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Students balance work, school

Vol. 88, No. 13

DEALING WITH

DIABETES

One student describes her journey with Type 1 diabetes

Katrina Yarbrough || Staff writer kyarbrough2@murraystate.edu

Being in school can mean using the “broke college student” excuse when it comes to putting down that new pop album or opting out of a fancy restaurant.

Tuition can get pricey and leaves having a job an unavoidable situation. In Murray, job opportunities on and off campus are open to students who choose to work while attending school.

Although jobs provide financial stability for students, a balance between work and school has to be established.

“Balancing a bank job and being a full-time student can be difficult at times,” said Jaclyn Solly, junior from Murray and a teller at First Southern National Bank in Princeton, Ky. “Having my job is a privilege and a wonderful opportunity.”

Flexibility is an important factor in choosing whether to work while attending school because the student must have adequate study and homework time as well, said Tina Reynolds, sophomore from Murray and employee at Winslow Dining Hall.

“I choose to do class assignments as soon as possible to be ahead of the game,” Solly said.

“The responsibility of holding a (bank) job definitely carries over into having responsibility as a student.”

Deciding to work on or off campus is a student preference.

Usually, jobs on campus — such as working in a dining hall, the bookstore, financial aid office — work with students’ schedules so they are provided with enough time to attend classes, make it to work in a generous amount of time and retain free time for studying as well as much-needed relaxation.

“I work on campus because it’s easier to get to,” Reynolds said. “I don’t have to travel far.

They work with my schedule and I’m never scheduled when I have a class. I also don’t work very late when I have an important assignment to work on.”

Working off campus can be more convenient for students looking to branch out and meet with a variety of people other than students and faculty.

“I plan to be a teacher in Princeton someday.

I want to be acquainted with as many people from my community as possible,” Solly said.

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Lanna Demers was 7 years old when she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes. She was in second grade at the time,

and said she did not understand what diabetes was.

“It was kind of weird,” Demers said. “I didn’t really know anyone else with diabetes. It was still kind of a new thing.

Everyone thought it was cool because anytime my

blood sugar got low, I got to eat.”

Elementary school was not a challenge except explaining to her classmates what diabetes was.

“Most kids had no idea what it was,” Demers said. see DIABETES, 2A

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Lanna Demers, graduate student from Medina, Ohio, prepares to take an insulin shot for Type 1 diabetes.

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Crosswalks to be reinstalled New engineering, physics Meghann Anderson || News Editor

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After conducting a street survey in August and September, 15th Street will soon see crosswalks reinstalled after a 4-month hiatus.

The six crosswalks that were located along 15th Street were paved over during the summer and not repainted after the roadwork was completed.

Ron Allbritten, street superintendent of Murray, said contrary to popular belief the presence of crosswalk markings alone are insufficient to promote pedestrian safety.

“In fact, often the presence of a marked crosswalk may be less safe than an unmarked location,” Allbritten said.

This is especially true in relation to mid-block crosswalks such as those that were on 15th Street.

He said engineering studies are required prior to the installation of crosswalks to ensure the placement is the safest for drivers and pedestrians.

The recommended actions are as follows: • Combine former crosswalks one and

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15th Street 15th Street, in front of Pogue Library, was repaved over summer to fill potholes. In the process, several crosswalks were covered and have not been repainted.

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two by creating a new crosswalk between the past locations.

•Install pedestrian crossing and pedestrian crossing signs.

• Install American Disability Act compliant ramps on both sides of the street

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Students may be sitting in a new building for engineering and physics classes in a few years. Construction for a new engineering and physics building could begin in late 2014 or early 2015.

Interim President Tim Miller said the new engineering and physics building is the University’s top capital construction priority.

“It is a big push for us right now,” Miller said. “We need to get all of the sciences together in one building.”

If funding is appropriated in the 2014 legislative session, the design will be complete in the fall of 2014. If it is not appropriated, the project will have to wait another two-year cycle.

Miller met with legislatures in Frankfort last week to let them know the project is the University’s top request.

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Construction cost for the building is estimated at $30,581,000 with the total cost estimated at $36,890,000.

Miller said students will not see a tuition increase from the project and funding will come from the state.

Kelsey Van Oss, junior from Dayton, Ohio, said she is excited for the newer technology that will be incorporated in the new building.

“Most of the technology we currently work with is outdated,” Van Oss said. “I would feel more prepared going into the real world and job field if I had experience with some of the newer technology available.”

Catherine Sivills, assistant vice president of communications, said the new building is very important to the University and has been planned since 1998.

“The sciences at Murray State are very strong and we have seen that the new chemistry and biology facilities have greatly enhanced these

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programs,” Sivills said. “The engineering and physics program is heavily dependent on new technologies and state of the art facilities, so this new facility is critical for the engineering and physics program to continue to grow and excel.”

The new building will include laboratories in fluid mechanics, physics research, astronomy, physical chemistry, biology research and more. It will also have lecture halls that can seat up to 150 students.

The building will also house all of the engineering and physics offices and some biology and chemistry offices as well. The current engineering and physics program is located in the Blackburn Science building.

Stephen Cobb, dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, said the new engineering and physics building is necessary to the department and is the third and final

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BALANCE From Page 1 There are also more options when it comes to choosing a job off campus. Although dedication and commitment are important in any position, off-campus jobs may require extra organizational and scheduling skills. Setting aside travel time to and from work as well as to classes can prove to be a challenge if it is not planned out, Reynolds said.

According to the 2011 U.S. Census report, 71 percent of the nation’s undergraduate population works while attending school. For the other 29 percent, jobs may not be needed due to already comfortable financial situations, abundance in scholarships and financial aid or the preference of focusing on their education without the distraction of a job.

“For me, it’s important to focus on school at this time,” said Adriana Estrada, freshman from Murray. “It’s my first year in college and my education is my number one priority.”

For some students, work can also be a therapeutic activity that allows them to take a break from school-related tasks, said Mike Waag, professor in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts.

“I look ahead to what assignments

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Tori Gray, freshman from Harrisburg, Ky., folds sweatshirts in the University Bookstore. and exams I have coming up in my academic schedule so that I’m able to finish them without worrying about not having time to finish them due to work,” Reynolds said.

Planning ahead and finishing assignments before they are due is an option most professors have open to their students.

Professors who have communicated with working students are aware of the pressures that students

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phase of the new science complex.

“The classrooms and furnishings in Blackburn are small and confining,” Cobb said. “They do not allow us the space to conduct engineering design projects that involve building and test of large prototypes.”

Blackburn Science Building was built in 1947. The most recent addition to the building was in 1967.

Cobb said the new building will have up-to-date technology in the classrooms, new equipment in the laboratories and classroom furnishings which will contribute to a productive learning environment.

Sivills said a state-funded study determined that Blackburn was not well suited for a state of the art science facility.

The current plan is to locate the new building west of North 16th Street in the area of Olive Street. It would be southeast of Jesse D. Jones Hall.

Said Sivills: “The benefits to Murray State students, faculty and staff will be far reaching as teaching and learning of the sciences will be greatly enhanced with this state of the art facility.”

and re-establish former crosswalks three and four with sidewalk bump-outs on the west side to promote pedestrian visibility and shorten crossing distance.

• Install crosswalk awareness sign at crosswalk four and evaluate crosswalk three for crosswalk awareness signage.

•Install ADA compliant ramps on both sides of the street.

Allbritten said the crosswalks should cross at a 90-degree angle to the street to reduce the time and distance traveled by the pedestrian while in the street.

Allbritten forwarded the recommendations to the city of Murray’s planning and engineering department for the creation of design and construction drawings and the installation of recommended improvements.

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are under when it comes to paying their way through college.

“I'm sure many students feel a great deal of pressure,” said Carrie Jerrell, assistant professor in the department of English and philosophy.

“Especially if maintaining a job is the only way they can afford to pay for school. Hopefully, though, earning a degree that will increase their chance of getting a job that’s better than their current one is the priority

ministrator for the city of Murray, told Allbritten the drawings are near completion and he hopes to let out a contract for construction by December.

“In addition to making the necessary improvement for the crosswalks, other sidewalk improvements within the area will also be included in this project,” Allbritten said.

“We have contracted a traffic-marking contractor to have this work performed in addition to other traffic marking needs within the city.”

Allbritten said he hopes to have the traffic markings completed by the end of next week, weather permitting.

“The safety of our traveling public – whether pedestrian, bicyclist or motorists – is of great importance to the city and especially within my department,” Allbritten said.

“In conjunction with our normal maintenance activities, we are diligently working to upgrade and comply with current standards and recommended practice with regard to the city’s transportation networks.”

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for students who work.”

In most cases, communicating with professors about when classes will be missed and when assignments will be late can demonstrate responsibility and earn leniency and breathing room when getting out of work is not an option.

However, true balance develops from working with supervisors and managers at the workplace as well as professors so that the focus on one

DIABETES From Page 1 “They just knew it was something their grandma had. Explaining the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 proved to be a challenge, especially since it was to elementary-aged kids.”

Demers, graduate student from Medina, Ohio, said now that she is in college, dealing with her diabetes has become easier.

“Some days I still forget to the check my blood pressure because my parents aren’t checking on me like they were when I was in elementary school,” Demers said.

She said she still doesn’t know of many college-aged students who have diabetes.

“A lot of people still don’t understand that if you take insulin you can eat whatever you want,” Demers said. “They are still stuck with the old idea that you can only eat vegetables.”

Approximately one out every 400 people under the age of 20 has diabetes.

“Dealing with diabetes in college is a little more difficult,” Demers said. “Because when you start drinking, it’s different when you first figure out mixed drinks and beer have a lot of carbs and you’ll wake up the next morning and your blood sugar will be 250.”

is not greater than the other, Reynolds said.

“A student could miss a couple of classes or quizzes and still manage to get the maximum number of points,” Wagg said. “However, I can’t be totally lenient so I encourage my students to prepare for the semester so that they only have to miss when absolutely necessary.”

Some professors, as well as students, know how it is to work while attending school. For that reason, they are able to work closely with students when it comes to helping them manage their time between working and doing assignments.

Limiting the amount of hours a student works ensures that unneeded stress will not be added and time to finish any task, school related or not, can be completed, Waag said.

Knowing what is going on at all times and the ability to plan can be the difference between an overload and success.

“I would suggest being as rigorously habitual as (students) can,” Jerrell said. “Know which hours of their daily and weekly schedules they can devote to school and work; which hours are for going to work; which hours are for sleeping, grocery shopping, doing the laundry, etc. And stick to doing those tasks during those hours so that they become habits.”

The average range for healthy blood sugar is 80-140, according to the American Diabetes Association.

Demers said taking shots or drinking rum and coke brings blood sugar down dramatically.

“You have to be prepared as a diabetic if you’re going to drink,” Demers said.

The reason diabetics take insulin is because it helps regulate their blood sugar.

Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that helps regulate the amount of glucose in the blood.

According to the American Diabetes Association, nearly 26 million children and adults in the U.S. have diabetes and another 79 million Americans have prediabetes and are at risk for developing Type 2 diabetes.

Recent estimates project as many as one in three American adults will have diabetes in 2050. Other findings included two out of three people with diabetes die from heart disease or stroke; diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure and diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults.

The American Diabetes Association estimates the total national cost of diagnosed diabetes in the U.S. is $245 billion.

“You don’t have a parent standing over your shoulder asking you checked your blood sugar or if you took your insulin,” Demers said. “You have to be responsible.”

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12:44 a.m. An officer conducted a traffic stop outside White Residential College. The driver was arrested for driving under the influence.

1:18 p.m. A caller reported a theft from their car in the Roy Stewart Stadium parking lot. Officers were notified and a report was taken for theft by unlawful taking of less than $500.

1: 21 p.m. An officer reported damage to a sign on Payne Street. A report was taken for theft by unlawful taking less than $500.

8:10 p.m. A caller reported a medical emergency in Franklin Residential College. Officers and the Murray Ambulance Service were notified. Murray State Officers took an information report.

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3:03 p.m. A caller reported the smell of marijuana in Franklin Residential College. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

5:26 p.m. A caller reported the smell of marijuana in Regents Residential College. Officers were notified and an information report was taken.

10:40 a.m. A caller reported the theft of property from the Biology Building. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

10:37 p.m. A caller reported suspicious activity in the Roy Stewart Stadium parking lot. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

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3:38 a.m. A caller reported an intoxicated individual in Elizabeth Residential College. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

12:30p.m. A caller reported damage to a traffic control sign on 16th Street. Officers were notified and an information report was taken.

Nov. 2 - 9:17 p.m. Racer Patrol reported fireworks on campus by the main gates. Officers were notified and an information report was taken.

Nov. 4 8:38 a.m. A caller reported the possible possession of marijuana in Regents. Officers were notified and a citation was issued.

6:36 p.m. A caller reported the smell of smoke in Wrather West Kentucky Museum.

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Students from the Hutson School of Agriculture traveled to Louisville, Ky., last week with the values of the FFA in mind.

The 86th National FFA Convention was held at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville and Murray State sent students from various agricultural groups.

Chelsea Daugherty, junior from Morgantown, Ky., represented Murray State by being a candidate for National FFA office.

“The biggest thing that I gained from running for this national office is figuring out who I am and what I want to do as my future career,” Daugherty said. “Even though I wasn’t selected as one of the six winning candidates and the process was a crazy emotional ride, it was really good to have made such amazing friends that worked extremely hard be elected to their respective offices and see their excitement and dedication to this organization.”

The college had a booth that offered attendance and academic information for Murray State in the Collegiate Connection area.

Samantha Anderson, graduate student from Winchester Ky., was one of three women who worked at the recruitment booth during the event.

“We’re here with the Hutson School of Agriculture recruiting students,” Anderson said. “There have been a lot of positive comments from students and FFA advisers about our booth. I really enjoy recruitment and seeing high school students interested in furthering their education.”

Kimberly Bellah, associate professor of agriculture, said she served as assistant superintendent for the National FFA Creed Career Development Event.

“We always bring eight Murray State students to assist with the Creed CDE and in the last couple of years we have been asked to bring other students along in accelerated capacities because National FFA knows that Murray State has fantastic students,” Bellah said. “I have received nothing but positive feedback about our groups at National FFA Convention.”

The Collegiate FFA team also traveled to Louisville to compete in the Alpha Tau Alpha Conclave. ATA is an organization seeking to promote agricultural education and holds a national conclave each year at the National FFA Convention.

Kimberlie Moore, junior from Hampton, Ky., said that she really enjoyed her time at National Convention and competing with the

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Murray State FFA seniors Marisa Bedron and Samantha Anderson, and sophomore Hayley Barfield, talk to high school FFA members at the 86th National FFA convention last week.

Murray State Collegiate FFA. “We competed in the Alpha Tau Alpha convention with other teams across the country in the Program of Excellence event,” Moore said. “This event allows us to showcase everything our FFA chapter has done and also get other ideas from different chapters all over the U.S.” She also said Murray State had the largest group of non-agricultural education students at ATA Conclave, which is uncommon at most ATA events.

The Murray State Collegiate FFA also sent a debate team to compete nationally.

Luke King, junior from Burkesville, Ky., served as coach of the debate team. He said he felt this group of students was the most disciplined team the Collegiate FFA had ever taken to National ATA Conclave. King said this group put in more than 400 hours of practice and research toward the debate.

“I gained a great deal of knowledge on the potential of students in general,” King said.

“These students came a long way from the first day of practice to our day of competition.

I’m impressed with their abilities and their passion and desire to do well.”

The National FFA Convention focuses on all types of FFA members.. A room was created within the convention to celebrate diversity and inclusion within the organization.

Six Murray State agricultural education students were selected to run the inaugural

“We Are FFA” room at the 86th National FFA Convention.

Cierra Price, junior from Greensburg, Ky., was one of those students. She said FFA members had the chance to engage in activities such as a photo booth and video booth.

“I was fortunate enough to be asked to volunteer in the ‘We Are FFA’ room at National FFA Convention to help students understand the difference between a variety of cultures and how members treat each other as one large FFA family,” Price said.

Taylor Heath, high school senior from Bridgeport, Ill., spent a lot of time in the “We Are FFA” room.

“National FFA Convention is a great experience for everyone with networking possibilities and hearing about other people’s experiences with agriculture,” Heath said. “I went to the Murray State booth and got some great information to take home to my parents when we talk about my next step after high school.”

Heath’s FFA adviser from Bridgeport, Ill., Jennifer Staley, is a Murray State alumna and attended the convention. She said she was impressed with the involvement of her Alma mater at National FFA Convention this year.

Said Staley: “I’ve been out of Murray State for almost eight years, and Dr. Brannon still knows my name and those are the types of things I preach to my students about what is important in their college education.”

Japanese, Murray students foster bond Ben Manhanke || Assistant News Editor bmanhanke@murraystate.edu

Students from Kobe Shukugawa Gakuin University were welcomed to campus Thursday as part of the Kakehashi Project, a student exchange program between Japan and the U.S. Murray State was one of several universities and high schools from the United States, 2300 students in total, invited this summer to participate in the Kakehashi Program hosted by the Japan Foundation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

Twenty-three students and two faculty members from Murray, mostly Japanese majors and minors, spent 10 days in Japan visiting various historical and educational attractions including KSGU. Lucas Palmer, junior from Paris, Tenn., said he and the other students visiting Japan were treated to a visit of their campus and the sur-

rounding area and had a chance to build relationships with the Japanese students through participating in various games and activities with them.

He said with the Japanese students now visiting Murray State it is a chance for those who traveled abroad to reciprocate the generosity and friendliness they were shown in Japan.

“Kakehashi,” in Japanese, means “bridge.”

The goal of this project, Palmer said, is to build a bridge between Japan and the U.S. by strengthening relations.

Palmer and the rest of the Kakehashi Project participants from Murray State met for several weeks prior to prepare for this visit from the KSGU students. They prepared activities for their guests, organized presentations and helped create the itinerary the students from Kobe will following.

Yoko Hatakeyama, senior lecturer in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and one

of the two Murray State faculty to travel to Japan last summer, said the Kakehashi project, besides being created to allow Japanese and American students to mutually learn about their two cultures, also was enstated in order to attract more tourism to Japan. She said after the 2011 tsunami Hatakeyama and subsequent earthquakes that hit Japan, tourism rates have fallen.

Hatakeyama said she believes Murray State was invited to be part of the program because of the numerous efforts the University has made to encourage students to be exposed to Japanese culture.

She also said the fact that Murray State offers an actual Japanese language major may

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have factored into their selection.

“This is a really, really rare opportunity,” she said. “I have seen great, significant changes in the student’s behavior, attitude and minds after being part of this program.”

The visiting Japanese students will stay in Murray until Sunday morning, at which time they will leave to continue their two-week visit of America, stopping in California next before going home.

Hatakeyama said she does not think Murray State will be invited back again to Japan next summer as part of the Kakehasgi project, as the project will most likely focus on inviting new universities, if any.

“Our students have worked hard to make a wonderful memory for our guests this weekend,” Hatakeyama said. “I really believe that even after the ir students graduate they will continue to work to promote the understanding of the two cultures.”

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Theft, attempted censorship will not silence us The staff editorial is the majority opinion of The Murray State News Editorial Board.

If you normally pick up a copy of The News on your way to class, you may have noticed they were hard to come this week. That’s because editions of The News went missing from the academic side of campus this week with no rhyme or reason as to why.

We know what you’re all thinking – “What’s the big deal?

Isn’t the paper free?”

Not for us. The staff at The News pays its own way. We put our paper together with minimal aid from the University every week. Funds that come from advertising sales make all of this possible.

We raise the money and we produce the paper – and while we do give it to you, the reader, for free, we kind of take it per-

sonally when someone, or a group of people, go out of their way to make sure that you won’t be able to read it. It’s not only theft – it’s censorship.

In stealing a free paper to prevent you from picking it up and browsing inside, the intention of the culprits could not be clearer.

They don’t want you to know what’s happening on campus.

Something that we published hit a nerve with someone, and they aim to take it out on us by taking it out on you.

We’ll leave the speculation up to you as to who, how or why this happened.

We have filed a police report and will continue to monitor the situation in hopes of catching those that would steal from you the knowledge of what’s hap-

pening on your campus.

We believe you have a right to that knowledge, and we believe we have a right to make sure that you’re informed.

If the person or persons involved in this heist believe that stealing our papers will cause us to back down from reporting controversial issues and taking stands on those issues, they have another thing coming.

You do not scare us. You cannot intimidate us. We will continue to take on those in power and those with influence at Murray State and we will continue to take them to task when we feel they make boneheaded or misinformed decisions.

You might not always agree with us or like the positions that we take, but it’s our job. That’s

how the free press works.

It is disturbing that in 2013 someone or a group of people would deliberately try to intimidate a college newspaper into silence or try to prevent a story from being widely read by its students, staff or faculty.

In a nation such as ours, with such a strong tradition of freedom of speech and expression, this kind of behavior is unacceptable.

We do not engage in censorship at The News, nor will we ever. We report the facts and publish our opinion and the opinions of others on those same pressing matters.

We will not stop doing that.

We will not be bullied into silence by anyone or any group of people.

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Zingrone: Science works whether or not it is believed I truly appreciate all the letters to the editor replying to my columns. The discussion, free information exchange, even heated argumentation is welcomed, and vital in keeping everyone informed and able to contribute, analyze William and refute. Unlike in Zingrone religion, scientists exAssociate professor pect and welcome criticism of their data and of psychology theory.

John Pasco misses that distinction. He likens my promotion of science to just another “belief system which brooks no discussion.” Not so, as science invites discussion through peer review and verification. Religions are belief systems, science is not. Religions tend to include the supernatural, rituals, prayer, miracles, god or gods, revealed scripture, revere authority and will reject evidence if it disputes dogma.

Science embraces none of these in fact is in direct opposition to all of these features. Faith is belief without evidence, and it is the ultimate arbiter of religious claims. In direct contrast, acceptance in science in methods and findings has nothing to do with faith, only evidence. Science works. I don’t use “faith” to prefer science over old, outdated and wrong claims about how the world works. Science works whether I or anyone else chooses to believe in it or not.

Pasco proposes that I “seem to blame only religions for all mass killings.”

This is incorrect as I wholeheartedly agree

with his list of politically driven monsters throughout human history that killed millions.

My previous columns have discussed modern day bombings, both suicide and remote and the often religious reasons behind them.

While horrendous, the bombings of recent history have killed a tiny percentage of humans as compared to past horrors. I made no claims whatsoever about wars, pogroms or genocides past and present: I said nothing about these mass killings or religion being their main cause. That belief is solely in Pasco’s head and not in my columns. Ideologies, both political and religious, kill.

I couldn’t agree more that political ideologies can be just as deadly as religious ones, and for the same reasons: both operate on faith in untested claims about human nature, revere dogma and authority and disregard evidence to the contrary, deny the rights of many fellow humans and tend to dismiss or delight in human suffering in service to mere ideas.

He describes me, my writing as “fanatical,” “slash and burn,” “extremist,” “super zealots,” even compares me to the Puritan theologian and preacher Jonathan Edwards! A first, I assure you. Not only do I not believe in hell, damnation, original sin, innate depravity of man, the resurrection and all the other Christian beliefs that Pasco may himself in fact share with the obnoxious Edwards and not I, he could ask any of the students, faculty, or general public who have heard me lecture if my speaking style and invitation for discussion is anything like a fire and brimstone sermon. Any similarities between me and the good reverend are products of Pasco’s imagination.

Furthermore, Pasco claims that science and the Bible follow the same sequence of events

of creation. Genesis has two accounts which not only contradict one another, but do not agree with the detailed sequence of modern science that Pasco’s glosses in order to make his interpretation of the Biblical creation story not conflict. A few examples where Genesis claims diverge from science should suffice: night and day before the sun and moon, light before the stars, water before land, cattle before man, man before plants, human males before females.

Additionally, Pasco suggested I used debate “tricks.” He claims to have been a member of the Murray State debate team. I have never studied nor cared to learn debate. I have no use for such techniques, and neither does science. Data or theory are not verified or replicated by sophistry.

The accumulation of new knowledge isn’t accomplished through clever speaking. Any debate coach will tell you they don’t care which side of an issue their team may be assigned, as which position is actually correct or factually true has no bearing on convincing an audience who “won.”

Lastly, Pasco muses about the probability of the origin of life. He might do well to research the fascinating and rapidly advancing field of abiogenesis. An excellent introduction can be found in Addy Pross’s recently published “What is Life?: How chemistry becomes biology.” In it he won’t find any primitive religious claims, debate tactics or ideas based on “faith.”

It is available through Murray State’s fine Inter-Library Loan system, probably not from the local branch of his favorite belief system.

If you appreciate the perspectives offered in these columns, I invite you to peruse my blog on all things secular, humanist and scientific at wearedone.org.

The News

Opinion

November 8, 2013

5A Born in the U.S.A.

A Professor’s Journal

Bolin: Living life to the fullest requires knowledge of our past There he stood. Under a basket at Princeton University’s Dillon Gymnasium, in his basketball practice uniform.

Still sweating from a demanding workout. Now he caught questions, not basketballs, passed to him by the acclaimed writer John McPhee.

Duane Bolin On assignment for The Professor of New Yorker, McPhee interviewed the Princeton Allhistory American for a long piece centered on his senior year at Princeton, a year in which he led the nation in scoring and secured a Rhodes Scholarship to study history and political science for two years at Oxford University in England.

Bill Bradley fielded questions just as he played basketball, effortlessly and with grace. In those early 1960s, before Pistol Pete, before Dr. J, before Air Jordan and before Lebron James and Kevin Durant, Bradley’s style was decidedly straightforward and unexaggerated.

“He dislikes flamboyance,” McPhee wrote, “and, unlike some of basketball’s greatest stars, has apparently never made a move merely to attract attention.”

“Nonetheless,” according to McPhee, “he does make something of a spectacle of himself when

he moves in rapidly parallel to the baseline, glides through the air with his back to the basket, looks for a teammate he can pass to, and, finding none, tosses the ball into the basket over one shoulder, like a pinch of salt.”

McPhee concluded that the shot “has the essential characteristics of a wild accident, which is what many people stubbornly think they have witnessed until they see him do it for the third time in a row.”

The unorthodox, over-the-shoulder shot had no name. Bradley said that “he had never heard a name for it, but that he had seen Oscar Robertson, of the Cincinnati Royals, and Jerry West, of the Los Angeles Lakers, do it and had worked it out for himself.” Yes, he had worked it out for himself.

On that day while answering the author’s questions, Bradley insisted that the maneuver “is a much simpler shot than it appears to be, and, to illustrate, he tossed a ball over his shoulder and into the basket while he was talking and looking (McPhee) in the eye.” McPhee retrieved the ball and handed it back to the Princeton star.

“When you have played basketball for a while, you don’t need to look at the basket when you are in close like this,” Bradley explained as he flipped the ball over his shoulder again cleanly through the hoop. Eventually, he said, “You develop a sense of where you are.” You develop a sense of where you are.

Since my teenage years, playing basketball at

Webster County High School and then Belmont University, I have respected and admired Bill Bradley, first for his exploits on the hardwood and now for everything that he has done since he laced up his high top Converses for the last time.

After graduating from Princeton, he turned down a lucrative contract with the New York Knickerbockers to study at Oxford.

He returned from England to play for the Knicks, winning an NBA championship and writing “Life on the Run,” a poignant memoir about the grueling, exotic life of an NBA star. Upon his retirement from professional basketball, he ran successfully for a New Jersey Senate seat, and then in 2000, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the United States. He has continued to write books about what it means to live a life in service to others.

As a teacher of history, what I admire most about Bradley is that he has insisted that the only way to develop “a sense of where we are” in the world is to study and understand the past.

How can we make a difference in this world, or here at Murray State? What is our niche? How can we make our lives count for something beyond ourselves?

Only by understanding something about where we came from are we able to develop “a sense of where we are” in our communities, in our state, in our nation, in our world, in the whole scheme of things. Only then can we live our lives to the fullest.

Letters to the Editor I am writing in regard to The News’ article on their view of the decision to end 24-hour library service to students at Waterfield. As a student and obviously as a member of SGA, I am quite disappointed with this piece.

This is probably one of the more misinformed articles The News has written. Although this is an opinion letter that reflects their view of what is going on throughout Murray State, more facts need to be collected before prematurely publishing such an article.

I am definitely biased as I am a member of SGA representing the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, but I believe I possess a fair voice in discussing the points presented. To make things easier on all readers, I will combat each point of this article as they appear.

“There’s a lot of blame to go around here and we have a lot of bones to pick with the parties that are ultimately responsible for the end of extended library hours at Murray State.”

First off, the blame should also be put on The News as there was not much publicity about the consideration to change the hours before the decision was made. It is their duty to inform the student population about big events or changes taking place at Murray State and to me this is an article that is too little, too late.

“We also want to take issue with the idea that anything needs to be cut in the first place. Last year’s budget review teams and the recommendations made by those teams made clear that the University isn’t exactly hurting for money, funding cuts from Frankfort notwithstanding.”

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With this I am not sure if there was an ounce of consideration to check the numbers, but the recommendations that were to be implemented account for more than $5 million in cuts and more than $1 million in added revenue. These numbers come from Murray State’s own website. One of these cuts also ended with a Murray State employee losing her job (that would have been a great article as well); so to say the least I don’t think the University has a plethora of money to spend as The News states above.

“The SGA, which ultimately made the call to cut extended library hours, perhaps deserves the most blame for failing in its most basic mission – standing up for the interests of students.

The fact that SGA would not go to bat for students who rely on extended library hours is part of a wider problem at Murray State; that of near total student disempowerment.

Students, whom this University is supposed to house, feed and educate, have had no say in this matter.

We should no longer pretend that the SGA adequately represents the student body at Murray State.”

These are the quotes that irritate me the most, not just because I am an SGA member but that someone is dim enough to say that an organization made by students of Murray State do not represent the college adequately.

The decisions that the SGA makes affect our members just as much as it affects any other student on Murray State’s campus because we are all just that, students at Murray State. To declare that students have no say in the

matter seems ignorant to me because it was students who approved the decision to cut library hours.

“The last SGA elections, like most SGA elections, was marked with extremely low voter turnout and few real choices. Students do not have a way to voice their discontent through the SGA so long as the SGA does not and will not act in the interest of students.”

It is hard to argue here, I definitely feel that the majority of the students know that there is not much participation in SGA elections, but maybe more publicity on elections could help this issue out!

Although I agree not much student participation in voting exists, I do not believe there are “few real choices” available to elect. If the persons who wrote this article believe they would be a better representation, they have the opportunity to run themselves.

“Extended library hours are a Murray State tradition worth preserving.

Students needing extra time to study should have a place to do so and they should be able to do so whenever they feel like doing so.”

This is my final criticism of The News’ article. If some research would have been made, then it would have been known that the library has been open for 24 hours on finals week only for the past three years and extended hours were seen four years ago. This is not a “Murray State tradition,” it has been a recent event that the library has tried and ultimately could not afford.

To conclude, this is a poorly opinionated article that does not present evidence of why 24-hour library serv-

Cheers to ... No Shave November. If you can think of a better excuse to let your hair down (literally), we’d like to hear it.

Jeers to ... people who say the word “hashtag” in a conversation. Seriously?

Scum of the Earth doesn’t even begin to describe the kind of person you are if you do this. Neither does annoying. #Please #Make #It #Stop #You #Are #Not #On #Twitter

ice should be available to students outright. I agree that it would be quite convenient to stay in the library all night because I will most likely be up that late studying as well, but at what cost should we keep the library open all night?

When there are less than 100 students present at the library in the wee hours of the morning, is it fair to take money that ALL students pay in their tuition to keep the library open for them? Is it worth spending $6,000 out of the SGA’s budget a year compared to $0 just to keep the library open for a few more hours a night when a small fraction of the students are using it? I personally don’t think it is – for two reasons.

First, I don’t believe it will negate students from studying if they were going to anyway and second, I feel that the money we don’t spend for 24hour library service can be better spent in a variety of ways on campus as the SGA budget is not designed to support a cost that the library should be covering completely.

By compromising with the University Libraries, SGA has successfully extended library hours so that more than the majority of students that utilize the library will be covered in their time there.

This, I believe, was the best choice for the students at Murray State and I feel it will serve the best interests of the University and students alike.

Chris Koechner Senior from Marion, Ill.

Jeers to ... people who can’t seem to steer clear of the signs bolted to the road on 16th Street. Look, we know they’re annoying, but how do you manage to hit these things over and over again?

Cheers to ... 15th street finally getting crosswalks! We’ve jeered it week after week but we’re happy not to have to do that anymore. Better late than never.

The way things are and aren’t Do we have freedom of speech in the land of the free?

“What kind of question is that?” you might ask.

America is known for its Devin Griggs free press and Opinion Editor free people, who have the right to tell anybody, even the President of the United States, to go straight to hell.

You might be able to criticize the guy in the Oval Office, but the right to criticize the guy in the bosses’ office is not a right you or I have.

We can cuss Barack Obama any day of the week, but if we say a loose word about the boss man, we might find ourselves in the unemployment line.

Millennials are finding this out the hard way, as employers scour the Internet, mining social media for a loose word or a compromising photograph. Our freedom of speech off the job is compromised by the need to get a job and keep a job; our right to free expression, a right for which our forebearers fought at Saratoga, at Gettysburg, at Okinawa.

We are told by professors and career counselors that we should “clean up” our social media profiles; that we should avoid posting anything that could prove controversial, because doing so could cost us employment opportunities.

We are unconsciously trained to play into this whole dog and pony show – to suppress our own freedom of speech to please an employer. “That’s just the way things are” becomes an all too familiar refrain.

That’s not an excuse. “That’s just the way things are” is a cop-out. It is surrender. It is cowardice. It is weakness. The idea that things are the way they are and they’ll never change nor can they be changed is one of the reasons this country is in such awful shape.

We will never truly be a free people unless we are unafraid to express ourselves freely, without worrying about whether or not it’s going to cost us a job or make our boss mad.

Times are tough and I understand that we, all of us, as a people are hurting. A lot of folks want to keep their heads down. They just want to move along, not make much trouble and go about their day-to-day lives. I understand that.

We have gotten into an awful funk as a people of just accepting things as they are – we don’t question anymore. We don’t fight anymore. We don’t argue. We just lie down and take it.

I use the example of social media because it’s one all of us understand and it’s one we’ve all heard before. But ask yourselves – does it have to be that way? Would it be that way if employers were not allowed by law to search for you in social media before they hired you?

Or if they weren’t allowed to fire you for things you did off the job?

Why aren’t things that way? Why can you be fired at the whim of your boss, any day of the week?

Where’s the justice in that? These are all questions worth asking.

“That’s just the way things are” doesn’t allow us, as a people, to think and to question. It undermines democracy and freedom of speech.

What are you going to do about it?

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

True Stories I Made Up

By Carly Besser

The News

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November 8, 2013

Photos by Taylor McStoots/The News

(Above) a student participates in a showing of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” in the Curris Center large ballroom. (Right) students hand out candy to local children at Trail of Treats.

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Photos by Jenny Rohl/The News

(Left) students participate in the Hester Residential College “Monster Mash.” (Above) students pose as characters from the show “Duck Dynasty” at a Sparks Hall Halloween event.

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Section B

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Sports

Sports Editor: Ryan Richardson Assistant Editor: Nick Dolan Phone: 809-4481 Twitter: MSUSportsNews

Off-color commentary

Racers routed in second half Jonathan Ferris || Staff writer jferris2@murraystate.edu

The football team’s conference championship aspirations took a big hit Saturday as the Racers let the UT Martin Skyhawks run away with a 45-17 victory.

Coming off a bye week, the Racers made the short trip to Martin, Tenn., hoping to earn a share of the second-place spot in the OVC. Poor play on the offensive side of the ball and a forgettable second half turned the short road trip into a long day as the Racers fell to 5-4 on the season and dropped to a tie for fifth in the conference standings.

The Racers came out strong with a fumble recovery in the end zone by sophomore linebacker T-Ray Malone followed by a 26-yard run by senior Jaamal

Berry gave Murray State an early 14-0 lead.

The Skyhawks rallied back in the second quarter, however, and at halftime the teams were tied at 17.

Things turned south for the Racers in the third quarter as sophomore quarterback Maikhail Miller and the offense failed to get anything going through the air.

UT Martin capitalized, scoring two unanswered touchdowns off a Miller interception and a 3-andout by the Racer offense.

As the third quarter expired, the Skyhawks had built a commanding 31-17 lead.

“We played well in the first half,” Head Coach Chris Hatcher said. “Then there was a four-minute span in the third quarter that just did us in. It seemed like that quarter lasted two hours. The wind picked up and I was just hoping to get out of the

quarter down 14 and make something happen with the wind (on our side).”

Things only got worse for the Racers during the fourth quarter.

UT Martin took its first drive of the quarter 99 yards, scoring on an 11-yard touchdown pass to go up 38-17.

In an effort to get something going on offense, Hatcher made a change at quarterback, replacing Miller with junior Parks Frazier. Miller finished the day with nine completions on 20 attempts for 96 yards, two interceptions and no touchdowns.

“We weren’t just going to sit there and keep taking it, so we figured we’d get Parks in there and see if he could get us going,” Hatcher said. “It’s not that

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Inexperience not a factor in first win Jonathan Ferris Staff writer jferris2@murraystate.edu

Racer basketball fans got their first look at the reconstructed 2013-14 Murray State basketball team Saturday night during a scrimmage against Freed Hardeman. After a slow start, the Racers turned it on in the second half, outscoring the Lions 53-28 en route to a 95-68 victory.

After practicing for more than a month, the Racers admitted they were ready for some live action in front of their own fans.

“We’ve been patiently waiting and working hard every day in practice,” said sophomore Jeffery Moss. “We were just excited as a team to go out there and play somebody else in front of our fans.”

The new-look team struggled at times through the first 20 minutes, thanks in part to early foul trouble and costly turnovers.

The second half was a different story, however, as the Racer defense held the Lions to just 28 points.

The offense got into a groove

and scored several points in transition off of forced turnovers, which allowed the Racers to pull away for the big win.

“We started off slow, but in the second half we came out and locked in on defense and just made the game fun for us,” Moss said.

Prohm’s team was led by a slew of new faces including freshman Cameron Payne and junior college transfer Jarvis Williams, both of whom wowed fans in their first appearances as Racers.

Payne, a freshman from Bartlett, Tenn., recently took over the starting point guard position after Zay Jackson tore is ACL in practice and left the program a few weeks later.

In his first collegiate action, Payne scored nine points and dished out a game-high eight assists.

Williams also had a big night.

The Gordon State Junior College transfer earned his first doubledouble, scoring 19 points while pulling down 11 rebounds in 26 minutes.

Like much of the team, Williams struggled in the first

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Junior forward Jarvis Williams (4) defends a pass in the Racers’ win against Freed-Hardeman Saturday.

Women drain Berea with 3-point shots Tom Via || Staff writer tvia@murraystate.edu

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Sophomore Jashae Lee looks to pass the ball to an open teammate under the goal in the Racers’ exhibition win over Berea.

A revitalized women’s basketball squad earned a 103-59 win in its exhibition game against Berea Sunday.

Every player on Head Coach Rob Cross’ team scored in the final showing of the preseason “I felt like we were a little tight early in the game with our younger players, but it was a perfect game from us from an exhibition standpoint,” Cross said. “We got to see some different combinations of players and how it worked.”

The Racers controlled the game from the start, taking a quick 7-0 lead in the game’s opening minutes.

While Berea hung close for much of the half, the Racers blew the game open toward halftime.

Freshmen Taylor Porter and Janssen Starks started as

guards, the two combined to shoot 1-12 from the field but each had two assists.

Murray State’s aggressive defense was on display throughout the game, as it forced eight turnovers, leading to 13 points in the opening 20 minutes.

With the first half winding down, the Racers drained four straight 3-pointers to end the half on a 22-8 run and take a 47-24 lead.

The Racers continued to use the 3-pointer in the second half as the pressing Berea zone defense allowed open opportunities.

The Racers would hit nine in the final 20 minutes, improving their shooting numbers from the first half. The team finished shooting 36 percent from the 3-point line.

“With this team, 41 three’s are not too much for this team,” Cross said. “The one thing about us is that (the team) can also put it down on

the floor and get to the rim.”

While Cross said he was pleased with how his team shot the ball, he wasn’t impressed with the Racers shooting 61 percent from the free throw line.

“We got (to the line) a lot, especially considering they were dropping back into their zone out of the press and we need to shoot much better than that,” Cross said.

The Racers’ depth was on full display against the Mountaineers.

Freshman guard Nikia Edom led the team in scoring with 17 points off the bench.

Fellow freshman, Julia Fox, joined Edom from the sideline to score 12 points, all behind the 3-point line.

“This team has a lot of people that can shoot the basketball and we are deeper than we have been since I’ve been here,” Cross said. “We have

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More than just a game More often than many care to admit, there is more to sports than winning and losing.

Unfortunately for half the teams involved, including my beloved Cardinals, there is Nick Dolan a bitter side.

Assistant That is a part of Sports Editor competition and life all of us have to accept at some point.

But some sporting events offer a moment of healing and rescue. Of relief and escape. Some sense of this is how things should be.

The 2013 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox and the city of Boston have that opportunity to revel in winning.

That team took advantage of the opportunity to bring a city stricken by an indescribable tragedy, some peace and comfort.

They had to win, they needed to win and Boston deserved to win.

This team, which was the jester of major league baseball last year, is now its king, with the city of Boston as its crown jewel.

Selfishly, I sat and waited for the chance to jump and cheer in joy after the Cardinals won their second title in two years, but it wasn't meant to be and I accept that.

I know a lot of people hate how long baseball runs, but I also know how important a single game out of 182 can be.

More importantly, I know how important game number 187 can be.

I was able to experience that feeling after attending game 5 of this year’s NLDS with one of my best friends who suffered a personal loss earlier this year.

He, two of our friends and I drove six hours round trip to watch the Cardinals move on to the NLCS at Busch Stadium, a usually triumphant feat by itself, but this meant more.

Sitting there in the upper deck of left field after the final out, you could feel a sense of comfort in that win, not only to him but for all of us.

That’s what I love about sports and what they can bring to the people that need them the most.

That is what Boston received Wednesday night, and they deserved it.

It is the same sort of healing I’m sure New York Yankee fans felt during their run at the 2001 World Series, although they didn't win.

It is the same thing the New Orleans Saints’ fans experienced during their Super Bowl Championship after Hurricane Katrina.

And it is the same feeling Alabama and their loyals had after the tornado in 2012.

The examples are endless.

But there is a chance to move on in sports that life does not allow us to do.

I am reminded of this with every year I live.

I’m sure some of you have been able to deal with life more easily with UK’s or Louisville’s wins and national titles.

For me, I have to accept baseball is over and the Cardinals aren’t champions, but I remember winning and losing, in athletics, simply doesn’t matter anymore.

During Game 6, I was with the same friend and while we were both upset, he never let down because he just simply wanted the Cardinals to win and nothing more.

He was back to his old ways of nervous, anxious, hope that will lead him and all of us that need some solace in sports back to feeling normal.

Now, I’m not naive. I understand it would have meant much more than I can describe if they would have won it all, but it was back to being just a game.

That’s sports.

That is why I ultimately fell in love with them and that’s why all of us, Boston fans or not, should cheer #BostonStrong with the Red Sox and the rest of those needing sports to make life seem easier, at least until next year. ndolan@murraystate.edu

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FRESHMAN KEEPER

FINAL RACE

BURRITO SHACK

MOVIE VIEWING

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Savannah Haberman stands out in final soccer game, 3B

Men, women both finish top 10 in tournament, 4B

Local restaurant serves Murray for years to come, 5B

Advantages, disadvantages of renting, going to movies, 5B

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seven players that are really starters for us.”

Jessica Winfrey, the lone senior on the squad, played limited minutes in the exhibition.

However, she was still able to put up a double-double, scoring 11 points and grabbing 10 rebounds.

“She got out of the game what she needed from it, which is what you are looking for in exhibitions,” Cross said. “This type of game is what we expect from her this season.”

Murray State now turns its attention to its season opener against Robert Morris-Springfield, which will be the first collegiate game for the seven freshmen on the team.

The Racers tip off the 20132014 season at 7 p.m. tonight at the CFSB Center.

half, but lit up the statistics sheet during the final 20 minutes.

The 6’8” junior attributed his slow start to the nerves of playing in his first game as a Racer.

“After I got that first half under my belt, I felt almost invincible,” Williams said. “It was just a whole new attitude. I was running faster, because you know when you’re nervous it slows you down, but I got all that out the window and just had fun.”

“From now on, people should expect the whole package, starting from the first minute,” Williams said. “Now that I’ve got that first big time game under my belt with the fans and everything, I’m ready to roll.”

Prohm admitted he was nervous before the exhibition. Prior to Saturday’s game, only two players on the Murray State roster had seen more than 25 minutes in a single game.

“I didn’t really know what to expect tonight,” Prohm said. “We’re still figuring out how we need to play.”

With the exhibition in their rear view mirror, the Racers must now prepare for the games that count.

The Racers’ season tips off against the Crusaders at 7:30 p.m. tonight when they travel to Valparaiso, Ind., before hosting Brescia at 7 p.m. Tuesday at home.

we were disappointed in one guy, we were just trying to put somebody in there to spark us and get something going in our favor.”

Frazier didn’t fare much better in the game’s final minutes.

He would finish with three completions on nine attempts for 46 yards and one interception.

UT Martin tacked on one last touchdown and the long day ended with a 45-17 blowout for the Racers.

“In the third quarter, it just seemed like we didn’t have a lot of spunk about us coming out and they blew the game out of proportion,” Berry said. “We didn’t have enough energy and they just drove down and scored some unanswered points and it got out of control.”

As for the quarterback situation, Hatcher is not sure who he will start this weekend. Since Miller transferred in from Ole Miss, he has started every game for the Racers this season.

Hatcher says the decision will be made based on the duo’s performance in practice this week.

“We’re going to let those two guys battle this week,” Hatcher said. “They battle every week, but this week they’ll be under a little more scrutiny than they normally are.”

The Racers will need to get more consistent quarterback play out of the starter as they face a tall task this weekend. The No. 2 Eastern Illinois Panthers will look to maintain their perfect conference record Saturday as they pay a visit to Roy Stewart Stadium.

Led by the OVC’s all-time leading passer, Jimmy Garoppolo and the Eastern Illinois aerial assault represent the most potent offense in the country.

“The big thing with (Eastern Illinois) is you can’t get behind early,” Hatcher said. “We’ve got to do a good job early of not letting them come out and land too many big blows.”

Hatcher’s team nearly beat the eventual OVC champions last season, losing in Charleston, Ill., on a two-point conversion in overtime.

This year, however, the Panthers are undefeated in OVC play and have only one loss, which came against Northern Illinois.

Despite long odds and a tough opponent, Hatcher and his team said they will remain positive as they prepare for the Panthers.

“Our guys believe they can win the game,” Hatcher said. “Each week brings new opportunities and new challenges, and this week is no different. We’re getting ready to play the No. 2 team in the nation at our place, and we’re excited about that and we’ve got to have a great week of preparation.”

The Racers and Panthers kick off at noon Saturday at Roy Stewart Stadium.

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Hab erman leads R a ce r s to v i c to r y Tom Via || Staff writer tvia@murraystate.edu

Seniors Tasha Merritt and Shauna Wicker and the rest of the soccer team concluded their 2013 season with a 21 win over rival Austin Peay.

The team rallied around Wicker, who started her final game despite an injury.

Right before the game, Rebecca Bjorkvall came up to me and said, ‘have the game of your life,’ and I said, ‘I’ll try.’

- Savannah Haberman, freshman goalkeeper “During the game I told myself I had to do this for Shauna because she has done so much for me and this team,” said freshman goalkeeper Savannah Haberman.

While the pregame focused on the seniors, Haberman was the main point of attention during play. With the Governors playing for positioning in the OVC Tournament, Haberman faced 24 shots on net and set multiple records in the victory.

The Racers came out fired up and scored in the 4th minute when junior forward Julie Mooney crossed the ball to junior defender Bronagh Kerins to take the early lead.

“Getting the goal early set the tone for the game and relaxed us so much,” Wicker said.

Austin Peay controlled the ball for the majority of the

game, holding Murray State to 14 shots in the game. The Governors may have taken more shots, but the Racers’ shots were more effective.

The Racers doubled their lead in the 62nd minute when freshman forward Lauren Frazier scored after sophomore defender Taylor Stevens served a free kick into the box.

In the final 30 minutes, Haberman helped the Racers keep their narrow lead.

“Right before the game, Rebecca Bjorkvall came up to me and said ‘Have the game of your life,’ and I said, ‘I’ll try,’ ” Haberman said. “Some things I don’t even remember doing, but I know I did them.”

Austin Peay scored in the closing minutes, but Wicker said she and her teammates had no worries because she had faith in Haberman.

“She saved the whole game for us and I wasn’t even worried at all after (Austin Peay) scored,” Wicker said.

Haberman’s 23 saves was not only a Murray State record, but it broke the old OVC record of 20. The performance also made Haberman the first Racers’ keeper with more than 100 saves in a single season, finishing her freshman year with 111 saves.

“With (Haberman) back next season and the confidence she has gotten from today’s game, only good things are going to happen in the future,” former Head Coach Beth Acreman said.

While the Racers finished the season at 6-10-1, the team ended on a two-game winning streak.

Because the team did not qualify for the OVC tournament, the offseason has already begun. The team loses only two seniors to graduation. Murray State returns standout keeper Haberman and Mooney, who is 10 shots away from breaking the program’s all-time record.

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Junior Julie Mooney pushes the ball past an Austin Peay defender in their last game Sunday.

Acreman ousted as coach Men’s golf takes 12th Tom Via || Staff writer tvia@murraystate.edu

The soccer team can no longer call Beth Acreman its coach.

Athletic Director Allen Ward made the decision Monday. He said the decision is the best move for the program’s future. “(Acreman) worked hard and brought us our first two championships,” Ward said. “However, after fully evaluating the program, I believe a change at this time will benefit the team and the overall direction I’m looking for.”

Acreman was the second head coach in the program’s history, leading the team to the 2008 OVC regular-season championship and the 2009 OVC tournament championship. Her teams finished 32-

31-8 in conference play and 65-75-7 overall.

“To win two championships is definitely fulfilling and I appreciate the opportunity to coach at a good school,” Acreman said. “I will not be looking to continue my coaching career, but have really enjoyed the last 14 years of coaching at this level.”

Ward said he looks forward to the future of the team, as he has confidence in it.

“I'm excited about the future of Racer soccer and the opportunity it has to be among the best in the OVC each and every year,” Ward said. “I fully expect our soccer program to consistently be one of the most successful women’s sports we have at Murray State.”

Murray State will conduct a national search for the program’s next coach immediately.

Staff Report The men’s golf team came away with a 12th place finish after its final round at the Alabama State University Fall Beach Classic Tuesday.

Murray State finished its three rounds with scores of 298-306-310=914.

Sophomore Preston French the Racers with rounds of 74-74-77=225, good enough for 27th place overall.

Fellow sophomore Brock Simmons and junior Chasten Howard tied for 48th.

Simmons shot rounds of 71-83-78=232, while Howard carded rounds of 78-7678=232.

Junior Jordan Smith finished his three

rounds in 53rd overall at 77-79-77=233.

Sophomore Jared Gosser was not far behind with a 59th place finish to cap team play.

Gosser ended the tournament at 76-7784=237.

Sophomore Duncan McCormick finished in 69th place in individual action, with rounds of 77-81-86=244.

West Florida was top in team play at 868, Louisiana-Monroe took second with a score of 876 and Memphis was close behind with 878.

The Racers are off until February, when they travel to Arizona for the Snowman Gateway at Palm Valley Golf Course, Feb. 24-25.

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Volleyball drops pair of OVC home matches Taylor Crum || Staff writer tcrum3@murraystate.edu

The volleyball team dropped to a conference record of 3-9 after losing to both Tennessee State and Belmont last weekend.

Head Coach David Schwepker said there was a pattern in the Racers’ game play. He said the girls played competitively in the first set of both matches against Tennessee State and Belmont, but had trouble upholding that competitiveness throughout the next two sets.

“We had a chance to win a couple times,” Schwepker said. “Once again, it’s just our inexperience not being able to keep that level of competitiveness for that long.”

Alyssa Lelm, sophomore middle blocker, said she thinks the team could improve in one specific area.

“I feel like our confidence needs to build,” Lelm said. “I know we lack experience, but I don’t feel like that’s an excuse.”

With senior captain Katlyn Hudson still out with a concussion, Lelm said she thinks the team’s lack of confidence is a result of Hudson’s absence.

“We don’t have a true leader on the court,” Lelm said. “I mean, our team has stepped up a lot without her, but it’s definitely a change.”

However, Lelm said things might be looking up for the Racers.

Hudson practiced with the team this week, and is hoping that she will return to the floor this weekend.

With the two losses last weekend, Schwepker said his team thought they were out of a shot for

the OVC tournament. Fortunately, Schwepker said the team will get a second chance, something that doesn’t come along often.

The OVC tournament is still within reach for the Racers as a few conference foes also lost last week. All the women have to do is win the next four matches.

Lelm said the Racers’ trailing record means nothing.

“I think we have the potential to go to the OVC tournament and do something even though we’re kind of the underdogs right now,” Lelm said.

Despite the losing record, Schwepker said the Racers are refusing to give up.

“We’re working hard,” he said. “We try to not to look back. We’re still going full-speed ahead.

If we don’t pull it off, they’re going to be that much better for next year.”

One thing that may help the Racers the remainder of the season is Schwepker’s way with words.

Lelm said Schwepker pumps up her and the rest of the team before every game by being inspirational and funny at the same time.

Next on the schedule, the Racers will be on the road traveling to conference opponents Southeast Missouri State and UT Martin. The game against SEMO will begin at 6:30 p.m. tonight followed by the match at 2 p.m. Saturday against UT Martin.

The Racers beat UT Martin this season already, but lost their match against SEMO. Said Schwepker: “Can we beat them? Of course, I think we can, but it’s going to be tough.”

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The cross-country team ran for the last time this season in Morehead, Ky., when it competed in the OVC Championships Nov. 3.

The women took fifth, dropping one spot from last year’s finish.

The men’s team improved from last year’s placement, taking eighth in the competition. It was the highest finish they’ve ever had under Head Coach Jenny Severns.

“The tournament was just an average day for us,” Severns said, “That is disappointing because you want to see something more in such a big race.”

The tournament was not Murray State’s best race this season. Throughout the year, each runner had at least one race in which he or she beat a personal record.

On her way to earning first for the Racers, freshman Emma Gilmore raced a personal best of 18:34.30.

Gilmore was named to the All-Conference team.

“It means more that it happened at the OVC” Gilmore explained. “I hoped to run well, but to say I expected it isn’t true.”

Though the women took fifth as a team, Gilmore said she is happy with the results.

“I was really proud of the girls,” Gilmore said. “I know there was disappointment because the way the race

turned out didn’t replicate how hard we have worked.”

Severns said the team will try to rebuild for next season with recruits and more depth.

“I need to find a better balance in how much I talk about (the OVC tournament),” Severns said. “I feel like I didn’t talk about it enough, and they weren’t really pumped up this season.”

Gilmore said she wants to focus on improving consistency for next season.

“I’ve been so up and down, and I think I have finally reached a point where I think it will continue to go up” Emma Gilmore said. “Every year we just look to get better than we were the year before.”

The men placed lower overall, but improved on last season’s tournament.

Severns said the mentality of the men stood out and played a big factor in the way they ran.

“The guys were more fearless,” Severns said. “They just went for it.”

Freshman Evan Staviski finished first for the men of Murray State with a personal best time of 26:33.04.

He said he did not expect to place first; he was only trying to run the best he could.

Severns said she was more pleased with the season as a whole than with the OVC Championships.

“OVC was good, but I don’t want it to define our season,” Severns said. “We have a really good foundation. Now we just need to add to it a little bit.”

The Dallas Cowboys have brought me wins, Halloween costumes and embarrassing photos throughout the years.

Lexy Gross But one Editor-in-Chief constant they’ve also seemed to hand me is sheer disappointment.

I will never understand why Dez Bryant can’t catch the ball at the most critical times or – yes, I’ll finally admit it – why Tony Romo cracks under pressure.

Right now, the Cowboys sit at a 5-4 record and at the top of their division.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy my team is leading the NFC East, but it’s pretty pathetic that they’re the only ones with a winning record.

Even with a climb back from the bottom, the NFC East is still well below the level of other divisions.

Disappointment seems to be the theme in the division.

Robert Griffin III hasn’t impressed like he did in 2012 and the New York Giants are stunningly horrible this season.

The Giants lost their first six games and won their last two – against teams who didn’t have their starting quarterbacks in the mix.

Three mediocre teams and one team who seemed to forget the goal of football only equals a disappointing playoff season.

With a dozen inconsistencies to choose from, I’m afraid the outcome will be a loss against a playoff team from a stronger division.

But for now, I shouldn’t be thinking about the playoffs.

Since the Cowboys’ last Super Bowl win in 1996, 16 seasons ago, Dallas has only managed to take two playoff wins.

The team has had 15 starting quarterbacks and six head coaches.

They’ve had a nearly even record at 135 wins and 130 losses since 1996.

Again, it is so difficult to be a Cowboys fan.

The mediocrity has to stop at some point, because being the head of the worst division in the NFL won’t get them anywhere.

I feel as though the Cowboys have had nothing but distractions on the field and in the stands for the last several years.

From a new, outrageous stadium to bringing on Terrell Owens, the flashy image Jerry Jones is going for will produce his team no Superbowl appearances.

ESPN columnist Skip Bayless feels my pain. Bayless expresses the patience he’s losing in the team he has grown up loving.

The Cowboys are in the limelight as often now as they were in the years leading up to 1996 – but for none of the right reasons. Analysts fight over Romo’s subpar overall performance and Bryant’s temper tantrums.

Meanwhile, RGIII will improve and the Redskins will gain ground in the NFC East.

More than likely, we’ll see a repeat of last year – a mediocre Dallas team and the Redskins in the playoffs. cgross2@murraystate.edu

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Here at The News, we found this month’s festivities so entertaining that we decided to choose a few of this campus’ brave and hairy men to show their progress throughout the month.

We chose Juan Aponte, Derek Miller and Jamaal Gardner, as our men of No Shave November. Continue checking back every week to see how their facial hair continues to grow throughout the month and also to hear some of their best no-shaving tips and tricks.

Juan Aponte, junior from Clarksville, Tenn.

Q: Have you ever participated in No Shave November before?

A: No, I haven’t done it all the way through. Before, when I was younger, it came in in patches and I would always end up shaving it around Thanksgiving.

Q: Why did you decide to participate this year?

A: My beard has finally come in complete and is not patchy. It’s also an easy way to skip shaving in the morning. Plus, it looked like fun.

Q: What are your personal rules and tips for No

Shave November?

A: Just not to shave anything – no trimming – and don’t get self-conscious. Show your manliness.

Derek Miller, graduate student from Louisville, Ky.

Breanna Sill || Staff writer bsill@murraystate.edu

With No Shave November in full swing, men across campus are looking for ways to show off the beautiful facial hair they are working to grow out. While some men may not be able to accomplish the full Robertson family style beard made famous by the cast of “Duck Dynasty,” there are plenty willing to try.

No Shave November began in 2003 when two men from Melbourne, Australia decided to bring the mustache back in style.

They then vowed not to shave their mustaches for the next 30 days. They called their movement “Movember.”

The next year, the movement took off and the group was able to raise $40,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia with only 450 people registered.

Now, a decade later, men are not only growing their mustaches out, but also their beards during November.

As competitive as men can get sometimes it seems only natural that competitions would arise to see who could grow the manliest beard in Murray.

Thursday marked the first year the Beard and Mustache Growing Contest was held in the Carr Health Building. Proceeds

from the event benefited Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) by the Lakes.

CASA is a foundation that provides children that have been abused a special advocate to speak on their behalf whenever they have court appearances.

The contest was open to the community along with students, faculty and staff.

There were 10 participants registered for the contest, eight of whom were students.

The other two competitors were a community member and a staff member Robert Long, professor of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services.

Annalee Schuette, sophomore from Mount Vernon, Ill., was one of the organizers of the event, and said the idea for the competition started as a class project for a youth and non-profit leadership class.

“The group I work with for the class was approached by a representative from CASA and asked if we would be willing to do this as a fundraiser for one of our projects,” Schuette said. “Before the event even happened we were able to raise almost $450.”

Schuette and her teammates had a booth set up in the Curris Center weeks prior to the event encouraging students to vote for which man had the best beard by dropping money in the participant’s can with the

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best beard taped to it. The winner of the Golden Beard Award would be the person who was able to raise the most money prior to the contest.

Other prizes handed out last night included the awards for the Most Original, Thickest Beard, Longest Beard, Best Effort, Si Award (reminiscent of Si Robertson, of “Duck Dynasty”) and the Tom Selleck Award.

The competition was open to not only men with big beards, but also men who wanted to show off their impressive mustaches. The cost to enter the contest with either a beard or a mustache was $5, and to enter both was $10.

Prizes for the winners included a variety of different gift cards from places like Dominoes Pizza to different barber shops or gift cards to auto shops to receive free oil changes for their vehicles.

With men across campus participating in No Shave November, a question that might arise is what women on campus think about the yearly hairy trend.

“I don’t mind a little scruff,” said Celeste Chockley, senior from Washington, Ill. “I definitely do not like a full-fledged beard though. Although, I am looking forward to seeing all the different types of beards men can grow.”

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Shave November?

A: Really just let it go. Don’t touch it, and do the best you can. Some people can’t grow as much as they want to, but do the best you can with what you have and be proud and confident in what you have.

Jamaal Gardner, senior from Paris, Tenn.

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Q: Have you ever participated in No Shave November before?

A: I have for a couple years.

Q: Why did you decide to participate this year?

A: I work with a couple guys at the office and they did it last year and we decided to do it again this year. I also have a lot of residents participating as well. (Miller is the Resident Director of Regents Residential College.)

Q: What are your personal rules and tips for No

Q: Have you ever participated in No Shave November before?

A: Yes. I’ve done it one other time and that was two years ago.

Q: Why did you decide to participate this year?

A: Just because I wanted to and I am doing it as a tribute to the Red Sox for winning the World Series. They always grow their beards out during the season and so I decided it would be fun to do it for them.

Q: What are your personal rules and tips for No

But we’ll shave some for later.

Shave November?

A: Just don’t touch a razor. Let your grown man out.

Check back every Friday to see how the beard growing process is going for Aponte, Miller and Gardner.

Students weigh pros, cons of movie viewing Hunter Harrell || Assistant Features Editor hharrell@murraystate.edu

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The Burrito Shack has been open right off campus since October 2009.

The Burrito Shack serves community Faces & Places is a weekly series that profiles the people and places of Murray and the surrounding areas. Every person and every place has a story.

Let us tell it.

Brandon Cash || Staff writer bcash@murraystate.edu

It is nearing the end of the semester and students’ flex plans are running low while their meals are dwindeling. Students often look to places off campus for alternative places to eat.

A place they often turn to is The Burrito Shack, conveniently located across the street from Pogue Library.

Owner Matt Gingles opened the restaurant in October 2009 with his father Ralph Gingles.

Ralph owns a majority of the business and had invested his own money to help make The Burrito Shack possible.

“My dad called and asked me if I wanted to go in with him and open a restaurant,” Matt said. “I said yes, and we started looking for places here back in Murray.”

Matt graduated from Murray State in 2008 and moved to Nashville, Tenn., where he worked for Dell Computers for a year.

Eventually Ralph contacted his son and to-

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Whether people prefer to dress up for a night out or snuggle under a blanket in the comfort of their underwear, watching movies is a form of entertainment anyone can enjoy.

The choice between renting a movie or seeing it in theaters each have their pros and cons. However, on a tight budget and with the risk of seeing a bad movie, the decision between renting and going to a theater becomes more important.

Numerous pros and cons are equated with renting movies, as well as seeing a movie in the theater. One of the biggest differences between renting movies and theater viewing is price. Renting a movie costs significantly less than buying just one movie ticket.

“I prefer to rent movies,” said Jasmine Middlebrook, junior from Memphis, Tenn. “The theaters are too expensive.”

Renting a single movie can cost between $1 and $4, depending on the place the individual rents from and the release date of the movie. Theater tickets generally cost between $6 and $12. Typically, college students prefer to save a little money here and there; however, some students would rather splurge on tickets to see a show for a majority of reasons.

“Renting movies cost less than buying the movie on DVD or watching it in theaters,” said Kari Street, junior from Paducah, Ky. “But I enjoy the experience of going to the movies with friends and family. You also get to see a movie long before you can rent it.”

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New releases as well as old favorites are available to rent at Family Video.

The experience and exclusivity of seeing a movie in the theater overpowers the low cost of renting as well for Nikki King, senior from Paducah.

“If there is a movie coming out that I am really excited about, I love going to the theater to see it,” she said. “It’s the same as listening to one of my favorite bands. The CD sounds great at my house, but it’s such a neat experience to see them perform live.”

Though King and Street prefer to see movies in the theaters, they admit renting movies does have other benefits where the theater lacks.

One of those benefits is convenience. Renting a

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gether they started the process of opening the restaurant. “Every new business is going to be hard from the beginning, especially when you start from scratch,� Matt said.

They looked for inspiration for The Burrito Shack’s menu at other restaurants in nearby states. From there they were able to come up with their own unique recipes.

The whole process took approximately six months to complete, Matt said. “There seemed to be a niche for Mexican food in Murray, and the closest place you could find something like this before we opened was in Nashville, two hours away,� Matt said. “We figured if you have something different, it just works.�

The Burrito Shack has been open for four years and Matt is continually looking for new ways to buy more nutritious ingredients. “I think especially since we are an independent and locally owned, ‘mom and pop’ store, several members of the community are willing to go further out of their way or spend a little more to show their support,� Matt said. “And for supporting us, we give back in the form of donations to several different organizations and

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What many students don’t know about The Burrito Shack is that there is a food challenge.

If a customer can eat three large burritos in 30 minutes, their food is free and their picture is placed on the wall. If they can eat four burritos in 40 minutes they get that plus a free T-shirt. But, if they can eat five burritos in less than 58 minutes then they also get to rename the challenge. So far, only one person has beaten the challenge and renamed it The Punisher. “I have a friend who has beaten the three and the four challenge, and I’ve seen his picture on the wall at The Burrito Shack, and it’s just ridiculous; I don’t think I could do that,� said Ryan Christensen, senior from Berea, Ky. Even though Qdoba Mexican Grill recently opened next to Cracker Barrel on North 12th Street, some students do not think it will be more popular than The Burrito Shack. “I would say their only competition is Qdoba, but I don’t think it compares,� said Shea Lanaghan, junior from Millstadt, Ill. “The Burrito Shack has a lot more variety as far as flavor goes than Qdoba.�

As for the future of the business, Matt said he has plans to open another location in Paducah, Ky. He is currently going over leases and hopes to have it open by February.

This week’s topic: 16th Street crosswalks

The basics: Jordan Maberry, freshman from Alton, Ill. Twitter handle: @JordanMaberry Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Casual most of the time; cute and comfortable.

Q: What are some of your favorite stores?

A: Forever 21, TK Maxx, Francesca’s, JCPenny Q: Who is your style icon?

A: Carrie Underwood. Her style is always put together and very classy.

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The Cheri Theatre offers a wide array of snacks to those who prefer seeing a movie over renting.

MOVIE From Page 5B movie is more of a self-service when compared with the theater where the employees wait on customers and clean up afterward.

There is no adhering to show times or rules of cell phone use in a crowded theater. However, while cheaper and more convenient, some students agree renting even has obstacles. “Theaters are full of people,� Middlebrook said. “Sometimes you just want to watch a movie alone. But the late fees really add up.�

Another inconvenience of renting movies

includes the six to eight month wait between the theater screening and the release of DVDs. By the time the DVD is released, millions of people have already seen the movie and spoiled the plot in reviews. “Though renting a movie is cheaper, you have to wait for the movie to come out on DVD,� said Caitlin Dunaway, freshman from Salem, Ill. “If you are dying to see it you, will have to wait a couple months before you can rent it.�

In the end, both going to the theaters to see a movie and renting them from a gallery have pros and cons. Neither medium has a flawless record, and the best viewing option often lies in the opinion and wallet of the students.

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Sylvia Weiss

@mhoelscher20 I hit the sign coming out of the lower lot behind Blackburn. And then later that day witnessed 3 others do the same.

2:31 p.m. Oct. 9

@Sylvia Weiss Hahahahahahaha I just hit a pedestrian sign and totally knocked it down omg that was embarrasing 1:13 p.m. Oct. 30

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@tori_holmes Still mad about that crosswalk sign... Like, WHY DO THOSE EXIST?!

2:13 a.m. Oct. 20

@Cweezybby If I see one more person hit those crosswalk signs I will literally die from laughter.

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WHAT’S HAPPENIN’?

TODAY • 9 a.m. - Noon Teacher Fair, Curris Center • 1 p.m.

River’s Edge International Film Festival, Maiden Alley Cinema, Paducah, Ky.

S A T U R D A Y

• 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Humane Society holiday bazaar and bake sale, Calloway County Public Library • 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Fall Frolic, Land Between the Lakes Nature Station • Noon Football vs. Eastern Illinois, Roy Stewart Stadium

SUNDAY • 1 - 5 p.m.

River’s Edge International Film Festival, Maiden Alley Cinema, Paducah, Ky.

• Noon - 1 p.m.

Tai Chi with Wayne, Wellness Center, aerobics room • 3:30 - 4 p.m.

Abs, Cores and Glutes, Wellness Center, aerobics room • 5 p.m.

PRSSA meeting, Wilson Hall, room 115

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Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles, Carson Center, Paducah, Ky.

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Movie Review

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“Bad Grandpa,” which was released Oct. 23, cost $15 million to make and has made $79,658,000 at the box office as of Nov. 6.

‘Bad Grandpa’ fails to see the light Facts & Tidbits

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John Gruccio || Contributing writer jgruccio@murraystate.edu

I’m sure we can all remember the first time we saw Johnny Knoxville and the rest of the guys from the “Jackass” group, Ryan Dunn, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius , Jason Acuna, Jeff Termaine and Dave England doing some very stupid, yet wildly entertaining stunts.

After a TV show on MTV and five movies, the “Jackass” crew is at it again. With its newest addition, “Bad Grandpa,” I think it may have aimed a little bit too high.

In the film, Knoxville portrays Irving Zisman, an 86-year-old man who has been given a chance at freedom with the passing of his wife.

Hopeful to change some key things in his life before he finds himself dead, he wants to get out and explore the world.

However, when he is unexpectedly greeted by his daughter, he learns that she is about to go to jail and he must take his grandson, Billy, to his deadbeat father in North Carolina.

Extremely hesitant at first, Irving

takes Billy on the road and the two of them slowly start to bond through shenanigans.

Knoxville is entertaining in this film. For a film where he is disguised with old man makeup throughout, he does pretty well.

Believe it or not, he is actually more out of control as an old man than as his true younger self. His young sidekick, played by Jackson Nicholl, also does a decent job in the film.

The on-screen relationship between these two is believable.

Through all the shenanigans Irving pulls, Billy is right there to help him up off the ground from his failures.

One scene I enjoyed in particular is where Irving comes up with the idea to dress Billy up as a young girl and enter him into a child beauty pageant, where sparks fly. From Billy scantily dancing to “Cherry Pie” by Warrant, to Irving showering him with dollar bills, the whole scene speaks to the incredible chemistry the actors have on screen.

Where this film fails, I believe, is that at times it tries to make itself into an actual drama, instead of being straight comedy like the pre-

vious “Jackass” films.

Given that this film is a bit different, I think audiences would rather appreciate a straight and true “Jackass” film, rather than an attempt at a coming-of-age story. Because of the attempt at drama, the film is held back from other comedic moments that could have been more hysterical.

This is most evident in the film when Irving delivers Billy to his scumbag father at a bar in North Carolina. In this bar is also the local chapter of the biker group, “Guardians of Children,” a group who is particularly fond of protecting abused children. The whole scene is very much dramatized from the discussion of the father’s past and the fact that Billy really wants to stay with his grandfather. As I said before, the film, which screams comedy, really falls hard from this try at a dramatic storyline.

As much of a letdown as it was, though, it was good to see Knoxville and the gang back together on the big screen, especially after the tragic death of their good friend, Dunn, to whom the film was dedicated.

Movie: “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll, Georgina Cates, Kamber Hejlik, Greg Harris Released: Oct. 23 Rating: R Genre: Comedy Similar to: The “Jackass” series Director: Jeff Termaine

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Road Rage Road construction, pedestrians and Five Points all have one major thing in common; they back up traffic.

Sitting in traffic is one of Hunter the little things in life that often Harrell Assistant Features causes the most frustration.

Editor It’s especially difficult to contain your frustration when you have somewhere to be or are running extremely late.

As a society, we live a fast-paced lifestyle. We want what we want and we don’t want to wait very long for it. Hence the reason fast food chains have grown immensely, but that is an entirely different subject.

In our lifetime we spend days sitting in traffic. Those days include hours of sitting at stop lights. Sure, these hours we waste in traffic add up, but sometimes you just have to contain the road rage.

Here’s my confession to you, readers: I have road rage. Where I come from, traffic jams consist of two cars behind a tractor on the highway. But you always see an end to the traffic when the kind farmer tips his hat and pulls over in the ditch to allow you to pass.

In Murray, I have found my drive from the residential colleges to the lovely Wilson Hall is longer than the walk at certain times of the day.

The mile I drive from Elizabeth College to Wilson Hall takes up to 15 minutes. When I am home, my drive to the nearest town with a Walmart takes the same amount of time, and it is 15 miles away.

All that aside, being stuck in traffic can turn us into the Hulk. However, one thing I have learned from Five Points and the road construction on the bridge between Paducah, Ky., and Metropolis, Ill., is being angry about the traffic is not going to get me where I need to be any faster.

As annoying and terrifying as it is to sit on the bridge and constantly tap the brakes every two feet, anger won’t magically make the traffic disappear. So instead I roll down my windows, crank up the music and just relax.

My car is one of the only places not flooded with distractions and the need to multitask. It is a safe haven from the stress of the outside world. And even though I have to actively pay attention to the road, I have little else to worry about.

Although sometimes I feel like brake checking the monster truck tailgating my little car or yelling at the idiot checking Facebook while he could be turning right on red, I try to remember the world doesn’t revolve around my vehicle and sometimes we could all “settle for a slow down.”

So when it comes to the road, remember the rage won’t get you farther along the road. Instead, enjoy the moments you have in your car.

After all, those moments in the car may be the most peaceful moments of the day. hharrell@murraystate.edu

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