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The Black & MagentaVol. 119, Issue 17 Feb. 16, 2015

Kathryn Kellar, Editor-in-Chief

Local officer awarded for leadershipKandee FerrellSpecial Sections & Opinion Editor

Muskingum University Alumna Bethany Hayes was awarded the Bri-an T. Wagner Community Leadership Award on Feb. 6 at the Community Foundation Campus Center in Zanes-ville.

The award is presented to those in the local area who proved to be leaders that intend to better the community.

Hayes facilitated the first active shooter drill at the Ohio Universi-ty-Zanesville, Zane State Campus in July 2014.

Many local agencies, businesses and organizations were brought together to perform the drill.

Hayes was nominated by Ohio Uni-versity-Zanesville Dean, Jenifer Cush-man and Zane State College President,

Paul Brown. She was surprised to be thought of

for the award and credited many with the success of the event.

“Sometimes I’m at the forefront running it or organizing it, but without their help, it couldn’t be done,” said Hayes. “So I think that even though it might be my name on it, I still feel like this should be shared because it’s all of us.”

Hayes acts as Director of Public Safety and Assistant Director of Facil-ities at Ohio University-Zanesville and Zane State College.

She also teaches self-defense and active shooter defense sessions free of charge for the local area, including, Muskingum University.

“In my profession of public safe-ty, law enforcement community ser-vice kind of goes hand-in-hand,” said

Hayes. The safety of the community may

be high on Hayes’ list, but she also pri-oritizes her personal life and family as well.

“We’re very family oriented and we feel that’s very important for our kids to know us really well and to grow up in a positive atmosphere, so we try to spend as much time with them as pos-sible,” said Hayes.

According to Hayes, she is proud of all she has accomplished, but her real pride comes from watching all that her children achieve.

“To watch my kids accomplish things is more rewarding for me than receiving any award, or getting any cer-tification, or any diploma,” said Hayes. “Watching my son score his first soccer goal was this great, wonderful thing, or seeing them catch their big first fish by

themselves. So I’m more rewarded by watching my kids accomplish things than me accomplishing things myself.”

Brian Wagner, CEO of the Musking-um County Community Foundation, said that Hayes was a perfect candidate for the leadership award.

“She could not be a better definition for what this award [is] about,” said Wagner.

Hayes graduated from Muskingum University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and completed the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy.

She was an athlete at Muskingum University, as a part of Muskingum’s womens basketball team.

As Hayes continues her career in public safety, she remains in New Con-cord with her husband, New Concord Chief of Police, Trevor Hayes, and their two children.

Brenna Busby Orbit Media Reporter

Muskingum University has com-pleted their annual scholarship days for next year’s potential incoming first-year class.

Gary Atkins, Assistant Director

of Admissions, believes the whole Muskingum community deserves a thank you. Atkins remarked happily on the faculty and staff involvement with scholarship days. Whether it is directly or indirectly, he said there are very few faculty or staff members that aren’t involved in some way, like Physical

Brenna Busby/Black&MagentaBeth DaLonzo and student panelists address the crowd and answer questions.

An inside look at Scholarship Days

Brenna Busby/Black&MagentaStudents and parents wait in the large auditorium in the Boyd Science Center for the days’ festivities to begin on Feb. 7.Plant maintaining the sidewalks or the Mathematics and Computer Science Department developing logic questions for the test.

“It’s massive, it’s wonderful, [and] it is indescribably appreciated because everyone on campus is extremely busy at this time of year,” said Atkins.

Faculty and staff aren’t the only helpers on these important days. Atkins remarked that this was a “true team ef-fort.”

“I have to mention that we get great support from our students, our admis-sion[s] student workers, our campus tour guides are here and they are help-ing,” said Atkins. “They are escorting students and parents, they are sitting and talking with parents while the stu-dents are off doing different things.”

See SCHOLARSHIP DAYS,on Page 3

NewsPage 2 Christine Holmes, News & Managing Editor

Jonnie NeuhartOrbit Media Reporter

Riesbeck’s Food Markets in New Concord stocks organic food year round for interested residents.

According to Natural Food Coor-dinator for Riesbeck’s Food Markets, Michelle Riesbeck, people choose to eat organically because it is healthier and it tastes better.

She said organic foods have more flavor because they are not treated with chemicals.

“It’s healthier for you but it also has more flavor so it’s a win win.”

Riesbeck said that the higher costs are worth it.

“I’ve often heard people say, ‘it’s too expensive,’” said Riesbeck. “But you either pay for it now, or you pay for it later in lots of medical bills.”

Organic foods are grown with no chemicals or pesticides, and the meats have no growth hormones or antibiot-ics added.

Riesbeck’s offers organic selection

Chelsea McCraeOrbit Media Reporter

Goodwill recently moved its dona-tion house from Riesbeck’s Food Mar-kets’ parking lot in New Concord.

The Goodwill location had been there for 12 years, so the noticeable disappearance of the donation house had residents of New Concord wonder-ing what had happened.

As stated by Connie Gordon, Key holder and labor of Goodwill, “We were there for 12 years then Riesbeck’s took over and we were okay for a while until Riesbeck’s told us that we had to leave.”

Another perspective was given by Diane Lamd, Corporate Support Direc-tor for Riesbeck’s.

“The Goodwill [donation] house was asked to move to free up parking spaces in the small parking lot,” said Lamd.

Some citizens of New Concord have been questioning what happened to the house and wondering where they are going to take their donations.

The Cambridge Goodwill is plan-ning on bringing in one of their trucks every Wednesday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. for anyone who still wishes to make donations.

“Goodwill commented that they received a lot of good donations from New Concord,” said Lamd.

The Goodwill in Cambridge has been there for about a year and a half.

“We’ve always been here to help serve the community and our custom-ers,” said Lamd.

Goodwill uses local donations to help local people in need of its services and donations.

Goodwill relocates donationstationfrom NC

Jonnie Neuhart/Black&MagentaFor those wanting an organic diet, Riesbeck’s offers a variety of foods with new shipments each week.

“That’s what differentiates this prod-uct from product that you would see in a traditional grocery store, because you really don’t know the source,” said Riesbeck. “You don’t know what’s been sprayed, what’s been injected, but if it’s certified organic no GMO (genet-ically modified organism) will be in it.”

Riesbeck suggested that people don’t have to convert overnight, rather it can be a gradual process.

“It’s a personal choice, like for us, I just buy organic produce,” said Ries-beck. “Everything has sprays on it, so I don’t want anything with sprays. So that’s pretty much where I started.”

Riesbeck said that people who are health conscious are usually interested in organic food.

“There are folks in their 80s who have been eating organic for years, and they’re the ones that are zipping around that are in good shape,” said Riesbeck.

According to Riesbeck there are also a lot of younger individuals purchasing organic food.

Riesbeck said that other than the section in Riesbeck’s, there are not that many options for organic food, but they are willing to special order any-thing that residents would like.

“We would certainly do our best, be-cause a lot of times we may have those items at our larger stores, that have much larger departments, and we can transfer things in,” said Riesbeck.

According to Riesbeck the only thing that the store has trouble getting is eggs when it is too cold or too hot.

“When it gets really cold chickens just don’t lay as many eggs, so we struggle with that,” said Riesbeck. “We want to buy our eggs local...it’s a great family that we work for on the eggs, but when it gets too hot in the summer, those girls don’t like laying eggs ei-ther.”

Riesbeck’s Food Market in New Concord receives new organic food shipments weekly and, according to Riesbeck, requests can be met within a week.

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SCHOLARSHIP DAYS,from Page 1

Planning and preparation for schol-arship days is scattered between the last scholarship days of year and the first scholarship days of the next year. The detailed planning begins in very early January.

“They are, needless to say, metic-ulously planned because they are big days, they are huge, they are well at-tended and they are wonderful recruit-ment days for us,” said Atkins.

The high school seniors are given an itinerary with various places they will go throughout the day. The main goal of the days, according to Atkins, are to squeeze in as much experience and in-formation as possible with a mixture of mandatory and optional activities.

“Some things we want them to do [include] take a test, attend an academ-ic information session, [we want both] students and parents to learn more about programs and opportunities, and then some things they choose to do, and we try to make arrangements for them to accomplish as much as they can while they are here in one visit,” said Atkins.

The test is created by a committee of people including, Beth DaLonzo, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid and Jeff Zellers, Vice President of Enrollment and Institutional Research Services, along with three or four ad-ditional faculty members. The Mathe-matics and Computer Science Depart-ment grades the logic questions and the student essays go to appointed faculty readers. The terms and names portions go to Zellers and DaLonzo.

“We try to grade the exams as quick-ly as we can,” said Atkins. “So, typi-cally within a week or within a couple of weeks.”

On average, Atkins said that usual-ly there are between 280 and 300 stu-dents that show up over the course of the three days. Atkins thinks many stu-dents go into the day thinking they will be in the contest for the John Glenn Scholarship, but don’t realize the crite-

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Muskingum University Police Crime LogFeb. 2- Assist NCPD on a Code two ac-cident on Main St.Feb. 5- Alarm drop at Neptune Center, everything checked out okay.Feb. 8- Suspicious person at 163 Mont-gomery checked the area and no person was located.-Vehicle had tires slashed in the back lot of Kelley. Still under in-vestigation.

-During a room check at 109 Lakeside a small pocket knife was discovered. The room was searched for any other weapons and the owner of the knife was told to stop by University Po-lice to get the knife mailed back home.Throughout the week-Eleven injured student trans-ports.-Eight vehicle lockouts and vehi-cle jump starts.

ria they have to meet. “You can’t come in with a $10 thou-

sand academic scholarship and earn a John Glenn just because you aced the exam,” said Atkins. “You have to al-ready be starting at the highest possi-ble level and ace the exam to end up on someone’s John Glenn list.”

While all students are urged to go to the small group academic informa-tion presentations by faculty members, only students of a certain scholarship level are to meet one on one with pro-fessors in an interview setting.

Atkins said that they used to oper-ate that way but it became exceedingly complex to schedule an interview like that with every student.

The interviews are helpful to Atkins and other members of the Admissions Office.

“We pick up little things from the faculty feedback that can help us with our further communication with the student to try to determine if this is a good fit for them next fall,” said At-kins.

Scholarship days are just a single program in a wide range of events and happenings created by the Admissions Office.

“This program is a huge part of our recruitment efforts,” said Atkins. “It’s a very successful program for us, a very labor intensive program for us.”

Atkins thanked every faculty and staff member involved but also the peo-ple that might not officially be a part of scholarship days. He also thanked peo-ple that may have come in contact with these visiting families.

“We all hopefully have enough pride in what we have going on here in this community to make people feel special when they are on campus and to give them that feeling that this is a place where they might want to be next year and to show them what kind of pride we have in our community,” said Atkins.

Scholarship days are over for 2015, but the Admissions Office is already talking about how to improve next year’s recruitment efforts.

Aaron EnoOrbit Media Reporter

The band named Surreal consists of Muskingum seniors Dan Mabe (drums), Spencer Hughes (guitar/vo-cals), and Dylan Ortenzi (bass).

The band name Surreal came from lead guitarist Spencer Hughes.

“I think it was really early on when we started playing and we wanted to think of a band name,” said Hughes. “I heard the word surreal in [a song] and I was like, it’s a cool word. I think for me it complements the idea of playing music and the whole idea of having music around in your life was kind of surreal itself.”

All three of them have been playing together for two years.

The majority of that time was used as practice for when they would actual-ly play live this school year.

The group primarily plays rock, al-ternative rock, pop, and punk music, though it is not limited to only these genres.

They incorporate covers (songs by other artists) and songs of their own composition.

Practice is key to their success in playing live. Since they started playing they had a big success in their first big gig earlier in the semester at the Sinfo-

nia hosted Brewed Awakenings. Because of that performance, they

are lined up to play at Relay for Life in April.

Along with these two events, Sur-real has been playing at the Sinfonia house on weekends since last semester.

As with most things there can be moments of difficulty.

Mabe explained that the band had members come and go over the past two years.

Most recently Ortenzi became the newest member of the band.

Campus can expect future weekend gigs at the Sinfonia house or at other events.

The future of the band is up in the air with all three members graduating this spring and returning to home in different locations.

However while they are here togeth-er there is an expressed interest in the possibility of recording.

“Keep your ears out for when we play,” said Hughes. “You know it would be cool to get some more peo-ple to come watch us play wherever we are. It’s always nice to have support and friends hanging out watching us play...”

Before then they can be heard jam-ming in the bottom of the Sinfonia house.

Surreal hits a musical note

Community CornerPage 4 Christine Holmes, News & Managing Editor

Christine HolmesNews & Managing Editor

Nearly 300 people filled the Cam-bridge Eagles’ Club banquet hall on Feb. 7 for the twelfth annual Jammin’ for Johnson benefit show.

The event raised a total of $1,265 at the door with additional proceeds ex-pected. Funds raised from Jammin’ for Johnson benefit the Bunk Johnson Mu-sic Scholarship Fund, which has given over $15 thousand in scholarships to local high school students, who plan on majoring in music in college.

The scholarship is also available to college students majoring in music who graduated from Buckeye Trail, Cambridge, Meadowbrook, and John Glenn High Schools.

The scholarship fund was created in memory of local trumpet player, Har-ry “Bunk” Johnson, who passed away from cancer in 2005.

According to event coordinator, Bill Armstrong, Johnson was known for caring about young musicians.

“He was always good with kids and encouraging young people,” said Arm-strong. “[Johnson] always had young people in his bands.”

His tradition still continues through Jammin’ for Johnson.

Muskingum University senior, Kurt Wolfe, played in the event for his fourth time.

Wolfe said it was an incredible yet intimidating experience to play with professionals like Emmy Award-win-ning pianist, Dave Powers.

Local musicians jam for scholarshipsJammin’ for Johnson draws fame to Cambridge

“He is one of the most talented players I’ve ever seen, so getting to be onstage and perform with someone of such musical caliber is not something I get to do very often, as an amateur,” said Wolfe.

Returning to her hometown of Cam-bridge and getting the crowd on their feet was Sheila Raye Charles.

Charles sang songs by her father, Ray Charles, including “Georgia On My Mind” and “Hit the Road Jack.”

She spent her elementary and junior high years in Cambridge, and moved to and from Cambridge until the age of 19.

Charles said she grew up with the Johnson family and considers them her own family.

“I can’t say enough about how awe-some they are, how wonderful of a family that they’ve been,” said Charles. “Especially to me.”

She enjoys coming back to play in memory of Johnson.

“These musicians are really fun to play with,” said Charles. “We’ve never rehearsed. What you hear [on stage] is just us getting up there and going for it and it usually comes out really well,” said Charles.

The core group of musicians who played throughout the entire night in-cluded Armstrong on the drums, Pow-ers on piano, Dave Jacobs on bass, Steve Johnson on saxophone, Mike McWilliams on guitar, and Todd Thor-ton on saxophone.

Christine Holmes/Black&MagentaSheila Raye Charles, daughter of musician Ray Charles, jammed for Johnson.

Jie YuOrbit Media Reporter

For this past Valentine’s Day Darla Galbreath received an increase in floral orders.

Galbreath is the new owner of Vil-lage Garden Florist & Gifts shop, lo-cated at 42 E. Main St. in New Con-cord.

She previously worked at the Bait Shop at Muskingum University for five years.

One year ago, she worked at another floral shop.

“It just comes natural, it’s fun to me,” said Galbreath.

However, she did meet some chal-lenges while starting to run the shop last September.

In previous working experiences, she was the manager of a retail shop.

Her job meant completing paper-work and handing it to someone above her.

“But this is doing the banking, do-ing the checking, paying the bills, pay-ing the rent,” said Galbreath. “All that is the part of an ownership now.”

She devotes almost all her time to this full-time job. Trimming, watering, arranging the plants, and refreshing the

inventory take up most of her day. “Paperwork is a little overwhelm-

ing. About 40 percent of [my] work is paperwork,” said Galbreath.

She sometimes works on the week-ends in order to stay on top of her work.

Nevertheless, she finds joys from her daily routine.

“Arranging is the fun part,” said Galbreath. “Every container would kind of give you an idea of what the arrangement would look like when it’s done.”

The floral shop used to emphasize selling ornaments and gifts under its previous ownership.

Since Galbreath took over, the range of selection has been narrowed down

to floral focus.She wants to incorporate everything

she sells into floral design. “That’s what I kind of go back to,

the actual floral side of the business,” said Galbreath.

The major customers of the shop are the local funeral homes, college and high school students.

Roses are a popular flower around Valentine’s Day.

Beside the regular roses, the shop also prepared chocolate candy, bal-loons, bears and a mix of arrangements.

So far, there are only three employ-ees in the shop including, Galbreath, her husband, David, and her son, Adam.

Her son who graduated from John Glenn High School, is responsible for delivering flowers. Galbreath said she bought the shop with the intent of “making [it] a family project.”

“I just want something that my son could eventually take over if he wants to,” said Galbreath. “I’d like to have something that he can do once we’re gone, and if not, he can hire someone to run it for him, but it would be a good foundation for him.”

Speaking of her florist business, Galbreath said, “I love my job. It’s not really a job to me. I enjoy doing it. It’s fun.”

Galbreath said the job is easy since she has an eye for floral.

Orders still coming in hot for former Bait Shop employee

Jie Yu/Black&MagentaDarla Galbreath opened Village Gar-den Florist & Gifts and operates the business with her son, Adam (above) and her husband, David.

Lifestyle & CulturePage 5Kandee Ferrell,

Special Sections & Opinion Editor

Battle of the Bands: Music Copyright in Washington looks to give power to the artistDaniel BarrColumnist

Pandora, Spotify, and other free dig-ital music services have changed the way Americans listen to music. Music though like most good things in life, is not free.

The music industry is a very com-plicated industry with sound techni-cians, public relations officers, musi-cians, and other jobs that ensure the best sound is produced and released to a wide market.

One way to gain its music listeners is working with streaming services like Pandora and Spotify. These ser-vices pay artists and their record labels a royalty each time a song is played. For instance if one listened to Weird Al Yankovic’s “Amish Paradise” on

More than manners at the etiquette dinnerSarah ListonOrbit Media Reporter

The etiquette dinner is a once per semester tradition at Muskingum Uni-versity, and once again, the event is nearing.

The dinner will be hosted on Feb. 27 from 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. in the Bottom of the Quad Center (BOC).

The event is held once each semester by Career Services not only to provide a fun social event, but to teach import-ant skills for thriving in a social setting.

The etiquette dinner is an opportuni-ty for students to learn how to conduct themselves in a professional setting among potential employers and clients.

Over the course of the dinner, stu-dents are taught skills ranging from proper use of utensils, to appropriate dinner conversation.

The aim is to learn ways to impress possible colleagues and get the job.

“It’s fun, we can laugh, we can joke about things you wouldn’t normally do when you’re eating dinner in the res-idence hall,” said Jackie Vascura, Di-rector of Career Services. “That does make it fun. But it is valuable. A lot of students have said, ‘I learned a lot, I will feel confident if I’m ever at a din-ner, over an interview.’”

The tradition of the etiquette dinner started many years ago and has contin-ued to this day.

Vascura cites that this is because a priority for professionalism is

something that Career Services and Muskingum students alike value.

Attendees can expect all the trim-mings of a highly social get-together, all to prepare for real-world settings.

It is most certainly a time to break out the ties and dresses.

Students should also not expect to sit with their best friend.

“We want [students] to have an ex-perience where it would be more like if they went into an interview and didn’t know who they were talking to,” said Vascura. “We always tell them. Even if you do know who you’re sitting with, keep it as a professional conversation, try to create that conversation, so that you are really role-playing what it would be like if you were on an inter-view over a dinner.”

Students can look forward to a so-cial gathering they can enjoy, in a set-ting unique to the Muskingum sched-ule, among like minds and friends. Students also have the opportunity to get to know those they may not know as well.

“It’s right here on our campus,”said Vascura. “Students just have to sign up in advance.”

We have a very nice meal, it is well done, well-prepared, linen tablecloths, china, the whole nine yards.”

Students can sign up through the student digest from Barb Shank.

It contains a link that will take any student who wants to attend to the form on OrgSync.

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Spotify, a small royalty would be given RCA Records who would plan to give some of that money to Yankovic. Ad-vertisements and paid subscriptions al-low these companies to monetize their users.

For example, Spotify had 33 million users in 2012, which brought in some $236 in revue, or simply put how much money was made before expenses.

Spotify currently has 75 million active users, according to Spotify’s website. These royalties though are not decided directly by the music industry and streaming services, but by an un-elected board of three judges called the Copyright Royalty Board.

This board decides the amount ser-vices like Pandora and Spotify have to pay record labels. The board is plan-ning to meet in May to determine new

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policies for royalties. This has caused a rift between the streaming services and the music industry.

The music industry wants higher rates to make more money on these ever popular services, while the streaming services want lower rates due to cost margins. Spotify’s royaltyies cost the company 97 percent of their revenue in 2011.

A 245 page report by the United States Copyright Office contained sev-eral recommendations for the Copy-right Royalty Board to look at while they prepare for the hearing.

These include requiring AM/FM radio stations to pay performance fees to recording artists also, to close a loophole that allows digital streaming services to avoid paying royalties on songs recorded before 1972.

While these are just recommenda-tions, the board will most likely use this document as a starting point.

While record labels and streaming services are two of the high profile en-tities, other groups such as The Amer-ican Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broad-cast Music, Inc. (BMI) are fighting to give songwriters and music composers more power.

Record labels are attempting to con-trol who is allowed to play their com-positions as well as what price their music is sold.

President of ASCAP, Paul Williams said “Why are songwriters the most heavily-regulated small businessmen in this country? It’s outrageous.”

This hearing should be watched carefully by Spotify or Pandora users. On one hand, if payments for royalties go up, one could find themselves lis-tening to more ads than ever before.

On the other hand, if the royalties are decreased, some Indie artists may find it harder to live off their music.

When I arrived on campus in August 2011, I was wearing a Musking-um T-shirt and a nervous smile.

I had no idea what to expect. If I could go back in time, I would say,

“Kandee, don’t be stupid.” I would say, “Don’t blink.” I would say, “You look ridiculous wearing a Muskingum shirt on your first day, we get it. You’re a student here. Congratulations.”

When I decided that I wanted to move back home and commute from Zanesville, I felt like I had made no friends, I would never fit in, and col-lege wasn’t for me.

If I could go back I would say, “Kandee you barely tried.”

I would say, “You spent lunch sleep-ing every day for a year, what did you expect to happen?” I would say, “There is so much waiting for you, why do you always give up so quickly?”

A year later I moved in with friends from high school in an apartment in Zanesville. I was so broke and so not ready to be on my own.

If I could go back I would say, “You keep making worse decisions, what is

wrong with you?” I would say, “This is going to ruin a friendship.” I would say, “I hope you like Ramen.”

A year later I found myself closing in on my senior year.

I decided to move back to campus and live with a young woman named Kayla.

If I could go back I would say, “Fi-nally, something that isn’t stupid.” I would say, “This is it. You will love and hate this year more than anything.” I would say, “Cherish this. You have al-ready wasted so much time. Try harder. Be better.”

A year from now I will be just an-other adult, living in that place they keep talking about, ‘the real world.’

I’m sure that I’ll have some things to say to my past self, but I guess hind-sight is 20/20.

College has been a learning experi-ence, imagine that.

I have learned about literature, and astronomy. I have learned about love and my dreams.

I’ve also learned that this ends, quickly and without warning. (Besides the constant reminders, like advisory meetings and ‘graduate’ emails.)

So, don’t worry about your past selves. Yes, they were young and stu-pid, so give them a break.

Just focus on the now, because the past will depress you and the future...will also depress you.

Right now is the only time that you can control.

“Why would you stop eating meat?” “Don’t plants and veg-etables have feelings, too?” “I could never do it, how do you?”

These are just the basic

questions that an average veg-

etarian is asked on a normal basis. We each have our own individual

reasons that will probably vary off the same basis. Animals. We love animals!

Being a vegetarian doesn’t equal not liking meat, but rather living your life around not eating it.

In a previous article, I discussed how commercials focus around meat, but that’s our culture.

I am used to going to restaurants and having to annoy the server by ordering something special.

If there is anything that anyone learns from this article it is to not sug-gest that a vegetarian eats a peanut but-ter and jelly sandwich or even worse, a salad.

We like a variety of foods to choose from.

My meat-less lifestyle journey start-ed in April of 2012. For a long time I had wanted to be a vegetarian. I saw it as self-control.

Vegetarians like meat. I love steak! Yes, you read that correctly I love steak.

It started out when one of my friends was a vegetarian and I decided to try it.

In my past, I had tried it once for lent, but the next morning I ate a steak breakfast sandwich from McDonald’s. So it ended pretty quickly.

My second and more successful try consisted of cutting out different types of meat. First was pork.

I can accurately tell you that if I ever choose to eat meat again I will never eat pork. Then I simultaneously gave up chicken and beef.

I will not lie, the hardest part of being a vegetarian was the first few weeks.

After a while you get used to not eating a certain type of food. Your body also adjusts.

My body for the past two and a half years has lived without meat.

So reintroducing it would not only be hard, but it also sounds highly pain-ful.

I do not regret the choice that I made. My decision stemmed off of my love

for animals without having to watch a disturbing food industry movie.

I love animals. I always have. I al-ways will.

Every day I recommit my life to make a difference.

I am recommitting to life without meat and use alternatives.

Vegetarians don’t look down on meat eaters.

We like meat just as much as you. It smells good to us, too!

It frustrates the heck out of me how much beef smells good to me, but I work towards adjusting my life.

Every day life as a vegetarian is a transition. You have to be creative and always focus on your overall end goal.

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Now that the Super Bowl is done and the 2014 NFL sea-son is over, it’s time to take a look ahead to the offseason.

What exact-ly needs to be looked at?

The biggest thing to look at is prob-ably free agency. Don’t get me wrong, the NFL Draft is a very important part of the offseason, but for young teams looking to add some sort of veteran presence, free agency is the place to go.

The big theme in free agency nor-mally is which free agents a team could steal away from the most recent Super Bowl Champions. Let’s take a look at some of the possible free agents com-ing from the New England Patriots.

The biggest free agents set to hit the market come from the Patriots sec-ondary. Obviously, the most important

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Womens soccer honoredPayton PattersonOrbit Media Reporter

Six Muskies from the womens soc-cer team were honored by the OAC and the state of Ohio.

Senior Co-Captain Moriah Mathies was awarded with All-OAC and All-Ohio honors. Senior Co-captain Caris-sa Myler was awarded All-OAC acco-lades. Juniors Hailey Dickey and Jen Hastings were awarded Academic All-OAC honors along with sophomores Samantha Harbert and Sarah Landuyt.

Harbert and Landuyt were also awarded Academic All-Ohio accolades for their performances in the class-

room.“Honestly it’s a lot of crying, stress-

ing, ice cream, and long nights,” said Landuyt. “Really it comes down to time management. A lot of specific time for studying, getting into study groups.With soccer we did a lot of traveling so that gave me time to study to and from matches. But in that you have to find time for social life, so if you balance that it will not become too stressful.”

Moriah Mathies suffered an anteri-or cruciate ligament tear in her sopho-more year at Muskingum. She sat out her entire sophomore season with the injury, taking plenty of time to recover.

She returned in her junior year as a full-time starter for the Muskies after a

long journey back.“[I put in] a lot of hours with my

team on the sideline while they were on the field,” said Mathies.

These six players are not the only ones who were honored. The womens soccer team was also awarded with team academics and team ethics. To receive the team academics award, the team as a whole has to have a GPA of 3.0. The Muskies had a team GPA of 3.2.

“The team ethics award is when the team overall for the season has less than five yellow cards. We had three as a team,” said Dickey. “We are one in 79 teams that got this award across the nation for both mens and womens.”

Receiving both awards is something the Muskies try to do every year, this season being no different.

“We set out at the beginning of our season as one of our goals to get the academic award and the team ethics award,” said Mary Beth Caudill, Head Women’s Soccer Coach and Head Women’s Tennis Coach. “[I am] very proud we got both of those honors this year, it does not happen automatically. They have to put the time in off the field, a lot of studying and time man-agement going on. The season will take up a good 30 to 40 hours a week.”

The Lady Muskies kickoff a new season this fall on the road at Ohio Christian.

Mathies and team awarded for play by Ohio Athletic Conference

Chris MorganSports Editor

Captain’s Quarters: What will NFL offseason bring?player is cornerback Darrelle Revis.

It’s not a certain fact that Revis will hit free agency as the Patriots hold a 20 million dollar option to keep Revis with the team. However, if the “Pats” decide not to exercise that option and try to get Revis to negotiate a cheaper contract, things could get dicey.

The New York Jets and Buffalo Bills are two teams that have already emerged as competitors for New En-gland, but if Revis were to actually hit the open market, it’s assumed almost every team in the league would be try-ing to get their hands on the All-Pro cornerback.

Not only could the “Pats” lose Re-vis, but they could also lose free safety Devin McCourty as well.

McCourty is set to become a free agent this offseason provided the team can’t work out a deal before the dead-line. It’s unclear right now which teams would go for McCourty, but it’s my as-sumption that the Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, and maybe even the Atlanta Falcons could get in on the

action.Regardless of what happens here,

the Patriots absolutely need to bring both players back if possible. The Patri-ots wouldn’t have won the Super Bowl without these two in the secondary. It is my belief that Revis and McCourty should and will be the top priorities for the Patriots.

Let’s take a quick look at the draft, specifically what could happen with Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota. In the most recent ESPN mock drafts, Mariota is already getting set for a free-fall. Given the current QB situations around the league, I could see a couple of surprise moves to try to get him.

Let’s start with the Browns. Yes, I know, they already have Johnny Man-ziel, the most electrifying player in last year’s draft. That being said, some analysts have already begun to doubt Manziel’s future in Cleveland. With his on-field performance last season to his recent check-in to a rehabilitation fa-cility, it’s unclear whether Manziel has a future by the lake.

Now the Eagles. No one really knows just how much confidence Chip Kelly has in Nick Foles as the start-er, so it really makes sense that Kel-ly could try to move up and steal his former college quarterback if he slides. The Eagles definitely have other needs that really should be addressed first, but I can also see why Kelly would be enticed by the chance to take Mariota.

Another situation to keep an eye on is where running backs will be taken in this year’s draft.

Recently there haven’t been many running backs taken in the first round of the draft. To me this is because of the very short shelf life of the posi-tion coupled with the recent failures of backs like Trent Richardson.

That being said there’s a possibility of two backs going at the end of the first round in Wisconsin’s Melvin Gor-don and Georgia’s Todd Gurley.

Personally I don’t any backs going in the first round.

With these events quickly approach-ing, things could get wild fast.

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Samantha Harbert Jen Hastings Moriah Mathies Carissa Myler Sarah Landuyt Hailey Dickey

they were under the tutelage of the now Assistant Vice Pres-ident of Student Af-fairs, Jeff Heacock.

Boyer came from a coaching family.

His father was the Defensive Co-ordinator for New-ark Catholic High School during one of the school’s state championship runs.

Boyer’s coach-ing lineage gave him an added boost as a college football player.

“He understood the expectations we

had [for the team]and those types of things,” said Heacock.

Boyer played wide receiver his first three years at Muskingum, but was then asked to shift over to the defen-sive side of the ball and play in the sec-ondary his senior year.

Boyer made the adjustment well and earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors as a defensive back.

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Brenna Busby/Black&MagentaOlivia Besancon attempts to cross over her opponent in the Feb. 4 game against Mount Union. Besancon is putting up 7.5 points per game in 25 minutes per con-test as a first-year. Her point total is good for fifth on the Muskie squad this sea-son. Besancon also ranks fifth in the OAC in 3-point shooting percentage making 38.1 percent of her shots from behind the arc on Feb. 7.

Christine Holmes/Black&MagentaLogan Kimble scored career point number 1,000 with this shot against Heidel-berg. Kimble is the 30th Muskie to accomplish the feat.

From Muskie to Patriot, Josh BoyerFormer coach remembers Super Bowl Champion’s time at MuskingumChris MorganSports Editor

When the New England Patri-ots won the Super Bowl on Feb. 1, Quarterback Tom Brady, Coach Bill Belichick, and Tight end Rob Gronkowski were all over the televi-sion.

What went unre-alized until recently was the Musking-um connection to the Super Bowl Champs.

C o r n e r b a c k s Coach Josh Boyer is a Muskingum Alumnus who found his way into the NFL coaching ranks.

Boyer graduated in 2000 magna cum laude in Physical Education and Health.

He came to Muskingum out of Heath High School.

He was a four-year letter-winner for the Muskie Football team back when

“Because of his knowledge and his interest in football, he was able to make that move,” added Heacock. “Not a lot of guys can make that move.”

Heacock also felt that the move to defense showed a lot of maturity for Boyer.

“He was willing to give up his ex-pertise and experience [of being a wide receiver] and make the move for the betterment of the team,” said Heacock.

Not only did Boy-er have success on the field, but he also showed excellence in the classroom.

Boyer was selected as an Academic All-Ohio Athletic Con-ference player twice during his career and also belonged to three national honorary so-cieties including, the biology honorary Beta Beta Beta, the junior and senior academic honorary Omicron Delta Kappa, and the Greek society academic society the Order of Omega. Boyer was also a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

Heacock really remembers Boyer for a couple of different reasons.

“He was a committed student-ath-lete,” said Heacock. “He was just as committed in the classroom as he was on the athletic field.”

Heacock was also impressed by Boyer’s maturity level as a college stu-dent.

“He was smart enough in his mind to know that ev-ery day counted,” said Heacock.

Watching Boy-er raise the Lom-bardi Trophy after the Patriots won the Super Bowl made Heacock very proud.

“I’m proud to say [Boyer] got his start here at M u s k i n g u m , ” said Heacock.

“What these guys do after they gradu-ate shows what they have inside them.”

Even if Boyer doesn’t get all the at-tention for the Patriots’ win, Musking-um University is still a part of this Su-per Bowl Champion.

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Besancon in action Kimble gets 1,000 points