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Mental health and suicide affects college students LACi oLLisoN

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sgA PREsiDENT-ELECT DoRiAN DAvis (LEFT) greets former SGA President Allaquan tate as candidates campaign for general elections behind Memorial Student Union on March 26, 2014.

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BRiTNEY NEWToN, candidate for Miss A&t, campaigns behind the Memorial student Union on Wednesday, March 26, 2014.

SGA run-off elections are today, and students will also have to chance get to vote for Miss A&T again after technical difficulties in the general election.

Though the Office of Student Development hoped to get 3,000 votes, it was the best voter turnout in the past three years having 2,021 students vote.

On Election Day, students had a difficult time voting because there were technical difficulties with some of the candidates on the ballot.

Among the categories, which require run off elections are Miss A&T and Junior Class Secretary. On the original Election Day, pictures were mixed up under the Miss A&T category, and the option for junior class secretary was not on each ballot for the junior class.

Students were able to vote for candidates online or in Exhibit Hall.

Aggie Pride was shown as candidates pleaded their case to students in the quad behind the union. Students were out in abundance to hear about candidates and support friends between classes.

Running for any position on campus is always nerve racking. Britney Newton, a candidate for Miss A&T, was put in an awkward position. Her

photo on the ballot was not hers.

“When I actually saw it, I think I felt how anyone would feel discouraged, disappointed, disadvantaged, and displeased. I absolutely felt the picture would affect voting, for I’m sure a lot of voters had to match faces with names,” said Newton.

Denise Iverson-Payne, assistant vice chancellor for student development, in advisement to the Elections Committee, makes recommendations when technical difficulties occur.

“We were not at a place where we could feel like we could give out the numbers. So, it’s not to put anybody at undue advantage, so everybody was put [back] on the ballot,” said Iverson-Payne.

The Elections Committee is charged with making sure a fair and impartial vote is available for all candidates. Payne explained how it is the responsibility of the Elections Committee to provide a fair election that does not allow anyone to have an advantage.

To make up for the mistake, the Elections Committee is putting the candidates for Miss A&T and the candidates for junior class secretary on the ballot for run-offs. It will be considered their first election.

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College years can be some of the most stressful times of one’s life. The worry of financial aid, academics, and the upkeep of a social life combined can have serious effects on a college student. Today, many college mental health facilities are filled with students suffering from mental health illnesses, including suicide.

According to the National Center for the Prevention of Youth Suicide, self-immolation is a leading cause of death among youth attending colleges and universities. Among the general population of young adults ages 18-24, suicide is the second leading cause of death. A survey conducted by the National Survey of College Counseling Centers found that an average of 1,800 students sought individual or group counseling for mental health related issues at universities with more than 15,000 students.

Vivian Barnette, executive director of Counseling Services said that she has seen a lot of students on this campus suffering from suicidal thoughts.

“Across the nation there is a trend where students are coming to school with more complex issues,” said Barnette. “Some students have been treated previously before getting to school and some students have never been treated.”

Barnette said that most students, who will have a mental health problem, would develop it or experience it between the ages of 18 to 25.

Majesty Purvis, a junior psychology student said that in her classes she is being taught the effects of mental health instability on college students.

“I have learned that students with mental health issues on college campuses may resort to alcohol or substances to make them feel like their problems are going away. Other students may deal with mental health issues by staying to themselves or simply taking it out on other people.”

The American College Health Association’s National College Health Assessment found that 43.9 percent of students reported having five or more drinks in one sitting at least once during the two weeks prior to completing the survey and that around half that number also consume alcohol on three or more occasions per week.

Students also reported that suicidal behavior was a consequence of drinking.

As far as treating students with suicidal tendencies, Barnette said that her staff offers a variety of theoretical orientations.

“In our office we have a variety of people experienced in various disciplines such as social work and counseling. We use processes such as cognitive therapy, interpersonal processes and psychoanalysis,” explained Barnette. “But the main goal is to get the person to learn how to cope better.

We want to teach them how to replace negative thinking and learn how to find hope.”

Barnette said that if her staff is unable to assist a student, they are referred to the behavioral health and wellness unit or other private practitioners who may be of better assistance.

A survey conducted by Counseling Services found that its patients benefited greatly from the assistance being provided. Barnette said students felt that counseling made a positive impact upon their ability to stay in

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The Human Race celebrates 20 years ziris savage

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The dense morning fog broke out into a light drizzle of rain Saturday, but the precipitation didn’t stop the thousands of people who came out to The Human Race. The 5k run took place at the Coliseum pavilion in Greensboro and started at 9 a.m. Runners, walkers, dogs and even those rolling in strollers and wheelchairs came out to support their favorite nonprofit or charity.

This year marked the Human Race’s 20th year anniversary. Jennifer Gabriel, a 32-year-old participant has been a part of the race in some aspect since its founding. Her father, Mr. Gabriel, was on the board for the inaugural planning of the first Human Race in 1994.

“It’s inspiring to see people from all walks of life come together for a few hours and make a difference in our community,” said Gabriel.

Sitting inside the Volunteer Center of Greensboro office the day before the race, Gabriel was surrounded by tshirts, goody bags, posters, and people as she and the rest of the Human Race volunteers prepare for the big day. Gabriel only stopped to get a few quick bites of her lunch.

Gabriel was just 12 years old when she participated in the first ever Greensboro Human Race. She and the rest of her Girl Scout troop did face painting for kids.

Through the 20 years of the Human Race’s existence, Gabriel has seen the race through many different lenses.

First with her Girl Scout troop, which led to her being able to sit on the Human Race Committee a few years later then interning for a couple years, now as an adult volunteering in anyway the volunteer center needs her too.

“It definitely has gotten better [over the years], and grows into something

bigger every year,” said Gabriel. “It’s not just any old race, it just means so much to so many people and that’s what really makes it the human race.”

As more people gathered outside the coliseum pavilion, the clearer the skies became clear. The race started promptly at 10. As the runner, walkers, and rollers started their 5k journeys, excitement bellowed from their chest in roars of excitement as the screamed their charity’s name. The race averages about 100 nonprofits annually that receive funding and allows the community to learn about the many nonprofits in the area.

One of those nonprofits is Food Assistance Inc. Jane Y. Carlson saw a need that was not being met 11 eleven years ago. She saw senior citizens struggling to walk to food pantries and thought of a better way to help them. Her food on wheels program now offers food, friendship and hope to improve health and wellness to low income and disabled seniors in Guilford County.

“It’s sad to say, but it’s like grandma’s been kicked to the curb,” said Carlson. “With the economy tanking so many people are falling through the cracks to be provided services.”

Carlson said often times senior citizens are left choosing between getting their medication or food. With the help of volunteers, Food Assistance Inc. feeds about 450 people a month, usually during the third week of the month.

That is where they have found they can do the most good because many people have run out of their food stamps and are left idle until their money comes in at the beginning of the next month.

The program has about 150 volunteers in total with large groups working in warehouses and individuals going out to make deliveries.

“Many of these senior citizens are so isolated because they’re immobile, so

interaction with them opens the flood gates and they want to talk. It lifts their spirits and makes them live longer.”

Looking at their stats, Carlson said that if people just donated $5, a senior citizen could be covered for a month.

She hopes that the community will see the positive work that her program provides for senior citizens in the area. She hopes that they will be inspired to lend a hand in making sure that the quality of life and the health of these people is made better by food on wheels.

With up to 250 volunteers on site the day of, the Human Race is a welloiled machine that embodies the philanthropic spirit of the Greensboro community.

Executive Director Carley Swaim is proud to be a part of the greatest event in this area.

“We easily hit about 5,000 [people].

I think there will always be some aspect of the human race because there are always going to be those nonprofits that need that fundraising arm and they don’t have the means or resources to fundraise for themselves.”

This year the Human Race raised over $100,000 dollars for the 100 nonprofits that participated in this year’s race. Although the Human Race is a national name, the Greensboro race is very unique.

Unlike other cities, this race does not charge people to participate in the race or after-party with a registration or admission fee into the event. For Swaim the race is about the community no matter if you have the means to pay or not.

The 5k trail took most walkers about an hour to complete. After participants crossed the finish line all were welcomed to come into the pavilion for food, live music, and a chair to rest their legs. However, not long after they entered did the music and joyful envi-

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PARTICIPANTS walk in the 20th annual Human Race on Saturday, March 29, 2014.

ronment in the pavilion have people up on their feet laughing and dancing with one another.

If you would like to get involved with the Human Race all the information needed can be found on the Volunteer Center of Greensboro websitewww.volunteergso.org.

For more information on Food As-

sistance Inc. all the information needed can be found on their website foodassistancenc.com.

—Email Ziris at zasavage@aggies.ncat. edu and follow The Register on Twitter @TheATRegister

SUICIDE From page 1 school. “We are retaining students through doing this type of work.”

Barnette urges students to take advantage of the free services that are offered to them. “It is confidential and it is free. Although the issue could be small, it could have an impact that would impede their progress in school. We do a really good job of helping people stay on track and do well in college.”

—Email Laci at lkolliso@aggies. ncat.edu and follow The Register on Twitter @TheATRegister

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Photo by TERRELL MCIVER • THE A&T REGISTER

spectators hold up the number 5 to pay respect as members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated hold up a portrait of Classie Faulkner on Saturday, March 29, 2014. Five was Faulkner’s line number. He died on Saturday, March 22, 2014.

Spring 2014 Probates

On Saturday, March 29, the spring intitiates of fraternities and sororities were presented to campus.

Senior psychology student Classie Faulkner became a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated just a few days before his death.

Faulkner’s funeral was the same morning as the line’s presentation.

To see more pictures of the new line presentations, visit ncatregister.com

April 3.

Run-off elections are put in place because a candidate can only win by a majority of votes.

For all other candidates that are in run-off elections, it will just be determined by who receives the most votes this time around and not by majority.

For the first time, SUAB will have an electronic ballot. It will be combined with the run-off elections for SGA, on April 2.

In previous years, SUAB has had hand ballots. Next spring, SUAB will still have an electronic ballot, but it will be separate from SGA elections.

They were combined this year because of last minute happenstances.

“I think that having SUAB elections the same day as SGA elections was a great idea. Since we are here to serve the students, I think having both elections on the same ballot will be more convenient to the students rather than demanding them to vote two days in a row,” said Ameera Davis, sole candidate for Vice President of SUAB. Iverson-Payne feels that combining SGA and SUAB elections will also help the turn out for the run-off election. In previous years, the amount of students who participate is usually worse than in regular spring elections.

SUAB’s executive board positions on the ballot include: president, vice president, parliamentarian, treasurer, secretary, campus programming chair, cultural affairs chair, marketing and media chair person, and Miss SUAB. Mister SUAB will hold a pageant on April 17.

—Email Taylor at tlyoung1@aggies.ncat.edu and follow The Register on Twitter @TheATRegister

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SGA Spring Elections MSU- Exhibit Hall 8 a.m. -6 p.m.

Accounting Freshman Social Merrick Hall-Auditorium 5:15 p.m.

Leadership and Community Engagement NACB 109 6 p.m.

Sigma Tau Delta Poetry Spring Slam Webb Hall-Auditorium 6:30 p.m.

Black student files $5 million claim at San Jose State TRACEY KAPLAN MCT Campus

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The victim of a racially charged bullying case at San Jose State University has filed a $5 million claim against the school, exposing for the first time that a dormitory resident adviser ignored an obvious early sign that “a potentially explosive and dangerous situation was developing in Room 704.”

The young black man, identified as Donald Williams Jr., plans to follow up the claim with a lawsuit if the university rejects the claim as expected, his Beverly Hills lawyer Carl E. Douglas has said.

The claim alleges breach of contract, negligence and violations of the Unruh Act by failing to provide equal housing accommodations during late summer and fall of the current school year.

Williams, then 17, was allegedly subjected to a litany of abuse by four of his white suite mates, including being called “Three-fifths,” refer-

ring to the way the government once counted blacks as just a fraction of a person. When he protested, they dubbed him “Fraction.” They outfitted the four-bedroom dormitory suite they shared with a Confederate flag. They locked him in his room. They wrote the “Nword” on a dry-erase board in the living room. They fastened a bicycle lock around his neck and told him they lost the keys, then tried it again later. Interviewed later by campus police, some of the roommates called their actions pranks.

News that the freshman was tormented relentlessly for weeks at a college that prides itself on diversity sparked community outrage, an internal investigation, an apology by the president of SJSU and the establishment of a special task force of students, residents and university employees. Four students who lived in the dormitory suite with Williams were charged with misdemeanor hate-crime and battery charges.

Until now, it appeared that

the housing staff knew only about the Confederate flag and merely counseled the student who tacked it up in his window for passersby to see to take it down.

However, Douglas asserts for the first time that resident adviser Charles May met with Williams and his other suite mates on Sept. 23 before the flag incident to try to smooth out relations between the group.

At that meeting, Williams, each of the other six roommates and the resident adviser himself all signed a “Roommate Living Agreement” that included the condition, “No bike lock of shame.” Williams himself added that condition to the agreement, a sign of his plight, the claim implies.

“Despite this clear warning of deeper, more serious issues,” Douglas wrote in his claim letter, the university failed to investigate. That led to several other “disturbing racial indignities” including that Williams was barricaded in his room by his abusers.

Ms. A&T’s Ladies Week MSU- Stallings Ballroom 7 p.m.

FAMU band member sentenced to a year in jail in hazing case

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Williams Dining Hall-Lobby 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Financial Aid Exit Counseling Session GCB 213 3 p.m

Sigma Tau Delta Poetry Spring Slam

ORLANDO, Fla. — A young musician who has been described by prosecutors as the “most enthusiastic” hazing participant in a Florida A&M University drum major’s beating death was sentenced Friday to a year in jail and five years’ probation for manslaughter.

Jessie Baskin, 22, pleaded no contest to manslaughter in November. He is one of several FAMU band members who have pleaded to charges in connection with the hazing death

of Robert Champion.

The 26-year-old drum major was bludgeoned to death Nov. 19, 2011, during a hazing ritual known as “Crossing Bus C,” in which he ran from the front to the back of the percussion bus while being beaten.

State Attorney Jeff Ashton described Baskin as “the one person who is most consistently identified as the most enthusiastic participant” in the hazing landing “blows with hands and feet.”

The ritual was carried out after the 2011 Florida Classic football game on a band bus that was parked at the Rosen Plaza hotel in Orlando, where the band was staying during the Classic weekend. Champion’s death rocked FAMU and the university’s Marching 100 band.

Five other former band members, including Dante Martin, who was regarded as the “Bus C president,” are awaiting trial.

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Cooper Hall Larceny Further Investigation 11:31 p.m.

Aggie Suites E Alcohol Violation Further Investigation March 26 3:21 p.m.

Benbow Rd Larceny Further Investigation March 27 10:49 a.m.

Pride Hall PVA Larceny Closed

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Parking services Office Disorderly Conduct Closed

March 28 12:25 a.m.

Cooper Hall Drug Violation Closed

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Aggie Suites F Larceny Closed 8:33 p.m.

Haley Hall Simple Physical Assault Closed March 29 12:14 a.m.

Barbee Hall Sick Call Closed 5:55 p.m.

Bluford Library Larceny Further Investigation 11:42 p.m.

Pride Hall Vandalism Further Investigation

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Sebastian Health Center Involuntary Commitment Closed

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Vanstory Hall Welfare Check Closed

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March 30 12:23 a.m.

Market St and Benbow Road Reckless Driving Closed 8:35 a.m.

Cherry Hall Information Report Closed 10:52 a.m.

Aggie Suites E Blackmail/Extortion Further Investigation 3:51 p.m.

Village 1 Missing Person Closed

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Student Union PVA Vehicle Accident Closed 4:00 pm Benbow Rd. Vehicle Accident Closed

March 31 12:28 a.m.

Aggie Suites F Cyberstalking Further Investigation Compiled by Tiera Richardson

Webb Hall-Auditorium 6:30 p.m.

Golden Dragon Acrobats Harrison Auditorium 7 p.m.

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Paul Robeson Theatre 8 p.m.

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Sigma Tau Delta Poetry Spring Slam Webb Hall-Auditorium 6:30 p.m.

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NACB 6 a.m.-7 p.m.

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Career Services Awareness Williams Dining Hall-Lobby 11 a.m. -2 p.m.

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U.N. rules whaling illegal CAROL J. WILLIAMS MCT Campus

The United Nations’ highest court on Monday ruled that Japan’s Antarctic whaling operations are not for “scientific purposes” as Tokyo claims and ordered an immediate halt to the practice.

In a 12-4 ruling, the International Court of Justice said Japan failed to demonstrate during a three-week trial last year that its claimed right to harvest about 1,000 whales each year was for scientific research.

“The evidence does not establish that the program’s design and implementation are reasonable in relation to achieving its stated objectives,” the court’s presiding judge, Peter Tomka, read from the ruling. The court

ordered Japan to cease its whaling operations in the Southern Ocean “with immediate effect.”

Australia lodged a complaint against Japan in 2010, accusing it of skirting the 1986 International Whaling Commission ban on killing the mammals by cloaking its operations “in the lab coat of science.” Of the 14,410 whales harvested for research purposes under the ban’s exclusions since it went into effect 28 years ago, about 95 percent were killed by Japanese whaling crews, Australia said in its court filings. Prior to the ban, about 2,100 whales were killed for scientific research purposes in a 34-year period during which such statistics were kept, the court documents said.

During the trial last June, Japan presented only two scientif-

ic reports based on the harpooning of 3,600 minke whales and a handful of fin whales during a seven-year period.

In a statement submitted to the court after its ruling, a Japanese government spokesman said Japan was “disappointed and regrets” the decision that its program does not meet the criteria for whaling for scientific purposes. But the government will comply with the court ruling, the statement said.

The U.N. court’s ruling was cheered by environmentalists and animal rights advocates worldwide, even though the halt to Japan’s Antarctic operations may be temporary and the ruling doesn’t constrain its smaller Pacific whaling fleet. The international court left open the possibility of Japan revising its sci-

entific whaling program, known as JARPA II, to conform with the whaling commission ban’s exclusions criteria or to devise nonlethal methods of capturing whales for research purposes.

Two other states, Norway and Iceland, conduct commercial whaling in defiance of the 1986 ban.

“Whales everywhere will be jumping for joy today,” Greenpeace wrote in an article on its website announcing the ruling.

“While today’s ruling did not outlaw the killing of whales for scientific research per se, it categorically stated that Japan’s whaling program in the Southern Ocean was not for scientific purposes, and the amount of whales being killed was not justifiable in the name of science.” the environmental group stated.

Search goes on in ocean’s stirred ‘teacup’ of garbage BARBARA DEMICK MCT Campus

BEIJING — The search and rescue teams working off the west coast of Australia seeking the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 discovered what oceanographers have been warning: Even the most far-flung stretches of ocean are full of garbage.

For the first time since the search focused on the southern Indian Ocean 10 days ago, the skies were clear enough and the waves calm, allowing ships to retrieve the “suspicious items” spotted by planes and on satellite imagery.

But examined on board, none of it proved to be debris from the missing plane, just the ordinary garbage swirling around in the ocean.

“A number of objects were retrieved by HMAS Success and Haixun 01 yesterday,” reported the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in a news release Sunday. “The objects have been described as fishing equipment and other flotsam.”

A cluster of orange objects spotted by a search plane on Sunday drew the same results, the Associated Press reported the following day: It was just fishing equipment.

Using a fresh analysis of flight data, investigators on Friday moved the search location in the southern Indian Ocean 680 miles to the northeast _ waters where the currents are weaker but where there is more debris, according to an Australian oceanographer.

It is an oddity in one of the

most remote places on the planet, far from any islands, shipping lanes or flight paths.

“You have garbage from Australia, from Indonesia, from India,” said Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

“There are small vortexes that are mixing up the debris like stirring a teacup.”

Science writer Marc Lallanilla has referred to the search for Flight 370 as a “needle in a garbage patch.”

“In addition to foul weather, administrative bungling and the vastness of the search area, the search for MH 370 has been compounded by one other factor: the incredible amount of garbage already floating in the search area _ and in oceans worldwide,” Lallanilla wrote on

the website livescience.com.

The complicating factor underscored the difficulty the search teams face in trying to find out what happened to the Boeing 777 and its 239 passengers and crew. The plane disappeared March 8 during a flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital.

Australian authorities said Sunday that a naval support ship, the Ocean Shield, would depart from Perth on Monday with a “black box detector” supplied by the U.S. Navy. The Towed Pinger Locator 25 carries a device that should be able to detect the so-called black boxes of the plane in waters as deep as 20,000 feet. The boxes record pilots’ conversations and flight data. Black boxes’ batteries last only 30 to 45 days.

Poll: Indians seek leadership change SHASHANK BENGALI MCT Campus

MUMBAI, India — One week before elections that will determine a new prime minister, Indians are deeply dissatisfied with the direction of their country and overwhelmingly want a change in leadership in New Delhi, according to a survey released Monday.

The Pew Research Center found that Indians favor the main opposition group, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, to the ruling Indian National Congress by a ratio of more than 3 to 1. The BJP’s strong showing rests on the perception that it would do a better job combating the country’s range of woes including corruption, unemployment, inflation and political deadlock, the survey said.

The findings bolster the sense of inevitability that is beginning to envelop Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate who currently leads the influential western state of Gujarat. Although Modi has long faced accusations that he did not intervene to stop deadly anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in 2002, he has recast himself as a clean, business-friendly politician whose state has posted impressive economic growth.

Nearly eight in 10 Indians surveyed held a favorable view of Modi, while only 50 percent felt the same way about his rival, Congress Party standardbearer Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Jawaharlal Nehru-Indira Gandhi dynasty that has led India for most of its history since independence in 1947.

This and other polls suggest the Congress Party may suffer its worst-ever showing in the parliamentary elections that begin April 7 and run into mid-May. Dogged by corruption scandals and flagging economic growth, the Congress Party has relied on support from rural Indians, whom it has boosted with food subsidies and entitlement schemes. But in a troubling sign for the party, more than half of those Pew surveyed said that the BJP would do a better job than Congress in aiding the poor.

If Modi comes to power in India, the world’s 10th largest economy, it would create some uncomfortable questions for the United States, which until recently had observed an official boycott of the firebrand leader and had denied him a visa due to his alleged role in the 2002 violence.

In February, the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, Nancy Powell, broke the chill by requesting a meeting with Modi in his home state. State Department officials described the encounter as cordial, but many within the U.S. government still regard Modi with suspicion.

U.S. business leaders, including companies such as Ford and General Motors, which have built plants in Gujarat, are said to be broadly supportive of a Modi prime ministership.

Ultimately, his supporters say, a stronger Indian economy is in the United States’ best interest.

Seven of 10 Indians surveyed said they were dissatisfied with the way things are going in their country, although a strong majority, 62 percent, said they expected the economy to improve over the next year.

Egyptian court in dispute

Journalist may speak but not go free NANCY A. YOUSSEF MCT Campus

CAIRO — An Egyptian court held its fourth session Monday in the criminal case against three Al-Jazeera journalists accused of fabricating news and running a terror cell on behalf of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.

But when the prosecution failed for the third time to provide the key video evidence against the journalists, the judge instead dramatically entertained bail for the reporters, who have been held since Dec. 29.

In the end, bail was _ again _ denied. But the judge’s decision to let the defendants address the court directly was unprecedented in the Egyptian judicial system, even if it did not lead to their provisional release.

Why the judge gave all signs that he saw the limits of the prosecution’s case against the three, only to deny them bail, was not immediately clear. The judge, Mohammed Nagy, has been under increasing pressure from both local news media and the country’s interim president, Adly Mansour, to free the journalists, one of whom is Australian and another a dual Canadian-Egyptian national.

One, Mohammed Fadel Fahmy, the dual national and the Cairo bureau chief for the English-language service of the satellite news channel, had called it “the make or break day of the trial.” In the end, though, the proceeding turned into the biggest letdown of the case so far.

The prosecutor has charged that Fahmy, Australian correspondent Peter Greste and an Egyptian cameraman, Baher Mohammed, worked with student protesters to purposely falsify video reports on the harsh government crackdown that followed the ouster July 3 of President Mohammed Morsi.

The charges claim that the Al-Jazeera staff operated a “terror cell” out of their makeshift offices in Cairo’s luxurious Marriott Hotel and that their reports were intended to hurt Egypt’s image.

But with no video screens set up, it became clear the prosecution would not present its case.

With that, the defendants’ lawyers asked the judge to release the journalists on bail, even though he’d denied bail a week ago at the third session. It was a formality; judges rarely overrule themselves.

Then something unusual happened.

Telling the defendants he wanted “to let them tell their concerns,” he ordered them out of the cage that holds defendants and to stand freely before his bench. One by one, they took the microphone, their handcuffs hanging off their wrists, and made their case.

When another defendant was talking, the others, each wearing white prison garb, instinctively put their hands behind their backs.

Fahmy said that the prosecution has photos of him drinking alcohol, which he noted no good member of the Muslim Brotherhood would do. “Have you heard of a terrorist who drinks alcohol?” Fahmy asked the judge.

Greste, a Christian, said the accusations that he belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood were “preposterous.” He pointed out that he had been in Egypt only two weeks before his arrest, hardly enough time to form links with the secretive Brotherhood.

Cameraman Mohammed noted that his wife was pregnant and his two young children cry for him.

“Our only desire is to fight to clear our names outside prison,” Greste pleaded.

Five of the students charged

with them said they had no idea why they are part of the case, having never met the defendants until they were all standing in the same cage in Nagy’s courtroom.

They, rather than asking for bail, asked the judge for medical treatment and visits from their families.

“Scorpion prison in Egypt’s Guantanamo Bay,” read the T-shirt of one of them, Suhaib Saeed, a reference to the section of Tora prison where he is held, reserved for Egypt’s most dangerous criminals.

The judge patiently listened and acknowledged their concerns. “Sure, sure, sure,” he kept repeating as the defendants made their case. The courtroom sat silent. The session lasted two hours, highly unusual in a system where judges usually dismiss immediately any request that they reconsider an earlier ruling.

In the context _ Egyptian President Mansour had written Greste’s and Fahmy’s families promising swift justice and showing empathy to their case _ bail seemed likely.

Egyptian talk show hosts, who once said the three deserved to be convicted simply for working for Al-Jazeera, which is funded by Qatar, which supported the Morsi presidency, have now warmed to releasing them on bail.

The judge adjourned to consider bail. The correspondents smiled from the cage. But the mood quickly changed when the judge returned 20 minutes later. Donning sunglasses, he announced that the defendants would remain in prison. He set the next hearing for April 10.

He also ordered the police who’d failed to bring the video evidence to court to be arrested.

Fahmy shook his head in disbelief. “He’s not master of his own game,” he shouted to reporters, referring to the judge.

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Dealers meet to discuss upcoming cash crop Glenn garvin MCT Campus

WEST PALM BEACH Fla,._ It looked less like a Cheech and Chong movie than a junior chamber of commerce meeting as would-be marijuana entrepreneurs ganjaneurs, as many of them call themselves gathered in West Palm Beach Saturday to plan for the day when weed is legal in Florida.

Heartened not only by a proposed state constitutional amendment that would permit medical use of marijuana but three bills before the Legislature running the gamut from easing restrictions on industrial hemp to outright legalization of the drug, about 100 potential businessmen met to trade tips on the new almost-industry.

Once upon a time, conversation among marijuana dealers mostly ran along the lines of cigarette boats, Glocks and cashcounting machines, the tools of an illegal trade. But Saturday’s chatter was about convertible stocks, vertical integration and other trappings of an industry that now is at least partly legal in 20 states and the District of

Columbia.

And the crowd having the conversation was practically indistinguishable from an Amway conference in the same hotel.

“I’m so glad I didn’t wear my tie-dyed clothes and dreadlocks today,” cracked Miami filmmaker Billy Corben said as he started a speech on the campaign for the constitutional amendment.

“These aren’t people who want to sell a couple of bags of weed in the parking lot to defray the cost of their own smoke,” said Robert Platshorn, who organized the $400 a pop conference. “These are businessmen who want to make serious money.”

Platshorn himself made serious money in the marijuana industry while running the infamous Black Tuna Gang, a 1970s smuggling operation so wildly profitable that its headquarters _the Presidential Suite in the Fontainebleau Hotel was equipped with a grand piano and a spiral staircase. He eventually served more than 30 years in prison, one of the longest sentences for a marijuana conviction in U.S. history.

There were signs that a few of the people at the confer-

ence might share a bit of his adventurous history. When an attorney asked, hypothetically, whether an old conviction for narcotrafficking would be enough to keep somebody from getting a license to sell medical marijuana, several shouts of “Hll, yes!” accompanied by knowing chuckles rang out across the room.

But most of the group was decidedly non-outlaw in outlook. “I don’t like growing,” said Oscar Fonseca, 27, who was there in hopes of finding a tenant for warehouses he owns in Medley, Hialeah and Doral.

“I’m not a huge fan of the product. But I am a fan of money.”

And at least one potential marijuana merchant came from the other side of the fence. A law enforcement officer who, prudently, identified himself only as “James,” said he got interested after the prices of stocks of companies associated with the industry in Colorado, where marijuana became completely legal on Jan. 1, went through the roof.

“Some of them jumped 1,000 percent almost overnight,” he said. “I was impressed enough to take a $20,000 loan against my

retirement to buy into some of them.” Not impressed enough, however, to tell his buddies back at the station that he was going to Saturday’s conference: “I don’t know if they’d disapprove, but, well . . . .”

There was general agreement that Florida will be a lucrative market when _ nobody seemed to think it was “if” _ one of the medical marijuana measures is enacted later in the year.

“You’ve got so many older people here, people with all kinds of illnesses,” said one man, a former flower-grower who’s knocked around at various jobs since foreign imports killed off his industry a decade or so ago.

“That’s a business-driver.

Cancer! Bone diseases! If you had those, what would you rather take for the pain? Something easy and organic like cannabis?

Or an addictive opiate?”

But many of the experts who addressed the conference warned attendees that they’re getting into a business that’s a lot more complicated _ not to mention hazardous _ than it looks.

“I want people to watch out,” said Norm Kent, a Fort Lauder-

Apple vs. Samsung return to court howard mintz MCT Campus

SAN JOSE, Calif. _The two warring titans of the smartphone and tablet industry will be back in federal court on Monday, squaring off in another trial involving Apple’s claims that Samsung’s smartphones and tablets continue to trample on the patented features of the iPhone and iPad. The case will begin with jury selection, and the legal teams for the two companies __ware expected to make their opening statements on Tuesday.

With billions of dollars at stake, as well as bragging rights to technology that has transformed everyday life, legal experts and market watchers expect close attention on the trial, albeit perhaps with less zeal than the first showdown between them in 2012.

That first round went to Apple, which secured a jury verdict finding that Samsung violated its patents on older lines of devices and owed nearly $1 billion

in damages.

“I guess they feel like they have to finish what they started,” said William Stofega, an analyst with the International Data Corp.

The second trial centers on Apple’s claims that more recent lines of Samsung products, such as the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Tab 2, violate five of Apple’s patents, including the Siri voice and slide-to-unlock features.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has already sided with Apple on one of the patents, the autocomplete text feature, so that claim will just boil down to damages.

As with the first trial, Apple’s pursuit of Samsung and claims of patent infringement are well behind the South Korean company’s release of even newer product lines.

Legal experts say that continues to diminish the impact of Apple’s legal assault on Samsung, particularly because the company was unable to obtain a permanent injunction after

the first trial to remove dozens of older Samsung smartphones and tablets from the American market.

To Apple, however, the case against Samsung continues to be about trying to punish what it considers unrepentant copying of technology, this time in signature favorites such as the iPhone 5, iPad mini and the MacBook Pro. Apple officials declined comment on the trial, as did Samsung’s lawyers.

Apple will present many of the same witnesses as in the first trial, but many of the revelations about the secretive inner workings of developing iPad and iPhone technology will not carry the same sizzle.

Yet the theme will be the same__that Apple engineers spent years creating unprecedented breakthroughs in phones and tablets that Samsung simply copied, stealing market share in the process.

Apple and Samsung have solidified their positions at the top of the heap in those prod-

ucts worldwide, and market watchers say that has only stabilized as the legal battle has unfolded.

In this trial, Apple’s parallel feud with Google and its Android operating system will perhaps play more of a central role than the first trial.

To many in the industry, Apple’s patent fight with Samsung has always been as much about the late Steve Jobs’ grievance with what he considered Android’s duplication of Apple technology (he once promised “thermonuclear war” with Google); Samsung until recently has relied heavily on Android in its smartphones and tablets.

The trial, expected to last until May, will likely not be the last word in the patent spat.

Samsung has appealed the first jury verdict, and Apple has appealed Judge Koh’s refusal to block the sales of Samsung products that violated its patents.

Microsoft releases Office apps for iPad Janet I. Tu

MCT Campus

SEATTLE _ In a significant break from a longstanding Microsoft Corp. tradition of creating services primarily for its own platforms first, the company on Thursday announced Office for iPad, its suite of productivity apps that have been optimized for touch and for use on Apple Inc.’s market-dominating tablet.

The Office for iPad apps _ specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps went live Thursday morning in Apple’s iTunes App Store.

The apps are free if users only want to view and present documents, spreadsheets and slides.

But users who want to create and edit documents will have to have a subscription to Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud version of its market-dominating productivity suite. (“Cloud” refers to services and data that live on remote servers and can be accessed by users online.)

The Office for iPad apps come free for Office 365 subscribers.

The announcement, made at a news briefing Thursday in San Francisco, was new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s first official media event since taking over last month from former CEO Steve Ballmer.

Nadella called Thursday’s announcement an example of

the “magical coming-together of the cloud and mobile.”

The Office for iPad launch also marks Nadella’s first big move toward realizing his “mobile first, cloud first” vision for the company a vision that includes the recognition that Microsoft has to be far more open to other platforms, with services designed to run on or work seamlessly with rival companies’ operating systems and services.

Making Office available for rival Apple’s iPad marks a significant shift away from Microsoft’s practice in the past few decades of centering its offerings on Windows.

(A notable exception early on in Microsoft’s history was, ironically, Office for Mac, which Microsoft offered at a time when it was trying to expand its own user base.)

The thinking for years at Microsoft was that its products and services including cash cow Office all had to bolster and protect its core Windows franchise, which is still the dominant operating system used on PCs worldwide.

But at a time when PC sales are declining yearly and mobile devices have become pervasive, Microsoft’s presence and relevance in computing has been declining.

The overwhelming majority of the world’s smartphones and tablets run on Google’s An-

droid or Apple’s iOS operating systems, rather than Microsoft’s Windows, Windows RT or Windows Phone platforms.

At the media briefing Thursday, Nadella said Windows is still “a massive agenda for us.

We will innovate.”

At the same time, he said, “we are absolutely committed” to making the company’s applications run well cross-platform.

“It is about being able to excel everywhere our customers are,” Nadella said.

“What motivates us is to make sure that we build the great experiences that span the digital life and digital work of our customers, both individually and as organizations. And that’s what you can count on us doing, both with Windows as well as other platforms.”

Microsoft has been wrestling with the dilemma of whether to offer its marquee productivity suite on competing platforms _ thereby gaining more users and revenue for Office _ or to keep Office primarily for its own platforms, thereby protecting Windows but possibly losing scores of potential Office users who would turn to alternative productivity apps.

Some on the Office team have reportedly been working on a version of Office for iPad for years now, and Microsoft presumably could have launched such an offering years ago.

But others at Microsoft still

held that a touch-optimized Office for tablets should be launched on a Microsoft device and platform first.

Launching Office on the iPad was “something that Microsoft really needed to do,” said Al Gillen, an analyst with research firm IDC. “I’m not sure it would’ve happened with Steve Ballmer at the helm.”

Microsoft’s initial response to the rapid rise of mobile was to try to extend its dominance in the PC market into the mobile market with Windows 8, an operating system that Microsoft touted as being optimized for both touch-based mobile devices and mouseand-keyboard desktops and laptops.

Instead, many users found Windows 8 jarring, with two markedly different ways of interacting with the operating system: one the traditional desktop interface and the other a new tile-based design that worked well with touch.

That strategy into the mobile world “has not worked,” said David Cearley, an analyst with research firm Gartner.

Thursday’s announcement from Microsoft, “I view as the first major statement in the market from Satya on what his mobile-first, cloud-first agenda really means,” Cearley said.

dale, Fla., attorney who’s been defending marijuana cases for more than 40 years. “It’s a pioneering industry, with rewards to be had, but risks to be dealt with.”

Many of the risks stem from the peculiar legal twilight zone in which the marijuana industry exists. Even in the states that have legalized it, it remains against federal law _ a fact that makes other businesses shy away.

“There’s a word for you that they use at the federal level, and that’s ‘felon,’ “ said John Makris, a Palm Beach County accountant.

Because the federal government considers anybody who knowingly does business with marijuana industry to be accessories to narcotrafficking, even legitimate businessmen will find it difficult to open bank accounts or find landlords, he warned.

Much of his speech was devoted to arcane bookkeeping tricks to minimize taxes for an industry that’s specifically prohibited by federal law from taking ordinary business deductions like payroll and rent.

Others cautioned that states squirmy about removing crimi-

nal sanctions against marijuana have compensated by hyperregulating it, turning it into a bureaucratic swamp of fingerprints, fines and fees.

“They’re looking for a threering binder full of documentation,” said Stuart attorney Michael C. Minardi, describing the maze of business permits and licenses required to go into the marijuana business in other states. “You can’t show them pictures of your closet grow.

That’s not gonna do it.”

Oh, Minardi added, there’s one other thing: “Security! Security! Security! . . . Twentyfour seven, we need alarm systems, cameras, vaults to keep your product in.”

Some of the experts were openly pessimistic that any form of legal marijuana can survive Florida’s affection for the dark side or its general weirdness.

“If it can go wrong anywhere, it will go wrong here,” concluded Dr. Robert Ben Mitchell, a North Miami Beach physician who had long campaigned for more liberal marijuana laws.

Hotels hope for Disney magic ?

Jason garcia

MCT Campus

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Universal Orlando has invested hundreds of millions of dollars during the past four years in attractions that have drawn throngs of new visitors to Central Florida.

Now, Orlando, Fla.’s No. 2 theme-park resort is trying to keep more of those visitors on its property.

On Monday, Universal will welcome its first guests to the Cabana Bay Beach Resort, the first hotel built at Universal in more than a decade.

The largest hotel under construction in North America, the retro, beach-themed Cabana Bay will be Universal’s fourth hotel. Once the final phase is completed by summer, the hotel will increase the resort’s inventory of rooms from 2,400 to 4,200.

Universal isn’t done, however. Executives at Comcast Corp., which owns the NBCUniversal media-and-entertainment empire, say they plan to build more hotels in Orlando in the coming years potentially quadrupling or quintupling Universal Orlando’s current inventory.

Experts say Universal’s aggressive hotel expansion threatens to take business from other hotels, particularly competitors that ring the resort and rely on Universal visitors to fill their rooms. Some hotel operators acknowledge they are worried.

“Once they get fully opened, I’m sure we’ll see an impact, especially in peak season,” said Jane Miller, general manager of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites on Major Boulevard, less than a mile from Universal.

“I think we’re all concerned because that’s quite a bit of an impact on this area.”

Universal would not make executives available for interviews.

But NBCUniversal President Steve Burke told investment analysts last fall that the company’s research shows travelers who stay at Universal Orlando hotels, operated through a joint venture with Loews Hotels & Resorts, typically spend an extra day or two in the resort’s theme parks.

In ordering more hotel rooms, Comcast is borrowing a page from the Walt Disney Co. playbook.

Disney has built about 30,000 hotel rooms and timeshare suites in the U.S. _ 90 percent of them at Disney

World that allow the company to capture rooms and 900 family suites, will start at $94 per night for a suite.

Disney has made a similar push into rooms that target price-conscious consumers.

Twenty-five years ago, only about 55 percent of the resort’s rooms were in the value or moderate categories.

Today, more than 75 percent of its rooms are in the cheaper categories.

As Universal adds more hotel rooms, it also threatens to siphon bookings away from Disney, whose domestic hotel occupancy slipped to 79 percent last year, down from a pre-recession peak of 89 percent. But Smith said Disney will be somewhat insulated because it targets slightly different core audiences than Universal.

A Universal spokesman would not say when the resort expects to begin construction on a fifth hotel or what categories of rooms it plans to add. Universal has limited land available for expansion, though it added to its holdings last year when it bought about 50 acres under and near Wet ‘n Wild. NBCUniversal owns Wet ‘n Wild but hadn’t owned the land.

Universal isn’t done adding attractions, either. Comcast says it plans to spend $500 million a year on theme-park capital spending during the next few years, an amount that should allow it to open major attractions each year at both Universal Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood in Southern California.

And this summer, it will open the highly anticipated Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley at Universal Studios Florida the sequel to its smashhit original Harry Potter area at Islands of Adventure.

That makes some competing hoteliers optimistic that the market ultimately could absorb Universal’s infusion of new hotel rooms.

“Orlando is the second-largest hotel market in the country, welcoming millions of travelers each year looking for a variety of experiences,” said Frank Dolley, area general manager for Hyatt, whose properties include a Hyatt Place just outside Universal.

We believe that the enhancements to Universal, especially the Harry Potter attractions, will drive more visitors to the Universal Studios resort area, creating benefits for all area businesses.”

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Getting to know your Aggie family Tremayne Farmer Contributor

Know your AGGIES, before it’s too late.

When we step onto the historic grounds of NC A&T, you think of making our own mark.

We think of graduating and gearing up for your first and last homecoming as a student. During new student convocation, the speaker often says, “look to your left and your right. One of the people sitting next to you will not be here when you graduate.” Little do we know the

person sitting next to us would not be present during graduation because of death.

Since I have been a student at A&T, we lose an Aggie every year due to an unexpectant death. Dennis Hayle, a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and a rising senior was shot and killed. Jasmine Goins was killed in a car accident in February. Most recently, Classie R. Faulkner, Jr., died on Saturday, March 22nd. Faulkner was a senior psychology student.

Losing any person to a death is tragic, whether if you knew

the person or not. It is important to build long lasting relationships in college. Saying hello to someone in passing or talking to a classmate could go a long way. You never know the next time you will be able to see that person.

Building relationships with people can also allow you to be more personable and diverse in the future. It saddens me to hear about the passing of a student. It saddens me even more when I know the person who passed. It is important that we communicate more often. You

never know when you can make someone’s day, or do something to help someone.

Before transferring to A&T, I attended Fayetteville State University. Since leaving FSU, I know of at least four people who have passed. On top of being saddened by the tragedy, I was disheartened that I did not talk to them more often to create unforgettable memories.

Losing a person at any age, gender, or race to death is a tragedy. Death seems to hit hard when it comes unexpectedly or to a younger person.

We should speak to our fellow classmates more often, hold conversations with people we do not necessarily talk to, and build our character to communicate with others more frequently. Do not wait too late before you are courteous to others, it can go a long way.

—Email Tremayne at theregister@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @theatregister

SEX AND ‘THE T’ Anti-gay Christians evangelize

Give me liberty or give me “thots” ?

hate abroad Kapya Kaoma

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color who openly “Sex and the City” talk about their leading character, sexuality and deCarrie Bradshaw, was sires because it is once the poster child deemed unladyfor liberated women like, and the ridiin their 20’s and 30’s. cule that one will Today, Mary Jane and face is not worth Olivia Pope are the the conversation. epitome of what not As an African to be as a career drivAmerican woman en African American who is interested woman. in our generation’s The idea that Afri- MEAGAN dating and sex can American women JORDAN views, I was ridicannot be heroically liberated is shown not only in culed by family members the media, but also within our and older peers who thought I should be writing and thinkcommunity.

Portrayals of African Ameri- ing about more constructive can women who cannot balance and ladylike issues.

If African Americans a career and love life is getting stay closed minded when it rather redundant.

To some degree, the story comes to the liberation of felines are relatable, but it is very male sexuality, we will condiscouraging. It seems as if the tinue to see degrading immedia is subliminally telling ages and leading roles that women of color that, although lack substance. Many of my we are in powerful positions in male friends ask me questhe work place, we will not have tions like “Why do girls try a powerful or secure relation- to make guys wait to have sex with them? ship.

If we just want sex, that’s When the African American woman does express her sexual- all it will be. I find this to be ity, it is depicted in a scandalous true, regardless if a woman way. Recently, it has been at the waits an hour or a year, if a expense of someone else’s hus- guy made up his mind that he only wants to use a girl, band.

For those who followed “Sex her sexual layaway plan will and the City”, Carrie Bradshaw, still serve no benefit.

I am not saying that Afsimilar to Mary Jane and Olivia Pope had an affair with a mar- rican American women need ried man. However, unlike Mary to run the streets with every Jane and Olivia Pope, Carrie had guy and have no standards.

However, I do feel that character development. For one, she had countless boyfriends, African American women who allowed her to grow as have a tougher role to play woman, and in the end, she mar- when it comes to doing what ries the man in which she had an they want sexually. Many of affair with. Although fans did the decisions young ladies not agree with Carrie’s choices make are not based on their at the time, it gave an unspoken preferences, but what socihope of true love. Where is the ety deems as appropriate.

Society has made it difcharacter development in Olivia Pope or Mary Jane’s relation- ficult for African American women to be open about ships?

African American women their dating and sexual life have always been put down and prohibiting us from being belittled, and today’s media out- liberated. If a woman is atlets only perpetuate stereotypes tracted to a male and feels that degrade Black women. In- that she wants to be intimate stead of being referred to by her with him, she should be able birth name, it is substituted with to express herself in whatthe b-word, or the overused ever way she sees fit.

Her time frame in doing slang term “thot.”

Media outlets like World Star so should not play a role in Hip Hop have made representa- her moral character. Not all tions of African American wom- African American women en crueler than they are comical. are home-wreckers. We are How can the black community free to make choices that expect the media to deem our we want to make. After all, women heroes when our com- we all learned from Carrie munity provides negative repre- Bradshaw. sentations of black women?

—Email Meagan at theregIt is hard as an African American woman to be liberated based ister@gmail.com and follow her on numerous standards that Af- on Twitter @itsme_agannn rican American women are held too. It is rare to find women of

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If you live in the United States, it’s easy to be lulled into thinking that the battle for broader civil rights for gay people is nearly over. The last few years have brought important victories in courts, legislatures and at the ballot box, and momentum is firmly on the side of increased equality.

That’s not true, however, in other parts of the world. The vitriol that has fueled U.S. culture wars for so long is now being exported, and some of our most ardent culture warriors are finding a far more receptive audience abroad.

In nations such as Uganda, Russia, Nigeria and Belize, an insidious homophobia engineered in America is taking root. I have seen this hate being spread with my own eyes.

In March 2009, while in Kampala, Uganda, researching reports of U.S. right-wing evangelical involvement in attacks on LGBTQ equality and reproductive justice, I was invited to a three-day conference on homosexuality hosted by the Family Life Network, which is based in New York. The keynote speaker was Scott Lively from Springfield, Mass., who introduced himself as a leading expert on the “international homosexual agenda.” I filmed Lively over the course of two days as he instructed religious and political leaders about how gays were coming to Uganda from the West to “recruit children into homosexuality.”

Some of his assertions would have been laughable had he not been so deadly serious.

He claimed that a gay clique that included Adolf Hitler was behind the Holocaust, and he insinuated that gay people fueled the Rwandan genocide.

In the United States, Lively is widely dismissed as an antigay firebrand and Holocaust revisionist. But in Uganda, he was presented _ and accepted _ as a leading international authority. The public persecution of LGBTQ people escalated after Lively’s conference, with one local newspaper publishing the pictures and addresses of activists under the headline, “Hang Them.”

The next month, Ugandan lawmaker David Bahati unveiled his Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which in its original form called for the death penalty as punishment for a new crime of “aggravated homosexuality.”

In recent years, millions of dollars have been funneled from anti-LGBTQ evangelical conservatives to Uganda, funding local pastors and training them to adopt and mirror the culturewar language of the U.S. Christian right. Bahati and a notorious anti-gay pastor, Martin Ssempa, were personally mentored by U.S. conservatives. And powerful Christian right organizations such as the Family Research Council lobbied Congress to change a resolution denouncing the Uganda legislation.

Other prominent right-wing evangelicals have also made Uganda appearances, including California’s Rick Warren and Lou Engle, who founded TheCall ministry.

They met with politicians, hosted rallies and public meetings, and used their influence and credibility to contribute to a culture war in Uganda much more intense and explosive than anything seen in the United States; Lively himself described the work as a “nuclear bomb” in Uganda. These conservative evangelicals later distanced themselves from the law, saying they didn’t think homosexuality should be criminalized, but it

was too late.

In December, the Ugandan parliament finally passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, and last month President Yoweri Museveni signed it into law.

The death penalty provision was removed, but the law includes life sentences for homosexual “repeat offenders” and criminalizes advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ Ugandans.

Uganda has deservedly received widespread attention, but it’s not the only country with a culture war that carries the fingerprints of U.S. campaigners. Nigeria has passed a bill almost identical to Uganda’s, and Cameroon and Zambia are enthusiastically imprisoning LGBTQ people.

“U.S. culture warriors have strategically focused on countries already suspicious of America, often ones with authoritarian leaders eager to turn public attention away from issues of corruption or economic inequality.

By recasting LGBTQ peThe people of Uganda, Nigeria, Russia and elsewhere are leading their own struggles for human rights.

Although Lively has denied the lawsuit’s allegations, it is one of the few cases that attempts to hold Americans accountable for inciting persecution overseas.

Lively and other culture warriors rely on their deeds abroad going largely unnoticed back home. But they should be held accountable for the persecution of women and LGBTQ people abroad.

If we fail to do so, we’ll find that Nigeria, Russia and Uganda are just the beginning.

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The wonders of going abroad sasasha fleming Contributor

My experience abroad has been nothing short of outstanding. This has been truly been a life-changing experience, and I would not trade it for the world.

Although it has been great, my journey has not been peaches and cream every step of the way.

Being away from family and friends and adjusting to a culture different from your own culture can be extremely difficult.

However, that is what makes the experience so beautiful.

Embracing the good and bad is where growth lies. If you dwell on just the good or the bad, you cheat yourself from obtaining all that studying abroad has to offer.

I have yet to have an experience abroad where I did not see everything the place had to offer.

This includes seeing the suburbs, tourist areas, and what some would call the “hood.”

By meeting all types of people from a vast selection of areas, it has helped me become less judgmental and more compassionate.

I have stayed with millionaires in mansions to folks who live in the hood without two pennies to rub together.

Studying abroad has taught me how to get over my fears and push myself until the end.

Despite what people may think, the difference of backgrounds and language is not a barrier when connecting with God’s people.

Positive energy connects with positive energy regardless of what or who holds that energy. Energy and emotion captivate people.

It is what builds soulful connections needed to be in perfect harmony with all living things.

Once you experience this from an international perceptive, you start to realize what you truly value in life.

You begin to re-evaluate yourself, your goals, and your vision and embrace new goals that compliment your progression.

At least this has been my experience. If you are struggling with deciding on whether or not you should study abroad, just do it. If you are worried about money, don’t.

Trust me, I have been through it. There are a ton of routes people can take to acquire the funds needed to go abroad.

When you have a desire in your heart to do something, think positively about the process. Favorable results manifest from positive thoughts and positive energy. Things will come together, and the right people will come around to give you the advice needed to move forward. Please studying abroad if the idea of doing so has ever ran across your mind.

If you have never thought about it, you should consider it.

The world is ours to see. People are waiting to meet you. Countries are waiting for you to explore them. Do yourself a favor and travel. Peace and blessing Kings and Queens.

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Notre Dame women powers to Final Four Philip hersh

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. _ Jewell Loyd was named a first team All-American on Monday afternoon.

In 90 seconds Monday night, the Notre Dame sophomore showed exactly why.

With the Irish trailing Baylor by two points after 11 minutes of the NCAA regional final, Loyd scored the game’s next eight points. She began with a putback of an offensive rebound, followed with a foray into the paint that came right out of Michael Jordan’s playback and resulted in a three-point play, then added a foul shot after beating Baylor All-America Odyssey Sims off the dribble and finished with a layup in the paint.

Loyd finished with 30 points and was voted the region’s most outstanding player after scoring 50 in two games.

“I was just trying to get us going and find some energy,” Loyd said. “I just took what the defense gave me.”

Loyd’s outburst kicked off a 12-0 run for a lead that would not drop below four the rest of the 88-69 victory that put the unbeaten Irish into the Final Four for the fourth straight year.

They will meet the winner of Tuesday’s Maryland-Louisville game Sunday in Nashville, Tenn.

“We needed every single thing that she did,” Irish coach Muffet McGraw said. “She wanted the ball, so we started running things for her.”

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It might not be all good for the Irish. Their vocal leader, Natalie Achonwa, left the game after hurting a knee with 4 minutes, 51 seconds to play. Achonwa, who had 19 points and 15 rebounds, screamed encouragement to her teammates as she walked with a slight limp to the locker room. She was back on the floor for the trophy presentation and will have an MRI on Tuesday.

“It sucked all the air right out of the room,” McGraw said.

Loyd’s points were even more critical because the other new Irish All-American, Kayla McBride, sat for all but six of the game’s first 27:30 with foul trouble. When Baylor cut the lead to 48-44, Loyd hit a 3 that made Notre Dame feel a lot more comfortable.

“She is so big on the perimeter you would think her defense would be more of a factor,” Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. “I thought tonight her offense was special. She did it backdoor, on the boards, off the dribble.”

And Loyd shared in the defensive effort against Sims, who had 33 points and six assists in her final Baylor game.

“Our goal was to hold her to 40,” McGraw said with a smile.

It also was expected, given the Irish home-court advantage.

That occurred because the selection process for neutral regional sites was delayed until it was decided to have them on campuses this season.

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#Trending Topics Is Christianity making a comeback?

‘Noah’ brings in big views Glen whipp

Los Angeles Times

Viewers sounded off about their thoughts on “Noah.” @SlothMovieNewsWatched #NoahMovie.

Gladiator enlists benign rock lobsters to build a giant ship then makes Hermionie cry. Were they on drugs or was I? @thelittleidiot- is @ DarrenAronofsky vegan? because #NoahMovie is probably the most provegan movie i’ve ever seen. @JOYKronicles- Have not heard ONE positive Christian review of the #NoahMovie in theaters.

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Whenever Hollywood makes a movie from a wellloved story or saga _ Batman, Tolkien, “50 Shades of Grey” _ there’s usually a period of ... well ... let’s call it adjustment, along with a “spirited” giveand-take among fans over such things as casting, content and approach.

Usually, though, the material’s devotees don’t believe the filmmakers will burn in hell if their ideas are ignored. (OK ... maybe the Dark Knight crowd does. We all know they can get a little intense.)

But that’s precisely the belief with “Noah,” Darren Aronofsky’s $130-million retelling of the Old Testament account of apocalyptic deluge and a floating ark that opened Friday. The same people who gripe that Hollywood never makes any faith-based movies are complaining because Hollywood has gone and made a religious movie, albeit one that might not be as literal-minded as they’d like.

“It’s tough to make movies for the easily offended,” Pepperdine University communications professor Craig Detweiler said. “Studios assume these biblical stories are in the public domain, but a lot of believers consider the Bible their private property, and if you don’t interpret them the same way they’ve been taught, they’re going to

speak out.”

Hollywood and religious groups have long been leery of each other, often with good Russell Crowe reason.

Cecil B. DeMille invited a host of religious representatives _ Catholics and Protestants along with Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Christian Scientists _ to offer blessings on the first day of filming “King of Kings,” his 1927 epic on the life and passion of Christ. And what did DeMille do after receiving the consecration? He opened “King of Kings” with an orgy scene that set up a love triangle among Jesus, Judas and Mary Magdalene. The man knew you needed more than just salvation to sell tickets. You needed a little sin too.

There’s plenty of wickedness in Aronofsky’s “Noah.”

There has to be, otherwise God wouldn’t have any reason to destroy the world.

But there are a lot of other elements in the movie that audiences might not remember from Sunday school lessons, though they are found in the Bible _ giant men, a monster called a Leviathan and a postflood Noah getting drunk on wine and passing out naked.

Also in the movie but not in the Bible (though it is fixed

in church teaching) _ people pounding on the ark’s door after the torrential rain begins, pleading with Noah to let them inside to safety.

“People think they know this story, but what they’re remembering is just the basic framework they heard as kids,” Aronofsky told me a couple of years back while we were espousing a mutual love for R. Crumb’s illustrated Book of Genesis and the low-budget 1976 Sunn Classic documentary “In Search of Noah’s Ark,” a movie that looks like it cost $5 yet, according to the Internet Movie Data Base, grossed $55 million in its theatrical release.

Venture outside that half-remembered framework, though, and you run the risk of drawing the wrath of evangelicals.

When Christian screenwriter Brian Godawa obtained an old, undated version of the “Noah” screenplay in November 2012, he blogged his outrage, labeling Aronofsky’s Noah an “environmentalist wacko” and warned that if you came to the movie expecting a “biblically faithful retelling of the story of the greatest mariner in history and a tale of redemption and obedience to God you’ll be sorely disappointed.”

This pronouncement _ the film unseen, an unfinished script reviewed a good year and a half before the movie’s release date _ made fine copy for culture-war types inclined to believe Hollywood enjoys

nothing more than promoting its own progressive agenda at the expense of Christians’ beliefs.

And it also worried Paramount Pictures enough to eventually add a disclaimer to the movie’s marketing materials, explaining that “while artistic license has been taken, we believe that this film is true to the essence, values and integrity of a story that is a cornerstone of faith for millions of people worldwide.

The biblical story of Noah can be found in the Book of Genesis.”

The story of Noah can also be found in the Koran, which means the movie has been banned in Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates for violating Islamic rules on the depiction of prophets. In Egypt, a Sunni Muslim organization has issued a fatwa over the film, proving that blind, blanket judgments can cut across many faiths.

“Scripture is sacred, so it’s reasonable that people would approach with caution that a secular industry is depicting something they consider holy,” John Snowden, a Christian who served as “Noah’s” biblical advisor, told me in an email exchange.

“I don’t fault anyone’s caution. Many films have been made by Christians, for Christians. For the most part, we’re OK with that.”

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Ashanti makes brave comeback catherine singletary Register Contributor

The music industry welcomed singer Ashanti back for her fifth studio album “Braveheart” on March 4, 2014.

Thus far, the album has charted number one on the Billboard independent albums list and number ten on Billboard’s 200 albums list. “Braveheart” has received positive reviews and looks to be a success for the newly independent artist.

After a six-year hiatus from the music industry, Ashanti is back and she is revealing a sense of vulnerability fans have yet to see from her. Braveheart is full of ballads and heartfelt R&B sounds. Predictions for this album were not very high due to a lack of publicity and a decline in both her career and personal life.

In 2002, Ashanti released “Foolish” her most successful album to date, which was certified three time platinum and helped her win a Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B album in 2003. Also in 2003, Ashanti released “Chapter II,” which also went platinum. Her third studio album released in 2005.

“Concrete Rose” brought about Ashanti’s decline in the industry. Her sales and the quality of her music were at an all time low. Her sound changed and it ultimately affected her fan base.

During that time, the record label she was signed to went through changes, which delayed albums from being released. Fi-

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nally, in 2008, Ashanti released “The Declaration,” which landed her a top ten spot on the Billboard, but did not deliver quality music.

Contrary to what most predicted, “Braveheart” is a breath of fresh air. It is solidifying itself since “Chapter II,” one of her best studio albums. The album features rap stars French Montana and Rick Ross. It also features R&B singer Jeremiah, as well as Beenie Man. Songs such as “Braveheart,” “Nowhere,” “3 words,” “She Can’t,” “Don’t Tell Me No” and “First Real Love” share a common theme of love and making relationships work through hard times. Other songs like “Love Games” and “Early in the morning” bring to the album a sexual feel, and set the mood for a more sensual setting. “Never Should Have,” “Scars,” and “Runaway” touch on pain and heartbreak.

Overall, Ashanti delivers on her first independent project.

What makes it more intriguing is it was released under her record label, Written Entertainment.

— Email Catherine at theatregister@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @TheATRegister

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Imagine living countless years with a family member who passed away and suddenly the deceased starts to reappear. ABC’s new hit scifi thriller, “Resurrection,” has the entertainment world buzzing.

In the first episode, viewers are introduced to a young boy named Jacob Langston.

Following Jacob’s introduction, immigration agent J. Martin Bellamy, who has been given the responsibility to find Jacob’s parents, is introduced. The series is set in Arcadia, Mo., a town full of secrets that are revealed only when the dead reappear. In this episode, when Jacob gets home, he finds that his parents Lucille and Henry have changed dramatically.

Jacob’s parents do not greet him in their usual manner, and the suspiciousness of the show begins. The whole town starts asking questions and is frightened because of Jacob’s mysterious reappearance.

The second episode starts immediately where the first left off. This time, however, Caleb Richards returns from the dead. Richards has no recollection of having the heart attack he had the previous year.

Ray and Elaine Richards are emotionally torn from the return of their father. Henry Langston struggles facing the

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fact that after 32 years, his son out appears out of nowhere.

With the dead rising slowly, it raises conOmar Epps cerns for a community who looks to Pastor Tom to make sense of what is going on.

The show does a great job of balancing the viewpoints of those who were emotionally affected by the passing of family members. This new series has a lot of good plot twists, but the show does have its dull moments.

An all-star line up of actors and actresses shows the casting director knew exactly which people to put together to make “Resurrection” spark.

Omar Epps plays an optimistic, yet serious immigration agent, J. Martin Bellamy .

Frances Fisher plays Lucille Langston, the medical doctor of Arcadia. Kurtwood Smith of “That 70’s Show” plays Henry Langston, the troubled parent. While Matt Craven, Samaire Armstrong, and Devin Kelley round out the rest of the cast.

“Resurrection” has received some decent reviews.

According to Metacritic, “Resurrection” received average reviews at best. Rotten Tomatoes held a 53 percent rating with an average rating

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As long as the plot and characters continue to surprise the audience, “Resurrection” will be successful. The show will thrive as more characters are revealed, which will help capture the audience’s attention every episode.

“Resurrection” airs on ABC every Sunday at 9 p.m.

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on screen captain america: the winter solider Steve Rogers finds himself trying to adapt to life in D.C. while balancing his double life as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. When an assassin known as the Winter Solider appears, no one is safe. Now with Roger on the run and being labeled a fugitive, he must fight to clear his name and protect those around him. This action packed film is filled with a star-studded cast including Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson. “Captain America” opens April 4.

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