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Graphics Coordinator, OC POST The OC POST is a new quick read tabloid newspaper for busy readers. It is published by the Orange County Register and a Division of Freedom Orange County Information. It has a circulation of about 30,000 growing daily. Converts AP graphics to POST style, creates original graphics and illustrations, and assists visual team. Designs inside pages and cover. Assists with art direction and photo selection. Attends daily content and cover headline meetings and weekly visuals critiques. December 2006 - Present

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Editor in chief, Kansas State Collegian. The Collegian is the daily student newspaper at Kansas State University. It has a circulation of 11,000. Managed and trained a staff of 100. Organized bi-weekly payroll. Oversaw all content and nightly production. Implemented redesigns. Performed the roles of Presentation and online editors while the positions were vacant. Art Directed lead packages. Designed special sections. Fall 2006 Time Inc. editorial intern, People magazine Art Department. People Magazine is a weekly publication of Time Inc. It has a circulation of 3.73 million. Designed page layouts, helped create graphics and design elements. Assisted with both weekly and specials. Worked with editors and critics when laying out weekly review sections. Observed design in all areas. Attended story generation meetings and daily morning mock-up meetings. Summer 2006 (June 5- August 5) Presentation editor, Kansas State Collegian. Designed page layouts, photo illustrations and informational graphics. Redesigned standing page elements and styles. Helped desk editors to develop visual treatments for their content. Managed and trained design staff. Spring 2006 (staff designer fall 2005) Editor in chief, el Don El Don is the award winning bi-weekly student newspaper of Santa Ana College. It has a circulation of 4,000. Managed and appointed staff, designed and edited pages, generated story ideas and concepts, and organized editorial meetings. Fall 2003- Spring 2004 Previous experience available on request.

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Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat, QuarkXPress, CCI Layout Champ, Newsgate, News Desk, Macromedia Freehand, QPS, Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel, Macintosh and PC platforms. Student Society of News Design, third place, College Designer of the Year 2003. Associated Collegiate Press, Leader of the Student Press in North America, 2003. California Newspaper Publisher Association first place student newspaper general excellence, Editor in chief, 2003-04. Los Angeles Times College Newspaper of the Year, 2003-04. Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold and Silver Crown, 2003-04.

Education Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. Santa Ana/Santiago Canyon College Rancho Santiago Community College District, Santa Ana, Calif.

References Charles W. Little, Professor/Adviser, Santa Ana College (951) 264-2967 Steve Ball, Assistant Adviser, el Don (714) 564-5617 Dr. Kimetris Baltrip, Adviser, Kansas State Collegian (281) 788-7306 Will McDermott, Designer, People Magazine (804) 852-2730, will.mcdermott@gmail.com Dwayne Shaw, Art Director, Vibe Magazine (718) 230-8183, dwayne@dwayneshaw.com Scott Albert, Visuals Team Leader, OC POST (714) 796-6827, salbert@ocpost.com

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This was a cover for a story on shopping centers in Orange County that cater to parents with young children. The story package was interesting and relevant to our target audience, but it lacked any cover art. I created the illustration of the shopping mom with tons of bags hanging from her stroller and designed the remaining elements on the page to interact with each other. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

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HIT AND RUN VICTIM’S FAMILY HOPES FOR ANSWERS LOCAL 5

MACHINE TRUMPS MAN

EMMY SHINES LIGHT ON ‘SOPRANOS,’ HBO

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OC POST Santa Ana, Calif. Aug. 30, 2007 OC POST is a daily tabloid publication of The Orange County Register. It has a circulation of 30,000 growing daily. This is one of the health pages that I designed daily before the POST cut back on content pages. With the health page we are often left with out art, this page was no exception. For the main package I used an archive photo of spinach fields and cut out the background. For the top rail story I pulled the photo of the pregnant woman from a free stock art site and wrapped the text around her belly. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

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W W W. O C P O S T. C O M T H U R S DAY ● AU G . 3 0 , 2 0 0 7

Another recall of fresh spinach

HEALTH BITS A NEW RISK Gestational ●

diabetes may be associated with increased risk for pancreatic cancer, the New York Times reported. A study by New York University researchers found that as a pregnancy progresses, the action of insulin is blocked because of weight gain and the release of certain hormones. Most women can compensate with increased secretions of insulin, but in the U.S., about 7% become diabetic for the duration of pregnancy.

California produce company recalled bagged fresh spinach Wednesday after it tested positive for salmonella. There were no immediate reports of illness linked to the tainted spinach, distributed by Metz Fresh LLC of King City. The recall comes nearly a year after an outbreak of another pathogen, E. coli, in fresh spinach killed three people and sickened 200 others. The recalled spinach was dis-

tributed throughout the lower 48 states and Canada and sold in retail and food service packages. It covers 8,118 cases of spinach, although the company said more than 90% of that was on hold and would not be released. Last year’s E. coli outbreak prompted the Food and Drug Administration to warn Americans not to eat fresh bagged spinach. It later lifted that warning after tracing the contamination to spinach processed and packed by Natural Selection Foods LLC in San Juan Bautista, Calif. > AP

Recall facts The recall covers 1 0- and 1 6-ounce bags, as well as 4-pound cartons and cartons that contain four 2.5-pound bags, with tracking codes 1 2208 1 1 4, 1 22082 1 4 and 1 220831 4. You can contact Metz Fresh at 831 -386-1 0 1 8.

To learn more, go online to www.metzfresh.com

DID YOU KNOW?

Salmonella sickens about 40,000 people a year in the U.S. and kills about 600.

PRISON INFECTIONS The union ●

representing California prison guards says dozens of staff at Folsom Prison have tested positive for staph infections this year – including a potentially deadly strain – and the infections are spreading rapidly. Guards, a prison dentist and doctor have tested positive for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, or MRSA, a highly contagious strand that’s often resistant to medication, the union says. Scott Unger, spokesman for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said the state cannot confirm the union’s statistics, but has confirmed 35 cases of MRSA among Folsom inmates in 2007. Twenty of those cases have come since June. > AP

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Going graphic

ANOTHER GENDER GAP Weight loss may be associated with the onset of dementia in women, but not in men, the New York Times reported. A study published in the Aug. 2 1 issue of Neurology found that women destined to have dementia began to lose weight relative to the control group 1 1 to 20 years before dementia’s onset. But there was no difference in men. ●

Cigarette packs sold in the U.K. will be required next year to display graphic images of diseased organs in a bid to scare smokers into quitting the habit, the British government announced Wednesday. The images include unhealthy lungs (below), a chest cut open for heart surgery and a large tumor on a man’s neck. > AP

Asthma control needs a daily regimen Patients and doctors should pay more attention to asthma sufferers’ day-to-day symptoms, not just their severe attacks. Some 22 million Americans have asthma, and guidelines updated Wednesday by the National Institutes of Health stress the importance of adjusting therapy until their asthma is under control. The guidelines reflect a shift already under way, as specialists teach patients that a flare-up isn’t the only sign of trouble. Someone who avoids an attack by giving up exercise, or thinks it’s normal to wake up at night coughing, doesn’t have asthma controlled. Asthma hospitalizations peak in September and October, said Dr. Homer Boushey of UC San Francisco, a co-author of the guidelines. > AP

> COURTESY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF O.C.

Guidelines ● Give your doctor details about day-to-day symptoms. ● Have a written “action plan” with instructions for daily treatment and what to do is asthma worsens. Share it with teachers and coaches. ● Inhaled corticosteroids are the foundation of preventive treatment for all ages. Patients also need inhaled rescue medication.

Friday, Aug. 3, 2007

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Squeeze OC was a weekly magazine published by Freedom Specialty Media Orange County. Over the past year I have been lucky enough to freelance for the Squeeze OC. Sadly the print product was recently folded in an effort to cut costs company wide. I have really enjoyed every page I was able to design for the magazine. This is one of my favorites. “Joy Ride” was an ongoing feature on peoples “cool” cars. I was inspired by the featured Lotus and used it’s color and modern lines on the page. I played off the contrast of the rules and the sleek shape of the car. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

JOY RIDE

Joy Ride is a monthly feature that’s all about the love we have for cars. Every month, we profile a different local and his or her treasured ride – be it a sleek new sports car or a restored classic – the vehicle lovingly, passionately maintained for joy rides, not commutes.

CHONG PAK, 31, Buena Park

His ride: A saffron-yellow 2005 Lotus Elise Year purchased: August 2006 Behind the wheel: Pak, an industrial design instructor at The Art Institute of California-Orange County, found the car advertised for sale at elisetalk.com, an online forum for Lotus Elise owners and enthusiasts. Pak, who holds a bachelor’s degree in transportation design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, chose the sleek two-seater because it’s “not like everything on the road.” Only 2,4 1 7 Lotus sports cars were sold in the United States in 2005, according to Automotive News, and the saffron color has since been discontinued, Pak says. Unlike most vehicles, the British sports car is built by hand, not robots. Performance perks: Some argue that the lightweight roadster, which

retails new for around $46,000, isn’t worth the money, he says. The car may not have a lot of bells and whistles, but its performance and handling make it worth three times its price, he contends. Under the hood: Pak takes the car to a local mechanic for maintenance and repairs, but many Lotus owners he knows do basic maintenance themselves. The Lotus has a four-cylinder, 1 90-horsepower Toyota engine, which makes routine maintenance like oil changes easy, Pak says. First car: A “conservative” 1 990 Honda Accord coupe. Also in the garage: 1 99 1 Mitsubishi Montero, which he likes for its “oldschool SUV look.” Favorite cruise: “PCH has always been fun when it’s not so packed. I’d love the opportunity to take it in the mountains and drive the curvy roads. That’s this car’s sweet spot – curvy roads.”

BY CYNTHIA RUPE

Chong Pak is hardly mellow in yellow.

Love Lotus? Check out these local clubs/forums: The OC Lotus Club: A local affiliate of national club Lotus LTD. Membership dues: $35 per year, $25 yearly renewal (national club dues are required to participate in local events); free registration required for online forum. oclotusclub.com South Coast Lotus Club: Offers an online forum and local events serving San Diego County and surrounding areas. Online registration required; no membership dues. southcoastlotus.com

PHOTOS BY STEVE K. ZYLIUS

Santa Ana, Calif. Aug. 3, 2007

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Manhattan, Kan. November 9, 2006 Kansas State Collegian is the award winning daily student newspaper of Kansas State University. It has a circulation of 11,000. The day after the elections I was supposed to be attending a conference on Media and Crisis Preparedness. Half way through the conference my adviser was eating lunch with me and told me that Rumsfeld had resigned. He was scheduled to give a lecture at our school the next day which gave a us a rare opportunity to localize a huge national situation. I worked with our Landon Lecture reporter to come up with the layout for this page. We split the stories into a precede for the lecture and one on Rumsfeld’s retirement with a refer box to all the related coverage inside. I also put together the time line to add a graphic element to the package. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

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Thursday, November 9, 2006

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Vol. 111, No. 59

Rumsfeld resigns, lectures at K-State

U.S. Secretary of Defense gives resignation

Rumsfeld will present Landon Lecture despite resignation

By Adrianne DeWeese KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigned Wednesday after several years of heavy criticism. President Bush said he had a series of thoughtful conversations with Rumsfeld about the resignation. Bush also said Rumsfeld’s resignation was not affected by the outcome of Tuesday’s elections, in which the Democrats gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives. On Nov. 1, Bush said he wanted Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney to remain with him through the end of his presidency. “Both those men are doing fantastic jobs, and I strongly support them,” Bush said in an interview with The Associated Press. Ben Davis, president of College Republicans, said he was not shocked at Rumsfeld’s resignation. “I personally thought the same thing — I thought it was time for a change and new perspective,” said Davis, junior in political science and pre-law. “It’s time for a better perspective on the war in Iraq and trying to work toward that goal more effectively.” Members of College Republicans are planning to attend Rumsfeld’s Landon Lecture today, Davis said. “I’m thinking that everyone in the school would want to go whether you agree or not,” he said. “It’s a

146th Landon Lecture Donald Rumsfeld, standing U.S. Secretary of Defense When: 11 a.m. today Where: Bramlage Coliseum

■ The lecture also will be broadcast

live on Cox Cable’s channel 8 in Manhattan and Junction City, and can be seen live on the Internet (http://www. k-state.edu/landon). By Adrianne DeWeese KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN

James Bowman | U.S. AIR FORCE

President George W. Bush looks on as Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld addresses the nation during a news conference Nov. 8, 2006, from the East Room of the White House. turning point in our society, and this is one of the men who helped shape history in the last three or four years. I hope that everyone would want to come and learn, regardless of political affiliations.” Aaron Apel, president of Young Democrats, said some of the club’s members got tickets for the lecture and plan to ask Rumsfeld questions. Young Democrats also plan to protest about an hour prior to the lecture, he said. “It’s an honor to have someone like Donald Rumsfeld come to KState and speak,” Apel, junior in

philosophy said. “But there are a lot of questions we have concerning accountability on his actions taken in Iraq.” Bush nominated Robert Gates Wednesday afternoon to replace Rumsfeld. A Wichita native, Gates, 63, served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1991 to 1993. He has served as the 22nd president of Texas A&M University since August 2002. In a letter on the Texas A&M See RUMSFELD Page 8

Timeline of Rumsfeld’s career as U.S. Secretary of Defense

1974: Serves as President Gerald Ford’s chief of staff from 1974-75. In 1975, Rumsfeld is sworn in as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Defense, making him the youngest secretary of defense in history.

Sept. 11, 2001: Terrorist attacks. Rumsfeld escapes the Pentagon during attacks and is photographed helping victims.

Jan. 2001: Sworn in as the 21st secretary of defense, making him both the youngest and oldest man to 1977 to 1985: Returns to private serve in the professional life. Serves as president and CEO of G.D. Searle & Co., a pharma- position. ceutical firm.

1977: Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Ford.

Related Stories

■ Donald Rumsfeld also will attend and

speak at the dedication of Gen. Richard B. Myers Hall at 1 p.m. today, Page 8 ■ Does Rumsfeld deserve a warm welcome? See Brett King’s column, Page 4 ■ To The Point, an editorial by the Collegian Editorial board, takes a stand on recent statements by President George W. Bush, Page 4 ■ Test your knowledge of Donald Rumsfeld trivia with a quiz in Diversions, Page 2 Aditional coverage of both Rumsfeld’s resigning and his lecture are availible online at www.kstatecollegian.com.

Donald Rumsfeld’s Landon Lecture will proceed as scheduled today. Doors to Bramlage Coliseum will open at 10:30 a.m., and those attending must present their K-State ID at the northeast or northwest entrances, said Jim Muller, associate director of Athletic Operations. Bramlage parking lots will open at 9:30 a.m., and parking is based on a first-come, firstserved basis, Muller said. Bramlage Coliseum officials, police officers and security workers with the U.S. Department of Defense worked Wednesday afternoon to ensure the safety of Bramlage, Muller said. See LECTURE Page 8

2003: Oversees Operation Iraqi Freedom.

2004: Makes a surprise visit to Iraq in May and visits the Abu Ghraib prison in the midst of the prisoner-abuse scandal.

2002: The Bush Administration establishes the Bush Doctrine, which establishes new foreign policy guidelines. Rumsfeld outlines the pre-emptive stance during a Jan. 31 speech.

2006: Steps down Wed., Nov. 8. Presents the 146th Landon Lecture at K-State.

1996: Joins Bob Dole’s presidential campaign as the policy coordinator and later as the national chairman.

1983: Takes a leave of absence from G.D. Searle & Co. to become the special envoy to the Middle East under President Reagan’s administration.

Compiled by Adrianne DeWeese, Emily Lawrence, Source: www.CNN.com

Huggins secures No. 1 recruiting class for 2007 season By Jonathan Garten KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN

Even before coaching a regular season game at K-State, coach Bob Huggins has already signed the nation’s No. 1 recruiting class, according to Rivals.com and Scout. com. Huggins announced on Wednesday the signing of Michael Beasley, Fred Brown, Jacob Pullen and Dominique Sutton to National Letters of Intent. Beasley is considered the No. 1 high school senior in the nation

INSIDE Religion through magic

The Maze Experience featured magic with a twist of religion to teach about the deceptions and illusions in life. See story, Page 7

would just because of the kind of players they are and the kind of people they are.” Beasley, a 6-foot-10, 235-pound power forward from Notre Dame Prep in Fitchburg, Mass., averaged 20.1 points, 10.4 rebounds and 4.5 blocks as a junior in high school. “Right now, his strength is on the perimeter,” Huggins said. “When you watch Mike play, there will be days when he blocks six or seven shots and days when he’ll play the perimeter, and he plays so unselfishly.” Walker will be eligible to play for

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by several recruiting services, and the other three players are rated as three-star prospects by Rivals. Also included in K-State’s 2007 recruiting class is Bill Walker, who is the No. 6 ranked player on Rivals. Walker will join the Wildcats on Dec. 16 because he graduated high school early, signing a financial aid agreement with K-State on Nov. 3. “All five of those guys are going to be great teammates,” Huggins said. “I think they’ll mesh faster than a lot of recruiting classes

Ebony Theatre

The Ebony Theatre is celebrating its 30th anniversary with the play “With Labor, Love and Laughter.” It begins at 8 p.m. today through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $5 for students and $8 for adults. Tickets are available in the McCain Box Office.

Vitamin A

Dr. Catharine Ross of the Department of nutritional sciences at Penn State University will speak at 4 p.m. today at 120 Ackert Hall. She will also have a colloquium at 9:30 a.m. in 137 Waters Hall. She will speak about “Vitamin A Status: Why it Still Matters.”

Golf Scholarship

Daryn Soldan, graduate in landscape architecture, has won a $1,000 Golf Course Builders Association of America scholarship. The scholarship program offers summer jobs and internships to those who wish to work in construction-related segments of the golf course industry.

K-State on Dec. 17 at home against Kennesaw State. He averaged 21.7 points and 10.1 rebounds in his final year at North College Hill High School in Cincinnati. “Bill just has to develop confidence in his shot,” Huggins said. “He really can shoot it, but he just has so much confidence in taking it to the goal.” K-State still has one scholarship open for its 2007 class. Huggins said he will be looking for another big player with the ability to score, or the best available player.

Is consumer confidence economics, or politics?

Behind the national consumer confidence numbers, Gallup finds strong partisan differences in economic views that help to explain the dearth of positive economic ratings seen for much of the past six years. 72% 71% 60%

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College students have hectic lives, but is it possible to eat healthy?

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

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Beach Museum displays latest renovations

Vol. 111, No. 30

Half full? GAS Kansas sees 60 cent decrease, but consumers are uncertain it will stay low By Lacey D. Mackey

Joslyn Brown | COLLEGIAN

A newly constructed conference room that can hold up to 12 people is inside the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. The administrative staff was moved out of their offices, while two offices were transformed into the new room. By Regina Nowak KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN

The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art showed off some newly renovated space at an open house Wednesday. This was the first of two open houses; the other will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. The museum will show its new office and storage space, as well as the library and a conference room, all located in the lower main level. Martha Scott, administrative officer of the museum, said the museum staff knew more space would be needed last year. “We ran out of storage space,” Scott said. The renovations, which began in November 2005, are halfway complete, and the staff wanted to show the progress to the public. “We thought it would be fun to see the new rooms,” said Colina Stanton, health professions adviser and one of Wednesday’s visitors. “We’ve seen the gallery before, and we’re excited about the new space.” The project will cost $4.9 million and is covered through funds from the KSU Foundation and funds raised over the past few years, Scott said. “It’s fun to see it now, and then again when it’s

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Christian rock band Disciple to play Wareham tonight By Jesse Sachdeva KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN

Nationally known Christian rock band Disciple will headline a concert tonight in the Wareham Opera House, 410 Poyntz Ave. Hailing from Knoxville, Tenn., Disciple has garnered six number-one hits in its 10-year existence. The band has made a name for itself in the Christian rock community, and has been nominated for four Dove awards, including Best Hard Rock Song and Album of the Year. Jason Grogan, director of youth ministries at First United Methodist Church, helped organize the concert. “We began planning the concert in late May,” Grogan said. “I worked with several youth pastors in town and Manhattan Christian College to organize the concert. We didn’t really have any corporate sponsors besides the [First United Methodist] Church.” Opening the show will be two bands Grogan described as “up and coming” on the Christian rock scene, Grand Prize and Red. According to its official Web site, Grand Prize released its debut album in January 2005. Its sound has been compared with that of popular Christianturned-mainstream band, Switchfoot. Grogan described the other opener, Red, as “a hard-hitting, Christian metal group.” “We picked the Wareham as our venue because we See BAND Page 8

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INSIDE Another Loss

The K-State volleyball team lost to Iowa State University Wednesday night. K-State has not won a game in Big 12 play this season. See story, page 6

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Geography speaker

Robert Christopherson, author of many textbooks used in K-State geography classes, will speak about “The power of geographic science in a time of global change,” at 7:05 tonight in 63 Seaton. The lecture is free. He and his wife, a photographer, have traveled from the north pole to the south pole, researching global warming.

E. coli prevention

Students can prevent E. coli contamination from their food. They can run water over produce for five minutes or more, use a lot of spices in fresh produces, and cook meats at at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit, Daniel Y.C. Fung, professor of animal sciences and industry and of food science, said in a press release.

Mentoring program

A group of K-State students will help with the “Everybody Wins!” annual school-based reading and mentoring program with Big Brothers and Big sisters of Topeka. They will help with the reading of “Bubba the Cowboy Prince” beginning at 11:30 a.m. today at the Kansas Historical Museum in Topeka.

The blame game

Who do you blame more for the fact that Osama bin Laden has not been captured: George W. Bush or Bill Clinton? Source: The USA Today/Gallup Poll

Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm@ gmail.com

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When gas prices started falling in September, the company Scott Mainville works for took a sigh of relief. “There was totally rejoicement to that,” said Mainville, operational officer for Double CC Delivery in Manhattan. After having to tag additional expenses onto customers’ bills this year to cover the increased cost of driving across the country, the company has been able to loosen its belt and give customers a better rate, Mainville said. The average price of gas in Kansas on Wednesday was $2.129, according to www.kansasgasprices.com, more than a 60-cent decrease from Kansas’ average last month of $2.756. The Web site reported the average price of gas in the United States on Wednesday was $2.361, about 46 cents less than the average last month of $2.824. Despite the rapid decline in gas prices, some remain skeptical of two things — how low and how long. “I wish I could say it’s coming down as fast as it went up,” Mainville said. Michael Babcock, professor of economics, said several components probably have influenced lower gas prices, including less truck traffic and a slowing economy. “Demand is down because people reacted to the price being high,” he said. “Also, once you get out of the summer, the amount of driving is significantly decreased.” The supply of gas also has been comparatively strong in recent months, Babcock said. “We haven’t had any major crises in countries in the Middle East, and we haven’t had any hurricanes tear up St. Louis,” he said. “You put all of that together, and you get lower prices.” While there is talk of prices continuing to fall and staying low, Babcock said he is skeptical. “I just don’t see that happening, because if you have 99cent gas, demand goes up, and the oil producers turn back up,” he said. “I just don’t see it happening.” In future months, Mainville said he thought the price would initially continue to fall and pick up early next year. But Mainville said in his opinion, the days of 99-cent gas are over. “I really don’t think we’ll ever see it less than $1.75,” he said. “I think that is the lowest I’ll see it.” Mainville said paying for diesel fuel, which most of Double CC Delivery’s trucks use, has been the biggest cost effect for business. “People don’t want to ship stuff if they have to pay more for fuel,” he said. “All your local stores felt the crunch of it going up.” The increased price of gas affects whoever is shipping items, Mainville said, including a necessary surcharge that gets added to many of the shipping deliveries. Mary Gonzales, AAA district office supervisor in the Manhattan area, said a lower price for gas has made traveling easier for many of her clients. “I think it’s a great thing, not only for travelers, but also for the economy in general,” she said. After gas prices reached more than $3 per gallon during the summer, Gonzales said AAA tried to combat decreased travel by incorporating an advertising campaign called “One-tank trips.” She said the summer advertisement listed destinations people could take on one tank of gas. Despite the high gas prices, Gonzales said people have been determined to make the best of the economic strain it has put on their wallets. “They’re not going to let it deteriorate their family outings,” she said. As prices fall, Gonzales said people need to take advantage of the change in the market, while keeping the big picture in mind. “The decrease in fuel prices is astounding, but I think people need to look at the whole aspect,” she said. “Let’s not overindulge in that reduction.”

Illustration by Emily Lawrence | COLLEGIAN

Designers battle falling into stale routine. This broke the tradition of four story fronts. I like how vertical the main package is, but I wish I had lined up the art headline with “GAS” so it would read “GAS Half Full?” Live and learn.

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The edge Page 6

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

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Vol. 111, No. 38

This list is a compilation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and straight students who support rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders. The list is not a refection of sexual orientation, but a visual expression of support. Josh Adams, Lindsey Andrus, Amanda Bareiss, Mark Battig, Rodne

Out

JaSon DoCkinS Coming out can mark an important life milestone - so important that Jason Dockins, sophomore in women’s studies, remembers the exact day — Feb. 16, 2003. On that day, Dockins went for a ride with an openly lesbian friend and asked her how she came out to her parents. His friend put together the pieces and guessed what he was trying to say — he was gay. That first, literally white-knuckled step, he said, was the hardest. Things got easier, especially when he approached some old acquaintances who already had suspicions of their own. “Some of my friends who knew me in high school said I had glitter on my placenta,” he said. The next, and most uncertain step, came in June 2004, when Dockins told his father. “I actually had an overnight bag ready to go,” he said. After preparing for the worst, Dockins said he and his father hugged, cried and talked about his father’s fears that he had failed as a parent and that no one would carry on the family line.

JOSH REED, SOPHOMORE IN FOOD SCIENCE

JoSH ReeD When Josh Reed, sophomore in food science, came out to his mother in 2001, the response took him by surprise. He called her in from the kitchen and told her he was gay. She said OK and went back to cooking. He sat and wondered if something had gone wrong before asking his mother if she had heard him correctly. Reed remembered his mother’s response as: “Yeah, you told me you were gay - so how many pieces of chicken do you want?” After dinner he asked, just once more, if everything was all right. “Josh, you’re gay; you’re not a serial killer.” Reed said, with few exceptions, everyone he approached when he came out was friendly and supportive. Although he came out in 2001, he said he felt different long before that. “(I) knew from about 7 or 8 that I was different,” he said. “But the word for that didn’t come to me until later.” For Reed, though, the coming-out process has, thankfully, lacked the burdens and difficulties that many face. See Coming out Page 8

MAGGIE SEBELIUS, 2005 K-STATE GRADUATE

Nineteen years ago today, 500,000 people marched in Washington, D.C., to raise awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Since then, Oct. 11 has been celebrated by members of the LGBT community and their allies as National Coming Out Day. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has managed the event under the National Coming Out Project since the 1987 rally. According to the foundation’s Web site, this year’s theme, “Talk About It,” is a continuation of the process that aims to “empower gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied Americans to live openly and honestly about their lives.” As part of the campaign, three homosexual individuals and one lesbian couple have agreed to share their stories with the Collegian.

Dockins reassured his father, first, that he had not failed as a parent, and second, that he still, someday, wants children. The final step in Dockins’ coming-out process was stepping down from his position as an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. The Boy Scout’s controversial zero tolerance policy has left some former high-ranking members stripped of their positions and banished. But Dockins’ diplomatic approach to the situation allowed him to resign peacefully. Some of the senior officials even said if he kept quiet about his sexuality, they would allow him to stay. But Dockins said his passion for political issues assuredly would place him in the spotlight and decided, instead, to step down. Dockins said coming out is a personal decision, and each person must come to that decision on his or her own. “You need to do it on your own terms, not anyone else’s,” he said. “You know when it’s ready.”

SHAY DODSON, SENIOR IN HISTORY

KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN

JASONDOCKINS, SOPHOMORE IN WOMEN’S STUDIES

Story by Jonas Hogg Photos by Christopher Hanewinckel

ERICA FOSTER, SENIOR IN ART

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Students, graduates talk about the 1st time they said, “I’m gay”

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kansas avoids recalled lettuce By kristina Monroe KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN

Vegetarians beware: just weeks after spinach shipments were recalled because of E. coli contamination, lettuce has been recalled for fear of the potentially deadly bacteria. The Nunes Company of Salinas, Calif., voluntarily issued a recall Sunday of 8,533 cartons of green leaf lettuce. The lettuce was irrigated with water that has tested positive for a generic form of E. coli. The company has accounted for all but 250 cartons of the recalled lettuce, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “Clearly, the company did the right thing in terms of taking a cautious approach,” said Dr. David Acheson, chief medical officer for the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the branch of the federal Food and Drug Administration that handles food-borne illnesses. See Food Page 7

Google buys video-sharing Web site By Josh Rouse KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN

The Internet search engine Google made history with its recent purchase of YouTube.com, a video-sharing Web site that has made news for several alleged copyright infringements. Google purchased the Web site Monday for $1.65 billion, the most expensive purchase Google has ever made. With YouTube’s average showing of 100 million video clips per day, bloggers and experts alike are speculating whether the increased ad space of YouTube will be worth the money for Google. Chad Hurley, CEO and co-founder of YouTube, said in a news release he is confident that the new partnership will have many future benefits. “Our community has played a vital role in changing the way that people consume media, creating a new clip culture,” Hurley said in the release. “By joining forces with Google, we can benefit from its global reach and technology leadership to deliver a more comprehensive entertainment experience for our users and to create new opportunities for our partners. I’m confident that with this partnership, we’ll have the flexibility and resources needed to pursue our goal of building the next-generation platform for serving media worldwide.” Dave MacFarland, associate professor of electronic media, said he isn’t worried about YouTube being compromised or Google making more money. Rather, he thought it was interesting that the large television net-

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ONlINE Fund-raising Bandstand

The Ali Kemp Bandstand, which benefts the T.A.K.E. Defense Training program took place last night in the K-State Student Union. The program teaches women of all ages self defense. Read online at www.kstatecollegian.com

Society donation

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The Flint Hills Iris Society donated $30,000 to the Changing Lives Campaign to sustain the iris collection at the Kansas State University Gardens. Scott McElwain, director of the gardens, said in a press release, “This is the largest donation made to the gardens by an all-volunteer group.”

Film festival

There will be a flm festival 7-8:30 tonight at the First Congregational Church at Juliette and Poyntz avenues, for National Coming Out Day. The flm, “Fish Can’t Fly,” explores the lives of gay men and lesbians of faith as they recall their journeys to put their sexuality and spirituality in harmony. The flm is sponsored by the Kansas Equality Coalition.

Campaign closing

K-State will have a closing celebration for the All-University Campaign at 7 a.m. today in Bosco Student Plaza. All faculty and staf who participated are invited to a pancake feed for the event. The celebration will be moved to Ahearn Field House in the event of inclement weather.

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the Foley scandal

After finding out that at least some members of the House of Representatives were aware of Congressman Mark Foley’s sexual communications with pages, many Americans feel Republican leadership covered it up for political reasons. Source: The USA Today/Gallup Poll

Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

Test your knowledge of gay pop culture history

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This is another page that breaks our front-page mold. The main package was a story for National Coming-out Day. Our campus Queer Straight Alliance worked very closely with us on this package. They also provided a long list of supporters. I faced two challenges with this page: the first was using 5 photos of the same size and the second was how to fit that list onto the page. The wraped border worked out well but for some reason there was an encryption problem with some text and we almost had to scrap it.

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y Bennett, Rebecca Bishop, Elizabeth Blaesi, Mike Blanco, Barbara Bledsoe, Adam Bliss, Carrie Bly, Kat Boehner, Susan Bosley, Lora Boyer, Kate Boysen, A.J. Bradley, Amanda J. Brandenberger, Renee Braun, Annie Brecheisen, Supavan K. Brown, Virginia Brunner, Kelly Burdette, Cole Campbell, Caitlin Cash, Becky Clark, Chad Cleary, April Clydesdale, James Coggins, Saul Cohn, Ryan Colvin, Matt Combes, Cien Conner, Sarah Coover, Andrew Cousino, Skip Cowan, Brett Currier, Ally Day, Jared Delong, Matthew Devolder, Kelsey Dipman, Slawomir Dobrza

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COLLEGIAN

Don’t get hung out to dry

Important plastic facts to remember before you swipe

Tips for cutting credit debt ■ Take time to create a monthly budget. Make sure it’s realistic and includes your monthly

credit card payments. Keep your monthly debt load at 10-15 percent of your monthly net income (after taxes).

■ Limit your limit. You don’t have to accept an increase in your spending limit, especially if

you know you’ll have a problem paying it back over time.

■ Maximize your minimum. The minimum payment on your credit card statement is just

that — the minimum they will accept. It doesn’t mean, however, it is all you should pay. Even if it’s just an extra $5, send it in and get that card paid off faster.

■ Be on time, every time. Your payment must reach the credit card company by the pay-

ment due date. Otherwise, it is considered a late payment, and it could cost you as much as 15 percent of the minimum payment due.

■ Keep in touch. Call your credit card company right away if you can’t make a payment on

your account for any reason. Most likely a special payment arrangement can be worked out, while keeping your good credit history intact. Source: www.youngmoney.com Web sites that can help: www.cardratings.com www.bankrate.com

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SWIPE AND GO. For many students, credit card use is a frequent practice, and it often starts when they first leave home. Students can be bombarded with up to a dozen credit card offers when they first arrive on campus, and once they are approved, spending can be difficult to stop. According to Nellie Mae, a leading student loan lender, 81 percent of college students have at least one credit card, and the average student graduates with $3,000 in credit card debt.

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I love Real Simple. On this page I finally got to do a real simple illustration. I’ve had the opportunity to work closely with my photo editor this semester often styling shots for him. For this illustration, I used credit cards and strategically placed clothes pins to illustrate the story on college students and credit debt. I do wish I would have been more simple when it came to my use of color, especially on the deck head.

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Patrons of 4 Olives Wine Bar dined and donated Tuesday evening. All proceeds from the restaurant, went to Gulf Coast recovery efforts. The donation was part of Share Our Strength’s Restaurants for Relief 2, the organization’s second-annual, nation-wide event. Executive chef and owner Scott Benjamin said he wanted to participate in the program last year, but was too late. Share Our Strength raised more than $1.2 million in the first Restaurants for Relief and other hur-

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ricane recovery efforts, according to a press release. “Rebuilding the Gulf Coast is taking much more than a single year, and Share Our Strength is committed to being engaged on the ground,” Bill Shore, founder and executive director of Share Our Strength, said in a news release. Kristi Poyer, director of marketing for United States Beef Corporation, of which Arby’s is a subsidiary, said Manhattan’s Arby’s restaurants, donated 20 percent of sales on Tuesday from American Express charges to Restaurants for Relief 2. “We’re happy to do it,” she said.

card companies because they are an easy target and not very educated when it comes to personal finance,” said Fred Brock, assistant professor of journalism and author of “Live Well on Less Than You Think: The New York Times Guide to Achieving Your Financial Freedom.” Many credit card companies take advantage of the psychological power a credit card gives a person, which results in impulse purchases that usually take students years to pay off, said Brock, a former business editor and columnist for The New York Times. “But in the society we live in today, it’s hard to live without a credit card, and there are emergencies that occur when a card comes in handy, like buying airline tickets and buying things online,” Brock said. Credit can be a good thing for

Career and Employment Services will have a walk-in session from 12 to 4 p.m. today in Holtz Hall. Students can bring their résumé, meet with a career adviser or simply stop by and ask questions. As of this year, all CES activities are free of charge to K-State students.

MINIMUM PAYMENTS DON’T PAY OFF Many students make the mistake of charging more than they can afford. When students only pay the minimum balance, it can take years to pay off, Brock said. According to www.bankrate.com, if a student has a $500 balance on a credit card with an 18 percent interest rate, and pays only the $15 minimum payment each month, it will take 74 months — more than 6 years — to pay it off. In that time, the stuSee CREDIT Page 7

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Jessie Daniel, junior in management, kicks during a Turbo Kick class demonstration at Fit Fest Tuesday evening.

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If K-State students have the will, then Peters Recreation Complex has the way. At Tuesday evening’s Fit Fest at the Rec Complex, students previewed 20-minute sessions of a variety of classes from BOSU to Latin Jam. Students also met with workers in the Wellness Center to receive body fat, flexibility and strength tests. Catherine Metzgar, sophomore in nutrition and exercise science and Wellness Center employee, said about 30 people have taken the tests so far. “They want to know where they are so they can try to improve,” she said. Wellness Center employees answered students’ questions about

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health and exercise and informed students about the availability of personal trainers. “We’re trying to get them to buy our (personal trainer) services, so we don’t give everything away,” Metzgar said.

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students, Brock said. They need to build a good credit history and have a credit card in case of emergency, but many students are building more debt than they can handle.

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Rosemary Sturdevant Taleb, professor of secondary education, will lecture at the Higher Colleges of Technology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates during the spring semester. Taleb has been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and is one of about 800 professionals awarded the scholarship.

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John Fox, associate professor of agricultural economics, said a new process that treats meat with six bacteria killing viruses likely will not bother U.S. consumers. The procedure was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration and will be applied prior to packaging.

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Hurricane Katrina not only tore apart buildings and houses, it also ripped through families, forcing many to separate in order to survive. Status of family members one year after Katrina: Source: The USA Today/Gallup Poll

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People magazine New York Aug. 14, 2006 People Magazine is a weekly publication of Time Inc. It has a circulation of 3.73 million. This was for the Insider section in the magazine. This was a challenge for the photo editor because there were no photos of the couple together at the event. So when I was designing it I decided to run photos of equal weight of both Britney and Kevin. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

People Magazine New York, NY Aug. 14, 2006 People Magazine is a weekly publication of Time Inc. It has a circulation of 3.73 million. This was front page of the Picks&Pans section in the magazine. This was a page where the photos had to change. The photo editor and I both liked the photo that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t run but we went with this. The box below the main review was originally supposed to be a one pager in the issue but was cut down to this space. It added a fun interactive element. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

People Magazine New York Aug. 2006 People Magazine is a weekly publication of Time Inc. It has a circulation of 3.73 million. This was the front of the Picks&Pans music section in the magazine. It changed a lot because the critic liked to be involved in developing the design concept and changed his mind over the week before the section would go to print, but in the end it was a fun page with nice color. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

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Santa Ana, Calif. Oct. 20, 2003 El Don is the award winning bi-weekly student newspaper of Santa Ana College. It has a circulation of 4,000. For this lead package, I used a cut out of Arnold Schwarzenegger after he won the gubernatorial recall election in California. For the background, I scanned a sample ballot and placed a gradient on it so that readability would not be disturbed. A by-the-numbers graphic on the right side gave the page better balance. The goal was to avoid the generic podium shot, and localize the package with the Orange County sample ballot. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

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SPORTS: At 17, Dartangan Johnson is winning both on and off the field, leading the Dons to a 4-1 record, their best start in 14 years. 23 STYLE: Clint Eastwood’s latest project, Mystic River, with a high caliber story and all-star cast, may be his best work to date. 13

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he TV crews from Japan and Norway, the breathless blonde anchorwoman from Entertainment Tonight and the correspondent from Flex magazine are all heading for home. The loudspeakers that blared Twisted Sister s music have been packed away. All the glitzy trappings of a celebrity cavalcade soon will be forgotten. And Arnold Schwarzenegger, after triumphing over a field of 135 candidates and achieving 48 percent of the vote, will be stuck with the job of politician. He ll wear that label as soon as he takes the oath as California s new governor next month. Many of the voters who propelled him from Hollywood to Sacramento probably view that label with disdain, but a politician, by definition, is someone who must reconcile competing factions and forge compromises. That s precisely the daunting task that awaits the celluloid hero in the corridors of power. He can t take office until the election results are certified, sometime in the next 39 days. Then he must put together a budget proposal by January. He must decide the fate of 200 agency heads and 3,000 political appointees. That s

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ASG considers impeaching Dennis CAMPUS: The status of the senate is questioned as the person who appointed them is deemed unfit to serve.

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In a meeting that saw the resignation and dismissal of three Associated Student Government officials and the attempted ouster of another, embattled ASG President Shellown Dennis narrowly avoided an impeachment procedure last Tuesday when the senate voted 3-2 to shelve a matter until tomorrow. Dennis is accused of dereliction of duty by failing to appoint an interim ASG member to the judicial branch in lieu of senate-approved justices. Dennis also stands accused of unconstitutionally appointing a Recruitment Commissioner and of

accusing a Santa Ana College student of theft without offering evidence. The president denies having made the charges. She also faults the senate for rejecting judicial nominees, which delayed appointments until last week. Some senators have alleged that certain applicants for senate and other ASG positions have been passed over in favor of other candidates for no apparent reason. According to Dennis original accuser, Senator of Human Services and Technology, Armando Aguilar, only one of a group of at least eight applicants who were approved to Please see GOVERNMENT, Page 5

ASG President Shellown Dennis narrowly avoided impeachment last Tuesday

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Santa Ana, Calif. Aug. 25, 2003 El Don is the award winning bi-weekly student newspaper of Santa Ana College. It has a circulation of 4,000.

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For this lead package on campus renovations, I had one of the staff members take multiple photos of my hands. I took photos of individual buildings on campus, cut them out and placed them into my palm using Adobe Photoshop. The other hand, holding money, symbolizes the cost of the renovations. The green tone of the page was chosen to represent the color of money, and the clouds showed the uncertainty of the status of the projects. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

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FEATURE: Money matters for students on a budget. The cost of college can put a student in debt. Here are some tips to avoid it. 4 SPORTS: Facing the loss of star player, Nazario Miramontes, soccer coach J.P. Frutos plans to use his final year to rebuild the team. 11

Measure E upgrades underway PROJECTS: With work on the Tessmann Planetarium already started, the multi-million dollar renovations have begun.

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he first wave of Measure E projects rolled into Santa Ana College with the summer renovation of the Tessmann Planetarium. Future campus plans include a makeover for 13 buildings and the creation of a new women s locker room. Remodeling of the nearly 40-year-old planetarium started June 17. The newly expanded lobby will soon include two new liquid crystal display screens

for future exhibits, according to Carol Comeau, Dean of Science, Mathematics and Health Science. Partially funded by $75,000 of Measure E funds, construction on the building is also funded by a nearly $750,000 grant from NASA. The grant was also used to purchase a new state-of-the-art star projector system. Please see PLANS, Page 3

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Santa Ana, Calif. April 19, 2004 El Don is the award winning bi-weekly student newspaper of Santa Ana College. It has a circulation of 4,000. The story was about DJ Danger Mouse’s underground mix, “Grey Album,” which mixes Jay-Z’s, “Black Album,” with the Beatles’ “White Album.” Without any art to work with, I created my own. In the background of the art are reversed mugs of the Beatles solarized in Adobe Photoshop, and the front image is a digitally manipulated Jay-Z album cover. The tones of grey were used to allude to not only the albums title, but also its contents. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

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Music Jlsc.com Imagine an opportunity. The John Lennon Songwriting Contest gives any musical artist the chance to “make it” in the international music business. This site contains all the information regarding the contest: awards, prizes, guidelines for participation, a printout application form, and the complete final recording of each of the latest grand-prize winners. Amateur and professional musicians compete for one grand prize in any of the13 categories offered. It must be intimidating for an amateur artist to compete against professionals but for dreamers, anything is possible. -Edgar Vazquez

Championing DJ Danger Mouse s underground Grey Album, an advocacy group fights their own war against a music industry they say raises prices unnecessarily By John Jurgensen Special to el Don

Destruction Quackwatch.com If action movies don’t offer enough stuff blowing up, take a quick hop by Implosionworld.com, “where demolition comes alive.” Dedicated to the art of leveling decrepit buildings, Implosion World gives visitors an inside look at the demolition site. Check it out for scores of photos and video clips of structures crumbling to the ground, and information about upcoming public demolition projects. It’s a destruction junkie’s dream. -Daniel Hiester

(KRT)—Many of the people involved in the guerrilla war against the music industry are simply out to get free stuff. They are de facto combatants, downloading songs in anonymity — unless, that is, the industry flushes them out with a lawsuit. Then there are individuals who stage more conspicuous offensives. People like 24-year-old Holmes Wilson, who stepped into the role of music activist last August, when he and friend Nicholas Reville started a legal defense fund for file swappers sued by the Recording Industry Association of America. Out of a home office in Worcester, Mass., they run Downhill Battle, an advocacy group that wants to rid the market of what he calls the "oligopoly" of major labels that dominate the recording industry. From simple sticker campaigns to a subversion of a music-based Pepsi promotion, Downhill Battle has built a reputation through grassroots multitasking. On March 24, the group launched its latest effort, Bannedmusic.org, a free source for music that the major labels consider illegal and onerous. One of the recordings available on the site is the creation of a Los Angeles producer and DJ that touched off a major controversy at the beginning of the year, solidifying Downhill Battle's role as an organizational force. By painstakingly melding the vocal tracks from rapper Jay-Z's The Black Album with musical swatches from the Beatles' White Album, DJ Danger Mouse concocted his own Grey Album. He pressed only a few thousand copies, but as underground acclaim erupted, the Beatles' publisher, EMI, responded with a storm of cease-and-desist letters. Downhill Battle got a threatening letter of its own when it organized Grey Tuesday, a day in February when almost 200 Web sites offered the album for download. "That was really, really exciting," Wilson says. "People were putting a ton on the line, risking getting sued for quite a lot of money, because they felt strongly enough about the position and

the principal." Hundreds of thousands of downloads later, Downhill Battle and other Grey Tuesday participants were holding their breath. "We expected to be sued the following day, and it's more than a month later, and we haven't heard from them," Wilson says. It was a defining moment for Downhill Battle and for the issue that the group has chosen as its main platform: the freedom to sample music. As a musical tool, sampling — the lifting of musical riffs and phrases from other recordings — came into its own with the emergence of rap. But in the early 1990s, musicians who had been sampled fought back. In the years after that legal crackdown, Wilson says, "they started jacking up the prices (for permission to sample). You couldn't really use samples legally without a major label behind you. You could use maybe one or two in a song. After that, it was business suicide." Today, the logistical and financial burden for independent musicians who create sample-based music is far too great, he says. Short of the toppling of the major record labels that Wilson envisions, Downhill Battle proposes a more regulated procedure for clearing samples, something akin to the standard royaltiesbased permission that musicians obtain when they want to cover a song written by someone else. But until such industry reform, Downhill Battle chooses to champion outlaw musical artists like DJ Cheap Cologne, creator of the Double Black Album, a more recent interpretation of the Jay-Z release, combined with Metallica's 1991 recording known as The Black Album. It's one of three recordings available so far on Bannedmusic.org. For the young activists behind the scenes, music has formed the next front in a full-time career in activism that has already included labor rights and globalization issues. "We picked music because, in a lot of ways, it's on the front lines legally and culturally," Wilson says. "It's really shaping up to be this mythic battle. It's definitely history in the making."

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Santa Ana, Calif. March 8, 2004 El Don is the award winning bi-weekly student newspaper of Santa Ana College. It has a circulation of 4,000. For this page on the launch of the iPod mini, we only had courtesy art from Apple. I shaped the text into the very easily identifiable Apple logo. My goal with this page was to keep it simple, easy to read, and fun. Emily Lawrence emilymargaretm @gmail.com

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iCandy of sy rte cou s itself Photo to the Internet with its promotion of the iPod and its iTunes Music Store. Recently, along with major competitor Napster (yes, now it is legal), Apple began offering gift cards that can be purchased at Target. The card, redeemed through the Music Store, gives the consumer an account balance to directly pay for downloaded music without punching in a credit card number each time. Customers can also purchase gift certificates through iTunes or the Apple Web site and e-mail them directly as gifts to people who enjoy a variety of music. If you re on a budget and don t want to go crazy each month impulse shopping, you can set up an allowance through iTunes and limit yourself to anywhere from $10 to $200 a month. The five major record labels available at the iTunes Music Store are: Warner Music Group, EMI Group, BMG Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment Inc., and Universal Music Group. As if Apple wasn t powerful enough in the downloadable music industry, it will get another boost this summer when Hewlett Packard begins to package iTunes on the roughly 16 million home computers the company ships each year. The arrival of the “hPod,” according to technology analyst Rob Enderle, will allow Hewlett Packard to bypass several years and hundreds of millions of dollars in development costs and instantly triple or quadruple sales of the digital music player.

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Whether it s silver, gold, blue, pink or green, the most popular mini since the Cooper is now available, and it goes by the name iPod. The long awaited Feb. 20 release of the iPod mini, which sold over 100,000 units in advanced orders and represented sales of $25 million, drew hundreds of customers to the Apple Store in Costa Mesa three hours prior to the 6 p.m. launch. “People were lined up outside the store,” said Mac specialist Chris Sandoval. “We handed out tickets — until we ran out — to each customer, based on their color choice. They could get as many as they wanted.” Credit card-sized and weighing 3.6 ounces, the 4gigabyte iPod mini can pack three straight days worth of songs for $249, which is higher than rumored prices of $99 to $199 on Apple aficionado Web sites weeks prior to its unveiling. Since its launch in 2001, Apple has sold more than 2 million iPods and, according to marketing firm Parks Associates, the 100,000 advanced orders for iPod minis represent about 2.6 percent of the 3.8 million digital music players sold last year. Parks Associates projects sales of 5.1 million portable audio players this year. As the popularity of the iPod increases, Apple s iTunes Music Store, which has over 400,000 songs including audio books, has also benefited. Since the site launched, it has sold more than 30 million songs at 99 cents per download, giving Apple 70 percent of the market for legal downloaded music sales. Apple has not limited

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