Black History Minute Finally! In the year 2009 we can finally say we have a black president, and not just any president. A president with a name that you know when you say “Barack Obama” you can expect to see a brother emerge from the deep, dark woods of Africa with a spear in hand, not a tall, handsome man with a suit. So how did we, as Americans, get to the point where we could finally say you know it doesn't matter what race he is as long as he is qualified? Years from now, (some hope 2012) it probably doesn’t matter sex they are, and to some, mostly the “Govenator” from Calinfornia, it won’t matter what nationality he/she is. Yeah sorry “Arnauld” you are going to have to wait a bit longer for that one. I think for this moment we should thank the historical figures of the past that help made this happen. George W. Bush is first on the list for obvious reasons, but other from our rich history of African Americans should be thanked. Yes, we should thank MLK, Malcolm, Frederick Douglass, myself (obviously), Harriett Tubman, Ray Charles, the NBA, etc. But there is one man we should not forget, one man whose actions made it possible for Barack Obama to become the first black president. That man is of course, the one, the only, Cincinnatus. Who is Cincinnatus, you ask? No, he is not the guy who is the cereal cartoon mascot of Cinnamon Toast Crunch (his name is Wendell), but only the most important name probably not only in black history, but history itself, outside of one notable exception. Now there is no known knowledge of Cincinnatus being African American. As a matter of fact, that isn’t any at all because he was a white male, but his actions back during his time helped break the barrier for Obama to overcome. Just how can Cincinnatus Continued on page 3 By: Booker T. Washington page Volume 6, Issue 5 Middle Name Pride Day March 6, 2009 Angelo State’s Finest Paper Since Fall 2006 Picture of the week I am the walrus
I am the walrus By: Booker T. Washington Malcolm, Frederick Douglass, myself (obviously), Harriett Tubman, Ray Charles, the NBA, etc. But there is one man we should not forget, one man whose actions made it possible for Barack Obama to become the first black president. That man is of course, the one, the only, Cincinnatus. Angelo State’s Finest Paper Since Fall 2006 Volume 6, Issue 5 Middle Name Pride Day March 6, 2009
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Black History Minute Finally! In the year 2009 we can finally say we have a black president, and not just any president. A president with a name that you know when you say “Barack Obama” you can expect to see a brother emerge from the deep, dark woods of Africa with a spear in hand, not a tall, handsome man with a suit. So how did we, as Americans, get to the point where we could finally say you know it doesn't matter what race he is as long as he is qualified? Years from now, (some hope 2012) it probably doesn’t matter sex they are, and to some, mostly the “Govenator” from Calinfornia, it won’t matter what nationality he/she is. Yeah sorry “Arnauld” you are going to have to wait a bit longer for that one. I think for this moment we should thank the historical figures of the past that help made this happen. George W. Bush is first on the list for obvious reasons, but other from our rich history of African Americans should be thanked. Yes, we should thank MLK,
Malcolm, Frederick Douglass, myself (obviously), Harriett Tubman, Ray Charles, the NBA, etc. But there is one man we should not forget, one man whose actions made it possible for Barack Obama to become the first black president. That man is of course, the one, the only, Cincinnatus. Who is Cincinnatus, you ask? No, he is not the guy who is the cereal cartoon mascot of Cinnamon Toast Crunch (his name is Wendell), but only the most important name probably not only in black history, but history itself, outside of one notable exception. Now there is no known knowledge of Cincinnatus being African American. As a matter of fact, that isn’t any at all because he was a white male, but his actions back during his time helped break the barrier for Obama to overcome. Just how can C i n c i n n a t u s
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By: Booker T. Washington
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Volume 6, Issue 5 Middle Name Pride Day
March 6, 2009
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Picture of the week
I am the walrus
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“Everything that you take with that device ends up in that damn rag on Friday mornings”
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Knowing Knature By: D’ino I’talles
Many people don’t seem to un‐derstand that science leads sci‐ence fiction, and not the other way around. Most good science fiction writers tend to study the latest scientific journals for weeks before writing another episode of Star Trek or even for a game like Red Alert 3. True, plenty of the material is born out of fantasy and may be forever doomed to
stay that way. However, the rest is often very new and real science that has not reached a more mainstream application. Take antimatter for example. There’s a lot of mystery and speculation around the idea of antimatter in science fiction. But depending on whether you are a fan of science or an actual scien‐tist, you may be disappointed or fascinated by the truth. Antimat‐ter is merely a label that we put to our equations once we realized that the square root of a squared number gives both positive and
negative values. We are all famil‐iar with the positive value (matter), and we rarely ever no‐tice the negative value (antimatter). The trouble is, sometimes we don’t immediately know which particle to call “matter” and which to call the corresponding “antimatter.” So what’s so special about anti‐matter? It is identical to regular
matter, but the charge is oppo‐site. So a posi‐tron, or anti‐electron, has the
same mass as an electron but it has a
positive charge. An anti‐proton has the same mass as a proton but
it has a negative charge. Does that sound as amazing as you had hoped? At least the fun
part comes when a particle meets its own antiparti‐cle. The energy released by half a gram of antimatter is equal to about ten atomic bombs. In fact, one of the things we still don’t have a complete theory for is why there is so much matter and so little antimatter. It seems like there should be equal amounts of both, but that would mean the conditions for our existence would fail with a brilliant flash of light. An interesting question someone once asked me is “Can we see antimatter?” Yes you can. Anti‐
matter chemistry works exactly like regular chemistry. It is possi‐ble to make anti‐hydrogen with an anti‐proton and an orbiting positron. To backtrack a little bit, I must first address how we can “see” regular matter. You can see something when you shine a light on it. Within the material, elec‐trons absorb the energy from the light and then reemit the light as they fall back to lower energy levels or oscillate. So “seeing” an atom is actually observing the light given off by an accelerated charge. Antimatter has acceler‐ated charges as well, so you can “see” it just the same. By the way, you can even make anti‐water with two parts anti‐hydrogens and one part anti‐oxygen, but I suggest you don’t drink it. Why would antimatter be useful? Well as I mentioned before, you can get a lot of energy out of it. If a kilogram of coal can run a light bulb for 8 hours, a kilogram of uranium can run it for 30 t h o u s a n d years, and a kilogram of ant imatter can run the same light bulb for 60 m i l l i o n years. Now
you can understand why the En‐terprise travels through the gal‐axy on matter and antimatter. But we are still centuries away from that kind of technology. Today, we use collisions between particles and antiparticles to study the smallest building blocks of the universe. We have found quarks, neutrinos, muons, tauons, intermediate vector bos‐ons, and many exotic particles that we would never have been aware of otherwise. The LHC opened recently in the hopes to discover the origins of mass in the standard model, and not to destroy the Earth. The kinds of reactions we will study have happened safely throughout the galaxy for billions of years. The truth is we’re frustrated that science is so far behind science fiction fantasy.
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and Obama relate to each other, Booker T.? I’ll tell you as I drop some college knowledge on
you. Just like Obama, Cincinnatus was a political figure who was called to help lead his country from the political mess it was in and lead it out of an ongoing war. Cincinnatus also had curly hair, like most black people when they are born. What makes Cincinnatus a legend is that when asked to go serve his country he did. He just dropped his plow in the field and went. I think that as a tribute to Cincinnatus, Obama should go get a plow from Wal‐Mart or some store, rent a mule, and just start plowing away on the front lawn of the White House just to do it. Then, in Cincinnatus form, just leave it and go work on being our president. Or tell Biden to finish; it doesn’t matter, you’re the president now. This is Booker T. Washington.
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Winter 1995, Michigan
During the ski season at Sugarloaf Resort, a new lift operator was assigned to work the bottom of Lift 2. He was greatly impressed by the bull wheel that turned slowly above his head. The giant spokes on the wheel were impossible to resist. He grabbed onto a spoke and did a few
pull‐ups while the wheel turned.
After entertaining himself in this manner for a while, he decided to try this trick on the outer rim of the wheel. His timing was off. He did not drop down in time. Caught between the wheel and the lift cable, he was sliced in twain during this fateful final trip around the bull wheel.
Darwin Awards This morning I had an epiphany. I had not been able to sleep but I was not hungry in the wee hours of the morning. All of a sudden I began to feel a sharp stabbing pain in my stomach! I could not even move, it felt like a knife had pierced my abdomen and any attempt to move resulted in sharp unbearable pain. I had no clue what was wrong, these were not hunger pains, and as far as I know I did not have a tumah. I wondered to myself how I could go about remedying the problem, and then I suddenly had a brain hurricane storm, well more like a troipcal storm because I went with the first thing I thought of. I remembered that my box of Honey Nut Cheerios was sitting atop the refrigerator, and it said something about being able to lower your cholesterol. Now, I am no House, but I am pretty sure
that if it can lower your cholesterol it can fix other things too. So I took the box off the shelf, ripped the top open in a fit of panic, got a bowl, poured Cheerios into it and poured some milk onto it. Every minute was critical, I could feel my life slipping before my very eyes. The sweat beaded off my forehead as I carefully grabbed my precision instrument for this vital operation, a spoon. I dug it into the milky cereal and after a few bites, lo and behold my unbearable stomach pain was gone. Now granted, I can't completely attribute the success of my stomach healing to the Cheerios, because I did have a Nutri‐grain bar. With more research, who knows what kind of medical applications and remedies Cheerios could be used for.
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Pragmatic Patsy Dear Pragmatic Patsy, I find myself increasingly annoyed by the ignorance of my peers. I understand that being accepted at Angelo State is not an incredible feat, but I still find myself wondering how a few people managed the task. (Yes woman, Sigmund and Freud are the SAME PERSON. No, guy in cap, the north star DOES NOT rise in the south...?!) I would appreciate some advice on how to deal with these ignoramuses, and make it through the semester without hurling my notebook at those who would be too confused to duck.
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Dear Stymied Student, Many folks run into your problem here at ASU. Those who don’t should probably evaluate why that is…i.e., per‐haps it is because you are “those people” who others are annoyed by. The comforting thing is, there is always some‐one in one of you classes who knows less and makes worse grades. So you can snuggle with that comforting thought tonight as you wrangle with your issues and try to fall asleep. Yes, entrance into ASU is not a major accomplishment. The most depressing thing about this dilemma is many of the ignorant peers you mentioned are going to graduate, and will have the same degree you have, and thus appear to be equally qualified. Just something to
think about. A cheery thought to keep in your pocket. Dealing with it involves under‐standing your own ignorance. You probably overestimate your knowledge. Most college students do. Particular situa‐tions require different methods of dealing with people. Explain‐ing things to them in your own words rather than having them ask the professor the same question five times might help to move things along. Also, don’t be around them if you don’t have to. Stay away from the UC, and when in the labs go to quiet rooms so you don’t have to deal with the drama. (For some reason, people can’t figure out the automatic stapler…) Talk to them at their level without being (noticeably) condescending or patronizing. Sometimes, this can be a form of entertainment, so you should thank them for providing that to you. One thing you may encounter as you progress on your degree is the thinning out of the students who drive you crazy, and then in upper‐level classes you will notice that some people are smarter than you thought, and now you have to actually deal with competition as far as grades (when a curve is in‐volved). So don’t get too cocky. As a wise person said “I was tryin’ to be cocky and look where it got me!” also: “We all shall fall.”
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Hello ASU Campus. We are just 2 fabulous weeks away from SPRING BREAK! I really enjoyed this week’s movie for my review. The reasons for this are that it b r o u g h t u p memories of my childhood as well as allowed me to connect to my inner nerd, not that I need reason to do either one of those but the nostalgia is nice all the same. Our movie this week my loyal readers is Street Fighter: Rise of Chun‐Li.
This film is an origins story of Chun‐Li as well as origins story for most of the Street Fighter universe and story that fans know. However, if you are not
familiar with the games, anime or manga series of Street Fighter do not worry for this movie does a good job to
e s t a b l i s h a n understanding of what generally known by others. The movie is very action packed and the martial art scenes are performed well. Now, some of what happens is not realistic but is true to the original story of
Street Fighter, i.e. shooting fire‐balls from the hands and some gravity defying moves. Fans do not fret for the story is true to what you know and respects what you hold near and dear to your hearts. I stand by this movie and give 14 Rammys and exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!