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THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE

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NEWS

“After all, Ginger Rogers did

everything that Fred Astaire did.

She just did it backwards and in

high heels.”Ann Richards,

American Politician

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TODAY IN HISTORY

Women’s History Speaker Sister Kathleen Cain will give a speech in the University Conference Center 7th floor library from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

2014 Region III Science and Engineering Fair in Fant-Ewing Coliseum from 12 - 2:30 p.m.

Monday, 3-10

Tuesday, 3-11

Wednesday, 3-12

Audrey Ducote performs her Senior Vocal Recital from 4 - 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, 3-13

Women in Leadership conference in the SUB from 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

International Food Fair in SUB Ballroom B and D from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Food samples will be priced from 50 cents to $1

FACS: Soprano Claire Vangelisti, pianist Richard Seiler and guest artist John Milton in Emy-Lou Biedenharn Recital Hall from 7:30 - 9 p.m.

2014 Region II Social Studies Fair in Fant-Ewing Coliseum from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

ULM’s Got Talent in Brown Auditorium from 7- 9 p.m.

Friday, 3-14

CenturyLink Recruitment Day in the SUB Ballroom from 4 - 6 p.m.

Musical Stage and Technical Production in Brown Theatre Complex from 7 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Saturday, 3-1511th Annual Warhawk Triathlon in

Lake Oxford Natatorium from 6 a.m. - 1 p.m.

ULM vs ULL baseball game Alumni Night in the ULM baseball field from 5 - 9 p.m.

(MCT) — Spain will on Tuesday mark the 10th anniversary of the 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid with a se-ries of events.

The train bombings across the city on March 11 2004 left 191 people dead and injured more than 1,800.

A service for survivors, relatives of the victims, and Spanish royals is to take place at the Almudena Cathedral on Tuesday.

A memorial concert will feature musicians Jorge Drexler, Ariel Rot and Ismael Serrano, while exhibitions and other official events will take place throughout the week.

(MCT) — Trying to forge a united response to the crisis in Ukraine, the

European Union is preparing to offer the embattled country up to $15 bil-lion in grants and loans to help shore up its new government and improve its precarious financial position, a leading EU official said Wednesday.

The offer from Jose Manuel Barroso, head of the European Commission, followed the Obama administration’s announcement a day earlier that it would give $1 billion in energy subsi-dies to Ukraine.

The EU’s assistance package would include $4 billion in loans and devel-opment grants over the next several years.

(MCT) — Attitudes on same-sex marriage are shifting among conser-vatives, echoing Americans’ changing views.

Republicans have long been identified as staunch foes, leading congressional as well as campaign battles against the idea. But at this

week’s Conservative Political Ac-tion Conference in this Washington suburb, it was commonplace to hear activists explain same-sex marriage is not a matter for political debate.

Part of the reason is political re-ality — Republicans are eager not to be seen as an intolerant party — and they sense the traditional marriage side is losing.

(MCT) — The FBI is investigating the alleged unauthorized remov-al of classified documents from a secret CIA facility by Senate Intelli-gence Committee staff who prepared a study of the agency’s use of harsh in-terrogation techniques on suspected terrorists in secret overseas detention centers.

The FBI’s involvement takes to a new level an extraordinary behind-the-scenes battle over the report that has plunged relations between the agency and its congressional over-

seers to their iciest in decades. The dispute also has intensified un-certainty about how much of the committee’s four-year-long study will ever be made public.

It was unclear when precisely the referrals were made or when the FBI became involved or whether the bu-reau investigation also includes the computer monitoring.

The FBI and the CIA declined to comment.

(nola.com) — Pleasant crowds and miserable weather helped reduce by more than half the number of peo-ple arrested by New Orleans police during this year’s Mardi Gras cele-bration, according to NOPD statistics obtained Thursday.

Arrest numbers from the NOPD’s 8th District showed a reduction in Mardi Gras-season arrests from 879 in 2013 to 421 this year. The season is de-fined from Feb. 21 through March 4.

1 Madrid, SpainEvents to honor terrorist attacks

2 London, U.K.EU prepares to aid Ukraine

3 Maryland, U.S.GOP views change on gay marriage

4 Washington D.C.FBI investigate missing papers

5 New OrleansMardi Gras arrests down

March 10

1814: Napoleon I of France is de-feated at the battle of Laon in France

1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful phone call

1922: The Mahatma Gandhi is ar-rested in India, tried for sedition and sentenced to six years in prison. He was released nearly two years later.

1969: James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Lu-ther King Jr.

Birth: Timbaland, an Amer-ican rapper and producer is born in 1972

Death: Cory Haim, a Canadian-American ac-

tor, dies in 2010 from drug overdose

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The Hawkeye staff placed tenth nationally at the ACP National College Journalism Conference at San Diego over the weekend.

photo courtesy of Christopher Mapp

Stay classy San Diego!

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The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation that would have stripped military commanders of the power to prosecute sexual assaults and other major crimes.

The bill, proposed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., had the support of 55 of the chamber’s 100 members, including 10 Republicans. But it was blocked by fellow Democrat Claire Mc-Caskill of Missouri and other lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, who used procedural tactics to prevent an up-or-down vote on the measure.

The Senate instead moved unanimously toward approval of an alternative bill championed by McCaskill that would preserve commanders’ authority to convene courts-martial but would give victims a formal say in whether their cases go before mil-itary or civilian courts. That version awaits final passage next week.

“I know this has been tough for everyone,” said McCaskill, a former prosecutor, as two hours of tense debate drew to a close Thursday. “But I stand here with years of experience of holding hands and crying with victims, knowing that what we have done

is the right thing for victims and the right thing for our military.”The hard-fought policy battle between two influential female

senators came down to just a handful of votes, with Gillibrand’s bill falling five short of the necessary 60-vote threshold.

Although she lost this round to a technicality, Gillibrand dem-onstrated she has the support she needs to keep her vision for change alive, said Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School. Last year, Gillibrand and McCaskill worked together to pass major changes in an effort to reduce sexual as-saults in the military.

NEWS

Campus Activities Board is selling tickets for the Las Vegas pop punk band Panic! At the Disco with the Boulder, Co. based electropop duo set to open on Thursday, April 10 dur-ing Spring Fever week.

Both bands started back in 2004 with top singles including Panic’s “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and 3OH!3’s “Don’t Trust Me.” Tickets can be purchased at ulmtickets.com.

Students, faculty and staff ticket prices are $25 for general admission (or standing room) and $30 for floor seats.

The concert is set to start at 7:30 p.m. at the Fant-Ewing Coliseum.

Signals emitted by your smart-phone leave a digital trail that retailers can follow to find out how long you lingered in front of a sales rack or languished in a checkout line.

A growing number of mobile analytics companies use the Blue-tooth and Wi-Fi beacons broadcast by smartphones to help retailers monitor customers’ movements in shopping centers, casinos, restau-rants, hotels and airports.

One such company, iInside of Yor-ba Linda, Calif., boasts on its website that its sensors can pinpoint a cus-tomer’s location within a single meter of floor space.

On a larger scale, mobile carriers such as Sprint, AT&T and Verizon also use location data gleaned from cell towers to send ads for nearby businesses to customers’ phones, for example, or to prepare marketing re-ports on how many subscribers visit a city’s football stadium — and what kinds of applications they use during the game.

Proponents of the technology say the data gathered helps brick-and-mortar retailers compete with online rivals by personalizing and stream-lining the customer experience. But consumer advocates warn that the mobile tracking trend underscores the need for stronger privacy laws. Federal regulators are taking a closer look at the practice.

“Our understanding is that in

many cases this is basically invisible to consumers, so we want to look at whether retailers or the companies they’re using are notifying custom-ers of what’s going on,” said Amanda Koulousias, a staff attorney with the Federal Trade Commission, which recently hosted a seminar on mobile tracking in Washington.

Businesses that collect and sell mobile location data are eager to demonstrate that they’re capable of self-regulation. In a move timed to coincide with the FTC’s semi-nar, the Future of Privacy Forum, a research center in Washington, an-nounced the creation of a website (www.smartstoreprivacy.org) that al-lows consumers to opt out of having their locations mapped by participat-ing companies, including iInside, the California company.

The same group of companies signed a voluntary code of conduct, agreeing to collect only “deperson-alized” location information unless customers give consent, and to alert customers to the use of tracking tech-nologies by promoting the use of data collection signs in stores.

“At the end of the day I t h i n k market f o r c e s prevail, and those retailers

and other businesses that violate the trust of their consumers will be pun-ished by the marketplace more than anything else,” said Jim Riesenbach, the chief executive officer of iInside, who was a panelist at the FTC sem-inar.

Riesenbach pointed out in an in-terview that surveillance in stores is nothing new, although mobile tech-nology allows retailers to analyze customer behavior in greater detail than ever before.

“There have been camera systems in stores for many years, not only for surveillance standpoint but also from a traffic-counting standpoint,” he said. “There’s systems in stores that allow retailers to check how many people walk in the door and how many people walk out the door and things like that, and so what we’re doing is taking that to a much more granular level.”

Senate rejects bill stripping military leaders of prosecution powerby MCT Campus

by MCT Campus

BRIEFS

Panic! at the Disco front lines for Spring Fever

Celebrate Women’s History with alumni presentations

The university will host three events and a leadership conference this month in celebration of Women’s History Month.

Sister Kathleen Cain of the Francis-can Missionaries of Our Lady North American Province will speak in the ULM Conference Center, located on the seventh floor of the ULM Library at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 11..

The College of Business and So-cial Sciences will host its inaugural Women in Leadership Conference on March 12. Five ULM graduates will give various presentations through-out the day.

North American Province will speak in the ULM Conference Cen-ter. Some guests include Kathryn Sullivan, CEO of UnitedHealth

Care—Central Region; Teri Fontenot, CEO of Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge; Maxine Moreau, Executive Vice President of Network Services for CenturyLink.

Presentations will run consecu-tively from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the SUB Ballroom area.

Judge Ann McIntyre, who graduat-ed from ULM in 1974, will speak on March 17. McIntyre is a attorney and Judge for the 7th Ward in Winnsboro City Court.

Meryl Kennedy-Farr, vice presi-dent of marketing and sales director for Kennedy Rice Mill and manag-ing partner for Planters Rice Mill and Delta Land and Farm Management will speak on March 24. She is an ac-tive member of the community.

Retailers use signals from smart phones to track customers in-store

“Buy one get one free daquiris”

Where all your party needs are met

Brendon Urie, lead singer of Panic! at the Disco will perform for Spring Fever

photo courtest of ULM News Archives

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A large crowd stirred on campus last week as a Pentecostal preach-er appeared in the Quad, preached about Jesus Christ and yelled at pass-ing students.

The man only identified himself as Steven and did not give his full name. The preacher yelled Bible scriptures to the crowd of students and angered many of the spectators with his ag-gressive tactics.

Soon, the man’s words began to conflict with some student’s ideolo-gy.

Jessica Crawford, a Pentecostal, walked by when the preacher noticed her attire and said, “thank you for be-ing modest.”

“When I first started hear-ing him, I im-mediately be-gan getting ir-ritated because of the way he was preaching his message,” said Crawford, a freshman psy-chology major.

Crawford confronted the preacher and said that what he was saying was

not the same thing that she believed in. Angry words were exchanged and Crawford left in tears.

Danera Brown, a sophomore com-puter science major, claimed that the man called her a “sinner” and a “whore.”

Brown believes he tries to anger students in hopes to provoke some-one to hit him.

“I’ve talked to all my friends in the police department. This is an ongo-ing scam. If ULMPD interferes, he can sue,” Brown said.

ULMPD chief Steven Mahon couldn’t confirm whether last week’s preacher was a scam, but he said: “He could argue that it is open for litiga-tion. It would violate his first amend-ment right.”

In Ashton Jones, Appellant, v.

Board of Regents of the University of Arizona, this is an example of an in-dividual who has their first a m e n d m e n t rights violat-ed by hav-ing officers re-move him from campus. If ULMPD touch-es him while he preaches, he can sue and probably win due to precedent.

Throughout the day, students vid-eotaped and photographed the man whom they were referred to as a “lu-natic” as he preached in the Quad.

Some students laughed as the preacher used the Bible scriptures to denounce all those who commit-ted “deadly sins” such as “homosex-uality.”

Students made signs with scrip-tures that referenced love and treat-ing everyone the same, regardless of who they are, to counteract the dam-age of the preacher’s words

The preacher left roughly around 3:30 p.m. last Thursday.

NEWS

contact Benjamin Martin atmartinbl@warhawks.ulm.edu

Crawford

by Benjamin Martin

Preaching ‘lunatic’ terrorizes students

“If ULMPD interferes, he can

sue.”Danera Brown,

sophomore computer science

majorBrown

Prof named president of DV board

Electronic cigarettes, a substi-tute-smoking device, are billed as a safer and cleaner way to consume nicotine through vapor. Many peo-ple believe that it’s harmless and the devices have surged in popularity across the country.

However, the FDA said risks of electronic cigarette use are uncer-tain.

Electronic cigarettes may carry a risk of developing nicotine addiction, and their regulation is the subject of an ongoing debate.

According to the agency, the de-vice was marketed for the youth, which raises concern from the FDA to regulate the device nationally.

But according to other research-ers, electronic cigarettes should have fewer toxic effects than the tradition-al cigarette, and evidence suggests they are safer than real cigarettes, and possibly as safe as other nicotine replacement products.

People across the country have bought into trying this new device that caused a fast rise in popularity.

Chinedu Amajoyi, a junior mass communication major, sees no harm done in people using this product.

“I don’t see the need to smoke at all, but I think it’s better because they’re fake cigarettes that couldn’t cause harm to the body,” Amajoyi said.

Aaron Yates, a senior toxicology major, said there hasn’t been much study to prove the effects of electron-ic cigarettes.

The product is too new to “have undergone such fine scrutiny.”

“The removal of carcinogens is re-ally of the utmost importance in our medical agenda,” said Yates.

He said it hasn’t even been ap-proved as a nicotine replacement by the FDA.

“If people who wish to continue smoking find it and decide it’s a good alternative it could be a great boon to our health care system,” said Yates. “If you have a choice between inhal-ing plain nicotine vapor or nicotine plus..tons of other tobacco additives, the answer seems pretty clear cut.”

Electronic cigarettes are bat-tery-powered devices that simulate tobacco smoking.

It uses a heating element known as an atomizer that vaporizes a liq-uid solution.

Some solutions contain a mixture of nicotine and flavorings, while oth-ers release a flavored vapor without nicotine.

Electorinic cigarettes can be pur-chased over the counter, but smokers are advised to consult a physician before using one.

The liquid nicotine could poten-tially to be harmful to infants and children.

The Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence recently held elections for their president and Rob-ert Hanser, an associate professor of program coordination, won. He is the first male to be president and vice president of this committee.

The LCADV is the federal coalition of shelters, non-residential programs and individuals working to end do-mestic violence in Louisiana. Their main function in today’s world is to advocate for funds in the capital for state-run safe houses and programs

that assist the victims. “To become vice president and

president you have to be voted in by a current member, so getting on the board is the competitive part not the election,” Hanser said.

Generally, the only people that get on the board are people that work and run psychiatric hospitals, shel-ters and other programs that cater to the victims.

Hanser used to work in a shelter in Houston as in intern, but he said he had an interest in studying family vi-olence and its cause.

Hanser is involved in community anger management and abuse class-es. The classes were started by the LCADV.

“Men can be just as vulnerable as women when it comes to domestic abuse. He must have experience...and if he weren’t to be allowed just because he was male, then that’s the backwards doublespeak of sexism,” said James Meredith, a sophomore history major.

by Amber Mccormick

contact Amber Mccormick atmccormal@warhawks.ulm.edu

Research uncertain on health risks of electronic cigarettes

by Marvin Williams

contact Marvin Williams atwilliamd@warhawks.ulm.edu

The electronic cigarette

was patented in 1963 by

Herbert Gilbert and wasn’t

intended for nictotine, but

for the enjoyment of fla-

vorless steam. But the first

nictoine based electron-

ic cigarette was patented by

Chinese pharmacist Hon

Lik in 2003.

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NEWS

Three guest speakers petitioned SGA for a scholarship of $500 during their weekly meeting. The Student Athlete Advisory Committee, Delta Tau Alpha and APA-ASP each pre-sented their plans for the grants.

Jessica Ezell, secretary of Delta Tau Alpha, shared plans to attend a na-tional convention using the money.

“Last year, we hosted the conven-tion and some of our members hold national positions. Our advisor is the national treasurer, and our president is the national southern vice pres-ident of the association. We would use this grant to travel to Tennessee for the National Convention,” Ezell said.

Adam McCleary, representative of the Student Athlete Advisory Com-mittee, petitioned to use any money granted to give back to student ath-letes and assist in fundraising for charity.

“We represent the voice of student athletes on campus. Unfortunate-ly we have to go out on our own and fundraise. We’ve done pretty well this year, we’ve gone from having no finances to raising about $1200 so far,” McCleary said.

SAAC hopes to give 40 to 60 per-

cent of funds they raise to the Children’s Coalition of Northeast Louisiana and to provide a generic student athlete’s shirt that would cost from three to four dollars.

“We’re trying our best to raise money and give back to student ath-letes,” McCleary said.

Rino Nicholas spoke on behalf of the American Pharmacy Association, requesting a scholarship to purchase supplies for the organization.

“The Academy of Student Pharma-cists, which is made up of students, we have different operations. Op-eration Diabetes, Operation Heart, Operation Health Care and Genera-tion Rx. What we do with all of these different organizations in the APA is go out into the community and edu-cate them,” Nicholas said.

Recently, Operation Diabetes took place and Generation Rx visit-ed several middle schools to educate students.

“We hold health fairs and educate students and do diabetes testing. We need the five hundred dollars to buy supplies for our tests. We’re re-ally just asking for supplies. We’re really involved in our community and make ULM well known for our pharmacy school so we really hope you can help with the five hundred dollars,” Nicholas said.

After listening to the guest speak-ers, SGA unanimously passed a motion moved by Nicholas and sec-onded by Christopher Atkins to support Kappa Delta’s 5k.

SGA will have five scholarships to give out in March, according to trea-surer Adrian Lejeune.

Erin Foster, research and judicial affairs department head, announced possible By Law changes.

“If anyone has any suggestions for changes email me,” Foster said.

Changes will be discussed at the next SGA meeting. If any changes are approved, the student body will vote on them.

Monroe ranks low on list of dangerous cities

Three student groups petition for scholarship

by Kaitlyn Huff

A report by neighborhoodscout.com revealed that Monroe is ranked 92nd in dangerous cities out of all the other big cities in the nation.

The report only considered cities that have more than 25,000 residents. They compared the amount of “vio-lent crimes” per 1,000 residents.

Monroe has a population of around 49,000 citizens.

With that number, a murder is re-ported for every 10,000 citizens, and there is one report of rape every 3,000 citizens.

In the United States of America, murder is reported every 20,000 cit-

izens and rape is reported every 3,190 citizens.

Baton Rouge is the 65th most dangerous and Alexandria is 16th.

Cody Petrus, a junior majoring

in Biology, claims he has seen worse.“There are just so many more bad

areas in Dallas that you should avoid, and just in general the more popula-tion dense a place is the more violent

crime there would be,” Pe-trus said. Dallas didn’t place on the list.

Lindsey Po-land, a junior in Pre-Dental Hy-giene, said she gets scared at night.

“My boyfriend works till midnight some nights and I’m at the apart-ment alone so I get a little freaked out sometimes because I hear about a lot of crime here in Monroe like robber-ies,” Poland said.

Many people assume that big cit-ies are more dangerous because of more valuable things to steal or be-cause being anonymous is a lot easier. However, researchers believe that it is gasoline lead that is it the cause of much crime.

Political blogger Kevin Drum said gasoline lead is responsible for a share of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past century.

Supposedly, the level of lead in children’s blood is associated with higher crime arrests as they get older.

contact Kaitlyn Huff athuffka@warhawks.ulm.edu

by Benjamin Martin

contact Benjamin Martin atmartinbl@warhawks.ulm.edu

Poland

Petrus

The Hawkeye wins 10th place at the ACP National College Journalism Convention in San Diego!

Also, at the South Eastern Journalism Convention in Lafayette:Garrett Boyte (former news editor) - 5th place for Best Opinion-Editorial writer

Jaclyn Jones (former editor in chief) - 6th place for Best News Writer

Adam Hunsucker (former sports editor) - 9th place for Best Sports Writer

Michelle McDaniel (former art director) - 10th place for Best Page Layout Designer

“We’re trying our best to raise money and give back to student

athletes.”Adam McCleary,

business adminstration student

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Parades 57.69%

Great excuse to drink 30.77%

History 11.54%

OPINION

Professors and students miscommunicate titles

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HAWKEYE P.O.V.

Parades, grenades, beaches and babes. Get out your bikinis and throw textbooks to the wind.

With Mardi Gras and spring break coming so close together, it’s easy to lighten up and forget to reign the party animal back in when it all comes to an end.

Though it’s tempting for students to forget about tests and final papers, being on break isn’t an excuse for loose morals and life changing bad decisions.

Shockingly, there is such a thing as partying too hard and going too far. Especially when you have to go back to school and work afterwards.

It’s ok to have a drink…or five or six. It’s not ok to drink so much that you wake up naked on the beach, cuddling a beached whale.

It’s even ok to make friends, but try not to get too close to strange men in alleyways. They have terrible things in their pockets that you really don’t want.

As annoying as it is to be reminded that you’re ultimately here for an education, it’s true.

Your future comes first and every decision, even the ones that seem harmless, can impact it. Be careful where you go and who you’re with because nothing is truly a secret.

But, more than anything, it’s your safety that’s at risk when you don’t listen to the little voice in the back of your head that tells you to slow down or walk away. There’s nothing that ruins a vacation faster than tragedy.

Have a wild good time, but make smart choices and don’t get crazy. Your brain cells, safety and GPA are counting on it.

Plus, what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas, and there are some things your mother just doesn’t need to see.

Breaks are no excuse for bad

choices

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It’s not unusual to mispronounce someone’s name or title by accident, and while no harm may be intended, more caution should be taken when addressing college professors and their titles.

Remember as a kid when the teach-er mispronounced your name on the first day of school?

You were likely embarrassed as the other kids laughed under their breath, and you were probably frustrated with the teacher for making you feel like a fool.

On the other hand, how do you think a college professor feels when students address them by the wrong title?

Most people have heard the famous saying, “Take a walk in my shoes and see how I feel.” In other words, you can’t relate to someone when you haven’t had the same experiences as them.

The reason it’s hard for students to understand why college professors take their title as “Dr.” so seriously is because it’s difficult to imagine the many years of work they put into get-ting their PhD.

However, while students have made a habit of addressing their pro-fessors by the wrong title, they don’t do it on purpose.

In elementary school, middle school and high school, we were trained to refer to our teachers as Mr., Mrs. or Miss.

After over a decade of referring to them that way, it’s obvious why it’s so difficult to make the transition to “Dr.” in college.

While this is a valid point, it should not excuse the respect that is due to professors.

They have worked hard for their de-grees and deserve to be called by the name they worked so long to earn.

According to globalpost.com, a doctorate is attained quickly in four to five years, but usually takes seven to nine years to earn.

Undergraduate students struggle enough as it is to make it through four years for a bachelor’s degree, and the thought of going to school any longer than that is dreadful for most to think about.

For this reason, professors are more than deserving of being addressed as “Dr.”

However, there should be a level of understanding on both sides.

It’s important that students address their professors as “Dr.”, but professors should also be patient and under-standing with students if they happen to address them incorrectly.

While there are students who for-get, there are some students who simply don’t know what to call their professors.

Professors should politely cor-rect their students, and the students should make a strong effort to re-member from that point on.

If you want to know the proper way to address your professor, go to them personally and ask them what they prefer to be called.

This will prevent any misunder-standing and will ensure that you are addressing them the right way.

So before you let, “Mr.”, “Mrs.”, or “Miss” roll off your tongue again, re-member that first day of school when you were a kid, and save yourself and your professor the embarrassment.

Tyler Smith

Favorite part of Mardi Gras

contact Tyler Smith atsmithtw@warhawks.ulm.eduillustration courtesy of google

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROEMarch 10, 2014 PAGE 7

OPINION

Religion is a confusing and sensitive con-cept. The United States was founded on it, but cannot be run by it. We practice it, but still look down on it.

Religion can be spoken about freely, yet we tread softly when publically mention-ing it.

But, the hardest idea to grasp is that hav-ing the right to spread religious awareness is certainly not the same as pushing beliefs on others.

While people reserve the right to practice religious freedom and to speak without re-straint about any faith they choose, forcing others to listen isn’t freedom of speech; it’s harassment.

There are over 127 major religions and seven billion people on earth with seven billion different views of God.

Some love Him, some fear Him, some question His existence and some are still searching for Him.

Some will decide that God plays no role in the trials and tribulations of life, while

others will find faith the moment they see their newborn child take the first breath of being.

Whether we discover where we spiritu-ally belong in a pew on Sunday morning or on a lonely drive with no destination, the journey to finding or forgetting God is what determines our views.

We can’t be told what and who to believe in, or to even believe in anything at all.

What we learn, who we meet and the challenges we face are what we remember when we stand before Him, not the church members that knock on our front doors, or the people that stand in the quad condemn-ing us all to hell.

And if the church goer at your front door changes your perspective, let them.

Be baptized in one church, change your mind, and be baptized in another. Let what you learned in biology class make you ques-tion evolution and the powers above.

Learning from life experiences and ques-tioning God’s ways isn’t sin; it’s human.

It’s human to change emotionally, mentally and spiritually when physical sur-roundings change. It’s human to simply be curious and indecisive.

Faith only exists because there are people that believe strongly enough in it to make it a reality and a way of life.

Without doubters and differences, the strength of religion would never have any-thing to be measured against.

Because of that, religion without true be-lief is weak.

Never practice out of habit, don’t follow just because your parents or friends do and don’t ever think one religion is superior to another.

In a time that seems to have the expla-nation for everything in a test tube or on a database, people believing in any God at all is a miracle in itself.

contact Tejal Patel atpateltn@warhawks.ulm.edu

Religious beliefs can’t be forcedTejal’s Last Words :

Nano-machines: Machinery on a microscopic level that is able to per-form tasks with thousands, if not millions, of other nano-machines in an environment.

One of the crazy things about nan-otechnology that I love is that you could control all these tiny, itty bitty robots and make them do your bid-ding.

Why have to pay for expensive surgeries and medication for blood clotting problems when you could simply have nano-machines enter your bloodstream, find any clotting in your blood vessels, and break down whatever it is that is hindering the hu-man body.

While these nano-machines are in your body, they can do more than just play demo man with your arter-ies and veins. If you have diabetes that requires daily doses of insulin, nano-machines can have dispensers inside them that release insulin and also act as a regulation tool that relays any changes in your body to yourself or your doctor via wireless signal.

With all these ideas of being able to simply improve the body with machines, does it conflict with the ideology of destroying the temple that God has given us?

To some people, the idea of aug-menting the human body in such as way could go against God’s plan, see-ing as it promotes evolving in ways that were not meant to happen.

Because of this, religion and sci-ence are more connected than most believe.

Technology is growing quickly, but meets opposition everyday.

For me, I believe that technology should be used in whatever ways it can to improve the body, since I can-not imagine the idea that we should limit ourselves and shun all things that can change the human body in

any way, shape or form.We are given the tools to create, de-

stroy and improve for a reason.Nano-machines, on a larger scale,

could be used in the operation of re-placing a good amount of the human body.

Lose an arm or leg in a tragic accident? Simply replace it with ma-chines!

The great thing about it is that you will become better than you were be-fore. Being able to lift and punch way more than your human arm could have ever done with steroids is an ex-citing idea to think about.

Your new mechanical arm or leg is somehow injured? The nano-ma-chines inside can repair it given enough time, just as a human arm would when reacting to a cut.

Nano-machines may seem like science-fiction but think of the technological advancements our civ-ilization has made in the past 20 years compared to, say, 1700-1800s. We can only grow from here.

Nanotechnology: the next evolution

contact Benjamin Martin atmartinbl@warhawks.ulm.edu

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE March 10, 2014PAGE 8

Colleges are one of the top places that a student will learn to live their life. You can be from small town U.S.A., the big city or from abroad.

Universities are a place of learning and sometimes even a place to party.

But while they are these types of things, there is a small group that comes to college to try and move on from a bad experience.

This section of the student body is one that needs to be watched carefully. Some can be harmless, while others are dangerous.

There are categories these people fall under that can be broken down into three colors: red, yellow and green.

The dangerous kind are the Reds that can and will use your own feelings against you. They make you feel like they are socially inept.

My experience with one was in 2012. It started on September 1 and went until the breaking point on September 4. My near rape left me doubting my ability to judge people and their character.

The type of Red I ran into was a sexual abuser with potential to be a rapist. He had my friends and I thinking he was a southern gentleman with culture shock.

The night that he was sexually sugges-tive to me, I found out he had stalked three other girls from my school and had tried to rape one of my friends.

My friend didn’t believe anything would be done with only one incident, so she didn’t report her attack. When she found out what had happened to me and the other girls, we went together to the proper authorities.

My friend is the perfect example as to why so many rapes go unreported.

According to rainn.org, over 60% of rapes go unreported and 97% of offend-ers go unpunished.

In my case, statistics were wrong. I re-ported my attack and the person who attempted to hurt me was caught and expelled.

No one should ever be afraid to report an assault to the police. They are there to help you, especially if you can bring forth other victims.

A rape can occur anywhere, not just to females, but to males as well.

My attack occurred in Arkansas, but even now that I moved back to Loui-siana, I sometimes still feel mentally thrown back into my attack.

Since then, I’ve started reaching out to others that were raped or nearly raped.

The one question that I keep asking myself is the same question these girls and guys have asked themselves as well; “was my attack my fault and what could

I have done differently?”The answer to my first question, and

for every victim of assault, is no. You are not the one at fault.

For the second question, that is up to the person that was attacked.

To help you figure that out, you can talk to counselors or write about it. Whatever you do, don’t keep it bottled up inside. If you do, the pain and the questions will never allow you to have closure.

Communication also helps, not just for you, but also for friends that may have been attacked and are afraid to speak.

Listen to names and ask questions. If something sounds off, then call for help.

There are also places on campus that can help you with getting over your trauma and keeping your confidence, should you wish to talk.

The Counseling Center, located in the Student Health and Counseling Cen-ter, is open Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Students may schedule an appointment by call-ing 318-342-5220.

Just remember that, no matter what anyone tells you, you are the victim and your attack was not your fault. If you can’t believe that now, it’s only a matter of time until you can heal enough to be-lieve. Until then, find a ray of light and hold on tight.

OPINION

Predators hide behind masks

contact Amber Mccormickmccormal@warhawks.ulm.edu

People to watchRed

A person who asks to follow you/ meet you while you are alone in a place that

you may or may not be comfortable with. Their MO, or Mode of Operation, can vary. Because of this, they are the most dangerous kind of predator. They are hard to spot. The MO that I have

experienced firsthand is being met in a public place and having the Red offer

to walk me to a car.

Yellow These can be harmful, but they aren’t as practiced as the Red category. Yel-low’s are usually extremely shy and

will have had some kind of tragedy in the past or a mental disorder. Be care-ful because they may be categorized as yellow, but they have their own way of being extremely dangerous. The good things about yellows is that they can be helped and make good friends and

great protectors.

Green These are the ones that are not acting

a part and may actually just be shy. This shyness is usually from the fact that they are in a new place and don’t know anyone, or because they have

been through a personal tragedy. They will truly be very good friends for you once you crack them out of

their shell.

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROEMarch 10, 2014 PAGE 9

Four Japanese students from Ehime University presented “Hel-lo From Japan” to ULM students as a way to discuss their experiences in America, and compare Louisiana and Japanese culture.

According to Yae Ozaki, an Ehime University student, they travelled 4,500 miles to Monroe two weeks ago to experience southern style.

Ozaki’s fellow classmate, Azusa Doi, compared beverages in Ehime and Louisiana.

Doi said that coke in Louisiana is the equivalent to orange juice in terms of popularity in Japan.

Orange juice, also called pom juice, is 100 percent pure orange juice in Japan.

Doi said the product is so popu-lar that there are pom juice faucets in public places in Japan.

“I found it interesting how well-known Ehime, Japan, is for its orange produce,” said Bryson Belaire, a sophomore pre-pharmacy major.

Then Ozaki took over the stage and gave differences between nature in Louisiana and Ehime.

She shared the similarities be-tween the Mississippi River and the Seto Inland Sea. Ozaki said bodies of water are similar because they both helped develop the area surround-ing them.

Ehime is famous for the Shima-nami Coastal Highway, a fifty-mile bridge that is open to cars, pedestri-ans and cyclists. Ozaki said that this year the Shimanami Bridge Race will host the International Cyclist.

Daiki Yasui, from Ehime Universi-ty, said that Japan ranked second in the world behind America for their agriculture and aqua imports.

After the presentation, ULM stu-dents were invited to a reception to mingle with the Ehime students.

Jathon Thompson, a junior educa-

tion major, shared his experience as an American foreign exchange stu-dent in Japan.

“My experience in Japan made me a more well-rounded person,” Thompson said.

NEWS

by Karly Hubbard

photos by Terrance Armstard

The above map shows the location of Ehime, Japan, the home of students Yae Ozaki, Azusa Doi, Daiki Yasui and Yui Nanba

contact Karly Hubbard athubbarka@warhawks.ulm.edu

Japanese students compare cultures, talk about time here

Threats, possible legal issues cause end of Flappy Bird

The work of an entrepreneur can take a while to get noticed, but for Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen, it was a different case.

Nguyen released Flappy Bird on May 24, 2013 to Apple’s iOS app store. And for the past couple months, it has blown up across the world.

It used assets from a compa-ny called Nintendo, specifically the Mario franchise, that included the pipes and background. The bird is a combination of a few creatures.

For most, Flappy Bird is the equiv-alent of shovel-ware, or games that are created that to cash in on new mediums without innovating them.

Kenneth Clow, marketing pro-fessor, believes the success is due to three things: understanding the players and how they use their mo-bile devices and what games the target audience likes to play. Clow also said it’s luck or “offering the right game at the right time.”

Nguyen was allegedly making $50,000 a day from ad revenue of people playing.

Tech blog, Bluecloud Solutions, speculated that one of the reasons that Flappy Bird was successful was because he was artificially creating a high approval rating for his app,

even though the creator claims he has done nothing to augment the game, nor promoted it via adver-tisement.

To play the game, players tap on their phone to help the bird fly through a series of pipes. The game’s difficulty soon became an internet joke and went viral.

But not everyone took it as a joke. The creator began receiving death threats from people around the world. That, and the stress of han-dling the popularity that came with the game, caused him to remove the app. He announced its removal on Feb. 8.

Tanner Traweek, a junior ma-joring in Biology, was astonished about the creator’s decision.

“I don’t understand how a cou-ple of spineless threats would make him take the app off. I’m sure most app developers get death threats too. No one is actually going to kill him,” Mr. Traweek said.

While the application has been removed from the IOS and Google Play store, people can still play it if they have it downloaded. This means that as long as people still continue to play it, Nguyen still gets paid for it.

by Benjamin Martin

contact Benjamin Martin atmartinbl@warhawks.ulm.edu

Russian president lacks clear foreign policy

Plotting a U.S. response to Vlad-imir Putin’s land grab in Ukraine requires an understanding that the Russian leader operates without a clear-cut foreign policy and out of “dual impulses” of asserting Mos-cow’s power while courting Western approval, according to an American diplomat who observed him up close for five years.

Michael McFaul, who until last month was the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, told journalists in a brief-ing Friday that examining Putin’s motivations is crucial for crafting a realistic countermove to his interna-tionally condemned occupation of

the Crimea region of Ukraine.McFaul’s impressions of Putin,

gleaned from years of academic and diplomatic work in the region, por-tray a shrewd leader who wants to show the world a modern, new Rus-sia but too often operates out of what the ambassador called an “exaggerat-ed” sense of U.S. power in the world.

“If you listen closely to President Putin, he is not describing the world in a way that he thinks President (Barack) Obama and his administra-tion is weak. On the contrary, he has a theory about American power that is quite paranoid,” McFaul said.

From Putin’s point of view, McFaul said, the United States is “foment-ing instability and revolution in the

Middle East, in Russia and, now, Ukraine.”

McFaul argued that the current crisis comes from Russia’s internal politics rather than fears of U.S. and allied machinations to wrest Ukraine from its traditional Russian fold. He said that Ukraine was always the key-stone of Putin’s overarching foreign policy goal to create a Eurasian Eco-nomic Union as a counterweight to the European Union.

McFaul said that Moscow’s joy over Ukrainian President Viktor Yanu-kovych’s refusal to sign an agreement with the EU was replaced by disap-pointment and frustration with his failure to quell the resulting demon-strations.

by MCT Campus

Did you Know?Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen made $50,000

a day from ad revenue due to game plays. He made

the decision to remove the game from the app

market due to potential legal issues over the game’s

design, death threats from Flappy Bird users and

a dislike of the popularity he received from the

game. Although the game is no longer available, he

continues to make money from the people who still

have the app installed.

Japan is ranked second in the world, behind America, for their

agriculture and aqua imports.

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE March 10, 2014PAGE 10

NEWS

by Sabrina Simms

Students dance together on Thursday night.

contact Sabrina Simms atsimmsse@warhawks.ulm.edu

Mardi GrasStudents let the good times roll Thursday night and got into the

spirit of the annual Mardi Gras Ball. This event was hosted by the SGA.

Mardi Gras began as a Catholic tradition and is now a widely celebrated holiday around the world. For some of the students and faculty here at ULM, it means food, fun, and a three-day break from the daily scheduled classes.

“Attending the Mardi Gras Ball is a fun way to relax during mid-terms,” said Rita Onuzuruihe, a freshman pre-pharmacy major.

King cake, sandwiches, beverages and other refreshments were served. The SUB ballroom was decorated with sparkling lights, beads and traditional masks.

The fluorescent lights were turned down low, providing a relax-ing setting for this otherwise stressful time, and several professors joined in on the festivities, including the well liked sociology pro-fessor Dr. Neil White.

“Mardi Gras Ball is the perfect excuse to get dressed up and have a great time,” said Catherine Schilling, junior biology major.

SGA has been hosting the annual Mardi Gras Ball since 2002. To launch the festivities, the Mardi Gras court was announced and its members showered traditional Mardi Gras beads on those in attendance. Jameshia Below was crowned Mardi Gras queen by Wayne Brumfield.

The crowned king was Michael Roboski, a senior marketing ma-jor.

“I’ve had a lot of good experiences here at college, and this is an-other good experience to add to my memories. I really enjoyed it a lot,” Below said.

After the court threw the beads, students began dancing to the wobble.

“It gets better every year,” said Jacob Teland, junior kinesiolo-gy major.

Many students believe that attending the Mardi Gras is an ex-perience that Louisiana college students should not miss out on before they graduate.

Michelle Colvin was all smiles as she partied with her friends at the ball Thursday.

Wayne Brumfield crowns Mardi Gras queen Jameshia Below

Mardi Gras CourtBusiness and Social Sciences:

Patrick Nurray and Jordan Raborn

Health and Pharmacy:Bryson Belaire and Jasmine

Jackson

Arts, Education and Sciences:Marc Anthony Calhoun and

Marlena Sullivan

Grad students:Cody Parker and Mandi

Simmons

King and queen:Michael Roboski and Jameshia

photo by Amber Mccormick

photo courtesy of Terrance Armstard

photo courtesy of Terrance Armstard

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROEMarch 10, 2014 PAGE 11

NEWS

photos courtesy of Terrance Armstard

BallLeft most: Masked students take a break from snacking to pose for the camera.

left: Arts, Education and Sciences belle and beau Marlena Sullivan and Marc Anthony Calhoun are intro-duced to the crowd by walk-ing under the archway.

photo by Amber Mccormickphoto by Amber Mccormick

Left: A student partied it up in the SUB Ballroom Thursday in a Mardi Gras mask to celebrate.

Below: Marcelo Gomez and Isabelle Rocher shared a moment at the ball.

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE March 10, 2014PAGE 12

FREESTYLE

by Amber Mccormick

A crowd of nearly 100 gave a standing ovation to the musical competition that took place in Biedenharn The-atre Feb. 27. Some audience members laughed, smiled and sighed as the musical went on. The participates kept the audience entertained the best way they knew how- by singing and dancing.

“So You Think You Can…. Sing” is an adaptation of “So You Think You can Dance”, a dance competition show. All of the acts were some form of opera or from a musical.

The first act was Audrey Du Lote, a soprano. She sang “Je Viex Vivre” from Romeo and Juliet. She left the stage with loud applause from the audience.

Next was Nathanial Medlin, who sang “Nothing” from Margaret Garner opera. The act was well received by the audience and the performer went on to his next role as a slam artist.

All performances were critiqued and judged. The com-petition was not an ordinary contest. Some competitions were a group effort.

Allison Friloux, a senior vocal music education major, said she like the uniqueness of the contest. Friloux was also apart of the contest.

“I liked it because it was different from normal and I think it was more entertaining to the audience this way,” Friloux said.

Medlin partnered Christina Soileau who sang “If I Loved You from Carousel.”

Benjamin Thomas sang “Hat man nicht das Gold” and his performance won him the “Perky Face” award.

Liz Neuberger, a sophomore instrumental music ed-ucation major, said she not only was blown away by the performances, but she also said she left the performance proud.

“It was legit! Everyone sang like angels and were amaz-ing. I’m so proud of all my colleagues,” said Neuberger. “It’s amazing to see how much they’ve grown since even the beginning of the semester.”

He then went on to partner with Allison Hall in “O mio babbino caro” from the opera Fidelio where she plays a

whiney Italian child. That was also the award she received.

The next few acts were brief and featured awards just as unusual and hilarious as the others.

Allison Frilox and Julian Jones sung the moving song “Come to Jesus”. They received the award for “Best Duet.” The reason it was mov-ing wasn’t because of the song, it was because of the situation. The situation being played out was that of a mother having a miscar-riage.

The judges for this event used comedy to entertain the audience. When introducing the per-formances. They received plaques as tokens.

Singing contest with a twist

contact Amber Mccormick at@warhawks.ulm.edu

photos by Amber McCormick“...it was different from normal and I

think it was more entertaining”

Allison Friloux,

vocal music education major

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROEMarch 10, 2014 PAGE 13

FREESTYLE

Anti-smoking commercials have become increasingly popular in the past few years. Campaigns such as Truth, Tobacco-Free and countless others produce anti-smoking ads, commercials and billboards in an attempt to reduce the number of smokers in America. But what do these commercials really do?

Well to start, they lie. These commercials frequently claim that cigarettes are lethal. However, no definite evidence supports such claims. Although there is a statistical correla-tion between smoking and cancer, correlation does not itself prove causation.

A statistical correlation also exists between warm weather and murder rates, but no one claims that summer turns people into murder-ers.

The other popular ad “Cigarettes Are Bul-lies” is entirely inaccurate because it depicts kids on a high school campus going outside to smoke between classes. I am quite certain that smoke breaks are not allowed in public schools in 2014.

These commercials, along with modern me-

dia in general, vilify smokers and make them out to be bad people. The purpose of these ads should be to inform people, not stigmatize an entire group of people.

In the past, smokers in movies and television shows were often wealthy, attractive and classy, such as Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffa-ny’s.” Now the people who smoke in movies are ugly, old villains.

Many of these advertisements blame Big To-bacco for the deaths of smokers. This is entirely unfair to Big Tobacco because the company does not force people to smoke.

Big Tobacco is a company just like any oth-er. It creates jobs, fuels the economy, and generates revenue. Big Tobacco is no more re-sponsible for the death rate of smokers than Jack Daniels is for the death rate of drunk driv-ers.

The false claims in these commercials is un-fair to Big Tobacco because the company has no way to present its own case to consumers. Good Housekeeping banned cigarette ads in 1952, and all broadcast advertisements for cig-arettes were outlawed in 1971.

Cigarette companies even perpetuate the knowledge that cigarettes could pose potential risk by displaying the Surgeon General’s warn-ing on the side of every pack, which has been mandatory since 1965.

I do not believe that it is fair to run anti-smoking commercials at all. Honestly, sodas are bad for people too and can also have health risks, but no one runs a billion dollar anti-soda organization. The same can be said for fast food

restaurants and junk food distributors. How-ever, ads against those places would be much more appropriate since heart disease is the number one killer in America.

Everyone already knows that smoking could lead to potential health problems, so what is the real point for the commercials? I mean, a warning comes conveniently on the side of ev-ery pack.

Well, as a smoker, I can assure you that anti-smoking commercials only do one thing. They make smokers want to light up. The campaign designed to make peo-ple stop smoking just makes smokers smoke more.

Anti-smoking commericals increase desire to smoke

contact Halen Doughty atdoughthe@warhawks.ulm.edu

Short story sure to spook your interest

The Blackwood House rarely gets visitors. In fact, the entire village hates the very presence of the Black-wood family. Or what’s left of them.

“It happened in this very room, and we still have our dinner here every night,” said one of three re-maining Blackwood family members, Uncle Julian.

Six years ago, four of them dropped dead from arsenic poison in their sugar. Constance Blackwood, oldest daughter of the father of the house, was accused of their murders.

She was acquitted and lives shut

up the house with the two other sur-vivors, her sister Mary Katherine and Uncle Julian.

Constance suffers from a severe fear of openness and people seeing her. She hasn’t left the house in years. Uncle Julian is mentally and physi-cally handicapped, meaning young Mary Katherine must venture out into the village twice a week to get groceries and library books.

Mary Katherine, or Merricat, is the narrator of this book and something isn’t quite right with her.

“We Have Always Lived in the Cas-tle” opens with 18-year-old Merricat making her trip to the grocery store and she seems normal as she de-scribes her surroundings and the people in it.

As the story goes on, it becomes apparent that Merricat is not all there. It’s a case of the unreliable nar-rator and this narrator may be insane.

Readers get a peek into the mind of this insane girl who has dreams

of taking her sister to the moon on a winged horse where they will eat rose petals and look down on the dead dried world.

She loves to frighten people, wish they were dead and bury things around the property.

Their simple, isolated lives are

threatened when an estranged cous-in named Charlie comes to “help” them and seems very concerned about their money.

This isn’t horror and it’s not scary. But it is definitely creepy and it will stay with you a while after you read because you might not be sure what you just read.

The book isn’t centered on finding out what happened that fatal night when everyone died and who poi-soned them, but what happens when two crazy sisters’ lives and routines are disrupted.

Despite the unhealthy and creepy way they lived for six years, I found myself wishing something bad would happen to Cousin Charles so he would go away.

Merricat was only concerned with being happy and keeping her sis-ter safely by her side. And she would have done anything to get rid of Cousin Charles.

It’s a short book, the version I read

was only 74 pages, but every page is full of beautiful imagery and weird words. I found it hard to get into at first, but once I did I wanted to reread it over and over.

It’s a story about the love between two sisters, mental issues, isolation and the phenomenon of mass hyste-ria. The end of the story will give you a different perspective of the creepy neighborhood urban legend.

Shirley Jackson is a master of prose and storytelling. This was a cute, strange little book that I can’t wait to read again.

contact Ashley Lyons atlyonsar@warhawks.ulm.edu

ASHLEY LYONS

TruthBig Tobacco

Tobacco Free

photo courtsey of Google Images

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE March 10, 2014PAGE 14

The sounds of the past drifted through the halls of Brown Auditori-um Feb. 26 night as the wind ensem-ble completed the campus’s British Invasion.

The performance was titled British Invasion part 2 and was directed by Derle R. Long, an associate profes-sor and director of the school of per-forming arts.

The first part of the invasion was played during the marching sea-son by the Sound of Today and was directed by Jason Rinehart, an as-sociate professor in the school of performing arts.

The British Invasion was a phe-nomenon that occurred in the Mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom, as well as other aspects of the British culture, became popular in the United States.

This marks the 50 years since the event and the campus celebrated by having a series of events centered on the Beatles and other British bands. The concert on Wednesday was the last musical performance in this event.

The ensemble was a mix of both students and teachers.

The wind ensemble played six se-lections total, one of which one was

broken into three movements. All the selections were either composed or sung by a British artist.

The first of the pieces played were “Overture” from “Sinfonietta No. 2”, the “Symphonic Beatles” and “Folk Song Suite.” “Folk Song Suite” was broken into three movements.

The wind ensemble played three s e l e c t i o n s and lat-er gave the stage over to Don Sumner, an assistant professor in the school of perform-ing arts, who played a se-

lection called “Beatles Medley.”

During his performance, he invit-ed the audience to sing along with any song that they recognized.

The ensemble played three more songs after Sumner’s performance. Those songs were Live and Let Die, Mooreside March from “A Moore-side Suite”, and Selections from “Ab-bey Road”.

Most of the songs the wind ensem-ble played were easily recognized while others weren’t. Despite being told to sing along if they recognized

any of the songs, the audience didn’t sing along.

Chance Smith, freshman radiol-ogy major said, “I really enjoyed the 007 music.”

With the diverse age of the audi-ence and awkward musical transla-tion from vocal to instrumental, you would think only some of the old-er members of the audience would have recognized the songs being played. Surprisingly though, some of the students recognized the songs.

Myeisha Hamilton-Moore, a soph-omore occupational therapy ma-jor, said she was surprised to be able to recognize some pieces that were played.

“I did recognize a couple of the tunes; I didn’t think I would, but I’m glad I did,” Hamilton-Moore said.

It is well known how much tech-nology has advanced over the past few decades. Generation X saw the development of the cell phone com-puters and wireless house phones. Generation Y, however, has grown up with these devices in the home.

Many would agree that technolo-gy has made the world a more conve-nient place to live, allowing the world to communicate and accomplish tasks faster than ever. But, have these technological advances hindered this generation from really living?

The world has gone from pulling a cell phone out of a bag, to answering the phone with a watch.

Not so long ago, class registra-tion and quizzes were done in person with actual paper. Today, students use the Internet for homework as-signments and tests.

Lacy Palermo, junior toxicology major, says technology comes as an advantage to students.

“Technology is very convenient because it gives you all the informa-tion you could possibly want at your fingertips which, as students, is great

for us,” Palermo said. “I feel like we spend so much time staring at our smartphones and laptops that we

don’t know how to properly commu-nicate without them anymore.”

Kelsi Sullivan, sophomore pre-pharmacy major, says people lack patience because they have become so spoiled to having high-speed in-ternet.

“I believe that electronics have made people more impatient.” said Sullivan. “With high-speed internet and smartphones, we get informa-tion and satisfaction instantly, so we get frustrated when we can’t get oth-

er things right then.” Although communication through

technology cannot replace face-to-face interaction, it has benefited so-ciety in numerous ways.

Not only does the Internet con-nect businesses around the world, but it connects people on a person-al level as well.

McKenzie Reech, sophomore so-cial work major, says technology can be beneficial when networking.

“While there are numerous down-sides to technology, I love how it brings us closer together! Especial-ly in times of need, technology helps us provide support for people we will never meet,” said.

Technology use in this day and age is inevitable. There are few career choices that do not require the use of a computer.

Technology doesn’t have to cripple the world. The choices individuals make in how the use it could change that. With the world becoming more and more technological, especially in school and universities, is there still a choice?

“Technology ...gives you all the information you

could possibly want at your fin-

gertips...”Lacy Palermo,

junior toxicology major

FREESTYLE

Ensemble celebrates British Invasion Anniversary

contact DeRon Talley attalleydl@warhawks.ulm.edu

by Amber McCormick

Technology made easy for Generation X

by Sabrina Simms

contact Sabrina Simms atsimmsse@warhawks.ulm.edu

Denis

“ I really enjoyed the 007 music.”

Chance Smith,

radiology major

Derle Long, VAPA director, introducing next song

photo by Amber Mccormick

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROEMarch 10, 2014 PAGE 15

Everyone has had that one friend who always tries to compete with him or her. Whether they are com-peting to see who can earn the high-est score on a chemistry test or who can dance with the most people at the club.

Some friends will compete over anything.

Most competitive relationships are is in spite of jealousy, rivalry, and friendly competition or maybe an event took place that sparked it all.

Joane Denis, a senior dental hy-giene major, said she has never been in competition with one of her friends, but she has witnessed two of her friends constantly competing over the years.

“They competed with each oth-er over everything. Who was the best dressed, who had the best boyfriend, who had the most friends and who was the most successful. They just compared their lives in general.”

Denis said the competitiveness was so intense that it eventually ru-ined their friendship.

Having a competitive friendship can be healthy. Competition is a very useful tool. It keeps friends motivat-ed and pushes them to keep better-ing themselves in whatever aspect of their lives.

Kortnei Barber, sophomore pre-nursing major, said she does not see anything wrong with friendly compe-tition. Barber said she and her child-hood friend would make challenges and bets with one another over ev-erything.

She does not remember exactly how it started. Barber said it just hap-pened.

“It was fun and kept things inter-esting. We are still very good friends,” Barber said.

In a healthy friendship, a little competition between friends can strengthen the bond. Competition

becomes un-healthy when it becomes too serious.

M i c h e l l e Callahan, TV r e l a t i o n s h i p expert, says it’s important to

diversify your circle of friends who are competitive, yet supportive.

“I think of it like ‘birds of a feath-er, flock together.’ It can go both ways. You need to establish relation-ships with people who are in a simi-lar place in life so they don’t feel the need to compete but who you can also relate to,” Callahan said.

When friends start acting more like competitors than actual friends, it is straining on the friendship.

If a friend is competing with mali-cious or spiteful intentions, that can produce negative outcomes- like not being friends at all or becoming en-emies.

Having a friend that is jealous of you and continuously competing with you can be toxic to the friend-ship.

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NOLA native wins Academy Award in makeup

Monroe’s Painting with a Twist will offer a painting class, “Rustic Fleur de Lis,” Tueday.

The 35 dollar class will be from 7p.m-9pm.

Painting with a Twist started in 2007 by two Mandeville natives. The two decided to add a ‘twist’ to painting.

The twist involves friends and wine drinking. The experience creates a fun and festive vibe while painting.

The franchise recently was named #1 Sip and Paint Franchise on the Top 500 franchise business list.

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President Obama nominated Dr. Jane Chu as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts(NEA) on Feb.12.

Obama said Chu’s lifelong passion for the arts have made her a powerful advocate for artists and arts education.

Among many positions, Chu has served as president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City since 2006.

NEA is an independent agency of the federal government. It partners will all agencies in the nation.

Obama nominates NEA chairman

Robin Mathews took home an Oscar for best makeup and hairstyling. Mathews previous works was last seen on the movie “Dallas Buyers Club.”

Mathews said she was only given a $250 buget for all makeup used.

This was Mathews first nomination and win. The winner said winning an Oscar has always been just a dream.

Last month, Mathews won top honors for best period and/or character. Mathew beat makeup artists from “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” and “The Lone Ranger.”

Mathew graduated in 1990 from Mount Carmal Acadamy.

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Electronics are always on the ho-rizon. Less than a year ago, Samsung released their fourth Galaxy smart phone-the S4. The Samsung Galaxy S5 will be released this spring. The phone will come with new improve-ments and more features than the S4.

For a while now, Samsung has re-ceived more positive feedback than any other cellular device capturing the throne by being the most well known smartphone.

Asantra Green, junior psychology major, says she enjoys Samsung and is looking forward to the new release.

“I would prefer Galaxy’s smart-phones over any other brand,” said Green. “I’m sure the features will be better than the S4 feature’s even though I still haven’t learned every-thing on my phone.”

J.K. Shin, Samsung’s chief executive of mobile communications, said Samsung is making the Galaxy S4’s technology complex for his consumers by giving them eye-popping features. They plan to upgrade the smartphone with simplicity and durability.

The phone is highlighted with im-

proved battery life to go along with a simple, yet powerful, smart camera.

The Gear Fit watch has been up-graded to be compatible with the new Galaxy. The watch will not only receive phone calls or messages, but it will also focus on health-monitor-ing features.

Kimberley Okoyeze, junior biology major, said she’s excited to learn the new features on the phone.

“I feel excited about the S5 coming out, because they are very creative and I’m sure they will have new and improved features,” said Okoyeze. “The Galaxy has bigger screens with HD quality to go along with the Ges-tures the iPhone doesn’t have.”

Tangie Bryant, sophomore radio-logic technology major, says Apple is the best brand to have, not Samsung.

“Apple is a more advanced brand, for me. Apple is evolving more than Samsung,” Bryant said.

The Galaxy, Android and iPhone are the two most popular phones, to-day. The three phones caused contro-versial debates that took to all social media. The deabtes are still ongoing.

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Women of the World

Mary Anderson invented windshield wipers in 1903.

Ruth Graves Wakefield invented the Toll House Cookie, which is now called the chocolate chip cookie, in 1938. Her original recipe can be found on the back of Nestle chocalate bars.

Grace Hooper invented the computer in 1944. The first computer weighed five tons. Try carrying that around in your backback.

Susan Kare developed most of the in-terface elements for Apple Macintosh.

The first country to grant women the right to vote in the modern era was New Zealand in 1893.

Jane Addams was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

At the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924, the only event open to women was figure skating.

Athena was the Greek goddess of crafts, war and wisdom. Her Roman name was Minerva.

Fifty-seven percent of college students are women.

Aphrodite was the Greek goddess who brought and maintained love in the world. Her Roman name was Venus.

Hannah Slater was the first woman granted a patent in 1793 for a type of cot-ton thread. Her invention helped her husband build a successful textile busi-ness.

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The calendar rolls around to March, and only one word can describe the sports world: madness.

All due respect to every other sport, but there is no other event that capti-vates the public the way March Madness does. It’s a single elimination tour-nament in a sport that has the most parity of any other major American sport. All the talk for the next few weeks will be on how your bracket is doing (even if it’s busted by day two) or what team is going to make a run.

Everyone loves making brackets. Many of us choose to make quite a few. Further proving just how popular the tournament is, even outside the sports world, Warren Buffet has offered one billion dollars to anyone that can make a perfect tournament bracket.

Around six million brackets are made every year just on ESPN.com. That doesn’t even scratch the surface considering all of the home brackets, office pools and other sites that host their own bracket tournaments.

Why is March Madness so popular? Well, that’s pretty simple. Consider-ing 68 teams make the Big Dance, almost everyone has somebody to root for. Even if a person doesn’t have a particular favorite, everyone loves an under-dog, and every year there is one that makes a run.

What makes the NCAA College Basketball Tournament so special is that anybody can be successful. While the lowest seed to ever win the entire tour-nament is the 1985 Villanova team, it seems like every year an unknown team makes a run. Recently teams like VCU, Butler and Wichita State have all made a big splash in the tournament.

March Madness has given America so many special memories throughout the years. Who can forget Christian Laettner’s buzzer-beater over Kentucky, Chris Webber’s timeout or the late Jim Valvano’s N.C. State team that defeat-ed a Houston team that included future NBA legends Clyde Drexler and Ha-keem Olajuwon?

College basketball may not be the most popular sport in America. It’s prob-ably not even the most popular collegiate sport.

However, for a few weeks in March, the rest of the sports world can do noth-ing else but make a bracket, put on their team colors and watch the madness unfold.contact Dakota Ratley atratleydl@warhawks.ulm.edu

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The final seconds of regulation in Game 6 of the NBA Finals might have broken the spirit of some teams.

What was perceived as a miracu-lous ending for the Heat was viewed quite differently by Spurs greats Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Gregg Popovich. With the window of op-portunity closing on their careers, the veteran players and their coach walked away from that game, and ul-timately the series, feeling like they let a championship slip away.

For weeks - months even _-Popo-vich told reporters he was waking up at night in cold sweats after experi-encing the recurring nightmare of Chris Bosh’s offensive rebound and Ray Allen’s three-pointer. This much is certain though. San Antonio has fully recovered from its role in that historic series and now seems to be playing the game of basketball better than ever.

The Spurs (44-16) trail the Okla-

homa City Thunder by one game in the loss column in the Western Con-ference standings and have won sev-en of their past eight games enter-ing Thursday’s game against the two-time defending champion Heat. When LeBron James peers through his mask at AT&T Center, he will see a rejuvenated team of veteran players gunning for a chance to extend their dynasty.

“I never buy into that,” James said Tuesday when asked about old-er teams lacking the athleticism to compete for titles. “I’ve always been asked about that. I never bought into the Celtics team with Ray (Allen) and (Kevin Garnett) and all those guys and talking about them being too old because then they were in the Finals again.”

Like the Spurs, the Heat (43-15) is second in its conference standings and trails the Eastern Conference-leading Indiana Pacers by 1 { games.

With the conference races coming into focus, this first game for the Heat

in San Antonio since the 2013 Finals is more than just a matchup of pre-vious championship-round oppo-nents.

“You have to win every night,” Dw-yane Wade said. “We just want to continue to play well.”

Of course, that will be difficult in San Antonio. The Heat managed to take just one game against the Spurs on their home court in the 2013 Fi-nals. All-time during the regular season, the Heat is 3-22 against the Spurs in San Antonio.

“It’s memories, of course, because we just played them in the Finals, and, obviously, just going there is al-ways a place of horror,” said James, who was named Eastern Conference Player of the Month on Wednesday. “I haven’t had a lot of success there in my career, but it’s always fun go-ing against a very, very, very well-coached organization with so many great players.”

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Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs challenges Heat forward LeBron James for a dunk in the 2013 NBA Finals in San Antonio, Texas.

The most polarizing proposal in re-cent college football history was ta-bled Wednesday, as in shelved, one day before an NCAA rules committee was going to vote on the controversial pace-of-play issue.

The rule would have penalized a team for snapping the ball in the first 10 seconds of the 40-second clock.

The irony is that the penalty would have been for delay of game.

There is nothing inherently wrong with studying whether up-tempo of-fenses pose a player safety concern. It makes some sense given that hurry-up teams can run 20 to 25 additional plays per game.

That's what Alabama coach Nick Saban told ESPN on Wednesday only a few minutes before ESPN reported Thursday's rules vote would not take place.

"I don't care about getting blamed for this," Saban said. "That's part of it. But I do think that somebody needs to look at this very closely."

What was also wrong was hav-ing Saban attached as the messen-ger for the cause, given that he is a slow-pace advocate whose last three defeats have come against up-tempo opponents.

Saban claims he had no influence over the proposal other than to be generally in favor of it.

He also spoke to the rules commit-tee about his player safety concerns.

Saban's heart may be in the right place, but, in its present-day context, his coaching brethren simply weren't buying it.

The proposal, as received by the public, smacked of duplicity and shamelessness.

Many coaches viewed "player safe-ty" as a smoke screen for an effort to implement a rule that would hurt schools trying to compete with Ala-bama, a run-first power program that has won three of the last five nation-al titles.

The proposal would have had more heft if it had been backed by a coach who ran a fast-paced offense, or one who at least did not appear to have ulterior motives.

An ESPN survey revealed that only 25 out of 128 major-college coach-es were in favor of the proposal. A simple show of hands at the coach-es' convention could have killed this idea in January.

In the end, a face-saving idea was hatched: Give the idea more time.

Now, while they're studying wheth-er up-tempo offenses are potentially dangerous, the experts might exam-ine whether run-oriented teams are more susceptible to concussions. Is it more dangerous for power teams such as Stanford and Alabama to ini-tiate collisions with behemoth line-men?

What about a study on that deci-sive play in the Rose Bowl in which a sea of humanity met at the 34-yard

line? Stanford deployed its special "elephant" package with addition-al offensive linemen in the backfield to block. Michigan State countered by stacking the defensive line with its own set of giant counterweights.

Needing a foot to extend the game, Stanford quarterback Kevin Hogan handed off to fullback Ryan Hewitt, who was met in midair by Spartans linebacker Kyler Elsworth.

The field looked like a crash on the 405 Freeway.

One reason teams play up-tempo is they don't have access to the kinds of players that Alabama can attract. Is it fair the Crimson Tide can recruit a disproportionate number of future NFL linemen weighing in excess of 350 pounds?

How about, in exchange for slow-ing the pace of play, college football agrees to a draft of high school play-ers? That would even the playing field and reduce the need for schools like Texas A&M to have to try and outpace teams like Alabama.

Also, how about a safety look at Navy and Georgia Tech, schools that operate run-option offenses that re-quire nimble linemen to chop-block their opponents? Should the rules committee consider making Georgia Tech run a different offense?

We can discuss the dangers of pace of play just as soon as the results of these other studies come in.

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3. Sam Houston State

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Christian Tepley spent some time on the driving range Thursday.

Spurs rounding into usual playoff form a f t e r r o u t o f He a t , L e B r o n Ja m e s

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Hillary Kirwa dropped his head in a playful chuckle then looked up with a white smile. “They call me smiling machine,” Kirwa said. For a man that has been dealt un-imaginable challenges, happiness finds a way to shine through like a train in the night.

In his homeland of Kenya, col-lege scholarships are ten times as valuable as silver and gold. They often come with a price of a jour-ney that can take a devastating toll on even the strongest of men and women. Kirwa accepted the challenge with open arms and his trademark ear-to-ear smile.

A friend planted the seed of America into Kirwa’s mind at a young age.

“We look at America as place of hope. If you work hard here, you can become whatever you want,” Kirwa said.

Some time passed, and the thought of coming to the U.S.A. had been buried deep inside. Out of nowhere, an opportunity

reared its head. Kirwa’s dad, Da-vid Kirwa, is a successful busi-nessman in their hometown of El-doret.

During lunch with a business associate and former runner, the idea of his son going to college in America reemerged. The man ex-plained to David that running was an excellent chance at a scholar-ship. At home that night, he ran the idea by his son.

“I had never ran,” Kirwa said. Like an average Kenyan teenag-

er, Kirwa enjoyed a nice bowl of ugali and a game of badminton. Running for an education hadn’t been an option until now.

One thing was obvious- he had to run.

At home in the hilly upcountry of rural Africa, he began training lightly. The first day he would go for 20 minutes. The next day it was 25- and so on. Distance running soon became more than a means to a free education and trip across the globe. It was a passion that pushed him to be someone that not only he, but his country would be proud of.

Kirwa said,“I feel like a carry the burden of my country. I want to make Kenya proud.”

After almost two years of train-ing, networking and transfer-ring schools, he landed at ULM. His infectious attitude lightens the mood in the Warhawk lock-er room and motivates his team-mates.

Cross country coach Karoly Var-ga said: “He pushes the team and keeps everyone working hard. He’s going to be very successful.”

The rich tradition of Kenyan distance runners is in good hands with Kirwa. It’s visible in his smile.

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Spartans speared at Warhawk FieldThe baseball team took down

the Michigan State Spartans for the team’s third straight win Wednesday in Monroe by a lopsided score of 5-1.

The win was due in large part to the arm of starting pitcher, Chris Hunt. Hunt pitched eight innings and only gave up three hits, while throwing six strikeouts. Hunt said, “Getting past the first inning with no runs is always a big deal. After that, I just kind of set-tled in and did what I’ve done all my life.”

In the first inning, Hunt tossed sev-en strikes and didn’t allow the Spar-tans’ leadoff man to get on base. Michigan State wasn’t able to gain any kind of offensive momentum throughout the game.

“He had command of his pitches tonight and he got ahead of his bat-ters,” said head coach Jeff Schexnaid-er. “He was able to use his curve ball effectively and never allowed them to get a big inning.”

The only run scored by the away team was in the second inning due to a ULM error. Centerfielder Dalton Harrington got on base for all three of his at bats and was able to cross home twice on the night.

Dalton Todd and Kodie Tidwell

both hit doubles in the fourth inning. This ignited Warhawk bats.

“Dalton swung it really well, and so did Kodie. Every game there is some-one different that is swinging it very well. Tonight, it was all about Chris Hunt on the mound,” Schexnaider said.

This was the first ever meeting be-tween ULM and Michigan State. ULM has now played against three Big Ten teams all-time. The first matchup came against the Iowa Hawkeyes in 1999 where they won 9-1. The War-hawks lost to the Nebraska Corn-huskers in 2002 by a score of 4-1.

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Chris Hunt pitched the Warhawks to a win Wednesday night against Michigan State at Warhawk Field in Monroe.

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Kodie Tidwell throws a runner out at first in Wednesday’s 5-1 win over Michigan State.

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