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Lisa Dees Staff Writer

Within the next few years, about 300 South Korean students will study at ASU under a new program that is effective January 2013.

President Joseph C. Rallo and his wife, Mrs. Barbara Rallo, Director for the Center of Inter-national Studies Dr. Sharynn M. Tomlin and As-sociate Professor of Criminal Justice Dr. Won-Jae Lee visited over fifteen South Korean Universities last week, Lee said.

Lee said ASU signed an agreement with Se-jong University to implement the 1+3 program, which both universities spent two months devel-oping before the trip.

The 1+3 program allows Korean students to study at Sejong University for one year before transferring to ASU for their sophomore, junior and senior years, he said. At least 100 students from Sejong will participate in the first year of the program.

At ASU, Korean students will be required to take eight general classes based on ASU’s curricu-lum, along with intensive ESL classes, Lee said.

Rallo said the 1+3 program is an opportunity

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1+3: New program established to bring in about 100 moreinternational students

Faculty’s trip to South Koreaimproves relations with sister schools

Photos by Pam BelcherAt the International Students Annual Banquet and Talent Show, international students from Russia, Ethiopia, Mexico, Nor-way, Germany and South Korea Sunday use various methods to give the audience some insight on their native countries. (Above) A group of South Korean international students perform a dance to a popular Korean song, “Hip Song”, by Rain. (Bottom left) Anna-Lena Oldehus and Sascha Ranke sing a German folk song. (Bottom right) Evgeny Taranets educates the audience on various features of Russia with a presentation.

Victoria LacyCopy Editor

Samuel Tso, a Navajo Code Talker for the U.S. Ma-rine Corps relived his experi-ences of humor, horror and heartbreak of World War II to an audience of an estimat-ed 1,000 people.

Tso was enlisted in the 5th Marine Division from 1943-1946. He has been fea-tured in a “National Geo-graphic” documentary and talks to people about his ex-periences to keep the mem-ory of this unique group of people alive.

Tso spoke of his enlist-ment into the Marines with humor. Although he was 18 when he enlisted, he told the officers he was older.

“10 o’clock in the morn-

ing, I was 18; 1 o’clock in the afternoon, I was 21,” Tso said.

The Marine Corps was eager to enlist the Navajo people because of the codes

they had developed.According to the of-

ficial Navajo Code Talkers website, “[they] contained native terms that were as-sociated with specialized or commonly used military language, as well as native terms that represented the letters in the alphabet.”

“Their unbreakable code saved thousands of lives and helped end WWII,” the web-site said.

“The Navajo word for tor-toise, “chay-da-gahi,” meant tank, and a dive-bomber, “gini,” was a “chicken hawk,” the website said.

Although he learned the code, Tso had to train for combat also.

See World War II pg. 3

Unbreakable code: Helped save thousands of lives, end war

Navajo code talker shares his story of World War II

Dinner and a showStudents entertain, educate on native countries

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Won-Jae LeeSejong University President Dr. Woo-Hee Park and Dr. Joseph C. Rallo conclude a signing ceremony for the 1+3 Program Nov. 9 in South Korea.

Photo by Mark McDanielWorld War II Navajo code talker Samuel Tso signs posters and books after his speech Wednesday. Tso served in the US Marine Corps from 1943 to 1946.

“What do you do when that happens—when you look at the place where you

were born and there’s people

already living there?”

Samuel Tso

Friday, November 18, 2011Page 2 NEWS

College students given a second chance with ‘fairytale’ prom

Staff Report

Helping Educate Re-garding Orientation and Residential Programs are hosting Friday, Nov. 18, a second chance prom for students who faced dis-crimination at prom in high school.

Association of Mexi-can-American Students, Black Organization Striv-ing for Success, Mu Ep-silon Kappa and French Club are helping spon-sor the Fairytale Formal, which is in the C.J. David-son Center at 8 p.m., As-sistant Director of Resi-dential Programs Tracy Baker said.

She said all ASU stu-dents are invited to at-tend, but the event is geared towards those who were discriminated against because of rules banning students from attending a prom with a same-sex date, an older

date, or a date from an-other school.

HERO President Jere-my Evans said he wanted to host this event because he and several other members of HERO had faced discrimination in high school.

“My hope is that [stu-dents] understand al-though there are different types of couples, a couple is a couple,” he said. “Dif-ferent isn’t bad.”

Baker said she hopes students will walk away feeling more tolerant of one another. The prom is about coming together and recognizing that ev-eryone is the same, she said.

“It’s just a time to dress up and dance,” she said. “We just think it’s a good opportunity to promote tolerance and acceptance while having a good time. At the end of the day, it’s about having a good time together.”

‘Fairytale’ is the theme of the prom and students can wear prom or fairy tale attire, she said.

“Outrageous is okay,” Baker said. “We encour-age people to be outra-geous. It’s a good excuse to try out that prom dress you spent several hun-dred dollars for.”

Evans said HERO is a gay/straight alliance on campus dedicated to sup-

porting one another. “Lots of times family

and friends neglect you once you come out about your [orientation],” he said. “We are their new family. The school ben-efits from us being here; we educate people that we are not evil.”

HERO is open to any student who is interest-ed, Evans said. Some high school students attend meetings and learn about culture and get advice from mentors.

The Fairytale Formal is free to students and refreshments will be pro-vided, Baker said.

“I hope people will join us because we are go-

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New social work student organization hopes to provide network, form bonds

Dana Choi

Editor-in-Chief

Phi Alpha Honor So-ciety, an organization centered on social work, Wednesday gained a new chapter at ASU.

SGA unanimously ap-proved Phi Alpha Sigma Epsilon on Monday, Stu-dent Body Vice President Vincent Perez said.

Phi Alpha recognized Sigma Epsilon as an of-ficial organization in May, but ASU recognized it Wednesday as a stu-dent organization, said secretary senior Daniel Vinson.

Vinson and Phi Alpha

Sigma Epsilon President senior Caradee Pyott said the process of getting Phi Alpha approved at ASU, though long, had gone smoothly.

Phi Alpha is currently helping Student Social Work Association and Angelo Civic Theatre on a food drive, Pyott said.

“Right now we work in conjunction with SSWA because we don’t have that big of an organiza-tion right now,” she said.

According to the Phi Alpha Honor Society website, the purpose of the organization is to fos-ter bonds among social work students and pro-mote humanitarian goals and ideas.

“Our focus is to look at the entire family and the entire community as a whole,” Pyott said. “In-

stead of just looking at the person individually, we see how you interact with your surroundings.”

The organization is currently focused on re-cruitment after its recent formation, said Vinson said.

“We’re getting our name out there and get-ting the social work de-gree, the profession in it-self, out there,” Pyott said.

The dues for mem-bers now is $45, but it will change, Pyott said. Phi Alpha currently has 10 to 12 members.

“We’re definitely plan-ning to grow this spring,” Vinson said.

Phi Alpha just recent-ly became recognized by ASU because the univer-sity’s social work depart-ment is still young, Vin-son said.

“We’ve only been around for around two to three years,” Pyott said.

The program was only listed as a national degree plan last fall, Vinson said.

“It’s a great way to be recognized in the social work department...for your achievements,” he said.

Pyott said the orga-nization will be good for resumes and job oppor-tunities.

“It just shows that you [put in] extra effort to make sure you do well in school,” she said.

Students must be at least a sophomore and have a 3.25 GPA or high-er to become a member, Pyott said.

Honor society: Unanimouslyapproved by SGA

Photo Illustration by Pam Belcher

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World War IIveteran relivesaftermath of war

Rallo: ASU offers real Americanexperience, academic excellence

Continued from Page 1

Tso said he went through boot camp as well as rifle training, where he broke the marine rifle record.

Tso said his commanding officer looked at him and his fellow marines at one point before a confrontation by Japanese soldiers, and said, “Lis-ten Marines, we’re not playing games anymore—this is for real.”

Sometime later, the officer started shooting, he said.

“I don’t know who was coming, but we started shooting where he was shooting,” he said.

Tso was close to the action when the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

“We were on our way to invade mainland Japan when they dropped the atomic bomb—two of them,” Tso said, “One on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki.”

He saw some of the aftermath of the disaster.

“The buildings—some of them only had foundations left,” Tso said.

After seeing the devastation caused by the bombs, Tso discovered that the people on his reservation were mining uranium that was in-cluded in the bomb.

Some of his people have cancer now, and Tso himself has cancer of the blood.

When Tso was discharged from the Marines, he had enough money in his pocket for a train ticket, and then he hitched a ride with someone, he said.

When he stopped at a restaurant, the proprietor refused to serve him.

When he arrived home after four years, his home was inhabited by other people.

“What do you do when that hap-pens—when you look at the place

Photos by Pam Belcher(Above) Students come together to create dream catchers in honor of Native American Week at the Native American Celebra-tion Nov. 16 in the University Center spine. Along with crafts, there were traditional foods, dancing and decoration. The purpose of National American Indian Heritage Month is to honor and recognize the original people of this land, according to the University of Kansas Medical Center website.

Honoring Native Americans

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for Korean students to come to ASU and take ad-vantage of its degree plans.

Most Korean students will pay out-of-state tu-ition at ASU, but schol-arships are also available for them, he said. As ASU works toward increasing enrollment to 10,000 by 2020, each international student helps that goal, while benefiting the uni-versity financially.

The larger the number of international students, the greater the impact they will have for ASU, Rallo said.

Lee said Sejong Uni-versity is serious about re-cruiting students for the 1+3 program. For example, they might spend about $350,000 on newspaper ad-vertisements, he said.

Sophomore Maxx Lazos said he believes the 1+3 program will benefit ASU for several reasons.

“It will make our popu-lation at ASU bigger and will bring more money for the university,” he said. “It will give us more interna-tional recognition if these students do well. It’s a win-win situation.”

The Rallos, Tomlin, and Lee met with the presi-dents and high-ranking ad-ministrators at other sister universities, schools that partner with ASU for an ex-change program, Lee said.

Rallo said although the trip to South Korea did not last long, he felt the visit was successful in communicating with the universities.

“It was fun,” he said. “They treated us wonder-fully, and it was important for us to meet their presi-dents. It’s about valuing relationships.”

At each university, the ASU representatives and Korean university admin-istrators exchanged ideas regarding how to improve relations between ASU and that school, Lee said. To improve relations, they discussed benefits of an exchange program, ASU’s strong programs, and got to know each other better.

“Every single sister uni-versity we visited we treat-ed like kings and queens to strengthen relations with [ASU’s] sister schools,” Lee said. “We successfully did that. The visitations would be instrumental in gaining confidence of ASU’s inter-national efforts from our

sister schools.” Among the universities

visited, the Rallos visited Soongsil University, which does not yet have students studying at ASU, Rallo said. ASU hopes to sign an exchange agreement with the university soon.

Lee said ASU repre-sentatives established a Memorandum of Under-standing, also known as an exchange agreement, with every sister school except for Sejong University.

Lee visited eight uni-versities, Tomlin visited six, and Dr. and Mrs. Rallo visited three, he said.

South Korean univer-sities want good relations with ASU because it offers an American experience, Rallo said.

“They are interested in our Texas school because of its real American expe-rience with excellent aca-demics, but yet not so large that [Korean students] are overwhelmed,” he said.

South Korean univer-sities are all much larger than ASU, Rallo said. Ko-rean students want a differ-ent experience. Instead of going to large universities in the U.S., students can come to a small school to learn about Texas.

ASU currently has 10 sister universities in South Korea, Lee said. The num-ber of South Korean inter-national students will grow rapidly because of the 1+3 program and because six of the 10 sister universities will begin sending stu-dents to ASU starting in the summer of 2012.

Since September 2010, about 100 South Korean students come to ASU each year, Lee said. He and Meghan Pace, counselor for International Student Services, went to South Korea in September 2009 to recruit students for January 2010.

In January 2010, 40 short-term and four long-term Korean students from Ulsan University came to ASU, he said. The short-term students spent one month at ASU learning English. The long-term students are currently in a dual degree program, where they spend two years at Ulsan and two years at ASU.

“Our counterpart uni-versities in South Korea know that whenever they send students to ASU, the students say, ‘We met Dr. and Mrs. Rallo at the air-

port,’ Lee said. “[The Rallos are] there whenever they’re available…They put in enormous effort to develop ASU’s international efforts. Our counterparts know what they’re doing.”

Sophomore Irene Heesun Do from Dongguk University in South Korea said she is at ASU currently to learn English.

“In my case I am not an ASU student yet, but I will be next semester,” she said. “I’m learning and making a lot of friends. I think it’s important to learn about American culture.”

Lee said ASU plans to expand its international efforts and target other Asian countries, includ-ing China, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.

“We dedicated service to ASU’s international ef-forts,” he said. “That’s why during our tight [sched-uled] visit we visited as many schools as we could and did our best with ad-vertising and convinc-ing schools to send their students [here].”

Rallo said increasing in-ternationalization on cam-pus was one his goals since coming to ASU. San Angelo needs to have exposure to different cultures, he said.

Junior Bryton Machin-gura from Zimbabwe, Af-rica, said he thinks bring-ing more international students to ASU is a good idea.

“That will help ASU reach out to the world,” he said. “If [international stu-dents] have a good experi-ence here they can spread it to their families. It will increase the student body and also give domestic students an international experience.”

This is just an extension of studying abroad, Rallo said. Having internation-al students come to ASU gives domestic students a cultural experience. Also, many in the community “adopt” an international student, so it impacts more than just ASU.

“Interacting with [in-ternational students] on campus is vital to our world in the future,” he said. “Ex-perience is valuable.”

The 1+3 program, along with all exchange pro-grams, will increase ASU’s diversity and enrich the university culturally, soph-omore Carly Peters said.

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Fall crimes summed up

Sara IrvinContributor

Despite a significant increase in car burglar-ies in residential parking lots this semester, the University Police Department anticipates re-duced crime rates in most categories for the 2011 fall semester.

Sixteen incidents of thefts and burglaries and 26 incidents of alcohol and narcotic viola-tions comprise the largest statistical categories for this past semester, UPD Chief James Adams said.

“This is consistent with previous years,” Ad-ams said.

Overall, these categories fell by 15 percent over fall of 2010, Adams said.

“Car burglaries on campus and in the adja-cent area continue to be our biggest priority,” Adams said.

With the exception of narcotic violations, all property crimes, such as theft, criminal mischief and crimes against persons such as assaults and harassment, show a decrease, he said.

Adams said several factors might have played a role in the lower statistical data for this semes-ter.

Given the threat of car burglaries on cam-pus, the UPD operated most of this semester on “heightened alert,” he said.

“We utilized ‘directed enforcement’ more than we might in a typical semester,” Adams said. “The end result was a much stronger vis-ible presence, which is historically a deterrent to crime. We also modified shifts to boost man-power during peak times.”

Adams said, “A continued strong working re-lationship with residential program staff consis-tently proves valuable and has impact on crimi-

Staff Report

The Campus Lighting Study Team has developed a list of needs which have been partially addressed.

The team divided the list into east/west campus, repair/replace-ments, and upgrades/additions, said Vance Valerio, vice president of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management. The replace/replace-ments list has 29 items that need to be checked and fixed. As of Wednes-

day, Nov. 9, nine items have already been completed, he said.

Facilities Management will ad-dress the queue of remaining items, and should attend to most of them by the end of December, Valerio said. The rest will be addressed as soon as possible afterward.

The upgrades/additions group consists of 48 projects that must be assessed and need cost estimates for university review.

“This is more time-consuming

and will take longer to prepare,” Valerio said.

As many projects as possible will be assessed and estimates devel-oped before the end of the term.

Once the Campus Lighting Study Team has a list of estimates, the team and other university rep-resentatives will evaluate the needs and available funds and will start the projects. Start dates will be de-termined by safety and security is-sues and budget priorities.

Lisa DeesStaff Writer

The director of Environ-mental Health, Safety and Risk Management, after six years at ASU, resigned Monday to take a position with an oil field company.

Skip Bolding said he chose to resign about two weeks ago when Union Drilling out of Midland, an oil field drilling contractor, offered him a position Oct. 26.

“It’s a great opportu-nity,” Bolding said. “It’s ad-vancing my career in the Environmental Health and Safety field.”

He said he will continue to live in San Angelo, but

will commute to Midland each day in a company ve-hicle to work as a safety consultant, where he will evaluate safety programs and employee safety.

Bolding said leaving his job at ASU is hard, but he is excited for a new oppor-tunity.

“It’s been a great job,” he said. “San Angelo is a great place to live. I’ve really en-joyed the people and the relationships I’ve been able to build with student orga-nizations. You get a unique dynamic of students that come in here, and they keep you young.”

Though changing posi-tions is difficult, he hopes to maintain the relation-ships he has built at ASU, Bolding said.

“There’s not a depart-ment on campus that I didn’t really work with,” he said. “Thank you to all the

people who have wished me well on my new career adventure.”

Maggie Pepper, assis-tant vice president for Fi-nance and Administration, said Bolding has imple-mented the Building Emer-gency Response Team, a chemical inventory system and a recycling program with Dr. James Limbaugh, vice president of Strategy, Planning and Policy.

“Along with his many duties in risk and safety management, Mr. Bolding was instrumental in es-tablishing the university’s recycling program,” Lim-baugh said. “His leader-ship in this regard will be missed; still, I wish him the best in his new career.”

Michael Reid, vice pres-ident for Finance and Ad-ministration, said Bolding did a wonderful job at ASU.

“[He] will be hard to

replace,” he said. “This is a great opportunity for Skip and he is sure to do great things in his new employ-ment.”

President Dr. Joseph C. Rallo said Bolding has done a great job for the university and that he wishes Bolding the best at his new job.

Pepper said ASU has not hired anyone to fill Bold-ing’s position because the job has not been posted yet.

Temporarily, Pepper and Facilities Manage-ment are currently filling the position, and in case of emergencies, ASUPD Chief James Adams will help, Pepper said.

The director of Envi-ronmental Health, Safety and Risk Management is responsible for filing pa-perwork in case of any in-juries on campus and keep-ing insurance in place, Reid said. The director is also in

Director resigns from position at ASUUnion Drilling: Staff member takes position in Midland

Photo Courtesy of Communications and MarketingSkip Bolding, former director of Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management, says he hopes to maintain the relationships at ASU after taking a position with an oil field company.

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SGA aims for transparency, full student senate

Dana ChoiEditor-in-Chief

With a few more weeks left in the semester, the Student Government Association is aiming to increase its visibility among students through sev-eral methods.

Student Body vice presi-dent Vincent Perez said he has not seen any student outside of SGA attend meetings just to hear or talk about issues on campus.

“Our meetings are always open,” he said. “Publicizing them is one thing that we need to get on top of.”

SGA meets every Monday at 6:15 p.m. SGA does not have a definite meeting place yet,

Perez said.Some students, like fresh-

man Kyle Schaper, have never heard about SGA. Schaper said, so far, he has no interest in attending a meeting, even if he had any issues he would like to address with SGA or the university.

Freshman Wade Sorrell said he has heard about SGA sev-eral times, but he still does not know much about what it does.

He said he has never gone to any SGA meetings, but if he had known that students were welcome to, he might have at-tended one.

“I thought SGA meetings were just for SGA,” Sorrell said.

Sorrell said SGA should use fliers or possibly RamPort to grab students’ attention and raise awareness of student gov-ernment.

He said one thing he is con-cerned about is parking.

“Parking is sketchy some-

times,” he said. “They sell so many of those parking decals, but there’s not enough parking spaces.”

Sorrell said he sees very few cars in the D-lots, and it would be easier if those lots were con-verted to general use lots.

Sophomore Stephen Pena, co-founder and vice president of Rams4Life, said he would not attend SGA meetings, part-ly because of his experience of trying to make Rams4Life a student organization.

“I was there to defend a controversial student organi-zation, so unsurprisingly, I left with a bitter taste and recollec-tion of standoffish discussion,” Pena said.

However, he said, if he had attended an SGA meeting as a regular guest, he might have had a completely different ex-perience with SGA.

“Currently, I can’t think of a reason I would actually go,

unless it was an extra credit as-signment,” Pena said.

To draw students in, Pena said SGA might consider a live musical guest, and that “free food always brings a turnout.”

Perez said before he joined SGA, he didn’t know much about the organization himself.

“I can speak on the perspec-tive of other students,” he said.

The True Blue committee is one way for SGA to reach out to students, Perez said. SGA had also organized a spirit task force, which may take a while to kick off.

“Hopefully we’ll have a lot of members...and people will know the spirit task force is headed up by SGA,” he said.

He said SGA plans to hold a town hall meeting near the be-ginning of next semester. SGA has not yet decided a place or time, he said, but everyone is welcome to attend.

“Hopefully a lot of people will show up,” he said. “I realize that 50 plus people…is a small number, but it’s optimistic for student senate.”

SGA will soon begin to push spring elections, which are not just for student body president and vice president, Perez said.

Perez said that another way to raise visibility is to fill senate seats.

Currently, student senators occupy 22 out of 42 seats. Perez said, though filling all seats by the end of fall would have been ideal, it is not possible this late in the semester.

“It’s not a great thing, but it’s better [than last year],” Per-

ez said. “We’re headed in the right direction.”

Perez said, while SGA would like to fill seats, not everyone has what it takes to be a student senator.

“It’s actually a lot harder to fill up senate seats than it seems,” he said.

Perez said a student sena-tor should be a leader who is not afraid to speak, is passion-ate about certain issues, and wants to go to meetings and contribute.

A full senate would have helped greatly for the spring semester, he said. Instead of spending time recruiting and starting off with students scat-tered around within the sen-ate, SGA could immediately address student concerns and questions.

Vincent said he hopes to fill five to eight more senate seats by the end of the semester, and he hopes to have 30 to 35 by January. Available senate seats are posted on the door of the SGA office, which is temporar-ily located on the second floor of the UC in room 209.

SGA has three more meet-ings left before winter break, Perez said, with the last one during dead week.

Maggie Pepper, assistant vice president for Finance and Administration, will come to one of the meetings to brief the student senate on fees, Perez said. This is the time of year departments would pres-ent fee-related proposals to the administration, he said.

Goals: Raise awareness among students, repre-sent more departments

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Friday, November 18, 2011Page 6 FEATURES

Photos by Pam BelcherUCPC and African Student Association hosted Open Mic Night, Monday, featuring The Asia Project. (left) Asia, accom-panied by his guitarist, Jollan Aurelio entertains students with several poems with topics of beauty, the 90’s and cancer. (top right) Junior Joscelyn Sanders recites poetry that she wrote herself. (bottom right) Sophomore Carson Stafford jams out on his electric guitar as the first student act.

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Pi Kappa Alpha joins the movement for men’s cancer awareness. Particu-larly targeted to raise mon-ey for men’s prostate and testicular cancer, the fra-ternity started fresh with their mustaches Nov. 1.

“You can shave every day this month except for

the mustache area,” senior Rob Skerik said.

According to movem-ber.com, the 2010 Movem-ber movement raised $80.7 million world wide, com-ing from Australia, New Zealand, US, Canada, the UK, Finland, the Nether-lands, Spain, South Africa and Ireland. Originating in Australia, the campaign points out the mustache

for its manliness, he said.“A lot of people our

age don’t have mustaches and this opens the door for guys to join in with a cause,” Skerick said.

In the University Cen-ter, on Monday, Pi Kappa Alpha will have a booth set up to help spread the word of Movember and the hand out information on the men’s cancer.

“We will have Movem-ber bags, razors, shaving creme, wristbands and so on,” Skerick said. “We will have little goofy mustache fans to spread the word on campus.”

This is Pi Kappa Alpha’s first time participating in Movember.

“Hopefully next year we can do it bigger and bet-ter on our side and we are

looking to get other organi-zations to do it as well,” he said. “It’s not just for guys; there are ‘Mo Bros’ and ‘Mo Sistas’ so you may see some girls there promoting Movember with fake mus-taches at our booth. Every-one can pitch in and raise money for cancer.”

Check out movember.com for more information.

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“Getting to go home and see my family. ”

“‘Going home. It’s been a couple months since I have been there.”

What is your favorite part of the holidays?

SidewalkSurvey

“‘Definitely seeing my family and get-ting to get out of Angelo.”

“For Thanksgiving I actually get to eat a lot of good food.”

“I haven’t seen my family in a while, and I am excited.”

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Friday, November 18, 2011Page 8 OPINIONS

With the year coming to an end, I have gathered up and tried to cre-ate the best list for the year 2011. Now I know that some of you might disagree with the list and that is understandable, but I hope you can respect the bands up there. If you agree or have other songs that

should have made the list, I will be glad to read your emails. Enjoy the music and, as always, rock on!

Top Ten Metal Songs of 2010 1. Anthrax - “In the End”2. Megadeth - “Black Swan”3. XJapan - “Jade”4. Alestorm - “The Sunk’n Norwegian”5. Evanescence - “Made of Stone”6. Nightwish - “Storytime”7. Korn feat. Skrillex, Kill the Noise - “Narcissistic Cannibal”8. Suicide Silence - “O.C.D”9. Trivium - “In Waves”10. Portrait - “Darkness Forever”

Top Ten Rock Songs of 20111. Foo Fighters - “Walk”2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Look

Around”3. Chickenfoot - “Big Foot”4. Seasick Steve - “You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks”5. HeadCat - “The Eagle Flies on Friday”6. Motörhead - “Ace of Spades (Acoustic Version)”7. Coldplay - “Paradise”8. The Nightwatchman - “It Begins Tonight”9. Mastodon - “Curl of The Burl”10. Alice Cooper - “When Hell Comes Home”

Patrick McKeown can be reached at pmckeown@angelo.edu

Top 20 metal, rock songs of 2011

A lot has happened in this trip around the sun. For the first time, ASU exceeded 7,000 students while the world’s population capped 7 billion people. The low-est temperature for San Angelo was 12 degrees, and the highest was 110 degrees. We think Texas needs to get its act together.

Wildfire season began mid-April, when extreme weather conditions caused fires that ravaged thousands of acres close to the Dallas-Forth Worth area. The ef-forts of firefighters and volunteers helped save hun-dreds of homes.

The Honors Program was going to be phased out, but it is very much alive and thriving. After months of waiting, the construction on the library and the Center for Human Performance was completed. The volleyball team broke several school records and is playing in the Division II National Championship Tournament for the first time in 19 years.

At the beginning of the fall semester, freshman designated to Plaza Verde were forced to stay in Con-cho Hall while last minute construction was finished on the new dorm. It’s embarrassing to us that our new students were welcomed in that way, but we hope they will enjoy their new accommodations when they are all moved in. All students assigned to Plaza Verde should never again have to ride up and down those pesky Con-cho Hall elevators that “eat you.”

Also in August, a heavy five-inch rain flooded the Center for Student Involvement, forcing staff members upstairs until repairs could be made. As if one flood wasn’t enough, about 60 students from Texan Hall were pushed to Concho Hall because a fire sprinkler dis-charged in the B300s.

On a global level, many important events grabbed everyone’s attention. Osama Bin Laden’s death came as a shock to many of us who believed it would never happen. Although it had been years since the nation held its breath for news of his whereabouts, this was another step towards closure for many people who lost loves ones 10 years ago.

The tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, came and passed without attacks. People had memorials every-where, and patriotism was evident from the clothes people wore to the context of church services. Students set aside political differences and recognized the day as one of remembrance and reflection. It was inspiring to see the nation pull together again to remember those who were murdered that day and to honor those who have given their lives since then to protect us from more attacks.

This year had its ups and downs, both nationally and locally. We hope that 2012 is prosperous for ASU, the nation and the world. Whether the news is good or bad, though, we’ll be there to cover it.

Mark McDanielPhotographer

Our country is at a crossroads. With growing distrust in our gov-ernment and general dissatisfac-tion with the direction it is head-ing, We the People are looking for change.

This is evident with recent movements like the Tea Party, and more notably, the Occupy Wall Street movement, but what kind of change are we really looking for?

According to the recent New York Times/CBS News Poll in late October, not only do 89 percent of people say they do not trust the government to do the right thing, 84 percent of people think it is time for new people to take office in Congress because the current members have not represented them well enough to deserve re-election.

That is an extremely high per-centage of people who do not feel their opinions are represented as they should be, which is quite frightening when you think about it. We are being represented by a body of people who do not share the majority of ideas and values. After all, this is a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Before I go any further, I think

we should take a look at the con-cept of public opinion. By defini-tion, public opinion is the col-lection of individual preferences towards an issue, event, or person of general interest.

All democratic governments are based upon the need to re-spond to public opinion. Without the ability to respond the govern-ment loses legitimacy. And with-out legitimacy, a government los-es all rights and authority to pass laws, pass judgement and main-tain a nation.

Now, let’s apply this concept to the current state of our govern-ment. Obviously this whole par-tisan approach to politics is not working the way we imagined. Both Democrats and Republicans believe that neither side of Con-gress is doing its job correctly. This disagreement has brought about a stalemate, which is pre-venting the government from re-sponding to the public’s opinion on the issues at hand.

This failure to respond has severely limited the ability of our citizens to take the government seriously. Eighty nine percent is such a large portion of the popu-lation that this cannot be over-looked. I fear that before we know it, our government could lose its legitimacy.

Wednesday evening, I had the pleasure of visiting with congres-sional candidate Chris Younts, who explained this predicament with a brilliant metaphor.

Younts compared the situa-tion to a car driving at 100 mph to-wards the edge of a cliff. If we keep moving in the direction we are go-ing, we can maybe slow down to 80 mph, then to 50 mph, but we will eventually still drive right off

the edge. The only rational thing to do, is to turn the car. We may run the risk of crashing into a tree, but we may also turn onto a high-way. Either way, we have avoided crashing and burning at the bot-tom of the cliff.

We need to turn the car. I firmly believe the best way to

keep from crashing and burning is to change our government spend-ing habits. We have allowed our country to be driven so far into debt that it is almost impossible to see a way out. These poor spend-ing habits don’t just affect the national debt, and governmental programs, but as we have seen in the last few years, it trickles down the totem poll all the way to us.

We are sick of the status quo. It is time to elect a president who can end this vicious cycle of parti-san politics and control the beast that is our deficit.

My goal is not to shove a can-didate that I like in your face, but to bring to light the necessity of change in our partisan system. Please make up your own mind about a candidate. However, I feel compelled to mention that Ron Paul is our best bet to bring back the level of legitimacy and trust in our government that we have come to expect. The mainstream ideology is finally moving in the direction Ron Paul has been talk-ing about for years: less govern-ment spending, less power and influence granted to corporations, and most importantly, the resto-ration of our constitutional rights. I highly recommend you look into his policy and what he stands for.

Are you going to sit around and put up with a government that you don’t trust, or will you be the one to turn the car?

Time to turn, or crash and burnHasta la vista,

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Season considered good start for new era

Jason HelmsSports Editor

The Rams’ season did not end the way they wanted to Saturday after a 28-23 loss to Tarleton State.

Despite leading in almost every statistical category, including total of-fensive yards, the Rams (5-6, 2-6 LSC) came up short on the scoreboard.

“We had a few costly penalties and gave up some big plays,” head coach Will Wagner said. “When you play against a team as good as Tarleton, you can’t do that.”

The Rams outgained the Texans 472 to 396 with the help of quarter-backs Jake Strickler and Michael Co-chran who combined for 291 yards passing.

Strickler, a senior who took over midway through the season for injured sophomore Blake Hamblin, went 14-for-28 with a touchdown while also rushing for 15 yards.

Cochran completed 13 of 21 passes for 141 yards, which was a career high for the junior from Cedar Park, Texas.

The Rams also outgained the Tex-ans (6-5, 5-3 LSC) on the ground with 181 yards, as most of that came from senior running back Tristan Carter, who had 145 yards on 19 carries.

Carter averaged 7.6 yards per carry and also added a pair of touchdowns to finish his final season with the pro-gram with 11, six more than last sea-son’s total.

Carter also served as an aerial tar-get as he recorded a season-high six catches for 47 yards.

Another senior, tight end Nate Bayless, caught Strickler’s lone touch-down pass of the game and finished with three receptions for 63 yards.

However, it was junior receiver C.J. Akins who led the Rams’ receiving ef-forts with six catches for 75 yards.

The Rams’ defense managed to hold the Texans to just nine yards rushing in the game, led by redshirt freshman linebacker Rush Seaver, who had 10 tackles.

It was the second time that Seaver, a Lampasas native, tallied double-dig-it tackles this season.

Seaver’s fellow linebacker, senior Joseph Schumpert, finished the game with eight tackles, one of which was for a loss.

The team’s 24 seniors were hon-ored on the field with their families and friends before the game.

Bayless said although it was tough to end his senior season with a losing record, he thought the team met a lot of the goals they set before the season.

“For setting this team up to where it needs to be and where it’s going in the future, we made a good start,” Bay-less said. “You can’t always determine the success of a season by wins and losses, so I don’t consider this season a failure at all,” he said.

Wagner, who Bayless said is the right guy to get the program back to a winning tradition, agreed with the his senior.

“The season was not exacly what we wanted to be, but it was definitely a stepping block and I expect bigger and better things come next season,” the first-year head coach said.

The Rams finished in sixth place in the LSC ahead of Incarnate Word,

Football: Team’s 24 seniors honored before final game

Photo by Pam BelcherSenior running back Tristan Carter eludes a tackle in the last game of the season last Saturday. Carter rushed for 145 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries.

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Jason HelmsSports Editor

The ‘Belles were selected, Sunday, to play in the NCAA Division II Na-tional Championship Tournament for the first time since 1992.

After finishing in second place in both the conference regular season and tournament, the women entered the national event as the No. 4 seed in

Volleyball: Finished second in conference tournament

No. 4 seeded ‘Belles confident about regional

Photo by Pam Belcher

Junior Chelsea Gibson and se-nior Celeste Bonter team up to block a shot during the team’s ‘Dig Pink’ match on Oct. 18.Gibson was selected for the Lone Star Conference All-Championship Tournament Team along with sophomore hitter Maddie Huth and junior setter Alex Woolsey.The ‘Belles were defeated 3-0 in the championship match by West Texas A&M.

”We have a lot of belief in ourselves and expect to be playing on the final day,” senior Celeste Bonter said. “We have all the tools; we just have to put them all together at the right time.”

The regional will be played at the University of Central Missouri in War-rensburg, Mo. which includes fellow LSC members West Texas A&M and Abilene Christian.

Head coach Chuck Waddington said that he feels that the ‘Belles are prepared for the tournament because of their season’s tough schedule.

“I feel like we’ve prepared ourselves for this situation and now we have to get up there and execute,” Wadding-ton said.

The ‘Belles were swept by West Texas A&M, the No. 3 seed in the re-gional, last Saturday in the LSC Cham-pionship Tournament final, which was the only time this season the ‘Belles have been swept.

Although Waddington gave credit to the Lady Buffs, he said his team was hoping for a better performance against them.

“We wanted to win the conference championship and just didn’t play well enough to do that,” he said.

The loss came after the ‘Belles de-feated Midwestern State and Abilene Christian, 3-0 and 3-1, respectively, in the conference tournament.

Sophomore Kaelen Valdez led the ‘Belles in kills in the tournament af-ter she totaled 38 in the team’s three matches.

Huth’s fellow sophomore Maddie Huth was second on the list with 29, while junior Chelsea Gibson finished just behind her with 28.

Defensively, freshman Shelby Wilt finished the tournament with 37 digs, only two above Valdez, who tallied 35.

Junior setter Alex Woolsey was se-lected for the LSC All-Championship Team for her performance, which in-cluded 124 assists during the event.

Joining Woolsey on the all-cham-pionship team were Gibson and Huth, who combined for a total of 57 kills.

The eight-team regional tourna-ment will be played from Thursday, Nov. 17 to Saturday, Nov. 19 with the regional champion moving on to com-pete in the finals on Dec. 1-3.

“We are not going up there with the mindset of losing,” Woolsey said. “We know that it is going to take ev-eryone playing their best, but we all

Friday, November 18, 2011Page 10 SPORTS

Week at a Glance

Friday, Nov. 18VOLLEYBALL@ NCAA Division II South Central Region Volleyball Tournament(Warrensburg, Mo.) - 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 19VOLLEYBALL@ NCAA Division II South Central Region Volleyball Tournament(Warrensburg, Mo.) - 7 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALLPaul Quinn College - 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 22WOMEN’S BASKETBALL@ St. Edward’s (Austin) - 6 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 25WOMEN’S BASKETBALL@ West Texas A&M Tournament (Canyon, Texas)vs. St. Mary’s - 4 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL@ St. Mary’s Classic (San Antonio)vs. St. Mary’s - 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 26WOMEN’S BASKETBALL@ West Texas A&M Tournament (Canyon, Texas)vs. Metro State - 4 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL@ St. Mary’s Classic (San Antonio)vs. Southeastern State - 5=:30 p.m.

Rams take first home gameJason HelmsSports Editor

Junior Keenen Coleman scored 27 points Tuesday night to lead the Rams to an 84-78 victory over Way-land Baptist in the first home game of season.

The win was the Rams’ second of the season after they split a pair of games at the ACU Tipoff Classic in Abilene over the weekend.

Coleman was joined by fellow ju-nior Javae King-Gilchrist and fresh-man Dakota Rawls in double-digit scoring against Wayland Baptist, as the two finished with 12 and 11 points, respectively.

The team’s only senior, Joey Knight sank three of his six three-point attempts to finish with nine points against the Pioneers (1-1).

Rawls, a Bronte native, also grabbed eight rebounds to lead the Rams (2-1) in that category, followed by Coleman, who had seven.

As a team, the Rams had only eight turnovers, compared to the Pioneers’ 18, which is something that fifth-year head coach Frank Rike said he was pleased to see.

“Anytime you have 25 assists and only eight turnovers, you’re going to win a lot of games,” Rike said.

One thing that Rike said he was not happy to see was how his team only had 28 rebounds to the opposi-tion’s 45.

“So far, we’ve been getting mur-dered on the glass and we’ve got to get better at rebounding the ball,” Rike said.

However, Coleman said that he has no doubt that the Rams are ca-pable of rebounding better, but he said, they have to push a little harder to do so.

In the ACU Classic last Friday, the Rams dropped the season opener

79-73 to the East Central Tigers, de-spite having four players score in the double digits, led by King-Gilchrist with 19.

The Rams bounced back in the following game with 69-63 victory over Truman State (1-2), as Coleman led the team with 19 points.

Not far behind Coleman was

King-Gilchrist, who was 7-for-12 from the field with three three-pointers to finish with 18 points.

Junior center Lorenzo Freeman led the Rams in rebounds against Truman State, with 11, the same amount that junior Reggie Brice led with in the season opener against East Central (1-2).

Men: Improve to 2 - 1 in new season

Three ‘Belles notch double digit points

Jason HelmsSports Editor

The women’s basketball team came up short at home Tuesday against University of Texas – Perm-ian Basin by a score of 71-62.

Senior center Paige Weishuhn led the ‘Belles’ scoring with 15 points in the game as sophomore Lauren Holt (13) and freshman Haylee Oliver (10) also recorded double digit points.

Holt topped the rebound list for the team with five, while the Lady

Falcons (2-1) went on to outrebound the ‘Belles 37-18.

Weishuhn said that rebound-ing was not the only thing that the ‘Belles failed to do in the game.

“We let them drive down the middle of the lane and dish it off to their wide-open three point shooters too many times,” Weishuhn said.

She said that was a result of the ‘Belles lack of transition defense, which she said is something that the team cannot do if they want to be successful.

The loss leveled the ‘Belles record at 1-1 after they opened the season with a 76-69 victory Friday over Tex-

as A&M International.Weishuhn recorded a game-high

22 points followed by junior Morgan Youngblood who scored a career-high 20.

Holt also led the ‘Belles’ rebound tally in that game with eight, while the women finished with 50 total re-bounds against the Dustdevils (0-3).

Holt’s eight rebounds left her two shy of recording a double-double as the Christoval native also recorded 10 points.

The ‘Belles will take on St. Ed-ward’s (1-1), Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 6 p.m. in Austin before traveling to Canyon to compete in the West Texas

Women: Split season’s first two games

Photo by Pam BelcherJunior Keenen Coleman drives past a defender in the Rams’ first home match of the season, Tuesday, against Wayland Baptist.. Coleman led with 27 points in the game.

Photos by Pam Belcher(Above) Cassie Stegall makes a move toward the basket during the game against UT-Permian Basin, Tuesday. The ‘Belles lost to the Lady Falcons 71-62.(Right) Senior Paige Weishuhn (30) dribbles down the court as juniors Ashley James (42) and Morgan Youngblood (23) run to get down the court.

Photos by Pam Belcher

(Left) Junior guard Javae King-Gilchrist dribbles down the court during the game against Wayland Baptist, Tuesday. King-Gilchrist finished with 12 points, three assists and was 4-for-4 from the free throw line in the game.(Right) Freshman Dakota Rawls drives to the basket against the Pioneers. Rawls, a Bronte native, had 11 points and a team-leading eight rebounds in the Rams’ 84-78 victory at the Junell Center.