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The university closed Tuesday because of unsafe road conditions.

“By the time 8 a.m. rolled around, the roads were worse than expected, and the recommendation was made to cancel for the day,” Provost of Academic Affairs An-thony Blose said. “I certainly con-curred with this after having driven on solid ice all the way to school.”

Chief of University Police James Adams gave Blose a recommenda-tion after 8 a.m. that ice made the roads unsafe.

Before that, he had made a recommendation at 5:45 a.m. that roads were manageable.

“I personally drove around my neighborhood and officers checked the roads on and around campus,” Adams said. “We found most roads had slush but were passable with little problems. No wrecks were be-ing reported to our department.”

University police checked with local law enforcement agencies to assess the roadways in surrounding areas, such as on the highway, for commuting students.

UPD sent an ASUAlert at 6 a.m. to inform students that professors would hold class on schedule.

8 a.m. classes started on sched-ule, but were canceled by 8:30.

“I was upset that we all were put at risk to drive to school in the first place, but I was pissed when, at

8:30, they sent an e-mail canceling classes,” senior Megan Ellis said. “We were already awake and at school. We were all put at risk again driving home.”

Blose said an increase of ice on the road led to the class cancellation.

“At about 7:30 to 7:55 a.m., tem-peratures suddenly dropped from 25 degrees to 19 degrees,” Adams said. “This had not been forecasted nor anticipated. Some of what had been slush started freezing and the decision to cancel classes was again evaluated. We do offer recommen-dations but the final decision rests on the administration.”

UPD sent a second ASU Alert to inform students of canceled classes when Blose made the decision at about 8:30 a.m.

“Usually the president makes the final decision, but since he has been in Austin, that job rests with the provost,” Blose said.

Ellis said the university should be more prepared.

“I think they should have made a decision before 8:30 and they should have stuck with it,” Ellis said. “They should have delayed, at the very least.”

Adams said that no severe problems occurred because of the weather.

“University police worked no traffic accidents that day and only had to assist one motorist with a weather-related problem,” he said. “This is uncommon as we are usu-ally swamped with calls for assis-tance both on and off campus. No weather-related injuries were re-ported to university police.”

CancelsClasses

Hold: Roads unsafe to use, classes canceled

Allison Duggan Senior Staff Writer

This week’s bad weather conditions hindered city con-struction plans.

Repaving of Knickerbock-er Road between Johnson St. and South Bryant Blvd. began Jan. 10.

Texas Department of Transportation’s contractors are repaving this section of Knickerbocker because it is the worst part of the road, said public information offi-cer Karen Threlkeld.

TxDOT planned to take eight weeks to repave all seven lanes of this section of Knickerbocker. The one mil-

lion dollar, 1.6 mile project was scheduled to be complet-ed by the end of February, according to a press release dated Jan. 7.

However, the recent in-vasion of cold weather has pushed back their completion date to an indefinite time.

“So far, the middle lanes are completed,” Threlkeld said. “The outside tempera-ture has to be higher for the overlay to set. That’s why there’s no work going on this week.”

TxDOT cautions drivers to be aware of lane closures and obey flagmen and warn-ing signs.

Students who take Knick-erbocker Road to get to school may have found sev-eral difficulties in taking this route over the last two weeks.

Some students struggle to get to class on time because

of the construction area, com-bined with icy roads.

“It bothers me when they won’t let me go down the roads that I need to take,” junior Kayla Daugherty said. “Other than that I don’t mind because I know they are mak-ing the road better.”

Although ASU delayed classes Wednesday for safety reasons, some students still chose not to brave the dan-gerous streets.

Only about half of the students attended Dr. June Smith’s afternoon Advertis-ing class on the 20 degree day.

Junior Jacob Frausto said the weather was just too cold for him to go to class.

According to TxDOT, more than 22,000 vehicles travel this section of Knicker-bocker Road each day.

Construction stalledDifficulties: Projects and roads stallcommuters

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Tim Lester Managing Editor

Administration is work-ing to ease students’ fear that a policy change in the fall will affect whether or not they graduate on time.

“It will hurt me a lot, forc-ing me to take another year of ASU courses to bring my grade back up to a 2.5 [to graduate],” junior John Wylie said.

Administration ad-dressed this issue after stu-dents brought it to their at-tention.

In reference to the four semesters guaranteed to stu-dents in the new policy, said

Dr. Nancy Allen, vice provost for Academic Affairsthe com-mittee will be revising the policy to ensure that those graduating these coming se-mesters will not be negative-ly affected.

This came about because the university will no lon-ger incorporate grades from transfer classes in one’s cu-mulative GPA, and will re-quire at least a C for a transfer class to apply to degree plans.

“It’s common to have the cumulative GPA based on the institutional GPA,” Allen said. “Students will receive only credit toward degree re-quirements, not grades.”

Some students find parts of the policy reasonable.

“I can understand the need to have a C [or higher] part, but I think if you have

already transferred in credits, those [grades] should still be included in your GPA,” ju-nior Aaron Reynolds said.

ASU requires students to have a certain GPA to graduate.

“Depending on the pro-gram the [student] is on, there is a GPA requirement [for graduation],” said Cindy Weeaks, director of Registrar Services.

Weeaks said that most programs have a 2.0 require-ment, with Education and Business requiring a 2.5.

“I already need to get my grades up,” Reynolds said. “Now I’ll have to get them up even more, but I’m not going to throw more money at ASU just so I can have classes in-cluded in my GPA.”

Change meets mixed reactionClean slate: May raise or lower GPA

Photo by Ashley RomoStudents enjoy the abundance of ice in front of the Science buildings.

Ice freezesroads andschedule

see “Remaining” pg. 3

Photo by Ashley Romo

Photo by Pam Belcher

Photo by Ashley RomoFreshman Miesha Maiden and sophomore Joey Jesus have fun sliding on the ice Wednesday afternoon.

Photo by Pam BelcherTraffic backs up on Knickerbocker due to construction and bad weather on Wednesday.

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Concho Hall residents had to evacu-ate the building Jan. 28 because of prob-lems with the fire alarm system.

“Residents have experienced this problem for the last two years,” resident assistant Patrick Maxwell said

The alarm goes off in two cases – when the sprinkler system is drained and in student-instigated instances – because the system is sensitive.

“It has to do with draining them, and when the water is emptied out, the alarm goes off,” Concho Secretary Paula Bradley said. “Students stand under the censor and spray hair products, or take a

really hot shower.” Sometimes residents develop

a hostile attitude when the sys-tem goes off repeatedly.

“My roommate yelled at me because [she did not get] any sleep from the fire alarms,” freshman Tazzia Briels said. “She was hysterical.”

Briels said the noise does not dampen her spirits, however.

“It was hilarious, in my opin-ion,” she said.

Some residents are con-cerned about safety when the alarm goes off all the time, since they do not know when an alarm is real or just a maintenance problem.

“The alarms make me feel

anxious because they go off at random times,” sophomore Shyree General said. “Some students do not even leave the building anymore because they’re so used to them going off.”

Resident Assistant Patrick Maxwell said students who are caught in their room during the alarm will be warned the first time, and may be fined the sec-ond time.

Concho Hall will no longer be avail-able as a housing preference for students starting Fall 2011. It will be used strictly for overflow housing, according to the January 2011 newsletter from Residential Programs.

“I can’t wait until this year is over and I can move into a new dorm this fall,” General said.

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Photo Illustration by Pam Belcher

Mark McDaniel Staff Writer

The University Clinic is educating students about the dangers of energy drinks mixed with alcohol.

The goal is to help students make a more informed decision when it comes to drinking, said David Rosipal, associ-ate director of Special Events Facilities and Services .

Rosipal is leading the campaign to help raise student awareness about alco-holic energy drinks such as Four Loko, Tilt and Rockstar 21. The Food and Drug Administration ruled these drinks un-

safe Nov. 17 2010 because of their unique effect on the human body.

“We know people go to parties and drink,” Rosipal said, “so we’re not look-ing to have a campaign that says don’t drink. But when you’re consuming alcohol, your body has a feedback system [that lets you] know what condition you’re in. The danger with the mixed energy drink is that you have the stimula-tion of the caffeine that is masking [the depressive effects] of the alcohol.”

There have been sev-eral posters and large ban-ners displayed around campus informing stu-dents of the harmful ef-fects of mixing energy drinks with alcohol.

The clinic’s main slo-

gan for the campaign is to “put some think in your drink.”

Some posters reference the Center for Disease Control, which warns that drink-ers of alcoholic energy drinks are three times as likely to binge drink, twice as likely to be sexually assaulted and twice as likely to ride with a drunk driver.

Other posters cite the Minneapolis-based Mayo Clinic and warn that energy drinks can cause rest-lessness, irritability, increased blood pressure, dehydration and weight gain.

Senior Austin Miller said he believes drinking energy and al-cohol together is not a big deal if drank in moderation.

“I personally like them be-cause you’re able to party longer without falling asleep so early,” Miller said. “However, I don’t think women or the elderly should drink them because they are much more easily affected.”

Rosipal, who is a type II dia-betic, also hopes to warn students of the potential long-term effects large amounts of sugar and poor diet can have on the body.

“In the energy drink by itself, there are large doses of sugar and you start looking [at the possibility of developing] type II diabetes,” Rosipal said. “We are already starting to see the

effects of increased kidney damage and liver damage, and it’s all due to choices we make at a young age. I made some poor choices... and if I could go back and relive that I would.”

Rosipal has also been actively for-warding articles about the issue from the Journal of the American Medical Asso-ciation to students and faculty.

Awareness: Clinic discour-ages unsafe drinks

Alcohol and energy drinks do not mix

Photo Illustration by Ashley Romo

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Parts of the cam-pus lost power Tues-day night.

Chief of Univer-sity Police James Ad-ams said it’s not clear why.

“The exact origin of the power failure last night was tracked to some equipment failure,” Adams said. “[American Electric Power] could not rule out that a "brownout" did not contribute to the power loss.”

The state of Texas authorized brown-outs in San Angelo to reduce the load on the power grid, Adams said.

“The continued

winter storm and low temperatures have heightened the demand for electric-ity and the supply

simply isn't there,” Adams said. “The ‘rolling brownouts’ is a method to manage consumption of elec-tricity.”

AEP planned for brownouts to last for 15 minutes at a time.

“The university activated its emergen-cy operations center and began monitoring and preparing for any further power outag-es,” Adams said.

Centennial Vil-lage’s power went out for about two hours Wednesday morning.

“This power out-age was attributed to the brownout being experienced in San Angelo and across the State,” Adams said.

Power failure: Brownouts to manage energy

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Allison Duggan Senior Staff Writer

Student Government Association discussed Jan. 24 plans to collect funds for a senior gift to the school.

This will give students an opportunity to leave be-hind a lasting monument in honor of their graduat-ing class.

SGA set the optional donation amount at $5

per person toward buy-ing an item to be placed on campus.

Student Senate Clerk Lorri Crum said a popular option is a bench with the graduation year engraved on it.

Crum said she under-stands that a senior gift might not mean much to a transfer student, but that others may want to give more than $5.

Senior Ashley Mc-Cutchen said she does not know why students would not donate.

“Five dollars isn’t much

and it seems like a cool idea to me,” McCutchen said.

Crum said donations would be added as an on-line option when students register at the beginning of the semester. They would enter a donation amount on the same form that they select their mailbox pay-ment from.

“It is important for se-niors to contribute in order to show their school spirit and remembrance for their campus,” Crum said.

Student Body Presi-dent Austin Osmanski got the idea from Texas Tech,

Crum said. “We have been moving

forward to bring forth new traditions as well as pre-serving old ones.”

Senior Amy Drake said the idea sounds great.

“We work so hard to graduate, and that would be a wonderful way to commemorate our efforts,” Drake said.

This would be the first time that is known for ASU to receive a gift directly from students, and not alumni.

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Fourteen vehicle-related ac-cidents were reported in San An-gelo, said Shawna Hitchcock, San Angelo Police Department crime intelligence analyst.

There were also at least 26 calls for service because of vehicle ac-cidents and 12 calls for service to help motorists, although some of

them may not be weather related, Hitchcock said.

The university delayed classes until 10 a.m. Wednesday.

“Today was a slightly different challenge,” Blose said.

Although the original plans were to open on time, Blose heeded advice from Skip Bolding, director of Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management.

“My recommendation was to delay classes until 10 a.m. to give our facilities maintenance crews more time to try and deice the side-walks,” Bolding said. “Together, with the information provided by ASU Police, we made our recom-mendation to Dr. Blose.”

Slipping on ice still affected students, Ellis said.

“I have noticed that there is

not much being done about the icy sidewalks, stairs, and ramps even though we are back in school,” Ellis said. “I have had many close calls with falling and have heard of a lot of people that have fallen. If they are going to make us come to school, they should make it safe to walk to and from class [and] work.”

Adams said he was surprised

by how few accidents happened over Tuesday and Wednesday.

“[Wednesday] we only worked one single car accident at Jade and W. Ave N,” Adams said. “The ac-cident was weather related and no injuries were reported.

Hitchcock said 9 vehicle acci-dets were reported on Wednesday.

“That's proven to be the nature of West Texas weather,” Adams said.

Donations: Grad-uating class can make its mark

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Photo by Ashley RomoPossible Senior gifts ideas include an engraved bench like the one pictured outside of the Academnic Building.

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“Yes. I am going to watch it.”

“Yes. I am going to a Super Bowl party.”

“Yes. I am going to Buffalo Wild Wings.”

“No. I don’t have any plans.”

Are you participating in any Super Bowl activities?

“Yes, I am planning on going to the party the UCPC is putting on.”

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Man feeds poor,others tune in on Jersey Shore

Dana ChoiCopy Editor

Do you keep up with Jersey Shore? I am not proud to admit it, but I do. On days I think I have nothing better to do, I like to indulge in this shame-ful display of American pop culture. In my own defense, so do a couple million other Americans. When my schedule allows it, I watch the latest epi-sode the day it airs. Is that sad? It’s not as sad as the fact that it took me more than a year to read about a man named Narayanan Krishnan.

Krishnan was a young, accomplished chef with stardom and fortune in his future. He gave up his whole life, pretty much, after he saw an old man eating his own waste, at the peak of desperation. Krishnan then decided what he would do for the rest of his life—feed the poor. Krishnan founded

a nonprofit trust in 2003 and served more than 1.2 million meals to India’s homeless and poor, about 400 people daily.

Immediately after reading this, I checked the date the article was published—April 2, 2010. I thought I could write something about him, but this story was not even run late last year; it’s been a whole year, almost.

What was I doing right before this? I was watching a week-old episode of Jersey Shore. Why was I watching something so useless and lowering my I.Q. when there were so many other things I could be doing? I do not mean just myself, but I also refer to people in general.

How are people like Krishnan, who no longer has a salary, single-hand-edly changing lives and making the world a better place while a regrettably large number of people is doing the bare mini-mum—if even that much? I am not saying we should all drop everything and become full-fledged hu-manitarians, but we could be doing a little better than this. I, for one, am swear-ing off Snooki’s drunken-ness and looking up local soup kitchens.

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It’s finally here. The big cheese. The game of all games. The two-weeks of end-less press coverage bowl. The game every red blooded Ameri-can man, woman, and child has been waiting for all year. The game where the Black Eyed Peas perform at half time. Super Bowl XLV is finally here. Steel-ers against the Pack-ers. Black and yellow against green and yel-low. I’m going to break

down the game for all of the Ram Page sports fans out there.

Key matchups:Troy Polamalu’s

hair vs. Clay Mat-thews’ hair: Most peo-ple would give the ad-vantage to Troy’s hair since it’s sponsored by Head and Shoulders. I think Matthews has a shot to win this, his long blonde locks don’t get enough credit.

Edge: Polamalu. The man just has too much hair for Mat-thews to handle.

The Steelers’ of-fensive line vs. Green Bay’s front seven: With injuries to multiple of-fensive linemen, Green Bay should be able to harass Ben Roethlis-berger all night. Since there were two weeks to prepare for the game, that helps Pittsburgh out tremendously by giving them more time

to study the Packer’s blitz schemes.

Edge: I still think the Packers will get at least two sacks and a few tackles for loss.

The Packer’s re-ceivers vs. Pittsburgh’s secondary: The Steelers are going to run mostly zone coverage and blitz heavily, so that means Aaron Rodgers won’t have much time to get the ball out of his hand. Since Green Bay already loves to run short, quick passing routes, that helps them tremendously.

Edge: The Pack-ers receivers are good at what they do and I think they’re better overall than the Steel-ers’ secondary.

Aaron Rodgers vs. Ben Roethlisberger: Rodgers is undoubted-ly having a phenomenal season, but Big Ben has already won two Super Bowls. Experience in a

game of this magnitude is a huge advantage.

Edge: Based purely on how clutch Ben Ro-ethlisberger is in huge games, he is the man to beat.

PREDICTION:The Packers have

fought their way to the Super Bowl despite having 16 players on injured reserve. The Steelers had their quar-terback suspended for the first four games. Clearly these two teams have clawed through adversity to make it to the NFL Champion-ship. I like the Packers. They’re a fun team to watch and they play exciting football. And since I like Green Bay, that’s all the more rea-son to think the Pitts-burgh Steelers are go-ing to win Super Bowl XLV. Final Score: 24-17 I kind of hope I’m wrong…

Super Bowl breakdownStaff Editorial

Earlier notification would reduce risks

Staff Vote: 10-0 We think the final deci-

sion to close the university Tuesday was good, but a defi-nite notification should have come sooner.

ASU considered the safe-ty of students who live off-campus in this decision. Even though this is a residential campus, many students com-mute from home and from places as far away as Abilene.

However, while most stu-dents learned about the uni-versity closing before leaving their homes, others had rea-sons to leave before the uni-versity could notify them.

The problem was mixed and untimely messages.

At 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 31, the campus received an alert warning of “heavy snow…near blizzard conditions and sleet…which is in effect from midnight tonight (Jan. 31) to noon CST Tuesday.” It discour-aged traveling late Monday and Tuesday, going further to tell us that if we do travel, we may be risking our lives.

Then university police sent an ASU Alert at 6 a.m. Tuesday, stating that all classes that day were sched-uled as usual.

About two-and-a-half hours later (in the middle of 8 a.m. classes), some, not all, students received an alert that announced classes were cancelled.

The first ASU alert advised us not to travel at all. The sec-ond said never mind, it is safe. The third one, which was not early enough to even be con-sidered last-minute, cut class-es short.

After receiving a “defi-nite” announcement that the day would continue normal-ly, many students would not check their e-mail again, but would go about the rest of their day.

Some students and faculty, and probably all staff, had to take a round-trip on danger-ous roads.

According to the San An-gelo Police Department, these roads caused: 12 calls for “Ser-vice Assist Motorist,” 26 calls for “Service Vehicle Accident” and 14 vehicle accident reports Tuesday.

It was for the best that classes were canceled Tuesday, but these alerts should be more definite and not so capricious.

Tristian Sanders,junior

Friday, February 4, 2011Page 6 Sports

Men’s BasketballSchool Overall

Women’s Basketball

Standings

Tarleton St.Incarnate WordMidwestern St.Angelo StateWTAMUEastern NMA&M- KingsvilleAbilene Christian

Tarleton St.WTAMU Abilene ChristianAngelo StateIncarnate WordMidwestern St.Eastern NMA&M- Kingsville

School Overall

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8-1016-38-106-128-10

16-211-87-11

10-86-126-124-143-15

What to watch for:2-4: SB vs. Southeastern OK at San Antonio, TX 10:00 a.m. BB vs. Southwestern OK 4:00 p.m. SB vs. Cameron at San Antonio, TX 12:00 p.m.

2-5: SB vs. TAMU- International at San Antonio, TX 10:00 a.m. BB vs. Southwestern OK 4:00 p.m. (DH) SB vs. East Central at San Antonio, TX 2:00 p.m. WBB at Abilene Christian 2:00 p.m. MBB at Abilene Christian 4:00 p.m. Track at TTU Open (Indoor) All Day 2-9: WBB vs. A&M- Kingsville 5:30 p.m. MBB vs. A&M- Kingsville 7:30 p.m.

Conf.

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Conf.

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Andy AtterburySports Co-Editor

Incarnate Word came into

town to hoop it up Saturday, Jan. 29 and the ‘Belles (10-8) (3-3) took them down 65-58.

“It wasn’t an easy win,” Head

Coach Sally Brooks said. “We had to work hard [tonight]. Every possession, defensively and offen-sively, was crucial. I just couldn’t be more proud. It gives you a lot of confidence to that kind of game when you know you had to work for it.”

Four ‘Belles posted double digits in the win with freshman guard Giselle Aguirre leading the way with 15 points, which all came from three-point shots. Sophomore forward Lindsey Youngblood led the team with nine rebounds and had 12 points.

“Our defense won us the game in my opinion,” sopho-more guard Ashley James said. “We played good defense and we blocked out for the most part. We got some good rebounds that we needed to get and I think it fueled our offense a little bit more.”

James dished out three assists, scored three points, and had three rebounds.

The ‘Belles jumped out to an early ten -point lead, but Incarnate Word (6-12) (2-4) rallied to get one point ahead with 3:47 remaining in the first half. A three-pointer

from freshman forward Karli Kellermeier sent the ‘Belles into halftime with a 33-27 advantage.

Sophomore forward Lindsey Mahone posted 14 points and seven boards for the ‘Belles and senior guard Camille Perkins con-tributed 12 points in the winning effort.

It was a back-and-forth sec-ond half and the teams exchanged leads six times. The ‘Belles scored eight unanswered points to take a 63-56 lead with 53 seconds re-maining and held on to win the game.

James said the team’s desire fueled the 8-0 run late in the sec-ond half.

“Emotion [led to the quick eight points],” James said. “It was just an intensity and emotion on the floor. Basically, a will to win.”

Saturday the ‘Belles play Abilene Christian University in a conference showdown.

“We’ve got ACU twice next week,” James said. “Both of those games are huge for us. This could be a good three game stretch or it could put us in a bad place going in to the next side of conference.”

Andy AtterburySports Co-Editor

The Rams (8-10) (4-2) took the court Sat-urday, Jan. 29 against No. 13 ranked Incar-nate Word and prevailed 80-71

“It felt real good [to beat the No. 13 ranked team in the nation],” senior guard Steven Moore said. “We’re going through a lot of adversity right now and we overcame it tonight. We came together as a team, we shared the ball, and we got the win.”

Moore led the way with 26 points and four assists. Senior forward Rich Thomas was right behind with 25 points and 11 re-bounds, giving him a double-double.

“I’m just really pleased with my guys,” Head Coach Fred Rike said. “We played well together and I’m proud of them.”

Both teams kept the first half close, the largest lead coming after a Joey Lenox three pointer gave the Rams an eight-point lead with 3:24 remaining. The Rams went in to the half leading 37-31.

Junior forward LaDonn Huckaby also had a double-double with 11 points and 11

rebounds.Right out of the gate, the Rams kept

scoring in the second half. Five minutes in they built a 16-point lead over the Cardinals. Incarnate Word got within one point of the lead with 5:23 remaining in the game but never pulled ahead in the second half.

“We talked about the first five minutes [of the second half] being important,” Rike said. “I thought we played a good first half, and I told them the first five minutes were very important. We had some lapses in the second half, but I thought we played hard.”

Moore said the team’s rebounding and getting to the free throw line helped get the win.

The win puts the Rams in a three-way tie for second place in the Lone Star Conference.

“We’re 4-2 with a home game coming,” Rike said. “If we can take care of the home court then we have a chance to make the playoffs.”

There is a double dosage of Abilene Christian next week for the Rams. They play at home Friday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and in Abilene Sunday at 4.

“[There’s] no time for complacency,” Moore said. “We’re happy about the win to-night and we’re going to try to get the win against Abilene.”

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Sixteen high school football players signed on the dotted

line Wednesday, Feb. 2 to bring their talents to Angelo State on National Signing Day.

“We feel really good about our class,” Head Coach Will Wagner said. “We’re waiting on a receiver and maybe a couple offensive linemen that we might have coming in this weekend,

[ b u t ] w e ’ r e e x c i t e d . We’ve got a great group of guys.”

Coach W a g n e r said it did not

take long to convince the young players that Angelo State was a great place to play college foot-ball.

“I don’t think it’s hard to sell, especially when you get families here in town,” Wagner said. “[They] see the communi-ty support and see the facilities we have here; I think people are blown away. The parents and the athletes… are really excited about what we have to offer.”

One selling point for per-spective Rams was the amount of competition there will be this season, especially at quarter-back, Wagner said.

“We kept telling those quar-terbacks that we lost our starter,

so it’s wide open,” Wagner said. “Anytime you can have compe-tition it makes you a lot better.”

Quarterback and defensive line were the two spots the team needed to fill the most, Wagner said.

“Quarterback was one big one,” Wagner said. “We didn’t have a lot of bodies at that spot so we hit heavily on that. With us changing to a four-man front, we need a lot more [linemen] because they’re only working with three spots and now we’re working with four.”

The Rams are not complete-ly finished recruiting, but they like where they are right now, Wagner said.

“I think we did really well,” Wagner said. “If you look back, I really thought after signing day we’d be looking for a cou-ple more defensive linemen, but I feel really good with the three we’ve got right now.”

Coach Wagner said he hopes none of the new recruits will have to make an impact this year.

“My goal is to redshirt these guys and give them a good year to get physically fit, get ready for the game, and get acclimat-ed to the college life,” Wagner said.

Football season will kick off Aug. 3 against Western State.

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Photo by Pam BelcherSenior Richard Thomas goes for two points at Saturday’s game against Incarnate Word.