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Just recently, the Young Conservatives of Texas at SFA (YCT-SFA) organization received the Chapter of the Year Award. This statewide award is applicable to the chapter that has shown the most progress through its activities and achievements of the past year. They have not re-ceived this award since 2004, and it has lifted the spirits of the chapter members drastically.

Young Conservatives of Texas is a po-litically-based organization first es-tablished statewide in 1980. It began as the national organiza-tion of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), but then broke off into state-sized partitions as to more di-rectly address problems through a more focused approach.

This organization has “held countless events, and really turned their chapter around in the course of a year,” Hunter Wright, chapter chairman, said. Wright has been in-volved with the organization since the spring of 2011.

Ten members, most of whom are now officers, attended a conven-tion in March, which got the mem-bers excited to improve the organiza-tion. The chapter resolved to win the award after the convention, and now their hope has become a reality.

Of the seven currently active chapters around the state, including the University of Texas and Texas Tech University, YCT-SFA had to fight to earn this award. Wright said that even though other chapters have more members, the SFA chapter has “more dedicated members.”

“Now [we’re] getting recognized by the state instead of as ‘just another chapter,’” Wright said. “We took a chapter

that hasn’t really been there for years,” and increased it tenfold within an incredibly short amount of time.

This past year, they hosted their H2O Recruitment,

which involved handing out water bottles with labels that listed information about the rising National Debt, in order to try to recruit some younger members. Last semester, they campaigned for Travis Clardy, (who was elected as the new Texas state representative) and they put on the “Obama Wheel of Misfortune.” The “Obama Wheel of Misfortune” was hosted in order to demonstrate just how “the current administration has failed... and we, as students can make an impact,” Wright said. The sections of the wheel included issues with a stance held upon during elections, including the economy, immigra-tion, and healthcare. Questions were then asked upon the wheel spinning turns.

“When looking at the policy agenda of the Obama Administration, it’s evident that his domestic policy,

as well as foreign, have been ‘epic fails,’” Karina Erickson, legislative director said. She went

on to say that with this event, there was “hope the student body [would] come

to the same realization as YCT.” This chapter hosts

many socials in order to maintain a fun and in-formative atmosphere, including their cel-ebration for President Ronald Reagan’s birth-day. This group is very activist-based, and is constantly on the move. They had several members even attend

the 33rd Annual YCT State Convention at the U.S.

Capitol in February. YCT-SFA strives to fur-

ther inform the student body of upcoming elections, current poli-

cies, and voting impacts. They continue to stand firm by their conservative values and

promoting campus activism. As a recent post by one of its officers on the Young

Conservatives of Texas SFA Facebook page reads, “We are grateful to have received Chapter of the Year, but it is only a stepping stone to getting back to the greatness that once was. Thanks to all the members that are working to make us a great chapter. It is not the time to slow down, but instead the time to act, to grow and become an even better group.”

of the chapter members drastically. Young Conservatives of Texas is a po-

litically-based organization first es-tablished statewide in 1980. It began as the national organiza-tion of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), but then broke off into state-sized partitions as to more di-rectly address problems through a more focused

This organization has “held countless events, and really turned their chapter around in the course of a year,” Hunter Wright, chapter chairman, said. Wright has been in-volved with the organization since the spring of 2011.

Ten members, most of whom are now officers, attended a conven-tion in March, which got the mem-bers excited to improve the organiza-

Erickson, legislative director said. She went on to say that with this event, there was

“hope the student body [would] come to the same realization as YCT.”

This chapter hosts many socials in order to

maintain a fun and in-formative atmosphere, including their cel-

move. They had several members even attend

the 33Convention at the U.S.

Capitol in February. YCT-SFA strives to fur-

ther inform the student body of upcoming elections, current poli-

cies, and voting impacts. They continue to stand firm by their conservative values and

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Students participating in the Alternative Spring Break

program are selling tickets for spaghetti plates to raise money for their trip. The deadline for ordering tickets for spaghetti dinner plates is 5 p.m. Wednesday.

The meals, which are prepared by the students of the Alternative Spring Break program, are $7 per plate and include spaghetti, a breadstick and a cookie. For an ad-ditional dollar, a drink can be added (Coke, Diet Coke or water). The plates will be delivered on campus to offices, front desks of the residence hall and even to work places on campus, Friday, Feb. 22. If a student lives off campus and would still like a plate, they can pick it up at the Village Clubhouse between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

The fundraiser is a part of a weekly project that is re-quired out of the students who are going on the trip to Hot Springs, Ark., this Spring Break. Every year the program takes 16 students, who are selected in November, to a dif-ferent city for the purpose of giving back to the community.

“There’s also an educational component,” Jamie Bouldin, assistant director for leadership and service, said. “We take them to the city, and they learn about the city and culture.”

This year will be the first year that the program will be working with a national park. While on the trip, the stu-dents will be working with The Boys and Girls Club Monday through Thursday afternoons, Hot Springs National Park two mornings out of the week and the Humane Society Animal Shelter two other mornings of the week. Friday will be reserved for shopping and a relaxation day for the students.

“I think it’s a good opportunity to spend Spring Break giving to others,” Bouldin said. “It’s a good way to get ser-vice hours in.”

Since 2010, the program has been to New Orleans, Memphis, Tenn., Long Beach, Calif., and Biloxi, Miss.

Students interested in participating in next year’s Alternative Spring Break can find the application on the SFA website or pick up a printed application in the Involvement Center and get a printed copy of the application for the program. Bouldin, a graduate assistant and two under-graduate student team leaders interview everyone that ap-plies. The interview usually takes only 10 minutes.

“An interesting element in the process is that we don’t re-

veal where we’re going until November,” Bouldin said.Lindsey Wagner, a sophomore nursing major, was a

participant last year in Mississippi and is this year’s team leader.

“I got to meet a lot of good people on campus that I nor-mally wouldn’t have,” Wagner said. “My favorite part was

working at the food shelter, feeding the homeless and get-ting to know them.”

To order your plate, or for more information, contact call (936) 468-1088 or email jfbouldin@sfasu.edu.

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By Emily Jensen Staff Writer

Omicron Delta Kappa, a leadership honor society, is now accepting donations of dresses, jewelry, purses and shoes for its annual Dresses For Dreams. The event is scheduled to take place in the Student Center April 5 and 6.

ODK re-sells the dresses and items donated to students and the community at a cheaper rate. All dresses will sell for $40 or less, and merchandise includes a range of casual dress to formal wear.

Students who want to donate their items can bring them to Kerr, Steen, Landing, Lodge, Todd, Hall 10, Griffith, the Involvement Center or the ODK office, Room 3.302 in the Baker Pattillo Student Center until April 1.

“It’s a good way to provide a low-cost dress option for the community for students who want to go to Prom or Homecoming, but who can’t afford the really expensive for-mals,” Jamie Bouldin, the ODK adviser and assistant director for leadership and service, said.

Money raised from the event will be donated to the local Azleway Children’s Services, an organization that helps chil-dren find homes and more.

Azleway provides adoption services, children’s services, a substance abuse program, a transitional living program, the Boy’s Ranch Residential Treatment Center and a charter school.

ODK hosts Dresses For Dreams every Spring Semester, and every year the organization chooses a different local charity to donate the profits to.

The dresses will be separated by sizes on racks, and mem-bers of ODK will price them and steam the dresses before resale. As of now, the time is not set in stone, but the sale will be open for a few hours April 5 and on April 6, Showcase Saturday.

The dresses that don’t sell this year with either be re-sold next year or held in storage until they can be donated to other groups.

“Anyone is welcome to the dress sale,” Bouldin said. “Students are welcome to attend and buy dresses. We’d love to see people there.”

Julienne Hankins, ODK secretary, said some of the other events they do on campus include the ODK Leadership Conference, Dining in the Dark, Open Mic-less Night, Angel Tree, Homecoming’s Trivia Bowl. The next event for this semester is a knockout challenge during halftime at the SFA Basketball game on March 2.

ODK takes applications at the beginning of each semester before starting the interview process. Students applying to be in the organization must be either a junior, senior or graduate student with a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

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The upcoming SFA Regents Lecture by Dr. Brian P. Oswald, the Joe E. Denman Distinguished Professor of Forestry in the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, will focus on the growing wildfire problem in The Netherlands.

Oswald, who holds the Regents Professor designa-tion from SFA in 2012-13, will deliver this year’s address at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, in Regents Suites A and B of the Baker Pattillo Student Center on the SFA campus. Refreshments will be served, and there is no admission charge.

Oswald said the lecture will address how SFA is help-ing fire agencies in The Netherlands with wildland fire management.

“The Netherlands and most of Northwest Europe are experiencing increases in the number and size of wild-land fires,” Oswald said. “This is occurring without the historical and social connection to wildland fire that ex-ists in North America, and with almost no national exper-tise in wildland fire behavior prediction, fire weather and fuel assessment.”

Oswald has been at SFA since 1995 and currently teaches forest ecology, fire management, range manage-ment, fire use, regional silviculture, research methods, fire ecology, and forest and range ecological concepts. His research focuses on fire ecology, silviculture and agrofor-estry.

Oswald, professor of forestry, joined the SFA faculty after teaching at Alabama A&M University. He was named the Hunt Distinguished Professor of Forestry in 2007.

Oswald has served for nine years on the Board of Directors for the Association for Fire Ecology and is cur-rently president of that organization. In 2002 he was awarded the Carl A. Schenck Award for Outstanding Forestry Education by the Society of American Foresters.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Michigan State University, a Master of Science in Forestry from Northern Arizona University and a Ph.D. in Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences from University of Idaho. The

College of Natural Resources at the University of Idaho presented him with the Mid-Career Alumni Achievement Award in 2004, and the School of Forestry at NAU recog-nized him as the Distinguished Alumnus in 2009.

This is the eighth in a series of lectures delivered by SFA Regents Professors. The series is sponsored by the SFA Office of the Provost and the University Lecture Series Committee.

Oswald to focus on growing wildfire problem in The Netherlands at SFA Regents Lecture

The great chamber works for strings and piano by Dmitry Shostakovich will be celebrated in a two-day fes-tival in March at SFA designed to benefit the Saslav Strings Scholarship.

Two members of the renowned St. Petersberg String Quartet will join SFA music faculty for the Shostakovich Festival with concerts to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 3, in Cole Concert

Hall. The festival is a joint presentation of the SFA School of Music and the Friends of Music.

St. Petersberg String Quartet members Alla Aranovskaya, violin, and Boris Vayner, viola, will perform with SFA music faculty members Jennifer Dalmas, violin; Evgeni Raychev, cello; Jean Roberts, piano; and John Roberts, piano.

The connection between the artists and a particular painting, which will be on display in the lobby of Cole Hall

during the festival, is an unusual one, according to Dalmas.“A talented Floridian artist, Stuart Riodan, was inspired

by the St. Petersburg String Quartet’s performance of the Shostakovich 3rd quartet several years ago,” Dalmas said, “and he painted an incredible triptych piece of art based on the experience.”

The artist observed SFA faculty members Jennifer Dalmas and Evgeni Raychev in a string quartet, as she sketched the beginnings of her painting. It’s that piece of art, called “The Third,” that will be on display in Cole lobby as part of the festival, Dalmas said.

“We thought it would be so special to have both the musi-cians who inspired the painting and the musicians who are actually in it, collaborating together,” she said.

The Saslav Strings Scholarship was established in 2011 in honor of the great violinist Isidor Saslav, who was head of the strings program at SFA from 1993 to 2003, and had a prominent career previously as a concertmaster all over the world. Saslav died Jan. 26.

“More than ever, the concerts of the festival will be spe-cifically dedicated to him and to his memory,” Dalmas said. “He had a great impact on both the School of Music at SFA and the musical community in East Texas and beyond. He will be deeply missed.”

All proceeds from the festival will go directly to the en-dowed scholarship fund, which will be awarded to deserv-ing string majors studying at SFA.

Receptions, organized and hosted by members of the Friends of Music, will follow each concert. Committee members include Nancy Collins and Shelley Brophy, co-chairs, Dee Allums, Francesca Kunk, Lila Moorer, Jackie Warthan and Shirley Watterston. Friends of Music members have also helped in publicizing the festival.

Tickets for the event are $25 for each concert or $40 to attend both. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu.

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By Sunil DuttaSpecial To The Washington Post

Christopher Dorner, the former L.A. police officer who died Tuesday after allegedly going on a murder spree, said racism was behind the Los Angeles Police Department’s decision to fire him in 2009, after he accused another cop of kicking a mentally ill man. In a perverted mission of vengeance, Dorner allegedly killed two civilians and two officers.

“I know I will be vilified by the LAPD and the media,” Dorner wrote in an online manifesto. “Unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name.”

Given its history of scandal, the LAPD has spent a de-cade building a kinder, gentler organization and making significant strides in community-based policing. Even past detractors, including civil rights lawyer Connie Rice, admit that the LAPD has changed since the early 1990s. But people still associate the department with events of 20 years ago: the acquittal of officers accused of beating Rodney King, the subsequent L.A. riots and the resignation of Chief Daryl Gates.

The department’s problems aren’t all in the past, either: In November, a jury awarded former officer Pedro Torres $2.8 million after finding that officials retaliated when he

verified claims about an allegedly racist supervisor. During the past decade, 17 officers have won million-dollar-plus verdicts in lawsuits claiming harassment, discrimination and retaliation. African American officers, including some supervisors I’ve spoken with, say in private that they don’t feel like they are part of the system and don’t trust it.

Indeed, some people even sympathize with Dorner, de-spite his unconscionable acts. “He’s been a real-life super-hero to many people,” Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill told CNN. “People aren’t rooting for him to kill innocent people — they’re rooting for somebody who was wronged to get a kind of revenge against the system. It is almost like watching ‘Django Unchained’ in real life.”

Police Chief Charlie Beck said he would reopen the case that led to Dormer’s termination — not to appease an al-leged murderer but to prevent the ghosts of the LAPD’s past from being resurrected.

While Beck made a wise move, it doesn’t go far enough to assure people of the LAPD’s integrity. We need to change the way complaints against police officers are adjudicated, putting investigative power in the hands of the people.

As long as police have existed, officers have been accused of racism, brutality and covering up for their friends. In the past, a lack of accountability often meant that police organizations did not pay serious attention to or even record citizen complaints. As a result, many citizens still don’t trust police departments to investigate their own.

Similarly, officers do not trust internal affairs investigators or disciplinary processes.

I worked as an internal affairs investigator in the LAPD for about three years. When I visited police divisions to look into complaints against officers, I was usually greeted by the same question: “Who are you going to burn today?” Officers often believed that internal affairs was out to get them on flimsy charges.

At the same time, when I interviewed community mem-bers who had filed complaints against officers, I was disap-pointed to learn that, despite my reassurances and best efforts to conduct impartial inquiries, many complainants believed that a fair investigation was simply not possible. Nor do misconduct investigations satisfy a skeptical public. If an officer is exonerated, the community often believes that malfeasance is being covered up.

Police serve the community — any concerns about their integrity must be transparently, expeditiously and judi-ciously resolved. Relying on cops to police cops is neither efficient nor confidence-inspiring.

The solution? Abolish internal affairs units and out-source their work to external civilian agencies.

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By Courtney SchmidtContributing Writer

For non-“Twilight” fans, let me begin by saying that the last two movies of the series, “Breaking Dawn,” Parts 1 and 2 are actually quite well done, even for some-one like me who wants nothing to do with the franchise, having been a Harry Potter fan instead.

Edward (Robert Pattinson) knocks up Bella (Kristen Stewart) first time out — way to go — and Bella, now occupied by a super-human baby with the strength of a newborn (no pun intended) vampire growing within her, be-gins a romantic death sentence with the help of Rosalie (Nikki Reed) — big shocker there.

In the past, the Twilight se-ries has been drenched with insane notions that vampires sparkle, werewolves turn at will and all vampires will hopelessly fall in love with humans, but in “Breaking Dawn” the notions reach a fever pitch. Even though the couple did everything right by marrying before actually bed-ding each other, it seems the moral of the story is to not fall in love with a nightmare because you will still suffer tremendously.

Bella looks as if she suffers more than anyone due to the computer-generated effects ren-dering her usually pink-fleshed body full-on skeletal. Kristen Stewart is seen in many critics’ eyes as incapable of portray-ing agony, much less depicting love, anger, sadness, wanting a sandwich or anything, but in “Breaking Dawn” she has come to a point in which she can in fact depict these emotions.

For long stretches of the movie it really isn’t apparent that Edward is even a vampire, nor are any of the Cullen clan, actu-ally; mostly he frets and withers away just like Bella, resulting in Pattinson’s dullest performance in the series despite the fact that he finally got to ease that frus-tration he’s been building since “Twilight.”

The immortal, intelligent and overall fancy vampire clan sur-rounds Bella, who’s slipping away from existence by the min-ute, and all they can do is stand around and hand her a Slurpee cup full of blood every so often.

The hot-blooded werewolf, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), who also loves Bella, takes over the movie by default considering he’s the only one who takes any initiative to do anything. I’ve always been Team Jacob — give me the lower-income Native American shape-shifters over the bloodsucking aristocracy any day.

As a blockbuster movie, it isn’t terrible; in fact, to be terribly honest, none of them have been. The main problem here is that, aside from its many bizarre ele-ments (like the morbid, grossly bloody and downright gruesome birth and turning of Bella,) the film feels like the prelude to the more interesting finale that Part 2 promised to be, what with Bella now vampirized and feeling her new powers and a particular run-in with the Volturi, the elitist of all elite vampires, and the con-tinuing saga of Jacob’s “imprint-ing” on Bella and Edward’s baby daughter, who has been graced with the perfectly unique name Renesmee.

“Breaking Dawn: Part 2” is the better of the two parts with Stewart’s wimpy character suddenly turning into a badass vampire, or more importantly, a strong woman. It was one of my biggest problems with Bella — a character that fell head over heels for a guy she barely knew and when he left to protect her went into a deep depression — for what? An im-mortal life to watch her family grow and die off?

Compared to movies with women heroines like Princess Leia, Hermione Granger, and even Katniss, Kristen Stewart’s Bella was beginning to work my nerves with her never-end-ing wailing of how much she loved Edward. Now, finally in this last movie, she becomes the heroine that audiences have been begging for.

The conclusion of this tragic series ends on a great note; had the other films in the series featured surprises like this film’s climactic end-ing battle and shocking twist that’s bound to leave audi-ence members grasping for their chairs, instead of being so by-the-numbers in adap-tation and crafting, the saga might have proven more sig-nificant. “Breaking Dawn Part 2” offers readers and moviego-ers the ending they hoped for. The only problem is that most people, even perhaps non-“Twilight” fans, will be asking for more and wishing it was not the final chapter.

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By Brian PetersonContributing Writer

On some level, Katy Perry is aware of her flaws as an “artist,” or at least someone among her vast regiment of marketing experts is. Image is the life and breath of the pop star, and the pros and cons of music as your modus operandi, as opposed to film, fluctuate wildly from one artist to another. Perry’s main image problem is one of authentic-ity, which her faceless music continues to accen-tuate, and the no-holds-barred attempt to rectify that defect in “Katy Perry: Part of Me” proves it beyond all doubt.

From the opening kid-fan videos about find-ing “identity” in her music, through the endlessly dragged out saga of her one-year tour, to the clos-ing of more “kid vids,” they’re working overtime to introduce the audience to a Perry that’s genu-ine and relatable. She’s presented throughout as a faultless talent who has worked her way to being “accepted for who she is” as an artist, when the reality is that she has simply embraced the es-tablished mode of pop stardom, bringing in every conceivable hit-making producer and co-writer at some point or another to help her along the way.

In theory, she has more opportunity for hu-manizing than most pop stars: she was raised in a Pentecostal home and frantically sheltered even through adolescence, making her rise into star-dom an oddity, to say the least. But evidently no interesting personal development resulted from struggling with cloistering parental expectations, or if it did, the film deliberately avoids addressing it.

The only remnant of that upbringing in her artistic persona is the obviousness of her influ-ences – having never listened to secular music before, hearing Alanis Morissette for the first time was a watershed moment. But instead of incorporating another’s ideas into her already established aesthetic, she settles for imitation, hiring Morissette’s very own producer to create the same sound for her first several albums.

What Perry fails to realize is that the key in-gredient of her idol is the very element she is missing most: individuality. Morissette’s musical backdrop was precisely that: an interchangeable background supplementary to the real action that

was going on in the songwriting, where she bared her soul for the audience with more grit than any pop star in recent memory. Perry has so little personal iden-tity that even in a film devoted entirely to a year of her life, she comes off like a

character created for a Saturday Night Live sketch. Even her struggle with divorce shows no signs of life, and her description of what happened con-sists entirely of clichés: “Love… it’s not like the movies.”

Every interview and anecdote speaks in vague generalities about her “presence” and “talent” as if their existence is a foregone conclusion. Perhaps there is more truth to that than a cynical mind will easily grant, as some mysterious cha-risma surely makes some more capable of star-dom than others, but without question the most impressive thing Katy Perry does in “Part of Me” is an assortment of elaborate costume changes.

There is a place for great entertainers in pop music’s stories of success, Michael Jackson being the most obvious example, but some level of artis-tic importance is vital in transcending that base category. To compare Perry and MJ’s levels of art-istry is laughable even without getting far into the details – listening to popular music before Jackson and then to what came after is a striking exercise in recognizing influential figures. Perry’s effect on pop music is as far from that as theoretically possible. Her monetary success is a testament to how she combines the most basic elements of other artists to give audiences something imme-diately familiar and comfortable, inoffensive to the greatest possible degree. Her entire career is a textbook definition of musical pandering.

As a film, “Katy Perry: Part of Me” is almost ad-mirable in its attempt to make something out of nothing. If one is somehow inclined to like Perry as an artist, the movie will help them do that by providing behind-the-scenes looks at her interac-tion with fans and friends, which is where she is at her most likable.

After all is said and done, that small consola-tion is basically all that’s left. The film’s great flaw lies in its inability to present her as an interesting person worthy of investigation; all curiosity is entirely derived from her foreign and glamor-ous lifestyle, and exchanging her for anyone else would not harm its entertainment value in the least. It seems that both Perry and her image-makers are entirely unaware of the irony that in their attempt to convince us of her personality, they have achieved the opposite as she takes her seat in the hierarchy as one of the least interesting pop stars in recent memory.

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Axes down to many of our sports teams losing their games this weekend. We might win more if more SFA students showed up to sup-port our teams!

Axes up to SFA Theatre productions offering a more cultur-al theater experience. It was different, but different in this case is a good thing.

Axes down to par-ents seeing the SFA Confessions page and saying that they are now having doubts about send-ing their children to SFA. This isn’t the spotlight we need, people.

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I attended a conference in Houston called Model Arab league with SFA’s World Politics Club. The majority of time was spent drafting and debating possi-ble resolutions to eventually be passed or rejected by the

legislative body. On the first day, we spent almost 10 hours attempting to make allies and work to-gether to produce viable legislation that would benefit the countries we represented. The process, while exhausting, was an eye-opening experience.

Events such as Model Arab league are strikingly similar to the proceedings of the Texas legislature and the US Congress. Our legislators spend countless hours debating possible legislation, are forced to compro-mise and make deals with others and, in the end, must bring home something to benefit their home districts. In some cases, sessions can last well into the night, and at the end of the day, after spending hours debating and fighting for your district’s benefits, some-times the bill does not even pass. I imagine it can feel like a huge waste of time.

At the Model Arab league this weekend, university undergraduates, graduate stu-dents and even some high school students from Texas and surrounding states repre-sented countries from the Arab league and created legislation. SFA represented Egypt. Other countries represented from the Arab

league included Saudi Arabia, Syria, libya and even Djibouti.

There were also five different tables to address different areas of interest, much like caucuses in the US political system. I sat on the social affairs table and discussed media rights, health concerns and human rights. Defense, Palestinian affairs, politics and economics made up the other tables.

At the Model Arab league it is required that participants keep decorum and stay within the parameters of the parliamentary rules. For example, in order to speak a coun-try must raise their placard, be added to the speaker list, wait their turn to be called by the chair (which may be well after when they in-tended to speak), and then finally share their thoughts. Speaking or acting out of turn will do no good for a country trying to accomplish favorable legislation for their home.

One of the most difficult parts about participating in an event like Model Arab league is playing the part of the prospec-tive country. For example, it was difficult at first to support heavy media restrictions. However, Egypt does not have a free press like we do in the U.S. In this situation it is important to stick with the views of the country represented and ignore personal opinions.

This draws another comparison to leg-islators in the U.S. For some legislators, it is important to vote according to their constituents’ views, even when they con-flict with the legislator’s personal views. However, many feel they were elected to use their best judgment to represent their constituents.

I am in no way making excuses for the U.S. Congress; however, I am starting to realize that it is much more difficult to per-suade enough of your peers to vote a certain way than most people think.

Katelynn Wiggins is a journalism major and a staff writer for The Pine Log.

Obama, winning the argument, reforming government

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In his bid to be remembered as a transformational leader, President Obama is following the playbook of an ideological opposite, Margaret Thatcher. First you win

the argument, she used to say, then you win the vote.Obama is gradually winning the argument about what

government can and should do. His State of the Union ad-dress was an announcement of that fact — and a warning

to conservatives that, to remain relevant, they will have to move beyond the premise that government is always the problem and never the solution.

It’s ridiculous for critics to charge that Tuesday night’s speech was not sufficiently bipar-tisan. Repairing the nation’s infrastructure is not a partisan issue; bridges rust at the same rate in Republican-held congressional districts as in Democratic ones. The benefits of uni-versal preschool will accrue in red states as well as blue. Climate change is not deterred by the fact that a majority of the Republican caucus in the House doesn’t believe in it.

There is no bipartisan compromise between “do something” and “do nothing.” Obama’s reelection reflected the progress he has made in convincing Americans that “do some-thing” is the only option — and that “do nothing” leads inexorably to decline.

Thatcher’s reshaping of British politics and governance is instructive. The Iron lady came to power at a time when Britain was sinking. The ideological pendulum had swung too far to the left, and the nominally socialist labor Party, architect of the modern British welfare state, was out of ideas. Thatcher’s Conservative government roused the nation from its torpor. She was an enormously polarizing figure, and much of what she did — fighting the unions, privatizing state industries and public housing — met with bitter resistance.

Today, Britain remains one of the wealthiest countries in the world and continues to play a major role in international affairs. london is arguably the world’s preeminent financial center. I doubt any of this would be the case if Thatcher had not won the argument about how her nation should move forward.

When Obama took office, the United States was in a similar funk. Ronald Reagan’s con-servative ideas had been corrupted by his followers into a kind of anti-government nihil-

ism. Reagan wanted to shrink government; today’s Republican Party wants to destroy it.Obama assumed leadership of a country in which inequality was growing and economic

mobility declining, with the result that the American dream was becoming less attainable. It was a country whose primary and secondary schools lagged far behind international norms; whose airports, roads and bridges were showing their age; and, most important, whose path to continued prosperity, in the age of globalization and information technol-ogy, was not entirely clear.

Obama’s State of the Union speech was a detailed reiteration of his position that we can and must act to secure our future — and that government can and must be one of our principal instruments.

To understand why Americans reelected Obama in november and sent more Democrats to both houses of Congress, consider the Republican response to the president’s address, delivered by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).

never mind the unforgettable moment when Rubio stooped almost out of sight and reached for a bottle of water, all the while trying to look straight ahead at the camera like John Cleese in some Monty Python sketch. I felt genuinely sorry for him — and appalled at the Republican Party’s incompetence at basic stagecraft. First they give Clint Eastwood an empty chair to perform with at the convention, and now this?

Even more unfortunate, in the end, was the utter lack of ideas in Rubio’s speech.“More government isn’t going to help you get ahead, it’s going to hold you back,” Rubio

said. Yet he also said that he never would have been able to go to college without govern-ment-backed student loans. And he spoke touchingly of how Medicare paid for the care his father received in his final days and the care his mother needs now.

I expected him to try to reconcile this contradiction. Instead, he went back to portraying government as something to be tamed rather than something to be used. To a majority of Republican primary voters, this makes sense. To the electorate as a whole, it might have made sense 30 years ago — but not today.

Margaret Thatcher never won the hearts of her many opponents. But by winning her argument, she shaped a nation’s future. There’s an increasing chance that historians will say the same of Barack Obama.

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Former photo editor, wife survive camp-out on Carnival’s Triumph

These photos are courtesy of former Pine Log Photo Editor Kirk Draut, SFA ‘96, who with his wife Patty enjoyed the misadventures of the recent ocean voyage to Mexico on the Carnival Cruise Ship Triumph. A fire in the ship’s aft engine room caused the ship to lose all but emergency power and resulted in a week-long adventure covered extensively by national and international media. While conditions were difficult, the Drauts said many passengers who spoke on camera “exaggerated the situation.” The couple said they enjoyed food including steak and shrimp cocktail after the outage and always had fresh water available. They praised the crew of the Triumph for their service and helpful attitudes. Patty Draut said the last half of the week was sort of like “camping at sea.” She said the conditions were “nowhere near as bad as those after Hurricane Ike.”

department’s internal discipline. Yet, while the inspec-tor general’s staff receives copies of every personnel complaint filed and tracks and audits selected cases, it does not have the authority to impose discipline. Nor do most civilian review boards, which are not empowered to conduct independent investigations. This leads de-tractors to say that such boards are ineffectual.

Police have long resisted external oversight. Some of us say that those who aren’t in uniform do not under-stand the intricacies of law enforcement. Won’t civilian investigators be harsher toward officers — unsympa-thetic to the challenges faced by beat cops battling armed bad guys?

These self-serving arguments perpetuate archaic pol-icies. Outsourcing misconduct investigations to civilians would directly address community concerns about the “blue wall of silence.” Officers who fear retaliation for re-porting misconduct would feel more comfortable work-ing with an external agency. In this system, complaints such as Dorner’s about the vindictiveness of superiors would all but disappear.

Using sergeants and detectives as internal affairs in-vestigators costs police departments a lot. These super-visors are paid more and have more seniority. Assigning seasoned officers to internal affairs also depletes the number of field personnel who could prevent mistakes and misconduct by patrol officers in the first place. Outsourcing misconduct investigations would be far less expensive and would let veteran supervisors do the jobs they should be doing.

And why shouldn’t every police contact with the com-munity — every traffic stop, every interrogation — be recorded on video? If Dorner and his partner had had a cop-cam, his claim that his partner used excessive force might have been resolved the same day. There’s just no excuse for not recording police contacts with the public. Technology has made cameras effective and affordable. Some officers already record their arrests to protect themselves against false allegations of misconduct. This should be standard operating procedure.

If even one citizen thinks that Dorner may have had a point, that’s too many. The only answer to those wor-ried about police conspiracies is transparency. Only by opening our doors can we build trust, and truly serve and protect.

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The SFA School of Theatre presented a different view on traditional American values this weekend with the student-directed play “WASP.”

“WASP,” which stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, is a one-act play written by comedian Steve Martin. Set in a 1950s American home, the play is a hilarious commentary on family values and gender equality in WASP culture. The action revolves around a family of four and how they inter-act with each other without truly interacting at all. None of the characters seem to listen to or care about what the oth-ers are saying, and only the monologues about the desire for passion and intimacy preformed by each actor revealed any sense of depth in the characters.

The one-act production was directed by senior John Lsi, and junior Austin Holt served as stage manager.

Junior Bailey Wier plays the dad, who wants to feel a con-nection to his wife, but views it as counter-productive to his role as the provider: “There is no providing on a lingering summers walk; there is no providing in a caress.”

Sophomore Mary Collie plays the mom, a woman trying to conform to the role of a stereotypical WASP housewife, but who questions how else her life could unfold. Collie’s character has conversations with an all-knowing Female Voice, played by junior Valarie McLeckie.

Juniors Jordan Boyd and Allison Day play the son and daughter, respectively. Boyd’s character wants nothing more than his father’s approval, which is continuously de-nied to him. Day’s character wants more than the life she has, and feels stifled by her family and home.

Though the family “unit” laughs at the dinner table together, none of the characters fell that they are truly un-derstood or appreciated, and lack the means to change it. “I would love to feel the emotions I have heard so much about, but I may as well try to resemble a dandelion,” Wier’s char-acter says. As much as they long to have the perfect “WASP” home and family, this play proves that it’s an aspiration that most fall short of.

Steve Martin’s unique comedic voice is clearly heard in this play. The witty and fast-paced dialogue kept the au-dience laughing throughout the play, while the dramatic delivery of the monologues served as a stark contrast to the fun nature of the rest of the play.

The small size of the Downstage Theatre creates a sense of intimacy between the audience and the actors, and it was a packed house. From the set and costume design to the actors’ outstanding delivery and timing, this play was well done and a great way to spend a Saturday evening.

Review: SFA’s production ‘WASP’

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The SFA Lumberjack Baseball team, held to three hits, fell 10-0 as South Alabama clinched the series Saturday afternoon at Eddie Stanky Field in Mobile, Ala.

Junior Kyle Cross (0-1) was found on the wrong end of four SFA (0-2) errors that resulted in five unearned runs across his five and two-thirds innings pitched. The Pearland native gave up six hits and recorded four strikeouts in the debut.

Three different players—Zach Benson, Hunter Dozier and Mackenzie Handel— recorded singles for the Jacks in the shutout.

After two silent innings for either team, USA (2-0) cashed in on four two-out hits and on SFA error to take a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the third. Following a ground out and strikeout by players in front of him, freshman Cole Billingsley singled up the middle. After a stolen base, Billingsley scored on an infield error to give the Jaguars a 1-0 lead. USA recorded three consecutive singles before Cross got senior Nick Zaharion to fly out and end the inning.

Out to a 3-0 lead, starter Jacob Noble (1-0) retired six SFA batters in order across the next two inning before the Jacks would threaten again.

With two outs in the top of the sixth, SFA was unable to take advan-tage of three Jaguar wild pitches as reliever Brandon Boyle retired ju-nior Max Lamantia to leave runners stranded at second and third. As a mirror to USA, following a ground out and strikeout by players in from of him, junior Hunter Dozier singled up the middle. After back-to-back wild pitches advanced Dozier to third and issued a walk to designated hitter Jordon Lenaburg, the Jaguars went to Boyle out of the pen. A wild pitch to Lamantia would push Lenaburg to second, before Boyle got a ground out from Lamantia to end the SFA threat.

USA would add seven runs across the sixth and seventh inning, holding SFA at bay, to claim the 10-0 final.

The SFA Lumberjacks shot a season-low 35.7 percent from the field on Saturday, dropping just its third game of the season, 54-50, to Southeastern Louisiana at the University Center.

The loss drops the Jacks (21-3, 12-2 SLC) into a tie for first place with Northwestern State atop the Southland Conference. The Lions (10-13, 8-5 SLC) remain in a tie for fourth place in the league with Sam Houston State.

SFA has still won seven of the last 10 meetings with Southeastern, but has lost in each of its last three trips to the University Center.

Southeastern, who nearly knocked off Northwestern State on Thursday, allowed 14 offensive rebounds to the Jacks and was outscored 30-18 in the paint; however, they hit 16 of 24 foul shots compared to just eight of 17 for the Lumberjacks. SFA also hit just two of its 11 tries from beyond the three-point line.

SFA entered the night leading the Southland in field-goal percentage, and started off hot by hitting six of its first nine shots, but went cold to close out the half

Hal Bateman led SFA with 15 points and three assists, and Taylor Smith had his eighth double-double of the year with 12 points and 10 rebounds; however, Smith was only able to get off seven shots on the evening against an exaggerated sagging defense employed by the Lions.

Brandon Fortenberry was big for the Lions, hitting 16 points after scoring just four points in the previous meeting. Todd Nelson had a dozen points and Roosevelt Johnson played a big role down low in pulling in 14 re-bounds.

Still, the Jacks pulled 14 offensive boards compared to just five for the Lions, but were only able to convert those into seven second-chance points.

The Jacks started off hot, opening up a 12-0 lead by hit-ting six of their first nine shots from the field, including a pair of buckets from Smith; however, after building as

much as a 12-point lead, they cooled off and finished by hitting just 32 percent of their shots from the field.

The Lions, though, were not much better themselves and hit just 36 percent of their field goals, but did get a pair of threes from Todd Nelson, who canned five treys just 48 hours earlier in the Lions’ narrow loss to Northwestern State on Thursday. SFA dominated the glass, 24-15 in the period, and pulled in 10 offensive boards but was not able to take advantage of them, scor-ing just four second-chance points.

But the Lions closed out the half on an 11-2 run as the Jacks went the final 6:22 without putting in a field goal and letting Southeastern get as close as 23-21 heading to the locker room.

Southeastern wasted no time in taking a lead on a Fortenberry three-pointer less than two minutes into the second half. But neither team was ever able to build much of a lead as it changed hands nine times in the final period. The Lions never led by more than five points at any juncture of the game, but got a huge shot from Nelson with 3:22 to play from the right corner to snap a 45-45 tie after the Jacks had squandered a four-point lead of its own.

From there the Lions did their work at the foul line, hitting six foul shots in the final two minutes to ice the game, while the Jacks were never able to convert from the outside.

SFA will try and rebound after seeing its six-game win streak snapped on Wednesday with a road meeting at Sam Houston State before traveling to Long Beach, Calif., for a date with Long Beach State as part of the Ramada BracketBusters on Friday, Feb. 22 at The Pyramid.

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Porsha Roberts scored a career-high 32 points and the SFA Ladyjacks rallied from six points down in the first overtime to defeat Southeastern Louisiana 83-80 in double overtime at the University Center Saturday afternoon.

SFA (11-14, 6-8) snapped a two-game losing streak by scoring a season-high in points, including a 7-4 advantage in the all-important second overtime. The overtime game was the third this season for the Ladyjacks.

Roberts surpassed her previous career-high 31-point per-formance earlier this season against Cal State Bakersfield by making 11-of-12 of her attempts from the field on Saturday and 10-of-13 at the free throw line. Roberts also snagged eight rebounds and had two blocked shots while playing 43 of the possible 50 minutes. The 11 made field goals were also a career-high for the reigning SLC Freshman of the Year.

SFA also got a double-figure scoring performance from Tierany Henderson. The sophomore forward scored a ca-reer-high 19 points and made several clutch shots. The Ladyjacks won just their second game all season when trailing with five minutes left in regulation and improved to 7-0 when scoring 70 or more points.

SLU (10-14, 3-10) was led in scoring by Brandi Simmons (22 points), Elizabeth Styles (15 points) and Jameika Hoskins (13 points).

In regulation Roberts scored nine consecutive points for SFA over the final five minutes to help force overtime with the score 67-67. In the first five minutes of extra time the Lady Lions built a 76-70 advantage with just 1:25 remaining.

However, Henderson made a huge three-pointer from the corner to cut the deficit to 76-73 with 1:11 left. Styles then missed a jumper for SLU with 43 seconds left that SFA’s Daylyn Harris grabbed down for a rebound. Henderson would proceed to miss a potential game-tying three-point-er but Ashlee Mells got the offensive rebound with 28 sec-

onds left and then took advantage by draining a game-tying trifecta herself with just 17 seconds left. The Ladyjacks defense then prevented SLU from even getting off a last-second shot.

In the second overtime SFA scored the first five points before SLU cut the lead to 82-80 with 11 seconds left on a three-point opportunity from Simmons. However, Simmons missed the free throw and got her own rebound only for the Lady Lions to then miss two consecutive layups that would have tied the game.

SLU was forced to foul Mells with two seconds left and the senior split the free throws, but off a miss the Lady Lions three-point heave from past half court was well short as time expired.

In the first half the Lady Lions built a 28-21 lead at the 2:12 mark but SFA closed strong by going on a 9-2 run to tie the game 30-30 en-tering halftime. Henderson gave the Ladyjacks a big boost on both ends of the floor in the first half leading SFA with nine points on 4-of-7 shooting from the field, including SFA’s first made three-pointer of the first half as time expired to tie the game. The sophomore forward also had a team-best three rebounds and three blocks in the opening 20 minutes.

As a team the Ladyjacks shot 42 percent from the

field (11-of-26) and a perfect 7-of-7 at the charity stripe. Both teams struggled with turnovers, committing 11 apiece.

SLU was led in scoring in the first half by Hoskins, who coming into Saturday was averaging just eight points a game but exceeded that mark with a team-high 10 points in the first half. The Lady Lions shot 43 percent from the field and outrebounded SFA 20-14, 11 of which were on the offensive glass.

The Ladyjacks will next play their final road game of the season when they travel to Huntsville for a Piney Woods showdown against rival Sam Houston State on Feb. 20 at 5:30 p.m.

The No. 10 Texas A&M Aggies remained undefeated on the season and used the long ball to their advantage to defeat the SFA Ladyjacks 9-0 Sunday afternoon in five in-nings in the finale of the Aggie Classic.

SFA (4-7) was shut out for the fourth time this season, registering just a Taylor Wells single in the second inning as their lone hit while drawing two walks. Ladyjacks senior starting pitcher Angela White took the loss in the circle, falling to 0-5 on the season by al-lowing six earned runs on seven hits in three innings pitched.

Texas A&M (10-0) hit three home runs, including a grand slam from first baseman Nicole Morgan in the second inning that broke the game open and gave the Aggies an

early 5-0 lead. The long ball was Morgan’s team-leading seventh of the early season. The Aggies would go on to add a single run in the third and three in the fourth to seal the run-rule victory.

The Ladyjacks wrapped up the Aggie Classic by going 2-3 overall, which includ-ed a 5-2 win over No. 23 North Carolina on Saturday, the 500th career victory for head coach Gay McNutt. Junior shortstop Elizabeth Arana was named to the all-tour-nament team following the game on Sunday.

SFA will face Texas A&M once again on Wednesday when they travel back to College Station for a doubleheader against the Aggies beginning at 6 p.m.

Roberts helps vault Ladyjacks past Southeastern

USA shuts out Jacks in rout

Streak comes to screeching halt against Lions

SFA gives up grand slam, nine runs in loss to A&M

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