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On Feb. 5, the Student Union Advisory Board held a party in Stallings Ballroom to celebrate and witness the 46th Super Bowl Championship of the National Football League between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. The Super Bowl was held in Indianapolis at the Lucas Oil Stadium.

“We did this because we know a lot of students like football, they like to watch it,” said senior Bryan Keller, business management major from Greensboro, NC and vice president of SUAB. “We know the café closes early so there aren’t many other places to watch it outside the dorm room. On campus, we can give them a place to watch the game, have some snacks, and fellowship.”

The party offered two projector screens to watch the game, as well as food and drinks. Super Bowl XLVI was the second meeting of the Patriots and the Giants in which the Giants took home the Vince Lombardi trophy after a 21-17 victory over the Patriots. The ir first meeting was in 2008 at Super Bowl XVII where the Patriots took their first Super Bowl defeat against the Giants trailing 14-17 at the end of the game. Eli Manning, Giants quarterback, was named the Super Bowl’s Most Valuable Player Award during both meetings against the Patriots. The Giants have won the Super Bowl four out of their five appearances and the Patriots have won the Super Bowl three out of their seven appearances.

While Stallings Ballroom was less than half occupied, one could still feel the excitement between fans of both teams. Students also seemed pleased by the halftime show in which pop icon Madonna, performed.

Accompanying Madonna in her performance were celebrities’ Nicki Minaj, M.I.A., and Cee-Lo Green.

“I expected more of a turnout. It’s kind of quiet for a Super Bowl Party,” said Brittany Luster, senior Animal Science major from Baltimore. “The student body is not as live as it was back when I was an underclassman.” Nichole Florence, Assistant Director for Programs and SUAB Advisor said, “It was a great program. I’m glad we were able to host and get students out of their rooms to enjoy the Super Bowl.” Super Bowl XLVII will be played at Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Feb. 3, 2013.

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Love conquers all Valentine’s Day celebrated by Aggies, no matter the age Kelcie c. Mccrae Editor-in-Chief

Valentine’s Day. Love Day. National Cuddle Day. I’m-going-to-spend-a-substantial-amount-of-moneyto-show-you-how-much-Icare-Day. No matter what you call it, Feb. 14 is slowly approaching and couples young and old are becoming recognizant of the love they share.

“I never really cared about Valentine’s Day until Jessica,” said Chase Young, a sophomore speech pathology major from Roanoke Rapids about his girlfriend Jessica Webb. “I like making her happy.”

Cheerful gazes and a playful tone is how these two love birds talked with one another about the day that is dedicated to love.

Young claims that before, the only enjoyment he would get from this holiday was the sugar rush from the mounds of candy his mother would send him.

Now, over three years in a relationship, both Webb and Young agree that this holiday is only special because they have each other in their lives.

“I never had a good Valentine’s Day until he came into the picture,” said Webb, a junior chemistry major from Hollister, N.C. “He actually gave me my first good Valentine’s Day.” The two spent their first ‘Love Day’ only as friends.

Young says he was in love at first sight, but she had a boyfriend and had to accept being thrown into the friend zone. Although the two were not romantic, Webb confided to him that she never had a good holiday. With that information Young stepped to the plate and surprised his then best friend.

“I remember telling him

that I never had a good Valentine’s Day and I didn’t want to celebrate,” Webb said. “Then on Valentine’s Day, he bought me a gift, a little stuffed frog that sings, and some candy. That really made me feel special, and it made me start looking at him as more than a friend.”

Not only does this holiday serve to bring out young couples that are on the path of love, but it also serves as a day to reignite old sparks or keep the spice going for those who have been in relationships for years.

George and Debra Jones have been married for 20 years and to them, Valentine’s Day is every day.

“Valentine’s Day should obviously be celebrated every single day,” George Jones, the project director for the south Atlantic region of small business transportation resource center at A&T said. “I’ve been very blessed to have a beautiful woman that has given me three beautiful kids, and has really been my soul mate, and I’m really blessed to have her in my life.”

Both couples agree that the monetary contribution to the holiday does not matter if love is not involved. All the money in the world cannot buy true affection.

“This is an opportunity to take that day to sometimes reset the importance of recognizing the gift the you have with your spouse or mate,” said Debra Clark Jones, assistant to the dean for the college of arts and sciences for strategic planning and market analysis at A&T. “I am blessed with the fact that as a couple it really does feel like Valentine’s Day every day with him because he is very thoughtful all the time, and very conscious of the importance of living in the moment, and

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GeOrGe & deBra JOnes enjoy one of their favorite restaurants, Mama Dips, in Chapel hill in 2008.

appreciating one another and celebrating what we share.”

After being courted at a professional function, this power couple knew

Matthew Diggs & Courtney Jackson: They were our “new couple,” last year they were just beginning a serious relationship. The senior engineering major and junior journalism major (respectively) will be celebrating their one year anniversary this Valentine’s Day.

Last year I interviewed three couples at different stages in relationships for our “Black Love” feature.

A year later we caught up with two of my couples: -S.O., Managing Editor

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SUAB challeged students on history through trivia games.

Check out each editor’s view on love and Valentine’s Day as a whole.

Check out this week’s spotlight on Lady Aggie Tiffanie Adair.

Scene Editor Ashley Vaughn gets you prepared for another V-Day. Check out fashion finds, date spots, and everything else.

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Malcolm & Angela Eustache: Yes they now share a last name! Not surprising, as they were our “long-term” couple that were on the verge of graduation and the next chapter in life. The happy couple got married over the holiday season and now resides as husband and wife in Mississippi.

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Valentine’s day From page 1 even though it took over six months to go on the first date.

George claims he was too nervous to talk to Debra, while she says the same thing.

“I look across and the room and saw this woman and I pointed to my friend and mouthed, that’s mine,” he laughed. “She was standing at the bar with one of her girlfriends and I got real close, but I was so nervous I didn’t say a thing and sat down.”

Debra Jones account of the story was quite similar. She says that she saw this handsome man walk into the room, and she told her girlfriend that he was very handsome, but she too was nervous to talk.

For twenty years these two have seen their fair share of ups and downs, however they say that it is through remarkable moments in their relationship that they have survived. One thing they say is that young couples need to understand

is the seriousness of commitment, and the hard work that goes into making a relationship last as long as theirs.

“Love is a special thing, especially college love, young love,” said George Jones.

“Love is really a multifaceted thing, it’s not just the physical attraction or the common values or even the goals. For us, we’ve been through those good times, those fun times, those travel dates, but we’ve also been through those rough times, and I think through the rough times we had to gather all the way back, and figure out what is it we love.”

He goes on to add that college students need to know the difference between show stoppers and deal breakers.

Although there may be an extreme attraction, one must realize things that they cannot tolerate in order to have a successful relationship.

Aside for this holiday being dedicated to others, Debra Jones says it is most important to show yourself love.

“On Valentine’s Day, you have to think about self love too,” she said. “Loving yourself enough to feel comfortable with who you are as you look to being in a relationship with others.

What you value is most important, and being clear is critical because so many other things fade in time.”

Both couples agree that Valentine’s Days comes and goes, but the day truly means nothing if they didn’t have that special bond with their significant other.

“The greatest backbone is your wife,” George Jones said.

“I’m extremely grateful.”

“With our relationship it’s not just boyfriend and girlfriend. He’s my best friend.,” said Webb. “If I were to lose him it wouldn’t be oh that’s just my ex-boyfriend, I would be losing my best friend. To think about that, it is hard to grasp.”

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A&T to celebrate engineering week National Engineers Week will take place February 20-26.

This years theme is, “7 billion people, 7 billion dreams and 7 billion chances for engineers to turn dreams into reality.” N.C. A&T will celebrate through an array of events throughout the week. The Opening Ceremony will be that Monday at noon in McNair Hall Auditorium. Additional activities include: pre-college initiative events (for middle and high school students), Energy Day, professional de-

velopment seminars, an Awards Banquet, and Career Fair. On Tuesday, Feb. 21 from 8:00 – 3:30 p.m., approximately 700 middle school and high school students are expected to participate in the pre-college initiative day on campus. These students will participate in hands-on activities in engineering. Finally, the week will end with the Order of the Engineer Ceremony, with graduating seniors taking the “Oath of Engineering.”

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Johnson named emergency management coordinator N.C. A&T has named Timothy I. Johnson, III, MPA, its new emergency management coordinator. The University of Southern Mississippi graduate, has over 12 years of experience in this field and has responded to over 22 disasters in eight

states. Prior to coming to A&T, Johnson served as an emergency management planner for the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management, where he coordinated response missions for human services related to sheltering and mass feeding.

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Energy day to be held at A&T N.C. A&T will host its third annual Energy Day Celebration for grades 6-12 on Feb. 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. More than 800 students are projected to fill Cherry and Graham Halls. The students will rotate through activities featuring solar energy,

wind energy, photovoltaic energy, bio-fuels, lighting, hydrogen fuel cells and others. They will also be given time to visit exhibits by Duke Energy and the Center for Energy Research and Technology and more.

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A&T student Jessica Webb, a junior chemistry major, is being featured in a national advertising campaign by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi to promote their study abroad scholarships.

The ad featuring Webb is being sent to colleges and universities throughout the country. In the

spring of 2011, Webb applied for and won one of only 50 $1,000 grants provided by the group to help students afford the expense of studying abroad. She used them for her study abroad experience in Denmark this past summer.

A&T sponsors annual career fair The 2012 Spring Career Fair in Corbett Sports Center on Thursday, Feb. 23, from 9 a.m.

– 2 p.m. Students/alumni, in particular, will be able to speak one-on-one with employers to obtain career guidance and advice as well as distribute or upload resumes for potential

full-time, co-op or summer internship positions. To date, 113 employers from across the country have registered to attend. A complete listing of participating employers, career fair article, and appropriate dress can be found at www.careerserv.ncat. edu.

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Trivia game shows students know history shawn jackson Contributor

The student union advisory board hosted its third annual “Think Fast” Black History Trivia Game.

On Feb. 2, many students flooded Stallings Ballroom in hopes of receiving the $500 grand prize offered to the winner. Students had the option of teaming up or playing solo to compete against one another.

Miniature wireless keypads were given to each person/team.

Each keypad had a team title. I

had the chance to participate in the competition and my team name was “The Pistons.” Upon entrance, tension rose throughout the room as students shouted frantically in hopes of their team taking the number one spot.

The competition was divided into three multiplechoice rounds, two wild card, and the final. After each multiple-choice round, a wild card round came into play. Five students were selected to compete in a challenge of either singing, dancing, or telling a joke. Junior, fashion merchandising major,

Brenita Proctor was one of the wild card contestants. “I had so much fun singing ‘Resentment’

by Beyonce,” she said. “I really enjoyed the competition.”

Staphon Snelling, a special education student, described his night as a “fun experience while learning something new.” “Tonight was awesome. I learned a lot of facts that I did not know tonight. I came to a realization that I need to learn more about my history, whether it be from the past or now.”

The final round replicated a game off of the television show

Jeopardy. In front of the room stood four, brightly lit podiums sitting on top of a stage. Each podium was equipped with a neon lit scoreboard that tallied up each of the finalist’s points, and a buzzer for them to buzz their answers in. There were four students to compete in the final round, each stood tall in hopes of winning the $500 grand prize. The game suddenly got very intense, the questions became harder, and the crowd grew louder as the finalists answered each question.

Of those four finalists, one

came out victorious. Junior, Frank Foster swept the scoreboard with a total of 700 points and was deemed winner of the game. Dominating the game, Foster buzzed in each answer before the host could even finish asking the question. He stood poised, stating each answer with a sense of quickness and confidence. Foster says he was confident in his win citing, “it was expected. I came in confident. I knew I was going to win.” Foster plans on splitting his winnings up with his four teammates, who aided him

on his journey to taking the top spot in the game.

The “Think Fast” Black History Trivia Game is one of many programs hosted by SUAB. When asked if Think Fast would be making another appearance on campus next February, vice president of SUAB, Bryan Keller responded, “Of course!

The students loved it, why not?”

Think Fast is popular among the nation, touring too many different colleges and attracting new crowds each day.

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States shake up adult education to help low-skilled workers Tony Pugh

MCT Campus

WASHINGTON— President Barack Obama’s recent proposal to “train 2 million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job” barely scratches the surface of one of the nation’s most vexing labor problems.

The “skills gap” between what employers need and job applicants offer already has become a drag on the economy, with nearly 3 million jobs unfilled even at a time of high unemployment.

Researchers at Georgetown University estimate that by 2018, nearly two-thirds of U.S. jobs will require some education or training beyond a high school diploma but not necessarily a bachelor’s degree. But large swaths of the U.S. labor force lack the basic math and language skills needed to enroll in postsecondary education courses and the career-training programs that many specialized jobs require. Many who try to overcome these deficiencies through under-funded adult basic-education classes endure waiting lists or end up leaving before completing the courses.

But a handful of states, working with private foundations, local community colleges and area employers, are redesigning their adult basic-education programs to provide career training and remedial course work _ reading, writing, language and math _ at the same time.

A program in Louisville, Ky., allows low-skilled students to enroll in adult-education courses while attending community college. Other states, such as Minnesota and Washington, pair occupational trainers and adult-education instructors in the same classrooms to provide immediate assistance when problems or questions arise. In both models, participants are taught the specific language, math or reading skills needed to perform the jobs they’re being trained for.

The method works best for adults with seventh- to ninthgrade education levels who couldn’t pass community college entrance exams.

The colleges consult with area employers to determine which skills are most in demand so participants have the best chance of finding work quickly.

The approach has been shown to be effective for jobs that require training certificates in fields as diverse as health care, advanced manufacturing, transportation, and logistics and professional services.

“What we’re trying to do is get away from these long sequences where they’re stuck in a traditional adult basiceducation program for a year or longer, and only when they get their GED are they permitted to enroll in college. There are adult learners that we can double down on and essentially wipe out months of their time and effort by doing two things at once,” said Barbara Endel,

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the program director at Jobs for the Future, a Boston-based national nonprofit organization that’s helping states revise their adult-education programs.

After losing her job at a WalMart in 2010, 35-year-old Carolina Hernandez of Louisville, Ky., wanted to attend the Jefferson Community and Technical College and become a certified nursing assistant. But her math and writing skills were only at the junior high level because she left school in the ninth grade to help support her family when her mother was stricken with cancer.

Instead of postponing college to improve her math and writing, a special partnership between the college and the Jefferson County Public Schools allowed Hernandez to take remedial courses alongside her college-level biology and sociology courses _ on the college campus.

The adult-education course work, which was taught by school-district instructors, also helped Hernandez with her evening studies to earn a GED certificate.

Over the next year, Hernandez not only got her GED diploma, she also obtained her nursing assistant’s certificate, passed the state exam and got a job at a nursing and rehabilitation center. This allowed her to leave welfare. She’ll soon start work on a registered nursing degree and hopes one day to earn a doctorate in social work.

Hernandez said the best part of her education and training was the example she was setting for her three teenage daughters.

“I look at my daughters and I know that what I’m doing is paving roads for them,” she said. “It’s showing them that ‘My mom didn’t finish

high school. It took her a long time to do it, but she worked hard and she was dedicated.

And if I could just put that kind of hard work and dedication to something in my life, I know I can do it, because my mom did it. She didn’t take no for an answer.’ “ Educational Enrichment Services, the partnership program that allowed Hernandez to take college and adult-education classes simultaneously, has helped more than 7,000 Louisville students since it was launched in 2003. Unlike remedial courses offered by the community college, Educational Enrichment Services courses are provided free, saving students more than $590,000 in tuition last school year.

While Obama has called for 5 million new community college graduates by 2020, one national group estimates that 43 percent of U.S. adults have such weak math, reading or Englishlanguage skills that it limits “their ability to fulfill their roles as workers, family members and citizens.”

Only 8 percent of students who take English as a Second Language go on to postsecondary education of any kind, according to the nonprofit Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy.

“These people are working.

They have kids. Some have multiple jobs, and they get frustrated. Life happens,” said Evelyn Ganzglass, the workforce-development director at the Center for Law and Social Policy, an advocacy organization in Washington for low-income people.

The result is a mass of lowskilled workers with little or no hope of finding gainful employment that could support families. The problem undermines communities, strains public-

assistance programs and makes it harder for the U.S. to be globally competitive.

Studies have found that when low-skilled adults get career skills and remedial education at the same time, they’re more likely to stick with the course work. That’s partly because they can envision the immediate benefits of their efforts, said Endel, of Jobs For the Future.

Merging job training and literacy skills was pioneered in Washington state in 2004 through Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training.

Designed to serve the state’s growing non-English-speaking immigrant community, I-BEST offered English as a Second Language and vocational training simultaneously.

Once a pilot program at 10 community colleges, I-BEST now operates in all 34 of Washington state’s community and technical colleges. Evaluations have found that I-BEST students were 15 times more likely to complete their job training than other students with similar deficiencies in standard adult education programs were.

That success led the Joyce, Bill & Melinda Gates, W.K. Kellogg, Kresge and Open Society foundations to award $200,000 apiece last year to Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon and Wisconsin to lay the groundwork for similar programs.

After reviewing each state’s plans, the foundations gave Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas an additional $1.6 million apiece over three years to implement theirs.

The states hope to replicate the success of I-Best and another paired-instruction program, Minnesota’s FastTRAC, which has an 88 percent course completion rate for participants.

Recently, Minnesota’s workforce development council recommended expanding FastTRAC to all 25 of the state’s community and technical colleges. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton agreed and has asked his Legislature for $4.5 million a year to do so. The goal is to train 3,000 low-skilled adults in new careers by next year.

N.C. DOT hears from public on I-95 expansion, tolls Assocated Press AP Exchange

LUMBERTON, N.C. — North Carolina’s Department of Transportation wants to hear from the public about the benefits of widening and improv-

ing Interstate 95, and the possible cost from charging tolls to travel the highway.

The first meeting in communities along the I-95 corridor is scheduled for Tuesday at Robeson Community College in Lumberton.

Others are scheduled later

this month in Dunn and Fayetteville.

The state DOT recommends work along the entire 180 miles of I-95 from Virginia to South Carolina that would cost nearly $4.5 billion.

The proposals include widening parts of the interstate to

six and eight lanes, raising and rebuilding bridges and making repairs to pavement.

Current funding only covers about 10 percent of that cost, so the DOT wants to charge tolls to motorists to make up the difference.

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SOFIA, Bulgaria — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Sunday for “friends of democratic Syria” to unite and rally against President Bashar Assad’s regime, previewing the possible formation of a formal group of likeminded nations to coordinate assistance to the Syrian opposition.

Speaking in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia a day after Russia and China blocked U.N. Security Council action on Syria, Clinton said the international community had a duty to halt ongoing bloodshed and promote a political transition that would see Assad step down. She said the “friends of Syria” should work together to promote those ends.

Clinton was bluntly critical of Saturday’s veto by Russia and China at the United Nations blocking action against the continuing violence in Syria.

“What happened yesterday at the United Nations was a travesty,” she said.

“Faced with a neutered Security Council, we have to redouble our efforts outside of the United Nations with those allies and partners who support the Syrian people’s right to have a better future,” Clinton told reporters after meeting top Bulgarian officials.

Such a group could be similar, but not identical, to the Contact Group on Libya, which oversaw international help for opponents of the late deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. However, in the case of Libya, the group also coordinated NATO military operations to protect Libyan civilians, something that is not envisioned in Syria.

Clinton warned that a failure to act would increase the chances for “a brutal civil war” as many Syrians under attack from their government moved to defend themselves.

U.S. officials said a friends group would work to further squeeze the Assad regime by enhancing sanctions against it, bringing disparate Syrian opposition groups inside and outside the country together, provid-

ing humanitarian relief for embattled Syrian communities and working to prevent an escalation of violence by monitoring arms sales.

“We will work to expose those who are still funding the regime and sending it weapons to be used against defenseless Syrians, including women and children,” Clinton said. “We will work with the friends of a democratic Syria around the world to support the opposition’s peaceful political plans for change.”

Clinton’s comments came as Syria’s opposition appealed for international backing along the lines she suggested following the double-veto at the U.N. Security Council that outraged the U.S., its European allies and Arab leaders and intensified fears that Assad would unleash even greater violence to crush protesters.

Meanwhile, a Syrian staterun newspaper vowed Sunday that Damascus will press its crackdown on the uprising until stability is restored. Early Saturday, regime forces bom-

Filipino villagers may have helped kill terrorist JIM GOMEZ

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MANILA, Philippines — Abu Sayyaf commander Umbra Jumdail had deviated from the brutal image of his al-Qaida-linked militant group by playing doctor to poor Filipino villagers, whose backing he needed to stay safe from military troops. But those villagers may have been used by the military to finally track him down last week.

A U.S.-backed airstrike killed Jumdail, his son and several militants while they slept in huts or hammocks Thursday near Parang town on southern Jolo island, dealing the latest blow to the Abu Sayyaf and depriving it of a key leader.

Surviving militants suspect that villagers secretly working for the military helped track down Jumdail, said a Philippine military intelligence official who had been helping monitor the militants. The official said militants believe villagers pretending to seek medical treatment traveled to Jumdail’s hideout and left some kind of sensor that the military used to target his Abu Sayyaf lair.

The impact of the blasts destroyed huts and toppled trees, including a mango tree that pinned Jumdail, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.

Jumdail had harbored a top Southeast Asian terror suspect, Malaysian Zulkifli bin Hir, also known as Marwan. Among the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists, Marwan, a U.S.-educated engineer, had been crucial in helping turn mostly desperate peasant recruits into Abu Sayyaf bombers and training them to carry out deadly attacks.

The Philippine military announced that the long-hunted Marwan and his Singaporean

ally Abdullah Ali, better known as Muawiyah, were killed in the air raid along with Jumdail and other Filipino extremists. But two security officials said Sunday that new intelligence shows that Jumdail was killed but that the two foreign terror suspects are still alive and were not in the Abu Sayyaf lair that was bombed.

The military continues to insist that Marwan and Muawiyah are dead and are searching for their remains. Not a single body was retrieved by police in the bombed hilly jungle lair near Lanao Dakulah village, fueling different versions of who was killed.

Philippine officials, nevertheless, hailed Jumdail’s death as the latest major blow to the Abu Sayyaf, which has carved its name in blood through bombings, kidnappings and beheadings. The extremist group is on Washington’s list of terrorist organizations. The militants, currently estimated to number less than 400, have endured years of battle setbacks and the loss of key commanders.

“He had the charisma and was the real link used by foreign militants,” military spokesman Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos said of Jumdail. “He was a big loss.”

Jumdail had taken a course related to medicine, enabling him to serve as a rebel medic who treated wounded comrades when he joined the Moro National Liberation Front, once the Philippines’ largest Muslim separatist group.

He left the Moro group after it signed a 1996 peace pact with the government and eventually emerged as a commander of the violent Abu Sayyaf, which was organized by a Filipino militant after helping wage the anti-Soviet resistance in Afghanistan, according to Jumdail’s former

comrades.

While surrounded by militants notorious for beheading hostages, Jumdail had ingratiated himself to many villagers by providing treatment for tropical maladies. He performed jungle surgery to wounded combatants, earning the rebel alias “Dr. Abu Pula.”

Rep. Lady Ann Sahidulla, who negotiated for the release of three Red Cross aid workers taken hostage by Abu Sayyaf gunmen in 2009, said she saw Jumdail treating ill villagers with herbs in an Abu Sayyaf jungle encampment. “Doc Abu was kind, but then why didn’t he say no to their atrocities?” she said.

While Sahidulla talked with Jumdail, a villager rushed to his lair and warned him that troops were approaching with a tank, though no clash erupted, she said.

Out of mistrust, Sahidulla said she hid a small pistol in her bra in case the violent militants with Jumdail would try something nasty. The three aid workers, from Switzerland, Italy and the Philippines, were eventually freed, reportedly after ransom payments.

A captured Abu Sayyaf commander now under the government’s witness protection program has described Jumdail as a “local Robin Hood” who used his loot to help out poor Muslim villagers and keep their loyalty.

U.S. and Philippine officials had offered bounties for Jumdail’s capture for highprofile ransom kidnappings.

His group was planning terror attacks, including new kidnappings of foreigners and bombings, when he was killed along with his son, who was also an Abu Sayyaf fighter, officials said.

barded the restive central city of Homs in what activists said was the deadliest incident of the uprising. They reported more than 200 killed, but the regime denied any bombardment and there was no way to independently confirm the toll.

The Russian and Chinese vetoes at the Security Council effectively killed an Arab League plan aimed at ending the violence in Syria that called for Assad to hand over his powers to his vice president and allow creation of a unity government.

The resolution would have expressed support for that Arab League plan, putting pressure on Assad, who has rejected it.

Clinton said that in the coming days she will consult closely with U.S. allies over what can be done to “rescue this deteriorating situation before it is too late.”

“Remember, in those 13 votes, you have not only Europeans, but you have Arabs, Africans, Latin Americans, South Asians. This was a unified international community seeking an end to the violence,” she said.

Proponents of the Arab League plan are now searching for an alternative to address Syria’s crisis, which the U.S. and many European countries have said can only be resolved

by Assad’s leaving power.

Radwan Ziadeh, a prominent member of the opposition Syrian National Council said countries backing Assad’s foes should form an “international coalition ... whose aim will be to lead international moves to support the revolution through political and economic aid.”

He said he expected French, U.S. and Arab support for a coalition.

A sensitive question is whether such a coalition would back the Free Syrian Army, a force of army defectors who in recent months have gone beyond protecting protesters in Syria to launching attacks on regime forces and trying to establish overt control in pro-opposition parts of the country.

Elizabeth II celebrates 60 years on the throne ap

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LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II braved the cold and snow to attend church Sunday on the eve of her Diamond Jubilee anniversary.

Bundled in a brown coat and matching fur hat, Elizabeth was joined by her husband, Prince Philip, at the service at West Newton church on her Sandringham Estate in eastern England.

Following a service that lasted less than an hour, the queen took time to greet and accept flowers from wellwishers huddled in the freezing temperatures to catch a glimpse of her.

The bitter cold and snow that blanketed much of Britain forced a change of plans for Philip. He had been due to travel to nearby Kings Lynn to participate in the 90th anniversary parade of the local Royal British Legion branch, but the event was canceled because of the snow.

The 85-year-old monarch marks 60 years on the throne on Monday. The anniversary will be marked by a series of regional, national and international events throughout 2012.

Elizabeth ascended the throne when her father, George VI, died on Feb. 6, 1952. She

is the longest-serving monarch after Queen Victoria, who reigned for more than 63 years.

The Queen typically spends Feb. 6 privately but she has two official engagements scheduled for Monday. First, Elizabeth will visit King’s Lynn Town hall to meet staff and view historical artifacts. Then she is expected to tour a local nursery school and meeting pupils before watching a play there about her 60 years as sovereign.

Over the course of 2012, members of the royal family — including Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge — will fan out across the globe and travel to Commonwealth countries including Canada, Jamaica and Belize in honor of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

The Queen and Philip, also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, will stay closer to home, touring the U.K. from March to July.

The 2012 Diamond Jubilee weekend will be held from June 2-5, with the main highlight likely to be a massive pageant on the Thames river featuring a 1,000-strong flotilla.å

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ATHENS, Greece — Parties backing Greece’s coalition government are meeting again Monday in an eleventh-hour effort to reach an austerity deal with rescue creditors, needed to avert bankruptcy in March, after an intense weekend of negotiations failed to produce a breakthrough.

Prime Minister Lucas Papademos will meet leaders of three parties backing his coalition — which all publicly oppose steep cuts in private sector

pay demanded by negotiators representing eurozone lenders and the International Monetary Fund.

The new €130 billion ($171 billion) bailout deal is vital for Greece avoid bankruptcy next month as it cannot cover a €14.5 billion ($19.1 billion) bond repayment due March 20.

Tied to that deal are plans by banks and other private bondholders to forgive €100 billion ($131.6 billion) in Greek debt in exchange for a cash payment and new bonds with more lenient repayment terms.

Over the weekend, Greek

officials held a conference call with eurozone finance ministers, as well as exhaustive rounds of talks in Athens with EU-IMF debt inspectors, senior bank negotiators, and Greek political party leaders, to try and hammer out a deal.

An announcement from Papademos’ office said agreement had been reached to cut 2012 spending by 1.5 percent of gross domestic product — about €3.3 billion ($4.3 billion) — improve competitiveness by slashing wages and non-wage costs, and re-capitalize banks without nationalizing them.

But the three coalition backers — Socialist George Papandreou, Conservative Antonis Samaras and George Karatzaferis of the rightist LAOS party — differed as to what this would mean in detailed proposals.

“We are in the middle of a major struggle. Right now, the developments are satisfactory,” said Karatzaferis, adding that EU-IMF negotiators had backed away from a demand to ax annual salary installments given to Greek workers as holiday bonuses.

Rescue lenders have also called for firings in Greece’s

large public sector, a drop in the €750 ($985) gross minimum monthly wage, and cuts in lump-sum retirement payouts, as part of a long list of cost-cutting demands.

Unions and employers’ associations oppose the wage cuts, arguing it would worsen a recession in its fourth year and unemployment, already at around 19 percent.

Also Monday, left wing opposition parties are planning two separate protest rallies in central Athens at 6:00 p.m.

(1600GMT), against the proposed cuts.

ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will target any country where an attack against it is staged, a senior Guard commander warned Sunday, the latest Iranian threat tied to growing tensions over its nuclear program and Western sanctions.

Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran’s most powerful military force, did not elaborate. His comments appeared to be a warning to Iran’s neighbors not to let their territory or airspace be used as a base for an attack.

“Any place where enemy offensive operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran originate will be the target of a reciprocal attack by the Guard’s fighting units,” the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Salami as saying.

The Revolutionary Guard started maneuvers in the country’s south on Saturday, following naval exercises near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil export route, additional muscle flexing by Iran to ward off the prospect of a military strike against its nuclear facilities.

Iran has threatened to close off the strait if Western sanctions limit Iranian oil exports.

The U.S. and its Western allies charge Iran is producing atomic weapons. Iran says its program is meant to produce fuel for future nuclear power reactors and medical radioisotopes needed for cancer patients.

Israel and the U.S. have said that all options remain open, including military action, if Iran continues with its uranium enrichment program.

U.S. officials have indicated they are concerned that Israel might launch a strike in the spring.

Israel considers Iran an existential threat because of its nuclear and missile programs and repeated references by Iranian leaders to Israel’s destruction. On Friday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Israel a “cancer” that must be removed.

Iran has been enriching uranium to less than 5 percent for years, but it began to further enrich part of its uranium stockpile to nearly 20 percent a year ago, saying it needs the higher grade material to produce fuel for a Tehran reactor that makes medical radioisotopes. Weapons-grade uranium is usually about 90 percent enriched.

A high-level inspection team from the International Atomic Energy Agency was in Iran last week but did not visit its nuclear facilities. In November, the U.N. watchd“The information indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device,” the report stated.

Iran denounced the IAEA report, saying the agency has discredited itself by siding with “absurd” U.S. accusations. Tehran said the allegations were based on “fabricated documents.”

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Liz Taylor art work snags $21.8M AP

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LONDON — Three top works from the late Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor’s art collection have sold at a London auction for nearly 14 million pounds ($22 million), the auctioneer Christie’s said Tuesday.

The lot’s biggest-selling item was Van Gogh’s “Vue de l’asile de la Chapelle de Remy,” which used to hang in the living room of Taylor’s Bel Air home. The tan-and-turquoise landscape was sold for more than 10 million pounds (nearly $16 million) to an anonymous telephone bidder.

The two other pieces, a selfportrait by Edgar Degas and a landscape by Claude Pissarro, sold earlier in the evening.

Marc Porter, chairman of

Christie’s Americas, called the works the “crown jewel” of the showbiz legend’s collection, and he said in a statement that the auctioneer hoped for more positive results when it offered the rest of Taylor’s art collection Wednesday.

Taylor died in March at age 79, and Christie’s has been selling off her possessions piecemeal.

Last month, the auctioneer sold a 17th-century portrait that once hunag over Taylor’s fireplace for $2 million. In December, Christie’s sold her collection of jewelry, fashion and memorabilia for well over $100 million, including $8.8 million for a diamond ring given to her by Richard Burton, whom she married twice.

Prices include the buyer’s premium.

FDA grants priority review to Salix treatment AP

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration granted a priority review to its potential treatment for HIVassociated diarrhea.

The Raleigh, N.C., company had submitted the oral treatment, crofelemer, to regulators for review in December. A priority review is given to drugs that may offer treatment advances or provide a treatment where no adequate therapy exists.

The FDA has set a June 5 target date for making its decision on whether to approve the drug.

Crofelemer tablets aim to treat diarrhea in patients with HIV or AIDS who are on anti-

retroviral therapy. Salix estimates that about 150,000 patients on this therapy experience episodic or chronic diarrhea, which can lead to weight loss and affect compliance with the treatment.

Salix develops pharmaceutical products for gastrointestinal diseases. It also makes Xifaxan, which treats traveler's diarrhea and neurological problems associated with liver failure. Diarrhea can lead to weight loss and affect compliance with the therapy.

Its shares finished at $48.55 per share on Monday. They have traded in a 52-week range of $25.64 to $50.28 over the past year.

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Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50 PETER ORSI

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HAVANA — When it started, American teenagers were doing “The Twist.” The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents.

The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thing has remained constant: The U.S. economic embargo on communist-run Cuba, a near-total trade ban that turned 50 on Tuesday.

Supporters say it is a justified measure against a repressive government that has never stopped being a thorn in Washington’s side. Critics call it a failed policy that has hurt ordinary Cubans instead of the government.

All acknowledge that it has not accomplished its core mission of toppling Fidel and Raul Castro.

“All this time has gone by, and yet we keep it in place,” said Wayne Smith, who was a young U.S. diplomat in Havana in 1961 when relations were severed and who returned as the chief American diplomat after they were partially re-established under President Jimmy Carter.

“We talk to the Russians, we talk to the Chinese, we have normal relations even with Vietnam. We trade with all of them,” Smith said. “So why not with Cuba?”

In the White House, the first sign of the looming embargo came when President John F. Kennedy told his press secretary to go buy him as many H. Upmann Cuban cigars as he could find. The aide came back with 1,200 stogies.

Kennedy announced the embargo on Feb. 3, 1962, citing “the subversive offensive of Sino-Soviet communism with which the government of Cuba is publicly aligned.”

It went into effect four days later at the height of the Cold War, a year removed from the

failed CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion meant to oust communism from Cuba and eight months before Soviet attempts to put nuclear missiles on the island brought the two superpowers to the brink of war.

Washington already had some limited sanctions in place, but Kennedy’s decision was the beginning of a comprehensive ban on U.S. trade with the island that has remained more or less intact ever since.

Little was planned to mark Tuesday’s anniversary, but Cuban-American members of Congress issued a joint statement vowing to keep the heat on Cuba.

Supporters of the policy acknowledge that many U.S. strategic concerns from the 1960s have been consigned to the dustbin of history, such as halting the spread of Soviet influence and keeping Fidel Castro from exporting revolution throughout Latin America. But they say other justifications remain, such as the confiscation of U.S. property in Cuba and the need to press for greater political and personal freedoms on the island.

“We have a hemispheric commitment to freedom and democracy and respect for human rights,” said Jose Cardenas, a former National Security Council staffer on Cuba under President George W. Bush. “I still think that those are worthy aspirations.”

With just 90 miles (145 kilometers) of sea between Florida and Cuba, the United States would be a natural No. 1 trade partner and source of tourism.

But the embargo chokes off most commerce, and the threat of stiff fines keeps most Americans from sunbathing in balmy resorts like Cayo Coco.

Cuba is free to trade with other nations, but the U.S. threatens sanctions against foreign companies that don’t abide by its restrictions. A stark example arrived off the coast of Havana last month: A massive oil exploration rig built with less than 10 percent U.S. parts to qualify under the embargo was brought all the way from Singapore at great expense, while comparable plat-

forms sat idle in U.S. waters just across the Gulf of Mexico.

The embargo is a constant talking point for island authorities, who blame it for shortages of everything from medical equipment to the concrete needed to complete an eight-lane highway spanning the length of the island. Cuba frequently fulminates against the “blockade” at the United Nations and demands the U.S. end its “genocidal” policy.

Every fall, like clockwork, the vast majority of nations agree, and overwhelmingly back a resolution condemning the embargo. In November, 186 countries supported the measure, with only Israel joining the U.S. in opposition.

Also each year, Cuba updates its estimate of how much the embargo has cost it, using a complicated — and some say flawed — calculus that takes into account years of interest, the end of the gold standard and other factors. Last year’s estimate summing 49 years of sanctions was $975 billion.

Even some critics of the embargo call Havana’s claims exaggerated, saying that while the sanctions had a tremendous impact when first put in place, Cuba was able to adapt and benefited from relationships with like-minded allies such as the former Soviet Union and Venezuela.

“There’s no doubt that the embargo is detrimental to the Cuban economy. It complicates international financial transactions, but more importantly, it limits Cuban families’ access to medicine,” said Geoff Thale, a Cuba analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America, which supports ending the policy. “At the same time, Cuba’s economic problems go beyond the embargo.”

While 50 years of socialism have brought advancements in areas such as education and health care, even island authorities acknowledge their perennially struggling economic system must change. President Raul Castro is in the process of allowing more private-sector activity, decentralizing state-run businesses, implementing ag-

ricultural reform and slimming government payrolls.

The United States actually does have significant trade with Cuba under a clause allowing the sale of food products and some pharmaceuticals.

According to the most recent information available from Cuba’s National Statistics Office, the U.S. was the island’s seventh-largest trading partner in 2010, selling $410 million in mostly food products. However, that was down from nearly $1 billion in 2008, as the island increasingly turned to other countries that don’t force it to pay cash up front.

Many U.S. businesses would love to be allowed into the Cuban market, but an end to the embargo seems a long way off.

The issue is seen as a political nonstarter in the United States, where every four years, presidential candidates take turns courting the Cuban-American vote in Florida, a key swing state.

President Barack Obama has said Raul Castro’s economic openings are insufficient, and it’s unlikely he would do anything in an election year to risk losing support in Florida, which he won in 2008. Even if he wanted to lift the embargo, the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 stipulates that it would have to be approved by Congress.

Raul Castro, for his part, says recent changes in the U.S. such as allowing Cuban-Americans to visit relatives more often and send them more money are merely cosmetic.

Backers of the sanctions say it’s as important as ever to maintain what they call the moral high ground, saying islanders will be grateful whenever change does come.

Critics cite the annual U.N. votes to argue that times have changed and the embargo is a Cold War relic that ought to be thrown onto the scrap heap.

“It’s no longer a matter of the United States leading a movement to isolate Cuba in the hemisphere,” said Smith, a staunch opponent of the embargo. “Quite the contrary: If anyone’s isolated, on this issue anyway, it’s us.”

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Letter to the Editor Valentine’s Day: ‘The Register’ Edition Young Invincibles

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Since that time, many young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 have shared their stories about healthcare, their own health and health care needs, and how being a part of a progressive movement that represents our interests makes a difference.

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February is known to be the month of love. For some it may be the month that needs to fly by, and for others this is a time of nothing but smiles, kisses and laughs. No matter if you celebrate the holiday of Valentine’s Day or not, this is the time to reflect on what love means to you. Love is a feeling we all encounter, whether it be in a relationship, with friends or with the unconditional love that should live within your family.

But, it’s the feeling of love, and how we describe it when it gets a little fuzzy and when we realize there may not be a true definition of this word. Me being in love at the moment does not change my views toward how I feel about love; it only enhances that feeling. I’ve learned true love is a selfless act. Love is a new experience everyday.

It brings new challenges, joys, smiles, and feelings each day.

Love is that feeling that introduces fear, it takes away your sense of control and strips you of the person you were before you encountered what love was. It is that feeling that often leaves most speechless, at a lost for words or even confused.

Love is a feeling that is taught, whether it be from family influences, friendships or even failed relationships. I was blessed to have positive images of love around me growing up.

For example, my parents’ relationship, my grandparent’s relationship and even the friends my parents hung out with. Everyone was in love, happily married and successful. They didn’t hide the challenges they faced within their relationships, but it wasn’t superficial at any means. Seeing this only allowed me to know love is possible, love is not perfect but it can work. Since no one person has had the same experience with love, there are many definitions, feelings and expressions of love today. With Valentine’s Day coming up, I

wanted to interview my fellow staff of the newspaper, to see their views on love, Valentines Day and how love has impacted ASHLEY them.

VAUGHN What is your definition of love?

Karmen (Sports Editor): two people who care about each other enough as to where they put each other before themselves.

Courtney (Business Manager): Love is outstanding; it is hard to define, because it takes on different characteristics. I think there are different ways you can view love, whether it’s in friendships, family or different environments. Love is like water; it takes on whatever shape it is in.

Sylvia (Managing Editor): Love is the only spontaneous act left on this planet, to me loving someone means putting their needs before yours Ken (Photo Editor): love is unconditional; it’s the butterflies you feel in your stomach when you’re around that person.

How do you compare your views of love now, to what your version was growing up?

Sylvia: I never grew up seeing love because my parents did not have a good marriage; they got divorced. So to me I didn’t realize that I didn’t know how to love until I was in love for the first time and didn’t know what to do. Like I knew what the feeling was, but I didn’t know how to act about it. Coming from a broken home I had to learn by myself how to love someone else.

Kelcie (Editor-in-Chief): I haven’t been in many relationships. My family, we’re close, but we don’t throw around the “L” word a lot. I feel like the

way I view love is still the same as when I was younger. It’s still kind of weird telling my family I love them, because that’s how we were raised. We’re always there for each other and care for each other; with us it’s more about actions and not words.

Trumaine (Opinions Editor): When I was younger it was a lusty kind of love, like I love this person because they meet certain requirements. Then I could see if I loved this person.

Now with the situation I’m currently in, I love this person now, because this person brings the best out of me. When I say bring the best out of me I mean I’m no longer thinking of just me, I’m now thinking of us. Like when going grocery shopping I find myself wondering what would she want to eat, opposed to what I just want. But love to me used to be a me and you, but now it’s an us.

Justine (Copy Editor): There was a time when I didn’t believe in love, other than the love you had with friends and family. But now I do believe in love, I just hate that people use the word love so lightly, it’s like they just throw the word around without realize there is a feeling associated.

Are you in love now? How would you describe that feeling?

Sylvia: Yes…It’s a hard feeling to describe. To me this time, falling in love was more instant than it ever has been before.

Like before it wasn’t a feeling I felt right off the bat, but I didn’t understand why. So that’s when I understood love is a feeling that you can’t control. It’s kind of your soul recognizing its match, before you do.

Courtney: Yes. It’s funny to ask that question being in love after the first real argument; it’s been about a year. It feels amazing, it’s crazy. I want to paint it into this picture of everything being a perfect fairytale and

everything being great, but it really isn’t. But that doesn’t change that feeling of when you see that person in the middle of the day. Like I’m smiling like a little geek right now just thinking about it. But it is, it’s butterflies, but just like it’s butterflies, it’s hard work too.

What are your views on Valentines Day? Karmen: I really don’t see Valentine’s Day as a necessary holiday. I think its more of a holiday for candy stores and markets trying to make money.

I just feel you don’t need a holiday to show how you feel about someone.

Trumaine: I used to think Valentine’s Day was stupid, and it’s just a female holiday for them to get gifts, but now I think it’s just a day of reflection for the relationship. Just like an anniversary; it’s whatever you put into it. But it’s a day of reflection to see where you’ve gone from when you started to where you are now as a couple.

Sylvia: I love Valentine’s Day! It’s not because I’m in love and in a relationship, I loved it when I was single too. I’m a really sentimental person and people always say ‘it’s a hallmark thing, why do you need a day?’ but to me, why not? If they give you that day, why not use it instead of knocking it. It shouldn’t be the only day you use to show your feelings towards the person you love, but it is a good reminder. A reminder to take a day out for the person you love and just do something nice for them.

Justine: It’s stupid because people do all this crazy stuff for one day just to show the person they love how they feel, but what about the other 364 days in the year? This day should not be any more special than any other day, the love should be felt everyday.

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Naive individuals glorifying greed and encouraging racism For the rest of the month, we will see BET, TV One, and other networks speaking about the power of black history and reflecting on our past. Meanwhile, many of us will become so caught up in the hype of being black that we will forget about the present and future state of black America.

We speak about the greatness of black history and how we rose from the shadows of slavery to later have a man of color become the president of the United States. Meanwhile, black people all over the country suffer educationally, economically, socially, and spiritually far worse than their white counterparts.

And how do we battle this?

By glorifying the very destruction we have all created for ourselves.

The future of our nation is just as bright or as dark as the future of black people in this country. And as a teacher, I can tell you the future looks very grim for young black men and women.

Outside of family members, who often times are poorly educated themselves, young black men and women have no heroes to look up to. The generation of tomorrow only has villains who tell them that the most important thing in this country to do is, “have sex and get money.”

Many people may argue against that point but I am willing to bet my last dime that in recent years, the names Julianne Malveaux, India Arie, and Angela Davis have become more unknown than black “women” by the name of Krissy, Yandy, and Evelyn. That’s a problem.

When I turn on the radio and hear the highest selling female hip-hop artist in nearly a decade rapping about “stupid hoes,” and then walk into a high school and hear the kids singing the same song, there’s a problem.

Black women like Hattie McDaniels, Madame CJ Walker, and Sadie T. M. Alexander,

once fought and died for the future of black Americans as a whole. These women put their personal struggles to the side for the TRUMAINE betterment of MCCASKILL young black women in the future.

However, today if you turn on any television station or open any magazine, we see black and white Americans alike supporting the “efforts” of “women” like Nicki Minaj, Amber Rose, and Rihanna.

What doors have any of these women opened for a young black woman who wants to be remembered for her accomplishments in this world opposed to her body? The most valuable resource of our society is the preservation of black women and as of right now, they are being plagued with divorce, HIV/ AIDS, and abortion at a higher rate than any group of people in this country.

We reflect so hard on the history of black America that we never realize our ancestors are turning flips in their caskets when they see how their hard work has gone to waste.

The foundation of black America continues to crack and we are building a lost generation with no knowledge of self.

We focus on black history but not black future.

An alarming number of our young black youth glorify teen pregnancy, drug abuse, violence, sex, and every evil that destroys a person’s mind. The teachers at many schools have given up hope on our kids and put them in dumb classes with the expectation that failure is inevitable.

Black History Month is a great month for reflection.

However I challenge anyone to take a trip to a local high school and see that our future has no

knowledge of black people ever accomplishing anything of significance.

Thus, many of our kids have the feeling that they can never accomplish anything. The biggest problem with our future generation is not that they have given up; rather we have failed them by trying to paint this false image that this country owes black America anything.

Babies are born with faceless fathers. Yet we have become so divided and ignorant to other people’s struggles that we never see this as a problem for us to address as a community.

There are efforts to fix the many problems in black America. However with our races consistently falling behind in every aspect of society, except the criminal and drop out aspect, it is clear that these efforts are not as productive as we would like to play them up to be.

And unfortunately, we fall victim to our own laziness because we have lost control of our own destiny.

Even college students are to blame for the decline of the black community. We all join organizations or attach ourselves to a movement that seems a little positive. When these movements fail, the followers within the movement normally wait to attach themselves to something else.

Everything we do has a follower’s mentality. Black history shows us that student-based organizations can make a great difference. Organizations such as the Nation of Islam, SNCC, CORE, and the Black Panther Party were all student-based organizations that took the nation on during a time of struggle.

However, today we have very few student-based organizations that make an impact on the national scale.

Black history has become so watered down in recent years that many people wonder if teaching our history is even worth the effort. In fact, we are

so watered down that even the institutions that helped build our great legacy are even being questioned since we no longer produce great individuals like we once did.

There’s no way we can look at black America today and say “Dr. King would be proud.” We have steadily regressed since the Civil Rights Movement and the quicker we accept that, the quicker we will be able to turn our race around and fix the problems we struggle with today. And I say we because if one of us struggles, we all struggle.

The possibility of having a generation of great thinkers is far more important than having a generation of individuals who focus on their individual accomplishments.

So how does this happen?

We can start by reading books.

Statistics say most black men won’t read a single book from cover to cover before he graduates. Let’s break that statistic.

Next, let’s apply the knowledge we receive to help the living conditions of others, even if it means we have to struggle together.

The Civil Rights Movement showed us that individuals could accomplish very little. However a community and family will forever have power.

During this month I want people to realize that we have nothing to celebrate right now because our ancestors who paved the way would be anything but pleased to see the current conditions of black America.

The study of black history is great. However, this month let’s use this as a time to focus on the footsteps we are laying opposed to the ones that have already been laid.

For if we don’t establish some better habits as a people, we will continue to walk down the wrong path towards our own destruction.

-tlmccask@ncat.edu And follow him on Twitter @TrumaineWasHere

How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? Chick #1- I think it’s stupid. I feel like it is a very capitalistic “holiday”. I just think it is crazy how people let one day dictate how they express feelings toward someone. I miss the money and chocolate my dad gave me when I was younger, but besides that I don’t feel anything when it comes to Valentine’s Day. Chick #2- I use the day to make my guy smile a little bigger, feel a little more important and be all about him. It makes me feel good to see him smile; it doesn’t have to be all about me.

Chick #3- I think we have so few days that focus on the strongest emotion that human beings have, love. I know some people disagree but Valentine’s Day is a great holiday to celebrate.

Do you think all these housewives shows are having a negative effect on women?

Chick #1- Yes because whether they realize it or not, most women are just imitating what they see on TV. In reality, these women are famous for doing absolutely nothing.

These women are not educated nor do they educate others.

The examples they are setting are nothing positive for other women. At the end of the day, they are just famous for having sex with athletes and that’s it.

Chick #2- Yes! Women are out here acting like little girls because of the childish acts they see on television. Grown women are still thriving on drama, who’s sleeping with

who, and trying to one-up one another; that’s what teenagers do. Focus on getting a career, becoming successful and being credible in society; the women on these shows are the complete opposite of what real women should be.

Chick #3- They are entertaining. I think if people just used them for entertainment then I don’t have a problem with them. But some people take it too far and that’s where it becomes a problem.

Where do you see black America in 10 years?

Girl #1- I think we will regress in education and other important struggles. Our current generation is in a terrible state and we care about things that are completely irrelevant.

And the sad part is a lot of people are perfectly fine with how we are now, so 10 years from now we will do nothing but continue to fall socially, educationally, and economically.

Girl #2- I hope to see it in a better economic state than what it is in now. Realistically though, I think big changes that are needed we will just begin to start seeing those results. I see our youth not caring about education even more than they do today, technology advancing to the point of amazement and sadly more and more people unemployed and uneducated.

Girl #3- As a human being I always have faith in progress and the positive side of society. So I have faith that in 10 years things will be much better for black people all over the world, not just America.

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Manning looks forward to more success RANDY COVITZ

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INDIANAPOLIS — New York Giants quarterback Eli (as in elite) Manning joined some distinguished company in winning his second Super Bowl MVP award in Sunday night’s 21-17 victory over New England.

Only Manning, Bart Starr, Terry Bradshaw and Tom Brady, with two Super Bowl MVPs, and Joe Montana, with three, have won the honor more than once.

Manning, fresh after receiving the keys to a new car on Monday morning, can’t see why the Giants can’t return to more Super Bowls. And that would provide him with a chance to match or surpass Montana.

“I’m excited about a number of young guys who stepped up this season,” Manning said.

“There were some questions going into the beginning of the season on a few spots, but that quickly got answered.”

He cited wide receiver Victor Cruz and tight end Jake Ballard, two second-year, undrafted free agents who caught zero passes in 2010 and combined for 120 receptions in 2011 “a great story.”

“We knew we had good players on this team,” Manning said.

“A veteran offensive line, two running backs who won Super Bowls before and played well.

(Wide receivers) Hakeem Nicks . . . Mario Manningham . . . these guys have made big plays in games over the years.

“Obviously, a defense with a number of players who can rush the quarterback and get sacks. We felt we had talent

across the board on the team, that there were a few spots where we needed young guys to step up, as any team always does every year. You’re going to need young players to come in and play a role, and give you a chance to win a championship.”

The Giants, who became the first 9-7 team to win a Super Bowl championship, have done it the hard way in each of their last two title seasons. Manning won his first Super Bowl four years ago when the Giants were a wild card and fifth seed. They won three road playoff games and upset then-undefeated New England 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII. This year, the Giants were 7-7 after consecutive losses to New Orleans, Green Bay, San Francisco and Philadelphia but won the NFC East and entered the playoffs as the No. 4 seed. After beating Atlanta in a first-round game at home, the Giants had to go on the road and knocked off No. 1 seed Green Bay and No. 2 seed San Francisco before beating the Patriots again.

“All season, we kept our confidence,” Manning said.

“When you lose four games in a row, that can really test a team.

I think we played a lot of those games tough. (Except for) the New Orleans game, all those other games were tight games . . . down to the wire. Those three games could have easily been flipped the other way.

“We recognized that and still understood that we were a good team, we had talent. We were a couple of plays away from winning those games against teams that were playing great football at that time. We just said we had to play a little bit better,

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Victor Cruz, wide receiver (80) of the New York Giants and teammates hold the championship trophy at the end of Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, February 5, 2012, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Giants defeated the Patriots, 21-17.

keep our confidence, and sure enough, that’s what we did.”

Manning, who engineered five fourth-quarter comeback wins during the regular season, replicated an 83-yard gamewinning drive against New England in Super Bowl XLII with an 88-yard drive on Sunday night that culminated in the go-ahead touchdown with 57 seconds left to play.

The key play was a firstdown, 38-yard strike to the sideline to Manningham in what was the finest catch of his fouryear career, and perhaps the best throw in Manning’s eight-year career.

“I’m not good at ranking my throws,” Manning said. “Obviously, it was a Super Bowl and a

tight throw, but I didn’t have any questions. I felt the safety was inside. I wasn’t worried about whether it would be an interception or a dangerous throw when the ball was released. I saw a window. I felt confident about it. I didn’t think much about it.

“I just saw where Mario was and knew the timing. A lot of those throws are muscle memory. You don’t think about how far to throw it or what to do. You see your receiver, you step, you make the throw, and hopefully you put it in a good spot where he can catch it. He made a great play.”

Late Sunday night, Manning got to visit with his older brother, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, a four-

time NFL MVP and Super Bowl XLI MVP. “He was proud of me,” Eli said. “He was proud of the team. A quarterback like Peyton is, he knows the game well and he asks questions a lot of people won’t ask.

Like the touchdown to Victor Cruz, he asked me if I saw the middle linebacker running out there, and I didn’t.

“Then he talked about the throw to Manningham. He was mad, he said everybody was talking about how great of a catch it was. He said it was a pretty good throw, also.

It’s a brother looking out for me. He was proud of me and happy for me.”

Sophomore Adair proves to be positive asset to the team symone kidd

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tiffanie Adair rookie of the week shoots at the free-thorw line against University of Maryland Eastern Shore on January 28, 2012 in Corbett Sport Center.

Broadway announced new 18 recruits for 2016 Class on Feb. 1

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Coach rod Broadway announced 18 new recruits for he 2012-2013 football season. Broadway and his coaching staff recruited a group of players they look forward to excelling on and off the field.

While the Lady Aggies are missing their two big scorers due to injury, the team is doing well with the dominant first year player Tiffanie Adair.

Adair is a new to the team but is no stranger in outshining her oppponents.

In high school she competed at the varsity level for four years.

As a sophomore Adair has been putting up big numbers and contributing many minutes to help her team attain their goal of winning.

A player not on scholarship, Adair was inspired to try out for the team this season and because of her love for the game.

She also wanted to return to the game of basketball because she loves the family oriented team including the coaches and players that make being a part of the team great.

“She’s undersized in the post but a monster,” said head coach Patricia Cage-Bibbs.

“Adair is a coachable kid and that is what you want.”

Adair has been named by the MEAC, rookie of the week twice.

“I am very honored,” said Adair. “I just have to keep working.”

Wearing number 23, Adair has played 347 minutes in 20 games, has scored a total of 104

points and has 94 rebounds combined on offense and defense.

Bibbs described Adair as having a “quiet demeanor but on the floor she is aggressive, a rebounder, and a force on the inside.”

In having good stats in her first year she is 16-42 in free throw shooting.

In regards to team free throws Bibbs said, “Free throws are something we work on and need to spruce up.”

When it comes to free throw shooting Adair knows that they are a crucial part of the game. “They affect me so much, believe it or not I work on them all the time.

They can be a big difference in the game,” said Adair.

Adair’s personal goals are to get better and to keep working to improve in order to end the season with a bang.

Adair along with the rest of the lady Aggies are gearing up for the next three games in which they will host S.C. State and Savannah State.

The last home game of the three-game series will be playing against rival N.C. Central.

-sckidd@ncat.edu and follow us on Twitter @ATRegister

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AROUND SPORTS PHILADELPHIA—When Kobe Bryant has it going the way he did Monday night at the Wells Fargo Center, it’s sort of like the old saying in boxing that everybody has a plan until they get punched.

Bryant, returning home, hit the 76ers with 24 points in the first half, along the way becoming the fifth-leading scorer in NBA history. However, it was not enough to throw the Sixers off their game plan, especially with Lou Williams taking over late to lead the Sixers to a 9590 come-from-behind victory over the Los Angeles Lakers at the sold-out Wells Fargo Center.

Williams scored 14 of his team-high 24 points in the fourth quarter, including 12 of the Sixers’ final 15 points in the final 3 minutes, 48 seconds. During this stretch, the Sixers (18-7) went from trailing by 88-84 to an improbable victory that had the arena rocking, rolling, and pulsating in what felt like a playoff game because of its intensity.

Sixers observers often ask management whether it needs a closer. But in the team’s locker room, players were telling reporters that those people need to stop looking and open their eyes.

Williams, along with Andre Iguodala, may be selected as a reserve on the Eastern Conference all-star team.

And when somebody mentioned his name in the same sentence as Bryant’s, Williams said he just answered the challenge to produce every night when his team needs it.

“I like any challenge, especially when they are putting the ball in your hands and asking for big buckets,” Williams said. “A game like this, it was a great win for us all. Hopefully, we can carry some momentum, especially going into a game Wednesday and the rest of the schedule.

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the season to be in LOVE

ASHLEY VAUGHN Scene Editor

It is the season of loving, teddy bears, and heart-shaped candies. Valentine’s Day is next week, but it is never too early to start planning the perfect day and/or weekend for your special someone.

Since this holiday comes around every year, it can be a challenge thinking of new,

creative ideas for the lover’s day. Do not overthink this day though, keep it simple and make it about the significant other.

Remember, this day does not just have to cater to those in a relationship; make this day about your friends, family or just yourself.

If you are in a relationship, the ideas that never fail are treating each other to a couple’s massage. This allows both of you to relax, get pampered and

also keep that intimate feel between you.

Another idea is staying in for dinner and making a romantic dinner for the two of you. This is the time to make it special, with making his or her favorite meal, have candles scattered around the room, and just focus on each other. Do not forget to top the night off with a sweet dessert. This holiday is all about going that little step further than you would on any other day.

If you are single, or you just do not celebrate the holiday, spend time with your friends.

Go to the movies, go bowling, if you are of age go to a bar and just spend quality time with those who make you laugh. This day does not have to be about depressing moments of remembering the past, this is a day to celebrate any love that is in your life.

If you want to spend the day alone, be your own Valentine.

Treat yourself to a massage or a day of pampering. Or do something you never thought you would.

No matter if you spend the day alone, with friends or with that special person, make V-Day a day of smiles and laughs; that is what love should do for you.

-anvaughn@ncat.edu and follow us on Twitter @TheATRegister

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ON SCREEN SAFE HOUSE stars Denzel Washington, playing Matt Weston the most dangerous renegade from the CIA, who comes back onto the grid after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he’s remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative (Reynolds) escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.

For the past year, Weston has been frustrated by his inactive, backwater post in Cape Town.

This is the time where the element of suprise is just as important for him as it is for you. Pay attention to his likes and hobbies that he’s mentioned in conversations. Give small gifts like his favorite dvds, cologne, underwear, socks and a hat as a warm-up gift. Then take time out of the day to make him feel special; pay for dinner, take him to a sporting event, or just play the XBOX with him for a few hours. Do whatever it is that will make him smile, and show you care about what he likes to do.

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Like most believe, this day is more for the ladies. The little things for the day add up to make her smile.

Flowers or roses never make a girl frown. Treat her to a day at the spa and include yourself in the massage. Pay for her to get her hair done by her stylist, buy her the newest desired shoes on her wish list, or even just block out your entire schedule for her and dedicate your day to whatever she wants to do. Do not focus on the monetary gifts for the day, make her feel special with paying attention to her wants more than you do on any other day.

ON SHELVES B.O.B is releasing a new mixtape for Valentines Day. The rapper that has come under Atlanta native T.I. has now established his own name in the Hip Hop world. The mixtape has 15 songs listed, incluing his hit single “Strange Clouds”.

The artist may be understated and not always noted, but this mixtape is worth a listen.

Places to take him After asking some guys where they would want their girlfriends to take them for Valentine’s Day, they responded with things such as going on a getaway, visiting their favorite restaurants, or just simply staying home.

Places to take her While talking to various ladies, they expressed that they really wanted to be taken to a spa, their favorite restaurant, a bed and breakfast, or a random trip to do something adventerous.

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Nicki Minaj

“Mariyln Monroe ” This song is a different sound for the hip-hop rapper. She sings and raps in this song that has more of a pop/rock beat feel to it. It has a good message attached to the song, speaking about the insecurities the late Mariyln Monroe faced, hence the song title. It is worth a listen.

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14 don’ts for Valentine’s Day:

1. Do not redbox it 2. Do not make excuses 3. Do not take them to Lovers and Friends as the date 4. Do not give recycled gifts from your ex 5. Do not sing if you can’t sing, dance if you can’t dance, cook if you can’t cook 6. Do not flex 7. Do not take them to your dormroom 8. Do not let them find a dollar tree receipt 9. Do not get your ideas from Twitter 10. Do not get the side joint a gift 11. Do not give elementary school valentines 12. Do not fake it to make it 13. Do not use old tricks 14. Do not forget it’s Valentine’s Day even on a Tuesday!!!!!!

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Monica and Brandy reunite againfor a this new single. This song is disappointing compared to their 90’s hit “The Boy is Mine”. It is very juvenile for two established R&B divas. Do not have high expectations for this song.

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