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Ana Ceballos staff writer A Comedy Improv Team president rarely runs for the Associated Students president position, but this year Sarah “Nobody” Malone is proud to have made it so far.

The television, film and new media senior, who wore an Uncle Sam outfit to the presidential debate, is proud to check running for student body president off her bucket list and was surprised she would be the only one running against opponent Rob O’Keefe.

Regarding her colorful debate clothing, “I am doing the whole outfit thing because if students see it, maybe they will wonder what’s happening and pay more attention,” Malone said.

“I am not doing it so much because I want to win, but because I wanted to promote awareness.”

Her campaign consisted solely of social media; she reported no use of any banners or flyers during her presidential candidature.

“I love social media; people can find out so much about what’s going on around them, even the A.S. website is a good source for information,” Malone said. “I would encourage (social media) so students know what’s going on with their student body and their representatives.”

Malone, who would consider this a “crazy world” if she won, hopes to influence “average students” to vote on WebPortal.

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“I don’t want to be a jerk,” Malone added. “There are some people running that are a little bit jerky and I wanted to have fun with these debates; they don’t have to be so serious.”

Although she intends to advocate awareness, she acknowledges her candidacy is benefiting her opponents rather than her own and said they would represent the university’s student body very well.

“I love the support I am getting and I could vote for myself but I don’t necessarily need the vote. I don’t think I will be voting for myself this year,” Malone said.

Malone’s main suggestion, if elected president, is the ban of skateboards on campus. She said a “skateboard test” would have to be implemented to all students interested in riding them to prevent any pedestrian injuries.

“How it works is that if you’re truly passionate about wanting to skateboard on campus, you should have to take the time to come down to the A.S. office to skate in a straight line, you should be able to do an ollie and you should be able to do at least one jump,” Malone said.

The next thing on her list would be to fix the stairs outside of the library to avoid students “tripping and feeling overweight because of the clunking sound” when stepping on the stairs.

Taking these suggestions into consideration, Malone encourages students to “vote for Nobody” or in other words, to vote for Sarah “Nobody” Malone.

One of O’Keefe’s main focuses during his presidential campaign is the relationship between A.S. and the student body that isn’t involved on campus.

“I really want to enhance the time students spend on campus,” O’Keefe said at Wednesday’s debate.

“This can be done through programming, student government or advocacy to make sure students’ time at SDSU is valuable and their degree is valuable.”

A hot topic at the debate was the voter turnout for the new student union. Only 13.38 percent of students on campus voted on whether the multi-million dollar Aztec Student Union should be constructed or not. O’Keefe said the way to bridge this gap is transparency in A.S. to students and improved communication.

“It comes down to face-to-face interaction between A.S. and students,” O’Keefe said. “It’s important to go out to student groups, connecting with them on a personal level and addressing any issues that may come up with a decision student government makes.” Another initiative O’Keefe plans to focus on is students’ education and competence with the budget and what their tuition and fees are going toward.

“Every student pays a $35 student body fee and a $143 student facility fee,” O’Keefe said. “I think if students had a full understanding of what their fees went toward, there would be greater involvement on campus.”

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Edward Henderson senior staff writer Associated Students presidential candidate Rob O’Keefe currently serves as the A.S. vice president of finance. The Lafayette native is majoring in political science with a minor in business marketing. San Diego State wasn’t O’Keefe’s first choice for college but he was convinced during a campus visit with his aunt.

“I loved how SDSU sits on top of a hill overlooking San Diego,” O’Keefe said. “The city and the beach are 15 minutes away and it was the perfect environment for me.” O’Keefe’s interest in student government began after pledging Sigma Phi Epsilon his freshman year.

“We had a lot of fraternity brothers who were already involved in student government. They noticed I was a leader in my class and pushed me to get involved with A.S.,” O’Keefe said.

His A.S. experience began on the External Affairs Board the second semester of his freshman year. He later realized external affairs didn’t suit him and received a transfer to the Finance Board from thenExecutive Vice President Jeremy Katz. It was on the Finance Board O’Keefe learned the logistics of how A.S. operates and handles funds. Last year he ran un-opposed for the vice president of finance position.

SDSU and St. Mary’s played some extra baseball on Sunday.

OPINION Check out why we think “KONY 2012” is ill-suited to deal with the LRA conflict in Uganda.

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SPORTS

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St. Mary’s beats Golden Bears drub Aztecs SDSU in extras Cal bombed SDSU in the second inning Saturday Danielle Gaut staff writer

CAL 12 | SDSU 0 With a staggering eight runs scored in the second inning and an additional four in the fifth, No. 2/1 California (18-0) eased past the San Diego State softball team (15-12) in a 12-0 mercy win on Saturday afternoon at the Bayer CropScience Classic in Fresno.

These early setbacks made it difficult for SDSU to regain the momentum it had started with to come back offensively with hits and runs.

SDSU’s best opportunity to score occurred in the bottom of the first inning when sophomore Hayley Miles, the leadoff batter for the Aztecs, singled to left field. Senior Felicia Reifschneider rallied behind her teammate and bunted the ball for a single. Unfortunately, the Aztecs were unable to capitalize, leaving both batters on base when the inning concluded.

Redshirt junior Rebecca Arbino, who started the game for SDSU took the loss after giving up eight runs (six earned) on two hits, three walks and a hit batter in 1 1/3 innings.

SDSU senior pitcher Bailey Micetich allowed four runs and seven hits Saturday. | FILE PHOTO

Senior Bailey Micetich relieved Arbino and pitched the remainder of the game. She allowed four runs on seven hits, two walks and a hit batter in 3 2/3 innings.

SDSU was shut out for the third time this season and was outhit by Cal, 10-3. In the five innings played,

and junior utility Amber Pezzolla scored the goals to tie the game.

SDSU gave up three goals in the third period and trailed by a goal.

The Aztecs took a lead in the fourth quarter, 10-9, but ran out of gas as UCI scored the last three goals of the game and took a 12-10 victory.

Ford led the Aztecs with four goals and freshman driver Anique Hermann scored two goals.

The loss dropped SDSU to 11-6 this season.

Senior designated hitter Chris Wilson hit the game-tying home run on Saturday. | FILE PHOTO

The Gaels outlasted the Aztecs in 13 total innings Michael Manbert staff writer

SMC 8 | SDSU 5 The San Diego State baseball team lost 8-5 in a tough matchup against St. Mary’s on Sunday in 13 innings.

The game featured 12 different pitchers and three home runs as the Gaels scored the winning runs in the 13th inning, giving them the weekend series victory against SDSU. Junior first baseman John Spirk hit a solo home run in the second inning and the Aztecs added two more runs in the third to make it 30. St. Mary’s then scored five unearned runs in the fourth, while SDSU added another run in its half of the inning to make it 5-4.

It looked as if the score would stay that way until senior designated hitter Chris Wilson, a known power hitter, led off the bottom of the ninth.

The crowd was buzzing with anticipation before it exploded with cheers as Wilson sent a game-tying home run over the fence. The game went into extra innings and Aztec pitcher Ryan Doran threw admirably with the game on the line as he pitched three shutout innings, but the score remained tied into the 13th.

However, the final runs would cross the plate as The Gaels struck quickly.

Ricky Boas led the inning with a double followed by a Cole Norton triple.

Norton was then driven in by Nick Rosso, who was later caught stealing.

With two outs, Adam Anawalt surrendered the third and final home run of the contest to Patrick Wisdom, making the final score 8-5.

“It was a tough loss but we kept battling and battling. We had some big opportunities to win but we couldn’t cash them in,” freshman catcher Seby Zavala said. “This loss will be a positive in the long run.

We’ll learn from this experience.”

SDSU drops to 9-8 in the season with the loss, and will begin Mountain West conference play at 5 p.m. on Friday in Albuquerque, N.M. against New Mexico.

“It was a tough loss but we kept battling and battling. We had some big opportunities to win but we couldn’t cash them in.”

Lacrosse falls to Cal

B E AT B OX Water polo drops top-10 matchup After losing its last two games, both to top10 teams, the San Diego State water polo team looked to end the streak against No. 8 UC Irvine.

SDSU came out of the gates flat as UCI pounced right away to gain an early 3-0 lead.

The Aztecs would rally and find themselves tied with the Anteaters 6-6 at halftime. Senior two meter defense Leanne Ford

The SDSU women’s lacrosse team knew it was going to go through some growing pains in its inaugural season.

On Saturday it felt some of those pains. After the first half against Cal, the Aztecs were down by nine goals.

During the first half, SDSU was down by two goals early, 4-2, but the Golden Bears continued to score the next seven goals and built up to 12-3 at the half.

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Both teams scored six goals during the second half of the game and Cal won 18-9.

Freshman goalie Sammy Slattery played the whole game and made 12 saves. Sophomore Meris Walsh led the Aztecs in goals with five.

NCAA tournament start time The start time for SDSU’s game against the N.C. State Wolfpack was announced late Sunday night.

The team will play at 9:40 a.m. on Friday in Columbus, Ohio.

Women’s matchup set The SDSU women’s basketball team was rewarded for its’ Mountain West Conference Tournament win.

The reward was a 12 seed in the Kingston bracket. The Aztecs will take on the fifth-seeded LSU Tigers.

The game will be at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday in Baton Rouge, La., the home of the Tigers.

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IC cheapens Ugandan issues with ‘KONY’

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y now we’ve all seen the viral YouTube video titled “KONY 2012,” created and dispersed by San Diegobased organization Invisible Children. At the time this column was written, the video reached more than 74 million views.

The 28-minute film outlines the history of Joseph Kony, commander of a small rebel group of fighters called the “Lord’s Resistance Army” in Uganda, and his recruitment of abducted children for sex slavery and a personal army of young boys.

But while many regard the video’s sheer number of views as a sign of its success, I see a darker side of the film. Beginning with the well-made half hour of propaganda is the birth of IC’s founder Jason Russell’s son.

Shortly thereafter, Russell exploits the innocence of his five-year-old son to pluck at viewers’ hearts by showing him photographs of Kony and explains to him what this “bad guy” does in Uganda.

I’m not the only one who finds the group to be less-than-impartial in its approach. San Diego State professor and expert on Ugandan politics, Adam Branch, said it best in his editorial in Dissent Magazine: “My frustration with the group has largely reflected (these) concerns … the warmongering, the self-indulgence, the commercialization, the reductive and one-sided story it tells, its portrayal

Chris Pocock opinion editor

Heather Mathis staff columnist of Africans as helpless children in need of rescue by white Americans … This, of course, is sickening, and I think that ‘Kony 2012’ is a case of Invisible Children having finally gone too far. They are now facing a backlash from people of conscience who refuse to abandon their capacity to think for themselves.”

Many of our concerns are echoed in Branch’s thoughtful critique. Even further, we’re disturbed by the strategies IC has for dealing with Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. Truly, the youth in Uganda are being mistreated and perhaps kidnapped in the middle of the night to be unwillingly trained as killers, but the group’s contributions are intended to promote military intervention and fund military action by the Ugandan People’s Defense Force — a group that has been publicly accused of rape and looting itself.

According to “Visible Children,” another site that went viral last week criticizing the “war” against Kony, IC supports the Ugandan army saying it is “better equipped” than other coun-

tries. Combating violence with further violence, however, is a strategy destined for failure — something the public should have learned by any number of previous military interventions this country has performed in the past. And it’s an especially ineffective strategy given the fact that Kony has not been in power in Uganda since 2006, which IC itself has previously acknowledged.

Then we come to the financial factor. Last year, IC raised more than $8.6 million, but less than 37 percent of that money made its way to Uganda and the cause. Because the organization is a nonprofit, its financial documents are public and can be viewed by anyone. And they have been. But Charity Navigator, a site that scores organizations on a zero to four star basis, gave IC a rating of two in accountability because of its lack of transparency via an external auditor.

Maybe we wouldn’t have such a problem with this organization if it weren’t for how much the CEOs are benefiting. When delving deeper into the organization’s tax documents, the three main members — founders Russell, Laren Poole and CEO Ben Keesey — each made more than $80,000 last year.

But even beyond the financial nonsense is the muddled history of the conflict IC chooses to present.

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Uganda’s struggles is the fact that this conflict is not the result of Kony alone. Yoweri Museveni, the fourterm president and tyrant of Uganda, has also been the subject of much scrutiny and publicity throughout the years, including the use of guerrilla politics and shady legislation to keep himself in power — yet no one has created a social media hullabaloo to remove him from office. Maybe “Museveni 2012” doesn’t have the same ring as “Kony 2012,” but the point stands regardless.

Fortunately, IC addresses this issue in the “Critiques” section of its site.

Unfortunately, it’s an attempt that’s as remarkably ballsy as it is outrageous and unbelievable. “In a 30minute film,” the group said, “many nuances of the 26-year conflict are admittedly lost or overlooked … The film is a first entry point to this conflict for many, and the organization provides several ways for our supporters to go deeper in learning.”

This is followed by a lengthy response by the site that provides a thorough, detailed report about the abuses of the Ugandan government.

Of course, that “detailed response” lasts less than three lines. Never in our lives have we seen such a halfassed attempt to cover one’s own one-sidedness.

The truth of the issue is that IC only gains by presenting the Ugandan conflict as a “good guy” vs.

“bad guy” complex. Maintaining ignorance creates an illusion that simply throwing money at the issue — or, in the case of KONY 2012, reposting the video — will cause it to go away, to be solved.

We believe IC’s supporters are well-intentioned, and it’s not fair to criticize the organization completely for making the best use of its resources. Its recruitment of high school students has ensured it a passionate, though naive, base of followers seeking to create international change simply by the posting of a few posters and wearing KONY 2012 bracelets.

Ultimately, however, as long as IC chooses to present this conflict as one-sided, it will never accomplish long-lasting change. Even if Kony is killed or captured, a number of other issues Uganda hosts, which IC has failed to address, will take his place.

IC, though well-intentioned, is a fad — our generation’s version of LIVESTRONG bracelets. Hear this, IC CEOs: Enjoy the money while it lasts.

You can only prey on the naēveté of the American youth for so long.

CHRIS POCOCK IS A POLITICAL SCIENCE SENIOR, AND HEATHER MATHIS IS A JOURNALISM JUNIOR

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O P I N I O N — E D I TO R I A L B OA R D

A.S. PRESIDENT ROB O’ KEEFE The selection of O’Keefe is a no brainer.

O’Keefe already has a vast amount of experience acting as the current vice president of finance. As a school reeling from budget cuts across the board, we find it reassuring to vote for a candidate with an extensive history of fis-

cal responsibility. We don’t envy O’Keefe — there are going to be a number of tough calls to be made in the not-too-distant future, and we students are going to need a tremendous leader to face those challenges. But it only takes a few minutes of talking with

O’Keefe to realize the sheer amount of leadership potential this candidate has.

We’re confident O’Keefe has the ability to continue the positive policies A.S. has fostered throughout this year, all while addressing the corporation’s shortcomings.

VICE PRESIDENT CHANNELLE MCNUTT It’s impossible to delve very far within A.S. before bringing up Channelle McNutt’s influence on the goings-on of our student government — and we believe for good reason. McNutt exudes a resounding sense of poise, professionalism and passion unmatched within our student government.

She’s also a remarkable speaker, which should prove essential in next year’s battle against increased budget cuts. And while she’s fully capable of representing the needs of the entire student body, as A.S. Diversity Commissioner she has proven herself a worthy representative of minorities, which

should prove useful during A.S. restructuring. For a 33,000-student campus, it’s easy for the concerns of minority groups to be lost in the fold. We have no doubt McNutt will strive to communicate the interests of both the whole of the student body and the concerns of minority organizations.

VP OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS TOM RIVERA

VP OF FINANCE ERIC ANDERBERG

VP OF UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS JOSH MORSE

What’s immediately striking about Tom Rivera is the sheer amount of energy he seems to have for the job. A charismatic individual, Rivera is an excellent, intelligent speaker and, we believe, a friendly guy. As someone who is an ambassador for our school, confidence is of the utmost importance. And his solid amount of experience doesn’t hurt either: As an active member of the External Affairs Board and A.S. Council, he undoubtedly has a depth of experience that is well-suited for the position.

This one’s a tough call. Many of the candidates running for VP of Finance seem to have a thorough amount of experience pertaining to the job. Unfortunately, there were an enormous amount of broad claims in each candidate’s statements.

Michael Kemmer, for example, ran on the platform of “changing AS from a spendthrift to a saver.” Eric Anderberg promised to “ensure your fees are spent appropriately” and William Pixler, who has experience being a part of Associated Students “for over a year on various boards,” emphasized the need for a plan to stop the increase of our tuition.

It’s unfortunate that more details of a financial plan for next year weren’t revealed to potential voters. While we believe Anderberg has the most amount of experience and knowhow, we would also like to suggest he remains more open to students about where he plans to make cuts, where and how he plans to place and gain more funding and how he plans to more openly communicate with students — especially when students are the ones responsible for funding A.S.

This is where we take a break from the slate. What we’re looking for here is diversity, both of experience and representation. Morse has participated on the A.S. President’s Cabinet, Rules Committee and the University Affairs Board, and has had membership positions as part of Peer Leadership Consultants and the Educational Opportunity Program. While we recognize the leadership capabilities of the other candidates, it is our opinion that Morse best represents the most balanced selection of students.

Leadership, after all, is about more than how loudly one shouts into a microphone during a debate, or one’s ability to create a list of goals, however idealized; it’s the character of a person, their ability to connect with others and their tenacity and passion to accomplish a realistic set of objectives. These, we believe, are all traits Morse possesses, and we look forward to seeing what he will accomplish in the future.

—Photos taken by Antonio Zaragoza; the editorial board consists of Editor In Chief Allie Daugherty, Managing Editor Beth Elderkin, News Editor Hutton Marshall, Assistant News Editor Kevin Smead and Opinion Editor Chris Pocock. All endorsements written by Chris Pocock.

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Bawdy storytellers talk sex with lusty locals

Bawdy participants shared stories of their most salacious sexcapades during their first San Diego show at Studio 4 Art. By the look of the couple making out in the front row, they were a wild success. | COURTESY OF YUKI LAY ME

SF troupe’s first time in SD was one for the books Edward Henderson senior staff writer It was chilly night at Space 4 Art’s outdoor theater in downtown San Diego. Those who were lucky enough to check the forecast were bundled in heavy jackets and some even brought blankets. The less fortunate who arrived underdressed, expecting a picturesque San Diego evening, either toughed it out in their seats or sought refuge next to a makeshift bonfire as they waited for the show to begin. These brave souls weren’t gearing up for some “fireside chat.” Not even close. They were gathered to hear tales of sexual misadventure from Bawdy Storytelling’s motley crew of performers.

The ringmaster in this circus of sexual oratory is Dixie De La Tour.

She established Bawdy Storytelling five years ago to shed light on a culture that embraces sexual freedom and exploration.

“I started this because I used to go to sex parties all the time and I would watch people head off to private rooms and I’d never get to hear what happened, and I’m nosy,” De La Tour said. “I wanted to know what happened behind those closed doors.”

The idea for her show began to take shape after a trip to storytelling night at the Burning Man festival. The annual event in Nevada’s Black Rock

minutes or less to share their real-life sexual experiences. Reading stories from paper isn’t allowed. To receive a spot on the set list, performers send in their stories to De La Tour and the most entertaining are selected.

When the show travels, local storytellers get an opportunity to share as well. The show at Space 4 Art marked the first time Bawdy Storytelling traveled to San Diego.

One might think the local audience for this type of show would be tame in comparison to San Francisco’s eccentric inhabitants.

However, on that cold night, attendees traded in their business suits for dog collars and corsets. They could be seen making out with significant others in their seats while others shared passionate embraces across the theater.

Bawdy Storytelling revealed San Diego is home to a variety of sexual countercultures, including tantric sex practitioners, swingers, dominatrix and leather communities just to name a few. And all were in attendance for a fun night of storytelling.

The show opened with the musical stylings of Yuki Lay Me, a scantily clad mistress playing a ukulele. Her most memorable piece was a tribute to her favorite female body part in the tune of “Oh Canada” titled “Oh Camel Toe.” Eight storytellers were on the docket that evening.

Highlights included a story from local performer Melissa Hoobler

“It started off like a ‘pervert coffee club.’ Other people started coming because nobody else talked this honestly about sex.”

Dixie De La Tour, founder of Bawdy Storytelling Desert is notorious for its “no holds barred” approach to sexual inhibition. Inspired by the personal nature and entertainment value of the stories shared that night, De La Tour began organizing small gatherings in San Francisco coffee shops.

“It started off like a ‘pervert coffee club,’” De La Tour said. “Other people started coming because nobody else talked this honestly about sex.”

Now the event has become a mainstay in Northern California. Its traveling show hits cities across the Pacific region. Storytellers have 10

about her first experience creating a profile on a swingers website.

Hoobler, recently divorced, had decided to spice up her love life and invited a couple from the site to experience her first threesome. The steamy encounter was interrupted by her pet rabbit when it attempted to join the party.

Adult entertainer Miss Maggie Mayhem shared the tale of how she got her start in the industry as a student at a University of Calfornia school. Mayhem along with another stripper performed at a bachelor

party full of conservative men in sweater vests who weren’t tipping well. They decided to spice up the party by showcasing a very public tryst. Needless to say, things loosened up a bit and money started to rain. Mayhem later discovered the men in attendance were professors at her school.

San Diego State student Tiara Collins said Bawdy Storytelling

would be a great night out for other students.

“The event wasn’t just entertaining, it also embraced the unique qualities and experiences of the storytellers and those in the audience,” Collins said. “I’d recommend it to students because it shows the importance of being comfortable with their own sexuality.”

De La Tour plans to bring Bawdy

Storytelling back to San Diego soon and even hopes to host a show on SDSU’s campus.

“We had a great audience tonight and I’d love to do an event on a college campus where kids are having sex all the time,” De La Tour said. “You guys probably have some great stories.” To see future tour dates and view clips from the show, visit bawdystorytelling.com.

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H E A LT H & F I T N E S S

Processed foods upset healthy stomachs “These man-made fats are much worse for you than any other natural fat, even the saturated fats found in butter and beef.”

Mary Beth Sodus, registered dietitian at the University of Maryland Medical Center

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Avoid artificial fixes with whole food alternatives Sofie Casillas staff writer

College life can be hectic — so hectic that maintaining a healthy diet often becomes difficult. However, as convenient as fast and processed foods may seem for those on the go, health-conscious consumers should be wary of them.

The United States Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act defines

processed foods as “any food other than a raw agricultural commodity and includes any raw agricultural commodity that has been subject to processing, such as canning, cooking, freezing, dehydration or milling.”

This practice evolved from industrialization, and was created so food could be preserved and eaten out of

season. Recent studies have shown trans fat, an ingredient often added to processed foods to prolong their shelf lives, can increase the risk of heart disease.

“They can also contribute to an increase in total cholesterol levels and a drop in the healthy HDL cholesterol,” registered dietitian at the University of Maryland Medical Center Mary Beth Sodus said.

“These man-made fats are much worse for you than any other natural fat, even the saturated fats found in butter and beef.”

Because of said “man-made fats” and the body’s difficulty breaking down artificial ingredients, processed foods can be detrimental to a person’s health.

How can college students maintain healthy diets and stay away from artificial enticements? To start, those trying to avoid processed foods should eliminate certain products from their diets, including Top Ramen, canned foods, frozen fish sticks, chips, doughnuts, French fries, candy, frozen foods, hot dogs,

packaged cake mix and cookies.

Keep in mind, this is just a small piece of the pie that encompasses all processed foods.

“Processed foods are also made to dissolve quickly in your mouth ... to get you to eat faster and in greater quantities — often leaving you full, but not satisfied,” author of “Real Food Has Curves” and chef Bruce Weinstein said.

In 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began requiring food companies to label trans fats on their products. With this change, it is wise to view nutrition facts and stay away from high-calorie foods, preservatives, artificial flavors and, of course, trans fats.

Making the switch from processed foods to whole foods may be a difficult adjustment, but it will do the body good. Exposing the palate to a wider range of wholesome foods will help it adapt to a variety of new flavors. In his book, Weinstein wrote, “Every bite should be like a wine tasting.” Cheers to a healthier lifestyle.

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Plea from a pedestrian

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (3/13/12) You're stepping up in the world. Grow your leadership in your community and career in the first half of the next solar year, and in your home and family in the second half. It's all about learning. Take on new responsibilities. Keep it tight inside a financial plan. Practice your heart song.

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’m no stranger to bumps and bruises. I trip and fall a lot. I run into all sorts of things.

I’ve run into doors because I’ve forgotten to open them.

I’ve even tripped and fallen on the five steps leading to Hepner Hall, for which I’ve been relentlessly mocked, I might add. In short, I am a very clumsy person.

So, as someone in a love-hate relationship with the floor (it catches and bruises me at the same time), I can say with certainty being run over would be much, much more frightening than falling down a set of stairs. I think most people would agree with me on this one.

Though most of those people are probably thinking about cars.

I’m talking about bikes and skateboards.

I have no problem with students who ride bikes and skateboards around campus. I’m actually a little bit jealous, because a) you probably look cooler than me riding around, and b) you probably aren’t late for class as often as I am. But you terrify me.

I have had nightmares, daydreams (daymares?) and conscious streams of thought in

Bree Lutjens staff writer which I have been pummeled to death on Campanile Walkway. I just imagine the last memory I have will be the tires that run me over and the sounds of people screaming. I’ll be the dead girl on Campanile. From my very first day on campus, I was sure that was the way I was going to go.

Let’s get this straight — bikers and skateboarders are not the issue.

These are just people who want to get to class in a timely fashion, and who are probably receiving a better and more efficient workout between classes than pedestrians.

(Please don’t test me on that. I don’t go to the gym often enough to determine which is actually a better workout.) And there are differences among those who bike, skate or roll to class: those just working to move from point A to point B, those just as distracted as the rest of us who can’t be on the lookout for every pedestrian who can’t bother to look before they walk and those whose goal in life is

to hit as many pedestrians as they can on that Campanile stretch.

Luckily for me, I usually deal with that last group of people. It may or may not be my imagination, but it certainly seems they can spot a target from a mile away, waiting for it (me) to start crossing the bike lane, then speeding up until they have either hit or completely terrified said target.

I have both seen and been a part of such instances, and I would just like to say, they need to stop. I do not believe we should ban bikes and skateboards, but we should remove these wheeled bullies.

I’m not entirely sure what I’m asking of all of you who wheel yourself to class on the daily. Maybe I’m asking you all to be more careful. Maybe I’m asking you to make a noise or say something if you’re hurtling toward an unaware pedestrian. Maybe I’m just asking you not to laugh when a girl you almost run over screams in terror and runs the other way.

Because, chances are, she probably had a nightmare that ended the same way.

To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (March 21 - April 19) - Today is an 8 Adventure calls. Romance tags along. A lucky break opens a promising silver door.

Make a plan, and get input from partners, family and friends. Complete details.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) - Today is an 8 - The next few days are good for financial planning: Consider investing in your own education. Authorities may need persuasion. You can get your message across.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 21) - Today is a 7 For the next two days, you're all about partnership. Delegating comes easier ... you don't need to be in control. Send off for an increase in funding. Get it.

CANCER (June 22 - July 22) - Today is an 8 - Get lost in creativity, and time flies by.

Make a list of potential costs. It's getting busy, and the work looks good on you.

Someone's checking you out.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22) - Today is a 7 Travel beckons, but take care with expenses. You're entering a romantic phase. Extra work fattens your wallet, but sunsets are free. Share one with someone

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VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) - Today is an 8 Communicate with family, and shop for a home improvement. It's easy to align on the solution. Someone has a brilliant idea.

Talk it over first.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) - Today is an 8 Your intellectual capacities get a boost ... you're even smarter than usual. Take advantage with study, research and writing projects.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) - Today is an 8 - Don't take your foot off the accelerator just yet. Later take a pit stop to refill your drive and passion. There's a lot to learn still. Rest deeply tonight.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) - Today is a 9 - Have big dreams, even if they seem impossible. Be practical in planning the steps to make them a reality. Bring someone along. You'll get more satisfaction.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) - Today is a 7 - Think it over, and get into the details.

Clarify the plan, so you can express it. It's really a brilliant idea. Share it with someone interesting over dinner.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) - Today is a 7 - Your talents are appreciated, which keeps you in high demand among your friends.

Know how to pace yourself to stay fresh.

Quiet time in solitary pursuits rejuvenates.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20) - Today is a 7 New opportunities can arise from breakdowns (which could happen). Most inventions come from a need. What service will you provide? ©2012, TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES INC.

—Bree Lutjens is a public relations freshman.

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