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Over the course o 10 days in lateMarch, Tech police issued our cita-tions or either simple possession omarijuana or drug paraphernalia.

From a law enorcement stand-point, weve been a lot more ag-gressive, Tech Police Chie RandalHermes said.

On March 18, 19-year-old Ter-rell Dedeaux was issued a citationthrough summons or simple pos-session o marijuana, Hermes said.During the investigation Dedeauxvoluntarily produced a small amounto marijuana rom his room in Cot-tingham Hall.

Hermes said 18-year-old SamuelHallack was also issued a citationthrough summons or simple pos-session o marijuana ater policewere called to his room in MitchellResidence Hall a ater he voluntarilyhanded over a small amount o mari-

juana, cigarette wrapping papers anda blunt.

Theyre going to smoke; theyrejust more reckless and careless withit, Hermes said. They dont learnhow to smoke marijuana or drinkwhen they get to Tech. They knowrom high school.

Another student living in MitchellResidence Hall, 19-year-old CorwinPetteway, was under investigationMarch 23, but police only ound

residue, Hermes said. Ater respond-ing to another call March 26, policewere given a small bag o marijuana

by Petteway, which led to him beingissued a citation through summonsor simple possession o marijuana.

During the March 27 investiga-tion o 19-year-old Taylor Albrit-tons apartment in Sutton Commons,Hermes said he called the RustonPolice Department to have a K-9 unit

brought in to search. Hermes saidthe investigation turned up a pipeand Albritton was issued a citationthrough summons or possession odrug paraphernalia.

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ALWAYNE GREEN

Staff Reporter

In the previous issue o The TechTalk, a personal column about Tray-von Martin titled Putting the hood inhoodie, led to an immediate backlashand an overwhelming response romreaders.

The column was published Thurs-day, March 29, and by the next morn-ing it had generated more than 300comments on The Tech Talk website,and thousands more emails and Twit-

ter and Facebook mentions that wereoverwhelmingly negative and someeven threatening.

The nationwide uror behind thisincident began when Sanord, Fla.neighborhood watch captain GeorgeZimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Martin claiming sel deense Feb-ruary 26 and was not initially charged

or arrested. Zimmerman was chargedWednesday with second-degree mur-der in the incident.

It is extremely rare ora publication o any size toget the type o response wegot on this one particularsubject, said Dr. ReginaldOwens, chairman o the

journalism department.On the aternoon o

March 30, one day aterpublication, the column waspulled rom The Tech Talkswebsite.

It was a hard decision topull the article, but we elt it

to be in the best interest oall those involved, Owens said.In its place, the journalism depart-

ment issued a statement saying, Thedepartment and the newspaper takeresponsibility or allowing the article to

be printed without proper review.Although the statement noted that

some o the acts in the column con-

cerning the Trayvon Martin case wereincorrect, not attributed and lacked

balance, the newspaper sta and jour-nalism depart-ment stand bythe editors rightto reedom ospeech.

We have noproblem publish-ing someonesopinion, Owenssaid. In this col-umn, my mainconcerns werethe actual errorscoupled with the

lack o balance.Owens said in this case the newspa-pers editing and review process ailed.He said the journalism department isreviewing their editing process.

In the midst o this hurrah, weneed to realize The Tech Talk is a class,a laboratory experience, and this inci-dent has served as a teaching moment

or all involved, he said. Despite allthe controversy, students learned someobject lessons here. The most impor-

tant lesson is that we haveto be careul about what wesay and how we say it, es-pecially when racially sensi-tive issues are involved. Welearned, too, o the tremen-dous power o social me-dia.

The week the columnwas published, the TrayvonMartin incident was theNo. 1 talked about topic onTwitter and third on blogs,according to a special re-

port by the Pew ResearchCenters Project or Excellence, an or-ganization that tracks these trends.

Social media played the major rolein spreading word o the column viral-ly and showed how social media allowsor people to not only read the news,

but also to respond to it, said JudithRoberts, Tech journalism instructor

and Tech Talk adviser, whose researcharea is social media and the news.

When news happens, people ingeneral want to give their opinionabout the issue, Roberts said. Twit-ter is one place where they can expresstheir thoughts.

Roberts said breaking news is otenreleased through Twitter whether it is

by someone on the scene or by a newsoutlet.

Inormation can be disseminatedas quickly now as it is written, shesaid. More than a billion tweets arewritten weekly on Twitter, and eachtweet can be retweeted in an instant.

Roberts said most o the hundreds

o tweets on The Talk Talk columnwere actually retweets.No doubt, Trayvon Martins death

has sparked nationwide outrage andthe Tech population, though not asoutspoken, have weighed in on this na-

HANNAH SCHILLING

Staff Reporter

When students go to voteApril 18-19, they may noticethe ballot is slightly empty thisyear.

The reason?All candidates running or

the Student Government Asso-ciation are unopposed.

Meet your new SGA presi-dent, Will Dearmon.

Im very excited, Dear-mon said. This is a great op-portunity to serve the studentody on a large level.

Dearmon said the reason

he is running or president issimple: He loves Tech, and hewants to serve the students.

I want to maintain the priorcommitment to servitude andgure out a way to make SGAmore stable and more in touchwith the student body andmake unheard voices heardacross campus, Dearmonsaid.

Clint Carlisle, current SGA

president, said Dear-mon will do a great

job lling the posi-tion o president.

I have had theopportunity to workwith Will in manycapacities, Carlislesaid. I have wit-

nessed rsthand hispassion and deter-mination to make apositive impact onour campus. I be-lieve Will has whatit takes to help ad-vance our universityin a positive direc-tion.

Dearmons vicepresident is AllisonEast.

Its a lot o emo-tions, East said.Im beyond excitedto get to work, com-pletely shocked andhonored to be ableto represent thestudents and a little

disappointed thattheres not an actualrace.

East said she hasideas that she haswaited two yearsto try, and its greatto nally get thechance.

One o my biggest plansor next year is implementinga program called 100 Great

Ideas or LouisianaTech, she said. Itsgoal would be totalk to students andnd 100 ideas that

benet more thanone student group,not including SGA,and have a lasting

impact on our uni-versity.East said she

wants to change theway people viewthe vice presidentposition as unap-proachable and sheencourages all stu-dents to come visitand talk with her.

Student eed-back is vital, Eastsaid. Students arethe reason werehere.

KewaynethianRiser will be tak-ing the position asSGAs new secre-tary.

I cannot wait toget to work with theellow executivesand plan out next

year so itll be awe-some, Riser said.

Riser said his o-cus is to make SGA

more accessible to students.

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SGA student voting to begin April 18

HANNAH SCHILLING

Staff Reporter

Students will get a chance tovote whether or not to add $30to their tuition April 18-19.

The enhancement ee willapply to ull-time students andwill be adjusted or part-timestudents based on the numbero hours the student is taking,according to James King, vicepresident o student aairs.

Its multiaceted, King said.Its going to touch a lot o ar-eas on our campus.

Some o the possible proj-ects include the demolition o

Neilson Hall, Caruthers Halland Hutcheson Hall in orderto create green space or intra-mural elds and outdoor class-room space, construction otwo parking acilities, continu-ation o the alumni walkway,construction o a banquet a-cility and the expansion o theeld house.

Everyone wants to improveparking, King said, and every-

one wants the alumni walkwayto continue.

The ee is modeled ater the20 or 20 ee, which was vot-ed on and passed by studentsin 2002. The students agreedto pay $20 or 20 quarters inorder to increase parking andpurchase land.

There have been acres oland purchased which we havebuilt apartments and swimmingpools on, King said. Techwould look completely dierenttoday i not or that ee.

Although most o the stu-dents twho voted to implementthe ee are now alumni and donot get to live in the new apart-ments or swim in the new pool,and the Student GovernmentAssociation president ClintCarlisle sees the opportunityor Techs uture.

Very ew times do we asstudents get the opportunityto impact the present and u-ture o our university with onevote, Carlisle said. Ten yearsago, the student body saw a

need. They also saw an oppor-tunity to signicantly improveour campus.

Carlisle also listed morebenets that will come rom theee, such as construction o or-ganizational oces and meet-ing spaces, the increased valueo a Tech diploma and with theconstruction o the eld house,a possibility o switching ath-letic conerences.

Our alumni have donatedmillions o dollars towards theconstruction o the eld houseand countless other things,Carlisle said. It is time to doour part as students to continue

building the fagship universityo Nor th Louisiana.

The state will not und the

projects, so it is up to the stu-dents to come up with the rest.Without student participa-

tion, the projects will not hap-pen.

The SGA put on a town hallmeeting March 29 or studentsto voice concerns and askquestions about the ee. Onlyve students showed up to askquestions, and David Hyde, a

junior biomedical engineeringmajor, wonders why.

Today was just bad timing,Hyde said. A lot o peoplehave tests tomorrow, and Mr.Tech was tonight. People ingeneral dont understand howthe money is clenching up, likeTOPS and other scholarships.Students dont understand how

they could be paying moresoon. The students whodid attend got to voice con-cerns, and ask questions suchas How will the ee work? andWhere will the kids we con-vince to come here with ourawesome campus live?

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Wesley presentsdinner theater

The Wesley Foundation willhost its eighth annual murdermystery dinner theater und-raiser or two nights at 7 p.m.April 20-21 at Trinity UnitedMethodist Church.

The mystery being per-ormed will be Murder, YouMust Be Kidding, a comedywritten by Pat Cook.

A mystery dinner is a popu-lar type o dinner theater inwhich the play is a murder mys-tery, and diners are invited tosolve the mystery as they eatand watch the play.

The tickets are $25 oradults, $20 or students andchildren 10 years old or young-er get in ree.

For more inormation con-tact Becky Clark, assistant di-rector o the Louisiana TechWesley Foundation, at 318-255-3112 or wesley@wesleymail.com.

Big Event to be held@ 9 a.m. Saturday

Techs Student GovernmentAssociations community ser-vice project, The Big Event, will

be held Saturday.Participating organizations

will assist local residents by rak-ing, washing windows and do-ing other yard work.

Participants should arrive atJoe Aillet Stadium by 9 a.m.

All o the tools necessaryor the assigned job will be pro-vided.

Lunch, as well as a Big EventT-shirt, will be provided or all

volunteers ater the event isover.

For more inormation con-tact Allison East, SGA sopho-more class senator, at 601-831-2588 or ace007@latech.edu.

EWB hosts dodge-ball tournament

Engineers Without Borderswill host a dodgeball tourna-ment at 6 p.m. April 19 in theMaxie Lambright IntramuralSports Center.

This tournament is a way tobring people together to have agood time and benet a worthycause.

Entry ee is $5 per person,and there can be teams up tove members.

Money raised rom entryees will go toward EWB andtheir travel unds, which theyplan to use to enhance third-world countries.

For more inormation con-tact Jade Tolbert, presidento EWB, at 985-237-9863 or

jad066@latech.edu.

Second Swamp Balltournament nears

Swamp Ball II is coming toTechs campus April 21 at theupper intramural elds. The

tournament will begin at 9 a.m.The Greek Academy is host-ing the tournament to ben-et MedCamps o Louisiana,a week long summer camp orchildren with illnesses and dis-abilities.

Teams are ve-on-ve andshirts are $10.

For more inormation con-tact Austin Vining, at 318-225-0678 or acv001@latech.edu.

Campus

Vandalism raises security concerns

AUSTIN VINING

Staff Reporter

The College o Businesshas streamlined the masterso business administrationprerequisite requirements ornon-business majors to helpstudents meet their academicand career goals.

Tim Bisping, associate deano graduate studies in the Col-lege o Business, said studentsoten nd themselves workingin a business environment atergraduation regardless o theiracademic background. Be-cause o this, business manage-

ment skills become a crucialactor in career advancementor many people.

To assist non-business ma-jors in pursuing their careergoals, the College o Businesshas developed a ast-trackprogram designed to help non-

business majors meet the pre-requisite requirements or theMBA program, he said.

Bisping said the programallows students to take ninehours o online, sel-pacedcourses designed to providethe business background nec-essary to pursue an MBA.Once the online courses arecompleted, the students onlyneed to complete Math 222 oran equivalent course in order tomeet all o the prerequisites orthe program.

I three ast-track coursesare completed in the summer,students beginning the MBA

curriculum in the all quartercan complete the program in aslittle as one year, he said.

James Lumpkin, dean o theCollege o Business, said thenew program is an invaluabletool or non-business majorswho wish to develop advanced

business skills.I suspect when students

take a look at the ast-track op-tion and the benets o earningthe MBA, this new program will

be in high demand, he said.The new program will cre-

ate more opportunities or non-business majors, said TerryMcConathy, executive vicepresident and dean o graduatestudies.

It was very innovative othe College o Business to havemoved orward on that, shesaid. Once this is advertisedand made known, I think enroll-ment will rise.

McConathy said she doesntbelieve she should be in thebusiness o making it dicultto get into graduate school.McConathy supports the new

College of Business will

offer fast-track to MBA

GRACE MOORE

Staff Reporter

This is the third in a four-art series on different stu-

dents approaching gradua-tion in May. Each student hasa unique journey through col-lege, and this series highlightsour individuals who are ap-roaching the end of their

ourney.

For a long time, I justwanted to be a waitress anda cheerleader. Those weremy ve-year-old aspirations.Thank God, Im going to be anurse instead.

Allison Ambrose is a31-year-old nursing major who

will graduate rom Tech thisMay, approximately 15 yearsater her high school com-mencement.

She said she attended Techin 1998 or one ull schoolyear, then let to get marriedand start a amily while takingclasses periodically throughoutthe next ew years.

I wanted to come back, butthen I decided to have a baby,Ambrose said. I made surethey were taken care o beoreI decided to come back.

Ambrose has three youngchildren, ages three to 10, andshe has to work her studyinghabits around her young ones.

I cant study at home orsure, she said. I get distracted

with little people wanting meto play board games and helpthem get snacks. Even i myhusband is home, they wantmama.

She said she does not be-lieve she could have returnedto school i there was not sup-port at home.

Single parents have a muchmore challenging lie, and sheis thankul her husband com-pletely supports her ambitions,she said.

Hes a computer nerd,Ambrose said with a smile.Hes good to have around.

O Ambroses proudest ac-complishments, she named heramily as No. 1.

Nobody else can take cred-it or that, she said.

Regardless o her time andeort put into amily, she saidsomeone oten receives theshort end o the stick.

Time is a huge issue, shesaid. I want to try to be the

best at everything. I know itsnot attainable, but I dont liketo do things hal-way.

She said she noticed a gen-eration inected with lazinessupon her return to academia.

Students in her classeswould protest assignmentsthey did not have the time tocomplete because they stillmaintained their party liestyleon weekends, she said.

I have three kids and a ullplate, and I can get my stu inon time, Ambrose said. Ive

only missed two days o schoolin two years when my son hadsurgery.

Ambrose holds a sort omotherly role in her nursingclasses, she said.

Ive always been kind odrawn to taking care o peo-ple, Ambrose said.

Her cellphone oten goesinto a buzzing renzy with class-mates asking questions beoreclass, and she is commonlyvolunteered or dierent tasks,she said.

I know that I could nothave been in this program rightout o high school, Ambrosesaid. Kudos to the ones whocan, but I was still thinking likeI was invincible back then.

Most people are unaware oher age, she said.

I guess Im still young atheart, she said. No one hasoered me a walker yet.

In addition to her leadershiprole in the classroom, Ambrosewas president o the StudentNurses Association.

The association coordinateswith various organizations likeSt. Jude Childrens ResearchHospital and the March oDimes.

We were just trying to real-ly involve the community withthe campus, Ambrose said. It

was denitely hard work, butthats something that I think isimportant.

Her post-graduation plansare not yet set in stone, thoughshe plans to continue her edu-cation eventually, she said.

Ive put in a lot o time, soI want to enjoy the ruits othis degree and then well see,Ambrose said. Im not surewhat specialty, but I have al-ways had hospital emergencyroom work in the back o mymind.

Ambrose said she couldhandle almost any bodily fuid,which makes her t or mostemergency room protocols;however, vomit is her oneweakness.

Vomit is denitely notmy avorite thing, she said.Theres something about

vomitthe act o vomitingand the smell o it, but I havecleaned up more vomit in thisquarter than I have in quarterspast. I think God has a sense ohumor.

Nursing can be a very chal-

lenging job, she said. Its a lotdierent than most jobs giventhat she has the potential to killsomeone.

While in the nursing pro-gram, Ambrose said she wastaking the vital signs o some-one elses patient one morningat 7 a.m., and by 10 a.m. he wasdead.

We learn just how ragilelie is, she said. Death justkind o sits there and taunts

you sometimes when youre inthe hospital where everythingis a reality. Its not sunshine andrainbows all the time.

Age is requently accompa-nied by wisdom, and Ambrosesaid she is unquestionably onthe path God laid out or her,though she wishes some o hercurrent knowledge had beenpresent with her as a teen.

She said to slow down, ndyoursel, and live o mom anddad as long as you can. Am-

brose is a mother rst and astudent second, and she saidher amily support has been,and is, what keeps her in mo-tion.

Im denitely proud o thisdegree because Ive workedmy tail o, she said.

As or the diploma, she said,she will make sure it doesntget colored on.

Email comments togmm008@latech.edu.

Family rst, uture secondApproaching Graduation...

REBECCA ALVAREZStaff Reporter

Vandalism in a laundry room at theUniversity Park apartments has resi-dents questioning their security.

On March 20, the snack vendingmachine in the laundry room locatedon the bottom foor o Thatcher Com-mons A was broken into or the secondtime this year.

Rachel Crooks, a reshman speechpathology major, said she was con-cerned when she noticed the damageas she was doing her laundry a ewdays ater the crime.

No one knew exactly what hap-pened, she said. When I did nd out,I wondered why people werent tooconcerned.

Campus police received a call at3:12 a.m. March 20 rom a student whoreported someone had broken into themachine.

When police arrived, they ound thesnacks in the machine were stolen, butthere were no signs o tampering withthe money box inside the machine.

Tech Police Chie Randal Hermessaid thet is only an occasional crimethroughout town.

The 24-hour operating schedule inthe laundry room makes it an easy tar-get or thet and vandalism crimes. It isusually vacant especially inthe later hours o the night.

Hermes said this was thesecond time the vending ma-chine in Thatcher had beenvandalized. The rst occur-rence was reported at 7:45a.m. Feb. 13.

The crime occurred be-tween midnight and 7 a.m. in

both instances when thereis usually no one using thelaundry room, he said.

The vandalisms have par-ticularly alarmed studentswho study during the late hours o thenight.

This should be taken more serious-ly than it has been, Crooks said. Whati someone came in and tried to hurtsomeone doing their laundry?

Hermes said there will be increased

patrols around the University Park area,but there have been no burglaries or ev-idence that suggests anything threaten-ing the saety o apartment residents.

Someone isnt going to break intoa car and steal a purse i he sees the

owner o the car in the rontseat, he said. Likewise,someone isnt likely to van-dalize the laundry roomwhen people are in it.

There are no suspects inthe case, but Hermes said itcould have been a student.Possibly even a student romthe same apartment com-

plex.Students were reported

to have entered and let theroom to tend to their laun-dry between midnight and 3

a.m.The act that there were students in

and out o the room means it was likelya student who could have done it, hesaid. It only takes a second to breakthat glass and take everything.

He said the police department is

working on getting more cameras toincrease surveillance around campus,specically around the apartments.

The Tech Police Department is wait-ing on designs or the camera set up.

Once the designs have been sub-mitted, the police department will es-timate the costs and open the project.

University Park buildings are rst onthe list to have new cameras installedonce the bidding process is complete.

The current student technology eewill cover the cost o the purchase andinstallment o the new cameras.

I wish we could have had them ayear ago, Hermes said. The cameras

really act as a deterrent and will reducewhat little crime we have on campus.

Crooks said she is glad cameraswill be installed around the UniversityPark apartments, but still believes thereshould be a stronger sense o urgency.

The bigger picture is that someonecould have been hurt, she added. Younever know.

Email comments torha014@latech.edu.

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REBECCA ALVAREZ

Staff Reporter

The city o Ruston recently erectedsigns on Bonner and Monroe streets toinitiate its new Share the Road cam-paign.

The campaign started in response tothe absence o bike lanes throughout thecity.

Lewis Love, city administrator andpublic works director, said the programrequires cyclists and drivers to share laneson city streets.

Bikes and cars have the same rights tothe road, he said.

Roads will be shared because the lay-out o the roads will not allow the neces-sary changes or bike lanes to be added.

The campaign is a part o the Ruston21 plan that Love said is or the citys pro-gression.

Older roads, like those downtown,were constructed narrowly and withoutsidewalks because the roads were meantor cars, Love said.

Consequently, changes to the roadsare harder to execute, especially changesthat require more space.

Richard Aillet, director o engineeringservices, said bike lanes would requiremore space because the roads wouldneed to be wider.

State laws require that road lanes be11 eet wide in order to be sae or cars.Streets would have to be our eet widerto allow or a bike lane.

Ruston streets only meet the minimumwidth or car lanes.

He said adding our eet to each sideo every road will be difcult, and Sharethe Road is the best alternative to bikelanes.

Wed love to cut out bike lanes, Ailletsaid. But how do you trace out bike laneswhen the roads werent cut out or them?

Love and the project committee saidthe roads that will be marked or the cam-paign are part o a national cycling roadsystem.

Love said the system marks certain

roads along highways and interstates to

allow cyclists to travel across the countrysaely.Many roads in Ruston are part o the

national system, which makes it easierto mark roads or the campaign becausecommittee members will not have to de-cide which roads are usable or the pro-gram.

Love said this will reassure cyclists thatthey can commute through town withoutworrying about any rights to the road, nomatter how busy they may be.

Eduardo Lopez, a junior physics major,said he is pleased to hear the citys eortsin addressing the issue.

Lopez said he regularly rides his bikearound campus and through Ruston.

I ride wherever the wind takes me,he said. The campaign is great news orcyclists who like to ride.

Because there are no bike lanes, Lopez

said cyclists have had to base their routeson how drivers react to sharing the road.

Lopez said he tries to avoid sometwo-lane roads because drivers are moreaggressive and instead preers one-laneroads.

Trafc on one-lane roads is more pa-tient, he said. Two-lane trafc doesntseem to like to share.

The campaign will give cyclists a num-ber o secured and marked routes to uti-lize once more signs are installed.

Until the signs are installed, Lopez andother cyclists will have to be careul o theroads they choose because many motor-ists are still unaware o Share the Road.

Signs like those on Bonner and Mon-roe streets will gradually appear alongsome o the main roads in Ruston withinthe next year.

Aillet said once the signs are up cy-clists and drivers will have to get used tosharing the road.

Wed love to have that nice bike laneon the side, he said. Everyone is just go-ing to have to learn to play nice.

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KALEB CAUSEY

Staff Reporter

Since 1994, Louisiana Tech has laidapproximately 80,000 bricks with alumninames engraved on them, except orthose graduating ater the year 2000.

Jim King, vice president o student a-airs, said plans to expand the red-brickwalkway with the names o Tech gradu-

ates could start as early as this summer.He said bricks o graduates rom 2001will be laid within the next ew weeks.

Recent Louisiana Tech graduatesshould not worry much longer becausetheir alumni bricks will be laid soon.

With the current Louisiana state bud-get and the governors hold on purchas-ing, its going to be tough, King said.Our best bet is to start this summer, andthats our goal.

King said he estimates there are20,000 bricks that still need to be laid tocatch up with current graduates.

Tech President Dan Reneau said thericks are a symbol o someone being a

true member o the Tech amily.I have two bricks, my wie has a brick,

my daughter has two bricks and my sonhas a brick in the plaza, he said. Its ahuge source o pride or our amily.

Reneau said he has high hopes or the44,000 graduates that he has seen gradu-ate since he became president in 1987.

Reneau said the bricks mean a lot tohim since he laid the brick or Techs frstever graduate, Harry Howard.

Ben Nelson, a 2010 graduate, said heis excited to see his brick and hopes theprocess will start on time.

It means a lot to me and it is some-thing to show or all o my hard work,other than my diploma, he said. Itssomething that I can bring my kids backto one day and show them.

Kate Perot, a 1997 graduate, said her

brick means a lot more to her because oher non-traditional process.

I got married while I was a sopho-more at a university that I had no inten-tion to g raduate rom, she said. I alwaysknew I would come back to LouisianaTech.

Perot said ater she was married shemoved to Philadelphia and did not returnuntil her husband received a coaching job

at Tech in 1988. She then went on to gether degree in 1997.My degree and my brick mean so

much more to me because I did it in avery non-traditional way and did it with aamily, she said. I still love to show my

brick. Its something that I just cant ex-plain, like my own piece o immortalitythats here orever.

King said the bricks or the 2001 grad-uating class will be placed between theStudent Center and Tolliver Hall.

Its our next big project ater the newaddition to the Lambright is fnished, hesaid.

Reneau said the plan is to expand thewalkway across Wisteria Drive, continuepast Hale Hall and eventually end upat the Marbury Alumni Center on TechDrive.

There are some new laser engravingtechnologies that have come out recent-ly, King said. I have a ew proposals onmy desk or machines and rom compa-nies with the machines that would speedup the process o engraving the bricks.

King also said the unds have been se-cured through the 20 or 20 student ee,

but they are just waiting to start.I live or the day when every student

who has ever graduated rom this greatuniversity has a brick on our campus,Reneau said.

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Techs Honors Program encompassesabout 800 students who are eligible or the

21-hour series o advanced classes and cur-rently has close to 600 students who activelyparticipate in the program.

Many honors students are recruited outo high school according to their compositeACT score.

Some students, however, apply or theprogram well past their frst quarter oschool.

Rick Simmons, Honors Program director,said there are not a lot o upperclassmenwho come into the program, but he does seea ew every year.

Sometimes people get missed, he said.Its really easy to take all o the reshmenthat attend honors orientation, but or thethree orientations ater that I really have togo through all the lists and pick out whois eligible and try to get them into honorsclasses.

Simmons said they miss about 2 to 5 per-cent o students per year who should be en-rolled in the honors program.

I think the reason we dont have moreapply or the program is because by thetime they realize its here theyve completeda year and done so many o those generaleducation classes that they just dont think

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Hunger Games kills at box oce

REBECCA SPENCE

Editor in Chief

The Hunger Games hit the

big screens March 23 andresulted in the birth o the

newest science-ction series phe-nomenon on the silver screen. Inthe box oce, the series blastedTwilight out o the water andcould be held to the standards othe Harry Potter series.

According to the Box OceMojo, The Hunger Gamesgrossed an estimated $155 mil-lion while the nal Harry Pottermovie grossed $169.2 million.

Having read both o the series,I say Harry Potter triumphs dueto its longevity and creation o amagical outside world. The bookswere long enough to keep youbusy and there was always an-other one right around the corner.The plot development through theseven books was mind-blowing tome. Throughout the times I read

each book, I was able to makenew connections and relive themagic as i it were the rst time Ipicked it up. The movie, althoughlacking some crucial points, es-tablishes that same spark.

The Hunger Games is ashorter book series with nothingto look orward to ater the third

book. The series, because it isbased on lie in Panem, a post-apocalyptic North American con-tinent, is relateable to people othis time and age. I have only readthis series once, but I must say ithe books were longer, I would bea bigger an because o the timeinvested in the series.

When you start the seven-booklong or eight-movie long HarryPotter series, you are making atime commitment. This story inits entirety will take a chunk otime to read or watch, and ansacknowledge that.

In The Hunger Games, Iknew there were three approxi-

mately 300-page-long books inthe entire series, so I looked at itas lighter reading, something topick up here and there. The com-mitment o reading a 700-pagenovel was not at stake.

With many ans o both seriesspending time on social mediasites and the Internet, popularitycan be determined by Internetmentions. According to Forbes.com, 4 percent o social media

buzz or The Hunger Gamestalked about seeing midnightshows. This ties amount o Har-ry Potter anatics posting aboutmidnight showings.

According to Forbes.com,social media sentiment or bothlms is and was overwhelm-ingly positive, but The HungerGames engendered the mostnegative talk, at 3 percent o allconversation. Only 1 percent oconversation surrounding HarryPotter was negative.

The one series that has re-

ceived close to these numbers inthe science ction world is Twi-light. I have read the rst bookand hal o the second in thisseries, and I have watched therst two movies. This simplisticwriting, without much substanceto the plot and overall theme othe series cannot compete, evennumber-wise, with Harry Potterand Hunger Games. Accordingto Forbes.com, 7 percent o con-versation involving Twilight wasnegative. This is a little more thandouble the amount o negativeconversation involving The Hun-ger Games.

So with Twilight out o thequestion, can the girl on re com-pete with ans o the boy wholived?

Rebecca Spence is a senior speechcommunications and journalism majorfrom Cypress, TX, who serves as edi-tor for The Tech Talk. Email commentsto res022@latech.edu.

In less than a week, the student body o LouisianaTech University will vote on a proposed enhance-ment ee. With organizations like SGA stating their

belies on the new ee, The Tech Talk sta wouldlike to dene its position on the matter.

Like many groups o seven or more people, oursta is split on the issue. We do not all agree on theamount that would potentially be charged or the lacko benets or current students. However, we are ableto agree on one thing: We support the new proposal, ionly in theory.

As we understand it, the new ee will charge ull-time students an additional $30 per quarter until the

current prospective projects are completed, and theStudent Government Association will have control overa portion o these unds.

That is as ar as we agree. Beyond that, the sta iscautiously skeptical o what the SGA will do with theseunds and i they will truly be utilized or a majority ostudents.

We have aith in Techs uture SGA leaders. The po-tential problems that may arise due to a lack o controlare not reasons to decline a proposal with benets thatgreatly outweigh any harm. However, this is not an is-sue the sta will debate because it is not yet even anissue.

For now, we support the passage o the proposedee and will express reservations i and only i the eeis misused.

Allow our uture SGA executives and senate mem-bers the chance to serve our student body with moreunds. I that risk were not taken ten years ago, thisSGA and ones beore it would not have been able tomake the strides they have.

When all prospective projects are complete, the en-hancement ee will be revisited i the SGA members inoce at the time choose to. It is not only SGA mem-

bers who will decide, but students enrolled at the timewill either vote to increase or remove the ee on the

years spring election ballet.Pass the ee. Allow SGA to succeed or ail.

Should the

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Go make me a sandwich

MOLLY BOWMAN

News Editor

s I was fipping through arecent issue o Time Mag-azine that centered around

women becoming the richer sex,naturally, as a woman, I was in-trigued.

The article explained in depthabout how women are starting togain more power and make moremoney than their male counter-parts. This shit rom the norm hascaused men to take more respon-sibility in the home and womento become Americas breadwin-ners.

Women have been battlingitchen grime, couch stains and

eager children or decades. Its

about time men started takingover some o the dirty domesticwork.

Beore World War II, it was thecommon culture or women toe bound to the domestic sphere

while men entered the work orce.Because o the high demand

needed or extra hands in actoriesto manuacture tools or war, mil-lions o women were able enterthe working world to help keep theeconomy afoat. Typical, men onlycalling or women when they needsomething, right?

Ater the war ended, men werein need o work and women hadto surrender their jobs and returnto their domestic lives. Althoughwomen were pushed back to thekitchen, this opportunity to worklike men ushered in a new mind-set, that women have the same ca-pabilities as men.

From here, women have madetheir steady climb to reach the topand we are almost there, i not al-ready.

Today, women comprise almost

60 percent o college students andearn the majority o masters de-grees and doctorates, according toTime magazine.

Women are becoming therontrunners in education and tak-ing high-level positions that wereonce dominated by men.

From the most recent statis-tics in 2009, almost our out o 10wives brought home more moneythan their husbands, according theU.S. Bureau o Labor Statistics.This is a 50 percent increase rom20 years beore. Imagine whatcould happen in the next decadeto come.

Because o this increase, it hascaused more men and husbands tostep back and take care o someo the household needs, a task thatwomen were once conned to.

As a woman, I still get the oc-casional jokes rom men tellingme to make them a sandwich orgo back to the kitchen. But little dothey know, women are on the riseand on the way to directing thosesame jokes at them. Or are they?

Have the tables tur ned yet? Arewomen allowed to say jokes tomen that conne them to domes-tic duties? I dont think this timehas come yet, but it is denitely inthe near uture. Men were neverassociated with doing the mun-dane housework like women once

were. Women might be gainingmore power than men but becauseo our history in the home, menstill seem to have the upper hand.Men are always correlated with

being in charge and I think its go-ing to take some time or womento really gain that psychologicalimage that men still seem to havecontrol o.

Long has been Laurel Thatch-er Ulrichs saying well-behavedwomen seldom make history butI think those times are changing.History is being made right now

by women at a consistent pace,and we can only climb higher atthis point.

Women, start handing overyour spatulas and reaching in thear corners o your closet or your

briecase and suit because theressomething cooking in the emalemind o America.

Molly Bowman is a junior journalismmajor from Shreveport who serves aseditor for The Tech Talk. Email com-ments to mmb041@latech.edu.

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Bill a step back in time

KELLY BELTON

Contributing Editor

Tennessee passed its so-called Monkey Bill onTuesday, prompting many

to wonder i the state is headedor 2013 or 1925. House Bill 368is intended to allow teachers tohelp students understand, ana-lyze, critique, and review in anobjective manner the scienticstrengths and scientic weak-nesses o existing scientic theo-ries covered in the course beingtaught, according to its own lan-guage. The bill hearkens back tothe amous 1925 Scopes MonkeyTrial, in which a Tennessee highschool teacher was convicted orviolating a statute that made it acrime to teach evolution.

On its ace, the Monkey Billdoes not seem particularly con-troversial. However, RepublicanGov. Bill Haslam reused to signit, which should raise some fags.State law dictates that a bill shallbecome law i it passes in bothhouses and is not vetoed orsigned by the governor.

Designed to promote discus-sion o ideas and challengesto science, proponents are notincorrect in claiming that suchdialogue over ideas such as evolu-

tion, climate change and cloningare good or students. However,they inaccurately claim this willoster critical thinking skills. Ianything, this law discourages theabstract thinking necessary orscientic and technological inno-vation.

Additionally, it is unclearwhether the law would allow orteachers to be punished or teach-ing creationism, something thatclearly violates the First Amend-ments Establishment Clause.Neither the state board o edu-cation, nor any public elementaryor secondary school governingauthority, director o schools,school system administrator, orany public elementary or second-ary school principal or adminis-trator shall prohibit any teacherin a public school system o thisstate rom helping students un-derstand, analyze, critique, andreview in an objective manner the existing scientic theories cov-ered in the course being taught,the bill reads. This leaves muchroom or subjectivity in a realmthat should be protected as purelyimpartial. Just because the billreads as unbiased does not meanit will work that way in reality.

Not surprisingly, the AmericanCivil Liberties Union is actively

opposed to the Monkey Bill. Thestate also aces opposition romits largest teacher association,the American Association or theAdvancement o Science and theNational Association o BiologyTeachers, according to articlesrom USA Today and the Wash-ington Post.

I, who was taught evolutionin a public school, nd it hard tograsp proponents understand-ing o critical thinking. Real criti-cal thinking does not involve al-lowing state-employed teachersto critique scientic theoriesthat contradict their own belies.Instead, it requires one to sortout his private religious beliesand reconcile them with what islargely regarded as scientic act.The theory o evolution has noreligious agenda. This law, thoughit claims to have no religious pur-pose, seeks to undermine the sci-entic evidence and support orevolution.

As executive director oAmericans United or Separa-tion o Church and State BarryLynn stated in Wednesdays L.A.Times, this bill allows teachers tointerject their religious viewpointsi they contradict evolution.

I can understand the idea be-hind trying to nd holes in theo-

ries, but i nationally-renownedscientists with doctorates cannotput orth viable and accepted al-ternatives to evolution, I doubt15-year-olds and their scienceteachers can.

And while proponents claimthe law has no religious purpose,its also unclear as to whether theMonkey Bill has any real secularpurpose, something the SupremeCourt has looked to in similarcases.

In act, Gov. Haslan is quotedin the L.A. Times as saying, Idont believe that [the law] ac-complishes anything that isnt al-ready acceptable in our schools.I do not doubt that most publicschools allow or a reasonablediscussion on scientic hot topicsalready, even in Tennessee.

This law is a simply retrogres-sive attempt to bring back thegood ol days, in which no onechallenged deeply held belies.Faith, in its truest orm, requirescritical thinking at the individuallevel that cannot be mandated bythe state.

Kelly Belton is a senior journalismand political science major fromHouston who serves as editor for TheTech Talk. Email comments to belton.kelly@gmail.com.

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Underwater Sunshine does not impressNATALIE MCELWEE

Staff ReporterThe Counting Crows sixth

album, Underwater Sunshine(Or What We Did This Sum-mer) is an album ull o hitsand misses, reminiscent melo-dies and unoriginal tracks.

Fans may have been look-ing or the most recent albumto have the sounds they havecome to know, love and expectrom the band.

While the voices sound thesame, these songs produce adierent vibe.

This album is a compilationo songs the band has coveredat their live shows.

So, i a d iehard an is look-ing or something new, he or she

etter keep looking.The CD begins with Unti-tled (Love Song) which has the

same tune as the most memo-

rable Counting Crows songs.It has an upbeat tempowhich allows the audience toembrace the new album as parto the Counting Crows discog-raphy.

As one moves through thesongs, a pattern orms.

High-tempo songs inter-mingled with low-tempo songsgive the album a much-needed

balance.Some o the songs covered

seem too repetitive such asMeet on the Ledge.

With about two lines o lyr-ics, one might fnd himselpressing next beore they knowit.

Although the album is notthe most upbeat, it does have

some tracks which bring backthe bands soulul sound.

One o the most upbeat

covers, Ooh La La keeps theoriginality o the song whiletranscending into an original

Counting Crows track.Overall, the Counting Crows

may have just proved that even

good things must come to an

end.Irony can be ound in thetitle o the album. One may belet wondering what the bandmembers really did with theirsummer. We all know what theydid not do record new songsor our enjoyment.

Ater our years o waiting,the least the band could do isgive the audience somethingnew to hold onto, not regurgi-tate the same tunes they have

been spitting out show atershow.

The originality o the Crowsis what made them amous inthe frst place which leaves onethinking: i you have nothingoriginal to sing, do not sing atall.

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NOLA festival to feature jazzy lineupGRACE MOOREStaff Reporter

For 10 days each year, hundredso thousands o people gather atthe New Orleans Fair Grounds toindulge in both unique and well-known music, indigenous Cajunood and the cratwork o world-wide artists.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heri-tage Festival began in 1970 and will

be celebrating its 42nd anniversarythis spring.

The estival will be held or twoweekends on the Fair Grounds RaceCourse at 1751 Gentilly Boulevard,approximately 10 minutes rom theFrench Quarter, April 27-29 andMay 3-6.

Catered specifcally toward en-riching the cultural melodies o

New Orleans, most o the estivalsperormers are prominent in sur-rounding communities.

Some o the native groups pre-orming include Trombone Shortyand Orleans Avenue, Irma Thomas,Dr. John and the Lower 911, TheDirty Dozen Brass Band, Irvin May-feld and the New Orleans Jazz Or-chestra and Soul Rebels.

According to New Orleans JazzFest website, George Wein, JazzFests original designer said, Thisestival could only be held in NewOrleans because here and herealone is the richest musical heritagein America.

However, Jazz Fest embracesmusical diversity and invites world-renowned artists to perorm each

year.Bruce Springsteen and the E

Street Band, Tom Petty and theHeartbreakers, as well as The Gram-mys Best New Artist, Bon Iver, willgrace the stage.

Other well-known artists per-orming are The Eagles, Cee LoGreen, Florence + the Machine, ZacBrown Band, Ne-yo, Paulina Rubio,and Bonnie Raitt.

The Beach Boys will also stagetheir 50th Anniversary Reunion onApril 27.

The estival is decorated with 12dierent stages adorned with jazz,gospel, blues, R & B, rock, unk,Latin, olk and many other musicalvarieties.

According to the New OrleansJazz and Heritage Festival andFoundation, in 2004 the Wall StreetJournal said Jazz Fest showcasesa wider, deeper lineup o essential

American musical styles than anyother estival in the nation.

Jazz Fest aims to yearly com-memorate New Orleans musicaltraditions by including people na-tionwide.

The New Orleans Jazz and Heri-tage Festival is an annual event heldin this area, and is only rivaled byMardi Gras.

According to The Times-Pica-yune, shortly ater the Mardi Grascelebration, the estival season be-gins in New Orleans.

We can fnd a estival to ft outevery mood, The Times-Picayunesaid. Food est. Booze est. Mu-sic est. Arts est. I you can eat it,drink it, play it, dance to it or ogle it,theres a estival or it in south Loui-siana.

To attend Jazz Fest either week-

end, adult tickets cost $50 in ad-vance at nojazzest.com and $65 atthe gate.

Each ticket is valid or one singleday o perormances.

Adults with children may pur-chase a $5 ticket to admit one child,age two to 10, at the gate.

Jazz Fest will host daily hours o11 a.m. to 7 p.m. or the duration othe 10-day estival.

This meeting o jazz and heri-tage, according to New OrleansJazz and Heritage Festival andFoundation, has stood or decadessince as a stirring symbol o theauthenticity o the celebration thatwas destined to become a culturalorce.

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GRACE MOORE

Staff Reporter

A Redbox press release romMarch 5 stated that more than68 percent o Americans livewithin a fve-minute driving ra-dius o a Redbox kiosk.

While placing more than35,400 sel-service kiosks at29,000 locations nationwide,Redbox stepped on a ew toes.

According to a September2009 article in The New YorkTimes, Redboxs rapid growthhad Hollywoods blood boil-ing, but in early March o2012, the temperature reachedan almost-unanimous coolingpoint.

Furious about a potentialcannibalization o DVD salesand a broader price devalua-tion o their product, three stu-dios (20th Century Fox, WarnerBrothers and Universal) arereusing to sell DVDs to Red-

box until at least 28 days aterthey arrive in stores, accordingto 2009 article written by The

New York Times media report-er Brooke Barnes.On the other hand, Barry

Babin, department head omarketing and analysis at Tech,said there seems to be much toadmire in the success o Red-

box.When the three studios cut

o distribution to Redbox, itpursued alternate means.

In a Business Insider web-site interview with Redbox, a

company spokesperson, in re-gards to the companys now-altered relationships with pre-vious suppliers, said Redboxemploys alternative acquisi-tion channels, which includesmajor third-party retailers(Walmart).

A Walmart corporate com-munication spokesperson wascontacted in March or this sto-ry and responded in an emailinterview that the companydoes not discuss its relation-ships with suppliers.

Redbox was renting DVDsout or $1 per night, whichprompted three studios tocease DVD distribution to Red-

box kiosks until 28 days ater aflms release into stores.

While these events wereemerging, Redbox sued Uni-versal Studios Home Entertain-ment or violating ederal anti-trust laws, which aim to preventmonopolies and copyright mis-usage.

The North Carolina Journalo Law and Technology pub-

lication said it was odd thatUSHE did not claim copyrightinringement toward Redbox,

but rather the studio threat-ened to end DVD sales withRedbox suppliers.

According to the First SaleDoctrine in the U.S. Constitu-tion, consumers o copyrighteditems do not have the right toreproduce that particular copy,

but copyright holders cannotprevent or restrict the resale or

other urther transer o pos-session o such copies.

The First Sale Doctrinealone declares Redboxs ac-tions o purchasing DVDs inthird-party retail stores as legal.

Redbox does not replicateDVDs, which violates copyrightinringement laws. Instead, it

buys mass quantities o a singleitem and rents them out. Theseactions are protected by theConstitution.

I the courts actually allowRedbox to get away with this, Ihope some people do decide tocompete, who actually need themoney, said Elizabeth Chris-tian, an assistant proessor o

journalism who teaches medialaw at Tech. Theoretically, en-gineering students could designa green rectangle and stock itwith Walmart movies.

Redbox v. Universal wasconcluded on Sept. 17, 2009.

The court ruled in avor oRedboxs accusation to USHEsviolation o antitrust law, but itremoved the copyright misus-

age claims toward USHE.A press release rom Red-box dated March 1, 2012, saidRedboxs war with USHE is ina ceasefre.

The two companies signeda multi-year agreement statingmovies will appear in Redboxkiosks no sooner than 28 daysater their release in retail.

Warner Brothers opted or a56-day delay, according to theLos Angeles Times, but Redbox

reused.I can understand why Red-

box would get mad that theywant to double the length otime in our culture o wantingthings instantaneously, Chris-tian said.

In the article, Gary Cohen,Redboxs senior vice presi-dent o marketing, said War-ner Brothers movies will still

be provided through alternatemeans.

Additionally, 20th CenturyFox has a similar agreement tothat o Universal set to expirein 2013.

Redbox now sells its productor $1.20 per night, plus tax.

Stephanie Manis a Redboxuser, said the 28-day delay orcertain movies does not really

bother them.Sometimes we rent a movie

rom Redbox we want to see,Manis said, and i we like it,then well go out and buy it.

The couple said they enjoyRedbox DVD rentals as a trialprocess to essentially test out

movies.Johnny English Reborn,starring Rowan Atkinson, is anew release in Redbox kiosksand was available or retail pur-chase at Walmart on February28.

It appeared March 27 in theRedbox touch-screen menu 28days later.

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RABAT, Morocco (AP) Two U.S. Marines were killedand two severely injured inthe crash o a hybrid aircratin Morocco on Wednesday,ocials said.

The Marines were takingpart in joint U.S.-Moroccanmilitary exercises locatedin the south o the country

based in Agadir, said U.S.Embassy spokesman RodneyFord in Rabat.

Capt. Kevin Schultz, aMarine spokesman at thePentagon in Washington,conrmed that the aircrat in-volved was an MV-22 Osprey,which takes o and lands likea helicopter and fies like anairplane. The aircrat was

participating in a U.S.-Moroc-can military exercise knownas Arican Lion.

The Osprey was fyingrom the amphibious assaultship USS Iwo Jima, a deenseocial said, speaking on con-dition o anonymity because

the matter is in the early stag-es o investigation.

The annual exercise whichbegan in 2008 runs rom April7 to 18 and involves 1,000U.S. Marines and 200 soldiers,sailors and airmen. Theywere working with some 900Moroccan soldiers.

According to the U.S. Ma-rine website, the exerciseinvolved everything romcombined arms re and ma-neuver ranges, aerial reuel-ing and deliveries o supplies,to command post and non-lethal weapons training.

The main unit involved inthe exercise is the 14th Ma-rines, a reserve artillery regi-ment based in Fort Worth,Texas, but also includesmembers o the 24th Marine

Expeditionary Unit based inCamp Lejeune, North Caro-lina.

The goal o the exerciseis to train the two countriesorces to work together.

Further inormation aboutthe crash was being with-

held until the next o kin othe killed and injured Marines

were notied, said RodneyFord, spokesman o the U.S.Embassy in Rabat.

The MV-22, a joint ven-ture o Boeing Co. and Tex-tron Inc.s Bell Helicopter, isdesigned to carry 24 combattroops and fy twice as ast asthe Vietnam War-era assaulthelicopters it was to replace.

The Osprey program wasnearly scrapped ater a histo-ry o mechanical ailures andtwo test crashes that killed 23Marines in 2000. But devel-opment continued, and theaircrat have been deployedto Iraq.

While the General Ac-counting Oce questionedthe Ospreys perormance in

a report last year, the MarineCorps has called it eective.

An Air Force version othe aircrat crashed in A-ghanistan in April 2010, kill-ing three service membersand one civilian contractor.

Marines killed in Morocco

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GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP)

Rick Santorum cleared the wayor Mitt Romney to claim vic-tory in the long and hard-oughtattle or the Republican presi-

dential nomination Tuesday,giving up his against all oddscampaign as Romneys tena-cious conservative rival.

Santorums withdrawal setsp what is sure to be an acrimo-

nious seven-month ght or thepresidency between Romney,the ormer Massachusetts gov-ernor, and Democratic Presi-dent Barack Obama, with thecertain ocus on the still-trou-led economy.

This game is a long, long,long way rom over, Santo-rum said as he bowed out othe contest with Romney. We

are going to continue to go outthere and ght to make surethat we deeat President BarackObama.

Santorum had been acinga loss in the April 24 primaryin Pennsylvania, the state herepresented in Congress or 16years, and where the Romneycampaign planned nearly $3million in ads against him.

Romney has been the ront-runner or months and was arahead in the race or the 1,144delegates needed to clinch thenomination at the partys con-vention in August.

Romneys campaign haslong been the best unded, or-ganized, and most proession-ally run o the GOP contenders.

Despite Santorums reusalto get out o the race earlier and Gingrich hasnt o-cially dropped out yet Rom-ney had already begun lookingahead with a uniying message.He told Pennsylvania sup-porters last week that wereRepublicans and Democratsin this campaign, but were all

connected with one destiny orAmerica.

Obama has turned squarely

to ace Romney, recently assail-ing him by name, as his cam-paign has worked to paint Rom-ney as a rich elitist who will winthe nomination only becausehe buried his opponents undermillions o dollars in negativeadvertising.

Neither he nor his specialinterest allies will be able to buythe presidency with their nega-tive attacks, Obama campaignmanager Jim Messina saidTuesday ater Santorum let therace. The more the Americanpeople see o Mitt Romney, theless they like him and the lessthey trust him.

In response, a Romney cam-paign spokeswoman insistedthat or Mitt Romney, this race

has always been about deeat-ing President Obama, and get-ting Americans back to work.

But Romney still has had towage a drawn-out nominationght thats seen candidate atercandidate try to block his path.As recently as last week, activ-ists huddled with Santorum totry and gure out how to keephim in the race, and Gingrichwas still insisting Tuesday thathis campaign represents thelast stand or conservatives ashe vowed to stay in the race un-til the convention.

Claiming a victory osorts, Santorum said Tuesday,Against all odds, we won 11states, millions o voters, mil-lions o votes.

That took its toll on Romney.It all started in Iowa, where votecounts initially showed an eight-vote Romney victory givinghim momentum and headlines.But weeks later ater thecampaign had moved to SouthCarolina and Romney was bat-tling Gingrich Santorum wasdeclared the winner.

Romneys campaign letSantorum or dead as he beatGingrich in Florida and won in

Nevada. He lost three states Colorado, Minnesota and Mis-souri to Santorum on Feb.7, breathing new lie into theormer senators insurgent can-didacy and orcing Romney tocompete or two more months.Santorum eventually won con-tests in Tennessee, North Dako-ta, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missis-sippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

The battle orced Romneyto spend more money attack-ing Santorum with negativeads in big Midwestern stateslike Michigan, Illinois and Ohio,where he won increasingly largevictories.

Now, he must rise to thedaunting challenge o taking onan incumbent president backed

by whats expected to be oneo the most sophisticated re-election campaigns in history.Longtime Republican strategistEd Gillespie joined the Romneycampaign this month to help,

but the team hasnt been able toexpand much beyond the smallcore group o loyal strategiststhat waged the primary.

Obamas campaign has asizeable cash advantage overRomneys, having more than$84 million in the bank at theend o February, Federal Elec-tion Commission records show.Romneys campaign had about$7.2 million. Those lings showRomney has a th the paidsta o Obamas campaign. Hehad yet to tap the resources othe Republican Party that will

become available to the partynominee.

Santorums exit doesntgreatly change Obamas calcu-lus. The president and his cam-paign have been expecting toace Romney all along and havealready been targeting him.Yet the departure o Romneys

chie GOP rival means this isthe point where the Obamacampaign will engage evenmore heavily.

Vice President Joe Bidenhas led the political re againstRomney, and over the pastweek Obama has started tyinghis speeches about economicairness to Romney direct-ly, or in the coy way he choseTuesday, warning o old, ailedeconomic ideas rom a candi-date who shall not be named.

Obamas speech in Florida,

amid a ull day o undraising,was partly designed to draw acontrast between himsel andRomney. The president is build-ing his re-election campaign onthe theme that he would helpeveryone succeed while Rom-ney would cater to the rich andleave many people to struggle.

This election will probablyhave the biggest contrast that

weve seen maybe since theJohnson-Goldwater election,maybe beore that, Obama tolddonors at a campaign event. Inhis 1964 race against Repub-lican Barry Goldwater, ormerPresident Lyndon Johnson car-ried 44 o 50 states and won 61percent o the popular vote, thelargest share o any candidatesince 1820.

Romney trails Obama inorganizing in some key battle-ground states such as Ohio andFlorida, though Romney aides

point to networks o supportersand volunteers that remain inplace since his winning primarycampaigns in the two electoralprizes.

The same is true in Iowa,where Romney nearly won theJanuary caucuses, and NewHampshire and Nevada, wherehe did win in the primary cam-paigns early days. The ve are

in the top 10 most competitivesince 2000, and were all carried

by Obama our years ago.Other more typically Repub-

lican-perorming battlegroundsRomney is eyeing at returningto the GOP column includeColorado, Virginia and NorthCarolina, which Obama fippedater consecutive GOP victo-ries.

So ar, polling shows peopletend to like Obama more thanRomney. Yet the publics topissue is also Obamas biggest

vulnerability. Despite recent im-provements in the publics out-look, ratings o Obamas han-dling o the economy remain innegative territory. According toa Washington Post-ABC Newspoll released Tuesday, Romneyand Obama are about even onwhich candidate Americanstrust more to handle the econ-omy.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS (AP) The Justice Department hasagreed to turn over at least100 scientic documents thatBP PLC suspects could showthe ederal government over-estimated the amount o oilthat spewed into the Gul oMexico rom the companysMacondo well.

In a court ling Wednesday,Justice Department attorneysalso vowed to work with BPto resolve their dispute overthe companys claims the gov-

ernment improperly withheldthousands o similar docu-ments.

Last month, BP asked amagistrate to order the govern-ment to turn over more than10,000 documents appearingto relate to fow rate issuesollowing the 2010 spill.

The government estimates

4.9 million barrels o oil spewedrom the well, but the companysays the governments earlier

estimates may have been low-er. BP aces penalties based onhow much oil spilled.

Justice Department will

release oil spill documents

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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum turns to his wie Karen, let, ater announcing he is suspend-ing his candidacy or the presidency, Tuesday, April 10, 2012, in Gettysburg, Pa.

Rick Santorum withdrawals from GOP race

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One o my proposals wille to make good use o SGA

ofce hours, Riser said. In-stead o being in the ofce,members would actually go outinto the crowd, mostly aroundlunchtime, and talk to studentsabout their opinions.

Another question on votersminds is why more people didnot run or the positions.

I believe we have ar toomany positions within the orga-nization, Carlisle said. Com-pared to other SGAs around thenation, we are one o the larg-

est. I am in avor o downsiz-

ing, but in order to do that, theconstitution must be modifedwhich poses a lot o hurdlesdue to strict timelines.

East agrees that the consti-tution is the problem, but oranother reason.

The way our constitutionis currently structured, it wasrather difcult or anyone elseto run or an executive posi-tion, East said. As excited as Iam, I do wish that more peoplewould have shown interest.

Riser said the position osecretary has never been op-posed as long as he has beenat Tech.

I think not a lot o people

want to be secretary becauseits not an easy position, Risersaid. The secretary has to keepall o the SGA records, keep upwith member attendance andofce hours, be extremely or-ganized and even has to handlethe not-so-glamorous impeach-ment process, but I am happythat I will be able to do all othis next year.

Carlisle said because thecandidates are unopposed, in-stead o a presidential debate,there will be a meet and greet.

The candidates are still en-couraged to reach out to thestudents with the same ervor

as i they were running, Carl-

isle said.The candidates will still be

on the ballot, though the posi-tions are unopposed. The onlything students will need tomake a choice about on the bal-lot April 18-19 is the enhance-ment ee.

One good thing about run-ning unopposed, Riser said, isthat now the election can ocusmore on getting the student

body to vote or the upcomingenhancement ee bill that will

be on the ballot.

Email comments tohms017@latech.edu.

Somebody rom a residentin a dorm will smell somethingurning, Hermes said. There

isnt supposed to be any smokein a residential dorm.

Tech police respond to thesecalls, talk to residents and dealwith what they fnd, he said.

Students charged with sim-ple possession o marijuanahave to pay a total o $1,001.Oenders are enrolled in class-es, put on probation and sen-tenced to community service,Hermes said.

Students have to go to crimi-

nal court, and i ound guilty,they are sent to judicial aairs,which could determine any uni-versity-related penalties.

Amber Peterson, a senior el-ementary education major whoserves on the behavioral stan-dards committee explained theprocess students go through

when sent to behavioral stan-dards.

When a student is sent tobehavioral standards, they es-sentially come present theircase to a group o aculty andstudents who will then issuesanctions, which can vary romprobation, suspension, expul-sion, mandated counseling orcommunity service, she said.

The Student GovernmentAssociation president, ClintCarlisle, appointed the studentsto the behavioral standardscommittee, Peterson said.These students must be upper-classmen members o SGA.

Samuel Hallack, a sopho-more psychology major, said

Tech police are doing their job,but she doesnt agree with thelaws behind his incident withthe police.

I totally abhor it, he said.Probation on marijuana is awaste o taxpayers dollars. Thereputation and lives o thou-sands o people over the past80 years have been ruined, he

said in reerence to marijuanabeing illegal.

Hallacks roommate FranzHill, a sophomore biomedicalengineering major, agrees withHallacks ideas promoting thelegalization o marijuana.

It should be legalized,hands down, he said. Its lessharmul than cigarettes andalcohol. I its illegal based onharm everything rom aspirinto McDonalds should be ille-gal.

Hill said Hallacks incidentwith the Tech police was un-necessary. It was ultimately avictimless crime, and it didnthave to go to the degree it ac-tually went to, Hill said.

Theres a lack o respecto rights when you live in thedorms, Hill said. It eels like

you cant be comortable inyour own environment.

Other students at Techhave diering opinions on themarijuana legalization issue,including College Republicansmember Logan Clark, a junior

economics major.There are enough synthetic

drugs right now that theres noreason that marijuana should

be on the market, Clark said,With diseases such as Glau-

coma, there are substitutes thatcan be used or treatment rath-er than marijuana, he said.

Clark said he acknowledgesthat there are no physiologi-cal addictions that come rommarijuana use, but he said hehas seen people do crazy thingsto get it.

Ive seen what it can do toa amily, Clark said. Ive seenpeople sell their houses andcars and lose contact with theiramilies.

He said there should besome sort o a reward or stu-dents or turning over inorma-tion to the police.

I know several studentswho would turn someone in ora ree meal, Clark said.

Email comments toacv001@latech.edu.

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program wholeheartedly and fnds it agood opportunity or non-business majors.

In todays economy you cant domuch without an advanced degree, Pat-rick Blunt, a graduate student pursuing anMBA, said.

Blunts undergraduate degree is in con-struction engineering technology, and hesaid business is very dierent rom engi-neering.

Its a big switch, but Im getting used to

it, he said.Blunt said the prerequisites are impor-

tant because they get you prepared to takethe advanced business classes.

Dana Birdwell, a senior marketing ma-

jor, said getting a masters in business ad-ministration gives you a competitive edge.Birdwell said she is currently an under-

graduate student, but she is working con-currently to complete her masters degreeprogram.

By starting on my graduate degreenow, I wont have to take as many classesnext year, she said.

Birdwell said she plans to work part-time next year while fnishing her MBA.

Ive had companies oer me part-timejobs or internships because Im able to dothis, Birdwell said. I was also told there

would be a chance or me to go on ull-timeonce I graduate.Business is something that is applicable

in any feld, she said. In order to be suc-cessul in any business or industry youhave to understand how business works.

Email comments toacv001@latech.edu.

its worth it, he said.Simmons said he would love to see up-

perclassmen expressing interest in the pro-gram, even i they are close to graduating.

Even i youre not sure you can fnishthe 21-hour sequence, i you can do a good

it o it there are ways to fnish it, Sim-mons said.

He also acknowledged that upperclass-men that might not have had the correctrequirement scores in high school, but haveimproved their academics since collegewould be more than welcome to talk aboutoining the program.

Your ability to do the work here reallymeans more than your ACT score, Sim-mons said. I you qualiy or the program,you dont even need the score i youre do-ing the work.

Simmons has an open-door policy andwelcomes all students interested in theprogram to stop by his ofce in George T.Madison Hall.

Besides being a strong resume tool, theHonors Program has benefts.

Marguerite Hogue, a sophomore studioart major, is an Honors Program studentwho is only a ew classes shy o fnishingthe series.

I really like the smaller class sizes, shesaid. It makes or a more intimate environ-ment and establishes a sense o account-ability.

Hogue said she also enjoys the recentlyopened honors computer lab and havingthe advantage o early class registration.

Hogue said being in the Honors Programhas carried a lot o weight with proessorsand employers.

I think they eel that I am more cred-

ible because o it, Hogue said. I think thatuture employers will take it not only as asign o my commitment to my education,

but also to excellence.Hogue recommends others to partici-

pate in the program.Honors classes oten require more

work, but the benefts I have received havemade up or that, she said.

The Honors Program is something thatall students who eel they have the academ-ic ability to be pushed arther than the aver-age student should consider looking into.

What I regret is that some o the oneswho were eligible dont take advantage othe program, Simmons said. Studentswill come to me later on and tell me theywished they had gotten into it.

Email comments tomdl024@latech.edu.

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tional debate.

The real issue is not about Martins shoot-ing death, but it is more about race, said SamuelSpeed, assistant dean o student lie.

I think it should be a wake up call to ourcountry or us to look deep into why we think theway we do and be honest about it, Speed said.We all have internal biases, but when those bias-es take the shape o racism and takes someoneslie, we have really stepped over the boundar y.

We tend to stay on the surace o the (race)issue without getting to the root o the matter. Itis an age-old problem when you look at the his-tory o this country. It is a problem that has nevereen dealt with.

Manaen Jack Mundi, a senior mathematicsand physics major rom Camaroon, said he elthorrible and bitter about how the Trayvon Martin

case was handled by Florida authorities.Its the eeling o being declared guilty o a

crime that has not been committed yet becauseboth parents are black or one parent is black,

Mundi said. I George Zimmerman was black hewould have been arrested on the spot.

Mundi said the Martin incident provides agood opportunity or blacks and whites in theuniversity community to talk about race.

An Arican-American mother o three sons,Sharon Jackson, a Ruston ftness trainer, said shedoes not know what it eels like to lose a son, butshe knows what it eels like to love a son dearly.She said the Martin case raises the ear that hersons 18-, 21- and 25-years-old can be raciallyprofled.

Its because o everything rom 400 yearsago, and I think i we today would teach our chil-dren that everybody is the same then there would

be more change, Jackson said.Racial profling and white ear o Arican-

American men have a long history in this country,said V. Elaine Thompson, an assistant proessorhistory.

From the frst black man arrival in 1619 to the

1960s, white men had been able to control blackmen, Thompson said. There are elements inthe community that havent gotten over the actthat they cant do that anymore.

And or this reason she points out that somewhite people became earul o Arican Ameri-cans even until today. She also said there needsto a reorm o the gun laws and the accessibilityo education or everybody as well as more racialinteraction in moving orward.

We need to generate trust, riendship andunderstanding among the races on a broaderscale, Thompson said. I Mr. Zimmermanscommunity wasnt still [almost] exclusively white,he would never have been araid o a black manin his neighborhood, which is a perect exampleo continued segregation in the South.

There is too little actual inormation to give aair analysis o the Trayvon Martin case, but thereis evidence o existing racial problems rooted inour society, said Mark Melder, an assistant pro-

essor o sociology at Tech.One thing people love to trot out is that edu-

cation reduces racism, which is not true, Meldersaid. What reduces racism is being in the class-room with people you never met beore and talk-ing to them.

I groups o people rom dierent races con-tinue to segregate without interaction then all theracism and negative stereotypes will continue inAmerica, Melder said.

Nobody is born racist; its taught just likemath, science and arithmetic, he said. Some-

body teaches you racism.

Email comments to gpb009@latech.eduand ahg007@latech.edu.

CHAD MERRITT

Staff Reporter

Catering such events as the 2008 OlympicGames with more than 100,000 meals per day wasnot a problem or international ood service pro-vider Aramark.

Satisying the dining needs o Tech students isproving to be more difcult. Many students haveound problems with Aramark and the hours it op-erates its on-campus vendors.

Jake Dicks, a reshman orestry major, said theon-campus caeteria does not provide studentswith an adequate time to eat on the weekends.

With only two small windows, he said. Toeat on the weekends, you have to practically maketime and work your schedule around eating.

Techs caeteria is open Monday through Fridayrom 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., but on the weekends rom 11a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and rom 4:30-7 p.m.

Michael Keys, caeteria manager, said the timesare set to meet the students needs.

With many students going home over theweekends, the demand or ood drops, he said.

Food retailers on campus are open rom 7 a.m.to midnight Monday through Thursday, and rom

7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday.Each ood retailer on campus outside o the

caeteria is closed on the weekends, however.Sophomore architecture major Aaliyah Mu-

hammad said she is rustrated that the caeteria isthe only on-campus meal option students have onthe weekends.

I switched meal plans because I wasnt usingall my meals in the cae or the week, she said.But when I have ree time on the weekends, thereis nothing to spend my declining balance on.

Keys said Aramark and its hours meet the stu-dent needs on campus, but many students dis-agree and said the demand i s much higher.

John Hawkins, a reshman computer sciencemajor, said he thinks there should be more optionsavailable or weekend dining.

It makes it difcult or people who live on cam-pus to eat over the weekends, he said. I wouldpay more per quarter in declining balance i itmeant I could use it on the stores around campus.

Smaller neighboring universities, GramblingState University and University o Louisiana atMonroe, oer plentiul weekend hours or theirdining program.

Chuck Parsons, ood service director or Gram-

bling State University, said while the caeteria atGrambling is open or roughly the same amounto time as Tech, the ood retail is also open onweekends rom 3-10 p.m.

ULMs dining service page states their caeteriais open on weekends rom 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., alongwith the retail being open on Sunday.

A report on Gramblings website states the2010 enrollment was 4,994 and ULMs 2010 enrol-ment according to their website was 8,858, whileTechs website states the enrollment or Tech was11,804 in 2010.

Sophomore fnance major Austin Rose, whoworks as a cashier or Bytes, said he would be will-ing to work on weekends i it meant there could bemore options or eating.

Were orced to buy a meal plan thats unus-able on certain days, he said.

Rose said he thinks Tech dining should at leastopen Tolliver Hall and its stores to complementthe caeteria on weekends.

Blythe Sealy, a senior chemical engineeringmajor, said she makes the dining hours ft herschedule.

You make it work because you have to, Sealysaid. It works or me because I have a dining

plan.The completion o the new Lambright Annex

will bring two new ood retailers, which will beopen on the weekend. Counter Culture and Provi-sions On Demand will be open on weekends orthe rest o the school year.

We will see the support we get or the newstores and go rom there to determine the uturehours or the store, Keys said.

The opening o the new stores will oer a retailpresence on the weekend, but some students won-der i that will be enough.

Its better than nothing, but you still have to goout o the way to get it, Muhammad said.

McAlisters was open on weekends last year,but the hours changed at the beginning o this year.

Time and student contribution will determinewhether or not more weekend retails will openKeys said.

Students wont go hungry, Hawkins said. Butits just a matter o how much extra money andeort well have to put orward to eat over week-ends.

Email comments tocam059@latech.edu.

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