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Aggies gathered last Thursday in front of the University bookstore to make history- The Student University Activities Board (SUAB) held A&T’s very first Block Party. A&T Police and Parking Enforcement blocked off Laurel St. from John Mitchell Dr. (the strip) all the way up to Harrison Auditorium to prepare for the event. A mobile stage was placed in front of the brick wall separating Aggie Village from Holland Hall. Students started showing up

around 4:30 p.m. in anticipation for the event. To kick off the event, music was played by DJ Red October, a 2007 graduate of A&T. The music attracted more students to the event. After his first set, Tasha Hilton, president of SUAB introduced the first performer, Litha, a singer and current student at A&T. Following her was a performance by DJ Savage and Team Fresh singing their own original A&T anthem “Aggie Pride.” Next were performances by J Gunn and Brandon Pierre, Jedi Nemisis, Quin Anthony,

Boogatti and spoken word performances by Couture Productions. In between all performances DJ Red October played music. SUAB President Tasha Hilton and Vice President Alexius Dorsey took the stage in between performances to give away homecoming tickets via dance contests. Members of SGA also took the stage to assist with the contests. Songs like, “Teach Me How To Douggie” got the crowd excited as well as the contest participants who “douggied” for homecoming tickets. Students could enjoy an

inflatable joust arena on the street directly across from the Holland Bowl. A rock climbing walk was set up in the parking lot of Village 6. There were also basketball hoops set up. “We just wanted people to have fun and we’re promoting for homecoming,” said Jazmyne Cosby, a senior visual arts & design major and also street team manager for SUAB. For a low price students could buy Philadelphia Ice, Funnel Cakes and fried Oreos. “We did this [the block

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On Saturday Sept. 18, the Student Government Association (SGA) crowned its court in a ceremony held in Stallings Ballroom of the Memorial Student Union. This event is the first official crowning of the kings and queens together in a ceremony. In the past, only the queens were crowned. Last year marks the first year a king had ever been crowned at A&T. Around 5:30 p.m., people began to make their way into the union for the ceremony. Family and friends of the court began to mingle amongst the few scattered tables while grabbing some of the provided refreshments. Mister and Miss A&T, Todd Porter and Carla Saunders, entered shortly after the small crowd that was already present. Jazz music served as the event’s soundtrack while people socialized, took pictures and continued to eat. “This event creates a chance for the class royalty to meet with the many organizational kings and queens in order to develop a relationship with those we work with,” said Saunders. The actual ceremony began around 6:15 p.m. TaNisha Fordham-Alston, former Miss A&T 2008-09, hosted the event. She caught the attention of the crowd by greeting everyone with an “Aggie Pride.” A prayer and the singing of the alma mater followed. The class kings and queens entered the room in pairs starting with the freshmen king and queen. Each walked down the center isle, while a short biography and a brief slide show of pictures were displayed for each separately.

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Career services hosts career fair Miss A&t’s farewell at showcase Last Wednesday the Office of Career Services (OCS) sponsored the annual Career Awareness Fair, in Corbett Sports Center. The Office of Career Services stressed the importance of being prepared. Prior to the actual event, there was a Career Awareness Fair kick-off celebration that took place from Aug. 30 through Sept. 10. Various activities such as etiquette and interview workshops were set up to prepare students for the actual career fair. OCS also students to know that before going to the fair, they should do research on the companies they are interested in. Having knowledge on the company before an interview can aid in getting the job.

The Office of Career Services also provided a website designed to help students learn about the companies that were coming. There was a specific area on the site for students to enter their major in search of appropriate companies. The website also had an example of how a student should conduct themselves during an interview. The site is linked to outside companies in order for students to look up jobs that are being offered by companies. The fair was open to everyone, including A&T alumni and students from other schools, in addition to current Aggies. A&T Alum Adam Perry, who majored in electronic technology, has been applying for jobs, since he graduated in May. He said the application process was tedious and that he hoped that the fair would allow him to get

a few interviews that could lead to a job. According to OCS, the fair is for all majors and classifications; however students who were not engineer majors claimed that other than one or two opportunities, there were no businesses interested in them. There were 151 companies that were to be a part of the fair. Of that 151, approximately 20 of them were looking for non engineer majors. FOX News was one of the few businesses not catering specifically to engineer majors. “The Career Fair provided me with the opportunity to gain insight about corporate America,” said Matthew Kirby, a junior psychology

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can American women from HBCU’s with the coveted title of “Queen” of their institution. Crystal Williams, Miss A&T 2006-2007, was the host of this event and welcomed on stage Miss A&T 2010-2011 as she showcased her talent portion of the pageant, at 6 p.m. in Harrison Auditorium. Her talent was a historical monologue of the evolution of music and how it affected African Americans, starting in Africa and to the present, all the while music played. Along with the queen, the A&T Gospel Choir also travels to Atlanta for the Black College Gospel Choirs Competition. For this reason, the choir also got the chance to practice as they exhibited their talent to the audience. They began with their rendition of the song “Amazing Grace” as three dancers dressed in long, white, flowing dresses

danced along side them. After the gospel choir left the stage, Saunders came back dressed in her yellow evening gown to prepare for her question and answer portion of the pageant. She was asked, “Who has had influence on you outside of your family?” She responded, “God. He has had a great impact on my life.” To the question, “What is the best advice you have received?” she answered, “to pray.” The program continued with a presentation to Saunders from some of her sorority sisters from the Alpha Mu chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. They presented her with a bouquet of red “intuition roses” and circled around and sang her an inspirational song.

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The student body came together on Sunday, Sept. 19, to bid Miss A&T 2010- 2011, Carla J. Sanders, farewell before she left for the 2010 National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame Foundation, Incorporated’s 25th “Silver” An- Saunders niversary Annual Hall of Fame Weekend in Atlanta, GA. According to the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc. website, the competition of black college queens showcases young Afri-

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party] to get people excited, engage them, and be a spring board to homecoming. We had a bunch of inspirations and got many of our ideas from full body meetings,” said Hilton. “Most people are outside on the strip anyway and we wanted everyone to have fun. We got a lot of alumni to come out to perform and to also get people excited for homecoming because they know what the Greatest Homecoming on Earth is like,” continued Hilton. SUAB promoted the block party with physical flyers and Facebook flyers, a promo video released on Facebook, videos on screens in the union, dorm storming and on Twitter. Hilton said that because a new executive board will be in place next year, she could not promise that SUAB would do the Block Party again; however, she strongly encourages

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Office of career services hosted its annual fall Career Fair in Corbett Sports center, where over 1,900 students showed up to meet, interview and network with business recruiters on Wednesday Sept. 15.

career fair From page 1 major from Fayetteville, NC. Carolyn Mark, associate director of OCS, said that there were plenty of opportunities the fair offered. According to Mark, if a student would inquire about jobs in their major and get a business card, they could end up with a job offer. “If our students worked the way it was supposed to be, they would come out with a positive outcome,” said Mark. Joyce Edwards, director of OCS added, “The students need to research at least five companies. While companies may come to A&T for a specific major, the overall company may be looking for a student’s major and the employer can give (students) direction to a job that fits.” There were representatives from companies such as Lockheed Martin, GMC and IBM. A few companies, like Nestle and Buitoni, were looking primarily for full-time employees, but

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the majority of companies were looking for interns for next semester, or for over the summer. Some of the company representatives who were interviewed spoke highly of the way A&T students were dressed and how the students were professional. “The employers really enjoyed A&T. They said that A&T has one of the best career fairs in the area,” said Mark. The process starts in March, when the school gets companies to agree to come and the finished project ends with the actual fair. Edwards wants Aggies to be engaged in looking for a job, despite a student’s major. “Just try. Look at this optimistically and say that I am going to find a few companies, but in order to do that, I have to do the work. I have to learn about them,” said Edwards. While the fair had more opportunities for engineer majors, everyone was encouraged by Career Services to attend. The events leading up to the fair allowed for every major to get

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help, from building their resume, to understanding proper interview responses. “The Career Fair was a great way to learn about different jobs and network with employees,” said Joseph Thompson, a senior electronic engineering major from St. Pauls, NC. The Career Services encourages students to register online for job and internship placement opportunities. Next semester, there will be another career fair and students are urged to prepare for it. “Students need to take charge of their career development. The same software will be online around midJanuary in order for students to research companies,” added Mark. “A lot of alumni come back and say that they wished they had taken advantage of the services when they were in school. A&T students are given an opportunity to do just that.”

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KING/QUEEN From page 1 Then they took their seats on the platform, located at the front of the room. Porter and Saunders approached the podium shortly after, and explained the responsibilities that the class royalty possessed as a whole. Each king and queen was crowned individually. The kings were pinned by Porter and Saunders crowned the queens. Following the crowning were the presentations. “I expect this year to be productive, for everyone to collaborate and to focus on quality over quantity. I’ve learned that communication and teamwork are the keys to success. Without my board and my class I could not do anything because I represent them,” said Nicole Reynolds, Miss Junior. Miss Junior also gave a special shout out to the class of 2012. During the presentations, family and friends that wanted

MISS A&T From page 1 Following the song there was a special tribute from Miss A&T’s royal court that consisted of a farewell and good luck video. It included members of her royal court and members of the Alpha Mu chapter. At the end of the tribute there was a special message from Candace Johnson, Miss A&T 2007-2008, because she could not physically be there. She wished Saunders good fortunes as she goes to the pageant in Atlanta. Saunders was then given a special surprise- her parents. Her parents gave her a small gift as they spoke. “I’m speechless. We love Carla and the Aggie family,” her mother said. Her father added, “We are

it based on the turnout and fun everyone had. Towards the end of the night, the skies got darker and the music louder. DJ Red October played old hits like ‘Poison’ by Bell Biv Devoe, and ‘This Is How We Do It’ by Montell Jordan. ‘Before I Let Go’ by Frankie Beverly started line dances throughout the entire crowd. Even some of the police officers that patrolled the event broke out a few moves. “It was good and I had fun. It got better at the end,” said Kenu Sanders, a sophomore psychology major from Selma, NC. The music and everyone dancing was her favorite part of the night. The night ended around 8 p.m. Many lingered and socialized with other students about their plans for the night. Many left with smiles and laughter while recapping the night’s activities.

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Miss Iota Phi Theta pageant

Memorial Student Union Exhibit Hall 6 p.m.

Miss Kappa Alpha Psi pageant Harrison Auditorium

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Mr. Zeta Phi Beta pageant

Memorial Student Union Stallings Ballroom 7:20 p.m.

thursday to officially congratulate the class royalty could do so. Once a few people gave their words of encouragement, others began getting up out of their seats to make their way to the podium. Sororities and fraternities came to show support for their organization members. Parents presented their children with gifts. Miss Senior, Crista Greenlee, showed her emotion by shedding a couple tears when her line sisters walked onto the platform and gave her flowers. SGA also shared a couple words of appreciation. Porter and Saunders made the final presentation to the class kings and queens. “It means much. It represents royalty, community service and everything this position stands for,” said Greenlee. The ceremony came to an end and everyone began to mingle and take pictures. The crowning will continue with the coronation of Miss and Mr. A&T during homecoming week.

very proud of you, Carla. Go forward and do what you do. God be with you.” Concluding the event Saunders was given the opportunity to give her thanks to all those that came out and had a hand in her getting to where she is today. “I wasn’t expecting any of the things that happened tonight. Didn’t know my parents would be here,” said Saunders. “I am excited about attending the pageant because coming in my freshman year I didn’t know I would be standing here today.” She added, “Thank you to everyone that has helped to put this event together. To my royal court and to the Sankofa administration, thank you. I am going to go to the pageant and I am going come back with the title.”

Hispanic Heritage Cultural Fair Memorial Student Union

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Mr. SUAB pageant

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Volleyball Game Corbett Gymnasium

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Recession over since June 2009 jeannine aversa Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — It turns out the recession ended more than a year ago. Feeling better now? The panel that determines the timing of recessions concluded Monday that this one ended technically, anyway in June 2009, and lasted 18 months. The duration makes it the longest since World War II. It may be over, but you won’t be hearing any cheers from the millions of Americans who are struggling to find a job. Or are worried about the ones they have. Or have lost their homes. Or are behind on the mortgage. “Every single one of the individuals who wrote the report needs a serious reality check,” said Bob Johnson of the Queens borough of New York, who is 46, had worked in communications and has been looking for a job for more than three years. Not that it’s the fault of the academics in this case the National Bureau of Economic Research, a group of economists based in Cambridge, Mass. It’s their job to declare when recessions officially begin and end. Their finding is one that economic historians spend a lot of time pondering. Politicians care, too. They don’t want to be blamed for downturns that hap-

pen on their watch. One of those politicians is President Barack Obama, who inherited the recession it began in December 2007, according to the bureau. Obama found little reason Monday to celebrate that it had officially ended. “The hole was so deep that a lot of people out there are still hurting,” the president, whose Democratic Party faces a likely setback in the midterm elections, said at a town-hall meeting sponsored by CNBC. Obama has made a point of noting small signs of progress in the economy, which is growing slowly. Some Democrats have urged him to stop boasting about any progress at all, for fear that it irks people who feel things aren’t getting better and makes politicians seem out of touch. For Melody Brooke, a 55-year-old marriage and family counselor in Lewisville, Texas, it didn’t feel in her household as if the recession ended 15 months ago. Her household finances were in shambles at the time. “It felt like the heat of it for us,” Brooke said. Her outlook is starting to brighten. Her husband finally found full-time work about a month ago. And Brooke’s counseling business is picking up: She’s on track to make about $35,000 for the year.

For the rest of the country, the statistics are familiar and grim. Since the recession began, 7.3 million jobs have disappeared. Nearly 2.5 million homes have been repossessed. Unemployment is at 9.6 percent. Since the technical end of the recession, the economy has been growing. But the growth has been painfully slow. How slow? The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development figures the U.S. economy will grow 2.6 percent this year. It would take growth twice that fast to drive down unemployment by a single percentage point. Unemployment usually keeps rising well after a recession ends. That’s because it takes time for companies to gain confidence in the economy, know that customer demand will last, and add jobs. But for the past few recessions, it’s taken longer and longer for unemployment to come down. In 1982, for example, unemployment peaked the same month the recession ended. After the 2001 recession, the gap was 19 months. This time around, it’s been 15 months, and economists don’t expect unemployment to come down significantly anytime soon. In part, that’s because of how the unemployment rate is calcu-

lated. It’s based on a survey of households. Only out-of-work people who are looking for jobs are counted as unemployed. Those who have quit looking out of discouragement aren’t included. As the economy improves, more of these people will start looking for jobs and will be counted again as unemployed. That will drive up the unemployment rate, at least for a while. To make its call on the end of a recession, the bureau looks at the stats behind the gross domestic product, which measures the total value of the economy. Plus, it reviews incomes, employment and industrial activity. The bureau pointed out that a downturn in the economy anytime soon would now mark the start of a new recession. The last time that happened was in 1981 and 1982, most economists believe. The last recession that lasted longer than this one was, well, something far worse than a recession: The Great Depression. It included a downturn of three and a half years, ending in 1933, and another lasting more than a year, ending in 1938.

Professor accused of anti-gay remarks still teaching cyndee fontana Associated Press

FRESNO, Calif. - The Fresno City College instructor mired in controversy earlier this year is no longer teaching the introductory health class that spawned student complaints. But instructor Bradley Lopez said Tuesday that he doesn’t regard the change in fall semester class assignments as punishment. He said he is “immensely” happy teaching five classes in health information technology and medical assisting. Campus officials would only say that teaching schedules routinely change and that the college has the right to assign faculty members to classes.

Lopez is the instructor who drew national attention in February when the American Civil Liberties Union, reacting to two student complaints, accused him of presenting religious-based and anti-gay views as fact in the introductory health class. Lopez strongly denied any wrongdoing. But the college last spring issued a notice of correction to Lopez after telling students that an investigation showed he had violated district policy and engaged in conduct that could create a hostile learning environment. Lawyer Charles Magill, who represents Lopez, said Tuesday that he plans to file a lawsuit to have that notice removed. He said he may also seek financial

damages. The introductory health class formerly taught by Lopez fulfills a general education requirement and often is taught in a large lecture format. The classes taught by Lopez this semester are generally smaller and geared toward students who want to enter the medical field. Lopez, who spoke briefly with Magill by his side, said he is happy to teach those classes because students are focused and respectful. “They know where they are going and why,” he said. Magill criticized the ACLU which notified the media of the shift in Lopez’s schedule for trying to spin the change as pu-

nitive. But Elizabeth Gill, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, said the organization did not ask for any specific reassignment or employment outcome for Lopez. The college which has a duty to ensure that health classes are medically accurate and unbiased _ was the target of the ACLU complaint, she said. College officials have issued the appropriate assurances and the matter is closed unless new complaints surface, Gill said. “We are quite pleased with the outcome,” she added.

White House to hold first-ever summit on Community Colleges margaret talev MCT Campus

WASHINGTON - A first-ever White House Summit on Community Colleges will take place next month as President Barack Obama tries to get more Americans motivated to learn new job skills. The Oct. 5 summit, announced Wednesday, will pull together business leaders, philanthropists, government leaders, policy-makers, college officials and students from around the country. Obama will use it in part to rally political support behind his proposal to increase federal spending for community colleges by $12 billion over 10 years. Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden and a longtime community college instructor, will lead the summit. Biden holds a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware and teaches English at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria. Biden said in a news release that community colleges “are a key part of our economic vision for the future,” and that she’s seen the value of such education firsthand. The aims of the summit include reducing status stigmas about community colleges as opposed to four-year universi-

ties, portraying community colleges as tools to keep the U.S. competitive globally and highlighting the stories of highprofile alumni with community college backgrounds. Obama is looking to community colleges as a lifeline to escape a battered economy amid signs that the nation’s work force is insufficiently trained for the technological advances that are driving the global economy. His proposal to increase federal investments in community colleges is part of his effort to keep the U.S. competitive against China, India and other rising nations. Administration officials say that community colleges are the biggest and fastest-growing form of higher education in the United States today, enrolling more than 8 million students a year. Obama wants to boost community college graduation by 5 million students by 2020 as part of his drive for America to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. To promote the summit, the White House produced a video that features high-profile figures who attended community colleges, including consulting giant Accenture’s CEO, Bill Green, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer. Students, instructors and graduates are invited to share their own stories via the White House website.

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Republicans block bill to lift military gay ban ANNE FLAHERTY

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort to repeal the ban on gays from serving openly in the military, handing gay rights groups a defeat in their last chance any time soon to overturn the law known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Two Venezuelan drug suspects sent to the U.S. ANNE FLAHERTY

Associated Press Writer

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela deported two drug trafficking suspects to the United States on Monday, including an alleged boss of the powerful Norte del Valle cartel in neighboring Colombia. The action came only days after the U.S. criticized Venezuela’s cooperation in fighting illegal narcotics. Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said U.S. authorities had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of Jaime Alberto Marin, a leader of the Norte del Valle cartel also know as “Beto Marin.” Another suspected trafficker, Omar Guzman Martinez, was also deported, El Aissami said. State television broadcast footage of both suspects, who wore handcuffs and bulletproof vests, as they were escorted to a waiting plane by heavily armed, masked police at Simon Bolivar International Airport. Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration put the suspects aboard the plane. National Guard troops and agents from Venezuela’s antidrug force arrested Marin on Sept. 16 on Margarita Island, a resort off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast. Guzman Martinez, who is from the Dominican Republic, was arrested on Aug. 25 in Caracas. Venezuelan state television reported that Marin took control of the Norte del Valle cartel after Wilber Varela, alias “Jabon,” or “Soap,” one of Colombia’s most-wanted traffickers, was killed in 2008. Marin has been wanted in the U.S. since 2007 on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. Guzman Martinez is wanted in the U.S. for purportedly shipping cocaine to the United States. Venezuela has become a major hub for traffickers smuggling Colombian cocaine to the United States and Europe. U.S. and Colombian officials have accused President Hugo Chavez’s government of lax anti-drug efforts, while Chavez insists his government is doing everything possible to stem the flow of drugs through Venezuela. El Aissami rejected the findings of a White House report released last week that accused Venezuela of failing to cooperate with other countries in fighting drug trafficking. “We don’t accept blackmail or pressure from the empire,” he said, referring to the U.S. government. “The manner in which the U.S. government judges the anti-drug policies of other countries is irresponsible, arbitrary and unilateral,” he added. El Aissami said Venezuela has captured dozens of suspected major drug traffickers in recent years, including 16 so far this year. In a statement sent to The Associated Press, the U.S. Embassy in Caracas applauded the deportation of Marin and Guzman Martinez. “We view the arrest and transfer to the United States of two major narco-traffickers, Juan Alberto Marin and Omar Guzman Martinez, by Venezuelan authorities as a valuable and positive development,” it said.

Democrats fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the legislation, which authorized $726 billion in defense spending. The vote was 56-43. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, had been seen as the crucial 60th vote because she supports overturning the military ban. But Collins sided with her GOP colleagues in arguing that Republicans weren’t given sufficient

leeway to offer amendments to the wide-ranging policy bill. The vote fell mostly along party lines, although Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, both D-Ark., sided with Republicans to block the bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., also voted against the measure as a procedural tactic. Under Senate rules, casting his vote with the majority of the

Senate enables him to revive the bill at a later date. Advocates of lifting the 17-year-old ban had been optimistic that the Democraticcontrolled White House and Congress could overcome objections to repeal. The move is unpopular among Republicans, military officers and social conservatives. Gay rights advocates now

worry they have lost a crucial opportunity to change the law. If Democrats lose seats in elections this fall, repealing the ban will prove even more difficult if not impossible next year. An estimated 13,000 people have been discharged under the law since its inception in 1993. Although most dismissals have resulted from gay service members outing themselves, gay

rights’ groups say it has been used by vindictive co-workers to drum out troops who never made their sexuality an issue. Top defense officials, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, have said they support a repeal but want to move slowly to ensure changes won’t hurt morale.

Stevie Wonder to UN: Ease copyrights for the blind BRADLEY S. KLAPPER

Associated Press Writer

GENEVA (AP) — Stevie Wonder pressed global copyright overseers on Monday to help blind and visually impaired people access millions of science, history and other audiobooks, which they cannot read in electronic form. The blind singer told the U.N.’s 184-nation World Intellectual Property Organization that more than 300 million people who “live in the dark” want to “read their way into light,” and the current copyright system denies them an equal opportunity.

Van plunged into river with 30 kids AP

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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A van carrying at least 30 schoolchildren plunged into a river in Pakistan-held Kashmir on Tuesday, and most of the passengers were confirmed or feared dead. The driver lost control of the vehicle and it plunged 50 feet (15 meters) into the Jhelum River from an elevated road in the regional capital Muzaffarabad, said local police chief Ghulam Akber. Authorities managed to save the driver and four children, he said. But school teacher Bashir Mughal said rescue workers took more than an hour to arrive and it was local villagers who plucked the four children from the water. Fifteen bodies have been recovered from various parts of the river, but the other children are still missing, Akber said. Some bodies may have been collected by local residents before authorities arrived, he said. Mohammad Ramzan, a driver from Kanina village home to most of the children in the van said he lost four daughters and one son in the accident. “God had given me those children and he has taken them away,” Ramzan said, as his wife cried. “All I can do is live with the sadness of this tragedy my whole life.” His wife’s cries were echoed by many other women in the village who had also lost their children. Some pounded their heads and chests as they wailed, while men dug new graves in the village cemetery. Many other men from the village joined hundreds of people along the river who desperately searched for the missing children. Rescue workers dove beneath the water looking for bodies as soldiers and police tried to hold back the crowds. The children involved in the accident were returning from school after attending a function for Eid al-Fitr the holiday that follows the traditional Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, said Akber, the local police chief.

The current legal framework means that institutes for the blind in different countries may be required to make multiple audiobook versions of the same work, said Richard Owens, WIPO’s director of copyright and electronic commerce. Owens said this leads to higher costs that are passed on to the listeners. It also limits access to blind and partially blind people in poor countries, which cannot afford to make their own versions of everything from science textbooks to best-sellers, he said. The U.N. agency has been trying for six years to revamp its global copyright framework

so that it better accounts for new media, such as audiobooks. For the blind and visually impaired, the goal is to create a clearinghouse so that published material can be traded around the world and translated into new, readable formats. But the problem of access for such copyrighted material goes to the heart of a growing crisis in the world of copyright protection, as the Internet increasingly muddies laws that were created for traditional media. Whereas wide exceptions exist for books in Braille, WIPO officials say there is confusion over how these benefits can be translated into the digital age. Proponents of a new agree-

ment say the same benefits that digital books provide most consumers lower costs and better storage and accessibility should be extended to those with disabilities. The United States and European nations that export large amounts of published material are somewhat hesitant because of concerns over an erosion of intellectual property rights, and want to avoid a binding treaty. Wonder called for a compromise and teased the diplomats. “Please work it out. Or I’ll have to write a song about what you didn’t do,” said the 60-yearold singer known for such hits as “Superstition” and “I Just Called to Say I Love You.”

Complicating the talks are the demands of African countries, which are seeking even larger copyright loopholes. They want their libraries and academic institutions to be able to skip licensing agreements so that they can provide audiobook access for larger communities. Wonder, who has sold tens of million of albums, said any agreement should respect the authors “who labor to create the great works that enlighten and nourish our minds, hearts and souls.” He insisted on a practical solution so that blind and visually impaired people get “the tools to think their way out of poverty.”

Poor countries are facing an education crisis JASON STRAZIUSO

Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nearly 70 million children around the world are not getting an education despite much progress in the last 10 years, and Haiti and Somalia are the two worst countries in which to be a school-age child, a new report released Monday said. The global financial crisis has forced poor countries to cut their education budgets by $4.6 billion a year at a time when intensified efforts are needed to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goal of ensuring a primary school education for every child in the world by 2015, it said. The report listed 10 countries at the bottom of the education list, all but Haiti are in Africa. In addition to Somalia, the others are Eritrea, Comoros, Ethiopia, Chad, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Liberia. It based the rankings on access to basic education, teacher-student ratio and educational provisions for girls. Even Kenya, considered successful compared to its East African neighbors, had to delay free education to 9.7 million children over the last year due to budgetary constraints, the report said. The report was produced by Education International, Plan International, Oxfam, Save the Children and VSO. “Education is now on the brink,” Kailash Satyarthi, president of the Global Campaign for Education which issued the report, told a highlevel event in New York on the sidelines of a U.N. summit to promote achievement of the goal.“Sixty-nine million children more than all the primary school-going children in the United States and Europe —ool this morning,” he said. “Just $16 billion per year could pay for every child to go to school.” The report’s “Donor Report Card” gives two countries “A,” the Netherlands and Norway, and four “B,” Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, and Britain. The United States, in 16th place, received a “D’’ along with France, Germany, New Zealand and others while Greece was at the bottom of the list in 22nd place with an “F.” Queen Rania of Jordan, a co-founder of the Global Campaign, said summit after C

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summit has failed to persuade leaders to put resources into education.“Education doesn’t just beat poverty,” Rania said. “It beats disease. It beats inequality, and for girls education is nothing less than a lifesaver,

from stigmatism, insecurity and violence.” World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala announced that its arm that gives grants and soft credits to the world’s 79 poorest coun-

tries is pledging an additional $750 million over the next five years, a 40 percent increase in the bank’s basic education spending over the last five years directed at the poorest countries.

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Teacher bonuses do not affect student tests DORIE TURNER

Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA (AP) — A study released Tuesday found that offering performance bonuses to teachers does nothing to raise test scores, raising doubts about the viability of the Obama administration’s push for merit pay to improve education. The study released Tuesday by Vanderbilt University’s National Center on Performance Incentives researchers found that students in classrooms where teachers received bonuses saw the same gains as the classes where educators got no

incentive. “I think most people agree today that the current way in which we compensate teachers is broken,” said Matthew Springer, executive director of the Vanderbilt center and lead researcher on the study. “But we don’t know what the better way is yet.” The study looked at ﬁfththrough eighth-grade math teachers in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools over three years from 2007 to 2009. Teachers could receive between $5,000 and $15,000 annually, depending on how their students performed on standardized tests.

N. and S. Carolina get high marks on health emergency plans TOM BREEN

Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Improvements in nationwide readiness for emergencies like bioterrorism or pandemic ﬂu heralded by a new report may already be in jeopardy, thanks to dwindling budgets and shrinking staffs. A report released Tuesday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the country’s overall preparedness for such emergencies has improved, including in both North and South Carolina, which got high marks in everything from laboratory capabilities to getting the word out to the public. “Much progress has been made to build and strengthen national public health preparedness and response capabilities,” the report says. But the report measures state activities between Oct. 1, 2007, and Sept. 30, 2008, before the worst effects of the Great Recession began to hit state and local budgets. The readiness of the country to respond to a threat two years later could be signiﬁcantly different. “As cuts continue happening to everybody’s budgets, we’re losing manpower. We’re losing our overall ability to respond,” said Jim Beasley, spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. “It makes it harder to respond to a widespread emergency if you don’t have the people in place to actually administer the shots or give out the pills,” he said. The CDC report notes that federal funding for public health emergency readiness has declined every year since 2005. From a high of $970 million for state and local health departments in 2003, the funding had shrunk to $689 million in public

health emergency preparedness money dispensed in 2009. “The current economic climate and budget cuts represent real threats to our preparedness,” said Jeff Levi, executive director of the Trust For America’s Health, in a statement Tuesday. “They are already starting to erode the progress that has been made and forcing state and local public health departments to cut jobs.” A survey released in May by the National Association of County and City Health Officials found that from January 2008 to December 2009, local health departments lost about 23,000 jobs to layoffs and attrition, about 15 percent of the total work force. The job losses sped up in 2009, after most of the data in the CDC report was compiled, with 46 percent of local health departments experiencing budget-related job cuts between June and December. The Trust For America’s Health, along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, also studies state preparedness for major health emergencies. In its most recent report, released last December, it gave high marks to the Carolinas, echoing the CDC findings. The states got points from the CDC for the capabilities of their public health labs and for the overall state of planning for emergencies: South Carolina scored a 93 and North Carolina a 98 in the latter category, which requires a score of at least 69 to be considered acceptable. “North Carolina and South Carolina both do fairly well in preparedness,” said Laura Segal, a spokeswoman for the Trust For America’s Health. “But clearly the budget cuts are a major concern, and they are not reflected either in the CDC report or in our last assessment.”

Springer was quick to point out that his study only looked at individual bonuses and did not examine team-based bonuses or school-based merit pay programs. He also stressed that the study points to the need for more scientiﬁc research on merit pay. Up until this point, there were only a handful of valid studies on merit pay, mostly from other countries. “Some people were initially disappointed when they saw the results, but quickly turned around and said, ‘Well, at least we ﬁnally have an answer,” he said. “It means pay can’t do it alone.”

Just a handful of schools and districts across the country have merit pay programs, and in some states the idea is effectively illegal. The White House hoped to woo more states into passing merit pay laws with its $4.35 million “Race to the Top” grant competition. Some states tried to enact merit bonuses for teachers but most, like Georgia, were unable to seal the deal. Colorado passed a controversial law that ties teacher pay to student performance and allows the state to strip tenure from low-performing instructors, but the state did not win any grant

money. In Louisiana, Florida and Minnesota, where a few local districts have been offering merit pay to teachers for years, lawmakers and governors are aiming to expand those into statewide programs. The U.S. Department of Education called Vanderbilt’s study too narrowly focused. “It only looked at the narrow question of whether more pay motivates teachers to try harder,” said Sandra Abrevaya, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Education. “What we are trying to do is change the culture of teaching by giving all educators the

feedback they need to get better while rewarding and incentivizing the best to teach in high need schools, hard to staff subjects.” But the American Federation of Teachers, a national teachers’ union, praised the study and argued that teachers need other resources, including training, professional development, time with other educators and supportive administrators. “Merit pay is not the panacea that some would like it to be. There are no quick ﬁxes in education,” said union president Randi Weingarten. “Providing individual bonuses for teachers standing alone does not work.”

Turner gets digital rights to NCAA championships MICHAEL MAROT

AP Sports Writer

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Turner Sports and the NCAA announced a 14-year digital rights deal Tuesday that includes management of NCAA. com, the primary web site for all 88 NCAA tournaments and other services. “We’re doing this for a couple of reasons, and we would never do a stupid economic deal,” said Lenny Daniels, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Turner Sports. “The long-term television world is going to change, and we think everything is, eventually, going to be interconnected.” Financial terms were not immediately disclosed. If Daniels is right, Turner Sports’ second major coup with the NCAA in five months may put the network in a stronger position to land future contracts. In April, Turner and CBS announced they were teaming up as broadcast partners for the NCAA’s marquee event, the men’s basketball tournament, winning a bidding war with a 14-year, $10.8 billion deal that means each game will be broadcast live for the first

time in the 73-year history of the event. The NCAA will get an additional $740 million per year, on average, from that deal money it says will go back to individual schools and conferences. But Turner Sports could be the big winner. Beginning this season, Turner will carry games on three of its cable channels (TBS, TNT and truTV), will begin alternating title game broadcasts with CBS in 2016 and now holds digital rights to all NCAA championships across all three divisions. “I think people won’t understand until March how prominent their (Turner’s) role is going to be in this agreement,” said Greg Shaheen, the NCAA’s interim executive vice president of championships and business strategies. “The tournament is going to have a different look and a different feel and how it is covered will be a much better experience for the viewer. They (Turner) are the ones who did a lot of the homework on this and they’re formidable.” Turner already holds the rights to March Madness On Demand, which drew 3 million viewers on the ﬁrst Thursday of

last season’s NCAA tourney. While the governing body’s primary web site, NCAA.org, will continue to be run by the national ofﬁce, Turner Sports wants to add the other NCAA digital platforms to its long list of successful web sites. Among those already being managed or operated by Turner are NASCAR.com, PGATOUR.com and PGA.com and NBA.com and WNBA.com. Turner Sports is a division of Time Warner Inc.’s Turner Broadcasting System Inc., based in Atlanta. It also oversees the operation of SI.com. What will change on the NCAA sites is not exactly clear yet. Daniels said Turner Sports is still researching what Internet surfers want to see. He’s already committed to adding more live coverage and more highlights from championship events. Shaheen hopes to see more coverage of “The Road to the Final Four,” though it is unlikely to include open coverage of the currently closed-door selection process. “We’re going to see if something is missing,” Daniels said. “If you look across the whole college sports world, you’ll see it (Internet coverage) is pretty

fragmented. We want this to become the place you go to for college sports.” The free streaming, on-demand services could also get a facelift. “We would expect March Madness on Demand to take the next step forward,” Shaheen said, though he didn’t explain what that would be. “I’ll defer to the experts, but they know we want to explore what provides the best possible experience for the viewer.” Shaheen also acknowledged that the twin 14-year deals were no coincidence. Turner Sports started discussing the digital rights while it was still working on the men’s basketball television deal, and the negotiations continued through the summer. Turner has agreed to cover the cost of the upgrades, and the NCAA will still retain the right to make money from digital services. “It really is a commitment by Turner to handle the startup and the overall expense and over time, depending on the site’s performance,” Shaheen said. “The association has the opportunity to share (in proﬁts) as it goes forward.”

Cuba summons workers to explain coming layoffs WILL WEISSERT

Associated Press Writer

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba is calling workers across the island to special meetings so labor leaders can brief them on half a million government layoffs coming in the next six months and suggest ways that those ﬁred can make a living. The “workers’ assemblies” that began on Sept. 15 include hundreds of meetings with state employees in union halls, government auditoriums and even basements or garages of state-run companies, according to reports Monday in the staterun labor union newspaper Trabajadores.

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The proceedings are closed and attendees so far have been tight-lipped about what is being discussed. But Salvador Valdes Mesa, head of the nearly 3 million-member Cuban Workers Confederation, said they are designed to tell workers about “the labor policies that will govern the country in order to achieve the structural changes the economy needs.” “We are confronting the need to make our economy more efficient, better organize production, increase worker productivity and identify the reserves we have,” Valdes Mesa was quoted as telling a weekend gathering of transportation and port employees. Two separate stories in Trabajadores, or Workers, quoted Mesa Valdes at a conference in Havana as well as addressing a similar group of state employees in the eastern province of Holguin, making it tough to tell where exactly his quotes were made. Cuba announced Sept. 13 that it would lay off 500,000 workers by March and loosen state controls on private enterprise so that many of those fired can find new jobs. It said it would also beef up the tax code and revamp state pay scales to better reward high job performance. President Raul Castro warned in April that as many as 1 million Cuban state employ-

ees — a fifth of a total island work force of 5.1 million — may be superfluous. In a subsequent speech in August, he warned job cuts were coming. Trabjadores quoted Valdes Mesa as saying that “a political process of reflection and analysis with the workers in the assemblies is already under way to study and debate” past Raul Castro speeches, including the one in August. During such meetings, Cuban workers generally are asked to endorse what reforms the government plans — sometimes there are votes by cheers and sometimes by a show of hands. For example, state employees gathered in special meetings in 2008 to discuss a parliamentary proposal to raise Cuba’s retirement age, and officially 99.1 percent of attendees supported the measure. In this case, employee layoffs will be supported by some of the very Cubans who may lose their jobs. The president has not commented publicly since the reforms were announced, though he has said authorities have no intention of abandoning the socialist state they spent decades building. Instead, preparing workers for what’s to come has fallen to Valdes Mesa’s union, which is allied with the Communist Party and the only one the gov-

ernment allows. Some of the meetings include just a few employees from a single office. Others involve hundreds from a whole city neighborhood. An internal Communist Party document detailing the unprecedented overhaul envisions a radically reshaped economy, freshly legalized private cooperatives and a state payroll trimmed of many idle or unproductive workers. The document says many laid-off workers will be urged to form private cooperatives. Others will go to work for foreign-run companies or set up their own small businesses in fields such as transportation, food and house rental. Already, 144,000 Cubans work for themselves and 823,000 overall are part of the private sector, though that includes vast farm cooperatives run in accord with state administrative decisions. The government still employs the other 84 percent of the official work force. Government workers take home an average of about $20 per month, though the state provides free education and health care and subsidizes housing, utilities, transportation and food. The layoffs will affect all corners of the government except those considered “indispensable.”

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Who do you think you’re calling a b*tch? The male and female prospective of the use of the word in reference to women Who you calling a b*tch? Yes I’m talking to you. You, who think that such a lewd, disrespectful word best describes me. You, who think you have the right to call me out of my name. Out of the thousands of words in the English dictionary, could you come up with nothing better? I know what you’re thinking, “here goes another girl whose taking this b*tch thing too far.” Let me take a guess, it’s just a word right? Well you’re right, a word it is indeed. And like every other word, b*tch, has a set of definitions: a female dog; a female of canines generally; a malicious, unpleasant, selfish person, esp. a woman; a lewd woman; a complaint; anything difficult or unpleasant. As you can see, there is not a thing positive about that word. You can try to change the definition up all you like, but unless you’re name is Webster it does not make a difference. Why is it that people, black people in particular, like to only pick negative words to refer to each other as? First we all refer to each other as nigger, and now all of our women are b*tches. What, was lovely taken? Does beautiful have too many syllables? I’m tired of guys thinking that the words “women” and “b*tches” interchangeable. When I was born, the hospital tag on my ankle did not say “Bitch.” My parents were not given balloons that said, “Congratulations, It’s a b*tch!” I constantly hear guys say things like “We’re about to go find some b*tches tonight,” or “That b*tch is fine.” I AM NOT A B*TCH! Do

not tell me it is no big deal because if a guy was to call another guy a b*tch he would be ready to fight, but because I’m a woman I’m expected to take it? When I ask most of my guy friends why they refer to women as b*tches, they do not even seem to really know, but it has become so second nature to them that they do not want to give it up. I have observed that they often do not even realize they are saying it. When disrespecting a woman becomes an automatic notion, there is a problem. A lot of females do not like to admit this, but men are not the only ones to blame. We, as women, have somehow gone from letting men refer to us as b*tches to calling each other b*tches. We have traded in our womanhood for a derogatory word that was created for creatures who wear leashes. When did this mess become a term of endearment!? “That’s my b*tch.” “Hey b*tch!” “I love my b*tches!” -- I hear women say these phrases and more to their closest friends, we know better. Somehow women have tricked themselves into thinking that b*tch is a word that embodies a woman of power, strength and independence. I bet that façade fades away as soon as some guy gets mad at you and calls you the very same word that you referred to yourself as five minutes ago. So in other words, I have to earn the right to disrespect you on a daily basis? Yea, that makes sense. If I am describing you then you might as well stick the label hypocrite to yourself since

labels are all the craze now. What people fail to realize is that words hold power. Teenagers are committing suicide due to verbal harassment everyday, and if you do not think calling someone a b*tch is verbal harassm e n t t h i n k again. Suicide is the third SYLVIA l e a d i n g OBELL cause in teens, and some girls decide they would rather take their life than be verbally abused. This problem is bigger than most people realize. I have a little sister in middle school, and they are all calling each other b*tches because that is what they see us doing. We are lowering women’s standards, one b*tch at a time. At this rate our daughters will not know anything different. As women, we deserve better. There is a reason why you do not call your mother or your boss a b*tch (if you do it’s not to their face), because you know it’s wrong. So do not sit there and pretend it can mean whatever you want it to because it can’t. An apple is an apple, a teacher is a teacher, and a b*tch is a b*tch -- please do not address me as such. And to all my beautiful, black women out there who love this word so much, I would like to quote journalist Amanda Anderson, “be careful what labels you willingly attach yourself to.”

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No, I’m not calling you a b*itch. I would never directly call any individual woman a b*tch. I was raised by a woman, so I understand the power and level of disrespect that word holds. I also know that men and women live by two different standards and two different codes TRUMAINE of law. A n d MCCASKILL what may seem okay in the eyes of men, are not always seen as ok in the eyes of women. Sometimes, this word happens to fall into that category. However, why should men have to change their way of speech amongst each other just to accommodate to a group of people that they are not even directly talking to? But if it makes you feel better to know why men truly say it, then know that we simply use the term as a general word for women. Nothing more, nothing less. Yes, I will be the very first man to admit this is wrong. But this is no different than women referring to themselves as “the baddest b*tch” or even saying things such as “there were a lot of cute guys at the party.” Those “cute guys” have names just like you. Yet, you do not and probably never will know these men. So why is it okay for men to be classified as cute guys and horny dogs, yet it is disrespect for girls to be sexy chicks and bad b*tches?

The word choice might be different, but the meaning in the eyes of 18-22 year-old men is all the same. To most young men at this age, their idea is of fun is going out and typically finding a woman to have sex with at the end of the night. Regardless of how many females feel about it, this is the reality of the world we live in. Many of you need to ask yourself, if it makes you feel better if a man says “I’m going to have sex with this b*tch” or “I’m going to have sex with this woman.” Does it simply sound nicer or do you honestly feel that will make him respect you more? Do you think when a guy gets your number in the club, that his intentions are based solely upon if he classified you as a b*tch hours before the two of you met? Because in all honesty, many college males are going to think dirty thoughts and attempt to do dirty things, regardless of what their word choice may be amongst their friends. I am not, nor will I ever be, a fan of disrespect. However, I am also not a fan of sugar coating reality. And the reality of the situation is that men of all kinds use the word. Not all of these men mean it to be disrespectful. Yet, this is how they are treated. And quite frankly that’s an ignorant assumption. Just because a man uses a certain word does not make him a disrespectful individual. Perhaps he is immature, but that does not automatically classify him as disrespectful. That is just like assuming ev-

ery white person that has used the word nigger is racist. That is an unrealistic assumption. Many men use the word as a generalization for a group of people they do not know. Much like many women are doing to me right now as they read (I’m assuming). Many of my readers do not and probably will not, ever know who I am outside of this paper. However, while reading this article you may be assuming I am a disrespectful individual just because I am not trying to abolish the use of. Well I assure you, I am not. By the definition of generalization, shouldn’t I be upset that you are pre-judging my characteristics and me? Yes, there are some individuals who use the term in a disrespectful manner. However, that does not apply to every man that uses the word. I am not condoning the word; I am simply attempting to clean up a misunderstanding between men and women. If any woman speaks to a man and they call them a b*tch, by all means I encourage you to be upset. At the same time, it would be helpful for women to realize that certain things men say and do amongst one another, are not meant to be understood by you. That is life. In the eyes of a woman, this word only holds one meaning. In the eyes of many men, this word can mean anything. Men do not mean to disrespect you or take you for granted. You must realize that if you are not a man then you will not understand what we mean when we say the things amongst one another.

Reggie Bush’s tainted Heisman MCT CAMPUS Contributor

Reggie Bush’s gifts as a running back helped him win the Heisman Trophy in 2005. But there was one tackler Bush couldn’t shake: the egregious rules violation the NCAA says he committed as a Southern Cal Trojan. According to the association’s investigators, sports marketers plied Bush with cash and gifts, as well as picking up the tab for tens of thousands of dollars worth of housing for him and his family. In addition to saddling the USC football program with a whopping penalty, that transgression almost certainly would have led the Heisman Trust board to reclaim Bush’s trophy. So it’s hardly noble that Bush chose to surrender his prize Tuesday the day the board was meeting to discuss his case sparing himself the indignity of having it confiscated. Nor does Bush deserve any praise for his statement of faux contrition, in which he admitted no wrongdoing and hinted that he’d simply been ignorant about the rules. The problem for Bush and the many other star athletes who run afoul of the authorities isn’t that they’ve unwittingly crossed some obscure line. It’s that marquee athletes in bigtime college sports too often have a sense of entitlement that years of coddling and attention

have instilled a sense that’s reinforced by high-profile professional athletes who play by their own rules. Given the money they generate most of USC’s $82 million athletic budget comes from its football program it’s understandable that the stars of major college programs come to feel as if they deserve more compensation than the free education and exposure they’re receiving. That’s a powerfully corrupting force, and it will inevitably prove irresistible to some young athletes. Nor does it help that infractions usually are discovered after the cheaters are gone, leaving others to pay the penalty. What schools can and should do is make it abundantly clear to athletes, coaches and athletic directors that sports take a back seat to studies. That message often gets lost on campuses where players live in separate dorms and where university presidents have no control over athletic budgets. To its credit, USC has changed in significant ways since Bush left for the pros. The university has a new president and athletic director who’ve promised a culture of compliance, as well as new coaches for the football and men’s basketball teams. We hope they’ll be able to instill the Trojans with enough sense and perspective to avoid the mistakes that cost Bush his Heisman.

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Volleyball loses ninth straight Janae SMith Contributor

The Lady Aggies volleyball team lost in 3 sets (25-18, 2514, 25-22) to Wofford University Tuesday in Corbett Sports Center for their ninth consecutive loss. Throughout the game the Lady Aggies (1-12) struggled against an aggressive Wofford team. Senior Amber Inman led the team with 18 assists and 7 digs. But it was not enough to win the game for the Lady Aggies. Wofford had the obvious height advantage with six players at least 6 feet or taller. 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;1â&#x20AC;? Rachel Woodlee had eight kills against the Aggies and Stacy Byrd had nine to lead the Terriers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still rocky because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not one hundred percent,â&#x20AC;? said head coach Toni Conway about the loss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We missed an opportunity

to win a set at least but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still learning, the team is still young.â&#x20AC;? On Saturday, the Lady Aggies lost two games in the Western Carolina Tournament. In the first game the home team Western Carolina swept A&T in 3 sets (25-11, 25-13, 25-11). UNC Asheville did the same, winning all 3 sets (25-6, 25-13, 25-9). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Western was kind of tough being people played out of position,â&#x20AC;? said Conway about the tournament. On last Wednesday UNCG swept the Lady Aggies in 3 sets as well (2515, 25-8, 25-16). The Lady Aggies are learning to adjust quickly to changes. Conway said she expects her girls to perform even if they are not expecting to play a certain position. Whether its attacking or point services she wants to see an improvement. The Aggies were led by

freshmen Chelsea Fox and Mia Gray with six kills apiece. The Lady Aggies had an attack percentage of just .078. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The score was a little bit better,â&#x20AC;? said Jeana Daniels, freshman from Houston, Texas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our team consists majority of freshmen. The team learned from this game that no matter where you are on the floor you are expected to play your position. Our team is not is not at 100 percent but we are doing better.â&#x20AC;? Daniels ended the game second in kills with five. She also had five digs during the game. The Lady Aggies will continue to prepare for their season in their next game against Savannah State. The game will take place in Savannah, GA. After that, the volleyball team will take on the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC on Sunday Sept. 26.

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The Aggies offense wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t great on Saturday when they played the Pirates of Hampton University, but it was better than it had been in the previous two games. Unfortunately, better wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough and the Aggies suffered their third loss of the year in a 35-21 onslaught. The offense once again failed to reach at least 200 yards of total offense in a game despite putting up their highest scoring output of the season. The score was just 7-7 at

halftime until the Aggies gained the lead after Mike Mayhew ran the ball in from 6 yards out to open the third quarter. The bigger story from this game however, was the Aggies defense, which surrendered a season high 518 yards and 35 points to the Pirates. Of those points 21 came in the third quarter with the Aggies holding a 14-7 lead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy about our offense,â&#x20AC;? said Aggie head coach Alonzo Lee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The way they came out in the second half and were able to move the ball and do some things.â&#x20AC;?

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Jeana Daniels goes for a spike in the game asgainst Wofford on Tuesday Sept. 21. The Aggie Volleyball team loss 0-3.

energy when it counted,â&#x20AC;? Lee said of the Pirates offense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They came out to win in that second half and we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;? The Aggies were able to cut the lead to 28-21 on their first possession of the fourth quarter when senior Shelton Morgan hit Devin Moore for a 3-yard touchdown with over ten minutes left in the game. The Pirates however, ran over five minutes off the clock on their next possession and capped off a 12-play drive with a touchdown to put the Aggies away. Hampton was able to aver-

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The Pirates started moving the ball as well and bounced back to tied the game on their ensuing possession with a 21yard touchdown pass from David LeGree to Javaris Brown. They carried that momentum into their next possession to go 64 yards in 7 plays and finish that drive with a 9-yard pass from LeGree to Isiah Thomas. The defensive dismantling continued about two and half minutes later when Antwon Chisholm broke a 72-yard run to give HU a 28-14 lead going into the fourth quarter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They came out with more

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Denver Broncos coach Josh McDaniels said in a tearful news conference Tuesday that nobody in the organization saw any hint that wide receiver Kenny McKinley was suicidal before he took his life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all seen him recently. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been the same person every time we see him. Liked junk food and chips and things like that,â&#x20AC;? McDaniels said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was in the cafeteria, or in the training room, when we were seeing him the last so many weeks here. Nothing that would alarm us to anything like this.â&#x20AC;? McKinleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body was discovered by a female friend Monday afternoon when she returned to his Centennial home less than four miles from the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters after running an errand with his young son, Keon. Arapahoe County Coroner Michael Dobersen said Tuesday that McKinley, 23, died of a gunshot wound to the head. He said a preliminary investigation â&#x20AC;&#x153;suggests the wound to be self-inflicted.â&#x20AC;? The team gathered Tuesday morning and met with grief counselors to help them deal with the death of their friend. The players decided to leave McKinleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s locker in place for the remainder of the season as a shrine to their teammate with an infectious smile who was always quick with a joke. McDaniels said the Broncos will observe a moment of silence Sunday before their game against Indianapolis and players will wear white decals with the No. 11 in navy on their helmets. McKinley was part of McDanielsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first draft class and McDaniels said nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been more excited to get that phone call than McKinley was. He said he saw McKinley less than two weeks ago in the team cafeteria and saw him smiling as usual. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could see all of his teeth. Usually could,â&#x20AC;? McDaniels said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any

memories that are really negative about Kenny, because of the spirit he had.â&#x20AC;? Woodyard said he saw McKinley a week and a half ago when the receiver was retrieving some items from his locker at Dove Valley. They ribbed each other, as usual. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He had a big smile on his face. He just walked out of the building,â&#x20AC;? Woodyard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the last thing we remember, that huge smile.â&#x20AC;? Woodyard said nobody saw any signs that their friend was hurting on the inside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every memory that we have of Kenny is a joke and a big smile,â&#x20AC;? Woodyard said. He said the Broncos will prepare for their game against the Colts with heavy hearts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to play with him on our shoulders and in our hearts,â&#x20AC;? Woodyard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to allow us to continue to push through this week.â&#x20AC;? This is the third time in four years the Broncos are dealing with the death of a teammate under stunning circumstances. McKinleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent, Andrew Bondarowicz, said family and friends are at a loss to explain the death of a young man â&#x20AC;&#x153;who had such a love for life.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody has their explanations, their own theories. Whether it was injuries, no oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to know for sure,â&#x20AC;? Bondarowicz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tough situation all the way around. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some people speculate that it was his being injured, some said it was financial challenges. ... Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tragic situation.â&#x20AC;? Bondarowicz said funeral arrangements were pending. He also said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been in touch with team and the playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; association about setting up a trust fund for McKinleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son. McKinley was a fifthround draft choice out of South Carolina in 2009. He remains South Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alltime leading receiver with 207 catches for 2,781 yards.

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AROUND SPORTS VICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COMEBACK PHILADELPHIA (AP) Ââ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Michael Vickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impressive play earned him a starting job. Vick will take over as the Philadelphia Eaglesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; No. 1 quarterback, coach Andy Reid said Tuesday, a day after he announced he would go back to Kevin Kolb. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When someone is playing at the level Michael Vick is playing, you have to give him an opportunity,â&#x20AC;? Reid said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about Kevin Kolbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about Michael Vick as one the best quarterbacks in the NFL right now.â&#x20AC;? Kolb missed the last six quarters because of a concussion, and Vick played well in his absence. Kolb was cleared to practice and was expected to run the first-team offense on Wednesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kevin is fine. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an injury-related issue,â&#x20AC;? Reid said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about judging him. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a championship-caliber quarterback.â&#x20AC;? Vick threw for 175 yards and one touchdown and ran for 103 yards in a 27-20 seasonopening loss to Green Bay. He had 284 yards passing and two TDs in a 35-32 win at Detroit on Sunday. Kolb started two games in his first three seasons before he became the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 quarterback after Donovan McNabb was traded to Washington. Kolb struggled in the first half against the Packers in the season opener. Though the Eagles have been grooming Kolb to be the starter since drafting him in the second round in 2007, Vick forced Reid to make a difficult decision by playing better than he did when he was a superstar in Atlanta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Michael did an exceptional job and my job is to evaluate the players,â&#x20AC;? Reid said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my obligation to make the proper decision.â&#x20AC;? Vickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s start against the Lions was his first in nearly four years. A three-time Pro Bowl pick during six seasons with the Falcons, Vick missed two seasons while serving an 18-month sentence in federal prison for his role in a dogfighting operation. He signed a two-year contract with the Eagles before last season, then played sparingly behind McNabb and Kolb.

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Editor’s pick: Top five books From one avid reader to another-college students check out these best sellers

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Shirts Henleys Henleys are a mix between long johns and a regular tee. Not only do they have a regular henley shirts, but they have the pull over hooded henleys. This is something new that we will see.

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Do you like to read? With so many things consuming a college student’s mind, at the same time, it is can be difficult to keep up ones reading. However, every student should set aside time to stimulate their mind by reading. Here are some picks, all of which are New York Times bestsellers, some of which are my personal favorites.

1. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert A memoir by the author of her trip around the world. Gilbert left everything she knew behind to spend four months in Italy, India and Indonesia. This books chronicles her journey to enjoy life, find her spirituality and look for balance. -New York Times Bestseller

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Hats Snap Backs Fitted hats have always been a trend for every season. This winter, we can see more of a 90’s look. Snap backs will become the new fitted. To accomplish this look, check out some of Spike Lee’s movies, for example School Days or Do the Right Thing. -N.J

Jackets Va r s i t y / L e t t e r m a n Jackets This is the biggest comeback for winter and you don’t have to play sports to wear them. These bold jackets are perfect to wear for the fall breeze. They come in all colors and with or without letters. Men are always looking for a way to separate themselves from the others and finding the perfect letterman jacket will do the trick. -N.J

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Ben Affleck builds on his directorial success after 2007’s “Gone Baby Gone,” with the Boston based crime thriller “The Town.” Affleck stars in “The Town” as the main character Doug MacRay. In addition to Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner have major roles. The movie focuses on Charlestown, a neighborhood in Boston, MA. The movie tells the story of Charlestown, which has more thieves and bank robbers than any other place in the U.S. We are introduced to Doug’s four-man robber unit in the first scene as they are pulling off a bank heist. They are merciless and efficient, seeming to have all bases covered. Inevitably there is a loose cannon on the team, James Coughlin, which is played by Renner. After the initial bank heist things get a little complicated because character Claire Keesey (Hall) becomes a person of interest for Doug’s unit, as well as the FBI after he involves her in the robbery and subsequently takes her hostage temporarily. Although Claire doesn’t see any of the robber’s faces, Doug has to keep an eye on her to gauge what she knows. This ends up being more complicated of a situation than just tying up a loose end. Throughout the movie Doug has to juggle and prioritize his

relationship with Claire, his loyalty to his Charlestown family, escaping his past and creating a future. “The Town” is thoughtful and provoking. There is suspense and it makes viewers feel like they are a part of the story. The action scenes are plentiful as well as your standard chase scenes which are abundant in robbery films. Even if you aren’t from Boston you will appreciate the way Boston scenery such as Fenway Park is included in to the movie to enhance the sense of realism. I’d recommend “The Town” to anyone who enjoys great pacing, acting, action and plot in films they watch. Be advised that “The Town” is rated R for offensive language, violence and some nudity. It is currently showing at all Greensboro theaters.

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The Paul Robeson Theater will kick-off it’s season Sept. 23 thru Oct. 3 with The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer. The play focuses on three terminally ill patients living at a Hospice facility. The patients are being interviewed about the process of dying. Miller Lucky Jr., an associate professor in the theater department, directs ‘The Shadowbox’. “The theater faculty wanted a piece that would broaden our play offerings from the usual works of African Americans to include works of traditional American playwrights,” said Miller. He also states that Shadowbox would also expand the repertoire and artistic range of the students. Joe, played by Nick Turner, a senior theater major, is a middle aged, blue-collar family man that had accepted his fate. His wife, Maggie on the other hand has not and has yet to inform their son Steve about his father’s condition. “I love it because it a touching subject and it challenges me and my colleagues because you can’t fake it,” said Tuner. “If you go up there with something that’s not real the audience is going to know it. It’s also a transition from other plays that I have done here.” Gogo Lomo David, a sophomore professional theater and business management major is playing Brian, a bi-sexual English professor that is being cared

stripes Stripes are always a classic. This is an essential for your closet because it will never go out of style. Whether it’s a v neck, an oversized shirt or a plain long sleeve, stripes can add more to your outfit that you can believe. Sometime less is always more. -N.J

5. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Oprah’s recent pick for her book club has been selling like crazy. This book follows a middle class family as they relocate over the U.S. Their story begins in the 20th century up until the Obama administration. -New York Times Bestseller

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3. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot NYT Skloot wrote the 2010-2011 text-in-community of A&T. This book details the life of Henrietta Lacks, an African American farmer whose cells were taken from her body without knowledge. Today, ‘hela’ cells are still used in research. -New York Times Bestseller

4.The five love languages by Gary Chapman Chapman, a Christian counselor offers his advice as it pertains to love. This book explains the importance of being able to communicate with your spouse using the five languages of love. -New York Times Bestseller 2. Have a little Faith by Mitch Albom A non-fiction book from the award-winning journalist Mitch Albom. The book follows the lives of two men; a rabbi in New Jersey and a minister in Detroit. Albom tells of their journeys and how their lives cross. -New York Times Bestseller

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for by his partner, Mark. When Brian’s flamboyant, trashy ex-wife Beverly comes to visit his spirits are lifted and Mark feels slighted. “The hardest part of playing Brian is when he realizes he wants to live, as the play progresses he wants to live,” said David. “Trying to make that progression and being genuine is the hardest part.” Delores S. Rose, a senior professional theater major, plays Felicity. Her character is an elderly woman suffering from dementia. According to Rose, the hardest part of playing Felicity is “dealing with all the dynamics of things going on. She has dementia, lung cancer and is blind. Putting all those characteristics together is the hardest.” Though Felicity is in great pain and being cared for by her daughter Agnes, she refuses to die until her favorite daughter, Claire returns. “Examining death and supporting those who are facing it as with the terminally ill, brings about an extraordinary discovery of life,” said Miller in hopes of what the audience will receive from the play. General admission for the Shadowbox is $15, senior citizens and non-A&T students is $10 and all A&T students are free with an Aggie One Card. Group sales are available for parties of fifteen or more. For more information contact the box office at 336-334-7749.

blazers Boyfriend Blazers Women always say that men have the greatest clothes. Now you can wear what they wear. The Boyfriend Blazer is a classy look that you can play up or down. You can wear it casual to a presentation for class or dress it up to a club. I think this is one thing that every woman should have in her closet. -N.J

boots Boots Last fall we saw combat boots all around campus. This fall expect to see a different kind of boot. Tread Bottoms, Lace-Ups and Equestrians are the new “it” boots. These boots have heals to them that are thick and unique. They can add a grungy yet sophisticated look to your outfit. Beware though; these boots MUST be worn with skinny a jean that has not type of flair at the bottom. Any other type of jean will defeat the purpose of the boots. -N.J

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Questions

1. Did you know the football team in 0-3? 2. So when will the losing streak end? 3.Will the football team record be 0-27 again? 4.Didn’t Coach Lee say after losing to WSSU that we will finish the season 10-1 5. Was he joking or is he a liar? 6. Is Dudley High School football team still better than A&T’s football team? 7.Didn’t we recruit their quarterback? 8.Is he riding the bench? 9. If we got a dollar for every football game we lost, couldn’t we start a scholarship fund? 10. How many students do you think we will be able to put through school? 11. Would it be enough money to put John & Kate’s eight children through college with book money? 12. Is it time to stop talking about the football team? 13. Shouldn’t we talk about other losing teams at A&T? 14. Did you know the volleyball team is 1-12? 15. Should the volleyball team start to play football? 16. Do you think the volleyball team could beat NCCU’s football team this weekend? 17. Did you know that our volleyball team is just as bad as our football team? 18. Do we even have a winning team other than the Women’s Basketball team? 19. Shouldn’t we put more money into the Women’s basketball program then football? 20. Why do our Fall sports suck so bad?