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Are you pleased with the changes listed in the campus master plan?
Cheer squad for 2012-13 fi nalized Red Wolves lose Mid-South title to Life in season fi nale
'Tebow's faith is a good thing'
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Yes 50%
What master plan? 17%
No 33%
Greeks compete during annual 'Greek Week'
Four teams competed with a mixture of NPC, IFC and NPHC sororities and frater-nities competing against each other during Greek Week last week. Challenges included scavenger hunts, obstacle courses and 3-on-3 basketball.
But, aside from physical challenges, the teams also donated money and goods for the Women's Crisis Center in Jonesboro and
St. Jude. The ASU Greeks donated two truck-loads of needed items to the crisis center and over $100. Friday, Greeks assisted with the special olympics. The winning team will be announced Monday night.
Pictured left: Dalton Stringer, sophomore exercise science major of Memphis, Tenn., competed in a basketball tournament with the men of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Pictured middle: Taylor Robinson, junior Nursing major of Memphis, Tenn., competed in the obstacle course for Alpha Kappa Al-pha sorority.
Pictured right: Brittany Chesser, sopho-more biology major of Paragould and mem-ber of Chi Omega sorority cheers a team-mate on before her turn at the obstacle course.
DELTA SYMPOSIUMDELTA SYMPOSIUM
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Pictured above: Keynote speaker Tony Tost read pieces from his poetry books, including one about Johnny Cash.
Pictured right: L.C. Ulmer and friends played music during the Delta Symposium events.
ASU community celebrates Delta region culture in 18th annual Symposium
Casey RinaldiStaff Writer
Over the last week, the department of English and philosophy put on the 18th annual installment of the Del-ta Symposium, a gathering of artists, poets, music and other acts that serve to celebrate the culture of Arkansas’ Delta region.
While students may have enjoyed the week’s variety of events, some may not understand the full process that was behind the organization of the festivities. Gregory Hansen, associate professor of folklore and English, as well as the co-chair of the Delta Symposium committee, spoke about how the event came to be and how the com-mittee decides which acts to feature each year.
“We typically have about 10 members of the commit-tee, and though it’s supported by the English and philos-ophy department, we typically welcome anyone who has an interest in Delta culture and history. It’s an interdis-ciplinary approach, so historians, people from sociology and criminology are also part of it, as well as students,” he said.
There is no maximum capacity for the amount of mem-bers. Hansen explained how the committee considers event choices.
"We want to represent a variety of interests of Delta life. I think it’s important to get a whole lot of different academics together to talk about common subjects and bring insights to Delta life, which is what the commit-
tee works for. We encourage guests to interact with our students. We try to reach a consensus and we encourage speakers and paper presentations and we take the best ones and they become a part of the event.”
All events were held in the Student Union and Mock-ingbird Room with the exception of the Roots Music Fes-tival and a poetry reading in the Cash River Room.
“We found that the facilities in the Student Union and Mockingbird Room were just convenient, with their hold-ing capacities and amenities, like the great conference rooms. We want to keep it on campus to foster that con-nection between the students and community,” he said.
Hansen also noted that the event is supported by a grant provided by the National Endowment of Arts.
“They grant us $30,000 as part of a matching fund, with the remaining costs being covered by the Arkansas Arts Council to a matching amount that we can allocate to different departments. KASU also provides us radio sto-ries. We also have a staff of consultations for the event," he said. The Roots Music Festival was also sponsored by the West End Neighborhood Association.
Carol O’Connor, the second co-chair of the committee and the interim dean of the college of humanities and social sciences, explained how she came to the committee and what she hoped the events achieved.
“Given the quality of acts, the turnout in previous years was small in previous years. So this event was held at the City Water and Light Park at Culberhouse and
See DELTA, page 4
Faculty senate objectionsto policy to be reviewed
Kayla PaineStaff Writer
After spending the semester battling the ASU system proposed in-tellectual property policy, the faculty senate received news that its objections have been heard during Friday’s meeting.
Interim Chancellor Dan Howard was at the meet-ing to speak on behalf of the ASU administrator’s on the bigger issues that the senate has been deal-ing with this semester.
The proposed policy was scheduled to be reviewed May 4 by the board of trust-ees, but it was decided that more time was needed to resolve the disagreements.
“We are going to recon-vene the writing commit-tee to see if we can come up with a good and appropri-ate result that we can all live with,” Howard said.
The senate had drafted
a delay, survey and task force resolution regarding intellectual property to be reviewed at the meeting.
It listed 11 reasons that the proposed policy should be held from being voted on at the board of trustees meeting, including that the senate felt ignored, but af-ter Howard announced the decision to give more time to the policy, the resolution was not reviewed.
College of Education Senator John Hall was very pleased with the deci-sion. “This is such a criti-cal issue and we can’t just rush through it,” he said.
Howard said that they hope to get a new policy ad-opted in a timely manner. He also said that the sen-ate should keep in mind that the ASU system is different and what may or may not apply to other in-stitutions doesn’t necessar-ily mean it applies to ASU.
See FACULTY, page 4
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Dan Howard, interim chancellor, spoke to the faculty senate on Friday on behalf of the administration. Howard told the sen-ate that the writing committee will reconvene to come up with a solution that everyone can live with regarding the intellectual property policy.
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Making funds work despite Pell Grant cut
In the Monday, April 16 issue of The Herald, we reported of a recent decision by President Obama and Congress to cut a certain award amount of Pell Grant funds.
These funds, awarded above the standard $5550 and normally used by students for summer school, will no longer be available because of a federal budget bill designed to control rising government expenses.
While we are disappointed that this option is no longer available, we are thankful that the standard award amount has been left untouched, despite rumors that indicated otherwise.
Pell Grant money has traditionally been offered as a single award amount for students to use fall and spring semesters. This is especially helpful for students in low-income families.
Last summer, however, was the first time the Department of Education began giving eligible students second award amounts, which most students used for summer school.
Many people complain about the government’s reversal in this instance, but under the circumstances, we’re glad it was at least available for a time.
Aside from this reversal, no severely negative changes have occurred to the Pell Grant program, which is encouraging, and we anticipate little to change in the coming years.
Certainly, for many students, taking summer courses are necessary to fulfill the requirements for their majors. While not as expensive as regular fall and spring classes, summer classes can still be costly, so financial aid during this time may be necessary.
Thankfully, however, a recent Arkansas law requires universities to set most of their degree programs at a maximum 120 hours. This will help ensure that most degrees can be completed within a four-year time frame, keeping students from having to take too many summer classes.
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Weather affects students’ moods“Serotonin controls emotions related to memory, depression
and sleep. The level of serotonin increases in sunny weather
which has a positive impact on your mind.”
Janice Morgan
‘Tebow’s faith is a good thing’“We have to remember that in America, we believe in the
freedom of religion. The 1st Amendment of our Constitution
gives us this right.”
Jason Holland
We often hear peo-ple talking about how weather affects their ac-tivities and ultimately their moods. For a case in point a family tak-ing a picnic, the weather was supposed to be sun-drenched as summer is approaching.
However, due to the unfortunate occurrence of dark clouds suddenly developing over the pre-viously clear sky the mood has changed. Just think of the time and effort taken to plan the family outing. All is ru-ined by the unpleasant weather conditions and the oncoming weather.
We cannot deny that weather affects our mood. Warm, pleasant and fair weather makes
us smile. It brings a cheerful atmosphere and a happy feeling to every-one around.
For students, warm weather signifies the start of summer sea-son. It means the end of classes, no homework. The positive effects of the sun can be attrib-uted to a neurochemical named serotonin.
Serotonin controls emotions related to memory, depression and sleep. The level of sero-tonin increases in sunny weather which has a positive impact on your mind.
I believe that warm weather has a positive and encouraging effect to our mental condition. Just 30 minutes outside will do the trick. The temperature has to be 72 degrees which seems to be the magic number.
Rainy weather, on the
other hand, makes us feel blue. For some reason it seems to make us feel low-spirited. Maybe the cold ambience brought on by rain and the melody of the falling rain makes us feel sentimental and long for dear friends and family members that are dear to us.
Winter days are char-acterized by less sunlight and extreme coldness. The dull, dreary winter has the same effect on the human mind as dark night.
The level of serotonin falls and you start to feel depressed. The produc-tion of serotonin in win-ter is only half of that in the summer.
In some people, winter brings about an annual mood shift identified as Seasonal Affective Dis-order. The symptoms of SAD surface by the end of the fall and remain
throughout the winter months.
The hot weather con-ditions during the sum-mer lower our mood in-tensity. Often times the results are the feeling of being cranky or irritated. Disputes often result as frustration envelops ev-ery one during very hot conditions.
It has been proven that for Americans the allowable temperature for proper behavior is room temperature and as the temperature in-creases and weather be-comes hotter our mood decreases.
Also noticeable that the effect of weather condition to our moods depends on what season being experienced and how much time is spent staying outside.
Morgan is a news re-porting student.
Tim Tebow displaying his faith is a good thing.
As readers may already know, Tebow is the NFL quarterback who is con-stantly displaying his spiritual devotion.
This has attracted a lot of attention in both posi-tive and negative ways. He is not making any forc-ible attempts to convert anyone, so his display of faith is good for many reasons.
One reason why Tim Tebow’s public spiritual devotion is a good thing is because he is setting a good example of guidance for anyone who would seek to believe the same way he does.
Another reason Tebow’s public devotion of faith is good is because it allows him to set a example for all members of the next generation.
Furthermore, this quarterback would make a good role model for said generations in many ar-eas of life.
Finally, Tebow’s ac-tions are an example of good sportsmanship, something very important in today’s society.
Now it is my under-standing from sources that others might see Tebow’s display of his faith as bad for a variety of reasons. You can find this informa-
tion Jake Tapper’s blogs section of www.abcnews.go.com as well as Paul Wilson’s blogs of http://newsbusters.org.
Sources indicate that some might see this as bad because they believe Tebow is just faking it.
This may be a valid point as it is certainly not impossible, but whether he is for real or just fak-ing it, I am not one to judge.
Others may think that Tebow’s display of his faith is a bad thing be-cause he is imposing on the rights of others re-garding the freedom of religion.
This is also a very strong argument, but it brings me to my next point entirely.
We have to remember that in America, we be-lieve in the freedom of re-ligion.
The 1st Amendment of our Constitution gives us this right. The freedom of religion means that each individual has the right to believe in whatever faith we chooses.
Evidently this has some limits if you know how the legal system works.
For example, it is against the law to harass, harm, threaten or murder any individual. So obvi-ously you cannot force someone to believe what you believe. You are not allowed to harass some-one because they do not believe what you believe.
Also, you may not bring
harm to them for the fact that they do not follow the same faith as you. In addi-tion, you cannot threaten the life of anyone who re-fuses to believe the same faith you follow.
Finally, you may not murder someone for be-lieving a different faith than yours.
Tebow is not badmouth-ing or harming those who do not believe in his faith. He is not pulling a weapon on anyone for un-belief in his faith. Nor is he making any attempt at forcible conversions.
Finally, and obviously, there are no sources indi-
cated he took anyone’s life for this reason. Therefore, I do not see his faith ex-pressions as problematic.
To close, let me just say that I am normally dis-creet about my own faith for humility purposes and such, but it is an excellent thing that Tim Tebow is publicly expressing his spirituality.
For the very reason that he is not hurting anyone, it cannot be argued that his public faith expres-sions are problematic.
Holland is a gradu-ate student in history of Jonesboro.
“Scientists have proved with ample research that purple is, in fact, not a flavor.”
“People say she’s looks different, but she still looks like her ugly daddy.”
“I can’t believe she can’t hold her pee long enough to walk to the Union.. I mean, I can hold mine for days!”
“I didn’t evolve canines to eat carrots. And I could probably eat a dog if it wasn’t my dog.”
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Sammy CowgillStaff Writer
The Arkansas State Rugby team played Life University Saturday in the closing of the regu-lar season for a chance to play in the 2012 USA Rugby Championships with Life winning 17-13, and claiming the D1-A Mid-South confer-ence title.
Coach Matt Hucka-by and the team were seeking revenge from their lone previous loss of 30-14 to Life.
Coach Huckaby said at practice on Wednes-day, “If we win, we’ll host the quarterfinals at home; if not, we’re on the road.”
The first half of ac-tion was full of hard hits and a low scoring affair.
A-State Nation ra-dio said following the game, “We’ve watched many football games, and this by far, was full of more hard hits than [we’ve] seen during the football games.”
An injury of a Life University player took five minutes off the clock and ASU player
Patrick Sullivan then scored the first try of the game at the 31:20 mark and put the Red Wolves up 5-0.
The conversion by Sullivan extended the lead to 7-0. Sullivan’s try gave ASU some mo-mentum, which did not return until Life was tacked with a penalty.
Patrick Sullivan kicked a 3-point pen-alty kick at the 25:00 minute mark to make the score 10-0.
It was the last score of the first half and the rest of the half consist-ed of more physicality and battles on the goal line.
“When you get two equally physical teams, they’re going to take shots at each other,” Huckaby said. “The first half showed the audi-ence some of the hard-est hits and several in-juries on both sides.”
After a short half time, ASU scored again after another Life Uni-versity penalty.
Patrick Sullivan scored the 3-point pen-alty kick against the wind to push the lead to 13-0.
From there on out it was Life Universi-ty’s offensive side that dominated the playing field.
Both teams are known for scoring fast, and Life proved that by scoring five times before the end of the game.
With 21:14 left, Life player Darrian Wood-son scored a try, rais-ing the score 13-5.
That was followed up by a Joseph Cowley conversion making it a 13-7 game and giving a huge shift in momen-tum to Life.
Fifteen minutes passed with ASU com-ing close to scoring once until a turnover gave possession back to Life.
It didn’t take Life University long to score from the turnover and make it a 13-12 game. Calvin Neil scored their second and final try and gave Life the lead after another Jo-seph Cowley 14-13 in Life’s favor. With 3:55 left, ASU scraped every inch to win, but anoth-er turnover put it back into Life’s hands.
Toward the last few minutes, “Tension was
high and adrenaline was rushing to win,” Jake Mizell said.
Mizell was yellow carded and asked to exit the game.
Life University had the lead 17-13 at the 0:00 mark on the clock, but the ball was not deemed dead yet.
It took five more min-utes and several chang-es in possession to get
to that point. The team will now
travel to West Point, N.Y., to take on the University of Army in the first round of the USA 15’s Rugby tour-nament.
The Red Wolves will play the Army Ruggers on May 5th, after Army defeated Penn State on Saturday.
Army finished their
regular season unde-feated.
The Black Knights are
“But we’ll need help from our fans and sup-porters. They can make donations to the ASU Rugby and ASU Foun-dation to pay for ex-penses of traveling.”
Arkansas State fin-ishes their regular sea-son with a 7-2 record.
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The Arkansas State rugby team clashes in a scrum with the Life University team Saturday af-ternoon at the ASU Rugby field.
Markey BoeckmannStaff Writer
The Arkansas State cheerleading squad for the 2012-13 sporting year was announced April 15.
The all-girl squad members include: Mad-ison Brogden of Marion, Lauren Bowen of Baux-ite, Mandi Bryant, Haley Messer, Stephanie New-man and Audrey Tyner, all of Jonesboro, Jana Cham-blee of Cabot, Hailey Hall of El Dorado, Megan Palm-er of Lonoke, Chloe Phifer of Little Rock, Quaneshia Shavers of West Memphis, and Jenny Walker of Mau-melle.
Aside from cheering on the Red Wolves’ football and basketball teams on game days, the ASU cheer-leading squad is also very involved in the community throughout the year.
“The role of the squads is to promote student par-ticipation in ASU athlet-ic events. We would like to see more students in-volved in a spirited way at home football and basket-ball games and take pride in the Red Wolves,” cheer-leading coordinator Mar-tha McFerron said.
“In addition to campus events the squad mem-bers volunteer for a vari-ety of community activities throughout the year,” Mc-Ferron continued.
Co-ed squad members are Hunter Bowen of North Little Rock, Shelby Brooks of Little Rock, Will Craft, and Chelsea Hutcheson, Jackson Spencer, and Zac Wise, all of Jonesboro.
Others include John Fortenberry of Paragould, Danielle Goodwin of Bates-ville, Amy Henson of Mau-melle, Zac Short of Doniph-
an, Missouri, Conner Thomas of Kennett, Mis-souri, and Paige Turpin of Bryant.
Chelsea Hutcheson, a co-ed squad member of Jonesboro said, “I see some new talent coming with the new girls and guys. I’m ex-cited to see how we prog-ress as individuals and as a team.”
This will be the fourth year Hutcheson has been a member of the cheerlead-ing squad, and she served as captain last year.
“For me personally, I get motivated when I see the team warming up. It gets me pumped to watch sports and I’m definitely a fan that gets into the game. As a squad we warm up the stunts and pyramids that we practiced for the games. It is always important to warm up the muscles be-fore putting them to use.”
Courtesy of ASU Sports Info
The members of the 2012-13 Arkansas State cheer leaders assembled for a squad photo.
ASU Press Release
On Friday, Arkansas State head men’s bas-ketball coach John Bra-dy announced the sign-ing of point guard Cam-eron Golden of Ridge-way High School in Memphis, Tenn.
Golden comes to ASU after leading his team to a top 10 national rank-ing, which the team maintained through most of the 2011-12 sea-son.
His senior season at Ridgeway, the squad amassed a 30-2 over-all mark and earned the No. 1 team ranking in Tennessee.
Golden, a 6-1, 190-pound point guard, averaged 17.5 points, six assists, four steals and four rebounds last sea-son, en route to earning All-District, All-Region and Best of the Prep honors as well as finish-ing as the runner up for the Tennessee Mr. Bas-ketball award.
“With the signing of Cameron Golden, it gives us a point guard that our team really needs. He had an out-
standing career and an outstanding senior year,” Brady said.
“Ridgeway was a na-tionally ranked team for most of the sea-son and we are excited about what he brings to our team. He is an out-standing scorer, pass-er and has really good quickness. We feel like he will be an outstand-ing player in our confer-ence,” Brady continued.
“I’m looking forward to coming to Arkansas State and I am look-ing to make some noise there and have a good career,” Golden said. “I chose Arkansas State over my other options because of the coach-es, their style of play and the environment at ASU.”
Entering the 2011-12 season, Golden was named a third-team All-State selection by ESP-NU.com across all divi-sions after earning All-State honors as a ju-nior.
Golden is a three-star recruit by Rivals.com and is currently the No. 10 prospect out of the state of Tennessee.
“I’m very happy for Cameron, he’s played for me for four years and I am so happy to see him achieve his dream of playing for a Division I program,” Ridgeway High School coach Wes Henning said. “In my opinion, he will be one of the best players in ASU’s recruiting class this year.”
Golden initially com-mitted to Alabama-Bir-mingham and was also being heavily recruit-ed by Massachusetts, Jacksonville and Austin Peay.
According to Rivals.com Golden was also re-ceiving interest from Western Kentucky, Memphis, Michigan, Lipscomb, Alabama State, Duquesne, East-ern Michigan, Middle Tennessee and South-east Missouri.
The addition of Golden pushes the Red Wolves’ fall recruiting class to five, including early high school signees Kris Brown, Kelvin Downs, Raeford Worsham and junior-college transfer Seth Kisler.
ASU Hoops signs GoldenMemphis native ranked 10th in Tennessee by Rivals
Back Breaker: Red Wolves lose Mid-South title to Life in season finale
Cheer squad for 2012-13 finalized
Tennis• : Arkansas State was eliminated by ninth-seed Florida Atlantic 4-0 Thursday in the first round of the Sun Belt tournament in Denton, Texas. Arkansas State finishes the season with a 11-9 record.
TrackandField:• At the Vanderbilt Invitational, ASU had 15 top 10 finishers in two days of action, with Kristina Aubert breaking the Arkansas State record in the women’s 5K at the Mount Sac Relays finishing 22nd in her heat with a time of 17:14.51.
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Cherry Street. We’re hoping for hundreds of people to attend, though it may not be a dense enough group to make an impact due to Earth Day activities and it being the end of the semester,” she said.
She then touched on the commit-tee’s origins.
“The initial organizers were Bill Clements and his wife Frances Mal-pezzi, who were in charge for at least 12-14 years. We would begin adver-tising for new members in May, Our first meeting is usually sometime be-tween May 10 to June 10,” she said.
“We currently have about 15 members on the committee, but we had 18 or 20 a few years ago. Glo-ria Gibson, the former dean, thought the committee should contain repre-sentatives from all colleges, since it was primarily English and Philoso-phy. I’ve been involved for seven of the last 10 years, but played a larger role over the last three as co-chair of the committee and I keep an eye on the budget, of which the Arkan-sas Arts Council provides $5,000 of direct support,” she said.
She also noted that Blues music has always been at the core of every symposium event.
O’Connor then offered her final thoughts on the event and what she hopes to see from it in the future.
“When I heard about the Delta Symposium, I knew that ASU would be a great place to end my career. I hope that the students, faculty, staff and community members will con-tinue to take advantage of it for en-tertainment and education for many years to come.”
Hansen also shared his thoughts as well.
“I’d really like the students to recognize that the symposium is for them, so they can connect learning in the classroom, to what’s going on during research, and that they can recognize the richness on display with the various presentations,” he said.
The Shared Governance Oversight Committee is meeting Monday to review what other committees on campus have to say about particular policies. Some of the policies are about re-search guidelines and mis-conduct in research. The senate approved the mis-conduct in research policy, but because none of the senators or executive board knew what was stated in the research guidelines, they did not review it.
There will not be a for-mal recommendation from the senate for the SGOC, but the senators decided to review the guidelines over the weekend and give com-ments.
“We’ve really been bogged down by the intel-lectual property policy and that’s why we haven’t re-viewed those policies,” said Hall.
At the beginning of the meeting, there was a lengthy presentation from the faculty senate finance committee with an empha-
sis on faculty salaries. A concern is that as the
funding for ASU grows big-ger because of more enroll-ments, that funding for faculty is being sacrificed to other expenses that the university has such as stu-dent support and intramu-rals. It is a proportional decrease of funding for fac-ulty, as the budget grows larger.
“I am unwavering on this issue. I have talked with the legislature, Arkan-sas Department of Higher Education and administra-tors and I believe that the message is finally being heard,” said Howard.
A budget priority for the university planning com-mittee for fiscal year 2013 is raising faculty salaries by $1,390,000 overall. There will also be a special fee added to tuition costs for students of $2.00 per credit hour.
The faculty senate has its last meeting May 4 at 3 p.m. on the 8th floor of the library.
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