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e ASU Debate Team brought home the Interna- tional Public Debate Associ- ation national championship over Spring Break to con- clude a stellar performance year of back to back Top Speaker awards, multiple championship trophies and international acclaim. Yet, despite its substantial successes, the team lacks a proper place to practice and even a place to display its tro- phies. “When we go to other schools we compete against, they have trophy cases up and down the hallways in their department, with all their debate trophies dis- played proudly for everyone to see,” said assistant coach Mark Gray, a graduate stu- dent of Jonesboro. “We go hard all year long and we win all these trophies and nobody knows about it. We want to brag a little bit.” Right now, trophies are sent home with participating debate team members simply because ASU lacks a place to display them. Even the trophies from seasons gone by are too tall to fit on their shelves in the Communica- tions College graduate stu- dent lounge, and have to be laid sideways to account for their height. “ere are people who would love to see our stuff displayed here in the college,” said Chris Harper, debate coach and professor of Com- munication Studies. “We’re trying to negotiate a deal to put a lot of the bigger tro- phies and things on campus just to let people know what we do.” Over the years, the team has had to overcome a lack of recognition from within the university in order to estab- lish themselves as a valuable and highly competitive stu- dent organization. “Honestly, there are a lot of people on campus who don’t know we have a debate team,” Harp- er said, “and we have one of the best debate teams in the United States.” Gray said, “Even if a stu- dent isn’t interested in de- bate, knowing ASU has one of the dominant debate teams in the nation should give us a feeling of pride and a sense of accomplishment.” ASU debaters also have to struggle with finding efficient facilities in which to practice and prepare for their compe- titions. “Other schools’ programs have very functional areas debaters can practice,” Gray said. “Just like in football players need certain kinds of equipment to perform as well as they possibly can, to do de- ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ON THE WEB www.ASUHerald.com Informing the campus and community since 1921 Volume 92, Issue 49 Baseball The baseball team fell to Ole Miss on Tuesday, losing 11-1. Sports 5 Thursday, April 25, 2013 is week in history: In 1993, the SGA discussed chang- ing ASU’s mascot from Runnin’ Joe to another mascot. Students were asked to participate in a poll to see if they approved or disapproved of the proposed change. e North Korea missile crisis is nothing but a big joke. at is right—a nuclear missile launch is not going to happen and this is why. Days left until finals Opinion|2 Quoteable What’s Inside Opinion ......................... 2 #Life ............................... 3 Sports............................ 5 News.............................. 4,6 6 DEBATE, 4 SKYE WHITE STAFF WRITER BETHANY GALLIMORE STAFF WRITER Caitlin LaFarlette | Photo Editor In honor of Alpha Week, the Alpha Phi Alphas held their annual Ape Off on Wednesday night, inviting groups of women to imitate their stroll for a chance to claim victory, with five groups of women participating. The fraternity will also hold a lunch buddy program, awareness seminar and game night throughout the rest of the week. Debate team conquers year Caitlin LaFarlette | Photo Editor Jackson Spencer, a senior graphic communications major of Jonesboro, prepares a variety of vegetables to be juiced for his lunch Tuesday afternoon. Orthorexia on the rise With all the fad diets and get-thin- quick schemes on the market today, nearly everyone has been faced with the pressure to modify their lifestyle or eat- ing habits in some way. When someone mentions an eating disorder, anorexia is typically one of the firsts that come to mind; however, a new trend, termed ort- horexia, has emerged and gained preva- lence since the early 90s. Whereas anorexia involves depriving oneself of food altogether, orthorexia is defined by the Huffington Post as an ob- session with eating only healthy foods. Orthorexics are concerned not with the quantity, but the quality of the food they consume. By definition, this disorder doesn’t sound like such a bad deal, but as in any case, it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Victoria Williams, an advanced prac- tice nurse (APN) at the Student Health Center, considers orthorexia to be a se- rious condition. “e primary concern with orthorex- ia is not the desire to eat healthy, but the obsessive compulsive tendencies that accompany it and threaten a person’s psychological and physical well-being,” Williams said. Orthorexics become so preoccupied with planning every detail of their diets that it interferes with other aspects of daily life. Social interactions suffer and extreme dietary restrictions may lead to anemia, malnutrition and a whole slew of other negative consequences. “Some of the warning signs include low self-esteem, social withdrawal, rap- id weight loss, fainting, weakness and fatigue. In extreme cases, muscle atro- phy and bone degeneration can occur,” Williams said. Because orthorexia is not yet recog- nized by the Diagnostic and Statistical ORTHOREXIA, 4 STROLL OFF Jobs scarce among grads Graduation is just around the corner and many stu- dents are ready to put on their cap and gowns, walk across a stage, shake hands with an administrator and receive their diploma while family and friends watch. For others it’s about tossing their books aside and reclaiming their life from classes, study- ing, test-taking and essays. While some graduates already have jobs or pros- pects, others are not as lucky. A substantial number of students will have trou- ble finding a job;competing with jobless graduates from the previous year, the long term unemployed, and those looking for better jobs will become the competition. A 2012 Huffington Post report shows that 53.6 percent of bachelor’s degree-holders under the age of 25 were job- less or unemployed. Elaine Scott of Memphis, a senior RTV major, is look- ing forward to graduation but doesn’t have definitive plans afterward. “I really don’t know what I want to do. I have been going to school for so long now I’m like, ‘what am I going to do, now that I have time to live,’” Scott said. With graduation just around the corner, students all across the country are preparing for their big day. A significant number are about to embark on new journeys from entering the working world, to continuing their education on a higher level. “I know it’s going to be hard (finding employment),” said Kerry Evans of Little Rock, a senior education ma- jor. On average, 1.5 million people graduate with a bach- elor’s degree and 700,000 with an associate’s degree yearly, according to the U.S. Department of Education. ose numbers help paint CHALISE MACKLIN STAFF WRITER JOBS, 4

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The ASU Debate Team brought home the Interna-tional Public Debate Associ-ation national championship over Spring Break to con-clude a stellar performance year of back to back Top Speaker awards, multiple championship trophies and international acclaim.

Yet, despite its substantial successes, the team lacks a proper place to practice and even a place to display its tro-phies.

“When we go to other schools we compete against, they have trophy cases up and down the hallways in their department, with all their debate trophies dis-played proudly for everyone to see,” said assistant coach Mark Gray, a graduate stu-dent of Jonesboro. “We go hard all year long and we win all these trophies and nobody knows about it. We want to brag a little bit.”

Right now, trophies are sent home with participating debate team members simply because ASU lacks a place to display them. Even the trophies from seasons gone by are too tall to fit on their shelves in the Communica-tions College graduate stu-dent lounge, and have to be laid sideways to account for their height.

“There are people who would love to see our stuff displayed here in the college,” said Chris Harper, debate coach and professor of Com-munication Studies. “We’re trying to negotiate a deal to put a lot of the bigger tro-phies and things on campus just to let people know what we do.”

Over the years, the team has had to overcome a lack of recognition from within the university in order to estab-lish themselves as a valuable and highly competitive stu-dent organization. “Honestly, there are a lot of people on campus who don’t know we have a debate team,” Harp-er said, “and we have one of the best debate teams in the United States.”

Gray said, “Even if a stu-dent isn’t interested in de-bate, knowing ASU has one of the dominant debate teams in the nation should give us a feeling of pride and a sense of accomplishment.”

ASU debaters also have to struggle with finding efficient facilities in which to practice and prepare for their compe-titions.

“Other schools’ programs have very functional areas debaters can practice,” Gray said. “Just like in football players need certain kinds of equipment to perform as well as they possibly can, to do de-

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Caitlin LaFarlette | Photo EditorIn honor of Alpha Week, the Alpha Phi Alphas held their annual Ape Off on Wednesday night, inviting groups of women to imitate their stroll for a chance to claim victory, with five groups of women participating. The fraternity will also hold a lunch buddy program, awareness seminar and game night throughout the rest of the week.

Debate team conquers year

Caitlin LaFarlette | Photo EditorJackson Spencer, a senior graphic communications major of Jonesboro, prepares a variety of vegetables to be juiced for his lunch Tuesday afternoon.

Orthorexia on the rise

With all the fad diets and get-thin-quick schemes on the market today, nearly everyone has been faced with the pressure to modify their lifestyle or eat-ing habits in some way. When someone mentions an eating disorder, anorexia is typically one of the firsts that come to mind; however, a new trend, termed ort-horexia, has emerged and gained preva-lence since the early 90s.

Whereas anorexia involves depriving oneself of food altogether, orthorexia is defined by the Huffington Post as an ob-session with eating only healthy foods.

Orthorexics are concerned not with the quantity, but the quality of the food they consume.

By definition, this disorder doesn’t sound like such a bad deal, but as in any case, it is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Victoria Williams, an advanced prac-tice nurse (APN) at the Student Health Center, considers orthorexia to be a se-rious condition.

“The primary concern with orthorex-ia is not the desire to eat healthy, but the obsessive compulsive tendencies that accompany it and threaten a person’s psychological and physical well-being,”

Williams said. Orthorexics become so preoccupied

with planning every detail of their diets that it interferes with other aspects of daily life. Social interactions suffer and extreme dietary restrictions may lead to anemia, malnutrition and a whole slew of other negative consequences.

“Some of the warning signs include low self-esteem, social withdrawal, rap-id weight loss, fainting, weakness and fatigue. In extreme cases, muscle atro-phy and bone degeneration can occur,” Williams said.

Because orthorexia is not yet recog-nized by the Diagnostic and Statistical

ORTHOREXIA, 4

STROLL OFFJobs scarce among grads

Graduation is just around the corner and many stu-dents are ready to put on their cap and gowns, walk across a stage, shake hands with an administrator and receive their diploma while family and friends watch. For others it’s about tossing their books aside and reclaiming their life from classes, study-ing, test-taking and essays.

While some graduates already have jobs or pros-pects, others are not as lucky. A substantial number of students will have trou-ble finding a job;competing with jobless graduates from the previous year, the long term unemployed, and those looking for better jobs will become the competition. A 2012 Huffington Post report shows that 53.6 percent of bachelor’s degree-holders under the age of 25 were job-less or unemployed.

Elaine Scott of Memphis,

a senior RTV major, is look-ing forward to graduation but doesn’t have definitive plans afterward.

“I really don’t know what I want to do. I have been going to school for so long now I’m like, ‘what am I going to do, now that I have time to live,’” Scott said.

With graduation just around the corner, students all across the country are preparing for their big day. A significant number are about to embark on new journeys from entering the working world, to continuing their education on a higher level.

“I know it’s going to be hard (finding employment),” said Kerry Evans of Little Rock, a senior education ma-jor.

On average, 1.5 million people graduate with a bach-elor’s degree and 700,000 with an associate’s degree yearly, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Those numbers help paint

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I realize this column is late given its topic happened a month ago, but it was nec-essary to print this at a later date in order to put this situ-ation in its proper place.

The North Korea missile crisis is nothing but a big joke. That is right—a nuclear missile launch is not going to happen and this is why.

First, it should be known that denying the likelihood of North Korea attacking is not to make small the destructive power of a nuclear missile. I am aware of the detrimental effects of a nuclear warhead and its potential to wipe out massive civilian populations.

That being said, consid-er the hypothetical scenario. Assume North Korea does launch a missile and it hits the intended target.

It would be safe to assume another country with nucle-ar weapons, be it the United States or elsewhere, is likely to retaliate with their nuclear weapons.

This is what in the political science world they call mu-tually assured destruction. There is really no chance an attack would not prompt immediate retaliation. So in North Korea’s best interest as a country they never press the button.

Even if they were just to

shoot a test missile in an ocean somewhere it could still have consequences. Mis-sile launches into the ocean are not entirely safe, due to the fact it would destroy marine life and disrupt food chains.

A launch at this magni-tude is not even plausible due to world superpowers’ abili-ty to shoot down the missile before it hits. Use your brain and think, Kim Jong Un. The decision is really not that hard.

It is also important to un-derstand that the U.S. has warned North Korea there could be serious consequenc-es from a nuclear launch.

The U.S. has mobilized parts of its military to best defend our country and allies.

Our military strategy is certainly keeping anyone that decides they want to be our enemy in check.

Moreover, consider the recent reports that Senator Kerry addressed the Chinese to place more pressure on the North Koreans. China has already responded upping pressure on North Korea to stop what they are doing.

China has been the life-blood of the North Korean economy due to the sanctions that many western powers. Having China no longer sup-porting the actions of North Korea in an interesting pre-dicament for the Korean gov-ernment.

While they want to assert their sovereignty and power, they also do not want to up-set their trade partner. Since China is the main supplier of North Korea they have the most political sway.

It could be a safe assump-tion that China could and would cut off the North Ko-reans if they did not refrain

from a launch. It is of my opinion that

North Korea is just using this threat in a desperate means to attain their ends. This is all too common when people are desperate to get what they want.

Have you ever observed a child throw a temper tan-trum and make threats to do something stupid if they do not get their way?

It is quite a loss of emo-tional control and a failure on the part of the child to think things through.

This is the unfortunate thing about desperate people. It is just terrible that in this case there are innocent civil-ians that have to be the pawns for this desperate plea.

Sure we are human and we may not always be in con-trol of our emotions. Yes we make mistakes and we are not immune to acting rashly.

Threats aside, North Ko-rea will think before they act, and an attack won’t happen.

So take my advice and go tell your friends the story of the North Korea missile situ-ation, it is might be good for a laugh.

Jason Holland is a post-de-gree criminology major of Jonesboro.

Racial integration, al-though seen by many as ful-ly implemented in American society, is not always prac-ticed by people.

ASU has a large and con-tinuously growing interna-tional presence on campus, but many students choose to hangout with people of the same race and culture as them rather than those who are perceived as different.

Just take a stroll through the cafeteria on any given day and see the tables full of peo-ple of the same race sitting together.

It appears that our cam-pus, with just two weeks of school left, has a lot to do to become racially integrated.

This academic year some international student orga-nizations have hosted events where everyone is welcome, regardless of ethnicity.

Sadly, most students chose not to go to those events if it does not pertain to their race.

I believe this has a lot to do with how you are raised and what you were exposed to growing up and less to do with intentional segregation.

In some cases, you will see students of different eth-nicities talking, laughing and hanging out, but more often, you can see a faction of one race as you walk through the Student Union or the cafete-ria.

It is our nature as humans to revert to that which makes us feel comfortable. This is not a bad thing but it is not good either when it comes to race relations.

There is promise for racial integration with some groups on campus. Greek Life at ASU has the slogan “Where YOU Belong!”

According to the website, students can develop lifelong friendships, have memories

that will last a lifetime, be in-volved in philanthropy, and leadership training.

It is not just Caucasians and African Americans who need to make life-long friends, memories, do philanthropy, and leadership training.

That is one good thing about Greek Life that a stu-dent can get all those benefits in one organization.

Whereas, most other clubs and organizations that all ethnicities can join focus on academics, leadership, re-ligion, politics, etc.

Students in these organi-zations pay dues and go to the meetings but may leave without making any friends.

There are many clubs and

organizations on campus that welcome and accept people of all ethnicities without a se-lection process.

One in particular, the Black Student Association, invites students who are not Black into it. It is a good as-sumption from the name of the organization that Black students are only allowed to join it.

This however is not the case and the BSA invites the entire ASU community to its events.

The student demograph-ics for fall 2012 in the ASU Fact Book show there are 66 American Indians/Alaskan Natives, 89 Asian Americans, 266 Hispanic Americans, and seven Native Hawaiians/Pa-cific Islanders. There are also 68 countries represented on campus.

The international student population is growing and I believe so should their inte-gration.

Jennifer Wells is a junior journalism major of Moun-tain Home.

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Our ViewIt seems that philanthropy will not be able to cover up

for the foul mouth of a sorority sister at the University of Maryland.

After what must have been a disappointing series of events, Rebecca Martinson, a sorority sister of the Delta Gamma Sorority at the University of Maryland sent an email complaining about her fellow sisters’ “boring” and “awkward” behavior.

Her email to her fellow sisters was far from boring; in fact, she suggests that the recipients of the email tie themselves to their chairs, in preparation for the “rough ride.”

The next 855 words in her email have given her the label by many news sources as the real-life “mean girl.” However, her remarks in the email might make some look at Lindsey Lohan as an angel.

Thanks to the 41 f-bombs in the email, Martinson’s movie would have had an R rating compared to “Mean Girls” PG-13 motion picture rating. While Hollywood may not make a movie about her downfall, Martinson, will certainly go into the Sorority Hall of Fame for swearing.

This is not to say that various films of the email have not already been created. After the email went viral various readings have been recorded, including a dramatic reading by Michael Shannon on the website “Funny or Die.”

While there seems to be a small cult following of the outrageous outburst, most individuals are frustrated with the behavior of this student.

There are rumors circling about potential revoking of the sorority’s charter along with other repercussions from the university, but nothing is certain at this time. It would be impossible to message Martinson and find out as her social media has been removed from the Internet.

Sadly, her email will not be removed anytime soon nor its affects on her sorority or school. What was most likely a 20-minute rant about her sisters being awkward is going to awkwardly change the rest of her college experience.

Other Delta Gamma sisters have voiced their disappointment from their sister chapter. As bad as it is for Delta Gamma, other sororities might feel the impact as well. Events like this certainly focus attention on the wrong set of individuals as a representative of Greek life.

This is certainly not the Greek unity that is preached on ASU’s campus. While conflicts arise in all factions of university life, including Greeks, this email is hopefully the exception, not the rule.

What is certain is the Delta Gamma Sorority will no longer be boring, as this email continues to circulate the worldwide web. However, being boring may be a step up from sounding criminally insane.

Unlike Martinson, we will not end with an expletive, but rather a reminder to not send anything through email that will require readers to be tied down with rope; it might just come back to haunt you.

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North Korean threat only fizzles and sparks

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Many who pass through Hardy of a town of roughly 772 people 60 miles northwest of Jonesboro have to put on the brakes for the police car sitting on the south side of the high-way 412. But one need not worry about being pulled over. The squad car is just a small prac-tical joke by Ernest Sutherland, the owner of the “Good Old Days Vintage Motorcar Mu-seum.”

Complete with a dressed up dummy sitting in the driver’s seat, the patrol car has fooled its fair share of motorists.

“You would be surprised at the amount of people who will drive up there, pull into the parking lot of the museum up to where the police car is at, get out of the car, go over there and knock on the glass to ask for directions,” Sutherland said.

The squad car is the first visible “exhibit” of the museum, which has a small place in the history of automobiles, but also the history of Hardy. The car, a model from the early 80s, was the first police car purchased by the small town. When a second car was eventually pur-chased, the town sold it to Sutherland and his museum.

Sutherland, who works in the plastics in-dustry and resides in Memphis, Tenn., start-ed up the museum in March of 1996 when he needed a place to store his collection of cars he had restored, many of them Model –T’s, the car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 to 1927.

“It was a hobby that got out of control. I bought my first car (a 1926 Model-T), restored it and thought ‘that looks pretty good.’ My in-tention was to buy a car, restore it and then sell it,” Sutherland said. “But every one I’ve restored I’ve fallen in love with and couldn’t part with it. Next thing I knew, I had 20 to 25 cars and I had to look for a place to put them. I ended up in Hardy. I thought someday when I retire, Hardy might be a good place to retire to. That’s never happened.”

The reason for Sutherland’s fascination with the car that occupies half of “Good Old Day’s” showroom is the longevity of that first era of vehicle.

“That really was the first car that was af-fordable for someone who was working. Back then of course a Model –T was a lot of mon-ey, but you could buy one for $300 to $325,” Sutherland said. “1927 was the last year the Model-T’s were made and basically the com-ponents and parts that went into a 1927 mod-el were the same ones that were used in 1909.”

“He’s the sweetest man in the world,” said

Mary Hambrice, the museum’s caretaker for the last three years. “One of the cars, a Sky-line, the gentlemen that owned it loved his car. (Before he) passed away, he had asked if he could have his car put in here and it’s been here ever since just to keep it in good condi-tion.”

Hambrice has been in love with cars ever since her older brother drove a candy-apple red 1969 Ford Mustang.

“I’ve always been fascinated by older cars,” Hambrice said. “My grandmother used to tell stories about (getting) gas, scrounging up 75 cents to fill the tank up.”

While half of the vehicles at “Good Old Days” are from the dawn of the automobile industry, a fair share are from the latter half of the 20th Century. Among them is a red 1910 Kissel Car, a vanilla colored 1924 Falcon Knight and a silver 1989 Pontiac Turbo Trans-AM emblazoned with stickers identifying it as a replica of the official pace car used at the 1989 Indianapolis 500.

But just a few feet away from the Pontiac sits a precursor to todat’s four-wheeled gas guzzlers. From the streets of Thailand sits a Ricksaw, a vehicle best described as part bi-cycle, part taxi, which while sporting a 1911 license plate, is really from the late 1800s.

The museum’s relatively isolated location, albeit in a tourist-heavy town like Hardy, hasn’t kept it from hosting a wide variety of

visitors since its opening 17 years ago.“We’ve had 20-30 people come through in

a day or one person in a day,” Hambrice said. “You meet a lot of interesting people who come in here. I’ve met people from Australia, Germany, Austria, Japan, Scotland, England, Sweden and Norway.”

When Hambrice, a native of Louisiana, asks these distant visitors how they came to find the museum, the frequent response is through Google.

“So (I ask them) ‘do you like classic cars’ (and) they say ‘yes we do,’ so I give them bro-chures for other places to go to if they want,” Hambrice said. Last year the museum hosted the Model-T Club of America, a group that picks a town as a meeting place and then trav-els the back roads of America to get there.

The museum has had to adjust its seasonal openings in recent years because of the open-ing of a bypass around Hardy. With a drop in foot traffic, the museum now only opens in the summer, opening for seven days a week beginning in May.

Another force working against Sutherland and his museum is that which it documents: the passage of time. With each passing year the time from which all of the vehicles orig-inated slips away. With it are those who are experienced at working on and maintaining the life spans of the vehicles.

“The old-timers are fading away fast,”

Sutherland said. “Technology has changed.” The museum owner did say parts for old cars can be reproduced.

“We are losing a lot of our mechanics. I had (two people) who wanted to takes pic-tures of a car, one of them for the interior, because a gentlemen who was remodeling his car couldn’t comprehend how to do the interior,” Hambrice said. “You’re seeing less and less mechanics who can work on these cars without a computer.”

Another problem is being able to find af-ter-market parts for some vehicles. It’s taken Sutherland up to 10 years to find an individ-ual part for some Model-T’s.

One of the more interesting and author-itative displays of progress of how we take care of our cars is in a collection of car jacks on the east wall of the building.

“That is the largest collection of manual car jacks. No two are alike. There are over 230 and (Sutherland) has more for me to put out,” Hambrice said. The collection includes jacks from the 1910s all the way up through the 50s and even has jacks used on horse carriages in the late 1800s.

“All of those jacks are mechanical. There’s no hydraulic jacks in there,” Suther-land said. While there are some jacks that

look similar, the owner said there’s often one tiny difference between the contraptions that was added in order to circumvent patent re-strictions.

In recent years Sutherland has cut back on switching out cars in his museum, the latest addition to his collection was put in three years ago. Even with the consistency in his museum, frequent visitors are still finding new things to learn about with each trip.

“I’ve had people who have been through there I don’t know how many times and every time they come through, they see something different,” Sutherland said. “I’ve had ladies that have come through and guys (say) ‘We used to have a car like that. We dated in a car like that.’”

What started out as a personal hobby for Sutherland has grown into a history lesson on how far one of the great technological achievements of our time has come and that’s really all Sutherland could ask for. While it’s an introduction to something new for young-er visitors, it’s also a sweet reminder for oth-ers of what the “Good Old Days” were like.

“You can have a wonderful time here. I once had a gentleman that was in for over two hours; I forgot he was in here,” Hambrice said. “He was just reminiscing about cars from his childhood.”

This is the generation of the re-makes. From movies to record players to the “vintage” trend taking over the fashion world, the era has encouraged different franchises to make a comeback.

Fans all over the world went wild when it was announced last summer at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Sailor Moon Manga that the quirky Ser-ena (or Usagi Tsukino, as she is named in Japan) would be on TV once again.

“I think it’s a great revitalization of a very essential part in most anime lov-er’s lives,” said Rachel Carner, a senior journalism major of Bono and president of the Anime Club on campus. “That is what got people into anime with the big ones; ‘Sailor Moon,’ ‘Dragon Ball Z,’ even ‘Speed Racer’ in the 60s. It coming back to this generation will start a whole new wave of anime fans.”

The original anime featured a teenage girl with long blonde hair, who would sweep the floor as she battled monsters and stylish enemies with the help of her four “Sailor Scouts,” all in the name of love, friendship and the moon. With five seasons, 200 episodes, three movies, and 18 Manga volumes, it’s hard to forget such a franchise existed.

Samantha Cole, a senior theatre ma-jor of Jonesboro, said she has been a “Moonie” (Sailor Moon fan) since grade school.

“I can remember coming home from

school and watching ‘Sailor Moon’ on Toonami right after ‘Gundam Wing,’” Cole said. “I had a lot of merchandise and even played Sailor Moon with my friends.”

According to Anime News Network, during the anniversary last summer, the singing group Momoiro Clover Z, pub-lisher of Kodansha and creator Naoko Takeuchi, announced that the new an-ime adaptation of the manga was being produced and would have a worldwide release this summer.

While there haven’t been any offi-cial updates or announcements, rumors have been circulating there has been a delay on the 2013 “Sailor Moon” release.

A tweet from Fumio Osana, the Sail-or Moon Manga’s editor on March 24, in reply to a tweet asking if the anime would be released in June/July, Osana said, “Not decided. Delaying.”

According to SailorMoonNews.com, a most recent tweet on Sunday stated that Toru Furuya, the voice of Tuxedo Mask in the original “Sailor Moon” an-ime, mentioned the show would not be airing this summer. Other speculation from the head of TV sales and DVD rights for Plus Licens, mentioned while the anime would not air this summer, it is currently estimated to air in winter 2014.

“It is a little annoying about not knowing the date. Anyone who is a fan of a show would be mad if they didn’t know,” Cole said. “Like if ‘The Walking

Dead’ or ‘Game of Thrones’ wasn’t an-nouncing their date.”

While many doubt they will get to see their beloved “meatball head”, Car-ner still has hope the show will defi-nitely make it’s way to fans, even after all the delays.

“It’s a little bit disheartening because I was looking forward to seeing what they would do with it because it’s pret-ty cool, them bringing back a show like that,” Carner said. “We can only hope for the best; that it would be released at least. It’s not cancelled, which is a good thing; it’s delayed.”

Cole explained many rumors have mentioned the show will have a reboot like “Full Metal Alchemist Brother-hood” and be closer to the manga.

“Having read the manga, I think it’ll be a lot of fun,” Cole said. “It’s going to have good and bad effects on anime fans as a whole. You will have some that are fans of the original who will hate the reboot, claiming the original is better.”

While many would like to forget the golden locks and move on to zombies and the apocalypse, there are a few fans on campus who still continue to hope for the day they get to see their favorite “cry baby” character at it again.

“It’s definitely a big part of people’s lives, whether they like it or not,” Car-ner said. “Everyone knows who Sailor Moon is.”

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Daniel McFadin| Staff WriterA 1924 Falcoln Knight four-door sedan is one of 50 cars on display at the Good Old Days Vintage Motor Car Museum in Hardy.

Takako Okamura| Staff PhotographerAnime fans have gone wild with the news that the blonde haired heroine Sailor Moon will soon return to TV.

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bate we need certain things to be able to compete at the highest level.”

Currently, the team practices in a variety of locations depending on availability, and lacks a reliable location to prepare for the printing and research intensive categories of debate.

Gray said, “If we were given an area with computers, filing cabinets to keep evidence and a couple of printers, it would allow us to be more efficient and effective than we al-ready are.”

Yet, even in the face of its disadvantages, the ASU debate team is still dedicated to pur-suing debate victory on a personal level and representing its university well.

“Despite that we don’t have a place to put our trophies, and despite the fact that we don’t have the best working conditions, we work hard,” Gray said. “When we pull onto a rival campus, we are a team and we are there to support ASU.”

Approaching rival schools ready to win for the Red Wolves is no difficulty for this year’s hugely successful team. “You can’t say enough about this team, because they won pretty much everything they went to,” Harper said.

The team’s final challenge was over Spring Break with the IPDA National Tournament at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. The team again emerged triumphant, with the winning pair Ken Corbit and Micah Chris-tensen staying undefeated throughout the competition.

“To bring home a national championship to end the year off was a great thing for us, that is really the big deal,” Harper said. “Our team won every tournament they went to in the United States this year, so to finish it off in the nationals was a really fantastic experi-ence.”

In addition to completing the year with a national victory, the team also earned inter-national acclaim with a fourth-place finish in the International Forensics Association’s competition in Antwerp, Belgium. “It was a fantastic tournament,” Harper said. “We were undefeated until the final, and lost to the team that ended up winning the tournament.”

Supporting ASU is not the only thing the debate team is being recognized for doing.

Within the last three years, the debate team has begun reaching out and giving back to the Jonesboro community through the forming of the Delta Debate League.

The Delta Debate League is composed of several high schools surrounding the Jones-boro area, each without debate programs of their own. Through the League, ASU team members connect with high school students to teach them the principles of debate.

“We reach out to those schools and offer them free coaching and free training one day a week,” Gray said. “It gives high school stu-dents a chance to interact with other students on an intellectual level.”

The Delta Debate League is also useful as a recruitment tool for future ASU debaters. Assistant coach Colton Gilbert, a graduate communication studies student, said, “If we can start teaching them debate now, then by the time they get here as freshmen in college we won’t have to dedicate time to teaching them the basics and we can move on to more refined concepts.”

Once a year, the team hosts a tournament for the Delta Debate League ASU. The 2013 Delta Debate League tournament will be this Saturday in the Communications College from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and is open to the pub-lic.

“These debates are open to anyone on cam-pus,” Gilbert said. “A lot of people are inter-ested in debate but may not understand how it goes. Judging gives them the opportunity to see it in action.”

Next year, Harper hopes to expand the program even further with the addition of new recruits and walk-on participants.

“It’s the single best educational experience in college,” Harper said.

The team plans on bringing in new schol-arship recipients, transfer students and even students who already attend ASU. “We are not an exclusive organization. Whereas a lot of our debaters do come here with a lot of ex-perience, we are open to having any person who would like to become involved or think debate experience would enhance their ca-reer,” Harper said.

Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as a le-gitimate diagnosis, this disorder is often over-looked until it has progressed into dangerous territory.

“Orthorexia is not a clinical diagnosis, but it is real. Doctors will recognize and treat is as such,” Williams said.

According to Williams, counseling is the most important aspect of treatment.

Once any medical conditions have been addressed, the focus becomes modifying eat-ing habits and facilitating social interactions, as well as monitoring the individual’s prog-ress.

Jackson Spencer, senior graphic communi-cations major of Jonesboro, adheres to a diet that might be considered extreme by some, but he does not feel like he’s missing out on anything.

“I’m not obsessed with eating healthy. Sometimes I eat junk food, but I’m always conscious of what I allow into my body,” Spen-cer said.

Spencer has modified his lifestyle to in-clude more raw nutrition and utilizes a juicer to make sure he gets plenty of fruits and veg-etables every day.

He cut soda and fried foods out of his diet completely, and avoids man-made, preserva-tive laden processed foods.

“When I look at the ingredient list and find words I can’t pronounce, I don’t eat it,” Spen-cer said.

He largely follows the Paleo diet, a simple eating plan that mimics the food regimen of our ancient ancestors.

“Basically, if you can’t pick it or kill it, you shouldn’t eat it,” Spencer said.

Since Spencer has become more aware of his nutritional sources, he has noticed major changes.

“The difference has been night and day. I have always been active, but I was always tired and didn’t sleep well. That added to a lot of unnecessary stress,” Spencer said. “Once I started eating more raw foods, my energy lev-el has increased and stress has diminished. I

also sleep better.”Such a restrictive diet makes it difficult to

find things to eat in restaurants, so he makes most of his meals at home.

“I calculated after three weeks of buying groceries that I was spending about $1.86 per meal. It takes more time to cook yourself, but it’s cheaper and better for you,” Spencer said.

Remington Kienbusch, a junior business major of Paragould, has never been con-cerned about orthorexia.

He spends 5 days a week running the kitch-en in a restaurant called Kiss the Cook.

“I’m constantly surrounded by food. I love to cook and I love to eat,” Kienbusch said.

Unlike Spencer, Kienbusch is more con-cerned with taste than nutritional value when preparing his meals.

“It’s fun to dirty it up. You should be able to have fun and cook how you want,” Kienbusch said.

“I make food that tastes good and that oth-er people like. I love cooking for my friends. Nobody comes over to eat celery sticks and tofu.”

Kienbusch doesn’t usually go out of his way to eat healthy, but does make an effort to con-sume an adequate amount of fruits and veg-gies each day.

Despite the differences in their diets, both gentlemen agree on one thing: moderation is key.

“You can’t eat something fried for every meal. It’s important to have variety, but I don’t think it’s a sin to indulge in some good old fashioned comfort food like what grandma makes every now and again,” Kienbusch said.

While it is certainly important to take in all the vital nutrients and maintain an active lifestyle, obsessing over every calorie could add to stress.

“It doesn’t matter what you do. You could eat all the carrot sticks in the world, but there’s no way you’ll ever live past 120. You might as well enjoy the time you have and eat some junk food,” Kienbusch said.

the portrait of what the work force looks like for post-graduates and how stiff the competition for a job can be.

“It’s about planning ahead,” said Ed Rayburn, associate director of the ASU Career Management Cen-ter. “Students have to think of ways to set themselves apart.”

According to the Red Star Re-sume website, several things play a factor in the process of finding a job. The website outlines that too few jobs and too many graduates, downturn in the economy, lack of real world experience, too high ex-pectations and debate between fur-ther education and job seeking, will hinder graduates seeking jobs.

“I am furthering my education (post-graduation), so that I can eventually gain the position I de-sire,” Evans said.

But the reality of how difficult job searching can be hasn’t discour-

aged all students.“I want to be recognized as a

person that can be a triple threat,” said Lauren Lawson, a senior com-munication studies major of Tupelo, Miss. “I am not that nervous about the future. I feel whatever is for me, it is for me.”

As of 2011, the largest employ-ers, according to The Independent newspaper, receive an average of 83 resumes for each single vacancy, with some top companies inundat-ed with as many as 150 applications per job.

A survey on Guardian Ca-reers revealed extended unpaid internships and being labeled too inexperienced for jobs are also chal-lenges in the graduate job market right now.

Despite the stiff job com-petition, there are some ways to overcome falling into the number of unemployed graduates.

“The key is playing to your strong points,” Rayburn said. “A lot of students don’t have work expe-rience so they must play up their skills.”

The Forbes website lists that graduates should create a LinkedIn profile, establish a pres-ence on Word Press, and get a men-tor and an internship as early as possible. Using the school’s career services office and joining a profes-sional development or industry spe-cific group are also ways to increase employment chances.

Rayburn said using the ca-reer center can be very helpful to students looking for a job.

“Seek out the resources available to you,” Rayburn said. “We have al-ways encouraged our students to get engaged with the career center as a freshman and stay involved throughout their collegiate experi-ence.”

ASU’s Career Management Center offers a variety of support to help students land a job such as resume building, assistance with interviewing skills and the center’s website has a section called Career Connect that helps students access job openings.

Maggie Mistal, career ex-pert, said preparation and applying early for jobs can increase job seek-er’s chances of actually landing a job, but some eliminate themselves from consideration because of er-rors to things like resumes.

A 2010 Accountemps Survey shows 28 percent of executives say the resume is where most job seek-ers make mistakes in the application process.

Because of numerous reports about the obstacles graduates face, some people are opting out of four year colleges for trade schools, short programs or entering into the work

field straight out of high school and working their way up into higher positions.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics states 17 million college graduates are doing jobs requiring less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor’s degree. That statistic can be compared to a 2012 report in CNNMoney showing that many students have jobs awaiting them before graduating from their trade school programs.

Whether one chose a trade school or four year college, immedi-ately into the work world after high school or pursue higher education before looking for a job in their de-sired field, experts have given a road map to individuals prepare obtain the skills needed and set themselves apart from the rest to maximize their chances of gaining employ-ment.

DEBATE, Continued ORTHOREXIA, Continued

JOBS, Continued

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The hunt for gold is on. This Saturday, the top-ranked Red Wolves rugby team will bat-tle the bears of Kutztown University for a spot in the semifinals. Kutztown, ranked 5th, will travel from eastern Pennsylvania to play ASU on their own turf.

Arkansas State has had a week off from play and is looking to rebound following their 29-33 loss to Life University on April 13. Al-though they lost, ASU received bonus points in the game that kept them in the top spot.

“You come off a hard loss and then the next game is your focus, because you want to get

back on top of it and get back on the boost,” se-nior outside center Zac Mizell said to Pat Clif-ton in an interview with RugbyMag.com about the team’s mentality going into Saturday’s game. “So it’s hard to look past Kutztown just because we’re coming off a loss, which I think in the end is really going to help us through the playoffs. But we’re always aware of where Life is in the bracket either way.”

Although ASU did not face Kutztown during the regular season, there are players who have faced them before, making it easier for some to prepare for the physicality of this weekend’s match up.

“I played them last semester in the quarterfi-

nals for 7s,” junior fullback Zin Zan Elan-Put-tick said. “This 15s match will be a real playoff match and the team with the least amount of mistakes just might end up on top. They are coming off a good win against Davenport and we are going to apply our loss to our game and improve. A week off has served us well and I’m sure it’ll be a good match.”

The match will begin at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Arkansas State’s rugby field. The winner of the match will move on to

the semifinals to play the winner of Saturday’s Life vs. Army match. The outcome of the latter will determine the location of the semi-finals. Elan-Puttick said he hopes to improve their fans once again with another home field win.

The ASU men’s and women’s track and field teams will host the second annual Red Wolves Open this weekend on their home track.

The meet will begin on Friday at 3 p.m. and continue throughout the day on Saturday.

Head coach Jim Patchell is excited for this weekend’s home meet. “This is the second annual Red Wolves open and we are looking forward to competing at home. We have had a solid outdoor season so far for both the men’s and women’s teams

and hope to have some good performances this weekend,” he stated.

Friday’s competition will begin with the men’s hammer throw followed by the wom-en’s hammer throw, and will consist only of field events.

The running events be-gin Saturday morning, with the gun for the women’s 3000-meter Steeplechase going off at 10 a.m. The field events will continue on Sat-urday as well, with the wom-en’s javelin throw scheduled for a 10 a.m. start.

The events will contin-ue on a rolling schedule throughout the day on Sat-urday.

The final events will be the fan-favorite 4x400 relays, scheduled for 3:10 for the men and 3:20 for the women.

The Red Wolves Open will be the last meet ASU will compete in before the Sun

Belt Outdoor Track and Field Championships in May. With conference only two and a half weeks away, the team

is looking to use this weekend’s meet to tie together any loose ends before the conference meet.

Coach Patchell continued, “This meet should be a good indicator of where we stand among other teams in the confer-ence. We have some quality teams coming and it should be a good competition.”

Other teams that will be competing at the Red Wolves Open include in-state rivals UALR and Central Arkansas, along with out-of-state teams such as Memphis and Southeast

Missouri State University (SEMO). According to the US Track and Field and Cross Country

Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), the ASU women’s team is ranked eighth in the NCAA Division I South Central Region, based on performances up to April 22. The South Central Re-gion is currently led by Texas A&M, which has a team score of 841.67 as opposed to ASU’s 247.87.

The women’s team has several athletes who are regionally ranked.

Stephanie Foreman is currently ranked second in the re-gion for the pole vault, with a height of 4.11 meters.

Kristina Aubert is currently ranked third for the 10,000-me-ter run based on her time of 34:53:11, which was achieved at the Stanford Invite in March. Sharika Nelvis’ time of 13.24 sec-onds for the 100-meter hurdles ranks her fourth in the region.

Julia Agawu is also ranked fourth in the region, throwing a distance of 51.51 meters in the discus event.

In addition, ASU’s men’s team is currently ranked 11th in the region, with a team score of 194.52.

The South Central Region for the men is led by Texas, with a team score of 918.81.

The men’s team also has several team members who have been regionally ranked, according to the USTFCCCA.

Chris Nicasio is currently leading the region in the hammer throw, based on his throw of 62.70 meters at SEMO in early April.

Solomon Williams is currently ranked eighth for the triple jump, with a distance of 15.51 meters.

Williams also made the rank chart in the 110-hurdles, with a time of 14.00 seconds.

Junior Will Oliver is ranked seventh in the region in the decathlon with a score of 6831 points.

Kashef Daniel is ranked seventh in the region in the high jump, based on his 2.12-meter effort at the Vanderbilt Invita-tional last weekend.

The Red Wolves Open will be a non-scoring meet, used pri-marily for competition before the upcoming conference meet. Admission is free for the public.

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Staci Vandagriff |Photo EditorThe track team prepares for the second annual Red Wolves Open this weekend. The meet will begin Friday at 3 p.m. and continue throughout the day on Saturday.

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Red Wolves Open set for home

The Arkansas State baseball team took the field against No. 18-ranked Ole Miss on Tuesday night in front of a season high crowd of 1,006. But, the Red Wolves didn’t give their fans much to celebrate as they fell to Ole Miss by a score of 11-1.

Ole Miss came out of the gates hot and took advantage of ASU starter David Owen by putting up five runs in the first inning off of four hits.

After Ole Miss’ designated hitter Stuart Turner drove in the first run of the night with a sacrifice fly, shortstop Austin Anderson scored on a RBI single by Andrew Mistone. Anoth-er run was forced after Owen walked Christian Helsel with the bases loaded and two more runs were drove home by Will Jamison’s two-run double to make the score 5-0, a deficit the Red Wolves struggled to overcome.

“When they score five runs, its kind of unsettling to your offense,” head coach Tommy Raffo said after the game.

Though Owen gave up the five runs, Raffo said the starter pitched well and was up in the count but couldn’t get that final

strike.“I think David had two strikes of seven of the first nine hit-

ters and just could not get an out,” Raffo said. “If he makes one more pitch or maybe one of their hitters hits the ball some-where else, maybe the game is a little different.”

Ole Miss added two more runs in the top of the fourth to extend the lead. After Austin Anderson grounded out for an RBI, Turner belted an RBI double to right-center field to make the score 7-0.

ASU finally got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth inning. After Ryan Emery doubled to left center, third baseman Claude Johnson hit a towering fly ball off of the right field wall for an RBI double and narrowed the score 7-1. But, ASU struggled the rest of the night to get runners on base.

The Rebels were able to score another run in the seventh inning when Holt Perdzock drove in Mistone on a RBI fielder’s choice. Ole Miss drove in three more runs in the eighth after centerfielder Auston Bousfield lined a two-RBI triple to the gap in left-center. Bousfield reached home plate on a RBI dou-ble to left field by pinch hitter Jake Overbey that broadened the score to 11-1.

The Red Wolves used a total of seven pitchers on Tuesday night, including four freshmen. Raffo said the freshmen are “the future” for the team and he wanted them to get some ex-perience against a very good Ole Miss team.

“A couple of them (freshmen) did really well and a couple of them faced some tough outings,” Raffo said. “Hopefully they can grow from this and hopefully it will pay dividends in the future. We just needed to get them out there to pitch and get ready for the weekend.”

ASU (22-19) gets back into Sun Belt play and will face Mid-dle Tennessee at home this weekend in a three-game series that starts on Friday at 6 p.m.

Raffo described MTSU as a “very good” team that has tal-ent on the mound. He stressed his team needs to get back on track and take advantage of the two days of practice they will have before the first game of the series.

“We just need to regroup and get back out there to play. Baseball is a unique sport in that you get to play almost ev-ery day. You have to have a short-term memory loss, quickly,” Raffo said.

Baseball falls against No. 18 Ole Miss

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The ASU Quidditch team will put their magical skills to the test this weekend at the Hog Head’s Invitational, its first tournament of the year.

The tournament will take place at the University of Arkansas this Saturday. This will be the third year UofA has hosted the Hog’s Head, and eight teams from Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma will be participating.

Rachel Machen, the Quidditch team president — also known as the Minister of Magic — said she is excited and nervous for the Hog’s Head Tournament.

“We have been practicing every week several times,” she said.

Machen explained in order to prepare, the team has been working on plays in the field by the Village apartments and doing fundraisers,

including a bake sale. Team positions include chasers, beaters,

keepers, and seekers. A volleyball is used for the quaffle and dodgeballs are used as bludgers. The snitch is played by a team member dressed in gold, with a tennis ball wrapped in fabric attached to them. During the game, the snitch can move around more than the other players and even run outside of the game area. The seeker is the player who catches the snitch to end the game.

The invitational will be the team’s first round of games this year. There will be a trophy for the winner of the tournament, as well as bragging rights.

Junior Natanya Clark, a math major of Batesville, is ready to meet others who love Quidditch at the invitational, as well as play against good teams.

Clark, who is the team’s seeker and a reserve chaser, said the most exciting part about playing is catching the snitch and

knowing she has scored.“The hardest part about training is trying

to snatch the snitch from our captain, Taylor Machen,” she added. “He is 6’3’’ and won’t let me get near him.”

Clark said the team’s greatest strength is that they have a variety of players, such as strong guys and quick girls.

“We can play against any type of team,” she explained.

Chelsey Davis, a sophomore English major of Jonesboro, said one of the team’s strengths is they are all friends.

“We’ve tried to do a lot of team building, non-Quidditch related activities together and I feel that we have developed a strong core,” she said.

Davis added the team is more focused on improving their skills than winning, but bringing home a trophy wouldn’t hurt. With Quidditch not being a sport people grow up playing, it has been a learning process for the

entire team. The hardest part of training for Davis has

been the broom. “It’s hard enough to run and pass a ball, dodge bludgers, avoid being tackled and score,” she said. “But doing it all one handed makes it much more difficult.”

Davis is excited about Saturday’s tournament and looks forward to making friends and learning more about the sport. She became involved with the team when someone saw her wearing a Quidditch shirt and mentioned the new club.

“Quidditch has really blossomed this semester and we are looking forward to a great next year,” Machen said.

The Quidditch team is looking for new recruits for the upcoming fall semester. To learn more about the club, visit their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Redwolfquidditch/?fref=ts.

April 16

On April 16 at approximately 3 a.m., Officer Daniel Bradway was outside of his vehicle at Collegiate Park, in front of the commons building, when he saw a red BMW Mini Cooper accelerate in reverse at a high-speed rate and slide his tires across the pavement and onto the curb, according to the police report. Bradway got into his vehicle and pulled in behind the vehicle. According to the report, Samuel West, the driver, had an odor Bradway recognized as intoxicants. Bradway asked West why he backed up his car the way he did. He said he was having a little fun and loved his car. Bradway then asked if he had consumed any alcoholic beverages before driving. West responded, “Yes. I just worked 12 hours and I’m tired and I needed a drink.” He also told Bradway he had just left work to come to Kay’s Hall and pick up his girlfriend. Bradway asked West to get out of the vehicle to perform a battery test to determine his level of impairment. According to the report, Bradway determined that West was too impaired to drive and transported him to the Craighead County Sheriff’s Office. West was charged with DWI.

April 18

On April 18, Officer Chris Kirksey responded to a civil standby at the Red WOLF Center, according to the police report. Upon arrival, Kirksey met with Rodney Davis who informed

him he was told to send an employee home and he anticipated the employee might cause problems. Kirksey then followed Davis to a room where Aaron Piercy was located. According to the report, Davis told Piercy to return his keys. Kirksey did so and Davis said, “You’re done.” As Piercy started to walk away, Davis pointed out he needed to return that rag that was in his pocket because it was university property. Piercy took the rag out of his pocket and threw it at Davis, landing near his face, according to the report. Piercy headed to the building exit when Kirksey told him to slow down so he could properly be escorted out. According to the report, Piercy was agitated and very sarcastic. He was issued a referral for disorderly conduct and told never to come back to the area.

-Compiled by Tanya Giraldo, News Editor.

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