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Christian students unite as OneREINA KEMPT

Staff Reporter

Techs campus Christian community iscomposed o many dierent groups andorganizations, all coming together or onepurpose.

With so many groups or Christians tojoin, some organizations decided to mergetogether, and they hope others will ollowsuit in the uture.

This month marks the frst anniversaryo the merge between Crossroads Churchand Christ Community Church under thename The Bridge. Last month, The Bridge

s student ministry and the Wesley Founda-tion united to become a group named One.

One oers a weekly service at 8 p.m.every Tuesday at The Bridges Tech cam-pus, located at 500 W. Georgia Ave. It wasounded by the three men who directedeach churchs student ministry beore themerge: Scott Wright o the Wesley Founda-tion, Matt Slate o Crossroads Church andCraig Rush o Christ Community Church.

Wright said One welcomes college stu-dents rom all denominational backgroundsto come together and worship God.

The name One came rom Jesus lastprayer, Wright said. In the Bible, John17:21-23 states, I pray that they will all beone, just as you and I are oneas you are

in me, Father, and I am in you. May theyexperience such perect unity that the world

will know that you sent me and that youlove them as much as you love me.

One has only had three services so ar,averaging 80 students in attendance. Theservices consist o praise and worship alongwith a 30-minute sermon and a prayer ses-sion or those in need. The sermons consisto lessons about walking with God and thethree directors alternate who gives the ser-mon each week.

Bryce Brunson, a sophomore psycholo-gy major, is a member o the Wesley Foun-dation who attends the One services aith-ully every week. He said he loves meetingnew people rom every denomination.

Green research

gets boost with$1.1M EDA grantAMIE ROLLANDStaff Reporter

Tech was one o sixschools presented with a ed-eral grant or the i6 GreenChallenge, a national compe-tition ocused on acceleratingentrepreneurship in the Unit-ed States. Today, a press con-erence will be held with Techadministrators and EconomicDevelopment Association o-fcials at the RobertH. Rawle Enterprise

Center, where the$1.1 million grantwill be awarded.

Dave Norris, di-rector or the En-terprise Center,said Tech will usethe grant money toestablish a Prooo Concept Centerwhere research will

be tested, developedand introduced intothe market.

Were going to spend themoney on testing and de-velopment, he said. Somemoney will go to grad stu-dents to do research as well asdesign and execute tests ortechnology out in the feld.

Norris said the EnterpriseCenter is a business incubatorwith one oot in the universityand one oot outside.

We work with aculty andstudents and make a connec-tion with the businesses andinvestors out in the world to

bring technologies to the mar-ket and create new opportuni-ties or our research and ourstudents, he said.

Norris said the universityhas received the ederal grant,

but it will run out in two years.He also said the remainder ocontributions will come romprivate companies.

Over that two-year pe-riod, we want to establishenough relationships between

the university and privatecompanies to und the Prooo Concept Center, he said.The ones who are interestedin the things we are workingon are the ones who will putmoney into it.

Les Guice, vice presidentor research and develop-

ment, said every year Techsaculty and students produceabout 30 inventions and abou10 o those apply or a patent.

It may take two or three years to get patented, anduring that time well talk toindustry olks and start work-ing with them on developing,he said.

The Proo o ConcepCenter will be housed ocampus in University Hall,

but Guice said mosexperimenting takes

place in the feld.I think o it asmore than a build-ing, he said. It isan entire regionaimpact.

Guice said thecenter ocuses pri-marily on greetechnology that caenhance the envi-ronment and turthe ideas into prod-ucts.

We have this concept, hesaid. Now we need to estab-lish that it works.

Wayne Sanord, a resh-man civil engineering major,said it is important or Tech to

be green and more sel-suf-

cient because it saves money.Tech isnt very green rowhat Ive seen, Sanord said.

Sanord said people neeto understand that green tech-nology is not limited to solapanels.

Solar panels are whatsbest right now, but there coulbe something bigger in the u-ture, he said. They are alsotoo large and unattractive.

Catlin Tatum, a reshmaorestry major, said othepeople judge Tech on the ap-pearance they see rom theoutside.

The money should bespent on a bunch o littlethings, she said, not wasteon one big investment.

Tatum said there are a loo improvements that can bemade across Techs campus.

People want to know Techcares about more than engi-neering, she said.

Email commentsto [email protected].

Dean requests SGA help to improve liberal arts

Photo by Dacia Idom

One, a new worship service, began last month in an attempt to bring students o all denominations in a Christian service. In its frst ew

eeks, an average o 80 students have attended, and some hope the ministry will expand to include even more students in the uture.

SGA explores vending machine optionsPATRICK BOYDStaff Reporter

At a recent state studentgovernment meeting, SGAPresident Clint Carlisle got theidea o getting school supplyvending machines or the Techcampus.

What at frst seemed to bea ar-o possibility, the SGA is

now seriously looking at pur-chasing some o the machinesor students, according to aSenate report at Tuesday nightsmeeting.

Apparently more schoolshave these vending machinesthan I thought, Carlisle said.It was just an idea we got at theCouncil o Student Body Presi-dents at ULL.

This past year, the University

o Louisiana at Laayettes SGApitched the idea o providingthese vending machines or stu-dents use.

Ater getting support andunding rom the presidentsofce at ULL, the university or-dered three vending machinesto place in various places ontheir campus.

We originally elt there was

a need to get one since ourbookstore is located in the Stu-dent Union, which is not alwaysvery convenient or students toget to, said Sarah Tronet, vicepresident o ULLs SGA. Thevending machines were a reallygood purchase or our univer-sity.

The vending machines,which Tronet said would ar-rive at their school in the next

ew weeks, will be stocked withnotebooks, inexpensive calcu-lators, pens, pencils and othersupplies.

We are going to place avending machine in the library,one in the ftness acility andthen another in one o thedorms, Tronet said.

The vending machines thatULL ordered will be wrapped in

pictures by the ULL bookstoreand marketing departmentso the campus to personalizethem.

It would be a really goodidea, said Cody Pennington,a reshman marketing major.You wouldnt have to go allthe way across campus to getschool supplies.

Pennington said Techs cam-pus should have them in all de-

partments.They would probably be

broke or out o stock a lotthough, like the usual vendingmachine is, he said.

In the basement o Bog-ard Hall, the main engineering

building on campus, there arevending machines selling partsand supplies or students spe-cifc to engineering.

We started the vending ma-chines around a year and a halago, said David Hall, a proes-sor o mechanical engineering.Students are always needingthings or class, and i it is aterhours then it can be hard to getit to.

The machines that Hallound were old ood vendors

Photo by Kyle Kight

In the basement o Bogard Hall are two vending machines. These

machines do not contain the usual tasty morsels. Instead, they drop

engineering supplies, ranging rom wire to saety glasses.

PATRICK BOYDStaff Reporter

Donald Kaczvinsky, the new-ly appointed dean o College oLiberal Arts, asked or the Stu-dent Government Associationsparticipation in helping improvethe college at SGAs meetingTuesday night, making the col-lege the ocus o the evening.

I want the liberal arts de-partment to move up with the

niversity as a tier one univer-sity, Kaczvinsky said.The College o Liberal Arts

has suered recently due to adecline in the number o stu-dents in its programs, alongwith the scare o proposedudget cuts and even program

cuts by the Board o Regents

last year.There are several projects

that I would like to see hap-pen soon,he said.I wouldlike theSGAs par-ticipationin mak-ing someo theset h i n g s

happen.To helpi m p r o v ethe liberalarts, Kacz-vinsky pre-sented three main goals or theSGA members to consider.

I would like to see the re-

cruitment o students or theliberal arts by going to highschools, he said. We couldshare the kinds o curriculumthat our programs have with thestudents.

Kaczvinsky said that hewould also eventually like to seethe liberal arts hire a philosophyproessor.

In his second point, he dis-cussed having more opportuni-ties or liberal arts majors to be

more knowledgeable about thejob market.Liberal arts majors can

write and think critically, but weare just not sure how to get that

job, he said. We will be work-ing with Ron Cathey [direc-tor o Counseling and CareerServices to hel students with

resumes and have companiescome in and help show studentsthe ways that they can use theirdegree.

In closing, Kaczvinsky pro-posed cleaning up George T.Madison, as it is the most uti-lized building on campus andhas the most students comingthrough its doors and requestedthe SGAs participation in this.

I want to make this buildinglook good, he said. We can

start by painting the walls.The rest o the meeting wasdedicated to swearing in its newmembers, talks o the newly up-dated SGA website and Home-coming preparations.


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Campus

7th annual SAE carshow approaching

Techs Society o Automo-

tive Engineers will host its sev-enth annual car show rom noonntil 5 p.m. Saturday.

Bikes, cars and trucks wille on display under the Argent

Pavilion next to the Joe AilletStadium.

Gate registration ends at 3p.m. and is $20 or any vehicle.

Admission is ree and opento the public.

For more inormation con-tact Sarah May, president oSAE, at 318-558-0175 or [email protected].

Sunday undraiser toraise unds or CMD

Kadens Second Annual Cu-reCMD Bash will be rom 1-4p.m. Sunday at CCs Gymnasticsat 2116 Farmerville Highway.

The bash is a local undrais-er to help raise money to helpconduct research or the raredisease congenital musculardystrophy.

The event will eature a car-nival atmosphere that will in-clude jumping houses, a pettingzoo, games and ood.

CureCMD is looking or busi-nesses or individuals to donateproducts, services or money orthe event.

For more inormation con-tact CC Gymnastics at 318-242-

0042 or [email protected].

NSBE seeks help orcoming science air

Techs chapter o the Nation-al Society or Black Engineerswill host an inormal engineer-ing and science air on Oct. 21at the Boys and Girls Club andis seeking volunteers.

Those interested in helpingshould attend NSBEs meetingat 6 p.m. tonight in Bogard Hall,Room 325.

I you are unable to attend orneed more inormation contactKendall Belcher, NSBE commu-nity service chair, at [email protected]

lpha Kappa AlphaWeek begins Sunday

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,Inc., will host the AKA Week

o the P.E.A.R.L. start ing witha worship service at 10:15 a.m.Sunday at Zion Traveler BaptistChurch.

The week will be flled with

daily events open to students. Alecture about fnancial aid will be at 6 p.m. Monday in WylyTower Auditorium. A lectureabout bullying will be given tosixth graders Tuesday at I.A.Lewis Elementary School. Spatreatments will be given at 5:30p.m. Wednesday in the Wom-ens Center on Sorority Rowwith a discussion about breastcancer, and Thursday will hold aGreeks vs. student body basket-

ball game at 5 p.m. in the MaxieLambright Intramural Center.

For more inormation con-tact Antoria Legget, chair oAKA week, at 318-572-6732 [email protected].

Last chance to dropwith a W nears

The deadline or any studentwho wants to drop a class orresign rom Tech and receive aW on their transcript is 5 p.m.Oct. 23.

Students who drop or resignater 5 p.m. Oct. 23 will receivean F or the quarter.

Drop orms can be picked upin the Registrars Ofce locatedin Keeny Hall, Room 207 or reg-istrars website.

All orms must be flled outcompletely and signed by thestudents adviser beore ap-proval.

For more inormation con-tact Susan Elkins, associate reg-istrar, at 318-257-2176 or [email protected].

Help or choosing amajor coming soon

Techs Career Center is o-ering a career decision-makingworkshop or students whoneed help fnding a major.

The frst workshop will be o-ered at 4 p.m. Oct. 26 and at 4p.m. Oct. 27. The second work-shop will be oered Nov. 1 andNov. 2, both at 4 p.m. The work-shops will meet in Keeny Hall,

Room 337.A student can choose eithero the two-part workshops.

Students interested may reg-ister online at www.latech.edu/students/counseling.

For more inormation con-tact Ashley Allen, counselor/career development coordina-tor, at 318-257-2488 or [email protected].

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NNA celebrates Dashain

Above: Ater the music began and the rst brave souls hit the foor, the members o the Namaste Nepal Association continueddancing until the last song was played during the Nepalese students estival o Dashain celebration. Nepalese students romTech and Grambling celebrated the biggest estival on the Nepalese calendar Saturday night during an event hosted by TechsNNA. The event included a meal, perormances and a dance party.

Below: Shikshya Vaidhya, a senior computer inormations systems major, and Pratik Kc, a junior mechanical engineering major,perormed as the crowd joined in with clapping and singing at the estival o Dashain celebration. Following the perormance,the duet was encouraged by the crowds shouts to perorm, once more.

Photos by Dacia Idom

One is awesome, just the idea o all the stu-dents coming together to worship the same God,Brunson said. Were all separate ministries, butwere all seeing each other as one body o Christ.

Brunson said he likes seeing people rom di-erent religious backgrounds come together, andtheir dierences do not matter because they areall there or the same reason: to worship God.

I think its beautiul, he said. I love going andseeing and meeting new people who are on thiscampus who want to reach people just like I do.

Members hope to expand to a more diversedenominational crowd in the uture, bringing alltypes o people together. Rush said it is not aboutattendance as much as unity right now. He saidthe attendance will come but only when they frstshow unity.

Its sad, but even in the Christian world, wecan get into a competitive mode, trying to seewho can get the most attendance, Rush said.Were trying to communicate that were all inthis together. We serve the same God.

The directors o One have had conversationswith some o the other Christian organizations

about possibly uniting with them in the uture.One is the start o something that could growacross Tech, but this is only the beginning.

At the end o the day, Rush said all One wantsto do is make sure all believers in God know theyare not alone in their walk with God.

Our biggest message we are trying to spreadis that we all are believers in Jesus Christ, Slatesaid. We are all one body serving one Lord, oneSavior. We have all been called by the same Spir-it.

Email comments to [email protected].

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are proud to welcome the newest 2011

pledge class into their sisterhood

The ladies of

Courtney Allbritton

Michaela Armoney

Megan Bernard

Analise Brown

Chelsey Campbell

Elizabeth Cangelosi

Bethany Carlisle

Calette Corcoran

Erika Craft

Rachel Crooks

Emalee Ellis

Kaylee Farris

Caroline Grubbs

Kristen Herbert

Lauren Ingram

Lauren Jackson

Madison KaneAmy Keel

Sarah Kelley

Lauren Kirkland

Taygabbi Landreneau

Jordan Lee

Helen Marrs

Alyson McCoy

Blakely Miller

Lora Monier

Katie Montou

Brandi Moore

Camille Phillips

Valaree Rachal

Sydney Ridgeway

Krista Scruton

Haley Sequeira

Emily Smith

Betsy Sprunt

Jennifer Wyatt

From the outside looking in, you can never understand the love of our Sisterhood; and

from the inside looking out, you can never explain it. Welcome home, sisters!

AMIE ROLLANDStaff Reporter

This is the fourth in a nine-part series onwhat different individuals believe based onthe collection of essays titledThis I Believe II.The book serves as the common read for fresh-man seminar classes as part of the First-YearExperience program.

Living in the heart o the Bible Belt, people o-ten hear stories o salvation and new beginningsthrough aith in God, but when listening to Man-die Ebarb, there is a dierent story to be heard.

Ebarb, a senior 3D studio art major, learned atan early age that sometimes you have to hit rockottom to get back on top.

Ater suering a broken heart, Ebarb said shelost her sense o identity. She spent ve years inisolation.

During that time, Ebarb was diagnosed withdepression and bipolar disorder.

The search or meds and emotional training

was horrible, but I had to have that to be where Iam right now, she said.Ebarb always knew she was dierent and nev-

er took peoples criticism to heart because shenew she was somebody.

When the diagnosis hit, I didnt eel so specialanymore, she said.

She began researching her illness. Ebarbthought i she could not trust her thoughts thenshe needed to be able to comprehend them.

I had to nd mysel and get control o mylie, she said.

Ebarb said there was a long time when she satin her room doing nothing except eeling sorryor hersel, but eventually she began working at it.

I needed to do something beore I did some-

thing I would regret, she said.Growing up, Ebarb said having a personal rela-tionship with God had always been an importantpart o her lie.

Up until my junior year o high school I car-ried a Bible with me, she said. People knewwhere I stood and they respected that.

However, Ebarb began to notice all the hy-pocrisy among her peers and said she began tochange her views on religion. She realized thather aith was a habit that ormed when she was

younger and it no longer served her.

I didnt run away rom God, she said, justChristianity.

Ebarb said that she is still in the beginning oher spiritual journey and it has not ully evolved.

She said i she had to label her belie it would bea direct quote rom Joseph Campbell that reads:Every religion is true one way or another. It istrue when understood metaphorically. But whenit gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpretingthem as acts, then you are in trouble.

The biggest dierence where I dier rom myamily and riends, is that I believe in reincarna-tion, she said.

Ebarb said the idea o saying something istrue, having the aith in that, and dying and goingto heaven where there is no suering disgusts her.

It made no sense, she said. It didnt moti-vate me to be there.

Reincarnation to Ebarb is when a person keepscoming back until he gets his mistakes right.

We learn what it is to love unconditional-ly and to be part o a bigger whole, she said.Were all in this together.

Ebarb said as human beings we are taught thaeverything should be consistent, balanced anharmonious. Without the balance we becomeuneasy. She also said it annoys her when peopledo not believe in things because they have nevegiven it a chance.

You know things because you eel it, shesaid. You believe things until you know them.

Ebarb said labels are hard or her, and shedoes not classiy hersel with a religious denomi-nation because labels put up too many boundar-ies. I am what I am, she said. Im a multitudeo things.

Ebarb said the basis o her spirituality is per-sonal development and sel-knowledge.

She said what she believes is not considerein any denomination, but is based o her knowl-edge and research.

Ebarb said that although she prays, it is not thetraditional Christian prayer but a orm o medita-tion.

You dont have to talk to a guy in the sky, shesaid. He is in you or it is in you: you are it.

Ebarb does not worship multiple gods, prac-

tice witchcrat or any other extremes o religioand ellowship; she simply wants to be amiliawith all aspects o spirituality.

The best way I can describe what I believenow and what Christianity was to me is that tome Christianity is a vertical line, you slip and youcrawl back up, she said. You do the same thingsover and over, and dont really learn anything.Climbing up is hard, but now I believe in every-thing.


I believe...Truth can be found in different ways

PATRICK BOYDStaff Reporter

As the Student Government Association con-tinues planning and setting up or HomecomingWeek, not all students are looking orward to theestivities.

Many students on Techs campus have di-ering opinions about Homecoming Week andwhat it means or the university.

I honestly just dont really care about it,said Micheal Smith, a junior chemical engineer-ing major. I love the university, but I mainly stayocused on stu within my owndepartment.

Smith plans to go to the oot-all game against San Jose State

University and showing schoolspirit by attending the game.

Smith said he does not plan toparticipate in the events duringHomecoming Week because hethinks they tend to be very Greek-centric.

Homecoming tends to be o-cused more on raternities andsororities than on non-Greeks, hesaid.

Many o the events takingplace during Homecoming Weekare competitions between the ra-ternities and sororities.

Most alumni that come backto Homecoming were in raternities and sorori-ties, said Jamie Vercher, a senior psychologymajor. It makes sense that events would be cen-tered around the Greek system since the alumniare the ones who donate a lot o money to theschool.

Vercher eels that Homecoming Week is notpublicized enough or students to always knowwhat is going on.

I eel that it is always poorly planned, shesaid. The SGA always sends out those massemail messages, but not many students reallypay attention to those. There should be moreadvertisement around campus so students aremore aware o what is going on.

By using radio and newspaper, Kewaynethian

Riser, SGA student aairs director, said the SGAplans to publicize Homecoming Week and getthe community more involved.

We really want to excite more interest inHomecoming with everyone rom the commu-nity, he said. Over the past ew years we havetried to get more interest rom non-Greeks andget them more involved.

During his reshman year, Riser said thatHomecoming then was really ocused on theGreek system.

We will be having competitions that willocus on having more non-Greek participation, hesaid.

This years theme Be-tween the Gods and Men theBest Will Win was inspired

by the ootball game againstthe San Jose State Univer-sity Spartans.

I think it is a really goodidea, said Erin Doty, a resh-man biology major. Thetheme is a really good playon the other teams mascot.

Doty, a member o theBand o Pride, is excited toparticipate in the activitiesplanned or HomecomingWeek.

I am very excited aboutHomecoming Week, espe-

cially since it is my rst Homecoming Weekexperience, she said. Whatever way or me toget involved in it, I will.

Daniel Alessi, a reshman mechanical engi-neering major, thinks the theme could be better.

School pride is refected through Home-

coming, Alessi said. I think the theme is OKthis year, but it is not the best.Josh James, a sophomore animal science

major, is also looking orward to the weeks es-tivities.

It is the one time o year where Tech doessomething big, James said. The theme willhelp us to have spirit against San Jose.


I am very excited

about HomecomingWeek, especially since

it is my rst Home-

coming Week experi-

ence.

Erin Dotyfreshman biology major

Homecoming Week theme

gets mixed student reviews

2003 Alumnus o the Year

donates $1M to alma mater

Mandie Ebarb, a senior 3D studio art student, holds the book that Luke Kinmon, a senior communica-

tion design student, made her. Ebarb uses the book to jot down encouraging religious quotes.

Photos by Jessica Van Alstyne

Tech News Services

Mike McCallister, chairmanand CEO o Humana Inc. andLouisiana Tech University alum-nus, and The Humana Founda-tion have donated $1 millionto McCallisters alma mater tohelp und the construction onew, state-o-the-art acilitiesor Louisiana Tech athletics andthe College o Business.

McCallister made a per-sonal contribution o $500,000to Louisiana Techs Questor Excellence athletics acil-ity campaign and The HumanaFoundation matched

his git with another$500,000 donationor the expansion othe new College oBusiness building.McCallister earnedhis bachelors degreein accounting romLouisiana TechsCollege o Businessin 1974.

Mike McCallis-ter - 2003 LouisianaTech Alumnus o theYear and HumanaChairman and CEO

Since the day hegraduated rom Louisiana TechUniversity, Mike McCallisterhas been active and steadast inhis support o our institution,said Louisiana Tech UniversityPresident Dan Reneau. Hecontinues to inspire us with hiscommitment to his alma materand his eorts to provide newopportunities or the studentso Louisiana Tech.

I am grateul or the invest-

ments he has made in LouisianaTech and the generous supporthe has shown or our studentand aculty. Mike is a truechampion o our university andits vision or the uture.

In honor o his involvementin and support o LouisianaTech, McCallister was award-ed the coveted Tower Medal-lion and selected as LouisianaTechs Alumnus o the Year in2003. The Tower Medallion isgiven to Louisiana Tech alumniwho have distinguished them-selves by exceptional achieve-ment, community service and

humanitarian activi-

ties.In addition to his

Tower Medallion andselection as TechsAlumnus o the Year,McCallister was alsonamed the Alum-nus o the Year orthe College o Busi-ness in 2001. He hasprovided substantialunding or an emi-nent scholar chair,endowed proessor-ships and a scholar-ship und or the Uni-versity.

Louisiana Tech gave me in-dispensible skills that Ive usedsince the day I graduated, Mc-Callister said. Im honored to

be able to give back to the uni-versity so uture generations ostudents can continue to enjoythe benets o a Louisiana Techeducation.

Following his graduationrom Louisiana Tech, McCal-lister joined Humana as a -

nance specialist, working ithe companys headquarters iLouisville, Kentucky. He leHumana hospitals in Louisianaand Caliornia beore assumingresponsibility or the companyshealth plan operations in thelate 1990s.

In 2000, Humana nameMcCallister president and chieexecutive ocer. He quicklyearned industry-wide respecor his visionary leadership antechnology innovations. McCal-listers strength o leadershipand Humanas decade-longgrowth led to his appointmenas Humanas Chairman o the

Board in 2010.Under McCallisters direc-

tion, Humana has quadrupleits annual revenues and recentlyacquired a nationwide systeo primary care and occupa-tional health centers.

McCallisters contribution tothe Quest or Excellence cam-paign will support the construc-tion o a multi-purpose acilityto provide all Louisiana Techstudent-athletes with superioathletic and academic resourc-es, and to position LouisianaTech athletics as a nationallyrespected and competitive pro-gram.

The Humana Foundationsgit will help to advance theCollege o Business BuildingDistinction campaign and itsgoal o $5 million to increasethe size o the new building byadding a wing to the plannestructure. This wing will allowthe College to better serve theneeds o students and aculty,today and into the uture.

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OWS legitimacy rightens ar rightKELLY BELTON

Editor-in-Chief

Three weeks into OccupyWall Street, the lamestreammedia seems to have

nally started to take the growingmovement seriously, granting itlegitimacy among ears rom thear right.

Despite its many similaritieswith the Tea Party movement,some rather extreme conserva-tives have turned to ear-basedrhetoric in response to the pro-testers, who are now demonstrat-ing in cities across the nation.

Assuming the OWS protest-ers are anti-capitalist, Glenn Beckwarned true capitalists on his

Monday radio show, saying, iyou think that you can play oot-sies with these people, yourewrong. They will come or youand drag you into the streets andill you...theyre Marxist radicals...

these guys are worse than Robe-spierre rom the French Revolu-tion...theyll kill everybody.

Its interesting that he sup-ports a non-violent movement sosimilar in nature but is quick toattack protesters who dont meet

the prole o a Tea Partier: white,above the age o 40, Protestant.

Ann Coulter, ar-right commen-tator and author, would disagree.On Fox and Friends Sunday,she called the OWS movementdemonic and an actual mobuprising with no cause. She wenton to call the protesters wastrelsdeecating on police cars.

Eric Cantor has also con-demned the OWS mobs, claim-ing they are pitting Americansagainst Americans, according tothe Hungton Post.

Many would say the samethings o the Tea Party move-ment, which has a general mes-sage but remains largely dividedon key issues and candidates. At

a Tea Party I attended in Ruston,I watched older men, veteranseven, yell at students, demandingto know whether they had reada history book. I some Occupyprotesters have turned to a simi-lar tone and attitude, they are notrepresentative o the movement,

just as some racist Tea Partiersare not representative o theirs.

While extreme conservativeswould like to believe the OWSare Democrats out to trample

the GOPs wonderul chances osuccess in next years presidentialelection, they could not be urtherrom the truth.

The message o OWS, whilenot always crystal clear, has obvi-ously been made clear enough ormost media and people to under-stand: get money out o politicsand put government on the sideo the people rather than on theside o big banks, big business andWall Street.

President Barack Obama isguilty. Presidential hopeuls areguilty. No politician is sae romthis movement. Instead o seeingOWS or what it is, a nonpartisanmovement o the masses, radicalconservatives see a chance to at-

tack anyone who may disagreewith them.

Its important to note that themajority o OWS protesters have

been non-violent. In act, Re-publican New York Mayor MikeBloomberg said Monday that pro-testers could stay indenitely aslong as they remain peaceul. Themost violent action I have heardo is protesters being pepper-sprayed by police, a ar cry romthe mass death by guillotine that

Beck so adamantly believes is onthe horizon.

Occupy is inspiring, as it trulyis a movement o, by and or thepeople. As Bank o America dis-closed Friday that the companygave a total o $11 million to twodeparted executives, OWS pro-testers and many other Ameri-cans shook their heads and start-ed Bank Transer Day. On Nov.5, thousands will take their moneyout o big banks and put it into lo-cal banks and credit unions. Morethan 21,000 people have RSVPdon the Facebook event. Why cantthe ar right comprehend or even

join in such rustration?In the style o Beck, I leave you

with an 1816 quote rom Thomas

Jeerson: I hope we shall crushin its birth the aristocracy o ourmoneyed corporations whichdare already to challenge our gov-ernment to a trial by strength, and

bid deance to the laws o ourcountry.

Kelly Belton is a senior journalism andpolitical science major from Houstonwho serves as editor-in-chief for TheTech Talk. Email comments to [email protected].

Apple lost its newly retired CEO and co-oundeto pancreatic cancer, last week leaving manyquestioning whether Apple can survive the ab-sence o its greatest innovator.

Steve Jobs is the reason we can all listen to an iPod,open a MacBook, browse the Internet on an iPad otalk on an iPhone.

With Jobs being the mastermind behind these prod-ucts and pushing Apple to be a leading corporatioin modern technology, the next CEO, Tim Cook, hasenormous shoes to ll.

Although Cook has an impeccable job resume, hav-ing worked at Apple or more than a decade, and Com-

paq and IBM beore Apple, many are apprehensive thahe will have the same mentality as Jobs when it comesto caring about the quality o Apples products.

According to a Forbes article, Apple is considerea hardware company, making most o its prot sellinghardware. Cook is known to despise hardware becauseit is big, bulky and expensive. The article also said Ap-ple has already done all it can do to convert its con-sumers rom physical media to digital sotware.

So now the question is will Cook put aside his owpreerences or the good o the company or will Applewitness a series o changes? It will either grow or wors-en. It is the opinion o The Tech Talk that Apple wilsurvive, but with some changes.

We cannot discount a company because one o itsounders has passed; we have to remember that be-hind every mastermind is a team o people workingto put his innovative idea into action. Unless everyonedecides to quit because o Jobs death, the majority othe people who worked and/or were hired by Jobs wilstill be there. These people will be even more vital to

the brand now that Jobs is gone. Cook will have to relyon them to continue producing as they did when Jobswas around.

The changes will come once the people who Jobshired start to retire or leave and Cook has to replacethem. Jobs did an excellent job o picking out the righperson or each position. Ater all, he was the one withthe vision and knew what it would take to get it accom-plished. Since Jobs cared extensively about the com-pany, we can only imagine the time and eort he tooto select each individual. Cook, however, may not havethe same outlook when it comes to the hiring process,which can be scary or the uture o Apple.

All it takes is or one bad apple to bring down thecompany. I that one bad apple hires other bad applesit will set o a series o bad employees coming into thecompany, and Jobs vision will be lost.

We have to trust that Cook will eel the same wayabout the quality o the products. Cook may be tempt-ed to use cheaper materials and sell them at a higheprice or he may release a new iPhone every six monthsto try to cash in on intrigued consumers who alwayshave the latest and greatest product.

We can only hope that Cook continues Jobs visioo the company and that Apple will continue to be amajor contributor in modern technology in the uture.

We cannot expect Cook to lead Apple as Jobs did,because nobody can ever care about a product or com-pany more than the person who created it.

Apple will

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LaTXT hopes to change drivingREBECCA SPENCE

News Editor

n this age o technology, driv-ers send and receive text mes-sages daily without a thought

about what may lie on the roadahead o them.

The second a driver picks uphis phone, he is 23 times morelikely to be involved in an acci-dent, according to a 2009 VirginiaTech Transportation Institute.Distraction rom cellphone usewhile driving inhibits a drivers re-action as much as having a bloodalcohol level at the legal limit o

.08 percent. The No. 1 source odriver inattention links back to us-ing a wireless device.

Texting and driving statisticsseemingly get worse as more peo-ple continue to ddle with theirphones while behind the wheel. Tome, it just does not make sense.

As a previously uninormedtexter and driver, texting camenaturally to me because it was anormal thing when I was growingp. I never had a second thought

about driving while shooting textsack and orth until recently when

I became involved in the new oncampus organization, LaTXT.

As a group, we went throughstatistics and were encouragedto do research to understand thetrue harm in sending a quick textwhile trying to operate a vehicle.

The studies were shocking,the statistics were unreal and thenumber o people I knew whohad been in a wreck involving atexter or knew someone who wasinvolved in such a accident, in-creased daily.

It is so hard to athom thata simple 10-second text couldmean the end o a lie, but it hap-pens and is common.

Think about how many times you have elt your car vibrate asyou have swerved over the lines onInterstate 20. I an obstacle wasin the middle o the lane, the sec-ond your eyes are on the screeninstead o the road, the objectis invisible to you. There are toomany risks that come with textingand driving that make it worth thewait or a sae time to text.

Living in a small town like Rus-ton, it does not take us long to getaround the town in a timely man-

ner. I encourage you to start small;the habit will catch on or morestrenuous trips i you plan on put-ting your phone away or the shortamount o time you are drivingaround Ruston. You can be ullyocused on the road instead owhat is happening rom the otherend o the line.

Hold your riends and amilymembers accountable by remind-ing them to keep their hands onthe wheel instead o on the key-

board.Think about how you would

eel i the person receiving yourtext was involved in an accident,which resulted in death. I am will-ing to bet that any text can waituntil you get home.

It is easy to wave o somethingas seemingly miniscule as this insuch a technology-based world,

but percentages are high whenyou get into the car and when youstart texting, they are astronomi-cal. Why would you make your-sel more vulnerable and morelikely to get in a accident?

A driver without wirelessphone distractions is 400 percentless likely to get in an accident.

That is more than 100, olks; it isalmost guaranteeing that the per-son behind the wheel will at somepoint get in an accident.

For all o the technology lov-ers, guess what? People 20 yearsago did not have such wirelessdistractions while driving and theywere able to communicate witheach other and carry on their per-sonal and proessional lives with-out a gripe. I they could handleit, what is stopping us?

LaTXT is holding a air rom 11a.m.-2 p.m. Oct.19 in CentennialPlaza to demonstrate the dangerso texting and driving. I encour-age you to at least stop by the

booth or look at some o the hor-ror stories. Also look out or thehomecoming parade foat, wheremore inormation will be put intoa visual display.

Each choice is ultimately yoursto make. Wait or text? Pull over orkeep driving? Lie or death?

Rebecca Spence is a senior journalismand speech communications majorfrom Cypress, Texas, who serves asnews editor for The Tech Talk. Emailcomments to [email protected].

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Dream Act a nightmare or someNAOMI ALLISON

News Editor

With more than 11.2 mil-lion illegal immigrantsresiding in the U.S. and

65,000 undocumented studentsgraduating rom high school eachyear, passionate discussions haveerupted among various organi-zations both or and against theCaliornia Dream Act.

The controversial law (AB131), which Democratic Gov.Jerry Brown signed on Saturday

aternoon, will become eectivestarting Jan. 3, 2013, and createeducational opportunities or un-documented students who are ona path to citizenship by enablingthem to apply or and receivestate aid.

According to the CaliorniaDepartment o Finance, the billwill impact an estimated 2,500students. They will be eligible toreceive Cal grants totaling $14.5million, a hety $5,800 per student.

In a nutshell, this means only1 percent o all Cal Grant unds,which total $1.4 billion, will be a-ected by the legislative package.

Though the bill is slightly di-erent rom the 2009 DREAM Act(Development, Relie and Educa-tion or Alien Minors), which at-tempts to grant ull citizenship toU.S.-born alien students over asix-year period through college or

by joining the military, many eelangered and betrayed.

Caliornia Assemblyman TimDonnelly said the bills passagewas the biggest mistake the Dem-ocratic Party ever made.

The polling indicates that 80to 90 percent o Caliornians are

against this, and it crosses partylines, Donnelly said.

Donnelly said he hopes to get aballot initiative started to overturnthe law as soon as the bill is o-cially a state statute.

Mark Krikorian, executivedirector o the Center or Im-migrant Studies, a non-partisanWashington, D.C., research orga-nization whose tagline is Low-immigration, Pro-immigrant, saidthe bill is only part o the problem.

The reason [the Dream Act]matters, he said, is that its anattempt to legitimize the presenceo illegal immigrants. People say,

How can you object to letting theyoung people who are living hereget tuition?

The point o [the DreamAct] is not to give nancial aid toa ew students, but to create po-litical momentum in Washingtonor amnesty or all illegal immi-grants.

Ginny Rapini, coordinator orthe NorCal Tea Party Patriots,said there should be consequenc-es or illegal immigrants and giv-ing them an education unded byCaliornia taxpayers isnt air to

the legal residents who cant a-ord to pay or their own tuition.

What part o illegal do wenot get? she said. When peoplecome here illegally they need tocome here with the same rulesand regulations that other peoplecame here with.

To me, I can understand whyso many people are upset aboutCaliornia providing ederal aid toundocumented immigrants, espe-cially when college tuition is risingand Caliornias public collegesand universities are struggling tosurvive the economic downturn.

At the same time, there is the

morality o the situation.Children o illegal immigrants

are American citizens i born inthe U.S. Also, by preventing themrom getting an education, willCaliornia lose uture skilled work-ers who can pay taxes and ll jobslet by baby boomers expected toretire in the coming years?

The answer remains uncertain.Overall, I eel AB 131 is only a

partial solution. Even though un-documented immigrants will beable to earn a degree, they willnot have a right to work or obtain

a drivers license. Only Congresshas the power to pass legislationproviding a path to legalizationand a green card.

That being said, i educationwere ree, politics werent a ma-

jor actor, and i the governmentestablished more restrictive poli-cies on immigration, we wouldnt

be having these problems. Thenagain, what are the chances othat happening, right?

Naomi Allison is a junior journalismmajor from West Lake who serves asnews editor for The Tech Talk. Emailcomments to [email protected].

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Watch batteries, clothespins,pipe cleaners and tiny lightulbs may seem like ordinary

objects, but when combined,they can spark the imaginationo a child.

Second-graders rom A.E.

Phillips Laboratory School vis-ited the College o Engineeringand Science Friday where theymade electronic refies outo a watch battery, clothespin,pipe cleaners, two LEDs andwire. The wire helped create acircuit with the battery to lightup the LEDs, which represent-ed the refys eyes.

Sally Allen, one o the sec-ond grade co-teachers romA.E. Phillips, said the eld tripto the COES started when oneo the students checked out aook about robots rom the

A.E. Phillips library.Ater pouring over the book

or several weeks, the child toldme he had really been inspiredand that he had nally decidedwhat he was going to be whenhe grew up, Allen said. Hewas going to be a amous robotdesigner.

Allen said the book wasvery outdated, so they lookedor more current inormationabout robots. She also said thestudent spent hours research-ing robots on the Internet.

Gail Nelson, the librarianand media specialist or A.E.Phillips, said she and the stu-dent had a discussion about ro-ots because the student ound

out her husband, Jim Nelson,is an engineering proessor atTech who works with buildingrobots. She said the boys pas-sion, excitement and interest

in robots led her to set up theeld trip to Tech through herhusbands connections as as-

sociate dean o undergraduatestudies in the College o Engi-neering and Science.

It became obvious to methat this was not just a whim,

but something about which(he) had given much thought,Nelson said. As his librarian,I immediately considered re-sources that would be avail-

able to him that could lead to apositive, lasting experience andalso urther that passion.

Jane Petrus, student successspecialist or the COES, helpedarrange the eld trip to intro-duce the second-graders to en-gineering and science.

I organized this project be-cause it is never too early toexpose someone to engineer-ing, Petrus said. I I was ableto spark an interest in at leastone child, then maybe theywill think about becoming anengineer. And, who knows,that could be the engineer thatmakes a great discovery orcontributes to society in a veryspecial way.

She said it was a good expe-rience or the children to par-ticipate in because it gets theminside Tech.

I have noticed that just because people live in Rus-ton, they may not know all thethings that go on inside someo the buildings [at Tech], Pe-trus said. By having the kidsinside Bogard Hall, they wereable to see our labs, look atsome o our student projects,learn about engineers, and seethat engineering can be un.

The students saw some othe Boe-bots and Arduino ro-

botic kits used in the engineer-ing program and the Eco-Car.

Allen said she and her co-teacher, Shai Garrett, believe

the chance or the students tovisit Techs engineering pro-gram came rom that students

interest and rom teachers tak-ing a teachable moment tohelp engage their students.

A.E. Phillips students areincredibly ortunate to be in anenvironment that osters a loveo learning and develops inde-

pendent critical thinkers, saidAllen. We are preparing ourstudents to be condent and

competitive in a global society.We want our students to knowthat Tech has one o the topengineering programs in thecountry and inspire them to bea part o it.

Nelson said that in addition

to learning science vocabularyabout electronics and how to build their electronic insects,

the students learned that in-terests can be nurtured andencouraged through discussionand participation.

I believe that knowledgeo engineering and scienceconcepts provides the basis

or technology development,Nelson said, or creating andmaintaining mechanical devic-

es, or building structures thameet the needs o communi-ties, and or shaping a worllled with aesthetics and awe.What better way to begin thisprocess than with children, bypaying attention to their ideas.


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A.E. Phillips second-grade co-teacher Shai Garrett s tands with students as they wait or the BOE-bots next move. James D. Nelson, as-sociate dean or undergraduate studies or College o Engineering and Science, and Kyle Davis, a senior mechanical engineering major,were among the volunteers who helped teach students engineering through activities like making electronic refies, viewing TechsEco-Car and learning about the Boe-bot.

JUSTIN FORT

Staff Reporter

Beginning all quarter 2011,Aramark added new items toSalad Gardens menu in an e-ort to increase sales.

Blue cheese dressing, grilledchicken and baby spinach are aew o the items that were add-

ed to the menu.However, when Aramark de-cided to remove one item, tacosalad tortilla chips, some stu-dents were dissatised.

Sophomore psychology ma-jor Paige Talley is one o thosedissatised students.

The new shells are verygreasy and make the rest o thesalad greasy, Talley said. Thechips made the salad taste bet-ter.

Robert Lubbert, residentdistrict manager o Aramark,said he and other Aramark em-ployees decided to change theshells this summer.

We are constantly looking

or new ideas, Lubbert said.We are always looking to im-prove service, product and va-riety. We understand we cannotplease all customers, but we tryto please as many as we can.

Some students have given upon the tortilla chip taco saladthey were accustomed to eat-ing, while other students have

embraced the new shell.I wasnt a an o the ones beore, said sophomore mar-keting major Morgan Caneld.I didnt like how the chips werecrunched up in it. I like this bet-ter because it is more similar tohow they do it at a restaurant.

Talley said she has onlyheard a ew people say any-thing positive about the new,soter shells. In act, she saidshe has seen some students tryto create the classic taco saladthemselves.

Ive seen other people buy abag o chips and take the shellout o the salad, Talley said.I I do decide to get the taco

salad again, I will probably buya bag o chips to put with it.

Although there have beenmixed eelings about the newshells, Aramarks decision to al-ter the menu has paid o. Lub-

bert said Salad Garden is mak-ing more money than it was inthe past, despite the new shells

being more expensive to make.

Just because we like some-thing does not mean our guestswill have the same opinion,Lubbert said. We have to lookat their comments closely.

According to Lubbert, theonly comments Aramark em-ployees have received are posi-tive. Salad Garden employeeJ.A. Clark said students have

been praising the new addi-tions.

I believe the bowls are moreun or them, Clark said. Weare trying to see which shellthey respond to better.

Senior psychology majorAlex Gardeni said he does notmind the new, pre-made shells,

but it is not his primary choice.The new shells arent bad,

Gardeni said, but Im more oa crunch kind o guy. The chipscomplete the bowl.

Lubbert said he believesthere should be more than onechoice or students when mak-ing the taco salads.

I think not only should we

have the two, but have chips iaddition and let the customerschoose, Lubbert said. Ater aperiod o time, we would takeout the product that does nomove.

For those students who haverecently become dssatisewith Salad Gardens new tacoshells, Lubbert said Aramarhas added the tortilla chips

back to the menu in addition tonew tortilla strips.

Its all about quality anservice, Lubbert said. You wil

be able to have a choice.


Photo by Jessica Van Alstyne

Although some students complain the tortilla bowls become toosoggy ater adding other ingredients, other students still enjoythem. Salad Garden has added dierent types o chips, includingtortilla chips and strips, to satisy every customer.

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WASHINGTON A dayater Senate Republicans killedhis $447 billion jobs bill, Presi-dent Barack Obama said heisnt taking no or an answer.

In his frst, combative ap-pearance since a united Sen-ate GOP caucus flibusteredthe jobs plan to death, Obamapromised to keep the pressureon Congress or his job initia-tives.

Now a lot o olks in Wash-ington and the media will lookat last nights vote and say,Well, thats it. Lets move on tothe next fght. But Ive got newsor them: Not this time. Notwith so many Americans outo work, he said. Not with somany olks in your communitieshurting. We will not take no oran answer.

Ater pressing or Congress

to award his jobs package an upor down vote, Obama and hisDemocratic allies promise toorce additional votes on sepa-rate pieces o the measure, likeinrastructure spending, joblessassistance and tax cuts or indi-viduals and businesses.

We will keep organizing andwe will keep pressuring and wewill keep voting until this Con-gress fnally meets its responsi-ilities and actually does some-

thing to put people back to workand improve the economy, saidObama, who spoke at an eventorganized by the White Houserecognizing Latino contribu-tions to American history.

The White House is us-ing the jobs issue as a political

sword as the 2012 campaignheats up. But itll take a more bi-partisan approach to deliver re-sults sought by an angry public.

Obamas plan died at thehands o Senate Republicans onTuesday, even though the presi-dent had been campaigning orit across the country or weeks.The $447 billion plan ell on a50-49 tally in the 100-memberSenate, alling well short othe 60 votes needed to crack a

flibuster by Republicans. Theyopposed to its stimulus-stylespending and its tax surchargeor the very wealthy.

Now, the White House andleaders in Congress are mov-ing on to alternative ways toaddress the nations painul 9.1percent unemployment, includ-ing breaking the legislation intosmaller, more digestible pieces.And on Wednesday, both hous-es are poised to approve long-stalled trade pacts with Korea,Panama and Colombia.

In the weeks and monthsahead, Democrats promiseurther votes on jobs. But it re-

mains to be seen how mucho that eort will involve morecampaign-stoked battles withRepublicans and how muchwill include seeking commonground in hopes o passinglegislation. Further complicat-ing matters is a defcit super-committee that is supposedto come up with $1.2 trillion ormore in defcit savings someo which Democrats may wantto claim or jobs initiatives.

Tuesdays tally also shows

that Republicans believe theyhave little to ear by tanglingwith Obama.

Republicans will continueto seek out any Democrat whosmore interested in jobs than inpolitical posturing and workwith them on bipartisan legis-lation like the trade bills wellvote on tonight, Senate Minor-ity Leader Mitch McConnell,R-Ky., said Wednesday. Whatwe will not do, though, is votein avor o any more misguidedstimulus bills because some billwriter slapped the word jobson the cover page.

The White House appears

most confdent that it will beable to continue a 2-percent-age-point Social Security pay-roll tax cut through 2012 and toextend emergency unemploy-ment benefts to millions opeople i only because, inthe White House view, Repub-licans wont want to accept thepolitical harm o letting thoseprovisions expire.

White House ofcials alsoare hopeul o ultimately gar-nering votes or the approval o

inrastructure spending and taxcredits or businesses that hireunemployed veterans.

Senate Democrats will beginsorting through their options on

jobs at a weekly closed-doorcaucus on Wednesday.

Obamas plan would havecombined Social Security pay-roll tax cuts or workers and

businesses and other tax relietotaling about $270 billion with$175 billion in new spending onroads, school repairs and otherinrastructure, as well as unem-ployment assistance and help tolocal governments to avoid lay-os o teachers, frefghters and

police ofcers.Obama said the plan would be an insurance policy againsta double-dip recession and thatcontinued economic interven-tion was essential given slower-than-hoped job growth.

Unlike the 2009 legislation,the current plan would be paidor with a 5.6 percent surchargeon income exceeding $1 mil-lion. That would be expected toraise about $450 billion over thecoming decade.

Obama: Jobs bill fight not over Man charged inassasination plotheld without bailAssociated Press

A man charged in a plotto assassinate the Saudi am-

bassador to the United Stateswas held without bail Tuesdayater his lawyer agreed duringhis initial court appearance tohis detention or now.

Manssor Arbabsiar ap-peared only a ew minutes inU.S. District Court in Manhat-tan, where a U.S. magistrateadvised him o hisrights and askedhim to confrm thathe had signed an a-fdavit describing hisfnancial assets.

Authorities sayArbabsiar, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen whoalso holds an Ira-nian passport, hasadmitted his role ina $1.5 million plotto kill the ambassa-dor at a restaurant bysetting o explosives. No pleawas entered during the largelyprocedural court appearance

because the charges are con-tained in a criminal complaint,rather than an indictment.

President Barack Obamasadministration has accusedagents o the Iranian govern-ment o being involved in theplot. Secretary o State Hill-ary Rodham Clinton says thethwarted plot will urther iso-

late Tehran.The press attache at Iransmission to the United Nations,Alizreza Miryusef, said theaccusation was totally base-less.

In court papers, Arbabsiarwas accused o arranging or$100,000 to be sent rom aoreign country to an accountin the United States that wasactually held in an undercovercapacity by the FBI.

Gholam Shakuri, a second

man charged but not arrestedin the case had provided Arb-absiar with thousands o dol-lars to pay or expenses relat-ed to the plot, authorities said.

Shakuri, according to au-thorities, was a Quds Forcemember and is still at largein Iran. The Treasury De-partment listed addresses orArbabsiar in two Texas cit-ies the Austin suburb oRound Rock and the Gul city

o Corpus Christi and prosecutors sayhe requently trav-eled to Mexico or

business.According to the

complaint, Arbab-

siar was instructedto use code wordswhen communicat-ing with his co-de-endant, includingChevrolet or the

ambassador plot.Arbabsiars court-

appointed lawyer, SabrinaShro, made some medicalrequests in writing Tuesday.Outside court, she said herclient needed medication orhigh blood pressure.

Although the next courdate was set or Oct. 25, thedate actually serves morecommonly as a deadline oran indictment to be broughunless either side asks oran extension o time, which

sometimes occurs when bothsides are talking with one an-other.

The Obama administrationhas said that no option is othe table with Iran, a positionthat a U.S. ofcial said had nochanged. But the ofcial, whospoke on condition o ano-nymity because he was noauthorized to discuss the pol-icy, said the emphasis now ison increasing diplomatic andeconomic pressure on Iran.

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President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he will not take no for an answer after Republicanskilled his $447 billion jobs bill in the Senate on Tuesday. He has said he will push more votes on thelegislation, which he says will keep the U.S. out of a double-dip recession, until Congress passes it.

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Carollas comedy remains most

popular on iTunes podcast listMARY TIMMONS

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With Adam Carollas politi-cal rants, o-beat stories andreoccurring use o the phraseGermany or Florida? its nowonder his podcast has 50 mil-lion downloads.

The Adam Carolla Showhas it all. Its unny, educationaland, most importantly, ree.

The show originally aired in

2009 and is ormally known asThe Adam Carolla Podcast.In its frst year it was selectedas the Best Audio Podcast byiTunes.

Since its debut the podcasthas been a hit across the na-tion.

To this day it remains one othe top podcasts in the coun-try. Unlike your usual radio talkshow, the podcast crosses linesthat shouldnt be crossed and

breaches numerous boundar-ies.

It has a tendency to be con-troversial at times yet still ut-terly intriguing.

Though some my believe

that podcast may be slightlyboring a high point o listeningto Carolla is you get an honestopinion when listening.

Liking Carollas opinion isone thing but when the listenerdoesnt agree with what he hasto say, it sparks an entire neworm o argumentation thatmakes turning him o not anoption.

Growing popularity hashelped Carolla go on to do anumber o stand-up shows andpublish his frst book.

According the Guinness

Book o World Records, Ca-rollas podcast is the mosdownloaded in the world and isranked number one on iTunes.

As an American youth, Ca-rollas podcast immediatelygrasped my attention.

This is something not onlyto Tech students but every col-lege student in America who islooking or something new tohear.

His show is crazy to the

point where it might even pissthe listener o, but that doesnmake it not worth hearing.

Whether you like it or hateit, the act o the matter is thathis show will never get old.Carolla has taking podcast to awhole dierent level and as al-lowed everyone the chance toembrace it.

The podcast can be down-loaded on iTunes as well as thehosts ofcial website. Since iremains ree there is absolutelyno reason or everyone not toenjoy it.

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Jokester creates jazz albumMARY TIMMONS

Associate Editor

Funny man Seth MacFarlaneproves his new jazz album, Mu-sic is Better Than Words, is nojoke.

MacFarlane, who is wellnown or his work on the ani-

mation series Family Guy re-leased the album Sept. 27 andhas received an overall goodreception on the album.

Previous to this the mostweve heard MacFarlane singis usually during an episodeon his animation shows. He isnown or making musical like

sequences in his shows.Though at frst it is hard to

get past the act the MacFar-lane isnt making some sort ojoke, once he starts singing thelistener can really begin to takehim seriously.

Its no surprise that the writerwon an Emmy or OutstandingMusic and Lyrics or his creativeintroduction to Family Guy.

His album however, hasmuch more o a serious toneand is ar rom the jokester wenow.

His big band jazz voice is veryappealing and resh to listen to,

and the serious demeanor othe album made it enjoyable.

MacFarlanes album imme-diately gained my attention withhis Frank Sinatra-like voice.

Like Sinatra, MacFarlanesvoice caresses the listeners earwith sot sounds and low bass.

There is no doubt that i youare a Sinatra an that you willlike this too.

MacFarlane even went asar as to use the same record-ing studio and microphone asSinatra.

Though remarkably similarto Sinatra, MacFarlane makesit a point to make is work more

distinctive.Listeners will defnitely be

able to tell that the musician be-hind the voice is MacFarlane.

With talented guests likeNorah Jones and Sarah Ba-reilles joining him on the album,who wouldnt want to listen tohim sing?

American Dad composerJoel Mcneely even joined Mac-Farlane or the fnal track o thealbum, Shes Wonderul Too.

Despite the act that all butone song is a remake, MacFar-lane still proves he has a knackor singing and the songs heused are much less known.

The album has 14 tracks andlasts more than 50 minutes.Love Wont Let You Get Awayand You are the Cream in MyCoee are tracks you dontwant to miss.

Dont get me wrong, Mac-Farlane still knows how to makeme laugh, but its nice to see himmake something that isnt flledwill racist remarks or sexual in-nuendos. This albums reshtake on jazz makes it somethingthat you will want to hear.

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3 Docs Brewhouse was arrom unky last Saturday whenEarphunk took the stage.

The New Orleans-inspiredunk band claims to have puttogether resh unky spin on oldunky styles.

Unortunately, this seems toe a style that the Tech com-

munity is not quite ready tohear.

Though there seemed toe a ew people in ront o the

stage dancing with the band,the majority o attendees en-joyed hanging out on the patioinstead o actually listening tothe band perorm.

Gage Viola, a junior gen-eral studies major, said he pre-erred to stay outside during theands perormance.

There is a reason Im not

inside, Viola said. Id rather beoutside drinking. It sounds likea bunch o beating and its notsomething I ancy.

Viola said the only reasonhe really remembered the bandplaying was when someonewould walk in and out o theuilding.

No one is really inside

dancing and we cant reallyhear them, Viola said. I thinkwe will be going somewhereelse to party soon.

Im not sure i it was the

good drinks or ree cover that brought peo-ple into the barthat night, butI have a eel-ing it defnitelywasnt Earp-hunk.

N a t a -lie Rabb, as o p h o m o r ecommunica -tion design,major said shecame out to 3Docs not orthe band but

because shedidnt have topay cover ishe arrived be-

ore midnight.I kind o liked it when Icouldnt hear the band playing,Rabb said. I tuned them outmost o the time. I like reggae

but unk is not something I typi-cally listen to.

Though she didnt come tolisten to the band, Rabb saidthat she could hear them dur-

ing certain times throughoutthe night.

Good music is like sex tothe ears, Rabb said. This ismore like that annoying girl

chattering in your ear.The bandslack o origi-nality turnedme o romthe beginning

but their in-ability to in-volve the audi-ence lost myattention alltogether.

This isa band thatdidnt lack tal-ent, but theirstage presencewas anything

but engagingor interesting.

More peo-

ple were on the patio and out-side the entrance than actuallylistening to the band.

Honestly, 3 Docs skeeballmachine and racing videogame got more attention romme than the band actually did.

Earphunk isnt being bashed because they cant play. Theloud guitar and drum solos

proved they could do thatmuch.

However, when the bartend-ers are louder than the vocal-ist, it shows that the members

should defnitely practice more.An important actor whenplaying or the Ruston collegecrowd is being able to engagethe audience with your peror-mance. When the audience los-es interest, this leaves no hopeor the band.

This band is just as capableas any other perormer. Theyhave all the talents required ormaking a band. Their memberscan play instruments and someo them can even sing, but thisis only useul i you can fnd aan base to ollow you.

When more people wouldrather go outside and talk totheir riends than listen to a

band play, this is a problem orany aspiring musicians. When

you lose your an base, youhave nothing.Earphunk should work

on its sound and individualityand return to Ruston when itdoesnt sound like just another

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Mark Zuckerburg, Face-ook co-ounder and CEO, an-

nounced some big changes orthe site at the companys annualF8 conerence in San Franciscoat the end o September.

One o the big changes isOpen Graph, a program thatconnects applications and web-

sites to Facebook. These web-sites and apps can then get per-mission rom a Facebook userto use personal inormation asa orm o advertising on Face-ook, according to TIME.

Companies are trying tomake an impression on custom-ers, and this is a good way toreach a lot o them at a very in-

expensive cost, said Larry Jar-rell, an instructor o marketingand analysis. Its just anothergood communication tool.

While this seems like a greatthing or businesses, it may havedrawbacks or Facebook users.It has the potential to exploitprivacy i users arent cautious.

Matthew Johnson, a seniorelectrical engineering and tech-nology major, said he thinks thisapplication is not a violation oprivacy. He said he would prob-ably allow the businesses to useinormation such as his school,hobbies and work reerences

but not personal inormation.

I think they have the right todo it, said Johnson. I think itwill allow companies to betterunderstand their employees.

Some Tech students said ithis new program involves toomuch advertising and createsunwanted trafc, it might leadFacebook users to use other so-cial networking sites.

I think people will start us-ing Google+ more, said Geor-gia Moran, a reshman psychol-ogy major. It will make peoplenot like Facebook as much.

Once companies receive ini-tial permission rom a user, theyare allowed to use the usersinormation as they wish, asstated in TIME magazine.

A user must be careul o hisFacebook activities i he grantspermission, which allows com-panies to use current inorma-

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As long as they are justusing the inormation in a re-search orm and its kind o acollection o data, thats onething, but i it gets into shar-ing personal things and stu

you might not like everybody toknow, thats another concern,Jarrell said

He said it would not turnaway Facebook users becausethey will be the deciders as to

what they choose to read andparticipate in on Facebook.

They could either respondto them or not, Jarrell said.They can be selective as ar aswhether they pay attention.

This recent orm o advertis-ing is in bloom because o therise in social media in the lastdecade. Internationally, busi-nesses are making the changeto advertising though such sites

because the viewership is high.I think all companies, es-

pecially national and globabrands, are using it because thais the wave o the uture, Jar-rell said. A lot o people areon Facebook, especially in the

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It is a really easy way todistribute these materials, Hallsaid. Students like having itthere in case they need to useit.

Nicole Delong said she eelsthat having school supply ven-dors will help make it easier orstudents on campus as well.

I they took Tech Expressit would be an awesome thing,said Delong, a senior elemen-tary education major. Theywould be pretty convenient tohave on campus.

Allison East, SGA sopho-more class president, has beenresearching getting the ma-chines or the campus.

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