The Herald for Sept. 13

Yuri Shimizu | Staff PhotographerStaff Senate President David McKinney shows the members of the Student Government Association the

places on a campus map that will eventually have parking available to ASU students.

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Let’s get political

Student Republicans and Democrats rally during election year

Alex Hernandez | Staff PhotographerThe Young Democrats meet in the Student Union discussing plans for their first year back on

campus.

Alex Hernandez | Staff PhotographerASU’s College Republicans make calls and answer phones at the Republican Campaign Headquar-

ters in Downtown Jonesboro.

As elections near, two candidates that stand on opposite sides of almost every controversial top-

ic continue to battle for votes across the nation. At Arkansas State University, two groups that stand behind each candidate have a very important job ahead of them in the upcoming weeks. One of these groups is the College Republicans, led by President Deane Marks, a junior Econom-ics and Pre-Law major of De Witt.

Marks, along with Vice President Shel-by Walker, Secretary Tess Wheetley and Treasurer Lisha Earheart will lead the College Republicans on campus this up-coming election season. The group as of now stands at around 75 members.

“Our first goal is to increase political awareness at ASU, also to promote con-servative values and ideals to students and to help local candidates reach office,” Marks said.

Wheetley said she had similar goals for the group.

“I want our group to get more students involved on campus, last year there was only six or seven of us, this year we want

to expand more and start educating peo-ple about the Republican Party,” Wheet-ley, a junior psychology major of Advance, Mo., said.

“Students should vote, because if no one votes we are not making much use of the government we have,” Wheetley said. “Students should vote because they are the future. We need to educate ourselves about the people that will affect us in the future.”

“Our organization is committed to working hard for all Republicans seeking office in NEA,” Marks said. “To do that, the group plans to go door to door and hold tailgating parties to show support for local Republican candidates.

Along with volunteer work for local candidates, the group also plans to have voter registration drives on campus this October to ensure there are as many ASU voters as possible this election year.

Even though no one in the group was able to attend the Republican National Convention held in Florida recently, the group plans to stand behind their nomi-nee in the following weeks and show full

After a four-year absence, Young Democrats has made its way back to Arkansas State Univer-

sity. With major elections in the following

weeks, the group, led by freshman Cody Jackson, an international business major of Swifton, plans to make sure students become more aware of politics that affect them and the country.

“I think that people from the group started getting smaller and smaller and so after everyone graduated there was no one left,” said Jackson explaining why the group disbanded several years ago.

With the elections ahead, he decided to take the reigns and start the group again. Jackson, Vice President Logan Bushong, Secretary Emily Hill and Treasurer Jessica Seager said they plan to lead the group this semester, which has around 33 members with spots open for other positions within the group.

“I think our main goal is that we want to set contrasts between President Obama and Romney, Democrats and Republicans, College Republicans and the Young Dem-

ocrats,” Jackson said. “This year almost every issue is divisive, no gray area, and we’re going to define that choice. ”

“I expect to get things started and to get students to join our group,” Hill said, a ju-nior English education major of Bigger.

Hill said she is also excited to get things up and running for the group.

“It is important that students vote be-cause people that they vote for impact things that happen in their lives and it is important that they are the ones that make that decision,” Hill said. “Students, as well as Americans, should take advantage of voting because people in other countries don’t get the chance. We have people here that are fighting for their chance to have a voice.”

The group’s plans also include cookouts, coffeehouse days and regularly scheduled meetings.

“We are going to other groups’ meet-ings and reaching out to them. It’s very important that we do that,” Jackson said. “We’ll also have candidates come and talk to members of the group and we’ll host events and parties in Jonesboro. ”

ALEX HERNANDEZSTAFF WRITER

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Staff Senate President and Parking Ser-vices Director David McKinney showed the SGA members a map of the parking that will be available to ASU students in the near fu-ture at their meeting on Tuesday.

“This parking lot should be completed by the end of the semester, according to the contractors,” McKinney said about the area under construction on Banks Street by the Greek housing construction site. “That is go-ing to be primarily commuter parking.”

McKinney also mentioned that the park-ing behind the nursing building would be big-ger after construction.

“That probably won’t be ready until the whole construction project is done,” McKin-ney said.

McKinney also said there will be more commuter parking after construction is fin-ished.

“At the Convocation Center, sections F

through G are open for commuter parking,” McKinney said. “It’s available thanks to the folks of the Convocation Center for the re-mainder of construction.”

Commuter parking is also available by the military science center.

“It used to belong to the National Guard but it is now open for commuter parking,” McKinney said. “Students can access it from many directions on campus.”

The parking deck generates money during the semester from students, faculty, and staff members who pay for parking in the garage.

“The parking garage is made out of con-crete and steel. Sooner or later, with all the weather changes we have here, deterioration will start to occur,” he said. “The money is going to address maintenance issues for the parking deck over the next five years.”

McKinney said that although additions to the parking deck won’t be made right away, they are planning on getting the parking deck to grow over the next twenty years.

McKinney talks commuter parking with SGATANYA GIRALDO

STAFF WRITER

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Our View

The election is now less than three months away, and the narrative over economic issues has never seemed narrower.

Ominous warnings about the dangers of defi-cits have found their niche as the primary posturing tool for candidates.

Political commentators on both sides use threats of looming bond runs on the U.S. debt as a way to solidify their seriousness in the mind of viewers.

The focus of the media and Washington seems to have shifted from job cre-ation to deficit reduction, a move that in our current situation is completely counterintuitive.

The harm done by a lack of labor demand is real and terrible, while the impact from deficits to a nation like America is negligible.

This may seem shock-ingly at odds with ‘com-

mon sense,’ but it’s a posi-tion that’s far from fringe economics. Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz have analyzed the popular mis-conceptions about debt, and have made a compel-ling case for continued and increased govern-ment stimulus as long as the economy remains de-pressed.

It should first be noted that while much of the media will tell you the US debt level is unprecedent-ed, this is a claim that is made with significant and intentional miscalcula-tion.

The U.K., Japan and even the U.S. have all his-torically maintained much higher levels of debt when compared to GDP than the United States current-ly does.

When measured this way, as honest economists do, the debt that the U.S. accrued during WWII was much higher in regards to our GDP than our current deficit. And how did we pay off this massive debt? Well, the short answer is

that we didn’t. After the war, the U.S

ran a relatively balanced budget for twenty years.

With natural growth in GDP and inflation, the U.S. literally outgrew its debt.

This never really seems to shake the deficit hawks, because they claim the U.S. cost of borrowing will skyrocket any day if we don’t curb our spending habits!

This could be a legiti-mate critique, except that U.S. borrowing costs are currently very low.

In fact, when adjusted for inflation, they’re actu-ally negative, so that inves-tors are in effect paying the government a fee to keep their wealth safe.

To prove this isn’t a bait and switch, consider that these are long term inter-est rates, which strongly suggests that investors don’t see any risk of de-fault for some time.

This is largely due to the existence of the Fed, but that’s a discussion for another article.

The last and most im-

portant misconception involves the fear monger-ing regarding foreign held debt.

To really understand this point, you’ll have to put your self in the shoes of an economist and view debt the way they do. One person’s debt is by defini-tion someone else’s ass.

When private citi-zens of foreign countries choose to invest in the U.S. government as opposed to any other corporation or state actor, they are help-ing to grow the United States as a whole while se-curing their wealth in an investment they consider to be both sound and prof-itable.

It’s as symbiotic as rela-tionships get in the lend-ing world.

The relatively small portion of the debt that is foreign owned is no more or less volatile than the debt owned by citizens in the United States.

So the next time a can-didate talks about the U.S. in the context of a family that has simply lived be-yond its means and needs to cut spending, be criti-cal.

Those who are spread-ing the fear are dealing with the wrong metaphors, and the effect on sensible discourse is blatant.

Austerity in the bust is the illusion of fiscal responsibility, and our economy can’t afford more shallow solutions.

Allow me to be clear, I don’t hate our football team or the newly an-nounced structure.

However, when I read that ASU will be building a $22 million facility for the football team I was admittedly outraged.

The structure is a clear representation of the di-rection our university has been heading in since before I began my first semester in 2005, which is the dependence on our football program to bring money and notoriety to ASU.

I completely under-stand the new structure is being funded through donations and deals un-related to the greater ASU financial pool.

My problems are with the efforts involved in acquiring the money for our new athletics struc-ture, the continued nar-row focus on our football

program as a potential “bread winner,” and the perceived lack of care for the quality and level of education in our institu-tion of higher learning.

I don’t feel as if the same effort has been made to acquire funds for the most important aspect of our university: academics.

I’ve seen many great teachers and professors who taught me as an un-dergraduate, leave for better paying positions in other universities.

Every semester I bear witness to professors we’ve managed to re-tain as they grow more stressed and more tired.

I’ve seen the general lack of work on our now free-standing ode to modern sculpture near the art annex.

Finally, I’ve seen no real strides to attain the status of being a Carn-

egie I research intensive institution.

Twenty-two million dollars spent anywhere else on campus, especial-ly toward improving aca-demics in any way could make ASU a pivotal uni-versity in the South.

As a student, I feel the lack of effort to im-prove our academics at the same levels as our football program is to essentially spit in the face every student that comes to ASU to better themselves, and to make themselves more com-petitive when it comes to education and training.

If such an effort were made to fund our aca-demics, not only would we be very competitive as ASU graduates, but our degrees would also mean so much more on the national and world platforms.

We’d be able to retain

our great professors and afford to hire established and experienced profes-sors that would have a reason to stay at ASU for more than an academic year or two.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s great when sports teams effectively help their universities; how-ever, it’s a sad day when you get the feeling sports are the only thing your university is relying on to increase its reputation and funding.

Do you think the value of your degree is some-thing you want riding specifically on the backs of our sports teams?

Probably not. Regard-less, we’ll have one hell of a stadium to stare at as we drive by making food deliveries.

Letter to the Editor

“The harm done by a

lack of labor demand

is real and terrible,

while the impact from

deficits to a nation like

America is negligible.”

- J.J. Thompson

Matthew Coulter is a Criminology major from East End, Arkansas.

Don’t leave academics behind

Reality about the media and the debt crisis

Bleacher safety

Saturday night, in the midst of Arkansas State’s victory over long time rival Memphis, several fans cheering on the Red Wolves from the student section were literally knocked off their feet when the row of bleachers they were standing on gave way. While there were no serious injuries, a few fans were taken to the hospital.

ASU students attending games to support our stu-dent-athletes shouldn’t have to worry about their own safety when doing so.

The student section is meant to be the loudest and rowdiest one in the entire stadium, instilling fear in the visiting team, not the fans themselves.

However, years of stomping and general game day rowdi-ness finally took its toll on the aluminum bleacher on the east side of the stadium.

This type of situation is common in the world of spec-tator sports, especially football. In 2010, 12 fans were injured in a similar accident at a home game for the East Carolina Pi-rates, though the most serious of the injuries were fractures.

According to a report by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there was an annual average of 19,100 in-juries resulting from falls from bleachers from 1991 to 1999, as well as 10 deaths from 1980 to 1999.

While there should be concerns over whether alumi-num bleachers in the student section are safe, attention should also be paid to how students conduct themselves during the course of games at any ASU athletics event.

There were a reported 28,040 fans present at Satur-day’s game, placing it in the top five attendances in Liberty Bank Stadium’s history.

The student’s section is typically the most densely popu-lated part of the stadium, thus making it even more dangerous on a night like last Saturday.

We want students to have as much fun as possible during sporting events. It’s one of the few times all of us can get together to cheer on our school while blowing off the steam that has built up over the course of the school week. There aren’t many other experience quite like it.

We should be able to go home at the end of the game day remembering the beat down we handed out to our opponents, not the one given to us.

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With six band members bringing their ideas and tal-ents to the table, the band At-las is pumping up the crowd.

“We play what we like. Our music questions the ‘normal life,’ questions the future of mankind. Genre isn’t a word we like to use, but ‘progres-sive metal’ fits us,” said Trent Duff, a music performance major of Pocahontas who plays guitar in the band.

Other band members in-clude: art and music major of Jonesboro, Addison Boling on drums; Tyler Neal of Kennett, Mo. on guitar; Nathan Wad-dell of Jonesboro on guitar; art major Sasha Rayevskiy of Russia on bass; and Alex Cole of Kennett, Mo. on vocals.

The band came together in February after Duff’s other band, Monolith, ended. Neal and Cole were also members of Monolith. Duff knew Bol-ing and Waddell from school, and Rayevskiy from another band.

With no real local venues to play at around Jonesboro, Boling started up the Annex from a building that the First United Methodist Church had previously used. The venue offers local and out-of-state bands a place to play or practice.

“The venue brings in bands of all types,” Duff said. “We’ve had the metal/hard-core bands, skit bands, hard rock, acoustic bands and a lot more.”

Atlas has only played once around the Jonesboro area, but the band is hoping to do a mini tour in the surround-ing states around the end of December.

“We played at the Annex when we were first getting started,” Boling said. “We don’t have any songs on the Internet just yet, but we do have a Facebook page so our

friends and fans can see what we are up to. We have a few songs written out, but we are still recording. Our first CD is still in the works, but we hope to get it finished soon.”

The band members pull inspiration from bands like Slipknot.

“We aren’t as heavy as Slipknot,” Duff said. “We aren’t metal in the evil sense, and there is no inclination of Satan. We are just metal as in how hard the music is to play. We practice all the time just because the music is pretty difficult to play. The music really pushes us to our limits, in a good way though. We call our music ‘intense music.’”

“We seriously spend hun-dreds of hours practicing,” Boling said. “We don’t just make noise for the fun of it. Our music is insane to play and hard to learn.”

Duff said with the anxiety of work and school, he chan-nels that anxiety through his music and turns it into some-

thing beautiful. “We put a lot of emo-

tion into our songs,” Boling said. “Our music requires more personal responsibility just be-cause we do put a lot

of emotion into our music. When we play for people, the looks on their faces are really rewarding.”

“People just look stunned,” Duff said. “They have a curi-ous look on their face like ‘uh what just happened?’ It’s re-ally great to see that.”

Duff and Boling believe that music comes from inside a person.

“Boling and I have been playing instruments since we were little, but Tyler pretty much just picked up a guitar one day and started playing,” Duff said. “I believe that is proof that the music resides in him. That curiosity in mu-sic just came out one day. Some people have that voice and I think that’s what sets some bands apart from oth-ers.”

Boling wants to encourage fans of local bands to check out the Annex’s Facebook page at facebook.com/thean-nex and the Atlas page at fa-cebook.com/atlas870.

MICHAELA KABERLINESTAFF WRITER

Local jams: AtlasThe ninth and final season

of NBC’s hit television show “The Office” is set to premiere Sept. 20 at 8 p.m.

Since its premiere in March 2005, “The Office” has won several prominent TV awards including the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstand-ing Comedy Series, 2006 Pea-body Award, 2006 and 2008 AFI Honors, Producers Guild Award, Writers Guild Award and many others.

“’The Office’ made the way for a lot of the good shows that are on TV today. They brought that style of show to the forefront of American television,” said Matt Sindel-ar, a senior sports manage-ment major of Greenwood. The style Sindelar referred to is a mockumentary, with hu-mor that is not immediately apparent. It has influenced shows like “Parks and Rec-reation,” “Community” and

“Modern Family.”Near the end of its seventh

season, Michael Scott, the boss and main character of the show, quit. “The Office” was centered on Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, and the cast and fans alike were sad to see him go.

In Carell’s last few epi-sodes, viewers could see oth-er members of the cast visibly upset on screen and in inter-views.

“It’s going to be a sad time watching one of the best shows on TV come to an end. NBC has done the best they could without Steve Carell being on anymore, but they can only do so much with him gone,” said Patric Howie, a junior sports management major of Crossett.

After Carell’s departure, writers pulled in actor Will Ferrell to temporarily take the place of Carell’s charac-ter. The Office also has a large cast of 15 characters to pull humor from. Despite this, its

ratings and amount of view-ers still dropped more and more each week.

Season seven of the show began with a solid rating of 9.32 out of 10. Although it did not experience a signifi-cant drop after Carell’s last episode mid-season, it was on a slow decline, ending the season with a rating of 5.58.

During Carell’s reign as boss of Dunder Mifflin there were sometimes more than 9 million viewers and hardly ever were there fewer than 6 million. After Carell left, “The Office” rarely had more than 5 million viewers.

Amalie Benjamin, a se-nior nursing major of Cabot, said, “I think it’s a great show, and it had a good run, but it’s time. I think with sitcoms, it’s better to quit while you’re ahead.”

Although its ratings went down, many people continue to watch “The Office” and will be sad to see it end.

‘The Office’ finishes its ‘paperwork’

CHELSEA WEAVERNEWS EDITOR

Popular NBC show starts its final season

Courtesy of AtlasMembers of the band Atlas from left to right: Alex Cole, Tyler Neal, Addison Boling, Nathan Waddell and Trent Duff. Not pictured: Sasha Rayevskiy

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“Rapture practice!” “Thank you Jesus!” “Get fired up for the Lord!” These are some of the common exclamations you might hear while attend-ing a gospel choir concert, and the gospel-singing group United Voices knows how to get the room rocking and get feet stomping.

This organization started as the Black Student Associa-tion Choir in 1969. Overtime, the name was changed to the current name, the United Voices. The group has been performing as the United Voices for 40 years. The fel-lowship has been recognized locally, socially and even po-litically.

The president, Michelle Byrd, a senior music educa-tion major of Pine Bluff, said “I really love United Voices because it’s made of many people. You learn yourself from different people. It’s free and fun.” Newcomer Jameika Hearn, a junior psychology major of Byhalia, Miss., said “Everyone is really nice. They are welcoming and broke the ice. They make you feel so not like the new person.”

The point of the ministry is to create an opportunity of diversity and spreading the word about God the Fa-ther, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Of course, singing and socializing play major parts. The big picture is speaking through song so that it can be a blessing to someone else. There has, and still is, a big vision to be seen from this choir.

The ministry isn’t just about performing but also practicing what is preached. It’s about living up to the name United Voices, doesn’t matter about the race.

“Just working with them helps me be a better musi-cian. The atmosphere is good, you are not alone, we walk to-gether,” said musical director Aaron Fisher, a senior music composition major of Mem-phis, Tenn.

Past events consist of spring concerts in which the group performed with big gospel artists such as Myron Butler, Donnie McClurkin, Yolanda Adams and Vincent Tharpe & Kenosis. One of their biggest accomplish-ments was the “United and Worship” spring concert, which involved people not only listening to the songs,

but also participating.Upcoming events include

the “Praise in the Park” event in 2013. This get together will be filled with not only worship, but food, games and more. Also, save the date for a concert later this year in-volving other campus orga-nizations such as the Baptist Collegiate Ministry and Still Water, the BCM’s worship band.

A two year member, Vic-tor Cobbs, a junior criminol-ogy major of Marianna, plays the bass guitar in the ministry group. “It’s a positive place. It encourages me to at least try to live my life right. This is where I get my practice in,” Cobbs said.

Rehearsals are every Tues-day from 6:30-8:15 p.m. The practices are held in the commons area of NorthPark

United Voices brings praises and HOWLelujahs

ADEEJA ANDERSONSTAFF WRITER

The United Voices choir opens their practices with praise and worship every Tuesday evening in the NorthPark Quads Commons Building.

Caitlin LaFarlette| Staff Photographer

Dear Friend, If my last letter has reached you,

then you know I am a man with blood on my hands. Luckily, I’ve been able to stay ahead of my pursuers up to this point, though I am sure their pursuit has not slowed in the least. You must remember that I write you these letters, so that you may know the truth about me, so please understand that what I did was abso-lutely necessary. No matter what people may eventually say of me, I am not a killer. There I was, stained with blood from the man who had killed my family. After the shock of the situa-tion had worn off, I knew I needed to contact the local authorities. I contacted the sheriff, and I explained the situation. The urgency in his voice almost matched mine as he assured me he’d be there as fast as possible. I know it mustn’t have been that long, but the wait in that room seemed like an eternity. When the sheriff arrived, he stepped inside and ob-served the scene. He looked around at the room with more skepticism than legitimate concern. He didn’t even seem to notice me there, until I made a move to get up and greet him. I started to explain to him again in de-tail the events of the day and where they took place. He just stared at me the entire time. I turned away from him, to proceed to show

him the assailant in the next room. That’s when I heard it. For the second time that day, I had a gun pointed at me except this time the person on the other side of it, I had assumed I could trust; instead, there was the sheriff with his gun trained on me, holding a sly smile on his face in silent mocking of my fear and con-fusion. He started saying a lot of stuff about how my death would be easy to explain, how I killed my family, and that he, when faced with a killer, was left with no choice but to pull the trigger. It became apparent that this man had everything to with the death of my family, and there I was facing the same fate after hav-ing trusted him. Outside a storm had begun, and the combined sound of the pouring rain and rolling thunder had reached a deafening level. A lightning strike hit just beside the house sending a blinding light into the room, just enough light to cause the sheriff ’s focus to slip. I moved; he shot. The bullet grazed my arm as I threw myself out of the window. I ran. Bullets zipped past my head, but I did not look back. Tears in my eyes and burning in my lungs, I did not stop. I didn’t stop run-ning until my body collapsed under me. I fell to the ground, feeling lightheaded from losing blood. The surroundings began to spin, and then the darkness closed in.

Taylor Burrington is a ju-nior interdisciplinary stud-ies major of Cabot. He hates cheesy quotes, but loves cheesy movies. “Writing, for me, is a way to imagine out loud any other story I could possibly live.”

“Listen Closely” is a continued series written by Burrington and is published on the #Life page every Thursday.

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support. They also want to focus heavily on state and local affairs,

such as electing local candidates into office and getting mem-bers to head to the Republican Campaign Headquarters (also known as the Victory Office) located on Southwest Drive. On campus, the group wants to hold at least two more voter reg-istrations by Oct. 6.

According to group members, anyone interested in join-ing the College Republicans at ASU can follow their twitter page (@stAteCR), message Marks or Wheetley at [email protected] and [email protected] or head to their next meeting Sept. 19 in the St. Francis River Room of the Student Union and every other Wednesday following.

Although no one in the group was able to attend the Demo-cratic National Convention held in North Carolina recently, plans are being made to attend conventions throughout the state in the following year.

While the Young Democrats’ main goal is reaching out to students, they also plan to stay involved in national as well as state and local affairs. They have plans to volunteer at the Democratic Party office on Union Street, make phone calls for the president and hold voter registrations.

“We want to reach out to conservatives, liberals and inde-pendents. Our country is better when everyone is involved,” Jackson said.

For anyone interested in joining the Young Democrats at ASU, the group suggested for students to “like” their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/asudems) or email Jackson at [email protected]. Meetings will be held at the Edge coffeehouse Friday at 3 p.m. and will be held every other Friday following that.

SGA continues to promote themselves on Facebook and Twitter also.

“We are going to have some kind of winner system,” SGA President Hunter Petrus said.

In order to grow its num-ber of followers, SGA will begin giving out ASU spirit prizes, but Petrus did not

specify when their giveaway would begin.

Seven freshmen sena-tors, Jennifer Hawley, Megan Philips, Gunnar Knoll, Brooks Jones, Emily Peters, Hunter Brown and Logan Mustain, were sworn into SGA and now hold a seat within the council.

Keyana Byrd, a nontradi-

tional criminology major of Hayti, Mo. was sworn in as the nontraditional student senator.

Samuel Cowgill, a sopho-more exercise science major of Pocahontas, was elected as the ROTC senator.

Petrus finished the meet-ing by announcing that Tim Hudson, ASU’s chancellor,

will attend the next SGA meeting.

“He will be giving us an overview of what he’s been working on and on the big changes that are coming to the university,” Petrus said.

The next SGA meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 25 on the fifth floor of the li-brary.

REPUBLICANS, Continued

DEMOCRATS, Continued

MCKINNEY, Continued

As an undergraduate, there are many opportunities to make discoveries in the major one pursues. Working with Kris Biondolillo, associ-ate professor of psychology, makes working in the labora-tory not only educational, but enjoyable.

According to Biondolillo, she researches the stimulus of nicotine and the factors that drive an organism to vol-untarily use it. “I have done several studies looking at nicotine in terms of the very basic properties of nicotine,” Biondolillo said.

Biondolillo’s research is funded through the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act of 2000. “Part of that package was start-up money for researchers who could put forth proposals that were in line with the mandates of the Arkansas Bioscience Insti-tute,” Biondolillo said. “That’s where I came in. I had an in-terest in nicotine and why in-dividuals would use a toxin as deadly as nicotine.”

To get a better outcome out of her research, Biondo-lillo uses rats to remove the “factors that have an impact on humans that go beyond just nicotine,” she said.

Biondolillo has chosen students in her classes to help her with her research. “Every year I have undergraduate students who work in my lab and help me directly with that research,” she noted.

Students who have been chosen to intern are expe-riencing firsthand what it is like to work in the field. Bar-ret Schein, a sophomore psy-chology major of Lowell, is one of Biondolillo’s student interns who is assisting her in her study. “I would like to gain applicable and beneficial experience during this in-ternship,” Schein said. “I re-cord the data along with the general care and handling of the rats.”

When looking for students to help her in her research, Bi-ondolillo looks for motivated students. “I look for a student who loves to learn. I look for

a student who is stubborn and willing to work through obstacles.”

“She kind of embodies what I feel like I’d like to do with my life,” Schein said about Biondolillo.

“I look for a student who is fun to work with and enjoys doing what I do,” Biondolillo said. “The benefit for me in terms of working with stu-dents is it helps me keep me from getting extreme tunnel vision.”

For Biondolillo, it is cru-cial to include students in her research. “Because I teach primarily in the undergradu-ate psychology program, it’s very important for me not to lose sight of my students as part of my world,” Biondolillo said. “Because [the research] is not just mine, it’s mine and these students’, who are your colleagues and peers.”

For students consider-ing going on to graduate school, Biondolillo believes internships are important to include in one’s resumé. “I think that mentoring our students is critical,” Biondo-lillo said. “Graduate schools are very competitive and in order to get into a psychology graduate program, a students almost has to have experienc-es beyond the classroom, like internships.”

Not only do graduate schools look for students who have been involved in intern-ships, but doctoral programs as well. “For students who are applying to PhD programs, the nature of the internship really needs to be a research-based, laboratory-based in-ternship,” Biondolillo said.

“She is passionate about what she does and it bleeds into what she is doing and the study she is running,” Schein said. “It is enjoyable.”

Biondolillo supports stu-dents who have the drive to get into graduate school. “If I have a student who is mo-tivated, fun to work with, wants to learn, doesn’t give up easily, wants to go to grad-uate school and comes to me and has a real interest in my research, I will find a way to get them in the lab.”

The effects of the drought that Arkan-sas has experienced this year are becom-ing evident in many areas of the state as well as other parts of the world.

“This year’s drought is one of the highest droughts on record since the 1930s,” said Paul Armah, professor of agricultural economics.

Armah said Arkansas experienced its worst drought, called the “Dust Bowl,” in 1930. He said this year’s drought will also greatly impact not only the state of Arkansas but all countries in the world.

“Since July 2012, food prices have al-ready risen by six percent, according to FAO [Food and Agriculture Organiza-tion] food price index,” Armah said.

He said this summer’s little rain and hot weather caused the drought.

The professor said the effects of the drought in Arkansas are less than ones in the Midwest such as Illinois, Nebras-ka, Iowa and Missouri.

“Farmers in the Midwest have ex-perienced the worst impact from the drought because they depend on rain more than farmers in Arkansas who de-pend on ground water to irrigate their farms,” Armah said.

He said the ground is different in Ar-kansas compared to states in the Mid-west because Arkansas ground can store rainwater better than the ground in the Midwest.

Nevertheless, Arkansas faced a seri-ous situation since the Arkansas econ-omy heavily depends on agriculture commodities such as rice, wheat, corn, soybeans and cotton.

“The drought has reduced outputs of agricultural commodities,” Armah said. “It will also affect incomes of farmers and the economy of Arkansas.”

He said agriculture amounts to 17-20 percent of Arkansas’ economy, which is the largest part of Arkansas economy.

Also, “it has the highest employees in Arkansas’ economy,” Armah said.

The Arkansas export also heavily de-pends on agriculture commodities. Ag-riculture amounts to 27-33 percent of Arkansas’ exports, and the drought will reduce a number of those, Armah said.

The drought affects farmers this sea-son, but it will soon affect consumers as well. Armah said consumers next year would see more impact in prices because areas hit by the drought couldn’t stock agricultural commodities this year.

Scott Stiles, an extension economist of risk management at the College of Agriculture and Technology, comment-ed on how the drought affects students’ daily lives.

He said the price of chicken has al-most doubled over the past year and other popular food items with college students, such as corn chips and nachos also have increased in price.

“According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA], prices this year are the highest on record for both chicken and corn,” Stiles said.

The USDA stated on July 25 that do-mestic food costs will rise three to four percent next year, and beef prices could rise as much as five percent.

“With gas prices still above $3, stu-dents on tight budgets may be more conservative as a result of higher food prices,” Stiles said. “They may even re-call an economics lecture on ‘substitute goods’ and eat less steak and more hot dogs.”

Stephanie Overby, a junior agricul-ture major of Little Rock, said, “We have discussed the drought, along with peoples’ contemplation about whether or not this is global warming. All of my professors have agreed that we cannot base any ideas on this one season, as climate is measured by the century and weather is merely one point of time.”

She also said, “Working with farm an-imals, the drought has greatly impacted

that aspect in my life due to the fact that there is basically no hay available to feed animals, and natural water resources were bone dry this summer.”

Overby said her job as a student ma-joring in agriculture is to keep the com-munity informed of the situation and do its best to still provide agricultural ser-vices throughout the drought.

Ahmet Eralp Kurk, a junior animal science major of Istanbul, said, “The drought season affects food prices. Therefore, we are following food prices weekly and making a chart about in-creasing and decreasing of that.”

He said the global warming would be the serious issue related to the drought. “Now it’s hard to guess what’s going on tomorrow,” Kurk said. “My expectation is getting ready for every situation like droughts or floods.”

Robert Gordon, a senior interdisci-plinary studies major of Jonesboro, said he also has felt extremely hot weather in Arkansas.

“I really enjoy being outside during the summer and with the weather being so abnormally hot, it prevented me from participating in outdoor activities,” Gor-don said. “I’m concerned that the leaves won’t change colors this fall because usually when there is a dry summer, the leaves won’t be as colorful in the fall.”

“The farmers here in Arkansas have handled the problem through invest-ments in irrigation,” Stiles said. “The use of irrigation is not as common across the ‘Corn Belt’ or Midwestern U.S. and farmers rely more heavily on crop insur-ance.”

The scarcity of food is also closely related to the population growth. Stiles said populations in the world grow wealthier and people consume more protein in their diets.

“I challenge ASU’s students to come up with solutions on how to feed and clothe 9 billion people by 2050,” Stiles said.

Ari Yuki | Staff PhotographerThe dried up crops that fill the ASU farm fields show how local farmers have suffered from the drought over the past year.

Drought affects crops at ASU, throughout worldARI YUKI

STAFF WRITER

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Shine Huang | Staff PhotographerRed shirt tight end Darion Griswold plows through ASU defensive players during practice. Saturday’s game will be the second meeting ever between ASU and Nebraska. The Cornhuskers claimed a 38-9 victory in 2009 in Lincoln, Neb.

The clock strikes 4:15 p.m. and I’m asking my boss to leave. It’s Saturday and I have a football game to get to.

I am not from Northeast Arkansas. Heck, I had never heard of Arkansas State, or Jonesboro, until my junior year of high school.

Growing up in Central Arkansas, I was raised to be a Razorback fan. Being a Hog fan in Jonesboro is like Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit; it’s just not okay.

I used to tell myself that I would one day attend the University of Arkansas be-cause I didn’t know how I would ever cheer for another team. But things don’t always work out the way we plan and I’m OK with that.

This past Saturday, my be-loved Hogs were in my neck of the woods getting beat by the University of Louisiana-Monroe.

For a week, everyone was asking me if I would be home and every time I replied back with a simple “No.” I don’t go to the University of Arkansas; I go to Arkansas State.

So instead of going to Lit-tle Rock, I was right here in Jonesboro watching my Red Wolves take on Memphis; I was right where I wanted to be.

Welcome to Gusboro, home of the Arkansas State Red Wolves and some of the most dedicated fans a school could have.

The athletes are more like family members to the supporters who come to watch them play. That’s what makes the crowd loud. That’s

what makes the athletes play hard. That’s what makes running with the pack worth every step.

Just ask Zinzan Elan-Puttick, a sophomore of Bloemfontein, South Africa who plays fly-half for the Red Wolves rugby team. Although new to ASU, Puttick has been playing for 12 years and knows how it feels to have the support of a school, and town, behind him.

“It is always a honor to have supporters next to the field, gives us more of a sense of pride to play,” Puttick said. “The more support I have will push me to go that extra mile to show the opponent what ASU rugby is all about. I enjoy ASU because I feel it is where God has led me to exploit my talents and my teammates are great. I show my pride by supporting all the other sporting events as I wish for them to return the favor and act in such a man-ner that will make my team and school proud.”

Junior Taylor Loyd, a History Education major of Fort Smith, made the long drive away from Fayetteville

to go to a school where the Razorbacks aren’t looked at as the Holy Grail.

“I chose Arkansas State because I would rather support a team making efforts to get better rather than go where everyone talks about how great their athletics are,” Loyd said. “Running with the pack is one howl of a time. It means being at every game hours before kickoff and being one of the last to leave.”

Flip to the Who’s Who sec-tion of my senior yearbook and you will find me decked out in Bryant blue playing tug-of-war with a spirit stick. You guessed it; I was voted most school spirit. A title I worked very hard to receive.

It doesn’t matter if you have been at Arkansas State for 20 minutes or 20 years, Red Wolf pride overtakes your body.

I was once a girl who found it impossible to cheer for anyone other than the Razorbacks, but I am now a dedicated Red Wolf. Howl yes, I bleed Arkansas State red and I ride the Gus Bus when my legs are tired from running with the pack.

Being a Red Wolf fan in a Hog NationMEREDITH SCOTT

STAFF WRITER

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Head Coach Gus Malzahn announced Tuesday that ASU wide receiver Allen Muse would no longer hold a position with the Red Wolves.

The decision came after a mutual discussion between Malzahn and Muse.

“Allen has faced tremendous tragedy in his life over the last few years, He and I have talked and agreed that it was the best for him to focus on his personal life and family moving forward,” Malzahn said in a press release Tuesday.

Muse was arrested Sept. 5 in reference to a domestic dispute at his residence and cited for third-degree assault after breaking down a bathroom dorm after his wife locked herself in with his phone.

There was no record of an attack in the report. Muse was released on $775 bond.

Muse will end his ASU career with 65 receptions for 853 yards and seven touch-

downs. He posted a career-best 133 receiving yards against Louisiana-Lafayette and recorded a career-high eight receptions against Navy in 2010.

“I want to wish Allen nothing but the best in the future,” Malzahn said.

Malzahn has stated in several interviews that he holds his team to a high standard.

Muse will become the third player to no longer old a position with the Red Wolves since the start of the 2012 season.

ASU preps for dual-threat Nebraska QB

With their home opener behind them, the Arkansas State football team turns its attention to a nationally-televised contest against the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

The Red Wolves journey to Lincoln, Neb. Saturday to face its second BCS opponent in three weeks.

The Cornhuskers entered the season ranked 17th in the AP Poll and advanced a spot after a victory against South-ern Miss in Week 1.

Their upset loss to UCLA, however, sent them tumbling out of the rankings. Regard-less, ASU recognizes the threat they face.

Nebraska boasts one of the nation’s most dangerous dual-threat quarterbacks—redshirt junior Taylor Martinez, who is regarded as a lethal runner.

He amassed 1,839 yards and 21 touchdowns on the

ground in his first two sea-sons, while averaging more than five yards per rush.

Against Southern Miss, he appeared to have made strides as a passer, as well, hitting his receivers 26 times for 354 yards and five touch-downs, but against UCLA he completed just over half of his passes for 179 and an in-terception. He did damage on the ground, however, rushing 12 times for 112 yards and a score.

“They’ve got a little old school in them, but they’re very good at what they do. They’re going to be a downhill running team. Their quarterback is a definite running threat,” head coach Gus Malzahn said. “Any time the quarterback is a run threat it changes things. It really looks like he’s throwing the ball real well this year.”

Martinez isn’t the only aspect of the Cornhusker’s potent rushing attack. Senior

running back Rex Burkhead dashed for 1,357 yards and 15 touchdowns on his way to All-Big Ten honors last sea-son.

Defensively, Nebraska returns eight starters from a unit that disappointed a year ago. Sporting stronger depth and more experience, especially in the secondary, their defense could provide a stiff challenge for the Red Wolves’ up-tempo offense.

The Red Wolves hope that their experience at Oregon will help them be resilient on the road in another hostile atmosphere. Malzahn indicated he hoped to see the tempo improve Saturday, saying he wanted to “have 80-plus plays.”

With the departure of senior wide receiver Allen Muse, ASU hopes Taylor Stockemer returns from an injury that caused him to miss the Memphis game. The senior, who is still day-to-day,

was tabbed by Malzahn as perhaps the team’s “biggest weapon” and will be needed against a stout Cornhusker secondary.

“They have two returning corners, which were very good last year, so we’ll have our work cut out for us,” Malzahn said.

The game will be the second between the two teams. Nebraska claimed the first meeting in 2009, a 38-9 home victory, in front of 85,035 fans.

The team will be depart-ing Liberty Bank Stadium at 11:45 a.m. Friday morning for its trip to Lincoln, Neb.Fans are encouraged to gather near the ASU football stadium be-ginning at 11:20 a.m. to cheer on the players and coaches.

The Red Wolves will kick off Saturday at 11 a.m.

The game will be televised on ESPN2.

ZACH LOTTSTAFF WRITER

Mutual Decision

Saturday during the ASU-Memphis home opener, the University Police Department re-sponded to an accident that left at least six spectators injured after a bleacher had broken loose from its support.

UPD officer Keith Gilliam reported that the aluminum bleacher located in the student section on the east side of the stadium had broken loose from the concrete on the entire twelfth row.

Maria Biancmano, ASU alumna, was sitting on the bleacher when it collapsed.

“I don’t blame the school, ASU has always done an excellent job with the up-keep of the campus. You can’t prepare yourself for something like that and after years of students getting rowdy, jumping and standing on the bleachers at some point it is expected,” Biancmano said.

Biancmano attended the game with her roommate, ASU alumna Jessica Bailey who had fallen backwards striking her head.

“At first things were chaotic, with everyone trying to help Jessica up, but a senior nursing student had rushed up the bleachers to help,” Biancmano said.

Biancmano expressed a great deal of appreciation for the student knowing exactly what to do and keeping Bailey calm.

“I didn’t even know her name but have full respect for the nursing program at ASU after Saturday. There was no hesitation and had she not have been there, Jessica’s injuries could have been worse,” Biancmano said.

Bailey was carried out of the stadium on a stretcher, where she was professionally treated for injuries.

Gilliam was informed of several other injuries of students, but no other reports were filed.

Collapsed bleacher leaves six injured

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ASU Rugby 7’s Club will face Harding University and North Alabama at Harding in Searcy, Ark. Saturday, Sept. 22. The Red Wolves will hold an intersquad scrimmage with the 15’s team after the comple-tion of the matches. An Alumni game is set for Oct. 13 at the Rugby pitch adjacent from the intramural fields at 12 p.m.

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Campus CrimeSeptember 8

On Saturday around 2 a.m. officers Robert Peevey and Gene Layne arrived at Arkan-sas Hall in reference to a subject that had been cut. The officers went to Tyler Morris’ room and noticed his left hand covered in blood from a deep cut between his index and middle finger. Morris said he received the cut at the KA house. According to Morris, he was accused of stealing a cooler and was as-saulted by several people when one cut him with a small pocketknife. During his con-versation with the officers, Peevey noticed a strong odor of intoxicants on Morris’ breath. Morris submitted a breath sample of .23.The officers asked Morris’ friends and wit-nesses at the KA house about the incident and all said Morris had been asked to leave by members of KA. According to witness re-ports, as he was escorted out of the house by two KA members, he grabbed onto the metal hinges of the door frame and his arm was hit from trying to free his hand from the frame, which caused the cut. When they got Morris free, he was escorted to the parking lot where hired security took over. Morris was charged

with two university referrals, one for alcohol violation and one for disorderly conduct.

September 9

On Sunday around 2 a.m. Officer Robert Peevey was on University Loop when he no-ticed Spencer Haywood on the sidewalk hold-ing two Bud Light beer cans. Haywood told Peevey he only had one beer that night, how-ever his breath test registered .12, according to the report. Peevey told Haywood he must have had more than one beer, but Haywood argued he had not. Haywood took another breath test and this time registered .14. Peevey transported the suspect to JPD for another breath test, in which Haywood registered .13. Haywood made the comment to Peevey that he works in radiology at NEA hospital and if he ever had to go there to just remember that. Peevey asked if that was a threat, but the suspect said it was not. Haywood was issued a university referral for alcohol viola-tion and charged with public intoxication.

— Compiled by Chelsea Weaver, News Editor

Many students have had concerns with parking on campus; among these con-cerns are finding open spaces, paying parking fines and where the money from fines goes.

Vera Forrest, public rela-tions manager for Parking Services, said that around 600 citations were given out the first week of school, “most of which were warning citations with no due fine.”

Those tickets that did have fines totaled out to about $7,500. The total amount of fines from last year (includ-ing traffic citations from UPD) was about $450,000.

Kaycie Taylor, a fresh-man business education major of Hot Springs, said she hopes the money is for making improvements to the school or scholarship funds.

Taylor was issued a $25 ticket for placing her park-ing sticker in the wrong spot.

Forrest said that failure to display a valid permit is the most common violation.

Sophomore Tyler Dur-ham, an international busi-ness major of Cave City, was given a $25 ticket for parking in a non-parking spot. He said there were no available parking spots left. “I parked in the commuter’s lot be-hind the Kays lot,” Durham said. “People were parked on the grass. I had five minutes to get to class. I had no op-tion. There was a little space of grass that I parked on.”

After receiving four tickets Durham said he would like to know where the fine money goes. “On top of the parking tickets we pay $50 apiece for our parking passes,” he said.

According to Park-ing Services the mon-ey is directed back into the department.

“Funds generated by de-partment services and ac-tivities go toward funding department operations,” For-rest said. Funds are also used for maintenance of the cam-pus parking infrastructure.

Shelby Chappell, a fresh-man biology major of Dexter, Mo., also received a $25 ticket.

She hopes that the money is used for building more park-ing. According to ASU’s Mas-ter Plan presented in April, this could be a possibility.

For students, the most ex-citing part of the plan could be the proposed new parking ramp near Dean Street, as well as more surface parking on the edge of campus next to the Armory. The plan also calls for removal of parking from the core of campus to make room for more building sites and other parking structures.

The Master Plan con-tains statistics about cur-rent people to parking spots ratios, as well as ratios re-lated to proposed parking. The current people to park-ing spots ratio is 1.28-to-1.

Durham noted he is con-cerned with paying for a $50 parking permit on top of tick-ets. The Master Plan propos-es that parking fees should be unbundled from other stu-dent fees, and parking permits should be priced strategically.

To view the ASU Master Plan visit http://www2.as-tate.edu/a/finance-admin/.

Parking has students concernedCAITLIN LAFARLETTE

STAFF WRITER

“I would think that the library is the best place to park, especially at night. The worst time to park is usually Sunday night. I get back from church at 10:30 or 11 and there aren’t any spots then.”

-Bethany Hollis, a senior clinical lab sciences major of Kingsland.

“The best place to park is by the Agri. building and the worst time to find a spot is mid-afternoon.”

-Zach Faulkner, freshman biological sciences major of Paragould

“I think over by the HPESS is our best spot. You have to come extra early if you want a good spot. If you don’t come before 9 a.m. you probably won’t find a space.”

-Jammie White, a junior nursing major of West Memphis.

The Hispanic Heritage Month Cel-ebration held by the Multicultural Center will give ASU students an op-portunity of mutual understanding between Hispanic students and non-Hispanic students.

The nationally celebrated month starts Sept. 15 and ends Oct. 15, and ASU will begin the celebration with an art exhibit Sept. 17 at the Multicul-tural Center.

“We celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month because we serve underrep-resented student populations and cel-ebrate various aspects of diversity and different culture,” said Niya Blair, assis-tant dean of the Multicultural Center and Nontraditional Student Services.

She said ASU currently has more than 250 Hispanic students on cam-pus. “We have variety of events that are open to the public,” Blair said.

“Viva la Noche,” which means “Long Live the Night,” will be an event held at the ASU Pavilion from 7-10 p.m. Sept.19. It will give students the op-portunity to experience Hispanic mu-sic, food and dancing.

“‘Viva La Noche’ is a social event hosted by HOLA (Hispanic Outreach

and Latino Appreciation),” said Juan Robles, a junior political science and Spanish major of Horatio, involved in HOLA and Hispanic Community Ser-vices, Inc.

“Our first ‘Viva La Noche’ event was fall of 2011. It was a great success. We had about 250 present at the event. We hosted it again in spring 2012 in front of the Student Union,” Robles said.

“Everyone involved with HOLA takes pride in Hispanic heritage. Whether it be ancestry, or simply by having an interest it,” he added.

Robles said he expects this year’s event to be a success and plans to in-form attendees about Hispanic cul-tures. While doing this, he said His-panic Community Services. Inc. also plans on collecting donations for school supplies and having a Voter’s Registration table.

Another main event for Hispanic Heritage month is Spanish movie night. Students will have opportuni-ties to see the Spanish movies twice, which are “Cronos” and “Historias Minimas.”

“Cronos” is a Mexican vampire horror film and “Historias Minimas,” whose English title is, “Intimate Sto-ries,” is an Argentine and Spanish dra-

ma.“Cronos” will be held

at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 2 in LSE 218, and “Historias Min-imas” will be at 6:30 Oct. 9 in LSE 218.

In addition to that, there will be a study abroad orientation to Hispanic countries at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 27 in Wilson Hall 217A.

“I am interested in at-tending an event,” said Scott Hinson of Para-gould, a graduate stu-dent in communications and research. “I think it would be beneficial to local people, because the Hispanic community is such a growing commu-nity.”

He was surprised to hear the celebration month is sponsored by the Multicul-tural Center.

“My image of the Multicultural Center is, however, mostly about African-American cultural events. That’s usually all I see, unfortunately,” Hinson said. “I usually expect Inter-

national Programs to host events for other groups.”

“I would like anyone to come and learn something about Hispanic cul-ture and to meet other students who are Hispanic. It’s going to be fellow-ship for the celebration of the culture,” Blair said.

ARI YUKISTAFF WRITER

Multicultural Center celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month