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History, music, culture and more were showcased yesterday during the kick-off of the nineteenth annual Delta Symposium, an inter-nationally-recognized festival celebrating the cultural heri-tage of the Arkansas Delta.
Still to come this weekend are lectures, research pre-sentations, panel and round-table discussions, as well as the centerpiece event Delta Roots Music Festival Satur-day at noon at the Jonesboro City and Light Park.
“The Delta Symposium is a time to look at the histori-cal, cultural, and expressive components that define this region,” said Gregory Hansen, associate professor of English and Folklore. “It’s also a time to showcase the creativity that is very much a part of the Delta.”
Creativity will continue to be expressed this weekend as performers and scholars from around the nation convene to celebrate Delta heritage. “There are a lot of different programs going on, and there are a lot of important pro-grams to see,” Hansen said.
Thursday night, guest speaker Julia Butterfly Hill will present, “What’s Your Tree? Having a Life of Pur-pose, Passion and Power: Turning Inspiration in Action for a Better World.” The lec-ture will begin at 7 p.m. in the Carl R. Reng Student Union Auditorium.
Hansen said the speakers will be one of the festival’s highlights. “I think the key-note speakers here are going to be a major attraction, some of them are even internation-ally known.” Julia Butterfly Hill in particular, Hansen said, students will enjoy, es-
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‘I want to skydive’Students look at bucket lists as graduation nears
On May 11, less than four weeks from now, the graduating class of 2013 will gather at the Convoca-
tion Center to accept the diplomas that mark the end of their four-year journey through the rigors of their undergraduate education at Ar-kansas State.
It also means the clock is running out on some students’ windows to check off items on their “bucket lists.”
A bucket list is a formal or informal list of
things one wishes to accomplish or partici-pate in before they “kick the bucket” or in this case, graduate.
The list can be written down on paper or it can be kept digitally, as Jennifer Roberts, a senior chemistry major of Russellville, did.
“I have an actual file on my computer that I made my freshman year,” Roberts said. “It’s up to about 70 something items now, but there’s really some random stuff on it.”
Among the things she has yet to check off her list are solving a rubics cube, getting in the habit of recycling and going to see a movie at
a drive-in theatre.Some of the items Roberts has checked off
her list over the last four years include learn-ing archery, which she did with a class at ASU, donating blood, riding in a hot air balloon and also riding a camel, which she accomplished before arriving at ASU.
So what motivates someone like Roberts, who is seeking a career in dentistry, write out a list of goals to achieve before they graduate or leave this world?
“I guess when you’re in high school and you start thinking about things. ‘I’m graduat-
ing, I’m going to be free, I’m going to do what I want to do,’” Roberts said. “I have practical things on (my bucket list), too. Graduating with a chemistry degree is on there, learning conversational Spanish is on there, and those are things I’ve accomplished while I’ve been in school.”
Another senior with a graduation goal is Hunter Moody, a theatre major of Walnut Ridge.
A veteran thespian of multiple plays in the theatre department, Moody simply wants to “survive” his last weeks as a student while also
Planning committee looks at budget
Caitlin LaFarlette | Photo EditorAt the University Planning Committee Wednesday morning, Dr. Hudson explained that he understands everybody wants the Liberal Arts building to be completed.
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Richmond-Haydar Scholarship Banquet awards international students
Monday evening two, international stu-dents were honored with the Richmond-Hay-dar Memorial Scholarship for High-Achiev-ing International Scholars. My Dieu Nguyen, a junior accounting major of Hanoi, Vietnam and Dinesh Neupane, a graduate environ-mental science and conservation biology stu-dent of Nepal were awarded the undergradu-ate and graduate scholarships, which provide yearly stipends of up to $1,000.
“I’m so excited, I’m so happy,” Nguyen said. “I feel like I can do anything.”
Nguyen plans to graduate in 2014 and ob-tain a master’s degree before finally starting her own business. She is currently a multicul-tural center ambassador, an active member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and has been placed on the Chancellor’s List
every semester she has studied at ASU. Neupane, who has already completed field
biology work at ASU, received numerous re-search awards and served as a teacher’s assis-tant in microbiology labs plans to become a wildlife conservationist. His area of concen-tration will be in protecting the wild Asian elephants and will use his degree to develop new methods for monitoring and promoting the continued livelihood of the endangered pachyderms.
Nguyen and Neupane were selected from five undergraduate finalists and four gradu-ate finalists, respectively. The finalists were chosen from the application pool based upon academic merit, leadership ability and em-bodiment of character traits exemplified by the award’s original endowers, Mossie J. Rich-mond and Afak Haydar.
The memorial scholarship was established
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Chancellor Tim Hudson began the University Plan-ning Committee Wednesday meeting by informing the committee they are await-ing the legislative outcome regarding the overall budget from the state.
Hudson has been meet-ing with the delegation and Gov. Mike Beebe and said he would like to thank them for the work they’ve been doing at this time.
“We’ve been trying to build a budget and work on a budget that does two or three things, primarily it continues our ability to invest in our youth, to invest in our staff, in our faculty because ultimate-
ly we owe that to our students to provide them the best edu-cation possible,” Hudson said. “We want to continue to put the best foot forward in the classroom.”
When looking at all de-cisions they make about the budget they need to hold on diligently to notions of salary increases for everyone, Hud-son said.
“We don’t know exact-ly what those numbers will look like right now because we simply don’t have the fi-nal version of the budget from the state, but what we are looking at is probably 2 percent for classified and non-classified, and at least 2 percent for faculty,” Hudson said.
Hudson also pointed out there is a definite desire from everyone to finish the liberal arts building.
“It’s going to look a lot bet-ter, I think, when you skin it in, when you have that pro-cess finished, but we really need to finish it so we can use it,” Hudson said. “Many of you’ve been thinking of this, planning for this for years, so we are trying to build a bud-get that also allows us to do that and there are many ways we might do that, depending again on how the final budget looks like coming from the legislature.”
From what he has heard, Hudson informed the com-mittee that students are very interested in an indoor recre-
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The news is continuing to unravel on the Boston Marathon bombing Monday. The two bombs, that blew shrapnel as high as skyscrapers claimed the lives of three individuals and left 173 runners and spectators injured.
The governmental officials, including President Obama, have labeled the bombing as an act of terror.
The FBI has already discovered bomb components and is seeking to uncover more evidence from their forensics lab. The bombs appear to have been made from pressure cookers that were loaded with nails and other chunks of metal.
The public has been asked to send in their videos and pho-tos of the race in hopes of catching a glimpse of who left the bags that officials believe to have contained the bombs.
It is uncertain the political motivation, the country of or-igin, the number of terrorists involved or the names of the conspirators. Major news agencies are forced to retell the facts that have come out of the investigation and merely spec-ulate on the rest.
What isn’t a speculation is the power of the human spirit.With 96 countries represented including runners from all
50 states of America, the Boston Marathon upheld its legacy of bringing people together.
While this heinous act was meant to inspire chaos, instill fear and ultimately destroy; it sparked heroism, inspired gen-erosity and kindled love.
President Obama, in his address following the bombing said it strongly, “the American people refuse to be terrorized.”
Instead of running away from danger, brave runners, spec-tators and first responders ran straight towards it, to help people in need.
Individuals tore the shirts off their backs, and made tour-niquets for people they did not know.
Some racers, after having just completed a marathon, ran back to help fellow participants, while others raced to the hospitals and clinics to donate blood.
Doctors who were off work, responded immediately to the emergency call for help and went to the various hospitals around the city. Professionals are still caring for the needs of those who are still recovering from injuries.
Boston residents opened their homes to stranded runners that had no place to go. Churches opened their arms to the ailing and ministered to the fearful.
It is these altruistic acts that won the race in Boston that day. It is the selflessness of volunteers that should be remem-bered.
If anything, the marathon bombing needs to be a wakeup call that our world needs to operate on qualities of love. With terrorism, nuclear bomb threats, social instability across the globe, people dying of curable diseases and other tragedies around the world; it seems we stand at a crossroad that needs an appropriate response.
From the words of President Obama, “If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil—that’s it. Selflessly. Compassionately. Unafraid.”
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Power of the human spirit
Arkansas now requires voters to present photo ID before casting a ballot after Governor Mike Beebe’s veto of Senate Bill 2 was overrid-den.
This is just one of the more controversial moves by the Arkansas State Legislature since the GOP captured both the House and the Senate in the November elections.
This move was welcomed by conservatives who believe it will help preserve the in-tegrity of elections, but left-ists are adamant that this bill and similar bills in other states are deliberate attempts at voter disenfranchisement.
Leftists argue that poor voters -- including many blacks, Latinos, and elderly people -- often do not have IDs and thus face discrimi-nation.
They are not shy about accusing conservatives of de-liberately trying to keep these demographics from voting because they often vote for Democratic candidates.
While it is true that voter ID laws intend to keep some people from voting, U.S. cit-izens are not included in this list.
Supporters of such mea-sures want to keep people who aren’t legally allowed to
vote, primarily illegal immi-grants, from voting.
ID laws also aim to elim-inate voter fraud perpetuat-ed through the registration of dead people and fiction-al characters like Mickey Mouse in states such as North Carolina and Florida.
Furthermore, the argu-ment that most poor people don’t have or can’t obtain a photo ID is absolutely ridic-ulous.
A simple identification card in the state of Arkansas costs $5. There are a wealth of identifying documents to choose from to verify your identity when applying for an ID.
You need an ID to open a bank account, rent a car or board a plane because you must be able to prove you are who you say you are. Why should voting be any differ-
ent? Gov. Beebe and opponents
of the bill in the state legisla-ture say there is no proof of voter fraud in Arkansas.
This isn’t true -- former State Rep. Hudson Hallum’s 2011 scheme to bribe voters into letting him and others fill out absentee ballots on their behalf made national news -- but even assuming it is, why should we not take precautions to ensure it won’t occur in the future?
Voting is an essential civil right, but when voter fraud is allowed to occur it threatens the integrity of votes from honest citizens. Protecting the voting process should be a top priority of our govern-ment.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stephens, in the leading opinion of Crawford v. Marion County Election BD., which upheld
Indiana’s voter ID law, wrote that “Each of Indiana’s assert-ed interests is unquestion-ably relevant to its interest in protecting the integrity and reliability of the electoral process.”
He and his associates cor-rectly recognized there is nothing wrong with a state combating voter fraud to protect legitimate civic par-ticipation.
Stephens also argued, be-cause Indiana provides photo ID free of charge, there is no significant burden placed on an individual’s right to vote.
In Arkansas, where an ID costs $5, the same can be said. Setting aside $5 for something necessary to be a functioning member of soci-ety is not a burden.
It is paramount that elec-tions are honest and trans-parent, that an individual’s vote is protected.
Far from being tools of disenfranchisement, voter ID laws actually strengthen the democratic process for both parties by ensuring that both Republicans and Democrats are sent to office honestly.
Zach Lott is a sophomore his-tory major of Jonesboro.
Emerging from deep with-in the bipartisan underbelly of the Senate, The Border Se-curity, Economic Opportu-nity and Immigration Mod-ernization Act of 2013 is the first attempt at immigration reform by a recent senate.
The so-called “Gang of Eight” that drafted the bill consists of four members of each party.
The bill introduce four major reforms to the current system. 1) Tightened Border Security 2) A Modernized Visa System 3) Employer Verification 4) Path to Citi-zenship.
With the United States economy in the crippled state it is in, and with a federal budget that spends billions of dollars more than it brings in, can the United States af-ford to sponsor immigration reform at this point?
To determine whether or not the bill will be a detri-ment to the economy or not, each point of the bill must be analyzed.
The bill will grant approx-imately $4.5 billion to in-crease border security. This is a big economic misstep.
While border security does grant many benefits like keeping drug lords and terrorists out of our country, it does very little to stop the seasonal worker who decides to stay after the growing sea-son has ended.
This type of illegal immi-gration accounts for most of the $100 billion in costs that
the government pays for ille-gal immigration.
The bill also provides for a modernized visa system. Most of the illegals in our country today simply over-stay the useful life of their visa.
The current visa system only tracks incoming traffic, while the system created by the bill will track when hold-ers of a visa leave to insure that no foreigner overstay there allotted time in the states.
The bill also doubles the amount of temporary work visas, which provide agricul-ture with a steady supply of labor.
With visas that are easier to obtain, immigrants will be less likely to skip the step of getting a visa. When workers don’t get a visa, employers hire them illegally which re-sults in untaxed income.
By making visas more readily available, the federal government is helping to in-sure that tax fraud is reduced.
The third provision of the bill establishes an E-Verify
system, which would allow employers to easily check the status of an immigrant before hiring him. Also, it would increase the fine paid by em-ployers who hire undocu-mented workers.
These two sections of the bill aid the government’s pocketbook by reducing the amount of tax lost to the hir-ing of undocumented work-ers.
Finally, the Path to Cit-izenship is no economic boom.
While granting amnesty to illegal immigrants would encourage them to pay taxes, spend money in the United States, and participate more in their community, most Latin American immigrants have an ultimately negative effect on federal spending.
Every person in the United States who contributes more in taxes than he receives in benefits is ultimately an asset on the federal budget.
Most immigrants, how-ever, have a high school ed-ucation or less which only qualifies them for unskilled
labor jobs. At this wage lev-el, workers receive far more in government benefits than they contribute in taxes.
While forging a path to citizenship may appear to be an ethical decision, it is cer-tainly not an economic deci-sion.
While the United States is a nation of immigrants and immigration has been a prob-lem in recent years, the feder-al government is in a state of massive deficit spending.
Because of the burden granting amnesty would add to the federal budget, this is not the time for social re-form. Even when the “Gang of Eight” requires a 10 year path to citizenship for ille-gals, there is still no evidence the federal budget will be in better shape in the next de-cade.
Immigration reform is a very important social reform that needs to take place.
With the weakened state of the economy and cost that immigration reform would impose on the federal gov-ernment however, immigra-tion reform is only a second rate problem next to the fed-eral budget.
While it is always nice to see a bipartisan effort, Con-gress needs to get America’s fiscal house in order before tackling social problems.
Korey Speaight is a sopho-more accounting and business major of Camp.
“While forging a path to citizenship may appear to be an ethical decision, it is certainly not an economic deci-sion.”
-Korey Speaight
Immigration should be solved second
Voter ID laws protect individuals’ vote“Protecting the
voting process should be a top priority of our government.”- Zach Lott
The 19th annual Delta Symposium will be hosting its Roots Music Festival from 12-6 p.m. this Saturday at the City Water and Light Park in Jonesboro. The festival will feature performances by various blues, folk, blue-grass, rock and Americana bands such as Sky City, 2-Mule Plow, Plain Meanness, Cedric Burnside and New Agrarians.
Greg Hansen, associate professor of En-glish and folklore, and co-director of the Del-ta Symposium, is the coordinator of the Roots Music Festival this year.
“(The Symposium) was created to encour-age scholarship on the history and culture of
the Delta,” Hansen said. “Early in the Symo-sium’s history there was a lot of focus on the Delta Blues within the Symposium.”
“Although there is still a heavy emphasis on blues, we look at a whole range of creative expression,” Hansen said.
The Roots Festival will kick-off with a Blues and Roots Music Showcase. The opening acts will be the first and second place winners of the acoustic blues contest that was held Wednesday night. The first place winner was Chuck Moody of Blytheville and second place was Alex Dwyer of Jonesboro.
Sky City, led by singer/songwriter Nathan Crouch, will follow the showcase and perform original acoustic music. The bluegrass band
2-Mule Plow will perform at 1 p.m. and will be lead by guitarist/lead vocalist Bill Yearwood.
Guitarist/vocalist/drummer Cedric Burn-side, who released his album “The Way I Am” last year, will perform blues at 2:30 p.m. He has won “Blues Drummer of the Year” two years in a row at the Blues Memphis Awards in Memphis, Tenn.
Local band Plain Meanness will take the stage next. The rockabilly group has one al-bum released so far, “The Sower and the Reaper.” Members include songwriter/ guitar-ist Patrick Dailey, trumpeter Grant Harbison, bass guitar player Derek Doyle and drummer Greg Arnold. The band is known for its punk rock, jazz, country blend.
New Agrarians will close the show with a folk-acoustic performance starting at 5 p.m. The group consists of three members: Tom Kimmel, Pierce Pettis and Kate Campbell. The Southern Agrarians, literary figures who were important to the revival of southern lit-erature in the 1920s, inspired all three singer/songwriters.
The Roots Music Festival is one of several events that are a part of the 19th annual Delta Symposium, which began April 17 and ends April 20.
“The Roots Music Festival is one of the best new events in the community. It’s a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon,” said Paul Nu-nis, instructor of criminology.
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The Good The Bad“Batman Begins,” 2005: Christopher Nolan and
writer David Goyer mined the classic graphic novel “Batman: Year One” in order to forge the most faithful and realistic live-action incarna-tion of the caped crusader since Tim Burton’s 1989 out-ing.
While its sequel, a great crime drama that Batman just happened to be in, would get all attention in the wake of Heath Ledger’s death in 2008, it was “Begins” that perfectly translated a Batman adventure after years of being relegated to the Bruce Timm produced cartoons and the comics following “Batman & Robin.”
“X2,” 2003:
From the thrilling opening attack on the White House, to Wolverine defending the young mutants living in Pro-fessor Xavier’s mansion, Sing-er’s sequel did what it was supposed to do by growing
the universe while exploring the already establish charac-ters and story, and making it fun while doing it.
“Captain America: The First Avenger,” 2011:
You won’t find a more ear-nest superhero film than the final Marvel Studios entry before “The Avengers.”
With the familiarity of the WWII era brought by direc-tor Joe Johnston from his ex-perience on the “The Rocke-teer” and “October Sky” and the most engaging super-hero score since “The Dark Knight,” “Captain America” was just what the genre need-ed in a market place full of gritty characters like Batman and the textbook narcissist in Iron Man.
“Superman II,” 1981:
Until Henry Cavill makes his debut in June, Christo-pher Reeves is still the gold standard for portraying Su-perman. With the right bal-
ance of humor and drama you would hope to find in a comic book movie, “Super-man II” made you believe a man could erase his girl-friend’s memory with noth-ing but a kiss.
“Chronicle,” 2012:
By far the biggest surprise for me of 2012, this origi-nal property written by Max Landis and directed by Josh Trank completely turned the “found footage” genre on its head. The movie gives us relatable characters through which we experience the unbelievable joys and trials of discovering unexplained power.
Made with a shoestring budget, Landis and Trank did more with $12 million than most have done with four times that. Few movies have left me craving a con-tinuation of the story than in “Chronicle.” There are not enough movies like this.
“Batman and Robin,” 1997:
Where it’s predecessor “Batman Forever” toed the line between drama and camp, the second film in the Joel Schumacher saga of Bat-man was an unabashed can-non ball into the pool of the money grab. Warner Broth-ers wanted to sell toys and because of it, we were given a Batman that carried a Bat-man MasterCard and Ar-nold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze.
Oh, and bat nipples.
“X-Men: The Last Stand,” 2006:
Bryan Singer left to make “Superman Returns” and the mutants owned by 20th Cen-tury Fox were taken over by Brett Ratner (“Rush Hour”). What ensued was one of the biggest storytelling mishaps seen in a summer release.
With an overbearing amount of story lines and characters that appear in the first 10 minutes and disap-pear until the third act, Rat-ner and Fox blunder every story line Singer built up in the first two installments. It would take until 2011’s “X-Men: First Class,” which Singer produced, for the
X-Men franchise to find firm footing again.
“Spider-Man 3,” 2007:
When I first saw the third and final installment of Sam Raimi’s web-slinger story, I thought it was grand. Then I saw it again a week later.
Emo Peter Parker, danc-ing emo-Peter Parker and the inclusion of not one, not two, but three villains for Spi-der-Man to confront drove the creative momentum from the first two films into the ground. Casting “That 70s Show” star Topher Grace in the fan service role of Eddie Brock/Venom wasn’t bad, but he would have made for a better Peter Parker than To-bey Maguire.
“Green Lantern,” 2011:
A comic book based mov-ie has utterly failed when the stories main villain makes you laugh every time they ap-pear on the screen. That was my reaction whenever the horrifically CGI created Par-allax roared at the camera in the film starring Ryan Reyn-old’s and directed by Martin Campbell (“Golden Eye,” “Ca-sino Royale”).
With its shoddy special ef-fects work and undeveloped character dynamics, “Green Lantern” was another failed attempt by Warner Broth-ers to launch a franchise not helmed by Christopher Nolan. “GL” was an attempt to create the same magic of the original “Iron Man,” but wound being the paste-eating cousin of “Fantastic Four.”
“Iron Man 2,” (2010):
This is going to be an un-popular pick. I accept that. But after waiting in line for six hours for the midnight show-ing and initially enjoying the sequel to the 2008 surprise hit, “Iron Man 2” gets a little bit harder to watch with ev-ery subsequent viewing.
Were it not for the char-ismatic presence of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, the immense good-will the series has received would be vastly diminished. While di-rector Jon Favreau can defi-nitely get a movie rolling, he has a history of crafting un-derwhelming third acts with under utilized villains. While many complained “IM2” was bogged down by storylines setting up last year’s “Aveng-ers,” I contend those were the film’s best components.
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Takako Okumura | Staff PhotographerDuring a lecture/concert series held Wednesday night, Bruce Jackson spoke about his experiences while photographing Texas and Arkansas prisoners from 1964 to 1979. He explained how prisoners would come up with songs while they worked so that they would all work at the same pace to prevent having a single person being picked out for being too slow.
BUCKET, Continuedbeing able to leave the theatre department
in a better state than when he came into it, Moody said.
As long-term goals on his bucket list go, Moody wishes to someday visit Great Britain and Australia.
“I’ve always been curious about the culture (in England) and I don’t really have to learn another language. Australia for that same reason,” said Moody, who also wants to travel by train out west to San Francisco while seeing the “fields and prairies” that are on the way.
One senior who will be making a long trip home after May’s graduation cere-monies is Mizuki Ueno, a marketing major who calls Tokyo, home.
Ueno, who spent time at ASU as a manager on the women’s basketball team, wants to experience America’s other pastime, baseball
“I’ve been to all of the other (ASU) sports, like volleyball, football and basketball. I thought a baseball game is kind of Ameri-can culture,” Ueno said. However, before she returns home to Tokyo, where a job at a Japa-
nese electronics company awaits her in Octo-ber, Ueno wants to sell pastries.
“I want to do a bake sale. I want to sell cupcakes. Cupcakes are not so popular in Japan, but they are very popular in America,” Ueno said.
Though ASU’s seniors are in their last moments of college, there are plenty of underclassman, like Allison Nichols, a sopho-more journalism major of Morrilton, who still have time to shorten their bucket list.
“I want to skydive before I graduate,” Nichols said. “I like to push limits, I really do. I’m afraid of falling and I’m the type of person where if I have a fear, I want to overcome it.”
Nichols has already checked off things on her list, including parasailing and visiting a foreign country (Italy and Austrail-ia) and swimming with dolphins.
“I wanted to learn how to surf and I did, but I’m not very good at it,” Nichols said. “My upcoming bucket list thing is to go to Chicago.”
Though Moody might be leaving the theatre department, he’ll be leaving it in the hands of Garrett Lenzen, a freshman of Mor-
rilton. Lenzen also has a lot of traveling he
wants to knock off of his bucket list before graduating, including a trip to New York City.
“I’m a theatre major, so New York is the place to be for theatre and I’ve just always wanted go,” Lenzen said. “I love big cities and think that would be a fascinating place to go.”
Lenzen is a fan of taking road trips with friends to explore the country and wants to do as much of that as possible before grad-uating.
“I’d like to take a trip across country in a van or an RV. Like those old VW vans from the 60s you see hippies driving, or just get a big school bus and fill it up with peo-ple,” Lenzen said. “This country was built on roads and highways, so taking old highways and seeing parts of the country people tend to forget (would be fun). It’s a much more in-volved way to travel rather than flying.”
Henry Pilcher, a sophomore commu-nication studies major of Memphis, crossed off visiting New York from his bucket list when he visited his family and also traveled to Mexico with friends his senior year of high
school. Family is a part of another item on his bucket list.
“I want to visit my sister in San Di-ego. She’s in law school, I want to see her be-fore she graduates,” said Pilcher, who hasn’t seen his sister in two years.
A member of the football team his freshman year before suffering a shoulder in-jury, Pilcher wants to someday own a success-ful sports agency company, representing ath-letes in contract negotiations, but not before he earns a spot on the Dean’s List.
Whatever is on a bucket list, whether it’s to visit a foreign country, learning a new language or to simply go to a baseball game, for students like Roberts, the act of walking across a stage to receive your diploma after four years of hard work might be the most satisfactory accomplishment of the college experience.
“You don’t really have to work hard to travel; you save up money, you fill out forms and you anticipate it,” Roberts said. “With graduation, I busted my butt. I’m ready to get this.”
ation facility. “Now I happen to like the
weather in Arkansas, but I have been here long enough to know that it can be very cold and very hot,” Hudson said. “We’ve had a chance this last year through some of our travels to see these types of indoor facilities in Oregon, in Texas and different places, and the students are very interested in that sort of indoor recreation facility. Of course, it would also help our athletics program.”
Among the many things that are needed from the budget, Hudson understands positions are needed throughout the many colleges within the university.
“We are looking at this point to build a budget that adds at least new position in Fine Arts, Nursing and Communications,” Hudson said. “Again, that is our commitment, to put the very best faculty forward into the classroom for our students.”
Hudson said the meeting
was merely informational and nothing will be known until the university is cleared by the legislative outcome of the overall budget from the state.
“The work we do, the informal testimony from our students, the recognition and the work done from our faculty in terms of scholarship-created activities, it really sets a great tone for Arkansas State,” Hudson said.
DELTA, Continued
pecially because Hill is originally an Ar-kansas native. “So there’s a bit of a homecom-ing there that I really recommend seeing,” Hansen said.
The blending of academic research and public presentation will continue on Friday with the forum “Biology and Agriculture in the Delta” from 8 a.m. in the Mockingbird Room of the Student Union.
Directly following that discussion, repre-sentatives from ASU as well as the College of the Ouachitas and the University of Central Arkansas will present their research on “Ar-kansas Delta Development.” The three pre-sentations will examine, “Burdette Arkansas and the City Beautiful Movement,” “Arkan-sas’s Dark Ages: The Struggle to Electrify the State,” and “The Delta as an Uncertain Place.”
These presentations will be from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., followed by a short break before 1 p.m. presentations on “Roots Music and Mu-sicians” by representatives of the University of North Texas and Eugene, Oregon as well as ASU. Artists examined will be “Solomon Burke: Two kinds of Soul Man” and “John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson: The Sound of Bronzeville. The final presentation will be, “Ten Times Worse than Elvis: The Bobby Lee Trammell Story.”
At 3:30 p.m. the Mockingbird Room will be home to “Writing and Arkansas Roots: Ar-kansas Writers Roundtable Discussion” with Ruth and Van Hawkins, Janis Kearney, and Philip McMath.
Later that evening from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Margaret Bolsterli of Fayetteville will read a
preview of the 2013 Tributary, the ASU stu-dent literary magazine.
Saturday events get more hands-on with the Architectural Walking Tour of Jonesboro’s West End beginning at the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library at 10 p.m. “I think a lot of the students will enjoy the walking tour on Saturday,” Hansen said. “It worked out ral-ly well last year because a lot of the students, even those who lived in Jonesboro their en-tire lives, had never stopped to see that part of town.”
The tour will be led by Jonesboro design professionals Libii Fairhead of Brackett and Krennerich, Jim Little of Little and Associ-ates, and John Mixon of Stuck Associates.
The Delta Symposiam will conclude Sat-urday afternoon with the Roots Music Festi-val from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the City Water and Light Park at the corner of Culberhouse and Cherry Streets in Jonesboro. Master of Ceremonies Michael Luster of the Arkansas Folklife Program will wrap up the festival with classic Delta music from local bands Sky City, 2-Mule Plow, Cedric Burnside, Plain Mean-ness, and New Agrarians in the week’s final celebration of Arkansas history.
“I’ve always enjoyed these things,” Hansen said. “The Delta Symposium is really a way for the University to connect with the communi-ty in all kinds of ways, so I think that’s a pretty exciting thing to go on.”
Rain location for the Roots Music Festival will be at the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library.
COMMITTEE, Continued
in 1998 in recognition of the contribu-tions of the late Mossie Richmond, former vice president for Student Affairs, and Afak Haydar, former director of International Pro-grams, made to the university’s international student programs. The two men were instru-mental in starting the programs, recognizing value in the presence of multiple cultures in a time when many did not.
“They did so much for the university by being responsible for the development of the international programs,” Velmar Richmond, widow of the late Mossie Richmond, said.
Chand Haydar, widow of the late Afak Haydar, said, “This program is wonderful. I’m glad he made it. I wish I could do more.”
The dinner and awards ceremony high-lighted a few of the many contributions inter-national students make to the ASU student body. “Tonight is the time to recognize the achievements and accomplishments of some of our outstanding international students,” Herman Strickland, dean of the University College, said. “I know these students are being recognized by various colleges throughout this time, however, this banquet is exclusively held in honor of our international students.”
Rick Stripling, vice chancellor of Student Affairs, commented on the impact interna-tional students often have around ASU. “They raise the bar,” Stripling said. “They enrich our
campus, and that’s something we appreciate.” Deidra Hudson, wife of Chancellor Tim
Hudson, served as the evening’s keynote speaker. “International education is a passion of both mine and my husband’s,” Hudson said. “The greatest export we have in this country is higher education.”
Hudson went on to commend internation-al students for having the courage to step out of their world and into the world of someone else. “You bring the world to those students who haven’t had the opportunity to travel,” Hudson said. “What you are doing in this place is teaching those students what your world is like, and that it is not that different from theirs.”
International students are also positive role models for volunteerism and active in-volvement on campus, Hudson said. “It’s nice to see international students embrace the community the way they do,” she said. “Every time I go somewhere on campus, the inter-national students are beautifully represented.”
Hudson reconfirmed Richmond and Hay-dar’s perspectives on encouraging a congre-gation of international scholars. “It is very im-portant to continue to have an international student population on campus,” Hudson said. “We are very proud of you, and we hope you know that.”
BANQUET, Continued
CorrectionIn Monday’s article “Students impress at Create @
stAte,” The Herald listed the winners from last year. The winners from this year are: Brett Shirley, Ezra
Rodgers, Devin Harper, Kasha Shannon, Taylor Greg-ory, Brandi Koschmann, Tracy Mallard, Melody Mc-Craig, Aaron Hattle and Ashton Erwin. The Herald
apologizes for this mistake.
Campus Bellhops brings student jobs to Arkansas State
Moving service expands, brings 50-80 jobs Chattanooga, Tenn. — Collegiate moving
company Campus Bellhops is looking to hire student muscle at Arkansas State and 53 oth-er colleges across the country.
“Few people enjoy the physical demands of moving day- that’s where Campus Bellhops comes in. We love it.” co-founder Cameron Doody said. “Becoming one of our bellhops is a great way to make money while networking and helping out your fellow students at the same time.”
The company is planning on hiring be-tween 50 and 80 Arkansas State students.
Bellhops are paid a flat rate based on the size of each moving job. On average, Bellhops make between $15-25 an hour.
“We hire the go-getters and self-motiva-tors,” Doody said. “Our Bellhops claim work on their own time, so the sky’s the limit.”
Once a customer books a move, Bellhops are able to log in and claim the job on a pri-vate online portal. This empowers Bellhops to work as often as they’d like while having the flexibility to schedule work around class and activities.
Candidate Bellhops must be able to lift 60 pounds to chest-level. Involvement in multi-ple student organizations is preferred. Inter-ested students can apply at CampusBellhops.com. About Campus Bellhops Campus Bell-hops is a new, innovative solution to colle-giate moving.
Unlike traditional moving companies, Campus Bellhops provides student muscle to make moving in/out of dorms, apartments
and houses easier. The company also offers turnkey services;
taking care of rental, pickup and return of moving vans and trucks.
College is hard enough when students have to juggle classes, events, projects, jobs and relationships. Yet some think being mar-ried and in college harder still.
Molly Delp, a junior English major of Jonesboro, met her husband Walter Jonathan Delp, a junior civil engineering major, in an honors oral communication class a few se-mesters ago. At first, they did not talk much in the class, but as the semester went on they became really close.
“When I looked at him I just knew I want-ed to be friends with him,” Molly said. “We became friends for a long time. We also were involved with Central Baptist together and then started dating. I think us being friends first definitely helped the relationship. Then we got married.”
Molly said a lot hasn’t changed after, mar-riage like she thought it would.
“We have been married for eight months. Not much has changed, except now we have a lot of responsibilities. Priorities change,” Mol-ly said.
Rachel Machen, a junior psychology major, met her husband Taylor Machen, a sopho-more exercise science major, at a friend’s pool party in high school about five years ago.
Rachel said they became friends for a long time and, as time went on, they began to like each other more.
“We dated for about four years and decid-ed it was time to get married. We loved each other very much and didn’t see any point in waiting,” Rachel said. “May 18 will be a whole year for us.”
“Being married is not that different, but when you come home you have a lot more to do. Most worry about dishes, and laundry but we also have other responsibilities,” Rachel said. “We have to take care of our relationship and do good in school at the same time.”
Being married helps some be more mo-tivated. Some encourage their partner to do their best in school and at work.
“Marriage can be a little stressful, but makes life’s a lot easier,” Molly said. “I know I’m going to come home to a supporting hus-band. It has helped me stay focused and get work done.”
Although they are committed to their re-lationships, the Machens still hangout with a lot of their friends. They are the leaders of the quidditch team at ASU and also are members of the leadership team at Wesley Methodist Church.
“We hangout with lots of single friends and people,” Rachel said. “Although we prob-
ably spend more quality time with married friends.”
The Delps hangout with mostly single friends and unmarried friends because there are not a lot of married people who go to col-lege and there is a wide range of single, un-married students
Molly said, “There is not a lot of people our age who are married and not a lot of peo-ple married going to college. About the only married couple our age we hangout with is a friend we have known for a long time, and ac-tually got married two weeks before us.”
Both couples agree that marriage shouldn’t be something students think of as taboo during college.
“Just because you got married doesn’t mean you have to quit school,” Taylor Machen said. “Just stay in school and try your best. If you manage your time you should do great.”
Jonathan Delp believes that school shouldn’t be something that stands in the way of a commitment both people want to do, al-though it shouldn’t be taken lightly.
“It’s been good for us. It’s not without chal-lenges but overall it’s been worth it for us,” Jonathan said
April 13On April 13, Officer Keith Gilliam was on foot
patrol in the Village housing area when he heard a loud bang coming from the area of the Aspen apartments, according to the report. When he approached the area, he saw a red car sitting at the end of Pawnee Street and Carolyn Johnson standing on the driver’s side, looking at the vehicle while the car was still running and the headlights were on. According to the report, Gilliam approached Johnson and she immediately got into the driver’s seat. Gilliam asked if everything was OK and Johnson replied she had hit the curb and blown out both front tires. Johnson also told Gilliam she didn’t know where she was, she had just left Walmart, and she was trying to get to the apartments on Caraway Road across from Burger King, according to the report. Gilliam determined that there was no logical reason for her to be on campus. Gilliam couldn’t detect the odor of intoxicants, but asked for Officer Steven Wilson and Officer Daniel Bradway’s assistance. They both performed field sobriety tests on Johnson and determined she was impaired to drive. Johnson was charged with DWI.
April 14On April 14, Officer Bobby Duff was on patrol
in the Sodexo cafeteria area by the cash register, according to the report. Duff was speaking to the cashier when Raymond Donald came up to the register, used an ASU issued ID card to gain access to the cafeteria when the cashier noticed something was wrong and held onto the card. The cashier asked Donald if the ASU ID card belonged to him. According to the report, Donald advised multiple times that the card was his until he
finally admitted the card actually belonged to his roommate. Duff then stepped in and asked what his real name was and he replied, “Richard Greene.” According to the report, the information given was not returning on the ACIC terminal when ran by the communications officer. A friend of Donald came to see if things were okay. Duff immediately asked him what Donald’s name was and he responded, “Raymond.” The friend realized what he did and was sent away, according to the report. Duff asked Donald again what his name was and he did not change it. After running several combinations of the false information, a return for a similar name returned with an out of state warrant, according to the report. Duff then cuffed and detained Donald when Jaylon Davis arrived, and by the photo and the ASU ID, Davis was the correct cardholder. Davis said he let Donald borrow his card to get into the cafeteria. They were both advised they were breaking ASU conduct policies and Duff continued to ask Donald his real name, according to the repot. Donald finally told him after he was advised he was going to go to jail and be finger printed. His real name came back with no warrants or traffic. Davis was advised he would be referred to student conduct and was let go. According to the report, Donald was advised that he could also be charged with criminal impersonation, but Duff cut him a break with one charge in hopes he might come away with a positive lesson to tell the truth. Donald was charged with a Persona Non Grata.
-Compiled by Tanya Giraldo, News Editor.
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Tying the knot
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Staci Vandagriff |Staff PhotographerSenior Solomon Williams, along with two other teammates, run during Tuesday afternoon to prepare for the Vanderbilt Invitational.
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Caitlin LaFarlette |Photo EditorSophomore catcher Stuart Levy batting during Saturday’s game against South Alabama.
With only three weeks until the Sun Belt Outdoor Conference meet, the ASU track and field team will leave tomorrow for the Vanderbilt Track and Field Invitational in hopes of obtaining neces-sary seed times and distanc-es.
The Vanderbilt Invitation-al will begin at 3 p.m. open-ing with the long jump, jave-lin throw, shot put, and pole vault events.
The meet will continue throughout Friday evening with the 200 meter run and the distance running events, including the 1,500-meter, 3,000-meter Steeple, and fi-nally the 5,000-meter run, scheduled for 8 p.m.
The meet will resume Sat-urdayat 10 a.m., beginning with the hammer throw.
It will continue to include the triple jump, high jump, discus throw, 4 x 100 relay,
800-meter run, 100-hurdles, 400-meter run, 100-meter run, 400-hurdles, and then close with the fan-favorite 4 x 400 relay.
This weekend’s compe-tition will be followed by a home meet next weekend, on the ASU outdoor track. Both meets provide opportunities for the Red Wolves to obtain necessary seed times and dis-tances, sharpen up any loose edges of their performances, and gain confidence in prepa-ration for the Conference Meet.
Head coach Jim Patchell anticipates solid performanc-es this weekend.
“Vanderbilt is always a good meet,” Patchell said. “We are currently in our competition phase of train-ing, which is a little less vol-ume and a little more intense. This time of year most of the work is done, we just need to sharpen things up and concentrate on getting some good performances.”
Track and field head to Nashville
Dustin Jones scored on a wild pitch in the top of the 12th inning to lift Arkan-sas State to a 5-4 victory over Southeast Missouri Tuesday night at Capaha Field.
Jones led off the top of the 12th in-ning with a walk and moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt from Drew Burks.
After a fly out by Kaleb Brown, Tan-ner Ring reached on an infield single to the shortstop that allowed Jones to move to third. He scored when the Redhawks threw their fifth wild pitch of the game to give A-State a 5-4 advantage.
Ring pitched a perfect bottom of the 12th to earn his second career victory as the Red Wolves improved their overall record to 20-17, while Southeast Mis-souri fell to 19-19 and lost their fifth straight midweek contest.
Ring provided heroics in the game’s first inning with a two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning.
The true freshman from Batesville, Ark., sent a ball over the wall in left field for the first home run of his collegiate career.
Kaleb Brown reached base after being hit by a pitch to start the game and Ring followed with the blast for the first and second runs batted in of his career.
The Red Wolves had an opportunity to add to their lead in the top of the sec-ond inning.
Alex Potts reached on an infield sin-
gle to the shortstop and Jones reached on a walk. SEMO starter Alex Winkle-man was chased from the game after throwing a wild pitch to Kevin Fitzpat-rick that allowed both runners to move up a base. Alex Siddle replaced Winkle-man and got Fitzpatrick to strike out swinging and then got Brown to foul out to the catcher to end the inning.
Seth McWilliams was effective through three innings in the first start of his career at Arkansas State, but ran into trouble in the fourth inning. The senior pitcher issued a 1-out single to Matt Tellor and then Andy Lennington reached on a throwing error from ASU third baseman Claude Johnson.
The Redhawks took advantage of the A-State miscue and Ryan Barnes drove home a run on a single to centerfield. Southeast Missouri tied the game on a squeeze bunt up the first base line in the next at-bat to tie the game at 2-2.
Adam Grantham replaced McWil-liams, but gave up a two-out RBI single to Jason Blum to put SEMO ahead 4-2 after four innings. McWilliams struck out four, one shy of his career-high, in 3 2/3 innings of work.
ASU battled back and tied the game at 4-4 with two runs in the top of the sixth inning. Johnson and Logan Uxa led off the inning with a pair of singles and Jones drove in both runs with a double down the left field line.
He moved to third on a passed ball and Burks reached on a pinch-hit walk, but the inning ended when Brown was
robbed of a hit on a diving catch by Red-hawks’ centerfielder Clayton Evans.
Arkansas State drew a pair of 2-out walks in the top of the seventh inning, but failed to push across either run and then left runners stranded at second and third with one out in the top of the eighth inning.
In the top of the ninth inning John-son reached on a single up the middle and Uxa reached on his third walk of the night.
Both runners advanced on a wild pitch, but Ryan Roberts struck out and Potts grounded out to the shortstop to end the inning.
The teams’ combined to strand 26 runners on base on the night and throw 477 pitches.
Ring finished the game 3-for-7 with two RBIs, while Johnson was 3-for-5. Jones added two hits and two RBIs, while Uxa tied the A-State record for walks in a game with four.
Four Red Wolves’ relievers, Grantham, David Owen, John Koch and Ring combined to give up just two runs, none of which were earned, and two hits over 8 1/3 inning of relief.
The Red Wolves will travel to Louisi-ana-Monroe for a three-game Sun Belt Conference series April 19-21. Friday and Saturday’s games are scheduled to start at 6 p.m., while Sunday’s contest will begin at 1 p.m.
Baseball takes win in extra innings
Watch out Southeastern Missou-ri and Bethel University, the Lady Red Wolves softball club is on fire and look-ing to improve their 4-game winning streak, two of which gave them a birth in the National Softball Club Association World Series this summer.
After winning the final two games in a triple-header against St. Louis Univer-sity, a key rival for ASU softball, the Red Wolves went to Memphis on Tuesday to beat Southwest Tenn. Community Col-lege in a double-header (9-4, 5-4).
“Beating St. Louis was a big deal,” freshman outfielder Lyric Hupp said. “They are one of the main teams we go back and forth with, so it was great when we won. We played at a higher level and finally had a home field advantage.”
Arkansas State is 24-4 overall and 5-1 in conference play, ranking them first in the Mid-America South Conference.
“In the beginning, bigger schools were like ‘let’s play these club teams and boost our record,’” Hupp said. “Then a lot of schools started to drop games with us once we started winning. We’ve also dropped a couple games because we de-
cided that we would rather have a hard practice than dominate.”
On Saturday, April 20, Southeast-ern Missouri will travel to Jonesboro to redeem themselves from the two previous losses the Red Wolves have handed them. The teams will play a dou-ble-header. For Sunday’s games, ASU will travel to McKenzie, TN to take on the Bethel Wildcats.
“We will have to come prepared this weekend,” Hupp said. “The first time we played SEMO, we won easily, but the second game was much closer. This week, we will need to take practice seri-ously and have the mindset that we need to play hard.”
The Lady Red Wolves hope to have another home crowd like the one they experienced on April 6 for the team’s first ever-home game.
“It was a good crowd. The bleachers were packed and they had concessions set up. It really boosted our morale,” Hupp said.
Hupp said the team’s closeness rids her mind of worries for this weekend’s expected level of play.
“We have some girls who have played for different schools at higher levels, but
here it’s so relaxed and we play for our-selves,” she said. “As a club, we don’t have the greatest opportunities for facilities and a lot of money, but we do the best with what we have and that helps us play as strong and hard as we do. All the road trips have given us the chance to bond and grow as a team.
“If we keep our heads right, play at the level we know we can be at and don’t let little errors kill us, we can dominate and win these games.”
Hupp said team strengths are pitch-ing and strong infielders.
“The pitching last weekend was on spot. Shae Cothren has a lot of different pitches and Nicole Edwards is left-hand-ed and threw so well; they had no one on base when she was pitching,” Hupp said. “Our infield does a really good job and produces few errors. Fundamental-ly, our team is sound and we are ready to finish this season playing strong. This is going to be a good weekend for ASU softball.”
Saturday’s games will be at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the softball fields as the team takes on SEMO. The games against Bethel University on Sunday in Tenn. will be at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Bringin’ the heat
Xinzhong Zhao |Staff PhotographerJunior Nicole Edwards pitching during the Lady Red Wolves game vs. St. Louis University.
Softball prepares for double-header