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The Board of Regents recently approved a list of budget recommendations, instituting several changes that could affect numerous students directly. Changes include reducing housing scholarships by $80,000 a year for three years, doubling the amount of parking fines for on-campus parking violations from $15 and $30, to $30 and $60, and adding a $25 semester fee to support Health Services. Many students are speaking up about how they feel these changes will be impacting their lives at Murray State. Jenn Ratajczyk, junior from Sesser, Ill., said she feels the University will end up losing money in the long run if such a dramatic decrease in housing scholarships is implemented. “I feel students will be more likely to move off campus if their scholarships are taken away and there will no longer be an incentive to stay on campus.” Ratajczyk said. Murray State currently provides $700,000 in housing scholarships to individual students and several for different scholarships such as leadership, Commonwealth Honors Academy, music and engineering programs. Students can also expect to see an increase in overall housing costs next year. According to David Wilson, director of housing and residence life, there is currently no decision on how much the increase will end up being. Students are also voicing concerns about plans to double the amount of parking fines on campus. Lyndy Hill, junior from Greenville, Ky., said she is worried about how students will pay for the increase cost in parking violations. “My concern with raising parking fines is that students are already on a limited budget and now one minor infraction could end up costing them $60,” Hill said. “I don’t think it is fair to fine students such an excessive amount when there already aren’t enough places to park on campus.” According to Francie Ray, parking supervisor of Public Safety, it is unknown at this time whether there will be more parking added around campus in the near future, even with the increase in fines students could face. In the 2011-12 school year, Public Safety officers

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Meghann Anderson News Editor manderson22@murraystate.edu April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and while the numbers have been low in Murray, Roy Dunaway, captain of the Murray State Police Department, wants to help students be aware of what they can do to prevent attacks. To date, for the current academic year, there have been two reported sexual assaults concerning Murray State students. Both incidents occured off campus, one in December and the other less than a month ago. Dunaway said if a situation is uncomfortable or unsafe, take the proper precautions to get out of the area. Events on campus such as Take Back the Night bring aware-

ness to and protest the violence and fear that people encounter when walking the streets at night. SAAM was first observed nationally in April 2001, and in 2009, President Barack Obama proclaimed April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. April is also Sexually Transmitted Diseases awareness month, which started in 2009 to promote education about STDs and how to prevent them. see ASSAULT, 2A

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NUMBERS NEVER LIE: The Student government Association conducted a survey earlier this year, which evaluated President Randy Dunn’s performance at Murray State. Most of the reviews were positive, but SGA President Jeremiah Johnson says the information may be skewed. According to Johnson, only one SGA member out of 46 voted in favor of renewing Dunn’s contract at a meeting last fall. Dunn’s contract is set to expire in June of 2014.

Meghann Anderson News Editor manderson22@murraystate.edu Student Regent Jeremiah Johnson has recovered a survey asking the student body to share its opinion on President Randy Dunn’s performance at Murray State. Surveys came to light Wednesday afternoon, showing overall support toward Dunn from 885 students that completed them. The survey included seven questions and an area for additional comments. Originally, Johnson said he did not have a hard copy of the surveys, because the Center of Teaching, Learning and Technology had an online copy of the results. Later, Johnson learned the survey included faculty and staff, who are also enrolled as students, which made the results skewed. “I didn’t feel that all of the students were represented in the survey,” Johnson said. “I didn’t use the survey results because they are skewed. At the board meeting I said I don’t feel like this represented the students, but it’s all I have.” In the portion of the survey giving students the opportunity to voice their opinions, several students gave specific, educated

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reasons as to why they supported Dunn. Several students, however, stated they had no idea who Dunn was until they recieved the survey, or did not know of anything he had done while at Murray State. Several months after the survey, an unnofficial vote was taken at an SGA meeting in regards to the president’s contract renewal. Only one SGA member out of 46 voted for Dunn’s return. Johnson said the vote did not appear in the official meeting minutes because SGA would not take a public stance against the president. It should be noted that the surveys were taken in the first part of this year, and are separate from the vote Johnson says happened last fall. The suvey and vote took place approximately eight months apart. In that time, discussion about student fees to support a new library and funding of the presidential lecture series was rampant among SGA members. Dunn said Johnson had the ability to make the surveys available to the student body earlier, but chose not to. “I’m not in favor of suppressing information,” Dunn said.

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Staff Report President Randy Dunn has been named one of eight remaining semi-finalists for the position of president at Youngstown State University. This announcement came less than three weeks after the Board of Regents voted not to renew his contract with Murray State. Dunn said he was aware of the opening at YSU prior to the board’s vote, but did not apply for the position until its decision was officially made, specifically until the weekend after the March Board of Regents meeting. “When it became clear given the action of the board on March 15 that my time as president at Murray state would be ticking down in the next 16 months, that obviously called renewed interest to take a look at it,” he said. This is not the first time Dunn has applied for a job at another university while still president of Murray State. Dunn was one of two finalists for the position of president at Missouri State in September and he was one of three finalists to be the next Florida Commissioner of Education in December. Chair of the board Constantine Curris noted Dunn’s failure to alert the board in the previous two applications and the applications themselves as a breach of their trust and a major reason for the way the Regents voted. The interviews for the position of president will be held this weekend at Hyatt Regency Pittsburg International Airport in Youngstown, Ohio. The YSU presidential search committee is expected to narrow down the list of remaining candidates from three to five finalists by May 15 and hope to have selected a new president by June 12.

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issued 17,802 citations to students who were parked in the wrong zone and received an estimated revenue of $421,880. With the new budget, $30 tickets will be given to students who park in the wrong zone instead of the original $15. Tickets which were previously $30 will be increased to $60 and given to students who park in the wrong zone without displaying a parking permit in their rearview mirrors. With the amount for parking violations increasing, revenue can be projected to total $801,090, based on the number of tickets given during the 2011-12 school year. Ray said even with an increase in parking fines, there will not be an increase in the amount of patrolling for violations within the next year. Students may also soon be required to pay a $25 health fee to support Health Services on campus, which will go toward a general fund account. Judy Lyle, associate director of Health Services, said if the University hopes to keep expanding the services offered on campus, more funds are needed. Health Services made several changes this year that were not given in previous years, including offering

According to whitehouse.gov, one in five women and one in 71 men have been raped in their lifetime. Those statistics total 18 million women in this country who have been raped, and more than 1 million rapes that occur every year. The vast majority of these assaults occur when the victims are under the age of 25, and those under the age of 18 are at the greatest risk. A post recognizing SAAM stated, “These numbers are real, but they don’t tell the whole story. They don’t tell of the broken trust when the attacker is a friend, a trusted colleague or a family member, “They don’t tell of the suicidal feelings, the depression or of the PTSD. And, they don’t tell of the courage survivors demonstrate when they work every day to put their lives back together.” Dunaway said many times people do not think about the consequences of posting private information on social networking sites. “Think twice about what you put on social media, when you use social media to share where you are or where you’re going, friends can find you but others may be able to track you as well,” Dunaway said. “Your safety takes priority over someone else’s hurt feelings, “It’s easier to patch up someone's hurt feelings later, than deal with the aftermath of rape or sexual assault.” StartByBelieving.org, a public awareness campaign to improve the public response to sexual assault, provides specific advice for young women. “Don’t keep quiet if you see something happening,” Dunaway said. “If you see something questionable or believe another woman's safety is at risk, speak up, step in, and draw others’ attention to what's happening, and call for help.” According to the rape, abuse and incest national network, someone known to the victim committed approximately two-thirds of rapes and 38 percent of rapists are a friend or acquaintance. The network also states that many incidents of sexual assault and rape go unreported. Ninety-

SURVEY From Page 1 “Students took the time to weigh in on that survey and in my opinion they should be heard.” Dunn also said he believes his relationship with students across campus was strong and positive. “In the Student Regent’s eyes there may have been things he wanted to do differently or would play out in a different way, and I respect his opinion on that,” Dunn said. “His feeling doesn’t diminish my belief that my interaction with students was ideal.” Nathan McNichols, the lone SGA senator who voted in favor of Dunn’s contract renewal said he supports Johnson's efforts. “On several occasions in the past, SGA has been unhappy with some of the actions taken by Dr. Dunn, such as the infamous library debacle and the presidential lecture debate,” McNichols said. “In the vast majority of these instances where

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Student workers in the Housing Office discuss potential changes to scholarships in the future. free flu shots for students. Murray State would not be the first University to require students to pay a fee for health services on campus. At the University of Kentucky, students are required to pay a fee of $175 per semester for on campus health services. Though it is still unknown the effects these changes will have on students, Lyle said she is optimistic about the outcome. “We will do everything in our power and more to make sure students continue to be provided with the services which are being offered, but students

need to remember it becomes difficult when funds are limited,” Lyle said. Two items have been taken off of the finalized budget recommendation, which suggested having only one fulltime staff member to advise Greek Life, Student Government Association and registered student organizations. The recommendation for SGA appropriations to match the original mandatory fee allotment was also removed after many students voiced their concerns about what those changes could mean for the University.

SGA clashed with the President's Office, I agree with the steps taken by Jeremiah and SGA as a whole.” In addition, McNichols said he did not believe any of these actions went unresolved by the President's Office. “It is my own personal opinion that the largest donor of student dislike toward the President is based on the negative emotions which surround his decision to apply for different positions at different universities,” McNichols said. McNichols said he does not feel that, over the course of his enrollment, Dunn has taken any action that would warrant a vote to not renew his contract. “It is important to remember that my observations of the President's Office are based solely on my own observations of events, which have been brought to light in SGA meetings,” McNichols said. As SGA president, Johnson is one of the three constituent regents. The Faculty Regent and Staff Regent both voted to extend Dunn’s contract, while Johnson did not. He said he based his vote on conversations with numerous students from the main and regional campuses and the un-

official vote of SGA. He said he voted based on what he thought was best for the students. Johnson said he took SGA’s opinions seriously when considering the renewal of Dunn’s contract. “I think SGA interacts with the president more than the general student population,” Johnson said. “They see how the president reacts with students, the budget committee and several other areas.” Linda Miller, chief information officer of CTLT, provides the technology to administer surveys on campus and can set up secure surveys for campus entities and can assist the owner of the survey to view and extract the results into spreadsheets or other forms to assist in analysis of the results. “We have provided this information to (Johnson) and have provided the assistance he has requested to view and share the information with whomever he wishes to,” Miller said. The surveys surfaced Wednesday afternoon, exactly one week before the announcement of the new SGA president will be made.

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seven percent of rapists never spend a night in jail. Abigail French, Interim Director of the Women’s Center, addressed the issue of victim blaming. This phenomenon occurs when a victim is held responsible for a crime he or she was in no way responsible for. “Victim blaming is a complex phenomenon and there is no one reason that society engages in victim blaming,” French said.

“It’s easier to patch up someone’s hurt feelings later, than deal with the aftermath of rape or sexual assault.” –Roy Dunaway Captain of the Murray Police Department

Dunaway said watching out for friends is very important. “Watching out for your friends, and knowing that you can trust them to watch out for you is a key factor in preventing rape and sexual assault,” Dunaway said. Dunaway gave several other pieces of advice, directed at college-aged women. He said if alcohol is involved in the incident, do not assume the blame is on the victim. He encouraged students to see a medical professional, explain exactly what happened and any apparent symptoms or behaviors so that they can administer the correct tests. He said as a member of the University community, students have access to multiple on-campus resources beyond their decision to file a criminal complaint with the local police department or University Police. Dunaway said if someone felt they were in danger, they could contact the University Police, use a Blue Light Emergency Call Box, call Public Safety (270) 809-2222, or stop by the University Police Department.

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Police Beat April 4 9:50 a.m. Officers received a sex offense complaint and took a report for a sexual assault off campus. 11:04 p.m. A caller reported smelling marijuana in Regents Residential College. Officers ssued citations to Jacob Falone and Timothy Williams of Louisville, Ky.

April 5 2:38 p.m. A caller reported theft of property in the Public Safety Building. Officers ook a report for theft by unlawful taking under $500. 4:37 p.m. Officers issued a citation to Dantre Harris of Memphis, Tenn., for careless driving in College Courts, failure to maintain insurance and for having expired outof-state registration.

April 6 3:58 a.m. A caller reported a disturbance at the CFSB Center. Jacob Speck of Franklin, Ky., was arrested for alcohol intoxication, possession of alcohol by a minor and receiving stolen property. 3:55 p.m. Officers issued a warning for texting while driving in Dorm Circle.

April 7 2:40 p.m. A caller reported a disabled vehicle at Pullen Farm. Officers took an information report. 10:53 p.m. A caller at Fast Track requested to speak with an officer. Everything appeared normal.

April 8 12:11 p.m. A caller reported an assault in the 1000 block

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of College Courts. Officers were notified, and a report was taken for fourth-degree assault and child abuse. 1:32 p.m. A caller reported a noninjury accident in the lower parking lot of 16th Street. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

April 9 1:09 p.m. Officers issued a written warning for disregarding a stop sign on Shroate Drive. 6:30 p.m. A caller reported damage to Murray State property in Hart Residential College. Officers and Facilities Management were notified and a report was taken.

April 10 3:20 p.m. A caller reported a noninjury accident in Dorm Circle. Officers were notified and a report was taken. 6:10 p.m. A caller reported a medical emergency at the Wellness Center. Officers and Murray Ambulance service were notified and a report was taken.

Call of Fame A p r i l 9 – 1 1 : 1 1 a .m . A caller reported being stuck on an elevator in the New Fine Arts Building. The Murray State Police referred the report to Facilities Management. Motorists assists – 0 Racer escorts – 8 Arrests – 1

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

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After almost five months of planning and deliberation, the four finalists for the position of provost and vice president of Academic Affairs visited Murray State for their final evaluations before a official recommendation to President Randy Dunn is made by the provost search committee. During their visits candidates had the opportunity to meet with a variety of the University’s administration including the current provost, Bonnie Higginson, several of the deans, Murray State’s chairs and directors, Dunn and Vice President of Student Affairs Don Robertson. Finalists made presentations and answered audience member’s questions in a forum for faculty in Freed Curd Auditorium and at an open forum for the University community in Wrather Auditorium. The first candidate to undergo the two-day scrutinization was Jay Morgan, Murray State’s associate provost of graduate studies. Morgan outlined his vision for academic expansion saying the University needs to grow its way to success and not rely on cuts. He proposed the development of new academic programs to attract more students, the maintaining of a broad University Studies curriculum and minor academic reorganization and review by an academic committee. He stressed outreach internationally and to rural areas as an important component of his plans if hired as provost, and pitched the increased utilization of Murray State’s regional campuses. Charles McAdams, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwest Missouri State, was on campus April 4-5. McAdams said there are four issues facing higher edu-

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Provost candidate Brenda Nichols speaks to University faculty and staff Thursday. cation today: funding, the government’s expectation for increased graduation rates, the public’s growing concern with the actual value of a college degree and technology. He said first the University should define where it wants to go and come to a common understanding of this goal, the problems at hand and then examine how Murray State is currently operating. To increase enrollment and in order for Murray State to market itself better to potential students he said the University needs to differentiate itself from the competition. Next to visit was Bahman Ghorasi, current executive director of Fenn Academy and Fenn Research and Development Institute at Cleveland State. Ghorasi explained how as the previous dean of the College of Engineering at Cleveland State through his and others’ creation and execution of a five-year plan they were able to increase enrollment by more than 100 percent, graduation rates by 50 percent and raise approximately $8 million for the institution, reaching and surpassing their set goals only three years into the plan. As director of Fenn Academy and Fenn Research and

Development Institute, a preparatory high school program for students wishing to pursue careers in engineering and technology. He said he has extensive experience in working with area high schools and both promoting the university and retaining students who attend the academy. Brenda Nichols, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lamar University in Texas, was the last provost candidate to visit. She said the answers for problems which are facing Murray State such as how to raise student retention rates and how to increase overall enrollment needs to come not just from one person, the provost, but has to be an ongoing conversation between students, faculty and staff as well. Nichols suggested an increase in undergraduate research projects and increased opportunities for students to study abroad as goals she would work towards if hired. Jack Rose, chair of the provost search committee, said the committee hopes to make a decision on which prospective applicant to endorse and have a new provost appointed by the middle of April.

Murray State student Daniel M. Milam, 24, from Memphis, Tenn., died in a single-vehicle fatality collision that occurred April 6, at approximately 2:52 p.m. The collision occurred on U.S. 641 north of Hazel, Ky. The Calloway County coroner pronounced Milam dead on the scene. He was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the collision. Preliminary investigation show that a 1999 Ford Taurus ran off the right side of the roadway for an unknown reason. The vehicle overturned before coming to final rest against a tree. State Trooper Brian Duvall is continuing the investigation. The Calloway County Sheriff ’s Department, Murray-Calloway County EMS, Calloway County Coroner’s Office, Murray Fire Department and the C a l l o w a y County Fire Rescue assisted Duvall on the scene. Red and yellow ribbons Milam were handed out in the Center for Student Involvement Office on Monday to honor Milam. This is the second Murray State student to die in a car wreck in 2013. Shelby Theiss died last month was she was involved in a wreck on KY 94E. Milam was involved in many campus organizations such as Phi Mu Alpha, The Suspensions and was a resident adviser in Regents College last year. Since Milam was very active in music and theater on campus and in the city of Murray, this year’s All Campus Sing is also going to be dedicated to Milam, as well as Playhouse in the Park’s, “Driving Miss Daisy.” Donations are also being accepted in the University Store to help support the Milam family.

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Since I had openheart surgery, I do not believe I am the same person. Along with a new heart valve, I also look out upon a new world in a new way. It takes me longer to complete Duane Bolin routine tasks. Orienting myself Professor of in this brave new History world has been at once challenging and exasperating. So maybe it is not strange that while considering life anew, my thoughts have also turned to an activity that, in my thinking at least, is peaceful and calming. I speak of fishing, of course. I enjoy reading about the art of fishing, while I have never really been successful. I have especially been instructed by a beautifully-crafted book about woods and waters, a book that was made into a motion picture. Norman Maclean did not write the novella, “A River Runs Through It,” or any of his other stories, until he was in his seventies. The book is about history and the tragedies and hurts inevitable in the passage of time. Two brothers, both fishermen because of their minister/father’s love for angling, grew up to take decidedly different directions in life. Both of the sons became writers, but the younger of the two, the brawling, drinking, freedom-loving, prodigal son, made fly-fishing into an artform before dying young. “In our family,” Maclean wrote in the voice of the older brother, “there was no clear line between religion and fly -ishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ’s disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen, and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.” I love this book. While my efforts have always been clumsy at best, I have dreamed about casting out in perfect rhythm a fly tied with my own expert hands. I know, however, that even when I waded out into Casey Creek I was not and should not have been successful, for as one of the sons stated in “A River Runs Through It,” “if our father had had his say, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.” Oh well, I can still dream. And I can still learn from the eloquent writing in this elegant book. In the closing scene, Maclean writes these achingly beautiful lines: “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.” Even as I look out upon a new world with new eyes, I, too, am haunted by the waters of the past. Sometimes the past weighs us down, in the sense that the late great Southern historian C. Vann Woodward referred to as “the burden of history.” At times we must seek to overcome the past. But then, there are times when the haunted waters of the past lift us up, and inspire us to wade on in a new world, somehow buoyed by what has already been endured.

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To vote or not to vote The staff editorial is the majority opinion of The Murray State News Editorial Board. Next week, students will go to the polls to choose a new president of the Student Government Association ... in theory, at least. The lack of turnout for SGA elections has become a punchline, so low as to be a bad joke. It seems students will take the time to complain about what the president of SGA does or does not do, but will not take the time to cast a ballot for their one, and only, representative on the Board of Regents. Students complain SGA doesn’t represent them. How can they, when students, the vast majority of them anyway, aren’t voting? Students complain that Greek organizations have undue influence over SGA. But really, why shouldn’t they? Greeks are consistent voters as far as the student body goes and are consistently more involved than other segments of the student population. If students as a whole are not voting, if they are not making their voices heard through the ballot, then they have no grounds and no right to complain. Shared governance becomes a joke when students abdicate their responsibility to govern. Student government itself becomes illegitimate when only a small minority even bothers to vote. Democracy takes many forms. Protesting, “occupying” something, petitioning, voting – all of these in some form are political acts. They represent a means by which our voices are heard and grievances aired. Voting is the most important of these, because it establishes a link between the people’s will and the actions of those who govern. It is the chain that binds the people with the powerful, the act by which consent is given by the governed to those who govern. Not voting, in addition to relieving those who sit out of the right to complain, is essentially an affirmation of the status quo. Silence thus becomes consent, and those who sit out have in effect voted with their silence. Those students who deride the actions of the SGA, but have not voted, are in effect deriding themselves, and rightfully so. We can’t make you vote next week, and we wouldn’t even if we could. All we can do is lead you to make the deicision yourself.

Cheers to ... Louisville. We may not have made it, but at least Kentucky represented at the NCAA. Keep the trophy warm for us. Jeers to ... professors that take a whole class to pitch jobs that we aren’t interested in. Can this kind of thing be optional? Cheers to ... Mad Men. Another season spent with Don Draper is one well spent. Too bad Pete returns, too...

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A military parade proceeds down the streets of Pyongyang, North Korea. Tensions between North Korea and the U.S. have been rising over the last few weeks. Kim Jong Un has declared the ceasefire agreement that ended the Korean War null and void.

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I would like to comment on this seemingly growing concern with North Korea. I agree 100 percent that the U.S. and allies must have some concern about the growing saber rattling with North Korea. If this concern would cause another Korean War; with all hope; this war must be fought for ALL of the right reasons. With all due respect to President Bush’s administration, I believe the Iraq War and the current Afghan War were and are being fought for the purposes of nation-building. I have heard enough from the news media and our government to know, “nation building” is not supposed to be our job. Perhaps this is the main reason that we are not involved in the Syrian Civil War. We, as a nation, and a people, ALL believe in freedoms for ourselves and others, but the idea of nation-building goes too far. Many of us believe that The U.S. and allies are not involved enough in this Syrian War. Our governments are moving cautiously because it is not clear as to what kind of government will emerge if the current Syrian government falls. It may very well be that the jury is still out for the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan. In closing, I would like to pose this question – the brave U.S. troops are not scheduled to be completely out of Afghanistan until mid to late 2014. My question is, how long would it take if these brave troops were needed in Korea?

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April 12, 2013

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Not a Dunn deal after all: Professor, alum weigh in

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And yet, she lives. In response to an Open Records request, Murray State’s Board of Regents has released the ad-hoc report upon which Regents based their decision not to renew President Randy Dunn’s contract. That report contains some data that is also part of our reaccreditation process, which is entering its most critical period. If this report is credible and sufficiently negative to justify nonrenewal of the president’s contract, it could have a direct impact on our reaccreditation effort. Several news outlets have identified gaps and shortcomings in the report. There are additional difficulties with the data that should be noted. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) website clearly states, “NSSE does not support the use of student engagement results for the purpose of ranking colleges and universities.” Yet the report includes just such rankings of Kentucky institutions. No longitudinal data or relevant national norms are reported. The report uses data inappropriately to rank institutions and to influence the University’s most important personnel decision. One Murray State value in the NSSE, the Level of Academic Challenge value of 54.7, which is 3.3 points below the national median, is, at first blush, the most disturbing number in the entire ad-hoc report. However, deeper exploration alleviates that concern. The questions summarized in this measure focus heavily on the number of assigned text books and the number of individual written assignments completed in each respondent’s senior year. Many of our programs, especially our professional programs, use collaborative team-based projects with written reports and oral presentations, often for organizational clients in the community, instead of individually written papers in senior-level courses. If students in these courses respond accurately to NSSE questions, the values in the Level of Academic Challenge scale will decrease, while the values in the Active and Collaborative Learning and StudentFaculty Interaction scales will increase. And, indeed, Murray State’s values on

These measures have significance beyond their academic impact, in that this approach to professional education serves Dr. Dunn’s Strategic Imperatives of Excellence through Quality, Outreach with Partnerships and Innovation for Impact. These, in turn, support the Board’s Strategic Directions by creating “distinctive academic programming and superior educational ... experiences.” In this context they render questionable the assertion in Part III of the report that Dunn is not committed to pursuing the Board’s Strategic Directions. The NSSE Student-Faculty Interaction and Supportive Campus Environment measures reflect very positive student perceptions of the Murray State experience. So does the endorsement of The News the results of the most recently published Senior Survey (2011) in which 96 percent of 727 graduating seniors agree or strongly agree that they “would recommend Murray State to a prospective student.” Though current students were surveyed on their perceptions of Dunn’s leadership, the results of that survey are not provided in the ad-hoc report. Nor are any other measures of student assessment of Dunn’s presidency. The observations above offer no great new insight into the ad hoc report. Indeed they are exactly the kinds of perceptions that would arise were Regents given the opportunity to discuss their perspectives on the report with each other in public session. The fact that they did not do so, for whatever reason, weakens the credibility of their individual positions and the validity of their collective decision. Given the potential impact of this report on our SACS reaccreditation process, Regents would serve the institution well by engaging in this discussion.

I am writing in response to the staff editorial “Board of Regents not above the law,” and the notion that an illegal meeting was held during the social gathering the evening before the Board of Regents’ meeting March 15. Your argument might have some merit if the seven that voted to not renew Dr. Dunn's contract were the ones that were invited. However, that is not the case. It was nothing more than a gathering of professionals, who donate their time to the University, to spend time together in a more relaxed setting. The Regents are some of the most well educated and versed people about Murray State. I firmly believe they all have the best interest of the University at heart and want this University to succeed. Why not have a little faith that they made the best decision this time, too? Would this “illegal meeting” have been an issue if Dr. Dunn's contract had been renewed? You are naive if your answer is yes. If so, where is the public outrage over every other social gathering that the board has had such as the ones at Oakhurst every year in December or about the board retreats where the Regents socialize with each other after meetings? Do you not believe that University business would have been discussed then? When you bring 11 individuals together, with Murray State being the most obvious thing they have in common, the University will work its way into many conversations. The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education even says that nothing prohibits discussion where the purpose is to educate themselves on specific issues. Dr. Curris was just being honest when he said that University business was discussed. You would have called him a liar had he said naught. Believe the man when he also says no votes were taken, and there was no agenda. No criminal act occurred. The News’ Editorial Board should do it’s homework before it makes false statements in print. You say that nothing has been proven yet and that the social gathering is all speculation. Moreover, you call for readers to get angry and take a stand against the board. You are blowing smoke where there is no fire. Editor’s Note: Alex Green is the son of Regent Sharon Green.

Alex Green alumnus from Mayfield, Ky.

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the latter two scales are above the national medians. In fact, the magnitude by which our Student-Faculty Interaction score exceeds the national median is the greatest of any score by any institution on any scale in the reported data. So, taken as a whole, these measures do not indicate lack of academic rigor at Murray State but rather a deliberate shift to more active, collaborative learning grounded in extensive student-faculty interaction. Evan Watson/The News

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“The best way to honor Baroness Thatcher is to crush liberalism and sweep it into the dustbin of history,” said Rep. Steve Stockman (RTexas) in a Devin Griggs statement reOpinion Editor leased upon news that the “Iron Lady” had passed away from a stroke at the age of 87 Monday. Stockman, who has recently gained notoriety for a dubious attempt to impeach President Barack Obama for proposing gun safety legislation, is not alone in making Thatcher’s death a rallying cry for conservatives. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), in barely readable English, tweeted on Monday, “GreatBritain is a greater nation today from MargaretThatcher leadership.she saved the island fr its Socialist economy &gaveMORALleadership” (yes, seriously). The latter-day love for Thatcher, and the subsequent historical revisionism currently being engaged in by the supposed liberal media is nauseating. Much like after the passing of Ronald Reagan, the media and Thatcher’s supporters have turned the Iron Lady into a veritable saint. But there’s a reason that Judy Garland’s “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” has reached the No. 1 spot on the UK’s iTunes chart. Thatcher, far from being universally loved, was, in her own time and today, a controversial figure. She never managed to form a government with more than 44 percent of the vote. She was ejected from the leadership of her own party following a disastrous plan to institute a poll tax in 1990. She, like Reagan, presided over a dramatic shift in wealth from the middle and working classes to the upper class, reducing tax rates on the wealthy and smashing the power of organized labor. Thatcher, like Reagan, is often remembered because of how she handled the Cold War. Thatcher and Reagan alike supported the brutal Pinochet regime in Chile. Far from the freedom fighter that both Reagan and Thatcher hailed him as, Pinochet presided over the institutionalization of thousands in concentration camps and outright political murder. In addition to supporting the murderous Pinochet regime, Thatcher and Reagan gave a lot of love to the racist apartheid regime of South Africa. Reagan vetoed congressional condemnation of the regime, only to be overruled. Both gave a good deal of moral support (and in Reagan’s case, material support) to the Nicaraguan death squads that murdered nuns, among others that the Reagan administration thought were reds. Reagan and Thatcher might have moved on to greener pastures, but their policies haven’t. Conservatives in the United States and the United Kingdom still praise the leadership of two politicians whose greatest claim to fame will be their undermining of, and destruction of, middle class societies in the US and the UK. The question remains: when are we going to wise up to the snake oil salesmen like Reagan and Thatcher? Devin Griggs is vice president

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ROTC: Racer Challenge

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ALLEGED MISSILE TEST A NO-GO Despite reports of a possible provocative missile launch by North Korea, or further nuclear missile testing, all was calm in the country Wednesday as preparations were made to celebrate the birthday of its founder Kim II Sung. Tensions remain high in the Korean Peninsula with the threat of possible attacks on U.S. military bases in Japan and Guam theorized to be missile targets.

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RACER CHALLENGE: On April 4, a total of 16 teams participated in the ROTC’s annual Racer Challenge at Hamilton Field. Teams participated in different events challenging their physical endurance to be crowned the winner of Racer Challenge. There were 12 events the teams could participate in. Some events included activities such as pushups, pullups and situps, while others required running and climbing. Other challenges included monkey bars, a spider crawl, a tire-flipping event and an event that tracked the time it took the teams to pull a Humvee army car along a portion of the parking lot.

Alumni, faculty help initiate local film Amanda Grau || Staff writer agrau1@murraystate.edu

14 INJURED IN STABBING SPREE Dylan Quick, 20, has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault after allegedly stabbing more than a dozen people at the Lone Star Community College in Cypress, Texas. Quick told authorities he had been planning an attack of this nature since he was 8 years old. Several of the victims were hospitilized, but all are expected to recover.

“Revelation Trail,” a zombiethriller film directed by Murray State graduate John P. Gibson, will premier April 12 in Paducah, Ky., to a sold-out theater. The movie follows The Preacher, played by Murray State graduate Daniel Van Thomas, as he teams up with Marshal Edwards (Daniel Britt) to fend off zombies in the American west. Several roles in the film, besides Thomas’ role, are played by alumni or faculty of Murray State. The idea for the film was thought of in 2006 by Blake Armstrong, a friend of Gibson’s from Metropolis, Ill., who currently works in Los Angeles. Gibson was initially hesitant about delving into the zombie world. “I wasn’t really feeling it,” Gibson said. “I’d done work with zombies in col-

lege, and I felt it had been played out.” Armstrong and Gibson ran with it anyway, and a little more than six years later with the addition of Van Thomas, they had created a film that will debut at the peak of the rise of the undead genre. The important thing to Gibson was that the movie be a western with zombie elements and not the other way around. “Revelation Trail” is an independent film that has a scale which was difficult to maneuver around with such a small budget. Van Thomas and Gibson, who also produced the film, had to raise the money for production through the generosity of people in the areas in which they filmed in. “There is just no way it could’ve happened without that element of charity and selflessness,” Van Thomas said. Crew and cast members had to give

up some comforts in order to scrimp on production costs. Most nights, they slept five or seven to a hotel room, and when that commodity was not available, they utilized the couches, basements and even garages of local families willing to take them in. “These things taught me what we’re made of,” Gibson said. “It doesn’t matter the time it takes - if you’re really passionate about something, you’ll find a way.” Gibson used his contacts and social networking on sites such as Facebook and Twitter to get the word out that he needed actors willing to work for little to play roles in his film, and to keep followers up-todate on the production process. By the time they put out the casting call, “Revelation Trail” had already gained a dedicated following of 600700 people on social media sites. Van Thomas and Gibson were

both mentored by Bob Valentine, a senior lecturer at Murray State, who plays Samuel Beard in the film. Valentine directed Van Thomas in his first-stage acting jobs. During the search for actors, Gibson’s wife, Candace Gibson, suggested Valentine play Beard. Gibson said Valentine brought something completely unexpected to the role. Valentine frequently acts in plays and independent films in his free time, and was able to act in “Revelation Trail” because it was filmed in relatively close proximity to Murray. Almost all of Valentine’s scenes were shot within two long weekends over Winter Break. The entire movie was filmed in only three weeks. The first two showings of “Revelation Trail” are sold-out at Maiden Alley Cinema, but tickets are still available for the remaining showings on Saturday and Sunday.

April 12, 2013

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Sports Editor: Jaci Kohn Assistant Editor: Carly Besser Phone: 809-4481 Twitter: MSUNewsSports

Out of Left Field Inequality: that’s a personal foul

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Ashley Canty, senior from Powder Springs, Ga., waits for a return serve at practice. She plays No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles, and hopes to continue playing tennis after graduation.

Canty serves up success Carly Besser || Assistant Sports Editor cbesser@murraystate.edu

With the tennis team’s recent success in allconference play, the Racers owe much to senior singles and doubles player Ashley Canty. In Murray State’s last meet against Tennessee State, Canty went on to win her first-round doubles match, contributing to a six-match streak against the Tigers. In doubles, she paired with sophomore Carolyn Huerth to contribute to a final 2-3 doubles record for the Racers. The two landslide wins helped construct a 6-0 victory to add to the Racers’ 5-1 conference record.

Canty said she tries to play her hardest, knowing she doesn’t have much time left. “It does feel like there’s a sense of urgency,” she said. “But I really just want to go out there and do my best and try and take it all the way. I want to play hard, but I have to also remember to have fun doing it.” Aside from competing, Canty said her favorite thing about Murray State tennis is getting to know and play with each of her teammates. “I love being with them,” she said. “There’s always a lot of energy, and it turns out to be a fun atmosphere to practice and play in. I get along with all the girls well, and I’m going to

miss them when I graduate.” Canty is currently the only senior on the roster of seven, playing alongside four freshmen. With the most experience in OVC competition, she said she serves as a mentor for the rest of the players. Tennis runs deep in Canty’s family. She started playing at a young age, with her father coaching her until she entered competitions at six years old. It was the only sport she played throughout school. “I’ve been playing since I was two years old,” she said. “It always kind of ran in my family.

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Olympic champion, legendary coach visit Murray Jonathan Ferris || Staff writer jferris2@murraystate.edu

It’s not very often an Olympic gold medalist visits Murray. It happened Tuesday, however, as U.S. Olympic track and field star and four-time gold medalist Allyson Felix and her legendary coach, Bob Kersee, spent time with Murray State athletes and spoke at Wrather Auditorium. The Murray State department of youth and nonprofit leadership teamed

up with the United Way of MurrayCalloway County to host the fourth annual Giving Back Scholars program event. Felix and Kersee served as the evening’s special guests. Before the event began, however, Felix and Kersee spent some time with the Murray State track and field and cross-country teams. Felix and standout Murray State sprinter Alexis Love reunited for the first time since they competed against each other at the USA Track & Field Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., last

June. Love earned a spot in the semi-finals in both the 100- and 200-meter events, but failed to move on to finals in either of the events. Felix went on to qualify for the London Olympic Games and took home three gold medals, including the 200-meter title. Felix reflected on her past Olympic experiences Tuesday night, including the silver medals she earned in 2004 and 2008, and how those motivated her to snatch the gold in 2012. “I reflected on (the 2004 and 2008

Olympics), where I got the silver medal both times, and I took them pretty hard,” Felix said. “I don’t think I ever really got over the defeat and the disappointment, and that’s really what motivated me to keep running for the next few years.” Kersee discussed the importance of humility and character that he impresses upon his athletes, and used Felix’s 2008 defeat in Beijing as an example.

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Track team prepares for classic Carly Besser Assistant Sports Editor

With teams like Tennessee Tech and Eastern Illinois, we’re always really competitive at the conference level. Those will be really good teams to beat. –Jenny Severns

cbesser@murraystate.edu

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Freshman Hannah McAllister runs toward her teammate to hand off the baton at a recent practice. The Racers won 12 events in Bowling Green last week.

After winning 12 events at the Margaret Simmons Invitational last week, the track team is preparing to compete at the Western Kentucky Hilltopper Classic in Bowling Green, Ky., Saturday. The Racers managed to compile multiple season and career bests at Margaret Simmons, with sophomore thrower Tonia Pratt winning all three of her events. In the hammer throw, she won by more than 12 meters to set a new career-high throw of 174-11. She also tied her season best in shot put with a heave of 45-5. Sophomore LaShea Shaw dominated the 200-meter dash event when she ran a career-high time of 25 minutes, 54 seconds. Head Coach Jenny Severns

Track and Field Head Coach said she thinks the success at last week’s invitational will carry momentum when they travel to Bowling Green. “Everybody competed really well,” she said. “They’re just really learning how to run their races, and it’s showing through these events. Tonia Pratt and LaShea Shaw are always stepping up. Even our freshmen are doing well at indoor meets. I’m expecting really big things for them outdoors, also.” Old and new competition will be present at the Hilltopper Classic, including Grand Valley State, Bowling Green and West-

ern Kentucky. OVC-familiar opponents such as Eastern Illinois, SIU Edwardsville and Tennessee Tech will also be working toward a promising position in the OVC tournament, alongside the Racers. “With teams like Tennessee Tech and Eastern Illinois, we’re always really competitive at the conference level,” Severns said. “Those will be really good teams to beat. SIU Edwardsville beat us by one point in the indoor events, so we obviously want to return the favor

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With so much discussion about the direction our country is taking toward equal rights for the gay and lesbian community, you would assume anything sports Carly Besser Assistant Sports would be the Editor last place to be affected. However, now that the concept of equality is rearing itself to eventually be an American custom, there are now athletes who are coming out and receiving balanced amounts of support and criticism. It’s a shame to say the majority of criticism would come from their teammates, who believe the foundation of the respective sport would crumble if players were to come out as openly gay. In the sporting world, Mile High Sports columnist Mark Knudson argued that publically admitting your sexuality isn’t what’s best for the team. “(Regular people) aren't traveling across North America and going into intense competition in hostile environments and then being expected to perform flawlessly as a unit,” he said. “And they aren’t showering together afterwards. Important distinctions.” While I read further, I thought about why we join sports teams in the first place. The values of unity, camaraderie and teamwork all came to mind when I flashed back to why my parents signed me up for baseball when I was six. Wouldn’t being ostracized because of sexuality annul these qualities people develop? It seems in cases like these, professional athletes need to put aside their differences to achieve a larger goal. Many of these athletes are taken by surprise when a teammate announces he or she is gay. Former San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders offensive lineman Kwame Harris remained closeted his entire career, coming out after his retirement and shocking fellow players. His teammates reported they had no idea. It goes to show these athletes can possibly be the same people they practiced with, the same linemen who protected the quarterback’s blind side for seasons on end Their sexuality did not and will not hinder their performance or their etiquette. Working environments all over the country are one by one accepting people in the gay community as their coworkers, superintendents, CEOs and business partners. As much as we don’t think so, professional sports are just like any other job. It seems counter progressive to refuse to get with the program of accepting football, basketball and baseball players for their athletic abilities and not who they choose to be with. I’m not trying to generalize the pro-athlete community. Professional teams and athletes have been increasingly tolerant of LGBT issues. Linebacker Scott Fujita for the Cleveland Browns said he believes many NFL players would not mind playing with an openly gay teammate. As a sports fanatic, it disappoints me that professional sports are at this divide. It’s not a distraction and it’s not selfish for these players to admit who they are. If anything is a distraction from working for a Super Bowl ring or the Stanley Cup, it’s this very argument we’re witnessing. Don’t worry about what your teammate is doing off the field. As long as he or she is working toward the group incentive to win games, I don’t necessarily see a problem here and neither should anybody else. Pad up, shut up and give me a good game. cbesser@murraystate.edu

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CANTY From Page 1

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My dad was a football player, and he got his teaching degree. That’s when he began coaching me.� Canty has plans to continue playing tennis after she graduates from Murray State. She plans to try to either play professionally or become a player for the Atlanta Tennis Lawn Association in Atlanta, Ga. “I want to see how the whole pro thing goes first,� she said. “And then I was going to go for ALTA if that doesn’t happen. I do want to keep tennis with me. It’s fun.� ALTA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of tennis as a recreational sport and a way to promote physical fitness.

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U.S. Olympic Track & Field star and four-time gold medalist Allyson Felix, and her c oach, Bob Kersee, spoke at Wrather Auditorium Tuesd ay.

OLYMPIC From Page 1 “(My athletes) win because they’re competitive, but they do it with style and they do it with grace,� Kersee said. “We don’t believe in trash talking, and we don’t downplay someone else to build ourselves up,� Kersee said Felix never bad mouthed anyone or said anything discouraging to her competitors. “After that 200-meter silver medal, which she calls a loss – I call it a silver medal – she was hurt by it, but she was gracious to all her competitors,� he said. “She hugged them, she did all the interviews and then she went back to her

hotel room and cried.� Felix wasn’t always a track star, however, and she got involved with sports quite a bit later than most Olympians. After her family relocated to southern California, Felix found herself at a brand new high school as a freshman. Never having run track before, she decided to go out for the team. “I was at a brand new high school, so I really went out for the track team just to meet new people, and I did and I also fell in love with the sport,� Felix said. “I didn’t see myself as going much further than that. It wasn’t really until my junior and senior year when I saw it as something I could do long term, and that’s when I started having Olympic dreams.� Throughout the evening, Kersee and Felix shared their views on giving back,

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stressing the importance of treating others as equals, whether you are an Olympic athlete or a college student. As the event wound down, Kersee shared one last piece of advice to the students and faculty in attendance. “I really tell my athletes to try to stay away from cancerous personalities,� Kersee said. “It’s going to wear off on you and it’s going to wear you down. At the end of the day, they don’t really care, so many people can just walk away from situations after they’ve torn you down because they didn’t really have any character or goals from the beginning. Don’t let anybody discourage you. Keep believing in your dreams.� Kersee will continue to coach Felix as she prepares to defend her Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

outdoors. We are always competitive against Western Kentucky, so it will also be good to see how well we race against them.� Murray State is competing in multiple sprinting and distance events, including the 4 x 1 and the 100- and 200-meter dash. Standouts like senior sprinter Alexis Love are key components to the Racers’ speed advantage. Love was named the 2012 Female Track Athlete of the Year in the OVC, as well as the Athlete of the OVC Outdoor Championships. Her personal best time for the outdoor 100-meter dash is 11.94 seconds, keeping her far ahead of the majority of her competition. While Severns said she was confident in sprinting, she said Love wants to improve across the board. “We kind of do a little bit of everything before going to the OVCs,� she said. “Each week, we try to work on something different. For the distance, the girls who typically run a 10K will run dif-

Since 1934, the club has scheduled league play for both adult and junior teams in the Atlanta area. Today, ALTA has more than 80,000 members enrolled in its league. Besides tennis, Canty said her one other hobby is listening to music. Her favorite genres are R&B and hip-hop. She also has a new-found preference for Taylor Swift. “I really have to blame my team for getting me into Taylor Swift,� she said. “They all really like her, and I’ve been listening to a few of her songs.� Despite her aspirations to take tennis beyond college, Canty said she will not forget the years she has played as a Racer. “Tradition has always been big here,� she said. “I can say that I’m very proud to be a Racer. It was a big part of my career to play at Murray State.�

ferent events such as 3K to improve the different aspects of their racing. Is there always something we can work on? Absolutely.� With the OVC tournament one month away, athletes like freshman distance runner Emma Gilmore see the Hilltopper Classic as a way to showcase a strong roster in all events. “We’re going into this meet with a confidence boost,� Gilmore said. “I think we’re really strong across the board. Everybody showed that they’re working hard and you can’t really put a finger on where we aren’t doing well. Everything is going well for us.� Despite the advantage, tournament-style competition brings a new level of intensity for which the Racers need to prepare for. In order to be physically and mentally ready for the Hilltopper Classic, the team is focusing more on technique and resting to go and race well. “I definitely have some personal goals,� Gilmore said. “We’re focusing on the little things to get better. We just need to keep the morale up and going.� The Racers will compete in the Hilltopper Classic at 9 a.m. Saturday in Bowling Green, Ky.

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Team gains second win of season Laura Kovarik || Staff writer lkovarik@murraystate.edu

On a roll after their first win of the season against Tennesse State, the Racers defeated the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers on Wednesday for their second win. The Murray State victory was in sight after sweeping three double matches, earning the team the doubles point. Head Coach Mel Purcell said he was extremely pleased with the way his team played. “We won the doubles point; that really helps,� Purcell said. “That way we only have to win three of the six singles matches. I’m really proud of my guys; they always come on the court and keep fighting.� Despite a slow start to the season, the Racers have been building momentum. Purcell said the biggest challenge has been winning the doubles point. Now that they have two wins under their belt, the team is working towards winnning the next two matches to qualify for championships. Early into the match the doubles team of junior Adam Taylor and senior Ryan Kennedy won 8-5. No. 2 doubles team seniors Tyler Jeffers and Joao Camara clenched their match 8-4, while No. 3 doubles freshman Nicholas Mitric and sophomore Aleks Mitric lost after a long match 9-7. “Going into the match I thought it was very winnable,� Jeffers said. “It’s always a pleasure playing

Western Kentucky because they are very competitive. It’s nice we’ve been able to come out on top the last few years.� The Racers were able to defeat the Hilltoppers for the fifth year in a row. The momentum from the doubles win carried over into the singles play; in an almost clean sweep the Racers won five of the six matches. At No. 3 singles Jeffers was able to close out for the Racers with a three-set thriller. Jeffers won the match 10-2 in a third-set tiebreaker. Taylor, Kennedy, Aleks and Nicholas were all able to win their respective matches as well. “Overall, I would say our team is developing well,� Jeffers said. “Whether we win or lose, we take something away from the match. Whether it be singles or doubles point, or mentally getting something, or a few players getting something, we always find a little way to take something away from every match.� With some wins under their belt the Racers are hitting the courts to train hard for a possible third consecutive win of the season against Jacksonville State. Purcell said this confidence will hopefully carry over into the next couple of matches. The match against Western Kentucky marks the last nonconference play of the season. Coming up in the schedule are matches against Jacksonville State Saturday and Tennessee Tech Sunday.

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Freshman Nicholas Mitric won his singles match, but lost his doubles match with his brother Aleks Mitric.

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Women’s tennis goes for seven in a row Kelly Farrell || Contributing writer kfarrell2@murraystate.edu

Murray State women’s tennis seeks to continue its winning streak today against the UT Martin Skyhawks. The Racers started off the season shakily in January. The team eventually picked up steam around the middle of the season. The Racers currently have six wins in a row with only two OVC matches, Tennessee State and Jack-

sonville State, remaining. The April 12-13 matches will cap off the regular season before play in the OVC tournament starts April 19-21 in Paducah, Ky. The team is currently 7-1 within OVC play. The team won its last match against Tennessee State with a 6-0 victory. The Racers defeated Belmont University, Austin Peay and Southeast Missouri in three consecutive matches, all by a healthy margin. Players Ashley Canty and Carolyn

Huerth excelled in doubles against Tennessee State, winning 8-0. Megan Blue and Carla Suga won the number two slot, which clinched the April 7 doubles win for the Racers. Singles play went just as well for Murray State. Canty and Huerth defeated Tennessee State in each of their sets and Suga won her two sets, 6-1 and 60 in the number two slot. The Racers’ upcoming opponent, UT Martin, own a record of 5-16 and are coming off a 7-0 defeat at the hands of

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Gaskey came home with the win after only allowing four hits and zero runs. “The goal for these games was to work on fundamentals and stay consistent,” Amundson said. “We did that relatively well in the first game.” The Racers came out scoring again in the first inning of the second game. The first three batters got on base and with the bases loaded; Troup was hit by a pitch to score Ramsey. Anderson reached first on a fielder’s choice, which scored Becker. Bridges walked to score Castile, putting the Racers up 3-0. In the second inning, Becker hit a two run home run, which scored Miller. Castile then proceeded to hit a solo home run. After that, Troup walked and Bridges hit a two run home run to score them both. The Racers led Bethel 8-0. Bethel managed to score one run in the third inning, but Murray State turned around and scored three more runs. Senior Christian Cox scored on a wild pitch and Miller scored on a passed ball. The passed ball advanced sophomore Mallory Richardson to third and when freshman Brianne Sanders sin-

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The Racer softball team won both games in its double header against Bethel on Wednesday. Murray State scored a total of 18 runs throughout both games. “There were really good at bats throughout the whole line up,” Head Coach Kara Amundson said. “We put the ball in play really well.” In the first game, the Racers scored early in the bottom of the first to begin the game up by two. Freshman Shelbey Miller tripled and sophomore Mo Ramsey singled on a bunt to score Miller. Two at bats later, senior Ellyn Troup singled to score Ramsey. Murray State scored one more run in the third inning on a single by senior Sarah Anderson to score Castile. In the sixth inning, junior Leslie Bridges grounded out to advance all three of the runners, which caused sophomore Alexa Becker to score. Anderson batted next and grounded out to score sophomore Casey Castile. Freshman Audrey Woodby singled to score Troup, putting the Racers up 6-0. Sophomore pitcher CheyAnne

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BERRY EXPECTING SECOND CHILD Actress Halle Berry is expecting her second child. This will be her first child with her fiance, French actor Olivier Martinez. Berry is now 46 years old and has a 5-year-old daughter, Nahla with ex-boyfriend, Canadian model Gabriel Audry. Berry told CNN reporter Alina Cho that she is three months pregnant and is unsure of the sex.

ROGERS AMONG THOSE INDUCTED TO HALL OF FAME Kenny Rogers, Bobby Bare and “Cowboy” Jack Clement have been selected to be inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Rogers will be inducted into the “Modern Era” category for his more notable country music hits like “The Gambler.” Clement will be inducted as a nonperformer for his work as a producer and songwriter.

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For the 55th year, one of Murray State’s most cherished traditions, All Campus Sing, returns to the historic steps of Lovett Auditorium Wednesday, April 17. All Campus Sing begins with a pre-show at 3 p.m., and the competition at 3:30 p.m. Since the tradition began in 1958, Sigma Alpha Iota has hosted All Campus Sing with help from the Murray State Alumni Association and the Office of Student Affairs. According to Amanda Benson, chair of All Campus Sing, there are many people who aid SAI in organizing the event each year. “I get help from some people at Lovett Auditorium who help with the sound,” she said. “I also have my assistant, who will be taking over next year, and a committee within SAI that helps organize the event as well.”

Even though there are many people who help All Campus Sing run smoothly, there are difficulties in preparing for the event. “I think getting people involved and excited about the event can be the easiest part,” said Anne Pritchett, assistant chair of All Campus Sing. “But it’s difficult to organize the competing groups. A lot of time goes into getting their information and making sure the groups don’t have the same songs picked.” All Campus Sing unites students from different groups for a friendly singing and dancing competition. It allows students to be social and get to know the different groups at Murray State. The entire event provides the students with a different kind of opportunity, she said. “I think it is a good way for people to get out of their comfort zones,” she said. “You see a lot of people say ‘I can’t sing’ or ‘I can’t dance’, but it gives them the opportunity to put themselves out there anyway.” This year, 26 groups will be competing in the event, which is about the same number of performers as last year, Benson said. The groups are separated into four divisions: residential colleges, sororities, fraternities and independent.

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Devan McCoy, sophmore from Benton, Ky., and Allison Petterson, junior from Orlando, Fla., both members of Sigma Sigma Sigma, rehearse on the steps of Pogue Library with their sorority sisters in preparation for All Campus Sing. The number of members competing in each group can range from six to 70 people. The smallest group competing is about four or five people, she said. This year All Campus Sing does not have an overall theme. Instead, each group picks their own theme and chooses songs

based on its personal theme. These themes can also help determine the creativity and musicality of the group’s performance. “In the past, All Campus Sing has had an overall theme,” Benson said. “But it was hard for so many groups

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Bring Chicago to Murray; that was the goal of Mugsy’s Hideout owners Jay and Maria Baron before opening their Chicagothemed restaurant in Murray’s court square. Originally from the Windy City, the couple made the move to Murray after spending time vacationing in the area year after year. “We used to vacation in Grand Rivers,

Ky., and my parents actually had property there so we could vacation,” Jay said. “We just fell in love with the area. We thought we had a niche to start.” Once the couple and their children were settled in Murray, they wanted to live the American dream, so they decided to start their own business. Because Jay had previously worked three different jobs in the Chicago meat industry, he wanted to see what he could do in the small-town food industry on his own. Soon enough, Mugsy’s Hideout was cre-

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Wesley Foundation holds successful race PARKER AUCTIONS SHOES FOR CHARITY Sarah Jessica Parker will be auctioning off three pairs of her “Sex and the City” shoes to benefit a New York high school. Parker’s shoes will be sold alongside shoes from Elvis Presley, Shaquille O’Neal, Britney Spears and Madonna. The auction will benefit LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and the Performing Arts.

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LOHAN: “REHAB IS A BLESSING” Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman” where Letterman questioned her about her upcoming rehab stint. She is facing 90 days in rehab as part of a plea deal in a misdemeanor traffic accident case. The actress said she would be going to better herself adding that rehab is “a blessing, not a curse.”

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Participants of the Manueuver Murray event work together to overcome many obstcles such as tire flipping in their race for the finish line on Saturday.

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Murray State Admissions Counselor Josh Jones will take his place as Hoke Colburn with Murray’s Playhouse in the Park April 20. The playhouse will be performing the classic play “Driving Miss Daisy,” the comedic and touching story of Miss Daisy and Hoke, her AfricanAmerican chauffeur. Hoke becomes Miss Daisy’s chauffeur after she wrecks a brand-new vehicle and her son declares she is unfit to drive, thus hiring Hoke. The play then follows the relationship of Miss Daisy and Hoke over the span of 25 years. The majority of their time together is in the Civil Rights Movement time period, giv-

as quickly as possible to win. This year’s event was the second ever Maneuver Murray put on by the Wesley Foundation. This year, there were many repeat competitors as well as newcomers to the event. “This was our first time participating in Maneuver Murray,” Bailey Schminke, senior from Evansville, Ind., said. “It gave us a chance to bond and have one last hurrah before we

ing a serious note to the play, allowing it to touch viewers while also entertaining them. “Hoke is a 60-year-old man. He’s a very nice man who works as Miss Daisy’s chauffeur throughout the duration of the show,” Jones said. “He is a very humble guy, and acts as a very kind soul in Miss Daisy’s life.” “Driving Miss Daisy” will be Jones’s third production with Playhouse in the Park. Jones said that this play, because of its small cast size, has had more of a family atmosphere than any other in which he has participated. “‘Driving Miss Daisy’ had definitely been different than any other play because of its small size,” Jones said. “With there being less people, we have a lot more time to joke around and really get to know each

all graduate. Our favorite part was, well, all of it. The weather was beautiful, and we even got some exercise.” Schminke was a member of team HR Divas. Other teams, like The Untouchables, said despite a few equipment failures, the event was still an awesome time with lots of laughs.

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other. The time commitment is significantly larger, and I was nervous at first, because I have a lot more lines than I did previously, but I’m really looking forward to the show.” Katie Hamilton, “Driving Miss Daisy” director, said she believes the play will be a hit with the Murray community, since ticket sales have already been very successful. “I think ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ will be very appealing to the people of all ages,” Hamilton said. “It’s timeless and has a heart-warming, great message that is also familiar to people because of the movie. The play is really about the importance of two people from two worlds becoming the best of friends against all odds.” “Driving Miss Daisy” will be dedicated to the late Murray State student, Daniel Milam.

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SING From Page 5B to find different songs about one individual thing, so we left it open this year, and we probably will leave it open to individual themes for many years to come.” The groups will be scored on four aspects of their show: performance, crowd likability, musicality and creativeness. Each division will have a first through fourth-place title. Best costumes, best choreography, best solo and director’s choice are all separate awards, which will also be given. This year, however, new awards are being incorporated into All Campus Sing.

“We always have first through fourth place in every division,” Benson said. “We have something that is new this year, the championship trophy. We will give that to the group who did the best out of the first prizes of the four divisions. We also added a spectator’s choice award, and the audience will determine the winner.” These prizes and the championship trophy are all courtesy of the Alumni Association, however SAI raises money through All Campus Sing as well. Each group pays $50 to enroll in the competition. In addition to the entry fee, change wars are held, concessions are set up and T-shirts are sold in order to raise money for the philanthropy. The money raised is donated to the People to People foundation. It is used to buy musical instruments, sheet music and

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other supplies needed for schools. In addition, a musical instrument drive is held at All Campus Sing. Donated instruments are given to the schools that do not have the funding for new instruments. The teams that donate instruments receive added points to their scores. “The neat thing about All Campus Sing is at our national convention for SAI the event gets a lot of recognition because it involves the music, the community and pushes campus involvement,” Benson said. “It also is very profitable.” This year Benson said she has high hopes for the amount of money raised because it is the largest fundraiser. Last year, All Campus Sing raised more than $2,000 and she hopes to raise just as much this year to benefit their philanthropy.

MUGSY’S From Page 5B ated and opened in 2005. “The type of restaurant that we are, there’s probably a thousand of them in Chicago,” Jay said. “We thought we had something different to bring (here) and sell.” They realized that if they brought in a Chicago-style restaurant, it would be something unique in Murray, Jay said. After visiting different restaurants, they realized that not everyone carried Italian beef or Italian sausage. Aside from the stereotypical deep-dish pizzas, some of Mugsy’s most popular dishes are their pizza calzones, combination sandwiches with Italian beef and Italian sausage and their Philly cheesesteak sandwiches, though not Chicago recipe’s. Learning how to make all of their dishes and then teaching their employees how to imitate them was the biggest challenge, Jay said. “Honestly, we just played, we just learned,” he said. “I always cooked when I worked on the meat market, but I never pulled any one recipe. I would just keep working with it until I felt like we perfected it.” Once he made a dish to his liking and it stayed true to the Chicago style, he had to sit down and write out its recipe so his workers could make it, too, he said. The name Mugsy comes from the name of Jay’s dog at the time. Mugsy’s appearance, however, was created through a contest Jay and Maria hosted to encourage students to make a creative logo for their Chicago-themed restaurant.

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Mugsy’s Hideout will celebrate its eighth anniversary this August. “We had a contest here when we first opened up with the high school kids at Murray or Calloway to compete and create Mugsy for us,” Jay said. The students competiting in the contest were given three rules, Jay said. “Mugsy had to be a Pit Bull, (his appearance) had to do with Chicago and (the design) had to be during the prohibition era,” he said. “The person that came up with the best looking Mugsy won $250.” From there, Jay and Maria had the winner come into the restaurant and paint their pictures on the walls to make

murals, he said. Today, murals and paintings of prohibition and roaring twenties dogs can be seen inside the restaurant, along with sports memorabilia from Chicago teams like the Bulls and White Sox. “We have different sports teams hung up,” Jay said. “We kind of used the prohibition theme inside of the restaurant because when I first came to Murray, there were very few places serving alcohol, and growing up in Chicago, there is a bar on every corner, and we thought it would be kind of cool to play with that theme.

So we kind of made it like a speak-easy.” While the restaurant has its local regular customers, it also receives a lot of business from consumers coming from northern areas that are attracted by the familiar food styles and tastes. Among those northern areas are St. Louis, Buffalo, N.Y., Pennsylvania, Detroit and of course, Chicago, Jay said. “Our biggest hurdle, however, is being downtown in the court square,” he said. “A lot of Murray State students don’t know about the court square. We probably see more faculty than students.”

“I almost face-planted because my bike got a flat tire, but I just barely managed to avoid it,” Helen Beckert, freshman from Henderson, Ky., said. “Even with the flat, we still finished all of the activities with a good time, and had an even better time doing it.” Madison Mucci, sophomore from Nolensville, Tenn., and Fundraising Chairperson of the Wesley Foundation and Maneuver Murray coordinator, said though the event is a large undertaking, the fundraiser has been a big hit in Murray because of its unique nature. “Putting together Maneuver Murray is a lot of work, but it’s a lot of fun at the same time,” Mucci said. “It is really cool because it is a community-wide event, and when the committee was organizing it, we got to meet and interact with a lot of the Murray community.” Mucci said the friendliness and willingness to help and participate in Maneuver Murray by the community has been great to watch as individuals and businesses have stepped up to the plate. This year’s winning team, coming in with the fastest time and no penalties, was team Coldwater Allstars. Comprised of members John Hughes, Darrel Neidigh, David “Fred Palmer” Lawrence and Erin Dick. The team said this year was its second time participating in the event. “We did pretty well last year, but this year we learned to pay more attention to the clues and map out exactly what we plan to do before leaving the building,” Hughes said. “That way, you don’t waste any extra effort doubling back and going farther than you needed to.” Hughes also said every group should have bikes, as they allow you to get around much faster and easier, making competition times much faster. “I don’t mean this in a bad way, but let’s face it,” Hughes said. “You’re not going to win walking.” The event also offered a few more eccentric awards for teams such as the best costume award, and the oldest team award. The award for best costume went to Murray State’s own Sigma Alpha Iota for their color-coordinated tutus. The oldest team award went to Big Blue, as they had the highest cumulative age of all participating groups.

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Keep your friends close, your enemies closer Shannon MacAllister Staff writer smacallister@murraystate.edu

The enemy may not always be against you in “The Host,” based on the book written by Stephenie Meyer. The story follows Melanie Stryder as her mind is invaded by an alien named Wanderer, one of the enemies that have already taken over earth. Melanie and Wanderer’s situation is unique in this new world. Melanie’s mind survived the invasion by the alien life form, and now she and Wanderer share a mind. The foreign race invades the human mind by inserting themselves through the neck and attaching to the spine and brain. This creates conflict as Melanie fights to save her family from the alien invasion. As the story progresses, Melanie begins to change Wanderer, convincing her of the wrongness of what her people are doing and changing the fate of mankind forever. As Melanie and Wanderer continue their battle of minds, the story evolves

into a complicated love story that satisfies all viewers with a shocking twist. The film will keep viewers riveted as each second is packed with emotion, story twists and thrill. The actors were spot-on in their portrayal of each character, making “The Host” a great movie to watch for the average viewer as well as die-hard fans of the book. The only downside to the film was that it seemed to lack drama both in special effects and plot. Though the story is full of shocking twists, a few of the more important scenes that should be dramatic and hard-hitting for the viewer fall flat, leaving the audience wanting more. This flaw seems to be a common theme in movies based on Stephenie Meyer’s books. But the viewer can rest assured as “The Host,” though at times lacks drama, is not the Kristen Stewart “Twilight” debacle all over again. Despite these scenes, “The Host” is worth the ticket and carries an important lesson as it shows viewers everyone is their own person, regardless of the name they carry or the planet they are from.

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Melanie Stryder, played by Saoirse Ronan, and Jake Abel, played by Max Irons, share a rare romantic moment in director Andrew Niccol’s “The Host.”

Facts & Tidbits Movie: “The Host” Director: Andrew Niccol Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Jake Abel Released: March 29, 2013 Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance Review Rundown: Roger Ebert: 2.5/5 stars

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