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February 15, 2013

Vol. 88, No. 21

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When asked about what they think or feel about Twitter accounts that stereotype or degrade classes of people, students responded with their thoughts. Kyle Fitts, senior from Nashville, Tenn., said everyone has the right to free speech, but everyone should think about what they say, especially when anyone pretends to represent the University. On Monday, approximately 15 students met with administrators in Woods Hall to discuss the Twitter accounts and how to handle the situation.

Twitter accounts cause conflict at University Meghann Anderson || News Editor manderson22@murraystate.edu

Several anonymous Twitter accounts have caused a recent stir among students and administrators after some said the posts are racist and humiliating.

Accounts such as @MurrayAsian, @MSUblackpeople and @MSUpartygirl are just a few of the Twitter handles anonymously tweeting discriminatory comments and relating them to the University.

Some tweets from @MurrayAsian mocked clothing or students’ actions in public places such as the Wellness Center or Winslow Dining Hall.

Approximately 15 international students met with administrators in Woods Hall Monday to figure out how to address the issues related to the discrimination.

Students who attended the meeting did not want to be named for fear of retaliation, but several said they wanted an apology from those responsible for the account or accounts.

Luis Canales, director of the Institute for International Studies, spoke to the group and said his organization is working hard to create an inclusive and welcoming environment for international students.

“Sites like (these) are not making our Asian students feel welcomed or proud to be members of this learning community,” Canales said. “Word of mouth is powerful, and if students do not feel welcomed and share those feelings with other prospective students, it is entirely possible that they will not want to come to Murray.”

Bill McKibben, associate director of International Studies,

Everyday I hear racist remarks concerning black, Asian and Arab students. Why is this? Aren’t we all Racers?”

–Daneto Matally Sophomore from Owensboro, Ky. said he found the Twitter accounts disturbing.

He told the students he hoped they could take their positive experiences and outweigh this negative one. “(Those sites) do not reflect the majority of the people here at Murray State,” McKibben said.

“In every country you have some good people and you have some bad people; they’re everywhere.”

On Monday afternoon, the University posted a Facebook status stating the University

does not condone any actions that are discriminatory, insensitive or offensive.

The message also stated the Twitter handles @MurrayAsian and @MSUblackpeople are not University accounts and do not represent the values and core mission of the school.

While some of the accounts have been deleted, such as @MurrayAsian and @msubenchpreacher, several still remain

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Obama addresses nation Lexy Gross || Assistant News Editor cgross2@murraystate.edu

President Barack Obama spoke to Congress in the first State of the Union address of his second presidential term Tuesday night.

With Congress in a continuous deadlock, Obama focused his speech on the necessity to cross bipartisan lines.

“The American people don’t expect government to solve every problem,” Obama said. “They don’t expect those of us in this chamber to agree on every issue. But they do expect us to put the nation’s interests before party.”

Obama Obama announced several policy changes he wishes to implement during his final term, especially in relation to the economy.

No full-time worker should live in poverty, Obama said, proposing a raise in minimum wage.

He also discussed new tax reform, which would focus on relieving some burdens on the middle class. Alix Bloodworth, sophomore from Murray, said a new tax code is exactly what the country needs.

“A tax code that decreases incentives to move companies overseas and lowers tax rates for companies staying in America will strengthen our economy,” Bloodworth said.

Bloodworth also said budget cuts in areas such as health care and education really hit home for her as a student.

In regards to postsecondary education, Obama said public universities must do whatever they can to keep education at a reasonable cost for students. He said education builds the future of the U.S. Obama also said the future lies in the hands of our military, as he saluted the American troops.

He said 33,000 troops have already returned home and over the next year, another 34,000 troops will leave Afghanistan.

Major Paul Denson, officer in charge of the Murray State ROTC, said the guidelines are coming from military leaders, but it is hard to put a timeline on an operation involving so many troops.

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Oatman: Basketball facility nearly complete Ben Manhanke || Staff writer bmanhanke@murraystate.edu

After several years of planning and almost a year of construction, the long-awaited adjunct basketball practice facility is almost complete.

Kim Oatman, chief facilities officer of Facilties Management, said the majority of the work left on the $4.2 million, 18,000-square-foot addition to the CFSB Center primarily concerns outside site work. “(The facility) will be complete in a matter of weeks, pending weather,” Oatman said.

Pinnacle Inc., out of Benton, Ky., was the construction company that built the facility, and Hastings & Chivetta Architects, Inc. of St. Louis, Mo., was the hired architect firm.

Oatman said the construction managed to stay on budget but fell slightly behind schedule when the crews encountered massive unanticipated chunks of concrete while they were digging.

Construction was a little

behind schedule due to some unforseen issues – issues like buried concrete,” he said.

“These pieces of concrete had to be broken up and transported off site.”

Original estimates had placed construction complete by late January.

O at m a n said the finished product will look much like it does now e x c e p t with better Oatman lawn and landscaping and will be equipped with a regulation court, offices, conference rooms and support spaces for the men’s and women’s basketball programs.

Allen Ward, director of athletics, said the completion of the new practice facility will alleviate issues with the basketball teams not having un-

Ad-hoc committee sets parameters for review of president’s performance

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Ad-hoc committee members, Board of Regent’s Chair Constantine Curris, middle, Vice Chair Marilyn Buchanon and Stephen Williams , chair of the board’s finance committee, met in Louisville, Ky., to discuss the criteria the full board will apply while re-evaluating President Randy Dunn’s employment contract.

Austin Ramsey ||Editor-in-Chief aramsey5@murraystate.edu

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Board members outlined plans Wednesday to move forward with an evaluation document that the Board of Regents will use to make a final decision on President Randy Dunn’s employment contract.

In a special meeting of the board’s adhoc contract review committee in Louisville, committee members agreed on four strategic areas of importance in determining Dunn’s performance at the Uni-

versity: University progress, public resolutions of support or criticism, relationships between the board and the president and the board’s final contract.

Board Chair Constantine Curris, Vice Chair Marilyn Buchanon and Stephen Williams, chair of the board’s finance committee, are the three members of the adhoc committee, and were present Wednesday to discuss the four inititative goals.

Curris recommended that the committee collect specific data under each provision of the final report to the board.

Buchanon was assigned to compare University rankings from such national, factbased publications as U.S. News & World Report, Forbes and Kiplingers Personal Finance. She will take statistics from when Dunn was hired at the University in 2007 and compare how Murray State fared in the same publications more recently.

Williams will look into audit and compliance issues and the financial status of the University over the course of Dunn’s five years. He said it was important that

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Students celebrate month honoring heritage, 6A

VP and Director address intolerance on campus, 4A

Baseball and softball begin season today, 2B

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USPS cuts back on delivery

Police Beat Feb. 7 12:40 p.m. – A caller reported a vehicle being tampered with on campus.

Officers were notified and a report was taken.

11:04 p.m. – A caller reported an assault at Public Safety. Officers were notified and a report as taken for second-degree assault.

Feb. 8 2:50 p.m. – A caller reported a motor vehicle accident at Franklin Residential College. Officers took a collision report.

5:02 p.m. – A caller reported being stuck in an elevator at Sparks Hall. Officers and Central Plant were notified.

Feb. 9 12:25 a.m. – A caller reported a medical emergency at Franklin Residential College. Murray Ambulance Services were notified and Nathan Crotti, of Versailles, Ky., was issued a citation for public intoxication.

9:22 p.m. – A caller reported possible drug paraphernalia in Hester Residential College. Officers were notified and took a report.

Feb. 10 4:06 p.m. – An officer reported a road hazard at Roy Stewart Stadium. The roadway was cleared and an information report was taken.

8:23 p.m. – A caller reported a motor vehicle accident at Hart College. Officers took a collision report.

Feb. 11 2:54 p.m. – A caller reported an assault at the William

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“Bill” Cherry Exposition Center. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

11:40 p.m. – A caller reported a potential mechanical issue with traffic lights at Chestnut and North 16th streets. The Murray Police Department was notified.

Feb. 12 12 a.m. – A caller reported being harassed at Franklin Residential College. Officers took a a report.

1:35 p.m. – Officers issued a citation to Adam Cowarts, junior of Calvert City, Ky., and Thomas Sullivan, sophomore of Murray for possession of marijuana.

Jan. 30 10:20 a.m. – A caller reported a person threatening harm to himself at Wells Hall. Officers were notified and issued a citation.

12:11 p.m. – A caller reported a motor vehicle accident at the Hamilton Fields parking lot. Officers were notified and took took a report.

Call of Fame Feb. 7 – 11:36 p.m. A caller reported an open alcohol container at Hart College. Officers were notified and took an information report.

Lexy Gross || Assistant News Editor cgross2@murraystate.edu

The U.S. Postal Service is planning to end Saturday mail delivery by the beginning of August this year.

Without congressional consent, however, the service cannot make decisions on this large of a scale.

Over the last few years, the service has lost billions of dollars, mainly due to the technological changes in mail service. Ending Saturday delivery would decrease debt by $2.2 billion.

David Walton, media contact for Kentucky’s Postal Service, said he has no complaints about the change.

“It’s absolutely beneficial,” Walton said. “It will definitely help in the long run. We chose Saturdays because surveys showed seven out of 10 Americans said they wouldn’t mind going without mail delivery on the weekends.”

Walton also said the service is looking to run more as a business than a government organization.

Currently, national post offices run on their own revenue, with no funds coming from tax dollars.

Since Congress mandates the Postal Service, though, it cannot run as a normal business.

George Washington and James Madison started the legislation to open post offices in 1792. Saturday delivery began in 1863, the

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A Marshall County woman drops off her m ail at the Benton, Ky., p ost office. The U.S. Postal Service is consid ering d ropp ing Saturday mail delivery. same year letter delivery began.

Recent changes in technology have altered the service, especially after Americans began paying bills online. The only increase the service has received in the last few years has been in parcel delivery.

“The service can remain a viable model; it just needs to evolve,” Walton said.

While Walton said the least amount of daily mail is delivered on Saturdays, several businesses rely heavily on weekend mail.

Alice Rouse, publisher of the Murray Ledger & Times, said if Congress approves the changes, 1,000 customers will not receive

Lexy Gross, Assistant News Editor, compiles Police Beat with materials provided by Public Safety. Not all dispatched calls are listed.

said. “It’s really going to affect us if it does go through.”

While reports say one-third of all businesses are closed on Saturdays, Rouse said she believes the change will affect businesses other than newspapers.

Other than the changing business aspect of the postal service, federal post offices hire the most Americans, behind Walmart. Although the service has eliminated nearly 193,000 jobs, there has never been a major layoff.

While some think Congress needs to allow the Postal Service to act like a business, others think the it should adhere to policies the founding fathers created.

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their newspaper in the mail on Saturdays. Rouse said they may have to hire a courier for Saturday deliveries, which could be pricey. “(Using the Postal Service) was the reason we changed the structure to print the paper at 2:30 a.m. in instead of at 10:30 a.m,” Rouse said. “We’re going to have to watch the news, but we’re not sure what the game plan is.”

Rouse said an option is always to stop putting out a paper for Saturdays, although she has never wanted to make that decision.

“As the time changes, you have to change with the times,” Rouse

The rules, elections and bylaws committee of Faculty Senate is distributing the guidelines for the teaching excellence awards given by the Board of Regents. The award is given to recognize and commend excellent teaching performance.

The $1,000 award and a certificate of commendation signed by the president of the University will be given each spring to selected recipients from each college.

Recipients will lead the faculty procession at May and December commencements.

The Faculty Senate has forwarded the attached guidelines for selection of this year’s Regent’s Teachers. The University Libraries are included in this year’s process.

The School of Nursing and Hutson School of Agriculture are not eligible for an award this year. An eligible faculty member may be recommended by faculty, students, staff or other interested professionals.

Recommendations should be submitted to the department in which the faculty member is teaching by March 1, 2013.

All full-time teaching faculties are eligible to be nominated for the awards after serving two academic years at Murray State; however, faculties receiving the award are not eligible again for four years.

They are eligible to be nominated and selected for the award again in the fifth year.

Department chairs may not be nominated for the award.

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TWITTER From Page 1 open on Twitter, despite the negative attention.

The account @MurrayAsian was on the web for almost a year before its removal Monday.

Catherine Sivills, assistant vice president of University Communications, said if the University finds anonymous accounts, they will sometimes follow them to keep an eye on (them) and make sure they are not misrepresenting the University in an offensive way.

“We own the words Murray State,” Sivills said.

“We’re registered with the state and anybody who uses those names in something that represents the University, they need to have permission to use it. You own the rights to your name and your logos, so on social media, when people pretend they are representing something about your University, that’s a breach of logo and trademark.”

She said they are not paying for a licensing fee and that is like stealing the name of Murray State.

She said people have the right to their own opinions and the right to create any Twitter account, but the University does not want them using the Murray State name.

She said Murray State’s campus has zero tolerance for hate speech. “@MurrayAsian was making fun of the students who were maybe a little different than the traditional students here from Kentucky,” Sivills said. “It was a bully mentality.”

She said she feels like the students do not realize when they post things to the Internet they stay there forever.

FACILITY From Page 1 limited access to the court in the CFSB Center.

“Thanks to a lot of hard work by the Murray State Facilities Management Team, our architect, Hastings & Chivetta, and general contractor, Pinnacle Inc., we were able to locate the new building where there is both locker room and training room access from the court area,” Ward said.

He said it will make it convenient for the coaches and players and give them 24/7 access to the areas they use daily.

“Although the CFSB Center staff is very good to work with, there are a number of times throughout the year when the main court isn't available for

“Even if you did it with no intention of hurting anyone, it makes everyone take a step back and realize cyber-bullying is still very real,” Sivills said. “College-aged kids should know better.”

Student Government Association President Jeremiah Johnson said with people using fake emails like ones created by Google, there really is not a way to track who is behind the offensive accounts.

“It is a problem, and I am not really sure what to do to stop it, or even where our jurisdiction as a University lies in patrolling Twitter due to the freedom of speech.”

So far, Johnson has found 26 parody accounts relating to the University.

He said there were others that targeted the city more specifically.

One student, Daneto Matally, sophomore from Owensboro, Ky., said via email the anonymous accounts should be shut down due to the bad reputation they are giving Murray State.

While the sites have not affected her personally, she said they are outrageous and disgusting.

Matally, who is black, is especially concerned with accounts such as @MSUblackpeople.

“I don't understand how anyone can find humor in these anonymous accounts targeted toward specific races, gender and religion,” Matally said. “Sadly, it goes farther than the accounts. Everyday I hear racist remarks concerning black, Asian and Arab students. Why is this?

Aren't we all Racers?”

She said if someone is going to have freedom of speech, they should own up to what they are saying on social media.

“Do not hide behind anonymous accounts and target others,” Matally said. “There is only one word to describe those who feel the need to create offensive accounts: coward.”

practice,” he said. “Therefore, it was our goal during the capital campaign to name the former RSEC and direct those funds to address a very pressing need.”

The majority of the new practice facilities budget came from the initial $3.3 million donated by the Community Financial Services Bank.

CFSB bought the naming rights to the events center in September of 2011, prior to purchase it was known as the RSEC. The other portion of the money raised for the new facility’s budget came from private donors who were honored through the naming of the various aspects of the facility in early November.

The men’ and women’s head coach’s office suites, which will be located inside the new building, will be

named the Suiter Family Head Coach’s Suite, currently located underneath the Roy Stewart Stadium.

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams were able to utilize the new practice court the past few weeks.

The courts were named after donors Bill and Irene Morgan.

Oatman said the easternmost portion of the facility is being set aside for the new home of the Hall of Fame and will be finished in the future, its completion not hindering the use of the buildings faculties.

Currently, the Hall of Fame resides beneath Roy Stewart Stadium in the Racer Room.

Its relocation will give it more visibility and make it more easily accessible to students and the public, he said.

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ADDRESS From Page 1 “It could be difficult because conditions a year from now could change,” Denson said. “It may be a little early, but it’s a good plan and it should happen.”

Obama discussed spending cuts in the military over the course of the next year as well. He wants to focus on the specialization of military parts, since the technology in war is changing.

“As long as readiness isn’t cut and we can still remain the power we are today, I think it’s okay,” Denson said. “As a commander, it is our challenge and our duty to safeguard and protect the taxpayer money at all times.”

After discussing foreign affairs, Obama struck a mine of emotions in the room when he discussed gun control.

“More than a thousand birthdays, graduations and anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun,” Obama said.

Changes include requiring criminal background checks for gun sales, a ban on assault weapons and limiting ammunition.

COMMITTEE From Page 1 the committee measure and acknowledge the number of legal issues in which Murray State has been involved for the sake of comparison.

Finally, Curris, who lives and works in Lexington, Ky., will personally visit the CPE offices in Frankfort to collect information on enrollment, graduation rates, state appropriations and incoming ACT scores, among other facts and figures.

He said it was important to compare the figures his search uncovered not only with past years at the University, but similar data from sister universities in the state.

Buchanon suggested that data could also be compared to universities of similar size such as Austin Peay in Clarksville, Tenn., but Williams and Curris agreed that the method of measurement would only be standardized if data were collected from the same institution.

“We just want to know how Murray State is doing today in light of where it was in 2007,” Curris said.

At the start of the meeting, Curris said it was important that all ad-hoc committee Regents come to agreement for the final report that will be presented to the board.

He said he understood that some disagreements will come up, but that minimal wording should outline that upon which members disagree. Rather, the final report should reflect mainly agreeable language for the sake of clarity.

When a soldier takes an oath, he takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution and the U.S.” –Major Paul Denson ROTC Officer.

Obama told Congress he will put his 23 proposals through the House and Senate, and he wants them all to pass. He said the changes are a part of common sense reform, even for those strong advocates for the Second Amendment.

“When a soldier takes an oath, he takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the U.S.,” Denson said. “Whatever is done in accordance with our constitution, I whole-heartedly support.”

He ended the address by highlighting Americans such as Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old woman from Florida who stood in line for hours just to vote.

“We may do different jobs, and wear different uniforms, and hold different views than the person beside us,” Obama said. “But as Americans, we all share the same proud title. We are citizens.”

Dunn assumed the position of president in December of 2006. His current contract, revised in 2010, is set to expire June 30, 2014, but it stipulates that the Board of Regents must decide on an extension by June 30 of this year.

In December, the board passed a resolution to create the ad-hoc committee and outlined two important dates.

On March 15, the committee plans to go into executive session with the full board to measure its progress. There still exists some question as to whether or not it is legal for board to hold that meeting in a closed session.

When Curris was asked how the meeting would be held, he said that decision could not be made until farther along in the contract review process, despite the fact that the board already passed the resolution outlining the intention to hold the meeting behind closed doors.

“I don’t know,” he said. “We haven’t come to that point yet.”

Curris, who spoke with reporters after Wednesday’s meeting, said the final board decision on Dunn’s contract would likely not occur until June in a special meeting for budget finalization business.

The ad-hoc committee, which received data collection assignments Wednesday, will discuss a time to meet at least once more before the March meeting.

In May, the ad-hoc committee will present its findings to the full board.

Only then, Curris said, will actual contract negotiations take place. He did say, however, that the board could make a recommendation to either renew or deny the contract at any time after the March meeting.

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Two great universities

A generation of bullies The staff editorial is the majority opinion of The Murray State News Editorial Board.

Controversy is something we have dealt with at Murray State from time to time, and the recent controversy over parody twitter accounts is something that needs to be discussed in an open and public manner. We would like to take this opportunity to make a broader point about how we all conduct ourselves in the 21st century.

The @MurrayAsian account wasn’t a stand-alone case – there are too many too mention here and they are simply the end result of a young adult culture in this country that thrives on making other people feel bad about who they are, how they look, or what they do. We’ve all been to the People of Wal-Mart website.

We’ve all had a chuckle here or there at someone else’s expense, and we’ve all felt a bit better about ourselves because of it.

Our generation’s culture has developed around the Internet – around the social network and around the smart phone. We have become a generation that shares everything with everyone.

We Instagram pictures of the food we eat. We tweet about professors we don’t like. We post pictures of a trip to the mall on Facebook. We pin recipes to Pinterest. Some of us still repost those terrible chain letters from a decade ago on MySpace.

The point we are trying to drive home here is that sharing things we see or think has become second-nature to most of us.

We do it without thinking. We say mean, vile, nasty things about one another online without a second thought. We take pictures of people we think others will find funny and upload them to the Internet, and, in doing so, we forget something – something big.

These are people we are laughing at. These are people who we are putting down. These are people that we are tweeting about and making Facebook statuses about and taking pictures of without their knowledge. These are living, breathing human beings with feelings, with families, with friends.

We have become a generation of bullies.

We talk a good game when it’s anti-bullying week. We talk about how much we hate bullying and about how wrong it is to bully.

But the truth is we love it. We love the power that comes from making someone else feel like they are worth less than we are. It is a thrill that each one of us enjoys, whether we want to admit it or not. It is something that we all have to face if we want to change it.

We are not saying that joking around is not acceptable or that we don’t want anyone to have a good laugh here or there. What we are saying is that there is a line that needs to be clear and doesn’t need to be crossed. Joking in good fun is a hell of a lot different than putting someone down and calling it funny.

We are not saying that criticism is not warranted of others, either. But we are saying that criticism needs to be constructive, not destructive.

We also are not saying those who spout racist, bigoted or ignorant things need to be stopped from saying them. We believe every person in this country has the right of free speech by virtue of birth and that a person’s right to free speech should not be abridged.

But we do believe that hateful and bigoted speech should be called out for what it is – wrong.

Those who express this kind of hatefulness against others should be publicly called out for what they’re doing and publicly shamed for it.

We’d like to ask the person or persons behind these accounts, like the @MurrayAsian account if that’s how he or she would like Murray State to be seen by our foreign student population? What about the city of Murray by our neighboring cities, or our University by our sister universities?

What about our country by the foreign students that come here? Have you no shame? Have you no decency?

But we at the paper are not free of blame. Only last week, we published an article that included some of the more controversial Twitter accounts under a headline describing them as fun. While regrettable, we promptly removed the story from TheNews.org and have refocused our efforts on broadening how we report these issues and how they really impact the readers.

We need to start following the “Golden Rule” we all learned in Elementary School – treat others as you’d like to be treated. That really shouldn’t be something we have to learn again at the university level, but apparently it’s a lesson that our generation never really picked up on.

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I think I know how Tyler Holloway, the assistant coach of the Belmont Bruins and the former shooting guard at Murray State, felt as he sat on the Belmont bench next to the scorer’s table last Duane Bolin Thursday.

He watched as Professor of his beloved Racers History held off a courageous late game charge by the Bruins to win 74-70, to maintain Murray State’s credentials as the team to beat in the OVC. I love Murray State, the institution that gave me a chance to come into my own as a professor of history, with a department that gave me the freedom to teach and research and serve, to develop my talents, to improve my weaknesses, and to practice my calling. I will always love Belmont, the institution where I discovered my calling, where mentors nourished my mind and soul, and where basketball disciplined my body and use of time to such an extent that I was able in hindsight to hold off genetic heart disease for years and organize my life in a way to accomplish more than I had the ability to accomplish.

Murray State and Belmont are two classy universities, and the Racers and the Bruins are the two basketball programs that represent the two classiest programs in the OVC and perhaps in the nation. Evelyn and I were given two ringside seats by our provost, Dr, Bonnie Higginson and her husband, Cliff, who were representing Murray State in Belize.

When I first went to Belmont as a freshman in 1974, I thought I had hit the big time. After all, my hometown of Dixon, a town of 500 souls, had one stoplight only, at the intersection of Leiper Street and Highway 41-A, just down the street from my father’s drugstore.

Once we made it through Guthrie, we would make our way through a serene countryside to Adams, and then Springfield and Ridgetop, before finally coming in sight of the Nashville skyline.

I went from Webster County High School to play basketball and study History at Belmont College, a small Baptist liberal arts institution. In those days, we played Fisk in the Volunteer State Athletic Conference, affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.

We played our home games in Striplin Gym, and we traveled on a bus to faraway places such as Tusculum and Tennessee Temple and Carson-Newman in the east, and Union and Christian Brothers and LemoyneOwen on our western swing.

When Rick Byrd became head coach, little Belmont would make some noise in the NAIA’s national tournament, but the teams I played on in the 1970s were mediocre at best.

Belmont makes it into the NCAA tournament again and again, the same thing we are familiar with at Murray State.

I think Dr. Randy Dunn saw me talking with Belmont’s Dr. Fisher. Dr. Dunn, I want you to know that I have been commissioned to write the history of Belmont University.

At the end of a recent, lengthy interview with Dr. Fisher about his tenure at the Nashville institution, the Belmont president told me that at OVC meetings Dr. Dunn was the most impressive president in the room.

Again, everywhere I turn, my university makes me proud.

And Belmont University has come a long way. I am honored to tell the Belmont Story. And I am honored to teach and write and work at Murray State. I have had the best of two worlds, two classy universities. I could not ask for more.

Cheers to ... early spring weather.

It might be a little muggy and Cheers & Jeers is written by rainy but it is the Opinion Editor. certainly worth Questions, concerns or com- it for a little more sunshine. ments should be addressed to We really could pass on dgriggs@murraystate.edu the tornadoes though. Seriously.

Cheers & Jeers

Jeers to ... the lack of available p a rk i n g space for students at the Curris Center. Shouldn’t we have more spots to park in at our own student center?

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Recent incidents have caused us to reflect on how to handle issues of race and intolerance on campus. The recent use of Twitter to promote bigotry and intolerance has many wondering how far the Murray State community has really come.

Murray State is a culturDon Robertson S.G. Carthell ally diverse campus and Director, Vice President for we have seen the beneOffice of Student Affairs Multicultural fits of that diversity.

However, with that said, Affairs rights are given by the United States Constitution for others to have opposing views.

We can look to the characteristics of an MSU Graduate to help us dictate how we express any divergent views and values within our community.

“The sixth characteristic of the MSU graduate is an understanding of the dynamics of cultural diversity, of competing economic and political systems and of complex moral and ethnical issues.”

“The seventh characteristic of the MSU graduate is the understanding of the importance of and engagement in ethical behavior and responsible citizenship.”

Students should not wait until they have graduated and then seek to espouse these characteristics. Faculty and staff should not only assume students should exhibit these characteristics. We should begin now by speaking out against injustice and intolerance in our community. Many may say this is not their issue or concern; however, it is everyone’s issue and concern if we are to consider this a true intellectual community. A few misguided persons should not set the agenda, control the climate or dictate the direction of the campus community.

Remember, “Silence is Acceptance,” so speak loudly against all forms of hate.

Letters to the Editor In Spring 2012, Ken Ham from the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., spoke in Paducah, Ky., at the Heartland Baptist Church.

The end of a Christmas season and the beginning of another spring semester here at Murray State, an institution dedicated to the dissemination of information on how our world really works, is an opportune time to comment on the disastrous content of his talk.

Despite his dogmatic claims to the contrary, dinosaurs and humans have never co-habited this planet.

His utterly absurd interpretation of Biblical scripture requires a complete fabrication and thorough denial of all we know about dinosaurs, humans and other animals’ existence on this Earth. We should be outraged.

The idea that dinosaurs ever walked the Earth at the same time as humans is as utterly fanciful and completely wrong as suggesting that Santa Claus is really, really real.

We tell our children the truth as they get older because given a complete absence of evidence for a real Santa Claus, we know better.

We all know it is a myth. To insist Santa ex-

isted as our children got older would be the worst sort of lie, but there’s a worse one.

Ham’s supposition that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as humans is not only completely lacking in evidence as much as the Santa myth, but worse, is in direct opposition to mountains of evidence to the contrary.

The denial of the fossil, geologic, biologic and genetic evidence that absolutely demonstrates there is not a snowball’s chance in hell that dinosaurs were anywhere closer than 60 million years removed from the advent of humanity is as obscene a lie as ever perpetrated on the American public.

And the state of Kentucky is giving this clown millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when real education is being cut by millions in this state to turn his lies into a water park. We should all be outraged.

No dinosaur fossils have ever been found with human remains nor damningly with any of the millions of species that did exist on Earth with humans.

There are mammals, birds and reptiles that

Woah. Not cool. You may want to tell Kelsey Randolph to actually read the Twitter accounts she's writing about and if she did, then she needs some sensitivity training. I can't believe The News (I was at Murray State from 1999-2003, and thought highly of our paper.) would endorse drivel like the @MurrayAsian Twitter feed. That Twitter feed is not funny; it's racist.

I would love for this email to be longer, but I seriously cannot find the right words to communicate how disappointing it was to read that article on the website. I'm still in a bit of shock and disbelief. I only ask that next time you contemplate writing about a Twitter feed like that in a positive light, you think about the implications of your actions.

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we know for certain that coexisted with humans: cattle, horses, antelope, monkeys, pigs, etc., and we find their fossils by the millions in strata all over the world with early human and recent human remains. But not once ever, anywhere on the planet has a single dinosaur bone been found with any of those millions of species, or us.

Not once. Not anywhere, not anytime.

The coexistence of dinosaurs and humans is a complete lie. To teach otherwise goes directly against the commitment to evidence and the honest advance of human knowledge that this and every other university stands for.

And yet we have religious organizations on this campus whose leaders tell our students to ignore their biology and archaeology textbooks and professors that demonstrate the data of the completely separate evolution of humans and dinosaurs.

We should all be outraged, and some of us are.

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It’s morning.

Laura yawns and hits the snooze button on her alarm clock before rolling back over and catching another five minutes of rest before her day begins.

Laura has a fullDevin Griggs time job as a waitOpinion Editor ress in a local diner. After she gets up and gets dressed, Laura exits her small apartment (she would have preferred a larger one, but the $2.13 minimum wage for waitresses doesn’t allow for much wiggle room, even with tips included) and walks down the street in the light of dawn.

She will spend the rest of her day pouring coffee, putting on a smile and relying on the kindness of others for whatever money she needs to live.

Laura’s story is a work of fiction, but Laura’s experience as a waitress is an experience that many Murray State students can relate to.

Even if you aren’t in Laura’s position and are making slightly more than she is (say $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage), chances are you are having a hard time making ends meet. A full-time employee working a minimum wage job only makes $15,080 per year. There are no states in the union where a full-time minimum wage worker can afford a two bedroom apartment.

Congress voted to raise the minimum wage in 2007 from an abysmally low $5.85 an hour to $7.25 and hasn’t acted on another increase since then. Prior to the 2007 raise, the minimum wage had not been raised in a decade. The story is bleaker for waiters and waitresses – Congress hasn’t bothered to raise their wages in 22 years. Industry lobbying is the ultimate culprit for why Congress has dragged its feet on raising the minimum wage.

Jim Skinner, the former CEO of McDonald’s, made $8.75 million last year (580 times the annual pay of one of his employees) and helped bankroll efforts to keep the minimum wage down because it might cost him a bit of his $82.3 million retirement package. Had the minimum wage kept up with the cost of living, it would be around $10.58 per hour hour today, a whole three dollars higher than the current minimum wage.

I’ve worked in fast food since I graduated high school. When people degrade my co-workers to their face or behind their back, when they belittle the work they do, I think about what that says about us as a people. I think about the single dad who has to work two jobs to make ends meet. I think about the mom who has to choose between paying for gas to get to work and buying diapers and baby food. I think about the students who already don’t make enough and get their hours cut and then have to come up with money to pay for tuition, books, housing – you name it.

The President came out in favor of a higher minimum wage in his State of the Union Speech on Tuesday. His proposal, $9 an hour still isn’t enough to live on – but it’s a start. Sixty seven percent of Americans are with the President on a higher minimum wage. If there is any policy that has a chance of passing the House, it is this one. The people at the bottom of the totem pole need a raise and it’s up to us to make sure that it happens. Call your representatives and tell them that you support raising the minimum wage – if not for yourself then for your friends or family members. Do it for your country – because in the richest nation on the Earth, no person that works for a living should live in poverty.

Devin Griggs is vice president of finances for the Murray State College Democrats. dgriggs@murraystate.edu

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Black Student Council celebrates diversity Samantha Villanueva || Staff writer svillanueva@murraystate.edu

Black Student Council represents the largest minority at Murray State and is a part of one of the big four student leadership groups.

BSC was brought to Murray State to help celebrate the diverse population.

Courtney Brasher, president of the BSC, said the organization not only deals with issues such as student wants, but also introduce new programs.

“Black Student Council is an organization designed for African-American Students to cover issues on campus concerning them,” she said.

“We also implement programming that involves the campus and community in order to uplift the African-American community.”

Brasher, junior from Nashville, Tenn., said through diversity, the minority group helps to ensure blacks on campus have a voice that it is

heard. She said the groups strives for excellence.

An example Brasher said the group dealt with had to do with one of the parody twitter account @MSUBlackpeople. She said it was highly offensive and it was the Black Student Council's role to be the voice and collaborate with the administration on campus to discuss ways the University can combat pressing issues such as this.

The BSC speaks on different forums, such as Campus Activities Board, Dining Services Food Committee and the Residential College Association. Brasher said, the BSC has a representative of each residential college, although the position at Elizabeth Residential College is currently vacant.

The representative of each residential college is responsible for being the liaison between BSC and the residential colleges in order to create a stronger network. They report news from residential colleges at BSC meetings, and they report BSC news as necessary at RCC meetings. BSC

delegates also put programs in residential colleges.

Brasher said although the group is mainly targeted at black students, anyone who agrees with the mission of the BSC is welcome to join.

Brasher said one thing she would like all students to know about the BSC is the organization helps students realize the voice they have.

“Let your voice be heard about issues that may concern you or if you simply want to give positive feedBrasher back. Murray State University has supportive staff that is here to help and to make sure that you succeed and have a positive college experience.”

She said she would like all of the students on campus to know their voice matters and the BSC

wants to help them be represented and make their voice heard.

Don Robertson, vice president of Student Affairs, said because the BSC assists in the communication between the University and its student body, the group is vital to student feedback.

“BSC represents our largest minority population on campus,” he said. “To hear how our policies and programs are affecting the minority population, this group helps us realize if we are meeting their needs.”

Other than the BSC providing feedback on how some of the student population react toward University policies, Robertson said the group also helps in enriching the culture of the school.

Said Robertson: “It’s a group we should utilize and get recommendations from. This group plays an important role on campus. We look at this group to provide us names to help show that we are reflecting the diversity of the University.”

Students celebrate black history month Alex Berg || Staff writer aberg1@murraystate.edu

In contribution to the spirit of appreciation that embodies the month of February, the African Students Club and the Black Student Council find ways to recognize the history of African-American culture.

Tonight, the ASC will host the event “A Taste of Africa,” from 6-8 p.m. in the Curris Center Ballroom.

The event is open to the public and will showcase African culture through food and music.

The event helped to relay the reverence of African and African-American culture as it followed the recent event, “An Evening with Spike Lee: America Through My Lens,” which touched on race relations, stereotypes in Hollywood and social and political agendas.

These events are not rare occurrences for Murray State, however, as the University has hosted similar events in the past. In 2011, the University invited the renowned black author and poet Maya Angelou to speak to students about her historical experiences with racial issues and the importance of education.

Among Angelou’s catalog of historically influential achievements, she worked alongside black liberators such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X. Courtney Brasher, junior, from Nashville,

Tenn., president of the Black Student Council, credits brave African-American leaders for the opportunities she has today as a liberated individual.

“If it were not for bold, courageous African-American leaders who relentlessly fought for liberty and justice, most AfricanAmericans, as well as other races, would not have the opportunity to enjoy life as it is today,” Brasher said. “Although we can never repay the brave men and women for their valiant pursuit of equality, we can Pearson show our appreciation by striving for excellence in leadership, character, education and all that we do”.

Black History Month is an opportunity to commemorate the efforts and sacrifices of those brave souls who paved the way for my generation and beyond.”

The BSC is also working within residential colleges to bring awareness to black culture. At the end of the month, White Residential College will be hosting the event “A Soul Food Happening,” where several black residents of White college will prepare a soul food meal which will be served to students living in White College.

According to James Broughton, professor of Health Sciences and Human Services, the

idea behind programs like this one is to have more recognition and social events among international, white and black students living together, to understand cultural differences and similarities.

“Like any other major event on campus, I would like to see more students come out and support these types of programs” Broughton said. “The African-American culture has played, and continues to play, a vital role in the development and history of the U.S. I would like to have more students and community members engage and recognize the impact the African-American culture has had in our history and how the African-American culture will impact our future.”

Morgan Pearson, junior from Louisville, Ky., treasurer of the BSC, readily agrees with Broughton’s statement and the importance of Black History Month is not limited to African-American history, but is pertinent to American history in general.

"Black history month is an important time for everyone, not just African-Americans, to reflect and learn more about the trials and triumphs African-Americans have experienced throughout history,” Pearson said. “It isn't just the history for blacks, it has an important place in American history, and it should not be overlooked. We must learn from the past, and stand on the shoulders of our ancestors in order to fulfill not only our dreams, but theirs as well."

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POPE BENEDICT XVI RESIGNS Pope Benedict XVI presided over his last Ask Wednesday services, two days after announcing that he will be resigning as Pope on Feb. 28, shocking Catholics across the globe. The Pope’s decision to step down was influenced by his deteriorating health. The task now at hand for Vatican officials is to choose Pope Benedict’s successor.

Contenders from South America and Africa already beginning to vy for the position.

MANHUNT FOR EX-LAPD ENDS The on-going manhunt for exLAPD police officer Christopher Dorner, may have come to an end Wednesday after almost a week of searching. Police surrounded the cabin in San Bernardino County where Dorner, suspected of killing three people was hiding. After brief gunfire, the cabin caught fire. A charred body was found in the cabin’s rubble, but its identity was not confirmed.

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Of the 30 cadets currently enrolled in the ROTC program at Murray State, approximately one-third are women. As of Jan. 23, only 20 of the cadets had access to almost 237,000 military jobs, including those on the front lines of battle.

On Jan. 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the 19-year-old ban on women serving in combat at the recommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Despite the historic nature of the ban being lifted, Major Paul Denson, officer in charge of the ROTC program at Murray State, said he did not think the decree will affect those currently serving in the program.

“I don’t have one (female cadet) right now who would even want to serve in combat,” Denson said. “Now that the ban is over, it creates another avenue women can think about but I don’t think there are women out there who haven’t joined the military or ROTC solely because they couldn’t get a combatslated job.”

Denson said the main reason for the change in the military’s long-standing tradition came now was due to the nature of the conflicts the U.S. has been involved in recently.

“It was the two conflicts we’ve been in these past 1012 years that facilitated the change,” Denson said.

“Women have most definitely stepped up into combat roles already, not by design, but because you’re there, you’re leaving the gate, and bad things happen outside the gate.’”

Despite not officially serving on the front line, 152 women have died and more than 800 have been wounded.

The knowledge women and men receive while in basic training and in ROTC is identical, most of the education being focused on small squad tactics, rifleman training and basic infantrymen skills.

The divergence between males and females cadet training is seen in the difference between physical expectations.

“In our present day society, people want things to be equal and given the same opportunities. When a ban is created, especially one like this, people are going to fight for it to be lifted.”

–Sarah Stafford, cadet “Physical training is probably the only area where there’s a difference in expectations,” Denson said.

“There’s a difference between male and female pushups scores, females being lesser, and there’s also a difference in the two-mile run in the time needed to be completed under.”

Sarah Stafford, graduate student junior ROTC cadet from Hopkinsville Ky., said she believes the attention of most of the critics of the ban’s lifting has been too focused on the physical strain that a front-line job entails.

“What people are forgetting is that the physical part is just one aspect,” she said.

“You want a strong leader, one who is vocal and makes good, moral decisions. You

want someone you can actually follow into combat, rather than someone who can just carry you.”

Stafford said she thinks the ban being lifted will be beneficial to the military although she does not want to serve in combat.

“I think no matter what your job is in the military, there is always a possibility that you will face combat,” Stafford said. “That is why the Army trains you a specific way. In our present-day society, people want things to be equal and given the same opportunities.”

Stafford, who agreed with Denson, said she did not anticipate a rise in women joining the ROTC program or the military simply because the ban was lifted.

“I do not think that more women will join because of this, maybe a few but not many,” Stafford said. “If you look back on recent issues like lifting the ban on homosexuality, everyone thought that a lot of homosexual people were going to join.

Denson also said he believed the military made the right decision in allowing women to join the infantry.

“As long as we don’t lower the standards or change the way that we’ve been proven effective to fight then, I think it’s a good thing,” he said. “It’s going to make the military stronger.”

The military has until 2016 to finish developing the necessary changes to their protocol and training to allow for women to serve in combat.

Said Denson: “I think it has happened at the right time and as long as it’s handled in the way it appears to be handled right now, I believe it will be an asset.”

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CHAMBER BREAKFAST: Mayor Bill Wells addresses the community Wednesday at the chamber breakfast. Wells gave an overview of the Murray’s biggest events from 2012.

Liquor arrives in Murray Staff Report Friendly Liquor, Wine & Beer became the first liquor store to open in Murray on Feb. 8 after it received its city liquor license. The store opened at 3 p.m., and customers filled the parking lot and the store to purchase packaged liquor.

Joey Allen, owner of Friendly Liquor’s said he moved liquor from his other stores to the one in Murray for opening day. By Saturday night, the entire store was sold out.

“The store was packed,” Allen said. “It was like you were attending a Beatles concert.”

Allen owns two other liquor

stores and has made the move into a recently wet county before.

He said he was not worried about losing customers to the other liquor stores closer to campus open.

City Alcohol Beverage Control Administrator Kendra Clere said the rest of the stores will probably not have liquor until after the first of March.

The licenses were issued earlier in the week and they all expire on March 31.

Locations that have received state licenses will still have to meet codes and city approval before they can start selling.

The other liquor stores will be located on Chestnut Street, South 12th Street, Main Street and North 12th Street.

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Senior Isaiah Canaan struggles with the Cougars defense to remain in control of the ball during the Racers’ loss to SIUE Thursday night in Edwardsville, Ill. The Racers, who usually dominate the second half, struggled to make shots, shooting only 31 percent from the field and 18 percent from 3-point range.

Second-half shooting trouble ends with OVC loss Jonathan Ferris || Staff writer jferris2@murraystate.edu

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hen news of a suspension for SIUE’s leading scorer Jerome Simpson came down 30 minutes prior to tipoff, it seemed as if the Racers might have an easy time with the 8-13 Cougars, Thursday night in Edwardsville, Ill. Unfortunately for Murray State, the Cougars didn’t miss him one bit.

“I knew when I found out they kicked the one kid off the team, I knew it was going to be a different team,” Murray State Head Coach Steve Prohm said. “I knew they were going to have a different focus, and they did.”

Junior guard Tim Johnson stepped into a starting role for just the second time this season.

He filled in nicely for the suspended Jones, scoring nine points on 4-11 shooting from the field, while also chipping in seven rebounds and logging a team high 38 minutes.

“Tim stepped up,” senior forward Mark Yelovich said. “I thought Tim could do that all year. He’s a great

player where he can be a starter all year. Guys definitely stepped up and we’re going to need that all season.”

Johnson made an immediate impact, scoring five of the Cougars first nine points. After five minutes of play, SIUE’s hot start had Murray State trailing 11-6.

Both teams battled for the remainder of the first half, swapping runs and keeping each other in sight.

With five seconds to go, Isaiah Canaan found Brandon Garrett down the floor for an easy dunk to give the Racers a 30-28 halftime lead.

“I think Murray State is a great team in the second half,” SIUE Head Coach Lennox Forrester said.” … “We knew the second half was their half, so we had to make sure we were very solid in the first half and then match their intensity in the second half and I thought our guys did that.”

Murray State struggled to hit shots in the second half. Shooting just 31 percent from the field and 18 percent from 3-point range, the Cougar defense made it difficult for the Racers to get anything going.

The teams continued to trade shots until the 9:28 mark when the Cougars

went on a 9-3 run, storming out to a 53-45 lead with 6:12 to play.

The Racers attempted a comeback, but an offensive rebound by Johnson with 37 seconds remaining forced the Racers to foul. The Cougars made free throws down the stretch and the clock struck zero on a 65-60 Murray State loss.

In recent games, the team had improved in the turnover department, averaging just seven in the last three games. The struggles returned Thursday night, however as the Racers gave it up 17 times. Seniors Canaan, Stacy Wilson and Latreze Mushatt combined for 13 of the giveaways.

It‘s just one of those games ... one of those games,” Mushatt said.

“Three seniors, we turned it over a few times and we know what we did wrong. We’re going to watch film tomorrow or tonight and see what we did wrong and try to correct it tomorrow and Saturday.”

Canaan was also held in check offensively for most of the game.

Though he finished with 20 points, he struggled from the field, making just 7-22 shots.

The pain of the loss intensified

when the Racers found out Belmont had also lost to Tennessee State earlier in the evening. With the Bruins loss, the Racers would have taken over the top spot in the conference and been closer to defending their three consecutive championships – had they won.

“We had a break go our way where if we would finish out well, we could win four (championships) in a row,” Prohm said, “and we just couldn’t get it done. That doesn’t mean it’s over yet, but we had opportunities …

This is a bad loss just because of the ramifications of it. It’s a tough, tough loss.”

The Racers continue their road trip Saturday as they travel to Charleston, Ill. to face Eastern Illinois. Now desperately needing a win, Mushatt believes the team must now get back to work and improve its focus. “(We just have to ) come and practice hard tomorrow,” Mushatt said.

“We can’t take any team lightly and we figured it out right now. They came out and wanted it more than us and we got to do better than that.”

The Racers and Panthers tipoff at 6 p.m. Saturday.

Last semester, I wrote a column containing my top two male professional athlete crushes.

There are definitely more than two people in the Jaci Kohn sports world Sports Editor that I crush on.

Since Valentine’s Day was Thursday, I thought I would dedicate this column to a few more of my favorites. However, these three athletes are a little different from the last two. This column contains my top girl crushes. These women are not only amazing athletes, but have amazing stories and are women I look up to.

At the top of the list has to be Hope Solo. She was the goalie for the gold medal winning 2008 and 2012 U.S. Olympic Team in London and Bejing. Many, myself included, believe she is the best goaltender in the world. In the USA National team program, Solo started in the goal for every age level. I’d say she is definitely inspirational and crush-worthy.

In 2012, just before the London Olympics, Solo was the subject of controversy. She was given a public warning by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for testing positive for a banned substance. Solo proved that it was a mistake; she was prescribed medicine and didn’t know the illegal substance was in the medicine. Solo was cleared and was allowed to play in the Olympics. Thankfully.

I wanted to be Brittany Pozzi when I was younger. Growing up, I thought she was the best barrel racer ever. I read an article about her when I was in elementary school and instantly wanted to ride like her.

She has won the barrel racing world title twice and qualified for the National Finals Rodeo nine times. I was in awe of how amazing she and her horse were. I remember screaming at the TV screen when she won her first World Championship buckle in 2006 on her chestnut-colored horse, Stitch.

I read about this next lady in a Seventeen Magazine. Not the most sporty of magazines, but her story was inspiring. She has a gold medal of her own from the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Her gold medal was in boxing. 17-yearold Claressa Shields was the first American woman to win a gold medal in boxing.

When she first told her dad she wanted to be a boxer, he was not happy. He told her boxing was a man’s sport. However, she used his words as fuel to accomplish her dreams. She showed her dad that boxing was also a woman’s sport when she was named Most Outstanding Boxer at the Olympic Trials.

I do not only look up to these amazing female athletes for their athletic ability. I wish I was half as talented as they are. I also look up to them for their winning attitude, and their confidence.

Even when they were going through tough times, none of these women gave up. Shields grew up in the hard parts of Michigan. She has said many people she knew ended up in jail, including her own father.

Pozzi just recently lost her boyfriend. He died in his sleep a few months ago.

These women underwent major hardships and still came out on top. Shields learned to fight to protect herself and family, and it turned into her greatest success.

Even though Pozzi did not compete in many rodeos after her boyfriend’s death, she came back and finished third in the Women’s ProRodeo Association standings in 2012.

I can only hope to have these women’s strength and grace in the face of adversity. jkohn@murraystate.edu.

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It is that time of the year again. The field is swept and the ‘Breds are ready to compete.

The Murray State baseball team kicks off its season today with a series against the University of Central Arkansas.

In the two teams’ last match-up on March 2-4, Murray State won two out of three games. The ‘Breds won the first game after striking out 20 batters in a 17inning game. The second game featured an exciting ninth inning comeback win after senior Brandon Elliott from Plymouth, Ind., hit a two-run double to third base to bring home seniors Dylan Wheeler (Vestavia Hills, Ala.) and Paul Ritzheimer (Trenton, Ill.).

Last year, the ‘Breds finished ninth in the OVC, which is where the team was picked to finish this season in the preseason poll. The team finished last season with a record of 23-33 overall and 8-19 in conference play, Senior pitcher Will Handlin from Houston, Texas, said after two seasons the team has a newfound hunger this season.

“The last two years haven’t been as good as we’ve wanted them to be,” he said. “We had some injuries,

but that is not an excuse for what has happened. We want to show the world that is not how we come to play ball here.”

Heading into his 10th year as head coach, Rob McDonald said he believes his team is prepared to start the season today. Because of good playing conditions, there are less question marks than in past years. He said the players are excited to play against another team, instead of inter-squad scrimmages, and McDonald is excited to see how his team compares.

“I feel good about where we are right now,” he said. “We are ready to go play a game. We are probably in a better position right now than we have been in a lot of years because the weather has been a little bit better, and we have been on the field more than usual as we go into our first game.”

McDonald said he feels confident in the players he has on the team this season. Many of the returning veterans have proven themselves to be good Division I baseball players.

“I think a lot of our older guys do a great job of leading,” he said. “We have got a good group of leaders and I think our guys are working hard and doing the right things. We don’t pick captains because I feel like leaders need to lead and I don’t want to narrow it down to a couple or three guys and say that you guys are leaders and the others aren’t.”

Last season, the ‘Breds lost some powerful hitters, including Travis Isaak and Jacob Rhodes, due to graduation. However, this does not trouble McDonald because, as he said the team is going to hit the ball and score runs. It won’t be up to just one player to provide all the power.

He said he has many players who are good hitters, though senior Mike Kozlowski from Crown Point, Ind., is probably the team’s most powerful hitter. Last season, Kozlowski led the team in hits with 68 and was second in RBIs and runs scored.

“I hope that we will come at the other team in waves and attack the other team as a team,” he said. “I think we have got a lot of guys who can hit a lot of doubles that would be my desire more so than home runs.”

The team worked on fundamentals to prepare for the game against Central Arkansas and for all the other schools they will compete against. McDonald said he tries to keep his team solid and does not try anything too fancy. He just wants them to play the game.

“You know you’ve got to pitch and catch and hit the ball and run the bases. You can make it sound real complicated but if you do the fundamentals well, you have a chance of having a very good team.”

The first game of the series is today, at 6 p.m. in Conway, Ark.

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After finishing with their best non-conference record since the 2007-08 season, the Racers are drawing closer to the OVC tournament in Nashville, Tenn.

In their final non-conference game against the New Orleans, Murray State added to a sixgame winning streak when they defeated the Privateers 69-56.

It was a night of personal bests when senior guard Mariah Robinson earned her second double-double of the season with a gamehigh 21 points.

Freshman guard Erika Sisk also lit up the boards with 21 points of her own.

Head Coach Rob Cross said junior guard Erica Burgess also stepped up when she led the bench with 10 points.

However, the Racers could not add one more victory to their season-high win streak, they faced a loss (67-61) against OVC East rival Tennessee State, who dominated down the stretch in offensive rebounding and scoring in the paint.

“I’m not sure exactly what we were trying to accomplish, but it certainly wasn’t transition defense the way we taught it or what we’re looking for,” Cross said. “You need to stick with what got you there.”

Cross said the loss was a tough one because it is a reflection of what needs to change.

Murray State was consistent early in the season with double digit offensive rebound statistics and averaging over 70 percent in free throws.

In their last game against Tennessee State, the Racers went 1-5 behind the line, allowing the Tigers to extend a lead early in the half.

The Tigers also topped the Racers in offensive rebounds 19-14, an area where Cross said the team needs to desperately improve if they want to maintain a strong spot in the tournament.

Against teams like Burgess Austin Peay, Jacksonville State and New Orleans, Racer scoring was spread across the board. Nearly every player contributing in the wins.

In the loss against Tennessee State, Sisk had a season-high scoring night with 29 points, three assists and five rebounds. She was one of four other players to score in the first half.

“The one thing that I love is having your teammates there to comfort you instead of downing you,” Sisk said. “They really pick you up.”

To ensure a consistent offense and steady defense in Nashville, Tenn., the team’s upperclassmen will need to be there to assist the freshmen, Cross said.

“The upperclassmen didn’t get the job done,” Cross said. “But we’ve got another opportunity this Saturday.”

The Racers will continue conference play Feb. 16 at 4 p.m. at the CFSB Center against Eastern Illinois.

One year ago, the Murray State Racers were 23-1.

Isaiah Canaan, Donte Poole and company had just dropped their first game of the season in a Jonathan heartbreaker Ferris against TenStaff writer nessee State.

The Racers were ranked No. 9, after sliding down from No. 7 after the loss. We all remember the season for the ages, wishing it would never end, but knowing in the back of our minds it would have to sooner or later. It’s funny how things change in just one year.

This year, the Racers are 18-5 (hopefully they’ll be 19-5 by the time you’re reading this). Poole, Ivan Aska and Jewaun Long are long gone. Zay Jackson is in jail, and Latreze Mushatt is still trying to get back to his classic form after a devastating Achilles injury.

No, the Racers are not on ESPN every night. People are not writing songs or making videos, the arena has yet to sell out and Dickie V is not on his way back to Murray.

Yet, I’m excited as can be for the next month and a half, and you should be, too.

All season, the players have said over and over again this team wasn’t there yet. Early in the year, Prohm said they had to find their identity. Just last week, Mushatt told me it was going to be scary when they finally clicked.

“I don’t think people have seen the best of Murray State. We’re getting better every day. Once we start clicking, it’s going to be amazing.” Guess what folks.

They’ve clicked.

It couldn’t come at a better time, either. In the biggest week of the season, with arguably the top two teams in the conference headed to town, this team has found its stride.

Defensively, they’re playing as good as the 31-win team from a year ago. This team is holding opponents to a lower shooting percentage and forcing more turnovers than the 2011-12 Racers.

Mushatt is back and providing a big-time spark off the bench, and freshmen Jeffery Moss and C.J. Ford are becoming important role players as they look a lot more comfortable each time out.

Are they as good as last year’s team? The record would say no.

And to be honest, I’d probably say no as well. Regardless, these guys are figuring it out. They’ve proven this conference still runs through Murray, and while Belmont controls its own fate for the regular season crown, it’s the tournament that really matters.

If it comes down to a championship game in Nashville between the Bruins and Racers for the automatic NCAA Tournament berth, a remark Canaan made last week to Belmont’s Ian Clark could prove to be the difference yet again.

“I’ve been through this,” Canaan told Clark after draining a 3 to hand the Bruins their first conference loss of the season.

No, it’s not the same as last year; we would have been naive to expect a repeat. Regardless, I would not count these guys out just yet.

They’re smart, experienced, defense-oriented and they’re getting hot at exactly the right time. In a year where there are no truly dominant teams in college basketball, those qualities are extremely dangerous.

These guys tend to make things exciting, and I, for one, am beyond pumped to see how they conclude this season. jferris2@murraystate.edu.

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Racers start their season at Bulldog Battle in Mississippi Megan Kavy|| Staff writer mkavy@murraystate.edu

The Racer softball team kicks off its season Feb. 15-17 at the Bulldog Battle in Starkville, Miss. After going 6-2 in the fall season, Murray State is looking to start off its spring season strong.

The Racers will play Mississippi State, Northwestern State, Lipscomb and Western Kentucky. A number of teams in the tournament are in the SEC and are ranked in the top 100 of the rating percentage index.

Head Coach Kara Amundson believes these teams will be solid competition for the Racers.

She sees the teams as a challenge, but very possible for the Racers to beat.

“It’s going to be some really close games,” she said. “Games where I think that we can come out on top.”

Amundson and the team said playing against high ranked teams for its first weekend and tournament of the season will be beneficial for them.

Senior Shelby Kosmecki from Somerset, Ky., said she sees the tourna-

ment as a way for the freshman players to adjust to a large tournament atmosphere. She believes the other teams will be tough competition, but not impossible for the Racers to compete with and potentially beat.

“We can definitely compete,” she said. “We’re seeing some good things in practice and everything’s coming along.”

With the tough competition in the tournament, Amundson’s main goal for the tournament is for the team to go out there and compete.

“We’re going to have to come to

play,” she said. “We’re going to have to be ready to compete.”

Amundson hopes the Racers play hard in this tournament as well as the first couple tournaments of the season.

The Racers will play in four tournaments before they begin conference play on March 16.

Amundson sees these tournaments as a test for the team to see where they are before they kick off the conference play part of the season.

“If we can be successful in some of these different atmospheres that we’re playing early on, I know we’re going

to be just fine in conference,” Amundson said.

The team had a very strong fall season record and has continued to work hard in practice to lay everything out on the line during games.

“If we do that every game, we’re going to be a really successful team this year,” Amundson said.

The following weekend, the Racers will head to Fayetteville, Ark., for their second tournament of the season.

Their first game will be Feb. 22 at 10 a.m. and the tournament runs through Feb. 24.

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When senior golfer Hunter York received his first set of golf clubs for his ninth birthday, it was not love at first sight. “My mom tells it differently, but I remember at first I was like, Wow, I really don’t want this at all,� he said. “These are a really stupid gift.�

However, that summer changed his point of view. The Hardin, Ky., native’s grandfather who is from Murray, would always go up to Sullivan’s Par 3 Golf Course and hit range balls. “Over the summer when my parents were working and (my grandfather) was retired, I would just hang out with him,� he said. “So I would just watch him, and I guess that I just kind of got into it that way and from Lynn Sullivan. I took my first lesson with him and just kind of got started from there. And I have played about every day ever since. I love it.�

York chose to attend Murray State not only because of how close it is to his home in Marshall County, but also, because of talent-filled golf history and the University’s underrated program. “I just wanted to come and try to work hard and improve and see if I could somehow, maybe play on the team one day,� he said. “It’s worked out pretty well.�

Recently, York was awarded the prestigious 2012 OVC Scholar-Athlete Award.

The award is given annually to three men and three women of junior or senior status. Recipients have shown accomplishments in both athletics and in the classroom. “I was really happy because when you play golf you miss a lot of classes, and it is hard to make up all that missed work that you have,� he said. “As hard as I have worked over the past years in the classroom and on the golf course, it’s nice to see it work out.�

The golf team has had a successful fall season, winning two tournaments the Wasioto Winds Fall Kick Off Aug. 10-11 in Pineville, Ky., and the Skyhawk Classic Sept. 7-9 in Paris, Tenn.

The team also took second place at the ASU Red Wolves Classic Nov. 5-6 in Gulf Shores, Al. York said the only bad spot in the fall was losing their home tournament for the first time. “It was weather short, only 36 holes instead of 54,� he said. “We didn’t really get the ball up, so it was kind of tough, but we still should have won.�

York felt he played really well in the fall and hopes to continue the momentum he gained into the spring season. “I think I ended up being fourth in the conference in scoring, and 72.4 was my scoring average,� he said. “I played really well in the first tournament up at Morehead State. I shot a 66 in the second round

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Senior Hunter York, from Hardin, Ky., follows through with his swing. up there, which was the lowest I have ever shot in a collegiate tournament. And I think I finished in the top 20 individually in all six tournaments, which I was pretty happy with.�

The winter workouts help him get some extra distance off of the tee, which he said he feels would help him the most.

Around the greens is where he thinks he shines, York said. “My short game I feel like is the best part of my game, especially my putting,� he said.

Looking toward the spring season, York is excited to see how the team will stack up against teams that are higher ranked and in bigger conferences. He also is excited for the OVC championships, though he is trying not to get too far ahead and take it one day at a time. “That is always the ultimate goal, to win a conference championship,� he said. “Especially with this year being myself, Patrick Newcomb and Tyler

Brown’s senior season. It’s our last go around and we would really like to win a conference championship.�

After college, York hopes to continue to play competitively in golf; however, he is not sure which circuit or if he will have a lot of time, he said. “I really enjoy the big amateur tournaments in the summer,� he said. “I really haven’t decided if I am going to go that route because I am also going to graduate school. So I don’t know how much time I will have for golf along with that. After that I would like to test the professional waters.�

Upon graduating, York will be going to graduate school at the University to study chemistry. He wants to get involved in medical or disease research.

The spring season starts March 4 at the Samford Intercollegiate tournament, hosted by Samford University in Hoover, Ala.

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Home match closes season Omega Mu Laura Kovarik || Staff writer lkovarik@murraystate.edu

This season had its fair share of ups and downs; it’s been a time of growth, a time of change and a chance the Racer Rifle to add depth to its shooting lineup.

Kicking off the season with a home match against UT Martin and Columbus State on Sept. 30, the Racers set the bar high with a win. The team had a 4,625 aggregate score. The young team consisted of one senior, two junior, three sophomore and four freshmen shooters.

The team hit the road and traveled to the University of Mississippi on Oct. 5 for its first away match. An aggregate score of 4,621 pushed the Racers to work harder and more diligently in practice.

Nerves and traveling as a team for the first time seemed to play a role in the outcome.

Consistency and adaptability were the two main focuses of the team this year. The Racers struggled to gain footing in the OVC. Despite early struggles, the team has improved greatly throughout the season, gaining experience, knowledge and consistency. This

growth is reflected in the scores.

This year of transition has been challenging, but the Racers have been able to persevere and will ultimately be rewarded with a wellversed and more talented team next season. With only one shooter graduating this year, the team will remain solid in its shooting skills.

“I think altogether everyone has learned a lot; I like to see this season as a building block,” Assistant Coach Ashley Rose said. “This year has been more of a foundation year. When you only have two or three shooters that have traveled before, it makes a big difference.”

Individually, each shooter contributed to the success of this past season. The 11th-ranked Racers remained a strong contender in the OVC. Sophomore Kesley Emme has been a solid shooter and leader all year.

Emme traveled to Germany to compete in the Bavarian Airgun Championships in January.

Freshman Tessa Howald and Emme have both been named the Murray State Pepsi Athlete of the week throughout the past season.

Junior Bill Harvey was named Adidas OVC Rifle Athlete of the

Month in smallbore for November.

Harvey has been a solid contender in smallbore all year for the Racers. He shot his season’s best, a 584, at the University of Kentucky against the United States Army.

The Racers ended the season strong with a second-place finish at the OVC championships on Feb 2.

With an aggregate score of 4,587, the team placed behind the Jacksonville State Gamecocks. Jacksonville took home the title with an aggregate score of 4,653.

This marked the sixth time the Racers faced the Gamecocks this year. Emme was the sole Racer to be named to the All-OVC Air Rifle First Team.

Highlights from championships include Howald earning OVC Rifle Freshman of the Year, OVC AllNewcomer Team and All-OVC Second Team in air rifle.

Senior Caroline Barber and junior Michael Burzynski were also selected to the All-OVC Second Team in air rifle.

Freshman Kaitlyn Wilson made All-Newcomer teams in both smallbore and air rifle.

Burzynski and Harvey were also named to the All-OVC Second Team in smallbore alongside

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Back in action one week after the championships, the team traveled to West Virginia on last Saturday to shoot one more match before NCAA qualifiers on Saturday.

The 11th-ranked Racers scored 4,628-4,700 against the Mountaineers. The first-ranked West Virginia team dominated the range.

Despite being a freshman shooter, Howald has been a strong and consistent shooter for the Racers all season.

Howald led the Racers at West Virginia with an overall score of 1,161. Scoring one point behind Howald, Emme shot a 1,160 aggregate score.

“I think the team overall has done really well: we’ve grown a lot and become much closer as the season has gone on,” Howald said.

“Some things I’ve been working on are breathing and remaining calm on the range.”

Burzynski has also been a strong shooter all year for the Racers.

Burzynski shot a 583 in air rifle.

His overall season-best air rifle score was 588 against Alaska Fairbanks, last Sunday.

The season will come to a close, where it began at Pat Spurgin Range on Saturday.

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In the Carr Health South Gym Tuesday night Omega Mu (Honor Program) fought to end its losing streak with a win against Sigma Alpha.

After enduring some tough losses this season against Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Omicron Pi, MSU Volleyball and Tri-Sigma, the ladies of Omega Mu approached the Sigma Alpha team with a competitive attitude and pulled off a 40-10 win.

For the first time, the win for Omega Mu was a mercy-rule win. A mercy-rule win happens if a team gets a 30-point lead in the second half. After being mercy-ruled numerous times before, the ladies of Omega Mu were pleased to say that this time the ball was in their court.

“We normally get mercy-ruled,” said Rebecca Sexton, captain of the Omega Mu team. “So this is the first time that (Honors Program) has ever mercy-ruled.”

Sexton said being mercy-ruled wasn’t the only obstacle the ladies experienced this season.

“One of our girls got a severe concussion, so we had to end the game early and leave and go to the hospital,” she said.

However, the Omega Mu team did not let its recent hardships show on the court against Sigma Alpha. Omega Mu came out strong in the first half, refusing to let Sigma Alpha score.

During the first 16 minutes, Omega Mu had a shut-out game with a score of 22-0. However, near the end of the first half, Sigma Alpha scored its first basket, making the score 22-2.

Throughout the second half, Omega Mu continued to dominate the scoreboard until Sigma Alpha put up a respectable fight. This made it a challenging task for Omega Mu to end the game by mercyrule. However, the ladies of Omega Mu pulled it off with a final basket and outstanding defense.

Coach Landon Hardison expressed how the hard work in practice finally paid off for the ladies of Omega Mu. “Mostly we went over the defense, and it was the zone (defense) which they ran really well tonight,” he said.

With the win over Sigma Alpha, the ladies of Omega Mu improve their record to 2-4. Sigma Alpha’s record is also 2-4 with wins against Alpha Gamma Delta and the Alpha Sigma Alpha A Team.

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non-stop party in Cancun, and celebrate Spring Break with thousands of other students from around the world.

While in Cancun, students should check out more than just each other, and delve into some of Cancun’s culture, heritage and less traditional nightlife. One such untraditional nightclub is the Coco Bong, Cancun, where there is no designated dance floor controlled by a deejay, but a stage that is constantly packed and changing as circus-like feats are accomplished one after another.

Panama City Beach, Florida Easily the biggest Spring Break party spot in the continental U.S., PCB offers budget-friendly hotels within the comfort of the country’s borders. While allinclusive packages are less abundant in Panama than in Cancun, Panama’s proximity allows many students to save money by driving rather than flying.

Also known for its nonstop party atmosphere, Panama promises to give students an unforgettable Spring Break experience.

To add to the PCB experience, students should utilize the money they save by going on more active excursions like

parasailing, jet skiing and bungee jumping. Finally, students should enjoy the fresh seafood by dining in the smaller, local dives.

South Padre Island, Texas A newer up-and-coming site for the Spring Break scene, South Padre offers a wider variety of activities for students’ week of freedom.

Outside of the predictable drinking and dancing offered on the island, South Padre also offers unique pastimes such as kiteboarding, deep-sea fishing and dolphin watching for those in need of a break from the revelry.

While in South Padre, students can either experience the natural beauty of the island with the Laguna Madre Nature Trail, Sea Turtle, Inc. or the Dolphin Research and Sea Life Nature Center, or can enjoy the Spring Break-oriented attractions like the Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark.

So, whether students look forward to relaxing with nature or experiencing another country’s culture, or just dancing the night away, these destinations promise to offer something for everyone.

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Actress Alyson Hannigan was granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday against a man who she claims has not only threatened her, but her family as well, by means of posting on the Internet.

The man in question is John Hobbs, 43. He has been ordered to stay away from the actress and her family as well as to stop his postings about her and her family online.

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Winslow Dining Hall does its part in celebrating the Chinese New Year Wednesday night with some traditional Chinese dishes.

Winslow celebrates year of snake Kelsey Randolph || Staff writer krandolph3@murraystate.edu

A new year for America is not the same as a new year for China. This year, the Chinese are celebrating the Year of the Snake, which officially began Sunday.

This new year was also celebrated by Winslow Dining Hall on Wednesday with some traditional Chinese dishes.

Also known in translation as spring festival, according to chinesenewyear.info, this holiday is celebrated with parades, reunions of families and other regional traditions. In some cultures, people wear red clothes, decorate with poems on red paper and give children money for luck. The color red represents prosperity, fortune, good luck and ultimate happiness.

During the traditional Chinese New Year, there

is a Lantern Festival, which is held on the 15th day of their lunar month, February. In many areas, the highlight of the Lantern Festival is the dragon dance.

The dragon, which can stretch to nearly 100 feet long, is typically made of silk, paper and bamboo.

Traditionally, the dragon is carried by young men as they dance through the streets.

“As we live in a very diverse world, it is important for all of us to understand the dynamics of cultural diversity,” said Susan Drake, faculty adviser for International Cultures and Languages Association.

“The Chinese New Year celebration is a fun and enjoyable way to get a taste of another culture.”

In America, the Chinese New Year is celebrated with more American traditions that typically involve parades with marching bands and floats.

Winslow hosted its third annual Chinese New Year celebration. Activities included chopstick races and

door prizes were given out.

“This is the first time I went to Winslow for an international meal,” said Colby Shaw, junior from Bowling Green, Ky. “I enjoyed experiencing the food from a different culture.”

Jie Wu, professor of Chinese, worked with Drake to prepare a program of presentations and performances from students in Wu’s Chinese culture classes and Chinese international students.

“I think it was a good idea for the international students to be involved and share their culture with us, since we share ours with them,” said Carley Sommer, freshman from St. Louis, Mo. Winslow plans to continue its celebration for this Chinese holiday in future years. Drake said in the Chinese culture, this is the time when families get together and enjoy good food, and she wants the students to experience that same feeling on campus.

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TODAY • 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Plant Sale, Pullen Farm Greenhouse • 7-9 p.m. Bull Blowout, William “Bill” Cherry Agricultural Expo Center • 7:30 p.m. Cinema International presents “Children of Paradise,” Curris Center Theater • 7:30 p.m. Foreigner concert, The Carson Center in Paducah, Ky. • 8:30 p.m. Valentine’s Dance, Curris Center Stables

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• 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Plant Sale, Pullen Farm Greenhouse • 12 p.m. Obesity: It's More Than Aesthetics, seminar, Curris Center Barkley Room • 2 p.m. Breds Baseball vs. MidContinent University, Reagan Field • 5:30-7 p.m. Murray State Tennis Club meet, Purcell Tennis Courts

• 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Plant Sale, Pullen Farm Greenhouse • 11:30 a.m. West Kentucky Polar Plunge, Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park • 7-9 p.m. Bull Blowout, William “Bill” Cherry Agricultural Expo Center • 7:30 p.m. Cinema International presents “Children of Paradise,” Curris Center Theater • 8:30 p.m. Wooden Wand performance, Big Apple Cafe

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Chicken Pot Pie. Fast Track has a variety of frozen foods; however, the Chicken Pot Pie is a nice alternative to the frozen pizza. It’s healthy, too.

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to cook in a microwave that aren’t Easy Mac

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Soup. Within minutes you have a warm meal to help cure the cold weather blues.

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Frozen Appetizers. Barbecue wings, mozzarella sticks and loaded potato skins make for a quick snack full of taste.

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Italian Energy. Pop in a Lunch Express pasta bowl and drink some water for a lunch full of carbs for energy to make it through the afternoon lull.

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Eating disorder leads student to help others Faces & Places is a weekly series that profiles the people and places of Murray.

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Melissa Ford, freshman from Newburgh, Ind., lived with anorexia for three years before she started talking about her illness.

Melissa Ford, freshman from Newburgh, Ind., was 12 years old when she developed anorexia. Coming from a dark childhood that ultimately resulted in stress and emotional damage, Ford believed her diet was her only escape.

“I felt like I was really out of control with everything and I had no control over what was happening,” she said. “So, I thought that was the way I could control emotions – by taking control of my diet.”

For more than three years, Ford kept her disorder a secret from her family and friends. Her mother blamed her weight loss on her age since it was around the time she was experiencing body changes.

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said. “By the time I realized what was going on, it was way too late to do anything about it.”

When Ford was in eighth grade, she experienced seizures and passed out several times. Ford took numerous tests at the hospital, and the results always came back as normal, until she took the Glucose Tolerance Test.

Ford said that test came back with results that normally only resulted from abusive dieting. After that she knew she needed to open up about her disorder to her mother.

“I jumped into my mom’s bed one night and just told her everything,” she said.

Ford then started getting treatment and professional help for the disorder. She stopped her treatments before starting college last fall and claims her real help was not a result of treatments.

“You can’t force someone into treatment,” she said. “I went away and did the counseling and the medications and got treated for the things that were going on

with my body but, honestly, what really helped was my faith, and my book really really helped me.”

Ford wrote and published “Cross My Heart, Hope (Not) to Die” through Tate Publishing Company while she was dealing with anorexia. She said she wrote it as a way to vent, since she was keeping the disorder a secret from everyone.

“I sent in (a chapter of the book) as a joke and never expected it to get published,” she said.

The book is about a young woman who is suffering from an eating disorder, too.

Through her suffering and her experiences, Ford decided she wanted to help other young women who deal with the same thing and decided to major in dietetics as a result.

“It’s never not going to be a part of who I am,” Ford said. “I have to watch it every single day. But, I think that being happy now and being healthy and having joy can give me so much more than the eating disorder ever could.”

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Murray State students take the plunge

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Participants at the 2012 Polar Plunge dive at the Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park to raise awareness for a good cause.

Savannah Sawyer|| Assistant Features Editor ssawyer@murraystate.edu

Murray State students, along with community members, are working together to raise money for the Special Olympics, and they are not freezin’ for no reason.

The 2013 Western Kentucky Polar Plunge takes place at the Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park on Feb. 16 at 11:30 a.m., only a two-hour drive from Murray State’s campus.

This year’s event is joined by the inaugural Polar Plunge 5K, which will run through Kentucky Dam Village State Park earlier that morning. Currently, more than 150 people are signed up to participate in the 5K. Some will participate in both the 5K and the Plunge.

The Plunge is similar to a Walk-a-Thon but with a twist. Participants will still fundraise for the event to support the cause but instead of walking, they will make a jump into the cold lake at Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park.

The first Polar Plunge in Kentucky took place in Louisville, Ky., 15 years ago, and Saturday’s event will

Wo me n’s Ce n te r we i g h s i n on health Shannon MacAllister || Staff writer smacallister@murraystate.edu

Murray State’s Women’s Center, the School of Nursing, the Wellness Center and the master’s program for clinical psychology held the Better Weigh program in the Curris Center Dance Lounge Monday.

be the fourth plunge of the year.

So far more than 500 people are expected to participate, but not everyone interested in the event is required to make the jump. Anyone is allowed to fundraise for the cause and all contributions are welcome.

Participants will receive prizes based on how much money they raise.

The Polar Plunge requires a minimum donation of $75 in order to participate and is one of the biggest Special Olympics fundraisers of the year. All the funds will remain in Kentucky to benefit local children and adults with a mental disability.

“It’s my first year with the Polar Plunge and donating and I’m really looking forward to helping with the Special Olympics in Kentucky,” said Alex Morin, sophomore from Grosse Ile, Mich. “I’m looking forward to plunging for the first time with all my friends and helping out.”

Last year, the Plunge raised a record-breaking $95,000 in support of the Special Olympics. This year, their goal is to reach $90,000.

“We have a very dedicated group of volunteers from Murray and Marshall County that actually pro-

Stemmed from the upcoming National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, the program was organized by the Women’s Center in an effort to promote not only awareness of eating disorders, but also to inform students about nutrition, healthy exercise habits and increase self-image.

“We started planning the event in early January, and we wanted to do something that would complement The Room with the View program that we do at the end of February for Eating Disorder Awareness week,” said Abigail French, Women’s Center representative and event coordinator.

“We wanted to do an event to supplement it that would promote just general health, and not necessarily just eating disorders. ” The event included various sections that informed students about general wellness.

The School of Nursing offered body fat percentage readings and informa-

duce the event,” said Candace Thompson, special events director for Special Olympics in Kentucky.

“They work very hard for several months leading up to the event to recruit plungers, promote the event, line out logistics and set up the event. Many of them are Special Olympics coaches, so they have vested interest in our program.”

The Polar Plunge raises significant funding and provides year-round sports training for athletic competition for more than 6,000 children and adults with disabilities in Kentucky each year, Thompson said.

Sarah Sunderman, senior from Mascoutah, Ill. participated in the event last year in Illinois with a group of friends from work. This year, she has raised almost $200 this year and is planning on participating in Kentucky.

“I had heard about (the Polar Plunge) so we got a big group together and we raised money and did it all as a group,” said Sunderman. “We dressed up and participated all together. It was just a great experience. It’s a great opportunity and it’s a blast to do.

Just get a group of friends together and do something for a good cause.”

tion on each person’s healthy range based on their height and build.

The master’s program for clinical psychology offered surveys to analyze student’s personal eating attitudes regarding their body image.

The program also offered immediate feedback to students in a private space to speak about their results and also offered handouts about areas on campus to get help, including group counseling to deal with bodyimage issues.

The event also featured more relaxed tables such as the Scale of Fortune, which allowed students to denote some of the negative feelings associated with weight scales.

Upon stepping on a scale in a sectioned-off area, students were happily surprised to find numbers covered and replaced with alternating small color tabs. Students received a small fortune from a basket matching the color on which they landed. All of

the fortunes were uplifting, motivational and never varied in their positive message.

“Believe in yourself and everyone else will do the same,” one such fortune read.

In addition to the various booths, the Dance Lounge was framed by stand-up cardboard silhouettes of all body shapes and sizes offering health, nutrition and body-image advice, allowing students to peruse the area and find help on every side.

The silhouettes were a favorite among many students as they showcased not only facts, but that each body is unique.

“I really liked the silhouettes,” said Jenna Salza, freshman from Franklin, Ky. “They looked really cool and made the entire event that much better.

It was awesome, too, that no two cutouts were the same. Each one was completely different from the one next to it.”

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A lot of couples have a song they claim as their own. The song usually either describes how the couple feels about each other, or Anna their song just Taylor happened to be Features Editor playing when they met each other, so they say.

My boyfriend and I found ours several months after we started seeing each other. The song is “Baby I Love Your Way,” by Big Mountain, though it is originally performed by Peter Frampton.

I’m sure you’ve heard at least one version of it at some point.

It’s a catchy tune that is often heard in movies and on the radio to this day.

Right now, you’re probably nodding and thinking, “how cliche of them” but trust me, it could definitely be worse.

We don’t really have a romantic story behind why we dubbed this particular song “ours.” We didn’t really choose it necessarily because of its lyrics or because it was playing when we first met each other or whatever - not that we could even remember that.

We just both really like the song and how it makes us feel. There might be other songs out there that could describe us in a better way, but this particular song is sweet and fun, and we like to keep those two adjectives in our relationship, too.

But, if you’re a sappy romantic looking for a background story on how it came to be, here is a brief and very romantic explanation.

We heard the song one time playing in either a movie or a YouTube video, and it got stuck in our heads. As a result, we would sing the song in silly voices, and sometimes improvise our own lyrics when we were together. We eventually realized how much we both liked it and how it could summarize our relationship. So, we claimed it as ours. Romance.

Since our relationship is currently long-distance, I find myself listening to this song often. It somehow fills his absence for the time being. It also helps to reassure me that being apart is only temporary.

The song reminds me of how much we love being together and how we always have fun, no matter what we are doing.

I used to wonder why couples have a song that they claim. I just assumed they chose a romantic song they liked so much that they wanted it to be played at their wedding. Now, I get it. I understand why they have a song and what it does for them.

If everyone could have what Alan and I have with our song, they would, too. ataylor2@murraystate.edu

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Rules for Roomies Students lay down rules for proper roommate etiquette

2. Communication is key to a healthy roommate relationship.

Oftentimes, roommates are chosen at random and the questionnaires definitely do not do anyone’s personality justice. Students either get paired up with the person who laughs louder than a banshee or does not speak more than three words. Either way, when issues present themselves, students agree it is always best to talk it out.

“The few times my roommate has gotten irritated with me, she has let me know and we both just leave each other alone for a while until it blows over,” said Daryn Clopton, sophomore from Brooks, Ky. “I tell her when she irritates me as well.”

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3. Friends of friends are not always friends.

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While attending college, students have different classes with different people. They also involve themselves in different activities than their roommates and therefore make different friends. However, there are struggles with having friends over when the roommate is not acquainted with the same people.

“My roommate and I don’t have the same friends,” said Caitlyn Kerley, freshman from Caruthersville, Mo. “We have to let each other know when someone will be coming to the room, because it’s embarrassing to have a guy walk in when you are fresh out of the shower.”

4. Respect each other’s sleep patterns.

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Before college, many students have not experienced sharing a room with another person, much less a complete stranger. Everyone hears roommate horror stories from family members and friends. These stories and rumors cause students to dread the moment they move in with what could be a Star Wars obsessor, stage-five-clinger or the roommate who likes to rescue and smuggle stray cats into the building.

Although those exact experiences may be few and far between, getting along with another person can still prove difficult. However, for students at Murray State, it seems there are some basic guidelines to new living arrangements.

Many students are accustomed to staying out late and sleeping in. On the other hand, there are the early risers who nap in the middle of the day to keep themselves going. When roommate contracts are issued, roommates must agree on times when conditions of their room will be dedicated to sleep. Some simply agree to respect their roommate at whatever time they are dozing off.

“Sleeping times are scattered, since my roommate is usually out late and I go to bed much earlier,” said Kristen Oakley, freshman from Murray. “My roommate and I both value our sleep, so neither of us turn on lights, use the hairdryer or make a lot of noise when the other is sleeping.”

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5. Don’t be a parent.

1. Don’t use each other’s things without asking first.

Sometimes the magical words “may I borrow this?” can save a relationship. Odds are, the roommate will allow use of their items. Most roommates even agree to share everything, trusting that the other person will not abuse their belongings.

“Our room functions on an ask-first basis for most things,” said John Smothers, freshman from Hickman, Ky. “There are things like toilet paper that we don’t ask because it would be pointless to turn around and ask the same question.”

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Most students at Murray State allow their roommates freedoms and expect the same freedoms in return.

Telling a roommate to pick up after themselves, to shower and to go to bed is a job for their mother. Steven Hewitt, sophomore from Cape May, N.J. said, two people sharing a living space should not make rules for each other.

“We can do whatever we want, whenever we want,” Hewitt said. “We both pay to live here, so instead of limiting each other’s freedoms, we both just have unlimited freedom. No rules are the best rules.”

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