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Officials prepare for winter storm STEPHEN GREEN Web Editor

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WINTER WONDERLAND. Snow blankets the Ruth and Ron Blatchley Clock Tower Friday, Jan. 24. The wintery weather prompted Sam Houston State University to cancel classes Friday. SHSU announced Monday that all classes are cancelled today.

Snow in Texas may come around once every other year, but twice in a week?

Sam Houston State University students will bundle up in what winter clothes they own Tuesday after the university cancelled classes for the second time in a week.

Huntsville Emergency Management Coordinator John Waldo said by press time Monday that residents would experience freezing temperatures beginning early Tuesday that will continue through Wednesday night.

“At this point, we have a 20 to 40 percent chance of receiving two to four inches of snow, as well as sleet throughout the day on Tuesday, and temperatures will below freezing until mid-day on Wednesday,” Waldo said. “City crews will sand streets as needed including overpasses and major roadways.”

Huntsville Police Department Lt. Jim Barnes said residents should only use roadways for “essential trips only” and to “exercise extreme caution and budget additional time for longer trips.”

“With the winter storm warning in effect for our area, it would be best to have as few drivers on the road as possible,” he said. “If you do have to drive, make sure to slow down, watch the roads and be mindful of the vehicles around you.”

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Following last semester’s student government breakdown, its officials feel the organization’s dramatic overtone is still an issue.

Student Body President Ramiro Jaime, Jr’s. authority hit a crossroad during his first semester as president when nine of the organization’s senators filed for his impeachment. After three months of agitated relationships within the organization, and impeachment files dropped, the dust has yet to settle.

Student Body Vice President Kolby Flowers said he hasn’t seen any change in the organization from last semester and thinks he isn’t likely to. Senators are still unhappy with the organization’s current leadership, Flowers said.

Multiple officials, including Flowers, have complained about Jaime’s lack of communication towards other members of the Executive Board and Senate.

“I hope President Jaime opens a line of communication to the Senate and the Executive Board,” Flowers said. “Communication is the only problem I have with the president. Many of the appointments he has made are made on the floor of the Senate [and] come without any prior announcement. He and I don’t even speak outside of the SGA meetings, even about SGA.” Jaime said his military background dictates his communication skills and is to

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blame on the lack thereof.

“Being the president… you’re the chief of everything,” Jaime said. “That makes me the chief of communication, and I didn’t reach out to the Senate. Being in the military, I’m used to if you don’t speak up, you’re okay with everything that’s going on.

The thing is, is yes, a couple of senators did speak to me that they disagreed with my agenda.”

Jaime said since only three out of 20 SGA members spoke up, the rest of the senate was okay with his agenda. Jaime’s opinion turned up null, and the Senate’s dissatisfaction led to the point of impeachment charges being filed.

Despite Jaime’s realization about the nature of the confrontation, the matters that were brought to him have yet to be addressed or changed within SGA, according to Flowers.

Jaime said he believes he did nothing wrong during the first half of his term as the chief representative of SHSU students, yet he said he would have done things differently last semester.

“Looking back, there are some things I could have done better,” Jaime said. “It was a lot of agenda that wanted to be done on both sides, and people disagreed with my agenda, as I respect. But I’m a rule follower, and I know I followed every rule to the ‘t’.”

The impeachment charges claimed he was in dereliction of duty and ignored the SGA Constitution and Rules & Procedures. The charges were

build snowmen, have snowball fights, and sled using cardboard boxes and the like.

The nation has been dealing with freezing temperatures for the last month. According to CNN. com, on Jan. 24, Louisiana State Police closed the Texas border due to the number of wrecks caused by ice buildup. Houston authorities had to close off several bridges because cars would slip backwards.

Newscasters across the nation picked up the “polar vortex” phrase after the super-chilled low pressure system set record lows in several major cities. Green Bay, Wisc., dropped to -18oF shattering a previous record set in 1979. Babbit, Minn., was the coldest place in the country at -37oF. Entergy Texas sent a text message to customers saying that the energy company is “prepared to respond to (the) winter storm.

Make your plans for safety and comfort during outages with tips and updates at http://enter.gy/ storm.”

Walker County Emergency Management Coordinator Butch Davis said the Emergency Operations Center – located at the Walker County Sheriff ’s Office – will be open. Residents with questions or concerns about local response to the weather can call 936-435-8035.

For questions regarding road conditions, call TxDOT’s toll-free line at 1-800-452-9292 or visit their Facebook or Twitter pages.

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Student government tension lingers into spring semester JAY R. JORDAN Associate Editor

Texas Department of Transportation trucks will be on call as well, laying down traction and de-icing materials to bridges, overpasses and shaded areas in 10 counties including Walker County.

“TxDOT is prepared for the storm and asks all motorists not to drive, but if they have to, slow down and be safe,” Bob Colwell, TxDOT Bryan District Public Information Officer, said.

Colwell said if drivers do get on the road that they should: • reduce speed, • increase following distance, • use extra caution on bridges, ramps and overpasses, • stay back at least 200 feet from vehicles treating or clearing roadways, • and if you start to slide, ease off the gas pedal or brakes and steer into the direction of the skid TxDOT used 115 employees, 35 de-icing and traction spreading trucks, 10 vehicles to monitor the roads and 35 vehicles to watch iceprone shadowed areas Thursday and Friday when the first winter weather came through the area.

SHSU canceled classes at 10:20 p.m. Thursday in light of the weather conditions, giving students a day to play in the snow, which had accumulated as much as four inches deep in some areas of Walker County. Some students flocked to Pritchett Field, Recreational Sports Fields, the Sam Houston Memorial Museum and various hills on campus to

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EXPERIENCE. Keeler led Delaware University to a national championship in 2003 followed by two other runs to the championship in 2007 and 2010. Keeler said in a press conference he wants to bring home another FCS national championship to Sam Houston State University.

eventually dropped after a Supreme Court hearing in which Chief Justice Frank Parker told the Senate to stop meddling in logistics and act accordingly as representatives of the student body.

Even with the prime directive from Parker, Jaime said he wasn’t satisfied with how the senate ran last semester under his administration.

“That’s the sad part about it,” Jaime said. “I have so many ideas and so many plans. I’m

speculating, but I feel that there were certain people who didn’t agree with my agenda that maybe realized that I could get the votes and I could make my agenda happen, so they figured ‘hey, let’s create this ordeal and maybe he’ll lose votes for his agenda.’ There was a lot more I wanted to do.”

Despite the tension within the SGA chambers, work on improving student’s lives was done in the organization’s various committees.

With unanimous approval from the Senate, SGA passed over 20

pieces of legislation. As a result of one piece of legislation, the university reviewed and revised its controversial nondisclosure agreement.

SGA is always accepting applications from students for senatorial position within the organization. For more information, contact the SGA office at 936-294-1938. SGA will not meet tonight due to the inclement weather.

Be sure to check out the Houstonian Orientation Guide located around campus and the City of Huntsville! Can’t find one? Let us know and we’ll get you a copy.

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White House fights campus sexual assault KASSIDY TURNPAUGH Assistant News Editor President Barack Obama announced plans for a sexual assault task force to combat oncampus assaults across the United States during last week’s weekly address.

The task force is slated to act as an advisory board on issues of campus rape and sexual assault, and will affect every college campus in U.S., according to a memorandum sent out by the president.

According to the memorandum, the task force will begin issuing “proposals and recommendations” to the president within 90 days from Wednesday.

The founding of the task force was said to have been in response to a study conducted by the White House, that found that one in five women in the U.S. is a victim of sexual assault.

The task force is set to develop protocol and program recommendations to decrease oncampus assaults. They have also been given the responsibility of measuring the success of prevention to determine how to maximize the Federal government’s effectiveness in

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Faculty Senate defends profs. research property KASSIDY TURNPAUGH Assistant News Editor Faculty members of Sam Houston State University raised concerns over whether their intellectual property remains with them or the university during a faculty senate meeting Thursday.

Senators addressed the issues and confusion surrounding their rights to copyrighted materials, unauthorized use, and Texas State University System’s policies on course materials.

“I had a senior faculty member come to me this past week very concerned about this very issue,” Sen. David McTier (COFAMC) said. “There is some real confusion about this.”

According to Section 3.03 of SHSU’s Intellectual Property Policy, Academic Policy Statement 090130, the rights of intellectual property remain with the creator unless the property in question was, “developed with the significant use of funds, space, equipment, or facilities,” belonging to the university, or “substantial resources.”

In addition, the senate found the use of the term “substantial” too vague to determine a bright line of when, in the process of using university-owned materials, an individual starts to use a substantial or significant amount of the university’s resources.

“If the trigger is university resources, then if someone writes a book in their office, does that become the university’s property?” McTier asked.

Another point of debate revolved around what qualifies as financial compensation, outside of a work-for-hire basis, and if it has to be in addition to one’s salary or if salary counts as a form of financial compensation for copyrighted materials.

Such details are not clarified

by SHSU’s Intellectual Property Policy and have left many professors confused about what qualifies as their own property and that of the university.

The senate moved to bring in an attorney to future meetings to give advice on the policy.

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combatting assault.

This task force will work with Title IX, which “requires institutions that receive federal funding to work to prevent such incidents – and to respond quickly when they occur,” according to US News.

Sam Houston State University Dean of Students John Yarabeck said he agrees with the memorandum and supports the national effort to make college campuses safer.

“We are supporters of anything that makes our campus safer,” Yarabeck said. “Like anything that can be taken to extremes, there is the potential for people to make it impossible for us to enforce the new policies, but on the same token, anything safer for SHSU is worth doing.”

Yarabeck said the expectation is to improve the environment for victims of sexual assault and attempt to remove the stigmas associated with being the victim of sexual assault.

“The biggest challenge will be creating an environment where victims can come forward,” Yarabeck said. “There has always Associated Press been a stigma attached [to victims,] and that is a very difficult thing to overcome.”

PLAN OF ATTACK. President Barack Obama issues a task force to combat sexual assualt cases The task force will submit a report to the within college campus across the United States. The task force will recommend strategies to president for evaluation by January 2015. lessen the ongoing issue.

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Weather postpones record attempt CONNOR HYDE Editor-in-Chief Sam Houston State University’s attempt to have its name in the record books has been postponed to Feb. 19 because of the cold snap.

SHSU Student Legal and Mediation Services announced Tuesday their effort to raise selfdefense awareness and attempt to break the world record for the most participants in a single selfdefense class is on hold to ensure student and community safety.

Originally scheduled for Wednesday, Gene Roberts, director of Student Legal and Mediation Services said he’s disappointed the event is postponed but emphasized student and community safety is priority number one.

“We don’t want people out in inclement weather,” Roberts said.

“There’s no need to have people exposed to the weather for thirty minutes to an hour for an event.

To me, the whole message we’re trying to send is that we’re a safe campus.”

In conjunction with Student Activities, Student Legal Services has invited a Guinness Book of World Records representative to SHSU to witness the world record attempt in which more than 2,012 participants are needed to break the record. Currently, the record is held by the South American Krav Maga Federation, which set the record in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Student Services Program Director Steven Begnaud said the event is a “win-win,” as the event will bring national and international recognition to SHSU and self-defense awareness to the

student body.

“We wanted to ensure campus safety and one of the ways in doing that is open a seminar, free of charge, in self-defense,” Begnaud said. “We can be flashy with the world record, but the idea is to teach self-defense. It’s the cherry on top to break it.”

Roberts said the seminar is driven to educate students about self-defense on college campuses and give them the tools to use if needed.

“We hope it’s something that no one has to use, but it’s useful information if you have to use it,” Roberts said.

With a targeted goal of 2,500 participants, associate professor of geography and five-time black belt Marcus Gillespie will lead the class in basic Hapkido movements.

Gillespie, who has taught selfdefense classes at SHSU for 12 years, said the techniques he will demonstrate can be immensely effective, if used at full speed.

Although Gillespie has led classes with about 15 students, he is excited to head a tremendously larger venue.

“It’ll be an exciting event to be apart of this,” he said. “This is a whole different level, a whole different level of venue to do something like this. I hope those who come want to learn about self-defense.”

Since 2007, SHSU has reported an average of five sexual assault incidents and two aggravated assault incidents on campus per year, according to the University Police Department’s annual crime statistics.

Seasoned Hapkido students taught by Gillespie will help participants on the field while the

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geography professor is elevated on a platform with a video display available for everyone to see his positions. Students from Huntsville High School will be in attendance to help position

participants.

For those interested in participating, registration is free at the door at the northwest entrance of Bowers Stadium.

Check-in will begin at 5:15 p.m.

Texas woman removed from life support HANNAH ZEDAKER Senior Reporter After declared brain dead in November 2013, a pregnant Texas woman was taken off life support Sunday.

Texas Judge R.H. Wallace ruled Friday that Haltom City resident Marlise Munoz, 33, be removed from life support.

Munoz was 14-weeks pregnant when her husband, Erick Munoz, found her unconscious due to a blood clot on Nov. 26, exactly two months before she was taken off of life support.

According to Erick Munoz, who is a paramedic, he and his wife had discussed possible end-oflife situations and Marlise Munoz had told him that she would not want to be on life-support in such a situation.

Despite her family’s wishes to take her off of life support, Marlise Munoz spent the remainder of her life on life support in compliance with a state law at John Peter

Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. As a result, Erick Munoz sued the hospital.

CBS News reported that Larry Thompson, the state’s attorney representing the hospital, cited a section of the Texas Advance Directives Act of 1999 during litigation that reads: “A person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment under this subchapter from a pregnant patient.”

According to Sam Houston State University associate philosophy professor Diana BuccafurniHuber, Ph.D., the law Thompson was citing pertains to patients — meaning someone alive, in which Marlise Munoz was not.

“In Texas, there’s the heartlung definition of death when your heart and lungs no longer work and the brain definition of death when your entire brain is nonfunctional. She was brain dead,” Buccafurni-Huber said.

“So you are keeping a corpse on machinery. How is this right? It’s kind of a mutilation of human

rights. They were both paramedics and had seen people in this condition. The hospital should respect autonomy.”

Prior to the ruling, the hospital and the family both agreed that Marlise Munoz met the criteria to be considered both medically and legally dead, and at 23-weeks pregnant she was unable to deliver her fetus alive.

In addition, according to the Associated Press, the Munoz’s attorneys, Heather King and Jessica Hall Janicek claimed that the fetus was “distinctly abnormal.”

“A couple of days before the ruling it became clear that the fetus was abnormal and had physical deformities which raises another question,” BuccafurniHuber said. “Was the state only willing to keep her on life-support if the fetus was normal? Or would they take her off as soon as they found out the fetus was impaired?

It’s up in the air.”

Wallace sided with the Munoz family in his ruling, stating that

the hospital was misinterpreting the law.

The hospital had until 5 p.m.

Monday night to comply with the ruling.

Despite the controversy, Buccafurni-Huber said she does not foresee any amendments to the current law as a result.

“The whole issue is that she was dead,” Buccafurni-Huber said.

“You can’t take safe-haven in a law over patients who aren’t alive. It’s really just their human remains.

I don’t see the law being changed because it is very clear it was just misapplied.”

According to BuccafurniHuber, motivation is also a key concept in political controversies such as these.

“Our state is a strong rightto-life state with strict standards for women who want to have abortions,” Buccafurni-Huber said. “Unless the state departs from the right-to-life, they probably won’t change it.”

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Bitcoin market still fluctuating MONTY SLOAN Columnist Overstock.com announced Jan. 9 that it would begin accepting the internet-based currency Bitcoin.

A Subway Sandwich in Allentown, Penn., will make a footlong in exchange for Bitcoins. Travelers can book a flight at Cheapair.com using the new currency.

With Bitcoins, you can even hire Ryan Hurley, a lawyer based out of Scottsdale, Ariz., which is good news for BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem, who was arrested for allegedly money laundering in conjunction with his Bitcoinbased business.

Bitcoin, darling of basementdweller netizens everywhere, is a digital peer-to-peer currency introduced in 2009. It is based on open source software and is independent of any government.

More specifically Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, meaning that at the currency’s core it is protected using cryptography, which has in the past year gained the attention of market analysts, investors, broke college grads, drug dealers, hitmen and slave traders.

A bitcoin is a code that links to an address in the Bitcoin Block chain, an online and freely viewable database that shows the location and status of every bitcoin and of every Bitcoin

transaction. Since every bitcoin is simply a location in the chain and the block chain is open to view, the system protects itself by making each bitcoin’s ownership public knowledge to prevent issues like double spending or fraud.

The Block chain requires every transaction to be verified before being added by individuals called miners. Miners are rewarded with the processing fees from transactions and access to newly created bitcoins.

New bitcoins are awarded to miners based on a never-ending raffle where random lucky miners are rewarded in freshly minted coins. This serves to introduce new currency to the system at a controlled rate to prevent both inflation and deflation.

The whole system works as a myriad of checks and balances.

Bitcoins are really only worth anything if they are in the Block chain, and the Block chain is maintained by millions of miners across the globe who work for bitcoins, both paying them to play and giving them incentive to continue mining and preserving the integrity of the Block chain itself.

Entire corporations in China and other countries have invested in farms of supercomputers with the sole purpose of mining more efficiently than your fancy aluminum Macbook Pro. The chances of making a buck mining, based on your computing power, is called Bitcoin Difficulty, and current calculators suggest you may pay more money for the electricity to run your standard home computer than you would ever make.

The other way to play the game is to buy bitcoins outright.

In October 2009 a dollar could net a buyer 1,309 bitcoins. Jered Kenna accidentally erased 800 bitcoins from his computer when he reformatted his hard drive, that’s almost $800,000 today. Fortunately for him, he bought 5,000 for $.20 a piece in the currency’s early days and is now one of many who are now millionaires simply for buying into the currency early.

Stories like these have led to the invention of online bitcoin wallets, online resources to store and protect an individual’s bitcoins instead of saving them locally in a notepad file or something equally

silly on a local computer.

The dark side of Bitcoin came to light when Silk Road, an online black market, gained news notoriety and was eventually shut down. Due to the currency’s independence from any government and peer-to-peer transfer natures, it has become the payment of choice for online criminals whether it’s selling drugs or buying prostitutes.

Bitcoin is a fiat currency that means it isn’t backed by anything.

It isn’t gold or oil. Hell, it isn’t even a service. It has no intrinsic value and is only worth anything because people are willing to pay for it. Bitcoin is only worth what we say it’s worth and it only gains in value if more people invest and more people spend using Bitcoin.

Personally, I suggest you turn all your hard earned money into Bitcoin’s competitor, Dogecoin.

Not because I own Doges, certainly not, I’m just trying to give you sound financial advice.

PAWS UP

PAWS UP to Grammies: Pharrell’s scoutmaster-chic hat was cool even though it was obviously fitted for one of the Daft Punk robots.

PAWS UP to Katsafe alerts before snow days: So thankful we got the calls before bedtime.

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PAWS UP to KC Keeler: The new head football coach has a career winning percentage of 70.

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Tips for successful Super Bowl bash COLIN HARRIS Viewpoints Editor Super Sunday is less than a week away, and that means it’s about time to start planning for a super party. Thankfully this is the one party event of the year when the entertainment is already scheduled, so instead of wasting time worrying about crafting playlists and scouring the Internet for games, you can focus more on food and logistics.

When it comes to food, the amount of effort and creativity you put forth should be inversely proportional to the amount of

alcohol you plan on drinking. In other words, nobody cares about your baked Brie and cranberry chutney if they’re slurring obscenities about Roger Goodell and how the Steelers should be playing today.

That being said, if you’re of a more responsible persuasion and don’t anticipate surrounding yourself with feckless, wasted degenerates, this is your day to shine. One route to take is adopting the local cuisine for the two represented cities in the big game: Seattle and Denver.

The Pacific Northwest is known for its seafood, particularly Dungeness crab. Unless you like picking crab shells out of your furniture and carpet until April, I wouldn’t waste the money considering how little edible yield a boiled crab returns. Smoked salmon is probably a better route to bring the taste of Seattle to your home. It’s readily available and easy to prepare with crackers and cream cheese. If you’re feeling

particularly ambitious, cucumber slices add a refreshing textural change to the salmon and cheese.

Now as far as Denver food goes, there are Rocky Mountain oysters, which happen to be bull testicles and not actual oysters, so moving on… Colorado is also known for its unique variation on chili, made with pork and Anaheim chilies, which give it a distinct greenish hue. Recipes abound online, but my personal favorite (because it appears to require less prep than others) is the Colorado Green Chili from allrecipes.com. As with any chili, you’ll want to give yourself a two to five hour head start in order to have it ready to serve by kickoff.

I’m getting hungry writing this, so how about some tips for the less culinary among us? First, you can never overstock on beer or snacks.

Leftover brew or chips is never a bad thing, and based on my own experience, the beer sections of grocery and convenience stores devolve into a hellish Mad Max-

style anarchy at halftime. If you want to avoid getting stabbed for snagging the last bottle of Boone’s Farm, stock up ahead of time, ideally a day or two in advance.

Drinking games? Piece of cake.

When Denver has the ball, take a drink each time Peyton Manning barks out “Omaha!” at the line of scrimmage. When Seattle has the ball, take a drink for each Marshawn Lynch stiff-arm and every time the camera pans to Pete Carroll looking smug and farty on the sidelines. Finally if Troy Aikman and Joe Buck stop actually calling the game to debate whether or not Russell Wilson is an “elite” quarterback, chug until they get back to discussing the action on the field. You’ll be hammered by halftime.

No matter how you celebrate America’s great secular holiday, just remember to enjoy yourself.

We only get one Super Bowl per year, so make it one to remember, no matter how the game develops.

PAWS DOWN to Grammies: Why didn’t the Daft Punk guys get robot married by Queen Latifah? That would have been controversial.

PAWS DOWN to Burger King not being open in the LSC. Everybody is sick of chicken sandwiches already and school started less than a week ago.

PAWS DOWN to Celebrities suing Gawker: First Hulk Hogan, now Quentin Tarantino. You guys are rich and famous, quit suing gossip websites.

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Newcomers rule Grammy’s stage RAVEEN JOHNSON Contributing Reporter With a few artists hiding under Pharrell Williams’ hat, mute robots, and a girl from Middle Earth winning big, the Grammys brought unique and unexpected performances and surprising winners Sunday.

The 56th Grammy Award Show opened with a steamy and seductive performance from Beyoncé alongside husband Jay Z. The duo charged the award show with a sensually choreographed dance number to go along with her hit single, “Drunk in Love.”

Yet it was Williams role as Daft Punk’s spokesman and a funky collaboration with Stevie Wonder and Nile Rodgers that stole the show.

The 40-year old rapper not only rocked the stage but brought home a few Grammy awards for producer of the year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for his collaboration with Daft Punk, who also reeled in Album of the Year.

“I’m not surprised that Williams won Producer of the Year,” mass communications senior Taylor Perry said. “He’s a genius, and he’s been producing for years. He deserved it.”

However, overshadowing his multiple wins was his choice of fashion accessory. Williams wore a large hat by Vivien Westwood that resembled one similar to the one worn by Smokey the Bear sparking a social media frenzy.

Aside from William’s brilliance on stage and in the studio, Lorde took the spotlight as one of the most decorated newcomer to the Grammy’s.

The New Zealand native won two of the biggest awards of the

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JAYONCE. (ABOVE) Beyonce is joined by her husband, Jay Z while she shows off her sensual moves. The power couple grooved together during his verse of Beyonce’s “Drunk inLove”. (BELOW) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis take home four different Grammys: one for Best Rap Album ‘The Heist’.

night including song of the year and pop solo performance for her hit single “Royals .” She also hit the stage to perform a stripped down version of the song.

Live Performances The Grammy’s live performances displayed a mashup of polarizing genres that included a witchy Katy Perry and an lifeless Metallica.

Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons delivered a performance described by USA today as “hip rock,” in which they seamlessly blended their individual hit singles “Radioactive” and Lamar’s up-beat song, “Man Down.”

“I enjoyed the mixture of hip hop and rock, and it proved that Kendrick should’ve won over Macklemore,” junior psychology

major Joshua Bibbs said. “It was a good balance of both genres, and I really appreciated the performance.”

Macklemore performed his pro-equality song “Same Love” featuring Mary Lambert. Queen Latifah and Madonna shared the stage with Macklemore. His performance also served as a symbolic altar for 33 same-sex,

heterosexual, and interracial couples’ marriages.

Queen Latifah acted as the officiant of the massive ceremony, asking couples to exchange rings. Even though she is not an ordained minister, she was able to legally officiate the marriages by being sworn in as a commissioner for the state of California.

Gaddis Geeslin Gallery hosts ongoing Faculty Art Exhibit

After a long, traumatic journey dealing with a faulty spinal cord stimulator, visiting assistant professor Ron Hollingshead uses bowling balls plugged into electrical sockets and power strips to symbolize the struggle and pain of it all, entitled Surge. (top) Dan Steinberg | Associated Press

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World renowned musician visits SHSU DHARMESH PATEL Assistant A&E Editor

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Studio lecturer Petrine Louise

Sowa, combined barbed wire, nails, twigs, leaves and pine needles to express the beauty found in raw emotions through her ceramic portraits. (bottom)

World-renowned clarinetist Rocco Parisi will perform compositions featuring the classic works of Franz Schubert, Claude Debussy, Giuseppe Verdi and Francois Borne Thursday at the James and Nancy Gaertner Performance Art Center.

The performance is the School of Music’s expanded music concert series with diverse musical acts including international performers.

According to music education major Paul Fletes, Parisi brings a unique style and approach to traditionally classical pieces. Fletes said Parisi adds to the diversity of the music department because of his international footprint.

“He is well known and because [SHSU] is a small school we are very fortunate to have him perform,” Fletes said. “A lot of students are excited.”

Parisi was recently featured in the School of Music’s electronic newsletter as a premier event for students to attend.

“One of the neat things about the school of music is that they have networked with artists across the globe, and students don’t have to go anywhere to be exposed to this worldly culture,” PAC marketing coordinator Emily Binetti said.

Parisi studied at the Rotterdam Conservatorium in Holland and has won several international music competitions. Parisi was also invited by the International Clarinet Association to play music and teach classes at world clarinet conventions in New Orleans, Stockholm, Sweden, Salt Lake City, Austin and Los Angeles.

Students, faculty, staff and the Huntsville community are welcome to attend the concert in the Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are available online or at the box office for $12-15 and $5 for students.

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Sports

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 houstonianonline.com/sports

‘New kid in town’ FOOTBALL

SHSU names Keeler as new head coach JEREMY VILLANUEVA Sports Editor

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NEXT CHAPTER. K.C. Keeler was announced as Sam Houston State University’s 15th head football coach two weeks after the departure of former SHSU coach Willie Fritz.

Former Delaware University head coach K.C. Keeler has been named as Sam Houston State University’s new head football coach.

Keeler’s hire comes two weeks after previous SHSU head coach Willie Fritz accepted the head coaching position at Georgia Southern. Keeler accepted the position during a press conference Friday afternoon.

Although Keeler hasn’t coached since his 5-6 finish at Delaware in 2012, Director of Athletics Bobby Williams said Keeler is the right man to move the Bearkats back on a championship track.

“I’m excited for his new opportunity and his departure led us to a new opportunity as well,” Williams said.

Williams said the search process took about two weeks with urgency to find a coach before National Signing Day Feb. 5. Williams added he had a set criteria that included national championship experience when interviewing the top five finalists.

Criteria Keeler meets.

In 2003, the 57-year old took the Blue Hens to the Football Championship Subdivision National Championship to defeat Colgate University 40-0. Keeler visited the national championship in 2007 and 2010.

“Once I made that decision, I was glad I was done,” Williams said.

After being fired from Delaware in 2012, Keeler said he didn’t plan to coach until his wife told him she wanted to coach again and how she missed the connections the two made with his team. Keeler said he envisions SHSU’s football team getting involved with the community to have a broader impact off the field.

With one recruiting weekend left, Keeler reiterated his priority to recruit players as he continues to piece together his coaching staff.

“We’re here to relentlessly pursue being the best football program in the country,” he said.

“I care about who they are right now and where they’re going.”

Keeler said he’s going to expand on Williams’s expectation for a national championship-caliber team and pursue exceptional recruits.

“I’m here to win championships,” Keeler said.

“National championships.”

Keeler spent nine seasons at Rowan University before heading over to Delaware for 11 seasons.

Keeler said he isn’t planning on a short four-year run at SHSU like Fritz.

“I’m here for the long haul,” he said.

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BASKETBALL

Bearkats split weekend outing MARISSA HILL Sports Reporter Sam Houston State’s women’s basketball split their conference weekend road series defeating Incarnate Word and falling to Abilene Christian.

The Bearkats defeated the Cardinals 6051 Thursday in a come-from-behind effort with junior post Angela Beadle heading the effort.

Beadle tallied 24 points and pulled down 11 rebounds to cement the Bearkats’ victory. SHSU controlled most of the first half, leading by as many as 10 points with eight minutes remaining in the first half.

SHSU’s made five crucial turnovers, allowing Incarnate Word to chip away at the lead and gain momentum. The Bearkats went into intermission trailing by 10 points, 33-23.

The Cardinals continued to capitalize on their lead, giving themselves a 14-point edge just four minutes into the second half.

The Cardinals committed an early foul, allowing Beadle to drain two free throws to kick start the Bearkats’ offensive momentum for a 17-0 run.

Freshman guard Kristina Smith topped off the run by draining a three-pointer, putting the Bearkats ahead 46-43.

“We put things together in the second half,” head coach Brenda Nichols said.

“When everyone does their job and takes care of their role, we can be successful.”

Incarnate Word took the lead again 4948 with 4:30 left on the clock, but SHSU closed out the contest on a 12-2 run, picking up the conference road victory.

However, SHSU couldn’t pull off another come-from-behind victory, falling 73-67 in Abilene Saturday.

Despite another double-double performance from Beadle with 20 points and 13 rebounds, the Wildcats held the Bearkats off in the final minutes to snatch the victory.

The match was closely played with 14 lead changes and the game tied 16 times.

The Bearkats dominated on the offensive boards in the first half 10-4, but could not turn all of the rebounds into secondchance points.

SHSU jumped out early but couldn’t maintain momentum as they trailed 36-35 at halftime.

SHSU closely nipped at Abilene Christians’ heels with 01:15 left on the clock as they came within four points trailing 71-67.

The last 60 seconds of the game became a battleground where the Bearkats struggled to find their stride, failing to connect on any of their last shots, allowing the Wildcats to take the win.

SHSU will return to Johnson Coliseum Thursday as they play host to Texas A&MCorpus Christi for a 5:30 p.m. tip off.

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FINGER ROLL. Junior transfer guard Jabari Peters throws up a shot against Long Island University – Brooklyn in a non-conference match on Dec. 30.

SHSU clings to second following weekend split KYLE KELLY Contributing Reporter The University of Incarnate Word extinguished the hot streak of Sam Houston State University’s men’s basketball team as the Bearkats split their road matchups over the weekend.

The Cardinals threw up 85 points against the challenging Bearkats despite two shooters finishing with double-digit points.

The Bearkats still maintain a tie for second place in the Southland Conference despite falling 85-74 to SLC opponent Incarnate Word.

“We didn’t run our offense as well [Thursday] and didn’t keep the ball in front of us,” head coach Jason Hooten said. “We don’t have any excuses. Incarnate Word just beat us. Give them a lot of credit. They played well.”

Senior forward James Thomas tallied 18 points and received support from guard junior Jabari Peters, who sunk 16 points of his own during Thursday’s matchup.

Incarnate Word sparked a 29-19 offensive push in the opening 12 minutes of the second half and maintained a healthy lead as large as 16 points. Peters narrowed the Cardinals’ lead to 76-67 after draining

a 3-pointer will less than three minutes on the clock.

Following the Bearkats weak defensive outing in San Antonio, SHSU stabilized their offensive and defensive approach to rout Abilene Christian 71-50.

A solid second half performance and a lockdown defensive squad led the Bearkats to topping the SLC freshman program. Peters and Thomas fueled the Kats offensively with 12 points each, while freshman Aurimas Majauskas added 9 points off the bench.

Majauskas settled in and played a big role for the Bearkats after SHSU center Michael Holyfield and forward Terrance Motley found themselves in foul trouble.

SHSU is only two games behind SLC conference leader Stephen F. Austin State.

“I challenged our guys after the Incarnate Word game,” Hooten said. “If we want to get to our goal, we have to get better defensively.

Scoring hasn’t been a problem of ours and every guy on the team scored [Saturday].

We’ve just got to get better defensively and strive for our goal.”

The Bearkats return to Johnson Coliseum for a five-game home stretch beginning with a match-up against Texas A&M Corpus Christi Thursday at 7:45 p.m.

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