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Finding your circle of friends CHELSEA GILES features editor Two Virginia Tech computer engineering graduates are traveling the country to promote their “non-creepy” personal locator app. Kenan Pulak and Austin Marusco created “Roundpop,” an application that allows people to view where others are based on their zip code or listed location on their social media profiles. Before graduating in May, Pulak and Marusco avoided celebrations downtown with their friends to save up for their travels to promote Roundpop. They showcased the app at Techcrunch Disrupt Startup Alley in New York City on May 21 in search of potential investors and incubators. “People want to know where other people are, but they don’t want to be creeped out,” Marusco said. His partner spoke of the importance of the app’s “noncreepy” persona. “We wanted to bridge the gap between the technological aspect and personal comfort level, like the human psyche aspect,” Pulak said. “We wanted to make it more easy for people to use, and we don’t want them to feel like we’re being intrusive. “A lot of computer engineers are more worried about making a product that works and don’t really think about if it’s going to be easy to use. Facebook and Google are easy to use, and that’s why people keep coming back to them all the time.” Pulak said that if a product is unorganized and not presented in the right way, then users will be turned off and
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Roundpop founders, Austin Marusco and Kenan Pulak, wore their app’s logo in New York while pitching their idea to potential investors at Startup Alley. will not want to use it. that really make your heart “Non-creepy sticks in a lot of is going, and how private is Both of the Roundpop sink,” Marusco said. “That’s people’s heads,” Pulak said. “It everything that I’m putting founders said they are influ- what really underlines what derived from all of the other out there. You get a nice overenced by Steve Jobs’ — the we want to do at Roundpop. ones being called creepy, so all view of everything that is creator of Apple Inc. — theo- It’s about overcoming the per- of the bad things said about going on, because you can see ry that technology should be son’s mind and making them the others, we are the anti- how people view you.” designed around the human, feel comfortable.” that. The app functions somewhat rather than the human conMarusco said that the most “We wanted to give peo- like a tracker — changing your forming to technology. important aspect of the app in ple the flexibility of privacy, location on Roundpop based “Steve Jobs said that it’s both design and marketing is because that is one of the most on the cell phone tower your not the technology load, but to not be creepy, as most other controversial things about phone connects to. it’s the combination of the personal locater devices are social networking is wondersee ROUNDPOP / page six humanities and liberal arts described. ing where your information
Tech houses new agriculture leadership program MICHELLE SUTHERLAND editor-in-chief A new program housed at Virginia Tech is growing a new team of leaders in the agriculture business. The Virginia Agriculture
Leaders Obtaining Results Program, or VALOR, is a two-year program where participants attend seminars about issues facing agriculture in Virginia, nationally and internationally. The seminars are experiential, with the 12 seminars lasting about 48 days.
The goal is for the leaders to then go back into their communities and share the skills their have learned. “Many stay in the same job or move up in their job, or they change the way they run their family business. As alumni, they advocate for the
industry on legislative issues and promote problem solving,” said Megan Seible, the director. The program is a publicprivate partnership, with the majority of the funding coming from companies and individual sponsors. A portion is coming from the Tech
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Cooperative Extension, and is being housed at Tech because of the university’s status as the largest land-grant school in Virginia. “It really is an industryowned program,” Seible said. Applications for the program are being accepted through June 15.
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Dylan awarded Medal of Freedom KEVIN G. HALL mcclatchy newspapers WASHINGTON — Few recipients of the presidential Medal of Freedom have carried more cultural and artistic weight than Bob Dylan, who received the recognition from President Barack Obama on Tuesday at the White House for contributions to American life and culture. The gravel-voiced Dylan, who turned 71 last week, has pleased and baffled fans and critics for five decades. His 40-plus albums have featured folk anthems, country hits, rock classics and even religious tunes now sung in church pews and by gospel choirs. “There is not a bigger giant in the history of American music,” Obama said during a packed ceremony in the East Room of the White House. Photographers and reporters jockeyed for a glimpse of the music icon, and even politicians used to the limelight seemed star-struck. The famously retiring Dylan wore dark sunglasses throughout the event and sat bow-tied and stone-faced, not even cracking a smile during lighthearted moments. Along the way in Dylan’s 50 years of show business, there have been documentaries made
about his place in American culture and dozens of books, some by respected historians, written to analyze the man and his music. College professors offer entire courses on his writing. “Nobody else in serious literature or otherwise has captured that pastiche that is American like Dylan has captured it. He knows it, he’s nailed it. He pushes us toward something better than we are,” said Frances Hunter, a creative writing professor at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. She teaches an elective poetry course on Dylan’s writing. Boston University humanities professor Christopher Ricks devoted an entire book to Dylan’s religious writings in 2004, “Dylan’s Visions of Sin,” which looked at the deadly sins and cardinal virtues through the prism of Dylan’s songs. Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University American history professor, added to the cultural legacy of Dylan with “Dylan in America,” showing the historical influences that shaped the Minnesota-raised songwriter. Hunter and other academics have been pushing for Dylan to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. “Last year they gave it to a very obscure Swedish poet,”
she noted, arguing that Dylan’s musical staying power may be working against him for literature’s highest honor. “I think fame hurts. You can be too famous. The literary snobs come out.” If the Nobel judges have ignored Dylan, the White House, serious academics and the broader art world clearly have not. Art galleries feature his paintings. Hollywood honored Dylan’s art with the 2007 film “I’m Not There,” where famous actors take on different Dylan personas from various times in the artist’s life and career. Dylan has won 11 Grammy Awards, pop music’s top recognition. He’s also won an honorary Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” Perhaps the best testament to Dylan’s importance is that his work has been recorded more than 3,000 times by other artists, a nod of respect more direct than any award presented. A White House pianist played his song, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” as guests entered the East Room. “Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters in
music history. And that is the entire spectrum of recorded music history,” said Howard Kramer, curatorial director at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. “As an American artist, he’s essential to the entire narrative of American musical tradition.” Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minn., on May 24, 1941 — not in nearby Hibbing as President Obama incorrectly mentioned Tuesday — Dylan grew up along the Mesabi Iron Range. There was nothing to suggest that the son of Jewish middle-class parents would someday be honored at the White House. To the contrary, his earliest foray into music, in the late 1950s, imitating Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, was hardly greeted with enthusiasm. Robert Hewitt, four years younger than Dylan and a brother of a Dylan schoolmate, recalled how English teacher Testla Lundeen closed down a Dylan performance at a Hibbing High School talent show. “She got out of her seat and went to the (superintendent) . . . she demanded that he shut that thing down,” recalled Hewitt, still a friend of Dylan’s see DYLAN / page three
Students donate Flex dollars MICHELLE SUTHERLAND editor-in-chief In April, students donated a record amount to Flex Out Hunger, totalling more than $18,000. Flex Out Hunger, the philanthropy of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, allows students to donate their extra Flex meal plan dollars. Dining Services uses the donations to buy grocery store gift cards, which are then donated to the Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Program. About 570 students donated this year, said John Biery, a junior finance major, and Mac Buescher, a junior economics and finance major in a press release. The program began in 2000, and the average donation has been about $15,000a year, according to Biery and Buescher, the philanthropy chairs.
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Dylan: Musician recieves honor younger brother, David Zimmerman. “He pulled the plug on Dylan and asked him to leave.” A few years later, abandoning college, Dylan moved to New York, learned at the bedside of ailing folk legend Woody Guthrie, and by 1964 was the most influential artist in protest music. His “Blowin’ in the Wind” is now synonymous with peace and justice, translated into dozens of languages. He stood alongside civil rights leaders at the height of strife in the Deep South, his songs a soundtrack of those tumultuous times. “He captured something about this country that was so vital,” Obama said, noting he was a Dylan fan in college. Dylan loathed the mantle of “Folk King,” however, and cast it off, declaring in song that he was “so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” In his acclaimed autobiography “Chronicles,” Dylan recalled, “The events of the day, all the cultural mumbo jumbo were imprisoning my soul — nauseating me — civil rights and political leaders being gunned down, the mounting of the barricades,
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the government crackdowns, the student radicals and demonstrators versus the cops and the unions — the streets exploding, fire of anger boiling — the contra communes — the lying, noisy voices — the free love, the anti-money system movement — the whole shebang.” Years later on his 1985 album, “Empire Burlesque,” he warned again, “If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself.” Fiercely independ ent, Dylan has recorded the music he wanted to record. Although great commercial success has eluded him since the 1980s, Dylan has remained relevant and has written some of his most acclaimed work since then. One pointed to by Kramer, the Rock Museum curator, is “Every Grain of Sand,” off the 1981 album, “Shot of Love.” The haunting song about his conversion to Christianity is both devotional and as confessional a work of art as there ever has been. “Fifty-plus years of recording, the quality of his output has been extraordinary,” said Kramer. “I can’t compare another artist like that who has had a 50-year career, where the quality of his output has been so extraordinary.”
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Ex-Rutgers student apologizes TINA SUSMAN mcclatchy newspapers
one affected by those choices.” A jury in New Brunswick, N.J., in March convicted Ravi, now 20, of more than a dozen crimes, including invasion of privacy and bias intimidation, after concluding that he targeted Clementi because he was gay. Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman scolded Ravi for not saying he was sorry before the judge announced his sentence. “I heard this jury say ‘guilty’ 288 times — 24 questions, 12 jurors — that’s the multiplication,” Berman said. “And I haven’t heard you apologize once.”
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NEW YORK — Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi apologized for the first time Tuesday for invading the privacy of his gay roommate, who later committed suicide, saying his behavior was “t houg ht less,ins ensit ive, immature, stupid and childish.” In a statement issued two days before he begins serving a 30-day jail term, Ravi said he never was motivated by anti-gay bias toward Tyler Clementi, who threw himself from the George Washington Bridge in September 2010. Days
earlier, Clementi had learned that Ravi had spied on him during a date with a man in the dorm room he shared with Ravi. Clementi was 18. “I accept responsibility for and regret my thoughtless, insensitive, immature, stupid and childish choices that I made on Sept. 19, 2010, and Sept. 21, 2010,” Ravi said in the statement issued through his lawyers. “My behavior and actions, which at no time were motivated by hate, bigotry, prejudice or desire to hurt, humiliate or embarrass anyone, were nonetheless the wrong choices and decisions. I apologize to ever y-
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Media creates generation of gay marriage support On May 9, 2012, President Barack Obama made a statement that shocked the nation and reverberated throughout our many news outlets. Yet for many, including myself, it really wasn’t that surprising. “I’ve just concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” the President said in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC News. This was the first ever public endorsement by any U.S. commanderin-chief on the subject of gay marriage. Politically, this announcement may have resounding effects on the institution of legal marriage in the U.S., but culturally this proclamation only justified something that had been socially cultivated for years within our nation. His assertion is not an attack on the sanctity of marriage — rather, it is a reflection on what's been going on for years in mainstream America. In a May 2011 study done by the Pew Research Center, “a majority of Americans (58 percent) say that homosexuality should be accepted, rather than discouraged, by society,” while “opposition to gay marriage has
fallen by 19 points (from 65 percent) since 1996.” Among young people in particular, “more than six-in-ten (63 percent) of those younger than age 50
after, singing songs like “Rocket Man” by the great Elton John and laughing at jokes from Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’ Donnell were often a common occurrence. By the time I had reached high school, the inclusion of gay Americans in enterBy assimilating homosexual- tainment and society had ity within influences like the become a mainstay. Movies like “I Now media, the proverbial “closet” Pronounce you Chuck Larry,” often shown that many gay Americans were & regularly on FX and trapped in has become less of TBS, made me laugh hysterically while opena predicatment . . . ing my eyes to the discrimination many gay Shawn Ghuman Americans face by not being able to have the ability to marry. Shows – 69 percent of those younger than age like Modern Family, an Emmy award 30 -- say that homosexuality should be winner, are allowing gay Americans to accepted.” openly be transparent with their lifeIn the late 90s, around the time I styles while representing them as averwas seven or eight, the show “Will and age Americans with jobs and families. Grace” started its eighth season run on These portrayals in pop culture have primetime television, and it was first seemingly diminished the animosinstance I had witnessed the begin- ity many heterosexual Americans, nings of the normativity of homosexu- especially younger generations like ality within the media. Not very long college students, have towards gays.
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By assimilating homosexuality within influences like the media, the proverbial “closet” that many gay Americans were trapped in has become much less of a predicament when coming out because of the increasing acceptance of mainstream America. In a gallop poll article in 2002, Cathy Renna, news media director for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), described how "seeing ourselves reflected positively encourages gay people to come out and when people know real gay men and lesbians it increases their level of understanding and acceptance." More so now than ever before has gayness had such a large presence in cultural factors that permeate our daily lives. And now, “48 states now have openly gay politicians (Republican and Democrat),” declared Paul Canning in an article from care2.com. The candidness of gay Americans in the mass media spotlight has played an integral role in the increasing comfort “straight” America has. Being raised in a day and age where life is one big blur of information, television sitcoms, advertisements, Facebook, rap videos and other count-
less sources of opinions and ideas, our peers and those younger than us have been susceptible to views far more liberal and complex than the conservatism that has influenced the lifestyles of generations before us. Everyone has the option to have their own opinion on homosexuality and gay marriage, but it is evident the societal landscape of our country is often swayed by the acknowledged, mainstream factors that are right in front of our eyes. Just as President Lyndon B. Johnson recognized the public acceptance of Americans towards African Americans when he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Obama understood the discriminatory practices of the past were not justified anymore because of the tremendous growth of a new, socially tolerant America. Accordingly, the President understood he had to change his opinion on the matter.
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Post-Facebook negativity could hinder higher tech IPOs SAN FRANCISCO — Outside Facebook’s Silicon Valley campus is a giant sign with a hand giving a thumbs-up. It may be the only place on the planet where Facebook is getting one of those. The company’s initial public stock offering was supposed to fling open the public markets for Silicon Valley startups and usher in a new era of prosperity here. Instead, the most hotly anticipated technology offering in years disappointed investors and drew heavy scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators. The botched debut could cast a long shadow on Silicon Valley, cooling — at least for now — investors’ enthusiasm for other top IPO prospects including Twitter, Box, Spotify and Rovio. That in turn could have a ripple effect, deflating soaring valuations of up-and-comers and the prices private investors are willing to pay for shares of young companies on the secondary markets. Facebook debuted on the Nasdaq May 18 priced at $38; it traded as high as $45 that day before falling back. The stock closed down $3.07 Tuesday at $28.84. “It may create a little bit of a drag effect on the whole tech sector,” Lee Simmons, an industry specialist and IPO researcher at D&B. The Facebook effect is already being felt. Corsair Components,
a Fremont, Calif., company that designs and sells hardware components for personal computers and gaming hardware, was the first tech company to table its IPO slated for last week. It blamed “market conditions” for the lastminute postponement. Sam Hamadeh, the head of research firm PrivCo, called it “the first clear sign of fallout in the IPO market from the problematic Facebook IPO” and predicted a “black cloud over the IPO market.” “Any IPOs wanting to price this summer will need to take a substantial reduction in valuation to get their deals done, or otherwise delay IPOs until sentiment improves, which could be months at a minimum,” Hamadeh said. Facebook’s IPO, like Netscape’s in 1995 and Google’s in 2004, was supposed to be a shining monument to Silicon Valley ingenuity. Instead it has dredged up unpleasant memories of the dot-com bust. And it has magnified doubts about Facebook’s business prospects and the experience and judgment of its management team. Facebook and its underwriters overestimated demand in pricing the IPO. That, coupled with technical glitches on the Nasdaq Stock Market, turned what many had hailed as the deal of the century into a flop. The fallout hit Main Street
particularly hard. Underwriting banks warned big institutional investors before the IPO that Facebook’s revenue prospects had dimmed, but they did not warn individual investors. About 25 percent of the shares in the social network were reported to
Morgan Stanley on the first day of trading. Spooked by all the bad news, he dumped them the next trading day, taking a loss of $1,000. The retired Huntington Beach, Calif., resident called the experience a “disaster.” “It was a chance to be part of history,” he said. “This was my first foray into an IPO, and it’ll probFacebook and its underwriters ably be my last.” That crisis in invesoverestimated demand in pricing tor confidence is palpable at Buck’s, the the IPO. That, coupled with technical Woodside, Calif., glitches on the Nasdaq Stock Mar- diner where dealmakers grab breakket, turned what many had hailed as fast. Patrons are still a bit shellshocked by the dead of the century to a flop Facebook’s epic IPO failure, diner owner Jessica Guynn & Andrea Chang Jamis MacNiven said. “It’s like someone threw a cherry bomb go to retail investors, costing them in the Jell-O bowl,” MacNiven more than $600 million. said. “Everyone looks bad.” These investors, many of whom It’s not just retail investors who are among Facebook’s 900 mil- got burned. Said one venture capilion users, thought owning shares talist who spoke on the condition was a ticket to free or fast money, of anonymity: “In February there said Scott Sweet, senior managing were a lot of secondary trades at partner of IPO Boutique. $40 via SharesPost. Those buyers “That may be naive thinking, are looking back at those now but you can probably take a lot and wondering what they were of inexperienced retail investors thinking.” … out of the IPO ballgame now,” Facebook may have to get used Sweet said. to its new status as the party Richard Hart, 66, bought 200 pooper. Observers say the public shares of Facebook through drubbing is likely to continue for
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months as the company is raked over the coals by lawyers, regulators and lawmakers. “We are talking about a premium name trading at premium multiples, so these types of issues are going to have a premium impact,” S&P Capital IQ analyst Scott Kessler said after putting a “sell” recommendation on Facebook last week. “I definitely think Facebook has been tainted. It’s going to take some time before this situation is completely vetted and resolved.” On Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus, staffers are trying to keep their heads down and put the best face on a bad situation. Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg reportedly counseled employees not to pay attention to the headlines blasting across the Web or the gyrations of Facebook’s stock price. That may be more of a challenge now that they are saddled with sinking shares that they can’t cash in for several months. Facebook also may have a tougher time competing for engineers and designers in Silicon Valley’s superheated talent wars, and could suffer “brain drain” as employees look for brighter opportunities elsewhere. Still, many in Silicon Valley are shrugging off the turmoil. The most recent tech boom has see IPO / page five
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Katherine have been caught in a swirl of hype and misunderstanding, much of which has trivialized what is actually the most defining decade of our adult lives. Consider this: About twothirds of lifetime wage growth happens during the first 10 years of a career, with the biggest gains coming from jobhopping or earning advanced degrees before marriage, family and mortgages take hold. Even the underemployed can take heart in knowing that wage losses disappear by about age 30, if they move through postcollege jobs and degrees stra-
sions with overwhelmed twentysomethings are my sessions with those in their 30s and 40s. I have witnessed the true heartache that accompanies the realization that life is not going to add up quite as they’d like. When a lot has been left to do, the pressure is enormous to make money, get married, buy a house, go to graduate school, start a business, save for college and retirement, and have children in a much shorter period of time. Many of these things are incompatible and, as research on postponing work and family is just starting Far from being an irrelevant, to show, harder to do all at the same time in-between time, the 20s are a in our 30s. When it crucial period that comes only comes to love, jobs and babies, 40 is defonce. I know this because even initely not the new more compelling than my ses- 30. The new midlife sions with overwhelmed twen- crisis isn’t buying a red sports car. It’s tysomethings are my sessions smart, well-meaning with those in their 30s and 40. 40-year-olds grieving a little as they look at themselves Meg Jay — and at me sitting across the room — and say about their 20s, “What was I tegically. doing? What was I thinking?” Personality changes for Newly minted college graduthe better during our 20s ates like Katherine are living more than at any other time with a staggering, unprecedentin life, if we engage with ed amount of uncertainty. adult roles and, as researchUncertainty makes people ers say, “get along and get anxious, and distraction is the ahead.” Good jobs may seem 21st century opiate of the masselusive, but even some work- es. It’s easy to stay distracted place success — even just goal- and wait for deliverance at 30. setting — in our 20s is asso- It’s almost a relief to imagine ciated with greater confidence that twentysomething jobs and and well-being in our 20s and relationships don’t count. 30s. But a career spent studying More than half of Americans adult development tells me are married, or are dating or this isn’t true. And a decade living with their future partner, of listening to young adults by age 30. tells me that, deep down, Along the way, committed they want to take their lives relationships in our 20s make us seriously. more secure and responsible — The 30-year-olds who feel and less depressed and anxious betrayed by their 20s almost — whether these relationships always ask, “Why didn’t somelast or not. one tell me this sooner — like Female fertility peaks at about when I graduated from colage 28. And the brain caps off lege?” its last growth spurt in our 20s, So here goes. I’ll say what I making these years our best said to Katherine. I’ll even make chance to learn to manage it short enough to tweet: emotions and wire ourselves “30 is not the new 20. Don’t to be the adults we want to be defined by what you be. didn’t know or do. You’re Far from being an irrelevant deciding your life right in-between time, the 20s are a now.” crucial period that comes only once. I know this because even MEG JAY more compelling than my ses- -mcclatchy newspapers
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created tens of thousands of jobs, driven up San Francisco Bay Area rents and housing prices, and fueled the creation and expansion of other businesses such as restaurants. Entrepreneurs say they haven’t been distracted by the Facebook fireworks, and investors say they will continue to back innovative companies in hot areas such as social networking and mobile applications. Two startups, Evernote and Pinterest, this month raised new rounds of funding that valued them at more than $1 billion each; Quora, run by early Facebook employees, scooped up a $400 million valuation. “We are all looking at this through the lens that Facebook created $87 billion worth of value in eight years. That has two more zeros in it than what makes most people happy,” said venture capitalist Jeremy Liew, managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Some analysts are still bullish on Facebook. Needham analyst Laura Martin launched her coverage of Facebook last week with a “buy” rating and a $40 price target. “I don’t think long term there will be any less demand for anything Silicon Valley produces,” Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said. The troubled performance of an IPO is not necessarily an indicator of future failure, points out Kevin Hartz, CEO of San Francisco online ticketing startup Eventbrite and an angel investor. Google Inc., which in 2004 used a Dutch auction to sell its shares, had to reduce the offering price to $85 a share, down from a range of $108 to $135; Amazon.com Inc., which raised its offering price at the last minute, had a big jump on its first day of trading in 1997 but soon saw its shares sink below the $18 IPO price. “It’s where the business is in five years, 10 years and 15 years, not during one particularly volatile week,” said Hartz, who called Facebook “a remarkable Silicon Valley Cinderella story.”
It’s graduation time again, and according to the National Center for Education Statistics, about 1.78 million students will walk across a stage and pick up a college diploma. Then they will face terrifying statistics about employment, pressure to make their 20s the best years of their lives, and slogans that suggest that what you do right after college may not matter anyway. What not enough graduates are hearing, however, is that — recession or not — our 20s are life’s developmental sweet spot. They matter. A lot. Katherine came to my office just before graduation. She filled her mind with day-today drama to distract herself from her anxiety about the future, and she seemed to want the same for her therapy hour. She kicked off her Toms, hiked up her jeans and caught me up on her weekends. Things went multimedia as she pulled up texts and photos to share, and tweets chirped into our sessions with late-breaking news. Somewhere between updates, I found out this: She hoped to figure out what she wanted to do by age 30. By then, she joked, the economy might improve. “30 is the new 20,” she said, sounding unconvinced. Katherine didn’t invent this idea. Some researchers say the 20s are an extended adolescence; others call them “emerging adulthood.” This “changing timetable” for adulthood demotes young adults to the ranks of kids, just when they need to engage the most. It doesn’t help that today’s students are graduating into a global financial downturn. Research shows that those who start their adult lives in hard times are inclined to believe that luck, not their own efforts, determines success. Yet even as we dismiss — or just give up on — the twentysomething years, we fetishize them. Child celebrities and everyday kids spend their youth acting 20, while mature adults and the “Real Housewives” try to look 29, collapsing the life span into one long twentysomething ride. These are contradictory and dangerous messages. We are led to believe that the 20s don’t matter, yet there is little to remind us that anything else ever will. Twentysomethings like
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“The way we do it is by detecting major location updates,” Pulak said. “So when you change cell towers, your location will update with that. “This won’t kill your battery life, because you’re not pulling in a lot of information to your phone. It won’t be a battery drain.” It will also utilize popular social networks to make adding friends easier. “What we allow you to do is have a map view of where everyone is, and you get to choose who you want to follow,” Marusco said. “You get to add people from Facebook and Twitter that you want to follow, and you get to choose who can follow you and see your location.” Marusco said that the user is prompted with different levels of sharing to choose from how certain people view their location. There is an option for everyone to only see your resident location that remains static no matter where you are. The other option is to allow people to know which zip code you are in by using background updating to present the current location. “We don’t even know on the server side,” Marusco said. “We
wanted to make sure not to send up the exact locations. Even people who don’t use Roundpop will still show up, because they have entered their current location on Facebook. But they don’t get to enjoy the features of the app. “We want the user to feel that
porate your interests and have those pop up on your map,” Pulak said. “We don’t want to overload users with ads.” Jennifer Marits Plank, a Roundpop Facebook member, asked on the page if an Android version of Roundpop would be available soon. “We’ve had money saved up, but hopefully somebody that really likes it will invest, so we can take a step to get an android version,” Pulak said. “So next, we want to get an Android version and add more features.” The creators said they also aspire Austin Marusco celebrities and Roundpop Co-founder sports teams to use Roundpop in the future through the broadcast feature. “The broadcast feature is like our mesthey’re in control and we’re not saging system,” Marusco said. freaking them out. We provide “Let’s say you follow Barack something that we hope is not Obama, and he travels to New ordinary.” York and puts it on Roundpop Pulak said the intention for with a status about a campaign the app right now is for high rally he’s doing. It will then go school and college graduates out to his followers in that zip to use as their friends move to code. various places. “With this, you don’t have “Eventually we want to incor- to check all of his tweets or
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blog posts. It let’s your favorite things come to you.” Marusco said the celebrity aspect was part of the inspiration for the name. “Pop was the idea of celebrities and teams using it without having people flood where they are specifically,” he said. “It makes it sound cutesy and reminds you of a childish thing that is there to help you out. “Round is from those around you. And in the app, if there are a lot of people in one area, it puts them in one circle.” Roundpop was live and available for free on the app store May 16. Now, the recent graduates are traveling to promote their creation. “We’re trying to be evangelical of our app,” Marusco said. “The first thing we want to do is to get it out and let it get traction.” Pulak said the most important thing about social networks is how may users there are. Their main focus right now is letting people know it is available. He said this is why they are adamant to find an accelerator or investor that is willing to nurture their busi-
ness and allow them to expand. “They’re willing to take that chance with us because they believe in us,” Pulak said. “They’re long-term thinkers and don’t just care about how much money it will make them by next year.” As far as advice goes, Marusco had one simple idea in mind. “Do not be afraid to make mistakes, that’s one of the biggest things that we learned,” he said. “The communication aspect of it is a whole other beast that we had no knowledge of how to do.” As they attempt to tackle the marketing and advertising aspect of a business, Roundpop is capturing attention through social media. The Facebook page includes links to posts from The Roanoke Times and the Wired State blog about their product. Sebastian Misset gave the app five stars in the App Store and reviewed Roundpop as “amazing.” He said he would buy it, even it was $5. App user “Danter 213” also rated it with five stars and said it is easy to use and nice if you can get a group of friends to all have it.
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Sherri West and riders who work in the barn rest with the horses after preparing for a show in Roanoke. the same ability of those at schools who compete as teams,” West said. “But our riders’ academics are much more demanding.” West said that freshman are not allowed to join the club their first semester, because it could lead to low grades. “Most of our riders want to go to vet school or into animal sciences, and if they start off with a low GPA because of horses, then that would be hard to get back up from,” West
said. Riders also have to pay fees when competing in a show, ranging anywhere from $50 to $1,000 per rider. West said that is not reasonable or even possible for most college students, which can also limit them. Ward summed up why many of the riders still work hard and dedicate most of their free time to the horses and the upkeep of the barn is to be able to work with animals at
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the very least. “Being around the horses, you have a bond or connection with them,” Ropelewski said. West posted information about the riding series on the Tech events calendar and also sent an email to 4-H members. She said she has the most fun in the series when people who have not ridden in years get to ride again and reconnect with what they used to love.
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Monday was the kick-off of the Virginia Tech Riding Series, a summer long program offering lessons on the school’s horses to assist experienced riders and meet perspective students. Sherri West, the Campbell Arena Supervisor and Assistant Equestrian Coach at Virginia Tech, will be teaching riders ages 11 and up in various classes of jumping based on their skill level. West has taught the Virginia Tech Riding Series for five years with the help of members of the Virginia Tech Equestrian Club and riding students. Participants of the riding series attend four two-hour classes in a two-week session. There are beginning, intermediate and advanced level jumping classes offered throughout the summer. West said the focus of the semester riding courses and Equestrian Club is to improve the rider’s position and how they connect with each horse. This will also be the concentration for the riding series. “Equestrian means the art of the riders position and how that influences the horse,” West said. “We’re ultimately trying to improve how they figure out the language with the horses. “When we do lessons, the riders are probably going to be on a different horse every time. Each horse is just like a person with their own personality. We’re more concerned on your equitation than the actual performances of the horses." To be able to manage various types of horses, the rider must be consistent and maintain strength and muscle memory within their own body. “The most challenging thing about riding is you have to use certain muscle groups and not use others,” she said. “You have to be able to control your body to control the horse.” West said that there are 12 people registered for the first section, and most of the students in the summer series are from the local area. When there are people from out of town, West said they are flexible to move classes closer together so the participants do not have to stay as long. Some of the classes are scheduled during Tech’s freshman orientation for those interested in the Equestrian Club or semester riding classes. West said this helps them suggest which classes the students should sign up for and provides them an opportunity to experience her coaching style. “We talk about the program and give them a chance to ride our horses,” West said. “It gives people an idea of where they fall in level of classes.” The perspective students will also
meet and be introduced to the horses by Tech students who are in the Equestrian Club or take the riding classes. Some of the riders caring for and exercising the horses over the summer commented on West’s coaching style. “She’s very positive, and she likes constructive criticism,” said Megan Kunsman, a senior psychology major. Olivia Wymer, a senior human development major, also had nothing but praise for West. “She uses analogies and asks you ‘What did you think about it?’” she said. These riders are working in exchange for their own lessons and to learn more about how to care for the animals and the operation of a barn. “Most of the labor is comprised of students,” West said. “It’s a laboratory for learning.” An important component of working in the barn is understanding the horses. “All of us have worked to take care of the horses,” said Caitlin Ward a senior animal and poultry major. Jessica Ropelewski, a senior biology major, said she spends at least three to four hours a day around the barn or in the arena working on projects or helping with the horses. The senior riders said the satisfaction of practicing and improving is worth all of the hard work. West said that since most students during the school year use the calmer horses, the other horses need attention while the sweeter ones get a vacation. “The horses that are used in the summer need the exercise, so they don’t become juvenile delinquents by the time school starts,” West said. West said there are 35-40 horses and about 80 students who ride during the school year, and there are about 60 riders in the Equestrian Club. Ropelewski said the Equestrian Club members average six shows in the fall and four in the spring. “This is my chill out and relaxing thing to do instead of studying,” she said. Kensman said one of her favorite aspects of riding horses is the satisfaction of a competition when you know you’ve done well. West said the club members work together and help each other no matter which skill level or year. She said it is a bonded group, and it is great for the perspective students to meet the older riders while they attend the series. “There is such good sportsmanship, and we all get along,” Ropelewski said. “It’s competitive, but everyone is supportive.” Though the riders are passionate and willing to put in the hours, there are some obstacles they must jump to be able to compete. “We have a lot of riders who have
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Extra characters and modern twists brings the Lorax to life JACOB WILBANKS features staff writer “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” is the latest of Theodore Geisel’s classic children’s books to hit the big screen. “The Lorax” is a tale of environmentalism and anti-consumerism and one of Dr. Seuss’ most popular works. The movie is based off the original book, but adds in extra characters and plot lines. The movie follows a young boy named Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) who travels to see the Once-ler (Ed Helms) to ask him where he can find a real tree. The Once-ler tells the boy about his past travels to the land of Truffula trees, where he began cutting them down to make “Thneeds.” The Lorax (Danny DeVito) appears from a tree stump, as he speaks for the trees, and warns the Once-ler of the dangers of cutting down all the Trufullas. The Once-ler disregards the warning and proceeds to greedily cut down trees until the very last Truffula is chopped down and all the wildlife are forced to depart the now smogfilled area. Danny DeVito made for a betterthan-anticipated Lorax. DeVito has the stern voice needed to be the environmental protector of the trees, but also injects some humor into the character to keep kids laughing. Ed Helms is a curious choice for the grumpy secluded Once-ler, but he pulls the part off well with his charisma. The best character in the movie that wasn’t in the book would be Grammy Norma (Betty White). White displays her wit through the character and provides a lot of laughs and comic relief. The movie is in a futuristic setting, and there are significant other changes from the book. The flaws of the movie directly derive from the challenge of extending a short children’s book into a feature length blockbuster movie. In order to lengthen the story, there were additional characters, such as Mr. O’Hare (Rob Riggle). This character was created solely to bring a modern plotline in to play. Mr. O’Hare is a greedy corporate boss who makes a
living by selling canned air to the city of Thneedville, since all the trees have already been chopped down. The story of Ted was also modernized, as he’s seen gallivanting around on a futuristic uni-ball scooter. Some plot sequences differed significantly from the book “The Lorax.” Hollywood is always a sucker for a love story and they couldn’t resist adding Aubrey (Taylor Swift) as Ted’s love interest and motivation for finding a Truffula tree. This plot line will agitate die-hard fans as it strays very far away from the book. This is what plagued other Seuss adaptations like “The Cat in the Hat” with Mike Myers. There are also several musical numbers in the film that feel like plain filler. The movie manages to stick to the themes of anti-consumerism and environmentalism pretty well throughout, despite the additions. There is even a subtle jab at capitalism as a “Too Big to Fail” sign can be seen on the Once-ler’s wall. One of the best aspects of the movie is how the pages of Geisel’s book are brought to life. The colors are bright and vibrant and the movie looks just like the drawings in the original book. The Truffula trees look exceptionally beautiful swaying in the wind with their cotton candy leaves. Seuss’ original story is so charming and brilliant that even a movie would have a hard time wrecking it. “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” is certainly a Hollywood adaptation that features a lot more action than the children’s book. Some of the additions to the story work while others fall flat, but overall, the charm of Seuss is still there. “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” is a glitzy modernized version of the classic environmentalist tale of saving the trees, a certainly relevant topic as the Save the Stadium Woods campaign continues. With the negative aspects of the movie aside, and judging the movie for what it truly is, “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” is a charming and entertaining children’s movie with a good message.
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DESTIN, Fla.- University of Georgia president Michael Adams, a 15-year veteran of the SEC's annual spring meetings here, expects this year's get-together to stand out. "I'm not sure we've had a Destin meeting in a long time with as much of a substantive agenda as I expect (this time)," Adams said last week. "... The normal swirl is a little greater swirl this year because of the issues surrounding football." The meetings, which begin Tuesday and run through Friday, will draw presidents, athletic directors, coaches and other administrators from the SEC schools. The dominant topic will be college football's apparent movement toward a four-team playoff that would crown the national champion beginning in the 2014 season. The SEC is a big backer of a playoff conceptually, and Adams expects the presidents of the conference schools to hash out _ and vote upon _ such details as how the field should be selected, where the games should be played and what the role of the bowls should be. "I think we will come out of Destin with an SEC position on these matters," Adams said. "But there are a lot of moving parts here, and I think we have to be respectful of the opinions of the Big Ten and the Pac-(12) and the Big 12 and the ACC and everybody else. . . . I do think we can get closure on a solid SEC position." Getting there, though, could be an interesting process. "This (issue) is one sort of like coaches' salaries and contracts _ it kind of gets the presidents' blood moving a bit," Adams said. "I think there will be some strongly held opinions among the presidents about how those questions ought to be answered." Assuming the presidents reach a consensus, SEC commissioner Mike Slive will carry the league's position to a June 20 meeting of the BCS commissioners in Chicago. That will be followed by a June 26 meeting in Washington of the chancellors and presidents who oversee the BCS. "I don't think there is any belief that some form of playoff is not going to move forward," Adams said. He became one of the early university presidents to advocate a playoff when he pitched an eight-team model four years ago. His view then _ "and I'm still pretty close to it," he said -– was to maintain the bowl system and incorporate it into a playoff. "I think the bowls deserve a lot
of consideration, given what they have done for us through the years," Adams reiterated last week. "I don't think you walk away from your friends." Still, Adams made clear that the landscape has changed for everyone involved in college football's postseason. The bowl alliance announced earlier this month between the SEC and the Big 12 unmistakably underscored that change. "I think there was both a protection factor and a leverage factor that went into (the SEC-Big 12 agreement)," Adams said. "Our responsibility is to protect the SEC regardless of what happens nationwide, and that's what we were trying to do there." The alliance provides protection by ensuring that teams from the two leagues –- the conference champs if available, other teams if the champs are in the playoffs _ would meet in an undetermined bowl game that is certain to yield a lucrative TV deal. And the alliance provides the leagues with leverage in playoff politics, balancing the Big Ten/Pac-12 Rose Bowl partnership. A football playoff won't be the only major issue on the table at the SEC meetings, where Texas A&M and Missouri will be full participants for the first time. They begin play in the conference this fall. The SEC this week expects to set football and men's basketball conference-schedule formats for 2013 and beyond. All indications are that the football format will remain at eight conference games: six against division opponents, one against a permanent inter-division opponent and one against a rotating inter-division opponent. That is the same format previously adopted on a one-year basis for the 2012 season. Keeping one permanent interdivision opponent is important to Georgia, which wants to preserve the traditional annual game against Auburn. "I feel real good about that one unless something comes up," Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said. Also expected this week: a decision on a format for the 14-team SEC men's basketball tournament, which probably will include play-in games for the four bottom seeds; the creation of a task force on the issue of safety and concussions in football; and discussion of renegotiating the league's TV contracts, which eventually could lead to the launch of an SEC cable network.
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Somen ends impressive Tech tennis career ALEX KOMA sports editor The career of one of the most successful players in Virginia Tech tennis history came to an end last Thursday, as Luka Somen fell in the Round of 32 at the NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Singles Championships to conclude his senior season. Somen, ranked 47th in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), advanced to the second round of the tournament after beating Florida’s Tripper Carleton in straight sets. However, he lost to Georgia’s Will Spencer by a score of 6-4, 7-5 to end his tournament run. “Luka had a great senior year, and while I’m sorry he didn’t get through the tournament, he did a great job of representing us on and off the court,” said Jim Thompson, head coach. While his coaches certainly thought highly of him, he gained a great deal of national attention as well. The ITA named him the Atlantic Region Senior of the Year, in addition to his third straight
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ence,” Thompson said. “He gave us plenty of wins, but it was really his character that spoke volumes.” Somen’s absence will leave a big gap in the lineup next season, leaving it up to the team’s rising seniors to fill his shoes. “Lucas (Oliveira) is one of our key guys, since he’s been in the program for three years,” Thompson said. “He and Trpimir (Kujundzic) will have to step up and set a good example for the younger guys.” Although the team’s veterans will be important, younger members of the team will also be critical to the team’s success. “We have to have a good fall and practice hard,” Koontz said. “It’ll be up to the freshman and sophomores to fill the gap.” While the team will miss Somen, it’s clear that he’ll also be sorry to leave Tech behind. “Playing tennis at VT was the best decision of my life so far,” Somen said. “When I came to the U.S., I really didn’t know how much VT would shape me, but it’s really helped me PAUL KURLAK / SPPS mature.” Somen departs Tech as one of the tennis team’s best players ever.
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Forecasting five freshmen for 2012 season MATT JONES sports editor Former Virginia Tech cornerback and current Houston Texan Roc Carmichael once said you have to bring your "big boy pads" to a game. College football is hyped-up to be bigger, stronger and faster than high school football. Some will make the jump, while others will not. For five true freshmen, 2012 could hold for them the success and glory on the gridiron. For others, it will be a building block for the rest of their time in Blacksburg. Here are five true freshmen that could have an impact on the Hokies 2012 season: J.C. Coleman Coleman, who the coaches raved about this spring, has the advantage of having been on campus for workouts before his freshman year starts. He’s tiny at just 5-foot-7, but his talent should shine through if he executes in the situations he’s put in. Because of the limited depth chart at running back, Coleman should have a chance to prove himself as a true freshman. In spring practice, offensive coordinator Bryan Stinespring put Coleman and fellow tailback Michael Holmes in the pistol formation behind Logan Thomas. To no one’s surprise, the two had success running out of the formation, likely meaning we’ll see that in the fall. Don’t expect Coleman to get too many carries as a true freshman. He will likely play some on third downs, but in a limited capacity of
five to 10 plays per game. Joel Caleb One of the last commitments the Hokies got on National Signing Day, Caleb will be asked to come in and compete for the No. 4 wide receiver position as a freshman. He’s physically talented enough at 6-foot-2 and 205 pounds, so his main obstacle will be the mental aspect of the game. Much like the running back position, the Hokies are losing most of their production from the 2011 season. Marcus Davis is poised to break out, Dyrell Roberts is returning from injury, D.J. Coles returns, and Corey Fuller should fit in nicely at the No. 4 spot. Caleb, listed on recruiting sites as an athlete, played quarterback in high school, just like Davis did when he got to Blacksburg. His transition to wide receiver will be a main thing to watch in fall practice. Donaldven Manning One of the South’s most-talented cornerbacks in the 2012 class, Manning arrived in Blacksburg along with Coleman for spring practices. While he suffered his fair share of mistakes, for the most part his play satisfied defensive backfield coach Torrian Gray. Manning, who will be expected to fall in line with the recent great Hokies defensive backs, will backup Kyle Fuller at the field corner position. At a slender 160 pounds, Manning doesn’t have the strength to fight with receivers on the boundary side of the field yet, so a majority of his plays will come while playing the ball in the air.
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Incoming freshman running back J.C.Coleman (4) impressed coaches and will get playing time quickly. Should Fuller or Antone Exum go down with injury, expect Manning to be the first replacement at either spot. Manning should also be a strong candidate for a multitude of roles on special teams. Trey Edmunds A natural athlete, Edmunds’ key trait is his versatility. A linebacker and running back at Dan River High School, Edmunds has the chance to play on both sides of the ball at Tech. While the running back depth chart figures to promise more early playing time for Edmunds, linebacker could be where he truly
shines. A fast and rangy player, Edmunds has the skill set to possibly play linebacker at the next level. Early on at Tech, expect Edmunds to work at running back. Much like Dominique Patterson did, Edmunds could make the switch back-and-forth on offense and defense several times while on campus. For a player of his caliber, Edmunds should have no problem picking up two positions and strive at both of them. Drew Harris Unlike Coleman, Holmes or Martin Scales, Harris has the
potential to be a 25 carries per game workhorse back for the Hokies. While Holmes had a great spring, Harris and Coleman have a chance to see some playing time in backup roles. Stating he doesn’t want to redshirt this fall, Harris doesn’t want to limit himself to the “power back” stereotype. A knee injury his senior year kept him from being 100 percent, but that figures to be cleared up by fall camp. Darren Evans, Ryan Williams and David Wilson all performed as freshman, so look for Harris to get his chance when he gets on campus.