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By Doug StruckSpecial to The Washington Post
The massive blizzard that whipped New England this week-end with hurricane-force winds and crushing snow tested the readiness of authorities to deal with the increasing frequency of severe and record-breaking weather.
State officials in Massachusetts took the rare step of ordering cars off the streets in advance of the storm, while in Long Island, N.Y. hundreds of commuters were sur-prised and stranded by the bliz-zard, which dumped two to three feet of snow on the region.
The storm claimed at least four lives and added to the march of extreme weather events in the past year that includes Hurricane Sandy, a deep drought, the hot-test U.S. year on record and wide-spread wildfires in the West.
Authorities in Boston said an 11-year-old boy died from carbon-monoxide poisoning when he and his father warmed up from snow shoveling by huddling inside a car whose exhaust was blocked by snow. In New York's Columbia County, a man plowing on a trac-tor died when he ran off the road. A pedestrian in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., died after he was struck while walking along a snowy roadside, and a Connecticut man collapsed and died while shoveling snow, ac-cording to news reports.
The storm rumbled up the East Coast along the path of most of New England's famed nor'easters. It lashed seafront towns, sent surges of water onto streets at high tide, and departed with tons of precious beachfront property.
But the combination of lucky timing — the storm arrived on a Friday — and advance warn-
ing gave residents plenty of time to hunker down and get off the roadways. That limited the prob-lems and should allow a straight-forward cleanup. Authorities praised Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's decision to order cars off the streets Friday, clearing the roads for emergency crews.
"I'm happy to report the city, so far, has weathered the storm well," Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said at noon Saturday. New England's largest city was dead center on the storm's path but escaped major power outages and flooding.
Towns north and south of Boston
fared worse. Waves chopped away the foundations of beachfront homes in Massachusetts com-munities of Sandwich, Hull and Scituate. Most of those homes were vacated by residents wary of the churning sea before a mid-morning high tide sent salty water racing through streets.
Power companies reported that 600,000 customers had lost power by Saturday morning. Utility crews remained poised inside mo-tels, their bucket trucks parked, until the howling wind quieted to a whisper and the power workers could safely reach lines encased in ice and snow.
Governors in all the New England states declared states of emergency, opened up shelters, and shut down airports and pub-lic transport.
The storm rivaled the his-toric grip of the Blizzard of '78, a 36-hour whiteout that New Englanders cite as a high-water mark of grim winters. This year's storm plowed up the Atlantic coast and embraced Boston with sweeping arcs of snow and wind that reached into Vermont, New Hampshire and southern Maine on Friday night.
When it passed, it had de-livered almost 25 inches at
Boston's official measuring station at Logan International Airport, 2 1/2 inches short of a record. But other towns in Massachusetts and New Hampshire reported snow to-tals of as high as 34 inches. Milford, Conn., recorded 38 inches.
Regardless of its place in the record books, the blizzard is likely to add to the discussion about the increasing frequency of unusual weather events globally, ranging from floods in Pakistan that sent 20 million people fleeing to the stunning melt-off of nearly half the Arctic ice cap, events consis-tent with climate change.
New York City, still recover-ing from Sandy's staggering blow, "dodged a bullet," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Saturday morn-ing.
"I think it's fair to say that we were very lucky. We certainly avoided the worst of it, and our thoughts go out to the people of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine," the mayor said. "If we can do anything to help them, we certainly will. . . . When we were in trouble, the country came to our aid, and we want to make sure we do the same."
By Katelynn Wiggins Staff Writer
Two women in ROTC have made the decision to sign a contract this academic year. Freshmen Kaitlyn Sabol, a nursing major, and Lori Reeves, a bi-ology major, both appreciate the camaraderie ROTC offers. They signed their contracts on Dec. 12.
“My dad was a Marine and he inspired me to want to be a part of something bigger,” Reeves said. Balancing multi-day PT (physical training) with school is a challenge Reeves has had to face. Eventually, she hopes to be a civil affairs officer.
“I think the challenging part will be earning trust and respect from the males,” Reeves said of her fu-ture as an officer in the US Army.
“We are all like one unit to me,” Sabol said. “It’s pretty cool when you see eight guys turning around and running with one guy who is passing the fin-ish line.” She said that she does not feel disadvan-taged being a woman, and appreciates being treated equally.
ROTC has contracted over a dozen cadets this ac-ademic year. In order to sign a contract, cadets must complete a handful of basic requirements. They must have at least a 2.0 GPA, pass an Army Physical Fitness Test and pass a Department of Defense medical physical.
“Signing a contract does not mean (cadets) are in the army,” Kyle Locke, enrollment advisor and recruiting operations officer for SFA’s military sci-
ence department, said. “(Cadets) will not start their military obligation until they graduate.” The con-tract is basically like a promissory note, telling the department that you will stick with this and finish it.
When a cadet signs their contract they also take a modified oath showing their intent to join the military upon graduation. It is not the oath of office; cadets will take that oath when they commission into the US Army.
“We are not doing the basic training,” Locke said. “(Cadets) are still college students. At any point they can say ‘I don’t want to do this anymore.’” Anyone can participate in ROTC during their freshman and sophomore years. However, cadets must sign a con-tract to continue with the program after that, Locke explained.
There is more expected from contracted cadets than from non-contracted cadets “because they have shown us they want to continue” Locke said. Cadets showing they have the drive to finish are ex-pected to step up, show up to every event and be on time and in the correct uniform, Locke explained.
“Without looking at any hard numbers, to me it seems that we have more females at least interested in the program,” Locke said. “When I was a cadet here in the mid 2000’s there were not nearly as many. About 25 percent of cadets are female.” Locke gradu-ated from SFA in 2007 and was in ROTC. He served in the Texas Army National Guard for 11 years as a military police officer and has worked at SFA since 2010.
Cadet Kaitlyn Sabol takes her oath after contracting with ROTC. Cadet Lori Reeves takes her oath after contracting with ROTC.
SFA students Sabol and Reeves sign ROTC contracts
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SFA Gardens will host a rainwater harvesting workshop from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 16, in the Agriculture Building, Room 118.
David Parish, technical assistant from Texas Agrilife Extension, will discuss the benefits of collecting rainwater, potential yields and different collection systems. Each partici-pant will construct and take home a completed rain barrel for home use.
“The recent drought in Texas has left homeowners looking for alternatives for garden irrigation,” said Elyce Rodewald, ed-ucation coordinator for SFA Gardens. “Through this workshop, participants can beat the heat and be prepared for another sunny summer in East Texas.”
The cost is $50 for SFA Gardens members and $60 for non-members. All supplies will be provided. Participants must pre-register by Thursday, Feb. 14. Make your reservations by con-tacting Rodewald at (936) 468-1832 or [email protected].
David Parish to teach benefits of collecting rainwater
Fatal snowstorm wipes out Northeast with record-breaking weather this past weekend
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Information about at-tending college, the finan-cial aid process and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid will be avail-able during Financial Aid Saturday from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Judy B. McDonald Public Library.
Presentations by repre-sentatives from Stephen F. Austin State University and Angelina College will be made at 10 and 11:30 a.m. Families will have access to computers to complete the FAFSA, and some computer assistance will be available
“Our hope is to help de-mystify the financial aid ap-plication process to those seniors and their families who either have not begun the FAFSA or those who are struggling to understand it,” said Monique Nunn, P-16 project director at SFA.
Participants are encour-aged to bring items that are helpful in completing the
FAFSA, including driver’s license and social security numbers, most recent tax re-turn and bank statements, as well as any investment or untaxed income records. Identification such as per-manent resident cards also may be utilized, and infor-mation will be provided in Spanish.
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SFA theatre students are learning about life in New York City in the mid-1930s, when the average cost of a new house was $3,925, a Studebaker cost $665, and you could put gaso-line in that car for about 10 cents a gallon.
Prominent actresses of the time were Katherine Hepburn, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers and Joan Blondell. The Great Depression was still lingering, with unemployment con-tinuing to fall to 16.9 percent. So for young women of this era, especially those who were poor, who aspired to become Broadway actresses, to say it was a challenging time would be an understatement.
That’s the premise behind “Stage Door,” the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman that’s set in 1936 at The Footlights Club, a boarding house for 16 actresses who have come to New York to pursue their dreams of being on Broadway.
The SFA College of Fine Arts and School of Theatre will present “Stage Door” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Feb. 26 through March 2, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus. The production is part of the College of Fine Arts’ University Series and the School of Theatre’s Mainstage Series.
In preparation, the students have been watching movies of the 1930s, such as “42nd Street” and “Goldiggers of 1933,” “because they are both about the theatre in New York at that time,” said Jack Heifner, SFA’s playwright in residence and the play’s director.
But one movie Heifner doesn’t want the students to see is the movie version of “Stage Door.”
“I don’t want them to start copying performances from the movie, even though the movie is only about one-third of the play,” he said, adding that the famous Hepburn line, “The calla lilies are in bloom again” is not in the play, not to mention that Kaufman scorned the movie as “Screen Door.”
But beyond educating the students about the 1930s, Heifner hopes the play gives the young actors a glimpse into an era that will be remembered for its style and grace and as a time that was good for Broadway, because people were searching for something uplifting.
A 17-page glossary of terms from the time period was cre-ated for the students to study. Manners and style are topics of discussion in rehearsals. Angela Bacarisse, professor of costume and makeup design at SFA, paired each student actress with a photograph of a movie actress of that era so that each could model hair, makeup and certain “signa-ture” gestures after the star.
“Unlike today, most women in the 1930s wore hats,
gloves, dresses, high heels and full make-up every time they went out of the house,” Heifner said. “Men wore suits, ties and hats. It was a dressy time, even though the United States was still in the middle of the Great Depression.”
But dressing up for an audition for a Heifner-directed play is nothing new at SFA.
“The word gets around, that when the actors here come to my auditions, for anything, they dress up,” he said. “It’s a job interview. They should look their best and sell them-selves.
“A lot of people go into show business thinking they want to be an actor – that it’s just about acting,” he said. “It’s about selling, making contacts and marketing. That’s part of the reality of this business and of this play.”
One of the greatest challenges in directing “Stage Door” is the large cast – 33 characters – “so it’s as large as a musical,” Heifner said. But he’s getting a lot of help, he said, including from senior theatre major Benn May from Commerce, who has been working with the cast to develop
their characters. Choreographer Juanita Finkenberg and her assistants are instructing students in posture, move-ment and style of the period, while stage manager Jennifer Sims, junior theatre major from Garland, and her assistants are “taking care of the logistics of making this huge show happen,” Heifner said.
“The biggest challenge has been staging the play,” he said. “The brilliant costume, set, lighting and sound de-signers are all contributing to the look and atmosphere of the production.
“We are trying to be authentic to the period,” Heifner said. “As always, theatre is a collaboration of everyone in-volved onstage and backstage.”
“Stage Door” is recommended for mature audiences.Tickets are $18 for adults, $12 for seniors and $6 for stu-
dents. For tickets or more information, visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu or call the Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407.
SFA’s production ‘Stage Door’ brings 1930s glamour, style to Turner Auditorium Stage
But parts of Long Island were hit with more than 30 inches of snow, catching commuters by surprise and stranding some in their cars for up to 12 hours.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked for help from other towns to help dig out eastern Long Island. About 200 people were stranded in cars Friday night in Suffolk County, according to the Associated Press, prompting questions of whether the roads should have been closed.
Patrick’s decision to order a ban on non-essential travel throughout Massachusetts on Friday afternoon was the first time such powers had been evoked in the state since the Blizzard of ‘78, issued then after hundreds of stranded cars blocked cleanup of the roadway.
“This is not something one does lightly,” Patrick said after the worst of the storm had passed. “Considering what might have happened if we had not had that ban, I think we were pretty well served by it.”
Commuter trains and Amtrak from Boston made their last runs Friday afternoon, crowded with passengers who waited for the final chance to get home. Menino sent Boston city workers home and mobilized 600 plows and trucks to combat the storm.
For some, the weekend storm meant more holiday than hardship. Schools were canceled Friday, many em-ployers called off work, and most others sent their staff home by midday to avoid commuting problems.
Kate Ruh, 19, brought her sleeping bag and inflatable mattress to work at the Dunkin’ Donuts in Concord, Mass., to stay Friday night. She was nearly snowed in Saturday, unable to swing the doors open for emergency crews because of snowdrifts.
“The snowplow guys asked if I was open. I said, ‘if you can get the doors open, I am,’ “ Ruh said, laughing.
New York City accumulated 8.1 inches of snow in Central Park. Hours after the storm passed, the main airports, John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia, reopened for limited service. Grand Central Terminal, which had canceled travel during the storm, resumed service on the Harlem and Hudson lines at 11:20 a.m. Saturday, but travel to hard-hit Connecticut had not been resumed.
In midtown Manhattan, motorists largely heeded Bloomberg’s advice to stay off the roads, leaving stretch-es of Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue virtually car-free in the early morning hours. But the streets quickly began to fill with tourists who came out to find the streets and sidewalks largely cleared of snow.
Steve Holton, 52, an Episcopal priest, and his wife, Charlotte, skied across Central Park. “It’s wonderful, as you can see: only six or eight inches, just right for cross-country skiing,” he said. “It’s perfect, just at freezing so
the snow is going to last, at least until it turns into slush, which always happens in New York.”
The storm was popular at the ski resort in Stowe, Vt., which got about two feet of extra snow at the top of the mountain and 18 inches at the base. The snow was fall-ing so fast Friday that workers grooming the trails were barely able to keep up. By Saturday, however, with the storm gone, the skiing was excellent.
Janet Bass of Bethesda, Md. was in Stowe for a long weekend with her husband and teenage daughter.
“We came up a day early [Thursday] to beat the storm, and it worked out great. Lots of powder . . . great ski con-ditions,” Bass said.
The 312-room Stowe Mountain Lodge was fully booked Saturday night and had only two rooms empty on Friday. Bookings for the rest of the season jumped.
“Typically what happens when we get a storm like this is the phone starts ringing immediately, and that’s what happened here, for future bookings,” said Richard McLennan, managing director of the lodge.
In the Boston area, many residents seemed to take the historic storm in stride, even as it buried their cars, shut down public transit, and closed nearly all shops and restaurants.
“I grew up in Maine. I don’t have a nervous breakdown when this happens,” said James Woodman, 55, a music composer, as he took a break from shoveling a path to his home in Cambridge, Mass.
He said he had stocked up in advance on four storm es-sentials: Triscuits, peanut butter, vodka and toilet paper. “I could last a week now,” he said.
Roads were nearly empty on Saturday, with only tow trucks, snowplows, city maintenance vehicles and the occasional van barreling through.
“It’s been 24 hours with no sleep,” said Louis Luciano of the Cambridge city traffic department as he paused in his truck from clearing parking lots and sidewalks.
Was he exhausted?“We’re warriors!” he bellowed.The drone of snowblowers filled the air as homeown-
ers and maintenance workers struggled to carve paths through the snow. But amid the drudgery, there was also a sense of wonder at the magnitude and beauty of the snow.
At Harvard University, a few students were gliding across campus on cross-country skis. One stomped through drifts in snowshoes. Angela Zhang, 18, a fresh-man, was clutching a cafeteria tray and searching for the perfect hill.
“I’m from California,” she said. “This is the first one of these I’ve ever seen.”
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By Brian PetersonContributing Writer
The storied Bond franchise made a striking departure from its recent past with 2006’s “Casino Royale,” abandoning the incessant one-liners and eye-roll-inducing invisible cars of the previous four films in favor of a more darkly serious presentation.
Critics and fans alike embraced the grittier tone, quite rightly, but lost in the hysteria were the many weaknesses of the film itself – the new direction was welcome and refresh-ing after the silliness of “Die Another Day,” but some of the details weren’t quite right for Bond, especially in the movie’s awkwardly romantic second half.
Daniel Craig impressed a lot of people with his conflicted take on the iconic character, but he did nothing to save the misguided sequel, “Quantum of Solace,” which was either awfully forgettable or unforgettably awful.
With the bad taste of lackluster Bond back in audiences’ mouths, good feelings about the direction of the franchise quickly vanished, and “Casino” felt like a fluke in the rear-view mirror, its flaws standing out suddenly when paired with a sequel that repeated them more egregiously. Even the intriguing trailers for a third Craig-led film produced merely guarded optimism and any excitement fans found creeping in was against their better judgment.
Luckily for the optimistic Bond fans of the world, “Skyfall” is as good as any franchise film of the last 20 years, arguably the best since “Goldeneye”. It continues the thoroughly modern, mature feel that’s been cultivated since Craig took over, but it is steeped in the rich tradition of classic Bond. There is a certain danger involved in self-reference and after 20-plus entries in the series, there is also the risk of repetitious plotlines and characters; many a Bond film has given in to self-parody.
“Skyfall” deftly tiptoes several difficult lines: the border between acknowledging the past and repeating it, and especially the line between seriousness and melodrama. Even with a myriad of opportunities, it never gives in to the temptation of going overboard. The most obvious area where things could easily get maudlin is in Bond’s relationship with M, wonderfully played by Judi Dench, but it’s handled beautifully throughout, never losing its light touch even as we delve deeper into the rarely-explored emotional side of their part-nership. The most questionable dramatic decision on paper becomes one of the film’s most admirable moments, where Dench recites a Tennyson poem over rising action that’s about to reach its breaking point.
The ability to handle the James Bond character with restraint is not a common feature of the franchise – most have drifted too far towards stuffy importance or, much more com-monly, into the realm of farce. Bond films are supposed to be fun, but that does not mean they should fall into comedy, and this latest addition to the series shows clearly that it is more enjoyable to follow a story about realistic people than it is to laugh at caricatures blowing up vehicles and delivering stilted puns.
Craig answers the disappointment of “Quantum” with his best performance to date. His portrayal of the spy as a thoroughly flawed hero is remarkable in its honesty, realism and nuance. It is also a tremendously compelling character, something that could not be said of James Bond in quite some time. In some respects, he’s bound to always inhabit a purely fictional realm, blown out of proportion to “super spy” levels, but “Skyfall” adds elements of humanity that have rarely been touched prior – his struggles with alcoholism, drug ad-diction and childhood trauma strike a true chord and raise the question of what it would really be like to be this man. That is not a question you find yourself asking during a Roger Moore romp because there is not enough about Bond that is real to even begin to imagine the scenario.
It is a common trend in modern cinema to explore good versus evil when they are almost indistinguishable, but that tension has been in the background of Bond for a long time: his disregard for women rendering certain moments from early films is rather painful to watch, not to mention the fact that he is a man who is paid to kill people. The differences between our spy and the villains he is chasing are made clear here, but still manages to avoid ham-fisted heroics. Bond himself declares the force that drives him, but he does it ironically in a dialogue with the villain: “Don’t forget my pathetic love of country.”
Despite the womanizing, drinking and smirking persona, Bond is ultimately a self-sacrificial character, putting the safety of his country and his friends before his own. Those vices are what help him cope with the job, and that is one of the more interesting bits of character that has been painted as sensationalism too often. To be fair, “Skyfall” does the best job in a long time of communicating the realism contained in that archetype because it takes the character seriously enough to actually present him as multi-faceted.
The plot overall is less impressive than its presentation, and the movie is most
striking in its ability to captivate regardless of what’s going on: whether Bond is fighting on top of a train, receiving his briefing or verbally sparring with the enemy. The details of what happens exactly are good enough to handle the film’s length, but they aren’t spectacular. The villain, well-played by Javier Bardem, makes up for any plot-weaknesses with flair and a clear, personal motive.
“Skyfall” is a thoroughly satisfying Bond film in every sense. Thrills of action are met with dramatic exploration of his character and the potential of the approach “Casino Royale” took to the icon is finally met with the grace of Bond’s classic adventures. Whether or not they are able to follow it successfully, “Skyfall” will remain a modern classic Bond film made with love for the character, the audience and the cinema itself.
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By Alyssa RosenbergThe Washington Post
WASHINGTON — “The Americans,” FX’s new Cold War drama about Soviet spies living under cover in suburban Washington, D.C., is a tough anti-hero show starring Kerri Russell and Matthew Rhys as Elizabeth and Phillip Jennings, a cou-ple in a marriage arranged by the KGB who spend their days running a travel agen-cy, and their nights seduc-ing sources, kidnapping defectors and blackmailing Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger’s maid. But for all its blonde wigs and fist fights, “The Americans” (which was created by Joe Weisberg, the brother of the Slate Group’s editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg) is also
a surprisingly perceptive show about 1980s American girl culture.
While Elizabeth dismiss-es America’s consumer cul-ture as a sign of self-indul-gence, Phillip is seduced by the consistently available electricity and department-store cowboy boots. But one thing they can agree on is that they’re not particu-larly fond of the influence capitalism has had on their 13-year-old daughter, Paige (Holly Taylor).
In “The Americans’” pilot, Phillip takes Paige shopping for new sandals, only to be unsettled when she’s hit on by a much older shopper who’s already lured in one young girlfriend with the power of his credit card. And in the second episode, Paige comes down to break-fast in a new accessory, an exposed red bra strap. When Elizabeth demands to know where she got it, Paige is in-dignant. “The mall. It’s just a bra. I’m 13,” she tells her mother. “Things are dif-ferent than when you grew up. People are, like, freer.” Because she is completely unaware that her mother is a highly-trained KGB opera-
tive who was raised in the Soviet Union rather than a suburban housewife with a small business, Paige has no idea how true that re-ally is. She can’t possibly understand that her moth-er is terrified by the pros-pect that the daughter she hoped would grow up to be something other than a “regular American” is aban-doning not just childhood, but Elizabeth’s own social-ist values, lured by patent-leather blue sandals and bright red bras.
In that episode, Elizabeth ultimately admits to herself that she can’t stop Paige from growing up, but she does find a way to keep her away from the altar of 80’s capitalism — the mall. “You know how I said you could pierce your ears when you were 15,” Elizabeth says to Paige. “Do you want to do it now? I mean, you could go to the mall and you could do it with your friends. Or I could do it right now.” Red-blooded patriotic American moms and Soviet imposters may have different motiva-tions, but they all want to keep their daughters from becoming mall rats.
‘The Americans’ is all about spies,nukes — and the mall
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axes down to stu-dents not living up to the “SFa way” standards. If you claim SFa is a classy school, show it. a lot more gets done when people walk the walk and not just talk the talk.
a xes up to Valentine’s Day. If you don’t have a special someone to celebrate it with, at least be happy for those who do. Don’t be bitter, people.
axes up to the SFa men’s basketball team’s 20th win of the season. not only did we win, but the stadium was packed with fans. Way to go guys, and keep up the good work.
axes up to Greek life and those going through the process this semester. It’s a lot of hard work, but it’s completely worth it in the end. Enjoy it while it lasts, and remember that those people will be your friends for life!
I love the atmosphere and the friendships that you make and the bonds that you form with them.” —Danielle Sullivan
“I love that the ratio of average guys to foxy ladies is heavily in our favor. Thanks SFA!” —Danny Paxton
“I love the wonderful world of the Village.” —Hillary Womack
“I love how everyone works together instead of against each other. —Foster Fannin
“I love how everyone I meet at another college who wants to transfer picks SFA.” —Shabana Navrozali
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What I love about SFA...
Respect others’ majors; each is difficult in its own way
Re m e m -ber that old say-
ing: “Don’t judge a book by its cover until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes?” Wait, I don’t think that’s quite right...but it’s close enough.
Every day we see people, and we judge them. Sure, we may not mean to do it, but we do. But what’s really inconsiderate and rude of people to
do is to talk down to another student about what they’re majoring in.
I hear it all the time, people saying that their major is more difficult than any other major, or majoring in so-and-so is easy or a joke. no, just stop it right there. One, it’s incredibly pompous for a person to say that their major is much harder than all the other majors; and two: it’s insensitive, condescending and arrogant for someone to imply that a different major is easy and a waste of time.
There is no “easy” major and there is no “extremely hard, final boss, level 99” major either. Hopefully you’re majoring in some-thing you’re good at and enjoy, so then it’ll be a little easier on you.
Really, if you ever think a certain major isn’t hard, please, by all means, take a few courses. By saying that another major is easy or that you have the hardest major, not only are you giving yourself and your own major a bad name, you’ve also just made a
lot of enemies. Oh, and of course there are also the people
who say: “Yeah, well journalism isn’t a real major,” or something like that. Well, excuse me if you’re just not good at it. Just because it’s something you don’t like, doesn’t mean it’s easy. Get over yourself.
Then there’s always those lists posted on-line of “the top 10 majors to avoid” or “the top 15 useless majors” that people read. Do you know how many people actually get jobs in what they’ve majored in?
You can use your degree for a lot of dif-ferent things. James Franco has a Ph.D from Yale, Brooke Shields earned a bachelor’s de-gree in French literature from Princeton, the late Steve Jobs dropped out of college. I’m not saying that we’ll all become rich and famous or that we should drop out of college; I’m saying that in retrospect, do our majors even matter?
also, what’s the point of arguing whose major is harder than the other? Really, we’re all just trying to prove that we’re better than the other person by saying that our major is harder than theirs (which isn’t true).
I’m just tired of hearing it, tired of hearing people being so disrespectful and having the audacity to say that majoring in something is easy and a waste of time. It’s a waste of breath, time and brain cells to say or think things like that.
You don’t know that major or the people majoring in whatever you’re calling “easy,” so don’t think you know about how the classes are. Get off your high horse, come back to reality and accept that all majors are difficult in their own way.
Emily Jensen is a public relations major and is a staff writer for The Pine Log.
Staff Writer
Emily Jensen
Something startling is hap-pening in the Muslim world — and no, I don’t
mean the arab Spring or the growth of Islamic fundamental-ism. according to a leading de-mographer, a “sea change” is pro-
ducing a sharp decline in Muslim fertility rates and a “flight from marriage” among arab women.
nicholas Eberstadt, a scholar with the american Enterprise Institute, documented these findings in two re-cent papers. They tell a story that contradicts the usual pic-ture of a continuing population explosion in Muslim lands. Population is indeed rising, but if current trends continue, the bulge won’t last long.
Eberstadt’s first paper was expressively titled “Fertility Decline in the Muslim World: a Veritable Sea-Change, Still Curiously Unnoticed.” Using data for 49 Muslim-majority countries and territories, he found that fertility rates de-clined an average of 41 percent between 1975-80 and 2005-10, a deeper drop than the 33 percent decline for the world as a whole.
Twenty-two Muslim countries and territories had fer-tility declines of 50 percent or more. The sharpest drops were in Iran, Oman, the United arab Emirates, algeria, Bangladesh, Tunisia, libya, albania, Qatar and Kuwait, which all recorded declines of 60 percent or more over three decades.
Fertility in Iran declined an astonishing 70 percent over the 30-year period, which Eberstadt says was “one of the most rapid and pronounced fertility declines ever recorded in human history.” By 2000, Iran’s fertility rate had fallen to
two births per woman, below the level necessary to replace current population, according to Eberstadt and his co-author, apoorva Shah.
a July 2012 Financial Times story placed the Iranian fer-tility rate even lower and cited a U.n. report warning that Iran’s population will begin to shrink in two decades and will decline by more than 50 percent by the end of the cen-tury if current trends continue.
Big cities in the Muslim world have seen especially sharp drops. Eberstadt notes that only six states in the United States have lower rates than Istanbul. In Tehran and Isfahan, Iran, fertility rates are lower than those of any state in the United States.
Eberstadt argues that the fertility decline isn’t just a re-sult of rising incomes and economic development, though these certainly played a role: “Fertility decline over the past generation has been more rapid in the arab states than vir-tually anywhere else on earth.”
The CIa’s World Factbook reports Muslim fertility rates slightly higher than Eberstadt’s estimates but generally below those of many sub-Saharan african, latin american and asian countries.
accompanying this fertility decline is what Eberstadt calls a “flight from marriage,” which he described in a paper presented last month in Doha, Qatar. His data show that in many areas of the world, men and women are get-ting married later or remaining unmarried. Divorce rates are also rising, especially in Europe, along with the per-centage of extramarital births.
The decline of marriage in Europe is well-known but still striking: The female marriage rate fell in Germany from 0.98 to 0.59 from 1965 to 2000; it fell in France over that
period from 0.99 to 0.61; in Sweden from 0.98 to 0.49; in Britain, from 1 to 0.54.
Marriage is also plummeting in asia: In Japan, the per-centage of women between 30 and 34 who have never mar-ried rose from 7.2 percent in 1970 to 26.6 percent in 2000; in Burma, it rose from 9.3 percent to 25.9 percent; in Thailand, from 8.1 percent to 16.1 percent; in South Korea, from 1.4 percent to 10.7 percent.
Marriage rates in the arab world are higher, but they’re moving fast in the same direction. What’s “astonishing,” says Eberstadt in an e-mail explaining his findings, is that in the arab world, this move away from marriage “is by many measures already as far along as was Europe’s in the 1980s — and it is taking place at a vastly lower level of development than the corresponding flights in Europe and developed East asia.
“Something really big is under way — and practically no one has noticed it, even in the arab world,” argues Eberstadt.
These studies are a reminder that the big demographic trends shaping the world are mysterious and often over-looked. The arab world may be experiencing a youth bulge now, fueling popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and else-where. But as Eberstadt notes, what’s ahead over the next generation will probably be declines in the number of working-age adults and rapidly aging populations.
The arab countries are now struggling with what Eberstadt calls their “youthquake.” But the coming dilem-ma, he notes, is “how these societies will meet the needs of their graying populations on relatively low income levels.”
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Monday, February 11, 2013 Pine LogThe Page Five
By Kasi DickersonFeatures Editor
SFA’s Alumni Association introduced Craig Wright and Chrystina Wyatt as
Mr. and Miss SFA Saturday at halftime of the men’s basketball game.
SFA Alumni Association President Jeff Davis and SFA President Baker Pattillo joined in presenting the awards.
Family and friends of Mr. and Miss SFA also joined in the celebration.
“Winning this award is definitely the highlight of my college career, and I am truly humbled to have received this honor,” Wyatt said. “I feel very blessed to have accomplished everything I have and even more so to be selected for this esteemed title.”
Each year SFA’s Alumni Association awards the title of Mr. and Miss SFA to exemplary students who well represent and promote SFA, according to the Alumni Association website. Katy Crawford, assistant to the executive director of SFA’s Alumni Association explained the importance of the awards.
“We consider the Mr. and Miss SFA awards to be two of the most prestigious awards that a student can receive at SFA,” Crawford said. “Students who receive this esteemed honor are awarded based not only on their scholarship but also their leadership, model service and devotion to the university.”
Applicants were required to submit an application and have three references to speak on their behalf. Candidates then participated in an interview process with the selection committee.
Wright felt comfortable and confident in the interview and says he was ecstatic to make it that far.
“When I got the call that I was actually chosen, I couldn’t believe it,” Wright said. “It means everything.”
Wyatt shares the same sense of excitement.
“I was at my apartment when I got the call from Jeff Davis, executive director of the Alumni Association. I was nervous when I answered. After he told me that I was selected as Miss SFA, I was beyond excited,” Wyatt said. “I called and texted my family first. They knew how much the award meant to me, and I wanted to share the great news with my loved ones.”
Wyatt is a graduate student from
&Mr.MissSFA
Winning this award is definitely the highlight of my college career...”
Hardy Meredith/ Public Affairs PhotoMr. SFA Craig Wright of Flower Mound and Miss SFA Chrystina Wyatt of Cedar Hill were honored at halftime of the SFA men’s basketball game Feb. 9.
“- Miss SFA Chrystina Wyatt
Alumni Association recognizes exemplary students with awards
It is such an honor to be named Mr. SFA. I love the school so much.”“
- Mr. SFA Craig Wright
Cedar Hill studying i n t e r d i s c i p l i n a r y studies, kinesiology, business and human sciences. Wyatt will graduate in May with her masters degree in interdisciplinary studies.
“I plan to work in fitness at the university level and help develop college students into future professionals,” Wyatt said. “The three components in my major are all directly related to my career aspiration.”
Originally from Flower Mound, Wright is a senior graduating in May with his Bachelor of Science degree in horticulture. He plans on going into landscape design and architecture. He remembers falling in love with SFA’s campus when he first toured despite the rain and cold weather.
“It felt like home for some reason and everyone was so friendly,” Wright said. “I love SFA so much that I have applied for my master’s here because I’m not ready to leave yet.”
When selecting a college, SFA was neither Wright nor Wyatt’s first choice. Wyatt had always been familiar with the University because her grandma is from Nacogdoches and her older sister studied at SFA.
“I was a little hesitant to come here at first because my sister went here, and I wanted to make my own path,” Wyatt said. “I knew I made the right choice when I came to Freshman Orientation and got my first experience of what SFA is like. I love the campus, the people, the faculty and staff, as well as the culture here at SFA.”
While their journeys to SFA may have been different, both Wright and Wyatt felt their first dose of Lumberjack pride when at Jack Camp.
Jack Camp, even though it’s not at the University, is still part of the SFA experience. That’s where I felt the school pride immediately,” Wright said. “I really
felt a sense of belonging here.”Wyatt agrees that Jack Camp is one of her
best experiences.“I was the camper that did not want to be
there and hated the outdoors. After the first day, my attitude changed completely and I became an excited and energetic camper,” Wyatt said. “My Jack Camp mom’s spirit is what uplifted me and made me excited about Jack Camp and SFA. I wanted to give others the same experience so I was a Jack Camp Counselor up until I graduated in 2011.”
Both recipients share involvement with many facets of SFA.
Wright currently works at the Rec Center as the head lifeguard and a fitness assistant and is president of the Traditions Council, a Jack Walker and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He has also served as a Jack Camp counselor, Jack Camp student director and Orientation Leader.
“You have to get involved to enjoy and get the full college experience,” Wright said.
Wyatt also works at the Rec Center and Student Affairs-Leadership and Service. She is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Driving Jacks. She has served in Welcome
Jacks, the Freshman Leadership Academy, Campus Community Leaders of Tomorrow, Lumberjack Leadership Academy, as a Jack Camp counselor, and as the BIG Event Student Director of Operations. Also, Wyatt has worked in SFA’s Early Childhood Lab and Research Center, Orientation Programs and SFA 101.
“I was really shy before coming to college. I was not one to go up and start conversations with strangers,” Wyatt said. “Being involved in so many different areas has allowed me to enhance my confidence and leadership abilities, in ways I could have never imagined first coming into college. I now feel confident when meeting new people.”
Naming students Mr. and Miss SFA is one way the University acknowledges students in their senior year for their participation and leadership in academic and extracurricular activities, citizenship and service and loyalty to the university.
“It is such an honor to be named Mr. SFA,” Wright said. “ I love the school so much; it’s just amazing.”
• Mr. SFA Award This award was
established in honor of the late Stan McKewen, a 1934 SFA graduate.
• Miss SFA AwardThis was established
in honor of Arnodean Covin, who was named Miss SFA in 1940, 1941 and 1942.
Award History
~ Source: Alumni Association Website
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Page Six Monday, February 11, 2013
Pine LogThe
Sports
The SFA Ladyjacks (2-3) wrapped up the 2013 Kajikawa Classic with a split for the second day in a row, defeating Creighton 4-3 in the morning game before closing out the tournament with a 8-4 loss to Boise State.
SFA will be back in action on Wednesday, Feb. 13 when they travel to Austin, Texas to face the Longhorns at 6 p.m.
Cadie Weaver hit her second home run of the season and Carlie Thomas improved her individual mark to 2-0 in the circle while striking out a career-high 15 in a 4-3 Ladyjacks victory over the Creighton Bluejays Saturday morning at the Kajikawa Classic.
Weaver’s solo shot came in the sixth inning to break a 3-3 tie and proved to be the game-winner when Thomas worked around a leadoff single in the top of the seventh and finished with a complete game, her second of the season. Thomas allowed nine hits and all three runs were earned but she managed to work out of trouble all afternoon with one big strikeout after another.
After a scoreless first inning, SFA opened the scoring in the bottom of the second. Two hit batters put runners on first and second for the Ladyjacks with one out. A Bluejay error on a fielder’s choice play loaded the bases before back-
to-back singles from Rylie Chappell and Alisa Hamilton scored a single run each to put SFA out front 2-0.
The Ladyjacks added another run in the bottom of the third. After a leadoff double by Elizabeth Arana, Changstrom notched a pair of K’s but an errant Creighton throw on an error allowed Arana to score after she had just stolen third base to make it 3-0 SFA.
Creighton fought back with two runs in the top of the fourth. Alexis Cantu opened the frame with a bomb over the fence in left center to cut the lead to 3-1. Senior Sammy Snygg followed with a single and junior MaKenzie Michael reached on an SFA error to put two runners in scoring position. A single off the bat of Allender scored Snygg to make it a 3-2 SFA.
The Bluejays knotted the game at 3-3 in the top of the fifth inning. A one-out double by Blair Lowe started the rally. A double from Amy Baker drove in Lowe to tie the game. The Jays threat-ened with two runners in scoring position but
Thomas struck out two Jays to end the inning.
C h a n g s t r o m fell to 1-2 on the season by allowing all four runs, three of which were earned, on five hits and 11 strikeouts.
In the afternoon affair the Ladyjacks saw Boise State explode for eight runs over the first three innings after SFA had jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning.
After an Arana two-run double in the top of the first, the Broncos responded with two runs of their own in the bottom of the first when Tara Glover scored on
a fielder’s choice and Holly Bourke tied the game scoring on a sacrifice fly by Brittany McCray.
Boise State added four more runs in the second on an RBI single from Glover and a two-run single by Devon Bridges. One more run scored in the inning on a bases loaded walk to Sarah Barnes issued by SFA starting pitcher Angela White.
SFA added two more runs in the seventh inning on a two-run homer by Bethany Brown, her first of the season.
White took the loss in the circle to fall to 0-3 on the sea-son by allowing six runs, three of which were earned, in just one inning of work. The Broncos Kenzie Cole earned the victory in the circle for Boise State, allowing four earned runs on five hits in a complete game effort.
By John ClevelandStaff Writer
The Lumberjacks chopped down two conference oppo-nents in just three days to maintain sole possession of first place in the Southland Conference. Both games were at the
William R. Johnson Coliseum, lifting SFA’s home record to 12-0 on the season.
The first matchup was an annihilation of Central Arkansas (9-12, 4-7 SLC) on Thursday night. The 72-36 vic-tory capped off a season sweep of the Bears. Senior Taylor Smith sawed through the UCA defense, needing only 27
minutes of court time to accumulate 21 points, 8 rebounds and 3 blocks.
“I thought it was a very good defensive performance for us tonight,” SFA head coach Danny Kaspar said. “We took care of the ball well and played with good energy.”
Everyone on the roster got to see some play-ing time as Kaspar called off the dogs midway through the second half.
Desmond Haymon had a big night with 10 points and 8 rebounds while UCA ran full court press for almost the entire game.
“We knew they like to press, and it’s some-thing we prepared for all week,” Kaspar said.
Smith broke the ice with a rebound and a layup. UCA answered with a jumper to tie the game at two-all; from that point, the rout of UCA begun.
Smith had 13 points and a couple of electri-fying blocks just 10 minutes into the first half. Bostic, Haymon, Bateman, Parker and Walkup all contributed points to a lead that reached its peak at 39-14 with three minutes to play before halftime.
UCA was able to trim that lead with a 9-0 scoring run to end the half.
Uncomfortable with how they finished the first half, SFA came out in the second period firing on all cylinders. The Jacks opened with a 24-6 scoring run and held UCA scoreless for a span of 11 minutes. The 36-point margin at the final buzzer tied SFA’s all-time Southland Conference record.
“I’d like to thank all the students and towns-people for showing up,” Kaspar said.
The Jacks had just 46 hours to prepare for their next matchup against Oral Roberts (14-10, 9-3 SLC). At the time of tip-off Saturday, ORU was one game behind SFA in the conference standings. It was a physical game that tested SFA’s No. 1 ranked defense. Four Jacks scored in double figures en route to a 77-67 win.
SFA came out a little flat to start the first half. ORU hit four of its first six shots and jumped out to a 10-3 lead. However, a Hal Bateman and-one conversion followed by a saucy two-handed jam by Taylor Smith ignited a comeback. Bateman picked up a couple of
fouls early and Trey Pinkney subbed in for him. Pinkney got a quick steal and dished the rock to Smith for a layup that gave SFA a 14-13 lead.
ORU answered with a couple of foul shots to retake the lead. Pinkney then found Desmond Haymon on the wing, who swished home a three-pointer, giving SFA the lead at 17-15. That lead would stand for the rest of the game. SFA went on a 10-2 run to end the first half setting the score at 38-28.
Bateman praised Pinkney for stepping up when his num-ber was called.
“Having Trey come in and get all of those assists really got everyone going,” Bateman said.
Pinkney recorded six assists along with two steals and 3 points in the contest.
The Jacks came out strong in the second half, scoring the first three buckets. Though ORU was shooting the ball well, SFA always had an answer and kept the lead at double digits most of the half.
The Jacks were efficient throughout the night offensively, shooting 49.1 percent from the floor. It was also a solid night from downtown. SFA hit 6 of 13 three-point attempts.
Everyone was getting involved on the offensive end of the court. Taylor Smith scored 21 points, Jacob Parker scored 11, Hal Bateman scored 11 and Desmond Haymon racked up 17. Nine of Haymon’s points came from three crucial long balls he drilled.
The Jacks had to battle through foul trouble from its start-ers as Smith played the final 7:16 with four personal fouls. ORU did their best to extend the game, sending the Jacks to the line 14 times in the final three minutes, but the SFA con-verted on nine of those 14 attempts to close the game.
The win was significant in regards to the Southland Conference standings. SFA still holds the top spot in the Southland, which would make them the top seed if the Southland Conference Tournament started today. Winning the conference tournament means automatic admission to the NCAA Tournament.
“Getting that win was huge,” Parker said. “And the sweep of ORU just takes it to the next level.”
Just before tip-off Kansas, who is ranked No. 5 in the country, was knocked-off by the Oklahoma Sooners. The Lumberjacks beat OU in Norman on Dec. 18 with a score of 56-55 and OU’s win over Kansas improves SFA’s chances of making the NCAA tournament through an at-large bid, in case the Jacks don’t win the conference tournament at the end of the year.
“We were actually watching the game in the locker room,” Antonio Bostic said. “It just goes to show we can play with anyone.”
SFA’s next matchup is against conference opponent Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La. this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN3.
Smith and Co. retain top spot with win
The SFA men’s and women’s track and field team capped a successful weekend at the Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa, Saturday afternoon with three school records, and an individual title.
Junior Cass Brown-Stewart posted the Jacks’ lone record of the day when he clocked a time of 46.67 to place third in the men’s 400-meter dash. Brown-Stewart missed the individual title by 18-hundredths of a second.
Freshman Chasity Clark just missed a third school record. She posted a time of 24.66 to place fifth overall in the event. Her time was only half a second off the indi-vidual title, and seven-hundredths of a second off the school-record pace.
Although she finished outside of the overall top 10 in a very talented field, senior Lauren Smith set a new school record in the women’s 3,000-meter run. Smith clocked a time of 9:49.98 to set the new standard.
Junior Colton Ross recorded SFA’s lone individual title Saturday. He cleared a height of 17-9.00 to win the pole vault.
The team of Hampton Hawkins, Torin Crowder, Shawn Goff and Brown-Stewart posted a time of 3:11.20 to place third in the men’s 1,600-meter relay. The Ladyjacks’ 1,600-meter relay team (Dar’Keisha Tryon, Cierra Jefferson, Jessica Hatchet and Brarsheyia Simpson) also posted a third-place finish with a time of 3:43.72 - 68-hun-dredths of a second shy of a school record.
Junior Jamal Peden captured a top-five finish in the men’s triple jump. He finished the meet with a mark of 49-9.75 to finish third overall. Peden returned to the runway to record a third-place finish in the long jump (23-11.00). Sophomore Melai Carter cleared a height of 5-4.50 to finish in a three-way time for fourth in the high jump. Senior Jon Arthur was fourth in the shot put with a mark of 58-8.75. Junior Kirsten Knox was fifth in the women’s long jump with a mark of 18-6.00.
SFA returns to action Saturday, Feb. 16, when they travel to Norman, Okla., to com-pete in the JD Martin/OU Invitational.
Track and field sets even more records
Alyx McLuster/The Pine Log PhotoHal Bateman throws up an acrobatic layup against the UCA Bears on Thursday night in a blowout win of 72-36 at Johnson Coliseum.
Softball splits at Kajikawa Classic
Hardy Meredith/The Pine Log Photo