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SoccerThe Lady Red Wolves beat UALR and prepare for tourney.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
This week in history:In 1974, Marilyn Broadway of Moro became the first black Homecoming Queen in ASU history. The election results were a shock to many due to ASU’s predominantly white student body.
“ “I will be the first child in my family to have earned a bachelor’s degree and that is something I am proud of.
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Alejandra Hernandez | Staff PhotographerAs part of Alcohol Awareness Week, drinking and driving educator Mark Sterner spoke with students about his experiences with drink-ing. The most memorable experience being when he killed his friends in a car accident as the result of drinking and driving.
Kim MyoungHyang | Staff PhotographerThe Japanese Student Organization is preparing for their haunted house that will be held Tuesday night in the Black River Room of the Student Union. This prop was created by the organization’s vice president, Shuta Shimabukuro.
SPEAKER, 4
Politicians battle in debateOn Thursday the Arkansas State
Radio-TV studio served as the battle-ground for the first and only debate fea-turing four of the candidates running for Arkansas’ 1st Congressional District.
Republican incumbent, Rep. Rick Crawford, who has faced some criti-cism for his refusal to participate in other scheduled debate events, faced off against Democratic challenger and lo-cal prosecuting attorney Scott Ellington, Green Party candidate Jacob Holloway and Libertarian Party candidate Jessica Paxton in an hour and a half, moderated debate on issues that ranged from agri-culture to women’s rights.
No issue, however, was as thoroughly discussed or heavily disputed as the plan
for America’s continued economic re-covery. The candidates connected every question to their plans for renewed and strengthened growth in the private sec-tor, but had vastly different strategies for appropriating public dollars to facilitate economic growth.
Crawford repeatedly emphasized that the growing federal debt was, “the single biggest threat to United States security.”
When questioned after the debate, Crawford said the United States was not exempt from the financial troubles that have occurred in the European Union, and could “easily find itself facing a bond run similar to the one in Greece.” Craw-ford did admit that no other country borrowing money in a currency that it controls has faced such a bond run, but considers the situation the U.S. is in to
be unique. Ellington is also disturbed by the bor-
rowing trends of the United States, but advocates for what he considers to be a much more balanced and structured program of deficit reduction, focusing on job creation and economic growth as well as responsible stewardship of tax payer dollars.
Ellington also seemed very concerned by the polarity and bitter bi-partisan-ship in Washington, D.C. and heavily emphasized the role of congressmen as negotiating parties speaking on behalf of the American public. He was critical of Crawford in this respect, citing that Crawford has voted 94 percent of the time down party lines.
“I’m not my party’s sweetheart, and that’s no secret,” Ellington told the
ASU brings Alcohol Awareness speaker
The events of Alco-hol Awareness Week were brought to a close Thurs-day evening as motivational speaker Mark Sterner deliv-ered his testimony to more than 300 ASU students. In his presentation Sterner present-ed the dangers of drunk driv-ing from an uncommon per-spective - that of the driver.
During Sterner’s senior year of college he caused the death of three of his best friends and fraternity broth-ers. He and four friends had been out dancing and drink-ing that night and decided the least drunk among them should drive home.
“They made a bad choice. I made a bad choice,” Sterner said.
Two miles from their des-tination Sterner drove off the road and into a tree, flipping the car multiple times. All five were thrown from the car, and only Sterner and his roommate, Darren, survived.
Sterner sustained life-threatening injuries and re-mained in a comatose state for two weeks.
“I woke up (in the hospi-tal) and my best friends were dead. And I’m the reason they are dead,” Sterner said in an emotionally charged descrip-tion of the event.
His presentation also in-cluded a home video shot by his friends and him the night of the accident. In the video, the five friends are shown celebrating the final night of spring break with shots, dancing and bar visits.
Before Sterner had been released from the Florida hospital, he was charged on three counts of DUI man-slaughter. He served three years in prison on the convic-tions, but says that his “life
sentence” is the pain he feels every day knowing he was re-sponsible for the death of his friends.
Sterner now visits college campuses across the country sharing his story, and more than 2 million people nation-wide have heard his testimo-ny. Sterner does not presume to lecture or criticize, but hopes that by delivering his story other college students might be spared having to en-dure “this nightmare played over, and over, and over in-side my head.”
Alcohol Awareness Week (AAW) was sponsored by the Counseling Center, the Greek Life association, the Univer-sity Police Department, the Arkansas Collegiate Drug Education Committee and the Student Government As-sociation.
Alexis Hurdle, the assistant dean of Greek Life, said Alco-hol Awareness Week is not telling students, “no alcohol.” Instead Hurdle said the ac-tivities are designed to teach students how to manage risks and promote healthy choices in regard to their alcohol use.
This is the first year for Greek Life to co-sponsor AAW. Hurdle acknowledged that Greek fraternities and sororities are often associated with increased levels of alco-hol abuse on college campus-es, but says that Greek Life’s participation in AAW is help-ing to dispel that stereotype.
“Drinking is real, but can be done responsibly,” Kristy Russell, a student life coun-selor at the Counseling Cen-ter, said. Russell said the goal of Alcohol Awareness Week is to raise awareness and keep students safe.
Other AAW events in-cluded a mocktail contest, alcohol-free tailgating and drunk driving simulations. The mocktail contest pitted
Michelle Lee | Staff PhotographerJessica Paxton (Libertarian Party) spoke about her view on food stamps during the debate with Jacob Holloway (Green Party), Incumbent Congressman Rick Crawford (Republican) and Scott Ellington (Democrat) Thursday night in the ASU R-TV studio.
BETHANY GALLIMORESTAFF WRITER
J.J. THOMPSONSTAFF WRITER
DEBATE, 4
Japanese Student Organization preps for Halloween
With Halloween around the corner, one student or-ganization plans on creating a haunted house on campus for ASU students.
The Japanese Student Or-ganization (JSO) plans to cre-ate a Japanese-style haunted house, as well as bring a Hal-loween-themed party to the Student Union.
The house will be made with the theme of the Japa-nese horror movie “The Ring.”
“The Ring” created a great sensation of Japanese horror in the late 90s and is the rep-resentative movie of Japanese horror films. It was also re-made in the U.S. in 2002.
“I want to reconstruct the horror of the movie, and want people to enjoy the Japanese culture,” Yuma Furuie, presi-dent of JSO, said.
JSO was established to in-troduce Japanese culture to others and exchange cultures with people from different countries.
Since its establishment in 2009, the organization has held several events on cam-
pus, however, this will be the first time for JSO to do some-thing for Halloween.
To make the haunted house more real and scary, Tonae Mitsuhashi, a junior theater major of Japan, will do the special effect makeup for the cast of the haunted house.
“I think it will be really in-
teresting and memorable ex-perience for the students who come to the haunted house if we can make it high quality,” Mitsuhashi said.
Mitsuashi belonged to an art club in high school, and worked as the scene designer for the ASU theater’s recent show.
“Since I’m taking an ad-
vanced makeup class this semester, I’m excited that I could help this project as a makeup crew. I want to make the actors look really scary and believable,” Mitsuhashi said.
The haunted house will take place from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday in the Black River Room.
KIM MYOUNGHYANGSTAFF WRITER
Graduation is supposed to be a time when joy and thanksgiving abound in the hearts of students and parents alike.
Graduates often look forward to not having anymore student loans, final exams, cafeteria food or being forced to fight off park-ing tickets. The four years put into making good grades, and trying to stay awake on a diet of energy drinks and fast food is said to pay off in the end, but does it really?
Unfortunately, the staggering number of unemployed people in this country has interrupted the joyous time called graduation and put fear in place of joy.
According to a 2011 survey by the U.S. Department of Labor, 53.6 percent of bachelor’s degree holders ages 25 and younger were jobless or underemployed.
The primary reason for this is the number of young adults earn-ing bachelor’s degrees has risen 38 percent since 2000, which has re-sulted in these degrees being seen as less impressive by employers.
This is a terrifying truth to anyone graduating, especially to someone looking for a career in a highly competitive field.
As a public relations major, it is already a tough market for me to get into without the somewhat smutted image of an undergradu-ate degree.
Looking at online job postings, I found for every 10 jobs listed there were at least seven requir-ing, “3-5 years prior experience,”
or other certificates. Several of my friends who will
be graduating soon also face this reality. Without the years of prior experience and college debts need-ing to be paid, the joy of gradua-tion begins to fade away.
Knowing that a bachelor’s de-gree alone may not be sufficient to land a job, I and many of the other 1.7 million U.S. students graduat-ing in 2013 are choosing the path to graduate school versus entering the job market.
A recent study conducted by the Graduate Management Ad-mission Council found employers were more likely to hire employees who earned graduate degrees.
Employers stated their need for employees with specialized skills and further training were hardly met when hiring people with bachelor’s degrees.
The same study also found holding graduate degrees often correlated with high salary and job stability as the specialized skills learned during graduate school
were of high demand and limited quantity in the job market.
It is stomach churning to think all the time and money spent on undergraduate degrees may not amount to much more than a framed piece of paper and a food service job. Regardless, holding a bachelor’s degree is still motiva-tion.
I will be the first child in my family to have earned a bachelor’s degree and that is something that I am proud of.
Putting four years into study-ing and living off Ramen Noodles is definitely a challenge, and when complete there will most certainly be a sigh of relief from anyone who endured it.
In the end, spending the extra few years and thousands of dollars on a graduate school degree to better my chances of being hired doesn’t seem the catch-22 that it once did.Chloe Joslin is a senior PR major of Memphis, Tenn.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bid-ding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patri-otism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
This quote is from Hermann Goering, Hitler’s designated suc-cessor, and he’s talking about a well-established trend in political theory called “threat construc-tion.”
Building up perceived threats was an important justification tac-tic used by the Nazis in Germany, by several administrations during the Cold War in the U.S., and by the George W. Bush administra-tion.
It didn’t matter whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or not, the fear that they did was enough to sell the invasion to the American people.
Some of you have probably seen the first “Red Dawn” movie from 1984, with Charlie Sheen and the Wolverines ‘#winning’ against Commie bastards invad-ing their town.
The movie reflects the attitude of the time; fear was dense about the standoff between Capital-ism and Communism worldwide during the Cold War, and many Americans really believed that a war was imminent with the Sovi-ets.
The screenwriter of the new version, Carl Ellsworth, said the new “Red Dawn” was written, “keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we’re in.”
I’m left to assume this is a world
in which the new North Korean administration absolutely loses its marbles and tries to invade the U.S. by occupying a single town in Washington state.
In all fairness to the producers, the movie was originally written to feature a Chinese invasion, but was changed in post production to North Korea due to international pressure.
The changes reportedly cost less than $1 million and involved changing an opening sequence summarizing the story’s fictional backdrop, re-editing two scenes and using digital technology to transform Chinese symbols to Korean.
After all, they all look the same right?
Chinese media also recognized the threat building aspect of the movie, drawing sharp criticism from the Global Times with head-lines such as “U.S. reshoots Cold War movie to demonize China” and “American movie plants hos-tile seeds against China”.
Just because it’s a B-action movie doesn’t mean the content doesn’t affect people’s attitudes towards the international com-
munity, and it’s clearly divisive and xenophobic.
That being said, I’ll be there on opening night to watch the pro-USA crowd celebrate an Ameri-can victory, real or imagined, just like they always do.
J.J. Thompson is a sophomore political science and communica-tions major of Springdale.
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Our ViewStudents should keep valuables secure
The Herald recently reported on an SGA meeting where a uni-versity police officer informed the group on the rise in thefts on campus.
At the Oct. 9 meeting, Sgt. Bill Brown told the SGA Assembly that one out of four reports of thefts are for cell phones. Brown also said there had been a reported 80 cases of theft at ASU with the most noticeable area being at the Red Wolf Center next to Arkansas Hall.
There had been 10 reports of theft at the Red Wolf Center with nine of them being for cell phones.
“There are students out there who are laying their cell phones down, their wallet close by them, go play ball, come back and they are gone,” Brown said at the meeting. “Students should rent lock-ers.”
You will be hard pressed to find someone today that doesn’t have a cell phone. Cell phones aren’t just used to make calls any-more; they are also the devices we have chosen to place some of our most important information on.
That makes cell phones even more valuable than their in-store price tag.
Students should know the seriousness of keeping not just their cell phones secure, but other valuables like wallets and purses in such an open area like the Red Wolf Center.
Use the lockers available to students right across from the bas-ketball courts. They are free to use if you have your student ID and can only be accessed with a key.
If you must have your cell or smart phone within reach, ask a friend to accompany you the R.W.C. However, like we all know for those who have held on to stuff while friends go on rides at an amusement park, it’s not fun, but rotating is a good idea.
There’s also the option of not taking items like your phone to the R.W.C. This might not be the most popular option, but leav-ing items at your residence hall if you don’t absolutely need them while working out, can lessen your worries.
Students should be more aware of their surroundings and use the available means to secure their property on campus.
“Our View” is written by the editorial staff. The opinions are not
necessarily reflective of the student body, faculty or administration of Arkansas State University.
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“I will be the first child in my family to have earned a bachelor’s degree and that is something that I am proud of.
- Chloe Joslin
“It didn’t matter whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or not, the fear that they did was enough to sell the invasion to the American people.”
- J.J. Thompson
‘Red Dawn’ fuels threat construction
Student debates employment, graduate school
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As Ryan Aplin reflects upon his career, he suddenly pauses and glances through the window of the Bill Tem-pleton Recruiting Room on the third floor of the Arkan-sas State football complex, his head cocking slightly as he notices something shift-ing at the end of Liberty Bank Stadium.
“There’s an armadillo over there,” he says.
Sure enough, on the grass by the southern bleachers, an armored, leathery mam-mal creeps along stealthily, but not stealthily enough to escape Aplin’s gaze, perhaps an example of the vision and attention to detail that has helped the fifth-year quarter-back become one of the best players in school history.
“He’s a fierce competitor, he has a very lively arm and he has experience. Those three factors really make him one of the better quarterbacks in the country,” said ASU head coach Gus Malzahn.
“Ryan sees the field ex-tremely well. He can read a defense, he knows exactly what’s going on, he makes good decisions. He’s extreme-ly confident throwing the football,” says ASU offensive coordinator and quarterback coach Rhett Lashlee.
Beyond Aplin’s football acumen and physical prow-ess is his leadership, a quality that is his best, according to Lashlee.
“He worries about his teammates more than him[self ]. He worries about making others around him better more than him[self ],” Lashlee says in praise.
Coming out of Fleming Island High School in Jack-sonville, Fl., the Tampa native was unheralded as a recruit,
earning scholarship offers from FCS and Division II schools while attracting little attention from FBS programs. Steve Roberts, then coach of the Red Wolves, soon gave Ryan his only shot at playing major college football.
After redshirting his first season, Aplin worked his way into the backup role be-hind senior Corey Leonard, a mainstay at the position for the prior three seasons. Leonard started the first eight games of the season, but against Louisiana-Lafay-ette he was benched follow-ing an interception that lead to an unsportmans like con-
duct penalty.Aplin, who until then had
attempted only seven passes that season, was called upon to replace him, completing eight of 14 attempts for 147 yards while leading a furious comeback from a 17-point deficit in the fourth quarter.
The Ragin’ Cajuns eked out the victory, but the game was a preview of what was to come for the ASU quarter-back.
To continue reading more about Ryan Aplin’s career at Arkansas State visit http://www.asuherald.com
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Ashley Helliwell| Sports EditorSenior Ryan Aplin has been named as one of the 10 finalist for the 2012 Senior Class Award. The award recognizes an NCAA FBS senior with notable achievements in areas of community, classroom, character and competition.
LYNDSEY PATTERSONStaff Writer
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Xinzhong Zhao| Staff PhotographerJunior Madison Joyce protects the ball from junior Christine Giles during practice. The Lady Red Wolves will face Western Kentucky in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference tournament after the league announced the final regular season standings on Friday night.
Soccer defeats UALR, prepares for SBC tourney
The ASU women’s soccer team established several new school records after defeating the University of Arkansas-Little Rock (UALR) in its final regular season match.
After trailing 1-0 early in the game, the Lady Red Wolves scored three straight goals to defeat the Trojans with a final score of 3-1 on Friday in Little Rock.
The final season victory finalized the 2012 season with an 11-7-1 overall record, making it the most successful regular season in ASU soccer history.
The 11 wins are also the most wins for a single season in ASU soccer history. Assis-tant coach Jessica Nei is very proud of the team’s hard work this season.
“We have challenged this team to build upon the suc-cesses of the past Arkansas State teams. From the begin-ning of the season on they have continued to do so, and we as coaches are quite proud of our team.” Nei said.
In Friday’s game, UALR scored only eight minutes into the game, as Ariel Gal-letti chipped the ball just over the tips of the fingers of se-nior goalkeeper Aja Aguirre.
Although the early 1-0 lead gave the Red Wolves a bit of a scare, they were able to quickly retaliate.
In the 21st minute of the game, Madison Joyce scored her first goal of the season as she finished a pass from sophomore Christina Fink that became a loose ball near
the net. The score remained 1-1 going into half time of the game.
During the second half, the Red Wolves stepped onto the field ready to play. They took the 2-1 lead in the 60th minute of the game when Christina Fink, the team’s leading goal scorer, scored her ninth goal on the season. Junior Ashley Jackson headed the ball off the crossbar, and Fink was there to finish the rebound.
Jackson was given credit for the assist on Fink’s goal, as well the team’s third goal which came just four minutes later. Jackson passed the ball to senior Ashley McMurtry, who was able to defeat the Trojan goalkeeper from about 30 yards out, giving the Red Wolves the 3-1 lead.
Aja Aguirre played all 90 minutes in goal, and was given credit for the win. She finished the season with a re-cord of 8-5-1 in the net, tying the school record for most wins by a goalkeeper in a sin-gle season.
Christina Fink also con-tributed to the new list of school records for individual players. Her goal and assist in Friday’s game gave her nine goals and seven assists on the season. Her combined 29 points for the season are the most ever in a single season by an ASU player.
The team finished with a conference record of 5-4-1 and a 5th place finish among the 11 Sun Belt teams.
The team’s .500 conference record marks the highest
conference winning percent-age in ASU school history. The Red Wolves will compete in the Sun Belt Conference tournament in Mobile, Al. on Oct. 31.
The top eight teams in the conference are invited to play in the conference tourna-ment, and seeding is deter-mined by each team’s overall conference record. The Red Wolves’ 5th place finish will result in a match against the 4th place finishers, Western Kentucky University (WKU), in the first round of the tour-nament.
The Hilltoppers have won its last seven games and de-feated the Red Wolves 2-0 during regular season play.
Regarding the match against WKU, Nei said, “We are looking to continue our momentum from Friday’s win into the conference tourna-ment. We know that Western Kentucky is a talented team and have shown so by their finish in conference, but we are excited and ready for the challenge that they bring. We know that our team has great potential, and we look for-ward to the possibilities that the tournament can bring after a strong regular season finish.”
With a win over WKU, the Red Wolves would move into the semi-finals to play the winner of North Texas (No. 1 seed) and Florida Atlantic (No. 8 seed) on Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. The Sun Belt Confer-ence finals are scheduled for Nov. 3 at 6 p.m.
Staci Vandagriff| Photo EditorIn a thrilling five set match up UALR defeated the Lady Red Wolves, taking sole possession of first place in the SBC west division. The win secured a spot at the SBC tournament. Senior Alison Kearney led the Red Wolves defensively with 23 digs and moved into fourth place on the all-time career assist list at ASU after finishing the match with 59 assists.
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Shine Huang | Staff PhotographerSheriff Clint McGrowan and Taylor Wilkison, a freshman pre-occupational therapy major of Brinkley, help escort a rider during the Miracle Ro-deo Saturday morning at the fairgrounds. The rodeo was put on by the Craighead County Mounted Patrol to inspire special needs children to overcome their handicaps.
DEBATE, Continued
PAIGE WALKERSTAFF WRITER
audience. When questioned about
his separation from the main-stream Democratic Party, El-lington discussed his active role in the NRA, as well as concerns about certain gov-ernment spending programs.
Green Party candidate Jacob Holloway, a student at Arkansas State, delivered some of the most lucid com-mentary of the night. Hol-loway referred repeatedly to the election and the politi-cal arena at large as a “two-party show.” It’s a show that Holloway no longer finds entertaining and is fighting currently to change. In un-precedented fashion, Hol-loway even asked voters to vote for his opponent Jessica Paxton before considering ei-ther of the mainstream party candidates. Paxton expressed
similar concerns. “I soon figured out that
neither party represented me or my interests,” said Pax-ton in her opening remarks. She, like Holloway, considers herself a concerned citizen becoming involved in the po-litical process due to general disappointment in the ability for Republicans and Demo-crats to converge on effective strategies for moving Ameri-ca forward.
She mentioned that when polled, 59 percent of Ameri-cans fall in line with the Liber-tarian perspective, but many are afraid to stray from their traditional voting patterns. Paxton closed with a quote from presidential candidate Gary Johnson, who said, “The only wasted vote is a vote for a candidate that you don’t re-ally believe in.”
sorority and fraternity chapters against one another in a competition to determine who could create the best alcohol-free cocktail. Door prizes and free food were featured at the tailgating event, and the University Police sponsored “Game of Life” provided a safe way
for students to experience firsthand the dangers of drunk driving.
Sterner concluded his presentation with a call for students to recognize their own limitations, not to elevate themselves as luckier, smarter or more fortunate than he was.
SPEAKER, Continued
The city of Jonesboro recently re-ceived a grant for community service positions through AmeriCorps, which are available to students at ASU.
There are 16 part-time positions funded through the grant.
The positions available are early childhood education specialist, health and wellness coordinator, facilities and land rehabilitation specialist, life skills specialist, community safety expert and human services worker.
Emma W. Agnew, the community services coordinator for North Jones-boro, is overseeing the positions.
“These are service positions and are intended for those who want to gain valuable experience while serving in the community,” Agnew said.
The Arkansas Service Commission Division of Community Service and Nonprofit support awarded the $106,400 grant to Jonesboro, which allows for 16 part-time service members as well as covering program overhead.
“Our program is an 11-month pro-gram, beginning Nov.1, and will end on Sept. 30, 2013. How long members serve will depend on when they are actually enrolled,” Agnew said.
On top of receiving a modest living
stipend while serving in AmeriCorps, students will also be eligible for an edu-cational award after serving a full term.
Agnew said the scholarship for part-time members is $2,775 and would go toward repaying qualifying existing or future loans, current educational ex-penses at an institution of higher educa-tion and paying expenses while partici-pating in an approved school-to-work program. Members 55 years and older may pass the award to a direct family member, children, grandchildren or fos-ter children, for school expenses.
“The funds are available upon com-pletion of service. This is not a cash award and will be held in the National Service Trust for up to seven years. Funds will be paid directly to the institu-tion of higher learning,” Agnew said.
AmeriCorps will be hiring for these positions through Nov. 1, so anyone in-terested will need to apply as soon as possible.
Although AmeriCorps does not have an office in Jonesboro, there are some partnerships established with non-prof-its in the city. These include Jonesboro Public Schools, ASU CARE, Habitat for Humanity and the Jonesboro Police Department. The Hispanic Commu-nity Service, Inc. also has current Ame-riCorps service members. To find out
more about Hispanic Community Ser-vice, Inc. visit http://www.jhcsi.org/.
“AmeriCorps is a well-known and highly respected service program. Stu-dents will be given an opportunity to give back to their community while gain-ing valuable experience,” Agnew said.
Jodie Cherry, coordinator of student affairs at ASU, said, “Joining Ameri-Corps is a great way to find meaningful employment, while gaining skills that will be highly transferable for a students’ future career. It’s also a great way to give back to the community and gain schol-arships for school.”
Agnew said college students have always answered the call of community service, but she hasn’t seen much re-sponse for this particular service proj-ect.
The positions are not limited to stu-dents and are open to anyone who would like to apply with AmeriCorps.
Those participating in the service projects must serve a total of 900 hours and all hours must be completed by the end of September.
Applications are available in the Leadership Center on the second floor of the Student Union.
For more information about Ameri-Corps visit the group’s website at http://www.americorps.gov/.
AmeriCorps offers positions to students
Miracle Rodeo
Carn-EVIL
Staci Vandagriff | Photo EditorRobert Woods boogies down the dance floor during the Carn-EVIL:
A Masquerade that was held Friday night in Centennial Hall and included prize giveaways, food and costume contests.