of the work force is in demand.

“I believe that students with non-traditional majors, who don’t have a very high placement rate after graduation, can turn their fate around by incorporating some business-oriented classes into their areas of study,” Grimes said. “If possible, students should get a minor or take a certificate course in a business-oriented discipline to increase their chance of

placement after graduation.”

Non-traditional trade Roland Carter says he is passionate about his non-traditional major. Carter says the reason he is majoring in art isn’t the immediate placement rate after graduation but because he enjoys it.

“I want to major in what makes me happy,” said Carter, freshman in art. “That’s what my parents always told me to do.”

“The program is designed to suit the needs of potential employers,”said Den-nis Audo, instructor in construction man-agement. “So after graduation it’s very easy for students to get hired because they possess the skills that people in the industry are looking for.”

Audo agrees with Cloninger that students should not go into a discipline simply because it pays well or because there is a higher placement rate

“If students follow their dreams, eventually they will find their places in the world,” Audo said.

Job market evolves Tim Thomas, chairman of engineering technology, says the department of engineering is not taking any particular action to keep the high placement rates they currently have. Thomas says that the reason for the high placement rate is that the world is becoming more technology- oriented. Thomas says any degree in a technology-oriented field would definitely have a high placement rate and that is not going to change anytime soon.

“Technology is being used by every-body, every day, everywhere,” Thomas said. “Even if the job isn’t specifically a technology job, there is still a lot of technology involved so someone in our discipline is always connected with everything in some way.”

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Zumba party, fundraiser slated for Saturday

Alpha Gamma Delta is having a Zumba party and fundraiser from 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 28, in the Crimson and Gold Ballroom in the Overman Student Center. Zumba instructor Christy Hays from Tulsa, Okla., will be instructing the party.

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Beginning Wednesday, Jan. 25, students who want to add or drop a class must process it through the Registrar’s office. To add a class, written or online permission is needed. Online permission can also be provided through GUS enrollment special permissions by clicking on Late Enrollment.

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The PSU women’s basketball team was eager to get back into action Wednesday night with a win against the Truman State Bulldogs.

Pitt State led early as freshman Lizzy Jeroni-mus, senior Brooke Conley, sophomore Alexa Bordewick and junior Drew Roberts all posted easy scores to give the Gorillas a 10-9 lead.

However, the Bulldogs rallied back, going on a 9-0 run that gave them an 18-10 lead five minutes into the first half. Courtney Tate broke the Gorillas’ early struggles with a quick layup to get the Gorillas back on track.

The Gorillas continued to struggle much of the first half before coach Lane Lord called tim-eout with his team trailing 37-22. However, Pitt State still went into halftime trailing 41-28.

PSU struck fast in the second half, cutting the lead to just four points at 46-42. Though the Gorillas looked to have all the momentum, they couldn’t shake free of Truman.

The Gorillas fought back and forth with the Bulldogs for the remainder of the second half, cutting the lead to four several times. Eventu-ally PSU broke through, cutting the lead to two on a layup by Drew Roberts.

Moments later, Lizzy Jeronimus hit a pair of free throws to tie the game at 62.

Late in the second half, Jeronimus came up big for the Gorillas, hitting two quick shots to take the lead 68-66.

A Truman State turnover gave PSU the ball with just 26.7 seconds left and the Bulldogs called a timeout to set up a defensive play to try and get a chance on offense.

Another pair of free throws from Jeronimus put the Gorillas up 70-66, but the Bulldogs made a quick layup to make it a two-point game with just 10 seconds left.

However, the Gorillas were able to knock down some free throws and held on to win 73-68.

Next up for the Gorillas is a game against Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Mo., on Jan. 28.

AmeliA mAllATCollegio Reporter

The men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at the UCM Invitational Friday, Jan. 20. Both teams placed third. The women scored 56 points and the men scored 106 points.

Head coach Russ Jewett took notice of a couple of exceptional performances on the women’s team.

“In general the women competed well and hard,” Jewett said. “Heidi Smith made a couple of national qualifying marks in throwing, Kaley Temaat and Bridgette McCormick ran a

good, smart mile race, and Hilary Dickey is another one that had a great race in the 400 meters.”

Temaat won the mile race with a time of 5 minutes, 28.14 seconds, and McCormick was right behind her finishing in sec-ond place with a time of 5:30.35. Dickey placed second in the 400-meter dash, a little more than a second behind first place with a time of 1:00.83.

Jewett was also pleased with the men’s performance.

“The men did very well in the sprints,” Jewett said. “I was very pleased to see John Talbert do that well in the weight throw, earning 10 points total with a

mark of 55-2 3/4. Kean Souls competed really well in the long jump and took first place with a mark of 23-3 3/4. Jason Crow, Austin Riggs and Jordan Riffel ran great races in the 400-meter dash. Austin Riggs is a redshirt and he ran a smart, tough race.”

Riggs placed second with his time of 51.21 seconds. Riffel finished right after Riggs with a time of 51.47. Crow came in seventh with a time of 52.09.

The track and field teams will compete again this weekend at the MSSU Radio Shack Invi-tational in Joplin, Mo., on Jan. 27-28.

Joe Stephens, sophomore, attemps a high jump on Feb. 11, 2011, at the Pittsburg State University indoor track invitational in John Lance Arena. Stephens placed second with a jump of 6 feet, 6 and three quarters inches.

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Lauren Brown goes to the basket against Truman on Wednesday, Jan. 25, in John Lance Arena.

Women take late lead to beat Truman 73-68

Photos by Srikanth Korlapati Top, Lauren Brown pushes through defenders to score against Truman in John Lance Arena on Wednesday, Jan. 25.Bottom, Brooke Conley beats a Truman defender for a layup.

Andra Bailey drives to the hoop against Truman in John Lance Arena on Wednesday, Jan. 25.

Tim SPeArSCollegio Reporter

Rico Pierrevelius scored 13 straight Pitt State points in the second half to lead the Gorillas to a 17-point win over the Truman State Bulldogs.

“[The second half] was a big jump,” Pier-revelius said. “We are going to take that second half and carry it over to practice tomorrow and the game Saturday and we are going to continue rolling.”

PSU ended the first half with a three-point lead, 28-25. However, the Gorillas were able to move the ball and get the turnovers needed to push the lead to double-digits less than three minutes into the second. Eric Ray made two straight 3-point baskets, giving the Gorillas a 40-27 advantage.

“I thought Eric Ray gave us a good lift early in the second half,” said head coach Kevin Muff. “And him knocking down threes really stretches defenses and causes problems.”

The second half was dictated by the battle for the paint, with both teams often double teaming any offensive player near the basket.

“We weren’t anticipating a double in the post like they did every time we went in. It’s smart play on their part,” Muff said. “It’s not like we have dominating 6’10 post guys.”

The Gorillas were able to counteract Truman’s

half-court defense with quick transition layups and a dominating performance by forward Andra Bailey, who led Pitt State with 14 rebounds (eight more than Truman’s top rebounder for the game).

“When teams double you they’re leaving something,” Muff said. “Second half we did a bet-ter job moving the ball and if we just get it to the rim we’ve got guys who will go get it.”

Pierrevilus was the dominant Gorilla force in the half court, offensively and defensively. Pier-revilus scored 18 points along with six rebounds and four blocks, displaying a polished post-up game and having one of the best halves for any Gorilla this season.

“To be able to shoot the 3 as a big man, like he can, [is an asset],” Muff said. “We don’t discour-age that shot. We just want to make sure his feet are set when he shoots it, but he’s got a little bit of range.”

This Saturday Pitt State faces the No. 1 team in the MIAA, Central Missouri, in Warrensburg, Mo. Central is coming off a big win against Missouri Southern.

“[UCM] beating Southern, at Southern, that’s a big win,” Muff said. “I don’t care who you are. You beat Southern you’ve proven you’re a team to be reckoned with.”

Pitt State lost by eight at home to the Mules on Dec. 18, but look to avenge that defeat like they did against Truman last night.

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The PSU men’s basketball team wrapped up a six-game stretch over winter break that included a 10-point victory over then No. 6 Missouri Southern.

In the game with Missouri Southern, the Gorillas had five players score 10 or more points, led by Eric Ray who had a career-high 28 points.

“Beating the No. 6 team and one of the top teams in the conference, it gives you a lot of confidence,” Ray said. “It just shows you what we’re capable of if we bring it night in, night out.”

In front of 3,377 fans, Ray made nine of 12 shots, including four of four from behind the arc. The performance earned Ray MIAA Player of the Week honors.

Forward Andra Bailey got a double-double in the contest with 15 point and 11 rebounds while teaming up with JaVon McGee to defend the MIAA’s leading scorer, Keane Thomann, in the low post. However, Thomann still managed 18 points and nine rebounds.

The Lions were fairly even with Pitt State in terms of field goal percentage and turnovers. But the Gorillas were able to beat Southern on the glass, getting 13 offensive rebounds (Pitt State is No. 1 in rebounding margin among MIAA schools). The aggressive play allowed the Gorillas to shoot 17 more free throws than the Lions, converting 23 of 36 attempts.

After the big win Pitt State won two road

games at Lincoln and Emporia while McGee averaged 21.5 points and seven rebounds. McGee earned an honorable mention for MIAA Player of the Week.

The Gorillas retuned to John Lance Arena to face (then 6-2) Washburn. The first half was close, with both teams taking a combined 36 free throws. But the Pitt offense was able to get things rolling in the second when guard Marky Nolan made two straight 3-pointers on the first two Gorilla possessions. PSU was able to ex-ploit the Ichabod defense by forcing its way to the charity stripe another 30 times in the second half, compared to Washburn’s 18 second-half free throws. Pitt State won 79-70, its sixth win in conference.

A 10-point loss to Fort Hays State on Jan. 14 closed out a 4-2 run over the break. The Go-rillas out-rebounded the Tigers and had a plus three turnover margin. Despite taking 14 more shots, the Gorillas were no match for Hays’ 57 percent shooting from the field and 80 percent shooting from the free throw line.

Ray led Pitt in scoring with 14 points and Andra Baily added his seventh double-double of the year with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Bailey averaged a double-double over the holi-day break, with 11.7 points and 10 rebounds.

Coming off the loss the Gorillas are now 10-6 overall, 6-4 in the MIAA and fifth in the conference. Over the six-game span, the Goril-las allowed 1.5 fewer points per game than their previous season average.

PSU averaged 1,892 fans at home over the break.

Tyler SmiThCollegio Reporter

The Pitt State women’s basketball team posted an 8-2 record over break, bringing its overall record to 16-2 (10-1 MIAA). The No. 16 Gorillas are one of the top teams in the MIAA and have steamrolled past the competition, los-ing only to No. 14 Washburn and Northeastern State from Tahlequah, Okla.

“The Washburn game gave us a heads up that anyone can beat us,” said junior guard Drew Roberts. “We have to play our best game every game and play as a team to overcome big victories.”

PSU has had great success from the 3-point line this year and looks to continue its offensive success with the help of center Larissa Richards, who leads the Gorillas in rebounds and shooting percentage.

“I think our starting lineup is awesome and we all contribute in some way,” Brooke Conley said. “Our bench players always step up when we need them to.”

Another player who has stepped up this year is freshman Lizzy Jeronimus. Jeronimus leads the Gorillas in scoring, averaging 13.1 points per game, and is second to Richards with 120 rebounds.

“We are a great transition team that plays best when we get the ball into the post and kick it out to guards for threes,” Jeronimus said. “I think everyone has stepped it up this year.”

The Gorillas have had their best start ever and are looking to make a big splash in the second half of the regular season. Eventually the team hopes to make its way into the MIAA tournament, riding the same wave of success they enjoyed early on this season.

“We have a lot of confidence going into the second half of conference (play),” Alexa Borde-

wick said. “Just because we played very well in the first part of the season doesn’t mean things will come easy in the second.”

One game that the team has marked on its calendar is the rematch with Washburn later this season.

“I think we’re all excited to play Washburn again,” Roberts said. “It will be tough play-ing them at their house, but I know we’re all wanting to win when it comes to that game, especially.”

Jeronimus had similar feelings about the matchup and seems eager to get on the court with them one more time.

“We are very excited for the rematch against Washburn,” Jeronimus said. “They are one of our biggest rivals and it will be a great game.”

The Gorillas will get their opportunity Feb. 18 when they travel to Topeka.

Women hope to keep momentum for Washburn rematch

Pitt State's Eric Ray drives around a Mid-America Nazarene's defender in John Lance Arena on Friday, Nov. 18. The Gorillas beat Mid-America Nazarene 93-84.

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Kristina Willis, front, cheers the Pitt State women’s basketball players during the match against Central Oklahama in John Lance Arena on Tuesday,Nov.22.

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January 26, 201210

Hooked on Hookah

Red Tails takes awhile to take off

Todd MillerFeature writer

Mustafa Alzanadi says dedicated hookah users do it for the flavor.

“A good flavor won’t make for a good hoo-kah,” said Alzanadi, senior in manufacturing. “Short-cuts can be taken, but it takes careful preparation to make a smooth and enjoyable flavor.”

Hookah smoking is a way of smoking tobacco. But rather than smoking a cigarette or a pipe, the tobacco is smoked through hoses attached to a vase-like structure called a hoo-kah. This tobacco often comes in a variety of flavors like apple, grape or cherry, and doesn’t contain some of the chemicals and preserva-tives found in cigarettes.

Alzanadi says that there used to be a hookah bar in Pittsburg, but it is no longer in business.

“I went to that bar, but I didn’t like it,” Alzanadi said. He says he didn’t care for it be-cause they would interchange different flavors in the same hookah.

“It mixes the flavors up and makes it taste bad,” Alzanadi said. Alzanadi says that there are also a couple hookah bars still operating in Joplin.

Alzanadi says he doesn’t smoke cigarettes and prefers hookah smoking because he enjoys the flavor. However, Alzanadi says that the hookah needs to be prepared and taken care of to make the most out of each hookah-smoking session.

“If you’re not going to do it right, don’t bother,” Alzanadi said. “You’re not going to get anything, just have a cigarette.”

Alzanadi says it’s best to use the same

flavor in the same hookah and hose. He says he uses one of his three hookahs only for his favorite flavor, a mix of green and red apple flavored tobacco. The other two he lets his friends use with whichever flavor they prefer.

“I don’t care if they use other flavors, just don’t smoke it in mine,” Alzanadi said.

Alzanadi says he prefers to buy tobacco from Arabic markets or online from Arabic producers because it’s cheaper. However, he says there are also some U.S. producers of hookah tobacco.

“This one is my favorite, ‘Red Star-buzz,’” Alzanadi said. “But it’s too expensive, so I usually get the ‘two-apple.’”

Although hookahs don’t have the same chemicals found in cigarettes, it doesn’t mean they’re good for you.

“Hookah smoking has the same risks of cigarette smoking,” said Carrie Farrington, nurse practitioner at the Student Health Cen-

ter. “You’re still breathing in smoke. It has the same health risks and chance of addiction as any other way of inhaling nicotine.”

Farrington says that hookah smoking may be more immediately dangerous than

cigarettes.“When you smoke from a hookah, you smoke a lot

longer,” Farrington said. “The amount of smoke you take in at once could be 100 to 200 percent more than a single ciga-

rette.”Alzanadi says that one

session of “smoking easy” lasts about an hour, more or less.

Farrington also comments on the social aspect of hookah smok-ing.

“A group of people will share the same mouthpiece, which can increase the spread of infectious

disease like colds, herpes or oral viruses,” Farrington said. “You don’t see this problem in cigarettes because most people don’t share those when they’re

smoking.”Hookah smokers seem to have

found a solution for this problem, though. Alzanadi says he has a small

plastic tube, which is inserted and easily removed from the mouthpiece of the hookah’s hose.

“My friend wanted to smoke, but he had a cold,” Alzanadi said. “I made sure he used this the whole time we smoked so I wouldn’t catch his cold.”

Students share the subtleties of hookah.

Todd MillerFeature Writer

The first set of movies released this semes-ter featured the historical film “Red Tails.” I use the word “historical,” though, to only de-scribe the movie’s genre, not how well it did.

Interestingly, “Red Tails” is the first film produced by Lucasfilm since 1994 that wasn’t a part of the “Star Wars” or “Indiana Jones” franchises.

“Red Tails” is set during World War II and the plot centers on the 332nd Fighter Group, better known as the Tuskegee Airmen. They were the first African-American group of fighter pilots in the, at the time, still segre-gated military forces of the U.S.

Although the pilots were extremely talent-ed both at flying and aerial combat, they were subject to much discrimination by the rest of the military and weren’t able to participate in the war efforts to the extent they wanted to.

Although the film is meant to feature the entire group of fighters, it mostly focuses on Martin “Easy” Julian (Nate Parker), and his squad; Joe “Lightning” Little (David Oyelowo), Samuel “Joker” George (Elijah Kelley) and Ray “Ray Gun” or “Junior” Gan-non (Tristan Wilds).

In the beginning, the group is despondent because it is continuously given “throw away” missions far away from enemy lines and would prefer to “see some real action.” They also deal with rumors that the military wants to close the 332nd’s operations and send them home.

They get the opportunity to prove them-selves on a mission where they help soldiers sail to enemy territory. The 322nd performs extremely well, blowing their critics out of the water.

They’re then offered a mission to protect bombing planes. Although the bomber group they’re protecting disregards their presence; the Tuskagee Airmen prove themselves once again by being the first fighter group to make sure all the bombing planes return safely. From then on, the Airmen continue being one of the best fighter groups and genuinely earn the respect of their fellow military men.

One thing I liked about the movie is that it seemed to stick directly to the facts, while still presenting them in an entertaining way. That is, I didn’t feel like I was watching a documentary. The movie was open and honest about what had happened with the group dur-ing the war, and didn’t appear, to my eye, to embellish the truth too much.

All the actors in the movie also did a fantastic job. They played their characters extremely well and clearly seemed to enjoy their roles.

Though the movie didn’t feel like a documentary, it doesn’t mean it was the most entertaining thing I’d ever seen. There wasn’t a lot of substance to the conflict of racism in the military at the time. It was nicely done early in the film, but was pretty much resolved before it was halfover.

It also tried to provide a lot of subplots involving the different members of the air group but ended up hurting the story because

they tried to squeeze so many into a two-hour feature. Most problems were glossed over or not resolved well because there wasn’t a lot of focus on them. One extreme case is when Ray Gannon was held in a German P.O.W. camp, where he helps a group of other prisoners escape. However, the several months he spent there not shown in the movie at all. The people there seemed to really grow to like Ray, but the audience have no idea why or what kind of relationships he grew there or anything. We just see him going in and coming out. No conflict in his imprisonment at all.

Several of the characters felt interchange-able, too. I got to know three of the characters somewhat well, but several of the pilots felt interchangeable. They had little-to-no charac-ter development or focus and were basically faces in a crowd whenever they didn’t have speaking lines. When one nearly dies, I don’t feel much tension because I just don’t know who he is or what he has at stake for breaching death. And I will say that I knew which char-acter was going to die within the first seven minutes of the film. He only confirmed my prediction for the rest of the two hours.

So, overall, “Red Tails” is a decent film to look at, and is inspiring, especially the way the pilots rise above discrimination and become the best fighter group out there. However, the movie is rather shallow and tries to do too much all at once without the time to do it.

It’s worth seeing if you enjoy war or historical films and can better comment on the accuracy or lack thereof.

Film lacks substance, depth

Lucasfilm 2012