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TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013
ROCKIN’ OUT Emens Auditorium presents a night of music from classic ‘80s glam bands in musical ‘Rock of Ages’
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Boston bombing suspect charged Man accused of using, conspiring weapons of mass destruction use | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — A seriously wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room Monday with bombing the Boston Marathon in a plot with his older brother and could get the death penalty for the attack that killed three people. Tsarnaev, 19, was charged by federal prosecutors with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction — a bomb — to kill. The criminal complaint containing the allegations shed no light on the motive. But it gave a detailed sequence of events and cited surveillance-camera images of Tsarnaev dropping off a knapsack with one of the DZHOKHAR A. bombs and using a cellphone, TSARNAEV perhaps to coordinate or detoSuspect No. 2 nate the blasts. in the Boston The two pressure-cooker bombings bombs sprayed shrapnel into the crowd at the finish line last Monday. More than 200 people were wounded, and the dead included an 8-year-old boy. The Massachusetts college student was listed in serious but stable condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries. His brother, Tamerlan, 26, died last week in a fierce gunbattle with police. “Although our investigation is ongoing, today’s charges bring a successful end to a tragic week for the city of Boston and for our country,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. The charges carry the death penalty or a prison sentence of up to life.
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The cast of “Rock of Ages” strikes a pose during a performance. The show is built around the glam metal bands of the 1980s. LINDSEY RILEY STAFF REPORTER | lnriley@bsu.edu
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ominique Scott has always been a rocker at heart. His father was the lead guitarist in a band called Hollow Spirit, and he grew up listening to rock music. In college, Scott started his own rock band, Domin8trx, which successfully recorded and toured their debut album “Carousel.” Tonight, Scott takes the John R. Emens Auditorium stage as Drew in “Rock of Ages.” The musical takes place on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip in the 1980s and tells the love ROCK OF AGES story of a small town girl and a big city rocker. WHERE “The musical is based off the song ‘Don’t Stop John R. Emens Auditorium WHEN Believin’’ by Journey. It’s about a small town girl 7:30 p.m. living in a lonely world. She took the midnight COST Free in advance for train going anywhere,” Scott said. “It’s a story students or $11 at the door about these two young kids trying to make their For more information contact Emens Box Office. way through life, find their dreams and figure out what they want.”
“Rock of Ages” features several classic rock songs. Here are a few and the original bands that performed them: POISON
“Nothin’ but a Good Time” “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” TWISTED SISTER
“We’re Not Gonna Take It” “I Wanna Rock” FOREIGNER
“Waiting for a Girl Like You” “I Want to Know What Love Is” DAVID LEE ROTH
“Just Like Paradise” NIGHT RANGER
“Sister Christian” STYX
“Too Much Time on My Hands” “Renegade” JOURNEY
“Don’t Stop Believin’” “Any Way You Want It” REO SPEEDWAGON
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“Can’t Fight This Feeling” “Keep on Loving You”
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MORE PARTICIPATE IN 911 calls reveal terror of explosion COURSE EVALUATION 2-foot chunks of Faculty, departments use student feedback for improvements KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER | EMMA emfittes@bsu.edu
Student response rates for course evaluations raised 21 percent after the university introduced incentives last semester. Students who do not complete their course evaluations will have a hold put on their account and will not be able to view their official transcripts May 8, when they are released. The hold will last two or three days. “[Course evaluations were] something that was seen as optional even though it is very useful for the university and instructors,” said James Jones, the director of the office of research and academic effectiveness. Only 49 percent of students filled out course evaluations for Spring Semester 2012.
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49 percent
total participation Spring Semester 2012
70 percent
total participation Fall Semester 2012 Despite the increase in responses last semester, Jones said he has mixed feelings about providing incentives for students. “Whenever you introduce anything that is an incentive, typically you always worry are people just filling them out because of the grade hold and will that make the ratings any different,” Jones said. “So that’s always a concern. Ideally, everyone would just fill them out, but obviously that’s not going to happen.”
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| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST, Texas — When the first call came in, it was just a fire. Smoke was coming from West Fertilizer Co. and an alarm was sounding, so a woman at a park just across the railroad tracks called 911. She was calm and matter of fact. The dispatcher responded in kind: “OK, I’m going to get them to put out the fire.” It was 7:29 p.m. April 17, and the last routine moment in West, Texas, since. Within 20 minutes, the park was strewn with twofoot chunks of concrete from the exploded fertilizer plant. The apartment complex behind it was ripped apart by the wave of energy that climbed the railroad bed and
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Department of Public Safety Sgt. Jason Reyes walks by an apartment complex on April 21, near the West Fertilizer plant that was destroyed in the explosion in West, Texas. The blast killed 14 people and injured about 200 more.
slammed into the building, shredding its roof and blowing out windows. Dispatchers were swamped with hysterical reports. Nearly all 50 calls that flooded in during the next 35 minutes came from within a mile of the plant. Some knew
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DAVID LETTERMAN’S BAND LEADER PAUL SHAFFER CO-WROTE THE 1982 HIT “IT’S RAINING MEN.”
concrete scattered across local park
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what happened, others knew only that windows had suddenly shattered on them and houses several blocks from the site were on fire. Firefighters and EMTs would account for 10 of 14 people killed, and more than 200 people in the town of 2,800 would TWEET US
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be counted as injured. State and federal investigators continued combing the site Monday looking for the cause of the blast so powerful it registered as small earthquake. They had found the center of the explosion a day earlier, but not the fire’s starting point. Recordings show fears ran rampant among those who called 911 last Wednesday night. One woman who glanced outside and saw the mushroom cloud that erupted from the blast could be heard shouting: “Get out of the house. Get out,” to those around her. “There’s a freaking cloud. Look at that!” An off-duty firefighter concerned about the air called a second time to say he was leaving with his family. A man wearing an ankle monitor told a dispatcher as he drove that he was fleeing the chemicals.
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TODAY High: 65, Low: 39 PM showers
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VOL. 92, ISSUE 116 TOMORROW High: 50, Low: 37 AM clouds