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Student Government Association President Candidates

SGA Vice-President

DECISION 2015 DECISION 2015

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

ELECTED

Name: DOMINQUE DIAMOND Classification: Senior Major: Physical Education Platform: Raise Recruitment, Renovations and Upgrades, Scholarships, Economic Development, Increase School Spirit and Athletic Attendance

Name: LAWRENCE WILLIAMS Classification: Junior Major: Mass Communication Platform: Incorporating more companies for the career fair, implementing more student involved events,creating a student friendly Student Government Association.

Miss Southern Candidates

Name: TRUE BROWN Classification: Sophomore Major: Nursing Platform: Accountability, Accessibility, and Determination.

Chief Justice

ELECTED

Name: JAQUEL WATTS Classification: Senior Major: Pre-Med Biology Platform: “The H.O.M.E.R.U.N. Choice For SU.” I will make a change by having unity, school spirit, athletic attendance, empowerment,mentorship, and health wellness.

Name: JAMAYA MAGEE

Name: DARLISA RICHE

Classification: Junior Major: Social Work How will you be a change agent?

I plan to work for the students. I want to bring back the excitement that was once on campus!

I will ask the students what they would like to see from their Miss Southern and do my best to get it done.

Classification: Senior Major: Rehabilitaion Services Platform: Juicy Justice - Revamp, Renew, Restore!

see the continued list of candidates on page 6 & 7 THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF SOUTHERN UNIVERSIT Y AND A&M COLLEGE, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA

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CAMPAIGN WEEK Campaign Week will be April 13-17 SPRINGFEST FASHION SHOW Student Choice Awards Students are asked to submit nominations for various categories by emailing a photo or video, cell number,instagram name and email. to subr. sga@gmail.com.. the deadline is April 15.

CONFERENCE The Office of Research and Strategic Initiatives will host The Sustainability Conference on April 15, in the Cotillon Ballroom at 9a.m. Activities include Student Research Poster Symposium, Demonstrations by various departments ( Robotics, BioFuels, Healthy Living, Sustainable Fashion), and others, guest speaker, Southern University System Board member, Dr. Rani “Hip Hop Doc” Whitfield. Also the Beta Psi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. will present “Turn Your Trash into Treasure” at 7 p.m. All students and faculty are welcome!

DEMONSTRATION The council of Student Body presents a Statewide Higher Education Demonstration on April 15 from noon until 3 p.m. at the Louisiana State Capitol. students and alumni are invited to participate

The last day to withdraw from a course is April 20.

SU GAME ROOM

The SU Student Union Game room and Bowling Alley is open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Monday through Friday. Students are encouraged to participate INTRAMURAL COMPLEX in tournaments each semester.

The Intramural Complex will For more information contact host a swim meet on April 16 Recreational Coordinator Gerald in Seymour Gym at 5p,m.

Jones at 225-771-2020.

COLOR RUN Miss Southern will host the second Jags get Fit on April 19 DEBATES SGA Debates and Miss SU Revue will be April 16 in the F.G. Clark Activity Center at 7 p.m.

SAVING OUR GIRLS The SUBR Chapter of the Nation of Islam Student Association will sponsor a live webcast of Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday April 18 from 9 a.m until 1 p.m. in the Harris Hall Annex Auditorium. The meeting will be for women only, and girls and and women of all ages are welcome. Participants can RSVP online at http://Goo.gl/ forms/zfl9c6mdcd. For any questions or concerns contact (225)-357- 3079 WITHDRAW

BAPTIST MINISTRY

The Baptist Collegiate Ministry at Southern University holds Sunday services at 11:30 a.m. and bible study on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Services are held at the Louisiana Baptist State Convention Baptist Student Center located at 724 Harding Blvd.

CAR SHOW

The Capital City Car show will be held on Saturday April 18 at the A.W. Mumford Stadium Parking lot. Participants are asked to register their car, bike, atc, or truck by viditing capitalcitycarshowbr.com. The event is free to all SU students with a valid student ID. REVEALING REVELATION

The Berean Seventh Day Adventist SU Campus Ministry will host an in-depth and interactive study of Revelation’s

prophecies until April 24. Meetings will be at 7 p.m. every week night in the Seymour Gym Downstairs Classroom.

MEET AND GREET

SULSA will host a meet and greet April 16 at 6 p.m. in the Stewart Hall Auditorium. Students will meet advisors, counselors, and professors and enjoy refreshments.

INFO SESSION

City Year Inc. and Peace Corps will inform students of benefits of joining the service after graduation can enhance your lifestyle personally and professionally on April 15 at 11:30 a.m. in room 313 of T.T. Allain.

2015 JAGUAR YEARBOOK

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SU reaches beyond 5000 applicant goal

BY MARCHANDREA SEALS DIGEST STAFF WRITER

Southern University surpassed their 5,000 applicants goal for admissions, set at the beginning of the Fall 2014 semester, with applications being turned in earlier than previous years. A collaborative effort from Student Affairs, Southern University Alumni Federation, Interim Chancellor Flandus McClinton, and other SU staff and students brought the accomplishment to fruition.

Brandon K. Dumas, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management said this was a truly a testament of the collective power of the SU community.

“No one person did this, it was truly a team effort to be shared by all of the Jaguar Nation,” said Dumas.

As of March 2015, representatives from Southern visited approximately 315 high schools, including schools in Louisiana and college fairs in various states. Representatives also visited 219 middle, elementary schools, and religious schools. had 219 SU campus tours have also been given, along with a Pathway to Promise Recruitment Tour in 22 locations.

There will not be a limit placed on how many future students can be admitted to Southern University. If the capacity of living areas on campus were reached, future and current students would receive housing through other housing developments through out the city. One housing development that Southern have connection to is The Palisades at Jaguar City.

Bradford Hall, Washington Hall, and Bethune Hall are older dorms currently under renovations and all together can house 300 students. These dorms are located near J.S. Clark Administration building. There are over 1,600 rooms located on SU’s campus.

Dumas said there would be plenty of space for current and future students.

“We were once home to 10,000 students on this infrastructure,” said Dumas. “We added more building but not any academic buildings. I do not see how our infrastructure can affect our growing number of students,” Dumas added.

Junior BreAndrea Gills, a Nursing major from Minden, LA said she is glad Southern’s population is rising and views it as a chance to get more professors.

“It is good that Southern student population is increasing,” said Gills. “We get to see more professors teaching different subjects not just the same professor teaching three different classes.

Junior Joshua Williams, an Engineering major from New Orleans, LA said he just worried about where the future students going to reside and eat.

“There is already limited space on campus, people who applied for housing this year could not stay on campus because the rooms were filled up already,” said Williams. “Also only Mayberry is open and it already be too pack in there, while Dunn is still closed.”

The next steps for SU is to focus on transferring the applications to acceptance letters and continue recruiting. Dumas said now the work begins in trying to convert those applications to actually admitting students.

“That goal suggest to us the interest of SU education is still great and this institution is highly respected all over the country has it always has,” said Dumas. “There is still a lot of responsibility for us to translate those applications to admits so we can welcome a freshman class that would hopefully be a record number.”

To keep up with the amount of students applied for admissions to Southern University, check the SU Alumni page at sualumni.org.

Jodi Arias is sentenced to life in prison without parole

BY MICHAEL MUSKAL LOS ANGELES TIMES

Jodi Arias, at the center of a long-running saga of murder and sex, apologized for killing her ex-boyfriend and was then sentenced Monday to spend the rest of her life in prison without the possibility of parole.

“I am very, very sorry for the enormous pain I caused,” said Arias after relatives of the victim urged the harshest possible penalty. “To this day I can’t believe I was capable of doing something that terrible.

I am horrified by what I did and I wish there was some way I could take it back.”

Arias, now 34, shot and stabbed Travis Alexander, a former boyfriend whom prosecutors say she killed in a jealous rage in June 2008. A previous jury convicted her of murder in 2013 and agreed that the case could qualify for the death penalty but could not agree on whether to impose it.

Arias, whose murder trial drew nationwide attention, had been in a state of legal limbo since 2013, when the first jury convicted her but failed to resolve the sentence.

In October, a new jury in Phoenix began hearing the prosecutors’ case for a death sentence. The sentencing trial ran five months, about the length of the original trial. That trial was a media circus, leading television newscasts, inspiring quickly published e-books and prompting online arguments between her supporters and detractors.

The second jury was deadlocked 11-1 about the death penalty, meaning that Arias could receive only life in prison with or without the possibility of parole.

On Monday she received the harsher alternative.For the Alexander family, there was no question of the punishment they wanted. With the death penalty off

the table, they asked for the toughest jail sentence possible in memory of Travis.

“It hurts too much to remember him alive because if I remember him, I remember too much about how he was brutally taken from us and I can’t handle it,” Alexander’s sister, Hillary Wilcox, said amid tears in Arizona’s Maricopa County Court on Monday morning.

“This is what I’ve had to do so I can cope.”

Wilcox said during the televised proceedings that sometimes when she thinks of her brother she is in the shower, and, “I know that’s because that’s where she killed him, so I have to quickly shake it out of my head and get out of the shower.”

The second sister to speak, Tanisha Sorenson, turned and directly addressed Arias, citing Arias’ earlier claims in her personal journal where she said the person who killed Alexander deserved to die.

“What happened to that, Jodi?” a tearful Sorenson asked as she faced Arias.

Alexander’s relatives and friends wore blue in solidarity.

Prosecutor Juan Martinez said that Alexander’s relatives hope that Arias is sentenced to serve life without the possibility of parole “not because they want to be vindictive, but (because) as you have also seen, what happened in that bathroom was a butchering.”

The story of Arias and her lover was made for the digital era.

The attractive young couple were outwardly devout Mormons with a tempestuous life behind closed doors that was revealed to the first jury in graphic detail, including about their sex life, via recorded phone calls and text messages. Arias claimed self-defense and said Alexander had subjected her to physical and sexual abuse.

Franklin Carter/DIGEST Southern University highlights their application recruitment goal, which has exceeded 5,000 and is steadly increasing.

SU Financial Report Late

“Major Transitions” cause Two-Month Delay

BY LAQUENCIA PARKER DIGEST NEWS EDITOR

State auditors had a difficult time gathering information pertinent to Southern’s annual financial report for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2014. The original deadline for the report was September 19, in order to ensure the state’s Comprehensive Annual Fiscal Report of all agencies was issued by December 31. Southern’s report was not submitted until the 17 of November last year.

“During our audit work, we experienced numerous delays obtaining information, with more than one-third of our audit requests taking more than two weeks to fulfill and some taking more than three months,” said financial auditors.

Despite being two months late, the report was also reportedly “did not provide timely information to auditors, thereby jeopardizing the timely issuance” of Louisiana’s financial report. The audit report also states that errors involved “misclassifications and omissions” of data.

SU System President Ronald Mason attributes the mistakes to “major transitions” in management and vacancies in various positions. However, Mason assured that the system is in the process of creating better processes and reassigning staff.

“The Southern University System is fully committed to the principles of timely, accurate and complete financial reporting, and we will utilize our best efforts to ensure that we adhere to these principles and standards,” Mason wrote. “The system’s vice president for finance and business, along with the chief financial officers of the campuses, will be responsible for implementing corrective actions.” finished Mason in his statement.

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Derylle Spears II/DIGEST The A.W. Mumford Stadium, home of the Southern University Football team, is currently unmanicured during the off-season.

Is it a beach or a football field?

BY KAYLEN SCOTT DIGEST A&E WRITER

In terms of football over the past few years, the program at SU has exceeded expectations.

We don’t have the best athletes, but we have athletes that know how to win. We don’t have big name coaches, but we have coaches that know how to win. Over the past two years, SU football has reached its pinnacle; backto-back Southwestern Athletic Conference West Division champions, two conference title game appearances and captured one SWAC championship. One could say that the program is on the rise.

We are starting to recruit better players, and they’re signing scholarships to come and play. However, you would think with the recent success, revenue would be pouring in.

That’s not the case. Progress is supposed to bring in money to upgrade athletic facilities; but we can’t even keep a decent football

field. Not to mention a practice field.

The practice field is less than anything you can practice on. The playing surface is unleveled, putting players at risk of stepping in a hole and at best rolling their ankle. No water is supplied to keep the practice field moist and lush for activities. The area itself isn’t exactly the best location either. Any visiting team can come and watch practices and gain a possible advantage if rules weren’t the way they are.

Ask yourself, do we have a beach on campus? The football field is currently in a Spring Break like state; very beach-like.

Covered in weeds, uncut grass, and sand, you’d think an up and coming program would keep what they have nice to lure some of the more talented players to their roster.

After speaking with Eli Guillory, former head of the grounds crew, who seemed disappointed in the current condition of the

Lady Jags sweep UAPB

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field, he commented saying, “Man, it’s ridiculous. We have a one-man staff; one person is keeping all of the fields.

One person is the grounds keeper for the football field, baseball field, and practice field. We need a staff for that,” said Guillory.

I also spoke with Director of Athletic Facility Maintenance Lealon Castello, who left me with, “I have no comment on it.”

The reason the field is in the condition it is today is neglect. The groundskeeper only cares for fields that in current use when the sport is in season. Is it because the university doesn’t have the funds to staff a grounds crew? This situation raises the question of what’s really important. We spend an estimated five to eight hundred dollars per event we hold on campus, like parties or pageants, but cannot keep up with the athletic field that brings donors and

sponsorships.

We have events like parties and pageants nearly ever week, so how is it that, collectively, as a university, we cannot take care of our athletic facilities. For some students, athletics are the reason for their attendance. We host student athletes from as far south as Puerto Rico and as far north as Ontario, Canada. The goal of the university should be to make them feel comfortable, no matter how far away they are from home.

However, we can’t supply that level of comfort because money that should be used for better facilities and practice fields are diverted to social activities, which don’t generate any revenue for the school.

In essence, we’d rather have a party than keep our fields in prime conditions for our athletes.

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Saturday in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the Lady Jags softball team brought their brooms on the trip as they swept UAPB 10-5, 5-3, and 4-0 in three games at the Torii Hunter Complex. These were needed wins and a great effort by the Lady Jags softball team.

The Lady Jags pounded out 8 hits in the first game. Shortstop Alicia Barajas went 4-4 with 2 runs scored and one RBIs. Catcher Kiara Suttles went 2-3 with 3 runs scored and 2 RBI. Pine Bluff was led by Centerfielder Ja Hardrwick, who went 2-3 with 3 RBIs. Pine Bluff started the game off on a tear, scoring 4 of its 5 runs in the first inning. However they cooled down and scored their last run in the 6 inning.

The Lady Jags offensive spirt began in the third inning with 3 hits and 2 runs scored.

The 6 and 7 innings hurt Pine Bluff the most as the Jags tallied 4 runs in the 6 inning and 3 runs in the 7 inning. Pine Bluff shot themselves in the foot and the Lady Jags took advantage as Pine Bluff had 6 errors to Southern’s 1.

In the second game, the Lady Jags were swinging the bats well as they had 9 hits.

However, Pine Bluff was swinging just as good, if not better, as they had 12 hits. The Lady Jags jumped to a 3-1 lead after the first inning and wouldn’t relinquish the lead for the whole game. First Basemen Jade Luke led the Jags, going 2-3 with an RBI. Kiara Suttles, Ambrelle Burton, and Sara

Miller each contributed an RBI to carry the Jaguars on to victory 5-3. UAPB was led by Ja Hardwrick, who went 4-4 with 2 RBI. In the last game, the Lady Jags came equipped with their brooms as they swept UAPB. The Lady Jags took the last game 4-0. Kiara Suttles went 2-4 with an RBI. Jade Luke, Ambrelle Burton, and Amanda Pacheco each contributed an RBI to help the Jaguars to a 4-0 victory. The Lady Jags jumped to 3-0 lead after the 3rd inning and never looked back. They scored their last run in the 7th inning to put UAPB away.

Southern proved to be elite as Pine Bluff committed 5 errors. UAPB committed 12 errors in 3 games, while the Jaguars only committed 5. Delphia Holmes pitched a

complete game, only allowing 4 hits. Her record improved to 5-2 on the season. More importantly, the Jaguars improved to 12-11 and 9-4 in the SWAC. Sweeping UAPB proved to be vital for the Lady Jags as their record went over 500.

The Lady Jags went 5-1 over Spring Break.

They are currently in second place in the Western division in the SWAC, behind Texas Southern. The Lady Jags are streaking, as they have won 5 in a row. They hope to continue their win streak as they start their next series Friday against Prairie View A&M in Prairie View, Texas.

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Sweet Supremacy

Southern University Women’s Tennis wins sixth consecutive SWAC Championship

BY FELIX CUNNINGHAM III DIGEST MANAGING EDITOR/ SPORTS EDITOR

Courtesy Lathan Multimedia To finish the singles competition, Southern however came to a conclusion of winning when: Darnesha Moore came upsetted S. Ryan-Bovey (7-5, 6-4), Amanda Materre ended a double-double trialed victory against Ivana Boberic (7-5, 7-5) and Gabrielle Moore swept Patricia Norman (6-4, 6-0).

Southern also came to the conclusion that double competition was going to sync just as their conference season with wins all the way through. Syori and Kendall Bunch combatted A. Kelic and Boberic and treasured the overall set with a Southern win of (6-2). Camara Davis and Materre Taylor also came to a resolve when they closely defeated Aakanksha

BY KAYLEN SCOTT

DIGEST SPORTS WRITER

A red-hot Jaguar baseball team entered this past week on a seven game win streak. They swept in conference foes Grambling State and Prairie View, and in state opponent McNeese State. Subsequently, the went on a three game losing streak this week, dropping matches to Jackson State and Louisiana Lafayette; who mercy-ruled the Jags 14-1. After three consecutive loses, SU was set to take on New Orleans based Loyola. The Jags and the Wolfpack faced each other in a double header Saturday afternoon.

SU would drop the first of the double header in a 7-3 loss. Starting pitcher James Fontenot pitched a decent outing in the first matchup.

He went five innings and allowed three earned runs before giving up the lead in the 6. The Wolfpack’s Jordan Wilson would break a three all tie with a two run single. Loyola would add to its lead with two RBI singles, one in the eighth inning and the second one coming in the ninth inning.

Loyola’s Daniel Posway would pitch four shutout innings and pick up his first save of the season to finalize the win in the first half of the double header, Fontenot would give up seven two out hits, which undoubtedly kept Loyola in the match.

“That’s a lot of two-out hits, with two outs you’ve got to be able to put people away,” said head coach Roger Cador.

The second game would be much different.

A pitching change lit a bit of a fire under struggling SU ball club, who lost its last three previous contests. Tyler Robinson, who regularly pitches on Sundays got the start on

Saturday. Santos Saldivar, who sits atop the pitching rotation came out of the bullpen in the second duel of the double header.

Saldivar would capture a save and the last six outs to close out the game 7-2. SU kicked off the scoring when infielder Marcus Tomlin drove in a run on an RBI single in the third inning. The lead would accumulate to 2, when outfielder Lance Jones tripled and scored on a throwing error in the bottom of the fourth.

Tomlin would single again and drive in another run in the bottom of the fifth. Robinson made his first presence back on the mound since straining his groin a week earlier against Prairie View. Loyola would place a runner on base in each inning, however, Robinson would keep them from manufacturing a single run until the sixth inning. Robinson said he began to feel fatigued. The strained groin kept him from running earlier on throughout the week.

The Wolfpack would score its first run thanks to three wild pitches by Robinson.

Saldivar would come in for relief duty for Robinson. He did allow one run, but the offense came alive in the bottom of the eighth; as the Jags scored four runs. Jose de la Torre had an RBI single, Robinson Mateo drove in two runs with an RBI single of his own, and Tyler Lee brought home two Jaguars with an RBI double. Robinson pitched five scoreless innings, and seven impressive innings altogether.

“I just said we’re not losing this game, I walked out there with intensity. I wanted to pitch,” said starting pitcher Tyler Robinson.

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This marks the fourteenth time that the Jaguars have entered the SWAC tournament and for the past six years, but this year, the banner has shifted. In the six past years, Southern has faced Alcorn for the title.

The number one singles player, Syori was named the 2015 tournament MVP as well as placed on the 2015 SWAC Women’s Tennis Tournament Team alongside teammates, Morgan Taylor, Gabrielle Moore, and Darnesha Moore.

Head Coach Jeff Conyers was named SWAC Coach of the Year and received the honor humbly.

Unfortunately due to the academic ban placed on Southern, the tennis team will not be able to advance to the NCAA tournament on May 14-25 and Alcorn will take their bid.

These girls are known to take home the gold with the core duty and discipline the team holds. One could see the girls practice on the tennis courts earl in the morning or even during the early parts of Spring Break when everyone else is on a break.

People will be on the edge of Social Media if Southern reaches and captures the SWAC once again and by the way they’re performing, it won’t be too long.

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Since the fall semester for Southern University Athletics, every team has entered the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament only to retrieve false hopes.

Unlike the teams before them, the tennis team has entered into the SWAC tournament five consecutive times over and won those five times in a row.

This past Sunday at the Hilton Riverside Health Club Tennis Facility, Southern once again stormed the SWAC when they compiled a sixth entrance and exited with championship status once again when they beat the number two seed, Alcorn (4-1).

This season, Southern has once again hit the top spot as they were number one going into the championships. They also concocted a winning season in-conference because they won seven games overall and swept the conference while Alcorn led at swift second with only one loss to stain their record.

In singles competition, Southern pulled out a sweep when only Laura Syori suffered a loss against Alcorn’s Aida Kelic (6-2, 6-3). This was a hardened set with competitive status.

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Men’s Federation Vice-President ELECTED

ELECTED

Name: JUWAN SIMS

Name: DILLAN HYPOLITE

Classification: Senior Major: Mechanical Engineering How will you be a change agent?

By bringing a diverse cabinet and properly cultivating the men of Southern University to become great idols to our university.

Classification: Sophomore Major: Mass Communication How will you be a change agent?

I’d rather allow my work to speak for itself.

Expect a great year!

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Senior Class President ELECTED

ELECTED

NO PHOTO AVAILABLE Name: SARAH THANNI Classification: Sophomore

Name: KADASJAH MCMILLON Classification: Sophomore Major: Social Work How will you be a change agent?

By increasing student morale within women students.

Name: ZANA HARRIS Classification: Sophomore Major: Accounting How will you be a change agent? I will be a change agent at Southern University because I plan to implement programs on campus that will redefine the culture of women on our campus.

REMEMBER EVERY VOTE COUNTS.

Miss Senior Elect ELECTED

Name: LYDELL MCLEMORE Classification: Junior Major: Nursing How will you be change agent?

I will follow through with ideas and incorporate my classmates in all desisions I make. I will have a bond with my classmates that will bring forth call unity.

Name: CHARON JOHNSON Classification: Junior Major: Mechanical Engineering How will you be a change agent?

I am hard-working and driven. I will use this to carry out my platform as well as help Miss SU with her initiatives to better my HBCU.

Miss Junior Candidates

Junior Class President ELECTED

NO PHOTO AVAILABLE Name: CORINNE VAUGHN

Name: TEVONTE BENNETT

Classification: Sophomore Major: Political Science How will you be a change agent?

I will be a queen with a voice. I advocate the unity and royalty of all of my brothers and sisters.

Classification: Sophomore

Junior Class Senator

Name: TAYLOR SEMONES Classification: Sophomore Major: Child Development How will you be a change agent?

I will encourage the unification of my class.

Sophomore Class President ELECTED

ELECTED

Name: KYLER LASTIE

Name: ARMOND DUNCAN

Classification: Sophomore Major: Civil Engineering How will you be a change agent?

By continuing to serve my institution to the best of my abilities and continuing to implement innovative ideas.

Classification: Freshman Major: Business Management/Marketing How will you be a change agent?

I plan to provide various effective and beneficial programs to better my class and the university at large.

Miss Sophomore Candidates

Sophomore Class Senator ELECTED

Name: TIARA JOHNSON

Name: BREANNA WILLIS

Classification: Freshman Major: Chemistry How will you be a change agent?

I will be a change agent by being committed to the ideals I’ve presented to my class.

Classification: Freshman Major: English How will you be a change agent?

Make the sophomore class have a fun, tasteful and motivational experience, as well as to improve and ensure a high graduation rate amongst my class.

Name: JASMINE WILLIAMS Classification: Freshman Major: Marketing How will you be a change agent?

By focusing on initiatives that are relevant to the student body and always keeping the students first in mind.

REFERENDUM #1 For the purpose of creating a revenue source to fund much needed student scholarships, campus beautification projects, facility upgrades, student affairs vehicle fleet maintenance, and other student-driven service initiatives, do you support the creation of the 20 for 20 fee?”

REFERENDUM #2 Do you support a new self-assessed non-refundable fee of three dollars and zero cents ($3.00) for the Gold’N’Bluez Dance Team?

REFERENDUM #3 Do you support an increase of the self-assessed non-refundable fee of one dollar and zero cents ($1.00) to three dollars and zero cents ($3.00) for the new Southern University Jaguar Ambassadors?

REFERENDUM #4 Do you support an increase of the self-assessed non-refundable fee of five dollars and zero cents ($5.00) to ten dollars and zero cents ($10.00) for the Southern University Human Jukebox?

REFERENDUM #5 Do you support an increase of the self-assessed non-refundable fee of three dollars and zero cents ($3.00) to six dollars and zero cents (6.00) for the Southern University Cheerleaders?

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Jack-of-All-Trades

BY JACARIA BICKHAM DIGEST A&E WRITER

Southern University’s art gallery, located in Frank Hayden Hall, houses art exhibits that display the works of the university’s art majors. However, on April 1, the Art Department gave nonart majors a chance to exhibit their work to the public with a special art showing.

Jacaria Bickham/DIGEST “Songs on the Cicadas,” a piece painted

by SU graduate student Veronica Carter (2013) is displayed Southern University art gallery located in Frank Hayden Hall.

Submitted artwork could come in any medium.

“The purpose of this exhibition is to highlight works of art form students who are non-art majors,” explained Professor Randell Henry. “Many of the students

on Southern University’s campus are artists. If there were not a show for them to participate in, how would they get exposure? This is an opportunity for students to show the university what they can do outside of their majors,” finished Henry.

Thirteen students participated in the exhibition, and had their work judged

by Antoine “GHOST” Mitchell, a visual artist and spoken word poet from Norwood, LA, and Richard Walls.

“This is all great work, but not everyone can win,” said Professor of Art History and Drawing, Robert Cox. Out of the 13 students, only a few placed. Joshua White received second place for his acrylic painting titled “Refugee”. Despite placing second, the painting was one that was visited frequently by the audience, and was sold during the evening. Veronica Carter, a Mental Health graduate student, took first place for her art piece, “Miles, Mingus, Trane”.

Honorable mentions were also awarded to Brooke Robinson for her ceramic piece “Puppy Love” and Kayla Foster for her photo, “A Day in Central Park”.

The exhibition will remain in the gallery through the 30 of April, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hours will be extended on Wednesday evenings from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Jacaria Bickham/DIGEST Art mural outside of the Southern University art gallery located in Frank Hayden Hall.

Jacaria Bickham/DIGEST “Southern,” a piece painted by SU student Joshua White (2009) is displayed in the Southern University art gallery located in Frank Hayden Hall.

Apple Watch first-day orders in US neared an estimated 1 million

BY PARESH DAVE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Orders for the Apple Watch quickly soared to nearly 1 million in the U.S. on Friday, according to one research firm’s estimate.

Nearly two-thirds of customers purchased the Sport model, the least expensive at about $383. The black band was the most popular and the larger 42-mm variety was chosen 71 percent of the time, according to Slice Intelligence.

Apple’s newest gadget went on sale online at 12:01 a.m. Friday and was quickly showing four-to-six-week delays for shipping.

Customers who got in early could receive their watch as early as April 24.

Slice, which extrapolates sales by pooling receipts from groups of consumers, said many buyers bought multiple watches, averaging out to 1.3 watches each. Hundreds of the newly purchased watches have ended up on EBay. Apple also sold 48,000 of its new MacBook laptops on Friday, Slice estimated.

Financial analysts have predicted that firstyear sales of the watch could reach 40 million worldwide.

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Social Media and the First Amendment

BY DESTINY SMITH DIGEST STAFF WRITER

Social media is the Holy Grail for communication with today’s generation. It has become so prevalent that some people even opt to communicate information many would consider to be private or personal via Twitter, rather than being “old fashioned” and phoning a friend or sending a text message. Social media is a great way to keep up to date with friends and family, share jokes, and spread information and news. But, with every platform that has the aptitude to spread good, there is always an equal opportunity to spread negativity.

In recent news, the chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Oklahoma University gained a lot of media attention when social media exposed a nine-second video uploaded to YouTube that depicted members chanting racist lyrics to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” As expected, the public did not react well to their racially insensitive expressions and through social media, awareness and disdain for their actions grew. In response, the national headquarters for SAE ordered the OU chapter to close and suspend all members. They also gave the foreboding warning that, “Those members who are responsible for the incident may have their membership privileges revoked permanently.”

Though this incident has brought about many questions concerning race relations, it has also sparked the conversation about how much regulation can be put on a

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college student’s social media activity.

Though many people can agree that what those men said was both distasteful and offensive, the First Amendment protects our freedom of speech and gives United States citizens the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint.

By law, the boys guilty of participating in the racist SAE chant did “nothing” wrong, but were still subjected to punishment due to the negativity their chant spread through social media.

In less extreme cases of social media regulation, many college athletes’ Twitter,

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Instagram and Facebook accounts are monitored and regulated by coaches and staff. In some cases, team members are not allowed to use social media at all.

From a university’s stand point, regulating their student’s social media is a way to protect the integrity of the university, and make sure that individualistic views do not outweigh the holistic views of the school itself. This debate is a frequent and ongoing one because of the fact that in this new social media age, we now have to decide how much regulation is appropriate for college students, and how

much interference authority figures can run before the person is being denied their first amendment rights.

While decisions and opinions are still being formed, those who use social media should be aware of the power it holds, and acknowledge that what is done online can very well resurface in day to day life. Use common sense when choosing what to post, and be reluctant to post or repost anything involving illegal activities, bullying, violence or confidential information. Regardless of the settings on your profile, nothing is private.

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Dom (Vin Diesel) stars in Furious 7. (Photo courtesy Universal Pictures/TNS)

‘Furious 7’ still in box-office driver’s seat; ’Longest Ride’ comes in third

BY YVONNE VILLARREAL LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES _ “Furious 7” again raced to the top spot at the box office this weekend.

The latest installment from the Universal Pictures franchise dominated ticket sales with an estimated $60.6 million in the U.S. and Canada in its second weekend _ a robust number despite a 59 percent drop from its opening weekend.

When factored in with its $143.6 million opening, the second-weekend receipts pushed the film’s total to $252.5 million _ the highest ever for the franchise.

The film, which had a $190 million price tag, crossed the $200 million mark in just eight days, surpassing the studio’s previous record for reaching that milestone, set in 2013 by “Despicable Me 2” in 11 days.

Directed by James Wan (“Saw,” “Insidious,” “The Conjuring”), “Furious 7” passed the $800 million mark worldwide in less than two weeks, with a big boost coming from China.

The action film opened in first place in China on Sunday, with an estimated $68.6 million, the highest one-day gross ever for the country.

The final film for the late actor Paul Walker, “Furious 7” fills out its ensemble with Vin Diesel, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson and Michelle

Rodriguez. They reach high speeds in Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, the Dominican Republic and Abu Dhabi.

Walker died in a car crash away from production in November 2013, and the release date was pushed back from July 2014. Computer effects were used to complete Walker’s remaining scene, and his brothers Caleb and Cody were brought in as stand-ins.

Curiosity about how the film would handle the Walker’s death likely helped ticket sales, though Nicholas Carpou, Universal’s head of domestic distribution, said fan interest was a bigger factor opening weekend.

“While curiosity could be a factor, the first weekend would have been the one to quench that thirst,” Carpou said. “But what we’re seeing in some cases is that people are seeing it multiple times. ... There’s tremendous interest on what this group of characters does next and what exploits they undergo.”

DreamWorks Animation’s “Home” landed in second place in its third weekend with $19 million, while this weekend’s romance newcomer “The Longest Ride” roped in the No. 3 spot.

The adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks tale, starring Scott Eastwood and Britt Robertson, brought in $13.5 million _ in line with projections.

The 20th Century Fox film, about a rodeo star who romances a college student, cost $34 million to make and performed better than the most recent Sparks’ adaptation,

“The Best of Me,” which opened in October to $10 million.

Still, “The Longest Ride” numbers were low for a Sparks adaptation. “Safe Haven” took in $21.4 million in its 2013 opening, and “The Lucky One” opened at $22.5 million in 2012.

“As the film moves forward and word of mouth spreads, things will pick up,” Chris Aronson, Fox’s head of distribution, said of “The Longest Ride.” “There’s a clear playing field ahead for a romantic film. And we saw that its strong suit was between the coasts.”

Though it didn’t find love with critics, audiences gave it an A rating with polling firm CinemaScore. As Aronson noted, ticket sales were strong in middle America and, as expected, the audience skewed female (73 percent).

“Get Hard,” the prison comedy starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart, came in fourth place with $8.6 million in its third weekend. The Warner Bros. R-rated comedy, which cost $40 million to make, has grossed $71.2 million to date.

PG-rated “Cinderella,” meanwhile, rounded out the top five with $7.2 million. The Disney live-action film has brought in a domestic total of $180.8 million during its five weeks in theaters.

In limited release, the well-reviewed artificial intelligence thriller “Ex Machina” opened with an impressive $62,489 per-screen-average. The film, which marks the directorial debut of “28 Days Later” writer Alex Garland, will expand to more theaters on April 24

John Legend goes Pop with an a cappella documentary series

BY STEPHEN BATTAGLIO LOS ANGELES TIMES

Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter John Legend is executive producing a documentary-style series on an a cappella competition series for cable network Pop. Pop, the former TV Guide Network that has been renamed and marketed as a destination for pop culture enthusiasts, announced the series at its upfront announcement for the

2015-16 TV season.

Inspired by the hit movie “Pitch Perfect,” the series “Sing It On” will premiere May 13 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The eight-episode series will go behind the scenes to follow five collegiate a cappella teams as they compete in the International Championship of Collegiate A Capella finals.

Legend performed in a collegiate a cappella group at the University of Pennsylvania.

The series, which will move to 9 p.m. ET/PT Wednesdays starting May 20, is co-produced

by Legend’s Get Lifted Film Company and Core Media Group, which makes “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance.”

Pop, jointly owned by CBS Corp. and Lionsgate, also announced that it has a development deal with Legend’s Get Lifted Film Company to “develop projects that fit within the mission statement of both entities.”

(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

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“Every time I close my eyes, all I see is my brother taking those bullets.”

- Rodney Scott Once again, a police department is under scrutiny after a white officer’s apparent misuse of deadly force left an unarmed black man dead and his loved ones and the rest of the world asking questions.

Walter L. Scott, 50, was shot and killed last weekend by North Charleston, S.C., Patrolman First Class Michael T. Slager, 33, a five-year veteran of the city’s Police Department. The shooting was caught on video by a bystander with a cellphone camera.

The video, which surfaced Tuesday, appears to refute Slager’s allegation that he shot Scott because he felt threatened. It shows the officer firing eight times at a fleeing man who had been stopped for driving with a broken brake light. Four bullets reportedly struck Scott in or below his back, and a fifth

clipped his ear.

Almost as disturbing as watching an officer shoot an unarmed man is seeing Slager and another officer do little to save his life. Police reports said the officers administered CPR. But the video doesn’t show that. Rather, it shows Slager handcuffing a mortally wounded Scott and the officers lifting his shirt to look at his wounds.

The video also shows Slager walking back to where he and Scott struggled, picking up an unknown object, and dropping it on the ground near where Scott is lying. There is speculation that Slager moved his dropped Taser to corroborate his story that Scott had taken it.

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has charged Slater with murder, and the FBI and Justice Department are also investigating. Perhaps the video will make it easier to find the truth and keep the case from following the path of similar incidents that have sparked demonstrations in recent months.

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Rallies continue to be held to protest the deaths of unarmed black men in altercations with police in Ferguson, Mo., Staten Island, N.Y., and Cleveland, Ohio, where a 12-yearold boy carrying a toy gun, Tamir Rice, was gunned down. The frequency of such incidents prompted President Barack Obama to appoint a task force to recommend changes in policing.

That panel came up with 60 recommendations for the police to gain more trust in towns like Ferguson and North Charleston with large African-American populations but mostly white police forces.

More diversity might make departments less likely to treat minorities differently.

In the meantime, as the task force recommended, body cameras would make officers more mindful of their actions, knowing they will be recorded even if there’s no one with a cellphone or camera nearby.

After death of Walter Scott, why are we still shocked?

BY PAUL C. TAYLOR LOS ANGELES TIMES

Once again, an unarmed black man _ Walter Scott _ has been killed under suspicious circumstances by a white police officer. Once again, we know about this not because the police themselves brought it to light, but because an enterprising bystander in North Charleston, S.C., trained his phone’s camera on the action and concerned citizens insisted that we pay attention. And once again, we greet this news with shock and disbelief.

But why are we still shocked?

The killings of Trayvon Martin, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Eric Garner and Michael Brown, terrible as they were, had at least one silver lining. They ushered into the light of mainstream attention a set of issues that black and brown people have been wrestling with for years.

Ever since the United States repudiated its official racism and formally embraced residents of all backgrounds as its citizens, black and brown people have walked a fine and emotionally fraught line. This line is especially clear to black parents. We teach our children to respect the law, to focus on its potential as a shield against oppression and as an emblem of democratic possibilities. But we also teach them suspicion, to steel them against the ever-present possibility that the agents of the law will squander its potential and brutalize the people they are sworn to protect.

We have always walked this line, but only recently have we done it in full view of the entire nation.

After the civil rights movement and hiphop culture, after Oprah and the Obamas, black life sits more comfortably at the center of the American mainstream than ever before.

And now, with 24-hour news cycles, everpresent cameras, and always-vibrant social media feeds, the anxieties, controversies and concerns that roil black communities can get everyone’s attention more easily than ever before.

So why, after everything we’ve heard recently, are we still shocked?

We know about the racial disparities in police surveillance, in arrests, in sentencing.

We know about the communities that, like Ferguson and North Charleston, are populated mostly by black people but policed and run mostly by white people. We know that communities like this are vulnerable to dehumanizing treatment _ to being treated as ATMs by revenue-hungry municipalities, and as bull’s-eyes and punching bags by overmilitarized security forces.

If we know all that, how is it that this latest tragic encounter still scandalizes us? We should be outraged, to be sure. But we should not be stunned.

We continue to be astonished in part because of the way we think about morals in social life.

First, Americans are skeptical of black and brown testimony. The things that we now know, after Trayvon and the others, are things that we could have and should have known long ago. What was happening in Ferguson was no secret. But we have a long history of ignoring the experiences of our problem people. So even now, we still can’t quite believe that things are as bad as “those people” say.

Second, we are not skeptical enough when it comes to our public safety officers. We want to believe that they are all virtuous and pure, and that none of them would do the bad things that people in targeted communities say they do.

Third, we want our moral lives to be simple.

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We want villains and heroes, rather than the complex characters that all of us actually are. Instead of accepting that otherwise good people sometimes do bad things, we see that the accused is not a monster _ Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson looked like a nice, normal person _ and take that as evidence that he could not be the agent of culpable wrongdoing.

More than this, we want solitary villains and heroes. We want Batman, toiling alone against evil, and the Joker, acting out his private resentments and desires. This bias makes it harder to see that we’ve set up systems that encourage and excuse bad behavior and that make this behavior harder to discern and discourage.

Put all of these factors together, and the struggle against race-related state violence becomes a game of whack-a-mole. We wait for an incident to flare up, we beat it down, and we wait for the next one.

In 1963, James Baldwin wrote that the crime of American democracy was that it didn’t know, and didn’t want to know, how its racism was destroying people. This false innocence was the main target of his book, “The Fire Next Time,” and it remains a factor in the fires this time, in the upheavals in Ferguson and North Charleston.

We don’t want to know how our approaches to policing and our ideas about crime and criminals turn certain of our communities into tinderboxes awaiting the match. If we wanted to know, we would keep good records about apparent bias in police-involved killings, and we would empower civilian review boards.

We would, above all, let go of our astonishment, so that we can anticipate the next shooting _ because there will be one _ and try to prevent it.

BY: DERYLLE SPEARS II DIGEST LAYOUT EDITOR

ANTANESHIA JONES CRIMINAL JUSTICE FRESHMAN BATON ROUGE

“I want to find someone to decrease the violence going on on around campus.”

RONALD BARNES BUSINESS FRESHMAN NEW ORLEANS

“I want to see the next president improve student involvement on campus.”

BETHANY DAVIS CRIMINAL JUSTICE FRESHMAN BATON ROUGE

“We need somebody to make this campus fun and interesting. Someone thats not just going to talk. Somebody thats going get the job done.”

NICHOLAS HARRIS MASS COMMUNICATION JUNIOR SHREVEPORT

“Someone who is assertive and can carry out the task they were appointed to do. Also, fulfill all of the promises made to the student body and someone who is student oriented.”

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