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F.G. Clark Activity Center parking lot where the re-pavement project is continuing to address the concerns of Commuter student parking. Due to Hurricane Isaac and DSNAP distribution, the date of completion has been changed twice. D. Honore Construction, LLC is reponsible for the project.

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Professor Johnny Brooks lectures in News Editing to students in the Southern University Mass Communications Department. Some students are concerned after the department recieved provisional accreditation and the course updates whether it will delay older dept. student’s graduation dates. Department Chair Mahmoud Braima sees recent changes as improvements for the department.

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F.G. Clark parking project faces delaysOfficials said the Southern

University F.G. Clark Activity Center parking lot project has been set back due to Hurricane Isaac among other delays.

Post Isaac, F.G. Clark is being utilized as a Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program site and construction companies will complete the project after DSNAP vacates the area.

Todd Herbert, project superintendent for D. Honore Construction LLC said the original completion dates were September 17 and 21 and the current completion date is being re-evaluated.

“September 17th was the scheduled completion date for the project,” Herbert said.

Eli Guillory III, Executive director of facility service discussed the delay.

“If it is behind schedule, it is because of the inclement weather,” Guillory said.

Matt Tucker, project manager for D. Honore Construction LLC said the project was postponed at least seven days.

“The delay was caused because of Hurricane Isaac, which put us seven days behind,” Tucker said.

He said the current disaster

food stamp sites are continuing the delays.

Even though the DSNAP sites are currently causing a current small delay, Tucker mentioned an inspection.

“A diagraming meeting is supposed to go on today,” Tucker said, Thursday.

He said the new anticipated completion date is Friday.

Tucker said the diagramming process is the last step in the method to complete the parking lot.

“We still need the architect to come out,” Tucker said.

He said the RV layout for paint and stripping is next to be completed.

Guillory described the original process of picking the company to begin the entire process.

“It went out for bids, and the contract was awarded to the lowest bonafide bidder,” Guillory said.

The bid was acquired by D. Honore Construction LLC.

Tucker said the project would exceed 700 thousand dollars from start to finish.

“The project cost is around $790,000 in entirety,” Tucker said.

Trolan Goffney, a junior, English education major said F.G. Clark’s parking lot renovation was needed.

“The new pavement is much needed,” Goffney said.

Goffney viewed the parking lot as a valuable project but shared concerns about problems on campus.

“The curb by the new recreational center needs new pavement as well,” Goffney said.

She said that the area is known to damage cars.

Alysia Delone, senior English major from Baton Rouge spoke highly of the effort to repave the parking lot.

“I am very excited to have somewhere to park without busting a tire,” Delone said. She said past student issues with parking were related to F.G. Clark’s parking lot and the mini-dome area.

Delone said other upgrades need to be done to better commuter parking areas.

“The gravel on the side of commuter parking needs re-pavement as well,” Delone said.

If work continues and the completion is on schedule, students can expect to park in renovated area during midterm week.

Mass Comm provisional status prompts changes, concerns

The Southern University department of Mass Communication made new and additional changes which may help carry on and improve the department.

Changes prompt concerns and excitement among the department as it rebounds from a provisional accreditation last year.

New and improved technology, additional High Definition cameras, more class offerings and the opening of five new classrooms in W.W. Stewart Hall that are dedicated to mass communication students and the progression of their works.

Mahmoud Braima, SU Mass Communication department

chair believes that these changes will help better many students opportunities towards getting prepared for their up and coming career of choices.

These changes towards the department have many students anxious. Most of the upperclassmen say that these changes that are going on within the department have no effect at towards them graduating on time, whether graduating in December or May 2013.

Marcus Warren, a senior public relations major said the department is progressing forward, which is helping Southern move in the right direction.

“These changes do not affect me due to the fact that I have completed the mass communications program and

will be graduating in May,” Warren said.

Kayla Tate, senior broadcasting major also finished with the mass communications curriculum. However, she still offers her help towards the upcoming group of students who are planning on entering the department.

“I do care for the upcoming group of students. If the changes made are positive, then good. If they are negative and happen to prolong the duration it takes to complete the requirements for the major, then it may impact the students and the department in a negative matter,” Tate said.

Some students still believe that this department still

sU-racetrac patrnershipGood day all you Southern

Fans, We have an exciting partnership with RaceTrac that extends beyond the field this season. From today until the end of the calendar year RaceTrac will be partnering with Southern University to help provide funds for the university. The RaceTrac location down the street across from the airport at 3730 Harding Blvd. will be 5 percent back to Southern University on all (non-fuel) inside sales. Just let the store associates know that you want your purchase to go towards Southern. They will take care of the rest. Let’s help fuel Southern Programs.

Here is how the program works:

·Location of Store is 3730 Harding Blvd.

·Barcodes are located at the store that will be scanned with each qualifying purchase

·All non-fuel inside sales will post a 5% return to Southern

·Program dates: Saturday 9/22 until 12/31

·Patrons will need to state that they would like their purchases to count towards Southern in order to be scanned

·Scan will flag the purchase as a Southern Qualifier. That is how we track ring counts and purchase amounts.

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Communication Alumni Association is looking to award a deserving mass communication major with $500 to help toward their education.

Applicants must be currently enrolled mass communication majors, and must provide an official copy of his/her transcript to show he/she is in good academic standing with the university. Applicants must also write a 500-word essay explaining to the scholarship committee how he/she would use the money, why the scholarship is important and

how it would enhance his/her education.

All materials may be e-mailed to fredrick_batiste@subr.edu or hand-delivered to Fredrick Batiste in the Office of Student Media, located in 1064 Harris Hall. The deadline for applications is Oct. 5 at noon.

The winner will be presented the scholarship Friday, Oct. 12.

For more information, call 225.771.5812.

caMpUs parKingAttention: all student

vehicles operated on the Southern University campus must be registered and parked in their designated areas as follows: commuter students: east and west side of Mumford Stadium (excluding the field house). Ballentine RV lot, Rows 2, 3 and 4 (between School of Nursing and Laboratory School). Zone 110, northeast corner of B.A. Little and Jesse N. Stone Avenue. North campus residential area (beyond north checkpoint). This is temporary parking only, until the activity center parking lot opens.Law School school students: must park in lot next to the SU museum and ROTC. residential students: must park in the area of their residence hall.

Food, nUtrition and dietetic

associationThe Food, Nutrition and

Dietetic Association will meet today at 11 am in Pinkie Thrift Hall in Lacumba Café.

Come learn more about the association and what you can do to help.

caMpUs crUsadeT.J. Jemison Baptist Student

Center is Empowering students, with a testimony. Don’t miss the Campus Crusade!

The crusade will continue tonight at 6:30 pm at T.J. Jemison Baptist Student Union. They are located at 724 Harding Blvd. across from A.W. Mumford Stadium. For more info, call the Baptist Student Union at 225.774. 8924.

stUdent Union actiVitiesThe Smith-Brown Memorial

Union is open on Friday in the game room with bowling alley and Burking King. Note: half price game room and bowling alley.

JUnior sUrVeyTired of being left out.. Want

your opinion heard… want your junior year to be the best….. Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/x9mlwyh and fill out a quick 5 min survey. !!Juniors only please!!

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Black History Club will hold meetings every Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Higgins Hall room 117. Come out and join us for the next meeting.

sU hiV/aids preVention prograM

The Center for Social Research has a HIV/AIDS prevention program and you can get involved. Did you know Baton Rouge is #1 in the nation in AIDS case rates? Do you want to make a difference? Do you want to educate your peers about HIV/AIDS Prevention? Then join us as a Peer Educator Today. Contact Darnell Pledger at 225.771.3010 or via e-mail at Darnell_Pledger@subr.edu. Follow them on Twitter @SU_Stoppin_HIV and like them on Facebook SU HIV/AIDS Prevention Program. You can also obtain more info at subr.edu/socialresearch/hiv

css paper serViceThe Center for student

Success is excited to announce our paper review service! free service 24 hour turn-around period feedback provided we check: sentence structure, clarity, thesis statements, spelling, etc. call or stop by the center for student success for more info. Stewart hall Rm 107 Call for more info (225)771-4312.

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ELMHURST, Ill. — What a difference four years can make.

In 2008, college campuses were filled with campaign posters and political rallies — and frenzy. Remember “Obamamania?” This year, it’s difficult to find a college student who’s truly excited about the presidential race.

“Politics has gone back to that thing you don’t want to bring up,” says Abraham Mulberry. He’s a freshman at Elmhurst College in suburban Chicago who’s trying to start a club for young Democrats.

Last election, his campus had an active Students for Obama chapter, organized well before the election. But this time, there’s nary a campaign placard, for either President Barack Obama or Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

“I wouldn’t say the election is the No. 1 hot-button issue here,”

Mulberry says, disappointedly.Granted, you don’t see many

signs of campaign enthusiasm in the neighborhoods that surround his campus, or elsewhere for that matter. But it’s telling that, on many college campuses across the country — where, in 2008, then-candidate Obama’s messages of “hope” and “change” easily took hold — the mood is markedly more subdued.

“Certainly, some (young people) have stopped believing,” says Molly Andolina, a political scientist at DePaul University in Chicago who tracks young voters. “Maybe that’s inevitable. For structural reasons, it’s easier to offer hope and change as a candidate, than as a president.”

Excitement was so high, it really had nowhere to go but down, she says. This time, there’s also no obvious chance to make history, as there was when students helped elect the country’s first African-American president.

“For young voters, it was like going to Woodstock in 1968,” says John Della Volpe, the polling director at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

Now like a lot of Americans, they’re more worried about the economy and finding jobs. Voter ID laws in some states, which ban or restrict the use of student IDs at the polls, also are causing confusion on campuses — at a time when students are already weary and cynical about political bickering in Washington.

“Lots of people thought President Obama could go in and break gridlock and that didn’t happen,” says Ethan Weber, a senior at Miami University in Ohio, who’ll be graduating in December. “That’s the scariest thing to a lot of young people — that nothing is going to happen.”

In 2008, Weber cast a half-hearted vote for Republican John McCain, certain Obama would win. This time, he’s voting for

Romney and sees the election as a “toss-up.”

He is still in the minority in the 18- to 29-year-old age group, according to polls. Young people are leaning strongly Democratic, as they traditionally do, and favor Obama by a wide margin — though some pollsters say the youngest new voters are showing signs that they may buck that trend.

An Associated Press-GfK poll conducted earlier this month found that 61 percent of registered voters in the 18-to-29 bracket support the president, compared with 30 percent for Romney.

In 2008, young people ended up voting for Obama by a 2-to-1 margin, with just over half of U.S. citizens, ages 18 to 29, casting a ballot in 2008. Though older generations are still more likely to vote — about two-thirds of citizens older than 30 did so in 2008, for instance — youth turnout was larger than it had been in recent years, and was particularly

notable because their wide margin of support helped lift Obama into office.

It remains to be seen, however, whether they’ll show up at the polls this time.

A Gallup poll taken Aug. 27-Sept. 16 found that 63 percent of registered voters, ages 18 to 29, said they “definitely” plan to vote. That compares with at least 80 percent of registered voters in older age brackets who said the same.

By comparison, before the election in 2008, 79 percent of young registered voters said they definitely planned to cast a ballot, according to a Time/Abt SRBI poll, taken in later September of that year. Older voters were about as committed to vote then as they are this time. (Among self-reported registered voters, turnout in 2008 was 84 percent for 18- to 29-year-olds, according to the U.S. Census, compared with 91 percent for older voters.

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has some improvements to make. Darnell Chapman, a junior public relations major believes that the department can improve much more by bringing in more experienced and certified teachers into the department.

“The more professors that are hired, then that could mean that more courses can be offered,” Chapman said.

Braima, chairman of the mass communications department doesn’t see anything negative coming from all of the changes.

Band Alumni aim to give backFounded on the purpose of

supporting and giving back to the Southern University Human Jukebox and local community, The Human Jukebox Alumni Association looks to continue the Jukebox legacy of excellence and opportunity.

The association was founded in February by Jefferson Reese a former member of the Jukebox and serves as president.

Since it’s founding, the association has dedicated scholarships to Southern University Laboratory School band and dance camps, distributed book vouchers, school materials and sponsored music and dance workshops in New Orleans and East Baton Rouge Parishes.

Marissa Jones, 2009 Southern University alum played clarinet for the band before joining the association. The band gave her an opportunity to meet new people and continue her passion of playing music.

Jones said, “It kept me occupied and gave me something interesting to do. It kept me out of trouble.”

Jones joined the association because she wanted to give back in a token of her appreciation to a group with similar vision to her own.

“I wanted to give back to an organization that gave so much to me,” Jones said.

Brittany Moore, who received a Bachelor of Science in Rehabilitation Services and Disability Studies, from Mobile,

Ala. is one of the members who had a similar vision.

“I chose to be apart of the Human Jukebox Alumni Association because

it was not only established to give back a wonderful band that has so

much influence around the world and the surrounding communities, but

also to provide a positive outlet for our youth in out society”, Moore said.

In order show their support, about 120 Band Alumni Association members will participate at the homecoming pregame show.

The show will take place October 13, 2012 at 4:00 pm at

A.W. Mumford stadium. After the performance, they will present the band with a check.

During the weekend of Bayou Classic, the Band Alumni Association will be teaming up with Grambling State University and the New Orleans Superdome to provide awareness about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).

Jones and Moore are not aware of the details about the HBCU awareness; but Moore says she knows it’s going to be ‘great’.

For those who do not know Bayou Classic is an annual event, in which the band participates. As the

jaguar saying goes, “It is often imitated never duplicated.” Bayou Classic is a weekend of events usually held during the Thanksgiving holiday. It includes battle of the bands, a football game and Greek step show competition between Southern and Grambling. Many college students, organizations, sorority members, fraternity members, alumni and others attend each year.

If anyone is interested in more information or becoming a member of the Human Jukebox alumni please visit the website, www.Humanjukebox.com/outreach and select the membership tab. For donations click donation tab.

Election ‘mania’ missing on college campuses

NEW YORK — New Repub-lican-leaning independent groups entered the presidential advertising fray Wednesday as polling suggests Mitt Romney’s campaign may be losing ground against President Barack Obama in key swing states.

The commercials, aimed at voters who supported Obama in 2008 but are undecided now, join those from the campaigns and outside groups swamping a narrow and possibly shrinking map of competitive states in the fast-moving presidential contest.

Americans for Job Security launched an ad in six swing states as part of an $8.7 million ad buy disclosed last week. The group, which does not have to disclose its donors, has actively supported Republican congressional candidates but

has stayed out of the presidential campaign until now. The Ending Spending Action Fund, a new conservative group bankrolled by billionaire Joe Ricketts, was set to debut a $10 million, four-state ad campaign beginning Thursday.

The two groups have joined a crowded field of players in a presidential advertising landscape that has largely narrowed to nine states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. All are states Obama

carried against Republican John McCain in 2008 but have been tightly contested this time.

A pro-Romney super PAC, Restore Our Future, is advertising in Michigan, while another Republican-leaning group, the American Future Fund, announced Wednesday it would run ads supporting Romney in Minnesota. But polling shows those states tilting heavily toward Obama and neither is considered a top-tier battleground this time because the candidates themselves aren’t on the air in those states.

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration wants to shift $20 million in hurricane recovery dollars for hurricanes Gustav and Ike to fill in budget gaps in the state’s free preschool program for at-risk students.

The proposal, which requires approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, was posted this week for public comment.

The hurricane recovery dollars were included in the $75 million annual budget for the Cecil J. Picard LA4 Early Childhood Program for the fiscal year that began July 1, a budget approved by lawmakers in June.

Preschool access won’t expand with the money. The dollars will plug part of a budget hole created when federal stimulus funding that had been used for the program disappeared.

Jindal’s chief budget adviser, Commissioner of Adminis-tration Paul Rainwater, said the spending will help people impacted by the storms by

offering pre-kindergarten edu-cation to 4-year-olds in low- to moderate-income families in hurricane-damaged parishes.

“This gives us the opportunity to use this funding in a very meaningful way. It helps the families that it was meant to help,” Rainwater said.

The state pays the costs for 16,000 4-year-olds to enroll in the pre-K program, according to Barry Landry, spokesman for the state education department. The hurricane recovery money would pay for at-risk students from 20 parishes that were damaged by Gustav and Ike, according to the proposal, which will be submitted to HUD in October.

A state lawmaker who has regularly pushed for hurricane rebuilding efforts questions whether that’s an appropriate use of dollars set aside by the federal government for recovery.

Rep. Simone Champagne, R-Jeanerette, whose district was hit by both 2008 hurricanes, said while she supports the LA4 program, she thinks the education department should look elsewhere for funding.

HOUSTON — Despite being constrained by mental illness and the loss of his left leg and arm, Brian Claunch had spent much of the past decade finding opportunities to run away from residential care facilities where he had been placed, preferring to live on the streets.

In recent months, Claunch had seemed to settle into some stability, staying put, taking his medications. But all of that abruptly ended this past weekend in a confrontation with police in which the 45-year-old man in a wheelchair was fatally shot by an officer.

While his criminal and medical history did not seem to indicate violent tendencies toward others, Claunch had his ups and downs, according to John Garcia, the owner of Healing Hands Assisted Home Care, where Claunch had been living. The worst aspects of his mental illness burst forth when he wouldn’t calm down after demanding cigarettes and soda around 2 a.m. Saturday, Garcia said.

A caretaker called police. Authorities say Claunch

cornered a responding officer with his wheelchair and waived a shiny object in his hand. The other responding officer, fearing for his partner’s life and his own safety, shot Claunch in the head, police said. The shiny object turned out to be a ballpoint pen.

Since the shooting, community and civil rights groups have called for changes in how officers are trained and disciplined. Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland has called the shooting tragic but asked people to reserve judgment until the department’s investigation is completed. The FBI is monitoring the case.

Garcia, who was not at the home when the shooting happened, tearfully recalled a loving but also at times quarrelsome man. Claunch had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a chronic condition in which people see and hear things that aren’t there.

“He was aggressive. As far as violent, I don’t know,” Garcia said. “Every time (Claunch) got into a situation with me, I would just say, ‘Brian, calm down, calm down,’ and I would walk away from him and in an hour or two he would be OK.”

According to court records,

Claunch lost his left arm and leg because “he firmly believed that the devil was in the left side of his body so he (decided) to lay down on the railroad tracks and waited for a train to come and (dismember) him.”

A mental status examination in 2002 found Claunch was “pleasant and cooperative” but had a history of psychiatric hospitalizations over the prior decade. He was unable to work and would not take his medications, leading to him “hearing voices.”

In 2003, a probate court judge

declared Claunch a ward of the Harris County Guardianship Program.

Court records show Claunch’s mother initially petitioned to be her son’s guardian but changed her mind. Records show Claunch also had a brother and sister. Efforts this week to reach his family were unsuccessful.

During the first two years of his guardianship, Claunch did well, living in a personal care home in Houston, according to annual reports submitted to the probate court.

But by 2006, Claunch started

running away, panhandling on local streets. Over the next few years, he went missing, was hospitalized and was in and out of jail on drug and trespassing charges. He also stopped taking his medications.

In 2010, he was placed at a state mental hospital in East Texas for several months.

He started living at Healing Hands in May 2011 but ran away after four months. He was found and brought back in March. At Healing Hands, located in a three-bedroom home, Claunch lived with two other men.

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks with supporters during a campaign stop at American Spring Wire Wednesday in Bedford Heights, Ohio.

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An HPD officer peeks out of a door at City Hall as activists call for answers from city officials on why a police officer on Saturday fatally shot Brian Claunch Tuesday outside City Hall in Houston. Claunch, a wheelchair-bound double amputee living in a group home for the mentally ill, was shot and killed by Houston Police in the early morning hours Saturday. Police say HPD officer Matthew Martin shot and killed Claunch, who was waving an object in his hand that turned out to be a pen.

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Amputee shot by police battled mental illness

State seeks to use recovery money for pre-K program

Groups bolster Romney

At the start of the season, league head coaches and sports information directors voted Southern University soccer the fourth best soccer team to win the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

A year ago, the team placed third and loss 1-0 to Arkansas Pine-Bluff in the semifi nal-round of the conference tournament.

The women’s soccer team is excited to begin its conference schedule, starting with in-state rival Grambling (0-4, 0-0), slated as least favorite to win the West.

“I know they can be very competitive,” head coach John Knighten said, entering his sixth season. “They’re going to bring the game to us, but I know we’re prepared for them.”

The Jaguars won last year’s meet in overtime 3-2, leaving Grambling defeated at home in their season fi nale. The Tigers went 1-17 last season, defeating Alabama State, who fi nished fourth in the East standings.

After a rough start to its non-conference schedule, the Jaguars feel confi dent about their chances Friday when they welcome the Tigers into A.W. Mumford Stadium.

“They’re defi nitely buying into what we’re selling as a program,” assistant coach

Courtnie Prather said. “Every game has been about progress.”

So far, the Jaguars are 0-4, with losses to Lamar, Nicholls State, UL-Lafayette, and UL-Monroe, who defeated SU 2-1 September 14.

Prather said the team did a good job limiting its mistakes against the ULM Warhawks, after suffering a 3-0 loss in Monroe last year.

“I always try to look for the positives and stress to them to keep their eyes on the positives,” Prather said.

Prather added that Friday’s anticipated win was a goal set by the team since the start of the season.

For the Jaguars opponent, their schedule is identical to last year’s, which opened with consecutive losses before its fi rst conference game that ended in a 1-2 loss against the 2011 SWAC champions Arkansas Pine-Bluff, who defeated SU in the semifi nal round 1-0.

“I feel if we go out and execute the way they should then we should be successful,” Knighten said.

Last year the Jaguars started 4-1 in SWAC, with an early West win over Prairie View A&M 2-1 and road wins over Alabama State and Alabama A&M.

“This is a big weekend for us because these two games are in the West,” Knighten

said. “At the end of October, we have Texas Southern and Prairie View. This weekend, we want to be in a leading position.”

Knighten said that the Jaguars would accept one loss if possible, but seeks to win both to be in prime position to take on Texas Southern on October 28.

Coming off a 28-21 win against Southwestern Athletic Conference rival Jackson State, Southern seeks to win two games in a row.

This feat hasn’t been achieved in the last two years of the program.

The Jaguars (1-2) travel to Atlanta to face Florida A&M (2-2) in the Atlanta Classic, the game will be broadcast live on NBC Sports Network Cox Cable Channel 105/1105HD AT&T U-Verse Channel 640/1640HD.

Kickoff is at 2:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time, which is 3:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

The two schools are in the fi nal year of their two-year deal with the Atlanta classic.

Proceeds from the classic benefi t both universities, disadvantaged youth in the Atlanta area, and tuition assistance programs founded by 100 Black Men of Atlanta.

In last year’s meeting Southern lost a 16-point lead allowing FAMU to score 21 unanswered points in the second half and to come away with the victory.

“(Florida A&M head) Coach (Joe) Taylor’s football team is usually discipline and very physical, and it’s a Florida Team so you know they going to have some speed,” SU interim head

coach Dawson Odums said.FAMU quarterback Damien

Fleming, then a freshman, came in and played well in the second half to help lift the Rattlers.

This year, Fleming is entering the game as the reigning Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference offensive player of the week for his performance against Delaware State last week.

“We faced him (Fleming) last year and he came in and really threw the ball well, he’s a tremendous talent they list him as a duel threat he throws the ball well and runs good so it will be a tough challenge,” Dawson Odums said.

Odums and the football staff hope an emotional victory against Jackson State can motivate the players going into Saturday’s game against the Rattlers but also hope that they don’t allow the Rattlers to score 21 unanswered again.

Last week in Jackson, the Jags allowed the Tigers to score 21 points in the fourth almost giving up the win.

“We really need to understand the importance of fi nishing, we got to really fi nish drives and tackles,” Odums said.

Taylor said despite the coaching change, it actually energized the Jaguars squad.

“For them to have gone out 0-2 and in just a week really energized these and have them

playing with a sense of urgency a lot more purpose we are going to have our hands full,” Taylor said in an FAMU athletics website interview.

The Jaguars will have to compete against themselves, last week SU committed 14 penalties

for 136 yards, Southern is third in the SWAC in penalty yardage averaging nearly 11 for 85 yards a game.

“Attention to detail. I really think that we can. I really think that our guys have to just focus on the playing one play at a time,

and really just take their time and understand that it’s a 60 minute football game and that you can’t relax for one second,” Odums said.

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EASTERN DIVISION SWAC Overall W L W LAlabama A&M 3 0 4 0Alabama St. 2 1 2 2Jackson St. 1 1 1 3Miss. Valley 1 1 1 3Alcorn St. 1 1 1 3

WESTERN DIVISION W L W LArk.-Pine Bluff 2 1 3 1SOUTHERN 1 1 1 2Tex. Southern 1 2 1 3Prairie View 0 0 0 4Grambling St. 0 2 0 3———

NOTE: Texas Southern is ineligible for postseason honors

Last Week’s Results SOUTHERN 28, Jackson St. 21 Ala. A&M 42, Tex. Southern 13 Ark.-PB 24, Alabama St. 21 NW State 45, Miss. Valley 14 N. Dakota St. 66, Prairie View 7 Grambling St. — idle

This Week’s Games

SOUTHERN vs. Florida A&M, 2:30 pm (NBC Sports Network)

Alabama St. at Alcorn St., 2 p.m.*

Ark.-Pine Bluff at Tennessee St., 5 pm

Grambling St. at Alabama A&M, 6 p.m. (ESPNU)*

Prairie View at Jackson St., 4 pm (SWACTV)*

Sam Houston St. at Tex. Southern, 7 pm (Thurs.)

—All times Central*—Denotes SWAC games

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Southern wide receiver Lee Doss goes full extension for a catch as Jackson State’s Caleb Lester defends during last week’s grudge match between the rival schools. Doss and the Jaguars look to add a second tally in the win column against archrival Florida A&M this weekend in the Atlanta Football Classic.

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Courtney Bahadursingh and the Southern soccer team opens the SWAC portion of their schedule Friday at home against Grambling.

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Soccer opens up SWAC schedule vs. Grambling St.

NEW ORLEANS — Lil Wayne showed off his beginner skateboarding skills alongside a group of professional skateboarders Wednesday at the opening of the artist’s new Trukstop park in his hometown.

The Grammy-winning rapper demonstrated jumps — but didn’t always land on his board — while Paul Rodriguez and Theotis Beasley from the Los Angeles area performed kick flips, board slides, hand plants and other

higher-level tricks for the crowd at the park located in the Lower 9th Ward, one of the most devastated sections of the city after levees failed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Lil Wayne told The Associated Press he started skating about a year and a half ago when he saw someone else skating and thought it looked interesting.

“I thought it would be just a hobby, and I thought only people with skills can do it,” he said. “When you finally get into it and you learn to like it, you’ll quickly learn to love it. It’s more than just four wheels and a piece of wood.”

NEW YORK — “Who am I to say I want you back? When you were never mine to give away.”

Those are the opening lines of a song that accompanies a “New Myspace” promotional video. The once-mighty social network is trying to stage yet another comeback with the help of Justin Timberlake. The new site, for which people can request an invitation, looks a bit like an entertainment-focused version of Pinterest, with a dash of Twitter and Facebook thrown in.

But Myspace has tried redesigns before, to no avail. Will it work this time?

“If you break my heart a second time, I might never be the same,” continues the

song, “Heartbeat,” by the group JJAMZ.From the sound if it, Myspace wants to

win the hearts and minds of tech-savvy hipsters. Founded in 2003 and initially a fast-rising star, Myspace attracted mostly teenagers and twentysomethings, offering them a place to express themselves online. It peaked in 2008 with some 76 million U.S. visitors in October. The site lost its footing as the fun of customizing profile pages began to bore its users and the site’s heavy use of banner advertisements slowed the speed at which pages loaded. At the same time, people were already migrating to Facebook, which counted users 35 and older among its fastest-growing demographic.

The company’s new promotional video offers a 2-minute and 18-second peek into a slick, image-heavy site.

October 1 marks the beginning of midterm week for Southern University, students and staff shed light on study habits and best practices in preparation for the week of testing ahead.

Center for Student Success encourages students to be proactive before midterm since tutors are unable to work during midterm week.

“That’s why the office constantly pushes the whole idea of being proactive and preventive versus reactive and remedial. If students make sure they’re on track prior to midterm, they’ll minimize the need of assistance during midterms’ week,” Nadia Gadson, director of CSS said.

According to Gadson, CSS is helping and assisting students daily with over five tutors available and more than one tutoring session a day.

Gadson said, that there are three ways that students can prepare for midterms through their services. The early alert system, tutoring and study groups.

“All of these things would be done up until midterms,” said Gadson. “Unfortunately, because many of our students receive some form of financial aid in order to be in school, the government puts days on when they can work. So that means that my tutors and my study groups are not on staff during midterm periods.”

Gadson said midterm week is the ideal time that students want to come to utilize their services and assistance.

Some students have their own ideas of what makes their personal study sessions successful.

Ashley Green, a masters business administration graduate from Hahnville, La., said that her best test taking tips are time management and reading through notes.

“Time management would be definitely be mine. I would suggest read through and as you read through, take notes, and as you take the notes, review so if you do have to go back for the test or the day of, you have those quick-ready references as to oppose to having to read through the whole chapter. By that, I don’t mean by just highlighting the big bold words.

Those would be my study secrets. It works for me,” Green said.

Katina Webb, a business management major from Zachary, La., said, “My test taking tips are just, basically, staying focused.”

Webb said that it’s best for some students to write everything the teacher says so that they could study better.

Katrina Legaux, a junior business management major from Zachary, La., said, “I pay attention to the view points of whatever I have to study and I always mark points off, certain things that catches my eye. And that’s how I study.”

Joshua Brown, a freshman music major form New Orleans study groups and breaking problems down to simple form works well for him.

“My tip is to form a study group. You can take a problem and break it down to its lowest term. You could always go back to your teacher too,” Brown said.

When confusion strikes, Brown turns to the simplest terms.

“If I had a harder problem, I’ll take the simplest way. It’s all about the simplest way to a problem,” said Brown.

Briana Jernigan, a sophomore mass communications major from Little Rock, Ark., said being comfortable while studying is important more than peace and quiet.

“Some of the study tips I would offer were to make sure you’re in a comfortable surrounding. It doesn’t always have to be quiet. Just make sure you’re doing something you’re comfortable with. If you have to leave your room, you might want to go to your suite area, that’s if you don’t want to go far,” Jernigan said.

Jernigan said that students should try to go over what they don’t know instead of repeating everything they do know and to review what you need help with.

“Usually, when I’m studying or making a sheet to study on, go over the things I don’t know and I might concentrate on that,” Jernigan said. “Before I go in for a test, I might review so I would just say go over the things you don’t know instead of the things you do know.”

The Center for Student Success offers resources for students who need assistance they are located in Stewart Hall room 107.

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BarBara OrtutayThe Associated Press

Recording artist Lil Wayne carries a skateboard at a new park he helped finance along with Glu Agency and Mountain Dew, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Wednesday.

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A student newspaper is essential and should be highly-praised and respected at any university. The newspaper is not just pieces of paper printed and passed out for leisure, but it is a form of communication amongst the student body, administration and staff. Without the newspaper, many events, games, honorable mentions and good or bad news will go unnoticed and unmentioned.

I would like to take this moment to let my readers and non-readers know that the Digest is and will stand strong. For years, we have provided the Jaguar Nation with only credible, enjoyable and essential news. As a staff writer, I find it very simple-minded for one to believe that a student newspaper isn’t needed. What other form of paper can let one know of all events, problems and improvements on their campus at one time? Simple, there is NO OTHER! When electricity is down, no Internet or no cable. Who else can you depend on? Simply the Digest!

Yes, it has been proven that once the paper is read, it is then thrown away, or added to a collective pile of trash, but who cares, at the end of the day the information has been read and once again you have been awarded

with the opportunity to gain from your Southern Digest.

It was once said by Thomas Jefferson, “where it left me to decide whether we should have a government without a newspaper or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” This quote alone shows that a civilized group or unit that is governed requires a newspaper.

Here at Southern University we have a Student Government Association. SGA proposes to be a training ground for student leadership, political involvement and public service. This all sounds nice, but I would like to see more than I hear … talk is cheap. I will give the newly-elected officials their props; I do see and are aware

of their faces more than the previous year’s officials, which is a start. Although SGA is said to be the voice of the university, I feel that the Digest takes over this role. Unlike SGA, each publication has a section titled “speaking out”. In this allotted section, is an opportunity for randomly selected students to speak out about a certain issue on campus or worldwide.

“SGA seems to be private,” said a current sophomore. “They don’t broadcast enough on opportunities for students to get involved or to be a part of SGA. “I’m aware of them from twitter but what are they? They have cool shirts, but no one gets them, but the ones apart of SGA, which leads me to feel there more of a club and not an association.”

Now, I understand this is the point where my fellow SGA members may say this is a lie, but I do believe what the student body is trying to portray to SGA is, “yes I can find out on the website” or “yes, I can call the office, but the group which makes up SGA is not available on a day-to-day basis for the student body.”

You guys must remember you are first a student, then a member of an organization of your choice. And just remember with no newspaper there is NO GOVERNMENT!

Christie Carral

SUBMISSIONS POLICYThe Southern DIGEST welcomes letters from readers commenting on current issues and other matters of general interest to the SU family and public. We set aside this space to publish these letters for others to enjoy. This newspaper is not responsible for individual opinions expressed on its editorial and opinion pages. The Southern DIGEST reserves the right to edit any contributions and or reject them without notification. Authors are encouraged to limit the length of submissions to 300 words. Letters should not include libelous statements. Offensive and personal attacks will not be permitted. The DIGEST will not print “open letters” addressed to someone else. All contributions must be type written, signed and must include the author’s address and phone number. Unsigned letters will not be printed. Southern University students should include their majors, hometowns and year in school. When referring to specific DIGEST articles, please include the date and title. All materials should be directed to the editor in chief of The Southern DIGEST, P.O. Box 10180, Baton Rouge, La. 70813. Materials may be delivered by hand to the DIGEST office located in Suite 1064 Harris Hall or can be e-mailed to digest@subr.edu.

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lauren JOhnsOn

For the years I’ve attended SU, the newspaper has been one of the most essential parts of being involved with the university.

I overheard a student talking and heard the most dimwitted statement, “The Digest is a waste of money and the school needs to get rid of it.” The thing that upset me most is that that student knew nothing about the Digest, nor did she read the editorial that she was talking trash about. I expected more from a member of our student body.

For nearly 90 years, the Digest newspaper has been in circulation, proving that we are not seasonal and that we are consistent. For a fellow student to say it needs to be removed is utterly ridiculous.

The Office of Student Media has proved itself to be the best time and time again. If she just came and visited us at least once, she would know. The walls of the Digest are cluttered with nothing but awards, and she say’s that our paper needs to

be taken away? Really? Why though? Just last semester the Digest won

FOUR FIRST PLACE awards. Not once did we look to brag, although we do have the right to do so, we didn’t because we let our work speak for itself. We got a mention on the university’s website, but that’s about it. We didn’t even get a picture, but that’s cool because like Big K.R.I.T says, “We got this here.”

The Digest is not only seen on campus. It is accessible anywhere in

the world. Anyone who wants to know what’s going on campus, can access our newspaper by just simply using the school’s website or through Google.

We students need to realize that not all universities have a paper nor are their students alerted or informed of news on campus. For some odd reason, the saying keeps popping in my head, “Be thankful for what you got, because you don’t have to have that.”

It just infuriates me that students think the paper is unnecessary. Well to make a long story short, as my grandma say, “Sweep around your own front door before you try and sweep around mine.” Here at the Digest, all we want is for the students, faculty and staff as well as the surrounding community to know the knowledge and power that we all possess. If the Digest was taken away, the people that depends on us the most will be stripped of the power of knowledge. Remember, we are “The Sentinel of an Enlightened Student Body.”

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