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By Katelynn MarcumSTAFF WRITER
Students, faculty and families swarmed the Pineywoods Native Plant Center Saturday to celebrate Earth Day and buy plants for their homes from the SFA Spring Garden Gala Plant Sale.
SFA Outdoor Pursuits sponsored the Earth Day celebration. They in-vited people to “join us in celebrat-ing the Earth while discovering inspiring ways to live simply and sustainable.”
Many people were pulling red wagons up and down Raguet Street Saturday, some with plants over five feet tall. The wagons were provided to help transport plants to parking at SFA Charter School a few blocks away.
Chris Comer, assistant professor of forestry, attended the plant sale with his family.
“We like the chance to be togeth-er,” Comer said. “The native plants go in the garden, at home, and we are supporting the arboretum.”
Plants were organized alphabeti-cally, making it easier for customers to find the plant they were looking for. Booths were set up behind the plant rows for people to pay cash or with their cards.
SFA Steel Band performed as en-tertainment for patrons of the plant sale.
Informational booths, speakers,
live music, food and children’s ac-tivities kept the crowd engaged at the Earth Day celebration.
Some of the groups with booths included Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful, Nacogdoches Democratic Party, Pineywoods Audubon Society, Nacogdoches Farmers Market and Pineywoods Bee Keepers Association, to name a few.
“The queen bee is the largest and has a lifespan of five to six years,” said Dennis Brown, former employee of the SFA physical plant and member of the Pineywoods Bee Keepers Association in Lufkin. “Summer worker bees live about two weeks in the summer.”
Brown was the attendant at the Bee Keepers booth that featured an observation hive full of worker bees and one queen. The queen had a white spot on her body to distin-guish her and was twice the size of the others.
Brown also said there is a perma-nent observation hive on campus that few people know about.
The Nacogdoches Farmer’s Market represents 30 or more ven-dors who have been selling locally grown food for seven years. They are open on West Main Street every Saturday.
Morning Glory Yoga Studio sponsored a children’s yoga activ-ity at the celebration. On the front lawn kids gathered in a semi-circle
around the instructor. The children were excited to pick
a yoga mat of their favorite color to sit on. They were given stuffed ani-mals, called “focus buddies,” by the instructor to help calm them down.
Almost everyone standing around watching had a camera to capture the cute reactions the kids had to the “silly moves,” as one kid referred to them, the instructor told them to do.
Near the exit of the plant cen-ter, the Ag Engineering Technology Club had a booth set up selling SFA logo products made from plate steel.
They had a black cut out of Texas with SFA over it in a color of white, purple or red.
“We made them in the shop with a CNC plasma cutter,” John Elkins, president of the club, said. He also said the funds from this are going toward the SFA Big Idea wind tur-bine. They had cord bracelets for sale, also.
Although it was a bit cooler Saturday than it has been lately. The weather cooperated, and everyone was able to enjoy the plant sale and Earth Day celebration.
Plant sale helps celebrate National Earth Day
By Sara ZavorkaCONTRIBUTING WRITER
On Wednesday, the SFA Rec Center hosted the Rock Climbing Competition as part of its Spring Intramural Events. It took place until 8 p.m. at the Rec Center’s indoor, 34-foot-tall rock wall.
This wall, or “The Rock,” as people call it, is complete with a “natural crack” on one side, and a 13-foot bouldering cave on another, in addition to three sport lead routes and 11 top rope climbs, which means there is something for climbers of every experience level to approach and exceed their “highest” expectations.
Since the Recreation Center opened in September of 2007, the only Intramural competi-tion that has taken place was a year later in 2008. This day was very basically an experimental event as to determine whether it should be continued in the future. The turn-out was reasonable with about 10 participants climbing. The rules were simple: Unlimited tries; If you fall, start over; and each route is a certain amount of points, so the climber with the most points and the least falls by the end wins. The winners of each division win a T-shirt. Almost annually, the Rock Wall portion of the Rec Center hosts a Fall Competition, which is statewide, in which climbers compete in three
separate divisions at what they love to do. Last year, $1,200 in door prizes were given out among nearly 80 participants total.
Despite this being a competition, the event was basically just like any other day for these climbers. Freshman Trevor Smith, (undecided major) likes the wall as “it burns more calories than running.”
Senior history major and Outdoor Pursuits employee Cole Murray pointed out that the Rock Wall is the best workout in the Rec Center. It really “brings people together. It’s a whole com-munity coming together for one common inter-est,” he said.
The competition against each other, however, is nothing compared to the challenges against individuals themselves and their own endur-ances. It is all about expressing your relationship between the rocks.
Freshman nursing major Dylan Moore says that “The Wall is just a place to get out your frustrations—a place where you don’t have to focus on anything but the task at hand.” Most of the climbers feel similarly, that they do have a purpose for climbing besides just to climb upon their sweet refute. A lot of his moments of clarity occur at least halfway up the route. Senior film/
Rock climbing competition hosted at Campus Rec
‘Springfest’ features music, food, mud
Buddy Franklin Band played at this year “Springfest” this weekend. One source said, “I was surprised they were that good.”
Students played mud volleyball at Saturday’s Springfest, an annual event that includes a crawfish boil and live music.
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Dr. George L. Hunt, SFA assistant professor of accounting, is the recipient of the 2012 Teaching Excellence Award for Service Learning.
Students in Hunt’s Accounting 343 course are active in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service. The program’s mission is to recruit and train volunteers to provide assistance to lower income taxpayers in filing federal income tax returns.
SFA student members of Beta Alpha Psi, the
national accounting honor society, have partici-pated in the VITA program for many years, pro-viding tax assistance for citizens of Nacogdoches and the surrounding area. Participating students have the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills developed in class and gain confidence in preparing tax returns while serving the com-munity.
Each year, one full-time SFA faculty member is recognized for outstanding use and implemen-tation of a service-learning component in class. The award is presented in conjunction with the annual Teaching Excellence Convocation, which was held on campus Wednesday.
Hunt joined the faculty of the Nelson Rusche College of Business in 2006 and teaches classes in controls and internal auditing, income tax, prin-cipals of management accounting, and account-
ing and information systems. He earned both the Teaching Excellence and Service awards for his college in 2010. Hunt recently was promoted to the rank of associate professor and granted tenure.
His memberships include the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Institute of Internal Auditors, American Accounting Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Institute of Management Accounts.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Texas A&M University, a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s degree in account-ing from Texas State University, and a doctorate degree in accounting from Texas Tech University.
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On 4-19-2012 an officer was dispatched to Lumberjack Landing in reference to a theft. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 4-19-2012 his unattended Sony PS3 was stolen from the third floor south wing lounge at Lumberjack Landing. There are no suspects.
On 4-19-2012 an officer made contact with a complainant at the Parking and Traffic Office in reference to a theft. The complainant stated a week before Easter Break she secured her bicycle on the bike rack at Lumberjack Landing and returned on 4-19-2012 and discovered the bicycle had been stolen. There are no suspects.
On 4-19-2012 an officer was dispatched to the lobby of UPD in reference to credit card abuse. Upon arrival the Officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 4-6-2012 her debit/credit card was used in Mexico with-out her consent. There are no suspects.
On 4-19-2012 an officer was dispatched to the lobby of UPD in reference to a theft. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 4-19-2012 his unattended clothing was stolen from the third floor laun-dry room at Hall 14. There are no suspects.
On 4-18-2012 an officer was dispatched to Lot 40 in refer-ence to a subject who had locked his keys inside his vehicle. Upon arrival the officer began unlocking the vehicle and noted a strong smell of what he believed to be marijuana coming from inside the vehicle. The officer conducted a search of the vehicle and a pat-down of the subject and lo-cated what he believed to be marijuana on the subject's per-son. The subject was arrested for Possession of Marijuana and transported to the Nacogdoches County Jail without incident. There is one suspect.
On 4-18-2012 an officer was dispatched to Lumberjack Lodge in reference totheft. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 4-18-2012 her unattended iPad was stolen at the Ferguson Building. There are no suspects.
On 4-16-2012 an officer was dispatched to Hall 20 in ref-erence to a theft. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 4-16-2012 his unattended laundry was stolen from the second floor laundry room at Hall 20. There are no suspects.
On 4-16-2012 an officer was dispatched to Steen Hall in reference to an assault. Upon arrival the officer made con-tact with the complainant, who advised on 4-16-2012 she was assaulted by a known person at Steen Hall. The suspect was contacted and issued a citation for assault. There is one suspect.
On 4-16-2012 an officer was dispatched to Barnes and Noble Bookstore in reference to a theft. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 4-16-2012 an unknown subject stole a hoodie from the Barnes and Noble Bookstore. There are no suspects.
On 4-15-2012 an officer was dispatched to the lobby of UPD in reference to a theft. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised between 2-12-2012 and 4-15-2012 his secure bicycle was stolen from the bike rack at Hall 16. There are no suspects.
On 4-14-2012 an officer was dispatched to Mays Hall in reference to a drug compliant. Upon arrival the officer lo-cated a subject in possession of marijuana, drug parapher-nalia and alcohol inside a residence. There is one suspect.
On 4-14-2012 an officer was dispatched to the Lumberjack Village Parking Garage in reference to a hit and run. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the complainant, who
advised between 4-13-2012 and 4-14-2012 her unattended vehicle was damaged in the Lumberjack Village Parking Garage. There are no suspects.
On 4-14-2012 an officer was dispatched to Lot 56 in refer-ence to a criminalmischief. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the complainant, who advised between 4-13-2012 and 4-14-2012 a window on her vehicle was damaged in lot 56. There are no suspects.
On 4-13-2012 an officer made contact with two suspi-cious subjects inside a vehicle in lot 56. The officer found the subjects to be in possession of marijuana.
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Dr. Karol Chandler-Ezell, assistant professor of anthropology at SFA, is the recipient of the Ruth Benedict Global Citizenship Award from the Center for a Public Anthropology.
Named to honor one of the 20th cen-tury's most prominent anthropolo-gists, the award recognizes Chandler-Ezell's exceptionally effective par-ticipation in Public Anthropology's Community Action Online Project, as well as her wider activities in the pub-lic sphere. Less than 1 percent of col-lege and university faculty members teaching introductory anthropology courses across North America receive this award.
"Professor Chandler-Ezell is to be commended for how she takes classroom knowledge and applies it to real-world challenges, thereby encouraging students to be respon-sible global citizens," said Dr. Rob Borofsky, director of the center. "In actively addressing important ethical concerns within anthropology, she is providing students with the thinking and writing skills needed for active citizenship."
Chandler-Ezell joined the faculty of SFA's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis within the College of Liberal and Applied Arts in 2005. She teaches courses in cultural and physical anthropology; qualitative research methods; culture, health and illness; customs, folklore and tra-ditions of America; and magic, cults and the supernatural.
"One of the reasons I do the Public Anthropology project with my cul-tural anthropology classes is for participation in the SFA eCitizen-ship Initiative with the American Democracy Project," she said. The project is a multi-campus initiative focused on higher education's role in preparing the next generation of informed, engaged citizens.
She is the author of "Historical Reenactors and 'the Period Rush': The Cultural Anthropology of
Paracultures," as well as book chap-ters on herbal medicine and tonic remedies in the United States. Her memberships include the Societies for Ethnobiology, Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Phytolith Research, Anthropological Research, and Applied Anthropology, as well as the American Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.
Chandler-Ezell earned Bachelors of Science in both biology and physical science from the University of Central Arkansas, a Master of Science in bot-any from Oklahoma State University, a Master of Psychiatric Epidemiology from Washington University School of Medicine and a Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Assistant professor of anthropology, Dr. Karol Chandler-Ezell receives the Ruth Benedict Global Citizenship Award from the Center for a Public Anthroplogy.
Anthropology professor wins global award
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Cinematography major Thomas Simpson also real-izes, “it’s more of a mental sport than physical.” To him, it’s a place one can go to just escape “the real world” and forget all of their problems. He does not think about any-thing until he is back on the ground.
Cole Murray emphasizes the importance of expression while climbing, as the rules are few. Very much like life, much of climbing “is plan-ning your next step,” said Dylan Moore. In addition to always thinking ahead, Tony Hendsdrill, graduate assistant who is getting his masters in public adminis-tration, knows that “a good climber is really patient on the wall. It’s not about how fast you go, it’s about endur-ance and having control.”
For climbing natural rocks, “one goes from the bottom to the top of the wall,” said Thomas Simpson. A climber must “use what they have and try not to fall to their death.” Senior finance major Andrew Sparacio noted that this rock wall is meant to imitate the rocks outside, allowing for “just a differ-ent kind of climb” where one must work their way up their own route, without the assis-tance of tape.
In addition to climb-ing, the Rec Center Rock Wall does include a cave of rocks, which is 12 feet tall and meant for the rope-less climbers who wish to im-prove their arm strength. In addition to the cave there is tape on the wall, which helps to outline particular pathways or routes one may wish to follow as means of an extra challenge.
On off-days of competi-tions, climbers may free-form their routes, as long as they aim to ring the bell on the very top. The tape routes each indicates the level of which it is based on the amount of dots on the starter tape, meant to keep climbing more simple for everybody. One dot equals the easier routes, two and three dots
are for the intermediate lev-els, and the four-dotted tapes are the advanced pathways. The employees name each route according to whatever they are feeling at the time, and some are very appro-priate when compared to its level. For example, one route, which is at a level of four dots, has been named “Paying the Tuition.” Overall, despite the dot-system, “the climb-ing experience is 1/4th the climbing, and 3/4ths the en-couragement from others,” states Climbing Instructor and English/Liberal Arts major Brandon Harris.
The competition was judged by the Rec Center em-ployees who know the climb-ers, and vice versa. It is truly a close-knit community with a very chill atmosphere. As a whole, went very well for
all of the climbers, partially because of how well things went. There was a total of four winners, each repre-senting a different category of climbers: for the women’s beginner, Melissa Bozarth; women’s advanced, Jaclyn Bush; men’s beginner, Sean Johnson; and men’s ad-vanced, Thomas Simpson.
These climbers show up often to merely do what they are passionate about, which is climbing. After all, as one piece of motivational tape on the wall states, “The day a climber is ‘too good’ for a route is the day the spirit of the climb is lost to him forever.”
SARA ZAVORKA/THE PINE LOGSFA Rec Center hosted a rock climbing competition at the Rec Center Rock Wall.
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Graduation is coming up, and lots of people already have jobs lined up. But what about the people who don’t? What are they going to do after college? Move back in with their parents? Get a job that they don’t like just to survive? I’m pretty sure that’s not what a college graduate wants to do. There are other options. In my opinion, the best bet is to go to graduate school.
You get two extra years to strengthen your skills in the department you went to school for in the first place, and you walk away with a master’s degree. That also gives you two extra years to find a job that you really want. Just imagine the revenue that could be brought in with two degrees.
Another reason to get a second degree is to show how diverse you can be. If you have two different degrees in two differ-ent areas of study, you just expanded your job opportunities. By the time you finish school you’ll have more options than what you came in with.
Getting that second degree is always
an option, but if someone is in a bind and they don’t know what to do after school; I feel that this will help. What do you have to lose? Absolutely nothing. There’s always the question of stacking on loans or how one can afford it. Grad school offers grants and scholarships too. If you apply early, there is always money involved to further your education.
This also looks good to future employ-ees. If you look into different businesses, lots of them are looking for people who have a master’s in that field. That doesn’t necessarily mean they will look over the people who have a bachelor’s degree in that field, you simply just have the upper hand in the position.
The extra two years and experience under your belt gets people’s attention.
I’m a radio/TV senior, and I graduate in May. I don’t necessarily feel like radio/TV majors need an extra degree, but I plan on getting my master’s because it’s good to have if I ever decided I wanted to do some-thing in another field. I love writing, so I plan on getting my master’s in Journalism.
If graduate school seems like something that may be of interest, visit http://www.sfasu.edu/careerservices/106.asp for more details.
Ariel is a radio/TV senior and a contribu-ing writer for The Pine Log
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Axes up to Earth Day celebrations this weekend. Outdoor Pursuits put on a fun community event at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center.
Axes down to random weather this past week. First it’s hot, then it’s pouring and f looding, then it’s freezing and then it’s hot again.
Grad school for the win
Nothing irks me more than people who instantly jump to conclusions, incessantly judge and interminably assume. Although I catch myself doing some of the above from time to time, I shake my head at others doing so more. People are just set in their ways and don’t like change.
They think what they think and don’t think anything of it. I do though. I take every opportunity I get to learn from some-one different from me. Everyone has their own story to tell and something to teach you. We as college students are lucky because universities support diversity. Walking to class you can stop to say hello with someone from a different racial, reli-gious or cultural background.
I take advantage of this opportunity at SFA to expand my horizons. Learning is
lifelong and instead of only focusing on learning your degree and then launching your career, you can get yourself a little cul-ture while you’re at it. Last was the week of diversity, designed to encourage students to explore and embrace differences, but there are everyday opportunities. For example, the cafeterias have special nights featur-ing cuisine from all over the world. Last Thursday the cafeteria in the SC featured Mexican night.
Enough about diversity; let’s get back to keeping our minds open.
We all have those classes we don’t want to take because they will never help us in life and have nothing to do what we want to do in our futures. You have two choices, to go ahead and take the class and walk into it with an open mind—hey you might learn something. Or your second choice
is to put off the class until your senior year when you’re ready to graduate and espe-cially don’t give a rip.
I guarantee you’ll be more successful with more than classes if you take the time to listen to others and explore things you aren’t familiar with. So many times I see people around me dismissing something they’re unfamiliar with. But they’re miss-ing out.
At the same time, you shouldn’t be gull-ible and vulnerable to stereotypes. In other words, you can’t believe everything you hear. Take new information with a grain of salt and take the time to further investigate something if you don’t think it’s credible.
Because people often times believe ev-erything they hear and are bombarded with subliminal messages from pop culture, Americans are stuck in such a rut of stigma-
tisms and stereotypes. I challenge you to not only ignore these, but also diffuse them when you can. Keep in mind that many times they are just misconceptions and misunderstandings. To make it even worse, movies and television thrive off of making fun of these so called abnormalities.
If you go through your day perceiving things openly, you’ll learn more and grow an appreciation for those around you. Remember, assume makes an ass out of you and me, so don’t fall prey to needless as-suming and judging. Instead, take time to ask people about their backgrounds, keep a positive attitude going into everything, and for goodness sakes, don’t contribute to stereotypes.
Jessica is a general business sophomore
and the opinions editor for The Pine Log.
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Take advantage of diverse opportunities on campus while keeping an open mind
Axes up to one more week of having a life before every college student will try to fit into the library to cram what they haven’t learned. If you’re smart, you’ll lose a week of fun and start studying now...haha, right.
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I love that guys can walk around campus wearing purple without feeling inse-cure. I also like that SFA is so diverse.
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OPINIONS WRITER St. Mary’s University of San Antonio
puts on Fiesta Oyster Bake annually, drawing thousands of visitors from all over Texas. The family-friendly event is a fundraiser for student scholarships, university and alumni programs, and
student organizations. Event activi-ties include a wide range of musical entertainment on five different stages, carnival rides, a special children’s area and the world famous Clydesdales.
Although parking for the festivities is limited, access is granted through four different gates on St. Mary’s cam-pus, and VIA park and ride busses transport visitors from all over the city, making it fairly easy to get to and from. The more than 7,000 volunteers are friendly but not very knowledgeable of anything other than the specific area they’re working in.
To know where to find a juicy sau-sage on a stick you see walking around, your best bet would be to look at the map and key online beforehand at www.oysterbake.com. The multitude of food options includes armadillo eggs (a version of jalapeño poppers,) kolachies, nachos, burgers, chicken on a stick and much more. Oyster lovers can find them fried or baked in shell and as oyster shooters (raw.)
Pair your food with aguas frescas, soft drinks, beer or flavored malt bev-erages. Just make sure you don’t try to bring your oyster knife into FOB; you’ll have to rent one instead. Make a quick stop at the coupon booths once inside to buy 50-cent coupons to buy food and beverage and to ride rides.
Food and drinks are surpris-ingly inexpensive with the cou-pon system, but portions are small. This lends to sampling many different fair foods and Fiesta specialties.
Everything is really relaxed and not frantic like some large crowd settings are. People go to have a good time, and many make a family tradition out of it. You’ll find mostly college stu-dents later in the night when headline entertainers such as Jack Ingram, Kevin Fowler and Buck Cherry play. This might be the only opportunity to stand close enough to touch these big name entertainers.
The shaded campus keeps things cool, and festive lights strung from trees spark a light mood. Scents of food and smoke fill the air—typical of many festi-vals. Designated smoking areas might make nonsmokers more comfortable. Watch out for the tradition cascarones, when peo-ple break eggs full of confetti over each other’s heads. You’ll also see flowery crowns and Spurs jerseys everywhere.
Expect plenty of walking around the completely transformed campus, de-cent food and fun entertainers. Try to
make Friday night’s firework show, after the fun happening since 5 p.m. and return for more fun from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. Most importantly, don’t forget to take a crack at oysters while at Fiesta Oyster Bake.
REVIEW
By Lydia ElsethCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The SFA staff competed against the team of SFA students in an intramural softball game this weekend, with the SFA student team winning 19-1.
The game began with the staff on the offensive and the stu-dents on the defensive. The action started to accelerate when a student player slammed the ball into right field, and the game progressed from there.
The staff and the students switched between the defensive and offensive for seven innings, and the game ended with the students dominating the game.
The student team was made up of student staff from around campus, according to Chase Henderson, a student player, and
the staff team was made up of staff mostly from the Student Recreation Center.
There were some other staff members from around campus that participated in the game such as a professor from the cul-tural affairs department, Nathan Rector, one of the staff players and a graduate assistant for the outdoors program, said.
Rector said he enjoyed playing in the game, but a rematch is not scheduled this semester.
In spite of the lopsided score, both teams seemed to have a good time interacting with each other.
The softball game was organized by Special Events Committee member Joe Wise. He said the committee wanted to put together an event like this to “build a family atmosphere and get students and staff out together.”
Wise said that this was the first softball game that the staff and students played. He said that the committee hopes to make the game an annual event.
Wise added that the Special Events Committee is planning some events for this summer. He said they are working on orga-nizing a 5K walk. He also said that they may plan to do some dif-ferent competitive games in the fall between students and staff such as football.
Students clobber staff 19-1 in softball game
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By Robert BarnesTHE WASHINGTON POST
The Supreme Court will conclude one of its most significant and controver-sial terms in decades by taking on one more issue that has divided the nation: Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immi-grants.
The court’s final oral argument on Wednesday — Arizona v. United States — provides yet another chance for the jus-tices to confront fundamental questions about the power of the federal govern-ment. And the rulings the court will issue between now and the end of June could dramatically alter the nation’s election-year landscape.
The court has considered President Barack Obama’s health-care law, has taken its first look at the political redis-tricting battles being fought across the nation and will decide whether federal regulators still hold the authority to police the nation’s airwaves.
The Obama administration has moved aggressively against Arizona’s SB 1070, which directs law enforcement to play a much more active role in identifying il-legal immigrants and makes it a crime for them to seek work. The administration has persuaded courts to put aside key parts of the law.
And, as with last month’s hearings on the health-care law, in the Arizona case the government is asking the court to recognize that the Constitution gives the federal government vast powers to con-front national problems, such as illegal immigration.
“As the framers understood, it is the na-tional government that has the ultimate responsibility to regulate the treatment of
aliens while on American soil, because it is the nation as a whole — not any single state — that must respond to the interna-tional consequences of such treatment,” Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the court in the government’s brief.
Immigration is one of the nation’s thorniest political issues. Obama and his administration have been accused of not properly securing the nation’s borders and criticized for not delivering compre-hensive immigration reform. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s tough stance against illegal immigration has angered some interest groups and is said to have cost him among increasingly influential Latino voters.
And even as the pace of illegal immi-gration has slowed, it has left a changed picture of undocumented immigrants in the United States. According to the liberal Center for American Progress, 63 percent of illegal immigrants have been in the country for more than 10 years and more than 16.6 million people in the United States have at least one undocumented family member.
Tom Saenz, president and general counsel of the Los Angeles-based Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said that while the legal issues in Arizona v. United States “relate to the structure of government, it is still very much a civil rights case.”
The decision will have implications well beyond Arizona. Several states have copied — and toughened — Arizona’s law, and more are considering such steps.
“This debate is not just about SB 1070,” Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) said in a statement when the state filed its brief in the case. “Rather, it is for the constitution-al principle that every state has a duty and
obligation to protect its people, especially when the federal government has failed in upholding its core responsibilities. SB 1070 is Arizona’s way of saying ‘enough!’ “
The Obama administration opposed Arizona’s efforts from the start, as it has similar laws passed in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah and elsewhere.
“Arizona has adopted its own immigra-tion policy, which focuses solely on maxi-mum enforcement and pays no heed to the multifaceted judgments” that Congress intends for the executive branch to make, Verrilli wrote in the government’s brief. “For each State, and each locality, to set its own immigration policy in that fashion would wholly subvert Congress’ goal: a single, national approach.”
The Obama administration persuaded a federal judge and then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to keep four sections of the law from taking effect, and they will be at the heart of the Supreme Court’s review. Those sections:
• Require state and local law enforce-ment to verify the citizenship status of anyone stopped, detained or arrested when there is “reasonable suspicion” that the person is in the United States unlaw-fully.
• Authorize law enforcement officials to make and arrest without a warrant when an officer has “probable cause to believe . . . [t]he person to be arrested has commit-ted any public offense that makes the per-son removable from the United States.”
• Make it a state crime to be in the United States unlawfully and require non-citizens to carry documents to prove they are legally in the country.
• Make it a state crime for a person who is not lawfully in the country to work or seek work. Federal law puts the burden on employers to verify the legality of those seeking work.
The case before the court offers a re-match of the lawyers who last month argued the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Verrilli for the government and Paul Clement, president George W. Bush’s so-licitor general, representing Arizona.
Clement’s brief opens with page after page of costs and crimes that have ac-companied a wave of illegal immigra-tion across Arizona’s borders: Schools, hospitals and jails are overtaxed. Home invasions related to drug smuggling and human trafficking have soared. “Incredibly,” Clement writes, the federal government has even posted signs warn-ing travelers: “Danger — Public Warning — Travel Not Recommended.” “Active
Drug and Human Smuggling Area.” “Visitors May Encounter Armed Criminals and Smuggling Vehicles Traveling at High Rates of Speed.”
Clement says SB 1070 is not imposing new immigration standards but merely directing its own officials to make sure federal laws are respected.
“Such cooperative law enforcement is the norm, not something that requires affirmative congressional authorization,” Clement writes.
Verrilli responds that the Arizona law’s “very design discards cooperation and embraces confrontation.”
He describes a complex federal policy of detaining and deporting illegal im-migrants prioritized on criminal activ-ity and other factors. The Department of Homeland Security receives funding to remove annually about 400,000 of the approximately 11 million people in the country illegally, he says, and it is up to federal officials — not Arizona’s — to de-cide who they should be.
And he says Arizona’s decision to im-pose criminal sanctions on those who seek work is an idea Congress debated and rejected in passing immigration leg-islation in 1986.
The Supreme Court in its previous term signaled that immigration enforcement is not solely the province of the federal government. In a 5 to 3 vote, it agreed that Arizona could revoke the business licens-es of companies that knowingly employ undocumented workers.
But the court in that case said Arizona was in line with an exception in the 1986 law that allows states leeway in the li-censing of businesses, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.
The same eight justices will hear Wednesday’s Arizona case — Justice Elena Kagan recused herself in both, pre-sumably because of her work on the issue in her previous job as Obama’s solicitor general.
If they split evenly, the 9th Circuit’s injunction of those aspects of the Arizona law would stand and the larger issue of federal authority would need to wait for a challenge to one of the other states’ laws.
As with health care, the case has at-tracted a raft of amicus briefs. Sixteen states, including Virginia, are supporting Arizona; 11, including Maryland, say the federal government must play the domi-nant role in immigration.
The stance of the each state follows less the number of immigrants within its borders and more the political party of its leadership.
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Since the beginning of April, many of us, especially seniors, have been wondering where the semester has gone.
Summer is right around the corner, but an even greater event is looming for all of us fourth years: graduation. For some of us, graduation is an exciting time because it is open-ing the doors of a new chapter for our lives.
For the rest of us entering the post-grad world without a job, graduation impends upon us like a dark, stormy cloud. Resumes, cover letters, applications and interviews are all things that can be more than a little daunting when applying for a job and starting down your career path.
Yet, knowing which tools to use can make this step less painful.Resume BearA resume: that 8 ½ by 11 sheet of paper marks all of your skills and experiences in the
past four years.After researching ways to improve my own resume, I stumbled upon “Resume Bear,” an
online resume builder tool.You can upload your own resume or follow the steps they give you to showcase your
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or forwarded on by notifying you via text or email. Helpful, right?Google AlertsWhat doesn’t Google have? Google Alerts is a notification service that allows for you to
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but having small helpful hints, like the aforementioned ones, can make the campaign to-ward your career path a little easier.
The process might be intimidating, but many that can attest that the outcome is sweet.
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The Lumberjacks only managed four hits on the day, but made two of them count and the SFA pitching staff com-bined to strike out 11 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi hitters in a 2-1 win in Game 2 of Saturday’s doubleheader at Chapman Field.
The win clinches the first road series win of the year for SFA (16-23, 9-11 SLC) and gives the J̀acks five straight wins at Chapman Field.
Cameron Gann struck out a career best eight hitters in six innings, allowing just one unearned run in running his record to 4-2 on the year. He has not allowed an earned run in either of his last two starts.
Alex Moshier made things interesting in the ninth for the second time on the day, but for the second time converted the save opportunity. The senior gave up a one-out single and had the tying run on second base before striking out a pair of Islander (15-24, 8-12 SLC) hitters to close out the game, the last one being of Marc Damon with the bases loaded.
Adam Hoelscher was the tough-luck loser for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The lefty nearly went the distance, striking out seven and walking four with four hits allowed in 8.2
innings in falling to 6-4 on the season.No SFA hitter finished with more than one hit but a pair
of doubles from Jarid Scarafiotti and Hunter Dozier each managed to bring Freddy Villalobos around from first base for the lone runs on the night. Ricardo Sanchez and Zach Benson each picked up a hit as well, with Sanchez adding a stolen base to his night’s tally.
Scarafiotti put SFA out in front 1-0 with an RBI double in the top of the first inning, bringing Villalobos all the way home from first base after he had reached on an error with one out in the inning. Two innings later Villalobos raced around the bases to score from first again, drawing a leadoff walk and then scoring on a double just inside the third-base bag by Dozier.
The Islanders cut the lead in half in the bottom of the sixth when a pair of walks put the J̀acks in a jam. Gann then got Jonathan Gonzalez to hit a comeback grounder to the mound, but after getting the runner at second base, Dozier’s return throw from second to first base sailed wide and allowed Jordan Lee to score. The Islanders still had a chance to knot the game with the tying run on second base, but Gann responded with a pickoff of Gonzalez and his
third strikeout of Jeramie Marek to keep the J̀acks in front.Cory Ochs came on to toss a clean seventh inning, but
needed some help to get out of the eighth after TAMUCC moved the tying runner to second base with just one out. The J̀acks then went to Justin Choate out of the bullpen who retired Jordan Lee on a grounder and Drew Vest with a strikeout to give push SFA into the ninth with the lead.
After Tanner Green got out of a bases-loaded jam for the Islanders in the top of the inning without the J̀acks adding any insurance runs, Marek gave the Islanders life in the ninth with a one-out single off of Moshier. He promptly stole second base on the very next pitch, but was left at sec-ond after Stafford Brantley struck out swinging; however, a walk and an SFA miscue loaded the bases for Damon with two down in the inning, but Moshier got Damon to swing through three straight pitches to close out his second save of the afternoon.
The J̀acks go for their second straight series sweep in Corpus Christi on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. with Colton Eubanks on the hill. He’ll be opposed by Islander righty Daniel Minor.
by Jordan BoydSPORTS EDITOR
With only three days until the long-awaited 2012 NFL Draft, speculation is heating up for the future of the projected top two picks—Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III.
The Indianopolis Colts, who are slated for the first pick overall, have already con-tacted Stanford product Luck and told him he will be picked to lead their franchise and follow in the footsteps of Peyton Manning.
The Washington Redskins, who hold the second overall pick and haven’t had a quar-terback on their roster since the stone age, are expected to take Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III (or RGIII as many have daunted him.) And while there might not be much of mystery for who is going where, their future success as NFL quarterbacks remains to be seen.
Luck has been compared to the likes of John Elway, Tom Brady and even Peyton Manning in terms of football IQ and intel-lect. If Luck plays even close to any of those three, the Colts will be ensured to be post-season contenders. Luck’s Stanford play-
ing days involved him being in a pro-style offense, which should benefit him tremen-dously at the pro level. He will be walking into one of the worst teams in NFL history, showcased by their 2-14 record without Peyton Manning last year.
Although this isn’t the ideal scenario for Luck (ask Sam Bradford of the St. Louis Rams), this is the best scenario for the Colts as they try to move past the Peyton Manning era.
The Redskins, on the other hand, have a more improved roster than the Colts--and by more I mean a tiny bit more; therefore, RGIII’s window for success could blossom more quickly than that of Luck.
Being able to throw to Josh Morgan, Pierre Garçon (former Colt, sorry Andrew) and Santana Moss will definitley help RGIII in his rookie season.
Look for RGIII, who looks like a smaller, quicker Cam Newton, to have a productive season in Washington and Luck to struggle without much talent around him in Indy.
But then again, we will just to wait and see.
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The SFA Men’s Golf team heads to McKinney, Texas Monday to open the 49th annual Southland Conference Golf Championships. The champion-ships will be played at Stonebridge Ranch Country Club on their 7,346-yard, par-72 Pete Dye Signature Course.
The Lumberjacks look to bounce back from a fifth-place finish a year ago, when they dropped one spot in the standings over the course of the final three holes. SFA enters the week playing its best golf of the season. Junior Mitchell McLeroy has record-ed four top-five finishes in as many tournaments, including an individual title at the Jim West Intercollegiate where he fired a nine-under par 207. Prior to that McLeroy recorded a run-ner-up finish at the UALR/First Tee
Intercollegiate with a one-over 217.As a team, the Lumberjacks have
also recorded four consecutive top-five finishes, and just missed a team title at the Jim West Intercollegiate fir-ing a one-under 863 to finish second overall. The team’s most impressive finish came at Little Rock, Ark., where SFA climbed six places on the final day of action to record a fifth-place finish.
The ‘Jacks will tee off at 9:04 a.m., off the back nine. SFA will be paired up with UTSA. Freshmen Cody Wing and Blake Pugh will be the first two Lumberjacks to go off followed by seniors Michael Smith and Stetson McMillan. Junior Mitchell McLeroy will be the final Lumberjack to tee off in the opening round of action.
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SportsThe SFA Ladyjacks struggled to
get their bats going on Saturday in a pair of shutout losses to Central Arkansas at the SFA Softball Field.
SFA (13-30, 4-12) fell 1-0 in game one in what proved to be a pitch-ers duel between Angela White and UCA’s Kelsie Armstrong. In game two the Ladyjacks lost 6-0 with SFA mustering just four hits. With both losses the Ladyjacks were eliminated from an opportunity to play in the Southland Conference Tournmaent.
UCA (33-18, 9-7) received a tre-mendous pitching performance from Armstrong in game one. The junior earned her 20th victory of the season by pitching a complete game shutout while striking out
12 Ladyjacks and allowing just a single hit to SFA’s Elizabeth Arana in the second inning. Melanie Bryant’s RBI single in the third in-ning proved to be the game-win-ning hit.
White nearly matched Armstrong in the circle, allowing just the one earned run in seven innings off seven hits and three walks. The junior fell to 5-14 this season with the tough loss.
In game two the Bears’ broke open the contest with a three-run fourth inning, the big hit being a two-run home run by designated player Katie McGregor to make the score 3-0. UCA would tack on three more runs against SFA start-ing pitcher Carlee Thomas (8-12),
who took the loss in the circle going seven innings while allowing six earned runs on 11 hits.
UCA starting pitcher Cami Newsome went four innings to earn the win, her 10th of the season. The senior allowed four hits while strik-ing out three and issuing no walks. She was relieved by Armstrong in the fifth inning and the junior went the final three innings to earn her third save of the season.
The Ladyjacks will now hit the road for four consecutive games, starting with a single game at Louisiana Tech on Wednesday, April 25. That game is scheduled to get underway at 6 p.m.
Ladyjack Softball drops double-header at home
The Ladyjacks had a tough home-stand and will hit the road for four games, starting with Louisiana Tech on Wednesday. SFA is 13-30 on the year and 4-12 in the conference up to this point and will look to turn around their season on the road.
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The SFA Men’s and Women’s Track and Field teams recorded four in-dividual titles, and numerous top-five finishes at the Michael Johnson Invitational in Waco Saturday.
The Ladyjacks were led by Paige McCutcheon who clocked a time of 55.84 to win the 400-meter dash. She returned to the track to lead a trio of Ladyjacks who recorded top-six finishes in the women’s 200-me-ters. McCutcheon was third overall with a time of 24.75, while freshmen Brarsheyia Simpson was fifth (24.922) and Olivia Harris was sixth (24.925).
Freshman Madison Johnston just missed an individual title in the field events for the Ladyjacks. She record-ed a throw of 144-5 to finish second in the javelin. Christian Donald and Stephanie White recorded top-five finishes in the women’s 400-meter hurdles. Donald recorded a time of 1:02.76 to finish third overall, while
White was fifth (1:04.44). Chelsea Stephen clocked the Ladyjacks’ fastest time in the 100-meter hurdles with a 13.68 to finish fourth overall.
Danielle Burchett and De’Andrea Rouwtt both recorded fourth-place finishes in the 800-meters. Burchett recorded a time of 2:09.46 in the eve-ning heat while Rouwtt crossed the line with a time of 2:17.50 in the after-noon heat
The SFA women also had sever-al clutch performances in the field events. Kirsten Knox was fourth in the long jump with a mark of 19-5.25. Kelli Hermes was fourth in the triple jump when she recorded a distance of 39-4.50. Freshman La’Tricia Griffin placed fifth in the discus (136-3).
The three individual titles for the men came from Harman McClanahan, Jamal Peden and Andrew Plentl. McClanahan recorded a time of 9:17.60 to win the 3,000-meter steeplechase
while Peden won the triple jump with his mark of 51-0.75. Peden return to the runway to record a third-place fin-ish in the long jump (24-3.75). Plentl closed out SFA’s title haul with a vic-tory in the 110-meter hurdles (14.71). Senior Isiah Collins was fourth in the event with a time of 15.17.
Other Lumberjacks who had strong outings were Moses Luevano and Nicholas Guerra in the 5,000-meter run. Luevano clocked a time of 15:16.97 to finish third, while Guerra was less than four seconds back to place fourth (15:20.68). Freshman Adam Amaya tacked on a fourth-place finish in the hammer throw with a mark of 163-11.
The Lumberjacks 1,600-meter relay team of Hampton Hawkins, Torin Crowder, Glenn McQuinney and Cass Brown recorded a third-place showing with a time of 3:09.30.
SFA Track and Field teams dominate once again
SFA looking at four-game road trip starting Wednesday at Louisiana Tech
