Incoming freshmen stu-dents will no longer have the same Lottery Scholarship as college students have cur-rently.

The Arkansas House ap-proved changes to the award on Monday, according to the press release.

Lawmakers voted 69-21 to change the award into a tiered structure that starts at $2,000 for freshmen at four-year colleges and is increased by $1,000 each year, capping at $5,000 for seniors, accord-ing to the press release.

“We had that tiered sys-tem years ago,” Terri Finney, ASU financial aid director, said. “This isn’t anything not seen before so we aren’t too concerned because we’ve done that.”

According to the press re-lease, supporters say lottery funding can’t sustain the current payout of $4,500 per year for university students and $2,250 for community college students.

This will affect students starting higher educa-tion in the fall of this year.

While the measure to create the tiered system passed, the changes haven’t been approved yet.

According to the press release, the Senate Ed-ucation Committee advanced the legislation Wednesday, sending it to the full Senate for a vote.

Finney understands the changes have to be done due to funding. “It all boils down to staying in the budget,” Finney said. “We will still continue to help as many students as we can.”

Hannah Persing, a sophomore communication disorders major of Fayetteville, said she got the Lottery Scholarship her freshman year. “I got to go

to college for these first two years of school with-out having to get loans,” Persing said. “I am able to spend more money on my hobbies and things that I enjoy doing than having to save money constantly.”

Finney said the Financial Aid office would work hard to get the freshmen coming next fall more work-study.

“So far we have not seen changes to the prereq-uisites of the application for the Lottery Scholar-ship,” Finney said.

Persing thinks the changes will impact the in-coming freshmen in a negative way. “I think it will affect the freshmen significantly,” Persing said. “They might have to apply for a job during there first year in college so they might be able to pay the difference.”

While the funding for the Lottery Scholarship will go down, Finney said more is being added to

other scholarships. “There will be more money added to scholarships for nontraditional students and the Pell Grant will increase a bit,” Finney said.

According to the press release, the proposal also increases from $12 million to $16 million for schol-arships that fund nontraditional students — which is any student who did not enroll in college imme-diately following high school.

There is good and bad in this situation, Finney said. “In addition, more people will be eligiable for the Pell Grant and nontraditional students will have more funding for school,” Finney said. “It will no longer be based on just income.”

Governor Mike Beebe is still reviewing the pro-posed changes, according to the press release.

Matt DeCample, spokesman, said “(The gover-nor) wants to review the financial analysis before taking a position.”

The First Year Experi-ence iPad Initiative official-ly kicked off Tuesday with a faculty luncheon formally announcing the initiative at ASU.

The iPad Initiative will incorporate the Apple tab-lets directly into the Making Connections curriculum as a piece of the course mate-rial. This will allow students the opportunity to learn and make use of technology not only for their education, but also the opportunity to be-come engaged and involved in and out of the classroom.

Designers of the program hope that incorporating the tablets into the classroom will be a new way to engage students in learning, through technology they may already be using.

“We know that they’re bringing these things to the classroom.” Jill Simons, dean of the university college, said. “But now, if they’re bringing it, why don’t we use it? Why not bring it into the class-room and have fun with it?”

In class, the tablets will be used for any applicable func-

tion ranging from note taking and online textbook access to collaborative projects and video chatting with students from other universities.

Possible apps used will in-clude iMovie, GarageBand, iPhoto, Pages, Numbers and Keynote, according to Gina Hogue, assistant vice chan-cellor for academic affairs and research. “These apps al-low students to demonstrate their knowledge and under-standing of their research and create multimedia pre-sentations,” Hogue said. “I’ve seen firsthand that students spend far more time and en-ergy preparing these types of presentations for their peers to see than any essay I might grade.”

The increased opportuni-ties for classroom application appeal to many instructors, including Alyson Gill of the art department. “The place that I teach, it looks like it has four walls, but it really doesn’t. My classroom has no walls, and that’s the world we live in today,” Gill said. “The iPad, this tool, helps me dis-solve the walls.”

One educational aspect of the Apple tablet is its ability to allow instructors to create

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New degree aims at disaster planning

One woman had the foresight and motiva-tion to push for a program right here at ASU to face the potentially disastrous challenges of the 21st century.

Debbie Persell, director of ASU’s Region-al Center for Disaster Preparedness Educa-tion, has created such a program. ASU now offers, AAS, BS and MS degrees in disaster preparedness and emergency management as well as a graduate certificate. The program also offers scholarships.

All of the programs are online and have students currently enrolled around the globe. There are 83 full-time undergraduates cur-rently enrolled and the very first graduate stu-dent will receive a Master of Science degree

from the school in August. “The program was created in light of cur-

rent events and the obvious demand,” Per-sell said. Disasters strike, and when they do, having first responders that are well trained in disaster life support, and educated leaders working at and taking control of a site can be the difference between life and death, Persell said.

“The program is needed and growing fast,” said Brent Cox, an assistant professor and former police officer. “All of our instructors are still operating as first responders and/or emergency management professionals in one form or fashion.

According to Cox, it is important to stay on the cutting edge, especially when it comes to dealing with chemical spills and fires. Not

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Along with Wednesday’s warnings about ice storms came questions about who has the final say in determin-ing class cancellations.

The process is carried out by Len Frey, vice chancellor for finance and administra-tion; Lynita Cooksey, vice chancellor and provost; Rick Stripling, vice chancellor for student affairs; and Cristian Murdock, vice chancellor for university advancement.

The vice chancellors get in contact with the facilities management team at ASU, who are responsible for mak-ing the campus as safe as possible. They also check the weather predictions and fol-low what the meteorologists are saying.

“Several factors influence the final decision regarding closure of the university due to inclement weather,” Frey said. “One factor that trumps all others is the safety of our students, faculty and staff. If we cannot be reasonably sure that one will have safe pas-sage across campus, we will err on the side of closure.”

The decision to cancel classes also impacts the ac-ademic mission of the uni-versity. The decision-makers have to consider statements such as, “How will this im-pact ASU’s ability to deliver academic services to stu-dents?”

In addition, closing the Jonesboro campus affects students at the other branch-es of ASU, such as Newport and Beebe.

When making the call to cancel classes, they sub-mit the recommendation to Chancellor Tim Hudson, who then agrees or disagrees with the recommendation. When a consensus is drawn, a notification is sent to the university’s public relations team, who sends the decision out to the public.

“My current policy is if the administration feels it is safe to have class I have class,” said Amy Hitt, communi-cations professor. “My stu-dents have been instructed to check with the local media to see if school is going to be closed for bad weather.”

Students question wheth-er they should risk their safe-ty by driving on snow or ice when the university does not cancel classes.

“Even when school is of-ficially open I try to take an understanding approach to-wards the students who live far away and cannot make it to class because of dangerous road conditions,” Hitt said. “I do not believe students should have to risk their lives to get to my class.”

LYNDSEY PATTERSONSTAFF WRITER

Put down the soda. Drop the deadly weapon!

A coroner in New Zealand has recently discovered that Coke can kill.

After a three year inves-tigation into the death of a 31-year-old mother of eight, a coroner provided evidence that her love of soda and un-controllable habit of drinking it ended her life.

The young mother, Nata-sha Harris, was drinking up to two gallons of Coke a day. She died of a heart attack due to the amount of caffeine within her system and an en-larged liver filled with fat de-posits from large amounts of excess sugar.

Now most of you can read this and say that she obvi-ously had a very bad diet and lifestyle.

I agree that drinking even a gallon of soda is extremely bad for your diet.

However here in America this lifestyle is on the rise and doctors are seeing a dramatic rise in addiction to this tasty killer.

Like any narcotic or al-coholic drink, sodas are ex-tremely addictive. Due to the caffeine, artificial sweeteners and sodium it’s hard to find

which, if not all three, people are becoming addicted to.

“Soda consumption has more than quadrupled in the last 40 years” an article on ediets.com stated.

The average American is drinking five cans of soda a day.

People are replacing water with soda, and by doing so they are causing their bodies to go into dehydration stages.

Approximately 73 percent of all Americans are chron-ically dehydrated.

Ever wonder why you have a headache that just won’t go away?

You take some Advil and wash it down with a sip of water and hope it gets better?

Headaches are often caused by dehydration and when taking medicine to rid

you of a nasty headache it’s prescribed to drink many glasses of water to help move it along.

That headache is your body’s way of saying “hey drink water please!” because when you get down to 20 per-cent dehydration your body can shut down into a coma, and if it gets bad enough you can even die.

As Americans we need to be taking proactive steps to solve this problem.

Just as we know ciga-rettes are bad for our health and cause cancer we are still smoking them.

Everyone should now know that sodas are un-healthy, but people still drink them daily. We buy them in 24 packs and give them to our children after school.

A progressive step oc-curred when Arkansas passed a law to keep soda machines out of schools, knowing that it is healthier for students to be drinking water or juice.

As college students we are even more susceptible to the negative effects of soda so we should be ever conscious of our consumption.

While we are old enough to understand the health risks involved with drinking soda we can still find our-selves drinking it on a regular basis.

We try to stay up late by drinking caffeine to finish homework and we go to the caf and can drink as many so-das as we want. Most people will say that banning Coke machines on school campus-es is ridiculous.

However I have barely covered the surface of what consuming sodas does to our bodies.

Will Americans be able to rid themselves of bad drink-ing habits without taking such a serious step?

Lakin Cathey is a freshman business major of Heber Springs.

As college students, we often hear about the value of a liberal arts education, but what precisely does that mean?

It’s a whole lot more than simply having to take an alge-bra or composition class.

To the Greeks, the liberal arts were those things which enabled people to compe-tently participate in civil dis-course.

The trivium – rhetoric, logic and grammar – was the core of this education. Me-dieval Europeans later add-ed the quadrivium – music, arithmetic, geometry and as-tronomy.

Most universities require general education courses so students will be well-rounded and have knowledge beyond their chosen concentration.

For example, scientists and mathematicians should be able to communicate ef-fectively, while someone like a historian will be aided in their research by possessing a familiarity with biological and physical sciences.

An educated person is someone proficiently knowl-edgeable in many areas.

Universities have become credential factories that are concerned not with giving students a true liberal-arts education but with providing a piece of paper that is de-creasingly valuable the easier it becomes to acquire one.

This is apparent when observing the relaxation of standards for general educa-

tion courses. We ostensibly develop

critical thinking skills in classes dealing with topics like history and the fine arts, but few are anything more than shallow rehashes of high school material.

A history course may tell you that the Munich Agree-ment and Germany’s subse-quent annexation of Czecho-slovakia were key events in the lead-up to World War II, but it’s doubtful that the class will explore the history of the idea of a unified Germa-ny, the relationship between Germans and Slavs and other influences on the Nazi Party.

Music classes will teach you about composers and dif-ferent periods such as the Ba-roque and Classical eras, but how many dig a little deeper to explore what that art tells us about the cultures from which it arose? Not many, I’d wager.

And it’s entirely plausible that one can graduate with a bachelor’s degree without having read a lick of Shake-

speare, Milton or other giants of Western literature.

Such writings impart upon the reader a better un-derstanding of human nature than any sociology textbook, yet general education curric-ula require scant exposure to key literary works.

What is more beneficial to developing critical thinking skills, simply reading the “Il-iad” and taking a test on the plot or analyzing literary ele-ments like Achilles as a tragic hero?

Developing such skills re-quires students to not just ab-sorb the views of instructors. Lectures are important, but so are classroom discussions.

Vigorous debates on the merits of various theories and schools of thought are immensely valuable in the education of any young per-son.

And yet the State of Ar-kansas requires graduates to have only 35 hours of general education courses.

At ASU, you can graduate having completed only one

history course and without finishing a single literature course.

You must complete only one fine arts course, render-ing classes in music and visu-al art optional, as well.

This is unacceptable. One can’t seriously be considered educated if they have no knowledge of the human ex-perience.

At the very least, the uni-versity should revert to re-quiring two fine arts classes and two humanities courses.

It should be mandatory that students complete both U.S. History survey courses and at least one World Civ-ilization course. Other re-quirements should include economics, philosophy and politics.

Education à la carte is bad for students and bad for so-ciety. Registering for classes shouldn’t be akin to a trip to Subway (“Hmm, can I have the psychology and geogra-phy? I don’t want any of that other stuff...”)

Universities should be fo-cused on helping students acquire the knowledge and wisdom to better understand the world around them.

It falls on everyone at ASU – students, professors and administrators – to promote an atmosphere conducive to academic success.

Zach Lott is a sophomore his-tory major of Jonesboro.

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Our ViewNews has broken its bondage to the long wait times

between its production and being seen. Breaking newscasts can interrupt TV shows and live newscasts have become monotonous.

The concept of immediate news is perpetuated by news agencies who are in a constant gridlock to break stories first. This becomes a vicious cycle for major news media, as they continuously need to break news sooner then their competitors.

Just as a person can speak before thinking, news media has fallen into broadcasting before evaluating the need for the information.

This immediacy, while good in its intent, brings consequences.

For starters, breaking news usually entails that the story is still developing. Even though the agency is making a report on something, the situation is not yet clear and coverage can be limited to making educated guesses about what could happen next.

As we are well aware this isn’t a good framework for journalism where its main tenant is its obligation to the truth. In fact, breaking stories that have this speculation open the door for bias, misinformation and worse, the ability to sensationalize news.

Since 1997, when the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism teamed with the Committee of Concerned Journalists, there has been a consensus about the shared mission of journalism.

“The central purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with accurate and reliable information they need to function in a free society.”

It upholds this through nine established principles: being obligated to the truth, loyal to citizens, disciplined in verification, maintaining an independence from those they cover, serving as an independent monitor of power, providing a forum for public criticism and compromise, making the significant interesting and relevant, keeping the news comprehensive and proportional and allowing its workers to exercise their personal conscience.

News corporations should, in many instances, revert back to the classical approach of journalism to ensure that all of these tenants stay in tact.

Take for instance the tracking down of the ex-LAPD officer in California. Viewers got to watch the man-hunt live, hear from the local police chief, see police searching vehicles on the highway and listen to a gun battle.

Do viewers need to see all of this information? Should we really watch a gun battle that claimed the life of a policeman on live television or should there be some media restraint when publishing certain content of stories?

It seems ridiculous that audiences would need to see a battle clip to grasp the magnitude of this story.

As members of media, we are exercising our personal conscience to say that there is a better way.

“Our View” is written by the editorial staff. The opinions are not necessarily reflective of the student body, faculty or

administration of Arkansas State University.

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Noise makers, shakers, foam fingers, signs and banners. And the BCM’s “Naked Guys”? To the crowd, they just look like ordinary col-lege students dressed in painted on shirts and shorts or jeans. But to coaches, players, the student body and the group themselves, they are a support system that is making a come-back.

The “Naked Guys” aren’t new to campus. Over three years ago, the old group was shut down due to misconduct at a game. But the new “Naked Guys” are making the name known once again.

“(Senior) Lucas Hickman and I kind of put this group together,” said Drew Holland, sophomore psychology major of McCrory. “It’s more of Lucas’ baby. He’s really the one who got us all together at the beginning of the year and got people interested in this group.”

The group restarted as a couple of BCM members and has grown into about 25 mem-bers. The “Naked Guys” reemerged at the first home football game against Memphis.

“Lucas and I asked people at the BCM and a few others to come out and join us for the first game,” Holland said. “The first time it took us about an hour and a half to two hours to get painted and to completely get ready for our appearance. It was a lot of fun and I think the fans were pretty excited to see us. It was just something different.”

The group doesn’t only consist of BCM members. Some members have since started going to the BCM after joining up with the group. One member, junior interdisciplinary studies major of Cabot, Taylor Burrington said he joined the “Naked Guys” after going to the BCM for a while.

“The guys are all really awesome and en-ergetic,” Burrington said. “I’ve really got-

ten a chance to become great friends with these guys because of the group and now that I’m go-ing to the BCM with most or all of them.”

Holland and Burrington both agree that the BCM is a great support system for the “Naked Guys.”

“They don’t actually spon-sor us but they reimburse us for some of the paint costs,” Holland said. “And about eight girls from the BCM help paint us and come up with slogan ideas. We’ve also gotten faster at getting painted since we’re kind of used to it. Now, it may only take 45 minutes to get painted up.”

One of the main reasons the “Naked Guys” came together was to support ASU’s sports teams and to get students and fans as pumped up for the games as they are.

“We really don’t want the group to start and end with us,” Burrington said. “We want to continue to grow and recruit new guys to the group. Really we want to make the stu-dent section as proud of our team as we are. We want students to go crazy for ASU. It’d be really cool to come back after I graduate and see how much the ‘Naked Guys’ has grown and to see how much our student section has grown.”

The “Naked Guys” have tried various types

of paint to cover their chests and stomachs with. They found acrylic paint mixed with lo-tion would almost fall off when they got in the shower.

“Dear God. It was so hard to come off at first,” Burrington said. “Sometimes I still struggle to get some of it off.”

“With the older paint we used, it would flake off during the game and you would lit-erally stand in the shower scrubbing it off un-til all the hot water was gone and even then you still wouldn’t get it all off,” Holland said. “We’ve definitely learned from experience.”

Although the group has gone to many foot-ball and basketball games, Burrington said his favorite experience was at the GoDaddy.com Bowl in January with the slogan “Who’s your Go Daddy?”

“We were all so pumped for the game,” Burrington said. “The players and coach-es told us they appreciate our spirit at every

game. Bryan Harsin actually came over to us and told us how excited he was to coach our football team next year and that he hoped we would all be there with our painted shirts next season. All around it was just a great game.”

Holland hopes they can recruit more guys for next season and is even hoping of putting a video together to get more people interest-ed.

The “Naked Guys” are open to anyone who wants to be a part of the group. They only ask that future members act responsibly and ap-propriately.

“Everyone’s been really great,” Holland said. “BCM has been great with us, too. And the coaches and players love our spirit so we really want to continue this tradition even if those members that are in it now have grad-uated. We just want this to spread and keep going.”

What do you get when you put a 25-year old action series, along with its aging pro-tagonist, together with the director of “Max Payne” and “The Omen,” and the screenwriter of the notoriously incompetent “X-Men Ori-gins: Wolverine”?

If you guessed the first great action flick of 2013, you would be wrong. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change?

What you do get unfortunately, is “A Good Day to Die Hard,” the fifth entry in the Bruce Willis starring series that follows John Mc-Clane, a New York City police officer, who has been in the “wrong place at the wrong time,” since the original “Die Hard” was released in 1988.

Directed by John Moore and written by Skip Woods, Die Hard 5 takes the series that had already distanced itself from its classic framework and almost makes it a parody of itself.

John McClane used to be a finely crafted character, with a seemingly endless barrel of wise cracks to spout off to over confident mad men. Now Willis is given the bare essentials of his iconic character.

Where McClane used to be given allies that offered a complementary balance to his own abrasive personality, this time he’s paired with his estranged, CIA employed son Jack,

played by Jai Courtney (“Jack Reacher”). Mc-Clane is in Russia to find out why his son shot a man in a Russian club and is now being put on trial.

Did I mention he’s in the CIA? Guess who forgot to tell father dearest?

All of this is part of a lifeless first act that could be mistaken for any low-budget action movie, something Willis has been very famil-iar with before a career resurgence last year.

You’ll be hard pressed to find any chemis-try between the Willis and Courtney, whose “banter” involves non-stop yelling, none of which is amusing or constructive. Most of the time it feels like John McClane is just tagging along in his son’s adventure, which is some-thing “Die Hard” doesn’t need.

The movie’s most dynamic action set piece is a long, erratic and poorly shot car chase through the streets of Moscow as Jack and the man he’s assigned to protect, played by Sebastian Koch, are chased by movie’s head henchman, who is in turn chased by McClane Senior.

I’m not vehemently opposed to the shaky camera technique that has become a staple of the genre since “The Bourne Identity” in 2002. However, Moore carelessly deploys it here, along with incoherent editing, to give the audience no chance at understanding the geography of the scene.

You can get choreography that is more competent and more fulfilling action scenes

from the last film I reviewed, “The Last Stand.”

The Die Hard series is known for having interesting and well-acted villains who come with a twist to oppose John McClane, with Alan Rickman’s (Snape in “Harry Potter”) Hans Gruber from the original still being the gold standard.

However, the previous film’s “twists” usually in-volved what the villain’s goal really is. With Die Hard 5, the attempted twist also keeps you from knowing who you’re supposed to be rooting against until the last 15 min-utes, which dovetails with an over the top, CGI filled cli-max with unnecessarily slow motion explosions.

Every once in a while, what made the first four “Die Hards” either great or decent flashes through. But whether it be a dead panned line from Willis or a nice, but not so subtle reference to the orig-inal, it doesn’t make up for a sloppy and tedious fifth in-stallment.

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DANIEL MCFADINSTAFF WRITER

Takako Okumura| Staff PhotographerThe “Naked Guys” of BCM cheer on the Red Wolves on Valentine’s night at the ASU v UALR game at the Convocation Center.

The debate still stands on which de-vice is better for students in class, tablets or laptops? Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but the curiosity lies in if either is really helpful toward one’s learning habitat.

At the ASU IT Store, Macs and iPads are in competition for sales. The store consists of tablets such as the original iPad, iPad mini, Android tablets, and Samsung devices that run Windows 8.

According to IT Store sales, students don’t prefer PCs over Macs and iPads. However, in the discussion of whether a laptop or tablet is better, sales clarify that both are equal. But which is best for classroom use?

Andrew Fleeman, a junior marketing major of Manila said, “There are con-stantly new apps for tablets. Either of them are a good choice for college stu-dents, but for more in depth work, lap-tops are the best option.”

To some professors, laptops are not allowed because it can cause a distrac-tion. It is tempting to check one’s email or surf the Internet rather than listen to a lecture in class; tablets are just as tempt-ing. Fiddling with an iPad or typing on

a laptop can take away from the learning experience and storing information, but it can be an aid.

The advantages of a laptop are the hardware, physical keyboard, more stor-age capacity and larger screen. How-ever, the weight of the laptop can cause problems.

In a classroom, a physical keyboard a person can touch works better because he or she can type faster rather than on a tablet.

A tablet is lighter, so it’s easier to car-ry around. Plus, it is a hands-on device with a touch screen that can lead to fast-er results from a speedier Internet ac-cess. The disadvantages are the size of the screen and if the screen gets broken, then there isn’t much use for the tablet any longer.

“I prefer my iPad over a laptop be-cause it is more portable,” said Dannie Hill, a sophomore computer science and graphic design major of Hope.

Note-taking with a tablet, for exam-ple an iPad, has a word processor for notes to be taken on. It can be saved and directly sent to a Mac computer or any other Apple Inc. device.

For those who prefer laptops, it is easier to type on actual keys rather than

a touch screen. Software such as Mic-rosoft Word can be downloaded and used to type assignments, and papers and notes are easily printed off from a laptop.

In fact, technology is taking over the traditional way of taking notes in class: writing with a pen or pencil on a note-pad. A 2010 study found that students who used laptops for note-taking in class averaged 11 percent worse on tests than those who took notes by hand.

The real question is, is the old-fash-ioned way of writing better than both a tablet and laptop for note-taking?

Truth be told, every person has his or her own way of learning, and tablets and laptops average out about the same when it comes to which is the better way for the student to learn.

Ultimately, a pen and a notepad is the way to go for better results for quizzes, tests, etc., and it enhances a student’s way of learning. As far as the technol-ogy battle between a tablet and a laptop, both are equally efficient.

Tablets are more portable and that is what works best for a college student, but a majority would rather take notes on a laptop because typing on computer keys is easier.

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New ‘Die Hard’ film fails to impress die hard fans

Seth MacFarlane hosts this year’s 85th Anniversary of the Academy Awards live Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on ABC. Presenters include: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey Jr., Daniel Radcliffe and many more. This year’s nom-inations include:

Best Picture: “Amour,” “Argo,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Djangjo Unchained,” Les Miserables,” Life of Pi,” “Lin-coln,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Best Director: Michael Haneke for “Amour,” Behn Zeitlin for ““Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Ang Lee for “Life of Pi,” Steven Spielberg for “Lincoln,” and David O. Russell for “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Best Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lin-coln,” Hugh Jackman in “Les Miserables,” Joaquin Phoenix in “The Master,” Denzel Washington in “Flight” and Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Best Actress in a Leading Role: Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty,” Jennifer Lawrence in “Silver Linings Playbook,” Emmanuelle Riva in “Amour,” Quvenzhane Wallis in “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and Naomi Watts in “The Impossible.”

Best Animated Feature: “Brave,” “Frankenweenie,” “Wreck-It Ralph,” “ParaNorman” and “The Pirates! Band of Misfits”

Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal for “Zero Dark Thirty,” Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola for “Moonrise Kingdom,” Michael Hakeke for “Amour,” Quentin Tarentino for “Django Unchained” and John Gatins for “Flight”

85th Academy Awards airs Sunday on ABC

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their own digital textbooks, or iBooks. These iBooks can take the visual form of a tra-ditional textbook, while including hyperlinks, videos and step-by-step interactive instruc-tions. The iBook offers tremendous potential to create things,” Gill said. “There’s really no limit to what we can put in these books.”

However, the devices themselves do have some limitations, Lynita Cooksey, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs rec-ognizes. “There’s not a simple recipe that says, ‘add iPads and stir.’ It doesn’t work that way, it does take effort on behalf of everyone.” Cook-sey said.

“The iPad is simply a tool. Not a magical shiny object that will automatically or innova-tively transform education at Arkansas State University or any other university,” Cooksey said. “The power of this tool lies in the hands of the students and instructors.”

Proponents of the initiative also recognize not all faculty may be comfortable working with the new technology, and said the uni-versity will be scheduling training sessions for faculty incorporating the iPad into their curriculum. “We may learn from our students in this process, and that’s fine, because that is

part of the learning process,” Cooksey said. Although many students are already bring-

ing iPads with them as they enter college, the question still stands on how to ensure all stu-dents have the opportunity to access the often costly or out-of-budget technology.

Simons said while many students may al-ready own iPads, a lease program is being de-signed to allow students without the tablets the same chance to benefit from the tech-nology. “What we’re hoping is that students will have the opportunity to rent or lease (the iPad), and when they’re done leasing it, possi-bly buy it out,” Simons said. “That’s one of the pieces we are still working on. Our desire is to make it accessible to all students.”

Julie Isaacson, chair of the faculty senate, said, “I think it would be attractive to a stu-dent to know that if they didn’t have (an iPad) they could get one, and at a very reasonable cost.”

The lease program would function through the campus IT store.

Leasing would allow students to pay a per-semester fee for the use of a tablet, a much more affordable option for some stu-dents than having to purchase the technol-

ogy. Financial aid coverage is still being dis-cussed, according to Simons. Once financial aid coverage has been settled, other questions students may have regarding leasing will be discussed as well.

“I can see a lot of parents panicking when they find out their child needs (an iPad),” Si-mons said. “But we want to make sure that if a student needs one, we are going to be recep-tive to helping them find the means to get that technology.”

An increase in classroom technology usage is often beneficial, and sometimes necessary, according to some faculty members. “Our students are looking for the use of technology in classrooms, they’re expecting to attend a university that exceeds their high school ex-perience, and prepares them for the future,” Cooksey said. “They expect to learn in a tech-nology-rich environment. And this is what the iPad Initiative is truly about.”

Simons says that the iPad Initiative will allow instructors to use students’ fascination with technology to enhance their classroom experience, rather than competing with it. “Instead of saying ‘put it away,’ we will be say-ing ‘take it out,’” Simons said.

Paige Walker | Staff PhotographerHope Paschal, a freshman of Brinkley whose major is undecided, uses her iPad in her composi-tion two class. Photo illustration.

only are there new chemicals, but there are new and better ways of dealing with the old ones, Cox said.

There are multidisciplinary and interdis-ciplinary programs, so students from many majors can benefit from taking these courses.

The degrees are added value, said Persell. Someone with an undergraduate in criminol-ogy or nursing, for instance, could add the MS in Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management and become extremely market-able.

In fact, there’s been a major disaster in each of the last 10 years in Northeast Arkansas.

The career prospects are very positive and growing annually, Cox said.

All levels of government have emergency response personnel, from the local fire de-

partment on up to FEMA. Additionally there are hundreds of health

services and non-governmental agencies like the Red Cross and the World Health Organi-zation.

Staci Vandagriff | Staff PhotographerTelevision personality T.J. Holmes speaks to students and Jonesboro residents Monday night in Centen-nial Hall. Audience members also had the opportunity to ask Holmes questions.

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Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither was Arkansas State’s 2013 football recruiting class.

Where many college football programs have all year to entice athletes to play for them, first-year head coach Bryan Harsin and his newly formed staff, had only 56 days to set their inaugural recruiting class in stone for National Signing Day on Feb. 6.

Those 56 days of criss-crossing the country, visiting men at high schools and junior colleges, resulted in the Sun Belt’s fourth best recruiting class according to Rivals.com.

“The nice thing, being a head coach, you’ve got you’re assis-tant coaches,” Harsin said on National Signing Day. “They’re waiting for you, you get in and they take you right where you need to go.”

Harsin’s staff is made of coaches from his days as an assis-tant coach at Boise State, as well as those who have been at ASU for one year or are back for their third tenure in Jones-boro.

The returning coaches are defensive coordinator John Thompson and running backs coach Eliah Drinkwitz.

Even with experienced staff, Drinkwitz believes you must go back to the drawing board to recruit for a new head coach.

“I think you have to re-recruit everybody when there’s a staff change,” Drinkwitz said. “The very first weekend we had available to go see (players), this staff went out and saw all re-cruits that were on campus.”

In a business where recruits can consider themselves lucky to play all four years under the same staff they signed with, Drinkiwitz said you have to be clear with a recruit why they choose to go to your school.

“What you do tell them is the reason you come to a Univer-sity is not because of the coaching staff, although that can be part of the decision, it’s about the fan support, it’s about the tradition, it’s about the University and it’s about the education that ultimately you can get,” Drinkwitz said.

Someone who knows a thing or two about recruiting is new defensive line coach Steve Caldwell, who returns to Jonesboro to join Harsin’s staff after playing for ASU as a linebacker and defensive lineman from 1974 to 1977, including an 11-0 1975 season, and serving as a coach in two stints from 1978 to 79 and 1985 to 87.

Caldwell’s return comes after serving the last three years at the University of Arkansas.

For Caldwell, the recruiting game and how he spends Na-tional Signing Day has changed significantly from his early days as a coach.

“We wouldn’t have been sitting here today when I started coaching. Because you went out and signed them,” Caldwell said. “You took the National Letter to each home...trying to be the first one there. You could only be in one house at 8 o’clock in the morning.

“Back then we drove everywhere. You just got in one car and drove like a maniac to the next guy’s house and hoped some coach hadn’t beat you there and talked him into signing with them.”

While Caldwell recognizes where the program was during his past time here, he also knows its current state resting in the coaching staff’s hands.

“There was a period of time where the program wasn’t where the university wanted it. I think it’s just amazing how in the last two years we’ve had as much success as we’ve had.” Caldwell continued. “As a coaching staff, coming in behind that success, now you have to be able to maintain that. So we got a lot riding on our shoulders right now.”

Making sure the success continues will also be the work of young coaches who are still in the early stages of their career, like offensive line coach Brad Bedell. A former All-American

and NFL player, Bedell begins his time at ASU after serving at New Mexico State for a sea-son, where the Aggies O-line paved the way for 4,024 total yards in 2012.

After hearing what Harsin planned to do at ASU, his connection to fellow new staffer Kent Riddle from their time at the Colorado helped Bedell “weasel” his way into an interview.

“I told my wife, ‘if he offers the job, you better pack the house, because we’re out of here.’ I believed in what they were going to do,” Bedell said.

The former offensive line-man was involved heavily in on-campus recruiting, host-ing athletes on their NCAA

sanctioned 48-hour weekend visit to campus.On those visits, players spend their time visiting the cam-

pus and athletic facilities, while getting a taste of the local cul-ture from coaches by eating out at restaurants like Skinny J’s. Among the questions recruits ask coaches in their visit are if the school has their preferred major, how big classes are, what kind of gear the team wears and the big one: will they get to play early?

“We’re not going to promise anybody anything here,” Bedell said. “We’re coming into a great situation: 10 wins and back to back Sun Belt Champions and we’re going to tell a kid you’re guaranteed to win? No way.”

One thing Harsin does guarantee about his staff, which filled its final spot the day after signing day by hiring Anthony Tucker from Idaho State as the wide receivers coach, is that it’s passionate about its goals, bringing a “prove it mentality” to the coaching process.

“Youth or experience, old or young, is energy. That’s the one thing about this staff, there’s a lot of energy,” Harsin said. “Guys are excited about what they’re doing, so there’s a pas-sion about it.”

The staff will be able to put that passion on display for fans when spring practice gets underway on March 11.

ASU will host the Sun Belt Indoor Track and Field Con-ference Championship this weekend at the Convocation Center. The conference meet will take place Sunday and Monday and will begin at 10 a.m.

Head coach James Patchell has high expectations for this weekend’s events.

“We have a stronger team for both the men and wom-en this year, and we have performed well so far in the indoor season. We have set ourselves up to have a chance to win both the men’s and women’s championships,” Patchell said. “The goal of our program is to be in a posi-tion to have a shot at the ti-tle year in and year out and I think we have done that. That being said, we must be men-tally and physically ready to perform well. This week, our practices are going to be a little easier so that we can be rested and at our best when it counts this weekend.”

Sunday’s running events will begin around 4 p.m., with the men and women’s meter trials. The Distance Medley Relay will then take place around 8:15 p.m. to close out the evening for both the women and the men.

The meet will resume Monday morning at 9 a.m.

The final event for the con-ference competition will be the fan-favorite, 4 x 400-me-ter relay for both the women and the men, scheduled for 4:40 p.m.

ASU has many “athletes to watch for” during the com-petition. Throughout the In-door Track season, athletes have been competing and logging their best achieve-ments in order to get seeded well at conference.

Junior Sharika Nelvis is seeded first for 55-meter dash, first for the 200-meter

run, and first for the 55-hur-dles. She has been named Female Track Athlete of the Week for the Sun Belt Con-ference three of the six weeks of the indoor track season. Nationally, Nelvis is current-ly ranked 17th in the 60-me-ter hurdles and 27th in the 60-meter dash (according to the NCAA Division 1 rank-ings).

As for the sprinters on the men’s side for this weekend, senior Solomon Williams is seeded first for the men’s 55-Hurdles (7.39 seconds).

“I’m really excited about our Indoor Conference meet this year. Having the meet here not only gives us a slight advantage because we know the track, but also because many of us will have the sup-port of our friends and class-mates,” Williams said. “Both the men and women’s teams have a great opportunity to win the championship this year, and that’s exactly what I expect to do.”

Sophomore Kristina Au-bert is seeded third for the women’s mile (seed time of 4:54.96), and second for the 3000-meter race (9:50.45).

“I’m very excited for the opportunity we have to win a potential conference cham-pionship at home. Our team has worked so hard and I am excited to watch my team-mates rise to the occasion this weekend,” Aubert said.

To view the complete Sun Belt Conference Indoor Track Performance List, visit http://www.tfrrs.org/lists/978.html.

The other teams compet-ing include Arkansas Little Rock, South Alabama, Mid-dle Tennessee, Western Ken-tucky, Georgia State, North Texas, Florida Atlantic, Lou-isiana-Lafayette, and Louisi-ana-Monroe.

Admission to the confer-ence meet this Sunday and Monday is free for students with a valid ASU Student ID.

Facing a field featuring four of the top-25 ranked teams in the nation, the Arkansas State men’s golf team concluded play Tuesday at the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate in 16th place with a three-round score of 926 recorded on the Magnolia Grove Crossings Golf Course.

The Red Wolves shot a first-round 308 Monday before the second round was suspended due to darkness.

A-State entered today’s competition tied for 13th place and completed the second round this morning with a 311.

Despite posting a final-round 307 that was its best score of the tournament, the Red Wolves dropped from 15th place after the second 18 holes to 16th in the final standings.

A-State finished just three strokes behind 15th-place Illi-nois State, while Auburn claimed the tournament title with a 3-under 861.

No. 14 LSU finished second with an 865 and No. 19 Illinois took third with an 870.

“This is by far the toughest field we’ve played all year, so it was good to compete against some of the top teams and players in the country,” ASU head coach Steve Johnson said. “We’re definitely showing some rust after the winter, but we will continue to work hard and now we have to get ready to go for our next tournament.”

The Red Wolves were led by Seth Garner, who was compet-ing in just his third career tournament at A-State.

Garner recorded a career-best 225 to end the tournament tied for 39th place, his top finish of the season. Garner was consistent throughout, posting a 75 all three rounds.

“I was excited to see Seth play well,” Johnson said. “It was his third tournament overall and to finish that high up against this type of field shows the level of hard work he has put in during the offseason.”

Following Garner for ASU, Sean Brock and Wessel Zwieg-ers both shot a 234 to finish tied for 64th place.

Brock posted a first-round 73, the lowest single-round score of the tournament by an ASU player, before following with an 81 and 80 for the second and third rounds, respectively.

Wessel Zwiegers improved his score each round, posting an 80-79-75.

Also competing for A-State, Christian Helmbold improved his score each round as well with an 80-79-77 for a combined 236 that placed him tied for 68th.

Matt Howton finished in 78th place with a combined 243 (82-78-83).

Chance Holden participated in the USA Individual Tour-nament and claimed an 11th-place finish out of 34 players. Holden carded a 78 and 73 in the two-round tournament to collect a combined 151.

The Red Wolves return to action March 11-12 at the Jack Rabbit Invitational, hosted by South Dakota State in Primm, Nev.

Courtesy Photo | Sports Information Junior Sean Brock takes a swing during the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate Tournament that took place earlier this week in Mobile, Ala.

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Caitlin LaFarlette | Photo EditorHead Coach Brian Harsin announces his first recruiting class of 20 high school and junior college stand-outs earlier this month.

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16, Arkansas State (308-311-307--308)T39, Seth Garner (75-75-75--225)T64, Sean Brock (73-81-80--234)T64, Wessel Zwiegers (80-79-75--234)T68, Christian Helmbold (80-79-77--236)78, Matt Howton (82-78-83--243)*11, Chance Holden (78-73--151)*competing in the USA Individual Tourna-ment

ARKANSAS STATE RESULTS

Men’s golf competes with top-notch teams

Place, Name (RD 1-RD 2-RD 3--TOTAL)

Track team hosts SBC Championship

Harsin brings passion, prove-it mentality to coaching

The Student Government Association voted Tuesday to rename Banks Street to Hon-ors Avenue.

The vote was unanimous although it was stated that the City of Jonesboro might change “avenue” to what fits the criteria, such as road, street, etc. However, the word ‘Honors’ would remain in the title. Banks Street is located between the Honors housing and the new sorority houses.

The senate appointed a freshman to fill a graduate student seat.

No graduate students were present at the meeting who wanted to fill the grad-uate student seat, so the po-sition was open to any ASU student.

Fallon Mauldin, a fresh-man engineering major of

Little Rock, was sworn into the graduate senate seat.

“I am very excited to be a part of SGA,” Mauldin said. “I really want to be of help to the university.”

Austin Copenhaver, SGA vice president, reminded ev-eryone that SGA applications are now available.

“They are due March 1,” Copenhaver said. “So if you’d like to be a senator next year, or the president or vice pres-ident, I advise you to do so as soon as you can.”

Petrus informed the sen-ate about career week.

“The career center has been putting on several sem-inars about resumes, inter-views and dress code,” he said. “Be sure to take advan-tage of that. We have a new director of the career center and he’s doing a fantastic job, so be sure to go during your spare time.”

Takako Okumura|Staff PhotographerJames Wray and Katie Calaway discuss the resolution to rename Bank

Street Tuesday afternoon.

Most students just go to class, do their homework, and get a degree, but other students get to plan campus events, be an example to other students at ASU and contagiously promote pride at ASU. The latter describes students involved in the SGA and SAB.

Stephanie “Stevie” Overby, a junior biology and animal science major of Little Rock, is one student that thrives at ASU as the public relations director of the SGA.

“Being on the SGA staff has allowed me the opportunity of making invalu-able connections that I would other-wise not have had the opportunity to make,” Overby said. “It also keeps me in the know about what is happening on campus, and what the future of Arkan-sas State looks like.”

Overyby likes having the ability to help other students accomplish some-thing that will make their experience more enjoyable at ASU.

Overby said there are many benefits to serving on SGA staff. These include connections with faculty and students, knowing about events on campus and developing leadership and teamwork skills.

“SGA has so many incredible bene-fits for students that I would encourage anyone I meet to consider becoming in-volved,” Overby said.

There are characteristics, though, Overby believes students on SGA staff should possess. She said students should be motivated and assertive and should always be on the lookout for ways to continuously improve and grow our campus. She said they should also listen to other students and be aware of the direction student life is going.

Overby said she appreciates the sense of humor her coworkers have.

“Some things that come through the office have the potential to put you in a bad mood, so the ability to laugh off the little things is always a huge help,” Overby said.

Students on SGA and SAB staff are required to work 10-13 hours per week, depending on the staff position.

Even with the required weekly hours, Overby said, “An SGA employee’s job is never done. We are constantly looking and listening for ways to improve our campus, and our brains never turn off from our job.”

Other requirements for the SAB positions as stated by the SAB appli-cation, include weekly staff meetings of all directors to coordinate initiatives and make announcements, meeting on a weekly basis with appropriate advisor

and attending all SAB sponsored events are a requirement.

SAB positions available are: • President• Student Union Events• Marketing Director• Spirit Club Co-Directors• Homecoming & Springfest

Director• Global Issues & Awareness

Events DirectorSAB requires that each director

be currently enrolled as a full time student at ASU, have a minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA.

SGA positions available are: • President• Vice President• Chief of Staff• Public Relations• Secretary• Multicultural Director• ParliamentarianThe student body will elect the

president and vice president, while the president and vice president will select the other staff positions.

Martha Spack, the associate dean and director of the Student Gov-ernment Association, said there are many benefits for students who work for SGA or SAB.

“It gives you connections on cam-pus. It allows students to really be-come more aware of the things that are on campus. You get to meet different people and be involved in programs outside of the classroom,” Spack said.

Overby said SGA has given her skills that will be applicable in any work environment. “It has helped de-velop my organizational, leadership, time management, and people skills in a way that very few other organization ever could,”she said.

The SAB applications must be turned in by 3 p.m., March 1, in the Leadership Center.

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Campus CrimeOn Feb. 10 at approximately 2 a.m., Officer Daniel Bradway arrived at Dexter BBQ on Caraway road to assist a traffic stop, according to the police report. Upon arrival he saw that the vehicle had jumped the curb in the driveway and was inches from strik-ing the building. When Officer Brad-way asked the driver what was going on she stated she was just pulling through the drive thru to get dough-nuts. Officer Bradway then asked here if she knew where she was and she said, “Krispy Kreme.” Officer Brad-way told her that the doughnut shop was approximately a mile away and closed. The driver responded that it was 6 a.m. and they were open. Offi-cer Bradway then informed her that it was actually 2 a.m. and asked if she had taken any medication. According

to the report, she said she had taken Lorazorpam. The driver was asked to step out of the vehicle when Officer Bradway noticed she was wearing a hospital gown that was backwards and open. He asked her if she had been at the hospital and she respond-ed that no, someone had given the gown to her. Officer Bradway asked her to preform a couple of tests. One of the tests was to stand on one leg. She stated that she had neuropathy and as she started the test and was able to get to four before stopping, laughing, and saying she couldn’t do it. After another failed test, she was taken to Craighead County Sheriff’s Office for testing. She took a urine test and was cited for a DWI drug.

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