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www.ulmhawkeyeonline.comVOLUME 84 ISSUE 25 April 11, 2011

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE

ULM caught the ‘Spring Fever’

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What was your favorite part of Spring Fever Week?

Albert JohnsonSenior- Criminal Justice

Pineville, La.“Tuesday was my favorite day when we could make keychains and bum-

per stickers.”

Melaisha SimsJunior- Business Managment

Monroe, La.“My favorite part was the crawfish boil

on Wednesday.”

Brittney ByrdSophomore- Pre Dental Hygeine

Winnfield, La.“The best part of Spring Fever Week was participating in Oozeball and playing

with my friends.”

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THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE PAGE 3April 11, 2011

A football player was attacked in on-campus housing after a fe-male, non-student gained entry to the building, according to ULMPD Chief Larry Ellerman.

Though police declined to re-lease the name of the victim, Eller-man confirmed the alleged assault occurred in the victim’s room, which he shares with three other student athletes.

Whittany L. Powell, 21, of 3722 Lionel St., Monroe, was arrested and charged with aggravated bat-tery and aggravated second de-gree battery for her alleged role in the incident occurring on Sunday, April 3.

According to the police report, Powell followed a student into the Commons 2 dorm brandishing a metal baseball bat and a can of mace.

Once inside, Powell reported-ly sprayed the player with mace, then struck him twice in the ribs with the bat.

Powell was apprehended while trying to flee the scene and booked in the Ouachita Correc-tions Center.

The ULM Athletic Dept. would not comment on the incident, cit-ing student privacy. Powell’s mo-tives for the alleged attack are un-clear at this time.

This week students will vote on a two-part referendum that will al-ter current fees while adding oth-ers if passed.

The referendum has largely been touted as an “athletic fee,” but Brook Sebren, president of the Student Government Association (SGA) says it is much more than that.

Three specific organizations aim to profit if the referendum passes: athletics, the Visual and Perform-ing Arts Department (VAPA), and the SGA fund on campus beautifi-cation.

“Three completely different parts of ULM that have specific needs will benefit,” says Sebren.

Part one of the referendum will change the current fee structure.

Now, flat fees are charged to every stu-dent, regardless of how many hours the stu-dent is taking.

The referen-dum would stag-ger the fees.

Basically, the more hours a stu-dent takes, the higher the fees.

“Students should only pay a portion of what they use,” says Se-bren.

“For example, there’s a fee for the SUB (Student Union Build-ing). People taking only one hour have to pay it. Is that right? I don’t think so.”

Part two of the referendum adds additional fees, with athletics get-

ting most of the money and atten-tion.

ULM has the smallest athlet-ic budget of any school in the FBS (Football Bowl Series, sometimes referred to as Division 1).

The referendum would pump an additional $1.8 million into their budget.

Visual and Performing Arts would receive $20,000 and cam-pus beautification would receive $75,000.

Sebren says that though the numbers seem skewed, each is

proportionate to their already-functioning budgets.

SGA, the ULM administration and the University of Louisiana System have all approved the pro-posed referendum.

“It’s obvious now that the state isn’t going to invest in our univer-sity, so we are asking our students to,” says Sebren.

“It’s time to invest in ULM and it’s time to do it now.”

Not all students are buying the argument Sebren is selling.

Chaise Sanders, a freshman

pre-med lab science major, says that though she agrees with stag-gered fees, she does not like the idea of paying more for specific or-ganizations.

“I would feel differently if it were going to all people. There are a lot of people who will never go to a football game,” says Sanders.

“How is money supposed to make you win? Practice makes you better, not money.”

Whatever opinion, all students will have the opportunity to make their voices heard by voting.

The two-day election begins at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, April 13 and polls close at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 14.

NEWS

SGA attempts to pass referendum

by Cole Avery

by Cole Avery

contact Cole Avery [email protected]

contact Cole Avery [email protected]

Cops respond to violent attack at campus dorm

Trevor Seth Hall, an SGA officer, speaks at last week’s forum to explain the ref-erendum to stu-dents at ULM.

photo courtesy of

ULM Media Relations

What does it mean for your wallet?

Referendum when and where

The two-day elections will be held April 13-14, with polls opening at 8 a.m. on Wed. and clos-ing at 6 p.m. on Thurs. Be sure to get to a com-puter and make your vote count!

“It’s obvious now that the state isn’t going to invest in our university, so we

are asking our students to.”Brook Sebren, SGA President

Sebren

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE April 11, 2011PAGE 4

Benny Blaylock has been named the new dean of the ULM College of Pharmacy pending ap-proval of the UL System Board of Supervisors.

On Friday, April 8, ULM Provost and Vice President for Academ-ic Affairs Stephen Richters sent an email to faculty and staff inform-ing them of the decision which was then forwarded to students.

“It’s a humbling experience,” said Dean Blaylock.

“A lot of people that I have a lot of respect for had a hand in pick-ing me as the person that will lead

the pharmacy school. I view it as a distinct honor.”

Professor of Pharmacology Paul Sylvester said that it was

a tough battle for COP dean and he believes the best candidate was chosen.

Blaylock also had significant support from pharmacy students including first year student and Houston native, Que Ngo.

“Dr. Blaylock has always en-couraged and motivated me to do my best. I am ecstatic to know that the COP will be in great hands un-der his leadership as he brings a sense of unity between pharmacy students and the faculty.”

The new pharmacy dean has a set of goals to make the college better. The first point of emphasis is on enhancing recruitment to get

enrollment numbers up to what they used to be a few years ago.

He also wants to refine the cur-rent curriculum to better prepare pharmacy students for board ex-ams. The first-time passing rate is currently 95 percent, and he hopes to improve upon that.

Blaylock also stated his desire to institute and develop an outreach into Northeast Louisiana to help deal with health care disparity.

“The lower Mississippi del-ta is probably the most medical-ly under served area in the Unit-ed States, and we have a golden opportunity to make a significant, positive impact on the people of the region of which we are apart.”

ULM’s Up ‘til Dawn, or UTD, Ex-ecutive Board is on a mission this year.

Not only are they ranked higher than LSU in raising funds, but they are also first in the region made up of colleges from Louisiana, Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma.

Letter sending is the biggest fund raising event of the year. Par-ticipants send letters to anyone they can think of to get donations for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

This year there were more than 250 letter senders in attendance.

The event itself would have cost over $5,000, but with the spon-

sorships the or-ganization re-ceived, the final price was cut down to about $300.

“I’m proud of the group’s

growth over the past few years. It’s been really ex-citing to see students get more in-volved in such a worthy cause, es-pecially with the state of the econ-omy,” said Laura Knotts, UTD’s advisor.

UTD’s very own Advocacy Chairperson Sunny Diaz, a soph-omore English/Spanish Ma-jor, shaved her head April 4 after reaching her goal of $700 in the Pay to Shave event.

“The people who donated gave more than I did. I just got a free haircut,” said Diaz.

Other participants, such as

Anna Hill and Coach Todd Ber-ry didn’t meet their goals but still raised a good amount for the fundraiser.

The Executive Board recent-ly entered a contest in which they produced a video showcasing

their fund raising efforts. The school that receives the

most votes on its video wins 10 new Apple iMac computers.

Things are on the up and up for ULM’s UTD Executive

Board, but the year isn’t over

yet. There is still one more event to

look forward to this year called Captured for a Cure on April 14-15.

NEWS

Photo by Andrea Sherman

by Anthony Drummer

Up ‘til Dawn reaches new heights as it raises money for St. Jude

by Andrea Sherman

Pay to Shave event ends with 1 shaved head

Blaylock sets goals to make college better

“The people who donated gave

more than I did. I just got a free

haircut.”Sunny Diaz

Winner of Pay to Shave

“We have a golden opportunity to

make a significant, positive impact on

the people of the region of which we

are apart.”Benny Blaylock

COP Dean

contact Andrea Sherman [email protected]

contact Anthony Drummer [email protected]

New dean chosen in College of Pharmacy

Diaz faces the barber’s chair and has a new hairstyle thanks to the Pay to Shave event for Up ‘til Dawn.

KnottsNgo

Blaylock

Diaz

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROEApril 11, 2011 PAGE 5

World-renowned journalist Dan Rather will speak in Brown Auditorium on Tuesday, April 19 at 7 p.m. as part of the Presiden-tial Lyceum Series. The subject for Rather’s speech will be “What I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Re-porting.”

Rather has over 40 years of ex-perience, but is best remembered for his tenure on CBS Evening News after taking over for Walter Cronkite in 1981.

The anchor captivated audienc-es as he reported on major world events for 24 years including the

Clinton impeachment, Sept. 11, 2001 and the wars in Iraq and Af-

ghanistan before leaving the desk in 2006. Currently, he hosts his own Emmy winning show, Dan Rather Reports, on HDNet.

“The dia-logue that oc-curs between the public and the speakers we host each year is just one more example of the intangi-ble benefits the university pro-vides through its presence in the region,” said Stephen Richters, ULM Vice President of Academ-ic Affairs. “This is an excellent op-portunity to enhance our ties with ULM’s proud supporters.”

The lyceum series was devel-oped by former ULM president

Jim Cofer in 2003 to promote in-tellectual exchange. Past speakers have included Steve Forbes, Ben Stein, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Bill Cosby.

Students are eager to hear Rath-er speak, including Gary Jackson, a senior general studies major from Monroe.

Jackson said. “I believe he can give us a lot of insight on today’s

current events and educate us on political standpoints which we face today. With his years of ex-

perience, he will have a major impact on col-lege students.”

Tickets to the event are free for students and $10 for facul-ty and staff. The

general public may attend for $25. There are also patron tickets

available for $50 which include reserved seating and admission to the reception at 5:30 p.m. on the seventh floor of the library.

Visit ULM’s home page for more information.

NEWS

Journalist Dan Rather visits Monroe

Photo courtesy of MCT Campus

by Anthony Drummer“With his years

of experience, he will have a major impact on college

students.”Gary Jackson

Senior general studies


Renowned news anchor shares career, life story

Dan Rather has more than 40 years experience reporting news.

JacksonRichters

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The topic of many conversa-tions lately have been about the referendum the Student Gov-ernment is attempting to pass, the Hawkeye wanted to shed our point of view on the matter as well.

It seems like all the members of the Hawkeye have very differ-ent opinions and views on if the referendum should be passed or not, we do collectively agree on one thing: students need to know about what it is before they vote.

This week’s edition of the pa-per features both an in-depth interview (page 3) and a letter to the editor from the SGA pres-ident (page 7).

While conducting the inter-view in order to write the sto-ry, it seemed like the Hawkeye could not find many students who knew exactly what the ref-erendum was about, and why they should, or should not, vote yes. Many students get upset when a new fee is implemented, because of the already high cost of school already.

However, before you shoot down the referendum, please be sure to intently look over the articles featured in this edition and make a wise decision. Our university is in need of a student body that is conscious of what is going on and voting for things that will better help our univer-sity grow.

After a nearly 500 day hold out, Obama’s administration has put down its sticks and picked up its reelection posters, announcing that Khalid Shakh Mohammed and his four conspirators will be tried in a military court.

After much political opposition, Attorney General, Eric Holder, an-nounced on April 4th that the five suspected 9/11 co-conspirators would be sent back to Gitmo to be tried, where they started.

In an attempt to appear as po-lar as possible from its predeces-sor, the Obama administration petitioned for the terrorists being tried in a civil court of law.

Doing so would provide not only noncitizens, but enemies of the state, with American civ-il rights.

A military tribunal (a military court designed to try members of enemy forces during wartime) is the only logical answer to han-dling one of the masterminds be-hind the attacks that started the War on Terror.

During a civil court of law, ev-idence would be restricted, and any evidence obtained through coercion against those being tried would be disregarded.

It’s a good thing the Attorney General did not get his way, or else one of the world’s most dan-gerous men may have gotten off

as easily as former Gitmo prison-er, Ahmed Ghailani.

Ghailani was the first Gitmo prisoner to ever be tried in a civil court of law (for the bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania), done so under the Obama administra-tion.

The terrorist was acquitted of all but one of 280 charges against him last November.

After such a ridiculous polit-ical runaround, it is a relief that the White House has heeded Con-gress.

They decided to cut their losses

and wash their hands of the situa-tion, refocusing their attention on their cuddly image.

It is no coincidence that the day Holder announced the prison-ers’ being sent back to Guantana-mo Bay was the same day Obama’s administration started its re-elec-tion campaign.

After a term of flawed of Obam-acare, tax cut extensions for the wealthy and other failed promis-es that never really brought about that much “change,” Obama is looking to appear as squeaky clean as possible.

That includes what was the pending trial.

Now, over a year later, families of 9/11 victims still wait to see jus-tice brought to the men suspect-ed of having a hand in the killing 3,000 people.

That is almost as many U.S. ca-sualties as in the Iraq war.)

Yet, because of political angles, the American public had to wait until the trial was not longer con-venient for the White House to see matters settled.

OPINION

contact Collette Keith [email protected]

500 days later, White House washes hands of terrorist trials

HAWKEYE P.O.V.

Picking a side requires being “in the know”

COLLETTE KEITH

Illustration by Collette Keith

1 DAY TILL RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN


Invest in your University; Invest in your Degree; Invest in your Future!

That is the message being spread around campus in regards to SGA’s forum last week during Spring Fever and the ref-erendum campaign push that’s underway.

The ULM Student Government Associ-ation is dedicated to serving the best in-terests of the student body, and the pro-posed referendum is designed to support both our student body and the university-at-large.

A referendum is simply a direct vote in which an entire body is asked to either ac-cept or reject a proposal.

Most students get the opportuni-ty to vote on referendums at least once throughout their college careers.

From funding the Campus Activities Board, Student Union Building and Activ-ity Center to supporting our Spirit Groups, Theatre, multi-national championship water-ski team and the Student S u c c e s s Center, referendums do so much for our university.

If it weren’t for referendums for student fees, things like Spring Fever, free student admission to athletic events and access to the Activity Center wouldn’t be possible.

Thankfully, students decided years ago that they wanted to invest in their univer-sity and make it a better place for their successors.

On Wednesday, April 13 and Thursday, April 14, 2011, SGA’s annual spring elec-tions will be held online at www.ulm.edu/vote.

This year’s ballot includes senatorial candidates for each college, SGA officer candidates and also a referendum.

Therefore, not only is this election im-portant for SGA and the candidates run-ning, but for all students because the op-

portunity to invest in this university and make it a better place is in their hands

Since October, we have spent extra time in Senate meetings in discussions and debates.

We have put hours upon hours in at the SGA office crunching numbers and writing policy, and held numer-ous meeting with our administra-tion to bring forth a proposal that we feel is in line with our mission: to bring forth a measure deemed beneficial to the student body.

This year’s Senate has worked really hard to write this propos-al, and we encourage everyone to visit the election link and view the proposed referendum to see what exciting things it brings to our student body.

The SGA’s stance on the refer-endum is this: We believe that a re-structuring is needed to accommo-date our part-time students because in the same manner students should have to pay for what they get; they should not have to pay for what they don’t get.

We believe that Athletics is the face of our university and deserves the appropri-ate funding to represent us in the manner it deserves.

We believe that Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) is a huge asset to ULM and is essential in the recruiting of students and promotion of our University.

And lastly, we believe that this campus needs to be continually upgraded physical-ly to enhance its esthetic beauty and pro-

v i d e m o d -ern facili-ties for the stu-dents, and that this ref-erendum should be decided upon by the students.

Whether you’re a first time freshman or graduating senior, the outcome of this ref-erendum affects you.

When we come back for Homecoming

in five, 10 and 20 years from now, we should all want our university to be

valued 5, 10, and 20 times higher than the day you walk across the stage at Fant-Ew-ing.

This referendum is designed to add val-ue and accomplish just that.

-Student Government Association

OPINION

What the referendum means for studentsLetter to the Editor

$1 .8 m illion

$75,000Campus beauti�cation VAPA

$20,000

Sports


With Spring Fever week coming to a close and the end of the semester looming closer than ever, the afro-stylin’ Ace t-shirts are being put away.

However, the excitement left from the week’s extravaganza is not far from people’s minds.

Emi McIntyre, a junior art major with a concentration in ceramics, says, “Spring Fever week is fast-paced and action packed! It’s my favorite event of the spring semester.”

She as well as several of her friends in art worked together on the VAPA Piece for Paint and Percussion event on Thursday to produce a Kandinsky inspired work of art on a Chevy truck. Dancing and music were all around the painting while danc-ers from ULM’s Repatory Ensemeble group danced around the fountain in the Quad while the Percusion band performed musical numbers for students passing through to enjoy.

This, as well as many other fun events on campus during this week, made Spring Fever week something not to be for-gotten by those who enjoyed it.

NEWS

contact Kelsey Hargrove at [email protected]

by Kelsey Hargrove

photos by Srdjan Marjanovic

Peace, love and Spring Fever


As the end of the semester gets closer, students are itching to sign up for housing for the 2011-2012 academic year, even with the new fee changes.

Bayou Village and Commons II are hot commodities amongst the ULM students.

In fact, they are so sought af-ter that students decided to camp outside of Residential Life, over night, to better their chances of re-ceiving one or the other.

Yet, because there are so many reservations followed by cancella-tions at the last minute, student’s chances of receiving their first choice are lowered.

The problem has resulted in ULM implementing a new poli-cy where $150 prepayment of fall housing is due by June 1.

Initially ULM only charged a $50 reservation fee due at the time of sign-ups.

If the prepayment isn’t paid by June 1, the student’s reservation will be cancelled.

Although some students may be excited about getting a particu-lar room, others aren’t particular-ly excited about the new fee being charged.

Sophomore marketing major

from Shreveport, Jaquita Smith, isn’t too happy with having to come up with $150.

“I’m upset. Some of us rely on fi-nancial aid to pay for housing, and having to pay $150 out of pocket is not an easy thing to do, even if I’ll get it back with my refund,” said Smith.

However, sophomore kinesiol-ogy major from Jonesboro, Shane-tra Harris, understands the need for the change.

“I kind of understand why be-cause there are a lot of students cancelling at the last minute. You

may have requested one dorm, but it got filled, so they placed you in different dorm and then some-one cancelled, but you already have an assigned room.“

Harris explained that she un-derstood the reasoning behind the

process. “I also understand that some

students depend on financial aid,” she added.

NEWS

contact Jaclyn Jones [email protected]

Students camp out over night just to get first in line to sign up for the apartments dor the Fall 2011 semester.

photo courtesy of google images

“... having to pay $150 out of pocket

is not an easy thing to do, even if I’ll get it back with

my refund.”Jaquita Smith, sophomore

marketing major

Students dig through pockets as $150 deposit is demanded

Campus living gets complicated

by Jaclyn Jones

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A movie viewed for this week is an older movie called, “Rear Win-dow.”

“Rear Window” stars James Stewart and Grace Kelly and was made sometime around the 1950’s. It tells the story of Jeff Jef-fries, a photographer who injures his leg and is confined to a wheel-chair in his upstairs apartment in the city that faces his many neigh-bors, for many weeks.

He begins watching his neigh-bors to pass the time, and even-tually believes himself to witness a murder.

Accompanied by his girlfriend Lisa Carol Fremont, who is a wealthy socialite played by Grace Kelly and his sassy sarcastic nurse Stella, they work together to solve the case.

Although this was an older mov-ie, it’s one that should be watched. It moves slowly and its very dia-

logue heavy, but this is common for a movie made at this time.

The movie was simple in that it didn’t have a lot of explosions, any use of profanity, half nude to completely nude actors or actress-es, which is so common in today’s movies.

And it didn’t rely on cheesy mo-ments to push it forward.

It was simple, and this simplici-ty spoke volumes.

One might think that this kind

of movie would bore one to tears, but the comedy mixed with the ro-mance played so well by the three lead characters, keeps one enter-tained. Until, of course, the cli-matic end when one finds them-selves on the edge of their seat anxiously waiting for the truth and the fate of the characters.

Overall, find some time to watch this movie, it doesn’t disappoint.

FREESTYLE

Parkour player in our backyard

Simplicity speaks in classic ‘Rear Window’

contact Eddie Ray Fountain [email protected]

by Eddie Ray Fountain

contact Markeaya Eaton [email protected]

Here in America there are many sports such as football, basketball, baseball and so forth.

But there is an upcoming sport that seems to be becoming popu-lar, a sport known as Parkour.

Parkour is the activity of run-ning through areas while perform-ing various gymnastic maneuvers over or on man-made obstacles such as walls and buildings.

Parkour is not very well known within certain areas, but there are people who practice this sport such Jathon Thompson.

Thompson is a freshman major-ing in Computer Information and he’s been practicing Parkour since he was in high school.

He became interested in the sport when he saw it on Youtube and has been doing it ever since.

The sport features a lot of differ-ent jumps and structures, which might sound easy, but it’s a cardio heavy based sport.

Thompson states, “It is a lot of repetition movements, basic movements over and over, balanc-ing, precision jumping, vaulting and basically a workout of every-thing.”

Anyone can learn to parkour or

become a tra-ceur, which is what a person who does the sport is called, but one has to go through training much like any other

sport. If anyone is interested in learn-

ing Parkour or wants to learn more

information about it, Pakour.com would be the site to check out, ac-cording to Thompson and he him-self also trains people.

If anyone would like to get in touch he states, “For people who want to join they can contact me, I have a private group on Facebook and if interested, add me and I can add them to the group.”

by Eddie Ray Fountain

contact Eddie Ray Fountain [email protected]

Thompson

People are participating and making it a heavily known sport.

Classic movies still have veiwers looking out their rear windows.


FREESTYLE

Gospel duo Mary Mary makes a BIG comeback

Contemporary gospel artists Erica and Tina Campbell, better known as Mary Mary, are making headlines in music due to their new album “Something Big.”

These biological sisters have been on the scene ever since 2000, and they haven’t lost their magic touch of reaching their fans.

Their music is inspiring, origi-nal and enjoyable for all.

“In life, we all need to believe in our inner strength to endure the unexpected, to face challenges which confront us and ultimate-ly survive; we are living in difficult times, but there are infinite rea-sons to be hopeful,” says Erica and Tina.

There are songs like “Never

Wave My Flag” which is the an-them for saying that one should not give up on anything.

The song that is blazing the air-waves is called “Walking”. It has a good message over a beat that will leave listeners with a pep in their step.

With their new album, they have also started a campaign for their fans.

Anybody that is willing to do something bigger than themselves in their lives, whether it is mow-ing your neighbor’s yard, helping the elderly at a nursing home or feeding the homeless at the local homeless shelter.

They want people to believe in themselves and help make a dif-ference.

Their new CD is a soundtrack to

encourage listeners to do just that. I personally love the new CD

because it encourages me to con-tinue to do BIG things in every area of my life.

Ivy League is a style of men’s dress, popular in the late 1950s and said to have originated on col-lege campuses.

Colored chinos, cuffed, with no pleats, makes me long for a stroll around Harvard’s campus.

Taking this vintage style and combining it with modern pieces will make this classic style unique to you.

This style is all about the tai-lored and fitted look, staying away from loose clothing but not going too tight either.

This style also focuses greatly on audacious colors and strong prints while still remaining cohesive.

Taking a bold yet still subtle col-ored checkered or gingham pat-terned button down shirt paired with a colored chino is a perfect example of this style.

The color of your pants depends

on what color you think might be too far left. If you want to try col-ored chinos without drawing too much attention, try a light red bordering pink or lighter blue or green.

If you are really bold, you could try a pant with a print, but try to get a sophisticated print.

To complete the look, pair it

with a pair of penny loafers, and don’t forget to show a little ankle.

If you are really feeling fancy you can add a bowtie, a blazer or a cardigan.

This is a very old yet unique style and can be a new modern classic.

by Markeaya Eaton

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Spring fashion is all about ‘prep’by Jarred Keller

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What you will need:•3 pints fresh strawberries•1/2 cup white sugar•2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour•4 teaspoons baking powder•2 tablespoons white sugar•1/4 teaspoon salt•1/3 cup shortening•1 egg•2/3 cup milk•2 cups whipped heavy cream

Directions1. Slice strawberries and toss them

with 1/2 cup of white sugar. Set aside.

2. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F 3. In medium bowl combine flour,

baking powder, 2 tablespoons white sugar and salt. With a pas-try blender, cut in shortening un-til mixture resembles crumbs. Make a hole in center and add beaten egg and milk. Stir.

4. Spread batter into pan. Bake for 15 minutes.

5. Slice cooled cake in half. Place strawberries on one layer and top with other half. Add straw-berries and whipped cream to top layer

from allrecipes.com

all photos courtesy of MCT Campus

Easy Strawberry Shortcake


This weekend, the annual for-eign language festival welcomed high school students from around the region.

The festival allowed for a chance to familiarize themselves with the diverse foreign language depart-ment on campus.

“The purpose of the event,” said

Dustin Johnson, a Spanish senior from Winnfield, “is to introduce students to the foreign language program, and to allow the high school students to interact with college students and professors.”

Visiting students were guided through several panels hosted by ULM professors, and were encour-aged to contribute to the poster

contest. “Last year, people had food and

costumes; they got really involved. I think the students had a lot of fun,” said Karen Woolie, a senior English major from West Monroe.

At the end of the day, students participated in a jeopardy contest based on information from the panels and the contest.

The festival was also enter-taining and ben-eficial to ULM students.

“It highlight-ed undergrad

students and fac-ulty and got peo-

ple who wouldn’t normally get a

chance to get involved, to get in-volved,” said Woolie.

Some would be surprised to know that the activities are more diverse than just Spanish and French history; other departments get in on the action as well.

AceStories to promote reading for children

Foreign language festival interacts with high schoolersNEWS

This spring, a team of over 40 people has joined together to cre-ate AceStories, the first collection of online “talking” stories of its kind.

These stories, mostly featuring the Warhawk mascot Ace, are cre-ated in efforts to promote a love of reading for children approximate-ly five to 10 years of age.

The hopes are that students and other volunteers on campus will be able to encourage children to enjoy reading at an early age by generating free and readily avail-able resources online.

The process of creating these stories includes authoring, edit-ing, illustrating, narrating, pro-ducing and coding.

The authors of the stories are students at ULM, while art ma-jors created the illustrations to go along with the story.

Authors compose stories of about 15 sentences in length, which then go through an editing process where the stories are re-vised.

Once a story is approved, illus-trators sketch images to incorpo-rate into the stories.

Narrators read the stories aloud for recording, and then audio edi-

tors cut the recording into individ-ual sentences.

Coders prepare the HTML needed to produce the final col-laborated piece for the online website.

Michael Beutner, associate professor and coordinator in the Teaching and Learning Resource Center (TLRC), is the driving force behind AceStories.

“Children in schools in Louisi-ana tend to score very poorly in tests of achievement in literary arts, primarily because they have not learned how to love to read,” Beutner said.

“We think free and engaging educational resources created by students here at ULM will encour-age this love,” Beutner said.

The technology used to create AceStories is open-source, mean-ing that it is free to use.

Beutner hopes that leaving the technology available to others will encourage a wild fire of new edu-cation techniques that can reach children and allow them to enjoy reading wherever they may be.

Experience AceStories at www.ulm.edu/ace.

by Kelsey Hargrove

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Johnson

by Catherine Olson


National Humor Month was founded in 1976 by best-sell-ing humorist Larry Wilde, Director of The Carmel Institute of Humor. It is designed to heighten public awareness on how the joy and therapeutic value of laughter can improve health, boost morale, increase communication skills and

enrich the quality of one’s life.“Since April is often bleak and grim and taxes are due on

the 15th, it can be one of the most stressful times of the year,” says Wilde, author of 53 books on the subject of hu-

mor. “Besides,” adds Wilde, “it’s the only month that begins with All Fool’s Day -- a day which has sanctioned frivolity

and pranks ever since the 1500’s.”

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This month [April] in HISTORY

GAMES

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represent-ed agriculture and diamonds represented the merchant class.

Across1 Key in6 The thing over there10 Stalactite site14 Sticky15 Get a new mortgage for, briefly16 Opinion piece, for short17 Mott’s product19 Tear up, as a check20 __ Moines21 Transvaal settler22 With all one’s heart24 What daredevils seem to lack25 Place to fish from26 Wore an upside-down frown29 Rail chemical carriers33 Burgundy, for one34 Pitched shelter35 Dickens’s Uriah36 State purposefully37 Latin ballroom dance38 Mythological ship39 Hop out of bed40 Whizzes41 Monastery member42 Fix44 University officer45 Greenhouse containers

46 Constructed47 It starts after the overture50 Newspaper unit51 Captain’s “I need help ASAP!”54 Extinguish, with “out”55 Gust of wind, e.g.58 Hamster’s home59 Drop anchor60 Counters with beads61 Train for a bout62 Japanese wrestling63 Water bottle capacity

Down1 Antiquated exclamation2 “Don’t think so”3 Does better than4 Sinuous swimmer5 Microbrewery offering6 More loyal7 Estate beneficiary8 Org. with Raiders and Steelers9 Was linked with10 Nightclub minimum11 Each12 Bridal accessory13 Rapids phenomenon18 “The Grapes of Wrath” family

name23 “A spider!”24 ‘60s-’70s passive resistance slogan25 Dieter’s feelings of distress26 Marks for life27 Studio production28 Gambler’s words of lament29 Church belief30 High-altitude nest31 Cordelia’s sister32 Golf or tennis34 RPM gauges37 Wrestling duos41 Part of FBI43 Physics particle44 Old World Style pasta sauce brand46 Computer user’s shortcut47 Elementary lessons48 Applaud49 Old Roman wrap50 Seniors often take limos to it51 Bench, for one52 It’s often enough53 Instigate, with “up”56 Debtor’s letters57 Hitter’s stat

Last week’s online poll results

Do you find President Bruno’s optimism for ULM to be

encouraging?

75% said YES...

12.5% said NO...

12.5% said OTHER...


The Hawks have now lost three conference series games on Sun-days; their most recent against Ark. St. ULM (17-13, 5-7) and ASU (14-20, 4-8) split the first two games of the series.

The first game was dominated by Arkansas State as they won 13-2, but the second game was a bat-tle for both teams as the lead went back and forth.

Caleb Clowers who went 4-for-6 on the night put the Hawks went up 7-6 in the 8th inning before the Red Wolves tied the game in the top of the 9th.

In the 10th inning, Joey Rapp

would be the hero as he hit a walk-off single to end the game with an 8-7 Warhawk win.

Sunday would see a low scoring affair for much of the game.

Kendall Thamm got the start on the mound and had a decent day until the 5th inning when he gave up three runs making the score 4-3.

It was all downhill from there as the Red Wolves mercilessly scored nine more runs including five from homeruns.

Schexnaider won’t hide be-hind injuries as the reason for the team’s recent weekend melt-downs.

“We’ve got to have other guys step up. Everyone goes through injuries. We’re counting on our guys that we got healthy.”

Sophomore Daniel Mutai, who missed all of the 2011 indoor sea-son due to NCAA rules, won his first title in the 5000 meter race.

He finished the Texas Relays with a time of 14:52.15, holding off the next opponent by less than a second.

His time earned him the third-fastest in the Sun Belt Conference

this season.Also competing for the War-

hawks were javelin throwers Kyle Kent and Richard McKay.

McKay rounded up the top-five with his throw of 69.04 meters, with training partner, Kent, finish-ing behind him in sixth place with a mark of 68.58 meters, his best of the season.

by Anthony Drummer

SPORTS

Injuries not to blame for downhill slump

Coach Schexnaider watches Hawks let conference game slip.

Warhawk football makes major additionto non-conference schedule for 2012

ULM has added to more big names for their 2012 and 2013 sea-son, On Tuesday Athletic Direc-tor Bobby Staub announced that they’ve signed a home-and-home contract with Tulane.

ULM will travel down to New Orleans to play in the Superdo-me on September 29, 2012 and host the Green Wave in Malo-ne Stadium September 14, 2013. On Wednesday AD Bobby Staub announced the dates of the Bay-lor Home-and-home series have been switched.

The Baylor Bears will roll into

Monroe in 2012 after originally being set to come in 2013. “We are continuing to make great strides in our non-conference scheduling,” Staub said.

“Along with the Tulane series, these are the type of matchups that will create excitement for our student body and our fans.

ULM will also have a very busy 2011-2012 schedule as they trav-el to play three FBS schools in the first three month. The Hawks will also be hosting Grambling State in early September.

by Jerry Cox

by Jerry Cox

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Mutai takes gold in Texas Relays,Kent sets personal record in javelin

`by Jerry Cox


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Sept 3 Florida St.Sept 10 GramblingSept 17 TCUSept 24 IowaOct 8 Ark. StOct 15 TroyOct 22 N. TexasOct 29 W. Kent*Nov 5 ULLNov 12 Mid. TennNov 19 FIUDec 03 Florida Atl



Sundays prove costly for Hawk baseball team


SPORTS

This year’s ULM Spring Foot-ball game proved to be very enter-taining despite the Maroon team beating the Gold team by a mere score of 13-7.

For the first time special guest coaches were on the sidelines, KNOE sports director Aaron Diet-rich coached the gold team while, ULM’s beat writer from The News Star Tabby Soignier coached the Maroon Team.

They called what type of play while head coach Todd Berry called specific plays. There were plenty of plays to see as each coach ran their fair share of high-flying football.

“I am very comfortable right now with both sides of the foot-ball,” Berry said. Maroon wide receiver Anthony McCall came up with six catches for 126 yards while junior quarterback Cody Wells who finished with over 200 yards passing. Gold receiver Je’Ron Hamm paced their offense with four catches for 83 yards.

The Lady Warhawks usually left a series with FIU in losing spir-its but not this weekend after win-ning their first series against con-ference foe Florida International University in program history.

The weekend did not start out all fun and games however, as the Warhawks dropped game one of the double header Saturday after-noon 5-2 to the Golden Panthers.

Jessica Olguin had an impres-sive day going 2-for-3 and scoring

the first run for the Hawks and lat-er hitting her first triple of the sea-son and being 2-3.

Game two started the same way for the Hawks and it looked like they would be getting swept after trailing by four at the bottom of the sixth inning heading into the sev-enth inning.

Then the fun started and the sticks came alive for the ladies. With runners on base Janel Sala-noa drove in a two run RBI to make the score 7-6.

Elena DiMattia proved the tying run that eventually lead to a War-hawk victory after the rally and al-lowing Jessica Chastka (4-1) to

pick up the win. Olguin again lead all batters with a 3-4 day at the plate.

Game three saw the fun car-ry over from the day before and picked up a quality win after a stellar pitching performance by Stephanie Routzon in the circle.

Routzon pitched a complete game two hitter for the Hawks as they won 1-0 Sunday afternoon.

The lone run of the day came from ULM’s Miyuki Navarette. ULM improves its record to 22-17 and 9-6 in Sun Belt Conference .

Two of ULM’s own were named to the All-Louisiana teams announced Sunday. Junior guard Fred Brown was named to third-team All Louisiana while teammate senior forward Tommie Sykes earned hon-orable mention.

Brown finished in the top ten in the Sunbelt in scoring with 13.8 points per game.

Sykes averaged 11.5 for the Warhawks this season to go along with his team-high 6.3 rebounds.

He was second in the Sunbelt with 92 offensive rebounds.

Sykes proved to be an important piece to the hawks as he led the team in field-goal percentage, steals, free throws made and free throws attempted.

The ULM Women’s Tennis team has been on a roll the past two months of the season.

They’ve now won 16 straight games dating back to January. They are 16-1 on the season and the one lone lost came to number 27 ranked SMU on January 22.

The Hawks honored their two on Saturday Seniors Claire Clark

and Ana Burjili during Senior Day before their match against Delta State.

The Hawks disposed of Del-ta State 7-0 while, on their way to winning their 15 straight match.

On Sunday the finished off the Ragin Cajuns of ULL 4-1 to ex-tend their remarkable streak to 16 matches.

Hot hitting leads comeback against Florida International

Great balls of fire




Brown, Sykes named to 2011 All-Louisiana team by LSWA by JerryCox

by Jerry Cox

By Zach Ham

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Warm weather heats up Lady Warhawk bats

by Jerry Cox

Maroon hold off Gold in spring game

Letha Gaighe returns a serve during the 16 match win streak.

Receiver Tavarese W. Maye of the maroon team tries to make the grab.



The Lady Warhawk softball team is 10-5 in their last 10 games.


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