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www.ulmhawkeyeonline.comVOLUME 84 ISSUE 20 February 28, 2011

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE

Cost of life’s necessities to increase 10 percentp. 5

Sara Evans, Josh Turner rock Spring Fever p. 10 photo by Srdjan Marjanovic

Basketball legend’s jersey retired p. 15

Brooke Hofstetter

Collette Keith

Robert Brown

Jessica Mitchell

Srdjan Marjanovic

Jerry Cox

Lane Davis

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multimedia editorMelinda Johnson & Stormy Knightcopy editor

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Jeana ChesnikDerek Dark

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Andrew McDonaldBen McDonaldCatherine Olson

Ciera PaulTimothy RussellAndrea ShermanCharles Strauss

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EMY LOU HALL- Low Brass Soloists- 7: 30 p.m.

BROWN AUDITORIUM- ULM Bands- 7: 30 p.m.

SUB BALLROOM- Mardi Gras Ball- 9 p.m.

WARHAWK FIELD- Baseball vs. Jackson St.- 6 p.m.

EMY LOU HALL- Utake Jazz/World Music Trio.- 7:30 p.m.

SUB BALLROOMS- Bingo Night- 7 p.m.

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In last week’s issue of the Hawkeye, Caleb Clowers was misidentified on page 16 in the “Players to Watch For” section. Also, on page 8, the photo is of Rachel Jolly and Daniel Taylor, not Jay Weimar.

The Hawkeye strives for accuracy and regrets the error.

Corrections

Squawk BoxHow are you spending Mardi Gras break?

Lauren Rossonjunior- speech language pathology

Portland, Ark.

“I am so excited about the Mardi Gras ball this Thursday. It’s going to be amaz-

ing.”

Devin Caldwellsophomore- social studies education

West Monroe, La.

“During Mardi Gras break, I think there’s no better way to spend those days than

shooting skeet.”

Echo Sutterfieldsophomore- elementary education

West Monroe, La.

“I’m going to be partying with Wocka Flocka Flame in Laffy.”

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THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE PAGE 3February 28, 2011

Students and faculty at the University of Louisiana at Mon-roe are attempting to turn over a new leaf; a green leaf.

Kristi Gadwa, Wesley Foun-dation intern from Hoquiam, Washington, was shocked by the lack of recycling in Louisiana compared to her home town.

“Back home people recycle like crazy,” said Gadwa.

Monroe has three businesses that receive items to recycle, Recycling Services on Arkansas Ave., Interstate Metals on Kan-sas Rd. and Central Pump Co. at Booth St.

Recycling Services take card-board, paper and plastic bottles, and is open five days a week. They are also in working collab-oration with ULM, providing recycling bins and dumpsters around campus.

For more information about the recycling bins on campus, students can contact Chris Ringo at the Physical Plant.

Interstate Metals Inc. takes almost any metal, but does not take batteries.

They also take aluminum cans and will pay for the recycled items brought.

The amount of payment de-pends on the amount of recy-cled items. They are also open five days a week.

Central Pump Co. recycles namely used car oil and is open Monday through Friday.

Payment will depend on if the oil is clean and will also depend on the weight of the clean oil.

However, if one does not want to go to any of these re-cycling places, Lauri Anderson, ULM geology professor, has some helpful suggestions:

-Don’t be wasteful in printing off paper.-

-Unplug electrical items when not in-use (they still take in energy).-

-Buy and use recy-cled paper.-

-Change shower heads to use less water.-

“It takes a lot of people doing a little bit to make a difference, and a little bit goes a long way,” said Anderson.

Anderson is looking to start a student led environmental group on campus.

Many students who live on campus rely on the Internet for turning in assignments, Face-booking, checking their email, etc.

However, last week, a long drought of Internet came to most of the campus dormitories. According to Tresea Buckhaults, director of Residential Life, the problem started in Univer-sity Commons I and continued through the rest of the dorms, excluding Ouachita and Madi-son.

“The main problem was that people couldn’t connect to the Internet. That included Com-mons I and II, Bayou Suites, Bayou Village and Masur.

However, people in Masur could connect through wireless Internet.”

Students are currently being advised to refrain from using personal routers in the dormito-

ries, as it could slow the internet down for other people on your floor.

“One time, we had Comcast notify us that there were about 1,000 people connected to the internet in Commons I,” said Buckhauts.

“Someone actually had their router (without a password) and lots of people were connected to it.”

Students on campus were feeling the bite, as the Internet came to a complete halt in eight of the 10 residential buildings on campus last Monday, and didn’t resume until around 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Anna Yancey, a sophomore kinesiology major from Elmer, was perturbed about the outage.

“It’s very inconvenient when my Internet goes out. My dorm room provides a better working environment, and since most of my assignments have to be turned in online, I need a reli-able connection,” said Yancy.

Students are advised to report their Internet problems to Resi-dential Life.

by Brandy Heckford

by Andrew McDonald

contact Andrew McDonald [email protected]

contact Brandy Heckford [email protected]

Where to go GREENGot plastic, paper and aluminum to recycle?

Outages cause major dilemas, concerns

Students sound off about internet problems

(above) Christopher Jones recycles as an environmentally friend-ly habit. (below) Lauri Anderson and students meet in efforts to get group off the

Photo courtest of Google.

Photos by Robert Brown

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE February 28, 2011PAGE 4

With the spring Student Gov-ernment Association elections on the horizon, non-Greek stu-dents are wondering if they even stand a chance when matched up against their Greek oppo-nents.

Julie Salter, a senior sociology major, worries that not all stu-dent voices are truly heard be-cause of the Greek control.

Salter says that political re-alities prevent all students from participating in SGA.

“If I wanted to run but knew the leadership was one way, I would think my chances of win-ning would be slim to none,” says Salter.

Her concerns could be justi-fied based on last year’s spring election results.

Of those elected, 64 percent were confirmed to be associated with a Greek social organiza-

tion.(The number could be higher

but some SGA members’ Greek affiliations could not be con-firmed).

Additionally, every member of the SGA leadership is Greek. All four officers of the executive branch are members of a social fraternity or sorority.

The same can be said for the four senate department heads.

“There are people that are re-ally qualified but don’t get the chance because it’s more po-litical rather than about the stu-dents,” she says.

Not all students share Salter’s concerns. In fact, some see

Greek candidates as better po-tential choices.

Zachary Cheatwood, a non-Greek freshman kinesiology ma-jor, says that he could see where Greek candidates could make better representatives.

He explains that this is be-cause Greeks are often very in-

volved around campus.“They know the round-about

with what’s going on,” says Cheatwood. “You want some-one who is involved.”

To Cheatwood, all he hopes to see in SGA is that he is repre-sented well, Greek lead or oth-erwise.

“It doesn’t matter to me if someone is Greek. I don’t care as long as they do a good job.”

Every year, the Student Gov-ernment Association hosts the Mardi Gras Ball.

This annual event is being hosted on Mar. 3 in the SUB Ballrooms.

Only two days before Mardi Gras Break, the ball is near the end of a week filled with last minute details.

It is also the close to a long seven week stretch between breaks.

Cory Williams, a freshman biology education major from Bossier City, is excited about the ball. “I’m pretty busy next week, but I’m still making time to go

to the ball. It sounds like it’ll be a good way to start my break,” Williams said.

The ball will be from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., with a cash bar and buffet. During the ball, the Mardi Gras King and Queen will be presented.

Admission is free for students, faculty and staff with their IDs, but guests need a ticket, which can be bought in the SGA office at $5 for student guests and $10 for faculty guests.

Mardi Gras ball is coming to ULM

illustration by Kelsey Hargrove

Students weigh-in on Greek SGA involvement

SGA prepares to host annual event Mar. 3by Melinda Johnson

The Student Government Association at ULM.

contact Melinda Johnson [email protected]

by Cole Avery

ULM police staked out Stubbs Hall last Monday to apprehend a student wanted by an unidentified agency.

As soon as doors were opened to Stubbs 100, the cops methodically entered the room and found that the wanted person was not in class.

No arrest was made because the student was believed to have with-drawn from school, according to Lt. Dan Chason. He also added that the stakeout was a routine thing.

“The reason for the method of our approach was to keep a situation like this from turning out bad by using a contained situation like this as a saf-er way to protect everyone,” Chason said.

ULM police have kept all informa-tion involving the suspect confiden-tial.

Cops stake out Stubbs 100

Disparity could

influence future

involvement

photo by Robert BrownStudents from last year’s Mar-di Gras Ball in full costume.

contact Cole Avery [email protected]

“It sounds like it’ll be a good way to start my break.”

Cory Williamsfreshman biology education

“It doesn’t matter to me if someone is Greek. I don’t care

as long as they do a good job.”

Zachary Cheatwoodfreshman kinesiology major

*Check our next editon for a story on how our SGA Greek percentage compares to LSU, Tech and other

univeristies around the state.

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROEFebruary 28, 2011 PAGE 5

Troubles in Libya continue to unravel, but what does that mean for us, the United States and how are we involved?

In mid January the first sign of governmental change began in North Africa.

A revolt in Tunisia took place because of a lack of employment and an increase in the price of food.

Mohsen Bouterfif, a civilian, killed himself because he was unable to find a job or a place to stay.

Shortly after, around a 100 young men began to protest, which motivated the rest of the country to protest as well.

The majority of the uprising occurring in North Africa is by the youth.

This is especially true for young men who want a change in their government and more opportunities for a better life.

When Adison Adams, a soph-omore biology major from Den-ton, Texas, heard about what was occurring in Egypt, she was surpised.

“What I find most fascinat-ing about the revolt in Egypt is the ingenuity and desire shown by the Egyptian people, particu-larly in the case of birth of the revolution via Facebook,” Ad-ams said.

Now Libya is undergoing po-litical change that is also catch-ing the attention of the entire world.

Mummar Gaddafi, the presi-dent of Libya for the last 42 years has used violence on pro-

testers who are in favor of him stepping down.

The U.S. has yet to get heavily involved except to aid Americans who are stuck in the violence in Libya by helping evacuate them as soon as possible.

“I think our armed forces have other things to attend to. As does the US government es-pecially in regard to our current economic and environmental status,” says Adams.

Despite the U.S. choice to not get heavily in the mix of what’s occurring in North Africa, the government upheaval in North Africa will definitely affect us.

As of now oil prices are $97 per barrel; they could increase as much as $100 or more a barrel leading in to the summer if the troubles in Libya continue.

The last time we saw a large increase in oil was in October of

2008 when barrels of oil reached a high of $150.

Already, just last week in Lon-don, oil reached to $111 from crude off the North Sea.

Political Science professor Kevin Unter finds the most im-portant issue students need to consider is not just the rise in oil prices but an increase in prices of other commodities.

“We’re already starting to see spikes in gas prices here in Mon-roe. But there’s more than just gas; petroleum and petroleum byproducts are used in so many things,” Unter said.

Things will continue to rise in price if things in North Af-rica do not change; a possibil-ity about which the country is nervous.

contact Jeana Chesnik [email protected]

Gas prices are skyrocketingLibya, Egypt and

the U.S. fighting

over petroleumby Jeana Chesnik

photo by Robert Brown

Even though a clown is present at the gas pump, ris-ing prices are no laughing matter.

Mardi Gras traditionsFor most people Mardi Gras

conjures some very vivid images: the rowdy New Orleans alcohol induced revels, extravagant masked balls and tri-colored king cakes. However, these traditions have a much longer history than most re-alize.

A prelude to the Catholic season of Lent, which is 40 days of fasting from meat, Fat Tuesday “is the last big party of sorts before you start doing a religious holiday,” says pre-pharmacy sophomore Ryan Byrd from Madisonville.

This holiday has its roots in the

Roman festival of Lupercalia, dur-ing which someone would sacrifice a goat for purification and fertility to the cheers and jeers of a crowd.

The grand parades of today, complete with tinsel bedecked floats and costumed krewes, further evolved from French costume balls and, later, the on-foot parades of the nineteenth century.

The Mardi Gras staple, king cakes, were once simple rings of dough meant to symbolize the three kings that visited Jesus, hence the baby figurine hidden inside.

by Catherine Olson

contact Catherine Olson [email protected]


It is now the mid-semester hump.

The time where workloads pile high, patience wears thin and complaints are overflowing is upon us.

Seemingly, it has spawned an epidemic of self-pity that reeks of an entitled generation addict-ed to America.

This country is the home of good living.

But, the rise of consumerism and technology has contributed

to a decline in the social net worth of our society.

Multinational corporations use cheap labor as fuel to drive the globalization bandwagon around the world, by jet, boat or plane.

Capitalism has clinched fin-gers around the globe to bring us mp3 players, tennis shoes, Dooney & Bourke, SUVs—anything that a VISA can buy.

To this, we owe our addiction to America, powered by tech-nology and consumerism.

People must feel it affecting them physiologically.

The systematic and uncon-trollable urge for a Facebook login closely resembles the way a human programmed by a com-puter would act.

Maybe it’s only as noticeable as a subconscious reach for the pocket you keep your phone in.

Yet, even that small gesture reveals a compulsion resting just barely beneath your conscious-

ness. This technology distraction

works like hypnotism.It keeps us tuned in and hang-

ing on for the next episode. I see people walking around

their daily affairs with ear buds.They are missing the beautiful

sounds of nature and the ability to communicate with others of the same species.

The media—television, inter-net, radio, DVD—multi-portal access to zombifying digital en-tertainment ensnares.

Meanwhile, they brainwash us to use their products by peda-gogically pandering promises of peak performance.

Americans will waste money on products that are little more than snake oil.

However, when the poor kid from the developing world pops onto your screen asking for 12 cents a day, the whole room is convinced it’s a scam or it’s doomed for failure.

Don’t worry about it.Obviously God intended for

them to die that way.Let’s face it, the poorest peo-

ple in America live better than most people in the world.

Poor in America means a fam-ily shares a vehicle.

Poor in Asia means you own a stick and, if you’re lucky, a bowl, too.

Yet, we never acknowledge that the way we live, luxurious and wasteful, is paid for by tak-ing advantage of less-developed countries and the poor people

that live there. I say maybe they’re the lucky

ones, holding on to the last ves-tiges of unadulterated human communities.

Gone are the days where a phone call from a significant other left butterflies in a young lovers stomach.

We’ve sold out for a “lol .” We are hooked.Beati possidentes [Blessed are

those who possess].

Consumerism taking over

It’s not television producers and networks that are condon-ing bad behavior. It’s US. I’m not just talking about the col-lective “we,” I’m talking about the weekly magazine. Far be it for me to throw stones from my glass house — I’ll go get a haircut just so I can read the tabloids, and I don’t even have hair.

As long as we demand fresh, salacious content, someone will supply it.

But here’s the thing: Would we even care about Lindsay Lohan unless she was commit-ting felonies? I can only name one of her films, but I can eas-

ily rattle off how many times she’s been to rehab. Let’s face it; Lindsay, the actress, isn’t nearly as interesting as Lindsay, the train wreck.

Which brings us to the Oc-tagon and Charlie Sheen, who awaits us there with his fire-breathing fists.

There is a fundamental part of us that wants to blur the line between fictional Charlie on the show, a boozing woman-izer with questionable morals that lead to conflict and bad decision-making and the real Charlie who, well, ... wait a sec-ond, is there even a line to be blurred here?

No. Because as much as we pray for Mr. Sheen to get bet-ter, that’s not what we want at all — unless he’s doing it on “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” What we really want is fresh, salacious content. More trains. More wrecks.

So perhaps it’s time we stop pointing fingers at the greedy network fatcats who tolerate and enable bad behavior and start thinking about how often those same fingers guide mous-es over to our bookmarks and click on TMZ.

It’s our fault for enabling bad behavior

illustration by Kelsey Hargrove

Courtsey of Damon LindelofNew York Times- Feb. 26, 2011

contact Charles Strauss [email protected]

CHARLES STRAUSS

Americans take for granted luxuries not granted to others

Photo courtesy of MCT Campus


Next week is the three-day holiday we’ve all been anx-iously awaiting: Mardi Gras Break.

It’s Louisiana tradition to take these three days before Lent begins (even if you’re not Catholic) and spend it with friends, family and thousands of other people who love this tradition of celebrating.

Our time is usually spent in the streets of South Louisiana, partaking in yelling at people we don’t know for beads and things we don’t really need.

As fun, and sometimes ex-

hausting, as this holiday is, it’s important to keep safety in mind.

Here at ULM, a school of less than 10,000, family-type relationships have been formed.

The Hawkeye considers each and every one of our readers and classmates to be our family, and we would love nothing more than for every-one to return to class on Mar. 10 safe and sound.

Trust us, we’ve been to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, seen the craziness and

we know how easy it is to get wrapped up in the madness.

However, just remember that even though those three days are a blast, returning to college in one piece is the most important thing.

We don’t mean to sound like your mother, and we fully expect that everyone will have a wonderful time, but just be careful.

The Hawkeye wishes you all a fun and safe break.

And keeping with Louisi-ana tradition: Y’all come back now, ya hear?

At first glance, two-and-two agreements seem to be a great option for students who feel they can get by easier and cheap-er by going to a two-year school and then enter a four-year uni-versity.

This writer would highly dis-courage that way of thinking.

Of course, I am only talking about students who were admit-ted to both a two-year and four-year school.

If a student wants an educa-tion and has no choice but to first enter a two-year school that’s great, and I applaud them for choosing to further their education.

Students who can go to a four-year right out of high school absolutely should go on to that four-year school.

Yes, the courses will transfer from the two-year without an is-sue. Yes, students will pay about half as much as they would be paying at a four-year school.

But the value of the freshman experience cannot be measured in dollar amounts because no money could touch the priceless memories that are made during this time.

In a way, I have seen life on both sides of the fence on this issue. I started at a different university and transferred into ULM.

Although ULM has wel-comed me with open arms and

will eventually be my undergrad alma mater, I would not trade my time at my former school for anything in this world.

My freshman and sopho-more years were great. I lived on campus, ate in the dining halls, joined clubs, attended a lot of sporting events and made friendships that will last a life-time (or so I hope).

College as a transfer student is a little different at this point.

I do not get excited on the first day of class when I see people who I’ve had classes with

before because those people do not exist.

I rarely ever run into anyone I know while walking around campus.

I’m still trying to learn new passwords, email addresses, building names and locations and so on and so forth.

Don’t get me wrong; I love it here and am very happy to be here. But things are just differ-ent.

I have no doubt that students transferring from a two-year school will see the same things that I’m noticing. If a person can go to ULM right out of high school, they should do it. Put the money and perceived notion of an easier ride out of sight and out of mind.

Focus instead on the parts of college a person will truly re-member and cherish forever.

COLE AVERY

contact Cole Avery [email protected]

Should ULM collaborate with community colleges? Happy Mardi Gras ULM

College as a trans-fer student is a

little different at this point.

Hawkeye P.O.V.


Contributions of many great African American achievements can be seen through different careers around the world.

The first African American female reporter for the New York Times was Nancy Hicks Maynard. Born as Nancy Alene Hall on November 1, 1946, in Harlem, New York, she attend-ed Long Island University and graduated with a journalism de-gree in 1966.

Maynard began her journal-ism career as a copy girl and re-porter with the New York Post. She was hired for The New York Times in September 1968.

Maynard and her husband founded the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in Oakland, California. The Oak-land Tribune became the first major metropolitan daily news-paper to be owned by African Americans.

The Tribune won a 1989 Pulitzer Prize for photographs of the San Francisco Bay area earthquake. As the first presi-dent of the Maynard Institute, she helped establish the orga-nization as the nation’s prime agent of change for newsroom diversity. Maynard’s advocacy persuaded the American So-

ciety of Newspaper Editors to pass the Year 2000 Goal, which called for the full integration of journalists of color on U.S. newspaper staffs.

In 1998, the National Asso-ciation of Black Journalists pre-sented her with its annual Life-time Achievement Award.

On September 21, 2008 Maynard died of multiple organ failure at UCLA Medical Cen-ter in Los Angeles. Maynard’s legacy will continue to live on through future journalists and reporters.

“Big Momma’s House: Like Father, Like Son” is the third installment of the series created after the first “Big Momma’s House” in 2000. The idea of having “Big Momma” was cre-ated by actor, Martin Lawrence and was a BIG hit in the box of-fice.

Lawrence plays an FBI agent named Malcolm, dressed up as big momma to cover his iden-tity. In the third installment, Lawrence’s stepson Tren (Bran-don T. Jackson) works alongside his stepfather.

Instead of college, a rapping career is on his mind. While try-ing to convince his stepdad to sign a music contract for him, he follows his dad on the job.

He witnesses a murder, and now Trent is in danger. After be-ing followed, Malcolm decides he wants to hide him, and Trent is introduced to his “BIG” cover up.

I enjoyed the movie; it was funny very entertaining. Martin Lawrence always brings laugh-ter.

contact Donald Gibson [email protected]

contact Markeaya Eaton [email protected]

The late Nancy Maynard, founder of the Maynard Insti-tute for Journalism Education

It seems that mainstream art-ists like Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga may have some competi-tion in the form of Esperanza Spalding.

Esperanza, born and raised in Portland, Oregon, is the first jazz artist to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

This could suggest that, al-though we love our everyday music, audiences may be mov-ing towards a different style of music.

That style is the one that doesn’t receive much focus in this age of bright lights, wild

special effects and unique styles. It even seems that movie

soundtracks such as Juno and Little Miss Sunshine are getting more recognition for their dif-ferent stylized music.

People seem to be focusing more on an Indie style rather than having a typical everyday artist in their movies. Whether this is true or not, only time will tell.

For now, looking at Esper-anza and how she is the first jazz artist to win this award, suggests that this is not the last jazz artist to win.

I believe that because of this, many doors are opened to Indie and Jazz-type artists to win later awards for Best New Artist and possibly, Album of the Year. So let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Grammys choose unfamiliar artist over Beiber

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This exciting new lifestyle cafe and retail store focuses on fitness and wellness by offering delicious crepes, fresh smoothies with boosts,

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If you are in the area, please stop by the Body Cafe to experience this new destination.

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by Eddie Fountain

Lawrence creates another “BIG” hitby Markeaya Eaton

Setting the bar high in journalism historyby Donald Gibson

contact Eddie Fountain [email protected]

Esperanza Spalding won Grammy for Best New Artist

Martin Lawrence and Brandon T Jackson in hilarius new film.


Keldric “Kel” Bonton’s hip-hop skills were discovered when he was freestyling with friends in high school.

Bonton, then took those talents and became serious about hip-hop, and develop himself into the artist he is today.

In high school, Bonton not only got really se-rious with hip-hop but also with life when his daughter was born.

“With the birth of my daughter, I had to take a look back and find out what’s im-portant in life. That’s why I am so serious, and I focus on what I do,” Bonton said.

As far as the seriousness of hip-hop, he had reason to make his music from life ex-periences.

With Bonton’s bass voice, his hometown of Alexandria, Louisiana was able to listen to his real music by radio.

Brandon Perry, life long friend of Keldric Bonton, said that Bonton has a strong drive for his music.

“I’ve seen it from the beginning, and he loves music,” said Perry.

Bonton said he developed a strong passion from music because of his dad introducing him to Earth, Wind and Fire, and Mariah Carey, who were people who made great music.

“A lot of artists get mixed up with labels; for me it’s more about the message than the money,” he added.

Bonton really enjoys the art of per-forming in front of an audience.

“With performing, I have complete control on what I do; with everyone paying attention to you, you have to be “cool” and have to believe in what you are saying.”

For Bonton’s future, he will go as far as his music takes him. He real-ly appreciates all the fans and sup-porters. “ Without the supporters, I am nothing,” said Bonton.

Mardi Gras Ball 2011

Court & Royalty PresentationBuffet, Drinks, Cash Bar

Thursday March 3SUB Ballrooms 9pm ‘til 1am

Students, Faculty & StaffFREE WITH ULM ID!

Student Guest $5 / Faculty Guest $10

Presented By: ULM Student Government

Putting Referendum Money to Work for Students

2011 Mardi Gras Court

Tickets Available in the SGA officeStudent Center, Room 151

Strong influences inspire rap artistby Derek Dark

Photo by Robert Browncontact Derek Dark [email protected]


Have you heard about the Disney College Pro-gram? You can do a semester at Disney World, working and being paid, while adding a valuable item to your resume! You can even take college courses while there. You’ll also meet people from all over the world, make lifelong friends, and have fun.

One of our students, Daniel Jamieson, interned at Disney last spring, and now he’s going to pres-ent a brief overview of his experience and how you can apply! The presentation will be at our office, Career Connections, Library 302, Tuesday, Mar. 1. There will be two chances to attend--11 a.m .and 4 p.m.--and both will last less than one hour.

If you’ve ever been interested in doing some-thing different with one of your college semesters, come join us for this presentation and discussion.

All majors and classifications are welcome.If you can, call me in advance to reserve a spot

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The University of Louisiana at Monroe has announced this year’s Spring Fever artists.

Country artists Josh Turner and Sara Evans will perform.

The concert will be on Friday, Apr. 8, in Faint-Ewing Coli-seum.

Josh Turner is one of the youngest members to be in-ducted into Nashville’s Walk of Fame.

Turner has released four al-bums since he signed with MCA Nashville Records in 2003.

His first two number one hits include “Your Man” and “Would You Go With Me”.

He is also the founder of the Josh Turner Fund,which awards scholarships to high school stu-dents who would like to pursue a career in the Arts and enter-tainment.

Sara Evans was named 2006 Academy of Country Music’s Female Vocalist of the Year and the Country Music Association’s Video of the Year for “Born to Fly.” Evans has sold over five million records and made four number 1 country hits.

She is expected to release her upcoming album “Stronger” on Mar. 8. Concert Tickets will go on sale on Feb. 28.

Tickets can be purchased from www.ulmtickets.com as

well as La Capitol Bank on cam-pus.

Ticket prices will be $17 for ULM students upper section and $22 for student floor. Gen-eral admissions floor is $27 and $32 for the floor.

However, on the day of the concert, all tickets will be $35. Doors to Faint-Ewing will open at 7 pm. But the concert will start at 8 p.m.

Online math courses at ULM give students flexibility in their schedules.

They allow students control over when to complete their work, but sometimes students find success difficult.

“I wouldn’t recommend an online math course instead of a lecture unless there is no choice or the student is really good at the subject,” said Associate Pro-fessor of Mathematics David Hare.

“Working out a problem is much more important than getting a right answer.”

Introductory Algebra and College Algebra online courses are taught with a software pro-gram called Hawkes.

It is divided into instruct, practice and certify modes.

Students must direct their own learning and get 80% of questions correct on homework problems to get credit.

There are also two tests, a midterm and a final.

These count for 60-70% of the final grade, which is the same as in a standard lecture course.

However, even after com-pleting the homework, stu-dents sometimes do not pass the course.

Although the majority of the online courses are done at home, the midterm and final tests must be proctored at a testing center.

Students can go to the Mathematics Resource Cen-ter (MRC) or another testing center if away from campus to take their exams, but must have valid identification to take the test.

“Some people take courses for the right reason and some for the wrong,” Hare said.

“Some do it because they think they can cheat. =We do what we can to prevent cheat-ing, but most students that get through do it fairly.”

If an online class proves to be too difficult, students may seek help at the MRC.

However, student’s best bet is to schedule an appointment with their instructor.

“Office hours are available, and almost every instructor will meet with a student that needs help,” said Hare.

“It’s not that much differ-ent between online and lec-ture courses. I will help online stulectures. Some students say they can’t do it on their own, but that is the downside of tak-ing an online math course.”

Spring Fever artists chosen

by Anthony Drummer

A magical world awaits students

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Josh Turner, left, and Sara Evans will perform at ULM Apr. 8.photos courtsey of MCT Campus

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Students can take a semester to work at Disney.

Students speak about online math courses

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ULM goes country for this year’s concert


With graduation coming up soon, being able to have, a knock-out resume is looming on a lot of students minds.

Alberta Green, Associate Director of Career Con-nections, gives students a few tips on how to stand out amongst the crowd.

“Put yourself in the employer’s shoes,” said Green. Students’ resumes need to be clear and concise to

their potential employers. Students need to think about what are their most impressive qualities, and make them the most visible.

Some good tips to follow would be to make one’s name the most visible thing on the resume. It should be in Times New Roman and in 12 font.

“It doesn’t need to retain any fluff or perfume,” said Green.

No fluff, meaning no sentences, or telling the employ-er any personal information, such as marital status or hobbies. Full sentences are never to be used, just clear

and concise phrases that give the potential employer a clear picture of their applicant.

Students also need to make sure that their contact information (e-mail and cell phone) are professional. Don’t have ring back tones that will leave the employer with a bad impression.

For further and more in-depth information about how to improve one’s resume visit www.ulm.edu/career-connections, and then click on the “Tips, Resources, and Attire” link. The link will give students a template for a perfect resume.

“It normally takes two weeks to have a resume be pro-fessionally written, at Career Connections we’ll do it for free,” said Green.

The next resume workshop is going to be held Tues-day, Mar. 22.

Ann Smith, Director of Academic Internships, ex-presses her dedication in Career Connections.

“We see students daily, and we help them find part-time jobs, student work jobs, and internships. We are dedicated to seeing every student succeed.”

If students want further help in succeeding in their careers, Career Connections is open every week day, or if students prefer to make an appointment, they can call 318-342-5338.contact Brandy Heckford [email protected]

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Campus housing is a conve-nient and stimulating option for ULM students. There is one inconvenience that every stu-dent seems to deal with at some point: the ID Access is for resi-dents only.

Many residents find it an-noying to have to let someone in the gate and no one is eager

to wait around for their friend. Ironically, they always show up right as someone else is walking up with an ID.

Residential Life, however, strictly prohibits allowing gate entry to unknown persons, which they call tailgating.

Josh Albritton, a senior po-litical science major of Farmer-ville, likes the ID system.

“It does make me feel safer because I know that no random psycho will be stalking the halls outside my door,” Albritton said.

“The ultimate concern is for the safety of our students. So preventing one crime from hap-pening would make the locks worth it,” says Amber Atkins, a sophomore marketing major

from Monroe.Absent of any real way to

enforce the rule against letting strangers in, Residential Assis-tants (RA) are at a loss.

“Nothing’s perfect,” con-cludes Albritton, “but at least it’s something rather that noth-ing.”

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‘Tailgating’ into dorms is prohibitedby Charles Strauss

Daniel Jefferson runs to the door before it closes behind a resident.

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The Warhawks finished up their regular season at home Sat-urday with a 70-55 win against the University of Louisiana La-fayette.

It was also Senior Night for the Warhawks as they honored Seniors Priscilla Mbinadja, Jordan Rawson and Sannisha Williams before the game. Al-though the Warhawks lead most of the first half, the Ragin Ca-juns never let the deficit get too deep as they eventually tied the game at 31 with 40 seconds to play before the break.

The Warhawks would go on to dominate the second half in the paint by outscoring ULL 22-8. ULM also outrebounded the Ragin Cajuns 60-39.

Senior guard Priscilla Mbi-nadja led ULM with her third double-double of the season

tallying 17 points and 10 re-bounds. Senior Jordan Rawson and Junior Elizabeth Torres fin-ished with 10 rebounds and six assists respectively.

“I feel like we outhustled them in the second half, I’m proud of my seniors; there have been some great memories.” said ULM head coach Mona Martin.

The Warhawks start confer-ence tournament play next week in Hot Springs, Ark. against Troy.

Seniors season end on a winning note

by Jerry Cox

828That’s how many points ULM senior Sannisha Williams scored in her ca-

reer.

Seniors Jordan Rawson, Priscilla Mbinadja and Sannisha Wil-liams are all smiles after winning their last home game at ULM.

photo by Srdjan Marjanovic

Up-paced second half leads womens team to victory over Ragin’ Cajuns

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Warhawk corner-back dismissed from team

Warhawk tennis keeps ball rolling

Soccer finalizes 2011 schedule: be-gins Sept. 23

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Saturday the ULM softball team was shutout by 23 ranked Houston, 0-8 in the Baylor Tournament. ULM also lose to Baylor and Central Arkansas in weekend tournament,

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Warhawk golf teamfinishes in top 10 at Rice tournament

Fomer starting conerback Robert Neslon was dismissed from the team Thursday. He started 11 of 12 games for ULM this season. Reasons for the dis-missal are still unknown.

The ULM Men’s Golf Team finished in seventh place out of 15 other schools at the Rice Intercolligiate Invational. While Gustaf Kocken finished seventh in individual competiton.


The 2011 women’s soccer schedule will include a slate of in state universities. ULM is sched-uled to play Grambling State, Southern University, South-eastern University and Nicholls State here at ULM. They’ll open conference play sgainst Troy on the road on Sept. 23.

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From the gym floor to the rafters aboveBasketball legend has jersey retired

by DeRon Talley

ULM great Glynn Saulter, became the first Warhawk bas-ketball player to have his jersey retired during halftime of the season finale against the Univer-sity of Louisiana-Lafayette.

Saulter played for ULM from 1965-1968, and in that time he was a two-time All-American and scored 2,134 points, which is second all-time in ULM his-tory.

He ranks among the high-est in mostly every category, he ranks among the top five in points per game with 23.5 and free-throw percentage. Saulter’s fame didn’t stop at ULM; he went on to help the 1968 U.S. Olympic team win a gold med-al. His jersey was raised into the rafters to a standing and cheer-

ing crowd.There was also a game that

night as ULM lost 61-46 to it’s rival ULL.

Seniors Lawrence Gilbert and Tommie Sykes were hon-ored before the game. In the game, ULM 7-23 (2-14 SBC) started dry offensively falling behind 7-2 in the first two min-utes, then going into a scoring drought to end the half down 31-20.

To start the second half, the Warhawks rallied to come back

within six points. On the next possessions, UL-Lafayette 14-14 (12-5 SBC), stretched the lead to 41-25.

Fred Brown was the only War-hawk to score in double figures with 13 points in 37 minutes of action. Sykes finished with nine points and six rebounds.

The men are heading into the Sun Belt Conference Tourna-ment with the worst overall re-cord.

Basketball legend Glynn Saulters smiles as his jersey is retired Saturday evening during the ULM-UL-Lafayette game.

The Warhawks are now 8-1 on the season after defeating the University of Southern Mississippi (3-5) this past Fri-day and beating the Golden Eagles 5-2.

With this win the War-hawks have now won seven straight matches.


AD-How did the team prepare for the current season?CC- We put in a lot of hard work in the weight room and long hours of prac-

tice in preparation for this season.AD-What are your feelings on how the team is doing so far?

CC- I feel like we have a lot of great talent on our team this year. We’ve done well so far, and I expect us to have a very successful year.

AD-What are the expectations, aspirations or goals for the team as a whole moving forward?CC- Every goal of a college athlete is to win it all, but we have

to stay in the moment and take it one game at a time. We want to get better every game.AD-What do you want to accomplish personally to help the team moving forward?

CC- I want to do whatever it takes to win for my teammates. If it means getting the game winning hit or just simply rooting

my teammates on, I’m ready and willing to do it. And I feel that everyone of my teammates would do the same.

AD- What is/are the biggest difference(s) from this season compared to last season?

CC- I feel like we have a lot more talent this year. We’ve worked a lot harder and have made a lot of sacrifices to better ourselves and the program. I think we’re capable of doing great things this year.

As a team, the players and coaches have worked hard for it.

Last week, the Warhawks traveled to play Southern Mis-sissippi before competing in the Northwestern State Invita-tional.

Right fielder Joey Rapp went 2-for-3 with three RBIs, but the Warhawks fell to the Gold-en Eagles 8-5 on Tuesday.

The Hawks came out strong with a three run first, but Southern Miss responded with eight runs of their own to seal the victory.

The Warhawks looked to re-bound at the NSU Invitation-al. In game one ULM pitcher Drew Granier pitched an excel-lent game against Stephen F. Austin. He pitched seven solid innings, struck out four and only gave up one run.

Unfortunately, the hitting lagged behind the pitching, and the Warhawks lost 7-1.

In game 2 against New Or-leans, the Warhawks stormed back and earned a 10-5 win. The Warhawks connected on

a season high 14 hits. In the seventh inning, center fielder Matt Laird hit a grand slam that blew the game open.

Corben Green also went 3-5 with an RBI, and has now hit safely in seven games this season. While Randy Zeigler picked up his first win after seven innings of work. The Warhawks will take on Jack-son State for one game Tuesday here at ULM at 6 p.m.

by Anthony Drummer

by Anthony Drummer



Sophmore Randy Zeigler throws a strike earlier this season.photo by Srdjan Marjanovic

Hitting proves costly to Hawks

1-on-1 with Caleb Clowers

UPCOMING GAMESJackson State vs. ULM

Tuesday March 1 @ 6 p.m.ULM vs. Nicholls State

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