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by Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana EdwardsEXECUTIVE EDITORkiedwards2012@gmail.com

Buildings closed and classes

recessed on the campus of Alabama

State University as an associate

professor of African Studies and

history at Rutgers University,

talked about the impact of Martin

Luther King Jr.’s legacy during the

annual Martin Luther King Jr.

Bithday Convocation.

Held in the Dunn Oliver Aca-

dome on Jan. 11, hundreds of stu-

dents, faculty and staff listened in-

tently as educator and author Will-

iam Jelani Cobb, PhD, explained

why he was there.

“I don’t take lightly the honor

of being able to speak to you all

today,” he said. “It’s not simply

about recognizing Martin Luther

King Day; it’s a matter of recog-

nizing what country you want to

live in.”

He continued.

“We are living in interesting

times. We live in a country that has,

for the first time, an African Ameri-

can president. Not only that, but an

African American president who is

married to a woman from the

southside of Chicago. It is some-

thing that we would never have

imagined in our fantasies … But

we still live in a society where Troy

Davis can be executed.”

Cobb showed how King’s

changes affect us now.

“On this week, we’ve recog-

nized the contributions of Dr. Mar-

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William Jelani Cobb Ph.D, delivered the keynote speech in the Acadome during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation. Cobb is an Americanauthor and educator, associate professor of History and Africana Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Cobb specializes inpost-Civil War African American history, 20th century American politics, and the history of the Cold War.

Photo by Dale Clarke II

Kieyana Edwards (far left) encourages the editorial leadership team touse their creative abilities to publish a journalistically sound newspaper.

Black women have played a myriad ofcritical roles in the making of our nation.Their labor and leadership, theirmotherhood and patriotism, and theirintellect and artistic expression have allenriched both the black community andthe nation at large. Black women havebeen the core of organized black life, buttheir accomplishments have oftenescaped the gaze of the public and hencetheir history is too little known. Now,write an essay to share the life story of alittle known black woman that has madea difference in their community and isworthy to be included in the annals ofblack women in culture and history.

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The deadline for the essay is Feb.24. The winner will have his/heressay and photo published in thefirst March issue of The HornetTribune. More details will be

given in Jan. 28 issue.

Cobb reminds audience of King’s impact

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In today’s economy, a career

in newspaper management can be

very demanding, and according to

Kieyana Edwards, executive edi-

tor of The Hornet Tribune, Ala-

bama State University’s student

newspaper is no different.

In an effort to accomplish the

job, Edwards recently selected

seven managing editors to help

her manage the various aspects of

The Hornet Tribune.

Her appointments included

Sharanna Polk as the editorial

managing editor, Christopher

Logan as the visual media man-

aging editor, Willie Todd as the

graphics and design managing

editor, Phillip Davis as the digi-

tal managing editor, Rose Todd as

the social media managing editor,

Shericka Wilson as the public af-

fairs manager and Justin Johnson

as the business and finance man-

ager.

Edwards believes these man-

agers will help her to brand The

Hornet Tribune, as well as broaden

the outreach as well as develop

more student appeal for the cam-

pus newspaper.

“They each have a quality of

leadership and drive that they

bring to the table. They use the

need to excel in their various ar-

eas of management to conquer

skill sets that are valuable to their

The Alabama State University

Black History Month Opening

Convocation will feature a long-

time civil rights activist who has

used music to push for equality.

Composer, singer, scholar, pro-

ducer and civil rights activist

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Bernice Johnson Reagon, PhD,

will speak on Thursday, Feb. 2, at

11 a.m. in the Lelia Barlow The-

atre.

For more than four decades,

Reagon has been a major cultural

voice for freedom and justice –

singing, teaching and speaking out

against racism and organized in-

equalities of all kinds.

Reagon was an active partici-

pant in the Civil Rights Movement

of the 1960s through her work as a

member of The Freedom Singers,

organized by the Student Non-vio-

lent Coordinating Committee

(SNCC).

She was featured in the 1992

Emmy-nominated PBS documen-

tary, “The Songs Are Free: Bernice

Johnson Reagon with Bill

Moyers.” Reagon was the concep-

tual producer and narrator of the

Peabody Award-winning radio se-

ries, “Wade in the Water: African-

American Sacred Music Tradi-

tions.”

Reagon is professor emerita of

history at American University in

Washington, D.C., and was the

2002-04 Cosby Chair Professor of

Fine Arts at Spelman College in At-

lanta, Georgia.

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88th Year of Publication

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The newspaper attempts to inform and entertain its audience in a broad, fair and accuratemanner on all subjects that affect readers. The medium seeks also to provide a forumfor the opinion of students, the staff of The Hornet Tribune and the faculty to encouragean exchange of ideas and opinions on issues of prominence to the readers.

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Entrepreneurship experts

from around the country will

converge on Alabama State

University’s campus in

March for the second annual

ASU HBCU Conference.

Organizers are hard at

work on the conference

slated to be held at ASU on

March 5-7.

More than 300 higher

education professionals,

alumni, entrepreneurs and

government officials are ex-

pected to attend this year’s

conference, which seeks to

build economic partnerships

with HBCUs and their sur-

rounding communities

throughout the United States.

The theme of this year’s

conference is Entrepreneur-

ship: Transforming Educa-

tion, Government and Indus-

try.

“The conference is

geared not just for the higher

education community, but

also for government officials,

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small businesses, corpora-

tions, federal, state and local

agencies to learn how to

work with the different con-

stituents to improve eco-

nomic development in re-

gions nationwide by using

HBCU resources,” said

Deborah Scott Thomas, ASU

alumna and president of Data

Solutions & Technology In-

corporated (DST).

Thomas said the goals of

the conference are to offer

attendees an opportunity to

learn about business devel-

opment, entrepreneurship,

grants, contracting and fel-

lowships.

“The HBCU entrepre-

neurship conference brings

together industry, govern-

ment and education,” Tho-

mas said. “Conference par-

ticipants have an opportunity

to develop relationships and

partnerships that can help

them be successful in their

undertakings.”

The conference also will

place a special focus on the

science, technology, engi-

neering and mathematics

(STEM) disciplines.

“Science, technology,

engineering and mathematics

are where a lot of funding is

available and one of the

places America feels will

help give us a competitive

edge to help keep us a global

leader,” Thomas said.

The conference will fea-

ture several keynote speak-

ers and panelists who possess

a wealth of experience in

leadership, private enter-

prise, economic develop-

ment and education innova-

tion. Some include:

• Linda Y. Cureton -

chief information officer

(CIO) for the National Aero-

nautics and Space Adminis-

tration (NASA).

• Malcolm Jackson -

EPA's assistant administrator

for the Office of Environ-

mental Information and

Chief Information Officer.

• Senora Coggs – se-

nior policy advisor for the

Policy and Evaluation Divi-

sion, Office of Civil Rights

for the U.S. Department of

Commerce.

• Willie J. Gripper, Jr.

– director for the Joint Secu-

rity and Hazardous Materials

Safety Office-East for the

Federal Aviation Administra-

tion (FAA).

• Michael Hudson -

Motivational Speaker, Finan-

cial Coach, Entrepreneurial

Coach, Executive Business

Coach, Sales Coach, Speak-

ing Coach and CEO of

Money Talks International.

• Anthony V. Junior –

program office director at the

Department of the Navy’s

Historically Black Colleges

and Universities/Minority

Institutions.

• Calvin R. Stamps –

founder, managing partner

and portfolio manager of

Bretwood Captital Partners

LLC.

To register and see the

full conference agenda, in-

cluding a complete list of

participating speakers and

panelists, visit www.asu-

hbcu.org.

Stadium runs over budget

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The Alabama State

University football sta-

dium project is on pace to

be $12 million over bud-

get, and university officials

acknowledged this week

that they will have to go

back to the bond market to

secure more funds in order

to complete the project.

However, President

William Harris said that

the overrun was due to

changes in the scope of the

project and that it is still on

track to be completed in

time for November's Tur-

key Day Classic.

“When we originally

went to the bond market

two years ago, we went

with a projected cost for

the project using estimated

drawings,” Harris said.

“There have been many

changes to those plans.

Some of the phases of the

project that we bid out, the

bids came back higher than

we originally anticipated.

And there has been some

increase in costs over the

last two years.”

“The final cost is $12

million more than we an-

ticipated,” Harris added.

The original projected

cost for the 22,500 seat sta-

dium was $50 million.

That's the amount univer-

sity officials procured

when they went to the

bond market two years ago.

Harris said that while ru-

mors of funds being misused

or spent on other projects

have been rampant, “not one

penny of money dedicated to

this stadium has gone else-

where.”

The university released

documents showing that the

school has spent nearly $19

million so far on the project

through Wednesday, and that

nearly $31 million remains in

the stadium construction

fund.

“I know there have been

rumors that we haven't paid

our invoices and that work

has stopped. But let me say

this, there is not a single in-

voice that has not been paid,”

Harris said. “Work has not

stopped for one day.”

Harris said the major is-

sue causing the overrun is

changes to the original plans,

including the espansion of

the multi-purpose facility and

locker rooms.

“We did this so the sta-

dium could be used for a va-

riety of other things,” Harris

said. “We're working with

the River Region Sports

Commission in doing all the

stuff that it's doing. We're a

part of that. We've expanded

the original plans and that's

why there's an overrun."

University officials ac-

knowledged that some of the

changes could have been

avoided had the school origi-

nally waited to go to the bond

market until they were more

certain about the cost of each

phase. But that would have

cost them money, said Mike

Dunn, an investment banker

with Merchant Capital.

School officials were

trying to take advantage of a

federal program that lowered

the university's interest by

almost a full percentage

point, saving almost $9 mil-

lion.

“They went to the mar-

ket a little earlier than they

otherwise would have, but

they would have lost the op-

portunity for that type of

bond financing,” Dunn said.

Still, Harris said that the

shortfall is troubling to him

and other university officials,

and that securing the addi-

tional $12 million is a deci-

sion that the Board of Trust-

ees will ultimately have to

approve.

But he was confident

that there would be no addi-

tional costs, despite nearly 11

months remaining on the

construction schedule.

“It does trouble us, be-

cause the gaps in funding are

much wider than we ever

anticipated,” he said. “There

will be no more overruns.

We're in a very different po-

sition now.”

Ken Upchurch, who

owns TCU Consulting Ser-

vices which is managing the

project, said the third and fi-

nal phase of the project was

recently bid out and that

there were no more changes

to the plans that could be

made.

University officials

also addressed speculation

that the school would be

unable to go back to the

bond market because of its

enormous debt. ASU has

borrowed more than $200

million within the last five

years to renovate buildings

and build new ones.

Harris said the school

would probably go to the

bond market in March. He

said it would be brought to

the board “not at the next

board meeting next week

but at a future board meet-

ing or specially called

board meeting.”

In an effort to offset

those costs and cuts to state

funding, the school raised

tuition and student fees by

22 percent in May 2009

alone. A recent report from

the U.S. Department of

Education noted that ASU

has raised tuition more

than 43 percent since the

2007-08 school year.

However, Harris said

the increase in cost of the

stadium project wouldn't

mean additional fees, and

he defended the school's fi-

nancial position.

“There's not a modi-

cum of truth to any of that

-- we fully intend to be in

the bond market,” Harris

said. “We had two options

for paying for this -- long-

term debt or using cash on

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SGA releases plansfor Spring semester

Students who are frus-

trated with moving out of

their residence halls during

the holidays, or the lack of

coin machines in the resi-

dence halls, might have their

frustrations addressed during

the Spring semester.

The Student Govern-

ment Association of Ala-

bama State University will

be addressing several issues

and assembling several ac-

tivities to keep the students

both entertained and aware.

“We’re trying to get coin

machines back into the

dorms,” said SGA President

Travis Smith. “A lot of stu-

dents are complaining about

having to go elsewhere to get

coins. In the long term,

we’re trying to get the cards

loaded with money, but in the

mean time we need the ma-

chines.”

Another issue that will

be tackled by the SGA is stu-

dents moving themselves

and all of their belongings

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out of the residence halls dur-

ing holiday breaks, which

Smith describes as “a

hassle.”

“I don’t think it’s neces-

sary,” Smith said. “You

move all of your stuff in Au-

gust, just to move out in De-

cember, and then move back

in January to move back out

in May. And what about the

out-of-state students? The

university should be respon-

sible enough to not allow

theft during the break, and

students should feel comfort-

able leaving their things,”

Smith said.

The SGA also wants to

inform students of presiden-

tial candidates, and plans to

do so by hosting open fo-

rums.

“We want to team up

with different organizations

to inform students on the new

laws being passed, particu-

larly in Alabama,” explained

Smith.

As far as student activi-

ties are concerned, the SGA

is starting a Spoken Word

University will have to borrow $12 million to finish project

Photo by Christopher Logan/Visual Media Managing Editor

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Members of the university administration announced that the university will need an additional $12 million to complete thenew football stadium that is projected to host the next homecoming football game on Thanksgiving Day.

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Alabama State Univer-

sity closed its doors and so

were state government build-

ings, but that did not stop the

nation or students attending

ASU from celebrating the

life and legacy of Martin

Luther King Jr.

Thousands of citizens,

students and guests aligned

downtown on Jan. 16, at the

corner of Catoma and

Church Street to show hom-

age, by participating in an

annual parade, to show hom-

age to the slain civil rights

leader

Elementary, middle, and

high school bands got in line

to begin the march to

Alabama’s capitol building,

as King’s recordings played

on its steps.

“I’m here for the move-

ment—the re-enactment,”

said first-year theatre major

Jasmine Gatewood.

She was not alone in

ASU’s support of the event.

Miss ASU Charaiecelia

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The internet might be-

come a final frontier for

free expression, as it is one

of the last places that im-

pacts our daily lives that the

government has not regu-

lated.

A bill, headlined by

some of the world’s

wealthiest countries would

centor the internet in the

name of protecting intellec-

tual property.

Intellectual property, as

defined by dictionary.com

i n c l u d e s

“patents, copyright material,

and trademarks.”

The bills, proposed by

U. S. Rep. Lamar Smith

(Texas), are SOPA (Stop

Online Piracy Act) and Pro-

tect PIPA (Preventing Real

Online Threats to Eco-

nomic Creativity and Theft

of Intellectual Property

Act).

File sharing websites

such as Megaupload are es-

pecially at risk. It was shut

down on Jan. 19th.

Megaupload was “ex-

actly” the type of website

SOPA and PIPA advocates

had in mind when the bills

were drafted, according to

Neil Roiter, research direc-

tor at Corero Network Se-

curity. Even powerful sites

such as Google, Yahoo!,

and Youtube are at risk for

shutdown.

Social networking sites

Hamilton, a senior theatre

arts major and Montgomery

native, was especially ex-

cited.

“To be honest, just look-

ing around and seeing all of

these young people, from dif-

ferent backgrounds makes

me feel really good,”

Hamilton said. She is the

first Miss ASU to participate

in the parade. “This is a good

look for the university.”

Legislators helping to

celebrate the King Day pa-

rade quoted the slain civil

rights leader as they outlined

their priorities for the 2012

regular session, which begins

in less than a month.

House Speaker Mike

Hubbard, R-Auburn, quoted

King’s 1965 speech “How

Long? Not Long,” which like

Hubbard’s comments were

delivered on the steps of the

state Capitol.

State Rep. John Knight,

D-Montgomery, also re-

ferred to the “How Long”

speech in his remarks before

hundreds of people gathered

at the Capitol steps.

Knight said he would

continue to push for a repeal

of the state sales tax on gro-

ceries.

“It’s unconscionable to

think poor people, working

people have to pay a four-

cent sales tax on food,”

Knight said. “We’re going to

try to get it done in the next

session of the Legislature.”

Gov. Robert Bentley, ad-

dressing the crowd, said that

in the past year, the residents

of the state had followed

King’s call to service, par-

ticularly after the devastating

tornadoes of April 27.

“As I saw people across

the state in a time of need, I

also saw people working to-

gether, and it didn’t matter

what color they were,” he

said.

Junior political science

major, and member of the

Beta Eta chapter of Delta

Sigma Theta Sorority, Maya

McKenzie, was present with

sorer sisters.

“This is an annual event

for the chapter,” McKenzie

said. It’s a great time to in-

terface with the community

in addition to paying homage

like Facebook, Twitter and

Tumblr are under SOPA and

PIPA’s far reaching jurisdic-

tion.

First year biology and

pre-health major Vincent

Onyilo, said “I think the in-

ternet is a free range estab-

lishment because the internet

is not meant to have a cen-

tral authority. Who gets the

final say in what get cen-

sored?”

The bill would especially

hit home for first-year theater

arts major, Omarious Fann.

“The majority of

Facebook and Twitter has

become a networking con-

nection site,” Fann said.

“Therefore if I lose Facebook

and Twitter, I would lose a

lot of people with whom I am

connected who could be very

important in my future en-

deavors.”

Opposition from this bill

comes from many different

sources. Google and

Wikipedia have been espe-

cially against SOPA and

PIPA.

Google placed a black

“censored” band across the

logo on its home page.

Wikipedia went farther on

Jan. 18th, by announcing it

would shut its website down

for an entire night. Instead it

was blacked out. When us-

ers would log on to the site,

they were directed to a black

screen which allowed for one

to get contact information to

his senator and representa-

tive. Both Wikipedia and

Google encouraged its users

to call in opposition to the

bill.

Good news for the oppo-

sition was revealed on Jan.

20th.

Smith revealed he would

pull the bills off the floor

until there was “wider

agreement on the issue.”

However, the public

should be warned that the

storm has not yet passed.

Another bill was proposed

recently that would even

be more far reaching in its

effects. The ACTA (The

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade

Agreement) is currently

being negotiated by the

European Union (EU), The

United States, Switzerland,

Spain, Australia and a few

other countries.

The fear of ACTA

comes from it being an in-

ternational agreement,

meaning it would have a

greater jurisdiction than ei-

ther SOPA or PIPA.

The public is urged to

pay close attention to the

developments of all of

these bill as they next few

days progress.

to King and those who

worked with him. Delta

Sigma Theta is still commit-

ted as we have always been

to social action.”

King’s own fraternal

brothers were present to cel-

ebrate, with the Beta Upsilon

chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha

Fraternity, Inc.

Junior accounting major

Stephen Joyce said, “We’re

enjoying the experience of

African Americans coming

together as King would have.

We’re celebrating the parade

and our brother.”

Maurice Arrington, Rob-

ert E. Lee’s High School

band director, said, “I wish

the community would have

come out more and gave

more support but it’s all

good.” Arrington is also a

member of Alpha Phi Alpha,

as well as an ASU alumnus.

“King is one of our most

prestigious bro’s and our be-

ing here is a good visual. It

shows that there are good

people in fraternities, espe-

cially with the allegations

against greeks.”

“I am reminded of what

King said, ‘Life’s most per-

sistent and urgent question is

what are you doing for oth-

ers?’ said Bentley as he ref-

erenced King’s former

church located across the

street. “Let’s be brothers and

sister’s and love each other.”SOPA defeated, ACTA coming

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spolk2012@gmail.com

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State Representative Alvin Holmes introduces Cynthia, one ofthe cast of the reality show “Housewives of Atlanta.”

Hundreds turned out to march to the steps of the State Capitolas the presentors line up in order of speaking.

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Marching Hornets toperform at Senior Bowl

by Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana EdwardsEXECUTIVE EDITORkiedwards2012@gmail.com

Both the Alabama State

University Mighty Marching

Hornets and the Philadelphia

Eagle Cheerleaders will

serve as the pre-game and

halftime entertainment for

the 63rd Senior Bowl.

The event will take place

on Jan. 28 at Ladd-Peebles

Stadium in Mobile, Ala. and

will be televised by the Na-

tional Football League.

Band Director James

Oliver is excited about the

opportunity.

“We are elated about

having the invitation to at-

tend,” he said. “We are so

prepared to do an energetic

show. I, personally, have

been waiting to do the Senior

Bowl.”

Band members are also

enthusiastic about perform-

ing during the Senior Bowl.

Junior music education

major Leslie Crenshaw be-

lieves the band’s perfor-

mance “will be great expo-

sure for the band and it will

be good for recruiting. It will

definitely bring new oppor-

tunities.”

Senior computer infor-

mation systems major

O’Shea Evans agrees.

“I’m very excited,”

Evans said. “It’s my first time

going to the bowl. It’s a ma-

jor event to show our style on

national television to a

broader audience. I am look-

ing forward to a lot of school

support. It takes the March-

ing Hornets into a new direc-

tion of performing.”

Oliver said that the invi-

tation began when he “re-

ceived a telephone call from

one of our distinguished

alumna who asked if we

would be interested in par-

ticipating in the Senior

Bowl.”

He also added that he be-

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tin Luther King Jr. and the

ongoing effort to create de-

mocracy,” Cobb said. “The

lessons of history are clear.

Dr. King warned us about

the evils of racism, milita-

rism, and materialism. And

it seems as though this

crippled engine of injustice

has been the cornerstone of

American Policy. It has

been driving us deeper and

deeper into the economic

and spiritual ways that de-

fine our present era.”

He discussed the nega-

tive effects behind the Cold

War and the red scare that

caused people to be scared

about their safety. King, the

National Association for the

Advancement of Colored

People, Urban League, and

many other black people

were accused of being com-

munist.

“It became difficult for

us to address the economic

impact of what was going

on with black people in this

country,” Cobb said.

He talked about the af-

fects of racism.

“This country has re-

lied upon the division of

poor black people from

white poor people,” Cobb

said. “As long as there were

poor whites that were ex-

ploited or thought that they

were better than poor blacks,

then they were content with

their noble position in the

world. If you have a white

worker who will not look

twice at that black worker

and that black worker will

not be able to organize that

white worker, what you have

is an exploited white person

and a super exploited black

person. This is the essence of

the economy, particularly of

the South in the 20th century.”

He directed the

audience’s attention to the

Alabama’s new immigration

law.

“We look around today

and we see the parallels,”

Cobb said. “In the recent

conversation of politics, in

the elections and campaigns,

one of the most controversial

things that you’ve seen

emerge is that of illegal im-

migration. I understand that

there are some strong opin-

ions on the subject in the

state of Alabama and Ari-

zona.”

Comparing the past situ-

ation of the white and black

worker to the current situa-

tion of the immigrant, Cobb

reminded, “One of the main

accomplishments of the civil

rights movement was break-

ing down the division be-

tween the black and white

workers.”

State Representative

Alvin Holmes, from the 78th

District, also came to visit

and sparked the audience’s

attention by paying $20 to

anyone who could answer his

questions about King.

Holmes then recounted

memories of the Civil Rights

Movement in which he,

King, Ralph D. Abernathy,

and many other African

Americans participated.

He even shared the

memory of what he was do-

ing the day King had been as-

sassinated.

The University Choir

and Drmatics Guild both per-

formed special acts for the

occasion.

At the conclusion, some

students felt they had gained

knowledge from the event.

First time attendee and

junior communications ma-

jor Ebony Evans said, “I en-

joyed it. I thought he touched

on both history and future

aspects that we can take from

and change … I loved the sta-

tistics that he gave about vot-

ing and the history of the

Lehman brothers’ banking.”

First-year student and

history major Tariana Smith

agreed.

“I honestly felt that it

was good and very infor-

mative, but I think that the

speaker really didn’t ap-

proach his audience well,”

Smith said. “He came at us

with a bunch of politics and

all of these different num-

bers and statistics. I just

think that he should have

known more about his au-

dience and approached us

in a different way, but over-

all he had a good speech,

and the choir was excel-

lent.”

Senior communica-

tions major Mike Turners

had positive things to add.

“I thought it was real

informative,” Turners said.

“I liked what he said about

the Mexicans and the black

Americans. I thought it was

something we needed. My

favorite part was the dance

expression, and I liked our

speaker.”

Senior computer sci-

ence major Jared Lang en-

joyed the convocation, but

he was very impressed with

the speaker.

“I thought the convoca-

tion was very informative,”

Lang said. “It made me

open my eyes about a lot

of things, and he made me

think about some things.

The was very intellectual.”

hand. We feel long-term debt

is the best avenue.

“This project is going to

benefit the university for the

next half century so that's the

reasonable thing to do.”

School officials also said

they were exploring a num-

ber of cost-cutting measures

as well. One of those is sell-

ing the naming rights and

scoreboard installation -- a

move that could bring ASU

more than $1 million.

While school officials

plan to have the stadium

open in time for the 2012

Turkey Day Classic, they're

not sure which team will

meet their Hornets.

The contract with Tuske-

gee to play in the game ex-

pired after last year's meet-

ing and negotiations since

haven't produced an agree-

ment between the two

schools.

“It will absolutely be

available for the 2012 Turkey

Day game,” Harris said.

“Everything is on the table.

We're re-negotiating the con-

tract. From our position it's a

big game and it's good for the

area and the two universities.

It makes money for us and I

assume it makes money for

Tuskegee and we'll do every-

thing we can to maintain that

game. We intend to play a

football game here on that

day.”

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Alabama State

University’s University

College and College of

Mathematics, Science and

Technology have been

awarded a $364,717 grant

from the U.S. Department

of Defense that ultimately

could help provide thera-

pies for soldiers injured

during war. The grant will

allow ASU to study and de-

velop multifunctional

polymeric scaffolds for

bone-tissue regeneration.

Multifunctional scaffolds

made from biodegradable

polymers are engineered to

facilitate repair of damaged

organs and tissues. These

scaffolds are designed to

provide an environment

conducive to cell growth

which helps expedite the

tissue regeneration

process.The project is part

of a multidisciplinary ef-

fort involving Dr. Manoj

Mishra, assistant professor

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U.S. Dept. of Defenseawards $364,617 grant

of biology in ASU’s Uni-

versity College, and Mr.

Elijah Nyairo (associate di-

rector for ASU’s Center for

N a n o B i o t e c h n o l o g y

Research.The project also

will include ongoing re-

search collaboration with

the University of Alabama

at Birmingham (UAB).

Mishra said the grant will

have a global impact for

ASU.

“This grant will estab-

lish a new, vibrant research

program in biomedical sci-

ences that will attract stu-

dents and faculty from

around the world. Thus,

this funding will open new

avenues of research at

ASU,” Mishra said. Along

with providing funding for

research opportunities, the

grant also will provide fi-

nancial support over a

three-year period for two

ASU undergraduate stu-

dents and one ASU gradu-

ate student.

This article was taken

from the Alabama State

University News website.

Club, a chess club, and SGA

Spirit Week.

Graduating senior and

theatre arts major Darron

Wright is the force behind the

Spoken Word Club which

will begin Feb. 1.

“There are students who

would like to do these kinds

of things, like see a live band,

and hear spoken word, but

either have no transportation

or just don’t know the spots.

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I’m expecting a large turn-

out,” said Wright.

“I’m excited about the

Chess club,” said Smith.

“There will be a trained

Chess professional . Hope-

fully the university can get an

official chess club.”

The chess club is sched-

uled to begin in February,

with the only hold-up being

clocks, which have already

been ordered.

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Students not impressed with GOP candidatesStudents not impressed with GOP candidatesStudents not impressed with GOP candidatesStudents not impressed with GOP candidatesStudents not impressed with GOP candidatesby Sharanna Polkby Sharanna Polkby Sharanna Polkby Sharanna Polkby Sharanna Polk

EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITORspolk2012@gmail.com

MSNBC News raises the

question of which is more

important: Mitt Romney's

secret bank account invest-

ments in the Cayman Islands,

or Newt Gingrich's open mar-

riage proposal to his second

wife. As opinions of the two

leading Republican candi-

dates for presidency swamp

the media, some students at

Alabama State University

stand firm in their decision to

re-elect President Barack

Obama into office.

“Romney gets on my

nerves; He's running for the

wrong reasons. I think Re-

publicans are crazy,” said

Tommy Youngblood, sopho-

more communication major.

In agreement is junior

recreational therapy major

Amario Payton- Rice. “Ev-

ery time I see Romney, he is

talking in circles like he has

a hidden agenda, and I don't

need anybody with a hidden

agenda representing me.” He

believes that Republican's

are taking away the average

persons privileges, citing

education funds, and internet

freedom as two example's.

Rice goes on to say,

“They're all about putting

money in their own pockets,

and not the benefits of the

people.”

Youngblood believes

that Republican candidates

are more focused on current

President Barack Obama

than on the country. “They

need to focus on what they're

going to do instead of point-

ing out somebody else's

flaws. Every president has

made a mistake. It happens,”

he said.

First year psychology

major, Mitchell Francis has

his own opinions about

President Obama, and says

he has every intention of vot-

ing for him. “I feel like

Obama's making a real

change for the U.S. I see us

getting better slowly, but

surely. Overall Obama is for

the people,” said Francis.

Rice said, “He brought

troops home. That's some-

thing I didn't see Republicans

doing any time soon. He pro-

posed affordable health care,

and he's personable. I feel

comfortable with him as my

president.”

Not all students are firm

in their voting decisions.

First year student, Omari

Foreman is one student on

the fence. “I planned to vote

for Obama, but I heard he's

been slacking so I'm unsure

if I'm voting for him.”

First year criminal jus-

tice major, Lamar Mitchell

plans to vote for the candi-

date who benefits him.

“Whoever gone create jobs,

and do something about

these student loans-that's

who I'm voting for.”

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future. With their help, ad-

vancing The Hornet Tri-

bune to a more efficient, re-

sponsible and free paper

will become an easier goal

to achieve.”

Sharanna Polk, who

manages all of the editorial

traffic and serves as the

chairwoman of the weekly

editorial board meeting,

works very closely with

Edwards and is largely re-

sponsible for the editorial

content of The Hornet Tri-

bune.

“Sharanna is an excel-

lent writer and a tremen-

dous asset to the staff,”

Edwards said. “She’s a go-

getter, hard worker and

very willing to go over and

beyond to get the job done

- and it really takes that to

get this job done.”

Polk is also excited

about the opportunity.

“My goal is to create a

student-friendly newspaper

that will encourage more

students to read the paper,”

Polk said. “I’m happy I

chose to become a part of the

staff because I’ve met some

wonderful people and I’ve

just learned how important

the media is in today’s soci-

ety.”

Edwards also appreciate

the responsibilities that Lo-

gan executes.

“Logan makes a lot of

sacrifices to be a part of the

team,” Edwards said. “He

has classes and ROTC, yet he

still manages to visually

cover the campus creatively.

He is currently working on

increasing the technological

interfacing within in his unit

and I have no reason to doubt

that it will come through.”

Of all the responsibili-

ties, Edwards believes that

Willie Todd’s are the most

demanding, as he is respon-

sible for the visual design of

the newspaper each week

and making the medium ap-

pealing for the ASU commu-

nity.

“Willie has to take the

finished products of both sto-

ries and pictures to arrange

our newspaper in a manner

that will catch the eye of the

ASU community,” Edwards

said. “He places stories from

most important to least and

aesthetically creates a paper

that represents this staff’s ef-

forts well. We want him to be

so well equipped that he

could take this skill to any

commercial newspaper out-

let and know what to expect.”

Edwards, seemed very

excited about the addition of

Rose Todd and Davis.

“These are our

cyberspace managers. Both

of their jobs are essential to

maintain our 21st century ap-

pearance. Because today’s

newspapers rely so much

upon the internet to market

themselves, we have to do

the same. Todd maintains our

Facebook and Twitter ac-

count, while Davis takes care

of our website. They are key

to helping the newspaper ex-

pand to the world through

a variety of means.”

The position that

Edwards believes will con-

nect the ASU community

to the newspaper and the

staff is the public affairs

manager.

“This position is very

important in helping stu-

dents understand that we

go beyond the stereotypi-

cal writing and editing,”

Edwards said. “We want

to host programs that ben-

efit the community, have

creative marketing of our

product, and increase our

overall visibility on cam-

pus so that we can

strengthen our communi-

cation. Shericka fits well

for her job because she is

able to relate to the demo-

graphics we try to appeal

to. She is also has a differ-

ent look that she tries to

show through our paper. I

am sure she will match the

creative horizons I know

she is capable of.”

Mitt Romney Rick Santorum Newt Gingrich Ron Paul

lieves the Marching Hornets

received the opportunity be-

cause “they had a great year

last year.”

“To me, 2011 was out-

standing for us,” Oliver said.

“I see a lot of things that are

coming for us in the future.

It’s going to be good for now.

It’s going to be good for our

students, it’s going to be

good for our community, and

some of the owners might be

interested when they see

what we do.”

Zeb Lee, a first-year

music education major, is fo-

cused on the future.

“I’m excited,” Lee said.

“I am looking forward to en-

joying myself and the expe-

rience. This is something I

will probably tell my kids

about in the future.”

Senior music education

major Edell Brewer is also

grateful for the opportunity.

“I feel honored that they

asked us to do it because

there are other bands out

there that are just as good and

could have had the same op-

portunity,” Brewer said.

Then with a smile he added,

“But, we are the best band in

the land. This will help the

name of our band to spread

across the country. It gives us

a chance to perform at other

events and maybe do com-

mercials and etc. I feel this

game will be watched by

more people. This game is

up to the next level.”

Senior communications

major Jeffrey Battle is in

agreement with the rest of his

band family.

“It’s a great opportunity

for the marching hornets to

go to the senior bowl,” Battle

said. “I believe it brings

positivity into the band

world, given what just hap-

pened at FAMU. I expect it

to open new doors for us to

be nationally televised.”

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FEMA wants money back from Katrina victims(AP) More than six years

after Hurricane Katrina

ripped through lives and The

Gulf region in ways that have

yet to be fully healed or even

comprehended, the notori-

ously dysfunctional Federal

Emergency Management

Agency is now adding insult

to injury for many by seek-

ing to recoup nearly $400

million in relief funding paid

out to hard hit and distressed

victims of the storm, main-

taining that clerical or em-

ployee errors may have re-

sulted in some victims mar-

ginally receiving more com-

pensation than what may

now be allocated.

Just last week - and with

a new hurricane season per-

ilously looming - the agency

began mailing out more than

83,000 debt notices to

Katrina and other 2005 storm

victims demanding that they

reimburse the government an

average of $4,622 each.

One of those receiving

one of the letters was David

Bellinger, a 63-year-old le-

gally blind former New Or-

leans resident who has since

moved to Atlanta after his

home was leveled by the

storm.

“I nearly had a stroke,”

Bellinger told the Associated

Press of his $3,200 bill,

which he now has 30 days to

pay. “I’m totally blind; I sub-

sist entirely on a Social Se-

curity disability check. If I

have to pay this money back,

it would pretty much wipe

out all the savings I have.”

“Disaster victims

shouldn’t be punished be-

cause FEMA is dysfunc-

tional,” said Louisiana Sen.

Mary Landrieu, rejecting a

claim made by the agency

that it is required by law to

recover all improper pay-

ments, even if the recipient

was not at fault. “Most of

these families facing recoup-

ment are honest survivors

facing incredible challenges

who used the funds for legiti-

mate and urgent disaster-re-

lated needs.”

Landrieu recently intro-

First Lady: ‘Just trying to be me’WASHINGTON (AP)

— First Lady Michelle

Obama is challenging asser-

tions she's forcefully im-

posed her will on White

House aides and says people

have inaccurately tried to

portray her as "some kind of

angry black woman."5

Mrs. Obama tells CBS

News she hasn't read New

York Times reporter Jodi

Kantor's new book that char-

acterizes her as a behind-the-

scenes force in the Executive

Mansion, whose strong

views often draw her into

conflict with President

Barack Obama's top advis-

ers.

"I never read these

books," she told CBS's Gayle

King in an interview broad-

cast Wednesday. "So I've just

gotten in the habit of not

reading other people's im-

pressions of people."

In the book, Mrs. Obama

is said to have occasionally

bristled at some of the de-

mands and constraints of life

in the White House.

In the interview, Mrs.

Obama said, "I love this job.

It has been a privilege from

Day One."

"Now there are chal-

lenges," she added. "If there's

any anxiety that I feel, it's

because I want to make sure

that my girls (Malia and

Sasha) come out of this on

the other end whole."

The Kantor book por-

trays a White House where

tensions developed between

Mrs. Obama and former

White House chief of staff

Rahm Emanuel and former

press secretary and presiden-

tial adviser Robert Gibbs.

The book, titled "The

Obamas," describes Mrs.

Obama as having gone

through an evolution from

struggle to fulfillment in her

role at the White House,

while labeling her an "unrec-

ognized force" in pursuing

the president's goals. Neither

the president nor his wife

agreed to be interviewed for

the book.

"I do care deeply about

my husband," Mrs. Obama

said in the CBS appearance.

"I am one of his biggest al-

lies. I am one of his biggest

confidants." But she sought

to put aside "this notion that

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(AP) Goldia Coldon

just wants her daughter

home.

Phoenix Coldon, 23,

has been missing since the

afternoon of Dec. 18, when

she was last seen backing

her car out of her parents’

St. Louis County driveway.

Goldia Coldon told

BlackAmericaWeb.com

that she thought her daugh-

ter had gone to the store

and then, possibly out with

friends, but when Phoenix

had not returned home or

called by 1 a.m., her

mother began to worry.

Later that morning,

when it was apparent that

Phoenix had not returned

home overnight, Coldon

Panel sticks to rulingon ‘White Only’ pool

COLUMBUS, Ohio

(AP) — A Cincinnati land-

lord who claimed a black

girl’s hair products clouded

an apartment complex’s

swimming pool discrimi-

nated against the child by

posting a poolside “White

Only” sign, an Ohio civil

rights panel said Thursday

in upholding a previous

finding.

The Ohio Civil Rights

Commission voted 4-0

against reconsidering its

finding from last fall. There

was no discussion.

The group found on

Sept. 29 that Jamie Hein,

who is white, violated the

Ohio Civil Rights Act by

posting the sign at a pool at

the duplex where the teen-

age girl was visiting her

parents.

The parents filed a dis-

crimination charge with the

commission and moved out

of the duplex in the racially

diverse city to “avoid sub-

jecting their family to fur-

ther humiliating treatment,”

the commission said in a re-

lease announcing its find-

ing.

An investigation re-

vealed that Hein in May

posted on the gated en-

trance to the pool an iron

sign that stated “Public

Swimming Pool, White

Only,” the commission

statement said.

Several witnesses con-

firmed that the sign was

posted, and the landlord in-

dicated that she posted it

because the girl used

chemicals in her hair that

would make the pool

“cloudy,” according to the

commission.

Hein told the commis-

sion she received the sign

from a friend, and Ronnell

Tomlinson, the

commission’s housing en-

forcement director, said at

Thursday’s hearing it was

an antique. The sign says

“Selma, Ala.,” at the bot-

tom, followed by the date

“14 July 31.”

The girl’s father,

Michael Gunn, in brief

comments Thursday, de-

Police to search landfill for missing Arizona girl

CONCORD, N.H. (AP)

— Mitt Romney cruised to a

solid victory in the New

Hampshire primary Tuesday

night, picking up steam from

his first-place finish in the

lead-off Iowa caucuses and

firmly establishing himself

as the man to beat for the

Republican presidential

nomination.

“Tonight we made his-

tory,” Romney told cheering

supporters before pivoting to

a stinging denunciation of

President Barack Obama.

“The middle class has been

crushed ... our debt is too

high and our opportunities

too few,” he declared — ig-

noring the rivals who had

been assailing him for weeks

and making clear he intends

to be viewed as the party’s

nominee in waiting after only

two contests.

His Republican rivals

said otherwise, looking

ahead to South Carolina on

Jan. 21 as the place to stop

the former Massachusetts

governor. Already, several

contenders and committees

supporting them had put

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PHOENIX (AP) — Po-

lice plan to begin searching

a landfill outside of Phoenix

in the next few weeks in

hopes of finding the body of

a five-year-old Arizona girl

who has been missing for

months and is now believed

dead, they announced Tues-

day.

Investigators in the

Phoenix suburb of Glendale

have been working with ex-

perts for weeks to determine

the likelihood of finding the

body of Jhessye Shockley at

the landfill in Mobile, south

of the Phoenix metro area.

Sgt. Brent Coombs said

Tuesday that investigators

determined that a search op-

eration is viable, although

they have not set a date to

begin the labor-intensive

work that could take weeks.

He said investigators

will provide the public with

daily updates once the search

begins.

When Jhessye’s mother,

Jerice Hunter, reported the

little girl missing on Oct. 11,

an intensive search began as

police and volunteers

combed her neighborhood

and found no sign of her or

any evidence indicating what

might have happened to her.

In the weeks that fol-

lowed, information about

Hunter’s past abuse of her

children came to light and the

investigation turned to her,

with police saying she was

the “No. 1 focus.”

A phone call to Hunter’s

home Tuesday rang unan-

swered.

Hunter’s 13-year-old

daughter, who had been re-

moved from Hunter’s home

with her other siblings Oct.

12, told police in November

that she hadn’t seen Jhessye

since September. She told

them that a few days before

Hunter reported the girl miss-

ing, she saw Hunter cleaning

her shoes and a closet where

she kept Jhessye.

Police said they found a

receipt that showed Hunter

bought food and a bottle of

bleach Oct. 9.

The teen also told police

that Hunter deprived Jhessye

of food and water while

keeping her in the closet, and

that she saw the girl with

black eyes, bruises and cuts

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I sit in meetings."

"I guess it's just more

interesting to imagine this

conflicted situation here,"

she said. "That's been an

image people have tried to

paint of me since the day

Barack announced, that I'm

some kind of angry black

woman."

"There will always be

people who don't like me,"

Mrs. Obama added, and

said she could live with that.

Mrs. Obama said that

she's "just trying to be me,

and I just hope that over

time, that people get to

know me."

Asked specifically

about an assertion of dissen-

sion between herself and

Emanuel, now the mayor of

Chicago, the first lady said

she has "never had a cross

word" with him. The same,

she said, applies to Gibbs,

whom she described as "a

good friend, and remains

so."

"I'm sure we could go

day to day and find things

people wished they didn't

say to each other," Mrs.,

Obama said. "And that's

why I don't read these

books. ... It's a game, in so

many ways, that doesn't fit.

Who can write about what

I feel? What third person

can tell me what I feel?"

Mrs. Obama said that

when questions or conflicts

arise involving her and the

White House staff, her East

Wing staff resolves the is-

sue with her husband's staff

in the West Wing.

"If communication

needs to happen, it's be-

tween staffs," she said. "I

don't have conversations

with my husband's staff."

down heavy money to re-

serve time for television ad-

vertising there.

Even so, the order of fin-

ish — Ron Paul second, fol-

lowed by Jon Huntsman,

with Newt Gingrich and Rick

Santorum trailing —

scrambled the field and pro-

longed the increasingly des-

perate competition to emerge

as the true conservative rival

to Romney.

With his victory, Rom-

ney became the first Repub-

lican to sweep the first two

contests in competitive races

since 1976. Based on partial

returns, The Associated Press

estimated that turnout would

exceed the 2008 record by

about 4 percent.

Romney fashioned his

victory despite a sustained

assault by rivals eager to un-

dermine his claim as the con-

tender best situated to beat

Obama and help reduce the

nation’s painfully high un-

employment. Gingrich led

the way, suggesting at one

point that Romney, a venture

capitalist, was a corporate

raider. The front-runner’s

defenders said the rhetoric

was more suitable to a

Democratic opponent than a

conservative Republican.

Returns from 69 percent

of New Hampshire precincts

showed Romney with 38 per-

cent of the vote, followed by

Texas Rep Paul with 24 per-

cent, former Utah Gov.

Huntsman with 17 percent

and former House Speaker

Gingrich and former Penn-

sylvania Sen. Santorum with

10 percent each.

In interviews as they left

their polling places, New

Hampshire voters said the

economy was the issue that

mattered most to them, and

a candidate’s ability to defeat

Obama outranked other

qualities.

Romney had won in

Iowa by a scant eight votes

over Santorum, and gained

barely a quarter of the vote

there.

On Tuesday, he battled

not only his rivals but also

high expectations as the bal-

lots were counted, particu-

larly since his pursuers had

virtually conceded New

Hampshire, next-door to the

state Romney governed for

four years.

Seeking to undercut

Romney’s victory, Gingrich

and others suggested in ad-

vance that anything below 40

percent or so would indicate

weakness by the nomination

front-runner.

They didn’t mention that

Sen. John McCain’s winning

percentage in the 2008 pri-

mary was 37 percent.

Romney’s win was

worth seven delegates to the

Republican National Con-

vention next summer. Paul

earned three delegates and

Huntsman two.

“Tonight we celebrate,”

Romney told his supporters.

“Tomorrow we go back to

work.”

Unlike Iowa and New

Hampshire, where unem-

ployment is well below the

national average, joblessness

is far higher in South Caro-

lina. That creates a different

political environment for the

race.

The state also has a repu-

tation for primaries turning

nasty, and it appeared that all

of Romney’s pursuers read

the new Hampshire returns

as reason enough to remain

in the race.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry,

who skipped New Hamp-

shire to get a head start in

South Carolina, said

Tuesday’s results showed

“the race for a conservative

alternative to Mitt Romney

remains wide open.”

“We’re nibbling at his

heels,” Paul said of Romney.

Huntsman had staked his

candidacy on a strong show-

ing in New Hampshire, and

after the polls he said, “...we

go south from here.”

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scribed his shock last spring

when venturing out for a

lunch break by the pool.

“My initial reaction to

seeing the sign was of shock,

disgust and outrage,” Gunn

said. He also told the com-

mission that his daughter was

saddened months later to

learn the reason they moved

from the apartment complex

“was in a way related to the

color of her skin.” Gunn de-

clined to speak with report-

ers.

Hein’s attorney, who in-

formed the commission by

email Wednesday that Hein

would not attend the hearing,

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duced and sponsored a bill

since signed into law by

President Barack Obama

that would allow FEMA to

waive many of the debts

now burdening the already

afflicted. Yet to be deter-

mined is how many victims

will be eligible to benefit

from the new legislation.

All this comes on the

heels of a recent census

which found that of the

nearly 30,000 victims

forced to shuttle from home

to home due to the wrath of

Katrina, many of them are

still lacking a permanent

living arrangement. What’s

more, of the thousands of

one-time residents sur-

veyed, four out of every five

revealed they have had to

evacuate residencies at least

twice since 2005.

Luisa Mejia, 28, is yet

another of the victims who

has since relocated to At-

lanta and now shockingly

finds herself in receipt of

one of the government’s

aforementioned notices.

“We left with nothing

but important papers and

maybe two sets of clothes,”

she said. “We were living

with no money, living in a

home with 40 people. I

didn’t get the type of

money that would make me

rich from Katrina. For

people who were honest

like me, it’s crazy.”

As someone who has

represented Katrina victims

in a class-action suit against

the government, Loyola

University law professor

Davida Finger has met

countless citizens who fall

into Mejia’s category.

“People used this

money to survive,” she

said. “We don’t want

people to have to give back

money that they simply

needed for rent and food.”

Though quick to point

out that hundreds have al-

ready been convicted of

hurricane-related fraud,

FEMA spokesperson

Rachel Racusen admits that

most of the cases now un-

der review derive from mis-

takes made by agency em-

ployees.

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to her face and body. When

she last saw Jhessye, the

teen said that the girl’s hair

had been pulled out, that

she didn’t look alive, and

that the closet where she

was kept “looked like a

grave and smelled like dead

people.”

Police arrested Hunter

soon after on suspicion of

child abuse related to

Jhessye. They released her

from jail a day later and

dropped the charge against

her after prosecutors said

they wanted further inves-

tigation and were worried

that Hunter would not be

eligible for a potential mur-

der charge if she was con-

victed of abusing Shockley,

a situation known as double

jeopardy.

Hunter has declined to

submit to a lie-detector test

by police, but has told re-

porters that she had nothing

told her husband it was time

to call police.

“Phoenix has not called

us,” Coldon said. “Phoenix

has never stayed away from

this house all night, and she

has never not called.”

Coldon said she then

called and reported Phoenix

and her black 1998 Chevy

Blazer missing to police. The

car was later found aban-

doned in East St. Louis with

the motor running and her

belongings still in the car.

The car was impounded and

not immediately linked to the

young woman’s disappear-

ance.

Police have said they

have no leads in the case and

speculation has run from the

possibility that Coldon had

simply decided to leave

home to her being a possible

victim of foul play.

“If Phoenix Coldon left

here of her own accord, not

to return, for whatever rea-

son – for whatever reason –

it doesn’t matter. Phoenix,

you need to come home.

Whatever it is, we can work

it out. We love you uncondi-

tionally,” Goldia Coldon said

of her only child.

“If somebody has Phoe-

nix, I don’t care what they’re

doing. I don’t care what

they’re into. They need to let

Phoenix go – unharmed.

They don’t have to worry

about the police, at least as

far as I’m concerned. Call me

and tell me and my husband

where to pick her up.”

Phoenix Coldon’s disap-

pearance has some similari-

ties with the disappearance of

a 36-year-old Atlanta

woman.

Stacey English was last

seen on or shortly after

Christmas Day, after visiting

her grandmother’s home.

English reportedly re-

turned home to the tony At-

lanta neighborhood of

Buckhead. English’s father

told the Huffington Post that

his daughter had brought a

young man to the family

gathering, but they later had

an argument and she asked

the man to leave.

Police questioned the

man, Robert Kirk, an events

promoter from St. Louis.

Police have described Kirk as

a person of interest, but after

an extensive interview, he

was allowed to return to St.

Louis.

On Dec. 27, English’s

family reported her and her

car, a white, four-door 2006

Volvo S60, missing. The car

was later found in an im-

pound lot.

As in the Coldon case,

the police did not initially

make a connection between

the recovered vehicle and the

missing woman.

Over the weekend, hun-

dreds of family, friends and

volunteers gathered to post

flyers and canvass neighbor-

hoods seeking information

that could lead to information

about English’s where-

abouts.

Goldia Coldon has fol-

lowed every tip called in

about her daughter, and po-

lice searched the family

home on Monday to look for

information that might ex-

plain Phoenix’s disappear-

ance.

“I told them ‘Come in;

make yourself at home; ... if

anything might help,” she

said, noting she had stripped

her daughter’s bed and

washed her linens and all of

her clothes.

“I wanted everything to

be nice and neat and clean for

her when she comes home.”

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email messages Wednesday

and Thursday from The As-

sociated Press. A recording

on Thursday said Hein’s

voicemail was full and could

not accept messages.

“I was trying to protect

my assets,” she told the

commission’s housing en-

forcement director in a Sept.

27 interview.

Racial discrimination

has particular resonance in

Cincinnati, whose population

is 45 percent black, far higher

than the rest of Ohio, which

is about 12 percent black.

Surrounding Hamilton

County is 26 percent black.

Cincinnati was the scene

of race riots in April 2001

when police and demonstra-

tors clashed in a blighted

neighborhood following the

shooting of a black suspect

by police.

The commission’s state-

ment said that its investiga-

tion concluded that the post-

ing of such a sign “restricts

the social interaction be-

tween Caucasians and Afri-

can-Americans and rein-

forces discriminatory actions

aimed at oppressing people

of color.”

It still would be possible

for the parties to reach a

settlement overseen by the

commission before any legal

action is taken.

If those discussions don’t

bear fruit, the commission

would issue a formal com-

plaint and refer the matter to

the Ohio attorney general’s

office, which would repre-

sent the commission’s find-

ings before an administrative

law judge. That judge would

determine any penalties,

which could include a cease-

and-desist order and punitive

damages.

Any decision by the ad-

ministrative judge could be

appealed to Hamilton

County Common Pleas

Court in Cincinnati.

to do with her daughter’s

disappearance. She also

has been critical of inves-

tigators, who she said were

wrongly focused on her in-

stead of looking for

Jhessye.

In October 2005,

Hunter was arrested with

her then-husband, George

Shockley, on child abuse

charges in California.

Hunter pleaded no contest

to corporal punishment and

served about four years in

prison before she was re-

leased on parole in May

2010.

Shockley is a con-

victed sex offender and is

still in a California prison.

Hunter’s oldest child,

14 at the time, told police

that his mother routinely

beat the children. Hunter’s

mother, Shirley Johnson,

has said that her daughter

changed after prison and

became a loving mother.

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Traditionally, the month

of February has been hon-

ored as Black History Month.

Schools make a deliberate

effort to highlight the

achievement and accom-

plishments of African Ameri-

cans. As a young student, the

month of February became a

source of discomfort and low

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self-esteem for me.

Beginning in elementary

school during the month of

February, our teachers would

dust off the Civil Rights tapes

and "shock" the rest of the

class with the brutality and

inhumane acts of white po-

lice officers toward Blacks,

without any explanations

from the teacher.

Consequently, I was on

center stage to become the

expert of the black experi-

ence from the 60's. Each

year, I was asked, "How does

that make you feel?" Each

year, I answered with a som-

ber, "I don't know." Sharing

what I really felt would have

easily landed me in the

principal's office.

Interestingly enough, as

I moved from grade level to

grade level, the infamous

tapes seemed to follow as

well. Very little new material

or instruction was offered to

add depth to this period in

Black history. But now, the

teacher no longer had to ask

how I was feeling, the stu-

dents would take the liberty

to take on the teacher's role

and ask me.

Being the only African

American student in my

classes created high anxiety

every day, not just in Febru-

ary. I tried as much as pos-

sible to hide in class, by not

creating any problems and

not asking too many ques-

tions. I realized early in my

educational experience that

if I did not stand out maybe

the students and teacher

would not realize that I was

the only black student in

class.

Many times, educators

do not provide the necessary

activities, readings or instruc-

tion that will help all students

understand the complexity of

the content or build positive

racial identity for students.

The first strategy to being a

culturally conscious teacher

is for the teacher to share

their own racial biography!

When teachers consciously

honor Race and Culture in the

(AP) As the first, big

budget, war movie chroni-

cling the exploits of the he-

roic Tuskegee Airmen wings

it's way into theaters, "Red

Tails" does more than just

deliver an action packed his-

tory lesson; it also delivers

some important life lessons.

Amidst the dizzying spe-

cial effects, in between the

aerial dogfights, and under-

neath the rousing wartime

speeches lies the often "un-

spoken" standard blueprint

for Black achievement. The

Victory Unlimited Show

(www.victoryunlimitedshow.com)

puts forth that there are 5

strategies for success hidden

within the film that people of

color would do well to con-

tinue to follow today.

Based on research by the

show's host, the most recent

broadcast entitled "Red Tails:

5 Life Lessons That The

Tuskegee Airmen Movie

Can Teach You Today" un-

covers the following list of

success principles to explain

the underlying reasons why

the Tuskegee Airmen

achieved such great victories

in the theater of war:

1) You always have

greater potential inside of

you than others can usually

see. The Airmen never put

limitations on what they

could or couldn't do. As a

group, they recognized that

accomplishing their goals in

life depended more on how

they saw themselves, as op-

posed to focusing only on

how others saw them.

2) Time spent in prepa-

ration is never time wasted.

The Airmen trained much

longer than most other pilots

in their era did. They used the

time they spent waiting in the

wings to hone skills that

served them well when their

moment of opportunity

arose.

3) If you stay ready,

you'll never have to get

ready. The Airmen held

themselves to such a high

standard of discipline and

competence that they were

confident and prepared when

their time to shine finally ar-

rived.

4) Courageous convic-

tions can drive your dreams

into existence. The Airmen

had a strong belief in their

abilities and a powerful pas-

sion for their cause. They had

a boldness that would not be

satisfied with anything short

of accomplishing their mis-

sion.

5) There are no charges

that can be successfully

brought against excellence.

The Airmen were so good at

what they did that their qual-

ity of performance spoke

louder in their defense than

anything that their critics

could ever speak against

them.

The Victory Unlimited

Show is a "tongue-in-cheek",

self-help show for men that's

reminiscent of programs

from the Golden Age of Ra-

dio. During each broadcast,

the host codenamed "Victory

Unlimited", answers dating,

relationship, and general life

questions by addressing them

with a motivational, military-

like zeal. "In Red Tails, the

underlying, unwritten rules

for how to achieve success in

life are timeless." says the

host. "It's critical that we rec-

ognize that there's no better

time for us to recommit to

following those rules than

now."

When my daughter

learned that the baby she is

carrying is a girl, I told her

husband goodbye.

“Been nice knowing

you,” I mocked. “Because

you’re a goner now. Over.

Done.”

I said the same thing to

my brother, years ago, when

he and his wife had a girl to

bookend the boys.

And to another brother

a long time ago for the same

reason.

Boys may swell their

dads’ chests by mere dint of

their maleness and the

promise of the family name

surviving at least another

generation. But a little girl

can still a man’s heart like

nothing else – owning it,

lock, stock and barrel.

So, it is understandable

that rap mogul Jay-Z is

somewhat out of his mind

over the birth of Blue Ivy,

the baby girl born to him

and his wife, Beyonce, in

early January. The infant was

still wet behind the ears when

her proud papa memorialized

her in a new track, titled

“Glory.”

“The most amazing feel-

ing I feel, words can’t de-

scribe what I’m feeling for

real/Baby, I paint the sky

blue, my greatest creation

was you," goes the song/rap/

spit track/whatever.

But the socially signifi-

cant tribute to the child's ar-

rival is the promise embod-

ied in a poem inspired by her

birth.

“Before I got in the

game, made a change and got

rich/I didn't think hard about

using the word bitch," Jay-Z

wrote. "I rapped, I flipped it,

I sold it, I lived it/ Now with

my daughter in this world, I

curse those that give it."

Further, he vows, "No

man will degrade her or call

her name/ I'm so focused on

your future, the degradation

has passed."

Of course, it would have

been wonderful if Jay-Z, who

is no spring rooster, had

come to the realization much

earlier – at least when he

married his beautiful wife,

who wouldn’t have deserved

the dishonor either. Had it

been my husband, I would

have insisted on it, especially

when I present myself as a

standard-bearer for strong

women.

But, then, I’m of a dif-

ferent age and time – not

only old school, but, com-

pared to Mr. and Mrs. Carter,

old, period. One hopes that

certain understandings

would override generational

gaps, but apparently not this

one.

So, better late than

never. I’m happy to hear that

one of the most influential

men in the music industry

has sworn off a word that has

been wrongly, hurtfully and

widely used as a synonym

for “girl,” “woman” or “fe-

male.” Indeed, it has such

currency in some circles, that

women and girls have fondly

embraced it as a term of en-

dearment – a sadly familiar

capitulation, as with the n-

word, among others. Imitat-

ing the wrongdoer and the

oppressor may be flattery to

him, but it is a self-inflicted

wound to the mimic, no

matter how cheerfully she

says it.

Besides, I have yet to

hear it trip tenderly off the

lips in a lyric. The context

is usually angry, vengeful,

and degrading. To use it

light-heartedly normalizes a

word that, too many times,

is used maliciously.

Cheers to Jay-Z for his

new daughter and for his

awakening.

Now, if he really wants

to give Blue Ivy a lasting

gift, he will insist that his

artists abandon the refer-

ence too. That could go a

long way toward ridding the

culture of this ugly scar.

And maybe by the time

Blue Ivy is old enough to

tap into iTunes, the degra-

dation will really have

passed.

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The tragedy lies in that we have a free press and don’t use it

It is important that as stu-

dents, we support one an-

other, as well as the univer-

sity.

A.C. Grayling once said,

“To read is to fly: it is to soar

to a point of vantage which

gives a view over wide ter-

rains of history, human vari-

ety, ideas, shared experience

and the fruits of many inquir-

ies.”

We are a group of ever-

changing individuals that

progress from maturity

which stems from the intake

of knowledge.

With that being said, I

question why more students

do not read their student

newspaper.

We have 5,000 students

enrolled at ASU and once the

newspapers are placed on the

racks, they disappear. There-

fore, I know that students are

getting them. However, what

bothers me is why aren’t stu-

dents reading them?

I’ve seen them used as

coasters, and even wrapped

around dishes. I’ve seen

them walked on and even

thrown on the ground.

Aside from the fact that

it is rude to treat someone

else’s work as unimportant

and judge their product from

preconceived notions, the

tragedy lies in the fact that

there are countries where stu-

dents are not even allowed to

produce a newspaper.

We live in a country

where a student newspaper

enjoys privileges and rights

that a commercial newspaper

possesses, and yet I know

that the many of the students

who attend classes on this

campus are uninterested in

the affairs that occur on their

campus or just resent having

to pick up any form of text

that holds more than the av-

erage club flier’s number of

words.

This is a sad reality. We

are the generation that is

commonly compared with

the expression, “If you want

to hide something from black

people, place it in a book.” It

references black people as

being stupid, unintelligent

and incapable of growth.

As provocative as this

statement seems, the truth is,

that this type of student can

be found on this campus.

Some students are not

applying themselves to the

maximum extent and gather-

ing the learning skills that are

most important. They are

people with degrees that

amount to a “C” average and

they have no degree-oriented

experience once they have

graduated from this univer-

sity. This is a false sense of

reality for anyone to adhere

to.

Any friend, family or

mentor who reads books

should be constantly kept in

your circle. The people in

your circle determine the fu-

ture you are most likely to

have. If they hate reading,

smoke, drink or party, then

you are highly likely to take

on those same habits. But, if

you find people who work

hard and read, they will serve

to be your positive influ-

ences towards a successful

path.

If you are going to col-

lege and you have no desire

or intention to perfect your

reading skills by reading vo-

raciously, then this was not

the right calling in life for

you. The reason that these

things are so fundamental to

any university is because

wise leaders have used these

same principles to pass their

gift of wisdom from one gen-

eration to the next. If this has

worked so well in the past,

then it makes no sense to veer

away from it now.

Open up your mind and

read your campus newspaper.

I am sure that not everything

will interest you, but keeping

up with what affects your

well-being as a student

should interest you - in fact,

it is a part of college life.

by Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana Edwardsby Kieyana EdwardsEXECUTIVE EDITORkiedwards2012@gmail.com

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Do you know your black history?

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classroom all students gain an ap-

preciation for their fellow class-

mates. In order for a classroom to

be culturally conscious, the

teacher must share his/her own

racial journey with their students!

This February, I encountered

an experience that reminded me

of my childhood anxiety. One of

my close black friends was very

upset over what happened to her

child. In her child's kindergarten

class the students were watching

a video during the month of Feb-

ruary. The video was about civil

rights and the information from

the video illustrated black people

sitting in the back of the bus. Her

child came home and asked, "Is it

because I'm black that I have to

sit at the back of the bus?" Nev-

ertheless, my friend was upset be-

cause her child was questioning

his place in our society due to the

color of his skin. Perhaps the

teacher did not realize the only

black child in class was viewing

the video with a different lens.

I truly believe educators do

not intentionally plan to have stu-

dents experience school with

anxiety or negativity. Some edu-

cators "don't know what they don't

know"! Some educators do not

know the psychological effect of

certain events and curriculum

may have on students especially

students of color. What students

read and see shape their view and

perception of how the world

works positively or negatively!

Unfortunately our traditional cur-

riculum usually does not overtly

empower students of color and

their historical contributions,

more importantly the sacrifice

and perseverance people of color

continue to have in shaping

America.

Special recognition goes to

schools that infuse different cul-

tures into their curriculum, not as

a separate and isolated piece of

history but as American history.

This courageous attempt will in-

evitably provide opportunities for

all students to learn from one an-

other. More importantly, it pro-

vides the impetus for students to

see themselves and their experi-

ences in the school's curriculum.

Black History Month has

come a long way from the Black

History Day to Black History

Week to the present Black His-

tory Month. I believe if it is only

one day or 28 days, schools

should provide a historical per-

spective which will serve to en-

hance the cultural and racial iden-

tity of students 365 days a year.

Dr. Edwin Lou Javius is the

CEO/ President of EDEquity, Inc.

Educational Consultant Firm spe-

cializes in working with educa-

tional leaders and teachers to be-

coming culturally conscious.

Whose reality is depicted in the

reality shows featured on cable

television across the country? Is

any black woman with a short tem-

per and a $1,000 shoe allowed to

represent all of us? Why are we

being subject to this kind of behav-

ior, and why is it seem to meet with

so much approval?

I watch reality television

shows, especially the ones featured

on VH1, but I would never want

my niece to see the way these

women behave. I would never

want to hear her say she wants the

kinds of relationships these women

have with men, as I’ve heard some

of my counterparts say.

Looking at ‘Love and Hip

Hop,’ I am entertained, but when I

get into deeper thought, I am almost

appalled. No other reality show

features women fighting so fre-

quently. Viewers thrive on the

drama, and although at times this

may happen in our worlds, do we

really want to be showing every-

body else this side of ourselves? It

is as if these women have no self-

control, and at the slightest moment

a glass can be thrown in your face.

Your beauty can become filthy,

painted with scars, and covered

with pounds of make-up. You can

talk nasty to fellow women and if

they say the wrong thing, you can

punch them in their face. You don’t

have to apologize for your actions,

and you can cut anyone off whom

you feel is a “non-factor,” as

Evelyn Lozada said in ‘Basketball

Wives.’

The circle of women in ‘Bas-

ketball Wives’ reminds me of high

school. They are the cool click, and

they don’t want anyone in their

circle, but beware, they will turn on

you if you happen to make it in the

circle.

Cheating is accepted, because

it is “bound to happen.” It’s also

okay to blame the “groupies.”

Never mind that these women don’t

know you, have no concern for

your relationship, and could care

less about your problems. These

groupies are looking out for self,

and nowhere does that concern you,

but it is okay to blame them. Men

will be men, but these “sluts” have

no self respect and are below you.

Are they really? You know about

them, and you have yet to leave.

Even if your husband is never

home, and leaves you alone all of

the time, you hold onto a broken

marriage. For what? Are you, too,

selling yourself? It is no woman’s

position to judge another woman,

and marital problems are to be re-

solved between married couples.

You did not marry that “groupie”

and she did not make promises to

you.

‘Love and Hip Hop’ depicts the

same kinds of relationships with

outside women, witnessed by the

confrontation between Kimbella

and Emily.

Another question that arose is

why aren’t these women married to

these men that they stand beside,

and why is cheating accepted? Per-

fect examples are Chrissy,

Kimbella, and Emily. Each is in a

long-term relationship that appears

to be at a standstill, yet they are liv-

ing as married couples. Is this what

we have settled for?

I don’t want to settle. I don’t

want to perform wifely duties with-

out the title. It is like being a writer,

but not having your name on the

work. It still is published, and even

if it thrives, you get no credit. It is

not yours and you have no right to

it. Yet, I see on Facebook and Twit-

ter, statuses that read: ‘I want a TI

and Tiny relationship,’ or ‘I Want a

Chrissy and Jim Jones relation-

ship.’ Chrissy and Jim Jones? Not

the same couple that after seven

years, a man cannot decide if he is

ready to move on to the next step?

Why would anyone want that an-

guish that this woman feels, when

she looks back on the seven years

she has spent with this man and

wonders if they have seven more?

When I am the age of some of

these women, I would have hoped

to be settled down. I would hope

that violence is not my “go to” in

solving situations. I pray that my

niece is not subject to this igno-

rance, and thinks that this is the way

well-to-do black women live.

I ask again, whose reality is

this? I don’t wear $6000 shoes, and

I don’t live in a million dollar

home.

This is not my reality. I don’t

want anyone outside of my race

believing that it is, and I don’t want

my niece to think that it’s hers.

Did you know that the first col-

lege sociology department in the

United States was established by

educator and civil rights leader,

W.E.B. DuBois, or that Otis Boykin

invented electronic control devices

for guided missiles, IBM comput-

ers, and the control unit for a pace-

maker?

Thomas L. Jennings was the

first black to receive a patent in

1821 for a dry-cleaning process and

he used the money earned from the

patent to purchase relatives out of

slavery and support abolitionist

causes.

These are just a few of many

contributions by blacks that serve

as a beacon of hope among dispar-

ity.

As a student attending an his-

torically black Alabama State Uni-

versity, I began to realize how

much of my history I wasn’t get-

ting from the standard textbook.

When I enrolled in humanities, I

was taught a perspective of my an-

cestry that made me appreciate not

going to a predominantly white

college because my culture would

not have been elevated to the same

extent.

With all of this said and done,

the average student on this campus

is not aware of the many accom-

plishments that blacks have

achieved in America. There is so

much about African History that

remains a mystery to us. Since

black history month is coming up,

take the time to remember the

people that struggled to fight for

your freedom and give them their

full recognition. It does not have

to be much. It can be simply read-

ing about one black who created

something once a day or week, or

just take the time to fully research

the infamous heroes of change.

Right now, there has to be a

larger recognition of culture to oc-

cur. When I observed the recent

Martin Luther King Convocation I

became nervous.

I noticed that the turnout was

small in comparison to the students

enrolled and I became surprised

when one of the guests asked ques-

tions about Martin Luther King,

less than one fourth of the audience

raised their hands to answer the

questions. To me, that is a problem

because the success of this man’s

dream is the current result of our

futures.

King has a street named after

him, a federal holiday set aside for

him, and a birthday continuously

celebrated, but he is remembered,

in general, as a brave man who died

for the dream of seeing a nation

where all men were treated equal.

A great leader of this caliber de-

serves to be studied and researched

to know his full history especially

among the excelling minds of col-

lege students.

When I start thinking of this

situation it makes me wonder how

we can easily overlook the full im-

portance of our past leaders like

Harriet Tubman, Frederick

Douglass, Madame C.J. Walker,

and more. There are so many con-

tributions of the black race that af-

fect today’s history because it

serves as a reminder of their

strength and inspiration for this

generation.

If we don’t celebrate them and

give them their due respect as their

offspring, then who will?

Because they are our ancestors,

the responsibility falls upon stu-

dents to continue to spread the

word to not just our teachers be-

cause they have given us an assign-

ment, but also to our friends, fam-

ily, and children because it’s a part

of what makes us who we are. The

origins of our birth need to be

passed on and explained so that we

can continue to progress instead of

digress.

Just as well, elders need to be

sure to share their stories and ex-

periences.

A major factor of students be-

ing unable to fully relate to the civil

rights movement and comprehend

achievements of blacks can be

traced to the gap in communication

from generation to generation.

When elders and grandparents do

not pass on their experiences, it

leaves their children at a disadvan-

tage because they have to live in a

world where they rely on books to

stimulate their imagination, which

is not enough. What students are

taught in a classroom can seem ir-

relevant and boring because they

have to believe video or written

copy. But, when elders reinforce

black history moments, and share

their memories, they bring to life

something that is taken for granted.

Help change for the better and

pass on your heritage. Share it so

that it may live on to set the stan-

dards for the children who are to

come. Orally passing down tradi-

tion has been an effective type of

communication since the dawn of

time. What better way to continue

a legacy than personally ensuring

that your children get information

by teaching it to them ourselves.

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Junior marketing major

Darryl Chambers recently

broke into the world of act-

ing by making his first ap-

pearance as an extra in three

episodes of the Black Enter-

tainment Television (BET)

series, “The Game.”

He learned of the oppor-

tunity last September after

receiving a call from one of

BET's casting personnel who

had seen his photographs in

Model Mayhem and was im-

pressed with his shoot. Af-

ter Chambers sent BET some

information, Chambers got

his shot.

The Valley, Ala., native

filmed one episode in Sep-

tember and filmed the other

two over the Christmas

break, in which he plays a

football athlete.

Ironically, Chambers

used to be interested in play-

ing basketball at Alabama

State University.

“I actually was about to

play basketball last year for

ASU,” he said. “I was try-

ing to play but due to some

circumstances I didn't play,

so I just continued to focus

on modeling and everything

else.”

Chambers never imag-

ined himself making a guest

appearance with the cast of

the game.

Chambers said, “I never

even saw myself modeling:

I never saw myself doing any

of this. I thought I would be

playing basketball some-

where.”

Now that he is going

places, he feels really good

about it. “It's something dif-

ferent for me. It's a new ex-

perience that I have never

had in my life.” With a laugh,

Chambers added, “Espe-

cially when people come up

to you and talk about it all the

time.”

Chambers is now open to

a career in acting. “Really

and truly, modeling leads to

acting anyway, so that is

something I would like to

pursue,” he said. “This kind

of made me realize that I

wanted to get into acting.

Being around stars all day

was great. I am just having

fun and doing something I

enjoy.”

Chambers was a fan of

the show before he even got

the opportunity.

“It was crazy because, in

the season before that, I

thought about what it would

be like to get on the game or

a show like that, and next

season, I'm on it,” Chambers

said.

The member of Phi Beta

Lambda Business Fraternity

was impressed with the per-

sonalities on set.

“Pooch is really cool and

down to earth; he is always

joking all the time. Malik

walks around looking crazy

all day, but he is a good dude

too. All of them are down to

earth people. It gets crazy

when they have guest appear-

ances on the show, too. It is

always fun to see who is go-

ing to come in, outside of the

cast.”

The impact of being on

campus after being an extra

caught Chambers off guard.

“It was surprising, and it

makes me curious as to what

to expect. Who is going to

say something to me or talk

to me about it?” Chambers

said. “I posted some pictures

on Facebook and the word

got out. Now a lot of people

know, I mean it's spreading.

Now I will get to make a lot

more friends.”

For students who may be

interested in the way Cham-

(AP) Actor Nate Parker

has teamed up with Bay

Area author China Galland

and son, filmmaker Ben

Galland, to produce the

documentary feature film,

Resurrecting Love: The

Cemetery That Can Heal a

Nation - which documents

the powerful racial conflict

over the right to visit a cem-

etery in Marshall, Texas.

This film in-progress

follows two women - one

black, one white - as they

rally the community to

fight a large timber corpo-

ration, which is denying

them access to the cem-

etery, and in the process,

change the face of Texas

history.

The film grew out of

China Galland's book,

Love Cemetery, Unburying

the Secret History of

Slaves, which ignited a

controversy about rights to

visit cemeteries throughout

Texas.

Nate Parker is the star

of George Lucas' Red Tails,

the story of the WWII

Tuskegee Airmen, which

just premiered nationwide.

He is also known for his

starring role with Denzel

Washington in The Great

Debaters and The Secret

Life of Bees.

After reading about the

African American descen-

dent community being

locked out of their family

burial ground and kept

from their ancestor's

graves, he decided to take

on the role of Executive

Producer to help them fin-

ish this important docu-

mentary. He also estab-

lished the Nate Parker

scholarship fund for young

African American men at

historically black Wiley

College in Marshall, Texas,

where Wiley students help

maintain Love Cemetery.

Of the 200 hours of

footage shot over the past

ten years, 80 hours of poi-

gnant interviews were

completed, including inter-

views with Pulitzer Prize

winner Professor Leon F.

Litwack; Reverend Profes-

sor Peter J. Gomes; Con-

gressman John Lewis;

Marianne Williamson; and

the Founder of Northeast-

ern University's Civil

Rights and Restorative Jus-

tice Project Margaret A.

Burnham.

Nate Parker, becomesexecutive producer for thefilm "Resurrecting Love"

(AP) LOS ANGELES -

The search is still on for the

best woman to play the role

of Aretha Franklin in the

singer’s coming biopic,

“From These Roots.” The

Queen of Soul has a few

names in mind, but surpris-

ingly none on the list include

Jennifer Hudson.

On Tuesday, Franklin’s

Who will play Aretha Franklin in her biopic?rep told the press that she’s

scheduled to meet with the

director and financiers of

“Roots” to discuss the

woman for the part and other

primary roles, reports the NY

Daily News.

Nia Long is a prospec-

tive to play the role of the

older sister, Erma Franklin,

Kerry Washington for

younger sister Carolyn

Franklin, and Blair

Underwood for brother Cecil

Franklin. It is reported that

Franklin previously wanted

Terrence Howard to play

Smokey Robinson and

Denzel Washington to play

her father.

Although it was reported

last year that Halle Berry was

her primary choice to play

the starring role, she hasn’t

come up with any new names

recently and her most recent

wish list didn’t actually in-

clude the star role.

Franklin’s wish list also

did not include an actor to

play her new fiancé, William

Wilkerson, 64.

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PASADENA, Calif.

(AP) — After 16 years play-

ing a police lieutenant on

“Law & Order,” actress S.

Epatha Merkerson is turning

to some real-life crime sto-

ries.

Merkerson is the narra-

tor for “Find Our Missing,”

a series that debuts Jan. 18

on the TV One network. It

tells stories about black

Americans who are missing,

hoping to turn up clues that

can solve some of the cases.

The series was born out

of a pervasive feeling among

many blacks that their miss-

ing-person cases don’t get as

much attention as missing-

person cases involving

whites, particularly attractive

young white women.

“The local and regional

press does a good job,”

Wonya Lucas, president and

CEO of the cable network

aimed at black viewers, said

Saturday. “The national press

doesn’t really cover these

stories to the extent that they

should, and that’s a void that

TV One will now fill.”

Each hour focuses on

two separate cases. Besides

Merkerson’s narration, pro-

ducers fill time by re-enact-

ing some scenes with profes-

sional actors.

Two people missing

since 2009 are featured in the

first episode: Pamela Butler,

an employee of the Environ-

mental Protection Agency

who disappeared from her

Washington, D.C., home;

and Hasanni Campbell, a

five-year-old boy with cere-

bral palsy from Oakland,

Calif.

“We are painfully aware

that these are not just sto-

ries,” said Donna Wilson,

executive producer of the

series. “These are people’s

lives.”

Blacks account for 12

percent of the population yet

are involved in about a third

of the country’s missing-per-

sons cases, said Toni Judkins,

programming chief at TV

One. The network is avail-

able in some 56 million

homes, or about half the ones

that have TV.

Producers are working

with the Black and Missing

Foundation in helping to

bring the cases to light.

The show will encourage

tips to law enforcement, hop-

ing to break down some of

the attitude that makes

people feel like snitches,

foundation president Derrica

Wilson said. She and the se-

ries producer are not related.

Merkerson said she be-

came involved because she

realized many of these cases

needed the attention.

“It’s important for me to

give back to the community

that has given so much to

me,” she said.

New TV One show puts focus on missing blacks

Junior marketing major Darryl Chambers recently broke into the world of acting. Chambers never imagined himself making aguest appearance with the cast of “The Game.”

S. Epatha Merkersonis the narrator for “Find Our Missing,” aseries that debuts Jan. 18

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bers branded himself, he re-

vealed that he “networks

through Model Mayhem,

Facebook, and Twitter.”

“I have people in Atlanta

who constantly put me on

blogging sites,” Chambers

added. “I am also involved

in Calendars. People call me

[based on] what they see.

The calendars, modeling

shows that I have been in …

I always get contacts off of

that.”

Aside from being no-

ticed more, the member of

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity

doesn't feel like this has

changed his college future.

He is focused on completing

his undergraduate degree in

business and plans to pursue

modeling full time once his

degree is obtained

For students interested

in doing something similar,

Chambers gives advice.

“It's not hard to get out

of there and do anything. You

just put your best foot for-

ward, and you can do it,”

Chambers said. “Put forth

100 percent in whatever

you're trying to do in life, and

as long as you stay on the

right path and do what you're

supposed to do, then you will

be fine. Stay focused.”

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MONTGOMERY- The sting

of the Alabama State University

Hornets tamed the raved Bulldogs

of Alabama A&M as they pum-

meled the Bulldogs 53-50 in a

packed Dunn-Oliver Acadome on

Jan. 14.

The Hornets were the first to

get on the board when Hornet cen-

ter Philip Crawford (10 points)

“spent to the rim” and made a lay-

up. Bulldog center Jerome Hunter

dunked the ball on a turn around to

tie the game at two with 18:45 left

in the first half.

Hornet forward Stephawn

Brown, who scored nine points and

collected seven rebounds in his first

career start, pulled up and hit a

three-pointer followed by a lay-in

by Crawford to give the Hornets a

three point lead, 7-4 with 15:52 left.

Neither team could get a bas-

ket for some time until 14:30 when

Bulldog forward Casey Canty

scored a lay-in followed by Bull-

dog guard Jeremy Crutcher with a

three-pointer to make it 9-7, how-

ever Hornet guard Tramaine But-

ler drove into the lane for a hard

two point lay-up to tie the game at

nine.

Another long scoring drought

ensued until Hunter hit a lay-in to

give the Bulldogs the lead, 11-9

with 11:04 left. A put back shot by

Brown tied the game at 11.

A steal from Butler led to a fast

break and score to give the Hor-

nets the lead, but Bulldog forward

Brando Allen hit a three-pointer to

give the Bulldogs the lead again.

Hornet guard Anthony Price ran the

ball coast to coast and hit a dra-

matic lay-in to make the score 17-

16, Hornet lead, with 7:22 left.

Hunter’s turn-around jumper

gave the Bulldogs a seven point

lead, 24-17 with 4:51 left, but two

free-throws from Hornet guard Jeff

Middlebrooks (10 points) cut the

lead to five, 24-19 with 4:00 left.

A foul on Crawford sent Canty to

the line and he made two free

throws to make the score 26-19

with 1:22 left.

Butler ended the half with a

two pointer to make the score 26-

21, Bulldog lead.

In the second half the Hornets

led by Crawford who scored

quickly to cut the Bulldog lead to

three with 19:16 left in the game,

26-23. Butler drove through lane

and threw up a wild shot that hit

the mark and cut the Bulldog lead

to two, 27-25 with 18:00 left.

Middlebrooks brought the

crowd to their feet when he hit a

three-pointer from the corner and

gave the Hornet the lead 28-27 with

16:31 left.

With the score at 30-27 and the

Hornets up, Bulldog forward

Demarquelle Tab, who had 17

points and nine rebounds, hit a shot

off the back board and cut the Hor-

net lead to one, 30-29 with 14:41

left.

Butler came around a pick and

hit a three-pointer to keep the mo-

mentum in favor of the Hornets,

33-29 with 14:05 left.

Watts pump fake made a Bull-

dog defender leave his feet, he then

drove baseline and pulled up for a

‘pretty’ floater to make the score

35-30 with 12:42 left. However, a

steal by Tabb led to a fast break and

he ended the play with a crowd si-

lencing dunk to make the score 37-

32. The Hornets lead with 11:28

left.

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MONTGOMERY- The bite of

the Alabama A&M University

Bulldogs proved to be too much for

the Alabama State University Lady

Hornets who lost 65-56 in Dunn-

Oliver Acadome on Jan. 14.

Both teams came out shooting

but it was A&M who took a five-

point lead. However, two back to

back three-pointers by Hornet

guard Daneille Gazaway (13

points) brought the Hornets within

one point of tying, 16-15 with

10:22 left in the first half. Hornet

guard Jasmine Quinn pulled up and

hit a two-point jumper to give the

Hornets the lead, 17-16 with 8:25

left.

A quick move and score by

Hornet forward RoTasha Windom

and a turn-around jumper by Hor-

net center Quentori Alford (12

points) gave the Hornets a three-

point lead with 4:57 left, 21-18.

Gazaway drove into the lane and

scored a lay-in but Alford fouled

Bulldog guard Whiquitta Tobar (22

points) on the other end of the court

and she finished a three point play

to make the score 24-20 with 2:35

left.

A strong move from Bulldog

center Gabrielle Williams, who had

seven rebounds, got her the foul

and the bucket, the Bulldogs at-

tempting to make a run, 24-23 with

1:45 left.

However, it would be Gazaway

who ended the half with a pull up

shot to make the score 26-25, Hor-

net lead.

In the second half the Bulldogs

took the lead quickly but a shot

from Hornet guard Kierra Page (14

points) tied the game at 29 with

18:06 left in the game. Alford

added a shot to give the Hornets

the lead, however a rebound and

put back by Tobar tied the game

again at 31, both teams playing

their hearts out.

Williams scored a shot but

Page answered right back to keep

the game tied, 33 a piece with

15:44 left. The game was tied at

37 when Page hit a three-pointer

from the corner to give the Hornets

the lead and excite the crowd, 40-

37 with 12:24 left.

Tobar pulled up and nailed an

easy 15-foot shot to make the score

43-42.

Page drove to the lane and

dished it to Alford who scored eas-

ily but Bulldog guard Alyssa

Strickland scored right back to

keep the Bulldogs in the lead 46-

45, with 8:30 left.

With the Hornets down one

point with 5:28 left, a shot from

Strickland and then a free throw

from Bulldog guard Shaundray

Davis (11 points) made the score

53-49 with 4:22 left in the game.

A steal from Waldington al-

lowed for a fast break and score by

her to keep the momentum from

shifting too much, 53-51 with 4:03

left. Davis seemed unstoppable as

she crossed Hornet defenders and

created shots, one coming with

3:22 left, making the score 55-51

Bulldog lead.

A monstrous block from Will-

iams sent Page’s shot attempt fly-

ing but Alford got the inbound pass

and scored to tie the game 55-55

with 2:31 left.

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ASU’s Jonathan Jefferson collides with A&M’s Demarquelle Tabb duringbasketball action between Alabama State University and Alabama A&MUniversity in the Dunn-Oliver Acadome.

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LORMAN, Miss. – Ala-

bama State University (6-9,

3-3 SWAC) women’s basket-

ball falls to Alcorn State (7-

12, 5-2) 56-49 at the Dave L.

Whitley HPER Complex.

“This was a very tough

loss for us,” said Head Coach

Freda Freeman-Jackson.

“We had a chance to take the

lead, but we just couldn’t get

our shots to fall. We had easy

lay ups and we just simply

missed them. We tried to

fight back being down by

only one, but we had some

players miss some key as-

signments that allowed

LORMAN, Miss.—

Trailing 61-60 with 13 sec-

onds left the Hornets were

able to steal the ball and had

three shots at a winning bas-

ket, but all three missed their

mark as Alcorn State (4-14/

2-5 SWAC) held on for the

one-point win over Alabama

State University (7-11/4-2

SWAC).

“We did exactly what we

wanted in those final sec-

onds, we trapped them and

got them to throw a lazy pass

and Ryan intercepted it,”

head coach Lewis Jackson

said. “We were able to get

the ball into the paint and had

three or four good shots and

they just did not go in.”

The Hornets had four

players reach double figures

led by Tramaine Butler’s

game-high 19 points. Ivory

White added 12 and Ryan

Watts and Stephawn Brown

added 10 each. Brown made

his second consecutive start

in place of Kenderek Wash-

ington who missed his sec-

ond game.

The Braves also had four

players reach double digits

led by Xavian Rimmer’s 13.

Anthony Nieves came off the

bench to add 12 while Ken

McDonald had 11 and Twann

Oakley had 10.

Both teams shot lights

out in the second half with

ASU shooting 75 percent

(15-20) and Alcorn State

shooting 69 percent (13-19).

ASU won the rebounding

battle 21-19. Both teams

also shot their free throws

well with Alcorn hitting 13

of their 15 attempts (87%)

and ASU hitting 10 of their

14 attempts for 71 percent.

It all came down to the

last shot when the Hornets

were unable to get one of

their final three attempts to

go in.

“We got stagnant in our

offense with too many guys

trying to do too much and

then making bad passes,”

head coach Lewis Jackson

said. “You have to give

Alcorn credit, they made

their free throws down the

stretch to stay ahead of us,

but again, we had our oppor-

tunities and we just did not

take advantage of them.”

Neither team was able to

generate much offense in the

first half. Alcorn State only

shot 32 percent from the field

and ASU was even worse

knocking down 29 percent of

their shots. The Hornets

were able to hit three of their

nine three-point attempts and

outrebounded the taller

Braves 16-12. Butler kept

ASU in the game scoring 12

of his points.

The problem for ASU,

which turned out to be a

theme for the night, they had

an uncharacteristic 10 turn-

overs in the opening half.

Both Jeff Middlebrooks and

Ivory White picked up two

fouls early and the Hornets

had to use their backups

against the full court pressure

of Alcorn State.

The Hornets will con-

tinue this road swing Mon-

day night when they play at

Southern University in Baton

Rouge, La. The opening tip

has been set for 7:30 p.m.

Free throws pushes Alcorn State past the HornetsAlcorn to take the lead.”

With a slow start for both

teams in the first half the

Lady Hornets went on to take

a 7-3 lead. After missed as-

signments by the Lady Hor-

nets the Braves quickly went

on a 7-0 run with 9:13 left on

the clock.

Alcorn went on to take

its largest lead in the half of

17 points after shooting its

last positions from the char-

ity stripe. The Braves were

14 of 18 and shot 77 percent

from the free throw line.

The Braves closed out the

half with a 26-17 lead over

the Lady Hornets.

The Lady Hornets im-

proved in the second half as

the Lady Hornets brought in

a combination of bench play-

ers to get them back into the

game knotting the contest

49-49 at the 2:47 mark.

“With the loss of Tamara

Wadlington in the second

half we just couldn’t find the

rhythm at first. But then we

had five players that came off

the bench come in and put us

back into the game. We were

back in the game, but we just

couldn’t close out.”

Down by two the Lady

Hornets took a time out with

a little over two minutes left

in the game. ASU tried to

contain Alcorn holding the

Lady Braves to a score of 51-

49. With missed assign-

ments the Lady Braves went

on to take the game in the fi-

nal seconds with a 56-49 win

over the Lady Hornets.

Senior Jasmine Quinn

led the way for Alabama

State as she scored a team

and season high 11 points.

Quentori Alford had 10

points and eight rebounds

she was followed by Ashley

Jones who had eight points

and seven rebounds to add to

the Lady Hornets loss.

Kiara Ruffin led the

Lady Braves in scoring with

15 points, while Carolinsia

Crumbly had nine and

Sharnika Breedlove followed

with eight.

ASU will face Southern

University on Monday. The

game time is set for 5:30 pm

in Baton Rouge, La.

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BIRMINGHAM—The

track and field teams from

Alabama State University

had several solid perfor-

mances on the opening day

of the Blazer Invitational

hosted by the University of

Alabama Birmingham.

Three Lady Hornets fin-

ished among the top-19 run-

ners in the one mile run in the

day’s first event. Kesia

Derilus led the Lady Hornets

with her fourth place finish,

crossing the finish line in

5:15.03. Soyong Smith was

strong with a 17th place fin-

ish (5:33.66) and Breana

Kelly was 19th (5:39.52).

The ladies women’s dis-

tance medley team had a

strong seventh place finish

crossing the finish line in

12:43.32.

In other finals for the

women, Raheema Hodges

finished 13th in the 5,000

meter run and Asha Tavernier

was 11th in the long jump

with a lead of 5.43m (17’-

09”.75).

There were several pre-

liminaries run tonight with

the finals coming tomorrow.

For the Lady Hornets,

Tyrisha Chambers qualified

for the 60 meter hurdles with

a time of 8.98 and Tia Rolle

qualified for the 60 meter run

with a time of 7.58.

In the men’s mile run,

Carlos Flores finished 10th

with a time of 4:53.97. In

another men’s final, Lee

Thrasher finished 15th in the

shot put with a throw of

13.48m (44’-02”.75).

Shawn Lockhart quali-

fied for tomorrow’s finals in

the 60 meter dash with a time

of 6.91. Jeffery Adams

(8.20) and Quantavious

Lockhart both qualified for

tomorrow’s 60 meter hurdles

finals.

“We had some of the

people really step up today

and in some areas I like what

we saw,” head coach Ritchie

Beene said. “We also have

seen where we are really go-

ing to have to work before

the next meet, but we did

some nice things coming out

of the Christmas break.”

The Invite will conclude

tomorrow with the finals be-

ginning with the field events

at 9 a.m. The running events

will begin at 11 a.m.

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“At first I didn't want

to go to college unless I

could run,” said Jeff

Adams, a senior physical

education major at Ala-

bama State University.

“My high school

coach, James Davis, gradu-

ated from ASU, and when

he found out I didn't want

to go to school, he pushed

me to come here and run.”

It was that push that

propelled Adams through

college and through a great

career as a track runner.

Adams was born in

Brooklyn, NY, but moved

to Jonesboro, Ga., when he

turned 10. He attended

Mount Zion High School,

and during his sophomore

year he started running --

hurdles, to be specific: both

110 and 300 meter.

“I always liked to run

and jump,” Adams said,

“and hurdles seemed like

the perfect race. I was never

an athlete in my family, but

it was something that I

wanted to do when I got to

high school.”

Adams reminisced on

his childhood.

“I was a laid back guy,”

Adams said. “I mostly

played basketball after

school. No parties or going

out -- I just tried to stay out

of trouble.”

In high school, the only

trouble that Adams had to

deal with was winning, and

he did not have any trouble

at that.

“I won regionals in the

300-meter hurdles,” Adams

said. “I was favored to win

the 110 hurdles. However, I

fell, and when I went to my

coach he would say anything

to me but get prepared for the

next event. I used that anger

and disappointment to win.”

Now that Adams is in

college, he reflects on his

time at ASU and his college

career as a runner.

“When we moved, my

parents never forced me to

get into sports, but they sup-

ported me. I feel like I run

for them, to make them

proud,” Adams said. “I'm the

first male to go to school in

my family, and I've enjoyed

it. Through ups and downs,

everything has worked out

well. I'm thankful.”

Success has come not

only in the form of academ-

ics for Adams, either. He has

experienced the taste of vic-

tory on the track, as well.

“I remember the South-

western Athletic Conference

championships in 2011,” said

Adams. “I ran the 400 and

set a time of 49.98. I won first

in the event and, as a result,

they put in a decathlon,

which consists of 10 events.

I competed in five one day

and five the next. It's really

racing, jumping, throwing

and endurance. I did well.”

Adams has noticed the

big changes in ASU as well.

“I like the direction ASU is

going,” Adams said. “It

means more money. How-

ever, I don't know how the

track program fits into their

vision, but I hope we can get

a track stadium here. The

fans want to see us run, and I

think ASU should invest in

the program.”

However unsure he is

about ASU's vision for the

track team, Adams' vision for

himself is clear. “I would

love to run professionally,”

he said, “that's a dream I

want to come true. However,

that comes with time and

practice. I do think it's pos-

sible, but it's a lot of hard

work, and I look at runners

like Deyron Robles, who cur-

rently holds the world record

for 110 meter hurdles. He is

the first runner I studied and

attempted to mimic.”

Adams knows that there

are a lot of people who want

to run.

“I was a walk-on,” he

said. “So I'm speaking from

experience. I earned a partial

scholarship. However, I

don't think you should just

run to get money. Our

coaching staff will help

you, and right now the boys

are rebuilding and the girls

have a really good team,

but anything is possible.”

Adams propels as star track runner

James Adams has dreams of running professionally.

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Middlebrooks ran the

floor and scored a basket

while being fouled. He

missed the free throw but

increased the Hornet lead

to seven, 39-32 with 10:42

left. Crawford added to the

lead with a shot that made

the score 41-32, the Hor-

nets sitting comfortably

with 9:55 left.

With the score at 43-

35, Bulldog guard Jeremy

Ingram fouled Watts who

converted one of two free

throws to add to the Hor-

net lead. Allen came back

down the court and hit a

three-pointer to make the

score 44-38 with 5:26 left.

Brown bodied his way

in the lane for a hard fought

shot to make the score 48-

41 with 4:38 left. A series

of steals between both

teams kept the crowd on

the edge of their seats but

it quickly led to a foul on

the Bulldogs and

Middlebrooks hit two free-

throws. However, Allen

once again answered with

a three-pointer to make the

score 50-45 and kept the

game close with 1:38 left.

A three pointer from

Ingram excited Bulldog

fans and had Hornet fans

biting their nails as they

watched a eight point lead

dwindle to two points, 50-

48 with 59.1 seconds left.

Middlebrooks hit one of

two from the line to give

the Hornets a three-point

lead and when Tabb at-

tempted to tie the game his

shot was blocked by

Crawford to end the game.

Butler, who ended the

game with 12 points said,

“it feels good to beat A&M

because it’s a big rivalry

game and both teams what

it but luckily we got it. I’m

really glad Brown stepped

up as well because he had

a major part in the win.”

Head coach Lewis

Jackson said, “It’s always

great to play A&M and we

know it’s going to be a

tough game. We played

dominant and were able to

get the win. It’s a great win

for the Hornet nation and

it took a total team effort

to get there.”

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Davis crossed more Hor-

net defenders and score then

she stole the inbound pass

and scored again amassing

four points in just 22 seconds

and increasing the Bulldog

lead to six, 61-55 with 1:06

left.

The Hornets attempted

to make a comeback but four

free throws from Tobar put

the game out of reach.

Page looked disap-

pointed and said, “I feel we

played extremely hard, but

we didn’t follow directions

as far as the game plan. We

allowed their main player to

control the tempo if the en-

tire game and that’s why we

got the outcome we got. As

for myself I could’ve kept

Tobar under more control

from the beginning. I also

could’ve attacked the basket

to get easy points.”

Head coach Freda-Free-

man Jackson was not

pleased.

“We didn’t do a good job

containing their best player.

(Tobar) and Davis caused us

problems too,” Freeman said.

“We did not rebound and we

allowed too many second

chances. We need to get to

work on the fundamentals.”

Stephawn Brown powers past A&M’s Demarquelle Tabbduring basketball action between Alabama State Universityand Alabama A&M University in the Dunn-Oliver Acadome.

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