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What do engineers, pilots, business majors, and GSIS stu-dents have in common? All of them came Th ursday, Apr. 8, to see one man in a black shirt. Dave Coulier, or “Uncle Joey from Full House” as most know him, made a special visit to Embry-Rid-dle Aeronautical University’s Prescott campus, and not just to entertain.

Coulier’s son, Luc, is a fresh-man studying aeronautical sci-ence here at ERAU. “He gets it from me,” said Coulier, a pilot of over 30 years’ experience. “We

used to hop in and go get a real-ly expensive burger.” His son re-called their journeys in a V-tail Bonanza. Coulier reminisced about Luc fl ying with him in his car seat.

But entertain Coulier did. Af-ter some jokes about his fame from the popular 1990s sitcom Full House and being “the cut it out guy,” he surprised the en-tire audience with some very talented harmonica playing. To the audience’s great amusement, Coulier did a number of voice impressions including Scooby Doo, Shaggy, the Jetsons’ space-ship, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and Bullwinkle.

Coulier has done voice work

professionally for the Jetsons, Scooby and Scrappy Doo, Ex-treme Ghostbusters, the Real Ghostbusters, and Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters.

W hen asked how he felt about being known as Uncle Joey, Coulier responded: “Th at’s the story of my life.” He went on to give the most common Full House-related questions and their answers: “Was it fun on Full House? Yes. Did I like it? Yes. Do I keep in touch with anybody from Full House? Yeah. I mostly see John Stamos, but I also see Can-dace Cameron and my big, ugly Jewish sister, Bob Saget.”

Coulier was asked to sign a col-lection of Full House DVDs for

a student’s sister. As he did, he inquired about the 32 DVD set and learned that it was 150 dol-lars. Backstage, he admitt ed that he’d only seen two episodes of Full House. On stage, he joked: “How much did that cost? $150? Yeah, I’ll see about three cents from that.”

Although Coulier is certainly most famous for his time on Full House, he’s been a standup come-dian for about 31 years. He and his co-star, the “big, ugly Jewish sister” Bob Saget, have seen each other’s routines. “Th e funny thing is that people expect Saget to be nice and clean up there aft er see-ing him on Full House. His rou-

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University plans to offer a one-credit yoga class next semester. Taught by Joy Kathryn Lanze-rott e, who currently teaches a not-for-credit Anusara yoga class at ERA U, PE110 will include a $60 lab fee on top of the usual tuition cost for one credit. If less than 20 students sign up for the class, the university will cancel it to avoid losing money.

Currently, the yoga classes Lanzerotte teaches are not of-fered for credit and consequent-ly only costs $60 for the full ten-week session of classes, or $7 to sit in on one class. Th e classes teach Anusara yoga, a school of hatha yoga founded by John Friend in 1997 intended to be less spiritu-ally focused and more physical.

Comedian Dave Coulier Entertains ERAU

ERAU to Offer Yoga Classes for Credit Fall 2010

(Hatha yoga derives from Hin-du religious practice and is what is usually meant by “yoga” in the United States.) Th ese classes have drawn a steadily increasing num-ber of students over the last cou-ple of years, and will continue through the end of the semester.

Th is is not the fi rst time a phys-ical education class has been taught at ERA U. In the past, oth-er physical education classes did not last. The most recent one taught seems to have been a gen-eral gym fitness class taught by ERA U’s gym staff .

Lanzerotte, who lives locally and runs a local business called Lyfeworks, is a certifi ed fi tness in-structor who has been teaching fitness classes for 25 years. She started her own yoga training in 1989. In 1991, she was chosen by the American Biographical Institute as one of 2,000 Nota-

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An unusually large crowd gathered in the lower parking lots of the Embry-Rid-dle Aeronautical University’s Prescott campus on Saturday, Apr. 11, as hun-dreds of builders and enthusiasts of cus-tom cars enjoyed an amazing lineup of vehicles. Th e event, entitled “Customs 2 Classics,” was put on by the campus-based College Motorsport Association (CMA).

Th e event featured hot cars, food, and live musical entertainment. Performanc-es included a set by the campus’ own Jazz Band and a solo performance by Taylor Mayhew. Th e event took place as part of the campus’ Parents Weekend, and as

such drew large numbers of locals, stu-dents and their parents alike. Visitors were also able to enter a raffl e for the chance to win a “door prize”—a term the CMA used humorously, as the prize literally consist-ed of a car door.

Vehicles entering the show competed in categories based on model year, nation of origin and vehicle type. Th ey were then rigorously evaluated and assigned a grade by members of the CMA.

Vehicles could earn a total of 100 points for a number of criteria, ranging from the paint job to body modifi cations, en-gine detailing, interior, and presentation. Hand-crafted trophies made of engine components such as gears, valves, and springs were given to the winners of the individual categories by CMA offi cials.

The coveted best-in-show prize was

awarded to the owner of a red model 1940 Chevrolet Bel Air. According to CMA member Alex Herring, the car may have lost the title as best in “Domestic An-tique 1900-1949” category by a mere four points, but the stunning red paint job, me-ticulous engine detailing, and most im-portantly the best-in-show prize more than make up for that fact.

To the crowds of onlookers, the stun-ning lineup of over 80 presenters gave the impression that the event came about without a hitch. Due to internal confl icts in the CMA, however, the entire event was temporarily canceled, and as such almost never came to be.

Upon hearing of the initial cancella-tion, some of the entrants into the com-petition chose to att end one of the oth-

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  In an appearance on Apr. 6, 2010, Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of “Th e Upside of Down,” spoke for 2 hours to a variety of students, professors, and others from the Prescott area about the issues of glob-al security in the 21st century.

Th omas Homer-Dixon was born in Victoria, British Co-lumbia, and had an interest in global security, violence, and war in his teen years. He re-ceived his bachelor’s degree in political science from Car-leton University in 1980 and his doctorate from MIT in in-ternational relations and de-fense and arms control policy in 1989.

He currently holds the Cen-tre for International Gover-nance Innovation Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Aff airs in Waterloo, Canada, and is a professor in the Centre for En-vironment and Business in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo.

Recently, his research has fo-cused on threats to global secu-rity in the 21st century and on how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological, and tech-nological change. Further infor-mation about Dr. Dixon can be found at [htt p://www.homer-dixon.com].

Dr. Dixon’s speech focused on how nature matters to hu-mankind in this age, going as far to say that this will be re-membered as the “Age of Na-ture.” He continued to declare that a natural world degraded could cause economic and so-cial problems within society. Dr. Dixon’s speech was broken into two parts: a description of

Global Security TalkConvergence, Crisis, and Creativity

the problem followed by so-lutions. However, before this break, Dr. Dixon stated, “cre-ativity and innovation come from crisis.”

Dr. Dixon began by saying that the belief between 1950 and 1990, that nature and the climate did not matt er, would cause human society to have to relearn that nature really does matt er. He explained that many crises all converging on society at once lead to an overload. Th is was defended with the analo-gy that “the world today is like a giant parking lot with Mack trucks all converging on soci-ety. When society moved out of the ‘truck’ marked energy, it only stepped into the path of the ‘truck’ marked climate and so on and so forth. Th ere is sim-ply no easy escape.”

He then declared that all great revolutions occurred when the institutions (states and governments) broke while being hit from various direc-tions by many issues.

In his book, “Th e Upside of Down,” Dr. Dixon focuses on the issues of population growth, environmental damage, ener-gy scarcity, climate change, and economic inequality, which all multiply the overload. Dr. Dix-on showed graphs which clear-ly showed that the last century has seen the largest growth in populations in the last 1500 years; the reasons for this be-ing the evolution of medicine, sanitation (fresh water and sew-age elimination), and nutrition.

Wealthier countries tend to have a higher population of middle-aged people, while poorer countries have a larger range of young people, who are in turn more prone to violence. With over half the human pop-ulation living in cities and the juxtaposition of poor and rich,

anger and jealousy are bound to plague the region, radicaliz-ing the population.

Next, Dr. Dixon spoke about climate change. He took a very strong stance that the data of global warming are undispu-table. According to Dr. Dixon, the problem with global warm-ing is not that the world is heat-ing, but rather that it is heating at its current rate with a world packed with people. Dr. Dixon said that the disruption of the Hadley Cell, Ferrel Cell, and the Polar Cell could be devas-tating not just to the Atlantic but to the world.

Finally, Dr. Dixon discussed the issue of energy and its ef-fect on society in the future. With the energy return on in-vestment shrinking rapidly as well as mature oil fi elds shrink-ing by 6.7 percent per year, so-ciety will need vast amounts of cheap energy to solve the prob-lem at hand.

Dr. Dixon concluded by sug-gesting solutions to the prob-lems and by answering audi-ence questions. His main points were that society needs to fi nd renewable resources and invest in nuclear power, coal with car-bon capture and storage, and technology to capture carbon in the atmosphere. Dr. Dixon emphasized that people and in-stitutions will need to become more resilient by increasing re-dundancy and diversity, maxi-mizing fl exibility, and most of all decentralizing.

When asked, “With the ob-vious implications of foregoing [sustainable] resources as soci-ety seems to be doing, at what point will mankind be so far in a hole that geoengineering, et ce-tera, will be worthless?”, Dr. Dix-on responded: “I do not know, but it is very possible it can hap-pen; it is just a matt er of when.”

NICK GEORGECorrespondent

Though it has been a few weeks since spring break,  I hope everyone had a fun break, got caught up on a little sleep, and were able to relax and un-wind in preparation for the fi nal weeks of the semester. As the end of the semester approaches, stu-dents oft en fi nd they do not have enough time each day to com-plete all that is on their sched-ules and are tempted to look for short cuts, including parking as close to a classroom as possible.

Chief Boden understands this, and has allowed students to park in faculty and staff lots be-tween the hours of 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. Monday through Friday, as well as all day on weekends. Th ere has been some confusion regard-ing parking in handicapped spac-es aft er hours. Please know that all handicapped spaces, in any lot, at any time of the day are always re-served for handicapped parking only and the vehicle is required to have a handicapped permit to park in these spaces.

Another problem occurs when students park outside of the last parking space. This frequent-ly happens in lot Q by building 80. Recently, the business offi ce had the roadway center lines and many parking spaces restriped, which should help.

As a courtesy, do not park a car in motorcycle-only parking areas.

I will also remind our students to please correctly adhere to the posted speed limits on campus. Drive cautiously, and give your-self a litt le extra time to get from point A to point B.

For students living on campus, it is important to follow univer-sity procedure when a fi re alarm goes off in one of the dorms. Stu-dents must exit the building and meet in the front parking lot area.

General Safety RemindersBe aware that residents may not return until given the all-clear from Housing personnel or a Safety offi cer, which will not be given until all rooms have been checked and the alarm system resets. Please be patient; this process takes time and may be-come annoying to some. None-theless, this is a safety standard established by ERA U and must be followed.

On the Mar. 26, BCA and housing life put on a concert with a beer garden near the Stu-dent Union. I would like to com-pliment all involved for orga-nizing and implementing a nice event. Kudos to the students who did participate: they had fun and were well-behaved, thus sending a message that this kind of event is

appreciated and ERA U students will act responsibly. Remember, though, this is still a dry campus and alcohol is not allowed.

Lastly on the subject of “drink-ing,” do not jeopardize your ca-reer and future by drinking and driving. Have a designated driver or call a cab. One mistake could alter your life and the education-al goals you are working so hard to achieve. So please don’t overdo your partying. Use discretion and some moderation; this will serve you best in the long run.

As fi nals approach and the se-mester-long projects come down to the wire, I can only remind you to focus on your studies, reprior-itize as needed, and give yourself just a litt le extra time to get things done. Good luck!

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Hall 4 in the Mingus Moun-tain Complex will be reward-ed with its very own barbe-cue for winning the Residence Hall Conservation Challenge, sponsored by RC2, the Re-source Conservation Coalition of ERA U. While Hall 4 was nev-er the individual winner for any of the months of the Challenge from November to February, it showed the most overall de-crease for the four-month period. 

Discussions about whether or not to continue the challenge for next year are ongoing. “We want to have a program that works,” said Barbara Munderloh, contact for the Coalition, “and we are get-ting feedback from the RA s that this isn’t really working.”

While energy was being saved during the Challenge, it seemed that the winners were winning more by happenstance than by

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BRA D CLANCYCorrespondent

any conscious eff ort to conserve. “I was at all the pizza parties for the hall winners,” said Munder-loh, and she saw no widespread evidence that a majority of any dorm had any idea of what was going on.

Part of the push to do away with the Conservation Chal-lenge has to do with the fact that the Resource Conservation Co-alition has to conserve its own re-sources. Like any organization, it can only do a finite number of things at once, and so it pre-fers programs that the students care about and are willing to con-sciously participate in.

One program that is doing well on both the student and staff levels is the “Offi ce Supply Swap,” held by the business department, in order to recycle business sup-plies. Other departments can drop by and pick up surplus of-fice supplies and other “junk,” since one department’s trash may be another’s treasure. Not only are the surplus supplies a

material treasure, the savings translates into a monetary trea-sure, decreasing the overhead for participating departments. Any materials not claimed are given away to Goodwill or oth-er local charities.

A variety of programs are be-ing considered to replace the Conservation Challenge, includ-ing a waste reduction plan for Chartwells, but the decision has not yet been made. Any students that want to voice their opinions or ideas are welcome to email Barbara Munderloh at [Barbara.Munderloh@erau.edu].

After a lot of buzz on campus, and a general stu-dent desire for an alternative web browser to Internet Ex-plorer, the IT Department has decided to add Mozilla Firefox to the school servers over the summer. All cam-pus computers will have the highly popular browser on their desktops.

Pete Nigh, part of the IT Department, said that IT only waited to add Firefox this long “because Firefox has had issues with Black-board that have now been fixed,” and of course the IT department would rather all browsers be able to adequate-ly support the website that the majority of the school’s professors use to post infor-mation about assignments, tests, and grades.

However, Firefox is the only browser to be added, because, according to IT, Google Chrome has signifi-cant issues with Adobe Flash

IT to Add Firefox to Servers

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media, and will not be practi-cal as a browser until these is-sues are fixed.

The recent buzz over Firefox started after a student in COM221 submitted a pro-posal in class to have Firefox on campus computers. This request was submitted to IT. This proposal drew a lot of student attention and sup-port, because Internet Ex-plorer is widely unpopular, even with the latest updates in IE 8.

Before this proposal, IT had already been consider-ing updating the comput-ers with a permanent instal-lation of Firefox, but made the decision to do it as a re-sult of the recent demand. Currently, when individual students download Firefox onto school computers, the program is gone the next day, when the “ghost im-age” updates to match the servers.

With the addition of Firefox, there is also hope that the e-mail problems will finally be fixed once and for all, but IT makes no promises.

“Thanks for staying!” was a phrase called out by Student Government Association offi-cers as several students grabbed the free pizza SGA provid-ed and promptly left the meet-ing on Apr. 8. The pizza was in-tended to get students to come and hear important SGA an-nouncements, which those stu-dents missed out on.

Announcements from the of-ficers were first on the agenda. Treasurer Andrew Stover remind-ed everyone who stayed that the deadline for club subsidiaries is Apr. 29. He asked for them to be in on time because he doesn’t want to have a big pile of papers on his desk at the end of the year.

Next were the service organi-zations. Horizons Newspaper re-ported the content deadline and date of the next issue. The Board of Campus Activities announced that comedian Dave Coulier was performing that night in the Ac-tivity Center.

Riddle Radio had several items to report. The Shaimus interview and Story of the Year interview

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Correspondent

From its modest beginning as a video-hosting site, YouTube has grown to giant proportions, with daily viral videos, person-al video channels, and pages de-voted to entertainment, news, politics, sports, and even video blogs. Recently YouTube added a new branch to its website, You-Tube EDU [http://youtube.com/edu]. The goal of EDU is to provide a home where colleg-es and universities can promote themselves by posting  videos that range from graduation cer-emonies, to classroom lectures, to sporting events.

Recently Embry-Riddle Aero-nautical University went “live” with its own YouTube EDU Channel [http://www.youtube.com/embryriddleuniv]. The ERAU Channel will gather all videos related to the university and campus life in one place. In addition, the channel will help promote the university to outsid-ers who want more information about the university. Campus life videos can provide an introduc-tion to the university to prospec-

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tive students and parents without requiring physical visits to a cam-pus, or supplement a campus visit.

So far, the ERAU Channel only has a few videos, some explaining degree programs the university offers, some explaining the his-tory of the Embry-Riddle name. Only a couple students have pro-duced videos so far.

To expand these offerings, and get listed on YouTube EDU’s di-rectory, the channel needs vid-eo submissions. The university is calling on all clubs, organizations, students, faculty, and staff to sub-mit videos to be featured on the university’s channel.

Video content can be anything from lectures, to club meetings or events, to videos showing what students do on the weekend. Vid-eos should expand on the ERAU experience and give viewers a feel for the campus without actually setting foot on it.

To submit videos from out-side of Prescott, comment on, or express concerns about the project, and suggest ways to im-prove the channel, send an e-mail to [commstu@erau.edu]. To submit Prescott videos, con-tact Doug Dickey at [doug.dick-ey@erau.edu].

would be available online once it was finished being processed. Shaimus performed at ERAU sev-eral weeks ago. Story of the Year performed in Phoenix. Also, there will be give-aways on Apr. 23, so Brian Lynch advised the meet-ing’s attendees to listen for that.

The Easter Egg Hunt was la-beled a success because many students attended.

The burning of the Spirit Rock

was also discussed. The rock has been burned several times. SGA asked students to stop burn-ing the rock, as an unburned rock keeps the campus nice and school spirit higher.

Dom Narducci reminded people that Shaimus’s banner is still missing, which reflects bad-ly upon the ERAU community. During Health and Safety Inspec-tions, there will be a search for it in the dorms.

People are reminded once again that students can volun-teer at the Salvation Army. The next day to do so is Apr. 20.

Two ver y important an-nouncements regarding the fall were made at the SGA meeting. First, the Octoberwest commit-tee is going to need a theme. If anyone has any ideas, they are welcome to stop by the SGA of-fice. Second, orientation leaders

are needed for the fall. These lead-ers will help the new students ac-climate to ERAU. People can ap-ply online for one of these spots.

Class evaluations will be avail-able soon. Students were advised to fill them out, since evaluations provide important feedback to the campus. It would be unfortu-nate if good professors were fired when class evaluations could have convinced the administra-tion to keep them on, a scenario

more likely with recent budget cuts. To suggest ways to motivate students to fill out class evalu-ations, stop by the SGA office.

Faculty and staf f award nominations are due Friday, Apr. 23, by 3 p.m. Please nom-inate your favorite faculty or staff member for recognition.

During open discussion, the poster policy was addressed. The posting policy is available at the SGA office and with Jim Sheridan, so visit either if you have any questions.

SGA President Clancy Del-forge also spoke about the tu-ition increase. A board meet-ing voted to raise the tuition by four percent. However, af-ter a review of the budgets and finances, it was discovered the Prescott campus has been do-ing much better f inancial-ly than was believed. The tu-ition increase was lowered to two percent. The two percent increase serves to cover the cost of living expenses, and is not in any way a sanction for not breaking even or turning a profit. The Prescott campus is expected to break even and be-gin making a profit in one to two years with the help of Dr. Ayers.

ERAU Launches YouTube Channel

Th ere has been a huge increase in population of the Embry-Rid-dle Aeronautical University’s Prescott campus. Apr. 9 to 10 was Parents’ Weekend and that meant a showcase of what it is their chil-dren are learning and doing at ERAU. The event began Friday, Apr. 9 at noon, but many parents arrived a few days prior. Check in was held at the Student Union in the Lower Hangar where packets were available for parents along with the addition of a name badge and pin proclaiming them a par-ent of an ERA U student.

Th ere were many exciting ac-tivities planned for the families. Th ese ranged from guest lectures to tours, and even to taking a fl ight in an airplane with a student.

Friday was a day looked for-ward to with anticipation and partial dread, at least for a few hours. Parents were invited to sit in on their children’s classes. Some parents took this oppor-tunity wholeheartedly. Th e wind tunnel, jet dragster, machine vi-sion, Air Traffi c Control lab, and the newly opened Global Securi-ty and Intelligence Studies Oper-ations Center each had their own tour and showcasing of abilities. At 7 p.m. the observatory opened for students and parents to take a tour and join astronomers in ob-serving the sky through a tele-scope. People in the observato-ry gained new knowledge in the science of astronomy and look-ing through the telescope by sev-eral Space Physics students with Dr. Brian Rachford. Andrew Mur-rell was kind enough to work that night as a grunt in the observato-

ry. Vans were supplied for par-ents and students to be driven to the observatory although some drove on their own and walked the rest of the way.

Saturday’s festivities started earlier than most students are awake on an ordinary weekend. A continental breakfast began at 7:45 a.m. and lectures from the deans of the colleges began around 8:15 a.m. Th ere were nu-merous briefings and lectures scheduled throughout the day. Professor Samantha Fitch gave a presentation about the Study Abroad Program and the oppor-tunities awaiting the students in abroad.

There were several tours of the aviation sector. Th e Robert-son Aviation Safety Center gave a tour of the Crash Investigation Lab. Flight line tours included the opportunity to fl y with a student aft er a barbecue at the Good to Go Restaurant. Parents and stu-dents had the opportunity to fl y in an airplane or a simulator.

There was a car show during the athletic events. Th e College Motorsports Association dis-played cars in the campus’s park-ing lots while soccer, volleyball, and rugby played in the Athletic Center. Th e Men’s Soccer scrim-mage began at 4 p.m. as the last activity of the day.

Students and parents were ex-cited to see each other for the most part. Parents were taken through tours of the campus ei-ther in an offi cial group or shown by their children. Parents were put at ease by the quality of ed-ucation and professors at ERA U. Th ey could go home now know-ing their children were in capable hands in terms of preparing them for the future.

Parents’ WeekendALLISON CISNEROS

Correspondent

ble American Women. In 1992, she was teaching yoga in St. Louis, Missouri, counting among her clients the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. She was a guest teacher at various health spas, and taught yoga in Tempe, Arizona, for 5 years, before mov-ing to California. Once there, she was introduced to Anusara yoga, and studied it under its found-er, John Friend. In 1996 she ap-

peared in the International Who’s Who of professionals.

Her mott o is, “LYFE is WORK but LYFE does WORK!” She is very dedicated to putting the “Y,”  which symbolizes “you,” back into life, teaching and speaking on the subject at seminars. She be-lieves that change is a natural and good part of life, and this philos-ophy is part of what she teaches in her classes.

No one told you the hardest part of being an engineer would be finding your first job. Of course, it’s still possible to get the high-tech work you want by joining the U.S. Air Force. You can leverage your degree immediately and get hands-on experience with some of the most sophisticated technology on earth.

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tine surprises a lot of people,” Coulier refl ected.

Some of Coulier’s favorite co-medians include Charlie Chap-lin, Jackie Gleason, George Car-lin, and even some “younguns” like Bill Engvall.

Coulier is very laid back. He discussed his hobbies: ice hock-ey, golf, and fl ight. He also noted that he does not enjoy yoga, but he does enjoy yogurt.

When asked about whether or not he would like to return to ERA U, Coulier simply said yes. “I miss my son a lot when he’s away. More than he probably knows.”

So keep an eye out next time you are at ERA U’s Prescott cam-pus. The next time you walk around, you could see Uncle Joey fl ying overhead or palling around campus with his son.

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advance the application of sanctions on Iran’s controversial nuclear program.

Development: President Hu and President Obama have agreed to advance the multilateral ne-gotiation process by att ending the two day summit starting Apr. 12. In a Foreign Ministry statement, Beijing emphasized its willingness to continue working on a peaceful resolution concerning Iran’s nuclear program. Washington announced that the summit will present an important opportunity to address nuclear proliferation violations and protect-ing against nuclear terrorism.

Analysis: As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China often utilizes its veto power to stop sanctions aimed at Iran. Bei-jing has reiterated its commitment to push dip-lomatic solutions on the Iranian issue. Th ese at-tempts have had litt le signifi cance in reform in the region. Beijing’s commitment to the nuclear sum-mit shows its interest in joining the international community’s determination to condemn Iran’s lack of transparency and unwillingness to coop-erate with international regulations. Th is may also be Beijing’s att empt at maintaining relations with Washington amid growing tensions over Taiwan and currency issues.

[ Jose A Salomon]

INDIA: Maoists Ambush Security Forces

Summary: An ambush by Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh has threatened the possibility of talks between Naxalist leadership and the Indian government.

Development: On Apr. 6, 76 paramilitary of-fi cers died in an ambush by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels in the Dantewa-da District of Chhatt isgarh. Seventy-fi ve members of the Central Reserve Police Force and one mem-ber of the Police Head Constable died. Inspector-General of Police R.K. Vij initially claimed up to 1,000 Naxal rebels carried out the att ack as the po-lice convoy returned from a jungle operation; how-ever, later sources placed the number from 300 to 700 rebels. Th is is the deadliest Maoist att ack since the left -wing extremist movement began with a land revolt in 1967. Th e Indian Prime Minister has de-clared Naxalism the country’s greatest internal se-curity threat.

Analysis: Th e att ack poses a major threat to the possibility of dialogue between the CPI-Mao-ists and the government. Th e ambush comes during an off ensive in the Red Corridor of northeast India, involving 56,000 federal offi cers. Naxalist leadership is calling for a halt on the off ensive and the release of four senior Maoists from prison before consider-ing peace talks. While minor Maoist att acks occur almost weekly in the region, the number of CRPF casualties in this att ack is unprecedented. Th is inci-dent will likely intensify the government off ensive in the Red Corridor, which will increase the likeli-hood of similar rebel att acks and severely reduce chances of talks between the CPI-Maoists and the government.

[Scott Small]

the University of Texas. If the violence continues the Mexican Army troops withdrawn from Ciudad Juarez will most likely see deployment to the streets of Monterrey.

[Cody Kaufman]

CHINA: Russian S-300 Missile Delivery Confi rmed

Summary: China’s recently purchased Rus-sian S-300 surface-to-air missile delivery system could boost China’s military capability to protect geopolitical interests.

Development: The General Director of Almaz-Antei, the Russian missile developer Igor Ashurbeili, said that the arms sale contract with China had been concluded but gave no indication of how much it was worth or specifi cally how many S-300s had been delivered. Mr. Ashurbeili added that there was a “huge line” of foreign clients waiting to buy S-300s and the more advanced version, the S-400, but that no new contracts would be signed for the time being.

Analysis: Considered to be one of the most potent anti-aircraft missile systems currently avail-able, an S-300 batt ery is usually comprised of four truck-mounted installations, each consisting of four missiles. It can simultaneously track up to 100 targets and engage up to 12. Th is recent purchase supplements China’s existing batt alion of eight S-300PMU2 systems positioned on the coast op-posite Taiwan. While Western analysts believe the S-300 is comparable to the American PAC-3, they have yet to be combat tested. With a range of over 100 miles (150 kilometers), this defense system will increase China’s military capability to main-tain an anti-denial, anti-access zone encompass-ing both Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait.

[ Jose A Salomon]

CHINA: Att ending Nuclear Summit 

Summary: Th e President of China, Hu Jin-tao has agreed to att end a nuclear proliferation summit in Washington on Apr. 12 which could

gram announced that the base was empty and the event would not aff ect its operations in the coun-try. Al-Shabaab controls a majority of southern Somalia, while the UN-backed government only controls a small portion of its capital, Mogadishu. Meanwhile, the trend of competition for control of central Somali towns continued with fi ghting between al-Shabaab and Ahlu Sunnah Waljama’a (ASWJ) in the town of Mataban, in the central re-gion of Hiran. Citing residents interviewed, Ga-rowe Online reported that al-Shabaab captured the town without resistance, then lost it to ASWJ fi ghters arriving from Guriel, ASWJ’s stronghold in the region.

MEXICO: Mexican Traffi ckers Sow Chaos with Blockades

Summary: In Monterrey, drug gangs organized street protests and road blocks, causing chaos as traf-fi ckers att empt to show their power, eager to encour-age authorities to back off .

Development: Luis Carlos Trev iño Berchelmann, head of public security for the state of Nuevo León, in which Monterrey is located, at-tributes road blocks to recent antidrug offenses. Th e government labels this recent development as a “desperate att empt.” Local newspapers describe young men assaulting stranded motorists with a va-riety of handheld and projectile weapons. Th e army shot two university students, and 81 state police par-ticipating in the gang actions have been fi red. On Apr. 2, the University of Texas urged all exchange students to return to the U.S. as violence increas-es in the country.

Analysis: Fierce fi ghting between the Mexi-can Government and drug traffi ckers is resulting in a wavering support for President Calderon’s an-tidrug campaign. Th e president ran on an antidrug platform that has been stalemated in the last few months due to corruption within the police force. Lawlessness in the countryside is creating favor-able circumstances for drug cartels resulting in the continued drug trade in the country. Th e Calder-on administration’s lack of authority in the region is highlighted by the cartels’ actions. Th e recent road-blocks and violence prompted the statement from

UNITED KINGDOM: Airline Merger

On Apr. 8, British Airways and Spanish airline Iberia signed a merger agreement. Th e merger was provincially agreed on November 2009 and is ex-pected to take eff ect by the end of this year. Th e move results in the creation of one of the world’s largest airline groups. Th e new company will be called International Airlines Group and will con-tinue to operate as it has before the merger.

ISRA EL: Netanyahu Cancels US Trip

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can-celled a visit to the United States where he planned to attend a nuclear summit hosted by President Barack Obama. According to BBC, Mr. Netan-yahu made the decision aft er learning that Egypt and Turkey would also att end the summit to raise the issue of Israel’s nuclear program. Israel’s Intelli-gence and Atomic Energy Minister Dan Meridor will att end the summit in place of Mr. Netanyahu.

COLOMBIA: Army Finds FARC Explosives

The Colombian army discovered 727 kilos of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) explosives, the Latin American Herald Tribune reported Apr. 7. Acting on collected in-telligence, soldiers found the explosives hidden in barrels near Puerto Rico, a town in the Caqu-eta province where several FARC units are said to operate.

SOMALIA: Al-Shabaab Raids UN Base

On Apr. 8, al-Shabaab took control of a United Nations compound in southern Somalia. Accord-ing to the BBC, militants disarmed the guards at the base in Wajid. However, the World Food Pro-

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It is clear that the Embry-Riddle community is plagued by an all too common academic disease. Over the past three years, the numbers of detected cases have risen reach-ing their peak at the end of Spring 2009, when in the College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) alone, 35 careless students were diagnosed with acute plagiarism.

To respond to this epidemic, the faculty has reinforced all of its defenses, from sanctions to pre-vention. Plagiarists will be tracked down, and the medication might not taste so good. 

“The sanctions are based first and foremost on the extent to which the student has plagia-rized and if there have been pre-vious academic integrity viola-tions,” said Dr. Donna Barbie, the chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department and the enforcer for any plagiarism oc-currence in the COAS. 

The University is a learning en-vironment and people make mis-takes. However, Barbie was clear on her position: even if you don’t mean to plagiarize, the intent doesn’t matter. You are still steal-

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ing intellectual property. Again, the punishment can

vary: if the student is an inexperi-enced freshman and has no previ-ous academic violation, he might fail the concerned class or even just the assignment. However in some cases, the faculty can go as far as expelling the plagiarist. 

Also, a report of the abuse will be lodged in the student’s file kept by the Dean. 

“I think there has been a signif-icant increase in plagiarism in the past five years because of the ease of access to the Internet,” said Bar-bie. “I am not sure students un-derstand or care about the con-cept of intellectual property.”

However, how is plagiarism detected? In addition to SafeAs-sign, the latest plagiarism detec-tion system, professors are usu-ally really good at identifying its symptoms in a student paper. Unusual sentence structures or breaks in the flow of the essay are easy tip-offs for experienced instructors.

“We never assume that a stu-dent plagiarizes, but we can get suspicious and start research-ing it,” said Dr. Libbie Searcy, the head of Embry-Riddle’s Writing Program. “What students don’t realize is that it is as easy for them

to find information as it is for us to find it back.”

In other words, Google can work both ways. 

Once plagiarism is confirmed, it is the instructor’s duty to report it to the enforcer of their respec-tive college. 

“Faculty members are pledged to report plagiarism,” said Barbie. “They report cases to me, and I am the investigator. They provide me with the evidence, and I then invite the student to a pre-hearing conference.”

At this point students face two options: they can either accept responsibility for the violation as well as the sanction that comes with it, or seek a formal hearing with their Dean or the Student Court. In the past three years, all but two of the confronted stu-dents accepted responsibility for their actions. 

However, the main focus of the COAS’ efforts is on prevention. While all syllabi in the commu-nication, humanities, and social sciences classes mention the an-ti-plagiarism policy, the problem has to be tackled at its root. 

“We want to make sure we teach COM 122 students how to properly document the sourc-es they find,” said Searcy, who is

also one of the instructors for this freshman class. 

This is why professors take time in this class to get their stu-dents through a plagiarism crash course to make them understand the nature of the disease and how to stay away from it. 

“We also encourage instructors to create plagiarism-resistant es-says,” said Searcy. “If we give too much freedom [on the topic of the paper], it gets too easy to plagiarize.”

An example for this type of as-signment would be to be only al-low students to use the in-class readings as sources for their paper. 

Searcy commented that in a school such as ERAU, it is some-times hard to get students to un-derstand how important writing is for their career. 

Every year, employers com-plete surveys that evaluate the ERAU graduates they have hired, and how well their edu-cation has prepared them for the job. They are also asked to deter-mine their weaknesses. 

And every year, the one at the top of the list is the area of com-munication/writing skills, and part of these skills include being able to properly cite your sourc-es in a paper.

Upcoming School Year to have New Tuition Price

Starting in the upcoming Fall 2010 semester, a 2 percent tuition increase will come into effect. The University originally forecasted a 4 percent increase; however, the number was decreased due to im-provement in certain sectors. 

According to Executive Vice President and Chief Academ-ic Officer Dr. Richard Heist, the University’s fixed cost has increased.

“Everything we do costs most money like regular operations, health, electricity, and water bills,” Heist said. 

Heist added that a year and a half ago the administration raised the tuition increase from two to four percent due to the “econom-ic issue in the country.”

In time, the administration found it reasonable to bring that percentage down for the upcom-ing school year. 

In response to if the tuition in-crease will continue to hike up ev-ery school year, Heist said that the decision will be made depending on the economic situation of the school at that time. 

“Right now we need to cover

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the costs; the primary income, about 85 percent, comes from tu-ition. We have to augment the rev-enue, the University is also look-ing into other aspects,” Heist said. 

Sophomore Juan Agon was at first disappointed that there need-ed to be an increase in tuition “in order to sustain the budget.”

“Instead of increasing the tu-ition, I feel that there are better ways of managing the budget. Both the administration and stu-dents could do a better job at sav-ing money within our school,” Agon said. 

Heist suggests that the better care people take of the institu-tion, the more money the school can save. 

Similarly, sophomore Taral Pa-

tel feels like the student body can reduce the amount of energy used in dorms and the amount of water used. “I think students abuse it, I think it would make a difference if everyone contributed in help-ing,” Patel said. 

Lastly, Heist indicated that the school is depending on the up-coming enrollment, which in-cludes incoming undergradu-ate freshman, military transfers, and transfer students for the next school year. The current target en-rollment is about 1250 students, an estimated figure that the bud-get is based on. 

“We’re concerned about the increasing burden, we’re trying to step into the right direction,” Heist said.

When I was an undergrad at ERAU, by the time I was a senior I could not take any more. I was burnt out. Grad school was not even a consideration. I wanted to get out of college and never come back. I had had enough. Don’t get me wrong, in hindsight I know I got a great education, but I was just tired of school and ready to get out into the world and work; make a few bucks. I was sick of be-ing poor and just barely making it. 

I did get a job and really liked being out of school. But a few years went by as well as a few jobs and I discovered that unless you have a Master’s degree, corporate Amer-ica doesn’t really let you “run the show.” In other words, I discov-ered that a graduate degree was something I needed if I wanted to move up in a company and have a significant leadership role. Now this is not always the case, but I must say in my experience most of the time it is. So I went back to school; something I never thought I would do and was not overly en-thusiastic about. I decided to come back to good ol’ ERAU. And you know what? Grad school suited

me much better than undergrad and it was a great decision.

That is my story but you need to make up your own mind tak-ing into consideration how you feel and your situation. For exam-ple, if you like school, you’re do-ing well, and you’re not burnt out, think about continuing on to grad school. It makes perfect sense be-cause you already have the study habits, you are used to school and how it works, and you are already “in the groove.” Plus, it would be nice to start your first job with it already out of the way, and with a graduate degree you often get paid a good bit more. Plus in this challenging job mar-ket, great people may not find a job so grad school is an excel-lent option. Traditionally, in dif-ficult job markets people have gone back to school not only to learn more and get an advanced degree, but to wait out the diffi-cult job market for a couple of years in hopes that when they graduate grad school, the mar-ket has turned around. This is an excellent plan. To put it an-other way, when you are a com-pany and the economy is in a down turn, it is a GREAT time to invest in your infrastructure like buildings or improvements.

That way you buy these things at a low price and when the market turns around you are poised to take full advantage. Well, in a down economy your educa-tion is your infrastructure.

Now if you were like me and could not take one more day of college, then go out into industry and get some experience. Some would argue that this is the best way to go because you get a cou-ple of years of experience under your belt to draw upon when you do go back to grad school. This can help you when you are solv-ing problems, analyzing different situations and writing papers be-cause you have a frame of refer-ence from your past work ex-perience. Plus, there are some companies that will pay for some if not all of your tuition if you are working for them already. That is a sweet deal, but it takes a lot of discipline to take classes and work a full time job, so it is not easy either way.

So the answer is really pretty simple because it is an individ-ual decision. There is no right or wrong way to do it. There are plusses and minuses on both sides. So evaluate your sit-uation and pick what option is best for you.

Advice on Grad School from ERAU Alumnus

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Aside from the cash and landfill benefits, mobile phone recycling schemes may well have another im-portant role to play, HookedOnRe-cyling.com researches further. 

The recycling of mobile phones has seen a boom in popularity in re-cent years with a whole host of re-cycling website and companies of-fering to pay cash for any type of phone, working or not. In the UK alone, 15 million handsets were re-cycled last year, enough to stretch from one end of the country to the other. 

There are obvious benefits to recycling your old mobile phone through companies such as the well-known [https://www.lov-e2recycle.com] not least the cash and also the environmental impact, allowing your phone to be reused instead of sent to landfill. The latter is a particularly important point for conservationists who campaign furiously about toxic chemicals in mobiles phones leaking out and affecting local water supplies, plant life, and wildlife.

But some conservationists are saying that mobile phone recy-cling can have another positive ef-

Recycling Mobile Phones Helps Environment

fect on a specific species of animal, the gorillas of central Africa. This is because; in addition to the cadmi-um, arsenic, copper, zinc, and lead in mobile phones, there is another in-gredient that’s causing damage in a different way and its name is coltan.

Coltan is used in the manufac-ture of mobile phones and the larg-est excavations of the mineral are currently in the forests of Congo, central Africa, habitat of the endan-gered lowland gorillas. The majority of the coltan needed for the ever-ex-panding mobile phone industry has come from Congo’s out-of-control coltan mining businesses.

The mining of coltan for mobile phones has dramatically reduced animal habitats and contributed to a 70 percent population decline of the eastern lowland gorilla. Speak-ing about the situation, Karen Kill-mar, the associate curator of mam-mals at the San Diego Zoo said: “Recycling old phones is a way for people to do something very sim-ple that could reduce the need for additional coltan, and help protect the gorillas.”

Sandra Waldorf, from Hooke-dOnRecycling.com, said: “By re-cycling mobile phones, people can help to cut the need for new hand-sets and in turn reduce the mining of minerals for manufacture.”

JAY KWONSenior Correspondent

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Baseball Season Swings Into Action With New Excitement

JULIA HOWLINDAssistant Editor

With Semester Ending, Intramurals Continue to Attract Students as Great Stress Relievers

On Sunday, Apr. 4, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees met on the diamond on open-ing night of the baseball season for the 28th time in their storied histories.

In a game that saw sixteen runs scored and a come-from-behind win by the Red Sox, the season began in fi ne fashion. Fen-way Park rolled out the red car-pet and pulled out all of the stops for this glorious occasion. Even fi reworks were on tap for the pre-game celebrations.

These festivities, and other just-as-exciting games, were car-ried out all across the country the following day, as the rest of the Major League Baseball teams swung into action. Now begins the long, arduous season which will see many ups and downs as teams batt le it out for the ultimate prize, the World Series trophy.

Many of the teams start this year vastly changed from how they ended the season last year. From coaching changes, to front-offi ce personnel changes, to free agency pick-ups and trades, many of the 30 teams face an uncertain or at least uncharted future.

Th is is only one of the reasons that this season is brimming with excitement and intrigue as it gets under way. Another reason for the large hype for this season is that most divisions are up for grabs. Over the off season, many teams have become real contend-ers for the pennant race.

This has happened for two major, yet simple, reasons. The teams that have been good for years—for example, the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers—have started to stag-nate and get old. Th e teams that have been bad in recent years, the San Francisco Giants and Colo-rado Rockies, are starting to reap the rewards for their patience as

their young talent comes to frui-tion this year.

This fundamental change in baseball team theory, from high-priced proven free agents to bar-gain unproven rising stars, has al-lowed the small-market teams to fi nally compete regularly again. Take, for example, the Tampa Bay Rays of the past few years. They have removed their top heavy-salary players and spent their limited money developing young raw talent.

For these reasons, many teams have a chance this year. Th is will provide a large amount of excite-ment for baseball enthusiasts, no matt er what team they root for. It is very possible that come Sep-tember, no division race will be decided, providing for a great post-season push.

In baseball, there are two leagues and three divisions per league. When you take a look at baseball analysts’ predictions for who will be atop each division at the end of the year, you can see

large variations in favorites. For those readers who are not

familiar with the baseball playoff system, there are four teams per league that participate in the play-off s. Th ese four teams are com-prised of the three division win-ners for that league, plus the team that has the best record of the teams who did not win a division.

These four teams then enter into the playoffs. The number-one seed plays the fourth seed and the second-seed plays the third seed in the fi rst round. Th is fi rst round is a best-out-of-fi ve se-ries called the Divisional Series. The two winners from the first round then play each other in a best-of-seven series called the League Championship Series.

Once the league champions from each league have been de-termined, they face each other in another best-of-seven series called the World Series. Th e win-ner of this series is the champi-on of Major League Baseball for that year.

Whether you are a rabid base-ball fan or just the boyfriend that gets dragged along to watch, this year is going to be very exciting. Take part in America’s greatest pastime and, over the summer, take the time to head out to the old ball yard and catch a game or two.

Does it sometimes feel like you are working out constant-ly, and just not seeing any prog-ress? Or sometimes do you ever get the feeling that you are just “out of gas” as you step in the gym? Well, a simple answer is this: you are tired, and you need rest! Unfortunately, our bodies are just not perfectly-tuned ma-chines that can crank out a hun-dred percent all the time. Actu-ally, sometimes exercising too much can be negative, and det-rimental to your body and your health.

In a past column, I wrote about the importance of rest and relaxation. To review, rest-ing is the one period during your journey in working out that is critical to muscle growth and development. Your body is under stress, and uses ener-gy and complex nutrients dur-ing workouts. Aft er a full hour or two of these stresses, your body becomes fatigued and needs rest in order to complete the transferring of nutrients. Rest is where your body recovers most eff ectively. And depriving the body of that recovery stage is asking your body too much.

Exercising too much can become detrimental to your health, and actually have nega-tive eff ects on your body. First, you are not allowing your body to rest. Resting completes the cycle of working out, and again, it is the best time for recovery. Your muscles will need to catch up with your brain, and if you do not allow it, you are simply not going to get the results you want. Th is simple fact is why working out too much is possible.

Biologically, your body will not be eff ective at transferring nutrients like proteins and ami-no acids. In fact, your body will be depriving your muscles of these vital nutrients, and use them for energy and fat con-version! Obviously, your body will need energy in order to

Why do so many students participate in intramural sports at Embry-Riddle Aeronatical University? Well, when you do some sort of physical activ-ity you are able to release enor-mous amounts of stress that build up from a hard week or even day of classes, homework, and frustrating tasks. Playing in one of the many activities the school off ers, such as fl ashball, sand volleyball, basketball, and many more that students take an interest in really helps clear your mind and just lets you have enormous amounts of fun.

Why not let loose your com-petitive side that dominates the field or court? Team up with some people you know or even gain a bigger thrill by finding new people to play with to go out and challenge your oppo-nents. Th ere really is no crime in taking a break from home-work to have fun just for about an hour or so with friends. Marc LeBourdais knows that study-ing all day can be quite over-whelming; “Sometimes you just need a break from working so hard and there is no bett er way

than playing intramurals. Last year I participated in the sand volleyball intramurals, howev-er this year I am a much more avid fl ashball player.”

Having played a wide range of sports myself, I find it ex-tremely exhilarating to go out and try my skills at a brand new sport, mainly for the ex-citement of learning some-thing new and meeting many diff erent people that have sim-ilar interests to mine. Playing a sport helps people bond quick-ly since right away you already have something in common for participating in that activity.

The intensity some people bring to the games is prett y im-pressive, but you don’t have to be an expert player to partici-pate. Th ere really is no reason to not fi nd a way to participate in these amazing activities. You stay active, meet many new peo-ple that may share a common interest with you that you may not have known. Th ey’re an out-let from homework that makes another part of your brain work, and you get to enjoy the won-derful outdoors under the bright sun and clean air.

Overall , intramurals at ERA U have been very success-ful over the years since so many

people participate and enjoy them. “By no means do they get old over the years since there are diff erent people to play against each time which also changes the game up a litt le. Not to men-tion they are just enjoyable to partake in and challenge your

skills with those of others in a friendly way,” LeBourdais said.What is great for students is the school allows a variety of intra-murals throughout the year, providing a range of skill levels and opportunity for students to play a fun sport. Not only

are the intramurals a great way to meet people, but they pres-ent a way for you to release all of that stress you have built up already. So go out there and en-joy the beautiful outdoors while keeping active but still having a blast!

Ben Wilking / Horizons Newspaper

Th e best predictions for the American League are:AL West: Los Angeles Angels of Aneheim AL Central: Minnesota Twins AL East: New York Yankees AL Wild Card: Seatt le Mariners  Th e best predictions for the National League are:NL West: San Francisco Giants NL Central: St Louis Cardinals NL East: Philadelphia Phillies NL Wild Card: Colorado Rockies

 This year’s World Series Winner prediction: Philadelphia Phillies

BRENTON WOODRUFFPhotographer

Aft er a long season fi lled with upsets and triumphs, the men’s college basketball season came to a close Monday night, Apr. 5, with the Duke Blue Devils beat-ing Butler 61-59. Th e game was an excellent conclusion to the men’s half of an exciting and very strange tournament—they don’t call it March Madness for nothing! From the beginning of the men’s tournament, we saw many upsets, as underdog teams fought their way to the top. The first big and notable upset was when 14th-ranked Ohio crushed the second-seed Georgetown in the fi rst round. Next, 13th-seed Murray States beat Vanderbilt, ranked fourth, and Washington won against Marquett e, sett ing up a tourna-ment which would truly live up to the title of March Madness.

The final game of the men’s tournament was of the kind that

every sports fan hopes for. Fift h-seed Butler, which traveled an unlikely and hard road through the past couple of years, was in the fi nal for the fi rst time in the school’s history, entering the game to defend their 25-game winning streak. Th is year, But-ler proved to everybody that it is not only the big schools with lots of money who can make it into the fi nal. Butler competed against Duke, the number-one seed in the Southern Division, competing for their long-await-ed fourth national title. 

In the final minutes of the game, Butler was able to shave a fi ve-point defi cit and was down by only one point. Th eir fi rst at-tempt came up short and But-ler was forced to foul Zoubek from Duke, who made only one of his two free throws. As the game came to a close, Butler threw up one last fi nal shot from midcourt to try to beat the buzz-er and win the game. Th e shot bounced off the backboard, the rim, and then the fl oor, which

caused most of the Butler fans to let out a loud “ohhhh” as the Duke players ran out onto the fl oor. 

It is always exciting for any sports fan when a game pitt ing the underdogs against a big name comes down to the fi nal seconds. Butler proved that they deserved to be in the fi nal. Th e game ended with the closest margin of victory since Michi-gan defeated Seton Hall by one point in 1989. 

When asked about the game, Butler coach Brad Stevens said, “We just came up a bounce short.” Th ere is fear that a tour-nament fi lled with close games, upsets and underdogs could be a thing of the past as there are talks that the NCAA will ex-pand the division one tourna-ment to include 96 teams next year instead of the 64 teams that have competed in the past. Th e tournament has been an excel-lent close to an exciting season, leaving many excited to see what next year will bring.

Wrap Up: Two Teams Duke it Out to the End

Can Kobe Briant and the Los Angeles Lakers really pull off an-other victory aft er their last one in 2009? Many can only hope not, but the truth lies within the other teams and their players. Currently, the Cavaliers hold the number one seed in power rank-ings followed by the Magic, Lak-ers, Suns, and Jazz. Th roughout the NBA history, only 12 teams have posted consecutive 60-win seasons, Cleveland being one of them. Nine of the 11 predeces-sors have brought home a cham-

pionship; Dallas and Utah being the only exceptions. However, the Orlando Magic follow close-ly behind, being the only team in the league to beat the other 29. Furthermore, recent Lak-ers’ losses to San Antonio, New Orleans, and Atlanta may fore-shadow a bumpy road ahead for the team.

With the Phoeni x Suns moving from the number five position to number four, they could prove trouble-some later on in the playoffs.Th e accuscore at [htt p://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/predic-tions] puts the Cavaliers on top eight out of twenty times. Th e

NICK GEORGECorrespondent

Sometimes when I come to the gym, I notice that there are those people who bring a duff el bag, or a litt le backpack, to just keep track of their belongings and personal material. I notice that some people just bring their keys, cellular phone, wallets, and more. However, there should be other equipment that the avid gym-goer should bring.

1) Water bottle: A water bott le is defi nitely a useful item to bring, even if the gym has an

installed water fountain. Having a water bott le is not only conve-nient, but it also is for keeping track of how much water you actually drink. Th e idea is not to only drink water when you are thirsty, or feel dehydrated, but you should constantly take sips of water throughout your whole work out. A good rule of thumb to remember is that you should take a sip of water aft er every complete set of exercise. For example, right aft er fi nish-ing your set of 10 to 15 repeti-tions on bench press, you may want to grab a sip of water as you rest for the next set. Th e water

will not only keep you hydrat-ed; it will also balance your me-tabolism, providing you con-sistent energy throughout your exercise.

2) Towel: A towel is defi-nitely an item to bring out of gym courtesy and convenience. It is always nice to bring a towel for your sweat! It can be a hassle when sweat is all over, and you have to use your shirt or whatev-er cloth you have to wipe it off . Use that towel! Also, sweat does not just stay on your body, but also wipes off onto the equip-ment you are using. It is much appreciated if you can wipe off

the equipment off for the next person up.

3 ) G l o v e s / We i g h t straps:  Weightlifting can sometimes damage your hands and your skin. Gloves can pro-tect your hand from skin rough-ness and calluses. Also, gloves are inexpensive and aff ordable. Weight straps are also nice to bring because they can aid in some of your heavier weightlift -ing exercises with proper tech-nique usage. Weight straps are sometimes provided; however, sharing certain equipment with other users can be also just as harmful to your skin.

Hawks follow closely with four out of twenty times; the Maver-icks, three out of twenty times, and the Lakers on two out of twenty times. What does this mean? At this point, not much, only time can tell with key inju-ries for teams such as the Suns, Spurs, and the Hawks.

In other NBA news, Scott Brooks of the Oklahoma City Thunder became the leading contender for coach of the year. In addition, Sam Presti has be-come a top candidate for execu-tive of the year, both factors pos-sibly leading to a home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs. Honorable for

such a young team, but amaz-ing in that they will make their charge all the way to home-court advantage in the fi rst round of the playoffs when it opens the week of the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, with President Clinton scheduled to be in town for ceremonies.

Does a $90 million contract cry out Kobe’s commitment to his career with the Lakers? Th is was obviously the case in pre-vious games; however, for cen-turies, there has been no “I” in

team, therefore can the rest of the Lakers hop on the bandwag-on and back Kobe and their ti-tle up into June? With three loss-es in their last four road games, the word vulnerability comes up time and time again. Th ousands of questions come into play at this point; do the Lakers miss Trevor Ariza, or is it Andrew By-num; has Fisher fi nally run out of gas? Only time will tell and those who are fans of the Lak-ers can only hope for a miracle.

Additionally, Dwane Wade continues to carry the Miami

4) Belt: A weight belt is use-ful for safety purposes, espe-cially when having your own to use. Some gyms provide spares to use, such as the ERA U gym; however, just what will happen if all are being used? I would rec-ommend bringing your own so that you will not have to be out of luck or at risk.

5) Spare Jacket:  I know sometimes that the weather can be warm at times; howev-er, as the weather starts to cool down, or if you like conducting an evening workout, I would recommend bringing a jacket. Th e sweat on your body can not

only cool you even more when you step outside, but your mus-cles do actually need to stay warm to further expedite mus-cle growth and nutrient trans-fer. Your blood temperature should drop gradually, instead of immediately. This way that your body maintains a constant blood pressure, and your circu-latory and metabolistic process-es maintain a stable level, allow-ing much more effi cient muscle growth and development.

Remember to always bring what you need, or things that you think you may need. Finally, always stay safe, and be focused!

Can the Lakers Hold Their Own Against the League? NBA Action Heating Up As Playoffs Loom

Heat while performing his jug-gling act of personal problems and team super-star. George Karl of the Nuggets could miss the fi rst round, is this devastat-ing? Karl Malone and Scottie Pippen will join the 1992 U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team as Naismith Memorial Basket-ball Hall of Fame inductees—along with, if the rumors are true, Dennis Johnson, Lakers owner Jerry Buss, legendary high school coach Bob Hurley Sr., and four-time WNBA cham-pion Cynthia Cooper.

On the Weightlifting Checklist, Bringing Own Equipment May Not Be As Much A

Hassle As People ThinkJAY KWON

Senior Correspondent

work out. Your stomach and liver will

start converting fat and com-plex carbohydrates into ener-gy that you need. However, if your body starts running out of those energy sources, your liv-er will start running on its own reserves, and start pulling nutri-ents like zinc, magnesium, and protein away from your mus-cles. These nutrients are needed for muscle growth and strength-ening. If they are used for energy,

then your muscles may become starved, and you will not see the results that you are looking for.

So here are some tips that you can do to avoid working out too much.

First, recognize that your body has limits and is not a ma-chine. You cannot work at a hundred percent one hundred percent of the time.

Second, force yourself to pri-oritize your goals around safe-ty. If you are tired, you not only

lose energy, but focus. This can become extremely unsafe when you start losing your track of where you are in your repeti-tions, and also where you are in your weight training and exer-cising journey.

Finally, and this is the easiest step: rest! All you have to do is balance the time you are at the gym, school, and other activities with a healthy amount of sleep.

Remember to always be safe, rest once in awhile, and have

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MATT DEGOLLADOSports Editor

Here at ERAU, our Athlet-ics Department makes sure we have enough intramural sports to keep us busy when not over-loaded with homework. They try to make an adequate schedule, but because the weather is cold and windy for most of the school year, many sports are difficult to offer. They do what they can as far as sports go. Flashball, soccer, and volleyball are the only sports that are offered each semester, but what about other events?

I have always wondered why there is never a water polo tour-nament or water basketball tour-nament during the beginning of the fall semester, when the weath-er is as warm as it is going to get. I know many students already wish that the school had an in-

door swimming pool for a better way to work out when the weath-er turns bad. Water polo is a diffi-cult sport that requires top fitness from its players, while water bas-ketball is, overall, just fun.

For the student that loves a challenge, I think there should be a semester relay race and ob-stacle course composed of as many events as possible. It would be done mid-semester and the team with the best performance and shortest time would be the winners. We have Arizona’s amaz-ing landscape, so we should use it to our advantage. This would be a great way to focus more on physical agility and coordination rather than just weightlifting and running.

Once in a blue moon, I have seen people around campus with lacrosse sticks, and I always wonder where this is going on and why more people haven’t

played. The trouble with this is, if there was a club, you would have to have your own equipment, and intramurals probably will not try to teach you. The game seems in-teresting enough for a big fan to try and start a team.

Also, ERAU has a lot of stu-dents that have come from an-other country. Cricket is played worldwide and is similar to American baseball. I know for sure there are people that play it on campus, and others are in-trigued but are hesitant to ask to play. So to the international stu-dents, if you really know a sport that is not played here, and will draw in some people that you can become friends with, then do not be afraid to get it started.

Sports are a great way to get people to come together and in-teract with different ideas. ERAU needs to get students to become unglued from their video games.

Students Need More Variety From the Normal

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KERIANNE HOBBSDiversions Editor

ANDREW NAVIASenior Correspondent

Sigma Chi’s annual Derby Days took place from Apr. 5 to 10. Derby Days are Sigma Chi’s weeklong philan-thropy event for the Huntsman Can-cer Institute.

During Derby Days this year, four diff erent teams competed against each other in daily events. Th is year’s teams were the Girls Soccer Team, the G.I. Janes, Alpha Xi Delta, and Alpha Sig-ma Tau. The events benefiting the Huntsman Cancer Institute were the Derby Auction on Thursday, Apr. 8 and the benefi t concert Friday, Apr. 9. Th e Derby Auction consisted of team members being auctioned off to the student body for a date. Before the benefi t concert, the teams performed in a skit competition involving this year’s Derby Days theme of “Decades.” Then Cold Fusion, a musical group originally from Sedona who have per-formed on Vans’ Warped Tour, per-formed at the Activity Center.

The Student Government Associ-ation held its Second Annual Easter Egg Hunt on Friday, Apr. 2. Th ere was a good turnout, with over 150 students

frantically searching from the Student Union to just past the Visitor’s Center for several hundred hidden eggs.

Most of the eggs were found within the fi rst 20 minutes or so, aft er which SGA constricted the search area to help stu-dents in their hunt for the grand prize, a golden egg containing the grand prize of

Each individual student, staff and fac-ulty member, and practically every single person who steps foot on Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott campus will get to meet Melynda Fincher.

Fincher is the EAGLE card system manager for the university, and as such, her duties are many. To begin the jour-ney of ERA U student life or employment, people must be photographed by Fincher and assigned EAGLE identifi cation cards. Th ere were nearly 1,700 EAGLE cards assigned in this 2010 spring semester. At the Student Preview Day in April, Finch-er will issue even more to freshmen com-ing in for the fall semester.

EAGLE cards are required for every as-pect of college life. Th ey are used for many important transactions, including identi-fi cation, door access, cashier services, the library, the mailroom, the copy center, health services, laundry payment, Chart-wells dining, and vending machines.

Fincher is originally from Stockton, Cal-ifornia, and has been with the university for 9 years.  Her career with ERA U began in the Campus Safety Department and her valuable security background aff orded her the chance to cross-train with the EAGLE card system. Th e security system goes far beyond the EAGLE card, and with that knowledge, Fincher was an ideal choice

$400 dollars. Th e golden egg was found after another 10 minutes of searching, and the egg hunt offi cially came to an end.

Students were invited to enjoy chips and dip, wings, and popcorn while they traded in their colored to-kens, found inside the eggs. Th e priz-es ranged from small Easter-themed

for managing the EAGLE card system. According to Fincher: “[Th e position]

is a perfect fi t for me. I enjoy providing great customer service and want to make sure each student receives the informa-tion they need to have a successful col-lege life here at ERA U.”

Fincher’s other duties keep her work-ing behind the scenes 24/7. Th e doors and locks for all campus buildings are her responsibility,  as is maintaining the integrity of the equipment tech-nology. Fincher also maintains securi-ty access and all points-of-sale devices, and ensures that money is transferred smoothly everywhere on campus.

“Aft er the security system, we added deb-it accounts, online deposits, library service, the laundry system, vending, and now, the off campus merchant program,” Fincher explains. “We are a complete ‘One Card’ system. We are implementing new pro-grams and improving all the time. Our goal is to keep the system fl uid and functioning as well as it can be. We want to make it easi-er for everyone, not more diffi cult.”

Fincher has the ability to access se-curity systems across campus any time, day or night, and oft en has to, in case of emergencies, to maintain a safe and se-cure environment. She can lock and se-

COURTNEY LINNNews Editor

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LYNDA ROBERTSStudent Life Correspondent

When I told some friends that I was going to write an article about the culture of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universi-ty, a couple of them laughed and asked if I meant the lack of culture at the school. Embry-Riddle does have its own unique and interesting culture.

In addition to talking about some of the distinctive cultural qualities of this univer-sity, I will also refute some of the broad generalizations about the school that I have heard and found to be false.

Embry-Riddle is a very inimitable environment with students who are ex-ceptionally focused, driven, and excited about aerospace. In general, the popu-lation of the school is very conservative (what other college has a gun review in their student newspaper?), intellectu-al, academically intense, and socially re-laxed. It’s also one of the only places in the world where a woman never has to wait in line to use the bathroom.

Embry-Riddle students have their own form of slang. Students at Em-bry-Riddle att end “Riddle.” Other peo-ple—we’ll call them “the outsiders”—for whatever reason seem to favor “Embry.” The outsiders, including members of the community, my grandparents, and even on occasion my father, will ask me “How are they treating you out there at Embry?” or “How are you doing out at Embry?” It makes me giggle.

Riddle is not a normal universi-ty. Some aspects of the school are very positive, such as the socially relaxed envi-ronment that allows the nerds that were picked on in high school to relax and fi nd themselves in a place where they actual-ly fi t in. I consider myself to be a part of that group. Other aspects of the univer-sity environment breed an air of frustra-tion and bitt erness.

Until recently, it seemed that every co-median who came to Riddle comment-ed on the “Riddle Ratio,” and somewhere along the line it didn’t seem very funny anymore. Th e “Riddle Ratio” refers to the 82:18 male-to-female ratio at the school.

The situation is great for the female students because it increases self confi-dence and allows them to be a litt le picky, although as a friend once told me, “the odds are good, but the goods are odd.” It isn’t so great for the guys. Really, it’s down-right unnatural. But if they did their home-work they knew what they were gett ing into, that Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff is 60 percent female and only about an hour away if you have a radar de-

toys, to movie and food certificates, to digital cameras, and of course, the two lucky eggs worth $200 and $400.

Th e Easter Egg Hunt was a fun ex-perience, especially for the big win-ners, and will hopefully continue to grow in following years as more stu-dents become involved.

Th e Mosin-Nagant 91/30 ri-fl e’s long and interesting histo-ry began in the late 19th centu-ry following a competition held to design a repeating rifl e for the Russian military. It is a combi-nation of the designs submitt ed by Sergei Ivanovich Mosin and Léon Nagant. Th e resulting rifl e entered production in 1892 as the Mosin-Nagant 91/30 (mod-el 1891, caliber .30), and saw ac-tive-duty service with the Rus-sian armed forces during both world wars. Mosin-Nagant rifl es also found their way to the other side of the trenches, and unfor-tunately for the Russian troops during World War II, one found its way into the hands of a Finn-ish marksman named Simo Häyhä. Häyhä used his M/28 variant of the rifl e to earn 505 confi rmed kills, becoming the most prolifi c sniper in history. He shot without a scope as well, in case you were wondering.

The same rugged reliabili-ty, accuracy, and stopping pow-er that made the 91/30 the dar-ling of warriors the likes of Simo Häyhä also make the rifl e a lot

of fun at the range. The 7.62 x 54 Russian caliber round packs quite a punch (it is comparable to a .308 Winchester), and the fact that it is one of the cheapest cartridges in the .30 caliber range is icing on the cake. Th e Mosin-Nagant’s heavy Russian bolt ac-tion layout is rather clunky and slow compared to the more modern, semi-automatic rifles at the range, though nobody can deny the rifl e’s presence aft er hearing the loud, echoing boom rolling across the hillsides. Th e rifl e is not particularly diffi cult to shoot, though it will be very clear that it is not your grandpa’s old .22. It is much more comfort-able to shoot with an inexpen-sive rubber recoil pad on the stock, as the rifl e simply comes with a heavy steel butt plate that is not very forgiving of poor po-sitioning. The one feature of the rifl e that I have found to be troublesome is the safety mech-anism: it is very clumsy and diffi -cult to engage. In practice, I pre-fer to simply leave the bolt open until the point you actually in-tend to shoot downrange.

Owing to the fact that over 17 million of these rifl es were pro-duced, a decent example can be found for under a hundred dol-lars. Th e condition and features of the rifl es vary widely due to the eclectic nature of each ri-fl es’ history, however all should function nearly the same. The one part of the gun that war-rants inspection before you lay down a few days’ wages is the bore; old military ammunition is corrosive and some guns may not have received the cleanings they should have. Likewise, if you choose to shoot cheaper military surplus ammo, the bore must be cleaned aft er every trip to the range (an easy 15-min-ute job).

Th e Mosin-Nagant 91/30 is one of those guns that will al-ways put a grin on your face af-ter putt ing a few rounds down-range. It has a great combination of characteristics that make it a diffi cult gun to pass up: a very rich and interesting history, a powerful rifle caliber, and a price tag that nearly anyone can aff ord.

When you think of a remak-ing a classic song, the outcome is usually grim and a disgrace to the original artist. Th e only way to create art through remaking art is by resending the message in a way the new generation of fans can appreciate.

Karl Wolf is a Lebanese-Cana-dian singer who is not well known in the United States, but the song “Africa” may break him into inter-national territory. It is such a rarity to see a good song become bett er by simply modernizing it.

First of all, before the “new” song can be fully appreciat-ed, the roots must be retraced. Toto, a revered 80’s rock band, created the original “Africa.” Th e band members jokingly ex-plained that the idea of the song was how “a white boy is trying to write a song on Africa, but since he’s never been there, he can only tell what he’s seen on TV.” Toto almost decided not to put it on their new album back in 1982, because the band spent so much time producing the

song that the m e m b e r s got tired of hearing it. If they hadn’t, Karl Wolf ’s song would not exist.

“Africa” by Karl Wolf is art be-cause it represents a bridge be-tween modern music and its or-igins. Some believe that Karl Wolf just put a hip beat behind his singing, but it is more than re-singing old lyrics. He approached the song with a lot of respect and gratitude that Toto did keep it in their album.

He maintained the same lyr-ic structure and chorus as Toto. He only changed the verses in the song and had Culture Man rap a verse as well. What makes this song stand out is how the harmo-nies are powerfully put together.

A few tweaks in the lyrics and the song becomes an all-out love song—or could still be about Af-rica. Th e beauty of a well-put-to-gether song is that any inter-

pretation of the lyrics is just as legitimate as the next.

In terms of a love song, he ex-plains that he is just as nervous as the girl. He is so determined to meet her that not even “one hun-dred men or more” could hold him back. He is still nervous, but he knows she is waiting and may slip away. When they fi nally meet, it felt as if it was meant to happen.

I give this song five stars be-cause the chorus maintains the respect for Toto and Africa it-self. Th e song tells you to never take things for granted. Africa is in much despair, and you should appreciate what you have now. Take the time to do the things you never have, and share it with people who do not have the lux-ury. “Africa” is a must-hear song!

Port of Call New Orleans

“Bad Lieutenant,” available on DVD start-ing Apr. 6, stars Nicolas Cage as a drug-addict-ed, gambling, corrupt lieutenant in the police force, and as if that laundry list of bad habits were not enough, Cage manages to become more and more manic as the fi lm progresses.

  Director Werner Herzog’s fi rst mistake was allowing Cage to be cast as the star of this fi lm. Perhaps he wanted an actor who could not only make the character appear insane, but who is also insane himself. Unfortunate-

“Date Night,” starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey as the Fosters, is the story of a mar-ried couple whose decision to step out of the norm and have their date in the city turns out to be much more than they bargained for. Af-ter claiming another couple’s reservation at an overly crowded restaurant, they are mistakenly taken to be the Tripplehorns. Th e Fosters soon fi nd themselves fl eeing for their lives in an un-likely situation they never imagined possible.

  Carell and Fey are the perfect duo for this adventure. Unlike many of his past fi lms, Carell is not the only one to make the audi-ence laugh. Just about every character—from a cab driver to the district att orney—has at least one line to make the audience roll with laughter. This aspect alone sets the film far above recent comedies.

  Although the jokes are plentiful, they are not consistent throughout. Th e few dry mo-ments stand apart and are quite noticeable, de-tracting from the fi lm. Of course, just about ev-ery comedy fi lm is dry at some point, so this is only a minor fl aw.

  Another superb characteristic of this fi lm is the plot; it is actually consistent! Unlike most other comedies in which the plot is haphazard-ly thrown together, the plot of “Date Night” isn’t misshapen at all. Th ere is a linear progression of

events that tie together with no strings left dan-gling for you to wonder what could happened.

  “Date Night” is by far the best comedy to be released in recent months. If you’ve been waiting anxiously for a hilarious adventure worth your money, “Date Night” is for you. I highly recommend this fi lm.

ly, that doesn’t make for an enjoyable movie-watching experience.

  Th is fi lm was so horrible that I couldn’t even bear to fi nish it. I don’t consider myself masochistic, but the hour and twenty min-utes I did watch were quite painful. I’d rath-er re-watch Jennifer’s Body—one of the few movies I’ve reviewed to be worse than this—than sit through another 30 minutes of Bad Lieutenant. At least Jennifer’s Body made you laugh at how dreadful it was.

  Th at being said, why didn’t I give this fi lm a lower rating? For starters, it has a semi-de-cent plot, something that is absent from many recent releases. Secondly, aside from Cage, there is actually a rather talented cast of ac-tors. Regrett ably, the movie just isn’t interest-ing or entertaining enough to be worth the two hours to watch it.

  A friend of mine likes to say, “Nicolas Cage is a great actor with the misfortune of always being casted for terrible roles.” I would have to disagree and say Cage is continuously prov-ing to be a terrible actor that never fails to ruin a movie.

  Here’s what everything comes down to: this movie will do nothing for you but waste time and money. Don’t go out and buy the movie, don’t even rent it. Find something much less painful to enjoy.

Despite what some of you may think, Andy and I do have friends. We even like to treat those friends to some time with us every now and again. In one of these moods, Andy and I asked our roommates if they knew a place with good pizza where could all go and hang out.

Our roommates led us, well, straight to Bill’s Pizza.

Bill’s is a nice litt le place on the square. It’s got a nice bistro feel to it, and the atmosphere is very conducive to loud, fun conversation. We went on a Fri-day night and even got to hear some ’60s and ’70s era live

music. The ser v ice was

great for such a busy night. Th e small build-ing was packed full of people, but the wait-ress still remembered our drink orders the entire time and never left them empty for too long. You have to com-mend good service in the face of a huge cus-tomer pool.

As for the pizza: mag-nifi que! Th e majority of us shared a large pizza, split be-tween buffalo chicken and the works, but Andy had a person-al pizza with barbecue sauce (oddly, his favorite on pizza). It all tasted great, even Andy’s con-coction, but the best part was the price. We fi lled ourselves up for 30 bucks total. Th at’s about what you’d pay for one large specialty

pizza at other places. All in all, Bill’s is a great place

to catch dinner with some friends. It’s probably even bett er at lunch. Th e food tastes great and you’ll get great service. Th e only downside: you shouldn’t take your date here on a Friday night. Th at is, unless you don’t want to hear them.

Author’s Note: Th is review contains spoilers for Bad Com-pany 2.

When I took on the job of regularly writing a game review column, I knew I would fi nd my share of good and bad games. I also knew that if I continued for long enough, I would eventual-ly fi nd that one game that would completely blow my mind. What I didn’t know, however, is that I would fi nd it this soon.

Over the past few months, there has been a craze over Modern Warfare 2 and how no

other game was compa-rable. However, with the release of the latest installment of the Bat-tlefield series, Modern Warfare 2 has lost its spot at the top of the fi rst-per-son shooter food chain. Bad Company 2 is like playing Modern Warfare 2 on steroids. Th e batt le-field experience is un-like any other shooting game, with everything from the sounds to the environment. Th e phys-ics engine is also a rev-olution in video games.

Every structure in the game can be damaged, and if you damage it enough, it will collapse. Oth-er games have tried the destruc-tible terrain, but what separates Bad Company 2 from them is that the collapses are not pre-determined. Th e way the build-ings fall depend on what part is damaged, and is determined based on the rules of physics.

Whether you play fi rst-per-son shooters for the story or to challenge people online, you will not be disappointed.

Th e campaign mode is based around a secret weapon in Rus-sia known as “Aurora.” Th e story starts in 1944, when comman-dos infiltrate an island in the Sea of Japan to capture a Japa-nese scientist who worked on the weapon. Unfortunately, Au-rora is fi red, and the comman-dos are all killed.

Th e story then jumps to pres-ent day Russia, where a squad of U.S. Army soldiers is fight-ing to locate a device related to Aurora. Th e squad then moves to Bolivia to secure an agent. In South America, the squad fi nds intelligence linking a for-mer Russian commander to the weapon. Aft er locating him in Chile, they are able to fi nd and destroy Aurora once and for all.

The online mode is a com-pletely diff erent experience al-together. Modern Warfare 2 boasts a massive online com-munity and exhilarating on-line gaming, but the experi-ence could be quickly ruined by one of the many hackers found in the community. Bad Com-pany 2 also boasts an intense online experience, but also uti-

lizes a program known as Punk-Buster, which detects and bans cheaters and hackers online. Th is litt le feature ensures that almost every game you play on-line will be legitimate and based on skill, not programming abil-ity. Dedicated servers, another feature MW2 doesn’t use, allow for larger matches.

With fifty different ranks, there is always room for ad-vancement, and the player can also collect experience towards each class (assault, engineer, re-con, and medic) allowing for better weapons and gadgets for each class.

Whether you decide to play the campaign, the online mul-tiplayer, or both, you will not be disappointed. With every-thing available in this game, boredom is now a thing of the past. If you’re looking for a game to keep you on the edge of your seat and entertained for hours, then Bad Company 2 is for you. Th is game easily war-rants 5 out of 5 stars. Warning: ownership of Bad Company 2 may lead to loss of hearing and lower grades.

Reading these books was rebellious. Women in the Islamic Republic were not supposed to receive an edu-cation in Western literature. Azar Nafi si, a professor in Tehran, Iran, held a book club for women at her home. She hand-picked her students, all women, and they met at Nafi si’s home to read and discuss books such as “Lo-lita” by Vladimir Nabokov and “Th e Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Th ese are titles read under duress by some high school students, but for these women in col-lege the novels had to be hidden and read in secret. Al-most every Th ursday morning for 2 years from 1995 to 1997, eight brave women would meet to discuss litera-ture and their lives under Iran’s government.

Azar Nafi si writes the book in sections with the titles of books and authors. She includes stories about the revolution and the eff ects on her students. She writes about the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini and the mandate for women to be veiled. Nafi si writes of her universi-ty times before she quit. She tells her tales of scouring bookstores in search of Western literature before the government could fi nd a way to completely stop the distribution of foreign books. Most of all, Nafi si tells of the injustices done to women and anyone who held a diff ering opinion in the Islamic Republic.

Th e university had become much too diffi cult to deal with, so Nafi si quit. Th is took the university a while to accept because, as one person informed her, the univer-sity did not comprehend that Nafi si was in charge of her own life. Nafi si began wondering what it was she would do now. Her husband had a good enough job; she did not need to work. So she started a book club. It was de-signed to bring together people who loved literature. Her students needed to have respect for the books and authors as they read and analyzed.

Th e book follows not only the discussions inside her home, but the discussions that took place inside her classroom as well. Names and personalities are pro-tected and disguised; however, the vibrant characters in Nafi si’s life cannot be ignored. Th ey range from the loud brash student who argues with Nafi si at every op-portunity about things he probably has not even read, to the quiet, devout, chador-wearing student. Th e peo-ple in her life infl uence, clash with, and support Nafi si as she tries to hold on to some semblance of a good life with her students.

“Reading Lolita in Tehran” is an eye-opener and, at several parts, a very painful and disgusting read about what happens in our world. Nafi si and her students went against the regime they lived under to read books. Read-ing is a luxury taken for granted by almost all who have easy access to it. Once “Reading Lolita in Tehran” is fi n-ished, hopefully the readers have gained a new appreci-ation for a common-place luxury not permitt ed every-where books are sold.

cure a Blackboard port on cam-pus from across town and access building alarms.

If an EAGLE card is lost, ERA U Safety can issue a temporary re-placement. Fincher advises stu-

dents whose EAGLE cards are lost or stolen to “please go online to Blackboard as quickly as possi-ble and deactivate your card. Th at will put a hold on accounts and prevent any loss of funds.”

Fincher also creates the EAGLE card literature, and promotes the use of EAGLE cards at off site mer-chants in town. Fincher says, “Th e opportunity to spend EAGLE

card dollars at stores off -campus has blossomed into a great ben-efi t for ERA U students. We plan to continually add further sites to that program. It is a big draw for the merchants to get the business of ERA U students.”

Being able to use the EAGLE card instead of cash for mostly ev-erything on campus is a great con-venience for the students and elim-

inates security risks. Fincher plans to increase the advantages of EA-GLE cards to students using them every semester.

Another hat Fincher wears in her job is that of Meeting Room Manager Administrator. MRM is the scheduling soft ware used on campus to schedule facilities, fi elds, vehicles, and media. Her responsi-bility is to confi gure this soft ware

for use on the campus, update the software, and provide end-user support on a daily basis.

Leah Richwine, assistant direc-tor of business and financial ser-vices at ERAU is Fincher’s im-mediate supervisor. According to Richwine, “Melynda is great. Th e students love her. I know when she has a task, it will get done on time and get done correctly. She follows

through on all her assignments and is just right for the job.”

“Embry-Riddle has always been a comfortable place for me,” says Fincher. “I have found my home with EAGLE Card. I enjoy it tremendously and I get to work with just about every de-partment, student, faculty, and staff on campus and that is the coolest part of my job.”

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tector, and that telling a normal girl you are a pilot, spy, or rocket sci-entist is a pick up line within itself.

Many students are able to joke about this unusual situation. “Rid-dle vision” is used by students not only to refer to the television sta-tion on which the school broad-casts movies to the campus, but also to a condition in which the male’s perspective of feminine beauty is skewed by the lack of fe-males on the campus. Under the influence of this ailment, a five begins to look like a 10 under the 1-10 scale of female attractiveness.

The male students at Embry-Riddle are not the only ones who suffer ailments resulting from the Riddle ratio. One disadvantage of the Riddle ratio is that many fe-males can take confidence over-board into cockiness, which may sometimes mutate into a terrible illness that few who contract it ever recover from. “R.I.B.S.,” pro-nounced “ribs,” stands for “Rid-dle Induced B**** Syndrome,” in which a female student begins to think so highly of themselves that they begin to treat others around them in a rather deplorable man-ner. It’s a problem. But then I never really liked women to begin with.

At Riddle, pilots and engineers share an epic friendly rivalry. An

engineer would tell you that pi-lots are cocky, stupid, and lazy, and a pilot would have you believe that engineers are cocky, boring, and have no lives. As an engineer, I can vouch for pilots having it at least partially correct.

Within the aerospace engineer-ing world also lies a friendly rival-ry between those who choose to specialize in aeronautics and those who choose to specialize in astro-nautics which primarily results in mild trash-talking.

I once heard someone say that Riddle students were spoiled rich kids living on Daddy’s dime. I very rarely accept what I’m told with-out first analyzing it to determine whether it makes any sense at all. In my own experience, Riddle students are flat broke and deep in debt, although there are always exceptions to every rule. Did you know that Riddle students have the highest college debt of any university in the country? It also has the second lowest default rate as nearly all students who gradu-ate from Embry-Riddle are gain-fully employed shortly thereafter.

Why do they go into so much debt when they could get a cheap-er education elsewhere? One thing that all Riddle students have in common is a dream, and the de-sire to pursue it with the best ed-ucation available in their arsenal.

A bitter person once told me that the people who came to Em-bry-Riddle only went because

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Throughout the week, all teams competed in Penny Wars as well as a fundraising challenge where team members asked insti-tutions, family, and friends for do-nations to the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Because this year’s Der-by Days theme is “Decades,” ev-ery day, members from each team dress up according to the popular attire of the decade of the day and were scored accordingly.

“Sigma Chi makes philanthro-py fun,” Alpha Xi Delta president Sarah Zayic said. “[Derby Days are] a great way to give charity while also making new friends in other organizations.”

The final competition, the Decathalon, was held on Sun-

day, Apr. 11, and consisted of teams competing in tug of war, a relay race, bobbing for apples, dodgeball, egg toss, and water-melon eating. The relay involved the batspin, leap frog, egg on a spoon, and a three-legged race.

“[My teammates] are true athletes, giving it all they’ve got and being creative with what they have,” soccer team mem-ber Clancy Delforge said.

Most Derby Days competitors participate for several years con-secutively and look forward to ad-vancing their teams’ strategy.

“I was a part of the G.I. Janes last year, and it is unfortunate that I can’t participate this year, due to my travels,” G.I. Jane team member Andrea Barry said. “But, from my experience, it was an amazing opportunity to help Sigma Chi with their philanthro-py while having a good time.”

they couldn’t go anywhere else. I stepped back for a moment, a little hurt by the remark, and thought about it. I knew that in my case that wasn’t true at all, and most of the people that I knew were also at the school because it was the best place for what they wanted to do.

According to my psychology professor, the average IQ of the students in her classes is 127. This score is on the borderline of “Su-perior” and the highest category in which less than 3 percent of the population resides called “Very Superior.” This score surpasses the typical university average IQ of 115, and far surpasses the 100 IQ score of the average person. I have no problem believing this statistic.

The students at Riddle didn’t have trouble getting into a col-lege. I have personally met sev-eral people at this school who could have gone any school in the country and they chose to attend Embry-Riddle.

Every once in a while I’ll hear a student talking about how frustrat-ing the environment of Riddle is, choosing to focus on what they see as a negative aspect of the univer-sity’s culture. The vast majority of students that I speak to, however, seem to have a very similar view of their choice as me.

Deciding to go to Embry-Rid-dle was one of the best decisions I ever made, and looking back, I re-ally can’t imagine going to school anywhere else.

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It is not unusual for people to constantly want to change the en-vironment around them. If that didn’t happen, humans would not have progressed to this point. COM 221, Technical Report Writing, has a final with very prac-tical applications. It is not only a review of the skills accumulated in the class through the semes-ter; it is a way for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students to suggest ways to change the col-lege campus for the better.

This class’ final is called a “pro-posal.” Proposals have been giv-en for three semesters. Currently, COM 221 is under the teach-ings of Dr. Angela Beck and Pro-fessor Samantha Fitch for the Spring 2010 semester. Professor Fitch and Dr. McElwain first sug-gested it as a project with prac-tical applications for preparing the students to write lab reports, capstone projects, and for their future careers.

Dr. Beck explains there are “many wonderful things to do

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on our campus, but we ask stu-dents to find a gap.” Students are required in a five-week long pro-cess to find something they wish to change about ERAU and then write a proposal with a suggest-ed solution. Current ideas range from installing a flight attendant program to increase the diver-sity in student population to an Olympic-sized indoor heat-ed swimming pool. There is a proposal to substitute the junk food in the vending machines for healthier choices. Another strives for more hands-on lab work for Electrical Engineer-ing majors. Some have suggest-ed a masters in Aeronautical En-gineering program, an athletic studio, and the introduction of a physical education program.

Each idea has undergone re-search and careful planning. Stu-dents must first come up with an idea, and then research must be completed. Students become fa-miliar with databases as they com-plete their project. It gives the stu-dents practice in searching for information, giving oral presen-tations, and applying classroom studies in a practical manner.

Before the proposal project, Dr. Beck likened the final to a ju-nior high school lab for a college writing class. Students would test the strength of paperclips and write a lab report. Techni-cal Report Writing is intended for the majors of Engineering, Space Physics, and Meteorol-ogy. These are college students needing more than a paperclip lab. So, the proposal was suggest-ed and tried out.

This project is serious in its attitude towards changing the campus. Administration, and indeed anyone with authority to make changes, are invited to come listen to the proposals. If the proposal is one that is fea-sible and well-liked, then the changes could be implement-ed at ERAU. Currently, the ad-dition of the Firefox internet browser to the ERAU campus omputers is in the works. 

The COM 221 class has an in-teresting project that is constant-ly suggesting changes at the end of every semester. Students re-ceive training for practical applica-tion and the campus progresses to-wards becoming a better university.

er four car shows taking place al l over Arizona that day. As a result, this year’s Customs 2 Classics event featured a notice-ably smaller lineup of cars com-pared to its debut in 2009—which is not to say it wasn’t impressive in itself. The lineup ranged from a 1918 Buick Mod-el E-49 to a stock 2009 Corvette.

Particular crowd favorites in-cluded the Lamborghini Gallar-do and Ferrari Stradale, both of which only attended the event for two hours, much to the dis-pleasure of the crowd. Still, these two impressive vehicles attested to the fact that the car show was far from unsuccessful due to the smaller lineup.

While some categories, such as the motorcycles, had critical-ly few entrants, the large turnout of vehicles entering the domes-tic and foreign classic categories drew hundreds of visitors.

The prize for import cars of model year 1985-2010 was ulti-mately won by the owner of a la-guna blue 1994 Mazda Miata. The car featured extensive and skilled modification of the engine and transmission, for which the car was ultimately given the prize of best in category over stock classics such as the Ferrari Stradale, Lam-borghini Gallardo or even the Ul-tima GTR—which happens to have the fastest 0-100-0 split time of any car in the world.

All in all, the second annual Cus-tom 2 Classics car show had much to offer for car enthusiasts of all kinds, and due to its success is like-ly to return for a third year in 2011.

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CHRIS SMITHSpecial to Horizons

Prescott is currently second in the country for having the most runway incursions! To stop the possibility of a runway incursion happening, pilots must fi rst un-derstand what a runway incur-sion is defined as, the different ways runway incursions can hap-pen, and heed advice on prevent-ing them.

First of all, the FAA has recently changed their defi nition of a run-way incursion. Th ey have modi-fi ed their defi nition to match that of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to create a standardized reporting and pre-vention database. Th e new defi ni-tion, as defi ned by the FAA web-site, of a runway incursion is “Any unauthorized intrusion onto a runway, regardless of whether or not an aircraft presents a poten-tial confl ict.” 

There are three main causes to a runway incursion: pilot de-viation (PD), vehicle (V), and operational error (OE). A pilot deviation would be a pilot cross-ing the hold short line of an ac-tive runway without permission

I work at a hospital where anti-Obama feelings run high. Amongst ourselves and in the break room, care-givers decry his health care plan, complain-ing about its cost and unfairness, expressing doubts that there’ll be anything left for us, when our time comes.

The operative phrase here is “amongst ourselves,” and “in the

SHERRY JARMOUTHSpecial to Horizons

Runway Incursions

A Break in Professional ConductFlorida Urologist Actively Opposes Obama’s Health Care Plan

break room.” Th at’s because we know that when a patient comes through our doors, we don’t ask what their favorite baseball team is, what part of town their dad-dy grew up in, or how they vot-ed for President. Throughout my medical career, I’ve known many “Send-’em-back-to-Mexi-co” nurses who cared for Mexi-can children as if they were their own, professionals who honest-ly believe that California is be-ing overrun by migrants, who would never dream of withhold-ing care on the basis of race or belief. I’ve worked with Afghan doctors who looked after or-nery Babushkas without once

from Air Traffi c Control (ATC). A vehicle runway incursion is when a ground vehicle such as an airport operations truck or fuel truck crosses the hold short line of an active runway without permission from ATC. An op-erational error is when ATC is-sues an incorrect taxi clearance onto or across an active runway with another aircraft approaching the runway, or on the active run-way. According to the FAA data-base, 68 percent of runway in-cursions are caused by pilots, 19 percent vehicle, and 13 percent are caused by ATC (OE). By the end of the fi scal year of 2013 the FAA’s goal is to reduce runway in-cursions by 10 percent based on the number of runway incursions that occurred in 2008.

On Mar. 27, 1977 the worst aircraft accident in history oc-curred when two 747s collided on a runway in Tenerife. Th is ac-cident was not due to a runway incursion, however something very similar could happen if the correct procedures are not fol-lowed, and runway incursions are not eliminated.

Hopefully these tips will help reduce or eliminate pilot devia-tion runway incursions.

In my previous two articles I have brought to your att ention the IM SAFE checklist. Th e fi rst article talked about illness and medication, the second article talked about stress and fatigue. Th is article is going to cover the last two parts of the checklist, al-cohol and eating.

Eating food is more about nu-

trition than just about what you put into your mouth. Proper nu-trition means gett ing all the es-sential nutrients from your diet that is required to keep your body functioning normally. Th e essential nutrients must be ob-tained from your diet on a daily basis. It is like a string of Christ-mas lights; if one light is not func-tioning properly, then the whole line of lights does not work prop-erly. Our tissues, our blood, our bones, and our cells are manufac-

SHAUN SHEPHARDSpecial to Horizons

Are you aware that over two thirds of the adult population in the United States is overweight? Consequently, heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes are some of the leading causes of death in our country—diseases oft en linked to an unhealthy body weight. What could possibly be causing this obesity epidemic?

I believe the answer to that is common sense: People nowa-days are simply eating too much of foods they shouldn’t be. Ac-cording to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, these foods are oft en ones high in satu-rated fat such as butt er, bacon, egg yolks, coconut oil, avocados, and whole milk dairy products. Th e Health Industry claims that satu-rated fat raises cholesterol, clogs arteries, and leads to obesity, heart disease, strokes, and heart att acks.

In response to these claims, “low-fat” fad diets and food prod-ucts are on the rise. You’d think with an increase of so many low-fat, “healthy” food options that

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As I struggled to fi nd time in which to ponder the subject of this editorial, I began to feel an acute sense of resentment toward my busy life which kept me from sett ing aside the time that I felt the model editorial should require. I

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the numbers on the scales should be going down, right? Apparent-ly not. In the past 50 years, obesi-ty rates in America have increased an estimated 20 percent. Even more shocking is the fact that childhood obesity rates alone have doubled since 1980. If the health industry is right about sat-urated fats being a culprit of un-healthy weight, with our coun-try’s obesity rates we must be consuming more saturated fats than ever!

However, since 1920, but-ter consumption has actual-ly dropped from 18 pounds per person per year to four. Com-pared to 20 years ago, the coun-try is purchasing about 11 bil-lion pounds less of whole milk, and 5 billion pounds more of low-fat milk. On the other hand, consumption rates overall of sugar and processed foods has increased by 60 percent. If there was really a connection between saturated fats and heart disease as health experts suggest, then there would be a direct relation-ship involving the two. Converse-ly, it’s apparent that as saturated

tured using the nutrients we in-gest. A poor diet can easily trans-late into a lack of precision in decision-making, thus poor re-sults in fl ying.

When you feed your body in the morning with breakfast, 30 percent of your intake goes to feeding your brain. Th e vitamin B complex is necessary for the health of your central nervous system; fatty acids provide the spark to keep you intellectually

commenting on the millions of their countrymen who died at the hands of Russians. Th at, too, is called professionalism. The idea is this: Got a problem with Irish, or Liberals, or people who voted for Barry Goldwater? Fine. Leave it at the door. Once you put on that badge, or don those scrubs, everybody’s equal. If you can’t handle that, then you’re not fit to serve. Everybody under-stands that.

Everybody except Dr. Cassell, a Florida Urologist who hung a sign on his door stating that if you voted for Obama, then seek care elsewhere. He didn’t post this on

began to rant to myself about how litt le time I had to truly pro-duce a quality result when I set myself to a task. Th e busy sched-ule to which I felt bound was tru-ly infringing upon my ability to produce quality material! And, come to think of it, almost ev-eryone with whom I came in con-tact would complain of the same predicament! I truly had myself worked up into a pity party, I must confess, until I realized that I had my perfect editorial subject there in front of me. I just couldn’t see the forest for the trees.

In hindsight, the majority of my friends and acquaintances did not return from this recent

spring break looking refreshed and ready to sprint across the finish line of the semester; in-stead they looked as if their spring break had dumped them back into everyday life on Mon-day morning suff ering from the mother of all energy drink crash-es. Did they enjoy their break? Probably, for the most part. Did they forget about academic re-sponsibilities? Most definite-ly. So why did they look like they were dragged into class on Monday by a giant cat and spat out onto the desk, half-dead? Be-cause they didn’t rest, that’s why.

Yeah, I’m ranting about get-

With President Barack Obama closing Guantanamo Bay, passing executive orders, and reducing military funding, the eff ectiveness of the U.S. mil-itary has greatly been reduced. Just recently, the president has signed three key executive or-ders, the first of which would close the military facility referred to as GITMO.

During a signing ceremony at the White House, Obama reaf-fi rmed his inauguration pledge that the United States does not have “to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals.” The president said he was issuing the order to close the facility in order to “restore the standards of due process and the

CONCERNED CITIZENSpecial to Horizons

Trouble in America’s Future is Evidentcore constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war, even in dealing with terrorism.” Th is will prove to cause many prob-lems within the U.S. in that these terrorists will now be housed on U.S. soil.

During the second term of President George W. Bush, the detention facility at Guanta-namo Bay became a hot spot for critics who claimed that the Bush administration was tortur-ing terrorist suspects. Bush and other senior offi cials repeatedly denied that the U.S. government had used torture to extract intelli-gence from terror suspects. Th e torture supported the president’s move to close the facility earlier this month.

On one side, many believe torture to be inhumane, un-American, and a violation of

human rights. However, on the other end of the spectrum, many claim that by closing the facility, the eff ectiveness to extract intel-ligence from terrorists has been diminished and may have creat-ed a perception of weakness to those other countries that prac-tice torture regularly.

Next, the president signed a second executive order, which formally bans torture by requir-ing that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terrorist interrogations, which essential-ly ends the Bush administration’s CIA program of “enhanced inter-rogation” methods.

“We believe that the Army field manual reflects the best judgment of our military, that we can abide by a rule that says we don’t torture, but that we can still eff ectively obtain the intelli-

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sharp. Whole foods are the best thing to consume as they have the most vitamins and nutrients. The best advice I can give you in this area is to make sure you eat a good breakfast; it is far more im-portant than you think.

Flying, while fun and exciting, is a precise, demanding, and un-forgiving endeavor. Any factor that impairs the pilot’s ability to perform the required tasks dur-ing the operation of an aircraft is an invitation for disaster. The use of alcohol is a significant self-im-posed stress factor that should be eliminated from the cockpit. The ability to do so is strictly within the pilot’s control.

Over 50 percent of American adults consume alcohol. How-ever, many erroneous beliefs

fats have been disappearing in the American diet, more weight-relat-ed diseases have been appearing in the American populace.

After doing some research, it appears that the health industry really has no solid evidence that saturated fats, specifically animal fats and tropical oils (butter, eggs, meat, coconut, and olive oil) are the cause of so many maladies. In fact, based on several studies (most of which I found in the writings of The Weston A. Price Foundation), saturated fats seem to be very beneficial to healthy wellbeing. For example, moth-

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his private website, or on his per-sonal blog, but on his office door window, so you’ll see it before you come in. Now, the good doctor has since posted a video seeking to clarify, but no clarification is needed. His meaning is as clear as the “Catholics Need Not Ap-ply” or “Whites Only” signs that dotted American storefronts during darker times. Dr. Cassell is not just being petty. He active-ly seeks a return to a time when professional civility, that sense of blind duty that shows America at its finest, can be trumped by polit-ical or racial prejudice. Dr. Cassell is breaking his professional code, breaking it as clearly as if the 9/11 rescuers passed over victims not to their tastes. His actions should not be taken lightly.

ting more rest to a bunch of col-lege students, many of whom could literally minor in sleep-ing. But that’s exactly who I’m talking to with this. I’m talking about getting more rest, not more sleep. Resting is not the act of being unconscious dur-ing daylight hours. Proper rest is the act of resetting one’s nat-ural cycle by expending energy through physical activity to the point that sleep is a necessary act of restoration. In other words, to feel more alert, refreshed, ener-gized, etcetera, go do stuff ! Over spring break, I shifted my sleep-ing pattern earlier, simply be-cause I wanted to. I can tell you there are not many more refresh-ing feelings than waking up to the rising sun, naturally, without an alarm clock. And I did this, not because I had nothing bet-

BRIAN ROGGOWSpecial to Horizons

Finally. Spring is here, and most of us hope the unusually wet and snowy winter weather is behind us. We can now look for-ward to 6 a.m. preflight inspec-tions by sunlight and general-ly much more favorable flying conditions. However, there are certain risks that now present themselves as the weather warms. Although there are many topics we could explore, we will discuss temperature variations, low-level wind shear (LLWS), dust devils, and bird activity.

We are all familiar with our jacket requirement for all flights, effective from Nov. 1 to Mar. 31. However, it should be ob-vious that the temperature will not suddenly warm sufficient-ly on the morning of Apr. 1. We must all keep in mind that aver-age overnight temperatures in Prescott don’t even approach 40 degrees Fahrenheit until well into the month of May. It is un-likely that a person would be able to keep their body temperature high enough overnight if they were dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. There have been many hikers that have perished in Arizona’s high desert due to hypothermia, even

Spring is in the Airin summer months. The prudent pilot should consider bringing a jacket beyond Mar. 31. Consider stuffing a rarely-used light jacket into the bottom of your flight bag.

LLWS is a hazardous condi-tion that can occur throughout the year. The spring in Prescott, however, tends to bring more fre-quent LLWS conditions. Beyond checking the METAR and TAF before a local flight, also check for PIREPs. A PIREP can inform a pilot about specific LLWS con-ditions encountered by others. It is critical that any pilot make a re-port after encountering LLWS.

If there are no PIREPs pres-ent, look for other cues such as AIRMETs, strong or gusty winds, and shifting winds. For example, a pilot must consider the risks of continued traffic pattern opera-tions if another pilot recently re-ported LLWS with a 10-knot air-speed loss and other indications. Another ‘form’ of LLWS that be-comes common later in spring is the dust devil. The winds swirl-ing around these can change ve-locity and direction very quick-ly. The FOM (pg. 12-5) requires that pilots avoid these hazardous conditions.

Lastly, increased bird activi-ty can present many hazards to pilots. As the temperature rises, the local birds become more ac-

tive, apparently favoring the air-port area, in addition to migrato-ry birds that briefly transition the area to the northern states. It is not uncommon, however, to find predatory birds at several thou-sand feet in our practice areas. Ef-fective scanning can help pilots quickly detect birds and take ac-tion to avoid a collision.With the exception of the bird climbing in a thermal updraft, they can typ-ically dive much more quickly than climb. The best avoidance area is usually well above and to the side of the bird.

Also, be on the lookout for birds during preflight inspec-tion. Engine cowlings and small openings, such as in the area of the stabilator control rod on the PA44, are common nesting loca-tions. Take extra care to inspect these areas. A nest between the cylinders of the engine can eas-ily provide fuel for a fire. Seeing birds enter or exit the cowling as you approach for preflight may be sufficient cause to have the cowl-ing briefly removed for inspec-tion, especially if the airplane has been stagnant for a few days.

Keep in mind that this is a brief overview of hazards associated with the changing weather. Be-fore too long, there will be other conditions upon us, such as thun-derstorms. Fly safely!

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gence that we need,” Obama said. “This is me following through

... on an understanding that dates back to our founding fathers, that we are willing to observe core standards of conduct not just when it’s easy but also when it’s hard.” As stated earlier, this will

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er’s milk has high levels of saturat-ed fat, essential to a baby’s proper growth and brain development. Satty fatties also help us proper-ly retain other valuable minerals from food such as vitamins A, D, E, and K, as well as calcium and essential fatty acids. They contrib-ute to proper digestion, cell con-struction, and functioning of the immune system. Also, contrary to the health industry’s claims, satu-rated fats are actually vital to the functioning of our hearts, as the heart is surrounded in saturated fatty muscle and uses it as a fuel source.

If you’re still skeptical, try to think outside of the box the health industry has us trapped in. What do other healthier countries eat? African tribes have a diet of most-

ly meat and milk. Eskimos thrive on fats from fish. Mediterranean societies consume large amounts of olive oil, lamb, and cheese. The Japanese staple foods are eggs, pork, and chicken and the French eat heaps of butter, cream, milk, eggs, and meats. Yet, we are still fatter and sicker than every one of these countries. Personal-ly, I think the culprit is not satu-rated fat, but rather the vegetable oils, sugar, and highly processed foods that have replaced them. With the highest rates of obesity in the world, we’re obviously do-ing something wrong. So why not go back to the days when good fats like butter and coconut oil were abundant and heart disease was almost unheard of ? Maybe the cure for fat is actually… fat!

about alcohol are widespread. For instance, while different al-coholic beverages have different concentrations of alcohol, their total alcohol content can be the same. A pint of beer, for exam-ple, contains as much alcohol as a 5.5-ounce glass of table wine. The notion that drinking low-concentration alcoholic bever-ages is safer than drinking hard liquor is erroneous.

Ideally, every pilot should avoid alcohol completely while planning a flight or flying. Al-cohol avoidance is as critical as developing a flight plan, a good preflight inspection, obeying air traffic control procedures, and avoiding severe weather.

Alcohol impairs most aspects of the flying task. Some flight-re-lated skills are adversely affected by blood levels as low .025 per-cent, while aircraft flight and sim-ulator flight is clearly impaired by levels of .04 percent. High-

er blood alcohol levels result in correspondingly more profound impairment of flying skills and re-duction in flying safety.

ERAU standards for alcohol and flight include not flying: within 12 hours of consump-tion of any alcoholic beverage; while still under the influence of alcohol in any way; while us-ing any medicine or drug that af-fects the faculties in any way con-trary to safety; or with a citation for driving an automobile while under the influence of alcohol which has not been reported to the flight department chairman.

Before starting any flight activi-ty, analyze yourself. Have you eat-en anything in the last few hours and received the proper nutri-tion? Is there something that could be impairing your judg-ments?  Is there anything that could stop us from being the best pilots that we can be? Fly safe!

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ter to do, but because I wanted to do more. I spent the vast ma-jority of my free time over break outside, in the beautiful Arizona springtime weather, doing things that many would consider hard physical labor. And I’ve rarely felt more rested than I did dur-ing that week.

Sometimes the best ways to live are the polar opposite of that which we would choose on our own. The best way to get more done in life is to slow down and enjoy what you do. The best way to feel more rested is to rise with the sun. Try it, I urge you. If you say you can’t do it, I’m telling you right now that I don’t buy it. Sometimes there are things in our lives that must be pruned, products of the pressure from so-ciety to conquer the world as we see it. We are very good at con-vincing ourselves that we must be busy in order to be success-ful, but we simply were not de-signed to become burnt out on life at a time in which we were meant to shine.

prove to be an enormous hur-dle for military servicepeople trying to do their jobs effective-ly and cause much more strain in accomplishing missions.

Lastly, a third executive order established an interagency task force to lead a systematic review of detention policies and proce-dures and a review of all individ-ual cases. The task force, Obama stated, will also “provide me with information in terms of how we

are able to deal [with] the disposi-tion of some of the detainees that may be currently in Guantanamo that we cannot transfer to other countries, who could pose a seri-ous danger to the United States.”

Although the president may have had good intentions and the country in mind, he has seriously hindered the military, which falls under its own set of laws, and hin-dered its ability to do its job: keep America safe.

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