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This semester, the A&T campus bookstore, offers its students the opportunity to take part in its textbook rental, a program designed to lower the cost of students textbooks. This option gives the student a chance to rent new or used books or buy them. Though there is not a list of books available, the University
Bookstore has made almost 60 of their most popular textbooks available. Students can save up to 50 percent off the cost of a new book. Carl Richardson, a senior agricultural education major, thinks it is “a great idea because buying books is so expensive and when you sell them back you don’t get half of what you pay for them. It’s a great move for A&T.”
In the last decade or so, students have begun to search for textbooks with more of an affordable price attached to them. Students have begun to turn to internet based sites, such as Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com, and used bookstores like the Battleground bookstore, Edward McKays. The new program hopes to prevent the hassle accompanied with these alternatives. Often students run into the problems
of receiving the wrong book, paying shipping fees and delayed shipping. “Rental would be nice and better. The books are high and it affects a student’s education because they don’t have books on time”, said Kimaya Johnson, a senior psychology major. Johnson also says that “students wait for their refund checks or use alternative methods so to buy books and by that time they miss out. Some
alternative methods don’t work out because A&T forces their students to buy their own published books which can only be bought and sold on campus.” Students who are interested in taking advantage of the textbook rental program are required to have a valid AggieOne card. You can rent the textbooks when they are available then return them on or before May 13. The bookstore will also send
out an email reminder a few weeks before the rental due date. “I think so. I hope so. We had a lot of students come in instead of ordering online. They don’t have to wait for shipping and we have rented a lot of books so far,” said Yolanda Rudison, Textbook Manager, when asked if this option would bring students back to campus to buy books.
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AlphA nU chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. was brought back on the yard in Spr 2010.
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The Alpha Nu chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated celebrated achieving 100 years as an organization with a two-day event held in the General Classroom Building. It featured a keynote speaker as well as a panel discussion about the fraternity and its history. Ten collegiate students founded Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated, January 5, 1911 on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, In-
diana. The Alpha Nu chapter was founded on North Carolina A&T’s campus April 14, 1933. Thursday night began at 7:11 p.m. when a slideshow displayed pictures of the fraternity throughout their 100 year course while the Kappa Alpha Psi hymn played. Members of the Alpha Nu chapter presented biographical tributes to the founders of the fraternity. The keynote speaker of the night was Kevin Graves, a spring 1991 initiate to the Mu Iota
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FBI crime scene investigators form a circle to observe a nationwide “Moment of Silence,” Monday, January 10, 2011, in front of the Safeway store where a gunman open fired killing six people and wounding 12 on Saturday during a town hall meeting with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Gunman accused of killing six and wounding 12, Aggie top athletic trainer including congresswoman, held without bail told coaches not to test for sickle cell trait See AlphA nU on Page 2
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GREEnSBORO — Officials at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro say the school’s top athletic trainer counseled coaches to save money by not testing for sickle cell trait days before a student died from the disease. The News & Record of Greensboro reported Friday the school’s chief athletics trainer e-mailed coaches Aug. 17 asking Milandu them to test only students who made their teams, not those trying out.
phOEnIX (Ap) — When Jared Loughner walked into the courtroom, everything fell silent. Law clerks, courtroom artists and reporters alike turned from the wooden benches to look at the vacant-eyed 22-year-old accused of trying to assassinate U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing a federal judge in a weekend shooting in southern Arizona that left five others dead. Wearing a beige prison jumpsuit and handcuffs and sporting a pink gash on the hairline of his shaved head, Loughner on Monday afternoon spoke just a brief reply
when the judge asked if he understood that he could get life in prison — or the death penalty — for killing federal Judge John Roll. “Yes,” he said. Loughner was being held without bail. Meanwhile, residents of Tucson prepared for memorial services Tuesday for the six who died in the shooting. The first Giffords real community gathering for mourners since the rampage — a Mass for all the victims at St. Odelia’s Parish in Tucson — was set for 7 p.m. President
Barack Obama was scheduled to arrive in Arizona Wednesday for a memorial service days after calling the attack a tragedy for the entire country. Loughner’s court appearance in Phoenix on Monday gave the nation a first look at the man authorities say is responsible for the shooting that also left 14 injured or wounded outside a Tucson supermarket where Giffords had set up a booth to hear the concerns of constituents. Giffords, a three-term Democrat, was in critical condition at Tucson’s University Medical Center late Monday, gravely wounded after being shot through the head but able to give a thumbs-up sign that doctors found as a reason to hope. Recent CT scans showed no further swelling in the brain, but
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doctors were guarded. “We’re not out of the woods yet,” her neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Lemole said. “That swelling can sometimes take three days or five days to maximize. But every day that goes by and we don’t see an increase, we’re slightly more optimistic.” After Saturday’s operation to temporarily remove half of her skull, doctors over the past two days had Giffords removed from her sedation and then asked basic commands such as: “Show me two fingers.” “When she did that, we were having a party in there,” said Dr. Peter Rhee, adding that Giffords has also been reaching for her breathing tube, even while sedated. “That’s a purposeful movement. That’s a great thing. She’s
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Alpha nu From page 1 chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi at UNC-Greensboro. When asked about the advantages of Greek life, Graves said, “I think you can learn so much from Greek life about public image, parliamentarian procedures and governmental structure, how to run a business meeting, and dealing with diversity.” The second day the program was titled Kappa 101 and featured a panel discussion. The panelists were all alumni chapter members who all have a connection to A&T. Brian Biles, a spring 1997 initiate into the Baltimore Alumni chapter, Steve Rush, a fall 2008 initiate into the Greensboro Alumni chapter, and DeWitt Powell, a spring 1980 initiate into the Hyattsville/Landover Alumni chapter all responded on various questions that were asked by people in attendance. Each of the panelists discussed how Kappa taught them skills that applied to both the or-
ganization and life. Rush, then a chemical engineer major, had to prioritize his time between school, playing basketball for A&T, and then eventually Kappa Alpha Psi. He credited that for his ability to cope in his professional life. Biles also agreed that prioritization is essential. “X-box and Facebook; you need to put those things to the side. They are just a distraction. You have to organize your time and know when to put things to the side.” The panelists touched on the importance of getting internships, going to graduate school and getting the advanced degrees, and networking. Rush said, “Networking is important. Job experience is helpful because what you learn in the classroom is rarely what is done in the office.” Biles left the audience thinking that, “The legacy you leave should be what you think about and what others see.”
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GUnMAN From page 1 always grabbing for the tube,” he said. Giffords’ family is by her side, receiving constant updates from doctors. On Monday, two well-known doctors with extensive experience in traumatic brain injury were traveling to Tucson to help consult on Giffords’ case. Her doctors have declined to speculate on what specific disabilities the 40-year-old congresswoman may face. Two patients injured in the shooting were discharged from the Tucson hospital Sunday night. Seven others remained hospitalized. With few new details emerging at Monday’s hearing, questions remained about what could have motivated someone to arm himself with a pistol and magazines carrying 33 bullets each, and rain gunfire on a supermarket parking lot crowded with men, women and children. And who exactly was Jared Loughner? Comments from friends and former classmates bolstered by Loughner’s own Internet
postings have painted a picture of a social outcast with almost indecipherable beliefs steeped in mistrust and paranoia. “If you call me a terrorist then the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem,” he wrote Dec. 15 in a wide-ranging posting. A military official in Washington said the Army rejected Loughner in 2008 because he failed a drug test. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because privacy laws prevent the military from disclosing such information about an individual’s application. The official did not know what type of drug was detected. Prosecutors say he scrawled on an envelope the words “my assassination” and “Giffords” sometime before he took a cab to the shopping center. Police said he bought the Glock pistol used in the attack at Sportsman’s Warehouse in Tucson in November. The revelation about the shooter’s high-capacity magazines led one longtime Senate gun control advocate, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., to announce plans to re-establish a prohibition that lapsed in 2004
on magazines that feed more than 10 rounds at a time. At his appearance Monday in a Phoenix courtroom, about 100 miles away from where the shooting took place, Loughner seemed impassive and at one point stood at a lectern as a U.S. marshal stood guard nearby. His newly appointed lawyer, Judy Clarke, who defended “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, stood beside him and whispered to him before the judge ordered him held without bail. Loughner is charged with one count of attempted assassination of a member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the federal government and two counts of attempting to kill a federal employee. Those are federal charges. State prosecutors, meanwhile, are researching whether they have to wait until after the federal case is resolved, or if they can proceed with local charges at the same time, an official said. A moment of silence was held Monday evening at the BCS national championship between Oregon and Auburn in Glendale.
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A year after the quake, waiting to rebuild Jonathan m. katz Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The man’s body lay face down, his white dress shirt shining like wax in the sun, as he was unearthed in the ruins of a Portau-Prince restaurant a year after the earthquake. The bodies still being found in the rubble are a sign of how far Haiti has to go to recover from a disaster that left the capital in ruins and is estimated to have killed more than 230,000 people. As the dust was still settling from the Jan. 12, 2010 disaster, volunteers and hundreds of aid groups flocked in with food, water and first aid that saved countless lives. But the effort to rebuild has been dwarfed by the size of the tragedy, the extent of the need and, perhaps most fatally, the lack of Haitian and international leadership and of coordination of more than 10,000 non-governmental organizations. President Rene Preval did not speak publicly for days after the quake. He has been seen by most Haitians as ineffective at best, and many observers have criticized him for not spearheading a coherent reconstruction or making the hard policy decisions needed to rebuild. Preval and Haitian officials stress that their government was weak and underfunded to begin with, then devastated, and never really recovered from the earthquake. Ministries were relocated but could not replace vast numbers of staff killed in the quake or material lost in the destruction. Advocacy groups also blame much of the Haitian government’s weakness on an international community that is not keeping its pledge of support.
“The international community has not done enough to support good governance and effective leadership in Haiti,” the aid group Oxfam said in a recent report. “Aid agencies continue to bypass local and national authorities in the delivery of assistance, while donors are not coordinating their actions or adequately consulting the Haitian people.” Ericq Pierre, Haiti’s representative to the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, said “the problem is that at a certain point the international community gave the impression they could solve the problem quickly. ... I think there was an excess of optimism.” Street markets were soon up and running after the quake and Port-au-Prince’s traffic is worse than ever. On Tuesday, Preval, his wife and other officials lay flowers at symbolic black crosses marking a mass grave outside Portau-Prince where hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims were buried. “We have this memory in our heads and our hearts and etched on our bodies. We will never forget them. This is hallowed ground,” Preval said. But from the barren hillside, the destruction is clearly visible. The slogan “build back better,” touted by former U.S. President Bill Clinton and others even before the quake, remains an unfulfilled promise. Less than 5 percent of debris has been cleared, leaving enough to fill dump trucks parked bumper to bumper halfway around the world. In the broken building where the dead man was discovered, workers hired to clear rubble by hand found two other people’s remains. About a million people remain homeless and neighborhood-sized homeless camps
look like permanent shantytowns on the fields and plazas of the capital. A cholera epidemic erupted outside the earthquake zone that has killed more than 3,600 people, and an electoral crisis between Preval’s ruling party and its rivals threaten to break an increasingly fragile political stability. Progress has been slow across the board, starting with the omnipresent rubble. The U.S.-based RAND organization said donors and the Haitian government are responsible for more not being cleared. Haitian workers are not given personal equipment while heavy lifters have been blocked by customs officials at the bor-
FAST FACT: Americans donated more than $1.4 billion but just 38 percent of that total has been spent der, the report said. The government has also not designated sufficient dumping space. “Unless rubble is cleared expeditiously, hundreds of thousands of Haitians will still be in tent camps during the 2011 hurricane season” — which runs from June through November, the report said. Construction of new housing has barely begun. The core underlying issue of sorting out Haiti’s broken system of land ownership, where several people hold claim to the same plot of land, has not even been addressed. Without sorting out land ownership, there is nowhere to build. Internationally financed in-
spectors have certified that some houses are safe for residents to return, but few have. Many are merely moving their shacks closer to where they used to live, because they don’t want to risk another earthquake in their damaged homes. Meanwhile, only 15 percent of needed temporary shelters have been built, with few permanent water and sanitation facilities. Owners of small construction materials businesses, such as Justin Premier, 43, should be raking in money. But most people in his neighborhood are just buying plywood to reinforce their tarps. “It’s going to take a lot of time for us to come back where we were before,” Premier said. The earthquake was an opportunity to completely remake a broken education system where only half of school-age children were enrolled, often in bad private schools with predatory fees. But plans from the InterAmerican Development Bank for safer buildings and a unified Creole-language curriculum have not yet come to fruition. The government education ministry, which also lost its headquarters, remains weak. Instead, schools have opened here and there. About 80 percent of children attending school before the quake are going to class again, said UNICEF Haiti Education Chief Nathalie-Fiona Hamoudi. UNICEF planned to build 200 semi-permanent structures to teach in, but only finished 88 by the end of 2010 because an ongoing cholera outbreak diverted its effort. The reconstruction effort overall is hampered by the failure to deliver or spend billions of dollars in promised aid. Americans donated more than $1.4 billion to private organizations to help earthquake survivors and rebuild, but just 38 percent of that total has been spent to provide recovery and rebuilding aid, according to a Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of 60 major relief organizations. Governments have not done better. More than $5.3 billion was pledged at a March 31 donors conference for a period of 18 months. Only $824 million about a quarter of the public money not including debt relief - has been delivered, according
to former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s U.N. Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti. Some $3.2 billion in public funding is still owed. The United States had originally pledged $1.15 billion for 2010, but moved nearly its entire pledge to 2011 following delays in Congress and the Obama administration. Clinton was supposed to rally governments and coordinate international efforts. He has had three prominent, simultaneous roles in Haiti’s rebuilding: co-chair of the reconstruction commission with Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive; U.N. special envoy for Haiti; and head of his Clinton Foundation, a major donor. In July he told AP he would follow through with donors to remind them of their promises, and expressed frustration when payment was slow through the summer and fall. But as the year ended, even the United States - whose secretary of state is his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton - had paid just a fraction of what it promised. Clinton has cited bureacracy and the world’s financial troubles last year as problems in securing the pledged funds. On his recent trips to Haiti, he has expressed frustration that more is not getting done. Bellerive said he is disappointed by the slow delivery of funds. He said the delays may be caused by uncertainty surrounding the question of who will succeed outgoing president Preval. “Perhaps some donors say, ‘Let’s wait until we know exactly who will be there for the next five years,’” said Bellerive. “Everyone is talking about the resilience of the Haitian people, and everyone is taking advantage of that resilience,” Bellerive said. “It’s going to end. Success for me is to do the basic, the minimum, so we can really build a future. And we have to do it right now.” In an Op-Ed to Haiti’s Le Nouvelliste newspaper, the IADB’s Pierre asked that on the anniversary itself, foreigners leave Haitians alone. “I ask only one day per year, from 2011 on, to enable us to mourn our dead ... to try to understand how and why we got where we are,” he wrote. “We need to find some peace.”
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CHICAGO — Despite criticism from the leader of an Italian cultural group, officials at North Central College in Naperville, Ill., remain excited about the planned speech by filmmaker Spike Lee during a week of celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. “Spike Lee’s rubbed black folk, brown folk, Italians, Jews the wrong way,” said Renard Jackson, a professor and the event’s organizer. “He’s like Archie Bunker, he’s an equalopportunity portrayer of people sometimes inadequately or improperly.” Bill Dal Cerro, president of the Italic Institute of America, said the filmmaker’s portrayal of Italian-Americans is distorted and conflicts with the civil rights leader’s message of unity. “He wants to be provocative, and there’s nothing wrong with that,” said Dal Cerro. “Where we take issue is that he is provocative at our expense, to the point where he distorts our culture and goes out of his way almost to make us the bad guys.” Dal Cerro, a Chicago resident, assailed movies such as “Do the Right Thing,” “Jungle Fever,” “Summer of Sam,” and “Miracle at St. Anna” as unfairly stereotyping Italians. “Having Lee speak at an event honoring Dr. King is akin to having Maury Povich as the guest speaker at a Happy Marriage Convention,” he stated in a news release. Ted Slowik, director of public relations and communications at the campus, said the public will have the opportunity to ask tough questions of Lee at the Jan. 18 event, which takes place the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The college, he said, doesn’t necessarily endorse the views and opinions of the speakers it brings to campus. Lee was not available for comment Monday.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A coroner who performed the autopsy on Michael Jackson testified Tuesday that the pop star’s death would have been classified a homicide even if the singer gave himself the final dose of the anesthetic propofol. Dr. Christopher Rogers, chief of forensic medicine for the Los Angeles County coroner, was questioned by a lawyer for Dr. Conrad Murray, who is charged with causing Jackson’s death by administering a lethal dose of propofol and other sedatives and failing to provide proper care. Attorney J. Michael Flanagan suggested Jackson could have swallowed the drug, which is meant to be administered intravenously. While Rogers said that seemed unlikely, he said it would not have made a difference in his finding of homicide because of inadequate care by Murray. Flanagan’s inquiry was the
first disclosure of how the defense plans to counter the involuntary manslaughter charge against Murray. The lawyer has suggested Jackson could have injected himself intravenously while Murray was out of the room. The testimony came during an ongoing preliminary hearing after which Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor will decide if there is enough evidence for Murray to stand trial. Murray has pleaded not guilty, and his attorneys have said he didn’t give Jackson anything that should have killed him. In court, Flanagan displayed a chart showing the drug levels in Jackson’s blood at the time of the autopsy. Flanagan asked Rogers, “If the ingestion (of propofol) is by the decedent (and) led to these blood levels, it would not be a homicide?” “I believe it would still be a homicide,” Rogers replied. Asked why, the witness said, “Based on the quality of the
medical care, I would still call this a homicide even if the doctor didn’t administer the propo-
“The care was substandard. There were several actions that should have been taken.” -Christopher Rogers, chief of forensic medicine for the L.A. County coroner
fol to Mr. Jackson.” Rogers said propofol should not have been present in the bedroom because it is meant only for hospital settings and, “If there was propofol there, the doctor should have been prepared for the effects.” Rogers said Jackson had a strong heart and was mostly healthy. “The care was substandard,” Rogers said. “There were several actions that should have been taken.” Rogers also testified that Murray was improperly using the powerful anesthetic propofol to treat the musician for in-
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ted Williams, the Ohio homeless man whose smooth radio voice made him an Internet sensation, had to do some quick talking to Los Angeles police. Officers were called when Williams and his daughter got into a heated argument Monday night at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa, Officer Catherine Massey said. “I don’t know how loud they were” but the argument at about 9 p.m. led to a disturbance report, Massey said Tuesday. “It was minor. Both parties were angry but there were no signs of visible abuse,” Massey said. “They were brought in, calmed down, talked to and released.” She said she did not know the nature of the argument. Williams and his daughter were held at the Hollywood police station for less than an hour and they were not arrested, Massey said. She declined to name Williams’ daughter, but a statement from “Entertainment Tonight” identified her as Jemay Williams and said the two would discuss the incident in a Tuesday night show. It was not known whether the two returned to the hotel after the incident. “Due to guest privacy laws, we don’t share details of our guests or their stays,” said Dan Shaughnessy, director of sales and marketing for the Renaissance. Williams’ manager, Al Battle, declined to comment about or provide details of the incident but said a statement would be issued soon. “Once we get all the facts, it’ll be out there for everybody to have,” he said in a brief phone interview with The Associated Press. Williams flew into town to tape an appearance on TV’s “Dr. Phil” show and “Entertainment Tonight.” “Entertainment Tonight” covered his meeting with voiceover actors at a Screen Actors Guild Foundation sound studio who offered to help Williams become a guild member voiceover artist, according to a show statement.
before he died. Under Flanagan’s questioning, Rogers said he consulted with an anesthesiologist about the possibility that Jackson could have injected propofol into his intravenous line while Murray left the room. “She concluded that the propofol could not have been self-administered, given the configuration of the IV setup,” he said. He said she also noted that Jackson’s IV tube was connected to his left leg below the knee and it would have been “extremely awkward” for the singer to reach it, especially if
he had been sedated. “The question is whether all those things can happen in such a short time that the doctor was in the bathroom,” Rogers said. On Monday, a detective testified that Murray spent nearly three hours telling police about his final hours with the superstar, who was so desperate for sleep that he was getting the anesthetic in his bedroom six nights a week. Murray’s interview two days after Jackson’s death on June 25, 2009, led police back to the singer’s mansion, where they found 12 vials of propofol a fraction of the 255 vials a Las Vegas pharmacist said he shipped to Murray in the three months before Jackson died. Detective Orlando Martinez said Murray told police he left the room for only two minutes after giving Jackson a 25 milligram dose of propofol at 10:40 a.m. He said he returned to find him not breathing. Another witness. Dr. Richard Ruffalo, was called to the stand
by Deputy District Attorney David Walgren. Ruffalo, an anesthesiologist and clinical pharmacologist, gave the judge an exhaustive rundown on the sophisticated medical equipment that should have been present when Murray administered propofol in Jackson’s bedroom. Among the devices were monitoring equipment for heart and lungs and resuscitation equipment. “You need to know what you’re doing with the expectation your patient will wake up quickly,” Ruffalo said. “Even if you’re using propofol for a short time, it can do a lot of unfortunate things, especially if mixed with other drugs.” He also said Murray should have been keeping written charts while monitoring Jackson’s vital signs every five minutes while he was under sedation. Police have said they never obtained written charts from Murray, who could face up to four years in prison if tried and convicted.
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somnia, and that Murray was wrong to leave Jackson’s side while he was under anesthesia
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The two-part “Dr. Phil” episode was taped over the weekend to air Tuesday and Wednesday. On the Wednesday segment, Williams meets with his ex-wife, Patricia, and five of his nine children, according to a statement from the show. “In this emotional reunion, Williams talks openly with his family about the man he is today, the influences that threaten his sobriety and what his children can expect from him in the future. His children respond in a very raw and candid manner,” the statement said. “Everyone is pulling for Ted, but his 15 minutes are going to be over and then he’ll be left to manage a life filled with temptation,” host Phil McGraw said. “We’re going to try and help him prepare for that because it would be a real tragedy if he did not make the most of this extraordinary second chance.” Williams, 53, trained to be a radio announcer but found his life derailed by drugs and alcohol in the 1990s. He has served time in prison for theft and forgery and has been cited with numerous misdemeanors, including drug abuse. Williams became famous almost overnight after The Columbus Dispatch newspaper posted a web video of him last week. Viewers were enthralled to hear a deep, honeyed professional voice coming from the shabbily dressed man. Since then, he has done a TV commercial for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, appeared on various news shows, recorded voiceover promos for cable news and was offered an announcing job with the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. Although he says he has been clean for more than two years, the recovering addict has acknowledged that it has been challenging dealing with sudden fame. “I wanted a nerve pill yesterday, to be honest with you,” he told CBS on Friday.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona legislators quickly approved emergency legislation Tuesday to head off picketing by a Topeka, Kan., church near the funeral service for a 9-year-old girl who was killed during Saturday’s shooting in Tucson. Unanimous votes by the House and Senate cleared the way for the bill to go to Gov. Jan Brewer later Tuesday for her expected signature. It would take effect immediately. Without specifically mentioning the Tucson shooting, the proposed law would prohibit protests at or near funeral sites. Dozens of lawmakers co-sponsored the bill, and legislative action was completed within 90 minutes. The Senate’s committee hearing took just three minutes. The Westboro Baptist Church said Monday it plans to picket Thursday’s funeral for Christina Taylor Green because “God sent the shooter to deal with idolatrous America.” The fundamentalist church has picketed many military funerals to draw attention to its view that the deaths are God’s punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.
Lawmakers denounced the church’s plan to picket the funeral of a child. “This is just horrific that ... people have to deal with this. We shouldn’t have to do this in time of great pain for our state,” said Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a Phoenix Democrat. The girl was the youngest of the six people killed during the shooting at an event held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was among 14 people injured. Giffords was shot in the head and critically wounded. Numerous states have passed laws restricting protests at funerals after members of the Westboro church began protesting at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Arizona legislation is modeled on an Ohio law that was upheld by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Sinema said. The four-paragraph Arizona bill would make it a misdemeanor to picket or conduct other protest activities within 300 feet of a funeral or burial service — about the length of a football field. The prohibition would be in effect from one hour before the event to one hour after. Shirley Phelps-Roper, a church member and a daughter of its pastor,
said the prohibition wouldn’t matter because church members plan to picket at one of two intersections more than 1,000 feet from the church where the girl’s service will be held. Phelps-Roper also said church members plan picketing Friday in conjunction with a service for another victim of the shooting, U.S. District Judge John M. Roll. Sen. Paula Aboud, a Tucson Democrat, said volunteers in Tucson were organizing a human shield to block the protesters from view of victim family members. Sinema said the prohibition would only apply to funeral and burial sites because courts have struck down picketing prohibitions for procession routes. “This is a good compromise that doesn’t trample our God-given rights,” said Senate President Russell Pearce, a Mesa Republican. Sen. Ron Gould, a Republican from Lake Havasu City, voted for the bill but earlier was the only senator who objected to suspending rules requiring several days of legislative consideration before a final vote. Gould cited the public’s right to know what lawmakers are considering. “And when we suspend those rules mistakes get made,” he added.
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F. Lee Bailey: Document proves O.J. Simpson’s innocence in murder case CLARKE CANFIELD Associated Press
YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) — Evidence of O.J. Simpson’s innocence was held back in the 1995 trial in which he was acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife and her friend in Los Angeles, one of his former lawyers says in a new document. In the 20,000-word document, F. Lee Bailey tells of four people who could have bolstered Simpson’s case but never testified. He also gives an overview of the sensational trial from his own perspective. Simpson was found not guilty. Most Americans are convinced that he is guilty, Bailey said, but the document might persuade some doubters that he is innocent. Bailey wrote the document, “The Simpson Verdict,” in 2007 as a proposal for a book that never materialized. He published it on his website Sunday. “It’s time somebody put out the real facts of the case,” he told The Associated Press. In the document, Bailey said the defense team was prepared to call four people who never testified — a forensic scientist, an expert on battered women, a blood expert and the person whose possible testimony he says is the most important of the four: a man who might have seen the killers. That witness, he wrote, saw a woman the night of the murders matching Nicole Brown Simpson’s description in an apparent confrontation with two men, neither of whom was O.J. Simpson. Upon hearing of the murders the next day, the witness recalled what he saw on a tape recording and wrote a detailed description and sketch of his observations. But the defense team decided not to call any of the four to the witness stand out of fear that additional jurors would be dismissed and a mistrial declared
if the eight-month trial didn’t soon end, Bailey wrote. Bailey said Monday he thinks the real killers were out to collect a drug debt and killed Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman after mistaking them for their targets. The document might sway a sector of the public into believing in Simpson’s innocence in the 1995 case, Bailey said. But he knows there’s another group whose minds couldn’t be changed “with a sledgehammer,” and thinks the trial damaged his reputation among that group. “Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging,” he said. “I got blamed for O.J.’s acquittal.” Bailey was part of Simpson’s defense team when the former NFL star was acquitted in the June 1994 deaths of Nicole Simpson and Goldman. Bailey, who now lives and works as a consultant in this town 10 miles north of Portland, said his agent asked him to write an overview of the Simpson case for a publisher who was interested in a book. But the idea was shelved following the turmoil and eventual cancellation of Simpson’s book, “If I Did It,” in which Simpson put forth a hypothetical description of the murders. But Bailey has shared his document with several dozen people over the years, and a number of them have urged him to release it. His website developer suggested he put it online, and it first appeared on both his website and that of the Portland Press Herald newspaper. Although Simpson was found not guilty in a court of law, Bailey said it’s important to prove him innocent in the court of public opinion. “O.J. has what I call the damnation of an acquittal,” Bailey said.
Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred, who represented Nicole Brown Simpson’s family during Simpson’s trial, said she doesn’t see any “smoking gun” in Bailey’s document that might persuade people who think he was guilty to think otherwise. If Bailey’s evidence were that strong, she said, it would have been brought into the later civil trial in which Simpson was found liable for the deaths and ordered to pay a $33.5 million judgment. “If Mr. Bailey can’t think of anything better than trying to help the public reputation of O.J. Simpson, that’s really sad,” Allred said. The last time Bailey talked to Simpson was in 2008, the night before Simpson he was found guilty of kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges for his role in the gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel. He is serving a nine- to 33-year sentence. Bailey said he isn’t shopping his document in hopes of a book deal — although he wouldn’t turn down the right offer — but still hopes to get it into the public arena. He’s not surprised that the document got more than 20,000 hits its first day online. “I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying ‘O.J.,’” he said. Besides Simpson, Bailey has represented clients including Dr. Sam Sheppard, Patricia Hearst and Albert DeSalvo, the man who confessed to being the Boston Strangler, over the course of a storied legal career. He has also been a controversial figure, and has been barred from practicing law in Florida and Massachusetts. Bailey was disbarred in Florida in 2001 for mishandling $6 million worth of stock for a client. After reviewing the Florida case, Massachusetts disbarred him two years later.
Man slain on Acapulco highway; 31 dead in four days SERGIO FLORES
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ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — The body of a murdered man was found Monday on the main highway to Acapulco, bringing to 31 the number of people killed in the Pacific resort city over four days. The unidentified man was shot several times in the head and found under a pedestrian bridge with his shirt pulled over his face, said Fernando Monreal Leyva, director of the investigative police for Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located. Leyva said federal, state and local police planned to meet Monday with the military to consider ways to beef up security in Acapulco, where 14 decapitated men and two police officers were among the unusually high body count since Friday evening. Most of the killings occurred in just a few hours from Friday night to Saturday in non-tourist areas of the city. But the officers were shot to death in front of tourists on Avenida Costero Miguel Ale-
man, the hotel-lined thoroughfare that runs along the bay. Drug violence has increased in southern Guerrero state as factions of the Beltran Leyva cartel began fighting for territory after leader Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed by Mexican marines in December 2009. Messages left with the 14 decapitated men said they were killed by “El Chapo’s People,” a reference to the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Leyva would not say whether the notes indicated Sinaloa had joined the fight. The decapitations were the largest single group found in Mexico in recent years. In 2008, a group of 12 decapitated bodies were piled outside the Yucatan state capital of Merida. The same year, nine headless men were discovered in Guerrero’s capital, Chilpancingo. Among the other Acapulco victims, six people were shot and stuffed into a taxi, their hands and feet bound. More than 30,000 people have died in drug violence na-
Reformed rapper Shyne wants to work with young Israeli musicians AP
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Reformed rapper and ex-convict Shyne said Tuesday he is eager to collaborate with artists ranging from young Israeli musicians to hip hop moguls Kanye West and Jay-Z as he revives his career. After serving eight years in prison for a nightclub shooting, the former protege of Sean “Diddy” Combs is now living in Jerusalem as an ultra-Orthodox Jew. Born Jamaal Michael Barrow, Shyne also goes now by the Hebrew name Moshe Levi Ben-David. At a screening of two new short films The Original and
Roller Song Shyne said he has five albums forthcoming that have been deeply influenced by his atypical spiritual journey. “I am not ashamed of the mistakes I have made. I’m not ashamed of where I was in order to get to where I am,” he said, wearing a white skullcap and glasses and sporting the shaved head characteristic sidecurls of an ultra-Orthodox Jew. Since arriving in September, Shyne has met Israel Cabinet ministers, studied Torah and promoted Israel’s relationship with Belize where his father is prime minister. “Moshe Levi has a great impact on the music that Shyne makes,” he said.
tionwide since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown on cartels after taking office in December 2006 by deploying thousands of soldiers and federal police to drug hotspots. Alejandro Poire, the government spokesman for security issues, said Monday that the increase in violence in Acapulco shows most of the killings in Mexico are a result of turf fights between drug gangs. “They are vying for a place that, from the point of view of local drug sales, is extremely important,” Poire said. Also Monday, the mayor of a town in central Mexico was shot to death as he drove with his wife and son, authorities said. Abraham Ortiz Rosales, mayor of Temoac in Morelos state, was shot once in the head near the town of Jantetelco, said Morelos state Attorney General Pedro Benitez. Benitez said police had not determined a motive. Ortiz Rosales had been threatened in June by men carrying assault rifles but the motive for that incident was never made public.
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Verizon to start selling iPhone PETER SVENSSON
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon Wireless made the long-awaited announcement Tuesday that it will start selling a version of the iPhone 4 on Feb. 10, giving U.S. iPhone buyers a choice of carriers for the first time. Since its 2007 debut, Apple Inc.’s phone has been sold exclusively for AT&T’s network in the U.S. Verizon Communications Inc.’s chief operating officer, Lowell McAdam, made the announcement in New York, joined by Apple COO Tim Cook, who called it “the beginning of a great relationship between Verizon and Apple.” Pre-orders for existing Verizon customers will start Feb. 3. The price will be $200 or $300 with a two-year contract, depending on the model, about the same as the iPhone through AT&T. It will be sold through Verizon, Apple and other stores nationwide, as well as over the Internet. Verizon issued its press release at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11, 2011, or 1/11/11. AT&T activated 11.1 million
iPhones in the first nine months of 2010. Analysts now expect Verizon to snag some users from AT&T, but the impact will likely be muted because most iPhone users have two-year contracts, and many are on family and employer plans. Verizon did not reveal its service plan pricing on Tuesday. Verizon’s iPhone version will work only on the carrier’s current “3G” network even though the carrier has fired up a faster “4G” network in many cities. That super-fast wireless data network is available only to plug-in laptop modems for now, but Verizon will have smart phones for it this summer from other manufacturers, including Motorola Mobility Inc. Cook said the first generation of “4G” phone chips would have forced some design compromises, which Apple wasn’t willing to make. “Secondly and most importantly, Verizon customers have told us they want the iPhone now,” Cook said. “I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been asked and my colleagues have been asked . When will the iPhone work on the Verizon network?”
The lack of 4G means the Verizon iPhone will have much slower data speeds than AT&T’s, at least in the areas where AT&T has upgraded its 3G network. AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel was quick to point this out, along with the fact that users won’t be able to surf and talk at the same time on the Verizon iPhone. International roaming will also be very limited compared with the AT&T version. However, Verizon has much wider domestic 3G coverage than AT&T does, especially in the interior of the country. In the big cities of the coasts, iPhone service can be spotty because of crowding on AT&T’s network. Though Verizon Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the country, with 93.2 million subscribers, it has been losing out to AT&T in the battle to sign up high-paying smart-phone subscribers because of AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity. In the last few years, Verizon has promoted phones with Google Inc.’s Android operating system as its alternative to the iPhone. Cook wouldn’t say if Verizon will get the iPhone 5 when it debuts this summer, if Apple follows its regular once-a-year
upgrade schedule. Verizon’s iPhone 4 is identical in form and function to AT&T’s but has one feature AT&T’s does not: It can act as a portable Wi-Fi “hot spot,” connecting up to five laptops or other devices to Verizon’s 3G network through Wi-Fi. It’s a feature that’s been offered on other smart phones, usually for an added monthly fee. The Verizon iPhone is the first one that works on so-called “CDMA” networks, a standard also employed by Sprint Nextel Corp. and carriers in China and South Korea. Cook said the phone wouldn’t be exclusive to Verizon, but he didn’t say what other carriers might get it. Analysts don’t expect Sprint to sell it. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of New York-based Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group PLC. Shares in Verizon Communications fell 82 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $35.10 in afternoon trading Tuesday. The shares are still close to a two-year high of $37.70, set last week. Apple shares lost $1.20, or 0.4 percent, to $341.29, while AT&T lost 53 cents, or 1.9 percent, to $27.81.
MySpace slashes 500 worldwide jobs RYAN NAKASHIMA
AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Struggling entertainment site MySpace said Tuesday that it is cutting nearly half of its staff worldwide, or about 500 people, after an extensive revamp in October overhauled its look and allowed it to be run with fewer people. Mike Jones, the chief executive of MySpace, said cuts
are “tough but necessary” and would put the site on a path to profitability while making it more nimble and entrepreneurial. MySpace declined to say how much the cuts would save. A previous round of cuts in June 2009 eliminated 30 percent of its work force, or about 420 jobs. The relaunch focused MySpace on giving its users, mostly aged 13 to 34, more ways
to consume music, videos and celebrity gossip. Before, MySpace tried to be an all-purpose social networking site like Facebook. MySpace recently said it is no longer trying to compete with Facebook. News Corp. bought the site in 2005 for $580 million, but it has been losing money consistently. In the three months through Sept. 30, the “other” segment
Alaskian pipeline leak causes price hike ALEX KENNEDY
Associated Press
SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil prices jumped above $89 a barrel Monday in Asia after a pipeline leak cut Alaskan crude output. Benchmark oil for February delivery rose $1.35 to $89.38 a barrel midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 30 cents to settle at $88.03 in Friday. The 800-mile (1,300-kilometer) trans-Alaska pipeline, which normally carries between 630,000 and 650,000 barrels a day, was shut Saturday after a leak was discov-
ered at a North Slope pump station, said Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., which manages the line. North Slope production was reduced to 5 percent of normal. Alyeska Pipeline said cleanup crews have contained the leak, but the company didn’t know when the pipeline would restart operations. “The 95 percent drop in output from Alaska is bullish,” energy consultant The Schork Report said. “Such high levels of uncertainty will have traders scrambling.” The jump in crude prices will likely be temporary unless the pipeline is down
for an extended period, The Schork Report said. “We don’t believe the news as it stands is enough to push crude oil above the $100 barrier,” The Schork Report said. “If production is reduced to 5 percent until March or April, then we’ll change our mind.” In other Nymex trading in February contracts, heating oil gained 2.4 cents to $2.51 a gallon while gasoline futures added 2.3 cents to $2.44 per gallon. February natural gas futures slid 2.0 cents to $4.40 per 1,000 cubic feet. In London, Brent crude was up 79 cents to $94.12 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
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‘Literature is not there to reassure us; it’s supposed to reveal us’ I thought America was supposed to be the land of dreams. Where people from all over the world come for a better opportunity and to gain freedom that may not have been available in their native country. Well, after recent events and headlines, I’m not so sure America is headed in the right direction anymore. The news broke about NewSouth Books, a publishing company in Alabama (of all ironic places) and its plans to censor one of the most famous Mark Twain novels- Huckleberry Finn. The company plans to change the word “nigger”, which appears 219 times, to the word “slave”. When I heard this, the only thing I could think was how much of a ludicrous idea it was to change this classic piece of American literature. Is the word used a lot in the novel? Yes. Was the word used often in the time period the novel was written? Yes. Is
Huckleberry Finn the fourth most banned book in America? Yes. Do all of these facets take away from it being an excellent novel? Absolutely not. Replacing the “n” word with the word “slave” would be the equivalent of reading a book set and written in the 1920s and the main character answers their cell phone. It is ridiculous. The characters use the same lexicon that was used during the time the book was set in. Granted, some of you may not care one way or the other, but because I am an avid reader, I am disgusted by the idea to change another writer’s work for the sake of making some feel more comfortable. And that’s exactly what the company aims to do- make those reading or teaching it, more comfortable while in a classroom setting. There are two sides to this story. The first side is from a teacher’s perspective. I read Huckleberry Finn in middle
school, with a Caucasian teacher, who also was uncomfortable saying the “n” word while reading the novel. How JASMINE did we get past it? She simply JOHNSON told the class to not say the word while reading out loud and asked how I felt about it. At the time, I did not care if another student said the word while reading a piece of literature and my standpoint has not changed since. I would hope at some point in every black student’s maturity they understand the definition of the “n” word and why not to get upset over it. The argument of teachers not being able to read/teach the book(s) in the classroom because of the discomfort is an excuse. Buckle down on students; tell them the truth behind the
terms. The other side is from a student’s perspective. They deserve to read this novel as was written, by Mark Twain. Let them experience these great novels for themselves. Don’t take that experience from students too. It is one thing if students were using the language openly during a classroom discussion. But this is a novel that has been revered as one of the best in American history. Twain, wrote the novel during a time when the nation was split between race. He dared to write a work that explored the race lines. Huckleberry Finn takes us on an adventure between a runaway boy, Huck, and a slave, turned best friend to Huck, Jim. The course of the novel shows how a young boy and a black runaway slave man became dependent on each other and how their friendship unfolds. Why chance the wording of the book? Just focus on the les-
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Homosexuals fighting for human and American rights For starters, I would like to say that by no means am I, will I ever be, or ever even considered being a homosexual. With that being said however, I have become quite fed up with the treatment of our homosexual community. As the United States continues to grow as a nation it amazes me that the view of a same sex couple is still so strongly frowned upon. I will be the first to admit that I have been guilty of being judgmental of the homosexual community. However, as an American it is impossible for me to treat the homosexual community any different than any other community. For starters, perhaps one of the most important sections of the Declaration of Independents states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” With this being said, it is not, nor has it ever been in this country, against the law to be a homosexual. Yet we treat homosexuals as if they are three
fifth of a person. Why? We deny them the right to be married most states and try and use religion to jusTRUMAINE tify it. Many MCCASKILL people may conclude that although it is not against the law, it goes against the things we learn in the Bible or other religious books. Although this may be true that homosexuality is frowned upon in most religions, the Bible also states that no sin is greater than any other. What makes us committing adultery, disrespecting our mother and father, speaking the Lord’s name in vain, and stealing any less of a sin that being a homosexual? Christianity is not the only religion either. Most religions speak about love and equality, yet when it comes to the homosexuality community it appears that the only ones who love them are other homosexuals. We are all born sinners in some way or form, and if no
sin is greater than any other, why can’t we stop trying to use the Bible as a way to justify our homophobia? In some countries homosexuality is punishable by death. Even in the United Sates, many men and women have become victims of hate crimes due to their sexual preference. And its amazing that we can complain about a lot of other issues in this world but seem to turn our heads to things such as this. Homosexuality may not be our personal choice but why talk down on anyone who chooses to live his or her life as a homosexual? I find it funny that black women are so critical and judgmental of homosexuals, and then complain about so many down low brothers. Appears to me that if you stopped expressing your deep hatred for gay men, then maybe they will be more willing to tell you about their true past. And it’s also comical to see men who love lesbians, but go above and beyond to express their deep hatred for gay men. Gay men, most of the time, could careless if a straight man
likes them or not, and a woman is probably a lesbian because she wants NOTHING to do with men. So in other words, your opinion about them means absolutely nothing. Yet for whatever reason, we have some people who go above and beyond to express their hatred towards the homosexual community. As previously stated, I am not a homosexual. However, I do support gay rights for I believe gay rights are also human rights! I think that being gay is not as bad as being a murderer or rapist. And this society seems to be full of that. Some people believe the world would be better without gay people. Well imagine the world without Elton John, J.M. Barrie, Augustus, Queen Latifah, Ellen Degeneres, James Avery, and Bessie Smith. Homosexuals should not be judged for whom they lay with. Instead, they should be judged for the work they do and their contributions to the world. And with that being said, I support the homosexual community even if the rest of the world cast you aside!
Shooting reminds us of the need for civil discourse MCT Campus Contributor
Political implications aside, the weekend’s mass shooting in Arizona was a horrific tragedy. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is fighting for her life and six others are dead. The slain include a federal judge, a 9-year-old girl, a congressional staffer and several citizens from the Tucson area who showed up Saturday morning expecting to participate in a meet-and-greet with their elected representative. The person charged in the shooting, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, is a disturbed individual who had access to an assault-style weapon.
Loughner had been barred from attending classes at his community college because his behavior so alarmed students and teachers. Yet nothing stood in the way of his purchasing a pistol and the kind of high-capacity magazine whose manufacture and importation was banned before 2004 and should be banned today. There is no way at this time to either prove or disprove that the shooter was influenced by the inflammatory political discourse that is disturbingly prevalent in Arizona and the nation as a whole. But we do know that Giffords, a moderate Democrat, was bothered by the vitriolic
political climate. The night before she was wounded, she e-mailed a friend who had been serving as secretary of state in Kentucky and was recently hired for a position at Harvard University. “After you get settled, I would love to talk about what we can do to promote centrism and moderation,” Giffords wrote. “I am one of only 12 Dems left in a GOP district (the only woman) and think that we need to figure out how to tone our rhetoric and partisanship down.” We are an opinionated, clamorous nation, and there is no way to bottle up incendiary rhetoric.
But hatred of the federal government, false accusations, rumors and aspersions about people in power shouldn’t be promoted by the nation’s leaders or their campaigns. Signs are that the mass tragedy has had a sobering effect in Washington, at least temporarily. Leaders of both parties have pledged a more civil debate and, at least on some issues, a unified instead of partisan response. That’s the best thing the nation’s leaders can do to honor a wounded colleague. But it shouldn’t have taken a calamity to bring about a cooling-off period.
sons it teaches to students. This company and its supporters are missing the primary situation in this case. To quote the L.A. Times, the company should remember that “literature, after all, is not there to reassure us; it’s supposed to reveal us, in all our contradictory complexity. The fact that it makes us uncomfortable is part of the point -- like all great art, it demands that we confront our half-truths and self-deceptions, the justifications and evasions by which we measure out our daily lives.” Besides the lessons of the book, it seems that this is one of the steps taken in order to erase slavery from America’s history. The word was perfectly okay and normal when yelled at blacks in the earlier years of last century, but now it’s not okay to appear in a novel that was written over 125 years ago. Racism did and still exists in this nation. It’s a part of history. And if you do not know your
history, you are doomed to repeat it… All this is not even to mention the lack of authority given to the publishing company from Mark Twain. We have laws that prevent a person from writing a sequel to a book without permission from the person with rights to the original book. But we’re going to sit back and allow a company to completely change the language in this book and others? It just doesn’t sit well with me. Unfortunately, this is a time when I am disappointed in my nation. If this company continues with its plan of releasing a censored version of Huckleberry Finn next month, America has taken a step towards becoming the same world as the novel Fahrenheit 451. I love reading books just as much as the next person, but I do not want to live in a society that makes conscious steps in making the real world the same as that of a fiction book.
Ask a Black Guy What changes need to be made in 2011?
Guy #1: Every individual needs to take responsibility for his or her own shortcomings. Help your brothers and sister when they need it the most. Also, as black men, we need to realize that this world is not an easy place to be. So with that being said we need to stop being afraid to admit when we need help. Guy #2: We need to be more determined to force progressive change. With the world spiraling out of control, its essential that we can stay spiritually grounded and advances forward at the same time. 2011 will only be what we make it. The biggest change we need to make is making sure that when we look back at the end of the year that we’re not in the same place as we were last year. Guy #3: Black people need to stop stabbing each other in the back in 2011. After that we can start moving forward. But in 2011 that should be our main focus. Stop tearing each other down or speaking negativity into each other’s lives. If we cannot shake this mentality, then we are going to be in the same state that we were in last year. What is your definition of a crazy woman? Guy #1: The definition of a crazy woman starts with girls who hold grudges. Holding a grudge leads to women not being able to let certain things go. Not letting go of some misfortunes that life hands us leads to mental instability. And this eventually leads to being overly insecure. And nothing is worse than a woman who is overly insecure. Guy #2: Sometimes a crazy woman is a result of a no good man. A lot of times I think men stamp women with the crazy label because we are too afraid to admit that there are things about them that we do not care to understand. If she’s not willing to give it up when we want, cater to our every need, and bend over
backwards for a man who only give her the attention she wants when the lights go out, then she’s obviously crazy. So I think the definition of a crazy woman is a woman who has taken control of her private parts and only gives a man limited attention. Guy #3: A woman who is 35 and older and never been married, a woman who says every man is like “all the others”, a woman thinks that she does not need a man, a woman who expects a man to change everything for her, a woman who blames sex on alcohol, a woman who accepts her role as a jump off then tries to change up after a few nights, a woman who thinks she’s going to keep a man yet never tries to watch any sports with him, and last but not least a woman who thinks the earth revolves around her every move! What is your favorite quality about black women? Guy #1: Their strength! Black women are some of the strongest and most loyal people on the each. Nothing beats a girl who is actually down for her man. And of all the women on this world, I would say that black women are best at that. Guy #2: I love the fact that every black woman has a story worth listening to. I think the lives black women, especially in America, live are simply fascinating. You can never tell if their lives have been filled with pain or pleasure by the look on their face. Being black in America is not easy. Yet being a woman has to be even worse. So I guess the fact that they are both black and women are a gift and a curse. Their struggle is balanced out by their enormous amount of strength and that’s what I love about them the most! Guy #3: The fact there is no me without them. My mother, grandmother, sister, niece, etc. are all black women. I love the fact that the people closest to my heart understand me better than I understand myself most of the time.
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Lady Aggies stay undefeated lauren morgan Sports Editor
On Jan. 10 the North Carolina A&T women’s basketball team faced off against MEAC opponent Bethune-Cookman at Corbett Sports Center. Picked to finish the season at No. 2 in the MEAC, The Lady Aggies remain undefeated at 3-0 with a 69-50 victory over the Lady Wildcats of BethuneCookman. After reaching 1,000 career points two nights prior, senior guard Jaleesa Sams was named MEAC player of the week. Sams led the Lady Aggies to their 4th home victory and 3rd conference victory with 17 points and 11 rebounds. Freshman guard Mikala Scott added 13 points while Jaquayla Berry, sophomore guard, ended the game with 11 points. Amanda Hairston led the Lady Wildcats of BethuneCookman with 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting. The Lady Aggies shot 52 percent on the game, 59 percent in the first half. She was the only BethuneCookman player to score in double digits, as the A&T defense held the Lady Wildcats to 28 percent shooting on the game. To open the game the Lady Aggies went on an 8-0 run,
which was only halted from free throws by Wildcat guard Jasmine Bugg. Although the Lady Aggies got off to a quick offensive start the rest of the half was comprised of bad shots and sloppy passes. However, it was the Lady Aggies defense that kept them ahead of Bethune. The Lady Aggies, who led by as many as 15, finished the half ahead of the Lady Wildcats by13 points at 31-18. The second half would prove to be more of the same, strong Aggie Defense. When it seemed the Lady Wildcats were making strides to get back in the game the Lady Aggies defense allowed A&T to remain in control of the game. With four minutes to go, Bethune within nine, the Lady Aggies showed everyone watching why they are No. 1 in the MEAC. They finished the game on a 14-4 run that sealed a 19-point victory over their MEAC opponent. The Lady Wildcats fell to 1-3 in the MEAC, while the Lady Aggies remain undefeated, 3-0. The Lady Aggies are now 3-1 at home. The Lady Aggies will continue with MEAC play as they face Howard University on Saturday Jan. 15 in Washington.
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On Jan. 10, live on ESPNU the North Carolina A&T men’s basketball team faced MEAC opponent Bethune-Cookman at Corbett Sports Center. Prior to the game, both the Aggies and the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats remained undefeated in conference play. In the end it was the Aggies that lost that title loosing 69-72 Wildcats. The Aggies record is now 2-1 in the MEAC while the Wildcats remain undefeated at 2-0. Thomas Coleman, MEAC player of the week, finished the game with 22 points on 7-of-8 shooting while guard Nic Simpson led the way with 25 points. RJ Reed, Wildcat guard, led Bethune with 24 points and 5 assists. Wildcat forward Garrius Holloman ended the game with 17 points. The Aggies and the Wildcats battled for the lead in the beginning of the half but the Aggies pulled away going on a 15-4 run to lead Bethune 2618. At the half the Aggies led 36-25 going into the locker room with an 11-point lead. In the second half, Bethune chipped away at A&T’s lead
AGGIES RUNDOWN Basketball TEAM Bethune Cookman Morgan State South Carolina State North Carolina A&T Coppin State Delaware State Hampton Norfolk State MD Eastern Shore Howard
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THIS WEEK’S GAME: Saturday at Howard 4 p.m. Monday at Hampton 8 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM Hampton North Carolina A&T South Carolina State Morgan State Florida A&M Bethune Cookman Coppin State Delaware State MD Eastern Shore Norfolk State Howard
MEAC 3-0 3-0 2-0 2-1 2-1 1-2 1-2 0-1 0-1 0-3 0-3
OVR. 10-5 6-7 6-6 7-7 6-7 7-7 3-10 4-9 3-10 6-6 3-13
THIS WEEK’S GAMES: Saturday at Howard 2 p.m.
Photo by KENNETH HAWKINS • A&T Register
Monday at Hampton 6 p.m.
jaleesa Sams shoots against Bethune-Cookman’s Jasmine Elum on Monday, January, 11, 2011 in Corbett Sports Center.
Aggies fall to Bethune on ESPNU Lauren MOrgan
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and we didn’t execute.” -Jerry Eaves and with just under eight minutes to go the Aggies found themselves down 51-52. The Aggies and Wildcats battled for the remainder of the game but critical three pointers from the Wildcats sealed their victory. Aggie head coach Jerry Eaves was not at all impressed with the Aggies’ second half play,“When you give up 42 points in the second have it’s a total collapse a total team effort,” said Eaves. “I don’t know what to do at this time, but I’ll have to figure it out.” Live on ESPNU the Aggies fell 69-72 to the Wildcats. “The television was on, and we didn’t execute,” said Eaves. “We acted like we had forgotten how to execute once they brought the cameras in.” This was the Aggies first conference loss as well as their first home loss of the season. A&T is back in action on Saturday, Jan. 15 against Howard University in Washington.
Photo by KENNETH HAWKINS • A&T REGister thomas Coleman jumps for a shot against Bethune-Cookman’s Alexander Starling on Monday, January, 11, 2011 in Corbett Sports Center.
AROUND SPORTS CAM LEADS AUBURN TO TITLE GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — He never heard a whistle, never felt his knee hit the turf. So, Auburn’s Michael Dyer popped up, took a few steps, then stopped and looked around. In that split second — the amount of time it takes to shout “War Eagle!” — Dyer placed himself right up there alongside Cam Newton, Bo Jackson and every other great player to wear the Auburn uniform. Realizing the play was still going, Dyer started running again — past the tackler who thought he had him down, deep into Oregon territory. The stopand-go maneuver — a once-in-a-lifetime run — set up a short field goal on the last play that sent No. 1 Auburn over the No. 2 Ducks 22-19 in the BCS title game Monday night. “My knee wasn’t down,” Dyer said. “I didn’t hear a whistle, not yet, so I was kind of like, looking, like, what’s going on?’” With his 37-yard run, the freshman did what most fans thought impossible: He upstaged Newton, the Heisman winner who turned his first — maybe only — season at Auburn into a title-winning run. Three plays later, Dyer ran 16 yards to push the ball to the 1 and set up Wes Byrum’s 19-yard field goal with no time left. It capped off a perfect 14-0 season, brought the title back to Auburn for the first time since 1957 and left the Southeastern Conference on top of college football for the fifth straight year. Auburn won The Associated Press title with 56 of 59 first-place votes, capping a first-of-its-kind climb up the rankings — from No. 22 at the start of the season to No. 1 at the end. “Fifty-three years, baby!” coach Gene Chizik said to the cheering crowd. “This is for you. War Eagle!” Dyer was the key player in five crazy minutes of football at the end that were vastly different from the first 55, which were more of a bruising defensive battle than the offensive masterpiece so many had predicted.
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“The Game” has returned Sylvia Obell News Editor
The Comeback Story The fans have prevailed! The Game has been brought back from the grave! After being cancelled almost two years ago, the former CW sitcom has a new home on BET networks. The show originally aired as a spin-off of the popular sitcom Girlfriends, back in 2006. The 30-minute sitcom was cancelled three seasons later when the CW decided to focus on one-hour dramas. Enter BET. The network began running re-run’s of The Game, garnering BET record high ratings - better rating than when the show was on the CW. The show found a new set of dedicated fans that were not going to let the show die. A viral campaign began, petitions were started, and ratings continued to soar; all of which resulted in BET reaching out to the show’s creator and executive producer Mara Brock Akil and her husband, Salim Akil, about reviving the sitcom. The rest is history. The fans weren’t the only ones who hadn’t given up on the show. All of the show’s actors resigned, even actor Coby Bell
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who had joined the cast of Burn Notice during the shows hiatus. Bell was able sync the two show’s recording schedules. Many worried that the quality of the show would change once BET picked it up but with the same cast, writers, and producers on board fans began to rest easy. What did change was the actual production of the show, BET committed to 13 episodes rather than the broadcaster’s usual 22. They also moved the shooting location from Los Angeles to Atlanta. The episodes were also filled out of order, like a movie, to save costs. The Watcher’s Guide For those of you who have been living under a rock, The Game is about the world of professional football players and the woman who love them. The show follows Melanie Barnett (Tia Mowry) as she struggles to navigate being a professional athlete’s girlfriend when her boyfriend Derwin (Pooch Hall) becomes a wide receiver for the San Diego Sabers. The series follows them, and the colorful cast of characters they meet along the way — the players and their wives. Where the series left off: Derwin and Melanie got
married in the hospital chapel the same night his “son” with Janay was born. They named him Derwin Jr. After signing their divorce papers Kelly realizes she wants Jason back. Ultimately Jason chooses his girlfriend Camille (Stacy Dash) over Kelly. Tasha and Kelly’s friendship is in shambles after Kelly punches Tasha for setting Jason up with Camille. Rick Fox, Tasha’s exboyfriend, shows up at her house, alluding to a reconciliation between the two. Malik… is still Malik. The premiere summary: The new season mirrors real life by starting two years after the season finale. Derwin and Melanie are newlyweds. Melanie has given up on her medical school. Derwin has become a superstar. His baby with Janay is now a toddler. Melanie is still questioning if the DJ is Derwin’s baby. Kelly and Jason are divorced. Kelly is spending all his money, and is about to get her own reality show. Tasha has a new young boyfriend, Terrence J. As for Malik, he’s having an affair with the coach’s new wife, played by Megan Good.
Hosea Chanchez (Malik Wright) and Wendy Raquel Robinson (Tasha Mack)
u presS PLAY Kanye West ft Jay-Z “H.A.M”
The first single off of Kanye and Jay Z’s new collaboration album titled “Watch The Throne.” With a dynamic duo such as this, Kanye and Jay sure will have an amazing release outcome when the album hits stores. -J.V.
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II presS Pause Wiz Khalifa ft Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, and Juicy J
“Black and Yellow G-Mix”
Pooch Hall (Derwin Davis) and Tia Mowry-Hardict (Melanie Barnett Davis)
Black and Yellow with just Wiz Khalifa was a big hit for Pittsburgh and on the radio waves, adding the autotune king, T-Pain, west coast royalty, Snoop Dogg and 3 6 Mafia’s Juicy J, this song has gotten better.
u presS PLAY Rick Ross ft Swizz Beatz “The Transporter”
Coby Bell (Jason Pitts) and Brittany Daniel (Kelly Pitts)
on screen the green hornet starring Seth Rogan, Jay Chou, and Cameron Diaz comes out Friday. Following the death of his father, Britt Reid, heir to his father’s large company, teams up with his late dad’s assistant Kato to become a masked crime fighting team. - J.V.
In the past few weeks, Rick Ross has been on a roll. He released a mixtape, a new single, “Pandemonium” with Wale and Meek Mill and now he has teamed up with Swizz Beatz for this soulful, hard knocking anthem. -J.V.
1. The kappas look good to be 100, don’t they? 2. What is it with A&T athletics and losing? 3. Do you believe political rhetoric led the guy to start shooting in AZ? 4. Should guys tuck their skinny jeans into their polo boots? 5. Why does that resemble girls with tights tucked into their uggs? 6. If the weatherman calls for snow, should you wear shorts? 7. Even if you have nice legs? 8. Does it click in your mind to cover up your body? 9. Or would you like to deal with the sickness, pneumonia? 10. Is the older generation really hating on you, or are they giving you good advice? 11. Did you know 26% of freshmen are on academic probation from the fall? 12. Are you on of those freshmen? 13. How are you in school and not serious about school? 14. So you were not coming to college to get an education? 15. Do you want a job in a Fortune 500 company in your future? 16. When it snows, are you really worried about slick roads? 17. If classes were cancelled, and there was a free party across town, would you still go? 18. You know we play Howard next, right? 19. Did you know Howard’s momma’s name is Hioward? 20. Did you know Howard’s momma is a one legged waitress at ihop?
on shelves The social network starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake is out on DVD. Mark Zuckerberg’s chronicle on the founding of facebook, the social networking website.
- J.V.
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