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ASU’s athletic training education program is ranked ninth on the list of top schools in America

with athletic training programs, on Ed-ucational-Portal.com.

Currently, 25 students are in the athletic training education program.

“It’s a competitive major,” professor of athletic training Amanda Wheeler said. “We only select students we feel are going to be competitive enough and challenge themselves to continue this major.”

To apply for the program, students must go through the application and interview process during their fresh-man year. Only the students who pass this process can go into the profession-al phase of the athletic training major. There are 13 sophomores, six juniors and six seniors in the program.

“There’s a huge difference in our ma-jor versus other majors,” Wheeler said. “Our program is very focused and we only have room for a limited number of students in the clinical experience.”

The clinical experience is a course which athletic training students must

See PROGRAM, page 4

Athletic Training Program ranks among best in U.S.

Ari YukiStaff Writer

General education course requirements to change; schools statewide affected

To earn a bachelor’s de-gree at ASU, only 120 cred-it hours will be required starting in fall 2012 since the Arkansas State Legis-lature passed Act 747.

The act required the Ar-kansas Higher Education Board to establish a min-imum core of courses for associate and bachelor de-grees at state universities.

Following passage of the act, the ASU General Edu-cation Committee began to debate how the ASU gen-ed core would be reduced but still meet the require-ments of the state mini-

mum core. The current core of 44

hours includes nine hours of communications, three hours of math, nine hours of fi ne arts/humanities, 15 hours of social sciences and eight hours of lab sciences. The committee plans to cut the core to 35 hours.

Sue McLarry, chair of the GEC, explained the sit-uation and what the future holds for students.

“The reason this came to the GEC is because a num-ber of degrees at ASU re-quire greater than 120 credit hours and many of them do not have elec-tives. So having to reduce the number of hours to 120 while still meeting the re-

quirements of profession-al accreditation meant we had to look at general ed-ucation and go from there,” McLarry said.

McLarry said after Act 747 went into effect July 1, the GEC has been hard at work examining core re-quirements but no formal decision has been reached. A fi nal consensus may not be reached for a while.

“After the General Ed-ucation Committee makes its fi nal decision, it has to go to the Shared Gover-nance Committee for ap-proval and must also be ac-ceptable to both the chan-cellor and the provost,” McLarry said.

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Abdullah Raslan/HeraldFourty student musicians showcased their talent at the "Swing Low" jazz concert Thursday at the Fowler Center. The concert is one of many jazz concerts planned by ASU's department of music for the Fall

season. Director of jazz studies E. Ron Horton lead the concert by directing both Lab Band and Jazz Band in 9 musical compositions. The bands next concert will be at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 in the Fowler Center.

Photo courtesy of Sarah Cash and Christine JeffreyChristine Jeffery, an exercise science graduate student of Caldwell, Ohio checks the weather forecast

at the rugby fi eld with ASU rugby player, Trey Hicks, a sports administration graduate student of Bono.

All that jazz

In Arkansas alone an estimated 430,000 peo-ple have an insuffi cient amount of food to eat.

The Food Bank of North-east Arkansas is one of six food banks in Arkansas that works to help those affected by the state’s high level of food insecurity.

According to Food Bank Development Director Vicki Pillow, Arkansas has the second highest rate of hunger in the United States.

Amber Horton, a public relations major of North Little Rock and intern at the food bank, has been spreading awareness on

campus and encouraging students to get involved.

"It’s a great way to help out in the community," Horton said. "We learn so much more about how bad the need for food is in this state, and helping with that is a great feeling."

Students can help by signing up for volunteer hours: Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. - noon and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

During these times, volunteers may sort and pack food for some of the programs such as the Se-nior Park Program, which provides food to senior citizens, or the Backpack Program, which provides children with a backpack of food every weekend.

Another way students can get involved is by doing a food drive.

Muriel Aston, a senior graphic design major of Marshall, has collected food for donation with churches and different organizations for years.

"It’s very important to help out food banks by gath-ering and donating food items," Aston said. "One of the funnest ways we have gathered food items is by trick-or-treating for cans on Halloween. "

Pillow said food drives are one of the most com-mon ways to help out.

"Sometimes we don’t even know they are doing

See BANK, page 4

Most people don’t know downtown Jonesboro’s his-toric buildings hold sto-ries of its dark past. Ev-ery weekend in October Ed Underwood and his wife Karen lead interested indi-

viduals along Main Street informing them of down-town Jonesboro’s history and ghost stories.

The Underwood’s Ghost Tour begins at The Fo-rum Theater on the cor-ner of Church and Mon-roe Street. A ghost named Charlie supposedly haunts

the theater. According to Underwood, Charlie makes his appearance in group photos taken in the the-ater. He is also seen hang-ing around the technology room and on the balcony level of the theater.

After the guests hear the history behind The Fo-

rum Theater and Char-lie, Underwood brings out his Electromagnetic Field Detector and tries to see if any spirits are present around the theater.

Sophomore criminology major of Bryant, Michelle Goodson recently went on the Ghost Tour and was

surprised when Under-wood turned on the EMF.

“When he brought out the EMF and it started beeping, I thought it was pretty cool to know that a spirit was around us,” Goodson said. “The EMF started going crazy when Mr. Underwood pointed it

around me. We moved to a few different spots around the theater just to make sure it wasn’t picking up electromagnetic energy off of something else, but the EMF would just go off around me.”

Underwood’s tour See TOURS, page 4

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The air is perfumed with cocoa puffs.

I can not walk to class without spider webs get-ting caught on my face or seeing hoodies and boots all around campus.

Finally, fall and winter are upon us.

If you are like me, dur-ing the summer you eat extremely healthy with fruits and vegetables from the farmers’ market.

My kitchen moves from the stove to the grill and I eat less portions.

However, once the tem-perature drops, I forget all about health and fill my body with delicious fatty foods to keep warm. Do as the Eskimos do.

Yet, even though fatty foods are appealing, they can bog us down and cause us to feel weak and want-ing to stay in bed all day and not go to class.

Not going to class equals failing and failing equals not graduating. So, lets eat healthy so we can grad-uate and have big boy and girl jobs.

For the mornings where you feel like you have no drive to get to class, instead of drinking a gallon of cof-fee, which is filled with fat and sugar, try eating foods with energy-boosting vita-min B.

Fruits like avocados, grapes, grapefruits, man-gos, oranges, pineapples, bananas and watermelon contain vitamin B, which releases energy from car-bohydrates.

Now you have energy without getting that mid day run to the bathroom that coffee delivers.

Also, for a midday snack while you are stuck in class, pack a variety of nuts and grains to get a little boost.

There are eight types of B vitamins that not only give you naturally healthy energy but also reduce the chance of migraines, help relieve symptoms of PMS,

speed up the process of wound healing, help im-prove memory function and help with depression.

As students, we do not only need energy in the morning but also at night because that is when most of us do our studying and homework.

So, instead of running through a fast food place or ordering a large qua-druple meat pizza with triple cheese, try cooking a dinner crammed with vita-min B.

It will be fun for you and your studying group to take part in together and, better yet, it will not cause you acne.

Vegetables with vitamin B to cook during your meal are asparagus, artichokes, broccoli, lima beans, corn and sweet potatoes.

If you are like me, I like to have bread with every meal but one way to sub-stitute for this gluten filled delight is having two sides of vegetables.

Then, cook beef, catfish, tuna, pork, chicken or tur-

key for your meat. If you are a vegetarian

like me, then try anything with eggs, goat cheese or milk, soy beans or milk, cows milk or lowfat yogurt in your main course to get protein.

Now you have ideas of what to eat before a long night of studying that will not only leave you feeling healthier but will give you the energy you need to stay awake.

So, next time you eat breakfast, lunch and din-ner, remember your new dearest friend, vitamin B.

It is the companion you need to help you get through the day with a smile because of its natu-ral energy.

Vitamin B – the study buddy you need because it helps with your memory; it is the best friend you need for helping when you are feeling down.

Davis is a senior pho-tojournalism major of Jonesboro.

“... let’s eat healthy so we can graduate and have big boy and girl jobs.”

Michelle Davis

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The world will remember him as the man in the black long-sleeved mock turtleneck, Levi’s blue jeans and his new balance 991 sneakers.

He introduced the world to a new revolutionary phone in June 2007 and re-invented what we now call the smartphone.

His personal touch gave simplicity to his products, creating a cult following of his visions.

Our generation is grateful to this man’s life work.

Steve Jobs has given us a lot to talk about; He brought us the future.

He has re-invented a lot of things that we thought couldn’t be changed.

No longer do we have to wonder what it would be like to control a device with our finger or what it would look like to have a phone that does more than just call people.

He introduced the world to an online music, book and movie store that brought consumers back to downloading music legally instead of pirating.

Through Pixar, he brought visually enchanting movies like Toy Story, Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo to life.

He is definitely one of the biggest icons of our generation.

He was adopted at the age of five and didn’t find information on his biological family until he was 27.

His interest in computers developed in high school when he worked with Hewlett Packard and befriended future Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak.

Though he dropped out of college, he went on to great successes.

While it is obvious he lived the American Dream, some might argue that his life was the American Dream.

He is living proof that no matter where you come from, you can always overcome and excel.

I think in a way, this generation needed Jobs as a role model that catered to the needs of the future rather than coming up with a quick fix.

He incorporated Product Red as a way for Apple to produce versions of their devices to give profits to charity. Since then, Apple remains Product Red’s top contributor.

With more than 342 patents that range from computers, portable devices, speakers, keyboards and user interfaces, Jobs has clearly defined himself as our generation’s Einstein.

It is important for us to look back at his life and uplift his achievements – not be sad that he is not with us anymore.

In his 56 years on Earth, he gave us an example of how to think outside the box.

I think the world would have a little less color without the inventions Jobs pushed Apple to sell.

In a interview in the Wall Street Journal in May 25, 1993, Jobs was quoted saying:

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful – that’s what matters.”

A man of his brilliance doesn’t come around often.

His vision will continue to inspire us even after he is gone.

Thank you Steve Jobs for your vision.

Raslan is a senior digital media and design major of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Jobs’ vision affected us all

In life, we encounter many rules and stipulations for how we should conduct ourselves.

Certain things we may wear, say or do may be seen as a distraction to others around us, therefore, rules surrounding these distractions have followed us since grade school.

This in turn can cause certain things we encounter later one to seem uncouth.

But, when is it ever okay to hold someone back from being who they are?

College is a place for students to express themselves – whether what they do opposes others’ views or not.

For someone to say another is wrong makes you wonder, who is to say what they are doing isn’t right?

College is a chance to start over fresh. Moving to a new place where no one knows about you is liberating and can lead to great things.

However, holding someone back from their true self is the kind of criticism and judgment that leads people to destructive things.

When people are down on themselves, they look to other sources to feel better, whether it be alcoholism, drug use, cutting, etc.

It is important to remember that no one likes to be judged so, why would we judge other people?

Whether you agree with how people live their lives or not should not be a priority.

Showing respect for everyone around us, however, should.

We are all students from all walks of life so, saying one person or group shouldn’t be allowed to express themselves and what they are proud of is a little much.

We are all paying to be at ASU. We should all be allowed the chance at a good

college experience.

“Our View” is written by the editorial staff. The opinions are not necessarily reflective of the student body, faculty or administration of Arkansas State University.

“He is living proof that no matter where you come from, you can

always excel.”Abdullah Raslan

Letter to the editor:

I live in Paragould and was traveling home from Jonesboro one night.

My tire became flat just north of Brookland.

It was very cloudy and dark. After putting the car flashers on,

a white truck pulled over and four very sweet young men hopped out.

They changed the tire and would not take money.

They said, “our payment is that you will help someone else when they need it”.

Their names are Rhett Morphis,

Broc Arender, Josh Creel and Bud Bisswanger.

All of them are ASU students. They were so polite and

courteous. They restore my faith that there

are still some great young men who set out to do good for others.

Thanks again, guys.

- Judy Lambert, administrative assistant at Crowley’s Ridge College.

ASU students pay it forward

SPORTS

ASU Press Release

Mariana Rong, Janie Nowland and Biljana Milo-shevska each won their flights on the final day of play at the ASU Red Wolf Invitational at Allen Park on Sunday.

In all, the Red Wolves’ won three first place titles and one first place double’s title.

The team also took two second place finishes in sin-gles play and a third place finish. In doubles play the team added a second and third place finish as well.

This was a successful tournament for us,” ASU tennis coach Marina En-gelbrecht said.

I loved the way our girls competed in every match. Their desire and determi-nation to win was great to watch today.”

The top flight of the sin-gle’s bracket featured an all ASU final with fresh-men Mariana Rong and Tamara Slijepcevic facing one another.

Slijepcevic won the first set against her teammate but dropped the next two to give Rong a 6-7, 6-2, 6-3 victory.

This was Rong’s first, first-place title since join-ing the Red Wolves. She

finished third in the top flight of the KU Invitation-al earlier this year.

Nowland, a native of Buda, Texas, won the sec-ond flight with a 7-6(2), 6-3

victory over Ashley Canty of Murray State.

This was Nowland’s sec-ond singles title of her ca-reer.

Miloshevska also won

first place in the third flight after defeating Mur-ray State’s Carla Suga 4-6, 6-1, 6-0 in the finals.

Ioana Teu finished sec-ond in the fourth flight af-ter losing to Murray State’s Carolyn Huerth 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 in the finals.

Freshmen Jess Heeps-Erisken also finished third in the flight by defeating Central Arkansas’ Allison Hartman 6-0, 6-4.

Ceara Howey finished second in the fifth flight af-ter losing to UCA’s Sasha Ruocco 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 Sun-day afternoon.

The final in the top flight of the doubles draw also featured an all ASU final.

The team of Teu/Rong defeated Nowland/Milo-shevska 8-5 to bring home the title.

In the second flight the pairing of Howey/Heeps-Eriksen finished third af-ter defeating Western Ken-tucky 8-1 in the third-place game

The ASU tennis team will return to the courts Oct. 20-23 in Tulsa, Okla., for the Regional Tourna-ment.

The Red Wolves will con-clude their fall season Nov. 4-6 in Houston, Texas for the Houston Invitational.

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Red Wolves out last ULM

ASU Press Release

Arkansas State senior wide receiver Dwayne Frampton set a school re-cord with 13 receptions and the Red Wolves over-came a 13-10 halftime defi-cit to defeat the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks 24-19 in Sun Belt Conference ac-tion Saturday night at Ma-lone Stadium.

With the win, ASU im-proved to 4-2 overall and 2-0 in SBC action while ULM slipped to 1-4 on the season and 0-1 in league play.

Frampton’s 13 recep-tions were good for a ca-reer-high 147 yards and a touchdown; all coming from quarterback Ryan Ap-lin who completed 27-of-43 passes on the night for 261 yards and a touchdown.

The Red Wolves scored 14 unanswered points in the second half to take a 24-13 lead with 13:51 re-maining, then held on as ULM scored with just un-der three minutes to play and threatened again in the final minute.

Arkansas State’s second-half scoring was sparked when junior Don Jones blocked a ULM punt and returned it 25 yards for a touchdown late in the third quarter.

Arkansas State took a 7-0 lead with 4:41 re-maining in the first quar-ter when freshman run-ning back Frankie Jackson scored on a three-yard run.

Jackson’s touchdown run wrapped up an 11-play drive that covered 78 yards.

The Warhawks coun-tered with a 41-yard touch-down pass from quarter-back Cody Wells to wide out Brent Leonard less than 30 seconds later.

ULM then took a 10-7 lead on a 25-yard field goal from place kicker Justin Manton with 14:13 remain-ing in the second quarter.

Manton added anoth-er 25-yarder with 3:36 re-maining in the period to give ULM a 13-7 advan-tage, before ASU used a 30-yard field goal from Bri-an Davis with 17 seconds

remaining in the half to cut the gap to 13-10 at the break.

The Red Wolves then got big plays in all three phas-es of the game to stretch their lead to 24-13 early in the fourth quarter.

Jones’ punt block with 4:01 remaining in the third quarter gave the Red Wolves a 17-13 lead, and a 51-yard interception re-turn from senior Kelcie McCray set up a 44-yard touchdown pass from Aplin to Frampton with 13:51 re-maining in the game.

The Warhawks cut the ASU lead to 24-19 with 2:53 remaining when quar-terback Kolton Brown-ing passed complete for a touchdown to wide receiv-er Leonard from 11 yards out.

The two-point conver-sion failed when Arkansas State defensive lineman Dorvus Woods deflected Browning’s pass attempt at the line of scrimmage.

After Arkansas State failed to pick up a first down on it’s next posses-sion, ULM took over at the

Warhawk 19 with 1:55 to play and drove as far as the ASU 27 before turning the ball over on downs, allow-ing the Red Wolves to run out the clock and seal the win.

Defensively, the Red Wolves were led by junior cornerback Chaz Scales with a career-high 10 tack-les.

McCray intercepted two passes on the night; cor-nerback Darryl Feemster added another pick off.

Safety A.J. Hills add-ed nine tackles and a fum-ble recovery for the Red Wolves and linebackers Nathan Herrold and De-mario Davis each added eight tackles, with Davis registering a quarterback sack as well.

The Red Wolves will now return to Jonesboro, where they will host Flor-ida International in a na-tionally-televised Sun Belt Conference clash set for Oct. 18.

Kickoff for the Tuesday night ESPN2 telecast is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.

ASU Sports InfoFreshman running back Frankie Jackson evades a Louisiana - Monroe defender during a play Saturday at Malone Stadium. Jackson ran six times

for 16 yards and one touchdown while also catching one pass for 40 yards. Jackson returned after missing last week due to an ankle injury.

Lady Red Wolves dominate in ASU tennis Invitational

Abdullah Raslan/HeraldSenior Cayla Fielder watches a battle at the net between junior Kearney

Allison and a North Texas player Saturday at the HPESS.

Meredith ScottStaff Writer

Arkansas State Red Wolves volleyball finished a five-match home stand undefeated when they beat North Texas Saturday night at the HPESS cen-ter.

The Red Wolves beat the Pioneers in three sets, 25-21, 25-22, and 25-12. The win makes Arkansas State 6-1 in the conference and 15-6 overall. The Red Wolves have a 16-14 lead in the series’ 30 meetings.

The last time ASU played North Texas at home, the Mean Green won in five sets. The Red Wolves weren’t going to let that happen again; It was time for revenge.

The sets got off to the same start as Friday night against Denver. In the first two, the leads went back and forth, with a team ahead by one, or two points.

When needed, ASU was able to put a halt on North Texas’ efforts and win.

The third-set win came with much ease for the Red Wolves. By the time ASU had scored 20-points, the Mean Green only had eight. Arkansas State only al-lowed North Texas to score another four-points before taking the match win.

“After the first set was

done, we hit 0.429 and they hit 0.278. [I asked] why wasn’t the [lead] big-ger? They [North Texas] were killing just as many balls as we did,” Arkansas State head coach Justin In-gram said.

“At the end, it goes down to averages. As the match went along, they got worse and as the match went along, we got better and stayed above the .200s,” In-gram continued.

Key players for the Red Wolves included senior middle Cayla Fielder with 12 kills, putting her one kill away from tying eighth place on the all-time kills list.

Junior outside hitter Jas-mine Terry had 10 kills and sophomore middle Ash-ley Tipps had eight. Junior setter Allison Kearney had 34 assists and 12 digs and sophomore libero Megan Baska had 11 digs.

ASU has now won 11 of their last 12 matches dat-ing back to Sept. 10.

The Red Wolves will travel to Little Rock where they will play the Universi-ty of Arkansas-Little Rock at 7 p.m. Friday.

Before returning home on Oct. 28 to play Louisi-ana Lafayette, ASU will play Florida Internation-al at Miami on Oct. 21 and Florida Atlantic at Boca Raton on Oct. 23.

Red Wolves show Nor th Texas who is mean in three-set sweep

Ashley Helliwell/HeraldSophomore Janie Nowland prepares to serve during the ASU Invitational at

Allen Park Saturday. Nowland won her second singles title of her career over Ashley Canty of Murray State.

ASU wins back-to-back road games for first time in 26 years

Hat Trick

Abdullah Raslan/Herald Sophomore defender Alex Furr fights with a Louisana-Monroe

player for the ball while senior foreward Meghan Mace looks on Sunday at the ASU Soccer Complex. The Red Wolves defeated ULM 5-0 to improve their record on the season to 5-7-2. It was the second straight shutout win for the Red Wolves, which was fueled by a three goal performance by sophomore forward Tory Pitts. The Lady Red Wolves will next play at 7 p.m. on Friday at South Alabama.

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complete other than tra-ditional courses and labs. Six clinical experiences are required in the program, and each experience con-sists of 200 to 210 hours per semester. This is about 15 to 20 hours per week.

In clinical experiences, students are sent to athlet-ic teams, local high schools, smaller colleges and other clinics.

Wheeler said the pur-pose for this course is that students are actually get-ting to use the skills they learned in the traditional lectures and lab courses.

Melissa Lachanski, a ju-nior athletic training ed-ucation major of Albany, N.Y., goes to Paragould High School to take care of the football team for her clinical experience.

She said when football players get injured, she as-sesses their injuries and helps them get better.

“We work hands on. It’s a lot of fun,” Lachanski said.

Christine Jeffery of Caldwell, Ohio, also said she enjoys the athletic training program at ASU. Although she is a gradu-ate student majoring in ex-ercise science, her under-graduate degree is in ath-

letic training, and now she is working with the ASU Rugby Club as a graduate assistant athletic trainer.

“Working with the rug-by [club] is supplying me with a lot of experience in the profession in which I am working, which is ath-letic training,” Jeffery said. “I greatly enjoy work-ing with the team, because I have developed a love for the sport and understand the type of athletes that it possesses.”

Wheeler also said that students going through the program have the opportu-nity to learn from the Na-tional Athletic Trainers’ Association and its mem-bers, including hall of fame member and ASU head athletic trainer, Ron Car-roll.

“I think that’s fun and a nice addition to the attrac-tive view of our program,” she said. “There are a lot more interactions between professors and students in the program because it’s such a small group.”

Athletic training ma-jors also have many job op-tions.

“Athletic training can take you to just about any-where you want to go,” Wheeler said.

She also said students who graduate from ASU with an athletic training degree can work with some professional sports teams, universities, high schools, physical therapy clinics and some will even go on to medical school.

ASU alumnus Heath Lamb of Jonesboro, works at Paragould High School as a certified athletic train-er, and credits the athlet-ic training program for his success.

“The ASU AT program opened doors for me and taught me much of what I needed to know to become an athletic trainer,” Lamb said.

Lamb said ASU was the only school in Arkansas that had an undergradu-ate athletic training pro-gram when he got his de-gree.

“ASU’s program is strong academically in the fact that students have core classes focusing on anato-my, evaluation of athletic injuries, rehabilitation of athletic injuries and ther-apeutic modalities for ath-letic injuries,” ASU alum-nus, Chad Sturkie of Par-agould, said.

He is an athletic train-er at ASU who works with

the men’s basketball team and the men’s and wom-en’s golf team.

Sturkie also said these classes, combined with valuable clinical experi-ence from interacting with the sports offered by ASU, allows for an athletic train-ing student to be very mar-ketable when entering the job field.

Wheeler said the ath-letic training program re-ceived accreditation in 1999 through the Commis-sion on Accreditation of Al-lied Health Education Pro-grams and has transferred accreditation over to the Commission on Accredita-tion of Athletic Training Education.

“[Our] athletic training major is one of the only ac-credited programs in the region,” Wheeler said. She added, since there are only seven entry-level programs in the state of Arkansas, the ASU athletic training major has students from all over the nation.

“Requirements and time commitments are tremen-dous compared to oth-er majors across campus,” Wheeler said. “We expect students to be focused and responsible.”

Abdullah Raslan/HeraldNonie Wiggins, assistant professor of nursing, spoke at

the Faculty Senate meeting on Friday at 3 p.m. about the success of the athletics department academically. Faculty Senate also discussed researching the use of iPads in classrooms and use of ASU’s funding toward the university.

Faculty Senate

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“We have made some de-cisions, but realized that they will not be final until it goes through the whole process.”

One change in the new minimum core is the three required hours of U.S. his-tory or American govern-ment will not be included in social sciences.

Another difference be-tween the new core and the current requirements is the elimination of the health and wellness category.

“The GEC has a real con-cern about that, since Ar-kansas’s health and well-ness ranks toward the bot-tom throughout the United States,” McLarry said.

The committee will make some recommendations as to how the university can help students, faculty and staff improve health and wellness, McLarry said.

Critical thinking and global awareness catego-

ries also will be eliminated from the core.

The committee is look-ing for ways to integrate them among other cours-es, such as reclassifying them as electives or mak-ing them requirements for various degree programs.

“We hope to have the fi-nal general education re-quirement plan finalized during the next meeting because we need to move on to the associate’s degree requirements, but I’m not sure if that will happen,” McLarry said. “We would be remiss about our obli-gations and responsibility as a committee if we just went in and made a quick decision on something like this.”

At the earliest, the changes would affect fall 2012 freshmen, McLarry said.

The core changes will not affect ASU students al-

ready with degree plans. “It’s important for stu-

dents to realize that even though these changes are being made, they are al-ready in a system and they are not going to have to change or backtrack be-cause they are already un-der a bulletin,” McLarry said.

Colleges and depart-ments determine curricu-lum requirements for de-gree programs, with the general education curricu-lum as the foundation.

“I think the committee as a whole feels that gen-eral education is important in the education of any col-lege student,” McLarry said. “We have had a strong general education curric-ulum and we are working to keep it strong,” McLar-ry said.

EDUCATION, CONTINUEDcontinues down Main Street revealing historic facts about the buildings and the ASU Convocation Center.

“Buildings don’t have to be 150 years old to have a good ghost story behind them,” Underwood said. “The Convo, built in 1987, is said to be haunted.”

The Convocation Cen-ter is said to have ‘faces in the mirrors’ that act like maids and butlers to rest-room guests.

The tour also includes stories about a girl in St. Bernard’s Hospital, three

ghosts haunting Church Street Station and the sto-ry behind Jonesboro’s most famous ghost Augusta Elli-son.

Underwood is the author of “Haunted Jonesboro” and “Bizarrkansas.” He is also an award winning ma-gician and entertainer. He said a lot of research went into the tour.

“He is very active with his stories, and the way he tells the stories will leave you with goose bumps,” Goodson said.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased on the Spe-

cial Occasions Entertain-ment website or with cash on the tour night.

The group meets at The Forum Theater every Thursday, Friday, Satur-day and Sunday in Octo-ber. Each tour begins at 7 p.m. and ends around 8:30 p.m.

“This ghost tour is not like a Scooby Doo episode,” Underwood said. “No one is going to pop out with a mask on and scare any-one. This tour is designed to inform people about the history and mystery of Jonesboro.”

anything until they deliver the food, which is always a nice surprise for us,” she said.

The Northeast Arkansas Food Bank delivers food to about 5,100 people each week in 12 counties: Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett, Randolph, St.

Francis and Woodruff. The food bank, with the

help of different churches and organizations, distrib-uted 2.6 million pounds of food in 2010, but this only helps a fraction of those in need in Arkansas.

“It’s sad to know that our neighbors are going hungry,” Aston said. “If we would all work together,

we could stop hunger in Ar-kansas, the United States and the world.”

For more information call: 932-FOOD (3663) or visit the Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas web-site: http://foodbankofnea.org/.

The Northeast Arkansas Food Bank is at 3406 South Culberhouse Rd.

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