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Volume 61, Issue 8
A cut above University Hall of Fame awaits barbers Aristide Phillips
The Southern Digest The Southern University Hall of Fame will induct SU’s most notable barbers, Robert Irvin Sr. and Roland Irvin Jr. Friday for their many years of service to faculty, students and staff. Nearly 50 years of service to the university, the once trio has cut the hair of many legends that has come through SU. Robert Irvin Sr. is the oldest of the brothers, and he has cut hair at SU for more than 50 years and said that he is a Southernite all the way. “Coming here as a young man 18-19 years old everything that I have accomplished over the years is because of Southern University,” Robert Irvin said. Roland Irvin Jr. has cut hair on SU’s campus for more than 40 years, and with all of the experience, comes all of the stories. “People like to come to our barber shop because they know they get genuine information; however, blunt, it is because they get the truth and they appreciate that,” Roland Irvin Jr. said. Their brother Donald passed away earlier this year. The Irvin brothers have cut the hairs of Ace Mumford, Bob “Butterbean” Love, Mel Blount, Avery Johnson, and countless other SU legends. The Irvin brothers have witnessed many generations of families who have matriculated through Southern. Between the three, there are more than
130 years of combined hair cutting that has occured in the Smith-Brown Memorial Union. Charlie Granger, chairman of the SU Hall of Fame, came to Robert and Roland and asked Robert Irvin Sr. and Roland Irvin Jr. how long have they been there and which athlete’s hair have they cut. As Robert Irvin Sr. began to name a few of the now legends, Granger stopped Robert Irvin Sr. in mid sentence realizing that the Irvin brothers should be recommended for the SU Hall of Fame. “It made me feel good to know that bringing them in as legends was a really beautiful thing,” Granger said. Granger said it amazed him to see the interaction the brothers had with their clients and he knew by just sitting in their barbershop that he had to get them in the hall of fame. A week later Granger called Robert Irvin Sr. and said that the brothers were voted in unanimously and for Robert Irvin Sr. and Roland Irvin Jr. what was once a possibility is now their reality. “I was kind of shocked and surprised,” Robert Irvin said. “I never envisioned being inducted into the hall of fame.” When asked why they stayed so long, the brothers simply said they love what they do, and that love for what they do has gotten them into the Hall of Fame. Friday not far from the same place they cut hair, the Irvin brothers will be enshrined into SU’s History.
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Roland, Robert and Donald (Not Pictured) Irvins have more than 130 years of combined experience as barbers at Southern University. The barbers have served in areas of problem solving, counseling and outreach and will be inducted into Southern University’s Hall of Fame.
“Metacognition: The Key to Acing Courses” touted at SU Ariana Triggs
The Southern Digest The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence and the Center for Student Success hosted “Metacognition: The Key to Acing Courses” to help students learn cognitive learning strategies that could help them achieve higher grades. The seminar created an interactive environment for the students and showed them some of the problems that they have when they are studying. Michelle Taylor junior elementary education major from New Orleans said she came for bonus points for one of her courses but left with an overflow of information. “I didn’t know that it would be so informative and I learned good reading strategies and study strategies,” Taylor said. Taylor said some of the things she learned at the seminar, helped her understand how to incorporate new study tips in her reading and studying. “It was interesting because it helped us think outside of the box,” Taylor said. Bryan Bowman, Jr. senior music education major from New Orleans said he came to the seminar to gain the resources needed to ace courses.
“I came today to hopefully gain some extra knowledge on studying,” said Bowman. Bowman said one of his problems was procrastination and that was one of the topics discussed in the seminar. “Hopefully I can take the knowledge that I’ve learned today and apply it in the future,” Bowman said. Sandra McGuire SU alum and former Assistant Vice Chancellor for Learning and Teaching was the guest speaker for the seminar, which discussed cognitive learning strategies for students to achieve higher grades.“The strategies that I talk about now, I developed some of them at LSU but they were doing a lot of this at LSU already and I didn’t know it,” McGuire said. McGuire discussed problems that students have with procrastination and time management. She demonstrated how students could tailor studying to their schedules. She did an activity with the students to show them some of the problems that they have when they are studying, such as memorization and concentration. “They don’t really do presentations like this, but they do talk about learning strategies, and time management,” McGuire said.
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McGuire said she does not take credit for a lot of things that are online because the information has already been there. After the presentation of information, McGuire gave the students a challenge to put the tools that she taught to them to action and to maintain at least a 3.0 grade point average.McGuire was invited to speak to the Southern University students by Cynthia D. Bryant director of the Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence. According to Bryant, CTLE is required to have four speakers per semester to come and speak to the students for exposure to different resources outside the university. “We want our students, faculty and staff to be exposed to all of the different resources out there so that we can be an institution of excellence,” Bryant said. Bryant said it’s her job to try to go out and bring people to the university. “We want to enhance what we already know and develop us as staff and faculty so that we can give students more,” Bryant said. Raymond Clarke of the Division of Student Success closed the program with thanking McGuire for coming to speak to the students and asking that the students in attendance share what they had learned with their classmates.
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Kayla Foster/DIGEST Sandra Y. McGuire, former assistant vice chancellor for Learning and Teaching, Professor of Chemistry and Director Emeritas of the Center for Academic Success at LSU, creates an interactive learning environment.
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fall semester is set to start October THE 83RD MISS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY CORONATION AND GALA This is the ceremony for the crowning of Miss Southern University. Hosted by the Chancellor of the Batwon Rouge Campus and joined by the former Miss SU’s (The Miss Southern Sisters Organization), the Committee, Faculty Students, and Staff, Miss Southern University is honored and officially crowned as our Queen. This event takes place October 23.
SPIRIT DAY Spirit day is October 21. Students are asked to dress up in blue and gold for the day. Hosted by the AWS and MENS FEDERATION The Department or Organization that sells the most wins the Spirit contest and an Office Party.
HOMECOMING PEP RALLY Free and Open to the Public we will be rallying up our Jaguar Nation for the Big Game! We will host performances and appearances by the SU Human Jukebox Marching Band, Cheerleaders, Gold’N Bluez Dance Team, SU Football Team, Fall Sports teams, and More with Special Guest Performances. The rally will be at Seymour Gymnasium from12:00 PM - 2:00 PM.
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Who’s Speaking Out? How do you feel about the new campus beautification? What do you think should be done to the campus? “I think it looks good, but beautification should take place around the residential halls as well to give the students a sense of pride for where they stay and not just the school they go to.” Shalli Shello Criminal Justice Freshman
“I feel that the new campus beautification isn’t noticable. what I think should be done to the campus is to have a clean up crew to pick up the trash on campus. Also plant some more flowers.” Ron Robinson Mechanical Engineering Freshman Melville, LA
“I think the campus looks nice. We should provide more trash cans on campus. I think we should provide more healthier foods on campus also.” Briana Green Music Freshman Atlanta, Georgia
Speaker series on the State of Louisiana On October 2 the Speaker series of the State of Louisiana is hosted by the Southern University’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences will be held in the lobby of Higgins Hall from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
“The campus looks very nice as opposed to my freshman year, where I saw only construction and a small, cramped financial aid office. I’m proud to say it actually looks like a college campus, but I would want to see more seating Del’Patrick B. Hayes Civil Engineering Junior Alexandria, LA
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Black College Wire “I am homeless.” “The money is gone,” Taylor Pettway, then a Spelman student, cried out in a plea of desperation almost a year ago as she and her family faced the very extant reality of living homeless on the streets of Atlanta. For Pettway, who had just walked across the stage as a graduate, the final straw in a string of seemingly unending and insurmountable challenges characterized the unusually tough spring a year ago when she, along with her family, had temporarily moved into the home of a family friend; and with nowhere else to go and nothing left to do, she wrote. “Understand that this takes courage,” she began. “My name is Taylor Pettway. I am a senior psychology major, creative writing minor, and I am homeless along with my mother, Lena Pettway, and my 16-year old sister, Bradly, and 14-year old brother, Chandler.” Throughout much of her life, Pettway recalled a “tattered” childhood characterized by an absent father and the indomitable will of a mother who, despite financial hardships, refused to give in. And indeed, they didn’t give in. For many students touched by the story, homelessness, for once, had been given an identifiable face.
It had become surreal. The House Burned down Undoubtedly we’ve all bear witness to the “typical” images and stories of homelessness –the man or woman or child under the bridge, frayed and worn from struggle. But this was something different. Here was a student enrolled at one of the country’s most prestigious colleges, surrounded mostly by students of middle-income backgrounds, as disconnected from their realities as they were to hers, through no fault of their own, of course. Blow after blow, she and her family was hit. And comeback after comeback, they kept going. “The Sunday after Thanksgiving in 2011, the house that my family and my aunt’s family lived in burned down,” Pettway wrote. Everything she had –every trinket, every tangible item that connected her to a sense of normalcy in past and present –had perished. And for months, she and her family lived from the trunk of a car.“I knew that God was going to do something,” Pettway passionately proclaimed in a recent interview. Moving from temporary housing to extended stay hotels proved to be god-sent refuge amidst metaphorical storms that seemed to have been insurmountable. More than a year later, her mom found gainful employment with the college. Though they still reside in
an extended stay hotel, she says, things are looking up. “…and that is a testament to where we have been and where we are’” Pettway said. “We are living and not just alive.” There Are More As quiet as it seems to be, there were more stories across the country like Pettway’s. Joshua Williams recently graduated from Bethune-Cookman University and experienced similar hardships. “Before the sun comes up, I would make sure I was somewhere to lay down,” Williams recounted in the Daytona Beach News-Journal. “I knew I was homeless, but I said to myself I’d rather be in Daytona homeless trying to go to school than ever go back to Miami.” Just days ago, the world learned of soon-to-be Spelman student Chelsea Fearse, the valedictorian of her senior class at a Clayton Co. high school, who had been homeless for much of her high school career. She lived in her mother’s car, as she recalled in an interview with 11 Alive News in Atlanta. Support Spread Like Wildfire Pettway’s letter and the struggles of each of these very similar cases are as much a call to action as they are a plea for help on an issue that is nothing new for college campuses, nationwide. According to FAFSA data, nearly 30,000 college students identified themselves as homeless in the
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Taylor Pettway, a student at Spellman College in Atlanta was homeless almostt year ago. before. I was connected with a wealth of people to help me along.” Nationwide, the number of students speaking up to address homelessness among college students is on the rise. Likewise, institutional support and the role that colleges should play has become a topic of debate. “In my own circumstance, the support was there,” Pettway said. “Both Spelman and Morehouse’s Alumni Associations called me and offered to clean up the house and fix it up. So like I said, God is still working.”
2011–2012 academic year, while incomplete data for the current year is showing similar trends. For Pettway, the Spelman community was adequate in providing her the networking to and resources to better provide for her family. Friends of Taylor came together and initiated a fund to help. Like wildfire, support came from all angles. Money, furniture, job offers, words of encouragement. “Faculty and staff who I connected to reached out to me,” she recalled. “The connections ran deep. I’ve never experienced this
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SouThErn ScorEboard FOOTBALL STANDINGS EASTERN DIVISION SWAC Overall W L W L Alcorn St. Jackson St. Alabama St. Alabama A&M Miss. Valley
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Last Week’s Results SOUTHERN 17, Miss. Valley 7 Alcorn St. 21, Arkansas-PB 16 Alabama St. 52, Grambling St. 21 Jackson St. 35, Texas Southern 7 Prairie View 28, Alabama A&M 26 This Week’s Games Jackson St. at. SOUTHERN, 6 pm Alcorn St. at. Alabama St. 5 pm Lamar. at. Grambling St. 6 pm Prairie View at. SF-Austin 6 pm Tex. Southern at Alabama St., 6 pm
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Offensive Player of the Week Lee Doss, SOUTHERN: Doss hauled in 10 catches for 164 yards and one touchdown in the Jaguars’ 17-7 win at Mississippi Valley State. He accounted for more than half of SU’s total offense. Defensive Player of the Week Daerius Washington, Alabama St.: Washington tallied eight tackles, including 0.5 tackle-for-a-loss and returned an interception 19 yards for a touchdown. He helped lead a defense that held Grambling State to 12 rushing yards. Specialist of the Week Travis Jatzlau, Prairie View A&M: Jatzlau averaged 43.6. yards per punt with a long of 53 in Prairie View A&M’s 28-26 come from behind victory over Alabama A&M. He placed three punts inside the 20-yard line. Newcomer of the Week Jeremiah Young, Arkansas-PB: In Arkansas-Pine Bluff’s 21-16 loss to Alcorn State, Young rushed for 139 yards on 21 carries to post a 6.6 avearge. He accounted for 63 percent of UAPB’s 219 yards on the ground and 30 percent of the team’s 452 total yardage.
VOLLEYBALL NEXT GAMES: Prairie View A&M at SOUTHERN 6 p.m. Cliford Seymour Gym SOUTHERN U. VOLLEY BALL INVITE Friday October 4 Grambling St. at SOUTHERN Alcorn St. at SOUTHERN Saturday October 5 Prairie View A&M at SOUTHERN Alabama St. at SOUTHERN
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Texas Southern at. SOUTHERN Friday October 4, 5 p.m. A.W. Mumford Stadium
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Odums, Comegy meet for fourth time as Southern, Jackson State clash again Southern (2-2, 2-0) head coach Dawson Odums has been across the field from Jackson State (2-2, 2-0) coach Rick Comegy many times before. The two coaches meet again at Mumford Stadium Saturday when the Tigers face Southern. Odums and Comegy are forever linked together by the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Eleven years ago, before Odums was a head coach, he was roaming the sidelines at Clark Atlanta as an assistant coach. Comegy was coach of Tuskegee University, capturing four SIAC championships and one Black College National title. Odums eventually took over the Panthers before joining the Jaguars staff in 2010. “He’ll have his team up and ready,” Odums told reporters during Tuesday’s press luncheon. “To my knowledge, he’s never loss here.” The Jaguars steamrolled through rival opponents after Odums took over the team, beginning with the Tigers. SU won 28-21. Comegy, is 2-0 in Mumford. The Tigers last won 28-24 in 2011. Odums was the Jaguars defensive line coach in that game. Both coaches arrived at similarly lofty programs in their respected positions. Comegy took over a program that was 2-9 before his arrival in 2006. For Odums, in similar fashion, the Jaguars went 2-9 in first season. There are three remaining undefeated teams in the conference standings. The Jaguars came up with a season-changing effort in a 62-59 win over against Prairie View two weeks ago. Their offense, led by senior quarterback Dray Joseph, who earned player of the week honor for his performance, rallied from a 22-point deficit and gained
a season-high 625 total yards. Comegy feels Joseph is the best quarterback his team will face this year. “They got a great receiving core,” Comegy said. “This guy can get the ball to them. He has pin-point accuracy.” The senior quarterback has thrown for over 1,000 yards with 10 touchdowns and just one interception through four games. The Jaguars are fourth in scoring offense (26.5) third in total offense (384) and 10th in rush offense (78.2). “You’re starting to see a little bit more leadership come out of him,” Odums said. “I think he’s understanding that each game is going to be different.” Joseph has 768 passing yards and seven touchdowns in the last two games. On the other side, the Tigers started the season 1-1. They pulled off a 30-23 victory over Alabama State in week two. So far, the Tigers have outscored conference opponents 65-30. Comegy’s defense ranks first in scoring defense (22.5) and first in total defense (274.5) Odums pointed out that the Tigers have two red-hot receivers who standout on film. Zachary Pendleton, who wears number 82, and Tobias Singleton, no.1, are combined for 26 catches for 595 yards and two touchdowns. “I just think we got to have a game plan that will allow us to defend their best players,” Odums added. “When you look at them their best players are those two receivers. They know exactly what they want to do and where they want to go with the football.” Slowing down the Tigers running game remains Odums main objective coming off an impressive performance against Mississippi Valley where the Jaguars allowed a season-low 58 rushing yards. The Tigers rank fifth in the conference with 174.5 yards per game. Morris Dillard III Digest Sporsts Editor
Narin, Gates highlight SU Hall of Fame ceremony Aristide PhilliPs
The Southern Digest Southern University’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony is a night of celebration. The ceremony will take place Friday Sept. 27th inside the Cotillion Ball in the Smith-Brown Memorial Union. 14 inductees will forever enshrine the Southern athletics, including Harvey Narin and Anthony Gates. Narin and Gates ran on SU’s track team together, gaining national attention at the start of the 1965 indoor season. SU was fingered as the team to win the title 1966. And they did. “When they called me it was a shock mainly because it took so long, but it’s a good feeling going in there with some guys I ran track with because its like a brother hood its really a great feeling,” Narin said. Track and Field News named them “The team of the decade for the 1960s.” They also reported “they’d beat any team in the sprint and relay events.” “They were both two outstanding athletes,” said Dr. Richard “Dick” Hill, who was the head track and field coach at that time. Hill told Track and Field news that he couldn’t take full credit for the teams success. “Most of the upperclassmen on the squad were already there when I took over in 1964.”
SU had won three consecutive titles and were defending National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics champs along the way. “It had a football atmosphere,” Betty Kyles said, who was a student and close friend to the track team. “When they ran nobody wanted to miss there races if you wanted to get something to eat you weren’t going to miss them run. When their event was coming up nobody was moving and they would make their competition look like they were standing still.” Narin ran hurdles, long-jumped, high jumped and relays. He also finished first in the hurdles at the USA National Track and Field in 1996. Gates ran the first leg on SU’s mile relay team that broke the indoor world record in 3:10.2 and tied the outdoor world record at 3:04.5. Six of SU’s quarter-miles recorded times of 47 seconds or less in the 440, 12 Jaguars were named All-SWAC, and 11 were placed on the NAIA AllAmerican squad. Narin had 14 National AllAmerican honors in five different events while he was at Southern. “Nobody was going to out work those guys,” Hill said. “They were just that good.” Narin beat eight of the top 10 hurdlers in the world including his own teammate Willie Davenport, who was selected as the “king of hurdles.”
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Coleman’s game worthy of MVP honor Morris Dillard III Digest Sports Editor
There’s still a lot left for Kendra Coleman to prove in her collegiate career at Southern. This year, Coleman is hoping for a different outcome in the MVP voting. Prairie View’s Latia Williams took home the post-season hardware last season. After watching Coleman take huge leaps between her freshman and sophomore years, SU coach Sandy Pugh believes Coleman is one of the top guards in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The junior guard left behind some big shoes to fill as a threetime All-Metro and Class 2A all-state basketball player from Donaldsonville High School. At the start of the 2011-12 season, Pugh made use of the early signing period and inked her, along with three other players. At the time, the women’s basketball program felt Coleman was its top prospect, after she totaled over 2,500 points in her career with DHS. “She definitely wants the opportunity for this team to be successful,” Pugh said. “I think
she’ll definitely be in the category of possible MVP for our league.” With little over a month before the start of the regular-season, Coleman said that at this point she’s just working as hard as she can to reach her goals. One of those goals is winning most valuable player. “I’m getting better and better everyday,” Coleman said Monday after one-on-one practice with coach Pugh. “Doing what coach (Pugh) teaches me helps me with my game a lot.” Pugh’s four-time SWAC tournament championship program is in full support. “It’s going to bet tough keeping her out of the lineup,” Pugh said with a smile. Southern will start its season with a scrimmage against Dillard November 1st. While a freshman, Coleman scored four points and had six rebounds in a 66-47 win over Dillard. “I’m looking forward to this season and everybody else is ready for it,” Coleman added. The Jaguars’ haven’t won the SWAC tournament since 2009-10. Instead, The Lady Panthers have been the tournament champs for
DIGEST FILE Southern women’s basketball coach Sandy Pugh expressed that point guard Kendra Coleman’s game could make a case as the league’s most valuable player. the past three seasons. Last month, the Panthers named assistant coach Dawn Brown as interim head coach, who replaces Toyelle Wilson, whom announced her resignation
after three seasons to join Baylor’s women’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach. “It’s going to interesting to see how this league pans out in terms of
some of the coaching changes that have occurred,” Pugh added. Last season, Pugh’s squad ranked eighth in scoring (57.2) and third in scoring defense (61.3).
Soccer team using week off to prepare for TSU Felix Cunningham III The Southern Digest
Southern University Women’s Soccer Team (1-6-1) is confident in facing Texas Southern After a week break until the next game from the loss against Louisiana Tech 0-5, Southern University Women’s Soccer Team is confident in facing Texas Southern Oct. 4 at the first home game and Southwestern Athletic Conference game of the season. New Head Coach, Courtney Prather, steps up from an assistant coach position from three previous seasons. She said that it is challenging to coach a Division I team because Division I teams have a higher level of athleticism within our conference because in our conference we get an automatic bit to the National Championships if we can win conference games. Coach Prathers said, “We always have a possibility in our minds that we will take this
team to a national level and represent our program on a national stage.” Also she states that the team is prepared to compete in the SWAC and they are readying themselves to be put back into the playoffs by breaking down teams offensively and that was learned through the non-conference games. She is very confident as a coach but the players have to give a lot of respect to our SWAC opponents such as last year SWAC Champions, Mississippi Valley, as well as teams in the SWAC such as, Jackson State, Alabama State, and Prarieview. “We have to be confident to compete in every match and confident to put ourselves in the playoffs but not overconfident and forget to respect our opponents,” she said. Overall the Lady Jags record is (1-6-1) with a win against University of Louisiana 2-1 with a goal before overtime and with the amount of 5 goals this season against non-conference teams. She said that the win was important because we were facing an elite team from
another conference. On the contrary, Texas Southern Lady Tigers record is (0-9-0) also against nonconference teams but leading with 12 goals this season. Leading offensive players are Midfielder, Marlyn Ruth and Forward, Ruth Girlado with 4 goals apiece this season. Coach Prathers said that the team will continue with a defensive scheme but they will keep an open mind on those players but it shouldn’t break them down as a unit. “We can’t make one or two players more important than the whole team so if we stay disciplined with team tactics, I think 1 or 2 players shouldn’t disrupt what we want to do.” She mentions. Lady Jags has a strong goalkeeper, Kerrin Hall, with an impressive amount of 65 saves this season with a percentage of .774 to challenge such offense. “It is my first time playing for Southern and my first home game and conference game of
the season and I’m very excited to play well for my team.” Hall says. As an assistant coach Prathers viewed last season’s last game on Oct 28, 2012, when the Lady Jags won against Texas Southern Lady Tigers at the Dynamo Stadium 1-0. She comments with, “There may be a little emotion carried over from both teams with last season being rough for us and our team putting a damper on their Senior night, it was good enough to stick with a game plan with a result of a win for the last game of the season.” “The difference this season is that there are new players that do not know of the rivalry between Southern and Texas Southern so we are working as a staff to not focus on rivalry but focus on the game,” she said. The bitter rivalry still stands as the Southern and Texas Southern clash for a positive spot in the Western Division of the SWAC at A.W. Mumford Stadium, October 4th starting at 5:00p.m.
SU tennis finishes fourth in HBCU national championship Morris Dillard III Digest Sports Editor
The Southern University women’s tennis team finished fourth last weekend in the HBCU National Tennis Championships in Atlanta, Ga. SU will be looking to capture their fifth straight Southwestern Athletic Conference title this upcoming season. Junior’s Morgan Taylor and Gabrielle Moore will be called up to lead the Lady Jaguars up the conference ladder. Taylor won the women’s title in Flight C
6-2; 6-2 at the tournament. “Morgan was really aggressive during the tournament,” SU head coach Jeffrey Conyers said. “She took advantage of the short ball and made her opponents play defense a lot with those aggressive shots.” Conyers felt that his team played well overall. This year he traveled with five players. The Lady Jaguars, in dominating fashion, captured its fourth consecutive conference title last season. Southern was the number one seed, defeating no.2 seed Alcorn State 4-3.
Taylor defeated Chan Rutherford in the no.6 singles match-up, 6-8, 6-4, 6-3. She was named the most valuable player of the tournament. Conyers received SWAC coach of the year. “There are some really good girls who go to HBCU’s,” Taylor said at practice Tuesday. “Southern is one of those teams that has always been winning. I feel like when we get out there people are out to get us.” Taylor expressed the need for the team to remain focused. “We finish out on top usually,” Taylor added.
The Lady Jaguars open its spring schedule at home against LSU Jan. 19. The Jaguars opened the season against the Tigers last season, losing 0-7. Conyers felt that the tournament was important because it’s usually the only one they compete in during the fall and allows them to make corrections for the spring season. “Usually we get to see some of our competitors from the conference,” Conyers said. Arkansas Pine-Bluff and Prairie View were the other SWAC schools at the tournament.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
Meagan Williams/DIGEST SU Alumnus and author Curtis J. Johnson mingled with guest at the Southern University Museum of Art Thursday for the signing of Glimpses of Black Life along Bayou Lafourche”.
Ariana Triggs/DIGEST ABOVE: Southern University honors the victims of the Navy Yard shooting by flying the flag in front of T.H. Harris Hall at half staff yesterday.
Kayla Foster/DIGEST Students were taught by world-renowned speaker Sandra Y. McGuire, PH.D, different strategies that work better than the same usual study habits. Her methods results are successful, resulting in A’s or high B’s in all courses.
RIGHT: SU Alumnus and author Curtis J. Johnson laughs with guests at the Southern University Museum of Art Thursday for the signing of his new book “Glimpses of Black Life along Bayou Lafourche”.
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Song, Dance Reign at Miss Southern Talent Show
Steven Goodman/DIGEST Alexander Riggins, a Music Education major from Houston, recited a poem that he wrote at the SU talent show in the Smith Brown Student Union on Sept. 23, 2013.
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Miss Southern University, Ayanna Spivey, with help and support from the Student Government Association, hosted the first university talent show of the 2013-2014 school year Monday night in the Royal Cotillion Ballroom of the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union. “This event was one of my fundraising programs for C.O.P.S.” Spivey said. C.O.P.S stands for Community Outreach Program Service. Southern University student and musical artist, Daniel Heartless, emceed this event Daniel Heartless. The event featured commentary and feedback for each of the amazing acts and active participation from the hundreds of students who attended. The first of many talented students, Nathan Morrison, performed a hit single by actor, singer and comedian Jamie Foxx called “When I First Saw You.” Morrison’s performance was a crowd pleaser, and the set ended with him reciting a gospel song, which the crowd thoroughly enjoyed. Next on stage was Aaron Jones, who performed a cymbal solo to two personal tracks. His performance was exciting
as well as original; how he was the only instrumental musician who performed in the talent show. “I wasn’t expecting this energy from him,” said Denzel Ricard, an urban forestry major from Roseland. Jones received accolades and respect from most of the other performers who competed in this positive fundraiser, and was definitely a fan favorite. Josh Bell was up right after Aaron, with his cover of Bruno Mars’s hit song, “When I Was Your Man.” He sang the song a key higher than the original done by Bruno and projected it in a slower tempo, which caught the audience’s attention. “I think I liked this version better than the radio one,” said Mylecia Mason, freshman nursing major from Independence. Reil Parker, a student musician, presented a popular song by Beyonce called “Resentment”. Although the set was short, it was performed as well as any other contestant’s performance. “I stopped what I was doing when I heard her sing my favorite song,” Mason said. After the amazing, heart-warming performance by Parker, Alexander Riggins recited a poem he wrote about
love and understanding, catching the audience’s attention with the first stanza of his poem and leaving them wondering what could he possibly say next. Many of the women in the audience remained attentive because of a female character in Riggins’ poem. The last performance of the night was by Nicholas Joseph, otherwise known by his stage name, “Nicknak”. He and his stage crew presented “Mosquitos Off Me” through song and dance. The crowd joined in the performance. After all the performances, Riggins and Bell were tapped as the top contestants. By the loud cheering when it was time to choose the winner, the decision was obvious. Both contestants were declared the winner of the Miss Southern Talent Show. Riggins and Bell each received one ticket to the 40th Bayou Classic, the annual football game between Southern and fellow HBCU and SWAC rival, Grambling State University, in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. Spivey said she was pleased with the performances and the turnout. “The fundraiser was a huge success,” said Spivey, who added that the next event will be a senior raffle as well as more fundraisers.
Steven Goodman/DIGEST Megan Henderson, a senior from Shreveport, sung Beautiful Suprise by India Arie at the Miss SU talent show on Sept. 23 in the Smith Brown Student Union.
“This event was one of my fundraising programs for C.O.P.S. . . . The fundraiser was a huge success” MISS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AYANNA SPIVEY
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Top 5 Apps students must have Justin Morris
The Southern DIGEST As a student in college, no matter the classification, anyone who wants to achieve success should always have up-to-date technology to help and give aid in courses and to help study more effectively. The App Store is filled with apps to help set up for success and be more productive than ever inside and outside of the classroom. Whether the program is with iPhone, Android, or Blackberry, any smartphone is capable of running and supporting most the educational and organizing applications for students. Out of the thousands on offer to make life easier, here is a selection of the most essential smartphone applications for college students. iThoughtsHD places fifth on the list, and is a must have for most if not all college students. “If it wasn’t for this app, my day would be unorganized and I wouldn’t know how to manage my time properly,” said Chester Brumfield, a sophomore Civil Engineering major from Amite, LA. iThoughtsHD, made by Craig Scott, is a
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very useful tool inside and outside of the classroom for project planning and goal setting purposes. This amazing task keeping app can be used to quickly and accurately write down notes or export data from other sources including Excel, ConceptDraw, and Word. After finishing the desired task, students can export maps to Powerpoint, Keynote, Word, Pages or as a PDF. “I started work on this back in February and finally it is available for download. It has been more work than I originally predicted,” said Scott in an interview on iTunes.com. Thanks to Craig Scott, students nationwide are efficiently and effectively handling and managing their time in college. Next in line is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary app, which is as well known as it is useful for college students of all majors and classifications. Merriam-Webster Dictionary is a mobile dictionary that’s as good as the in-store book and even the online version. It lets the user save favorites, track
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search history, and refer to an integrated thesaurus. With the “Word of the Day feature,” smartphone owners can slowly but surely increase and expand their vocabulary right from the phone with the touch of a finger. With all of the app’s features, the one that stands out is the voice search ability which allows the user to search a definition hands free with only their voice. Third of all is QuickVoice Recorder, made by nFinity Inc, which can be used to keep from missing any important material spoken by the professor while teaching a long lecture or lesson. Record ideas, voice memos, voice email, dictation, lists, meetings, classes, or entire lectures for professional, educational, and personal use to help manage and stay reminded while maintaining a healthy college lifestyle. Next is iStudiez Pro, used for adding schedules to make sure that students never miss a class or recitation with many support modes for semesters, trimesters, and overall school years. With this one of a kind student app
students can exactly find the assignments in only a couple taps and set up notifications for study time or due dates to make sure everything is prepared for when you get to class. “This app is like an extra helping hand that keeps me sharp and on task,” said Jordan Cotton, freshman Urban Forestry major Amite, LA At the top of the list is the most helpful and effective smartphone app that can be installed and used constantly in class, in the room, or on the go is, Studyblue. This app will increase study habits and keep the professor’s lecture fresh on the brain of the users and ready to use. This app can create digital flashcards and upload study materials to review on the computer or smartphone. This app can even filter out the flashcards memorized by heart to ensure that the student learns the hard ones also. For all college students who own a smartphone, these apps are the most effective and useful tools that can be download and actively used daily to keep on the right path for success.
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Dyslexsia Awareness
Diagnosis can be key to treatment,education Kayla Foster
The Southern DIGEST Dyslexia is the Developmental reading disorder is a reading disability that occurs when the brain does not properly recognize and process certain symbols. This past Wednesday, September 25, 2013 a Dyslexia Awareness Seminar, hosted by U.S. congressman Bill Cassidy, was held in the Assembly Hall room 191 at Agricultural Research and Extension Center at 8:30a.m-12 noon. “This program was designed to just give a lot of these students, professors, and parents useful information and tools that they can use to go to their school, department of education or the advocate. So this can be their personal kids or kids being tutored. Its basically to make people proactive.” During the Seminar speakers show how Dyslexia is much more than people assume it is. “There’s a concern that there is not enough awareness of just what Dyslexia is let along how to combat the shortcomings that children experience as result of being dyslexic.” Said Dale Marioneaux, “And so the Seminar was to let people be made aware of what the
The Brighton School and the Louisiana Key Academy in Baton Rouge educate students with dyslexsia. Dyslexia is an unexpected difficulty in reading. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition, by poor spelling and decoding abilities that are often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities. sings are and to know if its best to approach the signs the earlier the better” Dyslexia goes beyond not being able to easily words. Most people do not know that Dyslexic people minds not only have a difficult time processing the words but their mind is very imaginative. “The seminar was very informational. I learned that Dyslexia is not just reading words in backwards for reverse order. It goes deeper than that. It really is a mental thing that people have issues with and it is also genetic.” Said Rose Bailey, senior, and education major. “I think more students should go because I also didn’t know that people can be diagnosed when they are older in college. Coming to the seminar really helped me with my kids as I teach”.
The signs for Dyslexia are reading slowly and with much effort, they are often the one to solve the problem, the person can’t spell and have messy handwriting and if the persons writing show terrific imagination. Also other symptoms include: having trouble remembering dates and names, thinking out side the box; grasping the big picture, have difficulty retrieving and pronouncing spoken words and having excellent vocabulary and ideas. Dyslexia not only affects the person but others such as family members as well. “(the seminar) informed me on things on things that would help me to understand him better.” Said Michael Mitchell. “It’s helped me understand that there is a reason for the way he acts. He misunderstands a lot and doesn’t have the proper teachers.” Being Dyslexic does not mean people who have a visual problem, being unable to read or not being very smart. Some examples of successful dyslexic people are Carl Lewis, Liv Tyler, Whoopi Goldberg, and Vince Vaughn. In fact dyslexia. yale.com states that some of the brightest boys and girls struggle to read. Dyslexia occurs at all levels of intelligence-average, above average, and highly gifted.
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Suzanne Petty, co-founder of Louisiana Key Academy speaks about Dyslexia and how people should be more aware of it so it can be treated properly. The Dyslexia Awareness Seminar was held Wednesday in the Agricultural Research and Extension Center Assembly Hall.
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Drake: “Nothing was the same” Courtney Jacobs The Southern DIGEST He was first known as the lovable Jimmy Brooks on the early teenage drama, “Degrassi.” Now, he’s more famously known for his middle name, Drake. Drake stepped out as a hip-hop artist with a sort of pop appeal to it during the year 2006. He raised his status by co-starring on various mixtapes and remixes. He’s also has his own array of mixtapes featuring artists such as Trey Songz, Lupe Fiasco, Bun B, Omarion, and his mentor, Lil Wayne. According to Billboard.com, Drake became a part of Lil Wayne’s crew, Young Money—even though he wasn’t signed to a record label—in 2008. In mid-year 2009, Drake himself announced that he had signed a record deal with Young Money Entertainment. It has been four years and Drake has released three studio albums. Drake’s first studio album, “Thank Me Later,” was originally planned to release in late 2008, but the release date for the album got pushed back for March 2012. After the album was pushed back the first time, the album was pushed back two more times (May 25, 2010,
and June 15, 2010), with the official release date for the album being June 15, 2010. The most successful singing on the album, “Find Your Love,” found its way into people’s iPods and CD’s. It also found its way to the Hot 100 and peaked its way to the number five spot. This album sported down tempo beats and Drake presents himself as a man with transparent emotions rather than a thug. Drake’s second studio album, “Take Care,” was released November 15, 2011. His somewhat obsession for love that has been lost continues in this album, along with its slow tempos and muted textures. His impassioned crooning becomes interrupted with an introspective tone—that is rarely on the album— with aggressive tracks and come-ons. According to Billboard.com, the album debuted number one on the Unites States Billboard 200 chart, selling 631,000 copies during its first week of being released. “Nothing Was The Same” is the third studio by Drake that was released on September 24 of this year. This album contains 16 tracks of a more self-aware artist who is sure of himself. Drake’s right-hand man, producer Noah “40” Shebib, produced majority of the album, as the same with Drake’s previous releases.
(AP Photo/Cash Money) This CD cover image released by Cash Money shows “Nothing Was the Same” the latest release by Drake. Drake opens the album with “Tuscan Leather,” a track dedicated to letting its listeners know what he’s here to do and accomplish. He states, “I’m just as famous as my mentor,” referring to Lil Wayne and that he has reached a success bar that can sort of rival the rapper. One of the most popular single from the album, “Started From The Bottom” is one of the few tracks on the album that brings back that introspective tone.
whole team here.” “Hold On, We’re Going Home” is a breezy, sort of mid-80s soft R&B and pop song that hits the pause button on Drake’s complaining about fame and wealth. Instead, he offers a sweeter, sensual ultimatum: “I want your hot love and emotion, endlessly.” This track shows a side of Drake that is not often displayed, which is patience.“There’s a lot less sort of ambient ballad moments on this album where I’m searching or
longing for something,” Drake says of “Nothing Was The Same” in an interview with Billboard. “That sentiment is gone. Now I’m just kind of like, ‘You know, I’m 26, I don’t know what else I could be doing better than this.’” “Nothing Was The Same” presents an even more emotional side of Drake that his listeners will agree with, and is a record that has a more powerful emotional context than his previous albums.
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with Caesar Smith Jr. Will Washington do the right thing? Part One
The talk of a possible governmental shutdown The president is extremely bright, has a mind like a steel trap, does not forget a thing and at the same time wants to get input from everybody. In November 1994 Clinton’s administration lost the majority of a Democratic House & Senate in Washington. It was a newly elected Congress that was hostile and hell-bent on undoing his agenda. Now we are at a place where this attitude is common with President Obama’s administration. The biggest difference is there was no Democratic majority when he took office, it occurred during midterm elections. Then it was Clinton and Gingrich, now it is Obama and Boehner. Clinton thought he could convince Gingrich to do the right thing with the budget. Gingrich did not bend to the stick. Negotiations began, the result led to long arguments and there was no agreement reached. Bill Clinton was quoted saying to Newt Gingrich, “I might lose the election, based on what I do here. I honestly believe, what you’re recommending, is not good for the country.” At that point Clinton had drawn a line. Gingrich insisted if he didn’t get his way he would let the government go out of business; for weeks the two were toe-totoe. Soon after 800,000 government employees were told to go home without pay. Not after one, but two government shutdowns, America agreed and sided with Clinton by a 2-to-1 margin over the Speaker of the House, the Republican gambit backfired. Newt Gingrich and Republican leader Trent Lott were forced back to the bargaining table. This time it was a new game, tense negotiations went around the clock, they agreed to a budget on Clinton’s terms. America got back to a fiscally sound budget under the Clinton administration. Clinton and Erskine Bowles balanced the budget, brought down debt and invested twenty-seven billion dollars in health care, for poor kids. That came out of someone wanting to do the right thing for our country, at the time; it was not the Republican Party. This time it seems they want to defund
the President’s healthcare legislation. President Obama is not going to negotiate when it comes to his own legislation, it would be foolish if he did. John Boehner, the Speaker of the House and the Republican Party will not negotiate; they will put a knife in his back. It seems this time Boehner wants to trade places with Gingrich. No one wants to do the right thing it appears. Hopefully, and it is my hope, President Obama restores fiscal discipline to our government by raising taxes and implementing other policies to get it done. The Republican Party may be foolish enough to allow it to happen, they will not only have their own plan backfire, but it will run them out of office. The source of our problems Having a Congress who refuses to not only pay the bills, but also provide a source of income or a solution to pay down our debt so the country would not be in this mess in the first place. The American people have not gotten tired enough, they have not raised their voice enough and have not yet wanted to shine their shoes in the posteriors of those who were elected to office to perform their duties as intended; that is to run this country and take care of its people. Americans have not gotten tired enough yet. House narrowly approves food stamp cuts House Republicans approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s food stamp program Thursday that would slash $39 billion in funding over the next decade, cutting about 4 million Americans in the next few years and shift the burden of providing aid to the nation’s poor to state governments. The GOP strategy, in short, indicates Republicans have turned their backs on low-income families in a quest to make budget cuts. It is vicious and—hardhearted. The hardest hit states according to a map from the USDA would be Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, New Mexico and Oregon. Yet the voting majority of Louisianans vote Republican, and against their interests, although their choosing for those going to Washington are Democratic for the most part, but Republicans in this case have cut the low-
income population’s throat. House passes GOP spending plan that defunds Affordable Care Act Right winged House Republicans passed a measure Friday with a vote of 230-189 sent and approved a plan to fund the government beyond September 30, but it does not have language to fund the Affordable Care Act, it actually strips funding from the President’s signature health care legislation and is his most significant achievement. In a comment to the Washington Post, “We had a victory today for the American people, and frankly, we also had a victory for common sense,” Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said, surrounded by more than 200 cheering lawmakers at a news conference at the Capitol. “Our message to the United States Senate is real simple: The American people don’t want the government shut down and they don’t want Obamacare.” Well prepare for a fight, what is most interesting is the GOP does not have enough traction to fight President Obama. Foolishness on the Hill followed by surprise Yesterday, Ted Cruz had his more than 21 hour filibuster grind to a halt when surprisingly his counterparts in the Senate sided, with Democrats voting against his idea regarding the Affordable Care Act. His filibuster was a grand waste of time, it was nice he read “Green Eggs and Ham,” impersonated Darth Vader and recited a detailed history of risks faced by the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. More than 21 hours after he started, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Wednesday finally ended his oral assault on Obamacare -- an all-night blend of political rhetoric and emotional pleas for all of his GOP colleagues to join him in blocking any government funding for the health care reforms. Cruz and other tea party conservatives want to prevent the Senate from taking up the spending measure passed last week by the GOP-controlled House that makes continued government funding contingent on cutting all money for Obamacare.
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Baggage Claim Lost on Arrival Peter DeBruGe
The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Sometimes you have to travel 30,000 miles just to appreciate the guy who lives down the hall — or so goes “Baggage Claim,” a movie about a Flight Attendant Barbie type who runs herself ragged chasing romantic prospects while her perfect suitor may as well be waving lighted wands from the runway the entire time. “Girl, open your eyes!” That kind of talk-back is typical of playwright David E. Talbert’s popular urban theater shows, though this watered-down adaptation of his 2003 novel is too worried about attracting white audiences to let its African-American attitude take off. As a book, “Baggage Claim” allowed Talbert to entertain his female following with corny advice on finding the ideal man. After years of world travel, Montana Moore has developed a theory that all guys fall into one of five categories, ranging from “overnight bag” (no-strings fling) to “trunk” (old and worn), but the perfect man is like the perfect set of luggage: “Full of compartments. So many that just when you think you’ve figured him out . he surprises you with a hidden nook or a forbidden cranny.” So if you’re onboard with Talbert’s tortured metaphor and want to know the right match for Montana, just look for the one with the forbidden cranny. The trouble with “Baggage Claim” the movie is that it makes immediately obvious which man Montana (Paula Patton) should wind up with. Back in elementary school, neighbor William Wright (Derek Luke)
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proposed marriage with a ring retrieved from the bottom of a Cracker Jack box, and now, whenever Montana needs cheering up, good old Mr. Wright is just across the hall, ready to boil a lobster and mix apple martinis until she feels better. But Montana is hopelessly slow on the uptake. While it’s not unusual to want a man, Montana’s reasons are all wrong: Her altar-obsessed mother (Jenifer Lewis) has been married five times, and she’s been pressuring Montana to get hitched as well. Now that her much younger sister (Lauren London) is engaged, Montana calculates that she has 30 days to find a fiance of her own or risk irreparably disappointing her mother. And while her latest beau (Boris Kodjoe) has awesome abs, the rest of the package is far from perfect. That’s where Montana’s boy-crazy best friends, fellow flight attendants Gail (Jill Scott) and Sam (Adam Brody), hatch the scheme to find her a husband in one month’s time: They will track the travel itineraries of all Montana’s exes and arrange for her to bump into them en route, hoping that these men have matured into worthier suitors in the time since they split up. And so the film pretends that any of Montana’s exes stands a chance: There’s the hip-hop star (Tremaine Neverson, aka Trey Songz), the aspiring Congressman (Taye Diggs) and the international businessman (Djimon Hounsou), all of whom seem desperate to pick up where they left off the last time around. However handsome they may be, these characters just aren’t the right fit for Montana’s baggage — though Talbert manages a few decent laughs at their expense.