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Aug. 23, 2013

Vol. 89, No. 2

Double the numbers

Housing overflow, quick changes

Panhellenic sororities break recruitment record

Rebecca Walter Staff writer rwalter@murraystate.edu

This year’s sorority recruitment placed 290 women in one of the five Panhellenic sororities on campus, becoming the largest recruitment class Murray State’s Greek organizations have ever seen.

The total number of women who participated in recruitment surpassed last year’s numbers by 46 percent. The number of participants who

Staff Report Extreme measures have been put in place due to an overflow in on-campus housing this year.

In Lee Clark College and James H. Richmond College, several rooms host three students, instead of two.

Due to an influx in students living on campus, several agreed to take an extra roommate for a reduction in their housing rates.

David Wilson, director of housing for Murray State, has had to come up with several solutions to alleviate the situation.

“The main issue is working to find space for the students coming for the fall,” Wilson said. “We have spaces where we can temporarily place three or four beds to get people on campus, and then once we have no-shows, we

members to live through the values of their organizations.

Each of the five sororities were able to meet quota, accepting between 57-59 new members each. This was an increase from last year’s totals, which had each organization accepting between 38-41 new members.

Alex Sharpe, junior from Paducah, Ky., said deciding to rush this year was one of the best decisions she has made so far in her college career.

“I feel like I have finally

were placed in a sorority last year totaled 199.

Jason Hinson-Nolen, Greek Life coordinator, said even with an increase in numbers, recruitment still ran remarkably well.

“It’s amazing to see so much growth within a single year,” Hinson-Nolen said. “I’m very proud of the Panhellenic executive board for reaching out to the incoming freshmen and making this happen.”

Hinson-Nolen said he encourages all of the new Greek

found my home on campus,” Sharpe said. “The week of recruitment was exhausting, but worth it in every way.”

Sharpe said she cannot wait to represent Alpha Sigma Alpha by wearing its letters and to see what is in store for the upcoming year.

Hinson-Nolen said even with each of the established sororities on campus growing substantially, there are still 140 women signed up for recruit-

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Photo by Jason Hinson-Nolen

Women hold up bids from each of the five Panhellenic sororities after a week of recruitment. The process brought 290 women into the Murray State Greek community this year.

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June 7 the presidential search

July 26 the committee chose to

committee met for the first time and decided to use an outside search firm

use Witt/Keiffer as the University’s consultant to assist in the presidential search

Searching for a president Who is on the presidential search committee?

July

Sept.

Aug.

Sept. 4 committee will

Who is the interim president?

Tim Miller retired professor of accounting and

July 22 the committee decided to schedule interviews of potential search firms

meet in Pogue Library to discuss future action

former Murray State interim president in 2006

• Steven Williams committee chair and Board of Regents member • Kevin Binfield English professor and chair and president of Faculty Senate • Don Chamberlain Accounting professor and chair • Susan Guess Board of Regents member • Jeremiah Johnson SGA president and Board of Regents member • Martha Lewis alumna • Jerry Sue Thornton Board of Regents member • Harry Lee Waterfield II Board of Regents member • Roslyn White associate director of enrollment management

Paducah campus on time A summer of construction shows progress Ben Manhanke Assistant News Editor bmanhanke@murraystate.edu

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HYPNOTIZING CAMPUS: Hypnotist Tom Deluca displays his skill set in Lovett Auditorium Wednesday evening. Deluca has visited Murray State several times as a part of the Great Beginnings program.

Check out TheNews.org and Facebook for a photo gallery of the event.

While students have enjoyed a three-month vacation, A&K Construction and its subcontractors have been hard at work turning what began as a concrete base into Murray State’s new Paducah, Ky., regional campus facility.

Kim Oatman, Murray State’s chief facilities officer, says construction is right where it needs to be. The campus is scheduled to be completed by mid-December to facilitate the campus’ 2014 spring semester.

Oatman has overseen construction of the new facility since its site work began in December 2012 and attributes the success of the project to the

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excellent coordination of A&K Construction, PFGW Architects, BFW Engineers and the Murray State Facilities Design and Construction staff.

With at least 40 workers on site working an average of 40 hours per week, Oatman said the new facility is now nearly 70 percent complete.

“This project has gone remarkably smooth and I am very pleased with where we are today,” he said. “The project is within budget and constructed to Murray State’s high standards and projected to be completed on time.”

Since classes adjourned in May, the structure, roofing, windows and masonry have almost been completed.

Oatman said their work is now focused on the interior spaces of the building. “(It is) very gratifying to be a part of this initiative to expand Murray State’s presence and educational services in the Paducah area and surrounding regions,” Oatman said. “I feel this is going to be a very positive chapter in Murray State’s history book and I am glad to be a small part.”

Of the nearly $10 million and 43,000-square-foot project, he said the

drywall and painting still needs to be finished as well as the installation of plumbing, electric, flooring, ceilings, fixtures and casework.

Jay Morgan, vice president of Academic Affairs, said the new facility’s first semester will be a “soft opening,” meaning all the courses currently offered at the Paducah regional campus will simply be transferred and Morgan offered at the new facility. He said there will be a big push for the fall 2014 semester to ramp up the number of sections of courses and different academic programs.

Morgan said the University is looking to implement new courses in criminal justice, applied engineering, psychology, human development and leadership and a number of business and communications courses.

The other goal Morgan gave for the

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RECRUITMENT From Page 1

Photos by Lori Allen/The News

Alpha Omicron Pi celebrates bid day in the quad after a long week of recruitment.

Alpha Gamma Delta poses in front of the sorority suites with nearly 60 new members.

ment with Kappa Delta, the newest sorority on campus.

Kappa Delta was re-established this fall, coming back for the first time to Murray State since 1984.

Informal recruitment for Kappa Delta will be held between Sept. 6-8 for women interested in joining.

Celeste Chockley, director of recruitment, said she was glad to see such a large number of women pursuing the opportunities Greek life offers.

“The opportunities which are presented to members through their organizations can open so many doors,” Chockley said. “It helps to grow you as a person and teaches many important life values.”

Each of the five sororities on campus are involved with various philanthropy projects throughout the school year to raise funds for their different organizations and foundations.

Chockley said she encourages all new Greek life members to get involved as much as possible and to cherish the memories they will make.

Said Chockley: “Take advantage of every second and opportunity you are given, because the time goes by faster than you think.”

New members and active members of Alpha Sigma Alpha talk over snacks.

A member of Alpha Delta Pi hands out gifts to their new members.

PADUCAH From Page 1 regional campus’ upcoming semesters is to grow its student body.

“This year we had around 1,100 or 1,200 in Paducah,” Morgan said. “For next fall we’d like to bump that up a couple of hundred students and our goal is within four or five years to get that up to 2,000 students, almost a doubling of the number of students we have there now.”

Brian Van Horn, dean of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach, said the Paducah regional campus’s first year will be an opportunity to study and work with Paducah

and the region of McCracken County to figure out what degrees need to be offered to best facilitate the region.

He said Murray’s regional campuses are designed to be the nuts and bolts of education and while they won’t offer sororities, fraternities or other clubs and organizations, they continue to provide the same quality education students receive at Murray State’s main campus.

“What Murray state is doing in Paducah and the other regional campuses is we’re building a workforce for tomorrow which should help bring business in to our area,” he said. “Murray State’s mission is to provide access to education for the westernmost 18 counties of Kentucky and this campus will help us meet that goal.”

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HOUSING From Page 1 can get them into a space.”

Wilson said the University did not look into putting some students on off-campus facilities.

Peter Hausladen, residential director of Lee Clark, said 30 percent of students moved in for sorority rush, which began Aug. 14.

“Move-in this year went extremely smoothly,” Hausladen said. “Even the intermittent rain couldn’t mess things up.”

With Hester Residential College closed for renovations, Hester residents are

being stationed at Old Richmond Residential College for the time being.

Wilson said there are plans for construction of another residence hall once the renovations to Hester are complete.

“The RAs have roommates and we have tripled some areas. We also released some people to live off campus.”

–Don Robertson Vice president of Student Affairs Wilson also said the push for freshmen to live on cam-

pus traces back to statistics.

“Dr. Miller and Dr. Robertson felt that it was important to have freshmen live on campus if at all possible,” Wilson said. “Research has shown that staying on campus for one to two years has a positive impact on graduation.”

Wilson also said some juniors who receive regional tuition and international students were offered exemptions to move off campus.

Don Robertson, vice president of Student Affairs, said the housing department had a problem trying to find students a place to live prior to move-in.

“It worked out where we found some temporary

housing,” Robertson said.

Robertson said the goal was to get as many freshmen as possible to live on Robertson campus.

“Now we are fine,” Robertson said.

“We are still over capacity because of the RAs having roommates.”

He said even though housing was crowded this year, no one has been refused a room.

Said Robertson: “At one point we thought we were going to have to turn people away and that has not been the case.”

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WASH IN GTON ( AP) — With college costs continuing to rise, more students are receiving federal financial aid, though state and institutional aid remains largely flat.

Data released Tuesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education, shows 71 percent of all undergraduate students received some type of financial aid in the 201112 school year, up from 66 percent four years earlier.

Forty-two percent of students received federal grants, up from 28 percent, and 40 percent received federal loans, an increase of 5 percentage points.

Meanwhile, 15 percent received state grants and 20 percent received a grant from the college or university they attend — figures that have remained essentially unchanged since the 2007-08 school year.

Among full-time, dependent students, access to federal state grants actually declined, from 29 percent to 26 percent.

"I think these last four years were very tough for states, and certainly we weren't surprised," said Jack Buckley, commissioner of the NCES. The data comes just weeks after

President Barack Obama signed a law restoring lower interest rates for millions of college students.

The law links student loan interest rates to the financial markets, meaning rates will be lower this fall because the government can borrow money cheaply at this time.

However, student loans could become more costly if the economy continues to improve, and interest rates increase.

The law covers an estimated 18 million loans totaling some $106 billion.

The new NCES data shows that college costs are still going up: Instate tuition at community college jumped almost 6 percent, to an average of $3,131 last year; in-state tuition at a public, four-year college averaged $8,655, up 5 percent; and private, four-year school tuition and fees averaged $29,056, a 4 percent increase.

Those figures, however, cover only part of college costs.

According to a College Board survey, the price of housing and food is even higher than tuition for in-state students at public universities.

With the added costs of food, housing, books, supplies and transportation, the total cost to attend an in-state public university was $17,860

total last year.

"Increasing federal student aid alone will not control the cost of college," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said. "All of us share responsibility for ensuring that college is affordable."

Duncan said the new data "is a reminder that we need state policymakers and individual colleges and universities to do their part in taking action against rising college tuition."

The average student received $10,800 in aid in 2011-12, up from $9,100 in 2008-09, according to NCES. That includes federal and state grants and loans, plus work-study jobs and veterans' benefits.

On average, student grant awards totaled $6,200, compared to $4,900 four years before.

The biggest increase was in Pell Grants, which provide aid to low-income students: Forty-one percent of all undergraduates received a Pell Grant, up from 27 percent.

Pell Grant awards were increased during Obama's first term, but they still cover less than one-third the cost of a four-year public college.

By contrast, they covered 69 percent of costs in 1980.

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Police Beat August 15

August 19

6:05 p.m. A caller in White College reported being stuck on the elevator. Officers and Central Plant were notified.

7:36 p.m. A caller reported people skateboarding on the back dock of the General Services Building. Officers were notified and an information report was taken.

1:49 p.m. A caller reported a hit and run near Stewart Stadium. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

5: 56 p.m. A caller reported damage to White College.

The Central Plant was notified.

August 16

12:10 p.m. An officer issued a citation near North Farm for speeding 50 mph in a 35 mph zone.

4:08 p.m. A caller reported stolen property. Officers were notified and a report was taken for unlawful taking of less than $500

9:42 a.m. A caller near the Alexander Hall playground reported an abandoned animal. Officers were notified but could not find the animal.

9:1 2 p.m. Officers issued a written warning for disregarding a stop sign and not wearing a seatbelt on Waldrop Street.

August 17 7:21 p.m. A caller reported a medical emergency in Oakhurst. Officers and the Murray Ambulance Service were notified and a report was taken.

11:25 p.m. A caller reported a noise complaint by the intramural fields. Officers were notified but the scene appeared normal.

August 18 3:4 1 a.m . A caller reported a noise complaint in the 1000 block of College Courts. Officers were notified and a verbal warning was issued.

1 1 : 0 0 a. m . A caller reported a sparking outlet in the 500 block of College Courts. Officers, Central Plant, the Murray Fire Department and the State Fire Marshall were notified.

August 20

August 21 1:3 7 a.m. A caller reported a noise complaint by Dorm Circle. Officers were notified and an in formation report was taken.

8:40 p.m. A caller reported an unsecured door in the Crisp Locker Room. Officers and building coordinators were notified.

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Murray States students brave the rain as they move into the crowded dorms.

Jennifer Jameson, leadership development consultant for Kappa Delta, talks with interested students Wednesday in the Curris Center at Racer Extravaganza.

Call of Fame August 16 - 6:30 p.m. A caller reported being stuck on an elevator on the 7th floor of Hart College. Officers and Central Plant were notified and a report was taken.

Motorists assists – 1 Racer escorts – 2 Arrests – 0

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

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Greek organizations honored at conferences

Rebecca Walter || Staff Writer rwalter@murraystate.edu Several Greek organizations at Murray State have been honored with numerous prestigious awards, many even receiving national recognition.

Jason Hinson-Nolen, Greek life coordinator, said he is pleased that nearly every Greek organization that went to a national conference received an award.

Hinson-Nolen attributed the success of those organizations honored to the support they receive from Murray State and the Murray community.

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Alpha Gamma De lta was recognized as a five-star chapter. The chapter was also sixth in the nation for the funds it was able to raise for the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation.

Alpha Omicron Pi received the Jessie Wallace Hughan award. It also received excellence in new member education, excellence in ritual, collegiate chapter of excellence and recognition for being one of the top Alpha Omicron Pi chapters in the nation.

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Alpha Sigma Phi was recognized at its national conference for being one of the top four chapters in the nation.

Hinson-Nolen also acknowledged their strength as individuals.

These awards s how that some t hi ng i s b e i ng d on e right,” –Jason Hinson-Nolen Greek life coordinator “These awards are showing that something is being done right,” Hinson-Nolen said. “The students in these organizations truly have the support of Student Affairs,

their individual chapter advisers and the community, which is helping them achieve these awards.”

Said Hinson-Nolen: “The strength of the Greek community at Murray State is what really made these awards possible,” HinsonNolen said.

Cody Waggoner, president of Sigma Chi, said the organization is more than just social events; it is about making a difference in the community.

“It is a rewarding feeling to have people recognize what the organization is accomplishing,” Waggoner said.

Elizabeth Tarter, president of

Alpha Gamma Delta, said she could not be more proud of all that the organization has achieved.

Tarter, who was a part of the largest sorority recruitment in Murray State’s history, said she is excited to see what next semester will bring for AGD and for members Hinson-Nolen new and old.

“We are so excited about all of the recent accomplishments,” Tarter said.

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Pi Kappa Alpha was awarded the Harvey T. Newell Most Improved Chapter of the Year.

Sigma Chi was awarded its fifth straight Peterson Award for having outstanding performance and has also been recognized as one of the nation’s best chapters.

Sigma Phi Epsilon was recognized by the North American Fraternity Conference for having the fifth highest GPA of all fraternities in the nation. It also received the honor of the Buchanan Cup for the third year in a row.

Sigma Pi received national recognition for meeting its retention goals and high scoring in its national assessment.

Sigma Sigma Sigma was named the Chapter of the Triennium at its national conference, after being named Chapter of the Year for three years in a row.

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Bursting at the seams might be a good way to describe housing now that the class of 2017 has made its way to Murray State.

An overflow in the residential colleges has resulted in rooms in both Lee Clark and James H. Richmond residential colleges housing three students to a room. Even residential advisers have had to take roommates. Another group of students who would otherwise be rooming in Hester Residential College are now residing in Old Richmond Residential College.

To the University’s credit, no student has, to our knowledge, been turned away because they weren’t able to find a place to room for the semester – but this does not excuse the fact that housing was an issue in the first place.

Students should not be confined three or four in a room designed for two.

We might have missed the “12 X 12” target, but we are nevertheless a growing school with a burgeoning population.

The ongoing renovations in Hester will alleviate some of that crowding, but renovations alone will not be sufficient to meet the needs of the class of 2018, the class of 2023, or the class of 2027.

If Murray State is to continue to grow and thrive, the Board of Regents, the President – all those with the ability to pave the way for that growth, for that expansion, have to make the necessary investments to do so.

It’s time to get serious about building new housing on campus in addition to renovating our existing housing.

Murray State owns plenty of property in the city and has plenty

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of money – as last year’s budget review, which cut millions of dollars in spending, made evident.

Expanding access to housing on campus might cost a bit up front, but the payoff on that investment could mean more diplomas and less dropouts.

Just ask David Wilson, director of housing at Murray State, who said as much in an interview with The News for this week’s edition, “Research has shown that staying on campus for one or two years has a positive impact on graduation.”

We have no illusions that this is the kind of policy that can be approved and enacted tomorrow – and we wouldn’t want this to be a rushed process.

Likewise, we wouldn’t want to see students asked to pay more for housing.

This is exactly the kind of thing that a “rainy day fund,” like the one maintained by the University, should be for – helping to make crucial investments in our school and in our community.

Any new housing constructed, renovated or expanded should be done with the aid of and the input of students.

Students should not be asked to sacrifice their hard-earned money or take out more in loans to help construct or expand housing in a process in which their voice is drowned out by University officials, the Student Government Association, faculty or staff.

This is our campus – we have a right to be housed here without having to be cramped three or four to a room.

A Professor’s Journal

Remember, wherever you go, there you are “ Re m e m b e r, wherever you go, there you are.”

I first read the q u o t a t i o n scrawled on the wooden wall of a tiny restroom in Duane Bolin High on Rose, a Professor of history restaurant (ahem, a dive) at, yes, the corner of High and Rose Streets in Lexington, Ky. The restaurant no longer exists, I don’t think, but during my graduate school days at the University of Kentucky it was popular for its Mexican food and liquid libations.

Apparently, some wag having partaken of a liquid libation or two scratched out the quotation on the restroom wall one raucous (or maybe doleful) evening: “remember, wherever you go, there you are.”

In the years hence, I have tried to dissect the phrase, to see if there is any profound meaning there.

After all, the sentence begins with the verb, “Remember,” and that is what the study of history is all about.

Historians remember their own experiences, and then through primary and secondary sources historians remember vicariously through the collective observances and remembrances of others.

The rest of the sentence is more problematic: “wherever you go, there you are.”

How can historians or anyone else,

make sense of that?

Well, wherever we go, wherever we find ourselves, however we came to that place, through whatever circumstances, by whatever means, we have arrived at a place, whether we think of that place in historical, geographical, emotional, intellectual, philosophical or spiritual terms.

There we are.

And here we are, you and me, writer and reader, professor and student.

And that is what history is all about, to make sense of our present state, our present condition, through the study of our individual and collective pasts.

How did we arrive here in our present condition?

Why do we find ourselves – as individuals, as members of a family, as students of a university, as residents of a town, a county, a state, as citizens of a nation, as inhabitants of a world – how do we find ourselves here, in this place, today?

At high school and college commencements, we invariably hear graduation speakers quoting from Dr. Seuss’ last book, “Oh the Places You’ll Go”: Congratulations!

Today is your day.

You're off to Great Places!

You're off and away!

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You're on your own. And you know

what you know.

And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss seems to be more concerned with where one is going, rather than the place where one has already arrived, but “Remember, wherever you go, there you are.”

Booker T. Washington instructed African Americans late in the 19th century to “put down your buckets where you are.”

Jeremiah instructed those exiled Israelites in Babylon to “build houses and plant vineyards,” even as they hoped and prayed to return home in the future.

How often have I missed out on life in the here and now because I sat dreaming on what could be or might be in the future?

We, all of us, are to make the most of our present circumstances, to make contributions wherever we find ourselves right now in the existential moment, whatever our present condition might be.

Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter from a Birmingham, Ala., jail.

His namesake, Martin Luther, refused to recant, saying simply, “Here, I stand,” and incited a religious revolution.

If we are to prosper, to lead meaningful lives, we have to decide what we will do with the moment we find ourselves in right now, this very second.

So, put the newspaper down, and “remember, wherever you go, there you are.” jbolin@murraystate.edu

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Letters to the Editor Read in a recent poster for an upcoming lecture: “A set of 70-million-year-old fossils from southern Alberta has added weight to theories that dinosaurs may have first sprouted feathers to show off, not take off.

These wing-like structures would have been used for reproductive activities (courtship, display, brooding) and were only later … co-opted for other roles including flight.”

Some scientists, who dismiss any kind of a creator, use such examples as proof of Darwinian mindless evolution.

I added ‘mindless,’ as evolutionists have never mentioned the mind, which is essential for any kind of decision making to be able to ‘select,’ like Richard Dawkins says: “Natural selection is a cumulative process, and Darwin teaches us to seek out graded ramps of slowly increasing complexity as flowers use a bribe of food, usually nectar.”

As I could never accept the man-made Bible stories, or plain accidental evolution, I coined the word Creavolution, to mean a creative brain within the process of evolution.

In the light of our present understanding I would call it “software” rather than evolution, that could have been programmed by Super Intelligence with the Big Bang that is then activated when planetary conditions are right.

However it all started, and whatever for, we’re here now and I’m wondering about a million things. `“How the clever bumblebee is able to fly by somehow exploiting some very intricate combination of vortex dynamics, is beyond quantitative mathematical analysis.

We discovered that the flapping motion causes the leading edge vortex to spiral out to the wingtip, siphoning off the vortex and delaying stall. The augmented lift, coupled with the delayed stall, is the principle mechanism that insects use for generating lift.”

“This is the conclusion, with the help of high-speed photography, how the bumblebee

That a terrorist threat forced the U.S. to close 19 embassies and consulates – mainly in Islamic countries – reveals that the decade-long “war on terror” has been ineffective. It’s time to re-examine that policy.

The war in Afghanistan and the drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen have failed to destroy Al Qaeda.

Nor has Osama bin Laden’s elimination led to Al Qaeda’s demise.

When Al Qaeda was driven out of Afghanistan, it successfully reconstituted itself, creating small cells with bases of operation in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Spread over such a large area, destruction of Al Qaeda by military means is virtually impossible and a change in policy is necessary.

Washington’s support for the ruling elites in most Islamic countries, regardless of how they treat their people, fuels Islamist terrorism and is partly the cause of it.

In the context of America’s deadly confrontation with the Soviet Union, that policy was understandable. It was also feasible as the international community lived in a vastly different world. After World War II and the onset of the Cold War, most of the Islamic nations had just emerged from colonial rule.

The mostly illiterate and poor people knew only the harsh treatment of colonial authorities. They had neither experienced nor had access to the ideas of democracy and the rule of law. When the colonial era came to an end, the colonial authorities’ local cronies inherited state powers and continued that same oppressive system.

To contain Soviet influence in the Third World –

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can fly, after decades long denials by scientists that they shouldn’t be able to fly.”

Did that little bee brain figure this out all by itself or does software make more sense?

I’m amazed that biology Professor Richard Dawkins is regarded as a ‘giant’ in the scientific community and can say that “Physical evidence of God is the necessary catalyst. If he existed and chose to reveal it, God himself could clinch the argument noisily and unequivocally in his favor.”

This is just as foolish as some religious beliefs he is trying to discredit, however justified.

As I wrote this, I got a reminder that 68 years ago an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb on the city of Nagasaki, with the prayers and blessings of Catholic and Lutheran chaplains, and the carnage goes on.

This massacre cost more than a trillion dollars, devastated Iraq and more than a million people lost their lives and many more millions were crippled for life and left homeless.

I’ve been orbiting the sun since 1935, and have researched the causes of our problems, and sought to learn if there are possible solutions. What do I really know? I’m just thinking while standing on the shoulders of giants and trying to consolidate ‘some’ of their genius.

But as far as a Creator-God is concerned, this a billion times a billion times bigger than we could ever imagine.

I just borrowed this ‘superlative’ from cosmologist Alan Guth who said: “This force (Big Bang) was so powerful it could take a bit of space as tiny as a molecule and blow it up to the size of the Milky Way in a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of the blink of an eye.”

Wow.

Gunther Ostermann Non-student from Kelowna, British Columbia

most Islamic nations being a part of it – the U.S. offered economic assistance to it. The effort increased the power of established elites. Their improved economies enabled them to purchase better military equipment and they used the emerging educated class to professionalize their police and military forces. In the absence of a process of democratization, the improvement of the security sector strengthened the dictatorships.

All that changed with the advent of mass migration, satellite television and the Internet. Those transformations together with economic globalization altered human society in ways unimaginable a mere generation before.

The cultural borders that had remained fairly intact began to crumble. Satellite television brought living conditions of advanced societies into the living rooms of the poverty-stricken masses in developing countries. The Internet spread information to the furthest corners of the globe.

Migration from the less fortunate parts of the world to the well-to-do nations of the West took on unprecedented volumes.

For the first time, large numbers of Muslims settled in Christian Western Europe and North America. Suddenly, planet Earth appeared much smaller and a global community of people took on its very initial and yet imperfect form.

Due to these extraordinary changes, average Muslims understood for the first time the extent of their backwardness and dependence on advanced nations. The psychological impact was dramatic and devastating.

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Cheers to ... Bradley Manning.

Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison this week for leaking government documents shedding light on possible war crimes.

Thank you, Mr. Manning, for doing the right thing.

Jeers to ... disappearing crosswalks. We get that repaving some of the roads is long overdue, but would it kill you to let us have a crosswalk between the quad and Burrito Shack?

Convinced that they were God’s chosen people, most Muslims lived with a notion that the rest of humanity was inferior to them. When they realized the misery their corrupt governments had brought upon them, anger overcame them and they determined to free themselves from their hated rulers. They gradually included the U.S. in their hatred as they perceived America in league with their reviled leaders.

If the U.S. fails to convince Muslims generally and the Arab nations specifically that it is not an enemy of Islam, Islamist terror could continue to haunt it for a long time.

For more than a decade, America has tried the military route. No doubt, it has kept America safe.

But it has failed to snuff the life out of Islamist terrorism. It’s time to rethink the policy.

The main causes of terror are abject poverty, utter hopelessness and lack of freedom. Americans find these deficiencies deplorable and are willing to assist people suffering from them.

Washington should heed this sentiment and establish relations with the people in those countries rather than prop up their corrupt and oppressive regimes.

It’s a remarkable fact that in the relatively recent past a vast majority of people in the Muslim world held the U.S. in high esteem. Perhaps with a change in the U.S. approach, it one day will again.

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A white car occupies the sidewalk close to Fast Track at the end of last semester.

By the time the next edition of The News goes to print, history may yet have been made, as fast food workers walk out in a nationwide strike for Devin Griggs higher wages Opinion Editor and the right to form a union.

This won’t be the first fast food strike (they’ve been going on intermittently since November 2012) and it hopefully won’t be the last, and I say that as someone who spent four years working in perhaps the lowest of the low paid sectors of our economy.

Unfortunately, there are multiple myths out there about fast food workers which will no doubt find their way onto the cable channels as these workers take a stand for higher pay – and it’s high time these ‘supersized’ myths were debunked.

Myth #1: Fast food workers are just a bunch of kids. Speaking from experience as someone who was hired at 18 and worked until I was 22, fast food places are less “teenagers trying to make a few extra bucks in the summer” and more “single mom trying to make ends meet.” Don’t just take my word for it, either – research by the Center for Economic and Policy Research shows that teenagers only represent 12 percent of the low-wage workforce, while more than 60 percent of low-wage workers are 25-64 years old.

Myth #2: Fast food companies can’t afford to pay higher wages. This one is a bold-faced lie repeated by folks who should know better.

McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson pulled in a whopping $13.8 million in 2012, a 237 percent pay increase from 2011, according to USA Today.

McDonald’s already pays its employees in Australia $14.50 an hour, and has agreed to raise wages 15 percent by 2017 in the land down under, according to a recent article in The Atlantic.

Apologists for low-wage employers claim companies like McDonald’s can’t possibly pay workers $15 an hour (a key demand of the strikers); they are living in an alternate universe where Australia apparently doesn’t exist.

Myth #3: Fast food workers don’t need unions. In addition to striking for higher wages, low-wage workers are striking for the right to form a union, the right to negotiate agreements with their bosses concerning wages, hours and benefits.

A lot of folks say that fast food workers don’t need this right because they can work out whatever differences they have with their managers on a one–on–one basis.

This is, of course, a fairy tale that assumes that employee and employer are on the same level – something that we all know isn’t true.

The only way that employers and employees can be on an equal footing is if employees have the right to form a union and negotiate their own conditions of work.

The next time you hear someone talk about how fast food workers are teenagers who don’t deserve decent pay, set ‘em straight.

The time has come for fast food workers to strike while the fryer is hot.

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

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Pony Express arrives Meghann Anderson || News Editor manderson22@murraystate.edu

The Pony Express has been making its way across Murray State all summer. With the start of classes and students returning to campus, Department Chef Manager of dining services Tim Bruce said he hopes the idea of the food truck will take off.

The blue and gold kitchen-on-wheels provides new, different food options for students.

“All of the reviews have been very positive,” Bruce said. “The majority of the business from the summer was faculty and staff and student workers who were still on campus. Once classes start up, we hope to see a lot of business from students.”

Bruce said dining services has been trying to promote the Pony Express through Facebook and Twitter by publicizing the schedule.

“These students over at the biology building are removed from dining services,” Bruce said.

“Sometimes, they are stuck over there because of labs and don’t have a lot of time to get food.

So we want to take the food to them.”

The Pony Express accepts flex dollars, like the other dining services on campus.

“The sky is the limit,” Bruce said about expanding the options for the food truck. “If there was a sincere interest we would consider delivering to the Expo Center.”

Bruce said other options are being looked into to help serve all students.

“The food truck is a unique thing to Murray State,” Bruce said. “I’m pretty sure it’s the only food truck in the state on a college campus.”

Paula Amols, director of dining services, said Bruce is the person who has been instrumental in developing the menu and getting the truck into operation once it arrived.

Amols said she encourages students to check out the home base for the Pony Express, located in front of Fast Track.

“We have created a very nice area there with tables and chairs so that when we're serving late night on Friday and Saturday right there, students can sit and hang out,” Amols said.

Along with the summer renovations of the Thoroughbred Room in the Curris Center, dining services is still working on expanding food options for students.

“People are loving it,” Amols said. “We have had nothing but praise for the food and the service.”

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Plans for new Murray hotel unveiled Ben Manhanke || Assistant News Editor bmanhanke@murraystate.edu

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Entrepreneur Priyesh Nathu and Murray Convention and Visitor’s Bureau Board President Jim Carter announced SpringHill Suites will open in 2015.

In an effort to increase both tourism and business in Murray, the construction of a SpringHill Suites by Marriott Hotels has been announced by entrepreneur Priyesh Nathu and Kentucky Department of Travel and Tourism Commissioner Mike Mangeot.

Scheduled to be completed and join Murray’s other seven hotels by January 2015, SpringHill Suites will be the largest hotel in Murray and include 87 suites, a restaurant and cafe, feature a 2,000 square-foot convention space and will bring 35 jobs to Murray.

Nathu, board member of the Murray Convention and Visitors Bureau and owner of the Holiday Inn Express on U.S. Highway 641 N, next to which the SpringHill Suite will be located, spearheaded this venture and had been in contact with Marriott Hotels for several years.

Generating almost $12.2 billion last year, Mangeot said travel and tourism are Kentucky’s third largest industry. He said the new hotel will serve to bolster all of Calloway County’s economy and to develop its attractiveness to tourists.

“Everything is on the upswing here in

Murray,” Mangeot said. “This is a tremendous asset and addition to the community,” Mangeot said.

Jim Carter, president of the board of directors for the Murray CVB, also attended the unveiling.

Carter said there has been a need for additional hotels lodging for tourists in Murray for some time, a need he said has grown apparent in the past few years as Murray has experienced an influx of tourists.

Carter attributed this growth in demand for a new hotel primarily to the recent suc-

“More beds mean more opportunities for business, not just tourism” -Mike Mangeot Kentucky Department of Travel and Tourism Commissioner cess of Murray State’s men’s basketball program, but also to several key events held in Murray in the past year such as the Kentucky Senior Games.

Erin Carrico, executive director of the Murray CVB, echoed the need and demand

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in Murray for more space for tourists to stay.

“Murray is in a great growing pattern right now, but we’re in between a rock and a hard place,” she said. “There are several times in the year - basketball season, Homecoming, in the summer during tournament time - that we just don’t have enough hotel rooms to go around, which is a great problem to have, unless you don’t have that other hotel.”

Carrico said Calloway County observed a 6.2 percent increase in tourism expenditures between 2011 and 2012 and that 2012 in particular was a record year for Murray tourism, bringing $71.9 million to the community.

“Adding an additional 87 rooms will really help us,” she said. “With 87 more rooms with an average of two people per room that’s almost 200 people who can now attend Homecoming and stay in Murray, eat in our restaurants and shop at our stores.”

Carrico predicts with the completion of the Marriott SpringHill Suites, Murray could see another 5 to 6 percent increase in tourism.

Said Carrico: “For a while, (Murray) had some growing pains, but now we’re taking a step forward and the first step is to creat another hotel here.”

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Demolition of Ordway Hall began July 15 after a vote from the Board of Regents to raze the building was passed at their December 2011 quarterly meeting. Regent Marilyn Buchanon was the only regent to vote against the decision to raze the building. Renovations were expected to cost $9.5 million.

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Ordway Hall was approved for construction on April 10, 1930. The 38,600-square-foot building was completed in 1931.

These buildings cannot be replaced. If they are destroyed, they are gone forever, along with part of our heritage.� –Marilyn Buchanon Board of Regents member

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Sophomore Ole Miss transfer Maikhail Miller, No. 13, won the race for the starting quarterback earlier this week. He will get his first chance lead the team when the travel to Missouri Aug. 30.

Miller selected to call shots for Racer offense Jonathan Ferris || Staff writer jferris2@murraystate.edu

Sophomore quarterback Maikhail Miller has only been on campus a few weeks, but as of Monday morning, the former Ole Miss Rebel was named the starting quarterback for the Murray State football team’s opening game against Missouri.

Miller, a PrepStar All-America selection out of high school, played his freshman season at Ole Miss, appearing in two games for the Rebels.

Faced with a crowded depth chart and highlytouted incoming recruits, Miller decided to trade in the pressure of SEC football for a chance to lead the Racers’ unique “Hatch Attack” offense.

The starting role did not come easy for Miller,

Former Racers honored at Hoopalooza

however, as juniors Parks Frazier, CJ Bennett and sophomore KD Humphries provided stiff competition for the position all during summer.

Miller also faced the additional challenge of learning an entirely new offense on the fly and coming in without any spring or summer practice experience with the Racers.

In the end, Miller said it came down to studying and putting in the time to learn the offense and build chemistry with his teammates.

“I worked hard,” Miller said. “I really didn’t know any of the terminology, so I studied and watched film after every practice and I think that helped me a lot.”

Since Miller’s arrival on the first day of preseason practice, he and Frazier separated themselves as the top two candidates for the job. Over the last two

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Tom Via || Contributing writer tvia@murraystate.edu

For only the second time since his departure in 1998, Mark Gottfried made the familiar drive over Kentucky Lake to return to the school that gave him his first job as a head basketball coach.

Forty-two former players and four additional former coaches were honored Aug. 15 at the CFSB Center during the first Racer Basketball Hoopalooza.

But it was Gottfried who served as the evening’s guest of honor.

weeks, the two quarterbacks remained locked in a tight battle for the starting job.

During the last scrimmage of preseason practice Saturday morning, both quarterbacks made strong final impressions as Frazier completed nine of 13 attempts for 116 yards and three touchdowns. Miller put up similar stats, going 10 for 14 with 92 yards and two touchdowns.

With both quarterbacks effectively leading the offense, Hatcher said his decision came down to consistency and mobility.

“He was the most consistent in camp,” Hatcher said, “and that was without any spring practices under his belt. We feel that the more reps he gets,

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Hired in 1995 after eight seasons as an assistant coach at University of California, Los Angeles, Gottfried spent three seasons leading the Racers. During his time as the Murray State head coach, Gottfried amassed a 68-24 record while winning three straight OVC championships.

Though Gottfried would depart for greener pastures at an up-andcoming Alabama program just after winning his third OVC championship in 1998, the current North Carolina State head coach still feels connected to Murray State basketball and was humbled to be honored at the event.

“I’ll always be connected to Mur-

ray State,” Gottfried said. “I loved my time here. I had three phenomenal years where I got to coach some great players. … It’s humbling.

I have deep roots here in Murray.

Two of my kids were born here.

This place was a launching pad for my career, and I wouldn't be who I am today without Murray State.”

Gottfried said he continues to follow the Racers each year, and still gets excited to see Murray State continue its winning ways.

“As Murray State wins, it just makes me proud every time,” Gottfried said. “There was a long run where teams were really good but

see HOOPS, 2B

Racers earn victory, prepare for opener Tom Via || Contributing writer tvia@murraystate.edu

The Murray State women’s soccer team wrapped up their preseason schedule with a 2-1 win over Division II Southern Indiana at Cutchin Field Tuesday.

Led by sophomore forward Julie Mooney’s two goals, the Racers gave the home crowd a small glimpse of what they can look forward to this season.

“I know for the girls it was exciting to play on Cutchin Field and it brings a lot of emotion,” Head Coach Beth Acreman said.

That emotion translated to an exciting

and fast-paced start as Mooney scored on a strike from 18 yards to snag the early 10 lead. The lead did not last long, though as the Screaming Eagles scored on a header that snuck past freshman goalkeeper Savannah Haberman to tie the game at one.

The Racers stayed tough in the second half, even when Southern Indiana nearly scored on a ball that nicked off the goalpost midway through the second half.

The Racers’ game-winning goal came with less than nine minutes in the match.

Freshman Taylor Richerson took posses-

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The soccer team ended their preseason with a 2-1 victory over Southern Indiana.

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Volleyball team hopes to Cheer squad plans more events Ten things you missed during implement new strategy, 3B with new head coach, 4B summer break, 5B

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THINGS MISSED

Doubt is a silent killer, slowly creeping into the mind to overpower dreams and ambitions.

Before you know it, doubt can leave you waking up every Ryan day thinking about what might Richardson Sports Editor have been.

I thought I was pretty good about being confident in my decisions, never looking back and wishing I had chosen a different path.

That was until I met some people about a month ago who changed my mind, and essentially my life.

I was lucky enough to spend 32 days in London, England, this summer. It helped me realize who I am and who I want to be. It also showed me of what I am capable.

Most of all, though, the friends I made there have encouraged and inspired me to pursue my dreams. I want to use my first column this year to say thank you to Ky, J. and Belle (not real names).

These friends cast out any doubts I had about myself or my capabilities, and to this day they push me to follow my heart.

I’ve only ever valued two things highly in my life. Sports have always been first in everything I do.

My grandma sometimes jokes that when I was born, I had a baseball in my hand.

The only other thing I have ever found solace in was writing, but it could never quite compare to the exhilaration of sporting events.

As I have gotten older and started preparing for my career, my focus has shifted. Every ounce of me wants to put baseball first, but reality constantly slaps me in the face and tells me no. The real world whispers in my ear that I’m not good enough, that I need a real job.

Or is that the depths of my own mind being overcome by doubt?

I don’t want to find out. My friend Belle has all but convinced me of that. She told me it is better to fail than to never try. As much as I hate failure, I would rather know I didn’t make it than wonder every day if I could have had a different life, a life surrounding what I love most of all.

Since then, I have considered trying out for a travel team when I have time. Is it realistic to expect to make it to the majors, or even the minors? Probably not. I know I will not be the best in the league, but that does not mean I can’t be good.

If I never try, the only thing I will ever be good at is fighting that little devil in my head that says I had a chance but chose not to take it.

Ky and J. were there for me in similar ways. I’ve worked in many facets of journalism in order to become well-rounded. However, I often doubt myself and my work.

Within hours of meeting each other, though, Ky and J. had me believing I was ahead of the pack.

They supported me in more ways than I had ever known.

Never once did they doubt me, and they made me wonder why I ever doubted myself.

Right now, I’m exactly where I want to be. I’m the Sports Editor of The Murray State News, and I’ve worked hard and paid my dues to get here.

I owe that one to my dad. We’ve been through some pretty rough times, but he helped mold me into the man I am today. He pushed me and made me find my own way. We have had some intense fights, even as recently as last week, but I appreciate everything he has done for me. I would not be writing this column today if it was not for him.

So I have no regrets.

In my columns this year, I’m going to use these lessons to give the readers a unique view into Murray State athletics. More than that, though, I’m going to make sure I never lose sight of my dreams and hold tight to what I value most. I hope I can make at least one of you do the same.

I can thank Ky, J. and Belle for that my new direction in life. mrichardson5@murraystate.edu

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HOOPS From Page 1 weren’t advancing in the tournament. That was the one thing, Murray State needed to take that one more step. Over the last few years, we’ve been able to do that here. All of us who have been around the program are excited about that.”

Other guests included Jeff Martin, Bennie Purcell, Popeye Jones, Marcus Brown and Jewaun Long. Gottfried was also joined by former coaches Cal Luther, Ray Greene and Tevester Anderson.

Long, a 2012 graduate and member of the 31-2 team from two seasons ago, was honored to be in the same room as so many Racer greats.

"I'm just honored to be in the presence of all these great players," Long said.

"Guys like Bennie Purcell helped start it.

“As one of the more recent players, I can tell you we all wanted to keep that tradition going and we wanted to do it for the guys before us because we knew they were watching."

The event concluded with a golf scramble the next morning. Planning has begun for the 2014 Hoopalooza.

Former ‘Bred loses life to cancer Staff Report The Murray State community and many others mourn the passing of Todd A. Satterfield, a former ‘Breds infielder who died Aug. 10 of stage IV esophageal cancer at the age of 33.

Satterfield, of Henderson, Ky., played for the ‘Breds in 2001-02 during junior and senior years. Before his career start at Murray State, Satterfield played for John A. Logan Junior College in Carterville, Ill. After his career ended with the ‘Breds, Satterfield became General Manager at Thompson International, but he never gave up baseball. Because of his passion for the game, he coached many players and teams in the tri-state area. He also continued to play baseball until the summer of 2012 for The Outlaws, a minor league team based in Evansville, Ind. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2011, Satterfield spent his time in chemotherapy studying the Bible and inspiring thousands of his Facebook followers by sharing messages daily from Live On Purpose, a philosophy by T.D. Jakes that inspires people to live for the Lord. Satterfield devoted the rest of his life to bringing at least one person closer to Christ, a method he called “+1.”

Satterfield also dedicated his last two years to raising awareness and money for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

In November 2012 he made Vanderbilt University’s medical records by being the first person with stage IV esophageal cancer to have an esophagectomy.

Satterfield wanted his passing to be a celebration of life and not a sad recollection.

Some information was obtained from Rudy-Rowland Funeral Home of Henderson, Ky., and The Gleaner of Henderson, Ky.

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Former Racers young and old came back to support the new Murray State team at the first ever Racer Basketball Hoopalooza. It was held in the CFSB center Aug. 15, but many also spent the next day out on the golf course.

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SCHEDULE From Page 1 sion of the ball in the offensive zone and passed it to Mooney, who dribbled to her left and scored her second goal.

“I knew I had to score since we didn’t have that many chances,” Mooney said.

With the two goals against Southern Indiana, Mooney has three of the team’s five goals scored this year.

“I am really excited that she has these goals under her belt,” Acreman said. “We are going to ask her to keep pushing and keep being dangerous.”

The Racers combined for 23 shots, with 10 of them on net.

They held their opponent to just 13 shots.

With the preseason concluded, the team turns its eyes to a weekend road trip to begin the 2013 season. Friday, the team plays Evansville at 6 p.m., then travels to Northern Kentucky on Sunday. The Racers return to Cutchin Field Sept. 1 against Arkansas-Little Rock.

the better he will be.”

“The other intangible he had that the other guys didn’t was his ability to run the football,” Miller said. “His mobility along with his learning the system so quickly separated him from the other guys.”

Frazier will assume the backup duties and finished “a close second,” according to Hatcher.

“I feel like (the other quarterbacks) could do it too, if I went down or if they had won the job,” Miller said. “It was a close race and they’re all great quarterbacks too.”

Faced with the tough task of replacing Casey Brockman – one of the most decorated quarterbacks in Murray State football history - Miller has already set high aspirations for himself in his first season leading the Racers.

“I’m looking forward to winning,” Miller said – “winning the OVC, winning in the playoffs and winning it all. That’s my goal.”

With Miller now leading the Racer offense, the team will begin preparations for the first game at Missouri on Aug. 31st.

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Club seeks new players

Swing and a Drive

Look a little deeper As I sit here in my lifeguard bathing suit, finishing the final shift of the summer job, I can’t help but get a little giddy when I think about packing up my car, hugJonathan ging the parents Ferris goodbye and Staff writer speeding up I-24 back to “America’s Friendliest Small Town.”

As much as I’ve enjoyed scolding teenage boys for pushing each other off the diving board or throwing sand in their sisters’ eyes, I’m over it. I’m ready to get back to college.

I’m ready to wake up 10 minutes before class, grab lunch with buddies in the T-Room, lose my mind over Racer touchdowns and alleyoops and continue living this life with which I’ve been so richly blessed.

So before I start using this space each week to give my opinion on the Racers’ new quarterback, I wanted to take this week to give you a little insight into my life as a sports writer so you can know the guy behind all the words.

During my first few years here, I’ve fallen in love with Racer athletics.

My job as a sports writer has allowed me to engage with the athletes and coaches and hear their stories of hardship, dedication, sacrifice and most of all, perseverance.

It’s fun watching games from press row and eating free media food during half time. But none of it compares to sitting down with athletes and hearing their stories.

It’s the moments when Coach Steve Prohm gets teary-eyed explaining how much his seniors have meant to this community or when Patrick Newcomb describes his dreams of becoming a PGA Tour golfer that really make this job so fantastic.

The way I see it, you can log on to the Internet to find out stats. My mission is to bring you the raw, unedited stories of our Murray State athletes, teams and coaches. That’s what makes sports compelling.

Whether you’re a fan of sports or not, I’d like to encourage you to stay engaged and interested in these athletes because there are stories on this campus which need to be heard.

Sports is about more than box scores and stat lines. It’s about the faces behind the helmets and the hearts underneath the jerseys. Their stories have inspired, encouraged and brought tears to my eyes over the last two years. I guarantee they will do the same for you. You just have to look a little deeper. jferris2@murraystate.edu

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The volleyball team will start off the season with all-new talent. The Racers will travel to their first invitational on Sept. 30.

Racers implement big changes Taylor Crum Assistant Sports Editor tcrum3@murraystate.edu

After closing out last year’s season with a 6-20 record, the Racers are starting off this season with optimism and a few more advantages.

Coach David Schwepker discussed the team’s losing season with a few laughs and a good explanation.

“We were a very young team,” Schwepker said.

Schwepker said, however, that his young team now has an advantage over its opponents.

“The freshmen got a lot of playing time,” Schwepker said. “Now those freshmen are sophomores.”

Schwepker said not many freshmen volleyball players get the playing time that most of the freshmen Racers received last year.

Schwepker said that experience will be an advantage on the floor for his

team this season.

Not only has this team matured over the past year, but they have also added five experienced freshmen to help boost the roster.

Hannah Stultz of Happy Valley, Ore., Scottie Ingram of Solsberry, Ind., Eleanor Lorenz of St. Louis, Mo., Miranda Fowler of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Kamille Jones of Fort Worth, Texas, have all joined the Racer family for the 2013 season.

Stultz will add a setter to the roster.

Ingram will play a big role as an outside hitter for the Racers.

Lorenz will fill in as libero for former Racer Lydia Orf. Fowler, a talented three-sport athlete in high school, will be focusing solely on volleyball this year for the first time.

Jones, standing at 5’6”, seems like a good candidate for a libero position.

However, she will be used as an asset on the net. Her jumping skills and

hard hitting will benefit the Racers, the coach said.

With a more experienced and talented team on the floor, Schwepker also has a few more things up his sleeve to make this season a successful one. A new offense and defense has been implemented.

Schwepker said the new offense is the same tactic that led his team to past winning seasons and even made the Racers No. 1 a few years back.

Schwepker said he Racers’ new defense should also be a helpful trick this season.

With Schwepker and the Racers changing things up on the floor, the fans should be pleased.

However, with many outstanding individual players on the roster, Schwepker said there isn’t one particular person that stands out.

Said Schwepker: “This team relies on everybody helping each other out, not just one super star.”

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In the three years since Murray Club Baseball originated, each season has proven itself better than the last.

After ending last year’s season with a .500 average, the baseball club will take the field with high hopes to add new talent to its lineup.

Brandon Becker, team member and head of the club, expressed his excitement for the upcoming year.

After struggling to find a home field last season, the team can now call Mike Miller Field in Benton, Ky., its home.

The team usually plays most of its games in the spring, but this year will be a little different.

“This year, it’s going to be split up 50/50,” Becker said. “We’re playing about 20 games in the fall and 20 games in the spring.”

He said there is no doubt the baseball club will have good competition this season. The team will face club teams from Southern Illinois, South Eastern Missouri State and St. Louis. Becker said Vanderbilt may also be on the schedule this season.

Starting fresh with a new season and a home field, the club only has one more thing to do. They need to find new players.

Becker said that many of last year’s team members will return for this season, but the team is looking to expand its numbers.

“We’re going to try to add about eight more guys or so,” Becker said.

Becker and the rest of the baseball club have been recruiting on campus this week searching for anyone who may be interested in playing America’s favorite pastime.

Last season was a success for the club because of the new freshman talent that was recruited.

However, Becker said that one weakness the team had was a lack of strong pitchers.

Becker and three teammates, Trevor Engleke, Travis Reed and Brad Holloman, are in charge of tryouts Saturday.

These four veterans of Murray Club Baseball are looking to fill specific roles in the roster to have a season that will knock past seasons out of the park.

“I like utility players,” Becker said. “I can use them anywhere, but mainly pitchers and a catcher.”

Becker is hoping that his team will participate in the National Club Baseball Association this year.

The NCBA is home to many college club baseball teams including those in the SEC and Big Ten conferences.

Becker is optimistic for this year’s season and has a few other goals in mind outside of joining the NCBA. The team must make sure they have enough members in order to be an official club sport at Murray State. They still have a few weeks to fill the roster.

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Cheer squad reaches out to community Tom Via || Contributing writer tvia@murraystate.edu

Staff Report The Murray State men’s and women’s golf program will be reading different greens this season.

All the greens at Miller Memorial Golf Course in Murray were killed in order to replace them all with new grass.

Will Snodgrass, director of golf, said the process has been considered for years, but it was not approved until April.

“We started to kill the old greens in June,” he said. “The new sprigs were planted July 12 and they will take six to eight weeks.”

The new grass is Mini Verde, a type of Bermuda grass, which thrives in heat. This green allows for better quality play for more days of the year.

“We are one of the first in the area to use this type of grass,” Snodgrass said.

Snodgrass said the golf course is unavailable for early semester practices, but the change over should be complete in time for the Murray State home-opener Sept. 1.

The Racers’ golf teams are reacting positively to the change. Women’s golf coach Velvet Milkman said she was excited after visiting the revamped golf course.

“It’s going to make a very good golf course even better,” Milkman said. “It’ll help tremendously with playing on it every day and to make better players.”

Milkman said the new greens at Miller affects not just the Racers, but it will allow the community to connect with the teams.

“Miller is open to the public and a lot more people from the community will come out to play,” Milkman said. “It will give exposure to our program.”

Men’s Head Coach Eddie Hunt agreed that Murray State golf is given a boost by the renovation.

“It’s a great long-term addition to the golf course for individual and team play,” said Hunt. “We have a college tournament on Oct. 15 and I think the teams will be really impressed.”

Milkman and Hunt said the new greens could improve the team’s performances this season.

“For most of our tournaments we travel south and we play a lot of courses with these greens,” Hunt said. “We’ll be in better shape for the season.”

The Miller Memorial Golf Course opens Sept. 1. The Racers will play their first match on the new and improved course Sept. 30 when the men’s team will host the Murray State Invitational.

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The cheerleading team plans to reach out to the community, beyond their usual role on the basketball court and sidleines.

With a new season of sports about to kickoff, the Murray State cheerleaders are preparing to pump up students and fans to get into the action.

This year, under the direction of first-year cheerleading coach Brittany Walls, the cheerleaders have numerous events planned in addition to the home football and basketball games.

This is Walls’ first season as head coach at Murray State, but it isn’t the first time she has worn blue and gold. She cheered for the Racers from 2006-2008.

Following graduation, Walls took a job at Reidland High School where she has spent the last four years.

During her time there, the team did more than just cheer on the football and basketball teams.

That same mentality is something she will bring with her to Murray State.

Walls said the team will be

doing an abundance of community service events such as pep rallies for testing and school events. She said she has received calls asking for the cheerleaders to attend local schools since she first took the position.

The team will also focus on fundraising this year. It will host a car wash 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sept. 21 in the Office Depot parking lot.

Walls said she would like to work toward a Murray State calendar, pancake breakfast, rebate night and other events.

All proceeds that the team raises will go toward its uniform costs or other team necessities for the upcoming season.

Beyond this season, Walls said she hopes to enter competitions, not solely cheer.

“We won’t be competing this year,” Walls said. “I hope maybe to compete in the future.”

The first appearance for the squad will be Sept. 7 when the Racer football team hosts Campbellsville.

Australian player shot, killed in Oklahoma Kristi Eaton || Associated Press ADA, Okla. (AP) — Chris Lane traveled from Australia to the United States for the love of the game and the opportunity to secure a college degree while playing America's pastime. On the small campus of East Central University in Oklahoma, he made a home for himself in class and on the baseball field.

The 22-year-old Melbourne native was fatally shot in the back last week while jogging along a tree-lined street near his girlfriend's home in Duncan. Three boys are charged with what prosecutors call a thrill killing, while those who knew Lane in the U.S. and Australia are trying to come to grips with the random attack.

A former coach who recruited Lane from Australia remembered him Wednesday as a well-rounded guy who was passionate about the

sport and used his skills to pursue a college education.

Lane was entering his senior year. His coach, Dino Rosato, said Lane was a joy to coach, and other teammates looked to him for advice and support.

Lane had been playing baseball for the Essendon Baseball Club in Australia when Newgent recruited him to play for Redlands Community College in El Reno in 2009.

Lane and his girlfriend had recently returned from a trip to Australia, and Lane was visiting her and her parents in Duncan, a south-central Oklahoma city of about 24,000.

He went for a jog Friday afternoon and was shot once in the back.

He died along a road on Duncan's well-to-do north side. Prosecutors said the three teens, from the grittier part of town, chose Lane at random and that one of the boys thinks it's all a joke.

On Tuesday, Chancey Allen Luna,

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A memorial to Christopher Lane is shown Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, along the road where he was shot and killed, in Duncan, Okla.

16, and James Francis Edwards, Jr., 15, of Duncan, were charged with firstdegree murder. Under Oklahoma law they will be tried as adults.

Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, of Duncan, was charged with using a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and with accessory to first-degree murder after the fact. He is consid-

ered a youthful offender but will be tried in an adult court.

Police have said the 17-year-old told authorities the boys were bored and decided to kill someone just for fun.

Autopsy results released Wednesday say Lane died from a penetrating gunshot wound to back.

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Top 10 things you may have missed this summer

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It seemed like this summer you couldn’t go online and not see something about the royal baby. Finally, on July 23, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge was welcomed into the world.

Does this mean we can stop hearing about it now? One can only hope.

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From the birth of the royal baby to the tragic death of a “Glee” star, find out what you missed this summer (in case you were living under a rock).

This summer was sort of lackluster in the film department. Nothing too great came out and the movies you thought would be awesome, ahem “Lone Ranger,” turned out with horrible reviews.

One was able to rise above the box office bull crap.

“This is the End” was a silly rendering of what the end of the world would be like.

Complete with a slew of celebrities from Rihanna to James Franco the movie was a must see.

Every year there is always that song of the summer. This year there have been multiple songs to get stuck in your head.

The biggest song has to be Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.”

But that’s not to say that is the only song being over played on the radio.

Miley Cyrus has finally released her latest single “We Can’t Stop.” Like it or not, you can’t help but sing along.

What other Disney queen released a new single? Selena Gomez.

“Come & Get It” is the lead single off of her debut solo album “Stars Dance.”

Anthony Weiner is at it again.

It all started back in 2011 when he was caught showing his goodies on Twitter.

When we all thought the scandal was behind us, Carlos Danger came riding in to save the day.

Danger was a pseudonym for Weiner that he used online to, again, put his junk out there for the world to see.

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After eight seasons, a TV staple, “Dexter” is coming to an end.

Everyone’s favorite serial killer will no longer be gracing the small screen.

The series will end Sept. 22 when audiences will find out the fate of Dexter Morgan.

8

It seems like every summer there is one book that is on everyone’s minds.

This year it was “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green.

Even though the book was released in 2012 it was brought back into the spotlight because of a recent movie deal.

Actress Shailene Woodley and actor Ansel Elgort have signed on as the two main characters.

Filming begins on Aug. 26 so start reading it soon before the movie comes out.

Indie rock group Vampire Weekend released its third studio album, “Modern Vampires of the City” May 14.

The album peaked at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and was given a 4.5/5 star review from Rolling Stone.

If that’s not telling you to go out and get it, I don’t know what will.

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What do you get when you mix sharks with tornados?

That’s right – “Sharknado.”

The made-for-TV movie aired July 11 on the Syfy channel and was about sharks being lifted from a waterspout and deposited over Los Angeles.

Sad you missed the first one? No worries. “Sharknado 2” is in the works.

Paula Deen was accused of being racist.

The incident happened more than five years ago at Uncle Bubba’s Seafood and Oyster House, where she was working at the time.

Why this was just brought in the public eye I still don’t quite understand.

Since then, the judges have thrown out the racial discrimination claims.

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The cast of “Glee” suffered a tragic loss this summer when star Cory Montieth took his life on July 13.

The actor, who played Finn Hudson on the FOX hit show, was battling a longtime drug addiction.

Montieth was only 31 years old.

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Holly Williams performed in Lovett Auditorium Tuesday night as a part of the Lovett Live Concert Series.

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An acoustic guitar, a grand piano and an audience full of excited listeners filled Lovett Auditorium for the first Lovett Live concert of the school year on Tuesday at 8 p.m.

The performance featured singer/songwriter Holly Williams.

Williams is the granddaughter of Hank Williams Sr. and daughter of Hank Williams Jr., so naturally, music is the family tradition.

Williams was welcomed on stage by a local radio station, Froggy 103.7. Her simple black shirt and skinny jeans tucked into boots was a

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When Leigh Wright began her journalism career 20 years ago, she did exactly what she was expected to do.

She reported on events and happenings within the Paducah, Ky., community, interviewed people and wrote a 500-to 800word piece to be in the next morning’s Paducah Sun. Then, she moved on to her next assignment and that was that.

Fast forward to 2013 and Wright is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communications at Murray State and is exploring new and exciting ways to tell stories and deliver the news.

This summer, Wright spent two weeks in Stuart, Fla., learning how social media can be used in (and out of) a newsroom.

As one of six recipients of the Scripps Howard Foundation/Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Social Media Externship Grant, Wright received $3,000 for travel, housing and other expenses for her trip. The Scripps Howard Foundation will also provide a media professional from Stuart, Fla. $1,000 to use on travel expenses to visit Murray State during the 2013-14 academic year.

The externship allowed the six professors to learn firsthand at a newspaper or broadcast station how to incorporate social media platforms into their work. The six newsrooms the professors could choose to visit were C-SPAN in Washington, D.C., KUT Radio in Austin, Texas, DNAinfo in New York, N.Y., Des Moines Register in Des Moines, Iowa, Knoxville

News Sentinel/Scripps Networks Interactive in Knoxville, Tenn., and Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers in Stuart, Fla. “When I did my application, I chose to be placed at the Florida paper, and the reason I did that was because I looked at their papers and they are strong believers in community journalism, which is what we teach here at Murray State,” Wright said. “I thought that if I went to that type of area where there is such a strong emphasis in community journalism, I could bring that back to our students and show them what’s being done now in a professional news environment with digital and social media.”

Other than Wright, the five remaining professors teach at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hofstra University, University of Kansas, Elon University and University of Miami.

All applications for the grant were reviewed by a panel of AEJMC members who scored applicants based on the value and need of the program for the applicant.

They also scored applicants based on the impact of the visit on the applicant’s home campus, strength of ideas for the professor’s visit and the overall quality of the application, according to a Scripps Howard Foundation press release.

During the first week of Wright’s externship in Florida, she said she attended several meetings, planning/strategy sessions and talked to multiple people about how they were using social media with reporting. Wright also witnessed some of the new ways newspapers are measuring readership.

“I talked to the digital team about the analytics – the entire back-end of social media and digital media and how many hits they have,” she said. “(They could measure) how far down someone reads a story on the website before they quit.

There are jobs in newsrooms now for people who want to analyze things like that.”

Wright realized that the news, advertising and business departments of a publication are now working together more so than they ever used to within a newsroom.

During her second week, Wright left the newsroom and got to witness the reporters using social media while working.

“I went out one day to a protest about the Indian River Lagoon and kind of watched the reporters tweet,” she said.

“They used Twitter a lot. When I was reporting, it was still very much in a notebook. You took notes in your notebook at the scene and now I noticed a lot of reporters were using their phones to tweet information out.”

When Wright left The Paducah Sun in 2009, she said they were just beginning to try to incorporate video. She said they had not even begun exploring Twitter.

Among her experiences during the twoweek externship was getting to explore the opening day of lobster mini-season.

Wright shadowed outdoor writer Ed Killer and discovered that lobster season in Florida was similar to deer or turkey season in Kentucky. Wright was even asked to write a first-person narrative about her experience with lobster hunting.

“I asked several lobster hunters what skill was needed for a successful day,” Wright wrote. “Several said it was persistence, one person said it was patience and another replied it was luck.”

Wright, along with Killer and other correspondents, released tweets and Instagram posts throughout the lobster hunting experience. Wright curated her favorite posts into a Storify timeline to tell her story in a nontraditional format.

Though Wright does not have dates yet planned for her guest speaker to arrive on

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comfortable look for the acoustic show.

“Thanks for coming out tonight,” Williams said. “We usually have our bassist and drummer, so you are getting a really intimate show tonight.”

The show brought in a crowd of about 150 people according to Wesley Hughes, manager of accounting activities at the CFSB Center.

“This is one of the best turnouts we have had,” he said.

Williams sang a few songs alone, while her husband, Chris Coleman, accompanied her on guitar and backup vocals for the majority of the show. Williams sang songs both new and old, as well as a cover of one of her favorite songs, “Angel from Montgomery.”

The audience sat and listened to Williams share short stories of why certain songs were written and applauded each melody that echoed from her microphone.

Williams ended the night with a special thank you to the audience for coming out on a Tuesday night.

“It takes a lot to get me out of the house on a Tuesday night,” she joked.

Her last song was the title track of her latest album “Highway.”

“I love to travel and be on the road,” Williams said. “So this is my love song to the highway.”

Williams has been a successful artist by sticking to her country roots, but also by doing her own thing. She has toured with many artists and played many shows in her time.

The Lovett Live performance was a new setting for Williams and she thanked the audience numerous times for its attendance and support.

campus, she is already implementing new techniques into her classes.

“One of my classes on Monday is going to do a Racer-edition scavenger hunt using Twitter and Vine,” she said. “I’ll give them questions like ‘what’s the deal with the shoe tree’ and ‘where’s the best place to study on campus?’ I’m going to want them to get used to thinking in a picture and social media sense.”

Wright will be using a class hashtag to pull the posts together and make a story. She also plans on having some of her students in another class create a public affairs story told through various platforms. This means they will write a print version, an online version using digital tools, a broadcast package and a social media strategy for their story.

“The reason I’m doing this is because now you’re expected to be able to do a social media story and get information out there and write for digital, use alternative storytelling formats and sometimes use video,” she said.

So, what is Wright’s advice for journalism students today after her experience? Think digitally first, but understand the core values of journalism.

“Even with all of this fun digital stuff and social media, we need to still make sure that our students

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Professor Leigh Wright teaches a fundamental journalism class at Murray State. can report and write well,” she said.

“Now we have these extra tools that you are expected to know.

Being able to know about social media and use it effectively for journalism (is essential).”

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JAMES FRANCO RETURNS TO TELEVISION James Franco is making a comeback to TV. He will be working with the Ovation channel to create a new series.

The show will be called “James Franco Presents.”

It will show Franco’s life and discoveries in the art world.

“James Franco Presents” is set to air this fall.

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Each school year the CFSB Center books a special guest concert of big name musicians to perform for Murray State students.

The CFSB Center will be hosting a Florida Georgia Line concert Oct. 10. Colt Ford will be the opener. Previously, it was announced that Tyler Farr would also be performing; however, that act has now been changed. Instead, Dallas Smith will be

gracing the stage.

All three artists have had successful careers.

Dallas Smith left his 10-year position as front man of the group Default to record a country solo album. Smith’s album includes songs such as “Nothing but Summer,” “Jumped Right In” and “What Kind of Love.”

Colt Ford has also had his share of experience. Ford has co-written songs for many popular country artists, most notably “Dirt Road Anthem”

by Jason Aldean. He is known for his eccentric

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rap/country style and his many collaborations.

Headlining the Here’s to the Good Times tour, Florida Georgia Line has recently blown up in the country music industry. The duo’s song “Cruise” topped the charts only 14 weeks after its release.

Following “Cruise,” Florida Georgia Line had more summer singles like “Dayum Baby” and “Get Your Shine On.” Jessica Foster, social media coordinator for Murray State, expressed her excitement about booking the concert in Murray.

“The CFSB Center has had some amazing concerts in the past,” she said. “It’s going to be an amazing concert, definitely one to remember.”

The hype behind the concert is partially thanks to the clues the CFSB Center social media left for those who follow their news feed. Each day, a new clue was released to involve the community in guessing who would be performing in October.

“We were hoping for a lot of community involvement,” Foster said. “We wanted to get people excited.”

Florida Georgia Line played here last year in August with Corey Smith in Lovett Auditorium before the hit song “Cruise” was released. Students who attended are happy to welcome them back to the area.

“Florida Georgia Line was really good,” said Hannah Knapp, senior from Xenia, Ill. “But I only knew like four songs the first time, so I bought the CD right after the concert. Now they are one of my favorite bands, so I am super excited to see them again.”

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WHAT’S HAPPENIN’?

TODAY

S A T U R D A Y

• 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Humane Society Benefit: Master Hairstylist Patrick Lomantini, The Hair Studio • 7:30 p.m.

Cinema International presents “The Master,�

Curris Center Theater • 9 p.m.

Back to School Bash at The Olive

• 1 - 3 p.m.

Murray State Club Baseball Team Tryouts, softball intramural fields • 7:30 p.m.

Cinema International presents “The Master,� Curris Center Theater

SUNDAY • 11 a.m.

Women's Soccer at Northern Kentucky, Cutchin Field

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• 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Tai Chi (all levels), Carr Health Dance Studio • 5 p.m.

PRSSA first meeting of the year, Wilson Hall Room 115

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MONDAY

• 5 p.m.

Murray State Alliance Welcome Back Party, Wellness Center Courtyard • 5 p.m.

Murray State College Democrats Fall 2013 Kickoff Meeting, Cumberland Room in the Curris Center

• 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

Tai Chi (all levels), Carr Health Dance Studio • 12:30 - 1:20 p.m.

Sociology Club meeting, Faculty Hall Room 500

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MESS: Murray Environmental Student Society, Carr Health Lawn • 7:30 p.m.

Cinema International presents “Rust and Bone,â€? Curris Center Theater • 8 - 10 p.m.

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John Mayer released his sixth studio album Tuesday, on Thursday it was No. 1 on the iTunes top album chart.

Savannah Sawyer Features Editor ssawyer@murraystate.edu

John Mayer seems to be sticking to the same rootsy, blues vibe as his previous album with his latest, “Paradise Valley.�

The album kicks off with an upbeat “Wildfire,� which seems to be the perfect end of summer tune.

Mayer croons about a relationship that has taken off in the right direction.

Later in the album another track titled “Wildfire� features Frank Ocean and serves as a sort of an interlude for the record.

However, it doesn’t add anything to the album, if anything, it takes away from the albums full potential.

The next song, “Dear Marie,� is a sweet song to what sounds like be a girlfriend prior to when Mayer was famous.

He spends the song looking back on how different his life could have been, something everyone does from time to time.

But mostly, the album is a look into the musician’s struggles over the past few years.

It is no secret that musicians use their music as a way to express themselves.

Mayer has taken advantage of this song writing tactic in “Paper Dolls.�

The song is rumored to be about Taylor Swift and their 2010 relationship.

Swift first penned “Dear John� for her 2010 album,

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“Speak Now.�

Mayer’s song features the lyrics “you’re like 22 girls in one,� – clearly a nod to Swift’s summer hit, “22.�

He goes on to sing “and none of them know what they're running from/was it just too far to fall?�

Perhaps a nod to a lyric in ‘Dear John’?

Swift wasn’t the only one Mayer sang about on the album, though Not only did Mayer open up about his private relationship with the lady of pop, Katy Perry, but they also sang a duet together on the album. “Who You Love� is a love ballad about being able to love who you want and not letting others influence you differently.

Mayer does a good job expressing what he’s been through and making it something others can relate to.

If there is one thing consistent throughout the course of his sixth studio album, it’s the fact that it takes awhile to get into it.

It’s not an immediate gratification you get from listening to, like some of his previous albums, including “Continuum� and “Room for Squares.�

Learning the songs and having the album on repeat has aided in experiencing the album to its full potential. “Paradise Valley� is like a continuation of 2012’s “Born and Raised,� only this time, it’s more refined.

It’s weird to think that I will never have a first day of school again.

To go along with that, I will also never have a real summer vacation again.

Savannah Talk about Sawyer depressing.

Features Editor But one great thing about summer that will never change is the hits of the summer.

Every summer there is always at least one hit single that is constantly played on the radio and is consequently in everyone’s heads.

This summer, it was arguably “Blurred Lines� by Robin Thicke, which is currently No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

It’s interesting to look back on Hot 100 charts from years past.

I remember a few years back you couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.�

Or, can you believe I was only in middle school when “SexyBack�

by Justin Timberlake was popular?

Looking back at the charts from different eras in my life, it’s interesting to see what was popular then and which songs have gained that ‘one hit wonder’ status.

I decided to look back at 1995, when I first started school and ironically the song is one I still listen to today – TLC’s “Waterfalls.�

The only reason I still listen to it is because it was featured in the movie “We’re the Millers� and I can’t seem to get it out of my head.

The song was on the chart at No. 1 for seven weeks straight.

Nearly 20 years later, I’m still trying to memorize the rap portion of that song.

Lastly, I looked up what the Hot 100 chart for 1990 was – just for shits and giggles – knowing I wouldn’t remember much of the music from that time.

For four weeks in a row, Mariah Carey held the No. 1 spot with her single “Vision of Love.�

Yup. No idea.

But looking back on all these hits, it’s interesting to see what was and what still is and how much music changed over the years.

So, even though I will no longer have a first day of school, there will always be the songs of summer that I can look forward to, no matter how bad or good they may be. ssawyer@murraystate.edu

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