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HANNAH SCHILLING

Staff Reporter

The utures o LouisianaTech University and LouisianaState University at Shreveporlie in the hands o 144 legis-lators sitting in the LouisianaState Capitol.

The merger is one o theoptions to boost economic de-velopment in the Shreveport-Bossier area outlined in the 158-page report by Eva Klein anAssociates, Achieving a Com-prehensive Public University iShreveport-Bossier: Analysiso Alternative Strategies. Theproposal would merge the twouniversities into one, though stilholding the two campus sites.

Shreveport-Bossier busi-ness people are talking toTech, said David Szymanski,Tech Faculty Senate president.We did not initiate this. TheEva Klein report highly recom-mended that i LSUS wanted tomake a change, Tech would bethe best choice.

The merger recommenda-tion was then sent to the Boaro Regents.

It has passed through theBoard o Regents with unani-mous recommendation, TechPresident Dan Reneau said.The legislative process bega[March 13]. To pass, it requiresa two-thirds vote in the Sen-ate and a two-thirds vote in theHouse. It will end June 3, 2012i there isnt a vote by then.

The pros and cons outlinein the report show just how dy-namic this merger can be, anstudents such as sophomorekinesiology major Laetten Gal-

braith are excited or the pos-

People swim in the Natatorium on a rainy Tuesday aternoon. Some people are concerned that theNatatorium ma not see as man visitors ater the new intramural center is o ened.

Photo by: Jessica VanAlstyne

KELLY BELTON & KALEB CAUSEYContributing Editor & Staff Reporter

Presidential hopeul Newt Gingrich made a town hall-stylestop by Techs campus Tuesday morning just days beore Loui-siana Republicans head to the polls or the state primary.

In an eort to clinch a victory Gingrich talked energy withTech students, emphasizing that energy policy aects jobs,quality o lie and national security. He outlined a vision o tworoads: the current path under President Barack Obama and Gin-grichs path o energy independence.

We dont want a policy or your generation where we bor-row rom the Chinese to pay the Brazilians, he said. We wanta policy where we produce energy in the United States, and wewant Brazil to be our best customer.

Gingrich included several proposals, including a Pell Granttype system or K-12 education and personal Social Securitysavings accounts. But most compelling to secondary educationmajor Stephen Taylor was unemployment training.

One o my proposals that will change your generation is tohave a training requirement or all unemployment compensa-tion, so i somebody signs up or unemployment, theyre alsosigning up or some kind o training program to acquire a newskill, Gingrich said. Weve been giving people 99 weeks o un-employment compensation. Thats enough time to earn an as-sociates degree, but weve been paying them to do nothing.

Taylor, a frst time voter, said he was interested to hear Gin-grich speak since he has been ollowing the race. As a Ron Paulan, however, Taylor said his frst vote would be cast or the doc-tor rom Texas.

Its exciting. Ive always been involved and care about poli-tics, he said, but noted he was not sure Paul could get the GOPnomination. I really eel like Romneys going to pull out thenomination.

Political observers believe that or the frst time in 36 years,the Louisiana Republican Primary could be a defning momentin the race or the Republican nomination. In past Republican

Primary election cycles, a clear winner had already been deter-mined beore the Louisiana primary. In 2008, Sen. John McCainhad obtained the nomination beore reaching Louisiana, thoughMike Huckabee won the Louisiana primary. A similar situationoccurred during ormer President George W. Bushs 2000 cam-paign.

You have to look all the way back to Reagan and Ford in

Newt Gingrich, Republican Presidential hopeul and ormer Speaker o the House, addresses Techabout his campaign. In 995 Gingrich became the frst Republican Speaker o the House in 40 years.

Photo by Sumeet Shrestha

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REBECCA ALVAREZ

Staff Reporter

The countdown begins. Inour weeks, the Continuing Edu-cation water aerobics class willend. In our weeks, the directiono the M.S. Carroll Natatoriumwill be determined by Tech stu-dents.

April 16 marks the openingo the long-awaited addition tothe Maxie Lambright Intramu-ral Sports Center.

Two o the most talkedabout eatures o the new recre-ation center are the large indoorand outdoor swimming pools.

The new pools will replacethe pool in the M.S Caroll Na-tatorium because it was a ewinches short o regulation sizeor competition.

The addition o the two newpools has led many to questionwhat will become o the old na-tatorium.

Bobby Dowling, assistantdirector o recreation, said thator now it will be shut down andsecured.

The decision to shut downthe old one means some pro-grams that use the pool willhave to adjust schedules ac-cordingly.

Continuing Education kickedo the return o its water aero-

bics classes March 20, but theclasses will be oered or ashorter time than the depart-ment had planned.

Consequently, the water aer-obics classes were cut rom sixweeks to our weeks, said Jaicee

Choate, Continuing Educationofce coordinator.

With all the hype that thenew recreation center is get-ting, there arent any promisesthat well be able to switch theprogram to the new pools, shesaid.

James Kin vice resident

or student aairs, said the newpools are designed to hold mul-tiple activities at one time anonce the recreational centeopens, many schedules maychange.

King added that the con-struction progress o the rec-reational center will be cruciato answering many questionsabout the direction o the olnatatorium and the uses o theproposed 20-30 enhancemenee. The 20-30 enhancemenee is a proposed ee o thawill be added to tuition costs tound uture projects or Tech iit is passed.

There are so many steps totake and so many possibilitiesin the plans or the natatoriuspace, King said. The idea isto use the space to improve oucampus image.

Among the ideas propose

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pplications due orgraduation

Today is the nal day or stu-dents graduating spring quarter2012 to register or graduation.

Applications can be turnedin to the Registrars Oce, aswell as being completed online

at their website.Seniors also need to order

their cap and gown by Thurs-day, April 5, 2012. Seniors canplace their orders in the book-store.

For more inormation con-tact Susan Elkins, associateregistrar, at 318-257-2176 [email protected].

Men compete in Mr.Tech pageant

The rst Mr. Tech pageantwill be at 7 p.m. March 29 inHoward Auditorium, Center orthe Perorming Arts.

Hosted by Miss Tech, Lau-ren Vizza, the pageant is a un-draiser event with all proceedsenetting the Childrens Mira-

cle Network hospitals.Contestants will take part in

competitions o outt o choiceto show their Tech pride, talentto entertain the audience andjudges, evening wear to struttheir stu dressed in their bestand an on-stage question.

Runners-up and the winnerwill be awarded scholarshipsand cash prizes provided bycampus organizations.

Tickets or students and nonstudents are $3 at the door.

For more inormation con-tact Lauren Vizza at lmv003@

latech.edu.

Delta Sigma Thetadebates abortion

The Kappa Chi Chaptero Delta Sigma Theta Soror-ity, Inc., will host a orum ToKeep or Not to Keep at 7:13p.m. March 29 in Davison Hall,Room 113.

The orum will provide anopportunity or students to ob-tain the latest and most accu-rate inormation on teen preg-nancy and the pros and cons oabortion.

All participants will get an

opportunity to discuss personalopinions.

In addition to the presenta-tion, ood and drinks will beserved to participants and at-tendees.

For more inormation con-tact Shyla Allen, Delta SigmaTheta president, at 318-791-5648 or [email protected].

Kinesiology hostsspring estivity

The Louisiana Tech kinesi-ology department will host itsannual Spring Fling event rom2-5 p.m. Wednesday, March 28

at Memorial Gymnasium.Approximately 50 studentsand aculty rom the kinesiologydepartment o Grambling willpartake in games put on by theTech kinesiology department.

Some o the activities at theevent include tug-o-war, musi-cal chairs, redneck gol scooteroard relays, water balloon toss

and more.For kinesiology students

interested in the Spring Fling,contact acting instructor Smi-ley Reeves at 318-257-5459 orat [email protected].

Research papercompetition dead-line approaching

In light o Womens HistoryMonth, a research paper com-petition is geared toward wom-en as a topic, and submissionsmust be turned in by March 31to Laurie Sto at [email protected].

This competition has beenprompted by the departmento history, Phi Alpha Theta His-tory Honor Society, the StudentOrganization Grant Commit-tee, the Association o WomenStudents, the Lincoln ParishLibrary and the winter quar-ter students rom History 475:Women in History.

Cash prizes will be awardedto the top three papers.

Any Tech undergraduate stu-dents may enter.

For more inormation con-tact Sto, assistant proessor ohistory, at 318-257-5480 or [email protected].

Campus

Approaching Graduation...

BY AUSTIN VINING

Staff Reporter

Built in 1981, the Maxie LambrightIntramural Sports Center has slated theopening o its state-o-the-art additionsApril 16.

The new additions include a newentrance, both an indoor and outdoorpool, a rock climbing wall, a tness area,

Counter Culture restaurant and a newlocation or the Student Health Center.

Emily Essex, intramural and clubsports coordinator, said the new addi-tions will benet aculty, students andthe Ruston community.

There are several new oce spacesin the complex, including one or ournew evening coordinator, she said.

Louisianas summer months bringheat, but Essex said the outdoor poolhas several eatures to combat againstit. She said the pool is equipped with awater-cooling system, misters that willcool the air near the pool, and a shallowsection o the pool that will host loungechairs.

The indoor pool will be competitionsize, which will allow us to have a com-petitive swim team in the uture, Essex

said. The indoor pool will also eaturea handicap entrance.Essex said the upstairs tness area

overlooking both pools will be equippedwith various cardio machines, as wellas other workout machines. She alsosaid all o the cardio machines will havetouch screens.

A lot o the sta are reall excited

about Counter Culture opening up atour location here, she said. Now wewont have to leave the complex to grablunch.

Morgan Potts, a reshman biologymajor, works on the intramural sta,and she said she is excited by the newadditions.

Its a brand new addition with a lot

o new things, and Ill get to see it allrom my desk, Potts said. Its annoyingbeing in the middle o the gym with theclasses and the music being loud, butI do enjoy seeing everyone, which Imstill going to be able to do.

Potts said she enjoys seeing all theconstant changes and construction sheis seein around cam us.

The university has been making alot o changes, and I think its a verypositive thing, she said.

James King, vice president or Stu-dent Aairs, said much-anticipateadditions will provide an invaluable op-portunity or teaching healthy habits.He said by starting students o withthe knowledge o a healthier liestyle,students will increase perormance.

Im most excited about program-matic applications this building will pro-vide or our campus, he said.

King said students in a variety oelds o academic study will be ableto supplement their course programsthrough the sports complexs additions.

People rom kinesiology, dieteticsand nursing will be the ones benet-ing the most through collaborative re-search, programmatic application anpresenting ideas, he said.

King said dietetics majors will beable to work hand in hand with sportstrainers. Students studying kinesiologywill be able to teach swimming classesand use equipment or research. Therewill be a classroom in the StudenHealth Center that will provide nursingstudents with a place to meet.

The new Student Health Center isnot yet complete and will not be open-ing on April 16. Operations will con-tinue in South Hall or the time being,according to King. The ocial openingdate has not yet been set.

Emails comments [email protected].

Bright expectations or intramural additions

BY REBECCA ALVAREZ

Staff Reporter

Some Tech students TaylorOpportunity Program or Stu-dents scholarships may be in

jeopardy because they do notunderstand the hour require-ments o retaining and renew-ing their scholarships.

These students scholarshipsdo not get cancelled becauseo changes in policy or statecuts in scholarship programs,

but rather because o studentstendency to ail to read andunderstand the scholarship re-quirements.

Matthew Wright, a sopho-more business major and aTOPS recipient, said he maylose his scholarship at the endo this year.

Wright dropped below ull-time status last winter quar-ter because he was told by hispeers the number o hours he

enrolled in per quarter was notimportant, and that the only im-

portant thing is that he earns atotal o 24 credit hours by theend o the 2012 academic year.

You hear a lot o dierentthings rom students like schol-arship cuts or misconceptionsabout how the TOPS programworks, he said.

According to statistics pro-vided by the Louisiana Oce oStudent Financial Assistance,unding or the TOPS programincreased by 0.12 percent in the2010-11 academic year.

While the increase in undingor TOPS scholarships silencesany rumors o scholarship cuts,TOPS scholarships still targetthose with nancial need.

Kimberly Barlow, scholar-ship coordinator or nancialaid, has been working closelywith the TOPS program at Techor our years.

Some students just do notread the requirements, shesaid. Its as simple as that.

Barlow said the require-ments and guidelines are post-

ed on the Tech nancial aidwebsite each year in a numbero ways in an eort to helpscholarship recipients under-stand the scholarship retentionand renewal requirements.

Barlow stressed the impor-tance o a link under the TOPSeligibility tab on the websitelabeled TOPS Rights and Re-sponsibilities.

Its what every Tech TOPSstudent needs to know in a nut-shell, she said.

The link explains all o therequirements or retaining andrenewing TOPS and addressesissues in transers and specialenrollment.

One important miscon-ception that can be settled byreading the inormation is thatstudents do not have to worryabout their quarterly enroll-ment hours as long as 24 hoursare earned by the end o theacademic year.

TOPS requires that a studentmaintain ull-time enrollment

through every quarter, in addi-tion to having at least 24 earnedcredit hours at the end o springquarter.

An undergraduate student isconsidered to be enrolled ull-time with a minimum o eighthours per quarter. I a studentdrops below eight hours beorethe 10th class day o the quar-ter he or she is considered asenrolled as a part-time student.I a special circumstance exists,the student is encouraged tocontact the TOPS scholarshipcoordinator.

Barlow said it is critical tonote that any hours earnedthrough credit exams, Ad-vanced Placement, CollegeLevel Examination Program,summer sessions or interses-sions outside o the academic

year do not count toward ull-time enrollment hours.

Since the hours earned incredit exams or extra sessions

do not count toward ull-timeenrollment, they do not count

toward the required 24 hoursearned in an academic year.

I a student alls rom ull-time enrollment to part-timeenrollment prior to the 10thclass day o the quarter his oher scholarship may be perma-nently lost. I a student allsrom ull-time enrollment topart-time enrollment ater tothe 10th class day o the quar-ter the student will then have toenroll in more than eight hoursthe ollowing quarters to ensureearning 24 hours by the end othe spring quarter.

I the student ails to comeout o suspension or two years,he or she will lose the scholar-ship.

I realize now that just be-cause somebody has TOPSdoesnt mean they know it all,Wright said. I really hope I caget my scholarship back otrack.

Email comments [email protected].

Students TOPS scholarships at risk

GRACE MOORE

Staff Reporter

This is the frst in a our part series on dierent typeso students approaching

graduation in May. Eachstudent has a unique journeythrough college, and this se-ries highlights our individu-als who are approaching theend o their journey.

Hailing rom a countryslightly larger than Arkansas,it is no irregularity or Nepalistudents to nd their way intoRuston.

Anjana Tamrakar is a27-year-old senior environ-mental science major romNepal who will be nished withher American degree in May.

Tamrakar initially complet-ed her environmental sciencedegree in Nepal that only re-quired 90 credit hours.

She then trekked to Rustonto obtain a masters degree.

Upon her arrival, shelearned that Techs environ-mental science program re-quired 120 credit hours or itsdegree completion. Subse-quently, Tamrakar enrolled inanother mandatory year ogeneral and major classes be-ore she could apply or themasters program.

She later realized Techlacked a masters program spe-cically in environmental sci-ence.

Tech has become both a

stepping-stone and a ounda-tion or Tamrakar toward heruture schooling in America.

I have no plan o where Iam going, but I am thinking o

going to Caliornia or Wash-ington, D.C., Tamrakar said. Ivisited Caliornia last summer,and I dont know whether I amlucky or not, but the people Imet there were very helpuland I elt very comortable.

She said she came to Tech

originally because her bestriend rom Nepal was here.

It was an easy choice orme, Tamrakar said, and shewas in the same major, too.

Tamrakar said she is bothnervous and excited or gradu-ation.

Im excited because Imgraduating, she said with agrin, but Im nervous becauseI dont know where I will beheading. It makes me eel sadleaving all o my riends hereand beginning with new peo-ple.

The nal destination willmost likely be Nepal, Tamrakarsaid.

I always have the option to

go back, she said.She said that in the proes-sional world, women are apriority in Nepal; on the otherhand, she thinks that it is amore expensive place to live.

The daily schedule or hersecondary education in Ne-pal consisted o classes rom9 a.m. to 5 p.m.each periodlasting 45 to 50 minutes, and a30-minute lunch break.

At Tech, students plantheir days according to per-sonal sleep schedules, workschedules and other personalpreerences. Compared toTamrakars schedule in Nepal,American students have a sub-stantial amount o reedom.

It makes me eel lazy some-

times, Tamrakar said. Itshard to make plans because myschedule gets conusing.

Absorbed completely in ademanding agenda, she hassuccessully balanced classes,

an internship with the Techarm, research with her proes-sor and a part-time job in Toll-iver Hall.

In addition to her academicand proessional responsibili-ties, she is involved with theInternational Student Associa-

tion, and she is a board mem-ber in the Namaste Nepal As-sociation.

I usually hang out with Ne-pali people rom my society,she said. I just eel more com-ortable that way.

Tamrakar said she oten be-lieved she was misunderstood

by her English-speaking class-mates, which compelled her todevelop patience.

Ive learned to cope withpeople, she said. I got angryvery ast when I was back inNepal. Ive learned patience.

Contrary to popular belie,most Nepali natives are raisedin an English-medium schoolwhere all topics are taught in

English. She began learningEnglish at age six.She and her riends like to

speak Nepali because it stimu-lates group satisaction.

And i we are speakingabout some other peoplearound who dont understandNepali, Tamrakar said, itskind o unny.

Laughing, she said sheknows how it eels.

Language is commonground between Americansand the Nepali people, thoughtheir home lives can be quitedierent.

Tamrakar has a joined am-ily back home, which meansall o her relatives reside underthe same roo.

Its awesome, she said.You dont really need to lookor riends. You are having unand partying every night.

Tamrakar has not returnedhome in approximately two

years as the fight lasts 30hours.

I miss the emotional sup-port, she said. With no oneto emotionally support you in adierent country, its hard.

Though graduation is justaround the corner and her path

may ultimately lead back toNepal, Tamrakar has realized a

home at Tech.Its all about eeling o

me, she said. I Im withpeople whom Im emotionallyattached to, it makes me eel ahome. Family is always home.Tech is a amily.


Photo by Jessica VanAlstyne

Anjana Tamrakar, a senior environmental science major, holdsthe Nepali fag. Tamrakar will be graduating at the end o springquarter.

patience is an international virtue

Workers carve intricate designs on the intramural centers new rock wall. There isa balcony across rom the wall that allows people to photograph their riends whilethey are climbing.

Photo by Jessica VanAlstyne

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-ssible changes.I think it would be great or

the students, sta and Louisi-ana Tech, Galbraith said. Youhave several schools in Shreve-port, but none with the engi-neering and aviation specialtieslike we do.

One o the advantages list-ed in the report is practicalityand proximity. It explains Techis the best school or LSUS tomerge with because it is close,it has programs like engineer-ing and is already connectedto the Shreveport-Bossier areathrough Barksdale Air ForceBase and a large alumni oun-dation.

Not only are Tech studentsexcited about the possibilityo expanding the campus, butreshman nance major JohnNevarez Jr. cites other advan-tages as well.

It brings in more students,

he said. It would be better orunding programs.Other advantages explained

in the report are internal ca-pacity to invest and largerper-student resource base,which means i there are morestudents, there is more moneyor more programs.

Ruston is not the size oShreveport-Bossier, Szymanskisaid. It would benet Tech be-cause enrollment would go up.Louisiana would provide moremoney to a school with higherenrollment.

Tech students like seniorchemical engineering majorHannah Cherry understandwhat it means to bring new stu-dents into the university.

It will give the university awider range o students, Cher-ry said. It would open Techup to get more moneymoremoney means more opportuni-ties.

Not only are Tech students buzzing about the positive e-ects o the merger, LSUSstudents like junior LSUS bio-logical science major HeathBrandon are also guring outwhat positives it has or theiruture.

Even though I eel like Im betraying everyone at LSU-Shreveport by being or themerger, Brandon said, I amor anything that improves thequality o education in an area,and I eel like the merger woulddo this.

Although Brandon said he isin avor o the merger, there is

another side to the argument.The report outlines seven othe possible negative outcomesthat could result rom mergingthe two universities.

One disadvantage is per-sonal and organizational stress,which means since there are somany unknown actors in thisprocess, it will cause tensionand stress among the aculty,students and others concernedabout the universities.

Will McCutcheon, a sopho-more history major rom LSUS,said he is against the merger or

several reasons.The whole situation eels

very shady to me, he said.Also, I would not want to drive70 miles to Ruston or a classthat may no longer be oeredat LSUS due to the merger.

Another negative actorstated in the report is risk ounmet expectations, whichmeans the transition will belong and rocky. Programs willnot appear rom Ruston toShreveport immediately, tran-sitioning rom the se-mester system to thequarter system will

be hard to scheduleand new tuition costsand admission re-quirements will takesome adjusting to.

The challengeswill be moving romsemesters to quar-ters, Szymanski said.How are we goingto name and num-

ber courses? How

will the administra-tion work together? But theseare exciting things. Maybe thiscould be a great move or all.

Reneau thinks that mosto the negative originate romwhat we cant predict.

The negatives are the un-knowns, Reneau said. I canunderstand they want to main-tain their identity at LSUS, butwe have to think about what is

best or the uture.The LSUS Faculty Senate

has gone on record against themerger ater hosting orums

getting the student and acultyopinions.

We have a resolution that basically says that becausethere is no plan, we cannot sup-port any merger at this time,said Mary Jarzabek, presidento the LSUS Faculty Sen-ate. Youre asking us to buy ahouse we havent seen.

Jarzabek said students andaculty at LSUS are speakingout about the merger, whetherthey are or or against it, and

they are doing their best to get theirquestions answered.

We are con-cerned, students,aculty and sta,she said. Thereare plans being pre-sented or our uturewithout a plan. Theone thing that both-ers everyone oncampus is that noone has put orth aplan. Whats going to

happen to our bas-ketball team? Our IT services?According to The Shreve-

port Times, LSU System Presi-dent John Lombardi is againstthe merger and said the Boardo Regents has had several op-portunities to increase LSUSrole as a university, but it hasso ar ailed to recognize theschools eorts.

Szymanski thinks that i youre allowed to grow, onlypositive things can happen.

LSUS has not grown in 20years, he said. They had 4,500

students 20 years ago, and theyhave 4,500 students now. I you

build LSUS bigger, the studentswill come.

Szymanski also emphasizedthat the word merger doesnot mean Tech will take overLSUS. It means that LSUS will

be a part o Tech, and it willhelp them to grow.

Instead o looking at theglass hal empty, lets look ati hal ull, Szymanski said.What is the potential or excel-lence?

At LSUS, there are con-cerns, but at Tech, the eedbackhas been generally positive.

The aculty wants to knowwhat it means, Szymanski said.They are asking questions be-cause they want to be inormed,

but the Tech aculty is going tostay right here.

Techs impact on Ruston isunquestionable, and expandingto Shreveport-Bossier wouldonly multiply that impact.

The image, prestige and

impact o Louisiana Tech will be greatly increased, Reneausaid. We will be a stronger andgreater university. It will helpRuston and Shreveport grow.The aculty and community soar have been positive.

The merger would give hugeadvantages to Tech by expand-ing programs, including athlet-ics and organizations.

I am supporting the rec-ommendation, Reneau said.Its a win-win. It will enhance

your college experience andincrease the value o your di-

ploma.These advantages are no

just Techs post-merger positives, but LSUS too.

I dont know what theidiploma will say, Szymansksaid, but i it says the name oa school that is a Tier 1, nation-ally recognized, research insti-tute, then that is something to

be valued.Every student, aculty mem-

ber and sta member has aopinion, but what the repor

boils it down to is what is besor North Louisiana and theShreveport-Bossier area.

Im sure there are someunderlying negatives, said Gal-

braith, but overall I think its abig positive or the school anthe city.

Whats should students ex-pect the next step in the pro-cess to be?

I think the students shoul be patient and wait and heawhat the legislature votes on,Szymanski said. Then we ca

look orward to what is next.The potential is only to get bet-ter. Be optimistic.

When the 144 legislaturesin Baton Rouge decide the ateo Tech and LSUS, studentswill nd out i the negative un-knowns and the big advantageswill be explored through theprocess o a merger, or i theuniversities will remain sepa-rate and the unknown will re-main unknown.

E-mail comments [email protected].

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ALWAYNE GREEN

Staff Reporter

A single song on iTunes usu-ally costs .99 cents.

Some students, whether ig-norantly or knowingly, preertaking a $15,000 risk o illegallydownloading their songs orree.

One student recently learned

how important it is to cease thispractice ater Roy Waters, direc-tor o the Computing Center atTech, notied him o his illegalactions.

He had downloaded about60 or 70 songs, Waters said.They didnt oer him $3,500ne. They went big with$15,000.

Waters said since 2008, theRecording Industry Associa-tion o America has notied ap-proximately 620 students otheir illegal actions through hisoce. Although the practicecontinues, he said the numbersare alling each year.

I think this is an educationalproblem, Waters said. Its nota criminal type problem. Stu-

dents really dont know its ille-gal or they think they wont getcaught.

This illegal practice on cam-pus does not only aect thecopyright holders, but Waterssaid it was also aecting theprocess o lear ning.

We were having bandwidth

problems in the dorms, Waterssaid. There was too much tra-c on the internet and a lot o itwas the downloading o moviesand songs, which was keepingstudents rom doing legitimateschoolwork.

He said he wished he didnot have to do this aspect ohis job, but there is an infux onew students each quarter and

the number o violators usuallyincreases at that time.They dont know its illegal

or they dont know we are ag-gressively pursuing these o-ences, Waters said. In Sep-tember numbers jump up prettyhigh; about the rst or secondweek in October they start com-ing down.

Overall he said Tech wasdoing a good job in stemmingthe number o notications re-ceived by students each yearrom the RIAA.

The ollowing gures indi-cate the total number o noti-cations the Computing Centerhas received: 2008-524; 2009-385; 2010-321; 2011 (as oMarch 15)-131.

Waters said when the RIAAcatches students, they are madeaware that they have beencaught via an email with a copyo the notice. Inside that noticeit gives the time the downloadwas done, where it was doneand what was downloaded.

Ater students receive this

notice they are required to meetwith the assistant dean o stu-dent lie Samuel Speed.

Speed said his role was toeducate students about the seri-ousness and legalities o illegalle sharing on campus.

Many people think its il-legal depending on where theydo it when in reality it is illegalregardless, Speed said. I its

copyrighted material you can-not share it.Though some students may

not know it is illegal to down-load copyright material or vari-ous reasons, Speed said it is theconsumers responsibility toknow.

He said his oce is also re-quired to hand over records oany actions taken against stu-dents who have been taken tocourt or internet piracy.

Katherine Finney, a juniormusic major, said she knew itwas illegal to download copy-righted material, however, shedisagrees with the severity i thepunishment.

I think they are a little highor a song that cost .99 cents,

but I think at the same time theydo need to ne the person,Finney said. For every songthat is downloaded illegallythats money that does not go tothe artist and producer.


1976 (to nd an exception),said Jason Dor, executive di-rector o the Republican Partyo Louisiana.

Thats the last one that I canremember historically.

Gingrich, Paul, Rick Santo-

rum and the current leader indelegates, Mitt Romney, are theour candidates on the ballot inLouisiana, though none could

be called the rontrunner.In the past, candidates were

getting all o the delegates or astate by winning it.

Due to a recent change bythe state Republican parties,

now a candidate has to winwith at least 50 percent o thevotes to get all delegates. I noone obtains 50 percent, the del-egates are divided amongst thecandidates on the ballot.

Similar to the 1976 Repub-lican primaries with RonaldReagan and Gerald Ford, the2012 ballot contains dierent

types o Republicans. Some othe candidates are extremelyconservative toward most is-sues, while others are a bit moremoderate.

The candidates are eachrepresenting the dierent as-pects o the Republican Party,said Lauren Vizza, president othe College Republicans. They

are each rom a dierent back-ground, backed by dierent agegroups and really ocus on cer-tain issues that they are stron-gest in.

With no more planned pri-mary debates, campaign stopslike Gingrichs might be the can-didates last hope or garneringsupport.

Whoever wins the Republi-can nomination will have gonethrough the re and will beready or whatever the Obamacampaign throws at them in thegeneral election, Dor said.

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The era o the hardback En-cyclopedia Britannica has ended.2010s 32-volume set o Ency-clopedias will be the last to lineookshelves across the world.

These books are usuallyprinted once every two years,ut Britannica has decided to go

paperless or this 2012 year andonward.

According to CNNs website,the books account or only 1percent o their total sales. Fi-teen percent o sales are romthe digital version o the books,

and the remaining 84 percent isconstructed rom online learningtools and curriculum products.

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The new online video sensation KONY 2012snatched more than 60 million viewers anreceived the attention o major Hollywooproducer Harvey Weinstein, Reuters reporte

this past week.The 30-minute lm is achieving its goal: to be no-

ticed.KONY 2012, to put it simply (or as simply as the

lm relays it), is an attempt to make Joseph Kony, lead-er o the Lords Resistance Army in Uganda and wacriminal, amous.

By making him amous, the lm proposes, there wil be more awareness o Joseph Kony and could persuade Congress to act in the matter, leading to his ar-

rest. This attention will hopeully lead to the arrest oKony by the end o the year.

The lm was shown two weeks ago on Techs cam-pus, one week ater it debuted online causing a mediarenzy and a lot o new supposed activists, in HowarAuditorium.

Consisting o oversimplications and short, fuiscenes, it evoked what most peoples minds look like ithis mentally-ractured culture.

Many are concerned about the Invisible Childrensgoal and how they manage money, spending largeamounts on production and marketing, instead ounds going to humanitarian eorts.

In our opinion, the biggest issue with the video pre-sentation is its eect on activism as a whole.

While the social media-inspired nature o the land the Mumord and Sons and Kanye West songsplaying in the background, surely put there to incite theactivist spirit in all o us, it makes the eort to captureJoseph Kony more a cool thing than understanding the

gravity o the actual situation.By not presenting the whole story in the lm anwith so many students reacting to it solely based on theinormation given, as Invisible Children has other lmsthat go into the whole story, what does this say abouthe audience?

Are we so entranced by these little bite-sized pieceso inormation and letting this almost hip idea o cap-turing Kony push us into the role o demonstrators?

While social media has enhanced our ability to con-nect with a worldwide audience, it has aected our abil-ity to contextualize inormation.

We are only getting small pieces o the story iKONY 2012, and thereore becoming activists withthis. KONY 2012 does not present the whole story,and that is not the problem.

What is dangerous to activism and humanitarian e-orts, is ollowers who do not look at the ull picture.

That is obvious by the reaction to the KONY 2012video, where people think buying a bracelet and watch-ing a video makes them an activist.

We just understand the situation in keywords: ar-rest, capture, KONY, 2012, and not much else.Many do not know that the LRA is not even in Ugan-

da any more and is in surrounding countries presently.When trying to capture a war criminal, we need to

understand what we are actually doing and not juswalk into it blindly because activism seems cool.

College students are becoming activists based on ainnitesimally small bit o inormation.

It is going to take much more than this and inspiringsongs to catch a war criminal like Joseph Kony.

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WORDS WITH ATTITUDE

Letting it all soak inSHERELLE BLACK

Associate Editor

Flowers blooming, pollen coat-ing the tops o cars, allergies, alight breeze and some sunyep,its denitely spring.

With spring comes the joys onice weather and the temptationo skipping class to have some unin the sun. Who can resist the radi-ant sun and the chance to minglewith riends ater you have spenta long winter being cooped up inthe house drinking hot chocolateand reading books?

Most students, like me, wouldnot pass up the opportunity to beoutside every waking moment othe day instead o being insidewithout anything to do but readtextbooks.

As I plan on graduating Win-ter Quarter 2013, this will be mylast spring quarter, and I have tosay the temptation is greater thanever to say orget class, orget do-ing homework and projects andsay as long as I pass with a C, Illbe ne. While that would be great,

I realize it would not be very ben-ecial in the long run or my ca-reer. Sure there are some peoplelike Bill Gates who did not go tocollege and became wealthy, butwhat are the odds that will happento me? Slim to none.

So as I trudge along to classthis spring quarter all I can thinkabout is how can I manage tomaximize my un while still main-taining my grades. The best wayto go about this is to practice timemanagement, learn how to say noand prioritize.

We all know time manage-ment is an important key con-cept in mastering this thing calledlie as it allows us to accomplishmany things without eeling over-whelmed or rustrated. I gure theonly way I can successully bal-ance class with social activitiesis to allocate time or each andaccurately proportion how muchtime has to be spent on each ac-tivity.

My next step to maximizing myun in the sun is to learn how tosay no. Time management alone

is not enough to succeed i I con-stantly say yes to everything. Howcan I possibly have time to studyi I say yes to going to every party,every talent show, every date andevery social event that arises? Icannot. There are only 24 hours ina day, which means I cannot t allo these things in my day i I planon sleeping. I have to learn how tosay no to those events and peoplethat I know I can go without.

The last step is to prioritize!As a college student, I oten eellike I am orced to make deci-sions about what is more impor-tant than others. For example,should I buy this book or should I

just save the money and buy oodwith it instead? This is where Ihave to prioritize and ask myselwhat comes rst. I know you arethinking, o course, ood does, buttechnically I do not need moneyor ood when I receive a declining

balance and have many riendswith ood stamps.

Knowing this, the book shouldbe no. 1 on my list. These threesimple steps can save you rom u-

ture headaches and allow you todo the things you really want to dowhile getting the things you loathaccomplished. I have learnedrom my college experiences thatsome o the things that take themost time to accomplish are otenthe things that I am most proudo. And the things that I am mostproud o oten help me achieveaccolades and recognition.

With that being said, I wantthis spring quarter to go by asslowly as possible, so I can takethe time to enjoy every momentand experience everything it

brings to me. I want to rememberthese experiences as something Ican be proud o, something thathelped me leave my mark onTechs campus and most impor-tantly something that helped melearn lie lessons I can take withme ater college.

Sherelle Black is a senior journalismmajor from Bossier who serves asassociate editor for The Tech Talk.Email comments to [email protected].

I DONT GIVE A CENSORED

15 and pregnant. . . and imprisoned

AMIE ROLLAND

News Editor

Imagine you are a young,scared and pregnant 15-year-oldgirl.

You are coming to terms withthe act that your lie will nevere the same because you will

soon have a child.Thirty-six weeks in, you have

a miscarriage.Now you sit in a lonely Missis-

sippi jail cell acing lie in prison

or the death o your child.According to The Guardian,15-year-old Rennie Gibbs losther baby to a stillbirth in Decem-er o 2006. Prosecutors discov-

ered Gibbs had a cocaine habit,and although they could notprove drug abuse was the reasonor Gibbs miscarriage, she wasstill charged with the depraved-heart murder o her child.

As someone who is complete-ly disturbed by the mere thoughto all aspects o child bearing,I still cannot athom losing achild, especially ater carrying it

or our weeks shy o a ull preg-nancy.

Whether or not the circum-stances that triggered the miscar-riage could have been preventedor not, a girl who has unexpect-edly lost her child should not beimprisoned on murder charges.

This charge holds a mandato-ry lie sentence, and Gibbs is therst woman in Mississippi to becharged with the murder o herunborn child due to a miscar-riage. However, women through-

out the United States are beingprosecuted or the liestyles andchoices they make throughouttheir pregnancies that couldhave potentially been the causeo their miscarriages or childsdeath.

One woman tried to commitsuicide by eating rat poison whileshe was pregnant and has beenimprisoned or the past threemonths on charges o murder-ing her baby who only lived ourdays.

Alabama has introduced thechemical endangerment law,

which protects children exposedto methamphetamines beingcooked in their houses. One Ala- bama resident was arrested un-der this law ater her baby within19 minutes o birth due to di-culties rom exposure to meth-amphetamines.

People are crazy. Doing drugsis irresponsible and stupid onany day i you ask me, but doingdrugs or putting yoursel in toxicenvironments while pregnantwith lie trumps all.

These women are ools orrdoing such dangerous drugs and being so selsh that they couldharm the lie o a child.

Although I think these wom-en, i proven without a doubt thatdrugs were the cause o thesebabies deaths, are irresponsible,I do not believe they should beimprisoned or the deaths. I be-lieve these women need seriouspsychological help.

I am not supporting the ludi-crous actions o these women orothers like them, but what aboutwomen who smoke cigarettes or

drink alcohol while pregnant? Werown upon them too, but theydont go to prison because theirsmoking causes various healthproblems or premature births.

I a government can incarcer-ate a woman under the assump-tion that she used drugs, andthereore caused the death o herunborn child, then we should in-carcerate every woman who hasan abortion or the same reason.Just because they had the abor-tion does not mean they didnt

violate the depraved-heart mur-der law, right?Shouldnt we be thankul these

women miscarried so that thereare not more unplanned, un-wanted, abused children broughtinto this inected world?

It sounds harsh, but in the bigscheme o things, it is true.

Amie Rolland is a senior journal-ism and pre-law major from Keith-vilee who serves as news editor forThe Tech Talk. Email comments [email protected].

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MRIT AWALStaff Reporter

In conjunction with Spring-leaning, Tech students havembraced the season by at-empting to clean up their envi-onment.

Students and aculty partici-ated in a recycling drive hosted

y the Society o Women Engi-eers and the National Society Black Engineers March 15-6.

Volunteers participated byringing recyclable trash, such

s plastics, papers, batteries,ires, old appliances, aluminumnd ink cartridges to a booth setp at Centennial Plaza.

Rachel Baker, a sophomoreiomedical engineering major,

said the event would be biquar-erly, with a drive at the begin-ing and end o each quarter.

We had so much positiveeedback and encouragementrom students, aculty and sta,she said.

Senior civil engineering ma-or Kendall Belchers eedbackas nothing but positive. He

said the recycling drive createdwareness about how muchrash we produce and how wean minimize it.

Why not take more initia-tive and use some energy to getit recycled, he said.

Belcher said a minimal e-ort rom people on campus willmake a substantial dierence inthe long run. He also suggested

that by simply recycling old pa-pers pople can make a monu-mental change.

Students just dump the pa-per in the garbage, he said. Iit was recycled, there would beless trees to cut down in the u-ture.

Baker said SWE inormed

Techs administration abouttheir plans to reduce trasharound campus by placing sep-arate bins or plastics, papersand electronics.

We send letters to the presi-dent, vice presidents and thedean o College o Engineeringand Science, she said. Theyencouraged us, and told us theywould like to see the programgrow.

The bins were paid orthrough SWE and NSBEs yearly

budget. Although they are morethan happy to start the program,

Belcher said it cannot continueto grow without participationand monetary support romother organizations.

The program we have nowis only in one building, he said.We need unds to buy morecontainers to put in dorms, thelibrary and dierent campus

buildings.Jenna P. Carpenter, asso-

ciate dean o the College oEngineering and Science, saidrecycling is the newest concepton campus that aculty and stu-dents are interested.

Carpenter said she thinksTech can make a real dierencei everyone promotes the pro-gram.

You dont have to dig outmore aluminum under theground, she said. We can justrecycle and use it. Recycling isa better way to create less trashand use less natural resources.

Brett Stinger, a graduate stu-dent in biology, said recyclinghabits are sustainable. I peopleare motivated to change, hesaid, old habits can change into

newer, less wasteul habits thatwill have positive impacts on theenvironment.

The student communityand Ruston will produce lesswaste, he said. Hopeully Techcan be a campus that really triesto decrease its impact on thesurrounding environment.

Stinger said he supports theorganizations goals, but said

he would like to take it urtheand see campus wide recyclingdrives each month. Ideally, thesaid there should be recycling

bins in all buildings.Going to a recycling drive is

not a choice anymore, he said.It is a responsibility now.

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Nepal Nite refects students culture

NATALIE MCELWEEStaff Reporter

Tech students entered the

Student Center, Main Floor Sat-rday evening ready to experi-ence a dierent culture at thesixth Annual Nepal Nite.

Since its start in 2007, NepalNite has seen an increase in at-tendance each year rom 100people attending the rst yearto an attendance o 500 thisyear.

The Namaste Nepal Asso-ciation, which puts on NepalNite, has also grown rom 20 tomore than 200 students in thepast six years.

The estivities o Nepal Niteincluded both traditional andinnovative music, dancing and

ood provided by the Nepalistudents o Tech.

Bishestha Adhikari, presi-dent o the NNA, said this

event is a way o showing Techstudents what one o the manydierent cultures represented atTech is all about.

Nepal Nite is a total refec-tion o Nepal, she said. We

just wanted to bring Nepal toTech so everyone else can seehow Nepal is and what peopledo there. That is the main ocuso Nepal Nite, so we can intro-duce our culture and our tradi-tion over here.

Adhikari said this event isalso a way to bring all o theNepali students together.

We all get to work together,she said. Its only a two hour

show, but we spend two monthsplanning it. We eel like we are

back at home.Adhikari said the way they

introduced various Nepali esti-vals was unique to this year.We have never tried to in-

troduce our estivals, she said.We tried last year to introduceall types o cultures and tradi-tions. This time we mainly o-cused on estivals.

Adhikari said Nepal Nite is away or the Nepali students toshow appreciation or Tech andAmerican culture, while show-ing them a whole other culture.

People at Tech have madeus eel very good over here,she said. We want to do thator them. It might just be twohours, but we want to make

them eel like they have been toNepal.

Arun Bhandari, a seniorcomputer science major, per-

ormed music and a dance orthe ourth year in a row Satur-day night.

This is the last one or me,he said. You eel great to rep-resent your country and thenshow it to all the internationalgroups. I really eel proud aboutthat.

Bhandari said the event is aplatorm or the Nepali studentsto show Tech what their cultureis all about.

It means representing yourculture and your traditions andshowing it to other countries,he said. We always love to seethat.

Bhandari said he was im-pressed by the number o peo-ple who attended the event.

It was great, the best so ar,

he said. Nepal Nite is gettingbetter and better every year. Itsalways un. I have no words todescribe it.

Sean Moore, a senior civilengineering major, said he at-tended or the third time.

It was a great event, and Ienjoyed being part o it with allo my riends, he said. I enjoygetting a eel or dierent cul-tures.

Moore said the event wasunique and that he enjoyedwhat it oered.

I enjoyed eating the din-ner because I like the oods odierent cultures, he said. I

also enjoyed the Festive FusioGroup Dance, where a numbeo Nepali estivals were repre-sented. This was probably my

avorite part o the night be-cause I had several riends ithe dance.

Moore said it is important oTech students to attend eventssuch as Nepal Nite because it isimportant or Tech students toknow how other people live.

I would encourage anybodythat likes dierent cultures to goto Nepal Nite, he said. Goingto events like that is always un,and it is really important to sup-port the international studentson our campus.

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[email protected].

Photo by Shradha Sharm

Sambir and the group perform the Khukuri Dance for Louisiana Techs Nepal Night. The event was held on March 17 in the Student Center on campus. Many aspects of Nepali culture were displayed.

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ANBERRA, Australia (AP) WikiLeaks ounder JulianAssange plans to run or a seatin the Australian Senate in elec-tions due next year despite be-ing under virtual house arrest inEngland and acing sex crimeallegations in Sweden, the groupsaid Saturday.

The 40-year-old Australian

citizen is ghting extradition toSweden. He has taken his legalattle all the way to Britains Su-

preme Court, which is expectedto rule on his case soon.

We have discovered that itis possible or Julian Assangeto run or the Australian Sen-ate while detained. Julian hasdecided to run, WikiLeaks an-nounced on Twitter.

Assange has criticized Aus-tralian Prime Minister Julia Gil-lards center-let government ornot standing up or him againstthe potential threat o his extra-dition to the United States orprosecution over WikiLeaks re-lease o hundreds o thousandso classied U.S. documents.

Australian police have con-

cluded that WikiLeaks andAssange have not broken anyAustralian laws by publishingthe U.S. cables, although Gillardhas condemned the action asgrossly irresponsible.

John Wanna, an AustralianNational University political sci-

entist, said it was possible orAssange to run or a Senate seati he remains on the Australianelectoral roll despite living over-seas or several years.

I he gets on the roll, then hecan stand as long as hes solventand not in jail and not insane,Wanna said.

Being convicted o a crimepunishable under Australianlaw by 12 months or more in

prison can disqualiy a personrom running or the AustralianParliament or the duration othe sentence, even i it is sus-pended.

Constitutional lawyer GeorgeWilliams o the University oNew South Wales said that pro-vision o the constitution hasnever been tested in the courtsin the 111-year history o theAustralian ederation and prob-ably would not apply to a crimi-nal conviction in a oreign coun-try such as Sweden.

Im not aware o an impedi-ment to him standing, even i hewas convicted, Williams said.

Any adult Australian citizencan run or the Australian Parlia-ment, but ew succeed withoutthe backing o a major politicalparty. Only one o Australias 76current senators does not repre-sent a party.

Every Australian election at-tracts candidates who have littlehope o winning and use theircampaigns to seek publicity or

various political or commercialcauses.

Wanna said the odds areagainst Assange winning a seat,

but that he could receive morethan 4 percent o the votes in hisnominated state because o hishigh prole. At that threshold,candidates can claim more than$2 per vote rom the govern-ment to oset their campaignexpenses. Assanges bill to the

taxpayer could reach hundredso thousands o dollars.

The next Senate electioncannot be called beore July2013 and is due around August.Candidates cannot ociallyregister as candidates untilthe election is called at least amonth beore the poll date.

Assanges mother, ChristineAssange, a proessional pup-peteer rom rural Queenslandstate, said Saturday she had yetto discuss her sons political bidwith him.

She criticized what she calledthe governments willingnessto put its deense treaty withthe United States ahead o therights o an Australian citizen.

The No. 1 issue at the nextelection regardless o who

you vote or is democracy inthis country whether or notwere just a state o the U.S. andwhether or not our citizens aregoing to be just handed over asa sacrice to the U.S. alliance,she said.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assangewill run for Australian Senate

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A new clue in one o the 20th centurys mostenduring mysteries could soon uncover the ateo American aviator Amelia Earhart who went

missing without a trace over the South Pacic 75years ago, investigators said Tuesday.Enhanced analysis o a photograph taken just

months ater Earharts Lockheed Electra planevanished shows what experts think may be thelanding gear o the aircrat protruding rom thewaters o the remote island o Nikumaroro, inwhat is now the Pacic nation o Kiribati, theysaid.

Armed with that analysis by the State Depart-ment, historians, scientists and salvagers romThe International Group or Historic Aircrat Re-covery, are returning to the island in July in thehope o nding the wreckage o Earharts planeand perhaps even the remains o the pilot and hernavigator Fred Noonan.

Ric Gillespie, executive director o the group,acknowledged that the evidence was circum-stantial but strong but stopped short o pre-dicting success. The new search is scheduled tolast or 10 days in July and will use state-o-the-

art underwater robotic submarines and mappingequipment.

The most important thing is not whether wend the ultimate answer or what we nd, it is theway we look, he said. We see this opportunity toexplore ... the last great American mystery o the20th century as a vehicle or demonstrating howto go about guring out what is true.

Earhart and Noonan disappeared July 2, 1937,while fying rom New Guinea to Howland Island

as part o her attempt to become the rst emalepilot to circumnavigate the globe.

Extensive searches at the time uncoverednothing and many historians are convinced theycrashed into the ocean. In addition, conspiracy

theories, including claims they were U.S. govern-ment agents captured by the Japanese beore theSecond World War, still abound despite having

been largely debunked.Gillepsies group believes Earhart and Noonan

may have managed to land on a ree abutting theatoll, then known as Gardner Island, and survivedor a short time. They surmise that the plane waswashed o the ree by high tides shortly ater thelanding and that the wreckage may be ound inthe deep waters nearby.

Their previous visits to the island have recov-ered artiacts that could have belonged to Earhartand Noonan and suggest they might have livedor days or weeks. Now, they have the new analy-sis o the October 1937 photo o the shorelineo the island. Experts say a blurry object stickingout o the water in the lower let corner o the

black-and-white photo is consistent with a strutand wheel o a Lockheed Electra landing gear.

Renowned oceanographer Robert Ballard,

who discovered the wreckage o the Titanic andthe Bismarck and is advising the Earhart expe-dition, said the new analysis o the photographcould be the equivalent o a smoking gun as itnarrows the search area rom tens o thousandso square miles to a manageable size.

Ballard conessed to having been previouslyintimidated by the challenge o nding clues toEarharts whereabouts.

I you ever want a case o nding a needle in

a haystack, this is at the top o the list, he saidat a State Department event where Secretary oState Hillary Rodham Clinton and TransportationSecretary Ray LaHood gave their support andencouragement to the privately nanced project.

Clinton hailed Earhart as an inspiration toAmericans in dicult times as the nation strug-gled to emerge rom the Great Depression andsaid her legacy could be a model or the countrynow.

Amelia Earhart may have been a unlikely her-oine or a nation down on its luck, but she embod-ies the spirit o an America coming o age andincreasingly condent, ready to lead in a quite un-certain and dangerous world, she said. She gavepeople hope, and she inspired them to dream big-ger and bolder.

Today, we meet at a time when the challengesare not so dire despite what you might hear oncable television or talk radio, but these are stilldicult days or many Americans, Clinton said.Ater a long decade o war, terrorism and reces-sion, there are some who are asking whether westill have what it takes to lead, and like that earliergeneration we too could use some o Ameliasspirit.

We can be as optimistic and even audaciousas Amelia Earhart, she said. We can be denednot by the limits that hold us down but by the op-portunities that are ahead.

The Obama administration takes no positionon any purported evidence and acknowledgesthere is erce debate on the subject, but Clinton,who noted that the State Department and otherederal agencies had actively supported Earhartsfight, cheered the searchers on.

Even i you do not nd what you seek, thereis great honor and possibility in the search itsel,she said. So, like our lost heroine, you will alcarry our hopes ... We are excited and lookingorward to hear about your own great adventure.

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SEATTLE (AP) WhenJustin Bassett interviewed or anew job, he expected the usualquestions about experienceand reerences. So, he was as-tonished when the interviewerasked or something else: hisFacebook username and pass-word.

Bassett, a New York Citystatistician, had just nishedanswering a ew characterquestions when the interview-er turned to her computer tosearch or his Facebook page,ut she couldnt see his private

prole. She turned back andasked him or his login inorma-tion.

Bassett reused and with-drew his application, saying he

didnt want to work or a com-pany that would seek such per-sonal inormation. But as thejob market steadily improves,other job candidates are con-ronting the same question romprospective employers, andsome o them cannot aord tosay no.

In their eorts to vet ap-plicants, some companies andgovernment agencies are go-ing beyond merely glancing ata persons social networkingproles and instead asking tolog in as the user to have a lookaround.

Its akin to requiring some-

ones house keys, said OrinKerr, a George Washington

University law proessor andormer ederal prosecutor whocalls it an egregious privacyviolation.

Questions have been raisedabout the legality o the prac-tice, which is also the ocus oproposed legislation in Illinoisand Maryland that would orbidpublic agencies rom asking oraccess to social networks.

Since the rise o social net-working, it has become com-mon or managers to reviewpublically available Facebookproles, Twitter accounts andother sites to learn more about

job candidates. But many usershave their proles set to private,making them available only toselected people or certain net-

works.Companies that dont ask

or passwords have taken othersteps such as asking appli-cants to riend human resourcemanagers or to log in to a com-pany computer during an in-terview. Once employed, someworkers have been required tosign nondisparagement agree-ments that ban them rom talk-ing negatively about an employ-er on social media.

Asking or a candidatespassword is more prevalentamong public agencies, espe-cially those seeking to ll lawenorcement positions such as

police ocers.Back in 2010, Robert Col-

lins was returning to his job as asecurity guard at the MarylandDepartment o Public Saetyand Correctional Services a-ter taking a leave ollowing hismothers death. During a re-instatement interview, he wasasked or his login and pass-word, purportedly so the agen-cy could check or any gang a-liations. He was stunned by therequest but complied.

I needed my job to eed myamily. I had to, he recalled,

Ater the ACLU complainedabout the practice, the agencyamended its policy, asking in-stead or job applicants to log induring interviews.

To me, thats still invasive.I can appreciate the desire to

learn more about the appli-cant, but its still a violation opeoples personal privacy, saidCollins, whose case inspiredMarylands legislation.

Until last year, the city oBozeman, Mont., had a long-standing policy o asking jobapplicants or passwords totheir email addresses, social-networking websites and otheronline accounts.

And since 2006, the McLeanCounty, Ill., sheris oce has

been one o several Illinoissheris departments that askapplicants to sign into socialmedia sites to be screened.

Chie Deputy Rusty Thomasdeended the practice, saying

applicants have a right to reuse.But no one has ever done so.Thomas said that speaks wello the people we have apply.

When asked what sort omaterial would jeopardize jobprospects, Thomas said itdepends on the situation butcould include inappropriatepictures or relationships withpeople who are underage, ille-gal behavior.

In Spotsylvania County, Va.,the sheris department asksapplicants to riend backgroundinvestigators or jobs at the 911dispatch center and or law en-orcement positions.

In the past, weve talkedto riends and neighbors, but alot o times we ound that ap-

plicants interact more throughsocial media sites than they dowith real riends, said Capt.Mike Harvey. Their virtualriends will know more aboutthem than a person living 30

yards away rom them.Harvey said investigators

look or any derogatory be-havior that could damage theagencys reputation.

E. Chandlee Bryan, a careercoach and co-author o the

book The Twitter Job SearchGuide, said job seekers shouldalways be aware o whats ontheir social media sites and as-sume someone is going to look

at it.Bryan said she is troubled by

companies asking or logins, butshe eels its not violation i anemployer asks to see a Face-

book prole through a riendrequest. And shes not troubled

by non-disparagement agree-ments.

I think that when you workor a company, they are es-sentially supporting you in ex-change or your work. I think i

youre dissatised, you shouldgo to them and not on a socialmedia site, she said.

More companies are also us-ing third-party applications toscour Facebook proles, Bryansaid. One app called BeKnowncan sometimes access personalproles, short o wall messages,i a job seeker allows it.

Sears is one o the compa-nies using apps. An applicanthas the option o logging intothe Sears job site through Face-

book by allowing a third-partyapplication to draw inormationrom the prole, such as riendlists.

Sears Holdings Inc. spokes-woman Kim Freely said usinga Facebook prole to apply al-lows Sears to be updated on theapplicants work history.

The company assumes thatpeople keep their social prolesupdated to the minute, whichallows us to consider them orother jobs in the uture or or

ones that they may not real-ize are available currently, she

said.Giving out Facebook logiinormation violates the socianetworks terms o service. Buthose terms have no real legaweight, and experts say the le-gality o asking or such inor-mation remains murky.

The Department o Justiceregards it as a ederal crime toenter a social networking sitein violation o the terms o ser-vice, but during recent congres-sional testimony, the agencysaid such violations would no

be prosecuted.But Lori Andrews, law pro-

essor at IIT Chicago-KenCollege o Law specializing iInternet privacy, is concerneabout the pressure placed o

applicants, even i they volun-tarily provide access to sociasites.

Volunteering is coercion iyou need a job, Andrews said.

Neither Facebook nor Twit-ter responded to repeated re-quests or comment.

In New York, Bassett consid-ered himsel lucky that he wasable to turn down the consult-ing gig at a lobbying rm.

I think asking or accounlogin credentials is regressive,he said. I you need to put ooon the table or your three kids,

you cant aord to stand up oyour belie.

Employee asked for Facebook passwor

In this undated photo, Amelia Earhart, the frs

woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane sit

on top o a plane.

New clue sheds light on Earharts famous flight

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APRIL KELLEY

Staff Reporter

Stars o the History Chan-nels No.1 show Swamp Peo-ple, Junior Edwards, his wieTheresa and son Willie visitedthe Tech campus March 17 tosign autographs and take pic-tures with ans.

The stars o Swamp Peo-ple came to Ruston to kick oCedar Creek Schools CedarCreek Celebration 2012, FaisDeaux Deaux on de Bayou an-nual spring event.

Through some contacts, wehad an opportunity to have theswamp people come to Rus-ton, said Lynda Steed, direc-tor o development or CedarCreek School.

They were very graciousand would sign anything, shesaid. We had people bringing

oat paddles and shirts to getsigned.

In the Argent Pavilion, answaited in two lines or the ga-tor hunters to arrive.

One line belonged to the

VIPs who paid $50 or a ewextra minutes with the amousCajuns.

This show happened simplyout o luck, Willie said. TheHistory Channel people justcame by our house one day andwe agreed to do it.

Swamp People, which iscurrently in its third seasonon the History Channel, wasrecently renewed or anotherthree years.

The show premiered on Aug.22, 2010, and has since becomethe No. 1 show on the HistoryChannel.

The show ollows the day-to-day lie o alligator huntersand highlights all the dangersand rewards o this particular

career eld.This is our career and we

do it to provide or our amilies,to make a living, Willie said.I was brought up and raised[hunting alligators].

To kill the alligators, the menset traps to catch them. Then,

once caught they must chootem as cast members say. Inorder to kill them, one mustshoot them in the kill spot,

which is located between theeyes, but a bit urther back. Ishot anywhere else, bullets o-ten ricochet and this could be

lie-threatening or the hunters.

Ive been shot in the hip, thearm and near my eye, Williesaid.

Willie said these injurieswere caused by ricocheted bul-lets.

Alligator hunting season be-gins on the rst Wednesday inSeptember and lasts 30 days.Each hunter is provided with alimited number o tags, whichthey put on the alligators ootindicating they killed it.

They can only kill so manyalligators per hunting season.

The Edwards amily usu-ally gets 241 tags per season,which they ll in two weeks. Inthe past, they have caught asmany as 45 alligators per day,

but this season the number has

dwindled to 12 per day.Since alligator hunting sea-

son is only 30 days, the Ed-wards amily spends the rest othe year hunting other game,shing and harvesting alligatoreggs.

The amily explained that

alligators are worth a lot o

money.They sell both the meat andthe skins.

The larger alligator skins sellor much more.

The price depends on howlong the gator is, said Willie.The longer the gator, the moremoney we make.

The largest gator weve evercaught was 13 eet long and800 pounds, said Willie.

He pointed to the very largealligator head sitting on the ta-

ble next to them.Thats the biggest one

we ever caught, said Willie.Thats our 13-ooter.

The lie o an alligator hunteris one ew have, but it is one thamillions have learned o simply

rom a reality television show.The third season premiered

on Feb. 9, 2012, and airs Thurs-days at 8 p.m. on the HistoryChannel.

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GRACE MOORE

Staff Reporter

In lieu o the global warm-ing calamity, the big-screen ad-aptation o Dr. Seuss childrensook The Lorax encourages

people o all ages to make adierence in our world.

According to The New YorkTimes, The Lorax has heldthe No. 1 spot in the box o-ce its rst two weekends orelease, deservedly so. The lmegins as the Lorax, a small,

urry creature with an over-

sized mustache (Danny DeVi-to), sets the stage in the small,ctional town o Thneedville.

Comprised o infatableshrubs, identical houses andreathable air sold in large

plastic containers, this plasticcity plays home to 12-year-old

Ted (Zac Eron) and his dreamgirl Audrey (Taylor Swit) whowant nothing more than to see

a living Truula Tree.Mr. OHare (Rob Riggle) is

the business head who runsThneedville and stands in Tedsway o nding a tree.

Teds grandmother, Gram-my Norma (Betty White), re-members a day when TruulaTrees decorated every eld,thus urging him to nd theOnce-ler (Ed Helms) who de-stroyed them all.

This interpretation o Dr.Seuss book is much more sen-sationalized than the original1972 TV short, though themes

o hope remain prevalent.The original Lorax lmshort was an animated replicao the book, which was cen-tered almost entirely on the Lo-rax who speaks or the trees.

The Once-ler responsibleor the Truula Tree extinction

remains a mystery in the 1972short but becomes a sort o he-roic gure in the 2012 lm.

This sensationalizing o theoriginal story line took awayrom the over-all impressionlet by the Once-ler.

He represents infuentialindividuals driven by greedwho are constantly demand-ing progress, while disregard-ing the well-being o all livingthings.

The moral transormationthe Once-ler experiences dur-ing the lm reminds us that

people are innately good buteasily blinded by ambition.The Once-ler is humanized

more now as a ully-developedcharacter, whereas the originalshort hides his true identity; hisace is never shownthat wasunimportant.

He represents the unseenactors impacting our everydaylives or both good and bad,though bad seemed most re-quent.

We have morphed into aworld where seeing is believingand whats out o sight is outo mind, creating the need or adeveloped Once-ler character.

We live in a society o sugar-coating, and the hard acts arecushioned to soten the blow.

Because these story-tellingtechniques have become near-ly mandatory, Dr. Seuss The

Lorax succeeded with its aim.Directors Chris Renaud andKyle Balda wrap a looming andpotentially earth-shattering di-lemma within themes o loveand hope.

Along with big-name actors,they used brilliant animation

and humor to mask the darkeside o the tale, creating a moredigestible moral value.

I let eeling empowered, re-alizing that anyone o any agecan truly make a dierence.

The lm ends as the Once-ler gives Ted the last Truula-Tree seed, suggesting thaperhaps young people are theworlds last seed o hope.

Dr. Seuss was a thought-provoking and ctional geniuswith messages more than de-serving o movie adaptations.

Dr. Seuss, the directors an

the cast inspire change with thenal message, Unless some-one like you cares a whole aw-ul lot, nothings going to gebetter. Its not.

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Tech student plans to open recording studioPATRICK BOYD

Entertainment Editor

While many students eargraduation and what the u-ture holds, Stanley Washingtonnows exactly what he wants to

do.Washington, a senior kinesi-

ology major, decided a year anda hal ago to pursue his dream:to open a recording studio.

When I rst came to school,I was just thinking about mak-ing money, Washington said.Then I thought, why not dowhat makes me happy?

For Washington, happinessis equated with music and haseen his whole lie.

Ive wanted to perorm allmy lie, he said. I was in choirall the time and also did manytalent shows.

Washington said he did tal-ent shows to overcome his stage

right, something that doesntother him anymore.I like R & B and hip-hop a

lot, he said. I have 32 songswritten and recorded right now.

Washington writes his ownmusic, and with his workingnowledge o the ins and outs

o music, the idea o opening amusic studio came to him.

A lot o people who startmusic studios dont know music

that well, Washington said. Ieel like my background givesme a denite advantage.

Washingtons vision or thestudio is not a typical booth andstudio setup.

My dream is to turn mycompany into a resort whereartists can record songs andalso get in shape, he said. Iwant artists who come to beable to stay a month and workull time.

The name o the studio isiRoc Entertainment, a namewhich Washington says is sym-

bolic or the inner perormer inall o us.

I want the company tochange a regular person into arock star, he said. Everyonehas a little rock star in them.

While Washington had thevision or iRoc Entertainment,he is working closely with his

business partner and riend,

Holden Harris, o Ruston, tobring iRoc to lie.I met Holden on Craigslist

while looking or a band tojoin, he said. I told him I wasthinking about starting iRoc.

Harris is a singer and song-writer himsel, and havingworked with music rom an ear-ly age, he was eager to help getiRoc jumpstarted.

Stanley and I worked to-

gether or a while, and so wewere ready to do somethingmore serious with iRoc, Harrissaid. Stanley is a really talentedsinger and songwriter, and hehas an idea behind him or vo-cal melodies. I am good withthe production part o the songslike laying beats and computerwork, so we work well together.

iRoc is located in Harrishouse and currently is under-going construction with panel-ing o the walls and setting upa booth or a projected openingdate in May.

We elt i we opened thestudio here in Ruston, it would

be a place or people in theRuston and Grambling areas toexhibit their skills, Washingtonsaid. I want people to take ad-vantage o it because there areso many people here with talent

but have no outlet or it.Balancing school, working as

a residential assistant in PearceHall and opening a record stu-dio has not been an easy taskor Washington, he said.

My days consist o a lot olate nights and weekends, hesaid. I have to make a list o ev-erything to get done that day.

Washington said he hopesall the hard work pays o, es-pecially considering he alreadyhas a ew people working with

iRoc.We want singers rom all

dierent types o genres to re-cord with us, he said. iRoc willoer a cheaper alternative orsingers over studios with moreexpensive ees.

Washington is looking or-ward to the uture o iRoc.

In 10 years, I want to seeiRoc producing major artistsand helping generate somepublicity or the people in thisarea, he said. I see iRoc as

this huge acility a record labebrings their artist to record, anI am really looking orward toit.


Photo by Grace Moore

Stanley Washington, a senior kinesiology major, is realizing his dream of opening a recording studio.He hopes to bridge the gap between his love for music and exercise.

Swamp People come to Tech for fundraiser

Junior, Theresa and Willie Edwards, stars of the History Channelshit show Swamp People, came to Argent Pavillion this past Sat-urday.

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