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DUIs increase, police department reacts

Feb. 28, 2014

Crosswalks, new signs appear on 15th Street near campus Mary Bradley || Staff writer mbradley9@murraystate.edu

Commuters and students can feel safer crossing 15th Street due to crosswalks that were installed Monday.

The crosswalks were highly anticipated by students who have been dodging cars when crossing the street, which connects commuter parking lots to campus.

Sophomore Victoria Crum from Murray said she commutes from Benton, Ky., and the crosswalks are a necessity for student safety.

“I cross the street every day,” Crum said. “And when it’s really busy at 8 a.m., the crosswalks are important for making people stop, and it can be dangerous if you don’t have them.”

Crum said that she noticed immediately on Monday when the crosswalks were installed, and had been used to crossing the street to get to campus without the added safety, which she believes is something that students shouldn’t be used to.

“People aren’t used to seeing the crosswalks,” she said. “But they help keep it safe, and that wasn’t there when I first came to Murray State.”

The additional safety is something the city aimed to give to students, and Matt Mattingly, city administrator, said the city wanted to do so by limiting the areas needed to cross the street.

“Our primary objective was to provide safety and make less area to cross,” Mattingly said. “We did this by adding concrete islands to shorten the distance pedestrians needed to walk.”

Rebecca Walter || Staff writer rwalter@murraystate.edu

Increased DUI’s have hit the area in the past year, and college-aged students are not immune to the growing statistics.

In 2013, there were 175 DUI arrests in Murray. This is a more than 20 percent increase compared to the five years before packaged liquor sales were made legal in the city, which saw numbers between 133 and 141.

Murray residents voted on July 17, 2012, to allow packaged alcohol sales, after debate over the matter.

Kendra Clere, Alcohol Beverage Control administrator, said she thinks the increased number of DUI’s is due to more patrol in the area, not because of Murray now being a wet county.

“The increased numbers are something we expected to see,” Clere said.

“I do not think there are more incidents of DUI’s taking place; we are just catching more.”

There have been five new officers added in the last year. Officers normally make their rounds around midnight, which Clere said is when the most DUI offenses take place.

Clere said she thinks college students can be vulnerable to DUI’s.

“College students can be more prone (to DUI’s) because they do not always think about the consequences,” she said.

Robert Bringhurst, captain of operations for Public Safety and Emergency Management, said the University tries to educate students on the dangers of alcohol usage.

“Public Safety has always taken a proactive approach by offering safety and awareness presentations which encourage students to make responsible decisions about alcohol,” he said.

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Photo illustration by Kate Russell, photo by Megan Godby/The News

After months of bare road, 15th Street now has three crosswalks. The crosswalks were installed Monday.

Mid-Continent Academic students face college may financial crisis dissolve due to Ben Manhanke

Assistant News Editor bmanhanke@murraystate.edu

Murray State could see an influx of new students next semester following Mid-Continent University’s financial and accreditation issues, which have led to its president’s resignation.

At a Mid-Continent Board of Trustees meeting Saturday, Ken Winters, former president of Campbellsville University and dean of Murray State’s College of Industry and Technology, was confirmed as interim president.

Winters and members of the Winters board discussed alternate revenue sources for the university and the proposed selling of some of the school’s property to account for a $22 million deficit.

Despite the odds facing the university, after the meeting, Tom Butler, Mid-Continent University Board of Trustees chairman, told WKMS that the school will not be closing anytime soon.

Renae Duncan, associate vice president of Academic Affairs at Murray State, said while news of Mid-Continent’s struggle with accreditation has been public knowledge for years, the severity of the university’s financial situation has spurred numerous phone calls to Murray State.

“What we’re hearing is a lot of student worry and fear at Mid-Continent about their future and their degrees,” she said. “As a result of

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budget cuts

Mary Bradley || Staff writer mbradley9@murraystate.edu

Facing $2.5 million in budget cuts, Murray State has been looking for areas to trim down on spending and has proposed dissolving the College of Health Sciences and Human Services.

The Academic Council met Thursday afternoon and came to a unanimous decision to propose to collapse the College of Health Sciences and Human Services by moving the existing departments to other appropriate colleges.

The college, which has grown in

enrollment 46 percent since 2009, according to the 2013 registrar’s report, may see faculty members divided among multiple colleges and students relocated.

Roger Weis, assistant dean of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services, said the dissolving of the college was unexpected and believes that the college should not be punished due to its successes.

“All the programs within this college are growing,” Weis said. “To have it in one college where we all can connect and communicate with each other is wonderful. It’s at

on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, each year an estimated 1,825 college students die from alcohol-related incidents, which includes motor vehicle accidents.

Each year, approximately 599,000 students are unintentionally injured under the influence of alcohol and 3,360,000 students drive under the influence of alcohol.

Clere said when students have been drinking, it is important to make sure you have a designated driver, or to take a cab ride home.

“It is easier to pay $5 for a cab ride than $700 for a DUI where you are putting your life and others at risk,” she said.

The average cost for a first offense DUI in Kentucky is $1,000 to $5,000 for attorney fees, up to $500 for court costs, a fine between $200 to $500, a service fee of $350, no less than 48 hours or more than 30 days in jail and the loss of license for 30 to 120 days.

Murray has also seen an increase in alcohol intoxication arrests in the past year. There were 64 AI arrests made in 2012 and 112 arrests made in 2013, which is an almost 60 percent increase in just one year.

Clere said this is something that was also expected due to the increased patrolling in the area.

The city of Murray itself has received almost $1 million in revenue since the sale of packaged liquor in the area.

According to the Alcohol Beverage Control’s quarterly report, $946,000 was the total generated for city in alcohol sales in 2013.

Clere said the best thing students can do to avoid being involved in a DUI is not to drink and drive.

Said Clere: “(Students) need to use their heads and make the right decision.”

a peak of success and they’re punishing success. It’s a contradiction to what they should be doing.”

That success, Weis believes, is key to keeping enrollment for Murray State up, and faculty in the college have proposed alternative ways in cutting the budget other than dissolving the college entirely.

Such ways include reviewing teaching loads to minimize the use of adjuncts to help the University save almost $1 million annually, increasing the number of online classes wherever possible, identi-

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Building collapse deters business University evaluation held last week

Meghann Anderson || News Editor manderson22@murraystate.edu

Downtown Murray is open for business.

Following Saturday night’s collapse of Law Office of Rick Jones, Murray Main Street Manager Deana Wright and Chamber of Commerce President Aaron Dial called a special town meeting to discuss how the city will move forward after the building collapse.

After several roads being blocked off, Murray City Administrator Matt Mattingly said most of the roads are now open to the public.

Mattingly said Murray Electric System would not be able to repair any outages related to the collapse until workers are given approval based on the engineer’s report.

Fifteen businesses were forced to close; eight of the buildings were on the same block as the collapse and others were affected by power outages due to the collapse.

Along with the Kentucky Small Business Development Center at Murray State, Mattingly said the city was providing those businesses on a case-by-case basis with resources for potential relocation.

Mattingly said the downtown square in Murray lost a building from the 1800s, and he hopes the owner will plan to rebuild to keep downtown vital and operating.

Ben Manhanke Assistant News Editor bmanhanke@murraystate.edu

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A police officer stands near the site of Saturday’s building collapse.

“The city does not have official permission to determine the cause or know what it was caused by, but as of now it is believed to be because of the age,” Mattingly said. “The city hasn’t looked at any other buildings and property owners need to inspect their buildings.”

The contractor mobilized some equipment and started removing debris Wednesday.

Michael Mangold, senior from Murray, said the building collapse and road closures blocked him from going

to church Sunday. He also works at 5th & Main Coffees and said disruption has affected his customers.

“It has honestly affected me more by scaring off customers from 5th & Main Coffees,” Mangold said. “Or it is at least making people think that all of downtown is closed off. We’ve seen an uncharacteristic drop in business this week due to the collapse.”

Mangold said while he thinks business will go back to normal in a few weeks, he said the faster the city can fix downtown, the better.

A delegation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools arrived on campus Monday to begin a four-day evaluation of Murray State’s credentials and to decide if the University will remain accredited.

The University has been providing SACS with documentation for the past eight months prior to this comprehensive analysis on everything from academics, athletics, finances and student affairs. Over the course of the week, the SACS team looked at the programs Murray State offers, its retention and graduation rates, the faculty to student ratio, study abroad opportunities and its relationship with foreign universities, among other qualities.

Tim Miller, interim president, said he feels optimistic about the proceedings. He said being accred-

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CROSSING From Page 1 The shortened distance was required in 2013 through the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mattingly said the city will continue lobbying legislators about 16th Street, but a transportation plan has yet to be determined. Ultimately, the city looks to continue reviewing 16th Street to improve pedestrian and vehicle safety.

The long-term plan Mattingly said the city hopes for is to create an over-under pass for the street.

Interim President Tim Miller said he was happy about the installation of the 15th Street crosswalks, even though there are only two to cover the street.

“I’m just glad that they’re finally getting crosswalks there,” Miller said. “We’ll see how it works out, and I know it’s only one crosswalk less than what we used to have.”

Miller also said he was con-

cerned about the new shortened distance because the concrete islands limit the amount of space that cars have to pass. However, Miller said he was reassured by professionals who said the concrete islands were standard and cars had ample space to safely pass.

However, Miller said he believes the focus will now shift back to 16th Street.

“I think it’s got to,” he said.

“That’s where it’s serious and that’s where all the traffic is with 11,000 cars a day and 3,300 students in an eight-hour period.”

Miller said the addition of working on 16th Street has not been included in Gov. Steve Beshear’s road plan, but that it needs to be considered as a priority project. He said Murray State is doing all it can to get it back in the budget.

“Right now, we have the engineering and physics in our budget and if they start construction and then we have all that traffic with nothing being done, it can really be a problem,” Miller said. “We need to get that corrected.”

ited is important for a university because it tells students that the staff, faculty and education they are going to receive are of a high caliber. “(Being accredited) says this University meets certain requirements: students are going to get a quality education and they’re going to get employed when they get out,” he said.

One of the areas in particular the SACS team is examining is Murray State’s new Quality Enhancement Plan, “Bringing Learning to Life,” which kicked off its first program Feb. 20.

The theme of the University’s QEP is experiential learning; learning that takes place outside of the classroom through internships, studying abroad and activities that give students real world experience. In other words, experiential learning through a third party outside the normal fac-

He said until Mid-Continent is found to be accredited or not by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the same process Murray State is currently undergoing, the University will not be able to accept students from Mid-Continent.

He said until then, it will not be clear how many, if any, credits will transfer.

Miller said he feels that the Mid-Continent University leadership has not been transMiller p a r e n t enough with students and parents about university issues and he hopes the school will be accredited so that students

there will not lose their credits.

The primary reason for the university’s budget crisis stems from the mandated repaying of student loan and grant money given to the school since 2007 by the U.S. Department of Education.

This repeal of federal funding is due to a lack of required documentation needed to justify the money being given.

On top of this, The Paducah Sun has shed light on the possible misuse of funds by former Mid-Continent President Robert Imhoff, specifically the $1 million in salaries paid annually to nine of Imhoff ’s relatives not befitting their roles at the school.

Miller said he will try to help students attempting to transfer to Murray State because that is what the function and mission of the University is: to help students.

TRANSFER From Page 1 that, we’ve been getting quite a few calls from students asking if their credits will transfer and if they can finish their degrees here.”

Mid-Continent is located in Mayfield, Ky., approximately 30 minutes from Murray State’s main campus.

Duncan said she is unsure if it will be 10 students or 200 transferring, but whether or not Mid-Continent closes, Murray State is certain to have some transfers in store.

Interim President Tim Miller said he thinks most students choosing to leave Mid-Continent would choose to go to Murray State’s Paducah Campus instead of the main campus in Murray.

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approximately 10 activities and workshops of varying sizes for students to participate in.

“The goal is that every student, no matter what their major, will have an opportunity to experience experiential learning,” Murray said. “Kind of a background goal is that the work that goes into promoting

experiential learning becomes part of Murray State’s culture and something we do on a regular basis.”

SACS accredits universities in the states of Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia in addition to Kentucky every 10 years.

Jay Morgan, vice president of Academic Affairs, said Murray State has been preparing specifically for this evaluation for the past two and a half years. He said being accredited is especially important because it decides if the University can receive federal financial aid.

“The primary importance of being accredited is so all of our students can receive financial aid,” he said. “This is the single biggest factor because it affects so many of our students.”

On Thursday SACS officials will give Murray State some preliminary feedback about the University’s standing, but Morgan said they won’t receive a final report for another three to four weeks.

$6,000 pay reduction for Weis.

While the University would save money, Weis said faculty members would still have to be paid, since none will be terminated due to the budget cuts.

Weis said he has informed his students of the proposed dissolving of the college, and students have expressed confusion over the matter.

“Students were concerned, and they’re asking what’s going to happen with this,” Weis said.

“They were asking ‘Why? Why is this happening to us?’”

If the proposal of the cuts passes in early March, students will be relocated to different places depending on major.

“They’re going to be in a different environment,” Weis said “It won’t have that same collaborative feeling. We’re not going to be able to give them the same sound and di-

rect attention that we have been able to do in a college that was designed just for us.

Now it’s like we’re second rate, in a way. It’s like we’re not important enough to be our own college.”

The college has seen a 24 percent jump in credit hours since 2009, which is second only behind the Hutson School of Agriculture.

Student Regent Jeremiah Johnson said there haven’t been any final decisions regarding the College of Health Sciences and Human Services.

While the decision hasn’t been officially been made, the college has requested for the University to wait until the new president has been chosen and to remain open to other options.

Said Weis: “You’re supposed to reward success, not punish it.”

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University representatives meet with a SACS representative to discuss plans to discuss the Quality Education Program and its importance. ulty-student relationship.

Adam Murray, one of the QEP’s directors, said preparing students for life after college is what attending Murray State is about.

The QEP will be exposed to students and integrated into the curriculum over the course of the next five years, aided by

COLLEGE From Page 1 fying underperforming colleges and minimizing the number of colleges offering the same courses.

Weis said he believes there is no reason to choose to cut the College of Health Sciences and Human Services.

“To me there is no valid reason to choose any college,” he said. “If the School of Nursing joined us or we joined them, we would grow in numbers and we wouldn’t have to spread out like we are.”

This spread of the faculty members have professors going to different colleges across campus and the dissolving of the college would lead to a 15 percent reduction in pay of Dean Susan Muller and a

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Police Beat Feb. 20 12:23 a.m. A caller reported a drug complaint occurring in the back of Franklin Residential College. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

5:46 p.m. A caller reported being shocked by the fence surrounding the tennis courts.

Feb. 21 1:01 a.m. A caller from Elizabeth Residential College reported the possession of alcohol by a minor.

Officers were notified and a report was taken.

8:35 p.m. A caller reported setting an unintentional fire in a chemistry lab in Jesse D. Jones Hall.

Feb. 22 6:07 p.m. A caller reported the smell of smoke at Jesse D. Jones Hall. Officers and the Murray Fire Department were notified. A report was taken.

9:37 p.m. A caller reported a noise complaint in College Courts. Officers were notified and an information report was taken.

Feb. 23 12:50 a.m. A caller reported the smell of marijuana in the 500 block of College Courts. Officers were notified and the report was referred to another jurisdiction.

2:09 a.m. A caller from Hart Residential College reported an intoxicated individual. Officers were notified and a report was taken for intoxication in a public place.

Feb. 24 1:44 p.m. A caller reported a medical emergency on Chesnut Street. Officers and the Murray Ambulance Service were notified. No contact was made with the individual.

11:13 p.m. Racer Patrol reported an animal running at large near Waterfield Library. Officers were notified, but the animal was gone upon arrival.

Feb. 25 10:27 a.m. A caller in the 1200 block of College Courts reported finding drug paraphernalia. Officers were notified. The report was referred to another jurisdiction.

4 : 24 p. m . A caller in Franklin reported a sexual offense. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

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Students swarm Winslow for wings

Alex McLaughlin || Staff writer cmclaughlin@murraystate.edu

Wild Wing Wednesdays at Winslow Dining Hall has evolved into something special.

Students are lining up out the door to get food at Winslow and it isn’t because they are trying to fit in a meal in between classes.

Wild Wing Wednesdays started off as a bi-weekly event and since then grown to something more.

Since the increase in popularity, Wild Wing Wednesdays has become a tradition among many students at Murray State.

Joseph Woods, assistant manager at Winslow of four years, is responsible for the creation of Wild Wing Wednesdays.

“We have always leaned toward bar friendly foods late at night,” Woods said. “I just got stuck on the alliteration and it has become crazy.

I figured it would be popular, but I never expected it to become what it is. It’s pretty awesome” The event has continued to gain popularity every week since last semester as more students are coming to Winslow.

“This semester alone, late night has been crazy,” Woods said. “We consistently have at least 700 students that attend.”

The popularity of Wild Wing Wednesdays has changed the way Woods and his crew go about business on Wednesday nights.

Student manager Alisha Lestage said preparations for the event

now start hours in advance.

“As soon as Late Night starts on Wednesday nights, the line for wings is out the door,” Lestage said. “As soon as the late night cooks get here, they start preparing. I get here at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays and they are already starting.”

Kenzie Dothsuk, junior from Cadiz, Ky., said she loves Wild Wing Wednesday.

“Sometimes the wings are more like little pieces of popcorn chicken,” Dothsuk said.

Nicole Ely, sophomore from Carbondale, Ill., said she agrees with Dothsuk, but said there is still room for improvement.

“I love the boneless wings,” Ely said. “But sometimes they're stingy and usually only give you like four or five wings though.”

While wings are served during Late Night, options such as burgers and nachos are also avaliable.

John Goodwin, senior from Louisville, Ky., said when he isn’t working during Wild Wing Wednesdays, he puts off dinner to attend late night at Winslow.

“Wild Wing Wednesdays are popular,” Goodwin said. “After intramural games a lot of fraternities and sororities come to Winslow for the wings. I usually put off dinner and eat wings instead of whatever they are offering.”

Goodwin said the variety of sauces and wings keeps him coming back every Wednesday for more wings.

University professor has ties to Ukraine

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Shelby Ruemmler, freshman from Farmsville, Ill., eats wings at Winslow’s Wing Wednesday.

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Twenty-three years after moving to the U.S. from Ukraine, Professor Michael Kalinski has watched his home country suffer through the eyes of his daughter.

His daughter, Lesya Kalinski, a filmmaker based in New York, traveled to Ukraine and has documented the uprising, protesting and massacres happening in their home country.

Michael Kalinski said the protests are due to more than 400 years of Russian oppression.

“For about two years or so, President Yanukovych was telling the world that Ukraine was going to sign an agreement with the European Union,” he said. “Then, he met with President Putin of Russia, and Putin forced Yanukovych to change his mind.”

Kalinski said Yanukovych’s change in mind is due to Putin’s imperialistic mindset and inability to see Ukraine as a country of its own, even though it was declared an independent country in 1991.

The protests of the rejection of the agreement started peacefully.

However, 84 Ukrainians were killed by government forces, and those forces saw journalists and filmmakers such as Lesya as a main target.

“She spent these three months filming the Ukrainian revolution, risking her life every day,” Kalinski said of his daughter. “The journalists and filmmakers and anyone with a camera were target number one of the police. That she and her crew members are alive is a miracle.”

Kalinski said his daughter’s decision to go to Ukraine was partially because of her experience in its “Hunger Strike” during the 1990s.

“She has always known of the dictatorial nature of the country,” he said. “And she is a long term Ukrainian patriot who wants Ukraine to be independent.”

Lesya said her strong conviction to Ukraine’s independence is more than life-threatening, but has other dangers.

“They have determination and to overcome this, you have to have a very strong spirit,” Lesya said.

“And when bullets were flying, Lesya emailed me, and she said that nobody had fear. It was mass heroism. It was unbelievable, and no one was afraid to die.”

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Feb. 26 2:34 p.m. A caller reported a medical emergency in Faculty Hall. Officers and the Murray Ambulance Service were notified. A report was taken.

9:31 p.m. A caller reported vandalism in a restroom stall in the Buisness Building South. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

Call of Fame Feb 20 - 6:03 p.m. A caller reported the accidental activation of pepper spray in Hart. Officers were notified and a report was taken.

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Two Murray State students competed and received top honors at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Branch of the American Society of Agronomy Feb. 24 in Dallas.

Hannah Robbins, senior from Lockhart, Texas, was awarded first place in the undergraduate poster competition. She said her research was on “Soil carbon, nitrogen and aggregate stability associated with common agroecosystems in Western Kentucky.”

Robbins said the annual meeting provides a venue for collaboration and networking amongst agronomy professionals and students in the southern region, as well as an opportunity for both graduate and undergraduate students to present their research findings.

She presented her poster to judges as well as other university members across the region and explained her objectives, methods and results within her research.

Results from Robbins’ project display that various agroecosystems in western Kentucky have a variety of effects on soil organic matter, nitrogen content and soil structure. Her results support the hypothesis that the least disruptive management system will have the highest soil fertility and more desirable soil strength toward erosion.

“I feel very satisfied with my performance,” Robbins said. “There were some very impressive projects presented in my division, and I was very thankful to have been selected as the first place recipient.”

This is not Robbins’ first time competing in a poster competition; she has competed in events at the Kentucky Academy of Sciences, the Murray State Sigma Xi Poster Competition and more.

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Landon Gibbs, sophomore from Washington Courthouse, Ohio, showcases his award-winning project.

“With presenting in this conference, I gained a lot of confidence in my research efforts,” Robbins said.

Robbins also said events such as these give her the opportunity to critique her own work and see how she can improve it in the future.

There were 13 posters in the competition from universities across the southern region.

Landon Gibbs, sophomore from Washington Court House, Ohio, received second place in the undergraduate poster competition. He said he presented a poster containing his research entitled, “Infiltration Rate and its Related Soil Properties in Varying Land

management systems of southwest Kentucky.”

Gibbs said he spent months compiling data and analyzing it, followed by several weeks spent assembling and preparing the poster for the contest.

“I felt the competition and conference ran extremely well,” Gibbs said. “At first I was a bit nervous because of not knowing the protocol and the process of the competition.”

Gibbs said his participation in the event has helped him feel more prepared for research presentations and competitions he plans to compete in throughout his academic future.

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In a society that, for decades, adopted a zero-tolerance attitude toward drugs, it makes sense that the word, “hemp” sparks mass amounts of controversy.

However, recent legislation to allow hemp growth in Kentucky may bring hemp back as an economic game changer.

Hemp growth will likely be an attractive option for Bluegrass farmers. The plant’s growth was first banned by the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1958.

Before the ban, the Bluegrass State saw more revenue from hemp than tobacco, which is now our number one cash crop.

Kentucky is an agricultural powerhouse, so the decision to grow hemp could bring serious money in a time of looming budget cuts and statewide debt.

Murray State is one of five Kentucky colleges that will begin research to examine the ability of hemp to remove environmental toxins, then reporting their research to the state.

As a University that takes pride in its schools of Agriculture, hemp research will enhance horticultural programs and better prepare students for careers in the potentially booming hemp textile industry.

Because of its botanical relation to the marijuana plant, hemp received a negative reputation, despite its absence of any psychoactive chemicals that could produce a high.

Hemp cannot produce a high when ingested, unlike marijuana, and can be made into approximately 25,000 different products.

America’s attitude toward hemp has made us turn a blind eye to the possibilities of its use as a renewable, reliable textile.

Hemp has strong potential to be a commodity for Kentucky, which is why it is important that we stop categorizing it with cannabis.

The plant used to grow wild before attempts to remove it completely, which means Kentucky’s soil is ideal for growing and maintaining it.

Cotton, one of the nation’s leading textiles, requires more energy and water to grow than hemp. Hemp fibers are also stronger than cotton, and hemp requires no pesticides to grow.

By harnessing hemp, Kentucky would save money on pesticides and receive hefty profit.

According to the Colorado Springs Business Journal, the U.S. hemp industry has a $450 million value.

Countries like China, who export hemp and

promote its growth, received more than $2 billion in profit.

Little can be said about the negative side effects of growing hemp.

One argument against hemp growth is that drug enforcement has a hard time distinguishing the difference between hemp and its more illicit cousin, marijuana, when searching for growing sites in helicopters For all the benefits Kentucky could reap as a large distributor of hemp, police confusion is a small price to pay.

The argument pales in comparison to hemp’s ideal use as a textile, oil producer and economy game changer.

This bill would not let farmers grow hemp as they please. Farms must be qualified to grow hemp, then given a license.

They would be subject to high regulation from the state, which nullifies any argument that hemp industrialization and law enforcement would be unable to sync.

For decades, we abandoned the idea that hemp is a crop with a multitude of benefits.

It’s time to negate old stigmas that the plant is harmful and seize the opportunity that Kentucky’s soil has given us.

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Society’s expec tation of men and creativity I will never forget waking up for Christmas when I was 6 years old and getting the Easy Bake Oven I begged my mother for.

My parents both loved to cook, and I thought my parents were the coolest, so that led me to want to cook. As a 90s kid, my first option was the Zac Garrison Easy Bake Oven. I Junior from thought that thing was the bee’s knees.

Franklin, Ky. When I went to school and bragged about how many things I had cooked in my brand new Easy Bake Oven, my friends didn’t react how I thought they would.

They began mocking me and told me how “gay” I was and that I was a “sissy” for asking for an Easy Bake Oven. That was the first time I noticed I was going to be in for a hard run.

We are in an age where chasing the shade of masculinity is beginning to cripple young males, not physically, but mentally.

Current education and upbringing from parents where things that are socially considered “masculine” are being pushed onto these developing minds and is creating a narrowminded generation of males who learn to hide their creativity, imaginations and emotions.

Males, from a young age, are taught that anything that is not “masculine” is considered feminine. Why is that?

The biggest reason this expectation is crippling a generation of males is because creativity, imagination and emotion are all things that society does not consider masculine.

So that makes these things feminine, right?

Wrong, these characteristics are what make us human.

Males growing up have a hard enough time with puberty, sexual identity and finding out who they really are.

Once you add in the factor that if they don’t conform to the social norms of what is considered to be masculine, they are automatically considered feminine and ridiculed for being that way.

Let’s think back to the Victorian Age. Back then, a jack-of-all-trades was the most desirable thing a woman could find. A man who could sing, write poetry and play instruments made every tavern maid swoon.

This is something we see less and less of every day. Men who are told it’s “gay” and “sissy” to sing and be creative begin to hide their true colors.

Think of how many male artists this world has missed out on because they had a wrench shoved into their hand as they reached for a paintbrush, or how many chefs who turn food into art had their destiny taken from them when someone shoved a football or a baseball in their hand.

If singing is what makes them happy, why would you alter this behavior? Why not let them sing?

This isn’t a one-time thing, though.

Unless corrected, this trend will continue as these young males have sons and begin to force masculinity on them the same way their fathers did.

We can’t blame this solely on the parents. A large part of this trend is found in school yards and the current education environment.

As young men begin to understand and adapt to social norms, they will notice that boys doing “sissy stuff” (i.e. singing, drawing, dancing and writing) is frowned upon, so they begin to frown upon it also.

As a straight male who quit his varsity football team to play the trumpet in the marching band, was an all-state tenor in my high school

choir and starred in six theater productions, I got my fair share of this every day.

Where these young men should have their creativity and imagination praised instead have this flame smothered out by the other males in their grade who might berate them for simply doing what they enjoy doing.

While women grow up idolizing models and TV actresses, men are taught to idolize sports figures because that is the “manly” thing to do.

What about the young boy who idolizes how Ernest Hemingway can spend three pages describing a bumblebee so well you can see it in your mind? Or the other young man who thinks Mario Batali is just as much an artist as he is a chef?

Pfft. Those guys are sissies. At least, that’s what you’re teaching these young males to think of themselves.

These kids deserve to be praised for being creative. Instead of ridiculing them for playing with Pokemon cards, praise them for using their imaginations.

Instead of calling them a sissy because they like to draw dragons and mythical creatures, applaud them for their creativity.

When they cry because Old Yeller died, hand them a copy of “Where the Red Fern Grows” and cry with them.

The day my son asks me if dragons are real, I will sit him down with a copy of “The Hobbit” and tell him that anything on these pages can be real.

Anything you can read, draw, sing, or imagine is real and you made it come to life in your imagination and you made it exciting with your creativity.

Personally, I think that’s way cooler than learning to change an air filter.

Masculinity is overrated. How about we teach these kids to be themselves and embrace the things that make them unique? That’s a much better plan.

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February 28, 2014

5A Did she really say that?

Letters to the Editor The American political system has traditionally exemplified the fundamental principles of democracy.

It is a system that Americans take pride in, and among other things enables them to promote their country as the leader of the free world. However, America's political system is not perfect, as it does not prevent those we elect from abusing and undermining it. Such abuse is currently playing out with the current Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

The Republican-controlled House has relentlessly pursued a mission to bring down President Barack Obama.

This mission, which facilitates the unprecedented attacks on the president, includes blatant disrespect, baseless conspiracy theories, character vilification and propaganda to demonize and ultimately render him unfit to be president.

President Obama has been called a liar, lazy, unpatriotic, a Muslim, a racist, divisive, a socialist and even was caricatured as Hitler.

The GOP also rants about the president taking the country down the wrong path and that his policies are not good for Americans. its latest rant aimed at smearing the president's character is that"he cannot be trusted."

One word that characterizes the GOPs anti-Obama mission is obsession. This obsession has continually prevented the GOP from acting in the best interests of the country.

Consequently, they are miserably failing to bring down the president.

The only things they have succeeded in doing is undermining democracy, shutting down the government, blocking most of the president’s nominations, calling for investigations without any real evidence of wrongdoing, trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act and blocking efforts to get the unemployment benefits extended for thousands of unemployed Americans.

Having wasted their energy in doing these things, it is no surprise that the U.S. Congress has the lowest approval rating in history.

Despite the obstructionist schemes and personal attacks, Obama has accomplished more than many of his predecessors who did not face such obstruction and disrespect.

His accomplishments include bailing out the auto industry, passing a healthcare law, putting an end to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy, implementing the Equal Pay Act, dismantling Al Qaeda by eliminating its leader Osama bin Laden, creating the

Hot Pockets are stuffed with secrets Consumer Protection Agency, expanding Pell grants, creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and increasing fuel efficiency standards in cars.

So what is it about President Obama that has driven the GOP and the right-wing media into this obsessive frenzy to take him down?

What is it about him that in trying to destroy him they do not give any thought about the damage they are doing to the political system, the country and the American people?

Obama has not done anything egregious or over and above what other presidents have done. If this were the case they would have impeached him (not withstanding some in the GOP who have repeatedly called for his immediate impeachment).

Since the attacks on Obama are more personal than political, the likely conclusion is that his race is the reason for the attacks.

Yes, I am playing the "race card" here, but what exactly is the race card? It is nothing more than a defense mechanism to shut up people from using racism as the cause of mistreatment or unfairness towards non white people.

In this case, those who want to deny racist behavior will try to muzzle anyone attempting to use racism as a reason to any conflict involving whites and non whites.

Because of their obsession, the GOP has been more than willing to use hatred, divisiveness and fear mongering to the extent that the attacks have reached unprecedented levels.

The true tragedy is that this hatred of Obama has prevented Congress from accomplishing anything meaningful on the major issues like the economy, jobs, unemployment, healthcare, immigration, gun control or energy policy.

This is unfortunate for the country and it is not a good example for other countries that look to America as the leader of the free world.

Even more unfortunate is that the American people feel abandoned by the very people they elected to serve them and make policy.

Jermel Shim Mechanical engineer and political author

I’ve Got a Story for You

Valentine: The digital generation gap As a classroom instructor at Murray State, I am separated from my students by at least one generation. There is a gap in our experiences, in our expectations and in our perceptions of the universe, its contents and our place within it.

Despite the wide difference, both of us may be Robert Valentine right, but neither of us knows which one is right, Senior lecturer when or why. in advertising It’s all very well for Old Fogies (my generation) to write off the differences by claiming wider experience and a longer occupancy on the planet.

We have lived much of the history that students are now trying to master, and we are proven survivors because we’re still here, at least physically.

The Young Fogies (the so-called Millennial Generation) can claim an intimate knowledge of what’s happening now.

They may not know that Truman preceeded Eisenhower in the Oval Office (or even that we one had a president named, “Harry”), but they know how to download time-saving apps that can alert them to the danger of near-earth asteroids.

They can recite with ease the names of the several family members of Happy Bo Bo, or Homey Bun Bun (whatever: a tiny child whose chances of teaching in the classics department at Harvard appear to be growing smaller each day) or the most current of the addicting video

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games available on computers, iPads, cell phones or bathroom walls.

More to the point, they can access any bit (or byte, as the case may be) of information available on the World Wide Web before you can even frame the question.

This talent, coupled with youthful optimism and stamina, creates a dynamic force for good, rivaled only by Spiderman or the Calloway County Humane Society.

And thus it has always been.

Children who grew up in the age of public education had better reading and writing skills than illiterate or semi-literate parents.

The parents knew how to wring a chicken’s neck and pluck the bird clean on a Sunday morning, whereas the youth had to wait until Kroger was invented.

Comes now the digital divide, separating youth and maturity by more than mere years, wrinkles, grey hair and mutual funds.

The real problem is not that grandpa can’t tweet. He can, and retirees probably check Facebook more often than their digital descendants.

Uncle Dave can cell phone with the best of ‘em, and can take an embarrassing video of his neice at her wedding reception and post it to YouTube before you can say, “Uncle Dave! OMG!” No, the real barrier between the generations is not capacity to communicate: it’s the sense of what ought to be communicated.

Too many Millennials see no problem with posting photos of a drunken bash at the Rho Rho Rho house, or tender moments involving “costume malfunctions.” One survey of Human Resources managers estimated that 15 to 20 percent

of potential new hires were scratched off the list simply on the basis of a casual scan of some social network site.

And, “no,” that’s not against the law.

However, the lack of consciousness in using the power of digital is bleeding into the older generations. Murray State faculty are becoming desensitized to the bulk emails that arrive during a 10:30 a.m class informing them of the 3 p.m. reception for retiring Prof. Stumble.

The thinking seems to be, “If I can send it before the event, I’ve done my job.” That’s no more true than the student’s assumption that emailing a paper before midnight of the same day it was due at 10:30 a.m. is just as good as turning it in, in person, at the required time.

Both generations are wrong.

Communicating important matter appropriately takes time, even when the act of communication seems to require neither time nor thought. Technology can’t substitute for consideration nor common sense. Why, just this week I sent a congratulatory text to a friend who was celebrating a notable achievement.

I spoke my message to some elf named Siri, who lives in my cell phone, and she typed it in text. Sadly, the intended word “successful” appeared as “six cesspool.” Siri is not, apparently, a native speaker of English.

I tried to erase that odd sentiment, but accidentally hit the “send” instead of the “erase” button (which is not really a button at all). I have yet to hear from my six cesspool friend, and I think I know why. OMG and LOL, eh?

Well, that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it like a pixel to a TTFN (ta-ta for now).

Cheers to ... Discussion of legalizing hemp industrialization in Kentucky.

Hemp can be made into thousands of products and has proved to be a cheaper and tougher alternative to synthetic cotton goods. We could see a huge surplus in budget if we can grow hemp again.

Jeers to ... Christmas decorations still up around campus.

Whether we’re in denial or just simply lazy, Murray State needs to get out of the Christmas spirit. Can we blame the decorations for the return of this sporadic cold weather?

Jeers to ... DUI arrests going up in Murray.

Drunk drivers are a primary reason people in Murray against packaged liquor opposed the new laws. The only thing we are doing is proving them right. Let’s act with a little more class, Murray State.

Think before you drink.

Cheers to ... Crosswalks on 15th Street.

After being removed early last semester, the crosswalks on 15th Street have been repainted. Pedestrians can now live fearless of crossing the street ... At least we sincerely hope so.

I was shocked when I read on CNN.com that Hot Pockets were on a national recall for contaminated beef. So shocked that I threw my Lean Pockets in the freezer.

Carly Besser I wasn’t Opinion Editor shocked because it’s unheard of, but because Hot Pockets, among other frozen treats, are a staple in the common diet of college students. Even if people don’t like to admit it, college students are consumers of processed food.

I always assumed that because something was sealed, packaged and sold as a meal, it was edible.

Needless to say, I learned my lesson. Situations like the Hot Pocket recall should make us all more skeptical about what we’re putting in our bodies.

Ramen Noodles are also a perfect example. Did you know that when you eat them, they simply stay in your stomach and don’t break down? Preservatives are put in foods to give them a longer shelf life, but their shelf life extends even after we eat them. Some of the chemicals found in our processed foods are so dangerous, they are illegal in other countries.

Japan, Singapore and other foreign countries made it against the law to sell Mountain Dew. A chemical used in all Mountain Dew products is also used to prevent carpets from catching on fire.

Stomach linings everywhere are screaming in agony.

I’ll admit that I’m not the first one to get my groceries at Whole Foods. My paycheck doesn’t allow for something like that, but I am still shocked to see these foods are able to pass inspection from the Food and Drug Administration.

“The Jungle,” by Upton Sinclair, was a mudslinging book on how incredly low standards America had on meat packaging during the Industrial Revolution. People were sold meat infected with disease, meat picked up from the floor and meat contaminated by other lovely things like rat droppings and bugs.

It would make any American cringe, which is why the book inspired an updated policy on meat inspection. Because of “The Jungle,” the FDA called for rigorous inspections on meat.

I would think that this revolution in how we choose our food would apply to commonly purchased products now, but it seems that this really isn’t the case. How are we still letting contaminated meat pass through our systems? Do we simply remedy this by making these products cheap?

This goes far beyond the issue of obesity. The subject of why we’re fat has been discussed to the point of exhaustion. What I’m specifically referring to is the chemical content of our food - the reason words like brain cancer resonate with us when we drink a diet soda or put artificial sweeteners in our gas station coffee.

We are the ones who put the forks, or Hot Pockets, in our mouths. We are responsible for what we put in our bodies. However, there are some responsibilities that go beyond us.

Food companies, as well as the FDA, should give fair warning to consumers as to what exactly is in these products. Or, even better, they could not put dangerous, cancer-causing chemicals in easily accessible, cheap food. cbesser@murraystate.edu

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Senior Kacie King started and runs her business, Tied Like A Bow, from her home in Paducah, Ky.

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Kacie King is a senior who started and runs her business, Tied Like A Bow, out of her hometown, Paducah, Ky. King specializes in handmade custom bow ties, but she also hand-makes everything from earrings to special-order quilts.

Her grandmother’s quilting finesse inspired King to jump into a sewing project one day. A friend of hers had a love for bowties, and King took the opportunity to see what she could do. The success of her business came later, and she said it helped her fund studying abroad.

King had the added benefit of growing up around small, independently owned businesses. Her father runs a custom cabinetry business, and her grandmother owns a quilting business similar to Tied Like A Bow. “The main ‘workshop’ that has all of our

fabrics and supplies is in Paducah, so I have to commute to even be able to spend a long period of time working on orders and getting them out to people,” King said.

“I usually have to take a weekend a month to go home and work on orders.”

King’s dream is to delve further into the clothing industry and open a wider clientele base for her business and one day place her business in an actual store.

“My dream would be to have a little boutique in a cool, hip place like east Nashville or Louisville,” King said. “I want to get comfortable with making dresses and other clothing; I think that would be so rad.”

Kiaya Young, junior from Paducah, has a different goal for her nonprofit business, the West Kentucky Rockin’ Rollers Junior League.

Young said she began developing her idea for a roller derby league in 2011 when she first became interested in the sport. A year later the league was created.

Young’s little sister took an interest in the sport throughout Young’s greenhorn year but could not participate because of age restrictions.

“To play roller derby you must be 18 years or older,” Young said. “There were a couple other skaters who knew of kids who wanted to skate but were unable to for the same reason, so a group of us created the junior roller derby team in 2012.”

Young said the decision to start the league was nerve-wracking.

Young ultimately decided to take the position as president of the league because she saw the need for someone who would be willing to donate time and effort to get it up and running smoothly.

Young said she thinks she has figured out how to balance her time and commitments enough to make it work.

Her desire to help out the kids with a passion for roller derby and her own love for the sport is what makes it all worth it in the end, Young said.

“Personally I have benefited from the sport so much, and I wanted them to be able to experience that too,” Young said.

Young does not see herself turning the league into her career, but hopes that the experience in organizing and running it will transfer into whatever she ends up doing in the future.

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Rifle takes fourth at qualifiers

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# of career rebounds by senior forward Jessica Winfrey, sixth-most all time

ONE LAST TIME Racers hold on for win against UT Martin, prepare for final game

Nick Dolan || Assistant Sports Editor ndolan@murraystate.edu

Rifle Head Coach Allan Lollar had nothing but good things to say about the Racers’ performance at the NCAA Qualifier.

But since the No. 11 Racers shot a 4,651 in its fourth-place regional finish, the team season has ended for the year.

Going into the qualifier, the team’s season average was 4,651, meaning the Racers finished on par.

“I thought we finished the year strong and I thought we did a good job,” Lollar said. “We've got some individuals that shot well this weekend and if the team doesn't get in, they will be a part of the individual selection.”

Though the team did not shoot high enough to advance, some individual shooters may be able to compete in the championship.

In the competition, No. 1 West Virginia took first (4,691), No. 4 Nebraska was second.

(4,678) and No. 5 Jacksonville State finished third (4,660) ahead of Murray State. Memphis, UT Martin and Columbus State rounded out the event.

Lollar said he was pleased with the Racers’ performances in their last two major tournaments this season.

“I thought we had a good qualifier match,” Lollar said. “I thought we had a good weekend. Two of the goals that I have for this team are to shoot well on qualifier weekend – which is our big pressure-packed weekend – and the OVC Championships.”

Junior Kelsey Emme was the leading shooter with a personal best of 586 in smallbore, good for a second-place tie overall. She also tied for 11th with a 589 in air rifle. Emme finished the season with OVC All-Conference Second Team Smallbore and All-Conference First Team Air Rifle honors.

Sophomore Tessa Howald shot a 580 in smallbore for 10th place. Howald was named to the OVC All-Conference First Team Smallbore and the OVC All-Conference First Team Air Rifle.

Jonathan Ferris || Staff writer jferris2@murraystate.edu

Photo illustration by Jared Jeseo, photo by Kate Russell/The News

Senior forward Jarvis Williams rises up for a dunk in the Racers’ win over UT Martin Thursday night.

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Despite an 8-21 record and elimination from postseason contention, the last-place UT Martin Skyhawks gave the Racers everything they could handle for roughly 35 minutes Thursday night.

Murray State mounted a late second-half push, however, propelling the Racers to an 8672 victory over the Skyhawks.

The Racers clung to a small lead for the majority of the game, but struggled to put the pesky Skyhawks away.

The two teams continued battling after the whistles as well, culminating in an exchange of words after a tough battle for possession. Both coaches came onto the floor to separate their players and cool down players’ tempers.

“The trash talking gives me confidence,” freshman guard Cameron Payne said. “It makes me want to play harder and I just love it when people try to talk to me like that.”

Payne turned in a big performance, scoring 17 points and racking up a team-high eight assists.

UT Martin sophomore Dee Oldham drained a deep 3 as the first half expired, pulling the Skyhawks within one at the break.

“Credit to them,” Prohm said. “They were resilient in the first half. We just weren’t consistently guarding and their guys were making shots. We gave up a couple 50-50 balls around the rim and we just let them hang around.”

After giving up 41 points in the first half, the Murray State defense put up a much stronger effort after the break, limiting the Skyhawks to 31 second-half points.

“I just think we played a little bit better,” Prohm said. “We were fortunate they missed some free throws. They made some tough shots in the first half and we just really weren’t locked in.”

Junior T.J. Sapp gave the Racers the push they needed, scoring eight straight points in the second half to extend the Murray State lead to double digits. Sapp finished with 20 points.

UT Martin never recovered, scoring only four points over the final 4:43 of the game.

“We just had to keep chipping away,” Payne said. “Coach was setting mini goals for us during media timeouts so we just kept chipping away and trying to get stops.”

The Racers now prepare for a trip to Southeast Missouri State Saturday night to wrap up the regular season before heading to the OVC Tournament in Nashville, Tenn., next week.

SEMO holds the seventh of eight spots in the OVC Tournament. Led by junior guard Jarekious Bradley’s 19.6 points per game, the Redhawks will be fighting for their tournament seeding in the regular season finale against the Racers.

Murray State has already locked up the top spot in the OVC West and will have a doublebye into the semi-final round of the OVC Tournament. They will play Friday night in Nashville for a spot in the championship game and a chance at an automatic NCAA Tournament berth.

Though Murray State’s postseason position is already solidified, Saturday’s game still carries high stakes as a Racer victory will clinch at least a share of the OVC regular season championship.

Murray State and Belmont remain tied atop the conference, but a Bruins loss and a Murray State win would leave the Racers as the sole champion. If both teams win their final games, the title would be shared.

“It could be a special day,” Prohm said. “We’re going to have to go get some rest first. We’ve got some guys beat up a little bit right now.”

The Racers and Redhawks tip off Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Winfrey wins final home game as Racer Tom Via || Staff writer tvia@murraystate.edu

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Playing in her final game at the CFSB Center, senior forward Jessica Winfrey helped women’s basketball hold on against Morehead State for an 84-81 win Monday night.

With the Racers holding a two-point lead, Winfrey blocked a potential gametying layup by Morehead State with 11 seconds remaining in the game.

“It was a great feeling that I can leave my final home game with a great stop and to get the win,” Winfrey said.

Before the game, emotions were high for the Racers. Fatigue from four games in eight days weighed on the team who had been eliminated from postseason play after falling to UT Martin Saturday.

In the locker room before the game, Head Coach Rob Cross challenged the team to be like Winfrey.

“One of our keys to victory before the game was to play with the same desire as Jessica Winfrey,” he said.

Junior forward Netanya Jackson said the team agreed with Cross.

“We knew we had to play hard like (Winfrey) does and to go out with a bang,” Jackson said.

The Racers responded to the message, as they shot a season-high 58 percent in the opening half. After trailing early against the Eagles, Murray State used a 10-0 run that gave Murray State a lead.

While Winfrey only played nine minutes in the first half, she was tied for the team

Senior Jessica Winfrey looks for an open teammate in a game earlier this season.

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Sophomore Megan Blue prepares to return a volley in a match at Kenlake State Park.

Patton improves, finds success in road match Tom Via || Staff writer tvia@murraystate.edu

After a hard-fought doubles competition, women’s tennis served up another victory Saturday on the road against Evansville.

Coming off a 1-1 performance the previous week, the Racers continued to improve their team chemistry, which carried into the match against the Purple Aces.

“We had a long conversation after the (Southern Illinois) match about a lot of things and I didn’t know how it would translate to this week,” Head Coach Olga Elkin said. “It couldn’t have gone over any better than it did against Evansville.”

One of the biggest improvements of the week came from sophomore Megan Blue who won both matches against Evansville.

After a loss against Central Arkansas on Feb. 15, Elkin sat down with Blue and

talked about improvement.

“We had a long conversation after that match and I think it made her realize that what I am looking for is improvement that will help us through this year,” Elkin said.

While the Racers won the match against Central Arkansas 6-1, Blue was the loss that kept the Racers from the sweep, and Elkin said things might have gotten worse if she hadn’t talked to Blue.

“Megan looked more at the wins and the losses and that is not important to me,” Elkin said. “To me it is about how she plays and how she competes and that we learn and get better with every match.”

Blue said the talk with the coach helped change her attitude.

“That conversation really made me open my eyes because I had two losses in

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FOURTH From Page 1 In his last match, senior Bill Harvey shot a 572 in smallbore and a season-best 584 in air rifle. Harvey joined Howald on the OVC All-Conference First Team Smallbore.

The most decorated Racer was freshman Katarina Bisercic, as she earned four OVC awards, including Air Rifle Athlete of the Year.

“I’m really proud of some of our individual efforts this year,” Lollar said. “Kelsey did a good job from beginning to end. Tessa has done a great job in air rifle. (Bisercic) was a solid air gun from the beginning to the end of the season. (Harvey) did a good job all year and his air gun came

up at the end.”

The Racers compiled a solid season with wins over then-ranked No. 3 Jacksonville State and No. 4 Texas Christian. They also shot a season-high score against then-ranked No. 1 Kentucky, and a few weeks later earned a second-place finish in the OVC Championships.

While Harvey and fellow senior Mike Burzynski have finished their rifle careers for Murray State, the team is returning 10 shooters next year.

Lollar said he is happy with the group he has returning for the 2014-15 campaign.

“We had some young kids that got better during the year and we're looking for a lot from them in the future,” he said. “I like this bunch. I think we’ve got some quality people that will work hard.”

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Senior Mike Burzynski makes adjustments to his rifle in a practice at the Pat Spurgin Rifle Range.

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Feb. 20-22 competition at Cossatot Community College Men’s Teams

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1. UT Martin 2. East Miss. Com. College 3. Missouri Valley College 4. Southern Arkansas 5. Cossatot Com. College 6. University of West Alabama 7. Troy 8. Murray State 9. Univ. of Ark. at Monticello

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a row,” Blue said. “I was more focused on the fact that I was failing the team because I wasn’t getting my win.”

Blue’s contribution to the team this year is different from her teammates’. While the other Murray State players are aggressive on the court, Blue plays longer points. She said she didn’t realize her play was so different until she came from Canada to Murray State.

“When I came to college in the U.S. I noticed that girls don’t like long rallies, and that is where I can get under the skin of girls that are super aggressive,” Blue said. “Make five or six good deep balls in a row, they are just going to want to smack a winner and not stay out there.”

Though Blue’s style of play was the initial advantage, it was her coach’s message that finally changed how she approached every point and pushed her to finding victory.

“This year is all about improving each shot and not necessarily having to get a win,” Blue said. “I was playing not to lose instead of playing to win and

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that has been a big change for me this year. I was getting upset because I wasn’t getting the results I wanted, but I’m realizing now that it is all a process.”

That process made its way onto the court for Blue and the Racers as they defeated Evansville for the first time in four years.

All three doubles teams found themselves tied at 5-5 in the opening of the competition. With the opening point on the line, the Racers grabbed momentum. The duo of sophomore Erin Patton and junior Andrea Eskauriatza took their match 8-6 and were followed up by the duo of senior Carla Suga and Blue.

“We took the doubles point and it was huge against a team like Evansville, because they won’t go away if they have momentum,” Elkin said.

With momentum on the side of the Racers, Murray State took five of the six singles matches to defeat the Purple Aces. While the play contributed to the team’s victory, Blue said it was something else that helped her and the team pull out the match.

“After that talk it clicked that it was all about the team and that is what helped us against Evansville,” she said.

Bothe the men’s and women’s teams play Western Kentucky Sunday at Kenlake State Park.

lead in scoring with nine points.

Along with the hot shooting, the Racers were aggressive and earned 14 trips to the free throw line. At the line, the Racers converted 12 of their opportunities with Winfrey leading the way with five.

As Winfrey battled foul problems in the first half, Jackson checked into the game and provided a spark off the bench. Jackson scored nine points and pulled down six rebounds in the opening half that ended with the Racers leading 43-34.

The Eagles battled back in the second half, as they scored three consecutive 3’s, but Murray State responded.

The Racers pushed their lead to a game-high 14 points with 11 minutes remaining and they seemed to be headed to an easy victory.

Morehead State had other plans, as the Eagles’ aggressive defense sparked a 22-5 run to regain the lead over the Racers.

With Murray State trailing by three points, freshman guard Nikia Edom tied the game with her third 3-pointer of the game.

“I was trying to get the ball in to (Winfrey) and she told me to shoot it,” Edom said. “I was open and knew I could knock down the shot.”

The shot proved to be a game changer as the Racers regained the lead for good a minute later at the free throw line. Murray State pushed its lead to seven points with two minutes remaining before Morehead State gave a final rally.

Morehead State got within two points but it was Winfrey that came through to hold onto the victory on senior day as she recorded the winning block.

“It was a huge play,” Cross said.

“It was a senior making a play to win a ballgame.”

Winfrey was one of four Racers to score in double digits and pulled down her career rebound No. 800 during the game, becoming the sixth player to do so in Murray State women’s basketball history.

“Every time I'm out on the floor, I go as hard as I can for my teammates,” Winfrey said. “To know I’ve made it that far and accomplished so much playing just three years makes me very blessed.”

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Women ready to start golfing Peter Northcutt || Contributing writer pnorthcutt@murraystate.edu

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Alpha Sigma Phi’s Nicholas Pray brings the ball up with junior teammate James Nance, during an intramural water polo match against Lambda Chi Alpha Sunday.

Alpha Sigma Phi dominates water polo Mallory Tucker || Staff writer mtucker11@murraystate.edu

Alpha Sigma Phi closed out the last day of intramural inner tube water polo with two wins Sunday, giving the men a second consecutive undefeated season.

In its first game, the team defeated Lambda Chi Alpha 14-11, despite being down a player.

Alpha Sigma Phi went on to beat Pi Kappa Alpha 15-11 later that afternoon to remain unbeaten since the sport started two years ago.

Joao Pelosi, freshman player for Alpha Sigma Phi, said it was a difficult day because the regular goalkeeper wasn’t there, leaving him to fill the position.

“On top of that, since we were a man down, everybody had to put a lot of effort in the game,” he said. “In the end, all of us were exhausted, but I’m glad we managed to pull a win.”

Alpha Sigma Phi won the initial race to the ball and scored within the first minute of the game, and the pace never slowed down. Lambda Chi held its own and responded with a goal on its first possession and kept the game close. Both teams battled back and forth until Alpha Sigma Phi found a commanding 8-3 lead at the conclusion of the first half.

Lambda Chi came out refreshed in the second half and returned most of Alpha Sigma Phi’s goals, decreasing the deficit.

However, its defense was unable to stop

Alpha Sigma Phi’s four-man power team.

“I was really proud of all of us,” Pelosi said. “I believe the only reason why we won was because none of us gave up at any point, and we fought through until the very end.”

A hit with both Alpha Sigma Phi and Lambda Chi, inner tube water polo is gaining popularity with Murray State students, but it still has a long way to go before it is as competitive as other intramural sports.

“Water polo here is not very competitive due to the fact that not many people are interested in it,” Pelosi said. “Some residential colleges and fraternities and sororities don’t even get one team in the competition. Having more teams to play against would definitely raise the level of competitiveness.”

With only 11 men’s teams and seven women’s teams, inner tube water polo only gained one more team than it had in its inaugural spring 2013 season, but that isn’t for lack of uniqueness.

“The main reason why I decided to play water polo was because I love swimming, staying in the water, that kind of stuff,” Pelosi said. “It’s such a different sport from all the others, and the fact that it’s played in water just makes it even more fun. Also, the fact that people really have a good time playing, not only with their teammates, but as well as with the other teams and even the refs, makes it a really fun sport.”

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Lamda Chi Alpha goalie Barrett Pazderka finds an outlet pass.

The bitter cold of winter this year affected more than students’ walk to class. The subfreezing temperatures meant the women’s golf team could not get out on the course to practice until last week.

“We’re not used to getting shut off the greens,” senior captain Delaney Howson said.

“We’ve only been back on the course for a week and a half.”

Despite the bad weather and poor conditions, Head Coach Velvet Milkman has a confident attitude about her team heading into the season.

“We are a little behind where we normally would be because of the weather,” she said. “Now that we’ve been able to get out on the golf course, though, we’ve had some really good days, and I feel like we’ve made quite a bit of progress.”

Milkman will look to Howson to lead the team through the adverse conditions.

Howson ended the fall season with two firstplace finishes, including Murray State’s own Drake Creek Invitational.

Along with breaking the record for lowest round two separate times last season, Howson also leads the conference individually.

“The scores that (Howson) shoots are very important for us, but the fact that she can do that in adverse conditions, and in the cold weather, it encourages the other players to think ‘I can do that, too,’” Milkman said.

Freshmen Sydney Trimble, Jacklyn Van Meter and Minta Yin have all put up eye-popping numbers. Trimble and Van Meter both achieved a top-five finish already last semester, which Milkman said is especially impressive considering they have only played five collegiate events in their careers.

Although Milkman said the team is wellrounded and will rely on scores from every player, the three newcomers have impressed her in their first season as Racers.

“Those three will do good things for us, but it takes the whole team playing well for us to accomplish what we want to accomplish,” Milkman said.

Howson said expectations are high as the team goes into its first tournament at Frances E. Miller Memorial Golf Course March 3.

“The biggest goal is to win the OVC Championship and then win regionals,” Howson said.

“And then we just want to win as many tournaments as we can.”

According to Howson and Milkman, the season couldn’t come a moment too soon.

“We are ready for our first tournament,” Milkman said. “We’ve been practicing, but we have a long way to go. They are just very excited to get out there and start playing.”

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Softball struggles in Classic Mallory Tucker || Staff writer mtucker11@murraystate.edu

Racer softball alternated between losses and wins with a record of 2-3 at the Blues City Classic Feb. 21-23.

The Racers split the first day of the tournament with a loss to Appalachian State 5-0 and a win over the University of Evansville 6-0. Junior shortstop Alexa Becker said the loss is one she wishes she could get back. “I wouldn’t say we had an off weekend,� Becker said. “There were games that we thought we could have played better, definitely, but that’s just how softball goes, and that’s why you play the game. In this sport, anything can happen.�

Becker said the team was not focused for its first game in the tournament. She said the players seemed to be going through the motions rather than thinking about what needed to be done. “I think for our team when we’re locked in and focused and ready to go from the start, from the first inning, we are at our best,� she said. “Going forward, that’s what we can look at – take the things we need to improve on and work on them in practice this week.�

Becker and freshman teammate Cayla Lewis were named to the All-Tournament Second Team following the tournament.

Becker went 6 for 18 on the weekend with two home runs, one of which was her first career grand slam. It was only the seventh grand slam in Racer softball’s five-year program. She also tallied five RBIs and a walk. “My biggest thing is just consistency,� Becker said. “It’s a hard thing as a hitter, but just trying to continue to be there for my team and get on base any way possible. Ultimately, I want to win in any way possible.�

She said the game is about the team, and she is not as worried about her performance individually.

Junior CheyAnne Gaskey and freshman Mason Robinson alternated as starting pitchers with sophomore J.J. Francis relieving in four of the five games. “It’s never easy to be thrown into the middle of a game, but at the same time you want to be there for your team,� Francis said. “You just have to be there when your number is called.�

The Blues City Classic was the Racers’ first fivegame tournament of the season, but Head Coach Kara Amundson doesn’t think that was a factor in her team’s performance. “I don’t like that being an excuse for us losing,�

Amundson said. “I think that we’re a very well-con-

Men open season out West Tom Via || Staff writer tvia@murraystate.edu

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Freshman infielder Maggie Glass takes batting practice earlier this season at Racer Field. ditioned team. I don’t think that we weren’t ready.�

She said while the team can produce runs once the bats get going, the Racers find it hard to score when things are quieter. “We don’t do as well when our bats are quiet,�

Amundson said. “That’s kind of what happened in our losses this weekend. We do a good job of riding our offensive game, but if it’s not there we kind of get complacent sometimes.�

Despite barely having a winning record at this point, Amundson said she thinks the team is better than the numbers in the books. “I think we’re sitting in a really good spot,� she said. “Record aside, I think it feels like we’re in an even better spot than our record says. The last game that we lost, the score was two to seven. You would have thought it was a much closer game than that.

Those kinds of losses always feel like it was a much closer game.�

The team was orginally scheduled to play in Carbondale, Ill., in the Southern Illinois’ Coach B Classic. In anticipation of inclement weather, the tournament has been moved to Jim Frost Stadium in Chatanooga, Tenn. Below is the revised schedule.

3/1 vs. Miami (Ohio) at 9 a.m.

3/1 vs. Kansas at 3 p.m.

3/2 vs. Kansas at 11 a.m.

3/2 vs. Southern Illinois at 3 p.m.

Baseball stunned by Cougars Nick Dolan Assistant Sports Editor ndolan@murraystate.edu

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Third baseman Luke Daugherty attempts to throw a Bowling Green batter out at first.

For only the second time in Murray State baseball history, the ’Breds suffered a loss to Mid-Continent.

Head Coach Rob McDonald made no excuses for the ’Breds’ 6-2 defeat Tuesday at Johnny Reagan Field. “They pitched better than us, they hit better than us, they fielded better than us – I mean, they coached better than us,�

McDonald said. “They won the game. There wasn’t any fluke about it.�

The Cougars got on the board first, scoring one run in the second inning. The next inning, they made the hole deeper by scoring four more. Mid-Continent added a final run in the fifth inning before Murray State ever crossed home plate.

In the bottom of the ninth, sophomore Taylor Mathews

drew a bases loaded, four-pitch walk to score freshman Tyler Lawrence to break the shutout.

Freshman Clay Kelly scored the ’Breds’ second and final run off of senior Ty Stetson’s line drive to left field.

However, that was all for Murray State’s offensive production.

Mid-Continent’s freshman Austin Ferrell pitched eight and two-thirds innings, giving up two runs off four hits and striking out seven. “(Ferrell) pitched well,� McDonald said. “He threw a lot of off speed stuff and kept us off balance and got us frustrated I think, and they just played better than we did.�

Tuesday’s loss came just a week after Murray State’s 17-1 dismantling of the Cougars.

McDonald said that was not a factor in the latest outcome. “That’s the first thing you think about,� he said. “You know, I felt like our guys today, as far as I could tell in pre-game and

all that, talked about that stuff.

I’m sure everyone was warning each other of that and I thought that we looked like we were ready to play in pre-game.�

Despite giving up six runs, the ’Breds pitching staff was only charged with two earned runs on account of two errors by the defense. “I think we are a good defensive team,� McDonald said. “So yeah, I don’t ever expect to not make plays that are pretty much routine for those guys.�

Stetson had three of Murray State’s five hits and reached base four times. He is now batting .583 on the season.

The loss comes off a 2-1 series win over the visiting Bowling Green Falcons. In the weekend series, the Falcons took game one 5-3, before the ’Breds took games two and three 5-4 and 6-3, respectively.

Next up is a four-game home set against North Dakota State starting at 2 p.m. today.

Men’s golf teed off its spring season with its best round as a team coming in the second day of the Snowman Getaway Tuesday.

The tournament, held at the Palm Valley Golf Club in Goodyear, Ariz., provided the Racers an opportunity to play golf after battling a tough winter. The weather kept Murray State inside for the majority of its practices before the tournament. “This has been the worst winter that I’ve had during my time as coach,� Head Coach Eddie Hunt said. “Normally you have some good and bad days, but this has been a terrible winter.�

The Racers had only played outdoors three times before they departed for the tournament, and it served as an opportunity to play golf in regular conditions.

Murray State accepted a chance to play out West, which was unique for the team. “We normally open the season in Alabama, but it has been cold and wet down there, too,� Hunt said. “To get the season kicked off, I felt like we needed to go somewhere it was warm.�

The tournament hosted 17 teams from around the country and even featured two other OVC schools in Tennessee Tech and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Murray State took to the course early and got as low as 4-under par.

That would be as low as the score got for the Racers, who carded a 297, leaving them in 14th place after the first round.

The Racers didn’t have much time to recover as they took to the course again for the second round that same day.

Murray State cut two strokes off its first-round score as junior Jordan Smith shot an even 72 to lead the Racers in the second round.

After the first day of the tournament, sophomore Preston French led the Racers at 1-over through two rounds, good enough for 34th place individually, with Smith just one stroke behind.

The Racers saved their best round for Tuesday, as they shot a 287, eight strokes better than their previous round. Leading the day was sophomore Brock Simmons who carded a 2-under-par 70.

French and Smith led the Racers for the tournament and finished tied for 35th place with a 217. Simmons’ impressive final round moved him nearly 20 places up the leader board as he finished nine shots behind his teammates. “We got some good experience and played in some great weather,�

Hunt said. “This should get us ready for the next tournament.�

Murray State will return to action at the 2014 Grover Page Classic in Jackson, Tenn., March 10-11.

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Portrayal of perfection Women’s Center uses Barbie to raise awareness of eating disorders Hunter Harrell || Features Editor

Barbie’s neck would be less than six inches in diameter. She would not be able to lift her head.

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With a 16-inch waist, Barbie would not have room for her organs.

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Unlike the average woman, Barbie’s legs are 50% longer than her arms.

Barbie would have to walk on all fours due to her small ankles and size three child’s foot.

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Icons our generation grew up with such as Amanda Bynes and Demi Lovato have something in common with more than half of university students – they suffer from eating disorders.

During the transition from high school to college life, students are bombarded by pressures from classes, social circles and personal goals. While adjusting, students also struggle to escape the dreaded freshman 15.

From Feb. 23-March 1, organizations around the country helped draw attention to another stigma rarely confronted. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAW) aims to challenge the stereotypes and improve the support and treatment of conditions associated with eating disorders.

Murray State has hosted two events in honor of NEDAW, including the Life-Size Barbie exhibit in the Curris Center Rocking Chair Lounge. The Life-Size Barbie exhibit was new to NEDAW at Murray State due to conflicts with the typical display.

“The Life-Size Barbie exhibit is something that the National Eating Disorders Association or NEDA promotes,” said Abigail French, director of the Women’s Center at Murray State. “We were looking for new ideas because we normally do ‘Roomwith-a-view,’ but with the renovations, Old Richmond (Residential College) was occupied.”

The shocking portrayal of the persona of perfection sparked interest in the student body.

Students were confronted with the fact that if Barbie were a real person, she would not be able to function like most humans.

“Lots of people were very interested in it,” French said. “The actual Barbie gets their attention and when they hear things like Barbie wouldn’t be able to stand on two legs or hold up her own head, it challenges the way people think about beauty.”

With the facts presented on a large poster in the Curris Center, the reality of Barbie caused students to ques-

University art gallery filled with local, national work

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College art galleries hold a vast amount of young talent, education and insight.

What a majority of students do not realize is that Murray State has its own gallery right in the middle of campus.

The Clara M. Eagle Gallery is located on the 6th floor of the Price Doyle Fine Arts Building and features art by not only well-known artists, but also art students of the University.

The art gallery began operation in the Price Doyle Fine Arts Building in 1971, but it started out as a continuation of an older gallery which was opened in the 1930s.

“Clara M. Eagle was chair of the department and helped get the permanent collection kind of going,” said Colin Tuis Nesbit, director of university galleries. “I also believe she was the one who named the gallery after herself.”

Nesbit began working in the department of galleries at Murray State two years ago after working at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

While there are four different branches of the gallery across campus, the exhibits shown are always changing.

The main gallery hosts a renowned artist for six weeks, then around midterms, the gallery begins showing artwork submitted by students with Bachelors of Fine Art degrees.

“Frankly, it’s trying to find a balance between how much money we have and is it possible to actually get the work here on that budget,” Nesbit said of how the gallery fills its space. “A lot

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Students explore the Clara M. Eagle Gallery in their spare time. of the artists are people I have known for a while because you know you can ask a favor of a friend and they know it is going to be installed very well.”

Nesbit also said in the three different universities he has worked, none of them had as much gallery space as the one at Murray State.

Having access to an art gallery on campus not only benefits aspiring artists but also other students by ex-

posing them to different cultures and ideas that they might not even fully agree with said Nesbit.

“If we’re as great a nation as I believe we are, all great nations have had art,” Nesbit said. “All great civilizations have had art and have held up art as being important. And what’s unfortunate is that we are such a great na-

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tion whether eating disorders were a problem on Murray State’s campus.

“A lot of students have asked questions about the Barbie, but then they begin to ask about the issue that surrounds it,” French said. “It is a conversation starter and has made students more aware and ask questions like, ‘Is this a problem?’ and, ‘What can I do to help?’”

The conversation started by the disproportionate Barbie model continued Tuesday in Mason Hall Auditorium as NEDA volunteer Emily Neff, Sarah Kerrick, counselor at Murray State, and David Fender professor at Murray State, spoke to students about how eating disorders affected their lives.

Though some testimonies were secondhand experiences, the reality of the impact eating disorders have on friends and family of the victims hit home.

“We have generally four to five students a semester that come in to get help for a friend,” French said. “We give the friends advice on how to be supportive and how to confront the situation. The more they know about eating disorders, the easier it is for the friends to talk to the one who is struggling with the disorder.”

Other positive outcomes from the Life-Size exhibit and eating disorders panel discussion include reaching students who struggle with body image and self-esteem, even if they do not have an eating disorder.

“I personally don’t believe all eating disorders are self-esteem issues,” French said. “I think it is personal and depends on the person, but I think eating disorders have the component that is dissatisfaction with yourself. Selfesteem is always important and so is general awareness.”

As NEDAW comes to a close, it is certain a handful of students have been made more aware of eating disorders and how to support those who struggle with them.

According to NEDA, positive relationships and support increase the likelihood of recovery from illnesses such as these. Raising awareness strengthens the individuals who struggle to move toward recovery.

Racer Life Revolution group sessions close Brandon Cash || Staff writer bcash1@murraystate.edu

After four weeks of group sessions with the Counseling Center’s Racer Life Revolution, the program has ended.

The goal of Racer Life Revolution was to help students talk about the challenges they face in everyday life.

Racer Life Revolution was a group meeting of students guided by counselors.

Each week a new set of topics was covered in two sessions.

The first session was from 55:45 p.m., and the second session was from 6-6:45 p.m., with snacks provided between sessions.

Within the first week, the counselors spoke to the students about how to manage stress through different skills, such as diet, sleep, exercise and time management.

During the second week, students examined the multiple connections between thoughts, feelings and behaviors and their association with destructive thought patterns.

Students also learned relaxation skills and were taught to correlate how the body feels with keeping their minds calm.

For the third week, the key topic was mindfulness and the different states of mind, such as the emotional and reasonable state of mind.

The second session was about staying emotionally grounded while using lessons from past sessions.

This week’s first session fo-

cused on decision-making and financial matters, and teaching people how to make a budget.

“People in general tend to struggle with managing their money, which is something a budget can help with,” said Counselor Allyson Taylor. “But not everyone knows how to do (it) effectively or even at all,” The second and final session Tuesday was about relationships, where students practiced effective communication, listening skills and managing stress and emotion when communicating with others.

Another key topic from the session was boundaries, figuring out how to strengthen boundaries within a relationship, focusing on mutual respect and learning how to deal with conflict in healthy ways.

Each week, handouts and worksheets were provided that were tailored to the individual skills and ideas that were being taught.

Tuesday was the last Racer Life Revolution group meeting for the month.

However, due to an overwhelming reaction from the students, the Counseling Center decided to continue Racer Life Revolution sessions each month in the Oakley Applied Science Building.

Starting next Tuesday, Racer Life Revolution will start over with the first two sessions from the first week.

The new attendees will receive instruction to develop the proper skills to handle stress and time management.

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Laser tag lights up Expo Center McKenzie Willett || Staff writer mwillett2@murraystate.edu

With the lights turned out, makeshift bunkers in place and plenty of attendees, the first laser tag event proved to be a success.

Students filtered in and out of the William “Bill” Cherry Exposition Center last weekend for the first laser tag tournament and free-play.

“Preparation and the event itself was successful,” said Becky Ballard, director of Expo Center and coordinator of the event.

“All in all the people I talked to said they had a blast.”

The event lasted from Feb. 20-23.

Throughout the weekend, more than 100 people attended.

“A total of seven groups showed up on Sunday to play,” she said. “We expected more people on Saturday, but overall it was a fun time.”

The Expo Center did not spend a large amount of money on the event due to a low budget, Ballard said. However, the event still proved successful.

“Several students came up to me asking when we were going to do this again,” she said. “We are planning to come up with a plan either September or October of this year. We also plan to use black lights and black out our windows so we can really get it dark in there and spread the word much better with advertisements and preparation.”

Once the Expo Center closed for the night, the staff had a round of their own fun.

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“Artists need to have work displayed in shows to be able to get into good graduate schools and being able to sell their work,” Fedorchuk said. “Having displayed your art also builds your resume and it is good for your reputation.”

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Emily Browning and Kit Harington are an the explosive couple in ‘Pompeii.” The movie was released in theaters Feb. 21.

‘Pompeii’ erupts with love and loss Katrina Yarbrough Staff writer kyarbrough2@murraystate.edu

You can’t outrun lava.

A trend in the movie industry is to take a piece of history and create a lengthy film in the hopes of getting people interested. Usually, it’s some event that we’ve heard about in history books in high school and never want to hear about again because it’s tattooed in our brains forever.

“Pompeii” is certainly another one of these films in the historical bundle.

As most college students should already know, Mount Vesuvius in Italy destroyed the city of Pompeii with its contents of molten hot lava and turned the skies dark with ash. Lives were lost and I’m sure the chaos was unimagin-

able. No wonder they decided to recreate this event into a motion picture.

Spoiler alert, the volcano still erupts.

In order to recreate scenes of an event, the characters can either make or break a film.

In “Pompeii,” the major actors aren’t exactly big-name stars. Kit Harington, “Game of Thrones” actor, stars as the lead male, Milo, while Emily Browning from “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” plays Cassia, the female lead.

I should also mention that Kiefer Sutherland rides through the film causing hardships for poor Milo.

The major plot of the movie is to showcase the destruction of Pompeii with the addition of an underprivileged hero who falls in love with a woman who is completely out of his league. In the history books, a student

isn’t going to see the romance novel intertwined with the gruesome details.

The film begins with on-screen words that are recommended to be read in order to follow the film unless you know your history and want another moment to update your Facebook status. From there, the audience gets insight into Milo’s past. Unfortunately, it’s only one scene and it’s not at all a happy one.

Milo eventually grows into a man who is basically forced into being a gladiator of sorts. Gladiators can be interesting characters when done correctly. It’s also a plus when the actor is as attractive as Harington.

Harington is your typical Romeo with his good looks and even better heart. He’s also a slave. It seems like every important woman is a sucker for

a man in chains and without rights.

I have to admit, the history of Pompeii is exciting, albeit tragic. It’s risky business creating a film from factual information when you have to add random elements to hype the appeal and make it longer than 20 minutes.

I always watch a movie with an open mind. The trailers get me interested and I give them a shot. “Pompeii” wasn’t a disappointment.

The technology of today’s film editing and graphics department created the feel of an exploding volcano and made audience members give thanks considering they didn’t have to live through that event.

“Pompeii” is no “Titanic,” but despite the low movie ratings, it’s a nice cliche love and destruction story that managed to stay afloat.

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Cobain philosophy A concept spoken by many but practiced by few echoes in my mind as I sift through ideas and topics for this week’s column.

I could write Hunter about literally Harrell anything, but the Features Editor words “be yourself” keep resonating clearly in my head.

Growing up in a village of 300 people, surrounded by cornfields, I never fit the country girl stereotype.

Yes, my name is Hunter. Yes, I can pull back on my bow and hit a target with ease. And yes, I identify easily with the twitter accounts that hashtag, “small town problems.”

But unlike the majority of people where I am from, I grew up listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rob Zombie and a lot of classic rock thanks to my older sister.

Somehow, in the muddled chaos, I fell in love with grunge and Kurt Cobain. In honor of his birthday last week I listened through my favorite Nirvana songs and Cobain’s ultra-rare covers. Listening to these songs took me back to my high school days.

I never really realized how much Cobain impacted me until I was in high school, though.

Cobain was known for going against the mainstream before it was cool. He was indeed the hippest hipster.

With Cobain as my influence, I wore skinny jeans and hi-top Chucks with holes in the soles from wear. I mismatched my flannels to the graphic band tees underneath and dyed my hair crazy colors.

In fact, over the course of four years, my hair hosted 27 different color combinations.

I got a lot of flack for these differences that were extremely apparent to the people in my community and sometimes it really bothered me. I never made friends easily, partially because I was shy and partially because I was so different. Or so I thought.

As cliche as it sounds, not conforming to certain trends and beliefs worked to my advantage as I got older. Instead of growing up and trying to answer the question “who am I?,” I already knew.

To make a long story short, I had an easier time figuring out exactly what I wanted to do with my life and who I wanted to be.

The sooner you lose focus on pleasing others, the sooner you will be able to delve into the opportunities that are specifically set out for you.

You’re more of a blessing to the other people around you when you are unapologetically yourself and don’t compromise any portion of it.

In the end, Cobain sums up the entire idea in just one line: “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” hharrell@murraystate.edu

How to: Guide to hosting a star-studded Oscar party Madison Wepfer || Staff writer mwepfer@murraystate.edu

It’s award season and the mother of all award shows, the Academy Awards, is almost here.

Ellen Degeneres will host the 86th Annual Academy Awards March 2 at 6 p.m.

In honor of this lavish event, Oscar fans will break out the glitter and red carpet in order to host the best party in town.

The host/hostess must take into consideration five things when planning an extravagant Oscar party: the invitations, the food, the drink, the decor and the extra details.

Printed party invitations are a classy way to invite friends to a swanky soiree, and they are perfect for an Oscar party.

Personally address each one, even if they will just be handed out in person.

Two must-haves at this year’s Oscar parties are tuxedo cake balls and maple-bacon popcorn.

Party guests will ogle over the sheer cuteness that are delicious tiny tuxedoes. The recipe can be found at thecakeblog.com.

On the saltier side of things, there is the maple-bacon popcorn.

The preparation is easy. Bake ten slices of bacon in the oven at 375 degrees for 15 minutes, crumble the bacon into bits, combine and heat 1 tablespoon of the bacon grease with 2 tablespoons of maple syrup and 2 tablespoons of butter in a saucepan, drizzle the mixture over the popcorn, sprinkle some salt and pepper and enjoy!

Every party has a great signature cocktail. Introducing: the Oscar Smash. Begin by lining the rim of a glass with a lemon wedge and dipping it in a plate of sparkling sugar (available in the bak-

ing aisle). Then drop two raspberries in the glass for garnish, pour 1.5 ounces of pear vodka, 1.5 ounces of pineapple juice and 1.5 ounces of cranberry juice. Voila!

To make the party venue look posh and ready for Oscar night fun, the decor is important.

There are several ways to turn an apartment or dorm into a Hollywood-looking affair.

A long piece of red fabric can be placed in the entryway to make guests feel like celebrities when they enter the party.

Naked Ken dolls can be spray painted gold to look like Oscar awards.

To top it all off, the details take this party to the next level. To make guests feel special and like they’re the celebrities, create an Oscar award for each guest.

The awards can include best dressed, closest predictions, best shoes and best hair.

Confetti poppers are another fun way to celebrate Oscar winners. To make an Oscar-themed confetti popper, purchase pre-made plastic treat poppers online or at a party supply store. Paint the treat pop stick gold and cover the top of the treat pop with white paper or ribbon.

Then use a hole punch and black construction paper to punch out little tuxedo buttons. Tie a bow using black ribbon and hot glue the bow and buttons on the treat pop.

Fill the top with confetti and glitter, put the cap on and wait for the perfect moment to let the confetti fly.

Award season is the perfect excuse to break out the glitter and that adorable pair of satin pink heels.

There’s no better time than Oscar night to drink fancy drinks, look Hollywood chic and put glitter on everything that stands still.

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