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Enrollment drops 1.9% despite increase in reshman class sizeREINA KEMPT

Staff Reporter

Due to technical difculties withThe Tech Talk’s website, this story was not published online as teased in the Sept. 22 edition.

With the results fnalized Sept.21, Tech declined in overall studentenrollment, but numbers show an in-crease in reshman enrollment.

Tech’s total enrollment is at 11,581,which is a 1.9 percent decrease romlast all.

The reshman class has increasedto 1,632 students this quarter, whichis a 2 percent increase rom last year.This year’s reshman class is the larg-est Tech has had since 2006.

The transer student enrollment in-creased by 12.8 percent, and the un-dergraduate percentage rose 1.5 per-cent to 9,137 students.

The percentage o ull-time resh-men returning to Tech rom the 2010-11 year is at 77.43 percent, a 3.13 per-cent increase rom last year.

Pamela Ford, dean o enrollmentmanagement, said she believes theincrease in undergraduate enrollmentis partially due to Tech’s rise in theaverage reshmen ACT score. The all2011 average ACT score is 23.81, animprovement rom last year’s averageo 23.63. The current average is thehighest in Tech history.

“Our average ACT score went upagain, and I think the academic repu-

tation at Tech absolutely has a actorinto this,” Ford said. “Our retentionrate went up 3 percent, which is the

biggest increase we’ve ever seen hereat Tech.”

The reason or this decline in enroll-ment, despite the noticeable increasein the number o undergraduate stu-dents, is because o the number o graduate students who are not return-ing to Tech. The number o master’slevel graduate students dropped 12.3percent to 2,144. These numbers areessential to Tech’s total enrollment be-cause graduate students make up 21.1percent o the university’s population.

The decrease in graduate studentsseems to be caused by a drop in part-time extension students whose sup-

port grants expired beore the begin-ning o this quarter.

Terry McConathy, dean o thegraduate school, says she believesunding is not available or some o the graduate students who were lie-long learning students and that theshaky economy has played a part inthem not being able to pay or tuition.

“The decline in our graduate en-rollment appears to be a decrease inthe number o lielong learning (LLL)students,” McConathy said. “The vastmajority o these students are work-ing ull time while seeking additionalcertifcation or proessional develop-ment.”

Tech’s academic program is a bigactor in the increase and retention o

undergraduate students. Tech is onlrising and becoming bigger as the students succeed and bring attention tthe university. The decline is solel

based on fnancial tension among thgraduate students who are lielonglearning students, but McConathy saithe graduate programs are doing whathey can to help.

“I congratulate our graduate programs in recruiting the best and th

brightest to our institution, and I hopthey are able to continue recruitingstudents and unding to support thesimportant initiatives in our schooland businesses,” McConathy said.

Email comments to [email protected].

Outdated SGA websiteto be revamped soonPATRICK BOYD

Staff Reporter

The opening page or theTech Student Government As-sociation website has a bigcampaign button emblazoned

with red, white and blue and theword “vote” on it.

Reerring to this year’s resh-man class SGA campaigns, inwhich students can go on thewebsite to vote now, it is the

last update made to the web-site since April 14, 2011, whenpresidential elections were heldlast school year.

Not only were these the lastupdates, but they also seem to

be the only changes made to

the website since all quarter2010.

According to Article I, Sec-tion 1.16-A o the Student Gov-ernment Association Bylaws,the head o the departmento technology shall set up andmaintain, on a weekly basis,a website or the SGA that in-cludes member rosters, univer-sity email addresses, current

budget inormation, a calendaro events, and meeting agendasand minutes.

“How do you expect peo-ple to know what’s going on?”asked Asper Childers, a senior

biology major. “Especially whenit is SGA and they are supposedto represent the student body

and keep us inormed.”Childers noticed how out-dated the website was when shewent online to vote in an elec-tion last year.

“I think it is detrimental tothem [SGA] that they don’t keepit updated,” she said. “They arealways trying to get people in-volved, but I wouldn’t be able tosee what they are doing to tryand get involved by going to the

website.”Under the “Join SGA” sec-

tion o the website, it still hasAllison Reynolds as the contactor any potential students look-ing to get involved.

Allison Reynolds was the

SGA president or the 2009-10school year.

At the moment, there aretwo domain names or the SGA:www.latech.edu/sga, which hasnot been updated since 2007,and www.sga.latech.edu, whichis the most current with last

year’s administration listed.This could conuse potential

website trafc as to which is theright site.

“The website has not beentreated correctly,” said SGApresident Clint Carlisle. “Wehave someone working on itnow.”

The SGA has a new tech-nology head, Ephraim Fields,who is working with the Tech

network administrator, DannySchales, to bring the new web-site to lie under the old domainname, Carlisle said.

“The new technology headwill be posting minutes andpress releases,” Carlisle said.“The website will be modeledater Auburn University’s andhopeully will be started up

This screenshot of SGA’s mostup-to-date website shows that the most recent weekly minutesupdates are from fall 2010. > see SGA page 2

NeedToBreathe to visit

Tech for UB’s fall showJUSTIN FORT

Staff Reporter

It is HUGE. It is clutch. It islegendary. At least that is whata recent Union Board emailpromised Tech students or theupcoming all concert. But orsome, it may be none o thethree.

Union Board announcedTuesday that the band Need-ToBreathe will headline UnionBoard’s Homecoming Concert,which they are calling the bestconcert o the year.

Je Boudreaux, UnionBoard President, said he andother members began looking

at bands during the summerand a lot o actors had to betaken into consideration whenplanning the concert.

“It had to be amily riendly,”

Boudreaux said. “They don’t ex-actly sing about vulgar things.”

Although the band’s cleanli-ness may appeal to a amily-oriented crowd, the concertannouncement has been ques-tioned by some students.

Jeremy Mano, a senior ar-chitectual studies major, saidhe has never heard o the band,which he said shouldn’t be thecase or such a big event gearedtoward Tech students.

“It makes more sense toknow the people perorming,”Mano said. “It’s probably notgoing to be very successul.”

Boudreaux said the band isan up and coming group mak-

ing a name or itsel, most re-cently by touring with TaylorSwit on her Speak Now tour.

Sean Manteris, a reshmanelectrical engineering major,

said not knowing about a bandisn’t necessarily good or bad.

“I’d look into the band,”Manteris said. “Just because Ihaven’t heard o them doesn’tmean they’re not good. Thatcould be a good thing.”

Boudreaux said he hopes theshow will be at maximum ca-pacity due to the band’s risingame. NeedToBreathe currentlyhas the number fve album oniTunes and is quickly gainingFacebook riends.

“We’ve gotten a lot o posi-tive eedback,” Boudreaux said.

Jodie Bimle, a senior speechmajor, recently went to a TaylorSwit concert and said it was

quite possibly the best concertshe has ever attended.

“NeedToBreathe was great,”

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DACIA IDOMHead Photographer

Block and Bridle held its annual Horse-less Rodeo on Tuesday evening on SouthCampus. Students and members o thecommunity gathered to compete in tradi-tional rodeo activities but excluded thoseinvolving horses.

Above: The battle begins as competi-tors at Block and Bridle’s Horseless Rodeorun toward their targets during a cal

scramble. The goal was to grab the whitetags rom the heads o the cattle.

Below: Murphy Collins, a sophomorepre-vet major, shows mind over matter isthe most important actor when it comesto wrestling a cow. Collins was the overallwinner and received a prize at the end o the competition.

The Block and Bridle club is a socialand service club on campus that ocuseson issues o agriculture.

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Theater auditionsslated for this week

Ruston Community Theatreauditions or “Kringle’s Win-dow” by Mark Medo will beheld at 10 a.m. Saturday and 7p.m. Monday in the lobby o theDixie Center or the Arts.

The show will be directed y Nancy Wallace. The play isabout dealing with amily trou-les during the holiday season.

No experience or prepara-tion is needed or the audition.

For more inormation con-tact Mary Belle Tuten at [email protected] or theRuston Community Theatre at318-255-1450.

Banned books to beread aloud Friday

Sigma Tau Delta, the Eng-lish honor society, will celebrateFirst Amendment rights rom

noon until 2 p.m. Friday in ronto the main entrance o Memo-rial Prescott Library.

Excerpts rom banned bookswill be read aloud by studentsand aculty. The rst 20 studentswho read rom banned bookswill receive a prize.

For more inormation con-tact Dorothy Robbins, SigmaTau Delta adviser and assistantproessor o English, at [email protected].

SOA exhibits hostprofessional art

Liz Miller and Stephen Eakin,proessional artists, will have

works eatured at Tech’s Schoolo Art galleries until Oct. 25.

The galleries are locatedat 1 Mayeld St. and are openrom 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday. Both galleriesare ree and open to the public.

Liz Miller’s exhibit “Capri-cious Eradication Prototype” iseatured in the Main Gallery andincludes mixed-media installa-tions and drawings.

Stephen Eakin’s exhibit “Re-mains” is eatured in the BellocqGallery and includes lm, videoand sculptural pieces.

For more inormation con-tact Jonathan Donehoo, direc-tor o the School o Art, at 318-257-3909 or [email protected].

Step show a go forhomecoming week

The Homecoming 2011 Uni-ty Step Show will be held at 7p.m. Oct. 26 at Memorial Gym.

Applications or the showcan be picked up in the backo Tolliver Hall by the StudentGovernment Association oce.The show is sponsored by theSGA and coordinated by theNational Pan-Hellenic Council.

The event will be part o-homecoming week events.

Applications or the StepShow are due Oct. 7 by 4 p.m.All applications should be

turned in to Adam Collins, SGAadviser, in Room 231, TolliverHall.

For more ino contactTasashama Nard, director o SGA student aairs, at [email protected] or 318-257-4565.

Wilde’s book turnedplay coming soon

New York’s Aquila Theaterwill perorm “The Importanceo Being Earnest” at 7:30 p.m.Nov. 7 in Howard Auditorium,Center or the Perorming Arts.

The show is based on Oscar

Wilde’s book o the same name.Tickets will be available atthe Howard Auditorium Box O-ce beginning Oct. 24 and wille $5 or any student with a val-

id Tech ID. Box oce hours are1:30-4:45 p.m. Monday throughFriday.

For more inormation con-tact Paul Crook, director o LTCA, at 318-257-2062 [email protected].

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He was Tech’s College o Business’ Distinguished Alumnusin 2000, recipient o the Tower Medallion in 2004 and now hisname will orever be a part o the university.

Tech President Dan Reneau honored Robert H. “Bobby”Rawle on Sept. 17 with the renaming o the Louisiana TechEnterprise Center to the Robert. H. Rawle EnterpriseCenter.

“He absolutely loved this university,” Reneau said.“He contributed in a lot o selfess ways.”

Ater Rawle’s death in late April, Reneau immedi-ately decided he wanted to recommend a building be

named ater him. Reneau said the only reason it took solong to do so is one must be deceased to have a build-ing named ater him.

Reneau said Rawle was a part o Tech rom the timehe graduated in 1971 until he died. He was always con-nected to Tech. Although Rawle was only on the pay-roll or three years (2003-2005), his contributions beganlong beore and continued ater.

Les Guice, vice president or research and development, wasa good riend o Rawle and worked with him rom 2003-05.

“Bobby was a wonderul person,” Guice said. “He had a pas-sion or service. He had a passion or people, and he had a pas-sion or Louisiana Tech.”

Guice said it takes a tremendous dedication to Tech to havea building named ater you. It is not about excelling in one cat-egory but giving to the university in a number o ways.

“He was a generous beneactor,” Guice said. “He was a greatinstructor and mentor to the students. I you ever spent veminutes with him, you’d understand. He was just one o thosepeople.”

Guice said Rawle played a crucial role in the building o the

Enterprise Center while he was employed by Tech, nanciallyand otherwise.

“Through his infuence, he built a lot o intellectual property,”Guice said. “He had a lot o contacts. He caused a lot o innova-tion to occur.”

During Rawle’s time at Tech, he served on a number o com-mittees in addition to his required duties. Reneau said that iswhat made Rawle special. His ability to go the extra mile sepa-rated him rom others.

“He was just one o those people,” Reneau said. “We’re al-

ways looking or a ew good people here at Louisiana Tech Uni-versity. We’re very, very proud that we ound him.”

Rawle oten reerred to Tech as his happy place. At the re-dedication o the building, his wie said he was never happierthan when he was at Tech.

Guice said Rawle came to Tech on a mission. He wanted toserve Tech and do whatever he could to make it a better place.Guice said Rawle completed his mission by working with pas-

sion, a purpose and pride.“He had tremendous love or this institution,”

Guice said. “He came here to make a positive di-erence.”

Reneau said the decision to rename the buildingin honor o Rawle was unanimous. Although this is

the rst building Reneau has requested be renamed,he plans to put in a request to rename three more buildings ater ormer Tech employees, including or-mer Tech President F. Jay Taylor.

“I think it’s appropriate,” Reneau said. “He did alot or the university.”

Guice agreed that commitment and hard work aretwo traits aculty and alumni should be recognized or.

He said it is not always or the people as much as it is or thosewho knew them.

“People rom all over showed up at his dedication,” Guicesaid. “It means a lot to those o us who worked with him.”


Enterprise Center renamed

Jennifer Rawle, left, Tech President Dan Reneau, his wife Linda Reneau, and Becky Howell Rawle stand before the newly renamedRobert H. Rawle Enterprise Center, named for the former professor who passed away in late April. Rawle’s widow, Becky, spokeat the Sept. 17 ceremony celebrating the center’s name change in Rawle’s honor. His daughter Jennifer was also in attendance.

Photo by Donny Crowe

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soon. We want to be as trans-parent as possible.”

Carlisle said that Student A-airs wants to implement a newsocial media site called “Orgsync” that will allow or wide-spread communication with alorganizations on campus.

SGA has already started us-ing the site, and Carlisle hopesthat it will help organizationscommunicate in a more orga-nized manner.

“It is like Facebook but oorganizations to communi-cate with each other,” he said.“Hopeully it will get rid o mass emails.”

The SGA does, however,keep their Facebook page up-dated consistently, alerting stu-dents about activities going on,

but there is still no way to seeminutes rom previous meet-ings.

The SGA administration anSupreme Court are looking tomake a ew more changes aswell.

“Clint Carlisle proposed anew drat o the constitution iApril,” said SGA Supreme CourChie Justice Cecilia Fitz-Ger-

ald. “The biggest change thaClint proposed is the additioo a Chie o Sta.”

The Chie o Sta will acas the head liaison betweethe President’s Cabinet and thePresident.

Other changes being con-sidered are student salaries angrammatical errors ound with-in the Constitution.

“Clint’s proposed changesdo not aect the Bylaws, buthe Supreme Court will revisethe Bylaws sometime this year,”she said. “The Constitutioneeds to be addressed rst.”

The last revision o the SGAconstitution was summer quar-ter 2005 and a proposed dra was done in the spring o 2009.

Carlisle has set a tentativedate or the prepared consti-tution around Oct. 25, thoughthere is no guarantee studentswill be able to vote on it then.

“The amended constitutioshould be ready within onemonth,” Carlisle said. “Then,students will be able to vote oit during Homecoming week.”


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‘This I Believe II’ editoraddresses student bodyAMIE ROLLAND

Staff Reporter

Merriam-Webster Diction-ary denes the word “believe”as: to accept something as true,genuine or real. Dan Gediman,co-editor o “This I Believe II”denes believe as: the key con-cept that is deeply elt and helpsdene onesel.

Gediman recalled a day in2003 when he was lying in bedwith a 104-degree ever, recov-ering rom the fu and readingthrough a 1950s collection o essays rom the original “ThisI Believe” radio series and wasinspired to recreate the pro-gram.

In 1951, radio pioneer Ed-ward R. Murrow launched anenlightening public radio seriescalled “This I Believe.” The pro-gram consisted o short essays

based on the belies o Ameri-cans rom celebrities like JackieRobinson, Carl Sandburg andEleanor Roosevelt to ordinary

citizens like a butcher, house-wie or student. “I thought,‘what a really neat concept andormat to turn in to a public ra-dio series,’” he said.

Gediman saidhe began writing a10-page proposalto the head o pro-gramming or Na-tional Public Radioasking i he would

be interested in re-storing the show.

“Turned out heworked or CBSand owned one o those books,” hesaid. “Two days

beore he’d pulledit o the shel and

said it would makea great NPR se-ries.”

Eight years later, Gedimansaid he is still receiving about2,000 essays a week, not onlyrom Americans, but rom peo-ple all over the world.

“We’re getting progressivelymore essays submitted to usrom around the world,” hesaid. “It’s incredibly gratiying

because I am personally inter-ested in what people in dierent

parts o the world have to say.”Gediman said the next step

the program will take is to getunding rom various ounda-tions in order to take essaysrom another language.

“We’ve taken great pains tomake sure this is completelyapolitical so that it would becomortable or anybody romany background,” he said.

“We’ve also been verycareul tomake sureit doesn’thave anyre l i g i ou sai l iationso thatpeople o d i e r e n tre l i g i ou s

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selves.”Gediman said in selecting

the essays or “This I BelieveII,” there were mandates to ol-low on how many essays wereallowed rom amous people.

“There would be no morethan 40 percent o essays romamous people and celebrities,”he said. “The other 60 percentwould come rom listeners.”

Gediman said they deter-mined which essays to include

based on topics, the background o the writers and ge-ography.

“We were looking or well-

written essays that had some-thing to say,” he said.Gediman said it is rewarding

to be part o “This I Believe”and to see how it has growand continues to expand in theacademic world.

“It rst started out beingused in high schools and muchto our surprise started goingdownward to middle schools,”he said.

Gediman said teachers anproessors began to create cur-riculum to be used with the

books.“Now it is being used ro

middle schools, or even uppelevels o elementary schools tograduate school to adult educa-tion,” he said.

Gediman said he is an advo-cate or the series and recom-mends writing an essay.

“Don’t just pick a belie that’s important to you, buwrite a story about it,” he said.

Fity years ater Murrow’sradio program ended, peopleare still nding inspiration isharing their belies and read-ing the belies o others.


This I Believe II co-editor Dan Gediman speaks to students Tues-day in the Student Center, Main Floor. Gediman was inspired by the’50’s “This I Believe” radio series to restore the show.

Photo by Kyle Knight

SGA irons out Homecoming detailsPATRICK BOYD

Staff Reporter

At the Student Government Associationmeeting Tuesday night, it was announced thatHomecoming Week plans are coming together.

“Between Gods and Men the Clash Begins”was chosen as the theme by the SGA or this

year’s Homecoming week and is inspired by theancient Greeks. Homecoming week will be Oct.24-30.

“We got the idea rom San Jose [State Uni-versity] since their mascot is the Spartans,” saidTasashama Nard, SGA representative or stu-dent aairs. “We want everyone to wear togas.”

Nard said they are currently getting every-thing set up and are trying to get Homecom-ing court registration and nominations together,which are due next Friday.

“We have a lot o new activities or Home-coming week this year,” said KeywaynethianRiser, an SGA representative or Student Aairs.

There will be a pep rally and block party tokick o Homecoming week estivities on Oct.24.

“There will also be something new calleda stroll o that night, which is basically like adance o,” Riser said.

On Oct. 25, the SGA will have a Fun Daythat will include infatables and ree ood.

Other new things that will be eatured this year are Sand Art and a Box Tops or Educationundraiser both to be held in Centennial Plaza.

During the meeting, SGA President ClintCarlisle said that plans or the parade have

been conrmed with Tech Police Chie RandalHermes.

The week will end with the big Tech vs. SanJose game on Saturday, ollowed by the Paintthe Town Clean-up at 3 p.m. on the Tolliverstage the next day.


HOMECOMING WEEK 2011

“Between Gods & Men the Clash Begins”

MONDAY, OCT. 24

Paint the Town, 3:30 p.m., Tolliver Stage (outside)

Kick-off pep rally/Block Party, 6:30-10 p.m., Centennial Plaza

TUESDAY, OCT. 25

Fun Day, 11 a.m.- 3 p.m., Centennial Plaza

UB Talent Show, 7 p.m., TONK

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26

Organizational Cook-off, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., Centennial Plaza

Unity Step Show, 7 p.m., Memorial Gym

THURSDAY, OCT. 27

Music in the Plaza/Sand Art, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Centennial Plaza

Parade line-up, 5 p.m., TAC

Parade, 6 p.m., starts at TAC

FRIDAY, OCT. 28

Tower Stand, 11 a.m., Centennial Plaza

Karaoke, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., Centennial Plaza

Homecoming Pep Rally, 6:15 p.m., TAC

SATURDAY, OCT. 29Tech vs. San Jose State, 3 p.m., Joe Aillet Stadium

SUNDAY, OCT. 30

Paint the Town Clean-up, 3 p.m., Tolliver Stage (outside)

“Now it is being used

rom middle schools,

or even upper levels

o elementary schools

to graduate school to

adult education.”

Dan Gedimanco-editor of “This I Believe II”

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IN OUR OPINION


FROM THE EDITOR

Price o speech high in Mexico

KELLY BELTONEditor-in-Chief

aria Elizabeth MaciasCastro was a journalistor Nuevo Laredo, Mex-

ico newspaper Primero Hora.Maybe you’ve heard o her – butprobably not or her journalism.

Instead, she has become news-worthy or her untimely death.

Ocials ound her body Sat-rday morning. According to

the National Post, she had been“battered, butchered and decapi-tated.”

Media practioners south o the border ace tumultuous timesthat are hard or most Americans

to athom. Not only do Mexicanjournalists daily encounter newso death and despair because o the rampant and ruthless cartels,ut they also live it day in and day

out.My summer was spent ve

miles rom Ciudad Juarez, argu-ably the most dangerous city inMexico. Working at the El Paso,Texas newspaper, I read stories

every day about bodies beinghung rom overpasses, women be-ing dismembered and children be-ing kidnapped by cartels.

On Independence Day, Iwatched a reworks display likeso many other Americans. Un-like most, I could see the lights o Ciudad Juarez in the background.The next day at work, I read o thetragedy o a 5-year-old girl andher ather, both o whom perishedin El Paso canals in an attempt toreach the saety o U.S. land – onthe Fourth o July.

Macias Castro was young, only39-years-old, and while her deathis unortunate, I know it will not bein vain. Call me naïve, but I believe

earless journalists can change theworld. I believe Macias Castrowas trying to change her world,ull o violence, extortion and cor-ruption.

Unortunately, cartel tacticshave changed since 2006, whenMexican President Felipe Calde-ron was elected and began acrackdown on the drug gangs.Since then, thousands have been

killed – high estimates top 40,000.Tourists have been pulled rom

buses traveling through Mexicoand orced to train like gladiatorsand ght or their lives. Teens aretaken rom their homes and taughtto quarter bodies without finch-ing.

The violence has inltrated lo-cal and even state governments.Entire police orces have beenwiped out because o corruption.In July, a massacre broke out in astate penitentiary near Juarez and15 people were killed. A video re-leased shortly ater the outbreakshowed guards letting in attackers.

At rst glance, the death o Macias Castro seems like so many

others in Mexico. I you denounceor speak out against the cartels, you are targeted. I you denythem money, you become a tar-get. I you are related to someonewho denies cartels money or de-nounces them, you also become atarget.

But Macias Castro seems tomark a change – she was targetedonline. Where cartels traditionally

incur violence against those withwhom a bee seems likely (othercartels, law enorcement, businessowners, etc.), they have now takento the Internet.

Two weeks ago in Nuevo Lar-edo, “two mutilated corpses” wereound hanging over a bridge, theNational Post reported. Two nar-co mantas, or posters, were oundnearby. One read “This is goingto happen to all o those postingunny things on the Internet.”

According to the National Post,one o the requented websites o Macias Castro was a local socialmedia site dedicated to keepingpeople aware o cartel activity.

Her speech was meant to pro-

tect and serve others.Macias Castro will be remem- bered as a martyr or speech, in aplace where it is anything but ree.

Kelly Belton is a senior journalism and political science major from Houston who serves as editor-in-chief for The Tech Talk. Email comments to [email protected].

Although most o us were not yet living in July1969, the pride o the events that took placeduring that month continues to be passeddown generationally.

Whether you have seen ootage in a documentaryor watched a movie about the rst steps on the moon,many Americans remember or have elt the magic o those rst ootprints.

The awe o a person rom our country traveling intoan anti-gravity world entirely bigger than our own is stillelt by many learning about the moon or the rst time.

The Google Lunar X Prize could be threateningthese sites where such pride was displayed years ago.

The race currently has 26 privately unded teams

working to saely land a robot on the moon’s surace.According to Googlelunarxprize.org, the robot has to“travel 500 meters over the lunar surace, and send vid-eo, images and data back to Earth.”

The rst team to accomplish the challenge will earn$30 million in prizes.

Why is Google taking part in this challenge? Accord-ing to Googlelunarxprize.org, Google is hosting thiscompetition in order to “Motivate the high tech work-orce o tomorrow and show people o all ages howthey can personally contribute to a worthy and excitingendeavor like space exploration.”

The problem NASA has with this competition is thepreservation o the rst ootsteps and other landmarkson the physically unchanging moon’s surace. Withoutdeclaring these spots as a landmarks, these privatelysupported teams have ree range over the surace andcould land their robot on any o the memories we havesupported on the moon or so long.

Even i the teams agree not to land on these marks,

a simple cloud o dust could ruin the ootprints andthey would be lost or eternity.NASA wants to propose a No-Fly and No-Drive

zone or the areas o the landing sites, especially or theApollo-11 and Apollo-17 space missions, but NASA isunsure about how they will enorce the rules.

In The Tech Talk’s opinion, the pride o the 20thcentury should remain untouched. Although the worldis generally growing technologically, traces o the past,such as this should not be erased. Technology wouldnot be what it is today i it were not or the low-techthings o the past that have molded our world.

As the human race easily does, our past will be or-gotten i these ootprints and moon buggy trails are dis-turbed. It starts here as something such as the ootprintsdisappearing, but soon children, generations rom nowmay not get to experience or even understand what liewas like beore their time.

Despite the longing or preservation o these “heri-tage zones” on the moon, NASA generally supportsthe Google Lunar X Prize objective and has even ex-

changed data with some o the teams during the de-velopment o their robots and rovers. Some teams haveexpressed interest in helping NASA complete its goalo pioneering space exploration.

So is new technology worth replacing the old? Un-derstanding one’s history and how that history aectsthe uture is something humans have oten valued. Whyshould space exploration be any dierent?

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Losing sleep at nightAMBER GUYOTTEManaging Editor

t’s been aecting my lie ormore than three weeks now,and it hasn’t been enjoyable.As I lay awake early one morn-

ing trying to gure out a columnidea, I had no idea what to write.Then, I realized the answer wasright in ront o me—insomnia.

I have not been sleeping muchor well since school started. I lieawake at night or a long time try-ing to all asleep, but it doesn’thappen easily even when I’m ex-hausted. I just can’t seem to all

asleep or stay asleep, and I wakep beore my alarm goes o.

When I eventually all asleep,it’s not or long. I wake up withintwo to three hours. It tends to vary y night, and it’s not the groggyind o awake. I’m alert enough

to look at the clock by my bedor around the room and be ullyaware o my surroundings.

Once I’ve looked at the clock,I usually sigh because I haven’tslept much. So, I lie back down

only to repeat the process o try-ing to all asleep.

I usually wake up at least sixmore times during the night, andI’m not usually in bed more thaneight hours on any given night inthe rst place. Since I wake up be-ore my alarm sounds, I can’t all

back asleep. I just lie there hopingto get some more rest.

A 2009 study by the Journalo Adolescent Health ound thatmore than 60 percent o collegestudents have disturbed sleep-wake patterns and that only 30percent o college students get atleast eight hours o sleep a night,

which is the recommended aver-age amount or young adults.

Since I’m not getting muchsleep, I’m very tired throughoutthe day. It aects every aspect o my days and nights.

My thought processes areslower, and my memory is worse.My memory wasn’t good to startwith. I can’t seem to ocus well onanything or at least or an extend-ed amount o time.

My mind tends to wander, even

though I try hard to ocus. Also,the dark circles under my eyes aregetting, well, darker.

There are points in the daywhere I’m alert and ocused, butI’m tired or sleepy most o thetime, especially later at night whenit’s nearing bedtime. I’m trying to

be in bed by midnight this year because I used to stay up muchlater, and that didn’t are well orme either.

My lack o sleep has becomeone o the main things I thinkabout or talk about lately. I guesssince I’m not sure about muchelse other than I know I’m not

sleeping much.It’s my senior year, and there

are questions to be asked and an-swers to be ound. I’m uncertaino a lot o things, especially whereI will be in about nine months.

I think my lack o sleep has alot to do with everything I’m deal-ing with this year. I have a dierentsta position on The Tech Talk,so I’m still getting used to it. I’mtaking three classes that shouldnever be taken concurrently.

I have a million other things onmy mind that involve school andmy uture. I guess I could call itsenior year anxiety because se-nior year is very important.

I know I’m not the only persondealing with insomnia. Accordingto a 2008 study by the AmericanAcademy o Sleep Medicine, in-somnia is the most common sleepdisorder reported.

I you can relate to my sleepproblems, you might have insom-nia, too. The best way to nd outis to look up the symptoms on amedical website or see a doctor.

I’m sure my insomnia is stress-

related, so I don’t plan to see adoctor unless it gets worse. I’mstubborn that way. Hopeully, itwill be resolved soon.

I only my mind could relax,then maybe I’d get some sleep.

Amber Guyotte is a senior journalism major from Jonesboro who serves as managing editor for The Tech Talk.Email comments to [email protected].

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Death to the needle

SHERELLE BLACKNews Editor

I I did not already believe the

judicial system was unair andprejudiced, ater Troy Davis

was put to death by lethal injec-tion on Sept. 21, I strongly believethe system needs to be changed.

Davis was sentenced to thedeath penalty ater being oundguilty or the 1989 shooting o Mark MacPhail, an o-duty policeocer in Savannah, Ga.

I think a lie sentence in prisonshould be the highest penalty ortaking another lie. The murdererhas to spend the rest o his days ina small cell refecting and hopeul-ly repenting on what he did. Manymay say, well what i he does noteel sorry or what he did? Is it notenough that he is cut o rom therest o the world, never to see hisamily and riends outside o visi-tation hours? Also, I do not under-stand how taking another lie jus-ties the lie already taken by theprisoner. And once the inmate’slie is taken there is no reversing it.

Besides already disliking thedeath penalty, Davis’ execution

bothered me because o the cir-cumstances under which he wasound guilty are aulty.

According to an article onCNN.com, since Davis’ 1991 trialseven o the nine key witnessesagainst him have recanted or con-tradicted their testimony. Also,there is no DNA linking Davis tothe crime, and the gun that wasallegedly used in the shooting isnowhere to be ound.

I am shocked, enraged andappalled that the Supreme Courtrejected a stay, which allowed thestate o Georgia to proceed.

I the majority o the testimo-nies do not withstand and thereis not substantial evidence to linkDavis, then why can they not atleast give him another trial?

Typically, I do not like to blameanything on prejudice, because I

believe i you are guilty you de-serve to pay or your choices. But Icannot help but think that his raceplayed a actor in it.

Davis was a black male who

was convicted o shooting a whitepolice ocer. According to theDeath Penalty Inormation Cen-ter, in the past three decades, 255

blacks have been executed or kill-ing whites versus only 17 whitesput to death or killing blacks.

The second actor that playedinto sentencing was that MacPhailwas a police ocer. Generally, so-ciety believes police ocers cando no harm since they are theones who protect us. Most im-portantly, in the state o Georgia

the murder o a police ocer isa capital oense, which qualiedDavis or the death penalty.

The third actor in the sentenc-ing was that the crime was com-mitted in the South. Three South-ern states (Texas, Virginia andFlorida) have accounted or themajority o all executions since1976, according to a recent report

by the NAACP Legal Deense andEducational Fund. Georgia ranksseventh in the country in total ex-ecutions.

Ater reading these statistics Iwonder i Davis were not black,

would he still have gotten thedeath penalty?

Though I know prejudice issomething that will not changeovernight, I was surprised to seehow many dierent cultures andraces o people rom around theworld came together to try to savethis man’s lie.

World gures like Pope Bene-dict XVI and ormer PresidentJimmy Carter were among Davis’ssupporters who hoped to halt theexecution. I more people would

have given him this much atten-tion during his trial, he could have been o death row by 2011.

Even though Davis is dead, itis not the time to give up but toremember that with time and trag-edy comes change.

I hope Davis did not die in vainand that people will continue toght or the death penalty to beabolished nationwide.

Sherelle Black is a junior journalism major from Bossier who serves as news editor for The Tech Talk. Email comments to [email protected].

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This Friday the College o Engineering and Science willhave its frst public event tolaunch its campaign or a new

integrated engineering and sci-ence building. Faculty, alumniand businesses will gather atSquire Creek Country Clubwhere autographed sportsmemorabilia, paintings andvacation getaways will be auc-tioned in an attempt to raisemoney or the planned acility.

Catherine Fraser, director o development or the College o Engineering and Science, saidthe campaign has been silentlyraising money or several years,

but now the campaign is publi-cally asking everyone who sup-ports the project to come or-ward and support it fnancially.

“The auction is kind o re-energizing the campaign,”she said. “We just passed the$3-million mark last week.”

Fraser said $3 million ormore still needs to be raisedsince the campaign intends toraise hal o the $15 milliondollars estimated or the cost o the building.

“We will go to the state andsay, ‘We have raised hal themoney. Would you maybe putup the rest and move us orwardin the state’s capital outlay but-ton?’” she said.

Fraser said when the statesees support rom alumni, busi-

nesses and corporations, it por-trays drive and belie in the en-gineering and science programat Tech.

“When they are putting theirmoney where their mouth isand saying this is how much we

believe in this project… we eel

like the state has to sit up andtake notice o that,” she said.

Fraser said no constructionor completion dates have beenset or the building, but the col-lege is optimistic.

“To have over $3 million inthe state o Louisiana in thiseconomy is phenomenal,” shesaid. “I think it says people re-ally do see that the College o Engineering and Science doesproduce quality engineers.”

Stan Napper, dean o the

College o Engineering andScience, said this building is thesingle most important need inthe college right now accordingto the 2010-11 Annual Reportrom the College o Engineer-ing and Science.

“The primary purpose o

the new building would be toprovide an active, integratedlearning environment or frstand second-year engineering,mathematics, chemistry andphysics education,” he said inthe report.

Napper said Tech is knownas a national leader in engineer-ing and science education, butthe acilities do not match theacademic reputation.

“This new building will alsohelp us attract, retain and train

the best engineering and sci-ence students so that we cancontinue to build engineersand scientists or tomorrow,” hesaid.

Allie DeLeo, a senior me-chanical engineering major,said she thinks the building will

be a great addition to the ex-panding program.

“Even in the past year, thenumber o incoming reshmenhas increased a lot,” she said.

DeLeo said engineering is based around group projectsand having the space to worktogether will help tremendously.

“When they start you outreshman year and as you moveon you learn to work in groupsand collaborate on projects,”she said. “So, having space to

do that will be a great addition.”DeLeo said it would be

amazing to come back ategraduation and see a new build-ing that can bring so much tothe program.

She said when talking tocompanies about jobs they al-

ways brag about their ellowTech employees and how suc-cessul the program is in pre-paring students.

“It’s great to hear that weoutdo a lot o other engineersand that we’re the most pre-pared they fnd,” she said. “Ithink that speaks or the pro-gram so much.”

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Above: Mark Ritter, a junior forestry major, tries to beat the clockas he participates in the goat tying contest Tuesday at Block andBridle’s Horseless Rodeo. Participants with the fastest timesearned points toward their total scores, which were tallied andused to crown the overall winner.

Above: Camille Deslattes and Samantha Tate, both sophomorepre-vet majors, work together to guide the sheep toward a trailer. Once the sheep were contained in the trailer, the clockstopped, and the team’s mission was complete.

Left: Hollie Hunter, a junior pre-vet major, ties together the legsof a goat after successfully pinning it down during her round of

goat tying at Block and Bridle’s Horseless Rodeo. Apart fromgoat tying, individuals competed in an egg toss, sheep ropingand a calf scramble.

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WASHINGTON — Cath-erine Devine had her rst brushwith an online bully in seventh

grade, beore she’d even ven-tured onto the Internet. Some-one set up the screen name“devinegirl” and, posing asCatherine, sent her classmatesinstant messages ull o trashytalk and lies. “They were mak-ing things up about me, and Iwas the most innocent 12-year-old ever,” Devine remembers.“I hadn’t even kissed anybodyyet.”

As she grew up, Devine,now 22, learned to thrive in theelectronic village. But like otheryoung people, she occasionallystumbled into one o its dark al-leys.

A new Associated Press-MTV poll o youth in their teensand early 20s nds that most o

them — 56 percent — haveeen the target o some type o

online taunting, harassment orullying, a slight increase over

just two years ago. A third saythey’ve been involved in “sex-ting,” the sharing o naked pho-tos or videos o sexual activity.Among those in a relationship, 4out o 10 say their partners havesed computers or cellphones

to abuse or control them.Three-ourths o the young

people said they considerthese darker aspects o the on-line world, sometimes broadlycalled “digital abuse,” a seriousproblem.

They’re not the only ones.President Barack Obama

rought students, parents andexperts together at the WhiteHouse in March to try to con-ront “cyberbullying.” The Edu-cation Department sponsors

an annual conerence to helpschools deal with it. Teen sui-cides linked to vicious online

bullying have caused increasingworry in communities across

the country.Conduct that rises to the

point o bullying is hard to de-ne, but the AP-MTV poll o

youth ages 14 to 24 showedplenty o rotten behavior on-line, and a perception that it’sincreasing. The share o youngpeople who requently see peo-ple being mean to each other onsocial networking sites jumpedto 55 percent, rom 45 percentin 2009.

That may be partly because young people are spendingmore time than ever communi-cating electronically: 7 in 10 hadlogged into a social networkingsite in the previous week, and 8in 10 had texted a riend.

“The Internet is an awesomeresource,” says Devine, “butsometimes it can be really neg-ative and make things so muchworse.”

Devine, who lives on NewYork’s Long Island, experi-enced her share o online dra-ma in high school and college:A riend passed around highlypersonal entries rom Devine’sprivate electronic journal whenshe was 15. She let her Face-

book account open on a Univer-sity o Scranton library comput-er, and a prankster posted thatshe was pregnant (she wasn’t).Most upsetting, when she was18 Devine succumbed to a

boyriend’s pressure to send arevealing photo o hersel, and

when they broke up he briefyraised the threat o embarrass-ing her with it.

“I didn’t realize the power hecould have over me rom that,”

Devine said. “I thought he’d justsee it once and then delete it,like I had deleted it.”

The Internet didn’t createthe turmoil o the teen years

and young adulthood — ro-mantic breakups, bitter ghtsamong best riends, jealous ri-valries, teasing and bullying. Butit does ampliy it. Hurtul words

that might have been shouted inthe caeteria, within earshot o adozen people, now can be blast-ed to hundreds on Facebook.

“It’s worse online, because

everybody sees it,” said Ti-any Lyons, 24, o Layton, Utah.“And once anything gets online

you can’t get rid o it.”Plus, 75 percent o youth

think people do or say thingsonline that they wouldn’t do orsay ace to ace.

The most common com-plaints were people spreading

alse rumors on Internet pagesor by text message, or beingdownright mean online; morethan a th o young people saideach o those things had hap-pened to them. Twenty percentsaw someone take their elec-tronic messages and share themwithout permission, and 16 per-cent said someone posted em-

barrassing pictures or video o them without their permission.

Some o these are one-timeincidents; others cross into re-peated harassment or bullying.

Sameer Hinduja, a cyberbul-lying researcher, said numerousrecent studies taken togethersuggest a cyberbullying victim-ization rate o 20 to 25 percentor middle and high school stu-dents. Many o these same vic-tims also suer rom in-personabuse. Likewise, many onlineaggressors are also real-world

bullies.“We are seeing oenders

who are just jerks to peopleonline and ofine,” said Hin-duja, an associate proessor o criminal justice at Florida Atlan-tic University and co-directoro the Cyberbullying ResearchCenter.

And computers and cell-phones increase the reach o old-ashioned bullying.

“When I was bullied in mid-dle school I could go home andslam my door and orget aboutit or a while,” said Hinduja.

“These kids can be accessedaround the clock through tech-nology. There’s really no es-cape.”

“Sexting,” or sending nude

or sexual images, is more com-mon among those over 18 thaamong minors. And it hasn’shown much increase in thepast two years. Perhaps young

people are thinking twice beorehitting “send” ater publicityabout adults — even memberso Congress — losing their jobsover sexual images, and newsstories o young teens riskingchild pornography charges i they’re caught.

Likewise, technology caacilitate dating abuse. Nearlythree in 10 young people saytheir partner has checked upon them electronically multipletimes per day or read their texmessages without permission.Fourteen percent say they’veexperienced more abusive be-havior rom their partners, suchas name-calling and mean mes-sages via Internet or cellphone.

The AP-MTV poll was con-ducted Aug. 18-31 and involveonline interviews with 1,355people ages 14-24 nationwide.The margin o sampling errois plus or minus 3.8 percentagepoints.

The poll is part o an MTVcampaign, “A Thin Line,” aim-ing to stop the spread o digitaabuse.

The survey was conducte by Knowledge Networks, whichused traditional telephone anmail sampling methods to ran-domly recruit respondents. Peo-ple selected who had no Inter-net access were given it or ree.

Associated Press Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agi-

esta, AP Global Director of Polling Trevor Tompson an AP News Survey SpecialisDennis Junius contributed t this report.

‘Digital abuse’ increases, confronted

Increases in anonymous, social media over the years has caused

concern or every household -- including the White House. Cyber-

bullying has been compared as “worse online” than in person be-

cause it is available or everyone to see.

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Obama: Kids, economy gain

rom new education planAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obamasays kids and the economy will benet rom the

changes he’s making in education policy and hisplan to spend billions to upgrade schools andeep teachers on the job.

Obama used his weekly radio and Internet ad-dress Saturday to push his $447 billion jobs billthrough the prism o education. He recappedsteps he has authorized to let states opt out o npopular prociency standards because Con-

gress has been slow to update the existing law.“I we’re serious about building an economy

that lasts, an economy in which hard work payso with the opportunity or solid middle-classjobs, we had better be serious about education,”Obama said. “We have to pick up our game andraise our standards.”

Obama said the package o tax cuts and di-rect spending he has sent to Congress would puttens o thousands o teachers back to work andmodernize at least 35,000 schools. He called on

lawmakers to pass the bill “right now,” as he doeson requent trips outside o Washington to buildpublic support or it. But the bill received a coolreception on Capitol Hill and it could be weeks

beore lawmakers even begin to debate it.He said that the 2001 No Child Let Behind

education law was well-meaning but has seriousfaws that are hurting schoolchildren and that hetook action to x the problems because Congresshas yet to do so.

“Our kids only get one shot at a decent educa-tion. And they can’t aord to wait any longer,”Obama said.

He announced steps Friday to let states scrapa requirement that all children show they are pro-cient in reading and math by 2014. But statescan opt out only i they meet certain conditions,such as imposing their own standards to preparestudents or college and careers and setting eval-uation standards or teachers and principals.

“This isn’t just the right thing to do or our kids,it’s the right thing to do or our country and ouruture,” Obama said.

President Barack Obama greets children outside a school in Chatfeld, Minn. His education plan

would put thousands o teachers back to work and modernize at least 35,000 schools.

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Moneyball’ changes the gamePATRICK BOYD

Staff Reporter

Over the past ew years, wehave seen Brad Pitt take on in-creasingly demanding roles.

In lms such as incomprehen-sible “Babel” (2006), the mystical“The Curious Case o BenjaminButton” (2008), the riotous “In-glourious Basterds” (2009) we seePitt fourish.

In his most recent lm “Mon-eyball,” which continues thisstreak o good acting choices in

remarkable movies, suspense can be ound in statistics and an ex-hilarative thrill in the messy art o trading baseball players.

Based on a 2003 book by Mi-chael Lewis o the same name,this true story ollows the OaklandAthletic’s general manager played

by Pitt, Billy Beane, a gited butailed ormer Mets player who hashad his air share o losing sea-sons.

Beane, whose diplomatic skillsare as smooth as a Rawlings glove,decides to revamp the team withthe help o Peter Brand, a playeranalyst played by Jonah Hill.

Together the two develop amore progressive type o base-

ball team in which there are ewer

homerun hitters than those whocan just make it to rst base.

The only problem is that theMLB is not very receptive tochanges like this, especially Oak-land A’s coach Art Howe (PhilipSeymour Homan) seems thangive in to Beane’s vision.

Pitt plays Beane with preci-sion like an actor at the top o hisgame.

It may be Pitt’s best peror-mance, i not or his subtlety thanor his sheer likability.

There is an element o thehuman struggle and redemptionthat runs beneath the surace o “Moneyball” that all the actorsin the lm seem to have tappedinto which allows the audience torelate to especially in these post9/11 times.

“Moneyball” takes the viewerinside the bureaucratic system o the Major Leagues, showing howthe game that goes on behind thescenes is usually more intensethan anything you see out on theeld.

While the lm could have eas-ily ocused strictly on the sportsaspect, it goes a step urther andshows us Beane’s personal lie: aseemingly balanced relationshipwith his guitar-wielding daughterand fashbacks rom his not soglory days as a proessional player.

“Moneyball” does not play tothe audience with eel-good sensa-tionalism like other sports moviessuch as “Field o Dreams” (1989)“The Blind Side” (2009).

It simply tells the story o aman struggling to make his markon the world and there is some-thing to which we can all relate.

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JUSTIN FORT

Staff Reporter

Music. Dancing. Singing.Swords. Thieves. Teachers.Students. New Yorkers. Tech’sCenter or the Perorming Artswill bring all that and more tothe Howard Center or the Per-orming Arts this school year.

Paul Crook, director o theLouisiana Tech Concert Asso-ciation, said the LTCA tries tobring something new to Techevery year.

“Our ocus is bringing in aswide a variety o shows as wecan,” Crook said. “We want toencompass as many as the per-orming arts as we can.”

This year the LTCA willbring our dierent shows toTech. The rst perormance,Oscar Wilde’s “The Impor-tance o Being Earnest,” isat 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in HowardCenter or the Perorming Arts.New York’s Aquila Theatre willperorm.

“We’ve had them [AquilaTheatre] here beore,” Crook

said. “They’re an excellentgroup and audiences typicallyenjoy them.”

The second perormanceis Flamenco Vivo CarlotaSantana, which is a ery, ast-paced dance perormance thatcombines traditional Arican,American, Middle Eastern andSpanish dance techniques.

“I’ve never had the pleasure

to see them live,” Crook said.“I’ve seen some o their workonline and it’s really, reallyspectacular.”

Flamenco Vivo Carlota San-tana will play at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 92012, in Howard Center or thePerorming Arts.

The last two perormances

are musician Odair Assad andGold Medalist o the 2008 NewOrleans International PianoCompetition Spencer Myer.Events are at 7:30 p.m. in How-ard Center or the PerormingArts March 8 and April 10,2012, respectively.

Kenneth Robbins, directoro the School o PerormingArts, said students should take

advantage o all the events o-ered, especially since they areeach one-night-only peror-mances.

“There’s a lot o educa-tional benets,” Robbins said.“There’s more than one reasonto enter.”

In addition to the LTCA’sspecial events, the School o

Perorming Arts will act out“Our Town.”Kelsey Mardis, a junior

speech/theater major, encour-ages everyone to go. I nothingelse, she joked, it’s a great breakrom studying.

“We are rarely exposed totheater as compared to televi-sion and movie,” Mardis said.“We should take advantage o any chance to appreciate it.”

“Our Town” opens at 7:30p.m. Oct. 26 in Stone Theatreand will run or two weeks. Mar-dis said “Our Town” depictsthe importance o communitythroughout American history.

“The show is very intimateand low key,” Mardis said. “Ihope Tech students will come

away with a better understand-ing o how we as a campus area community and that messagespans out over all incarnationso community whether it be thetown o Ruston, our country,Tech campus or the cast o ac-tors that perorm the show.”

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LTCA shares upcoming campus productions

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PAUL CROOK

Director of LTCA

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Odair Assad March 8, 2012

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Bimle said. “That was the frsttime or me to hear most o their songs and ater the con-cert I have to say I’m a an.”

Bimle and Boudreaux agreedthat having the concert ree tostudents is an extra incentive toattend the show. Bimle said shehasn’t been to a Union Boardconcert up to this point, butwould love to see the band per-orm again.

“I NeedToBreathe puts ona good show as they did at theTaylor Swit concert, I thinkLouisiana Tech is in or a bigtreat,” Bimle said.

Bimle said the band has

great stage presence and straysaway rom what is seen at a typ-ical concert.

“I thought howthey dress wasinteresting andrereshing,” Bimlesaid.

N e e d T o -Breathe will per-orm at 9 p.m.Oct. 27 in theThomas Assem-

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bigger band orthe spring con-cert,” Boudreauxsaid. “We wantto spend moremoney and bringin bigger bands.”


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President Obama’s

With hopes of stimulating America’s job market President Obama

released The American Jobs Act, but will it be enough?MOLLY BOWMAN

Staff Reporter

President BarackObama’s American JobsAct, which plans to increase

job availability and put moremoney into the pockets o Americans, has caught theattention o some studentson campus.

The act ocuses on creat-

ing new jobs or Americansand oers tax cuts while rebuilding and modernizingAmerica. The question iswill the act help or hurt theAmerican economy?

“The act will help thepeople at Tech once they getinto the job market, but it’sstill based on the economy,”said Joshua Adkinson, whois pursuing his Ph.D. in thecomputational analysis andmodeling program at Tech.“This may look like it hasmore opportunities or jobs

but i it still doesn’t help the budget defcit, we still aren’tgoing to be where we needto be.”

This piece o legislation

includes updating 35,000schools around the nation

by building new science labsand remodeling and equip-ping classrooms with Inter-net. This act also includesupdating railways, airportsand roads while working tostabilize the country’s com-munities and businesses.

“This is a bill that willput people back to work allacross the country,” saidObama in a speech givenSept. 12 in the White HouseRose Garden. “This is the billthat will help our economy ina moment o national crisis.”

The president promisesthis revitalization will createhundreds o thousands o

jobs or Americans as wellas prevent uture layos, asstated on whitehouse.gov.

Though there is optimismregarding the bill some, likeAdkinson, are still question-ing whether or not the actwill make a dierence.

“It looks good on paper, but looking at Obama’s pastactions, I wouldn’t reallytrust it,” Adkinson said. “I this requires more undingrom the government or thisto occur it will increase debteven more. We will have towait and see. At this point Idon’t have a high approvalrating o Obama.”

Obama has requested the

Joint Congressional Com-mittee to certiy the act isully paid or by discussingways to reach the additionaldefcit reduction needed topay or the legislation andstill meet the appropriate

defcit, according to www.whitehouse.gov.

“I believe we need to domore than just recover romthis economic crisis. Weneed to rebuild the economythe American way, basedon balance, airness and thesame set o rules or every-one rom Wall Street to MainS t r e e t , ”Obama saidin a pressrelease toC o n g r e s son Sept. 12.“We canwork togeth-er to createthe jobs o the uture

by helping

small busi-ness entre-preneurs, byinvesting ine d u c a t i o nand by mak-ing thingsthe world

buys.”The act

also contains plans or taxcuts that will encouragesmall businesses to expandand employ more people.Tax relie will be given to theaverage worker by cuttingpayroll taxes in hal. This willamount to a $1,500 tax cutwithout harming the SocialSecurity Trust Fund.

“I think it will help people

at Tech, because there wi ll bemore availabilities in the jobmarket once they graduate,”said Hunter Lloyd, a juniorarchitecture major. “Also,they will be spending less ontaxes and have more money

to spend on necessities likerent and ood.”

Payroll taxes will also becut in hal or businesseson their frst $5 million inpayroll, which is 98 percento businesses. This act willalso completely eliminatepayroll taxes or businessesi they hire new workers and

i n c r e a s ewages o c u r r e n temployees.It will alsoallow busi-nesses tomake in-vestments

by givingthem theo p p o r t u -

nity to havecomple te b u s i n e s se x p e n s -ing into2012 toencouragep r o d u c -tivity andgrowth, ac-

cording to whitehouse.gov.“We know what to do to

create jobs now and in theuture,” Obama said in hisspeech on Sept. 13 at FortHayes High School in Co-lumbus, Ohio. “We knowthat i we want businesses tostart here and stay here andhire here, we’ve got to out-

build and out-educate and

out-innovate every countryon Earth. We’ve got to startmanuacturing. We’ve got tosell more goods around theworld that are stamped withthree proud words –‘Made inAmerica.’”

Election time is comingup in the next year and couldhave an eect the passage o the bill.

Jeremy Mhire, an assis-tant proessor o politicalscience, said, “Divisivenesshas everything to do withthe coming election. It’s notreally in either o their inter-ests right now to be work-ing together so close to theelection. They can use thisas a weapon against eachother. The best time orcompromise isn’t at the endo the term o a frst-termpresident, especially one thatdoesn’t have a high approvalrating.”

Obama mentioned in hisspeech at North Carolina

State University in Raleighthat some Republicans inWashington have stated thatthis act can wait until thenext election.

“This isn’t about me,”Obama said in Raleigh. “Thisisn’t about giving me a win.This isn’t about giving Dem-ocrats or Republicans a win.It’s not about positioning orthe election. It’s about givingthe American people a win.”

Obama also said i this bill goes through, the nationwill be able to succeed andreach its ull potential.

“We write our own des-tiny,” said Obama in Colum-

bus. “It’s within our powerto write it once more. Let’s

show the world once againwhy the United States o America is the greatestcountry on Earth.”

Email comments to mb041@

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President Barack Obama talks with Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor beore outlining the AmericanJobs Act to a Joint Session o Congress Sept. 8, 2011.

AMERICAN JOB ACT

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summary

Tax cuts to help America’s smallbusinesses hire and grow

Putting workers back on the job whilerebuilding and modernizing America

Pathways back to work or Americanslooking or jobs

Tax relie or every Americanworker and amily

Fully paid or as part o the President’slong-term defcit reduction plan

Estimated Costs:Tax cuts to help America’s small businesses

hire and grow • $70 Billion

- Cut employer payroll taxes in half & bonus payroll

cut for new jobs/wages • $65 Billion

- Extend 100% expensing in 2012 • $5 Billion

Putting workers back on the job while rebuilding and modernizing America • $140 Billion

- Teacher rehiring and rst responders • $35 Billion

- Modernizing schools • $30 Billion

- Immediate surface transportation • $50 Billion

- Infrastructure bank • $10 Billion

- Rehabilitation/repurposing of vacant property(neighborhood stabilization) • $15 Billion

- National wireless initiative 0*

- Veterans hiring initiative n.a.

Pathways back to work for Americans looking for jobs $62 Billion

- UI reform and extension $49 Billion

- Jobs tax credit for long term unemployed $8 Billion

- Pathways back to work fund $5 Billion

More money in the pockets of every American worker and family 175

- Cutting employee payroll taxes in half in 2012 175

TOTAL $447 BILLION* Proposal has a gross cost of $10 billion, but a net decit

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Information courtesy of www.thewhitehouse.gov

Photo courtesy of www.thewhitehouse.gov

President Barack Obama watches a monitor in House Speaker John Boehner’s Ceremonial Ofce beore speaking to a Joint Session o Congress on his most recent bill.

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certain suspense that hassurrounded Tech athleticsor the past ew decades

and a championship teathat has eluded the casual awho has waited or a winningprogram or the Bulldogs.

For ar too long, the Louisi-ana Tech track and eld squahas fown under the radar,orced to take a back seat to

bigger, fashier sports such asootball and basketball.

For years, they have keptheir heads down, worked harand won championship atechampionship, unbeknownst tothe average Tech an.

Head coach Gary Stanleyhas spent more than 27 yearson Tech’s men’s and women’strack and eld sta, buildinga program based on integrity,

discipline and most importantly,winning.Tech’s women’s track an

eld program has easily beeone o the most consistentlysuccessul teams in the past 20

years, bringing home titles nomatter what the circumstancesare.

Tech successully dominatethe Indoor Championships i2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009.

Stanley has also coacheTech to 17 conerence titles ihis time as a Bulldog.

In 2010, the Lady Techsters brought home their sixth con-secutive Western Athletic Tracand Field title, continuing theistreak o dominance.

As or the men’s track team,

Stanley has reinvented the pro-gram since its storied beginningwhen Jim Mize was in charge.

The men’s track program isheadlined by sophomore TreyHadnot, who received the hon-or o WAC Freshman o theYear last season.

In January, the program wilenter it 23rd season under Stan-ley as the head coach, and lookto deend their WAC titles anChampionships rom seasonspast.

Regardless o the team’s ac-colades, it’s hard to athom whythe average Tech an has turnea blind eye to the success o thetrack program.

It might not be as fashyand sexy as a ootball game a

the Joe or T-Spoon’s Techsterspacking the TAC, but the truthcan no longer be ignored.

Tech’s track and eld is thereal deal.

Maybe now the secret’s -nally out.

Anna Claire Thomas is a senior jour-nalism major from Monroe. Emai comments to [email protected].

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SARAH BROWN

Co-Sports Editor

Ater alling in a heartbreak-

ing 26-20 overtime loss toMississippi State Sept. 24, theBulldogs are seeking a muchneeded victory against Hawaiiin its annual Red Out game at6 p.m. Oct. 1 at Joe Aillet Sta-dium.

This year’s Red Out gamealls on the same date as theannual breast cancer aware-ness game. Fans are encour-aged to trade in their Tech blueto help the Joe become a seao red.

The Bulldogs currentlystand 1-3, with all losses com-ing rom close games. Follow-ing Saturday’s loss at Missis-sippi State, an ESPN analystclaimed Tech was the best 1-3team in the country.

The Bulldogs are enteringtheir rst game in WesternAthletic Conerence play, asthey ace a 2-2 Rainbow War-rior squad.

Hawaii shut down UC DavisSaturday with a 56-14 victoryat Aloha Stadium.

Senior quarterback BryantMoniz led the Warriors withseven touchdown passes in ahal, tying an NCAA record. Healso set a new school record bythrowing 424 rst-hal passingyards.

The Bulldogs have to be ex-

tra cautious when Moniz hasthe ball, because he makes bigplays.

“He’s one o those guysthat you just want to stay in thepocket, because when he getsout o the pocket, he makesplays down the eld,” Dykessaid. “The biggest dierencehonestly is [that] the mobility

o the quarterback at Hawaii isso good.”

Dykes gave credit to Ha-waii’s head coach Greg Mc-Mackin or his success at get-ting his team to play at a highlevel o intensity.

“When you get your kids toplay as hard as they do, youhave the chance to be a good

ootball team,” Dykes said. “It’ll be a challenge or us.”

Dykes said despite his team being a little banged up rightnow, everyone should play.

“I will be surprised i wehave anybody who doesn’tstart that started against Mis-sissippi State,” Dykes said.

He said the main key to Sat-

Bulldogs ready to bash the ‘Bows

Techster volleyball set or showdown with the AggiesREINA KEMPT

Sports Reporter

As the Lady Techsters’ volleyball team movestoward its second conerence game against UtahState, they look to sophomore outside hitter ClaraVido and sophomore middle blocker Caitlin Ger-many as their saving grace.

The Techsters will be playing the Aggies at 7p.m. Thursday in the Thomas Assembly Center.

Vido has consistently recorded double-doublesor the Techsters this season, and they will beneeded against a more experienced Utah Stateteam.

Though the Techsters have a better record, it’sconerence play and every game in between isequally important rom this point on.

Vido, one o the ew returning players rom lastseason, said she is very aware o how importantthis game is or the team’s standings in the coner-ence.

Vido looks to step up to help her team succeed.“I want to help the team by trying to bring se-

curity and comort on the court and by telling myteammates that ‘everything is ok’ and ‘you can getit next play’,” Vido said.

Her double-doubles in kills and digs are essen-tial to the team and she said she thinks her num-

bers come rom experience.“I have enough experience to call the ball and

be responsible or a lot o plays and digs and hits,”Vido said.

Germany, a sophomore middle blocker, is do-ing well on both oense and deense this seasonand middle blockers are mostly known or just de-ense with great numbers in blocks and kills.

She has a career high o 103 kills on the season

as I can,” Germany said. “Even i I can’t get a kill,they have to be aware o me. It helps Clara andour outsides i I’m more active.”

She said she also knows there is a dierence inher mental aspect o the game since her reshman

year and she is much more ready. to take on theopposition than beore.

She said she knows that she has to step upand be a leader as she is among the ew players tohave played last year.

“I know what to expect,” Germany said. “Ilearned a lot rom our seniors. I’m just more con-

dent this year.”These two ladies put up great numbers orTech and they have been very essential to theteam all season.

Their numbers will be a big part o Tech com-peting with last season’s conerence tournamentchampions.

Vido said she doesn’t ocus much on UtahState’s title as deending champions, but she takesevery game one at a time.

“Our mental preparation should be the sameor every team,” Vido said. “Our game preparationmight change regarding what tools we can use to

beat them. We have to do our best.”Last season they pushed the Aggies to ve

sets, giving Utah State a scare.This year, the Techsters will be looking to get

over the hump and notch a win.Germany said she will do her best to try to

keep the many reshmen level-headed with play-ing a team that has put together so many success-

ul season consecutively.“We just have to make sure they don’t get int im-idated,” Germany said. “They might get psychedout beore the game but you may have to remindthem that we’re just playing a volleyball game. It

ANNA CLAIRE THOMAS

Co-Sports Editor

The Lady Techster soccer team is set toollow up their impressive non-conerenceperormance by hosting the Aggies o NewMexico State at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2 at theLady Techster Soccer Complex.

Head coach Kevin Sherry has his squad inne orm heading into Western Athletic Con-erence play, ater the Techsters have posted a7-2-4 record at this point in the season.

The Techsters are led by senior deender

Olivia Lukasewich, who has notched vegoals on the season.

Lukasewich is ollowed by sophomoreTaylor Dennis and reshman Abby Sentz, whohave three goals apiece.

The Techsters boast an impressive recordon their home tur behind the support o thehometown ans, with three wins, no lossesand only one draw.

The Aggies, coached by rst year headcoach Blair Quinn, roll into Ruston with a 7-4-1 record this season and are led oensively y reshman Katie Smith, who has ve goals.

Fans unable to attend can catch all the ac-tion on Gametracker on latechsports.com.

The match can also be seen on LATechAll-Access or subscribers.

Tech ans and students will receive ree ad-mission to the match.


SARAH BROWN

Co-Sports Editor

Eight Tech legendswill be inducted in the2011 Louisiana TechAthletics Hall o FameClass at 1 p.m. Saturdayin the Waggonner Roomo the Thomas AssemblyCenter.

The 2011 class willinclude Matt Dunigan,Venus Lacy, David Lee,Paul Millsap, Mike Mc-Conathy, Dave Nitz, TJSoto and Matt Stover.

Matt Dunigan was

the starting quarterbackor Tech rom 1980-82.He went on to play inthe Canadian FootballLeague or 14 years be-ore a career-endinginjury in 1996. Today,Dunigan is a color com-mentator and televisionpanelist or CFL games.

Venus Lacy was aLady Techster duringthe Leon Barmore era.She was a Techster rom1987-90. In 1996, Lacyearned a spot on theUnited States Olympicteam, led by head coachTara VanDerveer, andwent on to become agold medalist.

Former NationalFootball League punterand Tech alum DavidLee played with the Bal-timore Colts rom 1966-78. Prior to his time withthe Colts, Lee played un-der the guidance o headcoach Joe Aillet rom1961-64. Lee is romMinden and now residesin Bossier City with hiswie and twochildren.

P a u lMillsap ledthe nation-on the court

in rebound-ing or threeconsecutives e a s o n s(2002-05) .He entered the NBAdrat ater his junior yearand was the 47th overallpick or the Utah Jazz.

Current Northwest-ern State basketballcoach and Tech gradu-ate Mike McConathyplayed or the Bulldogsrom 1973-77. During histime at Tech, he scoredmore than 2,000 pointsto become the school’ssecond all-time leadingscorer.

For the past 37 years,

Bulldog ans have grownacustom with the voiceo Dave Nitz. He’s thevoice o the Bulldogs,with his ability to makelisteners actually eel asi they are right in theaction. Nitz is rom WestVirginia and moved toRuston with his wie,Marlene, in 1974.

TJ Soto led the Bull-dog baseballteam with hisoverpoweringoensive skillsduring histime at Tech.

His redshirtreshman sea-son in 1997helped pavethe way or his

many accomplishments.In his reshman year,Soto batted .325, hit 13home runs and recorded45 RBI. Ater his last sea-son, Soto’s career wascomplete in the Techrecord books. He leadsTech with 58 doubles,221 games played, 269hits, 72 home runs, 220RBI, 202 runs scoredand 555 total bases. Hewas named two-time All-South Region and our-time All-Sun Belt Con-

erence.Matt Stover started all

our years o his collegecareer at Tech (1986-89),and has remained a loyalTech supporter duringhis 20 years in the NFL.He was drated duringthe 12th round o the1990 drat by the NewYork Giants, and his teamwon the Super Bowl hisrookie year. He playedor the Cleveland Brownsrom 1991-95, BaltimoreRavens rom 1996-2008and was signed with theColts in 2009. His eld

goal percentage is 83.7and he has scored 2,004career points and has re-corded 422 consecutiveextra points -- a currentNFL record. Stover’s hasalso kicked 38 consecu-tive eld goals - a currentNFL record.

This will be the 13thHall o Fame class in-ducted at LouisianaTech.

The event is open tothe public and all Techans are encourage toshow up in support o these eight legends.


Techster soccer to

open WAC play at

home against NMSUHOF inductions set for Saturday

Photo by Dacia Idom

Freshman quarterback Nick Isham hands the ball off to senior running back Lennon Creer. The Bull-dogs return to action at 6 p.m. Saturday against Hawaii in the annual Red Out game.

BULLDOG FOOTBALL

vs. Hawaii - 10/01 • 6 p.m.

LADY TECHSTER

VOLLEYBALL

vs. Utah State9/29 • 7 p.m.vs. Idaho - 10/01 • 2 p.m.

LADY TECHSTER

SOCCER

vs. New Mexico State10/02 • 1 p.m.

MEN’S GOLF

Squire Creek InvitationalChoudrant, La.10/03-10/04 • All Day

CROSS COUNTRY

Northwestern State Invtl.

Natchitoches10/03 • TBA

WOMEN’S TENNIS

SFASU Fall Invite

UPCOMING ATHLETICS

FROM THE SPORTS DESK

FROM THE SPORTS DESKANNA CLAIRE THOMAS with

urday’s game is to score morepoints.

“We’re going to have to cre-ate some plays in the kickinggame,” Dykes said. “We are go-ing to have to take care o theootball. When you play Hawaii,turnovers are always really criti-cal. I you go back and look attheir history, when they don’tturn the ball over, they are verydicult to beat. We are going

to have to create turnovers andtake care o the ball ourselves,and that will be a huge impacton the game. They are big upront, but we are going to haveto get our running game going.”

The Bulldogs have a toughgame ahead o them, but i theTech aithul pack the Joe andimmerse it in a sea o red, it will

be that much harder or Hawaiito compete against a toughhigh-octane oense.

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