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Volume 79 Issue 15 Jan. 25, 2013
LifeLine Response plans to make its debut at ASU in a couple of weeks An advanced and modern way for students to stay safe Allison Price Managing Editor After months of existence, University Police prepares to launch a phone application that will ensure the safety of students, faculty and staff. ASU will be the first university in the country to deploy the LifeLine EDU safety app, University Police Chief James Adams said. Peter Cahill, creator of LifeLine Response, has worked on this project for two years and the result of his work is an iPhone and Android safety application available to the public. “I have had a series of personal events happen in my life, and I didn’t want those events to continue to happen,” Cahill said. “Nine months into development, I knew that this was something we had to get to the market quick.” LifeLine Response was put on the market in August of 2012 and was created to specifically prevent sexual assaults, abduction and rape from occurring, while simultaneously alerting the authorities as well as alerting friends and family of the user. “I asked myself, ‘What if there was a way I could stop [sexual assaults, attacks, etc.]?’ Not just reduce it but eliminate it completely,” Cahill said. “This app is strictly for someone who wants to be proactive about their safety.” There are two versions of the app, Cahill said. LifeLine Response is available to private citizens and LifeLine EDU is free and marketed for the education field, but both apps do the same thing. “LifeLine Response seems like a great way to keep yourself safe,” freshman Brittni Villarreal said. “Students have
Photo Illustration by Rio Velasquez The LifeLine EDU application is available for download, but will not function for another couple of weeks after all tweeks have been finalized.
to be careful when they are walking around and this phone app will help to keep them safe.” In a scenario, if someone is walking back to their dorm from the library, before they leave they would initiate LifeLine Response, Cahill said. The user would have to insert their specific code and place their thumb anywhere on the phone screen. If an attacker comes, the user will drop their phone; just as a natural impulse. Within a tenth of a millisecond, the user’s information is sent to the call center. “Our call center calls you and asks if
Summer camp job fair brings various opportunities Casual fair will last longer than normal Mariah Powell Editor Most students desire summer fun and summer cash, and Career Development Center has set out to bring them both to your convenience. Career Development Center is hosting its annual Summer Camp Job Fair on Jan. 29-31. This is the first year that the job fair will run for more than a few hours in a day. Career Development assistant Adra Enos said the expansion is good because it gives students an opportunity to attend the fair between classes, and camps have the option of setting up their booth for more than one day. “Having the fair here for more than one day is a great idea because it gives us the opportunity to find a job even if their schedule was full on the first day of the fair,” junior Samone Foster said. Over ten camps will be a part of this job fair, Enos said. Available positions include: life guard, horse wrangler, children’s camp counselor, arts and crafts, kitchen crew, pho-
tography and many more. There will also be a couple of paid internships participating, she said. Camp locations range from Hill Country to Fort Worth. “I would love to work with little kids and I think it would be a good opportunity for education majors,” Foster said. “It’s nice because you get to live in San Angelo and practice your future.” Students looking for outof-state summer camp opportunities will have a chance to skim through a catalog at the job fair and get information on camps in places such as New York, Enos said. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for students, and they should take advantage of the job fair if they want a summer job,” she said. “Even if you are taking summer classes most of these camps are flexible and you can work half the summer.” This job fair is more relaxed than normal job fairs, meaning students can dress casually, Enos said. “You always want to make a good impression, but dressing up is not required,” she said. The job fair will be from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. each day beginning next Tuesday.
you are hurt, etc.,” Cahill said. “They will deploy the police unless you give them the correct disarm code. If the attacker is right next to you and you are not able to say you are in trouble then you can say your silent trigger, which is a number up from your actual code. That code immediately alerts the response center that you are in danger and they will deploy the police.” Adams first heard about LifeLine Response last summer and, has been working with the company for about a year as they developed the product. “We were involved in the Beta testing that way we could see for sure how the
app functioned the way the company said it would,” Adams said. “When it was all said and done, the app functioned like the company claimed.” University Police is planning to get a call center located at the police department, Adams said. “We will be monitoring the students’ safety regardless of where they are,” Adams said. “A student could go home to Austin, Dallas, Houston, etc. and if they have an emergency, the app could work right there.” Before anyone tries to download the app, Adams said he encourages people to go look watch the video on the LifeLine Response website. “If you watch the video and think that the app is not for you, then don’t download it because we are paying for every license,” Adams said. “For those who are going to use the app then we encourage people to use it.” The LifeLine Response company is not going to the education field as a profit, but instead trying to help keep students safe, Cahill said. “We are starting to deploy the app on other campuses,” Cahill said. “We want to make this economically affordable across the table.” Cahill said, James Adams is way ahead of his time, as he has been working close with the app and the company. “Chief Adams is an exceptional chief,” Cahill said. “The faculty and staff are so lucky to have someone so dedicated to their profession.” Although the app is not ready to be downloaded, 30 people have already tried, Adams said. “This is just a trial and it is interesting there is already that kind of response,” Adams said. “It is good we have at least 30 people trying to get the app.” For more information about the app, and to watch the video about the app, check out www.llresponse.com.
Meats and Livestock teams rank high, hoping for more success Teams look forward to another good year
ment, or a competitive edge,” Braden said. “We’re definitely improving every year and we have a goal in mind to win contests.” Senior Agriculture Science and Leadership Adam Sauceda major, Sondra Lohse, who has been a part Staff Writer of the program for the past three years, has judged wool, livestock, and meats and says it’s a lot of hard work, but she absolutely loves it. ASU’s Meats Judging “You put in a lot of Team ranked in the top hours to get to where you five nationally at the want to be,” Lohse said. end of 2012. “After going through these The Meats Judging programs, you really learn Team finished in the to communicate with peotop ten at all seven of ple and learn how to manthe contests they enage your time and school tered, including five work.” top-five finishes and a The program has befirst-place victory. tween 45 to 55 students The Livestock Judgand those students can ing Team took second compete on either of the place overall at the anthree teams. nual Arizona National Braden says these stu- Associate Professor of dents are the face of ASU Livestock Judging Contest held Dec. 29-31 in Animal Science, at the contests and, they Phoenix, Ariz. Dr. Kirk Braden broadcast ASU’s name The Livestock Judgacross the country. ing Team finished sec“In the past, there’s been ond in Sheep Judging and third in the Beef a couple of years where we haven’t had a team Judging, Swine Judging, and Reasons catego- because it was difficult to get enough students ries, according to a press release involved,” Braden said, “but we’re getting to the What makes the teams’ accomplishments point to where we are growing.” even more impressive is the fact they competed Braden says all of the teams work together in exclusively against teams from Division I uni- solving problems and making sure that everyversities, such as Texas Tech and Texas A&M. thing comes together. Associate Professor of Animal Science Dr. “I would personally regret not being a part Kirk Braden says the teams do not worry about of these teams because of how much that I’ve the fact they are Division II. benefitted from it,” Lohse said. “I know that “The contests are more about the other ele- in the future getting a job or continuing my ments they get, whether it is team work, pub- master’s degree that I’m going to have benefits lic speaking skills, networking, time manage- from the judging team.”
“We’re definitely improving every year and we have a goal in mind to win contests.”